WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:03.319 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 2 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:06.679 of the products or service who's advertised on this program. 3 00:00:06.719 --> 00:00:11.320 Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's. 4 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.480 Shoes Crazy. 5 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:26.760 Grim just watch him as many. 6 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:28.600 Thanks to see botas. 7 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:43.560 Sa Sunmone. 8 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:47.719 Good morning, Good morning to all the gardeners out there 9 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:51.240 and the ones who would like to be gardeners. Maybe 10 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:54.280 you've never tried this before. By the way, you're listening 11 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:56.960 to the Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 12 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:59.520 we are here to help you have a bountiful garden 13 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.159 and a beautiful landscape. A simple as that. You know, 14 00:01:04.239 --> 00:01:07.519 it's not rocket science, it's really not. You give plants 15 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:10.000 the things they want, and they give you the stuff 16 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:13.599 that you band. They want sunlight, they want good drainage, 17 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:17.879 they want sual moisture, they want good nutrition, they want 18 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:21.000 to be at home in the climate you live in. 19 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.319 You know, you bring a blue spruce home from Colorado 20 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.280 and well, the Society for the Cruelty to Plants will 21 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:29.480 be at your door to arrest you and book you 22 00:01:29.599 --> 00:01:32.200 for that. Don't do it, but plant things that want 23 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:33.920 to be here. But you do those simple things that 24 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.760 I just talked about and you can have success. You know, 25 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:39.799 gardening is supposed to be fun, and that's what I 26 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:42.319 try to do here on Guarden Line is take some 27 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:44.719 of the mystery out of it, help you have success, 28 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:48.159 and in the meantime, remind you it's supposed to be fun. 29 00:01:49.040 --> 00:01:52.799 Do you know that nature kills plants every year? That 30 00:01:52.879 --> 00:01:55.159 means you can too, it does. I mean we get 31 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:57.840 things called annuals. They live a year and then they die. 32 00:01:58.359 --> 00:02:01.200 We have by annials that live through one year, through 33 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.439 the winter and then they die. And out in nature 34 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.599 that happens, and it's okay. Don't be afraid to experiment. 35 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:10.439 Don't be afraid to try things. I don't want to 36 00:02:10.439 --> 00:02:12.879 see you waste your time and money planning things that 37 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:14.800 are not going to succeed, or doing it in a 38 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:19.599 way that doesn't work. Where do the wise? Beware of 39 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:22.639 social media. Everybody on social media is an expert. Just 40 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:26.159 ask them. They'll tell you. But that didn't mean they're right, 41 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:28.439 or that doesn't mean what they say is right for 42 00:02:28.560 --> 00:02:32.159 where you live. And that's what we're doing here in Guardlane, 43 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:35.719 ktr H Greater Houston Areas, trying to help people here 44 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:38.879 in the whole region of Southeast Texas to have success 45 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:41.479 with their gardens. So if you would like to give 46 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:44.319 me a call, ask a question. Seven one three two 47 00:02:44.400 --> 00:02:48.080 one two k t RH seven one three two one 48 00:02:48.159 --> 00:02:53.719 two kt r H. It's always kind of slow early 49 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:55.520 in the morning. I know you're waking up. You probably 50 00:02:55.560 --> 00:02:57.759 have one eye open, one hand on a cup of 51 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:01.360 coffee trying to join the land of the living. But 52 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:04.240 early on is a better time actually to call, as 53 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:05.919 far as not having to wait in line to get in. 54 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:10.360 Affordable Tree Service is a company. You hear me talk 55 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.439 about a lot, and I was visiting with somebody about 56 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:14.080 him the other day, and you know, they were saying, 57 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:16.919 I need somebody to do such inside you on a tree, 58 00:03:16.919 --> 00:03:20.360 and I just call Martin because listen, Martin has been 59 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:22.919 doing this for a very long time in the Greater 60 00:03:22.960 --> 00:03:25.439 Houston area. Martin Spoon Moore and his wife Joe, they 61 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:28.319 are the owners. They answer the phone. So when you 62 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:31.479 call Affordable Tree at seven one three six nine nine 63 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:34.159 two six sixty three, you're going to get them. If 64 00:03:34.199 --> 00:03:37.159 you call and Martin or Joe does not answer, hang up, 65 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:40.280 check that number and dial again because you got the 66 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:43.759 wrong place. This is where the owners are so actively 67 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:49.000 actively involved in working with the customers in their business. 68 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:52.240 Now we are in tree printing season. It's going to 69 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:54.439 go all the way through winter, and there's not a 70 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:56.400 better time of the year to get your printing done. 71 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:58.719 You can print any month of the year some but 72 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:01.560 now's the time to get it done, especially when you're 73 00:04:01.560 --> 00:04:04.400 getting quite a bit of work done. Get on Martin's schedule. 74 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:06.599 He stays busy because he does a good job. So 75 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:10.280 don't mess around. And way, I'll call him in January 76 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:13.960 or February. He books up, and so give him a 77 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:17.079 call now, and that's seven one three six ' nine 78 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:19.680 nine two six six three. Have him look at your trees. 79 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:21.959 If he doesn't need anything, he'll tell you. But have 80 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:23.680 him come out and take a look. See what kind 81 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:25.920 of pruning might be needed. And if you were thinking 82 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:29.199 about doing anything around those trees the root system, like 83 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:31.879 putting in a trench or putting a driveway underneath the 84 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:35.319 branch bread of the tree somewhere, talk to him first, 85 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:40.079 because when it comes to trees, when the damage is done, 86 00:04:40.199 --> 00:04:42.240 it's a little too late to do a whole lot 87 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:43.800 for it. There are little things you can do to 88 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:47.680 kind of help, but way, before the damage is done. 89 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:50.360 There's some good decisions you can make. Martin can help 90 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:52.639 you with that. If you like to go by the 91 00:04:52.680 --> 00:04:58.120 websites well, afftree Service dot com go to afftree service 92 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:00.120 dot com, or just get Martin a call seven one 93 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:05.199 three six nine nine two six six three. Just because 94 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:08.240 someone owns a chainsaw, a pickup and puts a business 95 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:13.639 card in your door do not necessarily mean they know anything, 96 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:15.879 and in fact, from what I've seen, in most cases, 97 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:18.959 it means they don't and they can ruin a tree 98 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:21.759 when they don't know what they're doing. So take care 99 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:23.839 of those trees. The most valuable plant you have in 100 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:28.240 your landscapes or your trees comes to shade for you 101 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:34.839 when it comes to value for your home property. Let's 102 00:05:34.839 --> 00:05:37.879 go out to Donna Now in Beaumont. Hey, Donna, welcome 103 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:38.600 to garden Line. 104 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:44.480 Good morning. I have a question. My neighbor has a 105 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:49.079 pride of Barbados and I I've been watching it spew 106 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:52.000 its seeds down onto the highway and I've been picking 107 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.879 them up and I have not had good luck trying 108 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:59.720 to get those seeds to sprout. And I wonder if 109 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:01.480 you've any suggestions for that. 110 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.560 Yeah, there they are. They have a very hard coat 111 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:07.959 and uh so they're a little slow to swell up 112 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:11.040 and sprout. They like really warm temperatures, so you ought 113 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:14.680 to be if they're if they're indoors, stick them outdoors 114 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:17.439 right now because it's still pretty warm out okay. Uh, 115 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:19.839 and and get those going. One thing about trying to 116 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:23.040 sprout them now, though, is you you got to take 117 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:25.279 care of them during the winter. You can't put them out. 118 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.439 Well, they'll be really during the winter, and and I 119 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:32.160 can bring them in if it gets cold. 120 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:36.600 Yeah, well they'll they'll be very unhappy. You'll think they're dying, 121 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.000 because even if it's not freezing, they're going to be 122 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:42.079 acting like they're dying. Uh, they don't even know them. 123 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:48.600 About May, when it really warms up, I might at 124 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:52.439 this point I will okay, yeah, okay, you know, if 125 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:54.480 it were two or three months ago, i'd say, yeah, 126 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.160 plant them and we'll get them going, get them strong 127 00:06:57.279 --> 00:06:59.720 enough where they can overwinter. But but just hang on 128 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:05.839 to them and then yes, real quick, okay. 129 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:10.560 It may be the same kind of issue. I have 130 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:14.560 a rubber tree plant, and earlier in this summer I 131 00:07:14.600 --> 00:07:20.279 had great luck getting one of the branches to root 132 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:22.360 while it was still long, and then cutting it off 133 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:25.519 and planning it and making a tree, and I was 134 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.319 very successful in that. Is it too late to do 135 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:32.959 that to another branch? Or should I wait till next spring? 136 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:34.480 No? No, you can do it. No, you can do 137 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:36.319 that in the winter even as long as the tree 138 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:40.279 is getting you know, the amount of light that it wants, okay, 139 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:42.759 in order to produce carbohydrates. Ye, I'll do that. You 140 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:46.439 were doing what's called an air layer, and you shouldn't 141 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:48.160 do that anytime of the year that you want to 142 00:07:48.199 --> 00:07:48.480 do it. 143 00:07:49.519 --> 00:07:50.680 Okay, all right, thank you. 144 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.000 It sounds like you knew what you're doing. If you 145 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.040 if you had success, so congratulations. 146 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:58.079 Yes, I've done it twice, but I've done it earlier 147 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.120 in the spring, and I just didn't know if if 148 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.079 it was you know, if it was hard to tree 149 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:06.199 to do it? It's winter's approaching, you bet? 150 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:08.319 You bet? All right, Well, thank you for that, called do. 151 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:11.399 I appreciate that a lot. We want to remind you 152 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.199 guys that haven't fertilized yet it is time to get 153 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.720 it done. And Nitrofoss has really set it up nice. 154 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:19.680 They've got what's called the Texas three step That means 155 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:23.639 a fertilizer called Fall Special that's designed for fall to 156 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:26.920 help your lawns be stronger in winter for cold heartiness 157 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:31.319 and come out stronger in spring. Second step nitrofos barricade. 158 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.840 You put it down, you water it in, and when 159 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:36.039 weed seeds try to sprout, which we are on the 160 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:39.840 doorstep of cool season weed sprouting, get that down asap. 161 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:42.639 Look at my schedule guarding with skip dot com. Look 162 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:46.679 at the schedule. It's time. Second step or third step 163 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:50.159 Eagle turf fungicide. We are on the doorstep of brown 164 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:53.679 patch impact our names. I'm already seeing circles developing for 165 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:57.440 brown patch out in the lawn. Eagle turf fungicide gets 166 00:08:57.679 --> 00:08:59.919 up through the roots and into the plant and prevents 167 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:04.440 from happening. Everything is to be done a sap because 168 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:07.519 we're already now at the end of October. Nitro five 169 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:12.360 three step Fall Special barricade for preventing weeds from germinating. 170 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:16.000 An eagle tour fund you side for preventing diseases from attacking. 171 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:18.960 You're going to find it at Ingenetic Gardens Donna Richmond, 172 00:09:18.960 --> 00:09:21.399 Shades of Texas in the woodlands. Plants for all seasons, 173 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:24.759 on tom Ball Parkway all places to get Texas three step. 174 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:26.720 I'm going to take a little break here. When I 175 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:30.559 come back, Ralph, Girardo and Greg you will be the 176 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:34.799 first ones up. Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line. 177 00:09:34.879 --> 00:09:37.159 Here we go again. We got a lot to cover today, 178 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:39.080 got a lot of folks to talk to, and so 179 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.519 we're going to jump right into it. You know, one 180 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:44.480 thing I have to say, I'm a broken record on this, 181 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:46.799 but I'm going to keep you in a broken record 182 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:49.919 because the most important thing you do to have success 183 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:52.960 in your garden and landscape is to start with preparing 184 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:56.120 the soil. It is the foundation. Imagine this. You want 185 00:09:56.159 --> 00:09:57.480 to build a house and so you get a bunch 186 00:09:57.480 --> 00:09:59.000 of two bout fours and throw them on the dirt 187 00:09:59.080 --> 00:10:01.039 and start building. How is that going to end up? 188 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.279 We do that with our gardens all the time when 189 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:06.039 we don't prepare the soil. And I don't have a 190 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:09.960 better place to do the preparation to get all the 191 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.519 tools you need than Ciena Malts. And I like to 192 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:15.360 say this, I like say brown stuff before green stuff. 193 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:18.679 That's what that means. It means get your soil right, 194 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:20.960 get compost in the soil, get a raised bed for 195 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:22.879 when it rains too much, so you got good drainage 196 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:26.000 because sometimes it rains too much. Here, make sure you 197 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:28.440 have the nutrients in the soil. All that is at 198 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:31.639 Ciena Molts. They're down south of Houston. They're near Highway 199 00:10:31.679 --> 00:10:34.600 six and two eighty eight on FM five point twenty one. 200 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:37.360 Here's the website. Just write this down and you can 201 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:41.360 find out everything you need to know. Cienna Multch dot com, 202 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.840 CNA Malts dot com. Now when you're there, you're going 203 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:49.320 to find bagged products. You're going to find bulk products. 204 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:53.240 You're going to find things like Landscaper's pride products. You're 205 00:10:53.240 --> 00:10:56.759 going to find heirloom soils, products like their a Veggionerbix 206 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:59.320 just as an example of that. You're going to find 207 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:02.919 the fertilizers you hear me talk about on Guardenline, Medina 208 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:06.919 and nitrophoss and microlife and Nelson's. You're going to find 209 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:11.120 every thing that you need to have success. That is 210 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:14.240 what they're about. You start with seeing a mulch and 211 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:15.759 then you get a good plant and put it in 212 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:19.159 and you're going to have success. That's how that works. 213 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:22.799 So many people go first. I understand it. You want 214 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:24.759 a beautiful plant, you go buy it and you can't wait, 215 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.159 and you bring it home and you're going to figure 216 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.720 out where to put it. No, no, that's backwards. Get 217 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.039 the soil right, and then when you put the plan in, 218 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.320 it hits the ground running because you got a foundation 219 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:36.399 for success with Sienna. I'm going to head out to 220 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.320 Katie now and we're going to talk to Ralph. Hey, Ralph, 221 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:40.879 good morning, Welcome to Guardenline. 222 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:47.399 Good skip, good morning, sir. Have a question, actually two questions. 223 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:53.960 The first one deals with sprinklers. You had shared with 224 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:59.320 me earlier that earlier in the season that I was 225 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:03.600 watering too much. You it'd suggested maybe a couple days 226 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:09.919 a week to go deeper. So I've done that. How 227 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:15.879 would you set your irrigation system now? And then the 228 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:21.240 second question that I have is if you were going 229 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:25.440 to do aeration, would you do it now or wait 230 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:28.120 till springtime and do it. 231 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.840 You know, you can do aeration anytime that you want 232 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:37.600 to do it, generally, because it is a physical process 233 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:40.679 of punching holes in the ground, and there is a 234 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:43.080 minor amount you know, of damage to a root or 235 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.720 to a stem or a runner of the grass. When 236 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:47.399 we do it, we like to do it at a 237 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:51.000 time when the grass is actively growing. Now, if you 238 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:54.120 have compacted soil and you haven't gotten it done, just 239 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:56.159 go ahead and get it done. That's fine, with a 240 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:02.000 compost top dressing following that. And so that would be 241 00:13:02.039 --> 00:13:04.720 my answer to it. If it's all like, well, things 242 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:06.799 are basically okay, but I just went in the next year, 243 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:08.080 I want to get it done, then I would do 244 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:11.480 it during the growing season when the grass is actively growing. 245 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.440 On that. As far as watering, if you go online 246 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:17.720 to my schedule that my website is gardening with Skip 247 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:21.480 dot com Gardening with Skip dot Com, there's a lawn 248 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:24.559 care schedule and on there it talks about fertilizing, aer rating, bowing, 249 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.720 and watering. And if you look at the watering row 250 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:30.960 across the chart from January to December and you go 251 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:33.159 all the way to October, we're at a half inch 252 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:38.279 a week that your lawn is needing. That doesn't mean 253 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:40.279 you have to water a half inch week. It means 254 00:13:40.279 --> 00:13:42.559 like if you get an inch of rain, then you 255 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:44.000 don't have to water for a couple of weeks. You're 256 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:47.200 good to go. But this month and next about a 257 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:51.120 half inch of water a week is how much the 258 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:55.360 grass is using. So as dry as it's been, it's 259 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:57.159 all up to you. You got to put that half 260 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:04.120 inch on. Sounds good though, Yes, sir, you take care. 261 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:07.879 Thanks for the call. Appreciate that very very much. When 262 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:09.399 was the last time you guys went to Plants for 263 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:12.279 All Seasons? I know, those of you who are up 264 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.919 there in the Tomball Parkway area, you know they're located 265 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.759 right there, just north of Luetta. If you're going to Tomball, 266 00:14:17.840 --> 00:14:22.000 you just exit two forty nine Tomball Parkway crossover Luetta 267 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:23.679 and they're right there on the right hand side. They've 268 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:25.919 been around since nineteen seventy three, and those of you 269 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:27.919 in that area you know them. I mean, they've got 270 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:31.360 a real strong following because people know when you go 271 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:34.279 into Plants for All Seasons, you are going to find 272 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.200 the best plants to grow in this area. But probably 273 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:42.679 more important than anything is the advice and the expertise 274 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:45.240 the products that they carry to go along with that. 275 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:48.000 I don't care if you didn't buy a plant from them. 276 00:14:48.039 --> 00:14:50.039 You walk in and you go. You know, Mayazalia, I 277 00:14:50.039 --> 00:14:54.240 got somewhere else. My confession, got somewhere else. It's doing 278 00:14:54.279 --> 00:14:56.679 this or that. Well, they'll tell you here's what you 279 00:14:56.759 --> 00:14:58.759 need to do, and if a products needed, they'll put 280 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.639 you in touch with it well, help you have success. 281 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:02.159 You know. 282 00:15:02.240 --> 00:15:05.519 It's not like going to some of these box stores 283 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:07.679 where you go in and they may have a plant 284 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.440 for sale, it may or may not even should be 285 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:13.799 planted here, and then when you ask a question, the 286 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:15.639 eyes of glaze over and you know the minute the 287 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:17.399 question comes out your mouth, they don't know what they're 288 00:15:17.440 --> 00:15:20.720 talking about. Plants for All Seasons does, and that is 289 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.279 very very important. And you can bring them samples or 290 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:25.639 pictures or whatever you got in there, but the main 291 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:27.759 thing is go in and check out the plants. They've 292 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:31.679 got a beautiful color palette right now for fall that 293 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:36.639 just looks awesome, beautiful containers. Plants for All Seasons dot 294 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:39.279 com is a website, and here's a phone number two 295 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:43.480 eight one three seven six one six four six. We're 296 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:47.039 going to go to Girardo now in Meadows Place. Hey Girardo, 297 00:15:47.159 --> 00:15:48.039 welcome to Guardline. 298 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:49.759 Hey Skip, how you doing? 299 00:15:49.840 --> 00:15:50.000 Nice? 300 00:15:50.039 --> 00:15:52.559 Talking to you again. I have a couple of questions 301 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:55.519 for you. One concern of pineapples, were at know the 302 00:15:55.559 --> 00:16:01.919 one who's concerning beat Okay, of pineapple that I have 303 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:03.960 in the race bed that I protected through the winter, 304 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:07.480 they're really big. They're getting pretty good. And I know, okay, 305 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.120 with the sucker on the pineapples, you you can replant 306 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:14.120 that and it will grow another pineapple plant. But I 307 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:17.679 guess I just didn't pay attention to it. There's there's 308 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:20.639 so big the sucker in the origin the mother plant 309 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:22.399 is so big. Do I just leave that alone and 310 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:25.720 will it probably will it might produce two pineapples since 311 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:28.919 it's big. Or do I even try to plant the sucker? 312 00:16:29.039 --> 00:16:29.879 I guess that's my question. 