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Speaker 1: Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Good morning to all the gardeners out there
Speaker 5: and the ones who would like to be gardeners. Maybe
Speaker 5: you've never tried this before. By the way, you're listening
Speaker 5: to the Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
Speaker 5: we are here to help you have a bountiful garden
Speaker 5: and a beautiful landscape. A simple as that. You know,
Speaker 5: it's not rocket science, it's really not. You give plants
Speaker 5: the things they want, and they give you the stuff
Speaker 5: that you band. They want sunlight, they want good drainage,
Speaker 5: they want sual moisture, they want good nutrition, they want
Speaker 5: to be at home in the climate you live in.
Speaker 5: You know, you bring a blue spruce home from Colorado
Speaker 5: and well, the Society for the Cruelty to Plants will
Speaker 5: be at your door to arrest you and book you
Speaker 5: for that. Don't do it, but plant things that want
Speaker 5: to be here. But you do those simple things that
Speaker 5: I just talked about and you can have success. You know,
Speaker 5: gardening is supposed to be fun, and that's what I
Speaker 5: try to do here on Guarden Line is take some
Speaker 5: of the mystery out of it, help you have success,
Speaker 5: and in the meantime, remind you it's supposed to be fun.
Speaker 5: Do you know that nature kills plants every year? That
Speaker 5: means you can too, it does. I mean we get
Speaker 5: things called annuals. They live a year and then they die.
Speaker 5: We have by annials that live through one year, through
Speaker 5: the winter and then they die. And out in nature
Speaker 5: that happens, and it's okay. Don't be afraid to experiment.
Speaker 5: Don't be afraid to try things. I don't want to
Speaker 5: see you waste your time and money planning things that
Speaker 5: are not going to succeed, or doing it in a
Speaker 5: way that doesn't work. Where do the wise? Beware of
Speaker 5: social media. Everybody on social media is an expert. Just
Speaker 5: ask them. They'll tell you. But that didn't mean they're right,
Speaker 5: or that doesn't mean what they say is right for
Speaker 5: where you live. And that's what we're doing here in Guardlane,
Speaker 5: ktr H Greater Houston Areas, trying to help people here
Speaker 5: in the whole region of Southeast Texas to have success
Speaker 5: with their gardens. So if you would like to give
Speaker 5: me a call, ask a question. Seven one three two
Speaker 5: one two k t RH seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two kt r H. It's always kind of slow early
Speaker 5: in the morning. I know you're waking up. You probably
Speaker 5: have one eye open, one hand on a cup of
Speaker 5: coffee trying to join the land of the living. But
Speaker 5: early on is a better time actually to call, as
Speaker 5: far as not having to wait in line to get in.
Speaker 5: Affordable Tree Service is a company. You hear me talk
Speaker 5: about a lot, and I was visiting with somebody about
Speaker 5: him the other day, and you know, they were saying,
Speaker 5: I need somebody to do such inside you on a tree,
Speaker 5: and I just call Martin because listen, Martin has been
Speaker 5: doing this for a very long time in the Greater
Speaker 5: Houston area. Martin Spoon Moore and his wife Joe, they
Speaker 5: are the owners. They answer the phone. So when you
Speaker 5: call Affordable Tree at seven one three six nine nine
Speaker 5: two six sixty three, you're going to get them. If
Speaker 5: you call and Martin or Joe does not answer, hang up,
Speaker 5: check that number and dial again because you got the
Speaker 5: wrong place. This is where the owners are so actively
Speaker 5: actively involved in working with the customers in their business.
Speaker 5: Now we are in tree printing season. It's going to
Speaker 5: go all the way through winter, and there's not a
Speaker 5: better time of the year to get your printing done.
Speaker 5: You can print any month of the year some but
Speaker 5: now's the time to get it done, especially when you're
Speaker 5: getting quite a bit of work done. Get on Martin's schedule.
Speaker 5: He stays busy because he does a good job. So
Speaker 5: don't mess around. And way, I'll call him in January
Speaker 5: or February. He books up, and so give him a
Speaker 5: call now, and that's seven one three six ' nine
Speaker 5: nine two six six three. Have him look at your trees.
Speaker 5: If he doesn't need anything, he'll tell you. But have
Speaker 5: him come out and take a look. See what kind
Speaker 5: of pruning might be needed. And if you were thinking
Speaker 5: about doing anything around those trees the root system, like
Speaker 5: putting in a trench or putting a driveway underneath the
Speaker 5: branch bread of the tree somewhere, talk to him first,
Speaker 5: because when it comes to trees, when the damage is done,
Speaker 5: it's a little too late to do a whole lot
Speaker 5: for it. There are little things you can do to
Speaker 5: kind of help, but way, before the damage is done.
Speaker 5: There's some good decisions you can make. Martin can help
Speaker 5: you with that. If you like to go by the
Speaker 5: websites well, afftree Service dot com go to afftree service
Speaker 5: dot com, or just get Martin a call seven one
Speaker 5: three six nine nine two six six three. Just because
Speaker 5: someone owns a chainsaw, a pickup and puts a business
Speaker 5: card in your door do not necessarily mean they know anything,
Speaker 5: and in fact, from what I've seen, in most cases,
Speaker 5: it means they don't and they can ruin a tree
Speaker 5: when they don't know what they're doing. So take care
Speaker 5: of those trees. The most valuable plant you have in
Speaker 5: your landscapes or your trees comes to shade for you
Speaker 5: when it comes to value for your home property. Let's
Speaker 5: go out to Donna Now in Beaumont. Hey, Donna, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning. I have a question. My neighbor has a
Speaker 6: pride of Barbados and I I've been watching it spew
Speaker 6: its seeds down onto the highway and I've been picking
Speaker 6: them up and I have not had good luck trying
Speaker 6: to get those seeds to sprout. And I wonder if
Speaker 6: you've any suggestions for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there they are. They have a very hard coat
Speaker 5: and uh so they're a little slow to swell up
Speaker 5: and sprout. They like really warm temperatures, so you ought
Speaker 5: to be if they're if they're indoors, stick them outdoors
Speaker 5: right now because it's still pretty warm out okay. Uh,
Speaker 5: and and get those going. One thing about trying to
Speaker 5: sprout them now, though, is you you got to take
Speaker 5: care of them during the winter. You can't put them out.
Speaker 6: Well, they'll be really during the winter, and and I
Speaker 6: can bring them in if it gets cold.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well they'll they'll be very unhappy. You'll think they're dying,
Speaker 5: because even if it's not freezing, they're going to be
Speaker 5: acting like they're dying. Uh, they don't even know them.
Speaker 5: About May, when it really warms up, I might at
Speaker 5: this point I will okay, yeah, okay, you know, if
Speaker 5: it were two or three months ago, i'd say, yeah,
Speaker 5: plant them and we'll get them going, get them strong
Speaker 5: enough where they can overwinter. But but just hang on
Speaker 5: to them and then yes, real quick, okay.
Speaker 6: It may be the same kind of issue. I have
Speaker 6: a rubber tree plant, and earlier in this summer I
Speaker 6: had great luck getting one of the branches to root
Speaker 6: while it was still long, and then cutting it off
Speaker 6: and planning it and making a tree, and I was
Speaker 6: very successful in that. Is it too late to do
Speaker 6: that to another branch? Or should I wait till next spring?
Speaker 5: No? No, you can do it. No, you can do
Speaker 5: that in the winter even as long as the tree
Speaker 5: is getting you know, the amount of light that it wants, okay,
Speaker 5: in order to produce carbohydrates. Ye, I'll do that. You
Speaker 5: were doing what's called an air layer, and you shouldn't
Speaker 5: do that anytime of the year that you want to
Speaker 5: do it.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 5: It sounds like you knew what you're doing. If you
Speaker 5: if you had success, so congratulations.
Speaker 6: Yes, I've done it twice, but I've done it earlier
Speaker 6: in the spring, and I just didn't know if if
Speaker 6: it was you know, if it was hard to tree
Speaker 6: to do it? It's winter's approaching, you bet?
Speaker 5: You bet? All right, Well, thank you for that, called do.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that a lot. We want to remind you
Speaker 5: guys that haven't fertilized yet it is time to get
Speaker 5: it done. And Nitrofoss has really set it up nice.
Speaker 5: They've got what's called the Texas three step That means
Speaker 5: a fertilizer called Fall Special that's designed for fall to
Speaker 5: help your lawns be stronger in winter for cold heartiness
Speaker 5: and come out stronger in spring. Second step nitrofos barricade.
Speaker 5: You put it down, you water it in, and when
Speaker 5: weed seeds try to sprout, which we are on the
Speaker 5: doorstep of cool season weed sprouting, get that down asap.
Speaker 5: Look at my schedule guarding with skip dot com. Look
Speaker 5: at the schedule. It's time. Second step or third step
Speaker 5: Eagle turf fungicide. We are on the doorstep of brown
Speaker 5: patch impact our names. I'm already seeing circles developing for
Speaker 5: brown patch out in the lawn. Eagle turf fungicide gets
Speaker 5: up through the roots and into the plant and prevents
Speaker 5: from happening. Everything is to be done a sap because
Speaker 5: we're already now at the end of October. Nitro five
Speaker 5: three step Fall Special barricade for preventing weeds from germinating.
Speaker 5: An eagle tour fund you side for preventing diseases from attacking.
Speaker 5: You're going to find it at Ingenetic Gardens Donna Richmond,
Speaker 5: Shades of Texas in the woodlands. Plants for all seasons,
Speaker 5: on tom Ball Parkway all places to get Texas three step.
Speaker 5: I'm going to take a little break here. When I
Speaker 5: come back, Ralph, Girardo and Greg you will be the
Speaker 5: first ones up. Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line.
Speaker 5: Here we go again. We got a lot to cover today,
Speaker 5: got a lot of folks to talk to, and so
Speaker 5: we're going to jump right into it. You know, one
Speaker 5: thing I have to say, I'm a broken record on this,
Speaker 5: but I'm going to keep you in a broken record
Speaker 5: because the most important thing you do to have success
Speaker 5: in your garden and landscape is to start with preparing
Speaker 5: the soil. It is the foundation. Imagine this. You want
Speaker 5: to build a house and so you get a bunch
Speaker 5: of two bout fours and throw them on the dirt
Speaker 5: and start building. How is that going to end up?
Speaker 5: We do that with our gardens all the time when
Speaker 5: we don't prepare the soil. And I don't have a
Speaker 5: better place to do the preparation to get all the
Speaker 5: tools you need than Ciena Malts. And I like to
Speaker 5: say this, I like say brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 5: That's what that means. It means get your soil right,
Speaker 5: get compost in the soil, get a raised bed for
Speaker 5: when it rains too much, so you got good drainage
Speaker 5: because sometimes it rains too much. Here, make sure you
Speaker 5: have the nutrients in the soil. All that is at
Speaker 5: Ciena Molts. They're down south of Houston. They're near Highway
Speaker 5: six and two eighty eight on FM five point twenty one.
Speaker 5: Here's the website. Just write this down and you can
Speaker 5: find out everything you need to know. Cienna Multch dot com,
Speaker 5: CNA Malts dot com. Now when you're there, you're going
Speaker 5: to find bagged products. You're going to find bulk products.
Speaker 5: You're going to find things like Landscaper's pride products. You're
Speaker 5: going to find heirloom soils, products like their a Veggionerbix
Speaker 5: just as an example of that. You're going to find
Speaker 5: the fertilizers you hear me talk about on Guardenline, Medina
Speaker 5: and nitrophoss and microlife and Nelson's. You're going to find
Speaker 5: every thing that you need to have success. That is
Speaker 5: what they're about. You start with seeing a mulch and
Speaker 5: then you get a good plant and put it in
Speaker 5: and you're going to have success. That's how that works.
Speaker 5: So many people go first. I understand it. You want
Speaker 5: a beautiful plant, you go buy it and you can't wait,
Speaker 5: and you bring it home and you're going to figure
Speaker 5: out where to put it. No, no, that's backwards. Get
Speaker 5: the soil right, and then when you put the plan in,
Speaker 5: it hits the ground running because you got a foundation
Speaker 5: for success with Sienna. I'm going to head out to
Speaker 5: Katie now and we're going to talk to Ralph. Hey, Ralph,
Speaker 5: good morning, Welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 7: Good skip, good morning, sir. Have a question, actually two questions.
Speaker 7: The first one deals with sprinklers. You had shared with
Speaker 7: me earlier that earlier in the season that I was
Speaker 7: watering too much. You it'd suggested maybe a couple days
Speaker 7: a week to go deeper. So I've done that. How
Speaker 7: would you set your irrigation system now? And then the
Speaker 7: second question that I have is if you were going
Speaker 7: to do aeration, would you do it now or wait
Speaker 7: till springtime and do it.
Speaker 5: You know, you can do aeration anytime that you want
Speaker 5: to do it, generally, because it is a physical process
Speaker 5: of punching holes in the ground, and there is a
Speaker 5: minor amount you know, of damage to a root or
Speaker 5: to a stem or a runner of the grass. When
Speaker 5: we do it, we like to do it at a
Speaker 5: time when the grass is actively growing. Now, if you
Speaker 5: have compacted soil and you haven't gotten it done, just
Speaker 5: go ahead and get it done. That's fine, with a
Speaker 5: compost top dressing following that. And so that would be
Speaker 5: my answer to it. If it's all like, well, things
Speaker 5: are basically okay, but I just went in the next year,
Speaker 5: I want to get it done, then I would do
Speaker 5: it during the growing season when the grass is actively growing.
Speaker 5: On that. As far as watering, if you go online
Speaker 5: to my schedule that my website is gardening with Skip
Speaker 5: dot com Gardening with Skip dot Com, there's a lawn
Speaker 5: care schedule and on there it talks about fertilizing, aer rating, bowing,
Speaker 5: and watering. And if you look at the watering row
Speaker 5: across the chart from January to December and you go
Speaker 5: all the way to October, we're at a half inch
Speaker 5: a week that your lawn is needing. That doesn't mean
Speaker 5: you have to water a half inch week. It means
Speaker 5: like if you get an inch of rain, then you
Speaker 5: don't have to water for a couple of weeks. You're
Speaker 5: good to go. But this month and next about a
Speaker 5: half inch of water a week is how much the
Speaker 5: grass is using. So as dry as it's been, it's
Speaker 5: all up to you. You got to put that half
Speaker 5: inch on. Sounds good though, Yes, sir, you take care.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the call. Appreciate that very very much. When
Speaker 5: was the last time you guys went to Plants for
Speaker 5: All Seasons? I know, those of you who are up
Speaker 5: there in the Tomball Parkway area, you know they're located
Speaker 5: right there, just north of Luetta. If you're going to Tomball,
Speaker 5: you just exit two forty nine Tomball Parkway crossover Luetta
Speaker 5: and they're right there on the right hand side. They've
Speaker 5: been around since nineteen seventy three, and those of you
Speaker 5: in that area you know them. I mean, they've got
Speaker 5: a real strong following because people know when you go
Speaker 5: into Plants for All Seasons, you are going to find
Speaker 5: the best plants to grow in this area. But probably
Speaker 5: more important than anything is the advice and the expertise
Speaker 5: the products that they carry to go along with that.
Speaker 5: I don't care if you didn't buy a plant from them.
Speaker 5: You walk in and you go. You know, Mayazalia, I
Speaker 5: got somewhere else. My confession, got somewhere else. It's doing
Speaker 5: this or that. Well, they'll tell you here's what you
Speaker 5: need to do, and if a products needed, they'll put
Speaker 5: you in touch with it well, help you have success.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: It's not like going to some of these box stores
Speaker 5: where you go in and they may have a plant
Speaker 5: for sale, it may or may not even should be
Speaker 5: planted here, and then when you ask a question, the
Speaker 5: eyes of glaze over and you know the minute the
Speaker 5: question comes out your mouth, they don't know what they're
Speaker 5: talking about. Plants for All Seasons does, and that is
Speaker 5: very very important. And you can bring them samples or
Speaker 5: pictures or whatever you got in there, but the main
Speaker 5: thing is go in and check out the plants. They've
Speaker 5: got a beautiful color palette right now for fall that
Speaker 5: just looks awesome, beautiful containers. Plants for All Seasons dot
Speaker 5: com is a website, and here's a phone number two
Speaker 5: eight one three seven six one six four six. We're
Speaker 5: going to go to Girardo now in Meadows Place. Hey Girardo,
Speaker 5: welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 8: Hey Skip, how you doing?
Speaker 5: Nice?
Speaker 8: Talking to you again. I have a couple of questions
Speaker 8: for you. One concern of pineapples, were at know the
Speaker 8: one who's concerning beat Okay, of pineapple that I have
Speaker 8: in the race bed that I protected through the winter,
Speaker 8: they're really big. They're getting pretty good. And I know, okay,
Speaker 8: with the sucker on the pineapples, you you can replant
Speaker 8: that and it will grow another pineapple plant. But I
Speaker 8: guess I just didn't pay attention to it. There's there's
Speaker 8: so big the sucker in the origin the mother plant
Speaker 8: is so big. Do I just leave that alone and
Speaker 8: will it probably will it might produce two pineapples since
Speaker 8: it's big. Or do I even try to plant the sucker?
Speaker 8: I guess that's my question.
Speaker 5: Would I generally? Yeah, when when you get a pineapple,
Speaker 5: that plant is not going to produce for you again,
Speaker 5: the sucker will though, and so you could break it
Speaker 5: off and reroot it. You know, we're going into winter,
Speaker 5: and so I don't know, there's a case could be
Speaker 5: made for break it off, pot it up and get
Speaker 5: it rooted, and that way you can bring it in
Speaker 5: in the pot in the winter and get it right
Speaker 5: back out when we're done with winter. Just to head
Speaker 5: your bet, make it a little easier, or you can
Speaker 5: leave it in place and be ready to cover it.
Speaker 5: If you need to.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, sounds good and uh. The second question is
Speaker 8: about beats. For some reason, I'm not successful at sewing
Speaker 8: beat seas. Is there anything, yes that, any tips you
Speaker 8: can give? I love you, I love the leaves just
Speaker 8: just as much as the beat the root itself. But
Speaker 8: I've been ye.
Speaker 5: Beat are basically the same plan as as Swiss chart.
Speaker 5: There's very little difference and and so you can eat
Speaker 5: beat greens just like you Swiss chart, except Swiss chart
Speaker 5: doesn't make that root. Anytime you're trying to grow root, carrots, turnips, beats, radishes,
Speaker 5: you need lots of sunlight, so it needs lots of
Speaker 5: sun and the and the plants need to be spaced
Speaker 5: out well, so you got to thun them out. So
Speaker 5: if you think about how big that's going to get,
Speaker 5: Let's say on a beat, you're going to be somewhere
Speaker 5: between a golf ball and a little larger you know,
Speaker 5: on harvest size on it, then you would want at
Speaker 5: least that wide apart, maybe a little wider to space
Speaker 5: the plants. If they get crowded, they don't produce good roots.
Speaker 5: And if they if you overdo the nitrogen or to
Speaker 5: have too much shade those three things, crowding, too much
Speaker 5: nitrogen shade all all cause top growth or lack of
Speaker 5: root development.
Speaker 8: Okay, cool, cool, I think I think I know my
Speaker 8: problem with the sun. Okay, appreciate it, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Yeah you bet. Now you know the rule
Speaker 5: on Guardline. The advice is free, but I do ask
Speaker 5: for half the produce that my advice helps you produce.
Speaker 5: So just drop it off at the station, your beats
Speaker 5: and we'll call it even.
Speaker 8: Oh yes, sir, yes, take care.
Speaker 5: All right, let's see here. We're going to go now
Speaker 5: to Greg and Pasadena. Hey, Greg, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, skiff, Thank you for taking my call. Real quick.
Speaker 10: I'm dreading the winter weeds, spiff. Last year my backyard
Speaker 10: was checks and I don't even know what this heat is.
Speaker 10: It grows about three to four feet if you let
Speaker 10: it go.
Speaker 7: And it shifts.
