Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's.
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Speaker 4: Good Sunday morning, Good Sunday morning. Everybody. You are listening
Speaker 4: to Garden Line and we are here to answer gardening questions.
Speaker 4: Whatever you would like to talk about, well write this
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Speaker 4: Give me a call. Weeen talk about the things that
Speaker 4: most are of interest to you. I am preparing some
Speaker 4: of my landscape for me to be away a little while.
Speaker 4: I just gave a good soaking to most areas of
Speaker 4: the lawn yesterday, and that will carry me through a
Speaker 4: long way. And one of the reasons is I have
Speaker 4: developed a good, deep rooted turf grass. And what I
Speaker 4: mean by that is number one. I put the lawn
Speaker 4: in it did some soil prop but I have continued
Speaker 4: to do things to make the soil better and better.
Speaker 4: And as I watered my lawn, I do so is
Speaker 4: deeply and infrequently as I can. So instead of watering
Speaker 4: three times a week, like a lot of watering systems
Speaker 4: are scheduled to do, I give it one good soaking
Speaker 4: really hardly once a week. Even there's some areas I've
Speaker 4: just watered a couple times this summer so far, but
Speaker 4: we've had some rain, but still that's not very often.
Speaker 4: And when you give it a good soaking and really
Speaker 4: what that soil volume, and then let it sit and
Speaker 4: not water again for a lot while the water moves
Speaker 4: out of the spaces between the soil particles and air.
Speaker 4: Of course, it's not going to be a vacuum in there.
Speaker 4: Air moves in behind it, and oxygen is important to
Speaker 4: the roots and that helps that grass develop a deep,
Speaker 4: resilient root system. So think of it this way. The
Speaker 4: roots are fingers going out into the soil around the plant,
Speaker 4: and the farther and more extensive that finger development, that
Speaker 4: root development is, the more volume of soil that plant
Speaker 4: can draw from. In this case, the plant is your
Speaker 4: turf grass, So by training it with deep and frequent waterings,
Speaker 4: you can have a grass that's really quite resilient, and
Speaker 4: it's amazing how well that does now. In sun lots,
Speaker 4: more water is needed than in shade, so supplementally sometimes
Speaker 4: I'll have to hit a couple of spots in the
Speaker 4: sun just to water those areas because they're star to
Speaker 4: need it, and I don't even want the shade area.
Speaker 4: But that you know, that's just a technique. It's some
Speaker 4: thoughts for you to think about. The more often you water,
Speaker 4: the more disease issues you have because you keep the
Speaker 4: leaves and runners wet. That is an issue. The more
Speaker 4: the lighter you water, the more your irrigation ends up
Speaker 4: basically being on the grass blades and on the in
Speaker 4: the thatch with very little getting down in the soil,
Speaker 4: very deep at all. So one way to save water
Speaker 4: and to have healthier lawn is deep and frequent, mowing
Speaker 4: deep and infrequently. That's the way you need to be
Speaker 4: thinking about it. I think about the fact that I'm
Speaker 4: paying for drinking water to put it on my lawn,
Speaker 4: and then my sewer bill goes up. Because when you
Speaker 4: use water, they connect it in most communities connect it
Speaker 4: to your sewer rates as well.
Speaker 2: So h.
Speaker 4: Word for the wise you are listening to. Guarden line
Speaker 4: are number is seven one three, two, one two fifty
Speaker 4: eight seventy four seven one three two one two five
Speaker 4: eight seven four. Just wanted to remind you I mentioned
Speaker 4: this yesterday, but Langham Creek Ace Hardware which is on
Speaker 4: five twenty nine, FM five twenty nine and Cypress. That
Speaker 4: is the corner the intersection of Barker, Cypress and FM
Speaker 4: five twenty nine. So those of you in Copperfield, this
Speaker 4: is your backyard. They're having their grand opening and it
Speaker 4: will be Friday, August thirtieth, Saturday the thirty first, and
Speaker 4: Sunday September first. Three days they are given away incredible things.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be vendors they're demonstrating, like on on Friday,
Speaker 4: Weber Grill, On Saturday, Big Green Egg and something. The
Speaker 4: Goysney pizza oven. You got to see this, one of
Speaker 4: the top pizza ovens on the market and it's a
Speaker 4: little thing stands, you can put it outside whatever and
Speaker 4: it cook a pizza in it. It's just like one
Speaker 4: of those little wood fired pizza ovens, you know where
Speaker 4: they slide things into the brick oven that has not
Speaker 4: made a brick anyway. There they'll be demonstrating those. They'll
Speaker 4: be demonstrating Trager grills on Sunday the first of September.
Speaker 4: Now giveaways. Check this out. Ego Power Plus Battery string
Speaker 4: trimmer two hundred and fifty dollars machine given away in
Speaker 4: a drawing on Friday. On Saturday, Weber Spirit to Gas
Speaker 4: Grille four hundred and fifty dollars machine giveaway. Also on Saturday,
Speaker 4: by the way, they're having a still open house fifteen
Speaker 4: percent off all still equipment fifteen percent off all still
Speaker 4: equipment Monday only just Saturday, and then Sunday they'll be
Speaker 4: given away a paint room makeover two hundred dollars value.
Speaker 4: They're at Langham Creek Ace Hardware. They were open before
Speaker 4: they kind of closed doors a bit to redo the
Speaker 4: whole store, and boy, here comes the new grand opening
Speaker 4: Langham Creek Ace Hardware at the intersection of arker Cypress
Speaker 4: and FM five twenty seven. So we get the end
Speaker 4: of this month, the weekend that is the end of
Speaker 4: this month. That's when you need to head over there,
Speaker 4: because that, like the forty other Ace Hardware stores, is
Speaker 4: a great place to find anything that you need.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: For example, when you're Ace Hardware, they're gonna have the
Speaker 4: fertilizers I talk about inside, but they're also gonna have
Speaker 4: mosquito dunks. Now, if you have been under a rock
Speaker 4: for a while and not heard of mosquito dunks, let
Speaker 4: me tell you about them. Mosquito dunk is the coolest
Speaker 4: thing in the world. It is a disease of mosquito larvae.
Speaker 4: You've heard of BT that you spray caterpillars on your plants.
Speaker 4: You spray BET and it kills the caterpillar, which is
Speaker 4: a butterflower moth larvae. Well, there is another type of BT.
Speaker 4: Doesn't kill caterpillars. It kills mosquito larvae and fungus gnats.
Speaker 4: And that's what's in a mosquito dunk. So you can
Speaker 4: take these doughnuts. One of them covers ten by ten
Speaker 4: one hundred cubic one hundred cubic feet of water surface area.
Speaker 4: So if you have a little pond or something like
Speaker 4: that lasts about a month, slowly dissolves and it releases
Speaker 4: this disease into the water. And when a mosquito eggs
Speaker 4: in the water, their larva never are gonna make it.
Speaker 4: That is a good thing. It does not hurt birds,
Speaker 4: It does not hurt ladybugs and other beneficial insects. It
Speaker 4: does not hurt pets like your family dog or cat.
Speaker 4: It is just a disease of mosquitoes. It won't kill
Speaker 4: other peests that you have don't try putting it on
Speaker 4: something else other than fungus knots, but it really really works.
Speaker 4: Mosquito dunks are widely available. They also have a granular form,
Speaker 4: which is real handy when you don't need a whole dunk.
Speaker 4: You can also just take a hammer and kind of
Speaker 4: break up a dunk and use it make a granule
Speaker 4: out of it. Either way, you want to go, those
Speaker 4: bird baths, those rain barrels that hole up in a
Speaker 4: tree where water gathers and the mosquitos are breeding up
Speaker 4: in there. All of those areas are places where you
Speaker 4: can use your mosquito dunks. I think everybody ought to
Speaker 4: have some on hand all the time because we always
Speaker 4: have mosquitos around here. And if you got some on hand,
Speaker 4: you're ready to go. Well, it's time for me take
Speaker 4: a little break. I will be back again the phone
Speaker 4: number seven one three two one two kat R H
Speaker 4: will talk to you in just a minute.
Speaker 2: Back.
Speaker 4: Good to have you with us. We are really looking
Speaker 4: forward to visiting with you about the things that you
Speaker 4: are wondering about. We're going to go right now to
Speaker 4: north West Houston and talk to Ralph. Good morning, Ralph,
Speaker 4: Welcome to guard Line. Lou Ralph. Have you there?
Speaker 6: Yees here?
Speaker 5: Can you hear?
Speaker 4: I can down? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Well okay, no I missed out on you. I must
Speaker 6: saint o see grass in front is the gretty bad
Speaker 6: bad spots in it, but it's on the back.
Speaker 7: But I missed up.
Speaker 2: My whole water in the back.
Speaker 7: Of the yard is really good.
Speaker 6: But what I miss what if you were talking about?
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm sorry I didn't quite catch your question.
Speaker 4: What are you asking?
Speaker 6: Bob sat agine grass and you had a good feel
Speaker 6: on it this morning?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: On watering, I was talking about water. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 4: wrapped the best way to water along as to what
Speaker 4: the soil about six inches deep and then don't water
Speaker 4: for a while.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: And it helps to make deep resilient root system on
Speaker 4: the grass and that that's what we need. Okay, But
Speaker 4: water too little, too often.
Speaker 6: That's my trouble, I do believe.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Well we won't tell anybody. It's just
Speaker 4: you and me right now anyway, so uh, I won't
Speaker 4: tell anybody that. But no, seriously, it's uh, it's it's
Speaker 4: not that difficult, and it actually saves you a little
Speaker 4: bit of money. Okay, This new ordon center.
Speaker 6: It's talking about close to me.
Speaker 2: Where is that at?
Speaker 7: I didn't hit that, oh.
Speaker 4: I was talking about the Ace Hardware store Langham Creek
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware at the corner of FM five twenty nine
Speaker 4: and Barker Cypress Road. That's right. Well, yes, on the southwest.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Okay, I got you, Okay, okay. I appreciate
Speaker 6: great program.
Speaker 4: Tie, thanks sir, thank hey, thanks for listening. Appreciate that. Ralph,
Speaker 4: you take care alrighty uh. You know, the the lawn
Speaker 4: soil environment is one where we want to do everything
Speaker 4: we can to improve the soil and to make sure
Speaker 4: we have a nutrient content there that supports grass grow.
Speaker 4: And also we want to stimulate the biological activity that's
Speaker 4: in the soil. That is why the folks at nitrofoss
Speaker 4: put together something called sweet Green. It is a molasses
Speaker 4: based product. And when you put molasses, which is basically sugar,
Speaker 4: which is basically carbon in the soil, beneficial microbes are
Speaker 4: benefited because that what they eat. If you look at
Speaker 4: the good guy bacteria that are helping your plant roots,
Speaker 4: they eat carbon. That's what they eat, and molasses carbon
Speaker 4: put down in the form of this sweet Green. It's
Speaker 4: not like a molasses, you know, like syrupy. Now, this
Speaker 4: is granules, and you spread them with a fertilizer spreader.
Speaker 4: They're very good. Nice spreading. It works really well. It
Speaker 4: dissolves away and releases it's eleven percent nitrogen to the
Speaker 4: root system. It smells good too. You can put a
Speaker 4: bag of sweet green in the back of your car
Speaker 4: and you start smelling it, and you may decide to
Speaker 4: make another loop around six to ten on the way
Speaker 4: home just to enjoy the fragrance of the of the
Speaker 4: sweet green. Seriously joking aside, I would recommend putting it down.
Speaker 4: You would normally put about ten pounds per thousands of
Speaker 4: core feet. I would split that in half. I'd put
Speaker 4: it down now, watered in real good, and about six
Speaker 4: eight weeks from now, do it again and watered in
Speaker 4: real good. And that spreads it out a little bit better,
Speaker 4: and it gets you right up to the time where
Speaker 4: you're gonna then your next fertilization will be the fall fertilization,
Speaker 4: which will find on my schedule on my website Gardening
Speaker 4: with Skip dot com. I encourage you to print those
Speaker 4: schedules out. I think that'll be helpful for you. Now
Speaker 4: you're going to find sweet green at places like Plants
Speaker 4: for all Seasons on two forty nine. You're going to
Speaker 4: find it at d and Defeed out there in Tomball.
Speaker 4: You're going to find it also at Fisher's Hardware over
Speaker 4: in Baytown. Night Foss products widely available all over the place. Well,
Speaker 4: I was talking earlier this morning about water in the
Speaker 4: lawns properly. I think the next thing I want to
Speaker 4: remind you is mowing is one of the most important
Speaker 4: things you do to create a beautiful lawn. A sharp
Speaker 4: mower blade, that's number one. Mowing as frequently as your
Speaker 4: life schedule allows you to do. For most people, that's
Speaker 4: once every seven days. Because we're in a weekly life schedule.
Speaker 4: That if you want a shorter lawn that's denser, you're
Speaker 4: going to have to mow it more often. Golf Course
Speaker 4: greens get mowed every day. Is that crazy? Can you
Speaker 4: imagine mowing your lawn every day? But seriously, that's how
Speaker 4: they get that density down low. They're barely cutting in
Speaker 4: the off. When you let your long grow really big
Speaker 4: and then cut it way back, that is very stressful
Speaker 4: to the grass and it does not create density. In fact,
Speaker 4: it opens the turf cannot be up so that sunlight
Speaker 4: hits the soil all over the place. And wherever sunlight
Speaker 4: hits a soil, nature plants a weed. That's how that works.
Speaker 4: So what do you want to do, Well, what you
Speaker 4: want to do is you want to be able to
Speaker 4: provide a regular mowing schedule that creates the most dense
Speaker 4: turf you can now, Watering, fertilizing, sunlight, all that's important.
Speaker 4: It's not like the only thing is mowing, but people
Speaker 4: discount the importance of mowing for turf density. It's like
Speaker 4: shearing a hedge. The more often you shear it, the
Speaker 4: more little where you cut off one little shoot on
Speaker 4: the hedge with your shearers and it becomes two shoots,
Speaker 4: and then you cut off those two and they become
Speaker 4: four shoots and so on. That's what's happening in your lawn.
Speaker 4: You're you're building a good density down down low in
Speaker 4: the turf grass, and it just makes for benefits in many,
Speaker 4: many different ways. If you're looking at your landscape and
Speaker 4: you're kind of thinking, man, I need I need a makeover,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe you just don't like the way it
Speaker 4: looks when you drive up to the house maybe you
Speaker 4: go out in the backyard and it's like, yeah, this
Speaker 4: is this is okay, but I'd really like to turn
Speaker 4: this into a place where i can really entertain friends
Speaker 4: and family in the back Pierce Caapes is a company
Speaker 4: that you ought to call and let me just let
Speaker 4: them show you what I'm talking about. Go to Piercescapes
Speaker 4: dot com, piercescapes dot com, book around the website, look
Speaker 4: at some of the work that they have been able
Speaker 4: to do. That they do. It's their normal way. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's it's out hardscape patios with rock, it's rock retaining walls,
Speaker 4: it's setting up landscape lighting, it's improving drainage, it's fixing
Speaker 4: your irrigation system. They do all this and much much more.
Speaker 4: They'll design a whole landscape for you, or they'll help
Speaker 4: you with a small section where you're trying to revent.
Speaker 4: Maybe you just want to put the front of the
Speaker 4: house on display and create a nicer beds and plantings there.
Speaker 4: They can do that. They also offer quarterly maintenance, trimming, weeding, fertilizing,
Speaker 4: irrigation inspection, seasonal color changes. You know, those old summer
Speaker 4: color plants are starting to go downhill because fall is
Speaker 4: coming and it's time for the next section or next
Speaker 4: season of plants, a cool season. They'll do that, the mulching,
Speaker 4: making sure your malt stays nice and thick on the
Speaker 4: bed so you don't deal with weeds. All of that.
Speaker 4: Pierce Scapes again. The website is Piercescapes dot com if
Speaker 4: you would like to give them a call two eight
Speaker 4: one three seven h five zero six zero. You are
Speaker 4: listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
Speaker 4: we're here to talk to you about the things that
Speaker 4: interest you, about the questions that you might have, and
Speaker 4: you can call us at seven one three two one
Speaker 4: two five eight seven four seven one three two one
Speaker 4: two fifty eight seventy four and we can visit with
Speaker 4: you about any kind of thing that you might want
Speaker 4: to ask about. There's plenty of things to talk about
Speaker 4: when it comes to gardening. I was talking to Sherry
Speaker 4: and Kelly from Plant Roll Seasons this past week at
Speaker 4: the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association Show and just just
Speaker 4: visiting with them. Their enthusiasm, their knowledge, it's really, it's really,
Speaker 4: it's amazing and impressive. The family has been in business
Speaker 4: right there just north of Luetta on two forty nine.
