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Speaker 5: Hang on? I gotta get some coffee.
Speaker 6: There we go.
Speaker 5: Well, apparently some of you do not need coffee. You're
Speaker 5: already Doland phone numbers before I get here. I guess
Speaker 5: you could go ahead and start without me. Welcome to
Speaker 5: Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are
Speaker 5: rare to go to get some talking done about all
Speaker 5: things horticulture or gardening. I don't use that term horticulture
Speaker 5: a lot, but basically that is the official term for
Speaker 5: what we talk about here on Garden Line. Horticulture is
Speaker 5: from a Latin word hortas, which refers to a garden.
Speaker 5: Basically is what it amounts to.
Speaker 7: So how to.
Speaker 5: Culture your garden? That's what we're about, all right? Well,
Speaker 5: let's just I tell you what, since we got some
Speaker 5: early birds, let's just jump right out there and we
Speaker 5: won't get on the phones and talk to Mel and Tomball. Hey, Mel,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line morning.
Speaker 8: Now I haven't had my caffee yet, but I'm here.
Speaker 8: I'm trying to beat the rain a little bit, and
Speaker 8: I'm wondering if it's why you're unwise to put down
Speaker 8: by barricade fifteen five ten on the same day.
Speaker 5: You know, that's a question. I get a lot about
Speaker 5: that end fertilizing, and you know, if we have a
Speaker 5: rough estimate how much it's going to rain, you know,
Speaker 5: if it's going to rain a half inch or something
Speaker 5: like that, just a little bit of water, there's no
Speaker 5: problem with doing that. The barricade is really good at
Speaker 5: sticking to the soil. It's it's made to do that,
Speaker 5: because if it didn't, it would just wash through and
Speaker 5: wouldn't be up there where the weed seeds are helping out.
Speaker 5: So I'm not as worried about it. And if you were,
Speaker 5: if you're asking the same question about an immediate release fertilizer,
Speaker 5: I would say, well, you know it, could you get
Speaker 5: a gully washer rain that could wash a lot of
Speaker 5: dissolve and wash away your fertilizer. But I think on
Speaker 5: the barricade, you're probably okay unless it's just going to
Speaker 5: really rain a lot for a long time, all.
Speaker 8: Right, So I'll hold off probably on the fifteen until
Speaker 8: after the rain, and I don't think it'll be hard
Speaker 8: for you.
Speaker 7: But okay, all right, that's why I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: All right, you take care, appreciate that cold. That's uh yeah,
Speaker 5: pleasure YouTube. Thank you. Now we're gonna go where we're
Speaker 5: going to go to Memorial and talk to Bruce. Good morning, Bruce,
Speaker 5: Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Thank you for taking my call. I'm trying
Speaker 4: to rehabilitate my front yard. I've been following the scheduled
Speaker 4: for a number of years, but our neighbor has removed
Speaker 4: some trees and it got a lot more sun last
Speaker 4: year than we'd realized, and we hadn't adjusted the the
Speaker 4: sprinkler system to compensate for that. So we were away,
Speaker 4: came back and we've lost I'm going to guess maybe
Speaker 4: twenty percent of the grass in the front yard. We
Speaker 4: did get army worms or sodweb worms come up, and
Speaker 4: we knocked them back with bifen. My plan is to
Speaker 4: airate and top dress with composts and then stay on
Speaker 4: the fertilizer scheduled. But there's anything else I need to do. Oh,
Speaker 4: you know, with the lack of grass, we're getting a
Speaker 4: whole pile of I put barricade down in the fall,
Speaker 4: but we're getting up pile of weeds.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah. That wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants
Speaker 5: of weed, so that goes along with it. If I
Speaker 5: could see the lawn and you know, let's say you
Speaker 5: had sprigs of living grass that were, you know, within
Speaker 5: a foot of each other or something, I would say
Speaker 5: it will close back over with good care before the end.
Speaker 5: If you've got areas that are a little wider than that,
Speaker 5: you might want to plug some grass in just to
Speaker 5: speed that coverage, because the faster it gets covered, the
Speaker 5: less weed issues you're going to have. You can use
Speaker 5: a product like a barricade as a pre emergent to
Speaker 5: stop the summer weeds, which are just we're on the
Speaker 5: doorstep of them germinating. So we want to get that
Speaker 5: barricade down for the earliest of those that sprout. That
Speaker 5: would be one option that you can do. Be careful
Speaker 5: when you use a pre emergent, always that you use
Speaker 5: it according to the label instructions. This is a case
Speaker 5: where if a teaspoon's good, a tablespoon is not better.
Speaker 5: In fact, a tablespoon can be a problem because you
Speaker 5: got new grass runners that are out there trying to
Speaker 5: peg down some roots. And you know, if you overdo
Speaker 5: that pre emergent.
Speaker 1: The run.
Speaker 5: It didn't kill the runners, It just prevents rooting when
Speaker 5: you overdo that, So be careful with the amount you use.
Speaker 5: But some judicious use of it is fine if you
Speaker 5: want to do that. The other approach is just to
Speaker 5: get everything growing and then deal with the weeds later,
Speaker 5: you know, as the grass gets filled in and whatnot.
Speaker 5: Kind of it's your call. It's to which way you
Speaker 5: want to go. But I would say that mow, water,
Speaker 5: and fertilize or your three keys to getting that thing
Speaker 5: back in shape. Assuming the sunlight is good. If there's
Speaker 5: some areas where the tree shade is just taking too
Speaker 5: much of the solar rays away, then the grass is
Speaker 5: going to have trouble getting covered quickly, especially, and so
Speaker 5: that would be the only caveat to that.
Speaker 4: Cool. I have one other question about barricade because the
Speaker 4: well two questions. One, when I buy it, it doesn't
Speaker 4: have a specific setting for the for the spreader that
Speaker 4: I have. I recall that by advice to begin and
Speaker 4: use them like one notch up from one quarter on
Speaker 4: a broadcast spreader to get an amount that's appropriate for that.
Speaker 4: Would that still be a reasonable way to do it? Literally,
Speaker 4: there's no there is no instruction. There's nothing for my spreader.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, you know there's there's a lot of products
Speaker 5: with a lot of particle sizes and a lot of spreaders,
Speaker 5: and it's one of those almost impossible. We can't even
Speaker 5: get two phone companies to make the same kind of
Speaker 5: plug to go on your phone. So anyway, Yeah, the
Speaker 5: quarter above, I mean a notch above quarter is good
Speaker 5: for those of you who are listening and going, what
Speaker 5: are they talking about. Well, if you have a spreader
Speaker 5: that you walk behind and this isn't the handheld, this
Speaker 5: is the kind you walk behind, and it has twenty notches,
Speaker 5: well a quarter would be five notches, so five, set
Speaker 5: it on five or six, a notch above quarter and
Speaker 5: put out your pre emergence with that. Now, it's not
Speaker 5: the same as fertilizer for everybody listening. I'm sorry, Bruce,
Speaker 5: I have to have to do on my caveats because
Speaker 5: people here and they don't always hear here. Well, so yeah,
Speaker 5: that is just the case for that, and it's a
Speaker 5: good rule of thumb. The thing I also like is,
Speaker 5: you know, you know about how much you want to
Speaker 5: put out of either fertilizer or a product like barricade,
Speaker 5: and it doesn't hurt to do it a little light
Speaker 5: the first time because here's here's a product you got,
Speaker 5: here's maybe a newcheprudder. You haven't used that product with
Speaker 5: go light because you can always you know, if you
Speaker 5: go north south, you can always come back east west
Speaker 5: and add the rest of it. But at least that
Speaker 5: way you kind of know, and then going forward you
Speaker 5: know exactly where to set it.
Speaker 4: Gotcha. One last question about barricade in terms of shelf life,
Speaker 4: because I had bought him went Southless fertilizer and got
Speaker 4: a fifty pounds sack, figuring it would last me several seasons.
Speaker 4: Then instead of just these ten pounders every year, let
Speaker 4: stuff keep in a garage.
Speaker 5: Uh. Yes, you know, any kind of a chemical substance
Speaker 5: is potentially gonna have issues with humidity, with heat, uh,
Speaker 5: and some of them even light. That's why they put
Speaker 5: certain kinds of pesticides in those brown bottles to help
Speaker 5: block some of the light out. But anyway, just you know,
Speaker 5: to keep it as keep the temperature as moderate as
Speaker 5: you can, and keep it sealed up where you don't
Speaker 5: have a lot of humidity, exposure and things, and that
Speaker 5: helps extend the life. There's not a black and white
Speaker 5: line where you can keep it for x amount in
Speaker 5: the months or years. You know, it's it's a it's
Speaker 5: a very gray line. All right.
Speaker 4: All right, one last question website? Well, what is the
Speaker 4: best website to get a fresh copy of the fertile
Speaker 4: the fertilization schedule?
Speaker 5: Now, all right, it's Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening
Speaker 5: with Skip dot com, and I'm gonna bruce, I'm overtime
Speaker 5: on my break here. Thanks so much for the call.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. We'll be right back. All right, folks,
Speaker 5: welcome back. Good to have you back with us. We
Speaker 5: have got a lot of things that I want to
Speaker 5: cover and I'm going to start off this morning. But well,
Speaker 5: by the way, a while to go up said something
Speaker 5: I wanted to come back to it. I was talking
Speaker 5: about when you put fertilizer down before rain and the
Speaker 5: fact that if you get a gully washer, it can
Speaker 5: wash away a lot of your especially salt based which
Speaker 5: would be a synthetic fertilizer. Not necessarily the slow release
Speaker 5: types because they don't turn those elements. Those nutrient elements
Speaker 5: loose to go into solution and head either down through
Speaker 5: the soil or off across the surface to the street
Speaker 5: or wherever they're going. But it's always better to put
Speaker 5: fertilizer down and put the right amount of irrigation on
Speaker 5: it to move it in that way, you have control,
Speaker 5: it's more precision. You don't overdo it. And I realize
Speaker 5: you're using you know, your drinking water to water the lawn,
Speaker 5: which is what we do also, But it's just a
Speaker 5: it's a better way to go about it. Now there
Speaker 5: are you know, selobritase fertilizer isn't going to turn all
Speaker 5: those loose so fast. Also an organic type fertilizer, so
Speaker 5: you take microlife for example. Microlife is a natural based
Speaker 5: fertilizer and when you put it down, it's not full
Speaker 5: of the salt form of the form of those elements.
Speaker 5: The microlife has to be microbially broken down, which it is.
Speaker 5: Microbes are excited to get some of that to jump
Speaker 5: on and it breaks it. They break it down and
Speaker 5: they release the nutrients into the swell. That's natural system.
Speaker 5: That's how nature works. You know, there is no salt
Speaker 5: based fertilizer in nature. It's basically organic matter decomposing. Whether
Speaker 5: you know it is a bird poop in the jungle
Speaker 5: or buffalo poop on the high planes or whatever. I mean,
Speaker 5: we're talking about organic stuff that's got nutrients. It's being released.
Speaker 5: So that's microlife. Now, microlife's been around here for what
Speaker 5: thirty five plus years in the Greater Houston area. They're
Speaker 5: sixty two four long fertilizers, the number one selling fertilizer
Speaker 5: that's organic here in the Houston area. The advantage of
Speaker 5: something like this is again that slower, a little bit
Speaker 5: slow release. It's not going to give you like three
Speaker 5: or four months like a synthetic slow would, but it's
Speaker 5: going to gradually release those nutrients and then you can
Speaker 5: fertilize again as you want going through the season. The
Speaker 5: bottom line is just understanding how that's working, and basically
Speaker 5: it's working in that natural system with all the microbes,
Speaker 5: and you know, in each bag of microlife you got
Speaker 5: billions of beneficial microbes that help your plants. They help
Speaker 5: them grow stronger. You know, it also improves the soil.
Speaker 5: It is an organic matter. You're talking about being compost
Speaker 5: down on the soil. Well, when you're putting an organic fertilizer,
Speaker 5: you are in a way they're improving the soil structure
Speaker 5: and things itself over time, and that is really important.
Speaker 5: Now you're going to find microlife in a lot of places.
Speaker 5: You can go to microlifefertilizer dot com and find out
Speaker 5: more about it. But I just wanted to comment a
Speaker 5: little bit about how that works and why it works
Speaker 5: like it does. And I think those of you who
Speaker 5: are organic or who want to be organic, or finding
Speaker 5: that you can get on that schedule, you can begin
Speaker 5: to over time use those products the sixty four, the
Speaker 5: humates plus and on and on. There's a lot of
Speaker 5: those products from microlife, and you gradually, over time take
Speaker 5: your lawn into a more natural organic state of the
Speaker 5: cycle of nutrients and the improvement of the soil and
Speaker 5: so on. All Right, So, anyway, I hope that made
Speaker 5: a little bit of sense. I was checking out Moss Nursery,
Speaker 5: say yesterday or day before. Anyway, the folks at Moss,
Speaker 5: you know that nursery is. It's not just a nursery.
Speaker 5: It's not just another garden center. That place has been
Speaker 5: around for seventy years, eight acres to wander on. And
Speaker 5: first time I went there, it was like, am I
Speaker 5: in like a botanical garden? Or is this a garden center?
Speaker 5: You're walking around and there's just plants everywhere, and there's
Speaker 5: fountains everywhere, and there's all kinds of unusual and cool
Speaker 5: art everywhere in around the Moss Nursery grounds. I stand
Speaker 5: in Seabrook for those of you who haven't been there,
Speaker 5: on Toddville Road and Seabrook. You can go to the website.
Speaker 5: It's Moss Nursery dot com and Moss is spelled maas.
Speaker 5: But right now, don't stand still in the parking lot
Speaker 5: because there are trucks coming in constantly. I think they
Speaker 5: got like six or eight shipments a day these last
Speaker 5: few days. I really mean that they are loaded on.
Speaker 5: They have like small cacti if you like those, if
Speaker 5: you like succulents, Oh my gosh, they're succulents, just everything
Speaker 5: you can imagine, and just trays and trays and trays
Speaker 5: and trays of them. It is an awesome selection. Now
Speaker 5: when you go in there, pretty much any plant you want,
Speaker 5: like do you want a Japanese maple, or do you
Speaker 5: want a tropical plant? Or do you want herbs? Or
Speaker 5: do you want hanging baskets? Oh, right now they have
Speaker 5: a lot of beautiful hanging baskets that just came in.
Speaker 5: We're refresh off the truck, so you need to get
Speaker 5: by there and check it out. It's Moss Nursery on
Speaker 5: a seabrook on Toddville Road, if you want to give
Speaker 5: them a call two eight one four seven four twenty
Speaker 5: four eighty eight. I always like wandering around there because
Speaker 5: Jim brings back all kinds of stuff from his travels,
Speaker 5: and you know, you may see some carved wooden mask
Speaker 5: almost like a totem pole like figures. It's just you
Speaker 5: never know, you never know. And fountains too. They just
Speaker 5: got in a bunch more fountains that are really beautiful,
Speaker 5: really cool. You know, adding water, the sound of water
Speaker 5: to your landscape is one of the coolest things that
Speaker 5: you can do. I like going out in the morning
Speaker 5: and sitting on my patio and the bird feeders aren't
Speaker 5: too far away, and just watching the birds as they
Speaker 5: come in, but mainly listening to their songs. Birds are
Speaker 5: mourning people. Have you noticed that some of you are
Speaker 5: not mourning people? And I've never been a morning person,
Speaker 5: but I don't know. As I've gotten older, I've become
Speaker 5: more of a morning person. So I'm kind of like
Speaker 5: the birds. But boy, they will shut up in the morning,
Speaker 5: and their songs are beautiful. The sound of water. We
Speaker 5: all at a fountain out there just off the patty
Speaker 5: a little bit. That is uh, you know, making the
Speaker 5: sounds of water, and it is just you've created Eden
Speaker 5: right there in your backyard. And it just didn't take
Speaker 5: a whole lot to turn that place into Eden. And
Speaker 5: that that's a cool thing anyway, It's something I enjoy.
Speaker 5: Our phone number if you'd like to give me a
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Speaker 5: I want to remind you that my uh pro my
Speaker 5: publications are online at gardening with skip dot com and
Speaker 5: I put them up there so that I can answer
Speaker 5: your questions in a more effective accurate way. You know,
Speaker 5: the more I the more I make and answer brief,
Speaker 5: the less accurate it becomes. Have you ever thought about that?
Speaker 5: Like you go to the you go to the doctor
Speaker 5: and you ask them to explain something, and if they
Speaker 5: just gave you like a forward sentence, well, yeah, that's
Speaker 5: not gonna help a lot, right, But you can go
Speaker 5: too far with this, But anyway, my point is that
Speaker 5: when someone calls and says, well, what should I do
Speaker 5: for such and such? I can give them an answer
Speaker 5: to that. But there's a lot of questions. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of butts, as I like to put it, You know,
Speaker 5: which turp do you have? How long has it been in?
