WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:02.640 R H Garden Line with Scape Ricord. 2 00:00:11.359 --> 00:00:18.559 Just watching as many. 3 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:29.559 Well, good morning, good morning, thanks for listening in. This 4 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:33.159 is garden Line and I'm here to help help help 5 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:37.039 in any way. I can't help you to have a 6 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:41.679 productive garden, a beautiful landscape. Our goal is to make 7 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:45.719 gardening fun and to help direct you to the best 8 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:50.479 ways to manage pests, insects, weeds, and diseases. Uh, if 9 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:53.320 you've listened to me before, you know that first the 10 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:57.039 first step in controlling any kinds of problems, in managing 11 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:02.960 problems is cultural practices. What does that mean. Well, that 12 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:08.079 means don't don't cause problems. Prepare the soil first, Pick 13 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:10.319 plants that want to grow here, pick plants that are 14 00:01:10.319 --> 00:01:17.120 disease resistant, water properly, fertilize adequately. You know, we help 15 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:20.599 increase problems when we don't do those things. And just 16 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:24.400 simple how tos on taking care of your garden can 17 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:26.879 help you to avoid You know, gardening is not about 18 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:30.680 getting out ever Saturday and spraying and watering and you know, 19 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:35.239 doing all the activities that we might be doing to 20 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:41.400 try to manage problems. Instead, it's properly caring for plants. 21 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:44.159 That is the simplest thing. Now, does that mean we 22 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:47.000 never have to spray? Of course not. There are situations 23 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:50.200 where you either take the losses or you get out 24 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:54.920 there and you defend your property against pest weeds and diseases. 25 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:58.079 But that's the exception. And when we do make a 26 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:01.040 choice to have to control something, it means we jump 27 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.159 out there and we use a product that's going to 28 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:05.280 be effective. We're going to use it at the right time, 29 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:10.039 and that's important. Timing is critical, and finally that we 30 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:14.800 are going to make sure that we follow the label very, 31 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:18.560 very very carefully, because that is important the labels a law. 32 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:24.000 This week I received some questions and in fact, you know, 33 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:26.879 I've been doing this for over thirty five years and 34 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:30.680 entering gardening questions as a county agro Life Extension horticulture 35 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:33.039 agent here in Texas and a number of the counties 36 00:02:33.080 --> 00:02:37.479 around this area and also a little further west, and 37 00:02:37.520 --> 00:02:39.879 in that process I've kind of heard and seen it all. 38 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:44.800 But inevitably I'm going to get questions from folks that 39 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:49.039 use the wrong product and overdo it or overdo it, 40 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:52.439 and I got some of that this week. You know, 41 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:56.000 it was I used this and it's just what happened. Well, 42 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:58.360 I can tell you why it happened because you miss 43 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:03.039 you misused the product. That is operator error. And I know, 44 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:06.280 and guys, I don't know. We may be worse about 45 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:10.080 this than women are. But when it comes to reading 46 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:14.599 the label paying attention. You know that that mindset sometimes 47 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:18.439 that we have that if a teaspoons good, a tablespoons better. Well, 48 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:20.000 I guess that would be true if we were talking 49 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.680 about chocolate pudding, but not when it comes to pesticides 50 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.960 that we're using. And when we do that, we cause problems. 51 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:29.680 I saw some pictures this week of a plant that 52 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:34.120 had been overdosed and they was showing problems. And this 53 00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.719 was a product that would not hurt the plant if 54 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:40.719 used properly, it wouldn't, but when used improperly, it will. 55 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:43.800 And you take something that can be good for a plant, 56 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:47.800 like a fertilizer, take for example, a synthetic salt based fertilizer. 57 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:53.000 Those are can be designed to even release nutrients slowly 58 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:57.319 over time and to just really stimulate plant growth and 59 00:03:57.360 --> 00:04:00.680 provide nutrients for the soil bank account. And yet if 60 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:03.000 you double or triple them and then pull the water 61 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:05.120 on it and wash that in that's a salt. Maakes fertlight, 62 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:08.840 it can hurt, it can burn roots, roots, systems. But 63 00:04:08.919 --> 00:04:13.080 is that the fertilizer's fault. That's the operator's fault, and 64 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:18.360 unfortunately we are often the one at fault, not the 65 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:21.000 thing we want to point our fingers out. When it 66 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:25.439 comes to watering, little squirt every day does almost nothing. 67 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:31.920 Over Watering can drive roots into an anaerobic position, a 68 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:36.680 condition by oversaturating the soil. Oxygen can't get down the roots. 69 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:39.000 And we see a lot of problems with overwatering it. 70 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:42.920 Certainly everybody knows underwatering is the problem. But watering the 71 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.720 right way, Nike, the Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Not 72 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:50.240 too much, not too little, just right. It's not that 73 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:53.120 hard to do. It's very simple to do, and yet 74 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.800 it makes so much difference. All right, Well, you're listening 75 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:57.839 to Gardenline. How about I give you a phone number 76 00:04:57.879 --> 00:05:00.720 because this is a call in show on one three 77 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:04.120 two one two kt r H seven one three two 78 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:06.519 one two k t r H. Feel free to give 79 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:10.000 us a call talking about nutrients and fertilizers in the soil. 80 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.800 As Amite is a nutrient product. Now it's not the 81 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:16.959 kind of nutrient, like your standard fertilizer has a lot 82 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:20.240 of nitrogen in it makes grass grow fast. No, it's 83 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.839 a it's a micronutrient or a trace mineral. And what 84 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:25.160 that means is of all the minerals out there that 85 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:30.120 are essential, essential means a plant cannot live without them. 86 00:05:30.399 --> 00:05:32.279 There are some that are needed in large amounts and 87 00:05:32.319 --> 00:05:35.800 some just in tiny amounts, but they are still essential. 88 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:41.639 As Amite is one of those micronutrient trace mineral products 89 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:45.240 that provides that, and as it is widely available here 90 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:47.800 in the Houston area, you can put it on I 91 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:49.720 think on my on my schedule. I've got you know, 92 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:51.839 once a year you're going to put your trace mineral, 93 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:56.399 your micronutrient element out, and so just grab a bag 94 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:58.399 of azmite anytime of the year you want. You can 95 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:00.160 do it now, you can do it next spring, whenever 96 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:01.920 you want. Doesn't hurt to have it around, it's not 97 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:06.000 going to go bad. And then whenever you wish could 98 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:08.079 be at the same time you fertilize, not in the 99 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:12.560 same application, hopper. You fertilize first, then come back fill 100 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.879 it with as mte and do the asmite. Because the 101 00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:19.519 particle size is different but whenever you want to do it, 102 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:22.160 you can do it. And that there is the reason 103 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:24.279 we do it is get those micro nutrients done in there. 104 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:27.199 You can go to Azmite Texas dot com and find 105 00:06:27.199 --> 00:06:28.759 out more about it. I can just tell you this, 106 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:31.639 it's widely available. You hear me talk about sponsors and 107 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:35.160 everything from bead stores to garden centers, ace hardware stores, 108 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:37.839 Southlos Fertilizer, all those kinds of places are going to 109 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:45.800 carry the asmite. Widely, widely available. I was looking at 110 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:51.920 some pictures from cienam Maltz this week and just the 111 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:54.879 products they have in the products are getting in. 112 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:55.319 You know. 113 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:59.279 Cienamultch is your go to place if you're down south 114 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:01.199 of Houston, and you can drive there from anywhere if 115 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:04.800 you want, certainly, but they deliver within about twenty miles 116 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.680 of the Roch Sharin area. That's where they're located. They're 117 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:12.040 on FM five twenty one, just south Houston. The website 118 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:14.720 you might want to write this down Cinamaltz dot com. 119 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:18.279 By the way, they're open today until two o'clock and 120 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:22.040 Monday through Friday from seven thirty to five close on Sunday, 121 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.079 and when you go into Cianamalts. You get everything you 122 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:27.480 need to build the soil. And my mantra is brown 123 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:30.480 stuff before green stuff, which means take care of the 124 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:34.600 soil first, get it right, and then put your wonderful 125 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:37.800 plant the green stuff into the ground and it'll thrive. 126 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:40.680 Ciana Malts is the brown stuff place. It is the 127 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:43.079 place where you get compost. It is a place where 128 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:46.240 you get bed mixes or mixes like heirloom soils, veggie 129 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.639 and Nerbix is there. It's a place where you get fertilizers. 130 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:55.279 You hear me talk about nitrofoss fertilizers, Nelson, Medina, Microlife, 131 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:58.639 the Azamite I just talked about. It's a turf star 132 00:07:58.680 --> 00:08:00.759 from Nelson. It's a place where where you get airlombs, 133 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.120 soil products, landscaper's pride products. 134 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:03.560 Uh. 135 00:08:03.639 --> 00:08:06.920 It's just an easy, easy, one stop shop to get 136 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:09.720 the brown stuff right, to get your soil right. Fallst 137 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:12.240 planting season now is the time to go to Sienamls. 138 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:15.160 Get everything you need and get that soul ready so 139 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.399 when you put the plants in you have success. I'm 140 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:19.759 gonna take a quick break here. I'll be right back. 141 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:22.560 Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty 142 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:31.639 eight seventy four, Sky Mike. I'm Skymike Avis. Today we 143 00:08:31.839 --> 00:08:34.120 are gonna talk about a lot. I got a lot 144 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:36.120 of things to talk about. I know you guys, We've 145 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:39.840 got some folks colin already to talk and so we're 146 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.039 we're going to cover a lot of things today. And listen, 147 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.440 we are on the doorstep of the best gardening season 148 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.519 of the year. We are u fall is the best 149 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:50.679 gardening season. I'll make a case for that and a 150 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:52.919 little bit, but right now I'm just gonna tell you 151 00:08:52.919 --> 00:08:56.840 it is. If you have not done lawn fertilizing this summer, 152 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:59.559 you can still do it. The night Fuss super Turf 153 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:04.000 lives just an example of a good quality silver release fertilizer. 154 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:06.720 It gives you a gradual release over time. It's a 155 00:09:06.879 --> 00:09:12.320 nineteen four to ten ratio of nutur nutrient levels nineteen 156 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:15.919 four ten. That Nitropos product is easy to pick out 157 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:17.960 because it's in a silver bag. You know, you walk 158 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.679 in the store, look over at the fertilizers, the silver bag. 159 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.279 That's one I'm talking about. Nitrofis super Turf. You can 160 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:27.120 buy nitropas products all over there. They are how we 161 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:29.879 would we say it. They are ubiquitous. You go onto 162 00:09:29.919 --> 00:09:32.440 Baytown at Fisher's Hardware and you're going to find them 163 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:34.720 down there. D and D feed up in Tomball you 164 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:38.120 can find it there as well, and also at a 165 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:41.759 Tascassita Ace Hardware. Let's go out to the phones now 166 00:09:41.759 --> 00:09:45.840 we're going to talk to Travis this morning. Travis, welcome 167 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:47.200 to garden Line. 168 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:48.320 You're morning, sir. 169 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:50.759 How can we help. 170 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:57.879 Fighting millie bugs really bad? We tried the homemade home 171 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:02.000 homemade remedy sprays, try so if we bought from Ace. 172 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:06.440 Tried several different ones repotnam but we can't seem to 173 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:07.519 get rid of them. 174 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:12.399 Yeah, mealiebugs, Travis, are a tough pest to get rid 175 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:14.840 of because they can hide done in the nooks and crannies, 176 00:10:15.600 --> 00:10:18.279 and they have a covering on them that makes it 177 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:21.159 hard to get a pesticide to them. There are things 178 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:23.000 that will kill them. You know. People with a little 179 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:25.320 houseplant with a few melli bugs, well use a Q 180 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:28.279 tip with alcohol on it and just just dab them 181 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.399 with it. You know, that's tedious, not going to work 182 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.399 on outside plants, but that's one option. Some people. We 183 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:38.120 use oil or soap type spray, especially horticultural oil to 184 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:41.080 try to get to them, but it's always like you 185 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.240 get most of them maybe, but not all of them, 186 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.799 and then they come right back. Some people use systemics 187 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:51.639 that'll be a product ingredient, like a meadow cloprid. You 188 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:54.120 put it in the soil, the plant takes it up 189 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.879 and anything sucking juice is out of the plant, which 190 00:10:56.919 --> 00:10:59.519 is what mealy bugs and scaled and white flies and 191 00:10:59.559 --> 00:11:03.039 a fids to do. They'll pick that poison up and 192 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.879 that is probably the most effective way because any meai 193 00:11:07.919 --> 00:11:09.679 bug that's going to eat is going to get the 194 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:12.279 poison because you've put it into the root system of 195 00:11:12.279 --> 00:11:15.799 the plant. The problem with the systemics is if you 196 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:19.039 if it's a plant that gets honey bees, then there 197 00:11:19.120 --> 00:11:21.840 can be problems with bees and other pollinators that are 198 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:25.039 drinking nectar from the flowers if you've done that to 199 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:27.799 the plant. So that's kind of the drawback on it. 200 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:33.159 All right, Well, appreciate your hilt, sir, Yeah, and you 201 00:11:33.200 --> 00:11:35.559 know there's no shame. And when a plant is really 202 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:38.919 bad is just getting rid of it and cleaning up 203 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:41.720 the area and putting in another plant. I know that happened. 204 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:44.360 There's house plants that people have fought mella bugs with 205 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:46.799 for years, and it's like throw that thing away, get 206 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:49.600 you into the house plant. Sometimes that's the best option 207 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:54.080 to all right, all right, well thank you sir, Yes, sir, 208 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:56.440 thank you appreciate your call. We're going to go now 209 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.519 to Richmond and talk to Jerial. Is that correct? 210 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:04.519 Yes? Hello, skip, good morning, Hello, good morning. 211 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:04.960 Hello. 212 00:12:05.279 --> 00:12:07.960 Yeah, thanks for taking my call. And and actually thank 213 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:09.200 you so much for the shows. 214 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:10.120 I really enjoy it. 215 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:11.279 Thank you. 216 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:16.399 Yeah. So, yeah, I sent you some pictures over email. 217 00:12:16.600 --> 00:12:19.440 So my my son Augustine was looking great and I 218 00:12:19.519 --> 00:12:22.639 was so happy I was following your schedule and thanks 219 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:26.919 for that. But then in July I started noticing that 220 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:31.960 Bermuda was taken over some spots and I probably I 221 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.159 wasn't watering enough. I still, I tried to stick to 222 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:38.320 one eche per week, you know, but it. 223 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:42.600 Was pretty dry, as you remember. So now I. 224 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:46.639 Also found some change box and I applied the product 225 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:50.799 that you recommended. But I just wanted to to to 226 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:53.759 to to hear from you and see if if you 227 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:57.679 think I should resort or you know it will recover. 228 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.080 And and also another question, if I'm gonna ask you 229 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:05.200 like because I did apply this product for change box. 230 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.919 But you know, I was also thinking of applying like 231 00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:13.320 some products against the diseases as you recommend it. So 232 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:15.399 can I do it at once or should I wait 233 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:20.440 like a couple of weeks between the applications of different products. 234 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:21.080 Yeah? 235 00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.879 Thanks, you can do As a general answer, you can 236 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.080 use different products at the same day, but I wouldn't 237 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:30.720 mix them in the same spray tank or or fertilizer 238 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.799 hop or you know, ex exercise whatever granule hopper that 239 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:37.399 you're putting out, however you're putting it out, don't mix them. Now, 240 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:39.919 that could be chinch bugs what I see, and if 241 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:43.519 you saw them, then the course they're there. But I 242 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:46.759 see mostly what looks to me like take all root rot. 243 00:13:46.879 --> 00:13:50.240 Take all root rot kills roots. And when you start 244 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:53.279 killing the roots, especially the tips, roots can only take 245 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:55.679 up iron from the tip of the root. So when 246 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:58.639 you start killing roots, you start seeing iron deficiency, and 247 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:02.080 that's the yellowing that's ever where, And that's just a 248 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:05.440 sign to me that that there is a lack of 249 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:09.759 iron getting into those plants. And almost always uh in 250 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:12.080 a Saint Augustine loan, that is, take all root rot. 251 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:15.519 Drought can cause it damage from herbicides that are misused 252 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:16.200 can cause it. 253 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:17.000 Uh. 254 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:20.240 And you know, so there's other issues, but I'm gonna 255 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:24.000 think that's probably what you're looking at. You could send 256 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:26.600 a sample up to the State Plant Clinic to look at. 257 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.440 I think on this one, I'm gonna I On this one, 258 00:14:30.480 --> 00:14:32.120 I'm just gonna say I think I'm right, and I 259 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:33.799 would go ahead and treat it as if it's take 260 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:36.720 all root rot. If you go online to my website 261 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:42.120 Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Gardening Skip, there 262 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:44.679 is a pest disease and we'd management schedule and if 263 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.679 you look at the disease row on that schedule, you'll 264 00:14:47.679 --> 00:14:49.879 see take all root rot and fall is a big 265 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:52.440 time to do control. And it tells you what you 266 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:55.159 can use out there, uh, And it tells you when 267 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:57.639 and basically it's going to be October repeated again in 268 00:14:57.759 --> 00:15:02.759 November twice. Right, and so you know, rather than send 269 00:15:02.879 --> 00:15:07.039 product names, you know, long chemical name type stuff, just 270 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:10.840 go on there and look. It also helps to spray 271 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:15.759 that foliage of the grass with a micronutrient solution. And 272 00:15:15.840 --> 00:15:19.120 there's a couple of different ones that are out there. 273 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:24.039 Oh gosh, now I'm trying to think of the actual 274 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:26.360 name of I know Fertilom has one that's a micro 275 00:15:26.519 --> 00:15:29.679 nutrient type product, and there's another one, but look at 276 00:15:29.679 --> 00:15:33.080 the label and it needs to contain manganese and iron. 277 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:35.840 Nick can also have zinc and other things in it, 278 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:38.320 but manganese and iron are probably the two most important 279 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:40.720 ones for takeof. Look it up to your hosand sprayer 280 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:44.120 and just just water the lawn with it. You don't 281 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:45.600 have to soak it, you don't have to put a 282 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:47.840 ton of it out, but just you know, give it 283 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.720 a pretty good wedding and I think you'll see a 284 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:53.759 response in the color. That doesn't mean you've cured the disease. 285 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:56.240 That means you've helped the patient. It's like you've got 286 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:58.240 you're in the hospital, you can't eat, and they put 287 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:01.000 an ivy in your arm, right, and that's kind of 288 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:05.639 what you're doing with that micronutrient while you then also 289 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:07.879 begin to work on controlling the disease. 290 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:13.200 All right, Okay, yeah, no, thanks, sounds good. 291 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:17.120 All right, that's what i'd recommend you if I can. 292 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:19.279 If I can today, I'm going to send you a 293 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:22.639 publication in response to your email that goes into more 294 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:25.000 detail on it. I just have to at the end 295 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.080 of the at the end of the show. Actually, remember 296 00:16:27.159 --> 00:16:30.639 we talked this morning, so I'll do my best. Yeah, 297 00:16:30.759 --> 00:16:33.559 you don't hear from me rattle the cage again, all right? 298 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:38.000 Yeah, okay, thank you, thank you, Skip bye bye. 299 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:41.159 You take care. Yeah, that's that's an issue. And by 300 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:43.480 the way, when you're looking for products like I'm talking about, 301 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:47.759 you know, fertilizers and other things, Ace Hardware is the 302 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:49.679 place to go. And I don't care where you live 303 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:52.200 whatever part of the Houston area. There are forty Ace 304 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.320 Hardware stores. You're going to find one. But when I'm 305 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.360 talking about that fur lome ingredient that has micro nutrients 306 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:59.399 in it, and there's other brands. It's not just for 307 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:03.600 long but you're looking for iron and manganese liquids that 308 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:05.880 you can spray on the they're going to have that 309 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:08.440 stuff at ACE Hardware, as well as all the fertilizers. 310 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.319 In fall, we're about to enter our fall fertilization season. 311 00:17:11.599 --> 00:17:15.720 Go to ACE Hardware find a fertilizer for fall. Download 312 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:19.480 my schedule off of gardening with Skip dot com website. 313 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:21.720 Look at the fertilizers. You get to pick which one 314 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:24.759 you want to use, organic or synthetic, whichever, and look 315 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:26.640 at the time of the year and they'll tell you 316 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:29.160 which ones of each of those types are going to 317 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:31.880 be the best for applying in the fall season. And 318 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:33.720 ACE Hardware is going to be the place where you're 319 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.799 going to find them. Acehardware dot COM's the website makes 320 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:38.680 it easy to find the one near you at their 321 00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:39.480 store locator. 322 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:40.640 See. 323 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.160 I'm going to head out now to Cyprus, Texas and 324 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.680 talk to Joyce. Hello, Joyce, Welcome to Garmline. 325 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:51.960 Good morning. I planted some sunshine lagostrums probably about the 326 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:54.759 last part of June, and they were nice and yellow 327 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:56.880 when they went in, and they have there now they're 328 00:17:56.920 --> 00:17:59.880 just green. Is there something I should be doing? 329 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:03.799 You planeted them in this summer. 330 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.240 Yes, this summer, and they're growing. They look healthy and everything, 331 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:10.759 but they're not yellow anymore. They're mostly green. 332 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:16.599 Well, I think I think that they will turn more yellow. 333 00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:21.759 I you know, sometimes plants revert, but that has not 334 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:25.440 happened in this amount of time to those in that 335 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:29.319 particular species isn't prone to reverting anyway, So I think 336 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:31.720 I think just give them a little time, and they 337 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:36.279 ought to to turn out I probably some new growth. 338 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:39.519 I've never heard of that, like a sunshine turning grain. 339 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:44.240 Why don't you. I'm gonna put you on on hold 340 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.079 and Joyce, would you send me some pictures of them 341 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:52.799 kind of close the whole shrub and pardon. 