Speaker 9: My yard was just fested with it last year, last yard.
Speaker 9: I recently resided my front yard, so not really concerned
Speaker 9: too much about the front right now. But is there
Speaker 9: anything I could do get ahead of that skip?
Speaker 7: Please?
Speaker 5: Absolutely?
Speaker 11: So.
Speaker 5: When you said three or four feet, you're talking about
Speaker 5: how big it was in spring, right.
Speaker 10: No, No, these are These are the winter weeds that
Speaker 10: pop up every winter, and last year it was the
Speaker 10: worst it's ever been.
Speaker 5: Well, the winter weeds they sprout, uh and they stay
Speaker 5: small through the winter and then in spring, like think
Speaker 5: of the blue bonnet our roadside Texas state flower. They
Speaker 5: you don't really see them much during the winter, but
Speaker 5: in spring they take off to all their growth and
Speaker 5: blooming and then die down. If you' we're seeing a
Speaker 5: weed three feet tall in like summer or fall, that's
Speaker 5: a different kind of weed. That's why I'm kind of
Speaker 5: trying to figure out what we're talking about here. If
Speaker 5: it's truly a cool season annual, a winter weed or biennial,
Speaker 5: you got to get a pre emergent down before they sprout.
Speaker 5: So the number one way we control weeds in our
Speaker 5: lawn is to grow a dense lawn and shade them out.
Speaker 5: That doesn't get rid of every weed, but it cuts
Speaker 5: the numbers down significantly. Second thing is to put a
Speaker 5: pre emergent out ahead of the sprouting season. And winter
Speaker 5: weeds are starting to sprout, it is the temperature cools
Speaker 5: off so it gets about seventy degrees and they start
Speaker 5: sprouting with little rain coming along in there. So barricade
Speaker 5: from nitrofoss would be a product that would do just that.
Speaker 5: You put it down, you water it in. Takes a
Speaker 5: half inch of water to get it down in the soil,
Speaker 5: and then when they try to sprout, they can't.
Speaker 7: Sprout.
Speaker 9: All right, put it down again.
Speaker 5: You said, no, not at all. No, you have to
Speaker 5: be ahead of it. So do it now, and do
Speaker 5: it today, and water it in, and then when they
Speaker 5: try to sprout, the word barricade is a good description
Speaker 5: because they can't get past it. They can't get past
Speaker 5: that surface where the barricade is, and it kills them. Now,
Speaker 5: if you miss some, if you miss some due to
Speaker 5: whatever reason, you know, no one product controls every weed.
Speaker 5: And also maybe our application doesn't overlap quite right, and
Speaker 5: you know you got some gaps. Then you can use
Speaker 5: a post emergent later when you see the weeds growing,
Speaker 5: but long before they begin to bloom and set seeds.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm gonna have to have to take a
Speaker 5: run for the news here. If Greg, if you want
Speaker 5: to hang on, I'll get right back to you when
Speaker 5: we come back from this hard break and lands embiaties.
Speaker 5: You'll be the next up. We'll be right back folks. Hey,
Speaker 5: welcome back. Welcome back to the Guardline. Folks. Good to
Speaker 5: have you with us. If you have been looking at
Speaker 5: your landscape and kind of thinking, uh, that's just not
Speaker 5: what I want, that doesn't look good, I hate to
Speaker 5: drive I hate to drive up and take a look
Speaker 5: at it because it's worse for the wear. You know,
Speaker 5: we've had a bit of a rough summer in many ways,
Speaker 5: and some plants are struggling. You want to get Pierscapes
Speaker 5: to call. Pierscapes are professionals. This is a preferred landscaper
Speaker 5: for me here on Guardline, and I'm telling you it's
Speaker 5: because of the work they do. Go to their website.
Speaker 5: In fact, if you do nothing else, just go to
Speaker 5: Piercescapes dot com. Just look take a look at the
Speaker 5: work they do. Do you need your irrigation system repaired?
Speaker 5: They can do that. Do you need shrubs trim? Do
Speaker 5: you need flower beds replanted? Do you want a whole
Speaker 5: redesign of a bed or the whole landscape, outdoor lighting?
Speaker 5: You got areas you don't drain, well, they can fix that.
Speaker 5: I mean, if it comes to making your place look better,
Speaker 5: to making your backyard a more beautiful place that you
Speaker 5: just can't wait to get outside and enjoy with your friends,
Speaker 5: especially on these cool fall evenings. Pierscapes can do that
Speaker 5: for you pierscapes dot com. And here's the number two
Speaker 5: eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three
Speaker 5: seven five zero six zero. We are going to go
Speaker 5: now to Lance and beat Eyes. Lance, you and I
Speaker 5: are the only two people that know where beat Eyes
Speaker 5: is except for people and beat Eyes. I think, how
Speaker 5: you doing well?
Speaker 7: Thank you?
Speaker 12: I'm doing well. I've got some fall planted tomatoes planted
Speaker 12: on raised rows. Been super dry up here, so I've
Speaker 12: been giving them a good soak in every two or
Speaker 12: three days, doing good hip hie to chest tie. But
Speaker 12: when I came home yesterday my purple cherokee, the whole
Speaker 12: top half of the plant was wilted over, still a
Speaker 12: nice dark green. I went out and looked at it
Speaker 12: this morning. It looks better this morning, but it's not
Speaker 12: as good as the other ones. I mean, could the
Speaker 12: ninety one ninety two degree heat do that? Or am
Speaker 12: I looking at something else?
Speaker 5: Well, it could be. It's weird that only part of
Speaker 5: the plant is doing that, though, So whenever a plant wilts,
Speaker 5: there's one of several things happening. Either a the soil's
Speaker 5: too dry, can't get water. B it has a fungal
Speaker 5: disease in the plumbing of the plant blocking the water flow,
Speaker 5: which you can't control those once they happen to happen.
Speaker 5: Or it could have nematodes that are making the root
Speaker 5: system inefficient, making it more drought prone, or just physical
Speaker 5: you know, damage or injury that's doing it. It is
Speaker 5: not unusual if a plant is recovering at night. That's
Speaker 5: usually a sign. You probably just need to make sure
Speaker 5: it gets plenty of water. In the heat of summer,
Speaker 5: we see that wilting. That's a normal part of the
Speaker 5: day because it can't pump water fast enough. The water's there,
Speaker 5: it just can't pump it fast enough. But this time
Speaker 5: of the year it's not that common to see that,
Speaker 5: so I would make sure dig down about four inches
Speaker 5: around the plant, make sure the soil's moist. If not,
Speaker 5: give it some water. I just don't make it soggy,
Speaker 5: but give it a good soaking.
Speaker 12: That sounds good. I was hoping that's what it was.
Speaker 12: The soil felt moist this morning, at least the top
Speaker 12: few inches. So yeah, I'll put the sprinkler on it
Speaker 12: and give it a good soak and for fifteen to
Speaker 12: twenty minutes and see what happens.
Speaker 5: All right, let's see we can get some tomatoes. Time's
Speaker 5: running short, and as it cools off, they slow down.
Speaker 5: So we need to get you some tomatoes.
Speaker 12: If we sure do we sure do it. I'll dry
Speaker 12: half oaken down there.
Speaker 13: Well.
Speaker 5: I was going to say, maybe we can figure out
Speaker 5: a dropout point for the half you're bringing me, But anyway,
Speaker 5: let's just get you something deep. Hey, thanks, thanks for
Speaker 5: that calling, and have fun out there and beat eyes
Speaker 5: as beautiful country out there. You take care. Oh boy,
Speaker 5: I was at Buchanan's Plans the other day. I like
Speaker 5: to swing by there every now and then because they
Speaker 5: always have beautiful stuff going on there. I mean right now,
Speaker 5: they are loaded up with all the fall things that
Speaker 5: you can imagine, you know, if you want, if you
Speaker 5: want really really beautiful fall color, if you want to
Speaker 5: see maybe, well, for example, here's one they got cyclemen in.
Speaker 5: Do you know what cycleomen are? There are cool season plants.
Speaker 5: They are typically kind of a pink. I'm color challenged
Speaker 5: when it gets into the pink and red and orange
Speaker 5: color variations. But anyway, pink and red and white beautiful
Speaker 5: colors if you need. Maybe you got a let's say
Speaker 5: a live oak tree or something, and you just want
Speaker 5: some beautiful color for winter under it, as long as
Speaker 5: it doesn't get like twenty degrees out there. Cyclomen are
Speaker 5: pretty cold, hardy, and they look beautiful. They got those.
Speaker 5: They have amaryllis bulbs and paper white bulbs for forcing.
Speaker 5: You're going to go see somebody for Thanksgiving, grab them
Speaker 5: a bulb as a gift, a forcing bulb that is
Speaker 5: so beautiful to have that inside. They'll really appreciate that.
Speaker 5: And by the way, fun fact, if you will when
Speaker 5: you vote, you show up with you you're little I
Speaker 5: voted sticker that you get to put on you when
Speaker 5: you vote. If you show up with that, you can
Speaker 5: trade in that sticker for a free four inch herb
Speaker 5: or veggie for your garden. Is that cool? That's only
Speaker 5: valid from October twenty third to November fifth, But make
Speaker 5: your vote count and get an herb or veggie to
Speaker 5: go with it there at Buchanans Plus. When you're there,
Speaker 5: I promise you're gonna find a lot of other cool
Speaker 5: stuff that you really like. Buchanans Plants there on Eleventh
Speaker 5: Street in the Heights. Go to the website Buchanansplants dot com.
Speaker 5: It is loaded with good information. We're gonna go now
Speaker 5: to Montgomery, Texas and talk to Albert. Hey, Albert, welcome
Speaker 5: to guard Line.
Speaker 14: Good morning, skip morning. What I got is I got
Speaker 14: a half acre land. I don't live there, so I
Speaker 14: don't have a sprinkler system or a hose or anything.
Speaker 14: I've been lying on rain the water it's Saint Augustine
Speaker 14: and now it's mostly brown. Can I still put down
Speaker 14: that fall fertilizer or should I wait.
Speaker 5: Till some rain comes?
Speaker 7: Or is it?
Speaker 13: Is it okay to put it?
Speaker 5: You can put it. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with putting
Speaker 5: it down. It's just not going to do anything until
Speaker 5: till you get some rain to wash it in. But
Speaker 5: I'd say go ahead and get it down, or just
Speaker 5: watch the weather and when you see that we're about
Speaker 5: to get some rain. If you don't have a way
Speaker 5: to water it in, then then just do it a
Speaker 5: little ahead of time before you see a rainfall, and
Speaker 5: that that'll that'll get it into the ground.
Speaker 14: Okay, what's the latest I could put that down? Am
Speaker 14: I running out of time now or is there another
Speaker 14: couple of weeks or well, well.
Speaker 5: There's not a It's not like preventing weeds and preventing
Speaker 5: disease with the fertilizer. Our goal and doing it sooner
Speaker 5: rather than later is the sooner those roots can get
Speaker 5: the nutrients and start taking them up, the more they're
Speaker 5: going to take, the faster they're going to take it up.
Speaker 5: You know, once we get down and it's really cold
Speaker 5: and the soil is cool, those roots are not doing
Speaker 5: a whole lot. They're there, they're growing, but everything is
Speaker 5: slowed down, and so you'd rather get that fertilizer while
Speaker 5: it's warm enough for them to take it up. So
Speaker 5: that would be the only reason to do it sooner
Speaker 5: rather than later.
Speaker 14: Okay, all right, well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5: Have you ever have you ever tried?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say, have you ever tried Nelson's
Speaker 5: carbo load the fall fertilizer? No, sir, I haven't you
Speaker 5: ought you ought to give it a try. It's uh
Speaker 5: because it has not only is it a fall fertilizer's
Speaker 5: got the perfect blend of nutrients for cool season preparation.
Speaker 5: In other words, it makes the plant, the grass is
Speaker 5: gonna be hardier and come out better in spring. But
Speaker 5: there's also got that pre emergent in it. And so
Speaker 5: when you put it down and then get it watered in,
Speaker 5: then you have you've you've done both. You've you've taken
Speaker 5: care of your fall fertilization and your weed prevention too.
Speaker 5: So that's just why I mention it not hard to
Speaker 5: find it. Carbo loads the name of it.
Speaker 14: All right, Well, thank and you have a great program here.
Speaker 14: Thank you for all you all you do.
Speaker 5: Thank you appreciate the kind words you take. Care. Well,
Speaker 5: here we go. We are looking at another break right now. Boy,
Speaker 5: time flies when you're having fun. What did Kermit the
Speaker 5: frog say? Time's fun when you're having flies? I think?
Speaker 5: All right, Virginia in East Houston, you'll be the next up.
Speaker 5: We're gonna take a little break. Hey, welcome back, Welcome
Speaker 5: back to the garden, Linem, good to have you with us.
Speaker 5: I was noticing some flowers that I don't talk about
Speaker 5: a lot recently. I say, flowers at Silosha. Are you
Speaker 5: familiar with Solosha. It's got the plumes. There's actually a
Speaker 5: couple type. One has kind of a wavy fan like
Speaker 5: flower slash seedhead. The other one has a plume, and
Speaker 5: they're just gorgeous. I noticed them a month ago just
Speaker 5: glowing in some gardens, and I just keep seeing them
Speaker 5: now in beautiful arrangements and things. The cool thing about
Speaker 5: siloshia is you can also cut it and use it
Speaker 5: as a dried flower, because it dries and retains some
Speaker 5: of that beautiful color. It's not the petals that are
Speaker 5: giving you the color, it's the actual structure of the
Speaker 5: flower itself, and silosia is just one of those for
Speaker 5: fall that is outstanding.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: They come in oranges and yellows and burgundies and reds
Speaker 5: and pinks and just lots of nice colors. I saw
Speaker 5: them out of enchanted gardens out in Richmond. They have
Speaker 5: them there, of course, they have everything there, but just
Speaker 5: really really beautiful flowers. And if you're looking for something
Speaker 5: to carry you up into the first frost, that is
Speaker 5: a good choice. And you need to make a note
Speaker 5: to have them back again next summer because cilosia is
Speaker 5: super heat tolerant as well. By the way, talking about
Speaker 5: in ingena gardens, they are stocked up on all the
Speaker 5: stuff you need for fault. They still have the beautiful moms.
Speaker 5: They've got the silosia and other things. They've got the
Speaker 5: cool seasoned flowers, you know, like dianthus and things that
Speaker 5: we want to carry us even after the first frost.
Speaker 5: And if you're looking for that gift bulb that I
Speaker 5: was talking about earlier, they have amarillis that are just
Speaker 5: stunning in so many colors. You can even get them,
Speaker 5: you know, the containers to put them in for forcing.
Speaker 5: When we say forcing, we mean you put the ball
Speaker 5: ben indoors. The roots go down and pebbles or just
Speaker 5: in water. Some glasses are designed to hold them and
Speaker 5: just have water in the bottom and they just grow
Speaker 5: inside and they blow them inside and it's beautiful and
Speaker 5: it's the coolest thing. When you're done, you can take
Speaker 5: them out and plant them in the landscape too. That
Speaker 5: also will work. That's alid enchanted gardens. They're on Highway
Speaker 5: or FM three point fifty nine down on the Richmond
Speaker 5: or excuse me, the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond. It's been
Speaker 5: around since nineteen ninety five. And when you go to
Speaker 5: in Channigardens, you're going to find everything they've got. Oh,
Speaker 5: a new shipment of this carving pumpkins for Halloween. Haven't
Speaker 5: got that done yet. You can get them right now.
Speaker 5: And they also have pie pumpkins, a little smaller pipe pumpkins.
Speaker 5: They're at in Channa Gardens. And when you get out there,
Speaker 5: you're going to find vegetables and herbs and everything else
Speaker 5: that you might need. Again FM three fifty nine, Katie Fullshire,
Speaker 5: side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot
Speaker 5: com and Channa Gardens Richmond dot com. We're going to
Speaker 5: go out of Virginia in East Houston. Hey, Virginia, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line. How are you doing?
Speaker 6: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Thank you?
Speaker 6: Question?
Speaker 5: Yeay hope. I have a quick question.
Speaker 15: Does Microsoft super seaweed and Medina soil Activator? I found
Speaker 15: there hiding in my kitchen. I thought it was better
Speaker 15: than putting it out in the garage. Do they go
Speaker 15: bad after a couple of years or just lose their business?
Speaker 7: Cool?
Speaker 5: No, they don't really lose their I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: everything has a shelf life of sorts. But yeah, either
Speaker 5: one of those could be utilized. If you've got it,
Speaker 5: just mix it up and use it. Uh, it's going
Speaker 5: to do some good, if not a lot of good.
Speaker 5: They're both great products.
Speaker 15: Okay, not really, okay, just use it in because I
Speaker 15: did find some old old, old, old old has to
Speaker 15: grow several years back, poured it on a plan I
Speaker 15: really didn't care about, thinking, okay, here's your test, and
Speaker 15: it seemed to work, so.
Speaker 5: I thought, well, all right, I thought i'd ask. So
Speaker 5: thank you so much, Gia. Those products hold up better,
Speaker 5: They hold up better than we do with time, so
Speaker 5: so go ahead, go ahead and use them. I mean,
Speaker 5: like I said, you said indoors, and that was part
Speaker 5: of the key to my answer to is you know,
Speaker 5: you put it out in the shed where it's one
Speaker 5: hundred and twelve degrees underneath the tin roof, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 5: that's going to have effect on things. But indoors, those
Speaker 5: things hold up pretty good. But in the meantime, put
Speaker 5: them in front so you don't forget about them, and
Speaker 5: you use them promptly, precisely. So thank you so much.
Speaker 15: I didn't want to have to go buy them again
Speaker 15: if I had some and they were okay, So thank.
Speaker 5: You so much. Okay, yeah you bet, you bet. Virginia
Speaker 5: Virginia's Bye bye. Virginia's talking about the micro Life product.
Speaker 5: And stuff. You know, the micro Grow bioinoculant is one
Speaker 5: that I you don't think people think about enough when
Speaker 5: they're talking about putting stuff down in the lawn. You know,
Speaker 5: right now is time for Microlife's brown patch fertilizer. It's
Speaker 5: a fertilizer that has a little different nutrient blend that
Speaker 5: does well going into the fall. But it also has
Speaker 5: lots of microbes in it that help fight against plant problems.
Speaker 5: You know, when you put good microbes out there, it
Speaker 5: helps fight the bad microbes. But micro Grow is not
Speaker 5: a fertilizer. It's just a bio andoculant and you can
Speaker 5: use it on anything. Put it on your lawn. I
Speaker 5: would do it a lawn right now. Sixty three different
Speaker 5: strains of beneficial microbes in it. But I mean if
Speaker 5: you want to put it on your vegetables, your flower garden,
Speaker 5: your herb garden, whatever you want, it is safe to use.
Speaker 5: And with sixty three different strains, it's got stuff that
Speaker 5: literally fights disease. Some of these strains like okay, here
Speaker 5: we go nerding out here, but you know have bt
Speaker 5: Bacillus thuringensis. Well, it has something called Bacillis subtilests I
Speaker 5: don't think they call that BS, but anyway, I'm just
Speaker 5: thinking on the side there. Basilla subtlest fights disease. You
Speaker 5: can buy basilla subtlest in a bottle to fight disease.
Speaker 5: It also has Bacilla's brace for this one amelo licofacis.
Speaker 5: You put that on the soil and it comes in
Speaker 5: contact that microbe comes in contact with the soil root
Speaker 5: and it signals the plant to change how it's growing
Speaker 5: to fight a disease. I'm not making that up. Go
Speaker 5: look it up, but it's all there and micro grow
Speaker 5: along with sixty two other strains of microbes. So put
Speaker 5: that out there when you do your lawn fertilizing or
Speaker 5: after or before, it doesn't matter. Micro grow buy anoculant.
