WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:04.679 Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 2 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:12.160 It's crazy Trim. 3 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:16.359 Just watch him as Google. 4 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:30.480 That so many bodies to supposy Greg not a sun 5 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:33.240 glass gas. 6 00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:35.840 Sun. 7 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:46.880 Hey, good morning, Good Sunday morning. I hope this morning 8 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.600 finds you well. Looking forward to visiting with you about 9 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.759 the things that are of most interest to you regarding 10 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:58.320 your garden. If you have a question you'd like to 11 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:01.679 ask or visit about this morning, well, all you got 12 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:04.760 to do is do this, pick up the phone seven 13 00:01:04.799 --> 00:01:07.760 one three two one two kt r H seven one 14 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.000 three two one two k t r H and we 15 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:15.959 will take it from there. If you if your question relates, 16 00:01:16.400 --> 00:01:18.680 let's say your question is something I really would need 17 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:20.799 to see a picture about, like I got this weed, 18 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:23.040 and well, we can't describe weeds on the air very 19 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.519 well or accurately, so send me a picture. All you 20 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:30.719 have to do is call Alejandro and get an email 21 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:33.480 to send it, and then following sending me the picture, 22 00:01:33.560 --> 00:01:37.000 give me a call. That is the easiest way, the fastest, 23 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:40.760 and I guess from what you would be very interested 24 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:43.040 in the most accurate way for me to help you 25 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:45.280 with a question that you might have. I can try 26 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:48.519 to imagine what you're describing. But you know, maybe we 27 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:50.120 get it right, maybe we don't, but if I see 28 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:52.719 a picture, we can we can definitely nail it and 29 00:01:52.799 --> 00:01:56.560 get it just exactly right. The folks that you're around 30 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:00.480 Houston are really specialists, you know, when it comes to corroeration, compost, 31 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.799 stop dressing, and I render to a lot of people 32 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:05.680 that will send me pictures and the lawn is just 33 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.680 not doing well. I mean, it's thin, it's dead in areas. 34 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.599 Maybe it's struggling in some areas, and I can see 35 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:15.599 sometimes I can see, you know, where the foot traffic 36 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:18.479 has gone across it, and those paths are compacted, and 37 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:19.719 it's just struggling. 38 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:20.439 Well. 39 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:26.080 Compost, top dressing, following following a core aeration is the 40 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:29.439 best way I think to bring along back fast like that. 41 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:32.560 You can water, you can fertilize. Those are all important. 42 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:35.840 But if the soil is compacted, then it's going to 43 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:38.960 struggle period, and so it tends to get compact, especially 44 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.000 as we walk on it or as pets go across it. 45 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:44.560 Year round Houston dot Com that's the website, that's the 46 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:48.159 name of the company. Year Round Houston dot Com eight 47 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:52.120 three two eight eight four fifty three thirty five eight 48 00:02:52.120 --> 00:02:54.560 three two eight eight four fifty three thirty five. They 49 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.439 use top quality compost that settles right down into the lawn, 50 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:02.719 nice fine textured compost and basically serving this area inside 51 00:03:02.719 --> 00:03:05.199 the beltway around Houston. So if you live in that 52 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:08.479 area and you're interested in giving them a call eight 53 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:11.360 three to two eight eight four fifty three thirty five 54 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:15.039 year round Houston dot Com. I think we're going to 55 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:17.199 start on the phones this morning by going out to 56 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:20.719 Katie and talking to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, welcome to Guardline. 57 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:23.000 Come skip, good morning. 58 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:23.759 How are you. 59 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:25.800 I'm doing well? 60 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.280 Thank you fantastic. 61 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:32.719 Hey, I had a question on your schedule. I've been 62 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:33.520 following it. 63 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:35.759 The yard works great. 64 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:41.479 And I noticed that it says either June July to 65 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:48.319 do another slow release fertilization, even though I just did one, 66 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:55.039 and I'm curious, is that necessary or is it just 67 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:57.360 a suggestion? 68 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:02.159 Right, It's just a suggest and it's based on you know, 69 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:06.360 sometimes people using the word slow release. There's some slow 70 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:09.360 releases that are really slow they last a long time, 71 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:13.680 like four months, and then there's some that are not 72 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:16.000 as long in terms of how long they last. So 73 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.160 I put that on there just to carry us on 74 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.600 forward a little further. Uh, depending on the rates you 75 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:23.680 put it down. And when you got the first one down, 76 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:26.040 you may or may not want to do the second 77 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:27.040 one in June or July. 78 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:31.120 The same with the barricade. 79 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:33.959 You have it listed another time. 80 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:38.600 Correct, Yes, so it works the same, right. 81 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:43.519 Well, the bear another word that's list Go. 82 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:51.199 Ahead, go ahead, you want, we. 83 00:04:51.240 --> 00:04:53.560 Got a time. We've got a timing delay here, so 84 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:56.279 it's hard to not talk over each other. So the 85 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:59.839 barricade that's listed in February that prevents that gets a 86 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:02.319 out of all the warm season weed germination. That's what 87 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:05.920 we're trying to do. The one barricade doesn't last forever, 88 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:08.360 and you know when you get about ninety days out 89 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:10.759 from it, you are going to be it's going to 90 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:14.600 be breaking down and not continuing if you used at 91 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:19.279 the proper rate. And so that's where another application can 92 00:05:19.319 --> 00:05:21.720 be used. Especially if you got a thin turf and 93 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:23.879 you're struggling with weeds, you're trying to keep them out 94 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:26.680 of there, you can do the second one that is 95 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.720 not a requirement. Hopefully by then your lawn is looking 96 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.920 good and it's filling in and it's not as needed, 97 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:37.680 but in a lot of lawns, that second application carries 98 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:40.519 it on further into the summer because things like grasper 99 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:43.839 and there's some other warm season weeds that may germinate 100 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:46.000 every month on through the summer. 101 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:49.720 Got it, Thank you so much. 102 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:52.720 Appreciate it, all right. 103 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:55.680 You bet, thanks, thanks for the question. I appreciate that. 104 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:01.680 All right, folks. Nitrofoss has a number of great products 105 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:04.800 out there on the market, and I was just visiting 106 00:06:04.839 --> 00:06:08.319 with Den yesterday about some of the stuff that they 107 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:11.920 have going and the nitrofive Super Turf nineteen four ten 108 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:14.759 is like that, that's the elephant in the room for summer. 109 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:18.920 It just really is it. As we were talking about 110 00:06:19.000 --> 00:06:21.199 how long does a slow release last, well, this one's 111 00:06:21.240 --> 00:06:24.399 going to go about sixteen weeks, about four months. And 112 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:27.399 if you put down a good rate, a recommended rate, 113 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:30.959 the proper rate for it, it will carry you through. Now, 114 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:35.800 something I often say is, are you if you return 115 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:39.639 your clippings, then you get even an extended release, because 116 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:42.199 when you put on fertilizer and grow grass clippings and 117 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:44.399 then chop those up, put them back down in the lawn, 118 00:06:44.480 --> 00:06:48.519 don't catch them in a bagger. Well that they begin 119 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:52.600 to release their nutrients in our hot, warm, summer moist 120 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:56.399 environment down there in the turf, and by doing that 121 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:00.639 you get additional recycling of those nutrients. So that also 122 00:07:00.720 --> 00:07:03.439 carries you on further. Not everybody bags, and so that's 123 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:05.879 another reason why on the schedules in the middle there, 124 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:10.160 I'll put a second application of the slow release to 125 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:12.639 carry on through summer. So those are all optional, and 126 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.839 I realize everybody's in a different situation. But this Night 127 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:18.920 five superturf is an is a very good product designed 128 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:21.519 for our southern turf grass is designed for our soils 129 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:25.000 here and it works. It's the bottom line. You're going 130 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:27.560 to find it in places like plants and things in Brenham. 131 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:30.199 You go out to Baytown, you'll find it at Fisher's 132 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:32.839 Hardware there if you're done in Clute Lake Hardware and 133 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:36.439 Clute on Dixie Drive carries night FoST products as well. 134 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:39.000 I'm going to take a little break here and we 135 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.279 will be back with your calls. If you would like 136 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:43.839 to give me a call, it's seven one three two 137 00:07:43.959 --> 00:07:47.199 one two fifty eight seventy four or seven one three 138 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.079 two one two kt r H Well good Sunday morning. 139 00:07:51.480 --> 00:07:54.879 Good to have you guys with us this morning. We 140 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:58.399 are looking forward to answering questions all morning and talking 141 00:07:58.399 --> 00:08:00.800 to gardeners. That's what we do here online. We try 142 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:03.560 to help you have a more bountiful garden, a more 143 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.199 beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That is 144 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:11.199 the important part. Enjoy it, have more fun, right all right? 145 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:14.120 Well all you got to do seven one three two 146 00:08:14.199 --> 00:08:17.639 one two ktr h and you will be live here. 147 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.040 Don't be afraid to call. I talk to people all 148 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:21.480 the time. By the way, I had a good time 149 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:24.920 yesterday out at the Ace Hardware Store Hardware City Ace 150 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:27.560 on Memorial Drive. We had a lot of folks come through. 151 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:31.199 Good to visit with everybody. Uh and uh. You know, 152 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:33.759 when we're out at those events and we get to visit, 153 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:36.120 a lot of times people will go, yeah, I don't 154 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:38.320 call in because I don't know. I don't want to 155 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:40.480 call in and be on the air and stuff. And 156 00:08:40.480 --> 00:08:43.679 it's come on, man, Look, if you've listened to Gardenline 157 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:47.559 for one show, you know I don't bite. I used 158 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:49.159 to say this all the time. I probably ought to 159 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:51.159 say that more again, but I used to say, there's 160 00:08:51.200 --> 00:08:54.480 no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid answers. 161 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:59.720 So the pressure's on me, not you, okay, And that's true. 162 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:02.960 I mean if you were a brand new rookie gardener, 163 00:09:03.159 --> 00:09:05.879 or a rookie at growing some new thing, maybe a 164 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.519 garden before, but you never grew catalia orkins before, you know, 165 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.679 or whatever you call about, it's okay, that is all right, 166 00:09:13.720 --> 00:09:16.600 don't worry about it. We don't treat questions like their 167 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:19.679 stupid questions. We try to help you with them. And 168 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:21.679 so just give me a call because other people will 169 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:23.440 have that question too. There are a lot of people, 170 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:26.320 the vast majority of people listen to Garden Line. I 171 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:30.639 mean vast majority never call in. They just listen because 172 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.200 they like the listening here and do stuff. Well, you're 173 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.840 welcome to call in. So anyway, that's my two cents 174 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:42.039 worth on that. One of the things I just really 175 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:44.879 enjoy here on guard Line is our feed store sponsors, 176 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:47.399 and it's because I grew up going to feed stores 177 00:09:47.519 --> 00:09:49.799 and it's just a great memory. You know, you walk 178 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:51.759 into a feed store and you smell the smell of 179 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:54.480 that feed, and to me, that is just a I 180 00:09:54.480 --> 00:09:59.080 don't know, that's like Grandma's chocolate, cookies, bacon, bacon in 181 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:01.840 the kitchen as you're a kid growing up or whatever 182 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:07.159 your old factory sent related memories are. But I love 183 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:09.960 feed stores and League City Feed is that kind of feedstore. 184 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:12.879 It has been around for over forty years now, is 185 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:15.639 built in an Okra patch and the third generation of 186 00:10:15.679 --> 00:10:20.240 Thunderbergs are now running the store Wes and Madison. You'll 187 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.799 see them there when you go. The number if you 188 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:24.879 only get MC call is two eight one three three 189 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.039 two sixteen twelve. They're open Monday through Saturday, nine to 190 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:31.120 six and six o'clock. That way, you can swing by 191 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:35.440 after work and grab some things. Closed on Sundays. But 192 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:38.840 League City Feed is located in League City. It's on 193 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:42.200 Highway three, a few blocks south of Highway ninety six, 194 00:10:42.279 --> 00:10:43.720 so it's really easy to get to. As you head 195 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:46.240 south from Highway ninety six, it'll be on the left 196 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:49.679 down Highway three just a little bit. And all of 197 00:10:49.720 --> 00:10:52.360 those communities in the greater League City area, this is 198 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:55.000 your hometown feed store. This is old time service where 199 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.159 they carry the bags out for you and they have 200 00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:01.159 the stuff you're looking for, premium pet foods and the 201 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:04.879 things to control pests in your garden, diseases in your garden, 202 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:08.080 to prevent or control weeds in your garden. You hear 203 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:12.120 me talk about nitrophoss and asmide and microlife and heirloom 204 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:15.759 soils and nilson plant all of that. League City Feed. 205 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.360 So you want to have a beautiful garden and a 206 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:23.759 bountiful garden, League City Feeds the place to go, tell them, 207 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:26.759 we said him skipped from Garden Line said high when 208 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:32.080 you stop by there, Uh, the East Madison has a 209 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.639 I hope, I hope still. I had a little Dalmatian 210 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:37.600 called Roorschak, and I always thought that was the best 211 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:39.840 name for a dog in the world. I mean, a 212 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:42.879 Dalmation named Roorshak. Remember the Rorshak test where you look 213 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:45.120 at an ink blot and they say what do you 214 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:47.600 see when you see this spot? So you study the dog, 215 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:52.120 I guess, and tell them what do you see? Good 216 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:57.159 name for a Dalmatian? All right? I love dogs. We 217 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:00.679 got a couple of them ourself, and we sure do 218 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:04.639 love those dogs. If you have not been to Plants 219 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:07.279 for all seasons, that's the garden center that's up on 220 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:11.559 Highway two forty nine Tombull Parkway, just north of Luetta. 221 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.159 So it's on Tomball Parkway, but it's just about a 222 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:18.120 block north of Luetta on the right hand side there 223 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:21.879 if you're going north. It's an incredible place. If you're 224 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:24.279 a green thumb, well you probably already know about it. 225 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:27.200 And if you have a brown thumb, or you think 226 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.080 you do, then go in there and they will help 227 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:31.879 your thumb turn green because you know what turns the 228 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.039 thumb green. I tell you all the time on garden Line, 229 00:12:34.519 --> 00:12:38.159 it is information. When you educate your thumb, your thumb 230 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:40.440 turns green. That's kind of how that works, if you 231 00:12:40.559 --> 00:12:43.279 want to talk brown and green thumbs. This is a 232 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.000 full service retail garden center. It's been family owned and 233 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:49.799 operated since nineteen seventy three. These folks are true lawn 234 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:52.840 and garden experts. They are. You can take them pictures, 235 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:56.039 you can take them samples of plants and they'll identify them. 236 00:12:56.080 --> 00:12:58.720 They'll points you to the right product if that's what's needed. 237 00:13:00.120 --> 00:13:01.639 Even just go into an area and go, hey, look 238 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:04.080 at that patio. I want to put a container on it, 239 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:07.720 and what would be some good plants for a container 240 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:11.360 in this picture to go in this on this patio, 241 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:13.720 and they can do that. They can direct you through 242 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:15.679 it and take the time to walk you through select 243 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:18.399 the plants. They have some great containers there as well. 244 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:21.759 So as they say, get your green on at Plants 245 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:24.799 for All Seasons and they can help you do just that. 246 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:29.360 Plants for All Seasons dot com is the website. The 247 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:31.279 phone number if you'd like to give them a call 248 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.159 to eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two 249 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:40.080 eight one three seven six one six four six. You're 250 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:43.039 listening to Gardenline and I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're 251 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:46.159 here to help you have a bountiful and beautiful place 252 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:49.399 and it's not that difficult. You just follow a few 253 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:53.759 simple principles. Think like a plant. How about that? That 254 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:56.399 would be my advice. Think like a plant. So if 255 00:13:56.440 --> 00:13:59.000 you were a plant, what would you want? And that's 256 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:03.159 how you have success with plants. So, for example, you 257 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.440 are an azalea or you are a tomato plant. Okay, 258 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:09.600 we're going to interview in azalea. What do you want? Well, 259 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:12.120 I like light, but I don't want to be in 260 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:14.840 the blazing sun all day. That's just too much. Okay, 261 00:14:15.120 --> 00:14:19.399 we'll provide that. I like moisture consistently, but I don't 262 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:21.720 want to be in a swamp and I cannot get 263 00:14:21.799 --> 00:14:24.840 too dry for too long. That's what I want, all right. 264 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:29.360 We can provide that. I'm really from forested regions where 265 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:34.080 the soil is rich and organic y and just wonderful soil, 266 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:38.240 and it's acidic, not highph soil. All right, we can 267 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:40.840 provide you that, and you start doing that for the plant, 268 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:43.399 not asalia is going to be as happy as a clam, 269 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:45.120 as they say. I don't know why they say that. 270 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.799 Why would a clam be happy? Anyway, that's how you 271 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:51.360 do it. But the tomato plant, same interview. I want 272 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:53.399 to be in the sun. The more sun, the better. 273 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:55.639 You put me in less than six hours of sun, 274 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:58.799 and you will not get as much production from me. Okay, 275 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:01.440 we'll provide that, and on and on down the line. 276 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:03.840 That's how you have successive plants. What does a plant want? 277 00:15:04.080 --> 00:15:07.399 Give them that? And as we were saying about the thumbs, 278 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.840 the more you know what a plant wants and the 279 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:14.000 more you provide it, the more people walk on around 280 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.200 and go, well, you must have a green thumb. Well 281 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:20.200 I have an informed thumb. Let's head out to the phones. 282 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.159 We're gonna go all the way up to Willis Texas 283 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:26.240 and talk to Ann. Hello, Anne, how are you today? Good? 284 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:26.679 How are you? 285 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:29.559 I'm doing well? Thank you? 286 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:30.960 Good? 287 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:36.759 Yellow circles on my lawn. I'm assuming that's fungus. 288 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:39.960 Could be. 289 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:46.080 It could be, well, we normally the normally is that 290 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:51.399 brown patch that causes the yellow circles. It is primarily 291 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:56.000 a cooler season disease, but there is a cousin of it, 292 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.360 arise ac tonia that can attack in the warm summertime too. 293 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:04.480 Okay, if do I need a fungus side. 294 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:05.159 To get rid of it? 295 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:11.960 Yes, probably not. Avoid over doing the nitrogen and avoid 296 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:17.679 you adding water too frequently. Now you can't control the rain, 297 00:16:17.919 --> 00:16:20.200 but if you were to water your lawn every other day, 298 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:21.759 you're going to promote that disease. 299 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:23.200 Okay. 300 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:28.679 So a lot of the the grass is it's new, 301 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:33.759 it's it's been down maybe a month and a half so, 302 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:37.519 and then of course we were watering because it was new, 303 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:41.080 and then we had all this rain and now it's 304 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:41.799 not very happy. 305 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:46.720 When did you first notice the yellowing? 306 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:54.960 When we had that first time we had a lot 307 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:56.960 of rain. I think we had like in two days, 308 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:58.200 we had like six inches. 