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Speaker 1: Guarden Line with Skip Rictor.
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Speaker 2: Hello, good morning, Welcome. We're glad you're with us here
Speaker 2: on garden Line today. I'm your host, Skip Richteror. Thanks
Speaker 2: for listening in. We are here to answer your gardening questions.
Speaker 2: That's what we're all about here. And uh, I just
Speaker 2: was visiting with some folks and we were our appearance
Speaker 2: up there at the Montgomery County Home Show.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: And it's amazing how many gardening questions people have, and
Speaker 2: when you answer one, it just leads to another one
Speaker 2: and then to another one. And that's okay. That's why
Speaker 2: we're here, and that's what I enjoy doing. If you
Speaker 2: have a question, we invite you to call in. We'll be
Speaker 2: glad to visit with you and you know, work out
Speaker 2: the details of either identifying or diagnosing or whatever the
Speaker 2: thing is. Listen, we are on the doorstep of fall.
Speaker 2: I know we've got some warm weather this week, but
Speaker 2: you know how it goes. Every year we have what
Speaker 2: we call false fall. We get a little cool breeze
Speaker 2: come through, and that happened the other day and we
Speaker 2: all get the false spirit in us and then here
Speaker 2: comes heat right back. And that's okay, because it's still
Speaker 2: time to do things. It's time to get things done,
Speaker 2: and it's very important to do things on time. Don't
Speaker 2: look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. That's the
Speaker 2: way I'd like to put it. Don't look at the thermometer,
Speaker 2: look at the calendar. And when you look at the calendar,
Speaker 2: you can see right now there's a number of things
Speaker 2: we can be doing. For example, we're going to be
Speaker 2: doing our fall fertilization very soon, and you need to
Speaker 2: go pick up your products for that. Nitrofoss has something
Speaker 2: called their Fall Special Winter Riser. It's very rich, got
Speaker 2: a lot of phosphorsin to help with the root system,
Speaker 2: but most importantly, it's really high in potassium. Potassium helps
Speaker 2: a grass plant prepare for winter hardiness. Think of it
Speaker 2: this way. Potassium helps the grass plant make ana freeze
Speaker 2: that makes the grass even more hearty, and also it
Speaker 2: helps the grass come out in the spring vigorously and healthy.
Speaker 2: Coming out of spring, the fall fertilization is the most
Speaker 2: important fertilization for having a healthy lawn in spring and
Speaker 2: for it coming out. Secondly, the second step of their
Speaker 2: three step is to head off the weeds. A nitro
Speaker 2: fross barricade is a pre emergent look at my schedules
Speaker 2: online at gardening with Skip dot com. It tells you
Speaker 2: exactly when to do it. Put the barricade down and
Speaker 2: prevent all the cool season weeds that'll be a problem
Speaker 2: next spring when they take off growing. They sprout this
Speaker 2: fall and you got to stop them. Number three, you
Speaker 2: put on a nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide. It's a systemic protecting.
Speaker 2: It's a securative funge a side that actually promotes healthy turf.
Speaker 2: So are you worried about large patch or brown patch
Speaker 2: the big circles Nitropass Eagle turf fungicide. You're going to
Speaker 2: find this at a number of different places. You know,
Speaker 2: you're going to find it at places like Plants for
Speaker 2: All Seasons on two forty nine, or Katie Hardware or
Speaker 2: the gym's hardware up there in Montgomery. Nitrofoss three step
Speaker 2: makes it real easy. One, two, three. We're going to
Speaker 2: be talking about a number of things today. I'm just
Speaker 2: gonna mention something right off the bat. I'm going to
Speaker 2: be at the Willbird's Unlimited in clear Lake later today,
Speaker 2: So after the show, I'm going to head over that way.
Speaker 2: I'll get there about eleven thirty and let's see, we'll
Speaker 2: be there till one thirty. We're gonna be drawing for
Speaker 2: a lot of products, things like hummingbird nectar with nectar defender,
Speaker 2: new variety of seed blends actually, and I'll be giving
Speaker 2: away some other products as well for everybody who shows up,
Speaker 2: as long as supplies last. Remember, migration is underway. Hummingbirds
Speaker 2: are here Baltimore, orioles are coming through. They'll be doing
Speaker 2: it all this month and into October. That doing it
Speaker 2: meaning the arriving in our spot, get a bite to
Speaker 2: eat and continue on with their migration and we it's
Speaker 2: enjoyable when you have a feeder and you can bring
Speaker 2: them in to that feeder. Out in the lawn. This week,
Speaker 2: I was going through looking for some signs of fall aster.
Speaker 2: Fall Aster is a weed that you don't renoice during
Speaker 2: the year unless your lawn is really struggling. Then the
Speaker 2: fall aster stands out. But it's almost a blue green
Speaker 2: weed that grows down really low in the almost the
Speaker 2: thatch area of the lawn sticks this little leaves up
Speaker 2: where they can get some light. And if it were
Speaker 2: if you weren't mowing the lawn, the weed would be,
Speaker 2: you know, over knee high. It gets very tall, but
Speaker 2: in a lawn it knows how to adjust to mowing.
Speaker 2: And in probably maybe October we'll start to see the
Speaker 2: little blooms from that, depending on where you live north
Speaker 2: and south in the listening area. And when you see
Speaker 2: the blooms, that's when everybody gets alarmed about it, and
Speaker 2: so just be checking for it and when you see them.
Speaker 2: The easiest thing to do for fall aster at this
Speaker 2: point in the season is to pull it up, ham
Speaker 2: pull it up what the soil, make sure the lawn
Speaker 2: soil is moist, and just get down on hens and knees.
Speaker 2: It has one spot where it comes out of the ground, taproot,
Speaker 2: so it's easy to wiggle it up right out of there.
Speaker 2: During most of the season, if you knew you were
Speaker 2: looking for it and treating for it, you could use
Speaker 2: a broadly post emergent product on it. But once these
Speaker 2: weeds go what we call reproductive, meaning they're blooming and
Speaker 2: they're setting seeds, it's a little late. The products that
Speaker 2: would have worked at that stage of the weed, we're
Speaker 2: not going to accomplish much. So just a little tip
Speaker 2: there on with the fall aster and we certainly do
Speaker 2: have to deal with fall uster. When was the last
Speaker 2: time you're at at Arburgate. I swung by the other
Speaker 2: day and I'm telling you they are set up for
Speaker 2: fall of whatever kind of decorations. If you need the
Speaker 2: landscape blane, you know, things put out in your yard
Speaker 2: and stuff just for decorating for fall, whether it's the
Speaker 2: Halloween or whether it's decorating for just the harvest season.
Speaker 2: You know that feel of the harvest season with all
Speaker 2: the orange and golden and yellow and maroonish colors that
Speaker 2: you put out. Well, Arburgate's got you covered on all
Speaker 2: of that. While you're there, you need to pick up
Speaker 2: their one two three system because on guard line, I
Speaker 2: always say brown stuff before green stuff, meaning before you
Speaker 2: put the plants in the ground, get the soil right.
Speaker 2: And that's what the one two three system is. It's
Speaker 2: a soil and it's a fertilizer for anything with roots,
Speaker 2: and then it is a compost that can be mixed
Speaker 2: as well into the soil of blend and you pick
Speaker 2: all the three of those up. You put those together
Speaker 2: into the soil and your plan is ready to go.
Speaker 2: And that's important. And they've got that there at Arburgate.
Speaker 2: Remember they got the new parking lot new. I'll say
Speaker 2: it's new for another year or two probably, but it's
Speaker 2: been a long time coming. But boy is that ever
Speaker 2: nice and convenient. It's off Trischel Road behind Arburgate. So
Speaker 2: whether you're coming out twenty nine to twenty from Tomball
Speaker 2: or coming in the other way, you just turned on
Speaker 2: Trishel Road, it's before or after Arburgate. It's a loop
Speaker 2: that goes out behind. It makes it real easy to
Speaker 2: do there. The Ace Hardware stores here in our area
Speaker 2: are amazing in their everything ness. In other words, if
Speaker 2: I talk about a fertilizer for your lawn, if I
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Speaker 2: the Great Houston area. So that makes it really really
Speaker 2: easy to find everything you need. You want to do
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Speaker 2: I got to take a little break. We'll do the
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Speaker 2: we're going to talk to John Tomball. Hello, John, Welcome
Speaker 2: to guard Line.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 5: I we have a pool and I also have a
Speaker 5: nosy neighbor who likes to watch my wife. If that's
Speaker 5: I can say that on the radio.
Speaker 2: Uh, but yeah, go ahead, right right.
Speaker 5: So we're thinking that we want to put some crape
Speaker 5: myrtles up and line the fence with them so that they'll,
Speaker 5: you know, raise above the fence line. The question is
Speaker 5: we're trying to decide.
Speaker 6: On the color.
Speaker 5: We really like the dark red ones and the white ones.
Speaker 5: If I like red white, red white, red white all
Speaker 5: the way down the fence line. Yes, does that like
Speaker 5: when they propagate or whatever? Will I have you know,
Speaker 5: pink ones next year? Will I have no?
Speaker 4: No, that's okay.
Speaker 2: Plant will always produce that color loom and so yes,
Speaker 2: you can do that. Just watch the height of them
Speaker 2: crate myrtles. There are crp myrtles that get two feet tall,
Speaker 2: and there's crape myrtles that get thirty five feet tall,
Speaker 2: and so you want to make sure they're all going
Speaker 2: to have foliage in the area where you want them
Speaker 2: to have foliage. So that's part of picking the right
Speaker 2: varieties and also training them well. John, if you will
Speaker 2: go on, if you use Google or whatever search engine,
Speaker 2: type in skip Richter and crape myrtle, and you should
Speaker 2: get a chart that shows you. Not everyone on the market.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of new ones since I put that
Speaker 2: chart out, but you can see what I'm talking about
Speaker 2: on heights, and there's pictures of the CRP myrtles too,
Speaker 2: So you go, I like that penguin, I like this
Speaker 2: white one, and they're about the right size. That's what
Speaker 2: I recommend. Just remember when you use crapes to a
Speaker 2: screen of view. You just need to not go swimming
Speaker 2: in early spring or later in the fall, because some
Speaker 2: crape already's starting to drop.
Speaker 5: Leaves, right right, Okay, Yeah, it'll definitely be an experiment.
Speaker 5: But we like the really really really like those dark
Speaker 5: red ones, so that's what we were going to try.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and you're in Tombol. You know, you've got
Speaker 2: the Arbigate Nursery right out there outside of town. They're
Speaker 2: gonna have a lot of varieties and if they don't
Speaker 2: have one, they probably could order it for you or
Speaker 2: one that will be a good replacement. Okay, okay, fair enough,
Speaker 2: all right, sir, take care, thanks for thanks, Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: that is very very important, very important. You know Nelson
Speaker 2: plant Food, I've talked about it before. You know, they're fertilizers.
Speaker 2: They have fertilizers for every month of the I mean,
Speaker 2: no matter what month it is, they've got the appropriate
Speaker 2: fertilizer to be putting out at that month at that time.
Speaker 2: But they also have a product called genesis. Now, genesis
Speaker 2: is something that you put in when you're transplanting. It's
Speaker 2: a nutrient, but it also has microbes in it, and
Speaker 2: so if you're going to bump a container you bought
Speaker 2: into a larger container that's soil, and the larger container
Speaker 2: needs to Genesis already mixed into it. If you're going
Speaker 2: to take let's say you're gonna plant a rosebush this fall,
Speaker 2: or any tree, you take the soil around where you're
Speaker 2: gonna plant in that hole and you mix in Genesis
Speaker 2: with it. It's not gonna burn, but just mix it
Speaker 2: into the soil where you're planting, whether it's a garden
Speaker 2: bed or you know, or a landscape bed. Genesis is
Speaker 2: an outstanding product. I was so surprised when I first
Speaker 2: used it.
Speaker 4: For me.
Speaker 2: It was bumping some tomatoes up. They were in little, tiny,
Speaker 2: six pack sized tomatoes. I was putting them in four
Speaker 2: inch pots and I mixed Genesis into the soil and wow,
Speaker 2: they they moved on. And that's from Nelson Plant Food.
Speaker 2: It's widely available and it's an outstanding product. We're going
Speaker 2: to go now to Glenn in Cyprus. Hello Glenn, welcome
Speaker 2: to Guardline.
Speaker 7: Hey Skip, Harry, I'm.
Speaker 2: Good, I'm good. Thanks.
Speaker 7: Hey, I just had a question on using a weed
Speaker 7: killer on something.
Speaker 4: I had a.
Speaker 7: Patch of yopop that pibably like the size of a
Speaker 7: bed of a pickup truck, where there was like over
Speaker 7: a hundred of them, and I thind them out to
Speaker 7: where there's only like twelve left and strip them up
Speaker 7: and just have them coming out on the top. All
Speaker 7: the suckers that come up from the bottom, Well, I
Speaker 7: damage the other plants if I just spray the yes,
Speaker 7: the new growth coming.
Speaker 2: Up, Yeah you will. The reason round up works well
Speaker 2: is because it trendslocates down into the roots. It kills
Speaker 2: the whole plant, and so yes that that would be
Speaker 2: a disaster. You're just gonna have to cut them down
Speaker 2: back down you open the larger types, especially they're they're notorious.
Speaker 2: If you can dig down and try to take it
Speaker 2: off right where it joins whatever it's attached to, a
Speaker 2: root or the trunk or whatever, take it out there,
Speaker 2: you will have a little less of that suckering. But
Speaker 2: it's the nature of that species to want to do that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I had a filling.
Speaker 7: I would just have a chore, a chore on my hands.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for a long time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So I just wanted to make sure there was
Speaker 7: in some way I could damper that from coming up
Speaker 7: so fast. If I hit them quick when they're real small,
Speaker 7: they're they're tender, and they're easy just to I usually
Speaker 7: just weed et them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that that would be a good idea to
Speaker 2: try that. I'm not a fan of those surface fabrics
Speaker 2: you know that block are supposed to block weeds, because
Speaker 2: they end up weeds end up on top of them
Speaker 2: and still a problem. But that with something to weigh
Speaker 2: it down, you know, like a little rock malts kind
Speaker 2: of area around them that would suppress them because they
Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to push up through that. But but
Speaker 2: you definitely would need something weighing it down because they're
Speaker 2: just going to lift that right up.
Speaker 6: Sure, I understand.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, thank you.
Speaker 2: You bet. Thanks then I appreciate appreciate your very much.
Speaker 2: Southwest Fertilizer has been around since the nineteen fifties. And
Speaker 2: what I say about Southwest is if they don't have it,
Speaker 2: you don't need it. And that is really true. When
Speaker 2: you go in there, you need to go by check
Speaker 2: it out. It's corner of Bisinette and Renwick in Southwest Houston.
Speaker 2: If you want the website, it's Southwest Fertilizer dot com.
Speaker 2: But just you need to go in the store because
Speaker 2: It's amazing the selection of things that they have. It's
Speaker 2: just pretty much everything you could possibly need. An eighty
Speaker 2: foot long wall of tools. You know, some of you
Speaker 2: are building that skips weed wiper that I put on
Speaker 2: my website by the way, if you want to see that,
Speaker 2: it's gardening with Skip dot Com. Some of you are
Speaker 2: building that. Well, Bob's got the standard grabber tool that
Speaker 2: you use to build that, and he, you know, he
Speaker 2: can give you the products that go with that, depending
Speaker 2: on whether you're going after woody ornamentals or grass or
Speaker 2: sedges or whatever it is. Bob is always is going
Speaker 2: to be on top of things while you're in there.
Speaker 2: Take a look at the kneeling bench. I think it's
Speaker 2: the coolest thing. It'll change your gardening life, especially if
Speaker 2: you're somewhere north of forty years old, because it's easy.
Speaker 2: It's a seat, it's also a kneeling bench, and the
Speaker 2: legs then become handles to help you get back up.
Speaker 2: And you know, if you go to your knees and
Speaker 2: get up about how many times do we do that
Speaker 2: on a good Saturday in the garden, eight hundred times? Well,
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Speaker 2: position the next morning when your body says, you will
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Speaker 2: go out now to Cypers and talk to Ed. Hello, Ed,
Speaker 2: Welcome to guard Line. Good morning morning. I've got two questions.
Speaker 2: One is what is your opinion or.
Speaker 9: Pruning paint or pruning dressing.
Speaker 2: You go ahead, going to give me both of you
Speaker 2: want to get me to go one at.
Speaker 9: A do okay, I'll give you the other one. The
Speaker 9: other one has to do with fertilize, and I never
Speaker 9: can get an even spread of the fertilizer. I end
Speaker 9: up with these green lanes. Yeah, oh my lawn, and
Speaker 9: I use a broadcast of better that's good. And it
Speaker 9: doesn't seem to matter what steady and it's on. I
Speaker 9: still have those okay stripes.
Speaker 2: You just need to you know, depending on how fast
Speaker 2: you walk, that wheel spinds faster and it will sling farther.
Speaker 2: So have number one, have a certain pace that you're
Speaker 2: walking to put it out and just notice how far
Speaker 2: out it's going on the sides. And then when you
Speaker 2: come the other way, make sure you're as close to
Speaker 2: the right distance as you can. And I'm sure you're
Speaker 2: already doing that, but make sure and do that. And
Speaker 2: then what I would do the other thing is to
Speaker 2: I'll just use umpus directions if you if you'll take
Speaker 2: half about what you're going to apply and go north
Speaker 2: south and then turn around take the other half and
Speaker 2: go east west. That helps blend it out a little
Speaker 2: bit as well, okay, uh, And that that would be
Speaker 2: the main thing. And the stronger the fertilizer is, the
Speaker 2: higher the nitrogen content, the less you're gonna use. Uh.
Speaker 2: And so sometimes people get a good stout fertilizer, which
Speaker 2: is fine, you just would need to use less and
Speaker 2: they still apply a higher rate and that also makes
Speaker 2: it a little difficult to not stripe.
Speaker 9: Some of these fertilizers don't give you a setting for
Speaker 9: the particular broadcast spreader.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I have, So.
Speaker 9: How do you figure that instead of doing a bunch
Speaker 9: of math?
Speaker 2: Well, in general, just if you're this is a general
Speaker 2: guide because there's not a specific answer because there's really
Speaker 2: so many different spreaders and different fertilizer products and whatnot.
