Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with skin Rictor.
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Speaker 4: Just watch him as so many goings to sleep by.
Speaker 5: A sign.
Speaker 3: Sun beaming down.
Speaker 5: Alright, the rooster has crewed. It is time to be
Speaker 5: up and about, well at least for garden line. We'll
Speaker 5: take a minute to fuel up on coffee, get a
Speaker 5: little inspiration here on our garden before we head out
Speaker 5: for the day, to get some good things done. You
Speaker 5: know that you in a bad day in the garden
Speaker 5: is better I don't than a good day doing a
Speaker 5: lot of other things, in my opinion, getting out there
Speaker 5: and enjoying it. I was playing in the dirt yesterday mulching.
Speaker 5: I had some bags of a type of malta was
Speaker 5: trying out from the folks up at Natural Ice. Kid.
Speaker 5: I can't even I can't even talk here. Nature's Way Okay,
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Speaker 5: place and they've got all kinds of different products up there.
Speaker 5: But anyway, I was trying out some one of their mulches.
Speaker 5: Like I said, I always tell you this on Gardland,
Speaker 5: I'm always trying new products because I gotta tryumph. I
Speaker 5: got to know how they work. I haven't know how
Speaker 5: they look and how they perform and hold up and
Speaker 5: everything else. Are they effective or not? Anyway, I was
Speaker 5: mulching a front bed and pretty much got it all done.
Speaker 5: I had some old mulch on the bed, but as
Speaker 5: I tell you all the time, don't get rid of
Speaker 5: the old malts put the new mulch on top, because
Speaker 5: the old multch is decomposing away. Especially when you put
Speaker 5: more mulch on top of it, it just speeds the decomposition.
Speaker 5: It stays moist that old mulch, and it decomposes away
Speaker 5: and makes really good soil materials. So even though we're
Speaker 5: not putting it on to b compost, it becomes compost.
Speaker 5: We're using it on the surface to block weeds. And two,
Speaker 5: I've got an area where the sun just really breaks
Speaker 5: down on the bed and it gets hot and the
Speaker 5: soil gets really hot in the summer, and mosch helps
Speaker 5: with that as well. Anyway, felt good to get that done,
Speaker 5: and when you step back and look at it, it
Speaker 5: really looks nice. I got some more areas that are
Speaker 5: waiting on me to get some other mulch on as well,
Speaker 5: I hope you're having a good day so far, and
Speaker 5: we look forward to visiting with you here on garden
Speaker 5: Line if you'd like to give me a call seven
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Speaker 5: out to camp Wood now and talk to Milo Hello Milo. Alrighty,
Speaker 5: let's see here. I'm gonna can you hear us?
Speaker 3: There? You are?
Speaker 5: Hey Milo?
Speaker 6: Yeah I can, Yes, I sent Yeah, I sent you
Speaker 6: an email about whether I have a pipe dream or
Speaker 6: a feasible dream to plant lavender out here on our
Speaker 6: ranch and have it success.
Speaker 5: Yes, mm hmm. Well, first of all, yes, I was
Speaker 5: gonna say, first of all, how'd you find garden line
Speaker 5: out in camp Wood?
Speaker 6: Well, I used to live in Kingwood. I used to
Speaker 6: live in Kingwood. Randy Lemon was there before you. And
Speaker 6: I've listened to you out here on iHeart Radio and yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 5: Yeah, glad, glad you're doing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah you.
Speaker 5: For those of you who don't know, he's he's north
Speaker 5: of u Valley out way west.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 5: So lavender, Yeah, lavender struggles struggles here because of our
Speaker 5: our moisture and humidity, especially very soggy, wet in the
Speaker 5: winter times and things. You've got a better, I think,
Speaker 5: a better climate for it out there. There's a reason
Speaker 5: you don't see a lot of lavender forms, even the
Speaker 5: lavender planted out Blanco that direction west to San Antonio
Speaker 5: struggles when we have kind of some wet seasons there.
Speaker 5: So drainage is critical if you're going to have success
Speaker 5: with it. I think the alkalin soil isn't too much
Speaker 5: of a problem as long as you mentioned to use
Speaker 5: iron and sulfur containing fertilizers to make sure that you know,
Speaker 5: you keep those leaves nice and healthy. I have not,
Speaker 5: of course, grown anything out of camp wood, but I
Speaker 5: would say that it's worth a try. I wouldn't take it.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't bite off too much at one time as
Speaker 5: an investment, you know, just a testing of it. Did
Speaker 5: you did you send your email that you had had
Speaker 5: better success with a French lavender?
Speaker 6: Yes, I have French. I've had French, English and Spanish
Speaker 6: and the French. The plant is growing, but it has
Speaker 6: never bloomed in four years, okay.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm yeah. Yeah, Well I don't know why. Getting
Speaker 5: up lots of sunlight, I'm sure. Oh yes, oh yes,
Speaker 5: that it has to have sunlight. Yes, why would it not?
Speaker 5: Why would it not bloom if the plant looks good,
Speaker 5: that's a mystery.
Speaker 6: I got them from an online place called High Country
Speaker 6: Gardens or something.
Speaker 5: High Country Gardens, Yeah, that's out there in New Mexico. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a great, it's a great place. Yeah, place, they
Speaker 5: focus on things I was just gonna say, they focus
Speaker 5: on things that are you know, it's called high country
Speaker 5: for a reason. They have some elevation, so they've got
Speaker 5: some very cool nights and uh so, not everything from
Speaker 5: there is going to grow well for you, but by
Speaker 5: and large, they've got a lot of good things that will.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 6: Could I cut some shoots off of their and have
Speaker 6: them roots off of a plant or you know, because
Speaker 6: they're not inexpensive if I want to do a significant amount.
Speaker 6: But like you say, I'm not going to bite that
Speaker 6: all off at one time. But let's say let's say
Speaker 6: I get five plants and they seem to be doing well.
Speaker 6: Could I take cuttings and propagate that way.
Speaker 5: You should be able to Lavender will root from cuttings
Speaker 5: you want to be just go on do this. Go
Speaker 5: online and find some information on propagating lavender. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of good information out there. You can kind of
Speaker 5: weed through it. Basically, it's done like rosemary. You take
Speaker 5: little shoot cuttings that are about oh maybe I would
Speaker 5: say four or five inches long, strip the leaves off
Speaker 5: the bottom half, deplemental rooting hormone, and then put them
Speaker 5: in a moist soil condition like a propagating a loose
Speaker 5: propagating because the cuttings don't want to be soggy wet either.
Speaker 5: But yes, it's doable.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we have lots of rosemary out here, and I've
Speaker 6: been very successful at taking salvia and propagating it. That
Speaker 6: has worked tremendously for me.
Speaker 5: You know so well, sounds like you're having fun out there.
Speaker 6: In between doing a lot of work out in the weather.
Speaker 6: You kind of get beat down sometimes, but well.
Speaker 5: Let me let me tell you one more thing. I've
Speaker 5: got a few seconds and I'm going to have to
Speaker 5: go here, but if you go to something called Grow
Speaker 5: Green Plant Guide, it's in Austin, Texas. Grow Green Plant Guide.
Speaker 5: I help write that many years ago, and it's a
Speaker 5: booklet online that has lots of plants that do well
Speaker 5: in an arid climate and a semi arid climate. And
Speaker 5: I think you'll find a lot of great options for
Speaker 5: you and your your growing conditions out there in Camp Wood.
Speaker 5: I've got a hard break here.
Speaker 3: For I thank thank you. I love your show.
Speaker 5: You take care, all right, appreciate that. All right, We'll
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Speaker 5: Let's go out now to a Taskasita and we're going
Speaker 5: to talk to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 2: Good morning, and how are you doing this morning?
Speaker 5: I did well, Thank you?
Speaker 2: Hemming great great great. Uh yes, I know you're real busy,
Speaker 2: real early this morning. Here's the situation. I did it again.
Speaker 2: I've got the ConA plant and it's a constant Canova.
Speaker 2: It's a Canova version, which would be the shorter version
Speaker 2: correct of the KNA.
Speaker 5: You're you're talking about cannas. Uh huh go ahead, yeah,
Speaker 5: go ahead.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Okay. What I did was route bound again.
Speaker 2: And what I did was I there was so tight,
Speaker 2: got them out of the pot that was so tight.
Speaker 2: What I did was a siltumun water for about twenty
Speaker 2: hours and try to put apart, put it the ground
Speaker 2: and shock. Should I cut back or just let the
Speaker 2: leaves turn brown and yellow and they're curling under and
Speaker 2: the plant looks like it's God.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think it will, you know, I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't know the degree of the damage that happened
Speaker 5: to it. But cannons are tough. They will grow in
Speaker 5: standing water, they will grow, and once they're established there,
Speaker 5: they put up a drought pretty well. Then you know
Speaker 5: they'll they'll come back. They'll look bad, but they'll come
Speaker 5: back out again fresh. So I think, uh, I think
Speaker 5: that'll be a good one. And you've got your little
Speaker 5: kind of a compact version there, so that ought to
Speaker 5: be yes to do.
Speaker 2: Well for you, okay. And then another question is you
Speaker 2: can see the little round ball on top, Now that
Speaker 2: is the seed? Correct? Can I take that seed and
Speaker 2: cut it off and plant it or what can I
Speaker 2: do with that seed?
Speaker 5: I don't know that the particular canova can in terms
Speaker 5: of whether they set viable seed or not, but if
Speaker 5: they do, yes, you can just allow that pod to dry.
Speaker 7: It.
Speaker 5: It's kind of a little bit kind of a spiky,
Speaker 5: bumpy pod up there on top, and there'll be a
Speaker 5: seed inside it. Let it, make sure it starts to dry,
Speaker 5: but don't let it get too terribly dry, and then
Speaker 5: plant it. And I think, you know, if it's viable.
Speaker 5: Some plants, as they've been bred, they don't produce viable seed,
Speaker 5: but you'll just have to find out on that one.
Speaker 5: I've never tried on a Canova canna.
Speaker 2: So your direction will be just cut it now and
Speaker 2: let it dry out. Let the little ball dry out,
Speaker 2: and then plant that in a pot.
Speaker 5: Correct well, let me let me change that a little bit.
Speaker 5: I would let it mature so that it begins to dry,
Speaker 5: not completely dead dry, but you know that. You know,
Speaker 5: those seeds are fully developed and mature in there, just
Speaker 5: like any plant, you know, a green bean. At some
Speaker 5: point the pod starts turning brown and are yellow and
Speaker 5: brown because it's mature. And take the seeds out and
Speaker 5: plant those in very rich potting soil, keep them very moist,
Speaker 5: have them in good light. Doesn't have to be full sunned,
Speaker 5: but at least good light to get them started. Good
Speaker 5: luck with that.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, sir.
Speaker 5: All right, Jim, Yes, sir, thanks call. Appreciate that. Appreciate
Speaker 5: that a lot nite. VI Superturf, I've been talking about
Speaker 5: it for a while now because we've been in superturf
Speaker 5: season for a while. Super Turf's a silver bag from
Speaker 5: nitrovivis in nineteen four to ten. It has about a
Speaker 5: sixteen week release, which means at this point in the
Speaker 5: season you put it down and return your clippings, and
Speaker 5: it'll carry all the way into the fall fertilization because
Speaker 5: those clippings also decompose and they gradually feed as we
Speaker 5: have nice warm and moist weather from moist from rain,
Speaker 5: but also you irrigating your lawn. Ninety five superturf is
Speaker 5: available in many places. You're going to find it at
Speaker 5: Lake Hardware in Ankleton on Velasco down in Alvin Stanson
Speaker 5: Shopping Center on North Taylor, and in clear Lake there's
Speaker 5: an M and D Hardware on Bay Area Boulevard that
Speaker 5: will carry nine to five superturf as well. We're going
Speaker 5: to go now to Thomas in Nevasota. Hey, Thomas, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line.
Speaker 8: How you doing Goop?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 5: Doing good?
Speaker 8: I love the show. I got a question about my tomatoes.
Speaker 8: I've got better boys, and they're probably those to six
Speaker 8: foot tall now and they've got fruit set, but they're
Speaker 8: dropping Lee's from the from the bottom to the top,
Speaker 8: and probably two thirds of the plant is there? Is it?
Speaker 8: I know it's a fungus.
Speaker 9: I've got some.
Speaker 8: I've got some dacnhil. Do you have any other suggestions?
Speaker 5: Daccan Hill is good for leaf spots being great. An
Speaker 5: chlorothalonil is a is a pretty good leaf spot fungicide.
Speaker 5: Most I don't you know, not seeing this is where
Speaker 5: a picture would be helpful. But not seeing the leaves
Speaker 5: you say dropping tomato. Tomato leaves don't typically drop. They
Speaker 5: shrivel up. You know, they don't have enough sick.
Speaker 8: As they turn yellow.
Speaker 5: So okay, well, yeah, I would make sure you're giving
Speaker 5: it adequate nitrogen so you promote fresh new growth. So
Speaker 5: those leaves that are lost are not so much of
Speaker 5: a loss to the plant because it's got lots of
Speaker 5: new leaves coming on. But yeah, a sprays of the uh,
Speaker 5: the dacanel I, since you have it on hand, I
Speaker 5: would try that one and that at that out of help.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of different diseases and it may be
Speaker 5: that you need to switch to a different fungicide, but
Speaker 5: dacanil is pretty good for leaf spots and uh septoria
Speaker 5: leaf spots or caspro. Let's see what's uh the late
Speaker 5: blight and things like that are spots early black those
Speaker 5: are ultimato diseases and you should get some response from
Speaker 5: backing hill.
Speaker 8: Well, this didn't really start happening until we had that
Speaker 8: first ground of rain, I guess towards the latter part
Speaker 8: of April, and then I noticed it started from the
Speaker 8: bottom and started going to the top. So there's probably
Speaker 8: you know, I guess it was a rain that started
Speaker 8: on Uh. Can I ask you another question?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 8: We've got a family branch in Lee Counting Gettings, and
Speaker 8: for the past ten or fifteen years, we have been
Speaker 8: losing post o trees, primarily post o trees by live oaks.
Speaker 8: And you can go up on a Saturday and the
Speaker 8: tree looks fine. Come up the next Saturday, the leaves
Speaker 8: are turning yellow. The next Saturday is completely dead.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 8: And we've lost man probably hundreds post up big post oats,
Speaker 8: and we're even starting to lose some of the coastal
Speaker 8: live oaks and some of the smartt live oaks start
Speaker 8: to come to this, whatever this is? Do you have
Speaker 8: any idea what it is?
Speaker 5: That's very weird? Where did you say this was?
Speaker 8: This is a Lee County getting.
Speaker 5: Lee County, Okay. I don't know of Lee County as
Speaker 5: a hot spot for oak twilt. It doesn't quite sound
Speaker 5: like oak tilt either. The post oaks shouldn't be as
Speaker 5: susceptible to oak wilt, as like a live oak or
Speaker 5: a red oak would be. There are other diseases. There
Speaker 5: is a canker called hypoxylin canker that will cause the
Speaker 5: bark to fallow, some of it patches to fall off,
Speaker 5: and then you have this kind of dusty olive material
Speaker 5: that's underneath the bark. You rub your finger across it
Speaker 5: and it comes off on your fingers, or you'll see
Speaker 5: a silver or a black, almost tar like substance under there.
Speaker 5: Those that's a stress related disease. I would talk to
Speaker 5: your Lee County Agriculture agent at the Extension office there
Speaker 5: see if they can get involved and help you. And
Speaker 5: also they might involve the state Plant Clinic in looking
Speaker 5: at that. Just based on the description you gave me,
Speaker 5: those are the first things that come to mind.
Speaker 8: We've had a low rainfall. That area is a snake
Speaker 8: bit when it comes to weather, but we've had a
Speaker 8: low rainfall for probably twenty years. Gets really really dry
Speaker 8: and then we'll get a flood and I don't know
Speaker 8: if I have something. I'm sure it has stuff to
Speaker 8: do with it, but it's just really devastating to see
Speaker 8: these big trees have to have a doser come push
Speaker 8: them down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those are both. Those are both very resilient species too,
Speaker 5: so I would get them involved in it. And once
Speaker 5: a plant gets stressed, it's not unusual for some disease
Speaker 5: to move in that otherwise would not have heard it.
Speaker 5: It's kind of like us. We get weak and we're
Speaker 5: more likely to catch something. And that that's that's what
Speaker 5: it amounts to. Hey, Thomas, thanks a lot and good luck,
Speaker 5: but but do talk to your a county agent out there.
Speaker 5: You got it, Yes, sir, thank you appreciate appreciate that
Speaker 5: very much. Uh that that call reminded me of a
Speaker 5: concept that I think is worth mentioning, and that is
Speaker 5: that diseases. He mentioned that, you know, after a rainy period,
Speaker 5: you saw a lot of diseases on the tomatoes, fungus,
Speaker 5: diseases and bacteria to some degree. But but the fungus
Speaker 5: puts spores out that lands on leaves, and those spores
Speaker 5: are like seeds. If you throw weed seeds in dry dirt,
Speaker 5: they will not come up. But the minute you get
Speaker 5: a little bit of water on that dry dirt, it
Speaker 5: turns into a chia pet of weeds. They come up
Speaker 5: everywhere fungal spores are like that. In most cases, you
Speaker 5: get a little film of water over them with which
Speaker 5: would be rain or irrigation, and the right temperature for
Speaker 5: the right number of hours, and that in each disease
Speaker 5: has its own specs like that. Then the spore sprouts,
Speaker 5: it sends it's little the equivalent of a root called
Speaker 5: a hyphee end of the leaf and infects it, and
Speaker 5: then we see leaf spots okay on the leaves or
Speaker 5: those foliage diseases. Bacteria are somewhat similar. They don't form
Speaker 5: a hyphie that infects, but when it's wet and they
Speaker 5: get splashed around in that condition, they're able to infect
Speaker 5: the leave and cause the types of spots. Bacteria costs.
