Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rickards.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, folks, Good morning, and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Looking forward to visiting today about the things that are
Speaker 4: of interest to you. That's what this is a calling
Speaker 4: radio show. So if you have some questions you'd like
Speaker 4: to ask, well, all you gotta do is give me
Speaker 4: a call seven one three two one two five eight
Speaker 4: seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight
Speaker 4: seventy four Here on garden Line, we uh. I guess
Speaker 4: my motto or whatever for the show is I want
Speaker 4: you to have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and
Speaker 4: fun in the process. That's that's the part we don't
Speaker 4: want to forget. You know, gardening is supposed to be fun,
Speaker 4: and it is fun. Gardening is. It's good for the soul,
Speaker 4: it's good for the mind, it's good for the body.
Speaker 4: It just there's a reason that there was a thing
Speaker 4: called a garden of Eden. You know, we we are,
Speaker 4: we are made to be in a garden, we really are.
Speaker 4: I just think that in every way, shape and form,
Speaker 4: being outdoors and nature is such a rejuvenating experience. And
Speaker 4: I know, you know, we go through the ups and
Speaker 4: downs of gardening. We have weather extremes, finally now getting
Speaker 4: through some of this rainfall that we had, or mostly
Speaker 4: just kind of a misty, overcast, nasty day yesterday this morning.
Speaker 4: But guess what happens today? We get some sunshine back
Speaker 4: and we have a good week, a really good week
Speaker 4: to be outside getting some things done. And so I
Speaker 4: hope you will take advantage of that. Gardening is good
Speaker 4: exercise too, by the way, getting up, getting down, walking around,
Speaker 4: moving sometimes you can. Let wellis let me put it
Speaker 4: this way. If you are a good gardener, gardening is
Speaker 4: good exercise. If you are a bad gardener, gardening is great.
Speaker 6: Exercise because you get to dig up stuff you killed,
Speaker 6: You get to pool weeds you didn't take care of
Speaker 6: ahead of time, I said, a little tongue in cheek there,
Speaker 6: but you get what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: Gardening is just it's really a fun process and we
Speaker 4: want you to have success. Absolutely. One example of the
Speaker 4: types of plants that people just love and you don't
Speaker 4: think about it this way. If I say what's your
Speaker 4: favorite plant, nobody says my lawn. But it seems like
Speaker 4: everybody has a lawn, you know, just about I mean,
Speaker 4: if you have space to have a lawn and you
Speaker 4: usually people have a lawn, and it's this big green expanse.
Speaker 4: It's the outdoor carpet of our landscapes. It sets the
Speaker 4: scene for the home, for other gardens. It's a way
Speaker 4: to get from the house to some back garden bed
Speaker 4: or garden or orchard or whatever you have. And the
Speaker 4: lawn is just a standard part of our American landscapes now.
Speaker 4: And while you may not go, well, that's my favorite plant, well,
Speaker 4: it still is the area that makes a phone ring
Speaker 4: on garden line more than anything. Trees are right behind
Speaker 4: the lawns in terms of frequency of questions and things
Speaker 4: that we get because lawns are important. They're important to
Speaker 4: people and taking care of them is important. There are
Speaker 4: a lot of good products out there that will help
Speaker 4: you have success with your lawn, whether you're dealing with
Speaker 4: insects pests, whether you're dealing with diseases, or we're dealing
Speaker 4: with weeds, or just wanting that garden or that lawn
Speaker 4: area to grow better. And Sweet Green is an example
Speaker 4: of that. Sweet Greens from Nitropos. It is an eleven
Speaker 4: percent nitrogen fertilizer, which is very high for an organic fertilizer,
Speaker 4: but Sweet Green, through biological activity on molasses, ends up
Speaker 4: being something that releases quickly to the soil where microbes
Speaker 4: number one. They love it because they like any kind
Speaker 4: of a sugar molasses based product that really fires up,
Speaker 4: especially a lot of the beneficial bacteria, and it releases
Speaker 4: it to your plants and your plants do well. Sweet
Speaker 4: Green from Nitrofos is available widely in our area. You
Speaker 4: can find it all across the region. Really plants and
Speaker 4: things over in Brenham carry nitro Foss products. The M
Speaker 4: and DS on Beamer and are the one of Beemer,
Speaker 4: the one Clear Lake as well on Bay Area Boulevard
Speaker 4: carry it D and D feed and Tomball's. Another place
Speaker 4: where nitrofost products are sold as is M and D
Speaker 4: s in Cypress on Lubetta Road. M and D ACE
Speaker 4: in Cypress area. Carry is that. So however you go
Speaker 4: about it, where you find it, you need to give
Speaker 4: it a shot. You're going to find that the fragrance
Speaker 4: of it is pleasant. You don't usually say, you know, oh,
Speaker 4: this fertilizer smells great, but this one really smells great.
Speaker 4: It's easy to go on and at bottom line as
Speaker 4: it works. We're going to go now to the phones
Speaker 4: and head down to Wharton to talk to Ann. Hello, Ann,
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Yes for good morning. My question is about my me
Speaker 7: host satsuma that's fairly large, six foot by seven or
Speaker 7: eight foot, and it's I've sprayed for the white fly
Speaker 7: that it's been plagued with this past year and years,
Speaker 7: but I cannot get the black sut off the leaves.
Speaker 5: What do I do for that?
Speaker 4: I know it's not good for it's yeah, well, the
Speaker 4: set is growing on a sugary substance that insects release,
Speaker 4: and so you is it dries, it tends to flake off,
Speaker 4: you can spray it with a very mild soapy type
Speaker 4: of spray and then blast off the soapy substance to
Speaker 4: kind of help loosen get some of that off there.
Speaker 4: It does kind of wear away, if you will, over
Speaker 4: time anyway, and as new growth appears, then that's new
Speaker 4: area that doesn't yet have the sit on it. What
Speaker 4: you need to figure out is why it's there. Maybe
Speaker 4: you've got some scale underneath the leaves of that satsuma,
Speaker 4: and you flip a leaf over and you see these
Speaker 4: little tiny things like fish scales, but maybe a small
Speaker 4: or smaller than a tight lower case letter O. That's
Speaker 4: a scale. And you can control those different ways. The
Speaker 4: least toxic way to control them is to use a
Speaker 4: horticultural oil spray spray upward from underneath the plant to
Speaker 4: coat as many of the lower sides of the leaves
Speaker 4: as you can, and the better you coat those scale
Speaker 4: not nime well, nim oil is okay. There are other
Speaker 4: horticultural oils too. There's many types of oil that's labeled
Speaker 4: for spraying on plants. You just want to get one
Speaker 4: that's labeled for spraying on growing tissue, not a dormant oil,
Speaker 4: but we call them a summer oil or horticultural oil
Speaker 4: NIM is an example of an oil but there are
Speaker 4: many others. And again with oil, and you just need
Speaker 4: to remember coverage is everything. You got to have really
Speaker 4: good coverage in order for it to work. And I
Speaker 4: think that'll shut it down. Over time, You're going to
Speaker 4: have less and less of that sooty mold. Okay, well,
Speaker 4: it's just a problem. I'm gonna have to I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to run here. If you need to continue the questions,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to put you on hold. But if not,
Speaker 4: I hope that hope that took care of it. Hey,
Speaker 4: welcome to Garden Line, folks. Good to have you back.
Speaker 4: If you haven't been out to Nelson Water Garden and Nursery,
Speaker 4: I'm katie, you need to. You need to go check
Speaker 4: that out. This place is it is your West Houston
Speaker 4: garden center choice. I'll just put it that way. It's
Speaker 4: a destination too. By the way, Nelson Nursery and Water
Speaker 4: Gardens is a place where not only do you find
Speaker 4: plants and the products to go with them. You know,
Speaker 4: you're ter fertilizers, We control things like that, but the
Speaker 4: water garden displays there are outstanding you can you will
Speaker 4: get inspiration I promise you that because they have everything
Speaker 4: they do, they will come and install water gardens for you,
Speaker 4: or they will sell you the parts and you can
Speaker 4: do it do it yourself for depending on you know
Speaker 4: how deeople you want to get into it. I mean
Speaker 4: there's things like a disappearing fountain. It's a big beautiful vase.
Speaker 4: Water goes out the top, down the sides, comes back through,
Speaker 4: circulates again and it's just gorgeous. The birds will love it.
Speaker 4: Beneficial insects actually love love water too. They need a
Speaker 4: source of moisture as well. But for your esthetic, for
Speaker 4: your audio enjoyment, I love the sound of water, and
Speaker 4: Nelson Water Gardens is just absolutely like that. And then
Speaker 4: Nelson's Nursery, the nursery part of it is going to
Speaker 4: carry all the plants you need, and right now they're
Speaker 4: stocked up. And the houseplant section where you have to
Speaker 4: walk through that going through the store, it is just gorgeous,
Speaker 4: some of those beautiful, well tended, just perfect little houseplants.
Speaker 4: I love that place really nice. And then you get
Speaker 4: outside and you see the herbs and you see the
Speaker 4: vegetables and flowers and shrubs and trees and fruit and
Speaker 4: everything else. It's cool. It is absolutely cool. Allow you
Speaker 4: still some time to walk around. Take your friends with
Speaker 4: you when you go, because it's really a destination place
Speaker 4: worth going to. The website is Nelsonwatergardens dot com. It's
Speaker 4: on the Kadie Fort Ben Road, just just north of Ien.
Speaker 4: As you're going out that direction, and when you get there,
Speaker 4: you'll see why I'm excited about it. Well, I love
Speaker 4: to go there. Talk to the folks there. They're very knowledgeable.
Speaker 4: They've been in the nursery business for a long time
Speaker 4: and they know what they're talking about. Nelson Water Gardens
Speaker 4: and nursery. We're going to go back to Anne out
Speaker 4: in Wharton. Now, Hey, Anne, how can we continue this
Speaker 4: conversation and help?
Speaker 7: Yes, sir, My final question is how do I get
Speaker 7: rid of the wild violets in the Saint Augustine. What
Speaker 7: do I need to spray with or put down?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that takes. That takes a broad leaf post emergent
Speaker 4: weed control product, and so you will find a number
Speaker 4: of ones out there. If you have not fertilized your lawn,
Speaker 4: you could use something like Nelson's weedon Nator Nelson Weed
Speaker 4: and Nator. It is a fertilizer that has a broad
Speaker 4: leaf wel in it. You just wet turn on the
Speaker 4: sprinkler and barely wet the foliage. All you need is
Speaker 4: damp leaves. You don't need wet soil uh and put
Speaker 4: it on and it sticks to those leaves. That dry
Speaker 4: fertilizer sticks to the wet leaves. And then give it
Speaker 4: a couple of days maybe and then watered in uh
Speaker 4: and it will do a good job on broadleaf weeds
Speaker 4: in your lawn. And then it continues on as a
Speaker 4: fertilizer for several months actually feeding your your turf.
Speaker 7: What is the chemical in there?
Speaker 4: What is the that that there are Well, there's a
Speaker 4: number of different things. There's go ahead.
Speaker 8: I don't know if I can have availability to that
Speaker 8: product in my area.
Speaker 4: Nelson, Yeah, Nelson products are widely available through the area.
Speaker 4: I would, you know, I would talk to them down there.
Speaker 4: A Wharton Ace hardware store probably has that if they don't.
Speaker 4: If they don't have that, another product that works just
Speaker 4: as well is nitroposs and it is a fifteen to
Speaker 4: five y ten with trimech in it tri I nec.
Speaker 4: Now the trimeac, the trimac is going to do the
Speaker 4: same thing you got to have wet weeds. You put
Speaker 4: this fertilizer down, it sticks to the leaves. It does
Speaker 4: the same same type of procedure as far as getting
Speaker 4: getting rid of those. Both of those will take care
Speaker 4: of broadly fweds.
Speaker 7: Okay, very good, Thanks a bunch.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, say hey to the folks down
Speaker 4: at Ace down there. There's been a while since I've
Speaker 4: been down, but boy, I love that store. It's a
Speaker 4: good one. You're lucky to have them. Wonderful store. Thank you,
Speaker 4: bye bye, all right, Thanks, Ann, appreciate your call. Thanks
Speaker 4: a lot. Appreciate that. Yeah. A touch Star weedinator is
Speaker 4: one of those that is a unique product because what
Speaker 4: it does is it does have the weed control in it,
Speaker 4: but it also has something that is acting as a
Speaker 4: growth regulator for the grass. So the grass you don't
Speaker 4: get that rapid vertical growth or the rapid development like that,
Speaker 4: so you're not mowing so much, you know, you sometimes
Speaker 4: you fertilize. It's like, my gosh, I'm in mowed twice
Speaker 4: a week. Keep up with this thing. Well, with the
Speaker 4: weed eater, it does have that growth regulator slows it
Speaker 4: down a little bit. And so in addition to that,
Speaker 4: getting a month's of the fertilizer d kind of a
Speaker 4: good thing. It's one of the many products they have.
Speaker 4: Nelson also has Bruce's Brew that's their immediate release. Bruce's
Speaker 4: Brew lasts for a good while. I say it's immediate
Speaker 4: release has an initial fast release of nutrients, but then
Speaker 4: it kind of evens out and releases over a little
Speaker 4: period of time too, so it's not just like a
Speaker 4: one and done, real quick thing. Bruce's Brew is going
Speaker 4: to give you a little bit of an extended feed
Speaker 4: as well as that initial release. Very popular products from
Speaker 4: Nelson and you should be able to find them in
Speaker 4: a lot of different places around the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Gardenline and let's see seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two kt r H is our phone number.
Speaker 4: I want to remind you or let you know. First
Speaker 4: of all, thanks to the folks up at all seasons,
Speaker 4: Ason Willis. I enjoyed going out there yesterday. I enjoyed
Speaker 4: getting to meet folks that listen to garden Line is
Speaker 4: a that is always a lot of fun to get
Speaker 4: to go and do that and help folks find the
Speaker 4: products they need to have success with their lawn and
Speaker 4: their garden. The next time I'm going to be out
Speaker 4: and about is going to be next Saturday. I'll be
Speaker 4: at the annual Spring Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show.
Speaker 4: This is a great show. It's at the Lone Star
Speaker 4: Convention Center right there on Airport Road in Conroe, right
Speaker 4: across from the Extension office, Yager Life Extension Office. And
Speaker 4: I'll be there again on Saturday. And the show is
Speaker 4: open on Saturday from ten am to six and on
Speaker 4: Sunday from eleven am to five. There's no charge for
Speaker 4: admission to get in. There is no charge for parking,
Speaker 4: so that that is a really good deal. Now I'll
Speaker 4: be there from twelve noon to two pm, So grab
Speaker 4: you some lunch, come on out. That's a visit. Montgomery
Speaker 4: County Master Gardeners are going to be there. They're going
Speaker 4: to just have the typical kind of home show they
Speaker 4: put on, which is an awesome one. Lots of different
Speaker 4: kinds of exhibitors and then a lot of good information too,
Speaker 4: coming from folks that are educating you. Now I'm going
Speaker 4: to be talking a little bit about how to have
Speaker 4: a successful spring garden. Talk a little vegetables, a little flowers,
Speaker 4: definitely some lawns and trees, and then I'll just answer
Speaker 4: your gardening questions. So, if you got weeds that you're
Speaker 4: looking at in the yard, put them in a bag,
Speaker 4: bring them, let's take a look. We'll make them, put
Speaker 4: them under a hot lamp and interrogate them and make
Speaker 4: them confess their names, and then I'll tell you what
Speaker 4: to use to manage them. But we'll just give you
Speaker 4: general tips. If you've got some photos of your property
Speaker 4: and you would like to ask questions, a photo is
Speaker 4: very helpful, you know, as we wave our hands in
Speaker 4: the air and go, well, there's this thing and it
Speaker 4: looks sort of it's kind of hard to help that,
Speaker 4: But bring me a photo. We'll take a look at it,
Speaker 4: and we'll have some time to visit again. I'm going
Speaker 4: to do a little talk there first before we go
Speaker 4: to the We go to the just pure Q and
Speaker 4: a time two hours, twelve noon to two pm next Saturday,
Speaker 4: Lone Star Convention Center, Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show.
Speaker 4: I hope you'll come out and see me there. I
Speaker 4: would love that. Hope we'll have a good time. I
Speaker 4: always try to have fun. Ive you've been to the appearances, No,
Speaker 4: we try to joke around and have some thun as.
Speaker 4: We do that as well. Down in the Richmond Rosenburg
Speaker 4: area is enchanted forests. Now in Channa Forest is south
Speaker 4: of Interstate or Highway fifty nine. And if you if
Speaker 4: you are going from Richmond towards sugar Land, it's off
Speaker 4: to the right. It's down on FM twenty seven fifty nine.
Speaker 4: FM twenty seven fifty nine now in Channed Forest is
Speaker 4: just a haven for all kinds of plants. They you know,
Speaker 4: they took everything in and filled up the greenhouses and
Speaker 4: the bill buildings and even their offices with plants when
Speaker 4: we had this freeze come through. So everything looks good.
Speaker 4: It's back out on the tables and it looks awesome.
Speaker 4: You're you are going to find a selection of vegetables.
Speaker 4: You can find a selection of herbs. You're going to
Speaker 4: find a selection of flowers that is just beautiful, with
Speaker 4: very healthy, very beautiful plants. They still have their fruit trees.
Speaker 4: You know, there's a there is all kinds of fruit
Speaker 4: there at enchanted forests. They've got low choll varieties. You know,
Speaker 4: there's apples and peaches and plums. What are kind of
Speaker 4: fruits you're looking for? They've got them there, and they
Speaker 4: even have some if you haven't cleaned them out yet.
Speaker 4: There are three in one trees which are really unique.
Speaker 4: So you don't have room for three fruit trees. How
Speaker 4: about a true tree that has three different varieties of
Speaker 4: that type of fruit on the tree, so you kind
Speaker 4: of get three in one. That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 4: Good selection of satsumas, including brown select and arctic frost,
Speaker 4: which is about as hearty as you're going to get
Speaker 4: with a satsuma. It's going to go down into the
Speaker 4: mid teens, if not lower, once it's well established, so
Speaker 4: that is hardy for et CEUs. Anyway, you got to
Speaker 4: get by there. Let them help you turn your place
Speaker 4: into a garden of eaton. Yeah, that's my corny dad joke.
Speaker 4: Garden of eating with fruit, with vegetables, with herbs, and
Speaker 4: then a beautiful place with all the blooms that they have.
Speaker 4: Grab you one of the Chinese fringe trees when you're
Speaker 4: down there. That is my favorite spring blooming tree because
Speaker 4: it's beautiful. It has a light fragrance to the shaggy
Speaker 4: white blooms, and it doesn't get too big. It's not
Speaker 4: a giant tree. That's going to take over our typically
Speaker 4: smaller urban lots we have these days. It's a medium,
Speaker 4: small to medium sized tree and it works really really
Speaker 4: well in the landscape. And they have those chended for us.
Speaker 4: They carry them. I've been there many times and I
Speaker 4: always walk over and say, yep, they're still around there.
Speaker 4: Great tree. Great tree to have. All right, let's go
Speaker 4: out to the Laporte. We're going to talk to Nolan. Hey, Nolan,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line. Good morning, skips.
Speaker 1: I like you to know whether too late the trim
Speaker 1: u pantrey pant trees the bottom leves of rhythlow and
Speaker 1: they just hang real bad.
Speaker 4: And it's it too late to plant seat potatoes. It
Speaker 4: is not too late to turn pear trees that it
Speaker 4: is just fine. Any kind of fruit pruning you need
Speaker 4: to do, or even ornamental pruning, go ahead and get
Speaker 4: it done. Sooner you do it the better, because the
Speaker 4: SAP's starting to flow. You're going to get be getting
Speaker 4: leaves and blooms pretty quick here and and so we'd
Speaker 4: rather get it sooner than later. As far as potatoes,
Speaker 4: you can still plant potatoes, Yes you can. It's it's
Speaker 4: all right to do that. Just hurry up and get
Speaker 4: it done because you want to give them the longest
Speaker 4: time you can before it gets really hot, so they
Speaker 4: have time to grow and then create those tubers, which
Speaker 4: is why you're growing the potatoes in the first place. Okay,
Speaker 4: thank you, all right, all right, sir, right, thank you.
Speaker 4: I appreciate appreciate that very very much. You take care.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I uh.
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Speaker 4: will do core aeration and cop host top dressing. That
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Speaker 4: much easier than messing with all to do it yourself.
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Speaker 4: the best things you can do for your lawn for
Speaker 4: success is to have it aerrated and compost top dressed
Speaker 4: and year round Houston can do that. I'm going to
Speaker 4: take a break. I'll be right back, folks. Thank you.
Speaker 4: All right, folks, welcome back. I'm your host, Skip Richter.
Speaker 4: We are here on garden Line answering your gardening questions,
Speaker 4: helping you have a more bountiful garden, more beautiful landscape,
Speaker 4: and more fun in the process. That is definitely the case.
