WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:05.320 To Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip Ricord shoes. 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:11.359 The crazy here the basis gas can use trim. 3 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:13.720 You just watch him as. 4 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:17.160 Whom god gas gasby you. 5 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:24.480 May put it takes the soup baas in bad bassies. 6 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:27.519 And gas and again you jus glos back tacking. 7 00:00:28.079 --> 00:00:35.640 It's not a sound glassies like gas. The sun bemon 8 00:00:35.799 --> 00:00:39.119 of treating the gassies like gas. 9 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:39.880 Baby, can you. 10 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:47.280 Starting in and out of the treating the gas gas became? 11 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:47.399 You? 12 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:51.000 Hang on? I gotta get some coffee. 13 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:54.200 There we go. 14 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:58.079 Well, apparently some of you do not need coffee. You're 15 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:02.920 already Doland phone numbers before I get here. I guess 16 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:05.280 you could go ahead and start without me. Welcome to 17 00:01:05.319 --> 00:01:08.319 Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are 18 00:01:08.439 --> 00:01:11.359 rare to go to get some talking done about all 19 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.480 things horticulture or gardening. I don't use that term horticulture 20 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:19.599 a lot, but basically that is the official term for 21 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:23.159 what we talk about here on Garden Line. Horticulture is 22 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:27.319 from a Latin word hortas, which refers to a garden. 23 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:28.840 Basically is what it amounts to. 24 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:30.480 So how to. 25 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:33.319 Culture your garden? That's what we're about, all right? Well, 26 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:35.239 let's just I tell you what, since we got some 27 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:37.159 early birds, let's just jump right out there and we 28 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:40.840 won't get on the phones and talk to Mel and Tomball. Hey, Mel, 29 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:43.200 welcome to garden Line morning. 30 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:45.400 Now I haven't had my caffee yet, but I'm here. 31 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:50.200 I'm trying to beat the rain a little bit, and 32 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:52.560 I'm wondering if it's why you're unwise to put down 33 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:55.120 by barricade fifteen five ten on the same day. 34 00:01:57.519 --> 00:01:59.920 You know, that's a question. I get a lot about 35 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:03.319 that end fertilizing, and you know, if we have a 36 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:05.439 rough estimate how much it's going to rain, you know, 37 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:08.039 if it's going to rain a half inch or something 38 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:09.800 like that, just a little bit of water, there's no 39 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:13.280 problem with doing that. The barricade is really good at 40 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:16.039 sticking to the soil. It's it's made to do that, 41 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:18.240 because if it didn't, it would just wash through and 42 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:20.560 wouldn't be up there where the weed seeds are helping out. 43 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:23.560 So I'm not as worried about it. And if you were, 44 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:27.560 if you're asking the same question about an immediate release fertilizer, 45 00:02:27.639 --> 00:02:31.000 I would say, well, you know it, could you get 46 00:02:31.039 --> 00:02:33.000 a gully washer rain that could wash a lot of 47 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:35.960 dissolve and wash away your fertilizer. But I think on 48 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.280 the barricade, you're probably okay unless it's just going to 49 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.800 really rain a lot for a long time, all. 50 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:45.039 Right, So I'll hold off probably on the fifteen until 51 00:02:45.080 --> 00:02:47.800 after the rain, and I don't think it'll be hard 52 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:48.039 for you. 53 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:52.039 But okay, all right, that's why I appreciate it. 54 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:57.840 All right, you take care, appreciate that cold. That's uh yeah, 55 00:02:58.039 --> 00:03:03.039 pleasure YouTube. Thank you. Now we're gonna go where we're 56 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:06.120 going to go to Memorial and talk to Bruce. Good morning, Bruce, 57 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:07.039 Welcome to Guardline. 58 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:10.599 Good morning, Thank you for taking my call. I'm trying 59 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:13.919 to rehabilitate my front yard. I've been following the scheduled 60 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:16.599 for a number of years, but our neighbor has removed 61 00:03:16.639 --> 00:03:19.240 some trees and it got a lot more sun last 62 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.840 year than we'd realized, and we hadn't adjusted the the 63 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:25.719 sprinkler system to compensate for that. So we were away, 64 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:29.080 came back and we've lost I'm going to guess maybe 65 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.439 twenty percent of the grass in the front yard. We 66 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.199 did get army worms or sodweb worms come up, and 67 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.680 we knocked them back with bifen. My plan is to 68 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:41.080 airate and top dress with composts and then stay on 69 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:46.159 the fertilizer scheduled. But there's anything else I need to do. Oh, 70 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:48.759 you know, with the lack of grass, we're getting a 71 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:52.159 whole pile of I put barricade down in the fall, 72 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:53.639 but we're getting up pile of weeds. 73 00:03:55.319 --> 00:03:58.400 Okay, yeah. That wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants 74 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:03.520 of weed, so that goes along with it. If I 75 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:05.639 could see the lawn and you know, let's say you 76 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:08.719 had sprigs of living grass that were, you know, within 77 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:11.240 a foot of each other or something, I would say 78 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.240 it will close back over with good care before the end. 79 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:16.360 If you've got areas that are a little wider than that, 80 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:19.360 you might want to plug some grass in just to 81 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:23.120 speed that coverage, because the faster it gets covered, the 82 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.199 less weed issues you're going to have. You can use 83 00:04:26.480 --> 00:04:29.319 a product like a barricade as a pre emergent to 84 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.680 stop the summer weeds, which are just we're on the 85 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:34.920 doorstep of them germinating. So we want to get that 86 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:39.160 barricade down for the earliest of those that sprout. That 87 00:04:39.279 --> 00:04:41.879 would be one option that you can do. Be careful 88 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.600 when you use a pre emergent, always that you use 89 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:49.319 it according to the label instructions. This is a case 90 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:52.240 where if a teaspoon's good, a tablespoon is not better. 91 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:55.439 In fact, a tablespoon can be a problem because you 92 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:57.480 got new grass runners that are out there trying to 93 00:04:57.519 --> 00:05:00.720 peg down some roots. And you know, if you overdo 94 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:02.079 that pre emergent. 95 00:05:03.199 --> 00:05:03.519 The run. 96 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:06.839 It didn't kill the runners, It just prevents rooting when 97 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.519 you overdo that, So be careful with the amount you use. 98 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.199 But some judicious use of it is fine if you 99 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:15.759 want to do that. The other approach is just to 100 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:18.399 get everything growing and then deal with the weeds later, 101 00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:21.079 you know, as the grass gets filled in and whatnot. 102 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:24.360 Kind of it's your call. It's to which way you 103 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:28.199 want to go. But I would say that mow, water, 104 00:05:28.279 --> 00:05:30.879 and fertilize or your three keys to getting that thing 105 00:05:30.959 --> 00:05:35.639 back in shape. Assuming the sunlight is good. If there's 106 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:38.879 some areas where the tree shade is just taking too 107 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:43.319 much of the solar rays away, then the grass is 108 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:48.360 going to have trouble getting covered quickly, especially, and so 109 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:50.600 that would be the only caveat to that. 110 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:54.439 Cool. I have one other question about barricade because the 111 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.079 well two questions. One, when I buy it, it doesn't 112 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:03.040 have a specific setting for the for the spreader that 113 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.279 I have. I recall that by advice to begin and 114 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:09.319 use them like one notch up from one quarter on 115 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:12.959 a broadcast spreader to get an amount that's appropriate for that. 116 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:15.720 Would that still be a reasonable way to do it? Literally, 117 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.879 there's no there is no instruction. There's nothing for my spreader. 118 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:23.040 Okay, well, you know there's there's a lot of products 119 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:25.800 with a lot of particle sizes and a lot of spreaders, 120 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:29.560 and it's one of those almost impossible. We can't even 121 00:06:29.600 --> 00:06:32.319 get two phone companies to make the same kind of 122 00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:36.759 plug to go on your phone. So anyway, Yeah, the 123 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:39.879 quarter above, I mean a notch above quarter is good 124 00:06:40.360 --> 00:06:41.800 for those of you who are listening and going, what 125 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:44.279 are they talking about. Well, if you have a spreader 126 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:46.439 that you walk behind and this isn't the handheld, this 127 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:49.800 is the kind you walk behind, and it has twenty notches, 128 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:54.480 well a quarter would be five notches, so five, set 129 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:57.480 it on five or six, a notch above quarter and 130 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.360 put out your pre emergence with that. Now, it's not 131 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.560 the same as fertilizer for everybody listening. I'm sorry, Bruce, 132 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:08.720 I have to have to do on my caveats because 133 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.920 people here and they don't always hear here. Well, so yeah, 134 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:15.519 that is just the case for that, and it's a 135 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:18.519 good rule of thumb. The thing I also like is, 136 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:21.079 you know, you know about how much you want to 137 00:07:21.120 --> 00:07:23.759 put out of either fertilizer or a product like barricade, 138 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:26.319 and it doesn't hurt to do it a little light 139 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.519 the first time because here's here's a product you got, 140 00:07:29.560 --> 00:07:31.759 here's maybe a newcheprudder. You haven't used that product with 141 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:34.079 go light because you can always you know, if you 142 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:36.160 go north south, you can always come back east west 143 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:39.279 and add the rest of it. But at least that 144 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:42.040 way you kind of know, and then going forward you 145 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:43.399 know exactly where to set it. 146 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:48.920 Gotcha. One last question about barricade in terms of shelf life, 147 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:52.360 because I had bought him went Southless fertilizer and got 148 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:55.079 a fifty pounds sack, figuring it would last me several seasons. 149 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:58.519 Then instead of just these ten pounders every year, let 150 00:07:58.560 --> 00:07:59.680 stuff keep in a garage. 151 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.600 Uh. Yes, you know, any kind of a chemical substance 152 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:11.839 is potentially gonna have issues with humidity, with heat, uh, 153 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:14.639 and some of them even light. That's why they put 154 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:19.040 certain kinds of pesticides in those brown bottles to help 155 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:23.560 block some of the light out. But anyway, just you know, 156 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.480 to keep it as keep the temperature as moderate as 157 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:29.199 you can, and keep it sealed up where you don't 158 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:31.959 have a lot of humidity, exposure and things, and that 159 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:34.600 helps extend the life. There's not a black and white 160 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:36.480 line where you can keep it for x amount in 161 00:08:36.519 --> 00:08:39.080 the months or years. You know, it's it's a it's 162 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:41.279 a very gray line. All right. 163 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:44.720 All right, one last question website? Well, what is the 164 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:47.399 best website to get a fresh copy of the fertile 165 00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:48.879 the fertilization schedule? 166 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:54.000 Now, all right, it's Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening 167 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:56.840 with Skip dot com, and I'm gonna bruce, I'm overtime 168 00:08:56.919 --> 00:08:59.440 on my break here. Thanks so much for the call. 169 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:05.240 I appreciate that. We'll be right back. All right, folks, 170 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:08.720 welcome back. Good to have you back with us. We 171 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:11.279 have got a lot of things that I want to 172 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:13.080 cover and I'm going to start off this morning. But well, 173 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:15.320 by the way, a while to go up said something 174 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:17.159 I wanted to come back to it. I was talking 175 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:20.120 about when you put fertilizer down before rain and the 176 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:22.679 fact that if you get a gully washer, it can 177 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:27.559 wash away a lot of your especially salt based which 178 00:09:27.559 --> 00:09:33.000 would be a synthetic fertilizer. Not necessarily the slow release 179 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:37.480 types because they don't turn those elements. Those nutrient elements 180 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:40.519 loose to go into solution and head either down through 181 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:42.639 the soil or off across the surface to the street 182 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:46.919 or wherever they're going. But it's always better to put 183 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:49.360 fertilizer down and put the right amount of irrigation on 184 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:51.759 it to move it in that way, you have control, 185 00:09:51.879 --> 00:09:55.000 it's more precision. You don't overdo it. And I realize 186 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:58.960 you're using you know, your drinking water to water the lawn, 187 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:01.519 which is what we do also, But it's just a 188 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:03.440 it's a better way to go about it. Now there 189 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:05.720 are you know, selobritase fertilizer isn't going to turn all 190 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:09.440 those loose so fast. Also an organic type fertilizer, so 191 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:13.279 you take microlife for example. Microlife is a natural based 192 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.200 fertilizer and when you put it down, it's not full 193 00:10:16.440 --> 00:10:19.519 of the salt form of the form of those elements. 194 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.559 The microlife has to be microbially broken down, which it is. 195 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:27.039 Microbes are excited to get some of that to jump 196 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:29.600 on and it breaks it. They break it down and 197 00:10:29.639 --> 00:10:32.480 they release the nutrients into the swell. That's natural system. 198 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:36.039 That's how nature works. You know, there is no salt 199 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:41.120 based fertilizer in nature. It's basically organic matter decomposing. Whether 200 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.200 you know it is a bird poop in the jungle 201 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.159 or buffalo poop on the high planes or whatever. I mean, 202 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:50.759 we're talking about organic stuff that's got nutrients. It's being released. 203 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.480 So that's microlife. Now, microlife's been around here for what 204 00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:56.480 thirty five plus years in the Greater Houston area. They're 205 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.879 sixty two four long fertilizers, the number one selling fertilizer 206 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:04.879 that's organic here in the Houston area. The advantage of 207 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:08.039 something like this is again that slower, a little bit 208 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:09.879 slow release. It's not going to give you like three 209 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:14.240 or four months like a synthetic slow would, but it's 210 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:16.600 going to gradually release those nutrients and then you can 211 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:19.799 fertilize again as you want going through the season. The 212 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:23.200 bottom line is just understanding how that's working, and basically 213 00:11:23.320 --> 00:11:26.879 it's working in that natural system with all the microbes, 214 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:28.720 and you know, in each bag of microlife you got 215 00:11:28.879 --> 00:11:32.399 billions of beneficial microbes that help your plants. They help 216 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:35.080 them grow stronger. You know, it also improves the soil. 217 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:37.720 It is an organic matter. You're talking about being compost 218 00:11:37.759 --> 00:11:40.639 down on the soil. Well, when you're putting an organic fertilizer, 219 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:44.840 you are in a way they're improving the soil structure 220 00:11:44.919 --> 00:11:48.279 and things itself over time, and that is really important. 221 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:50.360 Now you're going to find microlife in a lot of places. 222 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:53.279 You can go to microlifefertilizer dot com and find out 223 00:11:53.320 --> 00:11:55.000 more about it. But I just wanted to comment a 224 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:58.240 little bit about how that works and why it works 225 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:01.480 like it does. And I think those of you who 226 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:05.360 are organic or who want to be organic, or finding 227 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:08.360 that you can get on that schedule, you can begin 228 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:12.519 to over time use those products the sixty four, the 229 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:15.279 humates plus and on and on. There's a lot of 230 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:19.600 those products from microlife, and you gradually, over time take 231 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:24.200 your lawn into a more natural organic state of the 232 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:26.720 cycle of nutrients and the improvement of the soil and 233 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:29.440 so on. All Right, So, anyway, I hope that made 234 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:34.320 a little bit of sense. I was checking out Moss Nursery, 235 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:39.200 say yesterday or day before. Anyway, the folks at Moss, 236 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:43.039 you know that nursery is. It's not just a nursery. 237 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.120 It's not just another garden center. That place has been 238 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:49.679 around for seventy years, eight acres to wander on. And 239 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.240 first time I went there, it was like, am I 240 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:55.480 in like a botanical garden? Or is this a garden center? 241 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.399 You're walking around and there's just plants everywhere, and there's 242 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:02.440 fountains everywhere, and there's all kinds of unusual and cool 243 00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:07.120 art everywhere in around the Moss Nursery grounds. I stand 244 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:08.879 in Seabrook for those of you who haven't been there, 245 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:12.440 on Toddville Road and Seabrook. You can go to the website. 246 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:15.879 It's Moss Nursery dot com and Moss is spelled maas. 247 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.200 But right now, don't stand still in the parking lot 248 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:23.279 because there are trucks coming in constantly. I think they 249 00:13:23.360 --> 00:13:26.039 got like six or eight shipments a day these last 250 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:29.960 few days. I really mean that they are loaded on. 251 00:13:30.120 --> 00:13:32.200 They have like small cacti if you like those, if 252 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:37.519 you like succulents, Oh my gosh, they're succulents, just everything 253 00:13:37.600 --> 00:13:40.519 you can imagine, and just trays and trays and trays 254 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:43.639 and trays of them. It is an awesome selection. Now 255 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:45.960 when you go in there, pretty much any plant you want, 256 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:48.120 like do you want a Japanese maple, or do you 257 00:13:48.200 --> 00:13:50.320 want a tropical plant? Or do you want herbs? Or 258 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:52.200 do you want hanging baskets? Oh, right now they have 259 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:55.039 a lot of beautiful hanging baskets that just came in. 260 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.159 We're refresh off the truck, so you need to get 261 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.039 by there and check it out. It's Moss Nursery on 262 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:02.759 a seabrook on Toddville Road, if you want to give 263 00:14:02.799 --> 00:14:05.759 them a call two eight one four seven four twenty 264 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:08.480 four eighty eight. I always like wandering around there because 265 00:14:08.559 --> 00:14:11.159 Jim brings back all kinds of stuff from his travels, 266 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:14.799 and you know, you may see some carved wooden mask 267 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:19.360 almost like a totem pole like figures. It's just you 268 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:23.000 never know, you never know. And fountains too. They just 269 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:26.440 got in a bunch more fountains that are really beautiful, 270 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:29.279 really cool. You know, adding water, the sound of water 271 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.320 to your landscape is one of the coolest things that 272 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:35.960 you can do. I like going out in the morning 273 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:40.320 and sitting on my patio and the bird feeders aren't 274 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:43.039 too far away, and just watching the birds as they 275 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:46.759 come in, but mainly listening to their songs. Birds are 276 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:50.120 mourning people. Have you noticed that some of you are 277 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.919 not mourning people? And I've never been a morning person, 278 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:55.480 but I don't know. As I've gotten older, I've become 279 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:58.720 more of a morning person. So I'm kind of like 280 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:01.120 the birds. But boy, they will shut up in the morning, 281 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:04.080 and their songs are beautiful. The sound of water. We 282 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:06.039 all at a fountain out there just off the patty 283 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.480 a little bit. That is uh, you know, making the 284 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:12.240 sounds of water, and it is just you've created Eden 285 00:15:12.440 --> 00:15:15.279 right there in your backyard. And it just didn't take 286 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:18.080 a whole lot to turn that place into Eden. And 287 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.919 that that's a cool thing anyway, It's something I enjoy. 