Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H garden line with skin Richard's.
Speaker 2: Trim.
Speaker 3: Just watch him as so many.
Speaker 4: Good things to Septasya.
Speaker 5: Was not a sign gas the sun.
Speaker 6: Beam and of.
Speaker 5: Hey, good morning gardeners. An't noticed it rain yesterday? Wow,
Speaker 5: some area has got a gully washer that is that
Speaker 5: means a lot of rain. Gully washer's kind of like
Speaker 5: a frog strangler. That's another term for a lot of rain. Well,
Speaker 5: we'll take it. We will take it now. This is
Speaker 5: a reminder when we get this kind of rain that
Speaker 5: drainage is important. And you know, I was looking outside
Speaker 5: during the one of the worst parts of it. Are
Speaker 5: I say worst when it's rain in the heaviest and
Speaker 5: husband for a while and uh, just looking in my yard,
Speaker 5: where's water gathering right now? Now? For water to puddle
Speaker 5: up during the rain is not an issue. It's the
Speaker 5: days following the rain that are the issue. You know,
Speaker 5: if you've got four days out, still got a puddle
Speaker 5: out there, well, that's not going to be an easy
Speaker 5: spot to grow. Most plants, there are a few that
Speaker 5: take that. Button bush is a great native shrub, large
Speaker 5: shrub that can take saggy, wet conditions. Cannas can take
Speaker 5: so Saggi wet conditions. Cypress trees for sure can take
Speaker 5: Slaggi wet conditions, but most plants can't. So that's when
Speaker 5: we need to get out there and do some things
Speaker 5: to fix those spots. Very important, very important. If in
Speaker 5: the yard, I've noticed I mowed yesterday prior to the
Speaker 5: rain arriving and got everything cut back. Boy, the lawns
Speaker 5: are they're happy, the temperatures are warming up, their growth
Speaker 5: continues to speed up. It'll get a little faster too
Speaker 5: as we go forward, but they're doing good. I'd fertilize
Speaker 5: my lawn earlier in the season and things are growing
Speaker 5: looking really good, and I hope yours are too. If not,
Speaker 5: this is a time to get down your summer fertilizations.
Speaker 5: Slow release for summer. That's what we talk about. And
Speaker 5: why do we do slow release, well, several reasons. Number One,
Speaker 5: slow release fertilizers mean you fertilize once and it just
Speaker 5: keeps fertilizing for you over time. If you did a
Speaker 5: fast release before last night's rain, a lot of it
Speaker 5: may be on its way down the street because basically
Speaker 5: those dissolve and they release their nutrients quickly, which is
Speaker 5: good for the purposes that we use them for. But
Speaker 5: we're at the time now where you can do the
Speaker 5: slow releases, and i'd recommend that now. If you're going
Speaker 5: to use a fast release going through summer, you need
Speaker 5: to do it in very small doses over time. So
Speaker 5: you're turning a fast release into a slow release by
Speaker 5: taking x amount that you would put on over the
Speaker 5: course of summer and applying it in a bunch of
Speaker 5: small doses. It takes extra time. You know, it's not
Speaker 5: the best of technologies, but it works. You can grow
Speaker 5: on that way. Slow release, on the other hand, gradually
Speaker 5: feeds the soil for you. They're designed with different kinds
Speaker 5: of nitrogen that release over different periods of time, so
Speaker 5: you get that nice even feeding that avoids a flush
Speaker 5: of growth that means you got to mow more, that
Speaker 5: avoids excessive nitrogen release, that means you get top growth
Speaker 5: at the expense of root growth. And super turf is
Speaker 5: that is that kind of fertilizer. It's a nineteen four ten.
Speaker 5: It's from the Folks at Night and it works on
Speaker 5: all of our southern turf crisis in Augustine Bermuda Zeetsia.
Speaker 5: It does well in our hot humids climate down in
Speaker 5: this region and it goes about four months out and
Speaker 5: so I would highly recommend it. In fact, today I
Speaker 5: just want to mention today, I'm going to be at
Speaker 5: the Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive from twelve to
Speaker 5: two and I'm going to be given away three bags
Speaker 5: of super Turf today. So come on out. Maybe he
Speaker 5: will win some. I've got a lot of giveaways. I'll
Speaker 5: tell you more about that later, but I don't know
Speaker 5: that I've ever had this many different giveaways at one appearance,
Speaker 5: but we got a lot going on at Ace Hardware City. Anyway,
Speaker 5: nine to five. Super Turf. You're going to find it
Speaker 5: in a lot of different places. You're going to find
Speaker 5: it at Bearings Hardware on Bissinette and one on West Timer.
Speaker 5: You're going to find it in Shanne Forest down there
Speaker 5: in Richmond Rosenberg area, and many many other locations like
Speaker 5: any Knight Foss product. We's head out now to Danbury.
Speaker 5: We're going to talk to Edward. Hello, Edward, welcome to garden.
Speaker 7: How you doing I'm about it.
Speaker 5: I'm doing good. Thank you.
Speaker 7: Okay, I've got avocado tree. It's like number six. All
Speaker 7: the rest of them have died. Is there any special
Speaker 7: fertilized as it's a half avocado?
Speaker 5: Oh a has well has has a hard time here.
Speaker 5: It's it's it's kind of cold tender, and we generally
Speaker 5: go with some other types of avocados. But that having
Speaker 5: been said, doesn't affect the kind of fertilizer you put
Speaker 5: down on it. Uh, you can get a fertilizer fruit.
Speaker 5: Uh you kind of did on Haas. Yeah, you kind
Speaker 5: of did on Hass. But you know, it's it's just
Speaker 5: a that's a kind of Califorfornia avocado. It's the kind
Speaker 5: you see in the grocery store, and they just don't
Speaker 5: have a cold heartiness that we would expect, you know
Speaker 5: that we would need, I guess for here, so you
Speaker 5: do a little extra protection on it. But anyway, as
Speaker 5: far as fertilizing the thing that was what your question
Speaker 5: was about, I would use You could do a fruit
Speaker 5: tree fertilizer and there's some of our our garden line.
Speaker 5: You know, companies that produce fertilizer will make a blend
Speaker 5: just for fruit trees. Or you can just use a
Speaker 5: lawn fertilizer on it. And to do that, you want
Speaker 5: to walk up to the tree, and however, thick the
Speaker 5: trunk is not around the trunk, but across the trunk.
Speaker 5: Every inch one or two cups a fertile of lawn fertilizer.
Speaker 5: For most lawn fertilizers. If it's it's one or two
Speaker 5: cups sprint. If it's organic, you can double or triple that.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm hauler here and I'm trying you know what
Speaker 7: avocandal trees?
Speaker 8: The u.
Speaker 5: Uh, There are a number of Yeah, there are a
Speaker 5: number of varieties out there. There's a wilma, there's a
Speaker 5: there's so many different varieties. Let me do that. If
Speaker 5: you go to a website that's called Aggie Horticulture Aggie
Speaker 5: hyphen Horticulture U there is a section on there for
Speaker 5: fruit trees, and there's a publication on every kind of
Speaker 5: fruit tree, and there's one for avocados and if you
Speaker 5: if you go to it, it'll talk to you about
Speaker 5: growing avocados, you know, the soil of the varieties and
Speaker 5: things that you need. But basically it's a we're looking
Speaker 5: for what are called Mexican avocados. Okay, all right, so
Speaker 5: the the kind like hosts is not a Mexican avocado.
Speaker 5: But let's see another one is Holland Wilma. There's one
Speaker 5: called Lula. There's a lot of other avocado that you know,
Speaker 5: you could grow, it's just not gonna be as hardy.
Speaker 5: And so what I would recommend you do is go
Speaker 5: to wherever you can you can find quality, quality garden
Speaker 5: center near you. Not not a big box store, not
Speaker 5: a you know, just a.
Speaker 2: Parking lot in Ballonia. But anyway, put them out in
Speaker 2: the front life.
Speaker 5: They need, they need full sun. Bull they need yeah,
Speaker 5: they need, they need absolutely full sun. Uh. And if
Speaker 5: you yeah that that's going to give you the best. Now,
Speaker 5: if you'll drive up the street to Alvin, head up
Speaker 5: thirty five to the Alvin Santa Fe area, that's where
Speaker 5: jorgees Hidden Gardens is, and Jorge has a number of
Speaker 5: hardy avocados available up there that might be worth It's
Speaker 5: a little trip up the street, but but it might
Speaker 5: be worth it to go up there and grab one
Speaker 5: from Jory because he does carry some varieties that are hardy. Here.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, I have a drunk and I'm working to day.
Speaker 7: I actually work out of als today.
Speaker 5: Yeah. If you go from Alvin, Yeah, as you go
Speaker 5: from Alvin down towards Santa Fe Jorge is off to
Speaker 5: the right, about halfway between the towns. But it's an
Speaker 5: Alvin address. All right, thank you.
Speaker 7: I appreciate it all right.
Speaker 5: Now, if this all works, you know on Garden Line,
Speaker 5: all I ask is that you bring me half the
Speaker 5: produce if this is successful. So I'm going to get
Speaker 5: my recipe for walk em Molly out and I'll be waiting.
Speaker 5: All right. Thanks. I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: Playing taps when I'm playing it because this is number
Speaker 7: six and I've lost five so far.
Speaker 5: Very good, very good. Thank you. Appreciate your call. Hey, folks,
Speaker 5: I got to run. I'll be right back, all right.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to Guarden Line. Thanks for listening this morning.
Speaker 5: Congratulations all of you who are up with at least
Speaker 5: one eye open. Good to talk to you.
Speaker 9: Hey.
Speaker 5: If you've got some furniture that is sitting out in
Speaker 5: the back and it ain't looking so good, all right,
Speaker 5: maybe rusty, Maybe some of the the little rubber caps
Speaker 5: on the ends or the straps on it and other
Speaker 5: things are falling apart. It just needs to be fixed up.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 5: Houston Powder Coader is the one that do that. They
Speaker 5: are professionals at it, and they can pretty much. If
Speaker 5: it'll hold still. They can put a powder coat on
Speaker 5: just about anything. They've got some giant bend I they
Speaker 5: do a trailer literally in a bin. But when it
Speaker 5: comes to our yards, you know that metal railing, the
Speaker 5: light post, middle lamppost out in the ground, the artwork
Speaker 5: that you may hang on a fence to the side
Speaker 5: of the house, it's a metal. If it's wrottle iron, aluminum,
Speaker 5: cast iron, they can do it all. Well, here's what
Speaker 5: you need to do. Take a picture of that furniture,
Speaker 5: whatever it is, and send it that picture to sales
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Speaker 5: at the kind of work they do. It's like, oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, that is like new, or if not better
Speaker 5: than new. They know how to do that. Let that
Speaker 5: out to Magnolia and we're going to talk now to Ronnie. Hey, Ronnie,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Skip, good morning. Is our soul too warm
Speaker 10: to have a good tulip crop?
Speaker 5: You know, it's not our soil, it's it's our overall temperatures.
Speaker 5: Tulips like a nice, long cold winter, and here they
Speaker 5: just you know, we just don't have winter. And if
Speaker 5: you were to ask a tulip, they go, that ain't
Speaker 5: winner down there in Houston, and it messes them up.
Speaker 5: Now there are you can do two things. You can
Speaker 5: plant standard tulips and use them as what we call
Speaker 5: one shot wonders, meaning you plan them, they pop up,
Speaker 5: they bloom, you throw them away like you would a
Speaker 5: tomato plan or something. You know, you grow it and
Speaker 5: you throw it away and you plan new one next year.
Speaker 5: You could do that. Or the other is there's a
Speaker 5: company called Southern Bulb Company, Southern Bulb Company that sells
Speaker 5: throughout the area. I know that they sell bulbs in
Speaker 5: a number of our garden centers. I was at Arbigate
Speaker 5: that a while back and saw Southern Bulb bulbs there.
Speaker 5: There are some what we call species tulips. They look
Speaker 5: like really really skinny little tulips, but they're very pretty.
Speaker 5: But they actually will naturalize here. They do pretty well.
Speaker 5: And then there's one that's larger that looks it is
Speaker 5: a tulip. It's called prey cox and they call it
Speaker 5: Texas tulip because it will naturalize here. But that is
Speaker 5: a very unique exception and it looks a little different
Speaker 5: than what you think of when you picture a Dutch
Speaker 5: tulip in your mind's eye. You can go see that online.
Speaker 5: It's Southern Bulb Company, Southern Boye.
Speaker 10: Last two seasons, I've got some from Holland and they
Speaker 10: say acclimate it in the refrigerator for a bunch of
Speaker 10: sixteen weeks. But if you want it.
Speaker 5: Done, yeah, they're one and done. So yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: You got to plan them at just the right time.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: And their bloom season can go kind of fast, especially
Speaker 5: if it's getting a little bit warm.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: But that's what I do. And you're not far from Arburgateham.
Speaker 5: They're going to have them. You can call them and
Speaker 5: say what will you have next year? They'll have some
Speaker 5: on hand at the right time to plan them. It'll
Speaker 5: be this fall. But anyway, if you want to see
Speaker 5: what they look like. Yeah, if you want to see
Speaker 5: what they look like, go to Southern Bulb dot com
Speaker 5: and you can see pictures of what I'm talking about. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 5: thank you skip, Yes, sir, you bet, thanks for the call.
Speaker 5: Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware Store have whatever you need to have success
Speaker 5: and the outdoors. Now, of course it's a hardware store.
Speaker 5: They got the inside stuff, of course, but they also
Speaker 5: have unlike the old time hardware store you may have
Speaker 5: grown up going to, they've got an incredible amount of
Speaker 5: things to decorate and beautify the indoors as well as
Speaker 5: things for the patio and whatnot. And now, of course
Speaker 5: it's a season where we're taking care of our lawns
Speaker 5: and we're making flower beds and vegetable gardens. And when
Speaker 5: you need the fertilizers, the pest control, weed control, disease control,
Speaker 5: when you need the garden hose and the hand tools
Speaker 5: and all the things you do to have beauty, they've
Speaker 5: got that. And then for the relax and the enjoy
Speaker 5: you know, the barbecue pits, the string of lights, all
Speaker 5: the things that make outdoor living so pleasant. Ace has
Speaker 5: got you covered. You can go to ACE Hardwaretexas dot com.
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware Texas dot com and find the ACE Hardware
Speaker 5: stores near you and they're all over Houston. Got a
Speaker 5: whole bunch of them here now if you would like
Speaker 5: to see one live and in person today, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: be at Memorial City Ace Hardware Ace Hardware City here
Speaker 5: in on Memorial Drive in the Houston Areio from twelfth
Speaker 5: to two today and I am going to be given
Speaker 5: away a lot of stuff. We have got some bags
Speaker 5: of azamide. We've got a super turf from Nitrophoss. We've
Speaker 5: got heirloom soils. Oh my gosh, We've got the works
Speaker 5: potting soil. We've got their leaf mold compost. We've got
Speaker 5: hardwood molds. We've got shale expanded jail from them. Uh,
Speaker 5: it just goes on and on. I have got from
Speaker 5: Nelson plant Foods and color Star and then the Azalea
Speaker 5: plumerias and door indoor plants and bogonin veea versions of
Speaker 5: the jars of Nelson plant food products. There is a
Speaker 5: product that's a name, which is an insect control from Boni.
Speaker 5: We're gonna be given away. You've got micro Life product
Speaker 5: I mean, oh, and then the three sixty tree stabilizers.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have three of those as well to give
Speaker 5: the I mean show up and your chances of winning
Speaker 5: are pretty good. I'd always like to meet people at
Speaker 5: these appearances today from twelve to two at the Memorial
Speaker 5: location Memorial Drive location of Ace Hardware. It's Ace Hardware City.
Speaker 5: All right, let's head out to Beytown. Now we're going
Speaker 5: to talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning, thanks for playing the call. Yes, we get
Speaker 8: two quick. The major one is illut it on my
Speaker 8: video and back of the house. And if I had
Speaker 8: done rip up my file baby because of the drainage.
Speaker 8: Do you know anybody in the area that can do
Speaker 8: that drainage? We do that draine, you know, underground piping
Speaker 8: or whether they need to direct all the water away from.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you are a little far You're a little far
Speaker 5: away from these folks, but I would give them a call.
Speaker 5: And if they can't come that far, they can probably
Speaker 5: tell you who could. But it's B and B turf Pros.
Speaker 5: B B turf Pros. They kind of they kind of
Speaker 5: handle I know, they go all the way over to
Speaker 5: UH Interstate forty five and just across forty five a
Speaker 5: little bit. But B and B Turf Pros is the
Speaker 5: company that we're looking for. Excuse me, I haven't hanging
Speaker 5: up my throat. The phone number is seven one three
Speaker 5: two three four fifty five ninety eight. I should ask
Speaker 5: if you had a pen handy first, yes, seven one
Speaker 5: three two three four five five nine eight B and
Speaker 5: B Turf Pros.
Speaker 8: Okay, great, all right, talked about it.
Speaker 5: There may be a little far Yeah, yeah, all right, sir,
Speaker 5: thank you, thank you, good good luck. Yeah. Yeah. This
Speaker 5: rain is kind of reminded us of drainage issues. A
Speaker 5: lot of a lot of clay soils here in the Easternario,
Speaker 5: and clay soils do not drain well. Typically we can
Speaker 5: do things to improve them in our flower beds and whatnot.
Speaker 5: Bottom line is, you know, clay hole's water. That's why
Speaker 5: on farms, when you want to build a farm pond,
Speaker 5: you dig a hole in the ground and then you
Speaker 5: put in that hole, you line the pond itself with
Speaker 5: something called Bentonite clay, and it's a it's a clay
Speaker 5: that basically goes down there and seals and turns what
Speaker 5: might just be something that drains right out into something
Speaker 5: that holds water well, clay holes water. But a good
Speaker 5: company like B and B turf Pros they can they
Speaker 5: can do that kind of thing for you. They have
Speaker 5: the technology, they understand the process of drainage and and
Speaker 5: it it. You know, some people try to do it yourself,
Speaker 5: depending on the job. That sometimes is difficult to do
Speaker 5: because you need the drainage to go downhill. Surprise, water
Speaker 5: drains downhill, and you need it to drop, you know,
Speaker 5: so many inches every so many feet in order for
Speaker 5: to truly drain out right to another location. Anyway, that's
Speaker 5: some of the how to are the details of it.
