Speaker 1: Program.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Rickard's.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, Good Sunday morning. We are glad you have
Speaker 1: joined us this morning, and we're gonna have some fun
Speaker 1: talking about gardening today. What kind of questions do you have?
Speaker 1: Something about vegetables or herbs, or flowers or fruit, or
Speaker 1: lawns or trees or shrubs, or let's see soil preparation
Speaker 1: that'd be my favorite topic. Or maybe house planned something
Speaker 1: inside whatever you question, whatever your questions are, just give
Speaker 1: us a call. We'll be happy to visit about them.
Speaker 1: Seven to one three two one two k t r
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Speaker 1: I've been preparing for a future show, a long future show.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be during the holidays. I'm gonna do something
Speaker 1: on the most common mistakes that I see people make
Speaker 1: in their gardens or landscapes or lawns and everything. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a I think a list of about fifty things,
Speaker 1: so it'd be kind of interesting. So during the holidays
Speaker 1: we will play that. And uh, you know, having done
Speaker 1: this for decades now, I've I've seen it all. And
Speaker 1: as far as mistakes that folks make, and just between
Speaker 1: you and me, since it's just doing me listening right now,
Speaker 1: I made them too. I've made the mistakes, not all
Speaker 1: of them, thank goodness, but I've made my share of
Speaker 1: mistakes in the garden. And we learned from mistakes. And
Speaker 1: you know, I always say that you don't fail at gardening.
Speaker 1: You quit, you give up. And so if you stop trying,
Speaker 1: stop learning, well, yeah, okay, you fail to gardening. But
Speaker 1: there's no need to do that. It's just a matter
Speaker 1: of starting over gardening again. To use another analogy that
Speaker 1: works for me. Maybe if you're somewhere over forty years old,
Speaker 1: you may remember the etch a sketch. Do they still
Speaker 1: make those things? Where you know, you try to draw
Speaker 1: with two knobs and one goes up and down and
Speaker 1: one goes left and right, and inevitably your brain tells
Speaker 1: your hand the wrong thing and you mess up your picture.
Speaker 1: What do you do? You turn it upside down, you
Speaker 1: shake it, and then when you look at the screen again,
Speaker 1: it is blank, and you get to start over drawing again.
Speaker 1: That's how gardening is. If you plant something that dies,
Speaker 1: if you plant something that doesn't belong here, something that
Speaker 1: pests and diseases get. Or if you just fail to
Speaker 1: prepare the soil properly, maybe the drainage is poor and
Speaker 1: you have problems. It's okay, can start over, or you
Speaker 1: can move. In some cases you catch it soon enough.
Speaker 1: You can dig the plant up center to the side,
Speaker 1: get the bed right, and then put that plant back
Speaker 1: in there. It's a learning process, and it really is fun.
Speaker 1: You just need to not take it in yourself too seriously,
Speaker 1: be willing to learn even the hard way. A very
Speaker 1: well known, nationally known horticulturist out on the East Coast
Speaker 1: said that to be a good horticulturist, you got to
Speaker 1: kill a lot of plants. That is true, because I
Speaker 1: learn a lot from my mistakes. Someone said, learn from
Speaker 1: the mistakes of others. You don't have time to make
Speaker 1: them all yourself. Well, I think you should learn from
Speaker 1: both of them, because that's how gardening it is. So anyway,
Speaker 1: have fun out there in the garden. That is very important,
Speaker 1: and let's learn every day. Of course, that's what we're
Speaker 1: doing here on garden Line every day. Nitrofoss has come
Speaker 1: up with a Texas three step program. They've had it
Speaker 1: for a while, but the Texas three step is basically
Speaker 1: a fertilizer, a pest control product, and a disease control product.
Speaker 1: Here's how it works. Step one nitrophoss Fall Special Winter Riser.
Speaker 1: It's the balance of nutrients in it are to create
Speaker 1: winter heartiness and to have your long come out stronger
Speaker 1: in the spring, because early spring growth is based on
Speaker 1: what's stored in the plant, not what the roots are
Speaker 1: taking up right at that moment, but what's already stored
Speaker 1: in the plant. So go into fall strong, go into
Speaker 1: winter strong, you come out in spring strong. Secondly is
Speaker 1: nitropos barricade an insecticide, excuse me, a herbicide. It prevents
Speaker 1: weeds eachs from sprouting, so you put it down in
Speaker 1: all those winter weeds you don't really see them in
Speaker 1: the fall or really even in the winter much, and
Speaker 1: then in spring they take off growing. They're like our native,
Speaker 1: our Texas native flower, the bluebonnet. They sprout in the fall,
Speaker 1: they kind of sit there, poppies, and then when spring comes, boom,
Speaker 1: they take off, they get big, they grow. That's what
Speaker 1: our weeds are doing. And barricade stops at And the
Speaker 1: third step is nitrofoss eagle turf fungicide. This is a
Speaker 1: systemic fungicide. It will work on brown patch now called
Speaker 1: large patch. It will work on take all root rot
Speaker 1: as well. It's an important third step in this process.
Speaker 1: And you're going to be able to find these products
Speaker 1: from nitrofoss at war on southern gardens. You're going to
Speaker 1: find them at the Ace Hardware out there on Sinco
Speaker 1: Ranch or even at Growers outlet up in willis Well.
Speaker 1: We already got folks here trying to call in this morning.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go to the phones. I think
Speaker 1: we'll start out here in Montgomery talking to Albert. Hello Albert,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 5: Oh hello, Skip, good Sunday morning. I hope you're doing well,
Speaker 5: very well. Thank you, Yes, sir, I got a some
Speaker 5: brown patches. They look like brown patch, but I don't know,
Speaker 5: could be chitchbug or how do I tell the difference?
Speaker 1: Well, brown patch officially has not hit in our lawns
Speaker 1: just yet. It will when we get a little coal
Speaker 1: front through and some rain and things will start to
Speaker 1: see it. It could be chinchbugs. They typically start in
Speaker 1: a sunny spot as opposed to shade, and they typically
Speaker 1: start next to concrete, sidewalk or you know, some sort
Speaker 1: of masonry, maybe a curb or driveway. That's usually where
Speaker 1: you see them beginning, and they then they gradually move
Speaker 1: out in the lawn. It could also be you know,
Speaker 1: drought conditions. It could be due to compaction in the
Speaker 1: soil and the plant just doesn't have the resilience and
Speaker 1: the root system to be able to hold through things
Speaker 1: like a minor drought. So I guess it could be
Speaker 1: a number of things going on there. August Saint Augustine.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, Saint Augustine is by.
Speaker 6: My dryway, like you're talking about so thick.
Speaker 1: Well if it is what I love to Okay, well
Speaker 1: here's let's do this. Go get out there and find
Speaker 1: the zone between healthy and dead. You know, dead, there's
Speaker 1: not going to be any chinchbugs in it. They've moved on.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to eat. Uh and and of course perfectly healthy.
Speaker 1: They're not there yet or or we'd be seeing symptoms.
Speaker 1: So go in that zone between healthy and dead. Drop
Speaker 1: down on your hands and knees and look. I want
Speaker 1: you first look at the grass blades. Are they normal
Speaker 1: or are they missing? Or have they had the sides chewed?
Speaker 1: Out of them, like something is chomping from the side
Speaker 1: of the grass blade in that would be sid web worms. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you don't see that, then go down into the
Speaker 1: thatch and sort of pull it apart. And you kind
Speaker 1: of pull it apart and hold real still and watch.
Speaker 1: And if you see some little black and white bugs
Speaker 1: crawling around in there. Sometimes they are also a brick
Speaker 1: red with a white band to cross their back, that's chinchbugs.
Speaker 1: And that would be the sign that you need to
Speaker 1: use something for the chinchbugs, which would uh knock them out.
Speaker 1: We still have some chinchbugs around that are giving some
Speaker 1: trouble to our lawns.
Speaker 5: Okay, and it is chinchbugs.
Speaker 1: Kind of what do I hit it with?
Speaker 4: What did I spray with?
Speaker 1: Their granule or spray or nitrofis bug out max is
Speaker 1: a granule, You put it out, you water it and
Speaker 1: it washes off those granules and goes into that thatch area.
Speaker 1: And then when that's where chinchbugs are hiding because they're
Speaker 1: feeding on the on the runners, not on the leaves,
Speaker 1: and uh, and it'll knock them out and it'll last
Speaker 1: for a good while too. But anyway, let's find out
Speaker 1: what we're dealing with first, and you know it may
Speaker 1: not even be an insect at all. Okay, okay, well,
Speaker 1: thank you sir. All right, yes, sir, all right, appreciate
Speaker 1: your call. We're gonna have to run to a break here.
Speaker 1: Mike and Huffman, you'll be first when we come back,
Speaker 1: skip Rictor and rear to talk about the things that
Speaker 1: concern you and interest you regarding your garden. You're having
Speaker 1: problems you're trying to deal with. Give us a call
Speaker 1: you want some suggestions for a plant or how to
Speaker 1: a little quick discussion. We'll be happy to visit about
Speaker 1: all those things. I do want to mention a while ago,
Speaker 1: I was talking about the importance of the Nitropos Texas
Speaker 1: three step, and then we talked about the Nitropas bug
Speaker 1: out MAX for some insect issues that are going on
Speaker 1: that would be an additional thing outside of that three step.
Speaker 1: ACE hardware carries all of those every fertilizer you hear
Speaker 1: me talk about, such as nitrophos, they're going to be
Speaker 1: at ACE hardware. If you're synthetic, if you're organic, do
Speaker 1: you need pest control? Synthetic or organic? Do you need
Speaker 1: disease control? Same thing? Do you need weed control. They're
Speaker 1: all there at ACE Hardware along with the tools you
Speaker 1: need to get the job done. If you want to
Speaker 1: have a beautiful lawn, if you want to have a
Speaker 1: bountiful garden, Ace Hardware Store, in addition to being an
Speaker 1: outstanding hardw store, has all of that to turn your
Speaker 1: outdoor space into something special, and including those little outdoor
Speaker 1: sitting areas. I'd love to go outside later in the
Speaker 1: day when it's a little cooler and just enjoy the
Speaker 1: patio and you know, just enjoy that out there. Ace
Speaker 1: Hardware has all the things you need to turn that
Speaker 1: place into something special as well. All you have to
Speaker 1: do is go to Ace Hardware dot com and find
Speaker 1: this store locator and there are like forty stores here
Speaker 1: in the Greater Houston area that you can find something
Speaker 1: really close to you so that you can get set
Speaker 1: up at ACE Hardware. I'm going to run now out
Speaker 1: to see Huffman, Texas and we're going to talk to Mike. Well, Hello, Mike, Good.
Speaker 7: Morning, Skip.
Speaker 8: I need to know the best time, the best way
Speaker 8: to prep the soil for a wildflower garden, the best
Speaker 8: seed almost some quality.
Speaker 1: I got some one time and all I got out
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 7: And that don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 8: But just giant sweet basil plants came up.
Speaker 7: That was all that came out of it.
Speaker 8: And I need to know how to protect the seeds
Speaker 8: from the birds.
Speaker 1: Okay, well I haven't run across that being a problem
Speaker 1: before wildflower planting. So here's here's what I would do.
Speaker 1: First of all, you want to give them a spot
Speaker 1: where they can come up without a lot of competition.
Speaker 1: You know how I always say, get a good dnsealon
Speaker 1: and it chokes out the weed seeds. Well, if you
Speaker 1: have a if you've got a bunch of stuff growing
Speaker 1: in the spot, weeds and grass and other things, those
Speaker 1: wildflower seeds aren't going to get sunlight to come up.
Speaker 1: So you want to mo real low, get the debris
Speaker 1: out of the way. If you can, uh, if you
Speaker 1: can scratch the surface of the soil a little bit,
Speaker 1: go ahead and do that. Some situations, it's not practical,
Speaker 1: you know. If you're going to do are you talking
Speaker 1: about a little area of your yard. Are you talking
Speaker 1: about like a field that you want to plan in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an area in the front yard.
Speaker 8: I've got a little bitty tiny tiller I call it
Speaker 8: Taz because this thing's crazy.
Speaker 6: It goes off, but he does, okay, thing about killing
Speaker 6: up the.
Speaker 8: Lane and then raking out the dead grass and whatever else.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you could. You could do that. Just remember
Speaker 1: that once you turn the soil, every weed in the
Speaker 1: world is going to come up along with your wildflowers.
Speaker 1: And that's okay. They all have the same start. But
Speaker 1: get yeah, I get that cleaned out, uh, and then
Speaker 1: sprinkle your wildflower mix out there and very lightly break
Speaker 1: over it. You don't want to bury the seeds deep,
Speaker 1: but just just a little soil seed contact there would
Speaker 1: be good and then a good watering if if rain
Speaker 1: doesn't cooperate. Now, there's a couple of companies that sell
Speaker 1: wildflower seed in more of a bulk way that have
Speaker 1: quality seed and you can pick them. You could buy
Speaker 1: just blue bonnets, or you could pick a regional mix
Speaker 1: of wildflowers that grow in your area. And one of
Speaker 1: them is wild Seed Farms. Wild Seed Farms. They are
Speaker 1: in Fredericksburg, Texas. They used to be down here to
Speaker 1: the lake many many years ago.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: And the other one is Native American Seed and they're
Speaker 1: in Junction, Texas. So both of these are Hill Country,
Speaker 1: Texas companies will seat farms in Fredericksburg, Native American Seed
Speaker 1: and Junction. Go online look at what they have. You'll
Speaker 1: be very impressed with the mixes and things. You can
Speaker 1: buy large quantity or small quantity either way, Yes, sir, yes, sir, well,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 6: And what about the birds, they're just going to have
Speaker 6: a field.
Speaker 1: Day or what. I just don't think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a big problem with this this kind of seed. I
Speaker 1: never have had that, especially when the siege are kind
Speaker 1: of scratched in and watered ink. You know, if you've
Speaker 1: got a worthwhile family cat, you might bribe them to
Speaker 1: go hang out in that field for a while or
Speaker 1: that area for a while and keep the birds away.
Speaker 1: They might as well be feral.
Speaker 6: They do hunting all the time, so that'll that'll help.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, you take care of my sir.
Speaker 1: Good luck with that. Send me a picture if it
Speaker 1: comes up and you get it up in bloom and
Speaker 1: I'd like to see what you end up with eggs.
Speaker 1: I'll do that, all right. Thank you. Appreciate that you
Speaker 1: are listening to Guardline. We're here to answer your gardening
Speaker 1: questions at seven one three two one two fifty eight
Speaker 1: seventy four seven one three, two one two five eight
Speaker 1: seven four. Now I've talked about mosquito dunks before, and
Speaker 1: we are still in mosquito season. In fact, I just
Speaker 1: swatted one a minute ago that somehow got indoors that
Speaker 1: was flying around. But if you want to enjoy that
Speaker 1: outdoor patio like I was talking about, they can spoil
Speaker 1: the show. But it's it's it's pretty simple to get
Speaker 1: ahead of mosquitoes, and the first step in that is
Speaker 1: stopping standing water from being a breeding area. Dump out
Speaker 1: standing water, those catch basins under your plant, Fix that
Speaker 1: sagging gutter where it, you know, kind of holds water
Speaker 1: for a while. Doesn't take mosquitos long to drop an
Speaker 1: egg in stagnant water and end up with an adult mosquito.
Speaker 1: So this happens. That's why we have mosquito dunks, Mosquita
Speaker 1: dunks and mosquito bits, both from the same company's Summit
Speaker 1: Responsible Solutions. They're widely available. You get them in the
Speaker 1: feed stores I talk about on garden Line. You get
Speaker 1: them at Southwest Fertilizer, you get them at ACE hardware stores,
Speaker 1: you get them at Garden centers I talk about here
Speaker 1: on guard Line. They're easy to find another dunk. One
Speaker 1: dunk's like a little mini doughnut. You throw it out there,
Speaker 1: it floats in the water, lasts about a month, covers
Speaker 1: about one hundred square feet of surface. The granules you
Speaker 1: can make granules out of a dunk by just hitting
Speaker 1: it with a hammer and breaking it up in little pieces,
Speaker 1: or you can just buy them as granule. Those you
Speaker 1: can sprinkle around in small areas, like underneath that that
Speaker 1: catch basin underneath a plant pot, for example. Mosquita dunks
Speaker 1: are easy to find and they work, and they don't
Speaker 1: hurt anything other than mosquitos and fungus gnats. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I know people that sprinkle them inside their pots where
Speaker 1: you're getting fungus gnats breeding and a container plant. They'll
Speaker 1: sprinkle them in the surface and they work there too.
Speaker 1: But they don't hurt any wildlife, any family, pets, any
Speaker 1: birds that want to come there. They just it's a
Speaker 1: disease of mosquitoes. Think of it that way. That's how
Speaker 1: they work, and they do really really work well. You
Speaker 1: can get them in a lot of places, for example,
Speaker 1: up on the North and West at RCW Nursery rcwst
Speaker 1: Garden Center that try where two forty nine comes into
Speaker 1: Beltway eight. Well they've got them there as well. And
Speaker 1: of course when you're at RCW, you need to check
Speaker 1: out the unbelievable selection of things that they have and
Speaker 1: you need to look. I would like you to take
Speaker 1: a look at some of their sales that are going on.
Speaker 1: You know, they have a better rose selection than about
Speaker 1: anybody I know. I mean it's outstanding. And seasonally, you know,
Speaker 1: things come and go, but they have a nice selection
Speaker 1: of trees. Fall is the time to plant trees. It's
Speaker 1: a time when you need to get your trees planted.
Speaker 1: So go ahead and stop in there and look at it,
Speaker 1: and you know they'll give you they'll give you a
Speaker 1: list of the things that you need for a good
Speaker 1: successful planting. So that would be, for example, a root stimulator,
Speaker 1: some fertilizers for feeding those trees as they get up
Speaker 1: and going. They specialize in that. And when you buy
Speaker 1: a tree or shureb at RCW, you're going to get
Speaker 1: something that I guarantee you will grow here, that belongs here,
Speaker 1: because that's all they that they're going to sell. But
Speaker 1: right now, fall color is outstanding. They've got a great
Speaker 1: selection of citrus, a nice selection of figs too, by
Speaker 1: the way, going out there, and some beautiful bedding plants
Speaker 1: for fall color. And also the hibiscus. You know, they
Speaker 1: have outstanding selection of the I can't say Cajun series
Speaker 1: of hibiscus, and I have one of those, just one
Speaker 1: of my favorite plants that I have. If you're into succulents,
Speaker 1: good selection of succulents. In other words, what do you
Speaker 1: need stop buy? RCW. They are at Tomball Park, went
Speaker 1: about way eight, and it's really easy to get to.