Speaker 2: But if you'll put the setting a notch or two
Speaker 2: above half way. So let's say there were twenty notches
Speaker 2: for that spreader. Eleven or twelve would be about where
Speaker 2: you put it, okay, And if there are, you know,
Speaker 2: five notches, then you're going to put it at about three.
Speaker 2: You see what I'm saying, just a little bit above halfway.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 9: So then the two things that I need to be
Speaker 9: doing is the two things I need to be doing
Speaker 9: is take it, be careful not to overlap. Yeah, well,
Speaker 9: washing the spreader right and walk at the same pace.
Speaker 9: And then yes, the third thing would be to.
Speaker 2: Do half of yeah pattern, Hey, Ed, I've got I've
Speaker 2: got to go to a break for the news. But
Speaker 2: good luck at that. And uh, I think it's going
Speaker 2: to work for you. All right, We're going to go
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Speaker 2: The folks at Medina have a wide variety of products,
Speaker 2: and I could spend a whole show talking about all
Speaker 2: the different Medina products that are out there. One of
Speaker 2: them been around for a long time. It's kind of
Speaker 2: a standard with Medina is a soil activator. Soil activator
Speaker 2: has some micronutrients in it, which is good, and it
Speaker 2: also has all kinds of biological activity that helps the soil.
Speaker 2: The original biological activator for the soil derived from a complex.
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Speaker 2: t r H. I was mentioning earlier that if you
Speaker 2: go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you
Speaker 2: can find a number of things. One of them is
Speaker 2: the there is a how to build a weed wiper
Speaker 2: and you just have to go there. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to try to describe it to you, but it's really
Speaker 2: easy to make. When you look at it, you just
Speaker 2: go I can do that myself, and you can probably
Speaker 2: improve on it yourself, because it's just one way to
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Speaker 2: and I say outstanding because I spent a long time
Speaker 2: researching this and trying things myself through the years. What
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Speaker 2: of nutsedge and some other stuff that you probably didn't
Speaker 2: know about it, and these are very important if you
Speaker 2: want to have success. I'm fighting two battles with nutsedge myself.
Speaker 2: I got some really nice, fine textured turf. It's called
Speaker 2: it's a zoysia called Xeon, and it's an outstanding thing.
Speaker 2: But boy, when the nutsedge sticks, it's it's leaves up
Speaker 2: above the turf, it re shows up. And so I'm
Speaker 2: dealing with it. They are and in a flower bed.
Speaker 2: And if you will follow what's on that information sheet
Speaker 2: that I created, it will work. You just have to
Speaker 2: stay with it. Also there you're going to find my schedules,
Speaker 2: my lawn care schedule, and we are at the doorstep
Speaker 2: of applying our fall fertilizers. For those of you that
Speaker 2: are listening, I'll say way up north, like Huntsville or
Speaker 2: someplace like that. The time you apply comes a little
Speaker 2: earlier than someone down in Galveston, for example, where it
Speaker 2: doesn't get as cold as fast. And so anyway, lawn
Speaker 2: care schedule, and then the lawn pest disease and we'd
Speaker 2: management schedule, and we are entering the season now where
Speaker 2: we treat for brown patch or large patch, and it's
Speaker 2: also the season where we treat for take all root rot.
Speaker 2: And then it's also the season where we put a
Speaker 2: pre emergent down our winter weeds, things like the hen
Speaker 2: bet and chick weed, carpetweed and clovers and all of those.
Speaker 2: They're sprouting in the fall when it cools off a
Speaker 2: little bit, and then they sit there all winter, and
Speaker 2: then in spring we have a mess on our hands.
Speaker 2: And so if you look at the schedule, you'll see
Speaker 2: all of that. It gives you a list of products,
Speaker 2: both organic and synthetic for dealing with all of those. Well,
Speaker 2: let's go now to Katie, Texas. We're going to talk
Speaker 2: to Sam. Hello, Sam, good morning.
Speaker 12: I have a bunch of citrus trees and they're getting
Speaker 12: some whitish substance powdery looking thing on the leaves and
Speaker 12: they're shrivalling. They're shriveling up. I wondered if there any
Speaker 12: spray or anything for that, and what would you recommend.
Speaker 2: You may have more than one thing going on. Your
Speaker 2: description kind of sounds like maybe more than one thing
Speaker 2: to me, but the primary thing, the shriveling up. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure that's going to be the citrus leaf minor.
Speaker 2: And if you'll get a leaf that's doing that, and
Speaker 2: you'll look at it really close, you should see some
Speaker 2: sir some trails through the leaf. It's a serpentine type trail,
Speaker 2: you know, just wiggles and goes all around all through
Speaker 2: the leaf. And if you see that, that's a citrus
Speaker 2: leaf miner. Citrus leaf miner. You got a couple of options.
Speaker 2: Number One, you can do nothing. They're not going to
Speaker 2: kill your tree. They take a little foliage out, but
Speaker 2: the trio grow more foliage. They primarily attack tender new growth,
Speaker 2: which we're kind of done having now. I mean it's
Speaker 2: going to cool off in a little bit here in
Speaker 2: the citrus quit putting out in new growth, and so
Speaker 2: it would be waiting until next spring to act against
Speaker 2: them when they start showing up again. So whenever you
Speaker 2: have a flesh and new growth, that's when you would
Speaker 2: spray the leaves. Only the leaves that are the flush
Speaker 2: of new growth, the old, dark, leathery leaves. Leaf miner
Speaker 2: doesn't attack those, so that that'd be some Now some
Speaker 2: people just ignore it. But if I had a young
Speaker 2: tree and I was trying to get it to really
Speaker 2: grow up fast and get big. So it has a
Speaker 2: lot of oranges or whatever kind of citrus on it.
Speaker 2: I would probably do some spring during the first three years.
Speaker 4: Maybe what spray would you recommend?
Speaker 2: There's the safest is a product called spin No sad.
Speaker 2: It's spi No sa d spin No said, yeah, and
Speaker 2: it's an organic product and you spray it on the foliage.
Speaker 2: It soaks in, so the miner that's already in the leaf,
Speaker 2: it will kill them too.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, good luck with those citrus plants. I know
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Speaker 2: by that? Will you look out in your backyard and
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Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: It's also a company that can fix your irrigation issues
Speaker 2: that pop up. It's a company that can do pretty
Speaker 2: much anything you need, including improving the drainage on an area.
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Speaker 2: is you will get an idea on the amazing work
Speaker 2: that they do at Pierscapes. Every time I look at it,
Speaker 2: it's like I think of ten more things I need
Speaker 2: in my backyard. We're going to take a break. Our
Speaker 2: phone number is seven to one three two one two, Katie.
Speaker 2: You know when it when it comes to organic types
Speaker 2: of products. So one of the first things I think
Speaker 2: of is Microlife. Microlife has been creating organic products for
Speaker 2: a very long time, and they they have such excellent products,
Speaker 2: such outstanding products actually that just flat work they do. Microlife.
Speaker 2: For example, they have got the biomatrix. The biomatrix is
Speaker 2: a really good product for anything that you're going to plant,
Speaker 2: any whether you're fertilizing an existing plant or whether you're
Speaker 2: transplanting or whatever. Biomatrix is in an orange bottle. It
Speaker 2: is a liquid. Now they also have they had a
Speaker 2: bunch of liquid type products, but they've got the fish
Speaker 2: emulsions in the seaweed, which organic gardeners know that combination
Speaker 2: is an excellent way to fertilize plants as well. But
Speaker 2: I want to just talk about that biomatrix for just
Speaker 2: a moment. It is loaded with microbes. It has the
Speaker 2: nutrients in seven percent nitrogen seven one three or four.
Speaker 2: I just went blank on the actual last number seven
Speaker 2: one four, I believe. And I've used it on houseplants.
Speaker 2: I've used it outdoors. It's not going to burn a plant,
Speaker 2: but it will not only feed the plant but also
Speaker 2: enhance microbial activity in the soil, and that is very important.
Speaker 2: And it's just one of many quality products that you
Speaker 2: can get for Microlife. It's Microlifefertilizer dot com. That's a
Speaker 2: website you can find out where to get it. But
Speaker 2: I can just tell you this, it's widely available. You're
Speaker 2: going to feed stores, you going to garden centers, you
Speaker 2: go into ACE hardware stores or Southwest Fertilized. You're going
Speaker 2: to find products like Microlife Biomatrix. We're going to head
Speaker 2: now out to San Leon and talk to Ted. Hello, Ted,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Hey. This is Ted normally from Sant Leon, but I'm
Speaker 13: visiting in Myerland this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 13: You advised about a month ago that uh yeah, it's
Speaker 13: okay to still go ahead and put out some superturf,
Speaker 13: not cross super turf. I did, and I did. It
Speaker 13: was second's despair before the rain started. Worked out beautifully,
Speaker 13: work out beautifully. Got a couple of weeks the nice rain.
Speaker 13: But uh, how am I going to store that half
Speaker 13: a bag that's left?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 2: Just just you know, fold it up, you know, as
Speaker 2: tight as you can. I use those big old giant
Speaker 2: clips alligator clips on it. But you can have a
Speaker 2: duct tape to hold it down or whatever, just to
Speaker 2: keep you know, moisture from the air from in there.
Speaker 2: And that's that's what I would do. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 13: Randy used to advise, well, if there's any clumps, it's
Speaker 13: no good. But you know, uh, if I see a
Speaker 13: few clumps, I don't easily worry about it too much.
Speaker 2: Well, sometimes they're not. Sometimes they can easily be broken apart,
Speaker 2: sometimes a piece of concrete.
Speaker 13: So I just kind of, yeah, a little advice. The
Speaker 13: guy that called earlier about the crape myrtles to shield
Speaker 13: his pool. Uh, boy, of those crape myrtle blossoms will
Speaker 13: plug up a section filter on a.
Speaker 2: Pool quick, okay.
Speaker 13: And so anyway, that's something to consider. There's a marina
Speaker 13: down here in Seabrook that has them all along there.
Speaker 13: And they take a fire hose and knock the blossoms
Speaker 13: off so they don't get into the boats. And uh,
Speaker 13: they can cover the boats. Yeah, and they leave stains.
Speaker 13: So anyway, but anyway, your show.
Speaker 2: Yeah a great, Yeah, appreciate, appreciate the call. Okay, you
Speaker 2: take care by bye. All right. You're listening to garden Line.
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Speaker 2: r H. I was kind of perusing I guess you'd
Speaker 2: say the uh in Chenna Gardens social media. I follow
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Speaker 2: you could do it with herbs combined with other things.
Speaker 2: You can do it with flowers. We're entering the fall season,
Speaker 2: so how about a croaton in the middle of it,
Speaker 2: and then you've got some other fall colored flowers that
Speaker 2: are also part of it. They've got everything you need
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Speaker 2: the fertilizers and the products, the soils and multius and
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Speaker 2: to have folks that know what they're talking about that
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Speaker 2: Richmond Rosenberg area. It's on north of Richmond Rose. Excuse me,
Speaker 2: Richmond Rosenberg. It's up toward the KD direction and that
Speaker 2: is Enchanted Gardens. By the way, the road is FM
Speaker 2: three point fifty nine, Richmond, Texas address. Well, I think
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Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm the broken record on the soil.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Everything begins in the soil. Plants success begins in the soil,
Speaker 2: and so if you want to have success with whatever
Speaker 2: you're planting, the soil has got to be suitable for
Speaker 2: that plant. And one of the things that soiled typically
Speaker 2: down here we don't have adequate amount of, especially clays, uh,
Speaker 2: is oxygen down in the soil. Did you know plant
Speaker 2: roots need oxygen. You know, we think about plants they
Speaker 2: breathing carbon dioxide and they breathe out oxygen. That makes
Speaker 2: us in plants go well together because we're the opposite.
Speaker 2: But plants also use oxygen, not as much as they produce.
Speaker 2: But there's part of the cycle with plants is having
Speaker 2: oxygen to do the things some of the things that
Speaker 2: they need to do. And if your soil is loose,
Speaker 2: if your soil has good compost content, good organic matter
Speaker 2: content in a clay, a lot of expanded shale helps
Speaker 2: as well. Is even a longer term thing you're going
Speaker 2: to have success. And if you're looking for the one
Speaker 2: stop shop for brown stuff, that is Cienomalts Cienamalts down
Speaker 2: just north of Roast Sharing. They have all the different
Speaker 2: things I'm talking about, a wide variety of things that
Speaker 2: make your soil better. Compost and bed mixes. For example,
Speaker 2: if you wanted the heirloom soils, veggie and herb mix
Speaker 2: that go to Siana Maltch. They've got it. They have
Speaker 2: it there. If you're needing a good top dressing maltz
Speaker 2: to go on top of the soil, go to Siena Maltz.
Speaker 2: They have it there. If you're needing a fertilizer, every
Speaker 2: fertilizer I talk about on garden line and then some
Speaker 2: are there at Ciena malt If you need things like stone,
Speaker 2: if you need gravel or rocks for decorations and whatever,
Speaker 2: they've got that there at Ciena malt When you drive
Speaker 2: into Ciana Malts and drive out, you have everything you
Speaker 2: need to have success with your plants. They deliver within
Speaker 2: about twenty miles of their location, but you just need
Speaker 2: to go. It's an outstanding place again. They are on
Speaker 2: FM five point twenty one, just north of Rosharon cianamltch
Speaker 2: dot com. And by the way, they treat you well
Speaker 2: there too, very friendly, and it just it feels like
Speaker 2: you're going to visit with family when you walk inside
Speaker 2: of Sienamultch. We're running pretty close to the break here,
Speaker 2: so I think it won't start start up something new.
Speaker 2: I do want to remind you that today I'm going
Speaker 2: to be at the clear Lake wild Bird's Unlimited Store. Okay,
Speaker 2: clear Lake wild Bird's Unlimited Store. And in my garden
Speaker 2: some hummingbirds showed up. I haven't been in the past
Speaker 2: a big hummingbird feeder. Of course, I'm getting more and
Speaker 2: more into birds these days. But the clear Lake wild
Speaker 2: Bird's Unlimited Store as where I'll be from eleven thirty
Speaker 2: to one thirty. Now, that is where El Dorado and
Speaker 2: clear Lake City Boulevard come together. El Dorado Boulevard, clear
Speaker 2: Lake City Boulevard down in clear Lake. All of you
Speaker 2: in the region down there, if you have some samples
Speaker 2: of plants, put them as up like bag, bring them in,
Speaker 2: we'll identify them, we'll diagnose them, we'll last rites. If
Speaker 2: that needs to be done. Do you have things you
Speaker 2: want identify same thing? Bring phone pictures in. Just make
Speaker 2: sure where you come in they're close up and they
Speaker 2: are crisp, sharp focus. So you know, a fuzzy photo
Speaker 2: gets you a fuzzy answer. I don't want to give
Speaker 2: you a fuzzy answer. So they're like wallbirds on them.
Speaker 2: We're going to be given away a number of different products.
Speaker 2: I'm bringing some stuff to give away. They'll be like
Speaker 2: hummingbird nectar defender. That's an outstanding product. I use it
Speaker 2: in in my hummingbird nectar in this warm weather sugar
Speaker 2: water goes bad pretty quick. With nectar defender in it,
Speaker 2: it lasts a lot longer, and it's it's an excellent
Speaker 2: product for the burden. They're going to give away some
Speaker 2: other stuff, some of their seed blends, for example. So
Speaker 2: they're like wallbirds. If you live south, if you live east,
Speaker 2: south or southeast, come and see me today. I have
Speaker 2: you know that I was talking earlier, you know about
Speaker 2: the importance of preparing soil, of the importance of making
Speaker 2: sure that when you are doing something to your lawn
Speaker 2: or your flower beds or your garden or whatever, that
Speaker 2: you provide the nutrients it needs, and you provide oxygen
Speaker 2: in the soil that you create the ideal soil environment.
Speaker 2: And that it's I'm a broken record on it, but
Speaker 2: it's because I know that is the first step the
Speaker 2: key to success. When you plant a plant and walk
Speaker 2: away the minute you've planted it, or a seed for
Speaker 2: that matter, you are I'm going to say, eighty percent
Speaker 2: of the way to success or failure at least seventy
Speaker 2: five percent. And it's because you've chosen the plant, You've
Speaker 2: prepared the soil, you put it in cent or shade,
Speaker 2: and the plants can have an opinion about that. Does
Speaker 2: it have nutrients, does it have good oxygen in the soil.
Speaker 2: All the stuff you do before you plant is the
Speaker 2: vast majority of your success. And just remember that I
Speaker 2: wor in Southern Gardens is out there in Kingwood Garden Center.
Speaker 2: Both are out there in the Kingwood area, and boy,
Speaker 2: they have a lot going on right now. They've got
Speaker 2: citrus in the rangoon creeper is in stock and if
Speaker 2: you've never seen a rangoon creeper, that is one showboat.
Speaker 2: In the summer, it's a vine and dies back to
Speaker 2: the ground and then it comes back again and boy,
Speaker 2: it is beautiful, beautiful. It's time to make sure that
Speaker 2: your planters are in good shape for the fallseason. You
Speaker 2: got your new plants in, you got good soil in.
Speaker 2: Warrens can help you with that. And Kingwood Garden Center
Speaker 2: do you know what Warrens. You can drop off existing
Speaker 2: pots or you can buy a new one and have
Speaker 2: a schedule and appointment visit the garden center or schedule
Speaker 2: and appointment. They have a great selection to new pottery
Speaker 2: if you need some. But they will help you create
Speaker 2: a stunning arrangement that is really impressive. So if you
Speaker 2: feel like I just don't know what to do, I
Speaker 2: don't know what plants to put in, they'll give you
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Speaker 2: Tree sales going on right now. Thirty percent off any trees.
Speaker 2: That's that is cool. That one called a traveler red bud,
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Speaker 2: We're going to head now, let's see, we're going to
Speaker 2: go out to Richmond and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob,
Speaker 2: welcome to a guard line.
Speaker 4: Hey, thank you, skip Y.
Speaker 10: I got a boxwood that the leaves are yellowing, and
Speaker 10: I know a couple of weekends back, y'all.
Speaker 15: Talk to someone about that.
Speaker 4: I was walking the doll as I couldn't really here
Speaker 4: at pay attention to what they were doing. Yeah, there's
Speaker 4: something about the bark on it, the discolouration at the
Speaker 4: base or something.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, box woods, there's different things that can affect them.