Speaker 5: But you need a good quality team that knows how
Speaker 5: to do that to do that well. By the way,
Speaker 5: that kind that just reminds me that when you're choosing plants,
Speaker 5: always choose plants that fit the site. Sunny shady. There's
Speaker 5: different groups of plants. Plants that drain well, plants that
Speaker 5: don't drain well. Same kind of thing. Speaking of plants.
Speaker 5: Antigros Imporium Antigrosenporium been around since nineteen eighty three, and boy,
Speaker 5: they have so many cool things going on right now.
Speaker 5: They have two new plant bundles groups of plants exclusively
Speaker 5: at Anti Grosmporium. One is called the Soft Cottage Bundle.
Speaker 5: The other is the Vibrant Cottage Bundle. And just ask
Speaker 5: their associates there when you're there. They are up in Independence,
Speaker 5: Texas and it's a great outing to get out and do.
Speaker 5: Here is the website. This is where you go. Everything
Speaker 5: you need to know is there. Antique Roseemporium dot com.
Speaker 5: The Antique Roseemporium dot com if you want to give
Speaker 5: them a call. Ninety seven nine eight three, six fifty
Speaker 5: five forty eight. Thatts Some big events coming up on
Speaker 5: May seventeenth is the Beneficial Insects Seminar and Kids Activities,
Speaker 5: So there's gonna be a great program educational program on
Speaker 5: beneficial Insects, free seminar. At the same time in kiddos
Speaker 5: age three to ten can enjoy what they call Nature Nectar.
Speaker 5: It's a hand, hands on activity where they learn about pollinators.
Speaker 5: They'll be garden inspired crafts, there'll be a butterfly story,
Speaker 5: a lot of fun facts, and it culminates with a
Speaker 5: magical ladybug release in the gardens. And you've got to
Speaker 5: get tickets for it and you go to the website
Speaker 5: antique Rosimporium dot com and that's where you're going to
Speaker 5: find tickets for this event as well as a lot
Speaker 5: of other good information at the Antiquerose Importum, one of
Speaker 5: my favorite garden centers to visit. I'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to Gardenline, folks. Good to have you with
Speaker 5: us this morning. Yeah, I woke up with something in
Speaker 5: my throat this morning. Asmite is the trace mineral supplement
Speaker 5: I talk about all the time here on Garden Line.
Speaker 5: Asmite has those minerals that are needed not in large quantities,
Speaker 5: but that still are essential for plant growth. And I've
Speaker 5: said it this way before, but to explain that, like
Speaker 5: you need a lot of nitrogen for plants, just need
Speaker 5: a lot of nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium. They use
Speaker 5: a lot of those, Okay, when it comes to things
Speaker 5: like zinc and molybdenum and boron, they don't use much
Speaker 5: at all. But if they don't have any, they die.
Speaker 5: They don't live. They cannot live without trace minerals, and
Speaker 5: so that's why we add a trace mineral supplement like
Speaker 5: azmite to our soils. You can find more information at
Speaker 5: ASMIT Texas dot com. And you can find azamite in many,
Speaker 5: many places all over the Greater Houston area, most of
Speaker 5: our inpenit garden centers. You know, places like an Ace
Speaker 5: hardware store, like for example, feed stores and whatnot that
Speaker 5: we have all places you're gonna find asmite. And today,
Speaker 5: if you come out to Memorial City Ace Hardware that
Speaker 5: is on Memorial Drive. By the way, it's Ace Hardware
Speaker 5: City on Memorial Drive, I'm going to be given only
Speaker 5: four bags of acemite. Take it home, try it out.
Speaker 5: How's a good time to put it on. If you're
Speaker 5: planning on doing any container gardening, and I was doing
Speaker 5: this just yesterday, planting some things in containers for my patio.
Speaker 5: I've been chipping away at that all spring now, just
Speaker 5: getting little jobs done. And I love containers. But you
Speaker 5: need a good quality soil. You need it to drain well,
Speaker 5: but you also need it whole oisture. You don't want
Speaker 5: the water to run right through like it was gravel
Speaker 5: for example. On the other hand, you don't want it
Speaker 5: to be just mucky and boggy and no oxygen in
Speaker 5: the root system. And it takes a quality to do that.
Speaker 5: In jungle land is a quality soel. They're outdoor flower
Speaker 5: and vegetable planting soil is excellent for flowers and vegetables
Speaker 5: and herbs and whatever you want to grow outside in
Speaker 5: those containers. Consider jungle land. It works. Distributed by night foss.
Speaker 5: You're going to find it in places like the plantation.
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware. They're out there on FM three point fifty
Speaker 5: nine they carry night foss products. M and D up
Speaker 5: in Cyprus on Luetta Road carries night foss products, as
Speaker 5: does the Ace Hardware and single ranch on Mason Road.
Speaker 5: Just three examples of the mini of places that carry
Speaker 5: nitrovoss products here. So what happens when it rains the
Speaker 5: soil swells. It swells, and when it gets dry, the
Speaker 5: soil shrinks. Did you know that our clay soils have
Speaker 5: high what the soil scientists called shrink swell potential. That's
Speaker 5: why when you go out in the summer and it's
Speaker 5: hot and dry, there's cracks in the backyard so large
Speaker 5: you could lose a toddler or a little fufu dog
Speaker 5: right right drops right down in the ground right there
Speaker 5: in the backyard. Well that's an exaggeration, but you know
Speaker 5: what I'm talking about. Well, when you have a slab
Speaker 5: of concrete, whether it's a sidewalk, a driveway or a
Speaker 5: house that is set on top of that kind of soil,
Speaker 5: and that soil is moving. It literally is moving. I
Speaker 5: mean it moves so much and it's so powerful it
Speaker 5: cracks slabs. And every summer is in Houston, when it
Speaker 5: gets hot and dry, you just see water lines breaking
Speaker 5: all the time. And it's because of that same soil
Speaker 5: as a powerful mover. Anyway, if you've got that, you
Speaker 5: need to call fix my Slab talk to try stick
Speaker 5: on that Fixed my Slab. He's been doing it twenty
Speaker 5: three years now. The website is fixmislab dot com. The
Speaker 5: phone number two eight one two FI five forty nine
Speaker 5: forty nine. You know you know something's going on when
Speaker 5: you see a crack in the brick outside, or when
Speaker 5: you see cracks in the sheet rock, or when a
Speaker 5: door that used to not stick is now sticking. You
Speaker 5: know as you try to open it. That's a sign
Speaker 5: something is moving and you need to have him come in.
Speaker 5: Tell him your guardenline listener Free estimates for guarden line listeners.
Speaker 5: And the reason I would send you to Tie is
Speaker 5: this resons he shows up on time, He fixes it right,
Speaker 5: and he charges a fair price. Now that's all you
Speaker 5: can ask for from anybody doing any kind of a
Speaker 5: service at your house. I's been around here again twenty
Speaker 5: three actually more than twenty three years now, uh, doing
Speaker 5: this business. He's a native Ustonian, a fifth generation Texan.
Speaker 5: Fixmislab dot com two eight one two FI five forty
Speaker 5: nine forty nine.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 5: And don't be an Ostrich. You may think, oh, I
Speaker 5: don't want to don't even I don't even know if
Speaker 5: I've got slab problems. You know that's what. That's a
Speaker 5: can of words. I don't want to do that. Well,
Speaker 5: don't be an Ostrich and stick your head in the sand. Listen.
Speaker 5: I've talked to Tie about jobs before on Foundations, and
Speaker 5: you know, we'll talk about it and what's going on
Speaker 5: and where the cracks are and what we're seeing and
Speaker 5: all that, and I'll say something like, you know what,
Speaker 5: at this point, that is not something you need to
Speaker 5: worry about. It just probably not and uh, And he'll
Speaker 5: tell you those kind of things and so it doesn't
Speaker 5: get better, but it does get worse. So be careful
Speaker 5: with your slabs. You're listening to Garden Line the phone
Speaker 5: number seven one three two one two k t r
Speaker 5: H seven one three two one two five eight seven
Speaker 5: to four makes it easy to give us a call.
Speaker 5: What do you want to talk about this morning? We
Speaker 5: have got a lot of topics. I'm uh, I don't
Speaker 5: know why. You know. I like Okra. I talk about
Speaker 5: Okra all the time here on guard Line. It's just
Speaker 5: one of my little horticultural obsessions. The way the way
Speaker 5: I put it is, it's the latest and a long
Speaker 5: line of horticulture obsessions. Uh. And I actually have not
Speaker 5: planted over this year. I just have been busy running
Speaker 5: around doing all kinds of things with my horticulture activities
Speaker 5: and anyway, so I've got some beds that are ready.
Speaker 5: Now I need to get out there and get that planted.
Speaker 5: We are now entering the doorstep of the warm season.
Speaker 5: It is not hot here yet, but it will be.
Speaker 5: And so those things there are plants like tomatoes, for example,
Speaker 5: you know the way too long to plant your tomatoes.
Speaker 5: And the tomato plants will grow, but they don't set well,
Speaker 5: especially the slicers. The little red cherry tomatoes or not.
Speaker 5: Doesn't have to be red. The cherry and grape type,
Speaker 5: the small fruit to tomatoes. Those set better in the
Speaker 5: heat than the large slicers do. And so as we
Speaker 5: hit this time of the year, the things that we're
Speaker 5: planting change a little bit and we start thinking about
Speaker 5: the heat tolerant summer garden. I've got some malabar spinach
Speaker 5: coming up, and I don't like coli at malabar spinach
Speaker 5: because it's not spinach, but that's what people call it.
Speaker 5: I just call it malabar greens. But it just laughs
Speaker 5: at our summer heat. Amaranth is another one, amaranth. The
Speaker 5: farmers have it coming up wild, the wild types in
Speaker 5: the field they call it pig weed. But amaranth is edible.
Speaker 5: The greens are edible, and there's some nice large leaf
Speaker 5: types that really do well in the summer. We have
Speaker 5: a lot of things that do well here in the summertime.
Speaker 5: If you are wanting to grow cantalope, honeydew, watermelons, all
Speaker 5: those different kinds of melons, they do well in the heat.
Speaker 5: If you're wanting to grow okra, as I mentioned, of course,
Speaker 5: southern peas do well in the heat. There are sweet
Speaker 5: potatoes that will be planting now to sweet potatoes do
Speaker 5: well in hot, hot weather. The squashes that take a
Speaker 5: long time to produce, we have to grow them through
Speaker 5: heat because it take so long to produce. And that
Speaker 5: would include pumpkins, and that would include what we call
Speaker 5: winter squashes like acorn squash and butternut squash for example.
Speaker 5: Those do well now.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 5: And so you should get out and get some of
Speaker 5: this kind of planting done. It's a good time to
Speaker 5: do that, and your garden centers can help you get
Speaker 5: off to a good start doing just that. Let's take
Speaker 5: a break here. When we come back, Rod in Houston,
Speaker 5: you will be our first up. All right, we're back.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 5: Phone number if you'd like to give me a call
Speaker 5: seven one three two one two k t R h
Speaker 5: RCW Nurseries is loaded with beautiful plants right now. The
Speaker 5: summer color, the things that can take the heat, you know,
Speaker 5: things like gomprina, things like Avobulus. They got a type
Speaker 5: of a bobulist called blue. My mind, blue is in
Speaker 5: bou e because it is gorgeous blue. And this is
Speaker 5: a plant that grows low to the ground, has beautiful
Speaker 5: blue flower, takes the heat. You need to check it out.
Speaker 5: They have pentas right now and oh my gosh, pentas
Speaker 5: called Egyptian starflower track. Butterflies like crazy. You got a
Speaker 5: bright shade or a morning sun afternoon shade kind of location.
Speaker 5: They love that. Lots of gorgeous lantanas. It's you know
Speaker 5: rcw oh. And they're shrubs. They you know, they specialize
Speaker 5: in shrubs and they sew man and trees too, by
Speaker 5: the way, so many options. They have something called the
Speaker 5: emerald colonnade holly. Now what that is. It's a plant,
Speaker 5: but they've trimmed it up as a topiary, so you know,
Speaker 5: you got stem comes up and they have a little
Speaker 5: ball of foliage and the stem comes up in a
Speaker 5: bolla foliage for those formal settings, maybe by the front door.
Speaker 5: You can put them in a big pot if you want.
Speaker 5: Even they are gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. And then one of
Speaker 5: my favorite plants for summer is dipladini denia. Excuse me, Dipladinia.
Speaker 5: It is a beautiful red or white or pink flowers.
Speaker 5: They they look, they look they I don't know how
Speaker 5: to describe them. They're just beautiful. You just have to
Speaker 5: see them. Five pedals and it's a it's a vine
Speaker 5: type plant, but these are particularly in more of a
Speaker 5: compacted type form. Never gets too hot. Set them out
Speaker 5: there on the patio by the pool wherever you want.
Speaker 5: Just give them good sunlight and they will thrive there. RCW,
Speaker 5: by the way, is the garden Center on Beltway eight
Speaker 5: and Tomball Parkway. Right at the corner of Beltway eight
Speaker 5: and Tomball Parkway. You can go to RCW nurseries dot
Speaker 5: com for more information. We are going to go now
Speaker 5: to Rod in Houston. Hello, Rod, Welcome to garden Line. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 5: are you there? Yeah, Hey, thank you. How can we
Speaker 5: help today? I'm calling I'm.
Speaker 3: Trying to figure out is there any way to get
Speaker 3: rid of crab grats?
Speaker 5: Yes, a lot of people call several different things crabgrass.
Speaker 5: Some are one is and the rest aren't. But where
Speaker 5: is it growing? Rod? It's growing in in my grad.
Speaker 3: I have Saint Augustine and is growing inside in different areas.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, if you'll turn that radio down the background,
Speaker 5: if it is in your Saint Augustine and it is crabgrass,
Speaker 5: you're you can't spray and kill a grass in a
Speaker 5: grass in most cases, so you're you're left with hand
Speaker 5: pulling or regular mowing. Uh in the in the spring,
Speaker 5: late winter. In February, you put down a pre emergent
Speaker 5: herbicide that prevents the crabgrass seeds from ever getting started
Speaker 5: in your Saint Augustine lawn. So that's kind of a
Speaker 5: next next February thing that you need to do for it.
Speaker 5: It may be a different kind of grass, though, Rod,
Speaker 5: and so I'd like to make sure we've got the
Speaker 5: right grass. If you would like to take a picture
Speaker 5: of it and send it to me, I'll be happy
Speaker 5: to take a closer look. And it may be that
Speaker 5: we take a different approach based on what I see,
Speaker 5: But I'll just throw that out there. If you're interested,
Speaker 5: I can put you on hold as we're done here,
Speaker 5: and if you want to stick around, my producer will
Speaker 5: give you an email. Just get up close. I would
Speaker 5: even pull some of it, take a picture in the yard,
Speaker 5: but pull some of it up and lay it on
Speaker 5: like a dark table surface or something where you can
Speaker 5: get in and take a real good close picture, because
Speaker 5: that helps me identify it than just a weed out
Speaker 5: there among the grass. It's kind of hard to identify
Speaker 5: sometimes that way, all right, sir, Okay, okay, all right,
Speaker 5: we'll be happy to continue this conversation. You take care,
Speaker 5: get you there on hold. Yeah, well, pest brothers. Oh
Speaker 5: my gosh, you know I got there. There mosquito buckets
Speaker 5: at my house, and I was looking the other day
Speaker 5: and there are mosquito wriggulars all in there.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: Normally, when you look in water around your house and
Speaker 5: you see mosquito regulars, you're thinking, oh my gosh, I'm
Speaker 5: in trouble. I'm thinking, oh boy, things are working because
Speaker 5: they those buckets attract mosquitos. They lay eggs in there.
Speaker 5: Those wrigulars will never become adult mosquitoes. But what will
Speaker 5: happen is the mama mosquito that landed and laid those eggs.
Speaker 5: She picks up a couple of things on her feet
Speaker 5: that will number one kill her by it's a fungus
Speaker 5: that kills mosquitoes. Can you think of a better thing
Speaker 5: to happen to mosquito other than swatting it between your
Speaker 5: hands than a fungus to take it down? And then
Speaker 5: whereverwhere she goes those little stagnant, tiny bits of water
Speaker 5: where mosquitoes can breed, she takes that with her and
Speaker 5: it will the product in the second product in there
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Speaker 5: six seventy heading out to spring. Now we're going to
Speaker 5: talk to Trey. Hello, Trey, welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 12: Hey, Skip, good morning. I sent you over some pictures
Speaker 12: in an email of my patio gardina that has one
Speaker 12: or two leaves on it that are yellowing from time
Speaker 12: to time, and I want to see if I could
Speaker 12: get some feedback from you on on how that plant's doing.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, I'm not seeing a tray email. When did
Speaker 5: you send that out, tray?
Speaker 12: It might have been a week or two ago. I
Speaker 12: wasn't able to call in.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, Oh okay, all right, good. Let me let
Speaker 5: me look a little bit further back here, Uh toon
Speaker 5: there we go? Uh find it here? Yes, okay, you
Speaker 5: had so you're tell me more about how this progressed
Speaker 5: as you first began to see it.
