WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.360 Program. 2 00:00:02.640 --> 00:00:07.240 Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Rickard's. 3 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:13.880 Crazy Shrimp. 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:22.679 Just watch him as many. 5 00:00:23.199 --> 00:00:40.960 Supray not a sorry. 6 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:43.280 Good morning, Good Sunday morning. We are glad you have 7 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:45.719 joined us this morning, and we're gonna have some fun 8 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:48.679 talking about gardening today. What kind of questions do you have? 9 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:52.560 Something about vegetables or herbs, or flowers or fruit, or 10 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:56.280 lawns or trees or shrubs, or let's see soil preparation 11 00:00:56.359 --> 00:01:00.119 that'd be my favorite topic. Or maybe house planned something 12 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.479 inside whatever you question, whatever your questions are, just give 13 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:05.879 us a call. We'll be happy to visit about them. 14 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:08.760 Seven to one three two one two k t r 15 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:13.840 H seven one three two and two K t r H. 16 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:18.239 I've been preparing for a future show, a long future show. 17 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:20.959 It's gonna be during the holidays. I'm gonna do something 18 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:25.200 on the most common mistakes that I see people make 19 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:28.239 in their gardens or landscapes or lawns and everything. It's 20 00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:31.400 gonna be a I think a list of about fifty things, 21 00:01:31.400 --> 00:01:33.959 so it'd be kind of interesting. So during the holidays 22 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.799 we will play that. And uh, you know, having done 23 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:43.079 this for decades now, I've I've seen it all. And 24 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:46.959 as far as mistakes that folks make, and just between 25 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:49.040 you and me, since it's just doing me listening right now, 26 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:52.599 I made them too. I've made the mistakes, not all 27 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:55.599 of them, thank goodness, but I've made my share of 28 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:57.959 mistakes in the garden. And we learned from mistakes. And 29 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:02.000 you know, I always say that you don't fail at gardening. 30 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:05.519 You quit, you give up. And so if you stop trying, 31 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:09.120 stop learning, well, yeah, okay, you fail to gardening. But 32 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:11.520 there's no need to do that. It's just a matter 33 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:15.479 of starting over gardening again. To use another analogy that 34 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:19.039 works for me. Maybe if you're somewhere over forty years old, 35 00:02:19.159 --> 00:02:22.159 you may remember the etch a sketch. Do they still 36 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:24.840 make those things? Where you know, you try to draw 37 00:02:24.919 --> 00:02:26.719 with two knobs and one goes up and down and 38 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:31.159 one goes left and right, and inevitably your brain tells 39 00:02:31.199 --> 00:02:34.280 your hand the wrong thing and you mess up your picture. 40 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:37.240 What do you do? You turn it upside down, you 41 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:39.719 shake it, and then when you look at the screen again, 42 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:43.280 it is blank, and you get to start over drawing again. 43 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:47.400 That's how gardening is. If you plant something that dies, 44 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:50.719 if you plant something that doesn't belong here, something that 45 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:53.960 pests and diseases get. Or if you just fail to 46 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:57.240 prepare the soil properly, maybe the drainage is poor and 47 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:01.520 you have problems. It's okay, can start over, or you 48 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:04.240 can move. In some cases you catch it soon enough. 49 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:06.800 You can dig the plant up center to the side, 50 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:08.840 get the bed right, and then put that plant back 51 00:03:08.879 --> 00:03:14.120 in there. It's a learning process, and it really is fun. 52 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.520 You just need to not take it in yourself too seriously, 53 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:22.840 be willing to learn even the hard way. A very 54 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:26.000 well known, nationally known horticulturist out on the East Coast 55 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:28.560 said that to be a good horticulturist, you got to 56 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:32.919 kill a lot of plants. That is true, because I 57 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:37.159 learn a lot from my mistakes. Someone said, learn from 58 00:03:37.159 --> 00:03:38.960 the mistakes of others. You don't have time to make 59 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.319 them all yourself. Well, I think you should learn from 60 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:45.879 both of them, because that's how gardening it is. So anyway, 61 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.639 have fun out there in the garden. That is very important, 62 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:52.360 and let's learn every day. Of course, that's what we're 63 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:57.159 doing here on garden Line every day. Nitrofoss has come 64 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:01.039 up with a Texas three step program. They've had it 65 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:04.639 for a while, but the Texas three step is basically 66 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:10.000 a fertilizer, a pest control product, and a disease control product. 67 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:14.879 Here's how it works. Step one nitrophoss Fall Special Winter Riser. 68 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:19.279 It's the balance of nutrients in it are to create 69 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:21.759 winter heartiness and to have your long come out stronger 70 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:24.920 in the spring, because early spring growth is based on 71 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:28.199 what's stored in the plant, not what the roots are 72 00:04:28.199 --> 00:04:30.759 taking up right at that moment, but what's already stored 73 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:33.199 in the plant. So go into fall strong, go into 74 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:36.639 winter strong, you come out in spring strong. Secondly is 75 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:42.959 nitropos barricade an insecticide, excuse me, a herbicide. It prevents 76 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:45.879 weeds eachs from sprouting, so you put it down in 77 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.319 all those winter weeds you don't really see them in 78 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:50.759 the fall or really even in the winter much, and 79 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.360 then in spring they take off growing. They're like our native, 80 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:58.439 our Texas native flower, the bluebonnet. They sprout in the fall, 81 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:02.639 they kind of sit there, poppies, and then when spring comes, boom, 82 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:04.839 they take off, they get big, they grow. That's what 83 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:07.319 our weeds are doing. And barricade stops at And the 84 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:11.199 third step is nitrofoss eagle turf fungicide. This is a 85 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:16.319 systemic fungicide. It will work on brown patch now called 86 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:20.279 large patch. It will work on take all root rot 87 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:24.199 as well. It's an important third step in this process. 88 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:26.879 And you're going to be able to find these products 89 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:29.600 from nitrofoss at war on southern gardens. You're going to 90 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:31.720 find them at the Ace Hardware out there on Sinco 91 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:36.319 Ranch or even at Growers outlet up in willis Well. 92 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:38.519 We already got folks here trying to call in this morning. 93 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:40.199 Let's go ahead and go to the phones. I think 94 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:44.199 we'll start out here in Montgomery talking to Albert. Hello Albert, 95 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:45.639 welcome to garden line. 96 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:50.199 Oh hello, Skip, good Sunday morning. I hope you're doing well, 97 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:55.439 very well. Thank you, Yes, sir, I got a some 98 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:59.199 brown patches. They look like brown patch, but I don't know, 99 00:05:59.560 --> 00:06:02.639 could be chitchbug or how do I tell the difference? 100 00:06:04.639 --> 00:06:08.160 Well, brown patch officially has not hit in our lawns 101 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.759 just yet. It will when we get a little coal 102 00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:13.120 front through and some rain and things will start to 103 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:20.160 see it. It could be chinchbugs. They typically start in 104 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:24.000 a sunny spot as opposed to shade, and they typically 105 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:28.519 start next to concrete, sidewalk or you know, some sort 106 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:33.759 of masonry, maybe a curb or driveway. That's usually where 107 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.240 you see them beginning, and they then they gradually move 108 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:38.560 out in the lawn. It could also be you know, 109 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:44.199 drought conditions. It could be due to compaction in the 110 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:46.959 soil and the plant just doesn't have the resilience and 111 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:51.040 the root system to be able to hold through things 112 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:54.600 like a minor drought. So I guess it could be 113 00:06:54.720 --> 00:07:02.560 a number of things going on there. August Saint Augustine. 114 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.680 Yes, sir, Saint Augustine is by. 115 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:07.079 My dryway, like you're talking about so thick. 116 00:07:07.199 --> 00:07:13.040 Well if it is what I love to Okay, well 117 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:16.000 here's let's do this. Go get out there and find 118 00:07:16.040 --> 00:07:19.439 the zone between healthy and dead. You know, dead, there's 119 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:21.480 not going to be any chinchbugs in it. They've moved on. 120 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:26.279 There's nothing to eat. Uh and and of course perfectly healthy. 121 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:29.600 They're not there yet or or we'd be seeing symptoms. 122 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:32.199 So go in that zone between healthy and dead. Drop 123 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.879 down on your hands and knees and look. I want 124 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:37.680 you first look at the grass blades. Are they normal 125 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:40.480 or are they missing? Or have they had the sides chewed? 126 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:43.399 Out of them, like something is chomping from the side 127 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.560 of the grass blade in that would be sid web worms. Uh. 128 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:49.319 If you don't see that, then go down into the 129 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:51.439 thatch and sort of pull it apart. And you kind 130 00:07:51.439 --> 00:07:53.639 of pull it apart and hold real still and watch. 131 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:55.920 And if you see some little black and white bugs 132 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.800 crawling around in there. Sometimes they are also a brick 133 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:02.439 red with a white band to cross their back, that's chinchbugs. 134 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:04.240 And that would be the sign that you need to 135 00:08:04.399 --> 00:08:10.040 use something for the chinchbugs, which would uh knock them out. 136 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:13.959 We still have some chinchbugs around that are giving some 137 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:15.360 trouble to our lawns. 138 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.959 Okay, and it is chinchbugs. 139 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:21.040 Kind of what do I hit it with? 140 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:21.920 What did I spray with? 141 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:26.480 Their granule or spray or nitrofis bug out max is 142 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:29.040 a granule, You put it out, you water it and 143 00:08:29.120 --> 00:08:33.440 it washes off those granules and goes into that thatch area. 144 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:36.120 And then when that's where chinchbugs are hiding because they're 145 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:38.399 feeding on the on the runners, not on the leaves, 146 00:08:38.960 --> 00:08:41.960 and uh, and it'll knock them out and it'll last 147 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.919 for a good while too. But anyway, let's find out 148 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:46.960 what we're dealing with first, and you know it may 149 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.279 not even be an insect at all. Okay, okay, well, 150 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.440 thank you sir. All right, yes, sir, all right, appreciate 151 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.559 your call. We're gonna have to run to a break here. 152 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:58.519 Mike and Huffman, you'll be first when we come back, 153 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:01.639 skip Rictor and rear to talk about the things that 154 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.840 concern you and interest you regarding your garden. You're having 155 00:09:04.879 --> 00:09:07.279 problems you're trying to deal with. Give us a call 156 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.600 you want some suggestions for a plant or how to 157 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:13.919 a little quick discussion. We'll be happy to visit about 158 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:16.759 all those things. I do want to mention a while ago, 159 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:22.440 I was talking about the importance of the Nitropos Texas 160 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:25.559 three step, and then we talked about the Nitropas bug 161 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:29.480 out MAX for some insect issues that are going on 162 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:32.360 that would be an additional thing outside of that three step. 163 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:36.679 ACE hardware carries all of those every fertilizer you hear 164 00:09:36.720 --> 00:09:38.799 me talk about, such as nitrophos, they're going to be 165 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:42.159 at ACE hardware. If you're synthetic, if you're organic, do 166 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.559 you need pest control? Synthetic or organic? Do you need 167 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:48.960 disease control? Same thing? Do you need weed control. They're 168 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:51.559 all there at ACE Hardware along with the tools you 169 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.759 need to get the job done. If you want to 170 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:55.440 have a beautiful lawn, if you want to have a 171 00:09:55.480 --> 00:09:59.080 bountiful garden, Ace Hardware Store, in addition to being an 172 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.679 outstanding hardw store, has all of that to turn your 173 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:06.039 outdoor space into something special, and including those little outdoor 174 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:09.200 sitting areas. I'd love to go outside later in the 175 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:11.360 day when it's a little cooler and just enjoy the 176 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.519 patio and you know, just enjoy that out there. Ace 177 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.840 Hardware has all the things you need to turn that 178 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.600 place into something special as well. All you have to 179 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:22.120 do is go to Ace Hardware dot com and find 180 00:10:22.159 --> 00:10:25.559 this store locator and there are like forty stores here 181 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.519 in the Greater Houston area that you can find something 182 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:30.799 really close to you so that you can get set 183 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:34.240 up at ACE Hardware. I'm going to run now out 184 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:41.200 to see Huffman, Texas and we're going to talk to Mike. Well, Hello, Mike, Good. 185 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:42.519 Morning, Skip. 186 00:10:42.679 --> 00:10:45.559 I need to know the best time, the best way 187 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:49.639 to prep the soil for a wildflower garden, the best 188 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:50.879 seed almost some quality. 189 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:52.480 I got some one time and all I got out 190 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:52.639 of it. 191 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:54.639 And that don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it. 192 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:57.840 But just giant sweet basil plants came up. 193 00:10:57.879 --> 00:10:59.159 That was all that came out of it. 194 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:02.679 And I need to know how to protect the seeds 195 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:04.440 from the birds. 196 00:11:07.399 --> 00:11:09.679 Okay, well I haven't run across that being a problem 197 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:15.200 before wildflower planting. So here's here's what I would do. 198 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:17.559 First of all, you want to give them a spot 199 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:20.000 where they can come up without a lot of competition. 200 00:11:20.120 --> 00:11:22.159 You know how I always say, get a good dnsealon 201 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:24.919 and it chokes out the weed seeds. Well, if you 202 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.320 have a if you've got a bunch of stuff growing 203 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:30.639 in the spot, weeds and grass and other things, those 204 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.080 wildflower seeds aren't going to get sunlight to come up. 205 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:35.519 So you want to mo real low, get the debris 206 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:38.200 out of the way. If you can, uh, if you 207 00:11:38.240 --> 00:11:40.519 can scratch the surface of the soil a little bit, 208 00:11:40.600 --> 00:11:43.799 go ahead and do that. Some situations, it's not practical, 209 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:45.279 you know. If you're going to do are you talking 210 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:47.080 about a little area of your yard. Are you talking 211 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:49.879 about like a field that you want to plan in. Yeah, 212 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:51.200 it's an area in the front yard. 213 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:53.960 I've got a little bitty tiny tiller I call it 214 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:55.639 Taz because this thing's crazy. 215 00:11:55.639 --> 00:11:59.480 It goes off, but he does, okay, thing about killing 216 00:11:59.600 --> 00:11:59.799 up the. 217 00:11:59.799 --> 00:12:03.919 Lane and then raking out the dead grass and whatever else. 218 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:08.399 Yeah, yeah, you could. You could do that. Just remember 219 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:10.440 that once you turn the soil, every weed in the 220 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:12.840 world is going to come up along with your wildflowers. 221 00:12:12.840 --> 00:12:15.919 And that's okay. They all have the same start. But 222 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:18.600 get yeah, I get that cleaned out, uh, and then 223 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:24.159 sprinkle your wildflower mix out there and very lightly break 224 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.080 over it. You don't want to bury the seeds deep, 225 00:12:26.120 --> 00:12:28.679 but just just a little soil seed contact there would 226 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.080 be good and then a good watering if if rain 227 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:34.159 doesn't cooperate. Now, there's a couple of companies that sell 228 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:38.720 wildflower seed in more of a bulk way that have 229 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:42.120 quality seed and you can pick them. You could buy 230 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:45.080 just blue bonnets, or you could pick a regional mix 231 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:47.840 of wildflowers that grow in your area. And one of 232 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:52.159 them is wild Seed Farms. Wild Seed Farms. They are 233 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:55.240 in Fredericksburg, Texas. They used to be down here to 234 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:57.519 the lake many many years ago. 235 00:12:58.080 --> 00:12:58.240 Uh. 236 00:12:58.279 --> 00:13:01.600 And the other one is Native American Seed and they're 237 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:04.519 in Junction, Texas. So both of these are Hill Country, 238 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:10.639 Texas companies will seat farms in Fredericksburg, Native American Seed 239 00:13:10.759 --> 00:13:13.679 and Junction. Go online look at what they have. You'll 240 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:16.559 be very impressed with the mixes and things. You can 241 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:20.960 buy large quantity or small quantity either way, Yes, sir, yes, sir, well, 242 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:22.039 I appreciate that. 243 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:24.759 And what about the birds, they're just going to have 244 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:25.440 a field. 245 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:28.000 Day or what. I just don't think they're gonna be 246 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.000 a big problem with this this kind of seed. I 247 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:33.360 never have had that, especially when the siege are kind 248 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:38.600 of scratched in and watered ink. You know, if you've 249 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:43.080 got a worthwhile family cat, you might bribe them to 250 00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:44.960 go hang out in that field for a while or 251 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:47.399 that area for a while and keep the birds away. 252 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:51.960 They might as well be feral. 253 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:54.799 They do hunting all the time, so that'll that'll help. 254 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:59.320 Yeah, okay, all right, you take care of my sir. 255 00:13:59.399 --> 00:14:01.200 Good luck with that. Send me a picture if it 256 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:02.919 comes up and you get it up in bloom and 257 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:05.240 I'd like to see what you end up with eggs. 258 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:10.360 I'll do that, all right. Thank you. Appreciate that you 259 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:12.639 are listening to Guardline. We're here to answer your gardening 260 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:16.080 questions at seven one three two one two fifty eight 261 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:19.960 seventy four seven one three, two one two five eight 262 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:23.840 seven four. Now I've talked about mosquito dunks before, and 263 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:27.039 we are still in mosquito season. In fact, I just 264 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:30.360 swatted one a minute ago that somehow got indoors that 265 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:33.000 was flying around. But if you want to enjoy that 266 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:36.279 outdoor patio like I was talking about, they can spoil 267 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:39.720 the show. But it's it's it's pretty simple to get 268 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:42.279 ahead of mosquitoes, and the first step in that is 269 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:46.799 stopping standing water from being a breeding area. Dump out 270 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:50.480 standing water, those catch basins under your plant, Fix that 271 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:53.120 sagging gutter where it, you know, kind of holds water 272 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:55.759 for a while. Doesn't take mosquitos long to drop an 273 00:14:55.799 --> 00:14:58.960 egg in stagnant water and end up with an adult mosquito. 274 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:02.799 So this happens. That's why we have mosquito dunks, Mosquita 275 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:06.399 dunks and mosquito bits, both from the same company's Summit 276 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:09.799 Responsible Solutions. They're widely available. You get them in the 277 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:12.000 feed stores I talk about on garden Line. You get 278 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.000 them at Southwest Fertilizer, you get them at ACE hardware stores, 279 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:17.000 you get them at Garden centers I talk about here 280 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:20.039 on guard Line. They're easy to find another dunk. One 281 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.120 dunk's like a little mini doughnut. You throw it out there, 282 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.519 it floats in the water, lasts about a month, covers 283 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:28.960 about one hundred square feet of surface. The granules you 284 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:31.360 can make granules out of a dunk by just hitting 285 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:33.279 it with a hammer and breaking it up in little pieces, 286 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:35.799 or you can just buy them as granule. Those you 287 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.080 can sprinkle around in small areas, like underneath that that 288 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:43.120 catch basin underneath a plant pot, for example. Mosquita dunks 289 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:45.559 are easy to find and they work, and they don't 290 00:15:45.720 --> 00:15:49.600 hurt anything other than mosquitos and fungus gnats. So yeah, 291 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:53.200 I know people that sprinkle them inside their pots where 292 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:57.000 you're getting fungus gnats breeding and a container plant. They'll 293 00:15:57.039 --> 00:15:59.039 sprinkle them in the surface and they work there too. 294 00:15:59.559 --> 00:16:04.279 But they don't hurt any wildlife, any family, pets, any 295 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:07.200 birds that want to come there. They just it's a 296 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.840 disease of mosquitoes. Think of it that way. That's how 297 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.399 they work, and they do really really work well. You 298 00:16:13.399 --> 00:16:15.639 can get them in a lot of places, for example, 299 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:20.039 up on the North and West at RCW Nursery rcwst 300 00:16:20.080 --> 00:16:22.480 Garden Center that try where two forty nine comes into 301 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:26.639 Beltway eight. Well they've got them there as well. And 302 00:16:26.679 --> 00:16:29.159 of course when you're at RCW, you need to check 303 00:16:29.240 --> 00:16:33.639 out the unbelievable selection of things that they have and 304 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:35.679 you need to look. I would like you to take 305 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:37.720 a look at some of their sales that are going on. 306 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.200 You know, they have a better rose selection than about 307 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.440 anybody I know. I mean it's outstanding. And seasonally, you know, 308 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:48.919 things come and go, but they have a nice selection 309 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:52.480 of trees. Fall is the time to plant trees. It's 310 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:54.919 a time when you need to get your trees planted. 