Speaker 1: R H Garden Line with Scape Ricord.
Speaker 2: Just watching as many.
Speaker 3: Well, good morning, good morning, thanks for listening in. This
Speaker 3: is garden Line and I'm here to help help help
Speaker 3: in any way. I can't help you to have a
Speaker 3: productive garden, a beautiful landscape. Our goal is to make
Speaker 3: gardening fun and to help direct you to the best
Speaker 3: ways to manage pests, insects, weeds, and diseases. Uh, if
Speaker 3: you've listened to me before, you know that first the
Speaker 3: first step in controlling any kinds of problems, in managing
Speaker 3: problems is cultural practices. What does that mean. Well, that
Speaker 3: means don't don't cause problems. Prepare the soil first, Pick
Speaker 3: plants that want to grow here, pick plants that are
Speaker 3: disease resistant, water properly, fertilize adequately. You know, we help
Speaker 3: increase problems when we don't do those things. And just
Speaker 3: simple how tos on taking care of your garden can
Speaker 3: help you to avoid You know, gardening is not about
Speaker 3: getting out ever Saturday and spraying and watering and you know,
Speaker 3: doing all the activities that we might be doing to
Speaker 3: try to manage problems. Instead, it's properly caring for plants.
Speaker 3: That is the simplest thing. Now, does that mean we
Speaker 3: never have to spray? Of course not. There are situations
Speaker 3: where you either take the losses or you get out
Speaker 3: there and you defend your property against pest weeds and diseases.
Speaker 3: But that's the exception. And when we do make a
Speaker 3: choice to have to control something, it means we jump
Speaker 3: out there and we use a product that's going to
Speaker 3: be effective. We're going to use it at the right time,
Speaker 3: and that's important. Timing is critical, and finally that we
Speaker 3: are going to make sure that we follow the label very,
Speaker 3: very very carefully, because that is important the labels a law.
Speaker 3: This week I received some questions and in fact, you know,
Speaker 3: I've been doing this for over thirty five years and
Speaker 3: entering gardening questions as a county agro Life Extension horticulture
Speaker 3: agent here in Texas and a number of the counties
Speaker 3: around this area and also a little further west, and
Speaker 3: in that process I've kind of heard and seen it all.
Speaker 3: But inevitably I'm going to get questions from folks that
Speaker 3: use the wrong product and overdo it or overdo it,
Speaker 3: and I got some of that this week. You know,
Speaker 3: it was I used this and it's just what happened. Well,
Speaker 3: I can tell you why it happened because you miss
Speaker 3: you misused the product. That is operator error. And I know,
Speaker 3: and guys, I don't know. We may be worse about
Speaker 3: this than women are. But when it comes to reading
Speaker 3: the label paying attention. You know that that mindset sometimes
Speaker 3: that we have that if a teaspoons good, a tablespoons better. Well,
Speaker 3: I guess that would be true if we were talking
Speaker 3: about chocolate pudding, but not when it comes to pesticides
Speaker 3: that we're using. And when we do that, we cause problems.
Speaker 3: I saw some pictures this week of a plant that
Speaker 3: had been overdosed and they was showing problems. And this
Speaker 3: was a product that would not hurt the plant if
Speaker 3: used properly, it wouldn't, but when used improperly, it will.
Speaker 3: And you take something that can be good for a plant,
Speaker 3: like a fertilizer, take for example, a synthetic salt based fertilizer.
Speaker 3: Those are can be designed to even release nutrients slowly
Speaker 3: over time and to just really stimulate plant growth and
Speaker 3: provide nutrients for the soil bank account. And yet if
Speaker 3: you double or triple them and then pull the water
Speaker 3: on it and wash that in that's a salt. Maakes fertlight,
Speaker 3: it can hurt, it can burn roots, roots, systems. But
Speaker 3: is that the fertilizer's fault. That's the operator's fault, and
Speaker 3: unfortunately we are often the one at fault, not the
Speaker 3: thing we want to point our fingers out. When it
Speaker 3: comes to watering, little squirt every day does almost nothing.
Speaker 3: Over Watering can drive roots into an anaerobic position, a
Speaker 3: condition by oversaturating the soil. Oxygen can't get down the roots.
Speaker 3: And we see a lot of problems with overwatering it.
Speaker 3: Certainly everybody knows underwatering is the problem. But watering the
Speaker 3: right way, Nike, the Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Not
Speaker 3: too much, not too little, just right. It's not that
Speaker 3: hard to do. It's very simple to do, and yet
Speaker 3: it makes so much difference. All right, Well, you're listening
Speaker 3: to Gardenline. How about I give you a phone number
Speaker 3: because this is a call in show on one three
Speaker 3: two one two kt r H seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t r H. Feel free to give
Speaker 3: us a call talking about nutrients and fertilizers in the soil.
Speaker 3: As Amite is a nutrient product. Now it's not the
Speaker 3: kind of nutrient, like your standard fertilizer has a lot
Speaker 3: of nitrogen in it makes grass grow fast. No, it's
Speaker 3: a it's a micronutrient or a trace mineral. And what
Speaker 3: that means is of all the minerals out there that
Speaker 3: are essential, essential means a plant cannot live without them.
Speaker 3: There are some that are needed in large amounts and
Speaker 3: some just in tiny amounts, but they are still essential.
Speaker 3: As Amite is one of those micronutrient trace mineral products
Speaker 3: that provides that, and as it is widely available here
Speaker 3: in the Houston area, you can put it on I
Speaker 3: think on my on my schedule. I've got you know,
Speaker 3: once a year you're going to put your trace mineral,
Speaker 3: your micronutrient element out, and so just grab a bag
Speaker 3: of azmite anytime of the year you want. You can
Speaker 3: do it now, you can do it next spring, whenever
Speaker 3: you want. Doesn't hurt to have it around, it's not
Speaker 3: going to go bad. And then whenever you wish could
Speaker 3: be at the same time you fertilize, not in the
Speaker 3: same application, hopper. You fertilize first, then come back fill
Speaker 3: it with as mte and do the asmite. Because the
Speaker 3: particle size is different but whenever you want to do it,
Speaker 3: you can do it. And that there is the reason
Speaker 3: we do it is get those micro nutrients done in there.
Speaker 3: You can go to Azmite Texas dot com and find
Speaker 3: out more about it. I can just tell you this,
Speaker 3: it's widely available. You hear me talk about sponsors and
Speaker 3: everything from bead stores to garden centers, ace hardware stores,
Speaker 3: Southlos Fertilizer, all those kinds of places are going to
Speaker 3: carry the asmite. Widely, widely available. I was looking at
Speaker 3: some pictures from cienam Maltz this week and just the
Speaker 3: products they have in the products are getting in.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: Cienamultch is your go to place if you're down south
Speaker 3: of Houston, and you can drive there from anywhere if
Speaker 3: you want, certainly, but they deliver within about twenty miles
Speaker 3: of the Roch Sharin area. That's where they're located. They're
Speaker 3: on FM five twenty one, just south Houston. The website
Speaker 3: you might want to write this down Cinamaltz dot com.
Speaker 3: By the way, they're open today until two o'clock and
Speaker 3: Monday through Friday from seven thirty to five close on Sunday,
Speaker 3: and when you go into Cianamalts. You get everything you
Speaker 3: need to build the soil. And my mantra is brown
Speaker 3: stuff before green stuff, which means take care of the
Speaker 3: soil first, get it right, and then put your wonderful
Speaker 3: plant the green stuff into the ground and it'll thrive.
Speaker 3: Ciana Malts is the brown stuff place. It is the
Speaker 3: place where you get compost. It is a place where
Speaker 3: you get bed mixes or mixes like heirloom soils, veggie
Speaker 3: and Nerbix is there. It's a place where you get fertilizers.
Speaker 3: You hear me talk about nitrofoss fertilizers, Nelson, Medina, Microlife,
Speaker 3: the Azamite I just talked about. It's a turf star
Speaker 3: from Nelson. It's a place where where you get airlombs,
Speaker 3: soil products, landscaper's pride products.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's just an easy, easy, one stop shop to get
Speaker 3: the brown stuff right, to get your soil right. Fallst
Speaker 3: planting season now is the time to go to Sienamls.
Speaker 3: Get everything you need and get that soul ready so
Speaker 3: when you put the plants in you have success. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna take a quick break here. I'll be right back.
Speaker 3: Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty
Speaker 3: eight seventy four, Sky Mike. I'm Skymike Avis. Today we
Speaker 3: are gonna talk about a lot. I got a lot
Speaker 3: of things to talk about. I know you guys, We've
Speaker 3: got some folks colin already to talk and so we're
Speaker 3: we're going to cover a lot of things today. And listen,
Speaker 3: we are on the doorstep of the best gardening season
Speaker 3: of the year. We are u fall is the best
Speaker 3: gardening season. I'll make a case for that and a
Speaker 3: little bit, but right now I'm just gonna tell you
Speaker 3: it is. If you have not done lawn fertilizing this summer,
Speaker 3: you can still do it. The night Fuss super Turf
Speaker 3: lives just an example of a good quality silver release fertilizer.
Speaker 3: It gives you a gradual release over time. It's a
Speaker 3: nineteen four to ten ratio of nutur nutrient levels nineteen
Speaker 3: four ten. That Nitropos product is easy to pick out
Speaker 3: because it's in a silver bag. You know, you walk
Speaker 3: in the store, look over at the fertilizers, the silver bag.
Speaker 3: That's one I'm talking about. Nitrofis super Turf. You can
Speaker 3: buy nitropas products all over there. They are how we
Speaker 3: would we say it. They are ubiquitous. You go onto
Speaker 3: Baytown at Fisher's Hardware and you're going to find them
Speaker 3: down there. D and D feed up in Tomball you
Speaker 3: can find it there as well, and also at a
Speaker 3: Tascassita Ace Hardware. Let's go out to the phones now
Speaker 3: we're going to talk to Travis this morning. Travis, welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 5: You're morning, sir.
Speaker 3: How can we help.
Speaker 6: Fighting millie bugs really bad? We tried the homemade home
Speaker 6: homemade remedy sprays, try so if we bought from Ace.
Speaker 6: Tried several different ones repotnam but we can't seem to
Speaker 6: get rid of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mealiebugs, Travis, are a tough pest to get rid
Speaker 3: of because they can hide done in the nooks and crannies,
Speaker 3: and they have a covering on them that makes it
Speaker 3: hard to get a pesticide to them. There are things
Speaker 3: that will kill them. You know. People with a little
Speaker 3: houseplant with a few melli bugs, well use a Q
Speaker 3: tip with alcohol on it and just just dab them
Speaker 3: with it. You know, that's tedious, not going to work
Speaker 3: on outside plants, but that's one option. Some people. We
Speaker 3: use oil or soap type spray, especially horticultural oil to
Speaker 3: try to get to them, but it's always like you
Speaker 3: get most of them maybe, but not all of them,
Speaker 3: and then they come right back. Some people use systemics
Speaker 3: that'll be a product ingredient, like a meadow cloprid. You
Speaker 3: put it in the soil, the plant takes it up
Speaker 3: and anything sucking juice is out of the plant, which
Speaker 3: is what mealy bugs and scaled and white flies and
Speaker 3: a fids to do. They'll pick that poison up and
Speaker 3: that is probably the most effective way because any meai
Speaker 3: bug that's going to eat is going to get the
Speaker 3: poison because you've put it into the root system of
Speaker 3: the plant. The problem with the systemics is if you
Speaker 3: if it's a plant that gets honey bees, then there
Speaker 3: can be problems with bees and other pollinators that are
Speaker 3: drinking nectar from the flowers if you've done that to
Speaker 3: the plant. So that's kind of the drawback on it.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, appreciate your hilt, sir, Yeah, and you
Speaker 3: know there's no shame. And when a plant is really
Speaker 3: bad is just getting rid of it and cleaning up
Speaker 3: the area and putting in another plant. I know that happened.
Speaker 3: There's house plants that people have fought mella bugs with
Speaker 3: for years, and it's like throw that thing away, get
Speaker 3: you into the house plant. Sometimes that's the best option
Speaker 3: to all right, all right, well thank you sir, Yes, sir,
Speaker 3: thank you appreciate your call. We're going to go now
Speaker 3: to Richmond and talk to Jerial. Is that correct?
Speaker 7: Yes? Hello, skip, good morning, Hello, good morning.
Speaker 8: Hello.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks for taking my call. And and actually thank
Speaker 9: you so much for the shows.
Speaker 7: I really enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 9: Yeah. So, yeah, I sent you some pictures over email.
Speaker 9: So my my son Augustine was looking great and I
Speaker 9: was so happy I was following your schedule and thanks
Speaker 9: for that. But then in July I started noticing that
Speaker 9: Bermuda was taken over some spots and I probably I
Speaker 9: wasn't watering enough. I still, I tried to stick to
Speaker 9: one eche per week, you know, but it.
Speaker 7: Was pretty dry, as you remember. So now I.
Speaker 9: Also found some change box and I applied the product
Speaker 9: that you recommended. But I just wanted to to to
Speaker 9: to to hear from you and see if if you
Speaker 9: think I should resort or you know it will recover.
Speaker 9: And and also another question, if I'm gonna ask you
Speaker 9: like because I did apply this product for change box.
Speaker 9: But you know, I was also thinking of applying like
Speaker 9: some products against the diseases as you recommend it. So
Speaker 9: can I do it at once or should I wait
Speaker 9: like a couple of weeks between the applications of different products.
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Thanks, you can do As a general answer, you can
Speaker 3: use different products at the same day, but I wouldn't
Speaker 3: mix them in the same spray tank or or fertilizer
Speaker 3: hop or you know, ex exercise whatever granule hopper that
Speaker 3: you're putting out, however you're putting it out, don't mix them. Now,
Speaker 3: that could be chinch bugs what I see, and if
Speaker 3: you saw them, then the course they're there. But I
Speaker 3: see mostly what looks to me like take all root rot.
Speaker 3: Take all root rot kills roots. And when you start
Speaker 3: killing the roots, especially the tips, roots can only take
Speaker 3: up iron from the tip of the root. So when
Speaker 3: you start killing roots, you start seeing iron deficiency, and
Speaker 3: that's the yellowing that's ever where, And that's just a
Speaker 3: sign to me that that there is a lack of
Speaker 3: iron getting into those plants. And almost always uh in
Speaker 3: a Saint Augustine loan, that is, take all root rot.
Speaker 3: Drought can cause it damage from herbicides that are misused
Speaker 3: can cause it.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: And you know, so there's other issues, but I'm gonna
Speaker 3: think that's probably what you're looking at. You could send
Speaker 3: a sample up to the State Plant Clinic to look at.
Speaker 3: I think on this one, I'm gonna I On this one,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say I think I'm right, and I
Speaker 3: would go ahead and treat it as if it's take
Speaker 3: all root rot. If you go online to my website
Speaker 3: Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Gardening Skip, there
Speaker 3: is a pest disease and we'd management schedule and if
Speaker 3: you look at the disease row on that schedule, you'll
Speaker 3: see take all root rot and fall is a big
Speaker 3: time to do control. And it tells you what you
Speaker 3: can use out there, uh, And it tells you when
Speaker 3: and basically it's going to be October repeated again in
Speaker 3: November twice. Right, and so you know, rather than send
Speaker 3: product names, you know, long chemical name type stuff, just
Speaker 3: go on there and look. It also helps to spray
Speaker 3: that foliage of the grass with a micronutrient solution. And
Speaker 3: there's a couple of different ones that are out there.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, now I'm trying to think of the actual
Speaker 3: name of I know Fertilom has one that's a micro
Speaker 3: nutrient type product, and there's another one, but look at
Speaker 3: the label and it needs to contain manganese and iron.
Speaker 3: Nick can also have zinc and other things in it,
Speaker 3: but manganese and iron are probably the two most important
Speaker 3: ones for takeof. Look it up to your hosand sprayer
Speaker 3: and just just water the lawn with it. You don't
Speaker 3: have to soak it, you don't have to put a
Speaker 3: ton of it out, but just you know, give it
Speaker 3: a pretty good wedding and I think you'll see a
Speaker 3: response in the color. That doesn't mean you've cured the disease.
Speaker 3: That means you've helped the patient. It's like you've got
Speaker 3: you're in the hospital, you can't eat, and they put
Speaker 3: an ivy in your arm, right, and that's kind of
Speaker 3: what you're doing with that micronutrient while you then also
Speaker 3: begin to work on controlling the disease.
Speaker 9: All right, Okay, yeah, no, thanks, sounds good.
Speaker 3: All right, that's what i'd recommend you if I can.
Speaker 3: If I can today, I'm going to send you a
Speaker 3: publication in response to your email that goes into more
Speaker 3: detail on it. I just have to at the end
Speaker 3: of the at the end of the show. Actually, remember
Speaker 3: we talked this morning, so I'll do my best. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't hear from me rattle the cage again, all right?
Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, thank you, thank you, Skip bye bye.
Speaker 3: You take care. Yeah, that's that's an issue. And by
Speaker 3: the way, when you're looking for products like I'm talking about,
Speaker 3: you know, fertilizers and other things, Ace Hardware is the
Speaker 3: place to go. And I don't care where you live
Speaker 3: whatever part of the Houston area. There are forty Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware stores. You're going to find one. But when I'm
Speaker 3: talking about that fur lome ingredient that has micro nutrients
Speaker 3: in it, and there's other brands. It's not just for
Speaker 3: long but you're looking for iron and manganese liquids that
Speaker 3: you can spray on the they're going to have that
Speaker 3: stuff at ACE Hardware, as well as all the fertilizers.
Speaker 3: In fall, we're about to enter our fall fertilization season.
Speaker 3: Go to ACE Hardware find a fertilizer for fall. Download
Speaker 3: my schedule off of gardening with Skip dot com website.
Speaker 3: Look at the fertilizers. You get to pick which one
Speaker 3: you want to use, organic or synthetic, whichever, and look
Speaker 3: at the time of the year and they'll tell you
Speaker 3: which ones of each of those types are going to
Speaker 3: be the best for applying in the fall season. And
Speaker 3: ACE Hardware is going to be the place where you're
Speaker 3: going to find them. Acehardware dot COM's the website makes
Speaker 3: it easy to find the one near you at their
Speaker 3: store locator.
Speaker 10: See.
Speaker 3: I'm going to head out now to Cyprus, Texas and
Speaker 3: talk to Joyce. Hello, Joyce, Welcome to Garmline.
Speaker 11: Good morning. I planted some sunshine lagostrums probably about the
Speaker 11: last part of June, and they were nice and yellow
Speaker 11: when they went in, and they have there now they're
Speaker 11: just green. Is there something I should be doing?
Speaker 3: You planeted them in this summer.
Speaker 11: Yes, this summer, and they're growing. They look healthy and everything,
Speaker 11: but they're not yellow anymore. They're mostly green.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I think that they will turn more yellow.
Speaker 3: I you know, sometimes plants revert, but that has not
Speaker 3: happened in this amount of time to those in that
Speaker 3: particular species isn't prone to reverting anyway, So I think
Speaker 3: I think just give them a little time, and they
Speaker 3: ought to to turn out I probably some new growth.
Speaker 3: I've never heard of that, like a sunshine turning grain.
Speaker 3: Why don't you. I'm gonna put you on on hold
Speaker 3: and Joyce, would you send me some pictures of them
Speaker 3: kind of close the whole shrub and pardon.
Speaker 11: I'm sorry, I can't do that. I'm in a wheelchair
Speaker 11: and I can't get out there and do it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, let me let me look in to it
Speaker 3: a little more if I can come up with something
Speaker 3: on it. My gut feeling is if they were yellow
Speaker 3: and you got them, and they truly are a sunshine lagustrum,
Speaker 3: then I would just give them some time. That's my
Speaker 3: gut feeling. I'll look into it a little more. Maybe
Speaker 3: there's something else I'm not considering right now.
Speaker 11: But it like they say, they look healthy, they're growing,
Speaker 11: and they're in plenty of sun. They get all day sun.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, like I said, I think I think they're
Speaker 3: gonna be okay, but I'll look into it a little
Speaker 3: bit more, but just give them some time.
Speaker 11: Okay, Okay, thank you very much?
Speaker 3: All right, you bet, thank you. I appreciate your call
Speaker 3: very much. If you live up in the North and
Speaker 3: West area of the Greater Houston area. You've probably been
Speaker 3: by Plants for All Seasons already. Plants for All Seasons
Speaker 3: is one of those garden centers that just has everything
Speaker 3: you need right now. They're stocked up in all kinds
Speaker 3: of things that are outstanding fall colors, you know, things
Speaker 3: like cro I don't know if you've ever seen Croton,
Speaker 3: but it's got everything from kind of a I don't know,
Speaker 3: orangey coral colors to yellows to green and it just
Speaker 3: looks like the fall, you know. And there's there's many
Speaker 3: other plants that they carry their including flowers and other things.
Speaker 3: But you're going to find everything you needed. Plants for
Speaker 3: All Seasons. They're just north of Luetta on two forty nine,
Speaker 3: just north of Fluetta. And if you want to get
Speaker 3: the calls two eight one three seven six sixteen forty
Speaker 3: six two eight one three seven six one six four
Speaker 3: six we're going to go to a break here. The
Speaker 3: number if you like to call seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two ktr eight. How can we help? What do
Speaker 3: you need? Do we talk about lawns and trees and
Speaker 3: shrubs or whatever you are interested in? You know, we
Speaker 3: love feed stores here on guard Line and Spring Creek
Speaker 3: Feed up in the Magnolia area. They're actually on FM
Speaker 3: twenty nine to seventy eight, just minutes away from Grham
Speaker 3: Parkway Highway two forty nine. They carry the fertilizers you
Speaker 3: hear me talk about on garden Line. They carry products
Speaker 3: to control weeds, to control the zases, to manage pests.
Speaker 3: When you walk into Spring Creek, you're going to be greeted.
Speaker 3: I always like to walk in there. You know, you
Speaker 3: feel like you've come home or something. The courteous staff
Speaker 3: greeting you and very willing and eager to really help.
Speaker 3: If you need pet food, they've got high quality food.
Speaker 3: Of course, it's feedstore, livestock food and products. Yeah, plenty
Speaker 3: of that as well wildlife feed. If you're four h
Speaker 3: or ffa military or senior citizen, there's discounts for you.