Speaker 12: Just started kind of at the bottom. U posted to
Speaker 12: the soil line and just saw one one kind of
Speaker 12: yellow leaf completely, and then every now and then I'll
Speaker 12: see another one that's starting to turn yellow, and then
Speaker 12: it'll eventually become fully yellow. But it's not a large
Speaker 12: number of them. It's kind of just one two zy
Speaker 12: here and there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks to me like trey. It's just you know,
Speaker 5: our guardias are evergreen, but leaves don't live forever, and
Speaker 5: it just looks like as new growth comes out and
Speaker 5: you know, starts to cover up those old leaves, the
Speaker 5: plant just aborts the older leaves. And that happens on
Speaker 5: live oaks, it happens on pine trees, it happens on
Speaker 5: magnolia trees, and certainly on goade guardina's as well. I
Speaker 5: don't see anything that looks like a problem there. I
Speaker 5: do see some residue on the leaves, or is that
Speaker 5: are you overhead watering them with a sprinkler or.
Speaker 12: Something, or I'm trying to water down down low, but
Speaker 12: I think my yard sprinklers are getting some oversprayed from
Speaker 12: from the Yeah you know the sprinkler heads.
Speaker 5: Yep. Okay, Well, I mean it's not the end of
Speaker 5: the world, you know, if you have a choice, I
Speaker 5: would water down low. It's just a residue from that
Speaker 5: from that water that contains minerals. But I think your
Speaker 5: guardina looks great. I think that is a normal reaction,
Speaker 5: and it looks like it's loaded with the bud so
Speaker 5: they may even be opening by now.
Speaker 12: All right, sounds good. Well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Thank you, skip you bet, thanks for calling to verify that.
Speaker 5: I bet that's a beautiful plan. I can't wait, I go.
Speaker 5: I can almost smell it right now.
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 5: All right, all right, you take care to talk to you.
Speaker 5: Medina products are There's so many Medina products. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's just I don't even know where to begin really.
Speaker 5: When I talk about them, usually I talk about has
Speaker 5: to grow six twelve six. That's the plant food that
Speaker 5: I particularly use it, and you can use it in
Speaker 5: a lot of ways, but I particularly use it when
Speaker 5: I'm transplanting plants. To give it about three good doses
Speaker 5: of hash to grow about a week apart at planting time,
Speaker 5: and you know those plants are established. It's got the
Speaker 5: phosphorus and everything to get them established and for them
Speaker 5: to do well. There are a couple of products. Two
Speaker 5: products for the lawn that don't want to talk about.
Speaker 5: One of us called has to Grow Lawn. You hook
Speaker 5: it up to a garden hose. Has to Grow Lawn
Speaker 5: is a twelve four eight fertilizer, so that's a three
Speaker 5: one two ratio. Like we always recommend, twelve four eight fertilizer.
Speaker 5: Far turf that is and has to Grow lawn is
Speaker 5: simple to use and it works and you're going to
Speaker 5: get a nice quick greenup. Another one is super Grow Plus.
Speaker 5: It's also a has to Grow super Grow Plus. It's
Speaker 5: a sixteen zero two. It's more nitrogen, no phosphorus, a
Speaker 5: little bit of potassium. When you want to give anything
Speaker 5: a boost of nitrogen. I can't think of a better
Speaker 5: way to do it than has to Grow Supergrow Plus
Speaker 5: from Medina sixteen zero two hooks up to a garden hose.
Speaker 5: You can buy it by the gallon too, by the way,
Speaker 5: but it really works. Use it on your tomato plants,
Speaker 5: use it on your lawn, use it on anything you
Speaker 5: want to give a good quick boost to and it'll work.
Speaker 5: Where are we here looking? I always kind of lose
Speaker 5: track of my time here just a little bit. Heirloom
Speaker 5: Soils is a company that has quality mixes period. I
Speaker 5: don't care what you're doing. Like, for example, today I'm
Speaker 5: going to be giving away the works indoor potting soil,
Speaker 5: leaf mold compost, Oh my gosh, great for the lawn,
Speaker 5: and all kinds of uses, hardwood malts. They sell shale
Speaker 5: too there By the way, Heirloom Soil products are available
Speaker 5: by the bag all over Houston and also by bulk.
Speaker 5: You can go to Heirloomsoils dot com Heirloomsoils dot com
Speaker 5: and find them. I have never tried an airloom soils
Speaker 5: product that didn't work very very well. All right, And
Speaker 5: if you want to win one, come out to them
Speaker 5: to Ace Hardware City a memorial and we will get
Speaker 5: you involved in that drawing and you may win one
Speaker 5: as well. I'm looking forward to that. By the way,
Speaker 5: I'll be there from twelve to two twelfth to two today,
Speaker 5: so grab you a bite to eat. Head out there.
Speaker 5: And let's talk those of you who it seems like
Speaker 5: everybody's got a weed problem in they're going pull them up,
Speaker 5: put them in a bag, bring them to me. I'll
Speaker 5: put them under a hot lamp and make them confess
Speaker 5: their name, and then we'll figure out what to do
Speaker 5: for them. Got any bugs, got any pictures of your
Speaker 5: landscape you'd like to What could I plant there? What's
Speaker 5: wrong with this plant? We'll help with that too.
Speaker 8: There.
Speaker 5: Good morning, hey, welcome to garden Line. Good to have
Speaker 5: you with us this morning. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
Speaker 5: and we're here to help you have a dountiful garden
Speaker 5: and a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process.
Speaker 5: Don't forget that last part. It is important gardening should
Speaker 5: be fun. And when does it get to be fun. Well,
Speaker 5: it gets to be fun when we have success, when
Speaker 5: we go out there and we plant something and we enjoy,
Speaker 5: if you will, the fruit of our labors. Okay, Now,
Speaker 5: when you go out and you plant things and they
Speaker 5: don't do well and they die, people say I've got
Speaker 5: a brown thumb.
Speaker 11: You do not.
Speaker 5: I promise you do not have a brown thumb, because
Speaker 5: there's no such thing as a brown thumb. Now, I
Speaker 5: know what that means to say I have a brown thumb,
Speaker 5: but you don't have a brown thumb. You have an
Speaker 5: uninformed thumb. And we're here to inform your thumb. So
Speaker 5: bring your thumb with you to the radio. Let's let's talk.
Speaker 5: And by the way, you can listen to garden Line
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Speaker 5: going outside right now and have your phone in your
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Speaker 5: some early morning tasks done. Maybe it's just walk through
Speaker 5: the garden with a cup of coffee. You got your phone,
Speaker 5: take a picture, send it to me, and then follow
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Speaker 5: It'll be like live from your garden. On garden Line,
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Speaker 5: cororations start around five hundred dollars, depending on your yard
Speaker 5: size and the distance that needs to be traveled. But
Speaker 5: through the month of May, and we are in May, folks,
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Speaker 5: It's just the month of May, okay. So wherever wherever
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Speaker 5: four fifty five ninety eight. We're going to go now
Speaker 5: out to Tumbull and talk to David. Hey, David, welcome
Speaker 5: to the garden Line. Good, good morning, sir.
Speaker 13: Hey, Yes, sir, my schedule, My schedule says that we
Speaker 13: need to be putting barricade down about this time. And
Speaker 13: I could read the label, but I it's easier to
Speaker 13: call you.
Speaker 8: Do you do you.
Speaker 13: Wet the ground first or do you have to wait
Speaker 13: it afterwards?
Speaker 5: No, you wet it afterwards, you put it out waiting
Speaker 5: an annual And I would, Yeah, your let your lawn
Speaker 5: dry out good. We don't want to stick into the
Speaker 5: leaves of the grass. And it's not that that hurts
Speaker 5: the ground. It just just let it dry out good,
Speaker 5: so those granules kind of fall down in the lawn.
Speaker 5: And then turn on the water. And you may want
Speaker 5: to wait a few days before you apply it because
Speaker 5: it's already so wet out there. But turn on the
Speaker 5: water watered in with about a third of an inch
Speaker 5: of irrigation, and that'll get it down in the soil
Speaker 5: where it'll spread out and form a barricade over the
Speaker 5: soil surface, preventing the weed seeds from coming through.
Speaker 13: Should I mow the grass first too.
Speaker 5: You could, but you don't need to you. In fact,
Speaker 5: I would probably wait and put it down watered in
Speaker 5: real good, and then mow the grass because you don't
Speaker 5: want to. You know, when you mow, the clippings get
Speaker 5: down there on the surface, and that's a good thing,
Speaker 5: mult in the surface and decomposing. I'd rather get the
Speaker 5: barricade down and watered in before I drop all the
Speaker 5: clippings in it. If it's not night and day. That's
Speaker 5: how I would do.
Speaker 8: It, all right, David, I'm going to beat it.
Speaker 13: I'm gonna beat them weeds this year, man, I don't.
Speaker 3: I've been having a problem with them, and I've.
Speaker 13: Been putting the barricade down.
Speaker 5: It's doing it.
Speaker 13: I've been having timing issues and I'm still having any
Speaker 13: weed issues.
Speaker 5: Well. Now, the warm season weeds begin. The warm season
Speaker 5: weeds begin germinating back in March. But by that, if
Speaker 5: you put it down early on, like we recommend in February,
Speaker 5: you know, we're looking as I say, March April May,
Speaker 5: that's ninety days out, it would be it would be
Speaker 5: time to do it again. If you need to continue
Speaker 5: that protection on through the summertime. But when you run
Speaker 5: into weeds, you know, you can also take a picture
Speaker 5: of them, email them to me, and it may be
Speaker 5: that we would take a different approach depending on the
Speaker 5: weed and the stage that that weed is in of life.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, thank you, sir.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, thank you. I appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 5: While Birds Unlimited is my favorite place for all things birds,
Speaker 5: and that includes getting information from people that know what
Speaker 5: they're talking about. I ask them a bazillion questions every
Speaker 5: time I talk to somebody from Wilbirds Unlimited it is
Speaker 5: nesting season for many of our songbirds. We got birds
Speaker 5: nesting at our house. The folks at Wallbird's Unlimited I
Speaker 5: is designed. It's really a perfect blend of seeds to
Speaker 5: provide birds what they need most this season. It's called
Speaker 5: Nesting Super Blend and it's only available Wallbird's Unlimited Nesting
Speaker 5: super Blend. It's got things like peanuts, dried meal worms.
Speaker 5: Boy birds love those sunflower chips, bark butter bits, and
Speaker 5: on and on. It's also got extra protein and calcium.
Speaker 5: The calcium helps egg formation, eggshell formation that is, and
Speaker 5: a skeletal development for their nesting birds. For your nesting birds,
Speaker 5: you can purchase Nesting Super Blend from wild Birds Unlimited
Speaker 5: loose and seed bags, or you can buy it in
Speaker 5: little compacted seed cylinders if they have to peck the
Speaker 5: seeds out to get it. Whatever you do, look for
Speaker 5: it at any of the six Wildbirds Unlimited stores here
Speaker 5: in the Greater Houston area, and that includes adding Kingwood
Speaker 5: on Kingwood Drive, down in clear Lake on El Dorado Boulevard,
Speaker 5: in Paarland, on East Broadway, up in Cypress on Barker Cypress,
Speaker 5: or in Houston on the West Side. There is a
Speaker 5: Memorial Drive store, and then down south in Houston there's
Speaker 5: a bel Air store and while you're there, pick up
Speaker 5: their high perch hummingbird feeder. It's my favorite nectar feeder
Speaker 5: for hummingbirds and it's available at Wildbird's Unlimited. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: have to run take a break, Darryl and Angleton, you
Speaker 5: will be our first up when we come back. Hey,
Speaker 5: good to have you with us. Welcome back to Garden Line.
Speaker 5: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help
Speaker 5: you have a bountiful, beautiful, enjoyable garden. That's what we
Speaker 5: like to do. If you have indoor house plants that
Speaker 5: you haven't potted up in a while or bumped up
Speaker 5: to a larger pot, you may consider that. You know,
Speaker 5: once a houseplant gets let's say bigger than three times
Speaker 5: the size of the pot, like if a pot were
Speaker 5: I'll make up a number. Let's say it's eight inches wide.
Speaker 5: Once that plant is twenty four inches wide, that's three times.
Speaker 5: That's about a time to consider repotting it. Now, that's
Speaker 5: a very generic statement. There's a lot of different kinds
Speaker 5: of plants. It doesn't apply to all exactly, but just
Speaker 5: give you a rough idea. When plants get root bound,
Speaker 5: need to bump them up to a beare pot. And
Speaker 5: if you're going to do that, you need a quality
Speaker 5: product like jungle Land indoor water saving potting soil. The
Speaker 5: water saving means there's crystals in it. It holds that
Speaker 5: water so that when you forget the water, I know
Speaker 5: you don't, but when your neighbor forgets the water, it
Speaker 5: holds onto the water, so the plants have access to
Speaker 5: moisture for a little bit longer to kind of carry
Speaker 5: them into that. It's quality product. It drains well, but
Speaker 5: it does hold that moisture. And you're going to find
Speaker 5: jungle Land product or jungle Land nitro fastproduct. I like
Speaker 5: the jungle in. You're going to find it in places like,
Speaker 5: for example, Memorial Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, where
Speaker 5: I will be today. I'll be there today from twelve
Speaker 5: to two at Ace Hardware City and we are going
Speaker 5: to be providing a number of giveaways and answering your
Speaker 5: gardening questions and having a really good time. I hope
Speaker 5: you'll come by and do that. If you're up in
Speaker 5: the Woodlands. Night FoST products can be found at Ospas
Speaker 5: Ace on Kirkandall Road and in the Katie area Katie
Speaker 5: Hardware Ace on Pinoak another example of where you can
Speaker 5: find night FoST products. Let's head out to Engleton now
Speaker 5: we're going to visit with Darryl. Hey, Daryl, welcome to
Speaker 5: guard Line.
Speaker 8: Hey, you getting mourners skip?
Speaker 1: What can I do about these these borders to get
Speaker 1: my squash every year?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 5: Have you already got them this year? Or you're just
Speaker 5: kind of getting ahead of it? Are you already seeing
Speaker 5: one there? Okay? QUI Yeah? Squashvine bore is it's a pain.
Speaker 5: It's a little if you haven't seen the adult before.
Speaker 5: It's a black and orange moth that looks like a
Speaker 5: wasp that sits on the leaves and flies around and
Speaker 5: during the morning, early in the morning, you can see
Speaker 5: them just sitting on the leaves. They're laying eggs, single eggs.
Speaker 5: They'll lay them typically on the stem down at the
Speaker 5: ground or on a petiole, which is long stalks that
Speaker 5: the leaves are on. Uh and then they bore in.
Speaker 5: So you either are treating the stem so that when
Speaker 5: they try to chew through it, it kills them because
Speaker 5: you have a pesticide on that stem. Or you are
Speaker 5: splitting the vine where you see the sawdust coming out
Speaker 5: and using your knife point to go in there and
Speaker 5: kill that that worm, splitting it lengthwise. You know it's
Speaker 5: a wound, but the vine generally can can survive that splitting,
Speaker 5: but not the chewing of the caterpillar on my squash.
Speaker 5: What I'll do, Steve, Steve, I'm sorry, Darryl, is to
Speaker 5: put a garden mesh fabric over the plants. It's like
Speaker 5: a very soft windows screen kind of thing, you know,
Speaker 5: a little checkerboard of squares that the bugs can't get through,
Speaker 5: and you could lay it over to the ground, put
Speaker 5: something on it so it doesn't blow off, and you
Speaker 5: leave it on there until the first female squash open.
Speaker 5: Typically on squash, you get a few male ballooms open
Speaker 5: and then you start to get the fruit blooms the
Speaker 5: female blooms. When that happens, you got two options. You
Speaker 5: can either lift it up, go out in the mornings,
Speaker 5: lift it up and do a little hand pollinating yourself.
Speaker 5: Or you can just take it off, at which point
Speaker 5: the vine borers are going to find it. But by
Speaker 5: the time they find it and then lay eggs, and
Speaker 5: the eggs hatch and on you get a decent little
Speaker 5: yield to squash before it takes the vine down. So
Speaker 5: those are kind of the options. If you're gonna spray,
Speaker 5: you want to spray late in the day. You want
Speaker 5: to direct your spray to the vines themselves, give them
Speaker 5: a good coating with an secticide that's gonna be persisting
Speaker 5: there on the surface. Avoid spraying when the blooms are open,
Speaker 5: because we've got bees out, and if you get spray
Speaker 5: in the blooms, you're gonna kill your important pollinator that's
Speaker 5: helping you have squash. All right, Not easy, but it's
Speaker 5: it's an option. You bet, thanks a lot, appreciate appreciate
Speaker 5: your call, Darryl very much. Nelson Plant Food has so
Speaker 5: many great products, but they have these these canisters or jars.
Speaker 5: They're clear with a big, big wide screw top lid,
Speaker 5: and they come as part of the Nutris Star line.
Speaker 5: They come in everything you can imagine. You know, there's
Speaker 5: one for hibiscus and flowering tropicals. You know, there is
Speaker 5: one for azaleas, there's one for areas, there's one for
Speaker 5: indoor plants. There's one for bougainvillias and vegetables and on
Speaker 5: and on uh and they work. That's as simple as
Speaker 5: that they work. There's about a dozen places around town
Speaker 5: where you can get those jars refilled, which is an
Speaker 5: economical way to go about it. Nelson also has Color Star,
Speaker 5: their most famous of all their products. I mean it's
Speaker 5: sold all over the country. Literally, people find out about
Speaker 5: it and they want it shipped out to them across
Speaker 5: the country. And there's a reason. It's good stuff. By
Speaker 5: the way, I'm going to be given away several jars
Speaker 5: of the Color Star or maybe some Azalea plumeria indoor
Speaker 5: plant boogabee. I've got a lot of those that I'll
Speaker 5: have on hand today out at Memorial Drive. Ace Hardware
Speaker 5: store it's called Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, will
Speaker 5: be there from twelve to two, So come out and
Speaker 5: check it out. You're going to find these Nelson plant
Speaker 5: foods all over town. They're widely available and like I said,
Speaker 5: they work, and I know that because I've used them.
Speaker 5: Let's set up the Deer Park now we're going to
Speaker 5: talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Yes, can here be okay?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir?