Speaker 5: It is a maroon bag from Microlife. Microlifefertilizer dot COM's
Speaker 5: the website. If you want to learn a lot more
Speaker 5: about the things that they carry, and they carry a
Speaker 5: lot of things, you know, Virginia was talking about some
Speaker 5: of the liquid products that they have and the granular
Speaker 5: products that they have as well. Where you're listening to
Speaker 5: garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here
Speaker 5: to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.
Speaker 5: Oh and by the way, if you're looking for where
Speaker 5: do you get this stuff? Well, first of all, Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware is always a good safe bet. You hear me
Speaker 5: talk about a fertilizer, you're going to get it at
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware. They carry it, they do. They also carry
Speaker 5: a lot of other products like soil type, bags of
Speaker 5: sol related products and multz. There at Ace Hardware you're
Speaker 5: going to find fire ant control and it is still
Speaker 5: time to do that. In fact, I went out yesterday
Speaker 5: was looking at a container, a big old like half
Speaker 5: whiskey burrel sized container I have, and I saw that
Speaker 5: little boiling up soil in the middle, which means fire
Speaker 5: ants got into that thing. Well, they're not going to
Speaker 5: last long because I've got my fire ant bait. It's
Speaker 5: going out. Fall is the time to tackle fire ants.
Speaker 5: Football season is fire ant season when it comes treating
Speaker 5: fire ants, excellent time to knock them out. So in
Speaker 5: spring you don't just get overrun with the little buggers.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware stores got you covered. Several different types of
Speaker 5: fire organic, synthetic, whichever type you want is there at ACE.
Speaker 5: Because ACE is the place you need tools, you need
Speaker 5: supplies for your garden. You want to have success, you
Speaker 5: want to have a beautiful patio environment out there. Go
Speaker 5: to Ace Acehardware dot com. You know, if you go
Speaker 5: to Acehardware dot com, they've got a store locator and
Speaker 5: you can find the forty plus stores here near you
Speaker 5: in the Greater Houston area. I was just visiting with
Speaker 5: Rick from the Langham Creek Ace Hardware store this uh
Speaker 5: past week, and you know they are. They are stocked
Speaker 5: up and ready to go over there. We were just
Speaker 5: talking about some of the products and things that they
Speaker 5: have and some of the events that they have coming up.
Speaker 5: So Ace Hardware is are fun. You know, each one's
Speaker 5: independently owned. Independently owned, so that means each owner, while
Speaker 5: still having all the standard A stuff, they can do
Speaker 5: some really cool extras for their store. I like that.
Speaker 13: Well.
Speaker 5: Music means I gotta stop talking here in a minute,
Speaker 5: But I'm not going to stop until I tell you
Speaker 5: that I'm going to be at RCW Nurseries today. Get
Speaker 5: scratch everything off the calendar RCW Nursery from twelve to two.
Speaker 5: Come see me listen. I cannot even read all of
Speaker 5: the things we're given away, but nice stuff like fifteen
Speaker 5: gallon send philippy maple tree that is an awesome maple variety,
Speaker 5: and fall is the time to plant trees and trucks.
Speaker 5: Fifteen gallon redbud tree, a three gallon, a seven gallon camellia,
Speaker 5: a flat of color plants, microlife for Eliza, in sect side,
Speaker 5: funge of sides, freeze cloth and metally yard art. I'm
Speaker 5: giving away nitroplast, three step barricade, fall special and eagle
Speaker 5: Turfunge of size bags. Come see me.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kz RH guarden Line with scamp Richard.
Speaker 3: It's so just watch him as.
Speaker 5: Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 5: Skip Richter, and we are here to help you have
Speaker 5: a beautiful garden, a bountiful landscape and more fun in
Speaker 5: the process. Gardening is an uplifting activity. It's a fun activity.
Speaker 5: It's one that does physical good for us, it's one
Speaker 5: that does mental good for us, and it just should
Speaker 5: be fun. If you feel like you failed at gardening,
Speaker 5: let me just tell you didn't. You can only fail
Speaker 5: at gardening by quitting, by stopping, by not trying. Nature
Speaker 5: grows and kills plants every year you can too. It's easy,
Speaker 5: is that?
Speaker 7: So?
Speaker 5: When it comes to gardening, we just need to help
Speaker 5: get that thumb looking better by giving you good information.
Speaker 5: I like to tell people there's no such thing as
Speaker 5: a brown thumb. There's only uninformed thumbs. And we inform
Speaker 5: your thumb. When your thumb gets smarter, suddenly everything starts
Speaker 5: to be greener. It's as easy as that. And one
Speaker 5: of the key steps is brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 5: What does that mean? That means prepare the soil, get
Speaker 5: the condition of the soil optimum, and your plants will
Speaker 5: be much much more successful. You will suddenly look like
Speaker 5: you've got a green thumb because you just did the
Speaker 5: simple task of preparing the soil first. And one of
Speaker 5: the best ways to do that is with heirloom soils
Speaker 5: products Airloom Soil. They sell soil by the bag all
Speaker 5: over town. They sell soil by bulk. You can go
Speaker 5: get it out at the porder location of Warren's Rock
Speaker 5: and Mulch. You can also by the way, you can
Speaker 5: also just have that deliver it. They can bring and
Speaker 5: dump it in your driveway so you can get to
Speaker 5: town making that bed and improving that bed and mulching
Speaker 5: that bed. They can also put it in a supersack
Speaker 5: and set that in your driveway. A supersac is a
Speaker 5: big old bag that holds a cubic yard of soil. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a heavy duty bag and they put it right there.
Speaker 5: It's neat and clean and easy to do. They're very
Speaker 5: very easy to do. In fact, they've got there. They've
Speaker 5: got a deal going on one qbic yard supersack, their
Speaker 5: new branded supersacks. You can put one cubic yard of
Speaker 5: aged leaf mole compost and you get the supersack two
Speaker 5: for ninety nine bucks. That's seventy five dollars savings per
Speaker 5: sack and it's good through two day. So you're going
Speaker 5: to have to get on the phone and give them
Speaker 5: a call. Two eight one three five four nineteen fifty
Speaker 5: two eight one three five four nineteen fifty. They're open
Speaker 5: from seven am to three pm today, so if you
Speaker 5: won't take a minute, we'll wait while you go give
Speaker 5: them a call seven to three today and closed on Sunday,
Speaker 5: back opening again on Monday, but the deal's no good
Speaker 5: on Monday. It's through today. You can go pick it
Speaker 5: up at the porter yard or that's on a Highway
Speaker 5: fifty nine out there in Porter, or you can have
Speaker 5: them deliver it three sacra minimum though for delivery and
Speaker 5: it does cost for delivery fees. But book heers now
Speaker 5: get it done. You can go to a rockandmltz dot
Speaker 5: com slash delivery and get that done. But anyway, heirlom sauce,
Speaker 5: or just buy it by the bag, you know they have.
Speaker 5: I mentioned earlier that Cina Molts carries their veggie nerve
Speaker 5: mix for example. They also have fruit and berry mix.
Speaker 5: They got to cactus and succulent mix that I use
Speaker 5: for our strings of pearls and turtles and all those
Speaker 5: other strings we have at the house. The works potting soil,
Speaker 5: rose and bloomers blend, expanded shale, lots of things from
Speaker 5: heirloom soils. All you got to do is give them
Speaker 5: a call. Take advantage of that supersacked boy, that leafmol
Speaker 5: compos that is cadillacs, really good stuff. You'll do some
Speaker 5: top dressing of your lawn. You want to improve your beds.
Speaker 5: It'll do all of that. Our phone number is seven
Speaker 5: one three two one two k t r H seven
Speaker 5: one three two one two k t r H one
Speaker 5: more reminder here for you folks. Nitrofoss Texas three step system.
Speaker 5: You do the two step on the dance floor, you
Speaker 5: do the three step in the lawn, and here are
Speaker 5: the three steps. Step one Nitropos Fall Special one Ariser.
Speaker 5: It is a fertilizer designed nutrient wise for fall in
Speaker 5: our area. When you put fertilizer down now in the
Speaker 5: fall in our area, just go to my schedule on
Speaker 5: my website Gardening with Skip dot com and you'll see
Speaker 5: what I'm talking about. It's all scheduled there for you.
Speaker 5: You put it in the fall, your grass will be
Speaker 5: more cold, hardy because it's taking up those nutrients and
Speaker 5: make carbohydrates. And it also comes out in spring strong.
Speaker 5: Do you know that your early spring growth in the spring,
Speaker 5: when your lawns starts to wake up and grow, all
Speaker 5: of that energy is coming from stored energy from fall
Speaker 5: fertilizing for what it took up in the fall. Second
Speaker 5: step barricade pre emergent. You put it down, you watered in.
Speaker 5: It forms the barricade and weed seeds can't break through it.
Speaker 5: Third step Eagle turf fungicide. Egle turf fungicide is a
Speaker 5: systemic you put it down, you water it in, it
Speaker 5: goes into the plant and when brown patch shows up,
Speaker 5: it says, uh uh, this patient has been protected. In
Speaker 5: other words, the grass itself has the ingredients inside now
Speaker 5: to fight that disease. And so Eagle Turf fungicide, Nitropross,
Speaker 5: Barricade and Fall Winnerizer, Fall Special Winterizer all from Nitroposs.
Speaker 5: You can find them widely available. You're going to find
Speaker 5: them at places like Katiace Hardware, plants and things in
Speaker 5: Brennam Court Hardware and Stafford Growers Outlet and Willis. In fact,
Speaker 5: you want to find some, come out to RCW Nursery today.
Speaker 5: I'm going to be given away two or three bags
Speaker 5: of each one all three of those, more than one
Speaker 5: bag of all three of those. We're gonna be giving
Speaker 5: them away out at RCW today, and if you don't
Speaker 5: happen to win that, maybe you'll win one or the other.
Speaker 5: I think over twenty prizes we're gonna be given away
Speaker 5: out there, and then you can just pick them up
Speaker 5: because they're gonna have plenty on hand as well. RCW
Speaker 5: carries the Night of Us three Step as well. All right,
Speaker 5: we're going to head to the phones and we're going
Speaker 5: out to Humbol to talk to Albert. Hey, Albert, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line. Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 16: I have a simple question on Japanese sweet potatoes. I
Speaker 16: had taken some of the potatoes, got them to go ahead,
Speaker 16: and I guess that you want to call them my
Speaker 16: gross stems, went ahead and planing it. I gave something
Speaker 16: to friends of mine, and the ones that I gave
Speaker 16: away so far, they're telling me that they did not produce.
Speaker 16: I can't figure out why I did not produce.
Speaker 5: Was this from way back in the warm part of
Speaker 5: the season, or is this something recent that they planted.
Speaker 5: I'll call it recently, about four to five months ago
Speaker 5: that they were planning. Okay, yeah, so that's enough time,
Speaker 5: all right. When sweet potatoes don't produce, there are several reasons.
Speaker 5: Number one, good sunlight. Number two, adequate water to keep
Speaker 5: the vines from stressing. When you get those little slips
Speaker 5: that you said you grew off the sweet potatoes, if
Speaker 5: they're a big, strong, thick slip, you're going to get
Speaker 5: better production than if it's a scruny little slip coming
Speaker 5: off of there. Those are all some of the things.
Speaker 5: There are some other things that can go into the
Speaker 5: process of it. But if you get a good strong slip,
Speaker 5: you get it in. It's got plenty of time. It
Speaker 5: does have adequate water, it has adequate fertilizer, but not
Speaker 5: too much nitrogen. But some they ought to produce for them,
Speaker 5: So something along one of those lines went wrong.
Speaker 17: Yes, might be too much nitrogen.
Speaker 16: Possibly, don't know mile today, but they were all telling me.
Speaker 16: None of the group basically vine.
Speaker 5: Zaca no potatoes. All right, yeah, I uh yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: all right, well thanks for that call, Albert. I appreciate
Speaker 5: that sweet potatoes are not you two. Sweet potatoes are
Speaker 5: not that uh difficult to grow, but uh people they
Speaker 5: run into some issues with them and those things I'm mentioning.
Speaker 5: Here's what's happening. You're taking a section of vines, sticking
Speaker 5: it in the ground and it actually roots. Is that amazing?
Speaker 5: I mean, it roots fast enough before the vine dies.
Speaker 5: It's got roots that that's fast. And those leaves are
Speaker 5: capturing sunlight. So you've got a big old vining, sprawling
Speaker 5: sweet potato plant and it's in sun and carbohydrates are
Speaker 5: being produced and they that's what makes the root of
Speaker 5: a sweet potato. So if you're not getting roots that
Speaker 5: that is where we start looking through the process of
Speaker 5: the things I mentioned something along the lines there is
Speaker 5: just not quite working right on that. But anyway, it's
Speaker 5: a great crop to grow. D and D feed up
Speaker 5: in the Tumble area. In fact, if you go up
Speaker 5: to Tumble up to forty nine, then you turn to
Speaker 5: the left and go west on twenty nine to twenty
Speaker 5: about three miles, that's where D and D feed is
Speaker 5: And it's your local hometown feed store out there. Everybody
Speaker 5: that's in that region knows D and D dry by
Speaker 5: it every day. The Dover family has owned and operated
Speaker 5: D and D since nineteen eighty nine. They recently did
Speaker 5: an expansion. And when you go into D and D,
Speaker 5: if you hear me talk about a fertilizer, it's going
Speaker 5: to be there. And that's nitroposs and that's Microlife, and
Speaker 5: that's Nilson's and that's Medina. They have bags of heirloom soils,
Speaker 5: they have Landscaper's Pride soil and mult type products there.
Speaker 5: They get in some plants seasonally to come through there
Speaker 5: as well. When you go into D and D, every
Speaker 5: kind of pest, disease and we control you need is
Speaker 5: in there. Really nice selection of some things that are
Speaker 5: not just readily available at every place when it comes
Speaker 5: to fighting weeds or diseases or pests. D and D
Speaker 5: feed Store, of course, it's a feed store, very high
Speaker 5: end lines of dog food like Origin, Diamond, victor Star
Speaker 5: Pro food for other pets as well, and of course
Speaker 5: livestock food. Just go into D and D and check
Speaker 5: it out again. About three miles west of two forty
Speaker 5: nine on twenty nine to twenty. Here's a phone number
Speaker 5: if you'd like to give them a call. Two eight
Speaker 5: one three five one seventy one forty four two eight
Speaker 5: one three five one seven to one four four. I
Speaker 5: was out in my garden this past week pulling up
Speaker 5: some okra plants. It's time to get rid of the
Speaker 5: plants that I had. I breed okra, so I've got
Speaker 5: more ocre than I ought to have. Fact about the
Speaker 5: whole garden turned into okre this year because I'm crossing
Speaker 5: and seeing how they do. If they don't do good,
Speaker 5: they get pulled up and thrown away. If they do,
Speaker 5: I saved the seed and we keep going from there.
Speaker 5: When I pulled up a plant, I saw nemotodes on
Speaker 5: the roots, and I'm going to post something to our
Speaker 5: Facebook page, garden Line Facebook page. If you don't follow
Speaker 5: us on Facebook, you should because we're always posting to that.
Speaker 5: And I'm going to put something on Facebook about nematodes.
Speaker 5: I've got a little video that I made and it's
Speaker 5: going to point you to a resource for more information.
Speaker 5: So if you've ever dealt with nematodes, I'm not going
Speaker 5: to take time today to go into a long nematode explanation,
Speaker 5: but they're just basically, they're tiny, microscopic wormlike things in
Speaker 5: the soil that really mess up your plants, and there
Speaker 5: are very few plants they don't like. When you look
Speaker 5: at the list of things and nematodes attack, you kind
Speaker 5: of go, well, what else is there? Not many things
Speaker 5: are Nema toad resistant, but there are varieties that are.
Speaker 5: But anyway, found that in my garden. I was discouraged
Speaker 5: because I really work hard at not bringing those things in.
Speaker 5: I don't know how they got here, probably with some
Speaker 5: soil I put in there, But the bottom line is
Speaker 5: I was dealing with them and because of that, well
Speaker 5: there we are. When was the last time you went
Speaker 5: out to Katie to Nelson Nursery and Water gardens. You know,
Speaker 5: Nelson's is the destination garden center out west of Houston.
Speaker 5: They're out there in Katie. You just go out to
Speaker 5: Katie Fort Benroad, turn right, go north across the tracks.
Speaker 5: Nelson's is right there now. They specialize in water gardens,
Speaker 5: I always have for a long time. They're nationally known
Speaker 5: for what they do in water gardens. But there is
Speaker 5: a weekend special going on today and tomorrow ten percent
Speaker 5: off the Danner Pond Master sale. So that would be
Speaker 5: things like magnetic drive water pumps for example, and filters
Speaker 5: and things like that. If you are if you have
Speaker 5: a water garden and you need to, you know, up
Speaker 5: upscale your pump a little bit, make sure things are good,
Speaker 5: or if you want to put one in. This would
Speaker 5: be a good time to run out there.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 5: While you're out there, you're going to find a lot
Speaker 5: of things. They've got high quality butterfly coy, beautiful beautiful fish.
Speaker 5: I mean butterfly coy, got the shabunkans and other things.
Speaker 5: But there is these are these are rare and special
Speaker 5: special fish that they have. Uh, it's always fun to
Speaker 5: go out there. Today is evening from five to seven.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have live music by Mike Gallo out there's
Speaker 5: gonna be fun. I think they have music all the time.
Speaker 5: When I hear the sound of running water and Nelson Watergardens,
Speaker 5: it's like therapy I could do. They should. They should
Speaker 5: have chairs and charge you to sit in the chairs
Speaker 5: because it would be cheaper than a shrink. I'll tell
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Speaker 5: find everything you need. And by the way, their houseplants
Speaker 5: selection you have to walk through it when you go
Speaker 5: in the door is outstanding, beautiful, beautiful house plants. Here's
Speaker 5: a website, Nelson Watergardens dot com. Just go there Nelson
Speaker 5: Watergardens dot com. You'll see everything I'm talking about and
Speaker 5: a lot lot more love that place. Always loved one
Speaker 5: out there. I say this a lot, but I'm saying again,
Speaker 5: we are so fortunate here in the Greater Houston area
Speaker 5: to have outstanding garden centers. It's time for me to
Speaker 5: take a little break, I believe, so I'm gonna quit talking.
Speaker 5: I'll be right back.
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Speaker 5: the yard the other day. Uh. Actually it's kind of
Speaker 5: a two part story. I was out in the yard
Speaker 5: and I have a neighbor that doesn't control their weeds,
Speaker 5: and you know, sare yard whatever, but the seeds end
Speaker 5: up blowing over were on my side. So I've got
Speaker 5: this little strip that every year I go out in
Speaker 5: the fall and do this pull fall asters up out
Speaker 5: of my lawn. Fall astra is a little tiny flower,
Speaker 5: dime sized, looks white, but it kind of has a
Speaker 5: lavender hue to it, lavender pinkishue to it. And those
Speaker 5: suckers they crawl around under the grass. You don't really
Speaker 5: notice them or see them. If your grass gets weak,
Speaker 5: the astra shows up because it's a dark blue green color,
Speaker 5: and your lawn could dye a drought, and the astra
Speaker 5: stays alive. It is a tough ombra, and they when
Speaker 5: you mow, they just go sideways and stay in in
Speaker 5: in there. And then at this time of the year
Speaker 5: they've been blooming for a few weeks now they send
Speaker 5: out these low, tiny blooms, and that is your warning
Speaker 5: to do something about it. And here here's why you
Speaker 5: can't spray them with a post emergent herbicide. Now it
Speaker 5: won't work. When weeds become we say reproductive, meaning they're
Speaker 5: blooming and setting seeds, it's a little late to have
Speaker 5: success with a post emergent herbicide. Those are for use
Speaker 5: when the weeds are young and growing. That's when they
Speaker 5: work best. Well fall aster, when it sets a seed,
Speaker 5: I nerd it out. One year. I decide I'm going
Speaker 5: to figure out what's going on here. And I opened
Speaker 5: up a seed, a bloom that it faded and had
Speaker 5: seeds in it. Fifty seeds in that bloom. And I
Speaker 5: looked and this plant was biggest steirm al on my car.
