WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:04.679 Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with skin Rictor. 2 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:05.080 It's s. 3 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:12.199 Trim. 4 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:23.000 Just watch him as so many goings to sleep by. 5 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.079 A sign. 6 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:37.399 Sun beaming down. 7 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:46.000 Alright, the rooster has crewed. It is time to be 8 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:49.799 up and about, well at least for garden line. We'll 9 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:52.000 take a minute to fuel up on coffee, get a 10 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:54.520 little inspiration here on our garden before we head out 11 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.200 for the day, to get some good things done. You 12 00:00:58.280 --> 00:01:01.439 know that you in a bad day in the garden 13 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:04.280 is better I don't than a good day doing a 14 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.519 lot of other things, in my opinion, getting out there 15 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.799 and enjoying it. I was playing in the dirt yesterday mulching. 16 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:15.200 I had some bags of a type of malta was 17 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:20.040 trying out from the folks up at Natural Ice. Kid. 18 00:01:20.359 --> 00:01:24.120 I can't even I can't even talk here. Nature's Way Okay, 19 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:26.920 who am I talking to here? There we go Nature's 20 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:30.959 Way Resources, Nature's Way Resources, you know, is is outstanding 21 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:33.680 place and they've got all kinds of different products up there. 22 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.680 But anyway, I was trying out some one of their mulches. 23 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:38.959 Like I said, I always tell you this on Gardland, 24 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:41.480 I'm always trying new products because I gotta tryumph. I 25 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:43.159 got to know how they work. I haven't know how 26 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:45.959 they look and how they perform and hold up and 27 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:49.439 everything else. Are they effective or not? Anyway, I was 28 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:52.799 mulching a front bed and pretty much got it all done. 29 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:56.719 I had some old mulch on the bed, but as 30 00:01:56.799 --> 00:01:58.640 I tell you all the time, don't get rid of 31 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:01.879 the old malts put the new mulch on top, because 32 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:05.079 the old multch is decomposing away. Especially when you put 33 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:08.319 more mulch on top of it, it just speeds the decomposition. 34 00:02:08.439 --> 00:02:12.120 It stays moist that old mulch, and it decomposes away 35 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:15.800 and makes really good soil materials. So even though we're 36 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.240 not putting it on to b compost, it becomes compost. 37 00:02:19.439 --> 00:02:22.599 We're using it on the surface to block weeds. And two, 38 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:26.639 I've got an area where the sun just really breaks 39 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:28.360 down on the bed and it gets hot and the 40 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:31.439 soil gets really hot in the summer, and mosch helps 41 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:34.319 with that as well. Anyway, felt good to get that done, 42 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:35.919 and when you step back and look at it, it 43 00:02:36.280 --> 00:02:39.960 really looks nice. I got some more areas that are 44 00:02:40.080 --> 00:02:43.319 waiting on me to get some other mulch on as well, 45 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:46.639 I hope you're having a good day so far, and 46 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:48.719 we look forward to visiting with you here on garden 47 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:50.719 Line if you'd like to give me a call seven 48 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.759 to one three two one two ktr H seven one 49 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:57.680 three two one two ktrh. Jungle Land distributed by Nitroposs 50 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:02.840 is an outstanding actually it's too different. Outstanding potting soils 51 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:06.439 or planting soils. Jungle and flour and vegetable is for outdoors. 52 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:10.039 Jungle and water saving potting soil is for indoors. It's 53 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:13.120 got the crystals in it to help when you forget 54 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:16.800 the water. Sometimes those crystals whole moisture and don't dry 55 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:20.199 out as fast as the growing nex or a potting 56 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:23.639 soil itself wood, which is why they add those into 57 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:25.919 the indoor version of jungle in you're going to find 58 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:28.039 nit Foss products in many places. You got up to 59 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:30.199 Brunham plants and things. They've got them up there a 60 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.039 Baiting on a Baytown, Fisher's Hardware, Alexander, or maybe out 61 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:36.719 in Clute Lake Hardware and Clute on Dixie Drive, all 62 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:41.039 places where you'll find nitropost products. We're going to head 63 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:50.759 out to camp Wood now and talk to Milo Hello Milo. Alrighty, 64 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:53.280 let's see here. I'm gonna can you hear us? 65 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:53.759 There? You are? 66 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:54.479 Hey Milo? 67 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:57.879 Yeah I can, Yes, I sent Yeah, I sent you 68 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.719 an email about whether I have a pipe dream or 69 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:06.039 a feasible dream to plant lavender out here on our 70 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:08.280 ranch and have it success. 71 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:16.519 Yes, mm hmm. Well, first of all, yes, I was 72 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:18.360 gonna say, first of all, how'd you find garden line 73 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:19.399 out in camp Wood? 74 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.639 Well, I used to live in Kingwood. I used to 75 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:27.480 live in Kingwood. Randy Lemon was there before you. And 76 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:33.160 I've listened to you out here on iHeart Radio and yeah, wonderful. 77 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:35.920 Yeah, glad, glad you're doing it. 78 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:36.360 Yeah you. 79 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:38.839 For those of you who don't know, he's he's north 80 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:40.800 of u Valley out way west. 81 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:41.000 Yes. 82 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:48.120 So lavender, Yeah, lavender struggles struggles here because of our 83 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:52.600 our moisture and humidity, especially very soggy, wet in the 84 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:55.120 winter times and things. You've got a better, I think, 85 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:59.079 a better climate for it out there. There's a reason 86 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:01.120 you don't see a lot of lavender forms, even the 87 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:05.519 lavender planted out Blanco that direction west to San Antonio 88 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:09.360 struggles when we have kind of some wet seasons there. 89 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:13.000 So drainage is critical if you're going to have success 90 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:16.240 with it. I think the alkalin soil isn't too much 91 00:05:16.279 --> 00:05:18.600 of a problem as long as you mentioned to use 92 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:23.040 iron and sulfur containing fertilizers to make sure that you know, 93 00:05:23.120 --> 00:05:26.920 you keep those leaves nice and healthy. I have not, 94 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:31.519 of course, grown anything out of camp wood, but I 95 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.439 would say that it's worth a try. I wouldn't take it. 96 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:38.279 I wouldn't bite off too much at one time as 97 00:05:38.279 --> 00:05:42.040 an investment, you know, just a testing of it. Did 98 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:45.680 you did you send your email that you had had 99 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:47.560 better success with a French lavender? 100 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:53.319 Yes, I have French. I've had French, English and Spanish 101 00:05:53.720 --> 00:05:56.759 and the French. The plant is growing, but it has 102 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:59.120 never bloomed in four years, okay. 103 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:04.519 Mm hmm yeah. Yeah, Well I don't know why. Getting 104 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:07.480 up lots of sunlight, I'm sure. Oh yes, oh yes, 105 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:13.199 that it has to have sunlight. Yes, why would it not? 106 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.000 Why would it not bloom if the plant looks good, 107 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:18.600 that's a mystery. 108 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:24.120 I got them from an online place called High Country 109 00:06:25.879 --> 00:06:26.680 Gardens or something. 110 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:32.439 High Country Gardens, Yeah, that's out there in New Mexico. Yes, yeah, 111 00:06:32.480 --> 00:06:38.839 it's a great, it's a great place. Yeah, place, they 112 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:42.160 focus on things I was just gonna say, they focus 113 00:06:42.240 --> 00:06:45.000 on things that are you know, it's called high country 114 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:46.959 for a reason. They have some elevation, so they've got 115 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.360 some very cool nights and uh so, not everything from 116 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:52.680 there is going to grow well for you, but by 117 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:54.839 and large, they've got a lot of good things that will. 118 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:56.240 Right. 119 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:00.480 Could I cut some shoots off of their and have 120 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:04.399 them roots off of a plant or you know, because 121 00:07:04.399 --> 00:07:08.040 they're not inexpensive if I want to do a significant amount. 122 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:09.720 But like you say, I'm not going to bite that 123 00:07:09.800 --> 00:07:12.040 all off at one time. But let's say let's say 124 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:14.319 I get five plants and they seem to be doing well. 125 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:17.560 Could I take cuttings and propagate that way. 126 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:23.839 You should be able to Lavender will root from cuttings 127 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:26.120 you want to be just go on do this. Go 128 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:30.040 online and find some information on propagating lavender. There's a 129 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:32.000 lot of good information out there. You can kind of 130 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:35.600 weed through it. Basically, it's done like rosemary. You take 131 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:38.639 little shoot cuttings that are about oh maybe I would 132 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:41.199 say four or five inches long, strip the leaves off 133 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.680 the bottom half, deplemental rooting hormone, and then put them 134 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:49.639 in a moist soil condition like a propagating a loose 135 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:52.519 propagating because the cuttings don't want to be soggy wet either. 136 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:54.480 But yes, it's doable. 137 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.720 Yeah, we have lots of rosemary out here, and I've 138 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:03.800 been very successful at taking salvia and propagating it. That 139 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:06.199 has worked tremendously for me. 140 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:10.439 You know so well, sounds like you're having fun out there. 141 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:16.720 In between doing a lot of work out in the weather. 142 00:08:16.959 --> 00:08:20.639 You kind of get beat down sometimes, but well. 143 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:21.439 Let me let me tell you one more thing. I've 144 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:23.000 got a few seconds and I'm going to have to 145 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:26.360 go here, but if you go to something called Grow 146 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.720 Green Plant Guide, it's in Austin, Texas. Grow Green Plant Guide. 147 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.360 I help write that many years ago, and it's a 148 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.159 booklet online that has lots of plants that do well 149 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.600 in an arid climate and a semi arid climate. And 150 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:44.559 I think you'll find a lot of great options for 151 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:48.000 you and your your growing conditions out there in Camp Wood. 152 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.000 I've got a hard break here. 153 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:53.559 For I thank thank you. I love your show. 154 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:57.720 You take care, all right, appreciate that. All right, We'll 155 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:02.080 be right back, alrighty, welcome back, Welcome back, to the 156 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:04.639 guard line. Good to have you with us. We hit 157 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:07.519 the ground running this morning and apparently a few of 158 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:09.960 you are up and within reach of a phone, so 159 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:12.720 good to have you with us. 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Hey Jim, welcome to Guardline. 181 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:19.399 Good morning, and how are you doing this morning? 182 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:21.840 I did well, Thank you? 183 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:25.840 Hemming great great great. Uh yes, I know you're real busy, 184 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.759 real early this morning. Here's the situation. I did it again. 185 00:10:30.159 --> 00:10:34.080 I've got the ConA plant and it's a constant Canova. 186 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:37.279 It's a Canova version, which would be the shorter version 187 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:38.840 correct of the KNA. 188 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:42.759 You're you're talking about cannas. Uh huh go ahead, yeah, 189 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:43.519 go ahead. 190 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:47.600 Yeah, yeah, Okay. What I did was route bound again. 191 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:51.000 And what I did was I there was so tight, 192 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:53.919 got them out of the pot that was so tight. 193 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:57.559 What I did was a siltumun water for about twenty 194 00:10:57.639 --> 00:11:01.000 hours and try to put apart, put it the ground 195 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:06.720 and shock. Should I cut back or just let the 196 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.960 leaves turn brown and yellow and they're curling under and 197 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:12.879 the plant looks like it's God. 198 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:17.600 Yeah, I don't think it will, you know, I don't. 199 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:19.759 I don't know the degree of the damage that happened 200 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:22.279 to it. But cannons are tough. They will grow in 201 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:25.960 standing water, they will grow, and once they're established there, 202 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:28.399 they put up a drought pretty well. Then you know 203 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:30.799 they'll they'll come back. They'll look bad, but they'll come 204 00:11:30.879 --> 00:11:33.879 back out again fresh. So I think, uh, I think 205 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:35.960 that'll be a good one. And you've got your little 206 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:38.919 kind of a compact version there, so that ought to 207 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:40.159 be yes to do. 208 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:44.720 Well for you, okay. And then another question is you 209 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:47.000 can see the little round ball on top, Now that 210 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:50.519 is the seed? Correct? Can I take that seed and 211 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:52.799 cut it off and plant it or what can I 212 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:53.559 do with that seed? 213 00:11:55.759 --> 00:12:01.080 I don't know that the particular canova can in terms 214 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.639 of whether they set viable seed or not, but if 215 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:06.720 they do, yes, you can just allow that pod to dry. 216 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:06.799 It. 217 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:09.919 It's kind of a little bit kind of a spiky, 218 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:14.759 bumpy pod up there on top, and there'll be a 219 00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.519 seed inside it. Let it, make sure it starts to dry, 220 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:21.279 but don't let it get too terribly dry, and then 221 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:23.960 plant it. And I think, you know, if it's viable. 222 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:27.559 Some plants, as they've been bred, they don't produce viable seed, 223 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:30.279 but you'll just have to find out on that one. 224 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:32.279 I've never tried on a Canova canna. 225 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:36.720 So your direction will be just cut it now and 226 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:39.279 let it dry out. Let the little ball dry out, 227 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:41.679 and then plant that in a pot. 228 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:46.200 Correct well, let me let me change that a little bit. 229 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:51.080 I would let it mature so that it begins to dry, 230 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:54.960 not completely dead dry, but you know that. You know, 231 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:58.759 those seeds are fully developed and mature in there, just 232 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:01.480 like any plant, you know, a green bean. At some 233 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:05.159 point the pod starts turning brown and are yellow and 234 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:08.519 brown because it's mature. And take the seeds out and 235 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:12.679 plant those in very rich potting soil, keep them very moist, 236 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:17.000 have them in good light. Doesn't have to be full sunned, 237 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.600 but at least good light to get them started. Good 238 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:21.120 luck with that. 239 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:23.639 Thank you so much, sir. 240 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:28.159 All right, Jim, Yes, sir, thanks call. Appreciate that. Appreciate 241 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:31.320 that a lot nite. VI Superturf, I've been talking about 242 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:33.799 it for a while now because we've been in superturf 243 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.879 season for a while. Super Turf's a silver bag from 244 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.720 nitrovivis in nineteen four to ten. It has about a 245 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:43.159 sixteen week release, which means at this point in the 246 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.080 season you put it down and return your clippings, and 247 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:49.960 it'll carry all the way into the fall fertilization because 248 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:53.080 those clippings also decompose and they gradually feed as we 249 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:57.519 have nice warm and moist weather from moist from rain, 250 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:00.879 but also you irrigating your lawn. Ninety five superturf is 251 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.000 available in many places. You're going to find it at 252 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:07.919 Lake Hardware in Ankleton on Velasco down in Alvin Stanson 253 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:10.799 Shopping Center on North Taylor, and in clear Lake there's 254 00:14:10.840 --> 00:14:14.639 an M and D Hardware on Bay Area Boulevard that 255 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:19.200 will carry nine to five superturf as well. We're going 256 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:23.320 to go now to Thomas in Nevasota. Hey, Thomas, welcome 257 00:14:23.320 --> 00:14:23.960 to garden Line. 258 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:25.960 How you doing Goop? 259 00:14:27.679 --> 00:14:27.879 Good? 260 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:28.519 Doing good? 261 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:32.440 I love the show. I got a question about my tomatoes. 262 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:36.039 I've got better boys, and they're probably those to six 263 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:39.720 foot tall now and they've got fruit set, but they're 264 00:14:39.799 --> 00:14:43.279 dropping Lee's from the from the bottom to the top, 265 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:48.720 and probably two thirds of the plant is there? Is it? 266 00:14:49.360 --> 00:14:50.240 I know it's a fungus. 267 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:50.679 I've got some. 268 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:55.320 I've got some dacnhil. Do you have any other suggestions? 269 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:00.200 Daccan Hill is good for leaf spots being great. An 270 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:04.399 chlorothalonil is a is a pretty good leaf spot fungicide. 271 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.600 Most I don't you know, not seeing this is where 272 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:10.080 a picture would be helpful. But not seeing the leaves 273 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:14.399 you say dropping tomato. Tomato leaves don't typically drop. They 274 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:17.360 shrivel up. You know, they don't have enough sick. 275 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:20.159 As they turn yellow. 276 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:27.919 So okay, well, yeah, I would make sure you're giving 277 00:15:27.960 --> 00:15:31.480 it adequate nitrogen so you promote fresh new growth. So 278 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:34.200 those leaves that are lost are not so much of 279 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:36.080 a loss to the plant because it's got lots of 280 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:39.440 new leaves coming on. But yeah, a sprays of the uh, 281 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:41.840 the dacanel I, since you have it on hand, I 282 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:44.919 would try that one and that at that out of help. 283 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:45.480 Uh. 284 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:48.120 There's a lot of different diseases and it may be 285 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:50.919 that you need to switch to a different fungicide, but 286 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:55.120 dacanil is pretty good for leaf spots and uh septoria 287 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:58.399 leaf spots or caspro. Let's see what's uh the late 288 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.639 blight and things like that are spots early black those 289 00:16:01.679 --> 00:16:04.679 are ultimato diseases and you should get some response from 290 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:05.240 backing hill. 291 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:08.519 Well, this didn't really start happening until we had that 292 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:11.159 first ground of rain, I guess towards the latter part 293 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:14.080 of April, and then I noticed it started from the 294 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:16.399 bottom and started going to the top. So there's probably 295 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:19.399 you know, I guess it was a rain that started 296 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:22.279 on Uh. Can I ask you another question? 297 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:25.799 Yes? 298 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:27.679 Uh. 299 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:32.240 We've got a family branch in Lee Counting Gettings, and 300 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:35.120 for the past ten or fifteen years, we have been 301 00:16:35.240 --> 00:16:39.639 losing post o trees, primarily post o trees by live oaks. 302 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:44.879 And you can go up on a Saturday and the 303 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.679 tree looks fine. Come up the next Saturday, the leaves 304 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:50.320 are turning yellow. The next Saturday is completely dead. 305 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:51.600 Uh. 306 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:56.840 And we've lost man probably hundreds post up big post oats, 307 00:16:57.279 --> 00:17:01.879 and we're even starting to lose some of the coastal 308 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:04.640 live oaks and some of the smartt live oaks start 309 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.680 to come to this, whatever this is? Do you have 310 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:09.160 any idea what it is? 311 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:14.000 That's very weird? Where did you say this was? 312 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:17.160 This is a Lee County getting. 313 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.440 Lee County, Okay. I don't know of Lee County as 314 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:28.079 a hot spot for oak twilt. It doesn't quite sound 315 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:32.000 like oak tilt either. The post oaks shouldn't be as 316 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.480 susceptible to oak wilt, as like a live oak or 317 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:38.440 a red oak would be. There are other diseases. There 318 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.799 is a canker called hypoxylin canker that will cause the 319 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.720 bark to fallow, some of it patches to fall off, 320 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:49.039 and then you have this kind of dusty olive material 321 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:51.839 that's underneath the bark. You rub your finger across it 322 00:17:51.880 --> 00:17:54.359 and it comes off on your fingers, or you'll see 323 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:58.200 a silver or a black, almost tar like substance under there. 324 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:01.640 Those that's a stress related disease. I would talk to 325 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:06.039 your Lee County Agriculture agent at the Extension office there 326 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:09.680 see if they can get involved and help you. And 327 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:13.759 also they might involve the state Plant Clinic in looking 328 00:18:13.839 --> 00:18:17.279 at that. Just based on the description you gave me, 329 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:19.759 those are the first things that come to mind. 330 00:18:21.039 --> 00:18:25.160 We've had a low rainfall. That area is a snake 331 00:18:25.240 --> 00:18:27.599 bit when it comes to weather, but we've had a 332 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:33.119 low rainfall for probably twenty years. Gets really really dry 333 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:35.039 and then we'll get a flood and I don't know 334 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:36.599 if I have something. I'm sure it has stuff to 335 00:18:36.680 --> 00:18:39.720 do with it, but it's just really devastating to see 336 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:41.680 these big trees have to have a doser come push 337 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:42.039 them down. 338 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:47.599 Yeah, those are both. Those are both very resilient species too, 339 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:51.880 so I would get them involved in it. And once 340 00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:55.920 a plant gets stressed, it's not unusual for some disease 341 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.039 to move in that otherwise would not have heard it. 342 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:00.319 It's kind of like us. We get weak and we're 343 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.319 more likely to catch something. And that that's that's what 344 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:06.279 it amounts to. Hey, Thomas, thanks a lot and good luck, 345 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:09.000 but but do talk to your a county agent out there. 