311 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:58.320 So go ahead and stop in there and look at it, 312 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.120 and you know they'll give you they'll give you a 313 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:03.639 list of the things that you need for a good 314 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:08.640 successful planting. So that would be, for example, a root stimulator, 315 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:12.640 some fertilizers for feeding those trees as they get up 316 00:17:12.720 --> 00:17:18.279 and going. They specialize in that. And when you buy 317 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:20.200 a tree or shureb at RCW, you're going to get 318 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:23.839 something that I guarantee you will grow here, that belongs here, 319 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:26.680 because that's all they that they're going to sell. But 320 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:30.519 right now, fall color is outstanding. They've got a great 321 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.880 selection of citrus, a nice selection of figs too, by 322 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:36.880 the way, going out there, and some beautiful bedding plants 323 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:40.799 for fall color. And also the hibiscus. You know, they 324 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:45.799 have outstanding selection of the I can't say Cajun series 325 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.720 of hibiscus, and I have one of those, just one 326 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:51.359 of my favorite plants that I have. If you're into succulents, 327 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:54.200 good selection of succulents. In other words, what do you 328 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:57.680 need stop buy? RCW. They are at Tomball Park, went 329 00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:59.960 about way eight, and it's really easy to get to. 330 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.640 Go to a website rcwnurseries dot com. You can find 331 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:07.519 out how to get there and all the information that 332 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:11.400 you need. Follow them on social media too. By the way, 333 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:14.200 you're listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter, 334 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:16.920 and we're here to answer gardening questions. So how can 335 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:19.880 we help you have a more bountiful garden and a 336 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:22.759 more beautiful landscape today? Give me a call at seven 337 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:27.559 one three two one two five eight seven four seven 338 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:31.279 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's 339 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.799 talk plants on this wonderful Sunday morning that we got 340 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.400 going right here. I have been taking care of some 341 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:42.319 things out in my yard. You know, I've talked about 342 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:46.240 nutsedge a lot, because you folks call about nutsedge a lot, 343 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.359 but I have had a patch of it in a 344 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:51.960 flower bed that I planted. I got out as much 345 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.799 as I could, you know, as I was preparing the 346 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:57.200 soil in the bed, putting in organic matter and things. 347 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:00.599 Every time i'd find a little string of tubers or 348 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:04.200 nuts on the plants, I pull them out. But of 349 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:06.960 course when I planted it, they came right back, because 350 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:08.920 there's a lot of them in there that you don't get. 351 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:10.920 And so I've been dealing with that. But I'm I'm 352 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:15.079 kind of my gardens and beds are more experiments, if 353 00:19:15.119 --> 00:19:17.599 you know what I'm saying. And so because of that, 354 00:19:18.119 --> 00:19:20.559 I tried different things on it, just to learn so 355 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:22.920 that when I give you advice, it's stuff I've tried 356 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:25.920 and done and I know it works and I don't 357 00:19:25.920 --> 00:19:28.079 steer you wrong. I'm going to take a quick break 358 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:30.279 here for the news. We'll be back again. The number 359 00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:33.759 give Crystal call seven one three two one two kt RH. 360 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:35.240 He'll get you on the board and you'll be first 361 00:19:35.359 --> 00:19:36.559 up when we come back. 362 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:38.480 With us. 363 00:19:38.680 --> 00:19:41.200 We are here to talk about the things that interest you. 364 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:43.319 How do you have success in a garden? How do 365 00:19:43.359 --> 00:19:46.000 you make a beautiful garden bed? You know falls coming. 366 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:49.519 I mean we're on the doorstep right now, and we 367 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:52.079 have a lot of color options for fall. Let's talk 368 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:54.200 about some of those. If you got some questions on 369 00:19:54.640 --> 00:19:57.000 turning a flower bed into something beautiful to carry all 370 00:19:57.039 --> 00:19:59.200 the way into the early winter season, we can we 371 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:01.960 can help you do that here. Just give us call 372 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.319 seven one three two one two KTRH is how you 373 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:09.480 go about that. I was looking at some of the 374 00:20:09.519 --> 00:20:13.720 products that Microlife has available that I don't talk about 375 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:16.240 a lot, you know, talk about the sixty four, the 376 00:20:16.279 --> 00:20:20.200 brown bag, and certainly the brown patch, which is a 377 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:24.279 fall fertilizer coming up on that season, But I don't 378 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:26.759 talk a lot about some of the liquid products that 379 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:29.200 they have enough and one of them that I think 380 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:31.200 you would be very interesting, in fact, two of them. 381 00:20:31.400 --> 00:20:34.160 One of them is micro grow liquid AF. Micro Grow 382 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:38.920 liquid AF is loaded with beneficial microbes. I mean, if 383 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:42.200 you look at the sheet on all the beneficial microbes 384 00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:44.039 that are in this it's kind of the who's who 385 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:45.960 of the good guys in the soil. You know all 386 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:48.480 those things that work with your plant roots to have success. 387 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:52.920 It's loaded with that. Basically, when you are putting this down, 388 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:56.640 you are adding those microbes to the soil. And when 389 00:20:56.680 --> 00:20:59.920 you add good guys to soil, they out compete harm 390 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:03.279 that's our goal. You know, there's bad microbes and there's 391 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:05.960 good microbes, and we want the balance to shift toward 392 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:09.359 the good microbes. That's when plants thrive, that's when disease 393 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:13.920 problems are lessened. And that's why microlife makes micro grow 394 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:19.160 liquid af it's liquid. Microlife also has a soil and 395 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:22.480 plant energy. This is a combination of a humic and 396 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:26.640 fulvic acid blend with molasses in the soil. These are 397 00:21:26.680 --> 00:21:32.039 all carbon rich substances and when you add carbon, that's 398 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:35.960 what microbes eat. They need the carbon and molasses and 399 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:39.200 humic fulbac acid just create that kind of root zone. 400 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:42.440 Addition to adding a whole dozens of different minerals as well, 401 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:45.359 and very safe. You're not going to burn plants with it. 402 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:48.960 And so those two combinations that would be excellent to 403 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:52.039 use if you were doing some fall planting, which I 404 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:54.519 hope you will be to water down into the soil. 405 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:58.559 It's also good just when you're preparing an area for planting, 406 00:21:59.200 --> 00:22:01.359 just however you want to go about it. Microlife soil 407 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:04.960 and plant energy all or Microlife liquid AF either of 408 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:07.759 those two. I just want to mention those because again 409 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:09.799 I don't talk about those enough. There are just so 410 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:14.240 many products for microlife that help us have success. You know, 411 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:17.920 with organic gardening, it all is about the soil. You know, 412 00:22:17.920 --> 00:22:20.480 people think of organic gardening as well, I'm not going 413 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:23.119 to use synthetic sprays. I'm going to use organic sprays. Well, 414 00:22:23.160 --> 00:22:26.440 it's not about killing stuff. Organic gardening starts in the soil. 415 00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:29.160 It's about making the soil as good as it can be. Now, 416 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:32.400 if you have to use a pesticide, you can choose 417 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:37.759 organic products for that, but just remember it basically is 418 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:40.359 about preparing the soil and making the plants as healthy 419 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:42.920 and happy as you can. And that goes back to 420 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:45.519 the thing I always say, brown stuff before green stuff. 421 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:49.759 You make the soil right and the plants naturally are 422 00:22:49.799 --> 00:22:51.720 going to thrive in that kind of soil. And you 423 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:54.160 can buy these products at a number of places. Microlife's 424 00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:58.400 widely available. Southwest Fertilizer, the place that has everything, is 425 00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:00.920 a good place to get these liquids as well as 426 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:03.640 a whole lot of other micro life products. They carry 427 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:06.400 every fertilizer I talk about on guarden Line they carry 428 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:09.039 every time you hear me say use this for a pastor, 429 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:11.480 or that for a disease, or this to prevent a 430 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:14.119 weed or to kill an existing weaed. It's going to 431 00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:17.079 be at Southwest Fertilizer. They're down on the corner of 432 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:20.039 Bisnett and Runwick. But I'm telling you people, it's not 433 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:23.480 just Southwest Houston that goes to Southwest Fertilizer. It's all 434 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:25.119 over the place. I talk to people all the time 435 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:27.759 that drive a good distance just because they know when 436 00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:29.559 they walk in there, they're going to get everything they 437 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:34.000 possibly could need. And expertise too. You take them a sample, 438 00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:36.839 you take them a picture of a weed or a plant, 439 00:23:36.960 --> 00:23:39.119 or a bug or a problem, and they'll get you 440 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:41.799 straightened out and put the product in your hand that 441 00:23:41.880 --> 00:23:45.799 you need that will work. The website is Southwest Fertilizer 442 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:47.759 dot com. And if you haven't been there, I would 443 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:51.319 encourage you to go. Just go one time, plant, just 444 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.759 go see what is this the skip is talking about, 445 00:23:53.960 --> 00:23:58.839 and I think you'll find yourself going back. You are 446 00:23:58.880 --> 00:24:01.759 listening to Garden Line, and and I wanted to talk 447 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:03.599 a little bit about I was talking earlier about some 448 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:05.079 things that I've been doing out in the garden. I 449 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:07.640 am still harvesting okra, and I have too much okra 450 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:10.519 by the way. I feel like I'm in an okra 451 00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:13.759 twelve step program or something. A Hello, my name is Skip. 452 00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:18.079 I grow a lot of okra because I do, and 453 00:24:18.119 --> 00:24:21.559 the reason is I like to actually cross okra, breed okra. 454 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:25.000 I'm working on some okra that is more ornamental and 455 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:27.599 some okra that is shorter so you don't need a 456 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:30.000 helicopter to pick it. I'm working on some okra that 457 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:34.799 is more productive, more attractive. Basically anyway, I've got several 458 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:37.359 different strains out in the garden right now that I'm 459 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:41.519 evaluating and selecting from and doing some crosses. And I 460 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:44.599 just enjoy that. And you know, with gardening, it doesn't 461 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:48.079 matter who you are, there's going to be something you 462 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.720 are interested in. A few gardeners get into it enough 463 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:57.640 to become amateur plant breeders, and there are people that 464 00:24:58.240 --> 00:25:03.400 they literally cross day lilies or across tomatoes or or 465 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:07.880 there's huge communities out there that share their expertise among 466 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:11.359 themselves and they just come up with fun stuff. One 467 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:14.839 of the easiest things to cross is squashes. There's a 468 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:18.119 lot of combatibility where you can create some strange things 469 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:21.119 or some combo things. But I hope you get out 470 00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:23.119 and enjoy stuff like that. Maybe you don't want to 471 00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:25.680 get into it that far. I understand that that's that 472 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:32.200 makes sense, but it is still fun, okay. Our phone 473 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:35.160 number seven one three two one two five eight seven 474 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:39.680 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 475 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:43.519 You've heard me talk about azamite before, and basically, asamite 476 00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:49.200 is a micro nutrient or a trace mineral substance. Your 477 00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:52.680 soil needs a bank account of over twenty different nutrients 478 00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:57.039 in order for plants to perform and live. They are 479 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:00.240 nutrients required for all aspects of plant growth, and it 480 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:03.960 takes about twenty plus nutrients to do that. Azamite provides 481 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:06.480 some of those trace minerals that are needed in small amounts. 482 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:08.640 And the way I refer to it as it builds 483 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:11.279 the soil bank account so that as you put on 484 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:15.799 your fertilizers and the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, you get your 485 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:18.720 lawn growing. Let's say or any kind of plant growing, 486 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:22.400 it's going to need to draw on micro nutrients to 487 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:25.920 support that growth. You can't make a leaf without iron. 488 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:28.519 You can't make a leaf without zinc, for example. That's 489 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:34.279 what I'm talking about. Azumite is so widely available. Everybody 490 00:26:34.359 --> 00:26:36.880 carries asmite around this area, and you can go to 491 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:39.680 azimite Texas dot com and find out more about it. 492 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:43.240 Azimite Texas dot com is how if you want to 493 00:26:43.279 --> 00:26:46.039 learn more about it when you're doing your fall fertilization, 494 00:26:46.359 --> 00:26:48.240 you could do it now did about once a year. 495 00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.440 It just don't put I was having this discussion. By 496 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:54.359 the way, I had a great time out at clear 497 00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:58.960 Lake Ace Hardware yesterday visiting with folks. Thanks for all 498 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:00.599 of you who came out to that. That was a 499 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.160 lot of fun. But we were talking about combining Can 500 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:05.400 I do this and this at the same time, And 501 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:09.920 the entwer is always yes, but and the butt is 502 00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:13.359 don't put it in the same hopper. So let's say 503 00:27:13.400 --> 00:27:15.920 you wanted to fertilize your lawn, you wanted to add 504 00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:19.880 the azumite too, and you wanted to put down I 505 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:24.480 don't know, bugginator or barricade or something you could do 506 00:27:24.519 --> 00:27:26.200 all those on the same day, but don't put them 507 00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:28.799 all in the same hopper because it's different particle size, 508 00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:31.359 and they'll settle out and you'll end up with too 509 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:33.359 much of one at the beginning and too much of 510 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:35.960 the other at the end. Just go through over your 511 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:39.160 lawn two or three times how many products you're putting up. 512 00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:40.599 But yes, you can put them all out on the 513 00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:43.759 same day, including that amite. We're going to take a 514 00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:47.000 little break right here. It is time for that. And 515 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:51.079 when we come back, Jim you bet welcome back to 516 00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:53.599 Guardenline folks. Good have you with us. I was talking 517 00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:56.440 about azemite a minute ago. Tell you one place you 518 00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:59.160 can get azemite as well as all the other fertilizers 519 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:01.599 you hear me talk about, and that's League City Feed 520 00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:04.599 for all of you over there in that general area 521 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:07.000 of League City. And I'm talking about Santa Fe, Dickinson, 522 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:11.119 el Kamina, Reale at Bay Cliff, Webster, Lamark, all that area. 523 00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:15.000 If you go to League City Feed in League City, 524 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:17.799 it's just it's on Highway three, just a few blocks 525 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:20.680 south of ninety six. You're going to find those products 526 00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:23.599 as well as things to control pests and diseases. League 527 00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:26.440 City Feed is open Monday through Saturday nine to six, 528 00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:28.400 so you can swing by after work to grab what 529 00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:30.319 you need. It's one of those old time feed stores. 530 00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:33.200 They carry your stuff out for you and they're going 531 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:35.200 to have the products that you need that you hear 532 00:28:35.240 --> 00:28:38.720 about on Garden. I'd like that asomite, for example. If 533 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:40.319 you'd like to give them a call. It's two eight 534 00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:44.240 one three three two sixteen twelve. Two eight one three 535 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:48.240 three two sixteen twelve. That's League City Feed in League 536 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:51.359 City on Highway three, just a few blocks south of 537 00:28:51.440 --> 00:28:55.680 Highway ninety six. Really easy to get to. Let's go 538 00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:58.960 now out to Jim. Jim, you're in East Tennessee. Is 539 00:28:58.960 --> 00:28:59.519 that correct? 540 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:04.279 That is correct. I was raised in Gleanapark, just in 541 00:29:04.319 --> 00:29:06.799 a city years and years ago, but I now live 542 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:09.480 in severebl Tennessee, in the Smoky Mountains. 543 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:12.519 And you're talking about so beautiful. 544 00:29:13.839 --> 00:29:20.839 Oh it's pretty nice, really really lovely. You're talking about soil. 545 00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:25.519 My girlfriend is a doctor and she loves these purple 546 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:31.519 sweet potatoes from Japan and the health benefits and nutrients 547 00:29:31.559 --> 00:29:35.000 and is there a way to source I think it's 548 00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:38.640 a regional thing because of the volcanic soil. Is there 549 00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:42.759 a way to source that soil or a comparable product 550 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:46.799 to see if we could grow that sweet potato? 551 00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:50.480 Oh you can. You can absolutely grow it where you are. 552 00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:52.720 You don't have to bring in a special soil. You 553 00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:57.000 want well drained soil. Sweet potatoes typically or commercially produced 554 00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:00.160 in areas with the sandy loam soil as oppos to 555 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.000 heavy clay. So anything you can do to improve the 556 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:05.799 internal drainage if you need to do that. If you 557 00:30:05.880 --> 00:30:08.960 if you're dealing with the clay, just you know, break 558 00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:11.359 it up, get some organic matter down in there. They'll 559 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.599 they'll do fine in your area. And so when you 560 00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:16.599 say source, are you talking about just getting soil or 561 00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:18.200 are you talking about finding that sweet potato? 562 00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:19.960 No? 563 00:30:20.240 --> 00:30:24.640 Sourcing the soil itself. I thought it only grew in Japan. 564 00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:27.880 I didn't know that you could grow it in other regions. 565 00:30:28.920 --> 00:30:32.039 No, actually, the first one over here, there's there's been 566 00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:37.680 one developed by the Stokes Seed Company. Are offered by 567 00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:40.160 the Stoke Seed Company. It was actually developed. I believe 568 00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:43.359 it's North Carolina. It's it's one of those states right there, 569 00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:47.960 not far from you. That Oh wow, North Carolina, North Carolina, 570 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:50.079 was a breeder that did it. Now there was there 571 00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:52.720 is one that was taken from Central South America, which 572 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:56.759 is where they came from to over to China and Japan, 573 00:30:57.039 --> 00:31:00.599 and its kind of became known as the Okinawa sweet 574 00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.599 potato because that's one of the regions where it developed. 575 00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:06.160 But it's just it's just a sweet potato. It just 576 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.920 happens to be one this purple and uh so we'll 577 00:31:10.079 --> 00:31:13.759 get those colors and fruit. You typically have things like 578 00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:17.480 you got high high anthision and content. It's type of 579 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:19.960 flavonoid and vitamin C is good in them and stuff. 580 00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:23.440 I mean, they're you know, sweet potatoes in general, I 581 00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:25.839 have a lot of health benefits. But but yeah, you 582 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:26.759 can grow those where. 583 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:33.279 Great great to hear. Yeah, when I have to work 584 00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:35.839 on weekends. I listened to you on the I Heart. 585 00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:40.359 I'm headed back to Surreal right now. So but thank you, 586 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:43.440 thank you for that, and we'll we'll give it a shot, 587 00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:44.720 all right. 588 00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:47.160 You take care. Thanks for the call, Jim. Appreciate that 589 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:50.240 there's a lot of kind of novel types of things 590 00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:53.640 out there, and it makes you know, that makes gardening fine. 591 00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:56.079 I know some people kind of are constantly going after 592 00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:59.759 whatever the weirdest latest thing is, and that's fine. Hey 593 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:02.480 you're supposed to have fun. If that makes you happy, 594 00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:08.000 then go do it. But you can anytime we're growing 595 00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:10.480 our own food, we're doing a good thing. We're doing 596 00:32:10.519 --> 00:32:14.279 a healthy thing when we're doing that. And when we 597 00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:18.640 think of food that one of the slogans that I 598 00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:21.119 think USDA had come up with a while back was 599 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:24.160 called eat a rainbow. I believe they are the ones 600 00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:27.160 that came up. Anyway, It basically means eat different colors 601 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:30.680 because when you start when you look at things, let's 602 00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:36.480 just take the the orange types of vegetables and fruit. 603 00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:38.599 You know that if we're looking at sweet potatoes, if 604 00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:41.119 we're looking at carrots, you know those are going to 605 00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:43.400 be high in certain nutrients that are going to do 606 00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:47.319 do well. And purple is sweepta the same thing. And 607 00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:50.240 it just it just makes sense and it's a lot 608 00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:54.640 of fun. And you know, when you serve a purple 609 00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:58.200 sweet potato, people are going to go, what what have 610 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:01.000 you done here? And it just it's a conversation piece. 