Speaker 4: If you want to give me a call the number
Speaker 4: seven one three two one two kt r H seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two kt RH. I was visiting
Speaker 4: with one of the folks from Microlife yesterday. We're kind
Speaker 4: of drilling down and talking about some of the products
Speaker 4: that they had and things. And you know, Microlife has
Speaker 4: been around for over thirty five years now and it
Speaker 4: is the leading organic fertilizer in the Houston area. They
Speaker 4: have built their company around products that are loaded with
Speaker 4: microbes and loaded with the nutrients in the ratios that
Speaker 4: your plants want, and it works. That's as simple as that.
Speaker 4: That's one reason why it's still around and growing and
Speaker 4: coming even more popular. You're not going to burn your
Speaker 4: lawn with Microlife products. They are natural based products. Put
Speaker 4: them on the soil, they start to get moist or wet,
Speaker 4: and the microbes jump on and they take them apart
Speaker 4: and release exactly the kinds of nutrients and the forms
Speaker 4: that the plants need to take up. One of my
Speaker 4: favorite Microlife products is their standard green bag lawn fertilizer.
Speaker 4: It's a six two four and you'll find it on
Speaker 4: my schedule when you go look on there. But I
Speaker 4: want to tell you something. This is a little secret here.
Speaker 4: It's actually not a secret, but I use it for
Speaker 4: all kinds of things.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 4: You know, we think, well, it's the lawn fertilizer, but
Speaker 4: I'm telling you I know people that put it on
Speaker 4: all kinds of other things.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 4: Microlife has a product for fruit trees, etcetera. Some other
Speaker 4: fruit that's fine. They have a product for acid loving
Speaker 4: plants like azaleas and camellias and what. It's kind of
Speaker 4: a pink bag that they have. What I'm telling you
Speaker 4: that sixty four is a universal kind of fertilizer. If
Speaker 4: you have someone hand and you you know you've done
Speaker 4: what you need on your lawn, you got some leftover,
Speaker 4: feel free to use it however you want, because it's
Speaker 4: gonna work. It is a very good overall fertilizer period
Speaker 4: for your plants, and again loaded with microbes. Microbes make
Speaker 4: the world go around. Microbes make roots happy. Microbes make
Speaker 4: organic matter become soil. And microbes are the reason why
Speaker 4: when you go into a forest or you go into
Speaker 4: a meadow, plants are growing and they're happy because there
Speaker 4: is a constant cycling of organic matter going on that
Speaker 4: is helping everything to do well. I mean, think about this.
Speaker 4: Think about a place like the redwood trees on the
Speaker 4: coasts in California, giant, giant trees. Who took care of
Speaker 4: those trees over the eons. Microbes, Microbs did microbes rainfall
Speaker 4: in good soil. That's kind of the three things that
Speaker 4: made it work. Think about the Great Plains when settlers
Speaker 4: came across in Conestoga wagons and the grass was as
Speaker 4: deep as a horse's belly. There was nobody doing a
Speaker 4: crop dust or a fertilizer in that grass. It was
Speaker 4: microbes run in the world. Now, you come home and
Speaker 4: you build a garden, and you want more tomatoes, and
Speaker 4: you want better fruit, and you want a nice dense,
Speaker 4: thick lawn that you can pounds your feet across and
Speaker 4: it still holds up and does well. Well, yeah, we fertilize,
Speaker 4: we boost it, we air a, we do all kinds
Speaker 4: of things to help that happen. But never forget microbes
Speaker 4: are ruling the world. And that's why microlife is based
Speaker 4: around microbial activity. And they have many products, dry products, granulars.
Speaker 4: They have liquid products like the Biomatrix that's an orange
Speaker 4: label seven one three. The Ocean Harvest is a blue label.
Speaker 4: It's a fish based fertilizer four two three. You're going
Speaker 4: to find microlife all over town. If you want to
Speaker 4: go to the website microlife Fertilizer dot com, you can
Speaker 4: find all the specific places where you can find it.
Speaker 4: And for those of you who aren't around Houston you're
Speaker 4: living listening to me over in I don't know, New
Speaker 4: Bramfels or someplace, microlife is available in your areas too,
Speaker 4: all right, you are listening to Guardline again the phone
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Speaker 4: to head out now to Vider and talk to Ethel. Hey, Ethel,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning. I have two questions. One is
Speaker 3: regarding a it's called a lilac bush. Are you familiar
Speaker 3: with those?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the cane they grow up further north.
Speaker 3: Well, I had seen one here. It was planted, of
Speaker 3: course small, and now it's large and beautiful. The person
Speaker 3: on the property did not know. Evidently it had been
Speaker 3: there while when they purchased the home, and it's smell. Oh,
Speaker 3: the fragrance was wonderful. But I didn't know it. Yes
Speaker 3: I didn't, but it said it's a bush and there's
Speaker 3: this pretty large I didn't know overall to start those.
Speaker 4: If they do well here, in general, we don't recommend
Speaker 4: them now. At the minute I say you can't grow
Speaker 4: a plant here, the plant's going to try to prove
Speaker 4: me wrong as well as the gardener. And you may
Speaker 4: see some lilacs around here, but they really like a
Speaker 4: cooler climate like you would have up in the Midwest
Speaker 4: or someplace. So if you were looking to plant something,
Speaker 4: I would go with something different that has fragrance, if
Speaker 4: that's what you're looking for. I kid around with some
Speaker 4: gardeners and I always say, well, if you want a lilac,
Speaker 4: just gets you a lavender colored grape myrtle and spray
Speaker 4: it with perfume and you've got the same thing. But
Speaker 4: that's not quite the same thing for people who grew
Speaker 4: up in lilac country and love that fragrance.
Speaker 3: I understand you have some recommendations that not grow into
Speaker 3: a large tree, but maybe just a larger shred that
Speaker 3: would be suitable for here.
Speaker 4: Well, one of my absolute favorite fragrant plants is probably
Speaker 4: going to get too large for what you want. But
Speaker 4: it is called almond verbina and it makes a good
Speaker 4: sized shrub which if you share it back considerably, you
Speaker 4: can keep it to a moderate to large size. But
Speaker 4: in time it gets pretty long. Oh my gosh, the
Speaker 4: fragrance is intoxicating. Very Texas Mountain Laurel, Texas Mountain Laurel.
Speaker 4: If the drainage and the soil is okay, get it
Speaker 4: on a raised mound. It produces in the spring purple
Speaker 4: clusters that look like grapes of flowers that smell like
Speaker 4: grape kool aid or the remember grape super bubble bubblegum.
Speaker 4: If you remember that, they smell very strongly fragrant, very
Speaker 4: strongly fragrant. Then there's guardinas that have a nice fragrance.
Speaker 4: You know, there are a lot of plants that can
Speaker 4: have some fragrance, depending on sunshade, how big you want
Speaker 4: it to get, and what's fragrance you like.
Speaker 3: Okay, next question is on compost. I had seen an
Speaker 3: article the other day. It was on goarden line, but
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if Nature's Way provided the article or not,
Speaker 3: but it has said that there was really no need
Speaker 3: to change out your current soul if you just get
Speaker 3: a good premium organic compost and either mix that in
Speaker 3: or put some yes on the top. Okay, if you
Speaker 3: have any recommendations.
Speaker 4: On those, I do ethel I do I have to.
Speaker 4: I'm up. I'm up against a heart break. If you
Speaker 4: want to hole, we can keep talking. If not, I'll
Speaker 4: talk about that when I come back from break. Hang
Speaker 4: on just a minute, all right, folks, I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: All right, folks, we're back. Welcome to garden line. Hey,
Speaker 4: if you deal with summer weeds in your lawn, don't
Speaker 4: wait until you see the weeds and then try to
Speaker 4: spray something that will kill the weeds but not hurt
Speaker 4: your Saint Augustine. When the temperatures in the upper eighties
Speaker 4: or nineties, barricade. Now, we'll do the trick. You put
Speaker 4: it down, you water it in. Half inch of water
Speaker 4: goes into the soil. And when all of the summer
Speaker 4: eats crabgrass and grassperrs and you know all those things
Speaker 4: we deal with in the summer, when they try to
Speaker 4: sprout the barricades there say no, I'm a barricade. You
Speaker 4: can't come through. I Am not going to let you
Speaker 4: become a weed. We're going to shut you down right
Speaker 4: here at the seedling stage. Barricade does that. It comes
Speaker 4: in ten pound bag. Ten pound bag covers five thousand
Speaker 4: square feet. It's one of the great products from Nitrofoss
Speaker 4: that they have all over the place. So if you
Speaker 4: go to Barings Hardware on Bissinet, Bearing's on West Timer,
Speaker 4: if you go to M and D in Rosenberg, that
Speaker 4: is a place you can get Nitrofoss products, Ace Hardware,
Speaker 4: City and Memorial Plants for all seasons on two forty nine.
Speaker 4: These are all places that carry Nitrofoss products like barricade.
Speaker 4: But know this, follow my schedule. Don't wait. Do it
Speaker 4: now because it prevents weed seeds from establishing. If you
Speaker 4: wait until you got three inch grasspur plants or something,
Speaker 4: it's too late to use the barricade. It's a preventative,
Speaker 4: but it works. But do it now and water it
Speaker 4: in and you will have a good success with that.
Speaker 4: We're going to go back to Vider and talk to
Speaker 4: Ethyl and Ethyl. The bottom line on if you're wanting
Speaker 4: to improve your soil for lawns and things. You can
Speaker 4: just put a compost down, you can mix it in.
Speaker 4: It only takes a couple of inches. You know, you're
Speaker 4: not trying to turn it into a nice fluffy garden bed.
Speaker 4: You're just trying to put some organic matter in there
Speaker 4: and smooth over the soil and make sure everything is
Speaker 4: is kind of level so you're not stepping in holes
Speaker 4: when you're walking around on it, and then put your
Speaker 4: soil down on or your side down on top of
Speaker 4: that as it warms up a little bit, so it
Speaker 4: is going to be very willing to immediately start to
Speaker 4: root in.
Speaker 3: Okay, this is primarily going to be for like a
Speaker 3: vegetable garden, you know, tomatoes, squash, and then say, you know,
Speaker 3: just a few flowering plants.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, so for that you have a couple of options.
Speaker 4: If you want to try to work with the soil
Speaker 4: you have, I'll go back to the same advice, but
Speaker 4: little more compost mixed in. One of the easiest things
Speaker 4: is to buy a bed mix and just have them
Speaker 4: dump it on the driveway or you go get it
Speaker 4: in the trailer truck or whatever and put that down
Speaker 4: and grow right in that. So you're creating a bed
Speaker 4: on top of the ground. It could be just a
Speaker 4: mound of soil, or it could have sides on it.
Speaker 4: You know, you have a lot of different kinds of
Speaker 4: metal and wood and rock sided beds, whatever aesthetics you're wanting.
Speaker 4: Just get a good quality bed mix and put that
Speaker 4: down to grow.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Well, we just hadn't been able to
Speaker 3: find a well, I guess you'd say a good organic
Speaker 3: top soil or compost here, and so I was just one.
Speaker 3: We wanted one obviously that was light and didn't have
Speaker 3: a horrible smell to it or anything. So okay, all right,
Speaker 3: Well that help you. Thank you so much for those
Speaker 3: for the information you bet and I.
Speaker 4: Understand that you know the problem. You're kind of you're
Speaker 4: kind of out there outside of town, and so it's
Speaker 4: hard to some of the things that are available in
Speaker 4: town are a little harder to get out there. You
Speaker 4: might want to talk to the people at Heirloom Soils.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you've ever called them before, but uh,
Speaker 4: there's a there's a place in Porter called Warren's Rock
Speaker 4: and mult and they will do bulk deliveries. So if
Speaker 4: I were you, I would I would consider that and
Speaker 4: just you know, unless you just need a tiny bit,
Speaker 4: then you probably need to go get it because the
Speaker 4: cost of shipping. If you're just going to get like
Speaker 4: a yard of soil, it's not worth that. But if
Speaker 4: you're going to get a larger quantity, it may be.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, we would love to see you do an
Speaker 3: appearance over in the Golden Triangle area if you ever
Speaker 3: have the opportunity.
Speaker 4: All right, well, I would love that. We just have
Speaker 4: to see maybe someone out of that direction. We'll have
Speaker 4: me come on out there. Haven't been out haven't done
Speaker 4: an appearance out there yet, so that would be fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Randy, thank you several So, yes, we know
Speaker 3: that you have not been here yet, and I think
Speaker 3: you would get a hairy, warm welcome if you come
Speaker 3: to the Golden Triangle.
Speaker 4: Well let's do that. Then that sound that sounds good? Hey,
Speaker 4: By the way, let me real quick if you're interested
Speaker 4: in it, in contacting Heirloom, I'm going to give you
Speaker 4: a phone number and if you choose to get him
Speaker 4: a call, it's two eight one three five four nineteen
Speaker 4: fifty two eight one three five four nineteen fifty and
Speaker 4: see what they say you know what would it cost
Speaker 4: to get it out there? Do they have any other
Speaker 4: suggestions for you? But they sure make some good mixes.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate the information.
Speaker 9: You have a good day.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the call. I appreciate that. Yeahoom Heirloom Soils
Speaker 4: has several ways you can get stuff. You can buy
Speaker 4: it by the bag. It's sold all over town. They
Speaker 4: have a lot of different products. I mean they have
Speaker 4: products for vegetables and herbs. They've got products for acid
Speaker 4: living plants. They've got products for cactus and succulents. They've
Speaker 4: got products for the houseplant soils. I mean, anything you're
Speaker 4: gonna grow, they're gonna have a soil for it. By
Speaker 4: the bag. And then they also have bulk. You can
Speaker 4: go out to Porter and get it on US fifty
Speaker 4: nine out there in Porter, or you can have them
Speaker 4: deliver it and they can deliver it by dumbing it
Speaker 4: on the driveway, or they can bring it in one
Speaker 4: qbicyard supersacks. You got to buy at least three supersacks
Speaker 4: for delivery because of the amount, and there are always
Speaker 4: delivery fees on bulk materials here on gardening types of products.
Speaker 4: Here in the Eastern area, but they have a number.
Speaker 4: They have a premium lawn mix, which is it's made
Speaker 4: with Mason sand in compost and some bed mix and
Speaker 4: it's really good for prepping the soil for putting down. Said.
Speaker 4: It's a very economical product too, by the way, But
Speaker 4: however you go about it, you can go to Rockmoltch
Speaker 4: dot com r O c K the letter n Mulch
Speaker 4: dot com slash delivery, or you can get them call
Speaker 4: to eight one three five four nineteen fifty for all
Speaker 4: those bulk types of items and then just go to
Speaker 4: your local garden centers, your ace hardware stores, your feed stores,
Speaker 4: south those fertilizer places like that, or where you're going
Speaker 4: to find their products by the bag. I've used them
Speaker 4: a number of times in my landscapes and gardens and
Speaker 4: find that they work very very well. If you haven't
Speaker 4: met up the plants for all seasons, you need to go,
Speaker 4: especially if you have a vegetable garden. Right now, they
Speaker 4: got a shipment of onions in, just lots of bunches
Speaker 4: of all kinds of onions. You know, we're talking about
Speaker 4: red onions, yellow onions, white onions. And they also still
Speaker 4: have some potatoes. I believe last time I checked these
Speaker 4: potatoes there, it's time to get all those in the ground,
Speaker 4: and now's the time to do that. And by the way,
Speaker 4: when you're in there, you'll be inside in their area.
Speaker 4: Go check out their seeds. They have an excellent selection
Speaker 4: of all kinds of seats, flowers, and vegetables, you name it.
Speaker 4: It's beautiful and I just like walking around in there.
Speaker 4: I mean they have the little glass toadstools that you
Speaker 4: put all through the guard you know, that kind of
Speaker 4: yard art and things. It's just real whimsicle and fun.
Speaker 4: Lots of quality tools. I mean, it's just a good place.
Speaker 4: And then of course you got to go outside. They
Speaker 4: have the fertilizers I talk about on guard Line, They've
Speaker 4: got the soil products I talk about on guard Line.
Speaker 4: And then their plant selection is just awesome, and the
Speaker 4: knowledge of the folks that work there outstanding. You go in,
Speaker 4: you ask a question, you get an accurate answer. They
Speaker 4: know it, they've seen it before. They're gardeners. They've been
Speaker 4: doing this since nineteen seventy three. They pretty much have
Speaker 4: seen everything you could haul in in a sample or
Speaker 4: with a picture, and they're gonna be able to tell
Speaker 4: you what to do about it. That's it. Plants for
Speaker 4: all seasons. They're on Tomball Parkway two forty nine if
Speaker 4: you are going north and you exit Luetta crossover Luetta
Speaker 4: and they're right there on the right hand side. Plants
Speaker 4: for all seasons. I love visiting garden centers. You know,
Speaker 4: my happy place is just going from one garden center
Speaker 4: to another all over town. That would be a good
Speaker 4: day as far as I'm concerned. And it works, works
Speaker 4: really really well. I was checking out the Peerscap's website
Speaker 4: yesterday and looking at just the landscape lighting and what
Speaker 4: they can do to the outside of your house, both
Speaker 4: for security but also for just a beauty standpoint. Is amazing.
Speaker 4: If you've got an area that doesn't drain, they can
Speaker 4: fix that. If you've got irrigation issues, they can fix that.
Speaker 4: If you need landscape, hardescapes, they can fix that. They
Speaker 4: can create those. Yeh see it. I'll just say here,
Speaker 4: here's a website. Go to Pierscapes dot com, Peerscapes dot com,
Speaker 4: and I'm just ask you just do this. It's a
Speaker 4: fun thing to do. Even if you're not in the
Speaker 4: market for a landscape right now, go look go look
Speaker 4: at what they can do and it's amazing. Pierscapes dot com.
Speaker 4: Well just another reminder, uh, talking about what's up next.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be at the Home and Garden Show up
Speaker 4: in Conrod, Texas. The Montgomery County Home An Outdoor Living
Speaker 4: Show March first and second is coming weekend. I'll be
Speaker 4: there Saturday from twelve to noon, So come out and
Speaker 4: see me. I'm gonna give a talk, my answer questions
Speaker 4: I'm diagnose. I'm going to identify, shake hands, and kiss babies.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katy r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as may they give things to
Speaker 2: spain a sun.
Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 4: Skip Richner. We're here to have fun. How about that.
Speaker 4: We're certainly here to help you have a bountiful garden
Speaker 4: and a beautiful landscape, but we're here to have some fun.
Speaker 4: So what do you want to talk about today? How
Speaker 4: can we help you make gardening more fun and more successful?
Speaker 4: I love talking to gardeners. I've been doing this for
Speaker 4: thirty six years now, I believe, and it just every
Speaker 4: time a phone call comes in, you never know what
Speaker 4: people are going to ask, but it's always it's always good.
Speaker 4: You know, gardeners some of the finest people you'll meet.
Speaker 4: I tell you, I've been to so many garden clubs
Speaker 4: and master gardener groups and garden centers visiting with gardeners,
Speaker 4: and just I just enjoy gardeners. They are fun people,
Speaker 4: they're hopeful people. They're people that want to make that
Speaker 4: little patch of earth they call eden around the house
Speaker 4: a better place, and they really have that inspiration and
Speaker 4: a positive outlook too. You know, when you stick a
Speaker 4: seed in the ground, it looks like a little little
Speaker 4: chip of wood or a little piece of tritius, and
Speaker 4: you put it in the ground and you're thinking you're
Speaker 4: going to get a flower on of that, You're going
Speaker 4: to get a tomato out of that, and you do,
Speaker 4: and you do. It's just it's just trusts that when
Speaker 4: you do things right, you're going to have success. Well,
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what. Let's go straight out to the
Speaker 4: phones and we're going to head to Conroe and talk
Speaker 4: to Diane. Hey, Diane, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Hey, I was so glad to meet you yesterday. I'm
Speaker 10: the lady that came in I showed you the pictures
Speaker 10: of my gardening area and I was concerned about all
Speaker 10: the weeds. The other market was there yesterday. That was
Speaker 10: talk with the nitrophiles guy. He I was telling you
Speaker 10: I was trying wanted to get rid of the weeds,
Speaker 10: and you made some kind of suggestion to me, and
Speaker 10: you was telling me to start putting side in there
Speaker 10: if I didn't want to garden the area again. He
Speaker 10: made this to me that I could use thirty percent
Speaker 10: vinegar for the weeds, because I told him I don't
Speaker 10: want to garden that area this year. But he was
Speaker 10: telling me, you know, to avoid chemicals, to use thirty
Speaker 10: percent vinegar, it would kill weeds. Can what is your
Speaker 10: opinion on that.
Speaker 4: It works? You don't have to go up to thirty
Speaker 4: percent though even an eight to twelve percent we'll do
Speaker 4: a decent job. But a lot of times you'll see
Speaker 4: twenty percent vinegar. Just remember vinegar at that strength is
Speaker 4: way stronger than a twenty percent vinegars four times is
Speaker 4: acidic as household vinegar. And so you don't want to
Speaker 4: splash that in your eyes. You don't want the mist
Speaker 4: to drift, you know, be be careful with even though
Speaker 4: it's natural it's not safe.
Speaker 10: Okay, question about that. What proportion do I use to
Speaker 10: makes it with water? Do you use it straight?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 4: Use you straight, and you spray it. Wait till there's
Speaker 4: no wind because you don't want it drifting onto things.