Speaker 3: They'll even special order and deliver at Spring Creek Feed
Speaker 3: again in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight Spring
Speaker 3: Creek Feed Center. Let's go now out to the galleria.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk to Forest. Hey, Forest, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Skip, good morning. I've read your bulletin on
Speaker 7: treating nuts edge and I went down to Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 7: and picked up the products that I need. Is this
Speaker 7: an okay time to do it? This weekend?
Speaker 3: Anytime is a good time to do it. And if
Speaker 3: you read the in depth when you know it talked
Speaker 3: about never let it up for air kind of concept
Speaker 3: that if you do it this weekend and three weeks
Speaker 3: from now, you're gonna probably see some more nuts edge
Speaker 3: pop up. It could be from some other tubers that
Speaker 3: were asleep underground and just now came up. Do it again,
Speaker 3: and do it again. Whenever there's nuts edge it's coming
Speaker 3: up with three to five leaves, do it again. So
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter what month. Of course, not gonna be
Speaker 3: gone in the winter, but yeah, yeah, just be relentless.
Speaker 3: That is the key to success.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 7: Second question is I have planted a number of Louisiana
Speaker 7: iris bulbs that I picked up at the River Rokes
Speaker 7: Bulb Market and I've planted them in in a bed
Speaker 7: that you know, they talk about this being a bog
Speaker 7: type plant, So it's a it's a wet bed. It's
Speaker 7: a it's a relatively wet bed. But I can't seem
Speaker 7: to produce any blooms. And I'm wondering if I'm not
Speaker 7: fertilizing correctly or what I should do.
Speaker 3: No, just give them some time, don't overdo the fertilizer,
Speaker 3: just a moderate amount. Give them. I think next spring
Speaker 3: you'll probably are summer, you'll you'll start to see some blooms.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they're they're a little bit slow to get going.
Speaker 3: But that's a great plant. It's an awesome plant. And I'll,
Speaker 3: you know, as they say, when life gives you lemons,
Speaker 3: make lemonade. When you got an area that's too soggy
Speaker 3: for most plants, pick up things like Louisiana iris like
Speaker 3: you did, because that's a great way to turn it
Speaker 3: into a beautiful, beautiful area.
Speaker 7: Okay, well I'll put down some patients then.
Speaker 3: All right, Forrest, thanks for the call. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Take care. Let's see, we're gonna go out cypress now
Speaker 3: and talk to Blake. Hello Blake, Good morning Skip.
Speaker 12: I've got a four hour road trip, so I'll listen
Speaker 12: to you as far as the radio takes me, and
Speaker 12: then out on the app the.
Speaker 5: Rest of the way.
Speaker 3: So there you go. There you go, Hey, on.
Speaker 12: The previous color with the sunshine lugustrum, I've got those
Speaker 12: and they do turn they have turned kind of lemon
Speaker 12: lime color. I don't know if it's more too much
Speaker 12: water or just rain or drought, but might have turned
Speaker 12: like that.
Speaker 5: And then they go right back to being yellow. So
Speaker 5: I don't know what causes it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't either. It may be part of
Speaker 3: the growth cycle on those. I've never had one in
Speaker 3: my yard. I've seen them at garden centers and other
Speaker 3: people's yards. But thanks for mentioning that though, because I
Speaker 3: just wouldn't feeling like that would be a normal thing.
Speaker 3: You know, some of our shrubs that are supposed to
Speaker 3: be yellow revert and they put new shoots out that
Speaker 3: are green, and they're going to be stay green. But
Speaker 3: I don't think sunshines that way. Okay, Well do you
Speaker 3: like your.
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 5: I love them.
Speaker 12: And it's funny when I first moved into a house
Speaker 12: where they plan on them, and it was before they'd
Speaker 12: gotten popular, and I thought they were boxwoods and they
Speaker 12: were going through one of those growth cycles, and I
Speaker 12: called Randy with pictures, saying, how are these boxwoods turning
Speaker 12: miss yellow? Because they were morphing from a green to
Speaker 12: a yellow in that cycle. I think the previous owner
Speaker 12: had had sheared them and they were green and then
Speaker 12: they started to turn. But Brandy had a good laugh
Speaker 12: because he I thought they were boxwoods. Anyway, I love them.
Speaker 12: They've been piss free. They they've handled the two wicked winters.
Speaker 12: Uh you know, I just have to flit them. So yeah,
Speaker 12: I love them. The called is planted some baby citrus
Speaker 12: trees after the freezes. They're growing. I have to pick
Speaker 12: the fruit off, but something gets after the outer skin
Speaker 12: of them. And I sent some pictures in this morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah I saw those. Yeah, so there there are different
Speaker 3: things that can happen.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, no, sorry, it just in the idea.
Speaker 7: So you've seen them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I looked at the pictures. There are different
Speaker 3: things that can happen on the surface of citrus. There's
Speaker 3: kind of a scruff type disease that just affects the skin,
Speaker 3: but it can cause it to get, you know, kind
Speaker 3: of dried and cracky and so it splits and stuff.
Speaker 3: If the citrus is growing. I think yours are mostly
Speaker 3: caused by bird packs. Little birds will sit and pecket
Speaker 3: that citrus skin typically is going to happen up on
Speaker 3: the top side of the fruit and they just a
Speaker 3: little tiny packs on it that can cause something very
Speaker 3: similar to what you're showing. If it's not just that,
Speaker 3: then it's also going to be some sort of a
Speaker 3: scruffy type disease that really there's just not a need
Speaker 3: or a good product to use to manage it. In general,
Speaker 3: as your citrus grows, citrus typically shades a lot of
Speaker 3: it's fruit just because it's got those big evergreen leaves.
Speaker 13: And so.
Speaker 3: If this is happening more out in sunny areas than that,
Speaker 3: the sun could be related to it. But again, like
Speaker 3: I'm I'm looking at the picture, it looks to me
Speaker 3: like a lot of little bird pecking going on up
Speaker 3: there on it. There are some other things that can
Speaker 3: affect it.
Speaker 12: Okay, great, well thanks, I haven't seen them on the fruit,
Speaker 12: but I've seen birds around the kind on the corner
Speaker 12: on the side. So next year when the crop comes in,
Speaker 12: I'll put some nuts on them.
Speaker 3: And yeah, well remember too that this is only skin deep,
Speaker 3: and so if you turn the lights off in each
Speaker 3: your citrus in the dark, you'll never know the difference.
Speaker 3: It tastes just fine, it's true.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I notice that it's never seen to get to
Speaker 12: the core. But thank you for confirming, and then well,
Speaker 12: I'll just deal with it. I'll let the dogs out
Speaker 12: more run them away.
Speaker 3: I guess that may be a good thing. You may
Speaker 3: have to pay the dogs to do their job, but
Speaker 3: that'd be a good idea. Take care of Blake, all right,
Speaker 3: all right, bye, byereciate that the folks that Nelson Plant
Speaker 3: Food have put together some really outstanding fertilizers. You know
Speaker 3: that already, But bruce Is Brew. You can put that
Speaker 3: on any time. I don't talk about it enough because
Speaker 3: it really any month of the year, just about especially
Speaker 3: really when we talk about from spring all the way
Speaker 3: until fall. Bruces Brew is a great fertilizer to put down.
Speaker 3: It really. Not only is it released some fast, but
Speaker 3: it also releases slowly over time. Second product I want
Speaker 3: to mention from Nelson is Genesis, and I should. I'm
Speaker 3: going to start talking about this one more. I love Genesis.
Speaker 3: It is a product made to go in as you transplant.
Speaker 3: So if you're going to move a plant from one
Speaker 3: pot to another in that soil that you're going to
Speaker 3: plant it into, mix in Genesis. If you're going to
Speaker 3: put a shrub in the ground, like we're going to
Speaker 3: plant a rose, bush, which would be a good thing
Speaker 3: to plant this fall. Take the soil around it, mix
Speaker 3: in some genesis, and then plant the plant. Plant it
Speaker 3: down in the hole, fill it in and it is
Speaker 3: a good head start. It's got a lot of microbial
Speaker 3: content in it and it just provides the nutrients that
Speaker 3: you need. You're going to continue then to top off
Speaker 3: your plants. You know, whether you're using nutri Star, Color Star, whatever,
Speaker 3: Nature Star, all those products as fertilizer on top. But
Speaker 3: in that transplanting process, always have a jar of the
Speaker 3: Genesis and from Nelson plant Food and it works works
Speaker 3: very well. And I say that because I've used it,
Speaker 3: I've seen the results that it does. Very very impressed
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 3: Looks like we are hitting here on another break Man
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Speaker 3: Now you've heard me talk about Jorges Gardens before. U.
Speaker 3: Jorge has a number of different kinds of plants at
Speaker 3: all times, let's say a number of different I mean
Speaker 3: different categories like shrubs and trees. Is an outstanding selection
Speaker 3: of shrubs and trees, lots of different variety. I think
Speaker 3: the last spring he had nine varieties of peach trees.
Speaker 3: He's always got fruit trees, the low chill type for
Speaker 3: growing down in that area. He's located in Alvin, just
Speaker 3: south of Highway six. He's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin.
Speaker 3: The hours, by the way, now for fall, they're opening
Speaker 3: up more hours. Monday they're closed, so they'll be closed
Speaker 3: on Monday, but Tuesday through Friday nine to three, and
Speaker 3: both today and tomorrow, Saturday and Sundays eight to four,
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sundays eight to four. At Jorges Hidden Gardens.
Speaker 3: You're going to find other things there too. They got
Speaker 3: that three sixty tree stabilizer that I keep talking about.
Speaker 3: They carry those as well as many other good products.
Speaker 3: So if you live in Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, Arcadie, Alcoa,
Speaker 3: Alta Loma, all of those communities, this is your local
Speaker 3: hometown garden center Orges Hidden Gardens. I was like to
Speaker 3: visit with Orgy. He's a character, that's for sure. Well,
Speaker 3: you're listening to garden Line and our phone number is
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two k t R H.
Speaker 3: And we're going to go straight out to Lewis in
Speaker 3: the Brazoria County. Hello, Louis, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Good morning, good mor and skip. My question is about
Speaker 7: biosolids compost and your opinion. I'm not concerned about per
Speaker 7: se the human element of it from the notching source,
Speaker 7: but wonder if you had any concerns or advice with
Speaker 7: using it and say that, you know, the landscape in
Speaker 7: a vegetable garden or under fruit trees or anything.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I definitely would not on things like edibles.
Speaker 3: I just wouldn't. I realized there's a process they go through.
Speaker 3: But you know, notoriously, the biosolid composts have had heavy
Speaker 3: metal issues and some other things, and I know they
Speaker 3: they work on not having that now, but I would
Speaker 3: rather I just don't use it period myself that a
Speaker 3: special that's edible?
Speaker 7: Is it? Is it because of surface contact or systemic
Speaker 7: actually in the plant?
Speaker 3: Well, the heavy metals would be more of a systemic
Speaker 3: thing that the plant would take up. That would be
Speaker 3: the primary thing. Uh. Again, in a properly composted pile,
Speaker 3: you should kill any kinds of microbial organism right, right things.
Speaker 3: But you know that's an ideal world. And so I'm
Speaker 3: not sitting here telling you no, it'll make you sick
Speaker 3: if you use it and all that stuff. Sure, I'm
Speaker 3: just saying I don't. We have too many high quality
Speaker 3: composts that are not bio solid based, and so that's
Speaker 3: what I prefer to use.
Speaker 7: Would you not even use it a lock on the
Speaker 7: lawn or you know, like for top dressing.
Speaker 3: Well, people do concern about it.
Speaker 7: If it's if it's yeah, if it's systemic, then I
Speaker 7: not use the clipping then composts or you know, the
Speaker 7: tree leaves and composts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's not a systemic in that sense. It's
Speaker 3: more like the roots can take up certain things that
Speaker 3: you may not want to accumulate. I you know, I
Speaker 3: understand that in a lawn your exposure is different than
Speaker 3: it would be in a vegetable garden around fruit trees.
Speaker 3: But still that's your call. I just I just wouldn't
Speaker 3: do it. I prefer not to do it because we
Speaker 3: have other high quality composts that we can do. I
Speaker 3: joke about that stuff all the time. I'm not going
Speaker 3: to use brand names, but one one there's a fertilizer
Speaker 3: made out of that stuff. And I talked to the
Speaker 3: guy for the company one time and I said, you know,
Speaker 3: you need to change your name to Yankee Doodle. The
Speaker 3: products from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and I said, because, well, biosolids
Speaker 3: from the sewer treatment plant Yankee. Do it seem like
Speaker 3: a good name to me? I thought it was hilarious.
Speaker 3: He did not find it funny at all.
Speaker 7: Okay, well, how would you know for certain? I mean,
Speaker 7: I know there's two your sponsors with airlines. We'll talk to, Louis.
Speaker 7: I know that, oh the jin up by Conrad one
Speaker 7: blank on John Ferguson's products done. But like some of
Speaker 7: the other school yards, how would you know if they're
Speaker 7: getting I mean, when you talk to the guy that
Speaker 7: answers the phone or the guy in the yard, they
Speaker 7: typically will tell you whatever you want to hear. I
Speaker 7: shouldn't have bit skeptical and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, from these companies are not going to lie to you,
Speaker 3: and they pride themselves and not using that stuff, and.
Speaker 7: So it just they weren't just convenient to me. They're
Speaker 7: just a couple of hours away from more particularly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, and realize realize this too, Louise. When I'm
Speaker 3: when we're talking about one of my sponsors, it's not like, well,
Speaker 3: I don't want to say something because they're my sponsor.
Speaker 3: It's that they're my sponsor because of how they make
Speaker 3: their product and that I agree with that and like that,
Speaker 3: and I know it works, and so I'm not going
Speaker 3: to take on a sponsor that doesn't do that. And
Speaker 3: I have turned down sponsors more than one occasion because no,
Speaker 3: I'm not We're not going to do that.
Speaker 14: We're not going to sell that right.
Speaker 3: So the fact that they're there means I don't have
Speaker 3: to worry about what I'm saying because I already believe
Speaker 3: in what they have. So that's why you hear them soils,
Speaker 3: That's why you hear Landscaper's Pride, That's why you hear
Speaker 3: Nature's Way Resources John Ferguson and Conrad.
Speaker 7: I didn't realize Nature's Way was, or excuse me, what
Speaker 7: Landscaper's Pride was, sort to find that they were not
Speaker 7: certifying the wrong word. I didn't know that they were.
Speaker 3: I've used those products. I've used their products as well,
Speaker 3: and you know, i'd have to call and ask them
Speaker 3: specifically on that one. I don't they have new products
Speaker 3: coming out all the time and stuff.
Speaker 7: Sure, Okay, hey, that's fair skip that. I just appreciate
Speaker 7: and respect your opinion. Just want to hear what your
Speaker 7: thoughts were on using it outside of the garden area
Speaker 7: of mourning. Was it systemic? And do I need to
Speaker 7: be concerned? Once you get introduced, you know, you really
Speaker 7: doesn't go away.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I know across the country those things are
Speaker 3: widely used, especially in turf, and there's products like the
Speaker 3: one I was talking about. This sold a lot to
Speaker 3: golf courses and stuff because we got my opinion. You
Speaker 3: got my opinion on it, you know. Okay, that's what
Speaker 3: That's what it is.
Speaker 5: That's all.
Speaker 7: That's all I was looking for. Okay, thank you very much,
Speaker 7: have a good day, Take care you too.
Speaker 3: You're listening to garden Line our phone number seven one
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Speaker 3: through another hour of guarden Line. Seems like these hours
Speaker 3: are just flying by. We got plenty more to talk about.
Speaker 3: I hope you'll stay tuned, stick with us, and if
Speaker 3: you want to ask me a call, that would be
Speaker 3: a good time to get on the board. So when
Speaker 3: we come back from break, I'm talking to you about
Speaker 3: the things that interest you. Hey, important news news flash
Speaker 3: today today, today, today, after the show, I am making
Speaker 3: a bee Line for Montgomery County Fall Home and Outdoor
Speaker 3: Living Show in Conrod, Texas, out at the Lone Star
Speaker 3: Convention Center, Airport Road, northeast side of town. I hope
Speaker 3: you'll come out. I'm gonna be talking about fall gardening,
Speaker 3: given a talk on that, and then answering your questions.
Speaker 3: I'll be there from twelve until two. From twelve until two,
Speaker 3: and I hope you will come out. I'm giving away
Speaker 3: some really cool products from Microlife Fertilizers. We're gonna be
Speaker 3: giving away jugs of the six two four. We're gonna
Speaker 3: be giving away some of their Bomb Matrix, the Orange
Speaker 3: liquid bottle, bottle, Orange bottle of liquid fertilizers, super high quality.
Speaker 3: I use it myself. Come on out, maybe you one one,
Speaker 3: but you certainly will have an opportunity to ask the
Speaker 3: gardening questions. Bring me some samples, bring me some pictures.
Speaker 3: We'll figure.
Speaker 15: Kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of
Speaker 15: the products or services advertised on this program.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scamp Richter.
Speaker 2: So just watch him as well.
Speaker 3: Let's just jump right in here. How about that you
Speaker 3: are listening to Guardline. I'm your host, skip Richter, and
Speaker 3: what are we here for. We're here to help you
Speaker 3: have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. That's
Speaker 3: kind of what it amounts to. Oh and one other thing,
Speaker 3: and to have fun. Gardening should be fun. It should
Speaker 3: be enjoyable. Sometimes it feels like it's like we're out
Speaker 3: there and fireanch are biting this and it's too hot
Speaker 3: and everything I'm trying to grow is dying and what
Speaker 3: do I do? And hey, there's a way to fix that.
Speaker 3: Just calm down, Calm down, set the scissors down, get
Speaker 3: off the chair. It's okay, just calm down.
Speaker 5: We're good.
Speaker 3: It is simple principles, and that's what we talk about
Speaker 3: here on guard Line. Plants need certain things. They need
Speaker 3: good sunlight, some species more than others. They need good drainage,
Speaker 3: but adequate water. They want to be moist enough for
Speaker 3: that species, and they don't want to be in a
Speaker 3: swamp unless they're lousy airis or something. They can put
Speaker 3: up with that. So we just give them what they
Speaker 3: need and we can work our way to that. And
Speaker 3: it all begins in the soil. Soil is first, you know,
Speaker 3: organic gardening began in the soil. We don't. Organic gardening
Speaker 3: is not just about what's an organic pesticide.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 3: Organic gardening is how do you build the soil so
Speaker 3: it does better. And Microlife has designed their soil products,
Speaker 3: their fertilizer products around just that they are chalk full
Speaker 3: of nutrients. So when you buy something like micro grow
Speaker 3: liquid that is a really cool liquid kind of in
Speaker 3: a maroon colored bottle. It contains all kinds of different
Speaker 3: beneficial organisms in it, as well as many other things
Speaker 3: to help stimulate plant growth. Microlife soil and plant energy.
Speaker 3: There's just another example of them. I mentioned the Biomatrix
Speaker 3: thought orange bottle that is a seven percent nitrogen product.
Speaker 3: Actually it's a good boost of nitrogen. I use it
Speaker 3: on houseplants and other things. And by the way, I'm
Speaker 3: going to be given some away today this afternoon if
Speaker 3: you come or noon, if you come on up from
Speaker 3: twelve to two at the Montgomery County Home and Garden
Speaker 3: trum me giving away some samples. If you'd like to
Speaker 3: try that, you have to you have to win one.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like I have eight hundred bottles
Speaker 3: out there, but come on by maybe you will. And
Speaker 3: their bioanoculants another example, Microlife builds their products to build
Speaker 3: your soil, which they know will result in healthy plants.
Speaker 3: That is how that works, That's how the system works,
Speaker 3: and that that is why they do their products, design
Speaker 3: their products the way that they do. So we were
Speaker 3: just talking about the importance of the soil. Important important, nothing,
Speaker 3: probably nothing more important than starting with good and healthy soil.
Speaker 3: We just had some rain in my house. It's kind
Speaker 3: of been hitting this around the area. And I walked
Speaker 3: outside yesterday and went out in the garden to pick
Speaker 3: some okra, and we were having okra last night with
Speaker 3: other things. And while I was out there, I looked
Speaker 3: down on my leg and there's a mosquitos coming around
Speaker 3: me run around in my shorts and mosquito country and
Speaker 3: mosquito dunks are designed to help shut that stuff down.
Speaker 3: You know, whenever you get rain, you get standing water.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's in a saggy gutter. Maybe it's underneath the drain,
Speaker 3: the little saucer underneath your plants, it collects water. Maybe
Speaker 3: it's a bird bath. Mosquito dunks are little donuts, little
Speaker 3: like those little white, dusty, white powdered doughnuts. They're about
Speaker 3: that size and you throw them into the pond or
Speaker 3: standing water, and it covers about one hundred square feet
Speaker 3: and it lasts about a month as they dissolve away,
Speaker 3: releasing a disease of mosquitoes. They also make a granule
Speaker 3: product that does sustainable excuse me, summit responsible solutions of
Speaker 3: the product. The company that makes mosquito dunks also has
Speaker 3: a granule. You can throw those granules in too, or
Speaker 3: you can just take a dunk and break it up
Speaker 3: with a hammer a little bit, and now you've got granules.
Speaker 3: It's easy to use, it's easy to find. It's everywhere.
Speaker 3: Feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores Southwest for all
Speaker 3: those places are going to carry mosquito dunks, and you
Speaker 3: need to always have them on hand because when we
Speaker 3: get these periods of rain, if you got any place
Speaker 3: where water can stand, then you definitely want to deal
Speaker 3: with that and pour those poor those catch basins under
Speaker 3: your plants out by the way. That's just another tip
Speaker 3: to shut them down. I saw somebody's rain barrel the
Speaker 3: other day. They have a good cover over it. I
Speaker 3: think rain barrels are great. Go for it, do that,
Speaker 3: but don't let the mosquitos in there. That thing was
Speaker 3: full of mosquito wregulars. Maybe my skin crawl just looking
Speaker 3: in it. Toss a few mosquito dunk granules in there,
Speaker 3: you'd be in good shape, ready, ready to go. I
Speaker 3: stopped by Buchanan's Native Plants past week, and you know,
Speaker 3: bu Cannons is on Eleventh Street and the Heights, beautiful,
Speaker 3: beautiful little area, and it's a it's just a wonderland.