288 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:24.879 Our phone number if you'd like to give me a 289 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.799 call seven one three two one two kt r H 290 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:32.960 seven to one three two one two kt r H. 291 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:37.519 I want to remind you that my uh pro my 292 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:42.639 publications are online at gardening with skip dot com and 293 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:44.919 I put them up there so that I can answer 294 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:50.679 your questions in a more effective accurate way. You know, 295 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:54.440 the more I the more I make and answer brief, 296 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.679 the less accurate it becomes. Have you ever thought about that? 297 00:15:59.840 --> 00:16:02.279 Like you go to the you go to the doctor 298 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:04.919 and you ask them to explain something, and if they 299 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:09.759 just gave you like a forward sentence, well, yeah, that's 300 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:11.720 not gonna help a lot, right, But you can go 301 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.000 too far with this, But anyway, my point is that 302 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:18.559 when someone calls and says, well, what should I do 303 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:20.799 for such and such? I can give them an answer 304 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:23.919 to that. But there's a lot of questions. There's a 305 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:27.440 lot of butts, as I like to put it, You know, 306 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.879 which turp do you have? How long has it been in? 307 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:33.480 How much sunlight is it getting? Do you see what 308 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:37.120 I'm saying? And so that the devil's in the details, 309 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.720 as they say, and so in these publications I'm able 310 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:43.440 to put the details. For example, someone has stuff coming 311 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:45.879 up in the fence line. Maybe it's poison ivy. Maybe 312 00:16:46.039 --> 00:16:52.120 it is some greenbriar or some peppervine or hackberry trees, 313 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.440 or maybe in the in the yard there is torpedo grasp, 314 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:58.240 well you don't want that one, or dallas grass growing 315 00:16:58.279 --> 00:17:00.759 that are very difficult to kill, and on and on. 316 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.799 I just created the sheet called herbicide products to use 317 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:07.839 with skip'sweed wiper. Now I like this approach because instead 318 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:11.240 of spring products all over creation, you put them on 319 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:13.279 a sponge on the weed wiper. And if you don't 320 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:15.119 know what I'm talking about, go to my website. I'll 321 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:18.160 show you how to build one. And you put the 322 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:20.880 right product on for the weed you have, and then 323 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:22.880 you just reach down and wipe the weed. You can 324 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:24.759 have a cup of coffee in one hand this morning. 325 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:27.880 You could be out there once the daylight arrives. You 326 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:29.240 could be out there with a cup of coffee in 327 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:31.319 one hand and the weed wiper in the other, walking 328 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:33.160 through your yard. And let's say you had wild onion 329 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:35.480 and wild garlic. You don't have to treat the whole 330 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:39.480 yard with the with a herbicide. To do that, you 331 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:41.720 put it on the weed wiper. You just go through 332 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:43.799 and grab those squeeze it and pull them up and 333 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.799 you're wiping it right on that weed and it works well. 334 00:17:46.839 --> 00:17:50.480 And that's all online. It's a free publication that you 335 00:17:50.559 --> 00:17:54.079 can check out. So anyway, that's my point. There's a 336 00:17:54.160 --> 00:17:55.720 lot more on there. I guess I ought to talk 337 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:58.960 about more of the publications that are up sometime, but anyway, 338 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:03.960 that one I think almost everybody needs, because you're gonna 339 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.200 have poison ivy pop up, or you're gonna have a 340 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:09.559 weed that's difficult to control. You know what about nuts 341 00:18:09.640 --> 00:18:12.079 edge in a garden bed and you've got other plants 342 00:18:12.119 --> 00:18:13.519 and you don't want to kill those plants, but you 343 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:17.200 want to kill the nuts edge. Online look at my publications. 344 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:20.759 We're gonna head over now to League City and visit 345 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:23.319 with Ross. Hey, Ross, welcome to garden Line. 346 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:25.720 Hey, thanks for taking the call. 347 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:29.440 So I have a the house in Lake City, and 348 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:32.000 I have a large dog that has dug up the 349 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:35.559 backyard over the years, and I want to re establish 350 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.400 the lawn area. It's not a big area, it's about 351 00:18:41.079 --> 00:18:44.480 ten by thirty that he's dug up, but it's all 352 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:47.279 that clay soil that's down here in Lake City, and 353 00:18:47.319 --> 00:18:50.920 I'm wondering how I amend that soil and get the 354 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:52.759 Saint Augustine growing again. 355 00:18:54.039 --> 00:18:59.079 Yeah, well, you can get some you know, a quality soil, 356 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:01.960 blend or mixed or compost, any of those. Put it down, 357 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:04.119 mix it in a little bit into the surface of 358 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:07.640 the clay and then just plant your side right back 359 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:10.880 on top of that and that'll work really really well. 360 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:16.319 Okay, So what would be and I can go to 361 00:19:16.440 --> 00:19:17.839 mas well right here. 362 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:23.079 Yeah would yeah, yeah, Well it could be a compost product. 363 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:26.039 It could be a bed mix type product that you 364 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:28.519 put down. Hey, Ross, I'm sorry to do this to you. 365 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:30.559 I gotta take a quick break. I want to spend 366 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:31.960 a little more time with you on this. Could you 367 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:33.799 hang on just a little bit and I'll we'll be 368 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:38.559 right back. Okay, all right, all right, all right, folks, 369 00:19:38.599 --> 00:19:44.440 I'll be right back. All right, welcome back to guarden Line. 370 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:52.200 Good to have you with us. I am barely here 371 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:56.359 in the music. All right, let's get back going here 372 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:01.160 on the topics of the day. I mentioned that earlier 373 00:20:01.759 --> 00:20:03.640 that if you are going to put a lin in, 374 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:05.599 you want to get that soil ready. You want to 375 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:08.839 get everything as best you can, get it leveled out, 376 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:11.920 get rid of the weeds that are plague you, that 377 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:14.359 are perennial. So if you have a Saint Augustine lawn 378 00:20:14.599 --> 00:20:17.039 and you've got bermuda grass crawling through it, that's a 379 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:19.440 challenge to do. There is a way to kill the 380 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:23.279 bermuda out, but it is, it's complicated, very expensive, and 381 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:25.680 unless you hire somebody to do it, probably not going 382 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:30.039 to happen. But if you are going to revamp that lawn, 383 00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:32.640 there's your chance to get rid of the bermuda. And 384 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:35.680 I don't care how long it takes. You know, one 385 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:37.720 thing that happens when we try to spray a weeds 386 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:40.200 sometimes is you'll you have a bunch of the weed 387 00:20:40.279 --> 00:20:42.240 and you spray and you get almost all of it, 388 00:20:42.319 --> 00:20:44.880 but then one pops back, and bermuda is notorious for that. 389 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:48.079 Nut set is notorious for that. So you kind of 390 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:50.279 have to be patient and wait, maybe a couple of weeks, 391 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:52.920 get a little rain on it, and then or water irrigation, 392 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:55.000 and here comes back, and then you got another shot 393 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:57.119 at it, and you got to you gotta go after it, 394 00:20:57.160 --> 00:21:01.200 because nothing gets everything with one apption. It just doesn't. 395 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:04.400 Nature doesn't work. It doesn't work that way, and so 396 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:08.319 be patient, but get it right. Keep in mind that 397 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:12.400 the most important thing for your turf is probably the 398 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:17.720 sunlight amount that it's receiving. Soil is important, and certainly watering, 399 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:20.599 you got to water and stuff, but the sunlight that 400 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:24.319 is the fuel that drives everything in your grass. You 401 00:21:24.400 --> 00:21:26.119 want your grass to be healthy, you want it to 402 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:29.079 be pretty and green, you want it to grow fast 403 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:33.200 and fill in and all that get dense sun sun sun, 404 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:37.319 that's the energy for everything lack. The more you go 405 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:40.920 in the shade, the more the grass goes into a 406 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:44.839 just trying to hang on and survive pattern. And then 407 00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:47.200 it gets too shady for that and it starts to decline. 408 00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:49.039 And when grass is in the shade and it starts 409 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:51.359 going downhill, it is very hard to bring it back. 410 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:55.400 It just is because it doesn't have the energy to 411 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:59.519 be able to do that. Imagine your body if you 412 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:02.599 weren't eating right. You know, you eat three salting crackers 413 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:05.559 one day. Okay, how much energy are you gonna have? 414 00:22:05.640 --> 00:22:09.680 You're gonna feel like getting up and running running a mile? No, 415 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:14.079 because you don't have the energy. And the sun is 416 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:17.079 the energy source for our plants. And so when they 417 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:20.640 don't go what they need, there's a marginal area where 418 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:22.400 they get by, kind of like you're sitting around the 419 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:24.880 house not doing much because you just don't have the energy. 420 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:28.640 But they need energy, they need sunlight, and that is 421 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:31.319 certainly true grass. That's probably the number one limiting factor 422 00:22:31.799 --> 00:22:36.079 that we deal with on grass. Now I want to 423 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:40.160 talk about timing on weeds. We are in a crucial 424 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:45.480 crossroads when it comes to weed management in our turf. 425 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:50.079 The cool season weeds are what you see right now 426 00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:53.039 in your grass. If you see weeds that are all 427 00:22:53.160 --> 00:22:55.279 up in the grass, that is a cool season weed. 428 00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:58.759 It's not a warm season that's the big old weed 429 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:02.119 sitting there. That's the thing like clover and chickweed and 430 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:07.599 hem bit and cleavers and carpet weed and a bunch 431 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:12.160 of others, dandelions, things like that. They are coming through 432 00:23:12.240 --> 00:23:16.079 the season and they're putting on their show. They're about 433 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:20.720 to start blooming and setting seeds. So their life cycle 434 00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:23.000 is just like the blue bonnet. When you think a 435 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:26.599 cool season weeds, think of a blue bonnet. It sprouts 436 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:29.039 in the fall and it sits there as a little 437 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:30.960 They call it a rosette because it's just a little 438 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:34.720 bitty small plant that sits there waiting. When we start 439 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:38.359 getting past midwinter, we're coming into spring, that blue bonnet 440 00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:40.599 begins to grow and all of a sudden, now you 441 00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:43.119 see these big mounds of blue bonnets on the highway. 442 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:46.119 Where were they in November and October? They were there, 443 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:49.680 there was little plants. Then they start to grow, and 444 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:53.240 then the next step is because it changes in day 445 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:57.279 length and because of the warming temperatures, they start blooming 446 00:23:57.519 --> 00:23:59.559 and we get to drive down the highways and enjoy 447 00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:02.039 our bluebar on it. And then after they bloom, they 448 00:24:02.119 --> 00:24:06.680 set seed, and at that stage that plant has become 449 00:24:06.759 --> 00:24:10.079 we say at the bloom stage, it's become reproductive, meaning 450 00:24:10.279 --> 00:24:14.799 it's ready to start reproducing producing seed. And at that 451 00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:17.680 stage it's very hard to kill weeds and your lawn. 452 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:21.160 So you want to do it before they start blooming 453 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:23.640 and producing it. They just starting to bloom. That's okay, 454 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:26.440 go ahead, it's okay still. But the longer you wait, 455 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:28.640 not only is it harder to kill the weed, but 456 00:24:29.039 --> 00:24:31.559 it's already made seed. And so that's that's kind of 457 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:34.039 the cycle. And now's the time to knock those out 458 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:36.880 or hand pull them. I hand pull mine ninety nine 459 00:24:36.920 --> 00:24:39.160 percent of the time because I don't have that many 460 00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:40.839 and I don't mind getting out there and doing a 461 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:42.759 little bit. There's there's gadgets to help that a little 462 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:45.279 bit too, But however you go about it, just do it. 463 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:49.119 That's the bottom line, speaking of just do it, Pierce 464 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:54.079 Scapes is our number one garden Line preferred landscaper and 465 00:24:54.440 --> 00:24:56.440 there's a good reason for that. And if you want 466 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:00.319 to see it, go to piercescapes dot com. Look at 467 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:04.319 the pictures, look at what they can do. Whatever you 468 00:25:04.400 --> 00:25:07.119 want to make your landscape look good, I bet they 469 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:09.559 can do it because they do hardscapes. They do walkways, 470 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:12.359 they do rock borders, they put in new gardens, they 471 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:16.640 do landscape lighting, they do maintenance, cordly maintenance, mulching and 472 00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:22.000 trimming and fertilizing and replacing flower color in the beds 473 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:26.839 is needed, and things like that. They help create better drainage. 474 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:31.079 Peerscapes are they're professionals, from their landscape designers down down 475 00:25:31.160 --> 00:25:36.119 to their employees that have distinguished landscape irrigation, drainage backflow 476 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:41.240 pesticide certifications and licensing. And these folks, these are professionals 477 00:25:41.400 --> 00:25:43.599 and they do the job right. You can go to 478 00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:46.359 pierscapes dot com. That's how I suggest to do. It's 479 00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:48.440 easy to remember. If you want a phone number, it's 480 00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:51.920 two eight one three seven fifty sixty. But the bottom 481 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:55.039 line is go check it out now. Even if you 482 00:25:55.079 --> 00:25:57.160 think I'm not going to do that this. Go check 483 00:25:57.200 --> 00:25:59.039 it out, take a look at what they can do. 484 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:02.799 You'll you'll be inspired. And then who knows, as we 485 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:05.160 go through, maybe you'll just decide to pull the trigger 486 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:08.480 right then, or at least in the future. You'll know 487 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:10.519 who to call them, who to go to when you're 488 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:14.759 ready for any kind of a landscape revamp. From a 489 00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:18.039 little fixing this and that here and there to I 490 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:20.160 just want to turn everything upside down, to start over 491 00:26:20.279 --> 00:26:22.799 and have a beautiful place. When you see the pictures, 492 00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:26.480 you'll know what I'm talking about. Plants for all seasons. 493 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:29.559 I was looking. They've got their tomato plants in and 494 00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:30.920 they got a lot of them in. Of course, they're 495 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.000 getting a lot of different kinds of plants. It's spring 496 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:36.319 and they always load up on that. There they while 497 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:38.240 back I was talking about, they'd just gotten in the 498 00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:41.079 potatoes and the onions. And by the way, if you 499 00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:44.160 haven't planted potatoes or onions, hurry up. You can still 500 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:46.559 plan them. It's okay to still plan them. You're getting 501 00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:48.000 toward the end of the season, but you can do it. 502 00:26:48.880 --> 00:26:52.359 Just don't delay. Get that done. While you're there. Check 503 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:55.680 out their new indoor kind of the gift shop area, 504 00:26:55.759 --> 00:26:57.759 the place where they have their tools and seeds and 505 00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:00.599 all kinds of really cool stuff for the home, lawn 506 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:04.160 and garden. It's right there. And you know, at Plants 507 00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:07.640 for All Seasons they understand that soil comes first. So 508 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:09.720 when you go out and pick all your pretty plants out, 509 00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:11.920 in order to get to the checkout, you got to 510 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:15.279 walk past all the fertilizers and the soil products and 511 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:19.480 things like that. And that's good because don't go home 512 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.759 with those plants without going home with some stuff to 513 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:26.920 make the plants happy. Brown stuff before green stuff. Brown 514 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:29.960 stuff is fertilizers and soils, and Plants for All Seasons 515 00:27:30.359 --> 00:27:32.319 has the whole nine yards. And then of course if 516 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:33.839 you have any kind of problems, you can go in there. 517 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:36.720 We're talking about professionals. They've been doing this since nineteen 518 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:39.039 seventy three. They know what they're doing. You can go 519 00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:40.880 to Plants for All Seasons dot com or if you 520 00:27:40.960 --> 00:27:43.279 want to call them two eight one three seven six 521 00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:48.279 one six for six at Plants for All Seasons. I 522 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:51.039 love going in there, love visiting with all the Flowerdy 523 00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:54.599 family and just kind of talking about we also kind 524 00:27:54.599 --> 00:27:56.279 of compare notes, you know, way, what are you hearing 525 00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:58.400 about what's going on, what are people bringing into the 526 00:27:58.440 --> 00:28:03.359 store these days, stuff like that that is very very helpful. 527 00:28:05.240 --> 00:28:05.400 You know. 528 00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:08.640 ACE Hardware is the place to go for everything you need. 529 00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:11.000 You know, I talk about they've got your fertilizers and 530 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:14.000 herbicides and pesticides. But I want to talk about some 531 00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:16.759 aspects of the store that I don't usually talk about. 532 00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:20.440 Like right now, they've got moenfauce. It's twenty percent off, 533 00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:25.559 twenty percent off moenfauce. It's right now. They've got air filters, 534 00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:28.359 Buy three, get one free. Do you need some paint? 535 00:28:28.519 --> 00:28:30.839 They got a President's Day sale on all kinds of 536 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:33.640 painting supplies at your ACE Hardware store like K and 537 00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:36.559 m Ace and a Task Casita, K and m Ace 538 00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:40.400 and Kingwood, the Bay City Ace Hardware. Those are just example. 539 00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:44.519 They're all over the place. Ace Hardware dot Com find 540 00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:49.119 your store. They're all over the listening area. And that's cool. 541 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:52.680 They got a lot of cool stuff. I was doing 542 00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.440 spring cleaning myself, you know, getting getting bens and shelving 543 00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:59.880 and things like that. Maybe you need to do that too. 544 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:02.599 Have you ever noticed how your garage the junk just 545 00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:06.880 sort of expands. It's like it. It goes through uh 546 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:10.640 cell division at night, and now you have two pieces 547 00:29:10.640 --> 00:29:13.079 of junk where there was just one. I don't know 548 00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:18.960 how that works, but there bends to that or get 549 00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:19.359 rid of it. 550 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:25.000 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skin Rictor. 551 00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:43.400 It's just watch him as many things to suppotas. 552 00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:51.400 A sad. 553 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:59.079 Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. Good to 554 00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:02.960 have you with us. What are we gonna talk about today? 