Speaker 11: Hello, Okay, Yes, I just sent you an email. I
Speaker 11: hope you got it. It shows a blade of grass.
Speaker 11: I've got it in a pretty big area of the
Speaker 11: lawn that Scott looks like that. The grass is green
Speaker 11: and the tips are all brown looking.
Speaker 5: Okay, Steve, I don't have it. Let me put you
Speaker 5: on hold, and I'm going to have my producer get
Speaker 5: with you. Make sure we got the right email, and
Speaker 5: if not, I may have to have you resend it.
Speaker 5: Just hang on here. I will keep watching in the
Speaker 5: meantime because I need to be able to see that
Speaker 5: in order to give a good answer to the question.
Speaker 5: Plants for All Seasons is the garden center that is
Speaker 5: right there where Luetta comes into Tomball Parkway, which is
Speaker 5: also called Highway to forty nine. Plants for All Seasons,
Speaker 5: just north of Luetta on Highway to forty nine. I
Speaker 5: was in there the other day looking at all the
Speaker 5: color and oh my gosh. They the place is loaded
Speaker 5: up and it really looks good. Lots of lots of
Speaker 5: good color plants, lots of good plants for ground covers,
Speaker 5: the herbs that they have, the hanging basket plants that
Speaker 5: they have. I mean, it's just really, really beautiful. There
Speaker 5: is a number of different kinds of plants. There's always
Speaker 5: a new plant coming out every year, dozens of new plants.
Speaker 5: There's right now, there's one. It's a type of portolaco
Speaker 5: or personallyane kind of plant. It's called color Blasts double
Speaker 5: and it is. It's amazing. The blooms. I don't know
Speaker 5: how to describe them. It's almost like they look like
Speaker 5: it's not many roses, but they just have a whole
Speaker 5: lot of petals all bunched together in gorgeous hot hot colors,
Speaker 5: beautiful colors. So you ought to go out there and
Speaker 5: check them out. Why are you there? Go ahead and
Speaker 5: check out some of the other plants that they have.
Speaker 5: They have excellent bedding plants.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 5: I was talking earlier about it's time with the vegetables
Speaker 5: to be planting things that like like summer. Well, they
Speaker 5: have seeds and plants of all kinds of vegetables and
Speaker 5: flowers and herbs, and they have the ones that you
Speaker 5: need to plant now so that when it gets hotter
Speaker 5: and hotter, they just keep looking good, they just keep growing,
Speaker 5: they just keep looking good again. That's plants for all seasons.
Speaker 5: On Tamaa Park, we had with two forty nine just
Speaker 5: north of Lueta two eight, one three, seven, six one
Speaker 5: six four six two eight one three seven six sixteen
Speaker 5: forty six. When it comes to our trees, you know,
Speaker 5: trees get our attention when we have a storm and
Speaker 5: all the trees come crashing down like happened twice last year.
Speaker 5: And it doesn't have to be a hurricane. It can
Speaker 5: be any kind of summer storm. As we learned again
Speaker 5: last year. Martinspo Moore's company, Affordable Tree. This is a
Speaker 5: family business. They've been doing it a long time. They've
Speaker 5: been sponsors a garden line for a very long time.
Speaker 5: Martin knows this stuff, you know, he's been doing this
Speaker 5: for gosh. I actually he's third generation, a third generation
Speaker 5: that I know of, to be part of our garden
Speaker 5: line team. Here, Affordable Tree Service comes out, They look
Speaker 5: at what the situation is. They give you an honest,
Speaker 5: accurate assessment. Let you know what's going on when you
Speaker 5: call him, and here's the number seven to one, three, six, nine, nine,
Speaker 5: two six sixty three. Probably this is a family business.
Speaker 5: So you're probably going to talk to Martin's mom. Tell
Speaker 5: her you heard about us on Guardenline. Guardline customers are
Speaker 5: their number one priority. I'm gonna get that phone number
Speaker 5: again seven one three six ninety nine two six six three.
Speaker 5: Whether you need consult consultations on your trees, maybe you're
Speaker 5: going to have some construction done, Oh my gosh. Pre
Speaker 5: construction care is very important. Do not let anybody come
Speaker 5: out to your place and do trenching or construction or
Speaker 5: anything that affects the root system of a tree without
Speaker 5: calling Affordable Tree first. They do also do deep root
Speaker 5: feeding and pest and disease control. They can do stump grinding. Certainly,
Speaker 5: they do pruning and getting your trees pruned properly prior
Speaker 5: to their arrival of the next storm is important. Affordable
Speaker 5: Tree Service seven one three six ninety nine two six
Speaker 5: sixty three. You're listening to garden Line, We're here to
Speaker 5: help you have success in what you're doing on your gardening.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I do is give me a call seven
Speaker 5: one three two one two KTRH. So a lot of
Speaker 5: people will send a photo and then call. I'm not
Speaker 5: able just by sheer numbers. I'm just not able to
Speaker 5: answer all the emails by typing out answers and sometimes
Speaker 5: it's more in depth the answer. And so if you
Speaker 5: can send me a photo and follow it with a call,
Speaker 5: especially if it's like, what's this weed on or what
Speaker 5: kind of flower is this? Or what's wrong with this plant?
Speaker 5: I get a lot of those. A good sharp photo,
Speaker 5: and let me just coach you a little bit on
Speaker 5: this so that I can help you, because if I
Speaker 5: get a fuzzy photo, you'll get a fuzzy answer, and
Speaker 5: we don't want either to happen. Take a picture of
Speaker 5: the plant overall, and then go in up close. Now
Speaker 5: you know if it's a bug or if it's a
Speaker 5: tiny weed in the lawn. Get as close as you can,
Speaker 5: and before you send it to me, look and make
Speaker 5: sure it's in sharp focus, and you can blow it
Speaker 5: up really good. Don't downsize the photo if you get
Speaker 5: up close like that. Sometimes it helps to pull up
Speaker 5: a weed and set it on the table on a
Speaker 5: dark surface and take a picture of that because I
Speaker 5: can see it better. Get pictures sometimes the weeds that
Speaker 5: are all woven into the grass, and I can hardly
Speaker 5: make out what the weed is because it's too far away.
Speaker 5: When you send it to me, attach it to the photo.
Speaker 5: I attach it to the email. Don't embed it in
Speaker 5: the text. If you can get it attached, it's much
Speaker 5: easier for me to open and zoom in while I'm
Speaker 5: trying to do three things at once. I don't walk
Speaker 5: into your gum at the same time very well. So
Speaker 5: if you can attach it, it also helps. But sharp
Speaker 5: focus is the number one thing. And you can call
Speaker 5: my producer and he will give you the details on
Speaker 5: how to do that. I'm'll take a little break and
Speaker 5: we'll be right back after the half hour break here
Speaker 5: with your questions. Hey, welcome to Garden Line. Glad to
Speaker 5: have you with us. You've heard me talk about Sweet
Speaker 5: Green before. It's a unique fertilizer. Nitrofoss really did their
Speaker 5: homework in creating this. This is eleven percent nitrogen, which
Speaker 5: a really high nitrogen content for an organic fertilizer. You
Speaker 5: put it out there, it melts away into the soil
Speaker 5: and the beneficial bacteria and other microbes they just love it.
Speaker 5: They like carbon. They need carbon, right and when you
Speaker 5: provide them that, they're gonna do well, and that is
Speaker 5: sweet It really rejuvenates and just encourages them to take
Speaker 5: off and do very very very well. Sweet Green is
Speaker 5: available in a lot of places around town. You're gonna
Speaker 5: find it in spots like court hardware, on South Maine
Speaker 5: down there in Stafford. You go to M and D
Speaker 5: out in Rosenberg on Avenue I. They're going to carry
Speaker 5: night Foss products out there, Enchanted Gardens on FM three
Speaker 5: fifty nine out in the Richmond Rosenberg area, and Hiding
Speaker 5: and feed Stuben Airline. I don't think I said that
Speaker 5: one on I forty five North. Places you can get
Speaker 5: quality products from night Foss, like sweet Green. And by
Speaker 5: the way, it's time to get that done. If you
Speaker 5: haven't for Lizer lawn in the last six weeks and
Speaker 5: you haven't used the slow release yet, it'd be a
Speaker 5: good time to do the Sweet Green. Let's head out
Speaker 5: to Steve in Deer Park. Hey, Steve, you know I'm
Speaker 5: still not getting your email and don't I don't know
Speaker 5: what's going on, but let's try to answer your question
Speaker 5: without me actually looking at the picture. Give me a
Speaker 5: description again. I think you said there was yellow or
Speaker 5: brown tips on the grass blades.
Speaker 11: Well, the grass is like green at the base, but
Speaker 11: the tips are kind of brown and a little shrivel
Speaker 11: like I guess.
Speaker 5: Okay, when you look at the blades, are you seeing
Speaker 5: are you seeing spots on the leaves? Are you seeing
Speaker 5: spots along the blades.
Speaker 11: Dead or spots mostly on the end. So, like I say,
Speaker 11: the bottom part of it is green.
Speaker 8: I can walk out here and look at some I guests.
Speaker 11: If I can.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 5: anything that attacks the ends of leaf blades. You know,
Speaker 5: if they wasn't getting enough water, which that's absolutely not
Speaker 5: the cause. But if it wasn't, it wouldn't give those symptoms.
Speaker 5: If it was getting too water, it wouldn't give those symptoms.
Speaker 5: If Yeah, the only thing I can think of is
Speaker 5: have you applied a salt based a synthetic fertilizer that
Speaker 5: might have been a little excessive in the application recently.
Speaker 11: Well, I applied some of the nitro foss weed and feed.
Speaker 11: It's not recent, it's been a little.
Speaker 5: While, okay, And I don't think that's a Yeah, it's
Speaker 5: not every well, this is strange.
Speaker 11: It's not every leaf. It's some of the leaves have
Speaker 11: it and some are.
Speaker 5: Some are but anyway, yeah, and no spots though, you're
Speaker 5: not seeing circular ish spots along any of the grass
Speaker 5: blades anywhere, even on the end.
Speaker 11: No, I don't think so. I thought at first it
Speaker 11: might be a fungus. But I think it's the wrong
Speaker 11: time of year for that isn't either.
Speaker 5: We're getting close to great leaf spot season and I
Speaker 5: was just.
Speaker 8: Trying to think of that.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I guess boy. I wish I could see
Speaker 5: a picture of it. I don't know what's happening. I've
Speaker 5: looked in my junk mail and all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 5: and I'm just not seeing it. And so you did,
Speaker 5: did verify the email with my producer?
Speaker 11: Well, it's gardening with Skip Brickner at iHeartMedia dot com
Speaker 11: right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you've got it right. All right, Well, let's do this.
Speaker 5: Let me put you back on hold Alejandra, I need
Speaker 5: you to verify that email. I think I think we
Speaker 5: need to do a change on that. Hang on, Steve,
Speaker 5: I'm hang on. I'll come back to you after you
Speaker 5: make a change on it. I'm going to run out
Speaker 5: now to Port Arthur and talk to Alan. Hello, Alan,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning.
Speaker 7: How are you this morning?
Speaker 8: I'm well, okay.
Speaker 14: My question is about a lime tree I have. It's
Speaker 14: a I don't know what kind of but it makes
Speaker 14: a little mini lines but it's doing healthy and it's
Speaker 14: started to produce some lines. But all of a sudden,
Speaker 14: I got little black spots that appear to be on
Speaker 14: the inside of the leaf because I can't rub them off,
Speaker 14: them off for any day, and the leads a turney
Speaker 14: black spots, and then the leads are turning real black
Speaker 14: and curling up. I can't figure out what's causing this.
Speaker 5: There's little spots interesting there, a little.
Speaker 14: Beatty, a little bitty spot. But I go out of town,
Speaker 14: I've gone five days a week, and I come back
Speaker 14: and I find it like this here. So I those
Speaker 14: little betty spots that turn into that whole big old
Speaker 14: black spot and the leaves curling up or what this
Speaker 14: seems to be internal?
Speaker 5: Hm, okay, it could be something that's bacterial. It could
Speaker 5: also be oh gosh, there's there's a lot of possibility.
Speaker 5: This is another one. We're seeing. A photo I think
Speaker 5: would would probably help. Boy. Let's if you can, if
Speaker 5: you can send I'm gonna give you some answer possibilities,
Speaker 5: and then if you could send me a picture. I
Speaker 5: think that that that might be that might be most
Speaker 5: helpful if I can take a look, and and maybe
Speaker 5: I'll get another opinion when I actually see it. Sometimes
Speaker 5: things that that get described on the air and things
Speaker 5: that get formed in my mind or are two different,
Speaker 5: two different things. Okay, so there's there. Yeah, there's a number.
Speaker 5: There's a number of different issues that can occur on
Speaker 5: on limes and other types of citrus, and there are
Speaker 5: some it could be like a bacterial type of spot.
Speaker 5: There's a disease called greasy spot that can affect citrus
Speaker 5: leaves and it's kind of a black colored oration. There
Speaker 5: are it's a possibility. You said it's not on the leaf,
Speaker 5: it's in the leaf.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 8: I cannot wipe it off.
Speaker 5: I can't scrape it off my.
Speaker 8: Fingernails or anything.
Speaker 5: So is it bumpy at all?
Speaker 1: No, it's just mood.
Speaker 14: This can be.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm eliminating things as we asked this. There's a product.
Speaker 5: There's a disease called altern area brown spot that can
Speaker 5: affect the leaves and it'll cause some black spots on it.
Speaker 5: It can appear in the fruit as well. Yeah. Other
Speaker 5: than those, I'm kind of trying to rack my brain
Speaker 5: here on some others that it might be. How much
Speaker 5: what percentage of the plant would you say of the
Speaker 5: plant's leaves are affected?
Speaker 14: I just just got home last night. I think like
Speaker 14: that out of town working. I just walked aro and
Speaker 14: looked at it.
Speaker 8: I just noticed.
Speaker 14: I would say it's less twenty five percent less than.
Speaker 8: Twenty five percent.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well I think it'll be okay, Yeah, I think
Speaker 5: it'll be okay. It may be if you can take
Speaker 5: some pictures and send them to me. I may end
Speaker 5: up recommending a specific kind of a spray for it.
Speaker 5: But right now, my gut feeling is I wouldn't worry
Speaker 5: about it. Try to avoid overhead watering. I know you
Speaker 5: can't control rain, but try to try to avoid that.
Speaker 5: And in the meantime, I'm going to put you on
Speaker 5: hold and have my producer give you an email, and
Speaker 5: I'd like to see some really good close up pictures
Speaker 5: and good sharp takers. Okay, all right, Ellen, thanks a lot, appreciate.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that a lot. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens
Speaker 5: just out there, and Katie Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens
Speaker 5: is it's a destination garden center, is the bottom line.
Speaker 5: If you've never been out there, you gotta go. If
Speaker 5: you have, you know what I'm talking about. Their nursery
Speaker 5: is outstanding, all kinds of beautiful plants they got a
Speaker 5: really nice select of adranges right now, some beautiful beautiful
Speaker 5: day lilies. Oh and all just asiatic lilies too. Those
Speaker 5: are the kinds that are up on long, tall stalks.
Speaker 5: Got a whole bunch of bloom buds at the top
Speaker 5: that open up, just gorgeous, gorgeous bloom. But now while
Speaker 5: you're out there, you gotta see their water features. There's
Speaker 5: so many cool water features and the sound of water
Speaker 5: is you need it in your garden. I say that
Speaker 5: because I need it in mind. I so enjoy our
Speaker 5: water features outside. It's just nice, it's lovely, and you
Speaker 5: need to go check that out. Of course, they have
Speaker 5: everything you need coluding fish, including the plants that go
Speaker 5: into a water garden. So go out and check them out.
Speaker 5: Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. By the way, they're located
Speaker 5: on Katie Fort Ben Road, just north of the Katie Freeway.
Speaker 5: You turn north on Katie Fort Ben Roads. It's just
Speaker 5: a hop, skipping and jump down the street on the
Speaker 5: right hand side. Open Monday through Saturday nine to six
Speaker 5: and Sundays from eleven am to four pm. We're going
Speaker 5: to now go to Steve and Deer Park.
Speaker 11: Steve, Yeah, can you look and see if you see
Speaker 11: my email this time. I think I got it this time.
Speaker 5: Okay, yes, I did. It did come through. There we go. Okay,
Speaker 5: let me get where I can see this. That is
Speaker 5: gray leaf spot. That's great leaf spot causing that. And
Speaker 5: it's a fungal disease. And it loves mild temperatures, warm
Speaker 5: mild temperatures, and it loves high humidity or high moisture.
Speaker 5: So we get a lot of range. You're going to
Speaker 5: see gray leaf spot. You irrigate a lot too frequently,
Speaker 5: and you're going to see gray leaf spot. And you
Speaker 5: can use a funge aside to shut it down, but
Speaker 5: I would recommend instead that you just mow it, ignore
Speaker 5: it at this point, and avoid any extra watering, don't
Speaker 5: push it with too much nitrogen. But if you need
Speaker 5: to go to a fungicide, there are good lawn fungicides
Speaker 5: that can help shut this disease down. I'm running real
Speaker 5: short on time, but that would be the bottom line
Speaker 5: for it. Nitrophos has a product that's a disease control
Speaker 5: product that comes in the bag. There's one that's totally
Speaker 5: like a total disease control type product that works very well.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna have to run, folks, So we're coming close
Speaker 5: here to a break. If you have got standing water,
Speaker 5: you will have mosquitoes. And mosquito dunks are a great solution.
Speaker 5: You got a little spot that's got some water in it,
Speaker 5: Maybe it's a catch basin under a plant. You can't
Speaker 5: remember to turn them over and dump it out all
Speaker 5: the time. Well, put some Mosquita dunk granules in there.