Speaker 3: You walk in there and you look at all the
Speaker 3: different kinds of plants that they have at Buchanans and
Speaker 3: they have everything, even their house plant you know McKenna's
Speaker 3: Native Plants. You think was that where you go for
Speaker 3: house plants. Yes, they have a huge, huge area with
Speaker 3: some of the coolest house plants stuff that you'll walk in.
Speaker 3: I promise you this. You're going to see past plants
Speaker 3: and you go, I've never seen one of those before.
Speaker 3: And Buchanan's plants fall vegetables, They're set up ready to
Speaker 3: go fall vegetables at Buchanans Plants. Do you need fruit trees?
Speaker 3: They've got them there. Do you need native plants? Wonderful?
Speaker 3: I posted something to Facebook and Instagram, garden Line, Facebook
Speaker 3: and Instagram on the plant called frog fruit it is.
Speaker 3: Basically it's a wild weed native plant here. And I
Speaker 3: say weed just because it's wild growing around out there.
Speaker 3: But it is an outstanding groundcover. That's stuff. If anything
Speaker 3: that can grow in a vacant lot between cracks and
Speaker 3: the concrete and spread out over the concrete, making a
Speaker 3: little four inch high groundcover, that's a plant you need
Speaker 3: to have. I mean, it needs sunlight to do its best,
Speaker 3: but it's outstanding little blooms all year long that attract bees.
Speaker 3: It's hard to find frogfruit without bees on it because
Speaker 3: it's a great pollinator plant. But where do you get it?
Speaker 3: You get it Buchanan's Plants in the Heights on Eleventh Street.
Speaker 3: Buchanansplants dot com. You are listening to Guardline. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Richter, and our phone number if you would like
Speaker 3: to give us a call, now'd be a time. Uh
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 3: seven to one three two one two kt r H.
Speaker 3: I went up to uh D and D feed. It
Speaker 3: was about two weeks ago. I stopped in there just
Speaker 3: checking on them, seeing how things are going and what's
Speaker 3: up and what's new. And they're just going full full steam.
Speaker 3: I mean they are loaded up on the things you need.
Speaker 3: You know, if I talk about a fertilizer, it's at
Speaker 3: D and D Feed. You're looking at products like heirloom soils,
Speaker 3: bags of airloom soil, you know, like the rose soil,
Speaker 3: or their fruit berry and citrus soil, or they're veggie
Speaker 3: and herb mix. You can go there and get those.
Speaker 3: At D and D Feed they keep them in stock.
Speaker 3: Products to control weeds and diseases and issues. They have it.
Speaker 3: You're looking for nitrophised fertilizers, you're looking for microlife fertilizer.
Speaker 3: They've got those there at D and D Feed. You're
Speaker 3: going to find everything that you need to have success
Speaker 3: in your lawn and your landscape right there at D
Speaker 3: and D Feed. They are on the west side of Tombault.
Speaker 3: Just go out twenty nine to twenty go out a
Speaker 3: little piece outside of town.
Speaker 16: There.
Speaker 3: They're on the left hand side. Here's a phone number
Speaker 3: two eight one three five one seventy one forty four
Speaker 3: two eight one three five one seventy one twenty four.
Speaker 3: D and D Feed stores three miles west of two
Speaker 3: forty nine. On twenty nine twenty, I was like going
Speaker 3: into feed stores. It's I don't know. There's something about
Speaker 3: just the experience, you know, the it's almost sometimes it's
Speaker 3: it's like like the I like the aroma, you know
Speaker 3: in a feed store of all the feed and things
Speaker 3: like that. I just think it's cool and D and
Speaker 3: D feed that dover. It's a great place to go.
Speaker 3: They you know, they take care of you. They make
Speaker 3: sure you get what you need. Makes it easy, easy
Speaker 3: to do, easy to talk about. All right, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: have to run quick break here. When I come back, Charles,
Speaker 3: I'll go straight to you. You're listening to guarden line.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. Garden and have a beautiful landscape.
Speaker 3: And what do we do first when we're taking care
Speaker 3: of plants? Well, let me put this way. What do
Speaker 3: we do first when we want to have success with plants?
Speaker 3: We fix the soil. Heirloom Soils has a wide variety
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Speaker 3: gotten it done ahead of time. That's just a tip
Speaker 3: I'd highly recommend you do that. We're going to go
Speaker 3: to New Canny now and talk to Charles Hey, Charles,
Speaker 3: Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 13: Hello, good morning. I have a question on a large
Speaker 13: oak tree. It's the type that drops all its leaves
Speaker 13: in the winter. It's about thirty feet from my house.
Speaker 13: But the limbs are now starting. It's so old, it's
Speaker 13: starting the limbs are starting to kind of grow out
Speaker 13: over the house and the garage. Okay, would it hurts
Speaker 13: the tree to trim those limbs back?
Speaker 3: Well, I can't, Yeah, I can't see. Well, the bigger
Speaker 3: the wound you make, the more of a weak spot
Speaker 3: you're going to have there. You see what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: Because that it'll take time for that to close over,
Speaker 3: and the wood inside if it takes too long, begin
Speaker 3: to decay before the wound fully closes over. If you
Speaker 3: want to shortened limbs, you want to cut them back
Speaker 3: to where they join another limb. And so think about
Speaker 3: it as a highway system with off ramps. As you
Speaker 3: go down the branch. You know, the off ramp is
Speaker 3: a branch coming off the branch you're on that kind
Speaker 3: of thing. Cut them off right past the off ramp.
Speaker 3: So it's like you're diverting traffic down the limb and
Speaker 3: then now down the off ramp. Do you see what
Speaker 3: I'm saying? The exit ramp and that kind of pruning
Speaker 3: is the least problematic for the plant. So if you
Speaker 3: need to shorten those branches, you can do that. Just
Speaker 3: know that the further back you cut, the bigger the
Speaker 3: cut's going to be, the slower it's going to heal.
Speaker 3: And then the potential for a week or branch is there?
Speaker 3: Is this a do it yourself or you're looking for
Speaker 3: somebody to do it for you?
Speaker 13: Oh, I'll have somebody do it.
Speaker 7: I can't get up in that tree.
Speaker 13: It's too big.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Well you ought to talk to Martin spoon
Speaker 3: Moore at Affordable Tree. He's very good at that. Okay,
Speaker 3: Well know if you if you let me give you
Speaker 3: a number just in case if you need it. It's
Speaker 3: seven one three six nine nine two six six three
Speaker 3: seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three.
Speaker 3: He's he's very good at that.
Speaker 17: All right.
Speaker 13: What was what was the first one?
Speaker 7: Again?
Speaker 3: Uh? The Affordable Tree Martin spoon More? Oh, seven one
Speaker 3: three six two six six three all.
Speaker 13: Right, all right, thank you very much, thanks Charles.
Speaker 3: You bet you bet? All right, let's see here, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I tell you Martin he knows Houston trees and he
Speaker 3: stays busy. But tell him your Guardline listener when you call,
Speaker 3: get you to the front of the line and check
Speaker 3: out his website a f F Tree Service dot com.
Speaker 3: A f F Tree Service dot com. He's very he's excellent,
Speaker 3: very good work. Let's set's go back to the phones.
Speaker 3: We're going to go now and talk to David. Hello, David,
Speaker 3: welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 18: I sCOD thank you for taking my call. I have
Speaker 18: one question and I found the answer. I found a
Speaker 18: basis for a second question. First question, bottom line, is
Speaker 18: is it okay to take pine needles from one part
Speaker 18: of my yard and put them where the trees are
Speaker 18: growing in another part of the yard to kind of
Speaker 18: make it like a natural forest.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, okay, great, thank.
Speaker 8: You very much.
Speaker 18: Second question is I got your advice last year and planted,
Speaker 18: among other things, to Sunshine lagustrum plants. And I went
Speaker 18: to Plants for all seasons and the lady there told me, okay, well,
Speaker 18: here's how you trim them.
Speaker 13: You just nip a little bit off here, nip a
Speaker 13: little bit off there.
Speaker 8: But I haven't done that.
Speaker 18: I just let them kind of grow. And I'm wondering
Speaker 18: is there any kind of approach I should take to
Speaker 18: trimming them?
Speaker 3: Okay, so David that when we're doing shrubs, we have options.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can hedge a shrub and make it
Speaker 3: square if you want. That just means you're going to
Speaker 3: have to prune regularly now to keep that looking like that.
Speaker 3: I like a more natural approach where the shrub has
Speaker 3: a more natural form. So what I would do. You
Speaker 3: can cut them back, but maybe follow a branch, maybe
Speaker 3: got long gangly cane coming out of that or shoot
Speaker 3: coming out of that lagustrum. Follow it back to where
Speaker 3: there's a side shoot and cut it off just above
Speaker 3: that side shoot. That's called a thinning cut. And when
Speaker 3: you go back and you take the longer shoots and
Speaker 3: you bring the overall size of the shrub down, it
Speaker 3: still has a natural look when you prune that way. Again,
Speaker 3: just this branch is too long. I want to get
Speaker 3: rid of it. So follow it down to where there's
Speaker 3: a side shoot that is acceptable in terms of its
Speaker 3: length and everything, and cut it off right above that.
Speaker 3: That's how I would go about printing that sunshine unless
Speaker 3: you want the sheared look excellent.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much. I appreciate your health.
Speaker 3: Sir, you bet good luck with that.
Speaker 7: Keep thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate appreciate that call very much. You know, when
Speaker 3: it comes to taking care of your lawn, one of
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Speaker 3: me talking about that earlier. If you live up north,
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Speaker 3: This isn't an inexpensive process. The price is going to
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Speaker 3: now and we're going to talk to Charles. Hello, Charles, Hey.
Speaker 19: Good morning. I have a Over the last few years,
Speaker 19: I've been very diligent in digging up the weeds in
Speaker 19: the yard and I'm so proud of it looks so great.
Speaker 19: And this year I had a grass that is a
Speaker 19: broad leaf, looks a whole lot like Saint Augustine's the
Speaker 19: dark green, and I've been dilicently digging it up. With
Speaker 19: all the rain and heat we had here recently, I
Speaker 19: didn't get to the yard, and it is growing like crazy,
Speaker 19: have blue blossom ons. I think from time to time.
Speaker 19: Could that be carried in by my lawnlorn cutany possibly?
Speaker 19: Or how do I get that?
Speaker 3: Because oh, I don't know how you got it, but
Speaker 3: if I saw a picture, I could be sure. But
Speaker 3: it sounds to me like dovewed. Something called dovewed. It's
Speaker 3: almost kind of a succulent, you know, as opposed to grass.
Speaker 3: It has a softer dinner blade. This one almost has
Speaker 3: a little bit of a fleshy thickness to it. But anyway,
Speaker 3: doveweed is what I believe you're dealing with. A Product
Speaker 3: called celsius can be used to knock that back if
Speaker 3: the area is not too big. There is a cinnamon
Speaker 3: based product that, uh it just you just sprink You
Speaker 3: get the dove weed wet, sprinkle this on it and
Speaker 3: it just turns it black really quick. Now, the long
Speaker 3: term goal is to get that grass so thick that
Speaker 3: the doveweed has trouble surviving in it, and don't over
Speaker 3: water the lawn because if you keep it constantly wet,
Speaker 3: the dove weed really can thrive better.
Speaker 19: Okay, all right, Well, I yeah, I don't do that.
Speaker 19: I I water once a week at the most most. Okay,
Speaker 19: And but I, okay, tell me the name of the
Speaker 19: product I need to get to put on it.
Speaker 3: I would do celsius. Like the temperature fahrenheit and celsius.
Speaker 19: Okay, and just get the wet and put that on it.
Speaker 19: Thank you very much, appreciate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, okay, Wait a minute, that's combining two different things.
Speaker 3: The celsius is just a broad leaf post emergent herbicide.
Speaker 3: You spray it on the weeds, follow the label. Don't
Speaker 3: do it when the temperature is hot. So this in
Speaker 3: fact today, tomorrow, Monday, or going to be pretty sunny
Speaker 3: days as far as I see the weather. Uh, And
Speaker 3: you could go ahead and get it done now rather
Speaker 3: than waiting because we're gonna have some rainy the rest
Speaker 3: of the week. But uh. The the cinnamon thing is
Speaker 3: the other product, and it comes in a low canister,
Speaker 3: so it's more expensive per thousand square feet. In fact,
Speaker 3: a thousand would be a ton to sprinkle that cinnamon over.
Speaker 3: But if you just have small areas, you can also
Speaker 3: just use the cinnamon type product that sprinkles right over.
Speaker 3: It's called agralon. But if if you've got a bigger
Speaker 3: area of it, definitely the celsius.
Speaker 19: Okay, yeah, okay, Well, in my areas I've kept in
Speaker 19: a minimum they're the largest area is probably two feet
Speaker 19: by one foot and then okay, when I get your
Speaker 19: smaller ones, I just dig them up.
Speaker 10: Thank you much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yeah, you're right at Cleveland. If you got
Speaker 3: to any of your ACE stores out there, you got
Speaker 3: you got one importer that's probably closest to you. Uh
Speaker 3: and and and they're going to have those products. Okay,
Speaker 3: thank you, Hey, thank you, Charles. I appreciate that. Well,
Speaker 3: I run out of time here, folks, We're going to
Speaker 3: take another quick break. Ron in Cleveland. You are the
Speaker 3: very next up Surden centers. I was at at the
Speaker 3: Arborgate the other day and just walking around looking at
Speaker 3: the different things that they have in stock there, and
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, they are stocked up. Have you ever
Speaker 3: have you ever seen a something that is called a
Speaker 3: desert rose? A desert rose. They've got those there and
Speaker 3: they they're just beautiful. It's a real popular plant, by
Speaker 3: the way. Uh yeah, I don't know if I can
Speaker 3: describe it to you. It's a beautiful blooms come in
Speaker 3: many different kind of colors, big white, bulbous base. It's
Speaker 3: one of the hot plants right now. I see a
Speaker 3: lot of people really getting into desert rose, and that
Speaker 3: is one that's not that difficult to grow, but boy
Speaker 3: are they gorgeous, and they have them there. When you're
Speaker 3: at their Arborgate, you're going to find some of the
Speaker 3: cool seasoned plants are starting to arrive, like the kind
Speaker 3: that can take a little more heat, like Diantha. Shake it,
Speaker 3: they've got it there, pansy or excuse me, Petunias are
Speaker 3: there at Arburgate. And you know fall is a good
Speaker 3: time to do some warm season plants up into the
Speaker 3: first frost, so marigos up into the first frost, petunias
Speaker 3: up into the first frost, and first frost is a
Speaker 3: good ways away down this far south, so it's still
Speaker 3: a good time to get color as well as all
Speaker 3: your Halloween decorations. Arbrogate Garden Center for those of you
Speaker 3: who have been hiding under a rock somewhere. I don't
Speaker 3: know how anyone would not know where it is, but
Speaker 3: it is west of Tumbull on twenty nine to twenty
Speaker 3: just under a half mile west of Tombull, you can
Speaker 3: take Trishel Road, which is a loop that goes around
Speaker 3: behind Arburgate and either before or after Arbrogate turned on
Speaker 3: threshe will go around the back great parking lot back there.
Speaker 3: And you know, anytime you go to Arburgate you need
Speaker 3: to planned to be a while because there's a lot
Speaker 3: to see and a lot of very very helpful staff
Speaker 3: that know what they're talking about to help steer you
Speaker 3: in the right direction. I'm going to head now out
Speaker 3: to Cleveland, Texas and talk to Ron. Hello, Ron, Welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Come Morren Skip.
Speaker 20: Last week I talked to you and you gave me
Speaker 20: a website Aggie Turf, and I did more my weeds
Speaker 20: and there's one that I'm looking for and I found
Speaker 20: it's Behaya grass.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 20: I've got Bermuda lawn. So I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 20: and then I get online to start searching that and
Speaker 20: there's all kinds of stuff and it looks like a
Speaker 20: lot of its commercial grade stuff. So I'm kind of looking,
Speaker 20: uh for what I can use on Behaya grass that's
Speaker 20: in my Bermuda grass.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that that is a challenge. Behea grass is a
Speaker 3: good tough some people make. It doesn't make a great lawn,
Speaker 3: but some people use it for like out around the
Speaker 3: property areas where you just need a grass. You know
Speaker 3: that you can mow periodically and do pretty good. But
Speaker 3: it is a booger booger to get or rid of.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of that. The Bermuda so mets
Speaker 3: sulfur on M E T s U L f U
Speaker 3: R O N products with met sulfur on will control
Speaker 3: behea met sulfur on. And if you're up there in
Speaker 3: the Cleveland area, you've got some ace haarders, I know
Speaker 3: you've got an ACE heard they're in Porter. I would
Speaker 3: call them and see if they have a product that
Speaker 3: one of the brands is called. Oh gosh, I just
Speaker 3: went blank. I'll think of it here in a minute.
Speaker 3: Man or m A n O R m A n
Speaker 3: O R met sulfur on. That that is pretty good,
Speaker 3: uh in controlling Behea grass. Now it's long term control.
Speaker 3: It's a challenge. It's gonna knock it back. Some people
Speaker 3: have added some two four D N with the met
Speaker 3: sulfur on. I don't know why, but it messes it
Speaker 3: up and it doesn't do as well. So don't don't
Speaker 3: do any kind of a broad leaf in there when
Speaker 3: you're doing it. Just go with that met sulfur on uh.
Speaker 3: And I think I'm trying to think of another another option.
Speaker 3: Manner is one of them. There's a product BN. I've
Speaker 3: seen the manner, and I've seen the.
Speaker 10: Two four D.
Speaker 3: I was Google searching and then yeah, does it?
Speaker 20: Uh does a pre emergent herbicide help control that?
Speaker 3: Well, for the for that which is coming from seeds,
Speaker 3: it would, But Behaea is gonna be perennial, and it's
Speaker 3: gonna if you've got behaea, you've got behea uh. And
Speaker 3: so you know I I would I wouldn't. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: worry about it, you know, I mean I wouldn't have
Speaker 3: tried to do the pre emergent.
Speaker 20: I'm gonna do pre emergent in this two times a year,
Speaker 20: if I remember correctly. Here coming up now it's cool
Speaker 20: then in the spring to help control a bunch of
Speaker 20: everything else. But then I had seen that two to
Speaker 20: four D and I've seen that man or listed Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't don't mix those Yeah, don't mix those two together.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of some other products. I need
Speaker 3: a minute to check on some of the other the
Speaker 3: brands that are gonna end the combinations I know they did.
Speaker 3: Oh what was the one there was some success? Well,
Speaker 3: I don't want to say names of brands online until
Speaker 3: I've had a chance to make sure they're okay with
Speaker 3: with Bermuda. So myself around Methol is going to give
Speaker 3: you about probably sixty percent success. But there are some
Speaker 3: combinations you can put with it. If you want to,
Speaker 3: I'll put you on hold and if you want to,
Speaker 3: if you want to email me, I can send you
Speaker 3: that information directly. How about that? And if you don't
Speaker 3: care about it, then just hang up. That's fine.
Speaker 10: Great.
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Speaker 3: We're get to head now out to Clear Lake and
Speaker 3: talk to Jim.
Speaker 5: Hello, Jim, good morning.
Speaker 16: I wanted to know about treating the lawn again.
Speaker 5: I had put down.
Speaker 16: Bug Out and Eagle at the same time the last
Speaker 16: time we had a dry spell, which was about almost
Speaker 16: two weeks ago, and walking in the yard today, I've
Speaker 16: got probably with every step, I've got six or so
Speaker 16: moss flying up. And I'm just wondering if it's permissible
Speaker 16: to put bug out down again.
Speaker 3: How long ago did you do it?
Speaker 5: Close to two weeks ago.
Speaker 3: You do not need to do it again if you
Speaker 3: put it out correctly. At the right rate, got good
Speaker 3: even coverage and stuff. You should be fine. A bug
Speaker 3: out is going to last, you know, at least a
Speaker 3: couple of months, if not longer. And so you're good
Speaker 3: if you've made that application. Now, it's not going to
Speaker 3: kill the moth. And here's why the moth is not
Speaker 3: down in the thatch. Where the bugout is the larvae
Speaker 3: that eat your lawn or down in the thatch. So
Speaker 3: those moths are laying eggs or dropping eggs down in
Speaker 3: your grass and they hatch out into the larva at
Speaker 3: the grass. Assuming this is a side web worm, there
Speaker 3: are a lot of moths out there, Jim and I,
Speaker 3: I don't know that you have side web worm. You could,
Speaker 3: but I don't know that you do. If you had pictures,
Speaker 3: you could send me of the moths, capture one, I
Speaker 3: could tell you. But the bug out, if it's down
Speaker 3: in your thatch, you got a little water to kind
Speaker 3: of soak it off the granules and into the that
Speaker 3: you should be okay.
Speaker 16: So I don't see any webs in the lawn at all,
Speaker 16: So okay.
Speaker 3: Well, the other thing to look for is go down
Speaker 3: on your hands and knees and grass blades. Look like
Speaker 3: something was taken chumps out of the sides, you know,
Speaker 3: like people are just biting chomps out of the caterpillar,
Speaker 3: just biting chomps out of the site. That that's another
Speaker 3: sign that you got the active weburn. Okay, okay, all right, welcome, welcome,
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 3: You are listening to a show that's here to help
Speaker 3: you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. It's
Speaker 3: a show to help you have fun out there in
Speaker 3: the garden. Yeah, gardening is supposed to be fun, not work,
Speaker 3: and you're supposed to have success, not frustrating experiences of failure.
Speaker 3: And that's why we're here. When it comes to fertilizing
Speaker 3: your lawn, if you are looking for a product that's
Speaker 3: got a good high nitrogen content that is a natural
Speaker 3: based product, sweet Green from Nitroposs is a product you
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Speaker 3: smells great, it's got eleven percent nitrogen, the highest of
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Speaker 3: And when you put it out, it dissolves the way
Speaker 3: into the lawn and it stimulates my chrobial activity. Carbon.
Speaker 3: It's a molasses base, so that's a sugar. That's a
Speaker 3: carbon based product, and that's what my groups go for
Speaker 3: as a carbon And when you do that, you're going
Speaker 3: to see an enhancement of the root zone of the planet.