Speaker 4: You don't want to kill. What it does, though, Diane,
Speaker 4: is it burns the top of the plant off. And
Speaker 4: so if your plant's an annual, you've killed the plant.
Speaker 4: If your plant is a print. Let's say you did
Speaker 4: it to dandelions. They're perennials. They've got an underground storage structure,
Speaker 4: and if you did it to dandelions, they would turn
Speaker 4: brown very Vinegar kills very fast, like putting gasoline on something.
Speaker 4: Just fries.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 4: But then after a week or two you look and
Speaker 4: here comes growth back up out of the ground. Because
Speaker 4: it doesn't translocate down into the soil like some weed
Speaker 4: killers do. It just fries the top. So that doesn't
Speaker 4: mean don't use it. It just means recognize that with
Speaker 4: some perennial weeds, you may have to do it again
Speaker 4: and again, but at least it gets you a head start.
Speaker 4: But when you do that, you got to follow up
Speaker 4: with some next step of what you're going to do
Speaker 4: gardening wise, because when you create a beare space, Nature's
Speaker 4: going to plant more weeds in it. Nature doesn't like
Speaker 4: bear soil showing, so use that to kill weeds. You
Speaker 4: put mulch over it. Yeah, you put about three inches
Speaker 4: of mulch and you're in good shape with the exception
Speaker 4: of certain weeds.
Speaker 2: What kind of mull.
Speaker 9: I know.
Speaker 10: He was real against all the dyed mult What kind
Speaker 10: of multch.
Speaker 4: Do you recommend. I don't care for dyed multch either.
Speaker 4: It's artificial looking and I don't know. I just you
Speaker 4: don't need to add a chemical tumults. I use everything.
Speaker 4: I use dried grass clippings, I use leaves that have
Speaker 4: been run over by lawn moore. I buy multches like
Speaker 4: the shredded mults. The multcha you're in conro so up
Speaker 4: there at Nature's Way. I've used their double ground hardwood
Speaker 4: multch and it works very very well.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: They have several types of multz there at Nature's Way,
Speaker 4: they're just down the road from you, that they could
Speaker 4: provide you. A mulch is dead organic matter on the surface.
Speaker 4: That's basically what it is. And so that beyond that,
Speaker 4: it's what do you want to look at Do you
Speaker 4: like the aesthetics of it? Am I getting it thick enough?
Speaker 4: Does it block all the light out? Those are the
Speaker 4: things that matter with mult. So, oh, okay, you're freeing
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 10: I showed you that one picture of my flower bed
Speaker 10: in front of my house. I wanted I definitely want
Speaker 10: to put mulch in there because I just like I said,
Speaker 10: I just want to put mulch around the plants that
Speaker 10: are there. Don't want need more.
Speaker 5: You just to be putting some flowers in, I don't.
Speaker 10: I just don't want to have the maintenance of it.
Speaker 5: It's my face, all right.
Speaker 4: There you go, there you go. Well. Uh, then again,
Speaker 4: if you wanted to send me some close up pictures
Speaker 4: of the weeds that you're seeing there, uh, maybe I'll
Speaker 4: recognize some as perennials, but you can. If you mulch
Speaker 4: over it, you will kill the weed the weeds by
Speaker 4: blocking the light. First start off by mowing it really
Speaker 4: low or having somebody weed eat it really down low,
Speaker 4: and then throw the mulch on top so you don't
Speaker 4: have some little weed leaves sticking up through the mult
Speaker 4: gathering sunlight.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: And you're going to need about three inches of multz
Speaker 4: to give it a good smothering on there. And if
Speaker 4: the chunkier the mulch, the thicker it has to be
Speaker 4: to block all that light.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, okay, Well, and the other thing i'd ask
Speaker 10: you about, I'd ask you about me putting down black
Speaker 10: cloth and play anything through the black cloth? Yes, should
Speaker 10: I put Should I put some other kind of fertilizer
Speaker 10: or anything on that gardening area before I put that
Speaker 10: black cloth down?
Speaker 4: Yeah? You could mix in. You could mix in. You know,
Speaker 4: you're going to be growing a lot of different things.
Speaker 4: I think you even had some vegetables in mind.
Speaker 10: Right if I want to, I have right now, I
Speaker 10: have colored greens and mustard green plants out there, four
Speaker 10: or five, but that I'm leaving those. But I'm going
Speaker 10: to add tomatoes to the area.
Speaker 4: All right, So I would get you a lawn fertilizer.
Speaker 4: Get a lawn fertilizer, put it out according to the rate,
Speaker 4: and if you can mix it in a little bit, good.
Speaker 4: If you can't find, then put your mulches and things on,
Speaker 4: and when you're ready to plant, you just you just
Speaker 4: pull the multch back. I'm out of time here, Dane,
Speaker 4: But good luck with that it was great to meet you,
Speaker 4: and I wish you well get in that place in
Speaker 4: the shape you're looking for. Thank you by uh D
Speaker 4: and D Feed and Supply is up there in Tomball, Texas.
Speaker 4: It is one of our favorite feed stores here on
Speaker 4: garden Line. And for those of you out west twenty
Speaker 4: nine to twenty you will be very impressed going by
Speaker 4: DND Feed and Supply right now. They are in the
Speaker 4: big middle of chick arrival season and they get all
Speaker 4: kinds of species of chickens, our species, varieties of chickens
Speaker 4: in there. They also have nitrofoss, boneye, microlife, turf, star Medina, airloom, soils,
Speaker 4: Nelson plant and they have the whole thing, I mean,
Speaker 4: anything you need to put on to make your plants grow,
Speaker 4: to get rid of weeds, diseases, insects. They've got you
Speaker 4: all covered. Three miles west of two forty nine on
Speaker 4: twenty nine to twenty. Here's a phone number two eight
Speaker 4: one three five one seventy one forty four two eight
Speaker 4: one three five one seventy one forty four go check
Speaker 4: them out.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 4: I got all right, we're back. Welcome back to the
Speaker 4: garden Line. What do you wanna talk about let's help
Speaker 4: you have a more successful and enjoyable time outside in
Speaker 4: the garden. By the way, this afternoon, we're getting rid
Speaker 4: of all this stuff, this stuff that's been keeping us indoors,
Speaker 4: and we're going to start a week that's going to
Speaker 4: be a good one, a good one for getting out
Speaker 4: and getting things done. You'd like to give me a call.
Speaker 4: Seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 4: If you look at my schedule, you will notice that
Speaker 4: there is an optional spring green up fertilization that is
Speaker 4: going on right now, right now out in the garden.
Speaker 4: And what does that do? That is a first of all,
Speaker 4: you're using a product that releases quickly and goes into
Speaker 4: the soil and the plant grass, the grass, plant roots
Speaker 4: take it up, and you get a greening us an
Speaker 4: earlier greening on your turf. Now it's still kind of cool,
Speaker 4: the soil is still kind of cool, so the grass
Speaker 4: isn't gonna take off and just grow all over the place.
Speaker 4: Right now. It's an early one. It's a green up. Okay,
Speaker 4: we'll be doing regular fertilization here on a couple of months, probably, uh,
Speaker 4: really getting into that uh in Earnest ninety five, Imperial
Speaker 4: fifteen five to ten is an excellent product for spring
Speaker 4: green up. Now you're going to find it at places
Speaker 4: like in Chenny Forest. You're going to find it. There's
Speaker 4: ace hard of a single ranch, Aspa's ace in the woodlands.
Speaker 4: The Arbigade Nursery carries some nitroposs products. When you find
Speaker 4: a quality product that works, you stick with it. And
Speaker 4: it was over fifty years ago that Texas A and
Speaker 4: M and other Southern universities we're discovering what grass needs
Speaker 4: is a three one to two ratio fertilizer, something in
Speaker 4: that range three one two four one two, and that
Speaker 4: is when Imperial was born. It's still the same formula sold,
Speaker 4: same red orange bag. So you walk in the store,
Speaker 4: you look at all the fertilizers. You see the red
Speaker 4: orange bag that's nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five ten. Put it
Speaker 4: down right now, watered in, and then you just walk away.
Speaker 4: It's taken care of. Follow the label carefully. It takes
Speaker 4: about seven pounds of that per thousand square feet, about
Speaker 4: seven pounds per thousand squiffee for it to do its trick.
Speaker 4: Now it comes in other formulations. You know, they have
Speaker 4: a fifteen to five to ten that has a post
Speaker 4: emergent weak control product in it as well. We talked
Speaker 4: about that a little bit earlier today. But night Fist Imperial,
Speaker 4: the red bag that is the one that you would
Speaker 4: use for your spring early green.
Speaker 11: Up.
Speaker 4: Right now, we're going to head back to the phones
Speaker 4: and head out to Mont Bellevue and talk to Brandon. Hey, Brendan,
Speaker 4: Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 5: Hey, Skipel's are going well, sir, So I have a
Speaker 5: question real quick.
Speaker 12: I have a nut all oak in my backyard that
Speaker 12: I planted probably, I don't know, it was probably about
Speaker 12: five six years ago. The tre's grown well, I mean
Speaker 12: it has grown probably about a foot a year. But
Speaker 12: I've noticed the last couple of years when the new
Speaker 12: growth would come out of the leave, it'd be like
Speaker 12: a more of a lime green. And it looks like
Speaker 12: with the heat in or summer, the leaves by I
Speaker 12: don't know July, look like they're starting to get burned
Speaker 12: on the edges. And I look some stuff up and
Speaker 12: a look like there's something called chlorosis. So looking up,
Speaker 12: looking up and trying to do my own research, it
Speaker 12: looks like if there is chlorosis. I guess it's pretty
Speaker 12: common in oak trees, but there's not I'm hoping there's
Speaker 12: a cure, but there's not really a cure. I don't
Speaker 12: know there's anything that you might be able to help
Speaker 12: me with. The tree is probably about i'd say fourteen
Speaker 12: feet tall, maybe has about a ten to eleven inch
Speaker 12: diameter at the base of the trunk.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, Well, chlorosis usually is referring to iron deficiency
Speaker 4: and that causes a yellowing. But one distinction about iron
Speaker 4: chlorosis on that oak is as the leaves start to
Speaker 4: lose their dark emerald green color, as the new growth
Speaker 4: starts to come out a little bit chartruse to yellowish,
Speaker 4: the veins will be greener than the rest of the leaf,
Speaker 4: and that's a sign that you're probably dealing with an
Speaker 4: iron deficiency. You can put iron supplements out around the tree.
Speaker 4: Generally we don't supplement oak tree for iron. That's just
Speaker 4: it's too big of an area of soil to have
Speaker 4: to deal with, and often supplementation is temporary. So the
Speaker 4: thing that you can do that helps is, you know,
Speaker 4: as you get oxygen in the soil, as you get
Speaker 4: organic matter into the soil the broader of an area.
Speaker 4: You can you know, mulch around it, doing cororation in
Speaker 4: your lawn and things, and compost top dressing. All of
Speaker 4: that over time is going to help move away from
Speaker 4: that particular direction. You can add iron supplements to it,
Speaker 4: but not all. Is a very good oak for our area,
Speaker 4: and it puts up with a lot. It puts up
Speaker 4: with soggy, wet soil better than a lot of oaks do.
Speaker 4: And it's just a good one. So I wouldn't be
Speaker 4: too concerned about it right now.
Speaker 12: Okay, that makes me feel a lot better. I know
Speaker 12: i'd seen I was going to ask you to. I
Speaker 12: don't know if this is kind of like a I
Speaker 12: don't know if it really works or we'll do more
Speaker 12: harm doing it. I'm sure you probably know what I'm
Speaker 12: talking about. I don't remember the name, but there you
Speaker 12: almost drill holes into the base of the trunk and
Speaker 12: you insert like, yes, the slower lease.
Speaker 5: Okay, can you recommend those?
Speaker 4: Or no? No, I don't if you had a tree,
Speaker 4: you know that was on the state capital lawns out
Speaker 4: front that was had to be completely pampered along to
Speaker 4: look its best. Okay, there are injections that can be
Speaker 4: done for very specific things. But as far as trying
Speaker 4: to create nutrient deficient or alleviate nutrient deficiencies and stuff, no,
Speaker 4: because each one of those is a wound which has
Speaker 4: a potential for causing other problems. And so don't get
Speaker 4: to your home trees. You just don't need to do that, Okay.
Speaker 12: So it sounds like trying to airrate the soul, like
Speaker 12: you said, maybe put some organic matter down around, and
Speaker 12: that probably the best bait to go.
Speaker 4: Those kinds of things. Over time, you know, what you're
Speaker 4: basically doing is what the forest does naturally to itself.
Speaker 4: Over one hundred years. You're going to be trying to
Speaker 4: speed up a little bit, you know. But those rotting
Speaker 4: leaves on the forest floor, you're basically creating holes. You're
Speaker 4: putting some composts down that falls in the holes, and
Speaker 4: over time things get better on it. But if you want,
Speaker 4: let's end it this way, Brandan, if you want to
Speaker 4: send me some close up photos in the spring as
Speaker 4: the new growth begins and you see what you're seeing,
Speaker 4: I'll be happy to take a look at them and
Speaker 4: just make a comment on that. And I don't think
Speaker 4: I'm going to change my mind. I don't change I
Speaker 4: don't think I'm gonna change my mind, but I'm one
Speaker 4: to take another look. I'm going to put you on
Speaker 4: hold and my producer Jonathan will give you a email
Speaker 4: address if you choose to do that. Thanks a lot
Speaker 4: for your calling. I appreciate it, all right, folks, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that oak trees, you know, this is just another reminder
Speaker 4: of why we plant plants that want to be here
Speaker 4: and not till oak wants to be here. It's a
Speaker 4: great oak for this area, and there's other great oaks
Speaker 4: for this area. But when you start planning things that
Speaker 4: don't want to be here, we often have problems that
Speaker 4: it's just really hard to alleviate. And so adapted plants
Speaker 4: so so important. Whether it's a shrub, a tree, or
Speaker 4: a flower in your flower bed, adaptive plants are very
Speaker 4: very important if you're looking for a place to get
Speaker 4: the things you need. Like I was just talking about
Speaker 4: iron and y, Well, you can do an iron keylate.
Speaker 4: That's a form of iron that doesn't tie up so fast.
Speaker 4: Where do you get stuff like that? Well, look around
Speaker 4: your neighborhood and there's an ace hardware store somewhere close
Speaker 4: to you. You can go to ACE hardware dot com
Speaker 4: and you can look at the store locator and find
Speaker 4: your closest aced hardware store, and they're probably going to
Speaker 4: have it because they carry all those kinds of things.
Speaker 4: They carry things like fertilizers and things to control weeds,
Speaker 4: both preventing weeds like the barricade was talking about things
Speaker 4: to kill existing weeds, things to control diseases and insects.
Speaker 4: The tools you need, you know, water hoses and gardening
Speaker 4: tools and just the whole thing to make the outside
Speaker 4: look really really good. And then of course they they
Speaker 4: are a hardware store, they have good stuff for the
Speaker 4: inside too. You're doing spring cleaning, you need some bins
Speaker 4: you're doing you need some of the materials you use
Speaker 4: to stain or seal your deck, you know, before the
Speaker 4: weather takes advantage of it. Ace Hardware's got all of that.
Speaker 4: They got their President's Day sale and all kinds of
Speaker 4: painting supplies. Mowen faucets twenty percent off this month. So
Speaker 4: if you're thinking about replacing a faucet, now it's time
Speaker 4: to get done because you get a fifth off, twenty
Speaker 4: percent off of Moen faucets right now, Grab some air filters.
Speaker 4: They have buy three get get one free every month.
Speaker 4: You're throwing a new air filter up there. You should
Speaker 4: be to take care of your air conditioning unit, keep
Speaker 4: the dust out, make it run more efficiently. ACE Hardware's
Speaker 4: got you covered. Sign up for the ACE Rewards program.
Speaker 4: When you're in ACE. You you can sign up online
Speaker 4: a sword dot comes sign up online, but you're going
Speaker 4: to get discounts. You're going to be special offers only
Speaker 4: available for ACE Rewards customers. They email them directly to you.
Speaker 4: So I mean it's a win win, you know, just
Speaker 4: sign up. Didn't cost anything to join up with it.
Speaker 4: And we got ACE Hardware stores all over the place
Speaker 4: that just they just do really really well for the
Speaker 4: neighborhood when it comes to supplying your whole supplies that
Speaker 4: you need to have success. So ospose ACE up in
Speaker 4: the Woodlands, Lake Conroe, ACE and Montgomery Single Ranch, ACE
Speaker 4: at the K and M ACE in Kingwood. There's also
Speaker 4: a K and M and a tuscas Sita up in
Speaker 4: Base or DNA based city. There's an ACE Hardware store
Speaker 4: out in Wharton. We had a call from Wharton this morning.
Speaker 4: For man there's ACE Feed or Wharton Feed and Ace
Speaker 4: out there, and then Hamilton Hardware, which is just off
Speaker 4: Highway six near Bear Creek Arey and West Houston. There's
Speaker 4: an ACE Hardware there that's just up for you. Of
Speaker 4: the many, many Ace Hardware stores that we have in
Speaker 4: our area, they do a good job of what they do.
Speaker 4: And again I just want to thank one more time
Speaker 4: the folks at All Seasons, Ace and Willis. We were
Speaker 4: up there yesterday. And folks, if you live in that
Speaker 4: whole area Willis Lake, Conroe, Conroe, you have got an
Speaker 4: awesome ACE Hardware store right there off seventy five, I
Speaker 4: mean off of forty five. It's it's easy to get to.
Speaker 4: It's on the feeder right there and Ellis, and they're
Speaker 4: well stocked. I was wandering around the store looking at
Speaker 4: all the things ahead, and yes, what you expect of Ace,
Speaker 4: they're going to have a little of everything and some
Speaker 4: good stuff indeed, so you need to go check them out.
Speaker 4: You were listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
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Speaker 4: Someone was talking earlier about Nature's Way. You know, Nature's
Speaker 4: Way is up there in Conra. In fact, I was
Speaker 4: mentioning it for a lady that called from Conroe, Diane.
Speaker 4: Nature's Way Resources is just south of Conroe. If you're
Speaker 4: going up forty five toward Conro, it's on the right
Speaker 4: when fourteen eighty eight comes in. That's the road to
Speaker 4: Magnolia that goes off to the left. You just turn right,
Speaker 4: cross over the tracks. You're there on Sherbrock Circle. Nature's Way.
Speaker 4: Nature's Way has been around a long time. They're kind
Speaker 4: of the grandfather when it comes to the good soil
Speaker 4: products for our area. You know, John Ferguson years ago
Speaker 4: began increasing his line of quality products with the determination
Speaker 4: to help people make their soil better because that's the
Speaker 4: way nature does it. Hence Nature's Way, you're going to
Speaker 4: find leaf mole compost, fungal based compost, both of those.
Speaker 4: By the way, leaf mold and fungle based are both
Speaker 4: good for top dressing your lawn. They have a fifty
Speaker 4: to fifty compost mix. It has leaf mold and fungle
Speaker 4: based compost. They've got I talked earlier about using their
Speaker 4: aged double ground molts. It works well. They have a
Speaker 4: composted native mult and a Zealiu malts. They've got soil blends,
Speaker 4: a landscaper's mix, a blueberry mix, a rose soil. Ross
Speaker 4: oil was born by the way at Nature's Way, as
Speaker 4: was leaf mole, compost and many other things. All you
Speaker 4: got to do is go buy there or call them
Speaker 4: have them to it. You'll find their products for sale
Speaker 4: in some local garden centers and other places. Here's the
Speaker 4: website Nature's Way Resources dot com. Nature'sway Resources dot Com.
Speaker 4: Call talk to Ian who now runs the place, Ian
Speaker 4: Ferguson and his whole team there and they can get
Speaker 4: you set up with the right kind of products. Here's
Speaker 4: a phone number nine three six two seven three twelve
Speaker 4: hundred nine three six two seven three twelve hundred or
Speaker 4: Naturesway Resources dot Com. You'll get a quality product and
Speaker 4: we'll make a difference because we say brown stuff comes
Speaker 4: before you put the green stuff in all right, folks,
Speaker 4: we're back. Welcome to Gardenline phone number seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two k t R seven one three two
Speaker 4: one two kt R H up in Willis. In fact,
Speaker 4: I was just step there yesterday visiting with folks at
Speaker 4: Growers Outlet. And if you haven't been there, you need
Speaker 4: to go. Grows out in Willis Is on Highway seventy
Speaker 4: five in Willis just a few minutes away from Interstate
Speaker 4: forty five. So if you're up there in one of
Speaker 4: the lake neighborhoods like bent Water, April Sound, if you're
Speaker 4: in Willis, if you're in New Waverley or down Conro area,
Speaker 4: this is a place you need to know about and go.
Speaker 4: They carry First of all, they carry the fertilizers and
Speaker 4: I keep talking about like microlife and nitrofoss products from
Speaker 4: Medina for example or there. And they have a lot
Speaker 4: of different products. A really cool gift shop too, by
Speaker 4: the way, and a lot of different kinds of local
Speaker 4: like Honeys, special pickle foods, jellies, jams. It's really cool.