Speaker 5: It'll work. You got standing water, Mosquita dunk granules looks
Speaker 5: like a little donut. You can break them up if
Speaker 5: you don't need as much. One doughnut covers one hundred
Speaker 5: square feet, lasts about a month. Really works well, and
Speaker 5: you're going to find it all over the place. Garden centers,
Speaker 5: feed stores, ace hardware store all carry these Mosquita dunk products.
Speaker 5: Time for me to take a little break now and
Speaker 5: I'll be right back. Ah beach boys, it can only
Speaker 5: mean one thing. It is summer. Summer is here, I know,
Speaker 5: don't rush its skip it gets hot. Well, there we go.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 5: We are here to help you have bounty beauty and
Speaker 5: good times out there in the garden. Everybody cares about
Speaker 5: their lawn Number one call I get relates to lawns.
Speaker 5: That's it. Of all the plants, nobody calls me about
Speaker 5: their Cole Robbie, but lawns that's number one. And how
Speaker 5: do you have a good lawn? Will you take care
Speaker 5: of it? And there's a lot of things we do
Speaker 5: to take care of our lawn, but one of the
Speaker 5: single most important things when you're dealing with the lawn
Speaker 5: that is thin, that has compaction, that is struggling and
Speaker 5: trying to recover from all kinds of disease and insect
Speaker 5: and drought and things like that, is aeration followed by
Speaker 5: compost top dressing. Simple as that cororation pulls a plug
Speaker 5: out of the ground and drops it on the surface.
Speaker 5: If you've got a thatch problem, that also helps thatch
Speaker 5: to decompose very rapidly by getting those plugs up on
Speaker 5: the surface in the thatch area. Then you put on
Speaker 5: the compost top dressing. A very fine, finely screened compost
Speaker 5: falls down in the holes, goes down to the surface.
Speaker 5: It helps the soil biology, It brings oxygen into the soil.
Speaker 5: It helps out lawn take water in at a better rate,
Speaker 5: and that is important too. The bottom line is it
Speaker 5: helps the lawn. Now, Greenpro, those are our folks that
Speaker 5: service the area northwest quadrant of Houston. We're talking about
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Speaker 5: We're going to head now out to Laporte and talk
Speaker 5: to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Hi, how are you doing?
Speaker 5: I'm doing well today. I'm doing well. How can we help?
Speaker 15: Uh?
Speaker 16: Well, i have a small garden in front of my
Speaker 16: house and I've been I've had it. I've had the
Speaker 16: house now for twelve years, and uh, every year it
Speaker 16: seems like that I'm I'm moulting it over, weeds are growing,
Speaker 16: I'm multed over our plant plants, and they die and
Speaker 16: then spring comes back around and I mulch it again,
Speaker 16: and it's just an ongoing thing. So really, what my
Speaker 16: question is that I want to produce a garden that's
Speaker 16: going to be more stable and it's going to last longer,
Speaker 16: and the plants won't die and grow and die and grow,
Speaker 16: and uh, you.
Speaker 5: Know something like that.
Speaker 16: And then and also you know, I mean I live
Speaker 16: in southeast Houston, so the grass just I mean, ben,
Speaker 16: it just comes in, you know, it tries to take over,
Speaker 16: you know, because I have said augustine grass.
Speaker 8: And so it's just an ongoing problem.
Speaker 16: So I'm trying to figure out a solution for that.
Speaker 5: All right, it sounds like you have an in the
Speaker 5: ground garden, not a raised bed. Is that correct? That's correct? Okay, Well,
Speaker 5: one good solution that I do is and you can
Speaker 5: garden in the ground. I mean, farmers do it all
Speaker 5: the time. But I like to do the raised box
Speaker 5: beds because you can put a high quality mix in them.
Speaker 5: It gets them up above the ground. So you're saying,
Speaker 5: Augustine's not gonna be crawling in there. And it's a
Speaker 5: good weed free soil to begin with. And I just
Speaker 5: think you get better performance, the drainage is better. I
Speaker 5: don't know everything that might be contributing to your garden woes.
Speaker 5: It could be a lack of sunlight. It could be
Speaker 5: some droughty conditions. It could be a tight clay soil.
Speaker 5: I mean, there are a lot of factors face a
Speaker 5: garden to struggle.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it faces the west side, do west okay?
Speaker 5: Well? Of course, Then there's the blast of the late
Speaker 5: day sun. Most of our fruiting vegetables need six hours
Speaker 5: of sun in order to do reasonably well, so that
Speaker 5: that could be a factor. I would suggest putting in
Speaker 5: some sort of a box around it, whether you know,
Speaker 5: you go out and invest in like a veggo bed,
Speaker 5: or whether you build some structure yourself that or even
Speaker 5: just have a raised mound where you bring in quality
Speaker 5: soil and the side slope up so that your garden
Speaker 5: looks like you know, you go out to West Texas
Speaker 5: those mesas where the side slope up and then you
Speaker 5: have a flat top a mountain. You sort of do
Speaker 5: that as a garden bed without any side. You can
Speaker 5: do it either way. Good quality saw mix, good nutrition
Speaker 5: and dependable moisture and decent sunlight. Those are all keys
Speaker 5: to success. Now, the mulches should keep down weed seeds
Speaker 5: if it's if it is a perennial weed like bermuda
Speaker 5: grass coming in there. Mulch isn't going to stop it
Speaker 5: at all. But if it's an annual, the mulching should
Speaker 5: stop the weed seeds. But I think we're looking at nutrition, drainage,
Speaker 5: maybe some other factors like that, based on what you
Speaker 5: told me. Okay, so you're suggesting a raised box.
Speaker 16: And when you say that, when you say a box,
Speaker 16: when you say a boxed.
Speaker 5: Garden, what do you mean by that? Does that basically
Speaker 5: mean like, well, yeah, go go look at a go
Speaker 5: look at a product called gosh I just said. I
Speaker 5: just said the name of it, and it just jumped
Speaker 5: out of my head. I'll think of it in a second. Anyway,
Speaker 5: there are metal sided corrugated painted beds that you put
Speaker 5: together and you know they may be sides may only
Speaker 5: be eleven inches high. In fact, that's plenty high for you.
Speaker 5: Eleven inches h And then you fill it with a
Speaker 5: quality mix like heirloom soils of veggie and herb mix,
Speaker 5: and now you grow in that and and then you
Speaker 5: add your nutrients. You get a good fertilizer for for
Speaker 5: plants that uh uh, you know, vegetables and herbs and
Speaker 5: things like that, and and you do success Vego bed
Speaker 5: is the one I was trying to think of v
Speaker 5: E G O that. Now that's just one brand, and
Speaker 5: you know, some people make their own out of treated wood.
Speaker 5: Some people, you know, put bricks around this. I just
Speaker 5: get you a good quality bed. But go look at
Speaker 5: a Vego and that that's kind of the thing I'm
Speaker 5: talking about. If you don't like the look of that,
Speaker 5: find some other way to box in a raised quality
Speaker 5: garden mix. I'm running out of time here, Matt, but
Speaker 5: I do wish you well. I hope that works out,
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Speaker 5: Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Well, we ran out
Speaker 5: of time. Jordan and Kingwood, you'll be first up if
Speaker 5: you can wait until we come back, and I'll be
Speaker 5: back to answer your gardening questions as well. All right,
Speaker 5: we're back, Welcome back to the garden line. Let's just
Speaker 5: do this. We're gonna jump right out there. Jordan, you've
Speaker 5: been patiently waiting for a while here. Let's go right
Speaker 5: out here and talk to Jordan in Kingwood. I'm good.
Speaker 5: How are you doing?
Speaker 12: Not too bad?
Speaker 1: I've got kind of a one off here, and I've
Speaker 1: listened to your show for quite a while and done
Speaker 1: a great job so far. But I've got it. I've
Speaker 1: got a tree here and it's it's it's.
Speaker 3: An orange tree.
Speaker 1: It's about twenty twenty foot tall and about halfway up right.
Speaker 1: So the ranches, like from fifty percent upward are oranges
Speaker 1: and from the bottom half are lemons. But the lemons
Speaker 1: look the exact same as the oranges, and it's the
Speaker 1: same exact tree. They're about the size of the softball.
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to figure out if it's a hybrid
Speaker 1: or if in some way possibly something got crossbred or grafted,
Speaker 1: or this is like a common thing. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 5: Well, that is weird. Yeah, both the lemons and the
Speaker 5: oranges are about the size of a softball or the
Speaker 5: yellow fruit and the orange fruit is about both about
Speaker 5: the size of a.
Speaker 1: Softball, correct, And they look likegantic softball oranges. And so
Speaker 1: it produces about two hundred of them. But the upper
Speaker 1: branches are taste like taste like an orange, and then
Speaker 1: the bottom are totally eleventh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 5: Okay, h Well, I'm trying to think about the ways
Speaker 5: that could happen. Yeah, it could be grafted, it could
Speaker 5: be a genetic change, genetic change in it look closely
Speaker 5: at the at where the change occurs and look at
Speaker 5: the at the trunk there or the branch where you know,
Speaker 5: like where where does the You can just follow the
Speaker 5: branches down and where does that change happen? And look
Speaker 5: around there and see if you see signs of a graft,
Speaker 5: you know, or something if you're just normal bandard growth.
Speaker 5: How long have you have? You had this tree?
Speaker 1: About eight, eight or nine years? I mean, so we
Speaker 1: usually we don't know what else to do with two
Speaker 1: hundred of these things, so we just make wine out
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 5: Okay, So it's been this way all along or it
Speaker 5: just recently changed like this.
Speaker 1: No, that's always been That's why it's weird.
Speaker 5: Okay, would you do this, Jordan? Would you take a
Speaker 5: picture of the tree when it is well, Actually, it'd
Speaker 5: be helpful. It doesn't have fruit on it right now,
Speaker 5: does it.
Speaker 1: It'll be December probably, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'd like to see the tree and then see the fruit.
Speaker 5: Even cut through a few fruit and let me look
Speaker 5: at them and make sure which species of citrus we're
Speaker 5: dealing with. You know, something can be a little different color,
Speaker 5: but it's just a color that's changed. It's not the fruit.
Speaker 5: But you're describing the lemons as being lemonee in their flavor.
Speaker 5: That is a big lemon. The lemons do they have
Speaker 5: super thick skins.
Speaker 1: It's the same consistency as the orange. So yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty thick.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But also, and then the follow up question was, you know,
Speaker 1: I like because I've germinated, like in planted, you know,
Speaker 1: seeds from that and it's grown. You know, for about
Speaker 1: two years, I wanted to see if those might be
Speaker 1: able to produce fruit. I don't know if that's a
Speaker 1: thing or not, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I tried it.
Speaker 5: Oh that's that's a great idea. Yeah, very very important
Speaker 5: to try that. Very good. Now you took the fruit,
Speaker 5: the seeds out of the lemon or the orange or both.
Speaker 1: I call it a lorrange.
Speaker 5: But I'm saying, but you're taking the seeds out of
Speaker 5: the the orange fruit of yellow fruit.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, they're both orange.
Speaker 8: They look the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're the exact thing.
Speaker 5: Oh it's not yellow.
Speaker 1: They look they look identical. But but but the upper
Speaker 1: ones tastes just like an orange, and the lower ones
Speaker 1: tastes just like a lemon. So it's very kind of odd.
Speaker 5: Well, you got my curiosity up let's take I'd love
Speaker 5: to see you know, when the fruit come back again.
Speaker 5: Let me give me a call back. Let's or email me.
Speaker 5: I'll be glad to look into this further because I'd
Speaker 5: like to get to the bottom of it. Right now.
Speaker 5: They're just several possibilities, but none of them sound quiet right,
Speaker 5: so but thanks for asking. But please do stick with
Speaker 5: this and get back with me because I'd like to
Speaker 5: help pursue solving this one.
Speaker 1: Okay, Joonasa, I appreciate it. Thanks a lot, sir, Hi.
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Speaker 5: four four. Let's go now out to Baytown and we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to Glenn. Hello, Glenn, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Thank you welcome. It's nice to talk to you again.
Speaker 17: I've called you several times. I think I'm the person
Speaker 17: that calls you from Baytown. I tell your neighbors three
Speaker 17: quick questions. I have cleaned out my flower bits from
Speaker 17: all the weeds. What should I put on the naked
Speaker 17: ground to prevent weeds?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 5: To prevent weed seeds a good thick multch So.
Speaker 17: I probably should have sprayed them before I pulled them.
Speaker 5: Okay. If they're perennial, are they grassy weeds like bermuda
Speaker 5: grass or is it broad leaf weeds? Then okay, well,
Speaker 5: I would still put a good thick mulch on them.
Speaker 5: You get there or four inches of mulch on it,
Speaker 5: and it will block out the light. And I think
Speaker 5: it's going to take care of most of your weed problems. Now,
Speaker 5: whatever comes through that, you need to give me a
Speaker 5: callback and send me a photo. Let me look at
Speaker 5: the weed and I'll tell you what to do about it.
Speaker 5: But since you got it cleared out, let's get a
Speaker 5: good thick multch down if you if you still, if
Speaker 5: you do, you happen to still take the printed copy
Speaker 5: of the newspaper.
Speaker 8: No I don't.
Speaker 5: Okay, good well, I was going to have you put
Speaker 5: some paper down, but most people don't have printing copies
Speaker 5: in their hands. But let's just do that. Get through
Speaker 5: four inches of multch to block all the light as
Speaker 5: soon as possible over it, and then whatever comes through,
Speaker 5: let me look at it and we'll prescribe the right
Speaker 5: product to control that kind of weed. Okay.
Speaker 17: Second question, I have torpedo grass in one side of
Speaker 17: my yard in the flower bed that is just totally
Speaker 17: out of control. Will GLASSI fate take care of that.
Speaker 5: It will, but it'll kill whatever you spray it on.
Speaker 5: So if the whole area is like look, let's just
Speaker 5: kill everything and start over. Then glaphyse would do it.
Speaker 5: I have a thing on my website. My website is
Speaker 5: gardening with Skip dot com and it's called the weed
Speaker 5: Wiper how to build your own weed Wiper. If you
Speaker 5: will take a look at that, it will tell you
Speaker 5: how to build something. And you put the glaphysite on
Speaker 5: the sponge and torpedograss gets taller than the grass around it,
Speaker 5: and so you can wipe it on the torpedo grass
Speaker 5: without killing your grass. And if you like a printed
Speaker 5: copy of it, I'm gonna be at the Ace Hardware
Speaker 5: City on Memorial Drive. It's on the west side of Houston,
Speaker 5: so i'd be a little drive, but we're gonna be
Speaker 5: given away a lot of stuff. I'm gonna have some
Speaker 5: print copies of my weed wiper, how to build it,
Speaker 5: and then the sheet that tells what to put on
Speaker 5: the weed wiper to kill various kinds of weeds. So
Speaker 5: you're welcome to stop buy and do that. I'm gonna
Speaker 5: have to go. I'm at a hard break. If you
Speaker 5: had a follow up question, just hang on, but I
Speaker 5: appreciate your call and we'll be back folks in just
Speaker 5: a moment, all right, Welcome back, folks. I was at
Speaker 5: warren Southern Gardens recently. They're the one on North Park
Speaker 5: driving Kingwood. By the way, there's also Kingwood Garden Center
Speaker 5: on Stone Hollow Drive. Both of those places are open
Speaker 5: seven days a week. But I was out there at
Speaker 5: Warren's for an appearance and just walking through. It's just
Speaker 5: it's just fun and it's beautiful, and it's load. They
Speaker 5: are loaded with all kinds of things, everything you can
Speaker 5: imagine and want. By the way, this weekend May three
Speaker 5: through fifth, they're having their Sinco to Mayo sale. And
Speaker 5: the interesting thing is the bigger the pot, the bigger
Speaker 5: the savings. You know, gallon pots three dollars off, forty
Speaker 5: five gallon pots forty five dollars off. I mean, it's
Speaker 5: just a ton of great stuff. When you go there,
Speaker 5: you're not going to believe the color and the savings
Speaker 5: and the options is I guess the best way to
Speaker 5: put it. So many plants. I don't even know where
Speaker 5: to begin talking about it. By the way, both Warrens
Speaker 5: and Kingwood Garden Center have the refill stations for the
Speaker 5: Microlife and Neilson plant Food. Do you take your old
Speaker 5: jars of either of those and you can refill them
Speaker 5: right there. It makes it real easy to do. They
Speaker 5: also have an amazing selection of pottery. It is beautiful,
Speaker 5: really nice selection of garden tools. I was impressed with
Speaker 5: that when I was there too. And Kingwood Garden Center's
Speaker 5: gift shop is just it's just stunning. It's really really
Speaker 5: cool stuff. So now, no matter what you're doing, no
Speaker 5: matter what you're planting, no matter what you're wanting, from
Speaker 5: the brown stuff meaning the soil products you know, to
Speaker 5: the fertilizers, to the plants themselves. We're in Southern Gardens
Speaker 5: the Kingwood Garden Center, Kingwood, Texas. You're fortunate to have
Speaker 5: those out there. Let's head out to Montgomery and we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to Larry. Hey, Larry, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hi.
Speaker 3: How you doing Skip. I've got two I've got two
Speaker 3: live old trays about trumps are about three inch in diameter.
Speaker 3: They're ten to eleven foot tall. Started about two years
Speaker 3: they've been planting about four years ago, and started about
Speaker 3: two years ago, like and started growing on the truck.
Speaker 3: It is completely up the trunk now and it's starting
Speaker 3: on the branches. The trees look healthy. Do I need
Speaker 3: to worry about it? I chased it down and it
Speaker 3: looks like it's cartilage liking. What do I need to do?
Speaker 3: Do I need to worry about it?
Speaker 5: You don't need to worry about it. Lichen grows on
Speaker 5: rocks and fence posts. It just needs something for support
Speaker 5: to grow on. Basically, if you want to get rid
Speaker 5: of lichen, there's a product called moss Max m Oss
Speaker 5: m a X that is labeled for controlling li likeen.