Speaker 5: So that's one of the reasons we say don't squirt
Speaker 5: to foliage all the time. You can't control rain, you
Speaker 5: can't control irrigation. But the more you keep plants wet,
Speaker 5: whether it is Saint Augustine grass, you get Saint Augustine
Speaker 5: in shade right now and you keep it extra moist,
Speaker 5: and you're going to see gray leaf spot all over
Speaker 5: the place because it's taken off right now. But all
Speaker 5: kinds of diseases are promoted by that. So when you
Speaker 5: plant roses, don't crowd them. You want good air circulation,
Speaker 5: don't have a sprinkler hitting the leaves, use drip irrigation.
Speaker 5: All of those are ways to avoid disease, probably just
Speaker 5: by understanding what's going on spore lands. It sends a
Speaker 5: root into the leaf and infects, and then after a
Speaker 5: little period of time you see the leaf spot that
Speaker 5: could be avoided in those ways. Time for me to
Speaker 5: take a quick break. We'll be right back, all right, folks,
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Speaker 5: Tomball and we're going to talk to David. Hey, David,
Speaker 5: welcome to gardenline. Yoh, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 8: Hey.
Speaker 4: I bought a fifty pound bag of a barricade from
Speaker 4: D and D there in Tomball, and unfortunately it got accident.
Speaker 4: Half of that bag would have been sufficient from my line,
Speaker 4: but unfortunately it accidentally all fifty pounds got spread on
Speaker 4: my yard. It got spread evenly, but it all got
Speaker 4: the whole bag. It got a double dose. Is it
Speaker 4: gonna kill my grass or what's it? What can I expect?
Speaker 5: Well, the barricade itself doesn't kill. It's not like putting
Speaker 5: you know, round up on a on a yard that
Speaker 5: it kills the grass. A barricade does, is it it
Speaker 5: prevents root formation. That's how it kills weeds or prevents
Speaker 5: weeds is because when a weed seed tries to put
Speaker 5: a root down, barricade says no, and without a root,
Speaker 5: the seed dies in your lawn. That's going to mean
Speaker 5: runners that can't peg down their roots. You know, how
Speaker 5: is it Saint Augustine lawn that you.
Speaker 4: Have about eighty percent? It's got a little bermuda in there.
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that Saint Augustine will eventually take over.
Speaker 5: Okay, this may give the bermuda a little bit of
Speaker 5: an upper hand because Bermuda's got the rhizomes underground, and
Speaker 5: so those runners on top they don't have to if
Speaker 5: there can't. If they can't root down, good, the grass
Speaker 5: is probably still gonna be Okay. Here's the deal. It's
Speaker 5: a matter of how much God applied. The more you apply,
Speaker 5: the longer it's gonna last and do what it does.
Speaker 5: So your goal is to keep that grass as healthy
Speaker 5: as you can. As the runners they typically die down
Speaker 5: toward the older part of the runner and the new
Speaker 5: growth continues on. That new growth is not going to
Speaker 5: be able to get a root down for a while,
Speaker 5: and so you've got to make sure it has adequate
Speaker 5: moisture for that plant to survive it by putting moisture
Speaker 5: down through that runner to reach the end of the
Speaker 5: areas that can't get roots down themselves. So adequate moisture.
Speaker 5: You know, normally I talk about watering maybe once a
Speaker 5: week in the summer. If you've got a good deep
Speaker 5: root system, you're going to have to go to more
Speaker 5: often than that for sure. But just watch it and
Speaker 5: in time that barricado breakdown and the grass will resume
Speaker 5: normal growth. So that's what you're out now, all right,
Speaker 5: all right, thank you sir, all right, thank you, appreciate
Speaker 5: the call. You take care. That is how most of
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Speaker 5: but there's a lot of other ones. There's dimension, there's bayland.
Speaker 5: There's a whole lot of different surfling, a lot of
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Speaker 5: laws to stop weed seeds, and so always important use
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Speaker 5: for us out there in Richmond Rosenberg area. They are
Speaker 5: a specialist in so many things. I mean they they're
Speaker 5: the vegetable selections, they're herbs, they're they're blooming plants, the basket.
Speaker 5: I mean, there's so many good things. But I'm telling
Speaker 5: you they have an incredible selection in native pollinator plants
Speaker 5: and locally sourced uh. These plants support not only are
Speaker 5: local bees and butterflies and hummingbirds, but they thrive in
Speaker 5: our client with a lot of excessive water and fertilizer
Speaker 5: trying to keep them alive. They have things that are
Speaker 5: nectar rich that are going to bring these good guys
Speaker 5: in the bees, the butterflies, the hummingbirds, such as native milkweed.
Speaker 5: They have several varieties in fact of native milkweed Echinasia,
Speaker 5: which is conflower, lantanas, other plants that may be a
Speaker 5: host plant like Dutchman's pipe vine. Dutchman's pipe brings in
Speaker 5: a particular type of a swallowtail like Caterpillar, Texas Elbow Bush.
Speaker 5: They have salvia's two ninety I believe in ninety. I
Speaker 5: looked at the list one time. Ninety different types of salvia.
Speaker 5: Did you even know there were ninety? Yeah, there's way
Speaker 5: more than ninety in the world, but ninety different options
Speaker 5: on salvia. So whatever kind of salvi you're looking for,
Speaker 5: they have variety after variety after variety of them. My
Speaker 5: favorite genus genus of plants is salvia. My favorite one
Speaker 5: ninety types at Intented for Us. You need to go
Speaker 5: check them out. They are on FM twenty seven fifty
Speaker 5: nine outside of Richmond, Texas, just south of Highway sixty
Speaker 5: nine Interstate sixty nine. Here's the website. This is the
Speaker 5: most important thing to write down. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX
Speaker 5: dot com. That's what it is. That's where it is.
Speaker 5: Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Go check it out.
Speaker 5: It's a great website too. By the way, if you'd
Speaker 5: like to give me a call this morning, we've finally
Speaker 5: cleared out that early rush seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two k t r H seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two k t r H. Nitrofross makes a fire ant killer.
Speaker 5: Now for those of you who are welcome, who are
Speaker 5: new to Texas. Uh, there's this thing called fire ants.
Speaker 5: And when you move here after a while, you make
Speaker 5: adjustments in the way that you go about your gardening
Speaker 5: and landscape life. For example, when you're in Texas, if
Speaker 5: you're walking along looking up and you step in something soft,
Speaker 5: it's either a cow pie or a fire ant mound,
Speaker 5: and neither one of them do you want your foot
Speaker 5: to be in.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: So the mounds we just learned to respond to that.
Speaker 5: We have to manage them. Here. A fire ant killer
Speaker 5: from Nitrofoss has a product in it that is very
Speaker 5: effective in doing a quick kill to fiance with some
Speaker 5: residual lasting you used. This is one you would use
Speaker 5: as a mound treatment getting rid of an individual mound.
Speaker 5: Nitropos fire ant Killer Nightfoss products available at places like
Speaker 5: M and D Beamer which is in the Sagemont area,
Speaker 5: Fishers Hardware on FM thirty one eighty down in Mont
Speaker 5: Bellevue and D and Defeat up there in Tombull FM
Speaker 5: twenty nine twenty just west of Tumbule that stay ahead
Speaker 5: on those fire ants. I was out the other day
Speaker 5: and looking at one of my wife has a flower
Speaker 5: raised flower bed and a vego bed, and there were
Speaker 5: some little ant like things coming crawling out of the
Speaker 5: oregano and some of them had wings, and I got
Speaker 5: to looking. First thought is like, is that termites? There's
Speaker 5: that ants? And sure enough it was ants, and they
Speaker 5: were taking flight. They fly like three hundred feet up
Speaker 5: in the air to mate, and then they drop down.
Speaker 5: The queen that now has everything she needs to start
Speaker 5: a family digs into the ground and you get a
Speaker 5: new fire mount. That's what happens. So you got to
Speaker 5: stay alert to stay ahead of those things and make
Speaker 5: sure you get control. Open Affordable Tree Service is our
Speaker 5: go to tree care company here on Garden Line. You know,
Speaker 5: now is the time to get those trees in shape.
Speaker 5: Hurricane season we're on the doorstep of it here, and
Speaker 5: even if they're at a hurricane, devastating summer storms, as
Speaker 5: we learned last year, can really do damage. So tree
Speaker 5: you need to get them in there to do any
Speaker 5: trimming that's needed. You know, they do everything they do trimming,
Speaker 5: They do pruning, deep root feeding, past and disease controls,
Speaker 5: stump grinding. If you're gonna have any construction done around
Speaker 5: your property, take care of those tree routes. Call them
Speaker 5: in First Affordable Tree Martin Spoonmore's Company seven to one
Speaker 5: three six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one
Speaker 5: three six nine nine two six six three. You probably
Speaker 5: end up talking to Martin's mom. This is a family
Speaker 5: operation and garden Line customers are their top priority, So
Speaker 5: tell them you heard about them on garden Line. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna take a little break here. When we come back,
Speaker 5: we're gonna head up to Willis to talk to Douglas.
Speaker 5: All right, little boogie woogie on garden Line this morning.
Speaker 5: Good to have you with us. We're looking forward to
Speaker 5: visiting with you about the questions you might have regarding
Speaker 5: your landscape, your garden, any kind of thing related to
Speaker 5: horticulture and gardening. RCW Nurseries is the garden center that's
Speaker 5: right there where Tamboll Parkway, which is Highway two forty
Speaker 5: nine comes into belt wag eight. It's really easy to
Speaker 5: get to and they always have an unbelievable selection there.
Speaker 5: You know, they're known for the roses. All the rosarians
Speaker 5: know about RCW because they have one of the biggest
Speaker 5: selections of roses you'll find anywhere, and probably by long shot,
Speaker 5: it's the place to go, the place to go to
Speaker 5: get your trees from fifteen gallon up the two hundred gallon,
Speaker 5: from ornamental trees to shade trees, blooming trees, whatever you're
Speaker 5: looking for. They grow their own trees up there at
Speaker 5: the Williamson Tree Farm up there in Plantersville. And so
Speaker 5: you have a tree not only that's grown right, but
Speaker 5: that is a species or variety that wants to do
Speaker 5: well here. They're not going to sell you a blue spruce,
Speaker 5: as pretty as those are, just leave them in Colorado
Speaker 5: and enjoy them on vacation and then come home without one.
Speaker 5: Get you a tree that wants to grow here, and
Speaker 5: that is exactly what they grow and sell with RCW
Speaker 5: Nursery again, Hibay two fourty and nine, belt Way eight
Speaker 5: is just a great place to shop. You're going to
Speaker 5: find some cool hot season color. I know that sounds
Speaker 5: like I just said two different things. Cool hot season color.
Speaker 5: That's a good way to put it. Beautiful things like
Speaker 5: the Cajun hibiscus, one of my favorite lines of tropical hibiscus.
Speaker 5: You're going to find that there at RCW nurses and
Speaker 5: a whole lot more. Let's go up now to Willis Texas,
Speaker 5: and we are going to speak to Douglas. Hello Douglas,
Speaker 5: Welcome to Garden.
Speaker 11: Line and I go, good morning.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 1: I am building a house out here in Willis and
Speaker 1: I have a bunch of really beautiful mature oak trees.
Speaker 1: And as the build is finishing, we're really noticing some
Speaker 1: low spots on the property. We have about three acres
Speaker 1: and we need to take and raise up some grade
Speaker 1: and they're going to be around these oak trees. I
Speaker 1: want to make sure. I've heard that we could put
Speaker 1: too much soil on top of the roots of the
Speaker 1: oak trees and damage. I mean, that's the last thing
Speaker 1: we want to do. So I was planning using sandy loam.
Speaker 1: Is there a such thing as putting too much dirt
Speaker 1: around oak tree?
Speaker 8: Is my question?
Speaker 5: Yeah, there absolutely is. Oak roots grow primarily in the
Speaker 5: top foot of soil ninety percent even a giant tree.
Speaker 5: People think the roots go down deep like the top
Speaker 5: goes tall up. It's not. The root zone of a
Speaker 5: tree is like a pancake. It's flat and wide, and
Speaker 5: so when you put let's say you put four inches,
Speaker 5: you have dramatically changed the amount of oxygen that roots
Speaker 5: were getting. And it's a very stressful thing for trees.
Speaker 5: So there's not a black and white answer to it,
Speaker 5: but as a general guide, I wouldn't put more than
Speaker 5: about two maybe three inches at the most around a
Speaker 5: tree's root system. If you're going to do like, let's say,
Speaker 5: the whole area underneath the branch spread of the tree,
Speaker 5: I would probably go with just about two inches at
Speaker 5: a time. If you're going to just do maybe on
Speaker 5: one side or just a little area where you're filling
Speaker 5: in around the roots that are sticking up above the ground,
Speaker 5: then that's not so big of a concern. But it's
Speaker 5: a matter of percentage of the root zone that you're
Speaker 5: covering and how deep you're covering it. And sandylan's a
Speaker 5: good a good choice of soil to.
Speaker 2: Do that with.
Speaker 1: Is so is it two inches let's say per year
Speaker 1: or the two inch total for the light of the.
Speaker 3: Per year.
Speaker 5: Per year? Yeah, per year. The roots will adjust, they
Speaker 5: just can't adjust that fast. And so again, to use
Speaker 5: an extreme example, you know, you put six inches or
Speaker 5: a foot of soil over it, and those roots are
Speaker 5: going to be in major stress before the tree can
Speaker 5: grow roots back up to a closer to the surface level.
Speaker 11: Understood.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Have a good day, all right, thanks you take care alrighty,
Speaker 5: Welcome back to garden Line. By the way, I was
Speaker 5: talking earlier about some things that I was doing in
Speaker 5: my yard. This is the time to get fertilization done.
Speaker 5: And you know, if you're up, if you're up in
Speaker 5: the let's say north and east of Tomball, Spring Creek
Speaker 5: Feed is on FM twenty nine to seventy eight, and
Speaker 5: they have got a great line of these fertilizers that
Speaker 5: I keep talking about, whether it's Nelson Turf Star line,
Speaker 5: whether it's the Microlifeline or the nitrofoss line, or maybe
Speaker 5: you're needing something to control weeds, to prevent weeds or
Speaker 5: kill weeds, or a fungicide to protect the plants, or
Speaker 5: a insecticide or something to kill spider mic. They've got
Speaker 5: it all there. Friendly and curtious staff at Spring Creek Feed.
Speaker 5: I always love it when I walk in there, the
Speaker 5: folks just greet you, and it's a cool place to
Speaker 5: visit too. This is a really unique feed store. When
Speaker 5: you first walk in, you feel like you walked into
Speaker 5: a boutique. It's so beautiful. Straight ahead of you, all
Speaker 5: the things for your home and whatnot that are just
Speaker 5: just gorgeous. And then you look to the left and
Speaker 5: you got all your pet foods like Victor and Purina
Speaker 5: quality feed lines. You look to the right and there's
Speaker 5: the garden center. My favorite place, all right, Spring Creek
Speaker 5: feed in my No you on FM twenty nine seventy eight.
Speaker 5: Let's see here, We're going to go to Mark in Sweeney. Hello, Mark,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden line forhead.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I got a question, boy. I normally with my
Speaker 12: grass clip it's probably put them back up in the
Speaker 12: compost smile. But when they're dead and dry it out,
Speaker 12: can I use them to put down around my fruit
Speaker 12: trees and take these because my dad my answers, I
Speaker 12: chip up and go away my chip whatever. It's top
Speaker 12: leable around the fruit trees.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So you can use dried group. You can use dried
Speaker 5: grass clippings. I do it all the time in my garden.
Speaker 5: But I wouldn't put them more than an inch or
Speaker 5: so deep. If you put them about four inches deep,
Speaker 5: they're going to stay green. In turn, guy, in the
Speaker 5: summer heat, there's a lot of moisture in those, and uh,
Speaker 5: it's just better to put them in small amounts. You
Speaker 5: mentioned yours were already dry, so it's not as big
Speaker 5: of a concern for you. But I would yeah, I
Speaker 5: would mix the in they do. Just find that it's
Speaker 5: kind of like a fertilizer actually, uh Mark, because they
Speaker 5: they have a lot of nitrogen content and other things
Speaker 5: in them, so it would be a good thing. Just
Speaker 5: the only another caveat would be, you know, if you
Speaker 5: treated your yard with certain kinds of herbicides, you might
Speaker 5: not want to do that in like a vegetable garden
Speaker 5: or something where you're gonna plant some little seeds and things.
