WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:05.519 Welcome to kt r H garden line with skin Richard's. 2 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:12.199 Trim. 3 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:20.960 Just watch him as so many. 4 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:29.079 Good things to Septasya. 5 00:00:27.640 --> 00:00:36.159 Was not a sign gas the sun. 6 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:37.320 Beam and of. 7 00:00:40.759 --> 00:00:47.640 Hey, good morning gardeners. An't noticed it rain yesterday? Wow, 8 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:52.920 some area has got a gully washer that is that 9 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:55.359 means a lot of rain. Gully washer's kind of like 10 00:00:55.399 --> 00:01:01.000 a frog strangler. That's another term for a lot of rain. Well, 11 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:03.359 we'll take it. We will take it now. This is 12 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:05.760 a reminder when we get this kind of rain that 13 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:10.079 drainage is important. And you know, I was looking outside 14 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:13.000 during the one of the worst parts of it. Are 15 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:14.799 I say worst when it's rain in the heaviest and 16 00:01:14.879 --> 00:01:18.120 husband for a while and uh, just looking in my yard, 17 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:21.319 where's water gathering right now? Now? For water to puddle 18 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.519 up during the rain is not an issue. It's the 19 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.079 days following the rain that are the issue. You know, 20 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:28.760 if you've got four days out, still got a puddle 21 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:30.519 out there, well, that's not going to be an easy 22 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:32.959 spot to grow. Most plants, there are a few that 23 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:36.560 take that. Button bush is a great native shrub, large 24 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:40.599 shrub that can take saggy, wet conditions. Cannas can take 25 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:45.439 so Saggi wet conditions. Cypress trees for sure can take 26 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:50.280 Slaggi wet conditions, but most plants can't. So that's when 27 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:52.400 we need to get out there and do some things 28 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:58.400 to fix those spots. Very important, very important. If in 29 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:03.120 the yard, I've noticed I mowed yesterday prior to the 30 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:06.640 rain arriving and got everything cut back. Boy, the lawns 31 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:11.360 are they're happy, the temperatures are warming up, their growth 32 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:14.199 continues to speed up. It'll get a little faster too 33 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:18.319 as we go forward, but they're doing good. I'd fertilize 34 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:22.159 my lawn earlier in the season and things are growing 35 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:26.039 looking really good, and I hope yours are too. If not, 36 00:02:26.439 --> 00:02:29.439 this is a time to get down your summer fertilizations. 37 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:33.360 Slow release for summer. That's what we talk about. And 38 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:37.080 why do we do slow release, well, several reasons. Number One, 39 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:41.319 slow release fertilizers mean you fertilize once and it just 40 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:45.400 keeps fertilizing for you over time. If you did a 41 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:49.680 fast release before last night's rain, a lot of it 42 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:53.840 may be on its way down the street because basically 43 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:56.960 those dissolve and they release their nutrients quickly, which is 44 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:01.520 good for the purposes that we use them for. But 45 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:04.319 we're at the time now where you can do the 46 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:08.000 slow releases, and i'd recommend that now. If you're going 47 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.879 to use a fast release going through summer, you need 48 00:03:10.919 --> 00:03:13.520 to do it in very small doses over time. So 49 00:03:13.639 --> 00:03:17.719 you're turning a fast release into a slow release by 50 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:20.599 taking x amount that you would put on over the 51 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:22.759 course of summer and applying it in a bunch of 52 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:26.960 small doses. It takes extra time. You know, it's not 53 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:30.400 the best of technologies, but it works. You can grow 54 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:34.400 on that way. Slow release, on the other hand, gradually 55 00:03:34.439 --> 00:03:38.039 feeds the soil for you. They're designed with different kinds 56 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:42.439 of nitrogen that release over different periods of time, so 57 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:46.199 you get that nice even feeding that avoids a flush 58 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:48.199 of growth that means you got to mow more, that 59 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:53.000 avoids excessive nitrogen release, that means you get top growth 60 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.159 at the expense of root growth. And super turf is 61 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:57.960 that is that kind of fertilizer. It's a nineteen four ten. 62 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:01.719 It's from the Folks at Night and it works on 63 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:04.960 all of our southern turf crisis in Augustine Bermuda Zeetsia. 64 00:04:05.199 --> 00:04:08.439 It does well in our hot humids climate down in 65 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:12.199 this region and it goes about four months out and 66 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:15.919 so I would highly recommend it. In fact, today I 67 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.319 just want to mention today, I'm going to be at 68 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:22.560 the Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive from twelve to 69 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:25.040 two and I'm going to be given away three bags 70 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:27.439 of super Turf today. So come on out. Maybe he 71 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:30.160 will win some. I've got a lot of giveaways. I'll 72 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.120 tell you more about that later, but I don't know 73 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:36.000 that I've ever had this many different giveaways at one appearance, 74 00:04:36.040 --> 00:04:38.680 but we got a lot going on at Ace Hardware City. Anyway, 75 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:40.560 nine to five. Super Turf. You're going to find it 76 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:42.920 in a lot of different places. You're going to find 77 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.879 it at Bearings Hardware on Bissinette and one on West Timer. 78 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:47.959 You're going to find it in Shanne Forest down there 79 00:04:47.959 --> 00:04:53.079 in Richmond Rosenberg area, and many many other locations like 80 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:57.160 any Knight Foss product. We's head out now to Danbury. 81 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:59.959 We're going to talk to Edward. Hello, Edward, welcome to garden. 82 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:03.839 How you doing I'm about it. 83 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:06.360 I'm doing good. Thank you. 84 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:12.519 Okay, I've got avocado tree. It's like number six. All 85 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:14.519 the rest of them have died. Is there any special 86 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:17.160 fertilized as it's a half avocado? 87 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:22.079 Oh a has well has has a hard time here. 88 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:25.279 It's it's it's kind of cold tender, and we generally 89 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:29.199 go with some other types of avocados. But that having 90 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:33.360 been said, doesn't affect the kind of fertilizer you put 91 00:05:33.399 --> 00:05:36.800 down on it. Uh, you can get a fertilizer fruit. 92 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.639 Uh you kind of did on Haas. Yeah, you kind 93 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:44.720 of did on Hass. But you know, it's it's just 94 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:48.920 a that's a kind of Califorfornia avocado. It's the kind 95 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:51.519 you see in the grocery store, and they just don't 96 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:55.199 have a cold heartiness that we would expect, you know 97 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:57.439 that we would need, I guess for here, so you 98 00:05:57.839 --> 00:06:00.319 do a little extra protection on it. But anyway, as 99 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:03.000 far as fertilizing the thing that was what your question 100 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:07.680 was about, I would use You could do a fruit 101 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:11.120 tree fertilizer and there's some of our our garden line. 102 00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:14.639 You know, companies that produce fertilizer will make a blend 103 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:17.639 just for fruit trees. Or you can just use a 104 00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:20.839 lawn fertilizer on it. And to do that, you want 105 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.560 to walk up to the tree, and however, thick the 106 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.680 trunk is not around the trunk, but across the trunk. 107 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.959 Every inch one or two cups a fertile of lawn fertilizer. 108 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:37.079 For most lawn fertilizers. If it's it's one or two 109 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:39.639 cups sprint. If it's organic, you can double or triple that. 110 00:06:41.040 --> 00:06:43.040 Well, I'm hauler here and I'm trying you know what 111 00:06:43.800 --> 00:06:44.759 avocandal trees? 112 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:45.079 The u. 113 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:50.920 Uh, There are a number of Yeah, there are a 114 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:55.519 number of varieties out there. There's a wilma, there's a 115 00:06:56.160 --> 00:07:00.319 there's so many different varieties. Let me do that. If 116 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:04.839 you go to a website that's called Aggie Horticulture Aggie 117 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:08.279 hyphen Horticulture U there is a section on there for 118 00:07:08.279 --> 00:07:11.480 fruit trees, and there's a publication on every kind of 119 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:14.600 fruit tree, and there's one for avocados and if you 120 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:16.399 if you go to it, it'll talk to you about 121 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:19.680 growing avocados, you know, the soil of the varieties and 122 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.160 things that you need. But basically it's a we're looking 123 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:33.199 for what are called Mexican avocados. Okay, all right, so 124 00:07:33.720 --> 00:07:36.519 the the kind like hosts is not a Mexican avocado. 125 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:41.360 But let's see another one is Holland Wilma. There's one 126 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:49.240 called Lula. There's a lot of other avocado that you know, 127 00:07:49.319 --> 00:07:51.560 you could grow, it's just not gonna be as hardy. 128 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:55.000 And so what I would recommend you do is go 129 00:07:55.120 --> 00:08:01.000 to wherever you can you can find quality, quality garden 130 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:05.199 center near you. Not not a big box store, not 131 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:06.879 a you know, just a. 132 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:18.360 Parking lot in Ballonia. But anyway, put them out in 133 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:19.040 the front life. 134 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:24.920 They need, they need full sun. Bull they need yeah, 135 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:28.439 they need, they need absolutely full sun. Uh. And if 136 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:31.879 you yeah that that's going to give you the best. Now, 137 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:34.120 if you'll drive up the street to Alvin, head up 138 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:37.919 thirty five to the Alvin Santa Fe area, that's where 139 00:08:38.200 --> 00:08:41.159 jorgees Hidden Gardens is, and Jorge has a number of 140 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:45.559 hardy avocados available up there that might be worth It's 141 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:47.639 a little trip up the street, but but it might 142 00:08:47.679 --> 00:08:49.399 be worth it to go up there and grab one 143 00:08:49.399 --> 00:08:52.559 from Jory because he does carry some varieties that are hardy. Here. 144 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:56.159 Okay, yeah, I have a drunk and I'm working to day. 145 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:59.720 I actually work out of als today. 146 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:04.200 Yeah. If you go from Alvin, Yeah, as you go 147 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:06.559 from Alvin down towards Santa Fe Jorge is off to 148 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:09.159 the right, about halfway between the towns. But it's an 149 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:12.320 Alvin address. All right, thank you. 150 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.080 I appreciate it all right. 151 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.360 Now, if this all works, you know on Garden Line, 152 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:19.080 all I ask is that you bring me half the 153 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.279 produce if this is successful. So I'm going to get 154 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:25.360 my recipe for walk em Molly out and I'll be waiting. 155 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:27.639 All right. Thanks. I appreciate it. 156 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:31.080 Playing taps when I'm playing it because this is number 157 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:33.000 six and I've lost five so far. 158 00:09:34.519 --> 00:09:37.720 Very good, very good. Thank you. Appreciate your call. Hey, folks, 159 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:39.639 I got to run. I'll be right back, all right. 160 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.559 Welcome back to Guarden Line. Thanks for listening this morning. 161 00:09:44.559 --> 00:09:47.399 Congratulations all of you who are up with at least 162 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:49.919 one eye open. Good to talk to you. 163 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:50.879 Hey. 164 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.480 If you've got some furniture that is sitting out in 165 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:57.600 the back and it ain't looking so good, all right, 166 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:01.720 maybe rusty, Maybe some of the the little rubber caps 167 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:04.559 on the ends or the straps on it and other 168 00:10:04.639 --> 00:10:07.559 things are falling apart. It just needs to be fixed up. 169 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:08.039 Well. 170 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.799 Houston Powder Coader is the one that do that. They 171 00:10:10.879 --> 00:10:13.120 are professionals at it, and they can pretty much. If 172 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:14.799 it'll hold still. They can put a powder coat on 173 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.360 just about anything. They've got some giant bend I they 174 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:20.759 do a trailer literally in a bin. But when it 175 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:23.360 comes to our yards, you know that metal railing, the 176 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.799 light post, middle lamppost out in the ground, the artwork 177 00:10:26.879 --> 00:10:28.720 that you may hang on a fence to the side 178 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:32.399 of the house, it's a metal. If it's wrottle iron, aluminum, 179 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:35.159 cast iron, they can do it all. Well, here's what 180 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:37.360 you need to do. Take a picture of that furniture, 181 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:42.120 whatever it is, and send it that picture to sales 182 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:46.159 at houstoncoders dot com. Sales at Houston cooders dot com. 183 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:48.360 They'll give you a quick quote, they will come pick 184 00:10:48.399 --> 00:10:50.799 it up, and they will deliver it when it's done. 185 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:55.519 If you live in the greater Houston area. Houston powdercoders 186 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:00.360 dot com over one hundred different colors in stock one 187 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:04.399 six seven, six thirty eight eighty eight two eight one six, seven, 188 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:07.879 six thirty eight eighty eight. You will not believe. Go 189 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:10.639 to the website Houston powder Cooders dot com and look 190 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:12.480 at the kind of work they do. It's like, oh 191 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.039 my gosh, that is like new, or if not better 192 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.960 than new. They know how to do that. Let that 193 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:22.039 out to Magnolia and we're going to talk now to Ronnie. Hey, Ronnie, 194 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:23.120 welcome to garden Line. 195 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:31.000 Good morning, Skip, good morning. Is our soul too warm 196 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:32.600 to have a good tulip crop? 197 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:38.440 You know, it's not our soil, it's it's our overall temperatures. 198 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:43.320 Tulips like a nice, long cold winter, and here they 199 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:46.000 just you know, we just don't have winter. And if 200 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:47.879 you were to ask a tulip, they go, that ain't 201 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:51.039 winner down there in Houston, and it messes them up. 202 00:11:51.679 --> 00:11:54.320 Now there are you can do two things. You can 203 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:57.120 plant standard tulips and use them as what we call 204 00:11:57.240 --> 00:12:01.279 one shot wonders, meaning you plan them, they pop up, 205 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:04.039 they bloom, you throw them away like you would a 206 00:12:04.039 --> 00:12:06.039 tomato plan or something. You know, you grow it and 207 00:12:06.039 --> 00:12:07.960 you throw it away and you plan new one next year. 208 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:11.000 You could do that. Or the other is there's a 209 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:16.000 company called Southern Bulb Company, Southern Bulb Company that sells 210 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:18.639 throughout the area. I know that they sell bulbs in 211 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:21.679 a number of our garden centers. I was at Arbigate 212 00:12:21.720 --> 00:12:25.279 that a while back and saw Southern Bulb bulbs there. 213 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:29.480 There are some what we call species tulips. They look 214 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:33.080 like really really skinny little tulips, but they're very pretty. 215 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:36.519 But they actually will naturalize here. They do pretty well. 216 00:12:36.559 --> 00:12:41.200 And then there's one that's larger that looks it is 217 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:44.600 a tulip. It's called prey cox and they call it 218 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:49.879 Texas tulip because it will naturalize here. But that is 219 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:53.720 a very unique exception and it looks a little different 220 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:57.159 than what you think of when you picture a Dutch 221 00:12:57.240 --> 00:13:01.080 tulip in your mind's eye. You can go see that online. 222 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.840 It's Southern Bulb Company, Southern Boye. 223 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:11.159 Last two seasons, I've got some from Holland and they 224 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:14.080 say acclimate it in the refrigerator for a bunch of 225 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:17.159 sixteen weeks. But if you want it. 226 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:23.759 Done, yeah, they're one and done. So yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. 227 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:25.399 You got to plan them at just the right time. 228 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:26.240 Uh. 229 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:28.799 And their bloom season can go kind of fast, especially 230 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:30.039 if it's getting a little bit warm. 231 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:30.679 Uh. 232 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:33.879 But that's what I do. And you're not far from Arburgateham. 233 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:35.240 They're going to have them. You can call them and 234 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.200 say what will you have next year? They'll have some 235 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:39.480 on hand at the right time to plan them. It'll 236 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.600 be this fall. But anyway, if you want to see 237 00:13:42.600 --> 00:13:45.080 what they look like. Yeah, if you want to see 238 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:47.080 what they look like, go to Southern Bulb dot com 239 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:51.279 and you can see pictures of what I'm talking about. Okay, Okay, 240 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:55.240 thank you skip, Yes, sir, you bet, thanks for the call. 241 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:58.039 Appreciate that very much. 242 00:13:58.519 --> 00:13:58.679 Uh. 243 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:03.480 Ace Hardware Store have whatever you need to have success 244 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.720 and the outdoors. Now, of course it's a hardware store. 245 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:09.480 They got the inside stuff, of course, but they also 246 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.159 have unlike the old time hardware store you may have 247 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.720 grown up going to, they've got an incredible amount of 248 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:20.799 things to decorate and beautify the indoors as well as 249 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:23.000 things for the patio and whatnot. And now, of course 250 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:25.320 it's a season where we're taking care of our lawns 251 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:28.279 and we're making flower beds and vegetable gardens. And when 252 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:32.240 you need the fertilizers, the pest control, weed control, disease control, 253 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:34.840 when you need the garden hose and the hand tools 254 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:38.039 and all the things you do to have beauty, they've 255 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:40.879 got that. And then for the relax and the enjoy 256 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:44.799 you know, the barbecue pits, the string of lights, all 257 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:48.679 the things that make outdoor living so pleasant. Ace has 258 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:51.840 got you covered. You can go to ACE Hardwaretexas dot com. 259 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:54.919 Ace Hardware Texas dot com and find the ACE Hardware 260 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.320 stores near you and they're all over Houston. Got a 261 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:01.200 whole bunch of them here now if you would like 262 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:04.120 to see one live and in person today, I'm gonna 263 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:10.279 be at Memorial City Ace Hardware Ace Hardware City here 264 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:13.519 in on Memorial Drive in the Houston Areio from twelfth 265 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:15.480 to two today and I am going to be given 266 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:20.039 away a lot of stuff. We have got some bags 267 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:24.519 of azamide. We've got a super turf from Nitrophoss. We've 268 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:27.279 got heirloom soils. Oh my gosh, We've got the works 269 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:29.919 potting soil. We've got their leaf mold compost. We've got 270 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:33.960 hardwood molds. We've got shale expanded jail from them. Uh, 271 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:36.919 it just goes on and on. I have got from 272 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.840 Nelson plant Foods and color Star and then the Azalea 273 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:44.000 plumerias and door indoor plants and bogonin veea versions of 274 00:15:44.120 --> 00:15:48.679 the jars of Nelson plant food products. There is a 275 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:51.759 product that's a name, which is an insect control from Boni. 276 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:53.799 We're gonna be given away. You've got micro Life product 277 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:57.399 I mean, oh, and then the three sixty tree stabilizers. 278 00:15:57.480 --> 00:15:59.200 I'm gonna have three of those as well to give 279 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.519 the I mean show up and your chances of winning 280 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:05.879 are pretty good. I'd always like to meet people at 281 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:09.519 these appearances today from twelve to two at the Memorial 282 00:16:10.279 --> 00:16:14.279 location Memorial Drive location of Ace Hardware. It's Ace Hardware City. 283 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.159 All right, let's head out to Beytown. Now we're going 284 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:19.679 to talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line. 285 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:24.000 Good morning, thanks for playing the call. Yes, we get 286 00:16:24.039 --> 00:16:28.639 two quick. The major one is illut it on my 287 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:32.320 video and back of the house. And if I had 288 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:35.799 done rip up my file baby because of the drainage. 289 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:39.799 Do you know anybody in the area that can do 290 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:43.240 that drainage? We do that draine, you know, underground piping 291 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:50.039 or whether they need to direct all the water away from. 292 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:52.039 Yeah, you are a little far You're a little far 293 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:55.360 away from these folks, but I would give them a call. 294 00:16:55.559 --> 00:16:58.480 And if they can't come that far, they can probably 295 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:02.519 tell you who could. But it's B and B turf Pros. 296 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:05.440 B B turf Pros. They kind of they kind of 297 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:07.519 handle I know, they go all the way over to 298 00:17:07.880 --> 00:17:10.480 UH Interstate forty five and just across forty five a 299 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:13.799 little bit. But B and B Turf Pros is the 300 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:18.559 company that we're looking for. Excuse me, I haven't hanging 301 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:21.279 up my throat. The phone number is seven one three 302 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:25.160 two three four fifty five ninety eight. I should ask 303 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:31.480 if you had a pen handy first, yes, seven one 304 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.799 three two three four five five nine eight B and 305 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:36.119 B Turf Pros. 306 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:39.039 Okay, great, all right, talked about it. 307 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.839 There may be a little far Yeah, yeah, all right, sir, 308 00:17:43.279 --> 00:17:47.680 thank you, thank you, good good luck. Yeah. Yeah. This 309 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:52.880 rain is kind of reminded us of drainage issues. A 310 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:55.160 lot of a lot of clay soils here in the Easternario, 311 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:59.480 and clay soils do not drain well. Typically we can 312 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.160 do things to improve them in our flower beds and whatnot. 