Speaker 1: Go to a website rcwnurseries dot com. You can find
Speaker 1: out how to get there and all the information that
Speaker 1: you need. Follow them on social media too. By the way,
Speaker 1: you're listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter,
Speaker 1: and we're here to answer gardening questions. So how can
Speaker 1: we help you have a more bountiful garden and a
Speaker 1: more beautiful landscape today? Give me a call at seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two five eight seven four seven
Speaker 1: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's
Speaker 1: talk plants on this wonderful Sunday morning that we got
Speaker 1: going right here. I have been taking care of some
Speaker 1: things out in my yard. You know, I've talked about
Speaker 1: nutsedge a lot, because you folks call about nutsedge a lot,
Speaker 1: but I have had a patch of it in a
Speaker 1: flower bed that I planted. I got out as much
Speaker 1: as I could, you know, as I was preparing the
Speaker 1: soil in the bed, putting in organic matter and things.
Speaker 1: Every time i'd find a little string of tubers or
Speaker 1: nuts on the plants, I pull them out. But of
Speaker 1: course when I planted it, they came right back, because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of them in there that you don't get.
Speaker 1: And so I've been dealing with that. But I'm I'm
Speaker 1: kind of my gardens and beds are more experiments, if
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And so because of that,
Speaker 1: I tried different things on it, just to learn so
Speaker 1: that when I give you advice, it's stuff I've tried
Speaker 1: and done and I know it works and I don't
Speaker 1: steer you wrong. I'm going to take a quick break
Speaker 1: here for the news. We'll be back again. The number
Speaker 1: give Crystal call seven one three two one two kt RH.
Speaker 1: He'll get you on the board and you'll be first
Speaker 1: up when we come back.
Speaker 9: With us.
Speaker 1: We are here to talk about the things that interest you.
Speaker 1: How do you have success in a garden? How do
Speaker 1: you make a beautiful garden bed? You know falls coming.
Speaker 1: I mean we're on the doorstep right now, and we
Speaker 1: have a lot of color options for fall. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about some of those. If you got some questions on
Speaker 1: turning a flower bed into something beautiful to carry all
Speaker 1: the way into the early winter season, we can we
Speaker 1: can help you do that here. Just give us call
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two KTRH is how you
Speaker 1: go about that. I was looking at some of the
Speaker 1: products that Microlife has available that I don't talk about
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, talk about the sixty four, the
Speaker 1: brown bag, and certainly the brown patch, which is a
Speaker 1: fall fertilizer coming up on that season, But I don't
Speaker 1: talk a lot about some of the liquid products that
Speaker 1: they have enough and one of them that I think
Speaker 1: you would be very interesting, in fact, two of them.
Speaker 1: One of them is micro grow liquid AF. Micro Grow
Speaker 1: liquid AF is loaded with beneficial microbes. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you look at the sheet on all the beneficial microbes
Speaker 1: that are in this it's kind of the who's who
Speaker 1: of the good guys in the soil. You know all
Speaker 1: those things that work with your plant roots to have success.
Speaker 1: It's loaded with that. Basically, when you are putting this down,
Speaker 1: you are adding those microbes to the soil. And when
Speaker 1: you add good guys to soil, they out compete harm
Speaker 1: that's our goal. You know, there's bad microbes and there's
Speaker 1: good microbes, and we want the balance to shift toward
Speaker 1: the good microbes. That's when plants thrive, that's when disease
Speaker 1: problems are lessened. And that's why microlife makes micro grow
Speaker 1: liquid af it's liquid. Microlife also has a soil and
Speaker 1: plant energy. This is a combination of a humic and
Speaker 1: fulvic acid blend with molasses in the soil. These are
Speaker 1: all carbon rich substances and when you add carbon, that's
Speaker 1: what microbes eat. They need the carbon and molasses and
Speaker 1: humic fulbac acid just create that kind of root zone.
Speaker 1: Addition to adding a whole dozens of different minerals as well,
Speaker 1: and very safe. You're not going to burn plants with it.
Speaker 1: And so those two combinations that would be excellent to
Speaker 1: use if you were doing some fall planting, which I
Speaker 1: hope you will be to water down into the soil.
Speaker 1: It's also good just when you're preparing an area for planting,
Speaker 1: just however you want to go about it. Microlife soil
Speaker 1: and plant energy all or Microlife liquid AF either of
Speaker 1: those two. I just want to mention those because again
Speaker 1: I don't talk about those enough. There are just so
Speaker 1: many products for microlife that help us have success. You know,
Speaker 1: with organic gardening, it all is about the soil. You know,
Speaker 1: people think of organic gardening as well, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to use synthetic sprays. I'm going to use organic sprays. Well,
Speaker 1: it's not about killing stuff. Organic gardening starts in the soil.
Speaker 1: It's about making the soil as good as it can be. Now,
Speaker 1: if you have to use a pesticide, you can choose
Speaker 1: organic products for that, but just remember it basically is
Speaker 1: about preparing the soil and making the plants as healthy
Speaker 1: and happy as you can. And that goes back to
Speaker 1: the thing I always say, brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 1: You make the soil right and the plants naturally are
Speaker 1: going to thrive in that kind of soil. And you
Speaker 1: can buy these products at a number of places. Microlife's
Speaker 1: widely available. Southwest Fertilizer, the place that has everything, is
Speaker 1: a good place to get these liquids as well as
Speaker 1: a whole lot of other micro life products. They carry
Speaker 1: every fertilizer I talk about on guarden Line they carry
Speaker 1: every time you hear me say use this for a pastor,
Speaker 1: or that for a disease, or this to prevent a
Speaker 1: weed or to kill an existing weaed. It's going to
Speaker 1: be at Southwest Fertilizer. They're down on the corner of
Speaker 1: Bisnett and Runwick. But I'm telling you people, it's not
Speaker 1: just Southwest Houston that goes to Southwest Fertilizer. It's all
Speaker 1: over the place. I talk to people all the time
Speaker 1: that drive a good distance just because they know when
Speaker 1: they walk in there, they're going to get everything they
Speaker 1: possibly could need. And expertise too. You take them a sample,
Speaker 1: you take them a picture of a weed or a plant,
Speaker 1: or a bug or a problem, and they'll get you
Speaker 1: straightened out and put the product in your hand that
Speaker 1: you need that will work. The website is Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 1: dot com. And if you haven't been there, I would
Speaker 1: encourage you to go. Just go one time, plant, just
Speaker 1: go see what is this the skip is talking about,
Speaker 1: and I think you'll find yourself going back. You are
Speaker 1: listening to Garden Line, and and I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about I was talking earlier about some
Speaker 1: things that I've been doing out in the garden. I
Speaker 1: am still harvesting okra, and I have too much okra
Speaker 1: by the way. I feel like I'm in an okra
Speaker 1: twelve step program or something. A Hello, my name is Skip.
Speaker 1: I grow a lot of okra because I do, and
Speaker 1: the reason is I like to actually cross okra, breed okra.
Speaker 1: I'm working on some okra that is more ornamental and
Speaker 1: some okra that is shorter so you don't need a
Speaker 1: helicopter to pick it. I'm working on some okra that
Speaker 1: is more productive, more attractive. Basically anyway, I've got several
Speaker 1: different strains out in the garden right now that I'm
Speaker 1: evaluating and selecting from and doing some crosses. And I
Speaker 1: just enjoy that. And you know, with gardening, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who you are, there's going to be something you
Speaker 1: are interested in. A few gardeners get into it enough
Speaker 1: to become amateur plant breeders, and there are people that
Speaker 1: they literally cross day lilies or across tomatoes or or
Speaker 1: there's huge communities out there that share their expertise among
Speaker 1: themselves and they just come up with fun stuff. One
Speaker 1: of the easiest things to cross is squashes. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of combatibility where you can create some strange things
Speaker 1: or some combo things. But I hope you get out
Speaker 1: and enjoy stuff like that. Maybe you don't want to
Speaker 1: get into it that far. I understand that that's that
Speaker 1: makes sense, but it is still fun, okay. Our phone
Speaker 1: number seven one three two one two five eight seven
Speaker 1: four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about azamite before, and basically, asamite
Speaker 1: is a micro nutrient or a trace mineral substance. Your
Speaker 1: soil needs a bank account of over twenty different nutrients
Speaker 1: in order for plants to perform and live. They are
Speaker 1: nutrients required for all aspects of plant growth, and it
Speaker 1: takes about twenty plus nutrients to do that. Azamite provides
Speaker 1: some of those trace minerals that are needed in small amounts.
Speaker 1: And the way I refer to it as it builds
Speaker 1: the soil bank account so that as you put on
Speaker 1: your fertilizers and the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, you get your
Speaker 1: lawn growing. Let's say or any kind of plant growing,
Speaker 1: it's going to need to draw on micro nutrients to
Speaker 1: support that growth. You can't make a leaf without iron.
Speaker 1: You can't make a leaf without zinc, for example. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Azumite is so widely available. Everybody
Speaker 1: carries asmite around this area, and you can go to
Speaker 1: azimite Texas dot com and find out more about it.
Speaker 1: Azimite Texas dot com is how if you want to
Speaker 1: learn more about it when you're doing your fall fertilization,
Speaker 1: you could do it now did about once a year.
Speaker 1: It just don't put I was having this discussion. By
Speaker 1: the way, I had a great time out at clear
Speaker 1: Lake Ace Hardware yesterday visiting with folks. Thanks for all
Speaker 1: of you who came out to that. That was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. But we were talking about combining Can
Speaker 1: I do this and this at the same time, And
Speaker 1: the entwer is always yes, but and the butt is
Speaker 1: don't put it in the same hopper. So let's say
Speaker 1: you wanted to fertilize your lawn, you wanted to add
Speaker 1: the azumite too, and you wanted to put down I
Speaker 1: don't know, bugginator or barricade or something you could do
Speaker 1: all those on the same day, but don't put them
Speaker 1: all in the same hopper because it's different particle size,
Speaker 1: and they'll settle out and you'll end up with too
Speaker 1: much of one at the beginning and too much of
Speaker 1: the other at the end. Just go through over your
Speaker 1: lawn two or three times how many products you're putting up.
Speaker 1: But yes, you can put them all out on the
Speaker 1: same day, including that amite. We're going to take a
Speaker 1: little break right here. It is time for that. And
Speaker 1: when we come back, Jim you bet welcome back to
Speaker 1: Guardenline folks. Good have you with us. I was talking
Speaker 1: about azemite a minute ago. Tell you one place you
Speaker 1: can get azemite as well as all the other fertilizers
Speaker 1: you hear me talk about, and that's League City Feed
Speaker 1: for all of you over there in that general area
Speaker 1: of League City. And I'm talking about Santa Fe, Dickinson,
Speaker 1: el Kamina, Reale at Bay Cliff, Webster, Lamark, all that area.
Speaker 1: If you go to League City Feed in League City,
Speaker 1: it's just it's on Highway three, just a few blocks
Speaker 1: south of ninety six. You're going to find those products
Speaker 1: as well as things to control pests and diseases. League
Speaker 1: City Feed is open Monday through Saturday nine to six,
Speaker 1: so you can swing by after work to grab what
Speaker 1: you need. It's one of those old time feed stores.
Speaker 1: They carry your stuff out for you and they're going
Speaker 1: to have the products that you need that you hear
Speaker 1: about on Garden. I'd like that asomite, for example. If
Speaker 1: you'd like to give them a call. It's two eight
Speaker 1: one three three two sixteen twelve. Two eight one three
Speaker 1: three two sixteen twelve. That's League City Feed in League
Speaker 1: City on Highway three, just a few blocks south of
Speaker 1: Highway ninety six. Really easy to get to. Let's go
Speaker 1: now out to Jim. Jim, you're in East Tennessee. Is
Speaker 1: that correct?
Speaker 10: That is correct. I was raised in Gleanapark, just in
Speaker 10: a city years and years ago, but I now live
Speaker 10: in severebl Tennessee, in the Smoky Mountains.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about so beautiful.
Speaker 10: Oh it's pretty nice, really really lovely. You're talking about soil.
Speaker 10: My girlfriend is a doctor and she loves these purple
Speaker 10: sweet potatoes from Japan and the health benefits and nutrients
Speaker 10: and is there a way to source I think it's
Speaker 10: a regional thing because of the volcanic soil. Is there
Speaker 10: a way to source that soil or a comparable product
Speaker 10: to see if we could grow that sweet potato?
Speaker 1: Oh you can. You can absolutely grow it where you are.
Speaker 1: You don't have to bring in a special soil. You
Speaker 1: want well drained soil. Sweet potatoes typically or commercially produced
Speaker 1: in areas with the sandy loam soil as oppos to
Speaker 1: heavy clay. So anything you can do to improve the
Speaker 1: internal drainage if you need to do that. If you
Speaker 1: if you're dealing with the clay, just you know, break
Speaker 1: it up, get some organic matter down in there. They'll
Speaker 1: they'll do fine in your area. And so when you
Speaker 1: say source, are you talking about just getting soil or
Speaker 1: are you talking about finding that sweet potato?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 10: Sourcing the soil itself. I thought it only grew in Japan.
Speaker 10: I didn't know that you could grow it in other regions.
Speaker 1: No, actually, the first one over here, there's there's been
Speaker 1: one developed by the Stokes Seed Company. Are offered by
Speaker 1: the Stoke Seed Company. It was actually developed. I believe
Speaker 1: it's North Carolina. It's it's one of those states right there,
Speaker 1: not far from you. That Oh wow, North Carolina, North Carolina,
Speaker 1: was a breeder that did it. Now there was there
Speaker 1: is one that was taken from Central South America, which
Speaker 1: is where they came from to over to China and Japan,
Speaker 1: and its kind of became known as the Okinawa sweet
Speaker 1: potato because that's one of the regions where it developed.
Speaker 1: But it's just it's just a sweet potato. It just
Speaker 1: happens to be one this purple and uh so we'll
Speaker 1: get those colors and fruit. You typically have things like
Speaker 1: you got high high anthision and content. It's type of
Speaker 1: flavonoid and vitamin C is good in them and stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're you know, sweet potatoes in general, I
Speaker 1: have a lot of health benefits. But but yeah, you
Speaker 1: can grow those where.
Speaker 10: Great great to hear. Yeah, when I have to work
Speaker 10: on weekends. I listened to you on the I Heart.
Speaker 10: I'm headed back to Surreal right now. So but thank you,
Speaker 10: thank you for that, and we'll we'll give it a shot,
Speaker 10: all right.
Speaker 1: You take care. Thanks for the call, Jim. Appreciate that
Speaker 1: there's a lot of kind of novel types of things
Speaker 1: out there, and it makes you know, that makes gardening fine.
Speaker 1: I know some people kind of are constantly going after
Speaker 1: whatever the weirdest latest thing is, and that's fine. Hey
Speaker 1: you're supposed to have fun. If that makes you happy,
Speaker 1: then go do it. But you can anytime we're growing
Speaker 1: our own food, we're doing a good thing. We're doing
Speaker 1: a healthy thing when we're doing that. And when we
Speaker 1: think of food that one of the slogans that I
Speaker 1: think USDA had come up with a while back was
Speaker 1: called eat a rainbow. I believe they are the ones
Speaker 1: that came up. Anyway, It basically means eat different colors
Speaker 1: because when you start when you look at things, let's
Speaker 1: just take the the orange types of vegetables and fruit.
Speaker 1: You know that if we're looking at sweet potatoes, if
Speaker 1: we're looking at carrots, you know those are going to
Speaker 1: be high in certain nutrients that are going to do
Speaker 1: do well. And purple is sweepta the same thing. And
Speaker 1: it just it just makes sense and it's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. And you know, when you serve a purple
Speaker 1: sweet potato, people are going to go, what what have
Speaker 1: you done here? And it just it's a conversation piece.
Speaker 1: But they're dead, they're sweet potatoes. So let's get out
Speaker 1: there and have some fun. Have you been out to
Speaker 1: in Chenned Forest? Enchanted Forest is out there in the
Speaker 1: Richmond Rosenberg area, Richmond Rosenberg and in Chenna Forest is
Speaker 1: the one. If you were let's say you're at Richmond
Speaker 1: Rosenberg and you're heading up towards sugar Land, it's off
Speaker 1: to the right, it's off to the right. And in
Speaker 1: Channa Forest you're going to find all kinds of things
Speaker 1: to get you ready for fall. Are you into herbs.
Speaker 1: That's a great way to season your food without slathering
Speaker 1: it with I don't know, a thousand island dressing or something.
Speaker 1: Herbs are wonderful and fun to grow and ornamental, and
Speaker 1: they've got them there and a lot of them. They've
Speaker 1: got beautiful, beautiful vegetable transplants and now's the time to
Speaker 1: get the fall garden in. Talk about eating good food, Well,
Speaker 1: here's your chance to do it. Do you need fall
Speaker 1: color things like Croton's for example, they've got those in
Speaker 1: Beautiful Beauty and as well as other fall colors from
Speaker 1: things like Colius and whatnot. It gives you the Halloween,
Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving, all those types of fall color. They can
Speaker 1: load your landscape up with those kinds of things. They
Speaker 1: got great trees and fall is the best time to
Speaker 1: plant a tree. It is. It's the best time go
Speaker 1: buy and get some trees. Do you want that nitrophosphall program?
Speaker 1: I was talking earlier about the one two three, the
Speaker 1: Texas three step. Do you like the organics like microlife
Speaker 1: bron patch. They've got those there as well as well
Speaker 1: as all the shrubs and perennials and the host plants
Speaker 1: you could be looking for. Just head straight to Enchanted
Speaker 1: Forest and you're going to be able to find that
Speaker 1: and everything else that you need to have success, including
Speaker 1: good advice. They're on FM twenty seven fifty nine Outside Richmond,
Speaker 1: twenty seven fifty nine Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com.