342 00:18:52.680 --> 00:18:55.400 I'm sorry, I can't do that. I'm in a wheelchair 343 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:56.839 and I can't get out there and do it. 344 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.240 Okay, Well, let me let me look in to it 345 00:19:00.279 --> 00:19:02.559 a little more if I can come up with something 346 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:05.839 on it. My gut feeling is if they were yellow 347 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:08.319 and you got them, and they truly are a sunshine lagustrum, 348 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:11.680 then I would just give them some time. That's my 349 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:13.799 gut feeling. I'll look into it a little more. Maybe 350 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:16.279 there's something else I'm not considering right now. 351 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.559 But it like they say, they look healthy, they're growing, 352 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:22.640 and they're in plenty of sun. They get all day sun. 353 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:26.319 Yeah. Well, like I said, I think I think they're 354 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:28.640 gonna be okay, but I'll look into it a little 355 00:19:28.640 --> 00:19:30.279 bit more, but just give them some time. 356 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.920 Okay, Okay, thank you very much? 357 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:35.880 All right, you bet, thank you. I appreciate your call 358 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:41.960 very much. If you live up in the North and 359 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:45.960 West area of the Greater Houston area. You've probably been 360 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:49.400 by Plants for All Seasons already. Plants for All Seasons 361 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:52.799 is one of those garden centers that just has everything 362 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:56.200 you need right now. They're stocked up in all kinds 363 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:59.440 of things that are outstanding fall colors, you know, things 364 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:01.359 like cro I don't know if you've ever seen Croton, 365 00:20:01.440 --> 00:20:04.240 but it's got everything from kind of a I don't know, 366 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:07.960 orangey coral colors to yellows to green and it just 367 00:20:08.039 --> 00:20:11.200 looks like the fall, you know. And there's there's many 368 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:14.119 other plants that they carry their including flowers and other things. 369 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:16.279 But you're going to find everything you needed. Plants for 370 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:19.279 All Seasons. They're just north of Luetta on two forty nine, 371 00:20:19.480 --> 00:20:22.079 just north of Fluetta. And if you want to get 372 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:27.480 the calls two eight one three seven six sixteen forty 373 00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:30.559 six two eight one three seven six one six four 374 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:32.200 six we're going to go to a break here. The 375 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:34.519 number if you like to call seven one three two 376 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:36.960 one two ktr eight. How can we help? What do 377 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:39.759 you need? Do we talk about lawns and trees and 378 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:42.880 shrubs or whatever you are interested in? You know, we 379 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:45.319 love feed stores here on guard Line and Spring Creek 380 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:49.599 Feed up in the Magnolia area. They're actually on FM 381 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:51.880 twenty nine to seventy eight, just minutes away from Grham 382 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:56.039 Parkway Highway two forty nine. They carry the fertilizers you 383 00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:58.279 hear me talk about on garden Line. They carry products 384 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:01.480 to control weeds, to control the zases, to manage pests. 385 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:04.480 When you walk into Spring Creek, you're going to be greeted. 386 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:06.000 I always like to walk in there. You know, you 387 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:09.839 feel like you've come home or something. The courteous staff 388 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:14.359 greeting you and very willing and eager to really help. 389 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:17.279 If you need pet food, they've got high quality food. 390 00:21:17.319 --> 00:21:20.279 Of course, it's feedstore, livestock food and products. Yeah, plenty 391 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:23.279 of that as well wildlife feed. If you're four h 392 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:27.480 or ffa military or senior citizen, there's discounts for you. 393 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:31.519 They'll even special order and deliver at Spring Creek Feed 394 00:21:31.720 --> 00:21:36.519 again in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight Spring 395 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:39.839 Creek Feed Center. Let's go now out to the galleria. 396 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:43.079 We're going to talk to Forest. Hey, Forest, welcome to Guardline. 397 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:47.839 Thank you, Skip, good morning. I've read your bulletin on 398 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:51.400 treating nuts edge and I went down to Southwest Fertilizer 399 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:53.759 and picked up the products that I need. Is this 400 00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:55.920 an okay time to do it? This weekend? 401 00:21:56.920 --> 00:21:58.880 Anytime is a good time to do it. And if 402 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:01.480 you read the in depth when you know it talked 403 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:03.640 about never let it up for air kind of concept 404 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.680 that if you do it this weekend and three weeks 405 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:09.880 from now, you're gonna probably see some more nuts edge 406 00:22:09.880 --> 00:22:12.079 pop up. It could be from some other tubers that 407 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:16.960 were asleep underground and just now came up. Do it again, 408 00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:19.480 and do it again. Whenever there's nuts edge it's coming 409 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:21.599 up with three to five leaves, do it again. So 410 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:24.119 it doesn't matter what month. Of course, not gonna be 411 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:27.480 gone in the winter, but yeah, yeah, just be relentless. 412 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:29.200 That is the key to success. 413 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:30.359 Okay. 414 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:36.079 Second question is I have planted a number of Louisiana 415 00:22:36.160 --> 00:22:39.880 iris bulbs that I picked up at the River Rokes 416 00:22:41.440 --> 00:22:45.200 Bulb Market and I've planted them in in a bed 417 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:48.319 that you know, they talk about this being a bog 418 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:52.559 type plant, So it's a it's a wet bed. It's 419 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:55.200 a it's a relatively wet bed. But I can't seem 420 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:58.759 to produce any blooms. And I'm wondering if I'm not 421 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.519 fertilizing correctly or what I should do. 422 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:04.839 No, just give them some time, don't overdo the fertilizer, 423 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:08.119 just a moderate amount. Give them. I think next spring 424 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:11.359 you'll probably are summer, you'll you'll start to see some blooms. 425 00:23:11.559 --> 00:23:13.680 Sometimes they're they're a little bit slow to get going. 426 00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:17.559 But that's a great plant. It's an awesome plant. And I'll, 427 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:19.640 you know, as they say, when life gives you lemons, 428 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:22.200 make lemonade. When you got an area that's too soggy 429 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:26.319 for most plants, pick up things like Louisiana iris like 430 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:28.079 you did, because that's a great way to turn it 431 00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:29.839 into a beautiful, beautiful area. 432 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:33.079 Okay, well I'll put down some patients then. 433 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:37.680 All right, Forrest, thanks for the call. I appreciate that. 434 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:42.960 Take care. Let's see, we're gonna go out cypress now 435 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:47.200 and talk to Blake. Hello Blake, Good morning Skip. 436 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:49.519 I've got a four hour road trip, so I'll listen 437 00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:52.000 to you as far as the radio takes me, and 438 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:53.400 then out on the app the. 439 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:54.000 Rest of the way. 440 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:57.279 So there you go. There you go, Hey, on. 441 00:23:57.279 --> 00:24:01.200 The previous color with the sunshine lugustrum, I've got those 442 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:04.279 and they do turn they have turned kind of lemon 443 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:09.039 lime color. I don't know if it's more too much 444 00:24:09.079 --> 00:24:13.279 water or just rain or drought, but might have turned 445 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:13.680 like that. 446 00:24:13.640 --> 00:24:15.680 And then they go right back to being yellow. So 447 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:17.079 I don't know what causes it. 448 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:20.319 Yeah, yeah, I don't either. It may be part of 449 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:22.720 the growth cycle on those. I've never had one in 450 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:24.720 my yard. I've seen them at garden centers and other 451 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:30.319 people's yards. But thanks for mentioning that though, because I 452 00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:32.880 just wouldn't feeling like that would be a normal thing. 453 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:35.200 You know, some of our shrubs that are supposed to 454 00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:39.079 be yellow revert and they put new shoots out that 455 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:42.319 are green, and they're going to be stay green. But 456 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:46.319 I don't think sunshines that way. Okay, Well do you 457 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:46.839 like your. 458 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:48.319 Oh? 459 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:48.920 I love them. 460 00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:53.119 And it's funny when I first moved into a house 461 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:55.039 where they plan on them, and it was before they'd 462 00:24:55.079 --> 00:25:01.160 gotten popular, and I thought they were boxwoods and they 463 00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:03.680 were going through one of those growth cycles, and I 464 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:07.279 called Randy with pictures, saying, how are these boxwoods turning 465 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:11.160 miss yellow? Because they were morphing from a green to 466 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:14.400 a yellow in that cycle. I think the previous owner 467 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:16.880 had had sheared them and they were green and then 468 00:25:16.920 --> 00:25:20.960 they started to turn. But Brandy had a good laugh 469 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:27.359 because he I thought they were boxwoods. Anyway, I love them. 470 00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:32.039 They've been piss free. They they've handled the two wicked winters. 471 00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:35.799 Uh you know, I just have to flit them. So yeah, 472 00:25:35.839 --> 00:25:41.640 I love them. The called is planted some baby citrus 473 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:44.559 trees after the freezes. They're growing. I have to pick 474 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:48.839 the fruit off, but something gets after the outer skin 475 00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:51.319 of them. And I sent some pictures in this morning. 476 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.079 Yeah I saw those. Yeah, so there there are different 477 00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:55.920 things that can happen. 478 00:25:57.359 --> 00:26:00.640 Go ahead, no, sorry, it just in the idea. 479 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:01.480 So you've seen them. 480 00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:03.839 Yeah, yeah, I looked at the pictures. There are different 481 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:06.079 things that can happen on the surface of citrus. There's 482 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:09.640 kind of a scruff type disease that just affects the skin, 483 00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:12.200 but it can cause it to get, you know, kind 484 00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:14.839 of dried and cracky and so it splits and stuff. 485 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:18.279 If the citrus is growing. I think yours are mostly 486 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:21.279 caused by bird packs. Little birds will sit and pecket 487 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:24.279 that citrus skin typically is going to happen up on 488 00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:27.440 the top side of the fruit and they just a 489 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:31.160 little tiny packs on it that can cause something very 490 00:26:31.200 --> 00:26:34.759 similar to what you're showing. If it's not just that, 491 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:38.559 then it's also going to be some sort of a 492 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:42.480 scruffy type disease that really there's just not a need 493 00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:47.200 or a good product to use to manage it. In general, 494 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:50.960 as your citrus grows, citrus typically shades a lot of 495 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:54.400 it's fruit just because it's got those big evergreen leaves. 496 00:26:55.319 --> 00:26:56.160 And so. 497 00:26:58.000 --> 00:27:01.039 If this is happening more out in sunny areas than that, 498 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:04.640 the sun could be related to it. But again, like 499 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:07.160 I'm I'm looking at the picture, it looks to me 500 00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:09.640 like a lot of little bird pecking going on up 501 00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:11.559 there on it. There are some other things that can 502 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:12.039 affect it. 503 00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:16.599 Okay, great, well thanks, I haven't seen them on the fruit, 504 00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:19.079 but I've seen birds around the kind on the corner 505 00:27:19.119 --> 00:27:22.319 on the side. So next year when the crop comes in, 506 00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:24.799 I'll put some nuts on them. 507 00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:32.519 And yeah, well remember too that this is only skin deep, 508 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:35.279 and so if you turn the lights off in each 509 00:27:35.319 --> 00:27:37.680 your citrus in the dark, you'll never know the difference. 510 00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:40.000 It tastes just fine, it's true. 511 00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.920 Yeah, I notice that it's never seen to get to 512 00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:45.799 the core. But thank you for confirming, and then well, 513 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:48.519 I'll just deal with it. I'll let the dogs out 514 00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:50.000 more run them away. 515 00:27:50.519 --> 00:27:52.039 I guess that may be a good thing. You may 516 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:54.400 have to pay the dogs to do their job, but 517 00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:57.160 that'd be a good idea. Take care of Blake, all right, 518 00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:02.759 all right, bye, byereciate that the folks that Nelson Plant 519 00:28:02.759 --> 00:28:06.759 Food have put together some really outstanding fertilizers. You know 520 00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:09.079 that already, But bruce Is Brew. You can put that 521 00:28:09.160 --> 00:28:11.599 on any time. I don't talk about it enough because 522 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:14.599 it really any month of the year, just about especially 523 00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:16.640 really when we talk about from spring all the way 524 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:20.160 until fall. Bruces Brew is a great fertilizer to put down. 525 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:23.960 It really. Not only is it released some fast, but 526 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:27.119 it also releases slowly over time. Second product I want 527 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:30.480 to mention from Nelson is Genesis, and I should. I'm 528 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.519 going to start talking about this one more. I love Genesis. 529 00:28:33.559 --> 00:28:37.079 It is a product made to go in as you transplant. 530 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:39.440 So if you're going to move a plant from one 531 00:28:39.480 --> 00:28:41.640 pot to another in that soil that you're going to 532 00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:44.039 plant it into, mix in Genesis. If you're going to 533 00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:45.680 put a shrub in the ground, like we're going to 534 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:47.200 plant a rose, bush, which would be a good thing 535 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:50.920 to plant this fall. Take the soil around it, mix 536 00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:53.759 in some genesis, and then plant the plant. Plant it 537 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:56.680 down in the hole, fill it in and it is 538 00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:58.920 a good head start. It's got a lot of microbial 539 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:02.559 content in it and it just provides the nutrients that 540 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:04.759 you need. You're going to continue then to top off 541 00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:08.000 your plants. You know, whether you're using nutri Star, Color Star, whatever, 542 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:11.519 Nature Star, all those products as fertilizer on top. But 543 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:14.720 in that transplanting process, always have a jar of the 544 00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:18.279 Genesis and from Nelson plant Food and it works works 545 00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:20.279 very well. And I say that because I've used it, 546 00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:23.839 I've seen the results that it does. Very very impressed 547 00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:24.200 with that. 548 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:25.759 Well. 549 00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:28.279 Looks like we are hitting here on another break Man 550 00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:30.440 Times Flying this morning. If you like to give us 551 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:32.720 a call and be on Guardenline to ask your question 552 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:35.880 seven one three two one two k t r H 553 00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:38.960 and I'll be right back. We'll talk about the things 554 00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:42.880 that interest you, maybe answer some questions in your landscape 555 00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:46.279 or your garden activities. Seven to one three two one 556 00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:51.359 two kt r H. Seven one three two one two 557 00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:54.759 k t r H. That makes it really easy. Hey, 558 00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:58.400 if you live down south, down south of the Houston area. 559 00:29:58.839 --> 00:30:01.640 You need to know about bm BE turf Pros bn 560 00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:05.000 B turf Pros is It's the kind of company that 561 00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:07.799 I just love to talk about on guardline because of 562 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:10.079 the way they treat their customers and the kind of 563 00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:12.839 work that they do. Listen, their number one goal is 564 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:17.440 customer satisfaction and high quality work as well. I should 565 00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:20.079 mention that too, because they use quality products. They get 566 00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:23.000 their stuff from Cenamolts. For example, when they're coming out 567 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:25.400 and do a compost top dressing, B and B turf 568 00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:28.680 Pros can do an aerration to punch those holes in 569 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:30.400 the soil, pull the little plugs out, put them on 570 00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.160 the surface, and then a compost top dressing with a 571 00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:36.680 high quality compost. And I'm telling you, with a clay soil, 572 00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:40.200 that does wonders, especially if if your grass is struggling 573 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:44.359 due to compaction or are just struggling in general. That 574 00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:47.319 gets oxygen down deeper in the soil, it gets organic 575 00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:51.119 matter down deeper in the soil, and it just starts 576 00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:54.559 your lawn on that path to recovery. And BnB turf 577 00:30:54.599 --> 00:30:57.079 Pros is easy to get a hold of. It's seven 578 00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:00.599 to one three two three nine excuse me two three 579 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.480 four fifty five ninety eight. Say that again seven to 580 00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:09.759 one three two three four five five nine eight. 581 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:10.440 Uh. 582 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:13.079 They only use the products that I trust. At BnB 583 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:16.559 turf Pros, their number one goal is for you to 584 00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:18.920 be happy and for them to do a quality job. 585 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:21.119 And if you would like, I would encourage you to 586 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:25.319 go check out their website bb NO and Bbturfpros dot 587 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:31.680 com bb turf pros dot com. Sometimes people will ask, 588 00:31:31.880 --> 00:31:33.240 was the one thing I can do to fix this 589 00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.000 lawn up? And one of the things, depending on the 590 00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:39.160 conditions and the lawn. One of the things is correation 591 00:31:39.640 --> 00:31:43.480 and compost stop dressing. That is, that stuff works magic 592 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:49.000 on your lawn. Also done south is Jorges Hidden Gardens. 593 00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:51.839 Now you've heard me talk about Jorges Gardens before. U. 594 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:57.279 Jorge has a number of different kinds of plants at 595 00:31:57.319 --> 00:31:59.480 all times, let's say a number of different I mean 596 00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.119 different categories like shrubs and trees. Is an outstanding selection 597 00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:07.000 of shrubs and trees, lots of different variety. I think 598 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.240 the last spring he had nine varieties of peach trees. 599 00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:11.400 He's always got fruit trees, the low chill type for 600 00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:15.440 growing down in that area. He's located in Alvin, just 601 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:19.680 south of Highway six. He's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin. 602 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.799 The hours, by the way, now for fall, they're opening 603 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:26.039 up more hours. Monday they're closed, so they'll be closed 604 00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:29.240 on Monday, but Tuesday through Friday nine to three, and 605 00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:32.640 both today and tomorrow, Saturday and Sundays eight to four, 606 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:37.240 Saturday and Sundays eight to four. At Jorges Hidden Gardens. 607 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:38.960 You're going to find other things there too. They got 608 00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:42.039 that three sixty tree stabilizer that I keep talking about. 609 00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:45.359 They carry those as well as many other good products. 610 00:32:45.359 --> 00:32:49.640 So if you live in Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, Arcadie, Alcoa, 611 00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:52.839 Alta Loma, all of those communities, this is your local 612 00:32:52.880 --> 00:32:58.240 hometown garden center Orges Hidden Gardens. I was like to 613 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:02.400 visit with Orgy. He's a character, that's for sure. Well, 614 00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:04.880 you're listening to garden Line and our phone number is 615 00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:08.039 seven one three two one two k t R H. 616 00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:10.480 And we're going to go straight out to Lewis in 617 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.519 the Brazoria County. Hello, Louis, welcome to garden Line. 618 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:17.559 Good morning, good mor and skip. My question is about 619 00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:23.079 biosolids compost and your opinion. I'm not concerned about per 620 00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:26.839 se the human element of it from the notching source, 621 00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:29.440 but wonder if you had any concerns or advice with 622 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:32.839 using it and say that, you know, the landscape in 623 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:35.160 a vegetable garden or under fruit trees or anything. 624 00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:40.160 Yeah, well, I definitely would not on things like edibles. 625 00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:44.000 I just wouldn't. I realized there's a process they go through. 626 00:33:44.039 --> 00:33:47.640 But you know, notoriously, the biosolid composts have had heavy 627 00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:52.000 metal issues and some other things, and I know they 628 00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.480 they work on not having that now, but I would 629 00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:58.599 rather I just don't use it period myself that a 630 00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:00.920 special that's edible? 631 00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:04.920 Is it? Is it because of surface contact or systemic 632 00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:06.720 actually in the plant? 633 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.239 Well, the heavy metals would be more of a systemic 634 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:13.239 thing that the plant would take up. That would be 635 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:20.320 the primary thing. Uh. Again, in a properly composted pile, 636 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:25.559 you should kill any kinds of microbial organism right, right things. 637 00:34:26.239 --> 00:34:31.320 But you know that's an ideal world. And so I'm 638 00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:33.760 not sitting here telling you no, it'll make you sick 639 00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:35.599 if you use it and all that stuff. Sure, I'm 640 00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.880 just saying I don't. We have too many high quality 641 00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:41.320 composts that are not bio solid based, and so that's 642 00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:42.320 what I prefer to use. 643 00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:44.519 Would you not even use it a lock on the 644 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:46.719 lawn or you know, like for top dressing. 645 00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:48.880 Well, people do concern about it. 646 00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:51.639 If it's if it's yeah, if it's systemic, then I 647 00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:54.840 not use the clipping then composts or you know, the 648 00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:56.320 tree leaves and composts. 649 00:34:56.719 --> 00:35:00.440 Yeah, it's it's not a systemic in that sense. It's 650 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:04.360 more like the roots can take up certain things that 651 00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:08.480 you may not want to accumulate. I you know, I 652 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:11.920 understand that in a lawn your exposure is different than 653 00:35:11.920 --> 00:35:14.039 it would be in a vegetable garden around fruit trees. 654 00:35:14.079 --> 00:35:18.079 But still that's your call. I just I just wouldn't 655 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:20.119 do it. I prefer not to do it because we 656 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:23.360 have other high quality composts that we can do. I 657 00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:25.280 joke about that stuff all the time. I'm not going 658 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:28.199 to use brand names, but one one there's a fertilizer 659 00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:30.880 made out of that stuff. And I talked to the 660 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:33.679 guy for the company one time and I said, you know, 661 00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:37.320 you need to change your name to Yankee Doodle. The 662 00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:42.400 products from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and I said, because, well, biosolids 663 00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:46.119 from the sewer treatment plant Yankee. Do it seem like 664 00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:48.320 a good name to me? I thought it was hilarious. 665 00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:50.239 He did not find it funny at all. 666 00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:56.760 Okay, well, how would you know for certain? I mean, 667 00:35:56.760 --> 00:35:59.599 I know there's two your sponsors with airlines. We'll talk to, Louis. 668 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:04.280 I know that, oh the jin up by Conrad one 669 00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:06.800 blank on John Ferguson's products done. But like some of 670 00:36:06.840 --> 00:36:08.639 the other school yards, how would you know if they're 671 00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:11.400 getting I mean, when you talk to the guy that 672 00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:13.119 answers the phone or the guy in the yard, they 673 00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:15.280 typically will tell you whatever you want to hear. I 674 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:17.519 shouldn't have bit skeptical and. 675 00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:21.559 Yeah, from these companies are not going to lie to you, 676 00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:24.199 and they pride themselves and not using that stuff, and. 677 00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:26.320 So it just they weren't just convenient to me. They're 678 00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:28.599 just a couple of hours away from more particularly. 679 00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:33.280 Yeah, right, and realize realize this too, Louise. When I'm 680 00:36:33.320 --> 00:36:36.039 when we're talking about one of my sponsors, it's not like, well, 681 00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:38.039 I don't want to say something because they're my sponsor. 682 00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:40.559 It's that they're my sponsor because of how they make 683 00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:43.320 their product and that I agree with that and like that, 684 00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:46.360 and I know it works, and so I'm not going 685 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:48.400 to take on a sponsor that doesn't do that. And 686 00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:52.519 I have turned down sponsors more than one occasion because no, 687 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:53.880 I'm not We're not going to do that. 688 00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:55.360 We're not going to sell that right. 689 00:36:55.800 --> 00:36:58.760 So the fact that they're there means I don't have 690 00:36:58.800 --> 00:37:01.639 to worry about what I'm saying because I already believe 691 00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:04.480 in what they have. So that's why you hear them soils, 692 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:07.079 That's why you hear Landscaper's Pride, That's why you hear 693 00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:11.000 Nature's Way Resources John Ferguson and Conrad. 694 00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:14.679 I didn't realize Nature's Way was, or excuse me, what 695 00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:18.199 Landscaper's Pride was, sort to find that they were not 696 00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:20.320 certifying the wrong word. I didn't know that they were. 697 00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:26.199 I've used those products. I've used their products as well, 698 00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:29.280 and you know, i'd have to call and ask them 699 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:31.679 specifically on that one. I don't they have new products 700 00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:33.119 coming out all the time and stuff. 