Speaker 5: But when you kill it, it's going to come back.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 5: Sometimes it's just there and that there's no problem with
Speaker 5: the tree. The Lichen's just there. A lot of times,
Speaker 5: as trees decline or is there slow growing like in,
Speaker 5: tend to build up on them because the declining tree
Speaker 5: doesn't have the canopy of shade that a healthy tree would.
Speaker 5: But sometimes it's no sign that there's a problem at
Speaker 5: all wrong with the tree.
Speaker 3: So it looks great.
Speaker 5: Okay, well then I'd not sweat it, you know, uh,
Speaker 5: just move on with your other gardening chores and nothing
Speaker 5: to see.
Speaker 3: Here, all right, skip, Well, thank you very much. You
Speaker 3: put thet ease.
Speaker 5: There, you go, Thanks for your call. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Have a waterful day scip you as well.
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir. I appreciate that if you have indoor
Speaker 5: house plants and you are looking for a soil mix
Speaker 5: that will help with the watering schedule, that would be
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Speaker 5: absorbed way many, many, many many times where they're weight
Speaker 5: in water and when that soil dries out a little bit,
Speaker 5: those crystals are still moist because they hold so much water,
Speaker 5: and the roots can go up to a crystal there,
Speaker 5: they're gonna be there. They're going to get access to
Speaker 5: moisture as the soil gets a little too much on
Speaker 5: the dry side. And it works well, it also drains well.
Speaker 5: Of course, it has to to be a quality soil.
Speaker 5: Jungle Land is available for many places. You're going to
Speaker 5: find nitrofoss products sold all over town. Places like plants
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Speaker 5: I was out visiting with Ian the other day, and
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Speaker 5: Too many of us PLoP a poor old plant into
Speaker 5: an unprepared plot and that plant struggles. When you think
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Speaker 5: when pull back the trees and look at that soil,
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Speaker 5: about products here on garden Line, I have a standard.
Speaker 5: Before I'm going to recommend a product number one, I
Speaker 5: need to see research that shows it works. That that's one.
Speaker 5: That would be one way that I'm convinced this is
Speaker 5: a good product. The other way and the way I
Speaker 5: prefer is to do it myself, use it myself. And
Speaker 5: I have been working my way through microlife products for
Speaker 5: some time now because there are a lot of microlife
Speaker 5: products out there. There's a granular bag, granule bags that
Speaker 5: would be things like the six two four green bag
Speaker 5: that we typically use on loans, but trust me, you
Speaker 5: use aren't anything you got it works well and I do.
Speaker 5: Then there are the the acidic Loving plant fertilizers. Microlife
Speaker 5: has a products a kind of a pinkish bag that
Speaker 5: is good for plants that like acid. That would be
Speaker 5: like a gardenya, or a azalea or a camellia. Even
Speaker 5: roses do really really well with that kind of fertilizer.
Speaker 5: There is humts plus and I would suggest when you
Speaker 5: fertilize also follow it up with an application right then
Speaker 5: of humates plus. It is concentrated compost in a bag,
Speaker 5: in little granules, in a humus type form that is
Speaker 5: going to build your soil over time. Now I said
Speaker 5: the acidifier was a pink bag, it's actually kind of
Speaker 5: a reddish bag. The pink bag is their hybrid. But
Speaker 5: they have products for all kinds of it. They have
Speaker 5: a citrus and fruit product that is available out there,
Speaker 5: and then all their liquids things like super Seaweed and
Speaker 5: Ocean Harvest. That's the seaweed and fishial motion combo that
Speaker 5: it's two different products but used together that organic gardeners
Speaker 5: have used for a long time. You can get the
Speaker 5: humans plus is a liquid.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: And you know, I could just go on and on.
Speaker 5: Microlife Soil and plant energy is an outstanding product. Microli
Speaker 5: like liquid liquid AP is an outstanding product. These are
Speaker 5: the ones I've used and they work. Microlifefertilizer dot com
Speaker 5: is the website, and you're gonna find Microlife all over.
Speaker 5: Feed stores carry it. Your mom and pop garden centers
Speaker 5: are going to carry it. You're gonna find it in
Speaker 5: Ace hardware stores. You find it a Southwest fertilizer. It's
Speaker 5: easy to find and it works. And if you're looking
Speaker 5: for an organic approach to gardening, I can't see a
Speaker 5: better place to start with all of the mini options
Speaker 5: that they have. You're listening to garden Line. The phone
Speaker 5: number is seven one three two one two k t
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Speaker 5: r H. Give me a call and we will be
Speaker 5: happy to help you with the questions that you might have.
Speaker 5: I had some folks that have been sending me some
Speaker 5: emails today and so you guys that are interested in
Speaker 5: sending in the photos and follow them up with a call,
Speaker 5: we'll be happy to visit with you as a result.
Speaker 5: So give me a call after you've sent me those
Speaker 5: photos that you're looking at. Those of you in Willis
Speaker 5: have a fairly new garden center up there and it's
Speaker 5: called Growers Outlet, and I say fairly new. It's been
Speaker 5: open a while, but Growers Outlet in Willis is on
Speaker 5: seventy five, just south of the town of Willis. So
Speaker 5: all of you up there in Conroe, even in the
Speaker 5: woodlands up in Willis certainly, and then North and New
Speaker 5: Caney and that whole region up there, and then across
Speaker 5: over to the lake, you know, April Sound, Belt Water
Speaker 5: and all the communities out there, Republic, Grand Ranch, Seven
Speaker 5: Coves and so on. Point Aquarius. This is your hometown
Speaker 5: garden center that is loaded with all kinds of plants
Speaker 5: everything you can imagine, from veggies and herbs to perennials
Speaker 5: and ferns to shrubs and trees and fruit and hanging
Speaker 5: baskets and color plants with the garden beds, they've got
Speaker 5: it all. In fact, a lot of their things, like
Speaker 5: the geraniums of urbina and other plants, they grow them
Speaker 5: in house. Some of the most beautiful macho firm baskets
Speaker 5: and other color baskets that you're ever going to see
Speaker 5: anywhere at Growers Outlet. And here's the website. It's the
Speaker 5: name of the place, Growers Outlet in Willis dot com.
Speaker 5: Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. They list all their
Speaker 5: plants by availability on there, so you know if it's
Speaker 5: available or not at the nursery. And they provide their
Speaker 5: pricing online, which is really surprising that almost never happens,
Speaker 5: but they do it at Growers Outlet in Willis on
Speaker 5: Highway seventy five, just minutes away from Interstate forty five.
Speaker 5: They're going to have products too, from like Nitrofas and
Speaker 5: Microlife I meaning by the way, they carry Superturf from Nitrofoss.
Speaker 5: Superturf is the nineteen four to ten product that gradually
Speaker 5: releases nutrients over four months. It is it is. You
Speaker 5: put it down now, you return your clippings, you never
Speaker 5: mow it, and you're going to find it at Grower's
Speaker 5: Outlet and Willis as well as many other places around town.
Speaker 5: I'll be giving away some today as well. We'll be
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Speaker 5: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Oh hello, Yes, I have a question.
Speaker 5: I have a low spot in my front yard and
Speaker 5: I was told due to that in retaining water that's causing.
Speaker 17: A lot of my dollar weeds.
Speaker 6: And I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to
Speaker 6: fill in that hole.
Speaker 14: Without having to dig up all the existing.
Speaker 18: Vegetation that's on top of it, you know, the grass
Speaker 18: and the weeds and everything else.
Speaker 15: Can I judge?
Speaker 18: Can I put newspaper on there and put maybe leveling
Speaker 18: sand and dirt?
Speaker 5: No need, no need for newspaper. Just bring in a
Speaker 5: quality turf leveling product, you know, and you can. You can.
Speaker 5: The folks up at our Nature's Way up in Tomball,
Speaker 5: the folks in Heirloom Soil both have a lawn mix
Speaker 5: that is primarily sand with a little bit of composted
Speaker 5: in it that you can use to level out that area,
Speaker 5: a good sandy loam top soil to make sure and
Speaker 5: get it level. Just keep in mind that when you
Speaker 5: do that, the water that was gathering there is going
Speaker 5: to go somewhere else, So it may create a wet
Speaker 5: spot somewhere else by doing it that way, but just
Speaker 5: keep that in mind. Another option is to put a
Speaker 5: subsurface drain in. A subsurface drain takes that water and
Speaker 5: takes it off to another location where it drains away.
Speaker 5: And that's another way to turn a wet spot into
Speaker 5: a well drained spot.
Speaker 12: What is this subsurface drain I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a subsurface drain. Yeah, well, they also call them
Speaker 5: French drains. Basically, it is a perforated pipe that's underground
Speaker 5: and the water goes in the pipe and drains a way.
Speaker 5: It's like it works opposite of an old septic system,
Speaker 5: which is taking taking water out. This is bringing water
Speaker 5: or taking water in, and this is taking water out
Speaker 5: of the area.
Speaker 18: Okay, what what like plaint salt seas didn't have that
Speaker 18: type of soil.
Speaker 5: They might they have their their their they have some
Speaker 5: blends and stuff, but they don't have the bulk levels,
Speaker 5: you know, like you would get with someone that's bringing
Speaker 5: in a large amount of it. They may have some
Speaker 5: bags of it, but you're probably probably gonna need a
Speaker 5: lot of bags, right.
Speaker 15: I don't.
Speaker 16: It's not that big an area maybe four by four
Speaker 16: it the very most.
Speaker 19: It's you know, just oh okay, well yeah, yeah, just
Speaker 19: if if, if that's where you shop, just go by
Speaker 19: and ask them do they have like a lawn filling
Speaker 19: mix a top soil, and explain the situation to you
Speaker 19: and they'll put you in touch with with one.
Speaker 5: I didn't know an area.
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, is there any did you say there was
Speaker 14: a place in Tumble.
Speaker 5: That you could buy this to? Maybe there's a place
Speaker 5: up there's well, there's a place there, okay. I was
Speaker 5: talking about arbigates providing soils that are like growing growing mixes,
Speaker 5: compost and soil blend growing mixes. Those are highly organic though,
Speaker 5: like a lot of bed mixes and things are. And
Speaker 5: so what you're wanting is more of just the mineral
Speaker 5: part of soil, the top soil, the the loamy top
Speaker 5: soil kind of thing to fill in there because that
Speaker 5: way it stays that level. It doesn't sink down over time.
Speaker 5: So that's all. Yeah, that in the end of the
Speaker 5: place are your two options.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm sure what were the two companies you mentioned before?
Speaker 8: The places I could get the.
Speaker 5: Soil, Yes, Nature's Way Resources and they're up toward Conroe
Speaker 5: on Interstate forty five and Heirloom Soils on Porter, Texas
Speaker 5: on Highway fifty nine. Now, if you're just needing that
Speaker 5: little of area, you can buy it by the bag.
Speaker 5: You can buy it by the bag in different places.
Speaker 5: But talk to talk to the folks your shot your
Speaker 5: shop there at Plans Roll Seasons. Just talk to them
Speaker 5: there and see what they have a lot of different
Speaker 5: kinds of soil products and they probably have something that
Speaker 5: they work for that.
Speaker 6: And I'm also close to Arbor Gates too, so oh.
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Speaker 5: here and we will be right back. We're going to
Speaker 5: head out to I think we're going to Pasadena. Now,
Speaker 5: let's see. Yeah, we're gonna go to Pasadena and talk
Speaker 5: to Mary when we come back. All right, welcome back
Speaker 5: to the garden line. Glad you're with us today. I
Speaker 5: talk all the time about the importance of soil preparation
Speaker 5: before planting, and I just if I just sat here
Speaker 5: for four hours on a garden line day and said
Speaker 5: it's important to prepare the soil before you plant. It's
Speaker 5: important to pare the plant. It would be time well spent.
Speaker 5: You'd go nuts, but it would be time well spent.
Speaker 5: Ciena mulch is the place down south of Houston where
Speaker 5: you take care of the brown stuff before you plant
Speaker 5: the green stuff. They have everything. It's a one stop shop.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about composts. I'm talking about bed mixes like
Speaker 5: the heirloom soils, veggie nerb mix. I'm talking about mulches
Speaker 5: to go on top of the ground, native hardwood mulchus,
Speaker 5: double ground mulchus, and on and on. I'm talking about
Speaker 5: blends like rose soil. I'm talking about everything you need,
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Speaker 5: need to know. All right. We're gonna go now out
Speaker 5: to Pasadena and talk to Mary. Hello, Mary, Welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line. Good morning. The previous caller dollar weed. I
Speaker 5: have dollar weed problem.
Speaker 4: We are aware of the drain each issue and we're
Speaker 4: going to take care of that.
Speaker 5: But we're wondering what we can do. Uh.
Speaker 4: Is there something that we can kill the dollar we
Speaker 4: with as we do this.
Speaker 5: Yes, you want to get a product that is a
Speaker 5: broad leaf post emergent weed control product, and I would
Speaker 5: get one of the combinations, like they'll have two or
Speaker 5: three different ingredients that kill broad leaf weeds and by
Speaker 5: the combinations you get better overall results from just than
Speaker 5: just using one type of chemistry in that product. So
Speaker 5: it will have a name. Uh, go ahead, Well, I
Speaker 5: was gonna say, whedon nater is something that I do
Speaker 5: know that we put out back when I'm not sure when. Okay,
Speaker 5: but I don't Okay, we didn't say that it did anything. Okay, Well,
Speaker 5: what I would do is get something that has uh
Speaker 5: it has a name like trimech that is one name
Speaker 5: of a group of products. Boneyed a weed beater, weed beater,
Speaker 5: and fertilome has a weed free zone. Those are all examples.
Speaker 5: Read the label spray early in the morning while it's
Speaker 5: cool so it dries off before the day gets hot.
Speaker 5: And get a something called a surf factant. It helps
Speaker 5: the spray stick to slick dollar weed leaves. Anytime a
Speaker 5: weed is kind of slippery, the google spray just runs off,
Speaker 5: So a surf factant. It's also called a spreader sticker.
Speaker 5: It's the same thing. But when you go to a
Speaker 5: good place that knows what they're talking about. They're gonna
Speaker 5: be able to provide that for you. And you've got
Speaker 5: some ace hardware stores in your area that can provide
Speaker 5: you know, that kind of product for you. Just it's
Speaker 5: a multi product for broad leaf weed control. All right,
Speaker 5: thank you so much. Doing Earnie in the morning before
Speaker 5: it gets really really warm and when it's not gonna rain, Yes,
Speaker 5: and do it soon. Don't wait a month or two
Speaker 5: or three, because the hotter it gets, the more problems
Speaker 5: these things can cause to get into that situation. All right, Mary,
Speaker 5: thanks a lot. I appreciate I appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 5: Sweet Green from nitrofoss is a fertilizer that dissolves away
Speaker 5: very easily and moves down in the soil to feed
Speaker 5: your plants. Now, it's made for lawns, but you can
Speaker 5: use sweet green on all kinds of things. It's a
Speaker 5: nitrogen source. It's a nitrogen source to give a boost
Speaker 5: to growth. And if you're trying to get a good
Speaker 5: quick boost for the plants that you're growing, including your lawn,
Speaker 5: sweet green is perfect for that. You're can to find
Speaker 5: sweet green it places all over the Greater Houston area
Speaker 5: and places that carry nitofos products like Fisher's Hardware on
Speaker 5: Broadway Street and Laporte M and D. Beamer Sagemont area
Speaker 5: and Stanton Shopping Center on North Taylor down there in Alvin,
Speaker 5: all places that carry nitrofos products. Speaking of down that direction,
Speaker 5: someone had called me earlier today and I just I
Speaker 5: started to start talking to them about Moss Nursery because
Speaker 5: you know they're done in Seabrook. Moss is on Toddville
Speaker 5: Road in Seabrook, and it is an outstanding nursery. It
Speaker 5: just is you go there and you wander through eight
Speaker 5: acres of gorgeous plants. Those of you who lived on
Speaker 5: there know what I'm talking about. You know, you drive
Speaker 5: off and you tell your your family, I'll be back
Speaker 5: in about an hour. Well three days later, you come
Speaker 5: back to the house because you got infatuated with plants
Speaker 5: at Moss Nursery. And it's so easy to do all
Speaker 5: kinds of flowering shrubs and including azalias of course, hanging baskets,
Speaker 5: annual color plants, if you want a pretty flower bed
Speaker 5: from a Lissam designas they've got it all there. They
Speaker 5: have all kinds of unusual things things like bonseye and
Speaker 5: houseplants that you just don't see anywhere else. They're very unusual.
Speaker 5: One of the best selections of pottery you're gonna find anywhere.
Speaker 5: I mean, it is very extensive. Moss Nursery down in Seabrook,
Speaker 5: Texas on Toddville Road. M Aasnursery dot Com, Mossnurcery dot
Speaker 5: com two eight one four seven, four eighty eight. Let's
Speaker 5: go now up to Cyprus and we're going to talk
Speaker 5: to Jake. Hey, Jake, Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 20: Good morning Skip. I have a Saint Augustine backyard, and
Speaker 20: it seems like a couple times a year when it
Speaker 20: gets hot and muggy, I get what I'm ninety percent sure.
Speaker 8: Is gray leaf spot.
Speaker 20: The grass starts to yellow. I see the little diamond
Speaker 20: shaped brown spot. So I apply an anti fungus. You know,
Speaker 20: I think I've used maybe Headway or Heritage g in
Speaker 20: the past a couple others. It goes away. But I'm
Speaker 20: wondering if I'm hurting myself in the long run, and
Speaker 20: maybe I should just wait it out because I don't
Speaker 20: know how much I'm impacting my microbiome and my soil
Speaker 20: by applying anti fungus a couple times a year. I
Speaker 20: just didn't know if you had any thoughts on how
Speaker 20: I could maybe improve my improve my soil, and if
Speaker 20: I could, if I should just wait out the fungus
Speaker 20: this time and you just leave it a.