611 00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:03.960 But they're dead, they're sweet potatoes. So let's get out 612 00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:06.799 there and have some fun. Have you been out to 613 00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:09.720 in Chenned Forest? Enchanted Forest is out there in the 614 00:33:09.839 --> 00:33:14.839 Richmond Rosenberg area, Richmond Rosenberg and in Chenna Forest is 615 00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:18.839 the one. If you were let's say you're at Richmond 616 00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:21.640 Rosenberg and you're heading up towards sugar Land, it's off 617 00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.440 to the right, it's off to the right. And in 618 00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:27.920 Channa Forest you're going to find all kinds of things 619 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:29.880 to get you ready for fall. Are you into herbs. 620 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:33.200 That's a great way to season your food without slathering 621 00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:36.440 it with I don't know, a thousand island dressing or something. 622 00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:39.480 Herbs are wonderful and fun to grow and ornamental, and 623 00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:42.359 they've got them there and a lot of them. They've 624 00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:46.319 got beautiful, beautiful vegetable transplants and now's the time to 625 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:49.279 get the fall garden in. Talk about eating good food, Well, 626 00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:51.599 here's your chance to do it. Do you need fall 627 00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:55.319 color things like Croton's for example, they've got those in 628 00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:57.960 Beautiful Beauty and as well as other fall colors from 629 00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:00.920 things like Colius and whatnot. It gives you the Halloween, 630 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:04.079 the Thanksgiving, all those types of fall color. They can 631 00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.119 load your landscape up with those kinds of things. They 632 00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:10.039 got great trees and fall is the best time to 633 00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:13.000 plant a tree. It is. It's the best time go 634 00:34:13.039 --> 00:34:16.920 buy and get some trees. Do you want that nitrophosphall program? 635 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:19.840 I was talking earlier about the one two three, the 636 00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:23.639 Texas three step. Do you like the organics like microlife 637 00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:26.599 bron patch. They've got those there as well as well 638 00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:29.000 as all the shrubs and perennials and the host plants 639 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.239 you could be looking for. Just head straight to Enchanted 640 00:34:32.280 --> 00:34:34.920 Forest and you're going to be able to find that 641 00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:38.639 and everything else that you need to have success, including 642 00:34:38.679 --> 00:34:42.760 good advice. They're on FM twenty seven fifty nine Outside Richmond, 643 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:50.079 twenty seven fifty nine Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. 644 00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:53.760 Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Go check that website out. 645 00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:59.000 It is really cool, really inspiring. You know. I start 646 00:34:59.000 --> 00:35:02.000 looking at gardenings stuff and I just get all excited 647 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:04.280 and inspired and I come up with eight hundred new 648 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:06.559 things that I just have to grow or try or 649 00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:10.360 do or whatever. Like we said, gardening is fun. Hey 650 00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:13.400 we didn't say, you know that it's not addictive. It 651 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:16.280 is addictive. That's a warning. I probably should have that 652 00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:20.360 on garden Line show every years. Warning gardening can be addictive. 653 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:25.199 Consult your physician before starting a garden or I don't know, 654 00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:28.679 I'll be your physician. Go ahead, you can do it, 655 00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:32.280 don't worry about it. It's a good addiction, a lot 656 00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:34.880 of fun. And I'm not kidding about that. I mean, 657 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:38.119 I was talking earlier about people breeding their own plants, 658 00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:42.719 and I know people that get so into it. I 659 00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:46.239 mean that it's they just obsess over making the best 660 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:49.079 hibiscus that can exist. There's a lady out there I 661 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:51.719 can't remember her name, somewhere in the country and she 662 00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:56.079 breeds these hibiscus that are just like, what is that real? 663 00:35:56.199 --> 00:35:59.239 Or is that photoshopped? You know, But it's what she 664 00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.119 likes to do it. She has fun doing it, and 665 00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:06.559 so yeah, gardening is addicted, but it's fun, absolutely fun. Hey, 666 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:11.079 these storms we've had this year have really hammered, really 667 00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:15.239 hammered our trees. I'd drove in through a neighborhood in 668 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:20.280 Houston yesterday just looking at the missing trees that were 669 00:36:20.280 --> 00:36:23.159 there and had fallen and had had come in have 670 00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:26.639 them removed out. When that happens, we lose power. And 671 00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:29.079 when we lose power it can be for a while. 672 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:33.760 We've had two spells of extended days without power here 673 00:36:33.880 --> 00:36:36.719 in the Houston area for many of the areas. Quality 674 00:36:36.719 --> 00:36:39.320 Home Products of Texas can fix you up with a 675 00:36:39.400 --> 00:36:44.119 Generaic generator and they have a really really good deal 676 00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:46.519 on those. You need to call them and ask about this. 677 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:48.639 But by the way, their phone number is seven to 678 00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:51.840 one three Quality seven to one three Quality, or go 679 00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:56.599 to the website Quality tx dot com. This is a company. 680 00:36:56.840 --> 00:36:59.559 You can buy generation a lot of places, but with 681 00:36:59.719 --> 00:37:05.159 Quality Home, what you're buying is personal service and continuing 682 00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:08.280 support from the time you walk in and say what 683 00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:10.599 kind of generator do I need? And they go through 684 00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:14.239 questions with you and help put you in contact with 685 00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:16.760 the generator that's going to serve your needs. They set 686 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:20.320 it up for you. They just can't beat it. Quality 687 00:37:20.320 --> 00:37:24.679 Home Products of Texas. It looks like music means we're 688 00:37:24.679 --> 00:37:29.199 putting an hour in the books. That is fast. I 689 00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:30.960 feel like I just sat out and here we are 690 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:33.119 already done with an hour. We're going to be back, 691 00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:35.079 We're going to be doing a lot of things. I 692 00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:37.639 want to thank the folks at Waberd's Unlimited yesterday from 693 00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:42.119 clear at Dunning clear Lake. That was a good time 694 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:44.000 we had and I think everybody that came out to 695 00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:46.719 that I want to remind you that next Saturday, I'm 696 00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:49.079 going to be at A and A Plants and Produce 697 00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:52.360 from twelve to two. That's up in Montgomery. So all 698 00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.760 of you folks out there in the Lake Conroe area 699 00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:58.960 that are listening, including Conroe and Willis and Montgomery of 700 00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:01.760 course that whole area up north, come on out and 701 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:04.719 see me next Saturday, twelve to two and we'll do 702 00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:07.400 the regular things. I'll talk a little bit, I'll answer 703 00:38:07.440 --> 00:38:11.400 your questions, I'll diagnose, i'll identify. I'll help you have 704 00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:14.440 a beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape because I love 705 00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:15.039 doing that. 706 00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:22.920 Welcome to Katy r H. Garden Line with Skip Ricord's. 707 00:38:22.400 --> 00:38:25.079 Shoes, crazy. 708 00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:29.559 Trim. 709 00:38:30.880 --> 00:38:47.400 Just watch him. As many birthdays to Septasya. Not a 710 00:38:47.679 --> 00:38:50.320 sign says. 711 00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:58.000 The sun beam and all right, welcome back. I'm glad 712 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.639 to have you with us this morning on a beautiful 713 00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:03.400 Sunday morning. You're listening to guard Line. I'm your host, 714 00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:06.000 Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a 715 00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:10.239 more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. I just feel 716 00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:12.400 free to give us a call at seven one three 717 00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.760 two one two K T R H and let's figure 718 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:18.000 out what's going on. Let's figure out what's going wrong 719 00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:21.159 if you're having problems, or let's plan to do some 720 00:39:21.239 --> 00:39:23.239 things right to get off to a good start. You know, 721 00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:28.480 we Gardening is a hopeful thing. Gardeners are eternal optimist. 722 00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:30.599 I don't know if you knew this, but if you're 723 00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:33.679 a gardener, you you probably do. And that means that 724 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:36.920 you know, when I plant tomatoes in the spring, I 725 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.840 can already taste those tomatoes, or when I plan them 726 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:41.800 for fall gardening, and I know it's going to be 727 00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:44.400 the best tomatoes I've ever grown in the world right 728 00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:49.119 in that heat. Is hopeful and and just just positive 729 00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:51.800 about how how it's going to go. Gardening is a 730 00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:55.800 fun thing. It's like spring. It's a renewal, you know, 731 00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:58.719 every time you come into a spring. I don't know, 732 00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:01.079 it's like entering the new year after the holidays. We 733 00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:03.320 make our resolutions of things, it's gonna be a great year, 734 00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:06.679 those sort of things. And gardening is the same kind 735 00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:10.360 of thing. It is an optimistic, hopeful thing. When you 736 00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:12.960 choose to put a seed or plant in the ground, 737 00:40:13.559 --> 00:40:16.159 you essentially are having the faith that that thing's going 738 00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:18.159 to come up and that it's going to grow and 739 00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:20.320 that it's going to produce, and then it's going to 740 00:40:20.360 --> 00:40:23.280 produce something good. You know, you don't put it. You 741 00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:24.920 don't put a seed in the ground and go, Yeah, 742 00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:27.440 bugs are probably gonna eat this, and I probably never 743 00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:29.719 seen anything. You don't have that ad it. I hope 744 00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:33.159 you don't. If you do, stop it, stop that. Don't 745 00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:37.559 do that, because gardening is a really cool and hopeful thing. 746 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:41.599 All right, Well, you are listening to garden line again 747 00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:44.280 the number seven one three two one two five eight 748 00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:48.280 seven four. If you want to get inspired for gardening, 749 00:40:48.280 --> 00:40:50.760 you need to go buy arbor Gate Garden Center. Arbor 750 00:40:50.760 --> 00:40:53.960 Gate is the garden center up there west of tumble 751 00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:56.960 On twenty nine to twenty uh and it's about a 752 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:59.559 mile and a half west of two forty nine. It's 753 00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:01.239 as you're heading out to be on the left hand 754 00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:03.679 side by the way before and after Arburgate, you'll see 755 00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:05.840 a road called Trashle Road because it's a little loop 756 00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:08.400 that goes around behind Arburgate. You got a parking lot 757 00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:10.360 in the back. You just have to turn down Trisha 758 00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:15.199 Road and you will have plenty of places for great 759 00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:18.480 parking no matter the weather. It's one of those parking 760 00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:21.920 lots that absorbs water through the lot, so it's always hard, 761 00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:26.159 it's always easy to walk on drains well, and just 762 00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:28.719 super easy access. I think it's pretty cool. I love 763 00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:31.719 the way they designed that thing out there. But the 764 00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:33.519 main thing is it gets you access to some of 765 00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:35.960 the best selection of planets you're going to find anywhere. 766 00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:40.880 I mean, Arburgate specializes in having some of everything, and 767 00:41:41.159 --> 00:41:43.360 some things I promise you you've never heard of, he 768 00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:47.599 seen or grown before. If you need decorations for your fall, 769 00:41:48.320 --> 00:41:53.360 for Halloween, Thanksgiving, even coming up on Christmas here in 770 00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:56.519 a bit, Arburgate's going to have that. They right now, 771 00:41:56.559 --> 00:41:59.719 they have a selection of fall color plants that will 772 00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:01.760 take your beds all the way up to at least 773 00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:04.639 the first frost. And you can just get out there 774 00:42:04.639 --> 00:42:07.760 and see what I'm talking about. If you've never planted 775 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:10.719 fall bloomers in your garden, why not go buy and 776 00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:13.239 pick some up today. You know, we have Salvia leucantham 777 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:16.719 Mexican bush sage. We have copper Canyon daisy that blooms 778 00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:19.800 in the fall. We have the fall aster, there's an 779 00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:23.800 ex Native Texas aster, and other asters and mums and 780 00:42:24.199 --> 00:42:26.079 just lots of things you can put in the garden 781 00:42:26.119 --> 00:42:29.039 and the landscape that are beautiful. Do you need herbs, 782 00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:33.599 do you need vegetable plants, or do you just need 783 00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:36.679 some inspiration? Go out there, walk around, take a look 784 00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:39.519 at things. When you talk to the people that work 785 00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:41.519 at Arburgate, you're talking to people that know what they're 786 00:42:41.559 --> 00:42:45.599 talking about, and that is important. You go a lot 787 00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:47.679 of places that will sell you a plant and they 788 00:42:47.760 --> 00:42:50.159 do not have a clue probably the plant should need 789 00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:52.199 to be put here, and you know the kind of 790 00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.000 places I'm talking about. But when you go to Arburgate, 791 00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:56.599 you get plants that grow here and you get people 792 00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:58.440 that can tell you what to do, how to do it, 793 00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:00.599 how to have success. If something goes wrong, of a 794 00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:03.159 bug shows up, they'll tell you what to do about it. 795 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:06.719 They are experts at it. And I know I've visited 796 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:10.760 with the many occasions Arburgate Garden Center again. They're out 797 00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:14.360 west of Tombull on to twenty nine to twenty go 798 00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:18.039 to the website Arborgate dot com. Follow them on social 799 00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:23.440 media too. While you're out there. Garden tourism that's what 800 00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:26.000 I call it. And I go to garden centers as 801 00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:29.760 part of garden tourism because I always see something new, 802 00:43:29.800 --> 00:43:33.599 I get inspiration, and it's just fun. And listen, when 803 00:43:33.599 --> 00:43:37.280 folks come visit from other areas of Texas or from 804 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:40.000 wherever haul them out to some of these great garden 805 00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:43.239 centers like Arburgate, they will be really impressed and they have 806 00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:46.199 a good time. It's just a great way to, I 807 00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:48.920 don't know, get out with family and friends and enjoy 808 00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:53.360 things with us. Today. We're looking forward to talking with 809 00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:55.559 you about the things that you're interested in. You know, 810 00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:57.960 I can talk about things that I'm interested in. I 811 00:43:58.000 --> 00:44:01.079 can talk about things that I know people are interested 812 00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:03.239 in in general for this time of the year. Been 813 00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:05.920 doing this for thirty five years and her a lot 814 00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:08.800 of questions over those years. But what are you interested 815 00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:10.639 in today? This is your chance to give us a 816 00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:13.880 call seven one three two one two five eight seven 817 00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:17.480 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 818 00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:19.519 You know, we like feed stores. We love our feed 819 00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:22.159 stores here on Garden Line and Spring Creek Feed Center 820 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:25.199 is up there just to the a little bit north 821 00:44:25.280 --> 00:44:28.559 and east of Tumbaugh. It's up in the Magnolia area. 822 00:44:28.599 --> 00:44:32.199 On FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away from 823 00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:36.480 both Graham Parkway and Highway to forty nine Magnolia on 824 00:44:36.840 --> 00:44:40.320 FM twenty nine seventy eight. That's what you need to remember. 825 00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:42.639 Spring Creak Feed. When you drive up, you can't miss 826 00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:46.719 it is a big, beautiful barn looking store that when 827 00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:49.719 you walk inside it it's gorgeous, beautiful and when you 828 00:44:49.719 --> 00:44:53.440 get inside, you're going to find fertilizers lines like turf 829 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:56.960 Star line, the microlift lines, the Nitropos lines for example. 830 00:44:57.480 --> 00:44:59.440 They're going to have things like Medina. They're going to 831 00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:02.000 have long and garden supplies. If you got a pond, 832 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:04.559 they got supplies for that too. Do you need a weed, 833 00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:07.400 something to kill weeds, deal with diseases, or to deal 834 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:11.320 with pests, They've got it. Very friendly, very courteous staff 835 00:45:11.519 --> 00:45:14.000 will help you and put you in touch with the 836 00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:16.679 product that you need, and they're going to happen there now. 837 00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:21.559 They also have quality types of pet food and listen, 838 00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:24.840 if you need something special ordered, they can do that too. 839 00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:26.960 You just need to talk to them, tell them, hey, 840 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:28.719 this one I'm looking for. Can you bring get that 841 00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:31.320 in for me? I bet they can. If you're an 842 00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:34.599 f FA or four h youth. There's a special discount 843 00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:37.639 as well as for military and also for senior citizens, 844 00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:40.559 so mention that to them when you're there at Spring 845 00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:44.440 Creek feed again. They are on excuse Me FM two 846 00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:48.119 twenty nine seventy eight F twenty nine seventy eight in 847 00:45:48.159 --> 00:45:53.199 the Magnolia area. I was in there the other day 848 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:57.119 checking it out because I do visit our sponsors periodically 849 00:45:57.199 --> 00:45:59.519 just to say, Okay, what's new, what's going on, what's 850 00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:03.559 happening here, and just noticed that the place is really 851 00:46:03.880 --> 00:46:09.719 really looking good, looking excellent. As a result. There are 852 00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:12.280 a number of products from Medina, and I've talked about 853 00:46:12.280 --> 00:46:15.440 a number of them over the time that I've been 854 00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:19.320 doing this. Medina Plus is one that i'd like to 855 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:21.079 kind of next to you. There's a couple of them 856 00:46:21.079 --> 00:46:23.079 i'd like to talk to you about today. But Medina 857 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:28.679 Plus is fortified with micronutrients, essential micronutrients, got growth hormones in. 858 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:32.239 It's from the seaweed extract. It has all the natural 859 00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:37.719 soil building advantages of the Medina Soil Activator. That's why 860 00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:40.159 we call this Medina Plus. The other product, the one 861 00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:43.440 you've used before, is Medina Soil Activator and it's one 862 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:47.199 that's been popular with gardners for a very very long time. 863 00:46:47.719 --> 00:46:52.079 But Medina Plus then adds over forty trace elements. It's 864 00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:57.679 got cidecinon, which is a natural growth hormone from seaweed extract, magnesium, iron, zinc, 865 00:46:59.559 --> 00:47:02.880 papa acid for you want the full word there. It's 866 00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:06.559 a para amino benzoic acid. Okay, I know you wrote 867 00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:10.000 that down riba flavor diamond by it and ni ni 868 00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:14.239 nicotinic acid. I can't even say that nicotinic acid and 869 00:47:14.280 --> 00:47:17.159 all essential trace In other words, this is a concoction 870 00:47:17.760 --> 00:47:21.039 that has everything you need to promote blooming and leaf growth, 871 00:47:21.079 --> 00:47:25.840 to promote fruit set, to make transplanting go smoother for plants. Yeah, 872 00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:27.639 you would just take this, put it. I put it 873 00:47:27.679 --> 00:47:30.599 in a in a watering can, mix it up according 874 00:47:30.599 --> 00:47:32.440 to the right level, and just dump it over the 875 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:34.280 whole plant. You can get it on the leaves, you 876 00:47:34.280 --> 00:47:36.320 can get it down soaking into the soil to get 877 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:39.039 those roots off to a good start. Medina plus will 878 00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:43.880 do that. Another real regular medino soil activator will also 879 00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:46.440 do that. I like to use the Plus as well 880 00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:50.199 because for that extra boost, especially with transplanting, you can 881 00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:53.400 do it for gardens, for flower pots, even if you 882 00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:55.480 don't do it on a hose, en spray or over 883 00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:59.440 your whole yard, that is fine as well. Another great product, 884 00:48:00.039 --> 00:48:02.079 there are many of them from the folks at Medina. 885 00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:06.000 Let me head over now to Conroe and we're going 886 00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:12.840 to talk to Marcus. Hey, Marcus, Okay, how can we help? 887 00:48:13.920 --> 00:48:14.119 Yeah? 888 00:48:14.880 --> 00:48:16.320 Uh, well, I made. 889 00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:19.360 A new built subdivision today and. 890 00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:21.480 That you treat. 891 00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:24.639 They planted a text to spread oak and a pin 892 00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:28.639 oak and both of them have to come to Oak well. 893 00:48:28.880 --> 00:48:31.679 But I want to know first the name of a. 894 00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:36.679 Contractor that a reliable one where I can get something 895 00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:38.760 that's totally not infected already. 896 00:48:39.920 --> 00:48:41.840 And I would like to know what you think. 897 00:48:41.719 --> 00:48:45.519 About the use of Zouster grass on the Conroe Association. 898 00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:47.800 I'm not I'm having a lot of trouble with my 899 00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:50.079 Saint Augustin on it. 900 00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:52.360 I wondered what your thought for on that. 901 00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:55.639 And you're wanting to get a tree planted, right. 902 00:48:57.440 --> 00:48:59.800 Yeah, I'm gonna have to buy indeed. 903 00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:04.679 Okay, Yeah, got it. Well, I would call the folks 904 00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:07.599 at RCW uh and they may have you talked to 905 00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:11.400 the Williamson Tree Farm up in Plantersville. That's also part 906 00:49:11.400 --> 00:49:15.679 of that that operation. Uh. And they grow the trees 907 00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:18.760 right out there, and they are quality trees. I know 908 00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:21.480 with RCW they can come out and do planting. You 909 00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:23.480 just have to talk to them about the terms of. 910 00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:25.760 That, okay. 911 00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:28.519 And Uh. 912 00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.960 As far as the USA is a great grass, every 913 00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:37.079 plant has its pros and cons Zoysia is fairly shade tolerant. 914 00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:42.199 I have found uh the zoysia some selected types of 915 00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:46.039 Zoysia to be especially shade tolerant, as as would Saint 916 00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:49.679 Augustine be uh. And it also has good wear and tear. 917 00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:52.679 You can run foot traffic over it and it's not 918 00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:55.159 as hard on it as it is Saint Augustine. Those 919 00:49:55.199 --> 00:49:57.920 are just a couple of things to think about. You 920 00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:03.280 are you're looking for that nub. Yeah, but there's some 921 00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:07.000 new Saint Augustine's now that are that are quite drought tolerant. 