701 00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:37.400 Sure, Okay, hey, that's fair skip that. I just appreciate 702 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:39.119 and respect your opinion. Just want to hear what your 703 00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:43.079 thoughts were on using it outside of the garden area 704 00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:44.800 of mourning. Was it systemic? And do I need to 705 00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.920 be concerned? Once you get introduced, you know, you really 706 00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:48.559 doesn't go away. 707 00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:51.159 Okay, Well, I know across the country those things are 708 00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:54.400 widely used, especially in turf, and there's products like the 709 00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:56.599 one I was talking about. This sold a lot to 710 00:37:56.679 --> 00:38:03.320 golf courses and stuff because we got my opinion. You 711 00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:07.079 got my opinion on it, you know. Okay, that's what 712 00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:07.840 That's what it is. 713 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:08.719 That's all. 714 00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:11.400 That's all I was looking for. Okay, thank you very much, 715 00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:14.159 have a good day, Take care you too. 716 00:38:15.159 --> 00:38:17.599 You're listening to garden Line our phone number seven one 717 00:38:17.639 --> 00:38:20.400 three two one two k t r H. Seven one 718 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:24.960 three two one two k t r H. Make that 719 00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:28.159 real easy here, Well, here we go. We just went 720 00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:32.840 through another hour of guarden Line. Seems like these hours 721 00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:35.400 are just flying by. We got plenty more to talk about. 722 00:38:35.400 --> 00:38:37.840 I hope you'll stay tuned, stick with us, and if 723 00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:39.440 you want to ask me a call, that would be 724 00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:40.960 a good time to get on the board. So when 725 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:44.360 we come back from break, I'm talking to you about 726 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:49.159 the things that interest you. Hey, important news news flash 727 00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:54.679 today today, today, today, after the show, I am making 728 00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:58.000 a bee Line for Montgomery County Fall Home and Outdoor 729 00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:01.199 Living Show in Conrod, Texas, out at the Lone Star 730 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:05.000 Convention Center, Airport Road, northeast side of town. I hope 731 00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:07.599 you'll come out. I'm gonna be talking about fall gardening, 732 00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:11.159 given a talk on that, and then answering your questions. 733 00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:14.920 I'll be there from twelve until two. From twelve until two, 734 00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:18.039 and I hope you will come out. I'm giving away 735 00:39:18.079 --> 00:39:22.400 some really cool products from Microlife Fertilizers. We're gonna be 736 00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:24.719 giving away jugs of the six two four. We're gonna 737 00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:27.679 be giving away some of their Bomb Matrix, the Orange 738 00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:33.000 liquid bottle, bottle, Orange bottle of liquid fertilizers, super high quality. 739 00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:35.480 I use it myself. Come on out, maybe you one one, 740 00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:37.679 but you certainly will have an opportunity to ask the 741 00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:40.880 gardening questions. Bring me some samples, bring me some pictures. 742 00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:41.800 We'll figure. 743 00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:46.199 Kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 744 00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:49.239 the products or services advertised on this program. 745 00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:53.599 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scamp Richter. 746 00:39:53.960 --> 00:40:13.880 So just watch him as well. 747 00:40:13.960 --> 00:40:16.960 Let's just jump right in here. How about that you 748 00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:19.840 are listening to Guardline. I'm your host, skip Richter, and 749 00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:21.840 what are we here for. We're here to help you 750 00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:24.719 have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. That's 751 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:27.239 kind of what it amounts to. Oh and one other thing, 752 00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:30.639 and to have fun. Gardening should be fun. It should 753 00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:34.719 be enjoyable. Sometimes it feels like it's like we're out 754 00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.239 there and fireanch are biting this and it's too hot 755 00:40:37.280 --> 00:40:39.679 and everything I'm trying to grow is dying and what 756 00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:42.119 do I do? And hey, there's a way to fix that. 757 00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:45.159 Just calm down, Calm down, set the scissors down, get 758 00:40:45.159 --> 00:40:47.519 off the chair. It's okay, just calm down. 759 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:48.280 We're good. 760 00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:52.400 It is simple principles, and that's what we talk about 761 00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:55.280 here on guard Line. Plants need certain things. They need 762 00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.880 good sunlight, some species more than others. They need good drainage, 763 00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:04.239 but adequate water. They want to be moist enough for 764 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:06.360 that species, and they don't want to be in a 765 00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:09.519 swamp unless they're lousy airis or something. They can put 766 00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:12.800 up with that. So we just give them what they 767 00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:14.840 need and we can work our way to that. And 768 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:17.960 it all begins in the soil. Soil is first, you know, 769 00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:21.639 organic gardening began in the soil. We don't. Organic gardening 770 00:41:21.719 --> 00:41:24.239 is not just about what's an organic pesticide. 771 00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:24.559 No. 772 00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:26.800 Organic gardening is how do you build the soil so 773 00:41:26.840 --> 00:41:30.679 it does better. And Microlife has designed their soil products, 774 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:35.880 their fertilizer products around just that they are chalk full 775 00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:38.639 of nutrients. So when you buy something like micro grow 776 00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:41.800 liquid that is a really cool liquid kind of in 777 00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:46.599 a maroon colored bottle. It contains all kinds of different 778 00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:51.239 beneficial organisms in it, as well as many other things 779 00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:56.039 to help stimulate plant growth. Microlife soil and plant energy. 780 00:41:56.079 --> 00:41:59.679 There's just another example of them. I mentioned the Biomatrix 781 00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:04.360 thought orange bottle that is a seven percent nitrogen product. 782 00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:06.360 Actually it's a good boost of nitrogen. I use it 783 00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:08.280 on houseplants and other things. And by the way, I'm 784 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:10.679 going to be given some away today this afternoon if 785 00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:12.840 you come or noon, if you come on up from 786 00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:15.400 twelve to two at the Montgomery County Home and Garden 787 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:17.360 trum me giving away some samples. If you'd like to 788 00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:19.960 try that, you have to you have to win one. 789 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:21.719 I mean, it's not like I have eight hundred bottles 790 00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:24.840 out there, but come on by maybe you will. And 791 00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:30.440 their bioanoculants another example, Microlife builds their products to build 792 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:34.519 your soil, which they know will result in healthy plants. 793 00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:37.400 That is how that works, That's how the system works, 794 00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:40.639 and that that is why they do their products, design 795 00:42:40.719 --> 00:42:45.480 their products the way that they do. So we were 796 00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:50.599 just talking about the importance of the soil. Important important, nothing, 797 00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:56.159 probably nothing more important than starting with good and healthy soil. 798 00:42:56.760 --> 00:42:59.199 We just had some rain in my house. It's kind 799 00:42:59.199 --> 00:43:02.320 of been hitting this around the area. And I walked 800 00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:04.440 outside yesterday and went out in the garden to pick 801 00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:07.679 some okra, and we were having okra last night with 802 00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.280 other things. And while I was out there, I looked 803 00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:12.639 down on my leg and there's a mosquitos coming around 804 00:43:12.719 --> 00:43:15.960 me run around in my shorts and mosquito country and 805 00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:19.639 mosquito dunks are designed to help shut that stuff down. 806 00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:22.079 You know, whenever you get rain, you get standing water. 807 00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:24.880 Maybe it's in a saggy gutter. Maybe it's underneath the drain, 808 00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:29.039 the little saucer underneath your plants, it collects water. Maybe 809 00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:34.280 it's a bird bath. Mosquito dunks are little donuts, little 810 00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:37.719 like those little white, dusty, white powdered doughnuts. They're about 811 00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:40.880 that size and you throw them into the pond or 812 00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:43.880 standing water, and it covers about one hundred square feet 813 00:43:43.880 --> 00:43:45.880 and it lasts about a month as they dissolve away, 814 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:49.159 releasing a disease of mosquitoes. They also make a granule 815 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:56.679 product that does sustainable excuse me, summit responsible solutions of 816 00:43:56.760 --> 00:43:59.280 the product. The company that makes mosquito dunks also has 817 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:01.760 a granule. You can throw those granules in too, or 818 00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:03.239 you can just take a dunk and break it up 819 00:44:03.239 --> 00:44:05.639 with a hammer a little bit, and now you've got granules. 820 00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:08.840 It's easy to use, it's easy to find. It's everywhere. 821 00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:12.559 Feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores Southwest for all 822 00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:15.320 those places are going to carry mosquito dunks, and you 823 00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:17.840 need to always have them on hand because when we 824 00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:21.360 get these periods of rain, if you got any place 825 00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:24.960 where water can stand, then you definitely want to deal 826 00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:28.000 with that and pour those poor those catch basins under 827 00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.519 your plants out by the way. That's just another tip 828 00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:35.880 to shut them down. I saw somebody's rain barrel the 829 00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:38.199 other day. They have a good cover over it. I 830 00:44:38.199 --> 00:44:40.679 think rain barrels are great. Go for it, do that, 831 00:44:40.960 --> 00:44:43.639 but don't let the mosquitos in there. That thing was 832 00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:46.400 full of mosquito wregulars. Maybe my skin crawl just looking 833 00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:50.079 in it. Toss a few mosquito dunk granules in there, 834 00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:54.920 you'd be in good shape, ready, ready to go. I 835 00:44:56.599 --> 00:45:02.119 stopped by Buchanan's Native Plants past week, and you know, 836 00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:05.960 bu Cannons is on Eleventh Street and the Heights, beautiful, 837 00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:09.440 beautiful little area, and it's a it's just a wonderland. 838 00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:11.400 You walk in there and you look at all the 839 00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:14.559 different kinds of plants that they have at Buchanans and 840 00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:18.199 they have everything, even their house plant you know McKenna's 841 00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:20.000 Native Plants. You think was that where you go for 842 00:45:20.039 --> 00:45:23.920 house plants. Yes, they have a huge, huge area with 843 00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:27.360 some of the coolest house plants stuff that you'll walk in. 844 00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:29.480 I promise you this. You're going to see past plants 845 00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:31.360 and you go, I've never seen one of those before. 846 00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:36.000 And Buchanan's plants fall vegetables, They're set up ready to 847 00:45:36.079 --> 00:45:39.960 go fall vegetables at Buchanans Plants. Do you need fruit trees? 848 00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:43.960 They've got them there. Do you need native plants? Wonderful? 849 00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:47.920 I posted something to Facebook and Instagram, garden Line, Facebook 850 00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:52.599 and Instagram on the plant called frog fruit it is. 851 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:56.320 Basically it's a wild weed native plant here. And I 852 00:45:56.360 --> 00:45:59.639 say weed just because it's wild growing around out there. 853 00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:05.320 But it is an outstanding groundcover. That's stuff. If anything 854 00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:07.719 that can grow in a vacant lot between cracks and 855 00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.559 the concrete and spread out over the concrete, making a 856 00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:14.079 little four inch high groundcover, that's a plant you need 857 00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:16.639 to have. I mean, it needs sunlight to do its best, 858 00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:21.519 but it's outstanding little blooms all year long that attract bees. 859 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.559 It's hard to find frogfruit without bees on it because 860 00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:26.800 it's a great pollinator plant. But where do you get it? 861 00:46:26.840 --> 00:46:31.079 You get it Buchanan's Plants in the Heights on Eleventh Street. 862 00:46:31.280 --> 00:46:37.880 Buchanansplants dot com. You are listening to Guardline. I'm your host, 863 00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:40.280 Skip Richter, and our phone number if you would like 864 00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:42.480 to give us a call, now'd be a time. Uh 865 00:46:42.519 --> 00:46:45.639 seven one three two one two k t r H 866 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:52.559 seven to one three two one two kt r H. 867 00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:55.800 I went up to uh D and D feed. It 868 00:46:55.840 --> 00:46:57.840 was about two weeks ago. I stopped in there just 869 00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:00.199 checking on them, seeing how things are going and what's 870 00:47:00.280 --> 00:47:04.320 up and what's new. And they're just going full full steam. 871 00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:07.400 I mean they are loaded up on the things you need. 872 00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:09.199 You know, if I talk about a fertilizer, it's at 873 00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:12.920 D and D Feed. You're looking at products like heirloom soils, 874 00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:15.880 bags of airloom soil, you know, like the rose soil, 875 00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:19.280 or their fruit berry and citrus soil, or they're veggie 876 00:47:19.280 --> 00:47:22.119 and herb mix. You can go there and get those. 877 00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:24.159 At D and D Feed they keep them in stock. 878 00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:28.199 Products to control weeds and diseases and issues. They have it. 879 00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:33.039 You're looking for nitrophised fertilizers, you're looking for microlife fertilizer. 880 00:47:33.079 --> 00:47:36.679 They've got those there at D and D Feed. You're 881 00:47:36.679 --> 00:47:39.360 going to find everything that you need to have success 882 00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:42.360 in your lawn and your landscape right there at D 883 00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:45.400 and D Feed. They are on the west side of Tombault. 884 00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:47.280 Just go out twenty nine to twenty go out a 885 00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:48.400 little piece outside of town. 886 00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:48.599 There. 887 00:47:48.639 --> 00:47:51.440 They're on the left hand side. Here's a phone number 888 00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:56.039 two eight one three five one seventy one forty four 889 00:47:56.159 --> 00:48:00.480 two eight one three five one seventy one twenty four. 890 00:48:00.920 --> 00:48:03.840 D and D Feed stores three miles west of two 891 00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:08.559 forty nine. On twenty nine twenty, I was like going 892 00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:13.559 into feed stores. It's I don't know. There's something about 893 00:48:13.800 --> 00:48:18.000 just the experience, you know, the it's almost sometimes it's 894 00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:21.280 it's like like the I like the aroma, you know 895 00:48:21.320 --> 00:48:23.559 in a feed store of all the feed and things 896 00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:27.199 like that. I just think it's cool and D and 897 00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:29.360 D feed that dover. It's a great place to go. 898 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:31.519 They you know, they take care of you. They make 899 00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:34.599 sure you get what you need. Makes it easy, easy 900 00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:38.079 to do, easy to talk about. All right, I'm gonna 901 00:48:38.079 --> 00:48:40.519 have to run quick break here. When I come back, Charles, 902 00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:43.320 I'll go straight to you. You're listening to guarden line. 903 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:46.719 We'll be right back. Garden and have a beautiful landscape. 904 00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:49.320 And what do we do first when we're taking care 905 00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:51.239 of plants? Well, let me put this way. What do 906 00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:53.480 we do first when we want to have success with plants? 907 00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:58.119 We fix the soil. Heirloom Soils has a wide variety 908 00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:02.320 of products that are outstanding for making good soil. Do 909 00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:05.079 you need a fruit berry and centrus mix for growing 910 00:49:05.079 --> 00:49:07.440 those kinds of plants? Do you need a landscape bed mix? 911 00:49:07.519 --> 00:49:11.360 Do you need some composted hardwood mults or rosesoil or 912 00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:14.360 the works potting soil or something for cactus and succulents, 913 00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:17.280 Veggie and herb mix. That's one of my favorite ones 914 00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:20.519 right there, Veggie nerd mix. Do you need expanded shale 915 00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:24.599 for heavy clays or a combo of compost and expanded shale. 916 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:27.079 All of those are available by the bag, and you 917 00:49:27.119 --> 00:49:30.440 can also buy heirloom products buy the bulk. Just go 918 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:35.199 to Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com. That's where you learn more. That's 919 00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:37.119 where you find out all the places you can buy 920 00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:39.880 heirloom soil, which is widely widely available if they're out 921 00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:44.559 the whole Gardenline listening area, Heirloom Soils of Texas quality soil, 922 00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:47.199 and you start with good soil, you have success in 923 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:50.719 fall planting season. We are at the door of fall 924 00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:54.679 planting season right now, so now's the time to get 925 00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:58.440 that soil prepared, to get it built so that when 926 00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:01.880 planting comes, even if it's raining, you just go out 927 00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:03.719 there and you get the planning done. See, you don't 928 00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:05.519 have to wait till the soil drives out because you've 929 00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:07.760 gotten it done ahead of time. That's just a tip 930 00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:11.519 I'd highly recommend you do that. We're going to go 931 00:50:11.559 --> 00:50:14.159 to New Canny now and talk to Charles Hey, Charles, 932 00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:15.119 Welcome to guard Line. 933 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:20.360 Hello, good morning. I have a question on a large 934 00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:24.320 oak tree. It's the type that drops all its leaves 935 00:50:24.360 --> 00:50:27.679 in the winter. It's about thirty feet from my house. 936 00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:31.440 But the limbs are now starting. It's so old, it's 937 00:50:32.239 --> 00:50:34.320 starting the limbs are starting to kind of grow out 938 00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:37.840 over the house and the garage. Okay, would it hurts 939 00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:41.280 the tree to trim those limbs back? 940 00:50:44.679 --> 00:50:49.599 Well, I can't, Yeah, I can't see. Well, the bigger 941 00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:52.440 the wound you make, the more of a weak spot 942 00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:54.760 you're going to have there. You see what I'm saying, 943 00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:56.960 Because that it'll take time for that to close over, 944 00:50:57.119 --> 00:51:00.280 and the wood inside if it takes too long, begin 945 00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:04.440 to decay before the wound fully closes over. If you 946 00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:06.960 want to shortened limbs, you want to cut them back 947 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:11.719 to where they join another limb. And so think about 948 00:51:11.760 --> 00:51:14.400 it as a highway system with off ramps. As you 949 00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:16.280 go down the branch. You know, the off ramp is 950 00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:18.639 a branch coming off the branch you're on that kind 951 00:51:18.679 --> 00:51:22.119 of thing. Cut them off right past the off ramp. 952 00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:24.760 So it's like you're diverting traffic down the limb and 953 00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:26.960 then now down the off ramp. Do you see what 954 00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.400 I'm saying? The exit ramp and that kind of pruning 955 00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:34.920 is the least problematic for the plant. So if you 956 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:37.840 need to shorten those branches, you can do that. Just 957 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:40.920 know that the further back you cut, the bigger the 958 00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:43.159 cut's going to be, the slower it's going to heal. 959 00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:46.719 And then the potential for a week or branch is there? 960 00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:48.320 Is this a do it yourself or you're looking for 961 00:51:48.320 --> 00:51:49.280 somebody to do it for you? 962 00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:51.800 Oh, I'll have somebody do it. 963 00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:53.239 I can't get up in that tree. 964 00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:53.920 It's too big. 965 00:51:54.119 --> 00:51:58.159 Yeah. Yeah, Well you ought to talk to Martin spoon 966 00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:02.280 Moore at Affordable Tree. He's very good at that. Okay, 967 00:52:02.760 --> 00:52:05.119 Well know if you if you let me give you 968 00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:06.920 a number just in case if you need it. It's 969 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:11.440 seven one three six nine nine two six six three 970 00:52:11.440 --> 00:52:14.480 seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. 971 00:52:14.559 --> 00:52:15.719 He's he's very good at that. 972 00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:18.320 All right. 973 00:52:18.599 --> 00:52:20.079 What was what was the first one? 974 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:20.400 Again? 975 00:52:21.679 --> 00:52:26.400 Uh? The Affordable Tree Martin spoon More? Oh, seven one 976 00:52:26.559 --> 00:52:31.960 three six two six six three all. 977 00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:35.480 Right, all right, thank you very much, thanks Charles. 978 00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:40.039 You bet you bet? All right, let's see here, Yeah, 979 00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:43.400 I tell you Martin he knows Houston trees and he 980 00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:46.039 stays busy. But tell him your Guardline listener when you call, 981 00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:49.360 get you to the front of the line and check 982 00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:53.039 out his website a f F Tree Service dot com. 983 00:52:53.039 --> 00:52:55.960 A f F Tree Service dot com. He's very he's excellent, 984 00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.920 very good work. Let's set's go back to the phones. 985 00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:02.639 We're going to go now and talk to David. Hello, David, 986 00:53:02.679 --> 00:53:03.679 welcome to Guardline. 987 00:53:04.599 --> 00:53:07.159 I sCOD thank you for taking my call. I have 988 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:09.679 one question and I found the answer. I found a 989 00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:13.719 basis for a second question. First question, bottom line, is 990 00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:16.280 is it okay to take pine needles from one part 991 00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:19.760 of my yard and put them where the trees are 992 00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:21.440 growing in another part of the yard to kind of 993 00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:22.840 make it like a natural forest. 994 00:53:23.760 --> 00:53:27.320 Absolutely, okay, great, thank. 995 00:53:27.119 --> 00:53:27.719 You very much. 996 00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:33.360 Second question is I got your advice last year and planted, 997 00:53:33.360 --> 00:53:39.400 among other things, to Sunshine lagustrum plants. And I went 998 00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:42.440 to Plants for all seasons and the lady there told me, okay, well, 999 00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:43.440 here's how you trim them. 1000 00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:45.199 You just nip a little bit off here, nip a 1001 00:53:45.199 --> 00:53:46.039 little bit off there. 1002 00:53:46.960 --> 00:53:47.840 But I haven't done that. 1003 00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:50.559 I just let them kind of grow. And I'm wondering 1004 00:53:51.239 --> 00:53:53.559 is there any kind of approach I should take to 1005 00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:56.480 trimming them? 1006 00:53:56.599 --> 00:54:01.320 Okay, so David that when we're doing shrubs, we have options. 1007 00:54:01.559 --> 00:54:03.760 I mean, you can hedge a shrub and make it 1008 00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:06.199 square if you want. That just means you're going to 1009 00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:09.679 have to prune regularly now to keep that looking like that. 1010 00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:13.880 I like a more natural approach where the shrub has 1011 00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:16.840 a more natural form. So what I would do. You 1012 00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:20.960 can cut them back, but maybe follow a branch, maybe 1013 00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:24.159 got long gangly cane coming out of that or shoot 1014 00:54:24.199 --> 00:54:27.239 coming out of that lagustrum. Follow it back to where 1015 00:54:27.239 --> 00:54:29.639 there's a side shoot and cut it off just above 1016 00:54:29.679 --> 00:54:32.519 that side shoot. That's called a thinning cut. And when 1017 00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:34.800 you go back and you take the longer shoots and 1018 00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:37.199 you bring the overall size of the shrub down, it 1019 00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.599 still has a natural look when you prune that way. Again, 1020 00:54:40.760 --> 00:54:42.800 just this branch is too long. I want to get 1021 00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:44.880 rid of it. So follow it down to where there's 1022 00:54:44.920 --> 00:54:47.760 a side shoot that is acceptable in terms of its 1023 00:54:47.840 --> 00:54:50.440 length and everything, and cut it off right above that. 1024 00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:53.960 That's how I would go about printing that sunshine unless 1025 00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:57.840 you want the sheared look excellent. 1026 00:54:57.960 --> 00:54:59.719 Thank you very much. I appreciate your health. 1027 00:54:59.760 --> 00:55:02.119 Sir, you bet good luck with that. 1028 00:55:03.519 --> 00:55:04.000 Keep thank you. 1029 00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:09.079 I appreciate appreciate that call very much. You know, when 1030 00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:11.960 it comes to taking care of your lawn, one of 1031 00:55:11.960 --> 00:55:13.920 the most important things we do is area. You heard 1032 00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:17.159 me talking about that earlier. If you live up north, 1033 00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:22.199 you know we were talking about the northwestern quadrant of Houston. 1034 00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:25.360 So I ten and I forty five or roughly forty 1035 00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:27.960 five miles from Magnolia. That's another good way to put it. 1036 00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:30.880 Forty five miles from Magnolia. Green Pro is your company. 1037 00:55:31.239 --> 00:55:33.039 They've been doing this for a while. They know what 1038 00:55:33.079 --> 00:55:36.440 they're doing. They do a quality deep aeration, pull the 1039 00:55:36.480 --> 00:55:39.920 plugs out of the ground. They do it compost top dressing, 1040 00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:41.920 and they get it all done for you and it's 1041 00:55:41.960 --> 00:55:42.559 it's easy. 1042 00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:42.719 Now. 1043 00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:45.199 This isn't an inexpensive process. The price is going to 1044 00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:49.000 start about five seventy five plus tax. But they're all 1045 00:55:49.039 --> 00:55:52.199 on a big old bunch of compost. And right now, 1046 00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:57.840 if you purchase their compost top dressing service, they are 1047 00:55:57.960 --> 00:56:00.960 gonna air rate for free. So you say I want 1048 00:56:01.000 --> 00:56:03.239 you to compost top dress, They're going to come out 1049 00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:04.920 for free and air rate right now. This is a 1050 00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:08.119 special deal okay, so now through fall, but you got 1051 00:56:08.159 --> 00:56:10.920 to do two yard minimum of the compost top dressing. 1052 00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:12.280 I mean you can't come out there and have them 1053 00:56:12.320 --> 00:56:15.440 do you know, fifty square feet or something. Two yard minimum. 1054 00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:18.199 But starting at five seventy five plus tax, that is 1055 00:56:18.239 --> 00:56:20.000 a it is a very good deal. And I'm telling 1056 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:22.760 you when you do that, it's not just a sudden, 1057 00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:27.239 quick and go away fix. It's it's building an improvement 1058 00:56:27.320 --> 00:56:30.719 that lasts into your soiling, into your lawn. Greenpro dot 1059 00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:34.280 net is their website, greenpro dot net if you want 1060 00:56:34.280 --> 00:56:37.199 to give them a call. Two eight one three five 1061 00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:41.280 one forty seven thirty three. Two eight one three five 1062 00:56:41.400 --> 00:56:46.360 one forty seven thirty three. Let's go out to Tanglewood 1063 00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:50.000 now and we're going to talk to Charles. Hello, Charles, Hey. 1064 00:56:49.760 --> 00:56:53.800 Good morning. I have a Over the last few years, 1065 00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:57.960 I've been very diligent in digging up the weeds in 1066 00:56:58.000 --> 00:57:00.679 the yard and I'm so proud of it looks so great. 