309 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:00.639 It was a lot. 310 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:05.960 Okay, Okay, that's when I first started noticing it. 311 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:10.279 Based on what I'm hearing, and of course I'm not 312 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:13.119 seeing it, but based on what I'm hearing, I think 313 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:18.079 that you're gonna be okay, just you know, let let's 314 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:20.480 let it warm up and dry out a little bit, 315 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:22.359 and I think it's going to be all right. If 316 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:24.880 I saw a picture, I might see something else that's 317 00:17:24.960 --> 00:17:29.559 not occurring to me as we talk about it. But yeah, 318 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:33.519 that that would be That would be my suggestion to you. 319 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.319 Okay, all right, okay, sounds good. 320 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:41.359 And another thing you might do is, uh, have you 321 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:44.279 ever been to Growers Outlet. They're on Highway seventy five 322 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.079 just south of Wales. Okay, well good, Yeah, you might 323 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:49.720 take them a picture in there because they're very knowledgeable 324 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:52.680 and visit with them and see see see what they see. 325 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:56.480 They do carry some products as well, and so you 326 00:17:56.559 --> 00:17:58.880 know that that may be another backup on it. But 327 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:01.200 you always need another used to go in there, because 328 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:02.079 the place is great. 329 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:02.319 Right. 330 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:04.880 Yeah, well I went in there. I actually went in 331 00:18:04.920 --> 00:18:07.079 there yesterday and I was looking at the fungus side 332 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:08.680 and I was reading the back of the bag and 333 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.720 it was talking about using it as a preventative, and 334 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:16.440 I thought, well, yeah, well okay, but. 335 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:21.559 In general that that's true of fundericides in general. Like 336 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:23.799 when you get powdery mildew all over a leaf of 337 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:27.079 a rosebush or whatever you have, it's a little late 338 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:31.319 to spray and do much about it. Very few fundicides 339 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:35.759 have curative properties, but they protect and prevent. And so 340 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:38.480 with your lawn, if it were going to keep getting worse, 341 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:40.440 you go ahead and do it anyway, even though you 342 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:42.720 have a little bit of it, in order to prevent 343 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:46.200 it from getting worse. That that's kind of how fungicides work. 344 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:50.119 So it's a judgment call as to whether you want 345 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:52.440 to treat it or not. And I can't see it, 346 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:54.839 so it's hard for me to give that. But that's 347 00:18:54.880 --> 00:18:57.000 why I would suggest you go talk to them too, 348 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:00.799 because you can take them a picture right there. I 349 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:03.759 believe I lost I lost my collar there, all right. 350 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:06.319 Well anyway, yeah, Growers Outlet for any of you up 351 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:12.119 there around the lake area around certainly Conroe and Willis 352 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:15.440 and New Waverley and that whole region up there, even 353 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:18.000 the Woodlands Grows Outlet. You got to go check it out. 354 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:22.240 It's Growers Outlet in Willis, Dot com Growers Outlet and 355 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:25.640 Willis dot Com. It's on Hyset Highway seventy five south 356 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:28.960 of Willis, north of Conrad, Okay. And you can go 357 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:32.359 online to that website Growers Outlet and Willis dot com 358 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:35.839 and you can see they list their availability on the 359 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:38.599 web and they put the prices as well on the web, 360 00:19:38.640 --> 00:19:41.039 which is very unusual for a company to do that. 361 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:43.359 But when you go in, you're going to see a 362 00:19:43.519 --> 00:19:47.559 lot of cool things. It's a full service garden center. Well, 363 00:19:47.799 --> 00:19:50.400 it looks like we're getting pretty close here to another 364 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:54.559 little break in the action. As someone was asking me 365 00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:56.559 about Piercescapes of it in, I just wanted to comment 366 00:19:56.839 --> 00:20:01.559 about them. Piercecapes does anything you need done pretty much 367 00:20:01.720 --> 00:20:04.839 around the landscape, whether it's a design from the beginning 368 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:07.559 from the ground up, whether it's some renovations, if the 369 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:10.920 irrigation needs work, if you want lighting, if you need drainage, 370 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:12.720 and you should know it by now after the rain 371 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:16.119 we have Go to their website Puerscapes dot com and 372 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:18.319 see their work and you will be sold on it 373 00:20:18.400 --> 00:20:21.000 as I was. Or call them two eight one three 374 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:24.480 seven oh fifty sixty. I'm gonna take a break and 375 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:27.480 we'll be right back. All right, there we go. There 376 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:31.759 used to be a time before, probably almost all of 377 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:35.920 our time listening to this when singing cowboys little things. 378 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:38.599 Some of you may remember that. I remember it just 379 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:42.000 as watching all movies that was in the day where 380 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:45.240 you knew who to shoot at out in the West 381 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:47.400 because they either wore a black or a white hat. 382 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:49.599 If the guy on the other side of the big 383 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:52.440 rock across the canyon had on a black hat and 384 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:54.720 was shooting at you, that man, he was a bad guy. 385 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.839 Oh boy, Hello, Genatry, Hey, welcome back to garden Line. 386 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:02.720 And we do play a mix of music here. I 387 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:04.279 know it's a gardening show, but I like to have 388 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:07.880 some fun. I enjoy music. I enjoy a variety of things. 389 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:11.000 We got, we got radio shows you can listen to 390 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:13.359 that just play all the modern music all the time. 391 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:15.920 But hey, let's mix it up a little bit. That's 392 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:18.359 what we're doing, speaking and mixing it up a little bit. 393 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:20.359 How about mixing it up with one of your calls 394 00:21:20.359 --> 00:21:22.880 seven one three two on two K t r H. 395 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:25.519 What do you want to talk about? Real happy, We're 396 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:30.519 happy to visit about all kinds of things related to plants. Uh, 397 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.440 microlife fertilizers. You hear me talk about them all the time. 398 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:35.680 You see them everywhere you go. I mean feed stores, 399 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:40.319 garden centers, good quality mom and pop garden centers, and 400 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:45.480 certainly Ace hardware stores, a Southwest fertilizer. You get the 401 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:49.920 idea there everywhere. Well, micro Grow Liquid AF is a 402 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:52.359 product for microlife. And I don't talk about this a lot, 403 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:54.519 but I'm gonna right now and I want you to 404 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:58.359 know about this. It is a product that has eight 405 00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:04.079 different beneficial microbes that dominate the soil situation and protect 406 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:06.319 your plants. Did you know you know, people talk about 407 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:09.240 microbes or bacteria, and you think, well with people when 408 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:11.720 they say, well you got bacteria, that's like, oh that's 409 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:15.119 a bad thing, right, that's a disease or whatever. Well, 410 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:19.359 bacteria can cause plant disease. But there are a lot 411 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:22.680 of bacteria that are out there preventing plant disease. That's 412 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:25.599 why the bad guys don't run wild. We're talking about 413 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:28.160 the bacteria now that wear the white hats, okay, strapped 414 00:22:28.200 --> 00:22:31.720 to mices and Trachiderma and Bacillus. There's a lot of 415 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:34.119 good forms of all of those. I was just looking 416 00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:38.200 at a product this morning that actually it's a fungicide 417 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:42.720 and it has basically the ingredient is Bacillus subtless and 418 00:22:42.880 --> 00:22:45.920 that's one of the things that you find in micro 419 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:49.680 grow liquid. If there's a pile of research a mile 420 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:54.039 high about the benefits of these bacteria and fighting disease, 421 00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:56.839 it's fighting disease naturally the way nature does. How does 422 00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:00.640 nature deal with certain diseases. Well, it has other microbes 423 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:04.359 that defeat them or out out compete them on the 424 00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:09.279 plant's surface, or have other ways that they prevent problems. Well, 425 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:12.240 that's exactly now microgrow liquid AF. We're not going to 426 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:15.599 call it a fungicide. What it basically is, though, is 427 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:19.799 it's a pack of eight different quality bacteria that you 428 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:21.400 need to have in your soils, and you need to 429 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:26.119 have active and by doing that you are tilting that 430 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:29.480 you are tilting the playing field, if you will, in 431 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:33.319 favor of the good bacteria that protect your plants. Micro 432 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:35.880 grow liquid AF all right, now, that is a kind 433 00:23:35.920 --> 00:23:41.079 of a purplish, violent colored label. I gotta somebody needs 434 00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:43.119 to teach me about colors, because I'm not real good 435 00:23:43.119 --> 00:23:46.599 at describing colors. My wife finally taught me what Wedgewood 436 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:51.440 Blue was in Dusty Rose. It took a long time though. Anyway, Violet, 437 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:54.319 I'm gonna call it violet. Micro grow liquid afs by 438 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:57.759 the gallon, it's by the court, and it works. And 439 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:01.039 basically what you're doing is you're taking the bacteria that 440 00:24:01.079 --> 00:24:04.279 wear the white hats and putting them in the soil 441 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:06.920 on the plant, so the bacteria that were the black 442 00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:11.200 hats going back to gene autry here so that they 443 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:14.440 don't have the upper hand. That makes sense, all right, 444 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:18.559 I hope it does. I hope it does. It is 445 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:21.079 true though, and boy are we ever learning a lot 446 00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:26.079 about how to deal with problems and plants by just 447 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:28.519 taking a minute and looking at what nature does about 448 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:33.480 it and going along with those those systems. It's through microlife. 449 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.359 You're listening to garden Line. The phone number is seven 450 00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:40.440 one three two one two kt r H. Seven one 451 00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:44.839 three two one two k t r H. And you 452 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:47.279 were here to help you have a bountiful garden and 453 00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:50.799 a beautiful landscape and be happy to do just that. 454 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:53.559 If you haven't been out to Kingwood Garden Center and 455 00:24:53.720 --> 00:24:56.480 Warren Southern Gardens, they're in Kingwood, and I don't know 456 00:24:56.519 --> 00:24:58.839 how you guys in Kingwood managed to get both of 457 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:04.039 these gardens. But that's not fair because you got two 458 00:25:04.119 --> 00:25:07.599 of them. They're they're just excellent places to go visit 459 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:10.599 Warrens Southern Gardens on North Park Drive and Kingwood Garden 460 00:25:10.680 --> 00:25:14.480 Center on Stone Hollow, and each has its own I'll 461 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:19.000 say personality if you will. They're they're not cookie cutters 462 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:22.200 of each other, but they're both well worth going to 463 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:25.359 Kingwood Garden Center. The gift shop there, first of all, 464 00:25:25.559 --> 00:25:28.200 is just amazing. You ought to go see it. It's 465 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:30.880 really cool for the gardener and even the non gardener 466 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:33.039 on your list. They have a lot of nice things. 467 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:34.480 You know how it is with people, It's like, what 468 00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:37.039 do you get somebody that has everything, Well, you go 469 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:39.279 to Kingwoo Garden Center gift shop and find something they 470 00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:41.880 definitely don't have because they got plenty of that there. 471 00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:44.400 Warrens has got a lot of good deals going on 472 00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:49.039 right now. First of all, the color at Warren's is amazing. 473 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:50.839 I was out there not too long ago, and it 474 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:54.759 just you just stop and just turn on three hundred 475 00:25:54.759 --> 00:25:58.359 and sixty degrees around and everywhere you look there are lush, 476 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:02.519 beautiful plants right now they've got their vinkas for twenty 477 00:26:02.640 --> 00:26:07.440 percent off. Vinca also called Madagascar periwinkle. I know that 478 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:10.279 you're kind of going, what's that. Well, that's the name 479 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:12.599 I prefer for Vinca. But anyway, we got other plants 480 00:26:12.680 --> 00:26:17.119 named Vinca too. But it's the flowers typically red and 481 00:26:17.279 --> 00:26:20.400 white and pink and kind of a here we go again, 482 00:26:21.440 --> 00:26:24.920 maybe kind of a hot pink kind of color that 483 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:28.119 just go through summer like crazy. It's part of their 484 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:31.720 Sinko to Mayo sale. It's twenty percent off the vinkas. 485 00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:33.960 You can get them, you know, in gallum pots, four 486 00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:37.440 inch pots, hanging baskets. They do so well and it 487 00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:40.799 never gets too hot for venka. They are happy colors, 488 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.160 beautiful color in the summertime. So go by there and 489 00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:46.039 check them out. And why are you there? Look at 490 00:26:46.039 --> 00:26:48.759 all the other wonderful stuff they have, because they do 491 00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:49.519 have a lot. 492 00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:50.319 I was. 493 00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:53.000 I was amazed. It's just how beautiful it was when 494 00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:59.039 I was out there. Really cool. Alrighty Well, oh, by 495 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:02.000 the way, when when you're out there, check out the 496 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:04.440 supply of all the stuff you need to go with 497 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:07.079 your plants. I always say brown stuff before green stuff. 498 00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:09.920 And you can do them both at the same time. 499 00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:13.039 When you go buy Warren Southern Gardens Kingwood Garden Center, 500 00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:17.359 they got Microlife products, they got Nitrovost products, Nelson Turf Star, 501 00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:20.759 they got products from Nelson Plant Food. In the jars 502 00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:25.279 they have the heirloom soils bags there all kinds of 503 00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:28.119 airloom soils and airloom Soluce has every kind of product 504 00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:31.000 you can imagine for every kind of plant you can imagine, 505 00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:34.279 and it's all quality stuff and you can pick it 506 00:27:34.359 --> 00:27:37.480 all up there at the same time. And this is important. 507 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.480 If you like to buy Microlife or Nelson Plant Food 508 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:44.400 by the jar, the big screw top lid jars, the 509 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:47.440 clear jars, you can take the empty jars back in 510 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:50.400 there and you can get them filled at either Warren 511 00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:54.240 Southern Gardens or Kingwood Garden Center, either one. You can 512 00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:57.480 get them filled right there. So I would recommend that 513 00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:01.440 you do that. It's very economical not throwing plastic away 514 00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:04.480 in the environment, and it's just simple. I think we 515 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.160 ought to have more things that we do by just 516 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:10.079 refilling them instead of buying a new package. I would 517 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:12.160 do it. I don't know, maybe some people wouldn't, but 518 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:16.440 I sure would I think it's a good idea in 519 00:28:16.640 --> 00:28:21.240 my landscape. This past week, I've been working on planting, 520 00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:24.319 getting a lot of stuff in the ground that I've 521 00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:27.960 been trying to get planted for a long time. I 522 00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:34.039 did some planting of some ginger type plants. The gingers. 523 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.880 I love ginger. I just think it's so tropical, and 524 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:40.680 I like the white butterfly, the hedicium and some of 525 00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:44.640 the other butterflies. I planted two different butterfly gingers near 526 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:46.839 the back porch where I can enjoy the fragrance of 527 00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:50.039 them coming out, and that just makes me happy to 528 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:53.240 get those things going. So anyway, and if you're going 529 00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:57.359 to do any planting, also did some containers. Potted up 530 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:01.079 a lime tree for a container. When you're doing a container, 531 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:03.799 you want to get a good quality soil that drains well, 532 00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:07.400 and an example of that would be jungle Land distributed 533 00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:11.640 by nitrofoss. Jungle Land is basically based on a blended 534 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:16.319 Canadian blonde peat with four different sources of aged organic 535 00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:20.440 matter and micro rise of fungi. Microasa fungi connect to 536 00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:22.920 the roots of plants and they make those roots more 537 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.039 efficient and more effective, and they protect the roots in 538 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:30.039 different ways too, so you can't go wrong using the 539 00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:33.599 outdoor jungle land the flour and vegetable planting soil, or 540 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:37.279 using the indoor jungle land, the one called water saving 541 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:39.839 potting soil. Either way, it's a good way to go. 542 00:29:40.160 --> 00:29:43.200 You're going to find nitrofoss products in many places like 543 00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:46.440 down in Angleton. You'll go to Lake Hardware in Angleton 544 00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:49.680 of Alasco. If you're an Alvin Stanton shopping Center, or 545 00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:53.000 North Taylor, or maybe the clear Lake area M and 546 00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:55.880 D Clear Lake, the Bay Area Boulevard, all places that 547 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.240 carry nitrofos products. Time for me to take a little 548 00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:01.839 break here. We'll be back with your questions if you'd 549 00:30:01.920 --> 00:30:04.359 like to be first up down now seven one three 550 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:09.319 two one two KTRH. Hey, welcome back to garden Line, Volks, 551 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:12.920 little Steve Miller band. I don't know if you've ever 552 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:16.359 followed Steve Miller, but I'm telling you that band has 553 00:30:16.559 --> 00:30:19.920 lasted through the years. Definitely not a one shot wonder, 554 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:22.960 but the very opposite of it, in a wide variety 555 00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:26.279 music as well. You're listening to garden Line and we 556 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:29.400 are here to help you with your gardening endeavors. If 557 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:31.079 you'd like to give me a call seven one three 558 00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:35.400 two one two fifty eight seventy four or KTRH if 559 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:37.880 you like dialing by letters, easier to remember that way. 560 00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:42.359 If you've got some furniture outside and it's not so 561 00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:44.839 good shape, you know, the worse for the wear. As 562 00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:48.559 they say that the weather is taking its toll, you 563 00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:51.759 need to know about Houston powder coders. If it's metal furniture, 564 00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:55.079 it could be wrought iron, cast iron, aluminum, patio furniture, 565 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:58.359 whatever kind of metal. They can coat it and they 566 00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:00.839 coat it with whatever color you want. And I really 567 00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:03.079 mean that. And I talked about me being color challenge. 568 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:06.559 They have over one hundred colors that could need I 569 00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:10.119 could probably name five, right, that's me. But anyway, they 570 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:14.160 have any color you want, really, and you haven't come 571 00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:16.039 in and take care of it. What they do is 572 00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:17.759 they come pick it up and they deliver it. If 573 00:31:17.799 --> 00:31:19.839 you're in the Houston area. Now, if you're further out, 574 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:22.240 you can bring it in to them. But what they'll 575 00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:24.160 do is they'll do a powder coat on it, which 576 00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:26.200 is way better than you trying to paint the stuff. 577 00:31:26.359 --> 00:31:30.079 I mean, it looks like new because they don't just 578 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:32.000 put a coating on the metal. I mean, if you've 579 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:34.279 got rusty hardware, you know, nuts and bolts, they put 580 00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:37.720 stainless steel hardware back on it. If you've got vinyl 581 00:31:37.799 --> 00:31:40.640 straps and sling fabric and things, depending on the kind 582 00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:43.160 of chair or whatever piece of furniture it is, they 583 00:31:43.279 --> 00:31:46.799 replace that. If you you know the plastic feed and 584 00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:49.559 the end caps on some of the tubular metal furniture, 585 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:52.440 they replace that. They make it right. It needs a 586 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:55.119 little weld here and there to kind of restrengthen they 587 00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:58.279 can do it. It's brand new when they get through. Essentially, 588 00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:01.319 and this isn't just furniture you sit on tables and 589 00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:04.079 chairs and things. This would be artistic things that go 590 00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:05.960 on the wall you know of your house, or on 591 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:07.880 a fence or something. You got some wrought iron kind 592 00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:10.640 of an an artistic kind of piece. If you have 593 00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:15.200 a rail or you know, a rail around a patio 594 00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:17.599 or something, or some stairs. If you've got a light 595 00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:21.119 pole out in the in the yard that you know 596 00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:24.039 is metal. If it's a metal, they can do it. 597 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:25.920 Doesn't matter what it is. They can do it. They 598 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:29.400 got the equipment. Here's the thing. Take a picture of 599 00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:32.640 it and just find out. Take a picture send it 600 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:38.119 to sales at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales at houstoncoders dot com. 601 00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:40.599 They'll give you a quick quote and you can go 602 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:44.279 on their social media accounts and see examples of their work. 603 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:49.599 The website worth seeing too, Houston Powdercoders dot com. Houston 604 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:54.720 Powdercoders dot com two eight one six seven six thirty 605 00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:59.000 eight eighty eight two eight one six seven six thirty 606 00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:01.759 eight eighty eight. They're up in North Houston, North sut 607 00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:04.039 of Houston. Knew the intersection about Way eight and Hardy 608 00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:06.440 Toll Road, so it's easy to get to them. But 609 00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:09.119 I'm telling you, the work is amazing. You know. Every 610 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:11.400 time I look at the stuff they've done, and this 611 00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:13.759 is tongue in cheek, but it's also I kind of 612 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:17.039 really mean it. It's like I want to go find 613 00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:19.359 some old furniture so I can have it powder coated 614 00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:23.400 because it looks so good. They, you know, something that 615 00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:26.480 somebody else would be going like, yeah, let's throw this away. 616 00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:28.960 This is well, take it to Euston Powder Court to 617 00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:33.240 see what they can do with it. Really nice stuff. Anyway, 618 00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:39.039 I was talking to one of my neighbors who's doing 619 00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:40.759 a little bit of fertilized getting ready to do a 620 00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:43.039 little bit of fertilizing here for summer, and we're talking 621 00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:46.039 about some different products and things, and we're talking about 622 00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:49.400 the schedule of the different kinds of product you can 623 00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.079 put down in the sense of an immediate release or 624 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:57.319 a slow release or whatever. And we discussed that they 625 00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:00.559 had tried the Sweet Green and really liked They just 626 00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:03.000 said it, I mean, everything just greened up so pretty, 627 00:34:03.079 --> 00:34:06.279 and of course it does. Sweet Green is an organic 628 00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:10.679 type fertilizer that has eleven percent nitrogen, which is a 629 00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:14.159 high nitrogen content, so you use a little bit less 630 00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:16.920 of it. And because you're always putting down about a 631 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:21.079 pound of nitrogen actual nitrogen when you fertilize your lawnch 632 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:23.639 so you get a concentrated fertilizer, you use less, you 633 00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:26.280 get a less concentrated you use more. That's just how 634 00:34:26.360 --> 00:34:31.039 that works. And anyway, the Sweet Green dissolves away with 635 00:34:31.239 --> 00:34:36.239 the moisture and it releases the compounds that have nitrogen, 636 00:34:36.320 --> 00:34:40.119 and a bacteria grab onto it. Bacteria love sugary substances. 