346 00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:13.240 You got it, Yes, sir, thank you appreciate appreciate that 347 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:18.039 very much. Uh that that call reminded me of a 348 00:19:18.200 --> 00:19:20.680 concept that I think is worth mentioning, and that is 349 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:25.240 that diseases. He mentioned that, you know, after a rainy period, 350 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:28.680 you saw a lot of diseases on the tomatoes, fungus, 351 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:32.720 diseases and bacteria to some degree. But but the fungus 352 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:36.480 puts spores out that lands on leaves, and those spores 353 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:40.440 are like seeds. If you throw weed seeds in dry dirt, 354 00:19:40.960 --> 00:19:43.519 they will not come up. But the minute you get 355 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:45.559 a little bit of water on that dry dirt, it 356 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:47.880 turns into a chia pet of weeds. They come up 357 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:52.480 everywhere fungal spores are like that. In most cases, you 358 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:55.240 get a little film of water over them with which 359 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:58.279 would be rain or irrigation, and the right temperature for 360 00:19:58.359 --> 00:20:01.559 the right number of hours, and that in each disease 361 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:05.279 has its own specs like that. Then the spore sprouts, 362 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:07.839 it sends it's little the equivalent of a root called 363 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:10.039 a hyphee end of the leaf and infects it, and 364 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:13.440 then we see leaf spots okay on the leaves or 365 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:18.000 those foliage diseases. Bacteria are somewhat similar. They don't form 366 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:21.400 a hyphie that infects, but when it's wet and they 367 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:24.720 get splashed around in that condition, they're able to infect 368 00:20:24.759 --> 00:20:27.359 the leave and cause the types of spots. Bacteria costs. 369 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:31.160 So that's one of the reasons we say don't squirt 370 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:33.640 to foliage all the time. You can't control rain, you 371 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.119 can't control irrigation. But the more you keep plants wet, 372 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:40.519 whether it is Saint Augustine grass, you get Saint Augustine 373 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:43.079 in shade right now and you keep it extra moist, 374 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:45.279 and you're going to see gray leaf spot all over 375 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:47.839 the place because it's taken off right now. But all 376 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:50.799 kinds of diseases are promoted by that. So when you 377 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:53.960 plant roses, don't crowd them. You want good air circulation, 378 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:57.119 don't have a sprinkler hitting the leaves, use drip irrigation. 379 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:00.519 All of those are ways to avoid disease, probably just 380 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:04.000 by understanding what's going on spore lands. It sends a 381 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.279 root into the leaf and infects, and then after a 382 00:21:07.319 --> 00:21:09.880 little period of time you see the leaf spot that 383 00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:12.440 could be avoided in those ways. Time for me to 384 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:16.359 take a quick break. We'll be right back, all right, folks, 385 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:20.079 welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good have you with us. 386 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:24.039 Year round Houston dot com. It's the name of the 387 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:27.599 place and it's the name of the website, Year round 388 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:30.519 Houston dot com. They are specialists when it comes to 389 00:21:30.640 --> 00:21:33.839 cororation compost top dressing. You know you can do do 390 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:37.079 it yourself. Aeration and compost top dressing is very cumbersome. 391 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:40.079 You got a hassle of renting and transporting and cleaning, 392 00:21:40.119 --> 00:21:43.079 returning machines and big halls of composts in the driveway, 393 00:21:43.160 --> 00:21:45.519 and you know you're around Houston, just have them come 394 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:49.359 in and do it. They use quality screened plant based composts. 395 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:52.839 Doesn't smell. In fact, it has a wonderful earthy smell, 396 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:56.680 and it settles down into the lawn because it's screened. Finally, 397 00:21:56.880 --> 00:21:59.559 so when they do aeration top it with the compost 398 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.839 I've composed. Some of it falls down in the aeration holes, 399 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:06.759 breathes life into the lawn as well as adding that 400 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:10.960 great decaying organic matter to stimulate my more microbial activity. 401 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:14.680 You're round Houston dot Com eight three two eight eight 402 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:19.119 four fifty three thirty five. Let's go out now to 403 00:22:19.200 --> 00:22:21.640 Tomball and we're going to talk to David. Hey, David, 404 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:24.680 welcome to gardenline. Yoh, good morning, Skip. 405 00:22:24.839 --> 00:22:25.000 Hey. 406 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:29.559 I bought a fifty pound bag of a barricade from 407 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:36.759 D and D there in Tomball, and unfortunately it got accident. 408 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:39.920 Half of that bag would have been sufficient from my line, 409 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:45.319 but unfortunately it accidentally all fifty pounds got spread on 410 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:48.920 my yard. It got spread evenly, but it all got 411 00:22:49.039 --> 00:22:51.240 the whole bag. It got a double dose. Is it 412 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:54.720 gonna kill my grass or what's it? What can I expect? 413 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:00.400 Well, the barricade itself doesn't kill. It's not like putting 414 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:02.240 you know, round up on a on a yard that 415 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:05.640 it kills the grass. A barricade does, is it it 416 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:09.880 prevents root formation. That's how it kills weeds or prevents 417 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:11.839 weeds is because when a weed seed tries to put 418 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:14.640 a root down, barricade says no, and without a root, 419 00:23:14.680 --> 00:23:17.480 the seed dies in your lawn. That's going to mean 420 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:21.519 runners that can't peg down their roots. You know, how 421 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:24.759 is it Saint Augustine lawn that you. 422 00:23:24.839 --> 00:23:28.640 Have about eighty percent? It's got a little bermuda in there. 423 00:23:28.680 --> 00:23:31.160 I'm hoping that Saint Augustine will eventually take over. 424 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:35.279 Okay, this may give the bermuda a little bit of 425 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:38.680 an upper hand because Bermuda's got the rhizomes underground, and 426 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:42.079 so those runners on top they don't have to if 427 00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:45.000 there can't. If they can't root down, good, the grass 428 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:47.799 is probably still gonna be Okay. Here's the deal. It's 429 00:23:47.799 --> 00:23:50.359 a matter of how much God applied. The more you apply, 430 00:23:51.039 --> 00:23:54.079 the longer it's gonna last and do what it does. 431 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:57.079 So your goal is to keep that grass as healthy 432 00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:01.680 as you can. As the runners they typically die down 433 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:04.400 toward the older part of the runner and the new 434 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:07.640 growth continues on. That new growth is not going to 435 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:09.440 be able to get a root down for a while, 436 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:11.680 and so you've got to make sure it has adequate 437 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:15.200 moisture for that plant to survive it by putting moisture 438 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:18.319 down through that runner to reach the end of the 439 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:23.480 areas that can't get roots down themselves. So adequate moisture. 440 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:26.839 You know, normally I talk about watering maybe once a 441 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:28.960 week in the summer. If you've got a good deep 442 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:31.039 root system, you're going to have to go to more 443 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:34.160 often than that for sure. But just watch it and 444 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:37.839 in time that barricado breakdown and the grass will resume 445 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:43.039 normal growth. So that's what you're out now, all right, 446 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:47.000 all right, thank you sir, all right, thank you, appreciate 447 00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:51.440 the call. You take care. That is how most of 448 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:54.960 our pre emerging fungicides work. He was talking about barricade, 449 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:58.279 but there's a lot of other ones. There's dimension, there's bayland. 450 00:24:58.359 --> 00:25:00.799 There's a whole lot of different surfling, a lot of 451 00:25:00.839 --> 00:25:07.240 different kinds of pre emergent herbicides that we put our 452 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:10.599 laws to stop weed seeds, and so always important use 453 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:15.880 the label rate and that way you're not going to 454 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:18.039 have the degrees of the problems that you have when 455 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:20.880 you overdo things. We find that a lot and I 456 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:24.119 know people there's mistakes get made and things happen, but 457 00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:27.920 that that is always important. Follow that label as close 458 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:31.640 as you can because if a tea spoons good, a 459 00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:35.440 tablespoons not not better, that's for sure, and gene it 460 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:38.720 for us out there in Richmond Rosenberg area. They are 461 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:41.920 a specialist in so many things. I mean they they're 462 00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:46.920 the vegetable selections, they're herbs, they're they're blooming plants, the basket. 463 00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:48.680 I mean, there's so many good things. But I'm telling 464 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:52.000 you they have an incredible selection in native pollinator plants 465 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:56.119 and locally sourced uh. These plants support not only are 466 00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:59.519 local bees and butterflies and hummingbirds, but they thrive in 467 00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:02.440 our client with a lot of excessive water and fertilizer 468 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:05.319 trying to keep them alive. They have things that are 469 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:08.200 nectar rich that are going to bring these good guys 470 00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:11.960 in the bees, the butterflies, the hummingbirds, such as native milkweed. 471 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:15.839 They have several varieties in fact of native milkweed Echinasia, 472 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:20.039 which is conflower, lantanas, other plants that may be a 473 00:26:20.119 --> 00:26:24.400 host plant like Dutchman's pipe vine. Dutchman's pipe brings in 474 00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:29.240 a particular type of a swallowtail like Caterpillar, Texas Elbow Bush. 475 00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:33.279 They have salvia's two ninety I believe in ninety. I 476 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.440 looked at the list one time. Ninety different types of salvia. 477 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:38.839 Did you even know there were ninety? Yeah, there's way 478 00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:43.319 more than ninety in the world, but ninety different options 479 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:46.319 on salvia. So whatever kind of salvi you're looking for, 480 00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:50.160 they have variety after variety after variety of them. My 481 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:55.359 favorite genus genus of plants is salvia. My favorite one 482 00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:58.880 ninety types at Intented for Us. You need to go 483 00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:02.000 check them out. They are on FM twenty seven fifty 484 00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:06.000 nine outside of Richmond, Texas, just south of Highway sixty 485 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:09.119 nine Interstate sixty nine. Here's the website. This is the 486 00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:14.240 most important thing to write down. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX 487 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:17.200 dot com. That's what it is. That's where it is. 488 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:22.400 Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Go check it out. 489 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:25.680 It's a great website too. By the way, if you'd 490 00:27:25.720 --> 00:27:28.000 like to give me a call this morning, we've finally 491 00:27:28.039 --> 00:27:31.480 cleared out that early rush seven one three two one 492 00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:34.920 two k t r H seven one three two one 493 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.079 two k t r H. Nitrofross makes a fire ant killer. 494 00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:41.799 Now for those of you who are welcome, who are 495 00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:45.640 new to Texas. Uh, there's this thing called fire ants. 496 00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:49.680 And when you move here after a while, you make 497 00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:54.039 adjustments in the way that you go about your gardening 498 00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:59.000 and landscape life. For example, when you're in Texas, if 499 00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:02.319 you're walking along looking up and you step in something soft, 500 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:04.960 it's either a cow pie or a fire ant mound, 501 00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:07.000 and neither one of them do you want your foot 502 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:07.440 to be in. 503 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:07.759 Right. 504 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:11.480 So the mounds we just learned to respond to that. 505 00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:14.440 We have to manage them. Here. A fire ant killer 506 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:18.759 from Nitrofoss has a product in it that is very 507 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:22.440 effective in doing a quick kill to fiance with some 508 00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:25.680 residual lasting you used. This is one you would use 509 00:28:25.720 --> 00:28:28.640 as a mound treatment getting rid of an individual mound. 510 00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:33.039 Nitropos fire ant Killer Nightfoss products available at places like 511 00:28:33.319 --> 00:28:36.680 M and D Beamer which is in the Sagemont area, 512 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:41.039 Fishers Hardware on FM thirty one eighty down in Mont 513 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:45.880 Bellevue and D and Defeat up there in Tombull FM 514 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:50.920 twenty nine twenty just west of Tumbule that stay ahead 515 00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:53.599 on those fire ants. I was out the other day 516 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:57.559 and looking at one of my wife has a flower 517 00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:01.160 raised flower bed and a vego bed, and there were 518 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:03.480 some little ant like things coming crawling out of the 519 00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:06.319 oregano and some of them had wings, and I got 520 00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:09.160 to looking. First thought is like, is that termites? There's 521 00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:13.160 that ants? And sure enough it was ants, and they 522 00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:16.319 were taking flight. They fly like three hundred feet up 523 00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:18.279 in the air to mate, and then they drop down. 524 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:23.279 The queen that now has everything she needs to start 525 00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:25.599 a family digs into the ground and you get a 526 00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:28.400 new fire mount. That's what happens. So you got to 527 00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:32.240 stay alert to stay ahead of those things and make 528 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:36.480 sure you get control. Open Affordable Tree Service is our 529 00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.880 go to tree care company here on Garden Line. You know, 530 00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:42.160 now is the time to get those trees in shape. 531 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:45.480 Hurricane season we're on the doorstep of it here, and 532 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:48.680 even if they're at a hurricane, devastating summer storms, as 533 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.160 we learned last year, can really do damage. So tree 534 00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:53.640 you need to get them in there to do any 535 00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:56.400 trimming that's needed. You know, they do everything they do trimming, 536 00:29:56.519 --> 00:30:01.000 They do pruning, deep root feeding, past and disease controls, 537 00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:04.039 stump grinding. If you're gonna have any construction done around 538 00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:07.640 your property, take care of those tree routes. Call them 539 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:11.480 in First Affordable Tree Martin Spoonmore's Company seven to one 540 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.799 three six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one 541 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:20.720 three six nine nine two six six three. You probably 542 00:30:20.799 --> 00:30:23.480 end up talking to Martin's mom. This is a family 543 00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:27.440 operation and garden Line customers are their top priority, So 544 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:30.519 tell them you heard about them on garden Line. I'm 545 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:32.079 gonna take a little break here. When we come back, 546 00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:34.400 we're gonna head up to Willis to talk to Douglas. 547 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:39.720 All right, little boogie woogie on garden Line this morning. 548 00:30:39.799 --> 00:30:42.920 Good to have you with us. We're looking forward to 549 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:46.200 visiting with you about the questions you might have regarding 550 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:49.319 your landscape, your garden, any kind of thing related to 551 00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:53.799 horticulture and gardening. RCW Nurseries is the garden center that's 552 00:30:53.880 --> 00:30:56.720 right there where Tamboll Parkway, which is Highway two forty 553 00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:59.400 nine comes into belt wag eight. It's really easy to 554 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:03.759 get to and they always have an unbelievable selection there. 555 00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:06.200 You know, they're known for the roses. All the rosarians 556 00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:08.279 know about RCW because they have one of the biggest 557 00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:13.559 selections of roses you'll find anywhere, and probably by long shot, 558 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:16.359 it's the place to go, the place to go to 559 00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:19.400 get your trees from fifteen gallon up the two hundred gallon, 560 00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:23.200 from ornamental trees to shade trees, blooming trees, whatever you're 561 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:26.079 looking for. They grow their own trees up there at 562 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:29.240 the Williamson Tree Farm up there in Plantersville. And so 563 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:31.960 you have a tree not only that's grown right, but 564 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:36.279 that is a species or variety that wants to do 565 00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:38.839 well here. They're not going to sell you a blue spruce, 566 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:41.279 as pretty as those are, just leave them in Colorado 567 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:43.720 and enjoy them on vacation and then come home without one. 568 00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:46.359 Get you a tree that wants to grow here, and 569 00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:50.359 that is exactly what they grow and sell with RCW 570 00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:53.559 Nursery again, Hibay two fourty and nine, belt Way eight 571 00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:56.519 is just a great place to shop. You're going to 572 00:31:56.559 --> 00:31:59.880 find some cool hot season color. I know that sounds 573 00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:03.279 like I just said two different things. Cool hot season color. 574 00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:05.559 That's a good way to put it. Beautiful things like 575 00:32:05.640 --> 00:32:10.160 the Cajun hibiscus, one of my favorite lines of tropical hibiscus. 576 00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:12.839 You're going to find that there at RCW nurses and 577 00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:17.240 a whole lot more. Let's go up now to Willis Texas, 578 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:20.400 and we are going to speak to Douglas. Hello Douglas, 579 00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:21.559 Welcome to Garden. 580 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:23.160 Line and I go, good morning. 581 00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:23.839 Hey. 582 00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:26.279 I am building a house out here in Willis and 583 00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:29.839 I have a bunch of really beautiful mature oak trees. 584 00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:36.519 And as the build is finishing, we're really noticing some 585 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:40.599 low spots on the property. We have about three acres 586 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:43.200 and we need to take and raise up some grade 587 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:45.920 and they're going to be around these oak trees. I 588 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:49.160 want to make sure. I've heard that we could put 589 00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:52.599 too much soil on top of the roots of the 590 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.759 oak trees and damage. I mean, that's the last thing 591 00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:58.880 we want to do. So I was planning using sandy loam. 592 00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:03.559 Is there a such thing as putting too much dirt 593 00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:04.799 around oak tree? 594 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:05.559 Is my question? 595 00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:11.200 Yeah, there absolutely is. Oak roots grow primarily in the 596 00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:14.119 top foot of soil ninety percent even a giant tree. 597 00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:16.400 People think the roots go down deep like the top 598 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:20.920 goes tall up. It's not. The root zone of a 599 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.119 tree is like a pancake. It's flat and wide, and 600 00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:26.480 so when you put let's say you put four inches, 601 00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:30.559 you have dramatically changed the amount of oxygen that roots 602 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:33.559 were getting. And it's a very stressful thing for trees. 603 00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:36.680 So there's not a black and white answer to it, 604 00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:40.000 but as a general guide, I wouldn't put more than 605 00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:44.000 about two maybe three inches at the most around a 606 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:47.599 tree's root system. If you're going to do like, let's say, 607 00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:51.000 the whole area underneath the branch spread of the tree, 608 00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:53.400 I would probably go with just about two inches at 609 00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:56.279 a time. If you're going to just do maybe on 610 00:33:56.440 --> 00:33:59.440 one side or just a little area where you're filling 611 00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:01.759 in around the roots that are sticking up above the ground, 612 00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:05.119 then that's not so big of a concern. But it's 613 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:07.799 a matter of percentage of the root zone that you're 614 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:10.360 covering and how deep you're covering it. And sandylan's a 615 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:12.320 good a good choice of soil to. 616 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:12.760 Do that with. 617 00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.880 Is so is it two inches let's say per year 618 00:34:18.440 --> 00:34:21.480 or the two inch total for the light of the. 619 00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:22.119 Per year. 620 00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:26.679 Per year? Yeah, per year. The roots will adjust, they 621 00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:29.679 just can't adjust that fast. And so again, to use 622 00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:32.519 an extreme example, you know, you put six inches or 623 00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:35.880 a foot of soil over it, and those roots are 624 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:38.519 going to be in major stress before the tree can 625 00:34:38.559 --> 00:34:42.280 grow roots back up to a closer to the surface level. 626 00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:45.000 Understood. 627 00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:45.960 Thank you very much. 628 00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:50.639 Have a good day, all right, thanks you take care alrighty, 629 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:53.639 Welcome back to garden Line. By the way, I was 630 00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:56.599 talking earlier about some things that I was doing in 631 00:34:56.719 --> 00:35:00.360 my yard. This is the time to get fertilization done. 632 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:01.920 And you know, if you're up, if you're up in 633 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:04.800 the let's say north and east of Tomball, Spring Creek 634 00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:07.320 Feed is on FM twenty nine to seventy eight, and 635 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:10.800 they have got a great line of these fertilizers that 636 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:13.599 I keep talking about, whether it's Nelson Turf Star line, 637 00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:18.000 whether it's the Microlifeline or the nitrofoss line, or maybe 638 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:21.760 you're needing something to control weeds, to prevent weeds or 639 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:25.119 kill weeds, or a fungicide to protect the plants, or 640 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:28.639 a insecticide or something to kill spider mic. They've got 641 00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:31.840 it all there. Friendly and curtious staff at Spring Creek Feed. 642 00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:34.239 I always love it when I walk in there, the 643 00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:36.360 folks just greet you, and it's a cool place to 644 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:39.559 visit too. This is a really unique feed store. When 645 00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:41.519 you first walk in, you feel like you walked into 646 00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:43.920 a boutique. It's so beautiful. Straight ahead of you, all 647 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:46.599 the things for your home and whatnot that are just 648 00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:49.039 just gorgeous. And then you look to the left and 649 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:51.599 you got all your pet foods like Victor and Purina 650 00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:54.519 quality feed lines. You look to the right and there's 651 00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:59.159 the garden center. My favorite place, all right, Spring Creek 652 00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:03.079 feed in my No you on FM twenty nine seventy eight. 