313 00:18:02.960 --> 00:18:06.279 Bottom line is, you know, clay hole's water. That's why 314 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:08.599 on farms, when you want to build a farm pond, 315 00:18:09.319 --> 00:18:11.720 you dig a hole in the ground and then you 316 00:18:12.640 --> 00:18:16.440 put in that hole, you line the pond itself with 317 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:19.920 something called Bentonite clay, and it's a it's a clay 318 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:23.480 that basically goes down there and seals and turns what 319 00:18:23.640 --> 00:18:26.640 might just be something that drains right out into something 320 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:30.359 that holds water well, clay holes water. But a good 321 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:33.359 company like B and B turf Pros they can they 322 00:18:33.359 --> 00:18:35.960 can do that kind of thing for you. They have 323 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:40.480 the technology, they understand the process of drainage and and 324 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:43.440 it it. You know, some people try to do it yourself, 325 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:46.839 depending on the job. That sometimes is difficult to do 326 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:50.759 because you need the drainage to go downhill. Surprise, water 327 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:53.839 drains downhill, and you need it to drop, you know, 328 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:56.960 so many inches every so many feet in order for 329 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:01.359 to truly drain out right to another location. Anyway, that's 330 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:03.759 some of the how to are the details of it. 331 00:19:04.359 --> 00:19:06.839 But you need a good quality team that knows how 332 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:10.720 to do that to do that well. By the way, 333 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:16.599 that kind that just reminds me that when you're choosing plants, 334 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:20.559 always choose plants that fit the site. Sunny shady. There's 335 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:24.680 different groups of plants. Plants that drain well, plants that 336 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:28.440 don't drain well. Same kind of thing. Speaking of plants. 337 00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:33.519 Antigros Imporium Antigrosenporium been around since nineteen eighty three, and boy, 338 00:19:34.279 --> 00:19:36.960 they have so many cool things going on right now. 339 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:41.359 They have two new plant bundles groups of plants exclusively 340 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:44.799 at Anti Grosmporium. One is called the Soft Cottage Bundle. 341 00:19:44.920 --> 00:19:48.720 The other is the Vibrant Cottage Bundle. And just ask 342 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.680 their associates there when you're there. They are up in Independence, 343 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:55.559 Texas and it's a great outing to get out and do. 344 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.000 Here is the website. This is where you go. Everything 345 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:03.599 you need to know is there. Antique Roseemporium dot com. 346 00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:07.240 The Antique Roseemporium dot com if you want to give 347 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:11.039 them a call. Ninety seven nine eight three, six fifty 348 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:13.200 five forty eight. Thatts Some big events coming up on 349 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:18.359 May seventeenth is the Beneficial Insects Seminar and Kids Activities, 350 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:21.680 So there's gonna be a great program educational program on 351 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.480 beneficial Insects, free seminar. At the same time in kiddos 352 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:29.680 age three to ten can enjoy what they call Nature Nectar. 353 00:20:29.720 --> 00:20:33.160 It's a hand, hands on activity where they learn about pollinators. 354 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:37.160 They'll be garden inspired crafts, there'll be a butterfly story, 355 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:39.839 a lot of fun facts, and it culminates with a 356 00:20:39.880 --> 00:20:43.079 magical ladybug release in the gardens. And you've got to 357 00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:45.119 get tickets for it and you go to the website 358 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:48.279 antique Rosimporium dot com and that's where you're going to 359 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:51.480 find tickets for this event as well as a lot 360 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:54.400 of other good information at the Antiquerose Importum, one of 361 00:20:54.440 --> 00:20:57.319 my favorite garden centers to visit. I'll be right back. 362 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:01.519 Welcome back to Gardenline, folks. Good to have you with 363 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:07.720 us this morning. Yeah, I woke up with something in 364 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:12.480 my throat this morning. Asmite is the trace mineral supplement 365 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:14.359 I talk about all the time here on Garden Line. 366 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:19.559 Asmite has those minerals that are needed not in large quantities, 367 00:21:20.119 --> 00:21:22.720 but that still are essential for plant growth. And I've 368 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:25.519 said it this way before, but to explain that, like 369 00:21:25.559 --> 00:21:29.039 you need a lot of nitrogen for plants, just need 370 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:31.839 a lot of nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium. They use 371 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:34.880 a lot of those, Okay, when it comes to things 372 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:38.920 like zinc and molybdenum and boron, they don't use much 373 00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:41.599 at all. But if they don't have any, they die. 374 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:44.640 They don't live. They cannot live without trace minerals, and 375 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:47.480 so that's why we add a trace mineral supplement like 376 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:50.839 azmite to our soils. You can find more information at 377 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:54.079 ASMIT Texas dot com. And you can find azamite in many, 378 00:21:54.119 --> 00:21:56.960 many places all over the Greater Houston area, most of 379 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:00.559 our inpenit garden centers. You know, places like an Ace 380 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:05.079 hardware store, like for example, feed stores and whatnot that 381 00:22:05.119 --> 00:22:08.920 we have all places you're gonna find asmite. And today, 382 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:14.680 if you come out to Memorial City Ace Hardware that 383 00:22:14.880 --> 00:22:17.839 is on Memorial Drive. By the way, it's Ace Hardware 384 00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:19.920 City on Memorial Drive, I'm going to be given only 385 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:23.119 four bags of acemite. Take it home, try it out. 386 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:26.720 How's a good time to put it on. If you're 387 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:30.960 planning on doing any container gardening, and I was doing 388 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:36.240 this just yesterday, planting some things in containers for my patio. 389 00:22:36.599 --> 00:22:39.799 I've been chipping away at that all spring now, just 390 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:44.680 getting little jobs done. And I love containers. But you 391 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:47.160 need a good quality soil. You need it to drain well, 392 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:49.200 but you also need it whole oisture. You don't want 393 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:52.559 the water to run right through like it was gravel 394 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:55.000 for example. On the other hand, you don't want it 395 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.880 to be just mucky and boggy and no oxygen in 396 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:00.640 the root system. And it takes a quality to do that. 397 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:03.640 In jungle land is a quality soel. They're outdoor flower 398 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:08.640 and vegetable planting soil is excellent for flowers and vegetables 399 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:11.920 and herbs and whatever you want to grow outside in 400 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:16.920 those containers. Consider jungle land. It works. Distributed by night foss. 401 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:20.279 You're going to find it in places like the plantation. 402 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:23.119 Ace Hardware. They're out there on FM three point fifty 403 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:27.039 nine they carry night foss products. M and D up 404 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:30.240 in Cyprus on Luetta Road carries night foss products, as 405 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:34.079 does the Ace Hardware and single ranch on Mason Road. 406 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:38.359 Just three examples of the mini of places that carry 407 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:45.640 nitrovoss products here. So what happens when it rains the 408 00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:49.799 soil swells. It swells, and when it gets dry, the 409 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:54.119 soil shrinks. Did you know that our clay soils have 410 00:23:54.359 --> 00:23:58.880 high what the soil scientists called shrink swell potential. That's 411 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:00.359 why when you go out in the summer and it's 412 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:03.440 hot and dry, there's cracks in the backyard so large 413 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:05.519 you could lose a toddler or a little fufu dog 414 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:08.519 right right drops right down in the ground right there 415 00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:12.079 in the backyard. Well that's an exaggeration, but you know 416 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:14.759 what I'm talking about. Well, when you have a slab 417 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:17.559 of concrete, whether it's a sidewalk, a driveway or a 418 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:20.920 house that is set on top of that kind of soil, 419 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:23.839 and that soil is moving. It literally is moving. I 420 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:25.799 mean it moves so much and it's so powerful it 421 00:24:25.880 --> 00:24:29.599 cracks slabs. And every summer is in Houston, when it 422 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:31.960 gets hot and dry, you just see water lines breaking 423 00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:34.920 all the time. And it's because of that same soil 424 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:38.400 as a powerful mover. Anyway, if you've got that, you 425 00:24:38.440 --> 00:24:42.200 need to call fix my Slab talk to try stick 426 00:24:42.279 --> 00:24:44.240 on that Fixed my Slab. He's been doing it twenty 427 00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:49.480 three years now. The website is fixmislab dot com. The 428 00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:52.279 phone number two eight one two FI five forty nine 429 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:55.400 forty nine. You know you know something's going on when 430 00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:57.240 you see a crack in the brick outside, or when 431 00:24:57.240 --> 00:24:59.039 you see cracks in the sheet rock, or when a 432 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:02.400 door that used to not stick is now sticking. You 433 00:25:02.440 --> 00:25:04.480 know as you try to open it. That's a sign 434 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:06.799 something is moving and you need to have him come in. 435 00:25:06.880 --> 00:25:11.000 Tell him your guardenline listener Free estimates for guarden line listeners. 436 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:14.480 And the reason I would send you to Tie is 437 00:25:14.519 --> 00:25:19.799 this resons he shows up on time, He fixes it right, 438 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:23.319 and he charges a fair price. Now that's all you 439 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:25.519 can ask for from anybody doing any kind of a 440 00:25:25.599 --> 00:25:29.279 service at your house. I's been around here again twenty 441 00:25:29.319 --> 00:25:32.160 three actually more than twenty three years now, uh, doing 442 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:35.200 this business. He's a native Ustonian, a fifth generation Texan. 443 00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:39.160 Fixmislab dot com two eight one two FI five forty 444 00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:40.119 nine forty nine. 445 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:42.000 Uh. 446 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:44.160 And don't be an Ostrich. You may think, oh, I 447 00:25:44.160 --> 00:25:46.240 don't want to don't even I don't even know if 448 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:50.319 I've got slab problems. You know that's what. That's a 449 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:51.799 can of words. I don't want to do that. Well, 450 00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:55.079 don't be an Ostrich and stick your head in the sand. Listen. 451 00:25:55.680 --> 00:26:01.279 I've talked to Tie about jobs before on Foundations, and 452 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:04.000 you know, we'll talk about it and what's going on 453 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:06.960 and where the cracks are and what we're seeing and 454 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:09.240 all that, and I'll say something like, you know what, 455 00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:11.720 at this point, that is not something you need to 456 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:14.839 worry about. It just probably not and uh, And he'll 457 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:18.400 tell you those kind of things and so it doesn't 458 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:21.160 get better, but it does get worse. So be careful 459 00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:25.720 with your slabs. You're listening to Garden Line the phone 460 00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:29.559 number seven one three two one two k t r 461 00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:34.720 H seven one three two one two five eight seven 462 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:38.279 to four makes it easy to give us a call. 463 00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:41.279 What do you want to talk about this morning? We 464 00:26:41.440 --> 00:26:44.519 have got a lot of topics. I'm uh, I don't 465 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:46.799 know why. You know. I like Okra. I talk about 466 00:26:46.839 --> 00:26:49.000 Okra all the time here on guard Line. It's just 467 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:52.279 one of my little horticultural obsessions. The way the way 468 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:54.559 I put it is, it's the latest and a long 469 00:26:54.599 --> 00:26:59.359 line of horticulture obsessions. Uh. And I actually have not 470 00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:03.000 planted over this year. I just have been busy running 471 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.519 around doing all kinds of things with my horticulture activities 472 00:27:08.279 --> 00:27:11.319 and anyway, so I've got some beds that are ready. 473 00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:13.440 Now I need to get out there and get that planted. 474 00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:18.319 We are now entering the doorstep of the warm season. 475 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:20.880 It is not hot here yet, but it will be. 476 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:26.920 And so those things there are plants like tomatoes, for example, 477 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:30.400 you know the way too long to plant your tomatoes. 478 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:33.319 And the tomato plants will grow, but they don't set well, 479 00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:37.119 especially the slicers. The little red cherry tomatoes or not. 480 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:39.680 Doesn't have to be red. The cherry and grape type, 481 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:42.319 the small fruit to tomatoes. Those set better in the 482 00:27:42.359 --> 00:27:46.720 heat than the large slicers do. And so as we 483 00:27:46.880 --> 00:27:49.559 hit this time of the year, the things that we're 484 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:53.880 planting change a little bit and we start thinking about 485 00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:58.319 the heat tolerant summer garden. I've got some malabar spinach 486 00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:00.960 coming up, and I don't like coli at malabar spinach 487 00:28:01.039 --> 00:28:03.400 because it's not spinach, but that's what people call it. 488 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:08.200 I just call it malabar greens. But it just laughs 489 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:11.920 at our summer heat. Amaranth is another one, amaranth. The 490 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:15.279 farmers have it coming up wild, the wild types in 491 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:19.119 the field they call it pig weed. But amaranth is edible. 492 00:28:19.200 --> 00:28:22.039 The greens are edible, and there's some nice large leaf 493 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.759 types that really do well in the summer. We have 494 00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:28.680 a lot of things that do well here in the summertime. 495 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:35.640 If you are wanting to grow cantalope, honeydew, watermelons, all 496 00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:38.599 those different kinds of melons, they do well in the heat. 497 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:41.480 If you're wanting to grow okra, as I mentioned, of course, 498 00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:45.160 southern peas do well in the heat. There are sweet 499 00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:49.319 potatoes that will be planting now to sweet potatoes do 500 00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:53.720 well in hot, hot weather. The squashes that take a 501 00:28:53.839 --> 00:28:57.240 long time to produce, we have to grow them through 502 00:28:57.319 --> 00:28:59.279 heat because it take so long to produce. And that 503 00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:01.799 would include pumpkins, and that would include what we call 504 00:29:01.839 --> 00:29:05.680 winter squashes like acorn squash and butternut squash for example. 505 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:07.319 Those do well now. 506 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:07.920 Uh. 507 00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:11.000 And so you should get out and get some of 508 00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:13.720 this kind of planting done. It's a good time to 509 00:29:13.799 --> 00:29:16.240 do that, and your garden centers can help you get 510 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:22.400 off to a good start doing just that. Let's take 511 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:24.799 a break here. When we come back, Rod in Houston, 512 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:29.279 you will be our first up. All right, we're back. 513 00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:31.880 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. 514 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.200 Phone number if you'd like to give me a call 515 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:37.519 seven one three two one two k t R h 516 00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:42.799 RCW Nurseries is loaded with beautiful plants right now. The 517 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:45.480 summer color, the things that can take the heat, you know, 518 00:29:45.559 --> 00:29:49.079 things like gomprina, things like Avobulus. They got a type 519 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:52.839 of a bobulist called blue. My mind, blue is in 520 00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:56.759 bou e because it is gorgeous blue. And this is 521 00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:59.359 a plant that grows low to the ground, has beautiful 522 00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.079 blue flower, takes the heat. You need to check it out. 523 00:30:02.480 --> 00:30:05.680 They have pentas right now and oh my gosh, pentas 524 00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:10.640 called Egyptian starflower track. Butterflies like crazy. You got a 525 00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:13.599 bright shade or a morning sun afternoon shade kind of location. 526 00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:18.319 They love that. Lots of gorgeous lantanas. It's you know 527 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:21.839 rcw oh. And they're shrubs. They you know, they specialize 528 00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:25.319 in shrubs and they sew man and trees too, by 529 00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:28.680 the way, so many options. They have something called the 530 00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:32.880 emerald colonnade holly. Now what that is. It's a plant, 531 00:30:32.880 --> 00:30:38.279 but they've trimmed it up as a topiary, so you know, 532 00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:40.160 you got stem comes up and they have a little 533 00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:41.920 ball of foliage and the stem comes up in a 534 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.119 bolla foliage for those formal settings, maybe by the front door. 535 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:46.759 You can put them in a big pot if you want. 536 00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:50.400 Even they are gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. And then one of 537 00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:54.720 my favorite plants for summer is dipladini denia. Excuse me, Dipladinia. 538 00:30:55.440 --> 00:31:01.839 It is a beautiful red or white or pink flowers. 539 00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:06.039 They they look, they look they I don't know how 540 00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:08.079 to describe them. They're just beautiful. You just have to 541 00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:10.920 see them. Five pedals and it's a it's a vine 542 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:14.799 type plant, but these are particularly in more of a 543 00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:18.759 compacted type form. Never gets too hot. Set them out 544 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.720 there on the patio by the pool wherever you want. 545 00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:25.240 Just give them good sunlight and they will thrive there. RCW, 546 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:27.400 by the way, is the garden Center on Beltway eight 547 00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:29.640 and Tomball Parkway. Right at the corner of Beltway eight 548 00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:33.759 and Tomball Parkway. You can go to RCW nurseries dot 549 00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:37.440 com for more information. We are going to go now 550 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:45.720 to Rod in Houston. Hello, Rod, Welcome to garden Line. Hello, Hello, 551 00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:50.839 are you there? Yeah, Hey, thank you. How can we 552 00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:53.799 help today? I'm calling I'm. 553 00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:56.000 Trying to figure out is there any way to get 554 00:31:56.079 --> 00:31:57.440 rid of crab grats? 555 00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:06.319 Yes, a lot of people call several different things crabgrass. 556 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.640 Some are one is and the rest aren't. But where 557 00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:15.079 is it growing? Rod? It's growing in in my grad. 558 00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.599 I have Saint Augustine and is growing inside in different areas. 559 00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:24.079 Okay, Well, if you'll turn that radio down the background, 560 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:29.480 if it is in your Saint Augustine and it is crabgrass, 561 00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:33.480 you're you can't spray and kill a grass in a 562 00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:36.880 grass in most cases, so you're you're left with hand 563 00:32:36.920 --> 00:32:41.039 pulling or regular mowing. Uh in the in the spring, 564 00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:44.799 late winter. In February, you put down a pre emergent 565 00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:49.279 herbicide that prevents the crabgrass seeds from ever getting started 566 00:32:49.319 --> 00:32:51.960 in your Saint Augustine lawn. So that's kind of a 567 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:56.799 next next February thing that you need to do for it. 568 00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:58.920 It may be a different kind of grass, though, Rod, 569 00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:01.640 and so I'd like to make sure we've got the 570 00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:04.079 right grass. If you would like to take a picture 571 00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:06.359 of it and send it to me, I'll be happy 572 00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:08.440 to take a closer look. And it may be that 573 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:11.000 we take a different approach based on what I see, 574 00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:13.720 But I'll just throw that out there. If you're interested, 575 00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:16.359 I can put you on hold as we're done here, 576 00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:19.119 and if you want to stick around, my producer will 577 00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:21.480 give you an email. Just get up close. I would 578 00:33:21.519 --> 00:33:23.759 even pull some of it, take a picture in the yard, 579 00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:25.359 but pull some of it up and lay it on 580 00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:28.720 like a dark table surface or something where you can 581 00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:31.279 get in and take a real good close picture, because 582 00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:34.200 that helps me identify it than just a weed out 583 00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:36.359 there among the grass. It's kind of hard to identify 584 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:40.839 sometimes that way, all right, sir, Okay, okay, all right, 585 00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:44.839 we'll be happy to continue this conversation. You take care, 586 00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:50.240 get you there on hold. Yeah, well, pest brothers. Oh 587 00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:53.240 my gosh, you know I got there. There mosquito buckets 588 00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:55.640 at my house, and I was looking the other day 589 00:33:55.680 --> 00:33:57.960 and there are mosquito wriggulars all in there. 590 00:33:58.000 --> 00:33:58.160 Now. 591 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:00.359 Normally, when you look in water around your house and 592 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:03.160 you see mosquito regulars, you're thinking, oh my gosh, I'm 593 00:34:03.200 --> 00:34:07.400 in trouble. I'm thinking, oh boy, things are working because 594 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.719 they those buckets attract mosquitos. They lay eggs in there. 595 00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:14.000 Those wrigulars will never become adult mosquitoes. But what will 596 00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:17.960 happen is the mama mosquito that landed and laid those eggs. 597 00:34:18.039 --> 00:34:20.360 She picks up a couple of things on her feet 598 00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:23.599 that will number one kill her by it's a fungus 599 00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:25.559 that kills mosquitoes. Can you think of a better thing 600 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:27.880 to happen to mosquito other than swatting it between your 601 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:31.519 hands than a fungus to take it down? And then 602 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:34.599 whereverwhere she goes those little stagnant, tiny bits of water 603 00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:38.119 where mosquitoes can breed, she takes that with her and 604 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:41.440 it will the product in the second product in there 605 00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:45.119 will can kill other kinds of mosquitoes anyway, pestpros. When 606 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:48.320 I think of pest Bros, I think of modern technology 607 00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:52.480 that is safer and that is effective and that it lasts. 