Speaker 5: How much sunlight is it getting? Do you see what
Speaker 5: I'm saying? And so that the devil's in the details,
Speaker 5: as they say, and so in these publications I'm able
Speaker 5: to put the details. For example, someone has stuff coming
Speaker 5: up in the fence line. Maybe it's poison ivy. Maybe
Speaker 5: it is some greenbriar or some peppervine or hackberry trees,
Speaker 5: or maybe in the in the yard there is torpedo grasp,
Speaker 5: well you don't want that one, or dallas grass growing
Speaker 5: that are very difficult to kill, and on and on.
Speaker 5: I just created the sheet called herbicide products to use
Speaker 5: with skip'sweed wiper. Now I like this approach because instead
Speaker 5: of spring products all over creation, you put them on
Speaker 5: a sponge on the weed wiper. And if you don't
Speaker 5: know what I'm talking about, go to my website. I'll
Speaker 5: show you how to build one. And you put the
Speaker 5: right product on for the weed you have, and then
Speaker 5: you just reach down and wipe the weed. You can
Speaker 5: have a cup of coffee in one hand this morning.
Speaker 5: You could be out there once the daylight arrives. You
Speaker 5: could be out there with a cup of coffee in
Speaker 5: one hand and the weed wiper in the other, walking
Speaker 5: through your yard. And let's say you had wild onion
Speaker 5: and wild garlic. You don't have to treat the whole
Speaker 5: yard with the with a herbicide. To do that, you
Speaker 5: put it on the weed wiper. You just go through
Speaker 5: and grab those squeeze it and pull them up and
Speaker 5: you're wiping it right on that weed and it works well.
Speaker 5: And that's all online. It's a free publication that you
Speaker 5: can check out. So anyway, that's my point. There's a
Speaker 5: lot more on there. I guess I ought to talk
Speaker 5: about more of the publications that are up sometime, but anyway,
Speaker 5: that one I think almost everybody needs, because you're gonna
Speaker 5: have poison ivy pop up, or you're gonna have a
Speaker 5: weed that's difficult to control. You know what about nuts
Speaker 5: edge in a garden bed and you've got other plants
Speaker 5: and you don't want to kill those plants, but you
Speaker 5: want to kill the nuts edge. Online look at my publications.
Speaker 5: We're gonna head over now to League City and visit
Speaker 5: with Ross. Hey, Ross, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Hey, thanks for taking the call.
Speaker 10: So I have a the house in Lake City, and
Speaker 10: I have a large dog that has dug up the
Speaker 10: backyard over the years, and I want to re establish
Speaker 10: the lawn area. It's not a big area, it's about
Speaker 10: ten by thirty that he's dug up, but it's all
Speaker 10: that clay soil that's down here in Lake City, and
Speaker 10: I'm wondering how I amend that soil and get the
Speaker 10: Saint Augustine growing again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you can get some you know, a quality soil,
Speaker 5: blend or mixed or compost, any of those. Put it down,
Speaker 5: mix it in a little bit into the surface of
Speaker 5: the clay and then just plant your side right back
Speaker 5: on top of that and that'll work really really well.
Speaker 7: Okay, So what would be and I can go to
Speaker 7: mas well right here.
Speaker 5: Yeah would yeah, yeah, Well it could be a compost product.
Speaker 5: It could be a bed mix type product that you
Speaker 5: put down. Hey, Ross, I'm sorry to do this to you.
Speaker 5: I gotta take a quick break. I want to spend
Speaker 5: a little more time with you on this. Could you
Speaker 5: hang on just a little bit and I'll we'll be
Speaker 5: right back. Okay, all right, all right, all right, folks,
Speaker 5: I'll be right back. All right, welcome back to guarden Line.
Speaker 5: Good to have you with us. I am barely here
Speaker 5: in the music. All right, let's get back going here
Speaker 5: on the topics of the day. I mentioned that earlier
Speaker 5: that if you are going to put a lin in,
Speaker 5: you want to get that soil ready. You want to
Speaker 5: get everything as best you can, get it leveled out,
Speaker 5: get rid of the weeds that are plague you, that
Speaker 5: are perennial. So if you have a Saint Augustine lawn
Speaker 5: and you've got bermuda grass crawling through it, that's a
Speaker 5: challenge to do. There is a way to kill the
Speaker 5: bermuda out, but it is, it's complicated, very expensive, and
Speaker 5: unless you hire somebody to do it, probably not going
Speaker 5: to happen. But if you are going to revamp that lawn,
Speaker 5: there's your chance to get rid of the bermuda. And
Speaker 5: I don't care how long it takes. You know, one
Speaker 5: thing that happens when we try to spray a weeds
Speaker 5: sometimes is you'll you have a bunch of the weed
Speaker 5: and you spray and you get almost all of it,
Speaker 5: but then one pops back, and bermuda is notorious for that.
Speaker 5: Nut set is notorious for that. So you kind of
Speaker 5: have to be patient and wait, maybe a couple of weeks,
Speaker 5: get a little rain on it, and then or water irrigation,
Speaker 5: and here comes back, and then you got another shot
Speaker 5: at it, and you got to you gotta go after it,
Speaker 5: because nothing gets everything with one apption. It just doesn't.
Speaker 5: Nature doesn't work. It doesn't work that way, and so
Speaker 5: be patient, but get it right. Keep in mind that
Speaker 5: the most important thing for your turf is probably the
Speaker 5: sunlight amount that it's receiving. Soil is important, and certainly watering,
Speaker 5: you got to water and stuff, but the sunlight that
Speaker 5: is the fuel that drives everything in your grass. You
Speaker 5: want your grass to be healthy, you want it to
Speaker 5: be pretty and green, you want it to grow fast
Speaker 5: and fill in and all that get dense sun sun sun,
Speaker 5: that's the energy for everything lack. The more you go
Speaker 5: in the shade, the more the grass goes into a
Speaker 5: just trying to hang on and survive pattern. And then
Speaker 5: it gets too shady for that and it starts to decline.
Speaker 5: And when grass is in the shade and it starts
Speaker 5: going downhill, it is very hard to bring it back.
Speaker 5: It just is because it doesn't have the energy to
Speaker 5: be able to do that. Imagine your body if you
Speaker 5: weren't eating right. You know, you eat three salting crackers
Speaker 5: one day. Okay, how much energy are you gonna have?
Speaker 5: You're gonna feel like getting up and running running a mile? No,
Speaker 5: because you don't have the energy. And the sun is
Speaker 5: the energy source for our plants. And so when they
Speaker 5: don't go what they need, there's a marginal area where
Speaker 5: they get by, kind of like you're sitting around the
Speaker 5: house not doing much because you just don't have the energy.
Speaker 5: But they need energy, they need sunlight, and that is
Speaker 5: certainly true grass. That's probably the number one limiting factor
Speaker 5: that we deal with on grass. Now I want to
Speaker 5: talk about timing on weeds. We are in a crucial
Speaker 5: crossroads when it comes to weed management in our turf.
Speaker 5: The cool season weeds are what you see right now
Speaker 5: in your grass. If you see weeds that are all
Speaker 5: up in the grass, that is a cool season weed.
Speaker 5: It's not a warm season that's the big old weed
Speaker 5: sitting there. That's the thing like clover and chickweed and
Speaker 5: hem bit and cleavers and carpet weed and a bunch
Speaker 5: of others, dandelions, things like that. They are coming through
Speaker 5: the season and they're putting on their show. They're about
Speaker 5: to start blooming and setting seeds. So their life cycle
Speaker 5: is just like the blue bonnet. When you think a
Speaker 5: cool season weeds, think of a blue bonnet. It sprouts
Speaker 5: in the fall and it sits there as a little
Speaker 5: They call it a rosette because it's just a little
Speaker 5: bitty small plant that sits there waiting. When we start
Speaker 5: getting past midwinter, we're coming into spring, that blue bonnet
Speaker 5: begins to grow and all of a sudden, now you
Speaker 5: see these big mounds of blue bonnets on the highway.
Speaker 5: Where were they in November and October? They were there,
Speaker 5: there was little plants. Then they start to grow, and
Speaker 5: then the next step is because it changes in day
Speaker 5: length and because of the warming temperatures, they start blooming
Speaker 5: and we get to drive down the highways and enjoy
Speaker 5: our bluebar on it. And then after they bloom, they
Speaker 5: set seed, and at that stage that plant has become
Speaker 5: we say at the bloom stage, it's become reproductive, meaning
Speaker 5: it's ready to start reproducing producing seed. And at that
Speaker 5: stage it's very hard to kill weeds and your lawn.
Speaker 5: So you want to do it before they start blooming
Speaker 5: and producing it. They just starting to bloom. That's okay,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skin Rictor.
Speaker 3: It's just watch him as many things to suppotas.
Speaker 2: A sad.
Speaker 5: Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. Good to
Speaker 5: have you with us. What are we gonna talk about today?
Speaker 5: You tell me, I've got some things I'd like to
Speaker 5: talk about, But this is a Collin show. This is
Speaker 5: about what are your questions? How can we help you
Speaker 5: have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That's what
Speaker 5: we're here for. That's my goal. At least I want
Speaker 5: to see you have success. It breaks my heart when
Speaker 5: someone says I got a brown thumb. I tried gardening,
Speaker 5: I killed everything. I can't grow plants. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 5: no no, you do not have a brown thumb. There's
Speaker 5: no such thing as a brown thumb. Listen to me,
Speaker 5: trust me on this one. There's no such thing as
Speaker 5: a brown thumb. There are uninformed thumbs. And if you
Speaker 5: want to associate a color with your thumb, well, then
Speaker 5: let's do it this way. The more informed you get,
Speaker 5: the greener your thumb gets. Okay, And that's all it is.
Speaker 5: The reason Grandma could grow anything. Grandma drop a pencil
Speaker 5: on the ground and'd sprout and grow a pine tree,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, she could do anything. The reason
Speaker 5: is she was giving plants what they want. They have
Speaker 5: opinions about how much sunlight, how much drainage, how well
Speaker 5: the soil condition is in terms of aeration and internal
Speaker 5: drain They have opinions about nutrients. They have opinions about
Speaker 5: if they want to live at your house. Next time
Speaker 5: you go on a vacation to Colorado, do not bring
Speaker 5: Colorado columbines and blue spruce trees home. The Society for
Speaker 5: the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants will arrest you and
Speaker 5: throw you in jail. That shame on that. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's a torture plant, something that wants to grow here,
Speaker 5: That's what I'm saying. That's part of making it look
Speaker 5: like you got a green thumb. It's because you put
Speaker 5: a plant where it wants to be, and oh oh,
Speaker 5: put it in soil that it wants to be. And
Speaker 5: the better your soil and you make ge it lucky
Speaker 5: and just have good soil where you moved. Most people
Speaker 5: have to fix their soil. They have to improve their soil.
Speaker 5: They have to take a look at what nature does
Speaker 5: and then go home and do that. That's why we
Speaker 5: had compost to the soil, by the way, because nature
Speaker 5: adds compost to the soil, and just a little different
Speaker 5: way than we go about it. You have a green thumb,
Speaker 5: closureiz and repeat after me. Click your heels together, and
Speaker 5: you will be like Dorothy and a wizard of Oz.
Speaker 5: I have a green thumb. I have a green thumb.
Speaker 5: I have a green You have a green thumb. Just
Speaker 5: keep listening to guard line. All right, Well, I want
Speaker 5: to talk a little bit about I mentioned the importance
Speaker 5: of a post emergent weed control. Now before those weeds
Speaker 5: start setting seed. So that clover in your lawn, that
Speaker 5: chickweed that hand best, especially hand bet it's already blooming
Speaker 5: out there in the yards. You need to stop it now.
Speaker 5: Handpull it, spray at whatever you're gonna do. Stop it now,
Speaker 5: or it will sentence you to thousands more seeds of
Speaker 5: that same species that you can deal with next spring.
Speaker 5: So you don't do it. You don't want to do that. Secondly,
Speaker 5: pre emergence. Pre emergents prevent the seeds when they try
Speaker 5: to sprout from becoming established. So if you right now
Speaker 5: in your yard, I'll bet there is some cribgrass seed,
Speaker 5: I'll bet there is some seed of other things, will
Speaker 5: graspers and other ones that it's a warm season weed
Speaker 5: that comes up from seed. We've got a whole bunch
Speaker 5: of them. And if you're going to stop them from
Speaker 5: ever getting started, now's the time to do it. Because
Speaker 5: once they're up and growing. There are a few pre
Speaker 5: emergents that have a little bit of post emergent activity,
Speaker 5: like if the weed seed is really early starting, they'll
Speaker 5: kill it too, but some of them don't. And the
Speaker 5: main thing is get there ahead of it. And I
Speaker 5: use the baseball analogy all the time. You start swinging
Speaker 5: somewhere between when the pitcher lets go of the ball
Speaker 5: and when it gets to your plate. If you wait
Speaker 5: until it's almost to you to start swinging, what's going
Speaker 5: to happen. It's going to be in the catcher's mitt
Speaker 5: and you're swinging in the air. That's what it's like
Speaker 5: putting out a pre emergent. You got to do it
Speaker 5: at the right time. You swing before he lets go
Speaker 5: of the ball, he just looks stupid. That's not going
Speaker 5: to work. You wait too late and you're going to
Speaker 5: strike out. And that is true. Now's the time to
Speaker 5: swing with the pre If you're going to put one down,
Speaker 5: you get it down now. The barricades are great example.
Speaker 5: Put it down, water it in, get it into the
Speaker 5: surface of the soil, and then when they try to sprout,
Speaker 5: to give you about about sixty days, maybe a little
Speaker 5: longer where it's protecting against the weed seed sprouting. And
Speaker 5: so if you wanted to extend it through the summer,
Speaker 5: you'd have to do it again at that point. Don't
Speaker 5: overdo it at any point in time. I know we're
Speaker 5: built thinking A teaspoons good, a tablespoons better. This is
Speaker 5: not only is that not true with pre emergency. You
Speaker 5: can do damage when you misuse products of all types,
Speaker 5: all types, even since that even organics, you don't misuse them.
Speaker 5: You use them properly because there are things that can
Speaker 5: happen that are not desirable. And so in the case
Speaker 5: of pre emergence, only what the label says. And I'll
Speaker 5: let me explain it this way, just real quick. If
Speaker 5: you are a company and you have a product to sell,
Speaker 5: would you tell someone to use a teaspoon if a
Speaker 5: tablespoon was better. No, because you sell more products the
Speaker 5: more they use, right, So why would they tell you
Speaker 5: use this amount on the label. It's because that's the
Speaker 5: amount that works and that doesn't cause the damage that
Speaker 5: excessive amounts could cause. So believe them, if if they
Speaker 5: if they could sell you more. They're in a business,
Speaker 5: right If a company making a product could sell you more,
Speaker 5: well they would want to do that. That's why we
Speaker 5: have a label. Labels the law. But more importantly for
Speaker 5: your home garden, label is the right amount without hurting things?
Speaker 2: All Right?
Speaker 5: That was a soapbox. I just have seen so many
Speaker 5: examples of others. I set out to pair Land and
Speaker 5: we're going to talk to Kay, and I'm going to
Speaker 5: stop my little diatribe here about products. Hey, Kay, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line.
Speaker 7: It's thank you Skip.
Speaker 12: Oh excuse me. I'm having a real big problem with weeds,
Speaker 12: and I think I probably have some of everything that
Speaker 12: you mentioned while ago, I have tried tried to find
Speaker 12: weedon Nator. I've tried both the ace in Pearland in Friendswood.
Speaker 12: They don't carry it.
Speaker 7: Huh.
Speaker 12: They have Nelson products and I've tried the plant it
Speaker 12: for him.
Speaker 9: I can't find it.
Speaker 12: Can you give me an alternate other than weed?
Speaker 9: And they are would get rid of I can't everything
Speaker 9: I can.
Speaker 5: I got a penhandy I do this is this is
Speaker 5: for you, and I got an email from Marty about
Speaker 5: the same question. Go to Nelson plantfood dot com, nelsonood
Speaker 5: dot com, and right in the big middle of all
Speaker 5: your choices up there is a store locator. It's in
Speaker 5: that little strip of words at the top of the screen.
Speaker 5: Store locator. You click on that, and all over Texas
Speaker 5: you can find out where you can buy their products.
Speaker 9: Okay, well I thought about doing that.
Speaker 12: I thought if I could maybe an alternate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's good. You call it because other people have
Speaker 5: that same question this morning. All right, Hey, kay, good
Speaker 5: luck with that.
Speaker 2: Have fun?
Speaker 12: Yeah you bet?