555 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:05.200 You tell me, I've got some things I'd like to 556 00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:07.640 talk about, But this is a Collin show. This is 557 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:10.119 about what are your questions? How can we help you 558 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:13.160 have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That's what 559 00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:17.319 we're here for. That's my goal. At least I want 560 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:20.480 to see you have success. It breaks my heart when 561 00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:22.880 someone says I got a brown thumb. I tried gardening, 562 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:25.359 I killed everything. I can't grow plants. No, no, no, no, 563 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:28.319 no no, you do not have a brown thumb. There's 564 00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:30.480 no such thing as a brown thumb. Listen to me, 565 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:33.599 trust me on this one. There's no such thing as 566 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:38.079 a brown thumb. There are uninformed thumbs. And if you 567 00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:40.759 want to associate a color with your thumb, well, then 568 00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:43.839 let's do it this way. The more informed you get, 569 00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:48.759 the greener your thumb gets. Okay, And that's all it is. 570 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:52.359 The reason Grandma could grow anything. Grandma drop a pencil 571 00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:54.359 on the ground and'd sprout and grow a pine tree, 572 00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:57.319 you know, I mean, she could do anything. The reason 573 00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:00.079 is she was giving plants what they want. They have 574 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.000 opinions about how much sunlight, how much drainage, how well 575 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.319 the soil condition is in terms of aeration and internal 576 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:10.960 drain They have opinions about nutrients. They have opinions about 577 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:13.039 if they want to live at your house. Next time 578 00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:15.279 you go on a vacation to Colorado, do not bring 579 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:19.240 Colorado columbines and blue spruce trees home. The Society for 580 00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:22.160 the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants will arrest you and 581 00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:24.480 throw you in jail. That shame on that. I mean, 582 00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:28.279 that's a torture plant, something that wants to grow here, 583 00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:31.720 That's what I'm saying. That's part of making it look 584 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:33.880 like you got a green thumb. It's because you put 585 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:36.119 a plant where it wants to be, and oh oh, 586 00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.319 put it in soil that it wants to be. And 587 00:31:38.960 --> 00:31:40.839 the better your soil and you make ge it lucky 588 00:31:40.920 --> 00:31:43.680 and just have good soil where you moved. Most people 589 00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:46.519 have to fix their soil. They have to improve their soil. 590 00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:48.640 They have to take a look at what nature does 591 00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:50.319 and then go home and do that. That's why we 592 00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:53.480 had compost to the soil, by the way, because nature 593 00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:56.079 adds compost to the soil, and just a little different 594 00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:59.359 way than we go about it. You have a green thumb, 595 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:02.759 closureiz and repeat after me. Click your heels together, and 596 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:05.960 you will be like Dorothy and a wizard of Oz. 597 00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:08.000 I have a green thumb. I have a green thumb. 598 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:09.759 I have a green You have a green thumb. Just 599 00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:13.880 keep listening to guard line. All right, Well, I want 600 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.799 to talk a little bit about I mentioned the importance 601 00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:22.119 of a post emergent weed control. Now before those weeds 602 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:25.039 start setting seed. So that clover in your lawn, that 603 00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:27.799 chickweed that hand best, especially hand bet it's already blooming 604 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:31.599 out there in the yards. You need to stop it now. 605 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:34.359 Handpull it, spray at whatever you're gonna do. Stop it now, 606 00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:39.000 or it will sentence you to thousands more seeds of 607 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:41.400 that same species that you can deal with next spring. 608 00:32:41.799 --> 00:32:43.880 So you don't do it. You don't want to do that. Secondly, 609 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:48.839 pre emergence. Pre emergents prevent the seeds when they try 610 00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:53.319 to sprout from becoming established. So if you right now 611 00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:56.319 in your yard, I'll bet there is some cribgrass seed, 612 00:32:56.559 --> 00:32:58.720 I'll bet there is some seed of other things, will 613 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:01.079 graspers and other ones that it's a warm season weed 614 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:02.960 that comes up from seed. We've got a whole bunch 615 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:05.480 of them. And if you're going to stop them from 616 00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:09.599 ever getting started, now's the time to do it. Because 617 00:33:09.680 --> 00:33:12.559 once they're up and growing. There are a few pre 618 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.839 emergents that have a little bit of post emergent activity, 619 00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:19.359 like if the weed seed is really early starting, they'll 620 00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.240 kill it too, but some of them don't. And the 621 00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:23.839 main thing is get there ahead of it. And I 622 00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:27.160 use the baseball analogy all the time. You start swinging 623 00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:30.359 somewhere between when the pitcher lets go of the ball 624 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:32.880 and when it gets to your plate. If you wait 625 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:35.359 until it's almost to you to start swinging, what's going 626 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:37.319 to happen. It's going to be in the catcher's mitt 627 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:40.039 and you're swinging in the air. That's what it's like 628 00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:42.000 putting out a pre emergent. You got to do it 629 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:45.480 at the right time. You swing before he lets go 630 00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:47.839 of the ball, he just looks stupid. That's not going 631 00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:51.839 to work. You wait too late and you're going to 632 00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:55.119 strike out. And that is true. Now's the time to 633 00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:57.359 swing with the pre If you're going to put one down, 634 00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:00.880 you get it down now. The barricades are great example. 635 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:03.559 Put it down, water it in, get it into the 636 00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:06.920 surface of the soil, and then when they try to sprout, 637 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:10.079 to give you about about sixty days, maybe a little 638 00:34:10.119 --> 00:34:15.760 longer where it's protecting against the weed seed sprouting. And 639 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:18.039 so if you wanted to extend it through the summer, 640 00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:21.000 you'd have to do it again at that point. Don't 641 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:25.599 overdo it at any point in time. I know we're 642 00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:28.719 built thinking A teaspoons good, a tablespoons better. This is 643 00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:31.440 not only is that not true with pre emergency. You 644 00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:35.679 can do damage when you misuse products of all types, 645 00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:40.719 all types, even since that even organics, you don't misuse them. 646 00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:44.360 You use them properly because there are things that can 647 00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:47.519 happen that are not desirable. And so in the case 648 00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:52.400 of pre emergence, only what the label says. And I'll 649 00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:56.000 let me explain it this way, just real quick. If 650 00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:59.280 you are a company and you have a product to sell, 651 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:04.639 would you tell someone to use a teaspoon if a 652 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:09.039 tablespoon was better. No, because you sell more products the 653 00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:11.960 more they use, right, So why would they tell you 654 00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:14.599 use this amount on the label. It's because that's the 655 00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:18.480 amount that works and that doesn't cause the damage that 656 00:35:18.679 --> 00:35:23.800 excessive amounts could cause. So believe them, if if they 657 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:26.519 if they could sell you more. They're in a business, 658 00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:29.960 right If a company making a product could sell you more, 659 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:31.760 well they would want to do that. That's why we 660 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:36.239 have a label. Labels the law. But more importantly for 661 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:40.760 your home garden, label is the right amount without hurting things? 662 00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:41.360 All Right? 663 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:45.719 That was a soapbox. I just have seen so many 664 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:48.800 examples of others. I set out to pair Land and 665 00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:51.079 we're going to talk to Kay, and I'm going to 666 00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:55.280 stop my little diatribe here about products. Hey, Kay, welcome 667 00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:56.000 to garden Line. 668 00:35:56.840 --> 00:35:57.840 It's thank you Skip. 669 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:03.360 Oh excuse me. I'm having a real big problem with weeds, 670 00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:06.239 and I think I probably have some of everything that 671 00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:11.599 you mentioned while ago, I have tried tried to find 672 00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:18.480 weedon Nator. I've tried both the ace in Pearland in Friendswood. 673 00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:19.599 They don't carry it. 674 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:20.159 Huh. 675 00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:23.280 They have Nelson products and I've tried the plant it 676 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:23.760 for him. 677 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:24.480 I can't find it. 678 00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:26.920 Can you give me an alternate other than weed? 679 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.679 And they are would get rid of I can't everything 680 00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:30.119 I can. 681 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:35.599 I got a penhandy I do this is this is 682 00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:37.679 for you, and I got an email from Marty about 683 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:44.719 the same question. Go to Nelson plantfood dot com, nelsonood 684 00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:47.719 dot com, and right in the big middle of all 685 00:36:47.800 --> 00:36:50.519 your choices up there is a store locator. It's in 686 00:36:50.599 --> 00:36:52.480 that little strip of words at the top of the screen. 687 00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:55.440 Store locator. You click on that, and all over Texas 688 00:36:55.480 --> 00:36:57.119 you can find out where you can buy their products. 689 00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:59.639 Okay, well I thought about doing that. 690 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:02.199 I thought if I could maybe an alternate. 691 00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:05.440 Yeah, that's good. You call it because other people have 692 00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:09.480 that same question this morning. All right, Hey, kay, good 693 00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:10.000 luck with that. 694 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:10.800 Have fun? 695 00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:12.039 Yeah you bet? 696 00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:17.639 Bye bye. Well, I just droned away that segment, So 697 00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:20.039 we go for another break and I'll be back with 698 00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:25.199 more of your calls in gardening information as well. Read 699 00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:30.639 may welcome back, Welcome back to the garden Line. Good 700 00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:34.280 to have you with us. I was visiting a new 701 00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:37.159 sponsor that we have the other day and this, by 702 00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:40.719 the way, it's Houston powder Coders, and I was so impressed. 703 00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:44.079 I remember growing up we had those metal chairs that 704 00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:47.079 were painted bright primary colors and it was like a 705 00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:50.840 metal seat curved around and had some little ridges in it, 706 00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:54.480 and then the underneath the seat was like a white 707 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:58.800 metal tubing that curved around toward the ground and then 708 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:00.800 back under you. And it like you could kind of 709 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:02.360 bounce in that chair. It had a little bit of 710 00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:04.159 a springiness to it. You know what I'm talking about. 711 00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:06.679 Those kind of chairs. Well, those things are awesome. That's 712 00:38:06.800 --> 00:38:10.159 retro cool stuff. Well, Ace powder coats can take an 713 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:12.039 old chair like that and they can fix it up 714 00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:13.760 if it needs a little bit of a maybe it 715 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:16.039 needs just a little bit of welding repair. This is 716 00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:20.119 true of anything they're doing. They coat metal with a 717 00:38:20.199 --> 00:38:24.239 special process that is way better than painting, way more durable, 718 00:38:24.719 --> 00:38:26.559 and they'll come in they'll do a little repair if 719 00:38:26.599 --> 00:38:29.119 it needs it. If they in those kind of chairs 720 00:38:29.159 --> 00:38:31.000 had the little bolts and things through that were was 721 00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:35.519 resting and whatnot, they replace them with the stainless steel hardware, 722 00:38:35.880 --> 00:38:38.280 putting it back in. If you've got a little plastic 723 00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:40.559 feet on some piece of metal out there in the yard, 724 00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:42.280 or end caps, you know how the tube they put 725 00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:44.519 a little plastic endcap in it so water didn't get 726 00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:47.039 in there. They'll replace all that. And I don't care 727 00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:48.760 what it is. I mean it could be it could 728 00:38:48.760 --> 00:38:51.400 be tables, it could be benches, anything like wrought iron, 729 00:38:51.519 --> 00:38:55.800 cast iron, aluminum. They'll do it all. And I'm telling 730 00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:00.519 you it's amazing. And the color choices you have. Do 731 00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:02.920 you think one hundred plus color options, like if you 732 00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:05.360 tell them black, they go which black? You know what 733 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:09.079 I'm saying, one hundred plus color options any kind of 734 00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:13.159 color basically they can essentially do. And I saw some 735 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:15.719 stuff that had a real rustic almost you know how 736 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:18.719 the old almost a rusty kind of cast iron look, 737 00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:20.079 you do it? And I looked at this, Oh, when 738 00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:21.400 y'all go and do that one, they go, oh, that 739 00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:24.000 is that's the color we put on it. And you know, 740 00:39:24.079 --> 00:39:26.199 if you want that kind of look, they can do 741 00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:29.159 that all the way through one hundred plus colors. I mean, 742 00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:31.320 I don't know what else to say. If you want 743 00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:34.280 to get a quick quote from them, just go outside. 744 00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:38.679 Any kind of outdoor metal, from furniture to a lamppost 745 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:44.599 to a porch rail, to what else? Maybe art a 746 00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:48.559 decorative metal art outside. Take a picture of it and 747 00:39:48.719 --> 00:39:53.440 email it to sales at Houstoncoters dot com. Sales at 748 00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:56.679 houstoncoders dot com. They'll give you a quote. And by 749 00:39:56.719 --> 00:39:58.719 the way, they offer free pickup and delivery to the 750 00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:04.039 greater Houston area. That's a good deal. Houston Powdercoders dot com. 751 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:07.039 What do you have that needs to be brought back? 752 00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:08.960 Don't buy a new one. Don't have to buy a 753 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:11.719 new one. Have them come out and do it right. 754 00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:15.519 Get your stuff and bring it back to check them out. 755 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:18.480 Look up Houston powder Coders on some of your social 756 00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:20.760 media and take a look at the kinds of work 757 00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:24.480 that they do. It's really cool. I was so excited. 758 00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:26.079 I was like wanting to come home and look for 759 00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:29.599 pieces of the metal I have powder coated because it 760 00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:35.199 is a nice process. That is true. All right, Well 761 00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:37.920 we are here. I was outside yesterday trying to get 762 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:41.320 some pictures taken in a garden and the wind is 763 00:40:41.400 --> 00:40:43.960 just blowing and blowing. And you know what I thought 764 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:46.360 of is last year when had those storms come through 765 00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:50.519 that just wrecked havoc on our power grid. You know, 766 00:40:50.599 --> 00:40:53.000 people without power for a long time. And the pictures 767 00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:55.480 I saw around the Greater Houston area of tree damage 768 00:40:55.559 --> 00:40:59.840 were just heartbreaking, just hammered. And you know a lot. 769 00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:03.000 We can do a lot to protect our trees against 770 00:41:03.039 --> 00:41:06.599 that by pruning them properly and even by beginning with 771 00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:11.320 training them properly too. Martin spoon Moore from Affordable Tree. 772 00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:13.920 He understands all this. He knows how to do it. 773 00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:16.840 You got to take care of your trees. 774 00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:17.719 You know. 775 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:20.079 You don't just plant a tree and it grows, and 776 00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:22.920 that it is what it is. If you want the best, 777 00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:26.360 if you want a tree that's valuable, even more valuable 778 00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:28.599 to your house, or that doesn't grow for forty years 779 00:41:28.599 --> 00:41:31.519 when it's really gorgeous and beautiful and then a limb 780 00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:34.920 blows off because it had a narrow branch angle, have 781 00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:38.039 him come out if you have not. If you can't remember, 782 00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:40.400 let's say the last time that you had your trees 783 00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:43.719 pruned or evaluated for their health, Well, now's the time 784 00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:45.920 you got it. You need to do that. These are 785 00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:48.920 the most single valuable plants in your entire landscape. Give 786 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:51.960 Martin a call. Seven one three, six, nine nine two 787 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:55.519 six sixty three seven to one three six nine nine 788 00:41:55.960 --> 00:41:59.679 two six sixty three. That's Martin spoon More at Affordable 789 00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:02.639 Tree Service. Here is wife Joe will answer the phone 790 00:42:02.760 --> 00:42:05.079 and by the way again seven to one three six 791 00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:09.039 nine nine two six six ' three or a ff 792 00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:12.199 tree Service dot com. He does way more than training 793 00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:15.159 and pruning. He can advise you on things. He can 794 00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:18.199 talk about what they can do, other things like deep 795 00:42:18.480 --> 00:42:21.760 feeding and just have him look. He'll know what needs 796 00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:24.039 to be done and he'll talk with you about it 797 00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:29.159 and you can decide. I hate it when a giant, 798 00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:32.679 beautiful tree is just split open and laying there. It's like, 799 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:35.679 oh my god, you can't go backwards. You can't go backward. 800 00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:37.400 Let me tell you something else you can't do. By 801 00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:40.559 the way, while I'm ranting about this, you can't undo 802 00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:43.079 a bad pruning job. Now you can go get a 803 00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:46.199 cheap haircut and put a bag over your head for 804 00:42:46.280 --> 00:42:49.519 a few weeks until it grows back. But with a tree, 805 00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:51.760 when when somebody doesn't know what they're doing gets a 806 00:42:51.760 --> 00:42:55.679 hold of your tree and messes it up, they know 807 00:42:55.800 --> 00:42:58.559 getting back to what it originally could have been there 808 00:42:58.679 --> 00:43:01.519 is not I mean they a good treat person can 809 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:04.320 try to begin to repair damage and get it growing 810 00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.000 back in a good way. But some of these hatchet 811 00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:10.400 jobs that I see driving around town, it's like, Okay, 812 00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:16.159 it's done, it's done, And so don't be that person. 813 00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:18.840 Just because someone has a pickup, a chainsaw and a 814 00:43:18.920 --> 00:43:21.880 business card to sticking your door does not mean they 815 00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:24.039 know what they're doing or should be turned loose on 816 00:43:24.119 --> 00:43:29.559 your trees. All right, enough of that, rent, can you 817 00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:31.840 tell I feel strongly about it. I do because I 818 00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:34.119 hate it when somebody has to go through all that 819 00:43:34.199 --> 00:43:37.639 kind of stuff. In Jenny Forest Garden Center down in 820 00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:42.920 Richmond Rosenberg area is a awesome, awesome gardens that I 821 00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:46.440 love going down there. I love, you know, visiting with 822 00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:52.000 the folks Jennifer Forest. Just by the way that Danny 823 00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:56.599 is now on board with them, and that's a real 824 00:43:56.760 --> 00:44:00.440 nice addition to that as well. I was talking to 825 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:02.639 him at the Home and Garden show down there in 826 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:06.719 the Richmond Rosenberg area a while back. But at the 827 00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.119 garden Center right now, by the way, they always have 828 00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:12.159 now in the spring they're always having on Saturdays typically 829 00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:15.519 they're going to have these educational programs going on that 830 00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:21.280 are really really helpful, very very helpful. In fact, next Saturday, 831 00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:24.039 Mike Sarrant is going to give a talk. He's or 832 00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:27.639 the guy from Oba and from Microlife. He's going to 833 00:44:27.719 --> 00:44:31.119 be talking about gardening the organic way. So it's free program. 834 00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:34.960 You can go down there, go see Mike, tell him 835 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:38.079 Skip said hi, and then let's see what else is 836 00:44:38.159 --> 00:44:41.159 going on. They're having a Valentine's Day learning experience down 837 00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:44.599 there too. But go to the website. It's enchanted that 838 00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:50.039 the website is enchanted Forest enchanted. Let me just give you, 839 00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:53.119 let me just give you the whole whole thing. All right, 840 00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:55.400 you're ready, got a pen. You're supposed to listen to 841 00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:59.320 Garden Line with a pen all the time, right, enchanted 842 00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:04.519 for Richmond dot com. And I mean that listen with 843 00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:06.400 a pen because I'm going to be giving you stuff 844 00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.960 all the time, phone numbers or emails or got to 845 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:13.159 go to this website and write it down. Enchanted Forest Richmond. Oh, 846 00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:17.719 I forgot the TX TX dot com. My bad Enchanted 847 00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:23.519 Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Chanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. 