Speaker 5: But in general, nature has a way of breaking all
Speaker 5: that stuff down over time. And uh yeah, you're just
Speaker 5: speeding the process.
Speaker 12: Oh perfect, then yeah, I think final stuff fruit store then.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, well good luck with that. All right,
Speaker 5: thank you very much, you bet. I appreciate your call.
Speaker 5: Thanks a lot. Alrighty, that is a fact. Nelson Plant Food.
Speaker 5: I was talking about Nelson Turf star line at Sprint
Speaker 5: Creek Feed Nelson plant Food. Part of their tourch star
Speaker 5: line is Bruce's Brew and Bruces Brew is a unique fertilizer.
Speaker 5: You know, I've got my early spring green up if
Speaker 5: you want to use something that releases fast. We talk
Speaker 5: about those products, and then we've got the slow releases
Speaker 5: for summer. Bruces Brew does both. You're going to get
Speaker 5: some immediate release, an initial fast release of nutrients, but
Speaker 5: then it evens out over time for that nice regulated growth,
Speaker 5: which is what we want going through the summertime. Lots
Speaker 5: of good carbon based nitrogen sources are going to feed
Speaker 5: those microbes in your soil. And you know, when you
Speaker 5: have healthy soil, you have healthy grass. That's kind of
Speaker 5: how it works, and the vulnerability to pests and diseases
Speaker 5: really goes down when you create a good, strong, healthy
Speaker 5: grass plant. And Bruce's Brew does that. You can apply
Speaker 5: it about every six months forget that green up and
Speaker 5: continue on further into the line. So do it now,
Speaker 5: you know you probably carry on pretty far, but I
Speaker 5: might do another one as we get into about July
Speaker 5: to carry us on into the all season July or yeah,
Speaker 5: probably July be a good time to repeat if you
Speaker 5: do a Brusus brew right now, Brusus Brew from Nelson Fertilizers.
Speaker 5: I'm going to go now out to Atasca Cita and
Speaker 5: we're going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, Welcome, to guardline.
Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, sir, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2: I've got a project. Here we go, a thirty five
Speaker 2: gallon vitect tree. I was told that you're supposed to
Speaker 2: put gravel pee gravel around the size of it and
Speaker 2: also underneath. Is this correct?
Speaker 5: That is absolutely incorrect. I can go on into detail
Speaker 5: on why for some at some point, but the bottom
Speaker 5: line is it doesn't make water go away from the plant.
Speaker 5: It just doesn't. And I'll talk about that a little
Speaker 5: sometime this morning. I'll go into that a little more.
Speaker 5: Don't do that, Just put do like nature does, set
Speaker 5: those reached down in good quality soil, and that's the
Speaker 5: way to go on it. Don't put the gravel.
Speaker 2: Okay, the next thing actually described? Could you describe the
Speaker 2: soil I should put down?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: Is it going to be in a container or are
Speaker 5: you taking it out of a container and.
Speaker 2: Put out of the container. I'm going to try to
Speaker 2: break apart the roots to steam again because it's going
Speaker 2: to be tight in there. It's very very tight, all right, So.
Speaker 5: I'm about to run out of time here. What you
Speaker 5: want to do is planet in the soil you have.
Speaker 5: Don't put don't put compost in the hole or anything.
Speaker 5: It's got to go and the soil you're in, loosen
Speaker 5: the soil up and then water it in real good. Sorry,
Speaker 5: but I'm out of time. Thanks Jim, appreciate it. Appreciate
Speaker 5: your very much. All Right, folks, we'll be back. I'm
Speaker 5: going to describe that reason why we don't put pe
Speaker 5: gravel in when we come back. All right, I want
Speaker 5: to jump back in here. We had a we hit
Speaker 5: a comments that you know, we're made about putting gravel
Speaker 5: in the bottom of a pot or in the bottom
Speaker 5: of a planting hole. Now here's the deal. It is
Speaker 5: a very It makes sense that water runs right through gravel,
Speaker 5: so gravel should help drainage, right, But that's not what's
Speaker 5: going on here. If you put it, if you put
Speaker 5: gravel in the bottom of a pot, a container, or
Speaker 5: if you put it in the bottom of a planting hole,
Speaker 5: water does not move from the soil and the container
Speaker 5: into the gravel until it literally is so wet that
Speaker 5: it drips out of the container. Because the smaller particle
Speaker 5: size holds water better than large particle size. So therefore,
Speaker 5: gravel doesn't pull water out of soil. Soil pulls water
Speaker 5: out of gravel if the two were side by side.
Speaker 5: So what happens when you put gravel in is you
Speaker 5: just take away some of the rooting volume of that container.
Speaker 5: Or in a planting hole, think of it this way.
Speaker 5: You dig a clay planting hole, that's like an underground bathtub.
Speaker 5: It's like an aquarium. Just putting gravel in the bottom
Speaker 5: of an aquarium make the water run out, No, because
Speaker 5: the clay is preventing it from running out. Gravel doesn't
Speaker 5: do anything to help any of that. And I know
Speaker 5: it seems like, well that can't be I could go
Speaker 5: more into it, but there's a science of physics to it,
Speaker 5: and it's just what happens. So you want to use
Speaker 5: quality soil. You want to have good drainage holes in
Speaker 5: a container, and then they will saturate with water and
Speaker 5: it will literally drip out of the container. But instead
Speaker 5: of losing some of the volume, you could have put
Speaker 5: as soil because plants need a lot of soil moisture
Speaker 5: to make it through summer. In a container, you're going
Speaker 5: to have that extra volume of soil rather than gravel.
Speaker 5: And then again in a planting hole does nothing, It
Speaker 5: does nothing, nothing, nothing. Don't think about it. Think of
Speaker 5: the aquarium and that is that is why gravel doesn't
Speaker 5: help a clay planting hole to drain better. Okay, and
Speaker 5: the same is true in a pot. All right, there
Speaker 5: you go. More in Southern Gardens is doing something that
Speaker 5: I don't think I've seen before. Warren's Southern Gardens is
Speaker 5: out there in Kingwood. Warren's and Kingwood Garden Center are
Speaker 5: both out there. I've seen sales before, but they are
Speaker 5: doing a sale starting today going through the end of
Speaker 5: this month, twenty percent off purchases of one hundred dollars
Speaker 5: or more. Now, if you want to do a major
Speaker 5: landscape job, here is your chance. Are you ready for this?
Speaker 5: Purchases of three thousand dollars or more. We're talking about
Speaker 5: lots of plants, were talking about soil products from you know,
Speaker 5: tons of stuff here, Well, forty percent off. It's the
Speaker 5: largest sale ever, I know, three thousands a lot. But
Speaker 5: you know, when you're looking at it, you ring up
Speaker 5: three thousand dollars that you only pay eighteen hundred dollars
Speaker 5: at a minto all right, So this is a hugemongas sale.
Speaker 5: So if you are wanting to do some major work
Speaker 5: and you know the plants, the trees, the shrubs, the flowers,
Speaker 5: the again, the soils. All that purchase three thousand or
Speaker 5: forty percent of largest sale I've ever heard of anywhere
Speaker 5: now and if it's just one hundred dollars twenty percent,
Speaker 5: that's still a good sale megasale. In fact, at one
Speaker 5: in Southern Gardens. By the way, did you know that
Speaker 5: they do custom potting jobs out there. A lady named
Speaker 5: D is magical when it comes to creating combination plantings.
Speaker 5: And she's working on hanging baskets, she's working on planting containers.
Speaker 5: She can make your vision come true and just you
Speaker 5: if you need a custom potting job, something created beautiful,
Speaker 5: maybe for your business outside the business, or maybe for
Speaker 5: your home, your patio, go out there and tell them
Speaker 5: you want to talk to miss D about doing a
Speaker 5: custom potting job at or in Southern Gardens. Nice stuff.
Speaker 5: I was looking at Piercecape's website, which is piercescapes dot
Speaker 5: com just the other day. I was looking at some
Speaker 5: information that they had put up there about drainage systems
Speaker 5: and other things, and I'm just so impressed with the
Speaker 5: work they do. And you will be too. I mean,
Speaker 5: if you hear nothing else about Piercescapes right now, just
Speaker 5: hear piercescapes dot Com and go there. This is a
Speaker 5: professional quality landscaper. They can do everything from scratch like
Speaker 5: create the whole landscape to revamping certain areas. Do you
Speaker 5: need lighting, drainage? You know we do need drainage when
Speaker 5: it rains too much?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Do you need irrigation work? Do you need just the
Speaker 5: design of the landscape. They can do it all piercescapes
Speaker 5: dot Com if you want to give them a call
Speaker 5: two eight one three seven h five zero six zero.
Speaker 5: One of the things you hear me talk about on
Speaker 5: garden Line all the time is brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 5: And for those of you who are kind of new
Speaker 5: to garden line and don't know what I'm saying when
Speaker 5: I say that, I'm talking about you get the soil
Speaker 5: right and everything follows. If you want your plantings to
Speaker 5: be beautiful or productive, whether it's a vegetable garden, a
Speaker 5: flower bed, a shrubbed, get the soil right first. It's
Speaker 5: all about the soil. Do you know that may is
Speaker 5: natural national humates month. Humates is a final decomposed state
Speaker 5: of organic matter. Microlife has a product call humates plus,
Speaker 5: and that's basically what it is. Humus helps improve the soil,
Speaker 5: especially you got an old clay soil, even a sandy soil,
Speaker 5: it's going to be beneficial to them. It provides the
Speaker 5: carbon to help feed the microbes. It's got lots of
Speaker 5: different mental I think you have sixty three minerals and
Speaker 5: the humans plus that microlife has. But there's also some
Speaker 5: strains of microhizol, fungi and now these things work with
Speaker 5: the roots to help the fight the diseases of roots
Speaker 5: and some of the microhizol can reach out in the
Speaker 5: soil communicate with other plants. Amazing biology going on there
Speaker 5: in the soil. But over time, as you add humus
Speaker 5: over and over and over over time, it's just each
Speaker 5: time you're improving that soil to an area. Think of microlights,
Speaker 5: you mats plus, which is a product we talk about
Speaker 5: here when it comes to humus as concentrated compost in
Speaker 5: a bag. Concentrated compost in a bag. Now you're going
Speaker 5: to find micro life products everywhere. It's easy to find them,
Speaker 5: so you can get your humans plus. That's the purple bag.
Speaker 5: By the way, when you do your fertilizing. Just go
Speaker 5: ahead and put out the purple bag Hu mats plus
Speaker 5: and you can do it a couple times a year
Speaker 5: if you want. I know people that do it more
Speaker 5: than that. But just know this, it's what nature does,
Speaker 5: and you can do it yourself in your home garden
Speaker 5: and look at it as circumventing what would take a
Speaker 5: lot of time in nature to do. And take that product,
Speaker 5: which is the final result of composting, and just put
Speaker 5: it right down there in your yard. We are coming
Speaker 5: up on a little bit of a break here in
Speaker 5: just a second. If you want to give us a call,
Speaker 5: you can be one of the first ones up when
Speaker 5: we come back. Seven to one three two one two
Speaker 5: kt r H seven to one three two one two
Speaker 5: kt r h. H's got a really good rain a
Speaker 5: while back, but then we got this warm week really
Speaker 5: heated up pretty good for us. And boy, we know,
Speaker 5: those of us who've lived here, we know summer's coming
Speaker 5: and trees struggle in extended summer droughts, which we have
Speaker 5: almost every year. Now, if it's a brand new tree
Speaker 5: that just got put in the ground, it's got to
Speaker 5: be watered where that root zone is, So take care
Speaker 5: of your trees by watering that root zone, gradually increasing
Speaker 5: the area that you water as time goes on and
Speaker 5: as the roots expand. You know, you put a let's
Speaker 5: say you put a five gallon sized plant in a hole.
Speaker 5: Well you go out just beyond that root ball, and
Speaker 5: there's no roots there in the hole yet, but they
Speaker 5: will be and they keep expanding further and further out.
Speaker 5: That's why I like the tree hugger sprinkler. They come
Speaker 5: in a seven inch, eleven inch and a fifteen inch size.
Speaker 5: Hook it up to a garden hose. It it's like
Speaker 5: the pac Man. It's hinged and it just closes around
Speaker 5: the tree trunk. It reminds me of pac Man. Anyway
Speaker 5: you turn it on. If you had a new plant,
Speaker 5: I would just barely turn it on and water that
Speaker 5: root ball really good frequently to help it get going
Speaker 5: as that tree grows. Maybe you got a tree in
Speaker 5: your yard that's five or ten years old and we're
Speaker 5: going into summer drought. You want to rescue that tree,
Speaker 5: and not just rescue it, but get it growing faster.
Speaker 5: Because water is the single most important thing you can
Speaker 5: do to a tree to get it to grow fast.
Speaker 5: Fertilizer's important, but not as important as a good dependable
Speaker 5: moist soil for the root system. Tree hunder Sprinkler will
Speaker 5: do that. You can get them at Arborgate. You can
Speaker 5: get them at Warren Southern Garden, at Kingwoock Garden Center.
Speaker 5: You go do under Richmond. You got them into Enchanted
Speaker 5: Gardens and Forests, DA de Feed and supply the arbor
Speaker 5: Gate I mentioned, I believe Nelson Water Garden out in
Speaker 5: Katie RCW Garden Center, the Spring Creek Feed Center, League
Speaker 5: City Feeds. Southwest Fertilizer and ACE Hardware is at Single
Speaker 5: Ranch and Katie and the K and M Ace Hardware
Speaker 5: and at Tascasita and the Full Share Ace Hardware. They're
Speaker 5: easy to find. You need to have one, and you
Speaker 5: need to hang in on the garage wall because you
Speaker 5: will use it over and over again every year. It's
Speaker 5: a good product. Time for me to take a break.
Speaker 5: We'll be back. Hey, welcome back to guard Line. Good
Speaker 5: to have you with us today. Hey, have you been
Speaker 5: to in Channa Gardens recently? Oh, my gosh, that place
Speaker 5: is it's just fun to go. It is, it's fun
Speaker 5: to go. Number one, they've got plants like you just
Speaker 5: can't imagine. Number two. They have service and friendly folks
Speaker 5: that know what they're talking about. That is so important.
Speaker 5: That's why we love our independent garden centers is because
Speaker 5: they know what they're doing. And it certainly is true
Speaker 5: when it comes to in Chenna Garden. They're not in
Speaker 5: Richmond Rosenberg on FM three point fifty nine on the
Speaker 5: Katie Folshire side of Richmond. They've got some classes coming
Speaker 5: up here on June twenty eighth. There's a class on
Speaker 5: creating your own custom succulent container. Isn't that cool? On
Speaker 5: June twenty first, we're getting closure here. Plant a Butterfly
Speaker 5: Container Garden is a class out there at Enchanted Gardens,
Speaker 5: and then June fourteenth, plots for your patio or pool.
Speaker 5: That's gonna be a good boy. They specializing containers out there,
Speaker 5: and then discover the joy or the fun a fairy gardening.
Speaker 5: If you've never seen a faery garden, you need to.
Speaker 5: They're little, miniature, really cool gardens. That class is on
Speaker 5: June seventh, So lots of opportunities coming up here in June.
Speaker 5: You need to get out there check them out. Look
Speaker 5: at the beautiful selection of plants and pottery. I'm telling
Speaker 5: you it is always fun to go out to Enchanted Gardens.
Speaker 5: On FM three point fifty nine. Katie Fullscher side of
Speaker 5: Richmond website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com Enchanted Gardens Richmond
Speaker 5: dot com was out there or recently and was looking
Speaker 5: at some of the combo containers that they had done
Speaker 5: in large baskets. You know, there're these metal it's like
Speaker 5: a wire, but it's like real thick wire, like not
Speaker 5: quite pencil size, but very very sturdy baskets and they
Speaker 5: put the coconut core liners in and then they plan
Speaker 5: them up with a combination of things. They specialize in
Speaker 5: that out there. Maria does a great job out there,
Speaker 5: and you need to go see some of those. Now
Speaker 5: you can. You can buy the ingredients and put it
Speaker 5: together yourself, or you can go buy one that's already done.
Speaker 5: Either way you want to go about it, it's good.
Speaker 5: And by the way, if you head out today, the
Speaker 5: Juicy Lemonade stand will be there. Oh boy, it'd be
Speaker 5: a good day to have some fresh watermelon lemonade. You
Speaker 5: heard that right. Watermelon lemonade makes my mouth water just
Speaker 5: to say those words. You're listening to Guardenline our phone
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Speaker 5: Lake and we're going to talk to Joyce this morning.
Speaker 5: Hello Joyce, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Good morning, Rick. Okay, did you see those pictures?
Speaker 2: I sent you an email with the photos?
Speaker 5: Yes I did, Yes, Yeah, Apple has cankers. It has
Speaker 5: cankers that have attacked it and they could be fungal,
Speaker 5: they could be bacterial. One of the pictures looks like
Speaker 5: something called fire blight, and it's a bacteria that gets
Speaker 5: in the plant and it just kills all the issues
Speaker 5: and the whole the leaves just wilt and hang over.