Speaker 4: They've been in business since I think nineteen seventy three
Speaker 4: something like that. It's a long time and they know
Speaker 4: the area, they know the plants to bring in, so
Speaker 4: you don't buy something that has no chance of growth
Speaker 4: here right. They have the advice. So if you need
Speaker 4: suggestions for plants, if you need diagnosis, if you need
Speaker 4: something identified, either a photo on your phone or bring
Speaker 4: it in in a bag, they can help you with that.
Speaker 4: And if it requires a control can point you to
Speaker 4: the many outstanding products. They have a very good section
Speaker 4: of disease, weed and pest management control products, both organic
Speaker 4: and synthetic. You can go to Plants for All Seasons
Speaker 4: dot com, or you can call them two eight one,
Speaker 4: three seven six, sixteen forty six. I'm going to go
Speaker 4: out to Spring now and talk to Rich. Hello, Rich,
Speaker 4: Welcome to guardliney.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 2: Skip.
Speaker 7: A lot of different I guess confusion regarding application temperatures
Speaker 7: for different herbicides. I know Celsius is supposedly rated the
Speaker 7: highest and Blindsides a little behind it. When you say
Speaker 7: those temperature numbers, is that at the time that you're
Speaker 7: applying it to the lawn or what the ambient temperature
Speaker 7: will reach during the day pretty.
Speaker 4: Much the time you're applying it to the lawn. That's
Speaker 4: not just a black and white, but it's like if
Speaker 4: you're going to get up the ninety five today, but
Speaker 4: you go out in the morning when it's eighty two
Speaker 4: degrees and you spray it, then that will be much
Speaker 4: better than trying to apply it when it's hot. We
Speaker 4: minimize overall applications of herbicides in the summer, but there's
Speaker 4: some weeds like Virginia button weed that it doesn't allow
Speaker 4: us to do that. We've got to do some control
Speaker 4: during warmer temperatures to get a hold of that weed. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so that's it.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 7: Yep, yep, great because I have two neighbors I'm trying
Speaker 7: to help and they Virginia button weed and doveweed.
Speaker 4: So yeah, Well another thing, Rich and I don't talk
Speaker 4: about this on the air. I try to not get
Speaker 4: too nerdy and in all the details so people's eyes
Speaker 4: don't roll back in their head. But one thing about
Speaker 4: even celsius, if you apply it when it's over ninety degrees,
Speaker 4: it has a growth suppressing effect, which is okay, the
Speaker 4: grass goes through it. But we'd rather not have that
Speaker 4: if we didn't have to. So every herbicide we use it.
Speaker 4: I'll say we use it reluctantly for sure, but just
Speaker 4: know that every one has its drawbacks. Celsius during the
Speaker 4: warm season, the hot season here is the best shot
Speaker 4: we got. I'm about to have to run its break
Speaker 4: time here, but thank you for the call. I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Thanks Jving, Yes, sir, thank you. Talk to you later.
Speaker 4: Our phone number seven one three two one two k
Speaker 4: t RH will be right back. Good Sunday morning to you.
Speaker 4: I hope you are enjoying the day. It's a good day.
Speaker 4: Every day is a good day. We are gonna talk
Speaker 4: all kinds of things gardening this morning. If you want
Speaker 4: to join in the fun, you can dial seven one
Speaker 4: three two one two five eight seven four seven one
Speaker 4: three two one two fifty eight seventy four on my
Speaker 4: website gardening with a skip dot com. There is there
Speaker 4: are some new publications two on nuts Edge. One that's
Speaker 4: a quick one pager. The other one is three pages,
Speaker 4: but it has a lot of information you need to know.
Speaker 4: Did you know there are two different kinds of nuts edge.
Speaker 4: People call it nutgrass. H there's a purple and a yellow,
Speaker 4: and do you know that they are not equally susceptible
Speaker 4: to all control products that are out there. Do you
Speaker 4: know the way they set their tubers underground is different
Speaker 4: and it affects the way we go about controlling them
Speaker 4: as well. So there's a lot of information in there
Speaker 4: to really help you get off your good start. There's
Speaker 4: also on the website I put a noop publication that's
Speaker 4: it Skips Weed Wiper, and I continually get calls from
Speaker 4: people that they have a weed problem where you just
Speaker 4: can't spray it. Maybe it's a grass that's growing in
Speaker 4: your lawn and it's sticking up above your lawn grass
Speaker 4: and you can't kill that weed with a spray and
Speaker 4: not kill your grass because they know it's the same
Speaker 4: same type of plant. But you can use a wiper
Speaker 4: to wipe the herbicide on the weed. Only it's two
Speaker 4: it's sponges that wipe it on the weed, and I'm
Speaker 4: sure I show you online how to make that. It's
Speaker 4: not very expensive and it works good. There's also a
Speaker 4: publication that goes with it that is the different herbicides
Speaker 4: for different kinds of weeds. So it's categorized like do
Speaker 4: you have brushy weeds what would that be? Or woody
Speaker 4: wheats that would be like the hackberry's coming up in
Speaker 4: your fence line, a poison ivy coming up the pepper
Speaker 4: vine that a lot of people have to struggle with.
Speaker 4: Or do you have a grassy weed that's a whole
Speaker 4: nother category. Or do you have a sedge like purple
Speaker 4: and yellow nut sets that's another category? Or is it
Speaker 4: a bulb like plant underground, which would be wild garlic
Speaker 4: and wild onions. There's a different herbicide that we would
Speaker 4: recommend for that. Those are both online for you either
Speaker 4: look at online or print or do whatever you want with.
Speaker 4: But I would encourage you to take a look at them.
Speaker 4: That weed wipers made from a little grabber tool. It's
Speaker 4: a type with suction cups on the end. And I
Speaker 4: was just just the other day talking to somebody who
Speaker 4: is at a Southwest Fertilizer in Southwest Houston and they
Speaker 4: had those hanging on the wall there. Bob, of course,
Speaker 4: does that surprise you that Bob, there'd be something he
Speaker 4: doesn't have right that he has everything. That's what they
Speaker 4: specialize in. I don't care if you're synthetic gardener and
Speaker 4: organic gardener. If you want to deal with weeds, if
Speaker 4: you want to deal with pass like insects, or do
Speaker 4: you want to do with diseases? Do you want to
Speaker 4: just fertilize your lawn. Every product that you will ever
Speaker 4: hear coming out of my mouth is a Southwest Fertilizer
Speaker 4: because they carry it all. They have really nice fertilizer
Speaker 4: spreader options, from the little things that you push behind
Speaker 4: to the little whirligigs you hold in your hand to
Speaker 4: put out fire ant bait. They've got all of that.
Speaker 4: The kneeling bench, I keep talking about the folding kneeling bench.
Speaker 4: It's so cool. Southwest Fertilizer in Southwest Houston, corner Bissonett
Speaker 4: and Renwick. That's it. That's what you need to know,
Speaker 4: uh it. If you want to give them a call,
Speaker 4: it's seven one three six six six one seven four
Speaker 4: four seven one three six six six one seven four
Speaker 4: four just go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com.
Speaker 4: One thing that you will know that you need to
Speaker 4: know also is you can take in pictures on your phone,
Speaker 4: like get up close, take a picture of a weed
Speaker 4: and go in there and say hey, guys, here's a weed,
Speaker 4: I got what kills it? And when do I apply it?
Speaker 4: And how do I do it? And then tell you
Speaker 4: all of that. You can bring them a sample as well,
Speaker 4: but it's just a great place to shop. You are
Speaker 4: listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and
Speaker 4: we're here to help you hopefully have a more bountiful
Speaker 4: garden and a more beautiful landscape by giving you some
Speaker 4: good advice on things you need to do. A lot
Speaker 4: of times people approach gardening problems with starting with a spray.
Speaker 4: In other words, I got this, how do I kill it?
Speaker 4: And I always my approach is to start with the
Speaker 4: cultural things we do. If you got plants that are
Speaker 4: in soggy soil and they're getting root rot, I don't
Speaker 4: think the solution is a fungicide drench to control the
Speaker 4: root rot. I think the solution is to fix the
Speaker 4: soggy soil and then you don't even need to treat.
Speaker 4: Otherwise you're treating and treating and treating. If you have
Speaker 4: there are things that predispose plants to problems. For example,
Speaker 4: we got the weeds in the lawn right they're coming
Speaker 4: up in the lawn weed seeds. Well, our number one
Speaker 4: goal is to mow, water and fertilize and get the
Speaker 4: densest lawn we can. Now, there's going to be weeds
Speaker 4: that get in a dense lawn. I understand that, and
Speaker 4: we can recommend a product to kill those if you
Speaker 4: want to do that, But always start, always think about
Speaker 4: the cultural like why is this problem here? Why is
Speaker 4: this disease occurring? Why am my roses just getting black
Speaker 4: spot and all the leaves are falling off? Well, I'll
Speaker 4: bet it's one of three reasons. Primarily number one, it's
Speaker 4: a variety that's susceptible, So we could choose resistant varieties,
Speaker 4: or we can choose to plant susceptible varieties, maybe because
Speaker 4: they're planning too close and there's not good air movement
Speaker 4: through them. So when the foliage gets wet, it stays
Speaker 4: wet for longer, and the longer you have wet leaves
Speaker 4: and more diseases you're going to have on your roses
Speaker 4: and many other plants. You know, it could be a
Speaker 4: number of different things that are causing. Maybe you've got
Speaker 4: a sprinkler system that is wetting the foliage instead of
Speaker 4: drip irrigation. Underneath those roses. Do you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So we can recommend a fungicide for black spot or
Speaker 4: powder and mildew, but first let's figure out what can
Speaker 4: we do to avoid the problem as much as possible.
Speaker 4: I love to be out in the garden, but I
Speaker 4: don't want to spend my Saturday afternoons out in the
Speaker 4: garden at the end of a spray nozzle. For everything
Speaker 4: that happens, I want to sprend it walk, spend it
Speaker 4: walking around planting plants, harvesting things, enjoying the beauty of
Speaker 4: it all. And that's kind of the approach that I
Speaker 4: would highly recommend that you consider that exact approach, because
Speaker 4: that that just makes more sense, you know, it just
Speaker 4: makes more sense. We're going to head out now to Troy,
Speaker 4: Alabama and talk to Paul. Hey, Paul, let's we've got
Speaker 4: a few few just about a half a minute here,
Speaker 4: and let's get us started and we'll finish after break.
Speaker 4: How about that?
Speaker 3: No problem? I was going to ask you would round
Speaker 3: up work on the sage christ.
Speaker 4: No, not not Well, it'll burn the top back, but
Speaker 4: you don't get good tuber control with roundup. If you
Speaker 4: go online gardening with skip dot com there are products
Speaker 4: that are listed for there's a nutsedge publication that lists
Speaker 4: a lot of products in a in a very quick answer,
Speaker 4: sedge hammer is a good product that will do a
Speaker 4: good job of controlling nuts edge. But you need to
Speaker 4: read the publication because there's situations where it doesn't work
Speaker 4: as well and you avoid that.
Speaker 3: Okay, MSM will work on all you Southern grice, as
Speaker 3: I've tried it on all you sloth and grace.
Speaker 2: It works real good on your hel grice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have a great today.
Speaker 7: Appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Thanks Paul. All Right, folks, heading to a break, We'll
Speaker 4: be right backline. Give us a call when you are
Speaker 4: ready to ask a gardening question, any kind of question.
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Speaker 4: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're trying to talk
Speaker 4: about the kinds of things that I think would help
Speaker 4: you have a more more success in your in your
Speaker 4: garden and in your landscaping. There are things that people
Speaker 4: do that are just, let's just say, bad habits. Then
Speaker 4: we do them because we saw someone else do them,
Speaker 4: or we heard about somebody else doing them. And the
Speaker 4: worst place to hear about anything is in social media,
Speaker 4: where everybody's an expert, and you just need to take
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Speaker 4: a different soil, it's a different climate than here, so
Speaker 4: advice that may be true there isn't true here. They
Speaker 4: also may just think they know when they don't know.
Speaker 4: I think it was Mark Twain or Will Rogers, one
Speaker 4: of those guys said, have it. Being smart is knowing
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Speaker 4: the older I get, the more I find that I'm
Speaker 4: dumb at. I used to think I knew it, I
Speaker 4: knew everything. Now no better. And that how it works
Speaker 4: as we get a little bit older. But seriously, when
Speaker 4: you're looking, you know, for quality advice and good direction,
Speaker 4: that's what we're trying to do to steer you in
Speaker 4: the direction that you need to go. And so we
Speaker 4: try to provide a little bit of the why behind
Speaker 4: the what. In other words, I could tell you just
Speaker 4: go do such and such. That's the what, and I
Speaker 4: can also tell you the why. And when you understand
Speaker 4: the why a little bit, it helps you to do
Speaker 4: a better job of the what is that confusing or what?
Speaker 4: What I'm trying to say is this, maybe you are
Speaker 4: going to control nutsedge or that's what your goal is,
Speaker 4: And I say, well, go do this, but here's what
Speaker 4: you need to know, here's why, and this is why
Speaker 4: we do it. Now that keeps you from using that
Speaker 4: same advice in a way or in a time where
Speaker 4: it won't work and everything has some yeah butt to it,
Speaker 4: and so that's what I try to kind of weed
Speaker 4: through as we're doing this. All right, Well, enough of that.
Speaker 4: If that made sense to anybody, raise your hand. We're
Speaker 4: going to go out to League City now and talk
Speaker 4: to Suzanne. Hello, Suzanne, Hi.
Speaker 9: I sent you a picture of those weeds, that weed,
Speaker 9: and you told me to call this morning.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, that is that is doveweed is in weed.
Speaker 4: Dove weed is like it looks to some people, looks
Speaker 4: a lot like Saint Augustine, but it's it's a shiny, waxy,
Speaker 4: almost kind of rubbery rubbery leaves and things. It will
Speaker 4: start producing seed here before long if it hadn't already,
Speaker 4: and getting it out of there is very helpful. Now
Speaker 4: with doveweed, probably the best thing to do would be
Speaker 4: to use a pre emergent herbicide in the spring, but
Speaker 4: in late spring. With our others. If you look at
Speaker 4: me laun schedule, it's got mostly we're doing the pre
Speaker 4: emergence in February. You could probably come in in March
Speaker 4: or even April maybe and do the pre emergence for
Speaker 4: the dove weed. That is, it's going to sprout when
Speaker 4: the weather warms up really good. I would say probably
Speaker 4: March would be a good time.
Speaker 9: What happens if I don't do anything because it looks
Speaker 9: good and it's I don't know, it's the same color
Speaker 9: as St. Augustine and it's growing in some places where
Speaker 9: I have had trouble.
Speaker 2: Growing.
Speaker 4: Nothing. Yeah, nothing happens except that it can crowd out
Speaker 4: the Saint Augustine little bit. It's a competitor with it.
Speaker 4: But you can leave it. You can leave it, and
Speaker 4: just that's your business. That that is certainly fine. They're
Speaker 4: controlling it with the pre emergent, is preventing the seeds
Speaker 4: in the spring from coming up, controlling the emergen.
Speaker 9: I just leave it alone. Does it does it die
Speaker 9: and turn brown or anything like that?
Speaker 4: It doesn't look good during the winter because it dies
Speaker 4: uh and and comes back from seed. Uh. So I
Speaker 4: would yeah, you know, it's up to you if you
Speaker 4: are going to kill it. I can tell you post
Speaker 4: emergency spray and you can kill it. But then you're
Speaker 4: gonna need to go in there and put sod in
Speaker 4: to get a good canopy of grass where you don't
Speaker 4: have uh. Wherever sunlight hits the soil, weeds like dove
Speaker 4: weed are going to be able to pop up. The
Speaker 4: seeds can germinate and establish a plant when they get good.
Speaker 4: So I guess if you're not willing to jump on
Speaker 4: the sodding and going into the dense lawn thing, uh,
Speaker 4: then maybe living with it like you're talking about certainly
Speaker 4: an option. These people will not want to hear that
Speaker 4: that kind of statement, but that's that's the case, you bet, Suzanne.