Speaker 2: Nematodes when they occur in large enough numbers on the
Speaker 2: roots and they build up over time, they make the
Speaker 2: plant very inefficient at taking up water and nutrients, so
Speaker 2: you end up with symptoms of nutrient deficiency or drought.
Speaker 2: Typically drought types of damage. There is a root rot
Speaker 2: that will kill roots, and as roots begin to die,
Speaker 2: let's say over on the left side of the plant,
Speaker 2: then you typically will notice a whole section of the
Speaker 2: plant above that that's going to start to lose that cane.
Speaker 2: Occasionally we have a sudden coal snap that can cost
Speaker 2: splitting of the trunk. There's just different things that can happen.
Speaker 2: I would follow the branch that when it turns completely
Speaker 2: brown or tan and it's not alive, I'd follow that
Speaker 2: branch down and cut it offward attaches to something else
Speaker 2: that way.
Speaker 10: It's done it before over the years. It's but spody
Speaker 10: nipped it there. But this one's like from the base
Speaker 10: of it, running up the middle, over the top and
Speaker 10: trying to spread outwards on one side.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it'd be a big chop to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be But if it's dead, it's not
Speaker 2: going to come back alive, so you might as get
Speaker 2: it out of there, you know. If you well, if
Speaker 2: you pull the plant up, it's easy to see them.
Speaker 2: But if you don't, just get you a blast of
Speaker 2: water and try to blast out some of the root
Speaker 2: systems and you'll see little bumps, little knots, like a
Speaker 2: string of pearls or something. Sometimes it's so bad it
Speaker 2: looks like the Michelin man with all those a lot
Speaker 2: of lumps and stuff. But that would be the nema
Speaker 2: toads if you want to check for that. If you
Speaker 2: were to scrape the base of the trunk kind of deeply,
Speaker 2: scrape back the bark and you see brown in there,
Speaker 2: then that's a sign of a root raight fungus that's
Speaker 2: working on it. So there's a lot of possibilities. We
Speaker 2: can't you know, go into detail on each one, but
Speaker 2: see what you see. If you have any further questions,
Speaker 2: just call me back.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I just send you a photo tomorrow and hollo
Speaker 10: back at you.
Speaker 2: Okay, take care, appreciate the call very much. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: nematodes and a lot of other things can really be
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Speaker 2: to plant some fall ornamentals, or maybe you already have
Speaker 2: some that you can use. Some of their mulches, like
Speaker 2: the black velvet mulch out there on the surface of
Speaker 2: the soil. You can pile that up over the top
Speaker 2: of a plant that is semi coal tender. You know,
Speaker 2: you think some winter I'm gonna lose that thing. Well,
Speaker 2: just pullow mulch over the crowded plant at the base
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Speaker 2: I have to say this right now. The Metropolis got you.
Speaker 15: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 16: I had a quick question about blueberries.
Speaker 15: I've read online.
Speaker 16: Some places say put them in those you know, those
Speaker 16: big pots like the trees come in when you buy
Speaker 16: big trees. Yes, to control the pH Other's places say no, no, no,
Speaker 16: they have to be in the ground. I was wondering
Speaker 16: what your opinion was on planting blueberries.
Speaker 2: Blueberry doesn't care where it is as long as its
Speaker 2: soil is well drained and slightly acidic. And so if
Speaker 2: you have naturally acidic soil, you can just plant the soil. Uh,
Speaker 2: you probably don't in your location, and so you can
Speaker 2: bring in a bed mix that's acidic and create a
Speaker 2: bed that's let's say, oh, I'd probably make it a
Speaker 2: little over maybe a foot high, because it's going to
Speaker 2: settle down in time. Sure, and the roots can go
Speaker 2: out in that bed and essentially be growing in that.
Speaker 2: Or the third thing is put them in a big
Speaker 2: pot like that and put in acidic type bed mix
Speaker 2: in the pot.
Speaker 16: Okay, so you think either way would works. There's not
Speaker 16: one better the pot of the ground. Okay, Well I
Speaker 16: would one on.
Speaker 2: The ground because there's less trouble in the pot. The
Speaker 2: pot needs to be as big as a whiskey barrel.
Speaker 2: Half whiskey barrel are bigger, don't put them in a whiskey barrel.
Speaker 2: A little wrought out.
Speaker 17: But uh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 16: The thing I read was, you know those pots like
Speaker 16: when you buy a big tree. You know, I don't
Speaker 16: know how big bows are, but those great big ones.
Speaker 2: So I've I've grown blueberries and half whiskey barrel type
Speaker 2: pots before. It just got the water them a lot
Speaker 2: in the summer because it's a limited.
Speaker 16: Okay, So it sounds like in the ground might be
Speaker 16: Let me just say.
Speaker 2: Let me say this. Water quality is very important. If
Speaker 2: it's high pH water, if it's high sodium water, if
Speaker 2: it's highed bikes in the water. So if you have
Speaker 2: any way to set up a half whiskey bar I
Speaker 2: mean a rain barrel or something to capture some water
Speaker 2: that would be best and minimize bad water. Bad for blueberries,
Speaker 2: maybe good for other plants, but not for blueberries.
Speaker 16: Okay, yeah, I'm kind of working on trying to get
Speaker 16: a rain water harvesting thing going. So if you have
Speaker 16: time for a quick question about killing vines. We have
Speaker 16: this stickery vine. It looks kind of like a blueberry,
Speaker 16: I mean a dewberry vine that it never makes anything
Speaker 16: but really nasty stickers on our little thorns. I've heard
Speaker 16: you talk to people about tricle pier for killing vines.
Speaker 16: I'm trying to be organic, but I just cannot get
Speaker 16: this stuff under control. Is it better if I cut
Speaker 16: them off and then treat the new growth or can
Speaker 16: I just put this stuff on the current growth or
Speaker 16: is it one way.
Speaker 2: That's tracle pair definitely is not organic. But the way
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you to apply it is a
Speaker 2: minimum amount of product to put in the environment, and
Speaker 2: that is you cut the vine off or the tree,
Speaker 2: you know, the little sprouting hackberry in your facetline or
Speaker 2: the stuff, and you take tracle pair with one of
Speaker 2: those little brushes that you get to paint with. It's
Speaker 2: like a little and stick with a brush on the Yeah,
Speaker 2: they get the tiny, smallest one and then just dip
Speaker 2: it directly in some trickle, paer, and then dab it
Speaker 2: on the fresh cut surface. When you cut them off,
Speaker 2: it goes down in there and you can't get less
Speaker 2: pesticide application than that.
Speaker 16: Okay, all right, that sounds great.
Speaker 15: I appreciate it.
Speaker 17: All right, good luck, thank you, yes, or thank you
Speaker 17: so much about it?
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Speaker 2: glad you are. We're here to answer your gardening questions.
Speaker 2: And if you'd like to give me a call, you
Speaker 2: can just dial seven one three two one two fifty
Speaker 2: eight seventy four. We're going to go down to Jersey
Speaker 2: Village and talk to George. Hello, George, Yeah, Skip, how's
Speaker 2: it going? Good?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 18: I got a meer lemon tree that's got the fruit
Speaker 18: is about half right, So do I need to let
Speaker 18: those riping on the tree or can I take them off?
Speaker 4: Well, they continue to ripen, they're not there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not going to continue to ripen off the tree,
Speaker 2: but they'll be edible before. Don't wait on them to
Speaker 2: turn completely yellow. That's too long on the tree.
Speaker 18: Okay, all right, is that you said to say no
Speaker 18: to maybe as you said, I could take them off
Speaker 18: and they were ripen But is that How do you
Speaker 18: determine which ones I can do it too, which ones
Speaker 18: I can't?
Speaker 2: You just kind of have to go online look it up,
Speaker 2: you know. It's the term. The term for that for
Speaker 2: any nerds that are listening is climac terek. Is it
Speaker 2: a climac terek fruit or not? So you could do
Speaker 2: a Google search for climac terek fruits that you know, okay,
Speaker 2: and and that would give you pop up a list
Speaker 2: and then answer that question.
Speaker 4: Good, thank you you told me every day I need
Speaker 4: to know.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's good. Well, have a good rest to your day.
Speaker 2: Then thank you, bye bye bye bye. That's funny. Oh gosh, well,
Speaker 2: uh in Chenny Forrest out there in Richmond Rosenberg Is
Speaker 2: it's a garden center. You need to go see.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: I talk all the time about how how rich we
Speaker 2: are with the garden centers around the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 2: This is just a prime example of exactly that ended.
Speaker 2: Chended Forest is It's an enchanting place. I love to
Speaker 2: go there. Right now, they are loaded up on fall
Speaker 2: color they of course have like Croton's I mentioned them earlier,
Speaker 2: Those big old gaudy fall colored leaves just beautiful. You
Speaker 2: can get that there. You can get anything you're looking
Speaker 2: for still time. If you're doing some butterfly planting, you know,
Speaker 2: they still have plenty of supplies for that. Trees and shrubs.
Speaker 2: They do an outstanding job on that. Enchanted Forest is
Speaker 2: just a place that you really need to go. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's as simple as that. Whenever whenever I'm out there,
Speaker 2: I always number one. I love visiting with the folks
Speaker 2: because they're friendly and they treat you right, and they
Speaker 2: know what they're talking about. But I always have to
Speaker 2: wander around and I'm going to see new plants that
Speaker 2: I haven't had before. You know, your fall herbs right
Speaker 2: now a prime, prime example of some some really timely
Speaker 2: things from Enchanted Forest. If you if you want to
Speaker 2: go there, it's FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond,
Speaker 2: Texas FM twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond,
Speaker 2: you're heading up towards Sugar Lance can be way off
Speaker 2: to the right. That's where you're going to go. Uh
Speaker 2: and when you when you get there, tell them that
Speaker 2: you heard about on guardline and that I don't know.
Speaker 2: You just want to hear about all the wonderful things
Speaker 2: that they have, and they'll get you plugged right in.
Speaker 2: If you want the website, and I recommend that you do,
Speaker 2: uh go there. It's enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com.
Speaker 2: Enchanted Forest Richmond, t X dot com. Our phone number
Speaker 2: is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 2: If you'd like to give me a call, we can
Speaker 2: talk about other things that are of interest to you.
Speaker 2: You you have, I'm sure many times heard me talk
Speaker 2: about B and B two Pros, B and B turf Pros.
Speaker 2: When it comes to putting a compost, stop dressing down,
Speaker 2: when it comes to doing a deep core aeration, you're
Speaker 2: not going to find a better place than B and
Speaker 2: B turf Pros. They absolutely know what they're talking about,
Speaker 2: and when they do a job, they do it right.
Speaker 2: It's very important to them to take care of their
Speaker 2: customers and I see this. I see it in their
Speaker 2: ratings and just the you know, when I talk to
Speaker 2: them what is important to you, I can just hear
Speaker 2: that their goal is for you to be happy, not
Speaker 2: for them to come to your property, get their money
Speaker 2: and leave. It's for you to be happy because they
Speaker 2: know that that gets talked about. People talk about the
Speaker 2: job they did, and it just makes people happy. And
Speaker 2: it's kind of folks that they are just to be
Speaker 2: real honest with you about it. BnB turf pros dot
Speaker 2: com is the website, and I said that a little incorrectly.
Speaker 2: It's BB no end bbturfpros dot com. If you want
Speaker 2: to give them a call seven to one, three two
Speaker 2: three four fifty five ninety eight. It's a good time
Speaker 2: now to go ahead and get that top compost top
Speaker 2: dressing done before we get too late into the fall
Speaker 2: and in the corrooration. The corrooration gets oxygen back down
Speaker 2: in your soil where you can have success. You want
Speaker 2: to do that before you apply your pre emergent ideally,
Speaker 2: because then when you apply a pre emergent, you are
Speaker 2: treating what is the surface of the soil. The idea
Speaker 2: of taking core plugs out and dropping them on the surface,
Speaker 2: which is so good for the lawn that could bring
Speaker 2: new weed seeds up or something like that. So get
Speaker 2: your compost top dressing corrooration done first, and then apply
Speaker 2: your pre emergent weed killers let's see, let's go out
Speaker 2: to southwest Houston and we're going to talk to Pat. Hello, Pat, good.
Speaker 19: Morning, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm well things.
Speaker 20: I have a question about soide web worms. And I
Speaker 20: don't know if this is the time of year, but
Speaker 20: I've got a lot of moths of flying around my
Speaker 20: lawn in the shrubbery.
Speaker 19: So is this the time for those?
Speaker 2: Well, it is a time that you can have those.
Speaker 2: And if you go to my lawn pest disease, disease
Speaker 2: and okay, management schedule, we carry the chinchbugs and side
Speaker 2: webworm season out through September. The later you get, the
Speaker 2: less likely it is to have some issues, especially with
Speaker 2: the chinchbugs. But we're still within that window. And so
Speaker 2: now there are a lot of moths that aren't side
Speaker 2: web worms. And so just as you see moths as
Speaker 2: not the problem. If you walk through your lawn and
Speaker 2: moths come flying up out of the lawn and they
Speaker 2: go a little distance and then they settle back into
Speaker 2: the lawn, that is probably side web worms. That's kind
Speaker 2: of the work. They're going to lay eggs that are
Speaker 2: going to hatch out. Now isn't the time to treat
Speaker 2: them because the larva aren't there yet that do the feeding.
Speaker 2: But when you start to see a little bit of
Speaker 2: feeding from the larva, that's the time to get a
Speaker 2: pesticide down on them to take care of them. You
Speaker 2: could also use you could use a nitropossbug out max now,
Speaker 2: water it in and get it in the thatch so
Speaker 2: as those little creatures try to they hide in the
Speaker 2: thatch during the day and then they come back out
Speaker 2: at night to feed on your lawn. So you could
Speaker 2: that would be another approach to them, because that product's
Speaker 2: going to last a long time.
Speaker 19: Okay? Is that organic?
Speaker 2: No? It is not. If you want an organic control
Speaker 2: for sideweb worms, spend no, said or bet, But you
Speaker 2: have to have actively feeding young caterpillars that they're going
Speaker 2: to spray the leaves and then they're going to eat
Speaker 2: the leaves and they're going to get sick.
Speaker 19: Got you, okay, okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: Very much, you bet, Thank you for the call. All right, folks,
Speaker 2: time for is to take another break for the news.
Speaker 2: The phone number if you'd like to give me a
Speaker 2: call and be first up when we come back seven
Speaker 2: to one three two one two k t R eight.
Speaker 2: It's seven one three two one two ktr eight. For example,
Speaker 2: their fall fertilization product is called carbo Load. Carbo Load
Speaker 2: is on my schedule. I talk about October being a
Speaker 2: prime time for the applications of products that are going
Speaker 2: to give you the fall blend, in other words, the
Speaker 2: higher potassium a little lower nitrogen blend. And that's what's
Speaker 2: in carbo Load. By the way, fourticon bag covers five
Speaker 2: thousand square feet. And then you need to water it
Speaker 2: in because it's going to have a pre emergent in
Speaker 2: it as well as the nutrients to fight the winter
Speaker 2: weeds that will be sprouting in October. So late September
Speaker 2: early October is the kind of the you know, the
Speaker 2: gun goes off and the race begins. Let's get that done.
Speaker 2: But I do want to say if you're do overseeding,
Speaker 2: which I do not recommend people overseed their lawn with
Speaker 2: rye grass or whatever. If you're going to do that,
Speaker 2: you don't want to put a pre emergent down and
Speaker 2: then overseed because the premergant will work that overseed is
Speaker 2: a weed in the lawn, which is one reason I
Speaker 2: don't recommend doing it. But just be aware of that.
Speaker 2: And that's with any pre emergent that you might use
Speaker 2: if you are looking for an outstanding product for transplanting
Speaker 2: and fall is for planting Nutristar Genesis. It's one of
Speaker 2: the products that comes in the clear jug the jar,
Speaker 2: and Nutristar Genesis works very well at helping those plants
Speaker 2: move in. It's got microise of fungi in there to
Speaker 2: form a relationship with the roots and make the plant
Speaker 2: more successful in taking up water and nutrients. And then
Speaker 2: finally nutri Star Vegetable Garden. Hey, it's fall gardening time.
Speaker 2: We're you know, we're not far away at all. In fact,
Speaker 2: now is the time we could be planning the blue
Speaker 2: leaf vegetables, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, courabie coming up a little bit.
Speaker 2: That is going to be some of the winter greens
Speaker 2: that we put in, like spinnerton. Let us carrots coming
Speaker 2: up right now. You can be putting out charred and
Speaker 2: you can be putting out a lot of other things.
Speaker 2: But you know, the vegetable garden product called nutri Star
Speaker 2: Vegetable Garden, that is an outstanding product to give you
Speaker 2: a slow release of nutrients over time and just to
Speaker 2: help you have a more beautiful garden from the folks
Speaker 2: at Nelson Plat Food. We're going to go now to
Speaker 2: Fort Ping County and talk to Lee. Hello, Lee, welcome
Speaker 2: to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Hey, good morning, sir. How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm well, Thank you, glad to hear that.
Speaker 14: Look.
Speaker 8: I talked to you a couple of weeks after Barrel.
Speaker 8: I had a Texas Mountain Laurel that got laid down
Speaker 8: by the wind and it was still alive. You told
Speaker 8: me how to take care of it, which was I
Speaker 8: basically stood it back up and I staked at three
Speaker 8: sixty root stimulator this type of thing. Anyway, you know,
Speaker 8: I'm shocked in a maze, but the darn thing is
Speaker 8: just still alive. It's thriving.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 8: My question is this long term?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 8: I think you told me it needs to be staked
Speaker 8: for several years long term. Is there anything I should
Speaker 8: be doing to it? Or do I just leave it
Speaker 8: alone and let it go? And what I'd like to
Speaker 8: do is hang up and listen because it's hard to
Speaker 8: hear on this phone.
Speaker 2: All right, Lee, you take care.
Speaker 8: Hey, thank you. I appreciate it you met.
Speaker 2: So we've had some storms that have knocked some trees
Speaker 2: over and kind of the standard advice for those of
Speaker 2: you hearing that call and going, oh, I've got a
Speaker 2: tree that got knocked over in this hurricane or something,
Speaker 2: do remember this. If the tree is under about three
Speaker 2: years old, you're probably going to be able to stand
Speaker 2: it up and it go forward. If it gets older
Speaker 2: than that, and there's not a magic thing that changes,
Speaker 2: you know at three years and one day, but that's
Speaker 2: kind of a rough guy. The older it gets, the
Speaker 2: harder it is to do. And that past three years,
Speaker 2: I'd say you probably need to pull it up and
Speaker 2: just get you a new tree. Some people are very
Speaker 2: determined and they'll make something work. But once a tree
Speaker 2: is stood up, now you need it to grow a
Speaker 2: strong root system because remember it didn't have a strong
Speaker 2: enough root system to withstand that storm that knocked it over.