922 00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:10.480 And so if you water with a good, deep and 923 00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:15.039 frequent soaking, you can make a lot of grasses more 924 00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:18.519 drought tolerant because then they go further between waterings easier. 925 00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:22.360 But zosia can can do pretty good at that as well. 926 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:28.239 But anyway, there's a broader leaf type of Oisia and 927 00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:31.519 then there's a very narrow fine leaf type of Oisia. 928 00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:34.480 The fine leaf types you might look at it and go, 929 00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:37.519 is that bermuda or it's even denser than bermuda in 930 00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:40.199 my opinion. And then the broad leaf types I want 931 00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:42.920 it would be palis. That's that's a common one, but 932 00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:46.320 there are many other good ones. And it's leaves are 933 00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:49.480 about a third is wide as Saint Augustine, but not 934 00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:52.000 as narrow as the fine leaf sosias. 935 00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:59.960 Okay, okay, okay, thank you. 936 00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:03.320 Yeah, hey, let me tell you one more thing, Marcus. 937 00:51:03.559 --> 00:51:07.559 You've got a county horticulturistuff there in Montgomery County, Michael Potter. 938 00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:11.960 And Michael is an expert on turf grass. He and 939 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:13.960 I were talking the other day and I've got four 940 00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:16.079 different turf grasses in my yard, and I think he 941 00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:20.559 hasked two or three at least, and he knows that stuff. 942 00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:23.760 And I would talk to him specifically if you need 943 00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:28.159 additional advice, because he's really really good at that. He's 944 00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:30.800 at the County Extension Office. It's over there on Airport Road, 945 00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:32.920 across from the Lone Star Convention Center. 946 00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:39.239 One more thing, real quick, do you know I'm trying 947 00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:41.760 to find some kind of if I have to put in. 948 00:51:41.960 --> 00:51:42.719 Oh good, well. 949 00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:52.880 I lost you there, Marcus. You kind of cut out 950 00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:57.559 on me. I tell you what, why don't we do this? 951 00:51:57.599 --> 00:52:00.320 I'm going to put you on hold if we're get 952 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:02.800 Marcus back and just get the last question he has, 953 00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:05.440 and Chris, if you'll just type that in for me, 954 00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:09.679 I'll address that. Let's go now to Joanne out at 955 00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:13.719 Lake Conroe. Hey, Joanne, welcome to God Right, you. 956 00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:19.639 Got my pictures? 957 00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:26.119 I'm oh, yes, yes I did. Okay, Okay, let's see here. 958 00:52:27.440 --> 00:52:34.719 Would this say Francis, Yes, say Francis. Okay, yes, I did. Okay, 959 00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:37.880 so you're the francis Is Colius. The new growth is 960 00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:42.119 kind of cupped and sort of malfarmed. It's not normal 961 00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:45.400 where it's trying to put out blooms. I see evidence 962 00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:49.119 of little tiny insects that suck juices out of those 963 00:52:49.199 --> 00:52:55.119 tender developing shoots, and that causes them to grow malformed. 964 00:52:55.760 --> 00:52:58.760 Now it could be a plant hopper. It's a little 965 00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:02.039 tiny bug that has a piercing mouth part. I mean, 966 00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:03.920 it could be spider mit'ud be a lot of different 967 00:53:03.960 --> 00:53:06.400 things doing it, but it's some little bug. If I 968 00:53:06.440 --> 00:53:09.480 were you, I would get some insecticidal soap and I 969 00:53:09.519 --> 00:53:13.199 would spray that plant, making sure to spray upward from 970 00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:15.599 underneath the leaves. You can do it with a little 971 00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:17.840 hands squirt bottle because soap is so safe, you don't 972 00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:20.039 it doesn't matter if you get it on you. But 973 00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:28.320 it's called insecticidal soap. You buy it at a garden center. Uh. 974 00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:31.079 And it is soap, but it's a it's a type 975 00:53:31.119 --> 00:53:34.239 of soap that doesn't burn plants as bad as some 976 00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:37.760 soaps can. And then if you give if you give 977 00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:42.199 all these bugs a bath and insecticidal soap, it kills them. Uh. 978 00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:46.480 And so just spray that underneath there, especially spider mites 979 00:53:46.559 --> 00:53:48.840 or aviad or things. That works really well on those. 980 00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:52.719 And then I would snip out those shoots. After you've 981 00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:55.280 done what you can to kill these on the whole plant, 982 00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:57.440 or snip them out and then spray. You can do 983 00:53:57.480 --> 00:53:57.960 it that way. 984 00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:01.400 Cut the stems back. 985 00:54:02.440 --> 00:54:05.000 Yeah, cut those back, because what's happening is they're bolting. 986 00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:08.039 They're sending up a skinny stalk with flowers on the end. 987 00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:11.559 And that's you know, the you grow coolis for the 988 00:54:11.559 --> 00:54:15.039 big beautiful foliage. Now, if you want the flowers. That's fine, 989 00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:17.440 but it usually means the end of big foliage when 990 00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:18.440 you leave the flowers off. 991 00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:22.440 What about the stems that look so brownish and woody. 992 00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:26.480 Or is that their normal color? 993 00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:30.519 I did not see that in the photos. Let me, 994 00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:32.840 I'll go back and take a look at that. 995 00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:36.559 Some of the major stems kind of woody. 996 00:54:38.039 --> 00:54:42.159 Okay, Oh, that's a natural development. Sometimes you get a 997 00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:44.239 canker kind of thing that kills a part of the 998 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.960 stem and it turns literally dead brown. But just that 999 00:54:48.039 --> 00:54:50.800 browning is part of it just getting older, the one 1000 00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:51.239 that I see. 1001 00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:54.880 Okay, all right, So they should last through the fall, 1002 00:54:54.920 --> 00:54:57.599 and I'll get that insecticidal soak. 1003 00:54:58.840 --> 00:55:01.599 Yeah, and they'll get more and more unhappy as it 1004 00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:04.440 gets colder, but it will carry. It should carry up 1005 00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:05.280 to the first frost. 1006 00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:10.599 Okay, great, all right, thank you, all right, you take care. 1007 00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:18.519 Appreciate that very much. Let's see here. I'm gonna go 1008 00:55:18.559 --> 00:55:20.960 back here to Marcus. Are you there? 1009 00:55:22.559 --> 00:55:22.800 Yeah? 1010 00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:29.400 All right? Well, okay, what was your follow up question? 1011 00:55:32.480 --> 00:55:36.599 Do you know of any particular varieties of white oak 1012 00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:42.199 or red oak that are somewhat resistant to well, yeah, 1013 00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:43.559 by contract. 1014 00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:43.679 You tell me? 1015 00:55:46.039 --> 00:55:49.000 Yeah? Did you tell me that you had oak wilt 1016 00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:59.800 in the Conroe area. Yeah over here, Yeah, okay, well, hey, 1017 00:55:59.840 --> 00:56:04.599 I'm getting out. Hell, Hell, I don't know. Hang on, 1018 00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:06.679 I'm hitting up a hard break. I gotta go. I'm 1019 00:56:06.679 --> 00:56:08.440 going to keep you on hold and I'll come back 1020 00:56:08.480 --> 00:56:10.719 to you right after break. Thanks a lot. 1021 00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:16.880 You are no Houston's News while they were traffic plus 1022 00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:18.679 Preaking News twenty four to seven. 1023 00:56:19.000 --> 00:56:22.599 This is use Radio seven forty kt RH. 1024 00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:26.079 Five everywhere with the IRP more of what's. 1025 00:56:25.880 --> 00:56:28.400 Hat for listening in and if you'd like to give 1026 00:56:28.440 --> 00:56:32.159 us a call seven one three two one two kt 1027 00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:37.159 r H seven one three two one two kt RH 1028 00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.000 Welcome to do that. We'd love to visit with you 1029 00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:42.840 about the things that interest you, the questions that you 1030 00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:48.239 might have. Yesterday, somebody called in and was looking for 1031 00:56:48.440 --> 00:56:51.800 air potatoes, and I mentioned that they they can be 1032 00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:54.400 a little invasive. You gotta watch them because they drop 1033 00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:57.199 their vine that goes up the tree produces these little 1034 00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:01.159 potato like structures then all down to the ground. And 1035 00:57:01.519 --> 00:57:04.719 so anyway, we had said I'd see if anybody I 1036 00:57:04.760 --> 00:57:07.039 knew had one. I didn't know him at a garden 1037 00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:09.679 center nursery, but with a very strong warning to be 1038 00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:14.239 careful because that plant can get away from you if 1039 00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:18.159 you're not, if you're not diligent about watching it. Anyway, 1040 00:57:18.199 --> 00:57:20.760 someone did call in, So if that was you, get 1041 00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:23.280 my producer, Chrysal call and he can put the two 1042 00:57:23.320 --> 00:57:25.880 of you together if you'd like to pursue that any further. 1043 00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:30.119 You hear me talk about ACE Hardware. You hear me 1044 00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:32.880 brag about ACE Hardware because ACE Hardware is a one 1045 00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:35.719 stop shop. You know, it's where you get the fertilizers 1046 00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:38.880 I talk about it's time for fall fertilizing. ACE Hardware 1047 00:57:39.199 --> 00:57:42.559 has options for you, not just one fertilizer, but several 1048 00:57:42.679 --> 00:57:45.239 types of different fertilizers. You know, you're looking for things 1049 00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:50.480 for Nelson's and for nitrofoss and from Microlife for example, 1050 00:57:50.519 --> 00:57:53.800 for fall fertilizing the lawn, looking for products from Medina 1051 00:57:53.920 --> 00:57:56.440 for example too. They've got all of that. They also 1052 00:57:56.480 --> 00:57:59.119 have all the pest control, disease control, and weed control 1053 00:57:59.199 --> 00:58:01.519 things that you're going to need, along with tools like 1054 00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:05.280 a sprayer. Perhaps you need a hose in sprayer, another type. 1055 00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:07.239 They're going to have that. When you go to ACE, 1056 00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:09.320 you come home with what you need to take care 1057 00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:11.639 of the plants. That you have, whether it's a lawn, 1058 00:58:11.880 --> 00:58:16.239 a garden of flower beds, shrubs, and trees. They have 1059 00:58:16.280 --> 00:58:19.719 it all at Ace Hardware. And Ace Hardware also has 1060 00:58:19.760 --> 00:58:22.639 the things for decorating both inside and outside your home 1061 00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:27.480 for the upcoming Halloween season, the upcoming Thanksgiving season. They 1062 00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:31.239 are set up for that. Acehardware dot Com find the 1063 00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:34.760 store locator. There's forty stores. There's one near you, probably 1064 00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:37.119 more than one near you, and you can go in 1065 00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:39.440 and see what it is that I'm always bragging about 1066 00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:42.320 when it comes to Ace Hardware. We're going to go now, 1067 00:58:42.519 --> 00:58:45.280 I'm going to go back to Marcus here in Conrad. Marcus, 1068 00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:48.280 you ask for an oak that is a white oak 1069 00:58:48.280 --> 00:58:54.679 that's resistant somewhat to take oaquill. The white oak, all 1070 00:58:54.719 --> 00:58:57.400 the white oaks to some degree are one that I 1071 00:58:57.400 --> 00:59:00.920 think I would suggest for you is called the terray oak. 1072 00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:06.679 Another name for it is Mexican white oak. And the 1073 00:59:06.719 --> 00:59:09.639 reason I like that when it grows fast for an oak. 1074 00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:13.639 But it is a good, strong, long lived tree. And 1075 00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:15.840 so that would be the one that I would suggest. 1076 00:59:16.519 --> 00:59:19.679 If you want a large shade tree that that I 1077 00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:20.639 would I would plant. 1078 00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:25.639 Okay, okay, all. 1079 00:59:25.639 --> 00:59:27.960 Right, good luck with that I'm gonna run, and I 1080 00:59:28.039 --> 00:59:30.960 got another folks, several folks here holding on Mary in 1081 00:59:30.960 --> 00:59:34.199 West Houston. How can we help the welcome to garden line? 1082 00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:35.039 Thank you. 1083 00:59:35.679 --> 00:59:36.000 Skip. 1084 00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:40.360 Got a situation that I'm trying to help myself and 1085 00:59:40.440 --> 00:59:44.920 my neighbor adjacent neighbor with, and that's the out of 1086 00:59:45.000 --> 00:59:51.320 control crabgrass and the mounds. The mounds in my yard 1087 00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:55.960 are like almost a foot wide and they're sybil. There's 1088 00:59:56.000 --> 00:59:59.599 so many, there's too many to dig up. So if 1089 00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:03.159 I've heard here's your difference using in the previously, I've 1090 01:00:03.159 --> 01:00:10.880 heard your reference using Saudi grass to plant down, put down, uh, 1091 01:00:11.000 --> 01:00:17.320 to take root around those crabgrass mounds. 1092 01:00:17.960 --> 01:00:21.079 Well, if I did that, you would just basically go ahead. 1093 01:00:22.079 --> 01:00:25.599 If I did that and I watered and fertilized maybe 1094 01:00:25.639 --> 01:00:32.239 with some uh just general fertilizer, okay before for shrubs 1095 01:00:32.239 --> 01:00:36.679 and plants, would I be helping myself any. 1096 01:00:38.159 --> 01:00:41.239 And my nation is an annual yeah, crabgrass is an 1097 01:00:41.280 --> 01:00:43.800 annual grass. So first of all, a lot of people 1098 01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:45.800 call me and say they have crabgrass, and then when 1099 01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:48.440 I see a picture it's actually another grass. Uh. So 1100 01:00:48.519 --> 01:00:51.199 we need to make sure we are talking about crabgrass. 1101 01:00:51.239 --> 01:00:54.159 But if it is crabgrass, it's an annual. It comes 1102 01:00:54.159 --> 01:00:56.840 from seed and it dies in the winter, and then 1103 01:00:56.920 --> 01:00:59.599 next spring seeds come up. And that's where if you 1104 01:00:59.679 --> 01:01:04.280 use nitrofoss barricade. According to my schedule, which is in February. 1105 01:01:04.440 --> 01:01:08.639 My schedule's online and gardening with skip dot com, nitrofosh 1106 01:01:08.679 --> 01:01:12.440 barricade put down in February will prevent the crab grass 1107 01:01:12.480 --> 01:01:16.159 for about at least sixty days and maybe more. Actually more, 1108 01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:18.719 But then you could do it again, maybe you know, 1109 01:01:19.239 --> 01:01:22.239 a couple months later, just to extend that cover. 1110 01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:26.159 Yeah, I hear, I just wrote that down. Not a 1111 01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:32.239 cross barricade. The problem is the Hoa Association, it's management company, 1112 01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:34.559 our own both of us to take care of it 1113 01:01:34.599 --> 01:01:35.760 in thirty days. 1114 01:01:38.760 --> 01:01:41.400 Well, I mean, if you mow it, it looks like 1115 01:01:41.519 --> 01:01:44.159 a lawn. So I don't understand why the hoa is 1116 01:01:44.199 --> 01:01:48.239 all up in the air. Or well, maybe it's not cribgrass. 1117 01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:53.280 It's well, let's just say it's not saying augustine grass 1118 01:01:53.320 --> 01:01:58.159 these it's it's it is a weed, definitely a weed 1119 01:01:58.599 --> 01:02:01.079 as opposed to sing. 1120 01:02:01.840 --> 01:02:04.960 Mary. We can leave we can leave it at that. 1121 01:02:05.280 --> 01:02:10.800 You can't kill crabgrass with a spray without killing Saint 1122 01:02:10.800 --> 01:02:14.760 Augustine that gets that the spray gets on. So what 1123 01:02:14.760 --> 01:02:17.199 what Let's do this if you would like, if you 1124 01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:20.760 go out in good, good light, take some pictures of it, 1125 01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:23.039 let me see it from kind of standing away from 1126 01:02:23.079 --> 01:02:25.679 it a little bit, and then get up close. If 1127 01:02:25.679 --> 01:02:28.800 it's got any seed heads on it, pull some up, 1128 01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:31.119 set it down on a kitchen table or some nice 1129 01:02:31.199 --> 01:02:33.880 dark surface, and take a picture of it and send 1130 01:02:33.880 --> 01:02:36.519 me those pictures. Make sure they're in sharp focus and 1131 01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:38.280 let me see what it is, because it may be 1132 01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:39.960 that the arcade is not how you have to go. 1133 01:02:40.039 --> 01:02:41.880 Maybe it's a perennial grass. 1134 01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:46.039 I'll do that right away. Thank you, skip all right, man, 1135 01:02:46.320 --> 01:02:46.599 thank you? 1136 01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:50.880 Bet you take care, you take care all right. Let's 1137 01:02:50.880 --> 01:02:54.239 see here where are we? I wanted to I did 1138 01:02:54.280 --> 01:02:57.519 want to mention to you. I talk about this garden 1139 01:02:57.559 --> 01:03:02.719 center pretty often. But in Water Gardens, Nelson Nursery and 1140 01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:05.840 Water Gardens is out in Katie. It's on Katie Fort 1141 01:03:05.840 --> 01:03:08.519 Ben Roads. So as you're heading out ten toward Katie 1142 01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:11.199 Katie Fort Ben Road, turn right across the tracks and 1143 01:03:11.239 --> 01:03:13.800 it's not too far down the road there. It is 1144 01:03:13.840 --> 01:03:17.360 an outstanding nursery, lots of plant selection, but there's also 1145 01:03:17.480 --> 01:03:20.480 a very special place and that they have the beautiful 1146 01:03:20.519 --> 01:03:25.199 disappearing fountains, they have waterfalls, they have it's just it's 1147 01:03:25.239 --> 01:03:27.519 an inspiring place. When you go in there, you're going 1148 01:03:27.559 --> 01:03:29.880 to want water in your backyard and the birds will 1149 01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:32.440 thank you for doing that, as was beneficial insects too, 1150 01:03:32.519 --> 01:03:36.119 having a source of water out in the landscape. While 1151 01:03:36.119 --> 01:03:38.480 you're there, you're going to find out an excellent selection 1152 01:03:38.559 --> 01:03:41.920 of plants, the things that grow here. The Nelsons have 1153 01:03:42.119 --> 01:03:46.320 long known how to grow plants and how to choose plants, 1154 01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:48.440 and how to build water guards. In fact, the disappearing 1155 01:03:48.440 --> 01:03:52.360 fountain they invented that nationally known really at Nelson Water 1156 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:56.039 Garden and Nursery. But don't just think water, think also plants. 1157 01:03:56.079 --> 01:03:57.920 And they have a good selection as well as the 1158 01:03:57.960 --> 01:04:00.719 things like fertilizers that you need to go with your plants. 1159 01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:04.880 So it's West Houston's full service nursery and it is 1160 01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:07.679 a destination nursery and I encourage you to take friends 1161 01:04:07.679 --> 01:04:09.760 when you go out there so you can all enjoy it. 1162 01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:17.039 Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. We are going to 1163 01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:19.679 have to take a quick break here and then Chuck, 1164 01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:21.679 when we come back, you will be our first up. 1165 01:04:25.599 --> 01:04:27.440 Listen to talking about a lot of different things in 1166 01:04:27.440 --> 01:04:30.239 the garden, because we want you to have success. Someone 1167 01:04:30.400 --> 01:04:32.559 was asking me the other day about well, it was 1168 01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:35.239 yesterday when I was down in at the clear Lake 1169 01:04:35.480 --> 01:04:38.639 Wildbird's Unlimited store. Someone asked about Buchanan's Native plants, and 1170 01:04:38.639 --> 01:04:40.079 I say, man, you got to go there. It's in 1171 01:04:40.119 --> 01:04:42.760 the Heights. It's on Eleventh Street in the Heights, and 1172 01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:44.639 they were looking for a particular kind of native and 1173 01:04:45.159 --> 01:04:48.639 I was talking to them about Buchanans. You know, Buchanans 1174 01:04:48.639 --> 01:04:51.000 has the best selection of native plants in the whole region. 1175 01:04:51.199 --> 01:04:53.679 And they really do. I mean, if you even want, 1176 01:04:53.719 --> 01:04:56.280 like I want a native that's just from the Houston area, 1177 01:04:56.400 --> 01:04:58.960 not a Texas native in general, but just when they 1178 01:04:59.039 --> 01:05:02.559 have a list of those as well, and they compare 1179 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:05.920 your interests to pick the right plant. For example, I 1180 01:05:05.920 --> 01:05:08.119 want to native the truck's butterflies. I want to native 1181 01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:11.000 the truck's hummingbirds, which, by the way, are flying through. 1182 01:05:11.079 --> 01:05:13.760 They're on there getting fueled up to head across the 1183 01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:15.599 Gulf of Mexico. I don't know how they do that, 1184 01:05:16.239 --> 01:05:19.239 but Buchanans has all of that and then some one 1185 01:05:19.280 --> 01:05:22.239 of the best houseplants selections you're going to find anywhere, 1186 01:05:22.239 --> 01:05:26.000 and they're huge houseplant greenhouse. Do you like succulents, they 1187 01:05:26.039 --> 01:05:28.840 got them. Do you need vegetables and herbs, They're loaded 1188 01:05:28.920 --> 01:05:32.320 up with those ready to go fruit trees, whatever you need. 1189 01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:35.239 Their gift shop is outstanding and while you're there you 1190 01:05:35.280 --> 01:05:38.280 can pick up fertilizers and soils and all of that 1191 01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:40.519 so that you do as we say on guarden Line, 1192 01:05:40.559 --> 01:05:43.280 take care of the brown stuff and then the green stuff. 1193 01:05:43.440 --> 01:05:45.239 Make sure the soil is right and put a good 1194 01:05:45.239 --> 01:05:47.519 plan in it, and Buchanans will help you do all 1195 01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:49.800 of that. Again. They're on eleven Street in the Heights. 1196 01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:54.119 Go to the website Buchanansplants dot com. It is loaded 1197 01:05:54.159 --> 01:05:56.519 with information and you do want to sign up for 1198 01:05:56.559 --> 01:06:02.519 their newsletter while you're there. Out now to Chuck in Liverpool. 1199 01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:04.440 Hello Chuck, Welcome to garden Line. 1200 01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:06.360 Good morning, Skip, how are you. 1201 01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:08.480 I'm well? Thank you. 1202 01:06:09.639 --> 01:06:09.840 Hey. 1203 01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:12.800 I've got some kind of little critter going on here. 1204 01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:19.199 It's underneath the leaves of my grapevine and also got 1205 01:06:19.239 --> 01:06:22.840 some avocados going on. And it's not only there, it's 1206 01:06:22.880 --> 01:06:26.039 on some just regular objects in the yard, like a 1207 01:06:26.079 --> 01:06:30.559 metal post or like some fabric cloth shaped and it's 1208 01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:33.960 it's like a little small trail, uh, maybe anywhere from 1209 01:06:33.960 --> 01:06:36.519 a half three quarter to an inch long, and it's 1210 01:06:36.599 --> 01:06:40.079 like these microscopic like egg things, like a gray color, 1211 01:06:40.079 --> 01:06:42.440 and they're like they're like little eggs and you can 1212 01:06:42.480 --> 01:06:44.599 rub it off with your thumb, you know, and they've 1213 01:06:44.599 --> 01:06:48.079 come off, and it's like these teeny tiny little bitty balls, 1214 01:06:48.239 --> 01:06:53.320 I mean, very microscopic small and they are just reaping. 1215 01:06:53.800 --> 01:06:54.280 What are they? 1216 01:06:55.880 --> 01:06:58.119 Are you sending their pin head size small? 1217 01:06:58.440 --> 01:07:02.920 Yes, they're yes, And it's a whole hold and they're 1218 01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:03.960 all over the place. 1219 01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:09.519 What is the damage that you're seeing from them? 1220 01:07:10.119 --> 01:07:12.840 It's just whatever piece of foldg you call, it's like 1221 01:07:12.840 --> 01:07:14.039 it's sucking the life out of it. 1222 01:07:15.719 --> 01:07:20.599 M well, uh, nothing is coming to mind that fits 1223 01:07:20.639 --> 01:07:23.199 that description. So will you do this? Will you take 1224 01:07:23.239 --> 01:07:27.760 some pictures, get as close as can to them, and 1225 01:07:28.159 --> 01:07:30.599 put something if you can put something in the picture, 1226 01:07:31.039 --> 01:07:32.760 you know, like the end of a pencil or something 1227 01:07:32.760 --> 01:07:34.800 that shows me kind of scale, just so I get 1228 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:37.480 an idea. But check the pictures, make sure they're in 1229 01:07:37.559 --> 01:07:39.599 sharp focus because I'm gonna at the zoom way in 1230 01:07:39.679 --> 01:07:42.239 on them, and so the closure you get with a 1231 01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:46.119 good sharp focus the better. Anyway, if you'll send those 1232 01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:49.639 to me, let me take a look at them going 1233 01:07:49.679 --> 01:07:52.519 through in my head right now. I'm well, I'm going 1234 01:07:52.559 --> 01:07:55.079 to put you on hold and Chris will send give 1235 01:07:55.119 --> 01:07:57.039 you the email you need to send that in. Okay, 1236 01:07:57.719 --> 01:08:02.000 all right, take it from there. Yeah, thanks a lot. 1237 01:08:02.039 --> 01:08:06.519 I appreciate that call. Nelson Plant Food is the source 1238 01:08:06.639 --> 01:08:09.920 of all kinds of outstanding products. They've got the color 1239 01:08:09.960 --> 01:08:12.639 Star line, one of the most famous color fertilizers in 1240 01:08:12.679 --> 01:08:15.599 this whole region. Really, everybody's tried it, or everybody that's 1241 01:08:15.599 --> 01:08:18.760 tried it knows how well it works. They have the 1242 01:08:18.840 --> 01:08:21.119 things like the carblow that we'll be talking about that 1243 01:08:21.199 --> 01:08:24.479 for fall fertilization a little bit here. But they have 1244 01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:29.399 something called Genesis that's a transplant product, and I've used 1245 01:08:29.399 --> 01:08:32.000 it myself when I was bumping tomatoes up from a 1246 01:08:32.039 --> 01:08:35.840 small to six pack size to a four inch pot. 1247 01:08:36.119 --> 01:08:41.640 Unbelievable response. Unbelievable response. This fall, you're gonna plant some shrubs, 1248 01:08:41.680 --> 01:08:43.960 You're can play some roses, You're gonna plant some perennials. 1249 01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:46.399 Whatever you're planting, maybe you're just moving things from one 1250 01:08:46.399 --> 01:08:50.600 pot to a bigger pot. Mix Genesis into the soil 1251 01:08:50.840 --> 01:08:53.560 of where that plant is going and you will see 1252 01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:56.119 a very fast response. It's an excellent product. Comes in 1253 01:08:56.119 --> 01:08:59.800 a little plastic plastic jar like some of the Nelson products, 1254 01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:03.479 but it's part of the nutri Star line. It's called Genesis, 1255 01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:06.319 and you definitely want to use that for any planting 1256 01:09:06.399 --> 01:09:09.439 that you're doing. I usually say, don't put fertilizer in 1257 01:09:09.439 --> 01:09:12.319 the planting hole. With Genesis, you can mix it into 1258 01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:15.560 the soil and plant the plant in that hole and 1259 01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:18.520 it will not burn and it will work. It works 1260 01:09:18.840 --> 01:09:22.079 very well. A great product from the folks out at Nelson. 