Speaker 3: You're going to have the nutrients of course available that
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Speaker 3: find sweet grain at a lot of different places. Bearings Hardware,
Speaker 3: both the one on Bissonette and Westheimer are going to
Speaker 3: have it. If you want to go out to Katie,
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Speaker 3: go now to Paula, Missouri City. Hello Paul, and welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 7: YEA, good morning, Skip. I have a question regarding.
Speaker 17: My oak tree. Where the main branch is split away
Speaker 17: from the trunk. There's like a little well or something there.
Speaker 17: Because I saw a weed growing out of there, I
Speaker 17: reached up and.
Speaker 7: Pulled it out.
Speaker 17: It had its own independent root system, so it must
Speaker 17: have been a bunch of over the years, decayed leaves
Speaker 17: and stuff that it's just a.
Speaker 7: Mortars in there.
Speaker 17: How can I fill that void so that I don't
Speaker 17: get wrought?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's not a way. So if it's just the
Speaker 3: outer bark that's decomposing, you probably still have healthy tissues
Speaker 3: underneath it that are going to prevent access to the
Speaker 3: anterior wood. Sometimes when branch angles are narrow, as the
Speaker 3: trunk gets bigger and the branch gets bigger, it presses
Speaker 3: that dead bark together and that's where you get those
Speaker 3: areas that'll catch water, that'll rod decay, and it's a
Speaker 3: great place for a seed to land and grow something.
Speaker 3: But if it's bad enough, you can end up with
Speaker 3: a splitting down in that area as they push each
Speaker 3: other apart as they grow in diameter. There's no putting
Speaker 3: something in there to fill it or fix it. In fact,
Speaker 3: that'd be the wrong thing to try to do in
Speaker 3: this particular situation. Uh, it's just a matter of kind
Speaker 3: of it is what it is. If it's a larger branch,
Speaker 3: and if you know, if you could go back in
Speaker 3: time when that branch was smaller and do some pruning,
Speaker 3: that that could have been alleviated. But at this point
Speaker 3: in time, you might want to have an arborus look
Speaker 3: at it. You know, have Martin an affordable tree. Come
Speaker 3: out and take a look at it and see if
Speaker 3: he would recommend anything. Because I can't see it, he
Speaker 3: would be able to look at it and he may
Speaker 3: recommend something. But in general that that happens even in
Speaker 3: nature quite a bit.
Speaker 17: Okay, I understand, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks Paul, appreciate very much you calling in
Speaker 3: here at Garden Line Nature's Way. Resources is up. It's
Speaker 3: north Interstate forty five toward Conro and if you haven't
Speaker 3: been out there, you need you need to go check
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Speaker 3: they have a nice little garden center with a lot
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Speaker 3: the way, their Fungal Friday sale is still on twenty
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Speaker 3: the leap mo compost. You can use a fungal compost
Speaker 3: as a compost top dressing. If you want, you mix
Speaker 3: it in the soil as a compost. You can even
Speaker 3: throw it on the top of the soil. Is a
Speaker 3: little bit of a multch up on the surface, but
Speaker 3: primarily I would use it in the soil or on
Speaker 3: the surface for a top dressing primarily, but twenty percent
Speaker 3: off that's a great deal. By the way, I'm going
Speaker 3: to be out there at their fall festival. I know
Speaker 3: it's a long time away October twelfth. October twelfth, that's
Speaker 3: a long time away, but I'll be out there and
Speaker 3: from a nine point thirty or from nine to two
Speaker 3: is when the festival's gone on. I'll tell you more
Speaker 3: about it. You got to go to Nature's Way though.
Speaker 3: They are where a lot of our best soil products
Speaker 3: had their birth. That's where they began at Nature's Way
Speaker 3: Resources on Sherwood Circle, just so right where fourteen eighty
Speaker 3: eight comes into Interstate forty five. You just if you're
Speaker 3: going north toward Conrod, just turn right, go across there
Speaker 3: and across the tracks and you'll be there at Nature's Way.
Speaker 3: We're going to go now out to Spring and talk
Speaker 3: to John. Hey, John, welcome to Guardline. Good morning, skid
Speaker 3: it for are you? I'm well, sir? How can we help?
Speaker 4: I think I've got goose grass in one section of
Speaker 4: my Saint Augustine lawn and I've hit it with the
Speaker 4: hervis side they usually use, which I think is a
Speaker 4: fahrenheit based What can knock it out with that necessarily
Speaker 4: killing the Saint Augustine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that is a problem. Goosegrass is. It's
Speaker 3: a very troublesome weed for us here in the South,
Speaker 3: especially they deal with it on golf courses and you
Speaker 3: know those kinds of things. It's an annual grass though,
Speaker 3: so if it truly is goosegrass, you're dealing with it's
Speaker 3: an annual So I would say next, make sure you
Speaker 3: get your pre emergent application of barricade down in February
Speaker 3: or I'd say mid February for that one, uh, and
Speaker 3: watered in really good, and then you prevent it from
Speaker 3: coming back at this stage. You know, when it's later
Speaker 3: on in the process, it's it's more difficult to deal with.
Speaker 3: There are some products that used to be out there
Speaker 3: that are no longer on the market anymore, so it
Speaker 3: kind of limits us in effective post emergent goose grass control.
Speaker 3: But if you want, if you wanted to dab or
Speaker 3: use my weed wiper that I have online, if you
Speaker 3: wanted to put a product on the sponges of the
Speaker 3: weed wiper and dab it just on the goose grass
Speaker 3: and not on your other grass. Uh, then you're going
Speaker 3: to find that that works pretty well. Also, you know
Speaker 3: it kind of you know, it comes out of the
Speaker 3: ground soar, it turns flat and goes in all directions
Speaker 3: you can get you can dab. I mean you couldab
Speaker 3: a grass killer. You could ab life a s eate
Speaker 3: type product right there on it and get it on
Speaker 3: the goose grass without getting it on the desirable grass,
Speaker 3: which is your turf grass.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, it sounds like and this one hasn't been
Speaker 4: around more than just from this spring and the like,
Speaker 4: so I don't know if it's going to make it
Speaker 4: through the winner. But if it's annual, like you said,
Speaker 4: maybe the attack is in the spring.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. So if you'll go online to my website
Speaker 3: gardening with skip dot com, it shows how to build
Speaker 3: my weed wiper. There's other ways you can build a
Speaker 3: weed wiper, but there's one there. And then there's a
Speaker 3: thing called herbicides for the weed wiper. And if you
Speaker 3: go down to the grass row, you'll see the products
Speaker 3: that I would use on that goosegrass for dabbing it.
Speaker 3: Dabbing it on. Okay, Okay, I did.
Speaker 4: I did see the weed wiper the other day, so
Speaker 4: I know where to find that.
Speaker 7: So thank you for that, Skip.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a separate publication. In fact, I think it's
Speaker 3: a top in the list right now if you go
Speaker 3: right now, all right, thanks John, appreciate it. All right,
Speaker 3: Let's go to Jim in Lake City. Hello, Jim, Welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line.
Speaker 21: Morning, Skip Skip. I have a question about fruiting, Okra,
Speaker 21: And you talk about a fun plant having fun in
Speaker 21: your garden. That's been the most fun I've experienced a
Speaker 21: long time, and going out and looking at those pods,
Speaker 21: it's a challenge every day.
Speaker 3: Okay, But.
Speaker 10: What's the proper way to proNT it?
Speaker 3: Well? Number one, you don't need to print it at
Speaker 3: all as it's growing. If you planted it early in
Speaker 3: the season, it tends to kind of play out toward
Speaker 3: midsummer late toward the end of summer, you can cut
Speaker 3: it back as far as you want. Sometimes people take
Speaker 3: it back to knee high and then you'll get re
Speaker 3: sprouts out of the side that will then begin fruiting
Speaker 3: in time. Takes them a while to sprout and regrow.
Speaker 3: But what I will often do is uh, if the
Speaker 3: if the crop, the patch itself is starting to decline,
Speaker 3: I'll cut back every other one, and that way I
Speaker 3: still have some that I'm getting some fruit from. And
Speaker 3: then I can cut the others back when those that
Speaker 3: are first cut back are starting to fruit, and you
Speaker 3: can kind of get a second wind out of that,
Speaker 3: okra if it's declining. If not, I just leave it.
Speaker 3: Mine is still producing just fine right now.
Speaker 10: Well I was, I was referring more to the side branches.
Speaker 21: Oh okay, do you need to do anything with them?
Speaker 16: Now?
Speaker 3: You can? You can cut them off or you can
Speaker 3: let it make a big bush. Either way is fine.
Speaker 3: If you plant it close enough, you don't get as
Speaker 3: much side branching. Uh, you end up with a bunch
Speaker 3: of fishing poles sticking straight up in the air.
Speaker 10: Yep, okay, okay, all right, well I needed to know. Well,
Speaker 10: thanks a lot. Enjoy the program.
Speaker 3: All right, all I thank you, Jim. Appreciate that call.
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Speaker 3: in Pasadena, which didn't catch you this hour, but you'll
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Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's.
Speaker 8: Rim.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as we.
Speaker 3: Give peace to set a sound. Hey, welcome back to
Speaker 3: Garden Line. Glad to have you with us tonight. Good
Speaker 3: to have you with us. We're looking forward to visiting
Speaker 3: with you. I'm going to run out the phone drive
Speaker 3: quick here and we're gonna to talk to Freda in Pasadena, Frida.
Speaker 3: Thanks for hanging on. We want to go ahead and
Speaker 3: help you right now if we can.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 23: Yes, I think it was very Saturday. I was listening
Speaker 23: to you, and I'm really paying a whole lot of
Speaker 23: attention because I didn't think I had a need, but
Speaker 23: I was Hatphew who discovered this week that he's got
Speaker 23: a bad problem with roots under his house in Quibentic City.
Speaker 23: And I think I know there was somebody that called
Speaker 23: it last week about this problem. And while you don't
Speaker 23: really specialize you make, I think you did give him
Speaker 23: the name of somebody that he could contact that he
Speaker 23: would know how to take care of this properly.
Speaker 24: And I'm wondering if you could give me that name.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's fixed my slab, that foundation repair. The guy's
Speaker 3: name is ty Ty Strickland and here's the phone number
Speaker 3: two eight one two five five forty forty nine two
Speaker 3: eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. If
Speaker 3: you want to write down the website, that would be
Speaker 3: helpful fix myslab dot com.
Speaker 23: Yeah, all right, okay, okay, So he would know how
Speaker 23: to do this properly, take care of the probably the roots,
Speaker 23: and what's about the plumbing or whatever.
Speaker 7: Get it.
Speaker 3: Well, he's a he's a foundation expert, so he can
Speaker 3: handle He can discuss all of that, including what might
Speaker 3: be able to be done to the root system. Okay,
Speaker 3: I would talk to Ty. I trust him. He's been
Speaker 3: doing this a long time. Uh, and he definitely will
Speaker 3: not steer you wrong. I know that.
Speaker 23: Okay, thank you so much, you bet.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Fred. I appreciate your call. Hey, folks, guess
Speaker 3: what we're going to do for the next thirty minutes.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk to David Williamson from RCW Nursery
Speaker 3: and Williamson Tree Farm up in Plannersville. You hear me
Speaker 3: talk about RCW in the past. Now I would say
Speaker 3: they they have great trees because they grow gray trees
Speaker 3: themselves up in Plannersville. Hey, David, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning, Glad you could join us. Thanks
Speaker 3: for taking time out this morning, Uh, to visit with
Speaker 3: us a little bit. I'm gonna pick I'm gonna pick
Speaker 3: your brain about trees we got. You know, we say
Speaker 3: on guard line the three things that makes our phone
Speaker 3: ring or the trees, turf and tomatoes. Those three things,
Speaker 3: three tea's and trees are a big part of it.
Speaker 3: The most important things in life. No, seriously, everybody's worried
Speaker 3: about their lawn and their trees, and so I want
Speaker 3: to visit with you about some different things. I know
Speaker 3: you guys grow a lot of great trees up there
Speaker 3: at the tree farm in Plannersville. Uh, you and I both,
Speaker 3: I think we had a was it an email or
Speaker 3: I don't know. Somehow we were contacted this week and
Speaker 3: someone wanted a tree for what was it like a
Speaker 3: retirement neighborhood where the lots were smaller, and what were
Speaker 3: some that you recommended? I believe. Uh do you remember
Speaker 3: that there was discussing?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I do. Yeah, there's some small, small trees that do
Speaker 5: well and try to Maples born. I guess twenty twenty
Speaker 5: five feet tall Chinese friends a little slore growing, but
Speaker 5: it's you have to twenty five pretty feet tall as well,
Speaker 5: those are good for small also, the larger creakments like
Speaker 5: Natchez Muskogee's, those can be a nice small tree if
Speaker 5: you don't realize they really can. They put them on
Speaker 5: a corner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, do you guys when y'all are growing them,
Speaker 3: do you do those in multi stem and single stem both?
Speaker 3: Or how do you generally print those?
Speaker 5: Most of them are multi but I do grow a
Speaker 5: few singles, so that would be like a little single.
Speaker 3: Tree trunk mini tree. Yeah, okay, well, Chinese friends one
Speaker 3: of my favorite.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, Oh no, it's that's my favorite tree that's
Speaker 5: in my yard. I took out the three live oaks
Speaker 5: they put in my yard and I put it in
Speaker 5: a fringe tree in a mountain hall.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 5: It's well, it's just the three live oaks for a
Speaker 5: fifty five foot lot.
Speaker 3: Is just too much. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Uh, And
Speaker 3: sometimes people forget that there are some fruit types of trees,
Speaker 3: like the couple of peaches. I think you guys recommend
Speaker 3: a couple of plums, And could you tell us a
Speaker 3: little bit about if someone wanted to go for a
Speaker 3: spring flowering tree like that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the red barren peach is another good peach, but
Speaker 5: it does fruit. It's a it puts on a show
Speaker 5: of pink flowers in the spring. And the other one
Speaker 5: is a red peppermint peach, which is an ornamental. No fruit.
Speaker 5: It's like the white and pink berganty flower.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like little peppermint candies. The flowers look like peppermint
Speaker 3: candy exactly.
Speaker 5: They're really pretty. I mean it lasts maybe three four weeks,
Speaker 5: but it is a pretty so like the French tree
Speaker 5: doesn't bloom long, but it's it's a pretty tree. Mm.
Speaker 3: The Mexican plum I think is a good one too,
Speaker 3: isn't it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Mexican plums a good one. It'll stress out in
Speaker 5: this heat, but in the summertime, but it's otherwise it's
Speaker 5: a native. It does very well here. Okay, good cloud
Speaker 5: purple plum is another one. It's a it's a non
Speaker 5: fruiting plum that's got pretty foliage as well as some flowers.
Speaker 3: Well, David, I've been a broken record. Oh yes, red
Speaker 3: of course, red buds.
Speaker 5: Those are those are gorgeous red buds.
Speaker 3: Oh and you have the Texas that's a that's a
Speaker 3: very tough one right there, kind of leathery round it
Speaker 3: a little more round leaf. Yeah, that's that's exactly like that.
Speaker 5: Good.
Speaker 3: I've been a broken record about fall is the best
Speaker 3: planning season of the year. You know, in spring we
Speaker 3: all have spring fever. But it's fall, and boy do
Speaker 3: we ever need to be planting? Uh? And so I
Speaker 3: would like to give a start. We're gonna got a
Speaker 3: couple of minutes for it to take a break, but
Speaker 3: I'd like to to hear you talk about how would
Speaker 3: you recommend someone getting ready for bringing a tree into plant?
Speaker 3: What kinds of a prep would you recommend or Yeah,
Speaker 3: other things they might need to be aware of.
Speaker 5: Well, definitely, the fall is the best time of plant
Speaker 5: We plant year round. But but Paul, when our time
Speaker 5: is a prime time. But getting the making sure you
Speaker 5: have an area that's you know, you spaced it properly,
Speaker 5: and make sure you have the We use a product
Speaker 5: called black humus. It's a decomposed pine that we mixed
Speaker 5: in with the native soil. We dig the whole in
Speaker 5: a large area inches wide, Yeah, we did. We dig
Speaker 5: the whole about six inches wider than the container all
Speaker 5: the way around, mix up the native sal We don't
Speaker 5: want to completely take out native soil. We want to
Speaker 5: somewhat get the tree acclimated through the area. And then
Speaker 5: we add we add micro locke products in the whole
Speaker 5: with it. And then we also use UH a product
Speaker 5: called coral Pool rougt vatter We've been using thirty years
Speaker 5: or so. When we use that as a rogtivator, it's organic,
Speaker 5: it won't burn, and it's still We put that on
Speaker 5: when we install and recommend the customer doing it.
Speaker 3: Once a month. Yeah, well that's true.
Speaker 5: It's critical.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, tell a little about that.
Speaker 5: I mean this, you know, get into the fall, fall time, summer,
Speaker 5: fall time, summertime. You get to water probably three times
Speaker 5: a week when we're not getting rain, and some times
Speaker 5: the rain it's not even even going to go. I'd
Speaker 5: be enough for some trees, depends on the size you
Speaker 5: bought it, but all right, three times a week with
Speaker 5: a hose and not relying on the irrigation system or
Speaker 5: having some kind of drip system or having a weanush
Speaker 5: forget that little apparass we sell that goes around. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it goes around the tree.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, well, let's come back to that. They're telling
Speaker 3: me in my ear, we gotta go to commercial and
Speaker 3: I'll come right back with you, folks. Keep listening. We're
Speaker 3: going to spend the next segment also talking with David
Speaker 3: about trees and tree success. We'll be right back hardline folks.
Speaker 3: We are glad to have you with us and looking
Speaker 3: forward to talking to you in a bit.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 3: Right now, we're visiting with David Williamson of RCW Nurseres.
Speaker 3: That's the garden center where Tomball Parkway two forty nine
Speaker 3: comes into beut Wag eight. It's really easy to get
Speaker 3: to there and they're always loaded up with stuff. He
Speaker 3: also is one of the owners of the tree farm
Speaker 3: up in Plantersville where they get their trees from, and
Speaker 3: that is our topic right now. We're talking about trees
Speaker 3: because right now is the time when we need to
Speaker 3: be getting ready for the best planning season of the year,
Speaker 3: especially with the ornamentals. You can plan them twelve months
Speaker 3: out of the year here, but the best one is
Speaker 3: coming up. And so that's why I wanted David to
Speaker 3: talk to us a little bit about trees. David, we
Speaker 3: were discussing, you know, the importance of watering a tree
Speaker 3: in really well, you know, when you plant it, and
Speaker 3: you mentioned the little tree hugger sprinklers that you put
Speaker 3: around the tree makes it really easy to water a
Speaker 3: small area or a large area. But what people I
Speaker 3: think don't realize is, especially during the summer heat, trees
Speaker 3: need a little drink pretty often when they first get planted.
Speaker 3: I think the Forest Service says three times a week
Speaker 3: a couple of gallons, three times a week or something,
Speaker 3: depends on the size of the tree, and then after
Speaker 3: a month two times a week, and after another month
Speaker 3: one time a week or something. But people don't realize
Speaker 3: that while a big mature tree gets watered very seldom,
Speaker 3: more as a rescue these little trees they need a
Speaker 3: lot of help because they have such a small, confined
Speaker 3: root system for a good while after planting. Do you
Speaker 3: want to comment on that?
Speaker 5: That is the most critical thing to me. They're water
Speaker 5: They're water daily in a container. So when you put
Speaker 5: them from a container to the ground, they they need
Speaker 5: to make sure they're going to not dry out as quickly,
Speaker 5: but they need to make sure they get soaked and
Speaker 5: not rely on the grass sprinkler system. You know, it
Speaker 5: depends on the size of the tree, but definitely the
Speaker 5: amount depends on the side.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, and that's true and again, folks, the Texas
Speaker 3: Forest Service website has got information on watering new trees
Speaker 3: and it is very very helpfully even have a thank
Speaker 3: some video on there. H Yeah, I you know, I
Speaker 3: I tell people and this is this makes sense to me,
Speaker 3: so I hope it makes sense to other people. But
Speaker 3: when you plant a tree or shrub, pretend that you
Speaker 3: just took the pot with the plant and buried the
Speaker 3: pot in the ground. And if you pretend that, don't
Speaker 3: do that, but pretend that then when you go to water,
Speaker 3: you would know exactly where to water, right because you know,
Speaker 3: watering two feet out away from it, there's no roots
Speaker 3: out there, and so now gradually roots move out. But
Speaker 3: I think people if they will direct that water to
Speaker 3: the that around the plant, knowing as you said, they
Speaker 3: get water every day in the nursery, so now it's
Speaker 3: in the ground, you still need to do that for
Speaker 3: a little while.
Speaker 5: That's right. Let me let me ask issue with trees.
Speaker 3: You mean the post plant care people not taking care
Speaker 3: of them.
Speaker 5: Well, just not realizing the water is so critical and
Speaker 5: we try to relate, okay jeweled into them. But it's
Speaker 5: especially in the summertime that you can't go on vacation
Speaker 5: for two weeks and you know and expect your irrigation
Speaker 5: system to handle unless you have a designated gip line
Speaker 5: to that tree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that is a that is a good point.
Speaker 3: Everybody wants to plant a tree and hang a hammock
Speaker 3: in it as soon as possible in order to in
Speaker 3: order to get from planting to hammock, you got to
Speaker 3: get a lot of growth. And you know, fertilizer is important,
Speaker 3: but boy, watering is more important in terms of successful
Speaker 3: establishment and fast growth even than the important editions of fertilizer.
Speaker 3: So okay, let me ask you a question. What if
Speaker 3: I were to ask you, what are some of your
Speaker 3: favorite landscape trees for eastern area. We talked about, you know,
Speaker 3: some of the smaller trees, uh Chinese friend, some of
Speaker 3: the Plumb's beach and so on. Uh, what what would
Speaker 3: be some of your favorite larger trees for a landscape
Speaker 3: medium to large size.
Speaker 5: I like the chickapan oaks. I like the santelepe red maple.