637 00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:45.440 That's why organic gardeners have used molasses for years. They 638 00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:48.719 know the benefits of that. Well, they get a hold 639 00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:51.239 of it. They go crazy. They release the nitrogen to 640 00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:54.559 your plants, and the rest is all history. As I say, 641 00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:57.000 in other words, your place looks good, and you're going 642 00:34:57.039 --> 00:35:00.880 to find Sweet Green and other nitrofoss products all over town. 643 00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:04.079 You go down to the Sagemont area, M and D. 644 00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:07.119 Beamer on Beamer is going to have it. You go 645 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:10.840 to Mount Bellevue Fisher Hardware on FM thirty one eighty. 646 00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:14.199 You head up to Dan Defeed and Tomball on twenty 647 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:17.480 nine to twenty. You're going to find nitro fosh products, 648 00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:22.719 including this Sweet Green works really well. I wanted to 649 00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:29.119 visit a little bit about selecting sites for plants. And 650 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:32.480 the reason I bring this up is I've got a 651 00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:36.239 yard that is more shade than sun, which when I'm 652 00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:39.320 sitting out in the yard, I like that. But so 653 00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:42.000 many of the plants I want to grow needs sun. 654 00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.360 It takes sun to grow fruit, a lot of sun. 655 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:47.639 It doesn't take a lot of sun to grow leaves. 656 00:35:48.199 --> 00:35:52.559 Some it needs sun. But fruit, yes, whether it's a 657 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:54.360 peach or a tomato, it takes a lot of sun. 658 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:59.440 It takes sun to grow flowers, and some things like hibiscus, 659 00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:02.559 they really need a lot of sun to do well. 660 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:05.159 Most salvias need quite a bit of sun to do well, 661 00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:07.559 and in order for that to happen, you got to 662 00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:10.119 have a spot that gets I would like to see 663 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:12.360 six hours of sun, and I've got a lot of 664 00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:15.280 spots that don't quite get that. So what do you 665 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.440 do well other than cut down a tree, which ain't 666 00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:20.760 going to happen. Because we love our trees. Here, we 667 00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:24.480 find the sunniest spot that we can. And so I've 668 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:27.639 got also the option of putting some fruit in that's 669 00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:29.880 a little more tolerant of shade. Doesn't want to be 670 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:32.599 in shade, but it can put up with some Blueberries 671 00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:36.599 can take a little more shade. They do great. And 672 00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:38.880 if you're a blueberry grower, you better put it in 673 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:40.559 full sun if you want to make money on it. 674 00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:44.280 But if you're homegrower and you got some bright shade, 675 00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:47.519 they'll do better, but better than like a peach tree 676 00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:50.519 or something would in the same spot. Big trees will 677 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:53.559 put up with some bright shade as well, And sometimes 678 00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:55.599 you just have to compromise and do the best you can. 679 00:36:55.719 --> 00:36:57.280 And that's kind of where we are right now. So 680 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:00.440 I'm planning this back bed that goes all way across 681 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:04.280 the back of my property and some areas. What I 682 00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:06.760 did is, and I suggest you consider this. I went 683 00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:10.400 out and I took pictures of the bed almost every 684 00:37:10.519 --> 00:37:13.760 hour from the morning through the afternoon. So it took 685 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:15.760 me about four days to do it because I would forget, 686 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:17.519 so I'd have to set a time er, oh tomorrow 687 00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:20.199 at nine am, and I take a picture two pm 688 00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:22.719 or whatever. And I look at all those pictures, and 689 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.039 I see the pattern of the sun, and I can 690 00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:27.719 say that spot right there is the sunniest spot in 691 00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:31.079 that whole row. And over here that is it almost 692 00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:33.960 never gets sun over there. And you pick your plants 693 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:36.719 accordingly to fit those areas rather than just go out 694 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:39.400 and plant it because you like that spot right there. 695 00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:42.199 You got to make the plants happy. Remember the thing 696 00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.119 about having a green thumb is you just know what 697 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:49.519 a plant wants. And you know this stuff a lot. 698 00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:51.159 You know, you know a lot of these things. So 699 00:37:51.239 --> 00:37:54.440 I'm me telling you, but that is a very important 700 00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:57.320 concept to keep in mind. You make the plants happy, 701 00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:02.039 the plants will make you happy. Okay, all right, I'm 702 00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:07.199 I'm a post that our social media here. Let's head 703 00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:09.880 out to Clear Lake Texas, and we're going to talk 704 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:13.639 to Sarah. Hello, Sarah, welcome to Guardenline morning. 705 00:38:13.719 --> 00:38:14.000 Skip. 706 00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:16.800 You were just talking about venka and I can take 707 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:18.119 the heat and all that stuff. 708 00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:20.400 I buy it every year. 709 00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:22.639 I've bought it from home depot, I've bought it from 710 00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:26.119 mass nursery. I've bought it everywhere. Every year I buy it, 711 00:38:26.639 --> 00:38:29.440 I plant it. It's wonderful, and then it just starts 712 00:38:29.480 --> 00:38:33.239 to wilt. Why it doesn't to me every single year? 713 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:34.199 What am I doing wrong? 714 00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.000 I've got good dirt, all right, good part. 715 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:42.880 I think, Okay, my best guess, and I'm about ninere 716 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:47.239 on this one. Unless you're just it's going totally water logged. 717 00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:51.159 But I doubt that. I think it's a disease called 718 00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:56.519 aerial phytoptha blight, and there's no springing for that. What 719 00:38:56.719 --> 00:38:58.079 you need to do is you need to get a 720 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:01.480 vinka that's been bred to be real resistent. Get all 721 00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:04.559 that old venca out of there, because it stays persistent 722 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:07.519 in the soil in that bed for a good while. 723 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:10.360 So either you're going to need to transition the bed 724 00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:13.639 to other types of worm seasoned flowers that don't get that, 725 00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:18.599 or you buy a type of a vinca called Cora 726 00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:23.199 co o r a. It's a series. There's trailing coras, 727 00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:28.159 there's upright coras, but the Cora vinca series is resistant 728 00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:34.000 to fight top there unless you've developed a a type 729 00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:37.400 in your in your beds that even cora gets attacked by. 730 00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:40.119 But that that's the way to keep getting growing vincas. 731 00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:42.960 To use the cora or so And if it's. 732 00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:44.880 In a pot, then I need to empty out the pot, 733 00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:46.519 sterilize the pot and start over. 734 00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:50.199 Yeah, empty the soil. You can use that soil for 735 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:53.960 something else, not if I top their vecas the primary 736 00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:55.679 thing that it attacks. So I mean you can grow 737 00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:59.320 you know, marigols or something else in that soil, but 738 00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:01.679 clean it out real good and put some press soil 739 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:03.559 in it and get some cor inca and you should 740 00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:03.840 be good. 741 00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:05.400 Okay, okay, very good. 742 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:06.159 Thanks for help. 743 00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:10.480 All righty Sarah, thanks for the call. Appreciate that, folks. 744 00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:20.880 I'll be right back after the news. Hey, good morning, 745 00:40:24.440 --> 00:40:27.679 good Sunday morning. Welcome to Garden Line. I'm your host, 746 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.639 Skip Rictor, and we're here to help you have success 747 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:33.519 in your garden. That's what we that's what we're all about. 748 00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:35.239 Oh you got to just give us a call. Seven 749 00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:38.199 one three two one two kt r H seven one 750 00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:41.280 three two one two k t r H. The folks 751 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:45.360 at Nelson Plant Food have a number of different quality 752 00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:49.480 products available in jars. They're clear plastic jars, the big 753 00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:53.480 fat wide lid, and there's the color Star line, their 754 00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:57.360 most famous line. Been around for a long time. I'll 755 00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:01.119 leave over forty years now, sold all over not just Texas, 756 00:41:01.239 --> 00:41:04.360 but the whole country. Really, it's an amazing product and 757 00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:06.679 it works anything with color that you're going to grow. 758 00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:10.280 You're gonna grow with annual flowers or any kind of 759 00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:13.840 plant like that, perennials, shrubs and trees and other things. 760 00:41:13.880 --> 00:41:16.039 You can use it on a lot of different things. 761 00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:19.920 It's got fast acting effects, so it immediately gives you that, 762 00:41:20.039 --> 00:41:21.840 but it also has slow release, so it's going to 763 00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:24.079 feed for about three to four months as well. It's 764 00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:27.719 not just a one and done. Some organic nutrient sources 765 00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:30.320 that really enrich the soil. That's the color Star plus. 766 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:33.679 Then there's the nutri Star line, which is jars for 767 00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:36.880 specific kinds of plants. There's a nutri Star for vegetables, 768 00:41:36.960 --> 00:41:41.159 there's one for hibiscus and flowering tropicals for example, and 769 00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:43.559 that would be a good one for this season right now. 770 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:49.199 If you enjoy hibiscus, aboon and villias and flowering tropicals, plumerias. 771 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:52.719 There's nutra star for all of those products or all 772 00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:55.159 of those plants, and you can find it. It's all 773 00:41:55.239 --> 00:41:58.119 over the place. It's easy to find Nelson by the 774 00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:01.719 jar and there are about a dozen places around town 775 00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:04.079 where you can take your jars in when you're emptying 776 00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:07.400 them and refill them. It's a little more economical and 777 00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.400 it avoids putting that plastic in the environment. Just makes 778 00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:14.000 good sense, which makes sense that Nelson would provide something 779 00:42:14.119 --> 00:42:17.800 like that. Let's dad out here to the phones. We 780 00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:21.280 are going to go to Bill and Kingwood. Hey, Bill, 781 00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:26.119 welcome to garden Line. Good morning, Good morning. 782 00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.800 I sent in some pictures yesterday, one of which is 783 00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:35.360 a pepper plant. I suspect that it might have bacterial 784 00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.079 leaf spot disease. If do you have your head the 785 00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:40.719 opportunity to look at that picture in the one of 786 00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:42.679 the tomato I. 787 00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:46.039 Have, the pepper has bactrial leaf spot on it, a 788 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:52.760 really significant case of it. So for that disease, the 789 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:58.000 best control, well, first of all, that plant hardly has 790 00:42:58.039 --> 00:43:00.280 a leaf without vactril leaf spot on it, and so 791 00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:02.920 the spots that it has are not going to get better. 792 00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:06.920 It would be you know, I would tell you pick 793 00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:08.800 all the leaves off that have spots on them, but 794 00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:11.400 you basically would be picking all the leaves off. But 795 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.719 it splashes every time it rains, and it is a 796 00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:20.360 very difficult disease to manage. So if it were mine, 797 00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:22.920 as shocking as this is, I'd pick every leaf off 798 00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:26.199 that I see it on, including the leaves on the ground, 799 00:43:26.840 --> 00:43:31.039 because it's difficult. It even comes in by seeds. It 800 00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:33.320 may have been on the seed that were planted to 801 00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:37.760 make this plant, but anyway, then get a copper spray 802 00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:44.280 something with copper and get menko zeb Bone eye makes 803 00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:50.480 a type of men kazeb and the colination of those 804 00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:59.880 two m A n co zeb zs and zebra menkseebb 805 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:02.840 by bon eye, and it's being bon eyed. 806 00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:03.039 You know. 807 00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:05.519 Those Their products are sold in a lot of different places. 808 00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:07.360 If you have trouble finding any of those, you can 809 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:09.119 email me and I can help you find one. But 810 00:44:09.559 --> 00:44:11.719 menka is that by bonnight ought to be pretty pretty 811 00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:15.840 widely available in good garden centers. For example, I would 812 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:21.039 check Kingwood Garden Center or the Warren Seven Gardens out there. 813 00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:25.119 There's also an ACE hardware store out there in that area. 814 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:31.599 That would be another good place to check. So anywhere, 815 00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:38.079 in fact, you have several aces next year just makes 816 00:44:38.159 --> 00:44:41.280 you sure you're using good fresh seed. I would plant 817 00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:46.320 the peppers in another location in your garden beds. Try 818 00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:49.880 to avoid that exact spot because there are any kind 819 00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:53.360 of remnants it can be around, and then when we 820 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:57.639 get splashy, rainy weather, it just goes everywhere. So anyway, 821 00:44:58.519 --> 00:45:01.119 after you do your spraying, if you see any leaves 822 00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:03.519 with spots, hopefully new leaves will be coming out. You 823 00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:06.079 want to spray those, make sure they're they're coated with 824 00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:09.199 the spray to protect them, and then pick off any 825 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:11.920 other leaves that you see, and that's going to get 826 00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:13.880 the best we can try to get those. I believe 827 00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:21.639 jalapenos to a ripe state. Okay, second is what about so. 828 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:25.239 Try to try to get rid of the leaves and 829 00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:31.079 try to spray everything or other plants like tomatoes or whatever, 830 00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:33.440 are they affected also with the same type of. 831 00:45:33.480 --> 00:45:38.280 Disease tomatoes can they do? Tomatoes have a bacterial leaf spot? 832 00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:41.119 I don't know if it's exactly the same strain. Is 833 00:45:41.199 --> 00:45:42.440 the one that attacks peppers? 834 00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:42.719 Are not? 835 00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:47.400 Uh so maybe yes, maybe no? On those they do 836 00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:52.800 get this disease. But diseases have strains that attack certain 837 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:55.440 kinds of plants. The powdery mildew that attacks roses is 838 00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:58.760 not the powdery mildew that attacks crape myrtles, for example. Okay, 839 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:02.039 the same name, same disease, but different strain. All right, 840 00:46:02.119 --> 00:46:05.079 So the tomato, that's a caterpillar that chewed that hole 841 00:46:05.159 --> 00:46:07.679 in it. If you got a lot of them, it's 842 00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:11.079 probably worth putting out a spray of a BT about 843 00:46:11.119 --> 00:46:14.880 every I don't know, maybe seven days on the plants 844 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:17.199 to get good coverage on it. They eat it, they 845 00:46:17.280 --> 00:46:21.039 get sick, they die. That's the safest, lowest talks option 846 00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:25.119 for controlling the categoris out there. But that that's a caterpillar. 847 00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:28.519 It could be a tomato fruit worm is a likely one, 848 00:46:28.639 --> 00:46:30.119 but there are others that could do that. 849 00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:35.400 Okay, okay, all right, yes, sir, thank you so much 850 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:36.639 for your help. I appreciate it. 851 00:46:37.760 --> 00:46:40.440 Uh you bet you, thanks thanks for your call. I 852 00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:44.599 appreciate that. Let's see here, oh, you know, talking about 853 00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:49.119 places to get things Southwest Fertilizer. You know some of 854 00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.960 these products that I come up with. It's like, yeah, 855 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:56.320 I don't see that in many places around town, but 856 00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:58.559 you're always going to see it in Southwest Fertilizer. It's 857 00:46:58.599 --> 00:47:00.639 just because they carry everything. They don't have it, you 858 00:47:00.679 --> 00:47:02.199 don't need it. That's the way I like to put it. 859 00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:05.000 They're on the corner of bisin Nutt and Renwick. I've 860 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.760 been around since nineteen fifty five, seventy years. Seventy years 861 00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:12.239 that place has been in business, and there's a reason 862 00:47:12.360 --> 00:47:14.480 for that. When you go by, you'll know those of 863 00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:16.599 you came out to see me. When I was at 864 00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:20.400 Southwest Fertilizer, I comments about, you know this place has everything. Well, 865 00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:24.960 yes it does, tools and products and fertilized. I mean, 866 00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:28.559 everything you need it's there, including good advice. You bring 867 00:47:28.639 --> 00:47:30.960 a sample or a photo in and they can help you. 868 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:33.679 You know, if you'd haul this pepper with bactrail spot 869 00:47:33.719 --> 00:47:35.280 on the leaves in, they would have looked at it 870 00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:36.559 and they'd have told you what to put on it. 871 00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:40.239 Southwest Fertilizer dot Com seven to one three six sixty 872 00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:43.920 six one seven four four seven one three six six 873 00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:45.880 six one seven four four. I'm gonna take a break. 874 00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:48.239 When we come back, Dwayne and Katie and John and 875 00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:51.320 Webster be our first two up. All right, welcome back 876 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:54.880 to your guard Line. I'm your host, Skip Rickord. Good 877 00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:58.000 to have you with us. I know we got those 878 00:47:58.079 --> 00:48:01.760 people out there that are lurking on the outsides, on 879 00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:05.239 the edge. Don't want to call in. That's okay. You're 880 00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:07.920 welcome too. Glad you're listening this morning. I hope you're 881 00:48:07.920 --> 00:48:10.760 having a good Sunday morning. Feel free to call in 882 00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:14.320 if you like. It's like what the water's worms, take 883 00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:16.079 your toe in the water. It's good. Come on, let's 884 00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:18.400 do this. Let's head out to Katie. First thing here, 885 00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:21.119 we're going to go talk to Duane. Hello, Dwayne, and 886 00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:22.280 welcome to Guardline. 887 00:48:23.239 --> 00:48:25.840 Morning Strip. Send you an email with some pistures of 888 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:29.079 my burrow tree. It's got some type of a larva 889 00:48:29.159 --> 00:48:30.840 in it. Not sure exactly what it is. I wonder 890 00:48:30.840 --> 00:48:31.920 if you could tell me what that is and if 891 00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:32.960 something to be concerned about or not. 892 00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:37.639 Okay, I did get your photos out there, and what 893 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:42.559 that is. It's a like a leaf miner. A little 894 00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:47.840 insect feeds underneath the top surface of the leaf, and 895 00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:52.480 when it does that, it's protected by that cuticle that 896 00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:57.519 the top surface of the leaf, and most beneficials can't 897 00:48:57.559 --> 00:48:59.599 get to it. There are a few wasps that can 898 00:48:59.679 --> 00:49:02.559 lay in egg through that cuticle and get it. But 899 00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:05.400 it's a little it's a little caterpillar like insect that's 900 00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:07.880 down there. Actually maybe a fly larva in this case, 901 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:12.800 I can't tell exactly, but that is a extremely minor 902 00:49:12.960 --> 00:49:17.039 issue for the tree. That tree produces so much leaf area, 903 00:49:17.159 --> 00:49:19.760 and your trees are in such good health, beautiful leaves 904 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:22.760 that I wouldn't worry about it at all. It's you know, 905 00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:26.599 it's just a little bit of a cosmetic freckle. That's 906 00:49:26.960 --> 00:49:30.320 a mount on those trees, so don't worry about it. 907 00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:32.599 But that's what it is. Kind of interesting, a little creature. 908 00:49:33.440 --> 00:49:36.360 And did you notice them late when you looked at 909 00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:38.719 the spots, could you see the little larva inside there? 910 00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:42.239 Well, it's look at what they maaked eye. You can't 911 00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:43.679 if you see it on the picture, you can see 912 00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:46.159 it in there. But what I noticed there was war 913 00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:48.239 But when I squeezed the area, you could actually see 914 00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:51.199 it crush. Yeah, whatever it is in there. 915 00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:54.920 At some point that larva is going to drop out. 916 00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:56.360 It's going to eat its way out of there, or 917 00:49:56.400 --> 00:49:59.599 it may pupate in that spot and then come out. 918 00:49:59.760 --> 00:50:03.440 But yeah, it's a yeah. It's one of the hundreds 919 00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:06.239 of thousands of insects out there that really, really, we 920 00:50:06.360 --> 00:50:08.360 just don't even need to think about it. It's one 921 00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:11.960 of the less concerning leaf miners on the planet. 922 00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:14.719 All right, all right, well, thank you, sir, I appreciate it. 923 00:50:14.760 --> 00:50:17.880 You have a good day, Yes, sir, you as well, 924 00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:23.280 Thank you. I appreciate your call. Nelson Water Gardens, Nelson 925 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:26.199 Nursery and water Gardens out there in Katie is a 926 00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:30.320 wonderful place to visit. They have so their selection of 927 00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:33.280 plants is outstanding. I know they're known for the water gardens. 