Speaker 4: Thank you for calling me as a fella I know
Speaker 4: in uh uh, we're in Mississippi's name is Elder Russian.
Speaker 4: He comes over to speak every now and the scenario,
Speaker 4: and he says, the best way to get rid of
Speaker 4: every weed and your lawn is take off your glasses. Hey,
Speaker 4: you know, I've got to admit. I've got a neighbor
Speaker 4: down the street who is lawn has more weeds than
Speaker 4: Saint Augustine's and he has if you want to, if
Speaker 4: you want to have a weed, I d class you
Speaker 4: could go to his because every weed in the world
Speaker 4: is in his law. Now he just mos mos most
Speaker 4: And you know, when you drive by, unless you really
Speaker 4: turn your head and look, it looks pretty good because
Speaker 4: weeds are green too. I don't think I'm going to
Speaker 4: sell many people on that as an approach, but there
Speaker 4: is an option. I'll be right back. Take care of
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Speaker 4: Microlife has a number of different products, and I talk
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Speaker 4: which is a purple bag that's concentrated compost in a bag.
Speaker 4: Someone asked me the other day, can I do both
Speaker 4: that and the the sixty four And the answers yes,
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Speaker 4: kind of handy, kind of easy. I was talking earlier
Speaker 4: about managing the nuts edge and other other kinds of
Speaker 4: weeds and whatnot. I just want to mention we've had
Speaker 4: some calls and a number of emails about people that
Speaker 4: are trying to fix areas of their lawn that had
Speaker 4: weed problems. The typical question is I have nut I
Speaker 4: have maybe nuts edge or bermuda grass and my Saint Augustine,
Speaker 4: and I'm I want to the Saint Augustine is dying back.
Speaker 4: I want to redo that area, but I don't want
Speaker 4: the bermuda grass in there, for example. And so the
Speaker 4: way we do that is to apply something. If it's
Speaker 4: just a grassy weed, you can apply just a herbicide
Speaker 4: for grassy weeds. That's on. If you need to know
Speaker 4: what is a herbicide for grassy weeds, I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: you know, name out the chemical names right now to
Speaker 4: you to make your eyes roll back. But if you
Speaker 4: go online to gardening with skip dot com. There is
Speaker 4: a sheet on herbicides that goes with the weed wiper,
Speaker 4: but it's true for not weed, it's true for spraying too.
Speaker 4: What are the weeds that you have and what herbicides
Speaker 4: control them? And the grassyat products are listed on there
Speaker 4: a number of different brand names too that you'll find
Speaker 4: on the market, so you could go at it that way.
Speaker 4: If your lawn has broad leaf weeds that are perennials
Speaker 4: also in addition to the grassy, then you would have
Speaker 4: to use a general weed killer one that kills everything.
Speaker 4: But when you do that, you want to get the
Speaker 4: spray down.
Speaker 11: Do that.
Speaker 4: But then if you do need to do any adjusting
Speaker 4: of the soil an he maybe filling in some low
Speaker 4: areas or rototilling over it, and then water the dirt,
Speaker 4: water the dirt and make whatever is there come up.
Speaker 4: And if what you're going to see is maybe you
Speaker 4: try to get rid of bermuda grass but you left
Speaker 4: a little bit, didn't get it all, well, you'll see
Speaker 4: it then and that second application will help you get
Speaker 4: that done. And that's very important because to just put
Speaker 4: your new Saint Augustine down and now you got that
Speaker 4: old bermuda popping up through it because bermuda can come
Speaker 4: from down deep under the ground and come to the surface.
Speaker 4: You want to get rid of it before you do that.
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Speaker 4: a lot of plants that are outstanding, but they're just
Speaker 4: not that widespread. You just don't see them enough. For example,
Speaker 4: creeping wire vine. Creeping wire vine is a cool little plant.
Speaker 4: It is a vining plant with a little small leaves,
Speaker 4: but the vines are well. It has a name wire vine.
Speaker 4: There's a reason they're very They're very tough, and it
Speaker 4: makes an excellent, excellent groundcover even even take a little
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Speaker 12: Hello Ron, Yes, sir, good morning, good morning. I heard
Speaker 12: you mentioned creeping wirevine and I have a question. We
Speaker 12: put some in this morning as a ground I'm sorry,
Speaker 12: this spring as a groundcover, and we went to Arburgate
Speaker 12: and bought some.
Speaker 2: Of their fertilizer.
Speaker 12: It's mostly blood meal and slate, and I think.
Speaker 2: Some of the products.
Speaker 12: Okay, it's been doing real well, and I fertilized it
Speaker 12: with that fertilizer. It's been in the ground about five months,
Speaker 12: and it's partly shaded and partly full sun, and the
Speaker 12: soil is pure, pure sugar sand, so the water runs.
Speaker 2: Through very quick.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 12: The part that's in full sun has almost has the
Speaker 12: appearance of being overfertilized. I don't know if it's the
Speaker 12: full sun that's doing it or I put too much
Speaker 12: fertilizer on it.
Speaker 4: What does overfertilized look like? What? What are you seeing?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 12: I used a broadcast you know, hand broadcast spreader, and
Speaker 12: I put it on to where you could actually see
Speaker 12: it on the ground. Uh, freddy readily. It's a fine, fine,
Speaker 12: fine material. And if you don't, I don't know if
Speaker 12: I put too much on it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, are you seeing something like? What does the r
Speaker 4: vine look like? That thing makes you think maybe I'll
Speaker 4: put too much on well?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Is it back to the park.
Speaker 12: No, it's gotten real leggy in front and not a
Speaker 12: whole not a whole lot of leaves in the back
Speaker 12: where it's partially shaded. It looks great. It's still green
Speaker 12: and spreading and uh, it's just I just don't know
Speaker 12: if I overfurt lasted, or if it's just the partisan
Speaker 12: full sun is getting too much sun.
Speaker 4: Well, wyvine will put up with a pretty shady area.
Speaker 4: You know, like any plant, if you get in too
Speaker 4: much shade, you start to lose the well, the density
Speaker 4: or the density of the foliage and everything because there's
Speaker 4: not enough sunlight. But warvine's pretty tough and it gets
Speaker 4: a lot of sun. It ought to do pretty good
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: I think full sun is fine, partial shade is fine.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't go less than partial shade. Uh. You probably
Speaker 4: look looking at a new plant that is just really
Speaker 4: establishing roots and sending out a lot of fine growth.
Speaker 4: You can trim it back. You can do that. And
Speaker 4: you know when you take a long vine and you
Speaker 4: cut it back, you're going to get sprouts from the side,
Speaker 4: shoots that come out, and you get a little bit
Speaker 4: more density. It takes it a while to build really
Speaker 4: thick density. Early on, it can look a little bit leggy.
Speaker 12: Well that that's kind of what I thought, And I
Speaker 12: guess my question, my real question is I had thought
Speaker 12: about trimming it back some, but since they're so new
Speaker 12: five months see, maybe not even four months. I'm thinking
Speaker 12: maybe I'll just leave it alone till next spring and
Speaker 12: then maybe trim it back.
Speaker 4: That's fine. There's not a black and white answer on
Speaker 4: that one. You could do it anyway. But if you
Speaker 4: want to wait until spring, let it get a better
Speaker 4: established plant and then share it back a little bit,
Speaker 4: you can do that. It doesn't need sharing all the time.
Speaker 4: In fact, it's best if without too many frequent sharings,
Speaker 4: so that it can grow those shoots and sprawl around
Speaker 4: like it does. It's a good plant.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 4: You made a good choice.
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, we're really in love it well for sure.
Speaker 4: Thank you for the hail, all right, sir, you take care,
Speaker 4: Thanks to the God. I appreciate that, all right, our
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Speaker 4: What is a trace mineral? That means something that is
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Speaker 4: In fact, the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium you need a
Speaker 4: lot of That's why that's the three numbers on every
Speaker 4: fertilizer bag, those three ingredients. But when you get on
Speaker 4: in the trace minerals, they're equally essential for plants. And
Speaker 4: as mite is a mind product, a mind product that
Speaker 4: is put on your lawn to provide that addition to it,
Speaker 4: to add to that bank account in the soil. You
Speaker 4: can go to azimite Texas dot com find out more.
Speaker 4: You can do it on the same day you fertilize
Speaker 4: if you want to. You can do it out of
Speaker 4: the blue, any day of the year. You can put
Speaker 4: down the asimite. It's not going to make your lawn
Speaker 4: take off growing. It's providing the bank account of what
Speaker 4: the lawn needs and plants in general need. You can
Speaker 4: use vegetable gardens and other places in order to thrive.
Speaker 4: Aszmite Texas dot com. That's the website. You're going to
Speaker 4: find azamite in a lot of different places, very widely,
Speaker 4: widely available product. Let's go now to Southwest Houston and
Speaker 4: we're going to talk to Laurel. Hello Laurel, good morning, sir.
Speaker 4: Not can we help today?
Speaker 13: I'd like to know where can I buy a decent
Speaker 13: weed eater and a chainsaw. Due to this barrel mess,
Speaker 13: my backyard is a total disaster and.
Speaker 4: I need a little help. I would go to Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 4: It's in your backyard and they have in the back
Speaker 4: of the store. I always talk about the fertilizers and
Speaker 4: things they sell, but in the back of the store
Speaker 4: they got a little selections of power equipment and they
Speaker 4: have a little shop where they can work on things.
Speaker 4: Go back there, take a look and see what they have.
Speaker 4: But they will have everything you mentioned and a lot
Speaker 4: lot more back there, and they're really close to you.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 13: I never even thought about them for that, because I
Speaker 13: know about the wonderful products that they sell, but I
Speaker 13: never thought about power equipment. Thank you so much for
Speaker 13: your kindness. You have a wonderful day.
Speaker 4: Sir, you too as well. Thank you for the call.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that. If you go up to where two
Speaker 4: forty nine Tamil Parkway comes into belt Way eight, that's
Speaker 4: where you'll find RCW Nurseries. Now. RCW has been in
Speaker 4: business for a very long time, family owned operation that
Speaker 4: by the way, the website is Rcwnurseries dot com. Right
Speaker 4: now is the time to get over there. They have
Speaker 4: fifty percent off of select roses, and RCW carries a
Speaker 4: wider variety of roses or a larger number of roses
Speaker 4: than anybody I've ever seen. But fifty percent off of
Speaker 4: select roses. If they have fifteen percent off all of
Speaker 4: the trees, and that includes citrus. So if you're looking
Speaker 4: at getting satsuma orange or a Myer lemon or something
Speaker 4: one of the citrus, this is a time. Fifteen percent off,
Speaker 4: good time to do that. Get it in the ground now,
Speaker 4: let it get established before the winter arrives. Now it's
Speaker 4: an excellent time. Fifty percent off Cajun hibiscus. Did I
Speaker 4: say fifteen or fifty on the trees, and it's fifteen
Speaker 4: fifteen on trees and citrus, fifty percent off Cajun hibiscus.
Speaker 4: I have a Cajun hibiscus. I love it. Those The
Speaker 4: breeder that created those had an imagination, and boy did
Speaker 4: they ever show it. They're beautiful. Ten percent off all
Speaker 4: of their shrubs. So maybe you need to replace some shrubs,
Speaker 4: or you want to get rid of something that's not
Speaker 4: doing well. Here's a good chance at rc W Nurseries
Speaker 4: RCW nurseries dot com. That's your nork. This is your
Speaker 4: nursery where Tambo Parkway hits belt Way eight. See, we're
Speaker 4: gonna now go to Houston area and talk to Dell. Hello, Dell, Hi, Kiff.
Speaker 8: I just wanted to ask you. I had a large
Speaker 8: stump gland just the other day, and I have a
Speaker 8: big surface of land with no glass. I don't have
Speaker 8: much saw dust at all. I'm just wondering how long
Speaker 8: should I wait before I put down news sad?
Speaker 4: Right now? You can, you can do it. The only
Speaker 4: thing to remember is even though you don't have sawdust,
Speaker 4: that soil was fluffed up. It was loosened up in
Speaker 4: the digging. That happens every time we use a shovel
Speaker 4: or a spade or rotortiller or anything in the in
Speaker 4: the yard, and what looks level will actually become sunken
Speaker 4: over time. So having a little extra soil to a
Speaker 4: mound up a little bit watered in really good and
Speaker 4: then put the sad on it, and that area is
Speaker 4: going to settle where the stump was ground out. But
Speaker 4: you can just get a little bit ahead of it.
Speaker 4: But I'm not talking about a giant, huge mound. I'm
Speaker 4: just a little higher over that area and water the
Speaker 4: soil really well and then lay the sid Get it
Speaker 4: done now so it has the most so it has
Speaker 4: the most time possible. Before we hit h the cross,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to run Dell to a cancer You
Speaker 4: bet all right, folks, we'll be right back if you
Speaker 4: with us. We're going to run straight to the phones
Speaker 4: this morning, head up to Huntsville. Talk to Charles. Hey, Charles,
Speaker 4: welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 14: Well, I've got an apple, a pear, and a peach
Speaker 14: tree that are just not producing the quality of food.
Speaker 14: I wondered if I should fertilize those now with the
Speaker 14: microlife or should I wait till later on the fall
Speaker 14: or winter to do that.
Speaker 4: When you sound like you're talking about the fruit they
Speaker 4: produce doesn't taste good? Or are they not producing enough?
Speaker 14: What is quality? It's quality. They're not They're small and
Speaker 14: they're not producing what they should. Okay, and I did
Speaker 14: couple was a little. Now. I hate to make you
Speaker 14: feel bad, but it's going to be fifty five here
Speaker 14: Wednesday morning.
Speaker 4: Shame on you. Why would you do that?
Speaker 14: Would get you?
Speaker 4: What have I ever done to you? Charles? I hope
Speaker 4: you enjoy that fifty five All right. I hope you
Speaker 4: enjoy the fifty five. Just turn your oven onto three
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty degrees and every now and they're going
Speaker 4: to stick your head in it so you can commiserate
Speaker 4: with us over here. Okay, so fruit, here's the deal.
Speaker 4: You need fruit for it to be a good size fruit.
Speaker 4: You need to have a good strong plant, a tree
Speaker 4: in this case, you need to have adequate water. If
Speaker 4: it's a little drowdy, it's not going to develop fruit size.
Speaker 4: It just won't. And you also need to have to
Speaker 4: have fenned the fruit so that it's spaced out enough
Speaker 4: for the tree to be able to make each fruit larger.
Speaker 4: If they're crowded too close, you're not going to get
Speaker 4: fruit size. Those three things that can cause a lack
Speaker 4: of fruit size. You could put the microlife on now
Speaker 4: and that would be fine to do. I would get
Speaker 4: it done right away, though, because we don't want to
Speaker 4: push things with fertilizer as we get on into the fall,
Speaker 4: because winter is coming and you don't want succulent growth
Speaker 4: coming into the first freeze.
Speaker 14: Well, we'll have warm weather again. It's just a little
Speaker 14: a freak of nature that it's getting down to fifty
Speaker 14: five or one morning at five o'clock. But that's it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all right, well good, okay, yeah, that's what
Speaker 4: I would do. And then if you go there's a
Speaker 4: website called Aggie Horticulture and it is excellent. When you
Speaker 4: go to the Aggi Horticulture website, there's a section you'll
Speaker 4: see fruits and nuts or whatever, and you click on
Speaker 4: that and there's a publication on every type of fruit,
Speaker 4: from avocados to I don't know what fruit begins with
Speaker 4: the Z, but there there are. There's all the publications
Speaker 4: and each one it tells you about caring for it
Speaker 4: and pruning it and everything. And I think that would
Speaker 4: be helpful for you as you try to build that.
Speaker 14: Into Would you repeat the name of it?
Speaker 4: Repeat the name of that A G, G, I, E
Speaker 4: and then a hyphen and then horticulture.
Speaker 14: I got it, agg eat D horticulture. Got it.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's it.
Speaker 14: I'll thank you. When I'm not getting up at five
Speaker 14: point thirty in the morning let the dogs out and
Speaker 14: it's fifty five, I'll think of you guys down there.
Speaker 4: Oh man, Charles, you're a peach. Thanks a lot for
Speaker 4: the call. I appreciate that, all right, let's see here.