Speaker 5: It's an ace or that we grow. It's a there's
Speaker 5: a slick cutting off of a female. That's a tree
Speaker 5: that has a little red blooms and always spring, that's
Speaker 5: slowly showstopper in the spring. That's a very fast growing
Speaker 5: shade tree. And it's you know, it's usually well here
Speaker 5: in town or out throughout the southeast part Sexes. But
Speaker 5: I like the Mexican white oaks too, corcous, polymorphose. Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm always a big thing shooting the nut all the red,
Speaker 5: all red, all red oaks. She more than nuttall mm hmm. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you guys, you guys carry those. I was you know,
Speaker 3: I'm a fan of ot all oak, especially because a
Speaker 3: lot of our areas over here can be kind of
Speaker 3: poorly drained, and so having a having an oak that's
Speaker 3: a little more tolerant of that, which I think not
Speaker 3: all is is a good thing. I'm glad you guys
Speaker 3: carried those.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it seemed to grow a little faster to
Speaker 5: me than the smoorg you know, growing out side by side.
Speaker 5: I noticed that, Okay. I also like the Mexican Mexican sycamores.
Speaker 5: It seems to be a good one the foliage and
Speaker 5: also the the trunk like American too, but the the
Speaker 5: sycamore has always been a good one for for some
Speaker 5: texture in the foliage and also the chunk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, would you would you elaborate, like, what about the
Speaker 3: foliage and trunk do you like on a Mexican sycamore.
Speaker 5: The Mexican sycamore has a silvery back on the foliage
Speaker 5: and then the the Americans just more of a matt finish,
Speaker 5: I mean, just a reggae back and then right, I
Speaker 5: think that Mexicans have that silver silvery on the front
Speaker 5: of the leaf as well, and you get the real
Speaker 5: she had the bark and get the pretty bark every time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Mexican sycamore seems a little less prone to
Speaker 3: some of the problems that plague the American sycamore.
Speaker 5: Right, they're more more resistance and thragnos.
Speaker 3: Mhm.
Speaker 5: That's another function. So it's it's I mean for to
Speaker 5: go with the to go with the Mexican.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's a lot. That's another go ahead.
Speaker 5: We have this new live oak where we're growing called
Speaker 5: Joan Leonardi live oak. It's a it's a it's actually
Speaker 5: a subspecies of Circus Virginiana that's the one that's found
Speaker 5: by this guy in Arizona. Gets twenty five thirty feet tall,
Speaker 5: but it's a small, medium tree. It's a good treet
Speaker 5: it's evergreen. It's really pretty. I got them in thirty
Speaker 5: gallons down. That's I'm really pressed how it grows.
Speaker 3: That's not that is a more compact size for live oaks.
Speaker 3: You know they can get a lot bigger than that
Speaker 3: over time.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's yeah. I know what else. I surprised
Speaker 5: myself this fact. And the guy so he has one
Speaker 5: growing probably about fifteen twenty years. It's probably about twenty
Speaker 5: five thirty feet tall and wide.
Speaker 3: Wow. Okay, that's like, well, you know, back in the day,
Speaker 3: we had these huge properties, you know, the typical downtown.
Speaker 3: You know, you live in an old neighborhood and you
Speaker 3: have a third of an acre or bigger lawn. And
Speaker 3: now with every subdivision development, it seems like the lot
Speaker 3: lines keep getting closer and closer where you can reach
Speaker 3: out your house and window and close your neighbors blind
Speaker 3: because there's no room between the houses.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's finding smaller, more compact yeah, yeah, finding smaller, more
Speaker 3: compact versions of trees like this live oak. You're just
Speaker 3: mentioning that's a great idea.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm anxious to see how grows. We just put
Speaker 5: some in the forty five and bigger pots at the farm,
Speaker 5: and we've planted quite a few over the last i'd
Speaker 5: say the last month and a half. I'm anxious to
Speaker 5: see how they do.
Speaker 3: Good and good.
Speaker 5: The other trees I like is I like the gd
Speaker 5: blanch of magnoiees for bigger magnoies. I do like your
Speaker 5: little gems for a smaller magnolia. And Teddy Bear.
Speaker 3: Teddy Bear, doesn't it have more of the brownish color
Speaker 3: on the on the fuzzy foliage the bottom of the leaf.
Speaker 5: On the back of a bit. And it's also one
Speaker 5: of golos you get twenty feet tall. I've never seen
Speaker 5: one really fully grown, but that's what the gentleman that
Speaker 5: patted it said. It only gets twenty feet tall.
Speaker 3: Wow, that is very compact. Little gym is more compact
Speaker 3: and growth habit. But it keeps growing. It gets a
Speaker 3: little bigger than that.
Speaker 5: It gets the better probably, but it also is the
Speaker 5: best bloomber in my opinion too, the little gym.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, just it's very profuse blow Okay, all right?
Speaker 3: Any other any other favorites out there? We shift gears here.
Speaker 5: I like. I don't see a lot of people ask
Speaker 5: for with the swamp by color oaks another big leaf
Speaker 5: oak tree. And the burrow is another good one. Flower
Speaker 5: growing trees, but they're really big leaf oaks.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah they they burroke bur oaks can get huge
Speaker 3: in time, but their.
Speaker 5: Beautiful massive there over night.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now the swamp by color, I've never grown that one.
Speaker 3: That's an it's a white oak.
Speaker 5: Right, it's a white oak family. Yeah, that's a military
Speaker 5: I forgot I mentioned it is the white oak. I
Speaker 5: like the carcass uh alba. It's it's always great fall color.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like that white as well. You know, fall
Speaker 3: color is is difficult to come by as far south
Speaker 3: as we are, and probably the best fall colored plants
Speaker 3: shouldn't be planted here. Things like Chinese tallow does does
Speaker 3: really well as fall.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well right, but gray color, but don't grow it. Yes,
Speaker 3: we comes, okay, you guys grow the slender silhouette. Right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's another good one. That's upright, good for very
Speaker 5: small space if people using for baffles or for a break.
Speaker 5: Not really more of an accent tree than anything, but
Speaker 5: a really good fall color.
Speaker 3: I was driving through a neighborhood this past week and
Speaker 3: saw some of those lined up right beside the driveway
Speaker 3: and they probably had like only four feet from the
Speaker 3: driveway to the fence, and these things were just going
Speaker 3: straight up and I think get a little wider than four.
Speaker 3: But you know, it was not many trees would fit
Speaker 3: that area, but this one sure looked good. They looted
Speaker 3: a line of soldiers going down the driveway.
Speaker 5: Very pretty tree. They just people don't don't mind them
Speaker 5: dropping their leaves. They're they're really good tree.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. Those are all yeah, those are all good suggestions.
Speaker 3: And you know, with fall being the prime time uh
Speaker 3: to to plant woody ornamentals, especially uh time to get
Speaker 3: the soil ready. David was talking about some things to
Speaker 3: do uh that they do there and then the planning
Speaker 3: process some things that they do. But as you really
Speaker 3: want to encourage you folks, remember the best time to
Speaker 3: plant a tree was forty years ago. Second best times today.
Speaker 3: In other words, don't wait, let's get it done. What
Speaker 3: is that? What is the saying, David, something like a
Speaker 3: society goes is great when old men plant trees that
Speaker 3: they'll never sit underneath the shade of themselves.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: I think that's a great so yeah, an o fello
Speaker 3: up in Willis, Texas showed me pictures one time and
Speaker 3: Jim Smith of a tree that he planted when he
Speaker 3: was young at their little house, like in the nineteen forties.
Speaker 3: And then he showed me the picture of the tree
Speaker 3: today and it was like you could hardly see the house.
Speaker 3: The tree was so big and beautiful, and it just
Speaker 3: reminds me of the fact that you pick a good tree,
Speaker 3: you plant it right, and you take care of it right,
Speaker 3: and for decades and decades people enjoy it. David, I'm
Speaker 3: so sorry we're already out of time. I've been had
Speaker 3: a good time. Thanks for taking time out of your morning.
Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit about now I talk about
Speaker 3: RCW all the time. Tell us a little bit about
Speaker 3: what people can how people can get to Williamson Tree
Speaker 3: Farm and your hours and stuff. If they wanted to
Speaker 3: come just by tree directly up there and Planetsville.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can go to our website Williamsontreefarm dot com
Speaker 5: and then you can also make an appointment on there.
Speaker 5: We take a tour of the farm and also the
Speaker 5: hours are from usually seven to twelve and then one
Speaker 5: to five. They don't be taking all right much all right,
Speaker 5: and then we do have we do sell to the
Speaker 5: public up there as well.
Speaker 3: Okay, Hey, thanks so much. I'm glad we were able
Speaker 3: to squeeze in at least as much as we did.
Speaker 3: You're a wealth of knowledge and a pleasure to visit with, David.
Speaker 3: Thanks again for coming on.
Speaker 5: Thank you skip.
Speaker 3: Hey, glad you're listening today. Thanks for listening. If you
Speaker 3: would like to give me a call and talk about
Speaker 3: the things that you have questions about. Seven one three
Speaker 3: two win two k t RH. I want to thank
Speaker 3: David Williamson again from RCW Nursery and Williamson Tree Farm
Speaker 3: for being on with those last couple of segments. Uh,
Speaker 3: just kind of picking his brain on things related to trees. Remember, folks,
Speaker 3: fall is for planting and especially woody ornamentals, tree shrubs
Speaker 3: and woody vines. Also perennials. Fall is for planting. It's
Speaker 3: the best time of the year, perennial herbs, perennial flow hours,
Speaker 3: ornamental grasses. We could go on and onund most groundcovers
Speaker 3: that we have, this is the time to get them planted,
Speaker 3: and now's the time to make sure that you've done
Speaker 3: what you need to do to get that soil in
Speaker 3: its top condition and Landscaper's Pride has a number of
Speaker 3: products that will help you do just that. They've got
Speaker 3: the rose mix, for example, super good product. It says rose,
Speaker 3: but any kind of tree shrub, even a perennial, could
Speaker 3: go into a rose mix and do really well. They
Speaker 3: have a premium potting mix, very very high quality potting
Speaker 3: soil that includes all the things you need to have
Speaker 3: success with that plant, including good drainage. But it holds water,
Speaker 3: but it's got the microbial content and all the stuff
Speaker 3: that makes plants thrive. Do you have areas of the
Speaker 3: lawn that are low you need to fill in? How
Speaker 3: about their top soil? It is a sandy loam types
Speaker 3: of soil that you put down in there. They have
Speaker 3: versions of it. You can blend a little compost with
Speaker 3: it if you want, But that does really good because
Speaker 3: it does fill those areas and doesn't sink down like
Speaker 3: a compost alone would. As it decomposes away. The top
Speaker 3: soil itself is going to hold up much better now.
Speaker 3: Black velvet mulch on top of the soil. It's always
Speaker 3: time to mulch in the summer heat. Yes, you have
Speaker 3: to mulch with rain and erosion and crusting. Yes, you
Speaker 3: need to mulch. Maintaining the soil moisture. Mulch is important,
Speaker 3: perhaps the most one of the most important things with
Speaker 3: their black velvet mulch is it's going to do an
Speaker 3: excellent job at suppressing weed seeds and it looks beautiful.
Speaker 3: It's not dyet, it's naturally black velvet. Again from Landscaper's Pride.
Speaker 3: You can go to Landscaperspride dot com find out more
Speaker 3: about it if you want to learn more or where
Speaker 3: to get on tea. This are widely available. Those products
Speaker 3: are very, very widely available. We were talking about Microlife
Speaker 3: earlier on and a lot of the different products they have.
Speaker 3: I'm always trying out new ones. They've got several new
Speaker 3: products on the market, trying those out, seeing how they do.
Speaker 3: So when I talk to you, I can tell you, well,
Speaker 3: I've done it, this is what it did, this is
Speaker 3: how it worked. I think that's very very important. Microlife
Speaker 3: focuses on creating products that are going to stimulate the
Speaker 3: microbial activity. They also contain microbes, so they add to
Speaker 3: the microbial levels, but they build the soil. That's the secret.
Speaker 3: You know, humates plus the final decomposition of compost is
Speaker 3: humous and humates plus is the zero four fertilizer applied
Speaker 3: periodically over the course of the years. Just each time
Speaker 3: you do it, it's going to make the soil a
Speaker 3: little bit better, a little bit better, a little bit better,
Speaker 3: and you end up with something high quality. And you
Speaker 3: can do that whenever you're doing any of your fertilizations.
Speaker 3: You know it's fall. Fertilization is coming up here really soon,
Speaker 3: and with the organics like microlife, you're going to get
Speaker 3: a release as microbes break those products down, and so
Speaker 3: it's time to start looking at those. But always remember
Speaker 3: to include that hemates plus when you do or anytime
Speaker 3: of the year. You don't have to do it when
Speaker 3: you're fertilize because it works really well. I'm going to
Speaker 3: go now out to the woodlands and we're going to
Speaker 3: talk to Susan. Hello, Susan, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 25: Thank you Skip, thanks for taking my call. I wanted
Speaker 25: to ask you if it would be okay to put
Speaker 25: out my weed beater and bug out today or to
Speaker 25: wait until after we have all these rains which we're
Speaker 25: supposed to have in a couple of days.
Speaker 3: You can do them both. Today if you want, are
Speaker 3: you on the bug out? You could wait until after
Speaker 3: the range. You're still going to want a little bit
Speaker 3: of water to wash the product off the granule. But
Speaker 3: if we're going to get gully washers upon gully washers,
Speaker 3: it might be good to hold off on the bugout.
Speaker 3: You can do the weed beater today, because if you
Speaker 3: even have a few hours for it to move into
Speaker 3: the plant, it's going to go ahead and finish its
Speaker 3: job during the time when the rain is coming the
Speaker 3: rest of the week. So we got plenty of time.
Speaker 3: If you could do it today or tomorrow, I would
Speaker 3: get it done then, just to be well ahead of
Speaker 3: that rain, and you'll be okay on the bug out.
Speaker 13: Okay, great, I'm scared.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I said that backwards. I said that backwards.
Speaker 3: At the end, let me let me clarify you. I said,
Speaker 3: you'll be fine on the bug out. I mean you'll
Speaker 3: be fine on the weed beater. The weed beater gets
Speaker 3: on the plant, moves into the weed, and then from
Speaker 3: there it doesn't matter if it rains the bug out.
Speaker 3: I think I would hold since we're gonna have a
Speaker 3: lot of days of rain, all things being think got
Speaker 3: hold off and then okay, thank.
Speaker 11: You, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3: Sometimes sometimes I get tongue tied and crossed up. Thanks
Speaker 3: that I'm trying to say. Uh, you know, Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 3: is a place where you're going to get products. I'm
Speaker 3: just talking about microlife they've got that, They've got ever
Speaker 3: fertilizer I talk about. Uh, Southwest has every product you
Speaker 3: can imagine. If you hear me recommend something, it's going
Speaker 3: to be at Southwest because they have every thing. They
Speaker 3: don't have it, you don't need it. That's how I
Speaker 3: like to put it, because it's a fact. Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 3: is on the corner of Bissonette and Runwick in Southwest Houston.
Speaker 3: That makes sense. It's been around since nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 3: That store has a selection of synthetic and organic products
Speaker 3: no matter what you need, even tools. You need a tool,
Speaker 3: well you're gonna have to shop an eighty foot wall
Speaker 3: of all kinds of tools, including the little grabber device
Speaker 3: that you used to make my weed wipe. Make my
Speaker 3: weed wiper that I keep talking about online. Bob's got that, yep,
Speaker 3: of course he does. He has everything. Southwest Fertilizer Dot
Speaker 3: com is the website. Check him out. Everything you need
Speaker 3: is gonna be right there. Let's go now to Sheldon, Texas.
Speaker 3: Is that right and talk to Glenn.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, sir, Like.
Speaker 3: Okay, Glenn, I got about almost a minute, and then
Speaker 3: we'll go to Brighton finish up with your question. So
Speaker 3: what is the basic question?
Speaker 8: The basic question is I want to plant some type
Speaker 8: of a cane as a proxy barrier down a fans
Speaker 8: line on my propey. Is there a difference between cane
Speaker 8: and bamboo?
Speaker 3: Yes, the cane you see, there's a thing called Georgia
Speaker 3: cane you see on road side sometimes sort of growing wild.
Speaker 3: It's a big, old, floppy thing. I wouldn't recommend it
Speaker 3: down a property really. Bamboos are fine, but bamboos run
Speaker 3: and they take over a bigger area. There are clumping
Speaker 3: bamboos there. But when you start buying bamboo plants to
Speaker 3: go down the property line, you're going to be spending
Speaker 3: a lot of money. So that would be one of
Speaker 3: the concerns that I would have about it, Glenna. I
Speaker 3: did want to at least get started on your call.
Speaker 3: Can you hold when we come back from break, we'll
Speaker 3: continue this discussion. I can you bet, I'll be right back.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to Guarden Line. Hey, good to have you
Speaker 3: with us. We're glad you were in us today. We've
Speaker 3: been talking with Glenn about some things. We're going to
Speaker 3: head straight back out there as well. Hey Glenn, uh So,
Speaker 3: I had a couple of questions for you. How long
Speaker 3: of a run do you need to make on this
Speaker 3: row of plants? And also how wide can it be?
Speaker 3: In other words, in most yards, you know, you get
Speaker 3: something that's too wide and it takes up half your yard.
Speaker 3: Or is this more of a big property wherewidth isn't
Speaker 3: so important.
Speaker 8: Well, my property is consisted of two lots, which is
Speaker 8: let's see a hundred by one hundred.
Speaker 3: Feet, okay now, and you want to.
Speaker 25: Go around them now, I just want to go down.
Speaker 8: This one fence line, which would be approximately one hundred feet. Now.
Speaker 8: What I've noticed is I lived close to the textis
Speaker 8: Parks and Wildlife Sheldon Lake, and I've noticed that they've
Speaker 8: got a lot out of what looks like cane that
Speaker 8: that I get this grows wild. I'm not sure if
Speaker 8: they planted at one point in time years ago that
Speaker 8: it's just been there a wild but I've noticed that
Speaker 8: it's got small stems that are probably no more than
Speaker 8: an inch in diameter, and I've never seen them grow
Speaker 8: any taller than about six to eight stay tall. And
Speaker 8: I've also never seen I've never seen them free. They
Speaker 8: they look like they've stayed green all year round.
Speaker 3: And this is not a bamboo.
Speaker 7: No, it looks like a came to me.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, well, I mean, you know, i've seen
Speaker 3: something outgrown wild, but it gets a little bigger than
Speaker 3: that the ones I've seen. But that's an option.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 3: Another good good plant would be the Japanese u y
Speaker 3: e w h. You see this in places you go
Speaker 3: into little gardens where they want to read like a
Speaker 3: separate room outdoors in the garden, they'll plant a row
Speaker 3: of Japanese you and share them on the sides and
Speaker 3: make this wall of foliage that's very dense and it's evergreen.
Speaker 3: That's the other important thing is being evergreen pregnants of
Speaker 3: block blocking of view rather than just the summertime. So
Speaker 3: Japanese would be a choice. Oh gosh, uh, where where
Speaker 3: are you located?
Speaker 8: I'm I'm like around the cosby. I'm actually in a
Speaker 8: little area called Hielding, but I'm close.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, well, uh where we get out there? You
Speaker 3: how far would it be? You're you're a distance up
Speaker 3: from uh Worren Southern Gardens up in in Kingwood, and
Speaker 3: then you're a little distance from going down to Moss
Speaker 3: and Seabrooks. I'm trying to think of, you know who
Speaker 3: the closest.
Speaker 8: Closer to me then just about anywhere?
Speaker 3: Okay? Yeah, well Warree Southern Gardens would be a place
Speaker 3: i'd call and see. Give them a call and say, hey,
Speaker 3: look I'm talking to Skip on guardline. Do you guys
Speaker 3: have any Japanese use and how much are they? What
Speaker 3: size you had, all that kind of stuff. They'll get you.
Speaker 3: They'll get you the skinny on that. I think you'll
Speaker 3: find success. Just a minute ago, I was talking with
Speaker 3: David at Williamson Tree Farm. They're up in Plantersville, but
Speaker 3: they sell through RCW their other outlet, and I know
Speaker 3: that we have a number of kinds of Japanese ues.
Speaker 3: You might want to go up since you're looking for
Speaker 3: quite a few, you may want to go get them
Speaker 3: directly from up at the tree Farm too.
Speaker 8: What was the ball number for this place that you
Speaker 8: just that you just mentioned in the name of the place.
Speaker 3: Are we talking about the tree farm? Are we talking
Speaker 3: about Warren's Garden Center?
Speaker 8: You mentioned the Japanese you.
Speaker 3: We both? Yeah, so both places were One Southern Garden
Speaker 3: is up in Kingwood.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's the one. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 3: Uh the tree farm is Williamson Tree Farm up in Plantersville.
Speaker 3: So either way you want to either way you want
Speaker 3: to go about it? Do you do? You you said
Speaker 3: you needed a.
Speaker 5: Phone number precobing lawns.
Speaker 7: If you have the dandy, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Do, I do. Let me pull it up here and
Speaker 3: get it right in front of me. I can get
Speaker 3: get it. There we go two eight one three five four,
Speaker 3: sixty one eleven O two eight three five four two
Speaker 3: eight two eight one three five four and then sixty
Speaker 3: one eleven.
Speaker 8: I got you. Okay, you bet.
Speaker 3: Good luck with that. Good luck with you? All right, folks,
Speaker 3: you're listening to guard Line. The phone number if you like,
Speaker 3: give me a call seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t R H. We're running out of time here,
Speaker 3: but we would be able to catch you in the
Speaker 3: next segment. If you're down south of and west of Houston.
Speaker 3: Enchanted Gardens is out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area,
Speaker 3: and boy do they ever have an outstanding selection of
Speaker 3: all kinds of things. Uh, if you are into hummingbirds,
Speaker 3: they've got all kinds of plants that attract hummingbirds. By
Speaker 3: the way, did you know today is National Hummingbird Day?