848 00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:24.239 Check it out. 849 00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:26.119 Look at all the kind of cool stuff they have. 850 00:45:26.599 --> 00:45:29.840 They have a lot of really really nice stuff. They 851 00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.960 got some cool fruit trees, right, now you can get 852 00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:36.280 the low chill types that need to be planted here. Listen, 853 00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:38.559 just because something's for sale in the area does not 854 00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:40.719 mean it should be planted here, especially if you go 855 00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:43.320 to some of these big box stores and others that 856 00:45:43.480 --> 00:45:47.800 sell their junk. Okay, I meant that junk all over 857 00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:51.559 the country. And you may buy an apple that belongs 858 00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:55.960 in Washington State. I've seen blueberries and raspberries. It would 859 00:45:56.079 --> 00:45:58.559 not grow here because of the wrong ones. Go to 860 00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:01.599 a good mom and popgardens center, an independent garden center, 861 00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:04.280 and Chennit Forest what I'm talking about here. They'll sell 862 00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:06.519 you the lo chow varieties that do well here. They 863 00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:09.039 even have a three and one tree. It's like three 864 00:46:09.079 --> 00:46:11.840 different varieties grafted onto one tree, so you'd have room 865 00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:14.480 for three trees. Buy a three and one you can 866 00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:17.519 get all three kinds of fruit on that same tree. 867 00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:20.639 That's pretty cool. Stop as well as all the things 868 00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:23.760 you need, you know, the tools of fertilizers, of soils 869 00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:26.480 and whatnot to get that off to a good start. 870 00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:30.840 So let them help you create a fruitful paradise, your 871 00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:35.519 little garden of eaton eat I n eaton all right, 872 00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:38.760 that's in Chennit Forest By the way. They're on FM 873 00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:41.880 twenty seven to fifty nine. If you're heading from Rosenberg, 874 00:46:42.000 --> 00:46:44.199 Richmond area up to sugar Land, it's off to the 875 00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:49.800 right down there FM twenty seven fifty nine. You're listening 876 00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:51.599 to garden Line. Our phone number. If you'd like to 877 00:46:51.639 --> 00:46:54.000 give me a call seven one three two one two 878 00:46:54.599 --> 00:46:58.519 kt r H seven one three two one two kt 879 00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:04.039 r H. We will help you have success. That's my goal, 880 00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:06.840 at least that's what I would like to see happen. 881 00:47:07.239 --> 00:47:09.760 I was talking about the importance of post emergent now, 882 00:47:09.840 --> 00:47:15.079 the importance of pre emergent now if timing is what's 883 00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:18.760 important now. You know, there's a lot of ways to 884 00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:24.119 go about gardening. There's things like organic versus synthetic. There's 885 00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:27.280 options there, and sometimes those two lines kind of get 886 00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:30.119 fuzzy right in between a little bit as you go 887 00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:32.719 across it. But however you want to go about it, 888 00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:35.679 you just need to do it. I mentioned that I 889 00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:37.639 do a lot of hand pulling in my yard just 890 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:39.840 because I don't have that many weeds, and it's easy 891 00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:41.960 to do. You know, I've got a weed here and there, 892 00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:44.519 Why treat the whole yard for a couple of weeds? 893 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:48.760 But as your grass gets thinner, you're going to have 894 00:47:48.800 --> 00:47:51.480 more weed problems. And the term I use is wherever 895 00:47:51.599 --> 00:47:54.760 sunlight hits the soil, nature plants of weeds. So what 896 00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:59.000 is the single best individual start to weed control in 897 00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:05.000 your lawn. It's mow water fertilized. Mow water fertilized. That 898 00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:07.320 seems so simple. Come on, it's got to be more 899 00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:12.320 than that. No mow water fertilized. The more you probably 900 00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:15.440 don't want to hear this, but turf specialists will tell 901 00:48:15.519 --> 00:48:19.239 you this. The more often you mow, the denser your 902 00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:22.440 lawn will be. And I'll use your shrubs as an example. 903 00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:24.320 If you let your shrubs grow out a foot and 904 00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:27.119 a half and then you cut them once a year back, 905 00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:30.480 how would that look. It would be ugly. You'd be 906 00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:32.599 cutting off all the leaves and be all dead twigs 907 00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:35.360 inside and stuff. It'll be horrible. But if you share 908 00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:39.719 that shrub regularly through the season, you have this wonderful 909 00:48:39.840 --> 00:48:42.360 dense wall of foliage that is just solid. You can't 910 00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:44.360 see in the shrub. It's a dense wall of foliage 911 00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:48.239 that somewhat applies to your lawn as well. So the 912 00:48:48.360 --> 00:48:51.920 more often you mow, the denser. Your lawn is going 913 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:56.599 to be watering as needed is very important. If your 914 00:48:56.639 --> 00:48:59.119 lawn gets drowdy, it's going to die back a little bit. 915 00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:02.960 It'll probably serve, but now sunlight hits the soil. The 916 00:49:03.280 --> 00:49:07.800 third thing fertilize. You need the right nutrients in order 917 00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.920 for grass to thrive, especially nitrogen. That is a single 918 00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:14.480 most important nutrient in your lawn for good green color 919 00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:18.119 and growth and density and health. Okay, you need more 920 00:49:18.199 --> 00:49:20.679 than nitrogen, but that's the most important. That's why it's 921 00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:23.679 the first number that's the highest on a bag of 922 00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:27.760 lawn fertilizer. The first number mow water, fertilize. You do 923 00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:31.760 that all year this year and the vast majority of 924 00:49:31.880 --> 00:49:35.440 your weed problems can be overcome for weeds that are 925 00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:38.360 coming back from seed. Now something that's not coming back 926 00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:40.920 from seed. That's like you know, Virginia button weeds and 927 00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:45.880 dollar weeds and dichondra and all the things that just 928 00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:48.199 live in a lawn. That's not going to get rid 929 00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:49.760 of them. They'll still be there. You have to treat 930 00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:53.920 for that. But the vast majority is just simply mow 931 00:49:54.119 --> 00:49:57.440 water and fertilized. That's a secret. I mean, you know, 932 00:49:57.639 --> 00:49:59.639 it ought to sounds like it ought to be harder 933 00:49:59.679 --> 00:49:59.800 than that. 934 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:00.360 Just not. 935 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:04.239 That's a secret to it to success. So the denser 936 00:50:04.320 --> 00:50:07.199 your lawn, the better off you're going to be. That's 937 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:11.599 why when we see things that cause our lawns to struggle, 938 00:50:12.960 --> 00:50:16.079 we start to one problem leads to another. Your lawn 939 00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:18.880 gets stressed and now take all root rock comes in. 940 00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:22.360 Why is that? Well, if you don't get sleep, you 941 00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:26.239 don't eat well, you don't exercise, and you go to 942 00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:28.159 some event where there are a bunch of people and 943 00:50:28.280 --> 00:50:30.920 some of them are coffin and sick, you are more likely. 944 00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:33.199 It's not a black and white line, but you're more 945 00:50:33.360 --> 00:50:35.800 likely to get sick because your body is not able 946 00:50:35.880 --> 00:50:38.440 to fend it off. Plants are the same way. The 947 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:41.920 stronger and healthier the plant, the better it can fend 948 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:45.679 off many of the problems that attack them. So good 949 00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:47.840 health is important. That's why I did two schedules. I 950 00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:51.480 didn't just do a lawn pest, disease and weed schedule. 951 00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.639 I did a lawn care schedule. And that is the 952 00:50:55.719 --> 00:51:00.280 mow water fertilized. It includes the aeration, It includes you know, 953 00:51:00.480 --> 00:51:05.320 the the azamite, the supplemental of the micros in there. 954 00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:09.199 That's getting the healthy lawn. And when you've done that 955 00:51:10.159 --> 00:51:12.360 and you've got issues that arise, and there will be 956 00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:15.320 issues that can arise even when you do everything right, 957 00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:18.079 flip the thing over and do the other side. And 958 00:51:18.159 --> 00:51:20.960 that's how to manage them, simple as that. All right, folks, 959 00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:23.480 I'm gonna take a break. Seven one three two one 960 00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:31.760 two ktrh. Hey, welcome back to guarden Line. You would 961 00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:34.559 like to give me a call and talk about what 962 00:51:34.800 --> 00:51:38.320 is of interest to you? Seven one three two one 963 00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:41.719 two ktrh. That's the number. That's how you do it. 964 00:51:43.400 --> 00:51:45.159 Spend a lot of time on lawns today. But you 965 00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:50.559 know what, lawns is the topic that everybody, everybody seems 966 00:51:50.599 --> 00:51:54.280 to have questions about. When I was Horticulture so Texas 967 00:51:54.360 --> 00:51:57.000 A and m Agrolife Extension Service for thirty five years, 968 00:51:58.039 --> 00:51:59.719 we used to say the three things that made the 969 00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:03.360 phone at the extension office where the three t's trees, 970 00:52:03.480 --> 00:52:07.000 turf and tomatoes. And that is so true on garden 971 00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:11.599 Line as well. When it comes to the number the 972 00:52:11.719 --> 00:52:15.119 first two trees and turf that the majority of questions. 973 00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:17.440 That's what people ask about because people are concerned about 974 00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:19.920 those I get it. When it comes to the vegetable garden. 975 00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.840 Nobody calls me about their co rabbie or their a 976 00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:27.320 regular tomatoes, the queen of the vegetable garden. That is 977 00:52:27.599 --> 00:52:33.360 the case. Anyway, whatever your questions are about, we will 978 00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:35.039 try to give it a good shot. You know, when 979 00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:38.800 it comes to gardening and plants, there is no end 980 00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:42.719 to the learning. There isn't. There absolutely isn't. And I 981 00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.039 can tell you this because I've done it for decades 982 00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:48.519 and decades, and it just always something new. There's some 983 00:52:48.679 --> 00:52:51.039 new plant that gets discovered, you know, COVID hits, and 984 00:52:51.119 --> 00:52:55.159 suddenly we discover there's eight hundred billion kinds of houseplants 985 00:52:55.199 --> 00:52:59.280 that you can't live about. Remember that. And so those 986 00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:01.360 of us that are order culturist, you know, house plants 987 00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:03.039 are kind of off on the periphery of all the 988 00:53:03.159 --> 00:53:06.360 kind of things people ask about and stuff. And so 989 00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:09.679 suddenly we're having to beef up on all these eight 990 00:53:09.800 --> 00:53:13.039 hundred kinds of this or that species and how to 991 00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:16.239 grow it and everything else. But that's the fun part. 992 00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:18.840 That's one of the fun parts of gardening is learning. 993 00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:22.480 I love I love learning. And the more you learn, 994 00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:25.639 the more you're able to do what you want to do, 995 00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:27.480 have success with what you want to do. That's what 996 00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:31.159 we're talking about. There's no brown thumbs, there's uninformed thumbs. 997 00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:35.440 So let's get your thumb informed. I phone number again 998 00:53:35.480 --> 00:53:38.320 seven one three two one two K t R H. 999 00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:40.679 I'm going to shift gears here. This is a time 1000 00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:43.199 of year when a lot of people are planning fruit trees, 1001 00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:47.760 and we've got some excellent selections of fruit trees in 1002 00:53:48.119 --> 00:53:52.280 our various independent garden centers that we have in there 1003 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:54.159 in the Greater Houston area. I was looking at the 1004 00:53:54.320 --> 00:53:59.639 Buchanans Gardens Center Buchanans Nursery. It's actually, i should say, 1005 00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:02.679 and there's native plants, because that's part of their name, 1006 00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:09.519 and it's because they they absolutely have the best selection 1007 00:54:09.960 --> 00:54:12.239 of native plants of anybody in the region. 1008 00:54:12.320 --> 00:54:12.559 It is. 1009 00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:16.199 It is really really outstanding what they have. But they 1010 00:54:16.199 --> 00:54:18.079 also have free trees that they've gotten in. They've got 1011 00:54:18.119 --> 00:54:19.960 some really cool ones too, by the way. And so 1012 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:23.559 if you're looking even some things that are not so common, 1013 00:54:23.920 --> 00:54:26.440 you know, some things that aren't that common, they have them, 1014 00:54:26.559 --> 00:54:31.719 like when it comes to nectarines and apricots, and when 1015 00:54:31.760 --> 00:54:34.880 you look at things like peaches, and plums and pluots. 1016 00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:37.760 Do you know what a pluot is. A pluot is 1017 00:54:37.800 --> 00:54:44.400 a plum apricot cross, plum apricot cross. Okay, they have 1018 00:54:44.480 --> 00:54:48.199 one called Flavor Grenade pluot and has to have a pollinator. 1019 00:54:48.440 --> 00:54:50.840 But all their stuff is low chill. All their stuff 1020 00:54:50.880 --> 00:54:53.119 will do well down here in the Houston area and 1021 00:54:53.239 --> 00:54:57.559 even south of the Houston area. They've got excellent, excellent choices. 1022 00:54:57.599 --> 00:54:59.400 And of course that you know when it comes to peaches, 1023 00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:01.320 and they got a lot apples that do well. They 1024 00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:04.920 got pears that do well. They even have an almond. 1025 00:55:05.000 --> 00:55:08.800 They've got tropical stuff. I mean, you know, it depends 1026 00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:10.280 on the season as to what they have in at 1027 00:55:10.320 --> 00:55:13.480 that time, stuff that's appropriate to plant. But if you're 1028 00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:16.400 looking et ceteras and other things, Buchanan's Native Plants has it. 1029 00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:19.280 And when you go to Buchanans Number one, it's fun. 1030 00:55:19.559 --> 00:55:21.920 It's just fun to walk around there and see all 1031 00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:23.920 that they have. But if you want to get a 1032 00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:26.599 little bit of a gardening education, go talk to some 1033 00:55:26.719 --> 00:55:30.039 of their people there. They're very knowledgeable, very very helpful. 1034 00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:32.400 And the times that I've been in there, I've been 1035 00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:37.199 super impressed with what they know and with the selection 1036 00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:40.320 that they have. So you walk in and you could say, Okay, 1037 00:55:40.360 --> 00:55:42.800 I want to put more natives in my landscape, because 1038 00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:45.239 I understand all the reasons. That's a good idea. I 1039 00:55:45.400 --> 00:55:49.239 need something. I want something that will attract hummingbirds it's 1040 00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:52.880 a native blooming plant, or I want something that will 1041 00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:56.960 attract be a food source for butterfly larvae of some type. 1042 00:55:57.360 --> 00:55:59.079 They're going to have that stuff and they're going to 1043 00:55:59.159 --> 00:56:01.239 know it. And they have native plants just in general 1044 00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:04.559 Texas area natives. They've got native plants that are just 1045 00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:08.639 from the Houston area here right around this area. They're 1046 00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:12.679 immediately native right to our area. And when you go in, 1047 00:56:13.000 --> 00:56:14.960 you're gonna find the selection and you're gonna find the 1048 00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:17.519 help that you need. Anyway, I'm talking about them a lot, 1049 00:56:17.559 --> 00:56:20.760 but just because I really enjoy going in there. Buchanan's 1050 00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:25.960 Plants on Eleventh Street, Eleventh Street in the Heights, Buchanansplants 1051 00:56:26.119 --> 00:56:30.320 dot com. Sign up for their newsletter. It alone is 1052 00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:35.280 worth going to the website for the newsletter that they 1053 00:56:35.400 --> 00:56:38.360 send out is outstanding. So you need to at least 1054 00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:42.519 sign up for that newsletter too. But anyway, all right, 1055 00:56:42.639 --> 00:56:44.840 there you have it. Well, let's see here. I better 1056 00:56:44.880 --> 00:56:46.800 run out to the phones. We got some folks out here. 1057 00:56:47.119 --> 00:56:49.000 It helps to look over there that way, ever know. 1058 00:56:49.119 --> 00:56:52.360 And then Woody and Kingwood Welcome to garden Line. 1059 00:56:53.960 --> 00:56:54.480 Hi Skip. 1060 00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:56.679 I just want to say you how much I appreciate 1061 00:56:56.719 --> 00:56:58.719 your show and what a great job you do. And 1062 00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:04.440 is about oxalis? Is there any way to get rid 1063 00:57:04.480 --> 00:57:06.880 of that stuff besides digging up the little spindle roots 1064 00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:14.199 or h there's different kinds of oxalis. Sometimes you get 1065 00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:17.000 these little bulbs underground that you kind of got to 1066 00:57:17.039 --> 00:57:21.679 dig those up. Uh products that yeah, hand digging is that. 1067 00:57:21.840 --> 00:57:25.480 There's also an oxalis that's a little tiny weed that 1068 00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:30.400 reseeds profusely. It's interesting because after the blooms, the little 1069 00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:33.639 capsules that hold the seed, they they explode, they pop 1070 00:57:33.800 --> 00:57:36.880 and they throw seeds. And I've been in garden centers 1071 00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:39.519 where there was oxalis on the ground and up in 1072 00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:42.079 the pots. It was coming up because the ground weeds 1073 00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:44.559 threw their seeds up into the bench, up onto the 1074 00:57:44.639 --> 00:57:47.360 bench in the pots on top. So that's what you're 1075 00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:51.400 up against, Uh, pre emergence that will work against you know, 1076 00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:54.880 the broad leaf weed like that is one option for 1077 00:57:55.000 --> 00:57:57.800 that kind of oxalis. When you're dealing with the you know, 1078 00:57:58.039 --> 00:58:00.639 the types with bulbs and are our in the ground, 1079 00:58:00.760 --> 00:58:02.760 you're probably gonna have to go to something that's more 1080 00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:06.599 like a two four D ingredient. And I would use 1081 00:58:06.679 --> 00:58:09.400 my weed wiper for that, so you're not spraying it 1082 00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:15.440 out everywhere and damaging other broad leaf plants with the spray. Okay, 1083 00:58:16.599 --> 00:58:18.719 so I just do that. 1084 00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:21.119 I put down the barricade now, and then I just 1085 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:22.719 continue to dig those bulbs up. 1086 00:58:25.360 --> 00:58:28.159 Well, yeah, the barricade would be for for the seeds, 1087 00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:31.840 for things that are coming back from the seeds. The 1088 00:58:32.280 --> 00:58:35.239 digging up the bulbs is for the exist Yeah, that's 1089 00:58:35.320 --> 00:58:39.679 for the existing type. There are ornamental types of oxalis 1090 00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:42.679 that are gorgeous. They call them shamrock plants and things 1091 00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:47.519 like that. They do really really well, so you know 1092 00:58:48.079 --> 00:58:51.679 there when they established, they stay there and that then 1093 00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:56.920 when it's a weed problem, that's that's unfortunate. Okay, Well, 1094 00:58:57.000 --> 00:58:59.960 thank you for your help. I'll give that a try. Yeah, 1095 00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:02.559 you're going to do more than one, and by all means, 1096 00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:04.719 don't let them bloom and go to seed again, because 1097 00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:09.920 then you're just you're going backwards, right all right. Thanks, 1098 00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:15.400 you appreciate I appreciate that very much. You take care. 1099 00:59:16.039 --> 00:59:19.360 Uh yeah, I Uh. Someone was asking me about Nelson 1100 00:59:19.400 --> 00:59:21.320 Plant Food and sources well ago, and I was telling 1101 00:59:21.320 --> 00:59:24.199 you go to Nelson Plant Food. Uh, go to their 1102 00:59:24.239 --> 00:59:26.880 website and you can find out exactly well you know 1103 00:59:26.920 --> 00:59:29.480 where to get it. It's now Nelsonplantfood dot com. There's 1104 00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:31.599 a store locator on there. That's where you're going to 1105 00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:35.159 find things like uh weed Nator that we were talking about. 1106 00:59:35.239 --> 00:59:38.440 Weed Nator has a growth regulator that causes your lawn 1107 00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:42.280 to go more horizontal and less vertical, less mowing, but 1108 00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.920 still good coverage. 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Reference n m H E 1204 01:04:48.519 --> 01:04:49.119 two nine. 1205 01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:59.719 Past the tech thisly Attorney up the weirdest time. 1206 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.360 All right, we're back. Still good to be back with you. 1207 01:05:08.599 --> 01:05:11.000 Kind of questions you have, give me a call seven 1208 01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:13.639 one three two one two kt r H. We'll see 1209 01:05:13.639 --> 01:05:15.559 if we can help you with that. I'll have a 1210 01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:19.880 more bountiful and beautiful place that would definitely be a goal. 1211 01:05:20.400 --> 01:05:20.519 Uh. 1212 01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:23.599 You know, it all begins in the soil. It all 1213 01:05:23.639 --> 01:05:26.280 begins in the soil. When you go to a garden center, 1214 01:05:26.760 --> 01:05:29.440 you want to see the pretty stuff and the eating stuff, right, 1215 01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:31.679 you want to see the tomato plants because you can 1216 01:05:31.760 --> 01:05:35.360 taste those tomatoes. You want the flowers. In fact, people 1217 01:05:35.480 --> 01:05:37.280 love to buy a plant that already has big old 1218 01:05:37.320 --> 01:05:41.360 flowers on it. And I understand that if you buy 1219 01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:43.320 a plant that doesn't have any flowers on it, it 1220 01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:45.480 may be the best plant there is because it's going 1221 01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:48.639 to put all its energy into growing and then setting 1222 01:05:48.679 --> 01:05:51.440 some blooms. But you've got to have faith to do that. 1223 01:05:51.599 --> 01:05:53.599 And a lot of people know I want a plant 1224 01:05:53.719 --> 01:05:55.840 that is in a little tiny six pack with a 1225 01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:58.599 one inch cell of roots, and I wanted to have 1226 01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:00.360 a flower the size of a dinner plate on top. 1227 01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:05.159 All right, well, go for it. But when we're wanting 1228 01:06:05.199 --> 01:06:08.079 to have success, it starts in the soil. That's where 1229 01:06:08.079 --> 01:06:12.760 it begins. And Nature's Way resources I like to think 1230 01:06:12.800 --> 01:06:17.079 of it as maybe the grandfather place of soil around here. 1231 01:06:17.400 --> 01:06:20.119 Nature's Way has been around a long time. John Ferguson 1232 01:06:20.679 --> 01:06:26.400 established it and with the idea of providing products for 1233 01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:28.559 us to be able to garden in the way that 1234 01:06:28.679 --> 01:06:31.679 nature does, and that is organic matter in the soil 1235 01:06:32.119 --> 01:06:36.199 to help plants have success. And so now iansun running 1236 01:06:36.239 --> 01:06:37.719 it and the whole team out there, they are a 1237 01:06:37.800 --> 01:06:41.519 great team, really knowledgeable folks. But anyway, the whole team 1238 01:06:41.559 --> 01:06:45.239 out there, they produce still the quality soils, the ones 1239 01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:47.440 that were born at Nature's Way, like roast soil and 1240 01:06:47.519 --> 01:06:50.960 leaf moore composts, for example, they produce that. They also 1241 01:06:51.639 --> 01:06:53.800 have fungal compost and by the way, either the leaf 1242 01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:57.280 mold or the fungal compost is excellent for top dressing 1243 01:06:57.360 --> 01:07:00.400 your lawn. Either way, leaf mold or funk well, both 1244 01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:02.840 are good for top dressing the lawn. However, you won't 1245 01:07:02.880 --> 01:07:06.719 go about it. They have the mixes for various types 1246 01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:08.760 of plants like vegetables and herbs. If you want to 1247 01:07:08.800 --> 01:07:11.280 grow fruit trees, if you want to grow something acidic 1248 01:07:11.400 --> 01:07:14.719 like an azalea or a blueberry, they have a mix 1249 01:07:14.840 --> 01:07:17.639 for that. And when you go to Nature's Where or 1250 01:07:17.639 --> 01:07:19.920 when you call them, you're going to go home with 1251 01:07:20.079 --> 01:07:24.920 something to help you put a foundation down for success. 