Speaker 5: Another one of the pictures looks like it could be
Speaker 5: a fungal canker. But either way, here's what you need
Speaker 5: to do to get you some pruners that are sharp
Speaker 5: and get you some life salt spray, and I say
Speaker 5: life salt because it's convenient. It's not the only thing
Speaker 5: to use, but it's convenient. You're going to prune those
Speaker 5: out as far down below as you can get all
Speaker 5: the canker out of there. So go below the dead
Speaker 5: and the sunken and the dark areas that you see
Speaker 5: and prune them out, and then spray your prunters with
Speaker 5: lysol because as you make new cuts, you don't want
Speaker 5: to spread the problem by making a new wound and
Speaker 5: infecting it with your pruners. So that's that's why we
Speaker 5: disinfect our pruners between cots. Easy way to do it.
Speaker 5: Some people use bleach water, but that causes your prunters
Speaker 5: to rust really bad if you don't immediately clean and
Speaker 5: oil them. And seventy calls an option, but it's not
Speaker 5: as convenient. It's just getting some esol spraying your prain.
Speaker 1: No problem I have.
Speaker 2: But you see working right cut the big one where
Speaker 2: it's black coming in, it's it's yeah, should I sy
Speaker 2: to seal it?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 5: No spring, No, there's no spraying. No, don't do that,
Speaker 5: just cut it. Just put a fresh put a fresh
Speaker 5: uh cut to get that disease. Part out of there
Speaker 5: and stay with it. Hopefully you'll get ahead of it
Speaker 5: that way.
Speaker 13: Okay, Oh yeah, I think it's taken over the tree,
Speaker 13: all right, all right.
Speaker 5: Well, hopefully it won't keep that tree healthy, keep it vigorous.
Speaker 5: That's in your control to try to do that. Appreciate
Speaker 5: your call very much. Sweet Green from Nitrophoss is a
Speaker 5: natural fertilizer that is made through microbial activity to release
Speaker 5: eleven percent nitrogen into the soils, one of the most
Speaker 5: highest concentrations of organic nitrogen sources. You're gonna find sweet green.
Speaker 5: Is it smells gray, That's what it's sweet green. It
Speaker 5: smells smells like molasses to me. But it's a wonderful product.
Speaker 5: It works well, and you're gonna find it at lots
Speaker 5: of retailers around the area. Fisher's Hardware on Southmore in Pasadena.
Speaker 5: You go to Plants for All Seasons up northwest Tomball Parkway. Uh,
Speaker 5: and we're just north of Luetta. You're gonna find it
Speaker 5: there and RCW Nursery too by the way Tomball Parkway
Speaker 5: places you can find nitropuss products like that Sweet green. Okay,
Speaker 5: we're going to go now out to Kline area. And
Speaker 5: talk to Curtis. Hey, Curtis, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: So I'm trying to delerate the process of a compost.
Speaker 14: And when I mean compost, it's basically a lot of
Speaker 14: clippings and leads, anything you can suggest. And one of
Speaker 14: my baby roma tomatoes has a black dot on the
Speaker 14: bottom of it. What do I do wrong?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, a black spot on the end of the
Speaker 5: tomato where the flower was before that tomatoes started growing
Speaker 5: informing the part away from the stem. That's usually something
Speaker 5: called blossom and rot. And it's due to a lack
Speaker 5: of calcium reaching the end of the fruit. And it's
Speaker 5: not usually due to a lack of calcium in the soil,
Speaker 5: although it could be. It's usually due to sole moisture
Speaker 5: fluctuations from dry to wet that can cause that. So
Speaker 5: try to even out the sole moisture and I don't
Speaker 5: think you'll have any more problems with that. So as
Speaker 5: far as the compost acceleration, the things that make composts
Speaker 5: go fast are a good mix of green stuff and
Speaker 5: brown stuff. So the green stuff needs nitrogen, the brown
Speaker 5: stuff needs carbon, so it's dried leaves would be brown stuff.
Speaker 5: Fresh grass clippings would be green stuff. Nitrogen fertilizer would
Speaker 5: be the equivalent of green stuff. But you want to
Speaker 5: get those in a good balance in the compost. And
Speaker 5: the finer you grind the materials up, the faster they decompose.
Speaker 5: So if you take a bunch of magnolia leaves and
Speaker 5: just lay them whole in a compost pile, it's going
Speaker 5: to be very slow. If you run over them with
Speaker 5: a lawnmower and chop them up real good, it's going
Speaker 5: to speed it up. And keeping it adequately moist, evenly moist.
Speaker 5: Those are the tips.
Speaker 14: So to go out there once a week and dump
Speaker 14: a five gallon bucket of water on it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably more of a sprinkling to keep the material moist.
Speaker 5: When you make a compost pile, you should lay down
Speaker 5: about a four to six inch of layer and then
Speaker 5: water it with a garden hose sprayer. Wet it real good.
Speaker 5: Then lay some more and wet it real good, because
Speaker 5: if you build the whole pile and then try to
Speaker 5: wet it, it's hard to get that water evenly through
Speaker 5: the pile. It just doesn't want to do that.
Speaker 3: Then for thanks, sure, all right, all right.
Speaker 5: There you go I have a website. It's called Composting
Speaker 5: for Kids. I did it when I was working with
Speaker 5: Texas A and m Agrolife Extension. And if you do
Speaker 5: a search for Composting for Kids, you can find a
Speaker 5: link to it. And I did it to teach kids
Speaker 5: how to compost. But it's just basically the steps that
Speaker 5: you need to do, and so you might check that out.
Speaker 3: Is that ready, Joey Jury Weekend?
Speaker 5: All right? Thanks Curtis, you too appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 5: Buchanan's Native Plants is in the Heights and it is
Speaker 5: one of those garden centers where you just want to
Speaker 5: go and hang out a while because there's so much
Speaker 5: to see. I could spend forty five minutes even an
Speaker 5: hour in the in the houseplant greenhouse that they have
Speaker 5: because there's so many things going on there, but walking
Speaker 5: around from the fruit trees, to the annuals and perennials,
Speaker 5: vegetables and herbs, the beautiful, beautiful plants that are natives.
Speaker 5: They specialize in natives bugin as native plants. Here's the website,
Speaker 5: Buchanan's Plants dot com. I want you to go to
Speaker 5: Buchanan's Plants dot com because you can sign up for
Speaker 5: their newsletter and it is incredibly helpful and informative and
Speaker 5: it's free. That's a good price, right, it's free. While
Speaker 5: you're there, you're gonna find micro life products, nitrofost products,
Speaker 5: Nelson plant food products, soils from Nature's Way, soils from
Speaker 5: airloom soils. The Cannon's has their own Life Below product
Speaker 5: and one called top trop Tropic Core, which is a
Speaker 5: peat free container mix that they designed themselves. So while
Speaker 5: you're there, check out the bungalow, the gift shop. It
Speaker 5: is awesome. Buchanan's Native Plants Eleventh Street and the Heights.
Speaker 5: Buchanan's NATed Plants Eleventh Street in the Heights. Let's now
Speaker 5: go to Katie, Texas and talk to Brian. Hello, Brian,
Speaker 5: welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 11: Good morning. Hey, I sent you an email some pictures.
Speaker 11: You're run in my yard in a tree. Okay, the
Speaker 11: bear spot is there's a bunch of thin roots from
Speaker 11: the tree growing there and I can't get the grass
Speaker 11: to reditor and the ha is not happy about it.
Speaker 11: I want to give you something about it, but I
Speaker 11: don't know how to get the rest of the road
Speaker 11: that I tried to plant it's got a really small
Speaker 11: roots running all across the surface. The other issue is, okay,
Speaker 11: it looks like there's sucking from the tree, the roots
Speaker 11: coming up, and I don't know what to do about
Speaker 11: any of that.
Speaker 5: So all right, Brian, I'm glad we got started on this.
Speaker 5: I got to go to our half hour break, but
Speaker 5: when we come back, I will address both of those.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the pictures. They are excellent and we're gonna
Speaker 5: we got a lot we can talk about. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5: Just hang on, we'll be right back with you just
Speaker 5: a second. All right, here we go, Welcome back to Guardline.
Speaker 5: Glad that we have you with us today. Night of
Speaker 5: Us distributes a product called jungle Land. It's a it's
Speaker 5: a potting a soil, a grower's mix, a container soil,
Speaker 5: a growing mix, however you want to put it, and
Speaker 5: it works. There's an indoor version with water saving crystals.
Speaker 5: The outdoor version is called jungle Land Flour and Vegetable
Speaker 5: planting Soil. It's got several different sources of decomposing organic matter,
Speaker 5: and it's got microhizal fungi that work with plant roots
Speaker 5: to help make them more efficient, and it drains well.
Speaker 5: It holds water adequately, but excessive water drains away very well,
Speaker 5: which is important in a potting mix. Now you're going
Speaker 5: to find jungle Land available at M and D on
Speaker 5: Beamer in the Sagemont area. You're going to find it
Speaker 5: at Fisher's Hardware and Laporte on Broadway Street, as well
Speaker 5: as at Hiding and Feet Up on Studenter Airline. Easy
Speaker 5: to find night fast products. All right, let's go back here.
Speaker 5: We started a call with Brian, and Brian we're going
Speaker 5: to jump back in here. So I'm looking at your
Speaker 5: pictures and let's take these one at a time. First
Speaker 5: of all, the lack of growth in the grass, the
Speaker 5: die back in the grass that looks to me like
Speaker 5: a disease called take all root rot. And exactly what
Speaker 5: it is for sure is not. You can't look at
Speaker 5: a picture and say for sure it's this disease, but
Speaker 5: I'm about ninety percent sure that's what's going on there.
Speaker 5: If you go online to my website Gardening with Skip
Speaker 5: dot com, you'll find the lawn pest Disease and Weed
Speaker 5: Management schedule. It's free to download. There's two lawn schedules,
Speaker 5: the second one on pest diseases and weeds has take
Speaker 5: all root run on it, and it tells you what
Speaker 5: to use and when to do it. If I were
Speaker 5: you right now, I would get some spagnum peat moss,
Speaker 5: compacted spagnum peat moss, break it up and spread it
Speaker 5: out there. You can take a rake and turn it
Speaker 5: upside down, a little soil rake, or you can use
Speaker 5: a bamboo rake or a leaf break if you want,
Speaker 5: and spread it out about third of an inch half
Speaker 5: an inch deep. Just third of an inch is probably enough.
Speaker 5: Put it all through that area and then watered in
Speaker 5: really good, and that's going to help a little bit.
Speaker 5: Then when the grass blades are going to need to
Speaker 5: be sprayed with a product from fertile loan that is
Speaker 5: a liquid iron and other micronutrients. So it'll say liquid
Speaker 5: iron and other micronutrients. You mix it with water and
Speaker 5: you spray those grass blades all through there. And the
Speaker 5: reason is take all kills roots. And when roots die,
Speaker 5: they can't take up nutrients like iron. That's why if
Speaker 5: you look around the edges of the spot that I
Speaker 5: think is take all, you'll see yellowing grass. That's a
Speaker 5: lack of iron. But it's not because there's no iron
Speaker 5: in the soil. The rest of your lawn looks fine.
Speaker 5: There's iron in the soil, it's the grass doesn't have roots.
Speaker 5: So this is sort of like doing an IV for
Speaker 5: your grass. By spraying the foliage with that micronutrient, you're
Speaker 5: getting what it needs through the foliage rather than through
Speaker 5: the root system, which isn't which is dying. And then
Speaker 5: the products for take all are listed on my schedule there.
Speaker 5: That is the takeoll routine. Now as far as the
Speaker 5: sprouts different, when you see live oaks coming up underneath
Speaker 5: the live oak, it could be seeds from acorns from
Speaker 5: the tree coming up, or could be root sprouts coming
Speaker 5: off the roots. Did you do anything in that area
Speaker 5: where you see all the sprouts. It's very unique that
Speaker 5: it's just a whole bunch of sprouts in that one area,
Speaker 5: but nowhere else.
Speaker 11: No, Well, there's some on the other side of the tree,
Speaker 11: but they're sporadic definitely where it's like just one big
Speaker 11: group of sprouts.
Speaker 2: And didn't I didn't do anything to it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, unfortunately, I think you're just gonna need to mow it,
Speaker 5: chop the tops off of them. Uh, and if you
Speaker 5: you know, keep them from getting leaves up in the sunlight.
Speaker 5: They're they're not going to thrive there. There's nothing you
Speaker 5: can spray on them, because my guess is they're probably
Speaker 5: connected to the tree roots, and so if you sprayed
Speaker 5: a killer on those, then it would go up in
Speaker 5: damage or tree. So it's just a matter of mowing
Speaker 5: them and trying to get the grass in nice and thick.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, going by to the bear spot, well the
Speaker 11: grass road there or ways upset about it. There's not
Speaker 11: only grass there, and then went grass there. Yeah, but
Speaker 11: I don't yeah, follow that pras.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 5: If you if you're gonna, if you're gonna replant that area,
Speaker 5: which isn't a bad idea, I would take everything that's
Speaker 5: there out and go out even a little bit past
Speaker 5: the yellow because that that take all is going to
Speaker 5: be affecting. I can see up going towards your front door,
Speaker 5: there's some old dead areas where it is suffered in
Speaker 5: the past up there, and I would take all that
Speaker 5: grass out and then it would put new fresh new
Speaker 5: sod in and water twice a day for the first week,
Speaker 5: once a day for the second week, and then gradually
Speaker 5: wean it back and get some fresh in there. Then
Speaker 5: this fall you can do what my schedule says about
Speaker 5: take all, but do it to your whole lawn.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, okay, all right, all right, well.
Speaker 5: Good luck with that. Yes, sir, thanks very much. I
Speaker 5: appreciate your call. It's a little bit of a complicated
Speaker 5: deal there, but it can be done. Greenpro. The folks
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Speaker 5: comes to putting compost, top dressing and core aeration together
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Speaker 5: pops a little, plugs the soil out of the ground,
Speaker 5: drops them on the surface, and gets oxygen into the soil.
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Speaker 5: three two. Alrighty here, well let's see here. We're gonna
Speaker 5: have the go out to Wharton and now and talk
Speaker 5: to Susan. Hello, Susan, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Skip. This is actually not Susan.
Speaker 15: This is her husband, John.
Speaker 5: Okay, Who am I talking to? John? How can we
Speaker 5: help John?
Speaker 16: Yes, okay, okay, Skip. We have we have two bogan
Speaker 16: Via vias and uh I got this big pot. Oh,
Speaker 16: it's probably about a forty gallon pot. And I planted
Speaker 16: these two boguan vials in it. Uh one of them
Speaker 16: is blue nice. The other one is doing this not
Speaker 16: blooming at all. It's growing good, but it's not blooming
Speaker 16: at all.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, boogom Vy has caused me to pull my hair out.
Speaker 5: I tell you, they Uh, I don't know why, I
Speaker 5: bottom lize. I don't know why. I don't know why
Speaker 5: that one is and the other one isn't. Something it's it.
Speaker 5: It affects, you know.
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 5: I was in Yuma, Arizona, a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 5: and it doesn't rain there. The sun is blazing hot.
Speaker 5: And I looked at boom bee's around town that were
Speaker 5: stuck in places where no one's watering them, no one's
Speaker 5: fertilizing them, and they were covered with flowers, and it
Speaker 5: just made me want to go chop them down because
Speaker 5: they were It's like they were taunting me. It's hard
Speaker 5: to get them to do that. For us, I would
Speaker 5: just say, continue to fertilize moderately, not too much nitrogen,
Speaker 5: adequate soil, moisture, full sun, as much sun as you
Speaker 5: can give it. And that's kind of what's within your power. Uh, John,
Speaker 5: the I don't know why one is and the other
Speaker 5: one isn't. They should be, they should be blooming. If
Speaker 5: one is, the other ones in the same pot. Maybe
Speaker 5: something in the root competition one has the upper hand.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 16: That's crazy, Okay, Yeah, it's just a mystery to me,
Speaker 16: you know, it's just I don't know either.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5: All we can do on those plants is give them
Speaker 5: go ahead.
Speaker 16: You think I should separate them, Maybe get take that
Speaker 16: one out and put it in another pot and just
Speaker 16: leave that one of them in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you could if you can get them apart.
Speaker 5: The roots are pretty entangled. You're probably gonna have to
Speaker 5: really wet it and soak it and kind of work
Speaker 5: them apart carefully. But boo and bees do well when
Speaker 5: they're pot bound, when they're a little you know, the
Speaker 5: roots that fill the pot and you get them in
Speaker 5: a big giant pot with a little plant, lots of soil,
Speaker 5: little plant, lots of nitrogen, and they tend to grow vegetatively,
Speaker 5: but not bloom as well as you want them to
Speaker 5: do so. But anyway, that's that's the best I can
Speaker 5: can help you with that one. There is one other
Speaker 5: technique that might work, and that is if you get
Speaker 5: a bottle of round up and you walk up to
Speaker 5: the plant and you show it the round up and saying, look,
Speaker 5: either you have blooms next week or I'm coming back
Speaker 5: with this stuff. I think by the time you walk
Speaker 5: away and go in the house, it's already going to
Speaker 5: be blooming because you just scare the.
Speaker 3: Heck out of it.
Speaker 5: That's what you need to do. Sorry, Sorry, humor is
Speaker 5: all I got to help with those booga and vilias.
Speaker 5: All right, I feel your pain and take care. We'll
Speaker 5: be back folks.