Speaker 4: Diana in Cyprus, Texas. Hello, donand welcome to Guarden Line.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's good morning. I'm the one that called in
Speaker 15: yesterday just before you were going off the air about
Speaker 15: our knockout rose bushes. And I have six to an email,
Speaker 15: you know, just with some pictures, but I didn't confirm
Speaker 15: that they worked through. But anyway, I'll try to describe
Speaker 15: it this I can. But they the le what happens
Speaker 15: is the leaves start turning yellow and then uh, the
Speaker 15: branches even start kind of turning dark, and then the
Speaker 15: leaves start turning dark and they start to scribble up,
Speaker 15: and like I describe it, they look like they've been roasted,
Speaker 15: like roasted boccolini or Brussels shouts.
Speaker 4: And I know, I did I do get your Yeah,
Speaker 4: I do, I do get your I did get your pictures.
Speaker 4: I did get your pictures. Fact, I replied pride to
Speaker 4: your email a little bit earlier this morning. The pictures
Speaker 4: are kind of small, so I can't zoom in really
Speaker 4: well on them. They become pixelated. But from what I
Speaker 4: can see on the roads, it's one of two things.
Speaker 4: You might have a root rot in the soil. You
Speaker 4: might uh and when the roots you see symptoms like
Speaker 4: what you're showing above ground, you also okay, they just
Speaker 4: have some stem cankers, some disease is that are killing
Speaker 4: entire stems of the roses. When I see the few
Speaker 4: leaves I can see, I see like brown tips and
Speaker 4: sometimes edges or entire brown leaves, and that's a sign
Speaker 4: that water is not getting to the leaf. And again
Speaker 4: both rot and stem cankers could be causing that. So
Speaker 4: that's as far as I can diagnose that one based
Speaker 4: on based on the photos.
Speaker 15: Okay, well what do you do, Like if it's root rot,
Speaker 15: what is something to do to help prevent that? And
Speaker 15: if it's the tankers, like you're talking about some type
Speaker 15: of organic. I know that meanwhile, as it can be used,
Speaker 15: but not in hot temperatures, like something organic to protect
Speaker 15: your little you know, losers and frogs and things.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, there's not gonna be an organic for the
Speaker 4: stem stem cankers that's going to be consistently effective for you.
Speaker 4: You're out there in Kingwood, I would go to Kingwood
Speaker 4: Garden Center or King.
Speaker 15: Warrens, Cypress. We're in Cypress.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, I have the wrong. Okay, Well you can
Speaker 4: head over to plants for all seasons or go up
Speaker 4: to arborgate and they're both going to be excellent. Take
Speaker 4: take a picture, maybe take a picture with more pixels,
Speaker 4: a bigger photo, and put it on your phone and
Speaker 4: take it to them and let them they can with
Speaker 4: their fingers zoom in and look at it. And I
Speaker 4: think they could probably help you with that. I hate
Speaker 4: for you to go purchase a product for either of
Speaker 4: those problems without knowing for sure which one you have. Okay,
Speaker 4: let's shift over to your lawn questions. What I see
Speaker 4: in your yawn looks to me like there may be
Speaker 4: some past droughty conditions that it went through, But it
Speaker 4: looks a lot like take all root rot, and that
Speaker 4: one has to be diagnosed with almost a hand lens
Speaker 4: getting up early close to it. But if you go
Speaker 4: to an area where the grass is dying, not dead,
Speaker 4: but dying, and you look at a runner, kind of
Speaker 4: pull it up, and new grassroots are nice and white
Speaker 4: and plump and fleshy. Dead grassroots are just a pecan
Speaker 4: brown shriveled look. And if you see a lot of
Speaker 4: dead roots and there's almost no living roots out toward
Speaker 4: the end of the runner, that's probably take all root rot,
Speaker 4: and on my schedule, which is on my website Gardening
Speaker 4: with Skip dot com, you can find the products and
Speaker 4: the timing of what you need to apply for the
Speaker 4: take all root rot. The main thing you can do
Speaker 4: for now is don't let the long get stressed, don't
Speaker 4: let it get dropped stressed, don't water it too often,
Speaker 4: but keep the lawn adequately moist. And if you haven't fertilized,
Speaker 4: a moderate amount of fertilizer would be helpful for that
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 15: Okay, you know, we follow the fertilizing schedule pretty close
Speaker 15: to a t, and so they were just, you know,
Speaker 15: concerned about why this is happening, and maybe it's just
Speaker 15: a lack of water. I don't know, but we try
Speaker 15: not to get it too bad because we had ended
Speaker 15: up a few years back, you know, it had we
Speaker 15: had just the opposite We had a fungus, and so
Speaker 15: it seems it seems to be a little bit different
Speaker 15: this time. But we just don't want it to spread
Speaker 15: and you know, ruin our own yard. I mean, it
Speaker 15: was beautiful back in the spring in the early summer,
Speaker 15: but my husband and I both got really really sick.
Speaker 15: So we weren't able to really tend to our yard
Speaker 15: and take care of things like we normally would. And
Speaker 15: I appreciate your information and I'll certainly check on that.
Speaker 4: All right, One last thing, Dan, I want you to
Speaker 4: purchase a product called Fertile Loam kelated liquid iron and
Speaker 4: other micronutrients. That's a long title. The brand is Fertile
Speaker 4: and it's a gray bottle and kelated liquid iron and
Speaker 4: other micro nutrients. Follow the label. Put it in a
Speaker 4: hose in sprayer and spray the foliage of your grass
Speaker 4: with it. According to it'll take some of those green areas,
Speaker 4: those yellow areas and green them up again and give
Speaker 4: the grass a better chance of getting back on its feet.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, all that checked that word after fertile on What.
Speaker 5: Was that again?
Speaker 4: C h E l A t E D. C h
Speaker 4: E l A t E D. Thanks again for the call, Dina.
Speaker 4: We will we'll be right back, folks. I'm gonna take
Speaker 4: a little break here seven one three two one two
Speaker 4: K t r H. If you'd like to call in
Speaker 4: on garden line for this segment.
Speaker 16: UH.
Speaker 4: Nitrofos superturf is a fertilizer. You hear me talk about
Speaker 4: all the time. It is the Silver Bag by Nitropos.
Speaker 4: Widely available. You will find it in all kinds of places.
Speaker 4: It's designed for our summer lawns, in other words, our climate,
Speaker 4: our soils.
Speaker 11: UH.
Speaker 4: The way that it releases its nutrients is gradually over time,
Speaker 4: primarily the nitrogens. Gradual release of nutrients over time, which
Speaker 4: gives you a nice smooth growth rate that reduces mowing
Speaker 4: significantly because you know, if you put on an all
Speaker 4: at once fertilizer, you get this flush of growth and
Speaker 4: you've got a momar. Well. Superturf is designed for this
Speaker 4: area and as a result, you just see super density
Speaker 4: to your turf when you use it. It works well,
Speaker 4: and it's widely available. You're going to find super turf
Speaker 4: in places like Plantation, Ace Hardware out in the Richmond
Speaker 4: Rosenberg area. Growers Outlet up in Willis has it. For
Speaker 4: those of you that are listening inside the City of
Speaker 4: Memorial Drive, Ace Hardware City is going to be another
Speaker 4: place you can find that super turf. We're going to
Speaker 4: go now out to let's see here. We're going to
Speaker 4: head to Kingwood and talk to Joe.
Speaker 16: Hello Joe, good morning, Skip. I had a question this
Speaker 16: morning about a box wood. I planted them last fall
Speaker 16: and I sent you a photo. I don't know you've
Speaker 16: had a chance to pull it up yet. Yes, but
Speaker 16: a few of the branches have started, some of them
Speaker 16: have started turning yellow. Some of them are turning white,
Speaker 16: so that you know they're dying. Besides pruning the dead
Speaker 16: branches off, is there anything I can treat the plant
Speaker 16: with to prevent further damage?
Speaker 4: Now, pruning the dead off, But when you do that,
Speaker 4: look at the stem and see if there is a
Speaker 4: split in the stem, like the bark is peeling back.
Speaker 4: And I don't mean just like that thin outer gray
Speaker 4: or tan bark. I mean like split back to whatever
Speaker 4: the interior wood is. And that could be a canker.
Speaker 4: And if that's the case, you want to prune below that.
Speaker 4: And then I would spray my pruners with lysol in
Speaker 4: between cuts, just to avoid spraying it. It's just an
Speaker 4: extra measure to be careful with that. It could be
Speaker 4: that something's going on in the roots. But when I
Speaker 4: look at the plant as a whole, it seems like
Speaker 4: it's doing pretty good. It's just one area. So it
Speaker 4: may be that all those dead areas in the photo
Speaker 4: connect to one stem coming out of the ground. So
Speaker 4: kind of get on your hands and knees and figure
Speaker 4: that one out, get it pruned out, and then just
Speaker 4: keep a watch on it. There are things underground that
Speaker 4: can cause the die back of the top like that,
Speaker 4: and we maybe be just seeing it at an early stage,
Speaker 4: but keep watching it and if if that pruning it
Speaker 4: out doesn't work, then maybe we take other steps to
Speaker 4: try to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 16: And would that involve the treating the roots, well.
Speaker 4: It could like if it were nematoad that this isn't
Speaker 4: Nema toad's in my opinion, but if it were, you
Speaker 4: can't treat for them. If it is a disease Verticillium
Speaker 4: fusarium or fungal wilts of the soil that can attack
Speaker 4: plants and boxwood susceptible to one of those, then I
Speaker 4: don't know that we would have a good funge aside
Speaker 4: to shut that down, but we could. We could look
Speaker 4: into it and see down specifically.
Speaker 16: Okay, Skip, thanks for your help.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 4: I appreciate your call very very much. For those of
Speaker 4: you that are dealing with a canopy of trees in
Speaker 4: your property and you're concerned about limbs coming down, or
Speaker 4: maybe you just haven't looked up and really taken a
Speaker 4: good look at them. Plese that are not trained and
Speaker 4: pruned periodically and properly can develop really bad problems, like
Speaker 4: narrow branch angles that will split easily in a storm.
Speaker 4: When it comes to taking care of your trees, I
Speaker 4: can't express enough the importance of proper tree care during
Speaker 4: these storm seasons. Now, it's always good to do proper
Speaker 4: tree career. There's our midwinter pruning and then selected pruning
Speaker 4: through the year that needs to get done depending on
Speaker 4: the species and the condition that it's in. But Martin
Speaker 4: spoon More from Affordable Tree is an expert at this.
Speaker 4: He's been doing it for a very long time. Call
Speaker 4: him seven to one three six nine nine two six
Speaker 4: sixty three. Let me give you that again seven one
Speaker 4: three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. You can
Speaker 4: also go to his website Afftree Service dot com. He
Speaker 4: stays busy because he does a good job and people
Speaker 4: hire him to come back and do it again. Have
Speaker 4: him come look at your tree, and if you're planning
Speaker 4: on doing anything around those trees, like putting in a
Speaker 4: trench or some other issue that driveway over the part
Speaker 4: of the root system. You need to get Martin out
Speaker 4: there first to advise you on how to go about
Speaker 4: that and what to do to help that tree through
Speaker 4: the process. These trees are valuable, very important, not just
Speaker 4: to the value of your property, but to you being
Speaker 4: able to get out in the shade and enjoy the garden.
Speaker 4: For you, being able to have that shade maybe on
Speaker 4: a roof, that helps cut down on your utility bills.
Speaker 4: A lot of reasons that we love our trees. Don't
Speaker 4: mess around and don't turn them loose to some guy
Speaker 4: that owns a pick up a chainsaw and sticks out
Speaker 4: business cards on your door. That does not mean they
Speaker 4: are an expert. We're going to now go to Texas
Speaker 4: City and talk to Brandon. Hello, Brandon.
Speaker 17: Martin Skip, good morning.
Speaker 4: Are that yes, sir? How can we have it?
Speaker 17: I've got a tree that's growing between moth house in
Speaker 17: my neighbor's house. It's right on the fence line, about
Speaker 17: two foot on their side of the fence.
Speaker 15: Sign off.
Speaker 17: Soon it appears to be like I called a chinaberry tree. Okay,
Speaker 17: she's got a couple of she's got a couple of
Speaker 17: mom there and one of the far back has grown
Speaker 17: the biggest grown in underneath my sidewalk slab has broken
Speaker 17: my sidewalk oato concrete patio in and that she's got
Speaker 17: another one growing. She does not want to cut it.
Speaker 17: I'm trying to figure out some kind of root barrier
Speaker 17: system I can put it in between. There must have
Speaker 17: been my patio to protect me.
Speaker 4: What would be recommendation, Well, okay, my first answer would
Speaker 4: have been, those trees grow fast, tend to be very
Speaker 4: brittle branched, and and uh break a lot. They're probably
Speaker 4: more more broken. Collar bones on middle school boys can
Speaker 4: be attested attributed to chinaberry trees than any the tree
Speaker 4: because the branch is break and you fall out. If
Speaker 4: you can't do anything like that to it, you might
Speaker 4: want to call Martin spoon more because he can also
Speaker 4: advise you on a root barrier that you might want
Speaker 4: to be putting in. He can direct you to that.
Speaker 4: I haven't talked to him about all the services that
Speaker 4: they do on that, but I would. I would definitely
Speaker 4: start with him and see he probably can want to
Speaker 4: come out, do a consultation, look at the situation and
Speaker 4: tell you what they would need to do. And what
Speaker 4: it would cost to do a barrier like that. Perfect right,
Speaker 4: let me give you I'm going to give you his
Speaker 4: number at seven to one, three, six, nine, nine, twenty
Speaker 4: six sixty three. When you're doing that kind of barrier
Speaker 4: you need, it needs to be a decent distance from
Speaker 4: the tree because trees have to have anchorage. It needs
Speaker 4: to go adequately far enough down in the soil and
Speaker 4: be a strong enough material to last and not Some
Speaker 4: people say, well, they're going to put a piece of
Speaker 4: ten in the soil, will ten rusts and so over
Speaker 4: time that that's not going to hold up. Okay, thank you, sir,
Speaker 4: you bet, thank you, thank you very much for the call.
Speaker 4: Oh let's see here. Ace Hardware Stores are the place
Speaker 4: where you go for everything you need. And Langham Creek
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware that is at the intersection of Barker Cypress
Speaker 4: and FM five twenty nine over in the Copperfield area
Speaker 4: of Houston. They're having a shindig Friday, August thirtieth, Saturday,
Speaker 4: the thirty first Sunday, the first They're giving away drawings
Speaker 4: like an Eco Ego powered string tremor, ten or fifty
Speaker 4: bucks trimmer, a Weber gas grill, four hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: dollars gas grill, a pain of room makeover two hundred
Speaker 4: dollars value. You need to get over there and see
Speaker 4: that just right. Write that weekend down, last weekend this month.
Speaker 4: Get over there. They're going to have activities that They're
Speaker 4: going to have demonstrations of various kinds of barbecue grills
Speaker 4: and then a pizza oven. That's cool stuff and they've
Speaker 4: redone the whole store. That's why it's a gree grand
Speaker 4: reopening Langham Creek. Ace hardwe You know you can find
Speaker 4: Ace Hardware stores by going to Ace Hardware dot com
Speaker 4: and the store locator will show you all the stores
Speaker 4: and little red dots all over the word to use today.
Speaker 4: Thanks for listening to Garden and I. We're gonna take
Speaker 4: a little break here for the top of hour for
Speaker 4: the news. I will be back and when I come back,
Speaker 4: we'll be back with your calls and Joyce. If you
Speaker 4: want to hang around till then you will be our
Speaker 4: very first caller up for the rest of your seven
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Speaker 1: Age r H Guarden Line with skin Rickards.
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Speaker 4: Welcome, Welcome back to garden Line. Glad you're listening in
Speaker 4: on this Sunday morning. We're having a good time talking
Speaker 4: about all kinds of things related to having a successful lawn,
Speaker 4: a successful garden.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 4: No matter what the plants are, if you follow simple principles,
Speaker 4: make those plants happy, you're going to have success. And
Speaker 4: that's kind of what we try to help you with here.
Speaker 4: You know a lot of people said, my grandma had
Speaker 4: a green thumb, she could grow anything, and I can't
Speaker 4: grow anything. I got a brown thumb. Well, you don't
Speaker 4: have a brown thumb, you have an uninformed thumb. Grandma
Speaker 4: grew stuff not by magic, but because what she did
Speaker 4: were things that the plants liked. She used plants that
Speaker 4: wanted to be there, She took care of of them
Speaker 4: in the way they needed to be taken care of.