Speaker 3: Happy National Hummingbirds Day. Sorry I didn't send your card,
Speaker 3: but anyway, Uh it is, and it is hummingbird season
Speaker 3: here in the South to so go get some plants
Speaker 3: for hummingbirds. At Enchanted Gardens Nursery, you know, they're going
Speaker 3: to have pretty much everything you can imagine from beautiful
Speaker 3: outdoor blaying, you know, statuaries and all kinds of the
Speaker 3: decorative kinds of things. If you're decorating for Halloween and
Speaker 3: the fall. Oh my gosh, they are loaded up on
Speaker 3: that kind of thing. When you go to Enchanted Gardens,
Speaker 3: you're going to find everything you need and the help
Speaker 3: you need to do it right Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 3: Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. There on the Katie fullsher
Speaker 3: Side of Richmond on FM three fifty nine FM three
Speaker 3: fifty nine, take some people with you because it is
Speaker 3: a destination place and y'all are gonna want to go
Speaker 3: have some fun and hang out there for a while.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that we're going to go now
Speaker 3: up to Conroe and talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, Welcome
Speaker 3: to garden Line High Skip.
Speaker 14: Hey, I just put some sawed down yesterday in my backyard,
Speaker 14: the whole thing, and I just want to confirm with you.
Speaker 14: With this temperature, how often should I be watering it?
Speaker 3: All right? I will the time I plan it. Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: from the time I plan it, I'm watering it even
Speaker 3: after planting, immediately before I finish the whole yard. I'm
Speaker 3: starting to water. But twice a day, twice a day
Speaker 3: with a moderate little application the first week. Now, rain's
Speaker 3: going to take over on Wednesday, and you should be
Speaker 3: good for the rest of the week. But just watch it.
Speaker 3: If it doesn't doesn't rain, just got to keep that
Speaker 3: little thin layer aside. You laid down moist until they
Speaker 3: can get roots in the ground. Then you can go
Speaker 3: to every till once a day the next week, and
Speaker 3: then you can start to back off to a normal
Speaker 3: once or twice a week schedule over the course of
Speaker 3: a month.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right, very good.
Speaker 14: The guy who dropped it off said three times a
Speaker 14: week or three times a day for the first week
Speaker 14: and then two times a day for the next two weeks.
Speaker 7: That seems like kind of high.
Speaker 5: Summer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and if it's in the heat of summer.
Speaker 3: Even then, I planted some in June and it wasn't
Speaker 3: the hottest part of summer. But I watered twice a
Speaker 3: day the first week, once a day the second week,
Speaker 3: you know, and then weaned it off from there. Just
Speaker 3: just don't make it a total swamp.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: It's not just how much you apply it, but how
Speaker 3: often you Okay, well, good luck with that. Take care
Speaker 3: share you call. Hey, folks, guess what's going to happen
Speaker 3: Right after the show, which is about an hour from now.
Speaker 3: The end of the show, I'm going to make a
Speaker 3: bee Line Montgomery County Fall Home and Garden Show. I'll
Speaker 3: be there from twelve to two. Last one there's a
Speaker 3: Rotten Egg. Hope to see that. That's at the Lone
Speaker 3: Star Convention and Expo Center. I'm going to be giving
Speaker 3: away samples of Microlife fertilizer for those who are lucky
Speaker 3: enough to win one. But I'm also going to be
Speaker 3: answering your gardening questions. Starting off, I'm going to do
Speaker 3: a talk on fall gardening tips and success. Do you
Speaker 3: have weeds you want to identify? Do you have pictures
Speaker 3: of plants you want to identify? Do you want to
Speaker 3: show me a picture of a garden landscape area and
Speaker 3: say what can I plant there? What's your question? Bring them,
Speaker 3: let's talk, let's have some fun. I'm going to be
Speaker 3: there Fall Home and Garden Show, Montgomery County, twelve to two.
Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with scip Rickards.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as the world.
Speaker 3: And hey, welcome back, quolks. I'm gonna jump right in
Speaker 3: on the music here. We got lives to talk about,
Speaker 3: so I don't want to wait. You know, I was
Speaker 3: talking to someone a minute ago was looking for some
Speaker 3: Japanese use and sent them up to Warren Southern Gardens
Speaker 3: up in Kingwood. Both Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden
Speaker 3: Center are up there in the Kingwood area. Warrens is
Speaker 3: on North Park, Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. Both of them
Speaker 3: are open seven days a week. Can you just subscribe
Speaker 3: to their newsletter? You can do that online or in
Speaker 3: the store. Lots of good information, including some discounts, savings,
Speaker 3: gardening tips, all that kind of thing. You know, they
Speaker 3: got all kinds of stuff coming in every day now.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's false season is here. So do you
Speaker 3: want to plan some dianthus or petunias or snapdragons for
Speaker 3: fall color? Do you want to do veggies and herbs?
Speaker 3: They got plenty of veggies and herbs available. And also
Speaker 3: they have strawberries available. Falls the time to plant strawberries,
Speaker 3: and you can get those at Warren Southern Gardens. Shrubs.
Speaker 3: We were talking earlier about sunshine lagustrums at Laura Pedlund
Speaker 3: or Chinese witch, hazel encore azilia, crate myrtles. All of
Speaker 3: it is there. They got a tree sell right now
Speaker 3: on both locations One's and Kingwood, thirty dollars off any tree.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna do any better than that. And while
Speaker 3: you're buy there, go by and ask about their great myrtle,
Speaker 3: crepe myrtle, great myrtle, grepe myrtle. It only gets two
Speaker 3: feet tall, three feet wide. You put it in a
Speaker 3: big container, you can put it in a It makes
Speaker 3: a little bush. Just think of it. Don't think about
Speaker 3: crape myrtle like you've been thinking about. Imagine a little
Speaker 3: miniature one with disease and insect resistance. It's really an
Speaker 3: awesome little plant. It's only available One's Garden Center, so
Speaker 3: go buy there and check out ask about the great
Speaker 3: myrtle grepe myrtle. While you're out there, we're going to
Speaker 3: go back to the phones now and head up to
Speaker 3: Conroe and talk to Harry. Hey, Harry, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 7: Thank you, scif.
Speaker 26: I was going to ask you if you can help
Speaker 26: me with some Virginia button weed control.
Speaker 3: All right, I can. Virginia button weed loves it when
Speaker 3: you overwater, or it loves it if it's a low
Speaker 3: soggy spot. You know, so number one where it's in
Speaker 3: your power deep infrequent waterings but not frequent. And that's
Speaker 3: first step. Second step, there's a product called celsius. Like
Speaker 3: the temperature, there's fahrenheit and celsius. Well, this is celsius,
Speaker 3: and you apply it. You could do it this week.
Speaker 3: The temperatures will be perfectly fine for celsius this week,
Speaker 3: and of course you don't want to do it right
Speaker 3: for the rain. But if you could get it out
Speaker 3: today or tomorrow. Even if you got it out, you
Speaker 3: know on Monday, earlier in the day, you'd be okay
Speaker 3: till then the rain starts pretty soon after that as
Speaker 3: we go into the week. But you just direct spray
Speaker 3: it right on the Virginia button weed and it'll knock
Speaker 3: it back. Generally, it's going to take a couple of
Speaker 3: sprays to effectively get rid of it. So next spring
Speaker 3: be ready for it again. Eve you'll see some coming back,
Speaker 3: and you just catch it early and it's much easier
Speaker 3: to control in the spring and the early fall season.
Speaker 3: But you can do some spraying in summer for it.
Speaker 7: How long between the sprays.
Speaker 3: Probably about six weeks, eight weeks something like that. It
Speaker 3: depends on the season, and it depends on what you see.
Speaker 3: You know, it takes a product a while. A product
Speaker 3: that's going to work is going to take a while
Speaker 3: to move in and really do the job because it's
Speaker 3: going to do it right. And so just be patient
Speaker 3: for a while there. But if you see, you know
Speaker 3: what I missed that I didn't hit it with spray
Speaker 3: or it's coming back, do it again before we go
Speaker 3: into the.
Speaker 26: How and to see any kind of results at all?
Speaker 26: About how long before I hit it again.
Speaker 3: You should see something, Well, I would give it. I
Speaker 3: would say I'd probably wait three weeks to look at
Speaker 3: it and see how it's responding to the sprays. But
Speaker 3: I wouldn't really that patient. Well a little bit, just
Speaker 3: to make sure that it's doing the work it's going
Speaker 3: to do. It's not going to kill the buttons, the
Speaker 3: seed pods that are on it. That's why you got
Speaker 3: to come back next year and just stay ahead of it.
Speaker 7: Okay, got it, Yep, got it?
Speaker 5: Thank you love it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And by the way, yeah I would. I would
Speaker 3: call the folks out at Ana Plants and Produce and
Speaker 3: Montgomery see if they've got some of that on hand.
Speaker 3: They might well do that. You know, they carry a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff they've got When I talk about fertilizers
Speaker 3: and soils, a and as bags of all of it.
Speaker 3: Do you want nitrofoss, Do you want Nelson's? Do you
Speaker 3: want microlife? Do you want airlom soils or Nature's Way soils?
Speaker 3: And on and on. Ana stays stocked up. They've got
Speaker 3: great plants. They even have a landscape crew. Those of
Speaker 3: you who live up around Lake Conro, you can give
Speaker 3: them a call, say, I'd like to talk to you
Speaker 3: about having somebody come out and help clean this up,
Speaker 3: spruce this up. You know, give it some care. They
Speaker 3: can do that. They keep my schedules there at the desk,
Speaker 3: usually at the checkout if they're not out of them.
Speaker 3: But that way you know exactly what to purchase and when.
Speaker 3: A and A Plants and Produce. By the way, they're
Speaker 3: going to be at the Fall Home and Gardens show
Speaker 3: up in Montgomery County that I'll be out after the
Speaker 3: show today, So come on by and see me and
Speaker 3: swing by the A and A booth and say hey
Speaker 3: to them. They'll be up there too, because that is
Speaker 3: their home territory up there in the Montgomery to Conroe
Speaker 3: area there on the west or excuse me, the east
Speaker 3: side of Montgomery, right there on Highway one oh five.
Speaker 3: I always like going by and visiting, plus to get
Speaker 3: some of the best landscape bling in the business. They
Speaker 3: do lots of cool stuff. You know, falls coming. We're
Speaker 3: going to get some crispy nights eventually, can't you wait.
Speaker 3: Get you a little chimenea from NA Plants and Produce
Speaker 3: that take care of it. So I mentioned earlier, Today
Speaker 3: is National Hummingbird Day, so say hi to any humming
Speaker 3: bergency flying by and congratulate them. National Hummingbird Day. They
Speaker 3: are making their trip south and they're pausing to refuel house.
Speaker 3: Right now, you need to get you a high perch
Speaker 3: hummingbird feeder from Wallbirds Unlimited. You can go to the
Speaker 3: website w b U dot com forward slash Houston w
Speaker 3: BU dot Com forward Slash Houston, find the six waldbirds
Speaker 3: and which one's closest to you. Go for it. Go
Speaker 3: buy their sandy to a high perch hummingbird feeder. It's
Speaker 3: my favorite of all the hummingbird feeders I have. I
Speaker 3: love my high perch feeder. Now, if you still have
Speaker 3: any vacation that you're planning on doing, get make sure
Speaker 3: and get the seed cylinders that are packed tight. You
Speaker 3: put them out there and the birds will have something
Speaker 3: until you come home. Or buy some of the quality
Speaker 3: seeds that they have at Wildbirds Unlimited. Right now though,
Speaker 3: it is hummingbird season and you can get special They
Speaker 3: even have a special little hummingbirds solution that you put
Speaker 3: in there that doesn't go bad so fast. You know,
Speaker 3: sugar water and warm temperatures, it's gonna start to get
Speaker 3: nasty after a few days. You always need to be
Speaker 3: putting fresh out. But with the Wildbirds material, you get
Speaker 3: a little an extra day or two out of that,
Speaker 3: just helping to keep those humming birds healthy and happy.
Speaker 3: On National Hummingbird Day. You have national days for all
Speaker 3: kinds of things here. I don't know, maybe had a
Speaker 3: National Garden Line Day. I doubt that'll make it, but
Speaker 3: it would be fun if it did. If you live
Speaker 3: down in the Richmond Rosenberg area and haven't been by
Speaker 3: Enchanted Forest Garden Center, you need to get by there.
Speaker 3: Enchanted Forest. It's just a wonderful place to visit. You know,
Speaker 3: you go in and when you get out of the car,
Speaker 3: you look at it and it's just like, Okay, this
Speaker 3: is gonna be this is gonna be fun, this is
Speaker 3: gonna be cool. And it is you know, Clay and
Speaker 3: the whole team up there an Enchanted Forest. They have
Speaker 3: really created a special special place and no matter what
Speaker 3: plants you need for the season, they're going to have them.
Speaker 3: For example, right now, they have plenty of fall color
Speaker 3: out there. They have plants that attract you know, you're
Speaker 3: hummingbirds that just go by and say, hey, I need
Speaker 3: I need to have a plant that is going to
Speaker 3: bring in the humming birds. I hear it's it's the
Speaker 3: season for that. And feeders are great, but why not
Speaker 3: also plant for the hummingbirds. Jenniferrest sketch cover. Do you
Speaker 3: need fall color, They've got it. Do you need herbs
Speaker 3: for fall fall as? For planting, they've got it. Trees
Speaker 3: and shrubs, they've got it. They even have some beautiful
Speaker 3: plume areas, which you know, I know we're going to
Speaker 3: winter soon, but they've got some plumerias that you just
Speaker 3: need to get and put out, beautiful variegated I've never
Speaker 3: seen them as cool as these are. They've got them there.
Speaker 3: And of course plumerias are easy and bring them in
Speaker 3: the garage, hang them upside down during the wintertime and
Speaker 3: they do just fine when you put them back out
Speaker 3: in the spring. Do you need cool seasoned vegetables, They're
Speaker 3: already loaded up on them. Do you need that? Do
Speaker 3: you want some beautiful taalavera types of pottery type pumpkins, say,
Speaker 3: pottery ceramic types of pumpkins. They've got all of that. All.
Speaker 3: Enchanted gardens in Richmond's easy, easy to find. Go online.
Speaker 3: Check out the website Enchented Gardens Richmond, TX dot com.
Speaker 3: Take a little break to garden line. So Maya Kulpa
Speaker 3: I got a math couple here. I just was talking
Speaker 3: about Enchanted Forest Garden Center, and I gave the wrong website.
Speaker 3: It's Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond,
Speaker 3: TX dot com. As I went out of that section
Speaker 3: there for the break, I echoed in my ear and
Speaker 3: I had, oh, I just say him the wrong one.
Speaker 3: Here's a phone number for UM down there at Enchanted
Speaker 3: Forest two eight one nine three seven ninety nine to
Speaker 3: eight one nine three seven ninety four forty nine. You
Speaker 3: gotta get by there. I'm telling you. They are loaded
Speaker 3: up on all kinds of things, including some beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 3: Len'scape color too. Medina products are something that I have
Speaker 3: been testing, trying out and finding good success with for
Speaker 3: a good while now. Medina has so many different products
Speaker 3: that are so effective in what they do. For example,
Speaker 3: hastro Grow six twelve six, it's got that high quality
Speaker 3: plant food and it's the six twelve six plant food.
Speaker 3: It's got Medina soil activator, which stimulates biological activity. It's
Speaker 3: got humate humic acid, you know humids. It improves sol structure,
Speaker 3: it improves nutrient uptake. It's also got seaweed extracts in it.
Speaker 3: Seaweed extracts are helpful for stimulating both the fruiting and
Speaker 3: the blooming. You can spray has to Grow six twelve
Speaker 3: six as a folier application. It is not going to
Speaker 3: burn anything, very gentle formulation. It helps build the biological
Speaker 3: activity in the soil and it really is excellent for transplanting.
Speaker 3: Just take the has to Grow six twelve six plant food,
Speaker 3: follow the label. Mix it in water takes about an
Speaker 3: ounce per gallon, and then in a watering can and
Speaker 3: just drench it in. If you're going to transplant, drench
Speaker 3: it in. Drench it in. Always do that. Come back
Speaker 3: a week later, do it again, come back a week later,
Speaker 3: do it again. And as that plant that you just
Speaker 3: put in is getting its rich system established, you're providing
Speaker 3: plenty of good stuff to help it to establish well.
Speaker 3: And that's just a head start. It's a head start
Speaker 3: on not only plant survival, but on plant to thrive.
Speaker 3: And again just one of the many good products from
Speaker 3: Medina Hastro Grove six's twelve six. Let's head up now
Speaker 3: to Conroe and we're going to talk to Diana. Hey, Diana,
Speaker 3: welcome to Gardenline. Hello, Yes, Diana, I said Conra yes,
Speaker 3: I can, I said Conro, I meant Cyprus.
Speaker 24: Sorry, yes, I wanted to ask you. I noticed yesterday
Speaker 24: that our crank myrtle something is eating the leave and
Speaker 24: I look to see if I could find anything like
Speaker 24: a caterpillar or some type. I didn't see anything, but
Speaker 24: there's some big chunks sticking out a lot of the leaves.
Speaker 24: And then I have another issue too on our values.
Speaker 24: In one section, the leaves are starting to turn yellow
Speaker 24: and they've got black spots on them. So I wanted
Speaker 24: to know the best things to treat each of those.
Speaker 24: You no situations on.
Speaker 3: The azaleas, they're yellow with black spots. You're saying, yes,
Speaker 3: not the leaves.
Speaker 24: Some of the leaves are starting in the one section
Speaker 24: there and it looks spreading, but it looks like they're yellow.
Speaker 24: And then they got black spots on them. And then
Speaker 24: there's something beating big sat the leaves on the crate myrtle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Well the cray murder could be a beetle,
Speaker 3: could be a caterpillar, but I would not worry about it.
Speaker 3: That cray myrtle, if for long, is going to be
Speaker 3: losing its leaves anyway, and if it even has you know,
Speaker 3: two thirds of the leaf cover still on it. It's
Speaker 3: going to be fine going into winter. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's warming the spray. And it's also possible that whatever
Speaker 3: was eating them has now moved on. You know, caterpillars
Speaker 3: turn into pupil that turn into moths and so on,
Speaker 3: and yeah, I wouldn't worry about that as far as
Speaker 3: the azaleas are concerned. Can you can you picture if
Speaker 3: the yellowing is on the ends of new shoots or
Speaker 3: is it the older leaves furtherest down the stem toward the.
Speaker 24: Base, whether established leaves you know they're they're not growth
Speaker 24: or it's established leaves yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it could be well, a lack of nitrogen
Speaker 3: causes older leaves to turn yellow gradually. If you're getting
Speaker 3: more of a bright yellow, it's typically a sow moisture fluctuation.
Speaker 3: It gets too dry for a while and then you
Speaker 3: give it a good watering. Okay, he bounces back, but
Speaker 3: the old leaves turn yellow. Older leaves turn yellow. So
Speaker 3: I would just watch on that. As far as black
Speaker 3: spots on the leaves, I kind of need to see
Speaker 3: it to see what you're talking about. There are spots
Speaker 3: that are like a city mold a city kind of
Speaker 3: black spot, very very vague like like soot is on
Speaker 3: a plant, not real distinct margins and stuff, so that
Speaker 3: that's a possibility. It could also be a bacterial spot,
Speaker 3: but those tend to be very black, very distinct, very
Speaker 3: angular in their shape.
Speaker 7: I'm around.
Speaker 24: Yeah, they're perfectly the little spots are perfectly round.
Speaker 3: All right, let me I need to see them if
Speaker 3: you want to further help with that.
Speaker 24: Okay, well I can. I can email. I can email
Speaker 24: it if.
Speaker 17: You need to.
Speaker 3: Do you have my email? Do you have it? If not,
Speaker 3: I'll put you on hold and Crystal give it to you.
Speaker 24: I do have it because I have to send you
Speaker 24: something a while back, so I'll use the same one
Speaker 24: and i'll send the pictures. I won't be able to
Speaker 24: do it right now that we're headed to agging Land. Okay,
Speaker 24: very much.
Speaker 3: Well, it's good you're reading. Uh they probably don't need
Speaker 3: you help your help today, but uh, have fun.
Speaker 24: I don't know, we're all going to enjoy it, so okay,
Speaker 24: take care, bye bye.
Speaker 3: You take it by gosh, don't get me started talking
Speaker 3: about that, all right. League City Feed down in League City,
Speaker 3: our favorite little feed store down there for those of
Speaker 3: you in Bay Cliff, I'll come in real Webster, Clear Lake,
Speaker 3: Santa Fe, Dickinson's and Leone, and of course League City.
Speaker 3: They're in League City, just a few blocks south of
Speaker 3: Highway ninety six on Highway three. It's really easy to
Speaker 3: get in and out. It's that old time feed store
Speaker 3: been around for forty years now, probably more than that
Speaker 3: by now. But you go in, you get service, they
Speaker 3: carry the bags out for you. But most importantly, you
Speaker 3: go in there and they're going to have all the
Speaker 3: fertilizers that I recommend on guard line, they've got them.
Speaker 3: Do you want a soil mix like Nature's Way, hair, airloom,
Speaker 3: soils kinds of things. They've got soul mixes in there
Speaker 3: as well. Do you need pest control, weed control, disease control,
Speaker 3: both organic and synthetic. While you're in there, grab some
Speaker 3: of their premium quality pet food. You know, they're open
Speaker 3: until six Monday through Saturday, nine am to six, and
Speaker 3: so you get through with work, just swing by there
Speaker 3: and grab it. That's kind of convenient. Can't get any
Speaker 3: easier than that. As well as any kinds of feed
Speaker 3: for your animals, for your backyard chickens, They've got all
Speaker 3: that League City Feed. Here's the number two eight one
Speaker 3: three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three
Speaker 3: two one six one two. We love our feed stores
Speaker 3: here at League City Feed. You know, fall is the
Speaker 3: time to get your trees, shrubs and woody plants planted.
Speaker 3: If you want the best easiest season of the year
Speaker 3: to do it, you put a winder on them on
Speaker 3: the ground, and if it's one hundred degrees outside, you're
Speaker 3: going to water real frequently to keep it going, keep
Speaker 3: it alive. You can do that. But in fall, the
Speaker 3: demands are so low, and it has all the way
Speaker 3: until next summer to get more and more and more
Speaker 3: of a root system out because roots grow all through
Speaker 3: the cool season. They do our sois don't get that
Speaker 3: cold here, and uh, it's just a better time to
Speaker 3: get them established. But when you buy a tree to plant,
Speaker 3: I don't care if it's a single trunk tree tree
Speaker 3: or if it is a multi stemmed, multi trunk crape
Speaker 3: myrtle tree. Three sixty tree stabilizers help hold that plant
Speaker 3: in place until the root system gets established and can
Speaker 3: anchor the plant properly. Now you're going to find three
Speaker 3: sixty tree stabilizers in many places. You know it was.