Speaker 2: So what happens when another storm comes. You need a
Speaker 2: root system that's even better than the one you had before.
Speaker 2: Do you see what I'm saying, And so it's going
Speaker 2: to take several years to get that. You want the
Speaker 2: tree to be able to move a little bit in
Speaker 2: the wind if it can, because that is important, but
Speaker 2: continue to just give it time to get roots way
Speaker 2: out in all directions and to become strong roots where
Speaker 2: they have some structural support. So again three years is
Speaker 2: not a magical number, but I would probably leave at
Speaker 2: stake for about that long and then just kind of
Speaker 2: watch it, maybe maybe have a steak, but some and
Speaker 2: that you know, it's very loose. I can move a
Speaker 2: little bit, but at the same time, if it goes
Speaker 2: too far that stake, we'll catch it for it moves
Speaker 2: very far at all. That's just my advice on doing that.
Speaker 2: And by the way, if you have tree issues of
Speaker 2: any kind, Affordable Tree Service Martin and his wife Joe,
Speaker 2: by the way, they're the owners. They still answer their
Speaker 2: own phone. And so if you call Affordable Tree here's
Speaker 2: a number seven one three six nine nine twenty six
Speaker 2: sixty three, you are going to get Martin r. Joe.
Speaker 2: If you don't hang up, you call the wrong place.
Speaker 2: Seven to one three. I'm saying this again, seven one
Speaker 2: three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. If you
Speaker 2: like to do things via the web, or you didn't
Speaker 2: write the phone number down aff Tree Service dot com
Speaker 2: A f F the first letters in Affordable aff Tree
Speaker 2: Service dot com. Guardline customers are the top priority. Let
Speaker 2: him know you're a gardenline customer. Martin stays busy because
Speaker 2: he does a good job. That's it. He can come
Speaker 2: out and he can You know, there will be a
Speaker 2: charge to come out and look at the property and
Speaker 2: look at the trees and give you advice. If you
Speaker 2: hire him to do something, the come out fee, it
Speaker 2: just goes into the cost. Okay, he can do consultations,
Speaker 2: he can do pruning, deep root feeding, pest control, stop grinding.
Speaker 2: If you lost trees during that last storm, just know
Speaker 2: that you need to call Martin an Affordable Tree. And
Speaker 2: if you had just bought a low piece of property
Speaker 2: and you've got beautiful trees on it and you want
Speaker 2: to build a house, you have to talk to someone
Speaker 2: that knows what they're doing before the folks come in
Speaker 2: and start making trenches and doing all the things that
Speaker 2: are so hard on trees that have been grown in
Speaker 2: a forest. Do not let a builder get on the
Speaker 2: property to start work until you've had Martin come out
Speaker 2: from Affordable Tree to take a look. I just can't
Speaker 2: stress the importance of that enough. I have seen over
Speaker 2: my thirty five years and an agro life Extension horse
Speaker 2: culture agent on many occasions, Big beautiful natural tree out
Speaker 2: there in the forest. They build a house, sometimes even
Speaker 2: going around the tree kind of and then that tree dies.
Speaker 2: And if you think it's expensive to bring a tree down,
Speaker 2: how about bringing a tree down that is hanging all
Speaker 2: over your house. Yeah. Yeah, the risks go up. And
Speaker 2: they built the house there for that because of that tree,
Speaker 2: and now they don't have it. So I just beg
Speaker 2: people before you build, have somebody come out. And Martin
Speaker 2: isn't outstanding somebody to come out and do that kind
Speaker 2: of consultation for you. I hope I have, you know,
Speaker 2: hammered that home well enough. I was out putting some
Speaker 2: of the nectar defender that's a wild bird's product, nectar
Speaker 2: defender in my bird hummingbird feeders and have a little
Speaker 2: bit of sugar water in there for them, and I
Speaker 2: just put a little bit by the way. And here's why,
Speaker 2: because that stuff doesn't last forever. But nectar defender instead
Speaker 2: of it going bad the sugar water in the hot
Speaker 2: weather we're having, that goes bad pretty quick. In a
Speaker 2: hummingbird feeder, nectar defender extends it out. It's just one
Speaker 2: of the products that you can get from wallbirds. This
Speaker 2: is the time when the Baltimore orioles are coming through.
Speaker 2: They are making their migration as well as are the hummingbirds.
Speaker 2: Get those feeders out. Go to a Wallbirds. Get you
Speaker 2: the high perch hummingbird feeder. That's my favorite one high
Speaker 2: perch hummingbird feeder. Buy some of their quality blends and
Speaker 2: you will see that this stuff really does work. Cheap
Speaker 2: bird seed full of the low red bebies. You don't
Speaker 2: get your money's worth out of it because the birds
Speaker 2: are kicking half the stuff or more out of the
Speaker 2: feeder looking for something they want to eat. When you
Speaker 2: go to Wallbirds and you buy a pound of feed,
Speaker 2: you get a pound of stuff going into the birds tummy,
Speaker 2: and it just is an economical way to do that.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be at Wallbirds at clear Lake by
Speaker 2: the way, two day Wildbirds clear Lake and now if
Speaker 2: you don't know where that one is, it's at the
Speaker 2: corner of clear Lake City Boulevard and El Dorado Boulevard.
Speaker 2: I'll be there at eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll
Speaker 2: answer your gardening questions. Uh, you can come into a
Speaker 2: wad bird store and see what I keep bragging about.
Speaker 2: I will also if you bring some samples in in
Speaker 2: a bag. If you bring pictures in on your phone,
Speaker 2: come on out and see a landscape, you're free to
Speaker 2: go to call it seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: kt r H seven one three two one two kt
Speaker 2: r H. I excuse me. I was talking about soil
Speaker 2: and the importance of the brown stuff and whatnot. And
Speaker 2: azemite is a product designed to put the micros in
Speaker 2: the soil that you will need for successful plant growth.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know some elements we need in large numbers. Those
Speaker 2: are the three on the fertilizer bag. Nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium,
Speaker 2: Those are the ones we need the most of. But
Speaker 2: there are other elements that are secondary, like calcium, you know,
Speaker 2: like sulfur for example. Then there's micro nutrients that you
Speaker 2: just need a tiny trace of. You know how many
Speaker 2: times has someone said, oh, I need to go get
Speaker 2: some manganese fertilizer for the long A plant can't grow
Speaker 2: without manganese. Most lungs have it in them. But what's
Speaker 2: the level as amite we recommend putting down because it
Speaker 2: is something that builds the bank account in the soil.
Speaker 2: So as those other nutrients are pushing the plant to grow,
Speaker 2: that plant has a bank account of all the micros
Speaker 2: that it needs. And Azamite Texas dot com is the
Speaker 2: website for it. If you want to make it easy
Speaker 2: for yourself and fall fertilizing season, just do your fertilizing,
Speaker 2: come back, add the microlife to your hopper. Don't mix
Speaker 2: fertilizer with the microlife. Particle size is different. Uh, and
Speaker 2: then do the microlife. You can do microlife microlife. What
Speaker 2: I've been saying, azamite, you can dazimite any time of
Speaker 2: the year. You know, I have these these companies in
Speaker 2: my heads and it just kind of some times. Asmit
Speaker 2: Texas dot com is a website, and just add that
Speaker 2: Azmit the micro nutrient, the trace mineral supplement to your lawn. Again,
Speaker 2: what are we doing. We're building a micro's bank account,
Speaker 2: micronutrient bank account in the soil. And that's what azimite does.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's available everywhere. You hear me talk
Speaker 2: about feed stores, you hear me about garden centers, talking
Speaker 2: about ACE hardware stores, talking about I WAS Fertilizer and
Speaker 2: all those places. It's easy to find, easy to find. Okay,
Speaker 2: We're going to go now to Northwest Houston and talk
Speaker 2: to Daryl.
Speaker 14: Hello Daryl, good morning, Skip. Hey, I had a question
Speaker 14: about a weed called surge. How to get rid of
Speaker 14: it and not damage Augustine lawn.
Speaker 2: Okay, Actually there's a p in there. It's spurge. Uh
Speaker 2: and it anybody's wondering if you have spurge, If you
Speaker 2: have a little weed, do you think maybe spurge. Just
Speaker 2: break off a little you know, branch on it, and
Speaker 2: if white milky sap comes out, that's spurge. Spurge receeds
Speaker 2: profusely and if you're lunch.
Speaker 4: Well, that's what my wife said.
Speaker 14: But I haven't seen I've been digging this stuff. I've
Speaker 14: been trying to uh huh do it by hand. I
Speaker 14: don't like putting out chemicals. But I haven't seen any
Speaker 14: white milky SAPs.
Speaker 2: So this may not be the Taylor period.
Speaker 14: Looks when you mow it, it looks pretty good with
Speaker 14: the grass. Like you said, you keep them moded.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that's definitely that's definitely not spurge.
Speaker 14: Darryl.
Speaker 2: Let's do this. I'm gonna put you on hold and
Speaker 2: Chris will give you my email and if you can
Speaker 2: take some pictures of it, if you.
Speaker 14: Okay, I have your email, I can send some pictures.
Speaker 2: Get them to me pretty quick, get up clos right
Speaker 2: and see what it is. And then and then you're
Speaker 2: certainly welcome to call back.
Speaker 4: All right, all right, thank you, Yes.
Speaker 2: Sir, We're gonna go to Donald now in Houston.
Speaker 4: Hello, Donald, How are you doing this morning? Sir?
Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you?
Speaker 14: All right.
Speaker 21: I've got some problem with I can't keep the squash
Speaker 21: bugs off my squash plants out of What are going
Speaker 21: to do?
Speaker 2: Now? Are these the bugs that you see gathered all
Speaker 2: around crawling all over the plant? Or are you talking
Speaker 2: about the thing that the worm tunnels inside the vine
Speaker 2: and makes the worms? Okay, all right, that particular insect
Speaker 2: is a squash vine borer, and it's a challenge to control.
Speaker 2: You're gonna need to spray it, but you don't want
Speaker 2: to kill the bees that are pollinating your squash. So
Speaker 2: what people usually will do is late in the day
Speaker 2: they will spray, but just spray the vines because that's
Speaker 2: where the worm enters, near the base. They can enter
Speaker 2: further down the vine, but the moth lays egg there.
Speaker 2: The worm hatches out and crawls inside and feeds, and
Speaker 2: before you know it, you got big problems. If you start,
Speaker 2: if you see that little wet sawdust looking goo that's
Speaker 2: coming out of the vine, if you will split the
Speaker 2: vine lengthwise with your knife the same direction as the vine,
Speaker 2: kind of pull it open, you can take the tip
Speaker 2: of your knife and just stab the thing and kill it.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of an after the fact surgery fix.
Speaker 2: But a lot of people do that because no matter
Speaker 2: what you spray and try to do, you're gonna miss
Speaker 2: a few. But sprays that contains spinosid or BT will
Speaker 2: control that product. BT though only lasts about a day,
Speaker 2: and so you just have the spray. Spray spray, So
Speaker 2: I would I would probably go with the spinosid. But
Speaker 2: any insecticide you know from seven dust do you name
Speaker 2: it will kill those things. But boys things like seven
Speaker 2: dusts or they'll kill bees too, and so be really careful.
Speaker 2: The reason I say late day is because they're no
Speaker 2: blot they're no blooms open. It's the next morning that
Speaker 2: the new day's blooms are open, okay.
Speaker 21: And then I have this other this other stuff is
Speaker 21: I think it's called dove weed or something, Okay, in
Speaker 21: my court yard.
Speaker 2: Look looks kind of like Saint Augustine, but a little
Speaker 2: more fleshy kind of leaf.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, sir, okay, it's just taken over.
Speaker 15: I don't know how to control it, an't there.
Speaker 2: There there's a cinnamon based product called Agrillon that can
Speaker 2: be sprinkled on wet dove weed leaves. So you have
Speaker 2: to turn on, sprinkle a little bit, get them wet,
Speaker 2: and then you sprinkle it on sticks to the leaf
Speaker 2: and it turns the black really quick. Now, if you
Speaker 2: got a big area of it, it's probably gonna be
Speaker 2: a little cost prohibitive and also time prohibitive to go
Speaker 2: sprinkling cinnamon dust on these on these particular weeds. So
Speaker 2: then you would need to switch to a herbicide that's
Speaker 2: post emergent. And the product I would recommend for that
Speaker 2: weed is called celsius, like the temperature celsius.
Speaker 21: Okay, all right, because I kind of did some research
Speaker 21: on it and seen that celsius stuff come up.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's right.
Speaker 2: It's not cheap, but it works, okay, all right?
Speaker 21: And then one other one other, how do I keep
Speaker 21: my wife happy?
Speaker 4: All year?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 2: You know, on guard line I give free gardening advice.
Speaker 2: I will do marriage counseling. But that is of one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars an hour, So do we want to continue
Speaker 2: this school?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna pass on that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm gonna stay way the heck away from
Speaker 2: that one too, because I don't want to get in
Speaker 2: the middle of this. That's funny. Hey, thanks Donald, I
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 21: You've been very help I have a good day.
Speaker 2: You bet, you bet? Bye bye, oh wow. RCW Nurseries
Speaker 2: is the garden center that's there where Tambo Parkway comes
Speaker 2: into Beltwegh eight and it is an outstanding place. They've
Speaker 2: got sales on trees and shrubs and even centrists and
Speaker 2: things like that. Right now, it's planting season coming. It's
Speaker 2: time to buy some of those products, and r CW
Speaker 2: grows their own trees. I've been Plantersville, and I tell
Speaker 2: you it is the kind of garden center where you
Speaker 2: go in you're gonna get expert advice. You're going to
Speaker 2: find products too there, like the fertilizers I recommend. But
Speaker 2: you're going to find some really nice plants and some
Speaker 2: really friendly people too. RCW nurseres it's the garden center
Speaker 2: that's where FM two forty nine Tomball Parkway comes into Beltway.
Speaker 2: H really really easy to get to you right down there,
Speaker 2: go by and check them out because they have some
Speaker 2: really cool stuff. Let's see here, boy, Laura, I'm going
Speaker 2: to have to go to top of the hour break.
Speaker 2: You will be first when I come back. Okay, thanks
Speaker 2: for your patients. We look forward to talking to you
Speaker 2: right after the break. Well, a while ago, I was
Speaker 2: talking with Lee down in Fort ben County, and I
Speaker 2: was going to mention to him and all of you.
Speaker 2: The second annual Strawberry Jamboree by the Extension Service the
Speaker 2: Horticulture Department in Brazoria County is going to be at
Speaker 2: the Lake Jackson Rec Center on Lake Drive, Lake Jackson, Texas.
Speaker 2: October is Strawberry Planning Season go down September twenty first,
Speaker 2: eight a M to TWOPIM learn about this. It's a
Speaker 2: pre program. By the way, there'll be a strawberry shortcake
Speaker 2: contest as well. They're gonna have exhibitors. You can even
Speaker 2: pre order strawberry plugs if you would like. They'll come
Speaker 2: in in time to get the planning done. Here's a
Speaker 2: phone number nine seven nine eight six four fifteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: Give them a call. I was there last year and
Speaker 2: it was a blast.
Speaker 1: You kzy rh guarden Line with Skimmed Richard.
Speaker 3: It's just watching as.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, welcome back. Here we are on garden Line.
Speaker 2: We're entering our third hour this morning. I will be
Speaker 2: here until ten o'clock and at that time I'm gonna
Speaker 2: jump in the car and head out to the clear
Speaker 2: Lake wild Birds Unlimited. Clear Lake wild Birds Unlimited. I
Speaker 2: hope you'll come out there and see me. It is
Speaker 2: at the corner if you got your little maps ready,
Speaker 2: It's at the corner at clear Lake City Boulevard and
Speaker 2: Eldorado Boulevard. We're giving away a lot of stuff and
Speaker 2: also answering your gardening questions when you come out. Nelson
Speaker 2: Water Garden and Nursery out there in Katie, Texas is
Speaker 2: a place that you just need to visit. It is magical.
Speaker 2: I could go out there. In fact, I think they
Speaker 2: ought to charge as to just go sit and listen
Speaker 2: to the sound of water. It would be like a
Speaker 2: therapy session. Uh. And that's what water does for us.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: They have the fish, they've got the plants that you
Speaker 2: put in water, and then they've got this big the
Speaker 2: thing they invented that big urn that has water coming
Speaker 2: out the top, rolling down the sides and recirculating, recirculating fountain.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They've got those out there, a lot of options. They
Speaker 2: can come and do that kind of work for you
Speaker 2: at your landscape, or they can tell you how to
Speaker 2: do it. You can do it either way. If you're
Speaker 2: a big do it yourself, or you can do it yourself.
Speaker 2: They are on Katie Fort Ben Road, So if you're
Speaker 2: heading out ten from Houston, you just turn to the
Speaker 2: left or right, turn to the right north on Katie
Speaker 2: Fort Ben Road and they're just a hop, skipping or
Speaker 2: jump right down the street. Two eight one three nine
Speaker 2: one forty seven sixty nine two eight one three nine
Speaker 2: one forty seven sixty nine or Nelson Watergardens dot com
Speaker 2: Nelsonwatergardens dot com. All right, we're gonna head now out
Speaker 2: too if I can find my what's going on here? Okay,
Speaker 2: well I have a computer mouse that is running wild.
Speaker 2: We're gonna here we go. We're gonna go out and
Speaker 2: talk to Laura. Hello, Laura, thanks for waiting. Welcome to
Speaker 2: garden Line. Good sir, thank you.
Speaker 22: Ten years ago.
Speaker 2: Beautiful fine, Hey Laura, I'm sorry I'm sorry to interrupt you.
Speaker 2: Your voice is faint and it's cutting in and out.
Speaker 2: Uh okay, okay.
Speaker 22: About ten years ago.
Speaker 6: Gave me.
Speaker 23: Bulbs to a.