1261 01:09:22.560 --> 01:09:25.079 Let's see, We're going to head now to pair Land 1262 01:09:25.319 --> 01:09:27.960 and talk to Pat. Hello, Pat, welcome to guard Line. 1263 01:09:29.039 --> 01:09:31.680 Thank you. I have a couple of questions. One is 1264 01:09:31.800 --> 01:09:35.119 I had a beautiful half a beautiful new lawn that 1265 01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:38.199 was put in after I moved into my home, and 1266 01:09:38.239 --> 01:09:40.640 it was so gorgeous and green, and now it's starting 1267 01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:44.039 to get yellow blades of grass. Do odd? I don't 1268 01:09:44.039 --> 01:09:45.479 know if it's too much water, I don't know if 1269 01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:47.640 it's not enough water, but I need you. 1270 01:09:47.640 --> 01:09:48.039 To tell me. 1271 01:09:49.359 --> 01:09:51.359 Yeah, it can be some different things. I saw a 1272 01:09:51.399 --> 01:09:53.600 little bit of that in one area of my lawn 1273 01:09:53.640 --> 01:09:56.680 as well, and I attributed it to I kind of 1274 01:09:56.720 --> 01:10:00.000 went for a time without watering and then started watering again. 1275 01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:04.920 And uh, it could be a disease called large patch 1276 01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:07.880 or brown patch, but that usually occurs in circles and 1277 01:10:07.920 --> 01:10:08.600 the grass turns. 1278 01:10:08.640 --> 01:10:11.399 No, it's not, it's just throughout my whole lawn, just 1279 01:10:11.479 --> 01:10:14.319 here and there, little. I mean, my grass used to 1280 01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:16.880 look so beautifully green and now it has kind of 1281 01:10:16.920 --> 01:10:19.199 like this yellow going through it. 1282 01:10:19.399 --> 01:10:23.920 Yeah. Yeah, well, uh, let me let me ask you 1283 01:10:23.960 --> 01:10:25.520 this is you want to if you want up close 1284 01:10:25.600 --> 01:10:27.720 to look at one of these areas, would the yellow 1285 01:10:27.800 --> 01:10:30.840 leaves be some of the older leaves, you know, not 1286 01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:32.720 at the very end of the runner and the end 1287 01:10:32.800 --> 01:10:36.399 of the runner is still green or all of it 1288 01:10:36.520 --> 01:10:37.279 turning yellow. 1289 01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:40.920 It's just throughout all of the grass. It's like a 1290 01:10:42.239 --> 01:10:45.279 it's it's not. It's not in lines, it's not in circles. 1291 01:10:45.399 --> 01:10:49.119 It's just like if I'm looking at my lawn, like 1292 01:10:49.199 --> 01:10:52.239 it's just every few blades of grass is turning yellow. 1293 01:10:53.760 --> 01:10:57.239 Okay, And I'm trying to nail down here through a 1294 01:10:57.279 --> 01:11:00.239 couple of possibilities. When the when it turns yellow, it's 1295 01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:02.479 not a yellow. If you looked at a blade real close, 1296 01:11:02.560 --> 01:11:04.880 it'd be yellow and green striped. But you're talking about 1297 01:11:04.920 --> 01:11:07.199 you got a green blade and over and next to it, 1298 01:11:07.239 --> 01:11:11.800 there's a yellow blade. Is that how we're seeing it? Okay, Yeah, 1299 01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:13.960 that's what That's what we were saying before. Could be 1300 01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:17.920 a could be a sol moisture problem, and who knows. 1301 01:11:18.039 --> 01:11:18.239 Now. 1302 01:11:18.359 --> 01:11:20.960 I think if you make sure the soil has adequate water, 1303 01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:25.239 don't over water because that causes problems in and of itself. 1304 01:11:25.319 --> 01:11:27.640 We know that we had water every day or rained 1305 01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:29.560 every day, and now it hasn't rained at all. 1306 01:11:29.640 --> 01:11:34.720 Okay, Yeah, so why don't you try yours. It's getting 1307 01:11:34.880 --> 01:11:37.119 about the time for fall fertilization. You may want to 1308 01:11:37.119 --> 01:11:40.359 do yours a little bit earlier this year and try 1309 01:11:40.399 --> 01:11:42.840 to give it a little boost. Another thing you could do. 1310 01:11:43.039 --> 01:11:46.039 And I would grab a product and it's from the 1311 01:11:46.079 --> 01:11:51.199 folks at Medinah and it is. It is a sixteen 1312 01:11:51.439 --> 01:11:54.600 zero two. I believe it's a lawn for like hooks 1313 01:11:54.680 --> 01:11:59.279 up to a garden hose like that I'm talking about. Yeah, 1314 01:11:59.319 --> 01:12:01.760 And I would just do go over your lawn with 1315 01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:02.680 that and. 1316 01:12:03.039 --> 01:12:04.760 Follow with the product. 1317 01:12:04.439 --> 01:12:06.840 According to the hang on one second I'm going to 1318 01:12:06.880 --> 01:12:10.279 tell you, but go over the lawn and apply it 1319 01:12:10.720 --> 01:12:15.479 with the hose in sprayer. And when you do that, 1320 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:19.039 watch it for the first week. You should see results 1321 01:12:19.159 --> 01:12:22.119 within the first few days really or week on it. 1322 01:12:22.560 --> 01:12:25.960 I think you're going to find that it's going to fix. 1323 01:12:26.800 --> 01:12:30.239 You know exactly what we're talking about here. The Medina 1324 01:12:30.279 --> 01:12:32.159 has a lot of great products out there, but this 1325 01:12:32.199 --> 01:12:34.560 one is it's part of the has to Grow line 1326 01:12:34.880 --> 01:12:39.279 and it's called super Grow Plus, super Grow plus Grow 1327 01:12:39.359 --> 01:12:43.720 Puss or sixteen sixteen zero two. But it's a little 1328 01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:46.239 green topped where you hook it up. It's a little 1329 01:12:46.239 --> 01:12:50.119 court bottle with a green top and super Grow plus 1330 01:12:50.199 --> 01:12:52.319 sixteen zero two. And you're going to find it. You know, 1331 01:12:52.359 --> 01:12:54.640 wherever you do your shopping. You're down in Pariland, there's 1332 01:12:54.680 --> 01:12:56.079 some a stores down there about that. 1333 01:12:56.039 --> 01:13:00.399 Habit yep okay. And you wouldn't think this is something 1334 01:13:00.439 --> 01:13:04.760 like my law needs to be air raided or composted. 1335 01:13:04.159 --> 01:13:10.199 Or I don't think so, because you know, aeration doesn't change. 1336 01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:12.479 It's like it's not like you have good air rated 1337 01:13:12.520 --> 01:13:15.319 soil and suddenly it's bad air raated soil, you know, 1338 01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:18.640 And this kind of happened suddenly for you. And now 1339 01:13:18.760 --> 01:13:21.359 it's always good to have a lawn air raided air rate. 1340 01:13:21.439 --> 01:13:24.319 It always helps improve the soil, followed by a compost 1341 01:13:24.319 --> 01:13:26.840 top dressing though that always say. 1342 01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:28.760 You know someone, do you have someone in Periland that 1343 01:13:28.800 --> 01:13:29.880 you would recommend to do that? 1344 01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:35.119 Uh bn B turf pros they are You're on You're 1345 01:13:35.159 --> 01:13:36.840 on the edge of the area they serve. You're on 1346 01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:39.520 the eastern edge of the area that they serve, and 1347 01:13:39.640 --> 01:13:42.960 I recommend them without any hesitations. Let me give you 1348 01:13:43.000 --> 01:13:43.399 would you like. 1349 01:13:43.399 --> 01:13:45.800 A phone both like boy and boy? 1350 01:13:46.479 --> 01:13:49.960 Yeah? Boy and boys? Got it? 1351 01:13:50.039 --> 01:13:53.560 Okay, okay, now my last there's the phone number? Oh 1352 01:13:53.600 --> 01:13:54.880 oh good, okay, go ahead. 1353 01:13:54.640 --> 01:14:01.359 Well yeah seven one three two three four fifty ninety eight. 1354 01:14:01.520 --> 01:14:04.600 Seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. 1355 01:14:04.640 --> 01:14:06.359 And I'm going to give you the website. It's BB 1356 01:14:06.720 --> 01:14:10.800 no End in the website bbturfcos dot com. 1357 01:14:11.359 --> 01:14:13.359 Thank you, okay, And if I could ask you one 1358 01:14:13.399 --> 01:14:15.800 more quick question. I was just my son yesterday and 1359 01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:18.920 Lake Jackson, and so I got to Moe's backyard and 1360 01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:21.560 the grass is just horrible. It's just roped in and 1361 01:14:22.079 --> 01:14:23.960 a lot of weeds and with it. But as I 1362 01:14:24.039 --> 01:14:28.439 was mowing, these little like little baby white moths just 1363 01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:32.279 they were everywhere. Every when I pushed the lawnmoard through, 1364 01:14:32.359 --> 01:14:35.359 they just walked out. Do you have any idea what 1365 01:14:35.399 --> 01:14:36.880 that is or what I can do about it? 1366 01:14:38.840 --> 01:14:41.159 If they were white, I don't know. There's a lot 1367 01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:42.479 of moths out there in nature. 1368 01:14:43.000 --> 01:14:43.119 Uh. 1369 01:14:43.359 --> 01:14:50.720 The sod webworm is a brownish tan moth. And Okay, 1370 01:14:50.760 --> 01:14:54.720 when you walk through the yard, it's like you flesh 1371 01:14:54.760 --> 01:14:56.279 them out of the grass as you walk, and they 1372 01:14:56.359 --> 01:14:58.239 sat a little bit and they settle back down in 1373 01:14:58.279 --> 01:15:02.359 the lawn. Is that what they were doing? Yeah, okay, 1374 01:15:02.479 --> 01:15:06.119 that's the side web worm. You need to get what's 1375 01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:08.079 going to happen. They're laying eggs and then you're going 1376 01:15:08.159 --> 01:15:10.359 to get caterpillars that eat the grass blades off the 1377 01:15:10.399 --> 01:15:14.039 grass great, and you need there's a number of insecticides 1378 01:15:14.119 --> 01:15:18.000 will work on side webworm. You can use the bugout Max. 1379 01:15:18.039 --> 01:15:21.039 You can use a spray of Spindo said, that's an 1380 01:15:21.119 --> 01:15:24.479 organic option. Uh, you get it on the foliage. They 1381 01:15:24.520 --> 01:15:26.560 come out at night and eat the grass blades and 1382 01:15:26.640 --> 01:15:29.199 it kills, but you may have to reapply. 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We're entering our third hour of the 1417 01:17:22.079 --> 01:17:25.159 morning here on garden Line. I've told you about the 1418 01:17:25.199 --> 01:17:29.359 Texas three step program by Nitrophos and it really makes sense. 1419 01:17:29.399 --> 01:17:32.680 And here's why. It's a fertilizer and it is a 1420 01:17:32.720 --> 01:17:35.680 weed control and it is a disease control. That's the 1421 01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:41.560 steps one, two, three. Step one nitrofoss fall special specifically 1422 01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:45.199 blended for fall with that high potassium content so that 1423 01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:50.159 your grass grows stronger going into winter, so it has 1424 01:17:50.199 --> 01:17:53.439 more winter heartiness and it comes out stronger in the spring. 1425 01:17:54.359 --> 01:17:57.319 The early growth on your grass next spring is going 1426 01:17:57.359 --> 01:18:01.239 to be from stored energy, not the root from stored energy, 1427 01:18:01.680 --> 01:18:05.920 and by sending it into winter strong with Nitroposs Fall Special, 1428 01:18:06.319 --> 01:18:09.640 you help achieve a better one next spring. The weeds 1429 01:18:09.760 --> 01:18:13.000 Barricade Nitrofoss barricade. You get it down at the right time, 1430 01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:17.239 follow my schedule online at guardingiskip dot com, and you 1431 01:18:17.279 --> 01:18:19.960 prevent all those winter weeds that are sprouting in your lawn, 1432 01:18:20.039 --> 01:18:22.560 so next spring you're not dealing with all these growing 1433 01:18:22.600 --> 01:18:25.680 and blooming and taking over the world weeds like chickweed 1434 01:18:25.720 --> 01:18:28.560 and hend beet and carpetweed and clovers and all of 1435 01:18:28.560 --> 01:18:32.720 that kind of stuff. Third step Eagle turf fungicide nitrofoss 1436 01:18:32.800 --> 01:18:38.039 Eagle turf fungicide that prevents things like large patch or 1437 01:18:38.039 --> 01:18:40.600 brown patch as it's called, the big circles that are 1438 01:18:40.600 --> 01:18:43.359 going to happen, and it also works well against take 1439 01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:46.319 all root rot. Take all root rot. Again, look at 1440 01:18:46.319 --> 01:18:48.600 my schedule. It tells you when to apply these things, 1441 01:18:49.079 --> 01:18:52.760 and you will find that this nitrofoss three step program 1442 01:18:53.000 --> 01:18:56.239 works really, really well. You're going to find it at 1443 01:18:56.319 --> 01:18:59.520 in Channey Gardens and in Richmond Plans for all seasons 1444 01:18:59.560 --> 01:19:02.560 up on two. You're going to find it at RCW 1445 01:19:02.840 --> 01:19:06.800 nurseries as well as the Ace Hardware City on Memorial 1446 01:19:06.960 --> 01:19:10.720 in Memorial rather the Memorial area. All right, there, it's 1447 01:19:10.720 --> 01:19:12.640 as simple as that. That makes it really easy. We're 1448 01:19:12.640 --> 01:19:14.039 going to go out the phones now. We're going to 1449 01:19:14.119 --> 01:19:16.840 talk to Steve and deer Park. Hello Steve, welcome to 1450 01:19:16.880 --> 01:19:17.399 garden Line. 1451 01:19:18.680 --> 01:19:23.680 Thank you. I had a question about blue bonnets. We 1452 01:19:23.760 --> 01:19:30.119 have a bed that we've had xenia's in and my 1453 01:19:30.199 --> 01:19:35.640 wife has some blue bonnet seeds and she'd like some 1454 01:19:36.039 --> 01:19:39.079 tips on putting the blue bonnet seeds out, and also 1455 01:19:39.880 --> 01:19:43.000 could she put out the xenia seeds the same time 1456 01:19:43.039 --> 01:19:47.159 as she puts out the blue bonnet seeds, Like there's 1457 01:19:47.319 --> 01:19:49.279 mulch on it. Does she have to pull away the 1458 01:19:49.319 --> 01:19:51.239 malt and put it in the dirt or can she 1459 01:19:51.439 --> 01:19:52.960 sprinkle it on top of the mulch. 1460 01:19:56.039 --> 01:20:01.239 You with bluebonnet seeds and zenas, if you can just 1461 01:20:01.279 --> 01:20:03.359 barely cover them up, just get a little soil around 1462 01:20:03.399 --> 01:20:05.159 them so when you water it in, the soil is 1463 01:20:05.239 --> 01:20:07.119 kind of stuck to the side of the seeds. It 1464 01:20:07.159 --> 01:20:09.680 helps them sprout a little better. You could plant them 1465 01:20:09.680 --> 01:20:11.520 at the same time. The blue bonnets aren't going to 1466 01:20:11.560 --> 01:20:13.319 come up for a little bit. The zenias will come 1467 01:20:13.399 --> 01:20:18.359 up right now. The problem with that is those zenias go. 1468 01:20:18.880 --> 01:20:22.239 The zinias are going to grow and be shading out 1469 01:20:22.560 --> 01:20:26.880 the blue bonnets when they're trying to germinate later, so 1470 01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:28.359 I don't. 1471 01:20:28.199 --> 01:20:30.920 Think so lighter than the blue bonnets. 1472 01:20:30.920 --> 01:20:33.720 Then yeah, at some point you're just going to cut 1473 01:20:33.720 --> 01:20:36.439 those zenias back and get the blue bonnet seeds out. 1474 01:20:37.680 --> 01:20:39.960 And when what's the best time to put out the 1475 01:20:39.960 --> 01:20:41.560 blue bonnet seeds? 1476 01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:42.600 Uh? 1477 01:20:42.640 --> 01:20:46.640 Well, really September and October or ideal times. You could 1478 01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:48.479 plant them a little bit later, but it's better if 1479 01:20:48.520 --> 01:20:52.279 you can get done sometime in October. So you're kind 1480 01:20:52.279 --> 01:20:55.119 of looking at a traffic jam in that flower bed 1481 01:20:55.159 --> 01:20:57.239 because you're trying to get the zenias up and growing. 1482 01:20:57.399 --> 01:20:59.319 But then at the same time you need get sunlight 1483 01:20:59.319 --> 01:21:00.920 for when the blue that you're going to try to 1484 01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:03.439 come up, and I think that overlap is going to 1485 01:21:03.479 --> 01:21:05.319 be a little bit of a challenge in the same bed. 1486 01:21:07.079 --> 01:21:09.239 Okay, well, the blue bonds. 1487 01:21:10.000 --> 01:21:14.159 One alternative, yeah, excuse me, Steve. One alternative would be 1488 01:21:14.199 --> 01:21:16.640 to start those blue bonnets and four inch pots. Get 1489 01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:18.840 your a bunch of four inch pots and start put 1490 01:21:18.880 --> 01:21:21.880 two blue bonnet seeds in each one. When it's time 1491 01:21:21.880 --> 01:21:25.000 to Actually, you could do that now and start them 1492 01:21:25.000 --> 01:21:27.399 and get them up and growing, and then when you 1493 01:21:27.439 --> 01:21:29.880 pull the zendias out, you'll set out the blue bonnet 1494 01:21:29.920 --> 01:21:32.560 transplants and you'll have that head start and the traffic 1495 01:21:32.600 --> 01:21:34.640 jam won't be such a problem. 1496 01:21:35.319 --> 01:21:38.159 And so what time should I set them out? 1497 01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:42.279 You would set your Well, the zendias are going to 1498 01:21:42.359 --> 01:21:44.960 go down at the at the first frost, and you're 1499 01:21:45.000 --> 01:21:48.560 pretty far south, so who knows when that's going to occur, 1500 01:21:49.039 --> 01:21:51.720 But a little before that, probably I would go ahead 1501 01:21:51.760 --> 01:21:55.000 and just pull the zendias and then maybe, let's say 1502 01:21:55.119 --> 01:21:58.520 in November, early November, try to get those blue bonnet 1503 01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:00.920 transplants in the ground at that time. 1504 01:22:02.479 --> 01:22:06.439 Okay, all right, I was gonna it's a little early, 1505 01:22:06.479 --> 01:22:09.840 but I was going to ask you for plants that 1506 01:22:09.960 --> 01:22:12.840 I know that are going to freeze when we gets 1507 01:22:12.880 --> 01:22:19.920 real cold. Should I cut those back sometime or should 1508 01:22:19.960 --> 01:22:22.359 I just let them stay the size they are and 1509 01:22:23.079 --> 01:22:24.039 let them freeze back? 1510 01:22:24.920 --> 01:22:27.239 So so if they're gonna if they're gonna freeze, some 1511 01:22:27.279 --> 01:22:29.279 people there's two ways to do it. Some people wait 1512 01:22:29.319 --> 01:22:31.640 until they freeze and then they cut them right back 1513 01:22:31.840 --> 01:22:35.079 so they're not ugly out there. Other people leave them 1514 01:22:35.079 --> 01:22:38.279 for a while because on some types of plant structure, 1515 01:22:38.359 --> 01:22:41.439 Let's say you had kind of a low growing spreading plant. 1516 01:22:41.880 --> 01:22:44.960 That dead top that just froze is a little bit 1517 01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:48.680 of an insulation for the base of the plant as 1518 01:22:48.680 --> 01:22:51.439 we got that cold weather, and they'll leave it and 1519 01:22:51.439 --> 01:22:54.920 then they'll cut it back before spring hits. Either way 1520 01:22:55.039 --> 01:22:58.479 is okay. You can also do the insulation by just 1521 01:22:58.520 --> 01:23:00.760 putting a little mult over the crown of that plant 1522 01:23:01.039 --> 01:23:04.239 after you cut it back to kind of help hold 1523 01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:06.840 the soil warmth in a little bit to protect it. 1524 01:23:08.039 --> 01:23:12.720 Either way, okay, okay, thank you, I'm gonna have to 1525 01:23:12.840 --> 01:23:15.239 run you bet hey, thanks for the questions. Thanks for 1526 01:23:15.279 --> 01:23:18.600 calling in here. To guard line plants for all Seasons, 1527 01:23:18.640 --> 01:23:20.800 I was talking about the night Fast three step system 1528 01:23:20.880 --> 01:23:22.880 Plants for all seasons. Has got all three of them. 1529 01:23:23.039 --> 01:23:25.319 And they have everything else too. I mean, if you're 1530 01:23:25.319 --> 01:23:27.680 looking for a fertilizer I talk about on guardlines, gonna 1531 01:23:27.680 --> 01:23:30.800 be in there. They carry all of that. 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If you want to go to 1542 01:24:01.319 --> 01:24:03.600 a place that carries plants that do well here and 1543 01:24:03.680 --> 01:24:06.319 has folks that are experts on how to have success 1544 01:24:06.359 --> 01:24:09.000 and how to deal with any issues that arise, Plans 1545 01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:12.159 for All Seasons can provide all of that. I'm going 1546 01:24:12.239 --> 01:24:16.199 to go now out to uh Dickenson, Texas and talk 1547 01:24:16.239 --> 01:24:16.640 to Jane. 1548 01:24:16.680 --> 01:24:20.119 Hello, Jane, good morning, Thank you. 1549 01:24:21.159 --> 01:24:22.479 I have I'm going to get up. 1550 01:24:24.800 --> 01:24:28.000 Go ahead, Okay, what. 1551 01:24:28.039 --> 01:24:35.479 About a minute? Okay, wild squash grown in your yard. 1552 01:24:35.520 --> 01:24:38.359 That's strange. I don't know how it got there. Hey, Jane, 1553 01:24:38.399 --> 01:24:40.600 could you turn the radio off? I think that's throwing 1554 01:24:40.680 --> 01:24:48.239 us off on our cadencer. Certainly, so good good good 1555 01:24:48.880 --> 01:24:51.800 wild squash is uh, I don't know what you're talking about. 1556 01:24:51.840 --> 01:24:57.600 There's there are a lot of different cute curbetss or 1557 01:24:57.760 --> 01:25:07.000 that's what squash is. Huh q curbits and uh huh. 1558 01:25:08.199 --> 01:25:09.199 I'm sure to go so you can talk. 1559 01:25:09.399 --> 01:25:11.520 I see what I'm gonna have to take a break 1560 01:25:11.800 --> 01:25:14.039 here for the Just hang on, we'll come back and 1561 01:25:14.079 --> 01:25:16.920 we will we will solve this problem. Thanks for the call. 1562 01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:19.640 We'll be right back with you after the break, all right, 1563 01:25:19.760 --> 01:25:21.600 if you want to call it seven one three two 1564 01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:24.479 one two k t r H. Now I want to 1565 01:25:24.520 --> 01:25:27.000 tell you about Nature's Way resources. First of all, the 1566 01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:30.800 summer sale we've been talking about, that's done, but Fungal 1567 01:25:30.920 --> 01:25:34.680 Fridays are still on every Friday at Nature's Way twenty 1568 01:25:34.760 --> 01:25:38.600 percent off their fungal compost. This is an outstanding product 1569 01:25:38.680 --> 01:25:41.239 to mix into your soil like you would compost. It's 1570 01:25:41.279 --> 01:25:44.199 an outstanding product to top dress your lawn too. Like 1571 01:25:44.239 --> 01:25:48.000 we talk about leap mold compost screen down, fungal compost 1572 01:25:48.159 --> 01:25:51.039 is excellent for the lawn as well. Now in Nature's Way, 1573 01:25:51.119 --> 01:25:53.159 you know they're stocking up on all kinds of things 1574 01:25:53.159 --> 01:25:56.039 because fall is the time that's a big planning season. 1575 01:25:56.079 --> 01:25:58.439 People are buying the composts, getting their soils, getting the 1576 01:25:58.479 --> 01:26:01.920 mulches and everything ready to go. Nature's Ways got stocked 1577 01:26:01.960 --> 01:26:03.960 up and they're ready to go for you. You can 1578 01:26:04.000 --> 01:26:07.079 go purchase the product there on site bulk or by 1579 01:26:07.119 --> 01:26:09.800 the bag. The many places are on town sell their 1580 01:26:09.840 --> 01:26:13.039 products by the bag as well. Write this on your calendar. 1581 01:26:13.119 --> 01:26:15.119 I remember always listening to guard Line with a pen 1582 01:26:15.279 --> 01:26:19.239 and a paper in hand. October twelfth, it's a Saturday. 1583 01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:22.159 They're having their fall festival. They're gonna have Latin food. 1584 01:26:22.159 --> 01:26:24.720 They're gonna have local vendors. They're gonna be plant sales 1585 01:26:24.720 --> 01:26:27.520 out there, because they do sell plants at Nature's Way Resources. 1586 01:26:27.960 --> 01:26:29.520 And I'll be out there doing a Q and A 1587 01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:32.239 from eleven thirty to one thirty. There's gonna be live music, 1588 01:26:32.399 --> 01:26:35.880 there're gonna be children's activities. In other words, here in 1589 01:26:35.920 --> 01:26:38.399 Texas we call that a shin dig. And they're gonna 1590 01:26:38.439 --> 01:26:42.119 have one act of a fall festival shin Dig October twelfth, 1591 01:26:42.159 --> 01:26:44.359 Market on your calendar so you can come out. I'll 1592 01:26:44.359 --> 01:26:46.119 tell you more about it as we get closer to it. 1593 01:26:46.560 --> 01:26:48.880 All right, we're gonna head back out here. We were 1594 01:26:48.880 --> 01:26:52.439 having a conversation with Jane. Jane, what makes you think 1595 01:26:52.520 --> 01:26:53.920 it's a wild squash? 1596 01:26:54.000 --> 01:26:56.319 Tell me a little bit about that well, it could 1597 01:26:56.399 --> 01:26:58.600 be a wild cucumber type thing. 1598 01:26:59.359 --> 01:27:00.319 It's okay. 1599 01:27:00.399 --> 01:27:02.800 It does appear to be a squash, very swell of 1600 01:27:02.880 --> 01:27:08.520 yellow flowers. It grows to about three and between two 1601 01:27:08.520 --> 01:27:15.199 and three inches. The raw, sorry, unripe green looks kind 1602 01:27:15.239 --> 01:27:18.720 of like a small watermelon and then yellows up beautifully 1603 01:27:18.840 --> 01:27:22.479 and it hangs. It came in as an ornamental because 1604 01:27:22.479 --> 01:27:24.359 I had seen it growing a couple other places. I 1605 01:27:24.439 --> 01:27:27.920 brought it in and it's exploded. It is still flowering, 1606 01:27:28.119 --> 01:27:32.760 it is still producing fruit, it's growing up senses, it's 1607 01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:36.000 growing out on the grass and runners making it's amazing, 1608 01:27:36.399 --> 01:27:42.479 very very happy stuff. Okay, it's a hard, yellow, thin skin. 1609 01:27:44.439 --> 01:27:46.720 Looks more like a cucumber when I was cut into 1610 01:27:46.760 --> 01:27:49.520 it than a squash, So that could be misting for sure. 1611 01:27:50.119 --> 01:27:52.560 Well, there's a whole group of plants called cue curbets, 1612 01:27:52.640 --> 01:27:55.960 and that includes cucumbers and squash and melons, certain kinds 1613 01:27:55.960 --> 01:27:59.880 of melons, canta lopes and things. Uh. And they generally 1614 01:27:59.880 --> 01:28:03.479 aren't invasive because the seed has to come out of 1615 01:28:03.479 --> 01:28:06.239 the fruit and then be spread around, and that that 1616 01:28:06.600 --> 01:28:09.239 it doesn't naturally do that unless you broke the seed 1617 01:28:09.279 --> 01:28:12.520 up and spread it. So I'm not sure what exactly 1618 01:28:12.560 --> 01:28:15.439 you're having there. It could be a wild type of cucurbet. 1619 01:28:15.960 --> 01:28:18.840 But if that's the case, it's just a matter of 1620 01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:28.720 pulling the plants up as they come up spraying. Oh okay. 1621 01:28:28.800 --> 01:28:30.720 Before I can answer that, I need to see a 1622 01:28:30.760 --> 01:28:35.119 picture of it. The cucurbets in general are edible. A 1623 01:28:35.159 --> 01:28:37.239 lot of them are not palatable, and that is a 1624 01:28:37.319 --> 01:28:39.119 huge difference. You know, can you eat it? 1625 01:28:39.239 --> 01:28:39.520 Yes? 1626 01:28:39.680 --> 01:28:40.520 Do you want to eat it? 1627 01:28:40.720 --> 01:28:40.800 No? 1628 01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:43.720 But let's do this. I'm gonna put you on hold 1629 01:28:43.760 --> 01:28:46.800 and have Chris give you an email. Send me pictures 1630 01:28:46.960 --> 01:28:50.640 of these plants from a distance, but especially up close. 1631 01:28:50.680 --> 01:28:52.399 I want to see the fruit, the leaves, and the 1632 01:28:52.399 --> 01:28:55.520 blooms in good sharp focus, and I'll reply to your 1633 01:28:55.560 --> 01:28:58.840 email as far as the edible if there's anything else 1634 01:28:58.880 --> 01:29:04.920 to add. Okay, thank you, j you Yeah, you too, 1635 01:29:05.079 --> 01:29:09.319 appreciate that. Thank you very much. Three sixty tree stabilizers. 1636 01:29:09.600 --> 01:29:12.520 That's the advice that I give you for this fall. 1637 01:29:12.800 --> 01:29:17.119 Fall is for planting. Fall is especially for planting tree 1638 01:29:17.119 --> 01:29:19.960 shrubs and woody vines. What are you ornamentals? We call them. 1639 01:29:20.199 --> 01:29:22.159 If you're going to plant a tree, it needs to 1640 01:29:22.239 --> 01:29:24.920 have a steak to hold it in place, and you 1641 01:29:25.039 --> 01:29:27.119 drive a t post in the ground. You can use 1642 01:29:27.159 --> 01:29:29.000 other kind of steaks, but you drive a tepost in 1643 01:29:29.000 --> 01:29:32.159 the ground, attach a three sixty tree stabilizer to it 1644 01:29:32.600 --> 01:29:37.640 and it holds that in place but allows the trunk 1645 01:29:37.720 --> 01:29:40.319 to move a little bit. The little strap is soft 1646 01:29:40.399 --> 01:29:43.479 and allows a little movement, which is important in developing 1647 01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:47.159 trunk strength. You're going to find three sixty tree stabilizers 1648 01:29:47.159 --> 01:29:49.439 at plants for all seasons. You're going to find it 1649 01:29:49.479 --> 01:29:53.720 at RCW at Buchanans, at Hoorges, Hidden Gardens done in Alvin, 1650 01:29:54.319 --> 01:29:58.079 at Arbor Gate, at Southwest Fertilizer. They're easy to find 1651 01:29:58.159 --> 01:30:01.199 and this product really works. And when you're done with it, 1652 01:30:01.239 --> 01:30:02.640 when it's spin it to your out there in the 1653 01:30:02.680 --> 01:30:05.720 garden store it man may have a tree, or you 1654 01:30:05.760 --> 01:30:07.760 may have another one later you can use it. You 1655 01:30:07.760 --> 01:30:09.399 can use it for crpe myrtles. If you've got a 1656 01:30:09.439 --> 01:30:12.720 bigger tree. You can do two stabilizers at right angles 1657 01:30:12.880 --> 01:30:15.279 coming in let's say north south and one east west, 1658 01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:18.920 and that just gives even more support for the tree. 1659 01:30:18.960 --> 01:30:21.000 But it's a product that works, and I wouldn't plant 1660 01:30:21.000 --> 01:30:24.039 a tree without putting one on We're going to go 1661 01:30:24.079 --> 01:30:26.560 to northwest Houston now and talk to Ralph. 1662 01:30:26.960 --> 01:30:32.600 Hello Ralph, good morning, Glad to have you aboard. Thank god, 1663 01:30:33.800 --> 01:30:36.560 I've had all this crazy weather, you know, with all 1664 01:30:36.680 --> 01:30:40.199 tree up, a coon, tree breaking in evil. But anyway, 1665 01:30:40.279 --> 01:30:44.279 my story is my grass is dying out, and I 1666 01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:49.199 don't know, I've tried watering it. But it's in the front. 1667 01:30:49.239 --> 01:30:51.319 In the back it's beautiful, you know, and I have 1668 01:30:51.399 --> 01:30:53.960 beautiful grass. But now then they've got a look in 1669 01:30:54.039 --> 01:30:57.199 there and my ground is so hard. It looked like 1670 01:30:57.239 --> 01:31:01.399 I'm having trouble. I put sound out and it's what 1671 01:31:01.560 --> 01:31:02.439 do I do here? 1672 01:31:03.720 --> 01:31:07.079 Well, for me, I would if it were me, I 1673 01:31:07.119 --> 01:31:10.199 would call the folks at Green Pro and have them 1674 01:31:10.279 --> 01:31:13.720 come out and do an aer ration and a compost 1675 01:31:14.039 --> 01:31:17.920 top dressing. They can get down through that soil. They 1676 01:31:17.960 --> 01:31:19.800 may have you water it a little bit first, just 1677 01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:22.159 to soften the soil up a bit. You just talk 1678 01:31:22.239 --> 01:31:24.640 to them there. Do you have a pin or pencil 1679 01:31:24.680 --> 01:31:25.159 handy there? 1680 01:31:25.279 --> 01:31:29.479 Ro oh one minute? 1681 01:31:29.840 --> 01:31:33.560 Yes, okay, yeah, while you're getting it, I'm gonna keep talking. 