Speaker 3: It was made designed here in Cyprus, Texas, and it's
Speaker 3: packaged up in Dallas and then also and in Houston
Speaker 3: the molded and fort Worth two. But it's an all
Speaker 3: Texas products. What I'm trying to say, I liked it.
Speaker 3: You can do it different ways. You can plant a
Speaker 3: post post in the ground. You can drive a tea
Speaker 3: post in the ground. I like the teposts, the easy
Speaker 3: to drive in, get them out. You attach the tree stabilizer.
Speaker 3: There's a little part of the product that's made for
Speaker 3: attaching to a tea post and it holds it in
Speaker 3: place with a loose strap so the plant can move
Speaker 3: a little bit. That is important when you steak a tree,
Speaker 3: don't stake it down like a rocket you're afraid and
Speaker 3: take off and shoot off out of the ground. Give
Speaker 3: it some room to move. Movement creates strength in the branches.
Speaker 3: And tree stabilizers designed for just that. You can get MARCYW.
Speaker 3: Buchanan's native plants, the Arborgate plants for all seasons. For
Speaker 3: those of you down south Orges Hidden Gardens and Alvin
Speaker 3: carries them. Those of you southwest Southwest fertilizer has got those.
Speaker 3: They're easy, easy, easy to find, and they work well
Speaker 3: and they last. You buy one and you've got one
Speaker 3: for the next time that you're going to plant something,
Speaker 3: or loaning to family members if they're going to put
Speaker 3: a tree in three sixty tree stabilizer. I should talk
Speaker 3: about that more because that is a very important product.
Speaker 3: For those of you who are looking for the supplies
Speaker 3: that I'm talking about now for fall, you need to
Speaker 3: look no further than your Ace Hardware store. There's forty
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware stores in the Houston area. Ace hardware dot Com.
Speaker 3: So what am I talking about, Well, I'm talking about
Speaker 3: the fertilizers for fall. We're about to enter my schedule's
Speaker 3: fall season here where it's time to get those fertilizers
Speaker 3: to prepare your grass for winter. Of all the different
Speaker 3: brands I talk about, you're gonna find them there at
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware. If you're dealing with pests in the lawn,
Speaker 3: if you're dealing with pests on plants, or diseases or weeds,
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware carries all those things. Of course, they've got tools,
Speaker 3: they've got garden hoses, you know, everything else you need
Speaker 3: for outside, including some things for making a beautiful outdoor
Speaker 3: sitting area. You know, we're getting a break here from
Speaker 3: the heat. It's already started, but good time to fix
Speaker 3: up that patio. And Ace has got you set up
Speaker 3: on all that kind of thing as well. We're going
Speaker 3: to take a little break. Our phone number seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two k t r H and I'll
Speaker 3: be right back.
Speaker 15: Kt r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
Speaker 15: of the products or services advertised on this program.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scamp Richard.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as world.
Speaker 3: And hey, welcome back quotes. I'm going to jump right
Speaker 3: in on the music here. We got lots to talk about,
Speaker 3: so I don't want to wait. You know, I was
Speaker 3: talking to someone a minute ago was looking for some
Speaker 3: Japanese use and sent them up to Warren Southern Gardens
Speaker 3: up in Kingwood. Both Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden
Speaker 3: Center are up there in the Kingwood area. Warrens is
Speaker 3: on North Park, Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. Both of them
Speaker 3: are open seven days a week. Can you just subscribe
Speaker 3: to their newsletter? You can do that online or in
Speaker 3: the store. Lots of good information including some discounts, savings,
Speaker 3: gardening tips, all that kind of thing. You know, they
Speaker 3: got all kinds of stuff coming in every day now.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's false season is here. So do you
Speaker 3: want to plan some dianthus or petunias or snap dragons
Speaker 3: for fall color? Do you want to do veggies and herbs?
Speaker 3: They got plenty of veggies and herbs available. And also
Speaker 3: they have strawberries available. Falls the time to plant strawberry
Speaker 3: and you can get those at Warren Southern Gardens. Shrubs.
Speaker 3: We were talking earlier about sunshine lagustrums at Laura Pedlund
Speaker 3: or Chinese witch hazel encore Azilia's crate myrtles. All of
Speaker 3: it is there. They got a tree sell right now
Speaker 3: on both locations One's and Kingwood, thirty dollars off any tree.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna do any better than that. And while
Speaker 3: you're buy there, go by and ask about their great myrtle,
Speaker 3: crepe myrtle, great myrtle, grepe myrtle. It only gets two
Speaker 3: feet tall, three feet wide. You put it in a
Speaker 3: big container, you can put it in a it makes
Speaker 3: a little bush. Just think of it. Don't think about
Speaker 3: crape myrtle like you've been thinking about imagine a little
Speaker 3: miniature one with disease and insect resistance. It's really an
Speaker 3: awesome little plant. It's only available One's Garden Center, so
Speaker 3: go buy there and check out ask about the great
Speaker 3: myrtle grepe myrtle. While you're out there, we're going to
Speaker 3: go back to the phones now and head up to
Speaker 3: Conroe and talk to Harry. Hey, Harry, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 7: Thank you SCFF.
Speaker 26: I was gonna ask you if you could help me
Speaker 26: with some Virginia button.
Speaker 3: We can, all right, I can. Virginia button weed loves
Speaker 3: it when you overwater, or it loves it if it's
Speaker 3: a low soggy spot. You know, so number one where
Speaker 3: it's in your power deep infrequent waterings but not frequent.
Speaker 3: And that's first step. Second step, there's a product called celsius.
Speaker 3: Like the temperature, there's fahrenheit and celsius. Well, this is celsius,
Speaker 3: and you apply it. You could do it this week.
Speaker 3: The temperatures will be perfectly fine for celsius this week,
Speaker 3: and of course you don't want to do it right
Speaker 3: for the rain. But if you could get it out
Speaker 3: today or tomorrow. Even if you got it out, you
Speaker 3: know on Monday, earlier in the day, you'd be okay
Speaker 3: till then the rain starts pretty soon after that as
Speaker 3: we go into the week. But you just direct spray
Speaker 3: it right on the Virginia button weed and it'll knock
Speaker 3: it back. Generally, it's going to take a couple of
Speaker 3: sprays to effectively get rid of it. So next spring
Speaker 3: be ready for it again. Eve you'll see some coming back,
Speaker 3: and you just catch it early and it's much easier
Speaker 3: to control in the spring and the early fall season.
Speaker 3: But you can do some spraying in summer for it.
Speaker 7: How on between the sprays.
Speaker 3: Probably about six weeks, eight weeks something like that. It
Speaker 3: depends on the season, and it depends on what you see.
Speaker 3: You know, it takes a product a while. A product
Speaker 3: that's going to work is going to take a while
Speaker 3: to move in and really do the job because it's
Speaker 3: going to do it right. And so just be patient
Speaker 3: for a while there. But if you see, you know
Speaker 3: what I missed that I didn't hit it with spray
Speaker 3: or it's coming back, do it again before we go
Speaker 3: into the.
Speaker 26: How and to see any kind of results at all,
Speaker 26: About how long before I hit it again.
Speaker 3: You should see something, well, I would give it. I
Speaker 3: would say, I'd probably wait three weeks to look at
Speaker 3: it and see how it's responding to the sprays. But
Speaker 3: I wouldn't really patient, well a little bit, just to
Speaker 3: make sure that it's doing the work it's going to do.
Speaker 3: It's not going to kill the buttons, the seed pods
Speaker 3: that are on it. That's why you got to come
Speaker 3: back next year and just stay ahead of it.
Speaker 7: Okay, got it, Yep, got it?
Speaker 13: Thank you love it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and by the way, yeah, I would would. I
Speaker 3: would call the folks out at Ana Plants and Produce
Speaker 3: and Montgomery see if they've got some of that on hand.
Speaker 3: They might well do that. You know, they carry a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff they've got. When I talk about fertilizers
Speaker 3: and soils, a and as bags of all of it.
Speaker 3: Do you want nitrofoss, do you want Nelson's? Do you
Speaker 3: want microlife? Do you want airlom soils or Nature's Way soils?
Speaker 3: And on and on. Ana stays stocked up. They've got
Speaker 3: great plants. They even have a landscape crew. Those of
Speaker 3: you who live up around Lake Conro, you can give
Speaker 3: them a call, say I'd like to talk to you
Speaker 3: about having somebody come out and help clean this up,
Speaker 3: spruce this up, you know, give it some care. They
Speaker 3: can do that. They keep my schedules there at the desk,
Speaker 3: usually at the checkout if they're not out of them.
Speaker 3: But that way you know exactly what to purchase and
Speaker 3: when A and A and produce. By the way, they're
Speaker 3: going to be at the Fall Home and Gardens show
Speaker 3: up in Montgomery County that I'll be out after the
Speaker 3: show today, So come on by and see me and
Speaker 3: swing by the ANA booth and say hey to them.
Speaker 3: They'll be up there too, because that is their home
Speaker 3: territory up there in the Montgomery to Conroe area there
Speaker 3: on the west or excuse me, the east side of Montgomery,
Speaker 3: right there on Highway one oh five. I always like
Speaker 3: going by and visiting. Plus they get some of the
Speaker 3: best landscape bling in the business. They do lots of
Speaker 3: cool stuff. You know, falls coming. We're going to get
Speaker 3: some crispy nights eventually, can't you wait. Get you a
Speaker 3: little chimenea from na plants and produce that take care
Speaker 3: of it. So I mentioned earlier, Today is National Hummingbird Day,
Speaker 3: so say hi to any hummingbirdgency flying by and congratulate
Speaker 3: them National Hummingbird Day. They are making their trip south
Speaker 3: and they're pausing to refuel at your house. Right now,
Speaker 3: you need to get you a high per hummingbird feeder
Speaker 3: from Wallbirds Unlimited. You can go to the website WBU
Speaker 3: dot com forward slash Houston w BU dot Com forward
Speaker 3: slash Houston find the six waldbirds and which one's closest
Speaker 3: to you. Go for it. Go buy their sandy to
Speaker 3: a high perch hummingbird feeder. It's my favorite of all
Speaker 3: the hummingbird feeders I have. I love my high perch feeder. Now,
Speaker 3: if you still have any vacation and that you're planning
Speaker 3: on doing, get make sure and get the seed cylinders
Speaker 3: that are packed tight. You put them out there and
Speaker 3: the birds will have something until you come home, or
Speaker 3: buy some of the quality seeds that they have at
Speaker 3: Wildbirds Unlimited. Right now though, it is hummingbird season and
Speaker 3: you can get special They even have a special little
Speaker 3: hummingbirds solution that you put in there that doesn't go
Speaker 3: bad so fast. You know, sugar water and warm temperatures,
Speaker 3: it's gonna start to get nasty after a few days.
Speaker 3: You always need to be putting fresh out. But with
Speaker 3: the wilbirds material. You get a little bit extra day
Speaker 3: or two out of that, just helping to keep those
Speaker 3: humming birds healthy and happy. On National Hummingbird Day. You
Speaker 3: have national days for all kinds of things here. I
Speaker 3: don't know, maybe you had a National Garden Line Day.
Speaker 3: I doubt that'll make it, but it would be fun
Speaker 3: if it did. If you live down in the Richmond
Speaker 3: Rosenberg area and haven't been by Enchanted Forest Garden Center,
Speaker 3: you need to get by there. Enchanted Forest. It's just
Speaker 3: a wonderful place to visit. You know, you go in
Speaker 3: and when you get out of the car, you look
Speaker 3: at it and it's just like, Okay, this is gonna
Speaker 3: be this is gonna be fun, this is gonna be cool.
Speaker 3: And it is. You know, Clay and the whole team
Speaker 3: up there an Enchanted Forest. They have really created a
Speaker 3: special special place and no matter what plants you need
Speaker 3: for the season, they're going to have them. For example,
Speaker 3: right now, they have plenty of fall color out there.
Speaker 3: They have plants that attract you know, you're hummingbirds that
Speaker 3: just go by and say, hey, I need to have
Speaker 3: a plant that is going to bring in the humming birds.
Speaker 3: I hear it's the season for that, and feeders are great,
Speaker 3: but why not also plant for the hummingbirds and jenniferrest
Speaker 3: sketch cover. Do you need fall color, They've got it.
Speaker 3: Do you need herbs for fall fall as we're planting,
Speaker 3: They've got it. Trees and shrubs, they've got it. They
Speaker 3: even have some beautiful plume areas, which you know, I
Speaker 3: know we're going to winter soon, but they've got some
Speaker 3: plumerias that you just need to get and put out,
Speaker 3: beautiful variegated I've never seen them as cool as these are.
Speaker 3: They've got them there. And of course plumerias are easy
Speaker 3: and bring them in the garage, hang them upside down
Speaker 3: during the wintertime and they do just fine when you
Speaker 3: put them back out in the spring. Do you need
Speaker 3: cool seasoned vegetables, They're already loaded up on them. Do
Speaker 3: you need that? Do you want some beautiful taalavera types
Speaker 3: of pottery type pumpkins, say, pottery ceramic types of pumpkins,
Speaker 3: They've got all of that. All Enchanted gardens in Richmond's easy,
Speaker 3: easy to find. Go online. Check out the website Enchented
Speaker 3: Gardens Richmond, TX dot com. Take a little break here
Speaker 3: for the news and I'll be right back. Welcome back
Speaker 3: to garden line. Uh so Maya Kulpa. I got a
Speaker 3: Maya couple here. I just was talking about Enchanted Forest
Speaker 3: Garden Center, and I gave the wrong website. It's Enchanted
Speaker 3: Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com.
Speaker 3: As I went out of that section there for the break,
Speaker 3: I it echoed in my ear and I had Oh,
Speaker 3: I just save him the wrong one. Here's a phone
Speaker 3: number for him down there at Enchented Forest two eight
Speaker 3: one nine three seven ninety four forty nine two eight
Speaker 3: one nine three seven ninety four forty nine. You gotta
Speaker 3: get by there. I'm telling you. They are loaded up
Speaker 3: on all kinds of things, including some beautiful, beautiful lenscape
Speaker 3: color too.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 3: Medina products are something that I have been trying out
Speaker 3: and finding good success with for a good while now.
Speaker 3: Medina has so many different products that are so effective
Speaker 3: in what they do. For example, hastro Grow six twelve six,
Speaker 3: it's got that high quality plant food and it's the
Speaker 3: six twelve six plant food. It's got Medina soil activator
Speaker 3: which stimulates biological activity. It's got humate, humic acid. You
Speaker 3: know humids. It improves soul structure, it improves new chain uptake.
Speaker 3: It's also got seaweed extracts in it. Seaweed extracts are
Speaker 3: helpful for stimulating both the fruiting and the blooming. You
Speaker 3: can spray has to Grow six twelve six as a
Speaker 3: foliar application. It is not going to burn anything, very
Speaker 3: gentle formulation. It helps build the biological activity in the
Speaker 3: soil and it really is excellent for transplanting. Just take
Speaker 3: the has to Grow six twelve six plant food fall
Speaker 3: of the label. Mix it in water takes about an
Speaker 3: ounce per gallon, and then in a watering can and
Speaker 3: just drench it in. If you're going to transplant, drench
Speaker 3: it in. Drench it in always do that. Come back
Speaker 3: a week later, due again, come back a week later,
Speaker 3: do it again. And as that plant that you just
Speaker 3: put in is getting its rich system established, you're providing
Speaker 3: plenty of good stuff to help it to establish well.
Speaker 3: And that's just a head start. It's a head start
Speaker 3: on not only plant survival, but on plant to thrive.
Speaker 3: And again just one of the many good products from
Speaker 3: Medina Hastro Grove six's twelve six Let's head up now
Speaker 3: to Conroe, and we're going to talk to Diana. Hey, Diana,
Speaker 3: welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 25: Hello.
Speaker 3: Yes, Diana, I said Conra, Yes I can, I said Conro.
Speaker 3: I meant Cyprus.
Speaker 24: Sorry, Yes, I wanted to ask you. I noticed yesterday
Speaker 24: that our crank myrtle something is eating the leave and
Speaker 24: I look to see if I could find anything like
Speaker 24: a caterpillar or some type. I didn't see anything, but
Speaker 24: there's some big chunks sticking out a lot of the leaves.
Speaker 24: And then I have another issue too, on our values.
Speaker 24: One section, the leaves are starting to turn yellow and
Speaker 24: they've got black spots on them. So I wanted to
Speaker 24: know the best things to treat each of those. No situations.
Speaker 3: On the azaleas, they're yellow with black spots.
Speaker 24: You're sand Yes, the leaves, some of the leaves are
Speaker 24: starting in the one section there and it looks spreading,
Speaker 24: but it looks like they're yellow. And then they got
Speaker 24: black spots on them. And then there's something beating big
Speaker 24: sat the leaves on the crate myrtle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Well the cray murdle could be a beetle,
Speaker 3: could be a caterpillar. But I would not worry about
Speaker 3: it that cray myrtle, if for long, is gonna be
Speaker 3: losing its leaves anyway, And if it even has you know,
Speaker 3: two thirds of leaf cover still on it, it's going
Speaker 3: to be fine going into winter. I don't think it's
Speaker 3: wrong in the spray. And it's also possible that whatever
Speaker 3: was eating them has now moved on. You know, caterpillars
Speaker 3: turn into people that turn into moths and so on,
Speaker 3: and yeah, I wouldn't worry about that as far as
Speaker 3: the azaleas are concerned. Can can you picture if the
Speaker 3: yellow is on the ends of new shoots or is
Speaker 3: it the older leaves furtherest down the stem toward the.
Speaker 24: Base, whether established leaves you know they're they're not growth
Speaker 24: or it's established leaves yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it could be well, a lack of nitrogen
Speaker 3: causes older leaves to turn yellow gradually. If you're getting
Speaker 3: more of a bright yellow, it's typically a sow moisture fluctuation.
Speaker 3: It gets too dry for a while and then you
Speaker 3: give it a good watering. It bounces back, but the
Speaker 3: old leaves turn yellow. Older leaves turn yellow, So I
Speaker 3: would just watch on that. As far as black spots
Speaker 3: on the leaves, I kind of need to see it
Speaker 3: to see what you're talking about. There are spots. They're
Speaker 3: like a city mold, a city kind of black spot,
Speaker 3: very very vague like like soot is on a plant,
Speaker 3: not real distinct margins and stuff, so that that's a possibility.
Speaker 3: It could also be a bacterial spot, but those tend
Speaker 3: to be very black, very distinct, very angular in their shape.
Speaker 24: I'm around, Yeah, they're they're perfectly the little spots are
Speaker 24: perfectly ground.
Speaker 3: All right, let me I need to see them. If
Speaker 3: you want to further help with that.
Speaker 24: Okay, well I can, if I can email, I can
Speaker 24: email it if you need to.
Speaker 3: Do you have my email? Do you have it? If not,
Speaker 3: I'll put you on and Crystal give it to you.
Speaker 24: I do have because I had to send you something
Speaker 24: a while back, so I'll use the same one and
Speaker 24: i'll send the pictures. I won't be able to do
Speaker 24: it right now because we're headed to agging land. Okay,
Speaker 24: very much.
Speaker 3: Well, it's good you're reading. Uh they probably don't need
Speaker 3: you help your help today, but uh, have fun.
Speaker 7: I don't know we're all going to enjoy it.
Speaker 24: So okay, take care, bye.
Speaker 5: Bye, you take it by.
Speaker 3: Gosh, don't get me started talking about that. All right,
Speaker 3: League City Feed down in League City, our favorite little
Speaker 3: feed store down there for those of you Bay Cliff,
Speaker 3: elkame Ino, Reale, Webster, Clear Lake, Santa Fe, Dickinson's and
Speaker 3: Leone and of course League City. They're in League City,
Speaker 3: just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on
Speaker 3: Highway three. It's really easy to get in and out.
Speaker 3: It's that old time feed store, been around for forty
Speaker 3: years now, probably more than that by now. But you
Speaker 3: go in, you get service, they carry the bags out
Speaker 3: for you. But most importantly, you go in there and
Speaker 3: they're going to have all the fertilizers that I recommend
Speaker 3: on guard Line, they've got them. Do you want a
Speaker 3: soil mix like Nature's Way, hair, airloom, soil kinds of things.
Speaker 3: They've got soul mixes in there as well. Do you
Speaker 3: need pest control, weed control, disease control, both organic and synthetic.
Speaker 3: While you're in there, grab some of their premium quality
Speaker 3: pet food. You know, they're open until six Monday through Saturday,
Speaker 3: nine am to six, and so you get through with work,
Speaker 3: just swing by there and grab it. That's kind of convenient.
Speaker 3: Can't get any easier than that as well as any
Speaker 3: kinds of feed for your animals, for your backyard chickens.
Speaker 3: They've got all that League City Feed. Here's the number
Speaker 3: two eight one three three two sixteen twelve two eight
Speaker 3: one three three two one six one two. We love
Speaker 3: our feed stores here at League City Feed. You know,
Speaker 3: fall is the time to get your trees, shrubs, and
Speaker 3: woody plants planted. If you want the best easiest season
Speaker 3: of the year to do it, you put a windear
Speaker 3: on them on the ground, and if it's one hundred
Speaker 3: degrees outside, you're going to water real frequently to keep
Speaker 3: it going, keep it alive. You can do that, but
Speaker 3: in fall the demands are so low, and it has
Speaker 3: all the way until next summer to get more and
Speaker 3: more and more of a root system out. Because roots
Speaker 3: grow all through the cool season. They do our soas
Speaker 3: don't get that cold here, and it's just a better
Speaker 3: time to get them established. But when you buy a
Speaker 3: tree to plant, I don't care if it's a single
Speaker 3: trunk tree tree or if it is a multi stemmed,
Speaker 3: multi trunk crepe myrtle tree. Three sixty tree stabilizers help
Speaker 3: hold that plant in place until the root system gets established.