Speaker 4: Bath and beauty products are in there. I saw some
Speaker 4: of those, but right now they just get in a
Speaker 4: bunch of fruit trees. They have got a really good
Speaker 4: selection of fruit trees. They have a good selection of veggies,
Speaker 4: very healthy plants too. I was walking around looking at them,
Speaker 4: taking some pictures of them. They specialize in perennials and
Speaker 4: ferns in gallon containers that are excellent, excellent for this area.
Speaker 4: We were visiting about some of the different kinds of
Speaker 4: salvia's and some other plants that really do well here,
Speaker 4: and they know all about that stuff. If you need shrubs, trees,
Speaker 4: they've got you covered. Now here's a cool thing. You
Speaker 4: can go to their website grow and write this down.
Speaker 4: Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. Just all one word
Speaker 4: Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. Go there, check it out.
Speaker 4: You can go online and you can look at their availability.
Speaker 4: That's unusual. Not many nurseries do this. But for example,
Speaker 4: every I think it's Wednesday, they update the veggies and
Speaker 4: bedding plants. You know what they have. So if you're thinking, well,
Speaker 4: let's see do they have this in stock, we just
Speaker 4: go look. You can see on there. You can see
Speaker 4: and other plants as well, and so you can purchase
Speaker 4: for picking up later on. You can purchase them online
Speaker 4: to pick up go by and pick up later. It's
Speaker 4: just a good place. And they have a few firm
Speaker 4: baskets right now, but they're about to get a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of them in. But they have these macho ferns
Speaker 4: that are huge. I'm serious. If I stand with my
Speaker 4: arms stretch out to the side, that's how big these
Speaker 4: ferns are. Literally, no, no exaggeration. Of course, they have
Speaker 4: smaller ones as well, but a twenty inch fern basket
Speaker 4: with a macho fern, it's like it's like a VW bug.
Speaker 4: It's a monster of a plant. And they're really really good.
Speaker 4: So you're going to create that beautiful you know. Let's
Speaker 4: get past the freeze where he starts taking ferns outside.
Speaker 4: Wait a little bit longer on that, but they got
Speaker 4: them there ready, and they're getting a whole bunch more
Speaker 4: in so Growers Outlet in Willis dot com Growers Outlet
Speaker 4: Willis on interstate or an interstate on Highway forty five north.
Speaker 4: Just a few are Highway forty five north. Highway forty five.
Speaker 4: It's actually south of Willis, but easy to get to
Speaker 4: and you'll be impressed when you go by there. Let's
Speaker 4: head out to Kingwood and we're going to talk to Joe,
Speaker 4: and so Joe, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Skip. Wanted your advice on when to do this,
Speaker 9: bring clean up and mulching. I'm going to be going
Speaker 9: on a trip for most of March, so it is
Speaker 9: your advice to go ahead and do it within the
Speaker 9: next week or two, or should I wait until late
Speaker 9: March early April?
Speaker 4: You know, in your situation, I think I'd go ahead
Speaker 4: and do it because what's going to happen is when
Speaker 4: you come back, there's already going to be new growth
Speaker 4: coming up through the old dead growth, and you can
Speaker 4: clean out the old dead, but you know, you're kind
Speaker 4: of having to be a little more careful so you
Speaker 4: don't hurt the new tender shoots coming up through it.
Speaker 4: So I would just go ahead and clean things down now,
Speaker 4: just clean out all the debris. You know, we could
Speaker 4: have another hard freeze, but I don't. The chances of
Speaker 4: a good significant one are unlikely. And if you waited,
Speaker 4: let's say a week or two and then you did
Speaker 4: this trimming up, when the plant begins to grow is
Speaker 4: when the weather temperature says grow, so that's the big factor.
Speaker 4: And as things warm up, and we already got some perennials.
Speaker 4: By the way, they're pushing new growth out of the base.
Speaker 4: I would go ahead and get that done.
Speaker 11: Great.
Speaker 9: I appreciate the advice. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Skip all right, sir, take care and have a good trip.
Speaker 4: All right, We're going to go now to Neadville and
Speaker 4: talk to Analisa. Hello Analisa, Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 13: Hi, good morning. I had great success with my tulips
Speaker 13: this winter, and I'm new to flowers, so I was
Speaker 13: wondering if you could recommend another easy bulb that grows
Speaker 13: well in the spring with all this weird freeze and
Speaker 13: not freeze. What should I plant?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, So I like to plant bulbs that we
Speaker 4: call repeat performers, meaning they you plan them once and
Speaker 4: year after year after year you get to enjoy those
Speaker 4: bulbs coming back. So it's a good investment or your
Speaker 4: gardening dollars. Tulips tend to be one shot wonders. You know,
Speaker 4: you plan them and you get a beautiful show, but
Speaker 4: typically you're not going to have that same tulip bulb
Speaker 4: blooming for you next year. They just aren't geared toward
Speaker 4: our climate. So for the cool season for the spring.
Speaker 4: Daffodils and Narcissus narcissus have the little white flowers, well,
Speaker 4: paper whites, excuse me, have the little white clusters of flowers.
Speaker 4: Daffodil narcissus is. There are many types of narcissus. Those
Speaker 4: do good, but you want to find ones that are
Speaker 4: more likely to naturalize here in our area. Not all
Speaker 4: daffodils are equal when it comes to how well they naturalize.
Speaker 4: There are your local garden centers typically should do a
Speaker 4: good job of carrying the ones that do better here.
Speaker 4: And you can also go online and you can you
Speaker 4: can hunt that down. You know, there's actually an online
Speaker 4: company that sells to some of our local garden centers
Speaker 4: where you can go online and you can just read
Speaker 4: about varieties, and if you can find those locally, that's
Speaker 4: great too. Our mail order. But daffodil is a good one.
Speaker 4: Another good one is in the summertime are rain lilies
Speaker 4: and copper lilies. Now those are little tiny plants. They fry, dry,
Speaker 4: disappear when it's blazing hot, and then we get a
Speaker 4: little rainfall and out of the ground comes new growth
Speaker 4: and blooms, little white blooms. Some of them have little
Speaker 4: pinkish blooms. The copper lilies have kind of an orange
Speaker 4: yellow colored bloom, and so they're just there every year
Speaker 4: for you. And there's a good list of different options
Speaker 4: that can carry you through the season. It's not a bulb,
Speaker 4: but the cemetery irises do really well. It's surviving year
Speaker 4: after year, and there is primarily a spring bloomer.
Speaker 3: Great, thank you.
Speaker 13: And with the daffodils and the narcissist, do I need
Speaker 13: to wait until we're sure we're past all the freezing
Speaker 13: weather or can I plant.
Speaker 5: Them this weekend?
Speaker 4: No, it's actually you can plant them this weekend. It's
Speaker 4: actually a little late because typically people plant spring blooming
Speaker 4: bulbs in the fall and they kind of get rooted
Speaker 4: in over winter and then they come out in spring
Speaker 4: and bloom. So you'll be planting bulbs now that have
Speaker 4: to get rooted in. You may get a little bit
Speaker 4: of a bloom out of them, but then next year
Speaker 4: they ought to be back on cycle. If you want
Speaker 4: to go ahead and plant those various types of narcissist
Speaker 4: like daffodil and paper whites and.
Speaker 13: Great, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: All right, I'll give you one more that's kind of fun.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: And it's called a school house lily, also called an
Speaker 4: ox blood lily, and it's little red trumpets and they
Speaker 4: pop out in this in the late summer when kids
Speaker 4: go back to school. That's where they have that name.
Speaker 4: Out of the ground, out a brown, dead, drought and
Speaker 4: heat killed growth of everything else in the area, here
Speaker 4: comes this fresh, new green growth. It blooms for a
Speaker 4: short time, but it's a nice surprise at that time
Speaker 4: of the year we get our first little fall rain.
Speaker 4: They pop up and bloom and then there are a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks and they go away. So mix your
Speaker 4: mix them all up in your yard so there's always
Speaker 4: a surprise coming on.
Speaker 13: And I can plant all of those lilies right now.
Speaker 13: You'd recommend for August. Is that right?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, you could. You could plant those all now
Speaker 4: the right especially when we're looking at the rain lilies,
Speaker 4: the copper lilies, and the schoolhouse lilies. Uh. There's even
Speaker 4: another one. It's got a weird name. It's called naked
Speaker 4: ladies because they shoot a shoot up out of the
Speaker 4: ground with no leaves, so it's this naked shoot coming up.
Speaker 4: And then there's this cluster of blooms that looks like
Speaker 4: a starburst up on top, and they're beautiful. And they're
Speaker 4: another one that appears in the fall after we get
Speaker 4: our first little cooling rain spell coming on. So that's
Speaker 4: another one. Go to a good garden center and they're
Speaker 4: gonna be able to show you all the different things
Speaker 4: that they carry like that.
Speaker 10: Great.
Speaker 8: I appreciate it, Thank you, thank you ver very much.
Speaker 4: Appreciate that. All right, folks, we're gonna take a little
Speaker 4: break here. I'll be right back. So welcome back to
Speaker 4: the garden. Line seven one three two one two K
Speaker 4: t R H. How can we help you have a
Speaker 4: beautiful garden, a bountiful garden, beautiful landscape, and how can
Speaker 4: we help you have more fun? Listen, gardening is fun,
Speaker 4: trust me repeat, gardening is fun. I promise you this.
Speaker 4: If you've not been having fun gardening, let's fix that.
Speaker 4: Let's find some ways to help you have success. Nobody
Speaker 4: has fun when things you're trying to do don't work. Right, No,
Speaker 4: that's not fun. We can make it fun. Let's do
Speaker 4: it is fun. It absolutely is fun. We will talk
Speaker 4: about all kinds of ways to have fun out there
Speaker 4: in the garden. The more we get out. The more
Speaker 4: we try our hand at working with nature and creating beauty,
Speaker 4: The more we create bounty, the more we put food
Speaker 4: on our tables. That is fifteen hundred miles closer than
Speaker 4: the food we're getting from the grocery store. That is fun.
Speaker 4: That is cool stuff. When you grow your own herbs
Speaker 4: and you bring them in to season things. We were
Speaker 4: barbecueing last summer, and there's a rosemary called barbecue. It's
Speaker 4: basically it just has long, straight stems and you need
Speaker 4: to pull all the little rosemary leaves off and you
Speaker 4: use it as a skewer to put your little kebabs
Speaker 4: on the That's just fun. I mean, that's cool. I
Speaker 4: mean it doesn't change the world in terms of flavor.
Speaker 4: It helps, but it's just fun because you grew at yourself.
Speaker 4: How about a base of flowers that you grew yourself.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of flowers almost every season of
Speaker 4: the year that you can grow here that you could
Speaker 4: bring in and use as a decoration the landscape plants
Speaker 4: to make a good good floral decoration in general. How
Speaker 4: do you want to have fun? Do you want it
Speaker 4: to be food? Do you want it to be beauty?
Speaker 4: Do you want it to be fragrance. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: we're talking earlier about some fragrant plants. You go outside,
Speaker 4: I tell you what, here is a garden of eden.
Speaker 4: You outside, you have a patio, You put up some
Speaker 4: bird feeders and whatever bird you know, bird baths and
Speaker 4: everything else to bring the birds in. And you get
Speaker 4: you your early morning cup of coffee, and you have
Speaker 4: some plant that is sitting there, maybe on the southwest side.
Speaker 4: We tend to get more southwest winds than other directions here.
Speaker 4: But wherever you just got some plants around. Maybe it's
Speaker 4: a citrus tree and a container on the patio, and
Speaker 4: you are smelling the fragrance, you are hearing the songs
Speaker 4: of birds. You're seeing the beauty of the garden. Oh
Speaker 4: my gosh. It just doesn't get much better than that.
Speaker 4: That is a special moment. And you can create that
Speaker 4: at your house. You can create it now. The best
Speaker 4: time to plant a tree is in the dormous season
Speaker 4: because that tree needs time to establish its roots. So
Speaker 4: get your trees and your shrubs we call those woody ornamentals.
Speaker 4: Get those things planted now. And when you plant them,
Speaker 4: it helps if you will get you one of the
Speaker 4: three sixty tree stabilizers. That's a bar that attaches to
Speaker 4: a post. They have an attachment that fits t posts
Speaker 4: real simply just driving straight down on the ground, or
Speaker 4: if you want to put in a post, you know,
Speaker 4: like a regular round fence post, they'll attach to those two.
Speaker 4: The other end attaches to your tree, and it's a
Speaker 4: soft rubber strap that has holes in it. So just
Speaker 4: like on your belt, you know, you can tighten or
Speaker 4: loosen your belt by going too a different hole. That's
Speaker 4: how that strap is. But the good thing about this
Speaker 4: is trees need to move a little bit if you
Speaker 4: honker them down where they don't bend at all. There's
Speaker 4: a principle of nature that when we stretch things, they
Speaker 4: get stronger. And here's an example. If you took one
Speaker 4: arm and you just tied it beside your body where
Speaker 4: you never used it, and the other arm, you went
Speaker 4: to the gym and you lifted weights until it was
Speaker 4: worn out, and then a couple days later, you lift
Speaker 4: weights until it worn out. Do that for a few weeks,
Speaker 4: and what's gonna be the difference in your arms? Right? Okay?
Speaker 4: Same thing as true with tree trunks. You bend that wood,
Speaker 4: you bend the upper roots that are helping anchor the
Speaker 4: tree just a little bit, not a lot. I'm not
Speaker 4: talking about going horizontal here. I just mean moving it,
Speaker 4: moving that and it strengthens it. You got tomato plant.
Speaker 4: If you're growing tomato plant transplants right now in your
Speaker 4: house and you run your hands over the top every
Speaker 4: day just to make it thinks the wind blow and
Speaker 4: just bend those little stems, they will be stronger than
Speaker 4: a plant growing in perfectly still air. All right. So
Speaker 4: I said all that to say, a tree support needs
Speaker 4: to give a little bit, needs to let the plant
Speaker 4: move a little bit, not a lot, but a little bit.
Speaker 4: That's what three sixty Tree stabilizer does. You're gonna find
Speaker 4: them all over the place. They've got them at Plants
Speaker 4: for All Seasons. You can find them at Buchanans downtown,
Speaker 4: at Arborgate up and Tombole Sanamal's down south of town.
Speaker 4: Also south of town in Alvin Jorges Hidden Gardens carries
Speaker 4: the three sixty tree stabilizer. You're gonna find them at
Speaker 4: RCW Nurseries too. Those are just some of the places
Speaker 4: where you can find this product. Get you one if
Speaker 4: you have a larger tree that you're planting. You may
Speaker 4: want to one kind of north south, one kind of
Speaker 4: east west, holding on so whichever way the wind blows,
Speaker 4: it stabilizes the tree. Now you can go out, you
Speaker 4: can buy wire, you can stick posts in the ground.
Speaker 4: You can stretch that wire over and put a piece
Speaker 4: of garden hose in it so it doesn't cut into
Speaker 4: your tree trunk, and do that three different direction staking
Speaker 4: It's just something to trip over and in the way,
Speaker 4: and it's unnecessary. Tree stabilizer works better. You should try one.
Speaker 4: You are listening to guard line the phone number seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two. What kt r H can
Speaker 4: you answer that? Can you finish the sentence for me?
Speaker 4: Say it all the time, k t r H seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two KTRH. Give me a call.
Speaker 4: We can talk about whatever the things are that you
Speaker 4: are most interested in. Well, I want to talk about
Speaker 4: Arburgate Garden Center for a little bit. Arburgate is one
Speaker 4: of those destination places where you kind of get to
Speaker 4: have it all. And I really mean that a good
Speaker 4: garden center has selection. I can find a better selection
Speaker 4: than Arburgate. A good garden center has staff that know
Speaker 4: what they're talking about. We're talking about people that know garden.
Speaker 4: We're talking peype the garden. When you go to Arburgate,
Speaker 4: you get help. And I've talked to them before. You know,
Speaker 4: they have a customer come in and ask a certain
Speaker 4: kind of question. We'll visit about it a little bit.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: They they make sure they get you the best answer
Speaker 4: you possibly can have have so you can have success.
Speaker 4: And I'm telling you they know ninety nine point nine
Speaker 4: percent of the answers themselves right there, because there's pretty
Speaker 4: much everything that has been asked before. They've been asked.
Speaker 4: They've grown things themselves. They're experts, they know what they're doing.
Speaker 4: You want to get plants at a good garden center
Speaker 4: that grow things that and sell things that belong here,
Speaker 4: not something that never should have been brought across the
Speaker 4: Texas state line and sold. Arburgate is that kind of
Speaker 4: garden center. You want a place that can help you
Speaker 4: create the foundation for success. I always say brown stuff
Speaker 4: before green stuff, brown stuff before green What does that mean?
Speaker 4: All it means is fix the soil first and then
Speaker 4: put your wonderful plants in and they will succeed. Don't
Speaker 4: PLoP a poor plant into an unprepared plot. First comes
Speaker 4: to brown, then comes to green when it comes to Arburgate.
Speaker 4: The brown is a soil for anything you want to grow.
Speaker 4: It has some expanded shale in it which helps our
Speaker 4: They have a compost that also has expanded shale. Awesome product.
Speaker 4: And by the way, the soil and compost are available
Speaker 4: by bulk. Just ask them at Arburgate. They can they
Speaker 4: can deliver that and bulk to you. And then finally
Speaker 4: the fertilizer for anything with the roots. It's an organic
Speaker 4: fertilizer and it works. So there you go. You get
Speaker 4: the brown stuff, but in the back of the car
Speaker 4: you buy the green stuff that will grow here, that
Speaker 4: will thrive here, and you're good to go. Whether it's
Speaker 4: cool season, color, vegetables, herbs, fruit tree that fruit trees
Speaker 4: year around, fruit trees, berries, grapes, seeds inside all kinds
Speaker 4: of their gift shops are unbelievable. They the more than
Speaker 4: one yes, and you got to go in and see them.
Speaker 4: Whatever kind of planet is, they're going to have it
Speaker 4: at Arbigate. And then finally a garden center that is
Speaker 4: fun to walk around. And Arburgate is just it's just
Speaker 4: a little botanical garden of all kinds of things. From
Speaker 4: yard art to plants to interesting iron art structures. To
Speaker 4: just go by there and see it. Park in the
Speaker 4: back parking lot by the way, that's off Treschel Road.
Speaker 4: Just a little loop goes round behind Arburgate and you
Speaker 4: will be very impressed. I guarantee you. And don't ever
Speaker 4: go by yourself. Take some friends with you because it
Speaker 4: is just too much fun. This is like, this isn't
Speaker 4: just like going to the Stormline grocery and coming home.
Speaker 4: This is an outing. It's an experience. All right. Well
Speaker 4: I kind of droned on there, but I love that place.
Speaker 4: I absolutely love it. You're listening to Guardline and the
Speaker 4: phone number is seven one three two one two KTRH.
Speaker 4: Give me a call. We'll be visiting about the things
Speaker 4: that are of interest to you coming up here. Oh
Speaker 4: my gosh're about to start playing music. How can we
Speaker 4: be done with another hour? That's impossible. Hey, I want
Speaker 4: to tell you about something before I forget coming up
Speaker 4: in March. I'll try to announce this a little bit later,
Speaker 4: but the Pioneer Unit of the Herb Society of America
Speaker 4: is having their annual Herb Forum. It's going to be
Speaker 4: up and round Top at the Festival Hill Institute. Now
Speaker 4: let me just give you the website. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 4: you some other things, but you want to go find
Speaker 4: out all this information. Festival Hill dotorg. Festival Hill dot oorg.
Speaker 4: Go there, find out all about it. It's an eighty
Speaker 4: dollars registration, but you're getting some incredible speakers. The theme
Speaker 4: is Unlocking the Mysteries of Herbs Superpowers, how to restore
Speaker 4: the biodiversity to your soil, the science of aromatherapy, healing
Speaker 4: chemicals of herbs, growing herbs here in Texas. There'll be demonstrations,
Speaker 4: you get to interact with the speakers. It's Saturday, March fifteenth,
Speaker 4: from nine am to four pm. I'm an old ideal
Speaker 4: and if you've never been out there, it's a beautiful place.
Speaker 4: Festival Who's a beautiful place? Festival Hill dot org. The
Speaker 4: Annual Herb Forum Unlocking the Mysteries of Herb Superpowers. There
Speaker 4: you go. That sounds like a fun outic. All right, Well,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a little break here. I'm a little
Speaker 4: low on coffee and in order for me to stay coherent,
Speaker 4: I'm aout go get I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie R. H Garden Line with scared Rickard's.
Speaker 4: Crazy.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as so many pies to sup Brasy away.
Speaker 4: Not sorry, all right, welcome back, here we go. We
Speaker 4: have got plenty of things to talk about today. Spring
Speaker 4: is about to spring itself. He would, you know the
Speaker 4: I'm done with winter. Okay, let's call it h Somebody
Speaker 4: get hold of the weather man, tell him this thing down.
Speaker 4: We're done. We're done. We got some better weather coming
Speaker 4: this week. And I'm excited about getting outside. If I
Speaker 4: showed you a picture of my yard and garden right now,
Speaker 4: you'd quit listening to Garden Line. It's not quite that bad.