1682 01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:37.079 Uh yeah. They cover an area about forty about forty 1683 01:31:37.079 --> 01:31:39.560 five miles from Magnolia, and you're definitely in that area, 1684 01:31:39.680 --> 01:31:43.600 so anything kind of north and west of Houston down 1685 01:31:43.680 --> 01:31:47.840 down Houston. Now that their number is two eight one 1686 01:31:48.600 --> 01:31:53.199 three five one forty seven thirty three, I'm gonna give 1687 01:31:53.239 --> 01:31:57.920 that again two eight one three five one forty seven 1688 01:31:58.239 --> 01:32:02.479 thirty three. And the website, if you like websites, is 1689 01:32:03.439 --> 01:32:08.199 greenpro dot net. Now that they're what they're doing right 1690 01:32:08.239 --> 01:32:11.119 now in this fall is they're aerating the lawn for 1691 01:32:11.279 --> 01:32:14.880 free when you purchase the compost top dressing service. But 1692 01:32:15.000 --> 01:32:17.399 you have to get at least two yards minimum on 1693 01:32:17.479 --> 01:32:21.840 that offer. But it's not cheap. But it gets holes 1694 01:32:21.880 --> 01:32:24.319 down in the soil, pulls the plug out, leaves it 1695 01:32:24.359 --> 01:32:26.520 on the surface, and then they put that compost top 1696 01:32:26.600 --> 01:32:30.880 dressing on and that begins that process of improving the 1697 01:32:31.000 --> 01:32:36.479 root system so your turf can root deeper, holds moisture well, 1698 01:32:36.960 --> 01:32:38.680 you know, and it just does all the things that 1699 01:32:38.840 --> 01:32:41.600 grass needs to thrive down in the root system. I 1700 01:32:41.640 --> 01:32:43.760 think that's the first thing that I would do. I 1701 01:32:43.760 --> 01:32:45.760 think that's going to go a long way toward helping 1702 01:32:45.760 --> 01:32:46.680 you in those areas. 1703 01:32:47.239 --> 01:32:50.800 Yes, it's that strange year, I tell you that. Okay, yeah, 1704 01:32:50.800 --> 01:32:51.680 I appreciate it. 1705 01:32:51.479 --> 01:32:55.920 Sure is, all right, Ralph. Thank you, you bet, thank 1706 01:32:55.960 --> 01:33:00.000 you very much. I appreciate your call very much. Yeah, 1707 01:33:00.039 --> 01:33:03.600 Green Pro if you live kind of forty five miles 1708 01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:06.600 from Magnolia, So we're talking about Spring Cyprus, the Woodlands, 1709 01:33:06.640 --> 01:33:11.479 Conrad Willis, then over Montgomery, Magnolia and down to Katie 1710 01:33:11.520 --> 01:33:16.039 West Houston, Central Houston Northeast. That Northwest quadrant basically is 1711 01:33:16.079 --> 01:33:19.439 the area that they serve with that service. Have you 1712 01:33:19.479 --> 01:33:21.720 been to in Chana Gardens? You know, in Chane Gardens 1713 01:33:21.800 --> 01:33:26.479 is out there in Richmond Rosenberg area. They are on 1714 01:33:26.520 --> 01:33:30.800 the Katie Fulsher side of Richmond, though specifically they are 1715 01:33:30.840 --> 01:33:34.840 on FM three fifty nine FM three fifty nine out 1716 01:33:34.880 --> 01:33:38.239 in the Kadi Fullshier part of Richmond Rosenburg. You got 1717 01:33:38.239 --> 01:33:42.560 to go out there. This place is outstanding. That right now, 1718 01:33:43.079 --> 01:33:46.239 fall color is well just split this way. Fall color 1719 01:33:46.319 --> 01:33:50.039 is running rampant out at in enchanted gardens, qurotons and 1720 01:33:50.119 --> 01:33:52.720 all the different plants you plant for a beautiful fall. 1721 01:33:53.359 --> 01:33:57.239 Lots lots of colorful things like snap dragons. It's a 1722 01:33:57.279 --> 01:33:58.199 season for that too. 1723 01:33:58.279 --> 01:33:58.439 You know. 1724 01:33:58.520 --> 01:34:02.000 By the way, they have a selection of everything from 1725 01:34:02.000 --> 01:34:07.760 houseplants to vegetables to herbs. It's just you just have 1726 01:34:07.800 --> 01:34:10.239 to go to see what I'm talking about. Beautiful containers 1727 01:34:10.279 --> 01:34:13.920 they can take. They carry the soil products, the the 1728 01:34:13.960 --> 01:34:17.680 fertilizer products that I recommend here on garden Line. The 1729 01:34:17.720 --> 01:34:20.720 Pumpkin House is set up out there. I think Saturday, 1730 01:34:20.760 --> 01:34:23.800 October fifth is when it opens up, the Pumpkin House 1731 01:34:23.800 --> 01:34:26.800 and Pumpkin Palooza. You just have to go see it. 1732 01:34:27.079 --> 01:34:29.960 Pumpkin House. What is that picture in your mind? Well, 1733 01:34:30.000 --> 01:34:31.840 that's probably what you're gonna see when you get out there. 1734 01:34:31.960 --> 01:34:34.439 It's pretty cool stuff. Anyway, I'd love to go out 1735 01:34:34.479 --> 01:34:38.960 to Enchanted Gardens, great nursery, great people, good advice, good plants. 1736 01:34:39.119 --> 01:34:44.119 Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's how you get there. 1737 01:34:44.359 --> 01:34:48.920 That's the place, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. You need 1738 01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:51.279 to go to the website too, because when you get 1739 01:34:51.279 --> 01:34:54.479 out there and you get to the website, you're going 1740 01:34:54.560 --> 01:34:56.720 to see everything they carry. You can follow them on 1741 01:34:56.760 --> 01:34:59.760 social media. That's a great idea, by the way, because 1742 01:34:59.800 --> 01:35:02.840 they're always posting some very good, helpful stuff letting you 1743 01:35:02.920 --> 01:35:07.239 know what's in And I don't know just know what 1744 01:35:07.319 --> 01:35:09.199 else to say other than you need to go. People 1745 01:35:09.279 --> 01:35:12.319 drive from long distances to go to that place because 1746 01:35:12.359 --> 01:35:16.279 it's worth it. Absolutely, it's worth it. I was talking 1747 01:35:16.279 --> 01:35:19.159 about Nilsen Plant Foods early. I'm telling you about the 1748 01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:24.960 Genesis Nutristar Genesis for transplanting. They also have a nutri 1749 01:35:25.039 --> 01:35:28.960 Star for vegetable gardens. A nutri Star for vegetable gardens 1750 01:35:29.000 --> 01:35:32.760 has those nutrients that it will add to the soil 1751 01:35:33.199 --> 01:35:36.680 to ensure your vegetables grow and develop properly and have 1752 01:35:36.840 --> 01:35:40.000 higher yields. That's absolutely the case. You put it out. 1753 01:35:40.359 --> 01:35:42.239 You can put it out monthly during the growing season 1754 01:35:42.239 --> 01:35:44.960 if you like, for a quick release of nutrients. It's 1755 01:35:44.960 --> 01:35:48.600 going to increase again the productivity and the quality of 1756 01:35:48.640 --> 01:35:51.880 your vegetables by making sure that vegetable plant is well 1757 01:35:51.880 --> 01:35:55.399 fed five different sources of nitrogen, so they give an 1758 01:35:55.439 --> 01:35:59.720 even release that results in just really good performance. It's 1759 01:35:59.720 --> 01:36:02.600 good for enriching a race beed garden. It's good for 1760 01:36:02.720 --> 01:36:05.720 using in container gardens. If you got vegetables in a container. 1761 01:36:05.760 --> 01:36:11.560 I was earlier challenging or asking, requesting, pleading. If you 1762 01:36:11.640 --> 01:36:16.199 never grown vegetables before this fall, why not start? How 1763 01:36:16.199 --> 01:36:20.319 about this? Just one container? Try one container, gross some broccoli, gross, 1764 01:36:20.319 --> 01:36:23.279 some vegetables, and get you some nutri Star vegetable garden 1765 01:36:23.560 --> 01:36:25.720 for that, and if you got beds in the landscape, 1766 01:36:25.760 --> 01:36:29.880 it's good for those as well. Nutrastar vegetable garden from 1767 01:36:29.960 --> 01:36:33.279 Nelson Plant Food. It's an excellent product. I have found 1768 01:36:33.279 --> 01:36:36.119 it to work very very well. And I tell you 1769 01:36:36.159 --> 01:36:39.119 guys that when I talk about stuff on Garden Line, 1770 01:36:39.199 --> 01:36:41.960 either I've read research about the product or I've used 1771 01:36:41.960 --> 01:36:45.079 it myself, preferably the second one, so I have first 1772 01:36:45.079 --> 01:36:47.279 hand experience with it, and that way, when I tell 1773 01:36:47.279 --> 01:36:49.319 you it works, it's because it's worked for me when 1774 01:36:49.359 --> 01:36:52.760 I used it. All Right, you're listening to Garden Line. 1775 01:36:52.800 --> 01:36:54.920 I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're about to take a 1776 01:36:54.960 --> 01:36:57.680 little break here, but if you would like to get 1777 01:36:57.720 --> 01:37:00.359 on and be first up when we come back seven 1778 01:37:00.359 --> 01:37:04.000 to one three two one two kt r H, give 1779 01:37:04.079 --> 01:37:07.199 Chris call seven one three two one two kt RH. 1780 01:37:07.399 --> 01:37:09.600 He will make sure that you were up on the 1781 01:37:09.600 --> 01:37:12.439 boards when we come back. Welcome to Garden Line, folks. 1782 01:37:12.479 --> 01:37:14.960 Good to have you with us. We we're just gonna 1783 01:37:15.039 --> 01:37:17.359 keep going here. Lots to talk about. In fact, I'm 1784 01:37:17.359 --> 01:37:19.319 gonna run straight out to the phones. We're gonna go 1785 01:37:19.399 --> 01:37:23.359 to Allen in Baytown. Hello, Allan, Welcome, to garden line. 1786 01:37:24.319 --> 01:37:27.800 Good morning, thank you, And for the record, I'm League City, 1787 01:37:27.880 --> 01:37:28.520 Lamark area. 1788 01:37:29.840 --> 01:37:32.920 Okay, I called before and. 1789 01:37:32.880 --> 01:37:37.399 I said, Beta, I don't live in Paytown, man, But anyway, Okay, 1790 01:37:37.640 --> 01:37:39.079 that's fertilization schedule. 1791 01:37:39.680 --> 01:37:42.439 Uh I got alane. That might be a year old, 1792 01:37:42.520 --> 01:37:43.760 nothink they're burn done to it. 1793 01:37:45.279 --> 01:37:45.880 Pre emergent. 1794 01:37:46.319 --> 01:37:49.039 Are the fertilizer first come up coming out of here soon? 1795 01:37:50.000 --> 01:37:54.039 Or does it matter? I would it? Well it it 1796 01:37:54.119 --> 01:37:56.880 kind of doesn't matter. They're both done at the same time. 1797 01:37:57.399 --> 01:37:59.239 In fact, you could do them on the same day 1798 01:37:59.840 --> 01:38:06.039 in separate applications if you wanted, do you have a 1799 01:38:06.079 --> 01:38:11.960 particular go ahead, sorry, go ahead, do you have a 1800 01:38:12.000 --> 01:38:14.560 particular fertilizer you're wanting to try? 1801 01:38:14.880 --> 01:38:17.239 You not your falls and I'm gonna use the barricade 1802 01:38:17.279 --> 01:38:18.119 for the premersory. 1803 01:38:19.439 --> 01:38:22.520 Okay, Yeah, I would just say decide when you want 1804 01:38:22.520 --> 01:38:24.640 to do it, and unless you want to put them 1805 01:38:24.680 --> 01:38:27.199 on separate days, just do them the same day because 1806 01:38:27.239 --> 01:38:30.279 you're gonna apply both of them first, one then the other, 1807 01:38:30.399 --> 01:38:32.199 and then you're gonna water it in with about a 1808 01:38:32.199 --> 01:38:35.399 half inch of water, maybe a third, just to kind 1809 01:38:35.399 --> 01:38:38.319 of move that nutrient down into the soil. A little bit, 1810 01:38:38.439 --> 01:38:41.600 and to take the pre emergent off the granules you 1811 01:38:41.640 --> 01:38:46.199 applied the barricade and move it down in the soil surface. 1812 01:38:46.319 --> 01:38:48.159 So you know you need a little water to do that. 1813 01:38:50.119 --> 01:38:52.159 Okay, so I put them both down, but I don't 1814 01:38:52.239 --> 01:38:53.960 put one down then water it and put the other 1815 01:38:53.960 --> 01:38:55.840 down then water, or put them both down then. 1816 01:38:55.880 --> 01:38:59.079 Water correct only water once? 1817 01:38:59.399 --> 01:39:02.039 Yeah, okay, all right, very good. 1818 01:39:02.079 --> 01:39:04.039 Yeah that's all I wanted to know. 1819 01:39:04.159 --> 01:39:06.520 So I'm tart about grass looking all right? Well good, 1820 01:39:07.680 --> 01:39:10.680 thank you very much, well wonderful, you bet, thanks for 1821 01:39:10.720 --> 01:39:13.479 the calling. Good luck with that lawn. Look word to 1822 01:39:13.560 --> 01:39:18.439 that getting better in the process too. You're listening to Guardline. 1823 01:39:18.560 --> 01:39:20.319 Our phone number if you'd like to get on the 1824 01:39:20.319 --> 01:39:23.880 board seven one three two one two kt r H. 1825 01:39:24.399 --> 01:39:28.239 Seven to one three two one two kt r H. 1826 01:39:28.640 --> 01:39:32.159 We went through some heck of a storms this past 1827 01:39:32.560 --> 01:39:35.319 uh season and uh, you know, we had the hurricane 1828 01:39:35.319 --> 01:39:36.960 Barrel and before that, we had a heck of a 1829 01:39:36.960 --> 01:39:38.600 storm people. Both of them knocked out power for a 1830 01:39:38.600 --> 01:39:41.840 long time. And oh gosh, the damage they did to 1831 01:39:41.880 --> 01:39:45.000 Houston trees. It's amazing. There's a tree living and are 1832 01:39:45.039 --> 01:39:47.279 still standing in Houston with that kind of wind that 1833 01:39:47.319 --> 01:39:52.520 we had. But what I recommend people do is whether 1834 01:39:52.680 --> 01:39:55.239 you've already had storm damage or whether you want to 1835 01:39:55.279 --> 01:39:59.000 prevent future, have Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree come 1836 01:39:59.039 --> 01:40:02.319 out and look at your tree. Martin has been doing 1837 01:40:02.319 --> 01:40:05.640 this a long time. He is over thirty years. Really, 1838 01:40:06.479 --> 01:40:09.439 he knows how to take care of trees. Do you 1839 01:40:09.479 --> 01:40:11.680 have some narrow branch angles? Do you got some broken 1840 01:40:11.960 --> 01:40:14.800 limbs in the tree? Do you need any kind of 1841 01:40:14.840 --> 01:40:17.159 work done on your trees? If you were about to 1842 01:40:17.239 --> 01:40:19.239 build a home, and maybe you've bought you a little 1843 01:40:19.279 --> 01:40:21.319 piece of land with some trees on it and you're 1844 01:40:21.319 --> 01:40:25.039 going to build a home, have Martin. I plead with 1845 01:40:25.079 --> 01:40:27.399 you on this one. Have Martin come out and take 1846 01:40:27.399 --> 01:40:30.720 a look before you let any builder or anybody for 1847 01:40:30.880 --> 01:40:34.279 utilities on the property. He can do the things and 1848 01:40:34.359 --> 01:40:37.000 advise the things on how to do that to minimize 1849 01:40:37.079 --> 01:40:40.159 damage to the trees. I've hit properties before where I 1850 01:40:40.199 --> 01:40:44.399 show up to look and it's a giant, beautiful, expensive 1851 01:40:44.439 --> 01:40:47.720 house that wraps around a tree, and the proper things 1852 01:40:47.760 --> 01:40:51.159 weren't done and it's like too late, and it's just 1853 01:40:51.199 --> 01:40:53.279 a matter of time that tree's going down. You're gonna 1854 01:40:53.279 --> 01:40:56.199 spend a lot of money taking the prize tree on 1855 01:40:56.239 --> 01:40:59.800 the property you built the house around, taking it out, trenches, 1856 01:41:00.399 --> 01:41:04.560 wreck havoc on tree roots, and seriously, Martin can help 1857 01:41:04.600 --> 01:41:07.279 with all that. No matter what you need and tree care, 1858 01:41:07.479 --> 01:41:09.680 Martin can do it. Give him a call. Here's the 1859 01:41:09.760 --> 01:41:14.439 number seven one three six nine twenty six sixty three. 1860 01:41:14.600 --> 01:41:17.159 Either he or Joe his wife will answer the phone. 1861 01:41:17.279 --> 01:41:19.319 If they don't, you've called the wrong place. Hang up 1862 01:41:19.600 --> 01:41:23.199 and call again seven to one three six nine nine 1863 01:41:23.640 --> 01:41:27.960 two six six three, or go to the website aff 1864 01:41:28.279 --> 01:41:31.800 Tree Service dot com. Call Martin, get on a schedule, 1865 01:41:31.840 --> 01:41:33.720 tell him you're from Garden Line. That moves you up 1866 01:41:33.760 --> 01:41:35.880 to the front of the line. Garden Line listeners. He 1867 01:41:36.039 --> 01:41:40.720 prioritizes our listeners, and uh talk to him and get 1868 01:41:40.760 --> 01:41:44.000 on the schedule to come out and see what you got. 1869 01:41:44.079 --> 01:41:46.039 He'll give you a good assessment. He charges to come 1870 01:41:46.039 --> 01:41:48.840 out and do an assessment. But if you hare work done, 1871 01:41:49.239 --> 01:41:51.359 then that price you pay just goes right into the 1872 01:41:51.359 --> 01:41:53.359 price you'd pay for the work. In other words, you've 1873 01:41:53.399 --> 01:41:56.239 already paid part partially for the work that'll come out 1874 01:41:56.279 --> 01:42:01.159 and do. Affordable Tree Service. No trees are an incredibly 1875 01:42:01.279 --> 01:42:05.720 valuable plant, the most valuable single plant on our properties. 1876 01:42:06.079 --> 01:42:08.880 And you know what. They're valuable because they give shade 1877 01:42:09.039 --> 01:42:12.439 to our homes, which helps on utility bills, they give 1878 01:42:12.680 --> 01:42:15.159 shade to outdoor sitting areas, and they just make a 1879 01:42:15.199 --> 01:42:18.479 place look beautiful. But they're also valuable because if you 1880 01:42:18.520 --> 01:42:23.479 ever sell a property, having big, beautiful, healthy trees is 1881 01:42:23.520 --> 01:42:27.279 a huge selling point. It adds value to your property, 1882 01:42:27.600 --> 01:42:30.279 but it also makes it sell. It doesn't sit on 1883 01:42:30.319 --> 01:42:33.600 the market for as long because people love that and 1884 01:42:33.680 --> 01:42:36.359 it makes it a more appealing property to them. But 1885 01:42:36.399 --> 01:42:38.399 you got to take care of trees, and that starts 1886 01:42:38.960 --> 01:42:42.079 when you're planting a tree, picking varieties that want to 1887 01:42:42.119 --> 01:42:45.000 grow here and do well, putting the tree in a 1888 01:42:45.079 --> 01:42:48.479 location where it can thrive and grow. I see trees 1889 01:42:48.479 --> 01:42:51.960 planted three foot from sidewalks and driveways. I see trees 1890 01:42:52.000 --> 01:42:55.640 planted ten feet away from a house. There's no future 1891 01:42:55.640 --> 01:42:58.239 in those kind of locations and it shouldn't be done. 1892 01:42:58.520 --> 01:43:01.560 And then finally, your train it right as it's growing. 1893 01:43:02.239 --> 01:43:06.560 Proper tree in the proper place with a proper early 1894 01:43:06.640 --> 01:43:10.359 care is a way to get off to success. That's 1895 01:43:10.399 --> 01:43:14.920 just a little advertisement there for the ABC's of success 1896 01:43:14.920 --> 01:43:17.880 with trees. All right, we're going to head now out 1897 01:43:17.920 --> 01:43:23.399 to date and Texas and we are going to talk. See, 1898 01:43:23.439 --> 01:43:27.760 we're going to talk to Karen. I can find the button. Hello, Karen, 1899 01:43:27.800 --> 01:43:28.800 Welcome to garden Line. 1900 01:43:30.439 --> 01:43:33.359 Hi there skip, Hey, I have a question for you 1901 01:43:33.880 --> 01:43:35.520 about pecan. 1902 01:43:35.199 --> 01:43:36.359 Tree on my property. 1903 01:43:38.920 --> 01:43:43.319 It's an established pecontry. It may be nearing the end 1904 01:43:43.359 --> 01:43:46.680 of its life. It's between what fifty seventy feet tall, 1905 01:43:47.560 --> 01:43:51.600 and in the last year it put out a shoot 1906 01:43:51.680 --> 01:43:54.560 at the base of the truck, you know, a couple 1907 01:43:54.520 --> 01:43:56.520 of feet up and it came out. My husband and 1908 01:43:56.600 --> 01:43:58.600 I have been discussing, well do we cut it off 1909 01:44:00.720 --> 01:44:05.399 or do we let the tree try to rejuvenate itself 1910 01:44:05.439 --> 01:44:07.000 from this new shoot? 1911 01:44:09.840 --> 01:44:12.920 So you got a real tall tree. Did you tell 1912 01:44:12.920 --> 01:44:15.640 me what species? I missed that? If you did, what 1913 01:44:15.720 --> 01:44:21.479 was it the kan kan? And is everything dead above 1914 01:44:21.520 --> 01:44:23.279 that shoot or is some of it alive? 1915 01:44:25.159 --> 01:44:26.319 It is still alive. 1916 01:44:28.920 --> 01:44:32.720 It's not ingreat. Okay, the tree has been neglected. It's 1917 01:44:32.760 --> 01:44:35.880 never had any care up until we bought the property 1918 01:44:35.880 --> 01:44:39.000 about five years ago, and slowly we're getting around to 1919 01:44:39.119 --> 01:44:41.720 working on all the trees. But it did put out 1920 01:44:41.800 --> 01:44:45.319 this shoot that is real healthy compared to the rest. 1921 01:44:45.119 --> 01:44:45.600 Of the tree. 1922 01:44:47.159 --> 01:44:51.159 Yeah, okay, I can't see it, but here's what I'm 1923 01:44:51.239 --> 01:44:55.039 ninety nine percent sure I would cut the chute off. 1924 01:44:55.880 --> 01:44:58.359 How big around is the shoot where it attaches to 1925 01:44:58.399 --> 01:45:00.119 the tree. 1926 01:45:00.840 --> 01:45:03.239 It's maybe an inch at this point. 1927 01:45:04.399 --> 01:45:07.439 Yeah, okay, yeah, cut that off, because if you were 1928 01:45:07.479 --> 01:45:10.239 to let that grow and then end up cutting off 1929 01:45:10.239 --> 01:45:11.880 the trunk of the tree, you are going to have 1930 01:45:11.920 --> 01:45:15.479 a huge wound and it'll never heal and it'll be 1931 01:45:15.479 --> 01:45:18.640 a weak spot that'll break off. Cut that shoot off now, 1932 01:45:18.960 --> 01:45:21.279 and then let's focus on getting your tree healthy. Have 1933 01:45:21.399 --> 01:45:23.159 Martin Spoon Moore come out and take a look at 1934 01:45:23.199 --> 01:45:25.920 your trees and recommend what to do or do some 1935 01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:28.479 of the work, but recommend what you continue to do 1936 01:45:28.640 --> 01:45:30.880 to take care of it. That would include things like 1937 01:45:30.920 --> 01:45:34.159 fertilizing and during summer when it's hot and dry. You 1938 01:45:34.800 --> 01:45:36.840 don't have the water up the coand tree in the fall, 1939 01:45:36.920 --> 01:45:40.479 in the winter and early spring, but in summer when 1940 01:45:40.479 --> 01:45:43.359 it's hot and dry, a good deep soaking, applying an 1941 01:45:43.359 --> 01:45:48.159 inch or two of water over a large area underneath 1942 01:45:48.159 --> 01:45:49.840 the branch bread of the tree, and let's get that 1943 01:45:49.880 --> 01:45:53.680 tree rejuvenated and growing again. But yeah, that shoot has 1944 01:45:53.760 --> 01:45:59.079 to come off. Okay, okay, thank you, all right. I 1945 01:45:59.119 --> 01:46:01.640 appreciate your call, and good luck with that tree out 1946 01:46:01.640 --> 01:46:03.880 in Dayton. I've got to take a break, folks, and 1947 01:46:03.920 --> 01:46:08.680 we'll be right back the garden line. Welcome back to 1948 01:46:08.800 --> 01:46:11.239 garden Line. Good to have you with us. If you'd 1949 01:46:11.279 --> 01:46:13.560 like to get us a call, we got some room 1950 01:46:13.319 --> 01:46:14.520 on the boards here. 1951 01:46:14.720 --> 01:46:14.920 Uh. 1952 01:46:15.439 --> 01:46:18.840 Seven one three two one two five eight seven four 1953 01:46:19.039 --> 01:46:22.359 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 1954 01:46:23.039 --> 01:46:25.760 A and A Plants and Produce up in Montgomery is 1955 01:46:25.800 --> 01:46:28.600 your local hometown garden center for all of you that 1956 01:46:28.600 --> 01:46:31.800 are out there in Montgomery, really Conroe and certainly Lake 1957 01:46:31.880 --> 01:46:32.640 Conroe area. 1958 01:46:33.239 --> 01:46:33.359 Uh. 1959 01:46:33.439 --> 01:46:37.039 They always are in stock with things that are appropriate 1960 01:46:37.079 --> 01:46:38.720 for the season. You know, when is the time to 1961 01:46:38.720 --> 01:46:40.960 plant sea potatoes, When is the time to plant fruit 1962 01:46:40.960 --> 01:46:44.680 trees or specifically citrus trees or put out onion sets, 1963 01:46:44.800 --> 01:46:48.079 or right now it's fall color time. They're loaded up 1964 01:46:48.079 --> 01:46:51.119 on things that can give you beautiful fall color. Now 1965 01:46:51.119 --> 01:46:53.399 when you're there, you're going to find everything you need 1966 01:46:53.439 --> 01:46:57.119 to get the soil right too. Uh. They have all 1967 01:46:57.159 --> 01:47:00.119 the heirloom soil lines, they've got Nature's Way resources eight 1968 01:47:00.239 --> 01:47:03.079 mold composts, both the fine and the coarse versions of that, 1969 01:47:03.560 --> 01:47:08.319 and then fertilizers like nitrofoss like Nelson's, in fact, all 1970 01:47:08.319 --> 01:47:11.039 of the turf Star line from Nelson's, and then microlife. 1971 01:47:11.079 --> 01:47:14.000 They all have all the microlife products. So when you 1972 01:47:14.039 --> 01:47:16.279 show up at A and A and go home, you've 1973 01:47:16.279 --> 01:47:18.560 got everything to get the brown stuff right so the 1974 01:47:18.560 --> 01:47:21.199 plants can thrive. That's the soil, and then you have 1975 01:47:21.239 --> 01:47:23.479 the plants you need to go in it. If you 1976 01:47:23.680 --> 01:47:25.520 live out on the Lake Conor area, they have a 1977 01:47:25.600 --> 01:47:27.720 landscape crew that can come out and do some work 1978 01:47:27.760 --> 01:47:30.560 for you out that area. Usually they have a copy 1979 01:47:30.560 --> 01:47:32.600 of my schedules there at the checkout counter, but I'd 1980 01:47:32.680 --> 01:47:34.239 encourage you to go ahead and just print them out 1981 01:47:34.880 --> 01:47:36.640 and take them with you when you go in and 1982 01:47:36.720 --> 01:47:38.840 say this is what I want right here, this one 1983 01:47:38.920 --> 01:47:42.399 or this product to control this particular problem. A and 1984 01:47:42.479 --> 01:47:45.760 A Plants and Produce, Do not forget. I will be 1985 01:47:46.000 --> 01:47:49.199 at A and A Plants and Produce next Saturday. That's 1986 01:47:49.199 --> 01:47:53.399 the twenty first Saturday, the twenty first, from twelve noon 1987 01:47:54.520 --> 01:47:57.319 to two pm. And I do what I do at appearances, 1988 01:47:57.319 --> 01:47:59.720 that is, I'm gonna give a little talk we'll talk 1989 01:47:59.760 --> 01:48:02.119 about out I don't know, some aspects of all gardening 1990 01:48:02.199 --> 01:48:05.479 to how to have success, something that's pertinent for the time. 1991 01:48:06.159 --> 01:48:08.840 And then answer your gardening questions. Bring as many questions 1992 01:48:08.880 --> 01:48:10.880 as you can think of, let's talk about them. You 1993 01:48:11.000 --> 01:48:12.800 got a sample of a plant to bring in, or 1994 01:48:12.800 --> 01:48:15.560 a sample of a bug, or you know, had some 1995 01:48:15.600 --> 01:48:19.399 calls today where I couldn't quite picture what they were describing. Well, 1996 01:48:19.720 --> 01:48:22.760 bring a picture, you know, those line of little eggs 1997 01:48:22.840 --> 01:48:25.159 underneath the leaf. That would be a that would be 1998 01:48:25.159 --> 01:48:27.600 a helpful one. Trying to you know, figure out what's 1999 01:48:27.640 --> 01:48:32.199 going on there, get to the bottom of it, those 2000 01:48:32.279 --> 01:48:35.199 kind of things. Or maybe bring some some pictures on 2001 01:48:35.279 --> 01:48:37.800 your phone, like this is an area my landscape, it 2002 01:48:37.920 --> 01:48:39.800 just doesn't look good. What what kind of plant there? 2003 01:48:39.840 --> 01:48:42.520 What would look good there? Or hey, my neighbors started 2004 01:48:42.520 --> 01:48:45.880 sunbathing again, and as SPEEDO, I need I need a hedge. 2005 01:48:45.920 --> 01:48:49.600 I need it to be thick and dense and year 2006 01:48:49.720 --> 01:48:51.880 round because I don't want to look over there. Well, 2007 01:48:52.039 --> 01:48:54.479 you get the idea. Whatever kind of photos you bring 2008 01:48:54.479 --> 01:48:56.680 in will help you with that. We'll get you we'll 2009 01:48:56.680 --> 01:48:58.479 get you fixed up. Hey, you've got to have a 2010 01:48:58.479 --> 01:49:00.720 little fun here. On Garden lit A and A Plants 2011 01:49:00.720 --> 01:49:05.039 and Produce next Saturday from twelve to two. Come on out. 2012 01:49:05.119 --> 01:49:06.840 You got to see the place. Oh and when you're 2013 01:49:06.880 --> 01:49:09.520 out there, they got the bling. I mean that place. 2014 01:49:09.960 --> 01:49:13.199 Do you need like metal archways? Do you need all 2015 01:49:13.319 --> 01:49:16.640 kinds of decorative stuff? You know the cool old metal 2016 01:49:16.720 --> 01:49:18.560 signs that you put on a fence or against the 2017 01:49:18.560 --> 01:49:21.560 wall of a house outdoors. And they've got all of 2018 01:49:21.600 --> 01:49:25.920 that stuff and more at a anda. Makes it easy. Well, 2019 01:49:25.920 --> 01:49:29.159 we're going to run out now to Troy, Alabama and 2020 01:49:29.199 --> 01:49:31.640 talk to Paul. Hello, Paul, welcome to garden Line. 2021 01:49:32.840 --> 01:49:33.159 Thank you. 2022 01:49:33.199 --> 01:49:33.520 Skip. 2023 01:49:34.199 --> 01:49:37.680 Got a couple of questions for you. Catalytics. Do you 2024 01:49:37.720 --> 01:49:41.520 know anything that's in them this year? Some type of disease? 2025 01:49:43.880 --> 01:49:47.840 Kalalilies are a challenge, they really are. And I've tried 2026 01:49:47.880 --> 01:49:53.119 to grow them and mediocre success. They look great when 2027 01:49:53.119 --> 01:49:54.640 you get them and they come up and they do 2028 01:49:54.680 --> 01:49:57.000 pretty good. Trying to get them to stay year to 2029 01:49:57.079 --> 01:50:00.600 year is a really challenge in them. They don't like drought. 2030 01:50:00.760 --> 01:50:03.880 They need to stay moist. They don't like soggy soil. 2031 01:50:04.079 --> 01:50:07.680 They need to be well drained, so moist but not soggy. 2032 01:50:08.560 --> 01:50:10.560 They need the right amount of light. When they get 2033 01:50:10.600 --> 01:50:13.760 in blazing hot sun, they really suffer from that. But 2034 01:50:13.800 --> 01:50:16.720 if you don't have enough light, there's not the energy 2035 01:50:17.199 --> 01:50:19.399 that the plant needs, you know, with sunshine on the 2036 01:50:19.479 --> 01:50:22.479 leaves to be able to thrive either. So it's a 2037 01:50:22.479 --> 01:50:26.520 little bit of a diva for me to with klalilies, 2038 01:50:26.520 --> 01:50:27.880 and I think a lot of people have had that 2039 01:50:28.000 --> 01:50:30.560 experience with them. They sure are pretty though. 2040 01:50:31.439 --> 01:50:34.560 That's for sure. A couple of questions are not questions. 2041 01:50:34.560 --> 01:50:38.920 So the young lady with the grice problem, I used 2042 01:50:39.039 --> 01:50:41.840 iron the past couple of years. I don't know. This 2043 01:50:41.960 --> 01:50:45.079 year I bought fertilizer with iron in it. Last year 2044 01:50:45.119 --> 01:50:47.840 I got liquid iron and spray it with a hose. 2045 01:50:48.399 --> 01:50:51.840 But it brought my grice back pretty good. I don't 2046 01:50:51.840 --> 01:50:53.560 know if that's something you can't use or not. 2047 01:50:54.800 --> 01:50:57.159 And yeah, I was trying to drill down in that 2048 01:50:57.279 --> 01:51:00.119 call with her to find out is this iron? And 2049 01:51:00.640 --> 01:51:03.920 I think it was not iron the way she was 2050 01:51:03.960 --> 01:51:07.119 describing the yellow. But uh, yeah, what you just said 2051 01:51:07.159 --> 01:51:10.199 on iron, those are all good ideas to help fix 2052 01:51:10.239 --> 01:51:12.239 an iron problem. Okay. 2053 01:51:12.600 --> 01:51:15.199 One other thing that I do that there was young 2054 01:51:15.239 --> 01:51:18.239 lady talking about crab grass. I believe it was. But 2055 01:51:18.520 --> 01:51:22.640 I have a two liter bottle and a one leader bottle, 2056 01:51:23.319 --> 01:51:26.960 cut out the bottom, take GORI will take them onto 2057 01:51:26.960 --> 01:51:31.359 you onee and I just change out the wind. But yeah, 2058 01:51:31.479 --> 01:51:34.920 I take that, put it down on the ground and 2059 01:51:34.960 --> 01:51:37.319 shoot round up and it just hits that area. It 2060 01:51:37.319 --> 01:51:39.920 won't get on your other grass. Yes, And that's the 2061 01:51:39.920 --> 01:51:41.920 best way I've found to control that stuff. 2062 01:51:42.920 --> 01:51:46.359 And yeah, that works pretty good. And having them, yeah, 2063 01:51:46.359 --> 01:51:48.399 and having them if you can pick clear ones, it 2064 01:51:48.439 --> 01:51:50.319 makes it easier to kind of see what's going on 2065 01:51:50.399 --> 01:51:52.760 in there. But yeah, that's a that is a way, 2066 01:51:53.079 --> 01:51:55.239 uh you know to just kind of spot spray and 2067 01:51:55.560 --> 01:52:01.800 avoid that drift. Yeah, good suggestion. Good, all right, just. 2068 01:52:03.800 --> 01:52:08.000 Cost and have a great day. 2069 01:52:08.279 --> 01:52:11.479 Okay, I take care, Thank you, Thank you. Try. I 2070 01:52:11.520 --> 01:52:17.000 appreciate that phone call. Landscaper's Pride produces quality products. You know, 2071 01:52:17.039 --> 01:52:20.119 they're they're local here in our region, and they basically 2072 01:52:20.159 --> 01:52:22.039 take what used to be a tree and turn it 2073 01:52:22.079 --> 01:52:25.359 into something that makes your soul spresial. Not just tree stuff, 2074 01:52:25.359 --> 01:52:27.159 but that you know, that's the basis of a lot 2075 01:52:27.199 --> 01:52:29.560 of our of our products. That they have a rose 2076 01:52:29.600 --> 01:52:33.119 mix for example, that's outstanding. And listen, people think about 2077 01:52:33.199 --> 01:52:35.600 roses at Valentine's Day to plant them and prune them 2078 01:52:35.600 --> 01:52:37.760 and all that. You can plant roses in the fall, 2079 01:52:37.840 --> 01:52:39.760 and I would suggest you do. I think it's even 2080 01:52:39.800 --> 01:52:42.279 a better time to plant. Get some of their rosemes. 