313 00:16:30.080 --> 00:16:34.799 Would I generally? Yeah, when when you get a pineapple, 314 00:16:34.840 --> 00:16:37.039 that plant is not going to produce for you again, 315 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:40.600 the sucker will though, and so you could break it 316 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:43.519 off and reroot it. You know, we're going into winter, 317 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.600 and so I don't know, there's a case could be 318 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:49.919 made for break it off, pot it up and get 319 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:51.759 it rooted, and that way you can bring it in 320 00:16:51.759 --> 00:16:53.399 in the pot in the winter and get it right 321 00:16:53.440 --> 00:16:55.840 back out when we're done with winter. Just to head 322 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:57.600 your bet, make it a little easier, or you can 323 00:16:57.679 --> 00:16:59.159 leave it in place and be ready to cover it. 324 00:16:59.200 --> 00:16:59.840 If you need to. 325 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:04.880 Okay, okay, sounds good and uh. The second question is 326 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:10.359 about beats. For some reason, I'm not successful at sewing 327 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:16.720 beat seas. Is there anything, yes that, any tips you 328 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:22.839 can give? I love you, I love the leaves just 329 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:24.640 just as much as the beat the root itself. But 330 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:25.920 I've been ye. 331 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:30.640 Beat are basically the same plan as as Swiss chart. 332 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:33.200 There's very little difference and and so you can eat 333 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:36.400 beat greens just like you Swiss chart, except Swiss chart 334 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:41.319 doesn't make that root. Anytime you're trying to grow root, carrots, turnips, beats, radishes, 335 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:44.359 you need lots of sunlight, so it needs lots of 336 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.839 sun and the and the plants need to be spaced 337 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:50.319 out well, so you got to thun them out. So 338 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.200 if you think about how big that's going to get, 339 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:54.119 Let's say on a beat, you're going to be somewhere 340 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:56.599 between a golf ball and a little larger you know, 341 00:17:56.680 --> 00:18:00.079 on harvest size on it, then you would want at 342 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:03.440 least that wide apart, maybe a little wider to space 343 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.880 the plants. If they get crowded, they don't produce good roots. 344 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:10.079 And if they if you overdo the nitrogen or to 345 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:12.880 have too much shade those three things, crowding, too much 346 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:17.240 nitrogen shade all all cause top growth or lack of 347 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:18.119 root development. 348 00:18:19.640 --> 00:18:22.160 Okay, cool, cool, I think I think I know my 349 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:24.079 problem with the sun. Okay, appreciate it, Thank you. 350 00:18:24.839 --> 00:18:27.279 Thank you, Yeah you bet. Now you know the rule 351 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:29.480 on Guardline. The advice is free, but I do ask 352 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:32.279 for half the produce that my advice helps you produce. 353 00:18:32.440 --> 00:18:34.519 So just drop it off at the station, your beats 354 00:18:34.519 --> 00:18:35.440 and we'll call it even. 355 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:40.480 Oh yes, sir, yes, take care. 356 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.440 All right, let's see here. We're going to go now 357 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:48.240 to Greg and Pasadena. Hey, Greg, welcome to guard Line. 358 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:52.240 Good morning, skiff, Thank you for taking my call. Real quick. 359 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:58.200 I'm dreading the winter weeds, spiff. Last year my backyard 360 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:02.519 was checks and I don't even know what this heat is. 361 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:06.000 It grows about three to four feet if you let 362 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:06.519 it go. 363 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:08.240 And it shifts. 364 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:12.559 My yard was just fested with it last year, last yard. 365 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:16.319 I recently resided my front yard, so not really concerned 366 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:18.559 too much about the front right now. But is there 367 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:21.839 anything I could do get ahead of that skip? 368 00:19:21.920 --> 00:19:22.160 Please? 369 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:24.359 Absolutely? 370 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:24.839 So. 371 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:27.319 When you said three or four feet, you're talking about 372 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:29.279 how big it was in spring, right. 373 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:35.640 No, No, these are These are the winter weeds that 374 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:40.279 pop up every winter, and last year it was the 375 00:19:40.279 --> 00:19:41.319 worst it's ever been. 376 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:46.880 Well, the winter weeds they sprout, uh and they stay 377 00:19:46.920 --> 00:19:49.720 small through the winter and then in spring, like think 378 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:53.400 of the blue bonnet our roadside Texas state flower. They 379 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:55.920 you don't really see them much during the winter, but 380 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:57.920 in spring they take off to all their growth and 381 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:00.400 blooming and then die down. If you' we're seeing a 382 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:04.039 weed three feet tall in like summer or fall, that's 383 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:05.960 a different kind of weed. That's why I'm kind of 384 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.039 trying to figure out what we're talking about here. If 385 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:12.079 it's truly a cool season annual, a winter weed or biennial, 386 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:15.559 you got to get a pre emergent down before they sprout. 387 00:20:15.799 --> 00:20:18.160 So the number one way we control weeds in our 388 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:20.559 lawn is to grow a dense lawn and shade them out. 389 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:23.039 That doesn't get rid of every weed, but it cuts 390 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:26.680 the numbers down significantly. Second thing is to put a 391 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:29.599 pre emergent out ahead of the sprouting season. And winter 392 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:33.559 weeds are starting to sprout, it is the temperature cools 393 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:35.839 off so it gets about seventy degrees and they start 394 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:40.160 sprouting with little rain coming along in there. So barricade 395 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:43.279 from nitrofoss would be a product that would do just that. 396 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:45.759 You put it down, you water it in. Takes a 397 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:47.759 half inch of water to get it down in the soil, 398 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:51.440 and then when they try to sprout, they can't. 399 00:20:54.599 --> 00:20:54.920 Sprout. 400 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:57.640 All right, put it down again. 401 00:20:57.960 --> 00:21:00.960 You said, no, not at all. No, you have to 402 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:03.200 be ahead of it. So do it now, and do 403 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:06.799 it today, and water it in, and then when they 404 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:10.039 try to sprout, the word barricade is a good description 405 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:12.599 because they can't get past it. They can't get past 406 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:16.119 that surface where the barricade is, and it kills them. Now, 407 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:18.640 if you miss some, if you miss some due to 408 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:22.559 whatever reason, you know, no one product controls every weed. 409 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:28.039 And also maybe our application doesn't overlap quite right, and 410 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:30.599 you know you got some gaps. Then you can use 411 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:34.039 a post emergent later when you see the weeds growing, 412 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:37.359 but long before they begin to bloom and set seeds. 413 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:39.640 All right, I'm gonna have to have to take a 414 00:21:39.720 --> 00:21:42.759 run for the news here. If Greg, if you want 415 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:44.920 to hang on, I'll get right back to you when 416 00:21:44.960 --> 00:21:49.039 we come back from this hard break and lands embiaties. 417 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:52.039 You'll be the next up. We'll be right back folks. Hey, 418 00:21:52.039 --> 00:21:54.559 welcome back. Welcome back to the Guardline. Folks. Good to 419 00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:57.160 have you with us. If you have been looking at 420 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:01.400 your landscape and kind of thinking, uh, that's just not 421 00:22:01.559 --> 00:22:03.960 what I want, that doesn't look good, I hate to 422 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:06.079 drive I hate to drive up and take a look 423 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:08.200 at it because it's worse for the wear. You know, 424 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:11.079 we've had a bit of a rough summer in many ways, 425 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:13.960 and some plants are struggling. You want to get Pierscapes 426 00:22:13.960 --> 00:22:17.640 to call. Pierscapes are professionals. This is a preferred landscaper 427 00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:19.920 for me here on Guardline, and I'm telling you it's 428 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:22.839 because of the work they do. Go to their website. 429 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:24.839 In fact, if you do nothing else, just go to 430 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:28.400 Piercescapes dot com. Just look take a look at the 431 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:31.240 work they do. Do you need your irrigation system repaired? 432 00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:34.559 They can do that. Do you need shrubs trim? Do 433 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:37.839 you need flower beds replanted? Do you want a whole 434 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:42.000 redesign of a bed or the whole landscape, outdoor lighting? 435 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:44.799 You got areas you don't drain, well, they can fix that. 436 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:47.920 I mean, if it comes to making your place look better, 437 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:51.240 to making your backyard a more beautiful place that you 438 00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:53.720 just can't wait to get outside and enjoy with your friends, 439 00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:57.720 especially on these cool fall evenings. Pierscapes can do that 440 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:00.880 for you pierscapes dot com. And here's the number two 441 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:05.440 eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three 442 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:09.000 seven five zero six zero. We are going to go 443 00:23:09.079 --> 00:23:12.799 now to Lance and beat Eyes. Lance, you and I 444 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:14.480 are the only two people that know where beat Eyes 445 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:16.960 is except for people and beat Eyes. I think, how 446 00:23:17.039 --> 00:23:18.160 you doing well? 447 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:18.599 Thank you? 448 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:24.839 I'm doing well. I've got some fall planted tomatoes planted 449 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:28.759 on raised rows. Been super dry up here, so I've 450 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:30.839 been giving them a good soak in every two or 451 00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:37.920 three days, doing good hip hie to chest tie. But 452 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:42.519 when I came home yesterday my purple cherokee, the whole 453 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:46.519 top half of the plant was wilted over, still a 454 00:23:46.599 --> 00:23:49.880 nice dark green. I went out and looked at it 455 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:54.279 this morning. It looks better this morning, but it's not 456 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:58.920 as good as the other ones. I mean, could the 457 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:02.359 ninety one ninety two degree heat do that? Or am 458 00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:03.680 I looking at something else? 459 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:07.400 Well, it could be. It's weird that only part of 460 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.440 the plant is doing that, though, So whenever a plant wilts, 461 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:14.880 there's one of several things happening. Either a the soil's 462 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:18.680 too dry, can't get water. B it has a fungal 463 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:23.079 disease in the plumbing of the plant blocking the water flow, 464 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:27.119 which you can't control those once they happen to happen. 465 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:31.200 Or it could have nematodes that are making the root 466 00:24:31.240 --> 00:24:36.359 system inefficient, making it more drought prone, or just physical 467 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:40.000 you know, damage or injury that's doing it. It is 468 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:42.960 not unusual if a plant is recovering at night. That's 469 00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:45.440 usually a sign. You probably just need to make sure 470 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:47.720 it gets plenty of water. In the heat of summer, 471 00:24:47.799 --> 00:24:50.759 we see that wilting. That's a normal part of the 472 00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:53.519 day because it can't pump water fast enough. The water's there, 473 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:55.920 it just can't pump it fast enough. But this time 474 00:24:55.960 --> 00:24:58.960 of the year it's not that common to see that, 475 00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:01.799 so I would make sure dig down about four inches 476 00:25:01.799 --> 00:25:04.000 around the plant, make sure the soil's moist. If not, 477 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:06.720 give it some water. I just don't make it soggy, 478 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:08.119 but give it a good soaking. 479 00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:12.440 That sounds good. I was hoping that's what it was. 480 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:16.279 The soil felt moist this morning, at least the top 481 00:25:16.359 --> 00:25:20.279 few inches. So yeah, I'll put the sprinkler on it 482 00:25:20.359 --> 00:25:23.240 and give it a good soak and for fifteen to 483 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:25.359 twenty minutes and see what happens. 484 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:28.000 All right, let's see we can get some tomatoes. Time's 485 00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:30.400 running short, and as it cools off, they slow down. 486 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:32.039 So we need to get you some tomatoes. 487 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:35.559 If we sure do we sure do it. I'll dry 488 00:25:35.680 --> 00:25:36.720 half oaken down there. 489 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:38.400 Well. 490 00:25:38.440 --> 00:25:39.960 I was going to say, maybe we can figure out 491 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:43.279 a dropout point for the half you're bringing me, But anyway, 492 00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:45.920 let's just get you something deep. Hey, thanks, thanks for 493 00:25:45.960 --> 00:25:47.960 that calling, and have fun out there and beat eyes 494 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.559 as beautiful country out there. You take care. Oh boy, 495 00:25:53.079 --> 00:25:55.519 I was at Buchanan's Plans the other day. I like 496 00:25:55.559 --> 00:25:57.119 to swing by there every now and then because they 497 00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:01.519 always have beautiful stuff going on there. I mean right now, 498 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:04.279 they are loaded up with all the fall things that 499 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:06.720 you can imagine, you know, if you want, if you 500 00:26:06.759 --> 00:26:10.599 want really really beautiful fall color, if you want to 501 00:26:10.640 --> 00:26:14.640 see maybe, well, for example, here's one they got cyclemen in. 502 00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:16.960 Do you know what cycleomen are? There are cool season plants. 503 00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:20.759 They are typically kind of a pink. I'm color challenged 504 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:22.799 when it gets into the pink and red and orange 505 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:27.880 color variations. But anyway, pink and red and white beautiful 506 00:26:27.960 --> 00:26:30.839 colors if you need. Maybe you got a let's say 507 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:33.200 a live oak tree or something, and you just want 508 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:35.519 some beautiful color for winter under it, as long as 509 00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:38.920 it doesn't get like twenty degrees out there. Cyclomen are 510 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:41.799 pretty cold, hardy, and they look beautiful. They got those. 511 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:45.799 They have amaryllis bulbs and paper white bulbs for forcing. 512 00:26:46.279 --> 00:26:48.720 You're going to go see somebody for Thanksgiving, grab them 513 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:50.799 a bulb as a gift, a forcing bulb that is 514 00:26:50.839 --> 00:26:53.759 so beautiful to have that inside. They'll really appreciate that. 515 00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:58.200 And by the way, fun fact, if you will when 516 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:00.559 you vote, you show up with you you're little I 517 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:02.640 voted sticker that you get to put on you when 518 00:27:02.680 --> 00:27:04.599 you vote. If you show up with that, you can 519 00:27:04.599 --> 00:27:07.240 trade in that sticker for a free four inch herb 520 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:10.599 or veggie for your garden. Is that cool? That's only 521 00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:14.599 valid from October twenty third to November fifth, But make 522 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:17.799 your vote count and get an herb or veggie to 523 00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:19.759 go with it there at Buchanans Plus. When you're there, 524 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:21.599 I promise you're gonna find a lot of other cool 525 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:24.759 stuff that you really like. Buchanans Plants there on Eleventh 526 00:27:24.759 --> 00:27:28.880 Street in the Heights. Go to the website Buchanansplants dot com. 527 00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:33.000 It is loaded with good information. We're gonna go now 528 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:36.160 to Montgomery, Texas and talk to Albert. Hey, Albert, welcome 529 00:27:36.200 --> 00:27:36.920 to guard Line. 530 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.599 Good morning, skip morning. What I got is I got 531 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:44.279 a half acre land. I don't live there, so I 532 00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:47.720 don't have a sprinkler system or a hose or anything. 533 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:51.720 I've been lying on rain the water it's Saint Augustine 534 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:55.359 and now it's mostly brown. Can I still put down 535 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:58.000 that fall fertilizer or should I wait. 536 00:27:58.079 --> 00:27:59.160 Till some rain comes? 537 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:00.640 Or is it? 538 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:01.559 Is it okay to put it? 539 00:28:02.119 --> 00:28:05.839 You can put it. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with putting 540 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:08.039 it down. It's just not going to do anything until 541 00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:10.680 till you get some rain to wash it in. But 542 00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:13.640 I'd say go ahead and get it down, or just 543 00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:16.000 watch the weather and when you see that we're about 544 00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:18.480 to get some rain. If you don't have a way 545 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:20.559 to water it in, then then just do it a 546 00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:23.480 little ahead of time before you see a rainfall, and 547 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:25.559 that that'll that'll get it into the ground. 548 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:29.599 Okay, what's the latest I could put that down? Am 549 00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:32.000 I running out of time now or is there another 550 00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:34.079 couple of weeks or well, well. 551 00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:37.839 There's not a It's not like preventing weeds and preventing 552 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.480 disease with the fertilizer. Our goal and doing it sooner 553 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:44.599 rather than later is the sooner those roots can get 554 00:28:44.599 --> 00:28:47.359 the nutrients and start taking them up, the more they're 555 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:49.240 going to take, the faster they're going to take it up. 556 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.039 You know, once we get down and it's really cold 557 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:54.920 and the soil is cool, those roots are not doing 558 00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:57.359 a whole lot. They're there, they're growing, but everything is 559 00:28:57.440 --> 00:29:00.920 slowed down, and so you'd rather get that fertilizer while 560 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:03.640 it's warm enough for them to take it up. So 561 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:06.079 that would be the only reason to do it sooner 562 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:06.920 rather than later. 563 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:10.359 Okay, all right, well, thank you, thank you. 564 00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:12.079 Have you ever have you ever tried? 565 00:29:13.319 --> 00:29:13.519 Yeah? 566 00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:15.759 I was just gonna say, have you ever tried Nelson's 567 00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:21.960 carbo load the fall fertilizer? No, sir, I haven't you 568 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:24.039 ought you ought to give it a try. It's uh 569 00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.640 because it has not only is it a fall fertilizer's 570 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:32.720 got the perfect blend of nutrients for cool season preparation. 571 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:34.680 In other words, it makes the plant, the grass is 572 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:36.720 gonna be hardier and come out better in spring. But 573 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:38.839 there's also got that pre emergent in it. And so 574 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:40.839 when you put it down and then get it watered in, 575 00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:44.319 then you have you've you've done both. You've you've taken 576 00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:47.079 care of your fall fertilization and your weed prevention too. 577 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.720 So that's just why I mention it not hard to 578 00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:51.519 find it. Carbo loads the name of it. 579 00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:54.759 All right, Well, thank and you have a great program here. 580 00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:56.519 Thank you for all you all you do. 581 00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:02.440 Thank you appreciate the kind words you take. Care. Well, 582 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:06.000 here we go. We are looking at another break right now. Boy, 583 00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:10.480 time flies when you're having fun. What did Kermit the 584 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:13.240 frog say? Time's fun when you're having flies? I think? 585 00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:15.880 All right, Virginia in East Houston, you'll be the next up. 586 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:19.599 We're gonna take a little break. Hey, welcome back, Welcome 587 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:21.079 back to the garden, Linem, good to have you with us. 588 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:28.000 I was noticing some flowers that I don't talk about 589 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:30.880 a lot recently. I say, flowers at Silosha. Are you 590 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.400 familiar with Solosha. It's got the plumes. There's actually a 591 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:35.640 couple type. One has kind of a wavy fan like 592 00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:40.000 flower slash seedhead. The other one has a plume, and 593 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.960 they're just gorgeous. I noticed them a month ago just 594 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:47.680 glowing in some gardens, and I just keep seeing them 595 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:50.480 now in beautiful arrangements and things. The cool thing about 596 00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:53.200 siloshia is you can also cut it and use it 597 00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:55.680 as a dried flower, because it dries and retains some 598 00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:58.559 of that beautiful color. It's not the petals that are 599 00:30:58.559 --> 00:31:00.759 giving you the color, it's the actual structure of the 600 00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:04.640 flower itself, and silosia is just one of those for 601 00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:06.359 fall that is outstanding. 602 00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:06.559 You know. 603 00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:09.799 They come in oranges and yellows and burgundies and reds 604 00:31:09.799 --> 00:31:13.119 and pinks and just lots of nice colors. I saw 605 00:31:13.160 --> 00:31:16.039 them out of enchanted gardens out in Richmond. They have 606 00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:18.559 them there, of course, they have everything there, but just 607 00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:21.799 really really beautiful flowers. And if you're looking for something 608 00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:23.880 to carry you up into the first frost, that is 609 00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:25.759 a good choice. And you need to make a note 610 00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:29.119 to have them back again next summer because cilosia is 611 00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.440 super heat tolerant as well. By the way, talking about 612 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.759 in ingena gardens, they are stocked up on all the 613 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:40.359 stuff you need for fault. They still have the beautiful moms. 614 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:42.720 They've got the silosia and other things. They've got the 615 00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.200 cool seasoned flowers, you know, like dianthus and things that 616 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:48.160 we want to carry us even after the first frost. 617 00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:51.160 And if you're looking for that gift bulb that I 618 00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:54.519 was talking about earlier, they have amarillis that are just 619 00:31:54.960 --> 00:31:57.680 stunning in so many colors. You can even get them, 620 00:31:58.359 --> 00:32:00.960 you know, the containers to put them in for forcing. 621 00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:03.000 When we say forcing, we mean you put the ball 622 00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:06.119 ben indoors. The roots go down and pebbles or just 623 00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:08.839 in water. Some glasses are designed to hold them and 624 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:11.359 just have water in the bottom and they just grow 625 00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:14.200 inside and they blow them inside and it's beautiful and 626 00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:16.079 it's the coolest thing. When you're done, you can take 627 00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:18.279 them out and plant them in the landscape too. That 628 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:22.400 also will work. That's alid enchanted gardens. They're on Highway 629 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.279 or FM three point fifty nine down on the Richmond 630 00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:29.400 or excuse me, the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond. It's been 631 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:32.079 around since nineteen ninety five. And when you go to 632 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:34.319 in Channigardens, you're going to find everything they've got. Oh, 633 00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:38.359 a new shipment of this carving pumpkins for Halloween. Haven't 634 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:40.200 got that done yet. You can get them right now. 635 00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:43.119 And they also have pie pumpkins, a little smaller pipe pumpkins. 636 00:32:43.119 --> 00:32:45.480 They're at in Channa Gardens. And when you get out there, 637 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:48.599 you're going to find vegetables and herbs and everything else 638 00:32:49.200 --> 00:32:52.119 that you might need. Again FM three fifty nine, Katie Fullshire, 639 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:56.680 side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot 640 00:32:56.680 --> 00:33:00.640 com and Channa Gardens Richmond dot com. We're going to 641 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.319 go out of Virginia in East Houston. Hey, Virginia, welcome 642 00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:07.000 to garden Line. How are you doing? 643 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:07.480 Thank you? 644 00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:09.759 Thank you? 645 00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:10.200 Question? 646 00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:12.680 Yeay hope. I have a quick question. 