Speaker 5: It had probably one hundred blooms on it. And so
Speaker 5: you do fifty times one hundred, and that's five thousand.
Speaker 5: So let me ask you a question, would you rather
Speaker 5: what are your lone to soften the soil and go
Speaker 5: out there with one of these real cool kneeling benches
Speaker 5: like they have it Southwest fertilizer and pull one weed
Speaker 5: up if they're tap rooted, just wiggle it out of
Speaker 5: the soil and take five thousand seeds in your hand
Speaker 5: and put them in a five gallon bucket to go
Speaker 5: throw in the trash, or would you rather do with
Speaker 5: five thousand plants next year? That's the trade off. And
Speaker 5: so get out there if they're blooming, get going, because
Speaker 5: once they fin blooming and they set seed. Now when
Speaker 5: you're dragging him out through the yard, they're dropping seeds everywhere,
Speaker 5: so you're losing some of the effectiveness of the hand pulling.
Speaker 5: But I'm telling you that is the thing to do
Speaker 5: at this time of year, to get ahead of them.
Speaker 5: And I took some pictures. I may post these to
Speaker 5: social media. There was a guy in the front yard.
Speaker 5: I stopped and talked to him, got his permission. There
Speaker 5: were piles of these. He had gone through. The whole
Speaker 5: front yard must have been just filled with this weed,
Speaker 5: because there were a little two foot high piles everywhere
Speaker 5: in the yard that he had just piled up, maybe
Speaker 5: a foot eye all over. As he was pulling up
Speaker 5: and he's going to gather him up and get him
Speaker 5: out of there, I just said, man, way to go.
Speaker 5: I know that's work, but you cannot imagine how much
Speaker 5: good you're doing right now, get out there and doing that.
Speaker 5: So anyway, that was my public service announcement for the day.
Speaker 5: Get those things out of your lawn. We're going to
Speaker 5: go to talk to Rick. Now, Hey, Rick, welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line.
Speaker 13: Thank you, Sip, good to talk to you. I'm wondering
Speaker 13: what is the better time to a small fig tree
Speaker 13: that will go to purchase at the nursery. Is it
Speaker 13: now or should have wait till February?
Speaker 5: You know you can go either way, figs or semi
Speaker 5: cold tender. So were we unknowingly? Now, let's say we're
Speaker 5: going to have this really bad freeze in January, it
Speaker 5: would have been nice to have it in container where
Speaker 5: you can bring it in. In general, there's not a
Speaker 5: problem putting a fig in the ground. Now. With figs
Speaker 5: et ceters, I kind of like to hedge my bet sometimes.
Speaker 5: So that's your call. If you do plan it, just
Speaker 5: be ready to cover it up with a ton of
Speaker 5: compost and malts for those freezing nights and then pull
Speaker 5: all that stuff back away and you should be okay.
Speaker 13: All right, thank you so much, sir.
Speaker 5: Thank you appreciate the call.
Speaker 13: Rick.
Speaker 5: You take care all right, folks, We're going to take
Speaker 5: a little quick break here for the news. I'll be
Speaker 5: right back. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have
Speaker 5: you with us today. Hey, we've got things to visit
Speaker 5: with you about. And I wanted to start off just
Speaker 5: by talking again about the importance of microbes in the soil.
Speaker 5: Microbes they rule the world, and I mean that. I
Speaker 5: mean I spend a whole show droning on about everything
Speaker 5: microbes do for us. They are the number one producer
Speaker 5: of serotonin in our bodies, or the microbes in our intestine,
Speaker 5: serotonins that feel good chemical So right there. Good for microbes.
Speaker 5: Without microbes, who wouldn't have beer. Good for microbes. Without microbes,
Speaker 5: our plants would not be able to thrive. Because microbes
Speaker 5: work with the roots of the plant. They protect the
Speaker 5: root from disease. They feed the root by breaking down
Speaker 5: organic matter in the soil and releasing it. They also
Speaker 5: communicate with the root in ways that caused the plant
Speaker 5: to grow better or more disease resistant. That's why Microlife
Speaker 5: has micro grow bioinoculant. Now it's fall fertilizing season and
Speaker 5: you should do that. You can use Microlife's brown patch
Speaker 5: for that. It's very good for that. But you need
Speaker 5: to put out the micro Grow bioinoculant, and anytime you
Speaker 5: are doing any kind of planting, sprinkle a little bit
Speaker 5: in there when you do it. But on the lawn
Speaker 5: you just spread it out according to the label. It
Speaker 5: doesn't take much like five to ten pounds per thousand
Speaker 5: square feet. We're not fertilizing here, we're inoculating. We are
Speaker 5: getting the microbes out there because the sixty three different
Speaker 5: strains in micro grow by aoculant do a lot of
Speaker 5: good things. I've talked about that before in the air here,
Speaker 5: but just keeping right off, you ought to have a
Speaker 5: bag of that on hand pretty much all the time
Speaker 5: because whether you're planting vegetables or flowers, or doing even
Speaker 5: a container garden, especially maybe in a container garden, that
Speaker 5: that would be a chance to inoculate that soil with
Speaker 5: some additional, great beneficial microbes to help your plants to thrive.
Speaker 5: Let's set out to southwest Houston. Now we're going to
Speaker 5: talk to Laurel. Laurel, welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 18: Good morning, sir. I wanted to I hope you can
Speaker 18: answer a question for me because it's kind of dry.
Speaker 18: I have some wondering juice, And my question was, could
Speaker 18: I just spray like a gallon of water or should
Speaker 18: I just do a watering can? What? What is your recommendation, sir? Uh?
Speaker 5: The goal in watering any plant, including your wandering jew
Speaker 5: is to wet the soil with a good soaking. So
Speaker 5: if you uh, maybe a gallon in uh like a
Speaker 5: foot out in all directions from the plant, kind of
Speaker 5: a circle, if you could soak it all into that area,
Speaker 5: that would be that would be good. Uh. The key
Speaker 5: is how wet how deep does the soil get moistened?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: And so when you water, uh, it's good. It's educational
Speaker 5: to go out and water and think, okay, I've got
Speaker 5: I've watered enough, and then wait, just wait a little
Speaker 5: bit and go back with a trowel and dig down
Speaker 5: and see how deep that is wet. Oftentimes you'll find
Speaker 5: you've only wet the soil and an inch deep and you
Speaker 5: thought you gave it a good soaking. So it's not
Speaker 5: like put a.
Speaker 18: Gallon on them or go yes, is that what you're saying?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can do that when I when I water lawned,
Speaker 5: I tell people all the time, when you water a lawn,
Speaker 5: just get a good long handled screwdriver, and after you've
Speaker 5: watered and it's soaked in for about an hour, push
Speaker 5: that screwdriver in the ground. And wherever the soil is wet,
Speaker 5: the screwdriver will go like through through wet butter or
Speaker 5: soft butter. And when you hit concrete that means it's
Speaker 5: not wet there. And you can see, did I wet
Speaker 5: it three inches deep? Four inches deep, six inches deep?
Speaker 5: And you want to give a good soaking, you'd like
Speaker 5: to wet that soil at least four inches deep. For
Speaker 5: those wandering.
Speaker 18: Jews, well, thank you.
Speaker 5: You don't have the water often. If you do that,
Speaker 5: you bet you don't have to do it often if
Speaker 5: you do it right. Don't do that just a little
Speaker 5: shallow sprinkling three times a week, I'm sure you will.
Speaker 5: That's a tough plant. So it's it's doing what it
Speaker 5: can to help you. Thanks Laurel. That is the case. Yeah.
Speaker 5: For your long watering. If you don't know how long
Speaker 5: the water, well, uh, there's two ways if you're watering along.
Speaker 5: Two ways to know. Number one is you want to
Speaker 5: water until you've applied an inch of water, and it
Speaker 5: may you have the water a little bit. Let it
Speaker 5: soak a little bit, come back and water a little
Speaker 5: bit more so you don't have runoff, because putting an
Speaker 5: inch on it one time often you end up with
Speaker 5: the runoff. That's one an inch of water. Number two,
Speaker 5: after you water, go out, stick as straight a little
Speaker 5: flathead screwdriver or whatever straight down in the soil, and
Speaker 5: it'll go through wet soil easily, and it'll be like
Speaker 5: you hit a concrete sidewalk underneath the surface when you
Speaker 5: hit that dry zone. And then you just pull it
Speaker 5: out and you know exactly how deep you wet it.
Speaker 5: Two little quick tips there that hopefully will get you
Speaker 5: off to a good start. Let's see here. I wanted
Speaker 5: to tell you a couple of things. You know, I
Speaker 5: talk about Arbigate all the time because it's one of
Speaker 5: my favorite garden centers. Arbrogate always has the best outstanding
Speaker 5: collection of plants and ling for the landscape and everything
Speaker 5: else like that that you're going to find. I mean,
Speaker 5: they just do. They specialize in that. They just got
Speaker 5: a bunch of their bulbs in from heirloom Southern Bulb
Speaker 5: Company excuse me, the Southern Bulb Company. Chris Weisinger. He
Speaker 5: produces these Texas bulbs found in Texas lawns and landscapes
Speaker 5: and all over the place. Chris Is collected them and
Speaker 5: it's his company now and Arburgate carries those. And so
Speaker 5: you're going to find outstanding bulbs that repeat here. And
Speaker 5: that's important. You know, you can plant a tulip and
Speaker 5: it pops up, you get a bloom that dies and
Speaker 5: you're done. It's called a one shot wonder. Or you
Speaker 5: can plant bulbs that live in abandoned homesteads in Texas
Speaker 5: year after year after year. That's called an investment. And
Speaker 5: Arburgate's got those from there. Arbigate has their you know,
Speaker 5: brown stuff before green stuff. They have their package of
Speaker 5: products to make the brown stuff right. The soil right,
Speaker 5: it's a food, organic food complete food feeds anything with roots.
Speaker 5: It's a soil for an application that includes expanded shale
Speaker 5: because expanded shale lasts even longer than compost and improving soils.
Speaker 5: And then finally organic compost complete, which also has expanded
Speaker 5: hill in it too. So when you take those three
Speaker 5: home and then you get those beautiful plants that Arburgate
Speaker 5: has and bring them home, you're set up for success.
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Speaker 5: always go back because Arburgate, Bevern and Kennon and the
Speaker 5: whole group there, they are experts at advising you for success.
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Speaker 5: They're just west of Tumbull on twenty nine twenty twenty
Speaker 5: nine to twenty And if you've never been to Arburgate,
Speaker 5: crawl out from under the rock you've been living under
Speaker 5: because it's the place everybody loves to go and for
Speaker 5: good reason. I'm going to head out now to Mike
Speaker 5: and Brenham. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Yes, sir morning, I have some peach trees that are
Speaker 19: having a hard time.
Speaker 10: Early in the spring.
Speaker 19: In the summer, they got lots and lots of rain,
Speaker 19: but for some reason, whenever I seem to put my
Speaker 19: sprinkler water on them, they struggle.
Speaker 10: Okay, any suggestions, huh.
Speaker 5: Well, peach trees like a good deep soaking, so when
Speaker 5: you water, you got water enough for them to do good.
Speaker 5: They've got extensive root system and and any plant prefers
Speaker 5: rain water over our drinking water, they just do. But
Speaker 5: a good soaking with water should keep them going. Peach
Speaker 5: orchards are irrigated all the time, and I would, you know,
Speaker 5: I would say maybe not enough water was going on them.
Speaker 5: And that's me not being there and but just guessing.
Speaker 5: But it takes a considerable amount of water. One time
Speaker 5: out in west central Texas, Texas, A and M has
Speaker 5: a research center and they have these giant underground pots.
Speaker 5: Imagine a pot that is so big that it holds
Speaker 5: a mature sized peach tree, but it's underground. It's got
Speaker 5: a scale under it, you know, like those scales you
Speaker 5: drive across and it weighs the truck and then you
Speaker 5: drive on. And so they could monitor hour by hour
Speaker 5: how much water was evaporating from that tree and from
Speaker 5: the soil. And they found that a mature peach tree
Speaker 5: pumps forty five gallons of water a day out of
Speaker 5: the ground. That's a lot of WAE I see in
Speaker 5: the summer. And so now if it has less, it
Speaker 5: stays alive, but it starts to shut down. It doesn't
Speaker 5: set buds well, it doesn't produce well, it doesn't fill
Speaker 5: the fruit well. And so my point in making that
Speaker 5: little story is just to say you need to give
Speaker 5: them a good soaking every week, a good deep soaking
Speaker 5: for them to do well in the summertime. Now, when
Speaker 5: the leaves are falling off here soon, not really much
Speaker 5: to worry about. I mean it just adequately moist soil,
Speaker 5: which doesn't take a lot of watering to maintain them.
Speaker 19: When would you expect the leaves to start falling off.
Speaker 19: I've had some leaves fall off, yeah, quite a bit.
Speaker 5: Well, I've seen Yeah, I've seen a lot of peaches
Speaker 5: around the area, driving around where the leaves are coming
Speaker 5: off because of the stress. You know, we got to
Speaker 5: the end of the season and people kind of let
Speaker 5: up and we're still having ninety plus degree temperatures with
Speaker 5: no rain, and a lot of peaches are dropping leaves
Speaker 5: because of that stress. Normally it needs to cool off
Speaker 5: a little bit. The shortening days and the cooling temperatures
Speaker 5: cause these trees to decide it's time to cast off
Speaker 5: the leaves and go into winter. So we're on the
Speaker 5: verge of that season. If the tree was perfectly happy,
Speaker 5: it probably wouldn't be dropping leaves. Just quite yet, not.
Speaker 20: That many at least I see.
Speaker 19: I see so predominantly we think moisture and maybe they'll
Speaker 19: get better.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, just give adequate moisture. And when we get
Speaker 5: back in the next summer, that's when we need to
Speaker 5: kick into watering them.
Speaker 11: I see, I see.
Speaker 19: And then one other question. I'm wanting to plan some
Speaker 19: bash and party pink crave myrtles around my house. When's
Speaker 19: a good time for that?
Speaker 5: Fall is the best time? Now, all the way through
Speaker 5: November is great. I mean, you can plant in winter,
Speaker 5: you can plat and spring, you can plant in summer,
Speaker 5: but the best time is as soon as you can
Speaker 5: get them in there because it gives them the most
Speaker 5: time to establish roots before next summer puts a strain
Speaker 5: on those plants which won't have a fully established root
Speaker 5: system yet.
Speaker 21: Thanks allent, okay, all right, thank you three time, sir.
Speaker 5: Thanks a lot you've met. Thank you, Mike, appreciate that call.
Speaker 5: Got to run to a break here, folks, Bridget When
Speaker 5: we come back, you'll be our first up. Hey, welcome back.
Speaker 5: Good to have you on Guardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter.
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Speaker 5: This is a call in show for you to discuss
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Speaker 5: seven one three two one two K t R H
Speaker 5: if you like. You know, I'm a broken record on
Speaker 5: the soil. The soil, the soil, how important that is.
Speaker 5: We get excited about plants kind of I get excited
Speaker 5: about soil. I mean I'd run out there to compost polemate,
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Speaker 5: gonna head out to Spring, Texas now and we're going
Speaker 5: to talk to Bridget. Hello, Bridget, Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 20: Good morning.
Speaker 22: I have a two questions. I could have questions, but
Speaker 22: I'll just stick to two. I water trees at my
Speaker 22: mother in law's house. They're the magnolia trees. And after
Speaker 22: last year, I thought she was gonna lose one of them,
Speaker 22: so I started slow deep water to keep them going.
Speaker 22: And I'm doing the same thing again this year. I
Speaker 22: noticed one of them has broken bark and it looks
Speaker 22: like it's healed or healing. But I'm just wondering, is
Speaker 22: that something I need to worry about bugs getting into.
Speaker 7: Or just leave it alone?
Speaker 5: And yeah, no, you don't. You don't need to worry.
Speaker 2: Okay, I just was a little.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. We've got a little delay going on here,
Speaker 5: so we ended up talking over each other. I don't
Speaker 5: know if you have the radio going in the background,
Speaker 5: but that throws people off too. Now that the magnolia,
Speaker 5: if it's healing over, that's good. So you did the
Speaker 5: right thing last year, killed bagnolia trees, and by watering them,
Speaker 5: you did the right thing. As it gets vigor, as
Speaker 5: it gets health, it'll close that wound back over by
Speaker 5: putting callous around the sides of it.
Speaker 22: Okay, it looks like it's doing that. I'm just I
Speaker 22: keep saying, you've got to water these things, so I
Speaker 22: just start doing it myself. The other question is, as
Speaker 22: my son bought a house or acquired a house and
Speaker 22: it had those two token oak trees planted in the subdivision,
Speaker 22: and in between there were Amarilla's bulbs, a whole lot
Speaker 22: of them that are growing in between these two oaks.
Speaker 22: There's nothing there. Now they've died back. I know they're
Speaker 22: going to start coming back. Does he need to do
Speaker 22: anything as far as fertilization. I know they were blooming
Speaker 22: in February.
Speaker 5: We're talking about the bulbs, right, fertilizing the bulbs.
Speaker 7: Correct.
Speaker 22: I'm on a cell phone, so that might be the
Speaker 22: reason for the delay.
Speaker 5: Okay, No, you don't need to wear about fertilizing those bulbs.
Speaker 5: They'll do just fine with whatever's out there for supplying
Speaker 5: the other plants. They'll do fine.
Speaker 22: All right, Well that's my questions. Thank you very much,
Speaker 22: have a great day.
Speaker 20: All right.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you, thank you for the call. Appreciate that
Speaker 5: very much. Good luck with that. Yeah, that is the case.
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Speaker 5: see here. Oh, I'm running out of time trying to
Speaker 5: get you to get to you, Tom and Dickinson. You'll
Speaker 5: be our first up when we come back if you
Speaker 5: can hang around that long. I appreciate the rest of
Speaker 5: you being gardenline listeners and we our goal is to
Speaker 5: help you have success. Don't forget. I'm going to be
Speaker 5: at RCW Nursery today. I'll be there from twelve to
Speaker 5: two and we're giving away over twenty different things. And
Speaker 5: I don't mean just little things. I mean, for example,
Speaker 5: nitrofoss three step program. There's three steps, barricade, fall fertilizer,
Speaker 5: Eagle tour funder side. There're only two or three bags
Speaker 5: at each of those. And then a fifteen gallon San
Speaker 5: Philippe and maple tree awesome variety, fifteen gallon red buds,
Speaker 5: two different sizes of camellias. We're going to play flat
Speaker 5: off color plants. It just goes on and on and on.
Speaker 5: Some really cool metal yard Ard pumpkins for decorating your place.
Speaker 5: A really cool They have these fun fashion tumblers that
Speaker 5: have funny sayings on them. I love those as well.
Speaker 5: I'll be out there answering your questions, bring me pictures,
Speaker 5: bring me samples, let's talk, let's get our picture made.
Speaker 5: They've got some fun stuff going on out there. For example,
Speaker 5: you can expect a barbecue lunch. There's some I don't
Speaker 5: need the prizes I mentioned, games for the kids and whatnot.
Speaker 5: All at Rcday that's the nursery. There're two forty nine
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Speaker 5: twelve o'clock today. I'll be there. Will you.
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Speaker 5: Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line. Good to
Speaker 5: have you with us. We got lots of stuff to
Speaker 5: be talking about right now, and I want to get
Speaker 5: right on into it. Before I do that, I did
Speaker 5: want to mention to you that Nature's Way Resources still
Speaker 5: has their Fungal Friday cell going on This is a
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Speaker 5: their fungal compost. Now that's a high quality product. You know,
Speaker 5: everything they make it Nature's Way is high quality. It's
Speaker 5: the place where rose soil was born. It is the
Speaker 5: place where the leaf mold compost that we talk about
Speaker 5: all the time was born. And this fungal compost, fungal
Speaker 5: compost is good for use in the soil for sure.
Speaker 5: It's also good as a top dressing on your lawn.