2081 01:52:42.840 --> 01:52:46.039 Grow some roses this fall. Premium potting mix. This is 2082 01:52:46.079 --> 01:52:48.920 a quality mix that even has a nutrient boost to 2083 01:52:48.960 --> 01:52:52.600 it that the plants just thrive in it. Premium potting 2084 01:52:52.600 --> 01:52:55.560 mix from Landscaper's Pride top soil for filling in those 2085 01:52:55.600 --> 01:52:57.560 areas of your lawn that are too low. Don't put 2086 01:52:57.560 --> 01:52:59.960 compost in those areas. It's just going to settle down 2087 01:53:00.239 --> 01:53:03.560 and disappear again, like potting soald in your pots does 2088 01:53:03.600 --> 01:53:06.880 over a year or two, it sinks down. Use a 2089 01:53:06.960 --> 01:53:10.439 quality topsoil mix from Landscaper's Pride for that. And then finally, 2090 01:53:10.560 --> 01:53:14.079 it's always a good time to malch with black velvet mulch, 2091 01:53:14.600 --> 01:53:19.640 not dyed naturally dark beautiful black velvety mulch. Keep the 2092 01:53:19.680 --> 01:53:22.039 weeds out. We're about to get winter weeds going. If 2093 01:53:22.079 --> 01:53:25.039 you leave the soul bear anywhere and sunlight HiT's the soil, 2094 01:53:25.199 --> 01:53:28.039 nature will plan a weed. Black velvet multch can help 2095 01:53:28.079 --> 01:53:30.720 you avoid that. All from Landscaper's Pride. You can find 2096 01:53:30.760 --> 01:53:34.239 out more Landscaperspride dot com. They're widely available here in 2097 01:53:34.279 --> 01:53:36.560 the Greater Houston area. It's not hard to find their 2098 01:53:36.560 --> 01:53:41.079 products at all. You're listening to Guardline. Our phone number 2099 01:53:41.279 --> 01:53:45.920 is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, 2100 01:53:46.159 --> 01:53:48.880 or if you like the dial by letter seven one 2101 01:53:49.239 --> 01:53:55.479 three two one two ktrh I nextent All right, folks, 2102 01:53:55.560 --> 01:53:57.359 give us a call, Give give Chris call, get on 2103 01:53:57.439 --> 01:54:00.000 the board. We got one more hour in the show 2104 01:54:00.239 --> 01:54:03.119 here to do today, and we would love to visit 2105 01:54:03.159 --> 01:54:05.439 with you and talk about the kind of questions that 2106 01:54:05.520 --> 01:54:08.000 you have in order to have a bountiful garden, a 2107 01:54:08.000 --> 01:54:11.600 beautiful landscape, in other words, just to enjoy the place. 2108 01:54:12.319 --> 01:54:14.760 Gardening is a fun hobby. I hope this afternoon some 2109 01:54:14.880 --> 01:54:18.079 of you plan on getting out and visiting a garden center. 2110 01:54:18.439 --> 01:54:20.800 Go buy one of our sponsors and pick up the 2111 01:54:20.840 --> 01:54:23.039 supplies you need. You know, we've got Ace hardware stores 2112 01:54:23.079 --> 01:54:25.039 all over the place, so you can go swing by 2113 01:54:25.880 --> 01:54:28.640 and get some product. We got feed stores on North, south, 2114 01:54:28.680 --> 01:54:33.000 east West. Really just an outstanding place to go out 2115 01:54:33.000 --> 01:54:34.960 and pick out the products you need to have success 2116 01:54:35.479 --> 01:54:36.720 with your garden Back. 2117 01:54:36.520 --> 01:54:37.039 At the house. 2118 01:54:48.800 --> 01:54:52.640 Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Scape Richard. 2119 01:54:52.680 --> 01:54:53.000 It's so. 2120 01:55:01.399 --> 01:55:09.680 Just watch him as a world. 2121 01:55:08.000 --> 01:55:08.520 So many. 2122 01:55:13.239 --> 01:55:16.399 Alrighty, here we go. We are saddled up and ready 2123 01:55:16.439 --> 01:55:19.600 to go for our last segment this morning. By the way, 2124 01:55:19.640 --> 01:55:21.640 Garden Line. For those of you who are new to 2125 01:55:21.720 --> 01:55:24.279 Garden Line, we're here every Saturday and Sunday from six 2126 01:55:24.319 --> 01:55:28.000 am to ten am every weekend on Saturday and on Sunday. 2127 01:55:28.439 --> 01:55:30.800 And if you would like to listen by radio of pushing, 2128 01:55:30.880 --> 01:55:33.520 do that. It's a radio show. But if you want 2129 01:55:33.520 --> 01:55:35.880 to listen on your computer, you can also do that 2130 01:55:36.279 --> 01:55:40.079 at the ktr website and you can download an app 2131 01:55:40.479 --> 01:55:43.560 that allows you to play radio and listen live online 2132 01:55:43.680 --> 01:55:47.279 as well as to past broadcasts. Both on the app 2133 01:55:47.319 --> 01:55:49.560 and online. You can listen that way. So I have 2134 01:55:49.640 --> 01:55:52.439 the iHeartMedia app that I use. It's a free app. 2135 01:55:52.840 --> 01:55:54.880 You can listen to garden Line live. You can listen 2136 01:55:54.880 --> 01:55:56.600 to past shows. So I don't care if they live 2137 01:55:56.600 --> 01:56:00.319 in Timbucto. Had someone call today from Alabama, someone from Tennessee. 2138 01:56:00.000 --> 01:56:02.680 They listen to Garden Line and they don't do it 2139 01:56:02.840 --> 01:56:05.760 by radio. Our signal is strong, but it's not that strong, 2140 01:56:06.600 --> 01:56:11.720 but you can too. Nitrophoss is three step program. I 2141 01:56:11.760 --> 01:56:14.079 talked about it before, I want to mention it again, 2142 01:56:14.199 --> 01:56:17.399 and it's really a great combination for fall. But it 2143 01:56:17.479 --> 01:56:21.760 basically is as a fertilizer, a weed control, and a fungicide. 2144 01:56:21.920 --> 01:56:25.520 Three steps, three different products. So the fertilizer is Nitrophoss 2145 01:56:25.600 --> 01:56:31.520 Fall Special Winteriser. The nutrient content in it is designed 2146 01:56:31.880 --> 01:56:35.760 to strengthen the grass plant going into fall so that 2147 01:56:35.800 --> 01:56:37.800 it's more cold hearty and that it comes out better 2148 01:56:37.880 --> 01:56:41.920 in spring. I think of it as enafreeze for the grass, 2149 01:56:41.960 --> 01:56:45.359 but also the spring boost because in spring your grass 2150 01:56:45.479 --> 01:56:47.960 takes off growing not based on what it's getting from 2151 01:56:48.000 --> 01:56:51.319 its roots, but what it's stored up going into fall. 2152 01:56:51.840 --> 01:56:56.359 Nitrofoss Fall Special Winterizer will do just that. Secondly, weeds. 2153 01:56:56.960 --> 01:56:59.199 You can spray weeds when they're growing and kill them, 2154 01:56:59.319 --> 01:57:04.279 but oftentimes were limited in our options for that. Nitrofoss 2155 01:57:04.520 --> 01:57:07.680 barricade is a pre emergent. If you put it down 2156 01:57:07.720 --> 01:57:11.439 according to my schedule, you will get it down before 2157 01:57:11.479 --> 01:57:14.479 the weeds germinate, and when the weed seeds try to sprout, 2158 01:57:14.640 --> 01:57:17.239 it shuts the root system down and they die. They 2159 01:57:17.239 --> 01:57:21.199 can't make it it works very well now. Third, nitrofuss 2160 01:57:21.199 --> 01:57:26.399 Egle turf fungicide. That is a systemic product that means 2161 01:57:26.399 --> 01:57:29.319 it soaks in to the plant tissues, moves around in 2162 01:57:29.359 --> 01:57:32.199 the plant a little bit so that whenever something attacks, 2163 01:57:32.279 --> 01:57:34.840 the fungicide is there. And you gotta do it ahead 2164 01:57:34.840 --> 01:57:38.319 of time. Again, look at my schedule. Do it ahead 2165 01:57:38.319 --> 01:57:41.600 of time, get done in early October, and that way, 2166 01:57:41.960 --> 01:57:45.159 when brown Patch tries to attack also called large patch, 2167 01:57:45.680 --> 01:57:48.439 or when take All root rot is an issue. Takeoll 2168 01:57:48.560 --> 01:57:52.760 has a primetime infection period in the fall. And getting 2169 01:57:52.800 --> 01:57:55.079 that product down ahead of time. Anything you're going to 2170 01:57:55.159 --> 01:57:56.680 do for takeof Patch, you got to get it ahead 2171 01:57:56.720 --> 01:57:59.399 of time. Same thing for brown Patch. And these one 2172 01:57:59.479 --> 01:58:03.800 two three steps, the Nitrofuss Texas three step Fall Special 2173 01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:08.399 Win a riser, Nitrofuss barricade to prevent weed seeds, and 2174 01:58:08.640 --> 01:58:11.960 nitro Fuss Eagle to fight diseases before they show up. 2175 01:58:12.479 --> 01:58:15.039 Those all work really really well. And you're going to 2176 01:58:15.079 --> 01:58:18.279 find nitr Fuss products at places like Katie Ace Hardware 2177 01:58:18.399 --> 01:58:21.119 out there. Of course, in Katie on Pinoak you're going 2178 01:58:21.199 --> 01:58:23.199 to find it. It grows out in Willis, you're going 2179 01:58:23.279 --> 01:58:26.119 to find it at Heidnen Feed on Studenter Airline. I'm 2180 01:58:26.159 --> 01:58:30.399 on forty five North. They carried these products at D 2181 01:58:30.439 --> 01:58:32.720 and D Feed and Tomball and they carry these products 2182 01:58:32.760 --> 01:58:36.439 at Lake Hartware Clute done in Lake Jackson on Dixie Drive. 2183 01:58:36.640 --> 01:58:39.079 Those of you down there know that place. All right. 2184 01:58:39.079 --> 01:58:41.439 We're going to go now straight out to the phones 2185 01:58:41.600 --> 01:58:44.600 and head out to Kingwood and talk to Pamela. Hello, Pamela. 2186 01:58:45.760 --> 01:58:46.439 Hi Skip. 2187 01:58:46.479 --> 01:58:49.079 I've mentioned a couple of times when you first started 2188 01:58:49.079 --> 01:58:50.439 and you came up to Kingwood. 2189 01:58:51.680 --> 01:58:51.920 Good. 2190 01:58:52.119 --> 01:58:57.520 My question was really fun. I had neighbors and had 2191 01:58:57.520 --> 01:59:01.399 a gas powered small chipper and they chipped all of 2192 01:59:01.439 --> 01:59:05.279 the debris that came, you know, the branches and stuff, 2193 01:59:05.680 --> 01:59:08.359 and they got about one hundred and fifty dollars worth 2194 01:59:08.359 --> 01:59:12.800 of mulch. They use some behind the garage where grass 2195 01:59:12.800 --> 01:59:15.800 bearingly grows. Now they don't have to water it. It's 2196 01:59:15.920 --> 01:59:19.960 gorgeous with them some flagstones. Well, I'm thinking about doing 2197 01:59:20.000 --> 01:59:22.920 a fun family day and I might be able to 2198 01:59:23.000 --> 01:59:27.920 even get a commercial chipper and have people come and 2199 01:59:27.960 --> 01:59:32.760 bring the debris and tip it, bring their own bags 2200 01:59:32.760 --> 01:59:35.000 and they can leave with a few bags, and I'll 2201 01:59:35.039 --> 01:59:38.760 feed them too. I'll give them a barbecue pork sandwich. 2202 01:59:40.119 --> 01:59:45.199 Do we have to do we have to because yeah, well. 2203 01:59:45.079 --> 01:59:46.399 We need some help here. 2204 01:59:47.720 --> 01:59:49.439 Okay that. 2205 01:59:51.720 --> 01:59:54.600 I remember what was it, Dewey Compton in this back 2206 01:59:54.680 --> 01:59:57.760 in the nineties and Zach Bill Zach, I think it 2207 01:59:57.840 --> 02:00:03.640 was talk about some them about newly made mulch either 2208 02:00:03.720 --> 02:00:09.119 had too much or not enough nitrogen. Do we need 2209 02:00:09.199 --> 02:00:11.199 to you know, if they want to use it in 2210 02:00:11.239 --> 02:00:14.560 their flower beds, would they need to spray it with 2211 02:00:14.720 --> 02:00:17.720 one of the Medina products? 2212 02:00:17.800 --> 02:00:20.119 Okay, So to tell me what it is that you 2213 02:00:20.199 --> 02:00:23.079 chopped up. What kind of plants was it? Is it trees? 2214 02:00:23.279 --> 02:00:25.079 Is it some green trees? 2215 02:00:25.399 --> 02:00:25.840 Trees? 2216 02:00:26.079 --> 02:00:26.600 Trees? 2217 02:00:26.640 --> 02:00:26.760 Oh? 2218 02:00:26.840 --> 02:00:30.840 Yeah, we have green vine too, killing. 2219 02:00:30.479 --> 02:00:31.560 The trees up here. 2220 02:00:32.359 --> 02:00:35.600 In fresh In fresh material, there's more nitrogen than there 2221 02:00:35.680 --> 02:00:39.880 is in dried material. That that's true, But I generally 2222 02:00:39.920 --> 02:00:43.239 wouldn't worry about it. Now, if what you're primarily chopping 2223 02:00:43.319 --> 02:00:46.520 up is twigs and leaves, then you have even more 2224 02:00:46.880 --> 02:00:50.640 nitrogen than you would with branches and so on. So 2225 02:00:50.760 --> 02:00:54.920 you might let it sit for just a bit before 2226 02:00:54.960 --> 02:00:58.239 you put it on. And the reason is that material 2227 02:00:58.560 --> 02:01:01.359 actually will start to cook, start to compost if it's 2228 02:01:01.399 --> 02:01:03.680 got a lot of fresh green leaves, and the twigs 2229 02:01:03.680 --> 02:01:05.840 and stuff all chopped up in it. And if you 2230 02:01:05.920 --> 02:01:09.039 made a thick pile, it could actually heat up. Now, 2231 02:01:09.079 --> 02:01:12.239 if it was just a thin layer of three inches 2232 02:01:12.399 --> 02:01:14.920 or so over the soil, it's probably fine and not 2233 02:01:14.960 --> 02:01:17.720 a concern at all, okay. 2234 02:01:18.199 --> 02:01:21.319 And if they left it in their black bags, because 2235 02:01:21.760 --> 02:01:23.960 they gave me some bags and we hit them in 2236 02:01:24.039 --> 02:01:28.760 my forest, I have twenty seven trees in a small area, 2237 02:01:28.800 --> 02:01:30.760 but some of them I put out by the curve 2238 02:01:30.800 --> 02:01:33.600 and they weren't picking it up. Well, the trash people 2239 02:01:33.640 --> 02:01:37.479 at my house because I seed those trash guys onmade 2240 02:01:37.600 --> 02:01:41.199 muffins out in the oven and stuff. They pick everything up. 2241 02:01:41.560 --> 02:01:44.239 They picked up the black bags. But if they left 2242 02:01:44.279 --> 02:01:47.640 them in the black bags, wouldn't they get it get 2243 02:01:47.720 --> 02:01:51.039 hot so it would make it decomposed faster. 2244 02:01:51.199 --> 02:01:54.119 Well, it stops air movement, so the heat can build 2245 02:01:54.199 --> 02:01:56.399 up in there. But you would know that, you know, 2246 02:01:56.479 --> 02:01:59.000 after a few days you would start to see a 2247 02:01:59.039 --> 02:02:03.000 heating up occurring in there. I don't know, you know, 2248 02:02:03.079 --> 02:02:05.279 it could be, could not be. There's just a lot 2249 02:02:05.319 --> 02:02:09.399 of variables, Pamela. I do know that the product can 2250 02:02:09.439 --> 02:02:11.880 be used, and I also know something else. You know 2251 02:02:11.920 --> 02:02:14.960 how to bribe people with food. I've learned from this 2252 02:02:15.039 --> 02:02:19.640 phone call. I mean I was getting hungry listening to 2253 02:02:19.680 --> 02:02:23.520 your questions. So thanks for the call. 2254 02:02:23.960 --> 02:02:27.640 Great, Yeah, degreat home economists and an eight dollars piece, 2255 02:02:28.199 --> 02:02:30.399 but I can feed fifty people. 2256 02:02:33.680 --> 02:02:37.560 You heard it here on garden Line first bus. All right, Pamela. Well, 2257 02:02:37.600 --> 02:02:40.079 if I'm ever over in Kingwood and need something to eat, 2258 02:02:40.119 --> 02:02:42.960 I'll show up both there. Thanks a lot. That's a 2259 02:02:43.000 --> 02:02:45.720 good question. And yes, that's that's good stuff to use. 2260 02:02:48.039 --> 02:02:51.079 Oh boy, hey, while you're in Kingwood, why not go 2261 02:02:51.119 --> 02:02:54.239 buy Warren seven Gardens in Kingwood Garden Center. They're there, 2262 02:02:54.439 --> 02:02:56.760 you know, They're easy to easy to get to, and 2263 02:02:56.760 --> 02:02:59.199 they got the stuff you need. In fact, i'm gonna 2264 02:02:59.199 --> 02:03:00.439 tell you a little bit about that. I'm gonna take 2265 02:03:00.439 --> 02:03:02.000 a break here. When we come back, I wan't tell 2266 02:03:02.000 --> 02:03:04.359 you little about what's going on at Warren Southern Gardens. 2267 02:03:04.439 --> 02:03:06.720 It is. It is pretty cool stuff. And Jim and 2268 02:03:06.760 --> 02:03:08.600 sugar Land you'll be our first collar up when we 2269 02:03:08.640 --> 02:03:12.640 come back. Click all squares with traffic lights. Okay, there there, 2270 02:03:13.199 --> 02:03:13.800 try again. 2271 02:03:14.239 --> 02:03:15.600 I am not a robot. 2272 02:03:15.720 --> 02:03:17.039 No, you're not a robot. 2273 02:03:17.119 --> 02:03:20.439 Yeah, let ours smart traffic humans help you get there 2274 02:03:20.439 --> 02:03:20.880 fast too. 2275 02:03:20.920 --> 02:03:22.880 I'm the lookout for an overtime time saver. 2276 02:03:23.079 --> 02:03:26.279 Traffic one Youth Radio seven kg RH. 2277 02:03:26.800 --> 02:03:32.319 We're back. Last call Pamela made me hungry talking about food. 2278 02:03:33.439 --> 02:03:35.479 I need to I can't get any breakfast this morning. 2279 02:03:35.479 --> 02:03:37.399 I think I need to go crab from lunch pretty 2280 02:03:37.479 --> 02:03:40.439 quick when I am done with this. Listen. If you 2281 02:03:40.560 --> 02:03:44.239 want a quality job done, you need to start with 2282 02:03:44.319 --> 02:03:47.479 quality plants in Quality Advice that that's how that works. 2283 02:03:47.560 --> 02:03:50.560 And Warren Southern Gardens in Kingwock Garden Center they're loaded 2284 02:03:50.600 --> 02:03:53.359 up with both. You can go at Warnston. Have they 2285 02:03:53.399 --> 02:03:57.239 got the citrus has arrived? Rangoon creepers, gorgeous vine dies 2286 02:03:57.279 --> 02:03:59.520 to the ground in winter but comes back and then 2287 02:04:00.079 --> 02:04:03.359 hottest season of the year. It is looking great, beautiful 2288 02:04:03.439 --> 02:04:06.399 clusters of red pink flowers. It's time to make sure 2289 02:04:06.439 --> 02:04:08.199 your planners are ready to go for fall. And do 2290 02:04:08.239 --> 02:04:10.800 you know this. You could actually take plots that you 2291 02:04:10.880 --> 02:04:13.479 already have at home, or buy a pot for Warren's 2292 02:04:13.800 --> 02:04:17.039 and drop it off there and they have they can 2293 02:04:17.119 --> 02:04:19.720 help you advise you like put these plants together and 2294 02:04:19.760 --> 02:04:22.079 make a nice combo planner, or they would just do it. 2295 02:04:22.319 --> 02:04:24.760 You can hire them to do that for you as well. 2296 02:04:25.279 --> 02:04:28.000 They've got a sale five dollars a bag off on 2297 02:04:28.159 --> 02:04:31.319 Microlife the six two four and the Microlife brown Patch 2298 02:04:31.399 --> 02:04:35.159 Control Sweet Green from Nitroposs and Azamite through the end 2299 02:04:35.199 --> 02:04:38.239 of this month through September five bucks off those. They 2300 02:04:38.239 --> 02:04:41.960 have sales on Bugginator, sales on Slow and Easy, sales 2301 02:04:42.000 --> 02:04:44.920 on super turb right now. They have a tree sale 2302 02:04:45.000 --> 02:04:48.720 going on at both locations, and you know it's just 2303 02:04:48.960 --> 02:04:51.960 it's a good time. Thirty percent off any tree like 2304 02:04:52.039 --> 02:04:54.279 the Traveler Redbud, a kind of weeping type of red 2305 02:04:54.319 --> 02:04:57.479 butts really cool. Subscribe to the Warren's newsletter when you're there, 2306 02:04:57.520 --> 02:04:59.920 but mainly just go by and check these places out. 2307 02:05:00.279 --> 02:05:03.199 Outstanding garden centers. You're fortunate in Kingwood area to have 2308 02:05:03.279 --> 02:05:06.319 both of those in your area. Let's see here. I'm 2309 02:05:06.319 --> 02:05:08.319 gonna run out now to sugar Land and we're gonna 2310 02:05:08.319 --> 02:05:10.640 talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, Welcome to garden Line. 2311 02:05:12.159 --> 02:05:15.479 Yeah, yes, good morning, skiff. 2312 02:05:15.520 --> 02:05:21.199 I've got some weeds that infest run in certain areas 2313 02:05:21.279 --> 02:05:24.159 of augustine grass. 2314 02:05:24.199 --> 02:05:25.720 But they have a long stem. 2315 02:05:25.840 --> 02:05:28.800 The weeds do about ten twelve inches long, and they 2316 02:05:28.880 --> 02:05:37.560 got a white balloom on the top small blue is 2317 02:05:37.880 --> 02:05:40.800 Can you tell me what to do on that? Or 2318 02:05:40.840 --> 02:05:43.079 should I send you a photo? Or how does that work? 2319 02:05:43.800 --> 02:05:45.920 Well, let me ask you a question, see if it'll 2320 02:05:45.960 --> 02:05:48.720 help me know. Does the bloom is it a little 2321 02:05:48.760 --> 02:05:51.600 bloom with only four pedals, kind of like making the 2322 02:05:51.680 --> 02:05:55.479 sign of a plus sign four pedals? Or is it 2323 02:05:55.479 --> 02:05:57.920 a bloom that looks like a little tiny daisy about 2324 02:05:57.960 --> 02:05:58.800 the size of a dime? 2325 02:06:01.199 --> 02:06:05.159 I think it's about the four the first. 2326 02:06:05.159 --> 02:06:10.680 Okay, that's Virginia button weed, and it is difficult to control. 2327 02:06:11.319 --> 02:06:15.000 The product that you need to use is called celsius, 2328 02:06:15.399 --> 02:06:21.239 like the temperature celsius, and Virginia button weed is hard 2329 02:06:21.239 --> 02:06:23.680 to kill, so it's going to take more than one application. 2330 02:06:24.000 --> 02:06:27.039 You could hit it now, that'd be a start, and 2331 02:06:27.079 --> 02:06:30.079 then next spring when it comes back, you'll see it back. 2332 02:06:30.119 --> 02:06:33.399 They'll be because it comes from seed too. When it 2333 02:06:33.399 --> 02:06:36.239 comes out, you want to spray it when you first 2334 02:06:36.359 --> 02:06:38.760 see a good little patch of it, so you have 2335 02:06:38.840 --> 02:06:42.000 something to spray with the celsius, and then about six 2336 02:06:42.039 --> 02:06:45.560 weeks later spray it again with the celsius. And that's 2337 02:06:45.560 --> 02:06:48.039 the kind of regimen it takes. It loves wet soil, 2338 02:06:48.680 --> 02:06:51.560 so the more you water or if you have poor drainage, 2339 02:06:51.680 --> 02:06:53.880 Virginia button weed is going to be worse. So try 2340 02:06:53.920 --> 02:06:56.199 to do what's in your power to keep it from 2341 02:06:56.199 --> 02:06:57.319 stand wet all the time. 2342 02:06:59.000 --> 02:07:02.760 Well that's sad, like this is a damp area the 2343 02:07:02.920 --> 02:07:04.920 grass and that's worse. 2344 02:07:05.000 --> 02:07:10.720 Good. Yeah, well it likes that, Okay. 2345 02:07:10.960 --> 02:07:16.079 Appreciate that. And I don't have any food today. 2346 02:07:15.880 --> 02:07:16.039 So. 2347 02:07:17.760 --> 02:07:19.680 I know, I was I was kind of hoping you 2348 02:07:19.720 --> 02:07:22.960 were going to get to some barbecue. You know, maybe 2349 02:07:23.000 --> 02:07:26.520 if you made a barbecue pitfull, people would come spray 2350 02:07:26.560 --> 02:07:32.880 it for you. Jim, Thanks, thanks for the call. Appreciate that. 2351 02:07:33.520 --> 02:07:35.600 I mean, if you read Tom Sawyer and know about 2352 02:07:35.640 --> 02:07:40.239 painting that or whitewashing that fence anyway, learned a lot 2353 02:07:40.279 --> 02:07:42.880 from that story. By the way, that is for sure 2354 02:07:43.600 --> 02:07:46.920 if you want a really quality landscape, I mean one 2355 02:07:46.960 --> 02:07:51.960 that is just a showplace, Jason, the whole team there 2356 02:07:52.000 --> 02:07:55.039 really at Peer Scapes. They know what they're doing. They 2357 02:07:55.079 --> 02:07:57.000 got designers on staff. I mean they can do a 2358 02:07:57.039 --> 02:07:59.920 full design for you. You can have a beautiful patio create 2359 02:08:00.239 --> 02:08:02.960 and you know all the nine yards. You could have 2360 02:08:03.079 --> 02:08:05.239 just an area that doesn't drain well fixed. You can 2361 02:08:05.279 --> 02:08:09.520 have irrigation systems that aren't working right repaired. You can 2362 02:08:09.600 --> 02:08:11.800 have them come in and do landscape lighting. You can 2363 02:08:11.840 --> 02:08:15.680 have them do hard scapes like walkways and the whole 2364 02:08:15.760 --> 02:08:18.239 nine yards. They know how to do it. If you 2365 02:08:18.279 --> 02:08:22.920 go to the website pierscapes dot com, pierce Scapes p 2366 02:08:23.079 --> 02:08:26.880 E A RCEE, piercescapes dot com, you can see the 2367 02:08:26.880 --> 02:08:29.000 work that they do. They also do a quarterly bed 2368 02:08:29.000 --> 02:08:31.520 maintenance where you hire them and you say once a quarter, 2369 02:08:31.560 --> 02:08:33.199 I want you to come out. I want you to 2370 02:08:33.239 --> 02:08:35.119 trim things. I want you to weed, I want you 2371 02:08:35.199 --> 02:08:37.560 to fertilize. I want you to put new multch, fresh 2372 02:08:37.600 --> 02:08:39.960 mulch on top. I want you to change out the 2373 02:08:40.039 --> 02:08:42.600 color seasonally, you know, as we go from one season 2374 02:08:42.640 --> 02:08:44.159 or not. I mean need some new plants in there 2375 02:08:44.199 --> 02:08:47.279 for that check my irrigation system. They can also do 2376 02:08:47.399 --> 02:08:51.079 just that for you at peerscapes dot com. We're going 2377 02:08:51.159 --> 02:08:54.119 to go now to Southwest Houston and talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, 2378 02:08:54.159 --> 02:08:55.039 welcome to Gardenline. 2379 02:08:56.760 --> 02:09:04.199 I I the you talked about nematodes and the roots 2380 02:09:04.279 --> 02:09:06.439 of your plants looking like the Mitchell and Man. 2381 02:09:07.920 --> 02:09:09.439 Yes, and. 2382 02:09:10.960 --> 02:09:13.720 Is that I have a garden Part one of my 2383 02:09:13.840 --> 02:09:16.800 raised beds is not. It just doesn't seem to be 2384 02:09:16.840 --> 02:09:20.680 doing well this year. And I've noticed the roots look 2385 02:09:20.760 --> 02:09:24.079 like the mitchell in man. Is that that there's mimatoads 2386 02:09:24.119 --> 02:09:25.000 in there bad? 2387 02:09:26.760 --> 02:09:29.159 It could It could be. When nematods are not bad, 2388 02:09:29.279 --> 02:09:31.359 it looks like a string of pearls. You just have 2389 02:09:31.439 --> 02:09:34.319 these little bumps down the root, a little circles down 2390 02:09:34.319 --> 02:09:36.760 the root. When they get really bad and the roots 2391 02:09:36.800 --> 02:09:40.239 get bigger, it's like they grow and swell together. So 2392 02:09:40.279 --> 02:09:43.600 it's this big giant swollen area that's really lumpy, and 2393 02:09:43.640 --> 02:09:45.920 it typically is kind of an ugly tan color. Instead 2394 02:09:45.920 --> 02:09:50.359 are fresh white, healthy looking. Those are nematod signs. If 2395 02:09:50.399 --> 02:09:52.680 you want to take a picture of what you're seeing 2396 02:09:52.960 --> 02:09:55.039 up close and sharp focus and send it to me, 2397 02:09:55.199 --> 02:09:58.479 I can confirm that for you if you like. Nematods 2398 02:09:58.520 --> 02:10:01.479 are very difficult to control to get rid of. They're 2399 02:10:01.479 --> 02:10:03.640 always going to be around, so the things we do 2400 02:10:03.880 --> 02:10:07.159 just kind of help hamper them. One of the main 2401 02:10:07.199 --> 02:10:10.640 things we do is plant things that nematodes don't attack, 2402 02:10:10.800 --> 02:10:14.279 and that is not a long list of options, so 2403 02:10:14.319 --> 02:10:16.560 that that's kind of one of the negatives that we 2404 02:10:16.640 --> 02:10:17.399 have to deal with. 2405 02:10:19.119 --> 02:10:22.520 Okay, okay, well, I can't take any pictures right now. 2406 02:10:22.720 --> 02:10:25.159 It's been you know a little bit since I did that. 2407 02:10:25.239 --> 02:10:27.640 I was going to plant something and I thought, do 2408 02:10:27.720 --> 02:10:30.920 I need to do something else to the bed because 2409 02:10:31.680 --> 02:10:33.640 because I'm atual man roots. 2410 02:10:34.119 --> 02:10:37.680 So yeah, yeah, well you're welcome to if you want 2411 02:10:37.680 --> 02:10:39.760 to hang on and get get an email to send 2412 02:10:39.800 --> 02:10:42.920 a picture of a close up and sharp focus over root. 2413 02:10:43.119 --> 02:10:46.399 I'll be glad to try to identify that for you 2414 02:10:46.439 --> 02:10:47.319 if you'd like to do that. 2415 02:10:47.479 --> 02:10:49.640 Okay, okay, okay, thank you so much. 2416 02:10:49.800 --> 02:10:52.720 Bye, all right, thank you for the call. Appreciate you 2417 02:10:52.840 --> 02:10:55.520 calling very much. You're listening to Guardline folks, and our 2418 02:10:55.560 --> 02:10:58.359 phone number is seven to one three two one two 2419 02:10:58.920 --> 02:11:02.119 kt RH and one three two one two. 2420 02:11:02.319 --> 02:11:03.239 K t R. 2421 02:11:03.319 --> 02:11:05.680 I spent a slow day on the phones today compared 2422 02:11:05.680 --> 02:11:08.920 to normal, but typically what happens is got a lot 2423 02:11:08.960 --> 02:11:11.239 of calls right toward the end of the day. But 2424 02:11:11.640 --> 02:11:13.159 whenever it's a good time for you, it's a good 2425 02:11:13.159 --> 02:11:15.159 time for me. Give us a call seven one three 2426 02:11:15.199 --> 02:11:18.560 two one two k t R H be happy to 2427 02:11:18.640 --> 02:11:22.960 help with that. I was at a wallbirds yesterday. Thanks 2428 02:11:23.399 --> 02:11:27.079 uh Jeff. Folks out there in clear Lake at the 2429 02:11:27.079 --> 02:11:30.680 Wallbirds in clear Lake. We had a great time. By 2430 02:11:30.720 --> 02:11:33.079 the way, if you want to find the wallbirds near you, 2431 02:11:33.279 --> 02:11:39.399 it is a website called wbu dot com forward slash Houston. 2432 02:11:39.479 --> 02:11:42.199 There's six Wallbird stores here in Houston, and if you 2433 02:11:42.199 --> 02:11:44.159 go to that website you can find the ones near you. 2434 02:11:44.319 --> 02:11:47.079 We are in the big, big middle of hummingbird season. 2435 02:11:47.439 --> 02:11:50.199 Those hummingbirds have showed up. They are hungry. They got 2436 02:11:50.199 --> 02:11:52.600 a long trip ahead of them. And how on earth 2437 02:11:52.640 --> 02:11:58.479 a hummingbird with wings beating sixty times a second is 2438 02:11:58.560 --> 02:12:01.000 able to fly across the Gulf of Ago. I have 2439 02:12:01.199 --> 02:12:03.439 no idea, but they do it. But you can help 2440 02:12:03.439 --> 02:12:05.520 them out, you know, get some good sugar water out 2441 02:12:05.560 --> 02:12:09.199 there for them. They make a special blend there wild 2442 02:12:09.239 --> 02:12:12.920 Birds that has something that keeps the mix from going bad. 2443 02:12:13.119 --> 02:12:16.159 It's a kind of a nutrient mineral type thing. So 2444 02:12:16.239 --> 02:12:19.199 it's not like something that would hurt the birds. In fact, 2445 02:12:19.560 --> 02:12:22.720 it really helps what would last You know, sugar water 2446 02:12:22.760 --> 02:12:25.359 in our heats outside today is going to last what 2447 02:12:25.560 --> 02:12:27.800 two or three days and it's going to start getting funky. 2448 02:12:28.199 --> 02:12:30.239 Well you put this in, it'll lasts a week or more. 2449 02:12:30.560 --> 02:12:33.479 It really works well that you can also add it 2450 02:12:33.520 --> 02:12:35.640 to your own sugar water if you want to do that. 2451 02:12:36.520 --> 02:12:39.000 If you are going to be on a trip and 2452 02:12:39.079 --> 02:12:41.399 away for a while, get one of their seed cylinders. 2453 02:12:41.479 --> 02:12:44.159 If you are having problems with squirrels eating all your 2454 02:12:44.159 --> 02:12:48.319 bird seed, they have the hot pepper seed cylinders, and 2455 02:12:48.359 --> 02:12:51.479 they have hot pepper seeds too, and those squirrels they 2456 02:12:51.560 --> 02:12:54.119 will not eat that kind of like you know, put 2457 02:12:54.119 --> 02:12:56.439 a bunch of Hobernaro peppers in front of me and 2458 02:12:56.560 --> 02:12:59.199 there's not one of those going into my mouth. I 2459 02:12:59.239 --> 02:13:03.520 would be set on fire. So Wildbird's unlimited, lots of 2460 02:13:03.560 --> 02:13:06.760 good blends, lots of good things from bird feeders. Bird 2461 02:13:06.800 --> 02:13:11.159 houses get stocked up. Also, Baltimore orioles are moving through 2462 02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:13.319 right now, so you want to They have supplies for 2463 02:13:13.439 --> 02:13:16.760 them as well, types of feed that are especially attractive 2464 02:13:17.199 --> 02:13:21.199 to those as well. All at wildbirds wbu dot com, 2465 02:13:21.239 --> 02:13:25.760 Forward slash Houston. We're going to head now to Okay, 2466 02:13:25.800 --> 02:13:27.680 We're going to head out to Montgum. I always have 2467 02:13:27.720 --> 02:13:29.680 to watch a clock because I ended up just wanting 2468 02:13:29.680 --> 02:13:31.359 to talk all day and not realize I have to 2469 02:13:31.359 --> 02:13:35.439 take breaks. We'll go to Brad and Montgomery next. Hey, Brad, 2470 02:13:35.560 --> 02:13:40.840 welcome to garden line. Hey, how are you? I'm well, 2471 02:13:40.880 --> 02:13:41.279 thank you? 2472 02:13:42.359 --> 02:13:44.319 All right, we got a quest, I'd said on the 2473 02:13:44.319 --> 02:13:47.319 thing on the to your screener that we have. It 2474 02:13:47.359 --> 02:13:50.119 looks like some eggs and some white flies are flying 2475 02:13:50.159 --> 02:13:52.319 up and we shake the leaves. But we have some 2476 02:13:52.399 --> 02:13:55.279 points set is that we keep all year long. And 2477 02:13:55.319 --> 02:13:58.479 then a shrimp plant and then some church caps that 2478 02:13:58.520 --> 02:14:00.600 are kind of eating up with all almost looks like 2479 02:14:00.640 --> 02:14:05.079 a black fungus. But I think it's eggs or something. Okay, 2480 02:14:05.119 --> 02:14:06.479 we're wondering how to treat it. 2481 02:14:07.680 --> 02:14:10.960 All right, Well, my best shot at a general description 2482 02:14:11.119 --> 02:14:14.760 like that, if you're seeing white, little natty fly looking 2483 02:14:14.840 --> 02:14:16.800 things coming up off the plant when you shake it, 2484 02:14:16.840 --> 02:14:20.600 that is whiteflies. That's the only one that does that. Now. 2485 02:14:21.199 --> 02:14:24.640 Plant insects that suck the juice out of the plant. 2486 02:14:24.800 --> 02:14:28.279 They excrete the sugar that's in the juice and it 2487 02:14:28.319 --> 02:14:32.079 falls on the leaves and creates city mold black stuff, 2488 02:14:32.720 --> 02:14:35.880 and so that could be aphed scale, white flies, meatly bugs. 2489 02:14:35.880 --> 02:14:41.439 They all create what they creatively called honeydew. It's basically 2490 02:14:41.439 --> 02:14:43.800 sweet bug pea, but I think sweet bug pea doesn't 2491 02:14:43.800 --> 02:14:47.079 sound as good as honeydew. But anyway, that's what the 2492 02:14:47.079 --> 02:14:49.720 city mold's going off of. So you control the white flies. 