1252 01:07:25.440 --> 01:07:26.760 Now you can go there and pick it up. You 1253 01:07:26.960 --> 01:07:29.280 have them deliver it. A lot of their products are 1254 01:07:29.320 --> 01:07:32.400 sold by the bag in various locations around the Greater 1255 01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:35.000 Houston area. So any way you want to go about it, 1256 01:07:35.639 --> 01:07:39.519 just do it. That's the most important thing is just 1257 01:07:39.920 --> 01:07:42.840 get it done. Most people want to skip that step 1258 01:07:43.079 --> 01:07:46.440 because it's not as I don't know cool, you know, 1259 01:07:46.559 --> 01:07:49.599 I'd rather have pretty flowers than talk about brown dirt. Well, 1260 01:07:50.400 --> 01:07:52.039 if you don't talk about brown dirt, you're not gonna 1261 01:07:52.039 --> 01:07:57.599 have pretty flowers. Nature'sway Resources dot Com We're going to 1262 01:07:57.679 --> 01:08:00.239 go now to the woodlands and talk to Ken. Hey, Ken, 1263 01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:01.519 welcome to garden Line. 1264 01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:03.159 Morning. 1265 01:08:03.239 --> 01:08:03.480 Skip. 1266 01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:08.480 That was an appropriate advertisement. I'm getting ready to have 1267 01:08:08.719 --> 01:08:14.000 my delivery of the double ground hardwood mulch in the next. 1268 01:08:13.920 --> 01:08:14.480 Week or two. 1269 01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:14.840 Ready. 1270 01:08:16.159 --> 01:08:19.680 My question is I've always just pulled I usually have 1271 01:08:19.840 --> 01:08:22.840 a couple of inches of oak leaves in my uh 1272 01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:26.199 several of my beds, and I always kind of blow 1273 01:08:26.319 --> 01:08:29.760 them or rape them out. Is there any reason to 1274 01:08:29.920 --> 01:08:32.079 do that or just put the mult right on top, 1275 01:08:32.239 --> 01:08:35.439 you know, I mean, doesn't it make leaf mold compost eventually? 1276 01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:39.920 It will eventually, So it depends on what you're going 1277 01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:41.800 to grow. You know, if you're gonna plant little seeds, 1278 01:08:42.079 --> 01:08:44.760 having that chunky leaves and sticks or anything like that, 1279 01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:47.159 it kind of makes it hard to get good seed 1280 01:08:47.479 --> 01:08:50.239 to soil contact and get them at the exact right depth. 1281 01:08:51.359 --> 01:08:54.880 But you know that you can mix leaves in. I 1282 01:08:55.039 --> 01:08:57.960 generally like to give them more time. Like if you're 1283 01:08:58.000 --> 01:09:00.600 going to plant the spring, mixing leaves in right now, 1284 01:09:01.199 --> 01:09:03.600 they probably wouldn't have time to really break down very good, 1285 01:09:03.800 --> 01:09:06.560 and it might tie up a little bit of nitrogen 1286 01:09:06.600 --> 01:09:09.720 and early in that process of breaking down. So what 1287 01:09:09.880 --> 01:09:11.920 I'll often do is when they fall and we've got 1288 01:09:12.000 --> 01:09:15.159 them gathered, maybe rototill them into the soil, and that 1289 01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:18.399 gives them several weeks to do what they're going to 1290 01:09:18.479 --> 01:09:21.640 do prior to us getting out there and planting. But 1291 01:09:21.920 --> 01:09:24.359 in my gardens, I tend to not do a lot 1292 01:09:24.399 --> 01:09:26.640 of rototilling, So I just rake those leaves out of 1293 01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:28.880 the way, build the soil like I'm going to build 1294 01:09:28.920 --> 01:09:31.560 it whatever it needs, and then plant the plants and 1295 01:09:31.640 --> 01:09:33.640 bring the leaves back in as a mult around them. 1296 01:09:34.720 --> 01:09:37.640 Well, for me, this is mainly the malt is just 1297 01:09:37.880 --> 01:09:43.079 a it's shrubbery and you know, AA beds and things 1298 01:09:43.199 --> 01:09:47.680 like that, and I'm not planting any new seeds. I'm 1299 01:09:47.800 --> 01:09:49.279 just mainly weed control. 1300 01:09:50.720 --> 01:09:55.039 Gotcha, gotcha? Well, you can use it. Leaves are fine 1301 01:09:55.079 --> 01:09:57.359 for we control. That's what That's what guy uses in 1302 01:09:57.439 --> 01:10:00.319 the forest. It drops those stream leaves on the around 1303 01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:04.479 and that basically that's one of the things that they do. 1304 01:10:04.760 --> 01:10:06.439 So yeah, you can do that. You can mix it 1305 01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:08.199 with the pretty mulch, put the leaves down and then 1306 01:10:08.239 --> 01:10:09.359 put something pretty on top of it. 1307 01:10:09.399 --> 01:10:12.359 If you don't like the look of leaves, that's well, 1308 01:10:12.439 --> 01:10:15.239 that's exactly what I was thinking because I've been raking 1309 01:10:15.319 --> 01:10:17.800 them out and then I'm going, you know, I'm just 1310 01:10:17.960 --> 01:10:21.720 using it to you know, for weed control, moisture control 1311 01:10:21.800 --> 01:10:25.640 and stuff like that. So just throw the uh, it's 1312 01:10:25.760 --> 01:10:27.000 just for cosmetics. 1313 01:10:27.319 --> 01:10:29.640 So there you do. You know, that's it. 1314 01:10:29.800 --> 01:10:35.520 Yeah, so okay, I'll save myself. Yeah, raking blowing. The 1315 01:10:35.640 --> 01:10:41.720 other question I had on your two products, the whedonator, 1316 01:10:42.439 --> 01:10:44.920 I still need to use some barricade prior to that. 1317 01:10:45.159 --> 01:10:45.840 Is that correct? 1318 01:10:47.279 --> 01:10:51.159 Correct weedonator is a post emergent barricade is okay, emergent, 1319 01:10:51.439 --> 01:10:55.359 So that's separate things you're trying. The weedenator is killing 1320 01:10:55.399 --> 01:10:58.159 your cool season weeds that are up. The barricade is 1321 01:10:58.199 --> 01:11:00.239 preventing the warm season weeds that are on the way. 1322 01:11:01.680 --> 01:11:02.079 Perfect. 1323 01:11:02.199 --> 01:11:05.119 That all right, I just figured that out. 1324 01:11:05.319 --> 01:11:06.760 So that's what I'll do. 1325 01:11:07.199 --> 01:11:11.439 And I need to push me back to the producer 1326 01:11:11.560 --> 01:11:16.000 so I can get an email and send some picked got. 1327 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:16.880 You all right? 1328 01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:17.319 Here you go. 1329 01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:19.760 I'm putting you on hold and Jonathan'll pick it right 1330 01:11:19.840 --> 01:11:23.279 up and go with it. If you are planting a tree, 1331 01:11:23.399 --> 01:11:25.119 or if you planted a tree even in the last 1332 01:11:25.199 --> 01:11:27.199 five years, you need to think about getting you a 1333 01:11:27.319 --> 01:11:30.680 three sixty tree stabilizer. That's a little sprinkler goes around 1334 01:11:30.760 --> 01:11:33.439 the tree and you turn it on. You can barely 1335 01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:35.800 turn it on and just water the root ball, the 1336 01:11:35.960 --> 01:11:38.039 cylinder roots that just went in the ground, that tree 1337 01:11:38.079 --> 01:11:40.279 you just planted, or you can turn it on and 1338 01:11:40.680 --> 01:11:43.359 water a wider and whiter area. They come in three sizes. 1339 01:11:43.399 --> 01:11:45.760 They hook up to a garden hose. They're easy to use. 1340 01:11:46.159 --> 01:11:48.039 And the reason I said, like a tree's been in 1341 01:11:48.159 --> 01:11:51.119 for five years. If this summer we go into one 1342 01:11:51.199 --> 01:11:54.560 hundred degrees for one hundred days with the rain, which 1343 01:11:54.640 --> 01:11:57.239 we occasionally get those kind of things coming, you just 1344 01:11:57.319 --> 01:11:59.439 turn that thing on and you rescue water your tree 1345 01:11:59.479 --> 01:12:02.000 with its right underneath the branch bread of the tree 1346 01:12:02.239 --> 01:12:05.079 very very well. And it's that good rescue treatment. You're 1347 01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:06.920 going to get it at RCW Nursery. You're going to 1348 01:12:06.960 --> 01:12:09.039 get it at Jorges Hidden Gardens. You'll find them at 1349 01:12:09.079 --> 01:12:11.720 Siena Maultch down south and be Cannons and the Heights 1350 01:12:11.760 --> 01:12:14.560 and Arborgate in Tomball and plants for all seasons on 1351 01:12:14.720 --> 01:12:17.119 two forty nine on the way up the Tomball. It's 1352 01:12:17.199 --> 01:12:20.600 widely available. Find them at Southwest Fertilizer too. Bob's got 1353 01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:23.279 them there. But get you one. Keep it in the 1354 01:12:23.640 --> 01:12:26.279 you know, keep it in your gardening shed or garage 1355 01:12:26.520 --> 01:12:28.920 because you're gonna want to use it. Maybe you're gonna 1356 01:12:28.920 --> 01:12:30.920 plant a rose bush. They're good for that. To get 1357 01:12:30.960 --> 01:12:33.600 the little one, the seven inch one for establishing a 1358 01:12:33.720 --> 01:12:35.199 rose bush. That works well. 1359 01:12:36.399 --> 01:12:36.560 Well. 1360 01:12:36.600 --> 01:12:39.119 I hear music, which means I gotta quit talking, turn 1361 01:12:39.199 --> 01:12:42.079 it over to I got to turn it over to 1362 01:12:42.279 --> 01:12:45.560 the UH top of the hour news and things. But 1363 01:12:45.640 --> 01:12:48.199 when we come back, Marty in Fairfield, you'll be our 1364 01:12:48.239 --> 01:12:50.359 first up when we come back. If you can hang 1365 01:12:50.439 --> 01:12:50.640 on the. 1366 01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:05.640 Welcome to kzy r H Garden Line with Richard. 1367 01:13:05.399 --> 01:13:05.720 It's. 1368 01:13:14.079 --> 01:13:16.039 Just watch him as the world. 1369 01:13:21.880 --> 01:13:27.800 All right, welcome back to garden Line. Good to have 1370 01:13:27.920 --> 01:13:31.159 you with us this morning. All you gardeners and would 1371 01:13:31.199 --> 01:13:34.479 be gardeners out there, I want to be gardeners out there. 1372 01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:37.920 Everybody's welcome. If you've never grown a thing in your life, 1373 01:13:38.800 --> 01:13:41.840 well welcome. We can help you. And you've got to 1374 01:13:41.880 --> 01:13:44.239 try stuff. There's way too much gardening. Let's start you 1375 01:13:44.319 --> 01:13:46.680 with a house plant. We'll get inside. We'll tell you 1376 01:13:46.680 --> 01:13:49.359 how to get the right light for that, which species 1377 01:13:49.399 --> 01:13:51.720 to pick out, and you're gonna have fun. And I 1378 01:13:51.840 --> 01:13:54.479 gotta warn you though gardening is addictive. 1379 01:13:55.199 --> 01:13:55.520 It is. 1380 01:13:55.840 --> 01:13:58.600 It is highly addictive. They don't there should be a 1381 01:13:58.680 --> 01:14:01.720 warning label put on plant gardening is highly addictive. I 1382 01:14:01.800 --> 01:14:03.720 think there's even a wing of the Betty Ford Clinic 1383 01:14:03.800 --> 01:14:05.960 for gardeners. I'm just saying, I'm pretty sure there is, 1384 01:14:06.079 --> 01:14:11.520 because it is we're talking about. Yeah, yeah, but it's fun. 1385 01:14:11.760 --> 01:14:16.079 It is absolutely fun. Too much fun. As a matter 1386 01:14:16.119 --> 01:14:21.079 of fact. RCW Garden Center, RCW Nursery right there on 1387 01:14:21.479 --> 01:14:25.560 Beltway eight and Tamil Parkway two forty nine. That's the 1388 01:14:25.640 --> 01:14:27.800 get It, Got It Nursery Number one. They probably have 1389 01:14:27.920 --> 01:14:30.119 it already what you're looking for, but if they don't, 1390 01:14:30.520 --> 01:14:33.800 they probably can find it somewhere. They do their best 1391 01:14:33.840 --> 01:14:35.520 and finding it and bringing it in. That's why I 1392 01:14:35.680 --> 01:14:38.039 like to call them to get It, Got It a nursery. 1393 01:14:38.640 --> 01:14:41.279 The huge selection, of course, all kinds of plants, herbs, 1394 01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:46.000 perennials and annual shrubs, native plants, all of that. Right now, 1395 01:14:46.279 --> 01:14:49.800 we're talking roses because pages and pages they have hundreds 1396 01:14:50.279 --> 01:14:53.199 of varieties of roses. They bring in at the end 1397 01:14:53.239 --> 01:14:56.439 of winter every year and it's first come, first serve, 1398 01:14:57.119 --> 01:14:59.960 so you know, they come in with several hundred time 1399 01:15:00.319 --> 01:15:03.439 roses by the time, you know, you wait until spring 1400 01:15:03.520 --> 01:15:05.680 and they're always they're always gonna have roses there. But 1401 01:15:05.800 --> 01:15:08.640 there's no selection like the first where you it's just like, 1402 01:15:08.720 --> 01:15:10.439 what do you want a climber? Do you want a bush? 1403 01:15:10.479 --> 01:15:12.520 Do you want a miniature? Do you want one with 1404 01:15:13.199 --> 01:15:16.079 red blooms, white blooms, coral blooms, whatever? Do you want 1405 01:15:16.119 --> 01:15:18.399 one fragrant not fragrant? Do you want a shrub? Do 1406 01:15:18.439 --> 01:15:22.319 you want to cut flower, hybrid tea? All of it? R. 1407 01:15:22.520 --> 01:15:25.960 CW is a favorite of rosarians because they do have 1408 01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:28.520 that kind of selection. They also have a tree farm 1409 01:15:28.600 --> 01:15:30.880 up in Plannersville where they grow their own trees and 1410 01:15:31.000 --> 01:15:34.079 they grow things that are well adapted, well acclimated to 1411 01:15:34.359 --> 01:15:37.600 our climate, to your yard right here. So when you 1412 01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:39.680 get a tree from them, you know it's gonna grow 1413 01:15:39.720 --> 01:15:41.600 here because it's from here. Think of it that way. 1414 01:15:41.640 --> 01:15:45.720 It's grown in this area right here, and you can't 1415 01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:47.600 beat that. By the way. That tree farm is open 1416 01:15:47.640 --> 01:15:50.000 to the public on but you got to listen to 1417 01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:52.640 this carefully. It's up planners Though it's open to the 1418 01:15:52.680 --> 01:15:56.319 public on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, only, and you need 1419 01:15:56.520 --> 01:15:59.359 to make an appointment. Go to the website. I'm going 1420 01:15:59.439 --> 01:16:03.079 to give you that way website, whimsuntreefarm dot com. You 1421 01:16:03.239 --> 01:16:05.520 have to make an appointment because you know this is 1422 01:16:05.560 --> 01:16:08.800 a wholesale tree farm, and so you can't just a 1423 01:16:08.880 --> 01:16:12.199 bunch of people show up, but making that appointment and 1424 01:16:12.319 --> 01:16:15.560 go see go look see the trees themselves. Get pick 1425 01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:18.520 out something you like. Uh, it's pretty cool. All part 1426 01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:21.800 of that RCW world that we talk about all the time. 1427 01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:25.720 We're going to go out now to Fairfield and talk 1428 01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:28.039 to Marty. Hey, Marty, welcome to garden Line. 1429 01:16:29.079 --> 01:16:29.640 Good morning. 1430 01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:32.479 I'll bet that Betty ford Wing has the best garden 1431 01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:33.399 in the whole place. 1432 01:16:35.960 --> 01:16:38.000 I don't know where. Sometimes things come out of my 1433 01:16:38.119 --> 01:16:40.920 mouth that I problem anyway, you know. 1434 01:16:41.439 --> 01:16:45.640 Anyway, Hey, I didn't catch up with the weather stuff 1435 01:16:45.720 --> 01:16:50.000 yesterday or maybe this morning. Okay, I'm having my beds 1436 01:16:50.039 --> 01:16:53.319 prepped on Monday tomorrow and we're just doing them alt 1437 01:16:53.439 --> 01:16:57.159 and cutting back all the stuff and I'm not planting 1438 01:16:57.279 --> 01:17:04.920 anything yet. What do you think, well, well, what do 1439 01:17:05.039 --> 01:17:08.960 you think will be our future short term? Long term 1440 01:17:09.079 --> 01:17:11.640 type situation? I know you're not a weather guide, but. 1441 01:17:13.920 --> 01:17:17.880 Yeah, I'm not but what I've been seeing is, you know, 1442 01:17:18.000 --> 01:17:21.119 by the time it just depends on where you live 1443 01:17:21.399 --> 01:17:23.920 in the Greater Houston area. But by the time we 1444 01:17:24.039 --> 01:17:27.359 get into tomorrow, the rain chances start to go up. 1445 01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:31.239 And of course Tuesday and Wednesday should be pretty rainy 1446 01:17:31.479 --> 01:17:34.159 unless things change, get a little bit of a break 1447 01:17:34.239 --> 01:17:39.800 on Thursday, I think as it is oh cold, No, 1448 01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:43.920 I don't see by Wednesday. I think some areas are 1449 01:17:43.920 --> 01:17:46.119 going to be down in the upper or mid thirties, 1450 01:17:48.359 --> 01:17:50.399 you know, still a few days away. But I don't 1451 01:17:50.439 --> 01:17:54.720 see phrases, and probably not frosts based on the amount 1452 01:17:54.760 --> 01:17:57.840 of moisture that's that's in the air. I don't think 1453 01:17:57.920 --> 01:18:00.560 the temperature, the way it falls and stuff, I don't 1454 01:18:01.000 --> 01:18:02.399 I don't think we're going to have a frost. 1455 01:18:03.800 --> 01:18:07.359 Okay, well, I know they're getting cold weather up north, 1456 01:18:08.159 --> 01:18:11.720 like in the Dallas area. Have some friends and as 1457 01:18:11.760 --> 01:18:15.159 I'm cutting things back from the most goosh, I'm covering 1458 01:18:15.239 --> 01:18:18.840 it everything with maulch and just there you go. I'm 1459 01:18:18.880 --> 01:18:20.520 not going to plan anything just in case. 1460 01:18:20.640 --> 01:18:22.279 But I'm just curious. 1461 01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:26.279 Yeah, I think that's a good idea, you know. I'm 1462 01:18:26.520 --> 01:18:30.399 I'm letting mine just stay ugly for now I'm in 1463 01:18:30.439 --> 01:18:32.560 a hurry, but I understand people wanting to clean it out. 1464 01:18:33.079 --> 01:18:35.319 But if you do, you're right, Marty. Just mound some 1465 01:18:35.439 --> 01:18:38.319 mulch up over the base of that plant. Uh, to 1466 01:18:38.479 --> 01:18:41.800 provide that insulation, because I think from what I've seen, 1467 01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:45.880 I don't see predictions of freezing and maybe people living 1468 01:18:46.239 --> 01:18:49.760 living up in Huntsville maybe getting something like that. But uh, 1469 01:18:50.479 --> 01:18:53.119 it's going to get down cold. Was it Saturday or 1470 01:18:53.199 --> 01:18:56.960 someday later in the week, even the weather clears out 1471 01:18:57.520 --> 01:19:01.159 and we get some actual, you know, good nippy cold weather. 1472 01:19:01.359 --> 01:19:06.359 But yeah, short term, okay, much problem? Hey, you I 1473 01:19:06.439 --> 01:19:09.359 saw some pictures. You were asking some questions about we control, 1474 01:19:09.399 --> 01:19:11.359 and I saw pictures along, but I really couldn't make 1475 01:19:11.439 --> 01:19:15.000 out the weeds other than some like annual rye grass 1476 01:19:15.159 --> 01:19:18.319 or something coming up in there. Was there a particular 1477 01:19:18.399 --> 01:19:19.800 of weeds that you were gentlemen. 1478 01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:23.279 It's just post emergent, And that's why I wanted to 1479 01:19:23.319 --> 01:19:26.319 get the weed weed enator. I didn't know if maybe 1480 01:19:27.000 --> 01:19:28.880 I have a whole ton of stuff and maybe there 1481 01:19:28.960 --> 01:19:32.279 was something else I could use, because I'm I'm talking 1482 01:19:32.399 --> 01:19:36.560 up a big fat zero with I've checked into four locations. 1483 01:19:36.640 --> 01:19:40.560 None of them had we there, Well, I'm going to 1484 01:19:40.640 --> 01:19:43.199 reach out to them and see. I know it's out there. 1485 01:19:43.239 --> 01:19:45.520 I know it's popular and people are wanting it, uh 1486 01:19:45.840 --> 01:19:47.840 And so I'm going to reach out to Nelson's and 1487 01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:50.439 see see what's up there. You could also just you know, 1488 01:19:50.600 --> 01:19:52.640 directly call them and they could tell you they would 1489 01:19:52.880 --> 01:19:54.600 they would move having on earth to get a bag 1490 01:19:54.640 --> 01:19:56.560 of it in your hands. So don't worry about it. 1491 01:19:57.000 --> 01:20:00.319 Don't worry about uh bothering them out there and say 1492 01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:02.199 I need this stuff. Skip talked about it and I 1493 01:20:02.239 --> 01:20:04.279 can't live without it, and so don't make me. 1494 01:20:04.319 --> 01:20:05.279 Have to drive all the way in. 1495 01:20:06.680 --> 01:20:10.520 All right, all right, bye bye. 1496 01:20:11.720 --> 01:20:15.560 Okay man. Every time I turn around, it's time for 1497 01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:18.159 another break. We can't be doing this. I got gardening 1498 01:20:18.239 --> 01:20:20.319 to talk about here today. All right, when we come 1499 01:20:20.399 --> 01:20:24.359 back from break, let's see Joe in Kingwood and Susan 1500 01:20:24.479 --> 01:20:28.239 and Patterson. You're gonna be our first two up. I've 1501 01:20:28.239 --> 01:20:30.840 talked about wilbirds a lot, and one thing that I 1502 01:20:31.279 --> 01:20:33.680 don't spend enough time on is a product they have 1503 01:20:33.840 --> 01:20:37.720 called bark butter. Imagine peanut butter, but peanut butter that 1504 01:20:37.880 --> 01:20:40.479 is loaded with all kinds of good stuff including like 1505 01:20:40.720 --> 01:20:43.520 dried meal worms and all kinds of other stuff and 1506 01:20:43.600 --> 01:20:45.039 you just smear it. I mean, you just go out 1507 01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:48.359 there and take your batulu and just smear it on 1508 01:20:48.439 --> 01:20:51.159 a tree trunk. Birds come up and they go nuts 1509 01:20:51.239 --> 01:20:54.119 on this stuff because it has such quality feed in 1510 01:20:54.199 --> 01:20:57.359 it and high protein and high fat and high calcium 1511 01:20:57.439 --> 01:20:59.920 and everything they need because nesting season's coming, they need 1512 01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:02.760 that high calcium. Right now, one hundred and fifty different 1513 01:21:02.840 --> 01:21:06.359 kinds of birds have been documented on bark butter. So 1514 01:21:06.479 --> 01:21:09.239 this feeds all kinds of birds, and it's at wildbirds, 1515 01:21:09.319 --> 01:21:11.239 and it's easy and plus it's kind of fun just 1516 01:21:11.279 --> 01:21:13.560 to go smear stuff around. So I mean, you know, 1517 01:21:13.720 --> 01:21:17.439 if some you just need significant others holding still enough, 1518 01:21:17.479 --> 01:21:20.399 smear some on them, the birds will show up. Okay, 1519 01:21:20.479 --> 01:21:23.800 that was going too far, but seriously, WBU dot com 1520 01:21:24.520 --> 01:21:27.920 forward slash Houston. That's our wild birds. There's six stores 1521 01:21:27.960 --> 01:21:30.600 around here, easy to find them. And I'm telling you, 1522 01:21:30.680 --> 01:21:33.239 I could talk all day about the quality products they have, 1523 01:21:33.640 --> 01:21:37.399 from nest boxes to feeders, to quality feed not the 1524 01:21:37.520 --> 01:21:39.960 kind birds kick out on the ground, the kind birds 1525 01:21:40.079 --> 01:21:42.920 eat that attracts the birds you want to attract, and 1526 01:21:43.000 --> 01:21:45.279 the knowledge there that may be the best thing. Yet 1527 01:21:45.680 --> 01:21:48.039 you go in and ask a question, you say, I 1528 01:21:48.159 --> 01:21:51.079 need to know this, They're gonna know the answer. They 1529 01:21:51.119 --> 01:21:53.960 are experts at it. And I've tested them on this. 1530 01:21:54.119 --> 01:21:56.960 I mean, you know, I was talking to Rich the 1531 01:21:57.039 --> 01:22:02.000 other day and he's the memorial in the store up 1532 01:22:02.159 --> 01:22:04.319 in Oh Gosh, I can't I used to live there. 1533 01:22:05.359 --> 01:22:09.279 I just blinked out. I can't say Cypress, thank you, Cypress. 1534 01:22:09.279 --> 01:22:12.640 There we go, Cypress store. I lived in Cypress. Anyway, 1535 01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:14.560 he's at those stores, and I was just picking his 1536 01:22:14.640 --> 01:22:16.720 brain on some things. I do that from time to time, 1537 01:22:16.880 --> 01:22:19.640 and I just it's always like, Wow, that's a lot. 1538 01:22:19.880 --> 01:22:22.720 That's a lot of good information to know. And these 1539 01:22:22.760 --> 01:22:25.399 people they know, they know, and they can help you 1540 01:22:25.479 --> 01:22:27.880 have success because there's nothing better than going out in 1541 01:22:27.920 --> 01:22:30.319 the morning, get you a cup of coffee, sit out 1542 01:22:30.359 --> 01:22:33.760 there on the patio or porch, and just listen to 1543 01:22:33.920 --> 01:22:34.399 the birds. 1544 01:22:34.640 --> 01:22:35.399 It is it is. 1545 01:22:36.840 --> 01:22:39.359 You can't buy that kind of therapy. That's good stuff 1546 01:22:39.560 --> 01:22:41.479 for sure. All Right, Well, I'm gonna take a little 1547 01:22:41.520 --> 01:22:45.399 break and we'll be right back. All right, Welcome back 1548 01:22:45.439 --> 01:22:48.199 to Garden Line. Good to have you with us today. 1549 01:22:49.039 --> 01:22:51.279 Looking forward to seeing how we can help you have 1550 01:22:51.359 --> 01:22:55.640 a more successful gardening endeavor all the things you want 1551 01:22:55.680 --> 01:22:57.279 to try to do. We're gonna run back out to 1552 01:22:57.319 --> 01:23:01.720 the phone right quick here and go to Joe Kingwood. Hey, Joe, 1553 01:23:01.800 --> 01:23:02.680 welcome to guarden Line. 1554 01:23:03.239 --> 01:23:07.039 Good morning Skip. I'd to appreciate your recommendation regarding how 1555 01:23:07.079 --> 01:23:11.239 to repair my lawn after the barrel hogs severely damaged 1556 01:23:11.239 --> 01:23:14.239 it at least eight times last October during the drought. 1557 01:23:14.960 --> 01:23:17.359 This is the oh my gosh, at least the fourth 1558 01:23:17.439 --> 01:23:20.119 time farrel hogs have destroyed my lawn in the last 1559 01:23:20.239 --> 01:23:22.880 ten years. My house is located at the end of 1560 01:23:22.920 --> 01:23:24.960 a cul de sac off a green belt and it's 1561 01:23:25.039 --> 01:23:28.199 near East End Park in Kingwood. Were you able to 1562 01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:29.520 see the photos that I sent? 1563 01:23:30.920 --> 01:23:31.479 Yeah, I did? 1564 01:23:31.920 --> 01:23:32.079 You know? 1565 01:23:32.159 --> 01:23:35.680 They're rooting around does a lot of damage. When I 1566 01:23:35.800 --> 01:23:38.159 was over in the Austin area working with extension there, 1567 01:23:38.960 --> 01:23:41.039 we had golf courses that they'd come in one night 1568 01:23:41.199 --> 01:23:44.159 and do tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage 1569 01:23:44.279 --> 01:23:46.840 just in a night in that on the golf course. 1570 01:23:46.920 --> 01:23:51.399 And they're a problem here in Texas. So bottom line 1571 01:23:51.600 --> 01:23:54.479 is getting everything raked out smooth first of all, and 1572 01:23:54.600 --> 01:23:58.039 then assessing how much living grass you have. And if 1573 01:23:58.079 --> 01:23:59.920 you've got, you know, two sprigs of grass that a 1574 01:24:00.119 --> 01:24:02.119 foot apart, and you take care of them, they will 1575 01:24:02.239 --> 01:24:04.880 cover back over by the end of the summer season 1576 01:24:04.960 --> 01:24:07.840 for sure. And if it's any wider than that, I 1577 01:24:07.920 --> 01:24:10.119 definitely would put some plugs in and between them. At 1578 01:24:10.199 --> 01:24:13.039 least some areas you may want to just take everything 1579 01:24:13.079 --> 01:24:15.439 out and rest it so you get to what you 1580 01:24:15.560 --> 01:24:18.600 want to see faster, But that's up to you how 1581 01:24:18.640 --> 01:24:20.239 you go about it. But the main thing is smooth 1582 01:24:20.279 --> 01:24:24.720 it out firsthand and then just go back with the plantings. 1583 01:24:24.840 --> 01:24:27.000 If the grass was growing there before they hit, it 1584 01:24:27.079 --> 01:24:30.960 ought to be able to take it back over again afterwards. 1585 01:24:31.439 --> 01:24:33.880 Some of your photos looked a little shady, and so 1586 01:24:34.039 --> 01:24:36.279 that would be a concern that I would have with 1587 01:24:36.399 --> 01:24:39.119 the grass filling in. There may be a case there 1588 01:24:39.239 --> 01:24:42.520 for going with solid sod and then trying to maintain 1589 01:24:42.720 --> 01:24:46.239 that density going forward as opposed to waiting on it 1590 01:24:46.319 --> 01:24:48.359 to crawl back across the space and fill in. 1591 01:24:49.279 --> 01:24:51.840 Yeah, they are both in shady areas. On the left there, 1592 01:24:51.880 --> 01:24:54.000 that's a big oak tree of the acorns or what 1593 01:24:54.279 --> 01:24:57.000 attracted them to my yard in the first place, unfortunately, 1594 01:24:57.079 --> 01:25:01.760 And then on the rider are some big pine trees. Uh, 1595 01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:08.439 is there any My wife is ready to toss in 1596 01:25:08.560 --> 01:25:12.039 the towel and stop watering and stop fertilizing. I'm not 1597 01:25:12.199 --> 01:25:16.720 quite there yet, any Uh. You know, I don't want 1598 01:25:16.760 --> 01:25:21.520 to spend thousands of dollars doing cororation and compost top 1599 01:25:21.600 --> 01:25:25.880 dressing and like you say, residing. Is there anything to 1600 01:25:26.359 --> 01:25:30.399 help stimulate whatever is there to spread? 