Speaker 5: Bye bye. Well, I just droned away that segment, So
Speaker 5: we go for another break and I'll be back with
Speaker 5: more of your calls in gardening information as well. Read
Speaker 5: may welcome back, Welcome back to the garden Line. Good
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Speaker 5: we are here. I was outside yesterday trying to get
Speaker 5: some pictures taken in a garden and the wind is
Speaker 5: just blowing and blowing. And you know what I thought
Speaker 5: of is last year when had those storms come through
Speaker 5: that just wrecked havoc on our power grid. You know,
Speaker 5: people without power for a long time. And the pictures
Speaker 5: I saw around the Greater Houston area of tree damage
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 5: talk about what they can do, other things like deep
Speaker 5: feeding and just have him look. He'll know what needs
Speaker 5: to be done and he'll talk with you about it
Speaker 5: and you can decide. I hate it when a giant,
Speaker 5: beautiful tree is just split open and laying there. It's like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, you can't go backwards. You can't go backward.
Speaker 5: Let me tell you something else you can't do. By
Speaker 5: the way, while I'm ranting about this, you can't undo
Speaker 5: a bad pruning job. Now you can go get a
Speaker 5: cheap haircut and put a bag over your head for
Speaker 5: a few weeks until it grows back. But with a tree,
Speaker 5: when when somebody doesn't know what they're doing gets a
Speaker 5: hold of your tree and messes it up, they know
Speaker 5: getting back to what it originally could have been there
Speaker 5: is not I mean they a good treat person can
Speaker 5: try to begin to repair damage and get it growing
Speaker 5: back in a good way. But some of these hatchet
Speaker 5: jobs that I see driving around town, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 5: it's done, it's done, And so don't be that person.
Speaker 5: Just because someone has a pickup, a chainsaw and a
Speaker 5: business card to sticking your door does not mean they
Speaker 5: know what they're doing or should be turned loose on
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Speaker 5: tell I feel strongly about it. I do because I
Speaker 5: hate it when somebody has to go through all that
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Speaker 5: Richmond Rosenberg area is a awesome, awesome gardens that I
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Speaker 5: nice addition to that as well. I was talking to
Speaker 5: him at the Home and Garden show down there in
Speaker 5: the Richmond Rosenberg area a while back. But at the
Speaker 5: garden Center right now, by the way, they always have
Speaker 5: now in the spring they're always having on Saturdays typically
Speaker 5: they're going to have these educational programs going on that
Speaker 5: are really really helpful, very very helpful. In fact, next Saturday,
Speaker 5: Mike Sarrant is going to give a talk. He's or
Speaker 5: the guy from Oba and from Microlife. He's going to
Speaker 5: be talking about gardening the organic way. So it's free program.
Speaker 5: You can go down there, go see Mike, tell him
Speaker 5: Skip said hi, and then let's see what else is
Speaker 5: going on. They're having a Valentine's Day learning experience down
Speaker 5: there too. But go to the website. It's enchanted that
Speaker 5: the website is enchanted Forest enchanted. Let me just give you,
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Speaker 5: all the time, phone numbers or emails or got to
Speaker 5: go to this website and write it down. Enchanted Forest Richmond. Oh,
Speaker 5: I forgot the TX TX dot com. My bad Enchanted
Speaker 5: Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Chanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com.
Speaker 6: Check it out.
Speaker 5: Look at all the kind of cool stuff they have.
Speaker 5: They have a lot of really really nice stuff. They
Speaker 5: got some cool fruit trees, right, now you can get
Speaker 5: the low chill types that need to be planted here. Listen,
Speaker 5: just because something's for sale in the area does not
Speaker 5: mean it should be planted here, especially if you go
Speaker 5: to some of these big box stores and others that
Speaker 5: sell their junk. Okay, I meant that junk all over
Speaker 5: the country. And you may buy an apple that belongs
Speaker 5: in Washington State. I've seen blueberries and raspberries. It would
Speaker 5: not grow here because of the wrong ones. Go to
Speaker 5: a good mom and popgardens center, an independent garden center,
Speaker 5: and Chennit Forest what I'm talking about here. They'll sell
Speaker 5: you the lo chow varieties that do well here. They
Speaker 5: even have a three and one tree. It's like three
Speaker 5: different varieties grafted onto one tree, so you'd have room
Speaker 5: for three trees. Buy a three and one you can
Speaker 5: get all three kinds of fruit on that same tree.
Speaker 5: That's pretty cool. Stop as well as all the things
Speaker 5: you need, you know, the tools of fertilizers, of soils
Speaker 5: and whatnot to get that off to a good start.
Speaker 5: So let them help you create a fruitful paradise, your
Speaker 5: little garden of eaton eat I n eaton all right,
Speaker 5: that's in Chennit Forest By the way. They're on FM
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Speaker 5: Richmond area up to sugar Land, it's off to the
Speaker 5: right down there FM twenty seven fifty nine. You're listening
Speaker 5: to garden Line. Our phone number. If you'd like to
Speaker 5: give me a call seven one three two one two
Speaker 5: kt r H seven one three two one two kt
Speaker 5: r H. We will help you have success. That's my goal,
Speaker 5: at least that's what I would like to see happen.
Speaker 5: I was talking about the importance of post emergent now,
Speaker 5: the importance of pre emergent now if timing is what's
Speaker 5: important now. You know, there's a lot of ways to
Speaker 5: go about gardening. There's things like organic versus synthetic. There's
Speaker 5: options there, and sometimes those two lines kind of get
Speaker 5: fuzzy right in between a little bit as you go
Speaker 5: across it. But however you want to go about it,
Speaker 5: you just need to do it. I mentioned that I
Speaker 5: do a lot of hand pulling in my yard just
Speaker 5: because I don't have that many weeds, and it's easy
Speaker 5: to do. You know, I've got a weed here and there,
Speaker 5: Why treat the whole yard for a couple of weeds?
Speaker 5: But as your grass gets thinner, you're going to have
Speaker 5: more weed problems. And the term I use is wherever
Speaker 5: sunlight hits the soil, nature plants of weeds. So what
Speaker 5: is the single best individual start to weed control in
Speaker 5: your lawn. It's mow water fertilized. Mow water fertilized. That
Speaker 5: seems so simple. Come on, it's got to be more
Speaker 5: than that. No mow water fertilized. The more you probably
Speaker 5: don't want to hear this, but turf specialists will tell
Speaker 5: you this. The more often you mow, the denser your
Speaker 5: lawn will be. And I'll use your shrubs as an example.
Speaker 5: If you let your shrubs grow out a foot and
Speaker 5: a half and then you cut them once a year back,
Speaker 5: how would that look. It would be ugly. You'd be
Speaker 5: cutting off all the leaves and be all dead twigs
Speaker 5: inside and stuff. It'll be horrible. But if you share
Speaker 5: that shrub regularly through the season, you have this wonderful
Speaker 5: dense wall of foliage that is just solid. You can't
Speaker 5: see in the shrub. It's a dense wall of foliage
Speaker 5: that somewhat applies to your lawn as well. So the
Speaker 5: more often you mow, the denser. Your lawn is going
Speaker 5: to be watering as needed is very important. If your
Speaker 5: lawn gets drowdy, it's going to die back a little bit.
Speaker 5: It'll probably serve, but now sunlight hits the soil. The
Speaker 5: third thing fertilize. You need the right nutrients in order
Speaker 5: for grass to thrive, especially nitrogen. That is a single
Speaker 5: most important nutrient in your lawn for good green color
Speaker 5: and growth and density and health. Okay, you need more
Speaker 5: than nitrogen, but that's the most important. That's why it's
Speaker 5: the first number that's the highest on a bag of
Speaker 5: lawn fertilizer. The first number mow water, fertilize. You do
Speaker 5: that all year this year and the vast majority of
Speaker 5: your weed problems can be overcome for weeds that are
Speaker 5: coming back from seed. Now something that's not coming back
Speaker 5: from seed. That's like you know, Virginia button weeds and
Speaker 5: dollar weeds and dichondra and all the things that just
Speaker 5: live in a lawn. That's not going to get rid
Speaker 5: of them. They'll still be there. You have to treat
Speaker 5: for that. But the vast majority is just simply mow
Speaker 5: water and fertilized. That's a secret. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: it ought to sounds like it ought to be harder
Speaker 5: than that.
Speaker 11: Just not.
Speaker 5: That's a secret to it to success. So the denser
Speaker 5: your lawn, the better off you're going to be. That's
Speaker 5: why when we see things that cause our lawns to struggle,
Speaker 5: we start to one problem leads to another. Your lawn
Speaker 5: gets stressed and now take all root rock comes in.
Speaker 5: Why is that? Well, if you don't get sleep, you
Speaker 5: don't eat well, you don't exercise, and you go to
Speaker 5: some event where there are a bunch of people and
Speaker 5: some of them are coffin and sick, you are more likely.
Speaker 5: It's not a black and white line, but you're more
Speaker 5: likely to get sick because your body is not able
Speaker 5: to fend it off. Plants are the same way. The
Speaker 5: stronger and healthier the plant, the better it can fend
Speaker 5: off many of the problems that attack them. So good
Speaker 5: health is important. That's why I did two schedules. I
Speaker 5: didn't just do a lawn pest, disease and weed schedule.
Speaker 5: I did a lawn care schedule. And that is the
Speaker 5: mow water fertilized. It includes the aeration, It includes you know,
Speaker 5: the the azamite, the supplemental of the micros in there.
Speaker 5: That's getting the healthy lawn. And when you've done that
Speaker 5: and you've got issues that arise, and there will be
Speaker 5: issues that can arise even when you do everything right,
Speaker 5: flip the thing over and do the other side. And
Speaker 5: that's how to manage them, simple as that. All right, folks,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take a break. Seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two ktrh. Hey, welcome back to guarden Line. You would
Speaker 5: like to give me a call and talk about what
Speaker 5: is of interest to you? Seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two ktrh. That's the number. That's how you do it.
Speaker 5: Spend a lot of time on lawns today. But you
Speaker 5: know what, lawns is the topic that everybody, everybody seems
Speaker 5: to have questions about. When I was Horticulture so Texas
Speaker 5: A and m Agrolife Extension Service for thirty five years,
Speaker 5: we used to say the three things that made the
Speaker 5: phone at the extension office where the three t's trees,
Speaker 5: turf and tomatoes. And that is so true on garden
Speaker 5: Line as well. When it comes to the number the
Speaker 5: first two trees and turf that the majority of questions.
Speaker 5: That's what people ask about because people are concerned about
Speaker 5: those I get it. When it comes to the vegetable garden.
Speaker 5: Nobody calls me about their co rabbie or their a
Speaker 5: regular tomatoes, the queen of the vegetable garden. That is
Speaker 5: the case. Anyway, whatever your questions are about, we will
Speaker 5: try to give it a good shot. You know, when
Speaker 5: it comes to gardening and plants, there is no end
Speaker 5: to the learning. There isn't. There absolutely isn't. And I
Speaker 5: can tell you this because I've done it for decades
Speaker 5: and decades, and it just always something new. There's some
Speaker 5: new plant that gets discovered, you know, COVID hits, and
Speaker 5: suddenly we discover there's eight hundred billion kinds of houseplants
Speaker 5: that you can't live about. Remember that. And so those
Speaker 5: of us that are order culturist, you know, house plants
Speaker 5: are kind of off on the periphery of all the
Speaker 5: kind of things people ask about and stuff. And so
Speaker 5: suddenly we're having to beef up on all these eight
Speaker 5: hundred kinds of this or that species and how to
Speaker 5: grow it and everything else. But that's the fun part.
Speaker 5: That's one of the fun parts of gardening is learning.
Speaker 5: I love I love learning. And the more you learn,
Speaker 5: the more you're able to do what you want to do,
Speaker 5: have success with what you want to do. That's what
Speaker 5: we're talking about. There's no brown thumbs, there's uninformed thumbs.
Speaker 5: So let's get your thumb informed. I phone number again
Speaker 5: seven one three two one two K t R H.
Speaker 5: I'm going to shift gears here. This is a time
Speaker 5: of year when a lot of people are planning fruit trees,
Speaker 5: and we've got some excellent selections of fruit trees in
Speaker 5: our various independent garden centers that we have in there
Speaker 5: in the Greater Houston area. I was looking at the
Speaker 5: Buchanans Gardens Center Buchanans Nursery. It's actually, i should say,
Speaker 5: and there's native plants, because that's part of their name,
Speaker 5: and it's because they they absolutely have the best selection
Speaker 5: of native plants of anybody in the region.
Speaker 4: It is.
Speaker 5: It is really really outstanding what they have. But they
Speaker 5: also have free trees that they've gotten in. They've got
Speaker 5: some really cool ones too, by the way. And so
Speaker 5: if you're looking even some things that are not so common,
Speaker 5: you know, some things that aren't that common, they have them,
Speaker 5: like when it comes to nectarines and apricots, and when
Speaker 5: you look at things like peaches, and plums and pluots.
Speaker 5: Do you know what a pluot is. A pluot is
Speaker 5: a plum apricot cross, plum apricot cross. Okay, they have
Speaker 5: one called Flavor Grenade pluot and has to have a pollinator.
Speaker 5: But all their stuff is low chill. All their stuff
Speaker 5: will do well down here in the Houston area and
Speaker 5: even south of the Houston area. They've got excellent, excellent choices.
Speaker 5: And of course that you know when it comes to peaches,
Speaker 5: and they got a lot apples that do well. They
Speaker 5: got pears that do well. They even have an almond.
Speaker 5: They've got tropical stuff. I mean, you know, it depends
Speaker 5: on the season as to what they have in at
Speaker 5: that time, stuff that's appropriate to plant. But if you're
Speaker 5: looking et ceteras and other things, Buchanan's Native Plants has it.
Speaker 5: And when you go to Buchanans Number one, it's fun.
Speaker 5: It's just fun to walk around there and see all
Speaker 5: that they have. But if you want to get a
Speaker 5: little bit of a gardening education, go talk to some
Speaker 5: of their people there. They're very knowledgeable, very very helpful.
Speaker 5: And the times that I've been in there, I've been
Speaker 5: super impressed with what they know and with the selection
Speaker 5: that they have. So you walk in and you could say, Okay,
Speaker 5: I want to put more natives in my landscape, because
Speaker 5: I understand all the reasons. That's a good idea. I
Speaker 5: need something. I want something that will attract hummingbirds it's
Speaker 5: a native blooming plant, or I want something that will
Speaker 5: attract be a food source for butterfly larvae of some type.
Speaker 5: They're going to have that stuff and they're going to
Speaker 5: know it. And they have native plants just in general
Speaker 5: Texas area natives. They've got native plants that are just
Speaker 5: from the Houston area here right around this area. They're
Speaker 5: immediately native right to our area. And when you go in,
Speaker 5: you're gonna find the selection and you're gonna find the
Speaker 5: help that you need. Anyway, I'm talking about them a lot,
Speaker 5: but just because I really enjoy going in there. Buchanan's
Speaker 5: Plants on Eleventh Street, Eleventh Street in the Heights, Buchanansplants
Speaker 5: dot com. Sign up for their newsletter. It alone is
Speaker 5: worth going to the website for the newsletter that they
Speaker 5: send out is outstanding. So you need to at least
Speaker 5: sign up for that newsletter too. But anyway, all right,
Speaker 5: there you have it. Well, let's see here. I better
Speaker 5: run out to the phones. We got some folks out here.
Speaker 5: It helps to look over there that way, ever know.
Speaker 5: And then Woody and Kingwood Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hi Skip.
Speaker 5: I just want to say you how much I appreciate
Speaker 5: your show and what a great job you do. And
Speaker 5: is about oxalis? Is there any way to get rid
Speaker 5: of that stuff besides digging up the little spindle roots
Speaker 5: or h there's different kinds of oxalis. Sometimes you get
Speaker 5: these little bulbs underground that you kind of got to
Speaker 5: dig those up. Uh products that yeah, hand digging is that.
Speaker 5: There's also an oxalis that's a little tiny weed that
Speaker 5: reseeds profusely. It's interesting because after the blooms, the little
Speaker 5: capsules that hold the seed, they they explode, they pop
Speaker 5: and they throw seeds. And I've been in garden centers
Speaker 5: where there was oxalis on the ground and up in
Speaker 5: the pots. It was coming up because the ground weeds
Speaker 5: threw their seeds up into the bench, up onto the
Speaker 5: bench in the pots on top. So that's what you're
Speaker 5: up against, Uh, pre emergence that will work against you know,
Speaker 5: the broad leaf weed like that is one option for
Speaker 5: that kind of oxalis. When you're dealing with the you know,
Speaker 5: the types with bulbs and are our in the ground,
Speaker 5: you're probably gonna have to go to something that's more
Speaker 5: like a two four D ingredient. And I would use
Speaker 5: my weed wiper for that, so you're not spraying it
Speaker 5: out everywhere and damaging other broad leaf plants with the spray. Okay,
Speaker 5: so I just do that.