928 00:50:33.320 --> 00:50:36.320 They're world famous for the water gardens because of the 929 00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:40.079 contribution they've made to that industry. For example, in the 930 00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:43.760 water gardens, they invented the disappearing fountain, you know, the 931 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:47.559 big beautiful urn ceramic urn where the water's coming over 932 00:50:47.639 --> 00:50:50.960 the sides and recirculating. They designed that, and if you 933 00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:53.159 want to do one, they can set one up for you, 934 00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:55.840 or they can just see the pieces of barts and 935 00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:57.320 tell you how to put it together. And go home 936 00:50:57.360 --> 00:50:59.880 do it yourself if you want to do that. And 937 00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:02.039 that is true of a lot of things there. You know, 938 00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:06.119 the folks know what they're talking about, but don't. I 939 00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:08.119 want to get past the water garden just for a 940 00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:10.800 minute here and talk about the nursery the garden center. 941 00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:14.119 They have a wonderful garden center full of all kinds 942 00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:16.000 of flowers. First of all, when you walk in the building, 943 00:51:16.119 --> 00:51:18.000 right up front, you will see some of the prettiest 944 00:51:18.039 --> 00:51:21.239 little house plants you've ever seen, and really not some 945 00:51:21.519 --> 00:51:25.639 common houseplants, but some very uncommon, very uncommon houseplants that 946 00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:28.280 are there in beautiful shape. I mean, you could walk 947 00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:30.159 right out of there with a plant and give it 948 00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:32.119 as a gift. Drive somewhere and give it as a gift. 949 00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:35.159 It's ready to go. It's beautiful. You go out in 950 00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:38.440 the back, you see flowers, You see annuals and perennials, 951 00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:41.719 you see herbs and vegetables and just all kinds of 952 00:51:41.800 --> 00:51:45.119 bedding plants. You got shrubs, you got trees, you got fruit. 953 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:50.360 It just if it oh in watercourse water plants as well. 954 00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:53.719 It's a great place to visit. Nelson Water Garden and 955 00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:56.599 Nursery is a destination. You need to take your friends 956 00:51:56.760 --> 00:51:58.719 and y'all need to just sit out there and visit 957 00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:01.639 and enjoy the south of Water. It'll make you want 958 00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:04.440 to do a water feature at your house there on 959 00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:08.079 Katie Fort Ben Road, just north of it Katie Freeway 960 00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:12.880 out in Katie. Nelson Watergardens dot com. That's the website, 961 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:18.719 Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Let's head down to Webster now and 962 00:52:18.760 --> 00:52:21.480 we're going to visit with John. Hello, John, welcome to 963 00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:23.840 garden Line morning. 964 00:52:23.920 --> 00:52:24.920 Skip. Hey. 965 00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:29.360 I've got a bell pepper plants potted in a bucket, 966 00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:32.000 and one morning I went out there and noticed. 967 00:52:31.800 --> 00:52:33.079 A little trail on the leaf. 968 00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:38.480 So I Google lends it and said it was leafminers. 969 00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:41.679 So they said one of the treatment was to take 970 00:52:41.760 --> 00:52:42.440 off the leaves. 971 00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:45.519 So I've just yanked off those leaves. 972 00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:51.079 I don't see anymore on the leaves, but the plant 973 00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:53.679 is growing, it's got new leaves on it. 974 00:52:54.920 --> 00:52:58.360 The flowers they flower, but then they turn brown and 975 00:52:58.480 --> 00:52:58.920 fall off. 976 00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:07.360 I've got no peppers, okay. Well, the flowers falling off 977 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:11.639 in the leaf minor are two different, unrelated things. The 978 00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:17.639 flowers falling off, they're either not getting pollinated or possibly 979 00:53:17.800 --> 00:53:20.960 some little insect is doing damage to them to causing 980 00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:25.840 them to a bort. I think the second it would 981 00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:28.239 require it would be a very tiny insect feeding in 982 00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:31.400 the flower or something that's snipping off the flowers, and 983 00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:34.119 that one. You know, I hate to send you out 984 00:53:34.159 --> 00:53:36.440 there to nuke your peppers every other day trying to 985 00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:40.480 kill anything that might show up, because a lot of 986 00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:43.679 things that show up you don't want to kill. I 987 00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:45.960 think I would. I would give them a little time, 988 00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:50.320 and I think they'll start setting better. You should have 989 00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:53.199 some pollinator activity around them. If you're not seeing any 990 00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:57.119 bees at all coming around, that might be a concern 991 00:53:57.320 --> 00:53:59.199 and you can't change that, and you can't go out 992 00:53:59.199 --> 00:54:03.639 and recruit bee, but that would be helpful if you 993 00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:07.360 had an increase in the pollinator activity. A lot of 994 00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:09.800 times I'll see peppers do some aboarding and then they'll 995 00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:13.360 start setting on their own. And so I think I'd 996 00:54:13.400 --> 00:54:16.039 be patient on this one and not jump to spray 997 00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:20.519 in chances are that most of the time it seems 998 00:54:20.559 --> 00:54:25.280 to fix itself. Now, the other thing is the leaf miner, 999 00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:29.119 and the leaf miner does such minor damage that it 1000 00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:35.199 just isn't worth worrying about it really isn't the a 1001 00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:37.559 little bit of a trail that they make. You know, 1002 00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:39.559 they start off if you look real carefully, one into 1003 00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:41.400 the trail is like a little thread, and then it 1004 00:54:41.480 --> 00:54:45.360 gets bigger as it goes through the leaf. That's because 1005 00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:48.719 the little critter eating eating that tunnel is getting eating 1006 00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:51.840 and getting bigger, and so the critter is always at 1007 00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:53.639 the big end of the tunnel. They drop out, they 1008 00:54:53.719 --> 00:54:55.920 go to the soil, pup eate and fly back again. 1009 00:54:56.519 --> 00:55:00.440 But the amount of solar panel that that insect imaged 1010 00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:04.119 is so minor. The leaf is still producing a lot 1011 00:55:04.199 --> 00:55:07.280 of carbohydrates to fuel the plant, and it's just not 1012 00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:11.960 worth treating for those leaf miners. I've seen some pretty 1013 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:16.480 bad cases, but it's rare. Usually it's a little cosmetic 1014 00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:19.519 and not costing you any pepper production. 1015 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:22.719 Okay, well, thank you very much. 1016 00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:26.119 Have a good day, all right, John, Thanks for the call. 1017 00:55:26.239 --> 00:55:32.400 Appreciate that I certainly do. Yesterday I was at Ace 1018 00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:36.840 Hardware that's called the Hardware City on Memorial Drive. We 1019 00:55:36.920 --> 00:55:38.920 had a good time. A lot of folks came in appreciate, 1020 00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:42.039 but I'm in the folks that you know hosted us 1021 00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:45.239 and brought us in there every time I go into 1022 00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:47.360 an ACE, I'm just amazed. I mean, you know, we 1023 00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:49.719 were walking around, I was, I was showing customers, you know, well, 1024 00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:53.400 here's this product, or here's our product or whatnot, even 1025 00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:56.360 some tools and things that are special. They just have 1026 00:55:56.480 --> 00:55:59.480 an excellent selection. If you want a beautiful yard, if 1027 00:55:59.480 --> 00:56:02.880 you want a bow, a full landscape and garden. Ace 1028 00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:05.639 is a place they've got the products. They are loaded 1029 00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:07.760 up on. All the fertilizers. You hear me talk about 1030 00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:09.960 all these fertilizers all the time for your lawn. Well, 1031 00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:13.000 ACE has got them, and a good selection of things 1032 00:56:13.079 --> 00:56:16.079 to manage insects and diseases and pests. And they have 1033 00:56:16.239 --> 00:56:20.559 got a sale going on with barbecue equipment right now 1034 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:25.599 and a select types of barbeque pits, select brands and things, 1035 00:56:25.760 --> 00:56:29.199 and it is time for that. If you unless you 1036 00:56:29.360 --> 00:56:31.800 just got a new barbecue pit recently, you need to 1037 00:56:31.840 --> 00:56:34.000 go check out some of the brands at ACE Hardware. 1038 00:56:34.039 --> 00:56:35.679 I mean at ACE you're going to find things like 1039 00:56:35.760 --> 00:56:38.039 Big Green Egg. You're going to find trigger grills, the 1040 00:56:38.119 --> 00:56:41.320 pellet grills for example. You're gonna find Weber and other 1041 00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:44.920 brands as well, many other great brands there, and equipment 1042 00:56:45.440 --> 00:56:48.599 to turn that outdoor living space into something special. You know, 1043 00:56:48.719 --> 00:56:50.920 you get you a nice little porch or patio or 1044 00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:54.840 an area underneath the big beautiful spreading tree for shade. 1045 00:56:54.920 --> 00:56:57.199 We do love our shade around here once we get 1046 00:56:57.239 --> 00:57:02.480 to May, especially all the way to at October. But 1047 00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:06.199 Ace will turn that outdoor living area into something special. Now, 1048 00:57:06.320 --> 00:57:08.119 there are Ace Hardware stores all over. You can go 1049 00:57:08.159 --> 00:57:13.559 to Ace Hardware Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas dot com. 1050 00:57:13.679 --> 00:57:16.920 That's the website and you can find Ace Hardware stores. 1051 00:57:17.159 --> 00:57:18.679 I don't care where you live. If you are over 1052 00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:20.880 and Humble, we've got a K and m Ace over there. 1053 00:57:21.199 --> 00:57:23.320 You know. If you're up in Porter, you got Jnr's 1054 00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:26.840 Ace up there. If you are a Spring Cyprus, there 1055 00:57:26.960 --> 00:57:29.880 is Spring Ace. And if you are in League City, 1056 00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:33.559 Kilgore Ace. And if you are on Highway six North, 1057 00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:38.599 there's Hamilton Ace. You know, you go to the Katie area, 1058 00:57:38.679 --> 00:57:41.559 you got Plantation Ace Hardware. Just these are just examples. 1059 00:57:41.599 --> 00:57:43.599 You've got a lot more what I'm saying, But I'm 1060 00:57:43.679 --> 00:57:46.639 just saying that there's Ace Hardware's everywhere. And if you 1061 00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:49.800 go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com you can find 1062 00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:51.960 your local Ace Hardware store and go check it out. 1063 00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:56.639 They have wonderful gifts for indoors as well at Ace Hardware. 1064 00:57:57.280 --> 00:58:03.320 It's always fun to visit. I do enjoy that you're 1065 00:58:03.360 --> 00:58:05.760 listening to garden Line. If you got some gardening questions 1066 00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:07.519 that we could help you with, feel free to give 1067 00:58:07.559 --> 00:58:11.440 me a call. All you have to do is call 1068 00:58:11.639 --> 00:58:15.559 seven to one three two one two katrh or if 1069 00:58:15.599 --> 00:58:19.400 you like numbers, fifty eight seventy four, fifty eight seventy four. 1070 00:58:21.119 --> 00:58:24.400 I was checking my mosquito buckets. I'm kind of obsessing 1071 00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:27.480 over these mosquito buckets. I check them all the time 1072 00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:29.039 to see, you know, if they got larv in them, 1073 00:58:29.079 --> 00:58:31.320 they got larv in them. Normally you walk out in 1074 00:58:31.360 --> 00:58:35.280 your landscape and you see mosquito wrigglers, larva, you know, 1075 00:58:35.480 --> 00:58:38.039 wiggling around in water, and it's like, I got a problem, 1076 00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:42.039 gotta pour out that water. And well not when you 1077 00:58:42.119 --> 00:58:45.719 got a mosquito bucket. Mosquito buckets something you get from 1078 00:58:45.960 --> 00:58:50.360 Pest to Brothers. Pest Brothers is a complete pest control 1079 00:58:50.440 --> 00:58:53.159 service that covers the greater Houston area from the Woodlands 1080 00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:55.880 all the way down to Texas City, you know, from 1081 00:58:56.039 --> 00:58:58.519 out West and Katie all the way across to Baytown 1082 00:58:59.159 --> 00:59:04.559 and they do the whole thing. Tomato, tomatoes, termites, termites. 1083 00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:10.719 They've got some incredible state of the art products for termites. 1084 00:59:11.480 --> 00:59:14.719 They pest Brothers. No hast knows how to do things 1085 00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:18.559 that are effective, that really work, but how to do 1086 00:59:18.719 --> 00:59:21.320 them in the safest manner and how to get the 1087 00:59:21.480 --> 00:59:25.280 longest term results without the worries. And they have a 1088 00:59:25.360 --> 00:59:28.119 new termite system that's like a ten year system and 1089 00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:30.239 it's just a little trench they dig around the base 1090 00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:33.000 of the base of the house. Ask them about it. 1091 00:59:33.679 --> 00:59:38.519 The pestbros dot com b r O s thepestbros dot 1092 00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:42.400 com two eight one two o six forty six seventy 1093 00:59:42.480 --> 00:59:44.719 two eight one two o six forty six seventy Why 1094 00:59:44.760 --> 00:59:48.920 are you there saying? What is this mosquito bucket that 1095 00:59:49.039 --> 00:59:53.480 kick skip keeps rambling about. Well, they'll tell you about it, 1096 00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:55.440 but I'll tell you this. When a mosquito comes to 1097 00:59:55.519 --> 00:59:59.119 that bucket, not only is that mosquito history, the larvae 1098 00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:01.599 lays in the buck That's why I'm excited to see 1099 01:00:01.639 --> 01:00:04.559 lore their history, and that mosquito is going to carry 1100 01:00:04.639 --> 01:00:08.440 mosquito controlled things to other spots. You didn't treat you, don't. 1101 01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:12.159 You have the nuclear yard with a fogger. All these 1102 01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:14.440 little spots that we got now because of the rain, 1103 01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:18.519 we had those spots in my yard and my neighbor's yard. 1104 01:00:18.559 --> 01:00:22.679 By the way, my mosquitos are making sure all those 1105 01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:25.760 little water spots mosquitos aren't gonna be raised in them 1106 01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:32.079 as well. Pretty cool system, Pretty cool system. Uh yeah. 1107 01:00:32.760 --> 01:00:35.639 I was looking at some of the roses at RCW 1108 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:38.199 the other day when I was there, and r CW 1109 01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:41.519 is just a there's just a one stop shop for roses. 1110 01:00:41.559 --> 01:00:43.840 I mean, all the rosarians in used to know about it. 1111 01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:47.239 You know, what's six pages I think of roses that 1112 01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:50.000 they get in in February and they still have roses. 1113 01:00:50.039 --> 01:00:52.920 There lots of good roses in that place. When you 1114 01:00:53.000 --> 01:00:56.719 go to RCW. Now it's heating up and you still 1115 01:00:56.760 --> 01:00:59.159 plant roses. By the way, it's still good to plant. 1116 01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:02.119 They've got shrubs and trees and all kinds of things. 1117 01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:05.079 But those hot weather flowers, you know, the hibiscus, they 1118 01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:07.800 have wonderful line. They have perennial hibiscus, and they've got 1119 01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:10.880 the tropical types that Cajun series that I like so much. 1120 01:01:11.679 --> 01:01:15.960 We were talking earlier about Madagascar periwinkle also called vinka. 1121 01:01:16.119 --> 01:01:19.880 They've got that as well, and other things that thrive 1122 01:01:19.960 --> 01:01:22.440 in the heat. And they got good advice and good 1123 01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:25.800 products to go with it. RCW Nursery is where Beltway 1124 01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:29.360 eight and Highway two forty nine Tombo Parkway come together. 1125 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:32.159 I'll be right back, all right. How many of you 1126 01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:35.920 remember the Archies? So when I was a kid, there 1127 01:01:36.079 --> 01:01:41.920 was a cereal called super sugar cress, super Sugarcoats, I 1128 01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:44.719 believe that was what it was called, something like that anyway, 1129 01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:48.760 And at one time they actually printed into the back 1130 01:01:48.840 --> 01:01:53.000 of the box a record, a grooved record. Yeah, and 1131 01:01:53.559 --> 01:01:57.360 you cut out the cardboard record from the back of 1132 01:01:57.440 --> 01:02:02.079 the box, and this song, triv Sure was the one 1133 01:02:02.119 --> 01:02:04.920 that they played by the Archies. Isn't that crazy? All right? 1134 01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:07.400 Well some of you are going, what's a record player? 1135 01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:11.480 All right? Brad in Spring, welcome to garden Line. It 1136 01:02:11.639 --> 01:02:12.719 is good to have you with us. 1137 01:02:14.039 --> 01:02:17.760 What's really crazy is that I remember that box of 1138 01:02:17.880 --> 01:02:19.320 cereal and that record. 1139 01:02:20.880 --> 01:02:25.639 Oh my gosh, I wonder who would remember that. Isn't 1140 01:02:25.679 --> 01:02:26.159 that crazy? 1141 01:02:26.400 --> 01:02:26.599 Yeah? 1142 01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:29.000 I had that? 1143 01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:34.760 And uh yeah, thanks? Now all right, now we're feeling 1144 01:02:34.960 --> 01:02:39.280 Now we're feeling extra old this morning. No, no, no, 1145 01:02:39.559 --> 01:02:40.440 I was. 1146 01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:43.360 Nowhere around when they signed the Magna Carta. I'm not 1147 01:02:43.519 --> 01:02:45.519 old at all. Go ahead, how can we help you tonight? 1148 01:02:49.239 --> 01:02:53.039 Good morning. I have a southern facing yard. 1149 01:02:54.639 --> 01:02:56.000 And I'm trying to Uh. 1150 01:02:57.079 --> 01:02:58.599 I've planted some lantana. 1151 01:02:59.800 --> 01:02:59.920 Uh. 1152 01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:03.440 I wanted to see if you had any solid tips 1153 01:03:03.480 --> 01:03:07.239 and tricks to uh to help that lantana get well 1154 01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:10.679 established and h and fuller. 1155 01:03:10.840 --> 01:03:12.079 I just put it in a. 1156 01:03:12.119 --> 01:03:14.519 Week and a half, two weeks ago, and I'm a 1157 01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:17.039 little behind the little behind the curve. So I'd like 1158 01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:19.440 to see if there's something I can do to drop 1159 01:03:19.559 --> 01:03:22.000 kick that and get it get it going a little faster. 1160 01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:26.000 Yeah, I would get some Medina has to grow. It's 1161 01:03:26.039 --> 01:03:28.239 a six twelve six plant food. It's got an extra 1162 01:03:28.320 --> 01:03:31.880 boost of phosphorus, which is helpful for root development. UH 1163 01:03:32.119 --> 01:03:34.480 and uh. It mixes in water. You're not going to 1164 01:03:34.519 --> 01:03:37.079 burn the plants with it. It's not salt based. Medina 1165 01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:40.320 has to grow six twelve six uh and put in 1166 01:03:40.400 --> 01:03:43.360 a watering can and drench those plants in and then 1167 01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:45.440 about a week later, do it again. A week later, 1168 01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:48.400 do it again, and those those three applications give it 1169 01:03:48.480 --> 01:03:51.000 the best chance. The number one thing those plants that 1170 01:03:51.079 --> 01:03:53.159 your house bread need to do is get a root 1171 01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:55.320 system out there. You know, with that they were in 1172 01:03:55.440 --> 01:03:57.599 that little confined pot, and now we need a root 1173 01:03:57.679 --> 01:04:00.639 system that takes off and when it does, the top 1174 01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:03.920 growth will follow and it can happen. And so that 1175 01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:07.320 I would do that. They need lots of sunlight. So 1176 01:04:07.480 --> 01:04:09.320 if they're in quite a bit of shade, they're not 1177 01:04:09.400 --> 01:04:13.599 going to perform as well. And so the good sunlight, 1178 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:16.159 you know, other than cutting down a tree, where they 1179 01:04:16.239 --> 01:04:19.519 are is where they are, and so I would think 1180 01:04:19.519 --> 01:04:21.800 those two tips would be good. You might watch them. 1181 01:04:21.840 --> 01:04:24.480 There's a few little pests that will suck the juice 1182 01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:27.480 out of lentana leaves. You see these little tiny, little 1183 01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:31.039 white tan speckles all through the leaf. That's indication that 1184 01:04:31.159 --> 01:04:35.000 that's happening. You get enough of those, and it takes 1185 01:04:35.239 --> 01:04:38.159 away some of the plant's ability to capture sunlight and 1186 01:04:38.320 --> 01:04:41.119 support good growth. So if you start to see that, 1187 01:04:41.360 --> 01:04:43.239 you might might need to do a treatment for that. 1188 01:04:44.639 --> 01:04:46.880 What what are we what are we treating those with? 1189 01:04:49.079 --> 01:04:53.400 Well, A perrethern type insecticide would be the organic end 1190 01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:57.559 of it. A synthetic perrethroid would be the synthetic end 1191 01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:00.119 of it, and both are available. You know, you go 1192 01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:03.719 to your whatever garden centers or the ACE hardware stores 1193 01:05:03.800 --> 01:05:05.679 and in places like that, they're going to have those 1194 01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:08.239 kind of products. Most of the time you will not 1195 01:05:08.440 --> 01:05:11.159 need to spray Lantanna. I'm just saying that something to 1196 01:05:11.320 --> 01:05:15.199 watch for that can happen. Mainly, it's get them a 1197 01:05:15.239 --> 01:05:16.360 good boost and get them going. 1198 01:05:18.159 --> 01:05:19.679 Okay, sounds good. 1199 01:05:19.760 --> 01:05:25.519 Thank you very much. Enjoyed that. Thanks Brad. Appreciate your 1200 01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:28.559 Appreciate your call very much. Someone who was asking me 1201 01:05:28.679 --> 01:05:31.960 when I was at Hardware City ACE which is on 1202 01:05:32.039 --> 01:05:36.039 Memorial Drive in Houston yesterday about azamite, and they were saying, Okay, 1203 01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:39.920 explain this to me. It's like, you know, what is it? 1204 01:05:40.079 --> 01:05:42.280 Is it a fertilizer. Well, in a sense, yes that 1205 01:05:42.320 --> 01:05:44.960 it has nutrients, but it's not like your lawn fertilizer. 1206 01:05:45.199 --> 01:05:47.920 It's not like the fertilizers with the three numbers on 1207 01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:52.119 the bag. You know, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. Those are needed 1208 01:05:52.199 --> 01:05:54.440 in large amounts. We put them out to make the 1209 01:05:54.519 --> 01:05:58.519 plant grow and thrive and get big. Azonite is a 1210 01:05:58.559 --> 01:06:02.599 trace mineral supplement. It is essential that plants have trace minerals, 1211 01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:04.960 but they only need a little that's why they're called trace. 1212 01:06:05.239 --> 01:06:08.639 Are also called micro nutrients because they're just needed and 1213 01:06:09.159 --> 01:06:14.000 micro amounts, but they're essential and so you can do aszmite. 1214 01:06:14.360 --> 01:06:17.400 They asked me the question, well, when do you do asmite? Well, 1215 01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:20.840 anytime of the year. Most people do it when they fertilize, 1216 01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:24.639 because you're already fertilizing. You got the spreader out there, 1217 01:06:25.239 --> 01:06:28.880 you just finish your fertilizing, come back, change the setting 1218 01:06:28.880 --> 01:06:31.480 because asmite is a very small particle and you just 1219 01:06:31.599 --> 01:06:34.400 need a little bit and then you put out your asmite. 1220 01:06:34.639 --> 01:06:36.719 But you could put azmite out in January, you can 1221 01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:39.159 put it out in July. I mean, it doesn't matter 1222 01:06:39.360 --> 01:06:42.079 when you put it out. It's just easiest to go 1223 01:06:42.079 --> 01:06:43.800 ahead and do it when you do your fertilizing, and 1224 01:06:43.920 --> 01:06:46.840 that that makes it easiest to remember. Now you find 1225 01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:49.519 more information on it if you want it asmite Texas 1226 01:06:49.559 --> 01:06:51.119 dot com. And where are you going to find it? 1227 01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:55.719 Pretty much everywhere, feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, 1228 01:06:55.800 --> 01:06:58.920 Southwest fertile all of these are places that typically will 1229 01:06:58.960 --> 01:07:03.920 carry asmite. I'm going to head up to Tomball now 1230 01:07:04.119 --> 01:07:06.639 and we're going to talk to David. Hello, David. 1231 01:07:06.840 --> 01:07:08.679 Hey, good morning, sir. 1232 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:14.599 Hey, and uh, I too remember cutting out the cardboard 1233 01:07:14.679 --> 01:07:15.840 record on the cereal box? 1234 01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:16.719 Are you kidding me? 1235 01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:17.519 Oh? 1236 01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:18.400 I remember? 1237 01:07:19.280 --> 01:07:22.480 I remember that coming out, Hey, and not the reason 1238 01:07:22.519 --> 01:07:25.480 I called. But uh another little funny thing of some 1239 01:07:25.679 --> 01:07:30.760 Kasey case On trivia about that particular song. I heard 1240 01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:33.440 this from Kasey Caseum and it stuck with me that 1241 01:07:33.639 --> 01:07:38.199 Sugar Sugar was the only song that went number one 1242 01:07:38.559 --> 01:07:41.719 on the pop or whatever charts it was on at 1243 01:07:41.760 --> 01:07:47.639 the time by a band that didn't exist. The Archies 1244 01:07:47.719 --> 01:07:49.760 were not an actual band. They were a bunch of 1245 01:07:49.800 --> 01:07:58.079 studio musicians. Song went number one, and so yeah it was. 1246 01:07:58.840 --> 01:07:59.639 It went number one. 1247 01:08:00.280 --> 01:08:02.800 It was by a band that really didn't even exist. 1248 01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:04.159 But anyway, that's not real. 1249 01:08:06.519 --> 01:08:07.840 Hey, I heard you one time. 1250 01:08:07.960 --> 01:08:12.079 It seems like you mentioned some handheld little flower bed 1251 01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:14.679 garden tools, a little spain and rake and fork that 1252 01:08:14.719 --> 01:08:17.560 you hold with your hand, that you said. I think 1253 01:08:17.600 --> 01:08:21.520 you said they had a lifetime warranty. What if you 1254 01:08:21.640 --> 01:08:24.199 recall what is the name of that product? Are those 1255 01:08:24.359 --> 01:08:25.159 what's the brand name? 1256 01:08:25.479 --> 01:08:29.439 I do not remember saying that, And if you were 1257 01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:32.279 asked me what tools have a lifetime warranty? What I 1258 01:08:32.520 --> 01:08:35.319 what I would I would sugget, Well, there's a lot 1259 01:08:35.359 --> 01:08:36.920 of good tools out there, and there's a lot of 1260 01:08:37.079 --> 01:08:38.920 cheap tools out there, and you can look at them 1261 01:08:38.960 --> 01:08:41.079 and tell that's a little tack. Well that's not going 1262 01:08:41.159 --> 01:08:44.239 to hold up, you know, things like that. Uh, Corona 1263 01:08:44.359 --> 01:08:47.000 Tools are very good line of tools. 1264 01:08:47.319 --> 01:08:47.439 Uh. 1265 01:08:47.600 --> 01:08:50.840 They that that would be an example of a good brand, 1266 01:08:51.319 --> 01:08:55.159 but it is not the only brand of quality tools 1267 01:08:55.199 --> 01:08:58.760 out there. So okay, that would be one one that 1268 01:08:58.880 --> 01:08:59.479 comes to month. 1269 01:09:00.760 --> 01:09:02.680 I got a birthday coming up, and I'm just gonna 1270 01:09:02.720 --> 01:09:04.119 maybe put that on my waishlist. 1271 01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:08.000 Oh yeah, that's good. Well, and you know when it 1272 01:09:08.039 --> 01:09:11.319 comes to pruners like ham pruners and loppers and saws 1273 01:09:11.399 --> 01:09:13.840 and things, Corona is a good brand for that as well. 1274 01:09:14.199 --> 01:09:16.439 And Bob, it's South. I was fertilized. I know, well 1275 01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:18.880 your way up in Tomball. But don Bob's got a 1276 01:09:19.000 --> 01:09:21.359 number of different brands that are all quality that he 1277 01:09:21.479 --> 01:09:24.600 carries down there, including Corona. You're gonna find Corona up 1278 01:09:24.640 --> 01:09:26.800 in your area, though I know some of the garden 1279 01:09:26.880 --> 01:09:29.319 centers will carry Corona up there in Tomball. 1280 01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:32.239 I'll look for it all right, thank you, sir. 1281 01:09:33.479 --> 01:09:35.840 All right, thank you. Appreciate the call and the information. 