Speaker 3: There we go, There we go.
Speaker 5: It's we're calling it. It's summer. It's beach boys time,
Speaker 5: let's do it. Welcome back to the guard Line. Good
Speaker 5: to have you with us. Listen, if you are looking
Speaker 5: for products to have a beautiful garden and a beautiful
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Speaker 5: and all the things we enjoy as we move our
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Speaker 5: a little bit. ACE Hardware, that's where you got to go.
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Speaker 5: Just go to an ACE Hardware store and see what
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Speaker 5: go now to talk to Marine up at lakeside of States.
Speaker 18: Hello, Marine, to picture for you to look at my bros.
Speaker 10: It's still blooming prolific greed. However, I guess I need
Speaker 10: to use a spysmic.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to spreadch.
Speaker 5: Okay, let me get that. Uh well, Marine, I don't
Speaker 5: have a picture attached. It just says a rose leaf light,
Speaker 5: So describe to me what the leaves look like real quick.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 19: Some of them are very pale, soft yellowy color, and
Speaker 19: then a newer leaves have little speckles on them, but
Speaker 19: they're losing their color.
Speaker 10: So apparently I did attach the picture. But that's about
Speaker 10: all you're going to see anyhow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know it's tim about so bottom line is
Speaker 5: there's something wrong in the roots. The yellowing is a
Speaker 5: lack of iron, but it probably isn't a lack of
Speaker 5: iron in the soil. It's probably iron not being taken up.
Speaker 5: I would get an iron key late. It spells c
Speaker 5: h E l A t e like and chi late
Speaker 5: pronounce che late spelled. Uh, put that around them. Watch
Speaker 5: the watering. Excessive water, poor drainage, soggy roots can cause
Speaker 5: what you're describing, and so I would I would check
Speaker 5: for that, make sure that's not happening, and if it is,
Speaker 5: back off of it a little bit, and then get
Speaker 5: you a quality rose food.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: The folks that Nelson have part of their nature star line,
Speaker 5: there is a rose food for there comes in little
Speaker 5: jars and I would sprinkle that around it and watered
Speaker 5: in really good. Uh, and then see if we can
Speaker 5: bring that thing back that if it's.
Speaker 3: Not about.
Speaker 5: Not for this situation, not for this situation. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: that econized, but that's more of a phosphorus.
Speaker 10: Go ahead, Okay, Now I's going to switch the topic sometimes.
Speaker 10: I know you get backed up so quickly. I will, Yeah,
Speaker 10: shoot this question and maybe we can chat a little bit,
Speaker 10: all right. I went to several OVA meetings. Hello okay, yes,
Speaker 10: oh okay, I didn't know I could still go all right.
Speaker 10: So the thing was that the gentleman was there, and
Speaker 10: I believe he is from microlife, and I listened to
Speaker 10: a lecture.
Speaker 2: But this is like five years ago.
Speaker 13: My data may be incorrect.
Speaker 10: His point was if you are feeding and you dining
Speaker 10: his particular product, that you could cut back the intensity.
Speaker 19: Of water that we were really every day when we water.
Speaker 1: It's too short.
Speaker 10: So I was trying to use his procedure, which was
Speaker 10: to let it run longer so that you don't have
Speaker 10: to run it every day.
Speaker 11: Eventually.
Speaker 2: It's not a short term thing.
Speaker 5: It's something that I understand, right, I mean, let me
Speaker 5: give you a quick answer on that. It's better to
Speaker 5: water with a good soaking on ane frequent basis than
Speaker 5: escort it a little every day. So that was right.
Speaker 5: Just set your watering schedules so you give it. You
Speaker 5: wet the so thoroughly, but then allow it to dry
Speaker 5: out some before you water again. And I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna have to run, but that that is, that's true
Speaker 5: what you heard. All right, Well, thank you for that. Listen,
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Speaker 5: little mosquito regulars in them. That's a good thing because
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Speaker 5: to come in and lay eggs there, and then the
Speaker 5: mosquito flies away and controls mosquitos with what's on its
Speaker 5: feet and other little tiny spots where there's a little water.
Speaker 5: And by the way, we had all that rain recently,
Speaker 5: mosquitos are breaking out everywhere. They are really taking off
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Speaker 5: Guardenline and we're about to take a little break here.
Speaker 5: It is time for that top of the hour break.
Speaker 5: When we come back, we'll be coming back to your calls,
Speaker 5: and maybe you could be first up if you're quick
Speaker 5: with the phone. Seven one three two one two k
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Speaker 5: t RH A gosh. I got so many things I
Speaker 5: want to talk about today. All will start with your calls.
Speaker 5: But before we have to go to break, I just
Speaker 5: want to remind you that with summer coming on, it
Speaker 5: is time to get as much planted as you can.
Speaker 5: We got plants that can take this heat, but they
Speaker 5: do best when they have a little bit of time
Speaker 5: to get roots established before the demands and the stresses
Speaker 5: of summer come on them. So let's go. Let's get
Speaker 5: this done. Flowers, vegetables, herbs, all kinds of wonderful things
Speaker 5: out there. I'm going to be planning some okrah in
Speaker 5: my vegetable garden this week. Been delayed on it, which
Speaker 5: is a shame because I have an okra problem, meaning
Speaker 5: it's like an obsession with me. And anyway, we're going
Speaker 5: to get that taken care of out there. If you
Speaker 5: have planted questions that might need a photo to help
Speaker 5: me diagnose, and boy, I got some good photos in here.
Speaker 5: I'm just looking at a series of them that came
Speaker 5: in an email just a minute ago. Uh, send me
Speaker 5: the photos and then follow up with a call to
Speaker 5: garden line. I'm not gonna be able to type out
Speaker 5: answers to all the emails, but I'll be happy to
Speaker 5: provide you personal one on one service if you give
Speaker 5: me a call at seven one three two one two
Speaker 5: kt R to make sure your photos are a good,
Speaker 5: cris clear ocus. I want to give you a crisp answer,
Speaker 5: not a fuzzy one. Okay, welcome back. Welcome back to
Speaker 5: garden Line. We're glad you're joining us today. By the way,
Speaker 5: did you know that plants that listen to garden Line
Speaker 5: are greener and more productive. You should grab your houseplants
Speaker 5: that are struggling, set them by the radio with you,
Speaker 5: and let them join in. I think you will see
Speaker 5: by the end of the show they look greener and
Speaker 5: are clearly happier. Nine out of ten plant psychologists agree
Speaker 5: with this. By the way, asamite is a product that
Speaker 5: we put out on our lawns inputting in gardens too,
Speaker 5: By the way, that releases micronutrients to the growing plants.
Speaker 5: It builds the plant's bank account of micronutrients. That's why
Speaker 5: we do azamite. It's not like you put the fertilizer
Speaker 5: with the three one two, the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium numbers
Speaker 5: on the bag. That's good, that pushes growth, especially the
Speaker 5: nitrogen makes it grow. But there's over twenty nutrients, not
Speaker 5: just three, that a plant needs and in order for
Speaker 5: them to have that in the bank account, so the
Speaker 5: roots need it every day of the year. Roots are
Speaker 5: taking up nutrients all the time, not just you fertilize asumite.
Speaker 5: Is a product for that. You can put it out
Speaker 5: about six thousand to twelve thousand square feet. A long,
Speaker 5: one forty four pound bag will cover that in a
Speaker 5: vegetable garden about ten pounds per thousand square feet. And
Speaker 5: it works well. You can use it when you're out fertilizing.
Speaker 5: Just come back from fertilizing, load it up with the
Speaker 5: asumite and go back and do the as at the
Speaker 5: same time. Makes it easier to remember, but it doesn't
Speaker 5: have to be done at the same time that you fertilize.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, earlier I was telling you about this
Speaker 5: sale at Warren's Southern Gardens, and it's just insane. It's like,
Speaker 5: is this is this written correctly? Did I really get
Speaker 5: this right? So I've got somebody from Warren's on the
Speaker 5: line that I want to talk to and just get
Speaker 5: a confirmation on this, and that is d Mally. Hey,
Speaker 5: d are you there earning? I am here, Good morning,
Speaker 5: Good morning. I can hear you loud. I can hear
Speaker 5: you loud and clear. Is this a typo that I'm
Speaker 5: looking at?
Speaker 3: No, it is not.
Speaker 20: It is the real deal, yues. We have a sale Okay,
Speaker 20: May seventeens through May thirty first, and we have twenty
Speaker 20: percent off any purchases.
Speaker 5: Of over one hundred dollars.
Speaker 20: And then we have a mega mega megasale, which we've
Speaker 20: never done before.
Speaker 2: This is wild and crazy.
Speaker 20: I'll tell you, any purchases over three thousand dollars you
Speaker 20: get a whopping forty percent discount. So if you spend
Speaker 20: three thousand, eighteen hundred dollars, yes, yes, it's really cool
Speaker 20: and it's.
Speaker 3: A good time to.
Speaker 20: Really revamp your your garden and have all those dreams
Speaker 20: come true and put the add ons in there with
Speaker 20: the statuary and the arbors and the trellises. And needless
Speaker 20: to say, I'm a flat person and I do all
Speaker 20: the cut some flower pots at Warren Southern Gardens, and
Speaker 20: I help out also somewhat at Kingwood Garden Center and
Speaker 20: a pottery. I mean forty percent off if you buy gorgeous,
Speaker 20: gorgeous pots or just the twenty anything over one hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: So and it's anything that we have sture fertilized that
Speaker 5: is amazing.
Speaker 20: You know. He's which I'm a fan of. I use
Speaker 20: it twice a year, so I understand that.
Speaker 15: So do you have any questions?
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 5: Well it's it's a it's a big deal. I mean
Speaker 5: it's a chunk of change, you know, to drop that
Speaker 5: kind of money out there. But over time people are
Speaker 5: going to spend the money. And this is like, okay,
Speaker 5: here's your chance to get forty percent off of everything.
Speaker 5: You mentioned Trellis's. You mentioned the pottery, Oh my beautiful
Speaker 5: pottery is not cheap and you could really set yourself up.
Speaker 5: And then of course all the bags of soil from
Speaker 5: Airlomb soil and the fertilizers and things. I'm telling you
Speaker 5: that people need to think about this because there's gonna
Speaker 5: be some folks out there that are they're looking at
Speaker 5: their yard and they're going, I'm getting tired of looking
Speaker 5: at this. I'd love to redo it, but I can't
Speaker 5: afford to redo it. Well, you just got an opportunity
Speaker 5: to afford to redo it right here. Forty percent.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 20: In one of the things that we have done, we'd
Speaker 20: expanded our services with Warren's location on North Park. We
Speaker 20: now have a wholesale division also, so the landscapers have
Speaker 20: the opportunity to help their clients with that department. So
Speaker 20: lots of stuff going on, and I would highly suggest
Speaker 20: for people just to come visit our location. It is
Speaker 20: I've been in this industry for twenty thirty forty years,
Speaker 20: who knows how long. The nursery itself is spectacularly gorgeous.
Speaker 20: It is worth the walk through, walking through a park.
Speaker 7: I know you were there.
Speaker 5: I was so skip Yeah, yeah, yeah, gorgeous, gorgeous. Yes,
Speaker 5: the sale unbelievable. Well, right, so people basically have a
Speaker 5: cop Yeah, so starting today, going through the end of
Speaker 5: May is starting today, going through the end of May
Speaker 5: is the period. So think about it, folks. But I'm
Speaker 5: telling you when you consider, we're not just saying you
Speaker 5: have to buy three thousand dollars of the plants. We're
Speaker 5: talking about all kinds of things and d you make
Speaker 5: beautiful mixed containers there. I love your work. I think
Speaker 5: I could probably spend three thousand dollars on just the
Speaker 5: containers you can. Thank you so beautiful, So people people
Speaker 5: can come out and have that.
Speaker 20: We can think about his Father's days coming up. So,
Speaker 20: you know, plants and all the fun stuff for yards
Speaker 20: are awesome for you know, Mother's Day was.
Speaker 5: A big hit, wonderful, you know, and but just wow,
Speaker 5: I love what I do.
Speaker 20: It is awesome it's good for the mind and the
Speaker 20: soul and the beauty that it gives to us much
Speaker 20: less the rest.
Speaker 9: Of the world.
Speaker 5: So to sale, Yes, that is true. So just to
Speaker 5: wrap it up, twenty percent off, twenty percent off on
Speaker 5: purchase of one hundred dollars or more forty percent off
Speaker 5: three thousand or more. Folks, think about this, do the
Speaker 5: math in your head. Go to war on Southern gardens,
Speaker 5: look around, and suddenly you're going to go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: I could find three thousand dollars here in a heartbeat
Speaker 5: of all kinds of work and stuff. D Thanks for
Speaker 5: being on. I really appreciate you doing that, and take
Speaker 5: care out there. Look forward to seeing you sometime.
Speaker 20: Thank you for the information or the opportunity. I'm sorry,
Speaker 20: I have a great day.
Speaker 5: Okay, you bet, you bet? Bye bye. All right, folks,
Speaker 5: there you have it. Unbelievable, unbelievable. One thing that's moving
Speaker 5: on with some horticultural topics. I'm noticing a lot of
Speaker 5: gray leaf spot in people's yards. I've gotten a number
Speaker 5: of pictures of it. I've seen some spots and yards
Speaker 5: that I've been to. Gray leaf spot is a fungal
Speaker 5: disease that likes the early summertime, especially it's it's milder
Speaker 5: heat that we're having right now. It loves moisture if
Speaker 5: it rains a lot, if you irrigate frequently. One of
Speaker 5: the reasons we say water deeply and infrequently is to
Speaker 5: avoid promoting diseases like like gray leaf spot. Now nine
Speaker 5: to fist has a product called Eagle Turf Fungicide, and
Speaker 5: it contains a systemic fungicide that moves through the plant
Speaker 5: and it does a great job of a number of
Speaker 5: different diseases of the turf. And right now, take a
Speaker 5: root rot and the gray leaf spot or two big
Speaker 5: ones that we're dealing with right now. To find night
Speaker 5: fross products like the Eagle turf fund a side at
Speaker 5: a number of places you know, go to RCW Nursery
Speaker 5: for example Tomball Parkway, you head up to D and
Speaker 5: D Feed and Tomball, or maybe Fisher's hard Way down
Speaker 5: in Laporte on Broadway Street, just examples of places that
Speaker 5: carry night foss products. I'm gonna take a little break
Speaker 5: here and when I come back, Tracy and Richmond and
Speaker 5: Joeanne in Lake Conro you'll be our first two up. Well,
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Speaker 5: up now to Richmond and we are going to talk
Speaker 5: to Tracy this morning. Hello, Tracy and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 21: Good morning. The reason why I'm calling is to follow
Speaker 21: up on an email that I had sent in regard
Speaker 21: to watering of lawns.
Speaker 2: I know that they that you.
Speaker 21: Guys have always stated a longer period of time more infrequently,
Speaker 21: But what I'm looking at is what time of the
Speaker 21: day or nine that it's best to actually do that.
Speaker 21: So if you could give us some insight, oh boy,
Speaker 21: some of the brown patch and all that.
Speaker 5: Yes, So what we're doing is we're watering early, early
Speaker 5: in the morning for two reasons. Number One, the appotranspiration
Speaker 5: is least at that time of day, so you don't
Speaker 5: lose so much to evaporation as you're going through the
Speaker 5: water cycle. Number Two, the sun is about to come
Speaker 5: out and warm things up and dry those leaves off
Speaker 5: very quickly. If you were to water at ten at night,
Speaker 5: that lawn may sit wet for a much longer period
Speaker 5: of time. And I was talking earlier about gray leaf
Speaker 5: spot being a disease for right now that would really
Speaker 5: aggravate things like gray leaf spot that love that wet
Speaker 5: leaf tissue, the wet grass blades. So early in the
Speaker 5: morning is the best time you can do that. With
Speaker 5: your good soakings when you do water.
Speaker 21: Okay, great, wonderful because in the past we had done it,
Speaker 21: you know, at night, and then noticed a larger issue
Speaker 21: when it came to those types of problems that we
Speaker 21: were experiencing. So we're trying to get all that under control,
Speaker 21: and so our kind of thought was, you know, do
Speaker 21: it three point thirty in the morning and then let
Speaker 21: it start to do that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, well, I mean, you know you could, you could,
Speaker 5: and you know, it's not the end of the world
Speaker 5: if you water at the wrong time of day or something.
Speaker 5: It's just if you're choosing the best time, that would
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Speaker 5: Cinafe now and talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, welcome reguardline.
Speaker 11: Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 3: Skip as soon as some photos.
Speaker 7: On.
Speaker 22: I got some spots on cucumber plants. First of all, okay,
Speaker 22: all right, so again I've gotten a couple of cucumber
Speaker 22: well I got see Chris I got one of you.
Speaker 22: That's peppervine weed. I think I got cucumbers with spots.
Speaker 22: That's pepper vine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, So the cucumber spots are fungal leaf spots.
Speaker 5: It's a disease. And I would leaves that look like
Speaker 5: the one you sent me just go ahead and pick
Speaker 5: them off because they're basically like the typhoid mary and
Speaker 5: the cucumber patch. Meaning all those spots are producing spores
Speaker 5: to make the other leaves get sick. So take those out.