647 00:33:13.680 --> 00:33:21.359 Does Microsoft super seaweed and Medina soil Activator? I found 648 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:25.359 there hiding in my kitchen. I thought it was better 649 00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:27.960 than putting it out in the garage. Do they go 650 00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:31.799 bad after a couple of years or just lose their business? 651 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:33.319 Cool? 652 00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:35.599 No, they don't really lose their I mean, you know, 653 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:39.559 everything has a shelf life of sorts. But yeah, either 654 00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:42.400 one of those could be utilized. If you've got it, 655 00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:45.400 just mix it up and use it. Uh, it's going 656 00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:47.400 to do some good, if not a lot of good. 657 00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:49.079 They're both great products. 658 00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:53.000 Okay, not really, okay, just use it in because I 659 00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:56.480 did find some old old, old, old old has to 660 00:33:56.519 --> 00:33:59.400 grow several years back, poured it on a plan I 661 00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:03.119 really didn't care about, thinking, okay, here's your test, and 662 00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:04.519 it seemed to work, so. 663 00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:08.960 I thought, well, all right, I thought i'd ask. So 664 00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:11.800 thank you so much, Gia. Those products hold up better, 665 00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:15.280 They hold up better than we do with time, so 666 00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:17.239 so go ahead, go ahead and use them. I mean, 667 00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:20.159 like I said, you said indoors, and that was part 668 00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:22.440 of the key to my answer to is you know, 669 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:24.360 you put it out in the shed where it's one 670 00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:28.840 hundred and twelve degrees underneath the tin roof, and you know, yeah, 671 00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:31.519 that's going to have effect on things. But indoors, those 672 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:34.039 things hold up pretty good. But in the meantime, put 673 00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:36.440 them in front so you don't forget about them, and 674 00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:41.159 you use them promptly, precisely. So thank you so much. 675 00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:43.280 I didn't want to have to go buy them again 676 00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:46.559 if I had some and they were okay, So thank. 677 00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:50.679 You so much. Okay, yeah you bet, you bet. Virginia 678 00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:56.400 Virginia's Bye bye. Virginia's talking about the micro Life product. 679 00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:59.719 And stuff. You know, the micro Grow bioinoculant is one 680 00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:01.800 that I you don't think people think about enough when 681 00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:05.079 they're talking about putting stuff down in the lawn. You know, 682 00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:09.679 right now is time for Microlife's brown patch fertilizer. It's 683 00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:13.320 a fertilizer that has a little different nutrient blend that 684 00:35:13.639 --> 00:35:16.039 does well going into the fall. But it also has 685 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.599 lots of microbes in it that help fight against plant problems. 686 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:23.039 You know, when you put good microbes out there, it 687 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:26.159 helps fight the bad microbes. But micro Grow is not 688 00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:29.159 a fertilizer. It's just a bio andoculant and you can 689 00:35:29.239 --> 00:35:31.000 use it on anything. Put it on your lawn. I 690 00:35:31.039 --> 00:35:33.519 would do it a lawn right now. Sixty three different 691 00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:36.440 strains of beneficial microbes in it. But I mean if 692 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:38.559 you want to put it on your vegetables, your flower garden, 693 00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:42.119 your herb garden, whatever you want, it is safe to use. 694 00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:46.519 And with sixty three different strains, it's got stuff that 695 00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:50.599 literally fights disease. Some of these strains like okay, here 696 00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:52.920 we go nerding out here, but you know have bt 697 00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:58.320 Bacillus thuringensis. Well, it has something called Bacillis subtilests I 698 00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:01.679 don't think they call that BS, but anyway, I'm just 699 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:05.679 thinking on the side there. Basilla subtlest fights disease. You 700 00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:08.920 can buy basilla subtlest in a bottle to fight disease. 701 00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:14.079 It also has Bacilla's brace for this one amelo licofacis. 702 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:18.480 You put that on the soil and it comes in 703 00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:21.639 contact that microbe comes in contact with the soil root 704 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:25.920 and it signals the plant to change how it's growing 705 00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:28.559 to fight a disease. I'm not making that up. Go 706 00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:31.119 look it up, but it's all there and micro grow 707 00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:35.199 along with sixty two other strains of microbes. So put 708 00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:39.280 that out there when you do your lawn fertilizing or 709 00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:42.960 after or before, it doesn't matter. Micro grow buy anoculant. 710 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:48.039 It is a maroon bag from Microlife. Microlifefertilizer dot COM's 711 00:36:48.039 --> 00:36:50.360 the website. If you want to learn a lot more 712 00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:53.280 about the things that they carry, and they carry a 713 00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:55.880 lot of things, you know, Virginia was talking about some 714 00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:58.840 of the liquid products that they have and the granular 715 00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:02.599 products that they have as well. Where you're listening to 716 00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:05.480 garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here 717 00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:09.239 to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. 718 00:37:09.239 --> 00:37:11.159 Oh and by the way, if you're looking for where 719 00:37:11.159 --> 00:37:14.519 do you get this stuff? Well, first of all, Ace 720 00:37:14.559 --> 00:37:17.920 Hardware is always a good safe bet. You hear me 721 00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:19.800 talk about a fertilizer, you're going to get it at 722 00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:23.000 Ace Hardware. They carry it, they do. They also carry 723 00:37:23.679 --> 00:37:26.840 a lot of other products like soil type, bags of 724 00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:30.519 sol related products and multz. There at Ace Hardware you're 725 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:33.199 going to find fire ant control and it is still 726 00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:35.760 time to do that. In fact, I went out yesterday 727 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:38.360 was looking at a container, a big old like half 728 00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:40.679 whiskey burrel sized container I have, and I saw that 729 00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:43.119 little boiling up soil in the middle, which means fire 730 00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:45.280 ants got into that thing. Well, they're not going to 731 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:47.719 last long because I've got my fire ant bait. It's 732 00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:50.840 going out. Fall is the time to tackle fire ants. 733 00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:53.800 Football season is fire ant season when it comes treating 734 00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:56.679 fire ants, excellent time to knock them out. So in 735 00:37:56.800 --> 00:37:59.840 spring you don't just get overrun with the little buggers. 736 00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:00.559 Uh. 737 00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:03.320 Ace Hardware stores got you covered. Several different types of 738 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:07.159 fire organic, synthetic, whichever type you want is there at ACE. 739 00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:09.960 Because ACE is the place you need tools, you need 740 00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:13.239 supplies for your garden. You want to have success, you 741 00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:16.679 want to have a beautiful patio environment out there. Go 742 00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:19.400 to Ace Acehardware dot com. You know, if you go 743 00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:21.719 to Acehardware dot com, they've got a store locator and 744 00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:25.039 you can find the forty plus stores here near you 745 00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:30.480 in the Greater Houston area. I was just visiting with 746 00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:35.320 Rick from the Langham Creek Ace Hardware store this uh 747 00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:39.360 past week, and you know they are. They are stocked 748 00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:41.639 up and ready to go over there. We were just 749 00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:43.599 talking about some of the products and things that they 750 00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:46.280 have and some of the events that they have coming up. 751 00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:48.400 So Ace Hardware is are fun. You know, each one's 752 00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:53.840 independently owned. Independently owned, so that means each owner, while 753 00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:56.159 still having all the standard A stuff, they can do 754 00:38:56.239 --> 00:39:00.599 some really cool extras for their store. I like that. 755 00:39:01.159 --> 00:39:01.280 Well. 756 00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:03.320 Music means I gotta stop talking here in a minute, 757 00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:05.039 But I'm not going to stop until I tell you 758 00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:10.360 that I'm going to be at RCW Nurseries today. Get 759 00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:15.719 scratch everything off the calendar RCW Nursery from twelve to two. 760 00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:19.400 Come see me listen. I cannot even read all of 761 00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:23.360 the things we're given away, but nice stuff like fifteen 762 00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:27.400 gallon send philippy maple tree that is an awesome maple variety, 763 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:29.920 and fall is the time to plant trees and trucks. 764 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:34.360 Fifteen gallon redbud tree, a three gallon, a seven gallon camellia, 765 00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:39.079 a flat of color plants, microlife for Eliza, in sect side, 766 00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:42.880 funge of sides, freeze cloth and metally yard art. I'm 767 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:47.760 giving away nitroplast, three step barricade, fall special and eagle 768 00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:49.639 Turfunge of size bags. Come see me. 769 00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:54.880 Welcome to kz RH guarden Line with scamp Richard. 770 00:39:54.960 --> 00:40:35.880 It's so just watch him as. 771 00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:24.519 Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, 772 00:40:24.719 --> 00:40:27.599 Skip Richter, and we are here to help you have 773 00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:31.280 a beautiful garden, a bountiful landscape and more fun in 774 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:38.880 the process. Gardening is an uplifting activity. It's a fun activity. 775 00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:42.280 It's one that does physical good for us, it's one 776 00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:44.880 that does mental good for us, and it just should 777 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:47.440 be fun. If you feel like you failed at gardening, 778 00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:50.480 let me just tell you didn't. You can only fail 779 00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:54.960 at gardening by quitting, by stopping, by not trying. Nature 780 00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:59.760 grows and kills plants every year you can too. It's easy, 781 00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:00.639 is that? 782 00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:01.239 So? 783 00:41:01.719 --> 00:41:03.559 When it comes to gardening, we just need to help 784 00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:06.599 get that thumb looking better by giving you good information. 785 00:41:06.719 --> 00:41:08.400 I like to tell people there's no such thing as 786 00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:12.039 a brown thumb. There's only uninformed thumbs. And we inform 787 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:15.480 your thumb. When your thumb gets smarter, suddenly everything starts 788 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:18.199 to be greener. It's as easy as that. And one 789 00:41:18.239 --> 00:41:21.920 of the key steps is brown stuff before green stuff. 790 00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:25.840 What does that mean? That means prepare the soil, get 791 00:41:26.119 --> 00:41:31.039 the condition of the soil optimum, and your plants will 792 00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:34.840 be much much more successful. You will suddenly look like 793 00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:37.599 you've got a green thumb because you just did the 794 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:41.000 simple task of preparing the soil first. And one of 795 00:41:41.039 --> 00:41:43.719 the best ways to do that is with heirloom soils 796 00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:47.719 products Airloom Soil. They sell soil by the bag all 797 00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:51.400 over town. They sell soil by bulk. You can go 798 00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:54.119 get it out at the porder location of Warren's Rock 799 00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:57.960 and Mulch. You can also by the way, you can 800 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:01.760 also just have that deliver it. They can bring and 801 00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:03.960 dump it in your driveway so you can get to 802 00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:06.960 town making that bed and improving that bed and mulching 803 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:11.639 that bed. They can also put it in a supersack 804 00:42:11.840 --> 00:42:14.239 and set that in your driveway. A supersac is a 805 00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:17.039 big old bag that holds a cubic yard of soil. Yeah, 806 00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:19.360 it's a heavy duty bag and they put it right there. 807 00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:21.920 It's neat and clean and easy to do. They're very 808 00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:24.440 very easy to do. In fact, they've got there. They've 809 00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:28.239 got a deal going on one qbic yard supersack, their 810 00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:32.800 new branded supersacks. You can put one cubic yard of 811 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:37.000 aged leaf mole compost and you get the supersack two 812 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:41.199 for ninety nine bucks. That's seventy five dollars savings per 813 00:42:41.280 --> 00:42:44.360 sack and it's good through two day. So you're going 814 00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:46.519 to have to get on the phone and give them 815 00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:50.760 a call. Two eight one three five four nineteen fifty 816 00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:53.400 two eight one three five four nineteen fifty. They're open 817 00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:56.559 from seven am to three pm today, so if you 818 00:42:56.559 --> 00:42:58.360 won't take a minute, we'll wait while you go give 819 00:42:58.400 --> 00:43:02.920 them a call seven to three today and closed on Sunday, 820 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:05.039 back opening again on Monday, but the deal's no good 821 00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:08.480 on Monday. It's through today. You can go pick it 822 00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:12.360 up at the porter yard or that's on a Highway 823 00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:18.360 fifty nine out there in Porter, or you can have 824 00:43:18.440 --> 00:43:20.960 them deliver it three sacra minimum though for delivery and 825 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:23.960 it does cost for delivery fees. But book heers now 826 00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:26.800 get it done. You can go to a rockandmltz dot 827 00:43:26.840 --> 00:43:30.400 com slash delivery and get that done. But anyway, heirlom sauce, 828 00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:31.960 or just buy it by the bag, you know they have. 829 00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:35.039 I mentioned earlier that Cina Molts carries their veggie nerve 830 00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:38.199 mix for example. They also have fruit and berry mix. 831 00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:40.719 They got to cactus and succulent mix that I use 832 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:44.559 for our strings of pearls and turtles and all those 833 00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:47.840 other strings we have at the house. The works potting soil, 834 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:50.920 rose and bloomers blend, expanded shale, lots of things from 835 00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:54.119 heirloom soils. All you got to do is give them 836 00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:57.639 a call. Take advantage of that supersacked boy, that leafmol 837 00:43:57.760 --> 00:44:02.119 compos that is cadillacs, really good stuff. You'll do some 838 00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:05.320 top dressing of your lawn. You want to improve your beds. 839 00:44:05.480 --> 00:44:08.400 It'll do all of that. Our phone number is seven 840 00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:11.800 one three two one two k t r H seven 841 00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:15.880 one three two one two k t r H one 842 00:44:15.920 --> 00:44:21.519 more reminder here for you folks. Nitrofoss Texas three step system. 843 00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:23.320 You do the two step on the dance floor, you 844 00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:25.159 do the three step in the lawn, and here are 845 00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:29.360 the three steps. Step one Nitropos Fall Special one Ariser. 846 00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:34.239 It is a fertilizer designed nutrient wise for fall in 847 00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:37.840 our area. When you put fertilizer down now in the 848 00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:41.760 fall in our area, just go to my schedule on 849 00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:44.880 my website Gardening with Skip dot com and you'll see 850 00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:47.760 what I'm talking about. It's all scheduled there for you. 851 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:50.119 You put it in the fall, your grass will be 852 00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:53.280 more cold, hardy because it's taking up those nutrients and 853 00:44:53.320 --> 00:44:56.000 make carbohydrates. And it also comes out in spring strong. 854 00:44:56.119 --> 00:44:59.199 Do you know that your early spring growth in the spring, 855 00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:01.719 when your lawns starts to wake up and grow, all 856 00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:04.760 of that energy is coming from stored energy from fall 857 00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:08.119 fertilizing for what it took up in the fall. Second 858 00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:11.960 step barricade pre emergent. You put it down, you watered in. 859 00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:16.000 It forms the barricade and weed seeds can't break through it. 860 00:45:16.840 --> 00:45:20.880 Third step Eagle turf fungicide. Egle turf fungicide is a 861 00:45:20.920 --> 00:45:23.079 systemic you put it down, you water it in, it 862 00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:25.559 goes into the plant and when brown patch shows up, 863 00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:30.239 it says, uh uh, this patient has been protected. In 864 00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:34.960 other words, the grass itself has the ingredients inside now 865 00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:38.559 to fight that disease. And so Eagle Turf fungicide, Nitropross, 866 00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:43.960 Barricade and Fall Winnerizer, Fall Special Winterizer all from Nitroposs. 867 00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:46.800 You can find them widely available. You're going to find 868 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:49.800 them at places like Katiace Hardware, plants and things in 869 00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:54.679 Brennam Court Hardware and Stafford Growers Outlet and Willis. In fact, 870 00:45:54.880 --> 00:45:58.320 you want to find some, come out to RCW Nursery today. 871 00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:00.679 I'm going to be given away two or three bags 872 00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:03.639 of each one all three of those, more than one 873 00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:05.840 bag of all three of those. We're gonna be giving 874 00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:08.559 them away out at RCW today, and if you don't 875 00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:10.599 happen to win that, maybe you'll win one or the other. 876 00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:13.480 I think over twenty prizes we're gonna be given away 877 00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:15.360 out there, and then you can just pick them up 878 00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:17.639 because they're gonna have plenty on hand as well. RCW 879 00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:23.599 carries the Night of Us three Step as well. All right, 880 00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:25.519 we're going to head to the phones and we're going 881 00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:29.079 out to Humbol to talk to Albert. Hey, Albert, welcome 882 00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:31.880 to garden Line. Well, thank you very much. 883 00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:36.719 I have a simple question on Japanese sweet potatoes. I 884 00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:39.599 had taken some of the potatoes, got them to go ahead, 885 00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:41.039 and I guess that you want to call them my 886 00:46:41.440 --> 00:46:44.920 gross stems, went ahead and planing it. I gave something 887 00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:47.480 to friends of mine, and the ones that I gave 888 00:46:47.519 --> 00:46:50.480 away so far, they're telling me that they did not produce. 889 00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:53.960 I can't figure out why I did not produce. 890 00:46:57.880 --> 00:46:59.599 Was this from way back in the warm part of 891 00:46:59.599 --> 00:47:02.239 the season, or is this something recent that they planted. 892 00:47:04.599 --> 00:47:06.960 I'll call it recently, about four to five months ago 893 00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:10.920 that they were planning. Okay, yeah, so that's enough time, 894 00:47:11.199 --> 00:47:14.400 all right. When sweet potatoes don't produce, there are several reasons. 895 00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:19.360 Number one, good sunlight. Number two, adequate water to keep 896 00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:23.159 the vines from stressing. When you get those little slips 897 00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:25.679 that you said you grew off the sweet potatoes, if 898 00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:29.639 they're a big, strong, thick slip, you're going to get 899 00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:32.840 better production than if it's a scruny little slip coming 900 00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:35.679 off of there. Those are all some of the things. 901 00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:37.480 There are some other things that can go into the 902 00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.960 process of it. But if you get a good strong slip, 903 00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:43.159 you get it in. It's got plenty of time. It 904 00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:45.920 does have adequate water, it has adequate fertilizer, but not 905 00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:51.239 too much nitrogen. But some they ought to produce for them, 906 00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:54.039 So something along one of those lines went wrong. 907 00:47:56.079 --> 00:47:58.079 Yes, might be too much nitrogen. 908 00:47:58.239 --> 00:48:03.960 Possibly, don't know mile today, but they were all telling me. 909 00:48:04.039 --> 00:48:06.599 None of the group basically vine. 910 00:48:06.440 --> 00:48:15.400 Zaca no potatoes. All right, yeah, I uh yeah, okay, 911 00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:18.559 all right, well thanks for that call, Albert. I appreciate 912 00:48:18.559 --> 00:48:23.880 that sweet potatoes are not you two. Sweet potatoes are 913 00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:28.639 not that uh difficult to grow, but uh people they 914 00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:31.920 run into some issues with them and those things I'm mentioning. 915 00:48:32.119 --> 00:48:34.559 Here's what's happening. You're taking a section of vines, sticking 916 00:48:34.599 --> 00:48:36.800 it in the ground and it actually roots. Is that amazing? 917 00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:38.920 I mean, it roots fast enough before the vine dies. 918 00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:42.719 It's got roots that that's fast. And those leaves are 919 00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:46.440 capturing sunlight. So you've got a big old vining, sprawling 920 00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:49.880 sweet potato plant and it's in sun and carbohydrates are 921 00:48:49.920 --> 00:48:52.800 being produced and they that's what makes the root of 922 00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:57.639 a sweet potato. So if you're not getting roots that 923 00:48:57.639 --> 00:48:59.840 that is where we start looking through the process of 924 00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:03.480 the things I mentioned something along the lines there is 925 00:49:03.639 --> 00:49:08.039 just not quite working right on that. But anyway, it's 926 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:11.079 a great crop to grow. D and D feed up 927 00:49:11.239 --> 00:49:14.000 in the Tumble area. In fact, if you go up 928 00:49:14.280 --> 00:49:17.480 to Tumble up to forty nine, then you turn to 929 00:49:17.599 --> 00:49:20.559 the left and go west on twenty nine to twenty 930 00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:22.719 about three miles, that's where D and D feed is 931 00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:25.159 And it's your local hometown feed store out there. Everybody 932 00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:27.320 that's in that region knows D and D dry by 933 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:31.079 it every day. The Dover family has owned and operated 934 00:49:31.159 --> 00:49:33.960 D and D since nineteen eighty nine. They recently did 935 00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:36.719 an expansion. And when you go into D and D, 936 00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:38.840 if you hear me talk about a fertilizer, it's going 937 00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:42.000 to be there. And that's nitroposs and that's Microlife, and 938 00:49:42.039 --> 00:49:46.320 that's Nilson's and that's Medina. They have bags of heirloom soils, 939 00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:50.800 they have Landscaper's Pride soil and mult type products there. 940 00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:53.800 They get in some plants seasonally to come through there 941 00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:56.320 as well. When you go into D and D, every 942 00:49:56.639 --> 00:49:59.239 kind of pest, disease and we control you need is 943 00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:02.840 in there. Really nice selection of some things that are 944 00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:06.440 not just readily available at every place when it comes 945 00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:10.039 to fighting weeds or diseases or pests. D and D 946 00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:12.920 feed Store, of course, it's a feed store, very high 947 00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:16.280 end lines of dog food like Origin, Diamond, victor Star 948 00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:18.800 Pro food for other pets as well, and of course 949 00:50:18.840 --> 00:50:21.920 livestock food. Just go into D and D and check 950 00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:24.239 it out again. About three miles west of two forty 951 00:50:24.320 --> 00:50:26.480 nine on twenty nine to twenty. Here's a phone number 952 00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:28.039 if you'd like to give them a call. Two eight 953 00:50:28.119 --> 00:50:32.480 one three five one seventy one forty four two eight 954 00:50:32.559 --> 00:50:38.400 one three five one seven to one four four. I 955 00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:43.599 was out in my garden this past week pulling up 956 00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:47.559 some okra plants. It's time to get rid of the 957 00:50:47.599 --> 00:50:50.639 plants that I had. I breed okra, so I've got 958 00:50:51.079 --> 00:50:53.039 more ocre than I ought to have. Fact about the 959 00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:56.559 whole garden turned into okre this year because I'm crossing 960 00:50:56.599 --> 00:50:58.280 and seeing how they do. If they don't do good, 961 00:50:58.320 --> 00:50:59.880 they get pulled up and thrown away. If they do, 962 00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:01.960 I saved the seed and we keep going from there. 