Speaker 3: And can anchor the plant properly. Now you're going to
Speaker 3: find three sixty tree stabilizers in many places. You know
Speaker 3: it was. It was made designed here in Cyprus, Texas,
Speaker 3: and it's packaged up in Dallas and then also and
Speaker 3: in Houston the molding and fort Worth two. But it's
Speaker 3: an all Texas products. What I'm trying to say, I
Speaker 3: like you can do it different ways. You can plant
Speaker 3: a post post in the ground. You can drive a
Speaker 3: tea post in the ground. I like the teposter easy
Speaker 3: to drive in, get them out. You attach the tree stabilizer.
Speaker 3: There's a little part of the product that's made for
Speaker 3: attaching to a tea post and it holds it in
Speaker 3: place with a loose strap so the plant can move
Speaker 3: a little bit. That is important when you steak a tree,
Speaker 3: don't stake it down like a rocket you're afraid and
Speaker 3: take off and shoot off out of the ground. Give
Speaker 3: it some room to move. Movement creates strength in the branches.
Speaker 3: And tree stabilizers to designed for just that. You can
Speaker 3: get MARCYW. Buchanan's native plants, the Arborgate plants for all seasons.
Speaker 3: For those of you down South Orges hidden gardens and
Speaker 3: Alvin carries them. Those of you Southwest. Southwest Fertilizer has
Speaker 3: got those. They're easy, easy, easy to find, and they
Speaker 3: work well and they last. You buy one and you've
Speaker 3: got one for the next time that you're going to
Speaker 3: plant something or learning to family members if they're going
Speaker 3: to put a tree in three sixty tree stabilizer. I
Speaker 3: should talk about that more because that is a very
Speaker 3: important product. For those of you who are looking for
Speaker 3: the supplies that I'm talking about now for fall, you
Speaker 3: need to look no further than your Ace Hardware store.
Speaker 3: There's forty Ace Hardware stores in the Houston area. Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware dot Com. So what am I talking about, Well,
Speaker 3: I'm talking about the fertilizers for fall. We're about to
Speaker 3: enter my schedule's fall season here where it's time to
Speaker 3: get those fertilizers to prepare your grass for winter. Of
Speaker 3: all the different brands I talk about, you're gonna find
Speaker 3: them there at Ace Hardware. If you're dealing with pests
Speaker 3: in the lawn, if you're dealing with pests on plants,
Speaker 3: or diseases or weeds, Ace Hardware carries all those things.
Speaker 3: Of course, they've got tools, they've got garden hoses, you know,
Speaker 3: everything else you need for outside, including some things for
Speaker 3: making a beautiful outdoor sitting area. You know, we're getting
Speaker 3: a break here from the heat. It's already started, but
Speaker 3: good time to fix up that patio and aces. Got
Speaker 3: you set up on all that kind of thing as well.
Speaker 3: We're going to take a little break our phone number
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two KTRH and I'll be
Speaker 3: right back to the phones here in this segment and
Speaker 3: talk to Ezra up in Conroe. Hey, Ezra, welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line, good mortage.
Speaker 7: Stir warning.
Speaker 13: Can you hear me?
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, I can, Okay.
Speaker 27: The question I had is regarding I guess what you
Speaker 27: go parachute ants or cut ants that seemed to attract
Speaker 27: the crape myrtles and other.
Speaker 5: Things in my yard.
Speaker 27: I've tried Dominion two L poured down the hole. I've
Speaker 27: tried the we're hooking up to the hose with a
Speaker 27: spectra that works good for contact if they're out, you know,
Speaker 27: attacking the trees.
Speaker 8: But is that anything better than that?
Speaker 3: Oh boy? Well, they're the problem with controlling the lea
Speaker 3: you're talking about a leaf cutting ant, right, yes?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Uh so the the problem with controlling them is they
Speaker 3: cut those leaves to bring underground, stick to the ceiling,
Speaker 3: grow fungus on to eat the fungus. So yeah, kind
Speaker 3: of like farmers. Basically, they've got a little crop of
Speaker 3: fungus going under the ground. So you can put things
Speaker 3: along the trails where they have to track out of,
Speaker 3: like a little dust like an orphine right at the
Speaker 3: base around where they have to crawl out of it.
Speaker 3: You don't have to treat the whole mound this big
Speaker 3: giant dusting, just all the openings. You got to do
Speaker 3: that periodically, and so every ant the tries to come
Speaker 3: out of the mound and gets killed, it doesn't go
Speaker 3: down in the mount and kill all of them. Sometimes
Speaker 3: they'll track them down and you'll get some benefit from that.
Speaker 3: But that's a suppression option. There are There is a
Speaker 3: bait combo that I'm going to have to send you
Speaker 3: the information on that for you to give a try.
Speaker 3: I have not used the combo myself, but by mixing
Speaker 3: a couple of baits and going through a certain process,
Speaker 3: I'm told that it can be fairly effective against these ants.
Speaker 3: You would just have to give that a shot. But
Speaker 3: that's the only bait combination idea that I've run across
Speaker 3: because these are difficult to control.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes they are.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 27: Yeah, get a mound gone and it pops, back it
Speaker 27: up somewhere else, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's it is and so but I can
Speaker 3: tell you this. You know, if you make them crawl
Speaker 3: through like an orphane dust powder kind of thing, they're
Speaker 3: going to pick that up and you will kill those ants.
Speaker 3: And they need that they come in contact with. But
Speaker 3: that is not I want to be real clear, that
Speaker 3: is not a how do you get rid of a
Speaker 3: mound thing? It's it's to shut them down enough to
Speaker 3: where they're not out eating all your stuff. But let
Speaker 3: me put you on hold. Uh my producer Chris will
Speaker 3: give you an email and if you'll send me that, say, hey,
Speaker 3: we talked this morning. What's the recipe for leaf cutter ants.
Speaker 3: I'll send you some information.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
Speaker 13: I'll sure enough try.
Speaker 3: All right, you take care. Yeah, those ants can be
Speaker 3: a problem. I've seen. Uh it's all one time inter
Speaker 3: national geographic down in some jungles, probably South America, somewhere,
Speaker 3: maybe Brazil, who knows. Anyway, there was this huge, huge
Speaker 3: mound that covered I don't know how big of an
Speaker 3: area is like a fourth of an acre one mound,
Speaker 3: and there was a bulldozer that had gone across it
Speaker 3: and sunken down into this hole. If you want to
Speaker 3: see something cool, do a search for leaf cutter ants.
Speaker 3: And then then like concrete, maybe concrete. These people have
Speaker 3: pumped like a concrete like slurry in through all their
Speaker 3: chambers and let it harden, and then they've washed and
Speaker 3: brushed away the soil. And it's this giant excavated city
Speaker 3: that those boogers live in underground. It is amazing, and
Speaker 3: it's also why it's hard to control them. But kinda
Speaker 3: kind of unusual cool stuff. I guess even though they
Speaker 3: get frustrating and they're difficult to control, that they they're
Speaker 3: pretty amazing creatures. And I understand you're you're paint up there.
Speaker 3: Ezra and Conrad to live up in Willis, and I
Speaker 3: had a farm and I came out one night out
Speaker 3: of peach orchard and one night three peach trees went
Speaker 3: from completely foliated to completely bear because the leafcutter mound
Speaker 3: discovered them. I tried a lot of things which I
Speaker 3: won't mention on the air, trying to control those I
Speaker 3: went caddy shack. If any of you saw Bill Murray
Speaker 3: chasing after that gopher, I went caddy shack on these
Speaker 3: leaf cutter ants. I wish I'd known about some of
Speaker 3: the options that we have. Now. All right, folks, you're
Speaker 3: listening to Garden Line phone number seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t RH. I've got about twenty minutes
Speaker 3: left in today's show. And when that is done, guess
Speaker 3: what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna head up to the
Speaker 3: Fall Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show and I'll
Speaker 3: be there from twelve to two. I hope you'll come out.
Speaker 3: I'll be giving away some some samples of micro life
Speaker 3: products for the lucky winners that show up there. I'll
Speaker 3: be given a talk on Fall Garden, and then i'll
Speaker 3: be answering your gardening questions and i'll do the regular
Speaker 3: what do we call it, the Emerald Lazarth poem about
Speaker 3: the Statue of Liberty. Bring me you're tired, you're weary,
Speaker 3: your huddled masses yearning to breathe for you, something like that. Well,
Speaker 3: you can bring me your samples. You're in your pest samples,
Speaker 3: your diseased leaves, and I'll take a look at them,
Speaker 3: and we'll tell you what to do about them. Bring
Speaker 3: me pictures of your yard. We'll do that. I love
Speaker 3: meeting listeners up at these events. Are everybody up in
Speaker 3: that whole region up there around Conrad. I hope you'll
Speaker 3: come out to the Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living
Speaker 3: Show again at the Lone Star Convention Center up on
Speaker 3: Airport Road, right across from the Extension Office. Easy easy
Speaker 3: to get too. Earlier I was talking about nutri Star Genesis.
Speaker 3: Neutral Star Genesis is a Nelson plant food product, one
Speaker 3: of many quality products that folks out at Nelson's have
Speaker 3: nutri Stars. The newest Genesis is the newest one in
Speaker 3: the line. This is one made for transplanting. So if
Speaker 3: you're going to take a little four inch pot and
Speaker 3: move it up to a one gallon pot in the soil,
Speaker 3: and that one gallum pot you have, you should have
Speaker 3: mixed some nutri Star Genesis. If you're going to take
Speaker 3: a plant and plant it in the ground, use Nutristar Genesis,
Speaker 3: mix it up into the soil around that plant and
Speaker 3: put that plant in the ground, and you're just going
Speaker 3: to see success. It's loaded with microbes, it's got microhizal
Speaker 3: fungi and beneficial bacteria and other fungi. That really it
Speaker 3: benefits that soil microbiome and it just helps. It helps
Speaker 3: reduce transplant chalks, feeds the soil and then gradually feeding
Speaker 3: them snock on burn roots works super super well. I've
Speaker 3: used it. I've seen great results with it, and from
Speaker 3: the time I first tried it, I told Nan, I've
Speaker 3: got it. This is I gotta talk about this. This
Speaker 3: is good stuff. This really really works. From Nelson Plant Food.
Speaker 3: By the way, while you're there, grab a jar of
Speaker 3: that nutra Star vegetable garden. It's got the newnutriants to
Speaker 3: make sure your vegetables grow well and yield well. You
Speaker 3: do about once a month during the growing season for
Speaker 3: the vegetables that you're growing. It's time right now for
Speaker 3: fall fertilization for fall vegetables. So we've got five different
Speaker 3: sources of nitrogen. You can use it in containers, you
Speaker 3: can use it in the ground in your vegetable garden,
Speaker 3: however you want to go about it. Nutristar Vegetable Garden
Speaker 3: Food one of the many nutri Star products that are
Speaker 3: quality and that work from Nelson Plant Food. I'm going
Speaker 3: to head now out to John in Friendswood. Hello, John,
Speaker 3: how can we help?
Speaker 28: Good morning Skip. I'm being taken over by Virginia button weed.
Speaker 28: I've got a big patch on the side of my
Speaker 28: yard that I've been fighting for off and on for
Speaker 28: a few years, and now I'm finding pieces of it
Speaker 28: just popping up everywhere. When is the best time to
Speaker 28: go out there and attack it?
Speaker 10: All?
Speaker 3: Right, the first time you see it in the spring,
Speaker 3: start on it. Then use a product called celsius, like
Speaker 3: the temperature fahrenheit and celsius celsius celsius. Apply it according
Speaker 3: to the label. You probably are gonna have to pply
Speaker 3: it again about six to eight weeks later, because it's
Speaker 3: one that one application often doesn't do it all. But
Speaker 3: you could do it now. If you've got Virginia button
Speaker 3: we go ahead and do it now too. But Celsius
Speaker 3: is the one. Follow the label and that's the best
Speaker 3: thing you can do. Culturally. Anything you do to dry
Speaker 3: that soil out a little more, don't over water, improve
Speaker 3: drainage whatever that also helps. It helps keep it from
Speaker 3: proliferating so much while you're trying to spray it. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have to run John, I've got I've got
Speaker 3: a hard break here. Appreciate, appreciate your call. Our number
Speaker 3: is seven one three two one two ktr H. I'll
Speaker 3: be right back and we'll talk to Ron. Have you
Speaker 3: with us, Glad you're listening in today. We're going to
Speaker 3: go to the phones now and talk to Ron. Hello, Ron,
Speaker 3: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 28: Good morning. I have the cure for the gentleman that
Speaker 28: has the leaf cutter ant problem, and I have found
Speaker 28: a way to thick that.
Speaker 3: Well, that's good. How many sticks of dynamite? How many
Speaker 3: sticks of dynamite do you use?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 28: It is as much as I would like to feed
Speaker 28: that side of me that likes to shoot and blow
Speaker 28: up things. You don't have to.
Speaker 3: Do that, okay, all right, Ron? What works for you?
Speaker 28: Ortho makes a concentrated termite killer ide a little bottle.
Speaker 28: I think it makes about five gallons. It only takes
Speaker 28: about a gallon per hole when you can find, you know,
Speaker 28: follow the trail, Mix it a little strong, and just
Speaker 28: pour one gallon down the hole and in twenty four
Speaker 28: hours they will all be dead.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, I'll tell you what I have to
Speaker 3: say this as a disclaimer because you're going out over
Speaker 3: the air. If a product, if a pest is not
Speaker 3: listed on a label, I can't recommend it, you know
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
Speaker 28: Uh, like what you said, though, they're they're not like
Speaker 28: regular ants. They know they won't eat bait. They make
Speaker 28: their own food, and so you got to get another
Speaker 28: way of getting them. But it works.
Speaker 3: So yeah, Well that Concox I was telling him about
Speaker 3: was actually a mixture of two baits that for some reason,
Speaker 3: putting them together it seems to work. But hey, I
Speaker 3: appreciate that. I want to look into that, so you
Speaker 3: finite information on that. I appreciate you calling in. Have
Speaker 3: a good weekend. By the way, where are you located? Ron?
Speaker 3: What part of the city? I think I lost him?
Speaker 3: All right, all right, folks, Well, uh, here we are
Speaker 3: on guardline talking about all kinds of things. And I
Speaker 3: was telling you earlier that fall is a good time
Speaker 3: of plant strawberries. It really is. Uh. I have been
Speaker 3: telling you about an event. I'm gonna tell you once
Speaker 3: more today, I think. And it's the second annual Strawberry Jemburee.
Speaker 3: It's down in Lake Jackson, Texas at the Lake Jackson
Speaker 3: Rec Center that's on Lake Drive and Lake Jackson. The
Speaker 3: Brazoria County Extension Office is putting on a program called
Speaker 3: the Strawberry Jemburey. It's the second time they did it.
Speaker 3: I went last year's outstanding program. This one again September
Speaker 3: twenty first, from eight am to twelve noon. Now, did
Speaker 3: you know strawberry should be planted in October? That is
Speaker 3: prime time. I mean you can plan them in September,
Speaker 3: but prime time for planning is in October. Well, you
Speaker 3: can go out to this program. It is free. It
Speaker 3: is free and you can learn how to grow strawberries.
Speaker 3: They're going to have good speakers all morning. They are
Speaker 3: going to have exhibitors there. There's going to be a
Speaker 3: strawberry shortcake contest, so quit bragging about it, step up
Speaker 3: to the plate and prove it. Bring your strawberry shortcake.
Speaker 3: Gotta call them and make sure you get it entered.
Speaker 3: Here's the number nine seven nine eight six four fifteen
Speaker 3: fifty eight nine seven nine eight six four one five
Speaker 3: five eight, Or you can go to the Brazoria County
Speaker 3: Extension Office website and find out more about it. They're
Speaker 3: also going to have strawberry plugs to pre order and
Speaker 3: then they will come in and you'll come back to
Speaker 3: pick them up if you are interested in that, but
Speaker 3: at least get out there for that educational part of
Speaker 3: the program. It's going to be good again. Second Anniel
Speaker 3: Strawberry Jamboree, Lake Jackson Rec Center, Lake Drive, Lake Jackson,
Speaker 3: Texas by the Texas A and m Agrolife Extension Resoria
Speaker 3: County Extension Office. It's going to be a good time.
Speaker 3: Nine seven nine eight six four fifteen fifty eight. Strawberries
Speaker 3: are one of my favorite things.
Speaker 10: Do you know?
Speaker 3: I used to have a half acre strawberry patch up
Speaker 3: in Willis, Texas, north of Conroe. We had a great
Speaker 3: time doing that. There's a lot of work, but we
Speaker 3: had a good time doing that, and we always planted
Speaker 3: in the fall. That is the best time to plant
Speaker 3: strawberries so that if you're going to have success, go
Speaker 3: ahead and get them out in the our Our winters
Speaker 3: are mild here and if you put a little roe
Speaker 3: cover over them, they'll start. They'll start fruiting. Even in
Speaker 3: February with some mild temperatures you under the row cover
Speaker 3: protecting from frost, you will see some mobilooms start to
Speaker 3: form and then carry all the way up to May.
Speaker 3: You have some good production. Nothing like strawberries that are
Speaker 3: fresh and strawberries that are homegrown makes it easy to do.
Speaker 3: I got time for one quick call. If you don't
Speaker 3: delay and get in here at seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t rh woild be glad to help
Speaker 3: you in whatever way we can to have success. Remember
Speaker 3: that as we're entering this week, we've got today, Tomorrow
Speaker 3: and Monday that are going to be sunny. Make hay
Speaker 3: while the sunshines, prepare soil of the sunshines. I hope
Speaker 3: that if you have not already purchased soil mixes and composts,
Speaker 3: bed mix all that kind of stuff, that you will
Speaker 3: go ahead and get that done so that you can
Speaker 3: get those beds made. Because Wednesday and Thursday and Friday
Speaker 3: and Saturday. I don't I'm not a weatherman, but when
Speaker 3: I look at my apps, it's like, yeah, it's rainy
Speaker 3: from midweek on, you're not gonna be able to get
Speaker 3: the work done. And with planting season coming, it's always
Speaker 3: better to get those soils built first. Get whatever it takes.
Speaker 3: If you've got a heavy clay, put a few inches
Speaker 3: of shale down. The shale works very very well and
Speaker 3: It just is an excellent product for holding clay open
Speaker 3: for a long period of time, but you got to
Speaker 3: put several inches of it down to have the best success. Now.
Speaker 3: Compost is also good. It decomposes over time, kind of
Speaker 3: goes away, but a little bit of a chunky compost,
Speaker 3: maybe a bark based which at based kind of compost
Speaker 3: where they've ground some stuff up and decomposed it all
Speaker 3: the way, but it's still it's kind of chunky. That's
Speaker 3: a good bed mix. It's gonna last year a good
Speaker 3: while too. Good Drainage is important. When it rains here,
Speaker 3: it pours. You can always water. Bet you, I can't
Speaker 3: take it away, is what my old friend Alston Colston
Speaker 3: used to say. And what he meant was when soil
Speaker 3: is sagi wet, it soggy wet, and you got to
Speaker 3: wait till it dries out. So make sure you get
Speaker 3: those beds built during good weather, and good weather is today,
Speaker 3: in the next two days, let's get it done and
Speaker 3: then you'll be ready to go and have success. If
Speaker 3: you have not seen my schedules online, go to gardening
Speaker 3: with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. There
Speaker 3: you will find by lawn care schedule, which tells you mow, water,
Speaker 3: and fertilized information. I like to refer to it as
Speaker 3: a schedule of how to grow a lawn, and that
Speaker 3: includes fertilizer products which to use, organic and synthetic at
Speaker 3: the proper timing of each one through the year. And
Speaker 3: then there's the pest, Disease and wheat management schedule, which
Speaker 3: I refer to as the how to deal with things
Speaker 3: that want to mess up your lawn like diseases and
Speaker 3: insects and weeds, and it walks you through those. Again,
Speaker 3: organic and synthetic options are on there, and the timing
Speaker 3: very important. The timing. We're going to be doing fall
Speaker 3: fertilization here, starting really kind of at the end of
Speaker 3: September with some organic things, and then October is an
Speaker 3: important month for doing that too. If you're listening up
Speaker 3: in the northern part of the areas, even late September
Speaker 3: is even fine also for that. And then the weed
Speaker 3: control you got to get the pre emerging out before
Speaker 3: the weeds sprout, So October is a critical season to
Speaker 3: get those we control products down again, especially October. The
Speaker 3: earlier in October probably the better off you are on
Speaker 3: those For those of you further north. I know we
Speaker 3: have people all the way up to Huntsville and whatnot
Speaker 3: that are listening. So there you're looking at late September
Speaker 3: getting those things down because you put them down your watermen,
Speaker 3: and when a wheat seed tries to germinate, it destroys it,
Speaker 3: and so it's like playing baseball. That's my analogy for
Speaker 3: pre emergent wheat control. If you wait to swing until
Speaker 3: the balls and the catcher's mit, you're never going to
Speaker 3: hit a home run, right, So that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: If you wait until the weeds already up, most weed
Speaker 3: control products that are pre emergent will not control them most,
Speaker 3: and so get it down ahead of time. So when
Speaker 3: the soil temperature drops to the right temperature and the
Speaker 3: weeds try to germinate, you're ahead of the game and
Speaker 3: you got them taken under control. That's the principles about that.
Speaker 3: Also on the website, you're going to find information on
Speaker 3: controlling nut set. There's two publications on it and then
Speaker 3: there is a how to build a weed wiper publication
Speaker 3: it's free to print it out, and then there's a
Speaker 3: publication on the products to put on the weed wiper
Speaker 3: and that's not just for weed wiper information. That's for
Speaker 3: general weed control. So what do you do if you
Speaker 3: got witty weeds like poison iv or hackberry coming up
Speaker 3: in the fence line or peppervine? What if you've got
Speaker 3: bulb weeds like wild onion and while garlic and the lawn.
Speaker 3: What if you have grass seaweeds? What if you have
Speaker 3: sedges like nud sets. Each of those, I list the ingredients,
Speaker 3: the active ingredients that are most effective in going after those,
Speaker 3: and give you some examples of the for sale products
Speaker 3: that you find on garden center shelves, garden centers and
Speaker 3: Ace hardware stores, Southwest Fertilizers, feed stores. That's so take
Speaker 3: advantage of that website. It's all free. Can't beat that.
Speaker 3: Come see me. I'll be at the Home and Garden
Speaker 3: show here and just a little bit up in Conroe.
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