1067 00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:05.840 And this year I had a grass that is a 1068 00:57:05.920 --> 00:57:08.960 broad leaf, looks a whole lot like Saint Augustine's the 1069 00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:12.519 dark green, and I've been dilicently digging it up. With 1070 00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:14.559 all the rain and heat we had here recently, I 1071 00:57:14.599 --> 00:57:17.199 didn't get to the yard, and it is growing like crazy, 1072 00:57:18.320 --> 00:57:20.800 have blue blossom ons. I think from time to time. 1073 00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:26.000 Could that be carried in by my lawnlorn cutany possibly? 1074 00:57:26.119 --> 00:57:27.119 Or how do I get that? 1075 00:57:27.239 --> 00:57:30.360 Because oh, I don't know how you got it, but 1076 00:57:31.599 --> 00:57:33.199 if I saw a picture, I could be sure. But 1077 00:57:33.239 --> 00:57:36.639 it sounds to me like dovewed. Something called dovewed. It's 1078 00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:40.360 almost kind of a succulent, you know, as opposed to grass. 1079 00:57:40.400 --> 00:57:43.800 It has a softer dinner blade. This one almost has 1080 00:57:43.840 --> 00:57:47.800 a little bit of a fleshy thickness to it. But anyway, 1081 00:57:48.199 --> 00:57:51.159 doveweed is what I believe you're dealing with. A Product 1082 00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:55.440 called celsius can be used to knock that back if 1083 00:57:55.440 --> 00:57:57.840 the area is not too big. There is a cinnamon 1084 00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:02.159 based product that, uh it just you just sprink You 1085 00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:05.280 get the dove weed wet, sprinkle this on it and 1086 00:58:05.320 --> 00:58:08.679 it just turns it black really quick. Now, the long 1087 00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:11.079 term goal is to get that grass so thick that 1088 00:58:11.159 --> 00:58:14.039 the doveweed has trouble surviving in it, and don't over 1089 00:58:14.159 --> 00:58:17.039 water the lawn because if you keep it constantly wet, 1090 00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:19.400 the dove weed really can thrive better. 1091 00:58:20.519 --> 00:58:22.760 Okay, all right, Well, I yeah, I don't do that. 1092 00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:26.880 I I water once a week at the most most. Okay, 1093 00:58:27.920 --> 00:58:30.480 And but I, okay, tell me the name of the 1094 00:58:30.599 --> 00:58:32.079 product I need to get to put on it. 1095 00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:39.440 I would do celsius. Like the temperature fahrenheit and celsius. 1096 00:58:40.599 --> 00:58:44.440 Okay, and just get the wet and put that on it. 1097 00:58:44.440 --> 00:58:45.519 Thank you very much, appreciate. 1098 00:58:46.159 --> 00:58:49.559 Yeah, no, okay, Wait a minute, that's combining two different things. 1099 00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:52.960 The celsius is just a broad leaf post emergent herbicide. 1100 00:58:52.960 --> 00:58:55.360 You spray it on the weeds, follow the label. Don't 1101 00:58:55.360 --> 00:58:57.559 do it when the temperature is hot. So this in 1102 00:58:57.639 --> 00:59:02.159 fact today, tomorrow, Monday, or going to be pretty sunny 1103 00:59:02.239 --> 00:59:04.840 days as far as I see the weather. Uh, And 1104 00:59:04.960 --> 00:59:07.599 you could go ahead and get it done now rather 1105 00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:09.719 than waiting because we're gonna have some rainy the rest 1106 00:59:09.719 --> 00:59:13.800 of the week. But uh. The the cinnamon thing is 1107 00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:16.239 the other product, and it comes in a low canister, 1108 00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:19.599 so it's more expensive per thousand square feet. In fact, 1109 00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:22.599 a thousand would be a ton to sprinkle that cinnamon over. 1110 00:59:23.320 --> 00:59:26.400 But if you just have small areas, you can also 1111 00:59:26.519 --> 00:59:29.559 just use the cinnamon type product that sprinkles right over. 1112 00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:32.679 It's called agralon. But if if you've got a bigger 1113 00:59:32.679 --> 00:59:34.840 area of it, definitely the celsius. 1114 00:59:35.760 --> 00:59:38.519 Okay, yeah, okay, Well, in my areas I've kept in 1115 00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:42.079 a minimum they're the largest area is probably two feet 1116 00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:46.159 by one foot and then okay, when I get your 1117 00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:47.400 smaller ones, I just dig them up. 1118 00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:48.519 Thank you much. 1119 00:59:48.599 --> 00:59:51.559 Yeah, well, yeah, you're right at Cleveland. If you got 1120 00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:53.360 to any of your ACE stores out there, you got 1121 00:59:53.440 --> 00:59:55.920 you got one importer that's probably closest to you. Uh 1122 00:59:56.159 --> 00:59:58.599 and and and they're going to have those products. Okay, 1123 00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:03.079 thank you, Hey, thank you, Charles. I appreciate that. Well, 1124 01:00:03.119 --> 01:00:04.760 I run out of time here, folks, We're going to 1125 01:00:04.840 --> 01:00:07.960 take another quick break. Ron in Cleveland. You are the 1126 01:00:08.079 --> 01:00:11.119 very next up Surden centers. I was at at the 1127 01:00:11.199 --> 01:00:15.159 Arborgate the other day and just walking around looking at 1128 01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:17.679 the different things that they have in stock there, and 1129 01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:21.119 I'm telling you, they are stocked up. Have you ever 1130 01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:25.199 have you ever seen a something that is called a 1131 01:00:25.239 --> 01:00:29.760 desert rose? A desert rose. They've got those there and 1132 01:00:29.800 --> 01:00:32.840 they they're just beautiful. It's a real popular plant, by 1133 01:00:32.880 --> 01:00:35.760 the way. Uh yeah, I don't know if I can 1134 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:38.480 describe it to you. It's a beautiful blooms come in 1135 01:00:38.559 --> 01:00:41.719 many different kind of colors, big white, bulbous base. It's 1136 01:00:41.880 --> 01:00:45.159 one of the hot plants right now. I see a 1137 01:00:45.199 --> 01:00:48.159 lot of people really getting into desert rose, and that 1138 01:00:48.280 --> 01:00:51.239 is one that's not that difficult to grow, but boy 1139 01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:53.440 are they gorgeous, and they have them there. When you're 1140 01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:55.800 at their Arborgate, you're going to find some of the 1141 01:00:55.800 --> 01:00:58.360 cool seasoned plants are starting to arrive, like the kind 1142 01:00:58.360 --> 01:01:00.360 that can take a little more heat, like Diantha. Shake it, 1143 01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:04.239 they've got it there, pansy or excuse me, Petunias are 1144 01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:07.079 there at Arburgate. And you know fall is a good 1145 01:01:07.119 --> 01:01:10.920 time to do some warm season plants up into the 1146 01:01:10.920 --> 01:01:14.760 first frost, so marigos up into the first frost, petunias 1147 01:01:14.840 --> 01:01:17.239 up into the first frost, and first frost is a 1148 01:01:17.239 --> 01:01:19.960 good ways away down this far south, so it's still 1149 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:21.760 a good time to get color as well as all 1150 01:01:21.760 --> 01:01:25.800 your Halloween decorations. Arbrogate Garden Center for those of you 1151 01:01:25.880 --> 01:01:27.920 who have been hiding under a rock somewhere. I don't 1152 01:01:27.960 --> 01:01:29.719 know how anyone would not know where it is, but 1153 01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:33.079 it is west of Tumbull on twenty nine to twenty 1154 01:01:33.719 --> 01:01:36.199 just under a half mile west of Tombull, you can 1155 01:01:36.239 --> 01:01:39.159 take Trishel Road, which is a loop that goes around 1156 01:01:39.199 --> 01:01:42.800 behind Arburgate and either before or after Arbrogate turned on 1157 01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:45.880 threshe will go around the back great parking lot back there. 1158 01:01:46.239 --> 01:01:48.119 And you know, anytime you go to Arburgate you need 1159 01:01:48.159 --> 01:01:50.840 to planned to be a while because there's a lot 1160 01:01:50.920 --> 01:01:54.639 to see and a lot of very very helpful staff 1161 01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:57.559 that know what they're talking about to help steer you 1162 01:01:57.639 --> 01:02:00.920 in the right direction. I'm going to head now out 1163 01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:05.000 to Cleveland, Texas and talk to Ron. Hello, Ron, Welcome 1164 01:02:05.039 --> 01:02:06.239 to garden Line. 1165 01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:07.880 Come Morren Skip. 1166 01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:10.360 Last week I talked to you and you gave me 1167 01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:15.760 a website Aggie Turf, and I did more my weeds 1168 01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:19.079 and there's one that I'm looking for and I found 1169 01:02:19.159 --> 01:02:21.559 it's Behaya grass. 1170 01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:24.920 Oh yeah, and. 1171 01:02:24.920 --> 01:02:28.000 I've got Bermuda lawn. So I'm trying to figure out 1172 01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:30.800 and then I get online to start searching that and 1173 01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:32.760 there's all kinds of stuff and it looks like a 1174 01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:35.760 lot of its commercial grade stuff. So I'm kind of looking, 1175 01:02:36.440 --> 01:02:39.280 uh for what I can use on Behaya grass that's 1176 01:02:39.320 --> 01:02:41.920 in my Bermuda grass. 1177 01:02:42.519 --> 01:02:47.039 Yeah, that that is a challenge. Behea grass is a 1178 01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:50.039 good tough some people make. It doesn't make a great lawn, 1179 01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:53.280 but some people use it for like out around the 1180 01:02:53.760 --> 01:02:56.199 property areas where you just need a grass. You know 1181 01:02:56.559 --> 01:02:59.599 that you can mow periodically and do pretty good. But 1182 01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:01.960 it is a booger booger to get or rid of. 1183 01:03:02.800 --> 01:03:09.400 I'm trying to think of that. The Bermuda so mets 1184 01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:13.679 sulfur on M E T s U L f U 1185 01:03:13.960 --> 01:03:17.960 R O N products with met sulfur on will control 1186 01:03:18.039 --> 01:03:21.719 behea met sulfur on. And if you're up there in 1187 01:03:21.880 --> 01:03:24.199 the Cleveland area, you've got some ace haarders, I know 1188 01:03:24.239 --> 01:03:26.000 you've got an ACE heard they're in Porter. I would 1189 01:03:26.000 --> 01:03:29.840 call them and see if they have a product that 1190 01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:34.960 one of the brands is called. Oh gosh, I just 1191 01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:38.559 went blank. I'll think of it here in a minute. 1192 01:03:39.519 --> 01:03:41.239 Man or m A n O R m A n 1193 01:03:41.239 --> 01:03:44.599 O R met sulfur on. That that is pretty good, 1194 01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:52.719 uh in controlling Behea grass. Now it's long term control. 1195 01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:56.639 It's a challenge. It's gonna knock it back. Some people 1196 01:03:57.280 --> 01:04:01.320 have added some two four D N with the met 1197 01:04:01.360 --> 01:04:05.800 sulfur on. I don't know why, but it messes it 1198 01:04:05.880 --> 01:04:10.159 up and it doesn't do as well. So don't don't 1199 01:04:10.159 --> 01:04:12.400 do any kind of a broad leaf in there when 1200 01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:15.800 you're doing it. Just go with that met sulfur on uh. 1201 01:04:15.840 --> 01:04:19.239 And I think I'm trying to think of another another option. 1202 01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:23.960 Manner is one of them. There's a product BN. I've 1203 01:04:23.960 --> 01:04:25.880 seen the manner, and I've seen the. 1204 01:04:25.880 --> 01:04:26.519 Two four D. 1205 01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:30.719 I was Google searching and then yeah, does it? 1206 01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:35.880 Uh does a pre emergent herbicide help control that? 1207 01:04:36.880 --> 01:04:40.880 Well, for the for that which is coming from seeds, 1208 01:04:40.880 --> 01:04:44.280 it would, But Behaea is gonna be perennial, and it's 1209 01:04:44.320 --> 01:04:48.079 gonna if you've got behaea, you've got behea uh. And 1210 01:04:48.199 --> 01:04:51.639 so you know I I would I wouldn't. I wouldn't 1211 01:04:51.639 --> 01:04:55.039 worry about it, you know, I mean I wouldn't have 1212 01:04:55.119 --> 01:04:56.960 tried to do the pre emergent. 1213 01:04:57.880 --> 01:05:00.760 I'm gonna do pre emergent in this two times a year, 1214 01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:03.079 if I remember correctly. Here coming up now it's cool 1215 01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:07.239 then in the spring to help control a bunch of 1216 01:05:07.280 --> 01:05:09.239 everything else. But then I had seen that two to 1217 01:05:09.280 --> 01:05:13.239 four D and I've seen that man or listed Yeah. 1218 01:05:13.400 --> 01:05:18.159 Yeah, don't don't mix those Yeah, don't mix those two together. 1219 01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:22.679 I'm trying to think of some other products. I need 1220 01:05:22.719 --> 01:05:25.280 a minute to check on some of the other the 1221 01:05:25.320 --> 01:05:29.199 brands that are gonna end the combinations I know they did. 1222 01:05:30.000 --> 01:05:33.079 Oh what was the one there was some success? Well, 1223 01:05:33.079 --> 01:05:35.239 I don't want to say names of brands online until 1224 01:05:35.280 --> 01:05:37.360 I've had a chance to make sure they're okay with 1225 01:05:37.360 --> 01:05:41.039 with Bermuda. So myself around Methol is going to give 1226 01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:45.239 you about probably sixty percent success. But there are some 1227 01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:48.960 combinations you can put with it. If you want to, 1228 01:05:49.920 --> 01:05:51.440 I'll put you on hold and if you want to, 1229 01:05:51.519 --> 01:05:53.960 if you want to email me, I can send you 1230 01:05:54.039 --> 01:05:57.039 that information directly. How about that? And if you don't 1231 01:05:57.039 --> 01:05:59.239 care about it, then just hang up. That's fine. 1232 01:05:59.519 --> 01:05:59.719 Great. 1233 01:05:59.760 --> 01:06:03.039 Thanks for the appreciate Thanks for the calls. Appreciate appreciate 1234 01:06:03.079 --> 01:06:06.599 that very much. Hey, Peerscapes knows what they're doing when 1235 01:06:06.639 --> 01:06:08.480 it comes to taking care of your landscape. You know, 1236 01:06:08.519 --> 01:06:11.400 Peerscapes has been around a while and they've got everything 1237 01:06:11.440 --> 01:06:14.480 from designers on staff. If you want a full fledged 1238 01:06:14.519 --> 01:06:18.559 design of beautiful outdoor areas, you know, stone walkways and 1239 01:06:18.639 --> 01:06:23.400 outdoor stone barbecue pit areas and just they can do 1240 01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:26.639 all that. They can fix drainage problems, they can fix 1241 01:06:26.679 --> 01:06:31.599 irrigation problems. They can create landscape lighting that makes a 1242 01:06:31.760 --> 01:06:35.639 world of difference in your property. Peerscapes dot com is 1243 01:06:35.679 --> 01:06:39.679 the website peerscapes dot com. Here's the phone number. Write 1244 01:06:39.719 --> 01:06:43.360 this down two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty 1245 01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:48.440 two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. Go though 1246 01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:51.159 to the website peerscapes dot com and you can see 1247 01:06:51.159 --> 01:06:54.119 what I'm talking about when I talk about their ability 1248 01:06:54.599 --> 01:06:58.199 to transform your place into some and you will hang 1249 01:06:58.239 --> 01:06:59.719 out in the house you just want to live outside. 1250 01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:04.119 Get through turning your landscape into something really, really special. 1251 01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:07.440 We're get to head now out to Clear Lake and 1252 01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:08.719 talk to Jim. 1253 01:07:08.880 --> 01:07:11.000 Hello, Jim, good morning. 1254 01:07:11.199 --> 01:07:15.320 I wanted to know about treating the lawn again. 1255 01:07:15.840 --> 01:07:17.239 I had put down. 1256 01:07:17.119 --> 01:07:20.360 Bug Out and Eagle at the same time the last 1257 01:07:20.360 --> 01:07:23.280 time we had a dry spell, which was about almost 1258 01:07:23.280 --> 01:07:26.760 two weeks ago, and walking in the yard today, I've 1259 01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:30.280 got probably with every step, I've got six or so 1260 01:07:31.480 --> 01:07:35.400 moss flying up. And I'm just wondering if it's permissible 1261 01:07:35.519 --> 01:07:37.360 to put bug out down again. 1262 01:07:39.159 --> 01:07:41.840 How long ago did you do it? 1263 01:07:42.119 --> 01:07:43.320 Close to two weeks ago. 1264 01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:47.320 You do not need to do it again if you 1265 01:07:47.320 --> 01:07:49.920 put it out correctly. At the right rate, got good 1266 01:07:50.039 --> 01:07:53.440 even coverage and stuff. You should be fine. A bug 1267 01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:55.719 out is going to last, you know, at least a 1268 01:07:55.719 --> 01:07:59.880 couple of months, if not longer. And so you're good 1269 01:08:00.159 --> 01:08:03.079 if you've made that application. Now, it's not going to 1270 01:08:03.199 --> 01:08:06.519 kill the moth. And here's why the moth is not 1271 01:08:06.760 --> 01:08:09.840 down in the thatch. Where the bugout is the larvae 1272 01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:12.800 that eat your lawn or down in the thatch. So 1273 01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:15.320 those moths are laying eggs or dropping eggs down in 1274 01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:18.119 your grass and they hatch out into the larva at 1275 01:08:18.359 --> 01:08:21.840 the grass. Assuming this is a side web worm, there 1276 01:08:21.880 --> 01:08:25.000 are a lot of moths out there, Jim and I, 1277 01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:29.640 I don't know that you have side web worm. You could, 1278 01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:32.279 but I don't know that you do. If you had pictures, 1279 01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:35.000 you could send me of the moths, capture one, I 1280 01:08:35.640 --> 01:08:38.960 could tell you. But the bug out, if it's down 1281 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:41.479 in your thatch, you got a little water to kind 1282 01:08:41.520 --> 01:08:43.439 of soak it off the granules and into the that 1283 01:08:44.279 --> 01:08:45.079 you should be okay. 1284 01:08:46.439 --> 01:08:50.119 So I don't see any webs in the lawn at all, 1285 01:08:50.239 --> 01:08:51.279 So okay. 1286 01:08:51.880 --> 01:08:54.800 Well, the other thing to look for is go down 1287 01:08:54.840 --> 01:08:57.239 on your hands and knees and grass blades. Look like 1288 01:08:57.319 --> 01:09:00.359 something was taken chumps out of the sides, you know, 1289 01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:03.439 like people are just biting chomps out of the caterpillar, 1290 01:09:03.600 --> 01:09:06.439 just biting chomps out of the site. That that's another 1291 01:09:06.520 --> 01:09:14.960 sign that you got the active weburn. Okay, okay, all right, welcome, welcome, 1292 01:09:14.960 --> 01:09:16.840 Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have you with us. 1293 01:09:17.640 --> 01:09:20.079 You are listening to a show that's here to help 1294 01:09:20.119 --> 01:09:22.439 you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. It's 1295 01:09:22.479 --> 01:09:25.119 a show to help you have fun out there in 1296 01:09:25.159 --> 01:09:28.079 the garden. Yeah, gardening is supposed to be fun, not work, 1297 01:09:28.640 --> 01:09:33.159 and you're supposed to have success, not frustrating experiences of failure. 1298 01:09:33.159 --> 01:09:36.760 And that's why we're here. When it comes to fertilizing 1299 01:09:36.760 --> 01:09:39.119 your lawn, if you are looking for a product that's 1300 01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:43.000 got a good high nitrogen content that is a natural 1301 01:09:43.239 --> 01:09:47.840 based product, sweet Green from Nitroposs is a product you 1302 01:09:47.880 --> 01:09:49.880 ought to take a good hard look at. This stuff 1303 01:09:49.920 --> 01:09:53.359 smells great, it's got eleven percent nitrogen, the highest of 1304 01:09:53.560 --> 01:09:56.760 most any of the organic type products you're going to find. 1305 01:09:57.359 --> 01:09:59.319 And when you put it out, it dissolves the way 1306 01:09:59.319 --> 01:10:03.039 into the lawn and it stimulates my chrobial activity. Carbon. 1307 01:10:03.640 --> 01:10:06.640 It's a molasses base, so that's a sugar. That's a 1308 01:10:06.680 --> 01:10:08.840 carbon based product, and that's what my groups go for 1309 01:10:08.920 --> 01:10:11.439 as a carbon And when you do that, you're going 1310 01:10:11.520 --> 01:10:14.319 to see an enhancement of the root zone of the planet. 1311 01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:16.359 You're going to have the nutrients of course available that 1312 01:10:16.479 --> 01:10:18.600 nitrogen to give them a little boost. You're going to 1313 01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:21.880 find sweet grain at a lot of different places. Bearings Hardware, 1314 01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:24.279 both the one on Bissonette and Westheimer are going to 1315 01:10:24.319 --> 01:10:26.359 have it. If you want to go out to Katie, 1316 01:10:26.399 --> 01:10:29.159 if you're out in the Richmond Rosenberg area a plantation 1317 01:10:29.279 --> 01:10:31.880 ace hardware for example, what have its would kt as 1318 01:10:31.920 --> 01:10:36.199 hardware up there in Pinoak. I'm Katie. We're going to 1319 01:10:36.199 --> 01:10:38.640 go now to Paula, Missouri City. Hello Paul, and welcome 1320 01:10:38.680 --> 01:10:39.439 to garden Line. 1321 01:10:40.319 --> 01:10:44.279 YEA, good morning, Skip. I have a question regarding. 1322 01:10:43.760 --> 01:10:49.680 My oak tree. Where the main branch is split away 1323 01:10:49.720 --> 01:10:55.399 from the trunk. There's like a little well or something there. 1324 01:10:55.520 --> 01:10:58.079 Because I saw a weed growing out of there, I 1325 01:10:58.199 --> 01:10:58.920 reached up and. 1326 01:10:59.000 --> 01:10:59.680 Pulled it out. 1327 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:03.159 It had its own independent root system, so it must 1328 01:11:03.159 --> 01:11:06.239 have been a bunch of over the years, decayed leaves 1329 01:11:06.239 --> 01:11:07.520 and stuff that it's just a. 1330 01:11:08.920 --> 01:11:09.800 Mortars in there. 1331 01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:14.199 How can I fill that void so that I don't 1332 01:11:14.199 --> 01:11:14.800 get wrought? 1333 01:11:16.039 --> 01:11:18.960 Yeah, there's not a way. So if it's just the 1334 01:11:19.039 --> 01:11:24.319 outer bark that's decomposing, you probably still have healthy tissues 1335 01:11:24.399 --> 01:11:26.640 underneath it that are going to prevent access to the 1336 01:11:26.680 --> 01:11:31.680 anterior wood. Sometimes when branch angles are narrow, as the 1337 01:11:31.720 --> 01:11:35.359 trunk gets bigger and the branch gets bigger, it presses 1338 01:11:35.520 --> 01:11:38.319 that dead bark together and that's where you get those 1339 01:11:38.359 --> 01:11:41.520 areas that'll catch water, that'll rod decay, and it's a 1340 01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:43.760 great place for a seed to land and grow something. 1341 01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:48.720 But if it's bad enough, you can end up with 1342 01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:52.560 a splitting down in that area as they push each 1343 01:11:52.560 --> 01:11:56.560 other apart as they grow in diameter. There's no putting 1344 01:11:56.600 --> 01:11:58.439 something in there to fill it or fix it. In fact, 1345 01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:00.680 that'd be the wrong thing to try to do in 1346 01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:04.479 this particular situation. Uh, it's just a matter of kind 1347 01:12:04.479 --> 01:12:06.800 of it is what it is. If it's a larger branch, 1348 01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:10.199 and if you know, if you could go back in 1349 01:12:10.319 --> 01:12:13.640 time when that branch was smaller and do some pruning, 1350 01:12:13.720 --> 01:12:17.399 that that could have been alleviated. But at this point 1351 01:12:17.479 --> 01:12:19.520 in time, you might want to have an arborus look 1352 01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:21.880 at it. You know, have Martin an affordable tree. Come 1353 01:12:21.880 --> 01:12:24.119 out and take a look at it and see if 1354 01:12:24.119 --> 01:12:26.199 he would recommend anything. Because I can't see it, he 1355 01:12:26.239 --> 01:12:29.119 would be able to look at it and he may 1356 01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:32.760 recommend something. But in general that that happens even in 1357 01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:33.720 nature quite a bit. 1358 01:12:35.479 --> 01:12:38.399 Okay, I understand, okay, thank you very much. 1359 01:12:39.239 --> 01:12:43.279 All right, thanks Paul, appreciate very much you calling in 1360 01:12:43.319 --> 01:12:49.600 here at Garden Line Nature's Way. Resources is up. It's 1361 01:12:49.720 --> 01:12:52.479 north Interstate forty five toward Conro and if you haven't 1362 01:12:52.479 --> 01:12:54.239 been out there, you need you need to go check 1363 01:12:54.279 --> 01:12:57.159 it out. And here's why I say that. Number one, 1364 01:12:57.680 --> 01:13:01.119 they have a nice little garden center with a lot 1365 01:13:01.159 --> 01:13:03.920 of native plants and other things there that you can purchase. 1366 01:13:03.960 --> 01:13:06.760 That you can buy bags of compost out there. By 1367 01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:10.880 the way, their Fungal Friday sale is still on twenty 1368 01:13:10.920 --> 01:13:15.159 percent off their fungal compost and fungal compost just like 1369 01:13:15.199 --> 01:13:17.479 the leap mo compost. You can use a fungal compost 1370 01:13:17.479 --> 01:13:19.840 as a compost top dressing. If you want, you mix 1371 01:13:19.880 --> 01:13:22.840 it in the soil as a compost. You can even 1372 01:13:22.840 --> 01:13:24.399 throw it on the top of the soil. Is a 1373 01:13:24.439 --> 01:13:27.119 little bit of a multch up on the surface, but 1374 01:13:27.199 --> 01:13:30.000 primarily I would use it in the soil or on 1375 01:13:30.039 --> 01:13:34.880 the surface for a top dressing primarily, but twenty percent 1376 01:13:34.920 --> 01:13:36.680 off that's a great deal. By the way, I'm going 1377 01:13:36.720 --> 01:13:39.479 to be out there at their fall festival. I know 1378 01:13:39.520 --> 01:13:43.079 it's a long time away October twelfth. October twelfth, that's 1379 01:13:43.159 --> 01:13:45.399 a long time away, but I'll be out there and 1380 01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:47.760 from a nine point thirty or from nine to two 1381 01:13:47.800 --> 01:13:49.600 is when the festival's gone on. I'll tell you more 1382 01:13:49.600 --> 01:13:51.600 about it. You got to go to Nature's Way though. 1383 01:13:52.079 --> 01:13:55.079 They are where a lot of our best soil products 1384 01:13:55.439 --> 01:13:58.760 had their birth. That's where they began at Nature's Way 1385 01:13:58.800 --> 01:14:02.520 Resources on Sherwood Circle, just so right where fourteen eighty 1386 01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:05.079 eight comes into Interstate forty five. You just if you're 1387 01:14:05.079 --> 01:14:07.680 going north toward Conrod, just turn right, go across there 1388 01:14:07.720 --> 01:14:11.920 and across the tracks and you'll be there at Nature's Way. 1389 01:14:12.039 --> 01:14:14.439 We're going to go now out to Spring and talk 1390 01:14:14.479 --> 01:14:18.199 to John. Hey, John, welcome to Guardline. Good morning, skid 1391 01:14:18.199 --> 01:14:21.439 it for are you? I'm well, sir? How can we help? 1392 01:14:22.319 --> 01:14:24.600 I think I've got goose grass in one section of 1393 01:14:24.680 --> 01:14:28.039 my Saint Augustine lawn and I've hit it with the 1394 01:14:28.079 --> 01:14:31.359 hervis side they usually use, which I think is a 1395 01:14:31.399 --> 01:14:36.319 fahrenheit based What can knock it out with that necessarily 1396 01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:38.439 killing the Saint Augustine. 1397 01:14:39.720 --> 01:14:44.880 Yeah, that's a that is a problem. Goosegrass is. It's 1398 01:14:44.880 --> 01:14:47.760 a very troublesome weed for us here in the South, 1399 01:14:47.880 --> 01:14:50.560 especially they deal with it on golf courses and you 1400 01:14:50.600 --> 01:14:54.279 know those kinds of things. It's an annual grass though, 1401 01:14:54.359 --> 01:14:56.800 so if it truly is goosegrass, you're dealing with it's 1402 01:14:56.840 --> 01:15:01.479 an annual So I would say next, make sure you 1403 01:15:01.520 --> 01:15:05.760 get your pre emergent application of barricade down in February 1404 01:15:06.039 --> 01:15:09.640 or I'd say mid February for that one, uh, and 1405 01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:12.279 watered in really good, and then you prevent it from 1406 01:15:12.319 --> 01:15:15.319 coming back at this stage. You know, when it's later 1407 01:15:15.439 --> 01:15:19.760 on in the process, it's it's more difficult to deal with. 1408 01:15:19.840 --> 01:15:22.159 There are some products that used to be out there 1409 01:15:22.159 --> 01:15:24.720 that are no longer on the market anymore, so it 1410 01:15:24.840 --> 01:15:30.880 kind of limits us in effective post emergent goose grass control. 1411 01:15:31.399 --> 01:15:35.479 But if you want, if you wanted to dab or 1412 01:15:35.560 --> 01:15:38.600 use my weed wiper that I have online, if you 1413 01:15:38.680 --> 01:15:40.760 wanted to put a product on the sponges of the 1414 01:15:40.760 --> 01:15:43.239 weed wiper and dab it just on the goose grass 1415 01:15:43.239 --> 01:15:46.319 and not on your other grass. Uh, then you're going 1416 01:15:46.399 --> 01:15:49.840 to find that that works pretty well. Also, you know 1417 01:15:49.880 --> 01:15:51.159 it kind of you know, it comes out of the 1418 01:15:51.159 --> 01:15:53.680 ground soar, it turns flat and goes in all directions 1419 01:15:55.000 --> 01:15:57.399 you can get you can dab. I mean you couldab 1420 01:15:57.439 --> 01:15:59.520 a grass killer. You could ab life a s eate 1421 01:15:59.520 --> 01:16:03.359 type product right there on it and get it on 1422 01:16:03.399 --> 01:16:08.079 the goose grass without getting it on the desirable grass, 1423 01:16:08.199 --> 01:16:09.439 which is your turf grass. 1424 01:16:11.479 --> 01:16:15.199 Okay, yeah, it sounds like and this one hasn't been 1425 01:16:15.239 --> 01:16:18.359 around more than just from this spring and the like, 1426 01:16:18.479 --> 01:16:21.239 so I don't know if it's going to make it 1427 01:16:21.279 --> 01:16:23.479 through the winner. But if it's annual, like you said, 1428 01:16:24.680 --> 01:16:27.600 maybe the attack is in the spring. 1429 01:16:29.039 --> 01:16:32.479 Yeah. Yeah. So if you'll go online to my website 1430 01:16:32.479 --> 01:16:35.439 gardening with skip dot com, it shows how to build 1431 01:16:35.479 --> 01:16:37.760 my weed wiper. There's other ways you can build a 1432 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:40.560 weed wiper, but there's one there. And then there's a 1433 01:16:40.600 --> 01:16:42.680 thing called herbicides for the weed wiper. And if you 1434 01:16:42.720 --> 01:16:46.359 go down to the grass row, you'll see the products 1435 01:16:46.399 --> 01:16:49.159 that I would use on that goosegrass for dabbing it. 1436 01:16:49.399 --> 01:16:51.720 Dabbing it on. Okay, Okay, I did. 1437 01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:54.199 I did see the weed wiper the other day, so 1438 01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:55.159 I know where to find that. 1439 01:16:55.239 --> 01:16:56.479 So thank you for that, Skip. 1440 01:16:57.159 --> 01:16:59.520 Yeah, just a separate publication. In fact, I think it's 1441 01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:01.520 a top in the list right now if you go 1442 01:17:01.640 --> 01:17:05.159 right now, all right, thanks John, appreciate it. All right, 1443 01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:09.319 Let's go to Jim in Lake City. Hello, Jim, Welcome 1444 01:17:09.319 --> 01:17:10.439 to garden Line. 1445 01:17:10.880 --> 01:17:14.840 Morning, Skip Skip. I have a question about fruiting, Okra, 1446 01:17:15.520 --> 01:17:19.439 And you talk about a fun plant having fun in 1447 01:17:19.479 --> 01:17:23.880 your garden. That's been the most fun I've experienced a 1448 01:17:23.920 --> 01:17:26.520 long time, and going out and looking at those pods, 1449 01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:28.039 it's a challenge every day. 1450 01:17:28.840 --> 01:17:29.359 Okay, But. 1451 01:17:31.560 --> 01:17:33.359 What's the proper way to proNT it? 1452 01:17:36.159 --> 01:17:38.760 Well? Number one, you don't need to print it at 1453 01:17:38.760 --> 01:17:42.760 all as it's growing. If you planted it early in 1454 01:17:42.800 --> 01:17:45.279 the season, it tends to kind of play out toward 1455 01:17:45.760 --> 01:17:49.640 midsummer late toward the end of summer, you can cut 1456 01:17:49.680 --> 01:17:53.399 it back as far as you want. Sometimes people take 1457 01:17:53.399 --> 01:17:55.840 it back to knee high and then you'll get re 1458 01:17:55.920 --> 01:17:59.079 sprouts out of the side that will then begin fruiting 1459 01:17:59.239 --> 01:18:01.920 in time. Takes them a while to sprout and regrow. 1460 01:18:02.479 --> 01:18:05.119 But what I will often do is uh, if the 1461 01:18:05.479 --> 01:18:09.239 if the crop, the patch itself is starting to decline, 1462 01:18:09.560 --> 01:18:12.359 I'll cut back every other one, and that way I 1463 01:18:12.399 --> 01:18:14.960 still have some that I'm getting some fruit from. And 1464 01:18:15.039 --> 01:18:18.359 then I can cut the others back when those that 1465 01:18:18.439 --> 01:18:20.399 are first cut back are starting to fruit, and you 1466 01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:22.479 can kind of get a second wind out of that, 1467 01:18:22.520 --> 01:18:25.840 okra if it's declining. If not, I just leave it. 1468 01:18:25.880 --> 01:18:27.880 Mine is still producing just fine right now. 1469 01:18:28.800 --> 01:18:32.359 Well I was, I was referring more to the side branches. 1470 01:18:33.439 --> 01:18:37.319 Oh okay, do you need to do anything with them? 1471 01:18:37.880 --> 01:18:38.000 Now? 1472 01:18:38.199 --> 01:18:40.039 You can? You can cut them off or you can 1473 01:18:40.119 --> 01:18:42.720 let it make a big bush. Either way is fine. 1474 01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:45.079 If you plant it close enough, you don't get as 1475 01:18:45.199 --> 01:18:48.000 much side branching. Uh, you end up with a bunch 1476 01:18:48.000 --> 01:18:49.960 of fishing poles sticking straight up in the air. 1477 01:18:50.920 --> 01:18:54.800 Yep, okay, okay, all right, well I needed to know. Well, 1478 01:18:54.840 --> 01:18:56.399 thanks a lot. Enjoy the program. 1479 01:18:56.640 --> 01:18:59.920 All right, all I thank you, Jim. Appreciate that call. 1480 01:19:01.159 --> 01:19:04.479 I hear music that just means surprisingly enough in other 1481 01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:07.640 hours in the books here on Guardline. Freeda up there 1482 01:19:07.680 --> 01:19:10.560 in Pasadena, which didn't catch you this hour, but you'll 1483 01:19:10.600 --> 01:19:12.720 be first up when we come back. If you are 1484 01:19:12.760 --> 01:19:15.800 able to hang around. I want to remind you after 1485 01:19:15.840 --> 01:19:17.960 the show today, I'm going to make a beeline for 1486 01:19:18.039 --> 01:19:21.760 the Montgomery County Fall Home, an outdoor living show that's 1487 01:19:21.760 --> 01:19:24.000 at the Lone Star Convention Center up on the north 1488 01:19:24.039 --> 01:19:27.199 side of the east side of Conro. Come on and 1489 01:19:27.199 --> 01:19:29.800 see me. I'm be given a talk on fall gardening. 