Speaker 5: Screen down really nicely where you can spread it over
Speaker 5: the lawn, rake it in after. If you do a aeration,
Speaker 5: it's even better. But anywhere you put the fungal compost,
Speaker 5: you're going to see the benefits because it's nature's own
Speaker 5: slow release fertilizer. It's nature's own mult it's a nature's
Speaker 5: own organic materials, the steamulm, it's microbial activity and therefore
Speaker 5: helps plants. That's how it works. Nature's Way Resources is
Speaker 5: located up there on Interstate forty five. You just where
Speaker 5: fourteen eighty eight comes in for Magnolia. You just turn
Speaker 5: right and cross over the railroad tracks. It's right there
Speaker 5: on Surebook Circle. I can't even say the word easy
Speaker 5: to get to. You can buy it by bulk, you
Speaker 5: can have them deliver it. You can find bags around
Speaker 5: town of all their products. They've got composts and swells
Speaker 5: and mulches and everything you need. As I say here
Speaker 5: on Guardline, the brown stuff that makes the green stuff thrive.
Speaker 5: Nature's way resources. We're gonna go now to the phones
Speaker 5: out to Dickinson and talk to Tom. Hello, Tom, Welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Hey Skip, good morning.
Speaker 11: A couple weeks ago you were giving some advice about
Speaker 11: dealing with ants, not mound treatment, but more of a
Speaker 11: global approach.
Speaker 5: What was that product, right, Well, there are several There
Speaker 5: are a number of brands of bait fire ant bait,
Speaker 5: but the things like oh gosh, andro is one brand
Speaker 5: extinguishes another brand. There's a bunch of brands. Basically, what
Speaker 5: they are is there a bait substance like cornmeal based
Speaker 5: or soy oil based kind of bait, and then they
Speaker 5: infuse a very slow acting ant growth regulator or insecticide
Speaker 5: into it, but that it's small enough that the ants
Speaker 5: pick the bait up and carry it all the way
Speaker 5: back to the colony it doesn't kill them, and then
Speaker 5: everybody starts to feed on it, and it makes some
Speaker 5: of them make the queen where she can't reproduce young.
Speaker 5: Some of them just killed more slowly, but they work
Speaker 5: really well. Yeah, and you're right about that. Not doing
Speaker 5: the mound treatments are fine. But if all you do
Speaker 5: is mound treatments, you're playing whack them all with ants
Speaker 5: because there's mounds you can't see that I haven't come
Speaker 5: to the surface yet. That then you'll be treated.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm starting to see a lot of scouts.
Speaker 12: I've been working back in the backyard quite a bit
Speaker 12: and I've seen a lot of scouts moving around.
Speaker 5: So I thought, now it's the time. Yep, they're very
Speaker 5: active right now. I've got I said earlier today, I
Speaker 5: had some that just popped up in a container that
Speaker 5: I have, And so yeah, follow is an excellent time
Speaker 5: to do it. And you're correct a starting with the baits,
Speaker 5: because even the invisible mounds have workers that will go
Speaker 5: out and get the bait and bring it back.
Speaker 12: And there the instructions are all in the packaging.
Speaker 13: Just follow what they say.
Speaker 5: Yes, and there's a good everybody is tempted to want
Speaker 5: to dump the bait on the mound. Don't do that.
Speaker 5: Just put it everywhere if you can, and you're putting
Speaker 5: a super low amount out like andro for examples, like
Speaker 5: a pound per acre. So I mean, it's just like
Speaker 5: a granule here, a granule there. You think I'm not
Speaker 5: doing any good, you are. It works. The stuff is.
Speaker 5: It's one of the most environmentally safe ways to control
Speaker 5: fire ants is by taking a bait approach to it.
Speaker 5: There's even an organic when if you want that called
Speaker 5: come and get it that. You can find a lot
Speaker 5: of places too. No problem, Thank you so much. Good
Speaker 5: luck with those you bet appreciate your call. Fire Ants
Speaker 5: in the fall, boy, are they ever a problem? They
Speaker 5: spoil the show. If you have been out to Warren's
Speaker 5: Garden Center in Kingwood, both Warren's Southern Gardens is on
Speaker 5: It's on North Park Drive in Kingwood, Kingwood Garden Centers
Speaker 5: on Stone Hollow Drive out there. Both are open seven
Speaker 5: days a week. They are still having their pansies party.
Speaker 5: What does that mean. I means you go into Warrens,
Speaker 5: you grab an eighteen count flat of four inch pots
Speaker 5: pansies twenty five bucks twenty four nine actually now through
Speaker 5: November third, so grab some of the fertilizer while you're
Speaker 5: out there for pansies. They've got that stuff to keep
Speaker 5: the blooms coming, because when these pansies are planted, they
Speaker 5: can bloom all winter for you. They're very hearty, but
Speaker 5: you need to continue to encourage them because the soil
Speaker 5: is cooler, the release of nitrogen from the by the
Speaker 5: microbes is a little slower in the winter, so you
Speaker 5: keep that fertilizer coming, which causes the penzies to grow.
Speaker 5: When you get growth and leaf growth, you get more blooms.
Speaker 5: And a lot of people plant these things and then
Speaker 5: they just walk off and forget them. Fertilize them, give
Speaker 5: them a boost, and you'll get a lot better blooms too.
Speaker 5: So go out there, go to Warrens, grab a flat
Speaker 5: eighteen four inch pots of pansies twenty five bucks now
Speaker 5: through the third. They also have some specials on bed
Speaker 5: mixes of various types. They've got rye grass for those
Speaker 5: of you who want to overseed in the winter time.
Speaker 5: They've got some rye grass out there at Warrens that
Speaker 5: you can use to do that. Amarillis bulbs. It's fall,
Speaker 5: it's time for that and they've got it lots of fall, veggies,
Speaker 5: lots of mums. Of course, when you're out there, just
Speaker 5: to join their newsletter. It don't costing thing to join.
Speaker 5: You get special coupons. You'll get author offers. They have
Speaker 5: something called a monthly lawn care coupons that they put
Speaker 5: out through the newsletter. It's fun. You can go to
Speaker 5: the website and do it. You go while you're in
Speaker 5: the store and they'll hope sign you up, or you
Speaker 5: can just give them a call and they'll get you
Speaker 5: signed up for the newsletter. For the Warren's newsletter, really
Speaker 5: worth going to. But right now you just need to
Speaker 5: go out and see the place. Looks awesome, very very
Speaker 5: nice out there. You were listening to guarden Line. The
Speaker 5: phone number is nine excuse me, seven to one three
Speaker 5: two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two five eight seven four. Makes it easy
Speaker 5: to give us a call. How can we help you
Speaker 5: to have a beautiful lawn, to help you have a
Speaker 5: bountiful landscape. I'm getting a spot on the side of
Speaker 5: my house ready for some fruit trees this fall. I'm
Speaker 5: going to be planning fruit trees and I just I've
Speaker 5: got most of the things done. I got one water leak.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to get finished fixed, and I'll have some
Speaker 5: nice things. I got some of the lego beds, metal
Speaker 5: beds that are going in. They're just about a foot
Speaker 5: high because that spot is poorly drained, I mean really
Speaker 5: poorly drained. And fruit trees like good drainage. So if
Speaker 5: you're gonna plant a fruit tree and you got a
Speaker 5: spot that doesn't drain well, you need to fix that first.
Speaker 5: Either either fix the drainage with subsurface drainage French what
Speaker 5: they call French drains, re route the water that's coming
Speaker 5: off the roof to make it wet there whatever, or
Speaker 5: in my case, I'm just bringing the bed up about
Speaker 5: a foot and it's a nice large bed. They're gonna
Speaker 5: grow in that and do well. And I you know,
Speaker 5: I didn't know how bad that area was until when
Speaker 5: we first moved in a couple of years ago. Several
Speaker 5: years ago. I U there was a fig tree there
Speaker 5: and it was a fig with open eye. Those are
Speaker 5: the eyes with the holes in the end on the
Speaker 5: fig and they get soured and I don't like that kind,
Speaker 5: so I was gonna get rid of it. I got
Speaker 5: another fig tree putting in when I dug it up,
Speaker 5: and I'm not kidding you. This fig tree was probably
Speaker 5: a feet tall and at least that wide. When I
Speaker 5: dug it up, the root system was five inches deep
Speaker 5: and it was like a pancake. It went in the
Speaker 5: ground and it went totally horizontal, and I dug it,
Speaker 5: I dug it up, I turned it over. I kept
Speaker 5: digging and looking, and that bugger not an inch deeper
Speaker 5: than five inches. It was going sideways because the soil
Speaker 5: was heavy clay that was poorly drained. And that's when
Speaker 5: I realized, if I'm going to do an orchard here,
Speaker 5: I can't have this treat. Peach trees will not put
Speaker 5: up with what a fig tree put up with there.
Speaker 5: And so I'm working on that. And so if you're
Speaker 5: thinking about planning for this winter time, I would encourage
Speaker 5: you to check the drainage. And if you don't know
Speaker 5: how to check the drainage, if you're not sure, get
Speaker 5: something like a post hole digger or something just to
Speaker 5: dig straight down.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 5: I would dig about eighteen inches twenty four inches deep
Speaker 5: with it, and then get you a water hose and
Speaker 5: fill it with water. Now do this when the soil
Speaker 5: is moderately moist. I mean, if the soil is totally dry,
Speaker 5: it's going to soak up all that water because the
Speaker 5: soil is dry. But let's get the soul moist first
Speaker 5: with a good soaking, and then fill that thing with
Speaker 5: water and see how long it takes to drain It
Speaker 5: ought to drain out in eight hours. It needs to
Speaker 5: drain out by twelve hours, and the minimum is twenty
Speaker 5: four hours. If two days forty eight hours later there's
Speaker 5: still water standing, that's a drainage problem and you need
Speaker 5: to do one of the things I just talked about
Speaker 5: to fix that in order to have success. I'm all
Speaker 5: run take a quick break here. When we come back,
Speaker 5: Ryan and Laporte, you'll be the first step. Hey, you
Speaker 5: are listening to Guardline and we're here to help you
Speaker 5: have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That is
Speaker 5: our goal. And one of the steps in that is
Speaker 5: a quality nutrient blend in your soil for plants to thrive.
Speaker 5: And I want to tell you about a couple of
Speaker 5: products that I use in my gardens. One of them
Speaker 5: they're both from Nelson Plant Food. One of them is
Speaker 5: called Nutristar Genesis. Think of that as the transplanting solution.
Speaker 5: It's got microbes in a microriza, the fungi that live
Speaker 5: with plant roots and help them. They've got bacteria and
Speaker 5: all kinds of soil microbiome content in it. You mix
Speaker 5: it into the soil and then plant your plant. So
Speaker 5: if you're bumping it up from one container to another,
Speaker 5: mix it into the soil in the new container. If
Speaker 5: you are just transplanting from a container into the ground,
Speaker 5: mix it into the soil in the ground. Nutristar Genesis works.
Speaker 5: Another nutristar product from Miln Plant Food is Vegetable Garden
Speaker 5: Nutristar vegetable Garden. I use this in my vegetable garden.
Speaker 5: It's got a wide array of nutrients. You can use
Speaker 5: it monthly for a release of nutrients that will increase
Speaker 5: not only the growth and quality of the plants, but
Speaker 5: of course the produce that you get from it. Five
Speaker 5: different sources of nitrogen in nutristar vegetable garden for a
Speaker 5: nice even release that results in the kind of performance
Speaker 5: you're looking for. I use it in my raised bag gardens.
Speaker 5: You can use it in containers as well. If you're
Speaker 5: growing a garden container, you can use it. It says
Speaker 5: vegetable garden, but you can put in a flower bed
Speaker 5: if you want and it'll also perform well there. I
Speaker 5: like to use mine out where I'm growing the food
Speaker 5: in the vegetable garden. All quality products from Nelson Plant Food.
Speaker 5: We're going to go now to Laport, Texas and talk
Speaker 5: to Ryan. Hello, Ryan, welcome to garden Mine. Hey, how
Speaker 5: are you doing skip, I'm well, sir, Thank you. Hey, Yes,
Speaker 5: I'm doing great. Yeah. We had an above ground pool
Speaker 5: and we took it out and I've been putting top
Speaker 5: soil in it and I got caught.
Speaker 13: Well, my wife taught me put the cat litter in there,
Speaker 13: and we'll.
Speaker 10: Do about thirty five pounds of cat litter.
Speaker 5: On top of it. Is that an issue you're kind
Speaker 5: of cutting out there? But I think I heard what
Speaker 5: you're asking. Cat litter is basically a clay, uh, and
Speaker 5: it just dried and hardened clay. But in time it
Speaker 5: will soften if you get it wet.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: So you know, having a lot of it is going
Speaker 5: to create there's gonna be just a chin clay down
Speaker 5: in there. It doesn't mean nothing will grow or whatnot.
Speaker 5: I just would you know if you want to mix
Speaker 5: some in with soil you're putting in. That's fine, that's
Speaker 5: not a problem. But in general, go ahead. I've been
Speaker 5: doing about thirty five pounds of cat litter to a
Speaker 5: forty pound bag of top soil. I wouldn't do that much.
Speaker 5: I would cut back on that a little bit. Again,
Speaker 5: it's not going to be the end of the world.
Speaker 5: But you know, there's a reason why we don't say,
Speaker 5: put cat litter in your pots and plants and everything
Speaker 5: like that. I mean, it doesn't bring a lot to
Speaker 5: the table in terms of plant nutrients and growth performance
Speaker 5: and whatnot. So there's not a black and white line
Speaker 5: in nature where I'd say, you know, use twenty five
Speaker 5: but not. You know, there's not that kind of line.
Speaker 5: But just just realize that the top soil you're bringing
Speaker 5: in is the main benefit, and if you want to
Speaker 5: mix a little catletter in it, you can do that,
Speaker 5: all right, Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, thanks for the call.
Speaker 5: That's a good question. I never had that one for
Speaker 5: so I wish we had prizes to give away. You'd
Speaker 5: win one first, throwing me a new a new curve
Speaker 5: on the questions today, Wabird's unlimited is the I was
Speaker 5: going to say, it's my favorite store for birds wlies,
Speaker 5: the only store that I go to for bird supplies.
Speaker 5: Warbird's Unlimited is not only the place where you get
Speaker 5: super quality feeds and bird feeders and houses and everything.
Speaker 5: By the way, winter's coming, we've got a lot of
Speaker 5: bird feeding to do coming up here. But they're also
Speaker 5: the place where you get advice, you know. I was
Speaker 5: talking to someone the other day at Walbirds. They said,
Speaker 5: the ruby throated hummingbird migration is winding down, and if
Speaker 5: you will keep your feeder up at least two weeks
Speaker 5: after you see the last one in your yard, it's
Speaker 5: not going to keep them from migrating. That thing of
Speaker 5: don't leave a feeder up. They won't migrate. No, they
Speaker 5: will when they're ready, they migrate, But if they're still
Speaker 5: sticking around, they needle more refueling for that journey. They're
Speaker 5: trying to fuel up. So leave the feeder out. After
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks you don't see one, pull it down.
Speaker 5: You can leave one phil through the holidays if you want,
Speaker 5: because occasionally we have some rufous hummingbirds that stick around
Speaker 5: all through the winter until March, and some of them
Speaker 5: will head on down to Mexico. Others will kind of
Speaker 5: come along the Gulf coast here and say, you know what,
Speaker 5: We're not going to make that trip. We're going to
Speaker 5: hang out in Houston. We like it here, and so
Speaker 5: if you leave a feeder up, you might get lucky
Speaker 5: and see a hummingbird through the cool season. As our
Speaker 5: days get shorter, nights get longer, that means less hours
Speaker 5: for birds to feel up. So you want to get
Speaker 5: a quality feed like wild birds Unlimited Winter super Blend.
Speaker 5: It's packed with fat and protein. So the hours they
Speaker 5: are out there feeding, they can get a high quality
Speaker 5: feed that'll help them through these winter months. And always
Speaker 5: remember keep water out. I was just refilling our water
Speaker 5: supplies out in the backyard yesterday. It is dry and
Speaker 5: it kind of still hot, to be honest, those birds
Speaker 5: need water twelve months, every day of the year. They
Speaker 5: need water, and so always keep a supply for them
Speaker 5: that attracts them as much as good quality feet like
Speaker 5: wildberd's feet. Let's go out now, let's see where we are. Okay,
Speaker 5: We're going to go to Lake Jackson and talk to Joanne. Hey, Joanne,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line. Hey, good morning, Thank you for
Speaker 5: taking my call.
Speaker 23: I'm having an issue with something. I think it's called
Speaker 23: Dallas grass or Dallas grass that's a weed in my art,
Speaker 23: and I'm trying to see what your recommendation is for
Speaker 23: getting rid of it.
Speaker 13: Well.
Speaker 5: Dallas grass myself, whenever I've had it in a yard,
Speaker 5: I do one or two things. If you don't have
Speaker 5: a lot of it, you can actually kind of dig
Speaker 5: it up with a spade and fork. You get the
Speaker 5: roots and everything out of there as best you can
Speaker 5: and just get rid of it that way. If you've
Speaker 5: got a lot, you can dab a grass killing herbicide
Speaker 5: on it, trying to get it on the Dallas grass,
Speaker 5: but not so much on the lawn grass, because it'll
Speaker 5: call the long grass too. The grass killers will call
Speaker 5: the long grass. But if you if you can do that,
Speaker 5: that helps. I have on my on my website. On
Speaker 5: my website, I have a weed wiper. How to build
Speaker 5: a weed wiper, and I love using those for weeds
Speaker 5: like Dallas grass because you can reach down and squeeze
Speaker 5: the herbicide through a sponge onto the weed and it
Speaker 5: really really does a good job. It's it's it's it
Speaker 5: works well to use a weed wiper to do it.
Speaker 5: So that would be one other technique. Now, when you
Speaker 5: put a premergent herbicide down in the spring following my schedule,
Speaker 5: which is a February application, you will prevent seeds from
Speaker 5: the Dallas grass from establishing.
Speaker 15: Right, what do you recommend?
Speaker 5: I would do barricade in the spring. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 5: I would put down barricade in the spring. And we're
Speaker 5: not talking I've been talking about barricade for winter weeds now,
Speaker 5: but I'm talking about way until February to apply for
Speaker 5: the Dallas grass. Okay, and if you can get if
Speaker 5: you can get that down there, go ahead.
Speaker 20: Barricade.
Speaker 13: I don't know.
Speaker 23: We don't have a whole lot of places down here.
Speaker 6: Is it b A R R?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Barricade? Huh, just like that. Let's see you are
Speaker 5: in you were in Lake Jackson, so that's yeah. Do
Speaker 5: you have any Do you have any ace hardware stores
Speaker 5: nearby out there?
Speaker 23: No, we have a couple of locals I can try there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, try that. Don't try try try the barricade if
Speaker 5: pardon if they don't have If you can't, no, well,
Speaker 5: now would be the dabbing it with a weed killer
Speaker 5: or wiping a weed killer on it. It's a perennial weed.
Speaker 5: That's why, that's why you got to kill the original weed,
Speaker 5: not just prevent the seed, but the seeds will just
Speaker 5: add more next year if you don't prevent them. If
Speaker 5: you can't, you know, I'm just trying to help you
Speaker 5: in your area. If if you can't find a barricade,
Speaker 5: there's another product called Dimension that is also a pre
Speaker 5: emergent weed killer that will work also if you can't
Speaker 5: find the barricade. Okay, you for your help, you bet,
Speaker 5: good luck with that. Appreciate appreciate your call. Let's see here.
Speaker 13: We're going to go.
Speaker 5: Now, where are we going next? We're going to go
Speaker 5: to Bill and Cyprus. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 24: Good morning, good morning, love your show. I'm taking to
Speaker 24: find some sod. I'm out here in the bridgelands, some
Speaker 24: Tiffany four nineteen tiff okay for nineteen and a celebration bridge.
Speaker 24: Do you know where I can get some of this?