1282 01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:38.439 And by the way, you said, Casey Cason, there's another 1283 01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:40.640 one that I bet not everybody remembers. We used to 1284 01:09:40.720 --> 01:09:46.000 listen to his top forty all the time. Take care, David, 1285 01:09:46.199 --> 01:09:50.560 appreciate your call. Alrighty, let's see where are we here? 1286 01:09:50.800 --> 01:09:53.079 Watching my time. I'm gonna take a little break here, 1287 01:09:53.560 --> 01:09:56.840 so Alex and Richmond and fred In Spring you will 1288 01:09:56.840 --> 01:09:59.880 be our first two up when we come back. All right, 1289 01:10:00.279 --> 01:10:03.560 welcome back. Hey. I was talking to somebody a minute 1290 01:10:03.560 --> 01:10:08.199 ago about Medina recommending, you know, getting a lantana established 1291 01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:11.199 and fast and getting it growing fast and on its way. Well, 1292 01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:15.119 Medina has to grow six twelve six plot food. It 1293 01:10:15.279 --> 01:10:17.680 is one of the many products from Medina that is 1294 01:10:17.960 --> 01:10:21.439 very very effective. It works, and I use it myself. 1295 01:10:22.079 --> 01:10:23.720 If I'm in a plant of plant, you want to 1296 01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:25.239 mix it up, I put mine in the water and 1297 01:10:25.319 --> 01:10:27.920 can and I just plant the plant and drench it 1298 01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:31.079 really good, wet that area. Sometimes I'll set the plant 1299 01:10:31.079 --> 01:10:32.920 in the whole drench the whole hole, and then fill 1300 01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:35.680 in soil and drench it again, and then a week 1301 01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:37.399 later do it and a week later, do it again. 1302 01:10:37.560 --> 01:10:40.039 So three times a good soaking about a week part week, 1303 01:10:40.119 --> 01:10:42.720 ten days or so apart, and you get your plants 1304 01:10:42.720 --> 01:10:44.119 off to a good start. And you're going to find 1305 01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:47.439 Medina has to Grow six twelve six all over the place. Now, 1306 01:10:47.680 --> 01:10:51.720 they have other products from Medina that work very well, 1307 01:10:51.760 --> 01:10:53.680 and I don't have time talking about all of them 1308 01:10:54.079 --> 01:10:57.279 that they have, but you can go to Medina agg 1309 01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:00.000 and you can find out more about these good product. 1310 01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:03.520 One that I really like is Medina has to Grow 1311 01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:07.520 for lawns. It's a twelve four to eight formulation. It's 1312 01:11:07.560 --> 01:11:09.319 got that three to one to two ratio. You hook 1313 01:11:09.359 --> 01:11:11.399 it up to a garden hose and go over your lawn. 1314 01:11:11.720 --> 01:11:14.279 Maybe your lawn has some spots that aren't doing so 1315 01:11:14.439 --> 01:11:16.680 good and you want to just kind of treat those areas. 1316 01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:18.720 It's real easy with the end of a garden hose 1317 01:11:19.119 --> 01:11:21.600 to just water those areas, you know what I'm saying, 1318 01:11:21.800 --> 01:11:24.399 rather than have a spreader with granular where you're trying 1319 01:11:24.439 --> 01:11:27.079 to just cover those areas and you can just kind 1320 01:11:27.079 --> 01:11:29.000 of give them an extra boost with that, or you 1321 01:11:29.079 --> 01:11:30.920 can do the whole lawn. I mean, it's good for 1322 01:11:31.000 --> 01:11:33.399 the whole lawn. But I'm just saying one of the 1323 01:11:33.479 --> 01:11:36.199 advantage of that hose in with Medina has to grow 1324 01:11:36.800 --> 01:11:40.760 lawn food six twelve six is that you can do 1325 01:11:41.119 --> 01:11:43.479 some spot extra treatments if you need to give a 1326 01:11:43.560 --> 01:11:48.319 little boost to those areas. Let's go out to Richmond, 1327 01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:52.760 Texas now and we're gonna talk to Alex. Hello Alex, 1328 01:11:52.840 --> 01:11:53.800 welcome to garden Line. 1329 01:11:55.159 --> 01:11:56.039 Thanks give good morning. 1330 01:11:56.800 --> 01:12:01.640 I found morny build its farm worm moth caterpillar. 1331 01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:05.439 It was on one of my genius so it's the 1332 01:12:05.479 --> 01:12:06.119 only one I found. 1333 01:12:06.159 --> 01:12:06.720 I got rid of it. 1334 01:12:07.239 --> 01:12:09.439 But my concern is more for the turf grass. 1335 01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:12.479 Saint Augustine, I know you're not a big fan of 1336 01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:16.880 sort of preemptively throwing down grub control or pest aside. 1337 01:12:17.439 --> 01:12:20.680 Uh yeah, from what from what Google told me is 1338 01:12:20.720 --> 01:12:22.800 it can be pretty detrimental to the to the turf. 1339 01:12:23.239 --> 01:12:31.279 What do you think, Well, number one, it's not super 1340 01:12:31.359 --> 01:12:34.720 common to see velvet army worm around here. Normally we 1341 01:12:34.840 --> 01:12:38.479 deal with fall army worm, and and there are other caterpillars, 1342 01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:40.920 and in a sense it kind of doesn't But no 1343 01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:43.560 matter what kind of caterpillar it is, they eat leaves 1344 01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:48.119 and they they are controlled by the same products. So uh, 1345 01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:52.439 I when when you say the word grub, then that's 1346 01:12:52.520 --> 01:12:55.159 not at all connected to caterpillar. That's a beatle larvae 1347 01:12:55.239 --> 01:12:59.239 and so that's a separate thing. But the caterpillars that 1348 01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:02.199 are worth eating in a lawn or pretty much just 1349 01:13:02.359 --> 01:13:05.920 the army worm typically the fall one here late season 1350 01:13:06.039 --> 01:13:10.520 army worm mostly and the sod webworm, which occurs some 1351 01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:13.000 years and other years you don't see them hardly at all. 1352 01:13:13.600 --> 01:13:13.720 Uh. 1353 01:13:13.920 --> 01:13:18.000 And so are we are? Is your main concern? I 1354 01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:20.319 may have missed this, But is your main concern your lawn? 1355 01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:23.000 Or is it the flowers and things? 1356 01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:24.600 No? 1357 01:13:24.800 --> 01:13:25.199 My lawn? 1358 01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:31.560 Okay, yeah, I I don't think that what you're seeing 1359 01:13:31.840 --> 01:13:33.840 is going to be a big concern. You can watch 1360 01:13:33.920 --> 01:13:36.720 your lawn and if you see foliage of the grass 1361 01:13:36.920 --> 01:13:40.079 being eaten and things, then go ahead and jump in 1362 01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:43.279 at the first of it. And I would use a 1363 01:13:43.359 --> 01:13:48.239 product containing probably there's two options. The organic option is 1364 01:13:48.399 --> 01:13:51.800 spin no said s P I N O s A 1365 01:13:51.960 --> 01:13:56.520 D like spin the letter O and SAD. That's the 1366 01:13:56.600 --> 01:14:01.680 organic option for caterpillars in the lawn. And the synthetic 1367 01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:04.439 would be by fen Thren b I F E N 1368 01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:10.800 T h R I N Thren by fen thrin. Nitrofoss 1369 01:14:10.840 --> 01:14:13.000 has it by fen thren product that you can put 1370 01:14:13.039 --> 01:14:15.840 down on your line to granule, and then the spinosaid, 1371 01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:18.560 typically is going to be something that you spray onto 1372 01:14:18.680 --> 01:14:22.880 the turf, but the spino said doesn't last forever, and 1373 01:14:23.079 --> 01:14:26.760 so doing it ahead of time and then having the 1374 01:14:27.239 --> 01:14:30.399 caterpillars really show up in masks later you would have 1375 01:14:30.479 --> 01:14:31.079 to do it again. 1376 01:14:32.600 --> 01:14:35.600 Got okay, So I was I was more concerned for 1377 01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:36.960 what sign to look for. 1378 01:14:37.199 --> 01:14:40.520 So I guess I expected more of a grub sign, 1379 01:14:40.680 --> 01:14:43.159 so just kind of dead patches, but I'm looking for 1380 01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:45.479 more the same thing you'd see on a plant from 1381 01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:47.840 a caterpillar, holes and leaves signs that they've been eating 1382 01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:50.479 on the leaf of the grass plant correctly. 1383 01:14:51.359 --> 01:14:54.000 Yeah, and not even in the in the in the lawn, 1384 01:14:54.079 --> 01:14:56.399 it won't be holds. It will be like the caterpillar 1385 01:14:56.439 --> 01:14:58.560 grabs the side of the leaf blade and it chews 1386 01:14:58.680 --> 01:15:01.319 it away. And so if you kind of look at 1387 01:15:01.359 --> 01:15:04.600 your lawn, it's like something's wrong right there. You can't retell, 1388 01:15:04.640 --> 01:15:06.319 and you get on your hands and knees and start 1389 01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:09.079 looking at grass blades. When you see those jagged, chewed 1390 01:15:09.199 --> 01:15:12.239 up sides of the grass blades. That means you got 1391 01:15:12.279 --> 01:15:14.640 the caterpillars, and that's plenty of time to jump in 1392 01:15:14.760 --> 01:15:17.640 and take care of them. Lawn is resilient. A little 1393 01:15:17.720 --> 01:15:19.880 caterpillar damage here and there isn't gonna be a deal. 1394 01:15:19.960 --> 01:15:22.239 You just don't want them to defoliate the whole thing, 1395 01:15:22.880 --> 01:15:25.920 and so jump in early on that. But I'm gonna, 1396 01:15:26.000 --> 01:15:30.159 I would say, eighty five percent chance this is not 1397 01:15:30.359 --> 01:15:32.920 going to become a problem in your lawn, but it might. 1398 01:15:33.279 --> 01:15:37.319 Just keep an eye on it. All right, all right, Skip, 1399 01:15:37.600 --> 01:15:38.319 I appreciate it, sir. 1400 01:15:38.399 --> 01:15:39.039 We'll talk to you later. 1401 01:15:40.279 --> 01:15:42.880 Hey, thanks for the call, Alex. I appreciate that very much. 1402 01:15:43.239 --> 01:15:47.119 Thank you. Super turf from nitro foss is an outstanding 1403 01:15:47.199 --> 01:15:51.720 product for giving you a long term nutrient release of 1404 01:15:51.840 --> 01:15:55.840 that nitrogen and other nutrients for your lawn. And I 1405 01:15:55.920 --> 01:15:58.079 mean so it takes like four months for all the 1406 01:15:58.119 --> 01:16:00.920 super turf to be released out of the out of 1407 01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:03.359 the product, so it goes a long time. You're gonna 1408 01:16:03.359 --> 01:16:06.239 find super turf at places like plants for all seasons. 1409 01:16:06.359 --> 01:16:10.000 Right there on Luettah, you are gonna you know two 1410 01:16:10.039 --> 01:16:13.239 forty nine in Luetta right where they come together. Uh, 1411 01:16:13.439 --> 01:16:15.920 you're gonna find it d and de feed up in 1412 01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:19.439 tomball Fisher's Hardware on Southmore down in Pasadena, as well 1413 01:16:19.479 --> 01:16:22.840 as the one on Broadway and Laport. Many places carry 1414 01:16:23.000 --> 01:16:27.760 nitrophoss products likes the super turf. Let's see, We're gonna 1415 01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:30.319 go down to Spring and talk to Fred. Hey, Fred, 1416 01:16:30.520 --> 01:16:37.399 Welcome to garden line, Good bonning, mourning help. 1417 01:16:38.640 --> 01:16:41.640 Yes, sir, I'll send you a picture of some Saint 1418 01:16:41.680 --> 01:16:46.560 august thing that's called it yellow it maybe lime green spots. 1419 01:16:46.800 --> 01:16:50.079 Yeah, I had developed last year and I. 1420 01:16:50.159 --> 01:16:50.760 Spry some. 1421 01:16:53.399 --> 01:16:57.680 Iron liquid, you know, Hosing iron on it last year 1422 01:16:57.760 --> 01:17:01.119 didn't seem to do anything to it. Okay, Now it 1423 01:17:01.600 --> 01:17:04.720 looks like I'm getting spots, little spots all over my yard. 1424 01:17:07.439 --> 01:17:10.000 So I don't know what you know. 1425 01:17:10.239 --> 01:17:12.720 I mean, I've read that it's an iron deficiency, but 1426 01:17:13.319 --> 01:17:14.239 I don't know what do you think. 1427 01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:19.680 What I think is it is an iron deficiency because 1428 01:17:19.840 --> 01:17:22.960 roots are being killed and iron is taken up at 1429 01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:24.960 the tip of roots. So when you don't have new 1430 01:17:25.079 --> 01:17:27.640 root growth going, you're going to see iron deficiency in 1431 01:17:27.720 --> 01:17:30.640 Saint Augustine. The pattern of it in your lawn, it 1432 01:17:30.760 --> 01:17:33.239 does not look like there's a lack of iron in 1433 01:17:33.319 --> 01:17:37.800 the soil. It looks to me. My first guess would 1434 01:17:37.880 --> 01:17:40.720 be a disease called take all root rot that kills 1435 01:17:40.800 --> 01:17:44.479 root tips. And if you go to my schedule for 1436 01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:48.000 lawn pest disease and weed management, I've got take all 1437 01:17:48.079 --> 01:17:51.319 listed there in the disease row across the January through 1438 01:17:51.399 --> 01:17:54.640 December schedule, and it tells you what to use and 1439 01:17:54.680 --> 01:17:59.159 when to use it. So that would be the first 1440 01:17:59.479 --> 01:18:01.920 thought that I yeah. The second possibility would be if 1441 01:18:01.960 --> 01:18:05.479 something was done in those areas that added a lot 1442 01:18:05.560 --> 01:18:10.479 of phosphorus or raised the pH like And this isn't likely, 1443 01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:13.159 but you know, if you had dumped lime or in 1444 01:18:13.279 --> 01:18:17.239 that area, or if you'd put some extra hyphosphorus fertilizers 1445 01:18:17.479 --> 01:18:20.319 just thrown it out in those areas, that would do it. 1446 01:18:20.479 --> 01:18:23.560 And and that is very unlikely that you anyone would 1447 01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:26.279 do that. So I think the takeoll root rot is 1448 01:18:26.319 --> 01:18:29.199 going to be your culprit. But if you go to 1449 01:18:29.319 --> 01:18:33.680 gardening with Skip dot Com gardening with skip my Scouts 1450 01:18:33.760 --> 01:18:35.399 on the page download. 1451 01:18:36.279 --> 01:18:37.840 I have your schedule pulled up here. 1452 01:18:38.359 --> 01:18:39.159 I just got it. 1453 01:18:39.279 --> 01:18:42.279 Okay, good, So what you'll see is we do a 1454 01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:45.199 little take all treatment treatment in the spring, and we 1455 01:18:45.319 --> 01:18:48.079 do a little take all treatment in the fall. What 1456 01:18:48.239 --> 01:18:50.520 you might want to try to do is there is 1457 01:18:50.600 --> 01:18:53.479 a fertile loan product and the exact name escapes me 1458 01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:56.560 at this moment, but it's a fertile loan product that 1459 01:18:56.680 --> 01:19:01.399 has micro nutrients in it like manganese and iron. It's 1460 01:19:01.439 --> 01:19:04.760 a gray bottle, it's a micro nutriant. You mix it 1461 01:19:04.880 --> 01:19:08.119 up and I would spray that on those areas and 1462 01:19:08.319 --> 01:19:11.279 see if it improves. I think it will. And then 1463 01:19:11.399 --> 01:19:15.720 you if you get a little bit of shredded shredded 1464 01:19:16.560 --> 01:19:20.479 peat moss, not the sphagnum, the you know, big long 1465 01:19:20.560 --> 01:19:23.399 strings of peat moss, but the shredded up and you 1466 01:19:23.520 --> 01:19:26.279 put it about an half inch deep over those areas, 1467 01:19:26.560 --> 01:19:28.720 I think you're going to see green up and that'll 1468 01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:31.119 carry you into the fall season. When you would apply 1469 01:19:31.279 --> 01:19:34.800 the product for take all root rot, I think you'll 1470 01:19:34.800 --> 01:19:36.359 see a results. And I would like to hear back 1471 01:19:36.399 --> 01:19:38.159 from you if you do one or both of those, 1472 01:19:38.760 --> 01:19:42.560 as to how that's looking on your long care of 1473 01:19:44.239 --> 01:19:49.239 take all. Okay, so on the law, not long care, 1474 01:19:49.399 --> 01:19:52.640 but long pest disease and weed management. It's the second 1475 01:19:52.760 --> 01:19:56.600 schedule that's on there, Pest disease and weed management. Go 1476 01:19:57.159 --> 01:20:02.000 across to October on the disease row. All right, hey, 1477 01:20:02.039 --> 01:20:04.399 the music says, I gotta quit talking. Good luck with that, 1478 01:20:04.520 --> 01:20:06.359 but do send me a picture if you do, either 1479 01:20:06.439 --> 01:20:16.680 the pete moss or that fertile on micronutrient alrighty, welcome back, 1480 01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:25.000 Welcome back, on a beautiful Sunday morning. I hope you 1481 01:20:25.159 --> 01:20:28.560 have some plans this afternoon to go visit a garden center, 1482 01:20:29.479 --> 01:20:32.279 pick up some of the wonderfulness that's available this time 1483 01:20:32.319 --> 01:20:35.399 of the year to make your place beautiful and bountiful 1484 01:20:35.520 --> 01:20:37.680 and everything you want it to be. There's all kinds 1485 01:20:37.680 --> 01:20:41.680 of plants out there and all kinds of things for 1486 01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:44.800 every situation where you're trying to grow to have success. 1487 01:20:44.960 --> 01:20:47.359 So get out there and have a good time. Okay, 1488 01:20:48.319 --> 01:20:51.279 that would be nice. Hey, Nature's Way resources visiting with 1489 01:20:51.319 --> 01:20:55.119 Ian the other day, Ian who now runs the place there. 1490 01:20:55.800 --> 01:20:57.760 You know John Ferguson a lot of y'all know John. 1491 01:20:58.000 --> 01:21:01.119 He started Nature's Way many years ago based on the 1492 01:21:01.159 --> 01:21:05.199 principle of how do we cooperate with nature do things 1493 01:21:05.239 --> 01:21:08.520 the way nature does to make plants successful. And if 1494 01:21:08.560 --> 01:21:11.680 anybody knew that brown stuff comes before green stuff, it 1495 01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:14.560 was John Ferguson. You take care of the soil and 1496 01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:17.520 the plants do good. That's what that means. Brown stuff 1497 01:21:17.520 --> 01:21:20.279 before green stuff. And he created all these things that 1498 01:21:20.399 --> 01:21:22.640 were born at Nature's weall, you know, rose oil and 1499 01:21:22.720 --> 01:21:25.359 leaf more compost just examples of things born in Nature's Way. 1500 01:21:25.680 --> 01:21:28.439 Well intront in the place now and him, him and 1501 01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:30.600 the whole he and the whole team out there in 1502 01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:34.319 Nature's Way continues that tradition and the products. I was 1503 01:21:34.359 --> 01:21:37.159 out visiting. We looked some products and things. It just 1504 01:21:37.199 --> 01:21:39.159 as good as it always was. And uh, you know, 1505 01:21:39.199 --> 01:21:42.640 I've tried a number of Nature's Way products and they 1506 01:21:42.840 --> 01:21:45.279 just work. Now. Everybody knows about rose oil. Roaset soil 1507 01:21:45.479 --> 01:21:46.600 is famous. 1508 01:21:46.680 --> 01:21:46.800 You know. 1509 01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:50.960 The Houston Roase Society helped design that particular mix and 1510 01:21:51.039 --> 01:21:52.840 it's just as good as it ever was. But they 1511 01:21:52.880 --> 01:21:55.560 have the leaf mole compost in a fine and a 1512 01:21:55.640 --> 01:21:57.880 course texture. If you're going to do some do it 1513 01:21:57.960 --> 01:22:01.520 yourself aeration and top tre seeing, well, get their fine 1514 01:22:01.560 --> 01:22:03.720 textured leaf boll compost. It is the one you want 1515 01:22:03.720 --> 01:22:06.000 to use. They also have a fungal compost which you 1516 01:22:06.039 --> 01:22:08.199 can use for compost stop dressing two. By the way, 1517 01:22:08.359 --> 01:22:12.760 you can and the fungal compost is on sale every Friday. 1518 01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:15.880 It's called Fungal Fridays. Ten percent off bags, twenty percent 1519 01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:19.560 off bulk. You can go pick stuff up at Nature's Way, 1520 01:22:19.600 --> 01:22:23.720 which is located on Interstate forty five North, just before 1521 01:22:23.760 --> 01:22:26.119 you get to Conro. Just before you get up to Conro, 1522 01:22:26.600 --> 01:22:29.159 fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left, that goes 1523 01:22:29.239 --> 01:22:32.119 off to Magnolia. You turn right and go across the 1524 01:22:32.239 --> 01:22:35.000 railroad tracks and that's you're going to get to Sherbrook 1525 01:22:35.039 --> 01:22:37.960 Circle right there across the tracks and you'll see Nature's 1526 01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:41.000 Way resources. Now you can do that. You can go 1527 01:22:41.079 --> 01:22:43.600 to stores where they sell their bags, and you can 1528 01:22:43.640 --> 01:22:46.640 find them around town. A lot of high quality stuff 1529 01:22:46.760 --> 01:22:48.560 and available by the bag in town, or you can 1530 01:22:48.600 --> 01:22:52.600 call them have it delivered for a reasonable fee. You know, 1531 01:22:52.680 --> 01:22:55.119 it costs money to hold bulk products. I don't care 1532 01:22:55.199 --> 01:22:57.520 what kind of bulk product you're dealing with. You try 1533 01:22:57.560 --> 01:23:00.039 to get it delivered somewhere, and there's a signific that 1534 01:23:00.199 --> 01:23:02.079 an expense for the company trying to get it to you. 1535 01:23:02.279 --> 01:23:05.279 It just regulations and all kinds of things, but it's 1536 01:23:05.399 --> 01:23:07.760 worth it. You buy a book, you get it delivered, 1537 01:23:08.319 --> 01:23:11.000 and you know If you're going to just do a 1538 01:23:11.079 --> 01:23:13.439 few bags here and there, that's fine. But if you're 1539 01:23:13.479 --> 01:23:15.800 going to create a bed for growing things, if you're 1540 01:23:15.840 --> 01:23:17.920 going to top dress the whole lawn, if you're gonna 1541 01:23:18.239 --> 01:23:20.199 whatever like that, you need to do the You need 1542 01:23:20.239 --> 01:23:23.279 to do the bulk route of it. Nature's Way Resources 1543 01:23:23.319 --> 01:23:25.720 dot Com is a website, and here's the phone number. 1544 01:23:25.840 --> 01:23:29.760 Nine three six two seven three twelve hundred nine three 1545 01:23:29.880 --> 01:23:35.119 six two seven three twelve hundred. My wife and I 1546 01:23:35.199 --> 01:23:40.439 were sitting outside on the back patio yesterday just watching 1547 01:23:40.640 --> 01:23:44.800 birds coming to our feeder, and we had some interesting 1548 01:23:44.920 --> 01:23:48.439 things going on. First of all, we had some beautiful redbirds, 1549 01:23:48.560 --> 01:23:51.359 male and female redbirds were coming. A few other species 1550 01:23:51.399 --> 01:23:52.960 of birds were coming to the feeder. And then I 1551 01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:56.520 looked over in my vegetable garden and I saw a robin. 1552 01:23:57.119 --> 01:23:59.239 And I have to tell you what this robin was doing. 1553 01:23:59.319 --> 01:24:00.960 By the way, I have a apb out on that 1554 01:24:01.119 --> 01:24:04.119 robin right now. It will be arrested and brought to justice. 1555 01:24:04.159 --> 01:24:07.800 But anyway, the robin was eating my cherry tomatoes, just 1556 01:24:07.920 --> 01:24:10.960 picking them off my cherry tomato plants. Well, you know, 1557 01:24:11.279 --> 01:24:13.159 I get enough of them. I'm not too worried about that, 1558 01:24:13.359 --> 01:24:15.880 so we sat and kind of chuckled and watched this 1559 01:24:16.640 --> 01:24:24.119 marauding vandal bird steal my cherry tomatoes. Anyway, it just 1560 01:24:24.239 --> 01:24:27.520 reminds me. You know, if you love birds, or if 1561 01:24:27.600 --> 01:24:31.000 you want to learn more about birds, wild Birds Unlimited 1562 01:24:31.199 --> 01:24:31.880 is the place to go. 1563 01:24:32.279 --> 01:24:32.600 It is. 1564 01:24:33.119 --> 01:24:37.079 I mean, wild Birds Unlimited has the experts that can 1565 01:24:37.159 --> 01:24:39.600 answer any question that you have about birds, and they've 1566 01:24:39.640 --> 01:24:42.840 got the products that you need to have success. You 1567 01:24:42.880 --> 01:24:44.960 can buy cheap birds eat out there, full of those 1568 01:24:45.079 --> 01:24:47.680 red bebies. By the time you look at how much 1569 01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:50.960 do I actually get that the birds eat, it's not cheap. 1570 01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:53.640 It's not cheap at all because they kick most of 1571 01:24:53.720 --> 01:24:57.279 it out. Some of those cheap seeds are just anyway 1572 01:24:57.520 --> 01:25:01.079 waste money. Anyway, the folks at wal Unlimited have a 1573 01:25:01.119 --> 01:25:03.760 perfect blend for right now. It's called Nesting Super Blend. 1574 01:25:03.800 --> 01:25:07.880 It's only available at Wildbirds Unlimited. Nesting Superblend has got 1575 01:25:08.000 --> 01:25:11.239 all kinds of stuff that birds salivate overs. I mean, 1576 01:25:11.279 --> 01:25:15.279 we're talking about dried mule worms and peanuts and sunflower 1577 01:25:15.439 --> 01:25:19.039 chips and save flower tree nuts, bark butter bit. It's 1578 01:25:19.079 --> 01:25:21.600 got that extra protein and it's got the calcium that's 1579 01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:24.880 needed during this nesting season, and they are nesting right now. 1580 01:25:25.880 --> 01:25:28.760 So when you're forming shells to lay eggs, when you're 1581 01:25:28.960 --> 01:25:31.960 creating a skeletal structure for bird, it takes calcium to 1582 01:25:32.039 --> 01:25:34.479 do that and the protein that is so important. You 1583 01:25:34.560 --> 01:25:37.159 can buy Nesting super Blend and loose seed bags. You 1584 01:25:37.159 --> 01:25:39.840 can buy it in the little compacted seed cylinders that 1585 01:25:39.920 --> 01:25:42.039 the bird has to peck the seeds out of. You 1586 01:25:42.119 --> 01:25:44.560 buy it either way, but the main thing is just 1587 01:25:44.640 --> 01:25:46.960 buy it now. You're going to find Nesting super Blend 1588 01:25:47.000 --> 01:25:50.119 at any of the six Wildbirds Unlimited stores here in 1589 01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:53.439 the Greater Houston area. That includes the Kingwood Store in 1590 01:25:53.520 --> 01:25:56.960 Kingwood Drive, the clear Lake Store on El Dorado, the 1591 01:25:57.079 --> 01:26:00.720 Pearland Store on East Broadway, if you are in Cypress 1592 01:26:00.760 --> 01:26:04.720 area on Barker Cypress, if you are in the south 1593 01:26:04.920 --> 01:26:08.000 central area of Houston, well there's one on bel Air 1594 01:26:08.279 --> 01:26:11.319 and there's one on Memorial Drive on the West side 1595 01:26:11.319 --> 01:26:15.359 as well. That's six six Wildbirds Unlimited stores. Why are 1596 01:26:15.359 --> 01:26:19.000 you there? Pick up the Wildbirds Unlimited high perch hummingbird feeder. 1597 01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:22.039 Yesterday is the first hummingbird I've seen at my feeder, 1598 01:26:22.159 --> 01:26:23.680 and maybe it's just because I was sitting out at 1599 01:26:23.720 --> 01:26:26.520 the right time. But I loved that feeder. It really 1600 01:26:26.640 --> 01:26:29.960 really works makes it easier to see the hummingbirds too. 1601 01:26:31.479 --> 01:26:33.800 All right, let's do this. We are going to head 1602 01:26:33.800 --> 01:26:37.680 out to Meadows Place and talk to Jim. Hello Jim, 1603 01:26:37.800 --> 01:26:38.720 Welcome to garden Line. 1604 01:26:39.560 --> 01:26:43.119 Hello Skip. We talked about a week ago. I've got 1605 01:26:43.239 --> 01:26:48.600 my tomatoes growing. I've got five plants. Two I bought 1606 01:26:49.680 --> 01:26:54.119 as a plant, three I raised from seed, primarily cherry tomatoes. 1607 01:26:54.680 --> 01:27:01.079 And I've been using Job's Organic, which is a two 1608 01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:08.520 five three tomato and vegetable fertilizer. They recommended itself with fertilizer, 1609 01:27:10.159 --> 01:27:14.920 and I've also been applying a little bit of coffee 1610 01:27:14.960 --> 01:27:19.960 grounds EPs and salt and baking soda compound every other 1611 01:27:20.079 --> 01:27:24.600 week that was recommended. Is there anything I should be 1612 01:27:24.680 --> 01:27:27.840 doing different? I'm a little disappointed that the plants are 1613 01:27:27.920 --> 01:27:33.159 doing well. They're producing tomatoes, but the tomatoes are very small. 1614 01:27:33.279 --> 01:27:37.039 They're not growing very big as I think they should. 1615 01:27:37.279 --> 01:27:39.039 So am I doing something wrong? Or do I need 1616 01:27:39.119 --> 01:27:40.239 to change what I'm doing? 1617 01:27:41.720 --> 01:27:44.279 Jim? What's the color look like on those plants? Is 1618 01:27:44.359 --> 01:27:46.159 it deep deep green or is it kind of a 1619 01:27:46.279 --> 01:27:48.800 light sharp truish yellowy green or where is it? 1620 01:27:49.000 --> 01:27:50.920 No, they're all deep deep green. 1621 01:27:52.359 --> 01:27:56.760 Okay, Well, tomato fruit size is a function of getting 1622 01:27:57.279 --> 01:28:01.319 as much sunlight as possible and of the way you 1623 01:28:01.520 --> 01:28:04.840 prune tomatoes. Now, if you were to take a tomato 1624 01:28:04.920 --> 01:28:06.920 and cut every sucker off of it and just have 1625 01:28:07.039 --> 01:28:09.560 a single trump coming up a steak, you would have 1626 01:28:09.760 --> 01:28:12.319 larger tomatoes. If you let it be in a cage 1627 01:28:12.359 --> 01:28:15.560 and you take off almost no suckers, you have more tomatoes, 1628 01:28:15.640 --> 01:28:18.560 but they're going to be smaller. So that's one factor 1629 01:28:18.640 --> 01:28:21.319 in there. Other than that, the tomatoes sound like they 1630 01:28:21.399 --> 01:28:23.840 look good. The stuff you're putting downs, I'll find. For 1631 01:28:23.920 --> 01:28:26.880 the tomatoes, I just wait and give a little bit 1632 01:28:26.920 --> 01:28:30.239 more time. But maybe taking out some more of those 1633 01:28:30.319 --> 01:28:33.279 little sucker shoots that come out everywhere tomato produces a leaf, 1634 01:28:33.319 --> 01:28:37.039 it also puts a shoot right there, and that may 1635 01:28:37.159 --> 01:28:39.359 help a little bit. But those would be the two 1636 01:28:39.479 --> 01:28:40.479 tips that I would give you. 1637 01:28:41.960 --> 01:28:44.319 I've been working on that since the last time we talked, 1638 01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:46.840 checking the suckers and every book. I just wanted to 1639 01:28:46.880 --> 01:28:48.960 tell what's doing needed to do something different. 1640 01:28:50.399 --> 01:28:53.159 I think that's it, other than sunlight. But hey, I'm 1641 01:28:53.239 --> 01:28:55.760 up against a hard break, but thanks for the call 1642 01:28:55.880 --> 01:28:58.640 and good luck getting those tomatoes, and that my advice works. 1643 01:28:58.680 --> 01:28:59.920 You know, you got to bring me half the free 1644 01:29:00.199 --> 01:29:01.680 that you get and drop it off at the station. 1645 01:29:01.840 --> 01:29:07.880 We'll call it you bye bye, you bet. I'll be 1646 01:29:08.039 --> 01:29:10.399 right back all right, welcome back to the guarden Line'm 1647 01:29:10.439 --> 01:29:15.439 glad you are with us today. If you have not 1648 01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:19.840 been to Arburgate recently, you need to go. Arbor Gate 1649 01:29:20.319 --> 01:29:24.319 is a destination. It just is. And by the way, 1650 01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:28.399 I'm going to be at Arbrogate next Saturday. This will 1651 01:29:28.439 --> 01:29:32.000 be the last appearance that I do for the whole 1652 01:29:32.039 --> 01:29:35.520 spring season next Saturday, so it's like last call, folks, 1653 01:29:36.000 --> 01:29:38.560 come on out and see me. I will be there 1654 01:29:38.840 --> 01:29:41.720 on Saturday. I'll give you even the date of it, Saturday, 1655 01:29:42.359 --> 01:29:45.520 May tenth. I'll be there from twelve to answering your 1656 01:29:45.560 --> 01:29:49.159 gardening questions. They got some great giveaways. They're going to 1657 01:29:49.239 --> 01:29:53.520 have a peach ballini machine right next to me, so 1658 01:29:53.640 --> 01:29:55.479 you got to come see me to get a bellini 1659 01:29:55.680 --> 01:29:58.039 unless they're planning on moving at ors up it anyway, 1660 01:29:59.319 --> 01:30:01.119 that is a fun place to go and they have 1661 01:30:01.359 --> 01:30:03.640 lots of good stuff. By the way, on May seventeenth, 1662 01:30:04.000 --> 01:30:10.640 that's the Saturday after this Tropical Dazzlers talk with Angela Chandler. 