Speaker 1: Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Go check that website out.
Speaker 1: It is really cool, really inspiring. You know. I start
Speaker 1: looking at gardenings stuff and I just get all excited
Speaker 1: and inspired and I come up with eight hundred new
Speaker 1: things that I just have to grow or try or
Speaker 1: do or whatever. Like we said, gardening is fun. Hey
Speaker 1: we didn't say, you know that it's not addictive. It
Speaker 1: is addictive. That's a warning. I probably should have that
Speaker 1: on garden Line show every years. Warning gardening can be addictive.
Speaker 1: Consult your physician before starting a garden or I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'll be your physician. Go ahead, you can do it,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. It's a good addiction, a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. And I'm not kidding about that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was talking earlier about people breeding their own plants,
Speaker 1: and I know people that get so into it. I
Speaker 1: mean that it's they just obsess over making the best
Speaker 1: hibiscus that can exist. There's a lady out there I
Speaker 1: can't remember her name, somewhere in the country and she
Speaker 1: breeds these hibiscus that are just like, what is that real?
Speaker 1: Or is that photoshopped? You know, But it's what she
Speaker 1: likes to do it. She has fun doing it, and
Speaker 1: so yeah, gardening is addicted, but it's fun, absolutely fun. Hey,
Speaker 1: these storms we've had this year have really hammered, really
Speaker 1: hammered our trees. I'd drove in through a neighborhood in
Speaker 1: Houston yesterday just looking at the missing trees that were
Speaker 1: there and had fallen and had had come in have
Speaker 1: them removed out. When that happens, we lose power. And
Speaker 1: when we lose power it can be for a while.
Speaker 1: We've had two spells of extended days without power here
Speaker 1: in the Houston area for many of the areas. Quality
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Speaker 1: You can buy generation a lot of places, but with
Speaker 1: Quality Home, what you're buying is personal service and continuing
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Speaker 1: kind of generator do I need? And they go through
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Speaker 1: the generator that's going to serve your needs. They set
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Speaker 1: Home Products of Texas. It looks like music means we're
Speaker 1: putting an hour in the books. That is fast. I
Speaker 1: feel like I just sat out and here we are
Speaker 1: already done with an hour. We're going to be back,
Speaker 1: We're going to be doing a lot of things. I
Speaker 1: want to thank the folks at Waberd's Unlimited yesterday from
Speaker 1: clear at Dunning clear Lake. That was a good time
Speaker 1: we had and I think everybody that came out to
Speaker 1: that I want to remind you that next Saturday, I'm
Speaker 1: going to be at A and A Plants and Produce
Speaker 1: from twelve to two. That's up in Montgomery. So all
Speaker 1: of you folks out there in the Lake Conroe area
Speaker 1: that are listening, including Conroe and Willis and Montgomery of
Speaker 1: course that whole area up north, come on out and
Speaker 1: see me next Saturday, twelve to two and we'll do
Speaker 1: the regular things. I'll talk a little bit, I'll answer
Speaker 1: your questions, I'll diagnose, i'll identify. I'll help you have
Speaker 1: a beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape because I love
Speaker 1: doing that.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Katy r H. Garden Line with Skip Ricord's.
Speaker 1: Shoes, crazy.
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Speaker 3: Just watch him. As many birthdays to Septasya. Not a
Speaker 3: sign says.
Speaker 1: The sun beam and all right, welcome back. I'm glad
Speaker 1: to have you with us this morning on a beautiful
Speaker 1: Sunday morning. You're listening to guard Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a
Speaker 1: more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. I just feel
Speaker 1: free to give us a call at seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two K T R H and let's figure
Speaker 1: out what's going on. Let's figure out what's going wrong
Speaker 1: if you're having problems, or let's plan to do some
Speaker 1: things right to get off to a good start. You know,
Speaker 1: we Gardening is a hopeful thing. Gardeners are eternal optimist.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you knew this, but if you're
Speaker 1: a gardener, you you probably do. And that means that
Speaker 1: you know, when I plant tomatoes in the spring, I
Speaker 1: can already taste those tomatoes, or when I plan them
Speaker 1: for fall gardening, and I know it's going to be
Speaker 1: the best tomatoes I've ever grown in the world right
Speaker 1: in that heat. Is hopeful and and just just positive
Speaker 1: about how how it's going to go. Gardening is a
Speaker 1: fun thing. It's like spring. It's a renewal, you know,
Speaker 1: every time you come into a spring. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's like entering the new year after the holidays. We
Speaker 1: make our resolutions of things, it's gonna be a great year,
Speaker 1: those sort of things. And gardening is the same kind
Speaker 1: of thing. It is an optimistic, hopeful thing. When you
Speaker 1: choose to put a seed or plant in the ground,
Speaker 1: you essentially are having the faith that that thing's going
Speaker 1: to come up and that it's going to grow and
Speaker 1: that it's going to produce, and then it's going to
Speaker 1: produce something good. You know, you don't put it. You
Speaker 1: don't put a seed in the ground and go, Yeah,
Speaker 1: bugs are probably gonna eat this, and I probably never
Speaker 1: seen anything. You don't have that ad it. I hope
Speaker 1: you don't. If you do, stop it, stop that. Don't
Speaker 1: do that, because gardening is a really cool and hopeful thing.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, you are listening to garden line again
Speaker 1: the number seven one three two one two five eight
Speaker 1: seven four. If you want to get inspired for gardening,
Speaker 1: you need to go buy arbor Gate Garden Center. Arbor
Speaker 1: Gate is the garden center up there west of tumble
Speaker 1: On twenty nine to twenty uh and it's about a
Speaker 1: mile and a half west of two forty nine. It's
Speaker 1: as you're heading out to be on the left hand
Speaker 1: side by the way before and after Arburgate, you'll see
Speaker 1: a road called Trashle Road because it's a little loop
Speaker 1: that goes around behind Arburgate. You got a parking lot
Speaker 1: in the back. You just have to turn down Trisha
Speaker 1: Road and you will have plenty of places for great
Speaker 1: parking no matter the weather. It's one of those parking
Speaker 1: lots that absorbs water through the lot, so it's always hard,
Speaker 1: it's always easy to walk on drains well, and just
Speaker 1: super easy access. I think it's pretty cool. I love
Speaker 1: the way they designed that thing out there. But the
Speaker 1: main thing is it gets you access to some of
Speaker 1: the best selection of planets you're going to find anywhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, Arburgate specializes in having some of everything, and
Speaker 1: some things I promise you you've never heard of, he
Speaker 1: seen or grown before. If you need decorations for your fall,
Speaker 1: for Halloween, Thanksgiving, even coming up on Christmas here in
Speaker 1: a bit, Arburgate's going to have that. They right now,
Speaker 1: they have a selection of fall color plants that will
Speaker 1: take your beds all the way up to at least
Speaker 1: the first frost. And you can just get out there
Speaker 1: and see what I'm talking about. If you've never planted
Speaker 1: fall bloomers in your garden, why not go buy and
Speaker 1: pick some up today. You know, we have Salvia leucantham
Speaker 1: Mexican bush sage. We have copper Canyon daisy that blooms
Speaker 1: in the fall. We have the fall aster, there's an
Speaker 1: ex Native Texas aster, and other asters and mums and
Speaker 1: just lots of things you can put in the garden
Speaker 1: and the landscape that are beautiful. Do you need herbs,
Speaker 1: do you need vegetable plants, or do you just need
Speaker 1: some inspiration? Go out there, walk around, take a look
Speaker 1: at things. When you talk to the people that work
Speaker 1: at Arburgate, you're talking to people that know what they're
Speaker 1: talking about, and that is important. You go a lot
Speaker 1: of places that will sell you a plant and they
Speaker 1: do not have a clue probably the plant should need
Speaker 1: to be put here, and you know the kind of
Speaker 1: places I'm talking about. But when you go to Arburgate,
Speaker 1: you get plants that grow here and you get people
Speaker 1: that can tell you what to do, how to do it,
Speaker 1: how to have success. If something goes wrong, of a
Speaker 1: bug shows up, they'll tell you what to do about it.
Speaker 1: They are experts at it. And I know I've visited
Speaker 1: with the many occasions Arburgate Garden Center again. They're out
Speaker 1: west of Tombull on to twenty nine to twenty go
Speaker 1: to the website Arborgate dot com. Follow them on social
Speaker 1: media too. While you're out there. Garden tourism that's what
Speaker 1: I call it. And I go to garden centers as
Speaker 1: part of garden tourism because I always see something new,
Speaker 1: I get inspiration, and it's just fun. And listen, when
Speaker 1: folks come visit from other areas of Texas or from
Speaker 1: wherever haul them out to some of these great garden
Speaker 1: centers like Arburgate, they will be really impressed and they have
Speaker 1: a good time. It's just a great way to, I
Speaker 1: don't know, get out with family and friends and enjoy
Speaker 1: things with us. Today. We're looking forward to talking with
Speaker 1: you about the things that you're interested in. You know,
Speaker 1: I can talk about things that I'm interested in. I
Speaker 1: can talk about things that I know people are interested
Speaker 1: in in general for this time of the year. Been
Speaker 1: doing this for thirty five years and her a lot
Speaker 1: of questions over those years. But what are you interested
Speaker 1: in today? This is your chance to give us a
Speaker 1: call seven one three two one two five eight seven
Speaker 1: four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 1: You know, we like feed stores. We love our feed
Speaker 1: stores here on Garden Line and Spring Creek Feed Center
Speaker 1: is up there just to the a little bit north
Speaker 1: and east of Tumbaugh. It's up in the Magnolia area.
Speaker 1: On FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away from
Speaker 1: both Graham Parkway and Highway to forty nine Magnolia on
Speaker 1: FM twenty nine seventy eight. That's what you need to remember.
Speaker 1: Spring Creak Feed. When you drive up, you can't miss
Speaker 1: it is a big, beautiful barn looking store that when
Speaker 1: you walk inside it it's gorgeous, beautiful and when you
Speaker 1: get inside, you're going to find fertilizers lines like turf
Speaker 1: Star line, the microlift lines, the Nitropos lines for example.
Speaker 1: They're going to have things like Medina. They're going to
Speaker 1: have long and garden supplies. If you got a pond,
Speaker 1: they got supplies for that too. Do you need a weed,
Speaker 1: something to kill weeds, deal with diseases, or to deal
Speaker 1: with pests, They've got it. Very friendly, very courteous staff
Speaker 1: will help you and put you in touch with the
Speaker 1: product that you need, and they're going to happen there now.
Speaker 1: They also have quality types of pet food and listen,
Speaker 1: if you need something special ordered, they can do that too.
Speaker 1: You just need to talk to them, tell them, hey,
Speaker 1: this one I'm looking for. Can you bring get that
Speaker 1: in for me? I bet they can. If you're an
Speaker 1: f FA or four h youth. There's a special discount
Speaker 1: as well as for military and also for senior citizens,
Speaker 1: so mention that to them when you're there at Spring
Speaker 1: Creek feed again. They are on excuse Me FM two
Speaker 1: twenty nine seventy eight F twenty nine seventy eight in
Speaker 1: the Magnolia area. I was in there the other day
Speaker 1: checking it out because I do visit our sponsors periodically
Speaker 1: just to say, Okay, what's new, what's going on, what's
Speaker 1: happening here, and just noticed that the place is really
Speaker 1: really looking good, looking excellent. As a result. There are
Speaker 1: a number of products from Medina, and I've talked about
Speaker 1: a number of them over the time that I've been
Speaker 1: doing this. Medina Plus is one that i'd like to
Speaker 1: kind of next to you. There's a couple of them
Speaker 1: i'd like to talk to you about today. But Medina
Speaker 1: Plus is fortified with micronutrients, essential micronutrients, got growth hormones in.
Speaker 1: It's from the seaweed extract. It has all the natural
Speaker 1: soil building advantages of the Medina Soil Activator. That's why
Speaker 1: we call this Medina Plus. The other product, the one
Speaker 1: you've used before, is Medina Soil Activator and it's one
Speaker 1: that's been popular with gardners for a very very long time.
Speaker 1: But Medina Plus then adds over forty trace elements. It's
Speaker 1: got cidecinon, which is a natural growth hormone from seaweed extract, magnesium, iron, zinc,
Speaker 1: papa acid for you want the full word there. It's
Speaker 1: a para amino benzoic acid. Okay, I know you wrote
Speaker 1: that down riba flavor diamond by it and ni ni
Speaker 1: nicotinic acid. I can't even say that nicotinic acid and
Speaker 1: all essential trace In other words, this is a concoction
Speaker 1: that has everything you need to promote blooming and leaf growth,
Speaker 1: to promote fruit set, to make transplanting go smoother for plants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would just take this, put it. I put it
Speaker 1: in a in a watering can, mix it up according
Speaker 1: to the right level, and just dump it over the
Speaker 1: whole plant. You can get it on the leaves, you
Speaker 1: can get it down soaking into the soil to get
Speaker 1: those roots off to a good start. Medina plus will
Speaker 1: do that. Another real regular medino soil activator will also
Speaker 1: do that. I like to use the Plus as well
Speaker 1: because for that extra boost, especially with transplanting, you can
Speaker 1: do it for gardens, for flower pots, even if you
Speaker 1: don't do it on a hose, en spray or over
Speaker 1: your whole yard, that is fine as well. Another great product,
Speaker 1: there are many of them from the folks at Medina.
Speaker 1: Let me head over now to Conroe and we're going
Speaker 1: to talk to Marcus. Hey, Marcus, Okay, how can we help?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Uh, well, I made.
Speaker 13: A new built subdivision today and.
Speaker 7: That you treat.
Speaker 13: They planted a text to spread oak and a pin
Speaker 13: oak and both of them have to come to Oak well.
Speaker 7: But I want to know first the name of a.
Speaker 13: Contractor that a reliable one where I can get something
Speaker 13: that's totally not infected already.
Speaker 7: And I would like to know what you think.
Speaker 12: About the use of Zouster grass on the Conroe Association.
Speaker 13: I'm not I'm having a lot of trouble with my
Speaker 13: Saint Augustin on it.
Speaker 7: I wondered what your thought for on that.
Speaker 1: And you're wanting to get a tree planted, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm gonna have to buy indeed.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, got it. Well, I would call the folks
Speaker 1: at RCW uh and they may have you talked to
Speaker 1: the Williamson Tree Farm up in Plantersville. That's also part
Speaker 1: of that that operation. Uh. And they grow the trees
Speaker 1: right out there, and they are quality trees. I know
Speaker 1: with RCW they can come out and do planting. You
Speaker 1: just have to talk to them about the terms of.
Speaker 7: That, okay.
Speaker 9: And Uh.
Speaker 1: As far as the USA is a great grass, every
Speaker 1: plant has its pros and cons Zoysia is fairly shade tolerant.
Speaker 1: I have found uh the zoysia some selected types of
Speaker 1: Zoysia to be especially shade tolerant, as as would Saint
Speaker 1: Augustine be uh. And it also has good wear and tear.
Speaker 1: You can run foot traffic over it and it's not
Speaker 1: as hard on it as it is Saint Augustine. Those
Speaker 1: are just a couple of things to think about. You
Speaker 1: are you're looking for that nub. Yeah, but there's some
Speaker 1: new Saint Augustine's now that are that are quite drought tolerant.
Speaker 1: And so if you water with a good, deep and
Speaker 1: frequent soaking, you can make a lot of grasses more
Speaker 1: drought tolerant because then they go further between waterings easier.
Speaker 1: But zosia can can do pretty good at that as well.
Speaker 1: But anyway, there's a broader leaf type of Oisia and
Speaker 1: then there's a very narrow fine leaf type of Oisia.
Speaker 1: The fine leaf types you might look at it and go,
Speaker 1: is that bermuda or it's even denser than bermuda in
Speaker 1: my opinion. And then the broad leaf types I want
Speaker 1: it would be palis. That's that's a common one, but
Speaker 1: there are many other good ones. And it's leaves are
Speaker 1: about a third is wide as Saint Augustine, but not
Speaker 1: as narrow as the fine leaf sosias.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, let me tell you one more thing, Marcus.
Speaker 1: You've got a county horticulturistuff there in Montgomery County, Michael Potter.
Speaker 1: And Michael is an expert on turf grass. He and
Speaker 1: I were talking the other day and I've got four
Speaker 1: different turf grasses in my yard, and I think he
Speaker 1: hasked two or three at least, and he knows that stuff.
Speaker 1: And I would talk to him specifically if you need
Speaker 1: additional advice, because he's really really good at that. He's
Speaker 1: at the County Extension Office. It's over there on Airport Road,
Speaker 1: across from the Lone Star Convention Center.
Speaker 12: One more thing, real quick, do you know I'm trying
Speaker 12: to find some kind of if I have to put in.
Speaker 11: Oh good, well.
Speaker 1: I lost you there, Marcus. You kind of cut out
Speaker 1: on me. I tell you what, why don't we do this?
Speaker 1: I'm going to put you on hold if we're get
Speaker 1: Marcus back and just get the last question he has,
Speaker 1: and Chris, if you'll just type that in for me,
Speaker 1: I'll address that. Let's go now to Joanne out at
Speaker 1: Lake Conroe. Hey, Joanne, welcome to God Right, you.
Speaker 14: Got my pictures?
Speaker 1: I'm oh, yes, yes I did. Okay, Okay, let's see here.
Speaker 1: Would this say Francis, Yes, say Francis. Okay, yes, I did. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're the francis Is Colius. The new growth is
Speaker 1: kind of cupped and sort of malfarmed. It's not normal
Speaker 1: where it's trying to put out blooms. I see evidence
Speaker 1: of little tiny insects that suck juices out of those
Speaker 1: tender developing shoots, and that causes them to grow malformed.