963 00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:04.079 When I pulled up a plant, I saw nemotodes on 964 00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:07.079 the roots, and I'm going to post something to our 965 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:09.800 Facebook page, garden Line Facebook page. If you don't follow 966 00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:13.280 us on Facebook, you should because we're always posting to that. 967 00:51:13.880 --> 00:51:17.320 And I'm going to put something on Facebook about nematodes. 968 00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:19.719 I've got a little video that I made and it's 969 00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:23.079 going to point you to a resource for more information. 970 00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:25.280 So if you've ever dealt with nematodes, I'm not going 971 00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:29.840 to take time today to go into a long nematode explanation, 972 00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:33.880 but they're just basically, they're tiny, microscopic wormlike things in 973 00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:36.199 the soil that really mess up your plants, and there 974 00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:38.719 are very few plants they don't like. When you look 975 00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:40.960 at the list of things and nematodes attack, you kind 976 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:43.719 of go, well, what else is there? Not many things 977 00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:46.280 are Nema toad resistant, but there are varieties that are. 978 00:51:46.320 --> 00:51:49.119 But anyway, found that in my garden. I was discouraged 979 00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:51.679 because I really work hard at not bringing those things in. 980 00:51:51.920 --> 00:51:53.800 I don't know how they got here, probably with some 981 00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:56.440 soil I put in there, But the bottom line is 982 00:51:56.760 --> 00:52:00.559 I was dealing with them and because of that, well 983 00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:03.440 there we are. When was the last time you went 984 00:52:03.480 --> 00:52:08.239 out to Katie to Nelson Nursery and Water gardens. You know, 985 00:52:08.280 --> 00:52:12.760 Nelson's is the destination garden center out west of Houston. 986 00:52:13.519 --> 00:52:15.079 They're out there in Katie. You just go out to 987 00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:18.280 Katie Fort Benroad, turn right, go north across the tracks. 988 00:52:18.440 --> 00:52:21.880 Nelson's is right there now. They specialize in water gardens, 989 00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:24.280 I always have for a long time. They're nationally known 990 00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:27.559 for what they do in water gardens. But there is 991 00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:31.480 a weekend special going on today and tomorrow ten percent 992 00:52:31.519 --> 00:52:35.199 off the Danner Pond Master sale. So that would be 993 00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:40.239 things like magnetic drive water pumps for example, and filters 994 00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:44.000 and things like that. If you are if you have 995 00:52:44.039 --> 00:52:46.079 a water garden and you need to, you know, up 996 00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:48.480 upscale your pump a little bit, make sure things are good, 997 00:52:48.559 --> 00:52:50.480 or if you want to put one in. This would 998 00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:51.559 be a good time to run out there. 999 00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:51.760 Now. 1000 00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:54.119 While you're out there, you're going to find a lot 1001 00:52:54.159 --> 00:52:58.800 of things. They've got high quality butterfly coy, beautiful beautiful fish. 1002 00:52:58.840 --> 00:53:01.760 I mean butterfly coy, got the shabunkans and other things. 1003 00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:05.599 But there is these are these are rare and special 1004 00:53:05.760 --> 00:53:08.880 special fish that they have. Uh, it's always fun to 1005 00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:12.320 go out there. Today is evening from five to seven. 1006 00:53:12.400 --> 00:53:14.760 They're gonna have live music by Mike Gallo out there's 1007 00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:17.199 gonna be fun. I think they have music all the time. 1008 00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:20.079 When I hear the sound of running water and Nelson Watergardens, 1009 00:53:20.599 --> 00:53:23.800 it's like therapy I could do. They should. They should 1010 00:53:23.800 --> 00:53:26.119 have chairs and charge you to sit in the chairs 1011 00:53:26.320 --> 00:53:28.119 because it would be cheaper than a shrink. I'll tell 1012 00:53:28.119 --> 00:53:31.000 you that, and it'll do more good too. Nelson Watergarden 1013 00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:34.480 and nurseries loaded with fall color, things like cyclomen, things 1014 00:53:34.519 --> 00:53:37.800 like Dianthus. They're ready to go. Uh, You're just gonna 1015 00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:41.559 find everything you need. And by the way, their houseplants 1016 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:43.559 selection you have to walk through it when you go 1017 00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:48.079 in the door is outstanding, beautiful, beautiful house plants. Here's 1018 00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:53.000 a website, Nelson Watergardens dot com. Just go there Nelson 1019 00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:56.840 Watergardens dot com. You'll see everything I'm talking about and 1020 00:53:56.960 --> 00:54:00.199 a lot lot more love that place. Always loved one 1021 00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:04.719 out there. I say this a lot, but I'm saying again, 1022 00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:09.159 we are so fortunate here in the Greater Houston area 1023 00:54:09.199 --> 00:54:13.039 to have outstanding garden centers. It's time for me to 1024 00:54:13.039 --> 00:54:15.280 take a little break, I believe, so I'm gonna quit talking. 1025 00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:16.199 I'll be right back. 1026 00:54:16.800 --> 00:54:17.519 Hey, welcome back. 1027 00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:20.199 To guard Line. Glad you are listening to end today. 1028 00:54:20.239 --> 00:54:22.079 If you'd like to give me a call, We're here 1029 00:54:22.119 --> 00:54:24.599 to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. 1030 00:54:24.719 --> 00:54:26.119 All you got to do is call seven to one 1031 00:54:26.199 --> 00:54:29.800 three two one two k t RH. We glad to 1032 00:54:30.440 --> 00:54:34.800 work with you on finding the solution or maybe finding 1033 00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:38.239 some ideas. Maybe got an area that you're trying to 1034 00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:40.880 figure out what would go well there? We will perform 1035 00:54:41.280 --> 00:54:43.559 well for me there. We can help you with that too. 1036 00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:46.679 You hear me talk about quality home products a lot 1037 00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:48.800 here on guard Line because I really believe in that 1038 00:54:48.840 --> 00:54:52.960 company is an outstanding company. It really is. And it's 1039 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:56.519 not just my opinion. It's fourteen thousand and five star reviews. 1040 00:54:56.559 --> 00:54:59.679 Actually more than fourteen thousand now five star reviews. It's 1041 00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:02.960 a fact that in twenty twenty three last year, Houston 1042 00:55:03.039 --> 00:55:06.559 Chronicle best of the best in the home contractor division. YEP. 1043 00:55:06.760 --> 00:55:11.039 That is quite a track record there, and you know, 1044 00:55:11.119 --> 00:55:13.599 it just goes on and on the kinds of awards 1045 00:55:13.639 --> 00:55:16.719 that they win, and it's because the customers recognize how 1046 00:55:16.719 --> 00:55:20.119 they're being treated and they like it. If you are interested, 1047 00:55:20.199 --> 00:55:23.360 maybe you're a licensed electrician or plumber and you're interested 1048 00:55:23.400 --> 00:55:25.840 in a work in working for a company like that, 1049 00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:29.280 a company where it is it's a pleasure to work 1050 00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:31.599 for and it's rewarding. You know, we're talking about competitive pay. 1051 00:55:31.599 --> 00:55:34.639 We're talking about medical, dental, vision coverage or tirement plans, 1052 00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:39.440 matching for one K paid holidays and time off, quality 1053 00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:41.800 training programs, and they do really train you because they 1054 00:55:41.840 --> 00:55:44.239 want to make sure when you go out you represent 1055 00:55:44.280 --> 00:55:48.119 them well and the customers are well satisfied. And my goodness, 1056 00:55:48.159 --> 00:55:52.239 they excel at that. 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Boy was ever a mess this year 1067 00:56:24.360 --> 00:56:28.559 and a quality generator such as a Generac automatic stand 1068 00:56:28.559 --> 00:56:31.880 by generator from Quality Home is helping solve those problems 1069 00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:35.920 for folks. Our phone number is seven one three two 1070 00:56:35.960 --> 00:56:40.360 one two k t r H. Seven one three two 1071 00:56:40.400 --> 00:56:45.400 one two k t r H. I was out in 1072 00:56:45.519 --> 00:56:50.000 the yard the other day. Uh. Actually it's kind of 1073 00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:52.559 a two part story. I was out in the yard 1074 00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:55.119 and I have a neighbor that doesn't control their weeds, 1075 00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:59.360 and you know, sare yard whatever, but the seeds end 1076 00:56:59.440 --> 00:57:01.840 up blowing over were on my side. So I've got 1077 00:57:01.840 --> 00:57:04.320 this little strip that every year I go out in 1078 00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:07.519 the fall and do this pull fall asters up out 1079 00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:10.039 of my lawn. Fall astra is a little tiny flower, 1080 00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:12.599 dime sized, looks white, but it kind of has a 1081 00:57:12.679 --> 00:57:16.440 lavender hue to it, lavender pinkishue to it. And those 1082 00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:18.920 suckers they crawl around under the grass. You don't really 1083 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:21.000 notice them or see them. If your grass gets weak, 1084 00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:25.199 the astra shows up because it's a dark blue green color, 1085 00:57:25.400 --> 00:57:28.000 and your lawn could dye a drought, and the astra 1086 00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:31.760 stays alive. It is a tough ombra, and they when 1087 00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:33.679 you mow, they just go sideways and stay in in 1088 00:57:33.719 --> 00:57:35.440 in there. And then at this time of the year 1089 00:57:35.559 --> 00:57:38.280 they've been blooming for a few weeks now they send 1090 00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:41.920 out these low, tiny blooms, and that is your warning 1091 00:57:42.360 --> 00:57:45.039 to do something about it. And here here's why you 1092 00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:47.840 can't spray them with a post emergent herbicide. Now it 1093 00:57:48.000 --> 00:57:54.519 won't work. When weeds become we say reproductive, meaning they're 1094 00:57:54.519 --> 00:57:57.400 blooming and setting seeds, it's a little late to have 1095 00:57:57.440 --> 00:57:59.920 success with a post emergent herbicide. Those are for use 1096 00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:02.360 when the weeds are young and growing. That's when they 1097 00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:06.159 work best. Well fall aster, when it sets a seed, 1098 00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:09.039 I nerd it out. One year. I decide I'm going 1099 00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:11.559 to figure out what's going on here. And I opened 1100 00:58:11.639 --> 00:58:16.079 up a seed, a bloom that it faded and had 1101 00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:19.159 seeds in it. Fifty seeds in that bloom. And I 1102 00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:22.079 looked and this plant was biggest steirm al on my car. 1103 00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:25.960 It had probably one hundred blooms on it. And so 1104 00:58:26.079 --> 00:58:28.679 you do fifty times one hundred, and that's five thousand. 1105 00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:31.320 So let me ask you a question, would you rather 1106 00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:34.360 what are your lone to soften the soil and go 1107 00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.039 out there with one of these real cool kneeling benches 1108 00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:43.079 like they have it Southwest fertilizer and pull one weed 1109 00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:45.679 up if they're tap rooted, just wiggle it out of 1110 00:58:45.719 --> 00:58:48.480 the soil and take five thousand seeds in your hand 1111 00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:50.039 and put them in a five gallon bucket to go 1112 00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:53.000 throw in the trash, or would you rather do with 1113 00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:56.039 five thousand plants next year? That's the trade off. And 1114 00:58:56.079 --> 00:58:59.320 so get out there if they're blooming, get going, because 1115 00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:01.800 once they fin blooming and they set seed. Now when 1116 00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:05.440 you're dragging him out through the yard, they're dropping seeds everywhere, 1117 00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:09.280 so you're losing some of the effectiveness of the hand pulling. 1118 00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:11.000 But I'm telling you that is the thing to do 1119 00:59:11.039 --> 00:59:12.639 at this time of year, to get ahead of them. 1120 00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:15.440 And I took some pictures. I may post these to 1121 00:59:15.519 --> 00:59:17.679 social media. There was a guy in the front yard. 1122 00:59:17.719 --> 00:59:20.639 I stopped and talked to him, got his permission. There 1123 00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:23.159 were piles of these. He had gone through. The whole 1124 00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:25.719 front yard must have been just filled with this weed, 1125 00:59:26.079 --> 00:59:28.639 because there were a little two foot high piles everywhere 1126 00:59:28.639 --> 00:59:30.599 in the yard that he had just piled up, maybe 1127 00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:33.719 a foot eye all over. As he was pulling up 1128 00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:35.119 and he's going to gather him up and get him 1129 00:59:35.119 --> 00:59:36.840 out of there, I just said, man, way to go. 1130 00:59:36.960 --> 00:59:39.679 I know that's work, but you cannot imagine how much 1131 00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:42.639 good you're doing right now, get out there and doing that. 1132 00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:46.440 So anyway, that was my public service announcement for the day. 1133 00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:49.760 Get those things out of your lawn. We're going to 1134 00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:52.000 go to talk to Rick. Now, Hey, Rick, welcome to 1135 00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:52.599 garden Line. 1136 00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:57.960 Thank you, Sip, good to talk to you. I'm wondering 1137 00:59:58.079 --> 01:00:02.039 what is the better time to a small fig tree 1138 01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:04.000 that will go to purchase at the nursery. Is it 1139 01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:05.960 now or should have wait till February? 1140 01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:10.760 You know you can go either way, figs or semi 1141 01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:14.039 cold tender. So were we unknowingly? Now, let's say we're 1142 01:00:14.039 --> 01:00:16.559 going to have this really bad freeze in January, it 1143 01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:18.360 would have been nice to have it in container where 1144 01:00:18.360 --> 01:00:20.679 you can bring it in. In general, there's not a 1145 01:00:20.760 --> 01:00:24.199 problem putting a fig in the ground. Now. With figs 1146 01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:26.760 et ceters, I kind of like to hedge my bet sometimes. 1147 01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:30.159 So that's your call. If you do plan it, just 1148 01:00:30.199 --> 01:00:32.159 be ready to cover it up with a ton of 1149 01:00:32.199 --> 01:00:34.840 compost and malts for those freezing nights and then pull 1150 01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:37.000 all that stuff back away and you should be okay. 1151 01:00:37.880 --> 01:00:39.480 All right, thank you so much, sir. 1152 01:00:41.039 --> 01:00:42.320 Thank you appreciate the call. 1153 01:00:42.440 --> 01:00:42.559 Rick. 1154 01:00:42.719 --> 01:00:44.800 You take care all right, folks, We're going to take 1155 01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:46.800 a little quick break here for the news. I'll be 1156 01:00:46.920 --> 01:00:49.719 right back. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have 1157 01:00:49.800 --> 01:00:53.039 you with us today. Hey, we've got things to visit 1158 01:00:53.119 --> 01:00:55.679 with you about. And I wanted to start off just 1159 01:00:55.840 --> 01:01:00.679 by talking again about the importance of microbes in the soil. 1160 01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:03.760 Microbes they rule the world, and I mean that. I 1161 01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:07.360 mean I spend a whole show droning on about everything 1162 01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:10.719 microbes do for us. They are the number one producer 1163 01:01:10.760 --> 01:01:13.480 of serotonin in our bodies, or the microbes in our intestine, 1164 01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:16.800 serotonins that feel good chemical So right there. Good for microbes. 1165 01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:21.400 Without microbes, who wouldn't have beer. Good for microbes. Without microbes, 1166 01:01:21.719 --> 01:01:24.679 our plants would not be able to thrive. Because microbes 1167 01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:26.719 work with the roots of the plant. They protect the 1168 01:01:26.800 --> 01:01:30.639 root from disease. They feed the root by breaking down 1169 01:01:31.159 --> 01:01:34.800 organic matter in the soil and releasing it. They also 1170 01:01:36.760 --> 01:01:39.760 communicate with the root in ways that caused the plant 1171 01:01:39.800 --> 01:01:43.320 to grow better or more disease resistant. That's why Microlife 1172 01:01:43.320 --> 01:01:48.159 has micro grow bioinoculant. Now it's fall fertilizing season and 1173 01:01:48.599 --> 01:01:51.280 you should do that. You can use Microlife's brown patch 1174 01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:53.599 for that. It's very good for that. But you need 1175 01:01:53.639 --> 01:01:56.880 to put out the micro Grow bioinoculant, and anytime you 1176 01:01:56.960 --> 01:01:59.119 are doing any kind of planting, sprinkle a little bit 1177 01:01:59.159 --> 01:02:01.840 in there when you do it. But on the lawn 1178 01:02:02.039 --> 01:02:03.880 you just spread it out according to the label. It 1179 01:02:03.880 --> 01:02:08.199 doesn't take much like five to ten pounds per thousand 1180 01:02:08.519 --> 01:02:12.960 square feet. We're not fertilizing here, we're inoculating. We are 1181 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:17.199 getting the microbes out there because the sixty three different 1182 01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:20.519 strains in micro grow by aoculant do a lot of 1183 01:02:20.559 --> 01:02:22.719 good things. I've talked about that before in the air here, 1184 01:02:23.239 --> 01:02:25.039 but just keeping right off, you ought to have a 1185 01:02:25.039 --> 01:02:27.119 bag of that on hand pretty much all the time 1186 01:02:27.159 --> 01:02:30.599 because whether you're planting vegetables or flowers, or doing even 1187 01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:35.159 a container garden, especially maybe in a container garden, that 1188 01:02:35.159 --> 01:02:37.800 that would be a chance to inoculate that soil with 1189 01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:43.320 some additional, great beneficial microbes to help your plants to thrive. 1190 01:02:44.960 --> 01:02:46.920 Let's set out to southwest Houston. Now we're going to 1191 01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:49.960 talk to Laurel. Laurel, welcome to Gardenline. 1192 01:02:50.360 --> 01:02:53.400 Good morning, sir. I wanted to I hope you can 1193 01:02:53.440 --> 01:02:57.440 answer a question for me because it's kind of dry. 1194 01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:03.280 I have some wondering juice, And my question was, could 1195 01:03:03.320 --> 01:03:06.280 I just spray like a gallon of water or should 1196 01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:12.920 I just do a watering can? What? What is your recommendation, sir? Uh? 1197 01:03:13.039 --> 01:03:16.199 The goal in watering any plant, including your wandering jew 1198 01:03:16.320 --> 01:03:20.280 is to wet the soil with a good soaking. So 1199 01:03:20.400 --> 01:03:27.840 if you uh, maybe a gallon in uh like a 1200 01:03:28.880 --> 01:03:31.639 foot out in all directions from the plant, kind of 1201 01:03:31.679 --> 01:03:33.960 a circle, if you could soak it all into that area, 1202 01:03:34.039 --> 01:03:36.840 that would be that would be good. Uh. The key 1203 01:03:36.920 --> 01:03:39.800 is how wet how deep does the soil get moistened? 1204 01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:40.599 Uh? 1205 01:03:40.639 --> 01:03:44.519 And so when you water, uh, it's good. It's educational 1206 01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:46.360 to go out and water and think, okay, I've got 1207 01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:48.800 I've watered enough, and then wait, just wait a little 1208 01:03:48.840 --> 01:03:50.719 bit and go back with a trowel and dig down 1209 01:03:50.840 --> 01:03:53.800 and see how deep that is wet. Oftentimes you'll find 1210 01:03:53.840 --> 01:03:55.719 you've only wet the soil and an inch deep and you 1211 01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:58.280 thought you gave it a good soaking. So it's not 1212 01:03:58.599 --> 01:03:59.119 like put a. 1213 01:03:59.119 --> 01:04:02.320 Gallon on them or go yes, is that what you're saying? 1214 01:04:03.719 --> 01:04:06.880 Yeah, you can do that when I when I water lawned, 1215 01:04:06.920 --> 01:04:08.519 I tell people all the time, when you water a lawn, 1216 01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:11.880 just get a good long handled screwdriver, and after you've 1217 01:04:11.880 --> 01:04:13.880 watered and it's soaked in for about an hour, push 1218 01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:16.719 that screwdriver in the ground. And wherever the soil is wet, 1219 01:04:16.760 --> 01:04:19.880 the screwdriver will go like through through wet butter or 1220 01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:23.639 soft butter. And when you hit concrete that means it's 1221 01:04:23.679 --> 01:04:26.400 not wet there. And you can see, did I wet 1222 01:04:26.400 --> 01:04:29.079 it three inches deep? Four inches deep, six inches deep? 1223 01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:31.199 And you want to give a good soaking, you'd like 1224 01:04:31.239 --> 01:04:33.239 to wet that soil at least four inches deep. For 1225 01:04:33.280 --> 01:04:34.320 those wandering. 1226 01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:35.960 Jews, well, thank you. 1227 01:04:35.960 --> 01:04:37.880 You don't have the water often. If you do that, 1228 01:04:38.440 --> 01:04:40.199 you bet you don't have to do it often if 1229 01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:42.960 you do it right. Don't do that just a little 1230 01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:46.440 shallow sprinkling three times a week, I'm sure you will. 1231 01:04:46.440 --> 01:04:49.400 That's a tough plant. So it's it's doing what it 1232 01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:54.599 can to help you. Thanks Laurel. That is the case. Yeah. 1233 01:04:54.639 --> 01:04:57.159 For your long watering. If you don't know how long 1234 01:04:57.239 --> 01:05:01.320 the water, well, uh, there's two ways if you're watering along. 1235 01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:05.360 Two ways to know. Number one is you want to 1236 01:05:06.159 --> 01:05:08.840 water until you've applied an inch of water, and it 1237 01:05:08.920 --> 01:05:10.679 may you have the water a little bit. Let it 1238 01:05:10.719 --> 01:05:12.239 soak a little bit, come back and water a little 1239 01:05:12.239 --> 01:05:14.079 bit more so you don't have runoff, because putting an 1240 01:05:14.119 --> 01:05:15.920 inch on it one time often you end up with 1241 01:05:16.000 --> 01:05:19.199 the runoff. That's one an inch of water. Number two, 1242 01:05:19.679 --> 01:05:22.679 after you water, go out, stick as straight a little 1243 01:05:22.679 --> 01:05:25.800 flathead screwdriver or whatever straight down in the soil, and 1244 01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:29.039 it'll go through wet soil easily, and it'll be like 1245 01:05:29.079 --> 01:05:31.639 you hit a concrete sidewalk underneath the surface when you 1246 01:05:31.719 --> 01:05:34.199 hit that dry zone. And then you just pull it 1247 01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:36.280 out and you know exactly how deep you wet it. 1248 01:05:36.559 --> 01:05:41.159 Two little quick tips there that hopefully will get you 1249 01:05:41.199 --> 01:05:45.880 off to a good start. Let's see here. I wanted 1250 01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:49.039 to tell you a couple of things. You know, I 1251 01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:51.679 talk about Arbigate all the time because it's one of 1252 01:05:51.719 --> 01:05:57.960 my favorite garden centers. Arbrogate always has the best outstanding 1253 01:05:58.159 --> 01:06:01.880 collection of plants and ling for the landscape and everything 1254 01:06:01.880 --> 01:06:03.559 else like that that you're going to find. I mean, 1255 01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:06.719 they just do. They specialize in that. They just got 1256 01:06:06.760 --> 01:06:11.480 a bunch of their bulbs in from heirloom Southern Bulb 1257 01:06:11.559 --> 01:06:14.480 Company excuse me, the Southern Bulb Company. Chris Weisinger. He 1258 01:06:14.840 --> 01:06:19.360 produces these Texas bulbs found in Texas lawns and landscapes 1259 01:06:19.400 --> 01:06:21.559 and all over the place. Chris Is collected them and 1260 01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:25.000 it's his company now and Arburgate carries those. And so 1261 01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:29.480 you're going to find outstanding bulbs that repeat here. And 1262 01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:31.599 that's important. You know, you can plant a tulip and 1263 01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:33.559 it pops up, you get a bloom that dies and 1264 01:06:33.679 --> 01:06:36.400 you're done. It's called a one shot wonder. Or you 1265 01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:39.960 can plant bulbs that live in abandoned homesteads in Texas 1266 01:06:40.039 --> 01:06:43.840 year after year after year. That's called an investment. And 1267 01:06:44.039 --> 01:06:48.039 Arburgate's got those from there. Arbigate has their you know, 1268 01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:51.559 brown stuff before green stuff. They have their package of 1269 01:06:51.639 --> 01:06:55.000 products to make the brown stuff right. The soil right, 1270 01:06:55.440 --> 01:06:59.000 it's a food, organic food complete food feeds anything with roots. 1271 01:06:59.039 --> 01:07:02.639 It's a soil for an application that includes expanded shale 1272 01:07:02.639 --> 01:07:07.320 because expanded shale lasts even longer than compost and improving soils. 1273 01:07:07.360 --> 01:07:11.079 And then finally organic compost complete, which also has expanded 1274 01:07:11.159 --> 01:07:13.679 hill in it too. So when you take those three 1275 01:07:13.719 --> 01:07:17.000 home and then you get those beautiful plants that Arburgate 1276 01:07:17.039 --> 01:07:20.039 has and bring them home, you're set up for success. 1277 01:07:20.320 --> 01:07:22.360 And if you have any issues any questions, you can 1278 01:07:22.400 --> 01:07:25.480 always go back because Arburgate, Bevern and Kennon and the 1279 01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:30.519 whole group there, they are experts at advising you for success. 1280 01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:32.280 That's why people love to go back there. You can 1281 01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:35.239 go to Arbrogate dot com the website and earn more. 1282 01:07:35.280 --> 01:07:39.239 They're just west of Tumbull on twenty nine twenty twenty 1283 01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:41.840 nine to twenty And if you've never been to Arburgate, 1284 01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:44.079 crawl out from under the rock you've been living under 1285 01:07:44.079 --> 01:07:47.599 because it's the place everybody loves to go and for 1286 01:07:47.639 --> 01:07:51.000 good reason. I'm going to head out now to Mike 1287 01:07:51.159 --> 01:07:53.679 and Brenham. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line. 1288 01:07:54.920 --> 01:07:59.000 Yes, sir morning, I have some peach trees that are 1289 01:07:59.000 --> 01:08:00.239 having a hard time. 1290 01:08:01.519 --> 01:08:02.440 Early in the spring. 1291 01:08:02.559 --> 01:08:04.719 In the summer, they got lots and lots of rain, 1292 01:08:05.679 --> 01:08:07.840 but for some reason, whenever I seem to put my 1293 01:08:07.920 --> 01:08:10.159 sprinkler water on them, they struggle. 1294 01:08:12.039 --> 01:08:16.159 Okay, any suggestions, huh. 1295 01:08:16.159 --> 01:08:19.840 Well, peach trees like a good deep soaking, so when 1296 01:08:19.920 --> 01:08:22.760 you water, you got water enough for them to do good. 1297 01:08:22.800 --> 01:08:28.880 They've got extensive root system and and any plant prefers 1298 01:08:28.960 --> 01:08:33.359 rain water over our drinking water, they just do. But 1299 01:08:34.319 --> 01:08:37.359 a good soaking with water should keep them going. Peach 1300 01:08:37.479 --> 01:08:41.720 orchards are irrigated all the time, and I would, you know, 1301 01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:46.000 I would say maybe not enough water was going on them. 1302 01:08:46.960 --> 01:08:49.880 And that's me not being there and but just guessing. 1303 01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:53.119 But it takes a considerable amount of water. One time 1304 01:08:53.199 --> 01:08:57.960 out in west central Texas, Texas, A and M has 1305 01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:01.760 a research center and they have these giant underground pots. 1306 01:09:01.880 --> 01:09:04.520 Imagine a pot that is so big that it holds 1307 01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:07.079 a mature sized peach tree, but it's underground. It's got 1308 01:09:07.159 --> 01:09:09.319 a scale under it, you know, like those scales you 1309 01:09:09.399 --> 01:09:11.199 drive across and it weighs the truck and then you 1310 01:09:11.279 --> 01:09:14.840 drive on. And so they could monitor hour by hour 1311 01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:18.159 how much water was evaporating from that tree and from 1312 01:09:18.199 --> 01:09:21.720 the soil. And they found that a mature peach tree 1313 01:09:22.119 --> 01:09:24.880 pumps forty five gallons of water a day out of 1314 01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:29.159 the ground. That's a lot of WAE I see in 1315 01:09:29.199 --> 01:09:33.039 the summer. And so now if it has less, it 1316 01:09:33.159 --> 01:09:36.720 stays alive, but it starts to shut down. It doesn't 1317 01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:39.239 set buds well, it doesn't produce well, it doesn't fill 1318 01:09:39.279 --> 01:09:42.199 the fruit well. And so my point in making that 1319 01:09:42.239 --> 01:09:45.239 little story is just to say you need to give 1320 01:09:45.279 --> 01:09:48.760 them a good soaking every week, a good deep soaking 1321 01:09:49.000 --> 01:09:51.560 for them to do well in the summertime. Now, when 1322 01:09:51.600 --> 01:09:54.520 the leaves are falling off here soon, not really much 1323 01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:57.720 to worry about. I mean it just adequately moist soil, 1324 01:09:57.800 --> 01:09:59.920 which doesn't take a lot of watering to maintain them. 1325 01:10:01.640 --> 01:10:05.840 When would you expect the leaves to start falling off. 1326 01:10:06.279 --> 01:10:09.720 I've had some leaves fall off, yeah, quite a bit. 1327 01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:12.720 Well, I've seen Yeah, I've seen a lot of peaches 1328 01:10:12.920 --> 01:10:15.880 around the area, driving around where the leaves are coming 1329 01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:18.800 off because of the stress. You know, we got to 1330 01:10:18.880 --> 01:10:20.359 the end of the season and people kind of let 1331 01:10:20.439 --> 01:10:24.680 up and we're still having ninety plus degree temperatures with 1332 01:10:24.840 --> 01:10:28.279 no rain, and a lot of peaches are dropping leaves 1333 01:10:28.319 --> 01:10:31.840 because of that stress. Normally it needs to cool off 1334 01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:34.880 a little bit. The shortening days and the cooling temperatures 1335 01:10:35.079 --> 01:10:37.880 cause these trees to decide it's time to cast off 1336 01:10:37.920 --> 01:10:40.920 the leaves and go into winter. So we're on the 1337 01:10:41.039 --> 01:10:44.279 verge of that season. If the tree was perfectly happy, 1338 01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:46.680 it probably wouldn't be dropping leaves. Just quite yet, not. 1339 01:10:46.720 --> 01:10:49.039 That many at least I see. 1340 01:10:49.199 --> 01:10:54.000 I see so predominantly we think moisture and maybe they'll 1341 01:10:54.199 --> 01:10:54.720 get better. 