1663 01:30:10.640 --> 01:30:13.680 And Angela is an expert on all kinds of things plants, 1664 01:30:14.079 --> 01:30:18.720 and she brings a class that just it just goes 1665 01:30:18.760 --> 01:30:23.479 into all those bold, almost gaudy, beautiful things that we 1666 01:30:23.520 --> 01:30:26.279 can grow here in summer. There's tropical, you know, allocacious 1667 01:30:26.319 --> 01:30:30.560 and colocacious, he may say, elephant ears on plants, kalladiums, 1668 01:30:30.640 --> 01:30:34.840 and dance of soma. The zanthosoma especially pretty too. If 1669 01:30:34.880 --> 01:30:37.840 you love showy plants that really thrive in the hot, 1670 01:30:38.000 --> 01:30:40.880 humid climate in the Houstern area, this is your class. 1671 01:30:41.000 --> 01:30:42.960 Now you've got a register. You got a register for 1672 01:30:43.000 --> 01:30:45.680 the class. It's ten dollars per person and only forty people. 1673 01:30:45.720 --> 01:30:48.399 There's only room for forty, so don't mess around. Give 1674 01:30:48.439 --> 01:30:51.239 them a call two eight one three five one eighty 1675 01:30:51.279 --> 01:30:53.760 eight fifty one two eight one three five one eight 1676 01:30:53.920 --> 01:30:58.880 eight five one for the class two saturdays from this weekend, 1677 01:30:59.000 --> 01:31:03.640 so May seventeenth, next Saturday, they tenth, I'll be at Arburgate. 1678 01:31:03.760 --> 01:31:06.399 Come on out and see me. You got to see 1679 01:31:06.680 --> 01:31:10.520 the stuff that they have. The selection is incredible and 1680 01:31:10.720 --> 01:31:13.439 bring people with you on this. If you've got a 1681 01:31:13.560 --> 01:31:16.560 non gardener friend. They will love the gift shops and 1682 01:31:16.680 --> 01:31:19.520 they will find a plant that they will become a gardener. 1683 01:31:19.640 --> 01:31:22.520 When they go to Arburgate, they'll get excited all the 1684 01:31:22.560 --> 01:31:25.039 different products that are carried, all the different plants that 1685 01:31:25.119 --> 01:31:28.039 are carried, and you know, here's here's probably the best. 1686 01:31:28.079 --> 01:31:29.479 I don't know. It's hard to say the best thing 1687 01:31:29.520 --> 01:31:31.640 when there's so many good things. But one of the 1688 01:31:31.880 --> 01:31:35.159 very best things at Arburgate is you show up and 1689 01:31:35.279 --> 01:31:38.239 people that know what they're talking about greet you, and 1690 01:31:38.399 --> 01:31:41.199 they take time even to help you shop if you 1691 01:31:41.279 --> 01:31:43.840 need that, if you want somebody to you know, put together. 1692 01:31:44.319 --> 01:31:45.920 You say, I need a group of plants to go 1693 01:31:46.000 --> 01:31:48.000 in a flower bed, and I want I kind of 1694 01:31:48.079 --> 01:31:50.760 like these colors, and what would be good going into summer? 1695 01:31:50.840 --> 01:31:52.760 What can I do right now? They'll take in there, 1696 01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:54.760 show you that it's not like you're on your own. 1697 01:31:55.279 --> 01:31:57.880 Remember to park in the back. It's off Trischel Road, 1698 01:31:57.960 --> 01:32:01.079 goes around behind Arburgate. There's a parking lot back, perfect 1699 01:32:01.119 --> 01:32:04.640 place to park, lots of space, easy safe access. It's 1700 01:32:04.640 --> 01:32:06.840 the only way to go. The main thing is right now, 1701 01:32:07.399 --> 01:32:11.640 oh wait, right on on your calendar. Next Saturday the tenth, 1702 01:32:12.760 --> 01:32:14.880 the tenth of May, I'll be there at Arburgate for 1703 01:32:14.960 --> 01:32:19.600 the final appearance that I'll do this whole spring. Come 1704 01:32:19.640 --> 01:32:21.800 on out to see me. It is a plus plus. 1705 01:32:22.560 --> 01:32:24.720 Let's just put this way. Everybody who shows up, I'll 1706 01:32:24.720 --> 01:32:28.359 buy you a pink a peach Bellini. Not that I'm 1707 01:32:28.359 --> 01:32:30.840 having to buy them, they're free. Come on out, let's 1708 01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:34.039 have some fun at Arborgate. That's not hard to do. 1709 01:32:35.600 --> 01:32:37.760 You are listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. 1710 01:32:37.920 --> 01:32:40.520 We are here to help you have a successful garden. 1711 01:32:40.600 --> 01:32:42.760 The way I like to put it is a more 1712 01:32:42.840 --> 01:32:46.720 bountiful garden, more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process, 1713 01:32:46.760 --> 01:32:49.600 because gardening should be fun, and it can be fun 1714 01:32:50.079 --> 01:32:51.960 when you take care of your plants, when you do 1715 01:32:52.279 --> 01:32:55.279 the things that plants want you to do. If you 1716 01:32:55.880 --> 01:33:01.119 have not been recently to an Ace hardware store, you've 1717 01:33:01.199 --> 01:33:03.439 not been to an Ace hardware store. This is not 1718 01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:07.039 your grandfather's hardware store. Yeah, it has all the stuff 1719 01:33:07.079 --> 01:33:09.880 grandpa's hardware store had, you know, things for lighting and 1720 01:33:09.960 --> 01:33:12.479 things for electricity, and things for plumbing and all of 1721 01:33:12.560 --> 01:33:16.560 that like a hardware store. Right, tools, but Ace, oh gosh, 1722 01:33:16.760 --> 01:33:19.199 the tool lines that they have are amazing and I'm 1723 01:33:19.800 --> 01:33:23.600 I am a big fan of power tools and I 1724 01:33:23.760 --> 01:33:27.439 love those things. And Ace's got an excellent selection of 1725 01:33:27.720 --> 01:33:30.319 all of the you know, we're talking about top brands, 1726 01:33:30.479 --> 01:33:32.920 main top brand, but when it comes to your yard 1727 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:37.920 and your garden, fertilizers a good selection. If you're organic, 1728 01:33:38.039 --> 01:33:40.760 if you're synthetic, it doesn't matter. Ace has got products 1729 01:33:40.800 --> 01:33:43.960 for that, controlling pasts and diseases and weeds, all the 1730 01:33:44.039 --> 01:33:46.239 things that want to mess up your plans out in 1731 01:33:46.319 --> 01:33:48.640 the garden. They got this stuff for that. They got 1732 01:33:48.760 --> 01:33:53.439 quality tools, garden hoses, you know, I mean the garden sprinklers. 1733 01:33:53.600 --> 01:33:56.479 And then one of my favorite parts, and I've just 1734 01:33:56.560 --> 01:33:59.399 gotten to become more of an outdoor living person, is 1735 01:33:59.479 --> 01:34:02.079 yours go. I think I love to go out on 1736 01:34:02.159 --> 01:34:04.159 the patio and set and we got a string of 1737 01:34:04.199 --> 01:34:06.520 those lights. I call them beer garden lights, but they're 1738 01:34:06.560 --> 01:34:09.920 basically there's little strings of a not so bright lights 1739 01:34:10.000 --> 01:34:13.159 that glow and create that ambiance. It is so nice 1740 01:34:13.239 --> 01:34:15.720 out there when you have that. And right now they 1741 01:34:15.840 --> 01:34:19.199 got their barbecue pits on a special deal. There's certain 1742 01:34:20.439 --> 01:34:23.239 certain varieties I sound like a plant person. There are 1743 01:34:23.399 --> 01:34:27.039 certain brands of barbecue pits that have really good specials 1744 01:34:27.079 --> 01:34:29.119 on them. And ACE carries all the big brands, the 1745 01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:32.159 ones you can't live without. They're there at Ace harborre 1746 01:34:32.399 --> 01:34:35.079 Go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. That's the website 1747 01:34:35.119 --> 01:34:38.520 you need to know. Ace Hardware Texas. Don't forget to 1748 01:34:38.560 --> 01:34:42.199 put the Texas in there dot com. So, for example, 1749 01:34:42.680 --> 01:34:44.800 if you're done in Deer Park, we got deer Park 1750 01:34:45.439 --> 01:34:50.000 Lumber Ace Hardware on Center Street. If you were in Orange, Texas, Hey, 1751 01:34:51.000 --> 01:34:52.840 shout out to all you folks out there in Orange 1752 01:34:53.279 --> 01:34:56.479 Child's Building Supply on Sixteenth Street. Maybe you're up in 1753 01:34:56.600 --> 01:35:00.720 Crosby at Crosby Ace Hardware on FM twenty one. Or 1754 01:35:00.760 --> 01:35:04.239 how about this Cyprus Ace Hardware on Jones Road. There's 1755 01:35:04.239 --> 01:35:06.119 another one. I mean, there's a lot of great Ace 1756 01:35:06.159 --> 01:35:08.479 Hardware stores out there, and you can find yours by 1757 01:35:08.560 --> 01:35:12.159 going to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. We're gonna head 1758 01:35:12.199 --> 01:35:15.720 up to Conroe now and we're going to talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, 1759 01:35:15.920 --> 01:35:24.000 welcome to Garden Line. Do we have a bill? All right? 1760 01:35:24.000 --> 01:35:26.079 I'n put Bill back on hold and I'll come back 1761 01:35:26.119 --> 01:35:28.520 to your bill. We'll try to get you back online. 1762 01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:28.680 Here. 1763 01:35:29.960 --> 01:35:32.640 Guess what I just did yesterday. I just attached a 1764 01:35:32.760 --> 01:35:36.119 three sixty tree stabilizer to a tree in my landscape. 1765 01:35:36.800 --> 01:35:39.640 I I you know I talk about I don't brag 1766 01:35:39.720 --> 01:35:42.479 on products and talk about products I don't have personal 1767 01:35:42.520 --> 01:35:46.800 experience with. Well. I've got two citrus trees right now 1768 01:35:46.880 --> 01:35:49.399 that I have tree stabilizers on them. And when I 1769 01:35:49.479 --> 01:35:51.359 first planted them, I came back the next day and 1770 01:35:51.479 --> 01:35:53.920 those trees were at a forty five gangle because the 1771 01:35:54.000 --> 01:35:57.920 wind blasted through there. Not anymore. They got tree stabilizers. 1772 01:35:58.039 --> 01:35:59.840 It's going to hold them and it holds them in 1773 01:35:59.840 --> 01:36:03.079 a way that lets them move, which is important. Movement 1774 01:36:03.159 --> 01:36:08.119 creates strong trunks. Movement creates good anchorage with those top 1775 01:36:08.279 --> 01:36:11.760 roots that help anchor that tree in. These trees are 1776 01:36:11.800 --> 01:36:14.399 gonna develop strong and they're need They're not gonna need 1777 01:36:14.479 --> 01:36:17.960 the stabilizer forever, but when you need it, I got it, 1778 01:36:18.159 --> 01:36:20.760 and they last forever. You're gonna find them at RCW 1779 01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:24.159 Nurseries at jorgesed and Gardens Don in Alvin. You can 1780 01:36:24.199 --> 01:36:27.560 go to Siena Multch down the Siena area and find 1781 01:36:27.800 --> 01:36:31.479 the three sixty tree stabilizers and the heights Buchanans on 1782 01:36:31.560 --> 01:36:34.720 eleven street carries them and guess what the arborgate where 1783 01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:36.760 I'm gonna be next Saturday. Come on and get your 1784 01:36:36.880 --> 01:36:41.880 tree stabilizer three sixty Tree stabilizer out there. This is 1785 01:36:42.000 --> 01:36:45.319 a great product. It just really it makes it easy. 1786 01:36:45.399 --> 01:36:47.359 You don't got the wires to trip over. You're not 1787 01:36:47.520 --> 01:36:50.439 cutting garden hose up into sections, so the wire didn't 1788 01:36:50.439 --> 01:36:53.439 cut into the tree. Just get you one, Get you 1789 01:36:53.520 --> 01:36:56.359 one and you'll like it. All right. We're gonna go 1790 01:36:56.399 --> 01:36:58.840 back out and try Bill again. Here, Hey Bill, are 1791 01:36:58.880 --> 01:36:59.199 you there? 1792 01:37:00.359 --> 01:37:01.199 I am done? 1793 01:37:01.319 --> 01:37:01.479 Yeah? 1794 01:37:01.600 --> 01:37:02.640 Thanks quick. 1795 01:37:05.479 --> 01:37:06.239 The rain is coming. 1796 01:37:06.279 --> 01:37:07.880 Should I do the fun aside before or. 1797 01:37:07.880 --> 01:37:11.560 After the rain? After? What are we spray in. 1798 01:37:13.119 --> 01:37:14.239 Garden lawn? 1799 01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:19.239 The lawn? Okay? So uh yeah, wait until after it 1800 01:37:19.399 --> 01:37:23.000 rains and then put your fun aside down. Uh if 1801 01:37:23.079 --> 01:37:24.840 we were to get a gully washer kind of rain, 1802 01:37:25.479 --> 01:37:28.640 it could wash outuct and and that includes soluble fertilizer 1803 01:37:28.720 --> 01:37:31.920 too away. So yeah, I would wait, and I think 1804 01:37:31.960 --> 01:37:33.560 you'll be better off. But do it right away after 1805 01:37:33.640 --> 01:37:36.760 the rain, because that wet conditions is where diseases thrive, 1806 01:37:37.239 --> 01:37:38.359 all right, right? 1807 01:37:40.279 --> 01:37:45.239 Or has to grow? Is there a differences to grow 1808 01:37:45.479 --> 01:37:48.880 on versus they. 1809 01:37:48.159 --> 01:37:55.880 Complimentary they're complementary uh asites, micro nutrients, strictly, strictly micro nutrients. 1810 01:37:55.960 --> 01:38:01.000 It's a granule has Medina has to. Twelve four eight 1811 01:38:01.760 --> 01:38:05.840 is a primarily putting on for the big three the nitrogen, 1812 01:38:05.880 --> 01:38:09.039 phosphorus and potassium that you're going to get from that, 1813 01:38:09.359 --> 01:38:12.359 so you can use us both. All right, did you 1814 01:38:12.479 --> 01:38:16.279 have too much potassa phosphorus? Thank you? 1815 01:38:16.359 --> 01:38:16.399 No? 1816 01:38:17.000 --> 01:38:21.159 Eight it no, it's an it's an eight two. 1817 01:38:22.840 --> 01:38:22.960 Two. 1818 01:38:23.079 --> 01:38:25.359 Okay, this is right. No, No, it's a twelve four eight. 1819 01:38:25.399 --> 01:38:28.800 I'm sorry, my brain is not clicking here this morning. Yeah, 1820 01:38:28.880 --> 01:38:32.479 twelve four eight is the one in Medina hast Grove 1821 01:38:32.560 --> 01:38:35.800 for lawns, and that phosphorus is the middle number. It's 1822 01:38:35.840 --> 01:38:37.680 the lowest number. That's how you want it to be. 1823 01:38:38.000 --> 01:38:40.880 Okay, okay, very good, thank you very much. 1824 01:38:41.359 --> 01:38:44.199 All right, you bet, thanks for the call. I appreciate 1825 01:38:44.279 --> 01:38:50.800 I appreciate that very much. Enchanted Forest is a wonderful 1826 01:38:50.840 --> 01:38:54.720 garden center down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. In fact, 1827 01:38:54.720 --> 01:38:56.680 if you were in Richmond and you were heading up 1828 01:38:56.840 --> 01:38:59.439 sixty nine towards sugar Land, it'd be off to the 1829 01:38:59.520 --> 01:39:04.000 Riot on FM twenty seven to fifty nine. Write this 1830 01:39:05.279 --> 01:39:08.960 address down this web address. You need to see their website. 1831 01:39:09.119 --> 01:39:12.359 It is outstanding and it gives you a big picture 1832 01:39:12.359 --> 01:39:14.560 of everything. You'll find out what's going on there because 1833 01:39:14.560 --> 01:39:16.439 there's weekends where you're gonna want to go out and 1834 01:39:16.560 --> 01:39:19.439 hear somebody talk or whatever, or maybe they got a 1835 01:39:19.479 --> 01:39:21.600 new kind of plan in which are always getting in. 1836 01:39:22.199 --> 01:39:29.560 It is enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com entented Forest Richmond, 1837 01:39:29.640 --> 01:39:32.840 TX dot com right now. They are loaded as als are, 1838 01:39:33.199 --> 01:39:36.359 with pollinator plants and with plants, you know, to attract 1839 01:39:36.439 --> 01:39:39.279 butterflies and hummingbirds and things like that. They have a 1840 01:39:39.399 --> 01:39:43.840 selection of Salvius. I think it's something like ninety salvius 1841 01:39:44.119 --> 01:39:47.439 that they carry ninety Salvia variety. I believe it's ninety one. 1842 01:39:47.560 --> 01:39:51.399 In fact, Salvi's my favorite genus of plants, and they 1843 01:39:51.479 --> 01:39:55.760 are loaded with them. They're and enchanted forest herb selection, 1844 01:39:57.039 --> 01:40:03.640 incredible vegetable selections, incredible flowers everything, and big beautiful giant 1845 01:40:03.680 --> 01:40:06.920 pecan trees. Just the shade. It is so nice to 1846 01:40:07.039 --> 01:40:11.720 walk around and shop under those kinds of trees. Really 1847 01:40:11.960 --> 01:40:15.600 really nice to be able to do that. I am 1848 01:40:15.680 --> 01:40:18.760 coming up here on a heartbreak for the news, and 1849 01:40:18.840 --> 01:40:21.199 when we come back we'll come back to your questions 1850 01:40:21.239 --> 01:40:23.319 if you'd like to give me a call seven one 1851 01:40:23.439 --> 01:40:27.720 three two one two kt RH. In the meantime, don't forget. 1852 01:40:27.800 --> 01:40:30.279 I'm going to be at arbor Gate Garden Center this 1853 01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:33.039 next Saturday from twelfth to two, and I hope you 1854 01:40:33.159 --> 01:40:36.399 can come out and see me. There you go. I 1855 01:40:36.600 --> 01:40:40.039 just had to let that play a little bit. Nothing 1856 01:40:40.319 --> 01:40:44.239 like homegrown tomatoes, you know, in the garden tomatoes or 1857 01:40:44.279 --> 01:40:47.000 the Queen of the garden. Nobody ever calls me about 1858 01:40:47.039 --> 01:40:51.439 the Cole Robbie. We get a lot of questions about tomatoes. 1859 01:40:51.439 --> 01:40:53.479 We're gonna go to one right now. We're gonna head 1860 01:40:53.520 --> 01:40:57.760 out to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Matt. Matt, welcome 1861 01:40:57.800 --> 01:40:58.479 to garden Line. 1862 01:40:59.479 --> 01:41:03.920 Good morning, Skip, and thank you. I send you a 1863 01:41:04.039 --> 01:41:07.920 picture of email about ten minutes ago about. 1864 01:41:08.119 --> 01:41:10.079 I got it good good. 1865 01:41:10.680 --> 01:41:14.880 I believe, I don't know for sure. It's only one picture, 1866 01:41:14.960 --> 01:41:17.800 but it has I believe it's called frass on it, 1867 01:41:18.000 --> 01:41:20.399 which is a doo dooo of some sort, or maybe 1868 01:41:20.479 --> 01:41:22.439 it's a that was a lead. 1869 01:41:24.159 --> 01:41:28.560 No, you're you're right. Frass means insect poop. Doodoo means 1870 01:41:28.680 --> 01:41:32.279 insect poop, and it's insect poop on that lead and 1871 01:41:32.600 --> 01:41:34.880 what a lovely thing to talk about on a nice 1872 01:41:34.920 --> 01:41:40.720 Sunday morning. Sorry, you know, no, that's okay. Interestingly enough, 1873 01:41:40.960 --> 01:41:42.319 we can have some fun, a little bit of fun 1874 01:41:42.359 --> 01:41:49.119 with this. There are entomologists that specialize in bug poop identification, 1875 01:41:49.640 --> 01:41:52.159 because sometimes you don't see the bug, you just see 1876 01:41:52.159 --> 01:41:55.720 the poop, and believe it or not, they can identify 1877 01:41:55.840 --> 01:41:58.560 bugs based on their poop. I am not one of those. 1878 01:41:58.600 --> 01:42:00.279 I know a little bit about it, but not much, 1879 01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:04.560 but they look at it. Caterpillars have a very unique 1880 01:42:04.600 --> 01:42:08.560 poop and that it often has ridges in it. And 1881 01:42:09.000 --> 01:42:13.880 the most delicate way I can put this Sunday morning 1882 01:42:14.640 --> 01:42:17.800 is you remember those Plato machines where you put plato 1883 01:42:17.920 --> 01:42:20.439 in and you press the handle down and you could 1884 01:42:20.479 --> 01:42:23.319 get star You could put a star hole in front 1885 01:42:23.359 --> 01:42:26.560 of it, or a half moon crescent and it would 1886 01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:30.920 make that shape coming out. The back end of a 1887 01:42:31.000 --> 01:42:34.880 caterpillar has similar mark, similar things, and they can look 1888 01:42:34.920 --> 01:42:37.239 at that bug poop and they can tell you this 1889 01:42:37.439 --> 01:42:40.039 is that kind of caterpillar or whatever. And they're used 1890 01:42:40.079 --> 01:42:42.520 in like crime scene identification. You know, a body is 1891 01:42:42.560 --> 01:42:44.880 found in the woods and they find this little bug 1892 01:42:44.920 --> 01:42:46.640 poop on it and they can look and they go, oh, well, 1893 01:42:46.720 --> 01:42:49.720 that's this bug, and therefore that bug occurs at this 1894 01:42:49.880 --> 01:42:53.680 time of the year in New England, and so this 1895 01:42:53.880 --> 01:42:57.159 is anyway, all right, I'm going too far with it, 1896 01:42:57.239 --> 01:43:01.640 but you get the idea. Your yours looks a little 1897 01:43:01.680 --> 01:43:06.079 bit like caterpillar, but it's it's extremely soft. I would 1898 01:43:06.119 --> 01:43:09.840 look for some other pieces that are a little bit firmer, 1899 01:43:10.039 --> 01:43:13.840 like little pellets. More so, to be sure on that one, 1900 01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:16.600 I think you're dealing with a caterpillar that's feeding on it. 1901 01:43:16.760 --> 01:43:19.800 It is possible that something else just came by and 1902 01:43:19.920 --> 01:43:21.920 happened to stop on the leaf above it, or on 1903 01:43:22.039 --> 01:43:24.560 that leaf, and that's why you have it. But I 1904 01:43:24.880 --> 01:43:27.600 think that's a sign that you have some caterpillars. I 1905 01:43:27.720 --> 01:43:29.560 see in the top right corner the. 1906 01:43:30.680 --> 01:43:34.720 Skip, I don't see anything, and I get up pretty 1907 01:43:34.800 --> 01:43:38.039 close with my glasses. I don't see a warm at all. 1908 01:43:39.279 --> 01:43:44.279 Someone the black frost is like a little beebe and 1909 01:43:44.399 --> 01:43:51.600 I just flick them off. There are holes in some 1910 01:43:51.840 --> 01:43:52.399 of the leaves. 1911 01:43:53.680 --> 01:43:55.880 Yeah, well, I'll tell you what else is. If you 1912 01:43:55.920 --> 01:43:57.960 look at the picture you sent me in the top 1913 01:43:58.319 --> 01:44:00.840 right corner, you never even notice it. If you weren't 1914 01:44:00.840 --> 01:44:03.319 studying the whole picture. But there is a leaf that 1915 01:44:03.399 --> 01:44:07.319 has been caterpillar chewed, the edges have been chewed off 1916 01:44:07.399 --> 01:44:09.840 of it, there's a caterpillar feeds in from the sides, 1917 01:44:10.399 --> 01:44:12.840 and I still think this is a caterpillar. What can 1918 01:44:12.920 --> 01:44:16.239 happen is the number one caterpillar predator in the garden 1919 01:44:16.279 --> 01:44:19.840 and landscape or paper wasps. Paper wasps the ones that 1920 01:44:19.920 --> 01:44:22.479 build the nests under your eaves, that sting us. That 1921 01:44:22.720 --> 01:44:25.079 is what they primarily eat is caterpillars, and they are 1922 01:44:25.159 --> 01:44:27.840 flying through your garden all the time. And whoever poop 1923 01:44:28.000 --> 01:44:31.039 this poop is probably paper wasp food right now if 1924 01:44:31.079 --> 01:44:34.039 you're not finding a caterpillar on your plant, so I 1925 01:44:34.119 --> 01:44:36.720 would not worry about it. If you're not seeing significant 1926 01:44:36.920 --> 01:44:41.239 loss of foliage, I wouldn't think twice about it. Nature 1927 01:44:41.319 --> 01:44:44.079 has a way of taking care of these things. Okay, yeah, 1928 01:44:44.359 --> 01:44:45.079 one more question. 1929 01:44:46.079 --> 01:44:50.640 Could it be flea beetles with holes and the leaves 1930 01:44:50.920 --> 01:44:51.960 you know, round holes? 1931 01:44:54.359 --> 01:44:57.439 Not this poop. This poop is not that, and I 1932 01:44:57.520 --> 01:45:00.720 don't Flea beetles are primarily when a planet very young, 1933 01:45:01.319 --> 01:45:03.560 they can do damage, but that plan out grows them 1934 01:45:03.760 --> 01:45:06.960 in time. So I know. I don't think so. I 1935 01:45:07.039 --> 01:45:09.960 think we covered all we can about it. And thank 1936 01:45:10.039 --> 01:45:14.920 you for this venture into entomological scatology today on garden Line. 1937 01:45:15.399 --> 01:45:19.960 Thank you very much. I appreciate that if you're looking 1938 01:45:20.000 --> 01:45:23.560 for an organic fertilizer with eleven percent nitrogen that dissolves 1939 01:45:23.600 --> 01:45:25.479 away in your lawn and gives you a pretty quick 1940 01:45:25.560 --> 01:45:29.000 release the nutrients get the nutrients. Microes get a hold 1941 01:45:29.039 --> 01:45:31.119 of it and they turn the nutrients loose from it 1942 01:45:31.479 --> 01:45:35.720 to feed your plant. The nutrients primarily nitrogen that's in't 1943 01:45:35.920 --> 01:45:39.800 that is Sweet Green from night. Sweet Green is widely 1944 01:45:39.880 --> 01:45:41.960 available in the Greater Houston, Aario. You're going to find 1945 01:45:42.000 --> 01:45:44.039 it at an ACE Hardware on Sincle Ranch as well 1946 01:45:44.079 --> 01:45:46.680 as ACE Hardware up there in the Woodlands. You go 1947 01:45:46.760 --> 01:45:49.479 onto Hiding and Feed on Student or Airline or RCW 1948 01:45:49.680 --> 01:45:52.800 Nursery on Tambo Parkway, and you are going to find 1949 01:45:53.199 --> 01:45:56.840 nitro fross products like this, like this quality product Sweet Green. 1950 01:45:57.880 --> 01:46:00.520 Let's head out now to Magnolia tech Is and talk 1951 01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:01.000 to Jerry. 1952 01:46:01.199 --> 01:46:04.760 Hello, Jerry, Hey, Hello, how are you doing this morning? 1953 01:46:06.840 --> 01:46:09.840 I'm doing well. How are you doing? Yes, sir, I 1954 01:46:09.920 --> 01:46:11.159 am How can we help. 1955 01:46:12.920 --> 01:46:17.560 My wife just discovered some green nodules on our pecan 1956 01:46:17.680 --> 01:46:24.239 tree leaves that Google identified as Pontana, and I was 1957 01:46:24.319 --> 01:46:25.840 wanting to know how to get rid of them. 1958 01:46:29.159 --> 01:46:36.840 On palm tree leaves, green nodules con oh oh, those 1959 01:46:36.880 --> 01:46:40.560 are called Phyloxa phylocera. 1960 01:46:40.479 --> 01:46:41.239 And what it is. 1961 01:46:41.319 --> 01:46:44.119 It's a little insect. It lays an egg in the 1962 01:46:44.199 --> 01:46:47.359 leaf and the secretions cause the leaf to grow that 1963 01:46:47.520 --> 01:46:52.520 little cancery cancerous looking bump on the leaf, and the 1964 01:46:52.720 --> 01:46:57.680 insect grows up inside that and then flies out. Most 1965 01:46:57.760 --> 01:47:00.920 of the time, phylocra are not worth treating. Nature has 1966 01:47:00.960 --> 01:47:02.760 a way of keeping them in bounds. If you had 1967 01:47:02.760 --> 01:47:05.479 a very young pecan tree and you had a severe 1968 01:47:05.600 --> 01:47:09.239 philoxtra infestation, then I would say, okay, let's get out 1969 01:47:09.279 --> 01:47:11.600 and start on a regular basis spraying it and try 1970 01:47:11.640 --> 01:47:13.880 to break this up because it's taking away from the 1971 01:47:13.920 --> 01:47:18.159 trees bigger on good growing, healthy pecan trees. Some philoxa 1972 01:47:18.279 --> 01:47:21.479 here and there not worth it. They're not costing you 1973 01:47:21.560 --> 01:47:23.279 anything on tree growth or production. 1974 01:47:24.960 --> 01:47:28.560 Last year, we have three picone trees to pretty close 1975 01:47:28.680 --> 01:47:32.520 proximity and two of the three or eight aproal bad 1976 01:47:33.600 --> 01:47:36.199 fast kind of worms. Is that part of this. 1977 01:47:38.000 --> 01:47:42.000 No, no, unrelated. All this insect does the only you 1978 01:47:42.079 --> 01:47:44.479 don't even see the insect. It's very tiny, like a 1979 01:47:44.520 --> 01:47:48.399 gnat size. All it does is cause the tree to 1980 01:47:48.520 --> 01:47:54.359 expend energy growing that philoxra gall and taking away from 1981 01:47:54.520 --> 01:47:57.560 the that area where the tree could have been making 1982 01:47:57.640 --> 01:48:02.960 carbohydrates with the leaf out in the sunshine. So if 1983 01:48:03.000 --> 01:48:06.159 you got annual severe infestations, yeah, go ahead and spray them. 1984 01:48:06.199 --> 01:48:08.880 You've got to put a product on them. If it's 1985 01:48:08.920 --> 01:48:11.760 a non bearing tree, you could use something like a 1986 01:48:11.880 --> 01:48:16.600 bifendren product labeled for use in landscape. But if it's 1987 01:48:16.720 --> 01:48:19.399 bearing pecans, I wouldn't I wouldn't do anything on it. 1988 01:48:20.319 --> 01:48:22.600 Okay, okay, thank you so much. 1989 01:48:22.640 --> 01:48:25.399 All right, good you bet, thank you for the call. 1990 01:48:25.520 --> 01:48:28.760 Appreciate that a lot, interesting call. We see quite a 1991 01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:31.920 bit of philosprah around on our trees here. Hey, Quality 1992 01:48:31.920 --> 01:48:35.119 Home Products of Texas is where you get your generator. 1993 01:48:35.159 --> 01:48:36.840 And I mean that. I'll just say it like that. 1994 01:48:37.399 --> 01:48:41.800 They carry the Generac Automatic standby generator, quality generator. But 1995 01:48:41.960 --> 01:48:45.960 why by from quality? Here's why. 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Glad to have you with us this morning. 2023 01:50:21.680 --> 01:50:24.640 Thanks for listening in on this lovely Sunday morning. I 2024 01:50:24.680 --> 01:50:28.159 hope you're having a good time looking forward this afternoon. 2025 01:50:28.199 --> 01:50:30.800 Maybe get out and do a little bit of nursery visiting, 2026 01:50:30.920 --> 01:50:33.079 if not a few chores about the landscape. You'd like 2027 01:50:33.119 --> 01:50:37.840 to go that route, you know, the one of the 2028 01:50:38.319 --> 01:50:40.159 I talk about the every day is a good day 2029 01:50:40.199 --> 01:50:43.439 for gardening. And I say that because even if it's 2030 01:50:43.560 --> 01:50:48.039 pouring rain outside like it was recently here, you can 2031 01:50:48.119 --> 01:50:50.840 still garden indoors. And what do I mean by that, Well, 2032 01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:53.199 I mean there's all kinds of ways with garden indoors. 2033 01:50:53.239 --> 01:50:56.760 You can grow orchids, you can you can start seeds, 2034 01:50:56.920 --> 01:50:59.880 you can start cuttings for propagating plans. I mean, there's 2035 01:50:59.880 --> 01:51:02.600 all that is something to do for gardening. Another thing 2036 01:51:02.720 --> 01:51:05.680 is African violet. I remember when African violets were the 2037 01:51:05.880 --> 01:51:08.439 things like, eh, but I had African violets, and then 2038 01:51:08.479 --> 01:51:11.399 it kind of went out where people just weren't as enthusiastic. 2039 01:51:12.079 --> 01:51:14.720 But I'm seeing an interest in African violets now and 2040 01:51:15.479 --> 01:51:18.359 I just noticed must nursery done in Seabrook got a 2041 01:51:18.439 --> 01:51:21.439 whole bunch of them. In beautiful African violets. And they're 2042 01:51:21.560 --> 01:51:24.479 easy to grow. Again, like any plant, you give them 2043 01:51:24.520 --> 01:51:26.600 what they want and they grow. If you've tried to 2044 01:51:26.640 --> 01:51:28.800 grow one and it didn't work, it's because you didn't 2045 01:51:28.840 --> 01:51:30.960 give it what it wants. It's not that difficult to do. 2046 01:51:31.640 --> 01:51:34.279 But swing by moss if you don't have one, and 2047 01:51:34.399 --> 01:51:37.199 they again, they're gorgeous. They got all the kinds of 2048 01:51:37.279 --> 01:51:39.239 the purple and the pink and the reddish and the 2049 01:51:39.680 --> 01:51:43.720 white and all that. And they're also fun to propagate. 2050 01:51:44.199 --> 01:51:47.359 It is weird that some plants you can just break 2051 01:51:47.439 --> 01:51:50.119 a leaf off and that leaf will root. And at 2052 01:51:50.159 --> 01:51:52.720 the base of the leaf, an African violet leaf is 2053 01:51:52.800 --> 01:51:54.720 like a spoon. You know, in your spoon, you got 2054 01:51:54.800 --> 01:51:59.399 the little little metal rod or whatever that's holding it, 2055 01:51:59.479 --> 01:52:01.680 and then you got the round spoon on the end. 2056 01:52:02.079 --> 01:52:04.239 That's like an African violet leaf. And if you put 2057 01:52:04.680 --> 01:52:07.560 the petiole of the leaf that is the equivalent of 2058 01:52:07.640 --> 01:52:10.960 the little handle of the spoon down into the ground 2059 01:52:11.199 --> 01:52:13.439 so that the base of the leaf touches the soil. 2060 01:52:13.760 --> 01:52:16.439 It will form babies right there. It will. It works, 2061 01:52:16.680 --> 01:52:20.079 it's fun to do. So if you haven't tried Africa Votives, 2062 01:52:20.319 --> 01:52:22.319 just go to Moss Nursery and while you're there you're 2063 01:52:22.359 --> 01:52:24.239 going to find a lot of good stuff. They have 2064 01:52:24.640 --> 01:52:29.479 so many cool types of pottery, and right now they've 2065 01:52:29.560 --> 01:52:34.600 got some of the small landscape fountains on sale. As 2066 01:52:34.640 --> 01:52:37.680 a matter of fact, these would be jars. They look 2067 01:52:37.800 --> 01:52:39.680 like a container, but then you go look at them 2068 01:52:39.720 --> 01:52:41.199 as like there's a little hole in the top and 2069 01:52:41.319 --> 01:52:44.479 the water circulates around. And it's easy to do. You 2070 01:52:44.520 --> 01:52:46.880 just take them home, set them up. Not very difficult, 2071 01:52:47.000 --> 01:52:51.119 not huge, easy to do. But go into the greenhouse 2072 01:52:51.199 --> 01:52:53.399 when you're there, we're talking about indoor gardening. Of course, 2073 01:52:53.479 --> 01:52:56.319 Moss has everything for outdoor gardening, but I'm just focusing 2074 01:52:56.359 --> 01:52:59.840 on indoors for this moment. They've got some beautiful Epiphylum 2075 01:53:00.119 --> 01:53:03.640 orkid cactus and these are big. They have flat you 2076 01:53:03.680 --> 01:53:06.800 would call them leaves, but that technically they're not a leaf, 2077 01:53:07.560 --> 01:53:12.399 but beautiful hot pink blooms with a whole lot of 2078 01:53:12.960 --> 01:53:17.399 pedals on them. They're just gorgeous begonias. The house, their 2079 01:53:17.439 --> 01:53:20.880 house plant greenhouse has got one of the best selection 2080 01:53:21.399 --> 01:53:24.680 of all kinds of plants for indoors or tropicals for 2081 01:53:24.840 --> 01:53:28.199 using outdoors that you're going to find anywhere. They're excellent. 2082 01:53:28.359 --> 01:53:32.439 While you're there, stop in grab one of Jem's whimsicle shirts. 2083 01:53:32.680 --> 01:53:38.520 Gem comes up with these these really fascinating designs and things. 