Speaker 1: Now it could be a plant hopper. It's a little
Speaker 1: tiny bug that has a piercing mouth part. I mean,
Speaker 1: it could be spider mit'ud be a lot of different
Speaker 1: things doing it, but it's some little bug. If I
Speaker 1: were you, I would get some insecticidal soap and I
Speaker 1: would spray that plant, making sure to spray upward from
Speaker 1: underneath the leaves. You can do it with a little
Speaker 1: hands squirt bottle because soap is so safe, you don't
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you get it on you. But
Speaker 1: it's called insecticidal soap. You buy it at a garden center. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it is soap, but it's a it's a type
Speaker 1: of soap that doesn't burn plants as bad as some
Speaker 1: soaps can. And then if you give if you give
Speaker 1: all these bugs a bath and insecticidal soap, it kills them. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so just spray that underneath there, especially spider mites
Speaker 1: or aviad or things. That works really well on those.
Speaker 1: And then I would snip out those shoots. After you've
Speaker 1: done what you can to kill these on the whole plant,
Speaker 1: or snip them out and then spray. You can do
Speaker 1: it that way.
Speaker 15: Cut the stems back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cut those back, because what's happening is they're bolting.
Speaker 1: They're sending up a skinny stalk with flowers on the end.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, the you grow coolis for the
Speaker 1: big beautiful foliage. Now, if you want the flowers. That's fine,
Speaker 1: but it usually means the end of big foliage when
Speaker 1: you leave the flowers off.
Speaker 16: What about the stems that look so brownish and woody.
Speaker 17: Or is that their normal color?
Speaker 1: I did not see that in the photos. Let me,
Speaker 1: I'll go back and take a look at that.
Speaker 18: Some of the major stems kind of woody.
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh, that's a natural development. Sometimes you get a
Speaker 1: canker kind of thing that kills a part of the
Speaker 1: stem and it turns literally dead brown. But just that
Speaker 1: browning is part of it just getting older, the one
Speaker 1: that I see.
Speaker 15: Okay, all right, So they should last through the fall,
Speaker 15: and I'll get that insecticidal soak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they'll get more and more unhappy as it
Speaker 1: gets colder, but it will carry. It should carry up
Speaker 1: to the first frost.
Speaker 15: Okay, great, all right, thank you, all right, you take care.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that very much. Let's see here. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: back here to Marcus. Are you there?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right? Well, okay, what was your follow up question?
Speaker 12: Do you know of any particular varieties of white oak
Speaker 12: or red oak that are somewhat resistant to well, yeah,
Speaker 12: by contract.
Speaker 18: You tell me?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Did you tell me that you had oak wilt
Speaker 1: in the Conroe area. Yeah over here, Yeah, okay, well, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm getting out. Hell, Hell, I don't know. Hang on,
Speaker 1: I'm hitting up a hard break. I gotta go. I'm
Speaker 1: going to keep you on hold and I'll come back
Speaker 1: to you right after break. Thanks a lot.
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Speaker 1: might have. Yesterday, somebody called in and was looking for
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Speaker 1: You hear me talk about ACE Hardware. You hear me
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Speaker 1: stop shop. You know, it's where you get the fertilizers
Speaker 1: I talk about it's time for fall fertilizing. ACE Hardware
Speaker 1: has options for you, not just one fertilizer, but several
Speaker 1: types of different fertilizers. You know, you're looking for things
Speaker 1: for Nelson's and for nitrofoss and from Microlife for example,
Speaker 1: for fall fertilizing the lawn, looking for products from Medina
Speaker 1: for example too. They've got all of that. They also
Speaker 1: have all the pest control, disease control, and weed control
Speaker 1: things that you're going to need, along with tools like
Speaker 1: a sprayer. Perhaps you need a hose in sprayer, another type.
Speaker 1: They're going to have that. When you go to ACE,
Speaker 1: you come home with what you need to take care
Speaker 1: of the plants. That you have, whether it's a lawn,
Speaker 1: a garden of flower beds, shrubs, and trees. They have
Speaker 1: it all at Ace Hardware. And Ace Hardware also has
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Speaker 1: for the upcoming Halloween season, the upcoming Thanksgiving season. They
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Speaker 1: more than one near you, and you can go in
Speaker 1: and see what it is that I'm always bragging about
Speaker 1: when it comes to Ace Hardware. We're going to go now,
Speaker 1: I'm going to go back to Marcus here in Conrad. Marcus,
Speaker 1: you ask for an oak that is a white oak
Speaker 1: that's resistant somewhat to take oaquill. The white oak, all
Speaker 1: the white oaks to some degree are one that I
Speaker 1: think I would suggest for you is called the terray oak.
Speaker 1: Another name for it is Mexican white oak. And the
Speaker 1: reason I like that when it grows fast for an oak.
Speaker 1: But it is a good, strong, long lived tree. And
Speaker 1: so that would be the one that I would suggest.
Speaker 1: If you want a large shade tree that that I
Speaker 1: would I would plant.
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, all.
Speaker 1: Right, good luck with that I'm gonna run, and I
Speaker 1: got another folks, several folks here holding on Mary in
Speaker 1: West Houston. How can we help the welcome to garden line?
Speaker 20: Thank you.
Speaker 11: Skip.
Speaker 20: Got a situation that I'm trying to help myself and
Speaker 20: my neighbor adjacent neighbor with, and that's the out of
Speaker 20: control crabgrass and the mounds. The mounds in my yard
Speaker 20: are like almost a foot wide and they're sybil. There's
Speaker 20: so many, there's too many to dig up. So if
Speaker 20: I've heard here's your difference using in the previously, I've
Speaker 20: heard your reference using Saudi grass to plant down, put down, uh,
Speaker 20: to take root around those crabgrass mounds.
Speaker 1: Well, if I did that, you would just basically go ahead.
Speaker 20: If I did that and I watered and fertilized maybe
Speaker 20: with some uh just general fertilizer, okay before for shrubs
Speaker 20: and plants, would I be helping myself any.
Speaker 1: And my nation is an annual yeah, crabgrass is an
Speaker 1: annual grass. So first of all, a lot of people
Speaker 1: call me and say they have crabgrass, and then when
Speaker 1: I see a picture it's actually another grass. Uh. So
Speaker 1: we need to make sure we are talking about crabgrass.
Speaker 1: But if it is crabgrass, it's an annual. It comes
Speaker 1: from seed and it dies in the winter, and then
Speaker 1: next spring seeds come up. And that's where if you
Speaker 1: use nitrofoss barricade. According to my schedule, which is in February.
Speaker 1: My schedule's online and gardening with skip dot com, nitrofosh
Speaker 1: barricade put down in February will prevent the crab grass
Speaker 1: for about at least sixty days and maybe more. Actually more,
Speaker 1: But then you could do it again, maybe you know,
Speaker 1: a couple months later, just to extend that cover.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I hear, I just wrote that down. Not a
Speaker 20: cross barricade. The problem is the Hoa Association, it's management company,
Speaker 20: our own both of us to take care of it
Speaker 20: in thirty days.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, if you mow it, it looks like
Speaker 1: a lawn. So I don't understand why the hoa is
Speaker 1: all up in the air. Or well, maybe it's not cribgrass.
Speaker 20: It's well, let's just say it's not saying augustine grass
Speaker 20: these it's it's it is a weed, definitely a weed
Speaker 20: as opposed to sing.
Speaker 1: Mary. We can leave we can leave it at that.
Speaker 1: You can't kill crabgrass with a spray without killing Saint
Speaker 1: Augustine that gets that the spray gets on. So what
Speaker 1: what Let's do this if you would like, if you
Speaker 1: go out in good, good light, take some pictures of it,
Speaker 1: let me see it from kind of standing away from
Speaker 1: it a little bit, and then get up close. If
Speaker 1: it's got any seed heads on it, pull some up,
Speaker 1: set it down on a kitchen table or some nice
Speaker 1: dark surface, and take a picture of it and send
Speaker 1: me those pictures. Make sure they're in sharp focus and
Speaker 1: let me see what it is, because it may be
Speaker 1: that the arcade is not how you have to go.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a perennial grass.
Speaker 20: I'll do that right away. Thank you, skip all right, man,
Speaker 20: thank you?
Speaker 1: Bet you take care, you take care all right. Let's
Speaker 1: see here where are we? I wanted to I did
Speaker 1: want to mention to you. I talk about this garden
Speaker 1: center pretty often. But in Water Gardens, Nelson Nursery and
Speaker 1: Water Gardens is out in Katie. It's on Katie Fort
Speaker 1: Ben Roads. So as you're heading out ten toward Katie
Speaker 1: Katie Fort Ben Road, turn right across the tracks and
Speaker 1: it's not too far down the road there. It is
Speaker 1: an outstanding nursery, lots of plant selection, but there's also
Speaker 1: a very special place and that they have the beautiful
Speaker 1: disappearing fountains, they have waterfalls, they have it's just it's
Speaker 1: an inspiring place. When you go in there, you're going
Speaker 1: to want water in your backyard and the birds will
Speaker 1: thank you for doing that, as was beneficial insects too,
Speaker 1: having a source of water out in the landscape. While
Speaker 1: you're there, you're going to find out an excellent selection
Speaker 1: of plants, the things that grow here. The Nelsons have
Speaker 1: long known how to grow plants and how to choose plants,
Speaker 1: and how to build water guards. In fact, the disappearing
Speaker 1: fountain they invented that nationally known really at Nelson Water
Speaker 1: Garden and Nursery. But don't just think water, think also plants.
Speaker 1: And they have a good selection as well as the
Speaker 1: things like fertilizers that you need to go with your plants.
Speaker 1: So it's West Houston's full service nursery and it is
Speaker 1: a destination nursery and I encourage you to take friends
Speaker 1: when you go out there so you can all enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. We are going to
Speaker 1: have to take a quick break here and then Chuck,
Speaker 1: when we come back, you will be our first up.
Speaker 1: Listen to talking about a lot of different things in
Speaker 1: the garden, because we want you to have success. Someone
Speaker 1: was asking me the other day about well, it was
Speaker 1: yesterday when I was down in at the clear Lake
Speaker 1: Wildbird's Unlimited store. Someone asked about Buchanan's Native plants, and
Speaker 1: I say, man, you got to go there. It's in
Speaker 1: the Heights. It's on Eleventh Street in the Heights, and
Speaker 1: they were looking for a particular kind of native and
Speaker 1: I was talking to them about Buchanans. You know, Buchanans
Speaker 1: has the best selection of native plants in the whole region.
Speaker 1: And they really do. I mean, if you even want,
Speaker 1: like I want a native that's just from the Houston area,
Speaker 1: not a Texas native in general, but just when they
Speaker 1: have a list of those as well, and they compare
Speaker 1: your interests to pick the right plant. For example, I
Speaker 1: want to native the truck's butterflies. I want to native
Speaker 1: the truck's hummingbirds, which, by the way, are flying through.
Speaker 1: They're on there getting fueled up to head across the
Speaker 1: Gulf of Mexico. I don't know how they do that,
Speaker 1: but Buchanans has all of that and then some one
Speaker 1: of the best houseplants selections you're going to find anywhere,
Speaker 1: and they're huge houseplant greenhouse. Do you like succulents, they
Speaker 1: got them. Do you need vegetables and herbs, They're loaded
Speaker 1: up with those ready to go fruit trees, whatever you need.
Speaker 1: Their gift shop is outstanding and while you're there you
Speaker 1: can pick up fertilizers and soils and all of that
Speaker 1: so that you do as we say on guarden Line,
Speaker 1: take care of the brown stuff and then the green stuff.
Speaker 1: Make sure the soil is right and put a good
Speaker 1: plan in it, and Buchanans will help you do all
Speaker 1: of that. Again. They're on eleven Street in the Heights.
Speaker 1: Go to the website Buchanansplants dot com. It is loaded
Speaker 1: with information and you do want to sign up for
Speaker 1: their newsletter while you're there. Out now to Chuck in Liverpool.
Speaker 1: Hello Chuck, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Good morning, Skip, how are you.
Speaker 1: I'm well? Thank you.
Speaker 10: Hey.
Speaker 17: I've got some kind of little critter going on here.
Speaker 17: It's underneath the leaves of my grapevine and also got
Speaker 17: some avocados going on. And it's not only there, it's
Speaker 17: on some just regular objects in the yard, like a
Speaker 17: metal post or like some fabric cloth shaped and it's
Speaker 17: it's like a little small trail, uh, maybe anywhere from
Speaker 17: a half three quarter to an inch long, and it's
Speaker 17: like these microscopic like egg things, like a gray color,
Speaker 17: and they're like they're like little eggs and you can
Speaker 17: rub it off with your thumb, you know, and they've
Speaker 17: come off, and it's like these teeny tiny little bitty balls,
Speaker 17: I mean, very microscopic small and they are just reaping.
Speaker 17: What are they?
Speaker 1: Are you sending their pin head size small?
Speaker 17: Yes, they're yes, And it's a whole hold and they're
Speaker 17: all over the place.
Speaker 1: What is the damage that you're seeing from them?
Speaker 17: It's just whatever piece of foldg you call, it's like
Speaker 17: it's sucking the life out of it.
Speaker 1: M well, uh, nothing is coming to mind that fits
Speaker 1: that description. So will you do this? Will you take
Speaker 1: some pictures, get as close as can to them, and
Speaker 1: put something if you can put something in the picture,
Speaker 1: you know, like the end of a pencil or something
Speaker 1: that shows me kind of scale, just so I get
Speaker 1: an idea. But check the pictures, make sure they're in
Speaker 1: sharp focus because I'm gonna at the zoom way in
Speaker 1: on them, and so the closure you get with a
Speaker 1: good sharp focus the better. Anyway, if you'll send those
Speaker 1: to me, let me take a look at them going
Speaker 1: through in my head right now. I'm well, I'm going
Speaker 1: to put you on hold and Chris will send give
Speaker 1: you the email you need to send that in. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, take it from there. Yeah, thanks a lot.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that call. Nelson Plant Food is the source
Speaker 1: of all kinds of outstanding products. They've got the color
Speaker 1: Star line, one of the most famous color fertilizers in
Speaker 1: this whole region. Really, everybody's tried it, or everybody that's
Speaker 1: tried it knows how well it works. They have the
Speaker 1: things like the carblow that we'll be talking about that
Speaker 1: for fall fertilization a little bit here. But they have
Speaker 1: something called Genesis that's a transplant product, and I've used
Speaker 1: it myself when I was bumping tomatoes up from a
Speaker 1: small to six pack size to a four inch pot.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable response. Unbelievable response. This fall, you're gonna plant some shrubs,
Speaker 1: You're can play some roses, You're gonna plant some perennials.
Speaker 1: Whatever you're planting, maybe you're just moving things from one
Speaker 1: pot to a bigger pot. Mix Genesis into the soil
Speaker 1: of where that plant is going and you will see
Speaker 1: a very fast response. It's an excellent product. Comes in
Speaker 1: a little plastic plastic jar like some of the Nelson products,
Speaker 1: but it's part of the nutri Star line. It's called Genesis,
Speaker 1: and you definitely want to use that for any planting
Speaker 1: that you're doing. I usually say, don't put fertilizer in
Speaker 1: the planting hole. With Genesis, you can mix it into
Speaker 1: the soil and plant the plant in that hole and
Speaker 1: it will not burn and it will work. It works
Speaker 1: very well. A great product from the folks out at Nelson.
Speaker 1: Let's see, We're going to head now to pair Land
Speaker 1: and talk to Pat. Hello, Pat, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 18: Thank you. I have a couple of questions. One is
Speaker 18: I had a beautiful half a beautiful new lawn that
Speaker 18: was put in after I moved into my home, and
Speaker 18: it was so gorgeous and green, and now it's starting
Speaker 18: to get yellow blades of grass. Do odd? I don't
Speaker 18: know if it's too much water, I don't know if
Speaker 18: it's not enough water, but I need you.
Speaker 9: To tell me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it can be some different things. I saw a
Speaker 1: little bit of that in one area of my lawn
Speaker 1: as well, and I attributed it to I kind of
Speaker 1: went for a time without watering and then started watering again.
Speaker 1: And uh, it could be a disease called large patch
Speaker 1: or brown patch, but that usually occurs in circles and
Speaker 1: the grass turns.
Speaker 18: No, it's not, it's just throughout my whole lawn, just
Speaker 18: here and there, little. I mean, my grass used to
Speaker 18: look so beautifully green and now it has kind of
Speaker 18: like this yellow going through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well, uh, let me let me ask you
Speaker 1: this is you want to if you want up close
Speaker 1: to look at one of these areas, would the yellow
Speaker 1: leaves be some of the older leaves, you know, not
Speaker 1: at the very end of the runner and the end
Speaker 1: of the runner is still green or all of it
Speaker 1: turning yellow.
Speaker 18: It's just throughout all of the grass. It's like a
Speaker 18: it's it's not. It's not in lines, it's not in circles.
Speaker 18: It's just like if I'm looking at my lawn, like
Speaker 18: it's just every few blades of grass is turning yellow.
Speaker 1: Okay, And I'm trying to nail down here through a
Speaker 1: couple of possibilities. When the when it turns yellow, it's
Speaker 1: not a yellow. If you looked at a blade real close,
Speaker 1: it'd be yellow and green striped. But you're talking about
Speaker 1: you got a green blade and over and next to it,
Speaker 1: there's a yellow blade. Is that how we're seeing it? Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what That's what we were saying before. Could be
Speaker 1: a could be a sol moisture problem, and who knows.
Speaker 17: Now.
Speaker 1: I think if you make sure the soil has adequate water,
Speaker 1: don't over water because that causes problems in and of itself.
Speaker 18: We know that we had water every day or rained
Speaker 18: every day, and now it hasn't rained at all.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, so why don't you try yours. It's getting
Speaker 1: about the time for fall fertilization. You may want to
Speaker 1: do yours a little bit earlier this year and try
Speaker 1: to give it a little boost. Another thing you could do.
Speaker 1: And I would grab a product and it's from the
Speaker 1: folks at Medinah and it is. It is a sixteen
Speaker 1: zero two. I believe it's a lawn for like hooks
Speaker 1: up to a garden hose like that I'm talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I would just do go over your lawn with
Speaker 1: that and.
Speaker 18: Follow with the product.
Speaker 1: According to the hang on one second I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you, but go over the lawn and apply it
Speaker 1: with the hose in sprayer. And when you do that,
Speaker 1: watch it for the first week. You should see results
Speaker 1: within the first few days really or week on it.
Speaker 1: I think you're going to find that it's going to fix.