Speaker 13: I put down the barricade now, and then I just
Speaker 13: continue to dig those bulbs up.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, the barricade would be for for the seeds,
Speaker 5: for things that are coming back from the seeds. The
Speaker 5: digging up the bulbs is for the exist Yeah, that's
Speaker 5: for the existing type. There are ornamental types of oxalis
Speaker 5: that are gorgeous. They call them shamrock plants and things
Speaker 5: like that. They do really really well, so you know
Speaker 5: there when they established, they stay there and that then
Speaker 5: when it's a weed problem, that's that's unfortunate. Okay, Well,
Speaker 5: thank you for your help. I'll give that a try. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you're going to do more than one, and by all means,
Speaker 5: don't let them bloom and go to seed again, because
Speaker 5: then you're just you're going backwards, right all right. Thanks,
Speaker 5: you appreciate I appreciate that very much. You take care.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I Uh. Someone was asking me about Nelson
Speaker 5: Plant Food and sources well ago, and I was telling
Speaker 5: you go to Nelson Plant Food. Uh, go to their
Speaker 5: website and you can find out exactly well you know
Speaker 5: where to get it. It's now Nelsonplantfood dot com. There's
Speaker 5: a store locator on there. That's where you're going to
Speaker 5: find things like uh weed Nator that we were talking about.
Speaker 5: Weed Nator has a growth regulator that causes your lawn
Speaker 5: to go more horizontal and less vertical, less mowing, but
Speaker 5: still good coverage. And it's got a weed control product
Speaker 5: for killing existing weeds. So you wet your lawn to
Speaker 5: get the weed leaves. Wet put out this fertilizer. It
Speaker 5: sticks to the weed leaves, it soaks in, and it
Speaker 5: kills them that way. So it's important to have wet
Speaker 5: leaves on your lawn to get the best result out
Speaker 5: of the turf Star Weedonator. And it is a widely
Speaker 5: available product here from the folks is Nelson. I'll talk
Speaker 5: about some of the other products here as we go
Speaker 5: through the show, but it is it is a product
Speaker 5: that works let's see here, I'm looking at Okay, I'm
Speaker 5: going to go out to talk to Phil here. Hey, Phil,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line. All right, I'm a put Phil
Speaker 5: back on hold. I'm going to take a break here.
Speaker 5: Of Phil, we'll come back to you right after break.
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Speaker 5: All right, we're back. Still good to be back with you.
Speaker 5: Kind of questions you have, give me a call seven
Speaker 5: one three two one two kt r H. We'll see
Speaker 5: if we can help you with that. I'll have a
Speaker 5: more bountiful and beautiful place that would definitely be a goal.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: You know, it all begins in the soil. It all
Speaker 5: begins in the soil. When you go to a garden center,
Speaker 5: you want to see the pretty stuff and the eating stuff, right,
Speaker 5: you want to see the tomato plants because you can
Speaker 5: taste those tomatoes. You want the flowers. In fact, people
Speaker 5: love to buy a plant that already has big old
Speaker 5: flowers on it. And I understand that if you buy
Speaker 5: a plant that doesn't have any flowers on it, it
Speaker 5: may be the best plant there is because it's going
Speaker 5: to put all its energy into growing and then setting
Speaker 5: some blooms. But you've got to have faith to do that.
Speaker 5: And a lot of people know I want a plant
Speaker 5: that is in a little tiny six pack with a
Speaker 5: one inch cell of roots, and I wanted to have
Speaker 5: a flower the size of a dinner plate on top.
Speaker 5: All right, well, go for it. But when we're wanting
Speaker 5: to have success, it starts in the soil. That's where
Speaker 5: it begins. And Nature's Way resources I like to think
Speaker 5: of it as maybe the grandfather place of soil around here.
Speaker 5: Nature's Way has been around a long time. John Ferguson
Speaker 5: established it and with the idea of providing products for
Speaker 5: us to be able to garden in the way that
Speaker 5: nature does, and that is organic matter in the soil
Speaker 5: to help plants have success. And so now iansun running
Speaker 5: it and the whole team out there, they are a
Speaker 5: great team, really knowledgeable folks. But anyway, the whole team
Speaker 5: out there, they produce still the quality soils, the ones
Speaker 5: that were born at Nature's Way, like roast soil and
Speaker 5: leaf moore composts, for example, they produce that. They also
Speaker 5: have fungal compost and by the way, either the leaf
Speaker 5: mold or the fungal compost is excellent for top dressing
Speaker 5: your lawn. Either way, leaf mold or funk well, both
Speaker 5: are good for top dressing the lawn. However, you won't
Speaker 5: go about it. They have the mixes for various types
Speaker 5: of plants like vegetables and herbs. If you want to
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Speaker 5: something to help you put a foundation down for success.
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Speaker 5: if you don't talk about brown dirt, you're not gonna
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Speaker 2: Morning.
Speaker 25: Skip.
Speaker 13: That was an appropriate advertisement. I'm getting ready to have
Speaker 13: my delivery of the double ground hardwood mulch in the next.
Speaker 25: Week or two.
Speaker 5: Ready.
Speaker 13: My question is I've always just pulled I usually have
Speaker 13: a couple of inches of oak leaves in my uh
Speaker 13: several of my beds, and I always kind of blow
Speaker 13: them or rape them out. Is there any reason to
Speaker 13: do that or just put the mult right on top,
Speaker 13: you know, I mean, doesn't it make leaf mold compost eventually?
Speaker 5: It will eventually, So it depends on what you're going
Speaker 5: to grow. You know, if you're gonna plant little seeds,
Speaker 5: having that chunky leaves and sticks or anything like that,
Speaker 5: it kind of makes it hard to get good seed
Speaker 5: to soil contact and get them at the exact right depth.
Speaker 5: But you know that you can mix leaves in. I
Speaker 5: generally like to give them more time. Like if you're
Speaker 5: going to plant the spring, mixing leaves in right now,
Speaker 5: they probably wouldn't have time to really break down very good,
Speaker 5: and it might tie up a little bit of nitrogen
Speaker 5: and early in that process of breaking down. So what
Speaker 5: I'll often do is when they fall and we've got
Speaker 5: them gathered, maybe rototill them into the soil, and that
Speaker 5: gives them several weeks to do what they're going to
Speaker 5: do prior to us getting out there and planting. But
Speaker 5: in my gardens, I tend to not do a lot
Speaker 5: of rototilling, So I just rake those leaves out of
Speaker 5: the way, build the soil like I'm going to build
Speaker 5: it whatever it needs, and then plant the plants and
Speaker 5: bring the leaves back in as a mult around them.
Speaker 13: Well, for me, this is mainly the malt is just
Speaker 13: a it's shrubbery and you know, AA beds and things
Speaker 13: like that, and I'm not planting any new seeds. I'm
Speaker 13: just mainly weed control.
Speaker 5: Gotcha, gotcha? Well, you can use it. Leaves are fine
Speaker 5: for we control. That's what That's what guy uses in
Speaker 5: the forest. It drops those stream leaves on the around
Speaker 5: and that basically that's one of the things that they do.
Speaker 5: So yeah, you can do that. You can mix it
Speaker 5: with the pretty mulch, put the leaves down and then
Speaker 5: put something pretty on top of it.
Speaker 13: If you don't like the look of leaves, that's well,
Speaker 13: that's exactly what I was thinking because I've been raking
Speaker 13: them out and then I'm going, you know, I'm just
Speaker 13: using it to you know, for weed control, moisture control
Speaker 13: and stuff like that. So just throw the uh, it's
Speaker 13: just for cosmetics.
Speaker 5: So there you do. You know, that's it.
Speaker 13: Yeah, so okay, I'll save myself. Yeah, raking blowing. The
Speaker 13: other question I had on your two products, the whedonator,
Speaker 13: I still need to use some barricade prior to that.
Speaker 25: Is that correct?
Speaker 5: Correct weedonator is a post emergent barricade is okay, emergent,
Speaker 5: So that's separate things you're trying. The weedenator is killing
Speaker 5: your cool season weeds that are up. The barricade is
Speaker 5: preventing the warm season weeds that are on the way.
Speaker 7: Perfect.
Speaker 13: That all right, I just figured that out.
Speaker 8: So that's what I'll do.
Speaker 13: And I need to push me back to the producer
Speaker 13: so I can get an email and send some picked got.
Speaker 5: You all right?
Speaker 25: Here you go.
Speaker 5: I'm putting you on hold and Jonathan'll pick it right
Speaker 5: up and go with it. If you are planting a tree,
Speaker 5: or if you planted a tree even in the last
Speaker 5: five years, you need to think about getting you a
Speaker 5: three sixty tree stabilizer. That's a little sprinkler goes around
Speaker 5: the tree and you turn it on. You can barely
Speaker 5: turn it on and just water the root ball, the
Speaker 5: cylinder roots that just went in the ground, that tree
Speaker 5: you just planted, or you can turn it on and
Speaker 5: water a wider and whiter area. They come in three sizes.
Speaker 5: They hook up to a garden hose. They're easy to use.
Speaker 5: And the reason I said, like a tree's been in
Speaker 5: for five years. If this summer we go into one
Speaker 5: hundred degrees for one hundred days with the rain, which
Speaker 5: we occasionally get those kind of things coming, you just
Speaker 5: turn that thing on and you rescue water your tree
Speaker 5: with its right underneath the branch bread of the tree
Speaker 5: very very well. And it's that good rescue treatment. You're
Speaker 5: going to get it at RCW Nursery. You're going to
Speaker 5: get it at Jorges Hidden Gardens. You'll find them at
Speaker 5: Siena Maultch down south and be Cannons and the Heights
Speaker 5: and Arborgate in Tomball and plants for all seasons on
Speaker 5: two forty nine on the way up the Tomball. It's
Speaker 5: widely available. Find them at Southwest Fertilizer too. Bob's got
Speaker 5: them there. But get you one. Keep it in the
Speaker 5: you know, keep it in your gardening shed or garage
Speaker 5: because you're gonna want to use it. Maybe you're gonna
Speaker 5: plant a rose bush. They're good for that. To get
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Speaker 5: rose bush. That works well.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 5: I hear music, which means I gotta quit talking, turn
Speaker 5: it over to I got to turn it over to
Speaker 5: the UH top of the hour news and things. But
Speaker 5: when we come back, Marty in Fairfield, you'll be our
Speaker 5: first up when we come back. If you can hang
Speaker 5: on the.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kzy r H Garden Line with Richard.
Speaker 26: It's.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as the world.
Speaker 5: All right, welcome back to garden Line. Good to have
Speaker 5: you with us this morning. All you gardeners and would
Speaker 5: be gardeners out there, I want to be gardeners out there.
Speaker 5: Everybody's welcome. If you've never grown a thing in your life,
Speaker 5: well welcome. We can help you. And you've got to
Speaker 5: try stuff. There's way too much gardening. Let's start you
Speaker 5: with a house plant. We'll get inside. We'll tell you
Speaker 5: how to get the right light for that, which species
Speaker 5: to pick out, and you're gonna have fun. And I
Speaker 5: gotta warn you though gardening is addictive.
Speaker 7: It is.
Speaker 5: It is highly addictive. They don't there should be a
Speaker 5: warning label put on plant gardening is highly addictive. I
Speaker 5: think there's even a wing of the Betty Ford Clinic
Speaker 5: for gardeners. I'm just saying, I'm pretty sure there is,
Speaker 5: because it is we're talking about. Yeah, yeah, but it's fun.
Speaker 5: It is absolutely fun. Too much fun. As a matter
Speaker 5: of fact. RCW Garden Center, RCW Nursery right there on
Speaker 5: Beltway eight and Tamil Parkway two forty nine. That's the
Speaker 5: get It, Got It Nursery Number one. They probably have
Speaker 5: it already what you're looking for, but if they don't,
Speaker 5: they probably can find it somewhere. They do their best
Speaker 5: and finding it and bringing it in. That's why I
Speaker 5: like to call them to get It, Got It a nursery.
Speaker 5: The huge selection, of course, all kinds of plants, herbs,
Speaker 5: perennials and annual shrubs, native plants, all of that. Right now,
Speaker 5: we're talking roses because pages and pages they have hundreds
Speaker 5: of varieties of roses. They bring in at the end
Speaker 5: of winter every year and it's first come, first serve,
Speaker 5: so you know, they come in with several hundred time
Speaker 5: roses by the time, you know, you wait until spring
Speaker 5: and they're always they're always gonna have roses there. But
Speaker 5: there's no selection like the first where you it's just like,
Speaker 5: what do you want a climber? Do you want a bush?
Speaker 5: Do you want a miniature? Do you want one with
Speaker 5: red blooms, white blooms, coral blooms, whatever? Do you want
Speaker 5: one fragrant not fragrant? Do you want a shrub? Do
Speaker 5: you want to cut flower, hybrid tea? All of it? R.
Speaker 5: CW is a favorite of rosarians because they do have
Speaker 5: that kind of selection. They also have a tree farm
Speaker 5: up in Plannersville where they grow their own trees and
Speaker 5: they grow things that are well adapted, well acclimated to
Speaker 5: our climate, to your yard right here. So when you
Speaker 5: get a tree from them, you know it's gonna grow
Speaker 5: here because it's from here. Think of it that way.
Speaker 5: It's grown in this area right here, and you can't
Speaker 5: beat that. By the way. That tree farm is open
Speaker 5: to the public on but you got to listen to
Speaker 5: this carefully. It's up planners Though it's open to the
Speaker 5: public on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, only, and you need
Speaker 5: to make an appointment. Go to the website. I'm going
Speaker 5: to give you that way website, whimsuntreefarm dot com. You
Speaker 5: have to make an appointment because you know this is
Speaker 5: a wholesale tree farm, and so you can't just a
Speaker 5: bunch of people show up, but making that appointment and
Speaker 5: go see go look see the trees themselves. Get pick
Speaker 5: out something you like. Uh, it's pretty cool. All part
Speaker 5: of that RCW world that we talk about all the time.
Speaker 5: We're going to go out now to Fairfield and talk
Speaker 5: to Marty. Hey, Marty, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Good morning.
Speaker 26: I'll bet that Betty ford Wing has the best garden
Speaker 26: in the whole place.
Speaker 5: I don't know where. Sometimes things come out of my
Speaker 5: mouth that I problem anyway, you know.
Speaker 26: Anyway, Hey, I didn't catch up with the weather stuff
Speaker 26: yesterday or maybe this morning. Okay, I'm having my beds
Speaker 26: prepped on Monday tomorrow and we're just doing them alt
Speaker 26: and cutting back all the stuff and I'm not planting
Speaker 26: anything yet. What do you think, well, well, what do
Speaker 26: you think will be our future short term? Long term
Speaker 26: type situation? I know you're not a weather guide, but.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not but what I've been seeing is, you know,
Speaker 5: by the time it just depends on where you live
Speaker 5: in the Greater Houston area. But by the time we
Speaker 5: get into tomorrow, the rain chances start to go up.
Speaker 5: And of course Tuesday and Wednesday should be pretty rainy
Speaker 5: unless things change, get a little bit of a break
Speaker 5: on Thursday, I think as it is oh cold, No,
Speaker 5: I don't see by Wednesday. I think some areas are
Speaker 5: going to be down in the upper or mid thirties,
Speaker 5: you know, still a few days away. But I don't
Speaker 5: see phrases, and probably not frosts based on the amount
Speaker 5: of moisture that's that's in the air. I don't think
Speaker 5: the temperature, the way it falls and stuff, I don't
Speaker 5: I don't think we're going to have a frost.
Speaker 26: Okay, well, I know they're getting cold weather up north,
Speaker 26: like in the Dallas area. Have some friends and as
Speaker 26: I'm cutting things back from the most goosh, I'm covering
Speaker 26: it everything with maulch and just there you go. I'm
Speaker 26: not going to plan anything just in case.
Speaker 13: But I'm just curious.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's a good idea, you know. I'm
Speaker 5: I'm letting mine just stay ugly for now I'm in
Speaker 5: a hurry, but I understand people wanting to clean it out.
Speaker 5: But if you do, you're right, Marty. Just mound some
Speaker 5: mulch up over the base of that plant. Uh, to
Speaker 5: provide that insulation, because I think from what I've seen,
Speaker 5: I don't see predictions of freezing and maybe people living
Speaker 5: living up in Huntsville maybe getting something like that. But uh,
Speaker 5: it's going to get down cold. Was it Saturday or
Speaker 5: someday later in the week, even the weather clears out
Speaker 5: and we get some actual, you know, good nippy cold weather.
Speaker 5: But yeah, short term, okay, much problem? Hey, you I
Speaker 5: saw some pictures. You were asking some questions about we control,
Speaker 5: and I saw pictures along, but I really couldn't make
Speaker 5: out the weeds other than some like annual rye grass
Speaker 5: or something coming up in there. Was there a particular
Speaker 5: of weeds that you were gentlemen.