2493 02:14:49.760 --> 02:14:52.880 You can you shut down the city mold source. You 2494 02:14:52.920 --> 02:14:55.399 can blast plants with a little bit of a soapy water, 2495 02:14:56.000 --> 02:14:58.680 you know, and then kind of blast that off of 2496 02:14:58.720 --> 02:15:02.079 them and get away a lot of the sticky sugary 2497 02:15:02.119 --> 02:15:05.760 stuff and some of the black honey or black city mold. 2498 02:15:06.439 --> 02:15:08.560 But basically you're gonna have to get a systemic in 2499 02:15:08.600 --> 02:15:11.479 those plants to kill the white flies. White flies are 2500 02:15:11.560 --> 02:15:17.279 hard to control. And sprays of horticultural oils sprayed upward 2501 02:15:17.399 --> 02:15:19.840 from under the plant to coat the eggs and the 2502 02:15:19.880 --> 02:15:23.239 pupa and the larvae that are under the leaves, that 2503 02:15:23.279 --> 02:15:25.880 will be helpful, but it's hard to get good coverage. 2504 02:15:26.000 --> 02:15:32.000 But also just make sure that you are using a systemic. 2505 02:15:32.079 --> 02:15:33.600 And I want to get you to hold I want 2506 02:15:33.600 --> 02:15:35.479 to come back and finish that answer. I'm gonna gets 2507 02:15:35.520 --> 02:15:37.159 to a hard news break here, Brad. But if you 2508 02:15:37.199 --> 02:15:39.760 can hang on, if you need brown stuff to have 2509 02:15:40.039 --> 02:15:42.680 gardens success, you know, that's the first step. You fix 2510 02:15:42.720 --> 02:15:45.800 the soil, the brown stuff, you put good plants in it, 2511 02:15:45.840 --> 02:15:49.279 and they thrive. That's how that works. And so many 2512 02:15:49.279 --> 02:15:52.119 people get excited about plants. You know they got beautiful 2513 02:15:52.159 --> 02:15:54.119 blooms on them. It's a tomato and you're going to 2514 02:15:54.199 --> 02:15:56.680 grow tomatoes. It's a tree that's gonna have blooms, and 2515 02:15:56.720 --> 02:15:59.000 you get all excited about that, but you don't think 2516 02:15:59.039 --> 02:16:02.760 about preparing this spot. First round stuff before green stuff. 2517 02:16:02.880 --> 02:16:05.520 Always prepare the soil. And if you live south of Houston, 2518 02:16:05.920 --> 02:16:08.880 Ciena Mulch is your go to place. A Cenamulch is 2519 02:16:08.920 --> 02:16:11.319 north of Roast Sharon. They're on FM five twenty one. 2520 02:16:11.800 --> 02:16:13.920 Here's the website. You want to write this down. It's 2521 02:16:13.920 --> 02:16:15.760 got everything you need to know, from phone numbers to 2522 02:16:15.800 --> 02:16:20.600 how to get there. Sienna Mulch dot com cienamulch dot com. 2523 02:16:20.640 --> 02:16:23.039 Now they're open Monday through Friday from seven thirty in 2524 02:16:23.119 --> 02:16:26.079 the morning till five Saturday from seven thirty to two. 2525 02:16:26.079 --> 02:16:28.760 They're closed today, close on Sunday. They'll be back open 2526 02:16:28.800 --> 02:16:32.639 again tomorrow. It's a one stop shop. And here here's 2527 02:16:32.639 --> 02:16:35.680 why I say that. You show up there, you buy composts, 2528 02:16:35.879 --> 02:16:39.399 you buy mulches, you buy fertilizers. They carry every fertilizer 2529 02:16:39.440 --> 02:16:41.760 I talk about on Guarden Line. They're there, they're ready 2530 02:16:41.799 --> 02:16:44.120 to go for you. Do you need a rose sooil? 2531 02:16:44.239 --> 02:16:47.239 Do you need landscapers, pride back velvet mulch? Do you 2532 02:16:47.360 --> 02:16:51.040 need airloom soils? What veggie and herb mix? You see 2533 02:16:51.079 --> 02:16:53.479 what I'm saying. They've got it all. They also have 2534 02:16:54.079 --> 02:16:56.920 sand and gravel, they have stone by the pallette. They'll 2535 02:16:56.920 --> 02:17:00.159 deliver within about twenty miles for a small fee, and 2536 02:17:00.200 --> 02:17:02.399 then all kinds of all kinds of multis. I'm just 2537 02:17:02.479 --> 02:17:04.479 naming a few of the things that they have. Roase 2538 02:17:04.520 --> 02:17:07.520 soil be another example. You show up at Sienna, you 2539 02:17:07.520 --> 02:17:08.959 go home with the good stuff, or if you're in 2540 02:17:09.040 --> 02:17:11.920 twenty miles away then and you har them to come 2541 02:17:11.959 --> 02:17:14.520 out and deliver it. And when you get that ready, 2542 02:17:14.639 --> 02:17:16.680 whatever you put in the ground this fall, you're going 2543 02:17:16.719 --> 02:17:22.479 to see success. Seen a mulch one stop shop. I'm 2544 02:17:22.479 --> 02:17:26.520 going to head out now to let's see where were we? Di? 2545 02:17:27.000 --> 02:17:33.559 Who was I talking to? Talking? Who was I talking to? Brad? Okay, Brad? 2546 02:17:33.920 --> 02:17:35.360 Was it you that I was talking to about the 2547 02:17:35.360 --> 02:17:39.120 white flies? Okay, my brain just kind of went blank. 2548 02:17:39.719 --> 02:17:43.159 So white flies? Yeah. A systemic would be something like 2549 02:17:43.440 --> 02:17:48.319 a meadow cloak prid I M I DO O C 2550 02:17:48.680 --> 02:17:52.159 L O P R I D a systemic like that, 2551 02:17:52.319 --> 02:17:55.239 and what that does is the root. You just drenched 2552 02:17:55.319 --> 02:17:57.799 the soil and the roots pick it up and it 2553 02:17:57.879 --> 02:18:01.120 goes through the plumbing of the plant. So any good 2554 02:18:01.399 --> 02:18:04.440 beneficial crawling around the surface of the plant, they're not 2555 02:18:04.520 --> 02:18:08.360 crawling on a sprayed surface, they're okay. But anything sucking 2556 02:18:08.479 --> 02:18:11.840 juices out of the plant, they get that poison and 2557 02:18:11.879 --> 02:18:16.239 it kills them. Now, the only negative about amidocloprid and 2558 02:18:16.360 --> 02:18:21.159 any systemic is that if honey bees are visiting the 2559 02:18:21.200 --> 02:18:24.520 flowers of that plant, well, there could be some of 2560 02:18:24.559 --> 02:18:27.040 that substance in the blooms, and so that's the big 2561 02:18:27.079 --> 02:18:30.239 hesitation on it. But when you're dealing with something that's 2562 02:18:30.360 --> 02:18:33.719 very difficult and persistent like soft scale and white flies, 2563 02:18:34.920 --> 02:18:37.760 it's one of the few options that really works. You 2564 02:18:37.799 --> 02:18:41.879 can work your way after them by regularly hitting them 2565 02:18:41.920 --> 02:18:45.239 with a horticultural little spray spray upward from under the leaf. 2566 02:18:45.319 --> 02:18:47.760 Like I mentioned earlier, it's a little more tedious and 2567 02:18:47.760 --> 02:18:49.799 you've got to be very diligent about that, but that 2568 02:18:49.799 --> 02:18:50.799 would be the other option. 2569 02:18:52.239 --> 02:18:54.440 Does that systemic get out of the planet eventually? 2570 02:18:55.959 --> 02:18:57.959 Yeah, it breaks down eventually, I mean it's not going 2571 02:18:58.000 --> 02:19:01.760 to be there a year from now. Yeah, those church caps. 2572 02:19:01.799 --> 02:19:03.879 We have butterflies that like them, and I don't know 2573 02:19:03.879 --> 02:19:08.559 if it affects the butterflies if they but right now, yeah. 2574 02:19:08.399 --> 02:19:11.559 I don't. Yeah, I don't know when the butterflies, but 2575 02:19:12.079 --> 02:19:15.600 I would I would just be cautious because it is systemic, 2576 02:19:15.680 --> 02:19:21.479 it's moving through the plant. Yeah, yeah, trust caps. You're 2577 02:19:21.559 --> 02:19:23.680 up in Montgomery, go to Ana Plants. I bet they. 2578 02:19:23.799 --> 02:19:25.639 I bet they have a version of it up there 2579 02:19:25.680 --> 02:19:29.879 at A and A on the east side of town. Okay, 2580 02:19:30.440 --> 02:19:32.399 if you have trouble finding out there, you can try 2581 02:19:32.200 --> 02:19:34.319 ACE Hardware in your area would have it too. 2582 02:19:35.440 --> 02:19:37.159 Yeah, there's an ACE Hardware right there on one. 2583 02:19:37.760 --> 02:19:42.200 So yeah, there you go. I appreciate your man. You bet. 2584 02:19:42.280 --> 02:19:45.479 Good luck with those. I hope you have a great, 2585 02:19:45.479 --> 02:19:49.200 great success with that. Let's go now to northwest Houston 2586 02:19:49.280 --> 02:19:54.520 and we're gonna talk to Matthew. Hello, Matthew morning, Skip. 2587 02:19:54.559 --> 02:19:57.760 How are you doing this morning? I'm good? Thank you. 2588 02:19:59.520 --> 02:20:00.319 Had question. 2589 02:20:01.520 --> 02:20:05.520 So last fall I'd put in a red maple and 2590 02:20:05.559 --> 02:20:08.440 it's been in the ground for about ten eleven months, 2591 02:20:08.840 --> 02:20:12.280 and I noticed a couple of weeks back that the 2592 02:20:12.520 --> 02:20:14.959 edges of the leaves on the bottom half of the 2593 02:20:15.000 --> 02:20:18.760 foliage are kind of turning gray, almost like they're burnt. 2594 02:20:19.040 --> 02:20:21.319 And I was curious what might be causing that, whether 2595 02:20:21.360 --> 02:20:25.520 it was underwatering, overwatering heat, or some sort of disease. 2596 02:20:28.479 --> 02:20:33.440 Well, there is a naturally lighter color underneath the leaf, 2597 02:20:33.600 --> 02:20:35.520 and I'm trying to think of some of the red 2598 02:20:35.680 --> 02:20:38.159 maybe some of it you had almost described as gray. 2599 02:20:38.399 --> 02:20:40.680 You sure you wasn't a silver maple that you got 2600 02:20:41.280 --> 02:20:41.840 it was red? 2601 02:20:41.920 --> 02:20:42.040 Uh? 2602 02:20:43.079 --> 02:20:45.520 No, I actually got it from RCW. Was a I 2603 02:20:45.520 --> 02:20:47.600 believe a san Felipe red maple. 2604 02:20:48.440 --> 02:20:51.559 Oh, yes, yes, that's an outstanding one that they sell 2605 02:20:51.559 --> 02:20:55.719 there at RCW. That's a good one. Grayish under the 2606 02:20:55.840 --> 02:20:58.000 But the top of the leaf looks healthy and green, right. 2607 02:20:58.680 --> 02:21:01.639 So the top half of the foliage looks perfectly fine. 2608 02:21:01.719 --> 02:21:05.079 It's the bottom half of the tree where I'm seeing 2609 02:21:05.079 --> 02:21:09.280 the edges of the leaves they're kind of turning gray 2610 02:21:09.559 --> 02:21:10.959 or brown, like they're dead. 2611 02:21:12.159 --> 02:21:14.639 Okay, so let me clarify this now. I was thinking 2612 02:21:14.680 --> 02:21:17.520 you were talking about the undersides of the leaves turning gray. 2613 02:21:17.680 --> 02:21:19.399 Now you're saying the edges are doing. 2614 02:21:19.239 --> 02:21:21.719 This right, Yes, it's just the edges. 2615 02:21:21.920 --> 02:21:25.840 Okay, okay, okay, good, Well, I wouldn't worry about that. 2616 02:21:26.440 --> 02:21:30.239 Probably there was something going on in the soil, such 2617 02:21:30.280 --> 02:21:34.559 as a droughty period, or you know, any kind of 2618 02:21:34.559 --> 02:21:38.239 a thing that affects the roots negatively. If you were 2619 02:21:38.280 --> 02:21:42.559 to put a bunch of salt based fertilizer around the plant, 2620 02:21:43.120 --> 02:21:46.200 you can burn the edges of the foliage when the 2621 02:21:46.280 --> 02:21:49.719 roots take up that concentrated fertilizer, like if you put 2622 02:21:49.719 --> 02:21:53.040 it out at too high of a rate. But that's 2623 02:21:53.079 --> 02:21:56.200 a good maple, it will do well here when we 2624 02:21:56.239 --> 02:21:59.399 go through droughts. A good deep soaking. This year hasn't 2625 02:21:59.399 --> 02:22:01.479 been a tough one. But the first year, the tree 2626 02:22:01.520 --> 02:22:04.239 does not have the root system it needs to take 2627 02:22:04.319 --> 02:22:09.920 up water sufficiently without you helping it. So an established tree, 2628 02:22:09.959 --> 02:22:12.200 had that grown from a seed, it would have roots 2629 02:22:12.360 --> 02:22:14.840 way out from the plant in all directions and it 2630 02:22:14.879 --> 02:22:18.399 would be able to withstand some droughty conditions. Coming out 2631 02:22:18.440 --> 02:22:22.479 of a cylinder in a pot, right, those roots are 2632 02:22:22.479 --> 02:22:24.479 confined and it takes a while for them to work 2633 02:22:24.520 --> 02:22:28.399 their way out. So the first year, especially small amounts 2634 02:22:28.440 --> 02:22:30.120 of water around the base of the plant, kind of 2635 02:22:30.159 --> 02:22:34.520 like you're watering where the pot was before, is pretty important. 2636 02:22:34.559 --> 02:22:36.879 And I think that's probably what happened a little bit 2637 02:22:36.920 --> 02:22:38.879 this year on it. I think it's going to be fine, though, 2638 02:22:39.239 --> 02:22:42.479 just make sure it gets adequate water during the cool season. 2639 02:22:42.559 --> 02:22:43.920 The leaves are going to fall off and we don't 2640 02:22:43.920 --> 02:22:46.399 have to worry about it. Okay. 2641 02:22:46.440 --> 02:22:48.280 See you think it was just a droughty period that 2642 02:22:48.959 --> 02:22:50.040 kind of hurt the roots. 2643 02:22:50.360 --> 02:22:54.399 I think, yeah, even if your soil, Yeah, go ahead. 2644 02:22:55.040 --> 02:22:58.120 I've got the tree ring and everything. I usually try 2645 02:22:58.120 --> 02:23:00.200 to hit it pretty good and make sure that the 2646 02:23:00.399 --> 02:23:02.959 so it stay. It's moist about a couple inches down. 2647 02:23:03.040 --> 02:23:07.440 But okay, well, those rings are outstanding. The thing you 2648 02:23:07.479 --> 02:23:10.719 have to remember is that root cylinder. The ring often 2649 02:23:10.799 --> 02:23:14.280 will spray outside the roots cylinder if you turn it 2650 02:23:14.399 --> 02:23:16.520 up right, and you have to barely turn it on 2651 02:23:16.920 --> 02:23:19.799 for the water to soak right down at the base 2652 02:23:19.840 --> 02:23:22.879 where that cylinder is. Because if you imagine this, when 2653 02:23:22.879 --> 02:23:25.559 you planted that tree, had you not taken the pot 2654 02:23:25.600 --> 02:23:27.879 off and you put the whole pot in the tree 2655 02:23:27.879 --> 02:23:30.600 in the ground, if you think about it that way, 2656 02:23:30.799 --> 02:23:33.399 you'll know right word of water, you wouldn't water outside 2657 02:23:33.399 --> 02:23:35.680 that because the roots aren't outside that well. For the 2658 02:23:35.799 --> 02:23:37.920 as we go month by month by month, and then 2659 02:23:38.040 --> 02:23:40.680 year by year end of the tree's life, the root 2660 02:23:40.760 --> 02:23:43.520 system more and more and more is filling the soil 2661 02:23:43.600 --> 02:23:46.559 outside of that area. But for a good while the 2662 02:23:46.600 --> 02:23:49.879 majority of roots are still inside that area, and so 2663 02:23:50.000 --> 02:23:52.840 when we water, that is the target. Now, next summer 2664 02:23:52.879 --> 02:23:55.319 it won't be so important to water just right there. 2665 02:23:55.639 --> 02:23:58.879 But this first summer was the more challenging time. So 2666 02:23:58.920 --> 02:24:01.000 you shouldn't see this problem if you have adequately mo 2667 02:24:01.200 --> 02:24:04.120 so and those tree waterers that go around the base 2668 02:24:04.799 --> 02:24:06.040 are excellent for that. 2669 02:24:06.639 --> 02:24:10.760 Okay, all right, I appreciate your hope, thank you skip all. 2670 02:24:10.799 --> 02:24:14.280 Right, you've met. Thanks Matthew, appreciate appreciate your call. We 2671 02:24:14.360 --> 02:24:15.959 got to take a little breakre when we come back 2672 02:24:16.079 --> 02:24:18.520 Gary and West Houston, you will be our first up, 2673 02:24:18.680 --> 02:24:21.920 your on guard line of the day. Here we go. 2674 02:24:23.000 --> 02:24:25.399 I've Todd told you for a long time now about 2675 02:24:25.520 --> 02:24:29.079 different microlife products. Microlife has a product called brown patch, 2676 02:24:29.479 --> 02:24:32.479 and it is a fertilizer where the nitrogen has dropped 2677 02:24:32.479 --> 02:24:34.639 down a little bit and the potassium has gone up. 2678 02:24:34.680 --> 02:24:37.079 And that's what we want to do with a fall fertilizer. 2679 02:24:37.639 --> 02:24:40.200 H and Microlife brown Patch is widely available a lot 2680 02:24:40.200 --> 02:24:44.120 of different places. No problem, at all finding Microlife bound 2681 02:24:44.360 --> 02:24:47.719 brown patch gosh, I can't even talk on the market 2682 02:24:47.760 --> 02:24:51.600 out there. Microlife's widely widely sold across the Greater Houston 2683 02:24:51.639 --> 02:24:53.760 area and even beyond that too. By the way, if 2684 02:24:53.760 --> 02:24:57.280 you got friends and other areas around here, Uh, just 2685 02:24:57.319 --> 02:24:59.879 follow the label, apply it according to the label. Get 2686 02:25:00.120 --> 02:25:04.680 that done. I primarily I focus my fall fertilization recommendations 2687 02:25:04.719 --> 02:25:08.719 on October, but we are getting toward now we're in 2688 02:25:08.760 --> 02:25:11.040 the middle of September. As we get toward the end 2689 02:25:11.079 --> 02:25:13.600 of September, you can go ahead and start your organic 2690 02:25:13.959 --> 02:25:18.319 fertilization because these products have to be microbially broken down 2691 02:25:18.520 --> 02:25:21.639 to release fully release all the nutrients to the growing plants. 2692 02:25:21.639 --> 02:25:22.680 And I just like to get a little bit of 2693 02:25:22.680 --> 02:25:25.440 a headstart on that. And Microlife brown pats can be 2694 02:25:25.559 --> 02:25:28.040 used in late September and all through October if you 2695 02:25:28.159 --> 02:25:31.719 like to give that turf the boost it needs. Because remember, 2696 02:25:31.799 --> 02:25:35.639 you go into fall strong, you come out of winter strong. 2697 02:25:36.159 --> 02:25:40.399 That's how grass grows. The spring growth is based on 2698 02:25:40.479 --> 02:25:44.280 the stored nutrients and energy carbohydrates in the grass plant, 2699 02:25:44.440 --> 02:25:47.200 not on the roots at that time. As roots begin 2700 02:25:47.280 --> 02:25:50.120 to grow in spring, then our spring fertilizations help with that. 2701 02:25:50.600 --> 02:25:53.440 But I would say maybe one of the most important 2702 02:25:53.440 --> 02:25:55.879 fertilizations of the year on year lawn is the fall 2703 02:25:55.920 --> 02:25:58.799 fertilization because of what I just said, because of what 2704 02:25:58.840 --> 02:26:01.760 it can do. Life bron patch can do that. Loaded 2705 02:26:01.799 --> 02:26:05.239 with microbes they get on the plant, they help compete 2706 02:26:05.639 --> 02:26:08.319 against the bad guys. In this case, bron patch is 2707 02:26:08.319 --> 02:26:10.920 an example of a fungus that attacks CHR lawn. So 2708 02:26:10.959 --> 02:26:15.040 anything we do to improve in the good guy competition 2709 02:26:15.079 --> 02:26:17.680 against bad guys is a good idea, and that is 2710 02:26:17.879 --> 02:26:21.360 why they designed microlife bron Patch. We're gonna go now 2711 02:26:21.399 --> 02:26:24.120 to West Houston and talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, Welcome 2712 02:26:24.159 --> 02:26:27.280 to Gardline. Good, good morning, sir. Did you happen to 2713 02:26:27.280 --> 02:26:31.639 get my picture? Hang on? 2714 02:26:33.280 --> 02:26:35.200 Yeah? 2715 02:26:35.559 --> 02:26:35.920 Uh? 2716 02:26:36.239 --> 02:26:38.520 From Gary? Or who would it? Say it? 2717 02:26:38.639 --> 02:26:39.200 Yeah? That's me? 2718 02:26:39.719 --> 02:26:43.319 Yeah, oh yeah, I replied to you, Yes, I did. No, 2719 02:26:43.399 --> 02:26:46.799 wait a minute, I'm sorry, hang on just a second. 2720 02:26:46.920 --> 02:26:50.319 That's somebody else. And I did not get from a Gary. 2721 02:26:50.360 --> 02:26:56.399 I got from see Jonathan and Chuck. Going from Chuck. 2722 02:26:56.600 --> 02:27:00.879 I didn't do anything from Gary. Okay, well, I'll say what, 2723 02:27:01.079 --> 02:27:02.959 let me put you on hold. I'm going to put 2724 02:27:03.000 --> 02:27:04.479 you on hold and let me, let me, let my 2725 02:27:04.479 --> 02:27:06.120 producer talk to you and see if we can work 2726 02:27:06.120 --> 02:27:08.680 out what went wrong, and we'll probably have a little 2727 02:27:08.680 --> 02:27:10.760 time here maybe we can get it. Get it fixed. 2728 02:27:11.360 --> 02:27:14.479 All right, folks, you're listening to guard Line. I'm your host, 2729 02:27:14.479 --> 02:27:17.120 skip Rictor. We're here every Saturday and Sunday to answer 2730 02:27:17.159 --> 02:27:19.120 your gardening questions. And I don't care where you live. 2731 02:27:19.520 --> 02:27:22.959 Call us. We'll answer your gardening questions. Happy to do that. 2732 02:27:23.680 --> 02:27:25.280 By the way, I just want to remind you again 2733 02:27:25.799 --> 02:27:29.719 that Nature's Way Resources still has their Fungal Friday sale 2734 02:27:29.760 --> 02:27:33.959 going on, twenty percent off fungal composts on Friday. What 2735 02:27:34.079 --> 02:27:38.000 is fungo compost, Well, fungal compost is anytime you have 2736 02:27:38.239 --> 02:27:41.639 a tree, a wood, a leaf, a type of substance. 2737 02:27:42.159 --> 02:27:45.799 Fungi are the primary decomposers for that. You know, when 2738 02:27:45.840 --> 02:27:49.520 it's things like I don't know, lettuce leave, you know, 2739 02:27:49.559 --> 02:27:51.959 something real green and stuff like that on the ground. Well, 2740 02:27:52.040 --> 02:27:55.239 bacteria are going to be dominant in that kind of decomposition. 2741 02:27:55.840 --> 02:28:00.200 But their fungal composts twenty percent off on Fridays, So 2742 02:28:00.399 --> 02:28:02.159 this is time to go by and get it. You're 2743 02:28:02.159 --> 02:28:05.959 making beds, you're improving your soil for fall. Fungal compost 2744 02:28:06.000 --> 02:28:07.520 is a good thing to mix into the soil you 2745 02:28:07.559 --> 02:28:09.760 want to do a top dressing on your lawn. Just 2746 02:28:09.840 --> 02:28:13.799 like leaf mold compost, Fungal compost is also a very 2747 02:28:13.840 --> 02:28:18.399 good product for success with that, don't forget On Saturday, 2748 02:28:19.040 --> 02:28:21.680 October twelfth, I want to give you a head start 2749 02:28:21.680 --> 02:28:23.559 on this one. Normally, I don't talk about things until 2750 02:28:23.600 --> 02:28:26.159 we're almost on them. Saturday, October twelve, I'll be at 2751 02:28:26.159 --> 02:28:29.360 their fall festival and it is going to be officially 2752 02:28:29.760 --> 02:28:33.319 designated a shindig early, So I'm designating at a shindig 2753 02:28:33.760 --> 02:28:38.200 live music, children's activities, Latin food, local vendors, plant sales. 2754 02:28:38.520 --> 02:28:41.760 I'll be there from let's see eleven thirty to one 2755 02:28:42.000 --> 02:28:45.360 thirty answering your gardening questions. And also you can bring 2756 02:28:45.440 --> 02:28:48.239 me your sick and tired and diseased and insect infested 2757 02:28:48.360 --> 02:28:50.520 whatever in a baggie. We'll take a look at them 2758 02:28:50.520 --> 02:28:52.799 and we'll diagnose them and point you in the right direction, 2759 02:28:52.959 --> 02:28:56.719 or just photos on your phone. Anyway, that is October twelfth. 2760 02:28:56.920 --> 02:28:58.520 I want to make sure you get that on your 2761 02:28:58.520 --> 02:29:00.680 calendar so you can show up and help us with that. 2762 02:29:02.959 --> 02:29:05.879 Let's see Chris, are we ready to go back with Carriy? 2763 02:29:05.959 --> 02:29:09.079 Do we get that solved or not? See if I 2764 02:29:09.120 --> 02:29:11.959 can take care of this boy. We're running short on 2765 02:29:12.280 --> 02:29:15.559 time here. I want to I just want to mention 2766 02:29:15.719 --> 02:29:19.040 one thing before for a runout of time to be 2767 02:29:19.040 --> 02:29:23.159 able to do it, and that is that next Saturday, 2768 02:29:23.399 --> 02:29:28.040 I'll be at A and A Plants and Produce in Montgomery, Texas. 2769 02:29:28.639 --> 02:29:31.319 A and A Plants and Produce and Montgomery. I'd ei 2770 02:29:31.319 --> 02:29:35.559 there from twelve to two, from noon to two, answering questions, 2771 02:29:35.600 --> 02:29:38.840 give a little talk and diagnose in whatever kinds of 2772 02:29:38.879 --> 02:29:42.959 pictures and plants you bring me to look at you 2773 02:29:43.040 --> 02:29:46.239 and talk to Dwane. Hello Dwayne, Welcome to garden Land. 2774 02:29:47.399 --> 02:29:48.399 Thanks lot Skiff. 2775 02:29:48.479 --> 02:29:49.520 I got a quick question. 2776 02:29:49.879 --> 02:29:54.000 I'm having a subdivision where we have one acre plots. 2777 02:29:53.360 --> 02:29:56.799 And the neighbors behind me have two story houses, and 2778 02:29:56.840 --> 02:29:59.120 I was wondering what tree I can plan on the 2779 02:29:59.200 --> 02:30:00.920 back for privacy. 2780 02:30:00.959 --> 02:30:01.840 Then we grow quick. 2781 02:30:02.079 --> 02:30:08.319 It's evergreen, Okay. So screening is a based on where 2782 02:30:08.360 --> 02:30:11.040 you're sitting and where what you don't want to see is. 2783 02:30:11.319 --> 02:30:15.559 So let's say you're sitting ten feet from the fence line. 2784 02:30:15.600 --> 02:30:18.000 I know you're not but if you were even something 2785 02:30:18.200 --> 02:30:20.280 six to eight feet high would be enough to block 2786 02:30:20.319 --> 02:30:23.319 a view. But as you get further away, then you 2787 02:30:23.399 --> 02:30:26.000 need a higher screen, so you kind of have to 2788 02:30:26.360 --> 02:30:29.639 do the eyeball across there. And how big does it 2789 02:30:29.680 --> 02:30:31.120 have to be. It's probably going to need to be 2790 02:30:31.159 --> 02:30:33.319 almost a tree based on the size of the lot 2791 02:30:33.360 --> 02:30:38.680 you're describing. And finding something that is evergreen so it 2792 02:30:38.719 --> 02:30:40.680 blocks the view all the time is a little bit 2793 02:30:40.680 --> 02:30:44.799 of a challenge. The pretty fast growing would be something 2794 02:30:44.879 --> 02:30:47.879 like an eastern red ceedar. They get up pretty quick 2795 02:30:48.120 --> 02:30:51.399 and hit a decent size, and they are evergreen. Live 2796 02:30:51.440 --> 02:30:54.639 oaks certainly are another example of that. They are slower 2797 02:30:54.719 --> 02:30:57.920 growing though, although there are some more upright types of 2798 02:30:57.959 --> 02:31:01.319 live oaks that grow in more of an upright fashion 2799 02:31:01.879 --> 02:31:05.280 than the other. Uh. Those those would be two things 2800 02:31:05.280 --> 02:31:07.000 that I would consider, But it's going to take a 2801 02:31:07.000 --> 02:31:09.040 while to get that that height of the screen that 2802 02:31:09.079 --> 02:31:09.920 you're talking about. 2803 02:31:11.159 --> 02:31:14.079 Okay, and the parking with what I'm sorry, I missed it. 2804 02:31:15.200 --> 02:31:22.239 I'm sorry, yes again, Yeah, the second one was live oak. 2805 02:31:22.520 --> 02:31:25.520 The first one, I'm trying to remember what I just 2806 02:31:25.799 --> 02:31:28.399 what did I just say? 2807 02:31:27.520 --> 02:31:27.639 Uh? 2808 02:31:28.520 --> 02:31:35.719 By the way, Eastern red, Eastern red cedar. Yeah, eastern 2809 02:31:35.799 --> 02:31:38.920 red would be something. Yeah, they grow wild or on 2810 02:31:39.040 --> 02:31:42.200 the country side up here. Now. One other one would 2811 02:31:42.280 --> 02:31:48.760 be cherry laurel. Cherry laurel. Uh. And there are varieties 2812 02:31:48.799 --> 02:31:52.079 that are more compact, and you want one necessarily not 2813 02:31:52.200 --> 02:31:54.000 so compact, to get a little bit bigger and it 2814 02:31:54.040 --> 02:31:56.600 gets a decent size to it, but again you'll have 2815 02:31:56.680 --> 02:31:58.639 to determine how big it has to be to really 2816 02:31:58.639 --> 02:32:02.559 block the view you're looking at. Okay, Okay, I appreciate it, 2817 02:32:02.879 --> 02:32:06.399 all right, you bet, Dwyane, thanks a lot, appreciate appreciate 2818 02:32:06.440 --> 02:32:10.559 that call. All right, let's see Gary, did we resolve 2819 02:32:10.680 --> 02:32:12.399 that with the producer or not? 2820 02:32:13.879 --> 02:32:14.840 I think he did. 2821 02:32:16.600 --> 02:32:21.680 Okay, he says he found all right. Yeah, so hey Gary, yes, 2822 02:32:22.079 --> 02:32:24.120 let me let's do this. If he gave you, he 2823 02:32:24.159 --> 02:32:26.799 gave you, made sure you got the right one, go 2824 02:32:26.799 --> 02:32:28.159 ahead and send it to me. I'll look at the 2825 02:32:28.159 --> 02:32:30.360 email during this week and we will try to take 2826 02:32:30.360 --> 02:32:32.959 it from there. Okay, Yeah, you know what, that's fine. 2827 02:32:33.319 --> 02:32:34.319 I'll call next week. 2828 02:32:34.360 --> 02:32:36.280 I think it's something you enjoyed to hearing about it. 2829 02:32:37.920 --> 02:32:42.040 Okay, good sounds good. Thanks a lot for the call. Wow, 2830 02:32:42.159 --> 02:32:44.399 time flies when you're having fun. And we have been 2831 02:32:44.479 --> 02:32:46.840 having fun today. We've got a little extra time before 2832 02:32:46.840 --> 02:32:49.280 we had break this time that's good, nice, Maybe an 2833 02:32:49.280 --> 02:32:52.479 extra minute we can talk about things. I want to 2834 02:32:52.479 --> 02:32:56.920 remind you that fall is the best planting season of 2835 02:32:56.920 --> 02:32:59.879 the year. And I don't just say that. I wish 2836 02:33:00.280 --> 02:33:02.719 we could take spring fever and release it into the 2837 02:33:02.760 --> 02:33:06.399 water supplies and fall so everybody gets a good case 2838 02:33:06.479 --> 02:33:11.159 of gardening fever in the fall time. Because for woody ornamentals, 2839 02:33:11.600 --> 02:33:15.719 absolutely the best. For perennials, the best, and that includes 2840 02:33:15.959 --> 02:33:21.159 perennial flowers, perennial herbs, perennial grasses. It's a great vegetable 2841 02:33:21.159 --> 02:33:24.159 gardening season. You know, things that are ripening in the 2842 02:33:24.159 --> 02:33:26.680 fall are ripening. Is the temperatures cool off, so the 2843 02:33:26.719 --> 02:33:29.440 flavor is crisp and better. It's just good. It's just 2844 02:33:29.479 --> 02:33:31.440 a good time. Plus it's fun to be outside in 2845 02:33:31.479 --> 02:33:34.639 the fall. We can go outside again soon. Trust me, 2846 02:33:34.719 --> 02:33:37.959 this is coming. We're looking forward to it. Prepare yourself first, 2847 02:33:38.159 --> 02:33:40.639 always prepare yourself first, and then pick something that wants 2848 02:33:40.639 --> 02:33:42.200 to grow here and get it done. What are you 2849 02:33:42.200 --> 02:33:44.440 going to add to your landscape this fall? Imagine this 2850 02:33:44.559 --> 02:33:47.200 walk out to the street, look at your house and 2851 02:33:47.840 --> 02:33:51.079 look at where the evergreens are. They all on one side, 2852 02:33:51.479 --> 02:33:53.399 and would you like to balance it out a little bit? 2853 02:33:53.559 --> 02:33:57.639 There's an idea. What is bloomed this summer and where 2854 02:33:58.120 --> 02:34:00.719 and what could you add that would be a good bloomer. 2855 02:34:01.040 --> 02:34:03.680 Or maybe it bloomed in spring, it bloomed in summer 2856 02:34:04.639 --> 02:34:06.760 right and now in the fall. Other than annual plants, 2857 02:34:06.760 --> 02:34:09.200 you don't have any flowers. There are some great perennials 2858 02:34:09.239 --> 02:34:11.879 that bloom in the fall. Why not add some of 2859 02:34:11.920 --> 02:34:14.360 those to it? Are there any plants that are in 2860 02:34:14.399 --> 02:34:17.360 a shady area that need more sun or vice versa. 2861 02:34:17.840 --> 02:34:20.520 Fall is the best time to move a plant in 2862 02:34:20.600 --> 02:34:23.000 the landscape. The demands are the least. And when I 2863 02:34:23.040 --> 02:34:27.280 say fall for moving, I'm talking about late October, maybe 2864 02:34:27.319 --> 02:34:30.399 starting then up further north than the listening area, and 2865 02:34:30.680 --> 02:34:33.639 for all of the listening area, definitely November early November 2866 02:34:33.719 --> 02:34:36.520 is a good time. Dig them up, put slide them 2867 02:34:36.559 --> 02:34:38.440 onto a tarp so you don't have to pay for 2868 02:34:38.479 --> 02:34:41.799 your car, practice kids to go through college, and slide 2869 02:34:41.799 --> 02:34:43.799 them right over the new area and put them in there. 2870 02:34:43.840 --> 02:34:46.959 I have moved plants several times in the fall, and 2871 02:34:47.000 --> 02:34:49.719 it is an excellent time because the demands are so 2872 02:34:49.840 --> 02:34:52.879 low and there's no time like moving a plant like fall. 2873 02:34:53.000 --> 02:34:54.239 Try to do it in the summer, you're going to 2874 02:34:54.319 --> 02:34:56.799 lose the plant. Fall is a great time to do that. 2875 02:34:56.920 --> 02:34:59.799 So I guess what I'm saying is fall is the 2876 02:34:59.799 --> 02:35:05.399 time I'm for planting and for transplanting. That's for sure. Well, 2877 02:35:05.440 --> 02:35:07.239 we ought to be hearing music by now, because I 2878 02:35:07.280 --> 02:35:11.840 am hitting right up against the end of this program 2879 02:35:11.920 --> 02:35:15.319 for today. Don't forget if you wanted to go to 2880 02:35:15.399 --> 02:35:20.559 the second Annual Strawberry Jamboree on September twenty first, let's 2881 02:35:20.639 --> 02:35:24.520 next supery down in Lake Jackson way down like Justicon 2882 02:35:24.680 --> 02:35:29.000 Rep Center, Lake Drive, Missouri County, stenching of a sudden, 2883 02:35:29.040 --> 02:35:30.600 the heck of an event. It's free. You're going to 2884 02:35:30.639 --> 02:35:33.879 learn about strawberry growing. They'll have exhibitors, I'll have a 2885 02:35:34.120 --> 02:35:37.520 strawberry shortcake contest, and I hope to miss out. I 2886 02:35:37.520 --> 02:35:40.920 went last year was a great, great event. I won't 2887 02:35:40.959 --> 02:35:43.760 make it this year, but it is going to be good. 2888 02:35:43.879 --> 02:35:45.840 Tay you that I know what kind of programs that 2889 02:35:45.959 --> 02:35:48.719 they put on down their phone number for more information. 2890 02:35:48.920 --> 02:35:53.600 Ninety seven nine eight, six, four, one, five, five eight nine, 2891 02:35:53.680 --> 02:35:56.360 seventy nine, eight six, four fifteen