Speaker 5: A product like dac o'nill d A c o n
Speaker 5: i L will help shut down leaf spots. It does
Speaker 5: nothing cures the spots you have, but it prevents additional
Speaker 5: ones from happening. And the more you can keep the
Speaker 5: leaves dry like water the soil, don't spray the foliage,
Speaker 5: the less problems you have with this leaf spot.
Speaker 11: All righty okay, I have I have some bone eyed
Speaker 11: copper funge a side.
Speaker 3: Will that work? It might?
Speaker 5: It might. U copper is pretty good on bacteria and
Speaker 5: on some some fungus diseases too, But you could you
Speaker 5: could try that one. Now, the weed that you have,
Speaker 5: this pepper but decon hill for leaf spots is generally better.
Speaker 5: But if you got in your hand, just go ahead
Speaker 5: and try it and see see if it if it
Speaker 5: works for you. I have a publication on my website.
Speaker 5: The website is Gardening with Skip dot Com and it's
Speaker 5: a free publication called Controlling Woody Weeds in the Landscape.
Speaker 5: There is another publication called Herbicides for Skips Weed Wiper.
Speaker 5: On the Herbicides for Skips Weed Wiper, it tells you
Speaker 5: what product to you use on which weeds, and peppervine
Speaker 5: is one of the many weeds on the list, and
Speaker 5: you can see which product I would recommend you use.
Speaker 5: And then the Controlling Woody Weeds publication tells you one
Speaker 5: of the ways that you can do it.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, I'll head it over there.
Speaker 5: I sure appreciate it, all right, Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: You take care. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 5: it's got the extra calcium that's needed during nesting season
Speaker 5: for eggshell formation and skeletal development for the young birds.
Speaker 5: You can buy it loose in bags. You can buy
Speaker 5: it in the little compacted seed cylinders that the birds
Speaker 5: have to kind of peck into to get the seeds out.
Speaker 5: Look for it at wild Birds Unlimited. There's six Wildbirds
Speaker 5: Unlimited stores in the Houston area. There's one on Cypress
Speaker 5: on Barker Cypress in Houston on Memorial Drive in Houston
Speaker 5: on bel Air out west of town and in Paarland
Speaker 5: on East Broadway, clear Lake on Eldorado Boulevard and Kingwood Drive,
Speaker 5: there is Kingwood Wildbird's Unlimited Store. There are you there
Speaker 5: pick up a wild Bird's Unlimited high perch hummingbird feeder.
Speaker 5: It's my favorite one. I just replenished it. Put some
Speaker 5: new sugar water in it and some of that nectar defender.
Speaker 5: It's a little bottle of stuff. You put a little
Speaker 5: bit in the water and it makes it last a
Speaker 5: lot longer because you know, sugar water sitting outside on
Speaker 5: a hot day, day after day is going to go bad.
Speaker 5: So the nectar defender gives you a few more days
Speaker 5: out of your hummingbird supplies in the feeders. Let's head
Speaker 5: now to Lake Conroe and we're going to talk to Joeanne. Hello, Joanne,
Speaker 5: h morning.
Speaker 13: You did get my emails? Yes, I did, so that
Speaker 13: proves I have a brown thumb that I can't keep
Speaker 13: plants going.
Speaker 5: Don't worry about that. Everybody, everybody deals with this. Tell
Speaker 5: me what was in the pictures that you sent me?
Speaker 23: There were The last picture was a single green beans
Speaker 23: in a container and the one leaf is you know,
Speaker 23: it's just all shriveled up and brown.
Speaker 13: And then there were a couple of others and they
Speaker 13: have the little black spots. And I also send a
Speaker 13: zucchini plant.
Speaker 5: Okay, those, yeah, I see them. Don't worry about the
Speaker 5: black spots. That's just a weakened plant getting problems on
Speaker 5: the leaves. We need to fix the fact that the
Speaker 5: plant is weak. And here's here's part of the problem.
Speaker 5: It's getting too dry in that container. You got a
Speaker 5: real good chunky mix in there, so it doesn't hold
Speaker 5: water for a very long time. But you need to
Speaker 5: water a little more often. And first thing you do
Speaker 5: is you put down a little bit of nitrogen. Normally
Speaker 5: we don't fertilize beans much, but these need a little
Speaker 5: bit of nitrogen, as does the the the a squash
Speaker 5: or is a squash plant. But also finally, one of
Speaker 5: the bean pictures shows spider mites. Those are those speckled
Speaker 5: white leaves that are kind of curled and cupped under.
Speaker 5: Get you a hand sprayer on the end of a
Speaker 5: garden hose and hold that plant and turn it over
Speaker 5: and blast the bottom of the leaves, just with a
Speaker 5: strong blast of water to knock all the mites off
Speaker 5: and that'll that'll keep them away for long enough for
Speaker 5: that plant to get going again. All righty, I've got
Speaker 5: a heartbreak here coming in ten seconds.
Speaker 13: Seven is good for anything.
Speaker 5: No, no, do use seven. That makes spider mites worse. Hey,
Speaker 5: I got to run, but thank you for the call.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. Just use water. I'll be right back. Folks. Hey,
Speaker 5: welcome back, Welcome back to garden line. What do we
Speaker 5: want to talk about today? You tell me I got
Speaker 5: a bunch I want to talk about. But this shows
Speaker 5: about you your calls. What do you want to ask seven? One, three,
Speaker 5: two and two kt r H. My goal is to
Speaker 5: help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape. And
Speaker 5: this third part is very important and more fun in
Speaker 5: the process. Gardening should be fun, It should be rewarding. Yes,
Speaker 5: sometimes we fail, sometimes things don't work out like we wanted,
Speaker 5: but you don't really fail unless you give up. We're
Speaker 5: not gonna give up. We're gonna fix it. We're gonna
Speaker 5: make it work, and we're gonna make gardening fun and
Speaker 5: make gardening fun again. Oh my gosh, I can't believe
Speaker 5: I said that. All right, anyway, there you go h
Speaker 5: Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out there in Katie. You
Speaker 5: just go out to Katie on it in turn north
Speaker 5: on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's up a little
Speaker 5: bit on the road off to the right. Nelson Water
Speaker 5: Gardens and Nursery.
Speaker 3: They have.
Speaker 5: Of course, their water gardens are nationally famous. Literally, I
Speaker 5: mean that nationally famous. They have invented stuff that's now
Speaker 5: common in the water gardening industry that started there at
Speaker 5: Nelson Water Garden. But their nursery, their garden center is awesome,
Speaker 5: beautiful cone flowers, all kinds of plants that love to
Speaker 5: grow in summer.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: You get things like a hardy ice plant. That's one
Speaker 5: that we don't plan it off. Hardy house plant is
Speaker 5: a beautiful little succulent that does well in the heat.
Speaker 5: Eat and it's just beautiful. The little fisha colored blooms
Speaker 5: are gorgeous. Now they've also got yarrow. They also have
Speaker 5: something called it's it's like a buttercup, but it's it's
Speaker 5: own Thera Missourians zouriensis. It's yellow, it's blooming, it's tough.
Speaker 5: You see it growing out in Austin, Texas on a
Speaker 5: side of the road kind of thing where nobody's taking
Speaker 5: care of it and it just does well. It's a superplant,
Speaker 5: all right. Look at some of the fountains while you're
Speaker 5: out there. They're gorgeous, they're decorative, they're beautiful. But whatever
Speaker 5: you're looking for, from succulents to cacti, to shrubs and
Speaker 5: trees and vines, oh, beautiful vines all at Nelson Water
Speaker 5: Gardens and Nursery. The website. You need to know this,
Speaker 5: Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Go check them out. They do really
Speaker 5: really good work and they have excellent, excellent products as well.
Speaker 5: Nature's Vat Resources is north of Conroe off Interstate forty five.
Speaker 5: You're head and like you're going to Conroe. And before
Speaker 5: you get to did I say north of Conroe? I
Speaker 5: met north of Houston. You're heading like you're going to Conroe.
Speaker 5: Before you get to Conroe, it's going to be off
Speaker 5: to the right. It's on Sherbroock Circle. But the way
Speaker 5: I remembered is when you see the road that goes
Speaker 5: off to Magnolia to the left fourteen eighty eight. Instead
Speaker 5: of that, you turn right there and you get to
Speaker 5: Nature's Way Resources. Beautiful, beautiful products. And I get excited
Speaker 5: about so I could lay in a pile of compost
Speaker 5: and make compost angels and be very very happy. That's
Speaker 5: how I endo dirt and soil. I am, but so
Speaker 5: is John Ferguson, who created Nature's Way Resources, and his
Speaker 5: son Ian now runs the place. And I'm telling you
Speaker 5: their products are second to none. It's where things like leaf, moal,
Speaker 5: compost and rose soil were born and they still make
Speaker 5: top quality by taking their time to make things right
Speaker 5: at Nature's Way Resources. Nature'sway Resources dot Com. Go to
Speaker 5: that website. It's a newly revamped website. It's great. Nature's
Speaker 5: Way Resources dot Com. Go pick it up there, go
Speaker 5: buy it in local garden centers by the back, or
Speaker 5: call them and have them deliver it to your house.
Speaker 5: Find leaf, more composts, double ground mulches, rosesoil, garden and
Speaker 5: flowerbed mixes. You want to grow acidic plants. Ask for
Speaker 5: their blueberry mix. They also have a citrus mix. Natures
Speaker 5: Way Resources dot Com. Let's go out to Spring Branch.
Speaker 5: Now we are going to talk to Jeff. Hello Jeff,
Speaker 5: and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Hi Skip, thanks for having me.
Speaker 8: Quick question about some picks that I just emailed you.
Speaker 8: You have you looked at those pictures?
Speaker 5: Let me see you just emailed. Uh, I don't see them.
Speaker 8: Duty line is Virginia play Way versus question.
Speaker 5: No, I haven't. I haven't received anything in the last
Speaker 5: thirty minutes. So let me let's do this. I am
Speaker 5: gonna put you on hold, uh if you want to
Speaker 5: try re sending them. If I get them, I can
Speaker 5: pop back up, or you can call back on and
Speaker 5: my producer Alejandro will put you at the top of
Speaker 5: the list if you call back. Okay, all right, thanks,
Speaker 5: thank you giving all right? You bet you bet alrighty, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's it's uh, sometimes things just don't go right on
Speaker 5: the emails, but it sure does help for me giving
Speaker 5: a diagnosis to have a good picture like that night five.
Speaker 5: Super Turf is a product that is a lot of nitrogen,
Speaker 5: but it's in a very slow release form. It's a
Speaker 5: nineteen four ten fertilizer. Sixteen weeks it takes for that
Speaker 5: nitrogen to be fully released, so you get nice even growth.
Speaker 5: You don't go crazy mowen because you're overfertilized.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It takes care of the grass plant by getting it
Speaker 5: to grow gradually. And a good healthy green way, so
Speaker 5: you don't have lots of top growth at the expense
Speaker 5: of root growth, which means the grass is less resilient,
Speaker 5: less drought tolerant. With nitrophass superturf, you get good healthy
Speaker 5: grass and you get it for a very long time.
Speaker 5: It's in a silver bag. Silver bags. What you're looking for.
Speaker 5: You can go to Plantation Ace Hardware on three point
Speaker 5: fifty nine and Richmond Rosenberg. You can find it there.
Speaker 5: You can find it at M and D and Cyprus
Speaker 5: on Luetta Road, as well as Court Hardware on South
Speaker 5: Maine in Stafford. Let's go to Brenham now and we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to Mark this morning. Hello Mark, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line. Good morning.
Speaker 24: A couple of quick things if I could, Did I
Speaker 24: understand you correctly the last caller you said that seven
Speaker 24: dusts causes more issues with spider mics.
Speaker 5: It does it because it doesn't kill spider mand but
Speaker 5: it kills the things that control them. Studies have also shown,
Speaker 5: and this is weird, that it causes them to reproduce
Speaker 5: more for whatever reason, and it also causes a response
Speaker 5: in the plant where some of the things that the
Speaker 5: spider mites are sucking the juices out of the plant.
Speaker 5: On the plant produces more of that, So it's like
Speaker 5: you're feeding the spider mites more. You're making them reproduce faster,
Speaker 5: and you're killing everything that eats them. That's why that is,
Speaker 5: you know what makes sense. But that's something I would
Speaker 5: have never thought of.
Speaker 3: So well, I am no.
Speaker 5: Nine of the gardeners don't even know that. Yeah, well,
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 24: My younger brother smokes me every year on garden so
Speaker 24: I'm going to teach him a little something.
Speaker 5: But anyway, well, when he argues, when he argues with you,
Speaker 5: go to the University of California Extension Service and you
Speaker 5: can find more information there on the specifics of it.
Speaker 5: But he's probably going to challenge it and say you
Speaker 5: don't know what you're talking. I'm sure he will because
Speaker 5: that's all he uses.
Speaker 24: And I'm telling you, he produces broccoli the heads literally
Speaker 24: or the size.
Speaker 5: Of a five gallon bucket.
Speaker 1: It's incredible, but.
Speaker 5: I don't doubt it. Seven is a great control for
Speaker 5: caterpillars on his broccoli. But I'll tell you this, the
Speaker 5: days where we use that, there's two kinds of pesticides.
Speaker 5: There's grenades, and there's arrows. A grenade kills everything in
Speaker 5: the vicinity. An arrow flies past everything and hits one target.
Speaker 5: And those are the surgical strikes. And that's what we're
Speaker 5: doing more now in pest control in the modern era
Speaker 5: than just dumping things like seven dust out to kill everything.
Speaker 5: Those things worked, Yeah, they had secondaries issues.
Speaker 24: Well normally, all right, I try to do I try
Speaker 24: to do most things organic, and he convinced me to
Speaker 24: use the seven dust because I was getting like all
Speaker 24: my my nectarines on my tree just got destroyed and
Speaker 24: all that said, I'm having my tomato plants okay, literally
Speaker 24: five feet tall, and they're blooming like crazy, but not
Speaker 24: setting much fruit.
Speaker 5: What what are your thoughts our suggestions. If they're not
Speaker 5: setting fruit, it's it could be due to a lack
Speaker 5: of movement. Tomatoes that are in an area where the
Speaker 5: wind isn't moving. They pollinate when something shakes the blooms
Speaker 5: and wind is typically what does that or a bumblebee
Speaker 5: buzzing them. Don't overdo the nitrogen. When you get a
Speaker 5: good green, crazy green, fast growing tomato, extra nitrogen can
Speaker 5: come at the expense of fruit set. So those two
Speaker 5: things are the primary reasons that you wouldn't get fruit set.
Speaker 5: A lack of sunlight could be another reason, but those
Speaker 5: are the primaries. And Mark, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to run here. But hopefully that that helps, Yes, sir,
Speaker 5: you bet hey, mosquito season is here. It rained, therefore
Speaker 5: we will have more and more mosquitos. Mosquito dunks can
Speaker 5: fix that. Mosquita dunks a little small beiged donut floats
Speaker 5: on water. One dunk control controls mosquitos and a hundred
Speaker 5: square feet of water for thirty days or more if
Speaker 5: you want a break them up and put them in
Speaker 5: places like you know there's a hole in a tree
Speaker 5: where water gathers in there, a bird bath, a rain barrel,
Speaker 5: you know, any kind of reservoir under a plant you
Speaker 5: can throw some mosquito dunks in and save yourself from
Speaker 5: the hassle of breeding mosquitoes. Don't be a skeeter breeder.
Speaker 5: Get you some mosquito dunks. I'm going to go for
Speaker 5: a break here. When we come back, Jeff and Spring Branch,
Speaker 5: we got your photos. You'll be first up, all right, folks,
Speaker 5: welcome back. Good to have you with us. RCW nursery
Speaker 5: has got an excellent selection right now of Btex trees
Speaker 5: have a lot in the christmer shrubs and trees, they've
Speaker 5: got everything. But the Vitext just look good. And right
Speaker 5: now they are putting on their big show.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 5: You share those back a little bit periodically, and they
Speaker 5: just keep blooming through the heat of summer. And blue
Speaker 5: is a color. It's kind of hard to come by.
Speaker 5: Blue purple in the summertimes, not as common as it
Speaker 5: is in spring. But Vitex does it. It's an excellent plant,
Speaker 5: I mean, and it's you want something that, once it's established,
Speaker 5: is drought tolerant, that's it. If you want something that
Speaker 5: bees and butterflies and hummingbirds a door, that's it. Ytex
Speaker 5: brings all those in. It's a great plant. It's a
Speaker 5: really really good one. Now again, I keep talking about
Speaker 5: the Cajun hibiscus. You just have to go see them.
Speaker 5: It's colors that I couldn't even begin to tell you
Speaker 5: what color that is. I mean it it goes from
Speaker 5: kind of a pinkish to a reddish to a purple
Speaker 5: lamauv I mean, it's all in one bloom. Some of
Speaker 5: these things are just stunning. They got a great selection.
Speaker 5: There are other heat loving plants like cilosia just laughs
Speaker 5: at summer heat. Very beautiful, great betting plant. All this
Speaker 5: and more at RCW Nurseries. It's at Tomboll Parkway two
Speaker 5: forty nine and belt Way eight. Easy to get to
Speaker 5: Tomboll Parkway two forty nine, belt Way eight, RCW nurseries
Speaker 5: dot com. Let's go now, we're gonna head over to
Speaker 5: Jeff in Spring Branch. Hey, Jeff, I did get your photos.