608 00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:55.920 That's how they work. Talk to them about their tomat 609 00:34:56.199 --> 00:35:00.880 or tomato termite control systems. They've got some really cool 610 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:05.760 modern technology. Is that is the least environmental impact that 611 00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:07.679 you're going to have from anything, and it works for 612 00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:13.480 like ten years. Amazing. Dpestbros dot com, dpest b r 613 00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:18.400 os dot com two eight one two o six forty 614 00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:21.719 six seventy heading out to spring. Now we're going to 615 00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:24.719 talk to Trey. Hello, Trey, welcome to Gardenline. 616 00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:30.199 Hey, Skip, good morning. I sent you over some pictures 617 00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:34.280 in an email of my patio gardina that has one 618 00:35:34.360 --> 00:35:37.360 or two leaves on it that are yellowing from time 619 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:39.159 to time, and I want to see if I could 620 00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:42.159 get some feedback from you on on how that plant's doing. 621 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:49.719 Oh okay, I'm not seeing a tray email. When did 622 00:35:49.719 --> 00:35:50.599 you send that out, tray? 623 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:54.679 It might have been a week or two ago. I 624 00:35:54.719 --> 00:35:55.760 wasn't able to call in. 625 00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:59.280 Oh okay, Oh okay, all right, good. Let me let 626 00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:03.360 me look a little bit further back here, Uh toon 627 00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:10.079 there we go? Uh find it here? Yes, okay, you 628 00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:13.920 had so you're tell me more about how this progressed 629 00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:15.599 as you first began to see it. 630 00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:21.119 Just started kind of at the bottom. U posted to 631 00:36:21.199 --> 00:36:23.880 the soil line and just saw one one kind of 632 00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:27.039 yellow leaf completely, and then every now and then I'll 633 00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:31.679 see another one that's starting to turn yellow, and then 634 00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:34.960 it'll eventually become fully yellow. But it's not a large 635 00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:37.000 number of them. It's kind of just one two zy 636 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:37.840 here and there. 637 00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:42.280 Yeah, it looks to me like trey. It's just you know, 638 00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:45.840 our guardias are evergreen, but leaves don't live forever, and 639 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:48.760 it just looks like as new growth comes out and 640 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:51.639 you know, starts to cover up those old leaves, the 641 00:36:51.719 --> 00:36:55.039 plant just aborts the older leaves. And that happens on 642 00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:57.719 live oaks, it happens on pine trees, it happens on 643 00:36:57.800 --> 00:37:01.559 magnolia trees, and certainly on goade guardina's as well. I 644 00:37:01.559 --> 00:37:04.840 don't see anything that looks like a problem there. I 645 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:07.599 do see some residue on the leaves, or is that 646 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:11.360 are you overhead watering them with a sprinkler or. 647 00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:16.039 Something, or I'm trying to water down down low, but 648 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:19.159 I think my yard sprinklers are getting some oversprayed from 649 00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:21.960 from the Yeah you know the sprinkler heads. 650 00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:24.880 Yep. Okay, Well, I mean it's not the end of 651 00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:26.639 the world, you know, if you have a choice, I 652 00:37:26.679 --> 00:37:30.000 would water down low. It's just a residue from that 653 00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:33.519 from that water that contains minerals. But I think your 654 00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:36.920 guardina looks great. I think that is a normal reaction, 655 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:39.559 and it looks like it's loaded with the bud so 656 00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:41.480 they may even be opening by now. 657 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:44.880 All right, sounds good. Well, I appreciate it. 658 00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:48.639 Thank you, skip you bet, thanks for calling to verify that. 659 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:51.840 I bet that's a beautiful plan. I can't wait, I go. 660 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.719 I can almost smell it right now. 661 00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:57.119 Thank you. 662 00:37:57.519 --> 00:38:00.639 All right, all right, you take care to talk to you. 663 00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:05.679 Medina products are There's so many Medina products. I mean, 664 00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:08.599 it's just I don't even know where to begin really. 665 00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:10.760 When I talk about them, usually I talk about has 666 00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:13.599 to grow six twelve six. That's the plant food that 667 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:15.800 I particularly use it, and you can use it in 668 00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:18.000 a lot of ways, but I particularly use it when 669 00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:21.159 I'm transplanting plants. To give it about three good doses 670 00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:24.599 of hash to grow about a week apart at planting time, 671 00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:28.480 and you know those plants are established. It's got the 672 00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:31.039 phosphorus and everything to get them established and for them 673 00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:34.400 to do well. There are a couple of products. Two 674 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:36.800 products for the lawn that don't want to talk about. 675 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:38.679 One of us called has to Grow Lawn. You hook 676 00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:41.280 it up to a garden hose. Has to Grow Lawn 677 00:38:41.480 --> 00:38:45.039 is a twelve four eight fertilizer, so that's a three 678 00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:48.800 one two ratio. Like we always recommend, twelve four eight fertilizer. 679 00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:52.159 Far turf that is and has to Grow lawn is 680 00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:54.280 simple to use and it works and you're going to 681 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:57.840 get a nice quick greenup. Another one is super Grow Plus. 682 00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:01.679 It's also a has to Grow super Grow Plus. It's 683 00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:06.519 a sixteen zero two. It's more nitrogen, no phosphorus, a 684 00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:09.199 little bit of potassium. When you want to give anything 685 00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:12.079 a boost of nitrogen. I can't think of a better 686 00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:14.840 way to do it than has to Grow Supergrow Plus 687 00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:18.159 from Medina sixteen zero two hooks up to a garden hose. 688 00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:19.840 You can buy it by the gallon too, by the way, 689 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:24.159 but it really works. Use it on your tomato plants, 690 00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:26.360 use it on your lawn, use it on anything you 691 00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:29.519 want to give a good quick boost to and it'll work. 692 00:39:31.320 --> 00:39:34.480 Where are we here looking? I always kind of lose 693 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:38.119 track of my time here just a little bit. Heirloom 694 00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:41.920 Soils is a company that has quality mixes period. I 695 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:44.559 don't care what you're doing. Like, for example, today I'm 696 00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:47.519 going to be giving away the works indoor potting soil, 697 00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:51.320 leaf mold compost, Oh my gosh, great for the lawn, 698 00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:54.639 and all kinds of uses, hardwood malts. They sell shale 699 00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:57.760 too there By the way, Heirloom Soil products are available 700 00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:00.559 by the bag all over Houston and also by bulk. 701 00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:04.239 You can go to Heirloomsoils dot com Heirloomsoils dot com 702 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.000 and find them. I have never tried an airloom soils 703 00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:11.000 product that didn't work very very well. All right, And 704 00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:13.000 if you want to win one, come out to them 705 00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:17.280 to Ace Hardware City a memorial and we will get 706 00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:19.519 you involved in that drawing and you may win one 707 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:22.440 as well. I'm looking forward to that. By the way, 708 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:25.840 I'll be there from twelve to two twelfth to two today, 709 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:28.280 so grab you a bite to eat. Head out there. 710 00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:31.960 And let's talk those of you who it seems like 711 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:34.519 everybody's got a weed problem in they're going pull them up, 712 00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:36.800 put them in a bag, bring them to me. I'll 713 00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:38.920 put them under a hot lamp and make them confess 714 00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:41.599 their name, and then we'll figure out what to do 715 00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:45.679 for them. Got any bugs, got any pictures of your 716 00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:48.559 landscape you'd like to What could I plant there? What's 717 00:40:48.599 --> 00:40:50.880 wrong with this plant? We'll help with that too. 718 00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:54.440 There. 719 00:40:54.519 --> 00:40:58.639 Good morning, hey, welcome to garden Line. Good to have 720 00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.199 you with us this morning. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 721 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:03.679 and we're here to help you have a dountiful garden 722 00:41:03.719 --> 00:41:07.480 and a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. 723 00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:10.599 Don't forget that last part. It is important gardening should 724 00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:13.400 be fun. And when does it get to be fun. Well, 725 00:41:13.519 --> 00:41:15.880 it gets to be fun when we have success, when 726 00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:18.760 we go out there and we plant something and we enjoy, 727 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:22.079 if you will, the fruit of our labors. Okay, Now, 728 00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:25.280 when you go out and you plant things and they 729 00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:28.480 don't do well and they die, people say I've got 730 00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:29.199 a brown thumb. 731 00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:29.639 You do not. 732 00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:32.440 I promise you do not have a brown thumb, because 733 00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:34.840 there's no such thing as a brown thumb. Now, I 734 00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:37.599 know what that means to say I have a brown thumb, 735 00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:40.239 but you don't have a brown thumb. You have an 736 00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:43.199 uninformed thumb. And we're here to inform your thumb. So 737 00:41:43.239 --> 00:41:45.920 bring your thumb with you to the radio. Let's let's talk. 738 00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:47.840 And by the way, you can listen to garden Line 739 00:41:47.880 --> 00:41:51.079 on Katie r Age seven forty am or I suspect 740 00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:54.039 some of you are doing that. Or you can listen 741 00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:58.400 to us online at the website, the Gardening webs of 742 00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:04.599 the kt h's website. You can also listen to us 743 00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:07.519 on the iHeart Media app. Get you the little iHeart 744 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:09.719 mediapp it's red and white. Got a little white heart 745 00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:15.960 there and it's red and white actually, and you find 746 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:18.000 garden Line and you listen that way. You could be 747 00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:20.679 right now, it's getting daylight out there. You could be 748 00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:23.519 going outside right now and have your phone in your 749 00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:26.119 pocket and be listening to guarden Line while you get 750 00:42:26.119 --> 00:42:29.519 some early morning tasks done. Maybe it's just walk through 751 00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:31.440 the garden with a cup of coffee. You got your phone, 752 00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:35.000 take a picture, send it to me, and then follow 753 00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:37.000 it up with a phone call and we'll talk about 754 00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:39.719 It'll be like live from your garden. On garden Line, 755 00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:42.960 that's good. I was talking earlier with someone who's looking 756 00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:45.719 for some drainage work and that said B and B 757 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:48.559 turf Pros did it done in their area. B and 758 00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:52.039 B Turf Pros is a family owned service that I 759 00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:56.559 just I'm very enthusiastic about recommending these folks. They provide 760 00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.960 honest and quality work. It's the bottom line, because customers say, 761 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:03.400 satisfaction and high quality work and certainly quality products is 762 00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:05.280 at the center of all they do. They only use 763 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.440 products from companies that I trust here on Guardenline, for example, 764 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:14.440 cnamlts Top Quality leaf more compost for compost top dressing 765 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:20.599 from Cnamlts. Now they do, they'll do fertilization, they'll do aeration, 766 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.480 they'll do compost top dressing. Just give them a call 767 00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:26.599 seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight 768 00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:29.320 seven one three two three four five five ninety eight 769 00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:37.039 or BB no end in the website BB Turfpros dot com. 770 00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:41.079 BB Turfpros dot com. Prices for compost, top dressing and 771 00:43:41.159 --> 00:43:44.119 cororations start around five hundred dollars, depending on your yard 772 00:43:44.199 --> 00:43:47.480 size and the distance that needs to be traveled. But 773 00:43:48.199 --> 00:43:50.679 through the month of May, and we are in May, folks, 774 00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:54.679 we are officially in May. Free aeration with purchase of 775 00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:57.760 top dressing. So here's the deal. You you buy a 776 00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:01.320 compost top dressing service from them and they'll come out 777 00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:03.559 and they'll do aeration for free. That's how that works. 778 00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:06.840 It's just the month of May, okay. So wherever wherever 779 00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:10.800 you live, from sugar Land and Missouri City, all the 780 00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:14.119 way across the southeast side of Houston, down to League 781 00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:17.320 City in Dickinson, and certainly down to Albn as well, 782 00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:21.280 Apparentland that they serve that area. So give them a 783 00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:24.599 call to eight. Excuse me seven one three two three 784 00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:28.679 four fifty five ninety eight. We're going to go now 785 00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:32.440 out to Tumbull and talk to David. Hey, David, welcome 786 00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:35.079 to the garden Line. Good, good morning, sir. 787 00:44:35.679 --> 00:44:39.400 Hey, Yes, sir, my schedule, My schedule says that we 788 00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:43.280 need to be putting barricade down about this time. And 789 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:47.159 I could read the label, but I it's easier to 790 00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:49.920 call you. 791 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:50.840 Do you do you. 792 00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:53.400 Wet the ground first or do you have to wait 793 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:54.079 it afterwards? 794 00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:58.320 No, you wet it afterwards, you put it out waiting 795 00:44:58.320 --> 00:45:02.119 an annual And I would, Yeah, your let your lawn 796 00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:04.719 dry out good. We don't want to stick into the 797 00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:08.159 leaves of the grass. And it's not that that hurts 798 00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:10.440 the ground. It just just let it dry out good, 799 00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:13.039 so those granules kind of fall down in the lawn. 800 00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.280 And then turn on the water. And you may want 801 00:45:16.320 --> 00:45:18.119 to wait a few days before you apply it because 802 00:45:18.159 --> 00:45:20.800 it's already so wet out there. But turn on the 803 00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:22.840 water watered in with about a third of an inch 804 00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:25.679 of irrigation, and that'll get it down in the soil 805 00:45:26.239 --> 00:45:29.159 where it'll spread out and form a barricade over the 806 00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:32.360 soil surface, preventing the weed seeds from coming through. 807 00:45:33.360 --> 00:45:35.199 Should I mow the grass first too. 808 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:39.760 You could, but you don't need to you. In fact, 809 00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:43.679 I would probably wait and put it down watered in 810 00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:46.719 real good, and then mow the grass because you don't 811 00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:49.119 want to. You know, when you mow, the clippings get 812 00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:51.000 down there on the surface, and that's a good thing, 813 00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:54.320 mult in the surface and decomposing. I'd rather get the 814 00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:56.920 barricade down and watered in before I drop all the 815 00:45:56.920 --> 00:46:00.400 clippings in it. If it's not night and day. That's 816 00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:01.280 how I would do. 817 00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:03.280 It, all right, David, I'm going to beat it. 818 00:46:03.400 --> 00:46:05.599 I'm gonna beat them weeds this year, man, I don't. 819 00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:08.760 I've been having a problem with them, and I've. 820 00:46:08.599 --> 00:46:09.719 Been putting the barricade down. 821 00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:10.559 It's doing it. 822 00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:13.039 I've been having timing issues and I'm still having any 823 00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:14.440 weed issues. 824 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:18.079 Well. Now, the warm season weeds begin. The warm season 825 00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:21.400 weeds begin germinating back in March. But by that, if 826 00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:25.119 you put it down early on, like we recommend in February, 827 00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:27.880 you know, we're looking as I say, March April May, 828 00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:30.400 that's ninety days out, it would be it would be 829 00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:34.079 time to do it again. If you need to continue 830 00:46:34.119 --> 00:46:37.199 that protection on through the summertime. But when you run 831 00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:38.960 into weeds, you know, you can also take a picture 832 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:41.119 of them, email them to me, and it may be 833 00:46:41.239 --> 00:46:43.480 that we would take a different approach depending on the 834 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:47.199 weed and the stage that that weed is in of life. 835 00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:50.039 Okay, okay, thank you, sir. 836 00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:53.400 Yes, sir, thank you. I appreciate your call very much. 837 00:46:55.519 --> 00:47:00.519 While Birds Unlimited is my favorite place for all things birds, 838 00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.679 and that includes getting information from people that know what 839 00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:08.440 they're talking about. I ask them a bazillion questions every 840 00:47:08.480 --> 00:47:11.840 time I talk to somebody from Wilbirds Unlimited it is 841 00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:14.760 nesting season for many of our songbirds. We got birds 842 00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:17.800 nesting at our house. The folks at Wallbird's Unlimited I 843 00:47:17.880 --> 00:47:20.880 is designed. It's really a perfect blend of seeds to 844 00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:24.280 provide birds what they need most this season. It's called 845 00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:29.559 Nesting Super Blend and it's only available Wallbird's Unlimited Nesting 846 00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:33.480 super Blend. It's got things like peanuts, dried meal worms. 847 00:47:33.519 --> 00:47:37.360 Boy birds love those sunflower chips, bark butter bits, and 848 00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:40.400 on and on. It's also got extra protein and calcium. 849 00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:44.639 The calcium helps egg formation, eggshell formation that is, and 850 00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:48.679 a skeletal development for their nesting birds. For your nesting birds, 851 00:47:48.920 --> 00:47:53.000 you can purchase Nesting Super Blend from wild Birds Unlimited 852 00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:55.119 loose and seed bags, or you can buy it in 853 00:47:55.159 --> 00:47:58.280 little compacted seed cylinders if they have to peck the 854 00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:01.159 seeds out to get it. Whatever you do, look for 855 00:48:01.199 --> 00:48:04.840 it at any of the six Wildbirds Unlimited stores here 856 00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:08.119 in the Greater Houston area, and that includes adding Kingwood 857 00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:12.400 on Kingwood Drive, down in clear Lake on El Dorado Boulevard, 858 00:48:12.519 --> 00:48:17.199 in Paarland, on East Broadway, up in Cypress on Barker Cypress, 859 00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:21.599 or in Houston on the West Side. There is a 860 00:48:21.639 --> 00:48:25.199 Memorial Drive store, and then down south in Houston there's 861 00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:27.840 a bel Air store and while you're there, pick up 862 00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:32.440 their high perch hummingbird feeder. It's my favorite nectar feeder 863 00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:37.199 for hummingbirds and it's available at Wildbird's Unlimited. I'm gonna 864 00:48:37.239 --> 00:48:39.320 have to run take a break, Darryl and Angleton, you 865 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:42.000 will be our first up when we come back. Hey, 866 00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:44.840 good to have you with us. Welcome back to Garden Line. 867 00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:48.320 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help 868 00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:53.119 you have a bountiful, beautiful, enjoyable garden. That's what we 869 00:48:53.280 --> 00:48:56.400 like to do. If you have indoor house plants that 870 00:48:56.480 --> 00:48:58.760 you haven't potted up in a while or bumped up 871 00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:01.400 to a larger pot, you may consider that. You know, 872 00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:05.679 once a houseplant gets let's say bigger than three times 873 00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:07.800 the size of the pot, like if a pot were 874 00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:10.679 I'll make up a number. Let's say it's eight inches wide. 875 00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:14.880 Once that plant is twenty four inches wide, that's three times. 876 00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.239 That's about a time to consider repotting it. Now, that's 877 00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:22.320 a very generic statement. There's a lot of different kinds 878 00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.639 of plants. It doesn't apply to all exactly, but just 879 00:49:25.840 --> 00:49:28.079 give you a rough idea. When plants get root bound, 880 00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:30.440 need to bump them up to a beare pot. And 881 00:49:30.480 --> 00:49:32.199 if you're going to do that, you need a quality 882 00:49:32.360 --> 00:49:38.480 product like jungle Land indoor water saving potting soil. The 883 00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:41.840 water saving means there's crystals in it. It holds that 884 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:44.159 water so that when you forget the water, I know 885 00:49:44.199 --> 00:49:47.280 you don't, but when your neighbor forgets the water, it 886 00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:49.840 holds onto the water, so the plants have access to 887 00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:51.920 moisture for a little bit longer to kind of carry 888 00:49:51.920 --> 00:49:54.760 them into that. It's quality product. It drains well, but 889 00:49:54.840 --> 00:49:57.039 it does hold that moisture. And you're going to find 890 00:49:57.119 --> 00:50:00.679 jungle Land product or jungle Land nitro fastproduct. I like 891 00:50:00.719 --> 00:50:03.400 the jungle in. You're going to find it in places like, 892 00:50:03.599 --> 00:50:08.800 for example, Memorial Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, where 893 00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:11.440 I will be today. I'll be there today from twelve 894 00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:14.800 to two at Ace Hardware City and we are going 895 00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:18.119 to be providing a number of giveaways and answering your 896 00:50:18.119 --> 00:50:20.079 gardening questions and having a really good time. I hope 897 00:50:20.119 --> 00:50:21.360 you'll come by and do that. If you're up in 898 00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:25.199 the Woodlands. Night FoST products can be found at Ospas 899 00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:28.960 Ace on Kirkandall Road and in the Katie area Katie 900 00:50:28.960 --> 00:50:32.480 Hardware Ace on Pinoak another example of where you can 901 00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:37.039 find night FoST products. Let's head out to Engleton now 902 00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:39.400 we're going to visit with Darryl. Hey, Daryl, welcome to 903 00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:39.920 guard Line. 904 00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:42.559 Hey, you getting mourners skip? 905 00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:46.119 What can I do about these these borders to get 906 00:50:46.119 --> 00:50:47.159 my squash every year? 907 00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:47.400 Man? 908 00:50:49.320 --> 00:50:51.119 Have you already got them this year? Or you're just 909 00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:53.760 kind of getting ahead of it? Are you already seeing 910 00:50:53.880 --> 00:51:03.199 one there? Okay? QUI Yeah? Squashvine bore is it's a pain. 911 00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:07.000 It's a little if you haven't seen the adult before. 