Speaker 5: That's up to you. It does come and go. Now
Speaker 5: in severe cases, it really makes the lawn look bad.
Speaker 5: In minor cases, it's like, yeah, it's not great, but
Speaker 5: it does coming. Typically when it really heats up, we
Speaker 5: don't see as much of that problem in our lawns
Speaker 5: when it really heats up. But I would suggest, well,
Speaker 5: here's the things that make grade leaf spot worse. Shade,
Speaker 5: lots of moisture, and extra nitrogen. Those three cause grade
Speaker 5: leaf spot to be more of a problem. And so
Speaker 5: we primarily deal with it from well back in April
Speaker 5: all the way up into July. Really we can see
Speaker 5: some of it. But the bottom line is you can
Speaker 5: go either way. You can let it take its course
Speaker 5: and ignore it and just mow and keep going, or
Speaker 5: you can spray it or treat it if you use
Speaker 5: the granular products, whatever you want to go about it.
Speaker 5: You can treat it and deal with it. There's not
Speaker 5: a right or wrong on those. I tend to ignore
Speaker 5: it because it's not very bad in my yard because
Speaker 5: culturally I keep the conditions away that it likes as
Speaker 5: best I can. But boy, with all the rain we've
Speaker 5: been having, I would expect the little outbreak of it
Speaker 5: pretty quick here. That's that's great information.
Speaker 20: I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't gonna,
Speaker 20: you know, take over the world. So I'll probably ignore
Speaker 20: it and get a soil test just to make sure
Speaker 20: my conditions are are better. But thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, just go easy on the nitrogen. That's why
Speaker 5: I like slow release, you know. That's another another reason
Speaker 5: we do that. But yeah, you ought to be in
Speaker 5: good chafe. Hey, thanks for calling though. I appreciate you
Speaker 5: checking in about that. Take care year round Houston, Year
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Speaker 5: to Rick in League City. Rick, I gotta tell you,
Speaker 5: I just have a short time. We're going to be
Speaker 5: talking in the music, but if you need to, we
Speaker 5: can hang over and finish after the top of the break.
Speaker 5: But I want to get started with you here. How
Speaker 5: can we help?
Speaker 4: Thank you Skip. I have a spot in my backyard
Speaker 4: that I have cleared. I need a tree that would give
Speaker 4: me some privacy in the back. It needs to be
Speaker 4: when it's mature, about twenty five or thirty feet tall,
Speaker 4: and I would like some color. And I already have
Speaker 4: a magnolia and already have a palm tree. Do you
Speaker 4: have any recommendations on a good tree.
Speaker 5: A tall crape myrtle like a natchez, has white blooms.
Speaker 5: It gets thirty eight feet tall or so. Another one
Speaker 5: I really like is Chinese fringe tree. It's a spring bloomer.
Speaker 5: It gets about that size and it looks beautiful. I'm
Speaker 5: going to a break. If you want to hang around,
Speaker 5: we'll continue. Thank you, We're not all right. We're back.
Speaker 5: We're back for the last hour Garden Line today. I
Speaker 5: want to remind you again that today after the show,
Speaker 5: I'm going to head over to the Ace Hardware storeal
Speaker 5: Memorial Drive. It's called Ace Hardware City, and we are
Speaker 5: going to have a heck of a time there today.
Speaker 5: Come on out and see me. I'd love to help
Speaker 5: you with plant questions you might have. You know, on
Speaker 5: the air, I'd get to only visit with people for
Speaker 5: a short amount of time because I got other people
Speaker 5: to get to another business to attend to about out
Speaker 5: at these appearance is we can sit and talk eyed
Speaker 5: eye for a little while, we solve some things. We
Speaker 5: get usually get a group of people out there and
Speaker 5: I'll just say out loud what I'm doing helping with
Speaker 5: a particular problem. So everybody kind of enjoys sitting around
Speaker 5: listening and learning and asking questions. And I'm going to
Speaker 5: be giving away a ton of cool stuff. And I
Speaker 5: mean that really, I don't think I've ever had this
Speaker 5: many different kinds of giveaways at one event. But we're
Speaker 5: going to be doing three different bags of super turf
Speaker 5: from Nitrofoss. We'll be doing some Kneemax, which is an
Speaker 5: organic spray for certain kinds of pests that they have
Speaker 5: on hand there. We're going to be doing several bags
Speaker 5: of products from heirloom soils such as the work spotting soil,
Speaker 5: the leaf mold compost they make a high quality one
Speaker 5: hardwood maultch really really good product as well, and then
Speaker 5: their shale product. Some examples of a few of the
Speaker 5: ones from airloom soils we're given away. Got some Nitrofoss
Speaker 5: products I mentioned the super turf, micro life products will
Speaker 5: be given away, four different bags of asamite as well,
Speaker 5: and then from Nelson plant food jars of the color Star,
Speaker 5: and then we'll have a few of the Azalea plumeria
Speaker 5: indoor plants and boogain villas and the three sixty tree
Speaker 5: stabilizers given some of those. I mean, like I said,
Speaker 5: a lot, but come on out, bring me samples, bring
Speaker 5: me pictures on your phone. Let's get to the bottom
Speaker 5: of it, and you come see a really nice Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware store called Ace Hardware City right there on Memorial
Speaker 5: Drive in Houston, Texas. How do you find your Ace
Speaker 5: Hardware stores in Houston. You go to Acehardware Texas dot com.
Speaker 5: That's how you find them. In Channy Gardens on the
Speaker 5: Katie Fullshire side of Richmond, stop by the other day,
Speaker 5: visiting with Joy there and just kind of looking at
Speaker 5: what all they had going on. And I'm telling you,
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Speaker 5: and you gotta take your friends. It's almost I could say,
Speaker 5: as far as I can see. You look and there's color,
Speaker 5: there are every kind of plant. One thing that I
Speaker 5: was really impressed with at Chanta Gardens, and I always
Speaker 5: have been, is they're iron containers for coconut core liners.
Speaker 5: So I think of a wire basket made of iron
Speaker 5: and you put a liner in it that is like
Speaker 5: an entanglement of the stuff on the outside of a
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Speaker 5: They have one that hang from chains from underneath the
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Speaker 5: could just go talk to them and say, hey, I
Speaker 5: need something. It's going to go in full sun. I
Speaker 5: want it to be a combination of plants. I want
Speaker 5: to be beautiful. And they'll walk you through the process.
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Speaker 5: art for the garden, they've got it and their team
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Speaker 5: going to go now to Southwest Houston and talk to Laurel. Hello, Laurel,
Speaker 5: Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Skip.
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Speaker 5: All right, folks, I did not pay Laurel to say
Speaker 5: that it's nice to me, but thank you, L. I mean,
Speaker 5: that is a that is flowering praise for a company
Speaker 5: that really deserves it. I appreciate that much.
Speaker 18: They're so fine and they were honest about the whole thing.
Speaker 18: And it's a good moment, but it's so heavy for
Speaker 18: me and I can't figure it out.
Speaker 21: You go to the.
Speaker 18: Experts and they tell you something you could believe it
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Speaker 6: That's a greatful for you.
Speaker 18: Guys have one of their products and I can't help
Speaker 18: with sing their praises and I thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, thank you for those kind words for them.
Speaker 5: That you know, we talk about the importance of local businesses.
Speaker 5: Mom and pop shops is the nurseries we call them.
Speaker 5: But you know Southwest Fertilizer, the mom and pop is
Speaker 5: Bob and Diane and they that's the kind of business
Speaker 5: they run, and that's why we love to send people there.
Speaker 5: And it thrills me to hear reports like that. Thank you.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you taking time to call in. Let me
Speaker 5: know that you have a wonderful day. Take care. All right,
Speaker 5: let's go now to to southeast Houston. We're going to
Speaker 5: talk to Jill. Hello, Jill, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 15: Okay, I'm in south east Houston.
Speaker 5: Okay, who am I talking to? Oh? Okay, Okay, how
Speaker 5: can I help today?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 15: I have these little Okay, have a big oak tree
Speaker 15: in the front yard and little oak saplings coming up
Speaker 15: all in my flower bed. I've been pulling them, but
Speaker 15: it seems like it's more, keep coming and keep coming.
Speaker 15: Is there any way to get rid of them besides
Speaker 15: getting rid of my oak tree?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 5: Probably not. So there are two things that happen.
Speaker 15: Is a live oak, I assume, I think so on
Speaker 15: the builder plane it them, you know.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, it could be root sprouts coming up. Typically
Speaker 5: those are near the base of the tree. Or it
Speaker 5: could be acrons sprouting up, and that that can be
Speaker 5: near the base.
Speaker 15: Because they're even on the sides of the house. And
Speaker 15: we have squirrels you know, that bury them too, And yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's not a great way. I mean, you can
Speaker 5: you know, have a little weed wiper that you could
Speaker 5: dab something on those little seedlings and it would kill them.
Speaker 5: I generally try to just pull them up when they're
Speaker 5: very very young. It's easier to get them up with
Speaker 5: the soul's moist or you know it just however you
Speaker 5: want to go about it. But it's just part of
Speaker 5: part of life with a with trees.
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. I mean,
Speaker 15: in the law. And you can mow them, you know,
Speaker 15: and that keeps them down. And so I just wondered
Speaker 15: if there was anything that I have a spry different
Speaker 15: stuff on them, but it doesn't really seem to.
Speaker 5: Now, just just just use get my weed wiper and
Speaker 5: then I have a publication called Controlling Woody Weeds in
Speaker 5: the Landscape, and they are at gardening with Skip dot
Speaker 5: com and uh, that's where you'll find them. I got
Speaker 5: to run for a break here. When we come back,
Speaker 5: Hank and West, you you'll be first up. Uh huh,
Speaker 5: welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you
Speaker 5: with us. Looking forward to visiting with you about the
Speaker 5: kind of questions. Did you might have Nelson plant food?
Speaker 5: You heard me talking about them all day. By the way,
Speaker 5: I'm giving away some Neilson plant food jars today at
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware City on Memorial So come on out and
Speaker 5: see me. They've got jars. They got things like color Star,
Speaker 5: which is the number one fertilizer by the jar that
Speaker 5: they sell, ship it all over the country. Just talking
Speaker 5: to Dean the other day, some other person had gotten
Speaker 5: some samples of it and they loved it. They're a
Speaker 5: company that does landscapes, I guess, and they were like, okay,
Speaker 5: ship it. We want we want, we want you to
Speaker 5: ship a bunch to us because it works. That is
Speaker 5: how it is nutristar, hibiscus and flowering tropicals another great one.
Speaker 5: Just come on out. I'll be giving away some not
Speaker 5: just the color Star, but I'm also going to be
Speaker 5: giving away some azelias and plumrius, some indoor plant food,
Speaker 5: and some Boogombellia plant food. At my appearance at Ashardworugh
Speaker 5: City out there a memorial drive Bruce's Brew that is
Speaker 5: a hybrid type of a fertilizer. What I mean by
Speaker 5: that is it's it's a fast release and that it
Speaker 5: releases some immediately, but it's also a slow release and
Speaker 5: that it gradually releases the rest over time, so it's
Speaker 5: kind of a hybrid type. Bruce Is Bru is great
Speaker 5: for a quick green up of the lawn with a
Speaker 5: continued release over time to give a nice even growth,
Speaker 5: and it is a part of the turf Star line
Speaker 5: of Nelson plant foods available all over town. Let's head
Speaker 5: to West U and we are now going to talk
Speaker 5: to Hank. Well, Hello Hank, and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: The Yellow Skip.
Speaker 22: He wanted to get some advice and suggestions. I've got
Speaker 22: a thirty x four strip area in my backyard that's
Speaker 22: currently covered by big blocks of limestone with a little.
Speaker 1: Bit of pea gravel underneath.
Speaker 22: I started removing the limestone and there's not that much
Speaker 22: pea gravel. But I want to break out all the limestone,
Speaker 22: put down some dirt, and replace the hunchtone with grass.
Speaker 22: I'm looking for suggestions on what type of grass is
Speaker 22: easy to grow.
Speaker 8: I'm not going to.
Speaker 1: Put a sprinkler in there. I could water it manually.
Speaker 5: And secondly, what type of.
Speaker 22: Dirt and how much shall I put down underneath before
Speaker 22: I lay the grass down?
Speaker 5: All right? Good? Uh? What do you want out of
Speaker 5: the grass? Just green to look at? Or is there
Speaker 5: you know, is it an area you use for sitting
Speaker 5: or walking or just to have a patch of green?
Speaker 8: What?
Speaker 5: What's the goal?
Speaker 22: It'll be just a patch of green. It's between my
Speaker 22: patio and my swimming pool, and I'm going to have
Speaker 22: a little concrete walkway from the patio to the pool,
Speaker 22: so it'll really just beat a.
Speaker 8: For green rate.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, there's there's a lot of great options out there.
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 5: Saint Augustine's the number one grass we plan around here
Speaker 5: because of the shade tolerance. Sounds like that area gets
Speaker 5: lots of sun. Though. If I understood, you correct, and
Speaker 5: so you can you can kind of grow anything. I
Speaker 5: might consider something that's a zosias. Zosia is a nice
Speaker 5: little grass. There's a variety called uh xeon excuse me, yeah, xeon,
Speaker 5: ze o n Xeon is a and neon. They're both
Speaker 5: both types of zois. But it's a very fine textured grass,
Speaker 5: very fine textured, and so it's almost like a golf
Speaker 5: course screen if you mode it really low. If you
Speaker 5: had a little real type mower, and with that amount
Speaker 5: of grass, you could just have one of those little
Speaker 5: real type mowers that you push and it spins around.
Speaker 5: There's no motor on it, and you might regularly and
Speaker 5: it looks beautiful. It's a really nice, clean, neat look,
Speaker 5: makes good density with water and fertilizer, of course, uh,
Speaker 5: and that might be something kind of different to use,
Speaker 5: but really any kind of grass could grow there. I
Speaker 5: just like the I like the look of that one.
Speaker 3: Xeon.
Speaker 22: And then what type of dirt and how much?
Speaker 8: What how thick of a bed of dirt?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know, grass wants grass wants good root depth.
Speaker 5: So as you go down, what is there clay soil
Speaker 5: below it?
Speaker 22: Now it's I think it's that kind of gumbo mud.
Speaker 3: It's just thick.
Speaker 22: It's really thick and dark colored soil.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I would. I would put a little bit
Speaker 5: of a kind of a sandy loamy type of top
Speaker 5: soil over it. I don't know how much room you
Speaker 5: have to fill in. You don't want to create a
Speaker 5: raised mound, probably, uh So I would just get a
Speaker 5: good sandy low mix, a top soil type mix and
Speaker 5: put it in there. But grass can grow in quite
Speaker 5: a bit of shade too. So and the xeon, I
Speaker 5: use the word neon it. That's that's my blurb mistake there.
Speaker 5: It's a xeon zeo and and uh, I think that
Speaker 5: it is going to take a heavy clay soil and
Speaker 5: do just fine. But if you mounded it slightly where
Speaker 5: the water drains off adequately, that would even be better.
Speaker 5: But not required.
Speaker 22: Do they sell xeon slabs of grass like the little
Speaker 22: patches already grown where I can just.
Speaker 5: Lay it down, Yes, yes, you can find it. A
Speaker 5: number of growers along the Gulf coast will grow that.
Speaker 5: And I know if you talk to the folks at
Speaker 5: Milburger Turf, they don't sell retail, but if you talk
Speaker 5: to them they can point you to places that carry
Speaker 5: it that they sell. The folks at Millburger Turf carry it.
Speaker 7: Awesome. Well I'll give that a shot.
Speaker 5: I appreciate the suggestion. Yeah, yeah, go online and look
Speaker 5: at some pictures of it so you can see what
Speaker 5: I'm talking about. I think you'll agree it's beautiful. I
Speaker 5: have some in my yard. I love it. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 5: sounds nice, All right, henk, yes, sir, you take care
Speaker 5: glad to assist with that. One. Spring Creek Feed is
Speaker 5: your hometown feed store up there in the Tamba Magnolia area. Really,
Speaker 5: it's on the northeast side of Tomball up up FM
Speaker 5: twenty nine seventy eight up toward Magnolia direction. They're just
Speaker 5: minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway to forty nine.
Speaker 5: At Spring Creek Number one, you walk in friendly, courteous
Speaker 5: staff and one of the i'll say prettiest feed stores
Speaker 5: you ever go into, because they have a lot of
Speaker 5: stuff in the middle part of the store from home.
Speaker 5: Of course, you look left and you see all the
Speaker 5: feed you know, especially like quality pet food brands like
Speaker 5: Victor and Purina and whatnot. You look to the right
Speaker 5: and that's the garden world over there all the products
Speaker 5: you need to control pests and weeds and diseases. The
Speaker 5: fertilizers from lines like Nelson, turf Star, like Microlife, like Nitrofoss.
Speaker 5: That's all there. Spring Creek Feed and Magnolia on FM
Speaker 5: twenty nine seventy eight. If you are military or senior citizens,
Speaker 5: there's a discount of that. They do special order as well,
Speaker 5: and they have a delivery service. Go check it out.
Speaker 5: You can't miss it. Big old, giant barn looking building.
Speaker 5: Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. That is Spring
Speaker 5: Creek Feed. Let's go now to clear Lake and we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to Mario. Hello, Mario, Hey, Skiff, how
Speaker 5: are you?
Speaker 6: Hey? I have both places. Yeah, I'm good. I'm glad.
Speaker 6: You always give me good advice. One of your pieces
Speaker 6: of advice was to replace my boxwoods, which were devastated
Speaker 6: by the freeze, with dwarf Feopon Hollis. And now my question,
Speaker 6: after a couple of years, they're really taking hold in.
Speaker 6: How should I shape those things? My wife and I
Speaker 6: both like the tailored look of the boxwoods. Okay, can
Speaker 6: you do that with theyopon and still have it look good?
Speaker 6: Or should I guess leave it go natural.