1342 01:10:56.319 --> 01:11:01.680 Oh yeah, just give adequate moisture. And when we get 1343 01:11:01.720 --> 01:11:03.439 back in the next summer, that's when we need to 1344 01:11:03.520 --> 01:11:05.279 kick into watering them. 1345 01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:06.680 I see, I see. 1346 01:11:06.760 --> 01:11:09.840 And then one other question. I'm wanting to plan some 1347 01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:15.520 bash and party pink crave myrtles around my house. When's 1348 01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:16.439 a good time for that? 1349 01:11:18.359 --> 01:11:22.479 Fall is the best time? Now, all the way through 1350 01:11:22.520 --> 01:11:24.479 November is great. I mean, you can plant in winter, 1351 01:11:24.520 --> 01:11:26.359 you can plat and spring, you can plant in summer, 1352 01:11:26.800 --> 01:11:29.199 but the best time is as soon as you can 1353 01:11:29.239 --> 01:11:31.439 get them in there because it gives them the most 1354 01:11:31.479 --> 01:11:34.680 time to establish roots before next summer puts a strain 1355 01:11:34.760 --> 01:11:37.439 on those plants which won't have a fully established root 1356 01:11:37.479 --> 01:11:38.159 system yet. 1357 01:11:39.079 --> 01:11:42.199 Thanks allent, okay, all right, thank you three time, sir. 1358 01:11:42.319 --> 01:11:45.720 Thanks a lot you've met. Thank you, Mike, appreciate that call. 1359 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:48.079 Got to run to a break here, folks, Bridget When 1360 01:11:48.079 --> 01:12:01.199 we come back, you'll be our first up. Hey, welcome back. 1361 01:12:01.720 --> 01:12:03.800 Good to have you on Guardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter. 1362 01:12:03.920 --> 01:12:06.119 And what are we talking about? Well, you tell me. 1363 01:12:06.640 --> 01:12:09.159 This is a call in show for you to discuss 1364 01:12:09.199 --> 01:12:11.279 the things that are of interest to you, things you 1365 01:12:11.319 --> 01:12:13.039 want to know to help you have a beautiful lawn, 1366 01:12:13.079 --> 01:12:15.479 a bountiful landscape. You can give me a call at 1367 01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:18.159 seven one three two one two K t R H 1368 01:12:18.319 --> 01:12:21.880 if you like. You know, I'm a broken record on 1369 01:12:22.039 --> 01:12:24.840 the soil. The soil, the soil, how important that is. 1370 01:12:25.359 --> 01:12:29.079 We get excited about plants kind of I get excited 1371 01:12:29.079 --> 01:12:32.239 about soil. I mean I'd run out there to compost polemate, 1372 01:12:32.279 --> 01:12:34.359 compost angels in the ground, lay on my back and 1373 01:12:34.560 --> 01:12:37.000 wiggle my arms around. But a lot of people don't 1374 01:12:37.039 --> 01:12:39.760 get that excited about the soil. But you should. And 1375 01:12:39.880 --> 01:12:43.359 landscapers pride. They have got a wide variety, a number 1376 01:12:43.399 --> 01:12:46.840 of a couple dozen plus products that will help you 1377 01:12:46.880 --> 01:12:49.199 have success in your soil. One of them is called 1378 01:12:49.199 --> 01:12:52.359 healthy Soil compost. It's made from one hundred percent locally 1379 01:12:52.399 --> 01:12:56.199 sourced grain material materials that they have decompost ground down, 1380 01:12:56.279 --> 01:13:01.319 decomposed down into what's called healthy soil, very high quality. 1381 01:13:01.319 --> 01:13:04.000 And then they have a mushroom compost. These are created 1382 01:13:04.039 --> 01:13:08.279 from clean local mushroom substrate. Now we've got places that 1383 01:13:08.439 --> 01:13:13.279 grow mushrooms and they grow them on a substrate, meaning 1384 01:13:13.479 --> 01:13:17.239 a organic material that the mushrooms grow on. And then 1385 01:13:17.279 --> 01:13:20.119 when they're done with that that substrate goes out the door, 1386 01:13:20.239 --> 01:13:23.640 but it is good stuff. I remember back, oh my gosh, 1387 01:13:23.960 --> 01:13:27.479 decades ago, I was in Conroe, Texas, Montgomery County. We 1388 01:13:27.520 --> 01:13:30.439 put in a whole new garden with mushroom composts and 1389 01:13:30.560 --> 01:13:32.800 you could not believe. I wish I could show you 1390 01:13:32.880 --> 01:13:35.920 the pictures of the difference between where there was mushroom 1391 01:13:35.960 --> 01:13:38.039 composts and whether it was it was night and day. 1392 01:13:38.399 --> 01:13:41.520 Landscapers Prides got a quality mushroom compost too. Go to 1393 01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:44.279 Landscaperspride dot com find out where to get it. It's 1394 01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:46.840 widely available. You can find out. There's social links too, 1395 01:13:46.840 --> 01:13:49.199 you need to follow them on social media, but that 1396 01:13:49.319 --> 01:13:52.760 store locator and the product details are all there at 1397 01:13:52.840 --> 01:13:56.680 Landscaper's Pride dot com. As they like to say, let's 1398 01:13:56.760 --> 01:14:00.840 grow together with these quality products from Landscaper's Pride. I'm 1399 01:14:00.840 --> 01:14:03.159 gonna head out to Spring, Texas now and we're going 1400 01:14:03.239 --> 01:14:05.720 to talk to Bridget. Hello, Bridget, Welcome to guard Line. 1401 01:14:06.600 --> 01:14:07.159 Good morning. 1402 01:14:08.279 --> 01:14:11.000 I have a two questions. I could have questions, but 1403 01:14:11.039 --> 01:14:14.520 I'll just stick to two. I water trees at my 1404 01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:17.640 mother in law's house. They're the magnolia trees. And after 1405 01:14:17.760 --> 01:14:19.720 last year, I thought she was gonna lose one of them, 1406 01:14:20.199 --> 01:14:23.279 so I started slow deep water to keep them going. 1407 01:14:23.319 --> 01:14:25.439 And I'm doing the same thing again this year. I 1408 01:14:25.479 --> 01:14:29.079 noticed one of them has broken bark and it looks 1409 01:14:29.079 --> 01:14:33.239 like it's healed or healing. But I'm just wondering, is 1410 01:14:33.239 --> 01:14:36.000 that something I need to worry about bugs getting into. 1411 01:14:37.239 --> 01:14:38.560 Or just leave it alone? 1412 01:14:40.039 --> 01:14:43.159 And yeah, no, you don't. You don't need to worry. 1413 01:14:44.399 --> 01:14:46.520 Okay, I just was a little. 1414 01:14:49.039 --> 01:14:51.960 I'm sorry. We've got a little delay going on here, 1415 01:14:52.000 --> 01:14:54.239 so we ended up talking over each other. I don't 1416 01:14:54.239 --> 01:14:56.439 know if you have the radio going in the background, 1417 01:14:56.479 --> 01:15:00.000 but that throws people off too. Now that the magnolia, 1418 01:15:00.119 --> 01:15:02.199 if it's healing over, that's good. So you did the 1419 01:15:02.239 --> 01:15:05.800 right thing last year, killed bagnolia trees, and by watering them, 1420 01:15:05.880 --> 01:15:08.479 you did the right thing. As it gets vigor, as 1421 01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:11.199 it gets health, it'll close that wound back over by 1422 01:15:11.319 --> 01:15:13.520 putting callous around the sides of it. 1423 01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:17.640 Okay, it looks like it's doing that. I'm just I 1424 01:15:17.720 --> 01:15:19.680 keep saying, you've got to water these things, so I 1425 01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:24.720 just start doing it myself. The other question is, as 1426 01:15:25.199 --> 01:15:28.119 my son bought a house or acquired a house and 1427 01:15:28.159 --> 01:15:31.920 it had those two token oak trees planted in the subdivision, 1428 01:15:32.159 --> 01:15:35.680 and in between there were Amarilla's bulbs, a whole lot 1429 01:15:35.720 --> 01:15:38.199 of them that are growing in between these two oaks. 1430 01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:40.960 There's nothing there. Now they've died back. I know they're 1431 01:15:41.000 --> 01:15:43.159 going to start coming back. Does he need to do 1432 01:15:43.199 --> 01:15:46.039 anything as far as fertilization. I know they were blooming 1433 01:15:46.199 --> 01:15:47.119 in February. 1434 01:15:49.159 --> 01:15:51.640 We're talking about the bulbs, right, fertilizing the bulbs. 1435 01:15:52.439 --> 01:15:52.800 Correct. 1436 01:15:52.840 --> 01:15:55.399 I'm on a cell phone, so that might be the 1437 01:15:55.479 --> 01:15:56.399 reason for the delay. 1438 01:15:58.479 --> 01:16:01.439 Okay, No, you don't need to wear about fertilizing those bulbs. 1439 01:16:01.760 --> 01:16:05.720 They'll do just fine with whatever's out there for supplying 1440 01:16:05.720 --> 01:16:07.000 the other plants. They'll do fine. 1441 01:16:07.880 --> 01:16:10.079 All right, Well that's my questions. Thank you very much, 1442 01:16:10.159 --> 01:16:10.760 have a great day. 1443 01:16:10.800 --> 01:16:11.159 All right. 1444 01:16:11.239 --> 01:16:14.039 Well, thank you, thank you for the call. Appreciate that 1445 01:16:14.279 --> 01:16:18.840 very much. Good luck with that. Yeah, that is the case. 1446 01:16:20.000 --> 01:16:22.760 If you you know, as dry as it's gotten, here 1447 01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:25.560 goes our soul moving again. When it gets wet, the 1448 01:16:25.640 --> 01:16:29.039 clay swells. When it gets dry, the clay shrinks. And 1449 01:16:29.119 --> 01:16:32.560 fix my slab foundation repair. They're all about that. They 1450 01:16:32.640 --> 01:16:35.920 understand that Ty Strickland's been doing this for twenty three years. 1451 01:16:35.960 --> 01:16:39.319 He knows what he's doing. Free estimates for garden line listeners, 1452 01:16:39.359 --> 01:16:41.359 by the way, So give him a call. If you've 1453 01:16:41.399 --> 01:16:43.479 got sticky doors, if you got cracks in the brick 1454 01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:46.159 or cracks in the sheet rock inside, or maybe the 1455 01:16:46.199 --> 01:16:49.640 sidewalks heaving or the driveway, give Tie a call, have 1456 01:16:49.720 --> 01:16:52.960 him come out, free estimate, tell them your guardenline listener. 1457 01:16:53.720 --> 01:16:56.840 And the thing I like about Tye well a lot 1458 01:16:56.880 --> 01:17:00.520 of things, but Ties a Native Estonians, fifth generation tech here. 1459 01:17:00.920 --> 01:17:04.159 But his his goal is to do to be on time, 1460 01:17:04.279 --> 01:17:07.920 and he is to fix it right, and he does, 1461 01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:11.119 and to price it fairly and he does. You can 1462 01:17:11.159 --> 01:17:13.800 call two eight one two five five forty nine forty 1463 01:17:13.880 --> 01:17:17.439 nine two eight one two FI five forty nine forty nine, 1464 01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:21.159 or go to fixmslab dot com. Don't delay, don't be 1465 01:17:21.199 --> 01:17:23.159 an Ostrich. Doesn't help stick your head in the sand 1466 01:17:23.199 --> 01:17:25.119 on this one. Have him come. Look, he will not 1467 01:17:25.439 --> 01:17:27.520 try to sell you something you don't need. I talked 1468 01:17:27.520 --> 01:17:31.079 to him one time recently about a situation and after 1469 01:17:31.119 --> 01:17:32.920 we described it and talk through it and everything, he goes, 1470 01:17:32.960 --> 01:17:34.880 you know what, no need to go in and do 1471 01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:37.560 major work on that. Yet it's okay. And that's how 1472 01:17:37.640 --> 01:17:40.199 Tie is. He's honest, he's direct, and he knows what 1473 01:17:40.239 --> 01:17:45.159 he's doing. Fixmslab dot com. We're gonna go now, let's 1474 01:17:45.159 --> 01:17:48.119 see here. Oh, I'm running out of time trying to 1475 01:17:48.159 --> 01:17:51.319 get you to get to you, Tom and Dickinson. You'll 1476 01:17:51.319 --> 01:17:52.920 be our first up when we come back if you 1477 01:17:52.920 --> 01:17:55.680 can hang around that long. I appreciate the rest of 1478 01:17:55.720 --> 01:17:59.399 you being gardenline listeners and we our goal is to 1479 01:17:59.760 --> 01:18:02.039 help you have success. Don't forget. I'm going to be 1480 01:18:02.039 --> 01:18:06.239 at RCW Nursery today. I'll be there from twelve to 1481 01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:08.840 two and we're giving away over twenty different things. And 1482 01:18:08.880 --> 01:18:10.880 I don't mean just little things. I mean, for example, 1483 01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:16.039 nitrofoss three step program. There's three steps, barricade, fall fertilizer, 1484 01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:18.199 Eagle tour funder side. There're only two or three bags 1485 01:18:18.239 --> 01:18:22.000 at each of those. And then a fifteen gallon San 1486 01:18:22.239 --> 01:18:25.840 Philippe and maple tree awesome variety, fifteen gallon red buds, 1487 01:18:26.279 --> 01:18:29.520 two different sizes of camellias. We're going to play flat 1488 01:18:29.520 --> 01:18:34.119 off color plants. It just goes on and on and on. 1489 01:18:34.159 --> 01:18:38.560 Some really cool metal yard Ard pumpkins for decorating your place. 1490 01:18:38.840 --> 01:18:41.720 A really cool They have these fun fashion tumblers that 1491 01:18:41.840 --> 01:18:44.000 have funny sayings on them. I love those as well. 1492 01:18:44.239 --> 01:18:46.800 I'll be out there answering your questions, bring me pictures, 1493 01:18:46.840 --> 01:18:49.439 bring me samples, let's talk, let's get our picture made. 1494 01:18:49.439 --> 01:18:52.079 They've got some fun stuff going on out there. For example, 1495 01:18:52.479 --> 01:18:55.279 you can expect a barbecue lunch. There's some I don't 1496 01:18:55.359 --> 01:18:58.680 need the prizes I mentioned, games for the kids and whatnot. 1497 01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:02.319 All at Rcday that's the nursery. There're two forty nine 1498 01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:05.800 combo Parkway comes in, don't lay out, Come on out 1499 01:19:05.800 --> 01:19:07.960 twelve o'clock today. I'll be there. Will you. 1500 01:19:09.279 --> 01:19:13.039 Welcome to Katie R. H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 1501 01:19:13.119 --> 01:19:16.760 It's shoes crazy here. 1502 01:19:18.359 --> 01:19:29.039 Gas Shrip just watch him as well by us many 1503 01:19:29.399 --> 01:19:34.439 thanks to sup Bot basics like gas Baby, can you 1504 01:19:34.640 --> 01:19:37.399 dabbles bad? 1505 01:19:38.119 --> 01:19:41.520 Not a sad glassy said gas. 1506 01:19:43.600 --> 01:19:49.239 The sun beamons of a tweets gas. 1507 01:19:52.319 --> 01:19:52.920 Starting. 1508 01:19:54.079 --> 01:19:58.560 Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line. Good to 1509 01:19:58.600 --> 01:20:02.760 have you with us. We got lots of stuff to 1510 01:20:02.840 --> 01:20:04.680 be talking about right now, and I want to get 1511 01:20:04.840 --> 01:20:09.359 right on into it. Before I do that, I did 1512 01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:13.920 want to mention to you that Nature's Way Resources still 1513 01:20:14.600 --> 01:20:17.920 has their Fungal Friday cell going on This is a 1514 01:20:18.000 --> 01:20:21.479 good deal. On Fridays, you can save twenty percent off 1515 01:20:21.520 --> 01:20:24.920 their fungal compost. Now that's a high quality product. You know, 1516 01:20:24.960 --> 01:20:27.279 everything they make it Nature's Way is high quality. It's 1517 01:20:27.319 --> 01:20:30.199 the place where rose soil was born. It is the 1518 01:20:30.239 --> 01:20:34.000 place where the leaf mold compost that we talk about 1519 01:20:34.000 --> 01:20:36.680 all the time was born. And this fungal compost, fungal 1520 01:20:36.760 --> 01:20:39.520 compost is good for use in the soil for sure. 1521 01:20:39.960 --> 01:20:41.880 It's also good as a top dressing on your lawn. 1522 01:20:42.000 --> 01:20:44.159 Screen down really nicely where you can spread it over 1523 01:20:44.199 --> 01:20:48.399 the lawn, rake it in after. If you do a aeration, 1524 01:20:48.640 --> 01:20:52.239 it's even better. But anywhere you put the fungal compost, 1525 01:20:52.279 --> 01:20:54.560 you're going to see the benefits because it's nature's own 1526 01:20:54.640 --> 01:20:58.039 slow release fertilizer. It's nature's own mult it's a nature's 1527 01:20:58.079 --> 01:21:02.039 own organic materials, the steamulm, it's microbial activity and therefore 1528 01:21:02.800 --> 01:21:05.600 helps plants. That's how it works. Nature's Way Resources is 1529 01:21:05.680 --> 01:21:09.399 located up there on Interstate forty five. You just where 1530 01:21:09.600 --> 01:21:12.880 fourteen eighty eight comes in for Magnolia. You just turn 1531 01:21:13.000 --> 01:21:15.359 right and cross over the railroad tracks. It's right there 1532 01:21:15.439 --> 01:21:20.159 on Surebook Circle. I can't even say the word easy 1533 01:21:20.239 --> 01:21:21.760 to get to. You can buy it by bulk, you 1534 01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:23.680 can have them deliver it. You can find bags around 1535 01:21:23.720 --> 01:21:26.600 town of all their products. They've got composts and swells 1536 01:21:26.640 --> 01:21:29.880 and mulches and everything you need. As I say here 1537 01:21:29.920 --> 01:21:33.680 on Guardline, the brown stuff that makes the green stuff thrive. 1538 01:21:34.159 --> 01:21:37.600 Nature's way resources. We're gonna go now to the phones 1539 01:21:38.439 --> 01:21:41.840 out to Dickinson and talk to Tom. Hello, Tom, Welcome 1540 01:21:41.920 --> 01:21:42.520 to garden Line. 1541 01:21:43.479 --> 01:21:44.560 Hey Skip, good morning. 1542 01:21:45.079 --> 01:21:47.439 A couple weeks ago you were giving some advice about 1543 01:21:47.680 --> 01:21:52.199 dealing with ants, not mound treatment, but more of a 1544 01:21:52.239 --> 01:21:53.279 global approach. 1545 01:21:53.399 --> 01:21:57.359 What was that product, right, Well, there are several There 1546 01:21:57.359 --> 01:22:01.520 are a number of brands of bait fire ant bait, 1547 01:22:02.920 --> 01:22:07.720 but the things like oh gosh, andro is one brand 1548 01:22:08.159 --> 01:22:12.359 extinguishes another brand. There's a bunch of brands. Basically, what 1549 01:22:12.479 --> 01:22:17.840 they are is there a bait substance like cornmeal based 1550 01:22:17.960 --> 01:22:20.680 or soy oil based kind of bait, and then they 1551 01:22:20.840 --> 01:22:26.840 infuse a very slow acting ant growth regulator or insecticide 1552 01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:30.560 into it, but that it's small enough that the ants 1553 01:22:30.640 --> 01:22:32.119 pick the bait up and carry it all the way 1554 01:22:32.159 --> 01:22:34.199 back to the colony it doesn't kill them, and then 1555 01:22:34.199 --> 01:22:36.560 everybody starts to feed on it, and it makes some 1556 01:22:36.680 --> 01:22:39.079 of them make the queen where she can't reproduce young. 1557 01:22:39.239 --> 01:22:42.079 Some of them just killed more slowly, but they work 1558 01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:45.039 really well. Yeah, and you're right about that. Not doing 1559 01:22:45.079 --> 01:22:47.920 the mound treatments are fine. But if all you do 1560 01:22:48.039 --> 01:22:50.239 is mound treatments, you're playing whack them all with ants 1561 01:22:50.279 --> 01:22:52.199 because there's mounds you can't see that I haven't come 1562 01:22:52.239 --> 01:22:54.680 to the surface yet. That then you'll be treated. 1563 01:22:54.760 --> 01:22:56.680 Yeah, I'm starting to see a lot of scouts. 1564 01:22:56.680 --> 01:22:58.600 I've been working back in the backyard quite a bit 1565 01:22:58.640 --> 01:23:00.279 and I've seen a lot of scouts moving around. 1566 01:23:00.319 --> 01:23:03.560 So I thought, now it's the time. Yep, they're very 1567 01:23:03.640 --> 01:23:06.600 active right now. I've got I said earlier today, I 1568 01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:09.680 had some that just popped up in a container that 1569 01:23:09.760 --> 01:23:12.880 I have, And so yeah, follow is an excellent time 1570 01:23:12.960 --> 01:23:15.800 to do it. And you're correct a starting with the baits, 1571 01:23:15.800 --> 01:23:18.920 because even the invisible mounds have workers that will go 1572 01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:20.640 out and get the bait and bring it back. 1573 01:23:22.800 --> 01:23:24.920 And there the instructions are all in the packaging. 1574 01:23:25.039 --> 01:23:25.960 Just follow what they say. 1575 01:23:27.600 --> 01:23:30.640 Yes, and there's a good everybody is tempted to want 1576 01:23:30.680 --> 01:23:32.439 to dump the bait on the mound. Don't do that. 1577 01:23:32.960 --> 01:23:36.039 Just put it everywhere if you can, and you're putting 1578 01:23:36.079 --> 01:23:39.600 a super low amount out like andro for examples, like 1579 01:23:39.680 --> 01:23:43.119 a pound per acre. So I mean, it's just like 1580 01:23:43.199 --> 01:23:45.520 a granule here, a granule there. You think I'm not 1581 01:23:45.640 --> 01:23:48.439 doing any good, you are. It works. The stuff is. 1582 01:23:49.159 --> 01:23:52.720 It's one of the most environmentally safe ways to control 1583 01:23:52.800 --> 01:23:55.199 fire ants is by taking a bait approach to it. 1584 01:23:55.960 --> 01:23:58.279 There's even an organic when if you want that called 1585 01:23:58.319 --> 01:24:00.359 come and get it that. You can find a lot 1586 01:24:00.399 --> 01:24:05.800 of places too. No problem, Thank you so much. Good 1587 01:24:05.880 --> 01:24:10.600 luck with those you bet appreciate your call. Fire Ants 1588 01:24:10.680 --> 01:24:13.119 in the fall, boy, are they ever a problem? They 1589 01:24:13.199 --> 01:24:17.319 spoil the show. If you have been out to Warren's 1590 01:24:17.359 --> 01:24:22.119 Garden Center in Kingwood, both Warren's Southern Gardens is on 1591 01:24:22.319 --> 01:24:25.520 It's on North Park Drive in Kingwood, Kingwood Garden Centers 1592 01:24:25.560 --> 01:24:28.479 on Stone Hollow Drive out there. Both are open seven 1593 01:24:28.560 --> 01:24:31.560 days a week. They are still having their pansies party. 1594 01:24:31.640 --> 01:24:33.560 What does that mean. I means you go into Warrens, 1595 01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:37.680 you grab an eighteen count flat of four inch pots 1596 01:24:38.079 --> 01:24:42.840 pansies twenty five bucks twenty four nine actually now through 1597 01:24:43.319 --> 01:24:46.960 November third, so grab some of the fertilizer while you're 1598 01:24:47.000 --> 01:24:49.840 out there for pansies. They've got that stuff to keep 1599 01:24:49.880 --> 01:24:53.600 the blooms coming, because when these pansies are planted, they 1600 01:24:53.680 --> 01:24:56.600 can bloom all winter for you. They're very hearty, but 1601 01:24:56.760 --> 01:24:59.159 you need to continue to encourage them because the soil 1602 01:24:59.279 --> 01:25:02.720 is cooler, the release of nitrogen from the by the 1603 01:25:02.800 --> 01:25:05.720 microbes is a little slower in the winter, so you 1604 01:25:05.920 --> 01:25:09.199 keep that fertilizer coming, which causes the penzies to grow. 1605 01:25:09.359 --> 01:25:11.880 When you get growth and leaf growth, you get more blooms. 1606 01:25:11.960 --> 01:25:14.399 And a lot of people plant these things and then 1607 01:25:14.439 --> 01:25:17.479 they just walk off and forget them. Fertilize them, give 1608 01:25:17.520 --> 01:25:19.760 them a boost, and you'll get a lot better blooms too. 1609 01:25:20.199 --> 01:25:23.000 So go out there, go to Warrens, grab a flat 1610 01:25:23.199 --> 01:25:26.960 eighteen four inch pots of pansies twenty five bucks now 1611 01:25:27.199 --> 01:25:30.680 through the third. They also have some specials on bed 1612 01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:33.439 mixes of various types. They've got rye grass for those 1613 01:25:33.479 --> 01:25:36.000 of you who want to overseed in the winter time. 1614 01:25:36.039 --> 01:25:37.760 They've got some rye grass out there at Warrens that 1615 01:25:37.840 --> 01:25:40.920 you can use to do that. Amarillis bulbs. It's fall, 1616 01:25:41.159 --> 01:25:43.760 it's time for that and they've got it lots of fall, veggies, 1617 01:25:43.840 --> 01:25:46.680 lots of mums. Of course, when you're out there, just 1618 01:25:46.800 --> 01:25:50.439 to join their newsletter. It don't costing thing to join. 1619 01:25:50.520 --> 01:25:54.600 You get special coupons. You'll get author offers. They have 1620 01:25:55.000 --> 01:25:57.920 something called a monthly lawn care coupons that they put 1621 01:25:57.920 --> 01:25:59.880 out through the newsletter. It's fun. You can go to 1622 01:25:59.880 --> 01:26:02.279 the website and do it. You go while you're in 1623 01:26:02.359 --> 01:26:04.199 the store and they'll hope sign you up, or you 1624 01:26:04.239 --> 01:26:06.279 can just give them a call and they'll get you 1625 01:26:06.399 --> 01:26:09.319 signed up for the newsletter. For the Warren's newsletter, really 1626 01:26:09.399 --> 01:26:11.039 worth going to. But right now you just need to 1627 01:26:11.079 --> 01:26:14.560 go out and see the place. Looks awesome, very very 1628 01:26:14.680 --> 01:26:18.479 nice out there. You were listening to guarden Line. The 1629 01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:21.439 phone number is nine excuse me, seven to one three 1630 01:26:22.119 --> 01:26:25.640 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three 1631 01:26:25.760 --> 01:26:30.479 two one two five eight seven four. Makes it easy 1632 01:26:30.520 --> 01:26:32.199 to give us a call. How can we help you 1633 01:26:32.920 --> 01:26:34.800 to have a beautiful lawn, to help you have a 1634 01:26:34.920 --> 01:26:39.119 bountiful landscape. I'm getting a spot on the side of 1635 01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:42.039 my house ready for some fruit trees this fall. I'm 1636 01:26:42.079 --> 01:26:44.560 going to be planning fruit trees and I just I've 1637 01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:47.199 got most of the things done. I got one water leak. 1638 01:26:47.239 --> 01:26:50.279 I'm trying to get finished fixed, and I'll have some 1639 01:26:50.439 --> 01:26:53.159 nice things. I got some of the lego beds, metal 1640 01:26:53.239 --> 01:26:55.359 beds that are going in. They're just about a foot 1641 01:26:55.439 --> 01:26:59.359 high because that spot is poorly drained, I mean really 1642 01:26:59.439 --> 01:27:02.520 poorly drained. And fruit trees like good drainage. So if 1643 01:27:02.560 --> 01:27:04.079 you're gonna plant a fruit tree and you got a 1644 01:27:04.119 --> 01:27:07.920 spot that doesn't drain well, you need to fix that first. 1645 01:27:08.159 --> 01:27:12.359 Either either fix the drainage with subsurface drainage French what 1646 01:27:12.479 --> 01:27:15.800 they call French drains, re route the water that's coming 1647 01:27:15.840 --> 01:27:18.399 off the roof to make it wet there whatever, or 1648 01:27:18.960 --> 01:27:21.279 in my case, I'm just bringing the bed up about 1649 01:27:21.279 --> 01:27:24.760 a foot and it's a nice large bed. They're gonna 1650 01:27:24.880 --> 01:27:27.960 grow in that and do well. And I you know, 1651 01:27:28.079 --> 01:27:31.239 I didn't know how bad that area was until when 1652 01:27:31.319 --> 01:27:33.239 we first moved in a couple of years ago. Several 1653 01:27:33.319 --> 01:27:36.439 years ago. I U there was a fig tree there 1654 01:27:36.680 --> 01:27:39.079 and it was a fig with open eye. Those are 1655 01:27:39.119 --> 01:27:40.920 the eyes with the holes in the end on the 1656 01:27:41.000 --> 01:27:43.680 fig and they get soured and I don't like that kind, 1657 01:27:44.039 --> 01:27:45.439 so I was gonna get rid of it. I got 1658 01:27:45.479 --> 01:27:48.720 another fig tree putting in when I dug it up, 1659 01:27:48.880 --> 01:27:51.399 and I'm not kidding you. This fig tree was probably 1660 01:27:52.600 --> 01:27:56.199 a feet tall and at least that wide. When I 1661 01:27:56.319 --> 01:27:59.520 dug it up, the root system was five inches deep 1662 01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:02.720 and it was like a pancake. It went in the 1663 01:28:02.800 --> 01:28:06.800 ground and it went totally horizontal, and I dug it, 1664 01:28:06.920 --> 01:28:09.399 I dug it up, I turned it over. I kept 1665 01:28:09.520 --> 01:28:14.479 digging and looking, and that bugger not an inch deeper 1666 01:28:14.560 --> 01:28:17.520 than five inches. It was going sideways because the soil 1667 01:28:17.760 --> 01:28:21.800 was heavy clay that was poorly drained. And that's when 1668 01:28:21.840 --> 01:28:23.560 I realized, if I'm going to do an orchard here, 1669 01:28:24.359 --> 01:28:26.960 I can't have this treat. Peach trees will not put 1670 01:28:27.039 --> 01:28:28.680 up with what a fig tree put up with there. 1671 01:28:29.239 --> 01:28:31.159 And so I'm working on that. And so if you're 1672 01:28:31.199 --> 01:28:34.560 thinking about planning for this winter time, I would encourage 1673 01:28:34.600 --> 01:28:36.920 you to check the drainage. And if you don't know 1674 01:28:36.920 --> 01:28:39.880 how to check the drainage, if you're not sure, get 1675 01:28:39.960 --> 01:28:42.279 something like a post hole digger or something just to 1676 01:28:42.359 --> 01:28:43.239 dig straight down. 1677 01:28:43.439 --> 01:28:43.600 Oh. 1678 01:28:43.680 --> 01:28:46.399 I would dig about eighteen inches twenty four inches deep 1679 01:28:46.680 --> 01:28:49.159 with it, and then get you a water hose and 1680 01:28:49.279 --> 01:28:52.039 fill it with water. Now do this when the soil 1681 01:28:52.199 --> 01:28:54.680 is moderately moist. I mean, if the soil is totally dry, 1682 01:28:54.720 --> 01:28:56.239 it's going to soak up all that water because the 1683 01:28:56.279 --> 01:28:58.800 soil is dry. But let's get the soul moist first 1684 01:28:58.840 --> 01:29:01.159 with a good soaking, and then fill that thing with 1685 01:29:01.319 --> 01:29:03.880 water and see how long it takes to drain It 1686 01:29:04.079 --> 01:29:06.720 ought to drain out in eight hours. It needs to 1687 01:29:06.840 --> 01:29:10.760 drain out by twelve hours, and the minimum is twenty 1688 01:29:10.800 --> 01:29:14.720 four hours. If two days forty eight hours later there's 1689 01:29:14.760 --> 01:29:17.920 still water standing, that's a drainage problem and you need 1690 01:29:18.239 --> 01:29:20.279 to do one of the things I just talked about 1691 01:29:20.399 --> 01:29:23.960 to fix that in order to have success. I'm all 1692 01:29:24.039 --> 01:29:26.359 run take a quick break here. When we come back, 1693 01:29:26.479 --> 01:29:30.000 Ryan and Laporte, you'll be the first step. Hey, you 1694 01:29:30.119 --> 01:29:32.239 are listening to Guardline and we're here to help you 1695 01:29:32.319 --> 01:29:34.800 have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That is 1696 01:29:34.880 --> 01:29:37.760 our goal. And one of the steps in that is 1697 01:29:38.560 --> 01:29:42.960 a quality nutrient blend in your soil for plants to thrive. 1698 01:29:43.359 --> 01:29:44.399 And I want to tell you about a couple of 1699 01:29:44.439 --> 01:29:46.560 products that I use in my gardens. One of them 1700 01:29:46.560 --> 01:29:48.720 they're both from Nelson Plant Food. One of them is 1701 01:29:48.800 --> 01:29:53.239 called Nutristar Genesis. Think of that as the transplanting solution. 1702 01:29:53.359 --> 01:29:56.479 It's got microbes in a microriza, the fungi that live 1703 01:29:56.560 --> 01:29:58.720 with plant roots and help them. They've got bacteria and 1704 01:29:58.800 --> 01:30:03.319 all kinds of soil microbiome content in it. You mix 1705 01:30:03.399 --> 01:30:05.680 it into the soil and then plant your plant. So 1706 01:30:05.760 --> 01:30:08.359 if you're bumping it up from one container to another, 1707 01:30:08.560 --> 01:30:11.239 mix it into the soil in the new container. If 1708 01:30:11.359 --> 01:30:15.319 you are just transplanting from a container into the ground, 1709 01:30:15.479 --> 01:30:18.479 mix it into the soil in the ground. Nutristar Genesis works. 1710 01:30:18.720 --> 01:30:23.159 Another nutristar product from Miln Plant Food is Vegetable Garden 1711 01:30:23.239 --> 01:30:27.000 Nutristar vegetable Garden. I use this in my vegetable garden. 1712 01:30:27.159 --> 01:30:29.880 It's got a wide array of nutrients. You can use 1713 01:30:29.920 --> 01:30:33.800 it monthly for a release of nutrients that will increase 1714 01:30:33.960 --> 01:30:37.439 not only the growth and quality of the plants, but 1715 01:30:37.560 --> 01:30:39.680 of course the produce that you get from it. Five 1716 01:30:39.720 --> 01:30:44.199 different sources of nitrogen in nutristar vegetable garden for a 1717 01:30:44.319 --> 01:30:48.840 nice even release that results in the kind of performance 1718 01:30:48.880 --> 01:30:51.680 you're looking for. I use it in my raised bag gardens. 