Speaker 1: You know exactly what we're talking about here. The Medina
Speaker 1: has a lot of great products out there, but this
Speaker 1: one is it's part of the has to Grow line
Speaker 1: and it's called super Grow Plus, super Grow plus Grow
Speaker 1: Puss or sixteen sixteen zero two. But it's a little
Speaker 1: green topped where you hook it up. It's a little
Speaker 1: court bottle with a green top and super Grow plus
Speaker 1: sixteen zero two. And you're going to find it. You know,
Speaker 1: wherever you do your shopping. You're down in Pariland, there's
Speaker 1: some a stores down there about that.
Speaker 18: Habit yep okay. And you wouldn't think this is something
Speaker 18: like my law needs to be air raided or composted.
Speaker 1: Or I don't think so, because you know, aeration doesn't change.
Speaker 1: It's like it's not like you have good air rated
Speaker 1: soil and suddenly it's bad air raated soil, you know,
Speaker 1: And this kind of happened suddenly for you. And now
Speaker 1: it's always good to have a lawn air raided air rate.
Speaker 1: It always helps improve the soil, followed by a compost
Speaker 1: top dressing though that always say.
Speaker 18: You know someone, do you have someone in Periland that
Speaker 18: you would recommend to do that?
Speaker 1: Uh bn B turf pros they are You're on You're
Speaker 1: on the edge of the area they serve. You're on
Speaker 1: the eastern edge of the area that they serve, and
Speaker 1: I recommend them without any hesitations. Let me give you
Speaker 1: would you like.
Speaker 18: A phone both like boy and boy?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Boy and boys? Got it?
Speaker 18: Okay, okay, now my last there's the phone number? Oh
Speaker 18: oh good, okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Well yeah seven one three two three four fifty ninety eight.
Speaker 1: Seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to give you the website. It's BB
Speaker 1: no End in the website bbturfcos dot com.
Speaker 18: Thank you, okay, And if I could ask you one
Speaker 18: more quick question. I was just my son yesterday and
Speaker 18: Lake Jackson, and so I got to Moe's backyard and
Speaker 18: the grass is just horrible. It's just roped in and
Speaker 18: a lot of weeds and with it. But as I
Speaker 18: was mowing, these little like little baby white moths just
Speaker 18: they were everywhere. Every when I pushed the lawnmoard through,
Speaker 18: they just walked out. Do you have any idea what
Speaker 18: that is or what I can do about it?
Speaker 1: If they were white, I don't know. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of moths out there in nature.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: The sod webworm is a brownish tan moth. And Okay,
Speaker 1: when you walk through the yard, it's like you flesh
Speaker 1: them out of the grass as you walk, and they
Speaker 1: sat a little bit and they settle back down in
Speaker 1: the lawn. Is that what they were doing? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that's the side web worm. You need to get what's
Speaker 1: going to happen. They're laying eggs and then you're going
Speaker 1: to get caterpillars that eat the grass blades off the
Speaker 1: grass great, and you need there's a number of insecticides
Speaker 1: will work on side webworm. You can use the bugout Max.
Speaker 1: You can use a spray of Spindo said, that's an
Speaker 1: organic option. Uh, you get it on the foliage. They
Speaker 1: come out at night and eat the grass blades and
Speaker 1: it kills, but you may have to reapply. All right,
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Speaker 1: All right, welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good to
Speaker 1: have you with us today. We got plenty of things
Speaker 1: to talk about. We're entering our third hour of the
Speaker 1: morning here on garden Line. I've told you about the
Speaker 1: Texas three step program by Nitrophos and it really makes sense.
Speaker 1: And here's why. It's a fertilizer and it is a
Speaker 1: weed control and it is a disease control. That's the
Speaker 1: steps one, two, three. Step one nitrofoss fall special specifically
Speaker 1: blended for fall with that high potassium content so that
Speaker 1: your grass grows stronger going into winter, so it has
Speaker 1: more winter heartiness and it comes out stronger in the spring.
Speaker 1: The early growth on your grass next spring is going
Speaker 1: to be from stored energy, not the root from stored energy,
Speaker 1: and by sending it into winter strong with Nitroposs Fall Special,
Speaker 1: you help achieve a better one next spring. The weeds
Speaker 1: Barricade Nitrofoss barricade. You get it down at the right time,
Speaker 1: follow my schedule online at guardingiskip dot com, and you
Speaker 1: prevent all those winter weeds that are sprouting in your lawn,
Speaker 1: so next spring you're not dealing with all these growing
Speaker 1: and blooming and taking over the world weeds like chickweed
Speaker 1: and hend beet and carpetweed and clovers and all of
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Third step Eagle turf fungicide nitrofoss
Speaker 1: Eagle turf fungicide that prevents things like large patch or
Speaker 1: brown patch as it's called, the big circles that are
Speaker 1: going to happen, and it also works well against take
Speaker 1: all root rot. Take all root rot. Again, look at
Speaker 1: my schedule. It tells you when to apply these things,
Speaker 1: and you will find that this nitrofoss three step program
Speaker 1: works really, really well. You're going to find it at
Speaker 1: in Channey Gardens and in Richmond Plans for all seasons
Speaker 1: up on two. You're going to find it at RCW
Speaker 1: nurseries as well as the Ace Hardware City on Memorial
Speaker 1: in Memorial rather the Memorial area. All right, there, it's
Speaker 1: as simple as that. That makes it really easy. We're
Speaker 1: going to go out the phones now. We're going to
Speaker 1: talk to Steve and deer Park. Hello Steve, welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 9: Thank you. I had a question about blue bonnets. We
Speaker 9: have a bed that we've had xenia's in and my
Speaker 9: wife has some blue bonnet seeds and she'd like some
Speaker 9: tips on putting the blue bonnet seeds out, and also
Speaker 9: could she put out the xenia seeds the same time
Speaker 9: as she puts out the blue bonnet seeds, Like there's
Speaker 9: mulch on it. Does she have to pull away the
Speaker 9: malt and put it in the dirt or can she
Speaker 9: sprinkle it on top of the mulch.
Speaker 1: You with bluebonnet seeds and zenas, if you can just
Speaker 1: barely cover them up, just get a little soil around
Speaker 1: them so when you water it in, the soil is
Speaker 1: kind of stuck to the side of the seeds. It
Speaker 1: helps them sprout a little better. You could plant them
Speaker 1: at the same time. The blue bonnets aren't going to
Speaker 1: come up for a little bit. The zenias will come
Speaker 1: up right now. The problem with that is those zenias go.
Speaker 1: The zinias are going to grow and be shading out
Speaker 1: the blue bonnets when they're trying to germinate later, so
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 9: Think so lighter than the blue bonnets.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, at some point you're just going to cut
Speaker 1: those zenias back and get the blue bonnet seeds out.
Speaker 9: And when what's the best time to put out the
Speaker 9: blue bonnet seeds?
Speaker 20: Uh?
Speaker 1: Well, really September and October or ideal times. You could
Speaker 1: plant them a little bit later, but it's better if
Speaker 1: you can get done sometime in October. So you're kind
Speaker 1: of looking at a traffic jam in that flower bed
Speaker 1: because you're trying to get the zenias up and growing.
Speaker 1: But then at the same time you need get sunlight
Speaker 1: for when the blue that you're going to try to
Speaker 1: come up, and I think that overlap is going to
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a challenge in the same bed.
Speaker 9: Okay, well, the blue bonds.
Speaker 1: One alternative, yeah, excuse me, Steve. One alternative would be
Speaker 1: to start those blue bonnets and four inch pots. Get
Speaker 1: your a bunch of four inch pots and start put
Speaker 1: two blue bonnet seeds in each one. When it's time
Speaker 1: to Actually, you could do that now and start them
Speaker 1: and get them up and growing, and then when you
Speaker 1: pull the zendias out, you'll set out the blue bonnet
Speaker 1: transplants and you'll have that head start and the traffic
Speaker 1: jam won't be such a problem.
Speaker 9: And so what time should I set them out?
Speaker 1: You would set your Well, the zendias are going to
Speaker 1: go down at the at the first frost, and you're
Speaker 1: pretty far south, so who knows when that's going to occur,
Speaker 1: But a little before that, probably I would go ahead
Speaker 1: and just pull the zendias and then maybe, let's say
Speaker 1: in November, early November, try to get those blue bonnet
Speaker 1: transplants in the ground at that time.
Speaker 9: Okay, all right, I was gonna it's a little early,
Speaker 9: but I was going to ask you for plants that
Speaker 9: I know that are going to freeze when we gets
Speaker 9: real cold. Should I cut those back sometime or should
Speaker 9: I just let them stay the size they are and
Speaker 9: let them freeze back?
Speaker 1: So so if they're gonna if they're gonna freeze, some
Speaker 1: people there's two ways to do it. Some people wait
Speaker 1: until they freeze and then they cut them right back
Speaker 1: so they're not ugly out there. Other people leave them
Speaker 1: for a while because on some types of plant structure,
Speaker 1: Let's say you had kind of a low growing spreading plant.
Speaker 1: That dead top that just froze is a little bit
Speaker 1: of an insulation for the base of the plant as
Speaker 1: we got that cold weather, and they'll leave it and
Speaker 1: then they'll cut it back before spring hits. Either way
Speaker 1: is okay. You can also do the insulation by just
Speaker 1: putting a little mult over the crown of that plant
Speaker 1: after you cut it back to kind of help hold
Speaker 1: the soil warmth in a little bit to protect it.
Speaker 1: Either way, okay, okay, thank you, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: run you bet hey, thanks for the questions. Thanks for
Speaker 1: calling in here. To guard line plants for all Seasons,
Speaker 1: I was talking about the night Fast three step system
Speaker 1: Plants for all seasons. Has got all three of them.
Speaker 1: And they have everything else too. I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a fertilizer I talk about on guardlines, gonna
Speaker 1: be in there. They carry all of that. They carry
Speaker 1: the canisters. They have a refill station too, so like
Speaker 1: if you're going to fill up Microlife or you're going
Speaker 1: to fill up Nelson plant food canisters, those those plastic jugs,
Speaker 1: you can refill them there at Plants for All Seasons.
Speaker 1: Saves a little money on fertilizer and definitely avoids throwing
Speaker 1: more plastic away out there in the environment. Another good
Speaker 1: reason the website's Plants for All Seasons dot com the
Speaker 1: phone number got a pen set two eight one three
Speaker 1: seven six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven
Speaker 1: six sixteen forty six. If you want to go to
Speaker 1: a place that carries plants that do well here and
Speaker 1: has folks that are experts on how to have success
Speaker 1: and how to deal with any issues that arise, Plans
Speaker 1: for All Seasons can provide all of that. I'm going
Speaker 1: to go now out to uh Dickenson, Texas and talk
Speaker 1: to Jane.
Speaker 14: Hello, Jane, good morning, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I have I'm going to get up.
Speaker 20: Go ahead, Okay, what.
Speaker 1: About a minute? Okay, wild squash grown in your yard.
Speaker 1: That's strange. I don't know how it got there. Hey, Jane,
Speaker 1: could you turn the radio off? I think that's throwing
Speaker 1: us off on our cadencer. Certainly, so good good good
Speaker 1: wild squash is uh, I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: There's there are a lot of different cute curbetss or
Speaker 1: that's what squash is. Huh q curbits and uh huh.
Speaker 17: I'm sure to go so you can talk.
Speaker 1: I see what I'm gonna have to take a break
Speaker 1: here for the Just hang on, we'll come back and
Speaker 1: we will we will solve this problem. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back with you after the break, all right,
Speaker 1: if you want to call it seven one three two
Speaker 1: one two k t r H. Now I want to
Speaker 1: tell you about Nature's Way resources. First of all, the
Speaker 1: summer sale we've been talking about, that's done, but Fungal
Speaker 1: Fridays are still on every Friday at Nature's Way twenty
Speaker 1: percent off their fungal compost. This is an outstanding product
Speaker 1: to mix into your soil like you would compost. It's
Speaker 1: an outstanding product to top dress your lawn too. Like
Speaker 1: we talk about leap mold compost screen down, fungal compost
Speaker 1: is excellent for the lawn as well. Now in Nature's Way,
Speaker 1: you know they're stocking up on all kinds of things
Speaker 1: because fall is the time that's a big planning season.
Speaker 1: People are buying the composts, getting their soils, getting the
Speaker 1: mulches and everything ready to go. Nature's Ways got stocked
Speaker 1: up and they're ready to go for you. You can
Speaker 1: go purchase the product there on site bulk or by
Speaker 1: the bag. The many places are on town sell their
Speaker 1: products by the bag as well. Write this on your calendar.
Speaker 1: I remember always listening to guard Line with a pen
Speaker 1: and a paper in hand. October twelfth, it's a Saturday.
Speaker 1: They're having their fall festival. They're gonna have Latin food.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have local vendors. They're gonna be plant sales
Speaker 1: out there, because they do sell plants at Nature's Way Resources.
Speaker 1: And I'll be out there doing a Q and A
Speaker 1: from eleven thirty to one thirty. There's gonna be live music,
Speaker 1: there're gonna be children's activities. In other words, here in
Speaker 1: Texas we call that a shin dig. And they're gonna
Speaker 1: have one act of a fall festival shin Dig October twelfth,
Speaker 1: Market on your calendar so you can come out. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you more about it as we get closer to it.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna head back out here. We were
Speaker 1: having a conversation with Jane. Jane, what makes you think
Speaker 1: it's a wild squash?
Speaker 11: Tell me a little bit about that well, it could
Speaker 11: be a wild cucumber type thing.
Speaker 1: It's okay.
Speaker 11: It does appear to be a squash, very swell of
Speaker 11: yellow flowers. It grows to about three and between two
Speaker 11: and three inches. The raw, sorry, unripe green looks kind
Speaker 11: of like a small watermelon and then yellows up beautifully
Speaker 11: and it hangs. It came in as an ornamental because
Speaker 11: I had seen it growing a couple other places. I
Speaker 11: brought it in and it's exploded. It is still flowering,
Speaker 11: it is still producing fruit, it's growing up senses, it's
Speaker 11: growing out on the grass and runners making it's amazing,
Speaker 11: very very happy stuff. Okay, it's a hard, yellow, thin skin.
Speaker 11: Looks more like a cucumber when I was cut into
Speaker 11: it than a squash, So that could be misting for sure.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a whole group of plants called cue curbets,
Speaker 1: and that includes cucumbers and squash and melons, certain kinds
Speaker 1: of melons, canta lopes and things. Uh. And they generally
Speaker 1: aren't invasive because the seed has to come out of
Speaker 1: the fruit and then be spread around, and that that
Speaker 1: it doesn't naturally do that unless you broke the seed
Speaker 1: up and spread it. So I'm not sure what exactly
Speaker 1: you're having there. It could be a wild type of cucurbet.
Speaker 1: But if that's the case, it's just a matter of
Speaker 1: pulling the plants up as they come up spraying. Oh okay.
Speaker 1: Before I can answer that, I need to see a
Speaker 1: picture of it. The cucurbets in general are edible. A
Speaker 1: lot of them are not palatable, and that is a
Speaker 1: huge difference. You know, can you eat it?
Speaker 17: Yes?
Speaker 1: Do you want to eat it?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 1: But let's do this. I'm gonna put you on hold
Speaker 1: and have Chris give you an email. Send me pictures
Speaker 1: of these plants from a distance, but especially up close.
Speaker 1: I want to see the fruit, the leaves, and the
Speaker 1: blooms in good sharp focus, and I'll reply to your
Speaker 1: email as far as the edible if there's anything else
Speaker 1: to add. Okay, thank you, j you Yeah, you too,
Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you very much. Three sixty tree stabilizers.
Speaker 1: That's the advice that I give you for this fall.
Speaker 1: Fall is for planting. Fall is especially for planting tree
Speaker 1: shrubs and woody vines. What are you ornamentals? We call them.
Speaker 1: If you're going to plant a tree, it needs to
Speaker 1: have a steak to hold it in place, and you
Speaker 1: drive a t post in the ground. You can use
Speaker 1: other kind of steaks, but you drive a tepost in
Speaker 1: the ground, attach a three sixty tree stabilizer to it
Speaker 1: and it holds that in place but allows the trunk
Speaker 1: to move a little bit. The little strap is soft
Speaker 1: and allows a little movement, which is important in developing
Speaker 1: trunk strength. You're going to find three sixty tree stabilizers
Speaker 1: at plants for all seasons. You're going to find it
Speaker 1: at RCW at Buchanans, at Hoorges, Hidden Gardens done in Alvin,
Speaker 1: at Arbor Gate, at Southwest Fertilizer. They're easy to find
Speaker 1: and this product really works. And when you're done with it,
Speaker 1: when it's spin it to your out there in the
Speaker 1: garden store it man may have a tree, or you
Speaker 1: may have another one later you can use it. You
Speaker 1: can use it for crpe myrtles. If you've got a
Speaker 1: bigger tree. You can do two stabilizers at right angles
Speaker 1: coming in let's say north south and one east west,
Speaker 1: and that just gives even more support for the tree.
Speaker 1: But it's a product that works, and I wouldn't plant
Speaker 1: a tree without putting one on We're going to go
Speaker 1: to northwest Houston now and talk to Ralph.
Speaker 14: Hello Ralph, good morning, Glad to have you aboard. Thank god,
Speaker 14: I've had all this crazy weather, you know, with all
Speaker 14: tree up, a coon, tree breaking in evil. But anyway,
Speaker 14: my story is my grass is dying out, and I
Speaker 14: don't know, I've tried watering it. But it's in the front.
Speaker 14: In the back it's beautiful, you know, and I have
Speaker 14: beautiful grass. But now then they've got a look in
Speaker 14: there and my ground is so hard. It looked like
Speaker 14: I'm having trouble. I put sound out and it's what
Speaker 14: do I do here?
Speaker 1: Well, for me, I would if it were me, I
Speaker 1: would call the folks at Green Pro and have them
Speaker 1: come out and do an aer ration and a compost
Speaker 1: top dressing. They can get down through that soil. They
Speaker 1: may have you water it a little bit first, just
Speaker 1: to soften the soil up a bit. You just talk
Speaker 1: to them there. Do you have a pin or pencil
Speaker 1: handy there?