Speaker 5: All the above are fine. Since you like the tailored look,
Speaker 5: I'm not going to address the natural, but that is
Speaker 5: a totally legitimate way to do boxwoods, I mean yopons.
Speaker 5: You can make them kind of a square shape hedge
Speaker 5: like square shape. Always keep the top slightly more narrow
Speaker 5: than the base, and that way sunlight reaches all the
Speaker 5: parts of the plant. When a hedge gets top heavy,
Speaker 5: becomes more like an umbrella hanging out over the top,
Speaker 5: the interior portion doesn't get enough light and you lose
Speaker 5: your foliage there. So always when you're doing a hedge,
Speaker 5: including yopon, keep the top a little more narrow than
Speaker 5: the base. Or you can some people do them like
Speaker 5: a little meatballs, little round buwling balls out there in
Speaker 5: the landscape. You can do that too. It's very tolerant
Speaker 5: of different kinds of shearing.
Speaker 6: Okay, well you answered my question as usual. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Thanks so much.
Speaker 5: All right, thanks ll Carl. Appreciate that you take care, Mario,
Speaker 5: have a good, good week out there in the garden.
Speaker 5: Ace hardware stores are all over the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 5: All you gotta do is go do the website for
Speaker 5: my Ace Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area,
Speaker 5: and that is ACE Hardware Texas dot com, Ace Hardware
Speaker 5: Texes dot com. Find the ones near you. When you
Speaker 5: walk into an ACE Hardware, first thing's going to happen
Speaker 5: is you're going to go, oh, I didn't know they
Speaker 5: had all that. And every time you turn a corner it's, oh,
Speaker 5: I didn't know they had all that. It's a great place.
Speaker 5: And it's not just the standard hardware. You know, electrical
Speaker 5: and plumbing and lighting and fixtures and all that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: they have all that, but they have beautiful indoor decorations, homes,
Speaker 5: gift items, wonderful gift items. And then when you walk
Speaker 5: out the door, whether it's your lawn, your flowerbeds, your garden,
Speaker 5: your path, they have something for everything. Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
Speaker 5: And if you're hearing me talk about fertilizers or hearing
Speaker 5: me talk about pest control products or weed control products,
Speaker 5: it's at your local Ace Hardware store. If you want
Speaker 5: to see one, come see me today at ACE Hardware
Speaker 5: City on Memorial on the West side East. I'll be
Speaker 5: there from twelve noon to two pm. We're going to
Speaker 5: be given away a ton of stuff more more different
Speaker 5: things than I ever given away at one of these appearances.
Speaker 5: Really really cool. I'll even have some three sixty tree
Speaker 5: stabilizer stabilizers to give away for any of you planting
Speaker 5: a crape myrtle or some other kind of tree and
Speaker 5: you want to give good support to it. We'll have
Speaker 5: those there on hand. Lots of cool ACE Hardware stores,
Speaker 5: but you got to go to Ace Hardware Texas dot
Speaker 5: com and find the ones near you. We're going to
Speaker 5: go now to Katie and talk to John. Hello, John,
Speaker 5: Welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 23: Good morning, Skip. I want to see if you can
Speaker 23: help me and my wife solve a mystery of who've
Speaker 23: done it. So we have a bunch of squirrels in
Speaker 23: our yard. My daughter loves feeding the birds, and of
Speaker 23: course that attractive squirrels. So I have fourteen different peach trees,
Speaker 23: and I was super excited had about five dozen peaches growing,
Speaker 23: and they all started disappearing rather quickly.
Speaker 8: By the choices either between squirrels or rats.
Speaker 23: The only conclusive thing I've seen I've yelled at squirrels
Speaker 23: in the peach tree, but there's one peach about the
Speaker 23: size of a golf ball. Un ripe of course, with
Speaker 23: half of it chewed, including the pits. Does that sound
Speaker 23: more like a rat or a squirrel?
Speaker 5: It could be both. They both have the same teeth
Speaker 5: and mouth parts and feeding style could be the one.
Speaker 5: I would suspect squirrels, but I wouldn't eliminate rats. You
Speaker 5: can bag individual peaches with something called organza bags. If
Speaker 5: I did that, we have.
Speaker 23: We had one peach on one tree and I tied
Speaker 23: it off with the baggie, and then the very next
Speaker 23: day the squirrels didn't figure out how to get the
Speaker 23: bag out, but it destroyed the limb, and the dead,
Speaker 23: blood last peach is just sitting there inside the bottom
Speaker 23: of the bag.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. Okay, well, anyway, that's that's an option.
Speaker 5: There's other kinds of netting and stuff, but they're just
Speaker 5: not a great way to do it. There are some
Speaker 5: hot pepper sprays made of the ingredient and hot pepper
Speaker 5: called capsation. You can put that on the peaches and
Speaker 5: at least give them a bad burning taste in their mouth.
Speaker 5: If you can consistently do that, they might leave them alone,
Speaker 5: and then by the time you get to harvest time,
Speaker 5: you know it's gonna have worn off or you can
Speaker 5: wash it off, but I think the bag is probably
Speaker 5: the better way to go. But Johnna, you got a
Speaker 5: problem there. I can send you squirrel recipes though, if
Speaker 5: that would help.
Speaker 23: My goal is I wanted to shoot them with pellat
Speaker 23: gun and dispatch them. The option is trapping them.
Speaker 5: God got you, So we focus on yeah, good good points.
Speaker 5: I'll not weigh in on that one, but I got
Speaker 5: to run for a break here, but thank you on
Speaker 5: good luck. I do feel your pain on that one
Speaker 5: for sure. Time for me to take a break, folks.
Speaker 5: I'll be right back. Hey, welcome back to Guardline. Good
Speaker 5: to have you with us. Looking forward to visiting with
Speaker 5: you about the kinds of questions that you might have.
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Speaker 5: And with all the rain we just had, you need it.
Speaker 5: Probably you're probably looking at some boggy areas. Plants, by
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Speaker 5: They have a quarterly maintenance service that not just looks
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Speaker 5: know we're gonn head out to Tomball now and talk
Speaker 5: to Roger. Hello, Roger, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 21: How are you doing, sir?
Speaker 5: I'm doing well, Thank you.
Speaker 7: I have a question.
Speaker 21: I have a large oak tree in the backyard between
Speaker 21: the dogs and lack of shade or the shade under
Speaker 21: the tree, I can't keep grass growing in there. Looking
Speaker 21: for a ground clever because you know, in the springtime
Speaker 21: the cicadas come out and the copper heads go under there.
Speaker 21: I've got dogs in backyard, they dig some looking for
Speaker 21: some kind of groundcover, maybe put rocks down. I'm just
Speaker 21: looking for some suggestions on low cover that will kind
Speaker 21: of reduce the snakes and keep something in there so
Speaker 21: the dogs just don't get dirty when it kind of
Speaker 21: gets muddy.
Speaker 9: Does that make sense?
Speaker 5: Gotcha? Yeah, sure does well. Molt is a good idea.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't do. I wouldn't do rocks. I would do
Speaker 5: a good thick layer of shredded hardwood, malt or something
Speaker 5: along those lines, and you just add to it, and
Speaker 5: you know, they run across it. They don't get all dirty,
Speaker 5: and that's what the forest does. The trees will be
Speaker 5: very happy with it, and it makes I think it's
Speaker 5: an attractive thing to have a nice maulched area beneath
Speaker 5: the tree. Now, if you want to add some plants in,
Speaker 5: there are sedges that often do pretty well in quite
Speaker 5: a bit of shade. Not deep deep shade, but they
Speaker 5: many of the sedges can take less sunlight than your
Speaker 5: Saint Augustine or your turf grass. Would that would be
Speaker 5: a plant for, you know, a shady area like that.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of different plants. I mean, you
Speaker 5: could you could plant a number of different kinds of
Speaker 5: ferns in an area like that. You could plant a juga,
Speaker 5: which is called carpet bugle in an area like that,
Speaker 5: and I could go on and on there. There are
Speaker 5: a lot of Some people will just fill the area
Speaker 5: with Aztec grass or loriopy as tech grass, is not
Speaker 5: a grass. It's more like a larriapy uh. And it
Speaker 5: doesn't get too tall. When you need to, you can
Speaker 5: moi it back to the almost the ground and come
Speaker 5: out fresh if you'd like to do that. But it
Speaker 5: makes a nice not too tall groundcover.
Speaker 21: Okay, And that's how do you spell that? Or how
Speaker 21: where would I find that?
Speaker 7: Or is it a or actual plant plant?
Speaker 5: It's actual, it's actual plants. And these are clumping plants.
Speaker 5: So if the area is huge, you're have to buy
Speaker 5: a lot of plants of the clumping kinds of things
Speaker 5: that would the the sedges are clumping. Aztec grass is clumping.
Speaker 5: It's kind of a white leafed type clump, and then
Speaker 5: Loriope is a green leafed type clump. Most loriiope is.
Speaker 5: You go to a quality garden center, you know you're
Speaker 5: there in Tombo, you've got arbigate right on your back door.
Speaker 5: If you head down the road a little bit on
Speaker 5: Tomill Parkway, you got plantural seasons. Both of those are
Speaker 5: going to have a great selection. In fact, you can
Speaker 5: just talk to them and they'll probably talk to you
Speaker 5: about some vining ground covers and some other options for
Speaker 5: an area like that.
Speaker 21: Thank you very much for your time, sir, I will
Speaker 21: be out there to check with them.
Speaker 5: All right, good, you take care appreciate that micro Life
Speaker 5: fertilizers come in many forms, and I talk about the
Speaker 5: lawn fertilizer quite a bit and the liquids as well.
Speaker 5: I just want to focus right now on a couple
Speaker 5: of things you need to be doing in your lawns.
Speaker 5: Microlife six y two four is the number one selling
Speaker 5: organic fertilizer in Houston. It is a three one two ratio,
Speaker 5: which is the ratio and lawns stick up nutrients and
Speaker 5: uh and it's easy to use. You just spread it
Speaker 5: out there. It goes in the soil. It slowly decomposes
Speaker 5: as microbial activity breaks the nutrients down to release to
Speaker 5: the plants. It's not going to burn anything. It's not
Speaker 5: a salt based fertilizer. And then you follow that up.
Speaker 5: I would do it with humates plus. That's a purple bag.
Speaker 5: It's concentrated compost in a bag. You do the sixty
Speaker 5: two four to get that lawn boosted and growing. You
Speaker 5: do the humanates plus to continually build the soil quality,
Speaker 5: to get that humus down in the soil to improve
Speaker 5: microbial activity. To improve internal drainage and aeration and whatnot
Speaker 5: down in your soil, and both are available from Microlife.
Speaker 5: You can go to Microlifefertilizer dot com and see all
Speaker 5: the retailers they carry their products. I'm going to tell
Speaker 5: you this, it's kind of hard to walk into a
Speaker 5: place that's a Mom and Pope garden center and Ace
Speaker 5: hardware store, Southwest Fertilizer, or a feed store that doesn't
Speaker 5: carry micro Life products. Let's see here. We're going to
Speaker 5: head out to League City now and talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Hello, thank you for taking my cost skip. Like you said,
Speaker 9: live in Wig City. Everybody out here has magnolia trees.
Speaker 9: It seems like I planted two in my backyard in
Speaker 9: the summer of twenty twenty one and they've gone from
Speaker 9: seven feet to about twenty feet tall, very full grown,
Speaker 9: very well, but they don't seem to get blooms like
Speaker 9: other people do. And I'm wondering. Number one, I've never
Speaker 9: pruned either of these trees, and they're pretty heavy at
Speaker 9: the bottom. Maybe you know what's the deal about maybe
Speaker 9: pruing a couple of feet off at the bottom. Number two,
Speaker 9: they really haven't fertilized them, and what should I use
Speaker 9: to fertilize them? And should let me?
Speaker 5: Yeah, let me let me hit this. I'm hitting a
Speaker 5: hard break. I'm gonna give you a couple of quick answers.
Speaker 5: If we need to carry this question over, we can
Speaker 5: do that. As far as pruning, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5: Nature doesn't plume prune magnolias, and they do just great.
Speaker 5: They look good. As far as them go into the ground,
Speaker 5: that's fine. That's an option to let that skirt go
Speaker 5: all the way to the ground, because it's going to
Speaker 5: be It's difficult to get anything to grow under a
Speaker 5: magnolia anyway, So just letting their foliage go to the
Speaker 5: ground is one esthetic option. If you want to trim
Speaker 5: them up, you can do that. Then you're just gonna
Speaker 5: have to moult underneath them or put monkey grass underneath them,
Speaker 5: because that's about the only thing that will grow. But
Speaker 5: as far as blooming, I don't think you need it.
Speaker 5: There sounds like they're growing pretty good for you. Because
Speaker 5: magnolias are somewhat slow growing. I don't think you need
Speaker 5: a fertilizer necessarily for them. If you want to use
Speaker 5: something too, something for acid loving plants. A number of
Speaker 5: products out there like that. But you can do a
Speaker 5: modern fertilization. But as they settle in, they ought to
Speaker 5: be they ought to be blooming if they're getting adequate
Speaker 5: sunlight to those areas of the plant. So maybe they
Speaker 5: just need a little more time. If there's something you
Speaker 5: can do to brighten up the foliage in that area,
Speaker 5: you might want to try that. I don't know if
Speaker 5: that'd been printing some other trees or whatever. But yeah,
Speaker 5: they're they're a little personicity. But I'll just be patient
Speaker 5: with them.
Speaker 9: Okay, thank you. I'll give them another couple of years
Speaker 9: and see what they did.
Speaker 5: All right, and then call me back. If they don't,
Speaker 5: I'll come out there with a chainsaw. We're not gonna
Speaker 5: cut them down. I'm just going to fire it up
Speaker 5: and say, next time Ralph calls me, I'm coming down
Speaker 5: here to finish the job. And I bet bloom stop
Speaker 5: popping out all over the plate. Thanks Ralph. All right, folks,
Speaker 5: we'll be right back.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 6: Hey, we had some glitches and the mechanics here, we're back.
Speaker 6: You know, Buchanan's native plants. I wanted to tell you guys,
Speaker 6: about those. Buchanans has got their new barn set up.
Speaker 6: It's it's the checkout barn. So now if the draining,
Speaker 6: you're covered. If Tott and Sny you're covered. And that
Speaker 6: bless their hearts. They have lost their checkout area twice
Speaker 6: is year greet the storms. So good to have that open.
Speaker 6: By the way, I don't want to I don't want
Speaker 6: to fail to mention to you that when you go
Speaker 6: to Buchanans you're going to get the service. You're going
Speaker 6: to get the plants, the expertise, everything you need to
Speaker 6: have success. They specialize in native plants. The Cannon's Native
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Speaker 5: They got it.
Speaker 6: Buchanan's Native Plants like them. You need to go to
Speaker 6: the website and you need to check it out. It
Speaker 6: is awesome. There's tons of good pre information there and
Speaker 6: you're going to love it. You are going to love it.
Speaker 6: Today I'm going to be at a memorial on Memorial
Speaker 6: Drive at ACE Hardware City. Ace Hardware City on Memorial
Speaker 6: Drive and I'm going to be giving away some tree
Speaker 6: Hugger sprinklers, excuse me. And the tree hugger, by the way,
Speaker 6: is the ultimate watering device for either newly planted or
Speaker 6: established trees and shrubs. You put it around the tree,
Speaker 6: and if it's a new tree, you just barely turn
Speaker 6: it on because you have a little small rootball there.
Speaker 6: It'll water it. As that tree grows, you turn it
Speaker 6: up more. It takes care of them, and it's a
Speaker 6: great way to rescue any tree during summer heat and drought.
Speaker 6: Go to tree hundred sprinklers dot com. You can find
Speaker 6: a retailer near you, or I can just tell you.
Speaker 6: You're going to find them at DMB Feed. You're going
Speaker 6: to find them at Spring Creek, at League City, at
Speaker 6: Southwest Fertilizer. Ace Hardware is like sinkle ranch and katas
Speaker 6: a tescaseda ace fullsher ace. You're going to find them
Speaker 6: at the arbor Gate, Nelson Water Gardens, RCW Warren Southern
Speaker 6: Gardens in Keeywood out there in Kingwood, and you're going
Speaker 6: to find them at in Jenny Forest as well. I mean,
Speaker 6: it's a great product.
Speaker 9: It works.
Speaker 6: You need to have one on hand because trust me,
Speaker 6: and may be what now, but summer is definitely coming.
Speaker 6: Just another reminder to get out your Nitrofoss Super Turf
Speaker 6: Nicapos Super Turf nineteen fourteen. It's the silver bag, so
Speaker 6: it's easy fine when you go into a garden center.
Speaker 6: It's designed for our Saint Augustine, our bermuda and our
Speaker 6: soysia grass and it really really works here. And by
Speaker 6: the way, I'll be giving away three bags of that
Speaker 6: today at Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, So come
Speaker 6: by and let's meet and let's do that. It works
Speaker 6: super super well. Now for those of you down in
Speaker 6: the Alvin area, you can get your three sixty trees stabilizer.
Speaker 6: By the way there at JORGEZ Hidden Gardens, I'm going
Speaker 6: to be given away several trees stabilizers today at my
Speaker 6: appearance down at Horaz which is on Elizabeth Street in Alvin.
Speaker 6: You're going to find an awesome selection of fruit and
Speaker 6: that include peaches that are low chill, and apples and
Speaker 6: plums and pears and avocados that is sen somebody there
Speaker 6: yesterday for an avocado tree. They've got Peggy Martin roses
Speaker 6: and any kind of plant you're looking for. Really, it's
Speaker 6: an outstanding place.
Speaker 9: Go down, say hi to Hora.
Speaker 6: He is on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, which, if you're
Speaker 6: in Alvin heading toward Santa Fe, it's off to the
Speaker 6: right about halfway to Santa Fe on the right hand
Speaker 6: side down Low ROADJA. So go check them out, all
Speaker 6: right while we're rolling here on the music