653 00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:08.639 Let's see here, We're going to go to Mark in Sweeney. Hello, Mark, 654 00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:11.599 welcome to garden line forhead. 655 00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:14.400 Yeah, I got a question, boy. I normally with my 656 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:16.400 grass clip it's probably put them back up in the 657 00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:19.679 compost smile. But when they're dead and dry it out, 658 00:36:19.800 --> 00:36:22.159 can I use them to put down around my fruit 659 00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:25.440 trees and take these because my dad my answers, I 660 00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:29.119 chip up and go away my chip whatever. It's top 661 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:30.639 leable around the fruit trees. 662 00:36:33.199 --> 00:36:33.360 Yeah. 663 00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:37.320 So you can use dried group. You can use dried 664 00:36:37.360 --> 00:36:39.719 grass clippings. I do it all the time in my garden. 665 00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:42.840 But I wouldn't put them more than an inch or 666 00:36:42.920 --> 00:36:45.559 so deep. If you put them about four inches deep, 667 00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:49.440 they're going to stay green. In turn, guy, in the 668 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.960 summer heat, there's a lot of moisture in those, and uh, 669 00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:55.400 it's just better to put them in small amounts. You 670 00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:58.679 mentioned yours were already dry, so it's not as big 671 00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:01.920 of a concern for you. But I would yeah, I 672 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:04.119 would mix the in they do. Just find that it's 673 00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.800 kind of like a fertilizer actually, uh Mark, because they 674 00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:11.400 they have a lot of nitrogen content and other things 675 00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:12.920 in them, so it would be a good thing. Just 676 00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:15.599 the only another caveat would be, you know, if you 677 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:19.239 treated your yard with certain kinds of herbicides, you might 678 00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:21.519 not want to do that in like a vegetable garden 679 00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:23.920 or something where you're gonna plant some little seeds and things. 680 00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:27.920 But in general, nature has a way of breaking all 681 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:31.719 that stuff down over time. And uh yeah, you're just 682 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:32.800 speeding the process. 683 00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:38.280 Oh perfect, then yeah, I think final stuff fruit store then. 684 00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:45.840 All right, all right, well good luck with that. All right, 685 00:37:46.400 --> 00:37:49.920 thank you very much, you bet. I appreciate your call. 686 00:37:50.159 --> 00:37:55.960 Thanks a lot. Alrighty, that is a fact. Nelson Plant Food. 687 00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:58.400 I was talking about Nelson Turf star line at Sprint 688 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:01.239 Creek Feed Nelson plant Food. Part of their tourch star 689 00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:04.639 line is Bruce's Brew and Bruces Brew is a unique fertilizer. 690 00:38:04.679 --> 00:38:06.840 You know, I've got my early spring green up if 691 00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.400 you want to use something that releases fast. We talk 692 00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:12.039 about those products, and then we've got the slow releases 693 00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:15.239 for summer. Bruces Brew does both. You're going to get 694 00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:18.800 some immediate release, an initial fast release of nutrients, but 695 00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:22.559 then it evens out over time for that nice regulated growth, 696 00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:25.840 which is what we want going through the summertime. Lots 697 00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:28.719 of good carbon based nitrogen sources are going to feed 698 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:31.639 those microbes in your soil. And you know, when you 699 00:38:31.719 --> 00:38:34.119 have healthy soil, you have healthy grass. That's kind of 700 00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:38.199 how it works, and the vulnerability to pests and diseases 701 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:41.920 really goes down when you create a good, strong, healthy 702 00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:44.880 grass plant. And Bruce's Brew does that. You can apply 703 00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:47.679 it about every six months forget that green up and 704 00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:51.320 continue on further into the line. So do it now, 705 00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:54.599 you know you probably carry on pretty far, but I 706 00:38:54.719 --> 00:38:57.559 might do another one as we get into about July 707 00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:02.960 to carry us on into the all season July or yeah, 708 00:39:03.079 --> 00:39:05.639 probably July be a good time to repeat if you 709 00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:10.159 do a Brusus brew right now, Brusus Brew from Nelson Fertilizers. 710 00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:13.519 I'm going to go now out to Atasca Cita and 711 00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:16.000 we're going to talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, Welcome, to guardline. 712 00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:19.280 Hey, good morning, sir, thank you for taking my call. 713 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:23.159 I've got a project. Here we go, a thirty five 714 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:28.360 gallon vitect tree. I was told that you're supposed to 715 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:32.000 put gravel pee gravel around the size of it and 716 00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:34.679 also underneath. Is this correct? 717 00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:41.440 That is absolutely incorrect. I can go on into detail 718 00:39:41.519 --> 00:39:44.719 on why for some at some point, but the bottom 719 00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:49.199 line is it doesn't make water go away from the plant. 720 00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:53.079 It just doesn't. And I'll talk about that a little 721 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:55.599 sometime this morning. I'll go into that a little more. 722 00:39:56.119 --> 00:39:59.119 Don't do that, Just put do like nature does, set 723 00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:02.320 those reached down in good quality soil, and that's the 724 00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:04.400 way to go on it. Don't put the gravel. 725 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:09.519 Okay, the next thing actually described? Could you describe the 726 00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:10.639 soil I should put down? 727 00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:13.440 Well? 728 00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:16.119 Is it going to be in a container or are 729 00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:17.639 you taking it out of a container and. 730 00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:20.760 Put out of the container. I'm going to try to 731 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:22.880 break apart the roots to steam again because it's going 732 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:27.320 to be tight in there. It's very very tight, all right, So. 733 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:29.599 I'm about to run out of time here. What you 734 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:31.199 want to do is planet in the soil you have. 735 00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:33.559 Don't put don't put compost in the hole or anything. 736 00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:36.280 It's got to go and the soil you're in, loosen 737 00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:38.679 the soil up and then water it in real good. Sorry, 738 00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:41.480 but I'm out of time. Thanks Jim, appreciate it. Appreciate 739 00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:45.320 your very much. All Right, folks, we'll be back. I'm 740 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:47.400 going to describe that reason why we don't put pe 741 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:53.039 gravel in when we come back. All right, I want 742 00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:55.760 to jump back in here. We had a we hit 743 00:40:55.840 --> 00:41:01.559 a comments that you know, we're made about putting gravel 744 00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:03.639 in the bottom of a pot or in the bottom 745 00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:06.440 of a planting hole. Now here's the deal. It is 746 00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:11.719 a very It makes sense that water runs right through gravel, 747 00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:15.000 so gravel should help drainage, right, But that's not what's 748 00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:17.159 going on here. If you put it, if you put 749 00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:19.559 gravel in the bottom of a pot, a container, or 750 00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:21.400 if you put it in the bottom of a planting hole, 751 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:26.199 water does not move from the soil and the container 752 00:41:26.519 --> 00:41:30.000 into the gravel until it literally is so wet that 753 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:33.840 it drips out of the container. Because the smaller particle 754 00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:37.559 size holds water better than large particle size. So therefore, 755 00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:41.920 gravel doesn't pull water out of soil. Soil pulls water 756 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:45.119 out of gravel if the two were side by side. 757 00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:48.239 So what happens when you put gravel in is you 758 00:41:48.360 --> 00:41:51.079 just take away some of the rooting volume of that container. 759 00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:53.320 Or in a planting hole, think of it this way. 760 00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:57.320 You dig a clay planting hole, that's like an underground bathtub. 761 00:41:57.559 --> 00:42:00.360 It's like an aquarium. Just putting gravel in the bottom 762 00:42:00.360 --> 00:42:04.239 of an aquarium make the water run out, No, because 763 00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:07.039 the clay is preventing it from running out. Gravel doesn't 764 00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:09.400 do anything to help any of that. And I know 765 00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:13.119 it seems like, well that can't be I could go 766 00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:15.519 more into it, but there's a science of physics to it, 767 00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:19.519 and it's just what happens. So you want to use 768 00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:22.599 quality soil. You want to have good drainage holes in 769 00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:26.559 a container, and then they will saturate with water and 770 00:42:26.679 --> 00:42:29.360 it will literally drip out of the container. But instead 771 00:42:29.360 --> 00:42:31.360 of losing some of the volume, you could have put 772 00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:34.440 as soil because plants need a lot of soil moisture 773 00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.159 to make it through summer. In a container, you're going 774 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.159 to have that extra volume of soil rather than gravel. 775 00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:43.119 And then again in a planting hole does nothing, It 776 00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:47.519 does nothing, nothing, nothing. Don't think about it. Think of 777 00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:51.119 the aquarium and that is that is why gravel doesn't 778 00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:54.320 help a clay planting hole to drain better. Okay, and 779 00:42:54.440 --> 00:42:56.360 the same is true in a pot. All right, there 780 00:42:56.400 --> 00:43:00.519 you go. More in Southern Gardens is doing something that 781 00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:04.039 I don't think I've seen before. Warren's Southern Gardens is 782 00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:06.639 out there in Kingwood. Warren's and Kingwood Garden Center are 783 00:43:06.679 --> 00:43:10.599 both out there. I've seen sales before, but they are 784 00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:14.840 doing a sale starting today going through the end of 785 00:43:14.880 --> 00:43:19.000 this month, twenty percent off purchases of one hundred dollars 786 00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:22.360 or more. Now, if you want to do a major 787 00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:27.159 landscape job, here is your chance. Are you ready for this? 788 00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:31.360 Purchases of three thousand dollars or more. We're talking about 789 00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:34.079 lots of plants, were talking about soil products from you know, 790 00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:39.519 tons of stuff here, Well, forty percent off. It's the 791 00:43:39.639 --> 00:43:42.920 largest sale ever, I know, three thousands a lot. But 792 00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:45.639 you know, when you're looking at it, you ring up 793 00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:49.960 three thousand dollars that you only pay eighteen hundred dollars 794 00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:55.119 at a minto all right, So this is a hugemongas sale. 795 00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:57.840 So if you are wanting to do some major work 796 00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:01.800 and you know the plants, the trees, the shrubs, the flowers, 797 00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:06.000 the again, the soils. All that purchase three thousand or 798 00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:09.280 forty percent of largest sale I've ever heard of anywhere 799 00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:11.840 now and if it's just one hundred dollars twenty percent, 800 00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:14.960 that's still a good sale megasale. In fact, at one 801 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:16.559 in Southern Gardens. By the way, did you know that 802 00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:20.599 they do custom potting jobs out there. A lady named 803 00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:25.159 D is magical when it comes to creating combination plantings. 804 00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:29.880 And she's working on hanging baskets, she's working on planting containers. 805 00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:33.639 She can make your vision come true and just you 806 00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:38.079 if you need a custom potting job, something created beautiful, 807 00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:41.239 maybe for your business outside the business, or maybe for 808 00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:44.159 your home, your patio, go out there and tell them 809 00:44:44.199 --> 00:44:45.880 you want to talk to miss D about doing a 810 00:44:45.960 --> 00:44:49.960 custom potting job at or in Southern Gardens. Nice stuff. 811 00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:55.440 I was looking at Piercecape's website, which is piercescapes dot 812 00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:58.559 com just the other day. I was looking at some 813 00:44:58.760 --> 00:45:02.280 information that they had put up there about drainage systems 814 00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:06.920 and other things, and I'm just so impressed with the 815 00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:08.960 work they do. And you will be too. I mean, 816 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:11.800 if you hear nothing else about Piercescapes right now, just 817 00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:16.840 hear piercescapes dot Com and go there. This is a 818 00:45:17.079 --> 00:45:24.320 professional quality landscaper. They can do everything from scratch like 819 00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:27.599 create the whole landscape to revamping certain areas. Do you 820 00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:31.239 need lighting, drainage? You know we do need drainage when 821 00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:32.039 it rains too much? 822 00:45:32.119 --> 00:45:32.239 Right? 823 00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:35.079 Do you need irrigation work? Do you need just the 824 00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:38.840 design of the landscape. They can do it all piercescapes 825 00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:40.320 dot Com if you want to give them a call 826 00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:45.320 two eight one three seven h five zero six zero. 827 00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:48.719 One of the things you hear me talk about on 828 00:45:48.840 --> 00:45:53.800 garden Line all the time is brown stuff before green stuff. 829 00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:55.840 And for those of you who are kind of new 830 00:45:55.880 --> 00:45:57.639 to garden line and don't know what I'm saying when 831 00:45:57.719 --> 00:45:59.920 I say that, I'm talking about you get the soil 832 00:46:00.199 --> 00:46:05.159 right and everything follows. If you want your plantings to 833 00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:08.440 be beautiful or productive, whether it's a vegetable garden, a 834 00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:13.119 flower bed, a shrubbed, get the soil right first. It's 835 00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:15.079 all about the soil. Do you know that may is 836 00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:20.360 natural national humates month. Humates is a final decomposed state 837 00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:24.239 of organic matter. Microlife has a product call humates plus, 838 00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:27.760 and that's basically what it is. Humus helps improve the soil, 839 00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:32.119 especially you got an old clay soil, even a sandy soil, 840 00:46:32.199 --> 00:46:35.360 it's going to be beneficial to them. It provides the 841 00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:38.480 carbon to help feed the microbes. It's got lots of 842 00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:40.880 different mental I think you have sixty three minerals and 843 00:46:41.079 --> 00:46:45.320 the humans plus that microlife has. But there's also some 844 00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:49.519 strains of microhizol, fungi and now these things work with 845 00:46:49.639 --> 00:46:53.639 the roots to help the fight the diseases of roots 846 00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:57.400 and some of the microhizol can reach out in the 847 00:46:57.480 --> 00:47:00.960 soil communicate with other plants. Amazing biology going on there 848 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:04.039 in the soil. But over time, as you add humus 849 00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:06.800 over and over and over over time, it's just each 850 00:47:06.920 --> 00:47:11.239 time you're improving that soil to an area. Think of microlights, 851 00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:13.480 you mats plus, which is a product we talk about 852 00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:17.599 here when it comes to humus as concentrated compost in 853 00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:21.199 a bag. Concentrated compost in a bag. Now you're going 854 00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:23.880 to find micro life products everywhere. It's easy to find them, 855 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:26.880 so you can get your humans plus. That's the purple bag. 856 00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:29.199 By the way, when you do your fertilizing. Just go 857 00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:31.559 ahead and put out the purple bag Hu mats plus 858 00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:33.199 and you can do it a couple times a year 859 00:47:33.239 --> 00:47:35.119 if you want. I know people that do it more 860 00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:38.360 than that. But just know this, it's what nature does, 861 00:47:38.840 --> 00:47:41.440 and you can do it yourself in your home garden 862 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:45.199 and look at it as circumventing what would take a 863 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:48.400 lot of time in nature to do. And take that product, 864 00:47:48.559 --> 00:47:51.920 which is the final result of composting, and just put 865 00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:55.320 it right down there in your yard. We are coming 866 00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:57.440 up on a little bit of a break here in 867 00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:01.840 just a second. If you want to give us a call, 868 00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:03.599 you can be one of the first ones up when 869 00:48:03.639 --> 00:48:06.239 we come back. Seven to one three two one two 870 00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:09.920 kt r H seven to one three two one two 871 00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:14.239 kt r h. H's got a really good rain a 872 00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:17.440 while back, but then we got this warm week really 873 00:48:17.519 --> 00:48:20.039 heated up pretty good for us. And boy, we know, 874 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:22.400 those of us who've lived here, we know summer's coming 875 00:48:23.000 --> 00:48:26.639 and trees struggle in extended summer droughts, which we have 876 00:48:26.840 --> 00:48:30.039 almost every year. Now, if it's a brand new tree 877 00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:32.519 that just got put in the ground, it's got to 878 00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:35.320 be watered where that root zone is, So take care 879 00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:39.360 of your trees by watering that root zone, gradually increasing 880 00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:42.199 the area that you water as time goes on and 881 00:48:42.320 --> 00:48:45.280 as the roots expand. You know, you put a let's 882 00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:47.800 say you put a five gallon sized plant in a hole. 883 00:48:48.239 --> 00:48:51.039 Well you go out just beyond that root ball, and 884 00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:53.440 there's no roots there in the hole yet, but they 885 00:48:53.480 --> 00:48:56.039 will be and they keep expanding further and further out. 886 00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:58.559 That's why I like the tree hugger sprinkler. They come 887 00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:01.760 in a seven inch, eleven inch and a fifteen inch size. 888 00:49:02.119 --> 00:49:05.239 Hook it up to a garden hose. It it's like 889 00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:08.320 the pac Man. It's hinged and it just closes around 890 00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:11.480 the tree trunk. It reminds me of pac Man. Anyway 891 00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:14.400 you turn it on. If you had a new plant, 892 00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:16.280 I would just barely turn it on and water that 893 00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:19.639 root ball really good frequently to help it get going 894 00:49:20.199 --> 00:49:22.000 as that tree grows. Maybe you got a tree in 895 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:24.960 your yard that's five or ten years old and we're 896 00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:27.880 going into summer drought. You want to rescue that tree, 897 00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:30.440 and not just rescue it, but get it growing faster. 898 00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:32.760 Because water is the single most important thing you can 899 00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:34.960 do to a tree to get it to grow fast. 900 00:49:35.079 --> 00:49:40.199 Fertilizer's important, but not as important as a good dependable 901 00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:44.159 moist soil for the root system. Tree hunder Sprinkler will 902 00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:45.960 do that. You can get them at Arborgate. You can 903 00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:48.440 get them at Warren Southern Garden, at Kingwoock Garden Center. 904 00:49:48.480 --> 00:49:50.639 You go do under Richmond. You got them into Enchanted 905 00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:54.280 Gardens and Forests, DA de Feed and supply the arbor 906 00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:57.400 Gate I mentioned, I believe Nelson Water Garden out in 907 00:49:58.280 --> 00:50:02.760 Katie RCW Garden Center, the Spring Creek Feed Center, League 908 00:50:02.800 --> 00:50:06.000 City Feeds. Southwest Fertilizer and ACE Hardware is at Single 909 00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:08.360 Ranch and Katie and the K and M Ace Hardware 910 00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:11.119 and at Tascasita and the Full Share Ace Hardware. They're 911 00:50:11.159 --> 00:50:13.440 easy to find. You need to have one, and you 912 00:50:13.480 --> 00:50:15.960 need to hang in on the garage wall because you 913 00:50:16.119 --> 00:50:19.039 will use it over and over again every year. It's 914 00:50:19.079 --> 00:50:21.280 a good product. Time for me to take a break. 915 00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:28.480 We'll be back. Hey, welcome back to guard Line. Good 916 00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:30.559 to have you with us today. Hey, have you been 917 00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:33.719 to in Channa Gardens recently? Oh, my gosh, that place 918 00:50:34.119 --> 00:50:37.760 is it's just fun to go. It is, it's fun 919 00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:41.199 to go. Number one, they've got plants like you just 920 00:50:41.280 --> 00:50:45.960 can't imagine. Number two. They have service and friendly folks 921 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:48.360 that know what they're talking about. That is so important. 922 00:50:48.599 --> 00:50:51.480 That's why we love our independent garden centers is because 923 00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:54.199 they know what they're doing. And it certainly is true 924 00:50:54.599 --> 00:50:56.159 when it comes to in Chenna Garden. They're not in 925 00:50:56.280 --> 00:50:58.960 Richmond Rosenberg on FM three point fifty nine on the 926 00:50:59.039 --> 00:51:02.440 Katie Folshire side of Richmond. They've got some classes coming 927 00:51:02.519 --> 00:51:04.920 up here on June twenty eighth. There's a class on 928 00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:10.239 creating your own custom succulent container. Isn't that cool? On 929 00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:13.639 June twenty first, we're getting closure here. Plant a Butterfly 930 00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:17.840 Container Garden is a class out there at Enchanted Gardens, 931 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:22.320 and then June fourteenth, plots for your patio or pool. 932 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:25.599 That's gonna be a good boy. They specializing containers out there, 933 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:29.719 and then discover the joy or the fun a fairy gardening. 934 00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:32.000 If you've never seen a faery garden, you need to. 935 00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:35.320 They're little, miniature, really cool gardens. That class is on 936 00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:39.039 June seventh, So lots of opportunities coming up here in June. 937 00:51:39.079 --> 00:51:41.679 You need to get out there check them out. Look 938 00:51:41.719 --> 00:51:45.159 at the beautiful selection of plants and pottery. I'm telling 939 00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:48.280 you it is always fun to go out to Enchanted Gardens. 940 00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:51.360 On FM three point fifty nine. Katie Fullscher side of 941 00:51:51.440 --> 00:51:57.559 Richmond website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com Enchanted Gardens Richmond 942 00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:01.960 dot com was out there or recently and was looking 943 00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:04.880 at some of the combo containers that they had done 944 00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:07.920 in large baskets. You know, there're these metal it's like 945 00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:10.440 a wire, but it's like real thick wire, like not 946 00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:14.360 quite pencil size, but very very sturdy baskets and they 947 00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:16.880 put the coconut core liners in and then they plan 948 00:52:17.000 --> 00:52:20.760 them up with a combination of things. They specialize in 949 00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:23.760 that out there. Maria does a great job out there, 950 00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:25.800 and you need to go see some of those. Now 951 00:52:25.840 --> 00:52:28.320 you can. You can buy the ingredients and put it 952 00:52:28.400 --> 00:52:31.079 together yourself, or you can go buy one that's already done. 953 00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:33.880 Either way you want to go about it, it's good. 954 00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:37.519 And by the way, if you head out today, the 955 00:52:37.679 --> 00:52:40.559 Juicy Lemonade stand will be there. Oh boy, it'd be 956 00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:44.480 a good day to have some fresh watermelon lemonade. You 957 00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:47.639 heard that right. Watermelon lemonade makes my mouth water just 958 00:52:47.719 --> 00:52:51.440 to say those words. You're listening to Guardenline our phone 959 00:52:51.519 --> 00:52:54.239 number seven to one three two one two kt r 960 00:52:54.400 --> 00:52:57.159 H seven one three two one two kt r H. 961 00:52:58.000 --> 00:53:01.559 Medina products had been went around for a very very 962 00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:03.960 long time. I mean they have. They've been a supporter 963 00:53:04.199 --> 00:53:06.920 of garden Line since before it was garden Line, a 964 00:53:07.199 --> 00:53:09.760 long long time ago. And they have so many excellent 965 00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:11.119 products that people really love. 966 00:53:11.199 --> 00:53:11.360 You know. 967 00:53:11.480 --> 00:53:16.360 There's there's the Medina, the Medina plus the Medina has 968 00:53:16.440 --> 00:53:19.400 to Grow six twelve six plant food. That's a that's 969 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:22.079 a really good one. Medina Soil Activator was the first 970 00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:23.880 one I was talking about. The Medina. It's kind of 971 00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:27.880 the standard. They've got the humic acid product, and all 972 00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:30.639 of these products are excellent. You know, this is National 973 00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:36.840 Humate's month and Medina Liquid Humus. It's called Humate Liquid Humus. 