Speaker 14: Ro oh one minute?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, yeah, while you're getting it, I'm gonna keep talking.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah. They cover an area about forty about forty
Speaker 1: five miles from Magnolia, and you're definitely in that area,
Speaker 1: so anything kind of north and west of Houston down
Speaker 1: down Houston. Now that their number is two eight one
Speaker 1: three five one forty seven thirty three, I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: that again two eight one three five one forty seven
Speaker 1: thirty three. And the website, if you like websites, is
Speaker 1: greenpro dot net. Now that they're what they're doing right
Speaker 1: now in this fall is they're aerating the lawn for
Speaker 1: free when you purchase the compost top dressing service. But
Speaker 1: you have to get at least two yards minimum on
Speaker 1: that offer. But it's not cheap. But it gets holes
Speaker 1: down in the soil, pulls the plug out, leaves it
Speaker 1: on the surface, and then they put that compost top
Speaker 1: dressing on and that begins that process of improving the
Speaker 1: root system so your turf can root deeper, holds moisture well,
Speaker 1: you know, and it just does all the things that
Speaker 1: grass needs to thrive down in the root system. I
Speaker 1: think that's the first thing that I would do. I
Speaker 1: think that's going to go a long way toward helping
Speaker 1: you in those areas.
Speaker 14: Yes, it's that strange year, I tell you that. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 14: I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Sure is, all right, Ralph. Thank you, you bet, thank
Speaker 1: you very much. I appreciate your call very much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Green Pro if you live kind of forty five miles
Speaker 1: from Magnolia, So we're talking about Spring Cyprus, the Woodlands,
Speaker 1: Conrad Willis, then over Montgomery, Magnolia and down to Katie
Speaker 1: West Houston, Central Houston Northeast. That Northwest quadrant basically is
Speaker 1: the area that they serve with that service. Have you
Speaker 1: been to in Chana Gardens? You know, in Chane Gardens
Speaker 1: is out there in Richmond Rosenberg area. They are on
Speaker 1: the Katie Fulsher side of Richmond, though specifically they are
Speaker 1: on FM three fifty nine FM three fifty nine out
Speaker 1: in the Kadi Fullshier part of Richmond Rosenburg. You got
Speaker 1: to go out there. This place is outstanding. That right now,
Speaker 1: fall color is well just split this way. Fall color
Speaker 1: is running rampant out at in enchanted gardens, qurotons and
Speaker 1: all the different plants you plant for a beautiful fall.
Speaker 1: Lots lots of colorful things like snap dragons. It's a
Speaker 1: season for that too.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 1: By the way, they have a selection of everything from
Speaker 1: houseplants to vegetables to herbs. It's just you just have
Speaker 1: to go to see what I'm talking about. Beautiful containers
Speaker 1: they can take. They carry the soil products, the the
Speaker 1: fertilizer products that I recommend here on garden Line. The
Speaker 1: Pumpkin House is set up out there. I think Saturday,
Speaker 1: October fifth is when it opens up, the Pumpkin House
Speaker 1: and Pumpkin Palooza. You just have to go see it.
Speaker 1: Pumpkin House. What is that picture in your mind? Well,
Speaker 1: that's probably what you're gonna see when you get out there.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool stuff. Anyway, I'd love to go out
Speaker 1: to Enchanted Gardens, great nursery, great people, good advice, good plants.
Speaker 1: Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's how you get there.
Speaker 1: That's the place, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. You need
Speaker 1: to go to the website too, because when you get
Speaker 1: out there and you get to the website, you're going
Speaker 1: to see everything they carry. You can follow them on
Speaker 1: social media. That's a great idea, by the way, because
Speaker 1: they're always posting some very good, helpful stuff letting you
Speaker 1: know what's in And I don't know just know what
Speaker 1: else to say other than you need to go. People
Speaker 1: drive from long distances to go to that place because
Speaker 1: it's worth it. Absolutely, it's worth it. I was talking
Speaker 1: about Nilsen Plant Foods early. I'm telling you about the
Speaker 1: Genesis Nutristar Genesis for transplanting. They also have a nutri
Speaker 1: Star for vegetable gardens. A nutri Star for vegetable gardens
Speaker 1: has those nutrients that it will add to the soil
Speaker 1: to ensure your vegetables grow and develop properly and have
Speaker 1: higher yields. That's absolutely the case. You put it out.
Speaker 1: You can put it out monthly during the growing season
Speaker 1: if you like, for a quick release of nutrients. It's
Speaker 1: going to increase again the productivity and the quality of
Speaker 1: your vegetables by making sure that vegetable plant is well
Speaker 1: fed five different sources of nitrogen, so they give an
Speaker 1: even release that results in just really good performance. It's
Speaker 1: good for enriching a race beed garden. It's good for
Speaker 1: using in container gardens. If you got vegetables in a container.
Speaker 1: I was earlier challenging or asking, requesting, pleading. If you
Speaker 1: never grown vegetables before this fall, why not start? How
Speaker 1: about this? Just one container? Try one container, gross some broccoli, gross,
Speaker 1: some vegetables, and get you some nutri Star vegetable garden
Speaker 1: for that, and if you got beds in the landscape,
Speaker 1: it's good for those as well. Nutrastar vegetable garden from
Speaker 1: Nelson Plant Food. It's an excellent product. I have found
Speaker 1: it to work very very well. And I tell you
Speaker 1: guys that when I talk about stuff on Garden Line,
Speaker 1: either I've read research about the product or I've used
Speaker 1: it myself, preferably the second one, so I have first
Speaker 1: hand experience with it, and that way, when I tell
Speaker 1: you it works, it's because it's worked for me when
Speaker 1: I used it. All Right, you're listening to Garden Line.
Speaker 1: I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're about to take a
Speaker 1: little break here, but if you would like to get
Speaker 1: on and be first up when we come back seven
Speaker 1: to one three two one two kt r H, give
Speaker 1: Chris call seven one three two one two kt RH.
Speaker 1: He will make sure that you were up on the
Speaker 1: boards when we come back. Welcome to Garden Line, folks.
Speaker 1: Good to have you with us. We we're just gonna
Speaker 1: keep going here. Lots to talk about. In fact, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna run straight out to the phones. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: to Allen in Baytown. Hello, Allan, Welcome, to garden line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, thank you, And for the record, I'm League City,
Speaker 9: Lamark area.
Speaker 17: Okay, I called before and.
Speaker 9: I said, Beta, I don't live in Paytown, man, But anyway, Okay,
Speaker 9: that's fertilization schedule.
Speaker 1: Uh I got alane. That might be a year old,
Speaker 1: nothink they're burn done to it.
Speaker 12: Pre emergent.
Speaker 1: Are the fertilizer first come up coming out of here soon?
Speaker 1: Or does it matter? I would it? Well it it
Speaker 1: kind of doesn't matter. They're both done at the same time.
Speaker 1: In fact, you could do them on the same day
Speaker 1: in separate applications if you wanted, do you have a
Speaker 1: particular go ahead, sorry, go ahead, do you have a
Speaker 1: particular fertilizer you're wanting to try?
Speaker 17: You not your falls and I'm gonna use the barricade
Speaker 17: for the premersory.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, I would just say decide when you want
Speaker 1: to do it, and unless you want to put them
Speaker 1: on separate days, just do them the same day because
Speaker 1: you're gonna apply both of them first, one then the other,
Speaker 1: and then you're gonna water it in with about a
Speaker 1: half inch of water, maybe a third, just to kind
Speaker 1: of move that nutrient down into the soil. A little bit,
Speaker 1: and to take the pre emergent off the granules you
Speaker 1: applied the barricade and move it down in the soil surface.
Speaker 1: So you know you need a little water to do that.
Speaker 9: Okay, so I put them both down, but I don't
Speaker 9: put one down then water it and put the other
Speaker 9: down then water, or put them both down then.
Speaker 1: Water correct only water once?
Speaker 12: Yeah, okay, all right, very good.
Speaker 9: Yeah that's all I wanted to know.
Speaker 1: So I'm tart about grass looking all right? Well good,
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Speaker 1: We went through some heck of a storms this past
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Speaker 1: Barrel and before that, we had a heck of a
Speaker 1: storm people. Both of them knocked out power for a
Speaker 1: long time. And oh gosh, the damage they did to
Speaker 1: Houston trees. It's amazing. There's a tree living and are
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Speaker 1: we had. But what I recommend people do is whether
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Speaker 1: and do. Affordable Tree Service. No trees are an incredibly
Speaker 1: valuable plant, the most valuable single plant on our properties.
Speaker 1: And you know what. They're valuable because they give shade
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Speaker 1: shade to outdoor sitting areas, and they just make a
Speaker 1: place look beautiful. But they're also valuable because if you
Speaker 1: ever sell a property, having big, beautiful, healthy trees is
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Speaker 1: but it also makes it sell. It doesn't sit on
Speaker 1: the market for as long because people love that and
Speaker 1: it makes it a more appealing property to them. But
Speaker 1: you got to take care of trees, and that starts
Speaker 1: when you're planting a tree, picking varieties that want to
Speaker 1: grow here and do well, putting the tree in a
Speaker 1: location where it can thrive and grow. I see trees
Speaker 1: planted three foot from sidewalks and driveways. I see trees
Speaker 1: planted ten feet away from a house. There's no future
Speaker 1: in those kind of locations and it shouldn't be done.
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Speaker 1: Proper tree in the proper place with a proper early
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Speaker 1: with trees. All right, we're going to head now out
Speaker 1: to date and Texas and we are going to talk. See,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Karen. I can find the button. Hello, Karen,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Hi there skip, Hey, I have a question for you
Speaker 23: about pecan.
Speaker 7: Tree on my property.
Speaker 23: It's an established pecontry. It may be nearing the end
Speaker 23: of its life. It's between what fifty seventy feet tall,
Speaker 23: and in the last year it put out a shoot
Speaker 23: at the base of the truck, you know, a couple
Speaker 23: of feet up and it came out. My husband and
Speaker 23: I have been discussing, well do we cut it off
Speaker 23: or do we let the tree try to rejuvenate itself
Speaker 23: from this new shoot?
Speaker 1: So you got a real tall tree. Did you tell
Speaker 1: me what species? I missed that? If you did, what
Speaker 1: was it the kan kan? And is everything dead above
Speaker 1: that shoot or is some of it alive?
Speaker 7: It is still alive.
Speaker 23: It's not ingreat. Okay, the tree has been neglected. It's
Speaker 23: never had any care up until we bought the property
Speaker 23: about five years ago, and slowly we're getting around to
Speaker 23: working on all the trees. But it did put out
Speaker 23: this shoot that is real healthy compared to the rest.
Speaker 17: Of the tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I can't see it, but here's what I'm
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent sure I would cut the chute off.
Speaker 1: How big around is the shoot where it attaches to
Speaker 1: the tree.
Speaker 23: It's maybe an inch at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, cut that off, because if you were
Speaker 1: to let that grow and then end up cutting off
Speaker 1: the trunk of the tree, you are going to have
Speaker 1: a huge wound and it'll never heal and it'll be
Speaker 1: a weak spot that'll break off. Cut that shoot off now,
Speaker 1: and then let's focus on getting your tree healthy. Have
Speaker 1: Martin Spoon Moore come out and take a look at
Speaker 1: your trees and recommend what to do or do some
Speaker 1: of the work, but recommend what you continue to do
Speaker 1: to take care of it. That would include things like
Speaker 1: fertilizing and during summer when it's hot and dry. You
Speaker 1: don't have the water up the coand tree in the fall,
Speaker 1: in the winter and early spring, but in summer when
Speaker 1: it's hot and dry, a good deep soaking, applying an
Speaker 1: inch or two of water over a large area underneath
Speaker 1: the branch bread of the tree, and let's get that
Speaker 1: tree rejuvenated and growing again. But yeah, that shoot has
Speaker 1: to come off. Okay, okay, thank you, all right. I
Speaker 1: appreciate your call, and good luck with that tree out
Speaker 1: in Dayton. I've got to take a break, folks, and
Speaker 1: we'll be right back the garden line. Welcome back to
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Speaker 23: Uh.
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Speaker 1: we're going to run out now to Troy, Alabama and
Speaker 1: talk to Paul. Hello, Paul, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Skip.
Speaker 6: Got a couple of questions for you. Catalytics. Do you
Speaker 6: know anything that's in them this year? Some type of disease?
Speaker 1: Kalalilies are a challenge, they really are. And I've tried
Speaker 1: to grow them and mediocre success. They look great when
Speaker 1: you get them and they come up and they do
Speaker 1: pretty good. Trying to get them to stay year to
Speaker 1: year is a really challenge in them. They don't like drought.
Speaker 1: They need to stay moist. They don't like soggy soil.
Speaker 1: They need to be well drained, so moist but not soggy.
Speaker 1: They need the right amount of light. When they get
Speaker 1: in blazing hot sun, they really suffer from that. But
Speaker 1: if you don't have enough light, there's not the energy
Speaker 1: that the plant needs, you know, with sunshine on the
Speaker 1: leaves to be able to thrive either. So it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a diva for me to with klalilies,
Speaker 1: and I think a lot of people have had that
Speaker 1: experience with them. They sure are pretty though.
Speaker 6: That's for sure. A couple of questions are not questions.
Speaker 6: So the young lady with the grice problem, I used
Speaker 6: iron the past couple of years. I don't know. This
Speaker 6: year I bought fertilizer with iron in it. Last year
Speaker 6: I got liquid iron and spray it with a hose.
Speaker 6: But it brought my grice back pretty good. I don't
Speaker 6: know if that's something you can't use or not.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I was trying to drill down in that
Speaker 1: call with her to find out is this iron? And
Speaker 1: I think it was not iron the way she was
Speaker 1: describing the yellow. But uh, yeah, what you just said
Speaker 1: on iron, those are all good ideas to help fix
Speaker 1: an iron problem. Okay.
Speaker 6: One other thing that I do that there was young
Speaker 6: lady talking about crab grass. I believe it was. But
Speaker 6: I have a two liter bottle and a one leader bottle,
Speaker 6: cut out the bottom, take GORI will take them onto
Speaker 6: you onee and I just change out the wind. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I take that, put it down on the ground and
Speaker 6: shoot round up and it just hits that area. It
Speaker 6: won't get on your other grass. Yes, And that's the
Speaker 6: best way I've found to control that stuff.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that works pretty good. And having them, yeah,
Speaker 1: and having them if you can pick clear ones, it
Speaker 1: makes it easier to kind of see what's going on
Speaker 1: in there. But yeah, that's a that is a way,
Speaker 1: uh you know to just kind of spot spray and
Speaker 1: avoid that drift. Yeah, good suggestion. Good, all right, just.
Speaker 6: Cost and have a great day.
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Speaker 1: They listen to Garden Line and they don't do it
Speaker 1: by radio. Our signal is strong, but it's not that strong,
Speaker 1: but you can too. Nitrophoss is three step program. I
Speaker 1: talked about it before, I want to mention it again,
Speaker 1: and it's really a great combination for fall. But it
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Speaker 1: Three steps, three different products. So the fertilizer is Nitrophoss
Speaker 1: Fall Special Winteriser. The nutrient content in it is designed
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Speaker 1: but also the spring boost because in spring your grass
Speaker 1: takes off growing not based on what it's getting from
Speaker 1: its roots, but what it's stored up going into fall.
Speaker 1: Nitrofoss Fall Special Winterizer will do just that. Secondly, weeds.
Speaker 1: You can spray weeds when they're growing and kill them,
Speaker 1: but oftentimes were limited in our options for that. Nitrofoss
Speaker 1: barricade is a pre emergent. If you put it down
Speaker 1: according to my schedule, you will get it down before
Speaker 1: the weeds germinate, and when the weed seeds try to sprout,
Speaker 1: it shuts the root system down and they die. They
Speaker 1: can't make it it works very well now. Third, nitrofuss
Speaker 1: Egle turf fungicide. That is a systemic product that means
Speaker 1: it soaks in to the plant tissues, moves around in
Speaker 1: the plant a little bit so that whenever something attacks,
Speaker 1: the fungicide is there. And you gotta do it ahead
Speaker 1: of time. Again, look at my schedule. Do it ahead
Speaker 1: of time, get done in early October, and that way,
Speaker 1: when brown Patch tries to attack also called large patch,
Speaker 1: or when take All root rot is an issue. Takeoll
Speaker 1: has a primetime infection period in the fall. And getting
Speaker 1: that product down ahead of time. Anything you're going to
Speaker 1: do for takeof Patch, you got to get it ahead
Speaker 1: of time. Same thing for brown Patch. And these one
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Speaker 1: Win a riser, Nitrofuss barricade to prevent weed seeds, and
Speaker 1: nitro Fuss Eagle to fight diseases before they show up.
Speaker 1: Those all work really really well. And you're going to
Speaker 1: find nitr Fuss products at places like Katie Ace Hardware
Speaker 1: out there. Of course, in Katie on Pinoak you're going
Speaker 1: to find it. It grows out in Willis, you're going
Speaker 1: to find it at Heidnen Feed on Studenter Airline. I'm
Speaker 1: on forty five North. They carried these products at D
Speaker 1: and D Feed and Tomball and they carry these products
Speaker 1: at Lake Hartware Clute done in Lake Jackson on Dixie Drive.
Speaker 1: Those of you down there know that place. All right.
Speaker 1: We're going to go now straight out to the phones
Speaker 1: and head out to Kingwood and talk to Pamela. Hello, Pamela.
Speaker 12: Hi Skip.
Speaker 16: I've mentioned a couple of times when you first started
Speaker 16: and you came up to Kingwood.
Speaker 1: Good.
Speaker 16: My question was really fun. I had neighbors and had
Speaker 16: a gas powered small chipper and they chipped all of
Speaker 16: the debris that came, you know, the branches and stuff,
Speaker 16: and they got about one hundred and fifty dollars worth
Speaker 16: of mulch. They use some behind the garage where grass
Speaker 16: bearingly grows. Now they don't have to water it. It's
Speaker 16: gorgeous with them some flagstones. Well, I'm thinking about doing
Speaker 16: a fun family day and I might be able to
Speaker 16: even get a commercial chipper and have people come and
Speaker 16: bring the debris and tip it, bring their own bags
Speaker 16: and they can leave with a few bags, and I'll
Speaker 16: feed them too. I'll give them a barbecue pork sandwich.