912 00:51:07.079 --> 00:51:09.480 It's a black and orange moth that looks like a 913 00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:12.119 wasp that sits on the leaves and flies around and 914 00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:14.039 during the morning, early in the morning, you can see 915 00:51:14.079 --> 00:51:17.440 them just sitting on the leaves. They're laying eggs, single eggs. 916 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:19.960 They'll lay them typically on the stem down at the 917 00:51:19.960 --> 00:51:22.920 ground or on a petiole, which is long stalks that 918 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:25.760 the leaves are on. Uh and then they bore in. 919 00:51:26.199 --> 00:51:30.239 So you either are treating the stem so that when 920 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:32.239 they try to chew through it, it kills them because 921 00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:36.960 you have a pesticide on that stem. Or you are 922 00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:41.039 splitting the vine where you see the sawdust coming out 923 00:51:41.039 --> 00:51:43.840 and using your knife point to go in there and 924 00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:47.800 kill that that worm, splitting it lengthwise. You know it's 925 00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:52.920 a wound, but the vine generally can can survive that splitting, 926 00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:57.159 but not the chewing of the caterpillar on my squash. 927 00:51:57.360 --> 00:52:02.360 What I'll do, Steve, Steve, I'm sorry, Darryl, is to 928 00:52:02.519 --> 00:52:06.360 put a garden mesh fabric over the plants. It's like 929 00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:09.039 a very soft windows screen kind of thing, you know, 930 00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:11.960 a little checkerboard of squares that the bugs can't get through, 931 00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:15.199 and you could lay it over to the ground, put 932 00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:18.199 something on it so it doesn't blow off, and you 933 00:52:18.320 --> 00:52:21.039 leave it on there until the first female squash open. 934 00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:24.199 Typically on squash, you get a few male ballooms open 935 00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:26.920 and then you start to get the fruit blooms the 936 00:52:26.920 --> 00:52:30.559 female blooms. When that happens, you got two options. You 937 00:52:30.599 --> 00:52:33.000 can either lift it up, go out in the mornings, 938 00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:35.559 lift it up and do a little hand pollinating yourself. 939 00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:38.880 Or you can just take it off, at which point 940 00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:41.440 the vine borers are going to find it. But by 941 00:52:41.480 --> 00:52:43.920 the time they find it and then lay eggs, and 942 00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:46.639 the eggs hatch and on you get a decent little 943 00:52:46.760 --> 00:52:49.599 yield to squash before it takes the vine down. So 944 00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:52.039 those are kind of the options. If you're gonna spray, 945 00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:54.360 you want to spray late in the day. You want 946 00:52:54.360 --> 00:52:58.039 to direct your spray to the vines themselves, give them 947 00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:03.039 a good coating with an secticide that's gonna be persisting 948 00:53:03.079 --> 00:53:07.360 there on the surface. Avoid spraying when the blooms are open, 949 00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:09.280 because we've got bees out, and if you get spray 950 00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:13.000 in the blooms, you're gonna kill your important pollinator that's 951 00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:18.719 helping you have squash. All right, Not easy, but it's 952 00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:22.480 it's an option. You bet, thanks a lot, appreciate appreciate 953 00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:28.679 your call, Darryl very much. Nelson Plant Food has so 954 00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:33.679 many great products, but they have these these canisters or jars. 955 00:53:33.719 --> 00:53:36.599 They're clear with a big, big wide screw top lid, 956 00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:39.519 and they come as part of the Nutris Star line. 957 00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:42.239 They come in everything you can imagine. You know, there's 958 00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:46.119 one for hibiscus and flowering tropicals. You know, there is 959 00:53:46.239 --> 00:53:49.880 one for azaleas, there's one for areas, there's one for 960 00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:53.039 indoor plants. There's one for bougainvillias and vegetables and on 961 00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:57.119 and on uh and they work. That's as simple as 962 00:53:57.159 --> 00:53:59.320 that they work. There's about a dozen places around town 963 00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:01.920 where you can get those jars refilled, which is an 964 00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:05.880 economical way to go about it. Nelson also has Color Star, 965 00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:09.440 their most famous of all their products. I mean it's 966 00:54:09.440 --> 00:54:12.360 sold all over the country. Literally, people find out about 967 00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:15.199 it and they want it shipped out to them across 968 00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:18.880 the country. And there's a reason. It's good stuff. By 969 00:54:18.880 --> 00:54:21.559 the way, I'm going to be given away several jars 970 00:54:21.719 --> 00:54:25.199 of the Color Star or maybe some Azalea plumeria indoor 971 00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:27.400 plant boogabee. I've got a lot of those that I'll 972 00:54:27.400 --> 00:54:31.400 have on hand today out at Memorial Drive. Ace Hardware 973 00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:34.079 store it's called Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, will 974 00:54:34.119 --> 00:54:36.960 be there from twelve to two, So come out and 975 00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.079 check it out. You're going to find these Nelson plant 976 00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:43.320 foods all over town. They're widely available and like I said, 977 00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:45.400 they work, and I know that because I've used them. 978 00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:48.960 Let's set up the Deer Park now we're going to 979 00:54:49.000 --> 00:54:51.599 talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, welcome to garden Line. 980 00:54:54.840 --> 00:54:57.519 Yes, can here be okay? 981 00:54:57.599 --> 00:54:58.039 Yes, sir? 982 00:54:58.079 --> 00:55:02.800 Hello, Okay, Yes, I just sent you an email. I 983 00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:07.719 hope you got it. It shows a blade of grass. 984 00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:12.480 I've got it in a pretty big area of the 985 00:55:12.559 --> 00:55:15.960 lawn that Scott looks like that. The grass is green 986 00:55:16.039 --> 00:55:19.000 and the tips are all brown looking. 987 00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:25.199 Okay, Steve, I don't have it. Let me put you 988 00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:28.840 on hold, and I'm going to have my producer get 989 00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:31.800 with you. Make sure we got the right email, and 990 00:55:31.840 --> 00:55:33.719 if not, I may have to have you resend it. 991 00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:41.039 Just hang on here. I will keep watching in the 992 00:55:41.079 --> 00:55:42.760 meantime because I need to be able to see that 993 00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:46.599 in order to give a good answer to the question. 994 00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:50.840 Plants for All Seasons is the garden center that is 995 00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:55.079 right there where Luetta comes into Tomball Parkway, which is 996 00:55:55.159 --> 00:55:58.800 also called Highway to forty nine. Plants for All Seasons, 997 00:55:58.920 --> 00:56:01.920 just north of Luetta on Highway to forty nine. I 998 00:56:01.960 --> 00:56:03.760 was in there the other day looking at all the 999 00:56:03.880 --> 00:56:07.480 color and oh my gosh. They the place is loaded 1000 00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:10.519 up and it really looks good. Lots of lots of 1001 00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:15.920 good color plants, lots of good plants for ground covers, 1002 00:56:16.119 --> 00:56:19.760 the herbs that they have, the hanging basket plants that 1003 00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:24.000 they have. I mean, it's just really, really beautiful. There 1004 00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:27.280 is a number of different kinds of plants. There's always 1005 00:56:27.280 --> 00:56:30.559 a new plant coming out every year, dozens of new plants. 1006 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:33.360 There's right now, there's one. It's a type of portolaco 1007 00:56:33.559 --> 00:56:37.639 or personallyane kind of plant. It's called color Blasts double 1008 00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:41.880 and it is. It's amazing. The blooms. I don't know 1009 00:56:41.880 --> 00:56:44.159 how to describe them. It's almost like they look like 1010 00:56:44.440 --> 00:56:47.519 it's not many roses, but they just have a whole 1011 00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:53.840 lot of petals all bunched together in gorgeous hot hot colors, 1012 00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:57.159 beautiful colors. So you ought to go out there and 1013 00:56:57.239 --> 00:57:00.159 check them out. Why are you there? Go ahead and 1014 00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:01.719 check out some of the other plants that they have. 1015 00:57:01.800 --> 00:57:03.280 They have excellent bedding plants. 1016 00:57:03.360 --> 00:57:03.480 You know. 1017 00:57:03.519 --> 00:57:06.199 I was talking earlier about it's time with the vegetables 1018 00:57:06.199 --> 00:57:09.639 to be planting things that like like summer. Well, they 1019 00:57:09.679 --> 00:57:12.679 have seeds and plants of all kinds of vegetables and 1020 00:57:12.760 --> 00:57:15.880 flowers and herbs, and they have the ones that you 1021 00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:18.679 need to plant now so that when it gets hotter 1022 00:57:18.760 --> 00:57:22.360 and hotter, they just keep looking good, they just keep growing, 1023 00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:25.079 they just keep looking good again. That's plants for all seasons. 1024 00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:28.559 On Tamaa Park, we had with two forty nine just 1025 00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:32.159 north of Lueta two eight, one three, seven, six one 1026 00:57:32.360 --> 00:57:36.920 six four six two eight one three seven six sixteen 1027 00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:44.599 forty six. When it comes to our trees, you know, 1028 00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:48.400 trees get our attention when we have a storm and 1029 00:57:48.440 --> 00:57:51.679 all the trees come crashing down like happened twice last year. 1030 00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:55.000 And it doesn't have to be a hurricane. It can 1031 00:57:55.039 --> 00:57:57.519 be any kind of summer storm. As we learned again 1032 00:57:57.880 --> 00:58:02.000 last year. Martinspo Moore's company, Affordable Tree. This is a 1033 00:58:02.039 --> 00:58:04.679 family business. They've been doing it a long time. They've 1034 00:58:04.679 --> 00:58:06.719 been sponsors a garden line for a very long time. 1035 00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:09.599 Martin knows this stuff, you know, he's been doing this 1036 00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:14.599 for gosh. I actually he's third generation, a third generation 1037 00:58:14.760 --> 00:58:18.360 that I know of, to be part of our garden 1038 00:58:18.360 --> 00:58:23.159 line team. Here, Affordable Tree Service comes out, They look 1039 00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:25.880 at what the situation is. They give you an honest, 1040 00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:29.519 accurate assessment. Let you know what's going on when you 1041 00:58:29.599 --> 00:58:33.239 call him, and here's the number seven to one, three, six, nine, nine, 1042 00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:36.639 two six sixty three. Probably this is a family business. 1043 00:58:36.679 --> 00:58:39.320 So you're probably going to talk to Martin's mom. Tell 1044 00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:42.159 her you heard about us on Guardenline. Guardline customers are 1045 00:58:42.159 --> 00:58:44.719 their number one priority. I'm gonna get that phone number 1046 00:58:44.760 --> 00:58:49.599 again seven one three six ninety nine two six six three. 1047 00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:54.639 Whether you need consult consultations on your trees, maybe you're 1048 00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:58.119 going to have some construction done, Oh my gosh. Pre 1049 00:58:58.239 --> 00:59:01.920 construction care is very important. Do not let anybody come 1050 00:59:01.920 --> 00:59:05.400 out to your place and do trenching or construction or 1051 00:59:05.440 --> 00:59:08.719 anything that affects the root system of a tree without 1052 00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:12.320 calling Affordable Tree first. They do also do deep root 1053 00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:16.519 feeding and pest and disease control. They can do stump grinding. Certainly, 1054 00:59:16.599 --> 00:59:20.480 they do pruning and getting your trees pruned properly prior 1055 00:59:20.519 --> 00:59:24.880 to their arrival of the next storm is important. Affordable 1056 00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:28.199 Tree Service seven one three six ninety nine two six 1057 00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:33.440 sixty three. You're listening to garden Line, We're here to 1058 00:59:33.480 --> 00:59:36.599 help you have success in what you're doing on your gardening. 1059 00:59:36.679 --> 00:59:38.320 So yeah, I do is give me a call seven 1060 00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:42.360 one three two one two KTRH. So a lot of 1061 00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:45.800 people will send a photo and then call. I'm not 1062 00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:48.880 able just by sheer numbers. I'm just not able to 1063 00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:52.639 answer all the emails by typing out answers and sometimes 1064 00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:55.280 it's more in depth the answer. And so if you 1065 00:59:55.320 --> 00:59:57.760 can send me a photo and follow it with a call, 1066 00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:01.199 especially if it's like, what's this weed on or what 1067 01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:03.960 kind of flower is this? Or what's wrong with this plant? 1068 01:00:04.119 --> 01:00:07.000 I get a lot of those. A good sharp photo, 1069 01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:08.480 and let me just coach you a little bit on 1070 01:00:08.480 --> 01:00:10.679 this so that I can help you, because if I 1071 01:00:10.679 --> 01:00:13.280 get a fuzzy photo, you'll get a fuzzy answer, and 1072 01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:17.360 we don't want either to happen. Take a picture of 1073 01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:21.360 the plant overall, and then go in up close. Now 1074 01:00:21.599 --> 01:00:24.199 you know if it's a bug or if it's a 1075 01:00:24.239 --> 01:00:27.360 tiny weed in the lawn. Get as close as you can, 1076 01:00:27.480 --> 01:00:29.519 and before you send it to me, look and make 1077 01:00:29.559 --> 01:00:31.400 sure it's in sharp focus, and you can blow it 1078 01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:35.320 up really good. Don't downsize the photo if you get 1079 01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:38.039 up close like that. Sometimes it helps to pull up 1080 01:00:38.079 --> 01:00:39.840 a weed and set it on the table on a 1081 01:00:39.960 --> 01:00:43.239 dark surface and take a picture of that because I 1082 01:00:43.280 --> 01:00:46.159 can see it better. Get pictures sometimes the weeds that 1083 01:00:46.199 --> 01:00:48.519 are all woven into the grass, and I can hardly 1084 01:00:48.559 --> 01:00:50.840 make out what the weed is because it's too far away. 1085 01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:54.679 When you send it to me, attach it to the photo. 1086 01:00:55.159 --> 01:00:57.480 I attach it to the email. Don't embed it in 1087 01:00:57.519 --> 01:01:00.840 the text. If you can get it attached, it's much 1088 01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:03.800 easier for me to open and zoom in while I'm 1089 01:01:04.320 --> 01:01:06.920 trying to do three things at once. I don't walk 1090 01:01:06.960 --> 01:01:08.920 into your gum at the same time very well. So 1091 01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:12.280 if you can attach it, it also helps. But sharp 1092 01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:14.800 focus is the number one thing. And you can call 1093 01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:17.639 my producer and he will give you the details on 1094 01:01:17.679 --> 01:01:19.840 how to do that. I'm'll take a little break and 1095 01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:22.480 we'll be right back after the half hour break here 1096 01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:27.719 with your questions. Hey, welcome to Garden Line. Glad to 1097 01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:32.159 have you with us. You've heard me talk about Sweet 1098 01:01:32.159 --> 01:01:36.440 Green before. It's a unique fertilizer. Nitrofoss really did their 1099 01:01:36.480 --> 01:01:39.880 homework in creating this. This is eleven percent nitrogen, which 1100 01:01:39.920 --> 01:01:43.559 a really high nitrogen content for an organic fertilizer. You 1101 01:01:43.599 --> 01:01:46.000 put it out there, it melts away into the soil 1102 01:01:46.599 --> 01:01:51.280 and the beneficial bacteria and other microbes they just love it. 1103 01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:55.840 They like carbon. They need carbon, right and when you 1104 01:01:55.960 --> 01:01:59.320 provide them that, they're gonna do well, and that is 1105 01:01:59.559 --> 01:02:04.320 sweet It really rejuvenates and just encourages them to take 1106 01:02:04.360 --> 01:02:09.519 off and do very very very well. Sweet Green is 1107 01:02:09.639 --> 01:02:11.920 available in a lot of places around town. You're gonna 1108 01:02:11.920 --> 01:02:14.400 find it in spots like court hardware, on South Maine 1109 01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:17.719 down there in Stafford. You go to M and D 1110 01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:20.760 out in Rosenberg on Avenue I. They're going to carry 1111 01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:25.239 night Foss products out there, Enchanted Gardens on FM three 1112 01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:29.320 fifty nine out in the Richmond Rosenberg area, and Hiding 1113 01:02:29.360 --> 01:02:32.400 and feed Stuben Airline. I don't think I said that 1114 01:02:32.440 --> 01:02:35.920 one on I forty five North. Places you can get 1115 01:02:36.360 --> 01:02:40.480 quality products from night Foss, like sweet Green. And by 1116 01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:44.440 the way, it's time to get that done. If you 1117 01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:46.800 haven't for Lizer lawn in the last six weeks and 1118 01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:49.039 you haven't used the slow release yet, it'd be a 1119 01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:52.039 good time to do the Sweet Green. Let's head out 1120 01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:55.880 to Steve in Deer Park. Hey, Steve, you know I'm 1121 01:02:55.920 --> 01:02:58.440 still not getting your email and don't I don't know 1122 01:02:58.480 --> 01:03:01.239 what's going on, but let's try to answer your question 1123 01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:03.800 without me actually looking at the picture. Give me a 1124 01:03:03.840 --> 01:03:06.039 description again. I think you said there was yellow or 1125 01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:07.800 brown tips on the grass blades. 1126 01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:12.440 Well, the grass is like green at the base, but 1127 01:03:12.559 --> 01:03:18.199 the tips are kind of brown and a little shrivel 1128 01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:19.559 like I guess. 1129 01:03:20.159 --> 01:03:23.519 Okay, when you look at the blades, are you seeing 1130 01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:26.599 are you seeing spots on the leaves? Are you seeing 1131 01:03:26.599 --> 01:03:28.599 spots along the blades. 1132 01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:35.679 Dead or spots mostly on the end. So, like I say, 1133 01:03:35.719 --> 01:03:37.519 the bottom part of it is green. 1134 01:03:38.840 --> 01:03:41.639 I can walk out here and look at some I guests. 1135 01:03:41.840 --> 01:03:42.360 If I can. 1136 01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:46.559 Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I don't know. I don't know 1137 01:03:46.599 --> 01:03:53.079 anything that attacks the ends of leaf blades. You know, 1138 01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:55.920 if they wasn't getting enough water, which that's absolutely not 1139 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:58.880 the cause. But if it wasn't, it wouldn't give those symptoms. 1140 01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:02.519 If it was getting too water, it wouldn't give those symptoms. 1141 01:04:02.599 --> 01:04:07.119 If Yeah, the only thing I can think of is 1142 01:04:07.800 --> 01:04:10.880 have you applied a salt based a synthetic fertilizer that 1143 01:04:11.000 --> 01:04:14.159 might have been a little excessive in the application recently. 1144 01:04:16.039 --> 01:04:20.079 Well, I applied some of the nitro foss weed and feed. 1145 01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:23.760 It's not recent, it's been a little. 1146 01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:28.199 While, okay, And I don't think that's a Yeah, it's 1147 01:04:28.239 --> 01:04:29.760 not every well, this is strange. 1148 01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:34.840 It's not every leaf. It's some of the leaves have 1149 01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:35.760 it and some are. 1150 01:04:37.320 --> 01:04:46.599 Some are but anyway, yeah, and no spots though, you're 1151 01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:50.880 not seeing circular ish spots along any of the grass 1152 01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:53.000 blades anywhere, even on the end. 1153 01:04:53.199 --> 01:04:55.480 No, I don't think so. I thought at first it 1154 01:04:55.559 --> 01:04:57.400 might be a fungus. But I think it's the wrong 1155 01:04:57.480 --> 01:04:59.000 time of year for that isn't either. 1156 01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:05.880 We're getting close to great leaf spot season and I 1157 01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:06.280 was just. 1158 01:05:06.280 --> 01:05:07.119 Trying to think of that. 1159 01:05:07.719 --> 01:05:10.880 Uh yeah, I guess boy. I wish I could see 1160 01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:13.039 a picture of it. I don't know what's happening. I've 1161 01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:16.719 looked in my junk mail and all that kind of stuff, 1162 01:05:16.719 --> 01:05:19.920 and I'm just not seeing it. And so you did, 1163 01:05:20.199 --> 01:05:22.239 did verify the email with my producer? 1164 01:05:24.079 --> 01:05:30.000 Well, it's gardening with Skip Brickner at iHeartMedia dot com 1165 01:05:30.079 --> 01:05:30.599 right now. 1166 01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:35.039 Yeah, you've got it right. All right, Well, let's do this. 1167 01:05:39.320 --> 01:05:44.400 Let me put you back on hold Alejandra, I need 1168 01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:48.559 you to verify that email. I think I think we 1169 01:05:48.679 --> 01:05:50.519 need to do a change on that. Hang on, Steve, 1170 01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:53.440 I'm hang on. I'll come back to you after you 1171 01:05:53.679 --> 01:05:55.880 make a change on it. I'm going to run out 1172 01:05:55.960 --> 01:05:58.119 now to Port Arthur and talk to Alan. Hello, Alan, 1173 01:05:58.239 --> 01:05:59.400 welcome to garden Line. 1174 01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:00.679 Good morning. 1175 01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:01.480 How are you this morning? 1176 01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:05.320 I'm well, okay. 1177 01:06:05.559 --> 01:06:07.880 My question is about a lime tree I have. It's 1178 01:06:07.960 --> 01:06:10.039 a I don't know what kind of but it makes 1179 01:06:10.039 --> 01:06:12.519 a little mini lines but it's doing healthy and it's 1180 01:06:12.519 --> 01:06:14.719 started to produce some lines. But all of a sudden, 1181 01:06:14.719 --> 01:06:17.599 I got little black spots that appear to be on 1182 01:06:17.639 --> 01:06:19.800 the inside of the leaf because I can't rub them off, 1183 01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:21.639 them off for any day, and the leads a turney 1184 01:06:22.039 --> 01:06:24.159 black spots, and then the leads are turning real black 1185 01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:28.239 and curling up. I can't figure out what's causing this. 1186 01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:37.320 There's little spots interesting there, a little. 1187 01:06:37.039 --> 01:06:40.199 Beatty, a little bitty spot. But I go out of town, 1188 01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:41.840 I've gone five days a week, and I come back 1189 01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:43.639 and I find it like this here. So I those 1190 01:06:43.639 --> 01:06:45.679 little betty spots that turn into that whole big old 1191 01:06:45.800 --> 01:06:48.239 black spot and the leaves curling up or what this 1192 01:06:48.400 --> 01:06:49.559 seems to be internal? 1193 01:06:51.159 --> 01:06:59.599 Hm, okay, it could be something that's bacterial. It could 1194 01:06:59.599 --> 01:07:03.239 also be oh gosh, there's there's a lot of possibility. 1195 01:07:03.320 --> 01:07:05.400 This is another one. We're seeing. A photo I think 1196 01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:11.039 would would probably help. Boy. Let's if you can, if 1197 01:07:11.039 --> 01:07:14.199 you can send I'm gonna give you some answer possibilities, 1198 01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:17.000 and then if you could send me a picture. I 1199 01:07:17.039 --> 01:07:21.320 think that that that might be that might be most 1200 01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:24.719 helpful if I can take a look, and and maybe 1201 01:07:24.760 --> 01:07:27.760 I'll get another opinion when I actually see it. Sometimes 1202 01:07:28.199 --> 01:07:32.199 things that that get described on the air and things 1203 01:07:32.199 --> 01:07:35.079 that get formed in my mind or are two different, 1204 01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:40.639 two different things. Okay, so there's there. Yeah, there's a number. 1205 01:07:40.920 --> 01:07:45.480 There's a number of different issues that can occur on 1206 01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:49.199 on limes and other types of citrus, and there are 1207 01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:52.159 some it could be like a bacterial type of spot. 1208 01:07:52.199 --> 01:07:56.719 There's a disease called greasy spot that can affect citrus 1209 01:07:56.800 --> 01:08:01.719 leaves and it's kind of a black colored oration. There 1210 01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:05.000 are it's a possibility. You said it's not on the leaf, 1211 01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:06.000 it's in the leaf. 1212 01:08:07.119 --> 01:08:07.519 Correct. 1213 01:08:07.599 --> 01:08:08.679 I cannot wipe it off. 1214 01:08:08.679 --> 01:08:09.840 I can't scrape it off my. 1215 01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:10.960 Fingernails or anything. 1216 01:08:11.119 --> 01:08:14.320 So is it bumpy at all? 1217 01:08:15.280 --> 01:08:16.239 No, it's just mood. 1218 01:08:16.319 --> 01:08:16.840 This can be. 1219 01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:24.399 Okay, I'm eliminating things as we asked this. There's a product. 1220 01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:27.880 There's a disease called altern area brown spot that can 1221 01:08:27.880 --> 01:08:32.279 affect the leaves and it'll cause some black spots on it. 1222 01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:37.039 It can appear in the fruit as well. Yeah. Other 1223 01:08:37.119 --> 01:08:39.800 than those, I'm kind of trying to rack my brain 1224 01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:42.479 here on some others that it might be. How much 1225 01:08:42.680 --> 01:08:45.560 what percentage of the plant would you say of the 1226 01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:47.079 plant's leaves are affected? 1227 01:08:48.319 --> 01:08:50.479 I just just got home last night. I think like 1228 01:08:50.479 --> 01:08:52.640 that out of town working. I just walked aro and 1229 01:08:52.640 --> 01:08:53.000 looked at it. 1230 01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:53.800 I just noticed. 1231 01:08:54.439 --> 01:08:56.960 I would say it's less twenty five percent less than. 1232 01:08:56.880 --> 01:08:57.680 Twenty five percent. 1233 01:08:58.920 --> 01:09:05.239 Okay, Well I think it'll be okay, Yeah, I think 1234 01:09:05.319 --> 01:09:07.840 it'll be okay. It may be if you can take 1235 01:09:07.840 --> 01:09:09.720 some pictures and send them to me. I may end 1236 01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:14.520 up recommending a specific kind of a spray for it. 1237 01:09:15.039 --> 01:09:18.720 But right now, my gut feeling is I wouldn't worry 1238 01:09:18.720 --> 01:09:22.039 about it. Try to avoid overhead watering. I know you 1239 01:09:22.039 --> 01:09:24.600 can't control rain, but try to try to avoid that. 1240 01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:28.239 And in the meantime, I'm going to put you on 1241 01:09:28.279 --> 01:09:31.039 hold and have my producer give you an email, and 1242 01:09:31.239 --> 01:09:33.680 I'd like to see some really good close up pictures 1243 01:09:34.119 --> 01:09:39.119 and good sharp takers. Okay, all right, Ellen, thanks a lot, appreciate. 1244 01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:43.600 I appreciate that a lot. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens 1245 01:09:43.600 --> 01:09:46.079 just out there, and Katie Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens 1246 01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:50.239 is it's a destination garden center, is the bottom line. 1247 01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:53.159 If you've never been out there, you gotta go. If 1248 01:09:53.159 --> 01:09:56.319 you have, you know what I'm talking about. Their nursery 1249 01:09:56.359 --> 01:09:59.039 is outstanding, all kinds of beautiful plants they got a 1250 01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:02.920 really nice select of adranges right now, some beautiful beautiful 1251 01:10:03.000 --> 01:10:06.920 day lilies. Oh and all just asiatic lilies too. Those 1252 01:10:06.920 --> 01:10:09.239 are the kinds that are up on long, tall stalks. 1253 01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:11.479 Got a whole bunch of bloom buds at the top 1254 01:10:11.560 --> 01:10:16.039 that open up, just gorgeous, gorgeous bloom. But now while 1255 01:10:16.079 --> 01:10:18.199 you're out there, you gotta see their water features. There's 1256 01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:22.119 so many cool water features and the sound of water 1257 01:10:22.359 --> 01:10:25.279 is you need it in your garden. I say that 1258 01:10:25.840 --> 01:10:28.640 because I need it in mind. I so enjoy our 1259 01:10:28.680 --> 01:10:33.840 water features outside. It's just nice, it's lovely, and you 1260 01:10:33.920 --> 01:10:36.119 need to go check that out. Of course, they have 1261 01:10:36.159 --> 01:10:39.319 everything you need coluding fish, including the plants that go 1262 01:10:39.359 --> 01:10:42.880 into a water garden. So go out and check them out. 1263 01:10:43.199 --> 01:10:46.600 Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. By the way, they're located 1264 01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:49.920 on Katie Fort Ben Road, just north of the Katie Freeway. 1265 01:10:49.960 --> 01:10:51.880 You turn north on Katie Fort Ben Roads. It's just 1266 01:10:51.880 --> 01:10:53.880 a hop, skipping and jump down the street on the 1267 01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:57.039 right hand side. Open Monday through Saturday nine to six 1268 01:10:57.119 --> 01:11:02.239 and Sundays from eleven am to four pm. We're going 1269 01:11:02.319 --> 01:11:08.840 to now go to Steve and Deer Park. 1270 01:11:09.479 --> 01:11:14.560 Steve, Yeah, can you look and see if you see 1271 01:11:14.560 --> 01:11:17.039 my email this time. I think I got it this time. 1272 01:11:18.359 --> 01:11:24.159 Okay, yes, I did. It did come through. There we go. Okay, 1273 01:11:24.239 --> 01:11:27.199 let me get where I can see this. That is 1274 01:11:27.239 --> 01:11:31.800 gray leaf spot. That's great leaf spot causing that. And 1275 01:11:31.199 --> 01:11:40.239 it's a fungal disease. And it loves mild temperatures, warm 1276 01:11:40.319 --> 01:11:46.159 mild temperatures, and it loves high humidity or high moisture. 1277 01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:48.079 So we get a lot of range. You're going to 1278 01:11:48.119 --> 01:11:50.800 see gray leaf spot. You irrigate a lot too frequently, 1279 01:11:50.840 --> 01:11:53.359 and you're going to see gray leaf spot. And you 1280 01:11:53.399 --> 01:11:55.720 can use a funge aside to shut it down, but 1281 01:11:55.800 --> 01:11:59.640 I would recommend instead that you just mow it, ignore 1282 01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:04.760 it at this point, and avoid any extra watering, don't 1283 01:12:04.760 --> 01:12:07.560 push it with too much nitrogen. But if you need 1284 01:12:07.600 --> 01:12:10.600 to go to a fungicide, there are good lawn fungicides 1285 01:12:10.640 --> 01:12:14.039 that can help shut this disease down. I'm running real 1286 01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:17.520 short on time, but that would be the bottom line 1287 01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:21.920 for it. Nitrophos has a product that's a disease control 1288 01:12:21.960 --> 01:12:25.960 product that comes in the bag. There's one that's totally 1289 01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:29.399 like a total disease control type product that works very well. 1290 01:12:29.720 --> 01:12:31.920 I'm gonna have to run, folks, So we're coming close 1291 01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:36.840 here to a break. If you have got standing water, 1292 01:12:37.000 --> 01:12:40.840 you will have mosquitoes. And mosquito dunks are a great solution. 1293 01:12:41.560 --> 01:12:43.439 You got a little spot that's got some water in it, 1294 01:12:43.479 --> 01:12:45.600 Maybe it's a catch basin under a plant. You can't 1295 01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:47.359 remember to turn them over and dump it out all 1296 01:12:47.399 --> 01:12:50.279 the time. Well, put some Mosquita dunk granules in there. 1297 01:12:50.439 --> 01:12:54.159 It'll work. You got standing water, Mosquita dunk granules looks 1298 01:12:54.159 --> 01:12:55.760 like a little donut. You can break them up if 1299 01:12:55.800 --> 01:12:58.399 you don't need as much. One doughnut covers one hundred 1300 01:12:58.399 --> 01:13:01.560 square feet, lasts about a month. Really works well, and 1301 01:13:01.560 --> 01:13:04.039 you're going to find it all over the place. Garden centers, 1302 01:13:04.119 --> 01:13:09.399 feed stores, ace hardware store all carry these Mosquita dunk products. 1303 01:13:09.680 --> 01:13:11.680 Time for me to take a little break now and 1304 01:13:11.840 --> 01:13:14.439 I'll be right back. Ah beach boys, it can only 1305 01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:17.600 mean one thing. It is summer. Summer is here, I know, 1306 01:13:17.800 --> 01:13:21.560 don't rush its skip it gets hot. Well, there we go. 1307 01:13:22.520 --> 01:13:24.520 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. 1308 01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:28.159 We are here to help you have bounty beauty and 1309 01:13:28.359 --> 01:13:32.520 good times out there in the garden. Everybody cares about 1310 01:13:32.520 --> 01:13:35.399 their lawn Number one call I get relates to lawns. 1311 01:13:35.600 --> 01:13:37.920 That's it. Of all the plants, nobody calls me about 1312 01:13:37.920 --> 01:13:41.960 their Cole Robbie, but lawns that's number one. And how 1313 01:13:41.960 --> 01:13:43.560 do you have a good lawn? Will you take care 1314 01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:45.720 of it? And there's a lot of things we do 1315 01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:47.279 to take care of our lawn, but one of the 1316 01:13:47.319 --> 01:13:49.680 single most important things when you're dealing with the lawn 1317 01:13:49.800 --> 01:13:53.760 that is thin, that has compaction, that is struggling and 1318 01:13:53.800 --> 01:13:56.640 trying to recover from all kinds of disease and insect 1319 01:13:56.760 --> 01:14:01.560 and drought and things like that, is aeration followed by 1320 01:14:01.640 --> 01:14:05.960 compost top dressing. Simple as that cororation pulls a plug 1321 01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:07.840 out of the ground and drops it on the surface. 1322 01:14:07.920 --> 01:14:10.840 If you've got a thatch problem, that also helps thatch 1323 01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:14.439 to decompose very rapidly by getting those plugs up on 1324 01:14:14.520 --> 01:14:18.079 the surface in the thatch area. Then you put on 1325 01:14:18.239 --> 01:14:21.800 the compost top dressing. A very fine, finely screened compost 1326 01:14:21.800 --> 01:14:24.000 falls down in the holes, goes down to the surface. 1327 01:14:24.520 --> 01:14:27.840 It helps the soil biology, It brings oxygen into the soil. 1328 01:14:27.920 --> 01:14:31.079 It helps out lawn take water in at a better rate, 1329 01:14:31.600 --> 01:14:35.000 and that is important too. The bottom line is it 1330 01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:38.439 helps the lawn. Now, Greenpro, those are our folks that 1331 01:14:38.600 --> 01:14:43.159 service the area northwest quadrant of Houston. We're talking about 1332 01:14:43.199 --> 01:14:45.760 Spring and Cyprus and the Woodlands and Conrad and Willis 1333 01:14:45.800 --> 01:14:49.880 and Magnolia, Montgomery and down to Itan Katie, West Houston, 1334 01:14:49.960 --> 01:14:54.079 Central Houston or north Do they cover a wide area? Basically? 1335 01:14:54.119 --> 01:14:57.479 The northwest quadrant is the area that they primarily work. 1336 01:14:58.039 --> 01:15:02.720 Greenpro Texas dot Com its website greenpro Texas dot com 1337 01:15:02.880 --> 01:15:06.359 eight three two three five one zero zero three two 1338 01:15:06.600 --> 01:15:10.279 eight three two three five one zero zero three two. 1339 01:15:11.520 --> 01:15:13.960 We're going to head now out to Laporte and talk 1340 01:15:14.039 --> 01:15:16.560 to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to garden Line. 1341 01:15:17.680 --> 01:15:18.560 Hi, how are you doing? 1342 01:15:20.159 --> 01:15:22.239 I'm doing well today. I'm doing well. How can we help? 1343 01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:23.720 Uh? 1344 01:15:23.840 --> 01:15:27.640 Well, i have a small garden in front of my 1345 01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:32.520 house and I've been I've had it. I've had the 1346 01:15:32.560 --> 01:15:37.359 house now for twelve years, and uh, every year it 1347 01:15:37.439 --> 01:15:42.079 seems like that I'm I'm moulting it over, weeds are growing, 1348 01:15:42.279 --> 01:15:47.079 I'm multed over our plant plants, and they die and 1349 01:15:47.119 --> 01:15:51.920 then spring comes back around and I mulch it again, 1350 01:15:52.199 --> 01:15:56.880 and it's just an ongoing thing. So really, what my 1351 01:15:57.079 --> 01:16:03.800 question is that I want to produce a garden that's 1352 01:16:03.960 --> 01:16:07.239 going to be more stable and it's going to last longer, 1353 01:16:07.640 --> 01:16:11.760 and the plants won't die and grow and die and grow, 1354 01:16:12.760 --> 01:16:14.920 and uh, you. 1355 01:16:14.880 --> 01:16:16.119 Know something like that. 1356 01:16:16.319 --> 01:16:20.199 And then and also you know, I mean I live 1357 01:16:20.239 --> 01:16:25.600 in southeast Houston, so the grass just I mean, ben, 1358 01:16:25.680 --> 01:16:29.399 it just comes in, you know, it tries to take over, 1359 01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:33.079 you know, because I have said augustine grass. 1360 01:16:33.720 --> 01:16:36.600 And so it's just an ongoing problem. 1361 01:16:36.680 --> 01:16:39.840 So I'm trying to figure out a solution for that. 1362 01:16:41.000 --> 01:16:42.680 All right, it sounds like you have an in the 1363 01:16:42.720 --> 01:16:49.640 ground garden, not a raised bed. Is that correct? That's correct? Okay, Well, 1364 01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:53.920 one good solution that I do is and you can 1365 01:16:53.960 --> 01:16:55.800 garden in the ground. I mean, farmers do it all 1366 01:16:55.800 --> 01:16:58.800 the time. But I like to do the raised box 1367 01:16:58.880 --> 01:17:01.199 beds because you can put a high quality mix in them. 1368 01:17:01.239 --> 01:17:03.199 It gets them up above the ground. So you're saying, 1369 01:17:03.199 --> 01:17:06.600 Augustine's not gonna be crawling in there. And it's a 1370 01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:09.119 good weed free soil to begin with. And I just 1371 01:17:09.159 --> 01:17:12.159 think you get better performance, the drainage is better. I 1372 01:17:12.199 --> 01:17:15.600 don't know everything that might be contributing to your garden woes. 1373 01:17:16.039 --> 01:17:18.479 It could be a lack of sunlight. It could be 1374 01:17:18.880 --> 01:17:21.720 some droughty conditions. It could be a tight clay soil. 1375 01:17:21.760 --> 01:17:24.960 I mean, there are a lot of factors face a 1376 01:17:25.000 --> 01:17:26.079 garden to struggle. 1377 01:17:27.800 --> 01:17:32.479 Yeah, it faces the west side, do west okay? 1378 01:17:33.039 --> 01:17:36.079 Well? Of course, Then there's the blast of the late 1379 01:17:36.159 --> 01:17:40.760 day sun. Most of our fruiting vegetables need six hours 1380 01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:44.239 of sun in order to do reasonably well, so that 1381 01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:47.600 that could be a factor. I would suggest putting in 1382 01:17:47.680 --> 01:17:50.079 some sort of a box around it, whether you know, 1383 01:17:50.119 --> 01:17:52.239 you go out and invest in like a veggo bed, 1384 01:17:52.319 --> 01:17:57.840 or whether you build some structure yourself that or even 1385 01:17:57.960 --> 01:18:00.600 just have a raised mound where you bring in quality 1386 01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:04.359 soil and the side slope up so that your garden 1387 01:18:04.399 --> 01:18:06.199 looks like you know, you go out to West Texas 1388 01:18:06.199 --> 01:18:08.479 those mesas where the side slope up and then you 1389 01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:12.199 have a flat top a mountain. You sort of do 1390 01:18:12.279 --> 01:18:14.680 that as a garden bed without any side. You can 1391 01:18:14.720 --> 01:18:18.800 do it either way. Good quality saw mix, good nutrition 1392 01:18:19.319 --> 01:18:23.680 and dependable moisture and decent sunlight. Those are all keys 1393 01:18:23.720 --> 01:18:27.319 to success. Now, the mulches should keep down weed seeds 1394 01:18:28.119 --> 01:18:31.239 if it's if it is a perennial weed like bermuda 1395 01:18:31.239 --> 01:18:33.479 grass coming in there. Mulch isn't going to stop it 1396 01:18:33.560 --> 01:18:37.319 at all. But if it's an annual, the mulching should 1397 01:18:37.319 --> 01:18:41.359 stop the weed seeds. But I think we're looking at nutrition, drainage, 1398 01:18:42.079 --> 01:18:44.760 maybe some other factors like that, based on what you 1399 01:18:44.800 --> 01:18:49.640 told me. Okay, so you're suggesting a raised box. 1400 01:18:50.479 --> 01:18:52.920 And when you say that, when you say a box, 1401 01:18:53.319 --> 01:18:55.199 when you say a boxed. 1402 01:18:56.439 --> 01:18:59.600 Garden, what do you mean by that? Does that basically 1403 01:18:59.640 --> 01:19:04.600 mean like, well, yeah, go go look at a go 1404 01:19:04.640 --> 01:19:09.479 look at a product called gosh I just said. I 1405 01:19:09.720 --> 01:19:11.439 just said the name of it, and it just jumped 1406 01:19:11.439 --> 01:19:15.000 out of my head. I'll think of it in a second. Anyway, 1407 01:19:14.880 --> 01:19:19.960 there are metal sided corrugated painted beds that you put 1408 01:19:19.960 --> 01:19:22.520 together and you know they may be sides may only 1409 01:19:22.560 --> 01:19:25.000 be eleven inches high. In fact, that's plenty high for you. 1410 01:19:25.079 --> 01:19:27.640 Eleven inches h And then you fill it with a 1411 01:19:27.720 --> 01:19:31.279 quality mix like heirloom soils of veggie and herb mix, 1412 01:19:32.239 --> 01:19:35.119 and now you grow in that and and then you 1413 01:19:35.159 --> 01:19:38.000 add your nutrients. You get a good fertilizer for for 1414 01:19:39.039 --> 01:19:42.520 plants that uh uh, you know, vegetables and herbs and 1415 01:19:42.560 --> 01:19:46.399 things like that, and and you do success Vego bed 1416 01:19:46.560 --> 01:19:47.880 is the one I was trying to think of v 1417 01:19:48.000 --> 01:19:51.000 E G O that. Now that's just one brand, and 1418 01:19:51.079 --> 01:19:53.560 you know, some people make their own out of treated wood. 1419 01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:57.079 Some people, you know, put bricks around this. I just 1420 01:19:57.319 --> 01:19:59.279 get you a good quality bed. But go look at 1421 01:19:59.279 --> 01:20:00.960 a Vego and that that's kind of the thing I'm 1422 01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:02.640 talking about. If you don't like the look of that, 1423 01:20:03.359 --> 01:20:07.680 find some other way to box in a raised quality 1424 01:20:07.840 --> 01:20:11.039 garden mix. I'm running out of time here, Matt, but 1425 01:20:11.399 --> 01:20:13.680 I do wish you well. I hope that works out, 1426 01:20:13.720 --> 01:20:16.079 and don't hesitate to call back if we can be 1427 01:20:16.640 --> 01:20:20.840 of a further assistance to you. In Chendit Forest Garden 1428 01:20:20.880 --> 01:20:24.920 Center is the kind of place where when you go there, 1429 01:20:25.079 --> 01:20:27.920 you just are amazed. I was there recently and they're 1430 01:20:27.960 --> 01:20:33.399 just walking through. Oh my gosh, the amount of quality planting, 1431 01:20:33.439 --> 01:20:36.520 the color that they had. They have a salvia list 1432 01:20:36.840 --> 01:20:41.159 that goes on forever and ever. It's my favorite geness 1433 01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:45.159 of plants. Ninety one varieties of salvia, and in Chenney 1434 01:20:45.239 --> 01:20:49.960 for us, amazing a lot of them are hummingbird magnets. 1435 01:20:50.399 --> 01:20:52.800 Now they've got all kinds of summer perennials. If you 1436 01:20:52.880 --> 01:20:55.119 need any products to take care of your lawn. They've 1437 01:20:55.159 --> 01:20:57.079 got it. You got to see their gift shop if 1438 01:20:57.079 --> 01:20:59.800 you got some hard to shop for folks and CHENDI 1439 01:20:59.840 --> 01:21:02.239 for go see their gift shop. They are located if 1440 01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:04.760 you're heading if let's say you're in Richmond Rosenberg heading 1441 01:21:04.760 --> 01:21:07.760 towards sugar Land, they're off to the right. It's FM 1442 01:21:07.800 --> 01:21:10.520 twenty seven fifty nine. But here's what you really need 1443 01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:16.520 to know. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. We'll say 1444 01:21:16.560 --> 01:21:20.159 that again. Go to the website. It's awesome, tells you everything. 1445 01:21:20.800 --> 01:21:28.520 Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Well, we ran out 1446 01:21:28.520 --> 01:21:31.159 of time. Jordan and Kingwood, you'll be first up if 1447 01:21:31.199 --> 01:21:33.800 you can wait until we come back, and I'll be 1448 01:21:33.880 --> 01:21:37.840 back to answer your gardening questions as well. All right, 1449 01:21:37.880 --> 01:21:42.840 we're back, Welcome back to the garden line. Let's just 1450 01:21:42.960 --> 01:21:46.279 do this. We're gonna jump right out there. Jordan, you've 1451 01:21:46.359 --> 01:21:49.479 been patiently waiting for a while here. Let's go right 1452 01:21:49.520 --> 01:21:52.399 out here and talk to Jordan in Kingwood. I'm good. 1453 01:21:52.399 --> 01:21:53.039 How are you doing? 1454 01:21:54.439 --> 01:21:55.000 Not too bad? 1455 01:21:55.359 --> 01:21:57.920 I've got kind of a one off here, and I've 1456 01:21:57.960 --> 01:22:00.600 listened to your show for quite a while and done 1457 01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:03.039 a great job so far. But I've got it. I've 1458 01:22:03.039 --> 01:22:05.479 got a tree here and it's it's it's. 1459 01:22:05.319 --> 01:22:05.960 An orange tree. 1460 01:22:06.000 --> 01:22:11.479 It's about twenty twenty foot tall and about halfway up right. 1461 01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:17.520 So the ranches, like from fifty percent upward are oranges 1462 01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:21.600 and from the bottom half are lemons. But the lemons 1463 01:22:21.680 --> 01:22:25.000 look the exact same as the oranges, and it's the 1464 01:22:25.079 --> 01:22:28.439 same exact tree. They're about the size of the softball. 1465 01:22:29.359 --> 01:22:31.199 And I'm trying to figure out if it's a hybrid 1466 01:22:32.600 --> 01:22:36.880 or if in some way possibly something got crossbred or grafted, 1467 01:22:37.039 --> 01:22:39.680 or this is like a common thing. It's kind of weird. 1468 01:22:42.239 --> 01:22:50.399 Well, that is weird. Yeah, both the lemons and the 1469 01:22:50.439 --> 01:22:52.880 oranges are about the size of a softball or the 1470 01:22:53.279 --> 01:22:55.840 yellow fruit and the orange fruit is about both about 1471 01:22:55.880 --> 01:22:56.479 the size of a. 1472 01:22:56.439 --> 01:23:03.640 Softball, correct, And they look likegantic softball oranges. And so 1473 01:23:03.960 --> 01:23:09.960 it produces about two hundred of them. But the upper 1474 01:23:10.039 --> 01:23:13.039 branches are taste like taste like an orange, and then 1475 01:23:13.079 --> 01:23:14.880 the bottom are totally eleventh. 1476 01:23:15.279 --> 01:23:15.920 Yeah, it's weird. 1477 01:23:18.960 --> 01:23:23.439 Okay, h Well, I'm trying to think about the ways 1478 01:23:23.479 --> 01:23:26.439 that could happen. Yeah, it could be grafted, it could 1479 01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:33.159 be a genetic change, genetic change in it look closely 1480 01:23:33.720 --> 01:23:37.239 at the at where the change occurs and look at 1481 01:23:37.239 --> 01:23:40.920 the at the trunk there or the branch where you know, 1482 01:23:41.079 --> 01:23:43.640 like where where does the You can just follow the 1483 01:23:43.680 --> 01:23:47.159 branches down and where does that change happen? And look 1484 01:23:47.199 --> 01:23:50.159 around there and see if you see signs of a graft, 1485 01:23:50.600 --> 01:23:53.960 you know, or something if you're just normal bandard growth. 1486 01:23:54.119 --> 01:23:56.279 How long have you have? You had this tree? 1487 01:23:57.960 --> 01:24:00.800 About eight, eight or nine years? I mean, so we 1488 01:24:00.880 --> 01:24:03.159 usually we don't know what else to do with two 1489 01:24:03.239 --> 01:24:05.000 hundred of these things, so we just make wine out 1490 01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:05.560 of it. 1491 01:24:07.239 --> 01:24:11.720 Okay, So it's been this way all along or it 1492 01:24:11.880 --> 01:24:13.439 just recently changed like this. 1493 01:24:13.760 --> 01:24:15.439 No, that's always been That's why it's weird. 1494 01:24:16.439 --> 01:24:20.000 Okay, would you do this, Jordan? Would you take a 1495 01:24:20.039 --> 01:24:24.079 picture of the tree when it is well, Actually, it'd 1496 01:24:24.119 --> 01:24:26.000 be helpful. It doesn't have fruit on it right now, 1497 01:24:26.079 --> 01:24:26.920 does it. 1498 01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:30.520 It'll be December probably, Yeah. 1499 01:24:30.520 --> 01:24:34.199 I'd like to see the tree and then see the fruit. 1500 01:24:34.359 --> 01:24:36.560 Even cut through a few fruit and let me look 1501 01:24:36.600 --> 01:24:39.439 at them and make sure which species of citrus we're 1502 01:24:39.439 --> 01:24:42.319 dealing with. You know, something can be a little different color, 1503 01:24:42.359 --> 01:24:45.479 but it's just a color that's changed. It's not the fruit. 1504 01:24:45.520 --> 01:24:48.920 But you're describing the lemons as being lemonee in their flavor. 1505 01:24:49.800 --> 01:24:52.640 That is a big lemon. The lemons do they have 1506 01:24:52.840 --> 01:24:56.119 super thick skins. 1507 01:24:56.279 --> 01:24:58.600 It's the same consistency as the orange. So yeah, it's 1508 01:24:58.600 --> 01:24:59.119 pretty thick. 1509 01:25:01.840 --> 01:25:02.319 Okay. 1510 01:25:03.439 --> 01:25:03.680 Yeah. 1511 01:25:03.760 --> 01:25:06.199 But also, and then the follow up question was, you know, 1512 01:25:06.279 --> 01:25:10.760 I like because I've germinated, like in planted, you know, 1513 01:25:10.800 --> 01:25:13.359 seeds from that and it's grown. You know, for about 1514 01:25:13.359 --> 01:25:15.000 two years, I wanted to see if those might be 1515 01:25:15.039 --> 01:25:17.760 able to produce fruit. I don't know if that's a 1516 01:25:17.800 --> 01:25:18.520 thing or not, but. 1517 01:25:18.560 --> 01:25:19.479 Yeah, I tried it. 1518 01:25:20.039 --> 01:25:24.079 Oh that's that's a great idea. Yeah, very very important 1519 01:25:24.119 --> 01:25:26.760 to try that. Very good. Now you took the fruit, 1520 01:25:26.880 --> 01:25:29.279 the seeds out of the lemon or the orange or both. 1521 01:25:30.159 --> 01:25:32.520 I call it a lorrange. 1522 01:25:33.119 --> 01:25:35.319 But I'm saying, but you're taking the seeds out of 1523 01:25:35.319 --> 01:25:37.880 the the orange fruit of yellow fruit. 1524 01:25:39.520 --> 01:25:41.119 No, no, no, they're both orange. 1525 01:25:41.119 --> 01:25:41.760 They look the same. 1526 01:25:42.319 --> 01:25:44.319 Yeah, they're the exact thing. 1527 01:25:45.760 --> 01:25:47.159 Oh it's not yellow. 1528 01:25:48.159 --> 01:25:53.119 They look they look identical. But but but the upper 1529 01:25:53.119 --> 01:25:55.600 ones tastes just like an orange, and the lower ones 1530 01:25:55.640 --> 01:25:58.680 tastes just like a lemon. So it's very kind of odd. 1531 01:26:00.760 --> 01:26:04.199 Well, you got my curiosity up let's take I'd love 1532 01:26:04.279 --> 01:26:06.520 to see you know, when the fruit come back again. 1533 01:26:06.600 --> 01:26:09.279 Let me give me a call back. Let's or email me. 1534 01:26:10.359 --> 01:26:13.920 I'll be glad to look into this further because I'd 1535 01:26:13.960 --> 01:26:16.039 like to get to the bottom of it. Right now. 1536 01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:20.760 They're just several possibilities, but none of them sound quiet right, 1537 01:26:20.960 --> 01:26:23.760 so but thanks for asking. But please do stick with 1538 01:26:23.800 --> 01:26:26.479 this and get back with me because I'd like to 1539 01:26:26.520 --> 01:26:28.439 help pursue solving this one. 1540 01:26:29.039 --> 01:26:32.399 Okay, Joonasa, I appreciate it. Thanks a lot, sir, Hi. 1541 01:26:32.680 --> 01:26:35.880 You bet, thank you a lot. I appreciate that. You know, 1542 01:26:36.000 --> 01:26:39.640 Southwest Fertilizer has been around the Houston area since nineteen 1543 01:26:39.680 --> 01:26:45.279 fifty five. This is our seventieth year. Happy birthday, Southwest Fertilizer. 1544 01:26:45.680 --> 01:26:49.159 You don't stick around that long, in fact, get better 1545 01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:52.760 through the years without doing things right, taking care of 1546 01:26:52.800 --> 01:26:58.359 your customer's right, carrying everything they need, having expert service. 1547 01:26:58.760 --> 01:27:01.199 So when people walk in there, I mean they may 1548 01:27:01.279 --> 01:27:04.920 have a bug or a leaf or a picture or 1549 01:27:04.920 --> 01:27:07.760 something and they put their eyes on it there at 1550 01:27:07.760 --> 01:27:10.600 Southwest Fertilizer, Bob and his team they diagnose it. They 1551 01:27:10.640 --> 01:27:13.680 get you to the right product to fix what you got. 1552 01:27:13.920 --> 01:27:17.920 Friendly service, quality products and great selection. That's Southwest Fertilizer. 1553 01:27:17.920 --> 01:27:20.159 They're on the corner of Businett and Renwick. I was 1554 01:27:20.199 --> 01:27:22.159 there the other day and thanks for everybody that came 1555 01:27:22.199 --> 01:27:24.720 out when we were at Southwest Fertilizer. We had a 1556 01:27:24.720 --> 01:27:27.680 really good time. And uh, it's always good to meet 1557 01:27:27.720 --> 01:27:31.800 folks that are listeners to garden Line. Southwest Fertilizer dot 1558 01:27:31.840 --> 01:27:35.640 Com seven to one three six sixty six one seven 1559 01:27:35.680 --> 01:27:39.199 four four. Let's go now out to Baytown and we're 1560 01:27:39.199 --> 01:27:42.279 going to talk to Glenn. Hello, Glenn, welcome to garden Line. 1561 01:27:43.279 --> 01:27:46.600 Thank you welcome. It's nice to talk to you again. 1562 01:27:46.640 --> 01:27:49.800 I've called you several times. I think I'm the person 1563 01:27:49.840 --> 01:27:55.319 that calls you from Baytown. I tell your neighbors three 1564 01:27:55.399 --> 01:27:59.800 quick questions. I have cleaned out my flower bits from 1565 01:27:59.800 --> 01:28:02.600 all the weeds. What should I put on the naked 1566 01:28:02.640 --> 01:28:04.000 ground to prevent weeds? 1567 01:28:06.000 --> 01:28:06.159 Uh? 1568 01:28:06.359 --> 01:28:09.000 To prevent weed seeds a good thick multch So. 1569 01:28:09.800 --> 01:28:13.079 I probably should have sprayed them before I pulled them. 1570 01:28:13.560 --> 01:28:18.439 Okay. If they're perennial, are they grassy weeds like bermuda 1571 01:28:18.439 --> 01:28:25.640 grass or is it broad leaf weeds? Then okay, well, 1572 01:28:25.680 --> 01:28:27.560 I would still put a good thick mulch on them. 1573 01:28:27.640 --> 01:28:29.479 You get there or four inches of mulch on it, 1574 01:28:29.640 --> 01:28:31.720 and it will block out the light. And I think 1575 01:28:31.760 --> 01:28:34.159 it's going to take care of most of your weed problems. Now, 1576 01:28:34.199 --> 01:28:36.319 whatever comes through that, you need to give me a 1577 01:28:36.319 --> 01:28:39.560 callback and send me a photo. Let me look at 1578 01:28:39.560 --> 01:28:41.520 the weed and I'll tell you what to do about it. 1579 01:28:41.840 --> 01:28:43.920 But since you got it cleared out, let's get a 1580 01:28:43.920 --> 01:28:48.000 good thick multch down if you if you still, if 1581 01:28:48.039 --> 01:28:50.560 you do, you happen to still take the printed copy 1582 01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:52.079 of the newspaper. 1583 01:28:53.439 --> 01:28:54.159 No I don't. 1584 01:28:55.319 --> 01:28:56.760 Okay, good well, I was going to have you put 1585 01:28:56.800 --> 01:28:59.239 some paper down, but most people don't have printing copies 1586 01:28:59.239 --> 01:29:01.680 in their hands. But let's just do that. Get through 1587 01:29:01.760 --> 01:29:03.880 four inches of multch to block all the light as 1588 01:29:03.920 --> 01:29:08.079 soon as possible over it, and then whatever comes through, 1589 01:29:08.279 --> 01:29:11.000 let me look at it and we'll prescribe the right 1590 01:29:11.039 --> 01:29:14.239 product to control that kind of weed. Okay. 1591 01:29:14.760 --> 01:29:17.720 Second question, I have torpedo grass in one side of 1592 01:29:17.720 --> 01:29:20.800 my yard in the flower bed that is just totally 1593 01:29:20.840 --> 01:29:23.800 out of control. Will GLASSI fate take care of that. 1594 01:29:25.439 --> 01:29:30.159 It will, but it'll kill whatever you spray it on. 1595 01:29:30.760 --> 01:29:34.439 So if the whole area is like look, let's just 1596 01:29:34.520 --> 01:29:37.279 kill everything and start over. Then glaphyse would do it. 1597 01:29:38.199 --> 01:29:40.680 I have a thing on my website. My website is 1598 01:29:40.760 --> 01:29:44.439 gardening with Skip dot com and it's called the weed 1599 01:29:44.520 --> 01:29:48.079 Wiper how to build your own weed Wiper. If you 1600 01:29:48.239 --> 01:29:51.520 will take a look at that, it will tell you 1601 01:29:51.560 --> 01:29:53.880 how to build something. And you put the glaphysite on 1602 01:29:53.920 --> 01:29:58.720 the sponge and torpedograss gets taller than the grass around it, 1603 01:29:59.159 --> 01:30:01.720 and so you can wipe it on the torpedo grass 1604 01:30:02.159 --> 01:30:05.560 without killing your grass. And if you like a printed 1605 01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:09.119 copy of it, I'm gonna be at the Ace Hardware 1606 01:30:09.159 --> 01:30:11.760 City on Memorial Drive. It's on the west side of Houston, 1607 01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:13.279 so i'd be a little drive, but we're gonna be 1608 01:30:13.279 --> 01:30:14.880 given away a lot of stuff. I'm gonna have some 1609 01:30:15.039 --> 01:30:18.159 print copies of my weed wiper, how to build it, 1610 01:30:18.279 --> 01:30:20.119 and then the sheet that tells what to put on 1611 01:30:20.159 --> 01:30:23.000 the weed wiper to kill various kinds of weeds. So 1612 01:30:23.119 --> 01:30:26.000 you're welcome to stop buy and do that. I'm gonna 1613 01:30:26.039 --> 01:30:28.680 have to go. I'm at a hard break. If you 1614 01:30:28.760 --> 01:30:31.880 had a follow up question, just hang on, but I 1615 01:30:31.920 --> 01:30:34.479 appreciate your call and we'll be back folks in just 1616 01:30:34.520 --> 01:30:38.199 a moment, all right, Welcome back, folks. I was at 1617 01:30:38.399 --> 01:30:42.600 warren Southern Gardens recently. They're the one on North Park 1618 01:30:42.680 --> 01:30:45.960 driving Kingwood. By the way, there's also Kingwood Garden Center 1619 01:30:46.039 --> 01:30:48.680 on Stone Hollow Drive. Both of those places are open 1620 01:30:48.760 --> 01:30:50.960 seven days a week. But I was out there at 1621 01:30:50.960 --> 01:30:54.479 Warren's for an appearance and just walking through. It's just 1622 01:30:55.560 --> 01:30:59.159 it's just fun and it's beautiful, and it's load. They 1623 01:30:59.199 --> 01:31:02.720 are loaded with all kinds of things, everything you can 1624 01:31:02.760 --> 01:31:07.640 imagine and want. By the way, this weekend May three 1625 01:31:07.720 --> 01:31:10.920 through fifth, they're having their Sinco to Mayo sale. And 1626 01:31:11.680 --> 01:31:14.479 the interesting thing is the bigger the pot, the bigger 1627 01:31:14.520 --> 01:31:17.960 the savings. You know, gallon pots three dollars off, forty 1628 01:31:17.960 --> 01:31:21.199 five gallon pots forty five dollars off. I mean, it's 1629 01:31:21.640 --> 01:31:24.479 just a ton of great stuff. When you go there, 1630 01:31:24.479 --> 01:31:27.000 you're not going to believe the color and the savings 1631 01:31:27.079 --> 01:31:31.119 and the options is I guess the best way to 1632 01:31:31.119 --> 01:31:33.960 put it. So many plants. I don't even know where 1633 01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:37.560 to begin talking about it. By the way, both Warrens 1634 01:31:37.560 --> 01:31:42.239 and Kingwood Garden Center have the refill stations for the 1635 01:31:42.279 --> 01:31:45.800 Microlife and Neilson plant Food. Do you take your old 1636 01:31:45.880 --> 01:31:48.239 jars of either of those and you can refill them 1637 01:31:48.359 --> 01:31:51.119 right there. It makes it real easy to do. They 1638 01:31:51.319 --> 01:31:56.239 also have an amazing selection of pottery. It is beautiful, 1639 01:31:56.399 --> 01:31:59.319 really nice selection of garden tools. I was impressed with 1640 01:31:59.359 --> 01:32:02.399 that when I was there too. And Kingwood Garden Center's 1641 01:32:02.439 --> 01:32:05.920 gift shop is just it's just stunning. It's really really 1642 01:32:05.920 --> 01:32:08.680 cool stuff. So now, no matter what you're doing, no 1643 01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:11.319 matter what you're planting, no matter what you're wanting, from 1644 01:32:11.359 --> 01:32:15.000 the brown stuff meaning the soil products you know, to 1645 01:32:15.039 --> 01:32:20.399 the fertilizers, to the plants themselves. We're in Southern Gardens 1646 01:32:20.399 --> 01:32:24.199 the Kingwood Garden Center, Kingwood, Texas. You're fortunate to have 1647 01:32:24.279 --> 01:32:26.800 those out there. Let's head out to Montgomery and we're 1648 01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:29.600 going to talk to Larry. Hey, Larry, welcome to garden Line. 1649 01:32:29.720 --> 01:32:29.840 Hi. 1650 01:32:30.560 --> 01:32:35.560 How you doing Skip. I've got two I've got two 1651 01:32:35.720 --> 01:32:39.920 live old trays about trumps are about three inch in diameter. 