1719 01:30:51.960 --> 01:30:53.840 You can use it in containers as well. If you're 1720 01:30:53.880 --> 01:30:56.840 growing a garden container, you can use it. It says 1721 01:30:56.960 --> 01:30:58.640 vegetable garden, but you can put in a flower bed 1722 01:30:58.680 --> 01:31:01.239 if you want and it'll also perform well there. I 1723 01:31:01.479 --> 01:31:03.880 like to use mine out where I'm growing the food 1724 01:31:04.079 --> 01:31:08.039 in the vegetable garden. All quality products from Nelson Plant Food. 1725 01:31:08.760 --> 01:31:11.199 We're going to go now to Laport, Texas and talk 1726 01:31:11.279 --> 01:31:14.720 to Ryan. Hello, Ryan, welcome to garden Mine. Hey, how 1727 01:31:14.760 --> 01:31:20.079 are you doing skip, I'm well, sir, Thank you. Hey, Yes, 1728 01:31:20.159 --> 01:31:24.960 I'm doing great. Yeah. We had an above ground pool 1729 01:31:25.000 --> 01:31:27.199 and we took it out and I've been putting top 1730 01:31:27.279 --> 01:31:29.960 soil in it and I got caught. 1731 01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:33.079 Well, my wife taught me put the cat litter in there, 1732 01:31:33.119 --> 01:31:33.800 and we'll. 1733 01:31:33.720 --> 01:31:36.479 Do about thirty five pounds of cat litter. 1734 01:31:39.520 --> 01:31:44.199 On top of it. Is that an issue you're kind 1735 01:31:44.239 --> 01:31:45.600 of cutting out there? But I think I heard what 1736 01:31:45.680 --> 01:31:50.119 you're asking. Cat litter is basically a clay, uh, and 1737 01:31:50.279 --> 01:31:53.239 it just dried and hardened clay. But in time it 1738 01:31:53.319 --> 01:31:54.800 will soften if you get it wet. 1739 01:31:55.479 --> 01:31:55.600 Uh. 1740 01:31:55.800 --> 01:31:58.279 So you know, having a lot of it is going 1741 01:31:58.359 --> 01:32:00.840 to create there's gonna be just a chin clay down 1742 01:32:00.880 --> 01:32:03.760 in there. It doesn't mean nothing will grow or whatnot. 1743 01:32:03.880 --> 01:32:06.119 I just would you know if you want to mix 1744 01:32:06.199 --> 01:32:09.079 some in with soil you're putting in. That's fine, that's 1745 01:32:09.119 --> 01:32:13.920 not a problem. But in general, go ahead. I've been 1746 01:32:14.000 --> 01:32:16.760 doing about thirty five pounds of cat litter to a 1747 01:32:16.880 --> 01:32:22.039 forty pound bag of top soil. I wouldn't do that much. 1748 01:32:22.520 --> 01:32:24.680 I would cut back on that a little bit. Again, 1749 01:32:24.720 --> 01:32:26.079 it's not going to be the end of the world. 1750 01:32:26.159 --> 01:32:28.920 But you know, there's a reason why we don't say, 1751 01:32:29.039 --> 01:32:32.039 put cat litter in your pots and plants and everything 1752 01:32:32.159 --> 01:32:34.560 like that. I mean, it doesn't bring a lot to 1753 01:32:34.680 --> 01:32:39.239 the table in terms of plant nutrients and growth performance 1754 01:32:39.319 --> 01:32:42.840 and whatnot. So there's not a black and white line 1755 01:32:42.880 --> 01:32:44.960 in nature where I'd say, you know, use twenty five 1756 01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:47.399 but not. You know, there's not that kind of line. 1757 01:32:47.520 --> 01:32:50.479 But just just realize that the top soil you're bringing 1758 01:32:50.520 --> 01:32:52.159 in is the main benefit, and if you want to 1759 01:32:52.159 --> 01:32:53.680 mix a little catletter in it, you can do that, 1760 01:32:54.720 --> 01:32:58.359 all right, Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, thanks for the call. 1761 01:32:58.439 --> 01:33:00.119 That's a good question. I never had that one for 1762 01:33:00.359 --> 01:33:02.680 so I wish we had prizes to give away. You'd 1763 01:33:02.720 --> 01:33:07.840 win one first, throwing me a new a new curve 1764 01:33:08.279 --> 01:33:13.439 on the questions today, Wabird's unlimited is the I was 1765 01:33:13.479 --> 01:33:15.680 going to say, it's my favorite store for birds wlies, 1766 01:33:15.720 --> 01:33:17.840 the only store that I go to for bird supplies. 1767 01:33:18.840 --> 01:33:21.760 Warbird's Unlimited is not only the place where you get 1768 01:33:21.800 --> 01:33:25.000 super quality feeds and bird feeders and houses and everything. 1769 01:33:25.039 --> 01:33:27.119 By the way, winter's coming, we've got a lot of 1770 01:33:27.159 --> 01:33:30.000 bird feeding to do coming up here. But they're also 1771 01:33:30.079 --> 01:33:31.680 the place where you get advice, you know. I was 1772 01:33:31.800 --> 01:33:33.720 talking to someone the other day at Walbirds. They said, 1773 01:33:33.760 --> 01:33:38.720 the ruby throated hummingbird migration is winding down, and if 1774 01:33:38.760 --> 01:33:41.039 you will keep your feeder up at least two weeks 1775 01:33:41.079 --> 01:33:43.159 after you see the last one in your yard, it's 1776 01:33:43.239 --> 01:33:45.199 not going to keep them from migrating. That thing of 1777 01:33:45.279 --> 01:33:47.720 don't leave a feeder up. They won't migrate. No, they 1778 01:33:47.800 --> 01:33:50.399 will when they're ready, they migrate, But if they're still 1779 01:33:50.439 --> 01:33:53.600 sticking around, they needle more refueling for that journey. They're 1780 01:33:53.640 --> 01:33:56.079 trying to fuel up. So leave the feeder out. After 1781 01:33:56.119 --> 01:33:58.039 a couple of weeks you don't see one, pull it down. 1782 01:33:58.600 --> 01:34:01.399 You can leave one phil through the holidays if you want, 1783 01:34:01.399 --> 01:34:05.600 because occasionally we have some rufous hummingbirds that stick around 1784 01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:08.760 all through the winter until March, and some of them 1785 01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:11.039 will head on down to Mexico. Others will kind of 1786 01:34:11.079 --> 01:34:12.920 come along the Gulf coast here and say, you know what, 1787 01:34:13.119 --> 01:34:14.520 We're not going to make that trip. We're going to 1788 01:34:14.600 --> 01:34:17.640 hang out in Houston. We like it here, and so 1789 01:34:17.720 --> 01:34:19.359 if you leave a feeder up, you might get lucky 1790 01:34:19.399 --> 01:34:22.760 and see a hummingbird through the cool season. As our 1791 01:34:22.840 --> 01:34:25.960 days get shorter, nights get longer, that means less hours 1792 01:34:26.039 --> 01:34:28.279 for birds to feel up. So you want to get 1793 01:34:28.319 --> 01:34:32.479 a quality feed like wild birds Unlimited Winter super Blend. 1794 01:34:32.720 --> 01:34:36.239 It's packed with fat and protein. So the hours they 1795 01:34:36.319 --> 01:34:38.960 are out there feeding, they can get a high quality 1796 01:34:39.000 --> 01:34:42.600 feed that'll help them through these winter months. And always 1797 01:34:42.640 --> 01:34:45.079 remember keep water out. I was just refilling our water 1798 01:34:45.199 --> 01:34:48.880 supplies out in the backyard yesterday. It is dry and 1799 01:34:49.479 --> 01:34:52.800 it kind of still hot, to be honest, those birds 1800 01:34:52.880 --> 01:34:55.520 need water twelve months, every day of the year. They 1801 01:34:55.640 --> 01:34:58.279 need water, and so always keep a supply for them 1802 01:34:58.359 --> 01:35:01.119 that attracts them as much as good quality feet like 1803 01:35:01.199 --> 01:35:06.359 wildberd's feet. Let's go out now, let's see where we are. Okay, 1804 01:35:06.399 --> 01:35:10.439 We're going to go to Lake Jackson and talk to Joanne. Hey, Joanne, 1805 01:35:10.439 --> 01:35:13.319 welcome to garden Line. Hey, good morning, Thank you for 1806 01:35:13.399 --> 01:35:14.119 taking my call. 1807 01:35:15.319 --> 01:35:17.960 I'm having an issue with something. I think it's called 1808 01:35:18.199 --> 01:35:22.039 Dallas grass or Dallas grass that's a weed in my art, 1809 01:35:23.079 --> 01:35:26.520 and I'm trying to see what your recommendation is for 1810 01:35:26.640 --> 01:35:27.279 getting rid of it. 1811 01:35:29.640 --> 01:35:29.840 Well. 1812 01:35:30.039 --> 01:35:33.960 Dallas grass myself, whenever I've had it in a yard, 1813 01:35:34.520 --> 01:35:36.920 I do one or two things. If you don't have 1814 01:35:37.039 --> 01:35:39.119 a lot of it, you can actually kind of dig 1815 01:35:39.159 --> 01:35:40.760 it up with a spade and fork. You get the 1816 01:35:40.840 --> 01:35:42.520 roots and everything out of there as best you can 1817 01:35:43.600 --> 01:35:45.560 and just get rid of it that way. If you've 1818 01:35:45.600 --> 01:35:49.359 got a lot, you can dab a grass killing herbicide 1819 01:35:49.600 --> 01:35:52.079 on it, trying to get it on the Dallas grass, 1820 01:35:52.680 --> 01:35:55.800 but not so much on the lawn grass, because it'll 1821 01:35:55.840 --> 01:35:57.880 call the long grass too. The grass killers will call 1822 01:35:57.920 --> 01:36:00.960 the long grass. But if you if you can do that, 1823 01:36:01.319 --> 01:36:07.319 that helps. I have on my on my website. On 1824 01:36:07.439 --> 01:36:13.359 my website, I have a weed wiper. How to build 1825 01:36:13.399 --> 01:36:16.439 a weed wiper, and I love using those for weeds 1826 01:36:16.600 --> 01:36:19.319 like Dallas grass because you can reach down and squeeze 1827 01:36:19.439 --> 01:36:24.439 the herbicide through a sponge onto the weed and it 1828 01:36:25.000 --> 01:36:29.479 really really does a good job. It's it's it's it 1829 01:36:29.640 --> 01:36:31.560 works well to use a weed wiper to do it. 1830 01:36:31.640 --> 01:36:33.840 So that would be one other technique. Now, when you 1831 01:36:33.920 --> 01:36:38.039 put a premergent herbicide down in the spring following my schedule, 1832 01:36:38.079 --> 01:36:42.920 which is a February application, you will prevent seeds from 1833 01:36:42.960 --> 01:36:44.800 the Dallas grass from establishing. 1834 01:36:45.920 --> 01:36:47.960 Right, what do you recommend? 1835 01:36:50.520 --> 01:36:53.600 I would do barricade in the spring. Yeah, I would. 1836 01:36:53.600 --> 01:36:55.840 I would put down barricade in the spring. And we're 1837 01:36:55.880 --> 01:36:58.640 not talking I've been talking about barricade for winter weeds now, 1838 01:36:59.199 --> 01:37:02.680 but I'm talking about way until February to apply for 1839 01:37:02.800 --> 01:37:06.039 the Dallas grass. Okay, and if you can get if 1840 01:37:06.039 --> 01:37:08.359 you can get that down there, go ahead. 1841 01:37:09.439 --> 01:37:10.039 Barricade. 1842 01:37:10.039 --> 01:37:10.439 I don't know. 1843 01:37:10.520 --> 01:37:12.640 We don't have a whole lot of places down here. 1844 01:37:14.159 --> 01:37:15.079 Is it b A R R? 1845 01:37:17.680 --> 01:37:21.399 Yeah? Barricade? Huh, just like that. Let's see you are 1846 01:37:21.479 --> 01:37:27.119 in you were in Lake Jackson, so that's yeah. Do 1847 01:37:27.159 --> 01:37:29.439 you have any Do you have any ace hardware stores 1848 01:37:29.520 --> 01:37:30.239 nearby out there? 1849 01:37:30.560 --> 01:37:33.159 No, we have a couple of locals I can try there. 1850 01:37:34.920 --> 01:37:38.800 Yeah, try that. Don't try try try the barricade if 1851 01:37:39.640 --> 01:37:44.880 pardon if they don't have If you can't, no, well, 1852 01:37:45.159 --> 01:37:47.439 now would be the dabbing it with a weed killer 1853 01:37:47.800 --> 01:37:50.239 or wiping a weed killer on it. It's a perennial weed. 1854 01:37:50.319 --> 01:37:53.359 That's why, that's why you got to kill the original weed, 1855 01:37:53.560 --> 01:37:56.520 not just prevent the seed, but the seeds will just 1856 01:37:56.560 --> 01:37:58.920 add more next year if you don't prevent them. If 1857 01:37:58.960 --> 01:38:01.399 you can't, you know, I'm just trying to help you 1858 01:38:01.439 --> 01:38:05.520 in your area. If if you can't find a barricade, 1859 01:38:06.880 --> 01:38:10.439 there's another product called Dimension that is also a pre 1860 01:38:10.600 --> 01:38:13.920 emergent weed killer that will work also if you can't 1861 01:38:13.960 --> 01:38:20.039 find the barricade. Okay, you for your help, you bet, 1862 01:38:20.119 --> 01:38:24.039 good luck with that. Appreciate appreciate your call. Let's see here. 1863 01:38:23.960 --> 01:38:24.439 We're going to go. 1864 01:38:24.560 --> 01:38:27.720 Now, where are we going next? We're going to go 1865 01:38:27.800 --> 01:38:31.039 to Bill and Cyprus. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line. 1866 01:38:31.079 --> 01:38:35.399 Good morning, good morning, love your show. I'm taking to 1867 01:38:35.439 --> 01:38:38.079 find some sod. I'm out here in the bridgelands, some 1868 01:38:38.279 --> 01:38:44.439 Tiffany four nineteen tiff okay for nineteen and a celebration bridge. 1869 01:38:45.880 --> 01:38:47.119 Do you know where I can get some of this? 1870 01:38:48.039 --> 01:38:51.000 Just you know, I don't know, And you know in 1871 01:38:51.119 --> 01:38:54.880 that different areas who all carries that. We got a 1872 01:38:55.039 --> 01:38:58.479 number of turf suppliers here in the Greater Houston area. 1873 01:38:58.560 --> 01:39:01.640 Tiff four nineteen is an older Bermuda. It's been used 1874 01:39:01.680 --> 01:39:04.159 on ball fields. A lot of colleges and high schools 1875 01:39:04.279 --> 01:39:08.319 use it on their football fields and things. Even some 1876 01:39:08.439 --> 01:39:12.239 golf courses have used that celebration is a newer one. 1877 01:39:13.520 --> 01:39:18.920 You should be able to find those two locally. See here. 1878 01:39:19.199 --> 01:39:21.279 I'm going to look around and see where I can 1879 01:39:21.359 --> 01:39:24.199 find it, and if I find something, I'll say it 1880 01:39:24.239 --> 01:39:26.079 on the air here before the end of the show today. 1881 01:39:26.079 --> 01:39:31.199 Okay, and I'll listen. Another question. It's heavy clay over 1882 01:39:31.279 --> 01:39:35.720 here too, So how many inches of soil should I 1883 01:39:35.800 --> 01:39:38.319 have on top of that clay so that the roosts 1884 01:39:38.359 --> 01:39:38.880 will attach? 1885 01:39:40.760 --> 01:39:40.920 Well? 1886 01:39:40.960 --> 01:39:44.680 Actually, those are growing clay that you know. The turf 1887 01:39:44.800 --> 01:39:48.560 producers along the Gulf Coast, many of them are growing 1888 01:39:48.600 --> 01:39:54.279 in a clay type soil and clay is not a 1889 01:39:54.359 --> 01:39:56.079 problem as long as you get water. And if you 1890 01:39:56.159 --> 01:39:58.640 wanted to add a little bit of a better top 1891 01:39:58.720 --> 01:40:01.000 soil to the surface, kind of mix it in a 1892 01:40:01.039 --> 01:40:03.159 little bit and level it all out, you could do that. 1893 01:40:03.359 --> 01:40:07.079 You can put several inches down. Just don't don't drop 1894 01:40:07.880 --> 01:40:10.279 like a top soil right on top of a clay 1895 01:40:10.319 --> 01:40:13.199 where you have that sudden interface, because water will tend 1896 01:40:13.239 --> 01:40:16.439 to move through that topsoil, it hits the clay and 1897 01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:21.079 it stops, and you have what's called a perched water table. 1898 01:40:21.119 --> 01:40:24.920 In other words, it's like an underground water table. And 1899 01:40:25.279 --> 01:40:30.560 so you'd rather blend those interfaces together. So okay, get 1900 01:40:30.720 --> 01:40:32.399 like a pick and just dig some of it up, 1901 01:40:34.560 --> 01:40:37.600 uh pick or rototiller or whatever, either way you want 1902 01:40:37.640 --> 01:40:39.199 to mix it in. But mainly just get all the 1903 01:40:39.279 --> 01:40:43.119 perenni Yeah, get rid of perennial weeds and smooth it 1904 01:40:43.199 --> 01:40:45.159 off and level it off. That's the main thing you're 1905 01:40:45.199 --> 01:40:46.920 going to do there. Hey, I've got a run to 1906 01:40:47.000 --> 01:40:50.840 a break here. I will be right back, folks and Bill. 1907 01:40:50.880 --> 01:40:53.119 If I can find a source on those, I'll come 1908 01:40:53.159 --> 01:40:55.960 back and talk about it. Hey, welcome back to Guardline. 1909 01:40:56.680 --> 01:40:59.880 Good to have you with us. We are looking for it, 1910 01:41:00.119 --> 01:41:02.560 visiting with you about the questions that you have regarding 1911 01:41:03.399 --> 01:41:08.039 the products, the plants, the processes procedures that help you 1912 01:41:08.159 --> 01:41:11.039 have success. You know, gardening is a fun hobby and 1913 01:41:11.920 --> 01:41:13.920 each day we get out in garden, we learn a 1914 01:41:13.960 --> 01:41:16.239 little more and we get better at it. We do 1915 01:41:16.720 --> 01:41:19.479 we start to learn to see things from a plant's 1916 01:41:19.680 --> 01:41:23.399 point of view. That's really what it's all about, you understand, 1917 01:41:23.439 --> 01:41:24.880 what a plant wants, and you give it that and 1918 01:41:24.960 --> 01:41:26.800 you're going to have success. And that's what we try 1919 01:41:26.880 --> 01:41:29.720 to do here on guard Line. You know, Southwest Fertilizer. 1920 01:41:30.239 --> 01:41:32.359 I was talking Bob the other day. They've been around 1921 01:41:32.399 --> 01:41:34.479 since nineteen fifty five. You hear me talk about them 1922 01:41:34.479 --> 01:41:36.760 all the time. I just don't know a place that 1923 01:41:36.960 --> 01:41:42.479 carries the supplies, in the quantities and the diversity that 1924 01:41:42.760 --> 01:41:47.960 Southwest does. When it comes to synthetic fertilizing, organic fertilizing, 1925 01:41:48.239 --> 01:41:51.760 synthetic weed disease and pest control, organic weed disease and 1926 01:41:51.800 --> 01:41:56.560 pest control, Southwest Fertilizer is literally they literally do have 1927 01:41:56.840 --> 01:41:59.920 the largest supply of organic products in the entire rede 1928 01:42:01.000 --> 01:42:03.279 And if you hear me talk about a fertilizer on Guardline, 1929 01:42:03.600 --> 01:42:09.840 a nitrophoss, Nelson, Microlife, Medina, all of those, they've got 1930 01:42:09.880 --> 01:42:12.520 them all and then some they you know, I always 1931 01:42:12.520 --> 01:42:14.520 say they have an eighty foot long wall of tools. 1932 01:42:14.560 --> 01:42:15.960 I just found out the other day and now it's not. 1933 01:42:16.399 --> 01:42:19.159 Now it's a ninety foot wall of tools. I mean, 1934 01:42:19.199 --> 01:42:22.279 they just have everything. You know, the weed wiper I 1935 01:42:22.359 --> 01:42:24.319 was talking about earlier, you can build if you go 1936 01:42:24.399 --> 01:42:27.399 to my website gardening with skip dot Com. It tells 1937 01:42:27.439 --> 01:42:29.279 you how to build your own weed wiper, which comes 1938 01:42:29.319 --> 01:42:31.560 in really handy. Just go to the website and read 1939 01:42:31.560 --> 01:42:34.600 about it. Well, Bob's got the tool that you start with, 1940 01:42:34.720 --> 01:42:36.760 the grabber tool with the suction cups that you start 1941 01:42:36.800 --> 01:42:38.640 with on it. He's got it there ready to go. 1942 01:42:40.680 --> 01:42:43.760 It's just you know when you walk in there, you're 1943 01:42:43.760 --> 01:42:46.279 gonna find everything you need. If you drag in there 1944 01:42:46.359 --> 01:42:49.960 a plant in a plastic bag or a picture on 1945 01:42:50.079 --> 01:42:52.520 your phone or something and you need help with it, 1946 01:42:52.600 --> 01:42:54.840 and what is this and what can I do? Well, 1947 01:42:54.920 --> 01:42:57.039 they know what they're talking about, Bob and his team, 1948 01:42:57.439 --> 01:43:01.319 or they are experts at this, and they'll point you 1949 01:43:01.439 --> 01:43:05.079 to the product that helps you have success. They got 1950 01:43:05.119 --> 01:43:09.119 a great bulk seed counter the shelf, which is just 1951 01:43:09.239 --> 01:43:11.359 like all these little drawers of bulk seed, which is 1952 01:43:11.439 --> 01:43:13.920 a very economical way to buy seed. They sell seed 1953 01:43:13.960 --> 01:43:17.279 by the packets as well. But whether it's tools, whether 1954 01:43:17.439 --> 01:43:22.399 it's products, whatever you need. It's a Southwest fertilizer been 1955 01:43:22.439 --> 01:43:26.560 around since nineteen fifty five. Then it's because they are 1956 01:43:26.800 --> 01:43:29.079 a one stop shop. You don't go in there and go, yeah, 1957 01:43:29.119 --> 01:43:31.399 we don't have it. You have to drive across town. No, 1958 01:43:31.680 --> 01:43:34.079 Southwest Fertilizer has it. If they don't have it, you 1959 01:43:34.159 --> 01:43:37.199 don't need it. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Here's a phone 1960 01:43:37.239 --> 01:43:42.359 number seven one three six six ' six seventeen forty four. 1961 01:43:43.159 --> 01:43:45.399 We're going to head out now to Victoria and talk 1962 01:43:45.439 --> 01:43:47.760 to Tim. Hello, Tim, Welcome to garden line. 1963 01:43:49.279 --> 01:43:52.359 Hey, how are you skipped? Just need a little information 1964 01:43:52.479 --> 01:43:55.680 on pomegranate. Pomegranate trees. I've got two of them. I've 1965 01:43:55.720 --> 01:44:00.399 got a pink satin and a red silk and the girl, well, 1966 01:44:00.680 --> 01:44:05.079 I think they're just getting tall and steindily. And what 1967 01:44:05.279 --> 01:44:08.840 I have seen online was that you should prune those 1968 01:44:08.880 --> 01:44:12.159 back late winter for the new growth to put on fruit. 1969 01:44:13.199 --> 01:44:16.199 Is that correct or it's okay? 1970 01:44:16.520 --> 01:44:23.800 Yeah, that is correct. Uh, well that's up to you. 1971 01:44:24.039 --> 01:44:27.319 I mean, depending on the growing conditions they're gonna hit, 1972 01:44:27.399 --> 01:44:30.279 whatever height they're going to hit. We don't normally worry 1973 01:44:30.319 --> 01:44:34.560 about pruning palm granites a lot, uh, but you know it, 1974 01:44:36.000 --> 01:44:38.039 they're a good plan. The biggest challenge you're going to 1975 01:44:38.079 --> 01:44:40.760 have with palm granite is when we get a lot 1976 01:44:40.800 --> 01:44:43.680 of rainy weather and there's fruit on it. There are 1977 01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:46.920 some fruit rots that you can have, and I want 1978 01:44:46.960 --> 01:44:49.800 to I want to refer you to something that that 1979 01:44:49.960 --> 01:44:52.319 gives you a lot more information than I can give you. 1980 01:44:52.640 --> 01:44:54.600 Just real quick here on the on a phone call. 1981 01:44:55.239 --> 01:44:58.319 If you go to the Aggie Horticulture website, just do 1982 01:44:58.439 --> 01:45:01.920 a search for Aggie or culture. There is on the 1983 01:45:02.000 --> 01:45:05.039 front page there's a fruit, a fruit section, and you know, 1984 01:45:05.079 --> 01:45:06.960 you can go to vegetables or fruit or other things. 1985 01:45:07.039 --> 01:45:10.479 Go to the fruit and there's a whole publication that's 1986 01:45:10.680 --> 01:45:14.600 like six pages long on pomegranates. It goes into the varieties, 1987 01:45:15.039 --> 01:45:17.399 how to plan them, how to fertilize them, how to 1988 01:45:17.520 --> 01:45:21.279 prune them, we control disease issues, you know, all that 1989 01:45:21.399 --> 01:45:24.359 kind of stuff. And it's very very good, and I 1990 01:45:24.760 --> 01:45:28.920 would suggest you check that out. Okay, all right, because 1991 01:45:28.960 --> 01:45:33.800 pruning printings really pruntings basically you know, keeping it a 1992 01:45:33.880 --> 01:45:38.079 bush of maybe three three to five trunks coming up 1993 01:45:38.119 --> 01:45:40.359 out of the ground and removing the others. You know, 1994 01:45:40.439 --> 01:45:42.720 that's kind of and they're going to keep sending suckers up, 1995 01:45:42.960 --> 01:45:45.319 you know, so you're kind of aiming for three to five. 1996 01:45:45.479 --> 01:45:47.520 If one is not doing well, you can get rid 1997 01:45:47.520 --> 01:45:50.279 of it and let a new sucker become a main stem. 1998 01:45:50.960 --> 01:45:52.760 But that's basically pruning. Yeah. 1999 01:45:53.479 --> 01:45:55.960 One I have two trunks and it's it's really healthy, 2000 01:45:56.000 --> 01:45:57.880 and the other has three trunks. Should I let one 2001 01:45:57.920 --> 01:46:01.439 of the okay tuckers go up on the other one 2002 01:46:01.479 --> 01:46:02.880 that they've been in the ground about four and a 2003 01:46:02.920 --> 01:46:03.399 half years. 2004 01:46:03.439 --> 01:46:05.079 So there's you know, getting pretty good size. 2005 01:46:05.119 --> 01:46:06.479 So I don't know if that's good. 2006 01:46:06.560 --> 01:46:09.720 Yeah, you can at a little bit more. Yeah, it 2007 01:46:09.840 --> 01:46:11.960 makes it a little bit bigger bush to do that. 2008 01:46:12.279 --> 01:46:13.960 You know, as they grow, some of them will lean 2009 01:46:14.039 --> 01:46:15.960 out to kind of get away and get sunlight from 2010 01:46:15.960 --> 01:46:18.800 the others. And and so that's what I would do. 2011 01:46:19.319 --> 01:46:23.359 I'm ground it difficult, Yeah, go ahead. 2012 01:46:24.319 --> 01:46:27.239 I would just say my my biggest problem with in 2013 01:46:27.319 --> 01:46:29.760 these squirrels, I find out squirrels like to eat pomegranate. 2014 01:46:31.640 --> 01:46:35.920 Yeah, but I'm telling you, if you if you are, 2015 01:46:36.239 --> 01:46:41.039 if you can get a recipe for squirrels, uh, pomegranate 2016 01:46:41.199 --> 01:46:43.560 and pecan fed squirrel is some of the best eating 2017 01:46:43.680 --> 01:46:48.520 you can you can enjoy. So all right, I bet 2018 01:46:48.560 --> 01:46:53.520 the phone rings now, Yeah, that's I have to I 2019 01:46:53.600 --> 01:46:58.920 have to joke about it. Yeah, Someone a friend of mine, 2020 01:46:59.159 --> 01:47:03.279 san Antonio, a friend of mine, Santonio used to say 2021 01:47:03.279 --> 01:47:05.359 we don't have too many deer, we have too few freezers. 2022 01:47:05.479 --> 01:47:07.359 But I know a lot of people love deer and 2023 01:47:07.439 --> 01:47:10.119 feed them. So all right, sorry about that. We're just 2024 01:47:10.239 --> 01:47:11.479 kidding here sort of. 2025 01:47:12.640 --> 01:47:15.880 Warri also have an a Warri satsuma tree that needs 2026 01:47:16.039 --> 01:47:18.319 probably a pruning. Is there a time to do that? 2027 01:47:20.520 --> 01:47:24.279 Wait until spring? You know, satsumas are marginally hardy here. 2028 01:47:24.439 --> 01:47:27.880 They're they're yeah, they're among our more hearty citrus. But 2029 01:47:28.000 --> 01:47:31.000 if you if you wait until springtime, when we get 2030 01:47:31.000 --> 01:47:33.239 past the freezer and frost, if you need to do 2031 01:47:33.319 --> 01:47:35.720 some pruning, go ahead and do it. Then you can 2032 01:47:35.800 --> 01:47:38.239 do it in small amounts off and on through the season. 2033 01:47:38.359 --> 01:47:42.399 But I wouldn't prune them and encourage new growth right 2034 01:47:42.479 --> 01:47:44.600 before we go into cold weather, because that's not going 2035 01:47:44.640 --> 01:47:44.920 to end. 2036 01:47:44.960 --> 01:47:51.159 Well, okay, so the the pomegranates do those late winter. 2037 01:47:52.880 --> 01:47:55.600 Yeah, late winter is a good time for those us. 2038 01:47:55.640 --> 01:47:58.479 Okay, super okay, Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it, 2039 01:47:59.760 --> 01:48:01.960 all right, Tim, Good luck with that. Thanks a lot. 2040 01:48:02.039 --> 01:48:06.479 Appreciate the call. I'm gonna be at RCW Nurseries today. 2041 01:48:06.600 --> 01:48:09.279 Do not forget after the show twelve o'clock. I'll be 2042 01:48:09.359 --> 01:48:12.960 there from twelve to two two hours answering your gardening questions. 2043 01:48:14.199 --> 01:48:16.319 If you got samples to bring, if you've got pictures 2044 01:48:16.359 --> 01:48:16.800 to bring. 2045 01:48:16.800 --> 01:48:19.720 Bring them on out. And I tell you what I've 2046 01:48:19.840 --> 01:48:22.000 never I don't know that I've been to a site 2047 01:48:22.039 --> 01:48:24.159 where we gave away so much stuff as we're giving 2048 01:48:24.159 --> 01:48:28.279 away today at RCW. We're talking about like bags of 2049 01:48:28.720 --> 01:48:32.119 barricade from Nitrofoss part of the three step, bags of 2050 01:48:32.239 --> 01:48:35.399 fall special part of the three step from Nitrofoss, bags 2051 01:48:35.479 --> 01:48:39.840 of eagle turf fungicide, part of the three step program. 2052 01:48:40.399 --> 01:48:43.880 We're going to give away some microlife fertilizer. We're gonna 2053 01:48:43.880 --> 01:48:46.760 give away a flat of assorted color plants. You know 2054 01:48:46.840 --> 01:48:48.880 you don't put some color in your flower beds, and 2055 01:48:49.000 --> 01:48:51.199 then shrubs and trees like a three gallon and a 2056 01:48:51.279 --> 01:48:55.159 seven gallon camellia, a fifteen gallon red bud that's a 2057 01:48:55.399 --> 01:48:59.800 valuable tree, a fifteen gallon San Philipe red maple awesome. 2058 01:49:00.079 --> 01:49:03.479 The best red maples you're gonna find and plan is Semphilippe. 2059 01:49:03.600 --> 01:49:07.600 And boy that somebody gonna win one today. And then 2060 01:49:07.840 --> 01:49:10.880 lots and lots of other things, you know, night fussbug 2061 01:49:10.920 --> 01:49:12.760 out Max are gonna have some of that to give away. 2062 01:49:13.359 --> 01:49:13.479 Uh. 2063 01:49:13.640 --> 01:49:15.399 It just goes on and on. Like I said, we're 2064 01:49:15.439 --> 01:49:17.680 gonna be given away right and left out there. While 2065 01:49:17.680 --> 01:49:19.399 you're out there, you're gonna get some barbecue. 2066 01:49:19.960 --> 01:49:20.399 Uh you. 2067 01:49:21.000 --> 01:49:23.479 They have some a little things set up for photo ops. 2068 01:49:23.520 --> 01:49:25.199 We used it last year. It's a lot of fun. 2069 01:49:25.279 --> 01:49:27.319 I'll take a picture with you if you want. In fact, 2070 01:49:27.319 --> 01:49:28.960 if you take a picture of me and print it 2071 01:49:29.039 --> 01:49:30.800 out and put it in your pantry, it'll keep the 2072 01:49:30.880 --> 01:49:33.960 cockroaches out of the oatmeal. So there's another plus of 2073 01:49:34.079 --> 01:49:38.000 coming out today to rc W. I don't know what's 2074 01:49:38.039 --> 01:49:41.079 going to come out of my mouth sometimes. All right, well, uh, 2075 01:49:41.239 --> 01:49:43.600 you are listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is 2076 01:49:43.640 --> 01:49:46.680 seven one three two one two k t RH. Give 2077 01:49:46.720 --> 01:49:49.279 us a call. I'll be right back after a short break. 2078 01:49:50.159 --> 01:49:55.119 Welcome back to guarden Line, folks. Good to have you 2079 01:49:55.199 --> 01:49:59.079 with us today. You are listening to a show that 2080 01:49:59.279 --> 01:50:03.800 is designed to help you answer your gardening questions and 2081 01:50:03.880 --> 01:50:06.079 have success. I want you to have a bountiful garden. 2082 01:50:06.119 --> 01:50:07.800 I want you to have a beautiful landscape, and that's 2083 01:50:07.840 --> 01:50:09.600 what we're here for. You can give us call it 2084 01:50:09.680 --> 01:50:13.079 seven one three two on two kt rh. That is 2085 01:50:13.119 --> 01:50:15.039 a good way to get a hold of us. In 2086 01:50:15.199 --> 01:50:17.119 the meantime, I just want to remind you it is 2087 01:50:17.399 --> 01:50:21.439 fall lawn season. Fallow is the most important season in 2088 01:50:21.520 --> 01:50:24.159 the lawn. I mean that the most important fertilization of 2089 01:50:24.199 --> 01:50:27.199 the year is the fall fertilization because not only does 2090 01:50:27.279 --> 01:50:30.600 it supply your lawn nutrients to help it be cold hardy, 2091 01:50:30.680 --> 01:50:33.359 but it also is a time when those nutrients are 2092 01:50:33.439 --> 01:50:35.279 going to go into the plant and be ready to 2093 01:50:35.359 --> 01:50:39.319 come out in the spring. That's why the folks at 2094 01:50:39.399 --> 01:50:42.920 Nitrofoss have created the three step program. First step is 2095 01:50:43.000 --> 01:50:47.239 the fall fertilizer. It's called Fall Special by Nitrofos. It's 2096 01:50:47.279 --> 01:50:51.079 a winter riser type of fertilizer prepares the plants for winter. 2097 01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:56.279 Second step barricade pre emergent prevents the weed seeds that 2098 01:50:56.399 --> 01:50:58.960 are about to germinate and I mean any day now 2099 01:50:59.399 --> 01:51:02.479 they'll be jar dominating. It prevents them from getting up. 2100 01:51:02.560 --> 01:51:04.960 It forms the barricade over the soil surface. They can't 2101 01:51:04.960 --> 01:51:10.479 get through it. Second or third Nitroposs Eagle turf fungicide. 2102 01:51:10.880 --> 01:51:12.640 You put it down, you water it in as you 2103 01:51:12.760 --> 01:51:15.920 do the barricade, and it goes into the this one 2104 01:51:16.039 --> 01:51:19.159 goes into the plant and it is a disease prevention 2105 01:51:19.319 --> 01:51:21.520 that's in size. Like when we take antibiotics, we have 2106 01:51:21.560 --> 01:51:23.720 them in our body and then the diseases are fought 2107 01:51:23.800 --> 01:51:26.399 by those antibiotics. That is how the ego to our 2108 01:51:26.479 --> 01:51:32.600 fungicide works. It prevents the infection for example. So when 2109 01:51:32.720 --> 01:51:37.359 you go into the lawn with these products and water 2110 01:51:37.479 --> 01:51:39.760 them in with about a half inch of water, you've 2111 01:51:39.840 --> 01:51:44.479 got the nutrients taken care of the diseases or excuse me, Yeah, 2112 01:51:44.520 --> 01:51:46.439 the disease is taken care of like brown patch. And 2113 01:51:46.560 --> 01:51:48.840 it also works on take all root rot too, which 2114 01:51:48.880 --> 01:51:52.239 infects in the fall. And then finally the barricade to 2115 01:51:52.319 --> 01:51:54.880 prevent the weeds. It's one, two three, it's easy to do. 2116 01:51:55.039 --> 01:51:57.199 D and D Feed has a plantation ace hardware and 2117 01:51:57.319 --> 01:51:59.960 Richmond has it. Hiden and Feed and Stuben Airline carry 2118 01:52:00.600 --> 01:52:04.800 Nitrofassis Texas three step program and today at RCW Nursery, 2119 01:52:04.840 --> 01:52:07.000 I'm going to be given away two or three bags 2120 01:52:07.039 --> 01:52:09.920 of each one of those along with a lot of 2121 01:52:10.000 --> 01:52:12.960 other things. So coming up to RCW from twelve to 2122 01:52:13.199 --> 01:52:16.359 two and maybe a win a bag if you don't. 2123 01:52:16.439 --> 01:52:19.560 They also carry it there as well. It's time to 2124 01:52:19.640 --> 01:52:23.239 get that done. All right, I'm going to head out 2125 01:52:23.279 --> 01:52:26.760 to the phones. Oh my, here we go. We're gonna 2126 01:52:26.760 --> 01:52:30.039 go to Ken and Katie. Hey, Ken, welcome to guarden Line. 2127 01:52:31.359 --> 01:52:35.119 Good morning, Thank you for taking my cow. Yes, sir, 2128 01:52:37.359 --> 01:52:42.199 I've got I yes, two crate myrtles in my front yard. 2129 01:52:42.720 --> 01:52:45.119 And they both look like they've been pulled through a chimney. 2130 01:52:45.159 --> 01:52:47.560 And you got all kinds of a black suit or 2131 01:52:47.640 --> 01:52:48.640 something on the leaves. 