Speaker 4: And you can have the same success. So let's talk
Speaker 4: about things like that. I tell you what. Right now,
Speaker 4: I have a special guest that I've asked to come
Speaker 4: on today, Danny. Let's see here. I'm just gonna bring
Speaker 4: Danny right on here. Hello, Danny, how are you? Danny
Speaker 4: Lenderman from an Enchanted Forest Garden Center.
Speaker 2: Donna Richmond, Good morning, skip how are you.
Speaker 4: I'm doing good. I'm doing good. It's good to talk
Speaker 4: to you. Thanks for greening to come.
Speaker 2: On you bet, you bet not a problem. Enjoy it.
Speaker 4: Well. I want to pick your brain because you know,
Speaker 4: I've been to in Channa Forest a lot of times
Speaker 4: and I'm always enthralled by your section of butterfly larval
Speaker 4: plants and all the different flowers you guys carry that
Speaker 4: support the adult butterflies for nectar. You have a great
Speaker 4: you have a great selection of things out there, and
Speaker 4: so I wanted to pick your brain a little bit
Speaker 4: about what are some of the plants that you think
Speaker 4: are that you like best for attracting the adult and
Speaker 4: then some of the plants that might go along with
Speaker 4: that that would be good for feeding the caterpillars, because
Speaker 4: you got to take care of the babies if you
Speaker 4: want them to grow up and be butterflies.
Speaker 2: Right exactly exactly. You know, every day to walk by
Speaker 2: the lantana tables is always covered up with butterflies. So
Speaker 2: that's probably my goat to if you come in here
Speaker 2: and say you want to attract some butterflies. Lantana is
Speaker 2: a very tough plant, resilient and it blooms all summer
Speaker 2: long and attracts all the butterflies. It is very very
Speaker 2: hard to beat.
Speaker 4: That's a great one. In Lantana. It used to be
Speaker 4: we just had the big, old, giant waist high lantanas
Speaker 4: and then only the yellow new gold that's everywhere. But boy,
Speaker 4: now you got a lot of them that are compact
Speaker 4: and they fit into a lot of additional landscape situations
Speaker 4: really well.
Speaker 2: You bet. Yeah, there's tons of colors now. It's almost
Speaker 2: almost hard to keep track.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand that, trust me. I do any other
Speaker 4: particular plants for feeding adult butterflies that you think would help.
Speaker 2: You know, pents will really do really well. Pent is
Speaker 2: one of a great annual They doing some.
Speaker 4: I see a lot of swallowtails on pentuswa for sure,
Speaker 4: for sure, And I was just cutting in there, keep going.
Speaker 2: No, you're fine, You're fine. Yeah. Pentas are very resilient
Speaker 2: annual right, so it it can handle some light shade
Speaker 2: and tolerate full sun. So and it does well. It's
Speaker 2: a very versatile.
Speaker 4: Another another one too that you can get in a
Speaker 4: big plant form or a pretty compact.
Speaker 2: Plant, right exactly exactly, all all multiple different colors. So
Speaker 2: that's a really good option. Gregg's missed is another really
Speaker 2: good one. I like Greg's missed a lot.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that is a kind of almost a ground covery,
Speaker 4: sprawling really light blue, pretty shaggy white blue flowers and
Speaker 4: brings in the I guess the Queens. I don't know
Speaker 4: mon our tresso on that with the Queens.
Speaker 2: I know for sure, for sure the Queens. But you know,
Speaker 2: sal salvia is really good. There's so many different types
Speaker 2: of salvias, different colors, different heights. So I mean, there's
Speaker 2: so many good plants that that attract butterflies, you know.
Speaker 2: But like I said, the lantana table, when I walk
Speaker 2: by that constantly, there's butterflies on that table.
Speaker 4: You have to have a tennis racket to clear the
Speaker 4: way butterflies in there.
Speaker 2: Well, always tell people if you walk, if you walk
Speaker 2: around the nursery, you can see what, you know, what
Speaker 2: what each butterfly likes. You'll see him sitting out on
Speaker 2: the table, you know, just munching away. So it's pretty
Speaker 2: neat to watch. And you know, just be quiet and watch that.
Speaker 4: That's a that is good advice for for a gardeners.
Speaker 4: Be quiet and watch on a lot of different things. Uh,
Speaker 4: some of my favorite. Of course, people love the monarch,
Speaker 4: you know, that's kind of like the poster butterfly for butterflies. Uh,
Speaker 4: And there's so many things we can do take care
Speaker 4: of them here. There's also the Gulf fritill area. It's
Speaker 4: kind of an orange a little smaller than monarch, but
Speaker 4: an orange butterfly. It's really easy around here. And then
Speaker 4: the swallowtails. You know, there's a there is a it's
Speaker 4: called Mexican sunflower tithonia that the swallowtails really love that
Speaker 4: one too, but they like a lot, right, Yeah, so
Speaker 4: those are cool.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Then we also have the larval food sources. So i'd
Speaker 4: like to talk about what are some of the things
Speaker 4: that you would suggest people, you know, put in their
Speaker 4: landscape to feed the larvae that they'll then turn into butterflies.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, so it really depends on which butterfly
Speaker 2: you're wanting to attract, right. That's it's funny how it works.
Speaker 2: It's not a it's not one plant's gonna attract every
Speaker 2: every butterfly. So most people are familiar with the milkweed.
Speaker 2: And when you go to milkweed butterfly weed, there's so
Speaker 2: many varieties of that by itself, right, there's tropical and
Speaker 2: native swamp and two barosa and giant and there's just
Speaker 2: so many different ones. So me, milkwheed is the main
Speaker 2: thing you got to have for the for the monarchs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a that is a pretty interesting thing how
Speaker 4: that works too. It's you know, it's a plant that's
Speaker 4: poisonous to most things, and yet the butterflies are able
Speaker 4: to take that poison and break it down and it
Speaker 4: doesn't hurt the caterpillars of the butterflies fur. Yeah, there's
Speaker 4: pretty monarch butterfly.
Speaker 2: Pretty pretty amazing, pretty amazing to think about how all
Speaker 2: that stuff works.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is. It is, Uh, one of my favorite
Speaker 4: I mentioned I like the go fridlary. The passion vine
Speaker 4: is one that brings the friddlllary is.
Speaker 2: In right, Yeah, and and they're reliably on that, reliably
Speaker 2: on the passion vines. It's amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah. What are some other larval food sources that you
Speaker 4: guys have on hand?
Speaker 2: Well, for like the the pipe vine swallowtail, that's going
Speaker 2: to be the Dutchman's pipe vine. Embriota is what we carry.
Speaker 4: That's the groundcover.
Speaker 2: That's the groundcover one. You know, the flowers are pretty hidden.
Speaker 2: You don't really ever get to see the flowers unless
Speaker 2: you search for them. But that's a that's a really
Speaker 2: easy and small compact plant, right You don't you don't
Speaker 2: need a lot of room to grow that one. It
Speaker 2: grows in the small area, so it's not a real
Speaker 2: invasive plant to keep and and have room for because
Speaker 2: it just doesn't take much up. But it really really
Speaker 2: pretty butterflies. Those are the dark almost black kind of
Speaker 2: purple butterflies, really pretty.
Speaker 4: They are gorgeous. Well, Danny, Unfortunately I have these commercial
Speaker 4: breaks I have to take every day, and then we're
Speaker 4: going to take one and we're going to come back.
Speaker 4: We're kind of holding back on calls for right now
Speaker 4: because we want to spend some time getting this information
Speaker 4: out there. But we will be right back with Danny
Speaker 4: Linderman from Enchanted Forest Garden Center talking all things butterflies,
Speaker 4: and if we can squeeze it in, I'd like to
Speaker 4: talk about some hummingbirds too. We'll be right back. Are
Speaker 4: talking with Danny Linderman from Enchanted Forest Garden Center down
Speaker 4: in the Richmond, Texas area about butterfly gardens. And we've
Speaker 4: been talking about the plants that attract the adults in
Speaker 4: and plants now we're talking about that attract the larval,
Speaker 4: the butterfly larvae in. Danny, welcome back, and again thanks
Speaker 4: for agreeing to come on. I have one thing I've
Speaker 4: always kind of gotten a kick of over at your
Speaker 4: place is that when people go there to see these plants,
Speaker 4: there's butterflies all over the place. So, as you said,
Speaker 4: they can just walk around and see what butterflies like.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you. Uh, but also you got a little
Speaker 4: larvae that are on these plants, and it's almost like
Speaker 4: a sour dough starter situation where if you want a
Speaker 4: butterfly garden starter, they buy one of your larval food
Speaker 4: sources and they you stick a larva on it to
Speaker 4: take home if they want, if you got one at
Speaker 4: that point in time, they're right, Hey, Danny, I'm sorry
Speaker 4: I had your mic off. You are back on now.
Speaker 4: Uh did you hear what I said?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Yes, sir. Yeah, it's all right, plug and play. Deal.
Speaker 2: You just planted, plant the plant and wait, wait a
Speaker 2: little while, and the butterfly will hatch and you'll have
Speaker 2: a butterfly. Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I tell you for kids. That is so so
Speaker 4: cool to get to see what the crystalis looks like. Uh,
Speaker 4: and you know, watch the stages, watch the butterfly, you know,
Speaker 4: as they come out and they got all these wrinkly
Speaker 4: wings that suddenly they pump all their juices through them
Speaker 4: and straighten them out and everything. That's pretty cool stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: No, it's it's amazing to watch. It's amazing to watch,
Speaker 7: and the kids really enjoyed.
Speaker 2: I have I enjoyed showing that the kids, you know,
Speaker 2: what's going on and explaining even even adults. Well I really, yeah,
Speaker 2: exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: If you're gardening, right, you're got to be a kid
Speaker 4: at heart, so that.
Speaker 2: You're learning every day, learning every day.
Speaker 4: Isn't that the truth? Well, those are some butterfly types
Speaker 4: of plants, and I know, you guys, we're not even
Speaker 4: hardly touching the surface of all the different species you carry.
Speaker 2: Out there for sure.
Speaker 4: But what about hummingbirds? You know, we hummingbirds are back now.
Speaker 4: I had one show up in my yard the other day,
Speaker 4: and so we can get feeders and stuff out, But
Speaker 4: what about plants for hummingbirds? What are some things you
Speaker 4: might recommend to someone interested in creating a habitat where
Speaker 4: they want to come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot of good ones. I was, you know,
Speaker 2: I had the luxury of being out here early in
Speaker 2: the morning and late in the evening. So last night
Speaker 2: I was out here and it was amazing to see
Speaker 2: how many humming birds were flying around. Unbelievable. So so
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of the flowers that that
Speaker 2: the butterflies like, the humming birds enjoy too. So you
Speaker 2: almost get a two for when you when you plant
Speaker 2: plant these things. Salva is one of my favorites. You'll
Speaker 2: you'll see you'll see the humming birds on the salvia
Speaker 2: religiously really really good and a really good plant on
Speaker 2: top of that, right, so you're you're you can't go wrong. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure. Turk's cap is one of my favorites as well.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a Texas native, you know, it's a
Speaker 2: it's a really really tough plant, and it can grow
Speaker 2: in the sun or the shade. So if you you know,
Speaker 2: have a shady yard, that that's probably one of your
Speaker 2: better bets to track the humming birds in really really hard.
Speaker 4: We always say that plants with red tubular flowers attract
Speaker 4: them in and they do, and things like the coral honeysuckle.
Speaker 4: It's not invasive like the wild Japanese honeysuckle, but it's
Speaker 4: a very tame little vine. But it produces beautiful little
Speaker 4: flowers that are attractive to them. But like you said that,
Speaker 4: there's plants that aren't red tubular flowers. They like I
Speaker 4: was when I saw salvia garnetic how popular that was
Speaker 4: with hummingbirds. You know, the thing gets it can get
Speaker 4: about four feet or some more tall, right, and it
Speaker 4: has those deep, deep blue to purple kinds of flowers.
Speaker 4: There's a type that's kind of sky blue, but the
Speaker 4: hummingbirds really go for that.
Speaker 2: I think the main thing is from what I witness
Speaker 2: out here, is a tubular shaped and preferably a brighter
Speaker 2: colored flower, right, So you don't want a real pale,
Speaker 2: washed out color, and most flowers are fairly bright, but
Speaker 2: a tubular shaped flower is the key. But but I've
Speaker 2: seen them on lantana and you know pintos that they're on.
Speaker 2: They get on everything, but there's a couple of things
Speaker 2: that they really prefer for sure.
Speaker 4: That is good, and they are real popular. It's kind
Speaker 4: of like monarch butterflies being so popular. Because people are
Speaker 4: concerned about, you know, the the loss of some of
Speaker 4: their habitat in Mexico and and other issues that they're
Speaker 4: having to fight. But well, I tell you that hummingbirds
Speaker 4: are another popular when people really get into that they care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you bet, you bet, Yeah, the watch.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no kidding. I'm trying to think of some others
Speaker 4: that around my house. I see the hummingbirds on a lot.
Speaker 4: A trumpet creeper. Now that's a little over enthusiastic line,
Speaker 4: but it'll it'll bring them in a lot too. They
Speaker 4: love that. And butterfly bush uh uh, butterfly bush. In fact,
Speaker 4: speaking of there's a two for plant, the butterfly bus looms.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 4: They attract the butterflies, that's why it has its name.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: But they attract hummingbirds too, and uh, I don't know.
Speaker 4: If you cut them early in the morning, they make
Speaker 4: a half decent cupflower. Some of them have fragrance B bombarda.
Speaker 4: That's another one that I've noticed that they really really
Speaker 4: seem to like.
Speaker 7: I mean, humming bird, humming bird bush. The Hamelia patton
Speaker 7: is a you know, obviously a good one too.
Speaker 4: The back to those red tubular flowers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, firecracker plant. Fire spike is another one I see
Speaker 2: them on and that's a shade a shade plant. So
Speaker 2: if you have a shady area, fire spike will be good.
Speaker 4: Okay, firecracker plant, fire spike. Those are some other good ones. Well,
Speaker 4: I think that you know, it's it's great to feed hummingbirds,
Speaker 4: and I do. I've got some feeders that I love
Speaker 4: for the hummingbirds. I think it's great just to have
Speaker 4: them around the landscape, attract them with the landscape as well.
Speaker 4: There remember the old movie Field of Dreams. They said,
Speaker 4: if you build it, they will come. And that is
Speaker 4: sure you go. Butterflies and hummingbirds. Uh, and you you
Speaker 4: guys are really set up to do that kind of thing.
Speaker 4: There any other plants we haven't talked about with the
Speaker 4: hummingbirds or the butterflies that you think people ought to
Speaker 4: be aware of or ought to ought to consider.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: So I was thinking about a while ago. One of
Speaker 2: the neatest uh caterpillars for the for the butterfly is
Speaker 2: the giant swallowtail. I don't know if you witnessed that.
Speaker 2: And they they get on the citrus trees and.
Speaker 7: They uh, they look like bark they look like maybe
Speaker 7: bird poo. It's it's a really really unique, unique, uh caterpillar.
Speaker 7: It's it's one that really stands out in my mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh that camouflage that nature has provided of
Speaker 4: looking like literally like bird poop and folks. If you
Speaker 4: haven't seen them, you just go online and google it.
Speaker 4: Swallowtail caterpillars. But we're talking about larval plants, so there
Speaker 4: is the citrus plants themselves are a good larval food
Speaker 4: source for swallowtails.
Speaker 2: Yep, and roue also for those oh rue okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: ruined fennyl for the black swallowtail. We mentioned passion bindes
Speaker 2: earlier for the golfer delivery. Okay, but there's you know,
Speaker 2: so many, so many neat things to do out there,
Speaker 2: and you know you don't have to do a giant
Speaker 2: patch of this stuff to make things happen. So the
Speaker 2: more the merrier. But it doesn't require a giant patch
Speaker 2: of anything to make to make butterflies come to your yard.