974 00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:40.960 It's like that concentrated compost. It's got humic and fulvic acid. 975 00:53:41.719 --> 00:53:45.159 It's this as a basics for taking care of your soil. 976 00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:48.320 It's because it's what nature puts in the soil, humic 977 00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:51.280 and full of acids. That's what nature creates, and you 978 00:53:51.360 --> 00:53:53.519 can do it yourself. You can improve the soil quality, 979 00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:56.440 you can improve the way that your plants grow. As 980 00:53:56.480 --> 00:54:00.800 a result of that by getting some quality humate, humus, 981 00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:05.239 excuse me, humide, humic acid. Stumbling over our words there, 982 00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:07.320 but check it out. And also when you're there, the 983 00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:11.559 Medina plus is just an outstanding products. Got Medina soil activator, 984 00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:16.000 It's got seaweed in it, it's got a some trace 985 00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:19.320 forty different trace elements in it. It's just a good 986 00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:26.679 tonic for your plants. Alrighty, let's go out to clear 987 00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:29.960 Lake and we're going to talk to Joyce this morning. 988 00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:32.519 Hello Joyce, Welcome to garden Line. 989 00:54:33.480 --> 00:54:37.280 Good morning, Rick. Okay, did you see those pictures? 990 00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:39.159 I sent you an email with the photos? 991 00:54:42.599 --> 00:54:48.119 Yes I did, Yes, Yeah, Apple has cankers. It has 992 00:54:48.280 --> 00:54:52.159 cankers that have attacked it and they could be fungal, 993 00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:54.639 they could be bacterial. One of the pictures looks like 994 00:54:54.760 --> 00:54:58.159 something called fire blight, and it's a bacteria that gets 995 00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:00.480 in the plant and it just kills all the issues 996 00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:04.119 and the whole the leaves just wilt and hang over. 997 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:08.039 Another one of the pictures looks like it could be 998 00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:10.639 a fungal canker. But either way, here's what you need 999 00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:13.639 to do to get you some pruners that are sharp 1000 00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:17.079 and get you some life salt spray, and I say 1001 00:55:17.159 --> 00:55:20.440 life salt because it's convenient. It's not the only thing 1002 00:55:20.559 --> 00:55:23.480 to use, but it's convenient. You're going to prune those 1003 00:55:23.559 --> 00:55:27.159 out as far down below as you can get all 1004 00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:29.559 the canker out of there. So go below the dead 1005 00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:32.519 and the sunken and the dark areas that you see 1006 00:55:33.119 --> 00:55:35.119 and prune them out, and then spray your prunters with 1007 00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:38.360 lysol because as you make new cuts, you don't want 1008 00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:41.639 to spread the problem by making a new wound and 1009 00:55:41.840 --> 00:55:45.639 infecting it with your pruners. So that's that's why we 1010 00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:50.400 disinfect our pruners between cots. Easy way to do it. 1011 00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:53.760 Some people use bleach water, but that causes your prunters 1012 00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:56.639 to rust really bad if you don't immediately clean and 1013 00:55:56.719 --> 00:56:01.559 oil them. And seventy calls an option, but it's not 1014 00:56:01.719 --> 00:56:04.480 as convenient. It's just getting some esol spraying your prain. 1015 00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:05.400 No problem I have. 1016 00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:13.039 But you see working right cut the big one where 1017 00:56:13.039 --> 00:56:19.519 it's black coming in, it's it's yeah, should I sy 1018 00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:21.280 to seal it? 1019 00:56:22.039 --> 00:56:22.079 No? 1020 00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:25.119 No spring, No, there's no spraying. No, don't do that, 1021 00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:28.639 just cut it. Just put a fresh put a fresh 1022 00:56:28.840 --> 00:56:32.360 uh cut to get that disease. Part out of there 1023 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:35.079 and stay with it. Hopefully you'll get ahead of it 1024 00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:35.519 that way. 1025 00:56:35.840 --> 00:56:38.760 Okay, Oh yeah, I think it's taken over the tree, 1026 00:56:38.840 --> 00:56:40.000 all right, all right. 1027 00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:44.280 Well, hopefully it won't keep that tree healthy, keep it vigorous. 1028 00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:48.719 That's in your control to try to do that. Appreciate 1029 00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:51.639 your call very much. Sweet Green from Nitrophoss is a 1030 00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:57.239 natural fertilizer that is made through microbial activity to release 1031 00:56:57.519 --> 00:57:00.519 eleven percent nitrogen into the soils, one of the most 1032 00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:05.280 highest concentrations of organic nitrogen sources. You're gonna find sweet green. 1033 00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:07.760 Is it smells gray, That's what it's sweet green. It 1034 00:57:07.800 --> 00:57:11.880 smells smells like molasses to me. But it's a wonderful product. 1035 00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:14.400 It works well, and you're gonna find it at lots 1036 00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:18.599 of retailers around the area. Fisher's Hardware on Southmore in Pasadena. 1037 00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:22.880 You go to Plants for All Seasons up northwest Tomball Parkway. Uh, 1038 00:57:23.079 --> 00:57:26.280 and we're just north of Luetta. You're gonna find it 1039 00:57:26.360 --> 00:57:29.159 there and RCW Nursery too by the way Tomball Parkway 1040 00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:34.719 places you can find nitropuss products like that Sweet green. Okay, 1041 00:57:34.800 --> 00:57:36.679 we're going to go now out to Kline area. And 1042 00:57:36.760 --> 00:57:39.119 talk to Curtis. Hey, Curtis, Welcome to garden Line. 1043 00:57:41.280 --> 00:57:45.679 So I'm trying to delerate the process of a compost. 1044 00:57:45.840 --> 00:57:48.360 And when I mean compost, it's basically a lot of 1045 00:57:48.360 --> 00:57:52.800 clippings and leads, anything you can suggest. And one of 1046 00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:56.079 my baby roma tomatoes has a black dot on the 1047 00:57:56.119 --> 00:57:58.320 bottom of it. What do I do wrong? 1048 00:57:58.800 --> 00:58:03.239 Okay, okay, a black spot on the end of the 1049 00:58:03.320 --> 00:58:06.159 tomato where the flower was before that tomatoes started growing 1050 00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:09.159 informing the part away from the stem. That's usually something 1051 00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:12.199 called blossom and rot. And it's due to a lack 1052 00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:15.320 of calcium reaching the end of the fruit. And it's 1053 00:58:15.400 --> 00:58:18.199 not usually due to a lack of calcium in the soil, 1054 00:58:18.719 --> 00:58:21.800 although it could be. It's usually due to sole moisture 1055 00:58:21.880 --> 00:58:25.519 fluctuations from dry to wet that can cause that. So 1056 00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:27.519 try to even out the sole moisture and I don't 1057 00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:29.920 think you'll have any more problems with that. So as 1058 00:58:29.960 --> 00:58:34.480 far as the compost acceleration, the things that make composts 1059 00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:38.039 go fast are a good mix of green stuff and 1060 00:58:38.159 --> 00:58:42.800 brown stuff. So the green stuff needs nitrogen, the brown 1061 00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:46.719 stuff needs carbon, so it's dried leaves would be brown stuff. 1062 00:58:48.639 --> 00:58:51.920 Fresh grass clippings would be green stuff. Nitrogen fertilizer would 1063 00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:54.320 be the equivalent of green stuff. But you want to 1064 00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:57.599 get those in a good balance in the compost. And 1065 00:58:57.760 --> 00:59:02.320 the finer you grind the materials up, the faster they decompose. 1066 00:59:02.480 --> 00:59:05.880 So if you take a bunch of magnolia leaves and 1067 00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:08.440 just lay them whole in a compost pile, it's going 1068 00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:10.800 to be very slow. If you run over them with 1069 00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:13.119 a lawnmower and chop them up real good, it's going 1070 00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:17.360 to speed it up. And keeping it adequately moist, evenly moist. 1071 00:59:17.760 --> 00:59:18.559 Those are the tips. 1072 00:59:19.800 --> 00:59:22.639 So to go out there once a week and dump 1073 00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:24.840 a five gallon bucket of water on it. 1074 00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:32.320 Yeah, probably more of a sprinkling to keep the material moist. 1075 00:59:32.360 --> 00:59:34.559 When you make a compost pile, you should lay down 1076 00:59:34.559 --> 00:59:36.440 about a four to six inch of layer and then 1077 00:59:36.559 --> 00:59:40.280 water it with a garden hose sprayer. Wet it real good. 1078 00:59:40.480 --> 00:59:42.639 Then lay some more and wet it real good, because 1079 00:59:42.639 --> 00:59:44.320 if you build the whole pile and then try to 1080 00:59:44.360 --> 00:59:47.119 wet it, it's hard to get that water evenly through 1081 00:59:47.199 --> 00:59:49.079 the pile. It just doesn't want to do that. 1082 00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:54.760 Then for thanks, sure, all right, all right. 1083 00:59:54.679 --> 00:59:57.679 There you go I have a website. It's called Composting 1084 00:59:57.760 --> 00:59:59.599 for Kids. I did it when I was working with 1085 01:00:00.039 --> 01:00:02.760 Texas A and m Agrolife Extension. And if you do 1086 01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:05.519 a search for Composting for Kids, you can find a 1087 01:00:05.599 --> 01:00:07.280 link to it. And I did it to teach kids 1088 01:00:07.280 --> 01:00:09.920 how to compost. But it's just basically the steps that 1089 01:00:10.079 --> 01:00:12.280 you need to do, and so you might check that out. 1090 01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:15.480 Is that ready, Joey Jury Weekend? 1091 01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:20.000 All right? Thanks Curtis, you too appreciate your call very much. 1092 01:00:21.719 --> 01:00:25.440 Buchanan's Native Plants is in the Heights and it is 1093 01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:28.960 one of those garden centers where you just want to 1094 01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:31.360 go and hang out a while because there's so much 1095 01:00:31.440 --> 01:00:35.079 to see. I could spend forty five minutes even an 1096 01:00:35.119 --> 01:00:37.880 hour in the in the houseplant greenhouse that they have 1097 01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:41.000 because there's so many things going on there, but walking 1098 01:00:41.079 --> 01:00:44.400 around from the fruit trees, to the annuals and perennials, 1099 01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:49.800 vegetables and herbs, the beautiful, beautiful plants that are natives. 1100 01:00:49.840 --> 01:00:53.400 They specialize in natives bugin as native plants. Here's the website, 1101 01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:55.880 Buchanan's Plants dot com. I want you to go to 1102 01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:58.719 Buchanan's Plants dot com because you can sign up for 1103 01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:02.079 their newsletter and it is incredibly helpful and informative and 1104 01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:05.760 it's free. That's a good price, right, it's free. While 1105 01:01:05.760 --> 01:01:09.119 you're there, you're gonna find micro life products, nitrofost products, 1106 01:01:09.239 --> 01:01:13.079 Nelson plant food products, soils from Nature's Way, soils from 1107 01:01:13.159 --> 01:01:17.639 airloom soils. The Cannon's has their own Life Below product 1108 01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:21.280 and one called top trop Tropic Core, which is a 1109 01:01:21.320 --> 01:01:24.559 peat free container mix that they designed themselves. So while 1110 01:01:24.599 --> 01:01:26.559 you're there, check out the bungalow, the gift shop. It 1111 01:01:26.679 --> 01:01:31.679 is awesome. Buchanan's Native Plants Eleventh Street and the Heights. 1112 01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:36.360 Buchanan's NATed Plants Eleventh Street in the Heights. Let's now 1113 01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:40.800 go to Katie, Texas and talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, 1114 01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:41.840 welcome to Guardenline. 1115 01:01:43.559 --> 01:01:46.639 Good morning. Hey, I sent you an email some pictures. 1116 01:01:46.960 --> 01:01:52.559 You're run in my yard in a tree. Okay, the 1117 01:01:52.639 --> 01:01:55.519 bear spot is there's a bunch of thin roots from 1118 01:01:55.559 --> 01:01:57.599 the tree growing there and I can't get the grass 1119 01:01:57.639 --> 01:01:59.920 to reditor and the ha is not happy about it. 1120 01:02:00.000 --> 01:02:01.840 I want to give you something about it, but I 1121 01:02:01.880 --> 01:02:03.199 don't know how to get the rest of the road 1122 01:02:03.239 --> 01:02:05.719 that I tried to plant it's got a really small 1123 01:02:05.800 --> 01:02:09.519 roots running all across the surface. The other issue is, okay, 1124 01:02:09.679 --> 01:02:13.679 it looks like there's sucking from the tree, the roots 1125 01:02:13.719 --> 01:02:17.320 coming up, and I don't know what to do about 1126 01:02:17.360 --> 01:02:17.719 any of that. 1127 01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:22.639 So all right, Brian, I'm glad we got started on this. 1128 01:02:22.840 --> 01:02:24.960 I got to go to our half hour break, but 1129 01:02:25.079 --> 01:02:27.119 when we come back, I will address both of those. 1130 01:02:27.199 --> 01:02:29.320 Thanks for the pictures. They are excellent and we're gonna 1131 01:02:29.320 --> 01:02:31.440 we got a lot we can talk about. Thank you, sir. 1132 01:02:31.679 --> 01:02:33.880 Just hang on, we'll be right back with you just 1133 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:37.880 a second. All right, here we go, Welcome back to Guardline. 1134 01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:43.559 Glad that we have you with us today. Night of 1135 01:02:43.679 --> 01:02:47.079 Us distributes a product called jungle Land. It's a it's 1136 01:02:47.119 --> 01:02:50.519 a potting a soil, a grower's mix, a container soil, 1137 01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:52.840 a growing mix, however you want to put it, and 1138 01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:55.800 it works. There's an indoor version with water saving crystals. 1139 01:02:55.840 --> 01:02:59.239 The outdoor version is called jungle Land Flour and Vegetable 1140 01:02:59.320 --> 01:03:04.239 planting Soil. It's got several different sources of decomposing organic matter, 1141 01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:07.400 and it's got microhizal fungi that work with plant roots 1142 01:03:07.440 --> 01:03:10.920 to help make them more efficient, and it drains well. 1143 01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:15.320 It holds water adequately, but excessive water drains away very well, 1144 01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:17.559 which is important in a potting mix. Now you're going 1145 01:03:17.599 --> 01:03:20.480 to find jungle Land available at M and D on 1146 01:03:20.679 --> 01:03:23.119 Beamer in the Sagemont area. You're going to find it 1147 01:03:23.559 --> 01:03:27.119 at Fisher's Hardware and Laporte on Broadway Street, as well 1148 01:03:27.280 --> 01:03:31.480 as at Hiding and Feet Up on Studenter Airline. Easy 1149 01:03:31.519 --> 01:03:34.760 to find night fast products. All right, let's go back here. 1150 01:03:34.920 --> 01:03:38.000 We started a call with Brian, and Brian we're going 1151 01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:39.960 to jump back in here. So I'm looking at your 1152 01:03:40.039 --> 01:03:43.360 pictures and let's take these one at a time. First 1153 01:03:43.400 --> 01:03:45.920 of all, the lack of growth in the grass, the 1154 01:03:46.039 --> 01:03:49.039 die back in the grass that looks to me like 1155 01:03:49.280 --> 01:03:53.679 a disease called take all root rot. And exactly what 1156 01:03:53.880 --> 01:03:57.199 it is for sure is not. You can't look at 1157 01:03:57.239 --> 01:04:00.039 a picture and say for sure it's this disease, but 1158 01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:02.559 I'm about ninety percent sure that's what's going on there. 1159 01:04:03.039 --> 01:04:06.599 If you go online to my website Gardening with Skip 1160 01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:11.800 dot com, you'll find the lawn pest Disease and Weed 1161 01:04:12.280 --> 01:04:15.920 Management schedule. It's free to download. There's two lawn schedules, 1162 01:04:16.559 --> 01:04:19.519 the second one on pest diseases and weeds has take 1163 01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:21.599 all root run on it, and it tells you what 1164 01:04:21.800 --> 01:04:24.400 to use and when to do it. If I were 1165 01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:27.360 you right now, I would get some spagnum peat moss, 1166 01:04:27.639 --> 01:04:31.119 compacted spagnum peat moss, break it up and spread it 1167 01:04:31.199 --> 01:04:33.119 out there. You can take a rake and turn it 1168 01:04:33.199 --> 01:04:35.480 upside down, a little soil rake, or you can use 1169 01:04:35.519 --> 01:04:37.960 a bamboo rake or a leaf break if you want, 1170 01:04:38.400 --> 01:04:41.079 and spread it out about third of an inch half 1171 01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:43.519 an inch deep. Just third of an inch is probably enough. 1172 01:04:44.159 --> 01:04:46.400 Put it all through that area and then watered in 1173 01:04:46.519 --> 01:04:49.559 really good, and that's going to help a little bit. 1174 01:04:50.199 --> 01:04:53.000 Then when the grass blades are going to need to 1175 01:04:53.039 --> 01:04:56.280 be sprayed with a product from fertile loan that is 1176 01:04:56.400 --> 01:05:00.880 a liquid iron and other micronutrients. So it'll say liquid 1177 01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:04.360 iron and other micronutrients. You mix it with water and 1178 01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:07.079 you spray those grass blades all through there. And the 1179 01:05:07.159 --> 01:05:10.519 reason is take all kills roots. And when roots die, 1180 01:05:11.119 --> 01:05:15.320 they can't take up nutrients like iron. That's why if 1181 01:05:15.360 --> 01:05:17.400 you look around the edges of the spot that I 1182 01:05:17.480 --> 01:05:20.599 think is take all, you'll see yellowing grass. That's a 1183 01:05:20.719 --> 01:05:23.199 lack of iron. But it's not because there's no iron 1184 01:05:23.239 --> 01:05:25.159 in the soil. The rest of your lawn looks fine. 1185 01:05:25.159 --> 01:05:27.800 There's iron in the soil, it's the grass doesn't have roots. 1186 01:05:28.280 --> 01:05:30.320 So this is sort of like doing an IV for 1187 01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:33.519 your grass. By spraying the foliage with that micronutrient, you're 1188 01:05:33.559 --> 01:05:36.480 getting what it needs through the foliage rather than through 1189 01:05:36.519 --> 01:05:40.159 the root system, which isn't which is dying. And then 1190 01:05:40.440 --> 01:05:43.480 the products for take all are listed on my schedule there. 1191 01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:47.840 That is the takeoll routine. Now as far as the 1192 01:05:48.719 --> 01:05:54.400 sprouts different, when you see live oaks coming up underneath 1193 01:05:54.440 --> 01:05:58.719 the live oak, it could be seeds from acorns from 1194 01:05:58.760 --> 01:06:01.960 the tree coming up, or could be root sprouts coming 1195 01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:05.599 off the roots. Did you do anything in that area 1196 01:06:06.039 --> 01:06:08.639 where you see all the sprouts. It's very unique that 1197 01:06:08.800 --> 01:06:11.480 it's just a whole bunch of sprouts in that one area, 1198 01:06:11.559 --> 01:06:12.360 but nowhere else. 1199 01:06:14.760 --> 01:06:17.400 No, Well, there's some on the other side of the tree, 1200 01:06:17.519 --> 01:06:20.159 but they're sporadic definitely where it's like just one big 1201 01:06:20.280 --> 01:06:21.920 group of sprouts. 1202 01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:23.599 And didn't I didn't do anything to it. 1203 01:06:25.360 --> 01:06:28.960 Yeah, unfortunately, I think you're just gonna need to mow it, 1204 01:06:29.280 --> 01:06:32.079 chop the tops off of them. Uh, and if you 1205 01:06:32.639 --> 01:06:35.199 you know, keep them from getting leaves up in the sunlight. 1206 01:06:35.599 --> 01:06:38.480 They're they're not going to thrive there. There's nothing you 1207 01:06:38.559 --> 01:06:41.639 can spray on them, because my guess is they're probably 1208 01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:45.000 connected to the tree roots, and so if you sprayed 1209 01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:48.599 a killer on those, then it would go up in 1210 01:06:48.719 --> 01:06:52.119 damage or tree. So it's just a matter of mowing 1211 01:06:52.159 --> 01:06:54.199 them and trying to get the grass in nice and thick. 1212 01:06:56.360 --> 01:07:01.920 Okay, okay, going by to the bear spot, well the 1213 01:07:02.280 --> 01:07:06.320 grass road there or ways upset about it. There's not 1214 01:07:06.360 --> 01:07:09.280 only grass there, and then went grass there. Yeah, but 1215 01:07:09.639 --> 01:07:14.639 I don't yeah, follow that pras. 1216 01:07:15.159 --> 01:07:15.360 Well. 1217 01:07:15.519 --> 01:07:18.480 If you if you're gonna, if you're gonna replant that area, 1218 01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:21.760 which isn't a bad idea, I would take everything that's 1219 01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:24.519 there out and go out even a little bit past 1220 01:07:24.599 --> 01:07:26.800 the yellow because that that take all is going to 1221 01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:29.679 be affecting. I can see up going towards your front door, 1222 01:07:29.760 --> 01:07:32.119 there's some old dead areas where it is suffered in 1223 01:07:32.199 --> 01:07:34.559 the past up there, and I would take all that 1224 01:07:34.639 --> 01:07:36.719 grass out and then it would put new fresh new 1225 01:07:36.840 --> 01:07:40.239 sod in and water twice a day for the first week, 1226 01:07:40.559 --> 01:07:42.960 once a day for the second week, and then gradually 1227 01:07:43.079 --> 01:07:46.360 wean it back and get some fresh in there. Then 1228 01:07:46.480 --> 01:07:50.199 this fall you can do what my schedule says about 1229 01:07:50.280 --> 01:07:51.960 take all, but do it to your whole lawn. 1230 01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:58.800 Okay, okay, okay, all right, all right, well. 1231 01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:01.840 Good luck with that. Yes, sir, thanks very much. I 1232 01:08:01.920 --> 01:08:04.760 appreciate your call. It's a little bit of a complicated 1233 01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:08.360 deal there, but it can be done. Greenpro. The folks 1234 01:08:08.440 --> 01:08:11.679 at Greenpro, they are really truly the experts when it 1235 01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:16.199 comes to putting compost, top dressing and core aeration together 1236 01:08:16.399 --> 01:08:20.000 to make your lawn come alive. Whether it's struggling, you know, 1237 01:08:20.119 --> 01:08:22.680 with drought or take our root rod here that we're 1238 01:08:22.720 --> 01:08:26.760 talking about, whether it's compacted soil from foot traffic. Boy, 1239 01:08:26.840 --> 01:08:29.960 that is a big problem for the lawn. Core aeration 1240 01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:32.720 pops a little, plugs the soil out of the ground, 1241 01:08:32.800 --> 01:08:36.159 drops them on the surface, and gets oxygen into the soil. 1242 01:08:36.239 --> 01:08:38.720 It breathes life into the soil. Then you put the 1243 01:08:38.760 --> 01:08:42.439 compost top dressing over it. That's feeding the soil biology 1244 01:08:42.720 --> 01:08:45.680 down in the ground. It is decomposing to release those 1245 01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:48.640 nutrients into the soil, and it's just a way to 1246 01:08:48.680 --> 01:08:50.720 get your grass to kick back in gear again. Now, 1247 01:08:50.800 --> 01:08:54.520 green Pro services an area about forty five miles from 1248 01:08:54.520 --> 01:08:59.359 the Magnolia area. So we're talking about Spring Cypress, Woodland's, Conroe, Willis, Magnolia, 1249 01:08:59.439 --> 01:09:02.359 Montgomery all the way down to I ten, basically the 1250 01:09:02.520 --> 01:09:05.880 northwest quadrant of the Greater Houston area. So think of 1251 01:09:05.960 --> 01:09:09.000 I forty five and I ten, that northwest quadrant, that's 1252 01:09:09.039 --> 01:09:14.840 green Pro Service Area, Greenpro Texas dot Com, Greenpro Texas 1253 01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:20.239 dot Com eight three two three five one zero zero 1254 01:09:21.039 --> 01:09:26.600 three two. Alrighty here, well let's see here. We're gonna 1255 01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:30.319 have the go out to Wharton and now and talk 1256 01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:32.840 to Susan. Hello, Susan, Welcome to garden Line. 1257 01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:36.119 Good morning, Skip. This is actually not Susan. 1258 01:09:36.199 --> 01:09:38.680 This is her husband, John. 1259 01:09:38.800 --> 01:09:42.000 Okay, Who am I talking to? John? How can we 1260 01:09:42.079 --> 01:09:42.560 help John? 1261 01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:48.239 Yes, okay, okay, Skip. We have we have two bogan 1262 01:09:48.359 --> 01:09:52.159 Via vias and uh I got this big pot. Oh, 1263 01:09:52.239 --> 01:09:55.640 it's probably about a forty gallon pot. And I planted 1264 01:09:55.720 --> 01:09:59.359 these two boguan vials in it. Uh one of them 1265 01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:04.680 is blue nice. The other one is doing this not 1266 01:10:04.920 --> 01:10:09.279 blooming at all. It's growing good, but it's not blooming 1267 01:10:09.359 --> 01:10:09.640 at all. 1268 01:10:11.520 --> 01:10:11.720 Yeah. 1269 01:10:12.359 --> 01:10:15.239 Yeah, boogom Vy has caused me to pull my hair out. 1270 01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:18.720 I tell you, they Uh, I don't know why, I 1271 01:10:18.880 --> 01:10:20.760 bottom lize. I don't know why. I don't know why 1272 01:10:20.840 --> 01:10:23.560 that one is and the other one isn't. Something it's it. 1273 01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:24.960 It affects, you know. 1274 01:10:25.039 --> 01:10:25.239 I was. 1275 01:10:25.399 --> 01:10:27.640 I was in Yuma, Arizona, a couple of weeks ago, 1276 01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:31.560 and it doesn't rain there. The sun is blazing hot. 1277 01:10:31.800 --> 01:10:34.039 And I looked at boom bee's around town that were 1278 01:10:34.079 --> 01:10:36.560 stuck in places where no one's watering them, no one's 1279 01:10:36.960 --> 01:10:39.840 fertilizing them, and they were covered with flowers, and it 1280 01:10:40.000 --> 01:10:42.279 just made me want to go chop them down because 1281 01:10:42.319 --> 01:10:44.880 they were It's like they were taunting me. It's hard 1282 01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:47.159 to get them to do that. For us, I would 1283 01:10:47.199 --> 01:10:50.680 just say, continue to fertilize moderately, not too much nitrogen, 1284 01:10:51.399 --> 01:10:54.720 adequate soil, moisture, full sun, as much sun as you 1285 01:10:54.760 --> 01:10:58.520 can give it. And that's kind of what's within your power. Uh, John, 1286 01:10:59.039 --> 01:11:01.920 the I don't know why one is and the other 1287 01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:04.319 one isn't. They should be, they should be blooming. If 1288 01:11:04.359 --> 01:11:06.479 one is, the other ones in the same pot. Maybe 1289 01:11:06.920 --> 01:11:09.520 something in the root competition one has the upper hand. 1290 01:11:09.640 --> 01:11:10.039 I don't know. 1291 01:11:11.239 --> 01:11:16.600 That's crazy, Okay, Yeah, it's just a mystery to me, 1292 01:11:17.640 --> 01:11:20.039 you know, it's just I don't know either. 1293 01:11:20.359 --> 01:11:22.359 Yeah. Yeah. 1294 01:11:22.640 --> 01:11:24.479 All we can do on those plants is give them 1295 01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:26.399 go ahead. 1296 01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:30.560 You think I should separate them, Maybe get take that 1297 01:11:30.680 --> 01:11:32.520 one out and put it in another pot and just 1298 01:11:32.600 --> 01:11:33.960 leave that one of them in there. 1299 01:11:35.760 --> 01:11:37.640 Yeah, I mean you could if you can get them apart. 1300 01:11:37.720 --> 01:11:39.600 The roots are pretty entangled. You're probably gonna have to 1301 01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:41.439 really wet it and soak it and kind of work 1302 01:11:41.520 --> 01:11:44.680 them apart carefully. But boo and bees do well when 1303 01:11:44.720 --> 01:11:47.319 they're pot bound, when they're a little you know, the 1304 01:11:47.760 --> 01:11:49.840 roots that fill the pot and you get them in 1305 01:11:49.920 --> 01:11:52.840 a big giant pot with a little plant, lots of soil, 1306 01:11:52.920 --> 01:11:57.079 little plant, lots of nitrogen, and they tend to grow vegetatively, 1307 01:11:57.159 --> 01:11:58.880 but not bloom as well as you want them to 1308 01:11:58.960 --> 01:12:02.119 do so. But anyway, that's that's the best I can 1309 01:12:02.399 --> 01:12:04.960 can help you with that one. There is one other 1310 01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:08.279 technique that might work, and that is if you get 1311 01:12:08.399 --> 01:12:11.159 a bottle of round up and you walk up to 1312 01:12:11.239 --> 01:12:13.760 the plant and you show it the round up and saying, look, 1313 01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:17.439 either you have blooms next week or I'm coming back 1314 01:12:17.479 --> 01:12:19.720 with this stuff. I think by the time you walk 1315 01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:21.359 away and go in the house, it's already going to 1316 01:12:21.399 --> 01:12:22.880 be blooming because you just scare the. 1317 01:12:22.920 --> 01:12:23.359 Heck out of it. 1318 01:12:23.479 --> 01:12:28.520 That's what you need to do. Sorry, Sorry, humor is 1319 01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:30.640 all I got to help with those booga and vilias. 1320 01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:34.119 All right, I feel your pain and take care. We'll 1321 01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:34.880 be back folks. 