Speaker 7: Do we have to do we have to because yeah, well.
Speaker 16: We need some help here.
Speaker 1: Okay that.
Speaker 16: I remember what was it, Dewey Compton in this back
Speaker 16: in the nineties and Zach Bill Zach, I think it
Speaker 16: was talk about some them about newly made mulch either
Speaker 16: had too much or not enough nitrogen. Do we need
Speaker 16: to you know, if they want to use it in
Speaker 16: their flower beds, would they need to spray it with
Speaker 16: one of the Medina products?
Speaker 1: Okay, So to tell me what it is that you
Speaker 1: chopped up. What kind of plants was it? Is it trees?
Speaker 1: Is it some green trees?
Speaker 15: Trees?
Speaker 1: Trees?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 16: Yeah, we have green vine too, killing.
Speaker 11: The trees up here.
Speaker 1: In fresh In fresh material, there's more nitrogen than there
Speaker 1: is in dried material. That that's true, But I generally
Speaker 1: wouldn't worry about it. Now, if what you're primarily chopping
Speaker 1: up is twigs and leaves, then you have even more
Speaker 1: nitrogen than you would with branches and so on. So
Speaker 1: you might let it sit for just a bit before
Speaker 1: you put it on. And the reason is that material
Speaker 1: actually will start to cook, start to compost if it's
Speaker 1: got a lot of fresh green leaves, and the twigs
Speaker 1: and stuff all chopped up in it. And if you
Speaker 1: made a thick pile, it could actually heat up. Now,
Speaker 1: if it was just a thin layer of three inches
Speaker 1: or so over the soil, it's probably fine and not
Speaker 1: a concern at all, okay.
Speaker 16: And if they left it in their black bags, because
Speaker 16: they gave me some bags and we hit them in
Speaker 16: my forest, I have twenty seven trees in a small area,
Speaker 16: but some of them I put out by the curve
Speaker 16: and they weren't picking it up. Well, the trash people
Speaker 16: at my house because I seed those trash guys onmade
Speaker 16: muffins out in the oven and stuff. They pick everything up.
Speaker 16: They picked up the black bags. But if they left
Speaker 16: them in the black bags, wouldn't they get it get
Speaker 16: hot so it would make it decomposed faster.
Speaker 1: Well, it stops air movement, so the heat can build
Speaker 1: up in there. But you would know that, you know,
Speaker 1: after a few days you would start to see a
Speaker 1: heating up occurring in there. I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: it could be, could not be. There's just a lot
Speaker 1: of variables, Pamela. I do know that the product can
Speaker 1: be used, and I also know something else. You know
Speaker 1: how to bribe people with food. I've learned from this
Speaker 1: phone call. I mean I was getting hungry listening to
Speaker 1: your questions. So thanks for the call.
Speaker 16: Great, Yeah, degreat home economists and an eight dollars piece,
Speaker 16: but I can feed fifty people.
Speaker 1: You heard it here on garden Line first bus. All right, Pamela. Well,
Speaker 1: if I'm ever over in Kingwood and need something to eat,
Speaker 1: I'll show up both there. Thanks a lot. That's a
Speaker 1: good question. And yes, that's that's good stuff to use.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, hey, while you're in Kingwood, why not go
Speaker 1: buy Warren seven Gardens in Kingwood Garden Center. They're there,
Speaker 1: you know, They're easy to easy to get to, and
Speaker 1: they got the stuff you need. In fact, i'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you a little bit about that. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: a break here. When we come back, I wan't tell
Speaker 1: you little about what's going on at Warren Southern Gardens.
Speaker 1: It is. It is pretty cool stuff. And Jim and
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Speaker 1: I need to I can't get any breakfast this morning.
Speaker 1: I think I need to go crab from lunch pretty
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Speaker 1: want a quality job done, you need to start with
Speaker 1: quality plants in Quality Advice that that's how that works.
Speaker 1: And Warren Southern Gardens in Kingwock Garden Center they're loaded
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Speaker 1: got the citrus has arrived? Rangoon creepers, gorgeous vine dies
Speaker 1: to the ground in winter but comes back and then
Speaker 1: hottest season of the year. It is looking great, beautiful
Speaker 1: clusters of red pink flowers. It's time to make sure
Speaker 1: your planners are ready to go for fall. And do
Speaker 1: you know this. You could actually take plots that you
Speaker 1: already have at home, or buy a pot for Warren's
Speaker 1: and drop it off there and they have they can
Speaker 1: help you advise you like put these plants together and
Speaker 1: make a nice combo planner, or they would just do it.
Speaker 1: You can hire them to do that for you as well.
Speaker 1: They've got a sale five dollars a bag off on
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Speaker 1: but mainly just go by and check these places out.
Speaker 1: Outstanding garden centers. You're fortunate in Kingwood area to have
Speaker 1: both of those in your area. Let's see here. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna run out now to sugar Land and we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, good morning, skiff.
Speaker 24: I've got some weeds that infest run in certain areas
Speaker 24: of augustine grass.
Speaker 7: But they have a long stem.
Speaker 24: The weeds do about ten twelve inches long, and they
Speaker 24: got a white balloom on the top small blue is
Speaker 24: Can you tell me what to do on that? Or
Speaker 24: should I send you a photo? Or how does that work?
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you a question, see if it'll
Speaker 1: help me know. Does the bloom is it a little
Speaker 1: bloom with only four pedals, kind of like making the
Speaker 1: sign of a plus sign four pedals? Or is it
Speaker 1: a bloom that looks like a little tiny daisy about
Speaker 1: the size of a dime?
Speaker 7: I think it's about the four the first.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's Virginia button weed, and it is difficult to control.
Speaker 1: The product that you need to use is called celsius,
Speaker 1: like the temperature celsius, and Virginia button weed is hard
Speaker 1: to kill, so it's going to take more than one application.
Speaker 1: You could hit it now, that'd be a start, and
Speaker 1: then next spring when it comes back, you'll see it back.
Speaker 1: They'll be because it comes from seed too. When it
Speaker 1: comes out, you want to spray it when you first
Speaker 1: see a good little patch of it, so you have
Speaker 1: something to spray with the celsius, and then about six
Speaker 1: weeks later spray it again with the celsius. And that's
Speaker 1: the kind of regimen it takes. It loves wet soil,
Speaker 1: so the more you water or if you have poor drainage,
Speaker 1: Virginia button weed is going to be worse. So try
Speaker 1: to do what's in your power to keep it from
Speaker 1: stand wet all the time.
Speaker 24: Well that's sad, like this is a damp area the
Speaker 24: grass and that's worse.
Speaker 1: Good. Yeah, well it likes that, Okay.
Speaker 7: Appreciate that. And I don't have any food today.
Speaker 10: So.
Speaker 1: I know, I was I was kind of hoping you
Speaker 1: were going to get to some barbecue. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: if you made a barbecue pitfull, people would come spray
Speaker 1: it for you. Jim, Thanks, thanks for the call. Appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you read Tom Sawyer and know about
Speaker 1: painting that or whitewashing that fence anyway, learned a lot
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Speaker 1: I want you to come out. I want you to
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Speaker 1: to go now to Southwest Houston and talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy,
Speaker 1: welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 25: I I the you talked about nematodes and the roots
Speaker 25: of your plants looking like the Mitchell and Man.
Speaker 1: Yes, and.
Speaker 25: Is that I have a garden Part one of my
Speaker 25: raised beds is not. It just doesn't seem to be
Speaker 25: doing well this year. And I've noticed the roots look
Speaker 25: like the mitchell in man. Is that that there's mimatoads
Speaker 25: in there bad?
Speaker 1: It could It could be. When nematods are not bad,
Speaker 1: it looks like a string of pearls. You just have
Speaker 1: these little bumps down the root, a little circles down
Speaker 1: the root. When they get really bad and the roots
Speaker 1: get bigger, it's like they grow and swell together. So
Speaker 1: it's this big giant swollen area that's really lumpy, and
Speaker 1: it typically is kind of an ugly tan color. Instead
Speaker 1: are fresh white, healthy looking. Those are nematod signs. If
Speaker 1: you want to take a picture of what you're seeing
Speaker 1: up close and sharp focus and send it to me,
Speaker 1: I can confirm that for you if you like. Nematods
Speaker 1: are very difficult to control to get rid of. They're
Speaker 1: always going to be around, so the things we do
Speaker 1: just kind of help hamper them. One of the main
Speaker 1: things we do is plant things that nematodes don't attack,
Speaker 1: and that is not a long list of options, so
Speaker 1: that that's kind of one of the negatives that we
Speaker 1: have to deal with.
Speaker 25: Okay, okay, well, I can't take any pictures right now.
Speaker 25: It's been you know a little bit since I did that.
Speaker 25: I was going to plant something and I thought, do
Speaker 25: I need to do something else to the bed because
Speaker 25: because I'm atual man roots.
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, well you're welcome to if you want
Speaker 1: to hang on and get get an email to send
Speaker 1: a picture of a close up and sharp focus over root.
Speaker 1: I'll be glad to try to identify that for you
Speaker 1: if you'd like to do that.
Speaker 25: Okay, okay, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Bye, all right, thank you for the call. Appreciate you
Speaker 1: calling very much. You're listening to Guardline folks, and our
Speaker 1: phone number is seven to one three two one two
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Speaker 1: I spent a slow day on the phones today compared
Speaker 1: to normal, but typically what happens is got a lot
Speaker 1: of calls right toward the end of the day. But
Speaker 1: whenever it's a good time for you, it's a good
Speaker 1: time for me. Give us a call seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two k t R H be happy to
Speaker 1: help with that. I was at a wallbirds yesterday. Thanks
Speaker 1: uh Jeff. Folks out there in clear Lake at the
Speaker 1: Wallbirds in clear Lake. We had a great time. By
Speaker 1: the way, if you want to find the wallbirds near you,
Speaker 1: it is a website called wbu dot com forward slash Houston.
Speaker 1: There's six Wallbird stores here in Houston, and if you
Speaker 1: go to that website you can find the ones near you.
Speaker 1: We are in the big, big middle of hummingbird season.
Speaker 1: Those hummingbirds have showed up. They are hungry. They got
Speaker 1: a long trip ahead of them. And how on earth
Speaker 1: a hummingbird with wings beating sixty times a second is
Speaker 1: able to fly across the Gulf of Ago. I have
Speaker 1: no idea, but they do it. But you can help
Speaker 1: them out, you know, get some good sugar water out
Speaker 1: there for them. They make a special blend there wild
Speaker 1: Birds that has something that keeps the mix from going bad.
Speaker 1: It's a kind of a nutrient mineral type thing. So
Speaker 1: it's not like something that would hurt the birds. In fact,
Speaker 1: it really helps what would last You know, sugar water
Speaker 1: in our heats outside today is going to last what
Speaker 1: two or three days and it's going to start getting funky.
Speaker 1: Well you put this in, it'll lasts a week or more.
Speaker 1: It really works well that you can also add it
Speaker 1: to your own sugar water if you want to do that.
Speaker 1: If you are going to be on a trip and
Speaker 1: away for a while, get one of their seed cylinders.
Speaker 1: If you are having problems with squirrels eating all your
Speaker 1: bird seed, they have the hot pepper seed cylinders, and
Speaker 1: they have hot pepper seeds too, and those squirrels they
Speaker 1: will not eat that kind of like you know, put
Speaker 1: a bunch of Hobernaro peppers in front of me and
Speaker 1: there's not one of those going into my mouth. I
Speaker 1: would be set on fire. So Wildbird's unlimited, lots of
Speaker 1: good blends, lots of good things from bird feeders. Bird
Speaker 1: houses get stocked up. Also, Baltimore orioles are moving through
Speaker 1: right now, so you want to They have supplies for
Speaker 1: them as well, types of feed that are especially attractive
Speaker 1: to those as well. All at wildbirds wbu dot com,
Speaker 1: Forward slash Houston. We're going to head now to Okay,
Speaker 1: We're going to head out to Montgum. I always have
Speaker 1: to watch a clock because I ended up just wanting
Speaker 1: to talk all day and not realize I have to
Speaker 1: take breaks. We'll go to Brad and Montgomery next. Hey, Brad,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden line. Hey, how are you? I'm well,
Speaker 1: thank you?
Speaker 19: All right, we got a quest, I'd said on the
Speaker 19: thing on the to your screener that we have. It
Speaker 19: looks like some eggs and some white flies are flying
Speaker 19: up and we shake the leaves. But we have some
Speaker 19: points set is that we keep all year long. And
Speaker 19: then a shrimp plant and then some church caps that
Speaker 19: are kind of eating up with all almost looks like
Speaker 19: a black fungus. But I think it's eggs or something. Okay,
Speaker 19: we're wondering how to treat it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, my best shot at a general description
Speaker 1: like that, if you're seeing white, little natty fly looking
Speaker 1: things coming up off the plant when you shake it,
Speaker 1: that is whiteflies. That's the only one that does that. Now.
Speaker 1: Plant insects that suck the juice out of the plant.
Speaker 1: They excrete the sugar that's in the juice and it
Speaker 1: falls on the leaves and creates city mold black stuff,
Speaker 1: and so that could be aphed scale, white flies, meatly bugs.
Speaker 1: They all create what they creatively called honeydew. It's basically
Speaker 1: sweet bug pea, but I think sweet bug pea doesn't
Speaker 1: sound as good as honeydew. But anyway, that's what the
Speaker 1: city mold's going off of. So you control the white flies.
Speaker 1: You can you shut down the city mold source. You
Speaker 1: can blast plants with a little bit of a soapy water,
Speaker 1: you know, and then kind of blast that off of
Speaker 1: them and get away a lot of the sticky sugary
Speaker 1: stuff and some of the black honey or black city mold.
Speaker 1: But basically you're gonna have to get a systemic in
Speaker 1: those plants to kill the white flies. White flies are
Speaker 1: hard to control. And sprays of horticultural oils sprayed upward
Speaker 1: from under the plant to coat the eggs and the
Speaker 1: pupa and the larvae that are under the leaves, that
Speaker 1: will be helpful, but it's hard to get good coverage.
Speaker 1: But also just make sure that you are using a systemic.
Speaker 1: And I want to get you to hold I want
Speaker 1: to come back and finish that answer. I'm gonna gets
Speaker 1: to a hard news break here, Brad. But if you
Speaker 1: can hang on, if you need brown stuff to have
Speaker 1: gardens success, you know, that's the first step. You fix
Speaker 1: the soil, the brown stuff, you put good plants in it,
Speaker 1: and they thrive. That's how that works. And so many
Speaker 1: people get excited about plants. You know they got beautiful
Speaker 1: blooms on them. It's a tomato and you're going to
Speaker 1: grow tomatoes. It's a tree that's gonna have blooms, and
Speaker 1: you get all excited about that, but you don't think
Speaker 1: about preparing this spot. First round stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 1: Always prepare the soil. And if you live south of Houston,
Speaker 1: Ciena Mulch is your go to place. A Cenamulch is
Speaker 1: north of Roast Sharon. They're on FM five twenty one.
Speaker 1: Here's the website. You want to write this down. It's
Speaker 1: got everything you need to know, from phone numbers to
Speaker 1: how to get there. Sienna Mulch dot com cienamulch dot com.
Speaker 1: Now they're open Monday through Friday from seven thirty in
Speaker 1: the morning till five Saturday from seven thirty to two.
Speaker 1: They're closed today, close on Sunday. They'll be back open
Speaker 1: again tomorrow. It's a one stop shop. And here here's
Speaker 1: why I say that. You show up there, you buy composts,
Speaker 1: you buy mulches, you buy fertilizers. They carry every fertilizer
Speaker 1: I talk about on Guarden Line. They're there, they're ready
Speaker 1: to go for you. Do you need a rose sooil?
Speaker 1: Do you need landscapers, pride back velvet mulch? Do you
Speaker 1: need airloom soils? What veggie and herb mix? You see
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They've got it all. They also have
Speaker 1: sand and gravel, they have stone by the pallette. They'll
Speaker 1: deliver within about twenty miles for a small fee, and
Speaker 1: then all kinds of all kinds of multis. I'm just
Speaker 1: naming a few of the things that they have. Roase
Speaker 1: soil be another example. You show up at Sienna, you
Speaker 1: go home with the good stuff, or if you're in
Speaker 1: twenty miles away then and you har them to come
Speaker 1: out and deliver it. And when you get that ready,
Speaker 1: whatever you put in the ground this fall, you're going
Speaker 1: to see success. Seen a mulch one stop shop. I'm
Speaker 1: going to head out now to let's see where were we? Di?
Speaker 1: Who was I talking to? Talking? Who was I talking to? Brad? Okay, Brad?
Speaker 1: Was it you that I was talking to about the
Speaker 1: white flies? Okay, my brain just kind of went blank.
Speaker 1: So white flies? Yeah. A systemic would be something like
Speaker 1: a meadow cloak prid I M I DO O C
Speaker 1: L O P R I D a systemic like that,
Speaker 1: and what that does is the root. You just drenched
Speaker 1: the soil and the roots pick it up and it
Speaker 1: goes through the plumbing of the plant. So any good
Speaker 1: beneficial crawling around the surface of the plant, they're not
Speaker 1: crawling on a sprayed surface, they're okay. But anything sucking
Speaker 1: juices out of the plant, they get that poison and
Speaker 1: it kills them. Now, the only negative about amidocloprid and
Speaker 1: any systemic is that if honey bees are visiting the
Speaker 1: flowers of that plant, well, there could be some of
Speaker 1: that substance in the blooms, and so that's the big
Speaker 1: hesitation on it. But when you're dealing with something that's
Speaker 1: very difficult and persistent like soft scale and white flies,
Speaker 1: it's one of the few options that really works. You
Speaker 1: can work your way after them by regularly hitting them
Speaker 1: with a horticultural little spray spray upward from under the leaf.
Speaker 1: Like I mentioned earlier, it's a little more tedious and
Speaker 1: you've got to be very diligent about that, but that
Speaker 1: would be the other option.