Speaker 5: I got those opened up here, and that is indeed
Speaker 5: Virginia button weed that you're.
Speaker 9: Dealing with, all right, So definitely the top one is
Speaker 9: that one. It has a smaller diameter stem if you
Speaker 9: were the white flowers.
Speaker 8: Is the bottom one Virginia button weed as well?
Speaker 5: It looks like it to me, Yeah, it does. It
Speaker 5: could be something else because right there's very little on
Speaker 5: it to identify it by. But the way the plant
Speaker 5: structure looks like Virginia button weed. Virginia button weed's hard
Speaker 5: to control. It likes wet, So the wetter you keep
Speaker 5: the grass, the faster Virginia button weed grows. So number one,
Speaker 5: your grass does better with less watering than what makes
Speaker 5: virginia button weed happy, so back off a little on
Speaker 5: that and then sprays. There's a product called celsius, like
Speaker 5: the temperature celsius, that is pretty good against Virginia button weed.
Speaker 5: Most of the time, even products label for Virginia button
Speaker 5: weed need to be applied more than once. So try
Speaker 5: the celsius six weeks later. If you're seeing any growth
Speaker 5: on it, hit it again. But itius a reason I
Speaker 5: like it. Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So this is in my father in law's yard, and
Speaker 9: I've controlled Virginia button we the celsius and my zoisa
Speaker 9: this is sant Augustine. Well you see that picture, and
Speaker 9: but I've always been told this earlier I can do
Speaker 9: it the better that once it gets hot, it hardens off,
Speaker 9: and even the celsius isn't I mean, so I think
Speaker 9: you'd recommend go ahead and get celsius on it now
Speaker 9: and then another treatment.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, Yeah, absolutely. And some of the weeds you put
Speaker 5: in the picture already have blims on them, which means
Speaker 5: they're going to have the little buttons on them, which
Speaker 5: means you already got new seeds coming. So you want
Speaker 5: to shut those things down before they do that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's for sure. Yeah, I get that on them as
Speaker 5: soon as you can. Just target spray it. Uh and
Speaker 5: that's probably your best bet. Okay, great, thank you Skip
Speaker 5: all right, yeah, Jeff, thanks glad we were able to
Speaker 5: get those photos and complete that. Good to know. ACE
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Speaker 5: there you go. Well let's see here. I am up
Speaker 5: again a break. I tell you what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 5: Martha and Menville. Let's see if we can get started
Speaker 5: on this question and we'll finish up after I have
Speaker 5: to take a break here in just a second.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's in regards to my pear tree, which
Speaker 7: I've had for about eight years. Never did bear andy pears,
Speaker 7: and we planted other fruit trees in the backyard close
Speaker 7: to it, and this year is loaded with pairs. But
Speaker 7: the pears have black markings on them, like I don't
Speaker 7: know if they're gonna.
Speaker 3: Come to.
Speaker 7: I need to know what is causing and what.
Speaker 6: I can do to you know, have a better.
Speaker 5: And it's okay, Martha, it's on the fruit, not the leaves. Correct, correct, Okay,
Speaker 5: So take your thumb and lick your thumb, get it wet,
Speaker 5: and see if you can wipe that black off. There's
Speaker 5: a city that grows on pear fruit that doesn't do
Speaker 5: any damage. If you can't wipe it off off, then
Speaker 5: it's a disease that's entered the fruit, and that would
Speaker 5: probably take some types of sprays, but we'd have to
Speaker 5: figure out which disease. If you if you can't wipe
Speaker 5: it off, take some pictures of the black spots and
Speaker 5: send them to me by email. I'm gonna put you
Speaker 5: on hold. My producer Alejandro, will give you an email
Speaker 5: to send those two and we'll we'll take it from there,
Speaker 5: but first try to wipe them off with the wet thumb.
Speaker 5: Usually it's a city mold that we're seeing.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, I'll wait on and get that email.
Speaker 5: Al right here, I'll be right with you. All right, folks,
Speaker 5: there you go, putting another hour in the books. We'll
Speaker 5: be back for the final hour of guarden Line this morning.
Speaker 5: Hang around back, get ready to doll seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two kt r H. All right, ladies and gentlemen, gardeners,
Speaker 5: here we go with our last hour of the day
Speaker 5: on guarden Line. Just a reminder for those of you
Speaker 5: listen for the first time. Perhaps we're here every Saturday
Speaker 5: and Sunday from six am to ten am Saturday and
Speaker 5: Sunday six to ten on KTRH seven forty am. Now
Speaker 5: you can also listen to garden Line with the iHeartMedia app.
Speaker 5: It's a little red heart app with an eye in
Speaker 5: the middle. Download that on your phone. It's a great app.
Speaker 5: And if you find garden Line on there, you can
Speaker 5: just listen live right from the app, or you can
Speaker 5: listen to past shows either way, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 5: Now I keep telling people to do that. One of
Speaker 5: these days, I'm gonna get somebody to call in that
Speaker 5: actually does this. But you take your phone with you
Speaker 5: out in the garden. Look outside right now. You need
Speaker 5: to be out there gardening, and here I am on
Speaker 5: guarden Line. How are we going to put this together?
Speaker 5: Take the phone with you, turn it on and listen
Speaker 5: to garden Line in the garden as you work. You
Speaker 5: can do that, and if you got a question, You
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Speaker 5: take youre look at Arburgate Arburgate Gardens. I was out
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Speaker 5: to Magnolia and we're going to talk to Ronnie. Hello, Ronnie,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Hey, good morning. Yeah, sent some pictures of a couple
Speaker 15: of tomatoes. Okay, the grain tomatoes are fantastic. I mean,
Speaker 15: I hadn't it look any better. But when the turning red,
Speaker 15: some of them are eaten. And that's the picture got
Speaker 15: for you.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm trying to pull that. Oh there we go. Okay,
Speaker 5: I've got that opened up. There is a caterpillar that
Speaker 5: does that. It burrows into the fruit and eats the
Speaker 5: inside and then all the rotten mess occurs from that.
Speaker 5: If you would spray your tomatoes with the product containing
Speaker 5: dt B as in boy tea is in tom the
Speaker 5: bt product will go in there and it will do
Speaker 5: a very good job of a say, go in there,
Speaker 5: it'll go on the fruit. When a caterpillar tries to
Speaker 5: chew in it'll it'll shut them down. It works pretty well.
Speaker 5: There's also a product called spinosid s p I N
Speaker 5: O s A D. Spinosid is another good one for
Speaker 5: controlling these pests. But you have to spray it on
Speaker 5: ahead of time and then you know, just probably about
Speaker 5: another two weeks, spray it on again and prevent that entry.
Speaker 15: Okay, so I just can cover the entire I have
Speaker 15: several plants.
Speaker 3: Just cover the entire plant crop that I have.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, spray the whole plants. Some types of caterpillars
Speaker 5: will feed on the leaves and the fruit, and then
Speaker 5: that way you get them there. But especially cover the fruit,
Speaker 5: but also get some coverage on the leaves and you
Speaker 5: ought to be able to shut this down. They're spoiling
Speaker 5: your show out there.
Speaker 15: Also, is that the same caterpillar that you'd say would
Speaker 15: be eating my broccoli and turnips leaves?
Speaker 5: No, it's it's actually a different one, one of the
Speaker 5: tomato caterpillars. You'll find it on corn and tobacco plants,
Speaker 5: but not on broccoli. But then there are others that
Speaker 5: just occur on the tomatoes.
Speaker 15: Well, would this work on them though, the spinosa or
Speaker 15: BT products.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes it will if it eats leaves spinosia and
Speaker 5: b T well if it if it eat okay, if
Speaker 5: it's a caterpillar, b T works on it, only caterpillars.
Speaker 5: If it's eats leaves, spinosa, it works on it. It
Speaker 5: could be you know, it could be a beetle, or
Speaker 5: it could be a caterpillar or something chewing. The spinosa
Speaker 5: will work on both of those.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, bit all right?
Speaker 15: Flapping them with name ol that has a little okay, yeah.
Speaker 5: Not a whole lot, though not a whole lot. All right,
Speaker 5: you take care. Thanks a lot for the call. Reading
Speaker 5: appreciate that for sure. Super turf from the folks at nitroposs.
Speaker 5: It's kind of the premiere fertilizer. When we're looking at
Speaker 5: our lawns for summer. It's a silver bag nineteen four ten.
Speaker 5: It just does what needs to be done. Our southern
Speaker 5: turf crosses in Augustine, Bermuda, Zoisa, our southern soils here
Speaker 5: in the Houston area, and our climate. Super Turf is
Speaker 5: designed for all of that because we need something to
Speaker 5: give our lawn a gradual feeding of nitrogen over time,
Speaker 5: not a dump of nitrogen at one time. That's not
Speaker 5: good for the grass. All kinds of problems happen when
Speaker 5: you overdo that. But even though it has nineteen percent
Speaker 5: nitrogen in super Turf, that nineteen percent, it takes sixteen
Speaker 5: weeks for to release it all out into your soil.
Speaker 5: So it's like you just put little amounts of fertilizer
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Speaker 5: to see the silver bag from across the store. If
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Speaker 5: to find Nito frost products there as well, like the
Speaker 5: super turf. All right, let's see, We're gonna head back
Speaker 5: out to the phones here if I can get my
Speaker 5: grab the right mouse. I got too many mice, all right,
Speaker 5: Josh in Spring Welcome to garden Line. I finally did
Speaker 5: get those photos, so I'm ready to talk. Hey, so
Speaker 5: you see, uh you see the photos of the angel trumpet.
Speaker 5: I've been fighting this for a few weeks.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: You see the discoloration of the leaves. I think it
Speaker 5: was mites or aphids or over water. And I've hit
Speaker 5: it with.
Speaker 3: I've hit it.
Speaker 5: All right, Yead in Spring Welcome to Dark You turned
Speaker 5: the radio off? Yeah all right, so so what did
Speaker 5: you What did you say you used on it?
Speaker 25: So I've hit it with Talstar Pro, and then I
Speaker 25: hit it with Alpine, and then I hit it with
Speaker 25: like the.
Speaker 5: Like the seven dust liquid. Okay, and I still I'm
Speaker 5: still getting these yellow leaves, man, So I'm just wondering,
Speaker 5: Uh you take it? Yeah, No, it's a lack of
Speaker 5: nitrogen partly, but you've also got spider miights pretty seriously
Speaker 5: on these I had a brigmancio that got them pretty
Speaker 5: good one year. And you know what I did. I
Speaker 5: just took a handgun sprayer on the end of a
Speaker 5: hose and I put my hand on top of the
Speaker 5: leaves and I blasted the bottom of the leaf, you know,
Speaker 5: I just like squirted it from upward under the plant,
Speaker 5: just blasted all the spider mites off. They'll come back,
Speaker 5: but slowly. But if you do that about once a
Speaker 5: week for about three weeks, it basically it goes away.
Speaker 5: It just does. And so all the chemicals and things,
Speaker 5: some of them have secondary effects. The seven desks you
Speaker 5: use made the spider mites worse. Actually, so I would
Speaker 5: just I would do the hand squirt with water. It's
Speaker 5: easier than mixing up stuff to spray, and it works
Speaker 5: good on the spider miights. And then provide some nitrogen.
Speaker 5: Give your plants a good boost of nitrogen and keep
Speaker 5: the soil evenly moist and though brigmancio will take off
Speaker 5: and you will enjoy those gorgeous blooms.
Speaker 8: Okay, so just rip them with water, give them some
Speaker 8: fertilizer and we're good.
Speaker 5: Yeap, blast them. You got to hit the bottom of
Speaker 5: the leaves and you gotta have That's why I put
Speaker 5: my hand over them, because if you hit that leaf
Speaker 5: with a s strong spray of water, it just it
Speaker 5: just knocks a leaf straight up vertical. You know you
Speaker 5: don't you don't blast them off, so it didn't take
Speaker 5: it just a little tedious bid take that long. It's
Speaker 5: easy to do. And spider mites, just getting them wet
Speaker 5: causes them to get all kinds of diseases and fungus
Speaker 5: and stuff on their bodies that kills them. But physically
Speaker 5: removing them with a strong blast is important too. Hope
Speaker 5: that works, man, Thanks, thanks for calingis appreciate that you
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Speaker 5: Corner of this Nut and Runwick seven one three six
Speaker 5: sixty six one seven four four. We're gonna go now
Speaker 5: out to Crosby and talk to Bob. Oh, Bob, Welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line. Good morning, good morning, yes, good morning.
Speaker 3: Morning.
Speaker 17: I planned at Rosemary and lavender about three times from
Speaker 17: seeds and I never get any results. I'm just trying
Speaker 17: to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 5: Well, lavender is a challenge in our area. We just
Speaker 5: get so much rain over here. It prefers to be
Speaker 5: in a drier, more Mediterranean like climate that isn't isn't
Speaker 5: so rainy. To grow lavender successfully here, you need full sun,
Speaker 5: outstanding drainage, and don't keep it too wet, and that'll
Speaker 5: give you your best shot. It's success with lavender that
Speaker 5: rosemary is on the other end of the spectrum. It's
Speaker 5: easy to grow, but it also doesn't like to be
Speaker 5: so wet in the roots. So again Mediterranean.
Speaker 3: Uh it.
Speaker 5: It is one that I would say when it comes
Speaker 5: to drought tolerance, rosemary is one of our best plants
Speaker 5: that we have for our landscape. So if you need
Speaker 5: to build up the bed in a raised bed to
Speaker 5: help a little bit, I think I would do that.
Speaker 5: I put some of my rosemary in big giant pots
Speaker 5: because that works really well too.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 17: Biggest problem is I'm not getting any seed germination.
Speaker 5: And oh, you're planning them from seed, Yes, okay, planning
Speaker 5: them from seed? I see, Okay, Well that's different. I
Speaker 5: always either start them from plants or from cuttings. Both
Speaker 5: can be rooted from cuttings as well. Seed germination, keep
Speaker 5: it moist, provide it good sunlight, but not necessarily direct
Speaker 5: sun initially, uh, and just keeping it moist. I've not
Speaker 5: tried starting those from seed because it's so easy to
Speaker 5: start him from cuttings and from plants, but but that
Speaker 5: that would be what they need. Just don't keep them
Speaker 5: too soggy wet.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, all right, sir, thank you, all.
Speaker 5: Right, Bob, you bet, thank you very much. I appreciate
Speaker 5: your call. All right. Time for me to take a
Speaker 5: little break if you'd like to be first up when
Speaker 5: we come back. Seven to one three two one two
Speaker 5: k t RH Welcome back to the guardline. Good heavy
Speaker 5: with us this morning. We're going to get to your
Speaker 5: calls here in just one moment.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: Hoorgesitt and Gardens is down in Alvin, Texas, and if
Speaker 5: you haven't been there, you ought to check it out,
Speaker 5: especially those of you who live down that direction south
Speaker 5: of Houston. He's actually in between kind of Alvin and
Speaker 5: Santa Fe. It's an Alvin address on Elizabeth Road. Elizabeth
Speaker 5: Road and Alvin Texas and Horayes got an outstanding selection
Speaker 5: of trees and shrubs. Beautiful, beautiful trees and shrubs. He's
Speaker 5: got vitex. He has great myrtles, he has oaks, and
Speaker 5: pretty much everything that you can think about. He knows
Speaker 5: how to grow and he knows how to install these plants.
Speaker 5: If you're looking for fruit trees like lemonade blueberry, do
Speaker 5: you know pick lemonade blueberry? The berries get pink instead
Speaker 5: of blue like a blueberry. It's kind of cool. Whatever
Speaker 5: you want installed, he can install it for you. You
Speaker 5: just got to get out there and check him out.
Speaker 5: The vitex he has right now are just beautiful and outstanding.
Speaker 5: He also has some a good selection too of avocado trees.
Speaker 5: Still some of may have fruit on him, I believe.
Speaker 5: But give him a call or go out there. Jorge
Speaker 5: Seddon Gardens on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of
Speaker 5: Highway six. Easy, easy, easy to get to and really nice,
Speaker 5: really nice selection as well. Let's head out on the
Speaker 5: phones now we're going to go to Seabrook and talk
Speaker 5: to Jeremy. Hello, Jeremy, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: How's it going, Skip.
Speaker 5: Doing well? Thank you.
Speaker 25: So My question is I got I bought a rose
Speaker 25: bush last year. It's still in the nursery pot and
Speaker 25: I've cut it back to who make it a box eye?
Speaker 25: It did really good growing in the early spring, but
Speaker 25: now you know, I've tried keep it in the sun,
Speaker 25: keeping it in parts on, but the leaves are withering
Speaker 25: and part of the branches are dying back, turning brown.
Speaker 25: I thought it was a bug issue, but I've looked
Speaker 25: at it and it doesn't look like bugs.
Speaker 3: But just looking for some help, so I don't want
Speaker 3: this thing to die. Okay.
Speaker 5: Well, I am not a bones eye expert, but I've
Speaker 5: never seen a rose bon's eye, and so part of
Speaker 5: the problem may be that's plants response to this.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, with bones eye, you're you're basically limiting plants
Speaker 5: so that they can't grow, but that they stay alive.