1652 01:32:40.800 --> 01:32:45.079 They're ten to eleven foot tall. Started about two years 1653 01:32:45.079 --> 01:32:50.520 they've been planting about four years ago, and started about 1654 01:32:50.560 --> 01:32:54.560 two years ago, like and started growing on the truck. 1655 01:32:54.760 --> 01:32:59.000 It is completely up the trunk now and it's starting 1656 01:32:59.119 --> 01:33:03.640 on the branches. The trees look healthy. Do I need 1657 01:33:03.680 --> 01:33:08.119 to worry about it? I chased it down and it 1658 01:33:08.159 --> 01:33:12.640 looks like it's cartilage liking. What do I need to do? 1659 01:33:12.640 --> 01:33:14.079 Do I need to worry about it? 1660 01:33:15.239 --> 01:33:17.920 You don't need to worry about it. Lichen grows on 1661 01:33:18.039 --> 01:33:21.600 rocks and fence posts. It just needs something for support 1662 01:33:22.119 --> 01:33:25.520 to grow on. Basically, if you want to get rid 1663 01:33:25.560 --> 01:33:29.840 of lichen, there's a product called moss Max m Oss 1664 01:33:30.680 --> 01:33:33.800 m a X that is labeled for controlling li likeen. 1665 01:33:34.159 --> 01:33:36.199 But when you kill it, it's going to come back. 1666 01:33:37.359 --> 01:33:37.600 You know. 1667 01:33:37.720 --> 01:33:41.239 Sometimes it's just there and that there's no problem with 1668 01:33:41.279 --> 01:33:43.520 the tree. The Lichen's just there. A lot of times, 1669 01:33:43.560 --> 01:33:47.079 as trees decline or is there slow growing like in, 1670 01:33:47.199 --> 01:33:50.560 tend to build up on them because the declining tree 1671 01:33:50.640 --> 01:33:54.159 doesn't have the canopy of shade that a healthy tree would. 1672 01:33:54.680 --> 01:33:57.479 But sometimes it's no sign that there's a problem at 1673 01:33:57.520 --> 01:33:58.600 all wrong with the tree. 1674 01:33:58.840 --> 01:34:03.079 So it looks great. 1675 01:34:04.039 --> 01:34:08.359 Okay, well then I'd not sweat it, you know, uh, 1676 01:34:08.680 --> 01:34:11.760 just move on with your other gardening chores and nothing 1677 01:34:11.760 --> 01:34:12.279 to see. 1678 01:34:12.079 --> 01:34:16.399 Here, all right, skip, Well, thank you very much. You 1679 01:34:17.479 --> 01:34:18.560 put thet ease. 1680 01:34:19.640 --> 01:34:22.479 There, you go, Thanks for your call. Appreciate it. 1681 01:34:22.800 --> 01:34:26.279 Have a waterful day scip you as well. 1682 01:34:26.560 --> 01:34:29.760 Thank you, sir. I appreciate that if you have indoor 1683 01:34:29.760 --> 01:34:32.760 house plants and you are looking for a soil mix 1684 01:34:33.159 --> 01:34:36.760 that will help with the watering schedule, that would be 1685 01:34:36.880 --> 01:34:40.479 jungle and water saving potting soil. It's got crystals that's 1686 01:34:40.680 --> 01:34:44.399 absorbed way many, many, many many times where they're weight 1687 01:34:44.479 --> 01:34:47.439 in water and when that soil dries out a little bit, 1688 01:34:47.520 --> 01:34:50.600 those crystals are still moist because they hold so much water, 1689 01:34:51.079 --> 01:34:53.319 and the roots can go up to a crystal there, 1690 01:34:53.359 --> 01:34:55.399 they're gonna be there. They're going to get access to 1691 01:34:55.479 --> 01:34:58.119 moisture as the soil gets a little too much on 1692 01:34:58.199 --> 01:35:00.600 the dry side. And it works well, it also drains well. 1693 01:35:00.600 --> 01:35:03.119 Of course, it has to to be a quality soil. 1694 01:35:03.319 --> 01:35:06.560 Jungle Land is available for many places. You're going to 1695 01:35:06.600 --> 01:35:11.479 find nitrofoss products sold all over town. Places like plants 1696 01:35:11.479 --> 01:35:15.279 for all seasons and the places like the D and 1697 01:35:15.359 --> 01:35:18.680 D Feed up in Tomball or Fissure's Hardware done in 1698 01:35:18.720 --> 01:35:23.680 Pasadena on Southomore places that carry nitrofoss products. And there 1699 01:35:23.720 --> 01:35:25.439 are a lot of great products and a lot of 1700 01:35:25.439 --> 01:35:35.640 great places that carry those. The Nature's way resources is it. 1701 01:35:36.960 --> 01:35:39.319 I was out visiting with Ian the other day, and 1702 01:35:39.359 --> 01:35:41.600 we're just going over all the different products that they 1703 01:35:41.640 --> 01:35:43.560 carry and what's going on with this, and what's going 1704 01:35:43.600 --> 01:35:47.039 on with that. And you know, they've been inventing products 1705 01:35:47.039 --> 01:35:50.920 that Nature's Way for decades now. That's where rose soil 1706 01:35:51.079 --> 01:35:54.199 was born. That's where leapmo composts was born, and others 1707 01:35:54.319 --> 01:35:58.039 as well. If you want a quality mix to turn 1708 01:35:58.439 --> 01:36:04.039 your plants into very happy campers, that's Nature's Way. Resources. 1709 01:36:04.520 --> 01:36:06.800 Too many of us PLoP a poor old plant into 1710 01:36:06.840 --> 01:36:11.039 an unprepared plot and that plant struggles. When you think 1711 01:36:11.039 --> 01:36:13.960 about nature, what does nature do? Nature builds the soil 1712 01:36:14.039 --> 01:36:19.199 slowly over time. You go to some Amazon rainforest and 1713 01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:22.079 when pull back the trees and look at that soil, 1714 01:36:22.159 --> 01:36:24.359 it is the best stuff on earth. And trees made 1715 01:36:24.359 --> 01:36:27.520 it that way with their leaves and a little parrot 1716 01:36:27.520 --> 01:36:32.239 poop thrown into the process. Nature's Way. Resources knows how 1717 01:36:32.279 --> 01:36:34.560 to take organic materials and turn them back into the 1718 01:36:34.560 --> 01:36:37.439 best soil building products you can have. And they're good 1719 01:36:37.479 --> 01:36:41.439 at that. By the way, every Friday is fungal based 1720 01:36:41.520 --> 01:36:46.239 compost Friday. Fungal Friday, Fungal based composts or high quality. 1721 01:36:46.319 --> 01:36:49.600 Nature's Way has them ten dollars off bags forty pounds 1722 01:36:49.600 --> 01:36:52.199 bags twenty dollars off by the bulk. What a great 1723 01:36:52.199 --> 01:36:53.720 way to get them. By the way, you can buy 1724 01:36:53.880 --> 01:36:56.319 Nature's Way products in bags, or you can buy them 1725 01:36:56.640 --> 01:36:59.079 bulk you haven't delivered if you would like to do 1726 01:36:59.159 --> 01:37:04.600 that way. Resources dot Com Nature's Way. Just remember that 1727 01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:07.079 Nature's Way Resources dot Com if you want to call 1728 01:37:07.119 --> 01:37:10.439 them nine three six two seven three twelve hundred nine 1729 01:37:10.479 --> 01:37:15.159 three six two seven three twelve hundred. When I talk 1730 01:37:15.159 --> 01:37:20.319 about products here on garden Line, I have a standard. 1731 01:37:20.640 --> 01:37:23.039 Before I'm going to recommend a product number one, I 1732 01:37:23.039 --> 01:37:25.760 need to see research that shows it works. That that's one. 1733 01:37:25.880 --> 01:37:29.439 That would be one way that I'm convinced this is 1734 01:37:29.439 --> 01:37:31.039 a good product. The other way and the way I 1735 01:37:31.079 --> 01:37:35.760 prefer is to do it myself, use it myself. And 1736 01:37:35.880 --> 01:37:38.840 I have been working my way through microlife products for 1737 01:37:38.880 --> 01:37:41.600 some time now because there are a lot of microlife 1738 01:37:41.640 --> 01:37:45.800 products out there. There's a granular bag, granule bags that 1739 01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:48.119 would be things like the six two four green bag 1740 01:37:48.239 --> 01:37:50.560 that we typically use on loans, but trust me, you 1741 01:37:50.680 --> 01:37:53.479 use aren't anything you got it works well and I do. 1742 01:37:54.600 --> 01:38:00.000 Then there are the the acidic Loving plant fertilizers. Microlife 1743 01:38:00.079 --> 01:38:02.359 has a products a kind of a pinkish bag that 1744 01:38:02.520 --> 01:38:05.880 is good for plants that like acid. That would be 1745 01:38:06.000 --> 01:38:10.880 like a gardenya, or a azalea or a camellia. Even 1746 01:38:10.960 --> 01:38:15.159 roses do really really well with that kind of fertilizer. 1747 01:38:16.000 --> 01:38:18.640 There is humts plus and I would suggest when you 1748 01:38:18.680 --> 01:38:23.000 fertilize also follow it up with an application right then 1749 01:38:23.239 --> 01:38:27.439 of humates plus. It is concentrated compost in a bag, 1750 01:38:27.479 --> 01:38:30.199 in little granules, in a humus type form that is 1751 01:38:30.199 --> 01:38:33.600 going to build your soil over time. Now I said 1752 01:38:33.640 --> 01:38:36.720 the acidifier was a pink bag, it's actually kind of 1753 01:38:36.720 --> 01:38:40.399 a reddish bag. The pink bag is their hybrid. But 1754 01:38:40.439 --> 01:38:42.840 they have products for all kinds of it. They have 1755 01:38:43.039 --> 01:38:46.439 a citrus and fruit product that is available out there, 1756 01:38:46.479 --> 01:38:50.840 and then all their liquids things like super Seaweed and 1757 01:38:51.000 --> 01:38:54.279 Ocean Harvest. That's the seaweed and fishial motion combo that 1758 01:38:54.560 --> 01:38:58.000 it's two different products but used together that organic gardeners 1759 01:38:58.000 --> 01:38:59.319 have used for a long time. You can get the 1760 01:38:59.359 --> 01:39:00.720 humans plus is a liquid. 1761 01:39:01.199 --> 01:39:01.479 Uh. 1762 01:39:01.520 --> 01:39:03.720 And you know, I could just go on and on. 1763 01:39:04.239 --> 01:39:07.760 Microlife Soil and plant energy is an outstanding product. Microli 1764 01:39:07.760 --> 01:39:10.760 like liquid liquid AP is an outstanding product. These are 1765 01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:14.479 the ones I've used and they work. Microlifefertilizer dot com 1766 01:39:14.600 --> 01:39:18.359 is the website, and you're gonna find Microlife all over. 1767 01:39:18.840 --> 01:39:22.760 Feed stores carry it. Your mom and pop garden centers 1768 01:39:22.800 --> 01:39:24.319 are going to carry it. You're gonna find it in 1769 01:39:24.399 --> 01:39:27.479 Ace hardware stores. You find it a Southwest fertilizer. It's 1770 01:39:27.520 --> 01:39:30.479 easy to find and it works. And if you're looking 1771 01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:33.399 for an organic approach to gardening, I can't see a 1772 01:39:33.399 --> 01:39:37.039 better place to start with all of the mini options 1773 01:39:37.119 --> 01:39:40.800 that they have. You're listening to garden Line. The phone 1774 01:39:40.840 --> 01:39:43.479 number is seven one three two one two k t 1775 01:39:43.680 --> 01:39:46.399 r H. Seven one three two one two k t 1776 01:39:46.680 --> 01:39:49.239 r H. Give me a call and we will be 1777 01:39:49.279 --> 01:39:51.960 happy to help you with the questions that you might have. 1778 01:39:52.399 --> 01:39:54.239 I had some folks that have been sending me some 1779 01:39:54.359 --> 01:39:59.880 emails today and so you guys that are interested in 1780 01:40:00.479 --> 01:40:02.920 sending in the photos and follow them up with a call, 1781 01:40:02.960 --> 01:40:05.840 we'll be happy to visit with you as a result. 1782 01:40:05.960 --> 01:40:09.800 So give me a call after you've sent me those 1783 01:40:09.880 --> 01:40:13.840 photos that you're looking at. Those of you in Willis 1784 01:40:14.319 --> 01:40:17.119 have a fairly new garden center up there and it's 1785 01:40:17.159 --> 01:40:19.880 called Growers Outlet, and I say fairly new. It's been 1786 01:40:19.920 --> 01:40:23.600 open a while, but Growers Outlet in Willis is on 1787 01:40:23.640 --> 01:40:26.760 seventy five, just south of the town of Willis. So 1788 01:40:26.840 --> 01:40:30.079 all of you up there in Conroe, even in the 1789 01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:33.880 woodlands up in Willis certainly, and then North and New 1790 01:40:33.960 --> 01:40:36.399 Caney and that whole region up there, and then across 1791 01:40:36.439 --> 01:40:38.760 over to the lake, you know, April Sound, Belt Water 1792 01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:42.000 and all the communities out there, Republic, Grand Ranch, Seven 1793 01:40:42.079 --> 01:40:46.119 Coves and so on. Point Aquarius. This is your hometown 1794 01:40:46.119 --> 01:40:49.159 garden center that is loaded with all kinds of plants 1795 01:40:49.199 --> 01:40:52.600 everything you can imagine, from veggies and herbs to perennials 1796 01:40:52.640 --> 01:40:55.600 and ferns to shrubs and trees and fruit and hanging 1797 01:40:55.680 --> 01:40:59.479 baskets and color plants with the garden beds, they've got 1798 01:40:59.479 --> 01:41:01.479 it all. In fact, a lot of their things, like 1799 01:41:01.520 --> 01:41:03.920 the geraniums of urbina and other plants, they grow them 1800 01:41:03.920 --> 01:41:08.079 in house. Some of the most beautiful macho firm baskets 1801 01:41:08.119 --> 01:41:10.439 and other color baskets that you're ever going to see 1802 01:41:10.439 --> 01:41:13.640 anywhere at Growers Outlet. And here's the website. It's the 1803 01:41:13.720 --> 01:41:17.680 name of the place, Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. 1804 01:41:17.720 --> 01:41:20.840 Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. They list all their 1805 01:41:20.880 --> 01:41:23.880 plants by availability on there, so you know if it's 1806 01:41:23.920 --> 01:41:27.760 available or not at the nursery. And they provide their 1807 01:41:27.760 --> 01:41:31.239 pricing online, which is really surprising that almost never happens, 1808 01:41:31.279 --> 01:41:33.800 but they do it at Growers Outlet in Willis on 1809 01:41:33.880 --> 01:41:37.920 Highway seventy five, just minutes away from Interstate forty five. 1810 01:41:41.760 --> 01:41:44.640 They're going to have products too, from like Nitrofas and 1811 01:41:44.760 --> 01:41:48.000 Microlife I meaning by the way, they carry Superturf from Nitrofoss. 1812 01:41:48.039 --> 01:41:52.880 Superturf is the nineteen four to ten product that gradually 1813 01:41:52.960 --> 01:41:56.760 releases nutrients over four months. It is it is. You 1814 01:41:56.800 --> 01:41:59.560 put it down now, you return your clippings, you never 1815 01:41:59.640 --> 01:42:02.520 mow it, and you're going to find it at Grower's 1816 01:42:02.560 --> 01:42:06.439 Outlet and Willis as well as many other places around town. 1817 01:42:06.479 --> 01:42:09.239 I'll be giving away some today as well. We'll be 1818 01:42:09.359 --> 01:42:12.439 right back. All right, folks, we're back. Welcome to garden Line. 1819 01:42:12.479 --> 01:42:14.920 Good to have you with us. Look forward to visiting 1820 01:42:14.920 --> 01:42:17.079 with you about your questions. What do you want to 1821 01:42:17.079 --> 01:42:18.640 know about? What do you want to talk about? You 1822 01:42:18.720 --> 01:42:21.680 got a problem to solve in the garden or maybe 1823 01:42:21.720 --> 01:42:25.199 just some suggestions for things to help you have success. 1824 01:42:25.920 --> 01:42:27.560 That's what we're here for. All you got to do 1825 01:42:27.640 --> 01:42:29.720 is doll seven to one three two one two k 1826 01:42:29.840 --> 01:42:31.800 t r H seven one three two one two k 1827 01:42:32.000 --> 01:42:35.640 t r H. Boy, the storms we had that storm 1828 01:42:35.760 --> 01:42:38.520 I had a storm I was pretty significant last night. 1829 01:42:38.640 --> 01:42:41.399 I mean a gully washed rain on us. And it 1830 01:42:41.439 --> 01:42:43.720 always reminds me of last summer. You know, we had 1831 01:42:43.760 --> 01:42:48.520 those two storms that came through and knocked down trees everywhere, 1832 01:42:48.640 --> 01:42:52.319 shut down power for literally weeks, at least two weeks 1833 01:42:52.600 --> 01:42:57.199 in both those storms. In many places. Well, a generator helps, 1834 01:42:57.920 --> 01:43:03.279 and a automatic standby generator by Generac especially helps because 1835 01:43:03.439 --> 01:43:05.119 you can be sitting there in your chair before you 1836 01:43:05.119 --> 01:43:06.279 have time to get out of the chair or the 1837 01:43:06.279 --> 01:43:08.439 power's back on. I mean it just like instant it 1838 01:43:08.560 --> 01:43:11.439 just power goes off, it kicks on. And so those 1839 01:43:11.560 --> 01:43:15.119 quote once in a lifetime storms that come many times 1840 01:43:15.319 --> 01:43:18.319 in a lifetime over and over again, well you don't 1841 01:43:18.319 --> 01:43:20.159 have to be left in the dark. You can protect 1842 01:43:20.199 --> 01:43:24.119 your power supplied maybe you and by the by the way, 1843 01:43:24.479 --> 01:43:27.279 quality Home Products of Texas. 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Do you need to keep your air conditioning 1855 01:43:57.039 --> 01:43:59.760 central units and stuff like that going? Or you know 1856 01:43:59.760 --> 01:44:02.479 what you need? Quality Home Products of Texas can get 1857 01:44:02.560 --> 01:44:04.319 you set up. They come out, they take care of 1858 01:44:04.359 --> 01:44:07.479 everything for you, from you know, the regulations and permits 1859 01:44:07.520 --> 01:44:09.560 to putting a new slab down. Yeah, they don't just 1860 01:44:09.560 --> 01:44:12.039 put a low, prefab thin slab that gets knocked around 1861 01:44:12.039 --> 01:44:15.520 by the lawnmower. They put They pour a quality slab 1862 01:44:15.560 --> 01:44:17.840 for you. They do it right. And then when they 1863 01:44:17.880 --> 01:44:20.520 walk off and it's all set up, that's when it 1864 01:44:20.640 --> 01:44:24.680 just begins. 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Hello, Diana, 1874 01:45:05.279 --> 01:45:06.399 Welcome to garden Line. 1875 01:45:07.439 --> 01:45:10.119 Oh hello, Yes, I have a question. 1876 01:45:10.199 --> 01:45:13.319 I have a low spot in my front yard and 1877 01:45:13.399 --> 01:45:17.920 I was told due to that in retaining water that's causing. 1878 01:45:17.600 --> 01:45:18.960 A lot of my dollar weeds. 1879 01:45:19.640 --> 01:45:25.079 And I'm trying to figure out the easiest way to 1880 01:45:25.119 --> 01:45:26.680 fill in that hole. 1881 01:45:26.800 --> 01:45:30.079 Without having to dig up all the existing. 1882 01:45:31.239 --> 01:45:33.960 Vegetation that's on top of it, you know, the grass 1883 01:45:34.000 --> 01:45:35.479 and the weeds and everything else. 1884 01:45:35.560 --> 01:45:36.239 Can I judge? 1885 01:45:36.840 --> 01:45:40.680 Can I put newspaper on there and put maybe leveling 1886 01:45:40.840 --> 01:45:43.439 sand and dirt? 1887 01:45:45.520 --> 01:45:48.800 No need, no need for newspaper. Just bring in a 1888 01:45:49.720 --> 01:45:55.399 quality turf leveling product, you know, and you can. You can. 1889 01:45:55.760 --> 01:45:58.600 The folks up at our Nature's Way up in Tomball, 1890 01:45:58.760 --> 01:46:01.680 the folks in Heirloom Soil both have a lawn mix 1891 01:46:02.319 --> 01:46:04.640 that is primarily sand with a little bit of composted 1892 01:46:04.680 --> 01:46:08.199 in it that you can use to level out that area, 1893 01:46:08.239 --> 01:46:11.199 a good sandy loam top soil to make sure and 1894 01:46:11.239 --> 01:46:13.800 get it level. Just keep in mind that when you 1895 01:46:13.880 --> 01:46:16.399 do that, the water that was gathering there is going 1896 01:46:16.439 --> 01:46:19.079 to go somewhere else, So it may create a wet 1897 01:46:19.159 --> 01:46:23.319 spot somewhere else by doing it that way, but just 1898 01:46:23.680 --> 01:46:27.039 keep that in mind. Another option is to put a 1899 01:46:27.079 --> 01:46:32.520 subsurface drain in. A subsurface drain takes that water and 1900 01:46:32.760 --> 01:46:35.760 takes it off to another location where it drains away. 1901 01:46:35.960 --> 01:46:39.159 And that's another way to turn a wet spot into 1902 01:46:39.199 --> 01:46:40.279 a well drained spot. 1903 01:46:41.520 --> 01:46:45.840 What is this subsurface drain I'm sorry. 1904 01:46:47.319 --> 01:46:52.640 Yeah, a subsurface drain. Yeah, well, they also call them 1905 01:46:52.640 --> 01:46:57.279 French drains. Basically, it is a perforated pipe that's underground 1906 01:46:57.840 --> 01:47:00.199 and the water goes in the pipe and drains a way. 1907 01:47:00.319 --> 01:47:03.159 It's like it works opposite of an old septic system, 1908 01:47:03.359 --> 01:47:06.680 which is taking taking water out. This is bringing water 1909 01:47:07.039 --> 01:47:09.800 or taking water in, and this is taking water out 1910 01:47:10.159 --> 01:47:10.720 of the area. 1911 01:47:11.640 --> 01:47:16.399 Okay, what what like plaint salt seas didn't have that 1912 01:47:16.560 --> 01:47:17.439 type of soil. 1913 01:47:19.359 --> 01:47:23.039 They might they have their their their they have some 1914 01:47:23.199 --> 01:47:26.319 blends and stuff, but they don't have the bulk levels, 1915 01:47:26.560 --> 01:47:29.760 you know, like you would get with someone that's bringing 1916 01:47:29.800 --> 01:47:32.520 in a large amount of it. They may have some 1917 01:47:32.640 --> 01:47:35.680 bags of it, but you're probably probably gonna need a 1918 01:47:35.680 --> 01:47:36.800 lot of bags, right. 1919 01:47:38.000 --> 01:47:38.359 I don't. 1920 01:47:38.439 --> 01:47:42.039 It's not that big an area maybe four by four 1921 01:47:42.119 --> 01:47:43.319 it the very most. 1922 01:47:43.680 --> 01:47:47.640 It's you know, just oh okay, well yeah, yeah, just 1923 01:47:48.079 --> 01:47:50.520 if if, if that's where you shop, just go by 1924 01:47:50.560 --> 01:47:53.279 and ask them do they have like a lawn filling 1925 01:47:53.319 --> 01:47:56.800 mix a top soil, and explain the situation to you 1926 01:47:56.920 --> 01:47:58.680 and they'll put you in touch with with one. 1927 01:47:59.039 --> 01:48:01.239 I didn't know an area. 1928 01:48:01.840 --> 01:48:04.279 Oh yeah, is there any did you say there was 1929 01:48:04.319 --> 01:48:05.840 a place in Tumble. 1930 01:48:07.119 --> 01:48:11.399 That you could buy this to? Maybe there's a place 1931 01:48:11.479 --> 01:48:16.600 up there's well, there's a place there, okay. I was 1932 01:48:16.640 --> 01:48:23.520 talking about arbigates providing soils that are like growing growing mixes, 1933 01:48:23.600 --> 01:48:28.560 compost and soil blend growing mixes. Those are highly organic though, 1934 01:48:28.680 --> 01:48:31.439 like a lot of bed mixes and things are. And 1935 01:48:31.479 --> 01:48:34.359 so what you're wanting is more of just the mineral 1936 01:48:34.399 --> 01:48:37.359 part of soil, the top soil, the the loamy top 1937 01:48:37.399 --> 01:48:40.920 soil kind of thing to fill in there because that 1938 01:48:41.000 --> 01:48:44.560 way it stays that level. It doesn't sink down over time. 1939 01:48:45.479 --> 01:48:48.960 So that's all. Yeah, that in the end of the 1940 01:48:49.039 --> 01:48:50.800 place are your two options. 1941 01:48:51.760 --> 01:48:54.720 Okay, I'm sure what were the two companies you mentioned before? 1942 01:48:54.720 --> 01:48:56.600 The places I could get the. 1943 01:48:56.319 --> 01:49:02.239 Soil, Yes, Nature's Way Resources and they're up toward Conroe 1944 01:49:02.239 --> 01:49:06.159 on Interstate forty five and Heirloom Soils on Porter, Texas 1945 01:49:06.159 --> 01:49:09.760 on Highway fifty nine. Now, if you're just needing that 1946 01:49:09.840 --> 01:49:11.600 little of area, you can buy it by the bag. 1947 01:49:12.199 --> 01:49:14.479 You can buy it by the bag in different places. 1948 01:49:14.800 --> 01:49:17.399 But talk to talk to the folks your shot your 1949 01:49:17.479 --> 01:49:20.840 shop there at Plans Roll Seasons. Just talk to them 1950 01:49:20.840 --> 01:49:22.279 there and see what they have a lot of different 1951 01:49:22.359 --> 01:49:24.279 kinds of soil products and they probably have something that 1952 01:49:24.319 --> 01:49:25.000 they work for that. 1953 01:49:25.439 --> 01:49:29.600 And I'm also close to Arbor Gates too, so oh. 1954 01:49:29.600 --> 01:49:32.039 All right, well, thank you. I appreciate your calling. Good 1955 01:49:32.119 --> 01:49:35.319 luck getting to the bottom of that. One is for 1956 01:49:35.359 --> 01:49:39.119 sure quality home products. I was just telling you about those. 1957 01:49:39.399 --> 01:49:41.159 I want to give you one more time the phone 1958 01:49:41.239 --> 01:49:44.000 number seven one three Quality. You need to give them 1959 01:49:44.039 --> 01:49:46.600 a call. It takes a while to get this whole 1960 01:49:46.640 --> 01:49:50.960 process done of putting an automatic standby generator by generak 1961 01:49:51.079 --> 01:49:54.399 in on your property, So don't delay, go ahead and 1962 01:49:54.439 --> 01:49:58.359 give them a call today. RCW Nurseries opened up in 1963 01:49:58.479 --> 01:50:01.239 nineteen seventy nine, by the way, Williamson family, and they 1964 01:50:01.279 --> 01:50:04.720 still run it. This place has stood the test of 1965 01:50:04.760 --> 01:50:07.199 time because they take care of their customers and they 1966 01:50:07.239 --> 01:50:11.520 have whatever you need, and you know it. I'm always 1967 01:50:11.560 --> 01:50:14.960 amazed when I go in there at the quality plants 1968 01:50:15.119 --> 01:50:17.279 that they have and at the range of plants that 1969 01:50:17.319 --> 01:50:21.720 they have, the just from vines to shrubs to trees, 1970 01:50:21.800 --> 01:50:24.840 to all the bedding plants and the color and roses 1971 01:50:24.880 --> 01:50:27.239 and things that you might want. They grow their own 1972 01:50:27.279 --> 01:50:29.640 trees up there in Plantersville, so you know you're getting 1973 01:50:29.640 --> 01:50:32.359 a tree that's grown right and that it's a species 1974 01:50:32.399 --> 01:50:34.720 that belongs here because they know what grows here and 1975 01:50:34.760 --> 01:50:37.520 they don't say you something that doesn't belong here. Our 1976 01:50:37.760 --> 01:50:40.119 CW Nurseries. So come out and plant them for you too. 1977 01:50:40.359 --> 01:50:43.319 You can plant them yourself. It's a small container. If 1978 01:50:43.319 --> 01:50:45.560 you don't want to put your chiropractice kids through college, 1979 01:50:45.640 --> 01:50:50.279 then have RCW do the planting for you. RCW Nurseries 1980 01:50:50.319 --> 01:50:52.960 dot Com. Time for me to take a little break 1981 01:50:52.960 --> 01:50:55.600 here and we will be right back. We're going to 1982 01:50:55.640 --> 01:51:00.560 head out to I think we're going to Pasadena. Now, 1983 01:51:00.720 --> 01:51:02.760 let's see. Yeah, we're gonna go to Pasadena and talk 1984 01:51:02.800 --> 01:51:05.199 to Mary when we come back. All right, welcome back 1985 01:51:05.199 --> 01:51:08.239 to the garden line. Glad you're with us today. I 1986 01:51:08.279 --> 01:51:11.159 talk all the time about the importance of soil preparation 1987 01:51:11.319 --> 01:51:15.479 before planting, and I just if I just sat here 1988 01:51:15.560 --> 01:51:18.840 for four hours on a garden line day and said 1989 01:51:19.319 --> 01:51:21.680 it's important to prepare the soil before you plant. It's 1990 01:51:21.680 --> 01:51:25.079 important to pare the plant. It would be time well spent. 1991 01:51:25.520 --> 01:51:27.760 You'd go nuts, but it would be time well spent. 1992 01:51:28.359 --> 01:51:33.159 Ciena mulch is the place down south of Houston where 1993 01:51:33.239 --> 01:51:35.640 you take care of the brown stuff before you plant 1994 01:51:35.640 --> 01:51:39.520 the green stuff. They have everything. It's a one stop shop. 1995 01:51:39.640 --> 01:51:43.720 I'm talking about composts. I'm talking about bed mixes like 1996 01:51:43.920 --> 01:51:48.319 the heirloom soils, veggie nerb mix. I'm talking about mulches 1997 01:51:48.319 --> 01:51:50.359 to go on top of the ground, native hardwood mulchus, 1998 01:51:50.439 --> 01:51:53.319 double ground mulchus, and on and on. I'm talking about 1999 01:51:53.319 --> 01:51:57.319 blends like rose soil. I'm talking about everything you need, 2000 01:51:57.479 --> 01:52:00.520 including the nutrients for the soil roots. I've got to 2001 01:52:00.560 --> 01:52:06.199 have a good bank account of nutrients, microlife Nelson's Medina 2002 01:52:07.000 --> 01:52:11.439 nitrofoss asamite. They've got it all. They've got it all. 2003 01:52:11.800 --> 01:52:14.640 And when you leave Ciena Maltch, which is by the 2004 01:52:14.680 --> 01:52:17.439 way on FM five point twenty one near Highway six 2005 01:52:17.520 --> 01:52:19.880 and two eighty eight, when you drive off from there, 2006 01:52:19.960 --> 01:52:21.800 or when you have them deliver it within about twenty 2007 01:52:21.840 --> 01:52:25.560 miles for a small fee, they will deliver. You're set 2008 01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:28.000 up to then go get all the beautiful plant or 2009 01:52:28.000 --> 01:52:30.159 maybe you bought the plants and now they're sitting there. 2010 01:52:30.159 --> 01:52:32.800 Don't plan them. Go to Sean Animals, get what you need, 2011 01:52:32.920 --> 01:52:35.359 get this all right, and then plan them. Trust me, 2012 01:52:35.520 --> 01:52:39.479 it is the night and day difference. Siennamult dot com. 2013 01:52:39.640 --> 01:52:42.079 Just write that down cienamultch dot com. That's all you 2014 01:52:42.119 --> 01:52:44.760 need to know. All right. We're gonna go now out 2015 01:52:44.760 --> 01:52:47.720 to Pasadena and talk to Mary. Hello, Mary, Welcome to 2016 01:52:47.760 --> 01:52:54.600 garden Line. Good morning. The previous caller dollar weed. I 2017 01:52:54.640 --> 01:52:55.920 have dollar weed problem. 2018 01:52:56.000 --> 01:52:58.520 We are aware of the drain each issue and we're 2019 01:52:58.520 --> 01:52:59.600 going to take care of that. 2020 01:53:00.319 --> 01:53:04.680 But we're wondering what we can do. Uh. 2021 01:53:04.880 --> 01:53:06.960 Is there something that we can kill the dollar we 2022 01:53:07.199 --> 01:53:08.239 with as we do this. 2023 01:53:09.960 --> 01:53:12.359 Yes, you want to get a product that is a 2024 01:53:12.399 --> 01:53:16.840 broad leaf post emergent weed control product, and I would 2025 01:53:16.880 --> 01:53:19.560 get one of the combinations, like they'll have two or 2026 01:53:19.600 --> 01:53:22.640 three different ingredients that kill broad leaf weeds and by 2027 01:53:22.680 --> 01:53:27.079 the combinations you get better overall results from just than 2028 01:53:27.239 --> 01:53:30.600 just using one type of chemistry in that product. So 2029 01:53:30.840 --> 01:53:35.840 it will have a name. Uh, go ahead, Well, I 2030 01:53:35.920 --> 01:53:38.319 was gonna say, whedon nater is something that I do 2031 01:53:38.520 --> 01:53:44.039 know that we put out back when I'm not sure when. Okay, 2032 01:53:44.239 --> 01:53:48.880 but I don't Okay, we didn't say that it did anything. Okay, Well, 2033 01:53:48.920 --> 01:53:51.560 what I would do is get something that has uh 2034 01:53:51.640 --> 01:53:55.720 it has a name like trimech that is one name 2035 01:53:56.239 --> 01:54:02.840 of a group of products. Boneyed a weed beater, weed beater, 2036 01:54:03.680 --> 01:54:08.199 and fertilome has a weed free zone. Those are all examples. 