Speaker 19: Does that systemic get out of the planet eventually?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it breaks down eventually, I mean it's not going
Speaker 1: to be there a year from now. Yeah, those church caps.
Speaker 19: We have butterflies that like them, and I don't know
Speaker 19: if it affects the butterflies if they but right now, yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, I don't know when the butterflies, but
Speaker 1: I would I would just be cautious because it is systemic,
Speaker 1: it's moving through the plant. Yeah, yeah, trust caps. You're
Speaker 1: up in Montgomery, go to Ana Plants. I bet they.
Speaker 1: I bet they have a version of it up there
Speaker 1: at A and A on the east side of town. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you have trouble finding out there, you can try
Speaker 1: ACE Hardware in your area would have it too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's an ACE Hardware right there on one.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there you go. I appreciate your man. You bet.
Speaker 1: Good luck with those. I hope you have a great,
Speaker 1: great success with that. Let's go now to northwest Houston
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk to Matthew. Hello, Matthew morning, Skip.
Speaker 1: How are you doing this morning? I'm good? Thank you.
Speaker 7: Had question.
Speaker 26: So last fall I'd put in a red maple and
Speaker 26: it's been in the ground for about ten eleven months,
Speaker 26: and I noticed a couple of weeks back that the
Speaker 26: edges of the leaves on the bottom half of the
Speaker 26: foliage are kind of turning gray, almost like they're burnt.
Speaker 26: And I was curious what might be causing that, whether
Speaker 26: it was underwatering, overwatering heat, or some sort of disease.
Speaker 1: Well, there is a naturally lighter color underneath the leaf,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to think of some of the red
Speaker 1: maybe some of it you had almost described as gray.
Speaker 1: You sure you wasn't a silver maple that you got
Speaker 1: it was red?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 26: No, I actually got it from RCW. Was a I
Speaker 26: believe a san Felipe red maple.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes, that's an outstanding one that they sell
Speaker 1: there at RCW. That's a good one. Grayish under the
Speaker 1: But the top of the leaf looks healthy and green, right.
Speaker 26: So the top half of the foliage looks perfectly fine.
Speaker 26: It's the bottom half of the tree where I'm seeing
Speaker 26: the edges of the leaves they're kind of turning gray
Speaker 26: or brown, like they're dead.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let me clarify this now. I was thinking
Speaker 1: you were talking about the undersides of the leaves turning gray.
Speaker 1: Now you're saying the edges are doing.
Speaker 26: This right, Yes, it's just the edges.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, good, Well, I wouldn't worry about that.
Speaker 1: Probably there was something going on in the soil, such
Speaker 1: as a droughty period, or you know, any kind of
Speaker 1: a thing that affects the roots negatively. If you were
Speaker 1: to put a bunch of salt based fertilizer around the plant,
Speaker 1: you can burn the edges of the foliage when the
Speaker 1: roots take up that concentrated fertilizer, like if you put
Speaker 1: it out at too high of a rate. But that's
Speaker 1: a good maple, it will do well here when we
Speaker 1: go through droughts. A good deep soaking. This year hasn't
Speaker 1: been a tough one. But the first year, the tree
Speaker 1: does not have the root system it needs to take
Speaker 1: up water sufficiently without you helping it. So an established tree,
Speaker 1: had that grown from a seed, it would have roots
Speaker 1: way out from the plant in all directions and it
Speaker 1: would be able to withstand some droughty conditions. Coming out
Speaker 1: of a cylinder in a pot, right, those roots are
Speaker 1: confined and it takes a while for them to work
Speaker 1: their way out. So the first year, especially small amounts
Speaker 1: of water around the base of the plant, kind of
Speaker 1: like you're watering where the pot was before, is pretty important.
Speaker 1: And I think that's probably what happened a little bit
Speaker 1: this year on it. I think it's going to be fine, though,
Speaker 1: just make sure it gets adequate water during the cool season.
Speaker 1: The leaves are going to fall off and we don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about it. Okay.
Speaker 26: See you think it was just a droughty period that
Speaker 26: kind of hurt the roots.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, even if your soil, Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 26: I've got the tree ring and everything. I usually try
Speaker 26: to hit it pretty good and make sure that the
Speaker 26: so it stay. It's moist about a couple inches down.
Speaker 1: But okay, well, those rings are outstanding. The thing you
Speaker 1: have to remember is that root cylinder. The ring often
Speaker 1: will spray outside the roots cylinder if you turn it
Speaker 1: up right, and you have to barely turn it on
Speaker 1: for the water to soak right down at the base
Speaker 1: where that cylinder is. Because if you imagine this, when
Speaker 1: you planted that tree, had you not taken the pot
Speaker 1: off and you put the whole pot in the tree
Speaker 1: in the ground, if you think about it that way,
Speaker 1: you'll know right word of water, you wouldn't water outside
Speaker 1: that because the roots aren't outside that well. For the
Speaker 1: as we go month by month by month, and then
Speaker 1: year by year end of the tree's life, the root
Speaker 1: system more and more and more is filling the soil
Speaker 1: outside of that area. But for a good while the
Speaker 1: majority of roots are still inside that area, and so
Speaker 1: when we water, that is the target. Now, next summer
Speaker 1: it won't be so important to water just right there.
Speaker 1: But this first summer was the more challenging time. So
Speaker 1: you shouldn't see this problem if you have adequately mo
Speaker 1: so and those tree waterers that go around the base
Speaker 1: are excellent for that.
Speaker 26: Okay, all right, I appreciate your hope, thank you skip all.
Speaker 1: Right, you've met. Thanks Matthew, appreciate appreciate your call. We
Speaker 1: got to take a little breakre when we come back
Speaker 1: Gary and West Houston, you will be our first up,
Speaker 1: your on guard line of the day. Here we go.
Speaker 1: I've Todd told you for a long time now about
Speaker 1: different microlife products. Microlife has a product called brown patch,
Speaker 1: and it is a fertilizer where the nitrogen has dropped
Speaker 1: down a little bit and the potassium has gone up.
Speaker 1: And that's what we want to do with a fall fertilizer.
Speaker 1: H and Microlife brown Patch is widely available a lot
Speaker 1: of different places. No problem, at all finding Microlife bound
Speaker 1: brown patch gosh, I can't even talk on the market
Speaker 1: out there. Microlife's widely widely sold across the Greater Houston
Speaker 1: area and even beyond that too. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you got friends and other areas around here, Uh, just
Speaker 1: follow the label, apply it according to the label. Get
Speaker 1: that done. I primarily I focus my fall fertilization recommendations
Speaker 1: on October, but we are getting toward now we're in
Speaker 1: the middle of September. As we get toward the end
Speaker 1: of September, you can go ahead and start your organic
Speaker 1: fertilization because these products have to be microbially broken down
Speaker 1: to release fully release all the nutrients to the growing plants.
Speaker 1: And I just like to get a little bit of
Speaker 1: a headstart on that. And Microlife brown pats can be
Speaker 1: used in late September and all through October if you
Speaker 1: like to give that turf the boost it needs. Because remember,
Speaker 1: you go into fall strong, you come out of winter strong.
Speaker 1: That's how grass grows. The spring growth is based on
Speaker 1: the stored nutrients and energy carbohydrates in the grass plant,
Speaker 1: not on the roots at that time. As roots begin
Speaker 1: to grow in spring, then our spring fertilizations help with that.
Speaker 1: But I would say maybe one of the most important
Speaker 1: fertilizations of the year on year lawn is the fall
Speaker 1: fertilization because of what I just said, because of what
Speaker 1: it can do. Life bron patch can do that. Loaded
Speaker 1: with microbes they get on the plant, they help compete
Speaker 1: against the bad guys. In this case, bron patch is
Speaker 1: an example of a fungus that attacks CHR lawn. So
Speaker 1: anything we do to improve in the good guy competition
Speaker 1: against bad guys is a good idea, and that is
Speaker 1: why they designed microlife bron Patch. We're gonna go now
Speaker 1: to West Houston and talk to Gary. Hello, Gary, Welcome
Speaker 1: to Gardline. Good, good morning, sir. Did you happen to
Speaker 1: get my picture? Hang on?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 12: Uh?
Speaker 1: From Gary? Or who would it? Say it?
Speaker 7: Yeah? That's me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, I replied to you, Yes, I did. No,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I'm sorry, hang on just a second.
Speaker 1: That's somebody else. And I did not get from a Gary.
Speaker 1: I got from see Jonathan and Chuck. Going from Chuck.
Speaker 1: I didn't do anything from Gary. Okay, well, I'll say what,
Speaker 1: let me put you on hold. I'm going to put
Speaker 1: you on hold and let me, let me, let my
Speaker 1: producer talk to you and see if we can work
Speaker 1: out what went wrong, and we'll probably have a little
Speaker 1: time here maybe we can get it. Get it fixed.
Speaker 1: All right, folks, you're listening to guard Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: skip Rictor. We're here every Saturday and Sunday to answer
Speaker 1: your gardening questions. And I don't care where you live.
Speaker 1: Call us. We'll answer your gardening questions. Happy to do that.
Speaker 1: By the way, I just want to remind you again
Speaker 1: that Nature's Way Resources still has their Fungal Friday sale
Speaker 1: going on, twenty percent off fungal composts on Friday. What
Speaker 1: is fungo compost, Well, fungal compost is anytime you have
Speaker 1: a tree, a wood, a leaf, a type of substance.
Speaker 1: Fungi are the primary decomposers for that. You know, when
Speaker 1: it's things like I don't know, lettuce leave, you know,
Speaker 1: something real green and stuff like that on the ground. Well,
Speaker 1: bacteria are going to be dominant in that kind of decomposition.
Speaker 1: But their fungal composts twenty percent off on Fridays, So
Speaker 1: this is time to go by and get it. You're
Speaker 1: making beds, you're improving your soil for fall. Fungal compost
Speaker 1: is a good thing to mix into the soil you
Speaker 1: want to do a top dressing on your lawn. Just
Speaker 1: like leaf mold compost, Fungal compost is also a very
Speaker 1: good product for success with that, don't forget On Saturday,
Speaker 1: October twelfth, I want to give you a head start
Speaker 1: on this one. Normally, I don't talk about things until
Speaker 1: we're almost on them. Saturday, October twelve, I'll be at
Speaker 1: their fall festival and it is going to be officially
Speaker 1: designated a shindig early, So I'm designating at a shindig
Speaker 1: live music, children's activities, Latin food, local vendors, plant sales.
Speaker 1: I'll be there from let's see eleven thirty to one
Speaker 1: thirty answering your gardening questions. And also you can bring
Speaker 1: me your sick and tired and diseased and insect infested
Speaker 1: whatever in a baggie. We'll take a look at them
Speaker 1: and we'll diagnose them and point you in the right direction,
Speaker 1: or just photos on your phone. Anyway, that is October twelfth.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure you get that on your
Speaker 1: calendar so you can show up and help us with that.
Speaker 1: Let's see Chris, are we ready to go back with Carriy?
Speaker 1: Do we get that solved or not? See if I
Speaker 1: can take care of this boy. We're running short on
Speaker 1: time here. I want to I just want to mention
Speaker 1: one thing before for a runout of time to be
Speaker 1: able to do it, and that is that next Saturday,
Speaker 1: I'll be at A and A Plants and Produce in Montgomery, Texas.
Speaker 1: A and A Plants and Produce and Montgomery. I'd ei
Speaker 1: there from twelve to two, from noon to two, answering questions,
Speaker 1: give a little talk and diagnose in whatever kinds of
Speaker 1: pictures and plants you bring me to look at you
Speaker 1: and talk to Dwane. Hello Dwayne, Welcome to garden Land.
Speaker 7: Thanks lot Skiff.
Speaker 10: I got a quick question.
Speaker 17: I'm having a subdivision where we have one acre plots.
Speaker 10: And the neighbors behind me have two story houses, and
Speaker 10: I was wondering what tree I can plan on the
Speaker 10: back for privacy.
Speaker 9: Then we grow quick.
Speaker 1: It's evergreen, Okay. So screening is a based on where
Speaker 1: you're sitting and where what you don't want to see is.
Speaker 1: So let's say you're sitting ten feet from the fence line.
Speaker 1: I know you're not but if you were even something
Speaker 1: six to eight feet high would be enough to block
Speaker 1: a view. But as you get further away, then you
Speaker 1: need a higher screen, so you kind of have to
Speaker 1: do the eyeball across there. And how big does it
Speaker 1: have to be. It's probably going to need to be
Speaker 1: almost a tree based on the size of the lot
Speaker 1: you're describing. And finding something that is evergreen so it
Speaker 1: blocks the view all the time is a little bit
Speaker 1: of a challenge. The pretty fast growing would be something
Speaker 1: like an eastern red ceedar. They get up pretty quick
Speaker 1: and hit a decent size, and they are evergreen. Live
Speaker 1: oaks certainly are another example of that. They are slower
Speaker 1: growing though, although there are some more upright types of
Speaker 1: live oaks that grow in more of an upright fashion
Speaker 1: than the other. Uh. Those those would be two things
Speaker 1: that I would consider, But it's going to take a
Speaker 1: while to get that that height of the screen that
Speaker 1: you're talking about.
Speaker 7: Okay, and the parking with what I'm sorry, I missed it.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, yes again, Yeah, the second one was live oak.
Speaker 1: The first one, I'm trying to remember what I just
Speaker 1: what did I just say?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 1: By the way, Eastern red, Eastern red cedar. Yeah, eastern
Speaker 1: red would be something. Yeah, they grow wild or on
Speaker 1: the country side up here. Now. One other one would
Speaker 1: be cherry laurel. Cherry laurel. Uh. And there are varieties
Speaker 1: that are more compact, and you want one necessarily not
Speaker 1: so compact, to get a little bit bigger and it
Speaker 1: gets a decent size to it, but again you'll have
Speaker 1: to determine how big it has to be to really
Speaker 1: block the view you're looking at. Okay, Okay, I appreciate it,
Speaker 1: all right, you bet, Dwyane, thanks a lot, appreciate appreciate
Speaker 1: that call. All right, let's see Gary, did we resolve
Speaker 1: that with the producer or not?
Speaker 7: I think he did.
Speaker 1: Okay, he says he found all right. Yeah, so hey Gary, yes,
Speaker 1: let me let's do this. If he gave you, he
Speaker 1: gave you, made sure you got the right one, go
Speaker 1: ahead and send it to me. I'll look at the
Speaker 1: email during this week and we will try to take
Speaker 1: it from there. Okay, Yeah, you know what, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I'll call next week.
Speaker 7: I think it's something you enjoyed to hearing about it.
Speaker 1: Okay, good sounds good. Thanks a lot for the call. Wow,
Speaker 1: time flies when you're having fun. And we have been
Speaker 1: having fun today. We've got a little extra time before
Speaker 1: we had break this time that's good, nice, Maybe an
Speaker 1: extra minute we can talk about things. I want to
Speaker 1: remind you that fall is the best planting season of
Speaker 1: the year. And I don't just say that. I wish
Speaker 1: we could take spring fever and release it into the
Speaker 1: water supplies and fall so everybody gets a good case
Speaker 1: of gardening fever in the fall time. Because for woody ornamentals,
Speaker 1: absolutely the best. For perennials, the best, and that includes
Speaker 1: perennial flowers, perennial herbs, perennial grasses. It's a great vegetable
Speaker 1: gardening season. You know, things that are ripening in the
Speaker 1: fall are ripening. Is the temperatures cool off, so the
Speaker 1: flavor is crisp and better. It's just good. It's just
Speaker 1: a good time. Plus it's fun to be outside in
Speaker 1: the fall. We can go outside again soon. Trust me,
Speaker 1: this is coming. We're looking forward to it. Prepare yourself first,
Speaker 1: always prepare yourself first, and then pick something that wants
Speaker 1: to grow here and get it done. What are you
Speaker 1: going to add to your landscape this fall? Imagine this
Speaker 1: walk out to the street, look at your house and
Speaker 1: look at where the evergreens are. They all on one side,
Speaker 1: and would you like to balance it out a little bit?
Speaker 1: There's an idea. What is bloomed this summer and where
Speaker 1: and what could you add that would be a good bloomer.
Speaker 1: Or maybe it bloomed in spring, it bloomed in summer
Speaker 1: right and now in the fall. Other than annual plants,
Speaker 1: you don't have any flowers. There are some great perennials
Speaker 1: that bloom in the fall. Why not add some of
Speaker 1: those to it? Are there any plants that are in
Speaker 1: a shady area that need more sun or vice versa.
Speaker 1: Fall is the best time to move a plant in
Speaker 1: the landscape. The demands are the least. And when I
Speaker 1: say fall for moving, I'm talking about late October, maybe
Speaker 1: starting then up further north than the listening area, and
Speaker 1: for all of the listening area, definitely November early November
Speaker 1: is a good time. Dig them up, put slide them
Speaker 1: onto a tarp so you don't have to pay for
Speaker 1: your car, practice kids to go through college, and slide
Speaker 1: them right over the new area and put them in there.
Speaker 1: I have moved plants several times in the fall, and
Speaker 1: it is an excellent time because the demands are so
Speaker 1: low and there's no time like moving a plant like fall.
Speaker 1: Try to do it in the summer, you're going to
Speaker 1: lose the plant. Fall is a great time to do that.
Speaker 1: So I guess what I'm saying is fall is the
Speaker 1: time I'm for planting and for transplanting. That's for sure. Well,
Speaker 1: we ought to be hearing music by now, because I
Speaker 1: am hitting right up against the end of this program
Speaker 1: for today. Don't forget if you wanted to go to
Speaker 1: the second Annual Strawberry Jamboree on September twenty first, let's
Speaker 1: next supery down in Lake Jackson way down like Justicon
Speaker 1: Rep Center, Lake Drive, Missouri County, stenching of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the heck of an event. It's free. You're going to
Speaker 1: learn about strawberry growing. They'll have exhibitors, I'll have a
Speaker 1: strawberry shortcake contest, and I hope to miss out. I
Speaker 1: went last year was a great, great event. I won't
Speaker 1: make it this year, but it is going to be good.
Speaker 1: Tay you that I know what kind of programs that
Speaker 1: they put on down their phone number for more information.
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Speaker 1: seventy nine, eight six, four fifteen