Speaker 5: You know, you're doing root printing, and you're doing a
Speaker 5: lot of other things that basically keep it dwarf. So
Speaker 5: what I'm going to do in this to give you
Speaker 5: an accurate sure?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 5: Okay? Well, I want to give you an accurate answer,
Speaker 5: but not my best guess. Okay, So if I were you,
Speaker 5: I would call Ken at Quality Feed. Quality Feed is
Speaker 5: in north central Houston, you know, just in town, just
Speaker 5: north of the heights in there. Quality Feed Ken is
Speaker 5: a bones eye expert. They have occasionally meetings of Bonesye
Speaker 5: Society and things going on out there, and I would
Speaker 5: ask him your question, and I think he could do it.
Speaker 5: I don't have a connection reference number for someone with
Speaker 5: the Bones Eye Society, but I would rather let someone
Speaker 5: who's much more experienced with bones eye on a plant
Speaker 5: like rose, which I've never even seen bones eye to
Speaker 5: help you with that. Okay, all right, So I guess
Speaker 5: what I'm saying is I could I could sit here
Speaker 5: and ramble and guess, or I could send you to
Speaker 5: people that know. So I'd like to give you the
Speaker 5: better answer by doing that. Thank you, Thank you a lot.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. All Right, We're going to go out
Speaker 5: to clear Leg now and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Good morning, sir. I don't have to ask you how
Speaker 18: you are so, because you've already said you're I've sent
Speaker 18: a couple of pictures.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Well, I guess that's great. Is better than fine, it's super?
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, it is it is? Mark?
Speaker 5: What is what is the topic of the picture remind
Speaker 5: me of that, so I grabbed the right one.
Speaker 18: I think it says what are.
Speaker 8: I don't like.
Speaker 3: It does?
Speaker 5: And that's that's one of the common names for it,
Speaker 5: mimosa weed, but it's not a mimosa. That is called
Speaker 5: chamber better, chamber better.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 5: It's also called flower because, yes, sir, because at the
Speaker 5: base of each leaf there's a little tiny flower that
Speaker 5: you wouldn't even know it's a flower because it's so conspicuous,
Speaker 5: but it makes the seeds. And the minute that thing
Speaker 5: gets up and gets a few inches on it, it's
Speaker 5: already producing seed. So it's a problem. The best well,
Speaker 5: I'll start with the more manual way of controlling, and
Speaker 5: that is to pull them up the minute they come up.
Speaker 5: Be careful, get all those out of there, because you
Speaker 5: don't want to leave the seeds behind. And then mulch
Speaker 5: with about three inches of a good dense mulch, not
Speaker 5: something big and chunky, but a little denser, and block
Speaker 5: all the sunlight out so they can't sprout. Now, you
Speaker 5: can use a pre emergent in the soil called gallery
Speaker 5: gallery like like a foat, like a painting gallery. Okay,
Speaker 5: that is put down like Mattrosmat Gallery, right, and you
Speaker 5: put that down watered in like you would. You know,
Speaker 5: I talk about barricade all the time. It controls grasses
Speaker 5: and broad leaf weeds, this particular one, I think gallery
Speaker 5: will do a little bit better job for you. You
Speaker 5: might get bark may work on it, but the galleries
Speaker 5: for broad leaf weeds only doesn't control grasses. But if
Speaker 5: you get it down, you're gonna have to get it
Speaker 5: down in April, early April, maybe late March, because this
Speaker 5: stuff starts sprouting a little late, but as you know,
Speaker 5: is already well sprouted by now, so I would say
Speaker 5: probably late March would even be a better time for
Speaker 5: the gallery application watered in.
Speaker 18: It's everywhere, It's in all kinds of pots and other places.
Speaker 18: I was wondering, you know, if some weeds are edible.
Speaker 18: I don't suppose this is one of them, because it
Speaker 18: is I A feed a whole lot of people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not to my knowledge that that is for sure,
Speaker 5: not to my knowledge, but it is. It is an
Speaker 5: ongoing problem, and we really struggle with this particular weed
Speaker 5: because it's not easy to kill. Now, if you can
Speaker 5: find a product that is like a trimech product, Okay,
Speaker 5: trimech it's a broad leaf weed killer. If you apply it,
Speaker 5: you got to be real careful because it kills broad
Speaker 5: leaf weeds and lawns, but it can damage your lawn
Speaker 5: if temperatures are like above ninety degrees, so you get
Speaker 5: out early in the morning and spray it. I do
Speaker 5: find that chamber Better is a little hard to control,
Speaker 5: and so since it's growing so close with other desirable plants,
Speaker 5: you just want to be real careful not to get
Speaker 5: that trimeach on those desirable plants.
Speaker 18: Ok, well, thanks very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: All right. You take care. You're my first chamber Better
Speaker 5: call of this season. We usually get a few of
Speaker 5: them here.
Speaker 3: Eat you.
Speaker 18: You know, I'm not thanks very many things. Thanks, there
Speaker 18: you go.
Speaker 5: I wish there was a reward for it, but we're
Speaker 5: fresh out today. Take care of her. You know, normally
Speaker 5: I tell people normally I tell people want to help
Speaker 5: them with like tomatoes or something. I say, well, just
Speaker 5: bring me half your produce to the station and we'll
Speaker 5: call it. Even I don't need half your chamber Better.
Speaker 5: You just keep it to yourself. Thank you. I appreciate that,
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Speaker 5: a little crystals in it that swell up with water,
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Speaker 5: Beamer in Sagemont and you're gonna find nitro frost type
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Speaker 5: up in the Woodlands on Kirkandal. Those are all places
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Speaker 5: I'm looking at a break here, so I'll tell you
Speaker 5: what Martha and Kingwood and Gary and West Houston. You're
Speaker 5: gonna be first when we come right back. All right, folks,
Speaker 5: here we go. Got one little quick segment left. We're
Speaker 5: gonna get that done. Hey, what is the mantra of
Speaker 5: garden line? Well, I got a bunch of mantras, but
Speaker 5: the main one I think seems to be brown stuff
Speaker 5: before green stuff. Right, I'll tell you where to get
Speaker 5: the brown stuff. Seein the malts. See in amalts. They
Speaker 5: carry products that are top quality of every type you need,
Speaker 5: mulches of various types. They got a bunch of different
Speaker 5: options for multis. Do you need compost, Oh, my gosh,
Speaker 5: they got incredible selection of composts, really quality stuff too.
Speaker 5: Do you want to do maybe a vegetable nerve bed? Well,
Speaker 5: they carry from the folks at Heirloom Soils, Veggie and Herbmex.
Speaker 5: You know you're gonna find the fertilizers there that are
Speaker 5: part of fixing the brown stuff, part of building the soil,
Speaker 5: part of creating the foundation for success with plants. That
Speaker 5: would be micro Life products, Nelson Products, Medina Products, nitrofoss Products,
Speaker 5: Azamite product that is a one stop shop. Ciena Molts
Speaker 5: there south of Houston on FM five point twenty one.
Speaker 5: Go to the website Sienna Multch dot com Sienna Maltz
Speaker 5: dot com. Start there. They'll deliver within twenty miles of
Speaker 5: the area that they're in for a small fee. Or
Speaker 5: you can go pick it up. You can go pick
Speaker 5: it up there by the bag, by the bulk, however
Speaker 5: you want to do it. Ciena Maltch is the place
Speaker 5: where you begin. Once you created that foundation at Cienamltch,
Speaker 5: then you put the great plants in and take care
Speaker 5: of them and you're guaranteed success. I mean, it's as
Speaker 5: simple as that. All right, We're going to run out
Speaker 5: now to Kingwood and talk to Martha this morning. Hey, Martha,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 26: I have a question on my blackberries. I've had this
Speaker 26: last year and I read it article and I can't
Speaker 26: find the article anymore. But what happens is.
Speaker 13: When the.
Speaker 26: Berries turn red and then when they start turning the
Speaker 26: black part of the I call them seed. They they're white.
Speaker 26: And it's this year it is more prevalent than it's
Speaker 26: ever been on my berries. So something and I remember
Speaker 26: the article. It was lacking something in the salt, and
Speaker 26: I can't find the article.
Speaker 2: You have any suggestions, Well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you see that a lot. The white those are
Speaker 5: called druplets. You see the white druplets on there. Now,
Speaker 5: this happens quite a bit when temperatures are really high.
Speaker 5: That can happen. Whenever they use shade cloth in the
Speaker 5: test trials, it cuts down on that a little bit.
Speaker 5: So sometimes it's a sun related thing. It also sometimes
Speaker 5: when you get too much water on them, we say
Speaker 5: excessive rainfall, but it could come from irrigation too. You
Speaker 5: notice red druplets that just don't turn their full color
Speaker 5: or that wine. There's also sometimes brown and shrunken druplets
Speaker 5: on a berry, and that's a disease called anthractnose that
Speaker 5: can affect the berries. Normally, we don't do a lot
Speaker 5: of spray in for any of this stuff, but when
Speaker 5: if you had the anthractnose part, there's a product called
Speaker 5: lime liquid lime sulfur that can be put on them
Speaker 5: when they're dormant, before the berries even begin to put
Speaker 5: a new growth dormant dormant that can be put on
Speaker 5: for the anthractnose part. I think, based on what you're describing,
Speaker 5: it seems to be more of a temperature related thing,
Speaker 5: and especially sudden changes in that temperature.
Speaker 26: Well that could be the boys lot more than it
Speaker 26: ever has. And the berries don't really have a good taste,
Speaker 26: not like they used you know they did, like, yeah, they.
Speaker 5: Because they're not fully fully ripening and getting all that
Speaker 5: sugar in. There's one other thing I didn't mention. That's
Speaker 5: stink bugs. Stink bugs can put their little beak and
Speaker 5: a BlackBerry and feed on it too and cause damage
Speaker 5: to it. And you may be seeing a little bit
Speaker 5: of that. But with blackberries, we like a moderate amount
Speaker 5: of moisture. So the plants are good and strong and healthy,
Speaker 5: but we need we need lots of sunlight to get
Speaker 5: those berries fully ripened. And you kind of have to
Speaker 5: let them ripen where they go past the shiny stage
Speaker 5: to kind of a dull, shiny kind of color.
Speaker 26: When they're fully ripe, well they are out in the sun,
Speaker 26: so it's that's not a problem for sure.
Speaker 12: Well, yeah, what.
Speaker 5: Kind of blackberries? What kind of blackberries do you have?
Speaker 2: The rap a hole.
Speaker 5: Rapa ho Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 5: Well anyway, yeah, yeah, well, uh so, Arkansas, which is
Speaker 5: our number one breeder of blackberries now all the good
Speaker 5: new varieties like a rapa ho. In fact, any BlackBerry
Speaker 5: that has a name that's a Native American tribe like
Speaker 5: Kaiowa and a rappah and those names. They're bread in Arkansas,
Speaker 5: and they say that whenever you get a drop in
Speaker 5: humidity and an increase in temperature, they get a lot
Speaker 5: more of those white berries on the fruit from that.
Speaker 5: So anyway, I don't know exactly on yours. Yeah, they
Speaker 5: one of their one of their varieties is called Apache,
Speaker 5: and it's more prone to to that problem. We see
Speaker 5: that more on Apache, but I'm not familiar with a
Speaker 5: rapa hoe and the white drupelet. If it's more.
Speaker 2: Prone to it or not, we all be there.
Speaker 26: Okay, Well, thank you.
Speaker 3: Out, Okay, worry about it like all.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the call.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Mar I appreciate, appreciate you call very much. Hey, Moss Nursery,
Speaker 5: if you haven't been there, you got to go. I
Speaker 5: don't care where you live, you gotta go to Moss Nursery.
Speaker 5: And why do I say that, Well, it is amazing.
Speaker 5: This is a family owed nursery. You've been around seventy years,
Speaker 5: eight acres. You wander through eight acres of wonderfulness. Oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, the houseplat Greenhouse, I love it. I almost
Speaker 5: had their first ever time because of the selection and
Speaker 5: things that they have just so good. But everywhere you
Speaker 5: walk in Moss, you're gonna see pottery, You're gonna see plants,
Speaker 5: you're gonna see water features, You're gonna it's just a
Speaker 5: fun place to go visit. And I'll tell you this,
Speaker 5: you will see a lot of stuff that you can't
Speaker 5: find anywhere else. They specialize in having a very wide
Speaker 5: variety of things. You know, like unusual varieties of pathos,
Speaker 5: for example. Everybody knows what apothus ivy is. Well, how
Speaker 5: about varieties you never seen in your life before. They've
Speaker 5: got those there. If you want color plants like dwarf
Speaker 5: zenias for betting plants, they got you covered. Do you
Speaker 5: want hanging baskets? Do you want trees and shrubs and
Speaker 5: those little discipring fountain water features, the small ones you
Speaker 5: just sit on yours like a container and a container
Speaker 5: so it's bubbling water over the top, but it just
Speaker 5: recircles around. They've got those down there at Moss Nursery.
Speaker 5: It's in Seabrook, Texas. It's on Toddville Road. The website
Speaker 5: Maas Nursery Moss Nursery dot com. Check out the beautiful
Speaker 5: passion mines. They have purple, blue, creamy, white, red, all
Speaker 5: kinds of colors. The Gulf fritillary caterpillars. They will fly
Speaker 5: ten miles to get to a passion vine because that's
Speaker 5: what their babies love to munch on. And you get
Speaker 5: more caterpillars, you get more butterflies that way. Go check
Speaker 5: them out Moss Nursery. We're going to head now over
Speaker 5: to West Houston and talk to Gary. Gary, you're the
Speaker 5: caboose today on the show, our last caller. How can
Speaker 5: we help?
Speaker 3: Well, thank you and I'll try to make it real.
Speaker 3: Did you get the pictures? I said to the producer.
Speaker 5: I bet I did, I bet I did. Hang on
Speaker 5: one second, what would they? What would they pictures of Gary?
Speaker 27: I get the grass and there's one with Saint Augustine
Speaker 27: with the American flag in the background.
Speaker 5: Oh uh no, I don't have those.
Speaker 3: I can.
Speaker 5: Okay, tell me, tell me. Let's see if I can
Speaker 5: help you without the pictures.
Speaker 3: Sure, yes, that's where it's going.
Speaker 27: One of my neighbors is real sick in their yards,
Speaker 27: gone to you know where, and they got a behea infestation.
Speaker 3: And I know how to grow Saint Augustine. I'm really
Speaker 3: good at it, but I've researched it. I can't find
Speaker 3: a way to help her with that problem with behea.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm. Okay, I mean it's a lot there's behea
Speaker 5: in the Saint Augustine, right.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, sir, but a lot of Okay, I know
Speaker 3: lot of.
Speaker 5: Okay, here's what you do, okay, sir. Yeah, here's what
Speaker 5: you do if you've if you're going to control beeo
Speaker 5: grass in Saint Augustine, Uh, we are gonna what is
Speaker 5: the name of that, oh, met sulfur on.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 5: The ingredient is met sulfur On M E T s
Speaker 5: U L F U R O N. The brand is
Speaker 5: either going to be called M S M turf or
Speaker 5: manor M A N O R. Now, big, big, big, big,
Speaker 5: big warning. That will damage trees and shrubs. Do not
Speaker 5: overdrench them. Don't put it on before a rain. You
Speaker 5: do not want it in the root system in the soil.
Speaker 5: You just want to barely wet the beheograss and Saint
Speaker 5: Augustine is not bothered by the M S M turf
Speaker 5: hardly at all, but the beheograss is killed by it.
Speaker 5: But be very careful with the application. That's one reason
Speaker 5: I recommend that product.
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead, are they find no?
Speaker 5: Uh, you you were in West Houston, I would go
Speaker 5: to Southwest Fertilizer corner Abyssinett and Runwick. You may find
Speaker 5: those at an Ace hardware store. It would. You just
Speaker 5: have to check the stores near you to see if
Speaker 5: they carry them. But I know has them done at Uh?
Speaker 3: Yes, I appreciate the information.
Speaker 27: It's it's it's green, but they put up those ugly
Speaker 27: peace signed things and it's just so ugly.
Speaker 5: Oh, I know the day the day after it's it's
Speaker 5: a great turf for out there in areas where you
Speaker 5: don't want to water and take care of it. But
Speaker 5: the day after, you know, you already got seat heads,
Speaker 5: knee hike.
Speaker 27: Yes, I'm gonna the rest of her long and I
Speaker 27: really feel like I can help because I know I've
Speaker 27: been listening the guard line a long time, so I.
Speaker 3: Know how to do it.
Speaker 5: So if you find those all righty Gary, Thanks thank
Speaker 5: you for the call, sir. I gotta run. I appreciate
Speaker 5: that very much. Wow, we had a busy day today.
Speaker 5: I'm glad. I like busy. I hope you enjoyed listening,
Speaker 5: had a little bit of fun in the process. All right,
Speaker 5: tomorrow morning, sect your clock six am. Let's do this again.
Speaker 5: Let's talk gardening here on garden Line. In the meantime,
Speaker 5: gardening with skip dot com. The website lots of new stuff.
Speaker 5: I meant to talk about some of the new stuff today.
Speaker 5: Maybe I'll get to that tomorrow.