Speaker 24: Fine that she had brawn, and the bulbs were they
Speaker 24: were hard, and they were a little bit bigger than
Speaker 24: the ball ball and brown, and I can't moved and
Speaker 24: didn't take any with me, And so I've been looking
Speaker 24: everywhere for him and I can't seem to find them.
Speaker 22: Whuend you happen to know what that might be?
Speaker 15: And where am I? Fine?
Speaker 12: One?
Speaker 2: So it's a bulb, only big as a golf ball
Speaker 2: or a little bigger, and it grows the vine.
Speaker 22: It grows the vine.
Speaker 2: Can you describe the leaves on the vine.
Speaker 22: They almost look like a regular green ivy leaf, but
Speaker 22: they're a little bit darker. They're kind of heart shaped.
Speaker 22: And I looked up sweethearts, okay, vines too, but they
Speaker 22: don't they don't look the same.
Speaker 2: Do they make little bulbs up on the vine in
Speaker 2: the tree?
Speaker 4: Yes, sir?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's an air potato, an air potato, yes, And
Speaker 2: that's that's what you're looking for.
Speaker 22: And I guess we could find those.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, you know, I don't I don't see air
Speaker 2: potatoes and gardener centers very often. Uh, in some parts
Speaker 2: of the country, they're they're invasive and people don't like
Speaker 2: to plan them for that reason. Uh that those potatoes
Speaker 2: or the which you're calling the bulb is actually an
Speaker 2: air store storage device up on the vine.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know who who carries those off hand. You
Speaker 2: may just have to call around a little bit.
Speaker 6: Ah, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Sometimes sometimes just you know, community plant sales might
Speaker 2: have something like that. Okay, Yeah, and hey, if any
Speaker 2: if any garden centers that carry them in are listening,
Speaker 2: let me know and I'll say that on the air, Laura,
Speaker 2: just keep listening and maybe maybe someone will call in.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you for the for the question. All Right,
Speaker 2: let's see here. I what was I I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2: Let me go out to Paul in Missouri City. Next.
Speaker 2: Here we go, Paul, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Hello Skip. I have two questions. First, one is my
Speaker 15: lagustrum plant.
Speaker 4: I got some.
Speaker 15: Leaves that are yellowing and some of the leaves have
Speaker 15: dark brown spots on them. Now, these these bushes are
Speaker 15: like twenty five years old, and I may have fertilized
Speaker 15: them once with those fertilizing spikes, maybe ten years ago.
Speaker 15: So what can I do to help that plant back?
Speaker 2: Well, I think you are talking about a wax leaf lagostrum,
Speaker 2: and that is a fungal disease called sarcospera leaf spot.
Speaker 2: It's a fungal leaf spot. They are very prone to it.
Speaker 2: Anytime the foliage gets wet, those spots can land, the
Speaker 2: spores can land on the leaf, and when they're kept
Speaker 2: a little wet, then they sprout and grow. The controls
Speaker 2: for it you're not going to like, but I'll tell
Speaker 2: you raking up all the fallen leaves because they have
Speaker 2: spores on them, try to reduce that a little bit, uh,
Speaker 2: and then spraying them every time it rains right after
Speaker 2: it quit training. Uh, then go ahead and get a
Speaker 2: funge side on the leaves. And there are a couple
Speaker 2: of products. There's one called dak oil and there's one
Speaker 2: called belaton and those two alternating between those two can
Speaker 2: keep that leaf spot in check. But like I said,
Speaker 2: nobody wants to have to go out and spray their
Speaker 2: shrubs every time it rains.
Speaker 15: Okay, now I have the what was the name of
Speaker 15: the other.
Speaker 2: One, Belaton B A Y L E T O N.
Speaker 2: Well part of Houston.
Speaker 15: I'm gonna here in Missouri City and be the.
Speaker 2: West of Yeah, go go southwest Feed and Paralyzer on
Speaker 2: the corner of Businestt and Renwick. And I guarantee you
Speaker 2: about Scott Ballaton.
Speaker 15: Good. Yes, that's my go to place anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good, all right, good look yeah.
Speaker 15: The second question is a plant. Suggest I would like
Speaker 15: to put a plant in the front of the house.
Speaker 15: That would I can control the size of it. I
Speaker 15: want to get it to be about four feet tall,
Speaker 15: and one that would flower white flowers or cream color flowers.
Speaker 2: A five foot tall plant with wide or cream colored flowers, right.
Speaker 15: What would you suggest there?
Speaker 2: Let's see here, Well, boy, that's a I'm have to
Speaker 2: think about that one a little bit. Nothing is actually
Speaker 2: coming to mind, and it should you know, as all
Speaker 2: just have white flowers. They don't get that tall.
Speaker 15: The well, you know, I mean like maybe four feet
Speaker 15: three four feet.
Speaker 2: There is a plant? Is this fairly shady or real sunny?
Speaker 15: It only catches the sun from about three o'clock by
Speaker 15: the time the fun rolls over to the front of
Speaker 15: the house.
Speaker 2: There's a there's a plant called English dogwood, and don't
Speaker 2: think of it like our dog woods that we have here.
Speaker 2: It's a very different kind of plant. I don't even
Speaker 2: know if they're related, but that would be one that
Speaker 2: could do and a part shade, part sun location. And
Speaker 2: it's got white flowers bigger than the golf ball, maybe
Speaker 2: not tennis ball size, but somewhere in the middle of there.
Speaker 2: And that would be one that you could find around town.
Speaker 2: You're up there or yeah you no, you're down in
Speaker 2: Missouri City. Yeah, so I'd try one of the enchanteds
Speaker 2: out there in Richmond, Rosenberger, Chenning Forest and China Gardens.
Speaker 2: Call them first before you drive all out.
Speaker 15: Yeah, very good, very good. All right, thank you, thank
Speaker 15: you for this suggestion.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And they're probably going to have ten more things
Speaker 2: that aren't just that just aren't coming to my mind
Speaker 2: that would fit that bill. Yeah, all right, I got
Speaker 2: to run to a break. I'll be right.
Speaker 1: Back starting you a morning with the hottest happening.
Speaker 2: In the Tamboil area, especially out west twenty All these
Speaker 2: neighborhoods have gone in out there. You probably already know
Speaker 2: D and D feed and supply, but they have everything
Speaker 2: that you're gonna need when you go in there, like
Speaker 2: Skip talked about nitropos, Skip talked about airloom soils, Skip
Speaker 2: talked about Microlive for turf Star or Medina. They got
Speaker 2: all that landscaper's pride products out there. It's just a
Speaker 2: place where you go and you get everything you need
Speaker 2: to help you have a very beautiful garden and a
Speaker 2: bountiful garden as well, and for things like your lawn.
Speaker 2: They're set up and they've got the timely products for
Speaker 2: the season. At D and D Turf and Feed. They're
Speaker 2: about three miles west of two forty nine out twenty
Speaker 2: nine to twenty family owned. It's been opened since nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty nine. When the dovers open that up, they've expanded.
Speaker 2: Of course, you need any kind of livestock feed or
Speaker 2: pet food, very high end lines of dog food for example,
Speaker 2: like Origin and Diamond and Victor and Star. Pro D
Speaker 2: and D Feed and Supply is the place also where
Speaker 2: you can get the products you to control pests and
Speaker 2: diseases and weeds. They have a very good selection. I
Speaker 2: stopped by the other day. I always do that on
Speaker 2: our sponsors and just see how they're doing and see
Speaker 2: what they're carrying. And I was very surprised at the
Speaker 2: amount of stuff for managing problems in the landscaping, garden
Speaker 2: and lawn the D and D feed has. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: head out now, let's go to Jersey Village and we're
Speaker 2: gonna talk to Carrie. Hello, Kerry, welcome to Guarden Line.
Speaker 23: Hi, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 2: You Bat.
Speaker 19: I have a tree.
Speaker 23: I rent my house first of all, so my homeowners
Speaker 23: don't really do anything with my yard. And I have
Speaker 23: a beautiful oak tree right at my house in my driveway.
Speaker 23: And I noticed, and I've loved our seven years. I've
Speaker 23: noticed the last I guess a year and a half,
Speaker 23: the bark down on the trunk of the tree I
Speaker 23: guess about five four or five feet up is starting
Speaker 23: to fall off, and underneath it and it's just about
Speaker 23: the size of a hand, a large man's.
Speaker 2: Hand, okay.
Speaker 23: And you can see in it it's like an orange,
Speaker 23: like a almost like a rest color. And I don't
Speaker 23: see any bugs or anything in there, and I just
Speaker 23: I don't know what to do.
Speaker 25: I don't know if.
Speaker 23: It's healthy or if it's dining. How it can help
Speaker 23: it because it's so close to the house. I really
Speaker 23: I don't want it to fall someday and it's survived
Speaker 23: all these winds, I mean, no problems, barely drops.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh are you seeing that the tree is trying
Speaker 2: to callous? That over the like a lava flow coming
Speaker 2: in from the sides to close over that that wound?
Speaker 2: Has that started outing?
Speaker 23: Okay, No, it's just and it's not getting any bigger.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Carrie, I need to I need to see
Speaker 2: it too, because I don't think I'm picturing what you're seeing.
Speaker 2: Uh So, can I put you on hold and have
Speaker 2: you give get up my email address and send me
Speaker 2: some good clear photos up close, maybe one of the
Speaker 2: whole tree, but then real close, well focused photos. A
Speaker 2: lot of things can kill the bark on a section
Speaker 2: of the tree, and that just naturally happens. And there
Speaker 2: are different kinds of fungi that can cause a decomposition
Speaker 2: and have different coloring to them. But I'm not going
Speaker 2: to guess on this one. Let you take a look
Speaker 2: at some pictures and we can take it from there,
Speaker 2: and if you email me then I can just email
Speaker 2: you back the information what it is and if anything's
Speaker 2: needed what to do.
Speaker 26: Okay, Okay, all right, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Chris, they'll be right with you to give you
Speaker 2: the email. Fall means that it's time to be thinking
Speaker 2: about fall fertilization on our lawns. And if you look
Speaker 2: at my schedule at the website Gardening with Skip dot com,
Speaker 2: you will see that there's a fall fertilization. And for
Speaker 2: the organic products, I bumped them a little bit earlier
Speaker 2: to give them a little bit of a headstart because
Speaker 2: they do naturally microbially decompose, releasing some of the nutrients
Speaker 2: that are in them. Microlife has a product called Microlife
Speaker 2: brown Match five to three fertilizer five to one three.
Speaker 2: Remember and fall, we are lowering the nitrogen and we're
Speaker 2: raising the potassium the last number on the bag. And
Speaker 2: Microlife brown Patch is easy to apply. You like to
Speaker 2: get it down because has a lot of microbes in
Speaker 2: it and that's going to be helping you in many
Speaker 2: ways in your lawn. You want to get that down
Speaker 2: before we hit the brown patch season, and so late
Speaker 2: September early early October be a great time to apply
Speaker 2: Microlife brown Patch. It's in kind of a brown bag,
Speaker 2: makes it really easy. Both the bag and there's also
Speaker 2: canisters of it if you want the little jars of
Speaker 2: plastic jars. You probably need a whole bag though to
Speaker 2: treat your lawn, and I think you will find really
Speaker 2: good results with it. It's just another one of those
Speaker 2: successful and microbe laden products from Microlife that takes a
Speaker 2: natural approach to growing your lawn and to controlling issues
Speaker 2: that you might have in your lawn. Listening to Gardenline,
Speaker 2: our phone number is seven to one three two one
Speaker 2: two five eight seven four seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two fifty eight seventy four. I. You know, we talk
Speaker 2: about a lot of different kinds of products and things
Speaker 2: here on garden Line and Heirloom Soils. I just am
Speaker 2: always impressed with the breadth of products that they have,
Speaker 2: the quality of products that they have. You know, if
Speaker 2: you need a rose a blend, if you need a
Speaker 2: veggie and herb mix, they got that. You need something
Speaker 2: for cacti or for indoor plants, a potting soil, the
Speaker 2: works potting soil is what they call it, or outdoor
Speaker 2: plants and a container the works potting soil is excellent
Speaker 2: for that. Compost blends, a shale compost in shale blends
Speaker 2: as well. All available from available from Airloom Soils. The
Speaker 2: website Airloomsoils Off Texas dot Com Airlomsoilsoftexas dot Com. When
Speaker 2: you go there, you can see all the products and
Speaker 2: you got a really handy calculator. So if you're going
Speaker 2: to create a bed this fall, hey falls the time
Speaker 2: to plant. I hope you are get a quality Mex.
Speaker 2: Remember brown stuff before green stuff. Get a quality Mex
Speaker 2: from Heirlooms Soils Off Texas dot Com. They can fix
Speaker 2: you up. Their bags are available widespread through the Houston area.
Speaker 2: They also deliver bulk or you can go and pick
Speaker 2: it up yourself at Heirloom Source off Texas dot Com.
Speaker 2: That makes it easy. It's a lot easier. In fact,
Speaker 2: I was out in the Montgomery area the other day
Speaker 2: and I stopped in at A and A Plants and Produce.
Speaker 2: I always like to visit with the folks, and as
Speaker 2: I said earlier today, you know, find out what do
Speaker 2: you got? What's in stock and stuff? And I'm telling
Speaker 2: you their selection of fertilizers. I nothing that I mentioned
Speaker 2: on garden Line is kind of everything I mentioned on Garland.
Speaker 2: You're going to find it in A A and A
Speaker 2: Plants and Produce. They just had gotten some beauty full
Speaker 2: astors in and you know mom season is coming on
Speaker 2: us asters as well. They have the kinds of plants
Speaker 2: you would plant in the fall for carrying you into
Speaker 2: the cool season. And they got the advice there from
Speaker 2: folks that know what they're talking about. Again. Ana plants
Speaker 2: and produces on the east side of Montgomery on Highway
Speaker 2: one oh five, just on the edge of town there.
Speaker 2: It's really easy to get to. If you've driven down
Speaker 2: one oh five, you passed one hundred times. But for
Speaker 2: all of you out there, especially those of you up
Speaker 2: in the Lake Conroe neighborhoods, they this is your place,
Speaker 2: this is your hometown garden center. And they also come
Speaker 2: out and do some landscaping work around the Lake Conroe
Speaker 2: area too. So just call them, stop in talk to
Speaker 2: them about that. We're gonna now go to the woodlands
Speaker 2: and talk to Tommy. Hello, Tommy, Hello there, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm good good. I was grabbing a pin. Always good
Speaker 2: to have a pin when you're talking on guardline.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 27: Well, thank you for taking my call. Yeah, so, I
Speaker 27: don't know if you saw my notes, But the main
Speaker 27: question I have, two part question, was Virginia button weed
Speaker 27: seems to be all over the lawn and I looked
Speaker 27: it up and there's you know, all these different remedies. Yeah,
Speaker 27: some of them are pretty pricey, but I know what
Speaker 27: your thoughts were on that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Virginia button weed is hard to control, and even
Speaker 2: the stuff that works, you're probably gonna have to do
Speaker 2: it twice. On that stuff. We see it during the
Speaker 2: summertime when it's really actively growing. It's around you know
Speaker 2: other times, but and during the summertime. The products that
Speaker 2: are often recommended for it are just too hard on
Speaker 2: your Saint Augustine lawn and we just use them in
Speaker 2: that heat. That's why I'm generally recommending Celsius for Virginia
Speaker 2: button weed. Plus in the university trials I've seen Celsius
Speaker 2: has led the pack over things like two four D
Speaker 2: and other Broadly, if we control products, Okay, it's not cheap.
Speaker 2: You can buy it in a little little packet. You know,
Speaker 2: it's in a I don't know, sugar packet and a
Speaker 2: good description, but something like a long sugar packet, and
Speaker 2: you got you can treat a lot of weeds with that.
Speaker 2: So if you got any other weeds, you can do that.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I'll split the packet in half a packet does
Speaker 2: a gallon, and a gallon goes a long way, a
Speaker 2: long way when you're spot treating weeds in your garden.
Speaker 2: But that helps break the price down a little bit.
Speaker 2: But it works. And just be ready about six weeks
Speaker 2: later to hit it again this time of the year.
Speaker 2: By six weeks later, it's probably going to be cooling
Speaker 2: off quite a bit, so I might be ready in
Speaker 2: spring to do a treatment when you first see the
Speaker 2: button weed present, and then about six weeks after that.
Speaker 27: Okay, great, And is it one of those you put
Speaker 27: in a pumper.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I would, yeah, in a hose end. That's
Speaker 2: just too much volume of water. Okay for targeting on
Speaker 2: some weeds like this.
Speaker 4: Okay, great.
Speaker 27: And the other other part of my question is it
Speaker 27: certainly it's not a giant backyard, but it's are real dry,
Speaker 27: real dead looking, you know, brown and yellow and mainly
Speaker 27: almost brown. Now, okay, you know that those are certain areas,
Speaker 27: not the whole lawn, even not over where the button
Speaker 27: weed is, but just kind of in the other areas.
Speaker 27: It's odd enough if it was a disease or or
Speaker 27: what you know, Yeah.
Speaker 2: It could be. It could be a lot of things.
Speaker 23: You know.
Speaker 2: Chinchbugs will kill grass. Take all root rot will kill grass.
Speaker 2: That's a disease.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Most of the other diseases don't kill the grass. The
Speaker 2: summer diseases. We we've got gray leaf spot that we
Speaker 2: deal with at certain times, okay, and the brown patch
Speaker 2: circles in the fall, large patch and fall in spring.
Speaker 2: Mostly those don't kill grass either. So if it's dying,
Speaker 2: it's either a drought or disease, or possibly an insect
Speaker 2: called the chinchbug. Chinchbugs their populations are going down, but
Speaker 2: they're still around. So okay.
Speaker 27: Well, I wouldn't think it would be drought, right because
Speaker 27: it's it's been raining fairly often.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well, good luck with that. Hey there, I'm
Speaker 2: up against a heartbreak here, Tommy. Okay, so I wish well,
Speaker 2: thank you, Thank you a lot for the call. We're
Speaker 2: about to go to the news, folks. Gene, I'll be
Speaker 2: coming to you first up when we come back, and
Speaker 2: then we'll get to John and Tomball. All right, folks,
Speaker 2: here comes the news. Thanks for oh by the way,
Speaker 2: phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight
Speaker 2: seventy four Well seven one three two one two KT
Speaker 2: r H. And we are going to head out to
Speaker 2: close to the heights and talk to Gene. Hey, Gene,
Speaker 2: welcome to Guardland.