Speaker 4: There you go. So if you have one container on
Speaker 4: your porch, you can bring in butterflies and then hopefully
Speaker 4: from there it'll become addictive and you'll fill the whole
Speaker 4: yard with it. But uh, that's a that's a very
Speaker 4: good point. I think another thing, Danny that people need
Speaker 4: to think about is, and this is true of landscaping
Speaker 4: in general, but also butterfly attracting is the different seasons.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know that when we go from spring where everything
Speaker 4: wants to bloom, to summer when we have much fewer blooms,
Speaker 4: still have many good plants. You need to have plants
Speaker 4: that are going to look good in summer, and you
Speaker 4: mentioned lantana as an example of that, but that carries
Speaker 4: you through and then fall bloomers. We have some really
Speaker 4: nice fall blooming plants that can kind of extend the
Speaker 4: season for certain certain things. You know, our hummingbirds are
Speaker 4: here feeding and they're about to do their migration in
Speaker 4: many most of the time, and so that'd be good
Speaker 4: to think about all the seasons and make sure you
Speaker 4: got something blooming or at least the foliage for the
Speaker 4: caterpillars at all those times.
Speaker 2: You bet I was. I was thinking about it. Well
Speaker 2: ago diant this I remember last winter wasn't many things blooming,
Speaker 2: but we had Diantas were a really really tough plant,
Speaker 2: and there were butterflies all over the dianthus. So I
Speaker 2: don't I don't remember that in the year's past, but
Speaker 2: last year it was really intense interesting, so that that
Speaker 2: was really neat And that's a good winter time plant.
Speaker 2: That will you know, if you do have the butterflies
Speaker 2: or even moss. You know, we we we we think
Speaker 2: about butterflies, but the poor little moss, which are basically
Speaker 2: the same same family, they get left out, but they're
Speaker 2: probably one of the better, better pollinators. Not as pretty,
Speaker 2: but they're a very very good pollinator.
Speaker 4: Well, while we're talking about that, we've got those evening
Speaker 4: blooming plants that the things that scent send out their
Speaker 4: scent in the evening, like moonflower vine, which is basically
Speaker 4: like a morning glory, and Duranta the yeah, Duranta, what's it?
Speaker 4: What I'm trying to Brugmancia That angel trumpet.
Speaker 2: Romancia romant is a really really unique flower.
Speaker 4: And those are those are bloomed, Those bloom late in
Speaker 4: the day and sometimes in the evening, some of them,
Speaker 4: and that attracts those nocturnal moths that come out and
Speaker 4: feed on those.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I'll mention it too because it's one of
Speaker 2: my favorite is the hummingbird moth. I'm sure you're familiar
Speaker 2: with that, and those are very very unique. Always basically
Speaker 2: tell tell people that they look like a humming bird,
Speaker 2: but they're wooly like a wooly mammoth. It just they're hairy.
Speaker 2: It is a it is amazing to watch those things
Speaker 2: because they're the same shape, same size. You know, if
Speaker 2: you if you just glant at it, you think it's
Speaker 2: a humming bird, but you get close to it because
Speaker 2: it'll let you. They're not even afraid of you, like
Speaker 2: a hummingbird would. You'll fly away. But these hummingbird moths
Speaker 2: you can almost put them in your hand while they're flying.
Speaker 2: It's a it's amazing the watch.
Speaker 4: That is awesome. Well, Danny, as always, I run out
Speaker 4: of time before I run out of thing to talk about,
Speaker 4: but thank you so much for coming on today give us,
Speaker 4: giving us some inspiration on some of the plants that
Speaker 4: we can be planting, because I know people want to
Speaker 4: have more butterflies, more hummingbirds, and it's great that you
Speaker 4: guys have it set up for both the blooms and
Speaker 4: the things for the larval to eat. So thanks again.
Speaker 2: Coming on, Thanks for having me on skip Take.
Speaker 4: Care, yes, sir, yes, sir all right, folks, I'm going
Speaker 4: to have you back with us looking forward to Well,
Speaker 4: that was fun talking about hummingbirds and talking about butterflies,
Speaker 4: by the way, fun fact. I like to nerd out
Speaker 4: every now and then. But I want to give you
Speaker 4: some facts about hummingbirds. You probably didn't know by the way.
Speaker 4: They are arriving here now. They are here now, some
Speaker 4: of the already showed up in my yard. Hummingbirds. Three
Speaker 4: hundred and twenty five different species of hummingbirds exist. That
Speaker 4: is the second largest bird family in the world. Is
Speaker 4: that amazing? A hummingbird weighs about a tenth of announce,
Speaker 4: about the weight of a penny. A hummingbird braid is
Speaker 4: about the side of a bebee. They're the only bird
Speaker 4: that can fly backwards and even hover upside down due
Speaker 4: to the ability of their wing their shoulder shoulders to move,
Speaker 4: the freedom of motion in their shoulder. Is that amazing
Speaker 4: stuff right there? I just think it's a sack. Here's
Speaker 4: one more a hummingbird. You've seen the little bills on them.
Speaker 4: They have long, skinny bills. Their tongue will go that
Speaker 4: much further out from the bill, about that far, and
Speaker 4: they can move their tongue in and out lapping up
Speaker 4: nectar from a big, deep flower twelve times a second.
Speaker 4: So just imagine a sewing machine running at full throttle.
Speaker 4: That's what a hummingbird tongue can do going out and
Speaker 4: they're just pulling all that nectar up out of the flower.
Speaker 4: Cool stuff. I won't bore you anymore. Oh one more.
Speaker 4: They can fly up to sixty miles an hour. Typically
Speaker 4: they're around half of that little or half of that.
Speaker 4: But the amazing little birds. And by the way, if
Speaker 4: you're into hummingbirds, you need to be into Wallbirds Unlimited.
Speaker 4: Wallbirds Unlimited has six stores in the Houston area. You
Speaker 4: can go to wu bu dot com forward slash Houston.
Speaker 4: There you're going to find hummingbird feeders. Look for the
Speaker 4: high perch feeder. It's my favorite one, the high perch.
Speaker 4: But they have others that are also great, also awesome.
Speaker 4: They have the hummingbird food that has something that helps
Speaker 4: it not go bad so fast in it it lasts.
Speaker 4: It doesn't you know, turn bad. When you put sugar
Speaker 4: water out in hot weather, I mean it's going to
Speaker 4: ferment and do all kinds of things not good for
Speaker 4: the health of the hummingbird, so you need to change
Speaker 4: yours out every few days just to keep good fresh
Speaker 4: material there. While you're at Wilbirds, you'll find every other
Speaker 4: thing you might want for birds. They stock it all
Speaker 4: and they have the top quality, top quality of food,
Speaker 4: top quality of houses, feeders, whatever it is at Wildbird's Unlimited.
Speaker 4: We're going to now go out to Bissooria and talk
Speaker 4: to Steve. Steve, thank you for waiting, and welcome to
Speaker 4: garden Line. I think Steve is either making lunch or
Speaker 4: chopping wood. I don't know what's going on out there.
Speaker 4: We're going to come back. Let's see Stevere there. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 4: all right, go ahead, I put that on hold, Chris,
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Speaker 4: Now is it. I'm going to head out now to
Speaker 4: the Galleria area and we're going to talk to Suzanne. Hello, Suzanne,
Speaker 4: welcome to gode morning.
Speaker 12: I have some Peggy Martin roses that were planted this spring.
Speaker 4: They were doing great.
Speaker 9: Now it looks like they've got some kind of a
Speaker 9: something that's eating the leaves.
Speaker 12: Help.
Speaker 4: Uh when you say eating the leaves, can you describe
Speaker 4: it to me?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 9: There, they're not there.
Speaker 8: The it looks like it's just.
Speaker 2: There's nothing.
Speaker 4: Who is The whole leaf is gone. It's not like
Speaker 4: the circular cut is taken out of the room.
Speaker 9: No no, no, no no, it's like the veins. Not the veins,
Speaker 9: but the main part of the stem is still there,
Speaker 9: but the.
Speaker 16: Leaf is gone.
Speaker 9: Okay, And it could be a certain areas.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, it could be a caterpillar. It could
Speaker 4: be a beatle. If it's a caterpillar, it's probably around
Speaker 4: there somewhere, and you may find it hiding under a
Speaker 4: leaf for along the stee. Roses are a big enough
Speaker 4: plant that some caterpillars will go down on the celt
Speaker 4: surface during the day and then come out and feed
Speaker 4: at night. I don't think that's what you're dealing with
Speaker 4: on a rose, but you might try checking them in
Speaker 4: the evening just to be sure. It could be a beetle.
Speaker 4: There are beetles that will attack if you wanted to
Speaker 4: just go with something a little on the safer side,
Speaker 4: more natural side. Spinosid it's spi n sad. It kills
Speaker 4: things that eat leaves. It kills things that eats leaves,
Speaker 4: so caterpillars and beetles are both target pests for spinosid.
Speaker 4: And it soaks into the tissues of the leaf, so
Speaker 4: it sticks around a little bit longer than some of
Speaker 4: the other products that might be out there. But I
Speaker 4: would watch and maybe even look at an area and
Speaker 4: kind of okay, what leaves are there and not there?
Speaker 4: Come back the next day and see if this is
Speaker 4: an active problem, or if it happened but now it's
Speaker 4: not continuing to happen, because you'd hate to spray the
Speaker 4: pest has already gone.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, and where can I find that?
Speaker 4: Oh? Gosh, you can. You can find it anywhere. I mean,
Speaker 4: it is very, very widely available. You're in the gallery,
Speaker 4: are there? You're not far from Buchanans Native Plants, which
Speaker 4: is up in the Hearts. You're not far from Southwest
Speaker 4: Feed and Fertilizer Cornerick this Yeah, down in Southwest Houston.
Speaker 4: Those places are both going to have some form of spinosid.
Speaker 4: And any ace hardware store that you find should have
Speaker 4: a spinosid type in secticide. All right, okay, okay, thank
Speaker 4: you so much, Thanks a lot, you bad. I appreciate
Speaker 4: appreciate your call. See here, where are we? Yeah, time
Speaker 4: for a little break here Ron in Cleveland. You're gonna
Speaker 4: be first when we come back. The phone number if
Speaker 4: you'd like to give us a call seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to Gardenline.
Speaker 4: We're I do with us today. I'm your host, Skip Richtor,
Speaker 4: and we're here to talk about the things that you
Speaker 4: are interested in and having garden success. So let's head
Speaker 4: out to Cleveland, Texas, and we're going to talk to Ron.
Speaker 7: Hello.
Speaker 4: Ron, good Morrow.
Speaker 2: Skip.
Speaker 11: Last Sunday, after your show was off the air, I
Speaker 11: noticed one of headlims. It's about three years in the ground,
Speaker 11: it really starts shape up about three foot tall. That
Speaker 11: part of it, about half of it was starting to
Speaker 11: die off and lose his leaves. So I started hitting
Speaker 11: it with medina, hastergroll, plant food, you know, mixture, mix
Speaker 11: it up and been keeping it wet. And then I
Speaker 11: heard yesterday on your show about you were talking to
Speaker 11: got it to about a guy about how the truck
Speaker 11: is split vertically, and I noticed the sections on my
Speaker 11: plant that are dying have those splits in the truck.
Speaker 11: Do I just to rip the whole plant out, cut
Speaker 11: those sections off, or just keep hitting it with medina
Speaker 11: or what are your thoughts?
Speaker 4: Well, if the if the section is going to if
Speaker 4: it's going to be able to heal the split and
Speaker 4: stay alive, then just leave it as it is. If
Speaker 4: it's dead, then just print it out below that split
Speaker 4: and the plant will branch out, it'll it'll put on
Speaker 4: new growth. But that's probably due to cold. And we
Speaker 4: have had a couple of winters where the temperature either
Speaker 4: got cold or drop too fast a couple of Decembers ago,
Speaker 4: I believe, and we suffered some damage that often. Then
Speaker 4: later shows up when the real demands are on the plant,
Speaker 4: and it shows up by the plant branch is just
Speaker 4: dying out because it can't move the water fast enough
Speaker 4: due to that loss of some of the tissues that
Speaker 4: move the water up and down the stem.
Speaker 11: Well, it's right at the base of the plant where
Speaker 11: it's coming out of the ground. It branches out three
Speaker 11: or four little okay, not about inch, so it's you know,
Speaker 11: it's like get big sections of it that i'd have
Speaker 11: to trim right off at the ground. So maybe I'll
Speaker 11: just go ahead and set it ride and keep it
Speaker 11: wet go from there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you could do that. You could do that that.
Speaker 4: You know, I'm not seeing it exactly, so I can't
Speaker 4: tell you which way to go, but that would be
Speaker 4: an option. Cutting it back would be an option. When
Speaker 4: you look at the stem, how if you were to
Speaker 4: look let's say you were to cut across the stem
Speaker 4: and look at it as a pie. How big of
Speaker 4: a slice of pie is the split? In other words,
Speaker 4: is it one fourth of the way around? Is it
Speaker 4: tenth of the way around?
Speaker 11: The truck is probably about where there's two of them
Speaker 11: that are splitting, but two of the seconds are three
Speaker 11: quarter to one inch diameter and they're opened up. There's
Speaker 11: two splits and they're opened up like three sixteenths of
Speaker 11: an inch. You know, they're not really massive. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 11: but it seems definitely stopping the water flow going up.
Speaker 4: You know, well, it's just causing it to be diverted
Speaker 4: a little bit. You know. It's kind of like a
Speaker 4: highway when you got six lanes and they they block
Speaker 4: two of the lanes off, and now all the traffic's
Speaker 4: got to get through those two lanes. It causes a backup.
Speaker 4: And so I think in time it's just gonna get better.
Speaker 4: So I, based on what we're saying and here and here,
Speaker 4: I think I think I would just let it go
Speaker 4: and let's see what it does. Anything dead, go ahead
Speaker 4: and print it out once there's no green underneath the
Speaker 4: outer bark layer.
Speaker 11: Yeah, so is it. We're just hitting it every day
Speaker 11: every other day with the medina, or just keep it
Speaker 11: water like normal.
Speaker 4: You think, well you could do that. I'd water it
Speaker 4: like normal because you don't want it to go without water.
Speaker 4: But you know, once a week a good soaking is
Speaker 4: enough for that plant. You don't need to water now
Speaker 4: once a week. But when you water wet the soil
Speaker 4: deeply and that'll be fine. And as far as yeah,
Speaker 4: and as far as the medina, okay, yeah, you can
Speaker 4: do that. There's a bunch of medinas. There's one that
Speaker 4: is the soil activators. It's basically different microbial compounds and
Speaker 4: other substances that are stimulant for plant growth and microbial activity.
Speaker 4: Then there's a medina that has to grow for lawns,
Speaker 4: which you can use on this plant, by the way,
Speaker 4: that has a three one two four one two ratio
Speaker 4: of nutrients in it that you could use.
Speaker 18: Uh.
Speaker 4: And so there's a lot of different ways you can go.
Speaker 4: Bottom line is just keep it adequately fed and give
Speaker 4: it some time.
Speaker 11: Yeah, all right, I apologize for interrupting when you're trying
Speaker 11: to talk. Yeah, I've been doing it once a week,
Speaker 11: water and real deep and doing the screwdriver trick and
Speaker 11: that really has really made it.
Speaker 4: A big difference in my side yard.
Speaker 11: I'm working on my front yard still, so all right, well,
Speaker 11: I appreciate it, all.
Speaker 4: Right, thanks, Ron, appreciate the call.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Yeah. For those of you who are wondering what is
Speaker 4: the screwdriver trick, what it is is a way that
Speaker 4: you can find out how wet your soil is or
Speaker 4: how deeply your soil is wet. So what you do
Speaker 4: is you take a long handled screwdriver flatthead, long handled screwdriver,
Speaker 4: and you push it down into the soil. And if
Speaker 4: you had wet your soil, let's say the water soaked
Speaker 4: four inches deep, that screwdriver would go down through salt,
Speaker 4: like through soft butter, right through that and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden it feels like you hit concrete underground. That's
Speaker 4: the dry soil, And so you can go around and
Speaker 4: when we say give it a good soaking wet it's
Speaker 4: six inches deep. That's a good goal for your lawn.
Speaker 4: By the way, and people want to know how long
Speaker 4: do I water and everything well with all the different
Speaker 4: sprinkler heads and not all fish efficient symptom systems. Not
Speaker 4: all systems are efficient. It's kind of hard for me
Speaker 4: to answer that. But a screwdriver trick. Don't lie. When
Speaker 4: you push a screwdriver in the ground, you know how
Speaker 4: deep that is wet. Now, just be aware that you
Speaker 4: may hit a root, so you may try it in
Speaker 4: two or three places. Make sure you're not hitting a
Speaker 4: root underground. But that works pretty well for it's another way.