1490 01:19:30.000 --> 01:19:32.079 I'll be answering your gardening questions. I'll be there for 1491 01:19:32.119 --> 01:19:35.479 two hours from twelve to two. I hope you'll come by. 1492 01:19:36.199 --> 01:19:38.600 Of those who show up, we're going to be given 1493 01:19:38.640 --> 01:19:43.640 away some products. You might win one of organic microlife 1494 01:19:43.920 --> 01:19:48.199 products such as the green jugs of six to four 1495 01:19:48.439 --> 01:19:50.840 and the one I was just talking about earlier, the 1496 01:19:50.880 --> 01:19:55.760 bio matrix, the liquid orange label really good quality. Hey, 1497 01:19:55.760 --> 01:19:57.319 come by, you might win one. 1498 01:19:58.039 --> 01:20:01.159 This September, hummingbird migration is under way and wild Birds 1499 01:20:01.199 --> 01:20:04.119 Unlimited as your hummingbird headquarters with everything you need to 1500 01:20:04.159 --> 01:20:07.920 attract nature's most fascinating birds. Wild Birds Unlimited has six 1501 01:20:07.960 --> 01:20:10.960 Houston area stores. Go to w BU dot com slash 1502 01:20:10.960 --> 01:20:12.560 Houston to find the store nearest to you. 1503 01:20:13.319 --> 01:20:17.399 An ax sur services advertised on this program. 1504 01:20:17.439 --> 01:20:21.960 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's. 1505 01:20:28.479 --> 01:20:28.680 Rim. 1506 01:20:30.039 --> 01:20:31.720 Just watch him as we. 1507 01:20:37.279 --> 01:20:50.399 Give peace to set a sound. Hey, welcome back to 1508 01:20:50.479 --> 01:20:54.479 Garden Line. Glad to have you with us tonight. Good 1509 01:20:54.479 --> 01:20:56.520 to have you with us. We're looking forward to visiting 1510 01:20:56.800 --> 01:20:59.159 with you. I'm going to run out the phone drive 1511 01:20:59.239 --> 01:21:03.680 quick here and we're gonna to talk to Freda in Pasadena, Frida. 1512 01:21:03.720 --> 01:21:05.720 Thanks for hanging on. We want to go ahead and 1513 01:21:06.359 --> 01:21:07.720 help you right now if we can. 1514 01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:09.119 Oh. 1515 01:21:09.159 --> 01:21:13.159 Yes, I think it was very Saturday. I was listening 1516 01:21:13.199 --> 01:21:15.119 to you, and I'm really paying a whole lot of 1517 01:21:15.119 --> 01:21:17.640 attention because I didn't think I had a need, but 1518 01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:21.439 I was Hatphew who discovered this week that he's got 1519 01:21:21.439 --> 01:21:24.920 a bad problem with roots under his house in Quibentic City. 1520 01:21:25.439 --> 01:21:29.159 And I think I know there was somebody that called 1521 01:21:29.279 --> 01:21:33.039 it last week about this problem. And while you don't 1522 01:21:33.079 --> 01:21:36.600 really specialize you make, I think you did give him 1523 01:21:36.600 --> 01:21:39.840 the name of somebody that he could contact that he 1524 01:21:39.920 --> 01:21:42.079 would know how to take care of this properly. 1525 01:21:42.760 --> 01:21:45.039 And I'm wondering if you could give me that name. 1526 01:21:47.760 --> 01:21:51.960 Yes, it's fixed my slab, that foundation repair. The guy's 1527 01:21:52.000 --> 01:21:56.359 name is ty Ty Strickland and here's the phone number 1528 01:21:56.359 --> 01:22:00.960 two eight one two five five forty forty nine two 1529 01:22:01.039 --> 01:22:04.439 eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. If 1530 01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:06.439 you want to write down the website, that would be 1531 01:22:06.439 --> 01:22:09.239 helpful fix myslab dot com. 1532 01:22:09.319 --> 01:22:12.800 Yeah, all right, okay, okay, So he would know how 1533 01:22:13.239 --> 01:22:16.640 to do this properly, take care of the probably the roots, 1534 01:22:16.680 --> 01:22:18.640 and what's about the plumbing or whatever. 1535 01:22:19.039 --> 01:22:19.359 Get it. 1536 01:22:19.479 --> 01:22:21.720 Well, he's a he's a foundation expert, so he can 1537 01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:24.880 handle He can discuss all of that, including what might 1538 01:22:24.920 --> 01:22:27.920 be able to be done to the root system. Okay, 1539 01:22:28.199 --> 01:22:30.079 I would talk to Ty. I trust him. He's been 1540 01:22:30.079 --> 01:22:33.399 doing this a long time. Uh, and he definitely will 1541 01:22:33.399 --> 01:22:35.279 not steer you wrong. I know that. 1542 01:22:36.359 --> 01:22:39.399 Okay, thank you so much, you bet. 1543 01:22:39.279 --> 01:22:41.600 Thank you, Fred. I appreciate your call. Hey, folks, guess 1544 01:22:41.640 --> 01:22:43.159 what we're going to do for the next thirty minutes. 1545 01:22:43.439 --> 01:22:48.960 We're going to talk to David Williamson from RCW Nursery 1546 01:22:49.000 --> 01:22:52.039 and Williamson Tree Farm up in Plannersville. You hear me 1547 01:22:52.039 --> 01:22:53.960 talk about RCW in the past. Now I would say 1548 01:22:53.960 --> 01:22:56.399 they they have great trees because they grow gray trees 1549 01:22:56.439 --> 01:23:00.159 themselves up in Plannersville. Hey, David, welcome to garden Line. 1550 01:23:00.920 --> 01:23:04.640 Good morning, good morning, Glad you could join us. Thanks 1551 01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:07.720 for taking time out this morning, Uh, to visit with 1552 01:23:07.800 --> 01:23:09.560 us a little bit. I'm gonna pick I'm gonna pick 1553 01:23:09.600 --> 01:23:12.920 your brain about trees we got. You know, we say 1554 01:23:12.960 --> 01:23:15.079 on guard line the three things that makes our phone 1555 01:23:15.119 --> 01:23:18.359 ring or the trees, turf and tomatoes. Those three things, 1556 01:23:18.560 --> 01:23:21.760 three tea's and trees are a big part of it. 1557 01:23:22.239 --> 01:23:26.119 The most important things in life. No, seriously, everybody's worried 1558 01:23:26.159 --> 01:23:29.039 about their lawn and their trees, and so I want 1559 01:23:29.079 --> 01:23:31.119 to visit with you about some different things. I know 1560 01:23:31.199 --> 01:23:34.880 you guys grow a lot of great trees up there 1561 01:23:35.239 --> 01:23:39.039 at the tree farm in Plannersville. Uh, you and I both, 1562 01:23:39.119 --> 01:23:41.359 I think we had a was it an email or 1563 01:23:41.399 --> 01:23:44.720 I don't know. Somehow we were contacted this week and 1564 01:23:44.760 --> 01:23:48.560 someone wanted a tree for what was it like a 1565 01:23:48.600 --> 01:23:51.399 retirement neighborhood where the lots were smaller, and what were 1566 01:23:51.399 --> 01:23:54.600 some that you recommended? I believe. Uh do you remember 1567 01:23:54.600 --> 01:23:55.720 that there was discussing? 1568 01:23:56.199 --> 01:23:56.399 Yeah? 1569 01:23:56.399 --> 01:23:59.279 I do. Yeah, there's some small, small trees that do 1570 01:23:59.399 --> 01:24:01.920 well and try to Maples born. I guess twenty twenty 1571 01:24:02.000 --> 01:24:06.600 five feet tall Chinese friends a little slore growing, but 1572 01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:09.119 it's you have to twenty five pretty feet tall as well, 1573 01:24:10.199 --> 01:24:12.800 those are good for small also, the larger creakments like 1574 01:24:12.880 --> 01:24:16.880 Natchez Muskogee's, those can be a nice small tree if 1575 01:24:16.920 --> 01:24:19.119 you don't realize they really can. They put them on 1576 01:24:19.119 --> 01:24:19.600 a corner. 1577 01:24:20.119 --> 01:24:23.439 Yeah, yeah, do you guys when y'all are growing them, 1578 01:24:23.439 --> 01:24:25.920 do you do those in multi stem and single stem both? 1579 01:24:26.039 --> 01:24:28.159 Or how do you generally print those? 1580 01:24:28.319 --> 01:24:29.960 Most of them are multi but I do grow a 1581 01:24:29.960 --> 01:24:33.800 few singles, so that would be like a little single. 1582 01:24:33.359 --> 01:24:37.000 Tree trunk mini tree. Yeah, okay, well, Chinese friends one 1583 01:24:37.039 --> 01:24:38.520 of my favorite. 1584 01:24:39.680 --> 01:24:43.319 Go ahead, Oh no, it's that's my favorite tree that's 1585 01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:45.279 in my yard. I took out the three live oaks 1586 01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:46.800 they put in my yard and I put it in 1587 01:24:46.880 --> 01:24:48.159 a fringe tree in a mountain hall. 1588 01:24:49.159 --> 01:24:49.720 There you go. 1589 01:24:50.399 --> 01:24:53.880 It's well, it's just the three live oaks for a 1590 01:24:54.039 --> 01:24:55.159 fifty five foot lot. 1591 01:24:55.119 --> 01:24:59.239 Is just too much. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Uh, And 1592 01:24:59.319 --> 01:25:04.600 sometimes people forget that there are some fruit types of trees, 1593 01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:08.600 like the couple of peaches. I think you guys recommend 1594 01:25:08.600 --> 01:25:10.439 a couple of plums, And could you tell us a 1595 01:25:10.439 --> 01:25:12.479 little bit about if someone wanted to go for a 1596 01:25:12.520 --> 01:25:14.119 spring flowering tree like that. 1597 01:25:15.399 --> 01:25:17.640 Yeah, the red barren peach is another good peach, but 1598 01:25:17.920 --> 01:25:20.600 it does fruit. It's a it puts on a show 1599 01:25:20.640 --> 01:25:24.399 of pink flowers in the spring. And the other one 1600 01:25:24.479 --> 01:25:28.399 is a red peppermint peach, which is an ornamental. No fruit. 1601 01:25:29.039 --> 01:25:31.840 It's like the white and pink berganty flower. 1602 01:25:32.680 --> 01:25:36.319 Yeah, like little peppermint candies. The flowers look like peppermint 1603 01:25:36.359 --> 01:25:38.520 candy exactly. 1604 01:25:38.560 --> 01:25:41.720 They're really pretty. I mean it lasts maybe three four weeks, 1605 01:25:42.239 --> 01:25:43.920 but it is a pretty so like the French tree 1606 01:25:43.920 --> 01:25:46.800 doesn't bloom long, but it's it's a pretty tree. Mm. 1607 01:25:48.680 --> 01:25:51.479 The Mexican plum I think is a good one too, 1608 01:25:51.520 --> 01:25:53.000 isn't it. 1609 01:25:53.159 --> 01:25:56.720 Yeah, Mexican plums a good one. It'll stress out in 1610 01:25:56.760 --> 01:26:00.000 this heat, but in the summertime, but it's otherwise it's 1611 01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:05.239 a native. It does very well here. Okay, good cloud 1612 01:26:05.239 --> 01:26:08.920 purple plum is another one. It's a it's a non 1613 01:26:09.000 --> 01:26:13.840 fruiting plum that's got pretty foliage as well as some flowers. 1614 01:26:14.960 --> 01:26:19.399 Well, David, I've been a broken record. Oh yes, red 1615 01:26:19.600 --> 01:26:20.520 of course, red buds. 1616 01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:23.640 Those are those are gorgeous red buds. 1617 01:26:24.760 --> 01:26:26.680 Oh and you have the Texas that's a that's a 1618 01:26:26.800 --> 01:26:29.159 very tough one right there, kind of leathery round it 1619 01:26:29.319 --> 01:26:33.159 a little more round leaf. Yeah, that's that's exactly like that. 1620 01:26:34.520 --> 01:26:34.720 Good. 1621 01:26:36.399 --> 01:26:39.079 I've been a broken record about fall is the best 1622 01:26:39.079 --> 01:26:41.399 planning season of the year. You know, in spring we 1623 01:26:41.439 --> 01:26:44.520 all have spring fever. But it's fall, and boy do 1624 01:26:44.600 --> 01:26:48.000 we ever need to be planting? Uh? And so I 1625 01:26:48.039 --> 01:26:50.119 would like to give a start. We're gonna got a 1626 01:26:50.119 --> 01:26:52.279 couple of minutes for it to take a break, but 1627 01:26:52.319 --> 01:26:55.159 I'd like to to hear you talk about how would 1628 01:26:55.159 --> 01:26:59.880 you recommend someone getting ready for bringing a tree into plant? 1629 01:27:00.319 --> 01:27:04.800 What kinds of a prep would you recommend or Yeah, 1630 01:27:04.960 --> 01:27:06.720 other things they might need to be aware of. 1631 01:27:08.800 --> 01:27:11.119 Well, definitely, the fall is the best time of plant 1632 01:27:11.159 --> 01:27:14.560 We plant year round. But but Paul, when our time 1633 01:27:14.680 --> 01:27:20.159 is a prime time. But getting the making sure you 1634 01:27:20.239 --> 01:27:23.039 have an area that's you know, you spaced it properly, 1635 01:27:23.159 --> 01:27:25.840 and make sure you have the We use a product 1636 01:27:25.840 --> 01:27:29.520 called black humus. It's a decomposed pine that we mixed 1637 01:27:29.560 --> 01:27:32.319 in with the native soil. We dig the whole in 1638 01:27:32.359 --> 01:27:35.560 a large area inches wide, Yeah, we did. We dig 1639 01:27:35.600 --> 01:27:37.920 the whole about six inches wider than the container all 1640 01:27:37.920 --> 01:27:40.760 the way around, mix up the native sal We don't 1641 01:27:40.760 --> 01:27:42.800 want to completely take out native soil. We want to 1642 01:27:42.840 --> 01:27:46.479 somewhat get the tree acclimated through the area. And then 1643 01:27:46.520 --> 01:27:48.960 we add we add micro locke products in the whole 1644 01:27:49.039 --> 01:27:52.479 with it. And then we also use UH a product 1645 01:27:52.520 --> 01:27:55.279 called coral Pool rougt vatter We've been using thirty years 1646 01:27:55.399 --> 01:27:58.520 or so. When we use that as a rogtivator, it's organic, 1647 01:27:58.600 --> 01:28:02.039 it won't burn, and it's still We put that on 1648 01:28:02.680 --> 01:28:05.399 when we install and recommend the customer doing it. 1649 01:28:05.159 --> 01:28:08.399 Once a month. Yeah, well that's true. 1650 01:28:08.920 --> 01:28:09.520 It's critical. 1651 01:28:11.239 --> 01:28:13.119 Yes, all right, tell a little about that. 1652 01:28:14.640 --> 01:28:19.279 I mean this, you know, get into the fall, fall time, summer, 1653 01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:21.640 fall time, summertime. You get to water probably three times 1654 01:28:21.680 --> 01:28:24.359 a week when we're not getting rain, and some times 1655 01:28:24.359 --> 01:28:27.119 the rain it's not even even going to go. I'd 1656 01:28:27.159 --> 01:28:29.239 be enough for some trees, depends on the size you 1657 01:28:29.359 --> 01:28:31.920 bought it, but all right, three times a week with 1658 01:28:32.000 --> 01:28:35.399 a hose and not relying on the irrigation system or 1659 01:28:35.439 --> 01:28:39.760 having some kind of drip system or having a weanush 1660 01:28:39.760 --> 01:28:42.199 forget that little apparass we sell that goes around. Yeah, 1661 01:28:42.399 --> 01:28:43.279 it goes around the tree. 1662 01:28:43.560 --> 01:28:46.960 Yeah. Yeah, well, let's come back to that. They're telling 1663 01:28:47.000 --> 01:28:48.720 me in my ear, we gotta go to commercial and 1664 01:28:48.760 --> 01:28:51.359 I'll come right back with you, folks. Keep listening. We're 1665 01:28:51.359 --> 01:28:53.479 going to spend the next segment also talking with David 1666 01:28:53.520 --> 01:28:57.279 about trees and tree success. We'll be right back hardline folks. 1667 01:28:57.319 --> 01:28:59.640 We are glad to have you with us and looking 1668 01:28:59.680 --> 01:29:00.880 forward to talking to you in a bit. 1669 01:29:00.880 --> 01:29:01.079 Here. 1670 01:29:01.159 --> 01:29:05.159 Right now, we're visiting with David Williamson of RCW Nurseres. 1671 01:29:05.199 --> 01:29:09.199 That's the garden center where Tomball Parkway two forty nine 1672 01:29:09.239 --> 01:29:11.199 comes into beut Wag eight. It's really easy to get 1673 01:29:11.239 --> 01:29:13.880 to there and they're always loaded up with stuff. He 1674 01:29:13.960 --> 01:29:16.800 also is one of the owners of the tree farm 1675 01:29:16.960 --> 01:29:19.520 up in Plantersville where they get their trees from, and 1676 01:29:19.720 --> 01:29:22.520 that is our topic right now. We're talking about trees 1677 01:29:22.600 --> 01:29:26.960 because right now is the time when we need to 1678 01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:30.680 be getting ready for the best planning season of the year, 1679 01:29:30.800 --> 01:29:33.199 especially with the ornamentals. You can plan them twelve months 1680 01:29:33.199 --> 01:29:35.720 out of the year here, but the best one is 1681 01:29:35.720 --> 01:29:38.319 coming up. And so that's why I wanted David to 1682 01:29:38.319 --> 01:29:40.880 talk to us a little bit about trees. David, we 1683 01:29:41.199 --> 01:29:44.279 were discussing, you know, the importance of watering a tree 1684 01:29:44.319 --> 01:29:47.960 in really well, you know, when you plant it, and 1685 01:29:48.000 --> 01:29:51.079 you mentioned the little tree hugger sprinklers that you put 1686 01:29:51.079 --> 01:29:52.840 around the tree makes it really easy to water a 1687 01:29:52.840 --> 01:29:56.239 small area or a large area. But what people I 1688 01:29:56.239 --> 01:30:00.319 think don't realize is, especially during the summer heat, trees 1689 01:30:00.439 --> 01:30:03.760 need a little drink pretty often when they first get planted. 1690 01:30:03.800 --> 01:30:06.079 I think the Forest Service says three times a week 1691 01:30:06.359 --> 01:30:08.199 a couple of gallons, three times a week or something, 1692 01:30:08.279 --> 01:30:10.760 depends on the size of the tree, and then after 1693 01:30:10.800 --> 01:30:13.359 a month two times a week, and after another month 1694 01:30:13.399 --> 01:30:17.640 one time a week or something. But people don't realize 1695 01:30:17.640 --> 01:30:21.319 that while a big mature tree gets watered very seldom, 1696 01:30:22.039 --> 01:30:26.319 more as a rescue these little trees they need a 1697 01:30:26.359 --> 01:30:28.680 lot of help because they have such a small, confined 1698 01:30:28.720 --> 01:30:32.479 root system for a good while after planting. Do you 1699 01:30:32.560 --> 01:30:36.600 want to comment on that? 1700 01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:38.880 That is the most critical thing to me. They're water 1701 01:30:39.560 --> 01:30:41.880 They're water daily in a container. So when you put 1702 01:30:41.920 --> 01:30:47.039 them from a container to the ground, they they need 1703 01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:49.079 to make sure they're going to not dry out as quickly, 1704 01:30:49.159 --> 01:30:51.720 but they need to make sure they get soaked and 1705 01:30:51.760 --> 01:30:56.239 not rely on the grass sprinkler system. You know, it 1706 01:30:56.319 --> 01:30:58.279 depends on the size of the tree, but definitely the 1707 01:30:58.520 --> 01:31:00.000 amount depends on the side. 1708 01:31:01.279 --> 01:31:04.359 Okay, well, and that's true and again, folks, the Texas 1709 01:31:04.399 --> 01:31:07.880 Forest Service website has got information on watering new trees 1710 01:31:07.920 --> 01:31:09.840 and it is very very helpfully even have a thank 1711 01:31:09.880 --> 01:31:12.920 some video on there. H Yeah, I you know, I 1712 01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:16.279 I tell people and this is this makes sense to me, 1713 01:31:16.439 --> 01:31:18.479 so I hope it makes sense to other people. But 1714 01:31:19.119 --> 01:31:22.119 when you plant a tree or shrub, pretend that you 1715 01:31:22.279 --> 01:31:25.479 just took the pot with the plant and buried the 1716 01:31:25.520 --> 01:31:29.800 pot in the ground. And if you pretend that, don't 1717 01:31:29.800 --> 01:31:32.279 do that, but pretend that then when you go to water, 1718 01:31:32.479 --> 01:31:35.520 you would know exactly where to water, right because you know, 1719 01:31:35.600 --> 01:31:38.239 watering two feet out away from it, there's no roots 1720 01:31:38.239 --> 01:31:41.840 out there, and so now gradually roots move out. But 1721 01:31:41.920 --> 01:31:45.239 I think people if they will direct that water to 1722 01:31:45.359 --> 01:31:48.159 the that around the plant, knowing as you said, they 1723 01:31:48.239 --> 01:31:50.439 get water every day in the nursery, so now it's 1724 01:31:50.520 --> 01:31:52.600 in the ground, you still need to do that for 1725 01:31:52.600 --> 01:31:53.239 a little while. 1726 01:31:54.800 --> 01:31:59.880 That's right. Let me let me ask issue with trees. 1727 01:32:01.399 --> 01:32:03.680 You mean the post plant care people not taking care 1728 01:32:03.720 --> 01:32:04.560 of them. 1729 01:32:04.760 --> 01:32:07.479 Well, just not realizing the water is so critical and 1730 01:32:07.800 --> 01:32:10.600 we try to relate, okay jeweled into them. But it's 1731 01:32:10.960 --> 01:32:13.159 especially in the summertime that you can't go on vacation 1732 01:32:13.279 --> 01:32:17.840 for two weeks and you know and expect your irrigation 1733 01:32:17.960 --> 01:32:22.560 system to handle unless you have a designated gip line 1734 01:32:22.800 --> 01:32:23.720 to that tree. 1735 01:32:24.640 --> 01:32:27.600 Yeah, that's a that is a that is a good point. 1736 01:32:28.079 --> 01:32:30.760 Everybody wants to plant a tree and hang a hammock 1737 01:32:30.800 --> 01:32:33.479 in it as soon as possible in order to in 1738 01:32:33.560 --> 01:32:36.520 order to get from planting to hammock, you got to 1739 01:32:36.560 --> 01:32:38.960 get a lot of growth. And you know, fertilizer is important, 1740 01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:43.079 but boy, watering is more important in terms of successful 1741 01:32:43.199 --> 01:32:48.439 establishment and fast growth even than the important editions of fertilizer. 1742 01:32:49.319 --> 01:32:53.640 So okay, let me ask you a question. What if 1743 01:32:53.680 --> 01:32:56.000 I were to ask you, what are some of your 1744 01:32:56.119 --> 01:33:00.279 favorite landscape trees for eastern area. We talked about, you know, 1745 01:33:00.359 --> 01:33:03.600 some of the smaller trees, uh Chinese friend, some of 1746 01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:07.800 the Plumb's beach and so on. Uh, what what would 1747 01:33:07.840 --> 01:33:11.560 be some of your favorite larger trees for a landscape 1748 01:33:11.600 --> 01:33:15.199 medium to large size. 1749 01:33:15.279 --> 01:33:18.720 I like the chickapan oaks. I like the santelepe red maple. 1750 01:33:18.760 --> 01:33:22.680 It's an ace or that we grow. It's a there's 1751 01:33:22.680 --> 01:33:25.640 a slick cutting off of a female. That's a tree 1752 01:33:25.640 --> 01:33:28.119 that has a little red blooms and always spring, that's 1753 01:33:28.119 --> 01:33:32.439 slowly showstopper in the spring. That's a very fast growing 1754 01:33:32.520 --> 01:33:37.399 shade tree. And it's you know, it's usually well here 1755 01:33:37.399 --> 01:33:40.600 in town or out throughout the southeast part Sexes. But 1756 01:33:43.239 --> 01:33:48.199 I like the Mexican white oaks too, corcous, polymorphose. Okay, 1757 01:33:48.439 --> 01:33:50.439 I'm always a big thing shooting the nut all the red, 1758 01:33:50.479 --> 01:33:55.359 all red, all red oaks. She more than nuttall mm hmm. Yeah. 1759 01:33:55.720 --> 01:33:59.239 And you guys, you guys carry those. I was you know, 1760 01:33:59.279 --> 01:34:01.279 I'm a fan of ot all oak, especially because a 1761 01:34:01.319 --> 01:34:02.880 lot of our areas over here can be kind of 1762 01:34:02.880 --> 01:34:06.439 poorly drained, and so having a having an oak that's 1763 01:34:06.439 --> 01:34:08.119 a little more tolerant of that, which I think not 1764 01:34:08.199 --> 01:34:10.800 all is is a good thing. I'm glad you guys 1765 01:34:10.840 --> 01:34:11.479 carried those. 1766 01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:16.119 Yeah, and it seemed to grow a little faster to 1767 01:34:16.159 --> 01:34:20.159 me than the smoorg you know, growing out side by side. 1768 01:34:20.199 --> 01:34:25.000 I noticed that, Okay. I also like the Mexican Mexican sycamores. 1769 01:34:25.079 --> 01:34:27.000 It seems to be a good one the foliage and 1770 01:34:27.079 --> 01:34:31.439 also the the trunk like American too, but the the 1771 01:34:31.479 --> 01:34:34.439 sycamore has always been a good one for for some 1772 01:34:34.520 --> 01:34:36.960 texture in the foliage and also the chunk. 1773 01:34:37.079 --> 01:34:41.239 Yeah, would you would you elaborate, like, what about the 1774 01:34:41.279 --> 01:34:44.359 foliage and trunk do you like on a Mexican sycamore. 1775 01:34:45.119 --> 01:34:48.239 The Mexican sycamore has a silvery back on the foliage 1776 01:34:49.000 --> 01:34:54.000 and then the the Americans just more of a matt finish, 1777 01:34:54.159 --> 01:34:58.680 I mean, just a reggae back and then right, I 1778 01:34:58.680 --> 01:35:02.680 think that Mexicans have that silver silvery on the front 1779 01:35:02.680 --> 01:35:06.239 of the leaf as well, and you get the real 1780 01:35:06.600 --> 01:35:08.760 she had the bark and get the pretty bark every time. 1781 01:35:09.920 --> 01:35:13.960 Yeah, the Mexican sycamore seems a little less prone to 1782 01:35:14.000 --> 01:35:17.600 some of the problems that plague the American sycamore. 1783 01:35:18.800 --> 01:35:21.680 Right, they're more more resistance and thragnos. 1784 01:35:22.239 --> 01:35:22.600 Mhm. 1785 01:35:23.199 --> 01:35:26.520 That's another function. So it's it's I mean for to 1786 01:35:26.520 --> 01:35:28.840 go with the to go with the Mexican. 1787 01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:34.760 Well, and that's a lot. That's another go ahead. 1788 01:35:36.800 --> 01:35:39.199 We have this new live oak where we're growing called 1789 01:35:39.319 --> 01:35:43.359 Joan Leonardi live oak. It's a it's a it's actually 1790 01:35:43.439 --> 01:35:46.840 a subspecies of Circus Virginiana that's the one that's found 1791 01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:50.239 by this guy in Arizona. Gets twenty five thirty feet tall, 1792 01:35:50.560 --> 01:35:53.000 but it's a small, medium tree. It's a good treet 1793 01:35:53.039 --> 01:35:56.920 it's evergreen. It's really pretty. I got them in thirty 1794 01:35:56.920 --> 01:35:59.680 gallons down. That's I'm really pressed how it grows. 1795 01:36:01.359 --> 01:36:06.119 That's not that is a more compact size for live oaks. 1796 01:36:06.119 --> 01:36:07.520 You know they can get a lot bigger than that 1797 01:36:07.600 --> 01:36:08.199 over time. 1798 01:36:08.520 --> 01:36:11.239 Oh yeah, it's yeah. I know what else. I surprised 1799 01:36:11.279 --> 01:36:13.079 myself this fact. And the guy so he has one 1800 01:36:13.119 --> 01:36:15.840 growing probably about fifteen twenty years. It's probably about twenty 1801 01:36:15.880 --> 01:36:18.079 five thirty feet tall and wide. 1802 01:36:18.319 --> 01:36:22.920 Wow. Okay, that's like, well, you know, back in the day, 1803 01:36:23.079 --> 01:36:27.520 we had these huge properties, you know, the typical downtown. 1804 01:36:27.600 --> 01:36:29.079 You know, you live in an old neighborhood and you 1805 01:36:29.079 --> 01:36:32.000 have a third of an acre or bigger lawn. And 1806 01:36:32.039 --> 01:36:35.720 now with every subdivision development, it seems like the lot 1807 01:36:35.800 --> 01:36:38.359 lines keep getting closer and closer where you can reach 1808 01:36:38.399 --> 01:36:41.760 out your house and window and close your neighbors blind 1809 01:36:42.600 --> 01:36:44.479 because there's no room between the houses. 1810 01:36:44.880 --> 01:36:45.000 Uh. 1811 01:36:45.359 --> 01:36:51.279 It's finding smaller, more compact yeah, yeah, finding smaller, more 1812 01:36:51.319 --> 01:36:56.560 compact versions of trees like this live oak. You're just 1813 01:36:56.640 --> 01:36:57.960 mentioning that's a great idea. 1814 01:36:58.960 --> 01:37:00.800 Yeah, I'm anxious to see how grows. We just put 1815 01:37:00.840 --> 01:37:02.960 some in the forty five and bigger pots at the farm, 1816 01:37:03.039 --> 01:37:08.239 and we've planted quite a few over the last i'd 1817 01:37:08.239 --> 01:37:10.800 say the last month and a half. I'm anxious to 1818 01:37:10.800 --> 01:37:11.479 see how they do. 1819 01:37:13.079 --> 01:37:14.439 Good and good. 1820 01:37:15.039 --> 01:37:16.720 The other trees I like is I like the gd 1821 01:37:16.800 --> 01:37:19.279 blanch of magnoiees for bigger magnoies. I do like your 1822 01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:23.560 little gems for a smaller magnolia. And Teddy Bear. 1823 01:37:26.119 --> 01:37:28.960 Teddy Bear, doesn't it have more of the brownish color 1824 01:37:29.119 --> 01:37:32.000 on the on the fuzzy foliage the bottom of the leaf. 1825 01:37:33.119 --> 01:37:34.760 On the back of a bit. And it's also one 1826 01:37:34.760 --> 01:37:36.640 of golos you get twenty feet tall. I've never seen 1827 01:37:36.680 --> 01:37:40.880 one really fully grown, but that's what the gentleman that 1828 01:37:40.920 --> 01:37:42.840 patted it said. It only gets twenty feet tall. 1829 01:37:43.960 --> 01:37:48.159 Wow, that is very compact. Little gym is more compact 1830 01:37:48.239 --> 01:37:51.159 and growth habit. But it keeps growing. It gets a 1831 01:37:51.159 --> 01:37:51.880 little bigger than that. 1832 01:37:52.000 --> 01:37:55.319 It gets the better probably, but it also is the 1833 01:37:55.319 --> 01:37:58.840 best bloomber in my opinion too, the little gym. 1834 01:37:58.920 --> 01:38:04.479 Okay, yeah, just it's very profuse blow Okay, all right? 1835 01:38:05.279 --> 01:38:09.600 Any other any other favorites out there? We shift gears here. 1836 01:38:11.159 --> 01:38:13.720 I like. I don't see a lot of people ask 1837 01:38:13.800 --> 01:38:16.159 for with the swamp by color oaks another big leaf 1838 01:38:16.199 --> 01:38:19.760 oak tree. And the burrow is another good one. Flower 1839 01:38:19.800 --> 01:38:22.239 growing trees, but they're really big leaf oaks. 1840 01:38:23.319 --> 01:38:29.720 Yeah yeah they they burroke bur oaks can get huge 1841 01:38:29.880 --> 01:38:30.920 in time, but their. 1842 01:38:30.760 --> 01:38:34.920 Beautiful massive there over night. 1843 01:38:36.079 --> 01:38:38.920 Yeah. Now the swamp by color, I've never grown that one. 1844 01:38:39.000 --> 01:38:40.640 That's an it's a white oak. 1845 01:38:40.560 --> 01:38:43.960 Right, it's a white oak family. Yeah, that's a military 1846 01:38:43.960 --> 01:38:46.600 I forgot I mentioned it is the white oak. I 1847 01:38:46.720 --> 01:38:51.920 like the carcass uh alba. It's it's always great fall color. 1848 01:38:54.479 --> 01:38:58.520 Okay, I like that white as well. You know, fall 1849 01:38:58.600 --> 01:39:02.479 color is is difficult to come by as far south 1850 01:39:02.520 --> 01:39:07.039 as we are, and probably the best fall colored plants 1851 01:39:07.439 --> 01:39:13.319 shouldn't be planted here. Things like Chinese tallow does does 1852 01:39:13.399 --> 01:39:14.399 really well as fall. 1853 01:39:17.039 --> 01:39:17.279 Yeah. 1854 01:39:17.359 --> 01:39:23.279 Yeah, well right, but gray color, but don't grow it. Yes, 1855 01:39:23.319 --> 01:39:27.199 we comes, okay, you guys grow the slender silhouette. Right. 1856 01:39:28.720 --> 01:39:32.920 Yeah, that's another good one. That's upright, good for very 1857 01:39:32.960 --> 01:39:35.560 small space if people using for baffles or for a break. 1858 01:39:36.680 --> 01:39:39.600 Not really more of an accent tree than anything, but 1859 01:39:40.880 --> 01:39:42.159 a really good fall color. 1860 01:39:43.159 --> 01:39:45.800 I was driving through a neighborhood this past week and 1861 01:39:45.960 --> 01:39:48.399 saw some of those lined up right beside the driveway 1862 01:39:48.399 --> 01:39:51.119 and they probably had like only four feet from the 1863 01:39:51.199 --> 01:39:53.520 driveway to the fence, and these things were just going 1864 01:39:53.560 --> 01:39:55.680 straight up and I think get a little wider than four. 1865 01:39:55.760 --> 01:39:58.960 But you know, it was not many trees would fit 1866 01:39:59.039 --> 01:40:01.079 that area, but this one sure looked good. They looted 1867 01:40:01.119 --> 01:40:03.720 a line of soldiers going down the driveway. 1868 01:40:04.239 --> 01:40:06.920 Very pretty tree. They just people don't don't mind them 1869 01:40:07.000 --> 01:40:09.279 dropping their leaves. They're they're really good tree. 1870 01:40:10.119 --> 01:40:17.960 Mm hmm. Those are all yeah, those are all good suggestions. 1871 01:40:18.000 --> 01:40:21.560 And you know, with fall being the prime time uh 1872 01:40:21.680 --> 01:40:26.880 to to plant woody ornamentals, especially uh time to get 1873 01:40:26.960 --> 01:40:29.039 the soil ready. David was talking about some things to 1874 01:40:29.119 --> 01:40:31.800 do uh that they do there and then the planning 1875 01:40:31.840 --> 01:40:34.960 process some things that they do. But as you really 1876 01:40:35.039 --> 01:40:37.159 want to encourage you folks, remember the best time to 1877 01:40:37.199 --> 01:40:39.720 plant a tree was forty years ago. Second best times today. 1878 01:40:39.840 --> 01:40:43.960 In other words, don't wait, let's get it done. What 1879 01:40:44.079 --> 01:40:45.920 is that? What is the saying, David, something like a 1880 01:40:46.039 --> 01:40:51.600 society goes is great when old men plant trees that 1881 01:40:51.640 --> 01:40:54.199 they'll never sit underneath the shade of themselves. 1882 01:40:54.479 --> 01:40:56.199 So yeah, that's true. 1883 01:40:56.479 --> 01:41:01.920 I think that's a great so yeah, an o fello 1884 01:41:01.960 --> 01:41:05.319 up in Willis, Texas showed me pictures one time and 1885 01:41:05.680 --> 01:41:08.520 Jim Smith of a tree that he planted when he 1886 01:41:08.560 --> 01:41:11.239 was young at their little house, like in the nineteen forties. 1887 01:41:11.720 --> 01:41:13.319 And then he showed me the picture of the tree 1888 01:41:13.319 --> 01:41:15.279 today and it was like you could hardly see the house. 1889 01:41:15.319 --> 01:41:18.520 The tree was so big and beautiful, and it just 1890 01:41:18.640 --> 01:41:21.199 reminds me of the fact that you pick a good tree, 1891 01:41:21.239 --> 01:41:23.119 you plant it right, and you take care of it right, 1892 01:41:23.920 --> 01:41:27.520 and for decades and decades people enjoy it. David, I'm 1893 01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:30.439 so sorry we're already out of time. I've been had 1894 01:41:30.439 --> 01:41:33.479 a good time. Thanks for taking time out of your morning. 1895 01:41:34.359 --> 01:41:36.000 Tell us a little bit about now I talk about 1896 01:41:36.079 --> 01:41:37.840 RCW all the time. Tell us a little bit about 1897 01:41:37.840 --> 01:41:42.039 what people can how people can get to Williamson Tree 1898 01:41:42.079 --> 01:41:44.479 Farm and your hours and stuff. If they wanted to 1899 01:41:44.520 --> 01:41:47.119 come just by tree directly up there and Planetsville. 1900 01:41:48.439 --> 01:41:52.239 Yeah, you can go to our website Williamsontreefarm dot com 1901 01:41:52.279 --> 01:41:54.239 and then you can also make an appointment on there. 1902 01:41:54.319 --> 01:42:00.239 We take a tour of the farm and also the 1903 01:42:00.279 --> 01:42:02.720 hours are from usually seven to twelve and then one 1904 01:42:02.760 --> 01:42:06.680 to five. They don't be taking all right much all right, 1905 01:42:06.720 --> 01:42:10.920 and then we do have we do sell to the 1906 01:42:10.920 --> 01:42:12.039 public up there as well. 1907 01:42:13.159 --> 01:42:16.880 Okay, Hey, thanks so much. I'm glad we were able 1908 01:42:16.920 --> 01:42:19.079 to squeeze in at least as much as we did. 1909 01:42:19.479 --> 01:42:22.640 You're a wealth of knowledge and a pleasure to visit with, David. 1910 01:42:22.640 --> 01:42:23.680 Thanks again for coming on. 1911 01:42:25.079 --> 01:42:25.680 Thank you skip. 1912 01:42:26.359 --> 01:42:29.279 Hey, glad you're listening today. Thanks for listening. If you 1913 01:42:29.319 --> 01:42:31.279 would like to give me a call and talk about 1914 01:42:31.319 --> 01:42:34.720 the things that you have questions about. Seven one three 1915 01:42:34.840 --> 01:42:37.000 two win two k t RH. I want to thank 1916 01:42:37.079 --> 01:42:40.800 David Williamson again from RCW Nursery and Williamson Tree Farm 1917 01:42:40.840 --> 01:42:43.520 for being on with those last couple of segments. Uh, 1918 01:42:43.600 --> 01:42:47.439 just kind of picking his brain on things related to trees. Remember, folks, 1919 01:42:47.520 --> 01:42:52.399 fall is for planting and especially woody ornamentals, tree shrubs 1920 01:42:52.399 --> 01:42:56.720 and woody vines. Also perennials. Fall is for planting. It's 1921 01:42:56.720 --> 01:43:00.479 the best time of the year, perennial herbs, perennial flow hours, 1922 01:43:00.600 --> 01:43:05.239 ornamental grasses. We could go on and onund most groundcovers 1923 01:43:05.239 --> 01:43:07.880 that we have, this is the time to get them planted, 1924 01:43:08.039 --> 01:43:11.000 and now's the time to make sure that you've done 1925 01:43:11.039 --> 01:43:13.520 what you need to do to get that soil in 1926 01:43:13.600 --> 01:43:16.479 its top condition and Landscaper's Pride has a number of 1927 01:43:16.479 --> 01:43:18.960 products that will help you do just that. They've got 1928 01:43:18.960 --> 01:43:23.840 the rose mix, for example, super good product. It says rose, 1929 01:43:24.000 --> 01:43:26.640 but any kind of tree shrub, even a perennial, could 1930 01:43:26.680 --> 01:43:29.960 go into a rose mix and do really well. They 1931 01:43:29.960 --> 01:43:33.199 have a premium potting mix, very very high quality potting 1932 01:43:33.239 --> 01:43:36.439 soil that includes all the things you need to have 1933 01:43:36.520 --> 01:43:39.600 success with that plant, including good drainage. But it holds water, 1934 01:43:39.680 --> 01:43:42.359 but it's got the microbial content and all the stuff 1935 01:43:42.359 --> 01:43:44.680 that makes plants thrive. Do you have areas of the 1936 01:43:44.760 --> 01:43:46.960 lawn that are low you need to fill in? How 1937 01:43:46.960 --> 01:43:51.199 about their top soil? It is a sandy loam types 1938 01:43:51.239 --> 01:43:53.600 of soil that you put down in there. They have 1939 01:43:53.760 --> 01:43:55.760 versions of it. You can blend a little compost with 1940 01:43:55.800 --> 01:43:58.760 it if you want, But that does really good because 1941 01:43:59.000 --> 01:44:02.199 it does fill those areas and doesn't sink down like 1942 01:44:02.399 --> 01:44:06.359 a compost alone would. As it decomposes away. The top 1943 01:44:06.399 --> 01:44:09.520 soil itself is going to hold up much better now. 1944 01:44:09.760 --> 01:44:12.159 Black velvet mulch on top of the soil. It's always 1945 01:44:12.199 --> 01:44:15.720 time to mulch in the summer heat. Yes, you have 1946 01:44:15.800 --> 01:44:19.560 to mulch with rain and erosion and crusting. Yes, you 1947 01:44:19.640 --> 01:44:23.800 need to mulch. Maintaining the soil moisture. Mulch is important, 1948 01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:26.840 perhaps the most one of the most important things with 1949 01:44:26.920 --> 01:44:29.039 their black velvet mulch is it's going to do an 1950 01:44:29.039 --> 01:44:32.680 excellent job at suppressing weed seeds and it looks beautiful. 