Speaker 5: Just you know, I don't know, And you know in
Speaker 5: that different areas who all carries that. We got a
Speaker 5: number of turf suppliers here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 5: Tiff four nineteen is an older Bermuda. It's been used
Speaker 5: on ball fields. A lot of colleges and high schools
Speaker 5: use it on their football fields and things. Even some
Speaker 5: golf courses have used that celebration is a newer one.
Speaker 5: You should be able to find those two locally. See here.
Speaker 5: I'm going to look around and see where I can
Speaker 5: find it, and if I find something, I'll say it
Speaker 5: on the air here before the end of the show today.
Speaker 24: Okay, and I'll listen. Another question. It's heavy clay over
Speaker 24: here too, So how many inches of soil should I
Speaker 24: have on top of that clay so that the roosts
Speaker 24: will attach?
Speaker 13: Well?
Speaker 5: Actually, those are growing clay that you know. The turf
Speaker 5: producers along the Gulf Coast, many of them are growing
Speaker 5: in a clay type soil and clay is not a
Speaker 5: problem as long as you get water. And if you
Speaker 5: wanted to add a little bit of a better top
Speaker 5: soil to the surface, kind of mix it in a
Speaker 5: little bit and level it all out, you could do that.
Speaker 5: You can put several inches down. Just don't don't drop
Speaker 5: like a top soil right on top of a clay
Speaker 5: where you have that sudden interface, because water will tend
Speaker 5: to move through that topsoil, it hits the clay and
Speaker 5: it stops, and you have what's called a perched water table.
Speaker 5: In other words, it's like an underground water table. And
Speaker 5: so you'd rather blend those interfaces together. So okay, get
Speaker 5: like a pick and just dig some of it up,
Speaker 5: uh pick or rototiller or whatever, either way you want
Speaker 5: to mix it in. But mainly just get all the
Speaker 5: perenni Yeah, get rid of perennial weeds and smooth it
Speaker 5: off and level it off. That's the main thing you're
Speaker 5: going to do there. Hey, I've got a run to
Speaker 5: a break here. I will be right back, folks and Bill.
Speaker 5: If I can find a source on those, I'll come
Speaker 5: back and talk about it. Hey, welcome back to Guardline.
Speaker 5: Good to have you with us. We are looking for it,
Speaker 5: visiting with you about the questions that you have regarding
Speaker 5: the products, the plants, the processes procedures that help you
Speaker 5: have success. You know, gardening is a fun hobby and
Speaker 5: each day we get out in garden, we learn a
Speaker 5: little more and we get better at it. We do
Speaker 5: we start to learn to see things from a plant's
Speaker 5: point of view. That's really what it's all about, you understand,
Speaker 5: what a plant wants, and you give it that and
Speaker 5: you're going to have success. And that's what we try
Speaker 5: to do here on guard Line. You know, Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 5: I was talking Bob the other day. They've been around
Speaker 5: since nineteen fifty five. You hear me talk about them
Speaker 5: all the time. I just don't know a place that
Speaker 5: carries the supplies, in the quantities and the diversity that
Speaker 5: Southwest does. When it comes to synthetic fertilizing, organic fertilizing,
Speaker 5: synthetic weed disease and pest control, organic weed disease and
Speaker 5: pest control, Southwest Fertilizer is literally they literally do have
Speaker 5: the largest supply of organic products in the entire rede
Speaker 5: And if you hear me talk about a fertilizer on Guardline,
Speaker 5: a nitrophoss, Nelson, Microlife, Medina, all of those, they've got
Speaker 5: them all and then some they you know, I always
Speaker 5: say they have an eighty foot long wall of tools.
Speaker 5: I just found out the other day and now it's not.
Speaker 5: Now it's a ninety foot wall of tools. I mean,
Speaker 5: they just have everything. You know, the weed wiper I
Speaker 5: was talking about earlier, you can build if you go
Speaker 5: to my website gardening with skip dot Com. It tells
Speaker 5: you how to build your own weed wiper, which comes
Speaker 5: in really handy. Just go to the website and read
Speaker 5: about it. Well, Bob's got the tool that you start with,
Speaker 5: the grabber tool with the suction cups that you start
Speaker 5: with on it. He's got it there ready to go.
Speaker 5: It's just you know when you walk in there, you're
Speaker 5: gonna find everything you need. If you drag in there
Speaker 5: a plant in a plastic bag or a picture on
Speaker 5: your phone or something and you need help with it,
Speaker 5: and what is this and what can I do? Well,
Speaker 5: they know what they're talking about, Bob and his team,
Speaker 5: or they are experts at this, and they'll point you
Speaker 5: to the product that helps you have success. They got
Speaker 5: a great bulk seed counter the shelf, which is just
Speaker 5: like all these little drawers of bulk seed, which is
Speaker 5: a very economical way to buy seed. They sell seed
Speaker 5: by the packets as well. But whether it's tools, whether
Speaker 5: it's products, whatever you need. It's a Southwest fertilizer been
Speaker 5: around since nineteen fifty five. Then it's because they are
Speaker 5: a one stop shop. You don't go in there and go, yeah,
Speaker 5: we don't have it. You have to drive across town. No,
Speaker 5: Southwest Fertilizer has it. If they don't have it, you
Speaker 5: don't need it. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Here's a phone
Speaker 5: number seven one three six six ' six seventeen forty four.
Speaker 5: We're going to head out now to Victoria and talk
Speaker 5: to Tim. Hello, Tim, Welcome to garden line.
Speaker 21: Hey, how are you skipped? Just need a little information
Speaker 21: on pomegranate. Pomegranate trees. I've got two of them. I've
Speaker 21: got a pink satin and a red silk and the girl, well,
Speaker 21: I think they're just getting tall and steindily. And what
Speaker 21: I have seen online was that you should prune those
Speaker 21: back late winter for the new growth to put on fruit.
Speaker 21: Is that correct or it's okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that is correct. Uh, well that's up to you.
Speaker 5: I mean, depending on the growing conditions they're gonna hit,
Speaker 5: whatever height they're going to hit. We don't normally worry
Speaker 5: about pruning palm granites a lot, uh, but you know it,
Speaker 5: they're a good plan. The biggest challenge you're going to
Speaker 5: have with palm granite is when we get a lot
Speaker 5: of rainy weather and there's fruit on it. There are
Speaker 5: some fruit rots that you can have, and I want
Speaker 5: to I want to refer you to something that that
Speaker 5: gives you a lot more information than I can give you.
Speaker 5: Just real quick here on the on a phone call.
Speaker 5: If you go to the Aggie Horticulture website, just do
Speaker 5: a search for Aggie or culture. There is on the
Speaker 5: front page there's a fruit, a fruit section, and you know,
Speaker 5: you can go to vegetables or fruit or other things.
Speaker 5: Go to the fruit and there's a whole publication that's
Speaker 5: like six pages long on pomegranates. It goes into the varieties,
Speaker 5: how to plan them, how to fertilize them, how to
Speaker 5: prune them, we control disease issues, you know, all that
Speaker 5: kind of stuff. And it's very very good, and I
Speaker 5: would suggest you check that out. Okay, all right, because
Speaker 5: pruning printings really pruntings basically you know, keeping it a
Speaker 5: bush of maybe three three to five trunks coming up
Speaker 5: out of the ground and removing the others. You know,
Speaker 5: that's kind of and they're going to keep sending suckers up,
Speaker 5: you know, so you're kind of aiming for three to five.
Speaker 5: If one is not doing well, you can get rid
Speaker 5: of it and let a new sucker become a main stem.
Speaker 5: But that's basically pruning. Yeah.
Speaker 21: One I have two trunks and it's it's really healthy,
Speaker 21: and the other has three trunks. Should I let one
Speaker 21: of the okay tuckers go up on the other one
Speaker 21: that they've been in the ground about four and a
Speaker 21: half years.
Speaker 10: So there's you know, getting pretty good size.
Speaker 21: So I don't know if that's good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can at a little bit more. Yeah, it
Speaker 5: makes it a little bit bigger bush to do that.
Speaker 5: You know, as they grow, some of them will lean
Speaker 5: out to kind of get away and get sunlight from
Speaker 5: the others. And and so that's what I would do.
Speaker 5: I'm ground it difficult, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 21: I would just say my my biggest problem with in
Speaker 21: these squirrels, I find out squirrels like to eat pomegranate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm telling you, if you if you are,
Speaker 5: if you can get a recipe for squirrels, uh, pomegranate
Speaker 5: and pecan fed squirrel is some of the best eating
Speaker 5: you can you can enjoy. So all right, I bet
Speaker 5: the phone rings now, Yeah, that's I have to I
Speaker 5: have to joke about it. Yeah, Someone a friend of mine,
Speaker 5: san Antonio, a friend of mine, Santonio used to say
Speaker 5: we don't have too many deer, we have too few freezers.
Speaker 5: But I know a lot of people love deer and
Speaker 5: feed them. So all right, sorry about that. We're just
Speaker 5: kidding here sort of.
Speaker 21: Warri also have an a Warri satsuma tree that needs
Speaker 21: probably a pruning. Is there a time to do that?
Speaker 5: Wait until spring? You know, satsumas are marginally hardy here.
Speaker 5: They're they're yeah, they're among our more hearty citrus. But
Speaker 5: if you if you wait until springtime, when we get
Speaker 5: past the freezer and frost, if you need to do
Speaker 5: some pruning, go ahead and do it. Then you can
Speaker 5: do it in small amounts off and on through the season.
Speaker 5: But I wouldn't prune them and encourage new growth right
Speaker 5: before we go into cold weather, because that's not going
Speaker 5: to end.
Speaker 21: Well, okay, so the the pomegranates do those late winter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, late winter is a good time for those us.
Speaker 11: Okay, super okay, Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it,
Speaker 11: all right, Tim, Good luck with that. Thanks a lot.
Speaker 11: Appreciate the call. I'm gonna be at RCW Nurseries today.
Speaker 11: Do not forget after the show twelve o'clock. I'll be
Speaker 11: there from twelve to two two hours answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 11: If you got samples to bring, if you've got pictures
Speaker 11: to bring.
Speaker 5: Bring them on out. And I tell you what I've
Speaker 5: never I don't know that I've been to a site
Speaker 5: where we gave away so much stuff as we're giving
Speaker 5: away today at RCW. We're talking about like bags of
Speaker 5: barricade from Nitrofoss part of the three step, bags of
Speaker 5: fall special part of the three step from Nitrofoss, bags
Speaker 5: of eagle turf fungicide, part of the three step program.
Speaker 5: We're going to give away some microlife fertilizer. We're gonna
Speaker 5: give away a flat of assorted color plants. You know
Speaker 5: you don't put some color in your flower beds, and
Speaker 5: then shrubs and trees like a three gallon and a
Speaker 5: seven gallon camellia, a fifteen gallon red bud that's a
Speaker 5: valuable tree, a fifteen gallon San Philipe red maple awesome.
Speaker 5: The best red maples you're gonna find and plan is Semphilippe.
Speaker 5: And boy that somebody gonna win one today. And then
Speaker 5: lots and lots of other things, you know, night fussbug
Speaker 5: out Max are gonna have some of that to give away.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: It just goes on and on. Like I said, we're
Speaker 5: gonna be given away right and left out there. While
Speaker 5: you're out there, you're gonna get some barbecue.
Speaker 4: Uh you.
Speaker 5: They have some a little things set up for photo ops.
Speaker 5: We used it last year. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 5: I'll take a picture with you if you want. In fact,
Speaker 5: if you take a picture of me and print it
Speaker 5: out and put it in your pantry, it'll keep the
Speaker 5: cockroaches out of the oatmeal. So there's another plus of
Speaker 5: coming out today to rc W. I don't know what's
Speaker 5: going to come out of my mouth sometimes. All right, well, uh,
Speaker 5: you are listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is
Speaker 5: seven one three two one two k t RH. Give
Speaker 5: us a call. I'll be right back after a short break.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to guarden Line, folks. Good to have you
Speaker 5: with us today. You are listening to a show that
Speaker 5: is designed to help you answer your gardening questions and
Speaker 5: have success. I want you to have a bountiful garden.
Speaker 5: I want you to have a beautiful landscape, and that's
Speaker 5: what we're here for. You can give us call it
Speaker 5: seven one three two on two kt rh. That is
Speaker 5: a good way to get a hold of us. In
Speaker 5: the meantime, I just want to remind you it is
Speaker 5: fall lawn season. Fallow is the most important season in
Speaker 5: the lawn. I mean that the most important fertilization of
Speaker 5: the year is the fall fertilization because not only does
Speaker 5: it supply your lawn nutrients to help it be cold hardy,
Speaker 5: but it also is a time when those nutrients are
Speaker 5: going to go into the plant and be ready to
Speaker 5: come out in the spring. That's why the folks at
Speaker 5: Nitrofoss have created the three step program. First step is
Speaker 5: the fall fertilizer. It's called Fall Special by Nitrofos. It's
Speaker 5: a winter riser type of fertilizer prepares the plants for winter.
Speaker 5: Second step barricade pre emergent prevents the weed seeds that
Speaker 5: are about to germinate and I mean any day now
Speaker 5: they'll be jar dominating. It prevents them from getting up.
Speaker 5: It forms the barricade over the soil surface. They can't
Speaker 5: get through it. Second or third Nitroposs Eagle turf fungicide.
Speaker 5: You put it down, you water it in as you
Speaker 5: do the barricade, and it goes into the this one
Speaker 5: goes into the plant and it is a disease prevention
Speaker 5: that's in size. Like when we take antibiotics, we have
Speaker 5: them in our body and then the diseases are fought
Speaker 5: by those antibiotics. That is how the ego to our
Speaker 5: fungicide works. It prevents the infection for example. So when
Speaker 5: you go into the lawn with these products and water
Speaker 5: them in with about a half inch of water, you've
Speaker 5: got the nutrients taken care of the diseases or excuse me, Yeah,
Speaker 5: the disease is taken care of like brown patch. And
Speaker 5: it also works on take all root rot too, which
Speaker 5: infects in the fall. And then finally the barricade to
Speaker 5: prevent the weeds. It's one, two three, it's easy to do.
Speaker 5: D and D Feed has a plantation ace hardware and
Speaker 5: Richmond has it. Hiden and Feed and Stuben Airline carry
Speaker 5: Nitrofassis Texas three step program and today at RCW Nursery,
Speaker 5: I'm going to be given away two or three bags
Speaker 5: of each one of those along with a lot of
Speaker 5: other things. So coming up to RCW from twelve to
Speaker 5: two and maybe a win a bag if you don't.
Speaker 5: They also carry it there as well. It's time to
Speaker 5: get that done. All right, I'm going to head out
Speaker 5: to the phones. Oh my, here we go. We're gonna
Speaker 5: go to Ken and Katie. Hey, Ken, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 20: Good morning, Thank you for taking my cow. Yes, sir,
Speaker 20: I've got I yes, two crate myrtles in my front yard.
Speaker 20: And they both look like they've been pulled through a chimney.
Speaker 20: And you got all kinds of a black suit or
Speaker 20: something on the leaves.
Speaker 7: What can I do?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 5: That Blacksit is caused by ninety percent chance. It's caused
Speaker 5: by a scale insect. If you look up and down
Speaker 5: the trunks and the black suit, you may see some
Speaker 5: little tiny white flex in there, and it's called creat
Speaker 5: myrtle bark scale and it produces. It sucks the sugary
Speaker 5: juice out of the plant, and it secretes it as
Speaker 5: a substance called honeydew that falls down and the set
Speaker 5: grows on that sugary water. So you need to prevent that.
Speaker 5: You can use a systemic product that you drench on
Speaker 5: the soil. It goes into the plant and then when
Speaker 5: the bugs are sucking juices out of the plant, that
Speaker 5: product kills the bug because it's in the plumbing of
Speaker 5: the plant. It's not sprayed on the outside of the plant.
Speaker 5: That would be at this point in the season, probably
Speaker 5: the best step to take.
Speaker 20: And what is it called?
Speaker 5: Oh well, it's two ingredients. And I'm going to give
Speaker 5: you just the first few letters of them because they're
Speaker 5: the only things. They begin with those first few letters.
Speaker 5: One is called in mid dough I am id in
Speaker 5: mid dough. The second ingredient begins with D I N
Speaker 5: O T E F. Dino tap and med oh and
Speaker 5: dino tap. You don't need both. They do the same thing.
Speaker 5: They're insecticide. You mix them in water, you drench them
Speaker 5: around the plant, on the soil so the roots pick
Speaker 5: them up.
Speaker 20: Okay, And right now would be a good time to
Speaker 20: do it.
Speaker 5: Yes, you could do that now. You may have to
Speaker 5: do it again at another time, but that would be
Speaker 5: a thing to do now.
Speaker 20: All right, that's what I need it.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, good luck with that. Appreciate you bet,
Speaker 5: appreciate your call very much. Okay, who's been waiting the
Speaker 5: longest here. Let's go to JM and Houston. Hey JM,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Thank you, skip and enjoy and enjoy your show very much.
Speaker 5: Sure.
Speaker 17: I don't know if you were I don't know if
Speaker 17: you were called, but she's certainly an email are regarding
Speaker 17: dove weed in my yard, and you indicated that I
Speaker 17: needed a post service side, which I've had my long
Speaker 17: care people put on the yard, but it's dead. But
Speaker 17: I was curious to know if I was supposed to
Speaker 17: pull up the roots that were under the leaf that
Speaker 17: are on the ground, or shall I just leave them alone?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And you know, if you get them up, there's little
Speaker 5: seeds that have followed the little tiny flowers dove weed
Speaker 5: has that are on there still, and if you got
Speaker 5: some of those out, that would help a little bit.
Speaker 5: The main thing you got to do now is when
Speaker 5: we get into the springtime, a pre emergent to shut
Speaker 5: those seeds down before they get going. Uh, doveweed is
Speaker 5: a little bit slow to Germany, and so the spring
Speaker 5: pre emergent applications that are on my schedule for almost
Speaker 5: all the other weeds it is, dove weed comes a
Speaker 5: little bit later than that. So what I would recommend
Speaker 5: that you do is, if you don't have other weed problems,
Speaker 5: then go ahead and hold off on your pre emergent application. Typically,
Speaker 5: I would probably make it in March or April, because
Speaker 5: dove weed typically is going to be sprouting when it
Speaker 5: really gets warm in May, you know, so that that
Speaker 5: would be Yeah, you're delaying it because those those pre
Speaker 5: emergents are only going to last you about sixty days,
Speaker 5: maybe maybe up the ninety days, depending on conditions. And
Speaker 5: so when you when you no longer have the effective
Speaker 5: pre emergent, you have to repeat it again. Okay, do
Speaker 5: I need to.
Speaker 17: Put down grass or it's been where the dove weed
Speaker 17: has died and where it's bear I.
Speaker 5: Need to now wherever sunlight, Yeah, wherever sunlight hits the soil,
Speaker 5: nature plants of weed. And so if you if you
Speaker 5: let that, if you let that stay there, something's gonna
Speaker 5: come up, dove weed, seeds or something else. So putting
Speaker 5: sod in those spots is a good idea.
Speaker 25: Okay, great sounds good. All right, all right, all right,
Speaker 25: thank you sir, appreciate it, you bet? Yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 25: got our hands full today, but yes, you're right. All right, folks, Wow,
Speaker 25: we are time flies. I don't have enough time to
Speaker 25: grab the next call here. Let's see when we come
Speaker 25: back from break, Evelyn and Ken and Lawrence. You will
Speaker 25: be our first ones up as we come back. Just
Speaker 25: a reminder that I'm going to be at RCW Nursery
Speaker 25: today from twelve to two.
Speaker 5: Won't you make time to come on out. We got
Speaker 5: some decent weather today, a good time to get out there.
Speaker 5: They're having their fall flame. They're gonna have barbecue lunch.