Speaker 4: It's a little quick, easy way to find out if
Speaker 4: you're wetting your soil adequately deep when you water. Now,
Speaker 4: if you're trying to water for trees, you would even
Speaker 4: want to go a little deeper than that. You'd like
Speaker 4: a little deeper soaking than just six inches. All right, well,
Speaker 4: here we go. We are nearing the end of this segment.
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Speaker 4: Danny Linnerman on talking. He's from in Jenni Forest, Donna, Richmond.
Speaker 4: He was talking about butterfly plants, both the ones that
Speaker 4: attract adults, the ones that attract larva, and hummingbird plants,
Speaker 4: the ones that attract hummingbirds in and I fail to
Speaker 4: tell you where the where in Jenny Forest is And
Speaker 4: Jenni Forest again is down in Richmond. It's on FM
Speaker 4: twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're heading from Richmond
Speaker 4: towards sugar Land, it's off to the right FM twenty
Speaker 4: seven fifty nine. The website, write this down. They have
Speaker 4: an awesome website and they always have things going on there.
Speaker 4: I think starting on the twenty eighth of September, Danny's
Speaker 4: going to be giving a talk about fall gardening, and
Speaker 4: like for six weeks, every Saturday there's another talk out
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Speaker 4: But anyway, the website enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com.
Speaker 4: Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. That's how you find
Speaker 4: out more. For those of you who are interested, I
Speaker 4: recommend you go check it out. It's a real cool nursery.
Speaker 4: I love walking around out there. And you got to
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Speaker 4: So good job Kimberly that the first one was awesome,
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Speaker 4: Master gardener programmer or excellent down there. I'm going to
Speaker 4: now go to let's see Hockley, Texas, and we're going
Speaker 4: to talk to Ron. Hello. Ron, Okay, this is Rob.
Speaker 4: Oh Rob Okay, Rob. We'll go with Rob.
Speaker 19: Then brother's name is well, actually my brother's name is Ron.
Speaker 4: But I get that a lot. I've seen some pictures
Speaker 4: over of a oak tree I've had.
Speaker 19: It's been here for about eight ten years, fifteen twenty
Speaker 19: feet tall and a few years and it's been kind
Speaker 19: of puny, just had you know, treze and the heat
Speaker 19: and everything else. I look up and it just seems
Speaker 19: like it's not doing very well. It looks fine, but
Speaker 19: it's kind of sparse. Yeah, And something hit in my
Speaker 19: head yesterday.
Speaker 2: Something.
Speaker 19: Yeah, something hit my head yesterday about my primming practices
Speaker 19: which I did about a year ago, and I believe
Speaker 19: I might have been cutting the limb the branches off
Speaker 19: are the ones that I was cutting off a little
Speaker 19: too short and it and so the black on there is.
Speaker 19: I stopped by Arborgate this was like last year, and
Speaker 19: I showed them some of the pictures and they recommended
Speaker 19: some of the that spray when you cut a limb off,
Speaker 19: your spray around there. I guess, So that's that's what
Speaker 19: the black was on it.
Speaker 4: So okay, I was just going to say the photos
Speaker 4: I see first of all, the overall tree, you know,
Speaker 4: it's it's in decent shape. One observation before I forget
Speaker 4: is when it goes in the ground, it doesn't flare
Speaker 4: out at the base, and that means that it was
Speaker 4: either planted too deep or mulched too deep. So if
Speaker 4: you could kind of clear that out a little bit,
Speaker 4: it's better. When a tree goes in the ground, it
Speaker 4: should flare as opposed to like a telephone pole goes
Speaker 4: in the ground and just it's the same diameter all
Speaker 4: the way down to the ground on right, the tree
Speaker 4: should flare out a little bit, So check that, check
Speaker 4: that depth. But that's not the issues that we're talking about,
Speaker 4: although it could be contributing to them. Some of your
Speaker 4: branch is that were prone appear to have gotten some
Speaker 4: sort of a canker in them, And a canker will
Speaker 4: take that fresh wounded tissue and it's a disease of
Speaker 4: it and it causes it to die back even more,
Speaker 4: to get a little gnarly and everything. If you clean
Speaker 4: the dead bark out of the areas that are like that.
Speaker 4: By the way, there's a lot of good photos you
Speaker 4: sent to clear the dead bark out of it and
Speaker 4: it'll close back over. There's one photo where you actually
Speaker 4: show a single wound that see the callus coming in
Speaker 4: from both sides. That shows me that your tree has
Speaker 4: some vigor and it's trying to heal. But the healthier
Speaker 4: you get the tree, the more it's able to overcome
Speaker 4: that canker to close back in with healthier tissues. There's
Speaker 4: not a spray to put on it for the canker,
Speaker 4: but that's what I would do. Just when you do
Speaker 4: any kind of pruning, make sure you're making the cut
Speaker 4: in the right place and the right way. Generally we
Speaker 4: don't recommend that you prune and then paint the wounds.
Speaker 4: That's usually not necessary. So I would just say in
Speaker 4: this case, there is something going on in the tree,
Speaker 4: and the best thing you can do is get the
Speaker 4: tree healthy so it's able to fight the problem off. Otherwise,
Speaker 4: those cankers can just be a nagging, ongoing thing.
Speaker 19: Yeah, and it's it certainly is. It's just kind of
Speaker 19: sad because you look at a poor little trees like
Speaker 19: your kids out there is not doing very well.
Speaker 4: So you're just trying to do. Yeah, which you can. Well,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if planting
Speaker 4: depth is contributing to the stress of the tree. It's
Speaker 4: not the cause of all this.
Speaker 19: You're talking about the malts that I clear some of
Speaker 19: the molts out of there?
Speaker 2: Is that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Uh, you know, looking at the way it's set
Speaker 4: in the yard and everything, I would do that. You
Speaker 4: may not want to do this, but if you can
Speaker 4: make that multi bit bigger, that would make the tree
Speaker 4: head wider out. Yeah, wider out. Yeah. Trees don't grow
Speaker 4: in meadows. They grow in forests, and they like to
Speaker 4: have all around them all the grass dead because they
Speaker 4: covered it up with their own leaves and mulched over it.
Speaker 4: And in our landscapes we try to make them get
Speaker 4: along the grass and the trees and so, but clear
Speaker 4: that out and then provide some nutrients. There is a
Speaker 4: product Nelson makes a product tree and shrub fertilizer. It's
Speaker 4: a little canister. Nit Fross makes a similar type product
Speaker 4: for trees and shrubs, and you could just sprinkle that
Speaker 4: around the tree and water it in really good, just
Speaker 4: to give it a little boost, continue to give it
Speaker 4: a little boost. I do it now. I wouldn't do
Speaker 4: it again late in the fall, but you could do
Speaker 4: it now to carry you into fall and then again
Speaker 4: in the spring. Give it a little fertilizer and try
Speaker 4: to invigorate this tree and get it going okay. And
Speaker 4: you were talking about the dark spots. Should I go
Speaker 4: in there with a knife and kind of clean out
Speaker 4: some of the bad stuff. What you would be doing
Speaker 4: is where there's loose bark that's in the way of
Speaker 4: the callous, closing in from both sides and closing over
Speaker 4: that wound. Take all the dead out because it's of
Speaker 4: course not going to come back to life, and it's
Speaker 4: just in the way. And it also helps that inner
Speaker 4: wood to dry out faster after it gets wet, and
Speaker 4: that that is helpful in general. Hey, I'm gonna have
Speaker 4: to run round. I hope that helps. Good luck with it.
Speaker 4: I hope you have good results from that tree. It's
Speaker 4: time for me to take a break. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4: All ride, all right, welcome back, Welcome back to gardenline.
Speaker 4: Good heavy with us today. Hey, if you are dealing
Speaker 4: with chinchbugs or if you're dealing with sidewebworms in your lawn,
Speaker 4: Nitropous bug Out Max is a granular product by Nitropiss.
Speaker 4: You put it out in the lawn, You water it
Speaker 4: then and it washes the product that kill see insects
Speaker 4: off the granule and into the thatch area. And that's
Speaker 4: where chinchbugs hide all day and night, and then the
Speaker 4: sadweb worms come out at night to eat, but they're
Speaker 4: hiding in the thatch during the day. It's very effective
Speaker 4: and within forty eight hours it has knocked them out.
Speaker 4: It's really easy to find. It's all over the place.
Speaker 4: Like nitrofoss products, You're going to find it at places
Speaker 4: like Bearings Hardware on Abusinet and the one on Westtheimer,
Speaker 4: both of those carry it. RCW Nursery on I forty
Speaker 4: five North, Shades of Texas up there in the Woodlands
Speaker 4: on fourteen eighty eight are all examples of where do
Speaker 4: you get bug out Max. Once you put it on,
Speaker 4: it's going to give you many weeks of coverage, so
Speaker 4: you're not gonna have to do it again and again.
Speaker 4: You do it now and shut those things down when
Speaker 4: you see that they're there. That's all on my schedule too,
Speaker 4: by the way, online my insect pest disease or pest
Speaker 4: disease and weed management schedule for the lawn. You'll be
Speaker 4: able to find that kind of information there, as well
Speaker 4: as the timing of all of this. We're gonna head
Speaker 4: out now to Missouri City and talk to Lauren.
Speaker 2: Hello, Lauren, Good morning, Skip. Yes, I wanted to ask you.
Speaker 16: I heard earlier and I get confused about the two
Speaker 16: enchanted garden and forrest.
Speaker 2: But which one is having the peaches and sweetcorn today
Speaker 2: the farmers market?
Speaker 4: Oh? Let me see, hang on, just want to say
Speaker 4: I should Yeah, I should have that right here in
Speaker 4: front of me. I believe that is the one.
Speaker 18: Let me check.
Speaker 4: I believe that's you know what. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 4: hunt that down. I've talked about both of them today
Speaker 4: and my brain just went blank. Yeah, it happens to us,
Speaker 4: doesn't it. Janet Gardens are enchanted forest. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 4: you this second here, I've got it. It just may
Speaker 4: take me a minute to find it. No, it is
Speaker 4: that was in Chanet Gardens that I was talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's Peach Creek. Yeah, Peach Creek Country Market, and it's
Speaker 4: peaches and tomatoes and you know, sweet corn and whatever
Speaker 4: is seasonal watermelons, whatever is seasonal at the time. That's
Speaker 4: in chender Guards. That's today though. Uh it's August eighteenth,
Speaker 4: today from ten am to two pm. So they're going
Speaker 4: to kick off here in about thirty minutes plus. Right
Speaker 4: when garden Line is over, you can head that way
Speaker 4: and you'll be right in the big middle of it.
Speaker 14: Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 7: I have a great day.
Speaker 4: You too. Thanks for the call. Appreciate that. All right, Well,
Speaker 4: you are listening to garden Line. If you would like
Speaker 4: to give us a call, our number is seven to
Speaker 4: one three two one two k t r H. Now,
Speaker 4: what usually happens, I don't usually chied my listeners, but
Speaker 4: what usually happens is right at the end, everybody calls
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Speaker 4: if you're planning on calling today, don't wait until the
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Speaker 4: a little too busy, and I'd like to be able
Speaker 4: to get to everybody's questions. I think that's very important,
Speaker 4: don't you. We're going to go back. I want to talk.
Speaker 4: I haven't talked about Buchanan's native plants yet today, and
Speaker 4: I want to because to be Canons. It's one of
Speaker 4: those garden centers that is just so unique. Number One,
Speaker 4: they specialize in natives, and they have the best selection
Speaker 4: of natives anywhere that I've seen when it comes to
Speaker 4: just the breadth and the way they're divided up. For example,
Speaker 4: you can say I want a native just from the
Speaker 4: Harris County area, and they can tell you about those.
Speaker 4: They have those. But don't let the word native plants
Speaker 4: fool you. Yes, they have more than enough native plants,
Speaker 4: but they've got vegetable plants. Like right now, tomato plants
Speaker 4: are in that garden center waiting for you to come home,
Speaker 4: take them home and give them get home house plants.
Speaker 4: They've one of the best selection of house plants anywhere
Speaker 4: in the Houston area. Is it Buchanan's Native Plants, By
Speaker 4: the way, It is on a Eleventh Street and the Heights.
Speaker 4: If you want to go to their website, I encourage
Speaker 4: you to do that, by the way, Buchanansplants dot com.
Speaker 4: And the reason is because there's a lot of good
Speaker 4: educational material on their website. Plus you'll find out about
Speaker 4: different kinds of events going on at the garden center.
Speaker 4: On August twenty fourth, For example, they are going to
Speaker 4: have a program called Midsummer Flower Grown Workshop. It's with
Speaker 4: ponderosa blooms coming in and it's from twelve to one,
Speaker 4: so it's over the noon hour on Saturday, August twenty fourth,
Speaker 4: And this one costs and you just need to call
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Speaker 4: participate in it. Their phone number is seven to one,
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Speaker 4: and boy do they ever know what they're talking about.
Speaker 4: Very knowledgeable people, outstanding selection at Buchanan's Native Plans. I'm
Speaker 4: going to head now out to Spring, Texas and talk
Speaker 4: to Steve. Hello, Steve, Hello.
Speaker 5: Skip Hey, I got a question. I got a question
Speaker 5: about bug out Max. All right, is it safe to
Speaker 5: use around pets TETs?
Speaker 4: Well, any product used in the wrong way can be
Speaker 4: issues for pets. People. Whatever you're talking about with this one,
Speaker 4: you want to sprinkle it out when the pets aren't
Speaker 4: out on the lawn, and then you want to water
Speaker 4: it in really well and let that dry off, and
Speaker 4: then I think you can put them out there without
Speaker 4: the big concerns. Okay.
Speaker 5: I looked on the website and they don't have any
Speaker 5: information about it on their website.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, the ingredients and stuff that are in there are
Speaker 4: going to be persistent, but they'll be dissolved down into
Speaker 4: the thatch. We want them in this case. We want
Speaker 4: them persistent because you don't want it to day after
Speaker 4: you apply it to not be working anymore and it
Speaker 4: sticks around a little bit. So put it out with
Speaker 4: the granule watered in really well, let it fully dry out,
Speaker 4: and then I would not be as concerned about any
Speaker 4: kinds of side effects.
Speaker 5: I'm going to take your word on it. I have
Speaker 5: a second question that is totally disrelated. My wife says
Speaker 5: you can use banana peels and eggshells in the garden,
Speaker 5: and I told her I thought she was full of it,
Speaker 5: and I said, you know what I'm going to ask skip,
Speaker 5: he'll melt.
Speaker 4: Okay, thanks for putting me right in the big middle
Speaker 4: of this. Okay, so you can put those in your garden.
Speaker 4: But eggshells have calcium in them, and that calcium is
Speaker 4: extremely slowly released into the soil. You can bury an
Speaker 4: eggshell and come back three years from now and dig
Speaker 4: it up. It'll be all brown stained and it won't
Speaker 4: look like an eggshell, but it will still be pretty
Speaker 4: much intact in the soil because it just doesn't dissolve
Speaker 4: away like that. So is there a problem with putting
Speaker 4: them in?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 4: Or is it going to give you a quick boost? Now?
Speaker 4: If you want that, get some lime or some product
Speaker 4: that has calcium in it, bananas or organic matter. Any
Speaker 4: organic matter decomposes away and releases its nutrients in the soil.
Speaker 4: So bananas, apple peels, vegetable trimmings, any of those things
Speaker 4: can be put into the soil and they'll decompose and
Speaker 4: they benefit the soil.
Speaker 5: And I'm going to give my wife. I'm going to
Speaker 5: give my wife a half a point on this one.
Speaker 4: You're you're you. You like to live dangerously, don't you.
Speaker 5: I'm a bear?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks for the call. And if you need a
Speaker 4: couch to sleep on tonight, give me a call back.
Speaker 4: Take care of the Oh my gosh. Uh, let's see,
Speaker 4: we are going to head out to Baytown and talk
Speaker 4: to BJ. Hey, BJ, what's up in bytown.
Speaker 10: I have a boogom be that is not blooming, skipped
Speaker 10: help me.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Boomville is bloom well when they're a
Speaker 4: little bit pop bound. If they're in an issures and
Speaker 4: a container, yes it is.
Speaker 15: It is big and beautiful, but it's not bloomy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh So back off a little bit on the for sure,
Speaker 4: on the fertilizing, a little bit on the watering. Uh
Speaker 4: and just let's let it settle down a little bit.