1322 01:12:35.840 --> 01:12:37.439 There we go, There we go. 1323 01:12:37.600 --> 01:12:40.840 It's we're calling it. It's summer. It's beach boys time, 1324 01:12:41.039 --> 01:12:43.600 let's do it. Welcome back to the guard Line. Good 1325 01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:46.279 to have you with us. Listen, if you are looking 1326 01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:49.239 for products to have a beautiful garden and a beautiful 1327 01:12:49.319 --> 01:12:55.000 lawn and a lovely outdoor setting for enjoying the barbecuing 1328 01:12:55.159 --> 01:12:57.279 and all the things we enjoy as we move our 1329 01:12:57.359 --> 01:13:00.239 life outdoors in the late day with things cool off 1330 01:13:00.279 --> 01:13:02.680 a little bit. ACE Hardware, that's where you got to go. 1331 01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:06.199 ACE Hardware Texas dot com. That's the website you got 1332 01:13:06.319 --> 01:13:09.439 to go too. That is our that is my group 1333 01:13:09.680 --> 01:13:12.600 of ACE Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area. 1334 01:13:12.800 --> 01:13:17.680 Ace Hardwaretexas dot Com. I every time I go into 1335 01:13:17.720 --> 01:13:21.279 an ACE I'm impressed and it. In fact, I'm going 1336 01:13:21.359 --> 01:13:23.359 to be at an ACE Hardware store later today. I've 1337 01:13:23.439 --> 01:13:26.520 got some run around to do. I'm heading up there 1338 01:13:26.720 --> 01:13:29.840 take care of that. But anyway, Ace Hardware Texas dot 1339 01:13:29.880 --> 01:13:32.520 com it's where you're gonna find all the fertilizers, all 1340 01:13:32.600 --> 01:13:36.399 the pest weed disease control, everything you need, including tools 1341 01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:40.680 to make your lawn and your patio and beautiful outdoor 1342 01:13:40.840 --> 01:13:45.600 setting areas just more special. Trust me, just go to 1343 01:13:45.680 --> 01:13:48.199 an ACE Hardware Tech. Go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. 1344 01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:49.800 Just go to an ACE Hardware store and see what 1345 01:13:49.840 --> 01:13:54.119 I'm talking about. This is not your grandpa's Ace Hardware store. 1346 01:13:54.279 --> 01:13:57.439 I mean, it has all the stuff that Grandpa's Ace 1347 01:13:57.439 --> 01:14:02.520 Hardware store had, but oh my gosh, way more. Nelson 1348 01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:06.199 Plant Food has a product called color Star Plus. Colorstar 1349 01:14:06.319 --> 01:14:10.479 Plus is their famous, most popular fertilizer blend for over 1350 01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:13.560 forty years now with an added fungicide in it. Now 1351 01:14:13.680 --> 01:14:16.880 regular Color Star or Color Star Plus with the fungicide. 1352 01:14:17.199 --> 01:14:21.279 They both work. If something has blooms, color Star works. Okay, 1353 01:14:21.680 --> 01:14:24.840 that's annuals and perennial shrubs and trees and other flowering plants, 1354 01:14:24.920 --> 01:14:27.720 things and containers, things in the landscape. You got a 1355 01:14:27.840 --> 01:14:30.840 slow release of ingredients feeding for three to four months. 1356 01:14:31.239 --> 01:14:33.840 And this stuff is so popular that they get they 1357 01:14:33.920 --> 01:14:37.319 send shipments out out of state to people who've discovered 1358 01:14:37.359 --> 01:14:39.159 it and are calling, going, we need to have that 1359 01:14:39.319 --> 01:14:43.680 here colorstar plus from Nelson Plant Food. We're going to 1360 01:14:43.720 --> 01:14:46.840 go now to talk to Marine up at lakeside of States. 1361 01:14:47.039 --> 01:14:53.039 Hello, Marine, to picture for you to look at my bros. 1362 01:14:53.800 --> 01:14:59.279 It's still blooming prolific greed. However, I guess I need 1363 01:14:59.359 --> 01:15:00.840 to use a spysmic. 1364 01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:04.239 I don't know what to spreadch. 1365 01:15:06.319 --> 01:15:10.479 Okay, let me get that. Uh well, Marine, I don't 1366 01:15:10.520 --> 01:15:14.079 have a picture attached. It just says a rose leaf light, 1367 01:15:16.119 --> 01:15:18.680 So describe to me what the leaves look like real quick. 1368 01:15:20.000 --> 01:15:20.319 Okay. 1369 01:15:20.600 --> 01:15:26.479 Some of them are very pale, soft yellowy color, and 1370 01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:30.840 then a newer leaves have little speckles on them, but 1371 01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:32.319 they're losing their color. 1372 01:15:33.000 --> 01:15:37.079 So apparently I did attach the picture. But that's about 1373 01:15:37.119 --> 01:15:39.199 all you're going to see anyhow. 1374 01:15:39.199 --> 01:15:42.760 Yeah, I know it's tim about so bottom line is 1375 01:15:42.760 --> 01:15:45.960 there's something wrong in the roots. The yellowing is a 1376 01:15:46.039 --> 01:15:49.079 lack of iron, but it probably isn't a lack of 1377 01:15:49.119 --> 01:15:52.359 iron in the soil. It's probably iron not being taken up. 1378 01:15:52.800 --> 01:15:55.479 I would get an iron key late. It spells c 1379 01:15:55.840 --> 01:16:01.680 h E l A t e like and chi late 1380 01:16:03.439 --> 01:16:09.000 pronounce che late spelled. Uh, put that around them. Watch 1381 01:16:09.119 --> 01:16:13.479 the watering. Excessive water, poor drainage, soggy roots can cause 1382 01:16:13.600 --> 01:16:16.439 what you're describing, and so I would I would check 1383 01:16:16.479 --> 01:16:18.760 for that, make sure that's not happening, and if it is, 1384 01:16:18.920 --> 01:16:21.000 back off of it a little bit, and then get 1385 01:16:21.039 --> 01:16:22.359 you a quality rose food. 1386 01:16:22.600 --> 01:16:22.720 Uh. 1387 01:16:23.279 --> 01:16:27.479 The folks that Nelson have part of their nature star line, 1388 01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:29.840 there is a rose food for there comes in little 1389 01:16:29.880 --> 01:16:32.760 jars and I would sprinkle that around it and watered 1390 01:16:32.800 --> 01:16:35.439 in really good. Uh, and then see if we can 1391 01:16:35.479 --> 01:16:37.560 bring that thing back that if it's. 1392 01:16:37.520 --> 01:16:38.800 Not about. 1393 01:16:43.520 --> 01:16:48.199 Not for this situation, not for this situation. Yeah, yeah, 1394 01:16:48.279 --> 01:16:51.000 that econized, but that's more of a phosphorus. 1395 01:16:51.840 --> 01:16:56.640 Go ahead, Okay, Now I's going to switch the topic sometimes. 1396 01:16:56.680 --> 01:17:00.239 I know you get backed up so quickly. I will, Yeah, 1397 01:17:00.359 --> 01:17:02.640 shoot this question and maybe we can chat a little bit, 1398 01:17:03.039 --> 01:17:11.399 all right. I went to several OVA meetings. Hello okay, yes, 1399 01:17:12.039 --> 01:17:14.359 oh okay, I didn't know I could still go all right. 1400 01:17:14.520 --> 01:17:17.640 So the thing was that the gentleman was there, and 1401 01:17:18.000 --> 01:17:21.840 I believe he is from microlife, and I listened to 1402 01:17:21.960 --> 01:17:22.439 a lecture. 1403 01:17:22.520 --> 01:17:23.960 But this is like five years ago. 1404 01:17:24.159 --> 01:17:25.640 My data may be incorrect. 1405 01:17:25.760 --> 01:17:28.560 His point was if you are feeding and you dining 1406 01:17:28.760 --> 01:17:33.520 his particular product, that you could cut back the intensity. 1407 01:17:33.039 --> 01:17:37.640 Of water that we were really every day when we water. 1408 01:17:37.600 --> 01:17:38.359 It's too short. 1409 01:17:38.600 --> 01:17:42.479 So I was trying to use his procedure, which was 1410 01:17:42.640 --> 01:17:46.479 to let it run longer so that you don't have 1411 01:17:46.680 --> 01:17:47.880 to run it every day. 1412 01:17:48.159 --> 01:17:48.840 Eventually. 1413 01:17:49.039 --> 01:17:50.439 It's not a short term thing. 1414 01:17:50.880 --> 01:17:55.479 It's something that I understand, right, I mean, let me 1415 01:17:55.560 --> 01:17:57.920 give you a quick answer on that. It's better to 1416 01:17:58.039 --> 01:18:01.520 water with a good soaking on ane frequent basis than 1417 01:18:01.640 --> 01:18:03.960 escort it a little every day. So that was right. 1418 01:18:04.520 --> 01:18:06.920 Just set your watering schedules so you give it. You 1419 01:18:07.039 --> 01:18:09.800 wet the so thoroughly, but then allow it to dry 1420 01:18:09.840 --> 01:18:12.079 out some before you water again. And I'm sorry, I'm 1421 01:18:12.079 --> 01:18:14.840 gonna have to run, but that that is, that's true 1422 01:18:14.880 --> 01:18:18.760 what you heard. All right, Well, thank you for that. Listen, 1423 01:18:19.560 --> 01:18:21.920 pest brothers. You hear me talk about them all the time. 1424 01:18:22.079 --> 01:18:24.319 I don't care if you're dealing with termites, if you're 1425 01:18:24.359 --> 01:18:26.239 dealing with fire ants in the yard, if you're dealing 1426 01:18:26.239 --> 01:18:30.479 with mosquitoes. They have solutions that are effective and that 1427 01:18:30.640 --> 01:18:34.199 are safe. They do it in the safest possible manner. 1428 01:18:34.239 --> 01:18:38.000 They can do a ten year treatment on for termites 1429 01:18:38.039 --> 01:18:41.560 in a little trench right outside the foundation of your house. 1430 01:18:41.760 --> 01:18:44.439 I mean, it's really simple. It's down in the ground. 1431 01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:46.760 Termite tries to go through that to get your house. 1432 01:18:46.760 --> 01:18:50.279 They're done, and it just minimizes concerns, you know, people 1433 01:18:50.359 --> 01:18:52.920 concerned about their pets or the kids run around outside. 1434 01:18:53.319 --> 01:18:55.840 Pest bros Know how to do things effectively and in 1435 01:18:55.920 --> 01:18:58.399 the safest possible manner. Call them for a quote two 1436 01:18:58.439 --> 01:19:02.359 eight one, two oh six forty six seventy or go 1437 01:19:02.560 --> 01:19:07.560 to the website the pest Bros b r os, thepestbros 1438 01:19:08.319 --> 01:19:13.159 dot com, the pest bros dot com. I've got some 1439 01:19:13.239 --> 01:19:15.239 of their buckets from mosquitos in my yard and I 1440 01:19:15.319 --> 01:19:16.720 was looking the other day and they got all those 1441 01:19:16.720 --> 01:19:19.600 little mosquito regulars in them. That's a good thing because 1442 01:19:19.640 --> 01:19:23.680 those regulars will never grow up. They attract the mosquitos 1443 01:19:23.720 --> 01:19:25.479 to come in and lay eggs there, and then the 1444 01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:29.960 mosquito flies away and controls mosquitos with what's on its 1445 01:19:30.079 --> 01:19:33.439 feet and other little tiny spots where there's a little water. 1446 01:19:33.520 --> 01:19:35.199 And by the way, we had all that rain recently, 1447 01:19:36.039 --> 01:19:40.600 mosquitos are breaking out everywhere. They are really taking off 1448 01:19:40.680 --> 01:19:43.359 right now. Well, if you want to, if you really 1449 01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:47.319 want a quality product for making your plants thrive, I 1450 01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:50.159 would I would go to Airloom Soils and I would 1451 01:19:50.199 --> 01:19:53.199 talk to them about which product you want. Now you can, 1452 01:19:53.239 --> 01:19:54.880 I want to say, go to airlom cells. I mean 1453 01:19:54.920 --> 01:19:58.520 go to the website Airloomsoils dot com, airloomsals dot com. 1454 01:19:58.560 --> 01:20:00.399 You see all the list of products there. Do you 1455 01:20:00.439 --> 01:20:03.000 want to grow roses and blooming plants, they got a 1456 01:20:03.079 --> 01:20:04.800 product for that. Do you want to grow fruit trees, 1457 01:20:04.880 --> 01:20:07.640 they got a product. How about vegetables and herbs, they 1458 01:20:07.760 --> 01:20:09.880 got a product for that. Do you need to fill 1459 01:20:09.920 --> 01:20:12.560 in your lawn. There's a product called Premium lawn Mix. 1460 01:20:12.920 --> 01:20:15.800 It's got some mason sand and compost and bed mix 1461 01:20:15.960 --> 01:20:20.119 mixed together. Great for preparing your soil for planting a lawn. 1462 01:20:20.520 --> 01:20:23.399 We talk about Leatho composts for top dressing. They have 1463 01:20:23.640 --> 01:20:27.079 that Everything they carry is high quality. And I know 1464 01:20:27.199 --> 01:20:32.720 that because they use their products they work. Heirloomsoils dot com. 1465 01:20:33.199 --> 01:20:35.920 They can sell it to you by the bag all 1466 01:20:36.000 --> 01:20:38.960 over town in places sold by the bag. You can 1467 01:20:39.039 --> 01:20:41.279 buy it bulk dumped on the driveway. You can buy 1468 01:20:41.359 --> 01:20:43.880 what's called a supersack, which is really cool because a 1469 01:20:43.960 --> 01:20:47.560 supersack is a cubic yard that's in a big sack 1470 01:20:47.720 --> 01:20:50.159 and they just set it on your driveway. It's neat, 1471 01:20:50.319 --> 01:20:53.800 it's clean, it's easy. I've used myself. I love supersacks. 1472 01:20:53.960 --> 01:20:58.000 They really really work well. Airloom soils don't go out 1473 01:20:58.600 --> 01:21:03.319 and plant without pairing your soil brown stuff before green stuff. 1474 01:21:03.720 --> 01:21:05.760 And you're not going to find a better product for 1475 01:21:05.920 --> 01:21:09.079 the brown stuff for the foundation for success than you'll 1476 01:21:09.119 --> 01:21:13.800 find with the folks at Heirloom Soils. You're listening to 1477 01:21:13.880 --> 01:21:15.640 Guardenline and we're about to take a little break here. 1478 01:21:15.800 --> 01:21:18.239 It is time for that top of the hour break. 1479 01:21:18.600 --> 01:21:21.479 When we come back, we'll be coming back to your calls, 1480 01:21:21.640 --> 01:21:23.680 and maybe you could be first up if you're quick 1481 01:21:23.800 --> 01:21:26.840 with the phone. Seven one three two one two k 1482 01:21:27.039 --> 01:21:30.880 t RH seven to one three two one two k 1483 01:21:31.199 --> 01:21:34.159 t RH A gosh. I got so many things I 1484 01:21:34.239 --> 01:21:37.359 want to talk about today. All will start with your calls. 1485 01:21:37.439 --> 01:21:39.520 But before we have to go to break, I just 1486 01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:42.800 want to remind you that with summer coming on, it 1487 01:21:42.960 --> 01:21:45.880 is time to get as much planted as you can. 1488 01:21:46.359 --> 01:21:48.840 We got plants that can take this heat, but they 1489 01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:50.960 do best when they have a little bit of time 1490 01:21:51.399 --> 01:21:54.960 to get roots established before the demands and the stresses 1491 01:21:55.039 --> 01:21:58.560 of summer come on them. So let's go. Let's get 1492 01:21:58.600 --> 01:22:03.119 this done. Flowers, vegetables, herbs, all kinds of wonderful things 1493 01:22:03.159 --> 01:22:05.720 out there. I'm going to be planning some okrah in 1494 01:22:05.880 --> 01:22:09.640 my vegetable garden this week. Been delayed on it, which 1495 01:22:09.720 --> 01:22:12.800 is a shame because I have an okra problem, meaning 1496 01:22:13.720 --> 01:22:17.279 it's like an obsession with me. And anyway, we're going 1497 01:22:17.319 --> 01:22:19.840 to get that taken care of out there. If you 1498 01:22:20.119 --> 01:22:23.760 have planted questions that might need a photo to help 1499 01:22:23.840 --> 01:22:26.439 me diagnose, and boy, I got some good photos in here. 1500 01:22:27.079 --> 01:22:28.960 I'm just looking at a series of them that came 1501 01:22:29.000 --> 01:22:31.399 in an email just a minute ago. Uh, send me 1502 01:22:31.479 --> 01:22:33.399 the photos and then follow up with a call to 1503 01:22:33.479 --> 01:22:34.960 garden line. I'm not gonna be able to type out 1504 01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:37.760 answers to all the emails, but I'll be happy to 1505 01:22:37.840 --> 01:22:40.119 provide you personal one on one service if you give 1506 01:22:40.159 --> 01:22:42.520 me a call at seven one three two one two 1507 01:22:43.079 --> 01:22:45.880 kt R to make sure your photos are a good, 1508 01:22:46.199 --> 01:22:50.479 cris clear ocus. I want to give you a crisp answer, 1509 01:22:50.600 --> 01:22:57.560 not a fuzzy one. Okay, welcome back. Welcome back to 1510 01:22:57.640 --> 01:23:02.319 garden Line. We're glad you're joining us today. By the way, 1511 01:23:02.359 --> 01:23:05.159 did you know that plants that listen to garden Line 1512 01:23:05.199 --> 01:23:08.159 are greener and more productive. You should grab your houseplants 1513 01:23:08.159 --> 01:23:10.279 that are struggling, set them by the radio with you, 1514 01:23:10.439 --> 01:23:12.520 and let them join in. I think you will see 1515 01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:15.079 by the end of the show they look greener and 1516 01:23:15.199 --> 01:23:19.600 are clearly happier. Nine out of ten plant psychologists agree 1517 01:23:19.640 --> 01:23:23.560 with this. By the way, asamite is a product that 1518 01:23:23.640 --> 01:23:26.039 we put out on our lawns inputting in gardens too, 1519 01:23:26.119 --> 01:23:30.840 By the way, that releases micronutrients to the growing plants. 1520 01:23:31.039 --> 01:23:35.359 It builds the plant's bank account of micronutrients. That's why 1521 01:23:35.439 --> 01:23:38.760 we do azamite. It's not like you put the fertilizer 1522 01:23:38.840 --> 01:23:43.520 with the three one two, the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium numbers 1523 01:23:43.560 --> 01:23:46.560 on the bag. That's good, that pushes growth, especially the 1524 01:23:46.640 --> 01:23:49.800 nitrogen makes it grow. But there's over twenty nutrients, not 1525 01:23:49.960 --> 01:23:52.960 just three, that a plant needs and in order for 1526 01:23:53.119 --> 01:23:55.039 them to have that in the bank account, so the 1527 01:23:55.159 --> 01:23:57.600 roots need it every day of the year. Roots are 1528 01:23:57.600 --> 01:24:02.000 taking up nutrients all the time, not just you fertilize asumite. 1529 01:24:02.159 --> 01:24:04.199 Is a product for that. You can put it out 1530 01:24:04.520 --> 01:24:07.840 about six thousand to twelve thousand square feet. A long, 1531 01:24:08.079 --> 01:24:10.079 one forty four pound bag will cover that in a 1532 01:24:10.159 --> 01:24:13.399 vegetable garden about ten pounds per thousand square feet. And 1533 01:24:13.800 --> 01:24:16.760 it works well. You can use it when you're out fertilizing. 1534 01:24:17.000 --> 01:24:20.439 Just come back from fertilizing, load it up with the 1535 01:24:20.479 --> 01:24:22.720 asumite and go back and do the as at the 1536 01:24:22.720 --> 01:24:24.720 same time. Makes it easier to remember, but it doesn't 1537 01:24:24.760 --> 01:24:27.359 have to be done at the same time that you fertilize. 1538 01:24:27.840 --> 01:24:29.760 All right, Well, earlier I was telling you about this 1539 01:24:29.880 --> 01:24:33.800 sale at Warren's Southern Gardens, and it's just insane. It's like, 1540 01:24:34.079 --> 01:24:38.560 is this is this written correctly? Did I really get 1541 01:24:38.600 --> 01:24:42.159 this right? So I've got somebody from Warren's on the 1542 01:24:42.239 --> 01:24:44.159 line that I want to talk to and just get 1543 01:24:44.199 --> 01:24:47.399 a confirmation on this, and that is d Mally. Hey, 1544 01:24:47.520 --> 01:24:52.119 d are you there earning? I am here, Good morning, 1545 01:24:53.039 --> 01:24:55.800 Good morning. I can hear you loud. I can hear 1546 01:24:55.880 --> 01:24:58.560 you loud and clear. Is this a typo that I'm 1547 01:24:58.600 --> 01:24:59.000 looking at? 1548 01:25:00.680 --> 01:25:01.399 No, it is not. 1549 01:25:01.920 --> 01:25:06.880 It is the real deal, yues. We have a sale Okay, 1550 01:25:07.079 --> 01:25:12.399 May seventeens through May thirty first, and we have twenty 1551 01:25:12.479 --> 01:25:15.079 percent off any purchases. 1552 01:25:14.680 --> 01:25:16.239 Of over one hundred dollars. 1553 01:25:17.159 --> 01:25:22.239 And then we have a mega mega megasale, which we've 1554 01:25:22.319 --> 01:25:23.159 never done before. 1555 01:25:23.439 --> 01:25:24.720 This is wild and crazy. 1556 01:25:24.840 --> 01:25:29.039 I'll tell you, any purchases over three thousand dollars you 1557 01:25:29.119 --> 01:25:33.760 get a whopping forty percent discount. So if you spend 1558 01:25:33.840 --> 01:25:40.439 three thousand, eighteen hundred dollars, yes, yes, it's really cool 1559 01:25:41.000 --> 01:25:41.479 and it's. 1560 01:25:41.359 --> 01:25:42.239 A good time to. 1561 01:25:43.840 --> 01:25:47.760 Really revamp your your garden and have all those dreams 1562 01:25:47.840 --> 01:25:51.239 come true and put the add ons in there with 1563 01:25:51.359 --> 01:25:55.880 the statuary and the arbors and the trellises. And needless 1564 01:25:55.920 --> 01:25:59.560 to say, I'm a flat person and I do all 1565 01:25:59.640 --> 01:26:03.600 the cut some flower pots at Warren Southern Gardens, and 1566 01:26:03.720 --> 01:26:07.800 I help out also somewhat at Kingwood Garden Center and 1567 01:26:09.079 --> 01:26:13.159 a pottery. I mean forty percent off if you buy gorgeous, 1568 01:26:13.199 --> 01:26:17.520 gorgeous pots or just the twenty anything over one hundred dollars. 1569 01:26:18.199 --> 01:26:23.000 So and it's anything that we have sture fertilized that 1570 01:26:23.119 --> 01:26:23.600 is amazing. 1571 01:26:24.199 --> 01:26:26.920 You know. He's which I'm a fan of. I use 1572 01:26:26.960 --> 01:26:29.680 it twice a year, so I understand that. 1573 01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:32.520 So do you have any questions? 1574 01:26:33.000 --> 01:26:33.279 This is. 1575 01:26:34.800 --> 01:26:36.880 Well it's it's a it's a big deal. I mean 1576 01:26:36.960 --> 01:26:38.800 it's a chunk of change, you know, to drop that 1577 01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:41.680 kind of money out there. But over time people are 1578 01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:43.920 going to spend the money. And this is like, okay, 1579 01:26:44.000 --> 01:26:48.399 here's your chance to get forty percent off of everything. 1580 01:26:48.800 --> 01:26:52.960 You mentioned Trellis's. You mentioned the pottery, Oh my beautiful 1581 01:26:53.039 --> 01:26:56.960 pottery is not cheap and you could really set yourself up. 1582 01:26:57.159 --> 01:26:59.239 And then of course all the bags of soil from 1583 01:26:59.279 --> 01:27:04.159 Airlomb soil and the fertilizers and things. I'm telling you 1584 01:27:04.279 --> 01:27:06.319 that people need to think about this because there's gonna 1585 01:27:06.319 --> 01:27:09.439 be some folks out there that are they're looking at 1586 01:27:09.479 --> 01:27:11.800 their yard and they're going, I'm getting tired of looking 1587 01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:14.880 at this. I'd love to redo it, but I can't 1588 01:27:14.880 --> 01:27:17.439 afford to redo it. Well, you just got an opportunity 1589 01:27:17.439 --> 01:27:20.239 to afford to redo it right here. Forty percent. 1590 01:27:21.000 --> 01:27:21.159 Yeah. 1591 01:27:21.439 --> 01:27:23.560 In one of the things that we have done, we'd 1592 01:27:23.600 --> 01:27:28.800 expanded our services with Warren's location on North Park. We 1593 01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:33.359 now have a wholesale division also, so the landscapers have 1594 01:27:33.479 --> 01:27:38.640 the opportunity to help their clients with that department. So 1595 01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:43.479 lots of stuff going on, and I would highly suggest 1596 01:27:43.720 --> 01:27:47.720 for people just to come visit our location. It is 1597 01:27:48.279 --> 01:27:51.199 I've been in this industry for twenty thirty forty years, 1598 01:27:51.239 --> 01:27:57.399 who knows how long. The nursery itself is spectacularly gorgeous. 1599 01:27:58.039 --> 01:28:01.279 It is worth the walk through, walking through a park. 1600 01:28:02.199 --> 01:28:03.000 I know you were there. 1601 01:28:03.560 --> 01:28:11.159 I was so skip Yeah, yeah, yeah, gorgeous, gorgeous. Yes, 1602 01:28:11.359 --> 01:28:17.000 the sale unbelievable. Well, right, so people basically have a 1603 01:28:17.079 --> 01:28:21.119 cop Yeah, so starting today, going through the end of 1604 01:28:21.199 --> 01:28:24.479 May is starting today, going through the end of May 1605 01:28:24.760 --> 01:28:27.479 is the period. So think about it, folks. But I'm 1606 01:28:27.520 --> 01:28:31.039 telling you when you consider, we're not just saying you 1607 01:28:31.079 --> 01:28:33.000 have to buy three thousand dollars of the plants. We're 1608 01:28:33.039 --> 01:28:35.600 talking about all kinds of things and d you make 1609 01:28:35.680 --> 01:28:38.920 beautiful mixed containers there. I love your work. I think 1610 01:28:38.960 --> 01:28:42.000 I could probably spend three thousand dollars on just the 1611 01:28:42.079 --> 01:28:47.239 containers you can. Thank you so beautiful, So people people 1612 01:28:47.279 --> 01:28:49.159 can come out and have that. 1613 01:28:51.000 --> 01:28:53.720 We can think about his Father's days coming up. So, 1614 01:28:54.199 --> 01:28:58.319 you know, plants and all the fun stuff for yards 1615 01:28:58.880 --> 01:29:02.199 are awesome for you know, Mother's Day was. 1616 01:29:02.199 --> 01:29:06.920 A big hit, wonderful, you know, and but just wow, 1617 01:29:07.119 --> 01:29:07.880 I love what I do. 1618 01:29:08.439 --> 01:29:11.079 It is awesome it's good for the mind and the 1619 01:29:11.239 --> 01:29:14.560 soul and the beauty that it gives to us much 1620 01:29:14.680 --> 01:29:15.840 less the rest. 1621 01:29:15.680 --> 01:29:16.199 Of the world. 1622 01:29:17.119 --> 01:29:23.399 So to sale, Yes, that is true. So just to 1623 01:29:23.439 --> 01:29:27.520 wrap it up, twenty percent off, twenty percent off on 1624 01:29:27.640 --> 01:29:30.199 purchase of one hundred dollars or more forty percent off 1625 01:29:30.439 --> 01:29:33.199 three thousand or more. Folks, think about this, do the 1626 01:29:33.279 --> 01:29:35.840 math in your head. Go to war on Southern gardens, 1627 01:29:35.920 --> 01:29:38.840 look around, and suddenly you're going to go, oh, yeah, 1628 01:29:38.920 --> 01:29:41.319 I could find three thousand dollars here in a heartbeat 1629 01:29:41.439 --> 01:29:43.399 of all kinds of work and stuff. D Thanks for 1630 01:29:43.840 --> 01:29:47.720 being on. I really appreciate you doing that, and take 1631 01:29:47.800 --> 01:29:50.159 care out there. Look forward to seeing you sometime. 1632 01:29:50.520 --> 01:29:53.680 Thank you for the information or the opportunity. I'm sorry, 1633 01:29:54.159 --> 01:29:54.960 I have a great day. 1634 01:29:55.159 --> 01:29:59.600 Okay, you bet, you bet? Bye bye. All right, folks, 1635 01:29:59.720 --> 01:30:07.159 there you have it. Unbelievable, unbelievable. One thing that's moving 1636 01:30:07.239 --> 01:30:10.960 on with some horticultural topics. I'm noticing a lot of 1637 01:30:11.880 --> 01:30:14.279 gray leaf spot in people's yards. I've gotten a number 1638 01:30:14.319 --> 01:30:16.680 of pictures of it. I've seen some spots and yards 1639 01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:19.399 that I've been to. Gray leaf spot is a fungal 1640 01:30:19.479 --> 01:30:23.439 disease that likes the early summertime, especially it's it's milder 1641 01:30:23.520 --> 01:30:27.720 heat that we're having right now. It loves moisture if 1642 01:30:27.800 --> 01:30:30.720 it rains a lot, if you irrigate frequently. One of 1643 01:30:30.760 --> 01:30:34.520 the reasons we say water deeply and infrequently is to 1644 01:30:34.600 --> 01:30:38.920 avoid promoting diseases like like gray leaf spot. Now nine 1645 01:30:38.920 --> 01:30:42.000 to fist has a product called Eagle Turf Fungicide, and 1646 01:30:42.199 --> 01:30:46.239 it contains a systemic fungicide that moves through the plant 1647 01:30:46.880 --> 01:30:49.560 and it does a great job of a number of 1648 01:30:49.720 --> 01:30:53.199 different diseases of the turf. And right now, take a 1649 01:30:53.359 --> 01:30:57.560 root rot and the gray leaf spot or two big 1650 01:30:57.640 --> 01:31:00.600 ones that we're dealing with right now. To find night 1651 01:31:00.680 --> 01:31:03.039 fross products like the Eagle turf fund a side at 1652 01:31:03.079 --> 01:31:05.600 a number of places you know, go to RCW Nursery 1653 01:31:05.640 --> 01:31:08.880 for example Tomball Parkway, you head up to D and 1654 01:31:08.960 --> 01:31:12.119 D Feed and Tomball, or maybe Fisher's hard Way down 1655 01:31:12.199 --> 01:31:15.600 in Laporte on Broadway Street, just examples of places that 1656 01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:18.479 carry night foss products. I'm gonna take a little break 1657 01:31:18.520 --> 01:31:20.840 here and when I come back, Tracy and Richmond and 1658 01:31:22.359 --> 01:31:26.119 Joeanne in Lake Conro you'll be our first two up. Well, 1659 01:31:27.560 --> 01:31:30.720 there's a blast from the past. Welcome back to Guardline. 1660 01:31:30.760 --> 01:31:32.960 Good to have you with us phone number seven one 1661 01:31:33.079 --> 01:31:36.119 three two one two k t RH. Listen to the 1662 01:31:36.159 --> 01:31:40.840 Antique rose Imporium been around since nineteen eighty three. I 1663 01:31:40.960 --> 01:31:43.039 first visited there in nineteen eighty three. As a matter 1664 01:31:43.079 --> 01:31:45.199 of fact, I was a grad student in horticulture at 1665 01:31:45.199 --> 01:31:49.079 A and M. And the place has just been a 1666 01:31:49.199 --> 01:31:53.000 must visit destination the whole time. They are roses, Oh 1667 01:31:53.079 --> 01:31:55.520 my gosh, there roses, but there's so much more, so 1668 01:31:55.640 --> 01:31:57.600 many different kinds of plants. By the way, right now 1669 01:31:58.199 --> 01:32:01.840 May tenth through thirtieth, they're going to have twenty percent 1670 01:32:01.920 --> 01:32:04.920 off select roses, twenty three different varieties, by the way, 1671 01:32:04.960 --> 01:32:07.239 in that group of select roses, and twenty percent off 1672 01:32:07.279 --> 01:32:10.119 all the annuals and perennials and trees and shrubs and succulents. 1673 01:32:10.760 --> 01:32:15.720 They have two new bundles available exclusively from the antiqu Rosenporium. 1674 01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:19.479 One of them is called the Soft Cottage Core Bundle 1675 01:32:20.079 --> 01:32:24.600 the Vibrant Cottage Core Bundle. That's the two Soft Cottage 1676 01:32:24.880 --> 01:32:27.560 Vibrant Cottage. It's a bundle of plants. You just need 1677 01:32:27.640 --> 01:32:29.560 to ask them about it. Go to antiqu Rosenber and 1678 01:32:29.600 --> 01:32:32.119 talk one of the associates find out about that. Just 1679 01:32:32.199 --> 01:32:35.520 want to remind you that the Beneficial Insects Seminar for 1680 01:32:35.640 --> 01:32:41.039 Kids is today today. It's a free seminar. Ages well 1681 01:32:41.119 --> 01:32:44.680 actually ages three through ten can enjoy Nature Nectar, a 1682 01:32:44.760 --> 01:32:48.880 hands on activity exploring the wonders of pollinators through hand 1683 01:32:49.359 --> 01:32:53.279 garden inspired crafts and a butterfly story, unfun facts. Kids 1684 01:32:53.319 --> 01:32:56.039 will love it, trust me. It'll culminate with the release 1685 01:32:56.119 --> 01:33:00.520 of a Magical Ladybug oil at Magical Ladybug Release. I 1686 01:33:00.560 --> 01:33:02.920 think they're Magical Lady books too, but anyway, you get 1687 01:33:02.960 --> 01:33:05.439 the idea. Tickets are available on the website if you'd 1688 01:33:05.479 --> 01:33:09.720 like to do that. This free seminar on Beneficial Insects too. 1689 01:33:10.119 --> 01:33:14.680 It highlights incredible ways beneficial support our healthy gardens and 1690 01:33:14.760 --> 01:33:17.600 how to invite them to your your space as well. 1691 01:33:18.119 --> 01:33:20.880 Here's the website that's where you go for everything you 1692 01:33:20.960 --> 01:33:26.479 need to know. Antique Roseimporium dot com. Antique Rosenmporium dot 1693 01:33:26.560 --> 01:33:30.399 com nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight. 1694 01:33:30.640 --> 01:33:34.560 They are roses, but so so much more. Let's set 1695 01:33:34.640 --> 01:33:37.840 up now to Richmond and we are going to talk 1696 01:33:37.920 --> 01:33:41.119 to Tracy this morning. Hello, Tracy and welcome to garden Line. 1697 01:33:42.239 --> 01:33:47.600 Good morning. The reason why I'm calling is to follow 1698 01:33:47.680 --> 01:33:50.000 up on an email that I had sent in regard 1699 01:33:50.119 --> 01:33:51.680 to watering of lawns. 1700 01:33:52.199 --> 01:33:53.920 I know that they that you. 1701 01:33:54.079 --> 01:33:59.239 Guys have always stated a longer period of time more infrequently, 1702 01:33:59.800 --> 01:34:04.279 But what I'm looking at is what time of the 1703 01:34:04.439 --> 01:34:07.399 day or nine that it's best to actually do that. 1704 01:34:07.680 --> 01:34:10.079 So if you could give us some insight, oh boy, 1705 01:34:10.439 --> 01:34:11.840 some of the brown patch and all that. 1706 01:34:13.560 --> 01:34:17.800 Yes, So what we're doing is we're watering early, early 1707 01:34:17.880 --> 01:34:23.720 in the morning for two reasons. Number One, the appotranspiration 1708 01:34:24.199 --> 01:34:27.079 is least at that time of day, so you don't 1709 01:34:27.159 --> 01:34:30.199 lose so much to evaporation as you're going through the 1710 01:34:30.279 --> 01:34:33.560 water cycle. Number Two, the sun is about to come 1711 01:34:33.600 --> 01:34:36.800 out and warm things up and dry those leaves off 1712 01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:39.000 very quickly. If you were to water at ten at night, 1713 01:34:39.640 --> 01:34:42.199 that lawn may sit wet for a much longer period 1714 01:34:42.239 --> 01:34:44.239 of time. And I was talking earlier about gray leaf 1715 01:34:44.279 --> 01:34:47.000 spot being a disease for right now that would really 1716 01:34:47.079 --> 01:34:49.680 aggravate things like gray leaf spot that love that wet 1717 01:34:49.840 --> 01:34:53.399 leaf tissue, the wet grass blades. So early in the 1718 01:34:53.479 --> 01:34:55.560 morning is the best time you can do that. With 1719 01:34:55.720 --> 01:34:57.640 your good soakings when you do water. 1720 01:34:58.600 --> 01:35:02.279 Okay, great, wonderful because in the past we had done it, 1721 01:35:02.520 --> 01:35:06.079 you know, at night, and then noticed a larger issue 1722 01:35:06.159 --> 01:35:08.399 when it came to those types of problems that we 1723 01:35:08.520 --> 01:35:11.000 were experiencing. So we're trying to get all that under control, 1724 01:35:12.159 --> 01:35:15.000 and so our kind of thought was, you know, do 1725 01:35:15.159 --> 01:35:17.640 it three point thirty in the morning and then let 1726 01:35:17.720 --> 01:35:18.680 it start to do that. 1727 01:35:19.159 --> 01:35:23.359 So yeah, well, I mean, you know you could, you could, 1728 01:35:23.479 --> 01:35:25.199 and you know, it's not the end of the world 1729 01:35:25.239 --> 01:35:27.039 if you water at the wrong time of day or something. 