1601 01:25:31.960 --> 01:25:35.800 Yeah? So mo water fertilize is the key to a 1602 01:25:35.880 --> 01:25:39.600 dense lawn. So getting out. Follow my schedule at gardening 1603 01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:42.399 with skip dot com. It's a free, long hour schedule. 1604 01:25:43.079 --> 01:25:45.039 Follow that on wind to fertilize. It gives you the 1605 01:25:45.119 --> 01:25:48.000 options of products to use. I would do that in 1606 01:25:48.159 --> 01:25:51.640 the don't overwater LUNs tend to get water too little 1607 01:25:51.680 --> 01:25:53.920 too often. Here. It's better to give it a good 1608 01:25:53.960 --> 01:25:56.159 soaking and let it dry out rather than a squirt 1609 01:25:56.239 --> 01:25:58.920 every day. And so as we go through the season, 1610 01:25:59.720 --> 01:26:03.039 do that for your lawn. You can do if an 1611 01:26:03.079 --> 01:26:06.359 area not too big like I think yours is, you 1612 01:26:06.479 --> 01:26:08.399 can buy a little thing. If you step on it 1613 01:26:08.479 --> 01:26:10.159 and it goes down the ground, you do some aer 1614 01:26:10.239 --> 01:26:13.399 rating yourself. It's a little bit tedious, but you know 1615 01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:15.720 it might that may be a trade off from spending 1616 01:26:15.720 --> 01:26:17.600 a lot of money on it, and then you could 1617 01:26:17.640 --> 01:26:20.399 buy bags of things like leapmole compos to spread over 1618 01:26:20.479 --> 01:26:23.399 the surface and water it in real good and and 1619 01:26:23.880 --> 01:26:27.920 go go that route too, So I would. The bottom 1620 01:26:28.000 --> 01:26:29.920 line though, is look up at the sky and look 1621 01:26:29.960 --> 01:26:32.279 at the limbs and if you if you're not getting 1622 01:26:32.359 --> 01:26:35.760 enough light, thinning out some of the foliage to get 1623 01:26:35.800 --> 01:26:39.319 more light intensity into that area is going to be 1624 01:26:39.560 --> 01:26:42.560 a very important key too, because light's the limiting factor. 1625 01:26:43.199 --> 01:26:48.439 Yes, and that's just to keep trees pruned as well 1626 01:26:48.479 --> 01:26:51.239 as possible, or as well. 1627 01:26:51.079 --> 01:26:59.199 As you can you know, yeah, well that's an option. 1628 01:26:59.279 --> 01:27:01.920 If you can't grow, then we start looking at things 1629 01:27:02.000 --> 01:27:05.800 like sedges and other shade loving groundcovers as something to 1630 01:27:05.840 --> 01:27:09.560 go over the soil surface. But as far as trying 1631 01:27:09.600 --> 01:27:11.680 to get grass, it just comes down to how many 1632 01:27:11.760 --> 01:27:14.439 foot candles for how many hours are hitting the ground. 1633 01:27:15.439 --> 01:27:19.079 And so if your trees have low hanging limbs, we 1634 01:27:19.159 --> 01:27:22.399 say raise the skirt that outdoor low hanging limb around 1635 01:27:22.479 --> 01:27:25.720 like an oak tree, you see that, printing that up 1636 01:27:25.800 --> 01:27:27.640 to get some incidental light in from the side a 1637 01:27:27.680 --> 01:27:30.600 little bit and then finning out the canopy above would 1638 01:27:30.640 --> 01:27:32.560 be your two options there, all right. 1639 01:27:32.479 --> 01:27:35.600 Yes, sir, all right, good luck, thank you, good luck 1640 01:27:35.680 --> 01:27:37.079 for that, Thank you. 1641 01:27:38.560 --> 01:27:42.760 All right, thank you. 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It's 1683 01:30:07.800 --> 01:30:11.760 available everywhere, and also there's a list of their products 1684 01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:13.359 and you can learn more because I don't have time 1685 01:30:13.399 --> 01:30:14.800 to tay about all of them on the air, but 1686 01:30:14.920 --> 01:30:18.960 there are a lot of really good products produced by Microlife. 1687 01:30:19.319 --> 01:30:21.920 But they've been doing this again for over thirty five years. 1688 01:30:23.239 --> 01:30:25.159 We're going to go now out to the hobby area 1689 01:30:25.239 --> 01:30:27.920 and talk to Chuck. Hey Chuck, welcome to garden Line. 1690 01:30:28.920 --> 01:30:31.279 Hey Skip, how you doing? This is Chuck and caught 1691 01:30:31.319 --> 01:30:33.159 it from the Massive gardener days. 1692 01:30:35.159 --> 01:30:36.399 Yeah, Chuck, I know you. 1693 01:30:36.720 --> 01:30:41.840 How you doing couldn't be better. Look here from a 1694 01:30:41.920 --> 01:30:44.640 young boy, I grew up eating a common for simmons 1695 01:30:45.479 --> 01:30:47.359 and I didn't know where to get one, and I 1696 01:30:47.439 --> 01:30:49.119 didn't know if there was still a good idea. 1697 01:30:52.000 --> 01:30:55.279 Well I've eaten those two. You know you can go 1698 01:30:55.359 --> 01:30:58.680 to the roadsides if you right around wherever their wild 1699 01:30:58.760 --> 01:31:00.560 trees grow and you can just pick some of those 1700 01:31:00.760 --> 01:31:04.039 persimons off and plant the seeds. That's one option. I 1701 01:31:04.159 --> 01:31:08.640 don't know if anybody sells just the wild native per semon, 1702 01:31:08.920 --> 01:31:12.600 they might. You might call Buchanan's Native Plants and the 1703 01:31:12.720 --> 01:31:15.239 Heights and see if they carry them, because they they 1704 01:31:15.399 --> 01:31:20.079 really specialize in natives. You might try with with you know, 1705 01:31:20.479 --> 01:31:22.680 being down south there some of the other garden centers 1706 01:31:22.720 --> 01:31:25.439 like Mosses down south there, uh, and see if he 1707 01:31:25.560 --> 01:31:29.359 has the native. But I like the improved ones. You know, 1708 01:31:29.880 --> 01:31:33.079 there's there's some really good quality improvements where you get 1709 01:31:33.119 --> 01:31:36.000 a per simon that's three or four times bigger than 1710 01:31:36.039 --> 01:31:39.439 the little native ones. But anyway, those those be the options. 1711 01:31:41.239 --> 01:31:44.000 Their improvements. Do you have a suggestion on the variety type? 1712 01:31:44.800 --> 01:31:47.079 Like on the varieties, Oh, gosh, there are a lot 1713 01:31:47.159 --> 01:31:50.159 of good varieties. If you go online to the Aggi 1714 01:31:50.279 --> 01:31:53.439 Horticulture website going through Master Gardener, you probably learned about 1715 01:31:53.479 --> 01:31:54.319 Aggie Horticulture. 1716 01:31:54.720 --> 01:31:54.840 Uh. 1717 01:31:54.920 --> 01:31:58.720 They've got a publication right there on per semons and 1718 01:31:58.960 --> 01:32:01.800 it it's it's excellent and it lists varieties. One of 1719 01:32:01.840 --> 01:32:06.680 the oldest ones that that it is called fu U 1720 01:32:06.960 --> 01:32:13.520 f u y you and uh fo you is it's 1721 01:32:13.560 --> 01:32:17.079 available widely. Now there's a lot of new persimmons that 1722 01:32:17.199 --> 01:32:20.640 are very much improved on Fuu. So that that's just 1723 01:32:21.000 --> 01:32:23.119 that's just one that is not going to be hard 1724 01:32:23.199 --> 01:32:27.199 to find. Uh, there's let's see, what's another one that 1725 01:32:27.319 --> 01:32:30.199 I like. I like hashiya h a c h i 1726 01:32:30.560 --> 01:32:34.520 y a y a Hachiya. It's more of a conical 1727 01:32:34.920 --> 01:32:37.560 kind of shaped, like more of an acorn, you know 1728 01:32:37.640 --> 01:32:39.960 where it's. It's a little longer than it is wide. 1729 01:32:40.439 --> 01:32:43.359 Uh there's Eureka that's more of a tomato shaped one. 1730 01:32:43.520 --> 01:32:44.359 It does very good. 1731 01:32:45.000 --> 01:32:45.119 Uh. 1732 01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:48.039 Tananashi is another good one. There's a bunch of good 1733 01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:50.720 ones on there. But go to Aggie Horticulture website and 1734 01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:53.600 find the fruit. It's a it's right on the front page. 1735 01:32:53.600 --> 01:32:55.279 You click on fruit and then you click on per 1736 01:32:55.319 --> 01:32:57.279 Simon and you've got more than you want to know 1737 01:32:57.319 --> 01:32:59.479 about persimmons in that free publication. 1738 01:33:00.920 --> 01:33:01.560 Thank you all. 1739 01:33:01.640 --> 01:33:05.640 I appreciate it, all right, Chuck, you take care all right, 1740 01:33:05.760 --> 01:33:10.159 by bye? Well there we go. Uh yeah, oh, I 1741 01:33:10.239 --> 01:33:10.960 love persimmons. 1742 01:33:11.239 --> 01:33:11.399 You know. 1743 01:33:11.479 --> 01:33:13.560 The way to eat up a good A good mushy 1744 01:33:13.640 --> 01:33:16.079 old per simon, you know, the oldest stringent kinds. When 1745 01:33:16.079 --> 01:33:18.279 they get mushy, you get in the bathtub and you 1746 01:33:18.359 --> 01:33:20.199 have someone hand it to you, and that way you 1747 01:33:20.279 --> 01:33:22.079 can just eat it. You're gonna have per simon dripping 1748 01:33:22.119 --> 01:33:23.920 off your elbows and you just take a bath and 1749 01:33:23.960 --> 01:33:26.560 you're good to go. You heard it here first, folks, 1750 01:33:26.640 --> 01:33:30.960 how to eat a percmon. Well, that's funny, at least 1751 01:33:30.960 --> 01:33:32.920 it is funny to me. All right, we're coming up 1752 01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:35.239 on a break for the news. I will be back 1753 01:33:35.319 --> 01:33:37.239 with your calls. I do want to remind you gardening 1754 01:33:37.359 --> 01:33:39.439 with skip dot com. I keep referring to it because 1755 01:33:39.439 --> 01:33:41.880 that's where I put everything that you will want to know. 1756 01:33:43.039 --> 01:33:45.199 Seven one three two one two k t r H. 1757 01:33:45.239 --> 01:33:50.159 I'll be right back, So welcome back. Good to be 1758 01:33:50.239 --> 01:33:52.159 back with you. Hey, we're going to keep going here 1759 01:33:52.239 --> 01:33:54.039 on garden line. We've got a lot of gardening to 1760 01:33:54.079 --> 01:33:58.119 get done before the end of today, that is for sure. 1761 01:33:58.600 --> 01:33:58.680 Uh. 1762 01:33:59.600 --> 01:34:02.640 I talk about the importance of compost, top dressing and 1763 01:34:02.880 --> 01:34:06.760 core aeration of the soil. Core aeration means you pop 1764 01:34:06.840 --> 01:34:10.159 a plug out of the soil, take a hollow hollow 1765 01:34:10.279 --> 01:34:12.279 time and it goes in the ground, it comes back 1766 01:34:12.359 --> 01:34:15.079 up out and it leaves that little cylinder of soil 1767 01:34:15.119 --> 01:34:17.159 on the surface. Looks like they had a little miniature 1768 01:34:17.239 --> 01:34:20.399 dog convention on your yard. When they're all done. Now 1769 01:34:20.640 --> 01:34:25.279 the top dressing falls down in those holes, as does fertilizer. 1770 01:34:25.479 --> 01:34:28.079 Oxygen gets down in the holes, and it just stimulates 1771 01:34:28.079 --> 01:34:30.399 a root system and in a heavy clay soil, that 1772 01:34:30.560 --> 01:34:33.079 is very important to have success with your launch. A 1773 01:34:33.319 --> 01:34:35.760 very helpful thing. It's done on golf courses all the 1774 01:34:35.840 --> 01:34:38.039 time because people are trapesing up and down the golf course. 1775 01:34:38.640 --> 01:34:41.079 It is a secrets of success, it really is. And 1776 01:34:41.199 --> 01:34:42.880 you can do that in your yard. And if you 1777 01:34:43.119 --> 01:34:47.119 are in the let's say the inside the Loop area, 1778 01:34:47.159 --> 01:34:50.560 inside the Beltway area rather year around Houston, dot com 1779 01:34:50.680 --> 01:34:53.760 serves that area. Now Cliff Carson and the whole team 1780 01:34:53.960 --> 01:34:57.119 you're around Houston, they're specialists. When it comes to coming 1781 01:34:57.159 --> 01:35:01.439 out and doing core aeration and compost. You can do 1782 01:35:01.479 --> 01:35:04.000 it yourself. It's complicated, it's very cumbersome to do it. 1783 01:35:04.399 --> 01:35:06.800 I'd say, save the hassle of running a machine, which 1784 01:35:06.840 --> 01:35:08.680 by the way, is probably not going to do a 1785 01:35:08.760 --> 01:35:11.840 good corporation. It's just gonna punch it squeeze a hole 1786 01:35:12.159 --> 01:35:15.520 open in the soil, compacting the side so the whole. Uh, 1787 01:35:16.119 --> 01:35:18.000 you gotta transport it, you gotta clean it, you got 1788 01:35:18.079 --> 01:35:20.720 to return it. You got big posit compost in the driveway. 1789 01:35:20.960 --> 01:35:23.880 Just call year round, have them do that. They use 1790 01:35:24.000 --> 01:35:29.439 quality screened composts, no smell. This is quality screened compost, 1791 01:35:29.479 --> 01:35:32.520 so it settles down readily, right down into your lawn 1792 01:35:32.600 --> 01:35:35.880 out to the soil surface. So if you are inside 1793 01:35:35.920 --> 01:35:38.960 the Beltway or if you're out in the Richmond Rosenberg area, 1794 01:35:39.039 --> 01:35:42.439 that's another area they surface service out there. You need 1795 01:35:42.479 --> 01:35:44.199 to give me a call and bring some fresh life 1796 01:35:44.279 --> 01:35:46.840 into your soil and therefore into your lawn now year 1797 01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:50.239 round Houston dot com. That is the phone number. Excuse me, 1798 01:35:50.359 --> 01:35:53.640 the website year round Houston dot com. Don't try to 1799 01:35:53.680 --> 01:35:58.119 dial that the phone number eight three to two eight 1800 01:35:58.319 --> 01:36:01.600 h four fifty three thirty five eight three two eight 1801 01:36:01.720 --> 01:36:05.600 eight four fifty three thirty five year round Houston for compost, 1802 01:36:05.680 --> 01:36:08.800 out dressing and air ration inside the Beltway and out 1803 01:36:08.880 --> 01:36:12.319 in the Richmond Rosenberg area. We try to cover our ereas. 1804 01:36:12.359 --> 01:36:13.560 There are a lot of folks that listen to a 1805 01:36:13.600 --> 01:36:16.279 lot of different directions and companies like this. You know, 1806 01:36:16.319 --> 01:36:20.039 it's heavy equipment, expensive, heavy equipment hauling compost around. You 1807 01:36:20.159 --> 01:36:23.479 just can't run all over creation doing that. And so 1808 01:36:23.600 --> 01:36:26.199 we have more than one preferred supplier depending on where 1809 01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:28.399 you live here in the Greater Houston area. 1810 01:36:29.279 --> 01:36:29.800 I like that. 1811 01:36:30.680 --> 01:36:32.560 We're going to go now to the phones and talk 1812 01:36:32.640 --> 01:36:36.600 to Colin. Hello, Colin, welcome to garden Line. Hey, how 1813 01:36:36.600 --> 01:36:40.000 are you? I'm well, sir. How can we help? 1814 01:36:41.399 --> 01:36:41.439 So? 1815 01:36:41.560 --> 01:36:44.600 I'd like to plant in the ground in my backyard 1816 01:36:45.159 --> 01:36:49.279 a large orange tree that produces a lot of fruits. 1817 01:36:50.520 --> 01:36:52.680 It's going to be okay, Sun, I've had one the 1818 01:36:52.760 --> 01:36:56.520 back before, and I know the satsumas are good, but 1819 01:36:56.840 --> 01:36:58.880 can you recommend one that will give me a lot 1820 01:36:58.920 --> 01:37:00.960 of fruits that tastes good? 1821 01:37:02.880 --> 01:37:07.079 Yeah? Where do you live? I mean what part of 1822 01:37:07.079 --> 01:37:11.920 the area medical? Okay, the Republic of Texas is a 1823 01:37:12.000 --> 01:37:16.479 good cultivar of orange that does well here and there. 1824 01:37:16.640 --> 01:37:20.319 There are others out there, but a Republic of Texas 1825 01:37:20.520 --> 01:37:23.199 is one, and I would you know with where you 1826 01:37:23.319 --> 01:37:28.039 are there you're not. You might talk to Moss Nursery, 1827 01:37:28.119 --> 01:37:30.039 which is out of course at Seabrook that's a little 1828 01:37:30.039 --> 01:37:32.640 distance from you. But they're down kind of south and east, 1829 01:37:32.680 --> 01:37:35.640 and then Horace Hidden Gardens is down south and I 1830 01:37:35.760 --> 01:37:37.680 know he has a lot of fruit trees. I can't 1831 01:37:37.760 --> 01:37:41.159 keep up with all the varieties that each of them carry. 1832 01:37:41.359 --> 01:37:43.359 So if you're looking for a specific win, you meant 1833 01:37:43.439 --> 01:37:44.840 to drive a little bit, go to one of our 1834 01:37:45.479 --> 01:37:49.479 independent garden centers around town. But anyway, Republic of Texas 1835 01:37:49.640 --> 01:37:53.079 is an orange that is pretty popular here in this area. 1836 01:37:54.720 --> 01:37:57.279 Would you recommend an orange tree or a satsuma? 1837 01:37:59.239 --> 01:38:02.079 Wellay, if you want a fresh eat I like the 1838 01:38:02.159 --> 01:38:05.119 satsumas because they have that baggy skin that you know, 1839 01:38:05.159 --> 01:38:08.680 your little thumbnails. It just peels right off. It's very 1840 01:38:08.760 --> 01:38:10.960 easy to peel. If you were going to juice it, 1841 01:38:11.199 --> 01:38:14.560 I think a little bit larger fruit like an orange 1842 01:38:14.600 --> 01:38:18.039 would be probably better for juicing. But you can juice 1843 01:38:18.039 --> 01:38:19.800 e the one of them, I mean, if you want to. 1844 01:38:21.079 --> 01:38:22.039 No, I don't want to juice it. 1845 01:38:22.079 --> 01:38:22.800 I just want to eat it. 1846 01:38:24.319 --> 01:38:26.079 Oh, where did I get Okay? I was thinking you 1847 01:38:26.119 --> 01:38:29.840 wanted juice this. Well either way, either way, satsuma is 1848 01:38:29.920 --> 01:38:32.560 going to be heartier. You get a good satsuma and 1849 01:38:32.680 --> 01:38:35.560 it'll take you down into the low twenties. There's some 1850 01:38:35.960 --> 01:38:38.279 types that will go down into the mid to upper 1851 01:38:38.359 --> 01:38:41.479 teens once they've had a couple of years to establish. 1852 01:38:42.159 --> 01:38:44.479 So that's a plant that you very seldom are really 1853 01:38:44.520 --> 01:38:47.119 going to have to cover in your area. 1854 01:38:48.399 --> 01:38:50.720 Is there a specific brand of satsuma that I. 1855 01:38:50.720 --> 01:38:51.199 Should look for? 1856 01:38:52.600 --> 01:38:55.840 Lots of good ones. Brown select is one that's popular. 1857 01:38:56.720 --> 01:39:00.479 There is a one called Miho am I each. Oh, 1858 01:39:00.920 --> 01:39:05.119 there's one called Sito s E t O. Those are 1859 01:39:05.159 --> 01:39:09.199 both excellent, and then the fellow in Santonio Bread a 1860 01:39:09.279 --> 01:39:13.640 couple for cold heartiness. One is called Arctic frost uh 1861 01:39:13.760 --> 01:39:16.800 and it's very cold hearty, So that that would be 1862 01:39:16.880 --> 01:39:19.840 one if you're trying to go is if cold heartiness 1863 01:39:19.960 --> 01:39:22.079 is the number one thing, I would do the Arctic frost. 1864 01:39:22.760 --> 01:39:25.279 But the others are great, and you can read about 1865 01:39:25.319 --> 01:39:26.800 each of them, you know, you go online, go to 1866 01:39:26.840 --> 01:39:29.079 Aggie Horticulture, look at their cetrus and they're going to 1867 01:39:29.119 --> 01:39:32.039 have a list of varieties and information on there. Or 1868 01:39:32.119 --> 01:39:33.520 you go to a good garden center and they can 1869 01:39:33.600 --> 01:39:37.520 tell you you know what they carry, you know the 1870 01:39:37.640 --> 01:39:39.960 characteristics of it. It's kind of like apple. It's kind 1871 01:39:40.000 --> 01:39:41.840 of like apples. You know, everyone one of them is 1872 01:39:41.880 --> 01:39:43.840 may be better for cooking, one of them is better 1873 01:39:43.920 --> 01:39:45.680 for juicing, one of them is better for fresh eating, 1874 01:39:45.720 --> 01:39:47.079 one of them is tangy, one of them is not. 1875 01:39:48.159 --> 01:39:49.680 You know, so it's kind of that way with the 1876 01:39:49.960 --> 01:39:52.159 satsumas and another cetrus. Of course. 1877 01:39:53.479 --> 01:39:54.479 Great, well, thanks so much. 1878 01:39:54.640 --> 01:39:58.760 All right, thanks sir, Good luck with that. All righty, 1879 01:39:59.000 --> 01:40:00.800 let's uh, I think about Let's go out to Tomball 1880 01:40:00.840 --> 01:40:03.079 and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to guarden Line 1881 01:40:04.279 --> 01:40:04.880 on Skiff. 1882 01:40:04.960 --> 01:40:07.720 Got a quick question for you called a couple of 1883 01:40:07.720 --> 01:40:10.960 weeks ago. I'm trying to help my daughter out planning 1884 01:40:11.039 --> 01:40:14.079 some sant Augustine because they're trying to sell a house, 1885 01:40:14.520 --> 01:40:19.000 so they got weeds. Then they also have dogs, so 1886 01:40:19.479 --> 01:40:22.239 I'm trying to find a perfect answer for this on 1887 01:40:23.319 --> 01:40:26.560 what I could spray for her to get the weeds 1888 01:40:26.600 --> 01:40:31.000 out before I plant new side in her backyard. And 1889 01:40:31.159 --> 01:40:35.439 how much time I need to wait for the dogs I. 1890 01:40:35.520 --> 01:40:37.479 Need to see the weeds. Are these broad leaf weeds 1891 01:40:37.520 --> 01:40:39.199 that are coming up right now that you're heard that 1892 01:40:39.319 --> 01:40:39.800 are growing? 1893 01:40:41.399 --> 01:40:44.119 Yeah? Yeah, it's just a mess factor, so they're going 1894 01:40:44.199 --> 01:40:45.000 to have to reside. 1895 01:40:46.359 --> 01:40:49.319 You're gonna have to use a post emergent weed killer 1896 01:40:49.800 --> 01:40:51.640 and it's going to take a little while to work, 1897 01:40:51.800 --> 01:40:54.359 and the weeds will decline and they'll go out of there. 1898 01:40:54.800 --> 01:40:56.880 Now with the dogs, if they like to eat weeds, 1899 01:40:57.520 --> 01:40:58.880 they may have to keep them off for a while. 1900 01:40:58.880 --> 01:41:01.439 If you can at least get it, put it down, 1901 01:41:01.520 --> 01:41:03.640 spray it on the weeds, and then wait about a 1902 01:41:03.680 --> 01:41:07.479 week without the dogs chomping down on them. Then you 1903 01:41:07.560 --> 01:41:10.000 could mow down low, get most of the weed tops 1904 01:41:10.079 --> 01:41:14.199 out of there that you sprayed, and the products would 1905 01:41:14.239 --> 01:41:17.039 have already translocated down And there's a bunch of them 1906 01:41:17.119 --> 01:41:20.319 on the market. John. You know, being up there in 1907 01:41:20.680 --> 01:41:23.439 the Tomball area, you've got a number of great outlets. 1908 01:41:23.479 --> 01:41:25.560 I know they carry a lot of weed control products 1909 01:41:25.680 --> 01:41:28.600 out at D and D feed out west of Tomball 1910 01:41:28.640 --> 01:41:32.680 on two forty twenty nine. But your garden centers, you know, 1911 01:41:32.800 --> 01:41:35.279 like Arburgate up there, they're going to have that also. 1912 01:41:36.119 --> 01:41:39.359 But you want to get there's one called Booneye weed beater. 1913 01:41:40.199 --> 01:41:43.640 There are several versions of weed beater. The Furlan has 1914 01:41:43.760 --> 01:41:46.800 a is it whed free zone? I think they Furloan 1915 01:41:46.880 --> 01:41:50.600 has one. But they're all post emergent, broadly weak killers 1916 01:41:50.640 --> 01:41:52.800 and they work. Use them according to the label. And 1917 01:41:52.920 --> 01:41:55.640 don't lay get it, don't delay, get it done asap 1918 01:41:56.560 --> 01:42:00.359 so that you can get ahead of all that. Okay, ship, 1919 01:42:01.720 --> 01:42:03.880 yes sir, thank you, Good luck with that. All right, 1920 01:42:03.960 --> 01:42:06.359 here's another break. I'll be right back with your questions 1921 01:42:06.359 --> 01:42:08.840 at seven one three two one two KTRH. 1922 01:42:09.840 --> 01:42:12.199 You can't drive your Chevy to the levee and your 1923 01:42:12.239 --> 01:42:15.119 piece of the fie is smaller. The growth rate of 1924 01:42:15.239 --> 01:42:18.279 the economy is the key. 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Is it okay to 2017 01:47:11.960 --> 01:47:14.239 go a hidden free to feed them after all they've 2018 01:47:14.279 --> 01:47:16.079 been through? Or should I wait a little while longer 2019 01:47:16.239 --> 01:47:18.560 till we're sure there's no more cold weather? 2020 01:47:18.760 --> 01:47:22.119 Good question, that's a good question, you know, fertilizing them. 2021 01:47:22.439 --> 01:47:25.119 Fertilizing a plant that's too cold is not going to 2022 01:47:25.159 --> 01:47:29.079 make it grow because it's too cold, So it's not 2023 01:47:29.840 --> 01:47:31.399 you know, it's fine to go ahead and fertilize them 2024 01:47:31.439 --> 01:47:34.399 now if you want. It's just that nutrients wash away, 2025 01:47:34.800 --> 01:47:37.720 and if that tree isn't going to be actively taking 2026 01:47:37.760 --> 01:47:40.119 them up real soon, you might want to wait a 2027 01:47:40.159 --> 01:47:41.560 little bit, let it warm up a little bit, and 2028 01:47:41.640 --> 01:47:43.760 then give them some fertilizer. But there's nothing wrong with 2029 01:47:43.840 --> 01:47:47.960 putting it down now. So there's not a you have 2030 01:47:48.119 --> 01:47:50.880 to fertilize palms on this day kind of rule out there. 2031 01:47:51.000 --> 01:47:53.840 But if it's a slower release, that would definitely be 2032 01:47:53.920 --> 01:47:56.239 one that I'd put down now, and it's ready to 2033 01:47:56.319 --> 01:47:58.000 go when they when they start to grow. 2034 01:47:58.560 --> 01:48:04.960 But either way, I do have one that everything fell 2035 01:48:05.359 --> 01:48:09.840 from the crown, so there's no leaves if you will 2036 01:48:09.920 --> 01:48:14.000 know prawns, but the trunk is green. It looks like 2037 01:48:14.119 --> 01:48:19.880 the roots survived, being that there's no leaves. Will it survive, 2038 01:48:20.039 --> 01:48:21.520 do you know? Or will it just die? 2039 01:48:21.600 --> 01:48:22.720 Is slow ter or flea tid? 2040 01:48:24.359 --> 01:48:27.720 Well, here's the thing on palms, and this is true 2041 01:48:27.760 --> 01:48:30.239 of almost all palms. Some will sprout from the bottom 2042 01:48:30.279 --> 01:48:33.119 and make a clump of trunks, but most palms, the 2043 01:48:33.239 --> 01:48:36.000 only living bud to grow new growth is at the 2044 01:48:36.079 --> 01:48:39.439 top of the trunk. So if it dies you got 2045 01:48:39.560 --> 01:48:43.319 a telephone pole, it's going to be dead wood. I 2046 01:48:43.399 --> 01:48:46.039 mean that until it falls over. So that is the 2047 01:48:46.159 --> 01:48:49.600 part that matters. And if you can't always tell if 2048 01:48:49.640 --> 01:48:51.399 it's alive, orknife, it's too tall to get up there 2049 01:48:51.439 --> 01:48:54.239 and look at it. You can, if you can look 2050 01:48:54.279 --> 01:48:56.680 at it. If it's brown and mushy kind of in there, 2051 01:48:56.720 --> 01:48:59.359 it's probably gone. But I would give it some time, 2052 01:49:00.039 --> 01:49:02.000 you know, let's wait, let's let the weather heat up 2053 01:49:02.079 --> 01:49:04.159 real good and get into a few months of summer 2054 01:49:04.199 --> 01:49:06.800 and see what's going on up there. Sometimes they're really 2055 01:49:06.880 --> 01:49:09.920 slow to respond. They got killed back a lot, but 2056 01:49:10.079 --> 01:49:12.880 not completely. But you know, with me trying to do 2057 01:49:13.000 --> 01:49:15.960 this on the phone, that's about as accurate as I 2058 01:49:16.399 --> 01:49:18.479 can give you there, because if I was there looking 2059 01:49:18.479 --> 01:49:19.800 at it, I might be able to see a little 2060 01:49:19.800 --> 01:49:20.079 bit more. 2061 01:49:20.640 --> 01:49:23.199 All right, I'll try to be patient. Okay, thank you 2062 01:49:23.319 --> 01:49:23.640 so much. 2063 01:49:24.840 --> 01:49:28.399 Hey, thanks for Carl. Appreciate that a lot. Listen. I 2064 01:49:28.560 --> 01:49:30.600 was at the arbor Gate the other day looking at 2065 01:49:30.680 --> 01:49:32.840 some of the stuff that they had, and oh my gosh, 2066 01:49:34.479 --> 01:49:37.680 as always, they're just constantly bringing in plants at the 2067 01:49:37.800 --> 01:49:41.760 arbor Gate, and they are stocked up with everything for 2068 01:49:41.880 --> 01:49:44.479 spring shrubs, trees, fruit tree do you know that fruit 2069 01:49:44.479 --> 01:49:46.920 trees here around and I'm talking about you know, the 2070 01:49:47.000 --> 01:49:49.399 apples and pear kind of fruit trees. I'm talking about berries, 2071 01:49:49.479 --> 01:49:54.600 you know, blackberries and strawberry. I'm talking about grapes. We 2072 01:49:54.640 --> 01:49:56.439 were talking about per summons a while ago with someone. 2073 01:49:57.000 --> 01:49:59.479 They carry that they carry a wide riety citrus to 2074 01:50:00.279 --> 01:50:02.720 Arbigade is an excellent place to find everything you need. 2075 01:50:02.920 --> 01:50:04.920 If you're wanting to start seeds. They have seeds, they 2076 01:50:04.920 --> 01:50:08.960 have seeds starting kits that the color that has come 2077 01:50:09.000 --> 01:50:11.720 into that place right now is outstanding. And of course 2078 01:50:11.880 --> 01:50:15.840 vegetables and herbs. Yes, it's time to get some tomatoes 2079 01:50:15.960 --> 01:50:18.760 and some herbs and be thinking about depending on where 2080 01:50:18.800 --> 01:50:21.520 you live when getting those out. And there's nothing wrong 2081 01:50:21.600 --> 01:50:24.199 with buying a tomato plant today, even if you're not 2082 01:50:24.239 --> 01:50:26.359 going to plant it for a week or two. That 2083 01:50:26.520 --> 01:50:29.000 way you have the selection. So go buy there. They 2084 01:50:29.079 --> 01:50:32.960 have a great range of varieties. Get you what you want, 2085 01:50:33.039 --> 01:50:34.680 take it home, just water. You can pot it up 2086 01:50:34.680 --> 01:50:36.399 in a little bigger pot if you want to put 2087 01:50:36.439 --> 01:50:38.359 it outside in the sun. We're about to go down 2088 01:50:38.399 --> 01:50:41.359 in the thirties, so you'll bring it in then. But 2089 01:50:41.479 --> 01:50:43.760 that's okay. Put it back out during the day. If 2090 01:50:43.800 --> 01:50:46.239 it's a little cool, that's okay. You just don't want 2091 01:50:46.279 --> 01:50:49.319 it below forties maybe for your tomatoes, but you can 2092 01:50:49.359 --> 01:50:52.239 get ahead start that way. In the back is the 2093 01:50:52.279 --> 01:50:56.720 parking lot off Thrashel Road that is so easy to access, 2094 01:50:57.000 --> 01:51:00.439 nice safe, easy access from the back of Arbigate And 2095 01:51:00.520 --> 01:51:02.840 those of you who've been there before, No, people love 2096 01:51:02.920 --> 01:51:05.239 this place. I mean it's like, even if you weren't 2097 01:51:05.239 --> 01:51:07.560 going to buy a plant, just to walk through there 2098 01:51:07.680 --> 01:51:10.079 and look at the yard art and the gift shops 2099 01:51:10.119 --> 01:51:14.079 and it's you gotta go. 2100 01:51:14.680 --> 01:51:15.119 You have to go. 2101 01:51:15.199 --> 01:51:17.840 I can't adequately describe it. You gotta go. And now 2102 01:51:17.880 --> 01:51:20.520 with that back parking lot, a lot of people can 2103 01:51:20.600 --> 01:51:22.119 all show up and have a good time at the 2104 01:51:22.159 --> 01:51:26.439 same time at Arborgate. Arborgate Garden Center is west of 2105 01:51:26.520 --> 01:51:28.359 Tomball For those of you are new to the area 2106 01:51:28.520 --> 01:51:30.760 on twenty nine to twenty just a couple of miles 2107 01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:33.600 west out there on the left hand side, easy to 2108 01:51:33.680 --> 01:51:36.960 get to and fun. I promise you you will have fun. 2109 01:51:37.039 --> 01:51:39.920 Take somebody with you because this is like, this is 2110 01:51:40.039 --> 01:51:43.640 like an outing for gardeners and their friends and their family. 