2084 01:53:39.000 --> 01:53:41.119 He has something called the eyeball Plan. If you haven't 2085 01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:43.680 seen that, go say I need to see Gem's eyeball 2086 01:53:43.760 --> 01:53:47.359 shirt eyeball plant shirt, and they'll show it to you 2087 01:53:47.479 --> 01:53:50.840 there at mos nur Shoe. They're located in Seabrook, Texas. Seabrook, 2088 01:53:50.880 --> 01:53:55.560 Texas uh and the website moss m aas nursery dot com. 2089 01:53:55.720 --> 01:54:00.479 The phone number eight excuse me two eight one seven 2090 01:54:00.920 --> 01:54:05.479 four gosh, let's try that again. Two eight one four 2091 01:54:05.600 --> 01:54:08.640 seven four twenty four eighty eight. One more time two 2092 01:54:08.720 --> 01:54:13.359 eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. That's 2093 01:54:13.479 --> 01:54:17.920 must nursery done in Seabrook, Texas. Eight acres of Wonderfulness. 2094 01:54:18.000 --> 01:54:21.560 Take a friend and allow yourself some time, because there's 2095 01:54:21.680 --> 01:54:26.600 a lot to see down there. Out west to Tomball 2096 01:54:27.039 --> 01:54:30.199 is one of our favorite feed stores, D and D 2097 01:54:30.439 --> 01:54:33.439 Feed and Supply. They're about three miles west of Highway 2098 01:54:33.479 --> 01:54:36.399 to forty nine on twenty nine to twenty. You just 2099 01:54:36.479 --> 01:54:38.880 head out twenty nine to twenty about three miles look 2100 01:54:38.920 --> 01:54:40.960 to the left, you'll see D and D Feed. D 2101 01:54:41.119 --> 01:54:43.319 and D has got you covered on what you need 2102 01:54:43.399 --> 01:54:45.520 for your law and your garden and your landscape. And 2103 01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:50.439 I'm talking about fertilizer products from nitrofoss and from Microlife 2104 01:54:50.640 --> 01:54:55.239 and Nelson turf Star and Medina products as well, and 2105 01:54:55.520 --> 01:54:58.600 azamite as well. Uh, if you want the jars and 2106 01:54:58.640 --> 01:55:01.399 Elson plant food, they got that. Two they got soils 2107 01:55:01.439 --> 01:55:05.279 from Heirloom Soils, and that is a really nice thing 2108 01:55:05.359 --> 01:55:07.680 to have. Just drive up there, grab them and you're good. 2109 01:55:08.520 --> 01:55:11.560 Dandy Feed the phone number is two eight one three 2110 01:55:11.720 --> 01:55:15.319 five one seventy one forty four. Now, if you're dealing 2111 01:55:15.399 --> 01:55:18.760 with any kind of pest from rats running around outside, 2112 01:55:19.359 --> 01:55:24.920 to bugs on your plants, to spider mites, to diseases 2113 01:55:25.159 --> 01:55:28.840 on your plants, to weeds that you're preventing or weeds 2114 01:55:28.920 --> 01:55:31.279 that you're killing because they are actively growing in your garden, 2115 01:55:31.520 --> 01:55:34.600 D and D has a product for everything, and they 2116 01:55:34.720 --> 01:55:36.039 can tell you how to use them and how to 2117 01:55:36.079 --> 01:55:39.479 have success with them. Dandy Feed and Supply three miles 2118 01:55:39.520 --> 01:55:41.199 west of Tombol and two forty nine. You need to 2119 01:55:41.279 --> 01:55:44.399 go check that place out. I love that place. I 2120 01:55:44.439 --> 01:55:46.279 always like going in talking to Jeff and the team, 2121 01:55:46.359 --> 01:55:48.840 the Dover family there. You know, they've been I guess 2122 01:55:48.880 --> 01:55:51.880 they've been around since what nineteen eighty nine that they 2123 01:55:51.960 --> 01:55:56.279 first opened up, and a big expanded store that they 2124 01:55:56.359 --> 01:55:59.720 have now is really really nice for shopping and of 2125 01:55:59.800 --> 01:56:03.039 course high quality pet feed too. When you're in there, 2126 01:56:05.119 --> 01:56:09.760 I was looking over some of the products that Microlife 2127 01:56:09.880 --> 01:56:13.119 carries and yeah, I don't know how to say it 2128 01:56:13.199 --> 01:56:16.640 other than just they have everything you need. That is 2129 01:56:16.720 --> 01:56:19.199 probably the easiest way that I can put it. If 2130 01:56:19.239 --> 01:56:22.479 you're looking for granule fertilizers, you know, like they're six 2131 01:56:22.600 --> 01:56:25.920 to four, they've got it for your lawns, and I 2132 01:56:26.119 --> 01:56:28.000 use that on everything. I mean, it really is good 2133 01:56:28.079 --> 01:56:31.840 for everything. If you have acid loving plants, they have 2134 01:56:32.000 --> 01:56:36.239 got a fertilizer product for acid loving plants, if you 2135 01:56:36.840 --> 01:56:38.439 you know, like I said, I use the communities and 2136 01:56:39.279 --> 01:56:42.920 blueberries and whatnot. They're fertilizers are not salt based, so 2137 01:56:42.960 --> 01:56:45.000 they're not going to burn your plants. You use a 2138 01:56:45.079 --> 01:56:46.920 lot of it, that's not going to hurt your plants. 2139 01:56:47.840 --> 01:56:50.640 Then they have their liquid product line. One of my 2140 01:56:50.720 --> 01:56:56.199 favorite in the liquid line is the orange label, the 2141 01:56:57.560 --> 01:57:00.279 excuse me, I can't talk right now, the micro Life 2142 01:57:00.520 --> 01:57:03.920 orange label. So if you've not used that product before, 2143 01:57:03.960 --> 01:57:06.840 it's called Biomatrix and it's a seven to one three, 2144 01:57:07.159 --> 01:57:10.319 so it's an extra boost of nitrogen. So any of 2145 01:57:10.399 --> 01:57:13.439 your foliage plants, especially or anything you're trying to give 2146 01:57:13.439 --> 01:57:15.960 a boost of nitrogen to. This is a good product. 2147 01:57:15.960 --> 01:57:18.479 And all our house plants basically are foliage plants, almost 2148 01:57:18.520 --> 01:57:21.279 all of them, so it works really good in the house. 2149 01:57:21.439 --> 01:57:25.079 On houseplants, they've got their ocean harvest and their super seaweed. 2150 01:57:25.560 --> 01:57:29.439 Now that our ocean harvest and super seaweed, that's essentially 2151 01:57:29.520 --> 01:57:32.279 what we would call fish emulsion and seaweed. You know, 2152 01:57:32.520 --> 01:57:35.600 organic gardeners have long known you mix fish emulsion and 2153 01:57:35.680 --> 01:57:39.399 seaweed together, and that's your organic equivalent of like a 2154 01:57:39.479 --> 01:57:42.600 synthetic the emix and water turns the water blue or 2155 01:57:42.640 --> 01:57:44.720 green or whatever. It's the equivalent of that kind of 2156 01:57:44.800 --> 01:57:48.920 thing and it works. It absolutely works. So check them out. 2157 01:57:49.000 --> 01:57:53.279 You're going to find Microlife products garden centers, feed stores, 2158 01:57:53.640 --> 01:57:57.279 ace hardware stores Southwest for They're all over town. They're 2159 01:57:57.319 --> 01:57:59.920 easy to find and the products work. And I say 2160 01:58:00.119 --> 01:58:04.520 that because I've used them, you know. I that's one 2161 01:58:04.600 --> 01:58:07.720 thing that I try to say it here on guard Line, 2162 01:58:07.760 --> 01:58:11.039 but I think sometimes people just think, oh, well, you know, 2163 01:58:11.159 --> 01:58:13.840 they're just a sponsor. Now, I don't take sponsors if 2164 01:58:13.880 --> 01:58:16.039 I don't believe in their product, and if the product 2165 01:58:16.119 --> 01:58:18.680 doesn't work, if I haven't used it or seen research 2166 01:58:18.760 --> 01:58:22.039 on it or something like that. So I'm telling you something. 2167 01:58:22.119 --> 01:58:24.920 It's the results I've got from it. And I can 2168 01:58:24.960 --> 01:58:27.279 tell you that about these micro Life products because I 2169 01:58:27.359 --> 01:58:33.199 have music means I got to quit talking, and this 2170 01:58:33.399 --> 01:58:36.840 particular music means. We got one hour left in garden 2171 01:58:36.920 --> 01:58:39.119 Line today for the weekend. One hour left, So if 2172 01:58:39.119 --> 01:58:41.279 you'd like to give us a call and talk about 2173 01:58:41.319 --> 01:58:44.960 whatever's on your mind seven one three two one two 2174 01:58:45.520 --> 01:58:49.640 kt H, we will entertain questions about lawn weeds for 2175 01:58:49.760 --> 01:58:52.359 crying out loud. We even talked about bug poop this morning. 2176 01:58:52.520 --> 01:58:59.680 So I mean, it looks like nothing's inappropriate for garden line. 2177 01:59:00.039 --> 01:59:02.039 I don't know about that. I'm gonna I'm gonna read 2178 01:59:02.439 --> 01:59:05.319 that statement. There's a lot that's not going to talk about. 2179 01:59:06.800 --> 01:59:15.520 We'll be right back already there. We've got some fun 2180 01:59:15.680 --> 01:59:18.720 music coming up here in this segment. We'll we look 2181 01:59:18.760 --> 01:59:21.199 forward to that. But this is in the music show. 2182 01:59:21.239 --> 01:59:24.319 This is a garden line. We talk about gardening. What 2183 01:59:24.479 --> 01:59:26.359 kind of plant questions do you have? What do you 2184 01:59:26.439 --> 01:59:28.680 what do you wanna talk about? Maybe we can help 2185 01:59:28.720 --> 01:59:31.279 you have success. That certainly is what I would like 2186 01:59:31.399 --> 01:59:34.319 to happen, along with having some fun in the process, 2187 01:59:35.199 --> 01:59:39.800 but in order to really enjoy your landscape, you know what, 2188 01:59:40.079 --> 01:59:43.199 what kinds of tips and things can we provide to 2189 01:59:43.319 --> 01:59:46.279 help you have that kind of success. Gardening is supposed 2190 01:59:46.279 --> 01:59:50.279 to be fun, and it is. It is a beautifying thing, Listen. 2191 01:59:50.399 --> 01:59:57.079 I have often kidded different friends of mine that, including ministers, 2192 01:59:57.439 --> 02:00:01.199 that I have the one I am in, the one 2193 02:00:01.960 --> 02:00:06.920 profession that was created a design by God. How about 2194 02:00:07.000 --> 02:00:11.279 that for a high follutant statement. Yeah, that's right. Was 2195 02:00:11.359 --> 02:00:13.560 it the cubicle of Eden or what is it the 2196 02:00:13.720 --> 02:00:16.720 garden of Eden? You know what I'm saying? That's right. 2197 02:00:18.239 --> 02:00:21.880 Let's see, I'm gonna make man. I'm gonna make him 2198 02:00:21.920 --> 02:00:24.680 a gardener. That's it, all right, Well, the rest of 2199 02:00:24.720 --> 02:00:27.359 you can figure that out, do it at what you want. 2200 02:00:27.920 --> 02:00:31.680 We're having some fun here on garden line, but I 2201 02:00:32.119 --> 02:00:37.520 really believe that we are designed to have a green thumb, 2202 02:00:37.720 --> 02:00:40.439 to get out and enjoy plants, to enjoy nature. And 2203 02:00:40.560 --> 02:00:43.239 you know, there's so much psychological research to support the 2204 02:00:43.359 --> 02:00:48.159 idea of interaction with nature with plants. I've said these 2205 02:00:48.199 --> 02:00:52.279 things before, but patients in a hospital room that look 2206 02:00:52.359 --> 02:00:55.039 out their window at a parking lot versus look out 2207 02:00:55.079 --> 02:00:59.920 their window at nature, the healing rate measurably. In research 2208 02:01:00.079 --> 02:01:03.600 has been different. Kids in a classroom that struggle with 2209 02:01:03.840 --> 02:01:10.359 add ADHD and are trying to learn experiences with plants, 2210 02:01:10.439 --> 02:01:16.119 plants outside plants in their schooling life. It makes a difference, 2211 02:01:16.239 --> 02:01:20.199 and they're learning Folks as they get older, struggling with dementia, 2212 02:01:21.119 --> 02:01:24.800 people that are having trouble moving around. As they aid, 2213 02:01:25.399 --> 02:01:31.800 there are so many benefits of gardening mentally, physically, psychologically. 2214 02:01:32.960 --> 02:01:36.640 It really is significant and it matters. And I know, 2215 02:01:36.840 --> 02:01:38.760 as I like to say, I know I'm biased, but 2216 02:01:38.880 --> 02:01:41.359 that don't mean I'm wrong. In fact, in this case, 2217 02:01:41.399 --> 02:01:44.479 I know I'm right because research has proved it out. 2218 02:01:45.079 --> 02:01:48.319 I am because any of us who garden, we know 2219 02:01:48.560 --> 02:01:52.760 the feeling of going out and seeing the ability to 2220 02:01:52.880 --> 02:01:58.079 create something beautiful in your homescape, to change, to change 2221 02:01:58.119 --> 02:02:02.279 your lot in life to a place where you look 2222 02:02:02.399 --> 02:02:05.359 and you enjoy. You eat fresh food that you grew yourself, 2223 02:02:05.479 --> 02:02:07.399 so you know what has been sprayed on it or 2224 02:02:07.479 --> 02:02:10.359 not sprayed on it. You've grown it yourself, and there's 2225 02:02:10.399 --> 02:02:12.600 a satisfaction there. The way I like to put it is, 2226 02:02:12.720 --> 02:02:15.439 vegetables out of your garden are about fifteen hundred miles 2227 02:02:15.479 --> 02:02:18.439 fresher than the ones you're going to buy in most cases. 2228 02:02:19.479 --> 02:02:23.439 All Right, there's a little speech. Cinamulch south of Houston 2229 02:02:23.760 --> 02:02:27.039 is the place you go to set things up for success. 2230 02:02:27.760 --> 02:02:30.640 You start with the soil and you get it right, 2231 02:02:30.960 --> 02:02:32.920 and then you put a plant in it that wants 2232 02:02:33.000 --> 02:02:35.880 to grow here or in the spot where you're planting it, 2233 02:02:36.520 --> 02:02:38.760 and you're set up for success. And Cena Mulch is 2234 02:02:38.840 --> 02:02:42.520 the place that is the foundation of success. And here's 2235 02:02:42.520 --> 02:02:45.960 why I say that. They have mulches. They have composts, 2236 02:02:46.239 --> 02:02:49.479 they have bed mixes for all kinds of plants, and 2237 02:02:49.600 --> 02:02:51.920 they have the nutrients they go with them, so when 2238 02:02:51.920 --> 02:02:54.960 you drive away from Siena, you have the makings of 2239 02:02:55.119 --> 02:02:59.680 what it takes to create a wonderful place for plants 2240 02:02:59.720 --> 02:03:03.560 to throw. That would include fertilizers from Microlife and Nielsen 2241 02:03:03.560 --> 02:03:05.600 their turf Star line, as well as the jars, the 2242 02:03:05.640 --> 02:03:10.760 plant food jars, Medina products, products from nitrofoss asamite I've 2243 02:03:10.760 --> 02:03:14.720 talked about that today and airloomsol products as well. They're 2244 02:03:14.760 --> 02:03:17.279 all there and you can if you're within twenty miles 2245 02:03:17.319 --> 02:03:19.760 they'll deliver for a small fee. I just go to 2246 02:03:19.920 --> 02:03:23.520 Siennamultch dot com Ciena multch dot com. They're open Monday 2247 02:03:23.560 --> 02:03:26.800 through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two, 2248 02:03:26.920 --> 02:03:31.560 close today, close on Sundays Siennamoltz dot com. And I 2249 02:03:31.680 --> 02:03:36.560 promise you this. They are the friendliest, most helpful folks 2250 02:03:36.800 --> 02:03:39.640 that you're gonna find you will enjoy, I'll say, shopping 2251 02:03:39.760 --> 02:03:43.840 there at Cienamulch. We're going to head now out to 2252 02:03:44.000 --> 02:03:48.319 Lakeside Estates and talk to Maureene this morning. Hello Maureen, 2253 02:03:48.399 --> 02:03:49.439 and welcome to garden Line. 2254 02:03:50.920 --> 02:03:54.520 Yes, I'm excited because I'm going to be a first 2255 02:03:54.600 --> 02:03:59.399 time owner of a salsonium plant. I've always seen them, 2256 02:03:59.560 --> 02:04:03.079 but just wasn't able to make a connection to buy one. 2257 02:04:03.239 --> 02:04:06.960 So here I am today. My question is, okay, would 2258 02:04:07.039 --> 02:04:13.720 it prefer a zalia soil or rose soil mix? And 2259 02:04:15.119 --> 02:04:20.439 the label said something about a high fertilizer value, so 2260 02:04:21.720 --> 02:04:23.840 not sure? Can you answer those for me so I 2261 02:04:23.880 --> 02:04:25.199 can get off to a good start. 2262 02:04:26.760 --> 02:04:29.239 Yeah, you know you're not going to go wrong with 2263 02:04:29.399 --> 02:04:33.479 either of those soils for delfinium, It's going to do 2264 02:04:33.640 --> 02:04:35.319 well in either one. 2265 02:04:36.359 --> 02:04:38.000 I I you know that. 2266 02:04:38.039 --> 02:04:41.560 I love the big tall bloom spikes that they have. 2267 02:04:42.439 --> 02:04:44.600 They can you just need to give them a good 2268 02:04:44.600 --> 02:04:46.399 spot where they get a good sunlight. But a little 2269 02:04:46.479 --> 02:04:48.880 late day sun wouldn't hurt, especially as things kind of 2270 02:04:48.920 --> 02:04:52.479 get hot around here, you know that can that's a 2271 02:04:52.640 --> 02:04:55.039 challenge for a lot of the plants that we do. 2272 02:04:55.560 --> 02:04:59.439 But delfinium is not that difficult, not that terribly difficult 2273 02:04:59.520 --> 02:05:02.159 to grow. It can take take a lot of the 2274 02:05:02.199 --> 02:05:07.159 conditions we have, so I would probably give it slightly 2275 02:05:07.279 --> 02:05:10.560 acidic soil. Rose soil is a little bit on the 2276 02:05:10.640 --> 02:05:14.640 acidic side usually uh and the azalea types of soil, 2277 02:05:14.680 --> 02:05:18.840 of course, those those are acidic. But it's not like 2278 02:05:18.960 --> 02:05:21.840 an azalea or a blueberry or something where you just 2279 02:05:21.960 --> 02:05:25.159 have to have really you know, more acidic conditions for 2280 02:05:25.279 --> 02:05:26.600 it to thrive. 2281 02:05:28.159 --> 02:05:30.800 Okay, and anything about. 2282 02:05:31.960 --> 02:05:32.000 It. 2283 02:05:32.479 --> 02:05:36.600 It's a big plant right now. The note dude say, 2284 02:05:36.720 --> 02:05:41.199 don't break up the root ball. So should I still 2285 02:05:41.279 --> 02:05:46.000 be using something to encourage the root to grow? There's 2286 02:05:46.039 --> 02:05:48.680 a lot on the market. I can't remember ahead. 2287 02:05:49.880 --> 02:05:52.680 I would give. I would, Yeah, I would get the 2288 02:05:52.840 --> 02:05:58.279 Medina Medina product that I keep talking about all the time. 2289 02:05:58.520 --> 02:06:01.079 I just I just find it be Okay, I know 2290 02:06:01.239 --> 02:06:02.840 the yeah, great way to. 2291 02:06:02.880 --> 02:06:05.880 Success every once in a while, but yeah, Medina is fine. 2292 02:06:07.720 --> 02:06:09.720 Medina has to grow the one. 2293 02:06:09.640 --> 02:06:12.720 That you or yeah, I would, I would. I would 2294 02:06:12.720 --> 02:06:15.600 do the six twelve six has to grow plant food. Yeah, 2295 02:06:15.680 --> 02:06:18.680 six twelve six, and watered in with that and do 2296 02:06:18.760 --> 02:06:22.039 it again twice more about a week apart. And I 2297 02:06:22.119 --> 02:06:24.680 think that is about all you need to do initially 2298 02:06:25.159 --> 02:06:28.039 and then going forward, just moderate amounts of fertilizer. They're 2299 02:06:28.079 --> 02:06:30.600 not super heavy feeders. You know, you're not going to 2300 02:06:30.640 --> 02:06:34.640 have to go through uh, just extra fertilizing all the time. 2301 02:06:34.720 --> 02:06:37.720 They A moderate amount is probably what you want. They're 2302 02:06:37.720 --> 02:06:40.600 going to get pretty tall, so have you might want 2303 02:06:40.640 --> 02:06:44.319 to have some way of supporting those bloomstalks, and there 2304 02:06:44.319 --> 02:06:46.239 are different ways people do that, but if it's on 2305 02:06:46.279 --> 02:06:49.439 the spot, I. 2306 02:06:49.479 --> 02:06:52.039 Have long pals, I have long coals and the real 2307 02:06:52.119 --> 02:06:56.520 skinny because I have orchards also, and so sometimes I 2308 02:06:56.640 --> 02:06:59.119 have to but maybe I'll have to even resort to more. 2309 02:06:59.680 --> 02:07:02.319 And so what's their blooming season? 2310 02:07:04.880 --> 02:07:09.720 Primarily spring? Probably spring to early summer is primarily when 2311 02:07:09.760 --> 02:07:13.319 we see those bloom the ones that I've dealt with before. 2312 02:07:13.920 --> 02:07:16.239 Uh and by the way, I'm coming up here on 2313 02:07:16.319 --> 02:07:18.920 a break, Maureene, so I'm gonna have to go, but 2314 02:07:19.159 --> 02:07:21.640 uh it, congratulations on that. 2315 02:07:23.000 --> 02:07:25.439 Yes, I'm very happy. Alrighty, I'm gonna give it a 2316 02:07:25.479 --> 02:07:25.960 good try. 2317 02:07:26.399 --> 02:07:26.720 Thank you. 2318 02:07:27.560 --> 02:07:30.239 All right, Well there you go, all right, take care, 2319 02:07:31.439 --> 02:07:33.920 ay bye, all right, I'm gonna take a break. I'll 2320 02:07:33.960 --> 02:07:38.399 be right back. All right, we're gonna leave that without comments. 2321 02:07:38.800 --> 02:07:42.880 I have been a while since I put some barbershop on. Wow, 2322 02:07:44.520 --> 02:07:47.880 interesting lyrics, right, welcome back to garden Line. My apologies 2323 02:07:47.920 --> 02:07:50.680 for the song, but we do play weird things here 2324 02:07:50.880 --> 02:07:53.479 ever now and then we're glad you're here. If you'd 2325 02:07:53.520 --> 02:07:55.199 like to give me a call, seven one three two 2326 02:07:55.279 --> 02:07:57.840 one two kt r H seven one three two one 2327 02:07:57.920 --> 02:08:00.880 two kat r Ah, let's talk about the things that 2328 02:08:01.039 --> 02:08:04.359 interest you. Nelson Plant Food in their turf Star line, 2329 02:08:04.359 --> 02:08:07.760 which is all their products for lawns, have something called 2330 02:08:07.800 --> 02:08:12.840 Bruce's Brew. Bruce's Brew is a unique product. I could 2331 02:08:12.960 --> 02:08:15.520 call it a hybrid, but in some ways that's inaccurate. 2332 02:08:15.600 --> 02:08:18.359 But here's what it is. It's a fertilizer that is 2333 02:08:18.479 --> 02:08:21.880 both a fast release and a slow release. Okay, so 2334 02:08:21.960 --> 02:08:24.000 there's some forms of nitrogen in it that are going 2335 02:08:24.039 --> 02:08:26.720 to release right away for a good greenup, and then 2336 02:08:26.760 --> 02:08:29.119 there's some forms of nitrogen that are going to take 2337 02:08:29.600 --> 02:08:32.840 two or three months to do their release over time. 2338 02:08:33.479 --> 02:08:36.119 And so when you put Bruceus Brew down, you're not 2339 02:08:36.239 --> 02:08:39.039 only taking care of right now with a good boost, 2340 02:08:39.520 --> 02:08:42.760 but you are taking care of a few months ahead 2341 02:08:42.760 --> 02:08:46.680 of you there as well. Bruce's Brew from Nelson's, part 2342 02:08:46.720 --> 02:08:48.960 of the turf Star line, is available in a lot 2343 02:08:49.039 --> 02:08:51.680 of places around town. It's easy to find and the 2344 02:08:51.760 --> 02:08:56.119 stuff works. It is a high quality product designed with 2345 02:08:56.279 --> 02:09:00.239 forms of nitrogen that not only feed the micro in 2346 02:09:00.359 --> 02:09:04.159 the soil, but provide that nice even release over time 2347 02:09:04.920 --> 02:09:07.760 to help you have a good result, a nice, beautiful 2348 02:09:07.840 --> 02:09:11.399 dnse lawn. And that's what we're really out to achieve, right, 2349 02:09:11.479 --> 02:09:13.760 I mean, that is our goal as we do that. 2350 02:09:15.920 --> 02:09:19.239 If you haven't been out to Enchanted Forest Garden Center, 2351 02:09:19.319 --> 02:09:22.399 they're down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, specifically on the 2352 02:09:22.520 --> 02:09:26.720 Katie Fulscher side of the Richmond Rosenberg area. So when 2353 02:09:26.760 --> 02:09:30.720 you go out to Ingented Gardens Number One, jaw's gonna 2354 02:09:30.800 --> 02:09:32.880 drop when you step out of the car and see 2355 02:09:32.920 --> 02:09:37.000 that place. It is an expanse of all kinds of 2356 02:09:37.279 --> 02:09:40.760 wonderful plants and pottery. I think the last time I 2357 02:09:40.880 --> 02:09:44.760 was out there was just recently. They had some of 2358 02:09:44.880 --> 02:09:48.119 their wire basket planters. And when I say basket, I 2359 02:09:48.119 --> 02:09:50.199 don't mean a thin basket. I mean a real heavy 2360 02:09:50.319 --> 02:09:54.359 duty kind of metal wire structure that you line with 2361 02:09:54.520 --> 02:09:57.600 like a cocoa cocoa core liner and fill it with 2362 02:09:57.680 --> 02:10:00.119 potting soil and you can plan anything. Then they have 2363 02:10:00.239 --> 02:10:02.279 some that stand, they're on stands and they're you know, 2364 02:10:02.279 --> 02:10:05.479 a waist higher. They have some that hang on chains 2365 02:10:05.479 --> 02:10:09.319 from underneath the trees there. It's an old rustic look 2366 02:10:09.520 --> 02:10:12.319 that is so attractive. They got plenty of those. And 2367 02:10:12.520 --> 02:10:14.239 Chris they have a lot of other kinds of containers. 2368 02:10:14.600 --> 02:10:16.279 When you go out there, you're going to find everything 2369 02:10:16.319 --> 02:10:19.439 you need. They carry the fertilizer products, they carry the 2370 02:10:19.520 --> 02:10:23.520 products for dealing with pests and diseases, and perhaps most 2371 02:10:23.600 --> 02:10:27.560 importantly of all, they know their stuff. The Liniman family 2372 02:10:27.680 --> 02:10:30.279 has been in business since what nineteen ninety five, I 2373 02:10:30.399 --> 02:10:32.600 believe when the Antended Gardens Burst opened. 2374 02:10:33.199 --> 02:10:33.319 Uh. 2375 02:10:33.520 --> 02:10:37.880 And you know Joey running the place now. He's just 2376 02:10:38.720 --> 02:10:42.039 just a wealth of information, very active in the bigger 2377 02:10:42.159 --> 02:10:47.079 nursery industry. And if you're looking for good answers, the 2378 02:10:47.159 --> 02:10:49.800 team has it out there. They're enthusiastic. They greet you. 2379 02:10:49.920 --> 02:10:52.039 You can bring them photos or samples or things that 2380 02:10:52.159 --> 02:10:54.800 you want help with, and they'll help you. They'll hope 2381 02:10:54.800 --> 02:10:57.239 you do that. They'll hope you achieve that, and I 2382 02:10:57.319 --> 02:10:59.000 hope you get out there and try it out. Gets 2383 02:10:59.039 --> 02:11:01.439 just some citrus, they some citrus trees on hand. A 2384 02:11:01.720 --> 02:11:04.760 really beautiful you know. One of the cool kind of 2385 02:11:05.079 --> 02:11:09.680 hot new plants is the blue butterfly pee. That's one 2386 02:11:09.800 --> 02:11:14.119 people love. It's got the deep deep indigo blue flowers 2387 02:11:14.640 --> 02:11:17.399 that when you dry them and steep them in tea, 2388 02:11:17.439 --> 02:11:20.520 it turns the turns the water of bluish color depending 2389 02:11:20.560 --> 02:11:23.319 on the pH you if you make it, I can't remember. 2390 02:11:23.359 --> 02:11:27.000 I believe it's well anyway. One one acidic I think 2391 02:11:27.159 --> 02:11:29.239 is blue and basic. I think it turns into a 2392 02:11:29.319 --> 02:11:32.479 pink color. But anyway, it doesn't matter which is which. 2393 02:11:32.640 --> 02:11:34.359 It just does it all. And it's a cool plant. 2394 02:11:34.560 --> 02:11:36.560 It's not one that you find in just ever place. 2395 02:11:36.920 --> 02:11:40.600 They're a biscus selection, super super hot, all kinds of 2396 02:11:40.720 --> 02:11:44.880 beautiful biscus, gorgeous cone flowers. I can just sit here 2397 02:11:44.960 --> 02:11:47.239 and go on and on. Do you like succulents and cacti? 2398 02:11:47.520 --> 02:11:51.079 You should see the collections that they have. They're really cool, 2399 02:11:51.600 --> 02:11:56.000 really cool. All right, Well, there you go, uh Enchanted 2400 02:11:56.439 --> 02:12:01.079 Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the website. Go check it out. 2401 02:12:01.199 --> 02:12:04.359 While you're there, pick up fertilizers from Microlife, Nitroposs and 2402 02:12:04.399 --> 02:12:07.880 Nelson plant Food, medina, soils from Nature's Way and Heirloom. So, 2403 02:12:07.960 --> 02:12:10.640 I mean, they got everything you need. When you drive 2404 02:12:10.640 --> 02:12:13.640 away from there, you got no excuse. You got the plants, 2405 02:12:13.800 --> 02:12:15.720 you got the supplies to go with them, and you 2406 02:12:15.840 --> 02:12:18.560 got the advice that you need. Now just go home 2407 02:12:18.640 --> 02:12:21.079 and do it and you can enjoy and create that 2408 02:12:21.239 --> 02:12:24.600 kind of miniature Eden right there at your place with 2409 02:12:24.760 --> 02:12:29.119 intented gardens and a Richmond. We had a lot of 2410 02:12:29.199 --> 02:12:32.479 storms last year that really hammered trees, took them down, 2411 02:12:32.600 --> 02:12:36.399 took out our power. It was horrible, just a lot 2412 02:12:36.479 --> 02:12:39.159 of devastation. You know, there's a lot that a good 2413 02:12:39.199 --> 02:12:42.920 tree service can do to protect a tree against a storm, 2414 02:12:43.279 --> 02:12:46.279 creating a good structure that has the best chance of surviving. 2415 02:12:46.439 --> 02:12:48.199 I mean, you know, you can't get a hurricane that 2416 02:12:48.279 --> 02:12:51.880 knocks over anything, right, but there's a lot you can 2417 02:12:51.960 --> 02:12:54.680 do with proper pruning and care. And Martin spoon Moore, 2418 02:12:55.119 --> 02:12:57.920 you know he started. I don't know how long ago 2419 02:12:58.000 --> 02:13:00.600 Martin's been in the business, but the fan it's ow 2420 02:13:00.760 --> 02:13:04.239 fifty four years in the tree business. Martin's a third generation, 2421 02:13:04.359 --> 02:13:08.479 I believe Affordable Tree it's a family business. When you 2422 02:13:08.560 --> 02:13:11.000 give them a call at seven one three, six nine 2423 02:13:11.119 --> 02:13:13.319 nine twenty six sixty three, you're probably going to talk 2424 02:13:13.359 --> 02:13:15.520 to Martin's mom. Tell her you heard of us, heard 2425 02:13:15.560 --> 02:13:19.279 about us on guardenline, because garden Line customers are their priority. 2426 02:13:19.680 --> 02:13:23.920 That's seven one three six ninety nine two six six three. 2427 02:13:24.159 --> 02:13:27.800 Whether you need just a consultation or whether you want 2428 02:13:27.840 --> 02:13:31.000 to have pruning done or deep root feeding, pest and 2429 02:13:31.079 --> 02:13:35.000 disease controlled. If you've got stumps to grind and listen 2430 02:13:35.039 --> 02:13:36.920 to this. If you're going to do any kind of 2431 02:13:37.000 --> 02:13:41.319 construction around a tree that includes sidewalks and driveways, anything 2432 02:13:42.000 --> 02:13:47.520 trenching for utility lines, call them first, have them come 2433 02:13:47.640 --> 02:13:51.279 out first and advise you. After the damage is done, 2434 02:13:52.039 --> 02:13:55.760 they can help, but you've taken a lot of the 2435 02:13:55.840 --> 02:13:58.680 good options off the table when you wait until after 2436 02:13:58.840 --> 02:14:01.399 the damage has already been done. And call them ahead 2437 02:14:01.399 --> 02:14:05.800 of time. Pre construction care with some consultation very very important, 2438 02:14:06.039 --> 02:14:09.479 and they can do it at Affordable Tree Service. That's 2439 02:14:09.520 --> 02:14:15.199 seven to one three six two six six three. We're 2440 02:14:15.239 --> 02:14:19.159 going to head now out to Spring and talk to Ruth. Hello, Ruth, 2441 02:14:19.359 --> 02:14:20.439 welcome to garden Mine. 2442 02:14:21.399 --> 02:14:22.479 Thank you, good morning. 2443 02:14:23.199 --> 02:14:25.880 We bought some drink goods at a at a box 2444 02:14:27.159 --> 02:14:31.560 and about three days after we planted them, the leads 2445 02:14:31.640 --> 02:14:33.720 started curling. 2446 02:14:34.239 --> 02:14:36.439 The lengthwise of the leaf. 2447 02:14:36.960 --> 02:14:41.880 Uh huh, not from a tip to thet so anyhow well, 2448 02:14:41.960 --> 02:14:42.800 I was concerned. 2449 02:14:42.840 --> 02:14:45.159 We've watered them, and then we thought, well, let's hold 2450 02:14:45.199 --> 02:14:46.000 off on watering. 2451 02:14:46.640 --> 02:14:47.920 But they still do it. 2452 02:14:48.920 --> 02:14:52.239 Sometimes they don't, sometimes they do, but they're looking worse. 2453 02:14:53.880 --> 02:14:54.920 The color is good. 2454 02:14:55.800 --> 02:14:59.039 I was wondering the fungus that make us can get. 2455 02:15:00.640 --> 02:15:04.199 It is not if it happened that fast in your bed. 2456 02:15:05.800 --> 02:15:09.319 That is a stress response, and so it could happen 2457 02:15:09.560 --> 02:15:12.439 if a lot of roots were damaged in the process 2458 02:15:12.520 --> 02:15:15.039 of planting, maybe they dried out, maybe they broke, who 2459 02:15:15.119 --> 02:15:19.680 knows what that could happen. It could happen if when 2460 02:15:19.880 --> 02:15:23.039 you watered after that, you didn't get that little root 2461 02:15:23.079 --> 02:15:25.000 ball that you put in the ground wet. You know, 2462 02:15:25.119 --> 02:15:27.199 that's all the roots are in that little rootball. So 2463 02:15:27.239 --> 02:15:29.760 if the soil is moist around them, the root ball 2464 02:15:29.840 --> 02:15:32.399 still can pump out the water and dry out and 2465 02:15:32.520 --> 02:15:35.399 go into a drop stress because it hasn't you know, 2466 02:15:36.159 --> 02:15:38.640 it hasn't got roots out around it in the soil. 2467 02:15:39.079 --> 02:15:42.800 So it could happen from that. Different kinds of stresses 2468 02:15:42.880 --> 02:15:46.079 can do it, you know. But if you just keep 2469 02:15:46.159 --> 02:15:48.720 taking care of them, try to keep the soil evenly moist. 2470 02:15:48.760 --> 02:15:52.279 Because too much water is bad, so idi wet no 2471 02:15:52.479 --> 02:15:55.399 oxygen in the roots, that's bad, but not enough water 2472 02:15:55.520 --> 02:15:57.479 is bad. And so when you water for a while, 2473 02:15:57.600 --> 02:15:59.920 make sure you're getting water right there in that root ball. 2474 02:16:00.000 --> 02:16:02.600 Well and the soil around it a little bit too, 2475 02:16:02.760 --> 02:16:06.000 but but mainly that rootball. Watch for that, and they 2476 02:16:06.039 --> 02:16:08.640 should work out of it. I think they'll pick up. 2477 02:16:08.760 --> 02:16:11.800 Unless the stress would were to lead to some sort 2478 02:16:11.840 --> 02:16:13.800 of a root rod or something, well then they're going 2479 02:16:13.880 --> 02:16:16.359 to go downhill and you can't stop that. But I 2480 02:16:16.680 --> 02:16:18.640 think they'll be okay, I think they should. 2481 02:16:18.680 --> 02:16:19.560 Yeah, they're still green. 