2132 01:52:49.479 --> 01:52:50.119 What can I do? 2133 01:52:52.439 --> 01:52:52.560 Uh? 2134 01:52:52.760 --> 01:52:57.560 That Blacksit is caused by ninety percent chance. It's caused 2135 01:52:57.600 --> 01:53:01.359 by a scale insect. If you look up and down 2136 01:53:01.399 --> 01:53:03.479 the trunks and the black suit, you may see some 2137 01:53:03.560 --> 01:53:06.720 little tiny white flex in there, and it's called creat 2138 01:53:06.760 --> 01:53:10.000 myrtle bark scale and it produces. It sucks the sugary 2139 01:53:10.119 --> 01:53:12.720 juice out of the plant, and it secretes it as 2140 01:53:12.840 --> 01:53:16.720 a substance called honeydew that falls down and the set 2141 01:53:16.840 --> 01:53:22.159 grows on that sugary water. So you need to prevent that. 2142 01:53:22.640 --> 01:53:26.039 You can use a systemic product that you drench on 2143 01:53:26.119 --> 01:53:28.680 the soil. It goes into the plant and then when 2144 01:53:28.720 --> 01:53:30.880 the bugs are sucking juices out of the plant, that 2145 01:53:31.119 --> 01:53:34.359 product kills the bug because it's in the plumbing of 2146 01:53:34.399 --> 01:53:37.039 the plant. It's not sprayed on the outside of the plant. 2147 01:53:37.800 --> 01:53:39.920 That would be at this point in the season, probably 2148 01:53:39.960 --> 01:53:41.159 the best step to take. 2149 01:53:43.359 --> 01:53:44.199 And what is it called? 2150 01:53:46.119 --> 01:53:48.560 Oh well, it's two ingredients. And I'm going to give 2151 01:53:48.600 --> 01:53:50.800 you just the first few letters of them because they're 2152 01:53:50.840 --> 01:53:53.159 the only things. They begin with those first few letters. 2153 01:53:53.680 --> 01:53:58.720 One is called in mid dough I am id in 2154 01:53:58.920 --> 01:54:04.119 mid dough. The second ingredient begins with D I N 2155 01:54:04.520 --> 01:54:08.560 O T E F. Dino tap and med oh and 2156 01:54:08.720 --> 01:54:12.000 dino tap. You don't need both. They do the same thing. 2157 01:54:12.199 --> 01:54:15.119 They're insecticide. You mix them in water, you drench them 2158 01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:17.960 around the plant, on the soil so the roots pick 2159 01:54:18.000 --> 01:54:18.319 them up. 2160 01:54:20.279 --> 01:54:24.319 Okay, And right now would be a good time to 2161 01:54:24.399 --> 01:54:24.600 do it. 2162 01:54:26.600 --> 01:54:29.319 Yes, you could do that now. You may have to 2163 01:54:29.359 --> 01:54:31.319 do it again at another time, but that would be 2164 01:54:31.359 --> 01:54:32.079 a thing to do now. 2165 01:54:33.560 --> 01:54:34.880 All right, that's what I need it. 2166 01:54:36.760 --> 01:54:41.239 Okay, all right, good luck with that. Appreciate you bet, 2167 01:54:41.319 --> 01:54:45.680 appreciate your call very much. Okay, who's been waiting the 2168 01:54:45.720 --> 01:54:48.920 longest here. Let's go to JM and Houston. Hey JM, 2169 01:54:49.439 --> 01:54:50.439 welcome to garden Line. 2170 01:54:51.600 --> 01:54:54.680 Thank you, skip and enjoy and enjoy your show very much. 2171 01:54:56.439 --> 01:54:56.640 Sure. 2172 01:54:56.760 --> 01:54:58.199 I don't know if you were I don't know if 2173 01:54:58.239 --> 01:55:01.560 you were called, but she's certainly an email are regarding 2174 01:55:01.680 --> 01:55:06.279 dove weed in my yard, and you indicated that I 2175 01:55:06.399 --> 01:55:09.039 needed a post service side, which I've had my long 2176 01:55:09.119 --> 01:55:14.039 care people put on the yard, but it's dead. But 2177 01:55:14.159 --> 01:55:16.720 I was curious to know if I was supposed to 2178 01:55:17.159 --> 01:55:22.239 pull up the roots that were under the leaf that 2179 01:55:22.680 --> 01:55:25.279 are on the ground, or shall I just leave them alone? 2180 01:55:27.000 --> 01:55:27.199 Yeah? 2181 01:55:27.279 --> 01:55:29.479 And you know, if you get them up, there's little 2182 01:55:29.600 --> 01:55:33.079 seeds that have followed the little tiny flowers dove weed 2183 01:55:33.159 --> 01:55:35.439 has that are on there still, and if you got 2184 01:55:35.479 --> 01:55:37.079 some of those out, that would help a little bit. 2185 01:55:37.159 --> 01:55:39.439 The main thing you got to do now is when 2186 01:55:39.479 --> 01:55:43.319 we get into the springtime, a pre emergent to shut 2187 01:55:43.399 --> 01:55:47.840 those seeds down before they get going. Uh, doveweed is 2188 01:55:47.920 --> 01:55:51.119 a little bit slow to Germany, and so the spring 2189 01:55:51.279 --> 01:55:54.560 pre emergent applications that are on my schedule for almost 2190 01:55:54.640 --> 01:55:59.560 all the other weeds it is, dove weed comes a 2191 01:55:59.560 --> 01:56:02.600 little bit later than that. So what I would recommend 2192 01:56:02.800 --> 01:56:06.640 that you do is, if you don't have other weed problems, 2193 01:56:06.760 --> 01:56:11.439 then go ahead and hold off on your pre emergent application. Typically, 2194 01:56:12.199 --> 01:56:18.520 I would probably make it in March or April, because 2195 01:56:18.960 --> 01:56:22.159 dove weed typically is going to be sprouting when it 2196 01:56:22.239 --> 01:56:26.079 really gets warm in May, you know, so that that 2197 01:56:26.159 --> 01:56:30.359 would be Yeah, you're delaying it because those those pre 2198 01:56:30.399 --> 01:56:34.119 emergents are only going to last you about sixty days, 2199 01:56:34.359 --> 01:56:38.000 maybe maybe up the ninety days, depending on conditions. And 2200 01:56:38.159 --> 01:56:42.359 so when you when you no longer have the effective 2201 01:56:42.359 --> 01:56:46.319 pre emergent, you have to repeat it again. Okay, do 2202 01:56:46.479 --> 01:56:47.000 I need to. 2203 01:56:49.359 --> 01:56:55.000 Put down grass or it's been where the dove weed 2204 01:56:55.439 --> 01:56:58.399 has died and where it's bear I. 2205 01:56:58.479 --> 01:57:02.920 Need to now wherever sunlight, Yeah, wherever sunlight hits the soil, 2206 01:57:03.079 --> 01:57:06.880 nature plants of weed. And so if you if you 2207 01:57:07.000 --> 01:57:10.039 let that, if you let that stay there, something's gonna 2208 01:57:10.079 --> 01:57:12.640 come up, dove weed, seeds or something else. So putting 2209 01:57:12.760 --> 01:57:14.560 sod in those spots is a good idea. 2210 01:57:15.479 --> 01:57:20.079 Okay, great sounds good. All right, all right, all right, 2211 01:57:20.119 --> 01:57:25.039 thank you sir, appreciate it, you bet? Yeah, yeah, we 2212 01:57:25.119 --> 01:57:29.720 got our hands full today, but yes, you're right. All right, folks, Wow, 2213 01:57:29.880 --> 01:57:31.920 we are time flies. I don't have enough time to 2214 01:57:32.000 --> 01:57:35.159 grab the next call here. Let's see when we come 2215 01:57:35.239 --> 01:57:38.199 back from break, Evelyn and Ken and Lawrence. You will 2216 01:57:38.239 --> 01:57:40.479 be our first ones up as we come back. Just 2217 01:57:40.560 --> 01:57:43.800 a reminder that I'm going to be at RCW Nursery 2218 01:57:43.840 --> 01:57:45.199 today from twelve to two. 2219 01:57:46.079 --> 01:57:48.119 Won't you make time to come on out. We got 2220 01:57:48.159 --> 01:57:51.119 some decent weather today, a good time to get out there. 2221 01:57:51.119 --> 01:57:54.079 They're having their fall flame. They're gonna have barbecue lunch. 2222 01:57:54.399 --> 01:57:56.279 Don't even worry about grabbing lunch. Just come on and 2223 01:57:56.359 --> 01:57:59.720 have some barbecue with us. Bring me samples of your plants, 2224 01:57:59.760 --> 01:58:02.159 bring me pictures of the landscape. Any kind of questions 2225 01:58:02.199 --> 01:58:04.640 that you have. I'll be happy to answer those. While 2226 01:58:04.680 --> 01:58:06.359 you're out there. You're going to get a chance to 2227 01:58:06.439 --> 01:58:08.760 win more stuff than I think I've ever given away 2228 01:58:08.800 --> 01:58:13.439 in an appearance. Well over twenty different items including, uh 2229 01:58:13.640 --> 01:58:19.000 some shrubs like the camellias, trees like red bud and 2230 01:58:19.439 --> 01:58:25.039 San Felipe maple, the three step nitrophosphall products, the barricade, 2231 01:58:25.039 --> 01:58:28.960 the fall Special, the Eagle chur funge aside, some cool 2232 01:58:29.119 --> 01:58:31.439 yard art, freeze clock. Hey, that's going to come on 2233 01:58:31.560 --> 01:58:33.800 hand to put the scene. I can just sit a 2234 01:58:33.960 --> 01:58:36.720 name on, on on and on. It's gonna be a 2235 01:58:36.800 --> 01:58:39.560 fun day. Let's get a picture made too. While we're 2236 01:58:39.600 --> 01:58:40.760 doing it. See you in a bit. 2237 01:58:42.039 --> 01:58:45.720 Welcome to k r H guarden Line with Skip Rict. 2238 01:58:45.920 --> 01:59:03.479 It's just wims Sat Daisy. 2239 01:59:05.640 --> 01:59:09.720 See folks, welcome back to garden lines. Glad to have 2240 01:59:09.800 --> 01:59:12.720 you with us. We got a lot of ground to 2241 01:59:12.760 --> 01:59:15.760 cover here. Man, it just seems like time's flying today. 2242 01:59:16.640 --> 01:59:18.720 Have you ever been out to Hoorges Hidden Gardens. They're 2243 01:59:18.800 --> 01:59:22.039 down in Alvin, Texas, just south of Houston. They're your 2244 01:59:22.119 --> 01:59:25.359 garden center down south. And that really that whole region, 2245 01:59:25.439 --> 01:59:27.560 you know. So if you live in Santa Fe or Dickensenter, 2246 01:59:27.640 --> 01:59:30.960 I'll go Arcadia, Alta Loma, all those communities down there. 2247 01:59:31.439 --> 01:59:33.920 This is your backyard garden center. Now, Hoorge has just 2248 01:59:34.039 --> 01:59:37.600 gotten in some blueberries. He's got on special and oh 2249 01:59:37.680 --> 01:59:41.520 my gosh, the eight different varieties of blueberries are available. 2250 01:59:42.000 --> 01:59:45.840 They're at twenty five bucks for a three gallon blueberry 2251 01:59:45.920 --> 01:59:47.560 that's ready to go on the ground. These plants are 2252 01:59:47.600 --> 01:59:51.359 over three feet tall, and you know, blueberries just really 2253 01:59:51.640 --> 01:59:54.399 enjoy the climate and weather we have done here. They 2254 01:59:54.479 --> 01:59:57.479 just want a high quality water. So you want to 2255 01:59:57.520 --> 01:59:59.479 if you got rain water, that's even best, but a 2256 01:59:59.560 --> 02:00:02.000 good water on them. You want to put them in 2257 02:00:02.239 --> 02:00:05.239 a soil mix that is somewhat acidic and high and 2258 02:00:05.399 --> 02:00:07.800 organic matter. Some people use peat moss in the mix, 2259 02:00:07.960 --> 02:00:10.439 some sand in the mix. So if you just have 2260 02:00:10.520 --> 02:00:12.359 a real heavy clay, you're going to want to mend 2261 02:00:12.479 --> 02:00:15.640 that soil and create a raised bed to have success 2262 02:00:15.680 --> 02:00:17.880 with those blueberries. But they will grow here. I mean 2263 02:00:17.920 --> 02:00:20.640 we have blueberry forms in the area now. Jrae has 2264 02:00:20.680 --> 02:00:22.560 a lot of other things too. By the way, they're 2265 02:00:22.640 --> 02:00:26.039 open in this fall. Their hours are they're closed on Monday, 2266 02:00:26.119 --> 02:00:29.319 but Tuesday through Friday nine to three and on the 2267 02:00:29.399 --> 02:00:32.039 weekend Saturday and Sunday eight to four. So today and 2268 02:00:32.119 --> 02:00:35.359 tomorrow both eight am to four pm. Go out and 2269 02:00:35.479 --> 02:00:38.960 grab that blueberry. Those blueberries, Remember to get two different 2270 02:00:38.960 --> 02:00:41.039 plants so they can cross pollinate. When you do that. 2271 02:00:41.960 --> 02:00:43.479 While you're out there, you're going to see a lot 2272 02:00:43.560 --> 02:00:46.319 of other trees and shrubs and plants and citrus and 2273 02:00:46.319 --> 02:00:49.239 all kinds of things that carries. He also has that 2274 02:00:49.359 --> 02:00:52.640 three sixty tree stabilizer, So if you buy a tree 2275 02:00:52.680 --> 02:00:56.479 from Joje, also buy one of those three sixty tree stabilizers. 2276 02:00:56.560 --> 02:01:00.319 They are very very effective on helping stabilize a new 2277 02:01:00.359 --> 02:01:02.760 tree until they can get a good root system down. 2278 02:01:02.800 --> 02:01:06.039 There in the ground. We're going to head out now 2279 02:01:06.199 --> 02:01:11.680 to talk to Evelyn. Hello Evelyn, Hey dad, this. 2280 02:01:11.800 --> 02:01:13.920 Is actually Emily, Evelyn's mother. 2281 02:01:14.199 --> 02:01:14.600 How are you. 2282 02:01:16.640 --> 02:01:18.159 I'm good, I'm good. 2283 02:01:19.640 --> 02:01:19.880 Good. 2284 02:01:20.479 --> 02:01:22.760 We need to update your taste in music, by the way, 2285 02:01:22.840 --> 02:01:25.119 from the nineteen seventies, because you know it's. 2286 02:01:25.000 --> 02:01:25.880 A new decade now. 2287 02:01:27.640 --> 02:01:31.720 H Only my granddaughter can talk to me that way. 2288 02:01:31.800 --> 02:01:33.520 You can't speak to me that way, you lady. 2289 02:01:36.520 --> 02:01:39.079 I have two questions for you, and I know you've 2290 02:01:39.079 --> 02:01:40.920 got a line, so I'll be fairly quick. 2291 02:01:41.800 --> 02:01:44.479 I am driving back home from picking up my chicken. 2292 02:01:44.279 --> 02:01:46.600 Coop right now, and I'm wondering if there's any. 2293 02:01:46.439 --> 02:01:50.079 Ways that I can use my chickens to enhance my garden. 2294 02:01:52.640 --> 02:01:56.800 Well, number one, chickens will run a mile to catch 2295 02:01:56.840 --> 02:01:59.199 a grasshopper, and so any kind of pest like that 2296 02:01:59.399 --> 02:02:02.439 that they can yet they'll go after. Just remember that 2297 02:02:02.520 --> 02:02:05.039 they'll also packet your little seedlings and things, so don't 2298 02:02:05.119 --> 02:02:07.199 let them out there when you have, you know, just 2299 02:02:07.279 --> 02:02:10.000 have little plant seedlings. They'll pack at them and keep 2300 02:02:10.079 --> 02:02:12.840 the fresh manure out because it can carry some of 2301 02:02:12.960 --> 02:02:17.439 the human disease issues like salmonella and E. Coli and whatnot. 2302 02:02:17.560 --> 02:02:20.159 But once the manure has been mixed into the ground 2303 02:02:20.359 --> 02:02:24.000 and allowed to decompose. That's another benefit that they can give. 2304 02:02:24.079 --> 02:02:24.119 You. 2305 02:02:25.880 --> 02:02:28.600 Can I put my Can I put the maneuver inside 2306 02:02:28.680 --> 02:02:29.359 my compost? 2307 02:02:31.760 --> 02:02:34.000 You can, but you got to compost it well, so 2308 02:02:34.079 --> 02:02:37.159 it takes a good hot compost or some time underground 2309 02:02:37.920 --> 02:02:41.720 for the thing to be fully broken down so that 2310 02:02:42.000 --> 02:02:42.960 it's safe to use. 2311 02:02:45.439 --> 02:02:46.560 That makes a lot of sense. 2312 02:02:47.520 --> 02:02:50.600 My second question, I'm headed to the nursery today to 2313 02:02:50.680 --> 02:02:53.399 pick up some fruit trees, and I know you said 2314 02:02:53.520 --> 02:02:55.760 to cut up the roots really good so that they 2315 02:02:55.800 --> 02:02:56.600 can branch out. 2316 02:02:57.359 --> 02:02:59.399 Do I need to amend the oil or is there 2317 02:02:59.439 --> 02:03:00.880 anything else do you suggest. 2318 02:03:00.560 --> 02:03:01.880 I do when I put them in the ground. 2319 02:03:03.399 --> 02:03:05.479 Yep. The better the soil is, the better they'll do. 2320 02:03:05.680 --> 02:03:07.680 When we say cut up, what we're referring to is 2321 02:03:07.880 --> 02:03:10.800 is slicing through the outer roots cylinder in three or 2322 02:03:10.840 --> 02:03:14.760 four places so that circling roots are severed. And from 2323 02:03:14.840 --> 02:03:17.479 that where you sever them, they'll branch out and establish 2324 02:03:17.640 --> 02:03:20.960 really really well. If you can put in a good soil, 2325 02:03:21.039 --> 02:03:24.479 mix some top soil if the area is not draining well, 2326 02:03:25.520 --> 02:03:28.000 making sure that it's raised up a little bit where 2327 02:03:28.039 --> 02:03:30.239 you plant the fruit trees so that they drain well. 2328 02:03:30.880 --> 02:03:33.159 But those are the key things, and probably the most 2329 02:03:33.199 --> 02:03:35.720 important thing is keeping the weeds away at least give 2330 02:03:35.800 --> 02:03:39.640 them a two feet mulch in all directions. Wider is 2331 02:03:39.680 --> 02:03:42.520 even better because the lawnmower in the weed here. Sure 2332 02:03:42.560 --> 02:03:43.239 do you tear them up? 2333 02:03:45.079 --> 02:03:45.479 For sure? 2334 02:03:45.760 --> 02:03:47.560 For sure? All right, well, thank you. 2335 02:03:47.680 --> 02:03:48.479 That's very helpful. 2336 02:03:50.079 --> 02:03:52.319 All right, thank you, appreciate it. Thanks for the call. 2337 02:03:52.680 --> 02:03:53.079 Take care. 2338 02:03:53.319 --> 02:03:56.000 We are going to run now. Going to run now 2339 02:03:56.199 --> 02:04:01.279 to Rosenberg, Texas and talk to Ken. Hey, Ken, welcome toguardline. 2340 02:04:02.520 --> 02:04:02.840 Thank you. 2341 02:04:04.079 --> 02:04:06.479 I have read an article in the past about a 2342 02:04:06.600 --> 02:04:09.760 fishing worm that's an invasive one from Asia that when 2343 02:04:09.920 --> 02:04:13.159 you touch it youris I have some of those in 2344 02:04:13.199 --> 02:04:13.680 my garden. 2345 02:04:13.960 --> 02:04:15.119 Can I get rid of them? 2346 02:04:15.319 --> 02:04:17.079 Or what's the risk of having them there? 2347 02:04:20.680 --> 02:04:22.439 There's no way I know to get rid of just 2348 02:04:22.560 --> 02:04:27.479 that worm without nuking the soil and killing everything. Yeah. 2349 02:04:27.600 --> 02:04:30.600 I don't know a good way to eradicate them. That is, 2350 02:04:31.000 --> 02:04:34.840 that is out of my area of expertise. So I 2351 02:04:35.199 --> 02:04:37.079 don't know what else to tay on those. It's it's 2352 02:04:37.159 --> 02:04:41.560 unfortunate we have those, but I don't think it's practical 2353 02:04:41.640 --> 02:04:44.359 to try to treat for them. I could be wrong 2354 02:04:44.359 --> 02:04:50.279 with some good they're invasive species. Well, I mean, we 2355 02:04:50.359 --> 02:04:52.279 had a lot of things that are invasive that end 2356 02:04:52.399 --> 02:04:53.319 up doing a good job. 2357 02:04:53.439 --> 02:04:53.600 You know. 2358 02:04:53.640 --> 02:04:57.159 We got the the Asian lady beetle here that's more 2359 02:04:57.279 --> 02:05:00.119 voracious in its appetite than our native lady beetles, and 2360 02:05:00.279 --> 02:05:03.520 so they are still out there doing good for you 2361 02:05:03.640 --> 02:05:07.159 in the garden. But yeah, I don't I'm just not 2362 02:05:07.279 --> 02:05:10.399 a native I'm excuse me. I'm not an invasive species 2363 02:05:10.479 --> 02:05:12.399 expert when it comes to things like that. I've heard 2364 02:05:12.439 --> 02:05:14.239 of what you're talking about. I'm familiar with them. I 2365 02:05:14.319 --> 02:05:20.560 just I just don't know. Okay, thanks so much, all right, 2366 02:05:20.680 --> 02:05:25.479 thanks a lot. Sorry, it couldn't be more help on that, alrighty, 2367 02:05:26.520 --> 02:05:30.359 you bet, you bet? If I can get my mouse 2368 02:05:30.479 --> 02:05:34.800 here and there we go, all right. I was telling 2369 02:05:34.840 --> 02:05:38.520 you earlier about the importance of building the soil. And 2370 02:05:38.680 --> 02:05:42.760 although it is fertilizing season, uh, there is a kind 2371 02:05:42.840 --> 02:05:45.399 of nutrient application that we make at any time of 2372 02:05:45.479 --> 02:05:48.640 the year, and that is azamite. Azemite is a micronutrient 2373 02:05:48.760 --> 02:05:52.199 or a trace mineral supplement. So when you put that down, 2374 02:05:52.399 --> 02:05:55.760 it is going to provide those minerals into the soil 2375 02:05:55.840 --> 02:05:58.520 bank account that all through the year when a root 2376 02:05:58.680 --> 02:06:02.920 needs main these or some other obscure little tiny mineral 2377 02:06:03.000 --> 02:06:06.880 that is essential but needed in tiny amounts. Asmite has 2378 02:06:06.960 --> 02:06:10.279 provided that for the soil. So Asmite is put out 2379 02:06:10.319 --> 02:06:12.439 in small amounts. You know, forty four pound bag is 2380 02:06:12.479 --> 02:06:14.840 going to cover up the twelve thousand square feet, so 2381 02:06:14.960 --> 02:06:16.880 it goes a long way because you're not dumping a 2382 02:06:16.920 --> 02:06:20.399 bunch of fertilizer on it. You are supplementing a micro 2383 02:06:20.720 --> 02:06:24.479 nutrient into your soil. Very important. Can be done anytime 2384 02:06:24.520 --> 02:06:26.199 of the year. You can do it when you fertilize. 2385 02:06:26.319 --> 02:06:29.760 Just do it in a separate application from your fertilization 2386 02:06:29.880 --> 02:06:33.159 because the particle sizes of various products are different and 2387 02:06:33.199 --> 02:06:35.960 therefore they don't spread evenly if you don't if you 2388 02:06:36.039 --> 02:06:39.079 try to mix them together. Asmite Texas dot com is 2389 02:06:39.119 --> 02:06:41.079 a website. You're going to find asmite in a lot 2390 02:06:41.079 --> 02:06:41.520 of places. 2391 02:06:41.560 --> 02:06:41.680 You know. 2392 02:06:41.720 --> 02:06:45.119 Ace Hardware has it. Ace Hardware carries asmite forty Ace 2393 02:06:45.159 --> 02:06:47.600 Hardware stores around the area. It's easy to find one 2394 02:06:48.039 --> 02:06:51.760 near you. And while you're at Ace Hardware, grab that 2395 02:06:52.279 --> 02:06:55.920 Nitroposs one two three completely easy system that is the 2396 02:06:56.520 --> 02:06:59.800 fall special that is the barricade, and that is the Eagle, 2397 02:07:00.039 --> 02:07:04.680 and decide fall specials nutrients. Barricade is to stop weeds, 2398 02:07:05.119 --> 02:07:09.239 don't let them through the soil, and the eagle is 2399 02:07:09.319 --> 02:07:12.119 to shut down diseases when they try to infect your grass. 2400 02:07:12.199 --> 02:07:16.079 And ACE Hardware carries that package from Nitrofoss forty plus 2401 02:07:16.239 --> 02:07:18.920 ACE Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area. Go to 2402 02:07:19.000 --> 02:07:22.199 Acehardware dot com find the store locator to find the 2403 02:07:22.239 --> 02:07:24.880 one near you. It's easy that way to get everything 2404 02:07:24.960 --> 02:07:27.680 you need for your lawn and your landscape. I'm gonna 2405 02:07:27.680 --> 02:07:29.720 take a little break here. When we come back, Lawrence 2406 02:07:30.239 --> 02:07:33.039 and Humble, you'll be our first stop. Hey, welcome back 2407 02:07:33.039 --> 02:07:40.359 to Garden Line. Welcome back. Good to have you. I 2408 02:07:41.399 --> 02:07:44.720 was just at break looking over some notes that I 2409 02:07:44.800 --> 02:07:49.319 had about various things, and I was noticing that Enchanted 2410 02:07:49.439 --> 02:07:53.680 Forest Garden Center and Channa Forest Garden Center has their 2411 02:07:53.840 --> 02:07:57.720 stock right now of new plants for fall is just outstanding. 2412 02:07:57.760 --> 02:07:59.760 I was looking at some pictures of the I was 2413 02:07:59.800 --> 02:08:01.800 out there the other by the way, had a real 2414 02:08:01.880 --> 02:08:03.720 good time out there. Thanks for everybody that came out. 2415 02:08:04.479 --> 02:08:07.279 But they've gotten a whole new shipment now of things 2416 02:08:07.439 --> 02:08:10.760 in from the vegetable in the vegetable areas and in 2417 02:08:10.840 --> 02:08:14.720 the herb areas. Their fall color is just still unbelievable. 2418 02:08:14.840 --> 02:08:17.319 And when it comes to trees and shrubs and everything 2419 02:08:17.439 --> 02:08:20.840 that you can imagine. You want some dependable perennials like 2420 02:08:20.960 --> 02:08:23.720 Salvia's and others that'll come back here after year. That'll 2421 02:08:23.720 --> 02:08:27.279 attract butterflies, that'll attract bees, that'll attract hummingbirds, all kinds 2422 02:08:27.279 --> 02:08:30.560 of different things. They've got it stocked up there at 2423 02:08:30.720 --> 02:08:32.840 Enchanted Forest. You know, in Channa Forest is a garden 2424 02:08:32.920 --> 02:08:35.640 center that's out there in Richmond Rosenberg, but it's in 2425 02:08:35.880 --> 02:08:39.720 the Sugarland direction. So as you go out, you want 2426 02:08:39.720 --> 02:08:42.760 to head down FM twenty seven fifty nine. That'll take 2427 02:08:42.800 --> 02:08:44.760 you to Enchanted Forest, which is off to the right 2428 02:08:44.840 --> 02:08:47.520 as you're heading up fifty nine towards sugar Land. It's 2429 02:08:47.600 --> 02:08:50.239 way down off to the right there. It's it is 2430 02:08:50.399 --> 02:08:52.439 so beautiful to go to. Every time I go out, 2431 02:08:52.479 --> 02:08:55.680 I'm just a mess, amazed. And I was telling Clay 2432 02:08:55.800 --> 02:08:57.479 that I don't think the place has ever looked better 2433 02:08:57.880 --> 02:09:00.279 out there, and it is. It is a load it 2434 02:09:00.359 --> 02:09:03.199 up and by people are they loving it. You can 2435 02:09:03.279 --> 02:09:05.960 watch people's faces when they drive it. I was like, Wow, 2436 02:09:06.279 --> 02:09:08.479 this is cool. I didn't realize will be this cool. 2437 02:09:08.880 --> 02:09:11.960 It is so nice. And when I was out there 2438 02:09:12.119 --> 02:09:14.119 wandering around looking, I was trying to keep up with 2439 02:09:14.199 --> 02:09:17.039 what are these people carrying at various garden centers and things, 2440 02:09:17.119 --> 02:09:19.840 and it's like, I don't know anything that's not here. 2441 02:09:19.960 --> 02:09:22.880 The house points selection look great out there. The gifts 2442 02:09:23.000 --> 02:09:26.199 the gift shop is awesome. They carry all the products. 2443 02:09:26.239 --> 02:09:28.199 You know that you hear me talk about fertilizers all 2444 02:09:28.239 --> 02:09:30.000 the time on guard Line. They've got them there in 2445 02:09:30.119 --> 02:09:32.560 chanted forest. While you're out there, and you know how 2446 02:09:32.600 --> 02:09:34.880 important it is to make sure you've got the soil 2447 02:09:35.000 --> 02:09:38.319 right for your plants to have success. So whether you're 2448 02:09:38.359 --> 02:09:40.520 needing a holly or a red bud, or a maple, 2449 02:09:40.640 --> 02:09:42.520 or an oak or a magnolia or a fruit tree 2450 02:09:42.640 --> 02:09:45.520 or a shrub, fallows the time to plant them, and 2451 02:09:45.640 --> 02:09:48.479 they got they have them. They've got them there. They're 2452 02:09:48.560 --> 02:09:53.520 set up some beautiful little esperanzas, various types that were 2453 02:09:53.720 --> 02:09:55.880 really in beautiful bloom when I was out there, and 2454 02:09:56.119 --> 02:09:58.279 lots of other things. It's just in chanting forests, the 2455 02:09:58.359 --> 02:10:00.479 kind of place you got to go Enchanting is the 2456 02:10:00.560 --> 02:10:03.399 word it's it's in their name, but it's also a 2457 02:10:03.520 --> 02:10:06.279 description of the place you're going to get good advice, 2458 02:10:06.640 --> 02:10:12.239 good direction, quality plants and top not shape and a 2459 02:10:13.039 --> 02:10:17.199 breadth of selection that is just amazing. In Jenny Forest 2460 02:10:17.239 --> 02:10:20.479 Garden Center. I'm going to head out now to Humbol, Texas, 2461 02:10:20.600 --> 02:10:23.399 and we're going to talk to Lawrence. Hello, Lawrence, Welcome 2462 02:10:23.439 --> 02:10:24.079 to garden Line. 2463 02:10:25.039 --> 02:10:29.119 Hi good Born, and thanks taking a call. Yes, sir, 2464 02:10:30.319 --> 02:10:32.079 don't know if you see my email there. 2465 02:10:34.079 --> 02:10:36.680 Throat. Oh you had the house, Yeah, you had the 2466 02:10:36.720 --> 02:10:42.479 house plants with the leaves, right, yeah, yeah, I did. 2467 02:10:42.640 --> 02:10:45.800 I saw that. That is very strange that that look. 2468 02:10:46.159 --> 02:10:48.399 My first thought was that maybe a sunburn, and then 2469 02:10:48.439 --> 02:10:52.760 it didn't quite look like sunburn. It Overwatering can cause 2470 02:10:52.880 --> 02:10:56.319 problems because the roots can't get oxygen, and so can 2471 02:10:56.479 --> 02:10:58.800 root rots, and when the root dies you start to 2472 02:10:58.840 --> 02:11:01.800 see problems on the top. But as I look closer 2473 02:11:01.880 --> 02:11:05.439 at it, it almost looks like a bacterial infection has 2474 02:11:05.520 --> 02:11:09.399 gotten into those leaves, because from one point everything out 2475 02:11:09.479 --> 02:11:13.279 from there is just collapsing and turning to mush, and 2476 02:11:13.439 --> 02:11:16.760 so once it's doing that, there's no bringing it back 2477 02:11:16.840 --> 02:11:18.640 to life. So I would cut that leaf off, and 2478 02:11:18.720 --> 02:11:21.000 I realized that's going to mean doing a lot of 2479 02:11:21.039 --> 02:11:23.760 pruning on those plants. But cut it off and get 2480 02:11:23.800 --> 02:11:26.479 it out of there. Those kind of bacteria can splash around, 2481 02:11:26.760 --> 02:11:29.439 or as you're handling the plant and moving your hands around, 2482 02:11:29.479 --> 02:11:32.840 you can spread them around that way too. Just to 2483 02:11:32.920 --> 02:11:36.520 be extra careful, Laurence would I would make my pruning 2484 02:11:36.600 --> 02:11:39.680 cuts with snippers, and then I would spray those snippers 2485 02:11:39.720 --> 02:11:44.319 with lysol between cuts. That way, if you do have 2486 02:11:44.520 --> 02:11:48.800 some bacteria that you're getting when you cut through the branch, 2487 02:11:49.720 --> 02:11:52.039 you'll kill it before you go cut another branch, and 2488 02:11:52.279 --> 02:11:54.840 you can avoid That's true any kind of pruning where 2489 02:11:54.880 --> 02:11:58.359 you're worried about cankers and diseases and things. Is sterilize 2490 02:11:58.399 --> 02:12:01.479 those printers between cuts and life is the simplest, easiest 2491 02:12:01.520 --> 02:12:03.119 way I know to do it. I mean, there's lots 2492 02:12:03.119 --> 02:12:05.399 of other ways to do it, but I like to 2493 02:12:05.479 --> 02:12:07.199 use it because it's tandy, real easy to do. 2494 02:12:08.840 --> 02:12:10.920 Is there anything else that put on the soil of 2495 02:12:11.039 --> 02:12:11.880 the leaves. 2496 02:12:11.680 --> 02:12:20.000 Or anything like that, not really, You know, the bacteria 2497 02:12:20.000 --> 02:12:23.279 itself appears to be interior in the plumbing of that plant. 2498 02:12:23.840 --> 02:12:27.640 At some point we can use copper type sprays on 2499 02:12:28.159 --> 02:12:32.279 plants to stop bacteria from landing on the surface and infecting, 2500 02:12:32.920 --> 02:12:35.640 but it leaves your plants looking blue, and for a houseplant, 2501 02:12:35.680 --> 02:12:38.560 there's just not a practical way to do that. I 2502 02:12:39.039 --> 02:12:42.000 would not recommend it, and some plants are sensitive to copper. 2503 02:12:42.159 --> 02:12:45.359 So with the eight hundred thousand types of houseplants we 2504 02:12:45.479 --> 02:12:47.880 now have around, I just don't know which ones are 2505 02:12:47.920 --> 02:12:51.239 safe and not, so I would use the sanitation if 2506 02:12:51.359 --> 02:12:54.199 were you check the soil, make sure it's not soggy, wet, 2507 02:12:54.319 --> 02:12:57.600 make sure the pot the drain holes are not plugged, 2508 02:12:58.920 --> 02:13:02.359 keep it moist but not soggy, and then do the 2509 02:13:02.439 --> 02:13:04.920 sanitary pruning. I think it's your best bet. Get them 2510 02:13:04.960 --> 02:13:07.399 in as much light as you can so that they 2511 02:13:07.600 --> 02:13:10.760 have the best chance of building the energy to recoup 2512 02:13:10.880 --> 02:13:14.359 and recover and put new growth out. That's kind of 2513 02:13:14.439 --> 02:13:16.600 the whole nine yards on and trying to bring that 2514 02:13:16.720 --> 02:13:17.319 plant around. 2515 02:13:19.000 --> 02:13:23.079 Okay, I appreciate you, all. 2516 02:13:23.039 --> 02:13:26.720 Right, thank you, appreciate the call. Take care. Beautiful plant, 2517 02:13:26.760 --> 02:13:30.840 by the way, beautiful beautiful plant. You know, when I 2518 02:13:30.880 --> 02:13:34.039 went through and got my horticulture degree, I think you 2519 02:13:34.119 --> 02:13:36.359 could write on a postage stamp the amount of stuff 2520 02:13:36.359 --> 02:13:39.840 I learned about house plants. I'm serious. Of course, I 2521 02:13:39.960 --> 02:13:43.640 was in pomology, focusing on fruit, but also we learned 2522 02:13:43.640 --> 02:13:48.119 a lot about ornamentals and everything else. But I tell you, houseplants. 2523 02:13:48.239 --> 02:13:51.720 When COVID hit suddenly, it's like I had to learn 2524 02:13:51.800 --> 02:13:54.560 the names the new houseplants I didn't even know existed, 2525 02:13:54.640 --> 02:13:57.119 and people start going crazy over those things. And it 2526 02:13:57.239 --> 02:13:58.079 still continues. 2527 02:13:58.199 --> 02:13:58.319 Now. 2528 02:13:58.479 --> 02:14:01.920 People are really in house plants for good reason. So 2529 02:14:02.039 --> 02:14:03.960 and I, by the way, I've got more than I 2530 02:14:04.039 --> 02:14:06.000 know what to do with around the house. But boy, 2531 02:14:06.199 --> 02:14:09.560 doesn't it doesn't it just make an indoor environment less sterile. 2532 02:14:09.680 --> 02:14:14.920 It's warm and just inviting to be, kind of living 2533 02:14:14.960 --> 02:14:17.760 in a jungle. And I've got some daughters that have 2534 02:14:17.920 --> 02:14:19.880 enough houseplants to where you walk in the door and 2535 02:14:19.920 --> 02:14:22.239 you're afraid a little shop of horrors reaching out and 2536 02:14:22.279 --> 02:14:26.600 eating you. You come through Nature's way resources. They still 2537 02:14:26.640 --> 02:14:30.079 got their fungal Friday sale on twenty percent off their 2538 02:14:30.159 --> 02:14:33.560 fungal compost. Now, I would recommend going out there because 2539 02:14:33.560 --> 02:14:36.880 when you're out there, they've got the sale still going 2540 02:14:36.960 --> 02:14:40.840 on on all kinds of plants except the sun native 2541 02:14:40.920 --> 02:14:43.199 sun perennials are the only ones that are not on sale. 2542 02:14:43.239 --> 02:14:45.359 But they have a lot of different types of plants 2543 02:14:45.399 --> 02:14:47.640 and they are on a super sale out there right 2544 02:14:47.720 --> 02:14:50.319 now at Nature's Ray Resources. If you've got a vehicle 2545 02:14:50.359 --> 02:14:54.199 that can haul some soil back, purchase bulk. Purchase mulch bulk. 2546 02:14:54.399 --> 02:14:57.279 Purchase soil bulk. They have every kind of blend you 2547 02:14:57.319 --> 02:14:59.960 can imagine you need. I was talking about plant and blueberry. 