Speaker 26: It's just post emergent, And that's why I wanted to
Speaker 26: get the weed weed enator. I didn't know if maybe
Speaker 26: I have a whole ton of stuff and maybe there
Speaker 26: was something else I could use, because I'm I'm talking
Speaker 26: up a big fat zero with I've checked into four locations.
Speaker 5: None of them had we there, Well, I'm going to
Speaker 5: reach out to them and see. I know it's out there.
Speaker 5: I know it's popular and people are wanting it, uh
Speaker 5: And so I'm going to reach out to Nelson's and
Speaker 5: see see what's up there. You could also just you know,
Speaker 5: directly call them and they could tell you they would
Speaker 5: they would move having on earth to get a bag
Speaker 5: of it in your hands. So don't worry about it.
Speaker 5: Don't worry about uh bothering them out there and say
Speaker 5: I need this stuff. Skip talked about it and I
Speaker 5: can't live without it, and so don't make me.
Speaker 7: Have to drive all the way in.
Speaker 9: All right, all right, bye bye.
Speaker 5: Okay man. Every time I turn around, it's time for
Speaker 5: another break. We can't be doing this. I got gardening
Speaker 5: to talk about here today. All right, when we come
Speaker 5: back from break, let's see Joe in Kingwood and Susan
Speaker 5: and Patterson. You're gonna be our first two up. I've
Speaker 5: talked about wilbirds a lot, and one thing that I
Speaker 5: don't spend enough time on is a product they have
Speaker 5: called bark butter. Imagine peanut butter, but peanut butter that
Speaker 5: is loaded with all kinds of good stuff including like
Speaker 5: dried meal worms and all kinds of other stuff and
Speaker 5: you just smear it. I mean, you just go out
Speaker 5: there and take your batulu and just smear it on
Speaker 5: a tree trunk. Birds come up and they go nuts
Speaker 5: on this stuff because it has such quality feed in
Speaker 5: it and high protein and high fat and high calcium
Speaker 5: and everything they need because nesting season's coming, they need
Speaker 5: that high calcium. Right now, one hundred and fifty different
Speaker 5: kinds of birds have been documented on bark butter. So
Speaker 5: this feeds all kinds of birds, and it's at wildbirds,
Speaker 5: and it's easy and plus it's kind of fun just
Speaker 5: to go smear stuff around. So I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: if some you just need significant others holding still enough,
Speaker 5: smear some on them, the birds will show up. Okay,
Speaker 5: that was going too far, but seriously, WBU dot com
Speaker 5: forward slash Houston. That's our wild birds. There's six stores
Speaker 5: around here, easy to find them. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 5: I could talk all day about the quality products they have,
Speaker 5: from nest boxes to feeders, to quality feed not the
Speaker 5: kind birds kick out on the ground, the kind birds
Speaker 5: eat that attracts the birds you want to attract, and
Speaker 5: the knowledge there that may be the best thing. Yet
Speaker 5: you go in and ask a question, you say, I
Speaker 5: need to know this, They're gonna know the answer. They
Speaker 5: are experts at it. And I've tested them on this.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I was talking to Rich the
Speaker 5: other day and he's the memorial in the store up
Speaker 5: in Oh Gosh, I can't I used to live there.
Speaker 5: I just blinked out. I can't say Cypress, thank you, Cypress.
Speaker 5: There we go, Cypress store. I lived in Cypress. Anyway,
Speaker 5: he's at those stores, and I was just picking his
Speaker 5: brain on some things. I do that from time to time,
Speaker 5: and I just it's always like, Wow, that's a lot.
Speaker 5: That's a lot of good information to know. And these
Speaker 5: people they know, they know, and they can help you
Speaker 5: have success because there's nothing better than going out in
Speaker 5: the morning, get you a cup of coffee, sit out
Speaker 5: there on the patio or porch, and just listen to
Speaker 5: the birds.
Speaker 7: It is it is.
Speaker 5: You can't buy that kind of therapy. That's good stuff
Speaker 5: for sure. All Right, Well, I'm gonna take a little
Speaker 5: break and we'll be right back. All right, Welcome back
Speaker 5: to Garden Line. Good to have you with us today.
Speaker 5: Looking forward to seeing how we can help you have
Speaker 5: a more successful gardening endeavor all the things you want
Speaker 5: to try to do. We're gonna run back out to
Speaker 5: the phone right quick here and go to Joe Kingwood. Hey, Joe,
Speaker 5: welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 25: Good morning Skip. I'd to appreciate your recommendation regarding how
Speaker 25: to repair my lawn after the barrel hogs severely damaged
Speaker 25: it at least eight times last October during the drought.
Speaker 25: This is the oh my gosh, at least the fourth
Speaker 25: time farrel hogs have destroyed my lawn in the last
Speaker 25: ten years. My house is located at the end of
Speaker 25: a cul de sac off a green belt and it's
Speaker 25: near East End Park in Kingwood. Were you able to
Speaker 25: see the photos that I sent?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 5: They're rooting around does a lot of damage. When I
Speaker 5: was over in the Austin area working with extension there,
Speaker 5: we had golf courses that they'd come in one night
Speaker 5: and do tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage
Speaker 5: just in a night in that on the golf course.
Speaker 5: And they're a problem here in Texas. So bottom line
Speaker 5: is getting everything raked out smooth first of all, and
Speaker 5: then assessing how much living grass you have. And if
Speaker 5: you've got, you know, two sprigs of grass that a
Speaker 5: foot apart, and you take care of them, they will
Speaker 5: cover back over by the end of the summer season
Speaker 5: for sure. And if it's any wider than that, I
Speaker 5: definitely would put some plugs in and between them. At
Speaker 5: least some areas you may want to just take everything
Speaker 5: out and rest it so you get to what you
Speaker 5: want to see faster, But that's up to you how
Speaker 5: you go about it. But the main thing is smooth
Speaker 5: it out firsthand and then just go back with the plantings.
Speaker 5: If the grass was growing there before they hit, it
Speaker 5: ought to be able to take it back over again afterwards.
Speaker 5: Some of your photos looked a little shady, and so
Speaker 5: that would be a concern that I would have with
Speaker 5: the grass filling in. There may be a case there
Speaker 5: for going with solid sod and then trying to maintain
Speaker 5: that density going forward as opposed to waiting on it
Speaker 5: to crawl back across the space and fill in.
Speaker 25: Yeah, they are both in shady areas. On the left there,
Speaker 25: that's a big oak tree of the acorns or what
Speaker 25: attracted them to my yard in the first place, unfortunately,
Speaker 25: And then on the rider are some big pine trees. Uh,
Speaker 25: is there any My wife is ready to toss in
Speaker 25: the towel and stop watering and stop fertilizing. I'm not
Speaker 25: quite there yet, any Uh. You know, I don't want
Speaker 25: to spend thousands of dollars doing cororation and compost top
Speaker 25: dressing and like you say, residing. Is there anything to
Speaker 25: help stimulate whatever is there to spread?
Speaker 5: Yeah? So mo water fertilize is the key to a
Speaker 5: dense lawn. So getting out. Follow my schedule at gardening
Speaker 5: with skip dot com. It's a free, long hour schedule.
Speaker 5: Follow that on wind to fertilize. It gives you the
Speaker 5: options of products to use. I would do that in
Speaker 5: the don't overwater LUNs tend to get water too little
Speaker 5: too often. Here. It's better to give it a good
Speaker 5: soaking and let it dry out rather than a squirt
Speaker 5: every day. And so as we go through the season,
Speaker 5: do that for your lawn. You can do if an
Speaker 5: area not too big like I think yours is, you
Speaker 5: can buy a little thing. If you step on it
Speaker 5: and it goes down the ground, you do some aer
Speaker 5: rating yourself. It's a little bit tedious, but you know
Speaker 5: it might that may be a trade off from spending
Speaker 5: a lot of money on it, and then you could
Speaker 5: buy bags of things like leapmole compos to spread over
Speaker 5: the surface and water it in real good and and
Speaker 5: go go that route too, So I would. The bottom
Speaker 5: line though, is look up at the sky and look
Speaker 5: at the limbs and if you if you're not getting
Speaker 5: enough light, thinning out some of the foliage to get
Speaker 5: more light intensity into that area is going to be
Speaker 5: a very important key too, because light's the limiting factor.
Speaker 25: Yes, and that's just to keep trees pruned as well
Speaker 25: as possible, or as well.
Speaker 5: As you can you know, yeah, well that's an option.
Speaker 5: If you can't grow, then we start looking at things
Speaker 5: like sedges and other shade loving groundcovers as something to
Speaker 5: go over the soil surface. But as far as trying
Speaker 5: to get grass, it just comes down to how many
Speaker 5: foot candles for how many hours are hitting the ground.
Speaker 5: And so if your trees have low hanging limbs, we
Speaker 5: say raise the skirt that outdoor low hanging limb around
Speaker 5: like an oak tree, you see that, printing that up
Speaker 5: to get some incidental light in from the side a
Speaker 5: little bit and then finning out the canopy above would
Speaker 5: be your two options there, all right.
Speaker 25: Yes, sir, all right, good luck, thank you, good luck
Speaker 25: for that, Thank you.
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Speaker 5: We're going to go now out to the hobby area
Speaker 5: and talk to Chuck. Hey Chuck, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Hey Skip, how you doing? This is Chuck and caught
Speaker 7: it from the Massive gardener days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Chuck, I know you.
Speaker 7: How you doing couldn't be better. Look here from a
Speaker 7: young boy, I grew up eating a common for simmons
Speaker 7: and I didn't know where to get one, and I
Speaker 7: didn't know if there was still a good idea.
Speaker 5: Well I've eaten those two. You know you can go
Speaker 5: to the roadsides if you right around wherever their wild
Speaker 5: trees grow and you can just pick some of those
Speaker 5: persimons off and plant the seeds. That's one option. I
Speaker 5: don't know if anybody sells just the wild native per semon,
Speaker 5: they might. You might call Buchanan's Native Plants and the
Speaker 5: Heights and see if they carry them, because they they
Speaker 5: really specialize in natives. You might try with with you know,
Speaker 5: being down south there some of the other garden centers
Speaker 5: like Mosses down south there, uh, and see if he
Speaker 5: has the native. But I like the improved ones. You know,
Speaker 5: there's there's some really good quality improvements where you get
Speaker 5: a per simon that's three or four times bigger than
Speaker 5: the little native ones. But anyway, those those be the options.
Speaker 7: Their improvements. Do you have a suggestion on the variety type?
Speaker 5: Like on the varieties, Oh, gosh, there are a lot
Speaker 5: of good varieties. If you go online to the Aggi
Speaker 5: Horticulture website going through Master Gardener, you probably learned about
Speaker 5: Aggie Horticulture.
Speaker 27: Uh.
Speaker 5: They've got a publication right there on per semons and
Speaker 5: it it's it's excellent and it lists varieties. One of
Speaker 5: the oldest ones that that it is called fu U
Speaker 5: f u y you and uh fo you is it's
Speaker 5: available widely. Now there's a lot of new persimmons that
Speaker 5: are very much improved on Fuu. So that that's just
Speaker 5: that's just one that is not going to be hard
Speaker 5: to find. Uh, there's let's see, what's another one that
Speaker 5: I like. I like hashiya h a c h i
Speaker 5: y a y a Hachiya. It's more of a conical
Speaker 5: kind of shaped, like more of an acorn, you know
Speaker 5: where it's. It's a little longer than it is wide.
Speaker 5: Uh there's Eureka that's more of a tomato shaped one.
Speaker 5: It does very good.
Speaker 25: Uh.
Speaker 5: Tananashi is another good one. There's a bunch of good
Speaker 5: ones on there. But go to Aggie Horticulture website and
Speaker 5: find the fruit. It's a it's right on the front page.
Speaker 5: You click on fruit and then you click on per
Speaker 5: Simon and you've got more than you want to know
Speaker 5: about persimmons in that free publication.
Speaker 7: Thank you all.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, all right, Chuck, you take care all right,
Speaker 5: by bye? Well there we go. Uh yeah, oh, I
Speaker 5: love persimmons.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: The way to eat up a good A good mushy
Speaker 5: old per simon, you know, the oldest stringent kinds. When
Speaker 5: they get mushy, you get in the bathtub and you
Speaker 5: have someone hand it to you, and that way you
Speaker 5: can just eat it. You're gonna have per simon dripping
Speaker 5: off your elbows and you just take a bath and
Speaker 5: you're good to go. You heard it here first, folks,
Speaker 5: how to eat a percmon. Well, that's funny, at least
Speaker 5: it is funny to me. All right, we're coming up
Speaker 5: on a break for the news. I will be back
Speaker 5: with your calls. I do want to remind you gardening
Speaker 5: with skip dot com. I keep referring to it because
Speaker 5: that's where I put everything that you will want to know.
Speaker 5: Seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 5: I'll be right back, So welcome back. Good to be
Speaker 5: back with you. Hey, we're going to keep going here
Speaker 5: on garden line. We've got a lot of gardening to
Speaker 5: get done before the end of today, that is for sure.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 5: I talk about the importance of compost, top dressing and
Speaker 5: core aeration of the soil. Core aeration means you pop
Speaker 5: a plug out of the soil, take a hollow hollow
Speaker 5: time and it goes in the ground, it comes back
Speaker 5: up out and it leaves that little cylinder of soil
Speaker 5: on the surface. Looks like they had a little miniature
Speaker 5: dog convention on your yard. When they're all done. Now
Speaker 5: the top dressing falls down in those holes, as does fertilizer.
Speaker 5: Oxygen gets down in the holes, and it just stimulates
Speaker 5: a root system and in a heavy clay soil, that
Speaker 5: is very important to have success with your launch. A
Speaker 5: very helpful thing. It's done on golf courses all the
Speaker 5: time because people are trapesing up and down the golf course.
Speaker 5: It is a secrets of success, it really is. And
Speaker 5: you can do that in your yard. And if you
Speaker 5: are in the let's say the inside the Loop area,
Speaker 5: inside the Beltway area rather year around Houston, dot com
Speaker 5: serves that area. Now Cliff Carson and the whole team
Speaker 5: you're around Houston, they're specialists. When it comes to coming
Speaker 5: out and doing core aeration and compost. You can do
Speaker 5: it yourself. It's complicated, it's very cumbersome to do it.
Speaker 5: I'd say, save the hassle of running a machine, which
Speaker 5: by the way, is probably not going to do a
Speaker 5: good corporation. It's just gonna punch it squeeze a hole
Speaker 5: open in the soil, compacting the side so the whole. Uh,
Speaker 5: you gotta transport it, you gotta clean it, you got
Speaker 5: to return it. You got big posit compost in the driveway.
Speaker 5: Just call year round, have them do that. They use
Speaker 5: quality screened composts, no smell. This is quality screened compost,
Speaker 5: so it settles down readily, right down into your lawn
Speaker 5: out to the soil surface. So if you are inside
Speaker 5: the Beltway or if you're out in the Richmond Rosenberg area,
Speaker 5: that's another area they surface service out there. You need
Speaker 5: to give me a call and bring some fresh life
Speaker 5: into your soil and therefore into your lawn now year
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Speaker 5: the website year round Houston dot com. Don't try to
Speaker 5: dial that the phone number eight three to two eight
Speaker 5: h four fifty three thirty five eight three two eight
Speaker 5: eight four fifty three thirty five year round Houston for compost,
Speaker 5: out dressing and air ration inside the Beltway and out
Speaker 5: in the Richmond Rosenberg area. We try to cover our ereas.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of folks that listen to a
Speaker 5: lot of different directions and companies like this. You know,
Speaker 5: it's heavy equipment, expensive, heavy equipment hauling compost around. You
Speaker 5: just can't run all over creation doing that. And so
Speaker 5: we have more than one preferred supplier depending on where
Speaker 5: you live here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 6: I like that.
Speaker 5: We're going to go now to the phones and talk
Speaker 5: to Colin. Hello, Colin, welcome to garden Line. Hey, how
Speaker 5: are you? I'm well, sir. How can we help?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 28: I'd like to plant in the ground in my backyard
Speaker 28: a large orange tree that produces a lot of fruits.
Speaker 28: It's going to be okay, Sun, I've had one the
Speaker 28: back before, and I know the satsumas are good, but
Speaker 28: can you recommend one that will give me a lot
Speaker 28: of fruits that tastes good?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Where do you live? I mean what part of
Speaker 5: the area medical? Okay, the Republic of Texas is a
Speaker 5: good cultivar of orange that does well here and there.
Speaker 5: There are others out there, but a Republic of Texas
Speaker 5: is one, and I would you know with where you
Speaker 5: are there you're not. You might talk to Moss Nursery,
Speaker 5: which is out of course at Seabrook that's a little
Speaker 5: distance from you. But they're down kind of south and east,
Speaker 5: and then Horace Hidden Gardens is down south and I
Speaker 5: know he has a lot of fruit trees. I can't
Speaker 5: keep up with all the varieties that each of them carry.