1951 01:44:32.720 --> 01:44:37.640 It's not dyet, it's naturally black velvet. Again from Landscaper's Pride. 1952 01:44:37.640 --> 01:44:40.199 You can go to Landscaperspride dot com find out more 1953 01:44:40.239 --> 01:44:43.000 about it if you want to learn more or where 1954 01:44:43.039 --> 01:44:46.079 to get on tea. This are widely available. Those products 1955 01:44:46.119 --> 01:44:50.800 are very, very widely available. We were talking about Microlife 1956 01:44:50.800 --> 01:44:53.840 earlier on and a lot of the different products they have. 1957 01:44:53.880 --> 01:44:56.239 I'm always trying out new ones. They've got several new 1958 01:44:56.239 --> 01:45:00.079 products on the market, trying those out, seeing how they do. 1959 01:45:00.199 --> 01:45:02.239 So when I talk to you, I can tell you, well, 1960 01:45:02.359 --> 01:45:04.319 I've done it, this is what it did, this is 1961 01:45:04.319 --> 01:45:08.680 how it worked. I think that's very very important. Microlife 1962 01:45:09.119 --> 01:45:14.079 focuses on creating products that are going to stimulate the 1963 01:45:14.119 --> 01:45:18.960 microbial activity. They also contain microbes, so they add to 1964 01:45:19.000 --> 01:45:23.399 the microbial levels, but they build the soil. That's the secret. 1965 01:45:23.439 --> 01:45:28.000 You know, humates plus the final decomposition of compost is 1966 01:45:28.079 --> 01:45:33.079 humous and humates plus is the zero four fertilizer applied 1967 01:45:33.439 --> 01:45:37.000 periodically over the course of the years. Just each time 1968 01:45:37.039 --> 01:45:38.680 you do it, it's going to make the soil a 1969 01:45:38.680 --> 01:45:41.279 little bit better, a little bit better, a little bit better, 1970 01:45:41.479 --> 01:45:43.880 and you end up with something high quality. And you 1971 01:45:43.880 --> 01:45:47.039 can do that whenever you're doing any of your fertilizations. 1972 01:45:47.039 --> 01:45:49.880 You know it's fall. Fertilization is coming up here really soon, 1973 01:45:50.439 --> 01:45:53.720 and with the organics like microlife, you're going to get 1974 01:45:53.720 --> 01:45:58.239 a release as microbes break those products down, and so 1975 01:45:58.960 --> 01:46:01.840 it's time to start looking at those. But always remember 1976 01:46:01.880 --> 01:46:05.199 to include that hemates plus when you do or anytime 1977 01:46:05.199 --> 01:46:06.239 of the year. You don't have to do it when 1978 01:46:06.279 --> 01:46:08.760 you're fertilize because it works really well. I'm going to 1979 01:46:08.840 --> 01:46:10.720 go now out to the woodlands and we're going to 1980 01:46:10.800 --> 01:46:13.439 talk to Susan. Hello, Susan, welcome to garden Line. 1981 01:46:14.600 --> 01:46:18.439 Thank you Skip, thanks for taking my call. I wanted 1982 01:46:18.439 --> 01:46:21.960 to ask you if it would be okay to put 1983 01:46:22.000 --> 01:46:26.520 out my weed beater and bug out today or to 1984 01:46:26.600 --> 01:46:29.319 wait until after we have all these rains which we're 1985 01:46:29.319 --> 01:46:32.359 supposed to have in a couple of days. 1986 01:46:33.640 --> 01:46:37.399 You can do them both. Today if you want, are 1987 01:46:37.439 --> 01:46:39.960 you on the bug out? You could wait until after 1988 01:46:40.000 --> 01:46:41.840 the range. You're still going to want a little bit 1989 01:46:41.880 --> 01:46:44.560 of water to wash the product off the granule. But 1990 01:46:44.560 --> 01:46:47.079 if we're going to get gully washers upon gully washers, 1991 01:46:47.760 --> 01:46:49.520 it might be good to hold off on the bugout. 1992 01:46:49.880 --> 01:46:52.840 You can do the weed beater today, because if you 1993 01:46:52.960 --> 01:46:56.720 even have a few hours for it to move into 1994 01:46:56.760 --> 01:46:59.439 the plant, it's going to go ahead and finish its 1995 01:46:59.560 --> 01:47:02.560 job during the time when the rain is coming the 1996 01:47:02.600 --> 01:47:05.640 rest of the week. So we got plenty of time. 1997 01:47:05.720 --> 01:47:07.560 If you could do it today or tomorrow, I would 1998 01:47:07.560 --> 01:47:09.800 get it done then, just to be well ahead of 1999 01:47:09.840 --> 01:47:11.600 that rain, and you'll be okay on the bug out. 2000 01:47:12.880 --> 01:47:14.039 Okay, great, I'm scared. 2001 01:47:14.079 --> 01:47:14.479 I'm sorry. 2002 01:47:14.680 --> 01:47:17.800 I'm sorry. I said that backwards. I said that backwards. 2003 01:47:17.840 --> 01:47:20.439 At the end, let me let me clarify you. I said, 2004 01:47:20.439 --> 01:47:21.920 you'll be fine on the bug out. I mean you'll 2005 01:47:21.920 --> 01:47:24.000 be fine on the weed beater. The weed beater gets 2006 01:47:24.000 --> 01:47:26.399 on the plant, moves into the weed, and then from 2007 01:47:26.439 --> 01:47:28.319 there it doesn't matter if it rains the bug out. 2008 01:47:28.319 --> 01:47:29.760 I think I would hold since we're gonna have a 2009 01:47:29.800 --> 01:47:32.760 lot of days of rain, all things being think got 2010 01:47:32.760 --> 01:47:34.800 hold off and then okay, thank. 2011 01:47:34.640 --> 01:47:38.279 You, Okay, thank you. 2012 01:47:38.600 --> 01:47:44.239 Sometimes sometimes I get tongue tied and crossed up. Thanks 2013 01:47:44.279 --> 01:47:47.239 that I'm trying to say. Uh, you know, Southwest Fertilizer 2014 01:47:47.319 --> 01:47:48.920 is a place where you're going to get products. I'm 2015 01:47:48.960 --> 01:47:51.199 just talking about microlife they've got that, They've got ever 2016 01:47:51.279 --> 01:47:55.319 fertilizer I talk about. Uh, Southwest has every product you 2017 01:47:55.359 --> 01:47:58.079 can imagine. If you hear me recommend something, it's going 2018 01:47:58.119 --> 01:48:00.680 to be at Southwest because they have every thing. They 2019 01:48:00.680 --> 01:48:03.199 don't have it, you don't need it. That's how I 2020 01:48:03.279 --> 01:48:05.920 like to put it, because it's a fact. Southwest Fertilizer 2021 01:48:06.359 --> 01:48:09.720 is on the corner of Bissonette and Runwick in Southwest Houston. 2022 01:48:09.800 --> 01:48:12.159 That makes sense. It's been around since nineteen fifty five. 2023 01:48:13.119 --> 01:48:17.079 That store has a selection of synthetic and organic products 2024 01:48:17.159 --> 01:48:20.239 no matter what you need, even tools. You need a tool, 2025 01:48:20.520 --> 01:48:23.479 well you're gonna have to shop an eighty foot wall 2026 01:48:23.640 --> 01:48:27.600 of all kinds of tools, including the little grabber device 2027 01:48:27.640 --> 01:48:29.560 that you used to make my weed wipe. Make my 2028 01:48:29.640 --> 01:48:33.159 weed wiper that I keep talking about online. Bob's got that, yep, 2029 01:48:33.199 --> 01:48:36.439 of course he does. He has everything. Southwest Fertilizer Dot 2030 01:48:36.479 --> 01:48:40.279 com is the website. Check him out. Everything you need 2031 01:48:40.399 --> 01:48:44.960 is gonna be right there. Let's go now to Sheldon, Texas. 2032 01:48:45.039 --> 01:48:46.439 Is that right and talk to Glenn. 2033 01:48:47.439 --> 01:48:48.520 Oh yeah, sir, Like. 2034 01:48:49.680 --> 01:48:53.199 Okay, Glenn, I got about almost a minute, and then 2035 01:48:53.239 --> 01:48:55.640 we'll go to Brighton finish up with your question. So 2036 01:48:55.680 --> 01:48:57.119 what is the basic question? 2037 01:48:58.199 --> 01:49:00.720 The basic question is I want to plant some type 2038 01:49:00.760 --> 01:49:04.439 of a cane as a proxy barrier down a fans 2039 01:49:04.479 --> 01:49:09.279 line on my propey. Is there a difference between cane 2040 01:49:09.279 --> 01:49:09.960 and bamboo? 2041 01:49:11.520 --> 01:49:15.479 Yes, the cane you see, there's a thing called Georgia 2042 01:49:15.560 --> 01:49:18.319 cane you see on road side sometimes sort of growing wild. 2043 01:49:18.399 --> 01:49:20.960 It's a big, old, floppy thing. I wouldn't recommend it 2044 01:49:21.640 --> 01:49:26.960 down a property really. Bamboos are fine, but bamboos run 2045 01:49:27.359 --> 01:49:30.079 and they take over a bigger area. There are clumping 2046 01:49:30.159 --> 01:49:34.239 bamboos there. But when you start buying bamboo plants to 2047 01:49:34.279 --> 01:49:36.399 go down the property line, you're going to be spending 2048 01:49:36.439 --> 01:49:39.600 a lot of money. So that would be one of 2049 01:49:39.640 --> 01:49:43.479 the concerns that I would have about it, Glenna. I 2050 01:49:43.520 --> 01:49:45.319 did want to at least get started on your call. 2051 01:49:45.359 --> 01:49:47.239 Can you hold when we come back from break, we'll 2052 01:49:47.239 --> 01:49:52.319 continue this discussion. I can you bet, I'll be right back. 2053 01:49:55.079 --> 01:49:58.479 Welcome back to Guarden Line. Hey, good to have you 2054 01:49:58.520 --> 01:50:01.359 with us. We're glad you were in us today. We've 2055 01:50:01.399 --> 01:50:04.760 been talking with Glenn about some things. We're going to 2056 01:50:04.800 --> 01:50:09.239 head straight back out there as well. Hey Glenn, uh So, 2057 01:50:09.359 --> 01:50:12.079 I had a couple of questions for you. How long 2058 01:50:12.119 --> 01:50:14.880 of a run do you need to make on this 2059 01:50:15.800 --> 01:50:19.439 row of plants? And also how wide can it be? 2060 01:50:19.560 --> 01:50:21.720 In other words, in most yards, you know, you get 2061 01:50:21.720 --> 01:50:24.039 something that's too wide and it takes up half your yard. 2062 01:50:24.760 --> 01:50:27.119 Or is this more of a big property wherewidth isn't 2063 01:50:27.159 --> 01:50:27.880 so important. 2064 01:50:29.000 --> 01:50:34.039 Well, my property is consisted of two lots, which is 2065 01:50:35.760 --> 01:50:37.960 let's see a hundred by one hundred. 2066 01:50:37.640 --> 01:50:41.640 Feet, okay now, and you want to. 2067 01:50:41.600 --> 01:50:45.600 Go around them now, I just want to go down. 2068 01:50:45.399 --> 01:50:52.159 This one fence line, which would be approximately one hundred feet. Now. 2069 01:50:52.399 --> 01:50:55.359 What I've noticed is I lived close to the textis 2070 01:50:55.439 --> 01:50:59.520 Parks and Wildlife Sheldon Lake, and I've noticed that they've 2071 01:50:59.560 --> 01:51:03.920 got a lot out of what looks like cane that 2072 01:51:03.920 --> 01:51:07.279 that I get this grows wild. I'm not sure if 2073 01:51:07.279 --> 01:51:11.920 they planted at one point in time years ago that 2074 01:51:12.079 --> 01:51:14.880 it's just been there a wild but I've noticed that 2075 01:51:15.359 --> 01:51:20.520 it's got small stems that are probably no more than 2076 01:51:20.760 --> 01:51:23.960 an inch in diameter, and I've never seen them grow 2077 01:51:24.000 --> 01:51:27.479 any taller than about six to eight stay tall. And 2078 01:51:27.640 --> 01:51:31.119 I've also never seen I've never seen them free. They 2079 01:51:31.319 --> 01:51:33.840 they look like they've stayed green all year round. 2080 01:51:35.680 --> 01:51:37.039 And this is not a bamboo. 2081 01:51:38.520 --> 01:51:39.800 No, it looks like a came to me. 2082 01:51:40.640 --> 01:51:43.359 Okay, all right, well, I mean, you know, i've seen 2083 01:51:43.399 --> 01:51:45.319 something outgrown wild, but it gets a little bigger than 2084 01:51:45.359 --> 01:51:48.239 that the ones I've seen. But that's an option. 2085 01:51:48.439 --> 01:51:48.640 You know. 2086 01:51:48.680 --> 01:51:54.640 Another good good plant would be the Japanese u y 2087 01:51:54.760 --> 01:51:58.399 e w h. You see this in places you go 2088 01:51:58.439 --> 01:52:01.000 into little gardens where they want to read like a 2089 01:52:01.079 --> 01:52:03.880 separate room outdoors in the garden, they'll plant a row 2090 01:52:03.880 --> 01:52:07.000 of Japanese you and share them on the sides and 2091 01:52:07.039 --> 01:52:10.119 make this wall of foliage that's very dense and it's evergreen. 2092 01:52:10.199 --> 01:52:13.520 That's the other important thing is being evergreen pregnants of 2093 01:52:13.680 --> 01:52:17.520 block blocking of view rather than just the summertime. So 2094 01:52:17.640 --> 01:52:22.640 Japanese would be a choice. Oh gosh, uh, where where 2095 01:52:22.680 --> 01:52:23.479 are you located? 2096 01:52:25.720 --> 01:52:28.600 I'm I'm like around the cosby. I'm actually in a 2097 01:52:28.600 --> 01:52:31.279 little area called Hielding, but I'm close. 2098 01:52:31.359 --> 01:52:38.840 Okay, Okay, well, uh where we get out there? You 2099 01:52:39.000 --> 01:52:43.119 how far would it be? You're you're a distance up 2100 01:52:43.199 --> 01:52:49.840 from uh Worren Southern Gardens up in in Kingwood, and 2101 01:52:49.880 --> 01:52:52.000 then you're a little distance from going down to Moss 2102 01:52:52.000 --> 01:52:54.159 and Seabrooks. I'm trying to think of, you know who 2103 01:52:54.560 --> 01:52:57.800 the closest. 2104 01:52:55.760 --> 01:52:59.000 Closer to me then just about anywhere? 2105 01:53:00.079 --> 01:53:02.960 Okay? Yeah, well Warree Southern Gardens would be a place 2106 01:53:03.000 --> 01:53:05.399 i'd call and see. Give them a call and say, hey, 2107 01:53:05.399 --> 01:53:07.520 look I'm talking to Skip on guardline. Do you guys 2108 01:53:07.560 --> 01:53:10.680 have any Japanese use and how much are they? What 2109 01:53:10.760 --> 01:53:12.680 size you had, all that kind of stuff. They'll get you. 2110 01:53:12.760 --> 01:53:15.399 They'll get you the skinny on that. I think you'll 2111 01:53:15.399 --> 01:53:17.479 find success. Just a minute ago, I was talking with 2112 01:53:20.279 --> 01:53:24.159 David at Williamson Tree Farm. They're up in Plantersville, but 2113 01:53:24.399 --> 01:53:27.640 they sell through RCW their other outlet, and I know 2114 01:53:27.760 --> 01:53:30.960 that we have a number of kinds of Japanese ues. 2115 01:53:31.000 --> 01:53:32.760 You might want to go up since you're looking for 2116 01:53:32.920 --> 01:53:34.439 quite a few, you may want to go get them 2117 01:53:34.479 --> 01:53:36.239 directly from up at the tree Farm too. 2118 01:53:39.159 --> 01:53:41.359 What was the ball number for this place that you 2119 01:53:41.439 --> 01:53:43.960 just that you just mentioned in the name of the place. 2120 01:53:45.680 --> 01:53:47.319 Are we talking about the tree farm? Are we talking 2121 01:53:47.359 --> 01:53:48.640 about Warren's Garden Center? 2122 01:53:50.800 --> 01:53:52.760 You mentioned the Japanese you. 2123 01:53:54.800 --> 01:54:00.000 We both? Yeah, so both places were One Southern Garden 2124 01:54:00.560 --> 01:54:02.359 is up in Kingwood. 2125 01:54:02.720 --> 01:54:05.520 Okay, that's the one. Yeah, yeah, and. 2126 01:54:05.920 --> 01:54:11.159 Uh the tree farm is Williamson Tree Farm up in Plantersville. 2127 01:54:11.199 --> 01:54:13.680 So either way you want to either way you want 2128 01:54:13.680 --> 01:54:17.319 to go about it? Do you do? You you said 2129 01:54:17.359 --> 01:54:18.399 you needed a. 2130 01:54:18.279 --> 01:54:21.159 Phone number precobing lawns. 2131 01:54:21.159 --> 01:54:23.800 If you have the dandy, Yeah, I. 2132 01:54:23.720 --> 01:54:26.399 Do, I do. Let me pull it up here and 2133 01:54:26.439 --> 01:54:28.239 get it right in front of me. I can get 2134 01:54:28.520 --> 01:54:31.920 get it. There we go two eight one three five four, 2135 01:54:33.039 --> 01:54:40.960 sixty one eleven O two eight three five four two 2136 01:54:41.000 --> 01:54:46.720 eight two eight one three five four and then sixty 2137 01:54:46.760 --> 01:54:48.319 one eleven. 2138 01:54:49.479 --> 01:54:53.680 I got you. Okay, you bet. 2139 01:54:53.800 --> 01:54:57.680 Good luck with that. Good luck with you? All right, folks, 2140 01:54:57.920 --> 01:54:59.960 you're listening to guard Line. The phone number if you like, 2141 01:55:00.079 --> 01:55:02.119 give me a call seven one three two one two 2142 01:55:02.239 --> 01:55:04.680 k t R H. We're running out of time here, 2143 01:55:04.680 --> 01:55:06.600 but we would be able to catch you in the 2144 01:55:06.640 --> 01:55:11.880 next segment. If you're down south of and west of Houston. 2145 01:55:11.960 --> 01:55:14.760 Enchanted Gardens is out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area, 2146 01:55:14.800 --> 01:55:18.199 and boy do they ever have an outstanding selection of 2147 01:55:18.279 --> 01:55:22.800 all kinds of things. Uh, if you are into hummingbirds, 2148 01:55:22.800 --> 01:55:25.439 they've got all kinds of plants that attract hummingbirds. By 2149 01:55:25.439 --> 01:55:28.479 the way, did you know today is National Hummingbird Day? 2150 01:55:28.960 --> 01:55:31.800 Happy National Hummingbirds Day. Sorry I didn't send your card, 2151 01:55:32.439 --> 01:55:35.960 but anyway, Uh it is, and it is hummingbird season 2152 01:55:36.000 --> 01:55:38.960 here in the South to so go get some plants 2153 01:55:39.000 --> 01:55:42.439 for hummingbirds. At Enchanted Gardens Nursery, you know, they're going 2154 01:55:42.479 --> 01:55:46.319 to have pretty much everything you can imagine from beautiful 2155 01:55:46.640 --> 01:55:50.119 outdoor blaying, you know, statuaries and all kinds of the 2156 01:55:50.199 --> 01:55:52.840 decorative kinds of things. If you're decorating for Halloween and 2157 01:55:52.880 --> 01:55:55.840 the fall. Oh my gosh, they are loaded up on 2158 01:55:55.920 --> 01:55:58.920 that kind of thing. When you go to Enchanted Gardens, 2159 01:55:59.000 --> 01:56:00.920 you're going to find everything you need and the help 2160 01:56:01.000 --> 01:56:06.600 you need to do it right Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. 2161 01:56:06.680 --> 01:56:09.920 Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. There on the Katie fullsher 2162 01:56:10.000 --> 01:56:14.439 Side of Richmond on FM three fifty nine FM three 2163 01:56:14.560 --> 01:56:17.359 fifty nine, take some people with you because it is 2164 01:56:17.439 --> 01:56:19.920 a destination place and y'all are gonna want to go 2165 01:56:20.039 --> 01:56:21.920 have some fun and hang out there for a while. 2166 01:56:22.159 --> 01:56:24.199 I can tell you that we're going to go now 2167 01:56:24.359 --> 01:56:27.119 up to Conroe and talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, Welcome 2168 01:56:27.119 --> 01:56:29.439 to garden Line High Skip. 2169 01:56:29.800 --> 01:56:32.920 Hey, I just put some sawed down yesterday in my backyard, 2170 01:56:32.960 --> 01:56:35.880 the whole thing, and I just want to confirm with you. 2171 01:56:35.960 --> 01:56:40.640 With this temperature, how often should I be watering it? 2172 01:56:42.119 --> 01:56:46.000 All right? I will the time I plan it. Yeah, well, 2173 01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:48.640 from the time I plan it, I'm watering it even 2174 01:56:49.000 --> 01:56:51.880 after planting, immediately before I finish the whole yard. I'm 2175 01:56:51.920 --> 01:56:55.079 starting to water. But twice a day, twice a day 2176 01:56:55.159 --> 01:56:59.520 with a moderate little application the first week. Now, rain's 2177 01:56:59.520 --> 01:57:01.600 going to take over on Wednesday, and you should be 2178 01:57:01.640 --> 01:57:03.319 good for the rest of the week. But just watch it. 2179 01:57:03.359 --> 01:57:05.760 If it doesn't doesn't rain, just got to keep that 2180 01:57:05.840 --> 01:57:08.600 little thin layer aside. You laid down moist until they 2181 01:57:08.600 --> 01:57:10.319 can get roots in the ground. Then you can go 2182 01:57:10.319 --> 01:57:12.720 to every till once a day the next week, and 2183 01:57:12.760 --> 01:57:14.960 then you can start to back off to a normal 2184 01:57:15.399 --> 01:57:17.640 once or twice a week schedule over the course of 2185 01:57:17.680 --> 01:57:18.079 a month. 2186 01:57:19.479 --> 01:57:21.840 Okay, all right, very good. 2187 01:57:21.640 --> 01:57:25.359 The guy who dropped it off said three times a 2188 01:57:25.399 --> 01:57:27.520 week or three times a day for the first week 2189 01:57:27.560 --> 01:57:29.720 and then two times a day for the next two weeks. 2190 01:57:30.279 --> 01:57:31.720 That seems like kind of high. 2191 01:57:33.119 --> 01:57:33.520 Summer. 2192 01:57:34.560 --> 01:57:36.840 Yeah, it's and if it's in the heat of summer. 2193 01:57:36.880 --> 01:57:39.439 Even then, I planted some in June and it wasn't 2194 01:57:39.439 --> 01:57:42.000 the hottest part of summer. But I watered twice a 2195 01:57:42.079 --> 01:57:44.079 day the first week, once a day the second week, 2196 01:57:44.279 --> 01:57:47.279 you know, and then weaned it off from there. Just 2197 01:57:47.279 --> 01:57:49.119 just don't make it a total swamp. 2198 01:57:49.319 --> 01:57:51.560 Okay, yeah, yeah. 2199 01:57:51.840 --> 01:57:54.119 It's not just how much you apply it, but how 2200 01:57:54.119 --> 01:58:00.079 often you Okay, well, good luck with that. Take care 2201 01:58:00.079 --> 01:58:03.000 share you call. Hey, folks, guess what's going to happen 2202 01:58:03.359 --> 01:58:06.159 Right after the show, which is about an hour from now. 2203 01:58:06.279 --> 01:58:07.920 The end of the show, I'm going to make a 2204 01:58:08.000 --> 01:58:11.399 bee Line Montgomery County Fall Home and Garden Show. I'll 2205 01:58:11.399 --> 01:58:13.960 be there from twelve to two. Last one there's a 2206 01:58:14.039 --> 01:58:16.479 Rotten Egg. Hope to see that. That's at the Lone 2207 01:58:16.560 --> 01:58:19.000 Star Convention and Expo Center. I'm going to be giving 2208 01:58:19.000 --> 01:58:22.760 away samples of Microlife fertilizer for those who are lucky 2209 01:58:22.840 --> 01:58:25.239 enough to win one. But I'm also going to be 2210 01:58:25.239 --> 01:58:28.239 answering your gardening questions. Starting off, I'm going to do 2211 01:58:28.359 --> 01:58:32.079 a talk on fall gardening tips and success. Do you 2212 01:58:32.159 --> 01:58:34.840 have weeds you want to identify? Do you have pictures 2213 01:58:34.880 --> 01:58:36.720 of plants you want to identify? Do you want to 2214 01:58:36.720 --> 01:58:39.600 show me a picture of a garden landscape area and 2215 01:58:39.600 --> 01:58:42.720 say what can I plant there? What's your question? Bring them, 2216 01:58:42.840 --> 01:58:45.000 let's talk, let's have some fun. I'm going to be 2217 01:58:45.079 --> 01:58:49.800 there Fall Home and Garden Show, Montgomery County, twelve to two. 2218 01:58:53.560 --> 01:58:57.600 Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with scip Rickards. 2219 01:59:06.119 --> 01:59:12.439 Just watch him as the world. 2220 01:59:10.960 --> 01:59:13.560 And hey, welcome back, quolks. I'm gonna jump right in 2221 01:59:13.800 --> 01:59:16.520 on the music here. We got lives to talk about, 2222 01:59:16.840 --> 01:59:18.840 so I don't want to wait. You know, I was 2223 01:59:18.880 --> 01:59:20.840 talking to someone a minute ago was looking for some 2224 01:59:20.960 --> 01:59:23.640 Japanese use and sent them up to Warren Southern Gardens 2225 01:59:23.720 --> 01:59:27.119 up in Kingwood. Both Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden 2226 01:59:27.199 --> 01:59:29.880 Center are up there in the Kingwood area. Warrens is 2227 01:59:29.920 --> 01:59:33.399 on North Park, Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. Both of them 2228 01:59:33.479 --> 01:59:35.840 are open seven days a week. Can you just subscribe 2229 01:59:35.840 --> 01:59:37.720 to their newsletter? You can do that online or in 2230 01:59:37.760 --> 01:59:42.399 the store. Lots of good information, including some discounts, savings, 2231 01:59:42.439 --> 01:59:44.920 gardening tips, all that kind of thing. You know, they 2232 01:59:45.000 --> 01:59:46.920 got all kinds of stuff coming in every day now. 2233 01:59:47.039 --> 01:59:49.359 I mean, it's false season is here. So do you 2234 01:59:49.399 --> 01:59:52.880 want to plan some dianthus or petunias or snapdragons for 2235 01:59:52.960 --> 01:59:55.279 fall color? Do you want to do veggies and herbs? 2236 01:59:55.319 --> 01:59:59.600 They got plenty of veggies and herbs available. And also 2237 01:59:59.680 --> 02:00:02.960 they have strawberries available. Falls the time to plant strawberries, 2238 02:00:02.960 --> 02:00:06.600 and you can get those at Warren Southern Gardens. Shrubs. 2239 02:00:06.640 --> 02:00:09.800 We were talking earlier about sunshine lagustrums at Laura Pedlund 2240 02:00:09.880 --> 02:00:13.720 or Chinese witch, hazel encore azilia, crate myrtles. All of 2241 02:00:13.760 --> 02:00:15.520 it is there. They got a tree sell right now 2242 02:00:15.560 --> 02:00:19.840 on both locations One's and Kingwood, thirty dollars off any tree. 2243 02:00:20.079 --> 02:00:22.159 You're not gonna do any better than that. And while 2244 02:00:22.159 --> 02:00:24.800 you're buy there, go by and ask about their great myrtle, 2245 02:00:25.079 --> 02:00:28.880 crepe myrtle, great myrtle, grepe myrtle. It only gets two 2246 02:00:28.880 --> 02:00:30.760 feet tall, three feet wide. You put it in a 2247 02:00:30.760 --> 02:00:32.760 big container, you can put it in a It makes 2248 02:00:32.800 --> 02:00:34.520 a little bush. Just think of it. Don't think about 2249 02:00:34.560 --> 02:00:37.399 crape myrtle like you've been thinking about. Imagine a little 2250 02:00:37.439 --> 02:00:41.239 miniature one with disease and insect resistance. It's really an 2251 02:00:41.279 --> 02:00:45.640 awesome little plant. It's only available One's Garden Center, so 2252 02:00:45.880 --> 02:00:48.359 go buy there and check out ask about the great 2253 02:00:48.439 --> 02:00:51.760 myrtle grepe myrtle. While you're out there, we're going to 2254 02:00:51.840 --> 02:00:54.000 go back to the phones now and head up to 2255 02:00:54.079 --> 02:00:57.079 Conroe and talk to Harry. Hey, Harry, welcome to guard Line. 2256 02:00:58.039 --> 02:00:58.800 Thank you, scif. 2257 02:00:58.880 --> 02:01:00.359 I was going to ask you if you can help 2258 02:01:00.439 --> 02:01:03.239 me with some Virginia button weed control. 2259 02:01:04.399 --> 02:01:08.560 All right, I can. Virginia button weed loves it when 2260 02:01:08.560 --> 02:01:10.960 you overwater, or it loves it if it's a low 2261 02:01:11.079 --> 02:01:14.239 soggy spot. You know, so number one where it's in 2262 02:01:14.319 --> 02:01:19.560 your power deep infrequent waterings but not frequent. And that's 2263 02:01:19.640 --> 02:01:23.319 first step. Second step, there's a product called celsius. Like 2264 02:01:23.359 --> 02:01:27.640 the temperature, there's fahrenheit and celsius. Well, this is celsius, 2265 02:01:27.880 --> 02:01:30.840 and you apply it. You could do it this week. 2266 02:01:31.119 --> 02:01:34.520 The temperatures will be perfectly fine for celsius this week, 2267 02:01:35.760 --> 02:01:37.840 and of course you don't want to do it right 2268 02:01:37.880 --> 02:01:39.960 for the rain. But if you could get it out 2269 02:01:40.359 --> 02:01:43.720 today or tomorrow. Even if you got it out, you 2270 02:01:43.760 --> 02:01:46.079 know on Monday, earlier in the day, you'd be okay 2271 02:01:46.119 --> 02:01:49.319 till then the rain starts pretty soon after that as 2272 02:01:49.359 --> 02:01:52.720 we go into the week. But you just direct spray 2273 02:01:52.760 --> 02:01:55.279 it right on the Virginia button weed and it'll knock 2274 02:01:55.319 --> 02:01:58.279 it back. Generally, it's going to take a couple of 2275 02:01:58.319 --> 02:02:01.119 sprays to effectively get rid of it. So next spring 2276 02:02:01.199 --> 02:02:04.359 be ready for it again. Eve you'll see some coming back, 2277 02:02:04.399 --> 02:02:07.079 and you just catch it early and it's much easier 2278 02:02:07.119 --> 02:02:10.000 to control in the spring and the early fall season. 2279 02:02:10.520 --> 02:02:12.720 But you can do some spraying in summer for it. 2280 02:02:13.399 --> 02:02:15.359 How long between the sprays. 2281 02:02:16.640 --> 02:02:20.159 Probably about six weeks, eight weeks something like that. It 2282 02:02:20.199 --> 02:02:23.039 depends on the season, and it depends on what you see. 2283 02:02:23.640 --> 02:02:25.800 You know, it takes a product a while. A product 2284 02:02:25.840 --> 02:02:27.520 that's going to work is going to take a while 2285 02:02:27.560 --> 02:02:29.880 to move in and really do the job because it's 2286 02:02:29.880 --> 02:02:32.600 going to do it right. And so just be patient 2287 02:02:32.680 --> 02:02:34.640 for a while there. But if you see, you know 2288 02:02:34.680 --> 02:02:36.640 what I missed that I didn't hit it with spray 2289 02:02:36.760 --> 02:02:39.399 or it's coming back, do it again before we go 2290 02:02:39.439 --> 02:02:39.760 into the. 2291 02:02:40.439 --> 02:02:43.239 How and to see any kind of results at all? 2292 02:02:43.279 --> 02:02:46.600 About how long before I hit it again. 2293 02:02:47.279 --> 02:02:50.279 You should see something, Well, I would give it. I 2294 02:02:50.279 --> 02:02:53.159 would say I'd probably wait three weeks to look at 2295 02:02:53.159 --> 02:02:56.520 it and see how it's responding to the sprays. But 2296 02:02:57.359 --> 02:03:02.640 I wouldn't really that patient. Well a little bit, just 2297 02:03:02.680 --> 02:03:04.680 to make sure that it's doing the work it's going 2298 02:03:04.760 --> 02:03:06.720 to do. It's not going to kill the buttons, the 2299 02:03:06.840 --> 02:03:09.279 seed pods that are on it. That's why you got 2300 02:03:09.279 --> 02:03:11.600 to come back next year and just stay ahead of it. 2301 02:03:11.800 --> 02:03:13.800 Okay, got it, Yep, got it? 2302 02:03:13.840 --> 02:03:14.600 Thank you love it? 2303 02:03:15.439 --> 02:03:19.760 Yeah, And by the way, yeah I would. I would 2304 02:03:19.800 --> 02:03:22.119 call the folks out at Ana Plants and Produce and 2305 02:03:22.159 --> 02:03:24.159 Montgomery see if they've got some of that on hand. 2306 02:03:24.199 --> 02:03:26.000 They might well do that. You know, they carry a 2307 02:03:26.000 --> 02:03:28.880 lot of stuff they've got When I talk about fertilizers 2308 02:03:28.880 --> 02:03:30.920 and soils, a and as bags of all of it. 2309 02:03:31.279 --> 02:03:33.600 Do you want nitrofoss, Do you want Nelson's? Do you 2310 02:03:33.640 --> 02:03:38.079 want microlife? Do you want airlom soils or Nature's Way soils? 2311 02:03:38.159 --> 02:03:41.520 And on and on. Ana stays stocked up. They've got 2312 02:03:41.640 --> 02:03:44.399 great plants. They even have a landscape crew. Those of 2313 02:03:44.439 --> 02:03:46.520 you who live up around Lake Conro, you can give 2314 02:03:46.520 --> 02:03:48.239 them a call, say, I'd like to talk to you 2315 02:03:48.279 --> 02:03:51.279 about having somebody come out and help clean this up, 2316 02:03:51.359 --> 02:03:53.800 spruce this up. You know, give it some care. They 2317 02:03:53.800 --> 02:03:56.199 can do that. They keep my schedules there at the desk, 2318 02:03:56.279 --> 02:03:58.239 usually at the checkout if they're not out of them. 2319 02:03:58.920 --> 02:04:01.479 But that way you know exactly what to purchase and when. 2320 02:04:01.920 --> 02:04:04.479 A and A Plants and Produce. By the way, they're 2321 02:04:04.520 --> 02:04:07.479 going to be at the Fall Home and Gardens show 2322 02:04:07.560 --> 02:04:09.640 up in Montgomery County that I'll be out after the 2323 02:04:09.640 --> 02:04:11.880 show today, So come on by and see me and 2324 02:04:11.920 --> 02:04:13.840 swing by the A and A booth and say hey 2325 02:04:13.880 --> 02:04:16.119 to them. They'll be up there too, because that is 2326 02:04:16.159 --> 02:04:20.079 their home territory up there in the Montgomery to Conroe 2327 02:04:20.119 --> 02:04:22.239 area there on the west or excuse me, the east 2328 02:04:22.279 --> 02:04:25.439 side of Montgomery, right there on Highway one oh five. 2329 02:04:27.680 --> 02:04:30.840 I always like going by and visiting, plus to get 2330 02:04:30.880 --> 02:04:33.520 some of the best landscape bling in the business. They 2331 02:04:33.600 --> 02:04:36.720 do lots of cool stuff. You know, falls coming. We're 2332 02:04:36.720 --> 02:04:39.279 going to get some crispy nights eventually, can't you wait. 2333 02:04:40.600 --> 02:04:43.520 Get you a little chimenea from NA Plants and Produce 2334 02:04:43.800 --> 02:04:47.640 that take care of it. So I mentioned earlier, Today 2335 02:04:47.840 --> 02:04:51.199 is National Hummingbird Day, so say hi to any humming 2336 02:04:51.239 --> 02:04:54.920 bergency flying by and congratulate them. National Hummingbird Day. They 2337 02:04:54.920 --> 02:05:00.359 are making their trip south and they're pausing to refuel house. 2338 02:05:00.520 --> 02:05:02.960 Right now, you need to get you a high perch 2339 02:05:03.479 --> 02:05:06.359 hummingbird feeder from Wallbirds Unlimited. You can go to the 2340 02:05:06.399 --> 02:05:11.079 website w b U dot com forward slash Houston w 2341 02:05:11.479 --> 02:05:15.720 BU dot Com forward Slash Houston, find the six waldbirds 2342 02:05:15.720 --> 02:05:18.039 and which one's closest to you. Go for it. Go 2343 02:05:18.079 --> 02:05:21.479 buy their sandy to a high perch hummingbird feeder. It's 2344 02:05:21.479 --> 02:05:23.680 my favorite of all the hummingbird feeders I have. I 2345 02:05:23.720 --> 02:05:27.159 love my high perch feeder. Now, if you still have 2346 02:05:27.159 --> 02:05:29.880 any vacation that you're planning on doing, get make sure 2347 02:05:29.920 --> 02:05:32.760 and get the seed cylinders that are packed tight. You 2348 02:05:32.800 --> 02:05:34.840 put them out there and the birds will have something 2349 02:05:35.039 --> 02:05:37.680 until you come home. Or buy some of the quality 2350 02:05:37.920 --> 02:05:41.279 seeds that they have at Wildbirds Unlimited. Right now though, 2351 02:05:41.359 --> 02:05:44.800 it is hummingbird season and you can get special They 2352 02:05:44.840 --> 02:05:47.960 even have a special little hummingbirds solution that you put 2353 02:05:48.000 --> 02:05:50.399 in there that doesn't go bad so fast. You know, 2354 02:05:50.439 --> 02:05:53.840 sugar water and warm temperatures, it's gonna start to get 2355 02:05:54.000 --> 02:05:56.479 nasty after a few days. You always need to be 2356 02:05:56.520 --> 02:06:00.000 putting fresh out. But with the Wildbirds material, you get 2357 02:06:00.000 --> 02:06:02.119 a little an extra day or two out of that, 2358 02:06:03.000 --> 02:06:06.079 just helping to keep those humming birds healthy and happy. 2359 02:06:06.520 --> 02:06:11.439 On National Hummingbird Day. You have national days for all 2360 02:06:11.560 --> 02:06:13.600 kinds of things here. I don't know, maybe had a 2361 02:06:13.760 --> 02:06:16.720 National Garden Line Day. I doubt that'll make it, but 2362 02:06:17.039 --> 02:06:20.600 it would be fun if it did. If you live 2363 02:06:20.640 --> 02:06:23.159 down in the Richmond Rosenberg area and haven't been by 2364 02:06:23.479 --> 02:06:26.840 Enchanted Forest Garden Center, you need to get by there. 2365 02:06:26.920 --> 02:06:31.479 Enchanted Forest. It's just a wonderful place to visit. You know, 2366 02:06:31.560 --> 02:06:33.680 you go in and when you get out of the car, 2367 02:06:33.760 --> 02:06:35.479 you look at it and it's just like, Okay, this 2368 02:06:35.560 --> 02:06:37.920 is gonna be this is gonna be fun, this is 2369 02:06:37.960 --> 02:06:40.640 gonna be cool. And it is you know, Clay and 2370 02:06:40.680 --> 02:06:44.359 the whole team up there an Enchanted Forest. They have 2371 02:06:44.640 --> 02:06:48.960 really created a special special place and no matter what 2372 02:06:49.119 --> 02:06:52.159 plants you need for the season, they're going to have them. 2373 02:06:52.199 --> 02:06:55.079 For example, right now, they have plenty of fall color 2374 02:06:55.119 --> 02:06:58.800 out there. They have plants that attract you know, you're 2375 02:06:59.239 --> 02:07:02.000 hummingbirds that just go by and say, hey, I need 2376 02:07:02.159 --> 02:07:04.279 I need to have a plant that is going to 2377 02:07:04.359 --> 02:07:07.079 bring in the humming birds. I hear it's it's the 2378 02:07:07.159 --> 02:07:09.880 season for that. And feeders are great, but why not 2379 02:07:10.000 --> 02:07:13.960 also plant for the hummingbirds. Jenniferrest sketch cover. Do you 2380 02:07:14.000 --> 02:07:16.439 need fall color, They've got it. Do you need herbs 2381 02:07:16.479 --> 02:07:19.000 for fall fall as? For planting, they've got it. Trees 2382 02:07:19.039 --> 02:07:22.800 and shrubs, they've got it. They even have some beautiful 2383 02:07:23.119 --> 02:07:25.760 plume areas, which you know, I know we're going to 2384 02:07:25.840 --> 02:07:28.439 winter soon, but they've got some plumerias that you just 2385 02:07:28.479 --> 02:07:32.520 need to get and put out, beautiful variegated I've never 2386 02:07:32.560 --> 02:07:35.439 seen them as cool as these are. They've got them there. 2387 02:07:35.479 --> 02:07:38.119 And of course plumerias are easy and bring them in 2388 02:07:38.159 --> 02:07:41.520 the garage, hang them upside down during the wintertime and 2389 02:07:41.560 --> 02:07:43.680 they do just fine when you put them back out 2390 02:07:43.760 --> 02:07:47.119 in the spring. Do you need cool seasoned vegetables, They're 2391 02:07:47.159 --> 02:07:49.680 already loaded up on them. Do you need that? Do 2392 02:07:49.720 --> 02:07:55.319 you want some beautiful taalavera types of pottery type pumpkins, say, 2393 02:07:55.319 --> 02:07:59.119 pottery ceramic types of pumpkins. They've got all of that. All. 2394 02:08:00.920 --> 02:08:06.199 Enchanted gardens in Richmond's easy, easy to find. Go online. 2395 02:08:06.319 --> 02:08:11.520 Check out the website Enchented Gardens Richmond, TX dot com. 2396 02:08:11.760 --> 02:08:14.680 Take a little break to garden line. So Maya Kulpa 2397 02:08:14.800 --> 02:08:16.920 I got a math couple here. I just was talking 2398 02:08:16.920 --> 02:08:22.000 about Enchanted Forest Garden Center, and I gave the wrong website. 