2037 01:54:08.479 --> 01:54:11.680 Read the label spray early in the morning while it's 2038 01:54:11.760 --> 01:54:14.279 cool so it dries off before the day gets hot. 2039 01:54:14.840 --> 01:54:19.600 And get a something called a surf factant. It helps 2040 01:54:19.680 --> 01:54:23.720 the spray stick to slick dollar weed leaves. Anytime a 2041 01:54:23.760 --> 01:54:27.840 weed is kind of slippery, the google spray just runs off, 2042 01:54:28.560 --> 01:54:31.800 So a surf factant. It's also called a spreader sticker. 2043 01:54:31.840 --> 01:54:34.079 It's the same thing. But when you go to a 2044 01:54:34.079 --> 01:54:36.920 good place that knows what they're talking about. They're gonna 2045 01:54:36.920 --> 01:54:39.600 be able to provide that for you. And you've got 2046 01:54:39.640 --> 01:54:43.359 some ace hardware stores in your area that can provide 2047 01:54:43.800 --> 01:54:47.159 you know, that kind of product for you. Just it's 2048 01:54:47.159 --> 01:54:49.680 a multi product for broad leaf weed control. All right, 2049 01:54:50.800 --> 01:54:53.600 thank you so much. Doing Earnie in the morning before 2050 01:54:53.600 --> 01:54:59.239 it gets really really warm and when it's not gonna rain, Yes, 2051 01:54:59.399 --> 01:55:02.079 and do it soon. Don't wait a month or two 2052 01:55:02.159 --> 01:55:04.399 or three, because the hotter it gets, the more problems 2053 01:55:04.399 --> 01:55:08.159 these things can cause to get into that situation. All right, Mary, 2054 01:55:08.359 --> 01:55:11.079 thanks a lot. I appreciate I appreciate your call very much. 2055 01:55:11.439 --> 01:55:15.399 Sweet Green from nitrofoss is a fertilizer that dissolves away 2056 01:55:15.520 --> 01:55:17.800 very easily and moves down in the soil to feed 2057 01:55:17.840 --> 01:55:20.199 your plants. Now, it's made for lawns, but you can 2058 01:55:20.319 --> 01:55:22.159 use sweet green on all kinds of things. It's a 2059 01:55:22.279 --> 01:55:25.520 nitrogen source. It's a nitrogen source to give a boost 2060 01:55:25.520 --> 01:55:27.640 to growth. And if you're trying to get a good 2061 01:55:27.720 --> 01:55:30.960 quick boost for the plants that you're growing, including your lawn, 2062 01:55:31.319 --> 01:55:33.600 sweet green is perfect for that. You're can to find 2063 01:55:33.600 --> 01:55:36.399 sweet green it places all over the Greater Houston area 2064 01:55:36.399 --> 01:55:39.399 and places that carry nitofos products like Fisher's Hardware on 2065 01:55:39.479 --> 01:55:43.640 Broadway Street and Laporte M and D. Beamer Sagemont area 2066 01:55:44.000 --> 01:55:47.600 and Stanton Shopping Center on North Taylor down there in Alvin, 2067 01:55:48.359 --> 01:55:55.840 all places that carry nitrofos products. Speaking of down that direction, 2068 01:55:55.920 --> 01:55:59.119 someone had called me earlier today and I just I 2069 01:55:59.159 --> 01:56:02.279 started to start talking to them about Moss Nursery because 2070 01:56:02.399 --> 01:56:05.279 you know they're done in Seabrook. Moss is on Toddville 2071 01:56:05.359 --> 01:56:08.439 Road in Seabrook, and it is an outstanding nursery. It 2072 01:56:08.800 --> 01:56:11.560 just is you go there and you wander through eight 2073 01:56:11.600 --> 01:56:14.119 acres of gorgeous plants. Those of you who lived on 2074 01:56:14.199 --> 01:56:16.039 there know what I'm talking about. You know, you drive 2075 01:56:16.119 --> 01:56:18.600 off and you tell your your family, I'll be back 2076 01:56:18.640 --> 01:56:21.479 in about an hour. Well three days later, you come 2077 01:56:21.520 --> 01:56:26.239 back to the house because you got infatuated with plants 2078 01:56:26.239 --> 01:56:28.680 at Moss Nursery. And it's so easy to do all 2079 01:56:28.760 --> 01:56:33.840 kinds of flowering shrubs and including azalias of course, hanging baskets, 2080 01:56:34.199 --> 01:56:36.960 annual color plants, if you want a pretty flower bed 2081 01:56:37.039 --> 01:56:40.279 from a Lissam designas they've got it all there. They 2082 01:56:40.279 --> 01:56:42.920 have all kinds of unusual things things like bonseye and 2083 01:56:43.079 --> 01:56:47.800 houseplants that you just don't see anywhere else. They're very unusual. 2084 01:56:48.279 --> 01:56:51.119 One of the best selections of pottery you're gonna find anywhere. 2085 01:56:51.199 --> 01:56:55.760 I mean, it is very extensive. Moss Nursery down in Seabrook, 2086 01:56:55.800 --> 01:57:01.079 Texas on Toddville Road. M Aasnursery dot Com, Mossnurcery dot 2087 01:57:01.119 --> 01:57:05.840 com two eight one four seven, four eighty eight. Let's 2088 01:57:05.880 --> 01:57:08.119 go now up to Cyprus and we're going to talk 2089 01:57:08.159 --> 01:57:10.279 to Jake. Hey, Jake, Welcome to Guardline. 2090 01:57:11.239 --> 01:57:15.840 Good morning Skip. I have a Saint Augustine backyard, and 2091 01:57:16.039 --> 01:57:18.840 it seems like a couple times a year when it 2092 01:57:18.880 --> 01:57:22.439 gets hot and muggy, I get what I'm ninety percent sure. 2093 01:57:22.319 --> 01:57:23.520 Is gray leaf spot. 2094 01:57:23.720 --> 01:57:26.920 The grass starts to yellow. I see the little diamond 2095 01:57:26.920 --> 01:57:31.279 shaped brown spot. So I apply an anti fungus. You know, 2096 01:57:31.319 --> 01:57:34.000 I think I've used maybe Headway or Heritage g in 2097 01:57:34.039 --> 01:57:37.680 the past a couple others. It goes away. But I'm 2098 01:57:37.680 --> 01:57:40.039 wondering if I'm hurting myself in the long run, and 2099 01:57:40.079 --> 01:57:42.600 maybe I should just wait it out because I don't 2100 01:57:42.600 --> 01:57:46.319 know how much I'm impacting my microbiome and my soil 2101 01:57:46.479 --> 01:57:49.600 by applying anti fungus a couple times a year. I 2102 01:57:49.640 --> 01:57:51.319 just didn't know if you had any thoughts on how 2103 01:57:51.319 --> 01:57:55.079 I could maybe improve my improve my soil, and if 2104 01:57:55.119 --> 01:57:57.279 I could, if I should just wait out the fungus 2105 01:57:57.319 --> 01:58:01.960 this time and you just leave it a. 2106 01:58:02.000 --> 01:58:04.720 That's up to you. It does come and go. Now 2107 01:58:04.760 --> 01:58:08.079 in severe cases, it really makes the lawn look bad. 2108 01:58:08.960 --> 01:58:12.439 In minor cases, it's like, yeah, it's not great, but 2109 01:58:12.479 --> 01:58:15.439 it does coming. Typically when it really heats up, we 2110 01:58:15.439 --> 01:58:19.079 don't see as much of that problem in our lawns 2111 01:58:19.640 --> 01:58:24.079 when it really heats up. But I would suggest, well, 2112 01:58:24.079 --> 01:58:27.159 here's the things that make grade leaf spot worse. Shade, 2113 01:58:28.279 --> 01:58:33.520 lots of moisture, and extra nitrogen. Those three cause grade 2114 01:58:33.560 --> 01:58:36.479 leaf spot to be more of a problem. And so 2115 01:58:36.560 --> 01:58:40.000 we primarily deal with it from well back in April 2116 01:58:40.079 --> 01:58:43.720 all the way up into July. Really we can see 2117 01:58:43.720 --> 01:58:46.479 some of it. But the bottom line is you can 2118 01:58:46.520 --> 01:58:48.720 go either way. You can let it take its course 2119 01:58:48.760 --> 01:58:51.520 and ignore it and just mow and keep going, or 2120 01:58:52.039 --> 01:58:54.560 you can spray it or treat it if you use 2121 01:58:54.640 --> 01:58:56.960 the granular products, whatever you want to go about it. 2122 01:58:57.600 --> 01:59:00.319 You can treat it and deal with it. There's not 2123 01:59:00.520 --> 01:59:04.319 a right or wrong on those. I tend to ignore 2124 01:59:04.319 --> 01:59:06.920 it because it's not very bad in my yard because 2125 01:59:07.000 --> 01:59:11.399 culturally I keep the conditions away that it likes as 2126 01:59:11.439 --> 01:59:14.119 best I can. But boy, with all the rain we've 2127 01:59:14.159 --> 01:59:16.479 been having, I would expect the little outbreak of it 2128 01:59:16.560 --> 01:59:20.319 pretty quick here. That's that's great information. 2129 01:59:20.399 --> 01:59:22.319 I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't gonna, 2130 01:59:22.720 --> 01:59:25.840 you know, take over the world. So I'll probably ignore 2131 01:59:25.840 --> 01:59:27.840 it and get a soil test just to make sure 2132 01:59:27.880 --> 01:59:31.000 my conditions are are better. But thank you very much. 2133 01:59:31.560 --> 01:59:34.479 Yeah, yeah, just go easy on the nitrogen. That's why 2134 01:59:34.479 --> 01:59:37.600 I like slow release, you know. That's another another reason 2135 01:59:37.640 --> 01:59:39.800 we do that. But yeah, you ought to be in 2136 01:59:39.840 --> 01:59:41.960 good chafe. Hey, thanks for calling though. I appreciate you 2137 01:59:42.840 --> 01:59:48.640 checking in about that. Take care year round Houston, Year 2138 01:59:48.920 --> 01:59:51.399 round Houston dot com the name of the company, the 2139 01:59:51.439 --> 01:59:55.279 name of the website, Year round Houston dot com. They're 2140 01:59:55.399 --> 01:59:58.880 specialist when it comes to core aerating and compass top dressing. 2141 01:59:59.359 --> 02:00:03.239 They primary. We talk about them as focusing inside the Beltway, 2142 02:00:03.640 --> 02:00:07.079 inside the Beltway of Houston. They do it right. They 2143 02:00:07.159 --> 02:00:11.239 use top quality products. They they take all that messy 2144 02:00:11.479 --> 02:00:13.880 you know, try to go rent something and have them 2145 02:00:13.880 --> 02:00:16.159 done compost on the yard and then clean up the 2146 02:00:16.199 --> 02:00:18.079 machinery and get it back and all of that. It's 2147 02:00:18.119 --> 02:00:21.000 not easy to do for do it yourself, but they 2148 02:00:21.039 --> 02:00:23.800 take care of it for you. You're round Houston dot com. 2149 02:00:23.920 --> 02:00:27.479 You're round Houston dot com. Eight three two eight eight 2150 02:00:27.560 --> 02:00:31.600 four fifty three thirty five eight three two eight eight 2151 02:00:31.680 --> 02:00:35.479 four fifty three thirty five. We're going to go now 2152 02:00:35.520 --> 02:00:37.760 to Rick in League City. Rick, I gotta tell you, 2153 02:00:37.880 --> 02:00:39.520 I just have a short time. We're going to be 2154 02:00:39.560 --> 02:00:41.600 talking in the music, but if you need to, we 2155 02:00:41.640 --> 02:00:44.119 can hang over and finish after the top of the break. 2156 02:00:44.159 --> 02:00:46.079 But I want to get started with you here. How 2157 02:00:46.079 --> 02:00:46.680 can we help? 2158 02:00:47.840 --> 02:00:51.199 Thank you Skip. I have a spot in my backyard 2159 02:00:51.199 --> 02:00:53.800 that I have cleared. I need a tree that would give 2160 02:00:53.840 --> 02:00:56.760 me some privacy in the back. It needs to be 2161 02:00:56.840 --> 02:00:59.520 when it's mature, about twenty five or thirty feet tall, 2162 02:01:00.039 --> 02:01:03.479 and I would like some color. And I already have 2163 02:01:03.560 --> 02:01:05.600 a magnolia and already have a palm tree. Do you 2164 02:01:05.640 --> 02:01:07.479 have any recommendations on a good tree. 2165 02:01:09.079 --> 02:01:12.359 A tall crape myrtle like a natchez, has white blooms. 2166 02:01:12.399 --> 02:01:16.000 It gets thirty eight feet tall or so. Another one 2167 02:01:16.039 --> 02:01:20.079 I really like is Chinese fringe tree. It's a spring bloomer. 2168 02:01:20.159 --> 02:01:22.960 It gets about that size and it looks beautiful. I'm 2169 02:01:23.000 --> 02:01:24.800 going to a break. If you want to hang around, 2170 02:01:24.880 --> 02:01:30.239 we'll continue. Thank you, We're not all right. We're back. 2171 02:01:30.720 --> 02:01:33.560 We're back for the last hour Garden Line today. I 2172 02:01:33.680 --> 02:01:37.439 want to remind you again that today after the show, 2173 02:01:37.439 --> 02:01:40.159 I'm going to head over to the Ace Hardware storeal 2174 02:01:40.239 --> 02:01:43.560 Memorial Drive. It's called Ace Hardware City, and we are 2175 02:01:43.560 --> 02:01:45.000 going to have a heck of a time there today. 2176 02:01:45.039 --> 02:01:48.560 Come on out and see me. I'd love to help 2177 02:01:48.600 --> 02:01:50.760 you with plant questions you might have. You know, on 2178 02:01:50.840 --> 02:01:53.560 the air, I'd get to only visit with people for 2179 02:01:53.600 --> 02:01:56.279 a short amount of time because I got other people 2180 02:01:56.279 --> 02:01:59.279 to get to another business to attend to about out 2181 02:01:59.279 --> 02:02:01.840 at these appearance is we can sit and talk eyed 2182 02:02:01.920 --> 02:02:04.600 eye for a little while, we solve some things. We 2183 02:02:04.640 --> 02:02:06.680 get usually get a group of people out there and 2184 02:02:06.800 --> 02:02:10.880 I'll just say out loud what I'm doing helping with 2185 02:02:10.960 --> 02:02:13.960 a particular problem. So everybody kind of enjoys sitting around 2186 02:02:14.039 --> 02:02:17.560 listening and learning and asking questions. And I'm going to 2187 02:02:17.600 --> 02:02:20.000 be giving away a ton of cool stuff. And I 2188 02:02:20.079 --> 02:02:22.760 mean that really, I don't think I've ever had this 2189 02:02:22.960 --> 02:02:25.439 many different kinds of giveaways at one event. But we're 2190 02:02:25.439 --> 02:02:28.960 going to be doing three different bags of super turf 2191 02:02:28.960 --> 02:02:32.000 from Nitrofoss. We'll be doing some Kneemax, which is an 2192 02:02:32.119 --> 02:02:37.319 organic spray for certain kinds of pests that they have 2193 02:02:37.399 --> 02:02:40.479 on hand there. We're going to be doing several bags 2194 02:02:40.479 --> 02:02:43.680 of products from heirloom soils such as the work spotting soil, 2195 02:02:43.800 --> 02:02:46.800 the leaf mold compost they make a high quality one 2196 02:02:47.079 --> 02:02:50.920 hardwood maultch really really good product as well, and then 2197 02:02:51.039 --> 02:02:54.239 their shale product. Some examples of a few of the 2198 02:02:54.239 --> 02:02:57.760 ones from airloom soils we're given away. Got some Nitrofoss 2199 02:02:57.760 --> 02:03:01.399 products I mentioned the super turf, micro life products will 2200 02:03:01.399 --> 02:03:04.439 be given away, four different bags of asamite as well, 2201 02:03:04.520 --> 02:03:08.159 and then from Nelson plant food jars of the color Star, 2202 02:03:08.560 --> 02:03:11.239 and then we'll have a few of the Azalea plumeria 2203 02:03:11.560 --> 02:03:15.720 indoor plants and boogain villas and the three sixty tree 2204 02:03:15.760 --> 02:03:19.359 stabilizers given some of those. I mean, like I said, 2205 02:03:20.119 --> 02:03:24.000 a lot, but come on out, bring me samples, bring 2206 02:03:24.079 --> 02:03:27.079 me pictures on your phone. Let's get to the bottom 2207 02:03:27.079 --> 02:03:29.159 of it, and you come see a really nice Ace 2208 02:03:29.239 --> 02:03:32.239 Hardware store called Ace Hardware City right there on Memorial 2209 02:03:32.319 --> 02:03:34.680 Drive in Houston, Texas. How do you find your Ace 2210 02:03:34.720 --> 02:03:38.640 Hardware stores in Houston. You go to Acehardware Texas dot com. 2211 02:03:38.640 --> 02:03:41.800 That's how you find them. In Channy Gardens on the 2212 02:03:42.079 --> 02:03:45.359 Katie Fullshire side of Richmond, stop by the other day, 2213 02:03:45.479 --> 02:03:47.800 visiting with Joy there and just kind of looking at 2214 02:03:47.800 --> 02:03:49.720 what all they had going on. And I'm telling you, 2215 02:03:49.760 --> 02:03:53.720 the place it's just you gotta go, you gotta go, 2216 02:03:53.840 --> 02:03:56.840 and you gotta take your friends. It's almost I could say, 2217 02:03:56.840 --> 02:03:59.640 as far as I can see. You look and there's color, 2218 02:04:00.319 --> 02:04:03.479 there are every kind of plant. One thing that I 2219 02:04:03.520 --> 02:04:07.760 was really impressed with at Chanta Gardens, and I always 2220 02:04:07.760 --> 02:04:14.560 have been, is they're iron containers for coconut core liners. 2221 02:04:14.880 --> 02:04:17.520 So I think of a wire basket made of iron 2222 02:04:18.159 --> 02:04:20.479 and you put a liner in it that is like 2223 02:04:20.560 --> 02:04:23.199 an entanglement of the stuff on the outside of a 2224 02:04:23.199 --> 02:04:27.159 coconut that's called coconut core, and that those fibers, and 2225 02:04:27.199 --> 02:04:29.239 then you fill it with potting soil and you grow 2226 02:04:29.279 --> 02:04:31.399 in it. And they have ones that are on stands. 2227 02:04:31.439 --> 02:04:33.960 They have one that hang from chains from underneath the 2228 02:04:34.000 --> 02:04:38.439 tree limb or porch, patio whatever, they're beautiful, they have 2229 02:04:38.560 --> 02:04:41.039 already planted, or if you want to make one, you 2230 02:04:41.039 --> 02:04:42.319 could just go talk to them and say, hey, I 2231 02:04:42.359 --> 02:04:44.399 need something. It's going to go in full sun. I 2232 02:04:44.439 --> 02:04:46.960 want it to be a combination of plants. I want 2233 02:04:47.039 --> 02:04:49.439 to be beautiful. And they'll walk you through the process. 2234 02:04:49.479 --> 02:04:51.239 So if they go get this, go get that, and 2235 02:04:51.279 --> 02:04:54.760 they'll help you. Whether it's chimes or fountains or whimsical 2236 02:04:55.000 --> 02:04:57.960 art for the garden, they've got it and their team 2237 02:04:58.079 --> 02:05:01.479 is as enthusiastic as they come. Enchanted Gardens bring them 2238 02:05:01.479 --> 02:05:04.880 photos and samples to get that expert advice. And while 2239 02:05:04.920 --> 02:05:07.199 you're there, you know, brown stuff before green stuff. Go 2240 02:05:07.239 --> 02:05:10.399 home with some microlife or nitrofoss or Nelson plant food 2241 02:05:10.479 --> 02:05:13.680 or medina. Go home with some nature's waste soil or 2242 02:05:13.720 --> 02:05:17.359 some heirloom soils as well. They're open Monday through Saturday 2243 02:05:17.439 --> 02:05:21.880 eight to five, Tomorrow Sundays ten to four. Intended Gardens 2244 02:05:21.920 --> 02:05:25.479 on FM three point fifty nine. Here's the website Enchented 2245 02:05:25.760 --> 02:05:31.359 Gardens Richmond dot com, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. We're 2246 02:05:31.359 --> 02:05:35.840 going to go now to Southwest Houston and talk to Laurel. Hello, Laurel, 2247 02:05:35.960 --> 02:05:37.000 Welcome to Garden Line. 2248 02:05:38.159 --> 02:05:39.279 Good morning, Skip. 2249 02:05:39.800 --> 02:05:45.399 I have a fabulous singing the praises for a Southwest Fertilizer, 2250 02:05:45.439 --> 02:05:46.760 one of your show sponsors. 2251 02:05:47.399 --> 02:05:49.319 This is how nice they thank me. 2252 02:05:50.359 --> 02:05:55.039 I had a big mower that it's really heavy for me, 2253 02:05:56.239 --> 02:05:59.000 and it had one of those thingies on it that 2254 02:05:59.119 --> 02:06:01.760 was supposed to be self propelled and quit working a 2255 02:06:01.760 --> 02:06:05.520 long time ago. And I called them and asked them 2256 02:06:05.600 --> 02:06:09.760 to take a look see at it. And this is 2257 02:06:09.760 --> 02:06:13.399 how nice they are. They looked at it, they told 2258 02:06:13.439 --> 02:06:15.000 me how much it would be and they said, this 2259 02:06:15.119 --> 02:06:20.279 is really not worth doing. How honest and responsible these 2260 02:06:20.279 --> 02:06:22.039 people are, and they're just going to bring it back 2261 02:06:22.079 --> 02:06:25.199 to me. And I want to thank you for having 2262 02:06:25.359 --> 02:06:28.760 great show sponsors that are honest and true. 2263 02:06:30.560 --> 02:06:33.039 All right, folks, I did not pay Laurel to say 2264 02:06:33.079 --> 02:06:37.680 that it's nice to me, but thank you, L. I mean, 2265 02:06:37.720 --> 02:06:40.520 that is a that is flowering praise for a company 2266 02:06:40.520 --> 02:06:43.319 that really deserves it. I appreciate that much. 2267 02:06:43.680 --> 02:06:47.239 They're so fine and they were honest about the whole thing. 2268 02:06:47.319 --> 02:06:49.720 And it's a good moment, but it's so heavy for 2269 02:06:49.840 --> 02:06:52.640 me and I can't figure it out. 2270 02:06:53.399 --> 02:06:54.079 You go to the. 2271 02:06:54.039 --> 02:06:57.079 Experts and they tell you something you could believe it 2272 02:06:57.279 --> 02:06:59.079 honest and true, and that's why. 2273 02:06:58.960 --> 02:07:00.520 That's a greatful for you. 2274 02:07:00.560 --> 02:07:04.399 Guys have one of their products and I can't help 2275 02:07:04.439 --> 02:07:06.960 with sing their praises and I thank you. 2276 02:07:07.199 --> 02:07:11.520 Yeah, well, thank you for those kind words for them. 2277 02:07:11.920 --> 02:07:15.560 That you know, we talk about the importance of local businesses. 2278 02:07:15.640 --> 02:07:18.039 Mom and pop shops is the nurseries we call them. 2279 02:07:18.039 --> 02:07:20.439 But you know Southwest Fertilizer, the mom and pop is 2280 02:07:20.439 --> 02:07:23.159 Bob and Diane and they that's the kind of business 2281 02:07:23.239 --> 02:07:25.239 they run, and that's why we love to send people there. 2282 02:07:25.279 --> 02:07:28.079 And it thrills me to hear reports like that. Thank you. 2283 02:07:28.119 --> 02:07:30.600 I appreciate you taking time to call in. Let me 2284 02:07:30.640 --> 02:07:36.199 know that you have a wonderful day. Take care. All right, 2285 02:07:36.439 --> 02:07:39.439 let's go now to to southeast Houston. We're going to 2286 02:07:39.520 --> 02:07:42.119 talk to Jill. Hello, Jill, Welcome to garden Line. 2287 02:07:50.680 --> 02:07:52.880 Okay, I'm in south east Houston. 2288 02:07:54.239 --> 02:08:01.880 Okay, who am I talking to? Oh? Okay, Okay, how 2289 02:08:01.880 --> 02:08:02.880 can I help today? 2290 02:08:03.319 --> 02:08:04.880 Yeah? 2291 02:08:05.119 --> 02:08:08.399 I have these little Okay, have a big oak tree 2292 02:08:08.399 --> 02:08:11.359 in the front yard and little oak saplings coming up 2293 02:08:11.399 --> 02:08:14.600 all in my flower bed. I've been pulling them, but 2294 02:08:15.760 --> 02:08:17.840 it seems like it's more, keep coming and keep coming. 2295 02:08:18.279 --> 02:08:20.600 Is there any way to get rid of them besides 2296 02:08:20.640 --> 02:08:21.960 getting rid of my oak tree? 2297 02:08:23.800 --> 02:08:23.840 No? 2298 02:08:24.119 --> 02:08:27.119 Probably not. So there are two things that happen. 2299 02:08:27.520 --> 02:08:30.439 Is a live oak, I assume, I think so on 2300 02:08:30.760 --> 02:08:32.319 the builder plane it them, you know. 2301 02:08:33.159 --> 02:08:37.399 Okay, Well, it could be root sprouts coming up. Typically 2302 02:08:37.520 --> 02:08:39.600 those are near the base of the tree. Or it 2303 02:08:39.600 --> 02:08:42.439 could be acrons sprouting up, and that that can be 2304 02:08:42.560 --> 02:08:43.319 near the base. 2305 02:08:44.119 --> 02:08:45.960 Because they're even on the sides of the house. And 2306 02:08:46.000 --> 02:08:49.960 we have squirrels you know, that bury them too, And yeah. 2307 02:08:49.960 --> 02:08:53.119 Yeah, there's not a great way. I mean, you can 2308 02:08:53.880 --> 02:08:55.800 you know, have a little weed wiper that you could 2309 02:08:56.239 --> 02:08:59.239 dab something on those little seedlings and it would kill them. 2310 02:08:59.800 --> 02:09:01.920 I generally try to just pull them up when they're 2311 02:09:02.039 --> 02:09:03.760 very very young. It's easier to get them up with 2312 02:09:03.760 --> 02:09:08.279 the soul's moist or you know it just however you 2313 02:09:08.359 --> 02:09:11.159 want to go about it. But it's just part of 2314 02:09:11.359 --> 02:09:13.000 part of life with a with trees. 2315 02:09:13.720 --> 02:09:16.760 Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. I mean, 2316 02:09:16.800 --> 02:09:19.760 in the law. And you can mow them, you know, 2317 02:09:19.800 --> 02:09:24.039 and that keeps them down. And so I just wondered 2318 02:09:24.039 --> 02:09:27.520 if there was anything that I have a spry different 2319 02:09:27.520 --> 02:09:31.439 stuff on them, but it doesn't really seem to. 2320 02:09:31.039 --> 02:09:34.479 Now, just just just use get my weed wiper and 2321 02:09:34.520 --> 02:09:37.399 then I have a publication called Controlling Woody Weeds in 2322 02:09:37.439 --> 02:09:40.640 the Landscape, and they are at gardening with Skip dot 2323 02:09:40.680 --> 02:09:43.079 com and uh, that's where you'll find them. I got 2324 02:09:43.119 --> 02:09:45.039 to run for a break here. When we come back, 2325 02:09:45.079 --> 02:09:48.000 Hank and West, you you'll be first up. Uh huh, 2326 02:09:51.800 --> 02:09:54.880 welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you 2327 02:09:54.920 --> 02:09:59.000 with us. Looking forward to visiting with you about the 2328 02:09:59.039 --> 02:10:01.800 kind of questions. Did you might have Nelson plant food? 2329 02:10:01.840 --> 02:10:03.720 You heard me talking about them all day. By the way, 2330 02:10:03.760 --> 02:10:07.319 I'm giving away some Neilson plant food jars today at 2331 02:10:07.439 --> 02:10:11.520 Ace Hardware City on Memorial So come on out and 2332 02:10:11.520 --> 02:10:14.720 see me. They've got jars. They got things like color Star, 2333 02:10:14.840 --> 02:10:17.600 which is the number one fertilizer by the jar that 2334 02:10:17.680 --> 02:10:20.439 they sell, ship it all over the country. Just talking 2335 02:10:20.439 --> 02:10:23.000 to Dean the other day, some other person had gotten 2336 02:10:23.000 --> 02:10:25.319 some samples of it and they loved it. They're a 2337 02:10:25.359 --> 02:10:29.279 company that does landscapes, I guess, and they were like, okay, 2338 02:10:30.039 --> 02:10:32.600 ship it. We want we want, we want you to 2339 02:10:32.680 --> 02:10:35.479 ship a bunch to us because it works. That is 2340 02:10:35.479 --> 02:10:39.319 how it is nutristar, hibiscus and flowering tropicals another great one. 2341 02:10:40.439 --> 02:10:43.119 Just come on out. I'll be giving away some not 2342 02:10:43.319 --> 02:10:45.359 just the color Star, but I'm also going to be 2343 02:10:45.399 --> 02:10:48.560 giving away some azelias and plumrius, some indoor plant food, 2344 02:10:48.600 --> 02:10:51.920 and some Boogombellia plant food. At my appearance at Ashardworugh 2345 02:10:51.960 --> 02:10:55.920 City out there a memorial drive Bruce's Brew that is 2346 02:10:56.000 --> 02:10:59.000 a hybrid type of a fertilizer. What I mean by 2347 02:10:59.000 --> 02:11:01.279 that is it's it's a fast release and that it 2348 02:11:01.359 --> 02:11:04.840 releases some immediately, but it's also a slow release and 2349 02:11:04.880 --> 02:11:08.000 that it gradually releases the rest over time, so it's 2350 02:11:08.079 --> 02:11:10.279 kind of a hybrid type. Bruce Is Bru is great 2351 02:11:10.439 --> 02:11:12.640 for a quick green up of the lawn with a 2352 02:11:12.720 --> 02:11:17.199 continued release over time to give a nice even growth, 2353 02:11:17.479 --> 02:11:19.920 and it is a part of the turf Star line 2354 02:11:20.640 --> 02:11:24.760 of Nelson plant foods available all over town. Let's head 2355 02:11:24.760 --> 02:11:27.079 to West U and we are now going to talk 2356 02:11:27.119 --> 02:11:30.319 to Hank. Well, Hello Hank, and welcome to garden Line. 2357 02:11:31.560 --> 02:11:32.479 The Yellow Skip. 2358 02:11:33.199 --> 02:11:37.680 He wanted to get some advice and suggestions. I've got 2359 02:11:37.720 --> 02:11:43.560 a thirty x four strip area in my backyard that's 2360 02:11:43.600 --> 02:11:48.359 currently covered by big blocks of limestone with a little. 2361 02:11:48.159 --> 02:11:49.560 Bit of pea gravel underneath. 2362 02:11:50.479 --> 02:11:54.479 I started removing the limestone and there's not that much 2363 02:11:54.560 --> 02:11:56.880 pea gravel. But I want to break out all the limestone, 2364 02:11:57.439 --> 02:12:01.439 put down some dirt, and replace the hunchtone with grass. 2365 02:12:02.079 --> 02:12:05.720 I'm looking for suggestions on what type of grass is 2366 02:12:05.800 --> 02:12:06.640 easy to grow. 2367 02:12:07.000 --> 02:12:07.600 I'm not going to. 2368 02:12:07.600 --> 02:12:10.319 Put a sprinkler in there. I could water it manually. 2369 02:12:11.199 --> 02:12:12.920 And secondly, what type of. 2370 02:12:12.880 --> 02:12:16.359 Dirt and how much shall I put down underneath before 2371 02:12:16.399 --> 02:12:17.439 I lay the grass down? 2372 02:12:19.119 --> 02:12:22.199 All right? Good? Uh? What do you want out of 2373 02:12:22.199 --> 02:12:25.199 the grass? Just green to look at? Or is there 2374 02:12:25.840 --> 02:12:29.760 you know, is it an area you use for sitting 2375 02:12:29.880 --> 02:12:33.039 or walking or just to have a patch of green? 2376 02:12:33.199 --> 02:12:33.239 What? 2377 02:12:33.479 --> 02:12:34.159 What's the goal? 2378 02:12:35.640 --> 02:12:38.119 It'll be just a patch of green. It's between my 2379 02:12:38.279 --> 02:12:41.560 patio and my swimming pool, and I'm going to have 2380 02:12:41.600 --> 02:12:44.560 a little concrete walkway from the patio to the pool, 2381 02:12:44.680 --> 02:12:45.920 so it'll really just beat a. 2382 02:12:46.520 --> 02:12:47.199 For green rate. 2383 02:12:48.760 --> 02:12:51.600 Okay, Well, there's there's a lot of great options out there. 2384 02:12:51.600 --> 02:12:51.760 You know. 2385 02:12:51.800 --> 02:12:54.439 Saint Augustine's the number one grass we plan around here 2386 02:12:55.000 --> 02:12:57.640 because of the shade tolerance. Sounds like that area gets 2387 02:12:57.680 --> 02:13:01.239 lots of sun. Though. If I understood, you correct, and 2388 02:13:01.319 --> 02:13:03.439 so you can you can kind of grow anything. I 2389 02:13:03.560 --> 02:13:08.600 might consider something that's a zosias. Zosia is a nice 2390 02:13:08.640 --> 02:13:14.439 little grass. There's a variety called uh xeon excuse me, yeah, xeon, 2391 02:13:14.600 --> 02:13:19.960 ze o n Xeon is a and neon. They're both 2392 02:13:20.079 --> 02:13:24.640 both types of zois. But it's a very fine textured grass, 2393 02:13:25.000 --> 02:13:28.239 very fine textured, and so it's almost like a golf 2394 02:13:28.279 --> 02:13:30.640 course screen if you mode it really low. If you 2395 02:13:30.720 --> 02:13:32.840 had a little real type mower, and with that amount 2396 02:13:32.880 --> 02:13:34.600 of grass, you could just have one of those little 2397 02:13:34.600 --> 02:13:37.239 real type mowers that you push and it spins around. 2398 02:13:37.239 --> 02:13:40.159 There's no motor on it, and you might regularly and 2399 02:13:40.199 --> 02:13:43.880 it looks beautiful. It's a really nice, clean, neat look, 2400 02:13:44.880 --> 02:13:49.079 makes good density with water and fertilizer, of course, uh, 2401 02:13:49.119 --> 02:13:52.039 and that might be something kind of different to use, 2402 02:13:52.079 --> 02:13:54.199 but really any kind of grass could grow there. I 2403 02:13:54.319 --> 02:13:59.000 just like the I like the look of that one. 2404 02:13:59.279 --> 02:13:59.680 Xeon. 2405 02:13:59.760 --> 02:14:02.359 And then what type of dirt and how much? 2406 02:14:02.560 --> 02:14:04.920 What how thick of a bed of dirt? 2407 02:14:06.600 --> 02:14:10.640 Yeah, well, you know, grass wants grass wants good root depth. 2408 02:14:10.680 --> 02:14:12.960 So as you go down, what is there clay soil 2409 02:14:13.039 --> 02:14:13.560 below it? 2410 02:14:14.199 --> 02:14:18.760 Now it's I think it's that kind of gumbo mud. 2411 02:14:18.800 --> 02:14:19.680 It's just thick. 2412 02:14:20.840 --> 02:14:25.640 It's really thick and dark colored soil. 2413 02:14:27.279 --> 02:14:30.479 Yeah, well I would. I would put a little bit 2414 02:14:30.520 --> 02:14:32.760 of a kind of a sandy loamy type of top 2415 02:14:32.840 --> 02:14:35.159 soil over it. I don't know how much room you 2416 02:14:35.199 --> 02:14:36.560 have to fill in. You don't want to create a 2417 02:14:36.640 --> 02:14:39.880 raised mound, probably, uh So I would just get a 2418 02:14:39.920 --> 02:14:42.920 good sandy low mix, a top soil type mix and 2419 02:14:42.920 --> 02:14:45.319 put it in there. But grass can grow in quite 2420 02:14:45.359 --> 02:14:48.560 a bit of shade too. So and the xeon, I 2421 02:14:49.319 --> 02:14:53.279 use the word neon it. That's that's my blurb mistake there. 2422 02:14:53.439 --> 02:14:57.000 It's a xeon zeo and and uh, I think that 2423 02:14:57.800 --> 02:15:00.479 it is going to take a heavy clay soil and 2424 02:15:00.520 --> 02:15:05.640 do just fine. But if you mounded it slightly where 2425 02:15:05.680 --> 02:15:09.359 the water drains off adequately, that would even be better. 2426 02:15:09.479 --> 02:15:10.880 But not required. 