Speaker 5: So if you're looking for a specific win, you meant
Speaker 5: to drive a little bit, go to one of our
Speaker 5: independent garden centers around town. But anyway, Republic of Texas
Speaker 5: is an orange that is pretty popular here in this area.
Speaker 28: Would you recommend an orange tree or a satsuma?
Speaker 5: Wellay, if you want a fresh eat I like the
Speaker 5: satsumas because they have that baggy skin that you know,
Speaker 5: your little thumbnails. It just peels right off. It's very
Speaker 5: easy to peel. If you were going to juice it,
Speaker 5: I think a little bit larger fruit like an orange
Speaker 5: would be probably better for juicing. But you can juice
Speaker 5: e the one of them, I mean, if you want to.
Speaker 28: No, I don't want to juice it.
Speaker 7: I just want to eat it.
Speaker 5: Oh, where did I get Okay? I was thinking you
Speaker 5: wanted juice this. Well either way, either way, satsuma is
Speaker 5: going to be heartier. You get a good satsuma and
Speaker 5: it'll take you down into the low twenties. There's some
Speaker 5: types that will go down into the mid to upper
Speaker 5: teens once they've had a couple of years to establish.
Speaker 5: So that's a plant that you very seldom are really
Speaker 5: going to have to cover in your area.
Speaker 28: Is there a specific brand of satsuma that I.
Speaker 13: Should look for?
Speaker 5: Lots of good ones. Brown select is one that's popular.
Speaker 5: There is a one called Miho am I each. Oh,
Speaker 5: there's one called Sito s E t O. Those are
Speaker 5: both excellent, and then the fellow in Santonio Bread a
Speaker 5: couple for cold heartiness. One is called Arctic frost uh
Speaker 5: and it's very cold hearty, So that that would be
Speaker 5: one if you're trying to go is if cold heartiness
Speaker 5: is the number one thing, I would do the Arctic frost.
Speaker 5: But the others are great, and you can read about
Speaker 5: each of them, you know, you go online, go to
Speaker 5: Aggie Horticulture, look at their cetrus and they're going to
Speaker 5: have a list of varieties and information on there. Or
Speaker 5: you go to a good garden center and they can
Speaker 5: tell you you know what they carry, you know the
Speaker 5: characteristics of it. It's kind of like apple. It's kind
Speaker 5: of like apples. You know, everyone one of them is
Speaker 5: may be better for cooking, one of them is better
Speaker 5: for juicing, one of them is better for fresh eating,
Speaker 5: one of them is tangy, one of them is not.
Speaker 5: You know, so it's kind of that way with the
Speaker 5: satsumas and another cetrus. Of course.
Speaker 13: Great, well, thanks so much.
Speaker 5: All right, thanks sir, Good luck with that. All righty,
Speaker 5: let's uh, I think about Let's go out to Tomball
Speaker 5: and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to guarden Line
Speaker 5: on Skiff.
Speaker 7: Got a quick question for you called a couple of
Speaker 7: weeks ago. I'm trying to help my daughter out planning
Speaker 7: some sant Augustine because they're trying to sell a house,
Speaker 7: so they got weeds. Then they also have dogs, so
Speaker 7: I'm trying to find a perfect answer for this on
Speaker 7: what I could spray for her to get the weeds
Speaker 7: out before I plant new side in her backyard. And
Speaker 7: how much time I need to wait for the dogs I.
Speaker 5: Need to see the weeds. Are these broad leaf weeds
Speaker 5: that are coming up right now that you're heard that
Speaker 5: are growing?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Yeah, it's just a mess factor, so they're going
Speaker 7: to have to reside.
Speaker 5: You're gonna have to use a post emergent weed killer
Speaker 5: and it's going to take a little while to work,
Speaker 5: and the weeds will decline and they'll go out of there.
Speaker 5: Now with the dogs, if they like to eat weeds,
Speaker 5: they may have to keep them off for a while.
Speaker 5: If you can at least get it, put it down,
Speaker 5: spray it on the weeds, and then wait about a
Speaker 5: week without the dogs chomping down on them. Then you
Speaker 5: could mow down low, get most of the weed tops
Speaker 5: out of there that you sprayed, and the products would
Speaker 5: have already translocated down And there's a bunch of them
Speaker 5: on the market. John. You know, being up there in
Speaker 5: the Tomball area, you've got a number of great outlets.
Speaker 5: I know they carry a lot of weed control products
Speaker 5: out at D and D feed out west of Tomball
Speaker 5: on two forty twenty nine. But your garden centers, you know,
Speaker 5: like Arburgate up there, they're going to have that also.
Speaker 5: But you want to get there's one called Booneye weed beater.
Speaker 5: There are several versions of weed beater. The Furlan has
Speaker 5: a is it whed free zone? I think they Furloan
Speaker 5: has one. But they're all post emergent, broadly weak killers
Speaker 5: and they work. Use them according to the label. And
Speaker 5: don't lay get it, don't delay, get it done asap
Speaker 5: so that you can get ahead of all that. Okay, ship,
Speaker 5: yes sir, thank you, Good luck with that. All right,
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Speaker 5: phones and we're gonna talk to Olivia. Hey, Olivia, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line. How are things in Friendswood?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 32: We're doing pretty good.
Speaker 3: I have a question about my queen palms.
Speaker 32: They survived the freeze. The actual crown is still a
Speaker 32: little green, the prawns or not. Is it okay to
Speaker 32: go a hidden free to feed them after all they've
Speaker 32: been through? Or should I wait a little while longer
Speaker 32: till we're sure there's no more cold weather?
Speaker 5: Good question, that's a good question, you know, fertilizing them.
Speaker 5: Fertilizing a plant that's too cold is not going to
Speaker 5: make it grow because it's too cold, So it's not
Speaker 5: you know, it's fine to go ahead and fertilize them
Speaker 5: now if you want. It's just that nutrients wash away,
Speaker 5: and if that tree isn't going to be actively taking
Speaker 5: them up real soon, you might want to wait a
Speaker 5: little bit, let it warm up a little bit, and
Speaker 5: then give them some fertilizer. But there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 5: putting it down now. So there's not a you have
Speaker 5: to fertilize palms on this day kind of rule out there.
Speaker 5: But if it's a slower release, that would definitely be
Speaker 5: one that I'd put down now, and it's ready to
Speaker 5: go when they when they start to grow.
Speaker 32: But either way, I do have one that everything fell
Speaker 32: from the crown, so there's no leaves if you will
Speaker 32: know prawns, but the trunk is green. It looks like
Speaker 32: the roots survived, being that there's no leaves. Will it survive,
Speaker 32: do you know? Or will it just die?
Speaker 15: Is slow ter or flea tid?
Speaker 5: Well, here's the thing on palms, and this is true
Speaker 5: of almost all palms. Some will sprout from the bottom
Speaker 5: and make a clump of trunks, but most palms, the
Speaker 5: only living bud to grow new growth is at the
Speaker 5: top of the trunk. So if it dies you got
Speaker 5: a telephone pole, it's going to be dead wood. I
Speaker 5: mean that until it falls over. So that is the
Speaker 5: part that matters. And if you can't always tell if
Speaker 5: it's alive, orknife, it's too tall to get up there
Speaker 5: and look at it. You can, if you can look
Speaker 5: at it. If it's brown and mushy kind of in there,
Speaker 5: it's probably gone. But I would give it some time,
Speaker 5: you know, let's wait, let's let the weather heat up
Speaker 5: real good and get into a few months of summer
Speaker 5: and see what's going on up there. Sometimes they're really
Speaker 5: slow to respond. They got killed back a lot, but
Speaker 5: not completely. But you know, with me trying to do
Speaker 5: this on the phone, that's about as accurate as I
Speaker 5: can give you there, because if I was there looking
Speaker 5: at it, I might be able to see a little
Speaker 5: bit more.
Speaker 32: All right, I'll try to be patient. Okay, thank you
Speaker 32: so much.
Speaker 5: Hey, thanks for Carl. Appreciate that a lot. Listen. I
Speaker 5: was at the arbor Gate the other day looking at
Speaker 5: some of the stuff that they had, and oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: as always, they're just constantly bringing in plants at the
Speaker 5: arbor Gate, and they are stocked up with everything for
Speaker 5: spring shrubs, trees, fruit tree do you know that fruit
Speaker 5: trees here around and I'm talking about you know, the
Speaker 5: apples and pear kind of fruit trees. I'm talking about berries,
Speaker 5: you know, blackberries and strawberry. I'm talking about grapes. We
Speaker 5: were talking about per summons a while ago with someone.
Speaker 5: They carry that they carry a wide riety citrus to
Speaker 5: Arbigade is an excellent place to find everything you need.
Speaker 5: If you're wanting to start seeds. They have seeds, they
Speaker 5: have seeds starting kits that the color that has come
Speaker 5: into that place right now is outstanding. And of course
Speaker 5: vegetables and herbs. Yes, it's time to get some tomatoes
Speaker 5: and some herbs and be thinking about depending on where
Speaker 5: you live when getting those out. And there's nothing wrong
Speaker 5: with buying a tomato plant today, even if you're not
Speaker 5: going to plant it for a week or two. That
Speaker 5: way you have the selection. So go buy there. They
Speaker 5: have a great range of varieties. Get you what you want,
Speaker 5: take it home, just water. You can pot it up
Speaker 5: in a little bigger pot if you want to put
Speaker 5: it outside in the sun. We're about to go down
Speaker 5: in the thirties, so you'll bring it in then. But
Speaker 5: that's okay. Put it back out during the day. If
Speaker 5: it's a little cool, that's okay. You just don't want
Speaker 5: it below forties maybe for your tomatoes, but you can
Speaker 5: get ahead start that way. In the back is the
Speaker 5: parking lot off Thrashel Road that is so easy to access,
Speaker 5: nice safe, easy access from the back of Arbigate And
Speaker 5: those of you who've been there before, No, people love
Speaker 5: this place. I mean it's like, even if you weren't
Speaker 5: going to buy a plant, just to walk through there
Speaker 5: and look at the yard art and the gift shops
Speaker 5: and it's you gotta go.
Speaker 25: You have to go.
Speaker 5: I can't adequately describe it. You gotta go. And now
Speaker 5: with that back parking lot, a lot of people can
Speaker 5: all show up and have a good time at the
Speaker 5: same time at Arborgate. Arborgate Garden Center is west of
Speaker 5: Tomball For those of you are new to the area
Speaker 5: on twenty nine to twenty just a couple of miles
Speaker 5: west out there on the left hand side, easy to
Speaker 5: get to and fun. I promise you you will have fun.
Speaker 5: Take somebody with you because this is like, this is
Speaker 5: like an outing for gardeners and their friends and their family.
Speaker 5: So take somebody with you when you go out there.
Speaker 5: I talked earlier about the importance of taking care of
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Speaker 5: wrong place. Seven one three six nine nine two six
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Speaker 5: make sure your trees are in top shape. And because
Speaker 5: new growth is beginning now in the spring, it's time
Speaker 5: to get those things pruned and get them in the
Speaker 5: best shape they can. So if we do have storms
Speaker 5: this summer, at least they have the best shot at
Speaker 5: having a good, strong structure that doesn't break in the
Speaker 5: least of you know, a little wind comes through and
Speaker 5: starts tearing the tree up. Martin can help with that.
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Speaker 5: asked me the other day about flower beds and how
Speaker 5: do I have good color? And we're talking about, you know, well,
Speaker 5: in the cool seat and here's some plants and in
Speaker 5: the warm season, here's some plants that do well. And
Speaker 5: by trading them out and stuff. And you know the
Speaker 5: most important thing is the soil, right. We talk about
Speaker 5: that all the time, getting a good quality soil. And
Speaker 5: part of that is getting the nutrient mix to help
Speaker 5: that plant grow. It's not like you fertilize and it
Speaker 5: makes a plant grow. It's like a plant wants to grow.
Speaker 5: It's got moist soil and it's looking for nutrients. It
Speaker 5: takes all those twenty nutrients plus to help a plant
Speaker 5: to grow like it wants to grow. And when you
Speaker 5: put that out on the ground, you have got you've
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Speaker 5: Alright, folks, here we go. We got the last hour
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Speaker 5: For those who haven't been there, you need to go.
Speaker 5: It is on the Katie Fullsher Side of Richmond on
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Speaker 5: There's all this stuff going on out there. They have
Speaker 5: programs this spring. Uh just really really excellent. As a
Speaker 5: matter of fact, Next Saturday, February fifteenth, say that again.
Speaker 5: Next Saturday, write this down February fifteenth, I'll be there
Speaker 5: from twelve noon to one thirty. Twelve noon to one thirty,
Speaker 5: and I will be talking about tips for making gardening
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Speaker 5: get more from your garden with less sweat and less ibuprofen.
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Speaker 5: we'll have some fun in the process. Again. That's the
Speaker 5: next Saturday, Enchanted Gardens on FM three point fifty nine
Speaker 5: on the Katie fullsher Side of Richmond. I'll be there
Speaker 5: from twelve noon to one thirty, so come out and
Speaker 5: see me. By the way, their hours are Monday through
Speaker 5: Saturday eight to five and Sunday from ten to four,
Speaker 5: so this afternoon be a good time to get out
Speaker 5: there and check them out. When you go to Enchanted Gardens,
Speaker 5: first thing you're going to think is, oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: this is an expanse of stuff. I mean, they've got
Speaker 5: everything from every kind of plant you can imagine, certainly
Speaker 5: the ones that are most seasonally appropriate right then, and
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Speaker 5: They've got a nice little gift shop. They got all
Speaker 5: the products that you know, the ones you hear me
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Speaker 5: check out their website. It's Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 5: Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com and come see me next
Speaker 5: Saturday from twelve noon to one thirty. I'll be there,
Speaker 5: look forward to seeing you. Let's go to Port Arthur
Speaker 5: and we're going to talk to Alan. Hey Allen, welcome
Speaker 5: to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, heyd Ring. I'm sorry skipped this morning. I'm
Speaker 9: I'm put my pre emerging out and I know you
Speaker 9: don't want to. I don't want to overwater because I say, you.
Speaker 5: Just want to get it just below the surf of
Speaker 5: that day. The crict.
Speaker 9: Like my sprinkler systems, I got those types that you know,
Speaker 9: are those kind?
Speaker 7: Do you have any kind of idea how you.
Speaker 5: Can call any you can call any time that you
Speaker 5: want to garden line if you always bring me sound
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Speaker 9: I like that.
Speaker 5: So you've got one of those sprinkler systems that threw
Speaker 5: me so much you got to go back and finish
Speaker 5: that question.
Speaker 8: That was okay, I don't want to overwater it.
Speaker 7: So I'm just curious you have any kind of I know, how.
Speaker 9: Much time with that type of sprinkler I would run
Speaker 9: that water?
Speaker 5: You know, I don't. Every sprinkler system is different. But
Speaker 5: here's what you can do. If you've got to rain gauge,
Speaker 5: or if you have a straight sided can, like you know,
Speaker 5: something like green beans came out or something set that
Speaker 5: anywhere out there, I'd put you know, you put it
Speaker 5: out there, put several of them around. But because it
Speaker 5: never those sprinklers don't apply evenly, uh and just water
Speaker 5: until you've caught about a half inch of water and
Speaker 5: that that's how long.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know how I've done that before, just
Speaker 9: to see my fur linesp okay, so.
Speaker 5: Half about a half? Yeah, yeah, that'd be plenty. All right,
Speaker 5: all right, all right, now come up with some more
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Speaker 7: I like that.
Speaker 5: That's funny. Somebody somebody wants to telling me. You know,
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Speaker 5: that's true. I bet there's some girls they go. All right,
Speaker 5: let's go to sugar Land. Talk to June. Hey, June,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden line. Do you have any sound effects
Speaker 5: for me today?
Speaker 12: No, it's not effects today.
Speaker 27: Your segment of the tomatoes?
Speaker 12: Is it too early to start playing the tomatoes.
Speaker 5: We're going to get some thirty degrees here in the
Speaker 5: next we and I would I would buy the tomatoes now,
Speaker 5: because you get to pick your varieties before they get
Speaker 5: picked over by other people. Go and buy them right,
Speaker 5: bring them home, and if you're going to hold them
Speaker 5: for over a week, I would move them up into
Speaker 5: a little bigger pot and start watering and fertilizing them
Speaker 5: every day that you can get them out for every
Speaker 5: hour of sunshine that's where it's not below forty degrees,
Speaker 5: just put them out there, even forty five degrees, let's say,
Speaker 5: put them out there and they'll it'll help them, it'll
Speaker 5: help them acclimate to the temperatures and they'll grow a
Speaker 5: little bit. And then when it's safe, like we don't
Speaker 5: have a thirty degree scheduled for a week, then go
Speaker 5: ahead and put them out, you know, and in your
Speaker 5: area done in sugarlane. That's probably you know, going to
Speaker 5: be toward the end of the month or early in
Speaker 5: March that you would actually be planting them out.