1730 01:35:27.159 --> 01:35:30.560 It's just if you're choosing the best time, that would 1731 01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:36.520 be the best time. Okay, okay, perfect, Thanks Tracy. I 1732 01:35:36.600 --> 01:35:40.199 appreciate the call very much. If you've got metal furniture 1733 01:35:40.560 --> 01:35:43.680 or metal art outside, maybe hanging on the side of 1734 01:35:43.720 --> 01:35:46.079 the house, you know, anything that's metal like cast iron, 1735 01:35:46.159 --> 01:35:50.319 wrought iron, aluminum, patio furniture, Houston Powder Coders can make 1736 01:35:50.359 --> 01:35:52.319 it look like new, if not better than new. I 1737 01:35:52.359 --> 01:35:56.399 mean they are amazing, one hundred plus in stock colors. 1738 01:35:57.479 --> 01:35:59.399 So what color do you don't just tell them I 1739 01:35:59.439 --> 01:36:02.319 want it green. You know, there's probably twenty shades of green. 1740 01:36:02.359 --> 01:36:04.520 They can make it. You know, don't just tell them blue. 1741 01:36:04.560 --> 01:36:06.680 You see what I'm saying. They have all the colors 1742 01:36:06.760 --> 01:36:09.359 you want, and they do the whole job. They know 1743 01:36:09.399 --> 01:36:11.720 if you've got old, rusty issues, they help fix that. 1744 01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:14.479 They do any little tack wells that might be needed. 1745 01:36:14.800 --> 01:36:19.000 Replace the sling fabric and vinyl straps and rusty hardware 1746 01:36:19.079 --> 01:36:22.439 with good stainless steel hardware bolts. They can do it all. 1747 01:36:22.720 --> 01:36:25.039 Take a picture of what you got and email it 1748 01:36:25.439 --> 01:36:30.600 to this place, sales at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales at 1749 01:36:30.640 --> 01:36:32.800 Houston cooders dot com. They'll give you a quick quote, 1750 01:36:33.119 --> 01:36:35.279 they pick it up, and when they're done, they deliver 1751 01:36:35.359 --> 01:36:37.920 it in the greater Houston area. Check out their social 1752 01:36:38.039 --> 01:36:42.720 media really Houston powder Coders. Okay, that's also the website, 1753 01:36:42.880 --> 01:36:46.720 Houston Powdercoders dot com. Two eight one six seven six 1754 01:36:47.000 --> 01:36:49.840 thirty eight eighty eight. We're going to go out to 1755 01:36:50.079 --> 01:36:52.840 Cinafe now and talk to Chris. Hey, Chris, welcome reguardline. 1756 01:36:53.960 --> 01:36:54.720 Hey, how you doing? 1757 01:36:54.840 --> 01:36:57.640 Skip as soon as some photos. 1758 01:37:00.159 --> 01:37:00.199 On. 1759 01:37:00.640 --> 01:37:05.520 I got some spots on cucumber plants. First of all, okay, 1760 01:37:06.520 --> 01:37:12.039 all right, so again I've gotten a couple of cucumber 1761 01:37:13.640 --> 01:37:16.239 well I got see Chris I got one of you. 1762 01:37:16.479 --> 01:37:22.319 That's peppervine weed. I think I got cucumbers with spots. 1763 01:37:22.920 --> 01:37:23.720 That's pepper vine. 1764 01:37:23.760 --> 01:37:27.119 Yeah, okay, So the cucumber spots are fungal leaf spots. 1765 01:37:27.760 --> 01:37:30.520 It's a disease. And I would leaves that look like 1766 01:37:30.600 --> 01:37:32.199 the one you sent me just go ahead and pick 1767 01:37:32.279 --> 01:37:36.760 them off because they're basically like the typhoid mary and 1768 01:37:36.880 --> 01:37:40.800 the cucumber patch. Meaning all those spots are producing spores 1769 01:37:40.920 --> 01:37:43.840 to make the other leaves get sick. So take those out. 1770 01:37:44.600 --> 01:37:48.399 A product like dac o'nill d A c o n 1771 01:37:48.640 --> 01:37:52.239 i L will help shut down leaf spots. It does 1772 01:37:52.479 --> 01:37:55.399 nothing cures the spots you have, but it prevents additional 1773 01:37:55.479 --> 01:37:58.000 ones from happening. And the more you can keep the 1774 01:37:58.119 --> 01:38:02.720 leaves dry like water the soil, don't spray the foliage, 1775 01:38:03.560 --> 01:38:05.680 the less problems you have with this leaf spot. 1776 01:38:06.439 --> 01:38:09.319 All righty okay, I have I have some bone eyed 1777 01:38:10.000 --> 01:38:11.079 copper funge a side. 1778 01:38:11.079 --> 01:38:13.880 Will that work? It might? 1779 01:38:14.359 --> 01:38:18.199 It might. U copper is pretty good on bacteria and 1780 01:38:18.359 --> 01:38:22.199 on some some fungus diseases too, But you could you 1781 01:38:22.239 --> 01:38:24.399 could try that one. Now, the weed that you have, 1782 01:38:24.600 --> 01:38:30.560 this pepper but decon hill for leaf spots is generally better. 1783 01:38:31.279 --> 01:38:33.319 But if you got in your hand, just go ahead 1784 01:38:33.319 --> 01:38:35.039 and try it and see see if it if it 1785 01:38:35.119 --> 01:38:38.279 works for you. I have a publication on my website. 1786 01:38:38.439 --> 01:38:43.119 The website is Gardening with Skip dot Com and it's 1787 01:38:43.119 --> 01:38:47.600 a free publication called Controlling Woody Weeds in the Landscape. 1788 01:38:48.119 --> 01:38:53.479 There is another publication called Herbicides for Skips Weed Wiper. 1789 01:38:54.199 --> 01:38:57.359 On the Herbicides for Skips Weed Wiper, it tells you 1790 01:38:57.520 --> 01:39:00.920 what product to you use on which weeds, and peppervine 1791 01:39:01.239 --> 01:39:04.039 is one of the many weeds on the list, and 1792 01:39:04.199 --> 01:39:07.039 you can see which product I would recommend you use. 1793 01:39:07.399 --> 01:39:10.960 And then the Controlling Woody Weeds publication tells you one 1794 01:39:11.000 --> 01:39:12.039 of the ways that you can do it. 1795 01:39:13.880 --> 01:39:16.359 Okay, okay, I'll head it over there. 1796 01:39:16.399 --> 01:39:19.960 I sure appreciate it, all right, Thank you very much. 1797 01:39:20.079 --> 01:39:21.159 You take care. Appreciate it. 1798 01:39:21.760 --> 01:39:22.760 Thank you very much. 1799 01:39:24.640 --> 01:39:31.560 You bet alrighty wild Birds Unlimited. I tell you, every 1800 01:39:31.720 --> 01:39:34.319 morning I go out and I listen to the first 1801 01:39:34.399 --> 01:39:36.760 songs of birds. For some reason, in my yard, a 1802 01:39:36.920 --> 01:39:39.520 robin is the first one to sing in the morning 1803 01:39:39.920 --> 01:39:42.119 every morning. And I know that because I use the 1804 01:39:42.239 --> 01:39:45.520 Merlin app, which is a free app from the folks 1805 01:39:45.560 --> 01:39:48.560 at Cornell University and you can tell it to listen 1806 01:39:48.680 --> 01:39:50.359 and it'll tell you what bird it here is. It 1807 01:39:50.479 --> 01:39:52.960 is fascinating. Even if you're not a bird person, you 1808 01:39:53.039 --> 01:39:54.520 got to get this app and check it out. It's 1809 01:39:54.520 --> 01:39:57.600 pretty cool. But anyway, we're in nesting season for many 1810 01:39:57.680 --> 01:40:00.720 of our songbirds, and the folks at Wildbirds Unlimited designed 1811 01:40:00.960 --> 01:40:04.359 really the perfect blend of seeds to make sure the 1812 01:40:04.399 --> 01:40:07.560 birds get what they need most this season. Now it's 1813 01:40:07.600 --> 01:40:10.359 called Nesting Super Blend. You're only going to get it 1814 01:40:10.720 --> 01:40:14.439 at wild Birds Unlimited. It's got things like sunflower chips 1815 01:40:14.479 --> 01:40:18.399 and peanuts and dried mealworms. Boy birds love those bark 1816 01:40:18.439 --> 01:40:22.159 butter bits, save flower tree nuts. It's got the extra protein, 1817 01:40:22.159 --> 01:40:25.600 it's got the extra calcium that's needed during nesting season 1818 01:40:25.720 --> 01:40:29.359 for eggshell formation and skeletal development for the young birds. 1819 01:40:29.880 --> 01:40:31.640 You can buy it loose in bags. You can buy 1820 01:40:31.640 --> 01:40:34.199 it in the little compacted seed cylinders that the birds 1821 01:40:34.279 --> 01:40:36.279 have to kind of peck into to get the seeds out. 1822 01:40:37.520 --> 01:40:41.199 Look for it at wild Birds Unlimited. There's six Wildbirds 1823 01:40:41.239 --> 01:40:44.279 Unlimited stores in the Houston area. There's one on Cypress 1824 01:40:44.319 --> 01:40:47.600 on Barker Cypress in Houston on Memorial Drive in Houston 1825 01:40:47.880 --> 01:40:51.279 on bel Air out west of town and in Paarland 1826 01:40:51.680 --> 01:40:56.439 on East Broadway, clear Lake on Eldorado Boulevard and Kingwood Drive, 1827 01:40:56.600 --> 01:41:00.359 there is Kingwood Wildbird's Unlimited Store. There are you there 1828 01:41:00.439 --> 01:41:03.720 pick up a wild Bird's Unlimited high perch hummingbird feeder. 1829 01:41:03.760 --> 01:41:06.560 It's my favorite one. I just replenished it. Put some 1830 01:41:06.720 --> 01:41:10.199 new sugar water in it and some of that nectar defender. 1831 01:41:10.239 --> 01:41:11.960 It's a little bottle of stuff. You put a little 1832 01:41:11.960 --> 01:41:14.279 bit in the water and it makes it last a 1833 01:41:14.359 --> 01:41:16.800 lot longer because you know, sugar water sitting outside on 1834 01:41:16.840 --> 01:41:19.560 a hot day, day after day is going to go bad. 1835 01:41:19.720 --> 01:41:21.800 So the nectar defender gives you a few more days 1836 01:41:22.560 --> 01:41:28.079 out of your hummingbird supplies in the feeders. Let's head 1837 01:41:28.159 --> 01:41:32.520 now to Lake Conroe and we're going to talk to Joeanne. Hello, Joanne, 1838 01:41:33.560 --> 01:41:34.479 h morning. 1839 01:41:35.359 --> 01:41:42.359 You did get my emails? Yes, I did, so that 1840 01:41:42.560 --> 01:41:44.960 proves I have a brown thumb that I can't keep 1841 01:41:45.079 --> 01:41:45.760 plants going. 1842 01:41:48.680 --> 01:41:51.720 Don't worry about that. Everybody, everybody deals with this. Tell 1843 01:41:51.760 --> 01:41:53.880 me what was in the pictures that you sent me? 1844 01:41:55.039 --> 01:41:59.800 There were The last picture was a single green beans 1845 01:42:00.399 --> 01:42:03.560 in a container and the one leaf is you know, 1846 01:42:03.600 --> 01:42:05.520 it's just all shriveled up and brown. 1847 01:42:06.279 --> 01:42:08.840 And then there were a couple of others and they 1848 01:42:08.920 --> 01:42:12.479 have the little black spots. And I also send a 1849 01:42:13.359 --> 01:42:14.319 zucchini plant. 1850 01:42:16.039 --> 01:42:22.319 Okay, those, yeah, I see them. Don't worry about the 1851 01:42:22.399 --> 01:42:25.399 black spots. That's just a weakened plant getting problems on 1852 01:42:25.479 --> 01:42:27.199 the leaves. We need to fix the fact that the 1853 01:42:27.279 --> 01:42:29.560 plant is weak. And here's here's part of the problem. 1854 01:42:29.680 --> 01:42:32.800 It's getting too dry in that container. You got a 1855 01:42:32.840 --> 01:42:36.039 real good chunky mix in there, so it doesn't hold 1856 01:42:36.119 --> 01:42:38.560 water for a very long time. But you need to 1857 01:42:38.600 --> 01:42:40.520 water a little more often. And first thing you do 1858 01:42:40.800 --> 01:42:43.119 is you put down a little bit of nitrogen. Normally 1859 01:42:43.199 --> 01:42:45.600 we don't fertilize beans much, but these need a little 1860 01:42:45.600 --> 01:42:51.920 bit of nitrogen, as does the the the a squash 1861 01:42:52.000 --> 01:42:56.039 or is a squash plant. But also finally, one of 1862 01:42:56.079 --> 01:42:59.079 the bean pictures shows spider mites. Those are those speckled 1863 01:42:59.119 --> 01:43:01.640 white leaves that are kind of curled and cupped under. 1864 01:43:02.319 --> 01:43:04.920 Get you a hand sprayer on the end of a 1865 01:43:05.000 --> 01:43:08.039 garden hose and hold that plant and turn it over 1866 01:43:08.159 --> 01:43:10.720 and blast the bottom of the leaves, just with a 1867 01:43:10.840 --> 01:43:13.560 strong blast of water to knock all the mites off 1868 01:43:13.680 --> 01:43:16.439 and that'll that'll keep them away for long enough for 1869 01:43:16.520 --> 01:43:19.479 that plant to get going again. All righty, I've got 1870 01:43:19.520 --> 01:43:21.720 a heartbreak here coming in ten seconds. 1871 01:43:22.680 --> 01:43:24.319 Seven is good for anything. 1872 01:43:26.239 --> 01:43:29.000 No, no, do use seven. That makes spider mites worse. Hey, 1873 01:43:29.199 --> 01:43:31.159 I got to run, but thank you for the call. 1874 01:43:31.239 --> 01:43:36.760 I appreciate that. Just use water. I'll be right back. Folks. Hey, 1875 01:43:36.960 --> 01:43:40.880 welcome back, Welcome back to garden line. What do we 1876 01:43:40.960 --> 01:43:43.600 want to talk about today? You tell me I got 1877 01:43:43.640 --> 01:43:45.319 a bunch I want to talk about. But this shows 1878 01:43:45.319 --> 01:43:48.840 about you your calls. What do you want to ask seven? One, three, 1879 01:43:49.039 --> 01:43:51.600 two and two kt r H. My goal is to 1880 01:43:51.680 --> 01:43:54.840 help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape. And 1881 01:43:54.960 --> 01:43:57.560 this third part is very important and more fun in 1882 01:43:57.640 --> 01:44:02.359 the process. Gardening should be fun, It should be rewarding. Yes, 1883 01:44:02.640 --> 01:44:05.880 sometimes we fail, sometimes things don't work out like we wanted, 1884 01:44:06.399 --> 01:44:09.359 but you don't really fail unless you give up. We're 1885 01:44:09.399 --> 01:44:11.239 not gonna give up. We're gonna fix it. We're gonna 1886 01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:13.600 make it work, and we're gonna make gardening fun and 1887 01:44:13.760 --> 01:44:16.159 make gardening fun again. Oh my gosh, I can't believe 1888 01:44:16.199 --> 01:44:19.279 I said that. All right, anyway, there you go h 1889 01:44:19.399 --> 01:44:22.159 Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out there in Katie. You 1890 01:44:22.279 --> 01:44:24.479 just go out to Katie on it in turn north 1891 01:44:24.560 --> 01:44:29.119 on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's up a little 1892 01:44:29.159 --> 01:44:31.800 bit on the road off to the right. Nelson Water 1893 01:44:31.960 --> 01:44:32.920 Gardens and Nursery. 1894 01:44:33.359 --> 01:44:33.680 They have. 1895 01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:37.000 Of course, their water gardens are nationally famous. Literally, I 1896 01:44:37.119 --> 01:44:40.000 mean that nationally famous. They have invented stuff that's now 1897 01:44:40.159 --> 01:44:43.119 common in the water gardening industry that started there at 1898 01:44:43.159 --> 01:44:46.720 Nelson Water Garden. But their nursery, their garden center is awesome, 1899 01:44:47.159 --> 01:44:50.600 beautiful cone flowers, all kinds of plants that love to 1900 01:44:50.720 --> 01:44:51.560 grow in summer. 1901 01:44:51.920 --> 01:44:52.079 You know. 1902 01:44:52.119 --> 01:44:54.520 You get things like a hardy ice plant. That's one 1903 01:44:54.560 --> 01:44:56.479 that we don't plan it off. Hardy house plant is 1904 01:44:56.560 --> 01:44:59.960 a beautiful little succulent that does well in the heat. 1905 01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:03.600 Eat and it's just beautiful. The little fisha colored blooms 1906 01:45:03.640 --> 01:45:06.640 are gorgeous. Now they've also got yarrow. They also have 1907 01:45:06.800 --> 01:45:10.760 something called it's it's like a buttercup, but it's it's 1908 01:45:10.920 --> 01:45:17.000 own Thera Missourians zouriensis. It's yellow, it's blooming, it's tough. 1909 01:45:17.920 --> 01:45:20.520 You see it growing out in Austin, Texas on a 1910 01:45:21.039 --> 01:45:23.800 side of the road kind of thing where nobody's taking 1911 01:45:23.840 --> 01:45:26.199 care of it and it just does well. It's a superplant, 1912 01:45:26.720 --> 01:45:28.760 all right. Look at some of the fountains while you're 1913 01:45:28.800 --> 01:45:32.560 out there. They're gorgeous, they're decorative, they're beautiful. But whatever 1914 01:45:32.600 --> 01:45:37.680 you're looking for, from succulents to cacti, to shrubs and 1915 01:45:37.800 --> 01:45:41.840 trees and vines, oh, beautiful vines all at Nelson Water 1916 01:45:41.920 --> 01:45:45.000 Gardens and Nursery. The website. You need to know this, 1917 01:45:45.319 --> 01:45:51.439 Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Go check them out. They do really 1918 01:45:51.760 --> 01:45:55.159 really good work and they have excellent, excellent products as well. 1919 01:45:56.239 --> 01:46:00.920 Nature's Vat Resources is north of Conroe off Interstate forty five. 1920 01:46:01.000 --> 01:46:03.079 You're head and like you're going to Conroe. And before 1921 01:46:03.119 --> 01:46:04.960 you get to did I say north of Conroe? I 1922 01:46:05.039 --> 01:46:07.960 met north of Houston. You're heading like you're going to Conroe. 1923 01:46:08.079 --> 01:46:10.640 Before you get to Conroe, it's going to be off 1924 01:46:10.680 --> 01:46:13.600 to the right. It's on Sherbroock Circle. But the way 1925 01:46:13.680 --> 01:46:15.800 I remembered is when you see the road that goes 1926 01:46:15.840 --> 01:46:19.560 off to Magnolia to the left fourteen eighty eight. Instead 1927 01:46:19.600 --> 01:46:21.840 of that, you turn right there and you get to 1928 01:46:21.960 --> 01:46:27.479 Nature's Way Resources. Beautiful, beautiful products. And I get excited 1929 01:46:27.479 --> 01:46:29.680 about so I could lay in a pile of compost 1930 01:46:29.760 --> 01:46:32.720 and make compost angels and be very very happy. That's 1931 01:46:32.760 --> 01:46:35.439 how I endo dirt and soil. I am, but so 1932 01:46:35.600 --> 01:46:38.680 is John Ferguson, who created Nature's Way Resources, and his 1933 01:46:38.800 --> 01:46:41.399 son Ian now runs the place. And I'm telling you 1934 01:46:42.199 --> 01:46:46.199 their products are second to none. It's where things like leaf, moal, 1935 01:46:46.239 --> 01:46:50.079 compost and rose soil were born and they still make 1936 01:46:50.319 --> 01:46:53.039 top quality by taking their time to make things right 1937 01:46:53.279 --> 01:46:58.520 at Nature's Way Resources. Nature'sway Resources dot Com. Go to 1938 01:46:58.640 --> 01:47:03.119 that website. It's a newly revamped website. It's great. Nature's 1939 01:47:03.279 --> 01:47:07.560 Way Resources dot Com. Go pick it up there, go 1940 01:47:07.720 --> 01:47:10.239 buy it in local garden centers by the back, or 1941 01:47:10.359 --> 01:47:12.439 call them and have them deliver it to your house. 1942 01:47:13.000 --> 01:47:17.239 Find leaf, more composts, double ground mulches, rosesoil, garden and 1943 01:47:17.319 --> 01:47:20.840 flowerbed mixes. You want to grow acidic plants. Ask for 1944 01:47:20.920 --> 01:47:24.840 their blueberry mix. They also have a citrus mix. Natures 1945 01:47:24.960 --> 01:47:28.920 Way Resources dot Com. Let's go out to Spring Branch. 1946 01:47:29.079 --> 01:47:33.159 Now we are going to talk to Jeff. Hello Jeff, 1947 01:47:33.239 --> 01:47:34.319 and welcome to garden Line. 1948 01:47:35.800 --> 01:47:37.319 Hi Skip, thanks for having me. 1949 01:47:39.840 --> 01:47:42.600 Quick question about some picks that I just emailed you. 1950 01:47:42.960 --> 01:47:45.159 You have you looked at those pictures? 1951 01:47:48.039 --> 01:47:52.720 Let me see you just emailed. Uh, I don't see them. 1952 01:48:01.279 --> 01:48:03.800 Duty line is Virginia play Way versus question. 1953 01:48:06.720 --> 01:48:09.119 No, I haven't. I haven't received anything in the last 1954 01:48:09.199 --> 01:48:15.680 thirty minutes. So let me let's do this. I am 1955 01:48:15.760 --> 01:48:18.479 gonna put you on hold, uh if you want to 1956 01:48:18.560 --> 01:48:21.479 try re sending them. If I get them, I can 1957 01:48:21.560 --> 01:48:23.359 pop back up, or you can call back on and 1958 01:48:23.680 --> 01:48:25.520 my producer Alejandro will put you at the top of 1959 01:48:25.560 --> 01:48:28.399 the list if you call back. Okay, all right, thanks, 1960 01:48:28.680 --> 01:48:34.119 thank you giving all right? You bet you bet alrighty, Yeah, 1961 01:48:34.239 --> 01:48:38.399 it's it's uh, sometimes things just don't go right on 1962 01:48:38.520 --> 01:48:41.119 the emails, but it sure does help for me giving 1963 01:48:41.239 --> 01:48:44.119 a diagnosis to have a good picture like that night five. 1964 01:48:44.199 --> 01:48:48.279 Super Turf is a product that is a lot of nitrogen, 1965 01:48:48.439 --> 01:48:50.920 but it's in a very slow release form. It's a 1966 01:48:51.079 --> 01:48:56.359 nineteen four ten fertilizer. Sixteen weeks it takes for that 1967 01:48:56.479 --> 01:48:59.520 nitrogen to be fully released, so you get nice even growth. 1968 01:48:59.600 --> 01:49:02.239 You don't go crazy mowen because you're overfertilized. 1969 01:49:02.279 --> 01:49:02.439 You know. 1970 01:49:03.720 --> 01:49:06.079 It takes care of the grass plant by getting it 1971 01:49:06.159 --> 01:49:10.079 to grow gradually. And a good healthy green way, so 1972 01:49:10.199 --> 01:49:12.560 you don't have lots of top growth at the expense 1973 01:49:12.920 --> 01:49:15.439 of root growth, which means the grass is less resilient, 1974 01:49:15.600 --> 01:49:19.159 less drought tolerant. With nitrophass superturf, you get good healthy 1975 01:49:19.239 --> 01:49:21.199 grass and you get it for a very long time. 1976 01:49:21.600 --> 01:49:24.680 It's in a silver bag. Silver bags. What you're looking for. 1977 01:49:25.239 --> 01:49:28.479 You can go to Plantation Ace Hardware on three point 1978 01:49:28.479 --> 01:49:31.119 fifty nine and Richmond Rosenberg. You can find it there. 1979 01:49:31.840 --> 01:49:34.079 You can find it at M and D and Cyprus 1980 01:49:34.239 --> 01:49:38.000 on Luetta Road, as well as Court Hardware on South 1981 01:49:38.079 --> 01:49:41.720 Maine in Stafford. Let's go to Brenham now and we're 1982 01:49:41.760 --> 01:49:44.159 going to talk to Mark this morning. Hello Mark, welcome 1983 01:49:44.199 --> 01:49:46.479 to garden Line. Good morning. 1984 01:49:46.680 --> 01:49:49.199 A couple of quick things if I could, Did I 1985 01:49:49.319 --> 01:49:53.319 understand you correctly the last caller you said that seven 1986 01:49:53.439 --> 01:49:55.920 dusts causes more issues with spider mics. 1987 01:49:57.640 --> 01:50:00.279 It does it because it doesn't kill spider mand but 1988 01:50:00.359 --> 01:50:03.920 it kills the things that control them. Studies have also shown, 1989 01:50:03.960 --> 01:50:08.000 and this is weird, that it causes them to reproduce 1990 01:50:08.119 --> 01:50:12.840 more for whatever reason, and it also causes a response 1991 01:50:12.920 --> 01:50:16.000 in the plant where some of the things that the 1992 01:50:16.079 --> 01:50:18.680 spider mites are sucking the juices out of the plant. 1993 01:50:18.760 --> 01:50:20.960 On the plant produces more of that, So it's like 1994 01:50:21.000 --> 01:50:24.279 you're feeding the spider mites more. You're making them reproduce faster, 1995 01:50:24.479 --> 01:50:28.159 and you're killing everything that eats them. That's why that is, 1996 01:50:28.319 --> 01:50:30.319 you know what makes sense. But that's something I would 1997 01:50:30.359 --> 01:50:31.399 have never thought of. 1998 01:50:31.600 --> 01:50:33.760 So well, I am no. 1999 01:50:34.359 --> 01:50:38.800 Nine of the gardeners don't even know that. Yeah, well, 2000 01:50:39.560 --> 01:50:39.760 I know. 2001 01:50:40.319 --> 01:50:43.239 My younger brother smokes me every year on garden so 2002 01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:45.119 I'm going to teach him a little something. 2003 01:50:45.239 --> 01:50:49.079 But anyway, well, when he argues, when he argues with you, 2004 01:50:49.239 --> 01:50:52.720 go to the University of California Extension Service and you 2005 01:50:52.800 --> 01:50:55.640 can find more information there on the specifics of it. 2006 01:50:55.880 --> 01:50:57.840 But he's probably going to challenge it and say you 2007 01:50:57.880 --> 01:50:59.560 don't know what you're talking. I'm sure he will because 2008 01:50:59.600 --> 01:51:00.520 that's all he uses. 2009 01:51:00.600 --> 01:51:03.640 And I'm telling you, he produces broccoli the heads literally 2010 01:51:03.800 --> 01:51:04.479 or the size. 2011 01:51:04.279 --> 01:51:05.640 Of a five gallon bucket. 2012 01:51:05.680 --> 01:51:07.000 It's incredible, but. 2013 01:51:07.960 --> 01:51:10.600 I don't doubt it. Seven is a great control for 2014 01:51:10.720 --> 01:51:13.119 caterpillars on his broccoli. But I'll tell you this, the 2015 01:51:13.279 --> 01:51:16.119 days where we use that, there's two kinds of pesticides. 2016 01:51:16.159 --> 01:51:20.520 There's grenades, and there's arrows. A grenade kills everything in 2017 01:51:20.640 --> 01:51:25.039 the vicinity. An arrow flies past everything and hits one target. 2018 01:51:25.319 --> 01:51:27.880 And those are the surgical strikes. And that's what we're 2019 01:51:27.920 --> 01:51:30.720 doing more now in pest control in the modern era 2020 01:51:31.199 --> 01:51:34.520 than just dumping things like seven dust out to kill everything. 2021 01:51:34.680 --> 01:51:38.000 Those things worked, Yeah, they had secondaries issues. 2022 01:51:38.039 --> 01:51:40.640 Well normally, all right, I try to do I try 2023 01:51:40.680 --> 01:51:43.920 to do most things organic, and he convinced me to 2024 01:51:44.000 --> 01:51:46.920 use the seven dust because I was getting like all 2025 01:51:47.000 --> 01:51:50.119 my my nectarines on my tree just got destroyed and 2026 01:51:50.520 --> 01:51:53.880 all that said, I'm having my tomato plants okay, literally 2027 01:51:54.359 --> 01:51:58.279 five feet tall, and they're blooming like crazy, but not 2028 01:51:58.439 --> 01:51:59.319 setting much fruit. 2029 01:51:59.479 --> 01:52:04.359 What what are your thoughts our suggestions. If they're not 2030 01:52:04.560 --> 01:52:09.039 setting fruit, it's it could be due to a lack 2031 01:52:09.119 --> 01:52:11.479 of movement. Tomatoes that are in an area where the 2032 01:52:11.520 --> 01:52:15.239 wind isn't moving. They pollinate when something shakes the blooms 2033 01:52:15.279 --> 01:52:17.720 and wind is typically what does that or a bumblebee 2034 01:52:17.800 --> 01:52:21.720 buzzing them. Don't overdo the nitrogen. When you get a 2035 01:52:21.880 --> 01:52:26.680 good green, crazy green, fast growing tomato, extra nitrogen can 2036 01:52:26.760 --> 01:52:29.439 come at the expense of fruit set. So those two 2037 01:52:29.520 --> 01:52:32.479 things are the primary reasons that you wouldn't get fruit set. 2038 01:52:32.560 --> 01:52:35.560 A lack of sunlight could be another reason, but those 2039 01:52:35.560 --> 01:52:37.840 are the primaries. And Mark, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna 2040 01:52:37.840 --> 01:52:42.720 I'm gonna have to run here. But hopefully that that helps, Yes, sir, 2041 01:52:42.960 --> 01:52:46.720 you bet hey, mosquito season is here. It rained, therefore 2042 01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:50.199 we will have more and more mosquitos. Mosquito dunks can 2043 01:52:50.279 --> 01:52:53.439 fix that. Mosquita dunks a little small beiged donut floats 2044 01:52:53.439 --> 01:52:57.479 on water. One dunk control controls mosquitos and a hundred 2045 01:52:57.520 --> 01:52:59.640 square feet of water for thirty days or more if 2046 01:52:59.680 --> 01:53:01.079 you want a break them up and put them in 2047 01:53:01.239 --> 01:53:03.079 places like you know there's a hole in a tree 2048 01:53:03.119 --> 01:53:06.079 where water gathers in there, a bird bath, a rain barrel, 2049 01:53:06.760 --> 01:53:09.079 you know, any kind of reservoir under a plant you 2050 01:53:09.119 --> 01:53:12.359 can throw some mosquito dunks in and save yourself from 2051 01:53:12.439 --> 01:53:15.800 the hassle of breeding mosquitoes. Don't be a skeeter breeder. 2052 01:53:16.279 --> 01:53:19.039 Get you some mosquito dunks. I'm going to go for 2053 01:53:19.119 --> 01:53:21.199 a break here. When we come back, Jeff and Spring Branch, 2054 01:53:21.239 --> 01:53:24.199 we got your photos. You'll be first up, all right, folks, 2055 01:53:24.239 --> 01:53:29.000 welcome back. Good to have you with us. RCW nursery 2056 01:53:29.079 --> 01:53:34.239 has got an excellent selection right now of Btex trees 2057 01:53:34.880 --> 01:53:37.079 have a lot in the christmer shrubs and trees, they've 2058 01:53:37.119 --> 01:53:40.199 got everything. But the Vitext just look good. And right 2059 01:53:40.279 --> 01:53:41.840 now they are putting on their big show. 2060 01:53:41.880 --> 01:53:42.039 You know. 2061 01:53:42.119 --> 01:53:44.279 You share those back a little bit periodically, and they 2062 01:53:44.399 --> 01:53:46.439 just keep blooming through the heat of summer. And blue 2063 01:53:46.520 --> 01:53:47.880 is a color. It's kind of hard to come by. 2064 01:53:48.000 --> 01:53:50.560 Blue purple in the summertimes, not as common as it 2065 01:53:50.680 --> 01:53:54.319 is in spring. But Vitex does it. It's an excellent plant, 2066 01:53:54.359 --> 01:53:57.079 I mean, and it's you want something that, once it's established, 2067 01:53:57.199 --> 01:53:59.840 is drought tolerant, that's it. If you want something that 2068 01:54:00.079 --> 01:54:04.000 bees and butterflies and hummingbirds a door, that's it. Ytex 2069 01:54:04.079 --> 01:54:06.760 brings all those in. It's a great plant. It's a 2070 01:54:06.840 --> 01:54:09.760 really really good one. Now again, I keep talking about 2071 01:54:09.760 --> 01:54:12.359 the Cajun hibiscus. You just have to go see them. 2072 01:54:12.520 --> 01:54:15.199 It's colors that I couldn't even begin to tell you 2073 01:54:15.279 --> 01:54:17.920 what color that is. I mean it it goes from 2074 01:54:18.039 --> 01:54:21.159 kind of a pinkish to a reddish to a purple 2075 01:54:21.279 --> 01:54:24.479 lamauv I mean, it's all in one bloom. Some of 2076 01:54:24.560 --> 01:54:27.279 these things are just stunning. They got a great selection. 2077 01:54:27.399 --> 01:54:31.039 There are other heat loving plants like cilosia just laughs 2078 01:54:31.079 --> 01:54:34.680 at summer heat. Very beautiful, great betting plant. All this 2079 01:54:35.079 --> 01:54:38.880 and more at RCW Nurseries. It's at Tomboll Parkway two 2080 01:54:38.920 --> 01:54:40.880 forty nine and belt Way eight. Easy to get to 2081 01:54:41.039 --> 01:54:45.479 Tomboll Parkway two forty nine, belt Way eight, RCW nurseries 2082 01:54:45.520 --> 01:54:49.439 dot com. Let's go now, we're gonna head over to 2083 01:54:49.640 --> 01:54:53.479 Jeff in Spring Branch. Hey, Jeff, I did get your photos. 2084 01:54:53.720 --> 01:54:56.239 I got those opened up here, and that is indeed 2085 01:54:56.479 --> 01:54:57.920 Virginia button weed that you're. 2086 01:54:57.800 --> 01:55:02.720 Dealing with, all right, So definitely the top one is 2087 01:55:02.840 --> 01:55:06.079 that one. It has a smaller diameter stem if you 2088 01:55:06.159 --> 01:55:07.039 were the white flowers. 2089 01:55:07.239 --> 01:55:09.399 Is the bottom one Virginia button weed as well? 2090 01:55:11.199 --> 01:55:14.520 It looks like it to me, Yeah, it does. It 2091 01:55:14.960 --> 01:55:18.079 could be something else because right there's very little on 2092 01:55:18.239 --> 01:55:21.159 it to identify it by. But the way the plant 2093 01:55:21.199 --> 01:55:24.359 structure looks like Virginia button weed. Virginia button weed's hard 2094 01:55:24.399 --> 01:55:27.279 to control. It likes wet, So the wetter you keep 2095 01:55:27.359 --> 01:55:30.800 the grass, the faster Virginia button weed grows. So number one, 2096 01:55:31.880 --> 01:55:36.600 your grass does better with less watering than what makes 2097 01:55:36.680 --> 01:55:39.479 virginia button weed happy, so back off a little on 2098 01:55:39.600 --> 01:55:43.520 that and then sprays. There's a product called celsius, like 2099 01:55:43.600 --> 01:55:48.159 the temperature celsius, that is pretty good against Virginia button weed. 2100 01:55:48.840 --> 01:55:53.079 Most of the time, even products label for Virginia button 2101 01:55:53.119 --> 01:55:56.119 weed need to be applied more than once. So try 2102 01:55:56.199 --> 01:55:58.800 the celsius six weeks later. If you're seeing any growth 2103 01:55:58.840 --> 01:56:03.199 on it, hit it again. But itius a reason I 2104 01:56:03.439 --> 01:56:05.039 like it. Yeah, go ahead. 2105 01:56:06.399 --> 01:56:06.600 Yeah. 2106 01:56:06.720 --> 01:56:09.279 So this is in my father in law's yard, and 2107 01:56:09.640 --> 01:56:14.520 I've controlled Virginia button we the celsius and my zoisa 2108 01:56:14.680 --> 01:56:18.600 this is sant Augustine. Well you see that picture, and 2109 01:56:18.840 --> 01:56:21.600 but I've always been told this earlier I can do 2110 01:56:21.680 --> 01:56:24.159 it the better that once it gets hot, it hardens off, 2111 01:56:24.239 --> 01:56:28.520 and even the celsius isn't I mean, so I think 2112 01:56:28.560 --> 01:56:30.880 you'd recommend go ahead and get celsius on it now 2113 01:56:30.920 --> 01:56:32.199 and then another treatment. 2114 01:56:33.199 --> 01:56:36.520 Absolutely, Yeah, absolutely. And some of the weeds you put 2115 01:56:36.560 --> 01:56:38.640 in the picture already have blims on them, which means 2116 01:56:38.640 --> 01:56:40.239 they're going to have the little buttons on them, which 2117 01:56:40.319 --> 01:56:43.159 means you already got new seeds coming. So you want 2118 01:56:43.159 --> 01:56:45.640 to shut those things down before they do that. Yeah, 2119 01:56:45.840 --> 01:56:47.680 that's for sure. Yeah, I get that on them as 2120 01:56:47.720 --> 01:56:50.920 soon as you can. Just target spray it. Uh and 2121 01:56:51.399 --> 01:56:55.039 that's probably your best bet. Okay, great, thank you Skip 2122 01:56:55.199 --> 01:56:58.640 all right, yeah, Jeff, thanks glad we were able to 2123 01:56:58.680 --> 01:57:02.840 get those photos and complete that. Good to know. ACE 2124 01:57:02.920 --> 01:57:05.000 hardware stores are the place. 2125 01:57:05.119 --> 01:57:05.239 You know. 2126 01:57:05.520 --> 01:57:07.640 The motto is ACE is the place, and then you 2127 01:57:07.680 --> 01:57:09.479 can fill in the blank ware. ACE is a place 2128 01:57:09.520 --> 01:57:12.840 for lighting and plumbing and electrical and fixtures and all 2129 01:57:12.960 --> 01:57:16.000 the hardware stuff, of course, but ACE is a place 2130 01:57:16.079 --> 01:57:18.359 for your yard. Ace is a place for your garden. 