Speaker 4: But I've been traveling and I have been working on
Speaker 4: some other projects and doing some consulting and different kinds
Speaker 4: of things, and it is time for me to get
Speaker 4: home and take care of things at the house. And
Speaker 4: I can't wait. I love getting outside.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 4: I think it was Calvin and Hobbes commercial, you know
Speaker 4: that cartoon with the tiger and says at the end
Speaker 4: of the day in the spring, if you don't have
Speaker 4: grass stains all over your knees, you're not doing things
Speaker 4: right or no, you need to seriously reconsider your life.
Speaker 4: And I need to go out there and get some
Speaker 4: grass stains on my knees along with some dirt stains too,
Speaker 4: some soil seven to one three two one two KTRH
Speaker 4: seven one three two one two KTRH. Give us a call,
Speaker 4: let's let's help you have success.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: South of Houston, you have got a one stop shop
Speaker 4: for all things related to setting the perfect foundation for
Speaker 4: gardening success. And I'm talking about Cienamlts and I'm talking
Speaker 4: about soil improvement. Brown stuff before green stuff. How do
Speaker 4: you do? What is brown stuff? What does that even mean?
Speaker 4: You maybe think of that? What like what is involved
Speaker 4: in that? What do you mean when you say that, Well,
Speaker 4: there are two things that are in gardening. There's the
Speaker 4: bronze stuff, which is a soil, and there's a green stuff,
Speaker 4: which is the plants. Now, you want plants that want
Speaker 4: to grow here. You want plants that are healthy and
Speaker 4: plants that are strong and all that. But first, first, first, first,
Speaker 4: you got to get the soil right before you put
Speaker 4: the plants in. At cienamlts, you get the soil right.
Speaker 4: Do you need a soil blend maybe something like a
Speaker 4: airloom soils veggie nerd mix. They've got that do you
Speaker 4: need a quality multch for example, do you need a
Speaker 4: just compost, a quality compost. They have everything you need
Speaker 4: to turn that soil into something special. They have bulk
Speaker 4: or they have some things in bags. But I'm telling you,
Speaker 4: whether you go by there and pick it up or
Speaker 4: whether you have them deliver it, they do about a
Speaker 4: twenty mile radius delivery. And by the way, they're they're
Speaker 4: in on FM five point twenty one near Highway six
Speaker 4: and two eighty eight. So those of you listening that
Speaker 4: are in Siana Plantation, Quel Valley, Manvil, Roach Share, and
Speaker 4: Sandy Point Arcola. I have a colony Pomona Meridian. First
Speaker 4: you see what I'm saying, Paarland, sun Creek Estate, Sweetwater Reshnent.
Speaker 4: This is your hometown one stop shop for everything that
Speaker 4: creates the perfect foundation for your plants. They also part
Speaker 4: of the brown stuff is nutrients. So where do you
Speaker 4: get microlife Nelson's turf Star, Medina products, Nitrefoss products, ASA mite,
Speaker 4: which is that micro nutrient trace mineral supplement. Where do
Speaker 4: you get products from heirloom sauce. You get them at
Speaker 4: Santa malk They have all that. When you drive off
Speaker 4: from Sanamulta. When you hang up the phone, they're going
Speaker 4: to bring it twenty miles for small delivery fee. When
Speaker 4: you're done there, the foundation is ready to be built.
Speaker 4: And then when the plants go in, everyone says you
Speaker 4: got a green thumb. Well, you have a green thumb
Speaker 4: because Ciena must help make your thumb for green by
Speaker 4: providing you the good stuff. They're open money through Friday
Speaker 4: seven thirty to five and Saturday seven thirty to two,
Speaker 4: closed on Sunday. Go to the website Cienamultz dot com.
Speaker 4: Check them out and see why I'm so big on
Speaker 4: that particular company. Also another reason is they're friendly, and
Speaker 4: they're fun, and they're they're enjoyable, a pleasure to work with.
Speaker 4: And I haven't even gotten into talking about their beautiful
Speaker 4: flagstones and other kinds of river rocks and gravel saying, oh, what.
Speaker 7: Do you need?
Speaker 4: Just go buy there. They're gonna have it. Guarantee you
Speaker 4: that they're gonna have it. I was talking about micro
Speaker 4: life products earlier and the fact that they're based on
Speaker 4: the truth that microbes rule the world and microbes make
Speaker 4: your plants happy by making the soil better. One of
Speaker 4: the products they have is Microlife's hum mats plus. That's
Speaker 4: a purple bag. It's a zero zero four fertilizer. It's
Speaker 4: got a little bit of fertilizer in it. But that's
Speaker 4: not why we're putting it down. Primarily, we're putting it
Speaker 4: down because it's concentrated compost in a bag. It is humus.
Speaker 4: And every time you add a little humus to the soil,
Speaker 4: little humus to the soil, over time, it is just
Speaker 4: getting richer and richer and richer. That's how nature builds
Speaker 4: soil by taking organic matter and taking it past compost
Speaker 4: all the way to humus over time, and microlife hum
Speaker 4: mates plus. The purple bag just gives you a way
Speaker 4: to do that in a short cut. You've already got
Speaker 4: the humus product in your hands. Spread it out there,
Speaker 4: follow the label. You can do it anytime of a year.
Speaker 4: You can do it when you fertilize. I mean you
Speaker 4: could go out, you know, first put your fertilizer out,
Speaker 4: or first put the hum mats plus out then put
Speaker 4: the other one out. Either way you go about it,
Speaker 4: you're going to have the same results. But in addition
Speaker 4: to your spring fertilizations, consider adding the Microlife humantes plus
Speaker 4: to your lawn does real well, also does good. You
Speaker 4: know you got a clay soil and you wanted to
Speaker 4: improve it and put in a garden and things. Oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, you got to put the image plus into that.
Speaker 4: You are listening to Garden Line. Our number here if
Speaker 4: you'd like to give me call seven one three two
Speaker 4: one two kt r H. Seven one three two one
Speaker 4: two kt r H. How can we help you have success?
Speaker 4: All right? I want I've been wanting to talk a
Speaker 4: little bit about success with tropical types of plants. And
Speaker 4: I know it's still kind of cool outside, but we're
Speaker 4: getting really close to a time when we can start
Speaker 4: putting tropicals outside. I had a number of calls from people,
Speaker 4: you know, saying things like, well, i've got some hibiscus,
Speaker 4: or I've got some gingers, I've got something like that
Speaker 4: that is in the garage. I've had emails on this too.
Speaker 4: When can I bring them out? How do you know
Speaker 4: when it's safe to bring them out? Well, you don't.
Speaker 4: You You can listen to the weather man. You can
Speaker 4: consider how far out that forecast is, because the further
Speaker 4: out it is, yeah, don't morey ify it is. But
Speaker 4: when things warm up those plants are ready to grow.
Speaker 4: I tend to be on the conservative side what I'll do.
Speaker 4: I may even buy a plant before it's time to
Speaker 4: put it out and just take care of it. Bring
Speaker 4: it in as needed, bring it in, make sure you
Speaker 4: are taking good care of it, protecting it from the cold.
Speaker 4: And when it gets warm, then those plants are really
Speaker 4: ready to grow and you can pin them a little earlier.
Speaker 4: I've got some ginger, for example, that's in pots right now,
Speaker 4: and I could stick it in the ground and mulch
Speaker 4: over it and it'd be fine. But I generally wait
Speaker 4: until it's ready to grow and put it out at
Speaker 4: that time. That gives you a little time, a little
Speaker 4: extra time to prepare the soil. And it is so
Speaker 4: important to prepare the soil ahead of time. So get
Speaker 4: those soil right and then move those things out. In
Speaker 4: the meantime, put them outside every time we have a
Speaker 4: little bit of sunshine. This week's going to be a
Speaker 4: good time even for tropicals to be out there capturing
Speaker 4: a little bit of sunlight in preparation for when we
Speaker 4: put them in the ground. Let me take a quick
Speaker 4: break and I'm going to come back with your calls
Speaker 4: and more gardening information. All right, we're back back with
Speaker 4: garden Line. Hey, thanks for being a listener. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: I hope you're having fun. I hope you're having tips
Speaker 4: that help you have success for sure. You know, folks
Speaker 4: at Nitrovis have an organic fertilizer. It is a product
Speaker 4: called Sweet Green. It's based on molasses that microbes have
Speaker 4: done a little work with and created an eleven zero
Speaker 4: zero fertilizer. So when you put you know, organic gardeners
Speaker 4: will put molasses in the soil because they know that
Speaker 4: carbon really stimulates a lot of microbial activity, especially with
Speaker 4: beneficial bacteria. Well, Sweet Green has the same effect in
Speaker 4: your soil and be an eleven percent one of the
Speaker 4: highest analyzes for an organic plant food that you would have,
Speaker 4: and it being a lassis based product just smells good,
Speaker 4: smells great. I joke around and say when you when
Speaker 4: you buy it and go home, you want to take
Speaker 4: an extra loop around six ten just to enjoy the
Speaker 4: fragrance of it. Maybe not, but you know what I'm saying. Anyway,
Speaker 4: you're going to find it at a lot of different retailers,
Speaker 4: like other MICU, like other products that are from Nitrofoss
Speaker 4: and this microbially active product is going to be available
Speaker 4: at places like Plantation Ace Hardware, A Langham Creek Ace Hardware,
Speaker 4: r CW Nurseries. Uh and there's a Lake Hardware now
Speaker 4: in Angleton. There's hardware done include too. They carry nitrofoss
Speaker 4: products like the Sweet Green. It's a pretty quickly available
Speaker 4: microbes get a hold of it and they release the
Speaker 4: the nitrogen that's in it, and you're in business in
Speaker 4: your lawn will show the show the difference as a result, too,
Speaker 4: Sweet and green. That's a good combination. That's a good name.
Speaker 4: What you thought of that? I like that name.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: Out in Kingwood, we've a couple of garden centers that
Speaker 4: are just outstanding. You know, the Kingwood Garden Center. They
Speaker 4: did a revamp on their gift shop over the cool season,
Speaker 4: the early holiday season and it is really looking gut
Speaker 4: in there. It just it looks awesome really inside. And
Speaker 4: Warren's Garden Center is as Warren's Southern Gardens is on
Speaker 4: North Park Drive, Kingwood is on Stone Hollow Drive. Both
Speaker 4: both locations open seven days a week. They served that
Speaker 4: whole region up there, you know, not just Kingwood, but
Speaker 4: Humbolo Task assieda new Caney Valley ranch and porter all
Speaker 4: that area. You're gonna find the products you hear me
Speaker 4: talk about, like Microlife products, nitrofost products, Nelson turf Star products,
Speaker 4: airloom soils, the Nelson plant food and the jars or there.
Speaker 4: They carry a lot of things. And they even have
Speaker 4: the refilling jars there for Microlife and Nelson plant food products.
Speaker 4: So when you buy a jug of either Microlife or
Speaker 4: Nelson plant Food and you don't have to throw the
Speaker 4: plastic away and go buy another jug, you can save
Speaker 4: some money and avoid throwing plants in the environment by
Speaker 4: going to the filling station. You pull down a little
Speaker 4: handle and refill your jar. And it's economical, it works.
Speaker 4: It just makes sense all around. And they've got that.
Speaker 4: We're in Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. You're gonna
Speaker 4: find great selections right now. The herbs and the veggies
Speaker 4: are there, they're ready to go. They got citrus and
Speaker 4: other fruit trees. They got roses, certainly, flowers like annuals
Speaker 4: and perennials, and many kinds of native plants as well.
Speaker 4: I just think one of the features that I always
Speaker 4: am impressed with with them, I was out at Warren
Speaker 4: Southern Gardens a while back and they were working on
Speaker 4: designing and making custom potted containers of plants. You have
Speaker 4: multiple plants in a container, so and you can go
Speaker 4: out there and they can even help you with the shopping.
Speaker 4: But like, here's the container, I like, I want that one. Okay, Well,
Speaker 4: here's some soy you put in it. What kind of flowers?
Speaker 11: I like?
Speaker 4: This kind of flower? What will go well with that? Well,
Speaker 4: here's some others. And then they tell you how to
Speaker 4: put it together and you can do it or they
Speaker 4: can do it for you. I mean they can do
Speaker 4: that for you as well. But whatever you need tools,
Speaker 4: other gardening needs, you're going to find them there at
Speaker 4: Warren Southern Gardens Kingwood Garden Center, both open seven days
Speaker 4: a week. So guess what would be a good idea
Speaker 4: for this afternoon is to get out, enjoy some a
Speaker 4: little bit better weather here, and do some shopping. I
Speaker 4: was talking about some different things this morning. One of
Speaker 4: the things that I wanted to mention is outdoor seed starting.
Speaker 4: We're getting really close to the time when we're going
Speaker 4: to start putting those warm season seeds in the ground,
Speaker 4: things like cucumbers and squash and corn and whatnot. And
Speaker 4: sometimes people get confused about how deep do you plant
Speaker 4: a seed. So I'm going to give you a quick
Speaker 4: quick tip here. For most seeds, if you will plant them,
Speaker 4: about three times as deep as the seed is wide,
Speaker 4: that's about the right depth. Therefore times as deep as
Speaker 4: the seed is wide, that's about the right depth. The
Speaker 4: finer textured your soil where the seed is the better
Speaker 4: seed to soil contact that you get. So if you
Speaker 4: get this little seed and some real chunky soil, there's
Speaker 4: a lot of air around the seed, you know, it's
Speaker 4: not just soil kind of packed up against the seed.
Speaker 4: If you can get a finer textured soil, you need
Speaker 4: to put a little compost of very fine texture composts
Speaker 4: down in there too. But that helps the moisture go
Speaker 4: into the seed and stay in the seed. And planting
Speaker 4: with the right depth is important. Now, there's a few
Speaker 4: seeds that need sunlight to germinate. Do you know that
Speaker 4: the red rays of the sun specifically, that's the wavelength
Speaker 4: that primarily is active there. They help germination and so
Speaker 4: let us for example, we plant on top of the ground.
Speaker 4: And now still time to plant lettuce seeds and have
Speaker 4: a nice little harvest of lettuce. But we put them
Speaker 4: on the ground and we keep it moist, wet the soil. First,
Speaker 4: sprinkle the lettuce out, wet it again with a fine mist,
Speaker 4: and keep it moist with periodic misting, and that let
Speaker 4: us he will germinate. Carrot's is helpful if you're not
Speaker 4: too deep on those too. When you plant a seed
Speaker 4: too deep, it never sees the light a day, literally,
Speaker 4: it just can't. It is not able then an energy.
Speaker 4: You know, put a you put a broccoli seed, you know,
Speaker 4: four inches in the soil. I mean, there's no way
Speaker 4: that thing's ever going to make it to the top.
Speaker 4: But think about that three or four times a width
Speaker 4: of the seed. That's how deep. Cover it with soil,
Speaker 4: fine textured mix and you will have success with your seat.
Speaker 4: Keep a moist when a seed. Here's a here's a
Speaker 4: biochemical tip for your seed starting, or biochemical information for
Speaker 4: your seed starting. When a dry seed sets there dry,
Speaker 4: it never sprouts, whether it's a weed seed or seed.
Speaker 4: You plant it. When it gets moist, it takes in water,
Speaker 4: and when water goes inside it starts a series of
Speaker 4: biochemical reactions that are absolutely miraculous. I mean this is
Speaker 4: it is an amazing design the way that seeds are
Speaker 4: are designed to work, and that is the water comes in,
Speaker 4: it starts these biochemical reactions and all kinds of things
Speaker 4: are happening. I won't bore you with all the details
Speaker 4: on it, but the bottom line is, here comes a
Speaker 4: root out and then here comes a shoot up. And
Speaker 4: in the stage of that germination, if it dries out,
Speaker 4: it dies. There's no recovery. Once it gets a root
Speaker 4: down with some measurable depth, then it is able to
Speaker 4: withstand a little bit of drought because it has a
Speaker 4: root that's reaching out into other parts of the soil.
Speaker 4: But right around that seed, you got to keep it
Speaker 4: moist up through the germination process. Not soggy, but not dry.
Speaker 4: Keep it moist and you'll have success when the biochemical
Speaker 4: reactions start because the seed is taken in water. Here
Speaker 4: we go. Some of my seed I will actually pre
Speaker 4: soak before I put them out, And that's a good option.
Speaker 4: You can do that. You like okra, for example, and spinach,
Speaker 4: I will put in very hot water. Just get good
Speaker 4: hot water and put the seeds right in it and
Speaker 4: let it sit on the counter overnight. The water cool off.
Speaker 4: That's okay. The hot water makes the moisture go in
Speaker 4: the seed faster, and then it goes off real quick anyway,
Speaker 4: and then in the morning when you plant it, you
Speaker 4: already have a well soaked seed. It's it's imbibed the
Speaker 4: water it needs and it's ready to start that process.
Speaker 4: And it gives you a little bit of a head start,
Speaker 4: and it gives you a little bit of a higher
Speaker 4: percentage of germination. To pre soak. Now, I don't pre
Speaker 4: soak every seed. I don't pre soak lettuce seeds, and
Speaker 4: I don't pre soak you know, a little broccoli seeds
Speaker 4: and things like that, or pinto beans necessarily, but it
Speaker 4: is a tip for some seeds it may be a
Speaker 4: little slower to sprout for getting a good start on them.
Speaker 4: If you have any kind of outdoor furniture that is
Speaker 4: metal that ain't looking so good, you need to call
Speaker 4: Houston powder Coders or even you can call them at
Speaker 4: two eighty one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight,
Speaker 4: or you can just go to the website Houston powder
Speaker 4: Cooders dot com. All the information is there Houston powder
Speaker 4: Cooders dot com. Another option would be to send them
Speaker 4: an email. Take a picture of your outdoor furniture. It
Speaker 4: maybe it's painted metal furniture. It could be wrought iron,
Speaker 4: it could be a cast iron, it could be a
Speaker 4: luminum patio for whatever it is. Take a picture of
Speaker 4: it and email that picture to sales at Houstoncoders dot com.
Speaker 4: Sales at Houston Cooders dot com, say hey, I just
Speaker 4: need a price aned estimate on this. What's it going
Speaker 4: to take? They will, They do free pickup and delivery
Speaker 4: in the Greater Houston area, and they can do any
Speaker 4: kind of metal. I mean it could be you know,
Speaker 4: some kind of wall art hanging outside that's cast iron
Speaker 4: or something, and they can they can powder coat that.
Speaker 4: And they don't have to paint it. I mean they
Speaker 4: can paint it. They got a hundred say paint it.
Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be colors, is what I meant
Speaker 4: to say. They have over one hundred colors in stock,
Speaker 4: and more colors even that are available, but that in
Speaker 4: those colors or colors that look like even rusty iron,
Speaker 4: you know, they have that colors. If you like that
Speaker 4: natural rustic look, they can powder coat it to that
Speaker 4: color too. Or maybe you want, you know, bright canary
Speaker 4: orange or canary yellow, or a beautiful blue or red
Speaker 4: or something. They can do it all. They can do
Speaker 4: it all. You just got to get a hold of them.
Speaker 4: Send a picture to sales at Houstoncoders dot com or
Speaker 4: go to their website Houston Powdercoders dot com. Find out
Speaker 4: all you need there. They're right up in north central
Speaker 4: Houston near the intersection of Beltway eight and Hardy Toll Road,
Speaker 4: so it's easy to get to. But remember they'll come up,
Speaker 4: they'll come out and they'll pick it up and they'll
Speaker 4: deliver it for you. And all the things that your
Speaker 4: furniture needs, whether maybe you've got to replace the rusty
Speaker 4: bolts in hardware, they'll replace them with stainless steel. Those
Speaker 4: little plastic caps that you know sit on the feet
Speaker 4: so the metal doesn't scratch along your patio, they can
Speaker 4: replace that too. They take good care of it needs
Speaker 4: a little bit of welding. That's also a service they
Speaker 4: can offer is putting a little well to strengthen that.
Speaker 4: And take that old furniture that maybe about to hit
Speaker 4: the road and be thrown away, turn it around, make
Speaker 4: it something special. Houston Powder Coders. They do good work.
Speaker 4: I've seen it. It's amazed at the work that they do.
Speaker 4: Anti Grosenporium is one of the favorite places that I
Speaker 4: like to go visit, and if you haven't been out there,
Speaker 4: you got to go. It's north of Brownham, it's in Independence, Texas,
Speaker 4: and it's like you've gone into a different time. They've
Speaker 4: got some gorgeous buildings on site that are historic that
Speaker 4: it's so cool to walk through them. I love walking.
Speaker 4: I took a picture of In fact, the banner on
Speaker 4: my website currently is me on the porch and one
Speaker 4: of those buildings at antiq Rozenborium. So you go to
Speaker 4: gardening with skip dot com, there's a picture of one
Speaker 4: of the buildings along with me standing there getting in
Speaker 4: the way of that good looking building. Anyway, if you
Speaker 4: go to Anti Rosenborim, you're going to have a wonderful
Speaker 4: time and you need to take your friends, a lot
Speaker 4: of people. I mean, it's almost like, you know, going
Speaker 4: on a special trip to go visit a botanical garden
Speaker 4: or something. They have a deal right now, well, I say,
Speaker 4: right now, do you know they offer free self guided
Speaker 4: tours where they give you a little brochure and you
Speaker 4: can walk through on your own pace. Learn all about
Speaker 4: the plants and the place and everything. It's really cool.