Speaker 4: SKIP, good morning.
Speaker 28: I had two orange trees, ones of blood orange, ones
Speaker 28: of satsuma, and they're throwing off limbs with thorns, and
Speaker 28: they're coming from.
Speaker 2: Above the graft.
Speaker 28: Do I do I cut those tharny limbs off from
Speaker 28: the from the from the good wood.
Speaker 2: You said satsuma. What was the one before Satsuma?
Speaker 28: It was a blood orange.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that it shouldn't be happening. Maybe the graph is
Speaker 2: higher than it looks on the stem. But prn those
Speaker 2: off at the base, right up against where they come
Speaker 2: out of the trunk. Prn the thorny down there. Let
Speaker 2: let it come up above that.
Speaker 28: Okay, I do have limbs with with no thorns, but
Speaker 28: again I do.
Speaker 2: Have some with Yeah. Yeah, well, there are different ways
Speaker 2: that could happen. Number one, the graph could be highed,
Speaker 2: and you think number two, when a when a plant
Speaker 2: is planted from a seed or something, when it's rooted
Speaker 2: or planted from a seed, it's juvenile at the base
Speaker 2: for a long long time, even though the top matures.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's what happened on those, but just
Speaker 2: print them off. That's that's the fast answer. All right, good,
Speaker 2: thanks sir, Yeah, you bet very good. Yeah that is
Speaker 2: very Citrus varies. Some citrus is thorny, some citrus is not.
Speaker 2: They just want to make sure you get a good
Speaker 2: one that and understand how that should be pruned and
Speaker 2: groaned and fertilized and everything, because this is a great
Speaker 2: place to grow centus. Buchanans Native Plants is on Eleventh
Speaker 2: Street and the Heights. Now, they've been around since nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty six. They're on eleven Street in the Heights. Here's
Speaker 2: a website, so I don't forget Buchanansplants dot com. And
Speaker 2: now why is the website so important? Well, it's because
Speaker 2: there is so much information on there. You can sign
Speaker 2: up for the newsletter, which I recommend you do. But
Speaker 2: you know, when you talk about Buchanans Native plants, we
Speaker 2: think about natives because they've got the best selection in
Speaker 2: this whole region of native plants. They do a very
Speaker 2: good job of that. But Buchanans is way more than
Speaker 2: just native plants. For example, if you're wanting to plant
Speaker 2: fall color, you know things like mums for example, Uh.
Speaker 2: In fact, they have a they have a list of
Speaker 2: the things that would be great for fall color on
Speaker 2: the on the some of their social media and you
Speaker 2: can get to it from the website too.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 2: Their Fall Fest is coming up Saturday, October fifth. It's
Speaker 2: a little ways ahead, but I just want to tell
Speaker 2: you about because this is gonna be one heck of
Speaker 2: a shindig going on out there. I'll even be there
Speaker 2: after the show on that Saturday. But that's October the fifth, Saturday.
Speaker 2: There's going to be costume contests for the kids, and
Speaker 2: it's at local vendors, hay rides, pumpkins, food trucks, face painting,
Speaker 2: live music. You get the idea what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: It's going to be fun. Stop h Buchanans Native Plants
Speaker 2: in the Heights Buchanans Plants dot com. You will be
Speaker 2: surprised at the breadth of information and the smorgasbord of
Speaker 2: really cool plants that do well here in the Greater
Speaker 2: Houston area. I'm gonna up now to Tom Ball and
Speaker 2: talk to John.
Speaker 4: Hello, John, give everyone to skip. How you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm doing well, sir, Thanks for us.
Speaker 4: I've got to like everyone else. Weeds weeds, weeds, and
Speaker 4: I've got saying Augustine I'm trying to choke out because
Speaker 4: I'd rather have my bermuda. And somebody suggested quen chlorac.
Speaker 4: Would that be a good option for that and for
Speaker 4: crab grass.
Speaker 2: I'm a little hesitant if quen Chlorac products have set
Speaker 2: augustine on the label, it might. I just I don't
Speaker 2: want to say, you know, if I'm not sure, and
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think it does, but I'm not
Speaker 2: I'm trying to do it real quick check here. There's
Speaker 2: a number of different products out there, but my brain
Speaker 2: is wanting to say maybe not. Let me fucking find something.
Speaker 4: I've been pulling the runners. That'll take me ten years
Speaker 4: to get all this Saint Augustine out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yep, Saint Augustine. It's the Queen Clark And
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean ever product is, but it is. There
Speaker 2: are products with Queen Clark. They're pretty good. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: use it in the in the heat of summer, but
Speaker 2: it's a post emergence, so you could use it now
Speaker 2: on the weeks that are growing in your lawn, or
Speaker 2: use it in the spring. Kind of Generally we stay
Speaker 2: away from hot weather with those kind of things. But yep,
Speaker 2: there's a number of number of products from a number
Speaker 2: of manufacturers that are that carry that.
Speaker 4: All right, schip, thank you very much, have a good day.
Speaker 2: You bet, thank you. Yeah, I don't kind of threw
Speaker 2: me a curve there. It's active ingredient question kind of different. Uh.
Speaker 2: There are a lot of products that are labeled for
Speaker 2: a lot of things. In fact, let me let me
Speaker 2: just do a little soapbox. Read the label. That's the fast,
Speaker 2: fast answer there. Read the label. The label is the law.
Speaker 2: And if you can't see it a plant on the label,
Speaker 2: then don't use it on that plant. The label has rates.
Speaker 2: If a teaspoon is good, a tablespoon is not better.
Speaker 2: A tablespoon will kill your plants or do damage to
Speaker 2: your plants, meaning you you know you double or triple
Speaker 2: up on the amount. Follow the label carefully. It'll tell
Speaker 2: you things like what temperature can you use this herbicide in.
Speaker 2: It'll tell you things that are very important to help
Speaker 2: you have success, like a pre emergent needing to be
Speaker 2: watered into the surface of the soil. Read the label.
Speaker 2: A lot of problems occur because people won't read the label.
Speaker 2: And I know that's boring, and I know us guys,
Speaker 2: we never stop and ask for directions. Right, Well, read
Speaker 2: the label. It is very important that Number one, you
Speaker 2: want it to work right, and the label tells you
Speaker 2: that you don't want to do damage, and the label
Speaker 2: guides you away from that. Always read the I don't
Speaker 2: care if it's an organic product or synthetic product. Read
Speaker 2: the label. That is very important. And I see so
Speaker 2: many examples of people that do things that if they'd
Speaker 2: read the label, they wouldn't have done it. And typically
Speaker 2: it's a lawn that gets nuked with something instead of
Speaker 2: having the proper dose done, or they spray twice too
Speaker 2: close together. The label would say, no, wait this long
Speaker 2: before you do it again. Read the label. That's the
Speaker 2: bottom line. That's the advice for the day. That is important.
Speaker 2: Ace Hardware stores are the kind of place where you
Speaker 2: go and you find everything I recommend you need for gardens,
Speaker 2: for lawns, for landscapes, for you know, you name it.
Speaker 2: Ace Hardware has all of those products. If I talk
Speaker 2: about a fird, it's going to be at Ace Hardware.
Speaker 2: And there's forty Ace Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 2: Forty so it's easy to find one. Wherever you live,
Speaker 2: there's gonna be one pretty close. And if you go
Speaker 2: to ACE Hardware dot Com and find the store locator,
Speaker 2: you can find the stores near you. But when you're
Speaker 2: in Ace, you're going to find the fertilizers and the
Speaker 2: insect control, disease control, weed control products. You're gonna find tools,
Speaker 2: You're gonna find cool stuff for your patio outdoors. I
Speaker 2: know it's it's a hardware store. We already know what
Speaker 2: hardware stores carry. I'm talking about the lawn and garden
Speaker 2: part of it. They have the products at Ace Hardware
Speaker 2: and they're so convenient. All right, I'm gonna take a
Speaker 2: little quick break here seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: k t r H. I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Triggered snowflakes, the turds of our society, prepare for a
Speaker 1: complete meltdown with the Michael Berry Show Monday at eight
Speaker 1: am and five pm. Stop giving into these dumpy.
Speaker 2: The garden center on two forty nine and Luetta. So
Speaker 2: if you're on two forty nine going north toward Tombaugh,
Speaker 2: exit Luetta and crossover Luetta, and it's right there on
Speaker 2: the right hand side, it's been around for a long time.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 2: The Flowery family has been I believe since nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 2: That is a long time. They have been part of
Speaker 2: the community and they know plants. They know what works here,
Speaker 2: they know what doesn't work here. They've answered ten billion
Speaker 2: questions from customers and helping customers have success, and that's
Speaker 2: why they are so highly recommended by their customers. When
Speaker 2: you go now, you're going to find some really cool
Speaker 2: fall color, really nice like Croton's for example, the ones
Speaker 2: that they and of themselves look like harvest season decorated,
Speaker 2: some beautiful ornamental grasses that you know, the fall is
Speaker 2: the time for ornamental grasses to put on their big show.
Speaker 2: They've got that there and just a lot lot more.
Speaker 2: If you have questions, if you want to bring a
Speaker 2: sample of something in, put in the bag, bring it in.
Speaker 2: They'll help you for it with it. They will also
Speaker 2: if you just have questions or pictures on your phone,
Speaker 2: they'll help you with that too. Plants for all seasons,
Speaker 2: great plants, and outstanding service for the community. We're going
Speaker 2: to head out now to bel Air and talk to Jane. Hey, Jane,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 29: Hello, I have some Asian jasmine that is infested with
Speaker 29: bermuda grass. Is there anything I can spray on that
Speaker 29: to kill the bermuda and save the jasmine?
Speaker 2: Yes, there are two products. The easiest way for you
Speaker 2: to have those products at hand is to go to
Speaker 2: my website Gardening with Skip dot com. And there's a
Speaker 2: publication I think it's the first one at the top
Speaker 2: of the list of my publications. It's called Herbicides for
Speaker 2: Skip's weed Wiper. Now you're not gonna treat these with
Speaker 2: a weed wiper, but if you go down the list,
Speaker 2: it says for grass see weeds what to use, and
Speaker 2: I'll tell you the names of the ingredients, but just
Speaker 2: know that at the website, if you forget, you can
Speaker 2: just print that out and take it to wherever your shopping.
Speaker 2: One of them is Setosiedim and it's if you look
Speaker 2: at the first letters or S E T H the
Speaker 2: boy's name. Okay. The other one is flu as a
Speaker 2: flop and just remember flu a Z flu as. But
Speaker 2: go to the website and you'll see those there. I
Speaker 2: have a list of things that control woody plants, things
Speaker 2: that control sedges, things that control grasses, things that control
Speaker 2: underground bulbs like wild onions or wild garlic that comes
Speaker 2: up in your lawn and it makes it real easy.
Speaker 29: Wow, that's great. Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate it,
Speaker 29: all right, Jane.
Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that. You know, I run into
Speaker 2: people all the time that haven't been to the website,
Speaker 2: and I just would really urge you to go bookmark
Speaker 2: it because I'm always putting new stuff up there, and
Speaker 2: some of these questions where it's like involved to try
Speaker 2: to answer or spell things out on the air and stuff,
Speaker 2: you can just go to the I'm going to be
Speaker 2: sending you. Go to the website. Go to the website
Speaker 2: because I take time to put it there and where
Speaker 2: I can give a better answer than I do in
Speaker 2: a very short phone call answer. So that is my
Speaker 2: request if you will do that. I know you want
Speaker 2: to have success with a fall garden and with beautiful
Speaker 2: flower beds and with a lawn that just looks good.
Speaker 2: And the thing you need to remember on success with
Speaker 2: any of these plants is you want them to be
Speaker 2: in the amount of sunlight they want, You want them
Speaker 2: to be maintained and the way that they like, and
Speaker 2: you want them to be in a quality soil. Fact,
Speaker 2: that's first quality soil. If you've never grown a vegetable garden,
Speaker 2: why not do one this year? Why not do it?
Speaker 2: I mean, vegetable gardens are They are a blast And
Speaker 2: think can you think of a better way to eat
Speaker 2: than out of stuff you grew yourself? What is fifteen
Speaker 2: fifteen hundred miles closer than where the grocery store stuff
Speaker 2: came from? September late September is when we're planting things
Speaker 2: like the blue leaf vegetables, the col crops super super
Speaker 2: high on nutrition, cancer fighting characteristics as well, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower,
Speaker 2: co robbie collars, kale, all that. This is prime time.
Speaker 2: Get that done now. It's important. Maybe a bulb type
Speaker 2: or a swollen root type crop like beets, they can
Speaker 2: go in now, Turnips can go in now, Radishes can
Speaker 2: begin to go in as well. Those are all good
Speaker 2: for the cool season. When we cool off a little bit,
Speaker 2: we'll bump it a little bit later into the season
Speaker 2: and start planning spinach. When thing's kind of cool off,
Speaker 2: spinach picky about the heat. Lettuce can go in at
Speaker 2: that time. Have you ever grown a regular rugula? Also
Speaker 2: called rocket or roquat rocket. I believe arugula is a
Speaker 2: wonderful little green that you use sparingly in a salad
Speaker 2: for just adding a zip to the salad, and you know,
Speaker 2: we slather our salad, the typical American salad. What is it?
Speaker 2: It's iceberg, lettuce, some tomatoes that grew way far away
Speaker 2: and had to be hard enough to be shipped, and
Speaker 2: maybe some cut up cucumbers on it. Why not mix
Speaker 2: a lot of different greens in a salad growing yourself.
Speaker 2: You have flavors just from the green. Sorrel can be
Speaker 2: planted now. It loves cool weather, and sorrel gives a
Speaker 2: lemoni taste to your salads. The rugular by the way,
Speaker 2: it's kind of a nutty and as it gets a
Speaker 2: little older, it's kind of hot, little peppery flavor as well.
Speaker 2: You can grow something called corn salad. I don't know
Speaker 2: why they named it that. It's just a green that
Speaker 2: grows in cool seat. And you can grow plantain greens
Speaker 2: in the cool season. There's just a lot of wonderful
Speaker 2: greens that you can grow and make your salads just
Speaker 2: really sing with stuff you grew yourself. And if you
Speaker 2: don't want to make a big garden in the backyard.
Speaker 2: Maybe you don't have room, or maybe you just don't
Speaker 2: want to plow up that much of the lawn to
Speaker 2: make this big garden. You can garden and raise beds.
Speaker 2: You can get you one of the metal raised beds
Speaker 2: like a veggo bed. Set it on concrete if you want,
Speaker 2: and you can grow stuff in it. It does really
Speaker 2: well if you want to use containers. Pretty much every
Speaker 2: vegetable can be grown in a container. Some it takes
Speaker 2: a larger container, but in the cool season. Oh, I
Speaker 2: grew carrots last year in a container. I'd never grown
Speaker 2: carrots in a container before, and I did last year
Speaker 2: and they did well. It was a very kind of
Speaker 2: a taller container. It happened to be kind of thin,
Speaker 2: but carrots grew well in it. In a good mix.
Speaker 2: Grow onion as the green onions, the chives as well.
Speaker 2: That great for flavoring. I like chop up chives and
Speaker 2: scrambled eggs. I think that's a great way to use chives,
Speaker 2: and also soups and things. Why not grow some stuff
Speaker 2: if you've never been a vegetable gardener before, and if
Speaker 2: you don't want to go all in in this big
Speaker 2: vegetable garden. Try containers or just try raise bed. You
Speaker 2: can put some herbs in it. We have some rosemary
Speaker 2: and a raised bed that's kind of cascading over the
Speaker 2: side of a raised bed, and the summer flowers that
Speaker 2: have been in there for a long time are about
Speaker 2: to be it all pulled out, and that thing is
Speaker 2: going to be a major salad and soup garden if
Speaker 2: you will for the cool season. It's fun and I
Speaker 2: don't know, there's something rewarding about growing those things yourself.
Speaker 2: You know you did it yourself. And if you got kids,
Speaker 2: get them involved. Get kids involved in gardening. You know,
Speaker 2: we are more likely to eat things grow and kids
Speaker 2: that might turn their nose up at something, if they
Speaker 2: grit theirself, there's a better chance they're probably going to
Speaker 2: want to eat it and try it out, or they
Speaker 2: will enjoy giving the certain if you produce a lot
Speaker 2: of something, they'll enjoy give it away to friends and
Speaker 2: family and neighbors and whatnot. But get kids involved in gardening.
Speaker 2: They need to get their hands dirty. It will lead
Speaker 2: to a healthier life. Our number one here I'm on
Speaker 2: a soapbox again. Our number one health problem in this
Speaker 2: country is because of stuff that goes in our mouth,
Speaker 2: the way we eat fast food and a lot of
Speaker 2: other processed types of things. When you grow your own garden,
Speaker 2: you can turn that around. High fiber and up right
Speaker 2: now I'm picking my okra. Still hope it holds on
Speaker 2: for a long time because okra has soluble fiber and
Speaker 2: it's got the insoluble fiber. Two different ways that okra
Speaker 2: helps us. But that's just one example. Have a cool
Speaker 2: season garden. Let's do that. You go to a garden center.
Speaker 2: They'll get your pot if you need one, They'll get
Speaker 2: you the soil. They're going to carry the soils that
Speaker 2: you need to put in a pot, and they're going
Speaker 2: to have the seeds if you want to plant those,
Speaker 2: or the transplants if you want to do that. Just
Speaker 2: get out and have fun. You know, gardening is not
Speaker 2: rocket science. And if you think you have a brown thumb,
Speaker 2: you don't. You have an uninformed thumb. Keep listening to
Speaker 2: garden Line and we will help inform your thumb and
Speaker 2: suddenly you'll find just how easy gardening can be a
Speaker 2: lot of fun in the process. I want to remind
Speaker 2: you that today after this show, is over. I'm going
Speaker 2: to head to the clear Lake Wallbirds Unlimited, Clearelake Wallbirds
Speaker 2: Unlimited the corner of El Dorado and clear Lake City.