2131 01:57:18.920 --> 01:57:21.520 Ace is a place you get fertilizer and pest control 2132 01:57:21.600 --> 01:57:24.119 and weed control and disease control. ACE is a place 2133 01:57:24.159 --> 01:57:28.960 where you get garden hoses and garden shovels and spades 2134 01:57:29.039 --> 01:57:31.159 and every kind of tool you can imagine that you 2135 01:57:31.279 --> 01:57:33.680 might need outside. Ace is a place where you get 2136 01:57:33.760 --> 01:57:37.800 barbecue pits that you will not believe the top brands, 2137 01:57:38.399 --> 01:57:42.000 brands like Big Green Egg and Tragger and Rectag and 2138 01:57:42.319 --> 01:57:44.920 on and on down the line. ACE is a place 2139 01:57:44.960 --> 01:57:47.359 for that. Weber is another one that carry then all 2140 01:57:47.399 --> 01:57:49.800 the accessories that go with them. If you want to 2141 01:57:50.039 --> 01:57:53.000 enjoy your outdoor living, you got to start at ACE 2142 01:57:53.279 --> 01:57:55.359 because there's so much that you need. I got some 2143 01:57:55.439 --> 01:57:58.560 of those string lights that ACE carries us that you 2144 01:57:58.640 --> 01:58:00.520 put above it kind of creates and beyond like a 2145 01:58:00.560 --> 01:58:03.760 little beer garden light kind of deal. Wonderful things there 2146 01:58:04.000 --> 01:58:07.319 and so many other things that make the outdoors more lovable. 2147 01:58:07.840 --> 01:58:11.800 ACE is a place. Go to Acehardwaretexas dot com. Don't 2148 01:58:11.800 --> 01:58:14.880 forget Texas. Ace Hardware Texas dot com. You'll find my 2149 01:58:15.479 --> 01:58:18.840 local Houston area ACE Hardware stores there and you can 2150 01:58:18.920 --> 01:58:20.560 go straight to the one that you want to go to. 2151 01:58:20.720 --> 01:58:21.920 Like I said earlier, I'm going to be at an 2152 01:58:21.920 --> 01:58:24.399 ACE Hardware store later today. I've got some shopping to 2153 01:58:24.479 --> 01:58:30.000 do and can't wait to get over there. Uh, you're 2154 01:58:30.039 --> 01:58:32.359 listening to garden Line. The phone number is seven one 2155 01:58:32.479 --> 01:58:35.079 three two one two k t r H seven one 2156 01:58:35.159 --> 01:58:39.640 three two one two kt r H. One of the 2157 01:58:40.039 --> 01:58:42.960 single most important things you can do to make a 2158 01:58:43.039 --> 01:58:47.039 lawn that's struggling come alive again is to do a 2159 01:58:47.199 --> 01:58:51.800 core aeration and a compost top dressing. Core aeration isn't 2160 01:58:52.000 --> 01:58:56.119 just shoving a spike in the ground that opens a hole, 2161 01:58:56.560 --> 01:59:00.399 because that squeezes the soil apart and compacts the sides 2162 01:59:00.439 --> 01:59:00.840 of the hole. 2163 01:59:01.000 --> 01:59:01.760 To do it, that way. 2164 01:59:02.359 --> 01:59:05.000 But a core erator goes down in the soil with 2165 01:59:05.119 --> 01:59:08.000 a hollow tube and it pops a plug of soil 2166 01:59:08.399 --> 01:59:10.520 out of the ground and drops it on the surface. 2167 01:59:11.119 --> 01:59:13.000 So one of the best ways to get rid of 2168 01:59:13.079 --> 01:59:17.119 thatch is core aeration. That bringing the soil up into 2169 01:59:17.199 --> 01:59:20.079 that thatch area as it dissolves away with the rain. 2170 01:59:20.520 --> 01:59:25.279 It helps speed the decomposition at thatch. That's important. Follow 2171 01:59:25.399 --> 01:59:28.920 corrooration with compost stop dressing, and now you not only 2172 01:59:29.000 --> 01:59:32.840 are improving compacted soils with the corroration, but you're getting 2173 01:59:32.840 --> 01:59:35.079 composts down in those holes because this is a fine 2174 01:59:35.159 --> 01:59:38.560 textured compost. B and B Turf Pros serves that area 2175 01:59:38.720 --> 01:59:42.079 south and southwest of Houston from Sugarland and Missouri City 2176 01:59:42.199 --> 01:59:46.079 all the way down Highway six you know our Cola, Sienna, Manville, 2177 01:59:46.520 --> 01:59:51.800 Alvin area, and then up over to Paarland Friends would 2178 01:59:51.960 --> 01:59:54.439 and then across I forty five even to League City 2179 01:59:54.479 --> 01:59:57.720 and Dickinson, So that whole region is covered by B 2180 01:59:58.119 --> 02:00:01.520 and B Turf Pros. The website is Bbturfpros dot com. 2181 02:00:01.680 --> 02:00:05.920 No end on the website BB Turfpros dot com. This 2182 02:00:06.119 --> 02:00:09.560 family owned business takes care of their clients that's why 2183 02:00:09.600 --> 02:00:12.359 they're so highly rated. Prices start around five hundred dollars, 2184 02:00:12.439 --> 02:00:15.199 depending on the yard size and the travel distance. But 2185 02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:18.760 I'll tell you this, there is nothing that makes as 2186 02:00:18.840 --> 02:00:21.399 dramatic a difference in your lawn. It's getting a good 2187 02:00:21.520 --> 02:00:26.479 quality corrooration and compost top dressing through may know how 2188 02:00:26.600 --> 02:00:29.039 much time left got about half the month left free 2189 02:00:29.159 --> 02:00:32.039 aeration with the purchase of top dressing. So you buy 2190 02:00:32.279 --> 02:00:35.159 the top dressing service and they'll come out and air 2191 02:00:35.239 --> 02:00:38.119 rate for free and then put the top dressing down 2192 02:00:38.960 --> 02:00:43.800 that you paid for through my only b B turfpros 2193 02:00:44.119 --> 02:00:47.359 dot com. Seven one three two three four fifty five 2194 02:00:47.479 --> 02:00:51.279 ninety eight seven one three two three four five five 2195 02:00:51.960 --> 02:00:58.560 nine eight. I uh visiting with the folks down there 2196 02:00:58.720 --> 02:01:00.880 at BB the other day, and I'm gonna be doing 2197 02:01:00.920 --> 02:01:03.319 some videoing of some of the stuff that they've got 2198 02:01:03.399 --> 02:01:05.640 going on here coming up. We just got to figure 2199 02:01:05.640 --> 02:01:07.159 out a good date where we can get us all 2200 02:01:07.279 --> 02:01:10.600 in the same place at the same time. But anyway, 2201 02:01:10.600 --> 02:01:12.560 I'm looking forward to that. I'll show you some pictures 2202 02:01:12.680 --> 02:01:14.760 of the kind of work they do and how that works, 2203 02:01:14.800 --> 02:01:17.159 how that goes. Whenever I can get that, we'll put 2204 02:01:17.199 --> 02:01:20.039 it on our guarden Line Facebook page, and I'll also 2205 02:01:20.119 --> 02:01:24.119 put it on my garden Line Instagram page as well. 2206 02:01:25.359 --> 02:01:27.159 I hope you follow us on that. If you don't, 2207 02:01:27.239 --> 02:01:31.439 you should look for garden Line on Facebook. And then 2208 02:01:32.439 --> 02:01:35.720 it just I like the social media in terms of 2209 02:01:35.800 --> 02:01:38.880 being able to get quick messages out to folks in 2210 02:01:39.000 --> 02:01:42.960 a way that goes fast. It's easy to follow, and 2211 02:01:44.199 --> 02:01:46.520 I like social media a lot. I guess a lot 2212 02:01:46.600 --> 02:01:50.680 of you guys do too, right, So on Instagram it's 2213 02:01:50.680 --> 02:01:54.479 called garden Line with skip. On Facebook it's called garden Line. Okay, 2214 02:01:55.159 --> 02:01:59.560 there you go. Well let's see here. I am up 2215 02:01:59.680 --> 02:02:02.600 again a break. I tell you what I'm gonna do. 2216 02:02:03.119 --> 02:02:06.359 Martha and Menville. Let's see if we can get started 2217 02:02:06.439 --> 02:02:08.560 on this question and we'll finish up after I have 2218 02:02:08.640 --> 02:02:10.119 to take a break here in just a second. 2219 02:02:11.800 --> 02:02:16.119 Yeah, it's it's in regards to my pear tree, which 2220 02:02:16.159 --> 02:02:19.159 I've had for about eight years. Never did bear andy pears, 2221 02:02:19.920 --> 02:02:23.039 and we planted other fruit trees in the backyard close 2222 02:02:23.119 --> 02:02:25.960 to it, and this year is loaded with pairs. But 2223 02:02:26.079 --> 02:02:29.760 the pears have black markings on them, like I don't 2224 02:02:29.760 --> 02:02:30.640 know if they're gonna. 2225 02:02:30.439 --> 02:02:30.800 Come to. 2226 02:02:32.840 --> 02:02:34.840 I need to know what is causing and what. 2227 02:02:34.960 --> 02:02:37.199 I can do to you know, have a better. 2228 02:02:38.840 --> 02:02:47.760 And it's okay, Martha, it's on the fruit, not the leaves. Correct, correct, Okay, 2229 02:02:48.159 --> 02:02:52.039 So take your thumb and lick your thumb, get it wet, 2230 02:02:52.199 --> 02:02:55.039 and see if you can wipe that black off. There's 2231 02:02:55.079 --> 02:02:57.640 a city that grows on pear fruit that doesn't do 2232 02:02:57.720 --> 02:03:00.479 any damage. If you can't wipe it off off, then 2233 02:03:00.520 --> 02:03:04.000 it's a disease that's entered the fruit, and that would 2234 02:03:04.079 --> 02:03:07.359 probably take some types of sprays, but we'd have to 2235 02:03:07.399 --> 02:03:10.119 figure out which disease. If you if you can't wipe 2236 02:03:10.159 --> 02:03:12.680 it off, take some pictures of the black spots and 2237 02:03:12.880 --> 02:03:14.880 send them to me by email. I'm gonna put you 2238 02:03:14.960 --> 02:03:18.159 on hold. My producer Alejandro, will give you an email 2239 02:03:18.199 --> 02:03:20.880 to send those two and we'll we'll take it from there, 2240 02:03:21.800 --> 02:03:24.319 but first try to wipe them off with the wet thumb. 2241 02:03:24.680 --> 02:03:27.039 Usually it's a city mold that we're seeing. 2242 02:03:27.159 --> 02:03:30.960 Okay, okay, I'll wait on and get that email. 2243 02:03:31.600 --> 02:03:34.960 Al right here, I'll be right with you. All right, folks, 2244 02:03:35.039 --> 02:03:37.600 there you go, putting another hour in the books. We'll 2245 02:03:37.640 --> 02:03:39.960 be back for the final hour of guarden Line this morning. 2246 02:03:40.079 --> 02:03:43.079 Hang around back, get ready to doll seven one three 2247 02:03:43.239 --> 02:03:53.159 two one two kt r H. All right, ladies and gentlemen, gardeners, 2248 02:03:55.520 --> 02:03:57.199 here we go with our last hour of the day 2249 02:03:57.399 --> 02:03:59.600 on guarden Line. Just a reminder for those of you 2250 02:03:59.720 --> 02:04:03.000 listen for the first time. Perhaps we're here every Saturday 2251 02:04:03.039 --> 02:04:08.199 and Sunday from six am to ten am Saturday and 2252 02:04:08.239 --> 02:04:12.399 Sunday six to ten on KTRH seven forty am. Now 2253 02:04:12.439 --> 02:04:16.439 you can also listen to garden Line with the iHeartMedia app. 2254 02:04:16.520 --> 02:04:18.439 It's a little red heart app with an eye in 2255 02:04:18.479 --> 02:04:21.560 the middle. Download that on your phone. It's a great app. 2256 02:04:21.720 --> 02:04:24.520 And if you find garden Line on there, you can 2257 02:04:24.680 --> 02:04:27.119 just listen live right from the app, or you can 2258 02:04:27.159 --> 02:04:29.720 listen to past shows either way, which is kind of cool. 2259 02:04:30.439 --> 02:04:32.600 Now I keep telling people to do that. One of 2260 02:04:32.600 --> 02:04:34.520 these days, I'm gonna get somebody to call in that 2261 02:04:34.680 --> 02:04:37.079 actually does this. But you take your phone with you 2262 02:04:37.239 --> 02:04:39.239 out in the garden. Look outside right now. You need 2263 02:04:39.319 --> 02:04:41.359 to be out there gardening, and here I am on 2264 02:04:41.479 --> 02:04:43.159 guarden Line. How are we going to put this together? 2265 02:04:43.520 --> 02:04:46.960 Take the phone with you, turn it on and listen 2266 02:04:47.039 --> 02:04:49.279 to garden Line in the garden as you work. You 2267 02:04:49.359 --> 02:04:52.119 can do that, and if you got a question, You 2268 02:04:52.319 --> 02:04:54.119 just take a picture of what you see, email it 2269 02:04:54.199 --> 02:04:56.199 to garden line, follow it up with a phone call 2270 02:04:56.359 --> 02:04:59.760 and live from your garden. Is garden line solving that. 2271 02:05:00.680 --> 02:05:04.720 Look forward to doing that. When our clay soils get wet, 2272 02:05:04.760 --> 02:05:07.600 they swell. When they get dry, they shrink. That's why 2273 02:05:07.680 --> 02:05:12.960 you see the Houston Public Works Department constantly fixing water 2274 02:05:13.079 --> 02:05:15.960 lines in the summertime. When those that that is a 2275 02:05:16.079 --> 02:05:19.079 powerful movement of the soil that cracks can crack water lines. 2276 02:05:19.079 --> 02:05:22.960 It certainly heaves sidewalks and driveways and cracks foundations of 2277 02:05:23.039 --> 02:05:25.399 your house. If you got cracks in the brick on 2278 02:05:25.479 --> 02:05:27.520 the outside, if you have cracks in the sheet rock 2279 02:05:27.600 --> 02:05:30.079 on the inside, or maybe a sticking door on the inside, 2280 02:05:30.119 --> 02:05:33.920 those are all signs that something is not is moving 2281 02:05:34.000 --> 02:05:36.600 that's not supposed to be moving, and you may need 2282 02:05:36.680 --> 02:05:39.760 foundation repair. If you will, call Ty Strickland at fix 2283 02:05:40.000 --> 02:05:46.239 myslab dot com. Fix myslab dot com. Ty knows what 2284 02:05:46.319 --> 02:05:48.439 he's doing. He's been doing this for twenty three years. 2285 02:05:48.920 --> 02:05:52.279 Tell him your guardenline listener. Free estimates for garden line listeners. 2286 02:05:53.079 --> 02:05:55.800 He shows up on time, he fixes it right, and 2287 02:05:55.840 --> 02:05:57.960 he charges your fair price. What more can you ask 2288 02:05:58.039 --> 02:06:00.800 far from any service company, go up on time for 2289 02:06:00.880 --> 02:06:05.319 crying out loud, fix it right, and don't overcharge charge 2290 02:06:05.359 --> 02:06:08.680 me a fair price. That's what Ty does at fixmislab 2291 02:06:08.760 --> 02:06:10.279 dot com. You can give them a call it two 2292 02:06:10.319 --> 02:06:14.600 eight one two fi five forty nine forty nine two 2293 02:06:14.680 --> 02:06:21.399 eight one two five five four nine four nine. You 2294 02:06:21.520 --> 02:06:25.399 know this is National Humates Month. What are humates? You say, well, 2295 02:06:25.640 --> 02:06:31.119 I'm glad you ask. Or there's a wonderfully designed system 2296 02:06:31.199 --> 02:06:34.760 in nature. And in that system, I'll just use the 2297 02:06:34.840 --> 02:06:37.079 forests as an example. This could also be a meadow 2298 02:06:37.119 --> 02:06:40.319 we're talking about, but organic matter, which would in the 2299 02:06:40.399 --> 02:06:43.000 case of a forest be pieces of bark and leaves 2300 02:06:43.039 --> 02:06:46.439 and branches that fall to the ground. It could even 2301 02:06:46.520 --> 02:06:52.159 be living animals that die and decompose into the soil. 2302 02:06:52.359 --> 02:06:55.199 All of that turns back into soil. Everything that was 2303 02:06:55.239 --> 02:07:00.239 once alive becomes soil again. Okay. And we call that 2304 02:07:00.439 --> 02:07:04.039 process when we do it in our yards composting, breaking 2305 02:07:04.199 --> 02:07:08.479 down organic matter into compost. But compost keeps breaking down 2306 02:07:08.640 --> 02:07:13.159 and it becomes humius. Humus is a final decomposition stage 2307 02:07:13.600 --> 02:07:18.479 of organic matter. And it's wonderful. I mean, like I said, 2308 02:07:18.479 --> 02:07:21.000 it's designed to work well, and it does. It improves 2309 02:07:21.079 --> 02:07:25.640 the soil, especially clay soils, even sandy soils, adds carbon 2310 02:07:25.920 --> 02:07:29.199 back into the soil. So that is a good thing too, 2311 02:07:29.439 --> 02:07:35.159 because there we're looking at the carbon dioxide and the 2312 02:07:35.239 --> 02:07:37.920 issues and global warming and all the things that happen 2313 02:07:37.960 --> 02:07:40.880 out there. Well, the more carbon we sequester into the soil, 2314 02:07:40.920 --> 02:07:43.239 the better off we are in general. Okay, but it's 2315 02:07:43.279 --> 02:07:45.439 not just for that. It's for the soil, it's for 2316 02:07:45.600 --> 02:07:48.199 the plants, it's for the roots, it's for the microbes. 2317 02:07:48.840 --> 02:07:53.000 Humates are very important for that. That's why Microlife created 2318 02:07:53.039 --> 02:07:57.720 a product called Humates plus Humans plus is not only 2319 02:07:57.840 --> 02:07:59.880 does it have the humates as the basic for the 2320 02:08:00.239 --> 02:08:04.399 beneficial microbes and general soil biology. Those are over sixty 2321 02:08:04.479 --> 02:08:07.560 three minerals in it and includes things like eleven strains 2322 02:08:07.560 --> 02:08:12.439 of microhizal fungi. So there there's lots of good different microbes, 2323 02:08:12.479 --> 02:08:15.199 seventy different species of microbes. Some of them fight disease, 2324 02:08:15.279 --> 02:08:19.000 some of them help fix nitrogen in the soil. When 2325 02:08:19.039 --> 02:08:21.439 you put humts plus on your soil year after year, 2326 02:08:21.479 --> 02:08:23.399 when you mix it into the soil when you're preparing 2327 02:08:23.479 --> 02:08:26.680 the oil, all of this stuff helps stimulate the soil. 2328 02:08:26.800 --> 02:08:28.720 Now you when you go out and fertilize your lawn 2329 02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:32.039 with the green bag the six y two four for microlife, 2330 02:08:32.680 --> 02:08:36.359 grab a purple bag of humts plus and after you fertilize, 2331 02:08:36.439 --> 02:08:39.279 then put the humans plus out or vice versa, doesn't matter. 2332 02:08:39.359 --> 02:08:41.720 Which you can do it as many times a year 2333 02:08:41.760 --> 02:08:43.560 as you want. You're not gonna burn soil with it, 2334 02:08:44.239 --> 02:08:46.279 and you're not gonna burn your plants with it. In 2335 02:08:46.399 --> 02:08:49.920 other words, and as you do, you just get better 2336 02:08:50.000 --> 02:08:51.479 and better. And when you get better soil, you get 2337 02:08:51.520 --> 02:08:54.520 better plants. That's just how that grows. That's why nature 2338 02:08:54.560 --> 02:08:57.279 works the way that it does, because it makes plant 2339 02:08:57.399 --> 02:08:58.319 life thrive. 2340 02:08:58.800 --> 02:08:59.119 All right. 2341 02:08:59.279 --> 02:09:01.600 Microlife for a Life's the website if you want to 2342 02:09:01.600 --> 02:09:03.760 find out where to get it, or I can save 2343 02:09:03.800 --> 02:09:06.760 you some time and just say everywhere. It's pretty much. 2344 02:09:07.279 --> 02:09:10.800 I you're hard pressed to go to a garden center, 2345 02:09:10.880 --> 02:09:14.840 mom and pop garden center, an independent garden center, a 2346 02:09:14.920 --> 02:09:18.359 feed store, or a ace certainly a hardware stores, off 2347 02:09:18.439 --> 02:09:23.960 ies fertilizer. All places that carry micro life products and 2348 02:09:24.079 --> 02:09:26.720 they work. And I know that because I use them. 2349 02:09:27.000 --> 02:09:30.119 I don't just say that I actually use them. I 2350 02:09:30.239 --> 02:09:33.399 spend more time in my yard, trying things out, not 2351 02:09:33.600 --> 02:09:37.279 just products either, but different systems. I'm trying a different 2352 02:09:37.359 --> 02:09:40.680 pruning system on Vitex right now a plant that I have. 2353 02:09:40.800 --> 02:09:42.439 I don't know if it's gonna work or not. I'm 2354 02:09:42.439 --> 02:09:45.159 gonna try it and then i'll know. But just trying 2355 02:09:45.239 --> 02:09:49.920 something else out with the vitexs, Planning different species and 2356 02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:52.800 varieties of plants to see which ones do well, which 2357 02:09:52.840 --> 02:09:57.039 ones don't. It's all part of the learning process. Hey, 2358 02:09:57.319 --> 02:09:59.800 you remember the storms last summer that knocked out power 2359 02:09:59.840 --> 02:10:04.239 for two weeks each in some areas of Houston. Quality 2360 02:10:04.279 --> 02:10:08.239 Home Products of Texas can provide you a genera automatic 2361 02:10:08.319 --> 02:10:12.119 stand by generator. These are really cool. They're automatic standby, 2362 02:10:12.279 --> 02:10:14.079 so when the power goes out, they come on. You 2363 02:10:14.119 --> 02:10:15.960 don't even have to get out of the chair. The 2364 02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:19.600 lights kind of flicker a little bit dimmed, but I 2365 02:10:19.680 --> 02:10:22.800 mean immediately that generator kicks into gear, fires up and 2366 02:10:22.920 --> 02:10:25.560 gets you your power back. So if you're gone on 2367 02:10:25.680 --> 02:10:27.880 vacation when the power goes out, you don't lose all 2368 02:10:27.960 --> 02:10:30.319 that food and the freezer in the fridge. And boy, 2369 02:10:30.359 --> 02:10:32.359 I'll tell you I've come home to that before. After 2370 02:10:32.399 --> 02:10:36.319 a couple of weeks. Woo you talk about stink. Ugh, 2371 02:10:36.640 --> 02:10:39.199 I don't wish that on anybody. Maybe you work from 2372 02:10:39.239 --> 02:10:42.840 home and you need to have internet access all the time, 2373 02:10:43.079 --> 02:10:47.760 or you definitely want maybe your cooling system, your central 2374 02:10:47.800 --> 02:10:51.079 cooling to not go out because you have met power 2375 02:10:51.159 --> 02:10:54.760 for two weeks. Quality Home Products of Texas can do that, 2376 02:10:55.000 --> 02:10:57.800 and they do it in a way that is customer 2377 02:10:57.880 --> 02:11:01.760 service service oriented. And I can give you case after 2378 02:11:01.880 --> 02:11:05.960 case after case of why I know that is true. 2379 02:11:06.119 --> 02:11:09.720 For example, they've won the Better Business Bureau's most Prestigious 2380 02:11:09.800 --> 02:11:14.640 Customer Service Award eight times, eight times over fourteen thousand 2381 02:11:14.640 --> 02:11:17.000 and five story reviews. And I can keep going, but 2382 02:11:17.119 --> 02:11:20.319 let me just leave you at the website QUALITYTX dot com, 2383 02:11:20.479 --> 02:11:24.319 qualitytx dot com. Go there, check it out seven one 2384 02:11:24.760 --> 02:11:30.720 three Quality Quality Home Products of Texas. Time for me 2385 02:11:30.840 --> 02:11:33.239 to take a quick break. When we come back, Josh 2386 02:11:33.319 --> 02:11:35.560 in Spring and Runnie and Magnolia you will be our 2387 02:11:35.600 --> 02:11:42.039 first two up. All right, but just maybe that lou 2388 02:11:42.640 --> 02:11:47.359 take youre look at Arburgate Arburgate Gardens. I was out 2389 02:11:47.439 --> 02:11:50.239 there a couple of weeks ago, and I'm telling you 2390 02:11:50.560 --> 02:11:53.319 that place is amazing. Actually it was a week ago, 2391 02:11:54.000 --> 02:11:57.399 I believe I lose track of time. We had a 2392 02:11:57.439 --> 02:11:59.159 good time. Lots of people came out. It was good 2393 02:11:59.199 --> 02:12:03.239 to visit with everybody. And that Arbrogate just looked outstanding. 2394 02:12:03.319 --> 02:12:05.399 I mean, the place just keeps getting better and better, 2395 02:12:05.439 --> 02:12:06.800 you know. Think I think are eight new parking lot 2396 02:12:06.840 --> 02:12:08.359 in the back, which is where you should park by 2397 02:12:08.399 --> 02:12:11.520 the way, good safe parking. Just turned on Trischel Road. 2398 02:12:11.600 --> 02:12:14.600 Go around behind Arburgate. You'll see the big sign all 2399 02:12:14.760 --> 02:12:18.159 weather easy, easy convenience parking lot. You need to check 2400 02:12:18.239 --> 02:12:21.399 that out. I don't even know where to begin. The 2401 02:12:21.560 --> 02:12:26.680 color was unbelievable. It was outstanding. Vegetables and herbs, outstanding, 2402 02:12:26.840 --> 02:12:32.279 hanging baskets, pottery, outstanding, the selection have I said this 2403 02:12:32.600 --> 02:12:36.760 outstanding fruit trees year round. Okay, we're talking about shrubs 2404 02:12:36.840 --> 02:12:38.960 and trees and roses. Oh my gosh, I have a 2405 02:12:39.000 --> 02:12:42.600 good selection of roses. Everything you need to have a beautiful, 2406 02:12:42.680 --> 02:12:46.199 bountiful garden and to enjoy it more. Or is that Arburgate? 2407 02:12:46.600 --> 02:12:49.720 You can find it there. They are on twenty nine 2408 02:12:49.760 --> 02:12:52.079 to twenty a mile and a half west of Tomball. 2409 02:12:52.159 --> 02:12:54.560 It's easy to find them, easy to get to. Remember, 2410 02:12:54.640 --> 02:12:57.439 brown stuff comes before green stuff, so when you take home, 2411 02:12:57.520 --> 02:13:01.560 those wonderful plants take home a bad of organic food Complete, 2412 02:13:01.800 --> 02:13:06.079 which is an organic fertilizer with calcium addition to it, 2413 02:13:06.720 --> 02:13:11.159 Organic soil Complete, which is soil with expanded shale in it, 2414 02:13:11.279 --> 02:13:15.640 and Organic Compost Complete, which is compost with expanded shale. 2415 02:13:16.159 --> 02:13:18.880 That sets the foundation so your plants thrive and do well. 2416 02:13:18.920 --> 02:13:21.159 By the way, if you want those three in larger amounts, 2417 02:13:21.199 --> 02:13:23.000 like you don't buy a hunter bag because you're putting 2418 02:13:23.000 --> 02:13:26.319 in a whole bed. The say those three, the two 2419 02:13:26.520 --> 02:13:29.960 Organic Soil Complete and Organic Compost Complete are available by bulk. 2420 02:13:30.119 --> 02:13:32.920 Just ask folks at Arbrogate. They'll get you plugged in. 2421 02:13:33.119 --> 02:13:36.319 They can deliver it to wherever you live. Arbrogate Garden 2422 02:13:36.399 --> 02:13:40.640 Center a gardener's paradise for sure. Let's heeat out. Now 2423 02:13:40.760 --> 02:13:43.600 to Magnolia and we're going to talk to Ronnie. Hello, Ronnie, 2424 02:13:43.640 --> 02:13:44.560 welcome to garden Line. 2425 02:13:45.199 --> 02:13:48.439 Hey, good morning. Yeah, sent some pictures of a couple 2426 02:13:48.520 --> 02:13:54.359 of tomatoes. Okay, the grain tomatoes are fantastic. I mean, 2427 02:13:54.399 --> 02:13:57.439 I hadn't it look any better. But when the turning red, 2428 02:13:57.600 --> 02:14:00.800 some of them are eaten. And that's the picture got 2429 02:14:00.880 --> 02:14:01.119 for you. 2430 02:14:03.800 --> 02:14:06.479 All right, I'm trying to pull that. Oh there we go. Okay, 2431 02:14:06.760 --> 02:14:10.720 I've got that opened up. There is a caterpillar that 2432 02:14:11.359 --> 02:14:14.960 does that. It burrows into the fruit and eats the 2433 02:14:15.039 --> 02:14:17.880 inside and then all the rotten mess occurs from that. 2434 02:14:19.079 --> 02:14:22.119 If you would spray your tomatoes with the product containing 2435 02:14:22.279 --> 02:14:26.640 dt B as in boy tea is in tom the 2436 02:14:26.720 --> 02:14:29.600 bt product will go in there and it will do 2437 02:14:29.680 --> 02:14:32.520 a very good job of a say, go in there, 2438 02:14:32.600 --> 02:14:35.000 it'll go on the fruit. When a caterpillar tries to 2439 02:14:35.119 --> 02:14:38.399 chew in it'll it'll shut them down. It works pretty well. 2440 02:14:38.840 --> 02:14:43.039 There's also a product called spinosid s p I N 2441 02:14:43.239 --> 02:14:47.880 O s A D. Spinosid is another good one for 2442 02:14:48.720 --> 02:14:50.920 controlling these pests. But you have to spray it on 2443 02:14:51.039 --> 02:14:56.520 ahead of time and then you know, just probably about 2444 02:14:56.520 --> 02:14:59.920 another two weeks, spray it on again and prevent that entry. 2445 02:15:00.960 --> 02:15:03.640 Okay, so I just can cover the entire I have 2446 02:15:03.800 --> 02:15:05.000 several plants. 2447 02:15:05.560 --> 02:15:07.680 Just cover the entire plant crop that I have. 2448 02:15:09.159 --> 02:15:11.960 Okay, yeah, spray the whole plants. Some types of caterpillars 2449 02:15:11.960 --> 02:15:14.039 will feed on the leaves and the fruit, and then 2450 02:15:14.159 --> 02:15:16.880 that way you get them there. But especially cover the fruit, 2451 02:15:17.000 --> 02:15:19.520 but also get some coverage on the leaves and you 2452 02:15:19.560 --> 02:15:21.399 ought to be able to shut this down. They're spoiling 2453 02:15:21.479 --> 02:15:22.359 your show out there. 2454 02:15:23.479 --> 02:15:27.039 Also, is that the same caterpillar that you'd say would 2455 02:15:27.039 --> 02:15:29.520 be eating my broccoli and turnips leaves? 2456 02:15:30.800 --> 02:15:34.760 No, it's it's actually a different one, one of the 2457 02:15:34.800 --> 02:15:40.439 tomato caterpillars. You'll find it on corn and tobacco plants, 2458 02:15:40.560 --> 02:15:43.399 but not on broccoli. But then there are others that 2459 02:15:43.600 --> 02:15:44.720 just occur on the tomatoes. 2460 02:15:45.439 --> 02:15:47.840 Well, would this work on them though, the spinosa or 2461 02:15:47.880 --> 02:15:49.119 BT products. 2462 02:15:48.800 --> 02:15:53.760 Yes, yes it will if it eats leaves spinosia and 2463 02:15:53.880 --> 02:15:56.399 b T well if it if it eat okay, if 2464 02:15:56.439 --> 02:15:59.359 it's a caterpillar, b T works on it, only caterpillars. 2465 02:15:59.520 --> 02:16:02.479 If it's eats leaves, spinosa, it works on it. It 2466 02:16:02.560 --> 02:16:05.520 could be you know, it could be a beetle, or 2467 02:16:05.560 --> 02:16:08.399 it could be a caterpillar or something chewing. The spinosa 2468 02:16:08.439 --> 02:16:09.520 will work on both of those. 2469 02:16:10.600 --> 02:16:11.640 All right, Well, bit all right? 2470 02:16:12.399 --> 02:16:17.439 Flapping them with name ol that has a little okay, yeah. 2471 02:16:17.399 --> 02:16:20.079 Not a whole lot, though not a whole lot. All right, 2472 02:16:20.399 --> 02:16:22.359 you take care. Thanks a lot for the call. Reading 2473 02:16:22.560 --> 02:16:31.439 appreciate that for sure. Super turf from the folks at nitroposs. 2474 02:16:32.639 --> 02:16:35.239 It's kind of the premiere fertilizer. When we're looking at 2475 02:16:35.280 --> 02:16:38.520 our lawns for summer. It's a silver bag nineteen four ten. 2476 02:16:39.799 --> 02:16:42.200 It just does what needs to be done. Our southern 2477 02:16:42.239 --> 02:16:45.360 turf crosses in Augustine, Bermuda, Zoisa, our southern soils here 2478 02:16:45.399 --> 02:16:48.799 in the Houston area, and our climate. Super Turf is 2479 02:16:48.879 --> 02:16:51.559 designed for all of that because we need something to 2480 02:16:51.600 --> 02:16:54.440 give our lawn a gradual feeding of nitrogen over time, 2481 02:16:54.600 --> 02:16:56.799 not a dump of nitrogen at one time. That's not 2482 02:16:56.920 --> 02:16:59.840 good for the grass. All kinds of problems happen when 2483 02:16:59.840 --> 02:17:03.159 you overdo that. But even though it has nineteen percent 2484 02:17:03.280 --> 02:17:06.879 nitrogen in super Turf, that nineteen percent, it takes sixteen 2485 02:17:06.959 --> 02:17:09.200 weeks for to release it all out into your soil. 2486 02:17:09.399 --> 02:17:12.079 So it's like you just put little amounts of fertilizer 2487 02:17:12.159 --> 02:17:14.680 out at a time, which is ideal. It's a silver bag, 2488 02:17:14.760 --> 02:17:16.879 so it's easy to find when you go into Ace 2489 02:17:16.920 --> 02:17:20.440 Hardware City on Memorial Drive. When you go to Langham 2490 02:17:20.479 --> 02:17:24.079 Creek Ace Hardware on FM five twenty nine on the 2491 02:17:24.159 --> 02:17:28.280 backside of Copperfield Subdivision up towards Cyprus. Yeah, you're going 2492 02:17:28.319 --> 02:17:30.799 to see the silver bag from across the store. If 2493 02:17:30.799 --> 02:17:33.799 you go to RCW Nursery on Tomball Parkway. You're going 2494 02:17:33.840 --> 02:17:36.479 to find Nito frost products there as well, like the 2495 02:17:36.799 --> 02:17:41.000 super turf. All right, let's see, We're gonna head back 2496 02:17:41.120 --> 02:17:46.040 out to the phones here if I can get my 2497 02:17:46.680 --> 02:17:49.799 grab the right mouse. I got too many mice, all right, 2498 02:17:50.000 --> 02:17:53.799 Josh in Spring Welcome to garden Line. I finally did 2499 02:17:53.879 --> 02:17:59.280 get those photos, so I'm ready to talk. Hey, so 2500 02:17:59.399 --> 02:18:02.680 you see, uh you see the photos of the angel trumpet. 2501 02:18:03.440 --> 02:18:05.600 I've been fighting this for a few weeks. 2502 02:18:06.719 --> 02:18:06.840 Uh. 2503 02:18:06.959 --> 02:18:10.200 You see the discoloration of the leaves. I think it 2504 02:18:10.360 --> 02:18:13.000 was mites or aphids or over water. And I've hit 2505 02:18:13.040 --> 02:18:13.239 it with. 2506 02:18:17.079 --> 02:18:17.520 I've hit it. 2507 02:18:20.680 --> 02:18:24.559 All right, Yead in Spring Welcome to Dark You turned 2508 02:18:24.559 --> 02:18:29.520 the radio off? Yeah all right, so so what did 2509 02:18:29.600 --> 02:18:31.159 you What did you say you used on it? 2510 02:18:32.760 --> 02:18:36.639 So I've hit it with Talstar Pro, and then I 2511 02:18:36.719 --> 02:18:41.120 hit it with Alpine, and then I hit it with 2512 02:18:41.639 --> 02:18:41.959 like the. 2513 02:18:42.959 --> 02:18:47.920 Like the seven dust liquid. Okay, and I still I'm 2514 02:18:47.959 --> 02:18:51.639 still getting these yellow leaves, man, So I'm just wondering, 2515 02:18:51.799 --> 02:18:57.559 Uh you take it? Yeah, No, it's a lack of 2516 02:18:57.680 --> 02:19:01.399 nitrogen partly, but you've also got spider miights pretty seriously 2517 02:19:01.479 --> 02:19:04.840 on these I had a brigmancio that got them pretty 2518 02:19:04.879 --> 02:19:06.639 good one year. And you know what I did. I 2519 02:19:06.760 --> 02:19:09.280 just took a handgun sprayer on the end of a 2520 02:19:09.319 --> 02:19:11.479 hose and I put my hand on top of the 2521 02:19:11.600 --> 02:19:14.079 leaves and I blasted the bottom of the leaf, you know, 2522 02:19:14.159 --> 02:19:17.600 I just like squirted it from upward under the plant, 2523 02:19:17.719 --> 02:19:20.920 just blasted all the spider mites off. They'll come back, 2524 02:19:21.120 --> 02:19:23.920 but slowly. But if you do that about once a 2525 02:19:24.040 --> 02:19:27.719 week for about three weeks, it basically it goes away. 2526 02:19:28.600 --> 02:19:30.959 It just does. And so all the chemicals and things, 2527 02:19:31.000 --> 02:19:33.280 some of them have secondary effects. The seven desks you 2528 02:19:33.399 --> 02:19:36.799 use made the spider mites worse. Actually, so I would 2529 02:19:36.879 --> 02:19:39.360 just I would do the hand squirt with water. It's 2530 02:19:39.399 --> 02:19:42.920 easier than mixing up stuff to spray, and it works 2531 02:19:43.000 --> 02:19:45.719 good on the spider miights. And then provide some nitrogen. 2532 02:19:45.879 --> 02:19:48.680 Give your plants a good boost of nitrogen and keep 2533 02:19:48.719 --> 02:19:52.520 the soil evenly moist and though brigmancio will take off 2534 02:19:52.879 --> 02:19:55.760 and you will enjoy those gorgeous blooms. 2535 02:19:57.319 --> 02:19:59.200 Okay, so just rip them with water, give them some 2536 02:19:59.239 --> 02:20:00.680 fertilizer and we're good. 2537 02:20:01.680 --> 02:20:04.440 Yeap, blast them. You got to hit the bottom of 2538 02:20:04.479 --> 02:20:07.159 the leaves and you gotta have That's why I put 2539 02:20:07.200 --> 02:20:08.959 my hand over them, because if you hit that leaf 2540 02:20:09.040 --> 02:20:11.440 with a s strong spray of water, it just it 2541 02:20:11.559 --> 02:20:13.639 just knocks a leaf straight up vertical. You know you 2542 02:20:13.719 --> 02:20:16.319 don't you don't blast them off, so it didn't take 2543 02:20:16.399 --> 02:20:18.639 it just a little tedious bid take that long. It's 2544 02:20:18.680 --> 02:20:21.120 easy to do. And spider mites, just getting them wet 2545 02:20:21.360 --> 02:20:23.959 causes them to get all kinds of diseases and fungus 2546 02:20:24.040 --> 02:20:27.959 and stuff on their bodies that kills them. But physically 2547 02:20:28.120 --> 02:20:32.239 removing them with a strong blast is important too. Hope 2548 02:20:32.280 --> 02:20:36.799 that works, man, Thanks, thanks for calingis appreciate that you 2549 02:20:36.920 --> 02:20:41.200 take care. Southwest Fertilizer in Southwest Houston been around seventy years. 