2427 02:15:13.399 --> 02:15:17.399 Do they sell xeon slabs of grass like the little 2428 02:15:17.439 --> 02:15:19.600 patches already grown where I can just. 2429 02:15:19.600 --> 02:15:23.560 Lay it down, Yes, yes, you can find it. A 2430 02:15:23.640 --> 02:15:26.159 number of growers along the Gulf coast will grow that. 2431 02:15:27.279 --> 02:15:29.159 And I know if you talk to the folks at 2432 02:15:29.159 --> 02:15:33.800 Milburger Turf, they don't sell retail, but if you talk 2433 02:15:33.880 --> 02:15:37.920 to them they can point you to places that carry 2434 02:15:37.920 --> 02:15:42.159 it that they sell. The folks at Millburger Turf carry it. 2435 02:15:44.239 --> 02:15:45.640 Awesome. Well I'll give that a shot. 2436 02:15:45.640 --> 02:15:50.279 I appreciate the suggestion. Yeah, yeah, go online and look 2437 02:15:50.279 --> 02:15:52.079 at some pictures of it so you can see what 2438 02:15:52.119 --> 02:15:54.439 I'm talking about. I think you'll agree it's beautiful. I 2439 02:15:54.479 --> 02:15:58.760 have some in my yard. I love it. Yeah, all right, 2440 02:15:58.840 --> 02:16:03.640 sounds nice, All right, henk, yes, sir, you take care 2441 02:16:03.960 --> 02:16:08.560 glad to assist with that. One. Spring Creek Feed is 2442 02:16:08.840 --> 02:16:13.279 your hometown feed store up there in the Tamba Magnolia area. Really, 2443 02:16:13.319 --> 02:16:16.239 it's on the northeast side of Tomball up up FM 2444 02:16:16.319 --> 02:16:19.880 twenty nine seventy eight up toward Magnolia direction. They're just 2445 02:16:19.920 --> 02:16:22.600 minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway to forty nine. 2446 02:16:23.479 --> 02:16:26.600 At Spring Creek Number one, you walk in friendly, courteous 2447 02:16:26.640 --> 02:16:29.800 staff and one of the i'll say prettiest feed stores 2448 02:16:29.840 --> 02:16:32.000 you ever go into, because they have a lot of 2449 02:16:32.000 --> 02:16:34.600 stuff in the middle part of the store from home. 2450 02:16:34.639 --> 02:16:36.399 Of course, you look left and you see all the 2451 02:16:37.479 --> 02:16:40.879 feed you know, especially like quality pet food brands like 2452 02:16:40.959 --> 02:16:43.840 Victor and Purina and whatnot. You look to the right 2453 02:16:43.920 --> 02:16:46.559 and that's the garden world over there all the products 2454 02:16:46.639 --> 02:16:49.680 you need to control pests and weeds and diseases. The 2455 02:16:49.760 --> 02:16:55.360 fertilizers from lines like Nelson, turf Star, like Microlife, like Nitrofoss. 2456 02:16:55.360 --> 02:16:58.000 That's all there. Spring Creek Feed and Magnolia on FM 2457 02:16:58.440 --> 02:17:02.479 twenty nine seventy eight. If you are military or senior citizens, 2458 02:17:02.559 --> 02:17:05.760 there's a discount of that. They do special order as well, 2459 02:17:06.079 --> 02:17:09.280 and they have a delivery service. Go check it out. 2460 02:17:09.639 --> 02:17:12.600 You can't miss it. Big old, giant barn looking building. 2461 02:17:13.559 --> 02:17:17.200 Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. That is Spring 2462 02:17:17.520 --> 02:17:21.879 Creek Feed. Let's go now to clear Lake and we're 2463 02:17:21.879 --> 02:17:25.479 going to talk to Mario. Hello, Mario, Hey, Skiff, how 2464 02:17:25.479 --> 02:17:25.719 are you? 2465 02:17:26.280 --> 02:17:30.319 Hey? I have both places. Yeah, I'm good. I'm glad. 2466 02:17:30.639 --> 02:17:35.399 You always give me good advice. One of your pieces 2467 02:17:35.399 --> 02:17:39.600 of advice was to replace my boxwoods, which were devastated 2468 02:17:39.680 --> 02:17:45.600 by the freeze, with dwarf Feopon Hollis. And now my question, 2469 02:17:46.360 --> 02:17:50.399 after a couple of years, they're really taking hold in. 2470 02:17:50.959 --> 02:17:53.600 How should I shape those things? My wife and I 2471 02:17:53.719 --> 02:18:00.280 both like the tailored look of the boxwoods. Okay, can 2472 02:18:00.319 --> 02:18:03.680 you do that with theyopon and still have it look good? 2473 02:18:04.440 --> 02:18:07.040 Or should I guess leave it go natural. 2474 02:18:09.840 --> 02:18:14.239 All the above are fine. Since you like the tailored look, 2475 02:18:14.280 --> 02:18:16.360 I'm not going to address the natural, but that is 2476 02:18:16.399 --> 02:18:19.760 a totally legitimate way to do boxwoods, I mean yopons. 2477 02:18:20.600 --> 02:18:24.280 You can make them kind of a square shape hedge 2478 02:18:24.479 --> 02:18:28.280 like square shape. Always keep the top slightly more narrow 2479 02:18:28.319 --> 02:18:31.239 than the base, and that way sunlight reaches all the 2480 02:18:31.239 --> 02:18:34.040 parts of the plant. When a hedge gets top heavy, 2481 02:18:34.159 --> 02:18:36.879 becomes more like an umbrella hanging out over the top, 2482 02:18:37.360 --> 02:18:40.079 the interior portion doesn't get enough light and you lose 2483 02:18:40.120 --> 02:18:42.920 your foliage there. So always when you're doing a hedge, 2484 02:18:42.920 --> 02:18:45.959 including yopon, keep the top a little more narrow than 2485 02:18:46.000 --> 02:18:48.120 the base. Or you can some people do them like 2486 02:18:48.120 --> 02:18:52.079 a little meatballs, little round buwling balls out there in 2487 02:18:52.159 --> 02:18:56.280 the landscape. You can do that too. It's very tolerant 2488 02:18:56.360 --> 02:18:57.760 of different kinds of shearing. 2489 02:18:59.399 --> 02:19:03.159 Okay, well you answered my question as usual. I appreciate it. 2490 02:19:03.200 --> 02:19:03.959 Thanks so much. 2491 02:19:04.440 --> 02:19:07.920 All right, thanks ll Carl. Appreciate that you take care, Mario, 2492 02:19:08.040 --> 02:19:10.280 have a good, good week out there in the garden. 2493 02:19:11.280 --> 02:19:14.760 Ace hardware stores are all over the Greater Houston area. 2494 02:19:14.879 --> 02:19:17.559 All you gotta do is go do the website for 2495 02:19:17.680 --> 02:19:21.120 my Ace Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area, 2496 02:19:21.120 --> 02:19:26.360 and that is ACE Hardware Texas dot com, Ace Hardware 2497 02:19:26.479 --> 02:19:30.319 Texes dot com. Find the ones near you. When you 2498 02:19:30.360 --> 02:19:32.479 walk into an ACE Hardware, first thing's going to happen 2499 02:19:32.559 --> 02:19:34.639 is you're going to go, oh, I didn't know they 2500 02:19:34.719 --> 02:19:38.079 had all that. And every time you turn a corner it's, oh, 2501 02:19:38.159 --> 02:19:41.079 I didn't know they had all that. It's a great place. 2502 02:19:41.280 --> 02:19:44.399 And it's not just the standard hardware. You know, electrical 2503 02:19:44.479 --> 02:19:48.079 and plumbing and lighting and fixtures and all that. Yeah, 2504 02:19:48.079 --> 02:19:52.680 they have all that, but they have beautiful indoor decorations, homes, 2505 02:19:52.920 --> 02:19:56.559 gift items, wonderful gift items. And then when you walk 2506 02:19:56.600 --> 02:19:59.520 out the door, whether it's your lawn, your flowerbeds, your garden, 2507 02:19:59.600 --> 02:20:04.159 your path, they have something for everything. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. 2508 02:20:04.639 --> 02:20:07.719 And if you're hearing me talk about fertilizers or hearing 2509 02:20:07.760 --> 02:20:10.440 me talk about pest control products or weed control products, 2510 02:20:10.520 --> 02:20:12.840 it's at your local Ace Hardware store. If you want 2511 02:20:12.840 --> 02:20:16.200 to see one, come see me today at ACE Hardware 2512 02:20:16.280 --> 02:20:19.079 City on Memorial on the West side East. I'll be 2513 02:20:19.079 --> 02:20:21.840 there from twelve noon to two pm. We're going to 2514 02:20:21.879 --> 02:20:25.000 be given away a ton of stuff more more different 2515 02:20:25.000 --> 02:20:27.399 things than I ever given away at one of these appearances. 2516 02:20:28.319 --> 02:20:31.399 Really really cool. I'll even have some three sixty tree 2517 02:20:31.440 --> 02:20:35.600 stabilizer stabilizers to give away for any of you planting 2518 02:20:35.639 --> 02:20:38.559 a crape myrtle or some other kind of tree and 2519 02:20:38.639 --> 02:20:40.639 you want to give good support to it. We'll have 2520 02:20:40.760 --> 02:20:44.479 those there on hand. Lots of cool ACE Hardware stores, 2521 02:20:44.520 --> 02:20:46.760 but you got to go to Ace Hardware Texas dot 2522 02:20:46.799 --> 02:20:50.680 com and find the ones near you. We're going to 2523 02:20:50.760 --> 02:20:53.559 go now to Katie and talk to John. Hello, John, 2524 02:20:53.600 --> 02:20:54.559 Welcome to Guardenline. 2525 02:20:55.079 --> 02:20:56.959 Good morning, Skip. I want to see if you can 2526 02:20:56.959 --> 02:20:59.280 help me and my wife solve a mystery of who've 2527 02:20:59.319 --> 02:21:02.479 done it. So we have a bunch of squirrels in 2528 02:21:02.479 --> 02:21:05.239 our yard. My daughter loves feeding the birds, and of 2529 02:21:05.280 --> 02:21:09.559 course that attractive squirrels. So I have fourteen different peach trees, 2530 02:21:09.760 --> 02:21:13.840 and I was super excited had about five dozen peaches growing, 2531 02:21:14.920 --> 02:21:17.559 and they all started disappearing rather quickly. 2532 02:21:19.280 --> 02:21:22.600 By the choices either between squirrels or rats. 2533 02:21:22.799 --> 02:21:26.000 The only conclusive thing I've seen I've yelled at squirrels 2534 02:21:26.120 --> 02:21:30.200 in the peach tree, but there's one peach about the 2535 02:21:30.239 --> 02:21:33.680 size of a golf ball. Un ripe of course, with 2536 02:21:33.879 --> 02:21:37.120 half of it chewed, including the pits. Does that sound 2537 02:21:37.159 --> 02:21:38.440 more like a rat or a squirrel? 2538 02:21:39.719 --> 02:21:41.959 It could be both. They both have the same teeth 2539 02:21:42.000 --> 02:21:45.920 and mouth parts and feeding style could be the one. 2540 02:21:46.200 --> 02:21:50.719 I would suspect squirrels, but I wouldn't eliminate rats. You 2541 02:21:50.760 --> 02:21:56.040 can bag individual peaches with something called organza bags. If 2542 02:21:56.040 --> 02:21:57.280 I did that, we have. 2543 02:21:59.120 --> 02:22:02.600 We had one peach on one tree and I tied 2544 02:22:02.680 --> 02:22:05.000 it off with the baggie, and then the very next 2545 02:22:05.079 --> 02:22:08.600 day the squirrels didn't figure out how to get the 2546 02:22:08.639 --> 02:22:11.920 bag out, but it destroyed the limb, and the dead, 2547 02:22:12.000 --> 02:22:14.319 blood last peach is just sitting there inside the bottom 2548 02:22:14.319 --> 02:22:14.719 of the bag. 2549 02:22:16.200 --> 02:22:18.959 Oh my gosh. Okay, well, anyway, that's that's an option. 2550 02:22:19.079 --> 02:22:21.680 There's other kinds of netting and stuff, but they're just 2551 02:22:21.760 --> 02:22:23.719 not a great way to do it. There are some 2552 02:22:23.879 --> 02:22:27.440 hot pepper sprays made of the ingredient and hot pepper 2553 02:22:27.479 --> 02:22:30.879 called capsation. You can put that on the peaches and 2554 02:22:31.520 --> 02:22:34.280 at least give them a bad burning taste in their mouth. 2555 02:22:34.879 --> 02:22:38.159 If you can consistently do that, they might leave them alone, 2556 02:22:38.200 --> 02:22:40.120 and then by the time you get to harvest time, 2557 02:22:40.239 --> 02:22:41.920 you know it's gonna have worn off or you can 2558 02:22:42.040 --> 02:22:44.360 wash it off, but I think the bag is probably 2559 02:22:44.360 --> 02:22:46.680 the better way to go. But Johnna, you got a 2560 02:22:46.719 --> 02:22:50.399 problem there. I can send you squirrel recipes though, if 2561 02:22:50.440 --> 02:22:51.120 that would help. 2562 02:22:52.959 --> 02:22:55.079 My goal is I wanted to shoot them with pellat 2563 02:22:55.120 --> 02:22:59.680 gun and dispatch them. The option is trapping them. 2564 02:23:00.040 --> 02:23:07.319 God got you, So we focus on yeah, good good points. 2565 02:23:07.319 --> 02:23:09.520 I'll not weigh in on that one, but I got 2566 02:23:09.520 --> 02:23:11.159 to run for a break here, but thank you on 2567 02:23:11.239 --> 02:23:13.719 good luck. I do feel your pain on that one 2568 02:23:13.760 --> 02:23:15.719 for sure. Time for me to take a break, folks. 2569 02:23:15.719 --> 02:23:18.520 I'll be right back. Hey, welcome back to Guardline. Good 2570 02:23:18.520 --> 02:23:22.239 to have you with us. Looking forward to visiting with 2571 02:23:22.280 --> 02:23:25.040 you about the kinds of questions that you might have. 2572 02:23:25.360 --> 02:23:27.200 If you want to give me a call, the number 2573 02:23:27.239 --> 02:23:29.920 is seven to one three two one two k t 2574 02:23:30.360 --> 02:23:32.840 r H. Seven to one three two one two k 2575 02:23:33.040 --> 02:23:34.959 t r H. More than once that I've been talking 2576 02:23:35.000 --> 02:23:39.319 about drainage issues and one of the ways we deal 2577 02:23:39.360 --> 02:23:42.239 with wet areas is we put in a sub service drain, 2578 02:23:42.479 --> 02:23:46.120 sometimes referred to as a French drain. Basically, it's a 2579 02:23:46.120 --> 02:23:50.319 perforated pipe and gravel that drains the excess moisture away 2580 02:23:50.319 --> 02:23:54.239 to a lower location somewhere else now Piercecapes. That's one 2581 02:23:54.280 --> 02:23:57.280 of the things they can do is landscape custom drainage. 2582 02:23:57.280 --> 02:24:01.040 And with all the rain we just had, you need it. 2583 02:24:01.120 --> 02:24:05.479 Probably you're probably looking at some boggy areas. Plants, by 2584 02:24:05.520 --> 02:24:08.680 and large, very few plants can grow with their roots 2585 02:24:08.680 --> 02:24:13.680 in soggy submerged conditions. They just can't. But you can 2586 02:24:13.680 --> 02:24:15.920 fix that, and Pier Scapes can fix that. They also 2587 02:24:16.040 --> 02:24:21.319 do landscaping, beautiful landscape design and installation using the best materials, 2588 02:24:21.600 --> 02:24:25.000 the best plants for here in our Houston area. They 2589 02:24:25.000 --> 02:24:30.639 can do quality custom irrigation that is designed to incorporate 2590 02:24:30.879 --> 02:24:32.959 whatever area you got in your landscape. And they do 2591 02:24:33.040 --> 02:24:38.040 landscape irrigation maintenance as well. And typically irrigation system always 2592 02:24:38.120 --> 02:24:40.360 needs some maintenance. They can do that. By the way, 2593 02:24:40.399 --> 02:24:43.680 They have a quarterly maintenance service that not just looks 2594 02:24:43.719 --> 02:24:47.639 at irrigation, although it does that, but looks at remulching 2595 02:24:47.680 --> 02:24:49.600 the beds to keep a good thick layer of mulch on, 2596 02:24:49.719 --> 02:24:53.680 pulling any weeds out, doing any trimming that's necessary, you know, 2597 02:24:53.760 --> 02:24:56.280 all the stuff you need. Once every quarter, once every 2598 02:24:56.319 --> 02:24:58.840 three months, they come out and they do that. That's 2599 02:24:58.959 --> 02:25:01.719 part of the services that pier Scapes can offer. You 2600 02:25:01.760 --> 02:25:04.520 give them a call to eight one three seven oh 2601 02:25:04.680 --> 02:25:08.479 fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. 2602 02:25:08.520 --> 02:25:10.319 But first I want you to go to their website 2603 02:25:10.360 --> 02:25:15.079 and look at what they can do. Pierce Scapes dot com, 2604 02:25:15.079 --> 02:25:19.159 p E A r CE Scapes s c A p 2605 02:25:19.319 --> 02:25:23.120 E s Peerscapes dot com. You'll be very impressed. I 2606 02:25:23.159 --> 02:25:26.799 know we're gonn head out to Tomball now and talk 2607 02:25:26.879 --> 02:25:29.360 to Roger. Hello, Roger, welcome to garden Line. 2608 02:25:30.840 --> 02:25:31.760 How are you doing, sir? 2609 02:25:33.159 --> 02:25:34.200 I'm doing well, Thank you. 2610 02:25:35.159 --> 02:25:35.920 I have a question. 2611 02:25:36.719 --> 02:25:40.200 I have a large oak tree in the backyard between 2612 02:25:40.239 --> 02:25:46.520 the dogs and lack of shade or the shade under 2613 02:25:46.559 --> 02:25:49.799 the tree, I can't keep grass growing in there. Looking 2614 02:25:49.920 --> 02:25:53.760 for a ground clever because you know, in the springtime 2615 02:25:53.959 --> 02:25:58.799 the cicadas come out and the copper heads go under there. 2616 02:25:59.079 --> 02:26:02.760 I've got dogs in backyard, they dig some looking for 2617 02:26:02.879 --> 02:26:07.280 some kind of groundcover, maybe put rocks down. I'm just 2618 02:26:07.319 --> 02:26:13.639 looking for some suggestions on low cover that will kind 2619 02:26:13.639 --> 02:26:17.120 of reduce the snakes and keep something in there so 2620 02:26:17.159 --> 02:26:19.079 the dogs just don't get dirty when it kind of 2621 02:26:19.079 --> 02:26:19.680 gets muddy. 2622 02:26:19.719 --> 02:26:20.559 Does that make sense? 2623 02:26:21.000 --> 02:26:24.639 Gotcha? Yeah, sure does well. Molt is a good idea. 2624 02:26:24.680 --> 02:26:26.600 I wouldn't do. I wouldn't do rocks. I would do 2625 02:26:26.639 --> 02:26:31.000 a good thick layer of shredded hardwood, malt or something 2626 02:26:31.040 --> 02:26:33.920 along those lines, and you just add to it, and 2627 02:26:34.200 --> 02:26:36.239 you know, they run across it. They don't get all dirty, 2628 02:26:36.760 --> 02:26:38.840 and that's what the forest does. The trees will be 2629 02:26:38.920 --> 02:26:41.319 very happy with it, and it makes I think it's 2630 02:26:41.360 --> 02:26:44.639 an attractive thing to have a nice maulched area beneath 2631 02:26:44.639 --> 02:26:46.920 the tree. Now, if you want to add some plants in, 2632 02:26:48.040 --> 02:26:51.440 there are sedges that often do pretty well in quite 2633 02:26:51.440 --> 02:26:54.520 a bit of shade. Not deep deep shade, but they 2634 02:26:54.639 --> 02:26:58.079 many of the sedges can take less sunlight than your 2635 02:26:58.719 --> 02:27:02.159 Saint Augustine or your turf grass. Would that would be 2636 02:27:02.239 --> 02:27:05.399 a plant for, you know, a shady area like that. 2637 02:27:06.000 --> 02:27:07.840 There are a lot of different plants. I mean, you 2638 02:27:07.879 --> 02:27:11.479 could you could plant a number of different kinds of 2639 02:27:11.600 --> 02:27:15.120 ferns in an area like that. You could plant a juga, 2640 02:27:15.399 --> 02:27:18.840 which is called carpet bugle in an area like that, 2641 02:27:19.280 --> 02:27:21.159 and I could go on and on there. There are 2642 02:27:21.159 --> 02:27:23.520 a lot of Some people will just fill the area 2643 02:27:23.680 --> 02:27:27.959 with Aztec grass or loriopy as tech grass, is not 2644 02:27:28.079 --> 02:27:31.559 a grass. It's more like a larriapy uh. And it 2645 02:27:32.040 --> 02:27:34.280 doesn't get too tall. When you need to, you can 2646 02:27:34.280 --> 02:27:36.799 moi it back to the almost the ground and come 2647 02:27:36.840 --> 02:27:39.040 out fresh if you'd like to do that. But it 2648 02:27:39.079 --> 02:27:41.600 makes a nice not too tall groundcover. 2649 02:27:43.040 --> 02:27:45.920 Okay, And that's how do you spell that? Or how 2650 02:27:46.040 --> 02:27:47.040 where would I find that? 2651 02:27:47.319 --> 02:27:50.840 Or is it a or actual plant plant? 2652 02:27:51.639 --> 02:27:54.520 It's actual, it's actual plants. And these are clumping plants. 2653 02:27:54.520 --> 02:27:56.239 So if the area is huge, you're have to buy 2654 02:27:56.280 --> 02:27:58.840 a lot of plants of the clumping kinds of things 2655 02:27:59.239 --> 02:28:04.760 that would the the sedges are clumping. Aztec grass is clumping. 2656 02:28:04.799 --> 02:28:09.040 It's kind of a white leafed type clump, and then 2657 02:28:09.120 --> 02:28:14.719 Loriope is a green leafed type clump. Most loriiope is. 2658 02:28:15.319 --> 02:28:18.079 You go to a quality garden center, you know you're 2659 02:28:18.120 --> 02:28:21.719 there in Tombo, you've got arbigate right on your back door. 2660 02:28:22.079 --> 02:28:23.799 If you head down the road a little bit on 2661 02:28:25.399 --> 02:28:28.120 Tomill Parkway, you got plantural seasons. Both of those are 2662 02:28:28.120 --> 02:28:30.799 going to have a great selection. In fact, you can 2663 02:28:30.920 --> 02:28:33.479 just talk to them and they'll probably talk to you 2664 02:28:33.520 --> 02:28:37.280 about some vining ground covers and some other options for 2665 02:28:37.319 --> 02:28:38.319 an area like that. 2666 02:28:39.719 --> 02:28:41.879 Thank you very much for your time, sir, I will 2667 02:28:41.920 --> 02:28:44.719 be out there to check with them. 2668 02:28:44.799 --> 02:28:50.040 All right, good, you take care appreciate that micro Life 2669 02:28:50.040 --> 02:28:53.600 fertilizers come in many forms, and I talk about the 2670 02:28:54.319 --> 02:28:58.879 lawn fertilizer quite a bit and the liquids as well. 2671 02:28:59.520 --> 02:29:01.360 I just want to focus right now on a couple 2672 02:29:01.399 --> 02:29:03.079 of things you need to be doing in your lawns. 2673 02:29:03.200 --> 02:29:05.559 Microlife six y two four is the number one selling 2674 02:29:05.680 --> 02:29:09.600 organic fertilizer in Houston. It is a three one two ratio, 2675 02:29:09.680 --> 02:29:12.399 which is the ratio and lawns stick up nutrients and 2676 02:29:13.000 --> 02:29:16.280 uh and it's easy to use. You just spread it 2677 02:29:16.319 --> 02:29:19.200 out there. It goes in the soil. It slowly decomposes 2678 02:29:19.319 --> 02:29:22.959 as microbial activity breaks the nutrients down to release to 2679 02:29:23.000 --> 02:29:25.040 the plants. It's not going to burn anything. It's not 2680 02:29:25.079 --> 02:29:28.440 a salt based fertilizer. And then you follow that up. 2681 02:29:28.559 --> 02:29:31.639 I would do it with humates plus. That's a purple bag. 2682 02:29:31.680 --> 02:29:35.559 It's concentrated compost in a bag. You do the sixty 2683 02:29:35.559 --> 02:29:38.760 two four to get that lawn boosted and growing. You 2684 02:29:38.799 --> 02:29:43.760 do the humanates plus to continually build the soil quality, 2685 02:29:43.959 --> 02:29:46.239 to get that humus down in the soil to improve 2686 02:29:46.280 --> 02:29:50.559 microbial activity. To improve internal drainage and aeration and whatnot 2687 02:29:51.239 --> 02:29:53.840 down in your soil, and both are available from Microlife. 2688 02:29:53.840 --> 02:29:56.479 You can go to Microlifefertilizer dot com and see all 2689 02:29:56.479 --> 02:29:58.840 the retailers they carry their products. I'm going to tell 2690 02:29:58.840 --> 02:30:00.360 you this, it's kind of hard to walk into a 2691 02:30:00.399 --> 02:30:03.319 place that's a Mom and Pope garden center and Ace 2692 02:30:03.399 --> 02:30:07.079 hardware store, Southwest Fertilizer, or a feed store that doesn't 2693 02:30:07.120 --> 02:30:11.799 carry micro Life products. Let's see here. We're going to 2694 02:30:11.879 --> 02:30:14.879 head out to League City now and talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, 2695 02:30:14.920 --> 02:30:16.000 welcome to garden Line. 2696 02:30:16.879 --> 02:30:21.239 Hello, thank you for taking my cost skip. Like you said, 2697 02:30:21.319 --> 02:30:24.920 live in Wig City. Everybody out here has magnolia trees. 2698 02:30:24.959 --> 02:30:28.840 It seems like I planted two in my backyard in 2699 02:30:28.879 --> 02:30:32.680 the summer of twenty twenty one and they've gone from 2700 02:30:32.719 --> 02:30:36.399 seven feet to about twenty feet tall, very full grown, 2701 02:30:36.559 --> 02:30:39.200 very well, but they don't seem to get blooms like 2702 02:30:39.280 --> 02:30:44.479 other people do. And I'm wondering. Number one, I've never 2703 02:30:44.600 --> 02:30:47.440 pruned either of these trees, and they're pretty heavy at 2704 02:30:47.479 --> 02:30:50.600 the bottom. Maybe you know what's the deal about maybe 2705 02:30:50.680 --> 02:30:53.639 pruing a couple of feet off at the bottom. Number two, 2706 02:30:54.040 --> 02:30:57.120 they really haven't fertilized them, and what should I use 2707 02:30:57.159 --> 02:31:00.639 to fertilize them? And should let me? 2708 02:31:01.799 --> 02:31:03.920 Yeah, let me let me hit this. I'm hitting a 2709 02:31:03.959 --> 02:31:06.000 hard break. I'm gonna give you a couple of quick answers. 2710 02:31:06.040 --> 02:31:08.399 If we need to carry this question over, we can 2711 02:31:08.479 --> 02:31:11.040 do that. As far as pruning, I wouldn't do that. 2712 02:31:11.280 --> 02:31:14.479 Nature doesn't plume prune magnolias, and they do just great. 2713 02:31:14.559 --> 02:31:17.719 They look good. As far as them go into the ground, 2714 02:31:19.719 --> 02:31:22.319 that's fine. That's an option to let that skirt go 2715 02:31:22.360 --> 02:31:24.360 all the way to the ground, because it's going to 2716 02:31:24.440 --> 02:31:27.399 be It's difficult to get anything to grow under a 2717 02:31:27.399 --> 02:31:30.799 magnolia anyway, So just letting their foliage go to the 2718 02:31:30.799 --> 02:31:33.719 ground is one esthetic option. If you want to trim 2719 02:31:33.719 --> 02:31:36.319 them up, you can do that. Then you're just gonna 2720 02:31:36.319 --> 02:31:39.639 have to moult underneath them or put monkey grass underneath them, 2721 02:31:39.680 --> 02:31:41.680 because that's about the only thing that will grow. But 2722 02:31:41.719 --> 02:31:43.920 as far as blooming, I don't think you need it. 2723 02:31:44.040 --> 02:31:46.440 There sounds like they're growing pretty good for you. Because 2724 02:31:46.479 --> 02:31:49.559 magnolias are somewhat slow growing. I don't think you need 2725 02:31:49.600 --> 02:31:52.639 a fertilizer necessarily for them. If you want to use 2726 02:31:52.680 --> 02:31:55.959 something too, something for acid loving plants. A number of 2727 02:31:56.000 --> 02:31:59.639 products out there like that. But you can do a 2728 02:31:59.639 --> 02:32:02.760 modern fertilization. But as they settle in, they ought to 2729 02:32:02.799 --> 02:32:05.399 be they ought to be blooming if they're getting adequate 2730 02:32:05.479 --> 02:32:08.360 sunlight to those areas of the plant. So maybe they 2731 02:32:08.399 --> 02:32:11.280 just need a little more time. If there's something you 2732 02:32:11.319 --> 02:32:13.520 can do to brighten up the foliage in that area, 2733 02:32:13.680 --> 02:32:15.600 you might want to try that. I don't know if 2734 02:32:15.639 --> 02:32:19.440 that'd been printing some other trees or whatever. But yeah, 2735 02:32:19.479 --> 02:32:22.120 they're they're a little personicity. But I'll just be patient 2736 02:32:22.159 --> 02:32:22.920 with them. 2737 02:32:23.440 --> 02:32:26.200 Okay, thank you. I'll give them another couple of years 2738 02:32:26.239 --> 02:32:27.159 and see what they did. 2739 02:32:27.479 --> 02:32:29.879 All right, and then call me back. If they don't, 2740 02:32:29.959 --> 02:32:32.280 I'll come out there with a chainsaw. We're not gonna 2741 02:32:32.280 --> 02:32:34.319 cut them down. I'm just going to fire it up 2742 02:32:34.360 --> 02:32:36.760 and say, next time Ralph calls me, I'm coming down 2743 02:32:36.799 --> 02:32:38.760 here to finish the job. And I bet bloom stop 2744 02:32:38.840 --> 02:32:42.319 popping out all over the plate. Thanks Ralph. All right, folks, 2745 02:32:42.319 --> 02:32:43.159 we'll be right back. 2746 02:32:43.479 --> 02:32:43.959 All right. 2747 02:32:44.040 --> 02:32:47.559 Hey, we had some glitches and the mechanics here, we're back. 2748 02:32:48.639 --> 02:32:50.920 You know, Buchanan's native plants. I wanted to tell you guys, 2749 02:32:50.920 --> 02:32:55.120 about those. Buchanans has got their new barn set up. 2750 02:32:55.200 --> 02:32:58.639 It's it's the checkout barn. So now if the draining, 2751 02:32:58.920 --> 02:33:02.399 you're covered. If Tott and Sny you're covered. And that 2752 02:33:02.520 --> 02:33:05.239 bless their hearts. They have lost their checkout area twice 2753 02:33:05.360 --> 02:33:07.920 is year greet the storms. So good to have that open. 2754 02:33:08.280 --> 02:33:10.000 By the way, I don't want to I don't want 2755 02:33:10.000 --> 02:33:13.040 to fail to mention to you that when you go 2756 02:33:13.120 --> 02:33:16.280 to Buchanans you're going to get the service. You're going 2757 02:33:16.360 --> 02:33:19.559 to get the plants, the expertise, everything you need to 2758 02:33:19.600 --> 02:33:24.120 have success. They specialize in native plants. The Cannon's Native 2759 02:33:24.120 --> 02:33:28.040 Plants is the number one source of natives in the 2760 02:33:28.079 --> 02:33:31.120 Greater Houston area. No matter what you need. Do you 2761 02:33:31.159 --> 02:33:33.959 got shade, they got it. Do you need a native 2762 02:33:34.000 --> 02:33:36.079 plant that attracts hummingbirds or butterflies? 2763 02:33:36.159 --> 02:33:36.719 They got it. 2764 02:33:37.120 --> 02:33:39.360 Buchanan's Native Plants like them. You need to go to 2765 02:33:39.360 --> 02:33:41.159 the website and you need to check it out. It 2766 02:33:41.239 --> 02:33:44.159 is awesome. There's tons of good pre information there and 2767 02:33:44.200 --> 02:33:46.159 you're going to love it. You are going to love it. 2768 02:33:46.479 --> 02:33:50.040 Today I'm going to be at a memorial on Memorial 2769 02:33:50.120 --> 02:33:54.200 Drive at ACE Hardware City. Ace Hardware City on Memorial 2770 02:33:54.280 --> 02:33:55.639 Drive and I'm going to be giving away some tree 2771 02:33:55.680 --> 02:34:00.399 Hugger sprinklers, excuse me. And the tree hugger, by the way, 2772 02:34:00.639 --> 02:34:03.920 is the ultimate watering device for either newly planted or 2773 02:34:04.040 --> 02:34:07.559 established trees and shrubs. You put it around the tree, 2774 02:34:07.680 --> 02:34:09.639 and if it's a new tree, you just barely turn 2775 02:34:09.680 --> 02:34:11.760 it on because you have a little small rootball there. 2776 02:34:11.840 --> 02:34:14.360 It'll water it. As that tree grows, you turn it 2777 02:34:14.479 --> 02:34:18.200 up more. It takes care of them, and it's a 2778 02:34:18.280 --> 02:34:22.079 great way to rescue any tree during summer heat and drought. 2779 02:34:22.319 --> 02:34:24.719 Go to tree hundred sprinklers dot com. You can find 2780 02:34:24.719 --> 02:34:26.399 a retailer near you, or I can just tell you. 2781 02:34:26.399 --> 02:34:28.399 You're going to find them at DMB Feed. You're going 2782 02:34:28.479 --> 02:34:31.159 to find them at Spring Creek, at League City, at 2783 02:34:31.239 --> 02:34:35.360 Southwest Fertilizer. Ace Hardware is like sinkle ranch and katas 2784 02:34:35.399 --> 02:34:38.760 a tescaseda ace fullsher ace. You're going to find them 2785 02:34:38.760 --> 02:34:42.920 at the arbor Gate, Nelson Water Gardens, RCW Warren Southern 2786 02:34:42.959 --> 02:34:45.520 Gardens in Keeywood out there in Kingwood, and you're going 2787 02:34:45.600 --> 02:34:47.760 to find them at in Jenny Forest as well. I mean, 2788 02:34:47.799 --> 02:34:48.799 it's a great product. 2789 02:34:49.000 --> 02:34:49.600 It works. 2790 02:34:50.000 --> 02:34:51.799 You need to have one on hand because trust me, 2791 02:34:51.959 --> 02:34:55.399 and may be what now, but summer is definitely coming. 2792 02:34:56.360 --> 02:34:59.879 Just another reminder to get out your Nitrofoss Super Turf 2793 02:35:00.120 --> 02:35:04.280 Nicapos Super Turf nineteen fourteen. It's the silver bag, so 2794 02:35:04.319 --> 02:35:06.479 it's easy fine when you go into a garden center. 2795 02:35:06.760 --> 02:35:10.000 It's designed for our Saint Augustine, our bermuda and our 2796 02:35:10.079 --> 02:35:13.200 soysia grass and it really really works here. And by 2797 02:35:13.239 --> 02:35:16.200 the way, I'll be giving away three bags of that 2798 02:35:16.440 --> 02:35:19.760 today at Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, So come 2799 02:35:19.760 --> 02:35:23.440 by and let's meet and let's do that. It works 2800 02:35:23.680 --> 02:35:25.559 super super well. Now for those of you down in 2801 02:35:25.600 --> 02:35:29.719 the Alvin area, you can get your three sixty trees stabilizer. 2802 02:35:29.760 --> 02:35:32.760 By the way there at JORGEZ Hidden Gardens, I'm going 2803 02:35:32.799 --> 02:35:36.920 to be given away several trees stabilizers today at my 2804 02:35:37.000 --> 02:35:41.000 appearance down at Horaz which is on Elizabeth Street in Alvin. 2805 02:35:41.280 --> 02:35:44.120 You're going to find an awesome selection of fruit and 2806 02:35:44.159 --> 02:35:46.920 that include peaches that are low chill, and apples and 2807 02:35:46.959 --> 02:35:49.719 plums and pears and avocados that is sen somebody there 2808 02:35:49.799 --> 02:35:53.639 yesterday for an avocado tree. They've got Peggy Martin roses 2809 02:35:53.840 --> 02:35:56.600 and any kind of plant you're looking for. Really, it's 2810 02:35:56.639 --> 02:35:57.879 an outstanding place. 2811 02:35:57.920 --> 02:35:59.200 Go down, say hi to Hora. 2812 02:36:00.040 --> 02:36:02.360 He is on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, which, if you're 2813 02:36:02.360 --> 02:36:04.479 in Alvin heading toward Santa Fe, it's off to the 2814 02:36:04.559 --> 02:36:06.760 right about halfway to Santa Fe on the right hand 2815 02:36:06.760 --> 02:36:13.520 side down Low ROADJA. So go check them out, all 2816 02:36:13.639 --> 02:36:15.680 right while we're rolling here on the music