Speaker 2: So for all of you down in that direction south
Speaker 2: and to the east, little bit friends would in Pairland
Speaker 2: now saw By sebor Keenan Bakecliffe League City, all of that,
Speaker 2: Deer Park, Laporte. Come on out to the Wallbirds Unlimited
Speaker 2: in Claire Light. I'll be given away a lot of
Speaker 2: good stuff. They're They're throwing in some Nectro defender, a
Speaker 2: variety of seed blends and some other things. I'm going
Speaker 2: to be bringing away some products, bringing some products myself
Speaker 2: to give away. And I'm mainly there to answer your
Speaker 2: gardening questions and to meet you. Put a face behind
Speaker 2: the voice on the radio. Well, come on out to
Speaker 2: clare Lake the wa Bird's Unlimited. Bring a bring some
Speaker 2: plants in a bag for I D bring some photos
Speaker 2: on your phone for questions. Come on out eleven thirty
Speaker 2: to one thirty elder Ola Boulevard in Houston.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised
Speaker 1: on this program. Welcome to kat r H Guarded Line
Speaker 1: with Scared Richard.
Speaker 3: It's trim just watch him as so many backs.
Speaker 2: They're not a sad Welcome back to Guarden Line, folks,
Speaker 2: welcome back. We're glad to have you with us today.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Before I went to break there, I was talking about
Speaker 2: being at the Wall Birds Unlimited out in clear Lake. Uh, Clearlake.
Speaker 2: It's I mentioned that's on the corner of El Dorado
Speaker 2: and clear Lake City Boulevard. That I think the address
Speaker 2: they go by is a Clearlake City address, But I'll
Speaker 2: tell you another way. You can find it. When you're
Speaker 2: at that intersection. There's a big ol'a g B and
Speaker 2: it's right across the street from that, right across El
Speaker 2: Dorado from the big old at. It's easy to find.
Speaker 2: So come on out and let's talk about the things
Speaker 2: that are of interest to you.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Nitrofoss has a really cool thing for fall, and it's
Speaker 2: called the Texas three Step. Three steps, Three things you
Speaker 2: need to be doing in the fall. One of them
Speaker 2: is their Nitrofoss Fall Special Winter Riser. That is a
Speaker 2: product that has a different ratio of nutrients than we've
Speaker 2: been fertilizing through the ear. Fall fertilization is different. We
Speaker 2: want more potassium because potassium gives winter heartiness and it
Speaker 2: also helps the lawn to go into winter strong and
Speaker 2: to come out strong. Just hear this. Your spring lawn
Speaker 2: new growth is based on the fertilization that it got
Speaker 2: last fall. How strong did it go into winter? How
Speaker 2: strong is it going to come out of winter. We
Speaker 2: do spring fertilizing and summer fertilizing and whatnot, but fall
Speaker 2: fertilization is very important for that. And Nitropus fall special
Speaker 2: winterizer is that step two nitropous barricade to stop weeds
Speaker 2: from ever getting a start all the cool season. Weeds
Speaker 2: that in the spring are growing big and blooming and
Speaker 2: everything they're controlled are prevented best prevented in the fall
Speaker 2: with barricade. If you wait until they're big and growing
Speaker 2: in blooming, you're going to have trouble controlling them. So
Speaker 2: why not just prevent them with a fall application of barricade.
Speaker 2: And then the finally nitrofoss eagle turffund deicide. It's a
Speaker 2: systemic fund, decide. It moves into the plant's tissues and
Speaker 2: it protects against large patch of brown patch, the big
Speaker 2: circles everybody talks about. And it also has a pretty
Speaker 2: good effect on take all root rot and if you
Speaker 2: look at my schedule all that stuff I talk about
Speaker 2: when to do it and when to do it for
Speaker 2: the take all root rot and the and the patch disease,
Speaker 2: we're talking about October. That's the prime time to get
Speaker 2: that done. And you can get it all done with
Speaker 2: Nitrofoss's three step. You go to Cyprosaces Hardware, You're going
Speaker 2: to find it. You go to Plantation Hardware down there
Speaker 2: in Rosenberg, Richmond Rosenberger, You're going to find it down
Speaker 2: there as well. Nitropos three step all three makes it easy.
Speaker 2: One two three, go home with three bags. You are
Speaker 2: listening to Gardenline our phone number seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two five eight seven four as easy as that.
Speaker 2: If you have some questions about how to successfully garden,
Speaker 2: how does successfully grow vegetables, I'd start by asking your
Speaker 2: garden centers, the places where you buy stuff, They're going
Speaker 2: to be able to tell you how to do it.
Speaker 2: You can certainly call garden Line ask a question here
Speaker 2: if you want, But your Egglife Extension office is also
Speaker 2: a good source of information on things like that. You
Speaker 2: got county agents in every county and this whole listening area,
Speaker 2: and in a number of the counties you got a
Speaker 2: horticulturist Montgomery County, Harris County out there in Orange, down
Speaker 2: in Brazoria and Fort Bend and Galveston Counties. What did
Speaker 2: I say, Montgomery. I don't think I left anybody out.
Speaker 2: They have horticulture agents that can help you. There's also
Speaker 2: a website called Aggie Horticulture. Aggi Horticulture is a wonderful website.
Speaker 2: When you go to it, it's aggihyphen Horticulture dot TAMU
Speaker 2: dot edu. Forget all that, Just type in AGGI horticulture
Speaker 2: into a search and you'll find it. On the front page.
Speaker 2: There is gardening information, I mean a button for vegetable gardening,
Speaker 2: and there is a publication on everything you could possibly
Speaker 2: want to grow, from a regular to zucchini. It is
Speaker 2: all there on the Aggihorticulture website. There's a section on
Speaker 2: fruit too, that is the same thing. Free publications, easy
Speaker 2: to find talks about how to grow all those things.
Speaker 2: Why not take advantage of that free information. We're going
Speaker 2: to go to Lake Conroe now and talk to Joanne. Hello, Joanne,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Guarden line.
Speaker 30: Thank you say, I have a I believe it's a
Speaker 30: colist that I rescued from one of the box stores,
Speaker 30: and it's in a pot and it's been doing okay,
Speaker 30: but I'm noticing that the stocks are getting woody, and
Speaker 30: at the tips of some it's really really dark, and
Speaker 30: I could just break it right off with my fingers
Speaker 30: at the tip some of the leads are a little
Speaker 30: bit on the browning side.
Speaker 2: Well, I think a picture would be more helpful here.
Speaker 2: There are there are some blights that could affects. They're
Speaker 2: not real common in Colius in general. We don't just
Speaker 2: see them everywhere.
Speaker 30: But I put some seven on it, and then I
Speaker 30: did bring a piece over to aa uh there in
Speaker 30: Montgomery and they said possibly a fertilizer. So other than that,
Speaker 30: I don't know what else to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I would do that if you. If you
Speaker 2: want to send me a picture to look out to
Speaker 2: see if I'm seeing anything, send me one of the
Speaker 2: whole planet and then a couple up as close as
Speaker 2: you can get. But before you send them, make sure
Speaker 2: they're well focused. I'll be glad to look at it.
Speaker 2: You know, Colius is going to be heading out when
Speaker 2: it gets cold, but it sure puts on a beautiful
Speaker 2: fall show. So now's a good time to put Yeah.
Speaker 30: They're nice, and I have little frigs coming out little
Speaker 30: that I kip off because of the little lavender peaks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, well and if you have if you yeah,
Speaker 2: just hang on. I'm gonna put you on holding, Chris.
Speaker 2: We'll give you the email. Let me take a look
Speaker 2: at those pictures before I go recommending something that I
Speaker 2: haven't even seen the plant. All right, thank you, appreciate
Speaker 2: that joint. You are listening to garden Line. Our phone
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Speaker 31: I've been working on here for a transplant. A tree
Speaker 31: that's kind of growed from from nothing into about oh
Speaker 31: it's probably about five foot tall now, maybe six, and
Speaker 31: it's got about.
Speaker 32: An inch inch and a half uh stem coming up,
Speaker 32: and it's right next to the house, and I just say, man,
Speaker 32: I just don't want this thing to grow too much
Speaker 32: further before I take it out. But I want to
Speaker 32: keep the tree.
Speaker 31: I want to either put it in the pot and
Speaker 31: transplant it later, or just transplant it someplace else in.
Speaker 4: The yard to where I don't have to worry about.
Speaker 31: It ruining it when I to make sure it doesn't
Speaker 31: know it'll destroy it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, first of all, let it cool off, let
Speaker 2: it drop some leaves. Get into November sometime would be
Speaker 2: a good time to move it. The least stress time
Speaker 2: of the year is winter on a tree, late late fall,
Speaker 2: winter early early spring, and so you'll get moved early
Speaker 2: in that time. You want to cut out as wide
Speaker 2: out as you can get. Probably if you could get
Speaker 2: you know, eighteen inches out on both sides all around
Speaker 2: a tree. What I do is, I like cut out
Speaker 2: a little trench around the tree, and if you can
Speaker 2: get it down on a tree like that, if you
Speaker 2: could get it down to about boy maybe eight inches
Speaker 2: down below the surface, and then I have a flat
Speaker 2: shovel that I cut underneath with and then lean it
Speaker 2: one way with that soil and then slide a tarp
Speaker 2: under it. Then you cut the other side and you
Speaker 2: can slide it onto the tarp. See we're trying to
Speaker 2: avoid picking up that soil. That soil is heavy, and
Speaker 2: if you pick it up, your chiropractor's kids will have
Speaker 2: the plenty of money to go to college. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: we don't want to. And so so you get it
Speaker 2: like that, and then on the tarp you can slide it.
Speaker 2: One guy could could slide a lot a lot of
Speaker 2: weight across, but get a couple. If you want to
Speaker 2: have people pick up the four corners of a tarp
Speaker 2: and carry it, you can do that. But get it
Speaker 2: to it's a new place. Do you already have a
Speaker 2: spot where you know you want to plant it?
Speaker 31: Well, I'm fixed to probably sell this place and I
Speaker 31: want to take that tree with me. So it would
Speaker 31: it be better if I put it in.
Speaker 2: At yes, like a bigger pot. Yes, that changes what
Speaker 2: I just said I would. I would pull it up.
Speaker 2: You're not going to make as big of a circle
Speaker 2: cutting out because it's got to fit in a pot.
Speaker 2: Get it in and get some quality mix down in
Speaker 2: the pot. Some the soil can fall off the roots,
Speaker 2: that's fine. Put the quality mix around them too. Get
Speaker 2: it in the pot, Water it and keep it in
Speaker 2: a shady location for a while, just to minimize the
Speaker 2: transplant shock. If it doesn't have any leaves on it,
Speaker 2: it's not going to use much water. Butt you still
Speaker 2: need to water because those roots will grow all winter
Speaker 2: to some degree. And so don't let it dry out. Uh.
Speaker 2: And and then you can take it with you wherever
Speaker 2: you want to go.
Speaker 31: All right, Well that sounds good.
Speaker 2: That sounds good.
Speaker 31: One of the questions, uh of Saint august or sorry
Speaker 31: I got Saint Augustine? I got these, uh Virginia button weeds.
Speaker 9: Just I try to.
Speaker 31: Pick them by hand, and I stay ahead of it.
Speaker 31: But this year I wasn't able to do to some
Speaker 31: fiscal health problems.
Speaker 2: Yes, and now they're.
Speaker 31: Starting to really they're they're really spreading. Yeah, when's the
Speaker 31: best time to treat it and what should have.
Speaker 4: Treat it with?
Speaker 2: Okay, Virginia button weed during the growing season, you can
Speaker 2: it has the foliage out there. You can get a
Speaker 2: spray on it. Uh and and it works. I would
Speaker 2: use a product called Celsius, like the temperature Celsius, but
Speaker 2: do it and you could do it now, hit it now.
Speaker 2: It's not that weed is hard to kill. And even
Speaker 2: with Celsius, you can spray it in the spring and
Speaker 2: then about probably six weeks later read the label. I
Speaker 2: think it's about six weeks later you spray it again
Speaker 2: to make sure you got it. But Celsius allows you
Speaker 2: to spray it in a little bit warmer temperature than
Speaker 2: most of the other products, and it also works well.
Speaker 2: Remember Virginia button weed likes wet conditions, so anything you
Speaker 2: can do to let that soil dry out considerably between
Speaker 2: waterings will help by not causing it to proliferate so
Speaker 2: much like it will in wet soil. All right, there
Speaker 2: we go, Thank you very much for that question. We're
Speaker 2: going to go to Cheryl in Montgomery.
Speaker 17: Hello, Cheryl, good morning.
Speaker 11: I have four flower beds that are planted exactly the same.
Speaker 11: But the issue is to them have what I guess
Speaker 11: some of my neighbors say is nutshage grass. Yes, and
Speaker 11: it's so thick with it. I've been told pull it,
Speaker 11: don't pull it, treat it. And then I've also been
Speaker 11: told to dig it all out and put in new
Speaker 11: soil because the soil could have brought it in.
Speaker 6: I don't know what to believe.
Speaker 2: Well, if you dig it out, you're gonna have to
Speaker 2: dig it out a foot deeper, and you may still
Speaker 2: have a nut or two down below that. But I
Speaker 2: would I have put together some publications just for this.
Speaker 2: If you go to my website, Gardening with Skip dot com,
Speaker 2: you'll see there's tips for winning the War on nuts Edge.
Speaker 2: That's kind of the real fast, quick, easy one pager,
Speaker 2: and then there's going nuts over Nutsedge, and that is
Speaker 2: the three pager, and it explains the different kinds of
Speaker 2: nuts edge and how we go about controlling it. And
Speaker 2: here's the deal. If I were to summarize it, this
Speaker 2: isn't enough information. Go to the publication for that. But
Speaker 2: if I were to summarize it, I would say jump
Speaker 2: on it early in the spring and never let it up.
Speaker 2: For air when you spray and it goes down and
Speaker 2: here comes some more. When it has three to five leaves,
Speaker 2: you gotta spray it again. And the products for that
Speaker 2: are on this publication. Sedgehammer is one example. But what
Speaker 2: people do is they wait to start controlling it and
Speaker 2: it proliferates during that weight, or they control it for
Speaker 2: a while and then they stop and it proliferates during
Speaker 2: that stopped time. So you got to stay on it,
Speaker 2: never let it up for air. When it has three
Speaker 2: to five leaves, it needs to be getting sprayed. And
Speaker 2: if you stay with that starting in spring, I would
Speaker 2: spray it now. I sprayed some in my yard just
Speaker 2: the other day. I would spray it now, but especially
Speaker 2: in the spring when you first see the nutsedge coming
Speaker 2: up and it's got three to five leaves, start in
Speaker 2: on it at that time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So one more question regarding that, what can I do
Speaker 6: immediately because I'm getting letters from the HOA.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you could spray something that just basically
Speaker 2: burns the top off, but that's not going to accomplish much.
Speaker 2: I would appeal to the HOA that you got a
Speaker 2: product on a sedge hammer. These products that I'm recommending
Speaker 2: in this sheet. They take a while. It may be
Speaker 2: two weeks and you're going, oh, that didn't do anything. Oh,
Speaker 2: yes it did. It's working its way, and that plant
Speaker 2: will go downhill. I had some I sprayed ten days ago,
Speaker 2: and I'm barely seeing the first signs of the product.
Speaker 2: But i know it's the one that's going down there working.
Speaker 2: Other stuff doesn't get down there and kill the nut.
Speaker 2: And that's why people spray and say it doesn't work.
Speaker 6: Gotcha, very good, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Yes, you bet appreciate your call. Thank you. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: is the way it is. Let's go out to Conroe
Speaker 2: now and we're going to talk to Marie. Hello Marie,
Speaker 2: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 15: Hello Skip.
Speaker 33: I have a question regarding a Wex myrtle tree. I
Speaker 33: have an area that or a raised bed that's about
Speaker 33: four and a half feet wide by nine feet long.
Speaker 33: I've got a dead rose of Sharon there and I'm
Speaker 33: trying to decide if by shooting instead planta Wex myrtle
Speaker 33: tree that will give me semi privacy.
Speaker 15: Uh, it is okay.
Speaker 33: And that bed is layered with turks caps and laurel
Speaker 33: plums and elo cassius. But again, the width is four
Speaker 33: and a half feet white. Will that be okay for
Speaker 33: a wax myrtle tree or not?
Speaker 2: So when you say tree, you're you're talking about a
Speaker 2: single trunk coming up with a top on it plan.
Speaker 33: Will I I have no experience with a wex myrtle tree,
Speaker 33: because I've read that I could go that route or
Speaker 33: simply limit up with multi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, you could do it either way. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: do a single I would do multi. Cut off things
Speaker 2: that are not what you want. They're not part of
Speaker 2: those three trunks or usually people do about three uh,
Speaker 2: and then trim it up and it gets higher. If
Speaker 2: it gets higher, could it be a little wider than
Speaker 2: four feet?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 33: Yes, it's uh.
Speaker 2: The area is four and a half feet.
Speaker 33: But then I've got some roses, some double knockout roses
Speaker 33: on one side and the crushed limestone gravel pamp on
Speaker 33: the other side, so it's really four and a half
Speaker 33: feet wide.
Speaker 2: Well, I tell you that's you can keep a wax
Speaker 2: myrtle that narrow, but you're gonna be printing it a lot.
Speaker 2: And so I'm kind of wondering if you really even
Speaker 2: want a tree there with that small of a four
Speaker 2: and a half feet. There's not gonna be anything that
Speaker 2: you know is.
Speaker 33: So I might seem like I should stick with the
Speaker 33: rows of sharing in that area.
Speaker 2: Then well, rows of sharon get bigger than four and
Speaker 2: a half feet too. Uh, either way, you can do either.
Speaker 2: You've said something about blocking a view, right, Well.
Speaker 33: Seem like privacy. And of course the roads up sure,
Speaker 33: and you know they get us down during the winter time.
Speaker 2: So yes, it's deciduous. Yeah, well, you can give the
Speaker 2: give this a try. Just know that you're going to
Speaker 2: be stay busy keeping it into the shape and size
Speaker 2: you want. But you can do that. It's possible.
Speaker 33: Any idea, any idea how many times a year I
Speaker 33: have to be pruning?
Speaker 4: It?
Speaker 2: Would this be like monthly or pro probably quarterly? Oh okay,
Speaker 2: you know you could do it probably quarterly, and that
Speaker 2: that would be fine, wonderful. All right, Marie, you bet,
Speaker 2: thank you for the for the call. Uh, we're gonna
Speaker 2: go now, let's see Dan and Eagle Lake. I'm about
Speaker 2: a minute before the news, but let's get started on
Speaker 2: your call and we can continue after the break.
Speaker 25: Okay, good morning, good morning, morning to good morning to all.