Speaker 4: Or they have a paid guided tour that the owner,
Speaker 4: Jim Keater himself will take you out. He'll walk you through,
Speaker 4: diving deeper into the history and the horticulture behind their
Speaker 4: beautiful landscapes that they have out there. Either way you
Speaker 4: want to go self guided, se a free self guided
Speaker 4: tour with the pamphlet, or go out pay for the
Speaker 4: tour with Jim Keeter get really good insights and not
Speaker 4: only the plants they have, but the history of the
Speaker 4: place and the care of those plants. Now you got
Speaker 4: to write down the website Antique Roseimporium dot com Antique
Speaker 4: Roseemporium dot com and go to that website check out
Speaker 4: upcoming events. They've got some really cool events that are
Speaker 4: coming out. In fact, one of them, I believes in
Speaker 4: it's coming out right around the corner, So don't delay,
Speaker 4: get out there find out about them. They have a
Speaker 4: variety of events from free events and some very special celebrations,
Speaker 4: which is what their Spring Garden Party is. Drinks, dinner, desserts, music,
Speaker 4: and more. It's a paid event, but boy is it
Speaker 4: ever special. So check them out. You want to know
Speaker 4: about that all right. Well, I was talking about ACE
Speaker 4: Hardware before and mentioning that, you know, you got your
Speaker 4: Mowen faucet sale going on, You got your air filters
Speaker 4: and things like that, spring cleaning aces ready for that.
Speaker 4: If you need to exchange your propane canisters or proprane refills,
Speaker 4: so your local ACE store can probably take care of
Speaker 4: that for you as well. You know, Ace Hardware, the
Speaker 4: stores are all over the place. There's a Rockport Ace,
Speaker 4: there is a Plantation ACE down in the Richmond Rosenberg area.
Speaker 4: We got Jay and ours ACE Hardware up in Porter
Speaker 4: Bay City, Ace Hardware and bas City, there's a lot
Speaker 4: of them. Go to ACE Hardware dot com and find
Speaker 4: the store locator and find your local ACE and go
Speaker 4: in and you will be surprised at what they have
Speaker 4: for outdoors and for indoors. Already we're back, Hey, welcome
Speaker 4: back to Guardline. Good to have you, Good to have
Speaker 4: you listening in with us. Listen. If you want to
Speaker 4: do one thing to turn your outdoor porch or patio,
Speaker 4: any kind of outdoor sitting area into something special, even
Speaker 4: to decorate the front of the house, a container full
Speaker 4: of color is the way to do it. I mean
Speaker 4: it's fast, like today this afternoon. You grab a container,
Speaker 4: you grab some soil, you plant the plants. You're in business.
Speaker 4: That's fast. That is fast and easy. But you need
Speaker 4: a good quality mix to go in the container. What
Speaker 4: is a good quality mix. Well, it has a lot
Speaker 4: of organic matter, is very microbial active, microbially active, and
Speaker 4: it has an adequate volume, meaning a good size of
Speaker 4: the container. It holds moisture so it doesn't all run out,
Speaker 4: but it also drains well so it doesn't stay soggy wet.
Speaker 4: You don't want to create a swamp. You don't want
Speaker 4: to create a mucky goo. And that container well, jungle
Speaker 4: Land from Nitrofis does all of that. It is a
Speaker 4: very special mix. It's got specifically blended Canadian blonde peat,
Speaker 4: different four different actually sources of aged bark, and a
Speaker 4: microiz of fungi in the mix itself. It really revitalizes
Speaker 4: potting plants. If you want good lasting color and good performance.
Speaker 4: Remember it all starts in the soil, brown stuff before
Speaker 4: green stuff. When it comes to containers, jungle Land is
Speaker 4: a good brown stuff. They also have an indoor jungle
Speaker 4: Land which has water saving crystals in it. These are
Speaker 4: little crystals that swell up with water. So and I
Speaker 4: know you don't forget, but when your neighbor forgets to
Speaker 4: water their houseplants, these crystals still have some water to
Speaker 4: help it go on until it finally dawns on your
Speaker 4: neighbor to water their houseplants. Where do you get it? Well,
Speaker 4: Nitrofris products are widely available. You're going to find things
Speaker 4: like that at plants for all seasons. In l Wadda.
Speaker 4: You're going to go to Katie's Hardware, which is in
Speaker 4: Katie of course Court Hardware, which is in the Stafford area.
Speaker 4: If you go down to Alvin the Stanton shopping Center,
Speaker 4: you're going to find night Fresh products there as well.
Speaker 4: We're going to head straight out to the phones now
Speaker 4: and talk to Diane in Cyprus. Hey Diane, welcome to
Speaker 4: garden Line.
Speaker 14: Hey, good morning Skip. I had called you a lot,
Speaker 14: uh several times this last spring because we were trying
Speaker 14: to help restore our yard. And then I have concerns
Speaker 14: in our beds and our back of our house, back
Speaker 14: up against this wall where we had some little door
Speaker 14: for your times, and then there's a bird bath, my
Speaker 14: rose bushes that were knocked out roses had been very
Speaker 14: pretty when we first moved into our home six years ago,
Speaker 14: and they did really well. But something happened to them. Okay,
Speaker 14: excuse me, I have to excuse my voice. But it
Speaker 14: started changing and they started turning black on the on
Speaker 14: all stems and the trucks. And I tried everything that
Speaker 14: I could. I was listening to a lot of your
Speaker 14: advice and but I ended up losing all four of them.
Speaker 14: But what I wanted to do is get advice from
Speaker 14: you how to prepare the bed properly with the right
Speaker 14: kind of soil and the nutrients that are needed before
Speaker 14: I plant some more. I'm not going to plan as
Speaker 14: many this time. I'm just going to do too to
Speaker 14: make sure that they'll surprise.
Speaker 4: And so I was.
Speaker 14: I've been taking notes all this morning, but I would
Speaker 14: really like to get your advice on what the best
Speaker 14: needs do to prepare that bed and get it, you know,
Speaker 14: healthy and ready for some knock out really quick.
Speaker 4: I got it all right, So here here's here's what
Speaker 4: you need to do. First of all, the black death
Speaker 4: that occurred that you described, it could have been a canker.
Speaker 4: It also could have been something going wrong in the
Speaker 4: root system. And causing the plant to die. Soggy wet
Speaker 4: soil which is poor drainage can cause that, but it
Speaker 4: didn't matter at this point what it was that caused it.
Speaker 4: You want to get a good rose soil, and you
Speaker 4: can buy rose soil. There's a couple of places that
Speaker 4: service your area. The Nature's Way Resources is on I
Speaker 4: forty five up toward Conro and they service that area.
Speaker 4: You can also get from heirloom soils. They sell both
Speaker 4: bulk and in bag. Around your cypress area. You may
Speaker 4: check with some of your ace hardware stores. You know
Speaker 4: other centers I know over at plant Roll Seasons they
Speaker 4: carry some of the soil types of products that are
Speaker 4: going to be successful for that. When you want a
Speaker 4: good rose mix, build up a raised bed high enough
Speaker 4: to ensure good drainage. And know that the bed is
Speaker 4: going to settle after you build it, So if you
Speaker 4: built it a foot high, by the end of the season,
Speaker 4: it's going to be about eight inches high because it
Speaker 4: literally just settles in a lot. So make it a
Speaker 4: little extra high to begin with. But a good roast
Speaker 4: soil mix and then follow that up with good fertilization
Speaker 4: and small amounts through the season and your roses perform. Well,
Speaker 4: don't forget to maltz the surface too to keep the
Speaker 4: weeds down.
Speaker 14: Okay, I'll certainly do that, and thank you so much.
Speaker 14: I appreciate it. So hopefully this time it'll work, all right.
Speaker 4: Send me a picture of your beautiful rose is when
Speaker 4: it does work. Thanks a lot, Diane, appreciate that, all right.
Speaker 4: You're talking about different products. Nelson Plant Food. They sell
Speaker 4: a rose fertilizer. It's part of the nutri Star line.
Speaker 4: It's a canister jar and you know, you just get
Speaker 4: your little tablespoon in there, scoop it up and sprinkle
Speaker 4: it around according to the right rate. It's part of
Speaker 4: Nutristar products. There's a lot of them.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: There's a tree and shrub product. It's for trees and shrubs.
Speaker 4: Gives a nice gradual release over time, including micro nutrients.
Speaker 4: There's a nutristar citrus fruit and avocado. Basically, if you're
Speaker 4: going to grow something to eat off the tree or
Speaker 4: the shrub the bush, nutrastar citrus fruit and avocado that's
Speaker 4: a good one for that. But they also have that
Speaker 4: rose soil, so you know, Cindy was a rather it
Speaker 4: was just discussing roses, so I'd have some jars of
Speaker 4: that Nelson plant food nutri star rose. It's a rose,
Speaker 4: four roses. We're gonna go to Spring Branch now and
Speaker 4: talk to Josh. Hey, Josh, welcome to garden line. Hey,
Speaker 4: good morning to get some morning.
Speaker 11: In the backyard.
Speaker 5: And I'm curious to get any good sponsors.
Speaker 13: They carry that that we did.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't. I don't have a turf sponsor
Speaker 4: at all, but I know there are a number of
Speaker 4: places around town that will sell it. You might try
Speaker 4: one of your oh gosh, King Ranch turf places. Those
Speaker 4: are pretty widespread here in the area. But there's some others.
Speaker 4: There's other good places that will sell you you turf.
Speaker 4: I don't know who carries exactly what variety. Emerald is
Speaker 4: an older variety of Saint Augustine. It's still a good
Speaker 4: variety to plant.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: There are several good zoysias in fact, that you can plant.
Speaker 4: And uh, you just want to let the weather warm
Speaker 4: up enough for the grass to be willing to do
Speaker 4: a little growing. That way, when you put the side down,
Speaker 4: I mean the roots are hitting the ground and stretching
Speaker 4: out of those side pieces right into the soil. Very quickly. Yep, okay,
Speaker 4: all righty good luck with it, yes sir, take care,
Speaker 4: oh man, that is the case. RCW Nursery is the
Speaker 4: garden center that's right there at two forty nine and
Speaker 4: belt Way eight. They're really easy to get to us
Speaker 4: right down below. So you just just set it, put it,
Speaker 4: you know, put it in your in your maps, and
Speaker 4: you'll you'll take it right there to it. RCW Nurseries
Speaker 4: dot Com that's their website. Now. RCW is a nursery
Speaker 4: that is going to have what you're looking for. But
Speaker 4: if they don't, they probably can get it right now. Roses, roses, roses.
Speaker 4: This is a rose season and they get in. If
Speaker 4: you look at their print at the rose list, and
Speaker 4: it's like pages long, single space, and rosarians across town
Speaker 4: they know about RCW Nursery and the roses that they care.
Speaker 4: It's a very favorite of rosarians and every other homeowner
Speaker 4: people like me and you that enjoy beautiful roses. Roses
Speaker 4: are the queen of the garden, you know, and there's
Speaker 4: nothing like it. Whether it's a climbing rose, whether it's
Speaker 4: a miniature rose, a groundcover type rose, a shrub rose,
Speaker 4: a hybrid te for those long, beautiful cut blooms. You
Speaker 4: take your pick and RCW is gonna have some options
Speaker 4: for you. They also grow their own trees up there
Speaker 4: in Plantersville, and so when you buy a tree from RCW,
Speaker 4: it's a tree that's been grown right, it's a tree
Speaker 4: species that does well here, and you can take it
Speaker 4: home and plant it. If it has any size to
Speaker 4: it at all, just have them do it. You know,
Speaker 4: you can hire them to come out and do the
Speaker 4: planning for you for something that's going to be way
Speaker 4: more weight than you want to be handling around. But
Speaker 4: the main thing is just go there. RCW nurseries dot
Speaker 4: Com Again, Tombo Parkway which is ibly two forty nine
Speaker 4: and belt Way eight. Time for me to take a break.
Speaker 4: When I come back, Randy in Liberty, you're going to
Speaker 4: be our first s up steal folks. Welcome back to
Speaker 4: the guard line, Welcome back to Guarden. I listen. I
Speaker 4: get a lot of calls, get a lot of pictures
Speaker 4: from the emails too, about lawns that are struggling, loans
Speaker 4: that have maybe it was chinchbugs last summer, or drought
Speaker 4: conditions or extra compaction. Boy, that's a biggie. You know
Speaker 4: our clay soil as you stomp on them and they compact,
Speaker 4: and without good aeration, roots don't do well. Your grass
Speaker 4: doesn't thrive. And BnB Turfros that's our company. Down south
Speaker 4: and south and a little to the west of Houston,
Speaker 4: so places like Missouri City and Sugarland, all the way
Speaker 4: down interstate Interstate six. Boy, I just upgraded that street
Speaker 4: Highway six, Fresno, Siena, Arcola, Iowa Colony, Manul all those
Speaker 4: communities along there. BnB Turfrose covers that all the way
Speaker 4: over even to Pearland. They serve that area. Now, this
Speaker 4: is the family on service and these folks are going
Speaker 4: to give you honest quality work. Go look at their ratings,
Speaker 4: Go look at the customer satisfaction that they have. Go
Speaker 4: look at pictures they on other website, social media. Look
Speaker 4: at the pictures of what they do. High quality work,
Speaker 4: quality products. They only use products that I recommend here
Speaker 4: on garden Line cnmls for example, that's where they get
Speaker 4: their top quality leap mole compost from the folks at Cnamalts.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm talking about. VMB Turfros. They don't cut corners,
Speaker 4: they do it right. They make a personal connection with you.
Speaker 4: They ensure that you are satisfied. That's very important to them,
Speaker 4: and it shows up in the ratings that they have.
Speaker 4: They will come out. They will do a core aeration
Speaker 4: with quality equipment that makes that pulls a plug out
Speaker 4: of the soil and drops it on the surface. They
Speaker 4: will follow that with the compost top dressing and spread
Speaker 4: that compost out. And I'm telling you cor aeration compost
Speaker 4: top dressing, especially for heavy clay soils, but really any
Speaker 4: kind of a lawn that's struggling, it is going to
Speaker 4: get oxygen in the roots. It's going to invigorate the lawn.
Speaker 4: You're going to have success. Golf courses or people are
Speaker 4: trapesing up and down them and running the carts across them.
Speaker 4: They are ate those things because they want the grass
Speaker 4: to be perfect. They want it to be at its best.
Speaker 4: Let BnB turf Pros do that. The phone number seven
Speaker 4: one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. But
Speaker 4: I would just go to the website BB no end.
Speaker 4: In the website Bbturfpros dot com. Bbturfpros dot com, you
Speaker 4: could see the work that they do and it's good,
Speaker 4: I'm telling you. Without hesitation. Awesome, Awesome. We're gonna go
Speaker 4: out to Liberty now and talk to Randy. Hey, Randy,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning. What all makes some information on is a bamboo?
Speaker 5: I wanna put up a privacy wall using bamboo or
Speaker 5: something like that. Uh. The suggest.
Speaker 4: Bamboo comes in two types. One is clumping and one
Speaker 4: is running. It's kind of like, you know, you have
Speaker 4: ornamental grasses that just make a clump, and then you
Speaker 4: got bermuda grass that runs everywhere. Well, bamboo that runs
Speaker 4: if you don't have an underground wall, if you have
Speaker 4: not created a barrier or underground you will regret you
Speaker 4: planted it if you have any bit of a confined
Speaker 4: space for it to grow in. So you want a
Speaker 4: clumping type of bamboo. Now, wherever you go and do
Speaker 4: your shopping, your quality garden centers and things, you're going
Speaker 4: to be able to find bamboos. And if it's a
Speaker 4: good mom and pop, they're going to be able to
Speaker 4: tell you which kinds would be best what they carry
Speaker 4: for your situation. There are some clumpers that get twenty
Speaker 4: feet tall or more. I mean they really grow tall.
Speaker 4: There are some clumpers that stay a little shorter, and
Speaker 4: some of you need top them off if you want that,
Speaker 4: don't get so big. They vary in heartiness. In general,
Speaker 4: the clumpers tend to be a little less hardy than
Speaker 4: the running bamboos. But there are some clumping bamboos that
Speaker 4: are very dependably hardy for Houston area. So go to
Speaker 4: where you would find a good quality service from an
Speaker 4: independent garden center. Say what kind of clumping bamboos do
Speaker 4: you have? And find out more about the ones they carry,
Speaker 4: and you're gonna do good. You're gonna want to plant them.
Speaker 4: Look at what the width of the plant should be,
Speaker 4: and I would plant them probably about fifty to eighty
Speaker 4: percent of that width if you want a solid cover. Okay,
Speaker 4: So if you put them too far apart, they'll never
Speaker 4: touch one to the next. So if you want that
Speaker 4: solid cover, you gotta squeeze them a little bit. Remember too,
Speaker 4: with bamboo, probably the most important thing I'm tey Randy,
Speaker 4: is you got to be patient because the bamboo specialists
Speaker 4: tell us that here's what they say about bamboo. The
Speaker 4: first year it sleeps, the second year it creeps, and
Speaker 4: the third year it leaps. And that's true. You plant
Speaker 4: it and it's just sitting there. You're going skip. You
Speaker 4: told me to play this bamboo is not doing anything.
Speaker 4: Be patient. Second year a little bit of growth and
Speaker 4: the third year year in business. So be patient with bamboo.
Speaker 4: But good bamboo makes a wonderful screen. Wonderful screen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Umble, Humble toward Liberty area. You know
Speaker 5: any uh, garden centers at Hell.
Speaker 4: You know, I would let me see you were in
Speaker 4: the Humble area. Liberty would Yeah. Well, you know, you
Speaker 4: go up to king Warn't Southern Gardens up in Kingwood.
Speaker 4: I'll give them a call.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: And this is pretty far south for you. But you
Speaker 4: go down to Seabrook to Moss Nursery, and they're going
Speaker 4: to have it too down there. And I know it's
Speaker 4: a little bit dry, but you know, you're kind of
Speaker 4: out in that part of town where we don't have
Speaker 4: a lot of big nurseries as you know. Uh, And
Speaker 4: I would try. I would try one of those places
Speaker 4: and give them a call first and see, uh that
Speaker 4: that's that's probably where I would start.
Speaker 5: And they should be pert pretty uh, they should be
Speaker 5: pretty good about plantinum and all everything I made no correct, Yes.
Speaker 4: They can advise you, but bamboo is easy to plant.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's grass. You just put it in the
Speaker 4: ground at the same level it was in the container.
Speaker 4: Remember that when you plant it, the root system is
Speaker 4: all in that little cylinder that you pulled out of
Speaker 4: the pot. So you need to water right there, and
Speaker 4: you need to water regularly. It doesn't need a swamp,
Speaker 4: but it shouldn't dry out. Just like your lawn. If
Speaker 4: your lawn dries out, you start to lose grass. Well,
Speaker 4: don't let the bamboo dry because your goal these first
Speaker 4: especially three years, is to get that thing growing as
Speaker 4: best you can, get the most robust root system you can,
Speaker 4: and so don't don't ever let its summer heat and
Speaker 4: drought stress. Just keep it, keep it watered.
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Speaker 4: the pestbros dot com. I'm gonna head out to Missouri
Speaker 4: City now we're gonna talk to Josh. Josh, you are
Speaker 4: the caboos of the show today. Last collar of the day.
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden line.
Speaker 5: Hey, I've got I'm up here in Houston, Missouri, not
Speaker 5: Missouri City. I'm your buddy that lives just outside.
Speaker 4: Oh, Houston, Missouri. I've been to Houston, Missouri.
Speaker 5: Yep, yep, you said you went. We're near Mountain Grove,
Speaker 5: aren't you.
Speaker 4: I spent three years in Mountain Grove. That's right. I
Speaker 4: know where Kabool is and Rala and all your other
Speaker 4: neighbors up. Oh yeah, hey, I hear music. We better
Speaker 4: talk fast.
Speaker 5: I've got a question. Not leave bold compost. I've got
Speaker 5: a bunch of race heads with it. What do I
Speaker 5: need to amend it with?
Speaker 13: They planned?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Lebo compost is fine for mixing in the soil. It's
Speaker 4: fine for top dressing your lawn. But any kind of
Speaker 4: a good quality compost mixed in the beds, if you'd
Speaker 4: never put compost in those beds before, and you just
Speaker 4: have your native soil, I'd put about three inches and
Speaker 4: mix it in as deeply as you can. If you
Speaker 4: have some compost in the soil, an inch or two
Speaker 4: probably is going to be enough. But it opens up
Speaker 4: the soil, It loosens up that clay, and it just
Speaker 4: helps you have success. So you want top drainage, meaning
Speaker 4: the beds raised up so excess water flows off. You
Speaker 4: get a little bit of rain up there in Houston, Missouri.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And you also want internal drainage so the water drains
Speaker 4: down through it.
Speaker 1: We're building with purely full compost about four feet deep.
Speaker 5: I'm just curious what I need to add to get
Speaker 5: them ready for plants.