Speaker 27: Okay, okay, that's what I kind of thought. Is it
Speaker 27: too late to play it from seeds, Well, it.
Speaker 5: Is a little late. You could try find a variety
Speaker 5: that says asked is possible, one that says it's fifty
Speaker 5: five days to harvest or something along that line, if
Speaker 5: you can find it. If you can find that, uh,
Speaker 5: and then get it in the ground asap, and you're
Speaker 5: gonna have to start it indoors where it's warm because
Speaker 5: you want it to grow fast. It takes about about
Speaker 5: six weeks to grow a transplant, and that's going to
Speaker 5: put us toward the end of March. If you start today.
Speaker 27: Oh well then no, I'll just it for us because
Speaker 27: I'm in Shipland and I just it's a good challenge
Speaker 27: to watch a little one grow from seas.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's a blast. We'll get some seeds of something
Speaker 5: else and trum. By the way, come out and see
Speaker 5: me in Channet Forest next Saturday from twelve to one thirty.
Speaker 5: I'll be given a talk and answer questions.
Speaker 27: Oh great, thanks in Channt fort.
Speaker 5: In, Jennet, I'm sorry, I'm Jenny Gardens. Oh my brain
Speaker 5: by this time of the show is starting to falter. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm Chaney Gardens out of Richmond Roseberg.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: Those are both great garden. Yeah they are.
Speaker 7: They to go to. I just went and got pro
Speaker 7: mixed to.
Speaker 27: Be playing Primarius.
Speaker 5: Very good, very good, Thank you for the call. That's good.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 5: D and Defeed is on the west side of Tombull.
Speaker 5: D and D feed is on the west side of Tumbull,
Speaker 5: and I want to tell you that place. In fact,
Speaker 5: i'm gonna I'm gonna talk about them a little bit
Speaker 5: more here, but that is the place to go for
Speaker 5: all kinds of things from fertilizers to you name it.
Speaker 5: But we're gonna talk about and when we come back
Speaker 5: from break here. A little bit more earlier, someone had
Speaker 5: asked me about, well, if I don't live in the
Speaker 5: area where that company you recommend for compost, top dressing
Speaker 5: and core aeration serves, what do I do. I've got
Speaker 5: people for almost all the areas around Houston. If you're
Speaker 5: down south, let's say you're from Sugarland in Missouri City,
Speaker 5: all the way down like Highway six, all those communities Presno,
Speaker 5: Sienna or Cola, Alwa, Colony, Manville, or even over as
Speaker 5: far as Pairland. B and B turf Pros is your
Speaker 5: company now. The website is bb no end bb Turfpros
Speaker 5: dot com. Go there and check it out. This is
Speaker 5: a family owned business. They provide quality work. It is
Speaker 5: so important to them that you are satisfied. They take
Speaker 5: care of you there. They're straight, they shoot straight with
Speaker 5: you there, high quality work. They only use quality products.
Speaker 5: They get their top quality leaf more compost from the
Speaker 5: folks at Ciena Multch So you know this is good stuff, right,
Speaker 5: and they go beyond, above and beyond to make a
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Speaker 5: three two three four fifty five ninety eight. I want
Speaker 5: to take a break and I'll be right back with
Speaker 5: a call from Jennifer up in Conro. Tell me you've
Speaker 5: read that song before, and I'll call you a liar. Well,
Speaker 5: that can only mean one thing. The chicks are in
Speaker 5: at D and D Supply up in Tumbole. I know
Speaker 5: that was a stretch, but I had to do it.
Speaker 5: D and Defeed is three miles west of Highway two
Speaker 5: forty nine and Tomball And listen, if you want back
Speaker 5: your chickens, you are not going to find any place
Speaker 5: like this. Dozens and dozens and dozens of different varieties
Speaker 5: of chickens. Stuff you've never heard of. Have you ever
Speaker 5: had a speckled Sussek pulleck? Have you ever had an
Speaker 5: Americana pullet? How about a buff Brahma or a lavender
Speaker 5: wyan Dot. Those are all coming in this Wednesday, February
Speaker 5: twelve at D and Defeed store. And every week i'man
Speaker 5: on and on I'll talk about them again, because they
Speaker 5: keep getting new ones in every week, sometimes a couple
Speaker 5: of times a week, depends on the week, but it's
Speaker 5: all on the schedule. Go to D anddfeed dot com
Speaker 5: look at the schedule for when they get their chickens
Speaker 5: in and you can find out about that. They got
Speaker 5: everything you need. You'll heat to go over the chicks,
Speaker 5: baby chicks, maybe some bedding material, perhaps a water, a feeder.
Speaker 5: They will get you set up.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: While you're there, you're going to find the fertilizers for
Speaker 5: your lawn like nitro foss and microlife and Nelson turf
Speaker 5: Star and Medina. You're going to find soils from heirloom soils.
Speaker 5: You're going to find the everything from plats of vegetables
Speaker 5: to seeds to all kinds of the stuff. It just
Speaker 5: just go there and look at it. It is amazing.
Speaker 5: And they also have other Nelson plat foods by the
Speaker 5: jar there as well. So D and D Feed three
Speaker 5: miles west two forty nine on the left right outside
Speaker 5: of Tumble, not very far at all, and boy, the
Speaker 5: news is hit. The chicks have arrived. That's why all
Speaker 5: the chicks hang out. D and D Feed by the way,
Speaker 5: I didn't know if you knew that, all right, We're
Speaker 5: going to go now to Jennifer and Conro. Hey Jennifer,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 27: Hey.
Speaker 12: Thanks.
Speaker 20: I was hoping to reuse the soil from my container
Speaker 20: vegetables for the last year or two. So I'm guessing
Speaker 20: I need to do something to put vitamins back in it.
Speaker 20: Can you tell me what that might be?
Speaker 5: Okay, So, first of all, if there was no diseases
Speaker 5: that affected your plants, you can certainly do that. If
Speaker 5: you know you had damping off or some root rod
Speaker 5: or something on the plants, then I generally don't recommend
Speaker 5: that you reuse the potting soil for those kind of situations. Now,
Speaker 5: if you go to my website Gardening with Skip dot
Speaker 5: com Gardening with Skip dot com and you look at
Speaker 5: the publications, there's a publication called pasteurizing growing media or
Speaker 5: garden soil in an oven. And so if you had
Speaker 5: a little pot and you wanted to make sure it
Speaker 5: doesn't have any bad stuff in it, you can follow that.
Speaker 5: Nine chances out of ten, if you reuse your soil,
Speaker 5: you're not going to have a problem. But if you
Speaker 5: want to be extra careful, you can do that to
Speaker 5: the soil. I reuse mine all the time, but I
Speaker 5: always watch and make sure that you know there wasn't
Speaker 5: a disease problem in the plants that grew there before.
Speaker 5: But you absolutely can do it. And now what you
Speaker 5: want to do is you want to get some a
Speaker 5: product from Nelson Plant Food and it's called Genesis Genesis
Speaker 5: and Genesis is something that you mix with the potting
Speaker 5: soil as you're working it back up again to replant
Speaker 5: into that pot It is it is a fertilizer, but
Speaker 5: it is a fertilizer in a very natural form that
Speaker 5: has a lot of extra good stuff in it and
Speaker 5: it just helps plants hit the ground running. So Nelson
Speaker 5: Genesis it's available about in those little clear jars with
Speaker 5: a big white screw top lid, and it's it's sold
Speaker 5: all over the place, So that would be one. But yeah,
Speaker 5: beefing up the soil a little bit now if you
Speaker 5: if you don't, if you can't find it up there
Speaker 5: where you live, then get you something that it says
Speaker 5: it's a slow release fertilizer because you don't want to
Speaker 5: burn plants by putting too much nutrient in at one time.
Speaker 5: You can put a slow release in and it'll feed
Speaker 5: it gradually over time.
Speaker 9: And some of it o a organic emulsion as well.
Speaker 5: It's it's fine. Fish emulsion doesn't have a lot of
Speaker 5: nutrient in it. It has some other things that are beneficial.
Speaker 5: I would probably if you're going to do that, I
Speaker 5: would mix it with a seaweed as well. But Microlife
Speaker 5: has something called ocean harvest and it has about like
Speaker 5: a four two three. I think fertilizer. That one would
Speaker 5: be a good one to use. The Microlife ocean harvest.
Speaker 5: You just mix it in water and when you drench
Speaker 5: it in yes, you will be fertilizing well with that. Actually,
Speaker 5: when I was saying that while ago, I was picturing
Speaker 5: seaweed instead of fishing mulsion. Seaweed is the one that
Speaker 5: doesn't have a lot of nutrients in it. Fish emulsion does.
Speaker 12: Okay?
Speaker 20: Can I ask you citrus do your question as well?
Speaker 5: Yeah, real quick.
Speaker 20: We have a zillion flowers on it, and then they
Speaker 20: come into baby lines or baby lemons, but then like
Speaker 20: all those little lemons fall off and we probably only
Speaker 20: get like eight percent. Is that normal?
Speaker 5: Okay? It can be Citrus set more than it needs
Speaker 5: and it'll abort all the ones that it can't handle.
Speaker 5: But stresses really make that worse. So if you had
Speaker 5: that set and then it got dry a little bit
Speaker 5: and it lacked for water or some other stress, it
Speaker 5: will often abort it more because of that stress. So
Speaker 5: it could be partially natural normal and it could be
Speaker 5: partially stress related. So try to keep the soil evenly
Speaker 5: moist nice, well drained, but good even moisture in the soil,
Speaker 5: and a moderate amount of fertilizer, not too much nitrogen
Speaker 5: at that point, and I think you're going to get
Speaker 5: the best fruit set that you can.
Speaker 27: Thank you.
Speaker 20: I appreciate it all.
Speaker 5: Right, thanks the call. Appreciate that a lot, Thank you
Speaker 5: very much. Azemite is a trace mineral supplement that I
Speaker 5: talk about all the time. Why do I talk about
Speaker 5: trace minerals. Well, on fertilizer bags, they only they generally
Speaker 5: only put the three numbers of nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you'll get calcium and sulfur added on there, but
Speaker 5: generally it's three numbers. Well, what about there's like twenty
Speaker 5: nutrients that a plant can use that plants can use
Speaker 5: at different stages of their life growth, and so what
Speaker 5: about all the others those are equally important is the
Speaker 5: Big three, they just aren't needed in as high a quantity.
Speaker 5: That's what we're talking about with azamite. You know, a
Speaker 5: forty four pound bag of azamite will cover six to
Speaker 5: twelve thousand square feet lawn. Because we're talking about a
Speaker 5: micronutrients supplement. The fact that you just need a little
Speaker 5: does not mean it's less important than nitrogen and phosphorus
Speaker 5: and potassium in your typical lawn fertilizer. It's equally important
Speaker 5: because they're both essential micronutrients. Macronutrients both essential. Forty four
Speaker 5: pound bag, Now, if you got a vegetable garden, i'd
Speaker 5: put about ten pounds per thousand square feet, and yes,
Speaker 5: I would use it in a vegetable garden because you
Speaker 5: want to pack those vegetables that you're growing with all
Speaker 5: the nutrients that they need as well. You can go
Speaker 5: to azamite Texas dot com find out more about it,
Speaker 5: or you can just go to one of the places
Speaker 5: you hear me talk about on Guardenline. It's it's pretty
Speaker 5: widely available. Feed stores, the independent garden centers, places like
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware and Southwest Fertilizer. Those are all places where
Speaker 5: I've seen azamite for sale in the Houston area, so
Speaker 5: check it out. It's one thing that you can do it.
Speaker 5: You don't have to fertilize with as mite when you're
Speaker 5: fertilizing other things, but you can same day put your
Speaker 5: fertilizer out, come back load up to asmite, put it
Speaker 5: out separate applications. It could be the same day or
Speaker 5: it can be six months apart. They don't have to
Speaker 5: be connected, but they can asmite for your trace minerals.
Speaker 5: We're going to go now to Crosby and we're going
Speaker 5: to talk to Tanya. Hello, Antanya, Hi Skip I am.
Speaker 33: I have a question for you. I hope you can
Speaker 33: answer Hello.
Speaker 2: Can you hear me?
Speaker 5: Yes? I sure can.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 33: After years of battling weeds and take off patch and
Speaker 33: sodweb worm, I have very little Saint Augustine left and
Speaker 33: this is the year I'm going to have to bite
Speaker 33: the bullet and really get someone like turf Pro out
Speaker 33: here to level two grade to do the core aeriation,
Speaker 33: you know, the good soil and put down the sod.
Speaker 33: Turf Pro is that I'm not in their area, and
Speaker 33: can you recommend anyone that would be the king would
Speaker 33: Humble bay Town. Sometimes even deer Park companies will come
Speaker 33: out to like Houston. Anyone that would do that like turf.
Speaker 5: Now, this this is out on the periphery of where
Speaker 5: they can go, but you may want to give year
Speaker 5: Round Houston a call. That's the that's the website too,
Speaker 5: year round Houston dot Com. And I think they will
Speaker 5: service out in that area, but you just got to
Speaker 5: talk to them. I generally don't talk about that area
Speaker 5: because that's out peripheral for them, but the last time
Speaker 5: I talked to them, it seemed like they might reach
Speaker 5: out a little bit in that direction, so that that
Speaker 5: would be go to that web site, year round Houston
Speaker 5: dot com, and I think I think that maybe they
Speaker 5: can help you there. Okay, okay, that sounds good.
Speaker 33: Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: You bet. Good luck with that, all right. Well, that's
Speaker 5: a good practice to be doing to your lawns and
Speaker 5: your gardens and all that. Out in Kingwood. Speaking of
Speaker 5: that area, Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center are
Speaker 5: two outstanding places to go and get everything you need
Speaker 5: for your for your gardens. Kingwood's got this awesome gift
Speaker 5: shop that's just amazing. They totally revamped and it is
Speaker 5: really cool. I like the way they've set it up
Speaker 5: now Warren Southern Gardens. You know you're going to find
Speaker 5: a wide variety of plants. And they have the full
Speaker 5: landscaping services too, by the way these places do. So
Speaker 5: if you need to have them come out and do
Speaker 5: some landscaping thing, they can do it out in that area.
Speaker 5: But they they just are excellent at carrying a wide variety.
Speaker 5: Do you want color plants, do you want herbs? Do
Speaker 5: you want vegetables? Looking for a rosebush? Looking for whatever?
Speaker 5: They've got it and when you're out there, you know,
Speaker 5: brown stuff before a green stuff. They've got Microlife fertilizer,
Speaker 5: Nitroposs fertilizer, Nelson turf Star fertilizer, uh they and other
Speaker 5: Nelson plant foods. They have the refill stations for the
Speaker 5: jars of Nelson and Microlife, the jars of each of
Speaker 5: those products. You take your old jar in and refill it,
Speaker 5: save a little bit of money and don't throw that
Speaker 5: plastic into the environment. Products that like the mosquito dunk
Speaker 5: that I talk about. As we warm up here a
Speaker 5: little bit, I'll be talking about those they've got that
Speaker 5: airloom soils. They've got it all. They're ready to go.
Speaker 5: Just show up. Warm seven Gardens North North Park Drive,
Speaker 5: Kingwood Garden Center, Stone Hollow Drive. Both of them are
Speaker 5: open seven days a week. Hey, there's a good afternoon
Speaker 5: outing to get out there and get you some plant.
Speaker 5: It's spring, the fever is hit all right. Well, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna quit talk in there. Take a little time for
Speaker 5: the news here as we take a break. If you
Speaker 5: would like to give me a call seven one three
Speaker 5: two one two ktr H and I'll be right back
Speaker 5: with your calls. Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Welcome
Speaker 5: back to gardener.
Speaker 7: Hey.