Speaker 4: When they get in a real succulent we call it
Speaker 4: a vegetative growth. They need to settle in and use
Speaker 4: those carbohydrates the leaves are making instead of fueling new growth,
Speaker 4: setting some bloom buds for you. And so that that's
Speaker 4: one of the main reasons we see boom beee is
Speaker 4: not bloom and get a little pot bound. If the
Speaker 4: pot is really large and it just has a lot
Speaker 4: of extra space, it tends to want to grow vines
Speaker 4: rather than produce flowers.
Speaker 15: Okay, thank you so much, skimp, all right, you bet.
Speaker 4: Thanks for the call. I appreciate that you are listening
Speaker 4: to Guarden Line our phone number seven one three two
Speaker 4: one two five eight seven four seven one three two
Speaker 4: one two fifty eight seventy four. Now I am a
Speaker 4: broken record on garden line in saying, the way I
Speaker 4: like to summarize it is brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 4: That's as simple as I can put it. What I'm
Speaker 4: really saying is, before you put in plants, get the
Speaker 4: soil and as optimum of shape as you can. That way,
Speaker 4: when you put the plants in, you're going to have success,
Speaker 4: assuming those are plants that want to grow here, right,
Speaker 4: and assuming they have the am on of sunlight they
Speaker 4: want for that particular plant species, and so on. But
Speaker 4: before you put the plants in the ground, you have
Speaker 4: determined whether you're going to have success or not. By
Speaker 4: and large, I would say seventy five percent of your
Speaker 4: success is determined, maybe eighty percent is determined by the
Speaker 4: time you walk away from planting the plant, because the
Speaker 4: soil is what it is. You've either improved the drainage
Speaker 4: or you haven't. You've either built up a raised bed
Speaker 4: for drainage or you haven't. You've either added all the
Speaker 4: nutrients down in the mix well or you haven't. It
Speaker 4: either has good organic matter content or it doesn't. You
Speaker 4: see what I'm saying. You've chosen a variety whether it's
Speaker 4: a seed or a transplant that you're putting in. You've
Speaker 4: chosen a species in variety that is going to do
Speaker 4: well here. You've chosen a spot with full sun, parts
Speaker 4: on or no sun, and all of those affect it.
Speaker 4: So the soil comes first. Take time to get the
Speaker 4: soil right and you will have success with your gardens.
Speaker 4: That is as simple as that, and I'm going to
Speaker 4: tell you a little bit more about how to do
Speaker 4: that when we come back, as well as we'll head
Speaker 4: off the League City and talk to Terry, as well
Speaker 4: as whoever else calls during this break. Seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two KTRH will be right back. Welcome back
Speaker 4: to Garden Line. Glad you're listening with us on a
Speaker 4: great Sunday. Good sunday to be out and about this afternoon,
Speaker 4: maybe visiting a garden center pick up some of the
Speaker 4: good deal. There are great deals going on around town
Speaker 4: at our independent garden centers during this late summer season.
Speaker 4: It's a good time to take advantage of those. We're
Speaker 4: going to head out now to League City and talk
Speaker 4: to Terry. Hello, Terry, Hi, how are you. I'm well?
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 10: I have some tomato plants in about eighteen inch pots
Speaker 10: that I planted in the spring and they haven't been
Speaker 10: doing anything, you know, for the last couple of months.
Speaker 10: Should I go ahead and fertilize them at this point
Speaker 10: or not?
Speaker 4: Okay? Are they very calm packed plants or are they
Speaker 4: vining and sprawling everywhere?
Speaker 10: They're kind of sprawling.
Speaker 4: Okay. If you look at the plants, does the foliage
Speaker 4: look good or are the leaves kind of losing their
Speaker 4: color and have disease spots on them? What's the condition
Speaker 4: of those plants.
Speaker 10: I don't see any disease on them, but they don't
Speaker 10: look super vibrant.
Speaker 4: Okay. I would start fertilizing them and make sure you
Speaker 4: water often enough to keep that soil moist.
Speaker 2: Would you have them on a time.
Speaker 10: Or it goes off every day so they get watered regularly.
Speaker 4: They're getting watered regularly, okay, good. Then just get you
Speaker 4: a quality, you know, a fertilizer that'll do well with
Speaker 4: your vegetables. There's a lot of great options out there.
Speaker 4: There's some liquid forms, there's some granular forms that you
Speaker 4: can mix in and water in, and I would suggest
Speaker 4: that you do that. Give them follow the label, give
Speaker 4: them a dose don't overdo it and mix it into
Speaker 4: the soil and let's get those things growing because once
Speaker 4: the weather breaks, once we get out of this you know,
Speaker 4: mid ninety all day kind of stuff, they're going to
Speaker 4: start setting fruit again and you can get a little
Speaker 4: crop in before our first frost.
Speaker 10: Should I cut back some of the sprawling or not.
Speaker 4: You can sometimes if they're in a really weak state,
Speaker 4: cutting back, they don't tend to resprout well. I've noticed
Speaker 4: another thing that can be done is to cut the
Speaker 4: ends off shoots and take them inside and just slash
Speaker 4: them around in a little bowl of water, a sink
Speaker 4: of water. And what you're doing is you're just washing
Speaker 4: off like spider mites that are hanging on and things
Speaker 4: like that. Just get all that off and then put
Speaker 4: those ends in a glass of water and they will
Speaker 4: form roots really quick. Give them some directs on, but
Speaker 4: just give them a good bright area with a little
Speaker 4: inderecs on. Once they get roots formed, you can take
Speaker 4: them out and plant them in a container and they
Speaker 4: will just keep growing and be your fall plants. That's
Speaker 4: another option. So that's why I was asking all the
Speaker 4: questions about how healthy are your plants, because if they're
Speaker 4: in bad shape. Cut the ends of the branches, cut
Speaker 4: them about eight inches long, take the bottom leaf or
Speaker 4: two off and do what I said and start over.
Speaker 4: If the plant looks okay, which is sound like yours did, uh,
Speaker 4: then you probably don't need to do that.
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, thank you for your help.
Speaker 4: Thank you for your call. Good Luckily, remember here on
Speaker 4: guard line the advice is free. But I do expect
Speaker 4: half those tomatoes sometimes this fall when you start get production. Okay, Terry,
Speaker 4: very good, alrighty well, garden line phone number seven one
Speaker 4: three two one two k t rh Folks. We've got
Speaker 4: about twenty minutes a garden line left minus the break
Speaker 4: we're going to have coming up pretty quick. I was
Speaker 4: talking earlier about the most important thing is the brown stuff.
Speaker 4: The brown stuff, the green that is the soil, that
Speaker 4: is the compost that is the nutrients, the fertilizer, good
Speaker 4: drainage that is critical, and then the green stuff. The
Speaker 4: great plants will hit the ground running. You have created
Speaker 4: a nirvana for your plants to do well when you
Speaker 4: build the soil first. Nature's Way Resources has been doing
Speaker 4: this for a very long time. John Ferguson, you know
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Speaker 4: This is a place with a two acre nursery and
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Speaker 4: seasonal vegetables. But what do you need to know right
Speaker 4: now is this is the time to build your soil
Speaker 4: for fall. Fall planting is coming really soon. You need
Speaker 4: to get these supplies, whether it's compost or whether it's
Speaker 4: a bad mix like a veggian herb mix or whatever
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Speaker 4: And now is also a good time because if you
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Speaker 4: you're going to find all of that on a really
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Speaker 4: three six three two one sixty nine ninety Nature's Way
Speaker 4: is located off I forty five as you head up
Speaker 4: toward conro Uh. It is a Sherbrook Circle. That's the
Speaker 4: street if you want to put it into your maps
Speaker 4: app Sherbrooks Circle. Conro Tepe says, here's the website, Nature's
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Speaker 4: need to give them a call, you need to stop
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Speaker 4: sure you tell them that you heard about on Guardenline.
Speaker 4: You can get that great discount on all the products,
Speaker 4: and don't delay. Get that done. Get the soil building
Speaker 4: done now because when fall comes, who knows, maybe you
Speaker 4: go into a rainy period right at the time you're
Speaker 4: wanting the plant and you can't because you haven't fixed
Speaker 4: up the soil yet. Get it done now. What they say,
Speaker 4: make hay while the sunshines. Okay, let's say make soil
Speaker 4: quality mixes while the sunshines. Build your soil while the sunshines.
Speaker 4: That's what you need to do.
Speaker 9: I uh.
Speaker 4: I always enjoy visiting with John and Ian out there
Speaker 4: at nare Nature's Way resources and all that. They've got
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Speaker 4: It's just a fun place to go out to pick
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Speaker 4: In my opinion, I'd have to check that to be sure,
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Speaker 4: They've long time supported this. You know, back in the
Speaker 4: Dewey Compton days, Medina was sponsoring this show. And by
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Speaker 4: garden Line because we have sponsors that are making it
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Speaker 4: little break. We'll be right back for our last segment.
Speaker 4: The phone number is seven to one three two one
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Speaker 4: I have openings here on the screen if you would
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Speaker 4: There's two of them, the weed wiper publication, the products
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Speaker 4: working on a couple of other things right now. I'm
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Speaker 4: You know, as I hear a question over and over
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Speaker 4: And We'll be happy to answer whatever kind of gardening
Speaker 4: questions that you have. I did want to close today
Speaker 4: by talking just a little bit about some herb gardening.
Speaker 4: Most people are not wanting to put in a formal
Speaker 4: herb garden. Now, formal herb gardens are gorgeous, they're beautiful,
Speaker 4: and you know, typically they're geometrically balanced, where it's like
Speaker 4: one side is the same as the other side, a
Speaker 4: mirror image of the other side. Those are all fine,
Speaker 4: But I find that herbs can be used in a
Speaker 4: lot of ways in the landscape. Chives make a good
Speaker 4: thing to line a walk like let's say you're going
Speaker 4: to plant a riope down a walkway, or to border
Speaker 4: a bed in the sun. In the sun, the chives
Speaker 4: make a good border for that. There's the garlic chives
Speaker 4: and the onion chives. They have their pros and cons
Speaker 4: each one, but I think that would be something to consider. Plus,
Speaker 4: they bring in a lot of pollinators when they do bloom.
Speaker 4: The blooms off when they occur when before they go
Speaker 4: to seed and throw those seeds everywhere because they do
Speaker 4: receed profusely. Groundcover herbs like a regano like time are
Speaker 4: excellent to use in any beds where there is good
Speaker 4: sunlight put I have typically will put those kinds of
Speaker 4: things at the end of the rose in my vegetable
Speaker 4: garden because they do so well. There's herbs that bloom
Speaker 4: like pineapple sage is a late summer and fall blooming
Speaker 4: sage with pineapple scented leaves. It's a salviet attracts hummingbirds,
Speaker 4: and it's just another multi use herb. Rosemary shrubs are
Speaker 4: about the most drought tolerant of plants that we have,
Speaker 4: and just as long as you give them good drainage.
Speaker 4: You can have a trailing type to spill over a wall,
Speaker 4: you can have an upright type to just be an
Speaker 4: evergreen shrub. And I could go on and on and on.
Speaker 4: You ought to consider some herbs that you haven't grown before.
Speaker 4: They're not hard to grow, and they just add a
Speaker 4: real zest to your cooking. And it's so nice to
Speaker 4: be able to walk out, take a snif and come
Speaker 4: inside and go to town cooking up a dish because
Speaker 4: it's so handy right there. You can grow them in
Speaker 4: containers as well. If you don't have room for a garden,
Speaker 4: try them out. All right, I'm going to run out here.
Speaker 4: We got a couple of calls, and you see if
Speaker 4: I can take care of here. Rode up Santa Fe
Speaker 4: and talk to Mike first, Hey, Mike, Hi, Hi, how
Speaker 4: can we help.
Speaker 12: Well, I've got a couple of pineapple pear trees that
Speaker 12: are probably twenty five feet tall, a plumb and two peach,
Speaker 12: and they're just looking really terrible. I don't know if
Speaker 12: they're getting too much water not enough, or I should
Speaker 12: fertilize them, okay.
Speaker 4: Them, well, too much or not enough would both cause
Speaker 4: them to look terrible. The plums and peaches especially cannot
Speaker 4: tolerate wet conditions, soggy wet conditions, and pairs don't like
Speaker 4: it either. But drought also can. And you know, when
Speaker 4: we've had a nice mild summer early on with quite
Speaker 4: a bit of rain actually, and then we turn around
Speaker 4: and now it's turned hot and blazing hot and the
Speaker 4: demands are really high, that could be part of the
Speaker 4: issue that's going on. You know, when you say not
Speaker 4: look good, there's a lot of versions and not look good.
Speaker 4: So I don't know the specifics of the look, but
Speaker 4: in general, I would just make sure that if you
Speaker 4: can reduce competition around them by creating a mulched bed,
Speaker 4: a mulched area as wide as you can to keep
Speaker 4: the grass away, to keep the lawnmower and weed eater
Speaker 4: away from the base all of that. That would be
Speaker 4: very helpful for them. You could do a light fertilization
Speaker 4: now and watered in really well, but I wouldn't fertilize
Speaker 4: past definitely, not early September. I think I'd stop the
Speaker 4: fertilization of them at that time because you don't want
Speaker 4: to push a lot of really late season succulent growth
Speaker 4: right before the first presents.
Speaker 12: Okay, you know, I've had those pineapple there for well
Speaker 12: several years and they produce maybe.
Speaker 14: One or two small pineapple.
Speaker 4: Okay, and one of my doing there, well, it would
Speaker 4: probably be helpful to have a different variety that you
Speaker 4: could have for a cross pollination. They pair set better
Speaker 4: when they have a second variety for cross pollination. Some
Speaker 4: require it, some not so much, but in general that
Speaker 4: generally helps a little bit. That if you know somebody
Speaker 4: with a pear tree that's not pineapple, you can ask
Speaker 4: them when they bloom to snip a limb off, put
Speaker 4: it in a like a coke can and with water
Speaker 4: in it, and hang it in your tree and the
Speaker 4: bees will go back and forth. That'll only hold up
Speaker 4: for a few days before the blooms are not good yeah,
Speaker 4: that is one way you could test. If you do
Speaker 4: that and you get really good set, then that means
Speaker 4: that's what's most needed, and that'd be the little trial.
Speaker 4: And it also helps hold you over until a new
Speaker 4: tree you buy finally starts blooming.
Speaker 5: Well, okay, okay, one other question, if.
Speaker 4: All right real quick, because I got one more caller.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get to a plum tree.
Speaker 12: I'll get I'll get the flowers everywhere and look like
Speaker 12: little big plums, and then they'll the wind will come,
Speaker 12: they'll fall off, and I won't get any plums at all.
Speaker 4: What variety do you have?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: Boy, that's a good question. I have no idea.
Speaker 4: Meth Lee is pretty self fruitful. Many of the other
Speaker 4: varieties need a second variety to pollinate. So hunt that
Speaker 4: down and then go to wherever you purchase your trees
Speaker 4: and say, hey, I've got one of these. I need
Speaker 4: something else to go with it. All right, Mike, thanks
Speaker 4: a lot. Good luck with that. I'm gonna run real
Speaker 4: quick to John and Tombauld. Hey, John, we just got
Speaker 4: a short time here, but how can.
Speaker 18: We help Yes, yes, yes, sir, good morning. A quick
Speaker 18: question about the eaglestons as far as growing on between
Speaker 18: now and the end of the year. Whe's the best
Speaker 18: time now or is it too hot away till October?
Speaker 18: What's your suggestion?
Speaker 4: The best time to plant is in the fall because
Speaker 4: they're going to go through a long season where there's
Speaker 4: very little stress on them. You can go ahead and
Speaker 4: plant them now, and there's some good deals out there,
Speaker 4: like RCW Nursery has good deals on egiston. And if
Speaker 4: you plan them now, you just need to water them
Speaker 4: like they're still in the pot for the first few
Speaker 4: weeks and then back off slowly and slowly because there's
Speaker 4: still the same demand on them and that's a little
Speaker 4: confined root system. By next spring it'll be spread out
Speaker 4: into the soil better or right now. If you want
Speaker 4: to go now to get a good deal on a plant,
Speaker 4: that's how you take care of it. Thank you, Chip,
Speaker 4: Thank you John. I appreciate glad we could work that
Speaker 4: in before we ran out of time today. All right, folks,
Speaker 4: you've been listening to garden Line. We'll be back again
Speaker 4: next Saturday. In the meantime, check out the website gardening
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Speaker 4: I'm working on several new things that are now going
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Speaker 4: bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. In the meantime,
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