2399 02:08:22.159 --> 02:08:28.039 It's Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, 2400 02:08:28.439 --> 02:08:32.600 TX dot com. As I went out of that section 2401 02:08:32.720 --> 02:08:35.680 there for the break, I echoed in my ear and 2402 02:08:35.720 --> 02:08:37.680 I had, oh, I just say him the wrong one. 2403 02:08:37.720 --> 02:08:39.720 Here's a phone number for UM down there at Enchanted 2404 02:08:39.760 --> 02:08:44.279 Forest two eight one nine three seven ninety nine to 2405 02:08:44.439 --> 02:08:48.159 eight one nine three seven ninety four forty nine. You 2406 02:08:48.159 --> 02:08:50.439 gotta get by there. I'm telling you. They are loaded 2407 02:08:50.560 --> 02:08:53.479 up on all kinds of things, including some beautiful, beautiful 2408 02:08:53.520 --> 02:08:59.199 Len'scape color too. Medina products are something that I have 2409 02:08:59.319 --> 02:09:03.159 been testing, trying out and finding good success with for 2410 02:09:03.239 --> 02:09:07.399 a good while now. Medina has so many different products 2411 02:09:07.399 --> 02:09:10.880 that are so effective in what they do. For example, 2412 02:09:10.880 --> 02:09:14.359 hastro Grow six twelve six, it's got that high quality 2413 02:09:14.359 --> 02:09:16.760 plant food and it's the six twelve six plant food. 2414 02:09:16.800 --> 02:09:20.520 It's got Medina soil activator, which stimulates biological activity. It's 2415 02:09:20.560 --> 02:09:24.760 got humate humic acid, you know humids. It improves sol structure, 2416 02:09:24.760 --> 02:09:28.279 it improves nutrient uptake. It's also got seaweed extracts in it. 2417 02:09:28.319 --> 02:09:31.399 Seaweed extracts are helpful for stimulating both the fruiting and 2418 02:09:31.439 --> 02:09:34.479 the blooming. You can spray has to Grow six twelve 2419 02:09:34.520 --> 02:09:36.800 six as a folier application. It is not going to 2420 02:09:36.880 --> 02:09:41.079 burn anything, very gentle formulation. It helps build the biological 2421 02:09:41.079 --> 02:09:44.920 activity in the soil and it really is excellent for transplanting. 2422 02:09:45.319 --> 02:09:47.960 Just take the has to Grow six twelve six plant food, 2423 02:09:48.039 --> 02:09:50.000 follow the label. Mix it in water takes about an 2424 02:09:50.039 --> 02:09:53.000 ounce per gallon, and then in a watering can and 2425 02:09:53.119 --> 02:09:55.600 just drench it in. If you're going to transplant, drench 2426 02:09:55.640 --> 02:09:58.119 it in. Drench it in. Always do that. Come back 2427 02:09:58.119 --> 02:10:00.000 a week later, do it again, come back a week later, 2428 02:10:00.119 --> 02:10:02.479 do it again. And as that plant that you just 2429 02:10:02.520 --> 02:10:05.840 put in is getting its rich system established, you're providing 2430 02:10:06.039 --> 02:10:09.800 plenty of good stuff to help it to establish well. 2431 02:10:10.000 --> 02:10:12.840 And that's just a head start. It's a head start 2432 02:10:13.239 --> 02:10:16.720 on not only plant survival, but on plant to thrive. 2433 02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:19.359 And again just one of the many good products from 2434 02:10:19.359 --> 02:10:24.640 Medina Hastro Grove six's twelve six. Let's head up now 2435 02:10:24.720 --> 02:10:28.119 to Conroe and we're going to talk to Diana. Hey, Diana, 2436 02:10:28.159 --> 02:10:36.000 welcome to Gardenline. Hello, Yes, Diana, I said Conra yes, 2437 02:10:36.039 --> 02:10:38.399 I can, I said Conro, I meant Cyprus. 2438 02:10:38.439 --> 02:10:44.079 Sorry, yes, I wanted to ask you. I noticed yesterday 2439 02:10:44.119 --> 02:10:48.279 that our crank myrtle something is eating the leave and 2440 02:10:49.000 --> 02:10:51.039 I look to see if I could find anything like 2441 02:10:51.079 --> 02:10:53.479 a caterpillar or some type. I didn't see anything, but 2442 02:10:53.560 --> 02:10:56.319 there's some big chunks sticking out a lot of the leaves. 2443 02:10:56.359 --> 02:10:58.760 And then I have another issue too on our values. 2444 02:10:58.800 --> 02:11:01.640 In one section, the leaves are starting to turn yellow 2445 02:11:01.640 --> 02:11:03.960 and they've got black spots on them. So I wanted 2446 02:11:04.000 --> 02:11:06.079 to know the best things to treat each of those. 2447 02:11:06.640 --> 02:11:09.000 You no situations on. 2448 02:11:09.039 --> 02:11:12.720 The azaleas, they're yellow with black spots. You're saying, yes, 2449 02:11:12.880 --> 02:11:13.439 not the leaves. 2450 02:11:13.439 --> 02:11:15.279 Some of the leaves are starting in the one section 2451 02:11:15.399 --> 02:11:19.000 there and it looks spreading, but it looks like they're yellow. 2452 02:11:19.039 --> 02:11:21.399 And then they got black spots on them. And then 2453 02:11:21.479 --> 02:11:25.239 there's something beating big sat the leaves on the crate myrtle. 2454 02:11:25.359 --> 02:11:28.600 Yeah, okay, Well the cray murder could be a beetle, 2455 02:11:28.640 --> 02:11:31.159 could be a caterpillar, but I would not worry about it. 2456 02:11:31.439 --> 02:11:33.439 That cray myrtle, if for long, is going to be 2457 02:11:33.520 --> 02:11:37.199 losing its leaves anyway, and if it even has you know, 2458 02:11:37.800 --> 02:11:40.680 two thirds of the leaf cover still on it. It's 2459 02:11:40.720 --> 02:11:43.279 going to be fine going into winter. I don't think 2460 02:11:43.319 --> 02:11:46.760 it's warming the spray. And it's also possible that whatever 2461 02:11:46.960 --> 02:11:49.399 was eating them has now moved on. You know, caterpillars 2462 02:11:49.439 --> 02:11:52.039 turn into pupil that turn into moths and so on, 2463 02:11:52.119 --> 02:11:54.720 and yeah, I wouldn't worry about that as far as 2464 02:11:54.760 --> 02:11:58.399 the azaleas are concerned. Can you can you picture if 2465 02:11:58.439 --> 02:12:00.760 the yellowing is on the ends of new shoots or 2466 02:12:00.840 --> 02:12:03.880 is it the older leaves furtherest down the stem toward the. 2467 02:12:03.800 --> 02:12:11.039 Base, whether established leaves you know they're they're not growth 2468 02:12:11.199 --> 02:12:12.920 or it's established leaves yet. 2469 02:12:13.479 --> 02:12:17.079 Yeah, so it could be well, a lack of nitrogen 2470 02:12:17.199 --> 02:12:20.720 causes older leaves to turn yellow gradually. If you're getting 2471 02:12:20.720 --> 02:12:24.399 more of a bright yellow, it's typically a sow moisture fluctuation. 2472 02:12:24.680 --> 02:12:26.399 It gets too dry for a while and then you 2473 02:12:26.439 --> 02:12:28.840 give it a good watering. Okay, he bounces back, but 2474 02:12:28.880 --> 02:12:32.720 the old leaves turn yellow. Older leaves turn yellow. So 2475 02:12:32.800 --> 02:12:35.439 I would just watch on that. As far as black 2476 02:12:35.560 --> 02:12:38.039 spots on the leaves, I kind of need to see 2477 02:12:38.079 --> 02:12:40.560 it to see what you're talking about. There are spots 2478 02:12:40.600 --> 02:12:43.119 that are like a city mold a city kind of 2479 02:12:43.159 --> 02:12:48.119 black spot, very very vague like like soot is on 2480 02:12:48.159 --> 02:12:53.000 a plant, not real distinct margins and stuff, so that 2481 02:12:53.000 --> 02:12:57.800 that's a possibility. It could also be a bacterial spot, 2482 02:12:57.800 --> 02:13:00.520 but those tend to be very black, very distinct, very 2483 02:13:00.560 --> 02:13:02.279 angular in their shape. 2484 02:13:03.319 --> 02:13:05.800 I'm around. 2485 02:13:06.920 --> 02:13:10.359 Yeah, they're perfectly the little spots are perfectly round. 2486 02:13:11.439 --> 02:13:14.079 All right, let me I need to see them if 2487 02:13:14.079 --> 02:13:15.520 you want to further help with that. 2488 02:13:15.640 --> 02:13:18.079 Okay, well I can. I can email. I can email 2489 02:13:18.079 --> 02:13:18.840 it if. 2490 02:13:18.760 --> 02:13:19.119 You need to. 2491 02:13:20.399 --> 02:13:22.279 Do you have my email? Do you have it? If not, 2492 02:13:22.359 --> 02:13:24.119 I'll put you on hold and Crystal give it to you. 2493 02:13:24.199 --> 02:13:25.760 I do have it because I have to send you 2494 02:13:25.800 --> 02:13:28.279 something a while back, so I'll use the same one 2495 02:13:28.279 --> 02:13:30.439 and i'll send the pictures. I won't be able to 2496 02:13:30.439 --> 02:13:34.520 do it right now that we're headed to agging Land. Okay, 2497 02:13:34.640 --> 02:13:35.000 very much. 2498 02:13:36.079 --> 02:13:38.560 Well, it's good you're reading. Uh they probably don't need 2499 02:13:38.600 --> 02:13:41.760 you help your help today, but uh, have fun. 2500 02:13:42.880 --> 02:13:45.119 I don't know, we're all going to enjoy it, so okay, 2501 02:13:45.159 --> 02:13:46.560 take care, bye bye. 2502 02:13:46.960 --> 02:13:52.279 You take it by gosh, don't get me started talking 2503 02:13:52.279 --> 02:13:56.239 about that, all right. League City Feed down in League City, 2504 02:13:56.479 --> 02:13:58.640 our favorite little feed store down there for those of 2505 02:13:58.680 --> 02:14:01.600 you in Bay Cliff, I'll come in real Webster, Clear Lake, 2506 02:14:01.680 --> 02:14:04.880 Santa Fe, Dickinson's and Leone, and of course League City. 2507 02:14:05.199 --> 02:14:07.920 They're in League City, just a few blocks south of 2508 02:14:08.000 --> 02:14:10.960 Highway ninety six on Highway three. It's really easy to 2509 02:14:10.960 --> 02:14:12.960 get in and out. It's that old time feed store 2510 02:14:13.039 --> 02:14:16.079 been around for forty years now, probably more than that 2511 02:14:16.199 --> 02:14:18.920 by now. But you go in, you get service, they 2512 02:14:19.000 --> 02:14:21.840 carry the bags out for you. But most importantly, you 2513 02:14:21.880 --> 02:14:23.640 go in there and they're going to have all the 2514 02:14:23.640 --> 02:14:26.439 fertilizers that I recommend on guard line, they've got them. 2515 02:14:26.640 --> 02:14:29.800 Do you want a soil mix like Nature's Way, hair, airloom, 2516 02:14:29.880 --> 02:14:33.239 soils kinds of things. They've got soul mixes in there 2517 02:14:33.560 --> 02:14:37.760 as well. Do you need pest control, weed control, disease control, 2518 02:14:37.840 --> 02:14:40.880 both organic and synthetic. While you're in there, grab some 2519 02:14:40.920 --> 02:14:43.439 of their premium quality pet food. You know, they're open 2520 02:14:43.520 --> 02:14:47.560 until six Monday through Saturday, nine am to six, and 2521 02:14:48.359 --> 02:14:50.439 so you get through with work, just swing by there 2522 02:14:50.479 --> 02:14:52.680 and grab it. That's kind of convenient. Can't get any 2523 02:14:52.680 --> 02:14:55.920 easier than that. As well as any kinds of feed 2524 02:14:55.960 --> 02:14:59.079 for your animals, for your backyard chickens, They've got all 2525 02:14:59.119 --> 02:15:02.680 that League City Feed. Here's the number two eight one 2526 02:15:03.239 --> 02:15:07.520 three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three 2527 02:15:07.600 --> 02:15:13.199 two one six one two. We love our feed stores 2528 02:15:13.239 --> 02:15:15.680 here at League City Feed. You know, fall is the 2529 02:15:15.760 --> 02:15:20.079 time to get your trees, shrubs and woody plants planted. 2530 02:15:20.239 --> 02:15:22.960 If you want the best easiest season of the year 2531 02:15:23.000 --> 02:15:25.439 to do it, you put a winder on them on 2532 02:15:25.479 --> 02:15:27.960 the ground, and if it's one hundred degrees outside, you're 2533 02:15:27.960 --> 02:15:30.239 going to water real frequently to keep it going, keep 2534 02:15:30.279 --> 02:15:33.079 it alive. You can do that. But in fall, the 2535 02:15:33.119 --> 02:15:35.680 demands are so low, and it has all the way 2536 02:15:35.760 --> 02:15:39.159 until next summer to get more and more and more 2537 02:15:39.159 --> 02:15:41.520 of a root system out because roots grow all through 2538 02:15:41.560 --> 02:15:44.760 the cool season. They do our sois don't get that 2539 02:15:44.800 --> 02:15:47.520 cold here, and uh, it's just a better time to 2540 02:15:47.520 --> 02:15:50.359 get them established. But when you buy a tree to plant, 2541 02:15:50.439 --> 02:15:52.720 I don't care if it's a single trunk tree tree 2542 02:15:53.119 --> 02:15:55.600 or if it is a multi stemmed, multi trunk crape 2543 02:15:55.640 --> 02:16:00.439 myrtle tree. Three sixty tree stabilizers help hold that plant 2544 02:16:00.560 --> 02:16:03.800 in place until the root system gets established and can 2545 02:16:03.840 --> 02:16:07.319 anchor the plant properly. Now you're going to find three 2546 02:16:07.399 --> 02:16:10.359 sixty tree stabilizers in many places. You know it was. 2547 02:16:10.800 --> 02:16:16.520 It was made designed here in Cyprus, Texas, and it's 2548 02:16:16.560 --> 02:16:19.800 packaged up in Dallas and then also and in Houston 2549 02:16:21.720 --> 02:16:24.399 the molded and fort Worth two. But it's an all 2550 02:16:24.479 --> 02:16:27.760 Texas products. What I'm trying to say, I liked it. 2551 02:16:28.039 --> 02:16:29.479 You can do it different ways. You can plant a 2552 02:16:29.479 --> 02:16:31.279 post post in the ground. You can drive a tea 2553 02:16:31.319 --> 02:16:33.280 post in the ground. I like the teposts, the easy 2554 02:16:33.280 --> 02:16:36.440 to drive in, get them out. You attach the tree stabilizer. 2555 02:16:36.520 --> 02:16:39.399 There's a little part of the product that's made for 2556 02:16:39.479 --> 02:16:42.079 attaching to a tea post and it holds it in 2557 02:16:42.120 --> 02:16:44.360 place with a loose strap so the plant can move 2558 02:16:44.399 --> 02:16:47.120 a little bit. That is important when you steak a tree, 2559 02:16:47.280 --> 02:16:50.000 don't stake it down like a rocket you're afraid and 2560 02:16:50.200 --> 02:16:53.040 take off and shoot off out of the ground. Give 2561 02:16:53.079 --> 02:16:57.479 it some room to move. Movement creates strength in the branches. 2562 02:16:57.559 --> 02:17:01.680 And tree stabilizers designed for just that. You can get MARCYW. 2563 02:17:01.959 --> 02:17:05.719 Buchanan's native plants, the Arborgate plants for all seasons. For 2564 02:17:05.799 --> 02:17:09.360 those of you down south Orges Hidden Gardens and Alvin 2565 02:17:09.399 --> 02:17:13.719 carries them. Those of you southwest Southwest fertilizer has got those. 2566 02:17:13.760 --> 02:17:16.639 They're easy, easy, easy to find, and they work well 2567 02:17:16.680 --> 02:17:19.520 and they last. You buy one and you've got one 2568 02:17:19.559 --> 02:17:21.600 for the next time that you're going to plant something, 2569 02:17:21.840 --> 02:17:24.319 or loaning to family members if they're going to put 2570 02:17:24.319 --> 02:17:28.600 a tree in three sixty tree stabilizer. I should talk 2571 02:17:28.639 --> 02:17:32.879 about that more because that is a very important product. 2572 02:17:33.680 --> 02:17:37.600 For those of you who are looking for the supplies 2573 02:17:37.879 --> 02:17:40.879 that I'm talking about now for fall, you need to 2574 02:17:40.920 --> 02:17:43.520 look no further than your Ace Hardware store. There's forty 2575 02:17:43.559 --> 02:17:48.760 Ace Hardware stores in the Houston area. Ace hardware dot Com. 2576 02:17:48.920 --> 02:17:51.799 So what am I talking about, Well, I'm talking about 2577 02:17:52.159 --> 02:17:55.760 the fertilizers for fall. We're about to enter my schedule's 2578 02:17:56.040 --> 02:18:00.000 fall season here where it's time to get those fertilizers 2579 02:18:00.159 --> 02:18:03.159 to prepare your grass for winter. Of all the different 2580 02:18:03.200 --> 02:18:05.639 brands I talk about, you're gonna find them there at 2581 02:18:05.719 --> 02:18:09.319 Ace Hardware. If you're dealing with pests in the lawn, 2582 02:18:09.440 --> 02:18:12.959 if you're dealing with pests on plants, or diseases or weeds, 2583 02:18:13.440 --> 02:18:17.159 Ace Hardware carries all those things. Of course, they've got tools, 2584 02:18:17.159 --> 02:18:20.040 they've got garden hoses, you know, everything else you need 2585 02:18:20.079 --> 02:18:25.120 for outside, including some things for making a beautiful outdoor 2586 02:18:25.159 --> 02:18:27.079 sitting area. You know, we're getting a break here from 2587 02:18:27.079 --> 02:18:30.479 the heat. It's already started, but good time to fix 2588 02:18:30.559 --> 02:18:33.440 up that patio. And Ace has got you set up 2589 02:18:33.520 --> 02:18:35.479 on all that kind of thing as well. We're going 2590 02:18:35.559 --> 02:18:37.440 to take a little break. Our phone number seven one 2591 02:18:37.520 --> 02:18:39.760 three two one two k t r H and I'll 2592 02:18:39.799 --> 02:18:40.319 be right back. 2593 02:18:43.520 --> 02:18:46.440 Kt r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 2594 02:18:46.479 --> 02:18:50.680 of the products or services advertised on this program. 2595 02:18:50.719 --> 02:18:54.520 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scamp Richard. 2596 02:18:54.600 --> 02:19:09.600 It's just watch him as world. 2597 02:19:08.159 --> 02:19:10.479 And hey, welcome back quotes. I'm going to jump right 2598 02:19:10.639 --> 02:19:13.680 in on the music here. We got lots to talk about, 2599 02:19:14.000 --> 02:19:16.000 so I don't want to wait. You know, I was 2600 02:19:16.040 --> 02:19:18.000 talking to someone a minute ago was looking for some 2601 02:19:18.120 --> 02:19:20.799 Japanese use and sent them up to Warren Southern Gardens 2602 02:19:20.879 --> 02:19:24.280 up in Kingwood. Both Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden 2603 02:19:24.360 --> 02:19:27.040 Center are up there in the Kingwood area. Warrens is 2604 02:19:27.079 --> 02:19:30.559 on North Park, Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. Both of them 2605 02:19:30.639 --> 02:19:33.000 are open seven days a week. Can you just subscribe 2606 02:19:33.000 --> 02:19:34.879 to their newsletter? You can do that online or in 2607 02:19:34.920 --> 02:19:39.559 the store. Lots of good information including some discounts, savings, 2608 02:19:39.600 --> 02:19:42.079 gardening tips, all that kind of thing. You know, they 2609 02:19:42.159 --> 02:19:44.079 got all kinds of stuff coming in every day now. 2610 02:19:44.200 --> 02:19:46.520 I mean, it's false season is here. So do you 2611 02:19:46.559 --> 02:19:49.920 want to plan some dianthus or petunias or snap dragons 2612 02:19:49.959 --> 02:19:52.440 for fall color? Do you want to do veggies and herbs? 2613 02:19:52.440 --> 02:19:56.760 They got plenty of veggies and herbs available. And also 2614 02:19:56.840 --> 02:20:00.000 they have strawberries available. Falls the time to plant strawberry 2615 02:20:00.159 --> 02:20:03.760 and you can get those at Warren Southern Gardens. Shrubs. 2616 02:20:03.799 --> 02:20:06.959 We were talking earlier about sunshine lagustrums at Laura Pedlund 2617 02:20:07.040 --> 02:20:10.879 or Chinese witch hazel encore Azilia's crate myrtles. All of 2618 02:20:10.920 --> 02:20:12.639 it is there. They got a tree sell right now 2619 02:20:12.680 --> 02:20:16.959 on both locations One's and Kingwood, thirty dollars off any tree. 2620 02:20:17.239 --> 02:20:19.319 You're not gonna do any better than that. And while 2621 02:20:19.319 --> 02:20:21.959 you're buy there, go by and ask about their great myrtle, 2622 02:20:22.239 --> 02:20:26.040 crepe myrtle, great myrtle, grepe myrtle. It only gets two 2623 02:20:26.040 --> 02:20:27.920 feet tall, three feet wide. You put it in a 2624 02:20:27.920 --> 02:20:29.920 big container, you can put it in a it makes 2625 02:20:29.959 --> 02:20:31.680 a little bush. Just think of it. Don't think about 2626 02:20:31.719 --> 02:20:34.559 crape myrtle like you've been thinking about imagine a little 2627 02:20:34.600 --> 02:20:38.399 miniature one with disease and insect resistance. It's really an 2628 02:20:38.440 --> 02:20:42.799 awesome little plant. It's only available One's Garden Center, so 2629 02:20:43.040 --> 02:20:45.559 go buy there and check out ask about the great 2630 02:20:45.600 --> 02:20:48.920 myrtle grepe myrtle. While you're out there, we're going to 2631 02:20:49.000 --> 02:20:51.159 go back to the phones now and head up to 2632 02:20:51.239 --> 02:20:54.239 Conroe and talk to Harry. Hey, Harry, welcome to guard Line. 2633 02:20:55.200 --> 02:20:55.959 Thank you SCFF. 2634 02:20:56.040 --> 02:20:57.600 I was gonna ask you if you could help me 2635 02:20:57.680 --> 02:20:59.440 with some Virginia button. 2636 02:20:59.479 --> 02:21:05.360 We can, all right, I can. Virginia button weed loves 2637 02:21:05.399 --> 02:21:07.719 it when you overwater, or it loves it if it's 2638 02:21:07.760 --> 02:21:11.159 a low soggy spot. You know, so number one where 2639 02:21:11.159 --> 02:21:15.799 it's in your power deep infrequent waterings but not frequent. 2640 02:21:16.079 --> 02:21:20.120 And that's first step. Second step, there's a product called celsius. 2641 02:21:20.399 --> 02:21:24.360 Like the temperature, there's fahrenheit and celsius. Well, this is celsius, 2642 02:21:25.040 --> 02:21:28.000 and you apply it. You could do it this week. 2643 02:21:28.280 --> 02:21:31.680 The temperatures will be perfectly fine for celsius this week, 2644 02:21:32.879 --> 02:21:35.000 and of course you don't want to do it right 2645 02:21:35.040 --> 02:21:37.120 for the rain. But if you could get it out 2646 02:21:37.520 --> 02:21:40.879 today or tomorrow. Even if you got it out, you 2647 02:21:40.920 --> 02:21:43.239 know on Monday, earlier in the day, you'd be okay 2648 02:21:43.280 --> 02:21:46.479 till then the rain starts pretty soon after that as 2649 02:21:46.520 --> 02:21:49.879 we go into the week. But you just direct spray 2650 02:21:49.920 --> 02:21:52.440 it right on the Virginia button weed and it'll knock 2651 02:21:52.479 --> 02:21:55.440 it back. Generally, it's going to take a couple of 2652 02:21:55.479 --> 02:21:58.280 sprays to effectively get rid of it. So next spring 2653 02:21:58.360 --> 02:22:01.520 be ready for it again. Eve you'll see some coming back, 2654 02:22:01.559 --> 02:22:04.239 and you just catch it early and it's much easier 2655 02:22:04.280 --> 02:22:07.159 to control in the spring and the early fall season. 2656 02:22:07.680 --> 02:22:09.879 But you can do some spraying in summer for it. 2657 02:22:10.520 --> 02:22:12.520 How on between the sprays. 2658 02:22:13.799 --> 02:22:17.319 Probably about six weeks, eight weeks something like that. It 2659 02:22:17.360 --> 02:22:20.200 depends on the season, and it depends on what you see. 2660 02:22:20.799 --> 02:22:22.959 You know, it takes a product a while. A product 2661 02:22:23.000 --> 02:22:24.680 that's going to work is going to take a while 2662 02:22:24.719 --> 02:22:27.040 to move in and really do the job because it's 2663 02:22:27.040 --> 02:22:29.760 going to do it right. And so just be patient 2664 02:22:29.840 --> 02:22:31.799 for a while there. But if you see, you know 2665 02:22:31.840 --> 02:22:33.799 what I missed that I didn't hit it with spray 2666 02:22:33.920 --> 02:22:36.559 or it's coming back, do it again before we go 2667 02:22:36.600 --> 02:22:36.920 into the. 2668 02:22:37.600 --> 02:22:40.399 How and to see any kind of results at all, 2669 02:22:40.440 --> 02:22:43.760 About how long before I hit it again. 2670 02:22:44.440 --> 02:22:47.440 You should see something, well, I would give it. I 2671 02:22:47.440 --> 02:22:50.319 would say, I'd probably wait three weeks to look at 2672 02:22:50.319 --> 02:22:53.680 it and see how it's responding to the sprays. But 2673 02:22:54.520 --> 02:22:59.840 I wouldn't really patient, well a little bit, just to 2674 02:23:00.040 --> 02:23:02.079 make sure that it's doing the work it's going to do. 2675 02:23:02.120 --> 02:23:04.680 It's not going to kill the buttons, the seed pods 2676 02:23:04.719 --> 02:23:06.639 that are on it. That's why you got to come 2677 02:23:06.680 --> 02:23:08.760 back next year and just stay ahead of it. 2678 02:23:08.959 --> 02:23:10.959 Okay, got it, Yep, got it? 2679 02:23:11.000 --> 02:23:11.760 Thank you love it? 2680 02:23:12.600 --> 02:23:16.600 Yeah, and by the way, yeah, I would would. I 2681 02:23:16.639 --> 02:23:19.200 would call the folks out at Ana Plants and Produce 2682 02:23:19.239 --> 02:23:21.319 and Montgomery see if they've got some of that on hand. 2683 02:23:21.319 --> 02:23:23.159 They might well do that. You know, they carry a 2684 02:23:23.159 --> 02:23:26.040 lot of stuff they've got. When I talk about fertilizers 2685 02:23:26.040 --> 02:23:28.079 and soils, a and as bags of all of it. 2686 02:23:28.440 --> 02:23:30.760 Do you want nitrofoss, do you want Nelson's? Do you 2687 02:23:30.799 --> 02:23:35.280 want microlife? Do you want airlom soils or Nature's Way soils? 2688 02:23:35.319 --> 02:23:38.680 And on and on. Ana stays stocked up. They've got 2689 02:23:38.799 --> 02:23:41.559 great plants. They even have a landscape crew. Those of 2690 02:23:41.600 --> 02:23:43.680 you who live up around Lake Conro, you can give 2691 02:23:43.680 --> 02:23:45.399 them a call, say I'd like to talk to you 2692 02:23:45.440 --> 02:23:48.399 about having somebody come out and help clean this up, 2693 02:23:48.520 --> 02:23:50.959 spruce this up, you know, give it some care. They 2694 02:23:50.959 --> 02:23:53.360 can do that. They keep my schedules there at the desk, 2695 02:23:53.440 --> 02:23:55.399 usually at the checkout if they're not out of them. 2696 02:23:56.079 --> 02:23:58.360 But that way you know exactly what to purchase and 2697 02:23:58.399 --> 02:24:01.639 when A and A and produce. By the way, they're 2698 02:24:01.680 --> 02:24:04.639 going to be at the Fall Home and Gardens show 2699 02:24:04.719 --> 02:24:06.799 up in Montgomery County that I'll be out after the 2700 02:24:06.799 --> 02:24:09.040 show today, So come on by and see me and 2701 02:24:09.079 --> 02:24:11.399 swing by the ANA booth and say hey to them. 2702 02:24:11.760 --> 02:24:13.879 They'll be up there too, because that is their home 2703 02:24:13.959 --> 02:24:17.719 territory up there in the Montgomery to Conroe area there 2704 02:24:17.760 --> 02:24:20.799 on the west or excuse me, the east side of Montgomery, 2705 02:24:21.079 --> 02:24:25.680 right there on Highway one oh five. I always like 2706 02:24:26.239 --> 02:24:28.280 going by and visiting. Plus they get some of the 2707 02:24:28.280 --> 02:24:32.079 best landscape bling in the business. They do lots of 2708 02:24:32.120 --> 02:24:34.239 cool stuff. You know, falls coming. We're going to get 2709 02:24:34.280 --> 02:24:38.079 some crispy nights eventually, can't you wait. Get you a 2710 02:24:38.079 --> 02:24:41.520 little chimenea from na plants and produce that take care 2711 02:24:41.520 --> 02:24:46.799 of it. So I mentioned earlier, Today is National Hummingbird Day, 2712 02:24:47.000 --> 02:24:50.639 so say hi to any hummingbirdgency flying by and congratulate 2713 02:24:50.680 --> 02:24:53.920 them National Hummingbird Day. They are making their trip south 2714 02:24:54.079 --> 02:24:58.120 and they're pausing to refuel at your house. Right now, 2715 02:24:58.200 --> 02:25:01.479 you need to get you a high per hummingbird feeder 2716 02:25:01.559 --> 02:25:05.799 from Wallbirds Unlimited. You can go to the website WBU 2717 02:25:05.879 --> 02:25:09.879 dot com forward slash Houston w BU dot Com forward 2718 02:25:09.959 --> 02:25:13.959 slash Houston find the six waldbirds and which one's closest 2719 02:25:13.959 --> 02:25:16.479 to you. Go for it. Go buy their sandy to 2720 02:25:16.479 --> 02:25:19.479 a high perch hummingbird feeder. It's my favorite of all 2721 02:25:19.520 --> 02:25:22.760 the hummingbird feeders I have. I love my high perch feeder. Now, 2722 02:25:23.280 --> 02:25:25.920 if you still have any vacation and that you're planning 2723 02:25:25.959 --> 02:25:28.920 on doing, get make sure and get the seed cylinders 2724 02:25:28.920 --> 02:25:30.959 that are packed tight. You put them out there and 2725 02:25:31.040 --> 02:25:33.639 the birds will have something until you come home, or 2726 02:25:33.719 --> 02:25:36.280 buy some of the quality seeds that they have at 2727 02:25:36.319 --> 02:25:40.600 Wildbirds Unlimited. Right now though, it is hummingbird season and 2728 02:25:40.719 --> 02:25:43.159 you can get special They even have a special little 2729 02:25:43.200 --> 02:25:46.360 hummingbirds solution that you put in there that doesn't go 2730 02:25:46.479 --> 02:25:49.360 bad so fast. You know, sugar water and warm temperatures, 2731 02:25:49.440 --> 02:25:52.680 it's gonna start to get nasty after a few days. 2732 02:25:52.840 --> 02:25:55.159 You always need to be putting fresh out. But with 2733 02:25:55.280 --> 02:25:57.959 the wilbirds material. You get a little bit extra day 2734 02:25:58.040 --> 02:26:01.600 or two out of that, just helping to keep those 2735 02:26:01.680 --> 02:26:07.200 humming birds healthy and happy. On National Hummingbird Day. You 2736 02:26:07.280 --> 02:26:09.799 have national days for all kinds of things here. I 2737 02:26:09.840 --> 02:26:12.239 don't know, maybe you had a National Garden Line Day. 2738 02:26:12.639 --> 02:26:14.840 I doubt that'll make it, but it would be fun 2739 02:26:14.879 --> 02:26:18.520 if it did. If you live down in the Richmond 2740 02:26:18.600 --> 02:26:22.920 Rosenberg area and haven't been by Enchanted Forest Garden Center, 2741 02:26:23.040 --> 02:26:26.559 you need to get by there. Enchanted Forest. It's just 2742 02:26:26.639 --> 02:26:29.280 a wonderful place to visit. You know, you go in 2743 02:26:29.559 --> 02:26:31.200 and when you get out of the car, you look 2744 02:26:31.239 --> 02:26:33.120 at it and it's just like, Okay, this is gonna 2745 02:26:33.159 --> 02:26:35.719 be this is gonna be fun, this is gonna be cool. 2746 02:26:35.760 --> 02:26:38.559 And it is. You know, Clay and the whole team 2747 02:26:38.719 --> 02:26:42.920 up there an Enchanted Forest. They have really created a 2748 02:26:43.000 --> 02:26:47.239 special special place and no matter what plants you need 2749 02:26:47.319 --> 02:26:50.000 for the season, they're going to have them. For example, 2750 02:26:50.079 --> 02:26:52.760 right now, they have plenty of fall color out there. 2751 02:26:53.200 --> 02:26:57.399 They have plants that attract you know, you're hummingbirds that 2752 02:26:58.000 --> 02:26:59.799 just go by and say, hey, I need to have 2753 02:26:59.840 --> 02:27:02.840 a plant that is going to bring in the humming birds. 2754 02:27:02.879 --> 02:27:06.559 I hear it's the season for that, and feeders are great, 2755 02:27:06.600 --> 02:27:10.000 but why not also plant for the hummingbirds and jenniferrest 2756 02:27:10.040 --> 02:27:12.680 sketch cover. Do you need fall color, They've got it. 2757 02:27:12.719 --> 02:27:15.120 Do you need herbs for fall fall as we're planting, 2758 02:27:15.159 --> 02:27:18.000 They've got it. Trees and shrubs, they've got it. They 2759 02:27:18.040 --> 02:27:21.959 even have some beautiful plume areas, which you know, I 2760 02:27:22.040 --> 02:27:24.159 know we're going to winter soon, but they've got some 2761 02:27:24.159 --> 02:27:26.920 plumerias that you just need to get and put out, 2762 02:27:27.120 --> 02:27:31.399 beautiful variegated I've never seen them as cool as these are. 2763 02:27:31.680 --> 02:27:34.719 They've got them there. And of course plumerias are easy 2764 02:27:34.760 --> 02:27:36.719 and bring them in the garage, hang them upside down 2765 02:27:36.799 --> 02:27:40.079 during the wintertime and they do just fine when you 2766 02:27:40.079 --> 02:27:42.639 put them back out in the spring. Do you need 2767 02:27:42.879 --> 02:27:45.719 cool seasoned vegetables, They're already loaded up on them. Do 2768 02:27:45.799 --> 02:27:49.639 you need that? Do you want some beautiful taalavera types 2769 02:27:49.719 --> 02:27:54.520 of pottery type pumpkins, say, pottery ceramic types of pumpkins, 2770 02:27:54.520 --> 02:28:01.760 They've got all of that. All Enchanted gardens in Richmond's easy, 2771 02:28:01.840 --> 02:28:05.000 easy to find. Go online. Check out the website Enchented 2772 02:28:05.440 --> 02:28:09.840 Gardens Richmond, TX dot com. Take a little break here 2773 02:28:09.840 --> 02:28:13.559 for the news and I'll be right back. Welcome back 2774 02:28:13.559 --> 02:28:16.280 to garden line. Uh so Maya Kulpa. I got a 2775 02:28:16.280 --> 02:28:19.760 Maya couple here. I just was talking about Enchanted Forest 2776 02:28:19.760 --> 02:28:24.319 Garden Center, and I gave the wrong website. It's Enchanted 2777 02:28:24.719 --> 02:28:30.719 Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. 2778 02:28:30.760 --> 02:28:35.000 As I went out of that section there for the break, 2779 02:28:35.559 --> 02:28:37.319 I it echoed in my ear and I had Oh, 2780 02:28:37.719 --> 02:28:39.399 I just save him the wrong one. Here's a phone 2781 02:28:39.440 --> 02:28:41.559 number for him down there at Enchented Forest two eight 2782 02:28:41.600 --> 02:28:45.719 one nine three seven ninety four forty nine two eight 2783 02:28:45.760 --> 02:28:49.559 one nine three seven ninety four forty nine. You gotta 2784 02:28:49.600 --> 02:28:51.840 get by there. I'm telling you. They are loaded up 2785 02:28:51.879 --> 02:28:55.159 on all kinds of things, including some beautiful, beautiful lenscape 2786 02:28:55.200 --> 02:28:55.760 color too. 2787 02:28:56.920 --> 02:28:57.040 Uh. 2788 02:28:57.680 --> 02:29:02.399 Medina products are something that I have been trying out 2789 02:29:02.440 --> 02:29:05.200 and finding good success with for a good while now. 2790 02:29:05.680 --> 02:29:10.680 Medina has so many different products that are so effective 2791 02:29:10.840 --> 02:29:13.520 in what they do. For example, hastro Grow six twelve six, 2792 02:29:14.280 --> 02:29:16.280 it's got that high quality plant food and it's the 2793 02:29:16.319 --> 02:29:19.440 six twelve six plant food. It's got Medina soil activator 2794 02:29:19.479 --> 02:29:23.840 which stimulates biological activity. It's got humate, humic acid. You 2795 02:29:23.840 --> 02:29:27.399 know humids. It improves soul structure, it improves new chain uptake. 2796 02:29:27.680 --> 02:29:30.440 It's also got seaweed extracts in it. Seaweed extracts are 2797 02:29:30.479 --> 02:29:33.719 helpful for stimulating both the fruiting and the blooming. You 2798 02:29:33.760 --> 02:29:36.200 can spray has to Grow six twelve six as a 2799 02:29:36.200 --> 02:29:39.159 foliar application. It is not going to burn anything, very 2800 02:29:39.159 --> 02:29:42.920 gentle formulation. It helps build the biological activity in the 2801 02:29:42.959 --> 02:29:46.799 soil and it really is excellent for transplanting. Just take 2802 02:29:46.840 --> 02:29:49.360 the has to Grow six twelve six plant food fall 2803 02:29:49.399 --> 02:29:51.159 of the label. Mix it in water takes about an 2804 02:29:51.159 --> 02:29:54.120 ounce per gallon, and then in a watering can and 2805 02:29:54.239 --> 02:29:56.719 just drench it in. If you're going to transplant, drench 2806 02:29:56.760 --> 02:29:59.239 it in. Drench it in always do that. Come back 2807 02:29:59.239 --> 02:30:01.200 a week later, due again, come back a week later, 2808 02:30:01.239 --> 02:30:03.639 do it again. And as that plant that you just 2809 02:30:03.680 --> 02:30:06.959 put in is getting its rich system established, you're providing 2810 02:30:07.159 --> 02:30:10.920 plenty of good stuff to help it to establish well. 2811 02:30:11.120 --> 02:30:14.040 And that's just a head start. It's a head start 2812 02:30:14.399 --> 02:30:17.879 on not only plant survival, but on plant to thrive. 2813 02:30:18.040 --> 02:30:20.479 And again just one of the many good products from 2814 02:30:20.520 --> 02:30:25.760 Medina Hastro Grove six's twelve six Let's head up now 2815 02:30:25.879 --> 02:30:29.239 to Conroe, and we're going to talk to Diana. Hey, Diana, 2816 02:30:29.280 --> 02:30:30.280 welcome to Gardenline. 2817 02:30:32.159 --> 02:30:32.479 Hello. 2818 02:30:34.920 --> 02:30:38.520 Yes, Diana, I said Conra, Yes I can, I said Conro. 2819 02:30:38.639 --> 02:30:39.520 I meant Cyprus. 2820 02:30:39.559 --> 02:30:45.200 Sorry, Yes, I wanted to ask you. I noticed yesterday 2821 02:30:45.280 --> 02:30:49.440 that our crank myrtle something is eating the leave and 2822 02:30:50.120 --> 02:30:52.200 I look to see if I could find anything like 2823 02:30:52.239 --> 02:30:54.600 a caterpillar or some type. I didn't see anything, but 2824 02:30:54.680 --> 02:30:57.319 there's some big chunks sticking out a lot of the leaves. 2825 02:30:57.479 --> 02:30:59.799 And then I have another issue too, on our values. 2826 02:31:00.079 --> 02:31:02.840 One section, the leaves are starting to turn yellow and 2827 02:31:02.879 --> 02:31:05.200 they've got black spots on them. So I wanted to 2828 02:31:05.239 --> 02:31:09.200 know the best things to treat each of those. No situations. 2829 02:31:10.000 --> 02:31:12.120 On the azaleas, they're yellow with black spots. 2830 02:31:12.159 --> 02:31:15.239 You're sand Yes, the leaves, some of the leaves are 2831 02:31:15.280 --> 02:31:18.760 starting in the one section there and it looks spreading, 2832 02:31:18.760 --> 02:31:20.799 but it looks like they're yellow. And then they got 2833 02:31:20.799 --> 02:31:24.120 black spots on them. And then there's something beating big 2834 02:31:24.479 --> 02:31:26.399 sat the leaves on the crate myrtle. 2835 02:31:26.479 --> 02:31:29.719 Yeah, okay, Well the cray murdle could be a beetle, 2836 02:31:29.799 --> 02:31:32.120 could be a caterpillar. But I would not worry about 2837 02:31:32.120 --> 02:31:34.639 it that cray myrtle, if for long, is gonna be 2838 02:31:34.639 --> 02:31:38.319 losing its leaves anyway, And if it even has you know, 2839 02:31:38.959 --> 02:31:41.959 two thirds of leaf cover still on it, it's going 2840 02:31:42.040 --> 02:31:44.600 to be fine going into winter. I don't think it's 2841 02:31:44.680 --> 02:31:47.879 wrong in the spray. And it's also possible that whatever 2842 02:31:48.120 --> 02:31:50.559 was eating them has now moved on. You know, caterpillars 2843 02:31:50.559 --> 02:31:53.200 turn into people that turn into moths and so on, 2844 02:31:53.239 --> 02:31:55.879 and yeah, I wouldn't worry about that as far as 2845 02:31:55.879 --> 02:31:59.600 the azaleas are concerned. Can can you picture if the 2846 02:31:59.680 --> 02:32:02.040 yellow is on the ends of new shoots or is 2847 02:32:02.079 --> 02:32:05.000 it the older leaves furtherest down the stem toward the. 2848 02:32:04.959 --> 02:32:12.159 Base, whether established leaves you know they're they're not growth 2849 02:32:12.360 --> 02:32:14.040 or it's established leaves yet. 2850 02:32:14.600 --> 02:32:18.200 Yeah, so it could be well, a lack of nitrogen 2851 02:32:18.319 --> 02:32:21.840 causes older leaves to turn yellow gradually. If you're getting 2852 02:32:21.879 --> 02:32:25.559 more of a bright yellow, it's typically a sow moisture fluctuation. 2853 02:32:25.799 --> 02:32:27.520 It gets too dry for a while and then you 2854 02:32:27.559 --> 02:32:30.079 give it a good watering. It bounces back, but the 2855 02:32:30.120 --> 02:32:34.000 old leaves turn yellow. Older leaves turn yellow, So I 2856 02:32:34.040 --> 02:32:37.239 would just watch on that. As far as black spots 2857 02:32:37.360 --> 02:32:39.319 on the leaves, I kind of need to see it 2858 02:32:39.399 --> 02:32:42.040 to see what you're talking about. There are spots. They're 2859 02:32:42.040 --> 02:32:44.959 like a city mold, a city kind of black spot, 2860 02:32:45.159 --> 02:32:49.799 very very vague like like soot is on a plant, 2861 02:32:50.639 --> 02:32:55.239 not real distinct margins and stuff, so that that's a possibility. 