2111 01:51:43.840 --> 01:51:45.560 So take somebody with you when you go out there. 2112 01:51:47.680 --> 01:51:50.159 I talked earlier about the importance of taking care of 2113 01:51:50.199 --> 01:51:52.800 your trees, and if you have not had your trees 2114 01:51:52.840 --> 01:51:56.079 looked at, get Martin spoon More out there to look 2115 01:51:56.119 --> 01:52:00.159 at your trees. Martin is the owner of Affordable Trees Is. 2116 01:52:00.199 --> 01:52:03.640 He and his wife both answer the phone, Martin and Joe. 2117 01:52:03.880 --> 01:52:07.159 If they don't answer the phone, then you called the 2118 01:52:07.239 --> 01:52:11.279 wrong place. Seven one three six nine nine two six 2119 01:52:11.680 --> 01:52:14.000 six y three. He's gonna come out. He's going to 2120 01:52:14.039 --> 01:52:16.840 make sure your trees are in top shape. And because 2121 01:52:16.920 --> 01:52:19.000 new growth is beginning now in the spring, it's time 2122 01:52:19.079 --> 01:52:21.680 to get those things pruned and get them in the 2123 01:52:21.720 --> 01:52:23.920 best shape they can. So if we do have storms 2124 01:52:23.960 --> 01:52:26.600 this summer, at least they have the best shot at 2125 01:52:26.600 --> 01:52:29.520 having a good, strong structure that doesn't break in the 2126 01:52:29.640 --> 01:52:31.720 least of you know, a little wind comes through and 2127 01:52:31.800 --> 01:52:34.319 starts tearing the tree up. Martin can help with that. 2128 01:52:34.600 --> 01:52:37.199 He does deep root feeding, He does a lot of things. 2129 01:52:37.239 --> 01:52:39.720 If your tree needs it, he probably does it. And 2130 01:52:39.880 --> 01:52:44.720 so Affordable Tree Service aff Tree Service dot Com seven 2131 01:52:44.760 --> 01:52:49.359 to one three six nine two six six three seven 2132 01:52:49.439 --> 01:52:53.800 one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three someone 2133 01:52:53.880 --> 01:52:56.880 asked me the other day about flower beds and how 2134 01:52:56.920 --> 01:52:59.319 do I have good color? And we're talking about, you know, well, 2135 01:52:59.359 --> 01:53:01.039 in the cool seat and here's some plants and in 2136 01:53:01.119 --> 01:53:03.279 the warm season, here's some plants that do well. And 2137 01:53:03.880 --> 01:53:06.560 by trading them out and stuff. And you know the 2138 01:53:06.640 --> 01:53:10.279 most important thing is the soil, right. We talk about 2139 01:53:10.319 --> 01:53:12.720 that all the time, getting a good quality soil. And 2140 01:53:12.920 --> 01:53:16.840 part of that is getting the nutrient mix to help 2141 01:53:16.960 --> 01:53:20.000 that plant grow. It's not like you fertilize and it 2142 01:53:20.239 --> 01:53:22.640 makes a plant grow. It's like a plant wants to grow. 2143 01:53:22.720 --> 01:53:25.119 It's got moist soil and it's looking for nutrients. It 2144 01:53:25.279 --> 01:53:29.159 takes all those twenty nutrients plus to help a plant 2145 01:53:29.239 --> 01:53:32.079 to grow like it wants to grow. And when you 2146 01:53:32.199 --> 01:53:35.920 put that out on the ground, you have got you've 2147 01:53:35.960 --> 01:53:38.520 got the setting where that plant will grow and it 2148 01:53:38.560 --> 01:53:40.720 will bloom and it will bloom and it will bloom 2149 01:53:41.039 --> 01:53:44.600 especially you know, a product like a color Star from 2150 01:53:44.680 --> 01:53:48.840 Nelson Plant Food color Star, just think of it year round. 2151 01:53:49.159 --> 01:53:52.000 If it has color, it needs color Star. That's kind 2152 01:53:52.039 --> 01:53:54.439 of as simple as I can put it. Get the 2153 01:53:54.840 --> 01:53:56.479 get it. Look at the label tells you how much 2154 01:53:56.520 --> 01:53:58.640 to use and whatnot. Now, If, on the other hand, 2155 01:53:58.720 --> 01:54:01.199 you've got something like a tree or a shrub, then 2156 01:54:01.399 --> 01:54:04.840 use Nutril Star Tree and Shrub from Nelson five different 2157 01:54:04.920 --> 01:54:07.920 sources of nitrogen. It's going to release some, but it's 2158 01:54:07.920 --> 01:54:10.640 going to gradually release over three to four months. It's 2159 01:54:10.680 --> 01:54:13.479 got micro nutrients in it as well. And I don't 2160 01:54:13.479 --> 01:54:15.279 care what kind of tree or shrub you have. This 2161 01:54:15.399 --> 01:54:18.840 stuff works. If it were a tree that was producing fruit, 2162 01:54:19.079 --> 01:54:22.079 you know, maybe a citrus a peach in avocado, then 2163 01:54:22.159 --> 01:54:26.680 citrus fruit and avocado Nutris Star citrus fruit and avocado 2164 01:54:26.760 --> 01:54:29.239 from Nelson's. That's the one you're gonna want to use. 2165 01:54:29.680 --> 01:54:32.479 Nelson's got you covered on all these products. The Turf 2166 01:54:32.520 --> 01:54:35.359 Star line for your lawn, the nutri Star line for 2167 01:54:35.520 --> 01:54:38.319 specific types of plants. They even have a Nature Star 2168 01:54:38.399 --> 01:54:42.239 line for organic products. Nelson Plant Food is widely available 2169 01:54:42.319 --> 01:54:44.000 in our area, and if you want to find out 2170 01:54:44.199 --> 01:54:48.359 where to locate it, go to Nelsonplantfood dot com and 2171 01:54:48.439 --> 01:54:50.840 look at the store locator. Also look at the products 2172 01:54:50.880 --> 01:54:55.720 while you're there. It's really cool. Well, here goes another hour. 2173 01:54:55.800 --> 01:54:58.199 I got one left today. If you want to get 2174 01:54:58.199 --> 01:55:00.319 on the boards for when we start the next hour, 2175 01:55:00.800 --> 01:55:02.960 all you gotta do is all seven one three two 2176 01:55:03.039 --> 01:55:06.520 one two k t r H seven one three two 2177 01:55:06.560 --> 01:55:11.279 one two k t r H and Josh our Donathan 2178 01:55:11.520 --> 01:55:14.000 get you on the board and we'll be ready to 2179 01:55:14.039 --> 01:55:16.000 go when we come back from the top. Don't forget 2180 01:55:16.359 --> 01:55:21.600 my lawn care schedules plural are online at Gardening with 2181 01:55:22.239 --> 01:55:26.600 Skip that's me dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com. 2182 01:55:27.119 --> 01:55:29.640 The lawn care schedule and the lawn pestis and we 2183 01:55:29.960 --> 01:55:35.119 management schedule synthetic and organic options from January through December 2184 01:55:35.279 --> 01:55:37.239 for everything that you need. 2185 01:55:41.479 --> 01:55:45.520 Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 2186 01:55:45.359 --> 01:55:56.000 It's just watch as world. 2187 01:56:00.960 --> 01:56:11.399 Many things to sets, not a sad. 2188 01:56:15.039 --> 01:56:19.479 Alright, folks, here we go. We got the last hour 2189 01:56:20.279 --> 01:56:23.800 of garden Line for the weekend and we are at 2190 01:56:23.880 --> 01:56:25.960 the doorstep right here and we're going to cover some 2191 01:56:26.079 --> 01:56:27.840 ground this hour. We got a lot of things to 2192 01:56:27.880 --> 01:56:30.720 talk about and some calls as well, So give me 2193 01:56:30.760 --> 01:56:32.800 a call if you would like. Seven one three two 2194 01:56:32.840 --> 01:56:35.840 one two k t r H. Uh In Chanty Gardens 2195 01:56:36.199 --> 01:56:39.159 is a garden center out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. 2196 01:56:39.239 --> 01:56:41.399 For those who haven't been there, you need to go. 2197 01:56:41.720 --> 01:56:43.920 It is on the Katie Fullsher Side of Richmond on 2198 01:56:44.159 --> 01:56:46.960 FM three point fifty nine. It's now standing Garden Center. 2199 01:56:47.039 --> 01:56:49.239 There's all this stuff going on out there. They have 2200 01:56:49.319 --> 01:56:52.920 programs this spring. Uh just really really excellent. As a 2201 01:56:52.960 --> 01:56:57.640 matter of fact, Next Saturday, February fifteenth, say that again. 2202 01:56:57.920 --> 01:57:01.000 Next Saturday, write this down February fifteenth, I'll be there 2203 01:57:01.039 --> 01:57:04.720 from twelve noon to one thirty. Twelve noon to one thirty, 2204 01:57:05.239 --> 01:57:08.199 and I will be talking about tips for making gardening 2205 01:57:08.359 --> 01:57:12.640 less work. Does that sound good or what the way 2206 01:57:12.720 --> 01:57:14.520 I like to put it? The subtitle is how to 2207 01:57:14.560 --> 01:57:17.439 get more from your garden with less sweat and less ibuprofen. 2208 01:57:18.039 --> 01:57:20.479 Tips for making Gardening less work. I'll talk about making 2209 01:57:20.520 --> 01:57:23.760 gardening easier and more productive and definitely more fun, and 2210 01:57:23.800 --> 01:57:25.720 we'll have some fun in the process. Again. That's the 2211 01:57:25.760 --> 01:57:29.960 next Saturday, Enchanted Gardens on FM three point fifty nine 2212 01:57:30.159 --> 01:57:33.000 on the Katie fullsher Side of Richmond. I'll be there 2213 01:57:33.000 --> 01:57:35.680 from twelve noon to one thirty, so come out and 2214 01:57:35.760 --> 01:57:38.319 see me. By the way, their hours are Monday through 2215 01:57:38.359 --> 01:57:41.720 Saturday eight to five and Sunday from ten to four, 2216 01:57:41.880 --> 01:57:43.640 so this afternoon be a good time to get out 2217 01:57:43.720 --> 01:57:46.720 there and check them out. When you go to Enchanted Gardens, 2218 01:57:46.760 --> 01:57:49.439 first thing you're going to think is, oh my gosh, 2219 01:57:49.600 --> 01:57:53.439 this is an expanse of stuff. I mean, they've got 2220 01:57:54.039 --> 01:57:56.800 everything from every kind of plant you can imagine, certainly 2221 01:57:56.840 --> 01:58:00.399 the ones that are most seasonally appropriate right then, and 2222 01:58:00.960 --> 01:58:05.439 all the way to some beautiful pottery. They're pottery selections outstanding. 2223 01:58:06.159 --> 01:58:08.560 They've got a nice little gift shop. They got all 2224 01:58:08.640 --> 01:58:10.760 the products that you know, the ones you hear me 2225 01:58:10.880 --> 01:58:16.479 talk about here, like fertilizers from Microfias, Nitrofoss, Microlife, Nelson 2226 01:58:16.560 --> 01:58:19.279 Plant Food and Medina. They've got soils from Nature's Way 2227 01:58:19.359 --> 01:58:22.319 and heirloom soils you've heard me talk about those before. 2228 01:58:23.079 --> 01:58:25.680 Excellent selection of roses going out there right now. Go 2229 01:58:25.840 --> 01:58:30.079 check out their website. It's Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. 2230 01:58:30.399 --> 01:58:34.960 Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com and come see me next 2231 01:58:35.039 --> 01:58:38.840 Saturday from twelve noon to one thirty. I'll be there, 2232 01:58:39.359 --> 01:58:42.479 look forward to seeing you. Let's go to Port Arthur 2233 01:58:42.920 --> 01:58:45.239 and we're going to talk to Alan. Hey Allen, welcome 2234 01:58:45.279 --> 01:58:45.880 to garden Line. 2235 01:58:47.000 --> 01:58:50.800 Good morning, heyd Ring. I'm sorry skipped this morning. I'm 2236 01:58:51.279 --> 01:58:54.319 I'm put my pre emerging out and I know you 2237 01:58:54.359 --> 01:58:57.039 don't want to. I don't want to overwater because I say, you. 2238 01:58:57.079 --> 01:58:59.159 Just want to get it just below the surf of 2239 01:58:59.199 --> 01:59:00.520 that day. The crict. 2240 01:59:00.680 --> 01:59:03.720 Like my sprinkler systems, I got those types that you know, 2241 01:59:03.800 --> 01:59:05.920 are those kind? 2242 01:59:07.119 --> 01:59:09.079 Do you have any kind of idea how you. 2243 01:59:09.119 --> 01:59:11.880 Can call any you can call any time that you 2244 01:59:12.039 --> 01:59:14.479 want to garden line if you always bring me sound 2245 01:59:14.479 --> 01:59:15.640 effects that are that cool? 2246 01:59:15.760 --> 01:59:16.239 I like that. 2247 01:59:18.960 --> 01:59:24.560 So you've got one of those sprinkler systems that threw 2248 01:59:24.680 --> 01:59:26.399 me so much you got to go back and finish 2249 01:59:26.520 --> 01:59:26.960 that question. 2250 01:59:27.159 --> 01:59:31.119 That was okay, I don't want to overwater it. 2251 01:59:31.319 --> 01:59:34.319 So I'm just curious you have any kind of I know, how. 2252 01:59:34.239 --> 01:59:37.399 Much time with that type of sprinkler I would run 2253 01:59:37.479 --> 01:59:37.880 that water? 2254 01:59:38.000 --> 01:59:41.279 You know, I don't. Every sprinkler system is different. But 2255 01:59:41.319 --> 01:59:43.199 here's what you can do. If you've got to rain gauge, 2256 01:59:43.319 --> 01:59:45.520 or if you have a straight sided can, like you know, 2257 01:59:45.640 --> 01:59:48.800 something like green beans came out or something set that 2258 01:59:48.920 --> 01:59:51.720 anywhere out there, I'd put you know, you put it 2259 01:59:51.760 --> 01:59:54.000 out there, put several of them around. But because it 2260 01:59:54.119 --> 01:59:57.600 never those sprinklers don't apply evenly, uh and just water 2261 01:59:57.720 --> 01:59:59.640 until you've caught about a half inch of water and 2262 01:59:59.760 --> 02:00:01.159 that that's how long. 2263 02:00:01.960 --> 02:00:05.640 Yeah, I don't know how I've done that before, just 2264 02:00:05.720 --> 02:00:08.920 to see my fur linesp okay, so. 2265 02:00:09.039 --> 02:00:14.159 Half about a half? Yeah, yeah, that'd be plenty. All right, 2266 02:00:14.199 --> 02:00:17.399 all right, all right, now come up with some more 2267 02:00:17.439 --> 02:00:20.560 sound effects and call back. All right, you take care. 2268 02:00:22.159 --> 02:00:22.560 I like that. 2269 02:00:23.640 --> 02:00:26.600 That's funny. Somebody somebody wants to telling me. You know, 2270 02:00:26.720 --> 02:00:28.359 you get a little toy gun and you give it 2271 02:00:28.399 --> 02:00:30.039 to your son and your daughter, and your daughter goes 2272 02:00:30.119 --> 02:00:33.960 PM pewm and your son goes I don't know if 2273 02:00:34.000 --> 02:00:38.760 that's true. I bet there's some girls they go. All right, 2274 02:00:38.840 --> 02:00:41.239 let's go to sugar Land. Talk to June. Hey, June, 2275 02:00:41.279 --> 02:00:43.560 welcome to garden line. Do you have any sound effects 2276 02:00:43.600 --> 02:00:44.199 for me today? 2277 02:00:45.880 --> 02:00:47.640 No, it's not effects today. 2278 02:00:50.000 --> 02:00:52.479 Your segment of the tomatoes? 2279 02:00:52.680 --> 02:00:55.119 Is it too early to start playing the tomatoes. 2280 02:00:56.520 --> 02:00:58.760 We're going to get some thirty degrees here in the 2281 02:00:58.880 --> 02:01:02.760 next we and I would I would buy the tomatoes now, 2282 02:01:02.840 --> 02:01:05.199 because you get to pick your varieties before they get 2283 02:01:05.239 --> 02:01:07.600 picked over by other people. Go and buy them right, 2284 02:01:07.960 --> 02:01:10.760 bring them home, and if you're going to hold them 2285 02:01:10.800 --> 02:01:13.560 for over a week, I would move them up into 2286 02:01:13.600 --> 02:01:16.399 a little bigger pot and start watering and fertilizing them 2287 02:01:17.119 --> 02:01:19.199 every day that you can get them out for every 2288 02:01:19.239 --> 02:01:22.199 hour of sunshine that's where it's not below forty degrees, 2289 02:01:22.319 --> 02:01:24.520 just put them out there, even forty five degrees, let's say, 2290 02:01:24.560 --> 02:01:27.319 put them out there and they'll it'll help them, it'll 2291 02:01:27.319 --> 02:01:30.680 help them acclimate to the temperatures and they'll grow a 2292 02:01:30.720 --> 02:01:33.880 little bit. And then when it's safe, like we don't 2293 02:01:33.920 --> 02:01:36.119 have a thirty degree scheduled for a week, then go 2294 02:01:36.119 --> 02:01:38.079 ahead and put them out, you know, and in your 2295 02:01:38.159 --> 02:01:40.800 area done in sugarlane. That's probably you know, going to 2296 02:01:40.840 --> 02:01:43.640 be toward the end of the month or early in 2297 02:01:43.840 --> 02:01:46.119 March that you would actually be planting them out. 2298 02:01:47.359 --> 02:01:50.399 Okay, okay, that's what I kind of thought. Is it 2299 02:01:50.479 --> 02:01:56.000 too late to play it from seeds, Well, it. 2300 02:01:56.079 --> 02:01:59.199 Is a little late. You could try find a variety 2301 02:01:59.319 --> 02:02:02.560 that says asked is possible, one that says it's fifty 2302 02:02:03.039 --> 02:02:06.279 five days to harvest or something along that line, if 2303 02:02:06.319 --> 02:02:08.960 you can find it. If you can find that, uh, 2304 02:02:09.199 --> 02:02:12.680 and then get it in the ground asap, and you're 2305 02:02:12.680 --> 02:02:14.880 gonna have to start it indoors where it's warm because 2306 02:02:14.920 --> 02:02:17.319 you want it to grow fast. It takes about about 2307 02:02:17.359 --> 02:02:19.520 six weeks to grow a transplant, and that's going to 2308 02:02:19.560 --> 02:02:21.760 put us toward the end of March. If you start today. 2309 02:02:22.119 --> 02:02:26.000 Oh well then no, I'll just it for us because 2310 02:02:26.000 --> 02:02:30.800 I'm in Shipland and I just it's a good challenge 2311 02:02:31.000 --> 02:02:33.359 to watch a little one grow from seas. 2312 02:02:34.600 --> 02:02:36.960 Oh, it's a blast. We'll get some seeds of something 2313 02:02:37.000 --> 02:02:39.319 else and trum. By the way, come out and see 2314 02:02:39.359 --> 02:02:42.720 me in Channet Forest next Saturday from twelve to one thirty. 2315 02:02:42.760 --> 02:02:45.039 I'll be given a talk and answer questions. 2316 02:02:46.000 --> 02:02:48.880 Oh great, thanks in Channt fort. 2317 02:02:49.680 --> 02:02:53.479 In, Jennet, I'm sorry, I'm Jenny Gardens. Oh my brain 2318 02:02:53.840 --> 02:02:56.920 by this time of the show is starting to falter. Yeah, 2319 02:02:57.039 --> 02:02:58.960 I'm Chaney Gardens out of Richmond Roseberg. 2320 02:03:00.159 --> 02:03:00.279 Right. 2321 02:03:00.800 --> 02:03:04.119 Those are both great garden. Yeah they are. 2322 02:03:04.760 --> 02:03:07.199 They to go to. I just went and got pro 2323 02:03:07.399 --> 02:03:08.439 mixed to. 2324 02:03:08.920 --> 02:03:11.239 Be playing Primarius. 2325 02:03:13.199 --> 02:03:18.560 Very good, very good, Thank you for the call. That's good. 2326 02:03:18.760 --> 02:03:18.920 Hey. 2327 02:03:19.159 --> 02:03:21.760 D and Defeed is on the west side of Tombull. 2328 02:03:22.239 --> 02:03:25.119 D and D feed is on the west side of Tumbull, 2329 02:03:25.479 --> 02:03:27.840 and I want to tell you that place. In fact, 2330 02:03:27.880 --> 02:03:29.479 i'm gonna I'm gonna talk about them a little bit 2331 02:03:29.520 --> 02:03:31.840 more here, but that is the place to go for 2332 02:03:32.079 --> 02:03:35.439 all kinds of things from fertilizers to you name it. 2333 02:03:35.760 --> 02:03:37.199 But we're gonna talk about and when we come back 2334 02:03:37.199 --> 02:03:40.319 from break here. A little bit more earlier, someone had 2335 02:03:40.359 --> 02:03:42.359 asked me about, well, if I don't live in the 2336 02:03:42.479 --> 02:03:45.960 area where that company you recommend for compost, top dressing 2337 02:03:46.239 --> 02:03:49.880 and core aeration serves, what do I do. I've got 2338 02:03:49.960 --> 02:03:52.600 people for almost all the areas around Houston. If you're 2339 02:03:52.640 --> 02:03:55.600 down south, let's say you're from Sugarland in Missouri City, 2340 02:03:56.039 --> 02:03:59.079 all the way down like Highway six, all those communities Presno, 2341 02:03:59.199 --> 02:04:02.199 Sienna or Cola, Alwa, Colony, Manville, or even over as 2342 02:04:02.199 --> 02:04:05.439 far as Pairland. B and B turf Pros is your 2343 02:04:05.520 --> 02:04:10.760 company now. The website is bb no end bb Turfpros 2344 02:04:10.960 --> 02:04:13.600 dot com. Go there and check it out. This is 2345 02:04:13.640 --> 02:04:17.720 a family owned business. They provide quality work. It is 2346 02:04:17.840 --> 02:04:22.039 so important to them that you are satisfied. They take 2347 02:04:22.119 --> 02:04:24.800 care of you there. They're straight, they shoot straight with 2348 02:04:24.880 --> 02:04:28.399 you there, high quality work. They only use quality products. 2349 02:04:28.399 --> 02:04:30.680 They get their top quality leaf more compost from the 2350 02:04:30.720 --> 02:04:33.600 folks at Ciena Multch So you know this is good stuff, right, 2351 02:04:34.119 --> 02:04:36.880 and they go beyond, above and beyond to make a 2352 02:04:36.960 --> 02:04:39.880 personal connection with you their client. They want you to 2353 02:04:39.960 --> 02:04:44.039 be satisfied. B it B turf pros seven to one 2354 02:04:44.159 --> 02:04:48.000 three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one 2355 02:04:48.079 --> 02:04:51.039 three two three four fifty five ninety eight. I want 2356 02:04:51.039 --> 02:04:52.560 to take a break and I'll be right back with 2357 02:04:52.680 --> 02:04:55.479 a call from Jennifer up in Conro. Tell me you've 2358 02:04:55.520 --> 02:05:00.920 read that song before, and I'll call you a liar. Well, 2359 02:05:01.079 --> 02:05:03.640 that can only mean one thing. The chicks are in 2360 02:05:03.920 --> 02:05:06.840 at D and D Supply up in Tumbole. I know 2361 02:05:06.960 --> 02:05:08.359 that was a stretch, but I had to do it. 2362 02:05:09.039 --> 02:05:11.520 D and Defeed is three miles west of Highway two 2363 02:05:11.560 --> 02:05:14.479 forty nine and Tomball And listen, if you want back 2364 02:05:14.560 --> 02:05:17.199 your chickens, you are not going to find any place 2365 02:05:17.319 --> 02:05:23.359 like this. Dozens and dozens and dozens of different varieties 2366 02:05:23.439 --> 02:05:25.479 of chickens. Stuff you've never heard of. Have you ever 2367 02:05:25.520 --> 02:05:28.039 had a speckled Sussek pulleck? Have you ever had an 2368 02:05:28.079 --> 02:05:31.399 Americana pullet? How about a buff Brahma or a lavender 2369 02:05:31.479 --> 02:05:34.279 wyan Dot. Those are all coming in this Wednesday, February 2370 02:05:34.319 --> 02:05:38.279 twelve at D and Defeed store. And every week i'man 2371 02:05:38.399 --> 02:05:40.760 on and on I'll talk about them again, because they 2372 02:05:41.000 --> 02:05:44.399 keep getting new ones in every week, sometimes a couple 2373 02:05:44.479 --> 02:05:47.039 of times a week, depends on the week, but it's 2374 02:05:47.079 --> 02:05:49.520 all on the schedule. Go to D anddfeed dot com 2375 02:05:49.840 --> 02:05:53.079 look at the schedule for when they get their chickens 2376 02:05:53.079 --> 02:05:54.600 in and you can find out about that. They got 2377 02:05:54.640 --> 02:05:57.359 everything you need. You'll heat to go over the chicks, 2378 02:05:57.439 --> 02:06:01.560 baby chicks, maybe some bedding material, perhaps a water, a feeder. 2379 02:06:01.800 --> 02:06:02.760 They will get you set up. 2380 02:06:02.840 --> 02:06:02.920 Now. 2381 02:06:02.920 --> 02:06:05.520 While you're there, you're going to find the fertilizers for 2382 02:06:05.600 --> 02:06:09.000 your lawn like nitro foss and microlife and Nelson turf 2383 02:06:09.079 --> 02:06:12.720 Star and Medina. You're going to find soils from heirloom soils. 2384 02:06:13.079 --> 02:06:17.279 You're going to find the everything from plats of vegetables 2385 02:06:17.319 --> 02:06:19.840 to seeds to all kinds of the stuff. It just 2386 02:06:20.079 --> 02:06:22.560 just go there and look at it. It is amazing. 2387 02:06:23.239 --> 02:06:26.479 And they also have other Nelson plat foods by the 2388 02:06:26.600 --> 02:06:29.119 jar there as well. So D and D Feed three 2389 02:06:29.159 --> 02:06:32.239 miles west two forty nine on the left right outside 2390 02:06:32.239 --> 02:06:35.159 of Tumble, not very far at all, and boy, the 2391 02:06:35.279 --> 02:06:38.079 news is hit. The chicks have arrived. That's why all 2392 02:06:38.119 --> 02:06:39.680 the chicks hang out. D and D Feed by the way, 2393 02:06:39.720 --> 02:06:42.560 I didn't know if you knew that, all right, We're 2394 02:06:42.560 --> 02:06:45.199 going to go now to Jennifer and Conro. Hey Jennifer, 2395 02:06:45.239 --> 02:06:46.159 welcome to garden Line. 2396 02:06:47.479 --> 02:06:47.680 Hey. 2397 02:06:47.840 --> 02:06:48.159 Thanks. 2398 02:06:48.640 --> 02:06:52.560 I was hoping to reuse the soil from my container 2399 02:06:52.720 --> 02:06:55.680 vegetables for the last year or two. So I'm guessing 2400 02:06:55.760 --> 02:06:58.359 I need to do something to put vitamins back in it. 2401 02:06:58.479 --> 02:06:59.640 Can you tell me what that might be? 2402 02:07:01.439 --> 02:07:05.199 Okay, So, first of all, if there was no diseases 2403 02:07:05.439 --> 02:07:08.800 that affected your plants, you can certainly do that. If 2404 02:07:09.319 --> 02:07:11.960 you know you had damping off or some root rod 2405 02:07:12.079 --> 02:07:15.399 or something on the plants, then I generally don't recommend 2406 02:07:15.760 --> 02:07:20.439 that you reuse the potting soil for those kind of situations. Now, 2407 02:07:20.560 --> 02:07:24.239 if you go to my website Gardening with Skip dot 2408 02:07:24.319 --> 02:07:27.159 com Gardening with Skip dot com and you look at 2409 02:07:27.199 --> 02:07:32.319 the publications, there's a publication called pasteurizing growing media or 2410 02:07:32.439 --> 02:07:35.720 garden soil in an oven. And so if you had 2411 02:07:35.760 --> 02:07:37.680 a little pot and you wanted to make sure it 2412 02:07:37.720 --> 02:07:40.600 doesn't have any bad stuff in it, you can follow that. 2413 02:07:42.119 --> 02:07:44.560 Nine chances out of ten, if you reuse your soil, 2414 02:07:44.600 --> 02:07:46.359 you're not going to have a problem. But if you 2415 02:07:46.399 --> 02:07:48.439 want to be extra careful, you can do that to 2416 02:07:48.600 --> 02:07:51.800 the soil. I reuse mine all the time, but I 2417 02:07:51.880 --> 02:07:54.279 always watch and make sure that you know there wasn't 2418 02:07:54.840 --> 02:07:57.159 a disease problem in the plants that grew there before. 2419 02:07:57.520 --> 02:07:59.199 But you absolutely can do it. And now what you 2420 02:07:59.279 --> 02:08:01.000 want to do is you want to get some a 2421 02:08:01.079 --> 02:08:05.720 product from Nelson Plant Food and it's called Genesis Genesis 2422 02:08:06.920 --> 02:08:10.920 and Genesis is something that you mix with the potting 2423 02:08:11.039 --> 02:08:14.439 soil as you're working it back up again to replant 2424 02:08:14.760 --> 02:08:17.960 into that pot It is it is a fertilizer, but 2425 02:08:18.119 --> 02:08:20.479 it is a fertilizer in a very natural form that 2426 02:08:20.600 --> 02:08:23.000 has a lot of extra good stuff in it and 2427 02:08:23.159 --> 02:08:26.319 it just helps plants hit the ground running. So Nelson 2428 02:08:26.359 --> 02:08:28.800 Genesis it's available about in those little clear jars with 2429 02:08:28.880 --> 02:08:32.079 a big white screw top lid, and it's it's sold 2430 02:08:32.119 --> 02:08:35.119 all over the place, So that would be one. But yeah, 2431 02:08:35.239 --> 02:08:37.239 beefing up the soil a little bit now if you 2432 02:08:37.399 --> 02:08:40.039 if you don't, if you can't find it up there 2433 02:08:40.079 --> 02:08:43.319 where you live, then get you something that it says 2434 02:08:43.359 --> 02:08:47.159 it's a slow release fertilizer because you don't want to 2435 02:08:47.199 --> 02:08:50.079 burn plants by putting too much nutrient in at one time. 2436 02:08:50.600 --> 02:08:52.359 You can put a slow release in and it'll feed 2437 02:08:52.439 --> 02:08:53.600 it gradually over time. 2438 02:08:54.359 --> 02:08:58.119 And some of it o a organic emulsion as well. 2439 02:08:59.800 --> 02:09:02.079 It's it's fine. Fish emulsion doesn't have a lot of 2440 02:09:02.159 --> 02:09:04.840 nutrient in it. It has some other things that are beneficial. 2441 02:09:05.199 --> 02:09:07.319 I would probably if you're going to do that, I 2442 02:09:07.319 --> 02:09:13.560 would mix it with a seaweed as well. But Microlife 2443 02:09:13.600 --> 02:09:16.439 has something called ocean harvest and it has about like 2444 02:09:16.560 --> 02:09:20.439 a four two three. I think fertilizer. That one would 2445 02:09:20.439 --> 02:09:23.159 be a good one to use. The Microlife ocean harvest. 2446 02:09:23.880 --> 02:09:25.880 You just mix it in water and when you drench 2447 02:09:25.920 --> 02:09:29.159 it in yes, you will be fertilizing well with that. Actually, 2448 02:09:29.159 --> 02:09:31.520 when I was saying that while ago, I was picturing 2449 02:09:31.840 --> 02:09:34.079 seaweed instead of fishing mulsion. Seaweed is the one that 2450 02:09:34.159 --> 02:09:36.359 doesn't have a lot of nutrients in it. Fish emulsion does. 2451 02:09:38.279 --> 02:09:38.560 Okay? 2452 02:09:38.600 --> 02:09:40.520 Can I ask you citrus do your question as well? 2453 02:09:41.880 --> 02:09:42.520 Yeah, real quick. 2454 02:09:45.720 --> 02:09:48.079 We have a zillion flowers on it, and then they 2455 02:09:48.159 --> 02:09:50.760 come into baby lines or baby lemons, but then like 2456 02:09:50.840 --> 02:09:53.039 all those little lemons fall off and we probably only 2457 02:09:53.119 --> 02:09:55.239 get like eight percent. Is that normal? 2458 02:09:55.760 --> 02:10:01.640 Okay? It can be Citrus set more than it needs 2459 02:10:01.720 --> 02:10:03.840 and it'll abort all the ones that it can't handle. 2460 02:10:04.399 --> 02:10:08.760 But stresses really make that worse. So if you had 2461 02:10:08.840 --> 02:10:11.319 that set and then it got dry a little bit 2462 02:10:11.600 --> 02:10:15.600 and it lacked for water or some other stress, it 2463 02:10:15.640 --> 02:10:19.199 will often abort it more because of that stress. So 2464 02:10:19.520 --> 02:10:22.159 it could be partially natural normal and it could be 2465 02:10:22.279 --> 02:10:26.479 partially stress related. So try to keep the soil evenly 2466 02:10:26.600 --> 02:10:30.319 moist nice, well drained, but good even moisture in the soil, 2467 02:10:30.960 --> 02:10:33.800 and a moderate amount of fertilizer, not too much nitrogen 2468 02:10:33.880 --> 02:10:36.640 at that point, and I think you're going to get 2469 02:10:36.680 --> 02:10:38.119 the best fruit set that you can. 2470 02:10:40.039 --> 02:10:40.319 Thank you. 2471 02:10:40.520 --> 02:10:42.760 I appreciate it all. 2472 02:10:42.720 --> 02:10:45.119 Right, thanks the call. Appreciate that a lot, Thank you 2473 02:10:45.279 --> 02:10:51.039 very much. Azemite is a trace mineral supplement that I 2474 02:10:51.119 --> 02:10:54.479 talk about all the time. Why do I talk about 2475 02:10:54.520 --> 02:10:58.319 trace minerals. Well, on fertilizer bags, they only they generally 2476 02:10:58.399 --> 02:11:01.319 only put the three numbers of nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium. 2477 02:11:01.399 --> 02:11:03.680 Sometimes you'll get calcium and sulfur added on there, but 2478 02:11:03.800 --> 02:11:07.439 generally it's three numbers. Well, what about there's like twenty 2479 02:11:07.560 --> 02:11:10.239 nutrients that a plant can use that plants can use 2480 02:11:10.239 --> 02:11:12.600 at different stages of their life growth, and so what 2481 02:11:12.680 --> 02:11:15.680 about all the others those are equally important is the 2482 02:11:15.720 --> 02:11:18.279 Big three, they just aren't needed in as high a quantity. 