Speaker 5: Don't even worry about grabbing lunch. Just come on and
Speaker 5: have some barbecue with us. Bring me samples of your plants,
Speaker 5: bring me pictures of the landscape. Any kind of questions
Speaker 5: that you have. I'll be happy to answer those. While
Speaker 5: you're out there. You're going to get a chance to
Speaker 5: win more stuff than I think I've ever given away
Speaker 5: in an appearance. Well over twenty different items including, uh
Speaker 5: some shrubs like the camellias, trees like red bud and
Speaker 5: San Felipe maple, the three step nitrophosphall products, the barricade,
Speaker 5: the fall Special, the Eagle chur funge aside, some cool
Speaker 5: yard art, freeze clock. Hey, that's going to come on
Speaker 5: hand to put the scene. I can just sit a
Speaker 5: name on, on on and on. It's gonna be a
Speaker 5: fun day. Let's get a picture made too. While we're
Speaker 5: doing it. See you in a bit.
Speaker 1: Welcome to k r H guarden Line with Skip Rict.
Speaker 2: It's just wims Sat Daisy.
Speaker 5: See folks, welcome back to garden lines. Glad to have
Speaker 5: you with us. We got a lot of ground to
Speaker 5: cover here. Man, it just seems like time's flying today.
Speaker 5: Have you ever been out to Hoorges Hidden Gardens. They're
Speaker 5: down in Alvin, Texas, just south of Houston. They're your
Speaker 5: garden center down south. And that really that whole region,
Speaker 5: you know. So if you live in Santa Fe or Dickensenter,
Speaker 5: I'll go Arcadia, Alta Loma, all those communities down there.
Speaker 5: This is your backyard garden center. Now, Hoorge has just
Speaker 5: gotten in some blueberries. He's got on special and oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, the eight different varieties of blueberries are available.
Speaker 5: They're at twenty five bucks for a three gallon blueberry
Speaker 5: that's ready to go on the ground. These plants are
Speaker 5: over three feet tall, and you know, blueberries just really
Speaker 5: enjoy the climate and weather we have done here. They
Speaker 5: just want a high quality water. So you want to
Speaker 5: if you got rain water, that's even best, but a
Speaker 5: good water on them. You want to put them in
Speaker 5: a soil mix that is somewhat acidic and high and
Speaker 5: organic matter. Some people use peat moss in the mix,
Speaker 5: some sand in the mix. So if you just have
Speaker 5: a real heavy clay, you're going to want to mend
Speaker 5: that soil and create a raised bed to have success
Speaker 5: with those blueberries. But they will grow here. I mean
Speaker 5: we have blueberry forms in the area now. Jrae has
Speaker 5: a lot of other things too. By the way, they're
Speaker 5: open in this fall. Their hours are they're closed on Monday,
Speaker 5: but Tuesday through Friday nine to three and on the
Speaker 5: weekend Saturday and Sunday eight to four. So today and
Speaker 5: tomorrow both eight am to four pm. Go out and
Speaker 5: grab that blueberry. Those blueberries, Remember to get two different
Speaker 5: plants so they can cross pollinate. When you do that.
Speaker 5: While you're out there, you're going to see a lot
Speaker 5: of other trees and shrubs and plants and citrus and
Speaker 5: all kinds of things that carries. He also has that
Speaker 5: three sixty tree stabilizer, So if you buy a tree
Speaker 5: from Joje, also buy one of those three sixty tree stabilizers.
Speaker 5: They are very very effective on helping stabilize a new
Speaker 5: tree until they can get a good root system down.
Speaker 5: There in the ground. We're going to head out now
Speaker 5: to talk to Evelyn. Hello Evelyn, Hey dad, this.
Speaker 18: Is actually Emily, Evelyn's mother.
Speaker 26: How are you.
Speaker 5: I'm good, I'm good.
Speaker 10: Good.
Speaker 18: We need to update your taste in music, by the way,
Speaker 18: from the nineteen seventies, because you know it's.
Speaker 6: A new decade now.
Speaker 5: H Only my granddaughter can talk to me that way.
Speaker 5: You can't speak to me that way, you lady.
Speaker 10: I have two questions for you, and I know you've
Speaker 10: got a line, so I'll be fairly quick.
Speaker 18: I am driving back home from picking up my chicken.
Speaker 5: Coop right now, and I'm wondering if there's any.
Speaker 18: Ways that I can use my chickens to enhance my garden.
Speaker 5: Well, number one, chickens will run a mile to catch
Speaker 5: a grasshopper, and so any kind of pest like that
Speaker 5: that they can yet they'll go after. Just remember that
Speaker 5: they'll also packet your little seedlings and things, so don't
Speaker 5: let them out there when you have, you know, just
Speaker 5: have little plant seedlings. They'll pack at them and keep
Speaker 5: the fresh manure out because it can carry some of
Speaker 5: the human disease issues like salmonella and E. Coli and whatnot.
Speaker 5: But once the manure has been mixed into the ground
Speaker 5: and allowed to decompose. That's another benefit that they can give.
Speaker 8: You.
Speaker 18: Can I put my Can I put the maneuver inside
Speaker 18: my compost?
Speaker 5: You can, but you got to compost it well, so
Speaker 5: it takes a good hot compost or some time underground
Speaker 5: for the thing to be fully broken down so that
Speaker 5: it's safe to use.
Speaker 18: That makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 15: My second question, I'm headed to the nursery today to
Speaker 15: pick up some fruit trees, and I know you said
Speaker 15: to cut up the roots really good so that they
Speaker 15: can branch out.
Speaker 5: Do I need to amend the oil or is there
Speaker 5: anything else do you suggest.
Speaker 18: I do when I put them in the ground.
Speaker 5: Yep. The better the soil is, the better they'll do.
Speaker 5: When we say cut up, what we're referring to is
Speaker 5: is slicing through the outer roots cylinder in three or
Speaker 5: four places so that circling roots are severed. And from
Speaker 5: that where you sever them, they'll branch out and establish
Speaker 5: really really well. If you can put in a good soil,
Speaker 5: mix some top soil if the area is not draining well,
Speaker 5: making sure that it's raised up a little bit where
Speaker 5: you plant the fruit trees so that they drain well.
Speaker 5: But those are the key things, and probably the most
Speaker 5: important thing is keeping the weeds away at least give
Speaker 5: them a two feet mulch in all directions. Wider is
Speaker 5: even better because the lawnmower in the weed here. Sure
Speaker 5: do you tear them up?
Speaker 13: For sure?
Speaker 26: For sure? All right, well, thank you.
Speaker 13: That's very helpful.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you, appreciate it. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 20: Take care.
Speaker 5: We are going to run now. Going to run now
Speaker 5: to Rosenberg, Texas and talk to Ken. Hey, Ken, welcome toguardline.
Speaker 13: Thank you.
Speaker 11: I have read an article in the past about a
Speaker 11: fishing worm that's an invasive one from Asia that when
Speaker 11: you touch it youris I have some of those in
Speaker 11: my garden.
Speaker 5: Can I get rid of them?
Speaker 12: Or what's the risk of having them there?
Speaker 5: There's no way I know to get rid of just
Speaker 5: that worm without nuking the soil and killing everything. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't know a good way to eradicate them. That is,
Speaker 5: that is out of my area of expertise. So I
Speaker 5: don't know what else to tay on those. It's it's
Speaker 5: unfortunate we have those, but I don't think it's practical
Speaker 5: to try to treat for them. I could be wrong
Speaker 5: with some good they're invasive species. Well, I mean, we
Speaker 5: had a lot of things that are invasive that end
Speaker 5: up doing a good job.
Speaker 27: You know.
Speaker 5: We got the the Asian lady beetle here that's more
Speaker 5: voracious in its appetite than our native lady beetles, and
Speaker 5: so they are still out there doing good for you
Speaker 5: in the garden. But yeah, I don't I'm just not
Speaker 5: a native I'm excuse me. I'm not an invasive species
Speaker 5: expert when it comes to things like that. I've heard
Speaker 5: of what you're talking about. I'm familiar with them. I
Speaker 5: just I just don't know. Okay, thanks so much, all right,
Speaker 5: thanks a lot. Sorry, it couldn't be more help on that, alrighty,
Speaker 5: you bet, you bet? If I can get my mouse
Speaker 5: here and there we go, all right. I was telling
Speaker 5: you earlier about the importance of building the soil. And
Speaker 5: although it is fertilizing season, uh, there is a kind
Speaker 5: of nutrient application that we make at any time of
Speaker 5: the year, and that is azamite. Azemite is a micronutrient
Speaker 5: or a trace mineral supplement. So when you put that down,
Speaker 5: it is going to provide those minerals into the soil
Speaker 5: bank account that all through the year when a root
Speaker 5: needs main these or some other obscure little tiny mineral
Speaker 5: that is essential but needed in tiny amounts. Asmite has
Speaker 5: provided that for the soil. So Asmite is put out
Speaker 5: in small amounts. You know, forty four pound bag is
Speaker 5: going to cover up the twelve thousand square feet, so
Speaker 5: it goes a long way because you're not dumping a
Speaker 5: bunch of fertilizer on it. You are supplementing a micro
Speaker 5: nutrient into your soil. Very important. Can be done anytime
Speaker 5: of the year. You can do it when you fertilize.
Speaker 5: Just do it in a separate application from your fertilization
Speaker 5: because the particle sizes of various products are different and
Speaker 5: therefore they don't spread evenly if you don't if you
Speaker 5: try to mix them together. Asmite Texas dot com is
Speaker 5: a website. You're going to find asmite in a lot
Speaker 5: of places.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware has it. Ace Hardware carries asmite forty Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware stores around the area. It's easy to find one
Speaker 5: near you. And while you're at Ace Hardware, grab that
Speaker 5: Nitroposs one two three completely easy system that is the
Speaker 5: fall special that is the barricade, and that is the Eagle,
Speaker 5: and decide fall specials nutrients. Barricade is to stop weeds,
Speaker 5: don't let them through the soil, and the eagle is
Speaker 5: to shut down diseases when they try to infect your grass.
Speaker 5: And ACE Hardware carries that package from Nitrofoss forty plus
Speaker 5: ACE Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area. Go to
Speaker 5: Acehardware dot com find the store locator to find the
Speaker 5: one near you. It's easy that way to get everything
Speaker 5: you need for your lawn and your landscape. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: take a little break here. When we come back, Lawrence
Speaker 5: and Humble, you'll be our first stop. Hey, welcome back
Speaker 5: to Garden Line. Welcome back. Good to have you. I
Speaker 5: was just at break looking over some notes that I
Speaker 5: had about various things, and I was noticing that Enchanted
Speaker 5: Forest Garden Center and Channa Forest Garden Center has their
Speaker 5: stock right now of new plants for fall is just outstanding.
Speaker 5: I was looking at some pictures of the I was
Speaker 5: out there the other by the way, had a real
Speaker 5: good time out there. Thanks for everybody that came out.
Speaker 5: But they've gotten a whole new shipment now of things
Speaker 5: in from the vegetable in the vegetable areas and in
Speaker 5: the herb areas. Their fall color is just still unbelievable.
Speaker 5: And when it comes to trees and shrubs and everything
Speaker 5: that you can imagine. You want some dependable perennials like
Speaker 5: Salvia's and others that'll come back here after year. That'll
Speaker 5: attract butterflies, that'll attract bees, that'll attract hummingbirds, all kinds
Speaker 5: of different things. They've got it stocked up there at
Speaker 5: Enchanted Forest. You know, in Channa Forest is a garden
Speaker 5: center that's out there in Richmond Rosenberg, but it's in
Speaker 5: the Sugarland direction. So as you go out, you want
Speaker 5: to head down FM twenty seven fifty nine. That'll take
Speaker 5: you to Enchanted Forest, which is off to the right
Speaker 5: as you're heading up fifty nine towards sugar Land. It's
Speaker 5: way down off to the right there. It's it is
Speaker 5: so beautiful to go to. Every time I go out,
Speaker 5: I'm just a mess, amazed. And I was telling Clay
Speaker 5: that I don't think the place has ever looked better
Speaker 5: out there, and it is. It is a load it
Speaker 5: up and by people are they loving it. You can
Speaker 5: watch people's faces when they drive it. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 5: this is cool. I didn't realize will be this cool.
Speaker 5: It is so nice. And when I was out there
Speaker 5: wandering around looking, I was trying to keep up with
Speaker 5: what are these people carrying at various garden centers and things,
Speaker 5: and it's like, I don't know anything that's not here.
Speaker 5: The house points selection look great out there. The gifts
Speaker 5: the gift shop is awesome. They carry all the products.
Speaker 5: You know that you hear me talk about fertilizers all
Speaker 5: the time on guard Line. They've got them there in
Speaker 5: chanted forest. While you're out there, and you know how
Speaker 5: important it is to make sure you've got the soil
Speaker 5: right for your plants to have success. So whether you're
Speaker 5: needing a holly or a red bud, or a maple,
Speaker 5: or an oak or a magnolia or a fruit tree
Speaker 5: or a shrub, fallows the time to plant them, and
Speaker 5: they got they have them. They've got them there. They're
Speaker 5: set up some beautiful little esperanzas, various types that were
Speaker 5: really in beautiful bloom when I was out there, and
Speaker 5: lots of other things. It's just in chanting forests, the
Speaker 5: kind of place you got to go Enchanting is the
Speaker 5: word it's it's in their name, but it's also a
Speaker 5: description of the place you're going to get good advice,
Speaker 5: good direction, quality plants and top not shape and a
Speaker 5: breadth of selection that is just amazing. In Jenny Forest
Speaker 5: Garden Center. I'm going to head out now to Humbol, Texas,
Speaker 5: and we're going to talk to Lawrence. Hello, Lawrence, Welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Hi good Born, and thanks taking a call. Yes, sir,
Speaker 12: don't know if you see my email there.
Speaker 5: Throat. Oh you had the house, Yeah, you had the
Speaker 5: house plants with the leaves, right, yeah, yeah, I did.
Speaker 5: I saw that. That is very strange that that look.
Speaker 5: My first thought was that maybe a sunburn, and then
Speaker 5: it didn't quite look like sunburn. It Overwatering can cause
Speaker 5: problems because the roots can't get oxygen, and so can
Speaker 5: root rots, and when the root dies you start to
Speaker 5: see problems on the top. But as I look closer
Speaker 5: at it, it almost looks like a bacterial infection has
Speaker 5: gotten into those leaves, because from one point everything out
Speaker 5: from there is just collapsing and turning to mush, and
Speaker 5: so once it's doing that, there's no bringing it back
Speaker 5: to life. So I would cut that leaf off, and
Speaker 5: I realized that's going to mean doing a lot of
Speaker 5: pruning on those plants. But cut it off and get
Speaker 5: it out of there. Those kind of bacteria can splash around,
Speaker 5: or as you're handling the plant and moving your hands around,
Speaker 5: you can spread them around that way too. Just to
Speaker 5: be extra careful, Laurence would I would make my pruning
Speaker 5: cuts with snippers, and then I would spray those snippers
Speaker 5: with lysol between cuts. That way, if you do have
Speaker 5: some bacteria that you're getting when you cut through the branch,
Speaker 5: you'll kill it before you go cut another branch, and
Speaker 5: you can avoid That's true any kind of pruning where
Speaker 5: you're worried about cankers and diseases and things. Is sterilize
Speaker 5: those printers between cuts and life is the simplest, easiest
Speaker 5: way I know to do it. I mean, there's lots
Speaker 5: of other ways to do it, but I like to
Speaker 5: use it because it's tandy, real easy to do.
Speaker 13: Is there anything else that put on the soil of
Speaker 13: the leaves.
Speaker 5: Or anything like that, not really, You know, the bacteria
Speaker 5: itself appears to be interior in the plumbing of that plant.
Speaker 5: At some point we can use copper type sprays on
Speaker 5: plants to stop bacteria from landing on the surface and infecting,
Speaker 5: but it leaves your plants looking blue, and for a houseplant,
Speaker 5: there's just not a practical way to do that. I
Speaker 5: would not recommend it, and some plants are sensitive to copper.
Speaker 5: So with the eight hundred thousand types of houseplants we
Speaker 5: now have around, I just don't know which ones are
Speaker 5: safe and not, so I would use the sanitation if
Speaker 5: were you check the soil, make sure it's not soggy, wet,
Speaker 5: make sure the pot the drain holes are not plugged,
Speaker 5: keep it moist but not soggy, and then do the
Speaker 5: sanitary pruning. I think it's your best bet. Get them
Speaker 5: in as much light as you can so that they
Speaker 5: have the best chance of building the energy to recoup
Speaker 5: and recover and put new growth out. That's kind of
Speaker 5: the whole nine yards on and trying to bring that
Speaker 5: plant around.
Speaker 13: Okay, I appreciate you, all.
Speaker 5: Right, thank you, appreciate the call. Take care. Beautiful plant,
Speaker 5: by the way, beautiful beautiful plant. You know, when I
Speaker 5: went through and got my horticulture degree, I think you
Speaker 5: could write on a postage stamp the amount of stuff
Speaker 5: I learned about house plants. I'm serious. Of course, I
Speaker 5: was in pomology, focusing on fruit, but also we learned
Speaker 5: a lot about ornamentals and everything else. But I tell you, houseplants.
Speaker 5: When COVID hit suddenly, it's like I had to learn
Speaker 5: the names the new houseplants I didn't even know existed,
Speaker 5: and people start going crazy over those things. And it
Speaker 5: still continues.
Speaker 13: Now.
Speaker 5: People are really in house plants for good reason. So
Speaker 5: and I, by the way, I've got more than I
Speaker 5: know what to do with around the house. But boy,
Speaker 5: doesn't it doesn't it just make an indoor environment less sterile.
Speaker 5: It's warm and just inviting to be, kind of living
Speaker 5: in a jungle. And I've got some daughters that have
Speaker 5: enough houseplants to where you walk in the door and
Speaker 5: you're afraid a little shop of horrors reaching out and
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Speaker 5: the kinds of questions that you might have. I am
Speaker 5: really impressed with a number of products that the folks
Speaker 5: at Medina have produced over the years. And Carrie, right
Speaker 5: now I want to talk to talk to you about
Speaker 5: Medina Plus. Now you probably famil with Medina Soil Activator.
Speaker 5: It's been around for a long time. Well, they took
Speaker 5: Medina Soil Activator and they really bumped it up a
Speaker 5: notch with over forty different trace elements, a lot of
Speaker 5: natural growth hormone from seaweed extract, a lot of minerals
Speaker 5: are in that vitamins, a lot of other things are
Speaker 5: in Medina Soil Activator. Excuse me, Medina Soil Plus, which
Speaker 5: is so activator plus more. I just planted a whole
Speaker 5: bit of strawberries the other day. Got a man. Finally,
Speaker 5: you know the cobblers kids go barefoot, So sometimes my
Speaker 5: yard has to wait while I'm helping you with your yard. Well,
Speaker 5: I got a whole bit of strawberries in every plant,
Speaker 5: got a good drenching with Medina Plus. I'll do it
Speaker 5: again a week later. I'll do it again a week
Speaker 5: after that. Three applications of Medina plus drenching it. I'd
Speaker 5: put over the top of the plants. Get it on
Speaker 5: the leaves. It's good for that too. You can fold
Speaker 5: your feed with it, but mainly for the transplanting. I'm
Speaker 5: getting it down there in the root system. Now it's
Speaker 5: Medina Plus isn't just for transplanting. It's just fall is
Speaker 5: a seasoned to plant. So you need to have Medina
Speaker 5: Plus on hand along with a watering can so you
Speaker 5: can water those plants in and drench them with the
Speaker 5: quality material called Medina plus from Medina. It works, It
Speaker 5: works well, That's why I use it. Someone was calling
Speaker 5: me the other day asking do I need to do
Speaker 5: I need to aerate my lawn. That was a question
Speaker 5: that I get from time to time, and the answer is, well,
Speaker 5: aeration is always helpful. It's always helpful. But if your
Speaker 5: lawn is a heavy clay or if your lawn is
Speaker 5: compacted compacted clay, then aeration is just essential. Need to
Speaker 5: get that done. If your lawn's been struggling and just
Speaker 5: getting thin, it's like it's just the green is not
Speaker 5: green enough. I need to rejuvenate it. Well, there could
Speaker 5: be a lot of things involved, but one of the
Speaker 5: things that I like to see folks do is do
Speaker 5: a core aeration follow it with a quality compost top dressing.