2550 02:20:41.239 --> 02:20:43.920 This is our seventies anniversary, our birthday, however you want 2551 02:20:43.920 --> 02:20:47.239 to look at it. Happy birthday Southwest Fertilizer. 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Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. 2572 02:21:55.280 --> 02:21:58.479 Corner of this Nut and Runwick seven one three six 2573 02:21:58.639 --> 02:22:02.479 sixty six one seven four four. We're gonna go now 2574 02:22:02.680 --> 02:22:06.520 out to Crosby and talk to Bob. Oh, Bob, Welcome 2575 02:22:06.520 --> 02:22:15.159 to garden Line. Good morning, good morning, yes, good morning. 2576 02:22:16.440 --> 02:22:16.719 Morning. 2577 02:22:16.840 --> 02:22:21.159 I planned at Rosemary and lavender about three times from 2578 02:22:21.280 --> 02:22:24.959 seeds and I never get any results. I'm just trying 2579 02:22:24.959 --> 02:22:26.200 to figure out what's going on. 2580 02:22:30.840 --> 02:22:33.520 Well, lavender is a challenge in our area. We just 2581 02:22:33.559 --> 02:22:35.959 get so much rain over here. It prefers to be 2582 02:22:36.120 --> 02:22:39.879 in a drier, more Mediterranean like climate that isn't isn't 2583 02:22:39.959 --> 02:22:45.159 so rainy. To grow lavender successfully here, you need full sun, 2584 02:22:45.799 --> 02:22:50.399 outstanding drainage, and don't keep it too wet, and that'll 2585 02:22:50.479 --> 02:22:54.840 give you your best shot. It's success with lavender that 2586 02:22:55.040 --> 02:22:57.440 rosemary is on the other end of the spectrum. It's 2587 02:22:57.479 --> 02:22:59.680 easy to grow, but it also doesn't like to be 2588 02:22:59.799 --> 02:23:03.840 so wet in the roots. So again Mediterranean. 2589 02:23:04.399 --> 02:23:05.239 Uh it. 2590 02:23:05.760 --> 02:23:08.799 It is one that I would say when it comes 2591 02:23:08.840 --> 02:23:11.360 to drought tolerance, rosemary is one of our best plants 2592 02:23:11.399 --> 02:23:13.920 that we have for our landscape. So if you need 2593 02:23:14.000 --> 02:23:16.559 to build up the bed in a raised bed to 2594 02:23:16.719 --> 02:23:19.280 help a little bit, I think I would do that. 2595 02:23:19.920 --> 02:23:22.920 I put some of my rosemary in big giant pots 2596 02:23:23.120 --> 02:23:25.079 because that works really well too. 2597 02:23:26.600 --> 02:23:26.760 Good. 2598 02:23:28.280 --> 02:23:31.920 Biggest problem is I'm not getting any seed germination. 2599 02:23:33.520 --> 02:23:39.920 And oh, you're planning them from seed, Yes, okay, planning 2600 02:23:40.000 --> 02:23:44.280 them from seed? I see, Okay, Well that's different. I 2601 02:23:44.440 --> 02:23:48.280 always either start them from plants or from cuttings. Both 2602 02:23:48.319 --> 02:23:52.440 can be rooted from cuttings as well. Seed germination, keep 2603 02:23:52.520 --> 02:23:56.639 it moist, provide it good sunlight, but not necessarily direct 2604 02:23:56.719 --> 02:24:01.440 sun initially, uh, and just keeping it moist. I've not 2605 02:24:01.680 --> 02:24:04.200 tried starting those from seed because it's so easy to 2606 02:24:04.200 --> 02:24:06.600 start him from cuttings and from plants, but but that 2607 02:24:07.040 --> 02:24:08.840 that would be what they need. Just don't keep them 2608 02:24:08.879 --> 02:24:09.639 too soggy wet. 2609 02:24:10.399 --> 02:24:13.399 All right, all right, all right, sir, thank you, all. 2610 02:24:13.360 --> 02:24:16.840 Right, Bob, you bet, thank you very much. I appreciate 2611 02:24:16.879 --> 02:24:18.639 your call. All right. Time for me to take a 2612 02:24:18.680 --> 02:24:21.040 little break if you'd like to be first up when 2613 02:24:21.079 --> 02:24:23.920 we come back. Seven to one three two one two 2614 02:24:24.600 --> 02:24:28.159 k t RH Welcome back to the guardline. Good heavy 2615 02:24:28.200 --> 02:24:31.399 with us this morning. We're going to get to your 2616 02:24:31.440 --> 02:24:32.520 calls here in just one moment. 2617 02:24:32.959 --> 02:24:33.079 Uh. 2618 02:24:33.280 --> 02:24:36.440 Hoorgesitt and Gardens is down in Alvin, Texas, and if 2619 02:24:36.479 --> 02:24:37.879 you haven't been there, you ought to check it out, 2620 02:24:38.000 --> 02:24:40.479 especially those of you who live down that direction south 2621 02:24:40.520 --> 02:24:43.559 of Houston. He's actually in between kind of Alvin and 2622 02:24:45.120 --> 02:24:49.719 Santa Fe. It's an Alvin address on Elizabeth Road. Elizabeth 2623 02:24:49.840 --> 02:24:52.680 Road and Alvin Texas and Horayes got an outstanding selection 2624 02:24:52.799 --> 02:24:56.559 of trees and shrubs. Beautiful, beautiful trees and shrubs. He's 2625 02:24:56.600 --> 02:24:59.799 got vitex. He has great myrtles, he has oaks, and 2626 02:25:00.079 --> 02:25:03.760 pretty much everything that you can think about. He knows 2627 02:25:03.959 --> 02:25:07.120 how to grow and he knows how to install these plants. 2628 02:25:07.520 --> 02:25:10.840 If you're looking for fruit trees like lemonade blueberry, do 2629 02:25:10.840 --> 02:25:13.840 you know pick lemonade blueberry? The berries get pink instead 2630 02:25:13.879 --> 02:25:16.959 of blue like a blueberry. It's kind of cool. Whatever 2631 02:25:17.079 --> 02:25:20.040 you want installed, he can install it for you. You 2632 02:25:20.079 --> 02:25:21.760 just got to get out there and check him out. 2633 02:25:22.079 --> 02:25:25.360 The vitex he has right now are just beautiful and outstanding. 2634 02:25:25.399 --> 02:25:29.600 He also has some a good selection too of avocado trees. 2635 02:25:29.680 --> 02:25:32.040 Still some of may have fruit on him, I believe. 2636 02:25:32.399 --> 02:25:34.719 But give him a call or go out there. Jorge 2637 02:25:34.840 --> 02:25:37.559 Seddon Gardens on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just south of 2638 02:25:37.680 --> 02:25:42.200 Highway six. Easy, easy, easy to get to and really nice, 2639 02:25:42.479 --> 02:25:45.719 really nice selection as well. Let's head out on the 2640 02:25:45.799 --> 02:25:47.879 phones now we're going to go to Seabrook and talk 2641 02:25:47.959 --> 02:25:50.479 to Jeremy. Hello, Jeremy, welcome to garden Line. 2642 02:25:51.559 --> 02:25:52.680 How's it going, Skip. 2643 02:25:54.200 --> 02:25:55.040 Doing well? Thank you. 2644 02:25:57.000 --> 02:25:59.479 So My question is I got I bought a rose 2645 02:25:59.559 --> 02:26:02.680 bush last year. It's still in the nursery pot and 2646 02:26:02.799 --> 02:26:05.879 I've cut it back to who make it a box eye? 2647 02:26:08.680 --> 02:26:12.399 It did really good growing in the early spring, but 2648 02:26:12.559 --> 02:26:14.600 now you know, I've tried keep it in the sun, 2649 02:26:14.799 --> 02:26:18.280 keeping it in parts on, but the leaves are withering 2650 02:26:18.920 --> 02:26:21.280 and part of the branches are dying back, turning brown. 2651 02:26:23.879 --> 02:26:26.680 I thought it was a bug issue, but I've looked 2652 02:26:26.680 --> 02:26:28.360 at it and it doesn't look like bugs. 2653 02:26:28.479 --> 02:26:30.559 But just looking for some help, so I don't want 2654 02:26:30.600 --> 02:26:33.319 this thing to die. Okay. 2655 02:26:33.760 --> 02:26:36.879 Well, I am not a bones eye expert, but I've 2656 02:26:36.959 --> 02:26:39.520 never seen a rose bon's eye, and so part of 2657 02:26:39.559 --> 02:26:42.440 the problem may be that's plants response to this. 2658 02:26:43.399 --> 02:26:43.520 Uh. 2659 02:26:44.319 --> 02:26:47.520 You know, with bones eye, you're you're basically limiting plants 2660 02:26:47.760 --> 02:26:50.000 so that they can't grow, but that they stay alive. 2661 02:26:50.120 --> 02:26:52.559 You know, you're doing root printing, and you're doing a 2662 02:26:52.600 --> 02:26:56.799 lot of other things that basically keep it dwarf. So 2663 02:26:57.600 --> 02:26:59.280 what I'm going to do in this to give you 2664 02:26:59.319 --> 02:27:00.280 an accurate sure? 2665 02:27:00.360 --> 02:27:00.399 Not? 2666 02:27:01.840 --> 02:27:04.159 Okay? Well, I want to give you an accurate answer, 2667 02:27:04.239 --> 02:27:06.639 but not my best guess. Okay, So if I were you, 2668 02:27:06.840 --> 02:27:11.280 I would call Ken at Quality Feed. Quality Feed is 2669 02:27:11.360 --> 02:27:15.479 in north central Houston, you know, just in town, just 2670 02:27:15.680 --> 02:27:18.719 north of the heights in there. Quality Feed Ken is 2671 02:27:18.719 --> 02:27:22.920 a bones eye expert. They have occasionally meetings of Bonesye 2672 02:27:22.959 --> 02:27:25.600 Society and things going on out there, and I would 2673 02:27:25.639 --> 02:27:28.719 ask him your question, and I think he could do it. 2674 02:27:28.840 --> 02:27:32.680 I don't have a connection reference number for someone with 2675 02:27:32.760 --> 02:27:36.280 the Bones Eye Society, but I would rather let someone 2676 02:27:36.319 --> 02:27:39.600 who's much more experienced with bones eye on a plant 2677 02:27:39.680 --> 02:27:42.760 like rose, which I've never even seen bones eye to 2678 02:27:42.879 --> 02:27:49.520 help you with that. Okay, all right, So I guess 2679 02:27:49.559 --> 02:27:51.680 what I'm saying is I could I could sit here 2680 02:27:51.719 --> 02:27:53.760 and ramble and guess, or I could send you to 2681 02:27:53.799 --> 02:27:56.399 people that know. So I'd like to give you the 2682 02:27:56.440 --> 02:27:59.879 better answer by doing that. Thank you, Thank you a lot. 2683 02:28:00.079 --> 02:28:05.760 I appreciate that. All Right, We're going to go out 2684 02:28:05.760 --> 02:28:08.399 to clear Leg now and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, 2685 02:28:08.440 --> 02:28:09.360 welcome to garden Line. 2686 02:28:09.639 --> 02:28:11.520 Good morning, sir. I don't have to ask you how 2687 02:28:11.600 --> 02:28:16.000 you are so, because you've already said you're I've sent 2688 02:28:16.079 --> 02:28:16.840 a couple of pictures. 2689 02:28:18.319 --> 02:28:18.559 Yeah. 2690 02:28:19.040 --> 02:28:22.799 Well, I guess that's great. Is better than fine, it's super? 2691 02:28:23.440 --> 02:28:25.319 Uh yeah, it is it is? Mark? 2692 02:28:25.399 --> 02:28:28.360 What is what is the topic of the picture remind 2693 02:28:28.399 --> 02:28:30.000 me of that, so I grabbed the right one. 2694 02:28:30.600 --> 02:28:31.680 I think it says what are. 2695 02:28:33.719 --> 02:28:35.239 I don't like. 2696 02:28:38.000 --> 02:28:38.399 It does? 2697 02:28:38.639 --> 02:28:41.520 And that's that's one of the common names for it, 2698 02:28:41.680 --> 02:28:44.159 mimosa weed, but it's not a mimosa. That is called 2699 02:28:44.319 --> 02:28:47.040 chamber better, chamber better. 2700 02:28:47.760 --> 02:28:47.879 Uh. 2701 02:28:48.239 --> 02:28:52.719 It's also called flower because, yes, sir, because at the 2702 02:28:52.799 --> 02:28:57.719 base of each leaf there's a little tiny flower that 2703 02:28:57.840 --> 02:29:00.840 you wouldn't even know it's a flower because it's so conspicuous, 2704 02:29:00.920 --> 02:29:02.879 but it makes the seeds. And the minute that thing 2705 02:29:02.959 --> 02:29:04.799 gets up and gets a few inches on it, it's 2706 02:29:04.840 --> 02:29:09.600 already producing seed. So it's a problem. The best well, 2707 02:29:10.079 --> 02:29:13.600 I'll start with the more manual way of controlling, and 2708 02:29:13.719 --> 02:29:15.680 that is to pull them up the minute they come up. 2709 02:29:16.319 --> 02:29:18.159 Be careful, get all those out of there, because you 2710 02:29:18.159 --> 02:29:20.719 don't want to leave the seeds behind. And then mulch 2711 02:29:20.840 --> 02:29:24.120 with about three inches of a good dense mulch, not 2712 02:29:24.360 --> 02:29:27.559 something big and chunky, but a little denser, and block 2713 02:29:27.600 --> 02:29:30.760 all the sunlight out so they can't sprout. Now, you 2714 02:29:30.840 --> 02:29:36.399 can use a pre emergent in the soil called gallery 2715 02:29:36.920 --> 02:29:41.719 gallery like like a foat, like a painting gallery. Okay, 2716 02:29:42.879 --> 02:29:50.879 that is put down like Mattrosmat Gallery, right, and you 2717 02:29:51.000 --> 02:29:53.239 put that down watered in like you would. You know, 2718 02:29:53.319 --> 02:29:56.000 I talk about barricade all the time. It controls grasses 2719 02:29:56.040 --> 02:29:59.200 and broad leaf weeds, this particular one, I think gallery 2720 02:29:59.239 --> 02:30:00.840 will do a little bit better job for you. You 2721 02:30:00.959 --> 02:30:04.479 might get bark may work on it, but the galleries 2722 02:30:04.520 --> 02:30:07.440 for broad leaf weeds only doesn't control grasses. But if 2723 02:30:07.520 --> 02:30:08.920 you get it down, you're gonna have to get it 2724 02:30:09.000 --> 02:30:14.079 down in April, early April, maybe late March, because this 2725 02:30:14.159 --> 02:30:17.680 stuff starts sprouting a little late, but as you know, 2726 02:30:18.040 --> 02:30:20.479 is already well sprouted by now, so I would say 2727 02:30:20.559 --> 02:30:23.520 probably late March would even be a better time for 2728 02:30:23.680 --> 02:30:25.360 the gallery application watered in. 2729 02:30:25.600 --> 02:30:28.520 It's everywhere, It's in all kinds of pots and other places. 2730 02:30:28.799 --> 02:30:31.360 I was wondering, you know, if some weeds are edible. 2731 02:30:31.440 --> 02:30:33.120 I don't suppose this is one of them, because it 2732 02:30:33.280 --> 02:30:34.600 is I A feed a whole lot of people. 2733 02:30:36.399 --> 02:30:39.680 Yeah, not to my knowledge that that is for sure, 2734 02:30:39.760 --> 02:30:42.319 not to my knowledge, but it is. It is an 2735 02:30:42.360 --> 02:30:46.799 ongoing problem, and we really struggle with this particular weed 2736 02:30:46.840 --> 02:30:48.959 because it's not easy to kill. Now, if you can 2737 02:30:49.040 --> 02:30:53.559 find a product that is like a trimech product, Okay, 2738 02:30:54.079 --> 02:30:57.000 trimech it's a broad leaf weed killer. If you apply it, 2739 02:30:57.840 --> 02:31:00.360 you got to be real careful because it kills broad 2740 02:31:00.440 --> 02:31:03.360 leaf weeds and lawns, but it can damage your lawn 2741 02:31:03.959 --> 02:31:08.479 if temperatures are like above ninety degrees, so you get 2742 02:31:08.479 --> 02:31:11.280 out early in the morning and spray it. I do 2743 02:31:11.440 --> 02:31:13.879 find that chamber Better is a little hard to control, 2744 02:31:14.360 --> 02:31:17.719 and so since it's growing so close with other desirable plants, 2745 02:31:17.760 --> 02:31:19.520 you just want to be real careful not to get 2746 02:31:19.600 --> 02:31:22.440 that trimeach on those desirable plants. 2747 02:31:23.799 --> 02:31:26.280 Ok, well, thanks very much. I appreciate it. 2748 02:31:28.040 --> 02:31:31.479 All right. You take care. You're my first chamber Better 2749 02:31:31.799 --> 02:31:33.760 call of this season. We usually get a few of 2750 02:31:33.799 --> 02:31:34.079 them here. 2751 02:31:34.159 --> 02:31:34.360 Eat you. 2752 02:31:34.520 --> 02:31:38.639 You know, I'm not thanks very many things. Thanks, there 2753 02:31:38.719 --> 02:31:38.879 you go. 2754 02:31:39.000 --> 02:31:41.200 I wish there was a reward for it, but we're 2755 02:31:41.399 --> 02:31:44.200 fresh out today. Take care of her. You know, normally 2756 02:31:44.280 --> 02:31:48.200 I tell people normally I tell people want to help 2757 02:31:48.280 --> 02:31:51.440 them with like tomatoes or something. I say, well, just 2758 02:31:51.479 --> 02:31:53.719 bring me half your produce to the station and we'll 2759 02:31:53.760 --> 02:31:56.319 call it. Even I don't need half your chamber Better. 2760 02:31:56.399 --> 02:31:59.399 You just keep it to yourself. Thank you. I appreciate that, 2761 02:32:02.799 --> 02:32:07.399 all right. There you go, Ah boy, jungle Land. Jungle 2762 02:32:07.479 --> 02:32:11.040 Land is a product distributed by Nitropos comes in two forms. 2763 02:32:11.120 --> 02:32:14.559 One is the flour and vegetable planting soil. The other 2764 02:32:14.760 --> 02:32:17.399 is jungle and water savor planting soil. I'm gonna talk 2765 02:32:17.440 --> 02:32:19.920 about that second one, water savor potting soil. It's got 2766 02:32:19.920 --> 02:32:21.959 a little crystals in it that swell up with water, 2767 02:32:22.079 --> 02:32:24.639 and after your mix starts to dry out, those crystals 2768 02:32:24.760 --> 02:32:28.200 remain moist with water to help your plants get by 2769 02:32:28.479 --> 02:32:32.280 until the plant owner gets around, if only remember to 2770 02:32:32.360 --> 02:32:35.040 water them again. That's the nice thing about jungle Land 2771 02:32:35.079 --> 02:32:38.319 water saving potting soil. Jungle Land is distributed by night Fross. 2772 02:32:39.000 --> 02:32:40.920 Night Fast products are available in a lot of places. 2773 02:32:40.959 --> 02:32:44.520 You got under Fisher's Hardware and La Port on Broadway Street, 2774 02:32:44.559 --> 02:32:46.200 you're gonna find nitrofoss products. 2775 02:32:46.799 --> 02:32:47.440 You go to M and D. 2776 02:32:47.559 --> 02:32:50.920 Beamer in Sagemont and you're gonna find nitro frost type 2777 02:32:50.959 --> 02:32:54.879 products there, Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive and Ausposes 2778 02:32:54.959 --> 02:32:57.559 up in the Woodlands on Kirkandal. Those are all places 2779 02:32:57.600 --> 02:33:01.159 where you find nitrofoss products and our Ny among others. 2780 02:33:02.639 --> 02:33:04.200 I'm looking at a break here, so I'll tell you 2781 02:33:04.239 --> 02:33:06.680 what Martha and Kingwood and Gary and West Houston. You're 2782 02:33:06.680 --> 02:33:10.159 gonna be first when we come right back. All right, folks, 2783 02:33:10.799 --> 02:33:14.120 here we go. Got one little quick segment left. We're 2784 02:33:14.159 --> 02:33:17.760 gonna get that done. Hey, what is the mantra of 2785 02:33:17.879 --> 02:33:20.079 garden line? Well, I got a bunch of mantras, but 2786 02:33:20.200 --> 02:33:22.280 the main one I think seems to be brown stuff 2787 02:33:22.319 --> 02:33:24.760 before green stuff. Right, I'll tell you where to get 2788 02:33:24.760 --> 02:33:27.399 the brown stuff. Seein the malts. See in amalts. They 2789 02:33:27.440 --> 02:33:31.520 carry products that are top quality of every type you need, 2790 02:33:31.639 --> 02:33:34.000 mulches of various types. They got a bunch of different 2791 02:33:34.079 --> 02:33:37.600 options for multis. Do you need compost, Oh, my gosh, 2792 02:33:37.719 --> 02:33:41.639 they got incredible selection of composts, really quality stuff too. 2793 02:33:42.559 --> 02:33:45.600 Do you want to do maybe a vegetable nerve bed? Well, 2794 02:33:45.680 --> 02:33:49.639 they carry from the folks at Heirloom Soils, Veggie and Herbmex. 2795 02:33:49.920 --> 02:33:52.680 You know you're gonna find the fertilizers there that are 2796 02:33:52.760 --> 02:33:55.079 part of fixing the brown stuff, part of building the soil, 2797 02:33:55.280 --> 02:33:59.079 part of creating the foundation for success with plants. That 2798 02:33:59.159 --> 02:34:04.719 would be micro Life products, Nelson Products, Medina Products, nitrofoss Products, 2799 02:34:04.920 --> 02:34:09.440 Azamite product that is a one stop shop. Ciena Molts 2800 02:34:09.520 --> 02:34:11.959 there south of Houston on FM five point twenty one. 2801 02:34:12.159 --> 02:34:17.159 Go to the website Sienna Multch dot com Sienna Maltz 2802 02:34:17.280 --> 02:34:21.280 dot com. Start there. They'll deliver within twenty miles of 2803 02:34:21.360 --> 02:34:24.360 the area that they're in for a small fee. Or 2804 02:34:24.399 --> 02:34:25.920 you can go pick it up. You can go pick 2805 02:34:25.959 --> 02:34:28.120 it up there by the bag, by the bulk, however 2806 02:34:28.159 --> 02:34:30.840 you want to do it. Ciena Maltch is the place 2807 02:34:31.040 --> 02:34:34.840 where you begin. Once you created that foundation at Cienamltch, 2808 02:34:35.479 --> 02:34:38.000 then you put the great plants in and take care 2809 02:34:38.040 --> 02:34:40.760 of them and you're guaranteed success. I mean, it's as 2810 02:34:40.799 --> 02:34:43.399 simple as that. All right, We're going to run out 2811 02:34:43.520 --> 02:34:48.159 now to Kingwood and talk to Martha this morning. Hey, Martha, 2812 02:34:48.280 --> 02:34:49.239 welcome to garden Line. 2813 02:34:50.440 --> 02:34:50.760 Thank you. 2814 02:34:51.719 --> 02:34:57.559 I have a question on my blackberries. I've had this 2815 02:34:57.840 --> 02:35:01.559 last year and I read it article and I can't 2816 02:35:01.600 --> 02:35:04.719 find the article anymore. But what happens is. 2817 02:35:05.520 --> 02:35:05.920 When the. 2818 02:35:07.479 --> 02:35:12.680 Berries turn red and then when they start turning the 2819 02:35:13.079 --> 02:35:19.680 black part of the I call them seed. They they're white. 2820 02:35:21.319 --> 02:35:25.799 And it's this year it is more prevalent than it's 2821 02:35:25.840 --> 02:35:30.440 ever been on my berries. So something and I remember 2822 02:35:30.520 --> 02:35:34.280 the article. It was lacking something in the salt, and 2823 02:35:34.399 --> 02:35:35.879 I can't find the article. 2824 02:35:37.879 --> 02:35:39.840 You have any suggestions, Well. 2825 02:35:40.879 --> 02:35:45.639 Yeah, you see that a lot. The white those are 2826 02:35:45.680 --> 02:35:48.280 called druplets. You see the white druplets on there. Now, 2827 02:35:48.319 --> 02:35:51.840 this happens quite a bit when temperatures are really high. 2828 02:35:52.360 --> 02:35:56.719 That can happen. Whenever they use shade cloth in the 2829 02:35:56.840 --> 02:35:59.440 test trials, it cuts down on that a little bit. 2830 02:35:59.840 --> 02:36:05.920 So sometimes it's a sun related thing. It also sometimes 2831 02:36:06.000 --> 02:36:09.000 when you get too much water on them, we say 2832 02:36:09.079 --> 02:36:12.520 excessive rainfall, but it could come from irrigation too. You 2833 02:36:12.680 --> 02:36:15.399 notice red druplets that just don't turn their full color 2834 02:36:15.959 --> 02:36:19.559 or that wine. There's also sometimes brown and shrunken druplets 2835 02:36:19.680 --> 02:36:23.200 on a berry, and that's a disease called anthractnose that 2836 02:36:23.399 --> 02:36:26.639 can affect the berries. Normally, we don't do a lot 2837 02:36:26.680 --> 02:36:29.719 of spray in for any of this stuff, but when 2838 02:36:30.680 --> 02:36:34.239 if you had the anthractnose part, there's a product called 2839 02:36:34.520 --> 02:36:38.200 lime liquid lime sulfur that can be put on them 2840 02:36:38.440 --> 02:36:42.120 when they're dormant, before the berries even begin to put 2841 02:36:42.120 --> 02:36:45.239 a new growth dormant dormant that can be put on 2842 02:36:45.600 --> 02:36:48.920 for the anthractnose part. I think, based on what you're describing, 2843 02:36:49.399 --> 02:36:53.159 it seems to be more of a temperature related thing, 2844 02:36:53.319 --> 02:36:55.879 and especially sudden changes in that temperature. 2845 02:36:57.600 --> 02:37:00.840 Well that could be the boys lot more than it 2846 02:37:01.040 --> 02:37:03.879 ever has. And the berries don't really have a good taste, 2847 02:37:04.959 --> 02:37:09.639 not like they used you know they did, like, yeah, they. 2848 02:37:09.639 --> 02:37:12.200 Because they're not fully fully ripening and getting all that 2849 02:37:12.319 --> 02:37:14.479 sugar in. There's one other thing I didn't mention. That's 2850 02:37:14.520 --> 02:37:17.239 stink bugs. Stink bugs can put their little beak and 2851 02:37:17.319 --> 02:37:20.440 a BlackBerry and feed on it too and cause damage 2852 02:37:20.479 --> 02:37:23.000 to it. And you may be seeing a little bit 2853 02:37:23.079 --> 02:37:26.399 of that. But with blackberries, we like a moderate amount 2854 02:37:26.399 --> 02:37:28.920 of moisture. So the plants are good and strong and healthy, 2855 02:37:29.440 --> 02:37:32.440 but we need we need lots of sunlight to get 2856 02:37:32.520 --> 02:37:34.799 those berries fully ripened. And you kind of have to 2857 02:37:34.879 --> 02:37:37.959 let them ripen where they go past the shiny stage 2858 02:37:38.079 --> 02:37:40.760 to kind of a dull, shiny kind of color. 2859 02:37:41.000 --> 02:37:45.440 When they're fully ripe, well they are out in the sun, 2860 02:37:45.760 --> 02:37:48.959 so it's that's not a problem for sure. 2861 02:37:50.559 --> 02:37:51.680 Well, yeah, what. 2862 02:37:51.760 --> 02:37:53.840 Kind of blackberries? What kind of blackberries do you have? 2863 02:37:55.079 --> 02:37:56.280 The rap a hole. 2864 02:37:58.159 --> 02:38:00.239 Rapa ho Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. 2865 02:38:00.760 --> 02:38:10.520 Well anyway, yeah, yeah, well, uh so, Arkansas, which is 2866 02:38:10.600 --> 02:38:14.000 our number one breeder of blackberries now all the good 2867 02:38:14.079 --> 02:38:17.319 new varieties like a rapa ho. In fact, any BlackBerry 2868 02:38:17.360 --> 02:38:19.840 that has a name that's a Native American tribe like 2869 02:38:20.440 --> 02:38:24.200 Kaiowa and a rappah and those names. They're bread in Arkansas, 2870 02:38:24.360 --> 02:38:26.760 and they say that whenever you get a drop in 2871 02:38:26.879 --> 02:38:29.840 humidity and an increase in temperature, they get a lot 2872 02:38:29.920 --> 02:38:33.879 more of those white berries on the fruit from that. 2873 02:38:34.799 --> 02:38:40.440 So anyway, I don't know exactly on yours. Yeah, they 2874 02:38:40.639 --> 02:38:43.079 one of their one of their varieties is called Apache, 2875 02:38:43.159 --> 02:38:46.000 and it's more prone to to that problem. We see 2876 02:38:46.040 --> 02:38:48.719 that more on Apache, but I'm not familiar with a 2877 02:38:48.840 --> 02:38:51.479 rapa hoe and the white drupelet. If it's more. 2878 02:38:51.440 --> 02:38:56.520 Prone to it or not, we all be there. 2879 02:38:56.920 --> 02:38:57.959 Okay, Well, thank you. 2880 02:38:58.159 --> 02:39:00.799 Out, Okay, worry about it like all. 2881 02:39:01.079 --> 02:39:01.799 Thanks for the call. 2882 02:39:02.639 --> 02:39:03.760 Okay, thank you very much. 2883 02:39:03.799 --> 02:39:07.120 Mar I appreciate, appreciate you call very much. Hey, Moss Nursery, 2884 02:39:07.319 --> 02:39:08.719 if you haven't been there, you got to go. I 2885 02:39:08.760 --> 02:39:11.280 don't care where you live, you gotta go to Moss Nursery. 2886 02:39:11.559 --> 02:39:14.239 And why do I say that, Well, it is amazing. 2887 02:39:14.520 --> 02:39:16.879 This is a family owed nursery. You've been around seventy years, 2888 02:39:17.479 --> 02:39:22.479 eight acres. You wander through eight acres of wonderfulness. Oh 2889 02:39:22.559 --> 02:39:25.719 my gosh, the houseplat Greenhouse, I love it. I almost 2890 02:39:25.760 --> 02:39:27.920 had their first ever time because of the selection and 2891 02:39:28.000 --> 02:39:31.079 things that they have just so good. But everywhere you 2892 02:39:31.159 --> 02:39:34.440 walk in Moss, you're gonna see pottery, You're gonna see plants, 2893 02:39:34.479 --> 02:39:37.239 you're gonna see water features, You're gonna it's just a 2894 02:39:37.479 --> 02:39:39.920 fun place to go visit. And I'll tell you this, 2895 02:39:40.479 --> 02:39:42.639 you will see a lot of stuff that you can't 2896 02:39:42.680 --> 02:39:46.680 find anywhere else. They specialize in having a very wide 2897 02:39:46.760 --> 02:39:50.239 variety of things. You know, like unusual varieties of pathos, 2898 02:39:50.319 --> 02:39:52.719 for example. Everybody knows what apothus ivy is. Well, how 2899 02:39:52.719 --> 02:39:55.479 about varieties you never seen in your life before. They've 2900 02:39:55.520 --> 02:39:57.879 got those there. If you want color plants like dwarf 2901 02:39:58.000 --> 02:40:00.559 zenias for betting plants, they got you covered. Do you 2902 02:40:00.600 --> 02:40:03.680 want hanging baskets? Do you want trees and shrubs and 2903 02:40:03.760 --> 02:40:06.879 those little discipring fountain water features, the small ones you 2904 02:40:06.959 --> 02:40:09.520 just sit on yours like a container and a container 2905 02:40:09.639 --> 02:40:11.920 so it's bubbling water over the top, but it just 2906 02:40:12.079 --> 02:40:15.040 recircles around. They've got those down there at Moss Nursery. 2907 02:40:15.319 --> 02:40:19.959 It's in Seabrook, Texas. It's on Toddville Road. The website 2908 02:40:20.520 --> 02:40:27.959 Maas Nursery Moss Nursery dot com. Check out the beautiful 2909 02:40:28.040 --> 02:40:32.559 passion mines. They have purple, blue, creamy, white, red, all 2910 02:40:32.680 --> 02:40:37.120 kinds of colors. The Gulf fritillary caterpillars. They will fly 2911 02:40:37.479 --> 02:40:40.559 ten miles to get to a passion vine because that's 2912 02:40:40.600 --> 02:40:42.959 what their babies love to munch on. And you get 2913 02:40:42.959 --> 02:40:46.000 more caterpillars, you get more butterflies that way. Go check 2914 02:40:46.000 --> 02:40:49.360 them out Moss Nursery. We're going to head now over 2915 02:40:49.559 --> 02:40:52.600 to West Houston and talk to Gary. Gary, you're the 2916 02:40:52.680 --> 02:40:55.280 caboose today on the show, our last caller. How can 2917 02:40:55.360 --> 02:40:55.680 we help? 2918 02:40:56.399 --> 02:40:58.079 Well, thank you and I'll try to make it real. 2919 02:40:58.360 --> 02:41:00.399 Did you get the pictures? I said to the producer. 2920 02:41:02.120 --> 02:41:03.920 I bet I did, I bet I did. Hang on 2921 02:41:04.079 --> 02:41:08.799 one second, what would they? What would they pictures of Gary? 2922 02:41:08.920 --> 02:41:13.239 I get the grass and there's one with Saint Augustine 2923 02:41:13.280 --> 02:41:14.840 with the American flag in the background. 2924 02:41:17.159 --> 02:41:21.600 Oh uh no, I don't have those. 2925 02:41:22.719 --> 02:41:23.159 I can. 2926 02:41:25.200 --> 02:41:27.280 Okay, tell me, tell me. Let's see if I can 2927 02:41:27.319 --> 02:41:28.479 help you without the pictures. 2928 02:41:29.520 --> 02:41:31.159 Sure, yes, that's where it's going. 2929 02:41:31.479 --> 02:41:33.719 One of my neighbors is real sick in their yards, 2930 02:41:33.799 --> 02:41:38.239 gone to you know where, and they got a behea infestation. 2931 02:41:38.840 --> 02:41:41.239 And I know how to grow Saint Augustine. I'm really 2932 02:41:41.280 --> 02:41:44.680 good at it, but I've researched it. I can't find 2933 02:41:44.719 --> 02:41:47.360 a way to help her with that problem with behea. 2934 02:41:48.559 --> 02:41:54.319 Mm hmm. Okay, I mean it's a lot there's behea 2935 02:41:54.440 --> 02:41:55.879 in the Saint Augustine, right. 2936 02:41:56.639 --> 02:41:59.920 Yes, yes, sir, but a lot of Okay, I know 2937 02:42:00.079 --> 02:42:00.319 lot of. 2938 02:42:03.319 --> 02:42:06.600 Okay, here's what you do, okay, sir. Yeah, here's what 2939 02:42:06.760 --> 02:42:11.319 you do if you've if you're going to control beeo 2940 02:42:11.399 --> 02:42:17.440 grass in Saint Augustine, Uh, we are gonna what is 2941 02:42:17.520 --> 02:42:19.559 the name of that, oh, met sulfur on. 2942 02:42:20.280 --> 02:42:20.399 Uh. 2943 02:42:20.680 --> 02:42:25.399 The ingredient is met sulfur On M E T s 2944 02:42:25.559 --> 02:42:29.120 U L F U R O N. The brand is 2945 02:42:29.239 --> 02:42:32.840 either going to be called M S M turf or 2946 02:42:33.000 --> 02:42:37.000 manor M A N O R. Now, big, big, big, big, 2947 02:42:37.200 --> 02:42:41.120 big warning. That will damage trees and shrubs. Do not 2948 02:42:41.440 --> 02:42:45.120 overdrench them. Don't put it on before a rain. You 2949 02:42:45.280 --> 02:42:48.440 do not want it in the root system in the soil. 2950 02:42:48.719 --> 02:42:53.000 You just want to barely wet the beheograss and Saint 2951 02:42:53.040 --> 02:42:55.399 Augustine is not bothered by the M S M turf 2952 02:42:55.520 --> 02:42:58.319 hardly at all, but the beheograss is killed by it. 2953 02:42:58.600 --> 02:43:01.799 But be very careful with the application. That's one reason 2954 02:43:02.040 --> 02:43:03.440 I recommend that product. 2955 02:43:04.719 --> 02:43:09.719 Okay, go ahead, are they find no? 2956 02:43:10.319 --> 02:43:13.440 Uh, you you were in West Houston, I would go 2957 02:43:13.600 --> 02:43:18.000 to Southwest Fertilizer corner Abyssinett and Runwick. You may find 2958 02:43:18.120 --> 02:43:20.319 those at an Ace hardware store. It would. You just 2959 02:43:20.399 --> 02:43:22.920 have to check the stores near you to see if 2960 02:43:22.920 --> 02:43:25.760 they carry them. But I know has them done at Uh? 2961 02:43:28.760 --> 02:43:30.360 Yes, I appreciate the information. 2962 02:43:30.479 --> 02:43:33.319 It's it's it's green, but they put up those ugly 2963 02:43:33.680 --> 02:43:35.959 peace signed things and it's just so ugly. 2964 02:43:36.120 --> 02:43:39.079 Oh, I know the day the day after it's it's 2965 02:43:39.120 --> 02:43:42.200 a great turf for out there in areas where you 2966 02:43:42.200 --> 02:43:43.879 don't want to water and take care of it. But 2967 02:43:44.000 --> 02:43:45.840 the day after, you know, you already got seat heads, 2968 02:43:45.920 --> 02:43:46.360 knee hike. 2969 02:43:47.399 --> 02:43:50.559 Yes, I'm gonna the rest of her long and I 2970 02:43:50.680 --> 02:43:53.639 really feel like I can help because I know I've 2971 02:43:53.680 --> 02:43:55.760 been listening the guard line a long time, so I. 2972 02:43:55.840 --> 02:43:56.520 Know how to do it. 2973 02:43:57.319 --> 02:44:01.639 So if you find those all righty Gary, Thanks thank 2974 02:44:01.639 --> 02:44:04.159 you for the call, sir. I gotta run. I appreciate 2975 02:44:04.239 --> 02:44:07.159 that very much. Wow, we had a busy day today. 2976 02:44:09.159 --> 02:44:12.879 I'm glad. I like busy. I hope you enjoyed listening, 2977 02:44:13.079 --> 02:44:15.879 had a little bit of fun in the process. All right, 2978 02:44:15.959 --> 02:44:19.079 tomorrow morning, sect your clock six am. Let's do this again. 2979 02:44:19.399 --> 02:44:22.280 Let's talk gardening here on garden Line. In the meantime, 2980 02:44:22.639 --> 02:44:27.559 gardening with skip dot com. The website lots of new stuff. 2981 02:44:27.559 --> 02:44:29.479 I meant to talk about some of the new stuff today. 2982 02:44:29.559 --> 02:44:30.719 Maybe I'll get to that tomorrow.