Speaker 4: Oh all right, hang on, I'm gonna put you on hold.
Speaker 4: My produci will pick up and we'll get you an
Speaker 4: email for continuing this discussion.
Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Scip Richard.
Speaker 4: It's so pleas just watch him as world.
Speaker 2: Many seats.
Speaker 7: Not a sign.
Speaker 2: Sun beam.
Speaker 4: All right, welcome back to guard Line. Good to have
Speaker 4: you with us today. Hey, I want to remind you
Speaker 4: that next Saturday, that is March the first, I'm going
Speaker 4: to be at the Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show.
Speaker 4: Now that will be I'll be there from twelve noon
Speaker 4: until two pm. I'm going to give a talk on
Speaker 4: spring gardening tips and for the lawn and the garden,
Speaker 4: the vegetables, flowers, all the trees, all kinds of things
Speaker 4: like that, and then I'll just be taking your hardening questions.
Speaker 4: If you want to bring me some samples of things
Speaker 4: to identify, like what's this weed, what's this flower? If
Speaker 4: you want to have things diagnosed, what's wrong with this plant?
Speaker 4: Bring me some samples in I'll do that. And if
Speaker 4: you would like to bring photos on your phone, we
Speaker 4: can take a look. We can see what's going on
Speaker 4: and help you have success. That's the goal there. So
Speaker 4: I'll be there for two hours, given a talk. For
Speaker 4: a while, I'll be giving away some products from the
Speaker 4: folks at Nilsen Plant Food and as folks from Medina
Speaker 4: Medina plant products as well, so really good quality products.
Speaker 4: I have plenty of those on hand. I'll bring some
Speaker 4: Texas Gardener magazines with me to provide for those of
Speaker 4: you who don't receive Texas Gardener you need to, I'll
Speaker 4: give you a sample to take a look at. It's
Speaker 4: a great magazine, awesome magazine written by Texas gardeners, including myself,
Speaker 4: for Texas gardeners. So come on out to the Montgomery County,
Speaker 4: Montgomery County. This is seventh Daniel by the Way, seventh
Speaker 4: annual Spring Montgomery County Home Outdoor Living Show at the
Speaker 4: Lone Star Convention Center on Airport Road, right across from
Speaker 4: the Extension Office and Montgomery County Agrolife Extension Office right
Speaker 4: there in Conroe, Texas, twelve noon to one pm. Hey,
Speaker 4: guess what Parking's free admission is free. Okay, you're out
Speaker 4: of excuses. See you next Saturday. That's one way to
Speaker 4: put it. I'd like to joke around a little bit
Speaker 4: here on guarden line. I was talking about my yard.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 4: You know what when people come over, if I haven't
Speaker 4: had a chance to get the place like I like
Speaker 4: it to look, I just tell them, you know, the
Speaker 4: cobblers kids go barefoot, right, that's what they say. Well,
Speaker 4: the horticulturist's driving around all all the place, talking to
Speaker 4: people and doing other things, comes home and yeah, maybe
Speaker 4: I ought to make my yard look a little better.
Speaker 4: It's time for that, and I've got the fertilizers ready
Speaker 4: to go. I'm going to be doing a kind of
Speaker 4: a mode down of the of the of the grass,
Speaker 4: you know, get all the dead top growth out cut
Speaker 4: down just a little bit. Now. That mowing is going
Speaker 4: to come a little bit later, because I want to
Speaker 4: make sure and leave that sunlight blocking cover. Even though
Speaker 4: the dead grass is blocking sunlight. The red dead grass
Speaker 4: blades are blocking sunlight from reaching the soil. So it
Speaker 4: cuts down on your weed problems. So I'll leave that
Speaker 4: just a little bit longer, but it's not long before
Speaker 4: that mowing is going to get done. Also to it remember,
Speaker 4: now's the time if you're going to do a pre
Speaker 4: emergent herbicide, you need to do it now now. Now
Speaker 4: go to my website gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening
Speaker 4: with Skip dot Com. There is a free lawn care
Speaker 4: schedule and a lawn pest disease and weed management schedule.
Speaker 4: They're both multicolor beautiful, easy to follow, and they're available
Speaker 4: for you to download or just look on your computer
Speaker 4: and it tells you when to do what. So if
Speaker 4: you're wondering what did chinchbugs typically occur here? When do
Speaker 4: I treat for brownpaths? One? Need you need to get
Speaker 4: a pre emergent herbicide down by? And what products are
Speaker 4: available out there to use? Those schedules answer all those questions.
Speaker 4: When's the best time of fertilize at this time of year?
Speaker 4: Which fertilizer should I be using? You know, we don't
Speaker 4: use the same fertilizer all year, different times of the year.
Speaker 4: We have different products that we're putting out. It's all
Speaker 4: there on the schedules. It's all free. Can't can't beat
Speaker 4: that price, that's for sure. If you'd like to give
Speaker 4: me a call seven to one three, two to one
Speaker 4: two k t RH. Seven to one three two to
Speaker 4: one two kt RH. It is time now to do
Speaker 4: your pruning to spruce up things. You want to do
Speaker 4: it right. It is very important that when you take
Speaker 4: care of your plants, when you're going to do pruning,
Speaker 4: you want to do that pruning properly, because just to
Speaker 4: cut a plant because you own a sharp saw or pruners, however,
Speaker 4: seems right to you, that is not the way to
Speaker 4: go about it. You need to learn what that plant
Speaker 4: needs needs to succeed. And that's why we see crape
Speaker 4: murder everywhere around town. People look around, they see these
Speaker 4: landscape companies that are just whacking them off above a
Speaker 4: little above head high. That is not how you pun
Speaker 4: a create myrtle. That is not how you pune a
Speaker 4: creat mardle. They call that crepe murder, just to make
Speaker 4: the point that that's not how you prune a creat myrtle.
Speaker 4: But people do it so people do it right. Remember
Speaker 4: when you were a kid and you said, can I
Speaker 4: go to I don't know, the mall or something? And
Speaker 4: your parents said no. And they said, well, Mary or
Speaker 4: Johnny's getting to go to the mall. His parents will
Speaker 4: let him go. He said, well, if Mary or Johnny
Speaker 4: jumped off a cliff, would you two? Remember that annoying
Speaker 4: conversation you had with your parents. Well, just because landscapers
Speaker 4: are printing crapes like that does not mean that's how
Speaker 4: you purne them. It does not. Landscapers create multi volcanoes
Speaker 4: at the base of plants. It looks like you have
Speaker 4: giant fire ant mounts that are piled up against the
Speaker 4: trunk of the base of the plant. That is not
Speaker 4: good for trees. Don't do that. Do it the right way.
Speaker 4: Learn how to do it, Learn how to prune the
Speaker 4: plant you have, Take good care of it that way,
Speaker 4: and you're going to have success. The folks at Medina
Speaker 4: have created a lot of different products that work and
Speaker 4: that will give you success with your plants. And there's
Speaker 4: so many of them. You know which one do I
Speaker 4: talk about next, because there's always another good one. One
Speaker 4: of them I like is Medina plus. Medina Plus is
Speaker 4: fortified with extra micro nutrients, and it's got seaweed extract
Speaker 4: in it, which is very important, very helpful for plants
Speaker 4: or getting gardeners who have known that for years. You
Speaker 4: can use it as a folier feed for whether it's
Speaker 4: a tree, a shrub, a perennial, a flour, a vegetable,
Speaker 4: a lawn. I mean, it's not going to burn anything.
Speaker 4: Medina plus it's got over forty trace elements and it's
Speaker 4: got sided kinin, which is a natural growth hormone that
Speaker 4: comes out of the seaweed extract, some magnesium, iron, zinc,
Speaker 4: and vitamins. A lot of different things are in the
Speaker 4: Medine Plus. It has all the benefits of Medina soil
Speaker 4: activator plus all these other things. Now, if you were
Speaker 4: going to soak seed, remember earlier I was talking about
Speaker 4: I soak my seed the night before I plant them.
Speaker 4: Most types of seed you can soak them in Medina plus.
Speaker 4: It'll work and it helps them as well get off
Speaker 4: to a good start. You can also use it a
Speaker 4: drench in new transplants. You can put on a hose
Speaker 4: in sprayer and newfolier with it, folder feed with it.
Speaker 4: It's all from the folks at Medina Medina plus a
Speaker 4: liquid product that is widely available here in our Greater
Speaker 4: Houston area. I am coming up on the first break.
Speaker 4: When we come back, Carolyn Spring will be our first
Speaker 4: caller coming up and you can be sucond seven one
Speaker 4: three two one two KTRH. Well, hey, welcome back, Welcome
Speaker 4: back to the garden line. If you can get yourself
Speaker 4: to the the Seabrook area and go by Moss Nursery,
Speaker 4: you need to do that.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 4: I always laugh at the place. It's like, I don't
Speaker 4: know how you get a car in the parking lot
Speaker 4: with all the shipments they've got coming on. But they
Speaker 4: constantly are getting shipments. They just loaded up on some
Speaker 4: beautiful house plants. And if you've ever been to mass
Speaker 4: you know what their houseplant greenhouse looks like. It is incredible.
Speaker 4: The foliage is gorgeous. Do you like succulents and cacti? Unbelievable,
Speaker 4: Absolutely unbelievable. They have so many kinds and you just
Speaker 4: wander through there. And by the way, it's an old
Speaker 4: weather greenhouse, right, it's a greenhouse. Got to cover over.
Speaker 4: It's nice and warm and toasty inside. It's time to
Speaker 4: get by there, because I'm telling you this, when the
Speaker 4: sun comes out, people are gonna be covering it up,
Speaker 4: and you got to get out there and get yours first.
Speaker 4: But they have a great, great selection. They also got
Speaker 4: in some bonsye nice little buns eye already in containers already.
Speaker 4: The training has already be gone on them. And that
Speaker 4: is a cool thing. If you ever tried it, you
Speaker 4: ought to try one of those. Those are fun if
Speaker 4: you like yard art, and if you like decorations like
Speaker 4: pots that have the colorful pots. I don't know anybody's
Speaker 4: guy as many as they do down there at Moss Nursery.
Speaker 4: And then the little things like you know, the multicolored
Speaker 4: salamanders and frogs that you put out there in the
Speaker 4: ground and decorate, just so you know. That's what Moss
Speaker 4: is like. It's so whimsicle. You walk around the eight
Speaker 4: acres of this family owned nursery, seventy year old nursery.
Speaker 4: You walk around the eight acres, and every corner you
Speaker 4: turn there's something else interesting. It's of course the plants.
Speaker 4: Plants are everywhere, every kind you can imagine, but all
Speaker 4: the whimsy, you know, the decorations, the statues, the water fountains,
Speaker 4: the just go see it. When it comes to hanging baskets,
Speaker 4: oh my angel wing Bagonia baskets have come in recently
Speaker 4: and you should see those things. They are gorgeous. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I could just go on and on Moss Nursery in
Speaker 4: Seabrook on Toddville Road. I don't care where you live.
Speaker 4: Drive over there, take a look at it. It is
Speaker 4: a great place to visit. Out to spring now and
Speaker 4: we're going to talk to Carol. Hello Carol, welcome to
Speaker 4: garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hi Skiff, how are you.
Speaker 4: I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 7: I have a question what's the best compost for containers
Speaker 7: and raised beds.
Speaker 4: Well, if you're going to do a container, you want
Speaker 4: a nice mix that has enough poor space to drain well,
Speaker 4: so it's not just real dense, thicky money, but it
Speaker 4: has some good drainage in it. And so some quality
Speaker 4: potting mixes. I know there is a product Nitropruss mix
Speaker 4: called jungle Land that works good. There's an indoor and
Speaker 4: an outdoor version of jungle Land. So for your indoor plants,
Speaker 4: use the one with water saving crystals. For the outdoor version,
Speaker 4: the standard jungle Land for vegetables and flowers works well.
Speaker 4: As your container gets bigger, you can start to use
Speaker 4: something a little more chunky. I know people that even
Speaker 4: put like a rose soil in a very very large
Speaker 4: container because you know, you just have the volume in
Speaker 4: the space to be able to do that. What are
Speaker 4: you wanting to grow in the container?
Speaker 8: Mainly vegetables and herbs?
Speaker 4: Okay, then I would get there is a veggie an
Speaker 4: herb mix, a veggian herb mix airloin soil sells it
Speaker 4: sold by the bag all around town, so you know,
Speaker 4: with a container by the bag, and that is a
Speaker 4: very good mix. Now, if your container is small, let's
Speaker 4: say five gallons or less, I probably wouldn't use the
Speaker 4: veggie and herb mix. Got a little bit more volume
Speaker 4: to it, that would be a good one. Actually five gallons,
Speaker 4: it would be five for that fine for that, But
Speaker 4: veggie nerd mix would be the one I would go with,
Speaker 4: even in a large container.
Speaker 8: Okay, So if I want to revitalize my soil from
Speaker 8: last year, I just how would I do that?
Speaker 4: Get you some more? I would just get a fine quality,
Speaker 4: well screened compost and I would mix that in or
Speaker 4: get more of the same product, and just you know,
Speaker 4: mix it into your pot to kind of raise that
Speaker 4: level back up because it always settles down, and then
Speaker 4: replant in it. You can go either way, okay, And
Speaker 4: what would be the best fertilizer for blueberries? For blueberries?
Speaker 4: There are some acidic fertilizers, you know. Nelson has one
Speaker 4: in the jar that is for it's for acid loving
Speaker 4: plants like Camellia azalea. The if you see if you
Speaker 4: see blueberry, Commillia azalia or anything on a label that's
Speaker 4: an acid loving plant fertilizer, you could you could use that,
Speaker 4: you know. Another one I would do, especially if you're
Speaker 4: going to be transplanting into these containers soon, is get
Speaker 4: you some of Nelson has one called Genesis. It's an
Speaker 4: organic type product that you mix into the potting soil
Speaker 4: before you plant, and then you plant in it and
Speaker 4: it helps it get off to a better fast start
Speaker 4: after it begins growing. Then you can continue to fertilize
Speaker 4: with regular fertilizers in small amounts, but start off with
Speaker 4: that Genesis in the soil and you're going to see
Speaker 4: a better result in your plants. I've tried it myself.
Speaker 4: I rel like it. Hi, all right, Well, thank you
Speaker 4: very much, all right, Carol, good luck. Send me the
Speaker 4: pictures when all these things start blooming and fruiting and
Speaker 4: everything else. And you know, if it's vegetables, you gotta
Speaker 4: share half the produce with me because I've tried to
Speaker 4: help you out today. Okay, well, I'll do my best.
Speaker 4: I'm joking you don't want to share? Bye? Oh boy?
Speaker 4: Why do I say that? I don't know? All right.
Speaker 4: Whild Bird's Unlimited is the place that you go for
Speaker 4: anything anything related to birds. Do you need feeders? Do
Speaker 4: you need houses? Do you need a bird bath? Do
Speaker 4: you want advice? Oh? My gosh. The folks at wild
Speaker 4: Birds Unlimited, no birds. I picked their brain all the time.
Speaker 4: I get questions from callers or I have questions myself
Speaker 4: or my own backyard, and I just ask and they
Speaker 4: always have a good, thoughtful answer because they know what
Speaker 4: they're talking about. Cardinal confetti, the new blend. That's one
Speaker 4: you need to get. Now. Everybody loves cardinals at a
Speaker 4: bird feeder. They're so beautiful. They even have the folklore
Speaker 4: that goes with them. But cardinals love that Cardinal confetti.
Speaker 4: It's got a mix of all kinds of cool stuff,
Speaker 4: including dried meal worms and sunflowered chips and something called
Speaker 4: bark butter bits and peanut halves in it. They love it.
Speaker 4: You can get the cardinal tube feeder to feed it.
Speaker 4: You can get the good evening cardinal feeder to put
Speaker 4: it in, or you can just put it in your feeder.
Speaker 4: It's okay to do that. Bark butter is a spreadable suet.
Speaker 4: You smear it like on a tree trunk. You can
Speaker 4: smear it on anything. If your husband's taking a nap
Speaker 4: out there on a lazy boy, smear some on him.
Speaker 4: The birds will show up. They've documented over one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty species of birds. That I mean Jim's berdaceous
Speaker 4: Bark butter is like bird crack. They love that stuff.
Speaker 4: It works really really well. But bottom line is go
Speaker 4: to wild Birds Unlimited. No matter what kind of bird
Speaker 4: seeds you're going to get, you're going to get quality
Speaker 4: seed that birds like. There are no mess blends, have
Speaker 4: no mess. You buy a pound of no mess blend
Speaker 4: from Wildbirds Unlimited. A pound goes into a bird's tummy.
Speaker 4: That's how that works, not kicked off on the ground,
Speaker 4: not shells land all over. It works. How do you
Speaker 4: want to go about it. Just go there. That's the
Speaker 4: main thing. Let's go out to Sugarland. Now we're going
Speaker 4: to talk to Denise. Hey Denise, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Hey Skip, good morning. A question about a VI text three.
Speaker 8: We have had this B text tree. I think it's
Speaker 8: either two or three years old. It was probably five
Speaker 8: feet tall when we put it in, and it's totally
Speaker 8: out of control. It's crazy. So we're getting ready to
Speaker 8: poun it down. How much and how do we do it?
Speaker 8: Can you how much can you take off the top?
Speaker 8: I guess is my question?
Speaker 4: Well, let me put it this way, Denise. If you
Speaker 4: took a chainsaw and cut it off at the ground,
Speaker 4: it would come back. I mean, there's not a limit
Speaker 4: to how much you prove of IEX. Those things are
Speaker 4: tough as nails. They also are kind of difficult to shape.
Speaker 4: I've got one, and you know it wants to kind
Speaker 4: of zigzag and go this way and that way. So
Speaker 4: this idea of you've got a tree trunk and then
Speaker 4: there are these branches going out and V text is
Speaker 4: kind of hard. So you sort of esthetically create what
Speaker 4: you want and be willing to cut it back and
Speaker 4: be willing after you cut it back and it starts growing.
Speaker 4: To cut it back some more to keep it into
Speaker 4: the shape and size you want. And there's not a rule.
Speaker 4: There's not a picture book on how to prune of vitex.
Speaker 8: Okay, what about around the bottom? Will it ever branch
Speaker 8: out or leaf out lower down for the soil?
Speaker 4: If you cut one back, then the new growth that
Speaker 4: comes out, you can begin to trim it. You know,
Speaker 4: when it shoots a foot long and you cut the
Speaker 4: tip out where you're going to get side shoots that
Speaker 4: come out from there, and so you can kind of
Speaker 4: guide it along once you've got this big, tall branch.
Speaker 4: My text is pretty good at sending buds out even
Speaker 4: along the older parts of the wood. But the older
Speaker 4: the branch gets the trunk gets, the less likely you're
Speaker 4: going to get a sprout from it. So if you're
Speaker 4: not getting enough growth down low, you may need to
Speaker 4: do a little heavier pruning to kind of force it
Speaker 4: to push some other growth out.
Speaker 8: Okay, and then what about there's branches every which way
Speaker 8: and real tiny branches like twigs in there? Do you
Speaker 8: trim those out?
Speaker 4: Yeah? You know you can. I mean there are people
Speaker 4: that never touch their vtext it just grows and does
Speaker 4: what it wants to do, and you get some little
Speaker 4: twigs that finally die and fall out and stuff one
Speaker 4: end of the spectrum the other end as people go in,
Speaker 4: you know, in the wintertime, and you've got all those
Speaker 4: dead seaedheads that came out from last year still sitting
Speaker 4: up there, and they prune out all the little twiggy stuff.
Speaker 4: It's somewhat tedious, but you can certainly do that too.
Speaker 4: It'll overall it'll look better. But the main thing is
Speaker 4: to do this. Go ahead.
Speaker 8: It sounds like my husband needs this chainsaw becauny.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, Well, if you want to go, if you
Speaker 4: want to go that right top the top.
Speaker 8: But I'm I'm all for getting it down because it's
Speaker 8: it's big.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And but but if you're going to go drastic,
Speaker 4: you know, chainsaw root, then just be ready as it
Speaker 4: starts to grow to form the type of plant you want.
Speaker 4: You know, do you want multi stems going in all directions?
Speaker 4: Do you want uh, you know, more of a single
Speaker 4: ton of trunk? When do you want the branches to start?
Speaker 4: So you're pruning and guiding after the chainsaw ends, it
Speaker 4: is going to be what forms the shape and the
Speaker 4: kind of plant that you want. But you have to
Speaker 4: stay with it because vitex it just kind of it
Speaker 4: just kind of haphazard in the way that it grows,
Speaker 4: shoots very very different kind of plant.
Speaker 8: All right, well, thanks a lot, have a good day,
Speaker 8: all right.
Speaker 4: Good luck, you take care. I like that chain saw
Speaker 4: that booker. We can you can, they can take it,
Speaker 4: they can take it. It is time to put out barricade, folks,
Speaker 4: if you're gonna stop the weeds that are called warm
Speaker 4: season weeds. That's not the weeds that are in your
Speaker 4: yard now. What you see now is a cool season weed.