2862 02:32:56.239 --> 02:32:59.520 It could also be a bacterial spot, but those tend 2863 02:32:59.559 --> 02:33:03.399 to be very black, very distinct, very angular in their shape. 2864 02:33:04.479 --> 02:33:10.719 I'm around, Yeah, they're they're perfectly the little spots are 2865 02:33:10.719 --> 02:33:11.559 perfectly ground. 2866 02:33:12.559 --> 02:33:15.200 All right, let me I need to see them. If 2867 02:33:15.239 --> 02:33:16.680 you want to further help with that. 2868 02:33:16.799 --> 02:33:18.840 Okay, well I can, if I can email, I can 2869 02:33:18.879 --> 02:33:20.239 email it if you need to. 2870 02:33:21.520 --> 02:33:23.399 Do you have my email? Do you have it? If not, 2871 02:33:23.479 --> 02:33:25.239 I'll put you on and Crystal give it to you. 2872 02:33:25.360 --> 02:33:27.239 I do have because I had to send you something 2873 02:33:27.239 --> 02:33:29.479 a while back, so I'll use the same one and 2874 02:33:29.520 --> 02:33:31.680 i'll send the pictures. I won't be able to do 2875 02:33:31.719 --> 02:33:35.680 it right now because we're headed to agging land. Okay, 2876 02:33:35.799 --> 02:33:36.120 very much. 2877 02:33:37.200 --> 02:33:39.719 Well, it's good you're reading. Uh they probably don't need 2878 02:33:39.760 --> 02:33:42.920 you help your help today, but uh, have fun. 2879 02:33:44.000 --> 02:33:45.360 I don't know we're all going to enjoy it. 2880 02:33:45.399 --> 02:33:47.319 So okay, take care, bye. 2881 02:33:47.159 --> 02:33:48.760 Bye, you take it by. 2882 02:33:51.079 --> 02:33:54.840 Gosh, don't get me started talking about that. All right, 2883 02:33:55.120 --> 02:33:58.360 League City Feed down in League City, our favorite little 2884 02:33:58.399 --> 02:34:00.639 feed store down there for those of you Bay Cliff, 2885 02:34:00.680 --> 02:34:04.079 elkame Ino, Reale, Webster, Clear Lake, Santa Fe, Dickinson's and 2886 02:34:04.200 --> 02:34:07.360 Leone and of course League City. They're in League City, 2887 02:34:07.559 --> 02:34:10.559 just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on 2888 02:34:10.639 --> 02:34:12.799 Highway three. It's really easy to get in and out. 2889 02:34:12.920 --> 02:34:15.040 It's that old time feed store, been around for forty 2890 02:34:15.120 --> 02:34:18.879 years now, probably more than that by now. But you 2891 02:34:18.879 --> 02:34:21.000 go in, you get service, they carry the bags out 2892 02:34:21.040 --> 02:34:23.799 for you. But most importantly, you go in there and 2893 02:34:23.840 --> 02:34:26.239 they're going to have all the fertilizers that I recommend 2894 02:34:26.319 --> 02:34:28.399 on guard Line, they've got them. Do you want a 2895 02:34:28.399 --> 02:34:32.079 soil mix like Nature's Way, hair, airloom, soil kinds of things. 2896 02:34:32.120 --> 02:34:36.000 They've got soul mixes in there as well. Do you 2897 02:34:36.040 --> 02:34:40.399 need pest control, weed control, disease control, both organic and synthetic. 2898 02:34:40.879 --> 02:34:43.319 While you're in there, grab some of their premium quality 2899 02:34:43.360 --> 02:34:46.479 pet food. You know, they're open until six Monday through Saturday, 2900 02:34:46.680 --> 02:34:50.639 nine am to six, and so you get through with work, 2901 02:34:50.799 --> 02:34:53.120 just swing by there and grab it. That's kind of convenient. 2902 02:34:53.239 --> 02:34:56.440 Can't get any easier than that as well as any 2903 02:34:56.520 --> 02:34:59.559 kinds of feed for your animals, for your backyard chickens. 2904 02:34:59.600 --> 02:35:02.680 They've got all that League City Feed. Here's the number 2905 02:35:03.120 --> 02:35:07.319 two eight one three three two sixteen twelve two eight 2906 02:35:07.399 --> 02:35:13.440 one three three two one six one two. We love 2907 02:35:13.520 --> 02:35:16.079 our feed stores here at League City Feed. You know, 2908 02:35:16.200 --> 02:35:19.760 fall is the time to get your trees, shrubs, and 2909 02:35:19.799 --> 02:35:23.639 woody plants planted. If you want the best easiest season 2910 02:35:23.719 --> 02:35:26.159 of the year to do it, you put a windear 2911 02:35:26.200 --> 02:35:28.000 on them on the ground, and if it's one hundred 2912 02:35:28.040 --> 02:35:30.799 degrees outside, you're going to water real frequently to keep 2913 02:35:30.799 --> 02:35:33.000 it going, keep it alive. You can do that, but 2914 02:35:33.120 --> 02:35:36.280 in fall the demands are so low, and it has 2915 02:35:36.319 --> 02:35:39.399 all the way until next summer to get more and 2916 02:35:39.520 --> 02:35:41.799 more and more of a root system out. Because roots 2917 02:35:41.799 --> 02:35:45.399 grow all through the cool season. They do our soas 2918 02:35:45.440 --> 02:35:48.319 don't get that cold here, and it's just a better 2919 02:35:48.360 --> 02:35:50.520 time to get them established. But when you buy a 2920 02:35:50.559 --> 02:35:52.719 tree to plant, I don't care if it's a single 2921 02:35:52.760 --> 02:35:55.760 trunk tree tree or if it is a multi stemmed, 2922 02:35:55.879 --> 02:36:00.639 multi trunk crepe myrtle tree. Three sixty tree stabilizers help 2923 02:36:00.760 --> 02:36:04.559 hold that plant in place until the root system gets established. 2924 02:36:04.600 --> 02:36:07.840 And can anchor the plant properly. Now you're going to 2925 02:36:07.920 --> 02:36:11.079 find three sixty tree stabilizers in many places. You know 2926 02:36:11.159 --> 02:36:17.239 it was. It was made designed here in Cyprus, Texas, 2927 02:36:17.280 --> 02:36:20.200 and it's packaged up in Dallas and then also and 2928 02:36:20.280 --> 02:36:25.280 in Houston the molding and fort Worth two. But it's 2929 02:36:25.280 --> 02:36:28.479 an all Texas products. What I'm trying to say, I 2930 02:36:28.639 --> 02:36:30.559 like you can do it different ways. You can plant 2931 02:36:30.559 --> 02:36:32.159 a post post in the ground. You can drive a 2932 02:36:32.239 --> 02:36:34.399 tea post in the ground. I like the teposter easy 2933 02:36:34.399 --> 02:36:37.600 to drive in, get them out. You attach the tree stabilizer. 2934 02:36:37.639 --> 02:36:40.520 There's a little part of the product that's made for 2935 02:36:40.600 --> 02:36:43.200 attaching to a tea post and it holds it in 2936 02:36:43.239 --> 02:36:45.520 place with a loose strap so the plant can move 2937 02:36:45.520 --> 02:36:48.280 a little bit. That is important when you steak a tree, 2938 02:36:48.399 --> 02:36:51.120 don't stake it down like a rocket you're afraid and 2939 02:36:51.319 --> 02:36:54.159 take off and shoot off out of the ground. Give 2940 02:36:54.200 --> 02:36:58.639 it some room to move. Movement creates strength in the branches. 2941 02:36:58.680 --> 02:37:02.040 And tree stabilizers to designed for just that. You can 2942 02:37:02.040 --> 02:37:06.479 get MARCYW. Buchanan's native plants, the Arborgate plants for all seasons. 2943 02:37:06.799 --> 02:37:10.079 For those of you down South Orges hidden gardens and 2944 02:37:10.159 --> 02:37:14.440 Alvin carries them. Those of you Southwest. Southwest Fertilizer has 2945 02:37:14.440 --> 02:37:17.200 got those. They're easy, easy, easy to find, and they 2946 02:37:17.280 --> 02:37:20.200 work well and they last. You buy one and you've 2947 02:37:20.239 --> 02:37:22.040 got one for the next time that you're going to 2948 02:37:22.079 --> 02:37:25.120 plant something or learning to family members if they're going 2949 02:37:25.200 --> 02:37:29.280 to put a tree in three sixty tree stabilizer. I 2950 02:37:29.319 --> 02:37:32.399 should talk about that more because that is a very 2951 02:37:32.479 --> 02:37:37.120 important product. For those of you who are looking for 2952 02:37:37.840 --> 02:37:41.680 the supplies that I'm talking about now for fall, you 2953 02:37:41.760 --> 02:37:44.040 need to look no further than your Ace Hardware store. 2954 02:37:44.079 --> 02:37:47.360 There's forty Ace Hardware stores in the Houston area. Ace 2955 02:37:48.000 --> 02:37:51.920 Hardware dot Com. So what am I talking about, Well, 2956 02:37:52.000 --> 02:37:55.479 I'm talking about the fertilizers for fall. We're about to 2957 02:37:55.600 --> 02:37:59.200 enter my schedule's fall season here where it's time to 2958 02:37:59.239 --> 02:38:03.680 get those fertilizers to prepare your grass for winter. Of 2959 02:38:03.719 --> 02:38:06.000 all the different brands I talk about, you're gonna find 2960 02:38:06.040 --> 02:38:09.639 them there at Ace Hardware. If you're dealing with pests 2961 02:38:09.920 --> 02:38:12.520 in the lawn, if you're dealing with pests on plants, 2962 02:38:12.600 --> 02:38:17.200 or diseases or weeds, Ace Hardware carries all those things. 2963 02:38:17.239 --> 02:38:20.079 Of course, they've got tools, they've got garden hoses, you know, 2964 02:38:20.159 --> 02:38:24.280 everything else you need for outside, including some things for 2965 02:38:24.440 --> 02:38:27.520 making a beautiful outdoor sitting area. You know, we're getting 2966 02:38:27.520 --> 02:38:30.239 a break here from the heat. It's already started, but 2967 02:38:30.760 --> 02:38:33.239 good time to fix up that patio and aces. Got 2968 02:38:33.280 --> 02:38:36.120 you set up on all that kind of thing as well. 2969 02:38:36.360 --> 02:38:38.079 We're going to take a little break our phone number 2970 02:38:38.120 --> 02:38:41.000 seven one three two one two KTRH and I'll be 2971 02:38:41.079 --> 02:38:44.360 right back to the phones here in this segment and 2972 02:38:44.440 --> 02:38:47.120 talk to Ezra up in Conroe. Hey, Ezra, welcome to 2973 02:38:47.159 --> 02:38:49.440 garden Line, good mortage. 2974 02:38:49.479 --> 02:38:51.879 Stir warning. 2975 02:38:54.200 --> 02:38:54.719 Can you hear me? 2976 02:38:54.760 --> 02:38:58.680 Okay, yes, I can, Okay. 2977 02:38:59.200 --> 02:39:01.840 The question I had is regarding I guess what you 2978 02:39:02.040 --> 02:39:05.879 go parachute ants or cut ants that seemed to attract 2979 02:39:05.920 --> 02:39:07.280 the crape myrtles and other. 2980 02:39:07.159 --> 02:39:08.040 Things in my yard. 2981 02:39:09.159 --> 02:39:13.520 I've tried Dominion two L poured down the hole. I've 2982 02:39:13.559 --> 02:39:16.000 tried the we're hooking up to the hose with a 2983 02:39:16.120 --> 02:39:20.440 spectra that works good for contact if they're out, you know, 2984 02:39:21.239 --> 02:39:22.239 attacking the trees. 2985 02:39:22.360 --> 02:39:23.920 But is that anything better than that? 2986 02:39:27.319 --> 02:39:34.079 Oh boy? Well, they're the problem with controlling the lea 2987 02:39:34.239 --> 02:39:38.000 you're talking about a leaf cutting ant, right, yes? 2988 02:39:38.280 --> 02:39:38.799 Yeah? 2989 02:39:39.079 --> 02:39:42.159 Uh so the the problem with controlling them is they 2990 02:39:42.159 --> 02:39:45.760 cut those leaves to bring underground, stick to the ceiling, 2991 02:39:45.840 --> 02:39:50.000 grow fungus on to eat the fungus. So yeah, kind 2992 02:39:50.000 --> 02:39:53.360 of like farmers. Basically, they've got a little crop of 2993 02:39:53.520 --> 02:39:58.719 fungus going under the ground. So you can put things 2994 02:39:58.760 --> 02:40:01.360 along the trails where they have to track out of, 2995 02:40:01.520 --> 02:40:04.280 like a little dust like an orphine right at the 2996 02:40:04.360 --> 02:40:06.440 base around where they have to crawl out of it. 2997 02:40:06.520 --> 02:40:08.200 You don't have to treat the whole mound this big 2998 02:40:08.239 --> 02:40:11.520 giant dusting, just all the openings. You got to do 2999 02:40:11.559 --> 02:40:13.840 that periodically, and so every ant the tries to come 3000 02:40:13.840 --> 02:40:15.440 out of the mound and gets killed, it doesn't go 3001 02:40:15.479 --> 02:40:17.239 down in the mount and kill all of them. Sometimes 3002 02:40:17.280 --> 02:40:19.639 they'll track them down and you'll get some benefit from that. 3003 02:40:20.280 --> 02:40:24.680 But that's a suppression option. There are There is a 3004 02:40:24.719 --> 02:40:27.719 bait combo that I'm going to have to send you 3005 02:40:27.840 --> 02:40:30.200 the information on that for you to give a try. 3006 02:40:30.319 --> 02:40:33.799 I have not used the combo myself, but by mixing 3007 02:40:33.840 --> 02:40:35.799 a couple of baits and going through a certain process, 3008 02:40:36.239 --> 02:40:40.120 I'm told that it can be fairly effective against these ants. 3009 02:40:40.479 --> 02:40:42.239 You would just have to give that a shot. But 3010 02:40:42.319 --> 02:40:47.719 that's the only bait combination idea that I've run across 3011 02:40:48.200 --> 02:40:49.799 because these are difficult to control. 3012 02:40:51.319 --> 02:40:52.799 Yes, yes they are. 3013 02:40:54.120 --> 02:40:54.479 Yeah. 3014 02:40:54.559 --> 02:40:58.760 Yeah, get a mound gone and it pops, back it 3015 02:40:58.840 --> 02:41:02.600 up somewhere else, yeah. 3016 02:41:02.040 --> 02:41:06.040 Yeah, and it's it is and so but I can 3017 02:41:06.079 --> 02:41:08.239 tell you this. You know, if you make them crawl 3018 02:41:08.319 --> 02:41:11.319 through like an orphane dust powder kind of thing, they're 3019 02:41:11.319 --> 02:41:14.239 going to pick that up and you will kill those ants. 3020 02:41:14.239 --> 02:41:17.000 And they need that they come in contact with. But 3021 02:41:17.559 --> 02:41:20.319 that is not I want to be real clear, that 3022 02:41:20.399 --> 02:41:21.799 is not a how do you get rid of a 3023 02:41:21.840 --> 02:41:24.920 mound thing? It's it's to shut them down enough to 3024 02:41:24.920 --> 02:41:28.520 where they're not out eating all your stuff. But let 3025 02:41:28.520 --> 02:41:31.440 me put you on hold. Uh my producer Chris will 3026 02:41:31.479 --> 02:41:34.600 give you an email and if you'll send me that, say, hey, 3027 02:41:34.680 --> 02:41:37.760 we talked this morning. What's the recipe for leaf cutter ants. 3028 02:41:37.799 --> 02:41:39.120 I'll send you some information. 3029 02:41:40.719 --> 02:41:41.479 Thank you so much. 3030 02:41:41.600 --> 02:41:42.840 I'll sure enough try. 3031 02:41:44.000 --> 02:41:48.440 All right, you take care. Yeah, those ants can be 3032 02:41:48.520 --> 02:41:51.520 a problem. I've seen. Uh it's all one time inter 3033 02:41:51.600 --> 02:41:56.600 national geographic down in some jungles, probably South America, somewhere, 3034 02:41:56.760 --> 02:42:00.360 maybe Brazil, who knows. Anyway, there was this huge, huge 3035 02:42:00.399 --> 02:42:03.319 mound that covered I don't know how big of an 3036 02:42:03.319 --> 02:42:06.639 area is like a fourth of an acre one mound, 3037 02:42:07.399 --> 02:42:12.120 and there was a bulldozer that had gone across it 3038 02:42:12.200 --> 02:42:15.399 and sunken down into this hole. If you want to 3039 02:42:15.399 --> 02:42:18.680 see something cool, do a search for leaf cutter ants. 3040 02:42:19.399 --> 02:42:24.840 And then then like concrete, maybe concrete. These people have 3041 02:42:25.079 --> 02:42:28.680 pumped like a concrete like slurry in through all their 3042 02:42:28.760 --> 02:42:32.520 chambers and let it harden, and then they've washed and 3043 02:42:33.120 --> 02:42:37.799 brushed away the soil. And it's this giant excavated city 3044 02:42:38.120 --> 02:42:41.600 that those boogers live in underground. It is amazing, and 3045 02:42:41.639 --> 02:42:45.040 it's also why it's hard to control them. But kinda 3046 02:42:45.520 --> 02:42:50.479 kind of unusual cool stuff. I guess even though they 3047 02:42:50.520 --> 02:42:55.639 get frustrating and they're difficult to control, that they they're 3048 02:42:55.639 --> 02:42:59.120 pretty amazing creatures. And I understand you're you're paint up there. 3049 02:42:59.120 --> 02:43:01.239 Ezra and Conrad to live up in Willis, and I 3050 02:43:01.280 --> 02:43:03.000 had a farm and I came out one night out 3051 02:43:03.040 --> 02:43:06.920 of peach orchard and one night three peach trees went 3052 02:43:07.000 --> 02:43:11.399 from completely foliated to completely bear because the leafcutter mound 3053 02:43:11.440 --> 02:43:15.239 discovered them. I tried a lot of things which I 3054 02:43:15.280 --> 02:43:19.239 won't mention on the air, trying to control those I 3055 02:43:19.280 --> 02:43:21.600 went caddy shack. If any of you saw Bill Murray 3056 02:43:21.680 --> 02:43:24.479 chasing after that gopher, I went caddy shack on these 3057 02:43:24.959 --> 02:43:27.680 leaf cutter ants. I wish I'd known about some of 3058 02:43:27.760 --> 02:43:31.840 the options that we have. Now. All right, folks, you're 3059 02:43:31.879 --> 02:43:34.639 listening to Garden Line phone number seven one three two 3060 02:43:34.719 --> 02:43:39.120 one two k t RH. I've got about twenty minutes 3061 02:43:39.200 --> 02:43:42.200 left in today's show. And when that is done, guess 3062 02:43:42.200 --> 02:43:43.760 what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna head up to the 3063 02:43:43.799 --> 02:43:48.360 Fall Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show and I'll 3064 02:43:48.360 --> 02:43:50.879 be there from twelve to two. I hope you'll come out. 3065 02:43:50.920 --> 02:43:55.200 I'll be giving away some some samples of micro life 3066 02:43:55.200 --> 02:43:57.719 products for the lucky winners that show up there. I'll 3067 02:43:57.719 --> 02:44:00.600 be given a talk on Fall Garden, and then i'll 3068 02:44:00.639 --> 02:44:03.840 be answering your gardening questions and i'll do the regular 3069 02:44:03.920 --> 02:44:07.000 what do we call it, the Emerald Lazarth poem about 3070 02:44:07.000 --> 02:44:09.959 the Statue of Liberty. Bring me you're tired, you're weary, 3071 02:44:10.040 --> 02:44:13.719 your huddled masses yearning to breathe for you, something like that. Well, 3072 02:44:13.760 --> 02:44:18.159 you can bring me your samples. You're in your pest samples, 3073 02:44:18.280 --> 02:44:21.440 your diseased leaves, and I'll take a look at them, 3074 02:44:21.440 --> 02:44:23.079 and we'll tell you what to do about them. Bring 3075 02:44:23.120 --> 02:44:25.399 me pictures of your yard. We'll do that. I love 3076 02:44:25.479 --> 02:44:28.959 meeting listeners up at these events. Are everybody up in 3077 02:44:29.000 --> 02:44:31.200 that whole region up there around Conrad. I hope you'll 3078 02:44:31.200 --> 02:44:36.239 come out to the Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living 3079 02:44:36.280 --> 02:44:38.719 Show again at the Lone Star Convention Center up on 3080 02:44:38.760 --> 02:44:41.959 Airport Road, right across from the Extension Office. Easy easy 3081 02:44:42.000 --> 02:44:47.079 to get too. Earlier I was talking about nutri Star Genesis. 3082 02:44:47.200 --> 02:44:51.079 Neutral Star Genesis is a Nelson plant food product, one 3083 02:44:51.120 --> 02:44:54.879 of many quality products that folks out at Nelson's have 3084 02:44:55.559 --> 02:44:58.680 nutri Stars. The newest Genesis is the newest one in 3085 02:44:58.719 --> 02:45:02.360 the line. This is one made for transplanting. So if 3086 02:45:02.399 --> 02:45:04.440 you're going to take a little four inch pot and 3087 02:45:04.479 --> 02:45:07.159 move it up to a one gallon pot in the soil, 3088 02:45:07.200 --> 02:45:09.079 and that one gallum pot you have, you should have 3089 02:45:09.239 --> 02:45:12.760 mixed some nutri Star Genesis. If you're going to take 3090 02:45:12.879 --> 02:45:17.280 a plant and plant it in the ground, use Nutristar Genesis, 3091 02:45:17.360 --> 02:45:19.760 mix it up into the soil around that plant and 3092 02:45:19.799 --> 02:45:21.719 put that plant in the ground, and you're just going 3093 02:45:21.799 --> 02:45:25.399 to see success. It's loaded with microbes, it's got microhizal 3094 02:45:25.440 --> 02:45:29.360 fungi and beneficial bacteria and other fungi. That really it 3095 02:45:29.399 --> 02:45:34.840 benefits that soil microbiome and it just helps. It helps 3096 02:45:34.879 --> 02:45:38.000 reduce transplant chalks, feeds the soil and then gradually feeding 3097 02:45:38.000 --> 02:45:41.840 them snock on burn roots works super super well. I've 3098 02:45:41.920 --> 02:45:45.360 used it. I've seen great results with it, and from 3099 02:45:45.399 --> 02:45:48.120 the time I first tried it, I told Nan, I've 3100 02:45:48.159 --> 02:45:50.840 got it. This is I gotta talk about this. This 3101 02:45:50.879 --> 02:45:54.879 is good stuff. This really really works. From Nelson Plant Food. 3102 02:45:55.159 --> 02:45:57.360 By the way, while you're there, grab a jar of 3103 02:45:57.399 --> 02:46:00.600 that nutra Star vegetable garden. It's got the newnutriants to 3104 02:46:00.639 --> 02:46:04.159 make sure your vegetables grow well and yield well. You 3105 02:46:04.239 --> 02:46:07.079 do about once a month during the growing season for 3106 02:46:07.120 --> 02:46:10.280 the vegetables that you're growing. It's time right now for 3107 02:46:10.799 --> 02:46:14.639 fall fertilization for fall vegetables. So we've got five different 3108 02:46:14.639 --> 02:46:17.200 sources of nitrogen. You can use it in containers, you 3109 02:46:17.200 --> 02:46:19.559 can use it in the ground in your vegetable garden, 3110 02:46:19.840 --> 02:46:23.120 however you want to go about it. Nutristar Vegetable Garden 3111 02:46:23.120 --> 02:46:25.520 Food one of the many nutri Star products that are 3112 02:46:25.600 --> 02:46:29.079 quality and that work from Nelson Plant Food. I'm going 3113 02:46:29.159 --> 02:46:33.520 to head now out to John in Friendswood. Hello, John, 3114 02:46:33.639 --> 02:46:34.399 how can we help? 3115 02:46:35.360 --> 02:46:40.079 Good morning Skip. I'm being taken over by Virginia button weed. 3116 02:46:40.200 --> 02:46:42.840 I've got a big patch on the side of my 3117 02:46:43.000 --> 02:46:48.040 yard that I've been fighting for off and on for 3118 02:46:48.120 --> 02:46:51.159 a few years, and now I'm finding pieces of it 3119 02:46:51.280 --> 02:46:58.000 just popping up everywhere. When is the best time to 3120 02:46:58.040 --> 02:46:59.520 go out there and attack it? 3121 02:47:00.520 --> 02:47:00.639 All? 3122 02:47:00.719 --> 02:47:02.840 Right, the first time you see it in the spring, 3123 02:47:02.920 --> 02:47:06.639 start on it. Then use a product called celsius, like 3124 02:47:06.719 --> 02:47:12.559 the temperature fahrenheit and celsius celsius celsius. Apply it according 3125 02:47:12.559 --> 02:47:15.000 to the label. You probably are gonna have to pply 3126 02:47:15.040 --> 02:47:18.079 it again about six to eight weeks later, because it's 3127 02:47:18.120 --> 02:47:21.920 one that one application often doesn't do it all. But 3128 02:47:21.959 --> 02:47:23.959 you could do it now. If you've got Virginia button 3129 02:47:24.000 --> 02:47:26.680 we go ahead and do it now too. But Celsius 3130 02:47:26.799 --> 02:47:29.319 is the one. Follow the label and that's the best 3131 02:47:29.360 --> 02:47:32.799 thing you can do. Culturally. Anything you do to dry 3132 02:47:32.879 --> 02:47:35.719 that soil out a little more, don't over water, improve 3133 02:47:35.840 --> 02:47:39.959 drainage whatever that also helps. It helps keep it from 3134 02:47:40.200 --> 02:47:43.760 proliferating so much while you're trying to spray it. Okay, 3135 02:47:44.440 --> 02:47:46.920 I'm gonna have to run John, I've got I've got 3136 02:47:46.959 --> 02:47:52.920 a hard break here. Appreciate, appreciate your call. Our number 3137 02:47:53.079 --> 02:47:55.680 is seven one three two one two ktr H. I'll 3138 02:47:55.719 --> 02:47:57.760 be right back and we'll talk to Ron. Have you 3139 02:47:57.799 --> 02:48:00.479 with us, Glad you're listening in today. We're going to 3140 02:48:00.479 --> 02:48:03.200 go to the phones now and talk to Ron. Hello, Ron, 3141 02:48:03.239 --> 02:48:04.079 welcome to guard Line. 3142 02:48:05.040 --> 02:48:07.840 Good morning. I have the cure for the gentleman that 3143 02:48:08.000 --> 02:48:10.920 has the leaf cutter ant problem, and I have found 3144 02:48:10.959 --> 02:48:11.799 a way to thick that. 3145 02:48:13.079 --> 02:48:15.920 Well, that's good. How many sticks of dynamite? How many 3146 02:48:15.920 --> 02:48:17.440 sticks of dynamite do you use? 3147 02:48:18.280 --> 02:48:18.479 Yeah? 3148 02:48:18.600 --> 02:48:21.239 It is as much as I would like to feed 3149 02:48:21.280 --> 02:48:23.239 that side of me that likes to shoot and blow 3150 02:48:23.319 --> 02:48:24.920 up things. You don't have to. 3151 02:48:24.879 --> 02:48:29.159 Do that, okay, all right, Ron? What works for you? 3152 02:48:30.319 --> 02:48:38.079 Ortho makes a concentrated termite killer ide a little bottle. 3153 02:48:38.120 --> 02:48:40.840 I think it makes about five gallons. It only takes 3154 02:48:40.879 --> 02:48:43.959 about a gallon per hole when you can find, you know, 3155 02:48:44.040 --> 02:48:47.000 follow the trail, Mix it a little strong, and just 3156 02:48:47.040 --> 02:48:50.280 pour one gallon down the hole and in twenty four 3157 02:48:50.319 --> 02:48:51.559 hours they will all be dead. 3158 02:48:53.799 --> 02:48:55.559 All right, Well, I'll tell you what I have to 3159 02:48:55.600 --> 02:48:57.959 say this as a disclaimer because you're going out over 3160 02:48:58.000 --> 02:49:01.079 the air. If a product, if a pest is not 3161 02:49:01.239 --> 02:49:05.000 listed on a label, I can't recommend it, you know 3162 02:49:05.000 --> 02:49:06.920 what I'm saying. 3163 02:49:07.479 --> 02:49:11.840 Uh, like what you said, though, they're they're not like 3164 02:49:11.920 --> 02:49:15.120 regular ants. They know they won't eat bait. They make 3165 02:49:15.159 --> 02:49:18.639 their own food, and so you got to get another 3166 02:49:18.680 --> 02:49:21.120 way of getting them. But it works. 3167 02:49:21.319 --> 02:49:25.239 So yeah, Well that Concox I was telling him about 3168 02:49:25.600 --> 02:49:28.239 was actually a mixture of two baits that for some reason, 3169 02:49:28.280 --> 02:49:30.399 putting them together it seems to work. But hey, I 3170 02:49:30.399 --> 02:49:31.879 appreciate that. I want to look into that, so you 3171 02:49:32.000 --> 02:49:36.639 finite information on that. I appreciate you calling in. Have 3172 02:49:36.719 --> 02:49:40.040 a good weekend. By the way, where are you located? Ron? 3173 02:49:40.440 --> 02:49:45.040 What part of the city? I think I lost him? 3174 02:49:45.079 --> 02:49:49.440 All right, all right, folks, Well, uh, here we are 3175 02:49:49.879 --> 02:49:52.639 on guardline talking about all kinds of things. And I 3176 02:49:53.040 --> 02:49:56.040 was telling you earlier that fall is a good time 3177 02:49:56.079 --> 02:50:01.680 of plant strawberries. It really is. Uh. I have been 3178 02:50:01.680 --> 02:50:03.399 telling you about an event. I'm gonna tell you once 3179 02:50:03.440 --> 02:50:06.959 more today, I think. And it's the second annual Strawberry Jemburee. 3180 02:50:06.959 --> 02:50:11.079 It's down in Lake Jackson, Texas at the Lake Jackson 3181 02:50:11.200 --> 02:50:15.239 Rec Center that's on Lake Drive and Lake Jackson. The 3182 02:50:15.239 --> 02:50:19.719 Brazoria County Extension Office is putting on a program called 3183 02:50:19.799 --> 02:50:21.799 the Strawberry Jemburey. It's the second time they did it. 3184 02:50:21.840 --> 02:50:25.319 I went last year's outstanding program. This one again September 3185 02:50:25.319 --> 02:50:28.520 twenty first, from eight am to twelve noon. Now, did 3186 02:50:28.520 --> 02:50:31.040 you know strawberry should be planted in October? That is 3187 02:50:31.200 --> 02:50:33.760 prime time. I mean you can plan them in September, 3188 02:50:33.799 --> 02:50:37.479 but prime time for planning is in October. Well, you 3189 02:50:37.520 --> 02:50:40.840 can go out to this program. It is free. It 3190 02:50:40.920 --> 02:50:43.319 is free and you can learn how to grow strawberries. 3191 02:50:43.360 --> 02:50:45.920 They're going to have good speakers all morning. They are 3192 02:50:45.959 --> 02:50:48.799 going to have exhibitors there. There's going to be a 3193 02:50:48.879 --> 02:50:52.799 strawberry shortcake contest, so quit bragging about it, step up 3194 02:50:52.840 --> 02:50:56.079 to the plate and prove it. Bring your strawberry shortcake. 3195 02:50:56.159 --> 02:50:58.000 Gotta call them and make sure you get it entered. 3196 02:50:58.360 --> 02:51:02.760 Here's the number nine seven nine eight six four fifteen 3197 02:51:02.959 --> 02:51:06.479 fifty eight nine seven nine eight six four one five 3198 02:51:07.040 --> 02:51:09.040 five eight, Or you can go to the Brazoria County 3199 02:51:09.079 --> 02:51:12.440 Extension Office website and find out more about it. They're 3200 02:51:12.479 --> 02:51:15.120 also going to have strawberry plugs to pre order and 3201 02:51:15.159 --> 02:51:17.079 then they will come in and you'll come back to 3202 02:51:17.079 --> 02:51:19.840 pick them up if you are interested in that, but 3203 02:51:19.959 --> 02:51:22.159 at least get out there for that educational part of 3204 02:51:22.200 --> 02:51:24.760 the program. It's going to be good again. Second Anniel 3205 02:51:24.799 --> 02:51:28.840 Strawberry Jamboree, Lake Jackson Rec Center, Lake Drive, Lake Jackson, 3206 02:51:28.920 --> 02:51:32.760 Texas by the Texas A and m Agrolife Extension Resoria 3207 02:51:32.879 --> 02:51:35.719 County Extension Office. It's going to be a good time. 3208 02:51:35.879 --> 02:51:41.559 Nine seven nine eight six four fifteen fifty eight. Strawberries 3209 02:51:41.559 --> 02:51:42.600 are one of my favorite things. 3210 02:51:42.600 --> 02:51:42.840 Do you know? 3211 02:51:42.920 --> 02:51:46.000 I used to have a half acre strawberry patch up 3212 02:51:46.000 --> 02:51:50.200 in Willis, Texas, north of Conroe. We had a great 3213 02:51:50.280 --> 02:51:52.280 time doing that. There's a lot of work, but we 3214 02:51:52.319 --> 02:51:55.120 had a good time doing that, and we always planted 3215 02:51:55.239 --> 02:51:57.520 in the fall. That is the best time to plant 3216 02:51:57.559 --> 02:52:01.719 strawberries so that if you're going to have success, go 3217 02:52:01.719 --> 02:52:03.760 ahead and get them out in the our Our winters 3218 02:52:03.799 --> 02:52:06.239 are mild here and if you put a little roe 3219 02:52:06.239 --> 02:52:08.799 cover over them, they'll start. They'll start fruiting. Even in 3220 02:52:09.000 --> 02:52:12.040 February with some mild temperatures you under the row cover 3221 02:52:12.239 --> 02:52:15.959 protecting from frost, you will see some mobilooms start to 3222 02:52:16.000 --> 02:52:17.959 form and then carry all the way up to May. 3223 02:52:18.200 --> 02:52:21.159 You have some good production. Nothing like strawberries that are 3224 02:52:21.200 --> 02:52:26.120 fresh and strawberries that are homegrown makes it easy to do. 3225 02:52:26.760 --> 02:52:28.959 I got time for one quick call. If you don't 3226 02:52:29.000 --> 02:52:31.799 delay and get in here at seven one three two 3227 02:52:31.799 --> 02:52:34.680 one two k t rh woild be glad to help 3228 02:52:34.719 --> 02:52:39.079 you in whatever way we can to have success. Remember 3229 02:52:39.200 --> 02:52:43.399 that as we're entering this week, we've got today, Tomorrow 3230 02:52:43.440 --> 02:52:46.760 and Monday that are going to be sunny. Make hay 3231 02:52:46.760 --> 02:52:50.280 while the sunshines, prepare soil of the sunshines. I hope 3232 02:52:50.360 --> 02:52:53.680 that if you have not already purchased soil mixes and composts, 3233 02:52:53.719 --> 02:52:56.120 bed mix all that kind of stuff, that you will 3234 02:52:56.120 --> 02:52:58.360 go ahead and get that done so that you can 3235 02:52:58.399 --> 02:53:02.360 get those beds made. Because Wednesday and Thursday and Friday 3236 02:53:02.399 --> 02:53:04.840 and Saturday. I don't I'm not a weatherman, but when 3237 02:53:04.840 --> 02:53:07.920 I look at my apps, it's like, yeah, it's rainy 3238 02:53:07.959 --> 02:53:10.319 from midweek on, you're not gonna be able to get 3239 02:53:10.319 --> 02:53:14.200 the work done. And with planting season coming, it's always 3240 02:53:14.280 --> 02:53:19.120 better to get those soils built first. Get whatever it takes. 3241 02:53:19.159 --> 02:53:21.680 If you've got a heavy clay, put a few inches 3242 02:53:21.719 --> 02:53:28.920 of shale down. The shale works very very well and 3243 02:53:29.200 --> 02:53:31.879 It just is an excellent product for holding clay open 3244 02:53:31.959 --> 02:53:33.520 for a long period of time, but you got to 3245 02:53:33.520 --> 02:53:37.200 put several inches of it down to have the best success. Now. 3246 02:53:37.719 --> 02:53:41.120 Compost is also good. It decomposes over time, kind of 3247 02:53:41.120 --> 02:53:43.799 goes away, but a little bit of a chunky compost, 3248 02:53:43.920 --> 02:53:47.239 maybe a bark based which at based kind of compost 3249 02:53:47.639 --> 02:53:51.559 where they've ground some stuff up and decomposed it all 3250 02:53:51.600 --> 02:53:53.879 the way, but it's still it's kind of chunky. That's 3251 02:53:53.879 --> 02:53:55.680 a good bed mix. It's gonna last year a good 3252 02:53:55.680 --> 02:53:58.879 while too. Good Drainage is important. When it rains here, 3253 02:53:58.920 --> 02:54:01.440 it pours. You can always water. Bet you, I can't 3254 02:54:01.479 --> 02:54:04.600 take it away, is what my old friend Alston Colston 3255 02:54:04.760 --> 02:54:07.479 used to say. And what he meant was when soil 3256 02:54:07.559 --> 02:54:09.879 is sagi wet, it soggy wet, and you got to 3257 02:54:09.920 --> 02:54:13.799 wait till it dries out. So make sure you get 3258 02:54:13.799 --> 02:54:17.319 those beds built during good weather, and good weather is today, 3259 02:54:17.360 --> 02:54:20.159 in the next two days, let's get it done and 3260 02:54:20.200 --> 02:54:23.159 then you'll be ready to go and have success. If 3261 02:54:23.200 --> 02:54:26.159 you have not seen my schedules online, go to gardening 3262 02:54:26.239 --> 02:54:31.680 with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. There 3263 02:54:32.120 --> 02:54:35.600 you will find by lawn care schedule, which tells you mow, water, 3264 02:54:35.719 --> 02:54:38.840 and fertilized information. I like to refer to it as 3265 02:54:38.840 --> 02:54:42.760 a schedule of how to grow a lawn, and that 3266 02:54:42.840 --> 02:54:47.239 includes fertilizer products which to use, organic and synthetic at 3267 02:54:47.239 --> 02:54:51.120 the proper timing of each one through the year. And 3268 02:54:51.159 --> 02:54:55.319 then there's the pest, Disease and wheat management schedule, which 3269 02:54:55.440 --> 02:54:58.200 I refer to as the how to deal with things 3270 02:54:58.239 --> 02:55:01.600 that want to mess up your lawn like diseases and 3271 02:55:01.680 --> 02:55:04.719 insects and weeds, and it walks you through those. Again, 3272 02:55:04.879 --> 02:55:08.520 organic and synthetic options are on there, and the timing 3273 02:55:09.159 --> 02:55:12.440 very important. The timing. We're going to be doing fall 3274 02:55:12.479 --> 02:55:15.760 fertilization here, starting really kind of at the end of 3275 02:55:15.799 --> 02:55:18.840 September with some organic things, and then October is an 3276 02:55:18.840 --> 02:55:21.479 important month for doing that too. If you're listening up 3277 02:55:21.520 --> 02:55:23.920 in the northern part of the areas, even late September 3278 02:55:24.000 --> 02:55:28.200 is even fine also for that. And then the weed 3279 02:55:28.280 --> 02:55:30.760 control you got to get the pre emerging out before 3280 02:55:30.959 --> 02:55:35.559 the weeds sprout, So October is a critical season to 3281 02:55:35.600 --> 02:55:39.639 get those we control products down again, especially October. The 3282 02:55:39.719 --> 02:55:42.239 earlier in October probably the better off you are on 3283 02:55:42.319 --> 02:55:44.879 those For those of you further north. I know we 3284 02:55:44.959 --> 02:55:47.600 have people all the way up to Huntsville and whatnot 3285 02:55:47.639 --> 02:55:50.479 that are listening. So there you're looking at late September 3286 02:55:50.559 --> 02:55:54.479 getting those things down because you put them down your watermen, 3287 02:55:54.760 --> 02:55:58.479 and when a wheat seed tries to germinate, it destroys it, 3288 02:55:59.399 --> 02:56:02.559 and so it's like playing baseball. That's my analogy for 3289 02:56:02.680 --> 02:56:05.879 pre emergent wheat control. If you wait to swing until 3290 02:56:05.879 --> 02:56:08.000 the balls and the catcher's mit, you're never going to 3291 02:56:08.120 --> 02:56:11.959 hit a home run, right, So that's what we're talking about. 3292 02:56:12.000 --> 02:56:14.120 If you wait until the weeds already up, most weed 3293 02:56:14.159 --> 02:56:17.360 control products that are pre emergent will not control them most, 3294 02:56:18.239 --> 02:56:20.520 and so get it down ahead of time. So when 3295 02:56:20.799 --> 02:56:24.440 the soil temperature drops to the right temperature and the 3296 02:56:24.479 --> 02:56:27.360 weeds try to germinate, you're ahead of the game and 3297 02:56:27.399 --> 02:56:31.920 you got them taken under control. That's the principles about that. 3298 02:56:32.159 --> 02:56:34.799 Also on the website, you're going to find information on 3299 02:56:35.600 --> 02:56:41.120 controlling nut set. There's two publications on it and then 3300 02:56:41.159 --> 02:56:44.719 there is a how to build a weed wiper publication 3301 02:56:46.040 --> 02:56:48.799 it's free to print it out, and then there's a 3302 02:56:48.799 --> 02:56:51.159 publication on the products to put on the weed wiper 3303 02:56:51.680 --> 02:56:54.719 and that's not just for weed wiper information. That's for 3304 02:56:54.799 --> 02:56:56.879 general weed control. So what do you do if you 3305 02:56:56.959 --> 02:57:01.479 got witty weeds like poison iv or hackberry coming up 3306 02:57:01.479 --> 02:57:04.360 in the fence line or peppervine? What if you've got 3307 02:57:04.479 --> 02:57:07.440 bulb weeds like wild onion and while garlic and the lawn. 3308 02:57:07.879 --> 02:57:10.239 What if you have grass seaweeds? What if you have 3309 02:57:10.399 --> 02:57:14.559 sedges like nud sets. Each of those, I list the ingredients, 3310 02:57:14.840 --> 02:57:18.600 the active ingredients that are most effective in going after those, 3311 02:57:18.639 --> 02:57:22.079 and give you some examples of the for sale products 3312 02:57:22.079 --> 02:57:25.399 that you find on garden center shelves, garden centers and 3313 02:57:25.440 --> 02:57:31.280 Ace hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizers, feed stores. That's so take 3314 02:57:31.319 --> 02:57:34.000 advantage of that website. It's all free. Can't beat that. 3315 02:57:35.440 --> 02:57:37.440 Come see me. I'll be at the Home and Garden 3316 02:57:37.479 --> 02:57:39.920 show here and just a little bit up in Conroe. 3317 02:57:42.000 --> 02:57:44.360 Here's how easy it is to get the yard you 3318 02:57:44.479 --> 02:57:44.799 just sid