Speaker 5: And the folks at B and B turf Pros down
Speaker 5: south of Houston, they're the ones who know exactly how
Speaker 5: to do that. In that region. They cover about a
Speaker 5: twenty mile area, and that would include all the way
Speaker 5: from let's say north and west up to Sugarland in
Speaker 5: Missouri City, and then as you swing down Highway six
Speaker 5: Brasnow or Colas Siena, Iowa colony Manvil, and all the
Speaker 5: way over east to Paerland. That's kind of their service region.
Speaker 5: You can go to their website and I would encourage
Speaker 5: you to do that because you can see the kind
Speaker 5: of work they do there. BB no end just BB
Speaker 5: Turfpros dot com. What you will find is with BB
Speaker 5: you get quality materials, They only use products and companies
Speaker 5: that I trust here on guard Line, including Cnimals I
Speaker 5: was talking about earlier. They use Cnimals, So that tells
Speaker 5: you they're after the good stuff. They put that on
Speaker 5: your lawn. So they do the aeration, they do the
Speaker 5: compost top dressing. Uh, and they do an excellent job
Speaker 5: of it. And that you know, people try to erate themselves.
Speaker 5: Typically they use an narrator that doesn't pull plugs out
Speaker 5: like bmb's does. That's what you want to do is
Speaker 5: pull the plugs out. And it's a lot of work,
Speaker 5: and it's messy, and it's dusty, and you're hauling compost
Speaker 5: and shoveling and carrying it. Let them bring their equipment
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Speaker 5: I'm going to take a break for the news. I'll
Speaker 5: be right back folks, well about the guardline. Good to
Speaker 5: have you with us. As always, we are here to
Speaker 5: help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and
Speaker 5: fun in the process. A little bit earlier today somebody
Speaker 5: called me about Bill from Cyprus called about look at
Speaker 5: for Tiff four nineteen and Celebration of Bermuda. Those are
Speaker 5: two Bermuda cultivars that are out there. Four nineteen has
Speaker 5: been around a long time, and I've been hunting down someplaces.
Speaker 5: I think I believe that your King Ranch Turf Grass
Speaker 5: locations are going to carry both of those. You just
Speaker 5: you just need to call them and see what they have,
Speaker 5: you know, in stock at the time, or what they
Speaker 5: can get, and they're going to carry those two. I
Speaker 5: do know that Milburger Turf also carries the four quarteen.
Speaker 5: And you didn't mention this variety, but really an outstanding,
Speaker 5: really outstanding variety of Bermuda grass re superior and trials
Speaker 5: and things like that is a variety called tif Tough
Speaker 5: tif t Uf Tiff Tough So four nineteen is Tiff
Speaker 5: four nineteen. Tiff comes from Tifton, Georgia. Uh Tiff Tough
Speaker 5: is another good one, and Millburgers carries those. Now, Millburger
Speaker 5: is a wholesale place, but they do have retail outlets.
Speaker 5: So I'm just going to give you a phone number
Speaker 5: if you want to call if you're trying to find
Speaker 5: a retail outlet for Milburger's mill Burger's varieties. Here, here's
Speaker 5: number seven nine. Excuse me, start over nine seven nine
Speaker 5: two four oh ninety four sixty two nine seven nine
Speaker 5: two four oh nine four sixty two. That you know,
Speaker 5: they're not gonna You're not gonna drive out their farm,
Speaker 5: but they're not gonna bring a little palette to your house.
Speaker 5: They're wholesalers, but they do have retail outlets. So call
Speaker 5: them and say, hey, what where can I get you're
Speaker 5: four nineteen? Where can I get your your tiff tough Bermuda?
Speaker 5: That is definitely one that I would consider. You know,
Speaker 5: we don't talk about bermutilawns a lot, but Bermuda is.
Speaker 5: It is an amazing turf grass. Each turf grass has
Speaker 5: its pros and cons each one does. And so, uh
Speaker 5: what do you what do you uh, you know, what
Speaker 5: do you wreck men? Skipt for turt Well, it depends
Speaker 5: on what you got. Do you have a whole lot
Speaker 5: of shade. Well, probably not bermuda, probably saying Augustine, or
Speaker 5: there are a few zoysias that are pretty good for that.
Speaker 5: Do you need something that is extremely where tolerant? I mean,
Speaker 5: I need something For example, here comes a question, I
Speaker 5: need something that my kids can play four soccer games
Speaker 5: a week on impound to death and still survive. Okay,
Speaker 5: well maybe that's a little overdoing it, but that would
Speaker 5: be bermuda grass. Bermuda grass, you can strip it all
Speaker 5: off the ground and it comes right up. Have you
Speaker 5: ever try to get out of a flower bed? You
Speaker 5: know how tuugh that stuff is? You know, right, it's
Speaker 5: not easy to get rid of. That's kind of a
Speaker 5: turf you want if you're gonna have wear and tear,
Speaker 5: if you got sun, If you want the most fine textured,
Speaker 5: beautiful turf in the world and you're willing to mow
Speaker 5: it regularly, bermuda grass is that type of turf. They're
Speaker 5: the golf course greens. If you know how golf course
Speaker 5: greens are. I mean, can you have a more beautiful
Speaker 5: turf than that? Well, that is a dwarf type of
Speaker 5: a bermuda that's mode every day and you can have
Speaker 5: that Okay, most people aren't going to do that in
Speaker 5: their yard, although you could create a putting green in
Speaker 5: your yard. But that's Bermuda's advantages, right, You like to
Speaker 5: roll around in the grass and stuff, well, Saint Augustine
Speaker 5: has any chiggers in it sometimes, as Bermuda might do.
Speaker 5: So I kind of like Saint Augustine for that. See
Speaker 5: what i mean, everybody, Every grass has its pros and
Speaker 5: cons and each one has different specific requirements to have
Speaker 5: success with it. If you can't get out and mow regularly,
Speaker 5: which all grass wants to be mowed regularly, Saint Augustine
Speaker 5: is a little a little more forgiving of an erratic
Speaker 5: mowing schedule. You know, if you let Bermuda grass grow
Speaker 5: a while and then you cut it way back, it's
Speaker 5: going to be brown and twiggy kind of because that's
Speaker 5: just the nature of the beast. The more often you
Speaker 5: mow it, the better it looks. But that's true of
Speaker 5: a lot of grasses. So I guess what I'm saying
Speaker 5: is there's a lot of options out there. You can
Speaker 5: go to the Aggie Turf website Aggie Turf one word,
Speaker 5: Aggie Turf, dot TAMU dot E Edu and on there
Speaker 5: you'll find a list of turf types for Texas with
Speaker 5: the description of what I just gave you, pros and
Speaker 5: cons and things and more. Also on there, or turf weeds.
Speaker 5: Where you got a weed, I don't know what it is,
Speaker 5: go look at there. There's pictures of them. Grassyweeds, sedge weeds,
Speaker 5: broad leaf weeds are all there on the Aggie Turf website.
Speaker 5: It's very very helpful. So there's a little spiel on turf.
Speaker 5: But pretty much everybody's got a lawn, at least more
Speaker 5: so than pretty much any other plant we have. Let's
Speaker 5: go to Liverpool now and talk to Trish. Hey, Trish,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Good morning.
Speaker 26: I have a sister law up an Alto tech Alto, Texas,
Speaker 26: who built some rice beds last year, and she bought
Speaker 26: a box store race beed soil and of course it okay,
Speaker 26: failed miserably because it doesn't hold moisture. I matter of fact,
Speaker 26: we visited with her and it felt very woody.
Speaker 6: But she doesn't want to throw it away. She's wanting
Speaker 6: to know what she can do to a mend.
Speaker 5: That put a high quality compost in it, mix a
Speaker 5: high quality compost into that soil, and so what that's
Speaker 5: going to do is a lot of a lot of
Speaker 5: cheap soils. Okay, if you want to be a soil
Speaker 5: yard and you just want to move stuff through make
Speaker 5: money and not worry about how they're going to do
Speaker 5: it people's yards, what you do is you grind up
Speaker 5: a bunch of organic matter. You about halfway compost it
Speaker 5: until it turns brown. Then you bag it up and
Speaker 5: sell it. And it's not ready. It's not been properly made,
Speaker 5: like you know, you when I talk about places you know,
Speaker 5: like airloom soils and Nature's Way and whatnot, they're making
Speaker 5: it correctly. And so these cheap places send that stuff out.
Speaker 5: I've opened up bags of potting soil, garden bed soil
Speaker 5: in those stores before the box store, and it's like
Speaker 5: there's wood chunks in there. For crying out loud, that's
Speaker 5: not good. So what you do, I mean it is
Speaker 5: organic matter. So what you do is you get a
Speaker 5: quality compost and mix it in and just keep doing that.
Speaker 5: But go to the places to sell quality compost. Don't
Speaker 5: go back to big box do I compost get you
Speaker 5: you know?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 26: Okay, okay, all right, Well, Thank you so much.
Speaker 20: For your time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you bet, you bet that good question too. By
Speaker 5: the way, thank you, thank you for that question. You know,
Speaker 5: everything that was once alive rots. Was it Shakespeare that
Speaker 5: said dust, thou art to dust return it? It's not
Speaker 5: spoken of the soul. We're talking about the fact that
Speaker 5: it's our bodies that we're talking about there.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 5: Well, everything that was once alive becomes soil again eventually,
Speaker 5: And okay, bad dad j I specialize in dead jokes.
Speaker 5: But do you know that that for several decades, some
Speaker 5: of our great composers, you know, like Schultz and Mozart.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 5: Anyway, Mozart, for example, uh, composed and ever since then
Speaker 5: he's been decomposing. Sorry, but seriously, everything that was once
Speaker 5: alive becomes soil again, and it just takes time, and
Speaker 5: a good quality soil yard knows how. They know how
Speaker 5: to do it properly, to grind up the particle size right,
Speaker 5: to mix the carbon materials and the nitron materials at
Speaker 5: the right ratio so that it decomposes, so that the
Speaker 5: microbial content microbes do all the work in this. We
Speaker 5: just get the credit. Microbes do that job of turning
Speaker 5: that stuff back into good quality material and it takes
Speaker 5: time to do that and you don't rush it out.
Speaker 5: You do it right. But quality compost is always a
Speaker 5: good idea. Let's go to Danny now in Houston. Hey, Danny,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hi.
Speaker 27: I have figs three Every year it has figs and
Speaker 27: it's became green and small and never grow and never
Speaker 27: get right.
Speaker 5: All right, Danny, I'm gonna I have to run to
Speaker 5: a quick break, but I'm gonna come back from break
Speaker 5: and answer your question. I want to pull together some
Speaker 5: things and we will. We will take it from there.
Speaker 5: So thank you for that question. I'll be right back
Speaker 5: with Danny. Uh just a moment. Stay tuned. Hey, welcome
Speaker 5: back to the garden Line.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: Moss Nursery done in Seabrook is a place that you
Speaker 5: need to visit. Now, everybody down that area knows the
Speaker 5: southeast of Houston. Everybodys nursery, I mean, it's most nursery
Speaker 5: has been around a very very long time. But he
Speaker 5: hadn't been down there. Maybe live in another area. He's
Speaker 5: want to do a little horticultural tourism. You ought to
Speaker 5: go check it out. It's on Toddville Road in Seabrook
Speaker 5: and Moss Nursery is eight acres of wandering through wonderland.
Speaker 5: I mean it. Every time you turn a corner there
Speaker 5: is something unusual. Jim mosc goes all over the place
Speaker 5: and brings back all kinds of things from carved totems
Speaker 5: to you. He's got to go see it. It is
Speaker 5: really cool. One of the best selections I can you're
Speaker 5: gonna find anywhere. They always have tons of containers. They
Speaker 5: are always stocked with everything for the season. Like right now,
Speaker 5: they have maragals in stock, and they have mums in stock,
Speaker 5: and they have cyclomen cool seasoned plant in stock. If
Speaker 5: you've never planted marigals in the fall, that is the
Speaker 5: best season for maragals that there is. In summer, spider
Speaker 5: maights will eat their lunch. In fall, spider maight populations
Speaker 5: crash and marigals get to do what they want to
Speaker 5: do without having to deal with mites. They glow right
Speaker 5: up into the first frost, orange and yellow and white
Speaker 5: types of miragals. When you go to mas nursery, you're
Speaker 5: always going to find something you didn't expect. Right now,
Speaker 5: they got their Talavera Halloween pumpkins and ghosts on sale
Speaker 5: for thirty percent off while their supplies last, and their
Speaker 5: houseplant greenhouse is unmatched. Beautiful philodendrons of all kinds. They
Speaker 5: got the one called burkin that has little white stripes
Speaker 5: and sleeves. That is really an easy plant to grow.
Speaker 5: You know, some philodendrons can be a little picky, but
Speaker 5: barkin is so easy. I had a coworker that could
Speaker 5: kill a silk plant. I mean she was not a
Speaker 5: plant person. She had a burkin in her window and
Speaker 5: it just got better and better and better. It's it's
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, you gotta water, but that's a great plant.
Speaker 5: Easy to grow. This this weekend, by the way, Tina's
Speaker 5: Broadworst House is gonna be out there serving Yes, brought worst,
Speaker 5: So go out grab your lunch there so you have
Speaker 5: time to shop, because you're going to need time when
Speaker 5: you go to Moss Nursery to walk through and see
Speaker 5: it all. There's a lot to take in fifty five
Speaker 5: eleven Toddville Road in Seabrook. Maas Nursery dot com. Maas
Speaker 5: Nursery dot Com. We're gonna go now to back to
Speaker 5: Danny and Danny. We were talking about fig trees and
Speaker 5: you're talking about your fig tree just not performing. Tell
Speaker 5: me again how long it's been on the ground. I've
Speaker 5: been like three years. Three years, okay. So fig trees
Speaker 5: are pretty tough and they're not that hard to grow,
Speaker 5: but if they don't get enough water, they struggle. And
Speaker 5: so if it's in droggy conditions, it's going to really
Speaker 5: struggle with that. The other thing that happens to figs
Speaker 5: is nematodes. Nematods are little tiny worm like creatures too
Speaker 5: small to see. They get in the roots and cause
Speaker 5: the roots to develop bumps and knots, so they look
Speaker 5: sort of like a string of pearls, or you know,
Speaker 5: like a snake swallows an animal that has this bump
Speaker 5: in the middle of the snake. You know, the roots
Speaker 5: look like that. And so you can take a water hose,
Speaker 5: maybe a little spading fork, and loosen some soil around
Speaker 5: the tree a little bit and then sort of blast
Speaker 5: out the roots where you can get a good look
Speaker 5: at them. You don't want to tear them all off,
Speaker 5: but look at them. And if you see all those
Speaker 5: little bumps and things like that, that is a nematod
Speaker 5: problem and figs that we don't have a fig that's
Speaker 5: resistant to nematodes, and we don't have a control that
Speaker 5: you spray on the soil that kills nematodes, so you
Speaker 5: have to go to other measures. I'm about to put
Speaker 5: something on our garden line Facebook page this week that
Speaker 5: talks about nematodes and points you to a web page
Speaker 5: that I have that tells about the options you have
Speaker 5: for managing them. If that's what you find, I would
Speaker 5: say there's about an eighty five percent chance that NEMA
Speaker 5: toads are what's going on with that tree. If you
Speaker 5: feel like it's not a problem with underwatering. Okay, thank
Speaker 5: you so much. You bet so. Watch our garden line
Speaker 5: Facebook page. My website is gardening with skip dot com.
Speaker 5: I haven't put the NEMA toade publication up there. It's
Speaker 5: just I was just talking to my web guy yesterday
Speaker 5: about we're going to get it up there this week.
Speaker 5: So watch for that. But first thing you do is
Speaker 5: go watch those reachs out. Take a look and see
Speaker 5: if you see what I'm describing. Okay, thank you so much. Yes, Danny,
Speaker 5: thank you for the call. I appreciate that. A lot
Speaker 5: the folks at Microlife Fertilizer make fertilizers that are chalk
Speaker 5: full of microbes in addition to the new tree, their
Speaker 5: chuck full of microbes. Whether you use their liquid products
Speaker 5: like a seaweed based product, a fisher motion based product.
Speaker 5: I like the seven one four liquid that they produce.
Speaker 5: You know, Microlife has been making quality products for a
Speaker 5: very very long time, and they know what they're doing.
Speaker 5: And when it comes to organic type products, they are
Speaker 5: the name that everybody looks to. By the way, I
Speaker 5: said sevenfore I meant seven one three. It's the orange
Speaker 5: label Biomatrix. It works really well. They've got another one
Speaker 5: called Microlife Maximum Bloom that's heavy in the phosphorus in there.
Speaker 5: They've got the liquid humates, plus they've got a micro
Speaker 5: Grow liquid. They have a product called Cactus and Succulent.
Speaker 5: Then there's one called Soil and Plant Energy. You just
Speaker 5: have to go online to Microlife Fertilizer dot com Microlife
Speaker 5: Fertilizer dot com. You can click on any one of
Speaker 5: those and see exactly what's in it and what it does.
Speaker 5: And I would encourage you to do that. You know,
Speaker 5: we talked I got Microlife's dry fertilizers. They're a green bag.
Speaker 5: That's our summer fertilizer. They're brown patch and a brown bag.
Speaker 5: That's their fall fertilizer. I've been talking about all morning,
Speaker 5: their bio inoculant and the quality of that and why
Speaker 5: we use that, but also these liquids. They're all there,
Speaker 5: and microlife products are widely available. Garden centers, feed stores,
Speaker 5: Southwest Fertilizer, ace hardware stores all over the Greater Houston
Speaker 5: area are going to carry these microlife products and they work.
Speaker 5: And I would encourage you if you've not used something
Speaker 5: like maybe you haven't used that biomatrix. That is a
Speaker 5: great boost. I use it on my houseplants, but it's
Speaker 5: also great for using outdoors on plants and containers or
Speaker 5: in the soil well for micro life fertilizer. Well, you're
Speaker 5: listening to Garden Line and we are down to almost
Speaker 5: no time left, so we're not going to be able
Speaker 5: to take a call going forward from here, but thanks
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Speaker 13: I am.
Speaker 5: We're gonna head over to RCW Nursery. Don't need to eat.
Speaker 5: They're gonna have some barbecue there for you and a
Speaker 5: lot of fun stuff with their fall flag. There's gonna
Speaker 5: be stuff with the kids. There's a little photo ops
Speaker 5: and things like that. And you get to not only
Speaker 5: get to shop the nursery, but bring me some samples
Speaker 5: to look at, bring me some pictures. We'll get those diagnosed.
Speaker 5: I want to get my picture taken with you, So
Speaker 5: come on out. Let's do that. Let's do that, and
Speaker 5: while you're out there, read to win over twenty different products.
Speaker 5: Fifteen gallon sam Philippe red maple, fifteen gallon redbud tree,
Speaker 5: three gallon and seven gallon camellias, a flat of assorted
Speaker 5: color plants. The nitrofoss three step. We've got more than
Speaker 5: one bag of barricade, Fall Special and Eagle Turf fungicide
Speaker 5: we're going to be given away. They got a bell chime,
Speaker 5: they got a chapin spreader, they got you see what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, freeze cloth, metal, yard art, A real cool tumbler.
Speaker 5: They got these little fashioned tumblers that have funny things
Speaker 5: printed out on the side. They're cool. They have got
Speaker 5: a lot of other products that they're given away. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just going to be product after products. So come
Speaker 5: on out. I look forward to seeing you again. I'll
Speaker 5: be there from twelve to two, twelve to two. You
Speaker 5: don't know where they are where. Combo Parkway f M
Speaker 5: two forty nine comes into beltweight eight RCW Nurseries