2548 02:15:00.039 --> 02:15:02.239 Do you need something for blueberries. They've got blends for 2549 02:15:02.319 --> 02:15:06.000 acidic loving plants like azalea's commitas and blueberries and gardenias 2550 02:15:06.039 --> 02:15:09.640 and whatnot. They have vegetable and herb soils. They've got 2551 02:15:09.840 --> 02:15:12.479 soils that do really well for citrus, fruit trees and 2552 02:15:12.560 --> 02:15:16.399 things like that. Nature's Way Resources just just think of 2553 02:15:16.439 --> 02:15:21.520 it this way. They were into soil before it being 2554 02:15:21.600 --> 02:15:24.279 into soil became cool, if you want to think of 2555 02:15:24.319 --> 02:15:27.479 it that way. A lot of the quality blends we 2556 02:15:27.640 --> 02:15:30.239 now talk about in the Greater Houston era were born there, 2557 02:15:30.720 --> 02:15:33.920 and they know how to make quality soils and quality mulches, 2558 02:15:34.399 --> 02:15:36.079 and you can buy it by the bag there. You 2559 02:15:36.119 --> 02:15:38.359 can buy it by the bag at various outlets around 2560 02:15:38.399 --> 02:15:41.279 town as well. But whether you go get it, have 2561 02:15:41.439 --> 02:15:43.800 it delivered, Buy by the bulk, buy by the bag. 2562 02:15:44.079 --> 02:15:46.479 Nature's Way Resources is place to go. And don't forget 2563 02:15:46.560 --> 02:15:52.359 Fungo Friday's twenty percent fungal compost every Friday. Take advantage 2564 02:15:52.399 --> 02:15:55.880 of that. Our phone number is seven to one three 2565 02:15:56.119 --> 02:15:58.760 two one two k t RH if you'd like to 2566 02:15:58.800 --> 02:16:01.119 give us a call seven to one three two one 2567 02:16:01.239 --> 02:16:05.920 two kt r H. Look for visiting with you about 2568 02:16:05.960 --> 02:16:09.199 the kinds of questions that you might have. I am 2569 02:16:09.359 --> 02:16:13.079 really impressed with a number of products that the folks 2570 02:16:13.119 --> 02:16:17.039 at Medina have produced over the years. And Carrie, right 2571 02:16:17.159 --> 02:16:19.000 now I want to talk to talk to you about 2572 02:16:19.039 --> 02:16:23.119 Medina Plus. Now you probably famil with Medina Soil Activator. 2573 02:16:23.159 --> 02:16:25.399 It's been around for a long time. Well, they took 2574 02:16:25.479 --> 02:16:30.359 Medina Soil Activator and they really bumped it up a 2575 02:16:30.439 --> 02:16:33.239 notch with over forty different trace elements, a lot of 2576 02:16:33.360 --> 02:16:36.920 natural growth hormone from seaweed extract, a lot of minerals 2577 02:16:37.079 --> 02:16:40.079 are in that vitamins, a lot of other things are 2578 02:16:40.159 --> 02:16:45.319 in Medina Soil Activator. Excuse me, Medina Soil Plus, which 2579 02:16:45.440 --> 02:16:49.120 is so activator plus more. I just planted a whole 2580 02:16:49.159 --> 02:16:52.200 bit of strawberries the other day. Got a man. Finally, 2581 02:16:52.719 --> 02:16:55.000 you know the cobblers kids go barefoot, So sometimes my 2582 02:16:55.120 --> 02:16:58.120 yard has to wait while I'm helping you with your yard. Well, 2583 02:16:58.639 --> 02:17:00.920 I got a whole bit of strawberries in every plant, 2584 02:17:01.120 --> 02:17:03.959 got a good drenching with Medina Plus. I'll do it 2585 02:17:04.000 --> 02:17:05.719 again a week later. I'll do it again a week 2586 02:17:05.760 --> 02:17:08.920 after that. Three applications of Medina plus drenching it. I'd 2587 02:17:09.000 --> 02:17:10.520 put over the top of the plants. Get it on 2588 02:17:10.559 --> 02:17:12.360 the leaves. It's good for that too. You can fold 2589 02:17:12.399 --> 02:17:15.280 your feed with it, but mainly for the transplanting. I'm 2590 02:17:15.280 --> 02:17:18.079 getting it down there in the root system. Now it's 2591 02:17:18.239 --> 02:17:21.559 Medina Plus isn't just for transplanting. It's just fall is 2592 02:17:21.600 --> 02:17:24.239 a seasoned to plant. So you need to have Medina 2593 02:17:24.280 --> 02:17:26.760 Plus on hand along with a watering can so you 2594 02:17:26.840 --> 02:17:29.840 can water those plants in and drench them with the 2595 02:17:29.959 --> 02:17:34.600 quality material called Medina plus from Medina. It works, It 2596 02:17:34.680 --> 02:17:39.399 works well, That's why I use it. Someone was calling 2597 02:17:39.440 --> 02:17:42.159 me the other day asking do I need to do 2598 02:17:42.280 --> 02:17:44.879 I need to aerate my lawn. That was a question 2599 02:17:45.079 --> 02:17:48.479 that I get from time to time, and the answer is, well, 2600 02:17:48.639 --> 02:17:52.440 aeration is always helpful. It's always helpful. But if your 2601 02:17:52.520 --> 02:17:54.840 lawn is a heavy clay or if your lawn is 2602 02:17:55.000 --> 02:18:00.280 compacted compacted clay, then aeration is just essential. Need to 2603 02:18:00.319 --> 02:18:03.079 get that done. If your lawn's been struggling and just 2604 02:18:03.159 --> 02:18:06.319 getting thin, it's like it's just the green is not 2605 02:18:06.479 --> 02:18:09.840 green enough. I need to rejuvenate it. Well, there could 2606 02:18:09.879 --> 02:18:11.799 be a lot of things involved, but one of the 2607 02:18:11.920 --> 02:18:14.239 things that I like to see folks do is do 2608 02:18:14.399 --> 02:18:18.600 a core aeration follow it with a quality compost top dressing. 2609 02:18:19.079 --> 02:18:22.239 And the folks at B and B turf Pros down 2610 02:18:22.360 --> 02:18:26.000 south of Houston, they're the ones who know exactly how 2611 02:18:26.040 --> 02:18:28.000 to do that. In that region. They cover about a 2612 02:18:28.120 --> 02:18:32.000 twenty mile area, and that would include all the way 2613 02:18:32.120 --> 02:18:34.319 from let's say north and west up to Sugarland in 2614 02:18:34.319 --> 02:18:37.159 Missouri City, and then as you swing down Highway six 2615 02:18:37.280 --> 02:18:40.440 Brasnow or Colas Siena, Iowa colony Manvil, and all the 2616 02:18:40.479 --> 02:18:43.719 way over east to Paerland. That's kind of their service region. 2617 02:18:44.120 --> 02:18:45.920 You can go to their website and I would encourage 2618 02:18:45.920 --> 02:18:47.319 you to do that because you can see the kind 2619 02:18:47.319 --> 02:18:51.040 of work they do there. BB no end just BB 2620 02:18:51.559 --> 02:18:55.280 Turfpros dot com. What you will find is with BB 2621 02:18:55.520 --> 02:18:58.559 you get quality materials, They only use products and companies 2622 02:18:58.600 --> 02:19:02.000 that I trust here on guard Line, including Cnimals I 2623 02:19:02.040 --> 02:19:04.239 was talking about earlier. They use Cnimals, So that tells 2624 02:19:04.280 --> 02:19:06.879 you they're after the good stuff. They put that on 2625 02:19:07.000 --> 02:19:09.399 your lawn. So they do the aeration, they do the 2626 02:19:09.479 --> 02:19:13.639 compost top dressing. Uh, and they do an excellent job 2627 02:19:13.680 --> 02:19:16.159 of it. And that you know, people try to erate themselves. 2628 02:19:16.239 --> 02:19:19.639 Typically they use an narrator that doesn't pull plugs out 2629 02:19:19.959 --> 02:19:22.239 like bmb's does. That's what you want to do is 2630 02:19:22.280 --> 02:19:24.399 pull the plugs out. And it's a lot of work, 2631 02:19:24.799 --> 02:19:27.639 and it's messy, and it's dusty, and you're hauling compost 2632 02:19:27.799 --> 02:19:30.959 and shoveling and carrying it. Let them bring their equipment 2633 02:19:31.000 --> 02:19:34.040 and get the job done for you. Bbturf pros dot Com. 2634 02:19:34.319 --> 02:19:36.559 Here's a here's a phone number. Seven one three two 2635 02:19:36.639 --> 02:19:40.079 three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two 2636 02:19:40.200 --> 02:19:44.520 three four five five nine eight. They're all about customer 2637 02:19:44.559 --> 02:19:49.799 mess ups, customer satisfaction. They care to make a relationship 2638 02:19:49.879 --> 02:19:53.079 with you that will go on beyond just this one application, 2639 02:19:53.280 --> 02:19:56.520 and they do quality work with quality products as a result. 2640 02:19:56.920 --> 02:19:58.639 I'm going to take a break for the news. I'll 2641 02:19:58.680 --> 02:20:00.959 be right back folks, well about the guardline. Good to 2642 02:20:00.959 --> 02:20:03.639 have you with us. As always, we are here to 2643 02:20:03.719 --> 02:20:06.360 help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and 2644 02:20:06.639 --> 02:20:10.680 fun in the process. A little bit earlier today somebody 2645 02:20:10.879 --> 02:20:14.559 called me about Bill from Cyprus called about look at 2646 02:20:14.600 --> 02:20:18.040 for Tiff four nineteen and Celebration of Bermuda. Those are 2647 02:20:18.079 --> 02:20:21.360 two Bermuda cultivars that are out there. Four nineteen has 2648 02:20:21.360 --> 02:20:24.319 been around a long time, and I've been hunting down someplaces. 2649 02:20:24.360 --> 02:20:26.879 I think I believe that your King Ranch Turf Grass 2650 02:20:27.120 --> 02:20:29.840 locations are going to carry both of those. You just 2651 02:20:30.159 --> 02:20:31.840 you just need to call them and see what they have, 2652 02:20:32.200 --> 02:20:33.799 you know, in stock at the time, or what they 2653 02:20:33.879 --> 02:20:36.040 can get, and they're going to carry those two. I 2654 02:20:36.200 --> 02:20:40.040 do know that Milburger Turf also carries the four quarteen. 2655 02:20:40.600 --> 02:20:44.239 And you didn't mention this variety, but really an outstanding, 2656 02:20:44.600 --> 02:20:49.239 really outstanding variety of Bermuda grass re superior and trials 2657 02:20:49.319 --> 02:20:53.680 and things like that is a variety called tif Tough 2658 02:20:54.120 --> 02:20:59.079 tif t Uf Tiff Tough So four nineteen is Tiff 2659 02:20:59.159 --> 02:21:03.200 four nineteen. Tiff comes from Tifton, Georgia. Uh Tiff Tough 2660 02:21:03.360 --> 02:21:06.360 is another good one, and Millburgers carries those. Now, Millburger 2661 02:21:06.440 --> 02:21:09.399 is a wholesale place, but they do have retail outlets. 2662 02:21:09.479 --> 02:21:10.920 So I'm just going to give you a phone number 2663 02:21:11.159 --> 02:21:12.920 if you want to call if you're trying to find 2664 02:21:12.959 --> 02:21:16.879 a retail outlet for Milburger's mill Burger's varieties. Here, here's 2665 02:21:17.000 --> 02:21:21.159 number seven nine. Excuse me, start over nine seven nine 2666 02:21:21.799 --> 02:21:25.559 two four oh ninety four sixty two nine seven nine 2667 02:21:25.639 --> 02:21:28.440 two four oh nine four sixty two. That you know, 2668 02:21:28.879 --> 02:21:31.520 they're not gonna You're not gonna drive out their farm, 2669 02:21:31.559 --> 02:21:33.600 but they're not gonna bring a little palette to your house. 2670 02:21:33.799 --> 02:21:36.520 They're wholesalers, but they do have retail outlets. So call 2671 02:21:36.559 --> 02:21:38.719 them and say, hey, what where can I get you're 2672 02:21:38.760 --> 02:21:42.840 four nineteen? Where can I get your your tiff tough Bermuda? 2673 02:21:43.079 --> 02:21:46.959 That is definitely one that I would consider. You know, 2674 02:21:47.040 --> 02:21:50.680 we don't talk about bermutilawns a lot, but Bermuda is. 2675 02:21:51.319 --> 02:21:53.879 It is an amazing turf grass. Each turf grass has 2676 02:21:53.920 --> 02:21:57.079 its pros and cons each one does. And so, uh 2677 02:21:57.200 --> 02:21:59.479 what do you what do you uh, you know, what 2678 02:21:59.559 --> 02:22:01.360 do you wreck men? Skipt for turt Well, it depends 2679 02:22:01.399 --> 02:22:02.719 on what you got. Do you have a whole lot 2680 02:22:02.799 --> 02:22:05.440 of shade. Well, probably not bermuda, probably saying Augustine, or 2681 02:22:05.559 --> 02:22:07.319 there are a few zoysias that are pretty good for that. 2682 02:22:07.959 --> 02:22:11.920 Do you need something that is extremely where tolerant? I mean, 2683 02:22:12.000 --> 02:22:14.440 I need something For example, here comes a question, I 2684 02:22:14.559 --> 02:22:18.639 need something that my kids can play four soccer games 2685 02:22:18.680 --> 02:22:21.600 a week on impound to death and still survive. Okay, 2686 02:22:21.639 --> 02:22:24.799 well maybe that's a little overdoing it, but that would 2687 02:22:24.799 --> 02:22:27.399 be bermuda grass. Bermuda grass, you can strip it all 2688 02:22:27.440 --> 02:22:28.959 off the ground and it comes right up. Have you 2689 02:22:29.000 --> 02:22:30.559 ever try to get out of a flower bed? You 2690 02:22:30.680 --> 02:22:32.719 know how tuugh that stuff is? You know, right, it's 2691 02:22:32.760 --> 02:22:34.799 not easy to get rid of. That's kind of a 2692 02:22:34.879 --> 02:22:36.799 turf you want if you're gonna have wear and tear, 2693 02:22:36.840 --> 02:22:40.760 if you got sun, If you want the most fine textured, 2694 02:22:40.879 --> 02:22:43.200 beautiful turf in the world and you're willing to mow 2695 02:22:43.280 --> 02:22:46.719 it regularly, bermuda grass is that type of turf. They're 2696 02:22:47.079 --> 02:22:50.799 the golf course greens. If you know how golf course 2697 02:22:50.840 --> 02:22:53.040 greens are. I mean, can you have a more beautiful 2698 02:22:53.360 --> 02:22:56.000 turf than that? Well, that is a dwarf type of 2699 02:22:56.040 --> 02:22:59.200 a bermuda that's mode every day and you can have 2700 02:22:59.360 --> 02:23:01.799 that Okay, most people aren't going to do that in 2701 02:23:01.879 --> 02:23:04.399 their yard, although you could create a putting green in 2702 02:23:04.479 --> 02:23:08.719 your yard. But that's Bermuda's advantages, right, You like to 2703 02:23:08.799 --> 02:23:11.639 roll around in the grass and stuff, well, Saint Augustine 2704 02:23:11.840 --> 02:23:14.399 has any chiggers in it sometimes, as Bermuda might do. 2705 02:23:14.600 --> 02:23:16.319 So I kind of like Saint Augustine for that. See 2706 02:23:16.360 --> 02:23:19.360 what i mean, everybody, Every grass has its pros and 2707 02:23:19.479 --> 02:23:23.399 cons and each one has different specific requirements to have 2708 02:23:23.559 --> 02:23:26.879 success with it. If you can't get out and mow regularly, 2709 02:23:26.959 --> 02:23:30.200 which all grass wants to be mowed regularly, Saint Augustine 2710 02:23:30.319 --> 02:23:33.079 is a little a little more forgiving of an erratic 2711 02:23:33.239 --> 02:23:36.120 mowing schedule. You know, if you let Bermuda grass grow 2712 02:23:36.159 --> 02:23:38.159 a while and then you cut it way back, it's 2713 02:23:38.200 --> 02:23:40.360 going to be brown and twiggy kind of because that's 2714 02:23:40.440 --> 02:23:42.840 just the nature of the beast. The more often you 2715 02:23:42.920 --> 02:23:44.600 mow it, the better it looks. But that's true of 2716 02:23:44.639 --> 02:23:47.440 a lot of grasses. So I guess what I'm saying 2717 02:23:47.559 --> 02:23:49.159 is there's a lot of options out there. You can 2718 02:23:49.239 --> 02:23:52.799 go to the Aggie Turf website Aggie Turf one word, 2719 02:23:53.040 --> 02:23:58.280 Aggie Turf, dot TAMU dot E Edu and on there 2720 02:23:58.840 --> 02:24:02.280 you'll find a list of turf types for Texas with 2721 02:24:02.399 --> 02:24:04.440 the description of what I just gave you, pros and 2722 02:24:04.559 --> 02:24:09.280 cons and things and more. Also on there, or turf weeds. 2723 02:24:09.600 --> 02:24:11.200 Where you got a weed, I don't know what it is, 2724 02:24:11.479 --> 02:24:14.760 go look at there. There's pictures of them. Grassyweeds, sedge weeds, 2725 02:24:14.799 --> 02:24:17.280 broad leaf weeds are all there on the Aggie Turf website. 2726 02:24:17.879 --> 02:24:20.959 It's very very helpful. So there's a little spiel on turf. 2727 02:24:21.079 --> 02:24:25.200 But pretty much everybody's got a lawn, at least more 2728 02:24:25.280 --> 02:24:28.479 so than pretty much any other plant we have. Let's 2729 02:24:28.559 --> 02:24:31.639 go to Liverpool now and talk to Trish. Hey, Trish, 2730 02:24:31.760 --> 02:24:32.680 welcome to garden Line. 2731 02:24:34.120 --> 02:24:34.719 Good morning. 2732 02:24:35.520 --> 02:24:39.639 I have a sister law up an Alto tech Alto, Texas, 2733 02:24:39.680 --> 02:24:43.280 who built some rice beds last year, and she bought 2734 02:24:43.559 --> 02:24:48.479 a box store race beed soil and of course it okay, 2735 02:24:48.639 --> 02:24:52.719 failed miserably because it doesn't hold moisture. I matter of fact, 2736 02:24:53.159 --> 02:24:55.360 we visited with her and it felt very woody. 2737 02:24:56.840 --> 02:24:58.920 But she doesn't want to throw it away. She's wanting 2738 02:24:58.959 --> 02:25:00.840 to know what she can do to a mend. 2739 02:25:00.760 --> 02:25:05.479 That put a high quality compost in it, mix a 2740 02:25:05.639 --> 02:25:10.040 high quality compost into that soil, and so what that's 2741 02:25:10.120 --> 02:25:11.799 going to do is a lot of a lot of 2742 02:25:12.000 --> 02:25:15.120 cheap soils. Okay, if you want to be a soil 2743 02:25:15.280 --> 02:25:18.040 yard and you just want to move stuff through make 2744 02:25:18.159 --> 02:25:20.840 money and not worry about how they're going to do 2745 02:25:20.879 --> 02:25:22.680 it people's yards, what you do is you grind up 2746 02:25:22.680 --> 02:25:25.440 a bunch of organic matter. You about halfway compost it 2747 02:25:25.559 --> 02:25:27.360 until it turns brown. Then you bag it up and 2748 02:25:27.440 --> 02:25:31.120 sell it. And it's not ready. It's not been properly made, 2749 02:25:31.319 --> 02:25:34.399 like you know, you when I talk about places you know, 2750 02:25:34.520 --> 02:25:38.000 like airloom soils and Nature's Way and whatnot, they're making 2751 02:25:38.079 --> 02:25:42.360 it correctly. And so these cheap places send that stuff out. 2752 02:25:42.399 --> 02:25:47.559 I've opened up bags of potting soil, garden bed soil 2753 02:25:47.799 --> 02:25:52.600 in those stores before the box store, and it's like 2754 02:25:52.680 --> 02:25:55.639 there's wood chunks in there. For crying out loud, that's 2755 02:25:55.799 --> 02:25:58.719 not good. So what you do, I mean it is 2756 02:25:58.920 --> 02:26:01.440 organic matter. So what you do is you get a 2757 02:26:01.600 --> 02:26:04.399 quality compost and mix it in and just keep doing that. 2758 02:26:04.719 --> 02:26:07.040 But go to the places to sell quality compost. Don't 2759 02:26:07.040 --> 02:26:09.600 go back to big box do I compost get you 2760 02:26:09.840 --> 02:26:10.000 you know? 2761 02:26:10.159 --> 02:26:10.319 Right? 2762 02:26:10.440 --> 02:26:16.639 Okay, okay, all right, Well, Thank you so much. 2763 02:26:16.559 --> 02:26:17.079 For your time. 2764 02:26:18.520 --> 02:26:21.440 Yeah, you bet, you bet that good question too. By 2765 02:26:21.479 --> 02:26:23.959 the way, thank you, thank you for that question. You know, 2766 02:26:24.079 --> 02:26:28.840 everything that was once alive rots. Was it Shakespeare that 2767 02:26:29.040 --> 02:26:31.559 said dust, thou art to dust return it? It's not 2768 02:26:31.760 --> 02:26:34.479 spoken of the soul. We're talking about the fact that 2769 02:26:34.600 --> 02:26:36.239 it's our bodies that we're talking about there. 2770 02:26:36.799 --> 02:26:36.920 Uh. 2771 02:26:37.239 --> 02:26:41.440 Well, everything that was once alive becomes soil again eventually, 2772 02:26:41.879 --> 02:26:47.799 And okay, bad dad j I specialize in dead jokes. 2773 02:26:47.840 --> 02:26:52.319 But do you know that that for several decades, some 2774 02:26:52.520 --> 02:26:56.680 of our great composers, you know, like Schultz and Mozart. 2775 02:26:57.360 --> 02:26:57.479 Uh. 2776 02:26:57.879 --> 02:27:02.399 Anyway, Mozart, for example, uh, composed and ever since then 2777 02:27:02.440 --> 02:27:08.959 he's been decomposing. Sorry, but seriously, everything that was once 2778 02:27:09.000 --> 02:27:12.319 alive becomes soil again, and it just takes time, and 2779 02:27:12.479 --> 02:27:17.200 a good quality soil yard knows how. They know how 2780 02:27:17.920 --> 02:27:20.680 to do it properly, to grind up the particle size right, 2781 02:27:20.799 --> 02:27:24.079 to mix the carbon materials and the nitron materials at 2782 02:27:24.120 --> 02:27:27.520 the right ratio so that it decomposes, so that the 2783 02:27:28.360 --> 02:27:30.799 microbial content microbes do all the work in this. We 2784 02:27:30.920 --> 02:27:34.479 just get the credit. Microbes do that job of turning 2785 02:27:34.559 --> 02:27:37.799 that stuff back into good quality material and it takes 2786 02:27:37.840 --> 02:27:39.719 time to do that and you don't rush it out. 2787 02:27:39.879 --> 02:27:43.280 You do it right. But quality compost is always a 2788 02:27:43.360 --> 02:27:47.319 good idea. Let's go to Danny now in Houston. Hey, Danny, 2789 02:27:47.360 --> 02:27:48.280 welcome to garden Line. 2790 02:27:49.200 --> 02:27:49.360 Hi. 2791 02:27:50.360 --> 02:27:55.840 I have figs three Every year it has figs and 2792 02:27:56.040 --> 02:27:59.639 it's became green and small and never grow and never 2793 02:27:59.760 --> 02:28:00.399 get right. 2794 02:28:02.120 --> 02:28:04.879 All right, Danny, I'm gonna I have to run to 2795 02:28:05.000 --> 02:28:07.760 a quick break, but I'm gonna come back from break 2796 02:28:07.920 --> 02:28:10.000 and answer your question. I want to pull together some 2797 02:28:10.159 --> 02:28:12.719 things and we will. We will take it from there. 2798 02:28:13.200 --> 02:28:15.319 So thank you for that question. I'll be right back 2799 02:28:15.360 --> 02:28:18.840 with Danny. Uh just a moment. Stay tuned. Hey, welcome 2800 02:28:18.879 --> 02:28:19.600 back to the garden Line. 2801 02:28:19.920 --> 02:28:20.000 Uh. 2802 02:28:20.200 --> 02:28:22.799 Moss Nursery done in Seabrook is a place that you 2803 02:28:22.959 --> 02:28:25.440 need to visit. Now, everybody down that area knows the 2804 02:28:25.520 --> 02:28:30.879 southeast of Houston. Everybodys nursery, I mean, it's most nursery 2805 02:28:30.920 --> 02:28:33.520 has been around a very very long time. But he 2806 02:28:33.600 --> 02:28:35.520 hadn't been down there. Maybe live in another area. He's 2807 02:28:35.520 --> 02:28:37.879 want to do a little horticultural tourism. You ought to 2808 02:28:37.920 --> 02:28:40.760 go check it out. It's on Toddville Road in Seabrook 2809 02:28:40.959 --> 02:28:45.600 and Moss Nursery is eight acres of wandering through wonderland. 2810 02:28:45.719 --> 02:28:48.000 I mean it. Every time you turn a corner there 2811 02:28:48.120 --> 02:28:50.600 is something unusual. Jim mosc goes all over the place 2812 02:28:50.639 --> 02:28:54.399 and brings back all kinds of things from carved totems 2813 02:28:54.479 --> 02:28:57.760 to you. He's got to go see it. It is 2814 02:28:57.879 --> 02:29:00.440 really cool. One of the best selections I can you're 2815 02:29:00.440 --> 02:29:04.920 gonna find anywhere. They always have tons of containers. They 2816 02:29:04.959 --> 02:29:07.799 are always stocked with everything for the season. Like right now, 2817 02:29:07.879 --> 02:29:11.680 they have maragals in stock, and they have mums in stock, 2818 02:29:11.799 --> 02:29:15.000 and they have cyclomen cool seasoned plant in stock. If 2819 02:29:15.040 --> 02:29:18.079 you've never planted marigals in the fall, that is the 2820 02:29:18.120 --> 02:29:20.920 best season for maragals that there is. In summer, spider 2821 02:29:21.000 --> 02:29:24.360 maights will eat their lunch. In fall, spider maight populations 2822 02:29:24.559 --> 02:29:27.159 crash and marigals get to do what they want to 2823 02:29:27.200 --> 02:29:30.319 do without having to deal with mites. They glow right 2824 02:29:30.399 --> 02:29:32.840 up into the first frost, orange and yellow and white 2825 02:29:32.879 --> 02:29:35.959 types of miragals. When you go to mas nursery, you're 2826 02:29:35.959 --> 02:29:38.959 always going to find something you didn't expect. Right now, 2827 02:29:39.000 --> 02:29:42.520 they got their Talavera Halloween pumpkins and ghosts on sale 2828 02:29:42.600 --> 02:29:46.239 for thirty percent off while their supplies last, and their 2829 02:29:46.280 --> 02:29:51.319 houseplant greenhouse is unmatched. Beautiful philodendrons of all kinds. They 2830 02:29:51.399 --> 02:29:53.440 got the one called burkin that has little white stripes 2831 02:29:53.479 --> 02:29:56.159 and sleeves. That is really an easy plant to grow. 2832 02:29:56.319 --> 02:29:58.799 You know, some philodendrons can be a little picky, but 2833 02:29:59.120 --> 02:30:01.079 barkin is so easy. I had a coworker that could 2834 02:30:01.120 --> 02:30:03.360 kill a silk plant. I mean she was not a 2835 02:30:03.399 --> 02:30:05.559 plant person. She had a burkin in her window and 2836 02:30:05.680 --> 02:30:09.520 it just got better and better and better. It's it's 2837 02:30:09.799 --> 02:30:12.360 you know, yeah, you gotta water, but that's a great plant. 2838 02:30:12.399 --> 02:30:15.719 Easy to grow. This this weekend, by the way, Tina's 2839 02:30:15.760 --> 02:30:19.440 Broadworst House is gonna be out there serving Yes, brought worst, 2840 02:30:19.879 --> 02:30:22.639 So go out grab your lunch there so you have 2841 02:30:22.719 --> 02:30:25.040 time to shop, because you're going to need time when 2842 02:30:25.040 --> 02:30:27.440 you go to Moss Nursery to walk through and see 2843 02:30:27.440 --> 02:30:30.239 it all. There's a lot to take in fifty five 2844 02:30:30.360 --> 02:30:36.360 eleven Toddville Road in Seabrook. Maas Nursery dot com. Maas 2845 02:30:36.479 --> 02:30:39.120 Nursery dot Com. We're gonna go now to back to 2846 02:30:39.239 --> 02:30:41.600 Danny and Danny. We were talking about fig trees and 2847 02:30:41.600 --> 02:30:44.799 you're talking about your fig tree just not performing. Tell 2848 02:30:44.840 --> 02:30:48.280 me again how long it's been on the ground. I've 2849 02:30:48.319 --> 02:30:52.719 been like three years. Three years, okay. So fig trees 2850 02:30:52.959 --> 02:30:55.200 are pretty tough and they're not that hard to grow, 2851 02:30:55.399 --> 02:30:58.440 but if they don't get enough water, they struggle. And 2852 02:30:58.600 --> 02:31:02.680 so if it's in droggy conditions, it's going to really 2853 02:31:02.680 --> 02:31:05.760 struggle with that. The other thing that happens to figs 2854 02:31:06.120 --> 02:31:10.600 is nematodes. Nematods are little tiny worm like creatures too 2855 02:31:10.639 --> 02:31:13.520 small to see. They get in the roots and cause 2856 02:31:13.559 --> 02:31:16.280 the roots to develop bumps and knots, so they look 2857 02:31:16.319 --> 02:31:19.200 sort of like a string of pearls, or you know, 2858 02:31:19.319 --> 02:31:21.719 like a snake swallows an animal that has this bump 2859 02:31:21.799 --> 02:31:23.920 in the middle of the snake. You know, the roots 2860 02:31:24.040 --> 02:31:27.639 look like that. And so you can take a water hose, 2861 02:31:27.799 --> 02:31:30.639 maybe a little spading fork, and loosen some soil around 2862 02:31:30.719 --> 02:31:33.399 the tree a little bit and then sort of blast 2863 02:31:33.479 --> 02:31:35.799 out the roots where you can get a good look 2864 02:31:35.840 --> 02:31:37.760 at them. You don't want to tear them all off, 2865 02:31:37.840 --> 02:31:39.680 but look at them. And if you see all those 2866 02:31:39.680 --> 02:31:43.159 little bumps and things like that, that is a nematod 2867 02:31:43.280 --> 02:31:46.399 problem and figs that we don't have a fig that's 2868 02:31:46.479 --> 02:31:49.799 resistant to nematodes, and we don't have a control that 2869 02:31:49.959 --> 02:31:53.799 you spray on the soil that kills nematodes, so you 2870 02:31:53.879 --> 02:31:56.280 have to go to other measures. I'm about to put 2871 02:31:56.360 --> 02:32:00.319 something on our garden line Facebook page this week that 2872 02:32:00.479 --> 02:32:03.799 talks about nematodes and points you to a web page 2873 02:32:04.000 --> 02:32:07.520 that I have that tells about the options you have 2874 02:32:07.680 --> 02:32:10.920 for managing them. If that's what you find, I would 2875 02:32:10.959 --> 02:32:13.520 say there's about an eighty five percent chance that NEMA 2876 02:32:13.559 --> 02:32:16.399 toads are what's going on with that tree. If you 2877 02:32:16.520 --> 02:32:22.680 feel like it's not a problem with underwatering. Okay, thank 2878 02:32:22.719 --> 02:32:26.639 you so much. You bet so. Watch our garden line 2879 02:32:26.680 --> 02:32:31.319 Facebook page. My website is gardening with skip dot com. 2880 02:32:31.959 --> 02:32:34.799 I haven't put the NEMA toade publication up there. It's 2881 02:32:35.000 --> 02:32:37.079 just I was just talking to my web guy yesterday 2882 02:32:37.559 --> 02:32:39.360 about we're going to get it up there this week. 2883 02:32:39.559 --> 02:32:41.680 So watch for that. But first thing you do is 2884 02:32:41.719 --> 02:32:43.479 go watch those reachs out. Take a look and see 2885 02:32:43.520 --> 02:32:49.000 if you see what I'm describing. Okay, thank you so much. Yes, Danny, 2886 02:32:49.120 --> 02:32:51.799 thank you for the call. I appreciate that. A lot 2887 02:32:53.040 --> 02:32:56.879 the folks at Microlife Fertilizer make fertilizers that are chalk 2888 02:32:56.959 --> 02:33:00.520 full of microbes in addition to the new tree, their 2889 02:33:00.600 --> 02:33:03.879 chuck full of microbes. Whether you use their liquid products 2890 02:33:03.959 --> 02:33:06.799 like a seaweed based product, a fisher motion based product. 2891 02:33:07.799 --> 02:33:13.280 I like the seven one four liquid that they produce. 2892 02:33:13.399 --> 02:33:17.200 You know, Microlife has been making quality products for a 2893 02:33:17.399 --> 02:33:20.200 very very long time, and they know what they're doing. 2894 02:33:20.360 --> 02:33:22.840 And when it comes to organic type products, they are 2895 02:33:22.959 --> 02:33:25.159 the name that everybody looks to. By the way, I 2896 02:33:25.200 --> 02:33:27.840 said sevenfore I meant seven one three. It's the orange 2897 02:33:27.879 --> 02:33:31.639 label Biomatrix. It works really well. They've got another one 2898 02:33:31.680 --> 02:33:35.360 called Microlife Maximum Bloom that's heavy in the phosphorus in there. 2899 02:33:35.799 --> 02:33:39.200 They've got the liquid humates, plus they've got a micro 2900 02:33:39.399 --> 02:33:43.840 Grow liquid. They have a product called Cactus and Succulent. 2901 02:33:44.280 --> 02:33:46.879 Then there's one called Soil and Plant Energy. You just 2902 02:33:46.959 --> 02:33:52.280 have to go online to Microlife Fertilizer dot com Microlife 2903 02:33:52.280 --> 02:33:54.840 Fertilizer dot com. You can click on any one of 2904 02:33:54.879 --> 02:33:57.200 those and see exactly what's in it and what it does. 2905 02:33:58.120 --> 02:33:59.559 And I would encourage you to do that. You know, 2906 02:33:59.639 --> 02:34:02.920 we talked I got Microlife's dry fertilizers. They're a green bag. 2907 02:34:03.120 --> 02:34:06.319 That's our summer fertilizer. They're brown patch and a brown bag. 2908 02:34:06.840 --> 02:34:09.399 That's their fall fertilizer. I've been talking about all morning, 2909 02:34:09.440 --> 02:34:12.040 their bio inoculant and the quality of that and why 2910 02:34:12.159 --> 02:34:16.159 we use that, but also these liquids. They're all there, 2911 02:34:16.319 --> 02:34:21.319 and microlife products are widely available. Garden centers, feed stores, 2912 02:34:21.959 --> 02:34:26.319 Southwest Fertilizer, ace hardware stores all over the Greater Houston 2913 02:34:26.360 --> 02:34:29.920 area are going to carry these microlife products and they work. 2914 02:34:30.159 --> 02:34:33.559 And I would encourage you if you've not used something 2915 02:34:33.920 --> 02:34:36.959 like maybe you haven't used that biomatrix. That is a 2916 02:34:37.040 --> 02:34:39.200 great boost. I use it on my houseplants, but it's 2917 02:34:39.239 --> 02:34:43.719 also great for using outdoors on plants and containers or 2918 02:34:43.799 --> 02:34:48.840 in the soil well for micro life fertilizer. Well, you're 2919 02:34:48.879 --> 02:34:52.559 listening to Garden Line and we are down to almost 2920 02:34:52.719 --> 02:34:54.479 no time left, so we're not going to be able 2921 02:34:54.479 --> 02:34:56.879 to take a call going forward from here, but thanks 2922 02:34:56.920 --> 02:34:58.959 for listening today. By the way, I'll be back tomorrow 2923 02:34:59.159 --> 02:35:02.399 from six am to ten am. Every Saturday, every Sunday 2924 02:35:02.479 --> 02:35:05.120 six am to ten am. If you miss a show, 2925 02:35:05.479 --> 02:35:07.680 or if you listened without a piece of paper and 2926 02:35:07.719 --> 02:35:09.840 a pencil in hand, I encourage you to do that, 2927 02:35:10.680 --> 02:35:13.440 and I said some product like that phone number I 2928 02:35:13.520 --> 02:35:17.920 gave a while ago for turf. You can go back 2929 02:35:18.079 --> 02:35:20.959 and you can listen to the podcast and hear it there. 2930 02:35:21.040 --> 02:35:23.920 We post this podcast right after we're done here. Remember 2931 02:35:24.000 --> 02:35:29.120 to subscribe to us on Instagram and on Facebook. We're 2932 02:35:29.280 --> 02:35:32.559 constantly putting good information out that way. And most of all, 2933 02:35:33.520 --> 02:35:34.719 get ready to jump in your car. 2934 02:35:34.959 --> 02:35:35.239 I am. 2935 02:35:35.360 --> 02:35:38.040 We're gonna head over to RCW Nursery. Don't need to eat. 2936 02:35:38.159 --> 02:35:41.120 They're gonna have some barbecue there for you and a 2937 02:35:41.399 --> 02:35:44.360 lot of fun stuff with their fall flag. There's gonna 2938 02:35:44.360 --> 02:35:46.479 be stuff with the kids. There's a little photo ops 2939 02:35:46.559 --> 02:35:48.879 and things like that. And you get to not only 2940 02:35:49.040 --> 02:35:51.159 get to shop the nursery, but bring me some samples 2941 02:35:51.200 --> 02:35:53.799 to look at, bring me some pictures. We'll get those diagnosed. 2942 02:35:53.799 --> 02:35:55.319 I want to get my picture taken with you, So 2943 02:35:55.440 --> 02:35:58.079 come on out. Let's do that. Let's do that, and 2944 02:35:58.639 --> 02:36:03.040 while you're out there, read to win over twenty different products. 2945 02:36:03.120 --> 02:36:07.559 Fifteen gallon sam Philippe red maple, fifteen gallon redbud tree, 2946 02:36:07.719 --> 02:36:10.639 three gallon and seven gallon camellias, a flat of assorted 2947 02:36:10.719 --> 02:36:15.360 color plants. The nitrofoss three step. We've got more than 2948 02:36:15.399 --> 02:36:19.200 one bag of barricade, Fall Special and Eagle Turf fungicide 2949 02:36:19.239 --> 02:36:21.239 we're going to be given away. They got a bell chime, 2950 02:36:21.319 --> 02:36:23.879 they got a chapin spreader, they got you see what 2951 02:36:23.920 --> 02:36:27.159 I'm saying, freeze cloth, metal, yard art, A real cool tumbler. 2952 02:36:27.360 --> 02:36:31.079 They got these little fashioned tumblers that have funny things 2953 02:36:31.719 --> 02:36:34.120 printed out on the side. They're cool. They have got 2954 02:36:34.120 --> 02:36:36.680 a lot of other products that they're given away. I mean, 2955 02:36:36.719 --> 02:36:38.760 it's just going to be product after products. So come 2956 02:36:38.799 --> 02:36:40.520 on out. I look forward to seeing you again. I'll 2957 02:36:40.520 --> 02:36:43.879 be there from twelve to two, twelve to two. You 2958 02:36:43.959 --> 02:36:47.200 don't know where they are where. Combo Parkway f M 2959 02:36:47.239 --> 02:36:51.120 two forty nine comes into beltweight eight RCW Nurseries