Speaker 25: Just a fast question, I think you can just we
Speaker 25: can do this spacing between the rows and spacing between
Speaker 25: red la soda.
Speaker 2: Specifically, I'll put mine about eight inches apart. They could
Speaker 2: be a foot apart if you wanted, but most of
Speaker 2: the potatoes are going to set within about six to
Speaker 2: eight inches of the base of that plant, so about
Speaker 2: that far. As far as the road distance, give them
Speaker 2: a little more space, but not you don't need a
Speaker 2: lot more, maybe a foot foot and a half. I
Speaker 2: usually have about twelve to eighteen inches between roads. There.
Speaker 2: We're going to start off by going straight out to
Speaker 2: Jersey Village and talking to Chris. Hello, Chris, welcome to
Speaker 2: guard Mine.
Speaker 13: All right, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: You bet.
Speaker 34: I've got in my front flower bed. Actually it's just
Speaker 34: one this little thorny thing, and I mean those thorns
Speaker 34: are fears.
Speaker 15: I've worn.
Speaker 34: Leather construction job construction gloves to pull the things up,
Speaker 34: and they go right through the gloves. And it's got
Speaker 34: a wooden root and I don't know what it is.
Speaker 34: But what I would like is that you had something
Speaker 34: that I could spray on it or put on it
Speaker 34: that would kill it and not affect the other.
Speaker 15: Surrounding.
Speaker 2: Okay, vegetation yeah, well there, you'll have to go about
Speaker 2: it a certain way. I really would like to know
Speaker 2: what it is based on that description, I'm not real sure.
Speaker 2: Can you describe the leaves real quick for me?
Speaker 34: Yeah, they're kind of like they look like when it
Speaker 34: leaves out, it looks like a fan, you know, waving
Speaker 34: like a waving fan. And uh, it doesn't get very big,
Speaker 34: but I mean it's going all over that one flower bed. Okay,
Speaker 34: and you know I really want to, you know, kill it.
Speaker 2: All right, well, let me let's do this. Boh, if
Speaker 2: you will, I'm sorry, Chris, If you will, hold on,
Speaker 2: I'm going to put you on hold and have my
Speaker 2: producer give you an email. Send me some close up
Speaker 2: pictures and sharp focus of this plant's leaves if it
Speaker 2: had flowers, show those. But let me see some pictures
Speaker 2: and let me make sure I know what we're talking about,
Speaker 2: and I'll reply with what to do for it.
Speaker 13: Okay, Okay, appreciate that.
Speaker 2: You bet you bet glad glad to help them do that.
Speaker 2: You know I could always guess, but I'm telling you
Speaker 2: it's better if I don't, because sometimes things aren't what
Speaker 2: they seem. You've heard me talking about Jorges Hidden Gardens
Speaker 2: done in Alvin before Ray just keeps it, just keeps growing,
Speaker 2: getting better down there. I tell you he's got a
Speaker 2: lot of wonderful trees, and fall is for planting. He
Speaker 2: has a great selection out, a bunch of new roses
Speaker 2: that have come in if you like, if you like
Speaker 2: fruiting plants. He has three different kinds of thornless blackberries.
Speaker 2: Maybe more, but I know I know of three that
Speaker 2: all do well here, and fall is a good time
Speaker 2: to plan them. They're ready to go, waiting for you
Speaker 2: to come get them.
Speaker 35: Uh.
Speaker 2: Orges Hidden Gardens is on Elizabeth Road in Alvin, Texas.
Speaker 2: So all of you way downs out there, this is
Speaker 2: your hometown garden center, Elizabeth Road in Alvin, Texas, Jorges
Speaker 2: Hidden Gardens. You need to go by and check them out.
Speaker 2: He one thing that he also has I wanted to
Speaker 2: mention is citrus. There's a good selection of cetrus as
Speaker 2: well down in his gardens, or it is his nursery
Speaker 2: there in town. All right, folks, we're going to go
Speaker 2: back out now. Let's see, we're going to go to
Speaker 2: Bow in Houston.
Speaker 17: Hello bo, Hey, good morning morning, Hey, quick question, hopefully
Speaker 17: me and a couple of family's been trying to grow
Speaker 17: this night blooming serious plant for a couple.
Speaker 26: Of years and we haven't had been able to get
Speaker 26: the flower. My grandmother had one that would flower before
Speaker 26: the freeze, and this new one just doesn't. We don't
Speaker 26: know what to do. You have any suggestions for.
Speaker 2: Me, Well, getting it in the right amount of light,
Speaker 2: not over fertilizing it. That that would be important to
Speaker 2: not over fertilize night blooming jasmine. Making sure the soul
Speaker 2: drains really well is important for that. Let's see what else, Yeah,
Speaker 2: not overfertilizing. That's pretty much it. It needs a lot
Speaker 2: of sunlight though, in order to do its best. So
Speaker 2: maybe maybe in.
Speaker 26: Partial sunlight at the moment it would blanch.
Speaker 2: In full sunlight, yeah, well it may maybe it's getting enough.
Speaker 2: Is this the shrub night blooming a jasmine or are
Speaker 2: you talking about a vine? Okay, all right, yeah, well
Speaker 2: those would be the things providing a fertilizer for blooming
Speaker 2: plants going to have more of the middle number the
Speaker 2: phosphorus in it, that would be another thing that would
Speaker 2: be helpful for it. That's what comes to mind initially.
Speaker 17: All right, So fertilizer with posterous got it.
Speaker 2: Higher phosphorus levels. Yeah, so something for plumerias would probably
Speaker 2: be a good I would try that and see how
Speaker 2: that works for them. Moderate amount of fertilizer, a decent
Speaker 2: amount of light, but not overwatering, not keeping the roots
Speaker 2: too wet. Those are all things that come to mind initially.
Speaker 17: All right, well, appreciate it, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: All right, you bet, thank you for the call. Appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Bough.
Speaker 2: Now we're going to go to Marty in Fairfield. Hey, Marty,
Speaker 2: welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 15: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 16: Hey.
Speaker 23: I just wanted to let you know that I got
Speaker 23: frustrated with the net grass and the Virginia button weeds,
Speaker 23: so I got out the Ultra.
Speaker 15: We'd beat her ultra.
Speaker 36: A watering can with about a tablespoon of the weed beater,
Speaker 36: and a week and a half later, there.
Speaker 19: I've got spots all dying.
Speaker 36: Okay, So I'm going to reapply it. And I didn't
Speaker 36: know though it said that it was okay to put
Speaker 36: it on the grassy area with my Saint August team.
Speaker 15: Without killing it.
Speaker 2: Is that it is labeled for use on that at
Speaker 2: the right if you don't have it too concentrated, then
Speaker 2: that would be yeah, that would be it. The weed beater.
Speaker 2: Weed Beater Ultra has got a mix of different ingredients.
Speaker 2: It's got like four I think four different got dicamba
Speaker 2: and macroprop and it's got carpenter zone and MCPA all
Speaker 2: in it.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 2: And that covers a lot of different kinds of weeds.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you this, I don't think you're going
Speaker 2: to find nutsedge on the label. You might, I don't
Speaker 2: think it's on there. Uh. And I think you may
Speaker 2: see the nutsedge pop back up, but just have to
Speaker 2: watch and wait. Hopefully you have had success. But I'm
Speaker 2: I'm a little leary about calling it on this one.
Speaker 15: That's fine.
Speaker 36: I just I'm just hard.
Speaker 2: Looking at it. Oh, I know, I know, well, God and.
Speaker 36: Buttons, I'm having success with it, So I'm okay.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm happy.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well good, well yeah, yeah, sure, I appreciate knowing that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Go online if you have them already and read my
Speaker 2: what I wrote up on nuts edge, and I think, Okay,
Speaker 2: just understanding how it works and why some of the
Speaker 2: things we typically do wrong can happen, that's that's important. Well,
Speaker 2: thanks for the call, Marty. Appreciate your wearing in on
Speaker 2: this one. All right, you take care. We're going to
Speaker 2: go now to Sam. Uh No, We're not Sam. When
Speaker 2: we come back from break, you will be the first up.
Speaker 2: Uh And and Marine and Evelyn, we see you out
Speaker 2: there and we'll be getting to you as well. His
Speaker 2: welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. Well we lost Sam,
Speaker 2: all right, let's uh who's next? Marene in Lakeside of States. Hello, Marine,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Thank you. I didn't know it was so close to
Speaker 19: saying goodbye to you. I've been listening happily to all
Speaker 19: your suggestions. Okay, I do have two Chris anthemums that
Speaker 19: are actually in the ground and have been there a
Speaker 19: whole year, so whatever I am doing is going okay,
Speaker 19: the partial shape and son. So that's what I just
Speaker 19: want to check up because i'd like to buy another
Speaker 19: four for this year. So I'd like to know.
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 19: Okay, used Microlife six two four? Or do I need
Speaker 19: to do something else for Chris Anthemum.
Speaker 2: No, that's fine, you can use that. That works very
Speaker 2: very well. I would probably when you plant them, I
Speaker 2: would get a hold of some of their other products.
Speaker 2: The liquid products that you can use and they work.
Speaker 2: They work super well, you know with drenching the plants
Speaker 2: when you put them in the ground, that will provide
Speaker 2: provide help with them trying to get roots in the ground. Basically. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and just chrysanthemums, know this. There's some we call those
Speaker 2: florist chryscentthemums. A lot of what you see like in
Speaker 2: the grocery store and all kinds of places. Those usually
Speaker 2: will return, but they may not be as dependable as
Speaker 2: something There are some other chrysanthemums you probably wouldn't care
Speaker 2: for a country girl, but it sprawls all over the place.
Speaker 2: But it is a very dependable perennial chryscanthemum. But again
Speaker 2: it's a floppy, sprawling thing. But planning them right, getting
Speaker 2: them in a good quality so with lots of organic matter,
Speaker 2: and then keeping them moderately moist. If you can water
Speaker 2: the soil instead of watering the root the foliage, that's
Speaker 2: better when you get water, especially these that have been
Speaker 2: pruned and snipped to be like a little mound, you
Speaker 2: know when you buy them at the garden. Yeah, they're
Speaker 2: real tight. Yeah, they're all tighten there. And if you're
Speaker 2: spraying water in the top. You can get some rot
Speaker 2: going on down in there. You're promoting a rot, so
Speaker 2: water the soil rather than the plant.
Speaker 16: Gotcha? All right?
Speaker 19: So what about in the middle of the year, after
Speaker 19: they've done, they're spent, so maybe January, I'm not really sure.
Speaker 2: You want to kind of shoot, yeah, you want to
Speaker 2: show them back. We call it pinching because you know,
Speaker 2: people just have one and they can just pinch off
Speaker 2: the soft ends of the shoots. But as you do that,
Speaker 2: it increases density, and the more you do it, the
Speaker 2: dentsure they get. They would probably perform a little better
Speaker 2: if they weren't quite as tight as they are when
Speaker 2: you buy them usually, but if they get lanky, then
Speaker 2: branches are going to start breaking off because they're very brittle.
Speaker 2: So you decide, but you print them two or three times,
Speaker 2: stop pinching. Let's see, stop pinching by probably July. I
Speaker 2: think I would say they need time to grow after
Speaker 2: the pinch because it'll cause new sprouts to grow, and
Speaker 2: then those sprouts need to set a bloom bud so
Speaker 2: that it can do its fall bloom.
Speaker 19: That's what I must like.
Speaker 15: It just been dumb luck, you know.
Speaker 19: Well, because that's exactly what happened.
Speaker 15: I did.
Speaker 19: I pruned a little bit here and a little bit there,
Speaker 19: and I don't want to take somebody else's time, but
Speaker 19: I'm so thrilled that they responded.
Speaker 15: But the most important.
Speaker 19: Thing was now for me to get the liquid.
Speaker 15: Is there a number on the.
Speaker 19: Liquid in terms of the six two for war? Yeah,
Speaker 19: I know you said liquid drenching.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, well, micro Life they have a number of
Speaker 2: different liquids. There's a seven one four that's that is
Speaker 2: called biomatrix. It would be fine for plants that are growing.
Speaker 2: You could use it in transplanting, but I would, you know,
Speaker 2: I would. You could do fish emulsion and seaweed. That's
Speaker 2: another thing I have that it works very very well.
Speaker 2: Let's see here. What is the other? Oh gosh, the
Speaker 2: name is escaping me. The one I'm trying to think of.
Speaker 2: Just one second and I'll tell you. Oh, it's a
Speaker 2: Microlife maximum blooms. That is a three three eight three,
Speaker 2: And that would be one to be using as the
Speaker 2: plant is growing, but not necessarily putting a brand new
Speaker 2: one in the ground, but you could use it to
Speaker 2: put a new one in the ground also. It would
Speaker 2: work very well for that Microlife maximum Blooms. Microlife has
Speaker 2: one other it's called soil and Plant Energy that I
Speaker 2: think would be a good one to use at transplanting.
Speaker 2: It's going to give you a rocket boost.
Speaker 19: Okay, soy and plant What was the last.
Speaker 2: Word, soil and plant energy.
Speaker 19: Yeah, energy, Okay, I think you've covered it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you also just make sure you have some
Speaker 2: of those others on hand during the growing season because
Speaker 2: you're gonna want to use them.
Speaker 19: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it all met Thanks a lot. We're gonna
Speaker 2: go out to Katie and talk to Evelyn. Hello, Evelyn,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Gardlande.
Speaker 35: Good morning, Good morning Skip.
Speaker 17: I have a question.
Speaker 35: Is it too late to plant I mean to saw
Speaker 35: Saint Augustine grass.
Speaker 2: It is not too late. You can do that, but
Speaker 2: it's better to get it done sooner rather than later,
Speaker 2: because as we go, once we get into October and November,
Speaker 2: the grassroots just aren't growing that much, and when you're siding,
Speaker 2: you want the grassroots to grow, to get down and
Speaker 2: to establish. Well. Now, I know people that get away
Speaker 2: with planting it twelve months out of the year, but
Speaker 2: if you could do it sooner rather than later. Remember
Speaker 2: you're going to water it twice a day the first week,
Speaker 2: and once a day the second week, and then every
Speaker 2: other day the third week.
Speaker 35: Okay, okay, great, And I just need to put like
Speaker 35: a top soil down or a layer of something to
Speaker 35: make it No. I mean, the ground is good, but
Speaker 35: I just want to make sure I have the right
Speaker 35: foundation the top of the grass.
Speaker 2: If the ground is good, then you're good to go.
Speaker 2: You don't have to add soil on top. People typically
Speaker 2: will add soil when they need to fill in holes
Speaker 2: or make it flatter. You know that way when you're mowing,
Speaker 2: your mower isn't bouncing around and gouging out sections. You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 18: Okay, great, Okay, I will definitely do that.
Speaker 35: And one more question, the gentleman that called the caller
Speaker 35: that called in prior about the thorny lead to his grass. Yes,
Speaker 35: is there any way possible you can put that on
Speaker 35: your website or mention it on the air, because I
Speaker 35: would really like to know what weed he's talking about
Speaker 35: that has stickers on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a number of them.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 2: There is a vine that has an underground tuber that's
Speaker 2: real difficult to get rid of. It's called catclowine. There
Speaker 2: are b there's a burr weed that has kind of
Speaker 2: a pointy key. But but going through a work glove, that's.
Speaker 35: Yes, that was the curious part because I was just like,
Speaker 35: what is what kind of weed does he have?
Speaker 17: Yeah?
Speaker 35: I'm just curious and if you could posted, it's just
Speaker 35: just to know because I know the sticker things I do.
Speaker 18: What do you call him?
Speaker 17: Sandburds?
Speaker 35: I've dealt with them and they will go through your glove.
Speaker 35: But he was speaking of something and just sound like
Speaker 35: what is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I wondered too. So I've learned to
Speaker 2: ask to see pictures.
Speaker 17: That's that would be great.
Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, you take care. Thank you very
Speaker 2: much for that. Yeah, I tell you, I cannot tell
Speaker 2: you how many times someone who's asked a question and
Speaker 2: said something it's like, oh, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: And then or maybe they gave me a name of
Speaker 2: a plant. There's the one they'll throw you for a
Speaker 2: curve there, I have a fill in the blank. Uh,
Speaker 2: And as we talk it's like, no, that's not the plant.
Speaker 2: You're asking me about something else. And so I try
Speaker 2: to be as accurate as I can here. Have been
Speaker 2: doing this for thirty five years. I answering gardening questions
Speaker 2: from gardeners. But you got to help me out here
Speaker 2: with accurate questions. Like I always say about pictures, fuzzy
Speaker 2: pictures will get you fuzzy answers, so make sure they're
Speaker 2: in good sharp focus. That would be a good idea. Well,
Speaker 2: one more time, for those of you who haven't gone yet,
Speaker 2: go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com. And
Speaker 2: the reason I say that I'm not selling anything on
Speaker 2: the website, it's free information. You know, my lawn care schedule,
Speaker 2: how to mow, water, fertilize, and air rate your lawn,
Speaker 2: my lawn pest disease and weed management schedule, what to
Speaker 2: do about insects January to December. When did chinchbugs occur?
Speaker 2: It'll tell you on that chart when diseases occur and
Speaker 2: then what do you do about them? And weeds the
Speaker 2: same thing at the bottom. It's all color coded so
Speaker 2: it makes it really easy. Weeds are green, diseases are brown,
Speaker 2: insects are yellow. You go to the bottom. Organic and
Speaker 2: synthetic options are right there. My nut sets publications are there,
Speaker 2: Weed wipers there and anytime things come up seasonally, like
Speaker 2: later this year, I'll be talking about coal protection again
Speaker 2: for the plans, and it's on the website. That's what
Speaker 2: we're trying to do there. Hey, I'm fixing to jump
Speaker 2: in a car and I'm going to head to Clear
Speaker 2: Lake City. I don't forget Nature's Way Resources is there
Speaker 2: are an outstanding company that has been producing quality products
Speaker 2: for a long time. Their fungal Friday stale is still on.
Speaker 2: The summer sale is off, but twenty percent off fungal
Speaker 2: compost and that's good for top dressing and you can
Speaker 2: still do that. It's also good for putting in your soil.
Speaker 2: On October twelfth, Saturday, I'll be out there for their
Speaker 2: Fall Festival and that is going to be one heck
Speaker 2: of a party. You need to write that down on
Speaker 2: your calendar. October twelfth Fall Festival. Nature's Way