Speaker 4: Barricade now does not control cool season weeds that are
Speaker 4: currently in your lawn. Barricade in the fall will prevent
Speaker 4: what you're seeing now, But for now, it's the grass
Speaker 4: burrs and the crab grass and other warm season weeds
Speaker 4: that will be starting to germinate if they haven't already,
Speaker 4: because we've had had that week of eighty degrees and
Speaker 4: we're about to have a decent wa this week. Get
Speaker 4: it down now, water it in half inch of water,
Speaker 4: get it into the soil surface. Then you're done. Then
Speaker 4: you're done. Then it goes to work and it's up
Speaker 4: the barricade to take it from there. Now you're gonna
Speaker 4: find barricade at D and de Feed up in Tomol,
Speaker 4: you're gonna find all the really night fast products. The
Speaker 4: place is like the M and d Ace Hardware, which
Speaker 4: there's one down in on Beamer. There's one on Bayer Boulevard, Sagemont,
Speaker 4: Clairlake Beamer, M and D and Claarlake B and D.
Speaker 4: M and D is the place plants and things in Brunham.
Speaker 4: Another place M and D up in Cypress on Louetta Road.
Speaker 4: That's another place you can get night frost barricade. Let's
Speaker 4: see here. Where are we on time? Yeah? I got
Speaker 4: a lot of time here. I tell you what. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna hold off a Nick and Cypress, Adolf and Menville.
Speaker 4: You'll be our first two up when we come back.
Speaker 4: I'd like to be able to give you plenty of
Speaker 4: time to answer your questions before we run along. So
Speaker 4: we're gonna hold off just a second here. Bu can
Speaker 4: just native plants in the Heights is one of those
Speaker 4: garden centers where you better leave yourself some time because
Speaker 4: it is. It's outstanding. When you wander through there, you
Speaker 4: see all kinds of things. They specialize in natives, but
Speaker 4: they have everything. Greenhouses, full of houseplants. They got lots
Speaker 4: of good fruit right now in stock They've got shade
Speaker 4: loving plants. They've got annuals, perennials and herb flowers. Everything
Speaker 4: you need, and they have train staff that know what
Speaker 4: they're talking about. Plus brown stuff before green stuff. They've
Speaker 4: got heirloom soils, they've got Nature's Way Resources soils. They've
Speaker 4: got Nelson Plant for nitrofoss microlife. The whole nine yards
Speaker 4: is there to help you have success. Go to Buchanansplants
Speaker 4: dot com. That's the website, Buchanansplants dot com to have
Speaker 4: your success. They're sitting there visiting my producer trying to
Speaker 4: figure out, well, how does somebody decide to name a
Speaker 4: band Papa Roads or a cartoon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Speaker 4: I think a couple of people were sitting on drinking
Speaker 4: and they made a bad I got an idea for
Speaker 4: a cartoon, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's like that
Speaker 4: had to have been induced by some substance. Anyway, you're
Speaker 4: listening to garden Line. We're not here to critique music.
Speaker 4: Or cartoons. We're here to help you have success with
Speaker 4: your garden. So let's get on with that. We're gonna
Speaker 4: head out to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Nick. Hey, Nick,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Hey.
Speaker 15: Is this rud Bon Jovie tickets?
Speaker 5: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: Yes, they're absolutely free. Just show up and tell them.
Speaker 4: Skip said to let you in.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say that.
Speaker 15: I was gonna say that a perfect segue into your
Speaker 15: conversation about barricade. I literally just put it down. After
Speaker 15: your show yesterday, I went into. Okay, I went in
Speaker 15: and I put down the barricade, and then I put
Speaker 15: down the wheaton feet.
Speaker 4: On top of that. Is that gonna wipe out my
Speaker 4: rye grass? I'm just kind of curious. I just put
Speaker 4: that down. Can you tell me which weed and feed
Speaker 4: you put down? The which we feed the blue bag?
Speaker 4: Was it the blue bag or the purple? Okay? Yes?
Speaker 4: That those the nitrophos, which with trimac kills broad leaf weeds,
Speaker 4: and the barricade you put down prevents the warm season
Speaker 4: weeds that I'm gonna come up. Yet, the nitropos with
Speaker 4: trimec will not kill grasses, winter grasses. It's a broadly
Speaker 4: weed control. So they'll stay there, but they're gonna they're
Speaker 4: gonna kind of get hot and burn up here for
Speaker 4: too long, So you can just keep mowing them and
Speaker 4: ignoring them for right now.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: Depending on the kind of grass it is, you may
Speaker 4: need to put a premurgeon in the fall to prevent
Speaker 4: it from germinating, you know, the little uh we call
Speaker 4: it poa annual it's annual bluegrass. H that's always a
Speaker 4: problem in lawns, and that germinates in the fall, and
Speaker 4: barricade would stop it from germinating. But once it's there,
Speaker 4: now you're just kind of stuck with it, Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I just yeah. And the guy at I was at the.
Speaker 15: A said at Langham Creek and George is very helpful,
Speaker 15: talked about a lot about you. So just yeah, give
Speaker 15: them a little bit of credit, and I'll probably end
Speaker 15: up going back in space, oh, spending some more cast there.
Speaker 4: So great store, good, good folks. Yeah, it's a great say.
Speaker 4: They they revamped that store so over there by you
Speaker 4: know five nine. Uh yeah, I can't say that is
Speaker 4: the Barkersipers nor south on there. Yeah, yeah, store, isn't it. Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a it's a great They've really done an amazing
Speaker 4: job turning that store around. Really good work in there.
Speaker 15: Okay, yeah, really appreciate it.
Speaker 4: But thanks for the information. I appreciate it, all right, sir,
Speaker 4: Thanks for the call. And uh, if you find free
Speaker 4: Bunjovie tickets, call back and tell me where I need
Speaker 4: to go pick them up. Thank you? Oh you'll leave
Speaker 4: up ye? All right? All right, enough of that fooling
Speaker 4: around League City feed. We love our feed stores here
Speaker 4: on Garden Line. You go down to League City and
Speaker 4: you're gonna find one of the best. League City feed
Speaker 4: is a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on
Speaker 4: Highway three and it serves the whole region. I keep
Speaker 4: telling you all this. I mean, don't you don't have
Speaker 4: to leave live in League City for this to be
Speaker 4: your feed store. If you're in San Leone or Lamark
Speaker 4: or Baycliffe or Webster or Santa Fe Clare, Lake City,
Speaker 4: I'll come into Reale. Dickinson is not enough. This is
Speaker 4: your hometown feed store. It is. They carry nitrofoss, they
Speaker 4: carry azomite for your tradition mentals, they carry in microlife,
Speaker 4: they carry Nelson plant food. You're going to find a
Speaker 4: lot of different kinds of products from them. They also
Speaker 4: have some airlom soils on hand to by the way,
Speaker 4: if you need pesticides and secticides, if you need fungicides,
Speaker 4: if you need these weed control products we're talking about,
Speaker 4: they're at League City Feed. You're going to find them
Speaker 4: there now. This place is open Monday through Saturday until
Speaker 4: six pm, nine to six pm, so after work you
Speaker 4: can swing by there. They're closed today, but all week long,
Speaker 4: all the way through Saturday, nine to six pm. Here's
Speaker 4: a phone number two eight one three three two sixteen twelve.
Speaker 4: Whether it's things for your yard and garden or maybe
Speaker 4: your backyard chicken supplies, they've got it. They got everything
Speaker 4: but the chickens. I believe that's the way they put
Speaker 4: it when they talk to me. And also some nice
Speaker 4: local honey from that area down there too. Go buy,
Speaker 4: say hi to the Thunderbergs and grab you some quality products.
Speaker 4: Old Time Feed Store still carry the sacks out for
Speaker 4: you if you want them to do that. League City
Speaker 4: Feed on Highway three, a few blocks south of Highway
Speaker 4: ninety six in League City. We're heading to Manville, Texas
Speaker 4: next to talk to Adolf. Hello. Adoff, Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning, good question.
Speaker 14: Plan chatty.
Speaker 5: Thanks Feens, And I added what I think.
Speaker 4: Is that's too Hey, Adolph, you are really eight if
Speaker 4: you're really muffled. And I heard cabbage and ozma cot,
Speaker 4: but I'm barely able to hear what you're saying. I
Speaker 4: don't know if you can change something there, but we'd
Speaker 4: love to hear what you're saying a little bit. Go ahead, okay, anyway,
Speaker 4: there you go. There you go.
Speaker 8: Is asthma coat Okay?
Speaker 5: For the cabbage, Yeah.
Speaker 4: It's fine. I mean it's a slow release fertilizer. It's
Speaker 4: going to give you about three or four months of
Speaker 4: release most of the time. You can do that. You
Speaker 4: can also do that with some of our standard lawn
Speaker 4: types of fertilizer that would work on cabbage or some
Speaker 4: of our other vegetables specifically vegetable types of fertilizer that
Speaker 4: you could buy. And so I generally would recommend a
Speaker 4: different one than that, but that product will work, that
Speaker 4: will release nutrients over time. It's the same for cammas.
Speaker 5: What can I do to prevent.
Speaker 10: What do you?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yes, uh I tell you what I've lost you again? Uh,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have my producer pick up and see if
Speaker 4: we can resolve that. If not, just tell him what
Speaker 4: you're wanting to prevent and I'll answer that on the
Speaker 4: air adolf. For some reason, we got a little garble there.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: If you're looking for a quality soil, someone's asking me
Speaker 4: before about what do you put in a what do
Speaker 4: you put in a container? Jungle in junglelen is what
Speaker 4: you put in a container. It's they've got an outdoor
Speaker 4: one called the jungle and flour and vegetable planting soils
Speaker 4: for containers, made for containers. It drains well, but it
Speaker 4: holds some moisture. It's got four different kinds of age
Speaker 4: bark in. It's got microizel fungi, some Canadian blonde pete.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: It's just a good concoction for good drainage and act
Speaker 4: good water holding capacity and good success. Indoors go with
Speaker 4: the water saving potting soil jungle land water saving potting
Speaker 4: soil because it's got those crystals in it that swell
Speaker 4: up with water and help extend the time when your
Speaker 4: roots can get water. If you forget the water, those
Speaker 4: crystals are holding on to some water that that plant
Speaker 4: can get access to. Now you're going to find jungle
Speaker 4: land at all kinds of places. You know, night Foss
Speaker 4: products are widely available. You go onto Fisher's Hardware, both
Speaker 4: the one and both the one in Pasadena, the one
Speaker 4: in La Port, the one in Bellevue, and Fishers Hardware
Speaker 4: down in Baytown. They also carry it as well down there.
Speaker 4: Hiding and Feed on steubenor Airline North they had it.
Speaker 4: And in Chenna Gardens at Chenna Gardens out in Richmond
Speaker 4: Rosenberg on FM three point fifty nine carries night to
Speaker 4: Foss products and so stop by there and you can
Speaker 4: find your night Foss products in those places as well.
Speaker 4: You are listening to guarden Line, and it is time
Speaker 4: for me to take a break, So I'm going to
Speaker 4: stop talking right now and turn it over to a
Speaker 4: quick break and I'll be right back with your calls
Speaker 4: at seven one three two one two k t RH. So,
Speaker 4: welcome back to Guardenline, Popes. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 4: You know, when you're trying to have success, you know
Speaker 4: you've heard me say that ten thousand times. It begins
Speaker 4: with the soil round st up over green stuff, all
Speaker 4: of that. The folks at Heirloom Soils have really perfected
Speaker 4: the soil slash compost slash moltz slash bed mix.
Speaker 2: World.
Speaker 4: You know, in every way they do things right. For example, uh,
Speaker 4: they all their blends are just rich in beneficial microbes
Speaker 4: to enrich your soils because it's that living component of
Speaker 4: this oil, the microbes that are the secrets of success.
Speaker 4: They don't use cheap filler ingredients. You know. They don't
Speaker 4: put a bunch of wood pulp or raw maltz in
Speaker 4: there and then sell it to you. That is not
Speaker 4: a good way to go. It takes time to make
Speaker 4: a good product, and they take time to do it.
Speaker 4: They do not use bank sand a lot of times.
Speaker 4: The bank sand you're going to get nut's edge and
Speaker 4: other kinds of weed problems. They use only a washed
Speaker 4: sand product to try to avoid any kind of weed
Speaker 4: problems or any kind of a clay Sometimes there's a
Speaker 4: clay content in that too, and the wash sand helps
Speaker 4: avoid that. Now, they don't use raw top soil because
Speaker 4: you know you skiop tops, are you gonna get wheat seeds?
Speaker 4: Weat seeds are everywhere. They only use composted soil fines.
Speaker 4: It's a little kind of a small particles that fall
Speaker 4: out of the in this process that are soil themselves,
Speaker 4: but they're very very fine textures, and they they use that.
Speaker 4: They only process their ingredients in house. You know, they
Speaker 4: want to maintain the quality. They want to avoid issues
Speaker 4: with contamination. They don't let their piles go sour where
Speaker 4: they end up. You know, if you let an organic
Speaker 4: matter pop sit and go anaerobic, no oxygen, you get
Speaker 4: some nasty smells and you get some nasty chemical compounds
Speaker 4: that nature forms in those conditions that you don't want.
Speaker 4: The folks at Airloom Soils they avoid that. They know
Speaker 4: how to avoid that. They compost, they cure, they blend
Speaker 4: all the products in house. Now whether you're buying, and
Speaker 4: I could spend spend a whole hour talking about all
Speaker 4: the different products they have. The compost at hardwood moults,
Speaker 4: the landscape bed mix, the rose blend rose it says
Speaker 4: rose and bloomers really because anything with flowers like that's
Speaker 4: going to do well. The works potting soil, the cactus
Speaker 4: and succulent mix, the veggie and herb mix, the fruit
Speaker 4: did I say fruit berry and citrus mix. And they
Speaker 4: also sell just expanded shale and they excel. They sell
Speaker 4: an expanded shell plus compost and our clay soils. Compost
Speaker 4: is great compos a miracle worker for our soils. The
Speaker 4: compost breaks down over time, and so the expanded shale.
Speaker 4: Think of it as a little tiny miniature law a rock.
Speaker 4: They'd beal tiny with all the pores in them. And
Speaker 4: you put enough of that in soil about three inches
Speaker 4: over a clay soil bed and mix it in thoroughly,
Speaker 4: and you've got a very long term, loose arable soil
Speaker 4: that clay doesn't just mash down and reform like that
Speaker 4: around it. Expanded shill has its place, and then say
Speaker 4: you expanded hill too, and different products. Heirloom Soils is
Speaker 4: the name of the company, and they are out there
Speaker 4: in Porter, Texas. They do delivery's book. You can go
Speaker 4: out there and you can get it yourself with your vehicle,
Speaker 4: or you can just drive around town. Go to some
Speaker 4: good garden centers, go to good feed stores, ace hardware stores,
Speaker 4: Southwest fertilize. There's a lot of places you can get
Speaker 4: heirloom soils. You need to try them. They work all right.
Speaker 4: That's that. Hey, I don't want you to forget, but
Speaker 4: I am going to be at the spring Montgomery count
Speaker 4: excuse me, the Montgomery County Spring Home and Outdoor Living
Speaker 4: Show next Saturday, March first, from ten excuse me, from
Speaker 4: twelve twelve noon until two pm. I'll give a talk.
Speaker 4: I'll answer your gardening question. Fill your plastic bags full
Speaker 4: of weeds and plants to identify. We'll do that. If
Speaker 4: you want to do that, we won't do that. Or bugs.
Speaker 4: Take a bug, put it under a hot lamp, make
Speaker 4: it confess its name. We'll do that. And we'll also
Speaker 4: just answer any gardening question. To bring me photos on
Speaker 4: your phone. We can do all that as well. I
Speaker 4: wanted to make a comment about pruning right quick, before
Speaker 4: we get too far along here. When you are pruning,
Speaker 4: if you think there may be a disease, maybe a
Speaker 4: canker disease like or something like fireblight on a plant,
Speaker 4: and you don't want to spread that from one plant
Speaker 4: to another, or from a healthy portion of a plant,
Speaker 4: or from a sick portion to a healthy portion, you
Speaker 4: can sterilize your pruners between cuts. But here's what you
Speaker 4: need to know. There are three ways to do it,
Speaker 4: and the first one is ten percent alcohol in water.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, ten percent bleach in water. Ten percent bleach
Speaker 4: in water. That works to kill the disease, but it
Speaker 4: if you don't really clean those and oil those prunters,
Speaker 4: you're going to get rusting and pitting really bad from
Speaker 4: that bleach water, So you got to be extra careful
Speaker 4: with that one. The next one is rubbing alcohol. Just
Speaker 4: a good strong alcohol solution. You can buy those little
Speaker 4: paint jars of it, cut the top off and dip
Speaker 4: your prunters in those. They're cheap, it's easy to do,
Speaker 4: and that works well. The way I like best is
Speaker 4: just something like lyf salt that you spray on them
Speaker 4: that kills germs. We know that that's what they sell
Speaker 4: it for. And you just spray both sides your printers,
Speaker 4: kind of move them around a little bit to get
Speaker 4: them all in there, and then go on when possible,
Speaker 4: prune the healthy part are healthy plants first, and then
Speaker 4: last do the printing and the disease rather than vice versa,
Speaker 4: which means you're carrying that disease along. But that printer
Speaker 4: sterilization trick is very important if you want to avoid
Speaker 4: spreading things. Some of the rosecankers, some of the fire
Speaker 4: blight that attacks pairs and Pyracantha and other plants out there.
Speaker 4: It's a tip I hope that helps. I do want
Speaker 4: to mention one more time. I talked about azimid earlier.
Speaker 4: But azemite is a trace mineral product. It is mined
Speaker 4: out of Utah, has seventy seven known trace animals or
Speaker 4: micronutrients in it, and it provides those things that are
Speaker 4: essential for plant growth but only needed in small amounts.
Speaker 4: A forty four pound bag covers six to twelve thousand
Speaker 4: square feet of your lawn. I use it in a
Speaker 4: vegetable garden ten pounds per thousand square feet in your
Speaker 4: vegetable garden. That works good too. You can go to
Speaker 4: asmit textas and learn more about it, and you can
Speaker 4: do it anytime of the year. Now, if it's easier
Speaker 4: for you to remember to do it when you fertilize
Speaker 4: with your regular lawn fertilizers, then do that. Just put
Speaker 4: them in separate applications. Don't mix them because particle size
Speaker 4: is different. But put out your fertilizer and then your azemite,
Speaker 4: or your azemite and then your fertilizer. If that makes
Speaker 4: it easier for you to do it, then but don't
Speaker 4: think that you can only do asamite when I have
Speaker 4: fertilizer schedule on my schedule, fertilizer times on my schedule,
Speaker 4: has Mike can be done anytime that you want to
Speaker 4: do it. All right, let's uh, let's take a little
Speaker 4: break from me talking and go out here, and we
Speaker 4: want to talk to Tony and Cyprus. Hey, Tony, got
Speaker 4: a couple of minutes here, Let's see what we can
Speaker 4: do a sally.
Speaker 11: If it's actually Troy, but I'm looking for recommendations flower home.
Speaker 11: I have a two story home with the front door
Speaker 11: faces west, and I have two good sized oak trees
Speaker 11: in the front yard, so the section north of the
Speaker 11: front door does not get a lot of sun. The
Speaker 11: section south of the front door a little bit more,
Speaker 11: but not most of the area it's covered by trees.
Speaker 4: And yeah goes by. Yeah, Troy, you sent me pictures
Speaker 4: of that, didn't you correct? Okay, good, Yeah, I saw
Speaker 4: that that. That's those are good, very helpful. What what
Speaker 4: kind of what are you looking for? You're looking for
Speaker 4: a little flowers? Do you do you just want shrubs
Speaker 4: or do you want some perennials.
Speaker 11: Or definitely some color and definitely something that I don't
Speaker 11: have to do a lot of work for I don't
Speaker 11: want to keep having to go out there every every
Speaker 11: two weeks and cuts or tram.
Speaker 4: Okay, So shrubs are shrubs are going to be kind
Speaker 4: of important. I would I would consider a very dwarf
Speaker 4: type of Chinese witch hazel. They have beautiful burgundy growth
Speaker 4: in the spring, they have hot pink, little shaggy flowers.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 4: And you want a very dwarf type because undwarfed type
Speaker 4: non dwarf types can get quite large and you don't
Speaker 4: have to be constantly pruning them. But a very dwarf
Speaker 4: type of Chinese witchl hazel, purple burgundy foliage, that would
Speaker 4: be a good choice in there. Anything that gives you
Speaker 4: foliage color too. You know, there's some various types of
Speaker 4: clumping grass like plants.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 4: We you know what loriopy is. There's other plant one
Speaker 4: called dianella that is a lot of white in it
Speaker 4: and that really brightens the shady area. So you might
Speaker 4: want to put that along the edge by the lawn
Speaker 4: and then have something green or colorful behind it. Depending
Speaker 4: on the actual foot candles, which is hard for me
Speaker 4: to judge there. You may have decent success with something
Speaker 4: like plumbago, which has there's a blue and a white
Speaker 4: flowered form of that, a light blue flower. Those are
Speaker 4: a few good ideas that you might want to consider. Say,
Speaker 4: appreciate it all right, sir, you bet, thanks for the
Speaker 4: call man. Appreciate that