2482 02:16:19.680 --> 02:16:22.800 Okay, they're still green and buds. 2483 02:16:22.960 --> 02:16:28.560 But it's not okay. Good look that's that's just a 2484 02:16:28.600 --> 02:16:31.159 stress response and we get stressed and we live through it. 2485 02:16:31.760 --> 02:16:36.319 It's okay. Thanks Ruth. I appreciate your call very much. 2486 02:16:36.639 --> 02:16:38.520 Thanks a lot. If you're going to pot up any 2487 02:16:38.600 --> 02:16:41.520 kind of plant on the patio or indoors, you need 2488 02:16:41.600 --> 02:16:45.559 to know about jungle land distributed by nitrophoss. Outdoors, they've 2489 02:16:45.600 --> 02:16:48.280 got the flower and vegetable planning soil. Indoors, they got 2490 02:16:48.319 --> 02:16:50.559 the water saving planning sol Let's talk about that water 2491 02:16:50.639 --> 02:16:54.079 saving planning soil. It's got crystals in it. They to me, 2492 02:16:54.239 --> 02:16:57.680 they look like a little clear jello chunks, very tiny, 2493 02:16:57.840 --> 02:17:01.680 very small, but they whole water much longer than the 2494 02:17:01.719 --> 02:17:05.239 soil does. So when you forget the water, okay, you 2495 02:17:05.319 --> 02:17:07.799 don't forget the water. When your neighbor forgets the water, 2496 02:17:08.040 --> 02:17:12.120 and they their plants will have roots around those crystals 2497 02:17:12.200 --> 02:17:15.239 and they can get a little bit extra out of 2498 02:17:15.319 --> 02:17:18.520 that to carry them through until the plant owner remembers 2499 02:17:18.600 --> 02:17:21.200 to go back and water. Am in really good anyway, 2500 02:17:21.440 --> 02:17:24.559 That is jungle land, water saving, potting, soil a. Youre 2501 02:17:24.559 --> 02:17:27.040 going to find jungle land products or excuse me, nitrovoss 2502 02:17:27.079 --> 02:17:30.639 products many different places. You go up to Cyprus to 2503 02:17:30.760 --> 02:17:34.120 m and Dace or down maybe the Ace Hardware Copperfield 2504 02:17:34.239 --> 02:17:37.559 on FM five twenty nine Langham Creek Ace Hardware, or 2505 02:17:37.719 --> 02:17:40.479 go down to the Kadi area to both the Pinoak 2506 02:17:40.559 --> 02:17:44.600 location Kdace Hardware and the Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch on 2507 02:17:44.799 --> 02:17:47.600 Mason Road. All kinds of places where you're going to 2508 02:17:47.680 --> 02:17:53.280 find nitrofos products. Let's head out now to Seabrook and 2509 02:17:53.360 --> 02:17:57.719 we're gonna talk to Lisa this morning. Hello, Lisa, good morning. 2510 02:17:58.479 --> 02:17:59.239 I have a question. 2511 02:17:59.440 --> 02:18:03.239 We want to landscape the entire of a U shaped 2512 02:18:03.319 --> 02:18:06.159 drive and we want to have a border of shrubs 2513 02:18:06.239 --> 02:18:10.799 and then white drift roots wood roses. But okay, we're 2514 02:18:10.799 --> 02:18:13.200 trying to decide on what to use for the border. 2515 02:18:13.600 --> 02:18:16.079 I know we could try something like boxwood, but I 2516 02:18:16.159 --> 02:18:19.319 had read that you could use rosemary as a border, 2517 02:18:19.360 --> 02:18:20.319 which you recommend that. 2518 02:18:23.479 --> 02:18:27.200 If the soil is very well drained. Rosemary makes a 2519 02:18:27.319 --> 02:18:31.120 nice evergreen shrub that you can use. Now there's times 2520 02:18:31.280 --> 02:18:33.840 when it gets looking a little ratty as it gets 2521 02:18:33.879 --> 02:18:36.120 older and you do a little trimming on it, but 2522 02:18:36.239 --> 02:18:39.520 it is an option. But with our rainfall here and 2523 02:18:39.639 --> 02:18:43.639 in that enclosed U shaped drive, I just question whether 2524 02:18:43.799 --> 02:18:47.760 the drainage would always be sufficient for it. But if 2525 02:18:47.799 --> 02:18:50.639 it is, rosemary is an option another. I would not 2526 02:18:50.799 --> 02:18:53.840 do boxwood. They just have a lot of They just 2527 02:18:54.440 --> 02:18:56.200 are having more and more problems with a couple of 2528 02:18:56.319 --> 02:19:01.239 diseases that affect them. You could do a orfeopon that 2529 02:19:01.319 --> 02:19:03.120 would be an option to put in there. There's some 2530 02:19:03.520 --> 02:19:06.680 there are some compact hollies that would do well in 2531 02:19:06.760 --> 02:19:08.719 an area like that as well, if you just want 2532 02:19:08.760 --> 02:19:11.559 a good green shrub, and of course there are many 2533 02:19:11.639 --> 02:19:15.559 other kinds of shrubs. But that you're right in the 2534 02:19:15.600 --> 02:19:19.120 back door of Moss Nursery, So swing by there and 2535 02:19:19.159 --> 02:19:21.600 they're going to have eight hundred options for you that 2536 02:19:21.719 --> 02:19:25.479 they could recommend for an area. I'm assuming it gets 2537 02:19:26.360 --> 02:19:27.159 it gets good son. 2538 02:19:27.319 --> 02:19:30.639 Right, Oh, all day, all day. 2539 02:19:31.479 --> 02:19:32.479 It's okay. 2540 02:19:32.680 --> 02:19:36.959 It's a lot of sun. Yeah, okay, yeah, I wanted well, 2541 02:19:37.079 --> 02:19:39.239 but I read that they don't do good with roses. 2542 02:19:41.719 --> 02:19:44.079 Well, it's not that they're with roses. They're going to 2543 02:19:44.120 --> 02:19:47.920 be shorter statued and they'll do okay. I don't know 2544 02:19:48.000 --> 02:19:50.159 where it said they wouldn't or what the reason was, 2545 02:19:50.280 --> 02:19:53.280 but hey, I got about five seconds until a break here, Lisa. 2546 02:19:53.360 --> 02:19:55.760 But thank you very much for the call. I do 2547 02:19:55.959 --> 02:19:58.760 appreciate it. All right, folks, I'll be right back in 2548 02:19:59.040 --> 02:20:03.840 just one second. Hang around all right, evoke you welcome 2549 02:20:03.879 --> 02:20:05.639 back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. 2550 02:20:06.639 --> 02:20:10.000 We're talking gardening and having fun here today, and I 2551 02:20:10.200 --> 02:20:13.079 am glad you're around to be part of that. Thanks 2552 02:20:13.120 --> 02:20:15.440 a lot for listening in. Uh, why don't we just 2553 02:20:16.000 --> 02:20:17.680 let's see where are we here? Yeah, we're gonna go 2554 02:20:17.760 --> 02:20:20.479 straight out here to Bay City and talk to Ross 2555 02:20:20.559 --> 02:20:23.159 this morning. Hello Ross, and welcome to garden Mine. 2556 02:20:24.479 --> 02:20:25.760 Hello Skip. How are you doing? 2557 02:20:27.159 --> 02:20:28.159 I'm doing well? Thank you. 2558 02:20:30.120 --> 02:20:31.040 I've got a question. 2559 02:20:34.639 --> 02:20:38.479 I've got about ten live oak trees, and I got 2560 02:20:38.479 --> 02:20:39.159 about three of. 2561 02:20:39.200 --> 02:20:40.879 Them that just don't seem to be doing that. 2562 02:20:41.079 --> 02:20:42.200 Good you know. 2563 02:20:44.040 --> 02:20:45.000 And I was live oak. 2564 02:20:45.120 --> 02:20:49.360 You said, yes, sir, live oak. And they're probably about 2565 02:20:49.879 --> 02:20:52.600 I guess. I planted them when they were very small. 2566 02:20:52.799 --> 02:20:54.959 Seven of them came up. I started from an acorn, 2567 02:20:55.639 --> 02:20:59.000 and uh, they're probably about twenty years old almost, I guess. 2568 02:20:59.200 --> 02:21:02.440 But for some reason the last couple of years, I 2569 02:21:02.520 --> 02:21:04.639 got about three of them that just this seemed like 2570 02:21:04.680 --> 02:21:06.440 you're going downhill for some reason. 2571 02:21:07.760 --> 02:21:14.479 Okay, and uh, maybe when you started them ross, did 2572 02:21:14.559 --> 02:21:17.440 you start them in a container and then transplant them 2573 02:21:17.479 --> 02:21:18.840 out or did you just go out in the yard 2574 02:21:18.879 --> 02:21:20.239 and drop an acron in the ground. 2575 02:21:21.479 --> 02:21:24.239 I started them in a container and then once they 2576 02:21:24.319 --> 02:21:27.159 got them about three four inches tall, I stuck them 2577 02:21:27.280 --> 02:21:29.879 in the ground and kept them water and they did 2578 02:21:30.000 --> 02:21:30.959 fine for years. 2579 02:21:32.360 --> 02:21:35.280 Three of them had bought from Lamar Evans. 2580 02:21:35.639 --> 02:21:38.600 Uh he's an oak tree guy in Bay City, and uh, 2581 02:21:39.079 --> 02:21:41.200 well when I bought him to they was it was 2582 02:21:41.280 --> 02:21:42.559 just a solid block of wood. 2583 02:21:42.719 --> 02:21:45.040 Because when I took the uh. 2584 02:21:45.479 --> 02:21:48.680 The two or three gallon container they were in, they 2585 02:21:48.760 --> 02:21:52.120 were they it was down those are those you know 2586 02:21:52.399 --> 02:21:53.000 doing all right? 2587 02:21:55.959 --> 02:21:58.879 But okay, you so here, here's here's what I here's 2588 02:21:58.920 --> 02:22:01.799 what I think is happening. This is my best shot, 2589 02:22:01.959 --> 02:22:05.840 based on the information that you provided, I think that 2590 02:22:05.959 --> 02:22:12.319 they have got a girdling root that is affecting the tree. 2591 02:22:12.680 --> 02:22:14.840 So here's what happens when you put a plant and 2592 02:22:14.879 --> 02:22:18.280 a container and it's the root hits the sides of 2593 02:22:18.319 --> 02:22:20.639 the container and it can't do anything but turn and 2594 02:22:20.680 --> 02:22:24.600 go around in a circle. And that little root is 2595 02:22:24.639 --> 02:22:27.600 the size of a piece of spaghetti, and the trunk 2596 02:22:27.719 --> 02:22:31.159 is a little bitty. But as that trunk gets bigger 2597 02:22:31.200 --> 02:22:33.520 and bigger, and as the root gets bigger and bigger, 2598 02:22:34.159 --> 02:22:37.799 the two come together and then that root becomes a 2599 02:22:37.959 --> 02:22:43.159 strangling item around the trunk. Then the trunk, as it 2600 02:22:43.239 --> 02:22:45.760 grows out and the root gets bigger, it just chokes 2601 02:22:45.799 --> 02:22:47.600 it in the root. It's like you put a band 2602 02:22:47.680 --> 02:22:50.680 of metal around the trunk, and you know at some 2603 02:22:50.799 --> 02:22:53.280 point it's going to be a problem. And it starts 2604 02:22:53.360 --> 02:22:55.920 not doing so good. It lacks, it's bigger, and you 2605 02:22:56.000 --> 02:22:58.639 even start seeing die back where the shoot ends of shoots, 2606 02:22:58.840 --> 02:23:02.040 you know, kind of die back. And the only way 2607 02:23:02.120 --> 02:23:03.879 to check that for sure, to see if I'm right 2608 02:23:03.920 --> 02:23:06.639 about that, is to go out and get you a 2609 02:23:06.719 --> 02:23:09.840 strong blast of water and maybe even a little hand 2610 02:23:09.959 --> 02:23:12.520 trowel and dig around the base of the plant, try 2611 02:23:12.559 --> 02:23:14.479 to get down about six inches deep and go all 2612 02:23:14.520 --> 02:23:16.959 the way around it and look for that. If you 2613 02:23:17.079 --> 02:23:20.719 find it and it's not too late, meaning it's not 2614 02:23:20.920 --> 02:23:23.879 so embedded that you can't fix it, you can take 2615 02:23:23.920 --> 02:23:26.559 a saw. You can take a hamorrhnaches or whatever, just 2616 02:23:26.680 --> 02:23:29.360 to cut a root and set that trunk free to 2617 02:23:29.520 --> 02:23:33.600 go to resume expanding outward and growing healthy. If it's 2618 02:23:33.680 --> 02:23:37.920 too far along, it's probably you're probably not going to 2619 02:23:37.959 --> 02:23:40.520 be able to save it. But that that's just a 2620 02:23:40.600 --> 02:23:43.399 matter of taking a look and trying. That's most likely 2621 02:23:43.479 --> 02:23:46.319 what's happening. The only other thing would be to give 2622 02:23:46.360 --> 02:23:51.399 it some nitrogen fertilizer, some lawn type fertilizer and water 2623 02:23:51.440 --> 02:23:53.920 it in really good and kind of loosen up the soil. 2624 02:23:54.079 --> 02:23:56.200 Put as big of a mult area around them as 2625 02:23:56.280 --> 02:24:01.319 you can to keep the competition from grasses and we away. Uh, 2626 02:24:01.440 --> 02:24:03.719 and also to keep the lawn mower in string trimor 2627 02:24:03.799 --> 02:24:06.079 away because when they hit the bark they do damage. 2628 02:24:06.159 --> 02:24:08.520 But that that's what based on what you said, I 2629 02:24:08.799 --> 02:24:09.879 think that's what we're dealing with. 2630 02:24:11.000 --> 02:24:14.239 Yeah, Well, the ones that the three that were root bound, 2631 02:24:14.520 --> 02:24:18.799 I mean just a solid block of wood. This has been, 2632 02:24:18.879 --> 02:24:20.879 like I said, about twenty years ago, and they've already 2633 02:24:20.879 --> 02:24:23.239 got about a five inch trunk on them. 2634 02:24:23.920 --> 02:24:27.079 And I had one tree that was my best and 2635 02:24:27.200 --> 02:24:32.440 for some reason the main branch is just started dying 2636 02:24:32.520 --> 02:24:33.000 off on me. 2637 02:24:33.040 --> 02:24:35.399 And that tree is about dead almost, but it's got 2638 02:24:35.879 --> 02:24:38.159 a thousands of shoots coming out off the. 2639 02:24:38.200 --> 02:24:40.840 Bottom and some are coming out of the trunk, and 2640 02:24:42.159 --> 02:24:45.200 I don't know those are healthiest. 2641 02:24:45.399 --> 02:24:49.159 Yeah, that's a yeah, well you can. You can cut 2642 02:24:49.200 --> 02:24:51.879 it back to there that that wound is going to 2643 02:24:51.959 --> 02:24:54.639 leave exposed wood that will begin to decay, So that 2644 02:24:54.719 --> 02:24:57.000 will be a weak spot in the trunk of that tree. 2645 02:24:58.319 --> 02:25:01.319 If it were mine for lawn terms sake, I would 2646 02:25:01.399 --> 02:25:04.239 get rid of that tree and and and get a good, healthy, 2647 02:25:04.280 --> 02:25:07.440 fresh one and put it in there. So it's it's 2648 02:25:07.479 --> 02:25:09.440 not just a matter can you keep it alive. Yes, 2649 02:25:09.479 --> 02:25:12.840 you can probably keep it alive, but structurally you don't 2650 02:25:12.920 --> 02:25:15.840 need something that the next big storm that comes through, 2651 02:25:15.879 --> 02:25:19.239 when it's already a large tree, is gonna snap it off. Okay. 2652 02:25:19.680 --> 02:25:21.959 So that that's my two cents worth. That's about That's 2653 02:25:22.159 --> 02:25:24.520 that's all I know to tell you on that check 2654 02:25:24.600 --> 02:25:27.680 for the girdling roots and then give it fertilizer about 2655 02:25:27.879 --> 02:25:31.200 one or two cups per inch of trunk diameter, one 2656 02:25:31.479 --> 02:25:34.360 or two cups per inch of trunk diameter watered and 2657 02:25:34.479 --> 02:25:37.920 really good. And that's about what's within your power. Ross. Hey, 2658 02:25:37.959 --> 02:25:41.280 I got a run, but thank you very much. I 2659 02:25:41.360 --> 02:25:43.280 do appreciate calling, and I wish you well and getting 2660 02:25:43.319 --> 02:25:45.079 that getting that work. And let me know if you 2661 02:25:45.239 --> 02:25:47.879 do find some girdling roots that are embedded in the 2662 02:25:47.920 --> 02:25:50.440 trunk like an inn a conda strangle in the thing. 2663 02:25:51.399 --> 02:25:55.200 Okay, if if I put armon hammered litter around the trees, 2664 02:25:55.239 --> 02:25:57.760 but that hurts the tree by any chance, you know, 2665 02:25:58.000 --> 02:26:02.200 litter arm and hammer Uh, litter litter from a cat. 2666 02:26:02.559 --> 02:26:04.360 I don't, I don't. I don't know what all might 2667 02:26:04.440 --> 02:26:07.399 be in it. It probably won't hurt anything, but I 2668 02:26:07.879 --> 02:26:10.159 just don't know on that one. But thanks a lot. 2669 02:26:10.239 --> 02:26:11.760 I appreciate I appreciate your call. 2670 02:26:12.079 --> 02:26:12.239 Hey. 2671 02:26:12.360 --> 02:26:16.360 Uh, Buchanans Garden Center Buchanan's Native Plants Garden Center on 2672 02:26:16.920 --> 02:26:20.319 Eleventh Street in the Heights. You need to go buy 2673 02:26:20.399 --> 02:26:21.840 there first of all, go buy and check out the 2674 02:26:21.959 --> 02:26:24.959 new checkout area. I don't care if it's raining or 2675 02:26:25.000 --> 02:26:27.719 if the sun is blazing down. Now you've got a 2676 02:26:27.879 --> 02:26:31.360 nice protected spot as you go to check out. Uh, 2677 02:26:31.520 --> 02:26:35.120 and uh, it's it's wonderful. It is really really nice. 2678 02:26:35.280 --> 02:26:35.399 Uh. 2679 02:26:35.479 --> 02:26:39.000 They've done a great job on creating that. Anytime you 2680 02:26:39.079 --> 02:26:43.600 go into Buchanans, you're going to find outstanding plant selections. 2681 02:26:43.680 --> 02:26:46.120 You know, they specialize in natives, but they don't just 2682 02:26:46.239 --> 02:26:49.399 have natives. But I don't know anybody that's got the 2683 02:26:49.559 --> 02:26:53.840 selection of natives the Buchanans does. And they even designate 2684 02:26:53.920 --> 02:26:56.840 them down to like, I want something that's a native 2685 02:26:57.479 --> 02:27:00.399 in the Houston area, only you know, not a native 2686 02:27:00.520 --> 02:27:03.440 in San Antonio and Austin. I'm only a native here 2687 02:27:03.479 --> 02:27:06.079 in the Houston area. They can do that. And if 2688 02:27:06.120 --> 02:27:08.639 you want natives for shade, if you want natives per son, 2689 02:27:08.760 --> 02:27:12.120 if you want natives that attract butterflies or hummingbirds or whatever, 2690 02:27:12.719 --> 02:27:15.159 these folks know what they're doing and they carry those plants. 2691 02:27:15.239 --> 02:27:19.520 And you need to go to and bookmark their website 2692 02:27:19.920 --> 02:27:25.520 Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com. It is one of 2693 02:27:25.600 --> 02:27:29.479 the best wealth of information on lots of kinds of gardening. 2694 02:27:29.559 --> 02:27:31.600 It's all there on the website. Plus you find out 2695 02:27:31.639 --> 02:27:33.639 when they're having sales or when they're having events like 2696 02:27:33.719 --> 02:27:36.120 that the big Easter event and everything out there. You 2697 02:27:36.239 --> 02:27:38.840 get the you kind of get the early start on 2698 02:27:38.959 --> 02:27:42.319 that kind of information. When you go to Buchanans, you 2699 02:27:42.440 --> 02:27:45.799 get everything you need for success, including people that are 2700 02:27:46.799 --> 02:27:51.479 very very well educated, friendly and accurate with the information 2701 02:27:51.639 --> 02:27:55.239 they give you so you can have success. Buchanans, Native Plants, 2702 02:27:55.639 --> 02:27:59.200 Eleventh Street, and the Heights, simple as that. All right, 2703 02:27:59.239 --> 02:28:01.879 I gotta take little Brek Carolyn Conroe your first up 2704 02:28:01.920 --> 02:28:07.040 when we come back. All Right, The Wonders or if 2705 02:28:07.079 --> 02:28:09.840 you watch the movie That Thing You Do by Tom Hanks, 2706 02:28:10.200 --> 02:28:14.920 the Oneiders. That's a long story. You have to see 2707 02:28:14.959 --> 02:28:16.760 the movie. By the way, Tom Hanks wrote the music 2708 02:28:16.840 --> 02:28:19.079 for that movie is that amazing. I mean, it's like 2709 02:28:19.159 --> 02:28:21.879 you went back to nineteen fifties. The guys. He is 2710 02:28:21.959 --> 02:28:25.879 way too talented, way too talented. I was visiting with 2711 02:28:25.959 --> 02:28:31.680 Luis from Heirloom Soils yesterday out there at the Hardware 2712 02:28:31.760 --> 02:28:35.239 City on Memorial the Ace Hardware Store, and we were 2713 02:28:35.280 --> 02:28:37.159 talking about some of the product and these have such 2714 02:28:37.159 --> 02:28:40.520 a line, such a broad line of products. I mean, 2715 02:28:40.680 --> 02:28:42.520 what do you need, you know, do you need a 2716 02:28:42.559 --> 02:28:45.360 potting soa. Do you need something for cactium's, cacti and 2717 02:28:45.520 --> 02:28:48.639 succulentce Do you need a product that you would put 2718 02:28:48.680 --> 02:28:51.319 out there as a landscape bed mix. Maybe you're gonna 2719 02:28:51.319 --> 02:28:54.000 grow veggies and herbs, maybe you're gonna grow roses. Each 2720 02:28:54.079 --> 02:28:56.639 thing I'm saying is a different product that they carry, 2721 02:28:57.079 --> 02:29:02.000 and it's a quality product. Expanded shield, mold, compost, expanded 2722 02:29:02.040 --> 02:29:07.440 shell with compost, you know, and then mulches, mulches, multius mulches. 2723 02:29:08.040 --> 02:29:10.159 If you want to take care of the brown stuff, 2724 02:29:10.200 --> 02:29:13.040 which is what I constantly recommend you do here on Guardenline. 2725 02:29:13.360 --> 02:29:15.440 You need to know about airloom soils and you need 2726 02:29:15.520 --> 02:29:17.600 to take advantage of it. Go to the website. It 2727 02:29:17.719 --> 02:29:22.280 is awesome heirloomsoils dot com. There's a great calculator there 2728 02:29:22.360 --> 02:29:25.200 for knowing how much to order. You can buy airloom 2729 02:29:25.239 --> 02:29:27.799 soil stuff by the bag all over town and beyond down. 2730 02:29:27.879 --> 02:29:31.920 I mean they extensive selection all over the place. Okay, 2731 02:29:32.360 --> 02:29:34.040 you can buy it by the bulk. You can go 2732 02:29:34.239 --> 02:29:37.239 get it at the porter location out there at Orange Rocket, 2733 02:29:37.319 --> 02:29:39.760 Mulch and Porter, or you can have them deliver it 2734 02:29:39.840 --> 02:29:41.520 to you and dump it on the driveway, or you 2735 02:29:41.559 --> 02:29:43.600 can have them deliver it to you in the neat 2736 02:29:43.799 --> 02:29:47.360 clean one Qbyard Supersack. That's right. They just pick this 2737 02:29:47.479 --> 02:29:50.360 big sack up, set it on your driveway. I've done 2738 02:29:50.399 --> 02:29:53.520 that before myself. It is neat clean and easy. I 2739 02:29:53.680 --> 02:29:59.680 love that way. Airloom soils great products, great options, great prices, 2740 02:30:00.079 --> 02:30:02.719 and most of all, they work. And I tell you 2741 02:30:02.840 --> 02:30:06.040 that because I use them, I know that they work. 2742 02:30:06.639 --> 02:30:08.280 Let's go out to Conra now we're going to talk 2743 02:30:08.319 --> 02:30:10.920 to Carol. Hello, Carol, Welcome to guard Line. 2744 02:30:12.000 --> 02:30:15.040 Hi Skip, I'd listen every weekend. Glad you're there. You're 2745 02:30:15.040 --> 02:30:18.159 always so upbeat and exciting to listen to. I have 2746 02:30:18.239 --> 02:30:23.639 a question about coconut core bricks. I see those on 2747 02:30:23.959 --> 02:30:27.600 the Internet and various places, those brick shaped things you 2748 02:30:27.719 --> 02:30:31.479 put in water and it expands. Are they the same 2749 02:30:31.680 --> 02:30:34.920 from location to locations? You have to be careful where 2750 02:30:34.959 --> 02:30:38.000 you buy them as far as what else is in them, 2751 02:30:39.239 --> 02:30:42.639 or do they even work? Would you recommend using those 2752 02:30:42.959 --> 02:30:46.239 probably in a raised bed or even in potted plants? 2753 02:30:47.360 --> 02:30:49.760 All right, good question. As far as I know, they're 2754 02:30:49.760 --> 02:30:52.840 about the same. Basically, they take coconuts and that shaggy 2755 02:30:52.920 --> 02:30:55.440 stuff on the outside of coconuts gets stripped off and 2756 02:30:55.520 --> 02:30:58.719 it gets formulated into the coconut core that we talk 2757 02:30:58.760 --> 02:31:02.680 about liners for hanging baskets made out of coconut core. 2758 02:31:02.799 --> 02:31:05.040 You can buy the bricks, or you can buy several 2759 02:31:05.079 --> 02:31:08.520 different products that have coconut core in them. It's a 2760 02:31:08.600 --> 02:31:12.040 replacement for peat moss because peat moss is a mine product, 2761 02:31:12.120 --> 02:31:14.440 and we do know there's not an unlimited supply of 2762 02:31:14.479 --> 02:31:16.879 peat moss in the world, and so people have been 2763 02:31:16.920 --> 02:31:20.079 moving away toward a more renewable product like coconut core 2764 02:31:20.120 --> 02:31:23.239 because your coconuts grow, you got more core, and so 2765 02:31:23.760 --> 02:31:26.120 it's one that we can use for that. It holds 2766 02:31:26.239 --> 02:31:30.280 water well, it drains. Okay, you probably would want to 2767 02:31:30.360 --> 02:31:33.879 use something with it, like a pearlite or a vermiculite 2768 02:31:33.959 --> 02:31:36.559 if you were going to make a potting mix from 2769 02:31:36.680 --> 02:31:41.920 the coconut core, but it's up to you. Yes, it works, 2770 02:31:42.639 --> 02:31:46.440 but however you want to go about it, it'll be fine. 2771 02:31:47.079 --> 02:31:49.559 It's already been rinsed and washed, so it doesn't have 2772 02:31:49.639 --> 02:31:51.920 the salt any kind of a salt content or anything 2773 02:31:52.000 --> 02:31:54.440 in it, and it ought to be fine for whatever 2774 02:31:54.479 --> 02:31:54.920 you're growing. 2775 02:31:55.879 --> 02:31:59.719 Okay, all right, great, thanks all right, Thanks. 2776 02:31:59.559 --> 02:32:02.200 For the call. Appreciate that. Appreciate you being a listener 2777 02:32:02.239 --> 02:32:05.680 to Guardline. The Nitrofus super Turf, I've been telling you 2778 02:32:05.719 --> 02:32:07.239 about it for a while. I'm gonna keep telling you 2779 02:32:07.239 --> 02:32:10.319 about it because all summer long. Nitrofus Superturf is a 2780 02:32:10.360 --> 02:32:13.040 product to put down. Now, if you haven't fertilized in 2781 02:32:13.120 --> 02:32:17.000 six weeks with anything like the fast release, like the 2782 02:32:17.079 --> 02:32:19.440 red Imperial Bag or whatever, you can put it on 2783 02:32:19.520 --> 02:32:23.280 the Nitrofas superturf. When once you put it down you 2784 02:32:23.399 --> 02:32:25.840 need it's gonna last. It'll last up to four months 2785 02:32:25.959 --> 02:32:28.200 out there in the environment. And so we're kind of 2786 02:32:28.239 --> 02:32:31.079 hitting a point now where putting it down may carry 2787 02:32:31.079 --> 02:32:32.959 you on through most of the summer and then with 2788 02:32:33.079 --> 02:32:36.760 the clipping decomposition, you're pretty good shaped there. I'll bet 2789 02:32:36.799 --> 02:32:38.600 you can apply it a couple times during the summer. 2790 02:32:38.680 --> 02:32:41.399 Usually I'll want to put it on sometime in April 2791 02:32:42.159 --> 02:32:44.719 and then probably come back in a little later in 2792 02:32:44.799 --> 02:32:46.719 the summer and do it again to carry into a fall. 2793 02:32:47.120 --> 02:32:48.559 But it works, and you can find it in a 2794 02:32:48.639 --> 02:32:51.120 lot of places. You can find it done in Chenny Forest, 2795 02:32:51.200 --> 02:32:54.719 in Chanet Gardens down to Richmond, Rosenberg area. If you 2796 02:32:54.959 --> 02:32:59.239 are near Plantation Ace Hardware, same area on FM three 2797 02:32:59.280 --> 02:33:02.000 point fifty nine, you're going to find night Foss products there, 2798 02:33:02.079 --> 02:33:06.200 Court Hardware and Stafford on South Maine. Let's see oh 2799 02:33:06.600 --> 02:33:10.120 Hiding and feed up on Interstate forty five North area 2800 02:33:10.280 --> 02:33:13.079 on Steuben or Airline another place you're going to get 2801 02:33:13.120 --> 02:33:16.600 night Foss products like that super turf and it really 2802 02:33:16.959 --> 02:33:18.680 does worry. It's easy to find two in the store. 2803 02:33:18.799 --> 02:33:22.360 Just look for the silver bag Night to Foss Superturf 2804 02:33:22.440 --> 02:33:25.079 silver bag. All right, let's do this. Let's go now 2805 02:33:25.159 --> 02:33:27.959 in the Houston area. We're going to talk to Kbob. Hey, Kbob, 2806 02:33:28.000 --> 02:33:28.360 what's up? 2807 02:33:29.479 --> 02:33:29.600 Hi? 2808 02:33:29.840 --> 02:33:35.440 Good morning. Someone had told me about a Japanese olive tree. 2809 02:33:36.280 --> 02:33:39.760 Don't know anything about them, but if I put it 2810 02:33:39.959 --> 02:33:45.520 close to the house, the root system is concerns me. 2811 02:33:46.959 --> 02:33:49.440 And they tell me that you could throw it into 2812 02:33:49.520 --> 02:33:52.559 a tree ten and twelve feet high, or you can 2813 02:33:52.680 --> 02:33:56.920 keep it a bush. Any information on that. 2814 02:33:58.479 --> 02:34:03.319 Japanese are live? Was there any any more information on 2815 02:34:03.440 --> 02:34:04.120 the tag. 2816 02:34:04.079 --> 02:34:07.639 I'm trying to This wasn't a tag. It was something 2817 02:34:07.719 --> 02:34:12.159 that somebody has at their house. It looked pretty and 2818 02:34:12.319 --> 02:34:15.360 they just referred to it as a Japanese olive tree. 2819 02:34:16.639 --> 02:34:19.000 Now I don't know if it's okay, I'm no Japanese 2820 02:34:19.120 --> 02:34:22.879 plum trees, but I never heard of Japanese olive trees. 2821 02:34:24.360 --> 02:34:30.840 Yeah, I'm trying to think, well, there's there's olives are 2822 02:34:30.920 --> 02:34:36.079 native to the Mediterranean area, but olive. Uh, there is 2823 02:34:36.239 --> 02:34:40.040 a Japanese privet that is in the olive family but 2824 02:34:40.200 --> 02:34:42.520 is not an olive tree, and. 2825 02:34:42.600 --> 02:34:47.159 That supposedly doesn't grow at a grows fruit, but it's 2826 02:34:47.280 --> 02:34:50.959 not really alas that it is an edible fruit. So 2827 02:34:51.079 --> 02:34:51.760 I've been told. 2828 02:34:52.079 --> 02:34:56.000 I think, yeah, I'm pretty sure you were talking about 2829 02:34:57.000 --> 02:35:02.959 Japanese privet, that is my guess. Okay. Now, Japanese privet 2830 02:35:03.200 --> 02:35:07.360 is a plant that we worry about because of invasiveness. 2831 02:35:07.479 --> 02:35:13.079 It does produce little berries that uh you know, it's 2832 02:35:13.159 --> 02:35:16.079 a fruit of that plant, but a lot of the 2833 02:35:16.479 --> 02:35:20.000 a lot of the privets, it's a lugustrum. A lot 2834 02:35:20.040 --> 02:35:23.239 of the lagustriums and privets and things have the potential 2835 02:35:23.399 --> 02:35:26.239 for invasiveness, and and we're not real crazy about those. 2836 02:35:26.559 --> 02:35:26.639 Uh. 2837 02:35:26.840 --> 02:35:29.319 And so they are to the birds where the birds 2838 02:35:29.360 --> 02:35:31.360 eat the berries. Wherever they poop, they plant a tree. 2839 02:35:32.040 --> 02:35:35.399 And so I'm I'm not sure which plant you're talking about, 2840 02:35:35.440 --> 02:35:37.280 because I don't I don't know a plant that we 2841 02:35:37.440 --> 02:35:40.200 refer to as Japanese olive. Someone out there listening may 2842 02:35:40.879 --> 02:35:44.399 may call a plant that, But Japanese privet is a possibility. 2843 02:35:44.440 --> 02:35:48.200 I guess there's also an eliagnous. It's not Japanese though, 2844 02:35:48.319 --> 02:35:53.479 but uh Eleagnus is uh sometimes referred to as an 2845 02:35:53.479 --> 02:35:57.000 olive tree because that's what eliagnous means, but it's not 2846 02:35:57.239 --> 02:36:00.520 a true olive either. Uh So anyway, those are thoughts. 2847 02:36:00.600 --> 02:36:02.760 I just watch out for them if it's truly a 2848 02:36:03.079 --> 02:36:05.959 If you go online and do a Google search or however, 2849 02:36:06.040 --> 02:36:10.079 you search for a Japanese privet and see if that 2850 02:36:10.200 --> 02:36:12.879 looks like your plant. The only comment I'd have about 2851 02:36:12.879 --> 02:36:15.159 it is be careful. Those get kind of invasive. 2852 02:36:16.120 --> 02:36:19.120 What about the root system if you're playing close to. 2853 02:36:19.159 --> 02:36:27.479 The house, shrubs don't develop the same size and extensiveness 2854 02:36:27.520 --> 02:36:29.879 of a root that a tree would, and so I 2855 02:36:29.959 --> 02:36:33.040 wouldn't worry a lot about it as a foundation thing. 2856 02:36:33.159 --> 02:36:36.079 But here's the deal with roots around a foundation. Let 2857 02:36:36.120 --> 02:36:38.600 me just check our time. We're about to run out here. 2858 02:36:39.280 --> 02:36:42.520 Roots around a foundation, It's not that the root goes 2859 02:36:42.719 --> 02:36:45.360 under your slab and lifts it up like a root 2860 02:36:45.520 --> 02:36:49.520 would lift a sidewalk or driveway. It's that the roots 2861 02:36:50.840 --> 02:36:54.040 suck up all the moisture and so the ground is 2862 02:36:54.280 --> 02:36:56.440 very wet after a rain with the rain coming off 2863 02:36:56.479 --> 02:36:58.879 the roof, it's sopping wet. And then when it doesn't 2864 02:36:58.959 --> 02:37:01.440 rain for a while, the roots are all through that 2865 02:37:01.559 --> 02:37:05.319 area and they pump the little dry and that wetting 2866 02:37:05.440 --> 02:37:08.879 and drying creates shrinking and swelling, and that's what does 2867 02:37:08.959 --> 02:37:12.399 the damage to the foundation. So if you've got a 2868 02:37:12.520 --> 02:37:15.239 tree or shrub anywhere near the house, they're gonna put 2869 02:37:15.280 --> 02:37:17.159 roots over there because there's a lot of good water 2870 02:37:17.280 --> 02:37:20.280 that comes off the house. And so it's not just 2871 02:37:20.360 --> 02:37:22.879 that they're planted near the house that you're going to 2872 02:37:22.920 --> 02:37:25.079 have a root issue over there. And that would be 2873 02:37:25.159 --> 02:37:27.120 the thing I would be concerned about, and not the 2874 02:37:27.200 --> 02:37:32.000 size of the root. Thank you so much, Well, thank 2875 02:37:32.079 --> 02:37:36.120 you appreciate your final caller today. So congratulations. I wish 2876 02:37:36.159 --> 02:37:38.440 we had a door prize, but so we tell it. 2877 02:37:38.920 --> 02:37:41.879 Thanks a lot, Thanks a lot, Ky Bob, appreciate that. 2878 02:37:42.280 --> 02:37:44.319 All right, folks, don't forget where am I going to 2879 02:37:44.360 --> 02:37:49.120 be next Saturday for the final appearance of the Year, Arburgate, Arburgate, 2880 02:37:49.520 --> 02:37:52.719 Tom Ball, you got to go Arbrogate anyway, I'm going 2881 02:37:52.799 --> 02:37:55.280 to be there, and I'm told everybody tells me they're 2882 02:37:55.280 --> 02:37:58.399 going to have a peach Bellini machine. So I'm going 2883 02:37:58.440 --> 02:37:59.879 to set it to the side a little bit so 2884 02:38:00.079 --> 02:38:02.559 I don't get run over by you trampling me down 2885 02:38:02.680 --> 02:38:06.120 trying to get to the peach Balini maschine. Joking aside, 2886 02:38:06.479 --> 02:38:09.159 You got to come out Arbrogate looks beautiful right now. 2887 02:38:09.520 --> 02:38:13.639 They have so many plants, as they always do. Bring 2888 02:38:13.719 --> 02:38:15.600 your friends, let's make a day out of this. They 2889 02:38:15.680 --> 02:38:18.239 got great gift shops. I'll tell you this, if you 2890 02:38:18.360 --> 02:38:21.319 got a friend that's not into plants, you bring them 2891 02:38:21.319 --> 02:38:24.000 to Arbigate. We're gonna fix that because when they see 2892 02:38:24.280 --> 02:38:27.239 the kinds of plants and the options, next thing you know, 2893 02:38:27.319 --> 02:38:29.479 you've got a plant buddy. They're gonna be taking cuttings 2894 02:38:29.520 --> 02:38:31.000 from your house. You gonna have to run them off.