Speaker 5: You know what one of my favorite places to go
Speaker 5: to is Ciena Malts. You didn't you expect me to
Speaker 5: say that, did you. I love it. I love things
Speaker 5: that help our plants succeed, and that would be anything
Speaker 5: related to soil. That's why I say brown stuff before
Speaker 5: green stuff. Ciena Malt is your one stop shop South
Speaker 5: Houston for all things brown stuff. They're down near Highway
Speaker 5: six and two eighty eight. The actual road is Farm
Speaker 5: to Market five twenty one FM five twenty one, or
Speaker 5: you can just go to the website. Sienna multch dot
Speaker 5: com that that tells your phone number how to get there,
Speaker 5: everything you need to know. Uh, everyone down in that
Speaker 5: region you need to know about this, and I know
Speaker 5: people that travel a little distance to get there because
Speaker 5: they do have great products, and we're talking about things
Speaker 5: like you know, they've got products from the excuse me,
Speaker 5: heirloom soils. They got products from Landscaper's Pride. They have
Speaker 5: the fertilizers from Microlife from Nelson, the turf Star line
Speaker 5: and other Nelson products. They got Medina fertilizer, they got
Speaker 5: Nitrofast fertilizers there, and they have asomite. They're just talking
Speaker 5: about that, the trace mineral supplement. So if you want
Speaker 5: to get your soil right, the brown stuff, they've got
Speaker 5: everything you need. You can go there with your pick
Speaker 5: up or trailer and pick it up. If you're within
Speaker 5: twenty miles, they'll deliver for a small fee to get
Speaker 5: it out to you. However you want to go about it,
Speaker 5: just go about it. It's time for spring planting, and
Speaker 5: don't put a plant in the ground before you fix
Speaker 5: that soil, so the plant has a chance for success,
Speaker 5: because that's why you're planting the plant for flowers or
Speaker 5: fruit or beauty. Don't PLoP an unprepared plant. Don't PLoP
Speaker 5: a poor old plant into an unprepared plot. That was
Speaker 5: my Peter Piper version for a horticulture fix it first
Speaker 5: at Sienamalts. They're open Monday through Friday, seven five Saturday
Speaker 5: today seven thirty to two and closed on Sundays again
Speaker 5: five five twenty one Sienna mult dot Com. And I
Speaker 5: promise you they'll treat you right. They just it makes
Speaker 5: you happy to go in there and just the cheerful
Speaker 5: faces and the helpful folks. I love going into Cena Molt.
Speaker 5: All right, let's go out to the hill country of
Speaker 5: Texas and talk to Rick. Hey, Rick, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Hey you don't skip.
Speaker 5: I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 7: Good.
Speaker 9: I have two questions. One is on pre and post
Speaker 9: emergence and the other ones on they're rating the yard.
Speaker 34: So I use a product and I used it about
Speaker 34: a week ago. We'd beat our ultra that has both
Speaker 34: a pre and post emergant and it is one. Is
Speaker 34: that a good product or should I be using them separately?
Speaker 5: We'd beat our ultra is fine. I've talked about it
Speaker 5: before on the on the show by Bone eye bon
Speaker 5: Eyde makes that. Uh so it's fine, especially for killing
Speaker 5: things that are already existing, especially for that let me
Speaker 5: check that. Let me check that label. I didn't know
Speaker 5: it had a pre in it. Are you sure about that?
Speaker 5: Check that sure?
Speaker 9: The one I'm using says both pre and post emergent.
Speaker 7: It kind of.
Speaker 34: Reminds me of the weed and seed. Should I be
Speaker 34: doing them separately? Or can I put down a pre
Speaker 34: and post emergent at the same time?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, in general, I prefer to put the
Speaker 5: pre and the post down separately because it gives me
Speaker 5: better control. That's not to say that combo product you
Speaker 5: know wouldn't wouldn't work. I mean I will, but often
Speaker 5: I find that I'm kind of going, uh specifically according
Speaker 5: to maybe I'm trying to say, like there's a specif
Speaker 5: a weed I'm going after, Well, I get to pick
Speaker 5: my my herbicide based on the weed or you see
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, And so I like to do It's
Speaker 5: the same way with with the weed and feeds. There
Speaker 5: are some that they do just fine, but in general
Speaker 5: I like to use them separately. But anyway, it just
Speaker 5: depends on the situation. I don't want to overstate it.
Speaker 5: You know, yeah that let's see, that's got MCPA, it's
Speaker 5: got mecaprop I can but yeah, that's all post emergent
Speaker 5: in the weed weed Beater ultra, so you would need
Speaker 5: a pre like barricade. A night Foss makes a product
Speaker 5: called barricade, and that's a pre emergent. But don't delay.
Speaker 5: It's time to get it down. What part of the
Speaker 5: hill country are you.
Speaker 9: In, about ten miles west of New Brothols.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's time, and in late
Speaker 5: February is an important time for you to get your
Speaker 5: pre emergence down to be ahead of things there.
Speaker 9: Okay, great, now this is the spring. I was going
Speaker 9: to go ahead and do the top dressing. We just
Speaker 9: moved in about two years ago and I'm not sure
Speaker 9: it's been done, so I need to do it. But
Speaker 9: I always mentioned about aer ration. Well we go down
Speaker 9: about an inch and a half to two inches and
Speaker 9: we hit rock around here.
Speaker 5: Well, you can't run an errator on those limestone outcroppings,
Speaker 5: that's for sure, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I used to joke that in West Austin the place,
Speaker 5: soil is the dust that gathers on rocks between rains
Speaker 5: because there's not much much of it out there, but
Speaker 5: that you have a heavy clay, sticky soil out the
Speaker 5: black clay soil typically in that area, and the if
Speaker 5: you can't get deeper than that, aeration is not going
Speaker 5: to really help. But the grass has a hard time
Speaker 5: on that. If a grass can't get six inches of
Speaker 5: soil to grow in, you're watering it a lot to
Speaker 5: try to keep it alive in the drought because it
Speaker 5: just doesn't have that that soul volume that it needs
Speaker 5: to have some resilience in terms of moisture availability.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the grass last year looked great in the springtime.
Speaker 7: But is it okay?
Speaker 34: Just put the compost down, the top dressing down without
Speaker 34: doing any aeration.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fine, that's fine. If you're really dealing with
Speaker 5: that kind of soil. If you ran an errator over that,
Speaker 5: it would be like banging in on a sidewalk. It
Speaker 5: would be bad for the aerrator and it'd rattle all
Speaker 5: your teeth loose.
Speaker 9: Right, all right, I can't find anyone here.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, that may be a reason for that. You
Speaker 5: go on the east side of thirty five and they
Speaker 5: have soil over there, all right, Man, thanks a lot.
Speaker 5: Bye bye. All right, you're listening to Garden Line. I'm
Speaker 5: your host, Skip Richter, and we're gonna take a little
Speaker 5: break here. In just a moment, I did want to
Speaker 5: mention I talked about different products and stuff. Medina has
Speaker 5: so many great products. They've got one called has to
Speaker 5: Grow six twelve six. It's awesome for a lot of things,
Speaker 5: but especially transplanting because that twelve, that phosphorus, the middle
Speaker 5: number really helps the throot development. Mix it in water.
Speaker 5: I do it in a watering can when I plant
Speaker 5: a plant, I don't care if it's a tomato plant
Speaker 5: or a rose bush. Drench it at planting with that product.
Speaker 5: A week later, drench it again with that product, a
Speaker 5: week later, a third time, drench it with that product.
Speaker 5: When you do that, you're getting it off to a
Speaker 5: good start. You're gonna have the best possible chance of
Speaker 5: success with that. Now you can use it for foldio
Speaker 5: feed and other things. But like many Medina products, the
Speaker 5: stuff works and it's easy to find because it's widely available.
Speaker 5: Time for me to take a break. We'll come back
Speaker 5: with our last segment of Garden Line in just a moment.
Speaker 5: All right, folks, we're back. If you've got a burning
Speaker 5: question that doesn't need to wait until next Saturday, you
Speaker 5: may call seven one three two one two KTRH. We're
Speaker 5: in our last segment of the show today and be
Speaker 5: happy to help you as we can. ACE Hardware Store
Speaker 5: has a motto, and it's ACE is the Place. And
Speaker 5: then I like to say it like ACE is a
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Speaker 5: the barbecue pits and the landscape. You know, the little
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Speaker 13: You know.
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Speaker 5: all kinds of painting supplies, so stop eyeing see it yourself.
Speaker 5: Do you have propane tanks? Do you want to get
Speaker 5: them topped off? Do you want to do an exchange
Speaker 5: whatever refills they've got it at ACE Hardware, And while
Speaker 5: you're there, sign up for the ACEH rewards. And the
Speaker 5: reason is, and I belong to it myself. Every time
Speaker 5: you go shopping, you're receiving discounts. There are special offers
Speaker 5: that are only for ACE customers. They email them directly
Speaker 5: to you. As you build up your points on that.
Speaker 5: It just makes sense that, you know, you don't even
Speaker 5: have to carry the card around with you. They can
Speaker 5: look it up and they put it in the computer.
Speaker 2: It's easy.
Speaker 5: How about light bulbs and batteries and all kinds of
Speaker 5: stuff that we stock up on, they've got it. How
Speaker 5: about air filters, you know you're supposed to replace them
Speaker 5: every month, Buy three, get one free. You want to
Speaker 5: change out of faucet. I did my kitchen faucet recently,
Speaker 5: twenty percent off. The Mowen faucets this month, twenty percent off.
Speaker 5: So that's it. Ace Hardware, That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: How about your deck? Does it need to be resealed?
Speaker 5: You know that would don't don't let it go without
Speaker 5: keeping it in top shape. ACE has got the products
Speaker 5: you need to do the recealing. Also of your deck,
Speaker 5: Now there's auspas ACE up in the woodlands. There's like
Speaker 5: Conro Ace in Montgomery done in Sinco Ranch. There's a
Speaker 5: hardware Hamilton Hardware is kind of off Highway six near
Speaker 5: Bear Creek. And then there's Wharton Feed and Hardware, Bay
Speaker 5: City Hardware, Bay City Ace Hardware. There's a lot of them.
Speaker 5: Go to Acehardware dot com, find the store locator and
Speaker 5: find your local ACE and get familiar with it because
Speaker 5: you're gonna want to run in there a lot. ACE
Speaker 5: is the place. It's a one stop shop for a
Speaker 5: lot of things that you will need.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 5: Today we've covered a lot of ground on talking about
Speaker 5: different kinds of things. I spent quite a bit of
Speaker 5: time trying to sound the warning that now's the time
Speaker 5: to control existing weeds and to prevent weeds that are
Speaker 5: to come. Those are on my schedule. You can see
Speaker 5: that up there. Now's the time to do that. Don't delay.
Speaker 5: Now's the time to plant fruit trees. Get you your
Speaker 5: fruit trees, go to a Go to a good independent
Speaker 5: garden center where they know what they're talking about, because
Speaker 5: they can tell you does this fruit tree need a
Speaker 5: pollinator or not? The person working in a wow I'm
Speaker 5: not going A lot of places have people that don't
Speaker 5: know what they're talking about. They just don't. I've gone
Speaker 5: in and asked questions just to kind of see, you know,
Speaker 5: what they know, and it's like, oh my gosh, these
Speaker 5: people are selling products. Go to hometown garden center, your
Speaker 5: independent garden centers that we talk about on garden Line.
Speaker 5: They'll tell you do you need two peaches to pollinate?
Speaker 5: They'll tell you the answers know. Do you need two plums? Maybe?
Speaker 5: The answers maybe. Do you see what I'm talking about?
Speaker 5: Do you need two blueberries to pollinate? Well, probably not need,
Speaker 5: but you'll have more and bigger berries if you have
Speaker 5: two different varieties to pollenate. You see what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: That's important. Now's the time to get your fruit planted,
Speaker 5: get it out there, get it done, find a sunny spot,
Speaker 5: and enjoy success with your fruitful endeavors. Your garden. I
Speaker 5: like to call it a garden of eaton E A
Speaker 5: T N eating. You can create that. And there are
Speaker 5: so many great places and great supplies here in the
Speaker 5: Greater Houston area that were spoiled. We really are spoiled. Recently,
Speaker 5: I was out in Phoenix, Arizona, and of course, like
Speaker 5: when I go to any place, the first thing I
Speaker 5: want to know is let me see the best garden
Speaker 5: centers you got. Folks don't do a horticulture tour of
Speaker 5: Phoenix unless you want to go to the botanical gardens.
Speaker 5: I guess you're spoiled in Houston. I'm telling you you're spoiled.
Speaker 5: We have great places. It is spring. Get out this
Speaker 5: afternoon and go visit someplace. You know, just just walk around,
Speaker 5: talk to the folks, see what they have. I guarantee
Speaker 5: you there's gonna be stuff you need. Maybe take some
Speaker 5: pictures of your landscape with you and say, look at
Speaker 5: this area. It's really dark and shady back there. What
Speaker 5: would grow there? Or this spot over here it stays
Speaker 5: a little wet sometimes, what plants would be happy in
Speaker 5: that area? Because most plants aren't in a wet sagy area,
Speaker 5: But there are plants that are. That's the advantage of
Speaker 5: a really good quality garden center. Anyway, I do garden
Speaker 5: center to every day that I can. I love going
Speaker 5: out and seeing what's going on there and visiting with
Speaker 5: the folks that are out there. And you should too.
Speaker 5: You know, we talk about when I've said before, when
Speaker 5: you are cutting trees in a forest. The most important
Speaker 5: thing is to stop and sharpen the saw every now
Speaker 5: and then, or you'll be doing a lot of work
Speaker 5: and not getting very far along. Same is true with gardeners.
Speaker 5: You got to sharpen the gardener. I sharpen my knowledge
Speaker 5: of stuff all the time, constantly learning, constantly getting better,
Speaker 5: meeting new gardeners, having fun. It is a great hobby
Speaker 5: to have because I don't care where you are, where
Speaker 5: you live, what you like. There is a type of
Speaker 5: gardening for you, from a terrarium with a light on
Speaker 5: top on the eight hundredth floor of a high rise
Speaker 5: downtown to that patio plant that can grow on a
Speaker 5: pot and grow some tomatoes on the eight hundredth floor
Speaker 5: of a high rise downtown. If you've got the back
Speaker 5: forty and you can do whatever you want. There's a
Speaker 5: type of gardening for everybody. Most people want to have
Speaker 5: a beautiful lawn that is important to them, and you
Speaker 5: can have that with the right products. Remember, lawns need light.
Speaker 5: Lawns need light. Can they grow in shade?
Speaker 25: Yes?
Speaker 5: Will they thrive in shade?
Speaker 27: No?
Speaker 5: If it's too dark. If it's moderate shade, they can thrive.
Speaker 5: Saint Augustine can thrive in shade, and to some degree
Speaker 5: some of the zoosias as well. But give it good light,
Speaker 5: and then mow water and fertilize. Mow water and fertilize.
Speaker 5: That's a secret to have good healthy lawn. And when
Speaker 5: I say mow water and fertilized, I don't I mean
Speaker 5: do each one correctly. MO often with a sharp mower
Speaker 5: at a decent height. Don't cut the grass blades off.
Speaker 5: There the solar panels, So don't mow Saint Augustine like
Speaker 5: it's a golf course green. Give it some light, leave
Speaker 5: some solar panels on it. MO regularly, water deeply, but infrequently.
Speaker 5: If you wet this is a general thing about all plants.
Speaker 5: If you wet them frequently, you're going to have more
Speaker 5: disease problems because diseases are spores that land on the leaf.
Speaker 5: While some of them are are in case of bacteria,
Speaker 5: individual bacteria land on the leaf. You keep them wet
Speaker 5: and they will infect that leaf, so let them dry out.
Speaker 5: That's why there aren't as many disease problems in West
Speaker 5: Texas there as there are in East Texas because it
Speaker 5: rains over here. But then on top of that we
Speaker 5: water all the time. We water over and over again
Speaker 5: too frequently. Typically watering is too little, too often. I
Speaker 5: had a neighbor when I lived in Cyprus. His sprinkle
Speaker 5: came on about every other day, and the heads were
Speaker 5: so missiligned they wet the car. They wet my car
Speaker 5: in my driveway. They were squirting up to my side,
Speaker 5: so I parked backwards on some days to wash the
Speaker 5: other side of the car. But anyway, water with a
Speaker 5: good soaking on an infrequent basis, even in the heat
Speaker 5: of summer. You don't have to water every week more
Speaker 5: than once, Even in the heat of summer. Once is enough.
Speaker 5: If you've got a wimpy lawn that you're trying to
Speaker 5: nurse back maybe twice a week with a half inch
Speaker 5: each time, but you need to be working your way
Speaker 5: toward once a week or less. I've got areas in
Speaker 5: my lawn last summer they got watered maybe every two
Speaker 5: or three weeks because it was in a shade, and
Speaker 5: I had developed a good root system by proper watering,
Speaker 5: deep and infrequent, and then finally fertilizing. Fertilizing plants is
Speaker 5: kind of like us eating. You want a good quality
Speaker 5: food and you want to moderate amount you over eatn't
Speaker 5: turn out too good. When you push a lawn with
Speaker 5: too much fertilizer, you're not doing it any favors. Get
Speaker 5: a good quality. We talk about all the ones all
Speaker 5: the time here on Guardline. We've selected the ones that
Speaker 5: I know will work well for you because I've used
Speaker 5: them myself. And we fertilize at the right time, according
Speaker 5: to my schedule, and you can have the most beautiful
Speaker 5: on on the block. Mow water. Fertilize in the presence
Speaker 5: of good sunlight. That's a secret to lawn care. It's
Speaker 5: no secret, all right, folks. Music means I got quit talking.
Speaker 5: I've had a good time. I hope you have a
Speaker 5: fun day in the garden this afternoon or out in abouttown.
Speaker 5: Have a great gardening is supposed to be fun. Talk
Speaker 5: to you next Saturday.