2483 02:11:19.079 --> 02:11:21.279 That's what we're talking about with azamite. You know, a 2484 02:11:21.359 --> 02:11:24.119 forty four pound bag of azamite will cover six to 2485 02:11:24.279 --> 02:11:27.960 twelve thousand square feet lawn. Because we're talking about a 2486 02:11:28.119 --> 02:11:31.960 micronutrients supplement. The fact that you just need a little 2487 02:11:32.199 --> 02:11:36.399 does not mean it's less important than nitrogen and phosphorus 2488 02:11:36.439 --> 02:11:41.079 and potassium in your typical lawn fertilizer. It's equally important 2489 02:11:41.199 --> 02:11:46.520 because they're both essential micronutrients. Macronutrients both essential. Forty four 2490 02:11:46.560 --> 02:11:49.079 pound bag, Now, if you got a vegetable garden, i'd 2491 02:11:49.079 --> 02:11:51.279 put about ten pounds per thousand square feet, and yes, 2492 02:11:51.319 --> 02:11:53.199 I would use it in a vegetable garden because you 2493 02:11:53.319 --> 02:11:56.159 want to pack those vegetables that you're growing with all 2494 02:11:56.279 --> 02:11:58.600 the nutrients that they need as well. You can go 2495 02:11:58.720 --> 02:12:01.239 to azamite Texas dot com find out more about it, 2496 02:12:01.760 --> 02:12:03.039 or you can just go to one of the places 2497 02:12:03.079 --> 02:12:05.239 you hear me talk about on Guardenline. It's it's pretty 2498 02:12:05.239 --> 02:12:09.560 widely available. Feed stores, the independent garden centers, places like 2499 02:12:09.720 --> 02:12:13.319 Ace Hardware and Southwest Fertilizer. Those are all places where 2500 02:12:13.319 --> 02:12:17.680 I've seen azamite for sale in the Houston area, so 2501 02:12:17.840 --> 02:12:19.760 check it out. It's one thing that you can do it. 2502 02:12:20.159 --> 02:12:22.800 You don't have to fertilize with as mite when you're 2503 02:12:22.840 --> 02:12:26.319 fertilizing other things, but you can same day put your 2504 02:12:26.359 --> 02:12:29.159 fertilizer out, come back load up to asmite, put it 2505 02:12:29.279 --> 02:12:32.199 out separate applications. It could be the same day or 2506 02:12:32.199 --> 02:12:35.039 it can be six months apart. They don't have to 2507 02:12:35.119 --> 02:12:38.720 be connected, but they can asmite for your trace minerals. 2508 02:12:38.960 --> 02:12:41.119 We're going to go now to Crosby and we're going 2509 02:12:41.159 --> 02:12:46.119 to talk to Tanya. Hello, Antanya, Hi Skip I am. 2510 02:12:46.880 --> 02:12:48.840 I have a question for you. I hope you can 2511 02:12:48.920 --> 02:12:49.479 answer Hello. 2512 02:12:49.680 --> 02:12:50.199 Can you hear me? 2513 02:12:51.079 --> 02:12:52.239 Yes? I sure can. 2514 02:12:53.159 --> 02:12:53.479 Okay. 2515 02:12:55.279 --> 02:12:59.159 After years of battling weeds and take off patch and 2516 02:12:59.239 --> 02:13:03.279 sodweb worm, I have very little Saint Augustine left and 2517 02:13:03.760 --> 02:13:05.279 this is the year I'm going to have to bite 2518 02:13:05.319 --> 02:13:09.279 the bullet and really get someone like turf Pro out 2519 02:13:09.319 --> 02:13:13.760 here to level two grade to do the core aeriation, 2520 02:13:14.239 --> 02:13:16.199 you know, the good soil and put down the sod. 2521 02:13:17.560 --> 02:13:20.600 Turf Pro is that I'm not in their area, and 2522 02:13:21.119 --> 02:13:23.960 can you recommend anyone that would be the king would 2523 02:13:24.039 --> 02:13:27.560 Humble bay Town. Sometimes even deer Park companies will come 2524 02:13:27.600 --> 02:13:31.199 out to like Houston. Anyone that would do that like turf. 2525 02:13:31.479 --> 02:13:35.079 Now, this this is out on the periphery of where 2526 02:13:35.119 --> 02:13:37.800 they can go, but you may want to give year 2527 02:13:37.920 --> 02:13:41.920 Round Houston a call. That's the that's the website too, 2528 02:13:42.239 --> 02:13:45.800 year round Houston dot Com. And I think they will 2529 02:13:45.880 --> 02:13:47.800 service out in that area, but you just got to 2530 02:13:47.840 --> 02:13:49.640 talk to them. I generally don't talk about that area 2531 02:13:49.680 --> 02:13:53.279 because that's out peripheral for them, but the last time 2532 02:13:53.319 --> 02:13:55.600 I talked to them, it seemed like they might reach 2533 02:13:55.680 --> 02:13:58.880 out a little bit in that direction, so that that 2534 02:13:58.960 --> 02:14:01.079 would be go to that web site, year round Houston 2535 02:14:01.159 --> 02:14:03.680 dot com, and I think I think that maybe they 2536 02:14:03.720 --> 02:14:07.199 can help you there. Okay, okay, that sounds good. 2537 02:14:07.239 --> 02:14:07.880 Thank you so much. 2538 02:14:09.479 --> 02:14:12.840 You bet. Good luck with that, all right. Well, that's 2539 02:14:12.880 --> 02:14:15.880 a good practice to be doing to your lawns and 2540 02:14:16.199 --> 02:14:19.520 your gardens and all that. Out in Kingwood. Speaking of 2541 02:14:19.800 --> 02:14:23.039 that area, Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center are 2542 02:14:23.079 --> 02:14:25.800 two outstanding places to go and get everything you need 2543 02:14:26.039 --> 02:14:29.560 for your for your gardens. Kingwood's got this awesome gift 2544 02:14:29.600 --> 02:14:33.680 shop that's just amazing. They totally revamped and it is 2545 02:14:33.800 --> 02:14:35.640 really cool. I like the way they've set it up 2546 02:14:35.680 --> 02:14:39.279 now Warren Southern Gardens. You know you're going to find 2547 02:14:40.000 --> 02:14:42.800 a wide variety of plants. And they have the full 2548 02:14:42.880 --> 02:14:46.159 landscaping services too, by the way these places do. So 2549 02:14:46.239 --> 02:14:47.760 if you need to have them come out and do 2550 02:14:47.880 --> 02:14:49.960 some landscaping thing, they can do it out in that area. 2551 02:14:50.399 --> 02:14:54.680 But they they just are excellent at carrying a wide variety. 2552 02:14:54.760 --> 02:14:56.920 Do you want color plants, do you want herbs? Do 2553 02:14:56.920 --> 02:15:00.880 you want vegetables? Looking for a rosebush? Looking for whatever? 2554 02:15:01.319 --> 02:15:03.119 They've got it and when you're out there, you know, 2555 02:15:03.239 --> 02:15:06.159 brown stuff before a green stuff. They've got Microlife fertilizer, 2556 02:15:06.359 --> 02:15:11.000 Nitroposs fertilizer, Nelson turf Star fertilizer, uh they and other 2557 02:15:11.159 --> 02:15:15.399 Nelson plant foods. They have the refill stations for the 2558 02:15:15.560 --> 02:15:19.039 jars of Nelson and Microlife, the jars of each of 2559 02:15:19.079 --> 02:15:22.079 those products. You take your old jar in and refill it, 2560 02:15:22.199 --> 02:15:24.039 save a little bit of money and don't throw that 2561 02:15:24.159 --> 02:15:28.359 plastic into the environment. Products that like the mosquito dunk 2562 02:15:28.439 --> 02:15:30.119 that I talk about. As we warm up here a 2563 02:15:30.159 --> 02:15:32.279 little bit, I'll be talking about those they've got that 2564 02:15:32.479 --> 02:15:34.680 airloom soils. They've got it all. They're ready to go. 2565 02:15:35.479 --> 02:15:38.960 Just show up. Warm seven Gardens North North Park Drive, 2566 02:15:39.560 --> 02:15:42.680 Kingwood Garden Center, Stone Hollow Drive. Both of them are 2567 02:15:42.760 --> 02:15:45.199 open seven days a week. Hey, there's a good afternoon 2568 02:15:45.760 --> 02:15:48.119 outing to get out there and get you some plant. 2569 02:15:48.239 --> 02:15:52.039 It's spring, the fever is hit all right. Well, I'm 2570 02:15:52.039 --> 02:15:53.680 gonna quit talk in there. Take a little time for 2571 02:15:53.760 --> 02:15:56.319 the news here as we take a break. If you 2572 02:15:56.319 --> 02:15:58.119 would like to give me a call seven one three 2573 02:15:58.239 --> 02:16:01.199 two one two ktr H and I'll be right back 2574 02:16:01.439 --> 02:16:08.319 with your calls. Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Welcome 2575 02:16:08.359 --> 02:16:08.880 back to gardener. 2576 02:16:08.920 --> 02:16:09.039 Hey. 2577 02:16:09.119 --> 02:16:11.399 You know what one of my favorite places to go 2578 02:16:11.560 --> 02:16:15.960 to is Ciena Malts. You didn't you expect me to 2579 02:16:16.000 --> 02:16:20.359 say that, did you. I love it. I love things 2580 02:16:20.680 --> 02:16:23.680 that help our plants succeed, and that would be anything 2581 02:16:23.800 --> 02:16:26.199 related to soil. That's why I say brown stuff before 2582 02:16:26.239 --> 02:16:29.000 green stuff. Ciena Malt is your one stop shop South 2583 02:16:29.079 --> 02:16:32.879 Houston for all things brown stuff. They're down near Highway 2584 02:16:32.879 --> 02:16:36.000 six and two eighty eight. The actual road is Farm 2585 02:16:36.079 --> 02:16:39.680 to Market five twenty one FM five twenty one, or 2586 02:16:39.719 --> 02:16:42.479 you can just go to the website. Sienna multch dot 2587 02:16:42.639 --> 02:16:45.159 com that that tells your phone number how to get there, 2588 02:16:45.239 --> 02:16:48.239 everything you need to know. Uh, everyone down in that 2589 02:16:48.399 --> 02:16:50.440 region you need to know about this, and I know 2590 02:16:50.479 --> 02:16:52.639 people that travel a little distance to get there because 2591 02:16:52.639 --> 02:16:55.479 they do have great products, and we're talking about things 2592 02:16:56.159 --> 02:17:00.719 like you know, they've got products from the excuse me, 2593 02:17:01.520 --> 02:17:05.879 heirloom soils. They got products from Landscaper's Pride. They have 2594 02:17:06.159 --> 02:17:10.079 the fertilizers from Microlife from Nelson, the turf Star line 2595 02:17:10.440 --> 02:17:13.280 and other Nelson products. They got Medina fertilizer, they got 2596 02:17:13.360 --> 02:17:16.520 Nitrofast fertilizers there, and they have asomite. They're just talking 2597 02:17:16.559 --> 02:17:19.559 about that, the trace mineral supplement. So if you want 2598 02:17:19.559 --> 02:17:21.840 to get your soil right, the brown stuff, they've got 2599 02:17:22.120 --> 02:17:24.040 everything you need. You can go there with your pick 2600 02:17:24.120 --> 02:17:25.879 up or trailer and pick it up. If you're within 2601 02:17:25.959 --> 02:17:29.159 twenty miles, they'll deliver for a small fee to get 2602 02:17:29.239 --> 02:17:31.440 it out to you. However you want to go about it, 2603 02:17:31.879 --> 02:17:34.559 just go about it. It's time for spring planting, and 2604 02:17:35.200 --> 02:17:38.440 don't put a plant in the ground before you fix 2605 02:17:38.559 --> 02:17:41.520 that soil, so the plant has a chance for success, 2606 02:17:41.680 --> 02:17:44.159 because that's why you're planting the plant for flowers or 2607 02:17:44.239 --> 02:17:49.639 fruit or beauty. Don't PLoP an unprepared plant. Don't PLoP 2608 02:17:49.799 --> 02:17:52.360 a poor old plant into an unprepared plot. That was 2609 02:17:52.440 --> 02:17:56.280 my Peter Piper version for a horticulture fix it first 2610 02:17:56.479 --> 02:18:01.079 at Sienamalts. They're open Monday through Friday, seven five Saturday 2611 02:18:01.280 --> 02:18:05.280 today seven thirty to two and closed on Sundays again 2612 02:18:05.440 --> 02:18:09.760 five five twenty one Sienna mult dot Com. And I 2613 02:18:09.959 --> 02:18:14.079 promise you they'll treat you right. They just it makes 2614 02:18:14.120 --> 02:18:16.120 you happy to go in there and just the cheerful 2615 02:18:16.159 --> 02:18:19.719 faces and the helpful folks. I love going into Cena Molt. 2616 02:18:21.479 --> 02:18:23.280 All right, let's go out to the hill country of 2617 02:18:23.360 --> 02:18:26.520 Texas and talk to Rick. Hey, Rick, welcome to garden Line. 2618 02:18:27.639 --> 02:18:28.440 Hey you don't skip. 2619 02:18:30.040 --> 02:18:30.840 I'm well, thank you. 2620 02:18:32.360 --> 02:18:32.600 Good. 2621 02:18:32.680 --> 02:18:35.840 I have two questions. One is on pre and post 2622 02:18:35.920 --> 02:18:40.959 emergence and the other ones on they're rating the yard. 2623 02:18:42.079 --> 02:18:45.120 So I use a product and I used it about 2624 02:18:45.159 --> 02:18:48.920 a week ago. We'd beat our ultra that has both 2625 02:18:48.959 --> 02:18:53.719 a pre and post emergant and it is one. Is 2626 02:18:53.799 --> 02:18:57.079 that a good product or should I be using them separately? 2627 02:18:59.360 --> 02:19:02.399 We'd beat our ultra is fine. I've talked about it 2628 02:19:02.479 --> 02:19:07.040 before on the on the show by Bone eye bon 2629 02:19:07.120 --> 02:19:11.639 Eyde makes that. Uh so it's fine, especially for killing 2630 02:19:12.159 --> 02:19:16.639 things that are already existing, especially for that let me 2631 02:19:16.760 --> 02:19:19.200 check that. Let me check that label. I didn't know 2632 02:19:19.280 --> 02:19:21.719 it had a pre in it. Are you sure about that? 2633 02:19:22.719 --> 02:19:23.760 Check that sure? 2634 02:19:24.120 --> 02:19:27.040 The one I'm using says both pre and post emergent. 2635 02:19:27.520 --> 02:19:27.959 It kind of. 2636 02:19:28.000 --> 02:19:30.000 Reminds me of the weed and seed. Should I be 2637 02:19:30.079 --> 02:19:33.120 doing them separately? Or can I put down a pre 2638 02:19:33.239 --> 02:19:34.799 and post emergent at the same time? 2639 02:19:36.200 --> 02:19:40.360 Yeah, you know, in general, I prefer to put the 2640 02:19:40.479 --> 02:19:43.159 pre and the post down separately because it gives me 2641 02:19:43.280 --> 02:19:47.200 better control. That's not to say that combo product you 2642 02:19:47.319 --> 02:19:50.760 know wouldn't wouldn't work. I mean I will, but often 2643 02:19:50.840 --> 02:19:54.440 I find that I'm kind of going, uh specifically according 2644 02:19:54.520 --> 02:19:59.959 to maybe I'm trying to say, like there's a specif 2645 02:20:00.120 --> 02:20:02.000 a weed I'm going after, Well, I get to pick 2646 02:20:02.079 --> 02:20:06.280 my my herbicide based on the weed or you see 2647 02:20:06.319 --> 02:20:08.680 what I'm saying, And so I like to do It's 2648 02:20:08.680 --> 02:20:11.920 the same way with with the weed and feeds. There 2649 02:20:12.000 --> 02:20:16.399 are some that they do just fine, but in general 2650 02:20:16.559 --> 02:20:19.760 I like to use them separately. But anyway, it just 2651 02:20:19.799 --> 02:20:22.600 depends on the situation. I don't want to overstate it. 2652 02:20:22.799 --> 02:20:26.559 You know, yeah that let's see, that's got MCPA, it's 2653 02:20:26.639 --> 02:20:29.600 got mecaprop I can but yeah, that's all post emergent 2654 02:20:29.760 --> 02:20:33.399 in the weed weed Beater ultra, so you would need 2655 02:20:33.479 --> 02:20:37.360 a pre like barricade. A night Foss makes a product 2656 02:20:37.360 --> 02:20:40.639 called barricade, and that's a pre emergent. But don't delay. 2657 02:20:40.680 --> 02:20:42.280 It's time to get it down. What part of the 2658 02:20:42.360 --> 02:20:43.159 hill country are you. 2659 02:20:43.239 --> 02:20:47.200 In, about ten miles west of New Brothols. 2660 02:20:49.079 --> 02:20:53.159 Okay, yeah, yeah, it's it's it's time, and in late 2661 02:20:53.239 --> 02:20:56.159 February is an important time for you to get your 2662 02:20:56.239 --> 02:20:58.479 pre emergence down to be ahead of things there. 2663 02:20:59.719 --> 02:21:03.040 Okay, great, now this is the spring. I was going 2664 02:21:03.079 --> 02:21:05.799 to go ahead and do the top dressing. We just 2665 02:21:05.920 --> 02:21:07.840 moved in about two years ago and I'm not sure 2666 02:21:07.879 --> 02:21:10.600 it's been done, so I need to do it. But 2667 02:21:10.959 --> 02:21:15.479 I always mentioned about aer ration. Well we go down 2668 02:21:15.559 --> 02:21:18.079 about an inch and a half to two inches and 2669 02:21:18.360 --> 02:21:20.120 we hit rock around here. 2670 02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:28.319 Well, you can't run an errator on those limestone outcroppings, 2671 02:21:28.360 --> 02:21:30.319 that's for sure, right. 2672 02:21:30.559 --> 02:21:30.760 Yeah. 2673 02:21:30.879 --> 02:21:33.280 I used to joke that in West Austin the place, 2674 02:21:33.799 --> 02:21:36.719 soil is the dust that gathers on rocks between rains 2675 02:21:38.440 --> 02:21:41.319 because there's not much much of it out there, but 2676 02:21:41.479 --> 02:21:43.600 that you have a heavy clay, sticky soil out the 2677 02:21:43.719 --> 02:21:47.959 black clay soil typically in that area, and the if 2678 02:21:48.000 --> 02:21:50.399 you can't get deeper than that, aeration is not going 2679 02:21:50.479 --> 02:21:53.280 to really help. But the grass has a hard time 2680 02:21:53.360 --> 02:21:55.200 on that. If a grass can't get six inches of 2681 02:21:55.280 --> 02:21:57.719 soil to grow in, you're watering it a lot to 2682 02:21:57.840 --> 02:21:59.520 try to keep it alive in the drought because it 2683 02:21:59.600 --> 02:22:02.239 just doesn't have that that soul volume that it needs 2684 02:22:02.319 --> 02:22:05.680 to have some resilience in terms of moisture availability. 2685 02:22:07.719 --> 02:22:10.719 Yeah, the grass last year looked great in the springtime. 2686 02:22:11.360 --> 02:22:12.079 But is it okay? 2687 02:22:12.200 --> 02:22:15.719 Just put the compost down, the top dressing down without 2688 02:22:15.799 --> 02:22:16.680 doing any aeration. 2689 02:22:18.319 --> 02:22:21.120 Yeah, it's fine, that's fine. If you're really dealing with 2690 02:22:21.200 --> 02:22:23.719 that kind of soil. If you ran an errator over that, 2691 02:22:23.920 --> 02:22:25.959 it would be like banging in on a sidewalk. It 2692 02:22:26.000 --> 02:22:28.440 would be bad for the aerrator and it'd rattle all 2693 02:22:28.440 --> 02:22:29.239 your teeth loose. 2694 02:22:30.520 --> 02:22:32.799 Right, all right, I can't find anyone here. 2695 02:22:35.280 --> 02:22:37.959 Okay, Well, that may be a reason for that. You 2696 02:22:38.079 --> 02:22:39.799 go on the east side of thirty five and they 2697 02:22:39.840 --> 02:22:43.719 have soil over there, all right, Man, thanks a lot. 2698 02:22:47.600 --> 02:22:51.799 Bye bye. All right, you're listening to Garden Line. I'm 2699 02:22:51.840 --> 02:22:53.760 your host, Skip Richter, and we're gonna take a little 2700 02:22:53.760 --> 02:22:56.159 break here. In just a moment, I did want to 2701 02:22:56.200 --> 02:22:59.280 mention I talked about different products and stuff. Medina has 2702 02:22:59.440 --> 02:23:01.959 so many great products. They've got one called has to 2703 02:23:02.079 --> 02:23:06.000 Grow six twelve six. It's awesome for a lot of things, 2704 02:23:06.079 --> 02:23:09.600 but especially transplanting because that twelve, that phosphorus, the middle 2705 02:23:09.680 --> 02:23:12.479 number really helps the throot development. Mix it in water. 2706 02:23:12.639 --> 02:23:14.760 I do it in a watering can when I plant 2707 02:23:14.799 --> 02:23:16.479 a plant, I don't care if it's a tomato plant 2708 02:23:16.600 --> 02:23:20.159 or a rose bush. Drench it at planting with that product. 2709 02:23:20.239 --> 02:23:23.280 A week later, drench it again with that product, a 2710 02:23:23.360 --> 02:23:26.079 week later, a third time, drench it with that product. 2711 02:23:26.520 --> 02:23:28.319 When you do that, you're getting it off to a 2712 02:23:28.360 --> 02:23:31.440 good start. You're gonna have the best possible chance of 2713 02:23:31.559 --> 02:23:33.479 success with that. Now you can use it for foldio 2714 02:23:33.559 --> 02:23:37.399 feed and other things. But like many Medina products, the 2715 02:23:37.440 --> 02:23:40.399 stuff works and it's easy to find because it's widely available. 2716 02:23:40.840 --> 02:23:42.440 Time for me to take a break. We'll come back 2717 02:23:42.479 --> 02:23:44.719 with our last segment of Garden Line in just a moment. 2718 02:23:46.799 --> 02:23:52.319 All right, folks, we're back. If you've got a burning 2719 02:23:52.440 --> 02:23:55.680 question that doesn't need to wait until next Saturday, you 2720 02:23:55.760 --> 02:23:59.120 may call seven one three two one two KTRH. We're 2721 02:23:59.120 --> 02:24:02.200 in our last segment of the show today and be 2722 02:24:02.280 --> 02:24:06.079 happy to help you as we can. ACE Hardware Store 2723 02:24:06.719 --> 02:24:09.239 has a motto, and it's ACE is the Place. And 2724 02:24:10.000 --> 02:24:11.799 then I like to say it like ACE is a 2725 02:24:11.840 --> 02:24:14.120 place for you fill in the blank, because it is 2726 02:24:14.639 --> 02:24:17.040 whatever you need is there. I talk all the time 2727 02:24:17.079 --> 02:24:19.959 about they've got the fertilizers and the disease and insect 2728 02:24:20.000 --> 02:24:22.159 and pest control and tools and hoses and everything you 2729 02:24:22.239 --> 02:24:24.920 need to have beautiful yard. Talk about the patio and 2730 02:24:25.000 --> 02:24:28.280 the barbecue pits and the landscape. You know, the little 2731 02:24:28.319 --> 02:24:30.440 strings I call them beer garden lights. 2732 02:24:30.479 --> 02:24:30.639 You know. 2733 02:24:31.200 --> 02:24:34.040 They have everything like that and inside the home. But 2734 02:24:34.200 --> 02:24:37.079 right now it's spring and it's time for some spring 2735 02:24:37.200 --> 02:24:39.959 cleaning stuff. Do you want to maybe do some sprucing 2736 02:24:40.079 --> 02:24:42.520 up with paint? They got a President's Day sale on 2737 02:24:42.799 --> 02:24:46.120 all kinds of painting supplies, so stop eyeing see it yourself. 2738 02:24:46.479 --> 02:24:48.760 Do you have propane tanks? Do you want to get 2739 02:24:48.799 --> 02:24:51.079 them topped off? Do you want to do an exchange 2740 02:24:51.159 --> 02:24:55.600 whatever refills they've got it at ACE Hardware, And while 2741 02:24:55.639 --> 02:24:57.959 you're there, sign up for the ACEH rewards. And the 2742 02:24:58.079 --> 02:25:00.559 reason is, and I belong to it myself. Every time 2743 02:25:00.639 --> 02:25:04.520 you go shopping, you're receiving discounts. There are special offers 2744 02:25:04.760 --> 02:25:07.200 that are only for ACE customers. They email them directly 2745 02:25:07.280 --> 02:25:09.680 to you. As you build up your points on that. 2746 02:25:09.879 --> 02:25:12.040 It just makes sense that, you know, you don't even 2747 02:25:12.079 --> 02:25:13.520 have to carry the card around with you. They can 2748 02:25:13.559 --> 02:25:15.040 look it up and they put it in the computer. 2749 02:25:15.360 --> 02:25:15.959 It's easy. 2750 02:25:16.440 --> 02:25:19.280 How about light bulbs and batteries and all kinds of 2751 02:25:19.280 --> 02:25:21.639 stuff that we stock up on, they've got it. How 2752 02:25:21.639 --> 02:25:23.799 about air filters, you know you're supposed to replace them 2753 02:25:23.840 --> 02:25:26.760 every month, Buy three, get one free. You want to 2754 02:25:26.879 --> 02:25:29.440 change out of faucet. I did my kitchen faucet recently, 2755 02:25:30.079 --> 02:25:34.399 twenty percent off. The Mowen faucets this month, twenty percent off. 2756 02:25:35.040 --> 02:25:37.319 So that's it. Ace Hardware, That's what I'm talking about. 2757 02:25:37.319 --> 02:25:39.479 How about your deck? Does it need to be resealed? 2758 02:25:39.559 --> 02:25:41.879 You know that would don't don't let it go without 2759 02:25:42.000 --> 02:25:45.120 keeping it in top shape. ACE has got the products 2760 02:25:45.159 --> 02:25:48.000 you need to do the recealing. Also of your deck, 2761 02:25:48.079 --> 02:25:50.280 Now there's auspas ACE up in the woodlands. There's like 2762 02:25:50.479 --> 02:25:53.840 Conro Ace in Montgomery done in Sinco Ranch. There's a 2763 02:25:54.079 --> 02:25:57.319 hardware Hamilton Hardware is kind of off Highway six near 2764 02:25:57.360 --> 02:26:00.479 Bear Creek. And then there's Wharton Feed and Hardware, Bay 2765 02:26:00.600 --> 02:26:06.920 City Hardware, Bay City Ace Hardware. There's a lot of them. 2766 02:26:07.040 --> 02:26:09.520 Go to Acehardware dot com, find the store locator and 2767 02:26:09.680 --> 02:26:11.719 find your local ACE and get familiar with it because 2768 02:26:11.719 --> 02:26:14.239 you're gonna want to run in there a lot. ACE 2769 02:26:14.520 --> 02:26:17.040 is the place. It's a one stop shop for a 2770 02:26:17.319 --> 02:26:19.319 lot of things that you will need. 2771 02:26:21.200 --> 02:26:21.280 Uh. 2772 02:26:21.639 --> 02:26:24.600 Today we've covered a lot of ground on talking about 2773 02:26:24.639 --> 02:26:26.360 different kinds of things. I spent quite a bit of 2774 02:26:26.440 --> 02:26:30.079 time trying to sound the warning that now's the time 2775 02:26:30.200 --> 02:26:33.280 to control existing weeds and to prevent weeds that are 2776 02:26:33.440 --> 02:26:36.000 to come. Those are on my schedule. You can see 2777 02:26:36.040 --> 02:26:39.079 that up there. Now's the time to do that. Don't delay. 2778 02:26:39.319 --> 02:26:41.600 Now's the time to plant fruit trees. Get you your 2779 02:26:41.639 --> 02:26:45.520 fruit trees, go to a Go to a good independent 2780 02:26:46.079 --> 02:26:50.200 garden center where they know what they're talking about, because 2781 02:26:50.280 --> 02:26:52.520 they can tell you does this fruit tree need a 2782 02:26:52.559 --> 02:26:57.840 pollinator or not? The person working in a wow I'm 2783 02:26:57.840 --> 02:27:00.799 not going A lot of places have people that don't 2784 02:27:00.799 --> 02:27:04.479 know what they're talking about. They just don't. I've gone 2785 02:27:04.520 --> 02:27:06.879 in and asked questions just to kind of see, you know, 2786 02:27:06.959 --> 02:27:09.719 what they know, and it's like, oh my gosh, these 2787 02:27:09.760 --> 02:27:14.520 people are selling products. Go to hometown garden center, your 2788 02:27:14.639 --> 02:27:16.959 independent garden centers that we talk about on garden Line. 2789 02:27:17.280 --> 02:27:20.040 They'll tell you do you need two peaches to pollinate? 2790 02:27:20.159 --> 02:27:24.680 They'll tell you the answers know. Do you need two plums? Maybe? 2791 02:27:25.319 --> 02:27:27.879 The answers maybe. Do you see what I'm talking about? 2792 02:27:27.920 --> 02:27:32.239 Do you need two blueberries to pollinate? Well, probably not need, 2793 02:27:32.559 --> 02:27:34.719 but you'll have more and bigger berries if you have 2794 02:27:34.799 --> 02:27:37.000 two different varieties to pollenate. You see what I'm talking about. 2795 02:27:37.360 --> 02:27:39.680 That's important. Now's the time to get your fruit planted, 2796 02:27:40.040 --> 02:27:42.680 get it out there, get it done, find a sunny spot, 2797 02:27:42.879 --> 02:27:47.600 and enjoy success with your fruitful endeavors. Your garden. I 2798 02:27:47.760 --> 02:27:50.040 like to call it a garden of eaton E A 2799 02:27:50.200 --> 02:27:54.479 T N eating. You can create that. And there are 2800 02:27:54.559 --> 02:27:57.799 so many great places and great supplies here in the 2801 02:27:57.840 --> 02:28:02.319 Greater Houston area that were spoiled. We really are spoiled. Recently, 2802 02:28:02.399 --> 02:28:05.079 I was out in Phoenix, Arizona, and of course, like 2803 02:28:05.159 --> 02:28:06.760 when I go to any place, the first thing I 2804 02:28:06.840 --> 02:28:09.079 want to know is let me see the best garden 2805 02:28:09.120 --> 02:28:14.600 centers you got. Folks don't do a horticulture tour of 2806 02:28:14.639 --> 02:28:17.440 Phoenix unless you want to go to the botanical gardens. 2807 02:28:17.479 --> 02:28:22.079 I guess you're spoiled in Houston. I'm telling you you're spoiled. 2808 02:28:22.399 --> 02:28:25.360 We have great places. It is spring. Get out this 2809 02:28:25.559 --> 02:28:29.360 afternoon and go visit someplace. You know, just just walk around, 2810 02:28:29.520 --> 02:28:32.479 talk to the folks, see what they have. I guarantee 2811 02:28:32.479 --> 02:28:34.719 you there's gonna be stuff you need. Maybe take some 2812 02:28:34.799 --> 02:28:37.280 pictures of your landscape with you and say, look at 2813 02:28:37.280 --> 02:28:40.399 this area. It's really dark and shady back there. What 2814 02:28:40.520 --> 02:28:43.840 would grow there? Or this spot over here it stays 2815 02:28:43.879 --> 02:28:47.680 a little wet sometimes, what plants would be happy in 2816 02:28:47.799 --> 02:28:50.879 that area? Because most plants aren't in a wet sagy area, 2817 02:28:51.000 --> 02:28:53.799 But there are plants that are. That's the advantage of 2818 02:28:54.079 --> 02:28:59.440 a really good quality garden center. Anyway, I do garden 2819 02:28:59.520 --> 02:29:02.920 center to every day that I can. I love going 2820 02:29:02.959 --> 02:29:04.920 out and seeing what's going on there and visiting with 2821 02:29:05.000 --> 02:29:08.000 the folks that are out there. And you should too. 2822 02:29:09.040 --> 02:29:12.360 You know, we talk about when I've said before, when 2823 02:29:12.399 --> 02:29:15.120 you are cutting trees in a forest. The most important 2824 02:29:15.159 --> 02:29:17.879 thing is to stop and sharpen the saw every now 2825 02:29:17.920 --> 02:29:19.879 and then, or you'll be doing a lot of work 2826 02:29:19.959 --> 02:29:23.159 and not getting very far along. Same is true with gardeners. 2827 02:29:23.280 --> 02:29:26.639 You got to sharpen the gardener. I sharpen my knowledge 2828 02:29:26.680 --> 02:29:30.040 of stuff all the time, constantly learning, constantly getting better, 2829 02:29:30.200 --> 02:29:33.680 meeting new gardeners, having fun. It is a great hobby 2830 02:29:33.760 --> 02:29:36.319 to have because I don't care where you are, where 2831 02:29:36.360 --> 02:29:38.799 you live, what you like. There is a type of 2832 02:29:38.879 --> 02:29:42.399 gardening for you, from a terrarium with a light on 2833 02:29:42.520 --> 02:29:45.319 top on the eight hundredth floor of a high rise 2834 02:29:45.399 --> 02:29:49.680 downtown to that patio plant that can grow on a 2835 02:29:49.719 --> 02:29:52.760 pot and grow some tomatoes on the eight hundredth floor 2836 02:29:52.920 --> 02:29:58.360 of a high rise downtown. If you've got the back 2837 02:29:58.479 --> 02:30:01.600 forty and you can do whatever you want. There's a 2838 02:30:01.680 --> 02:30:04.239 type of gardening for everybody. Most people want to have 2839 02:30:04.319 --> 02:30:08.000 a beautiful lawn that is important to them, and you 2840 02:30:08.120 --> 02:30:11.200 can have that with the right products. Remember, lawns need light. 2841 02:30:11.879 --> 02:30:14.079 Lawns need light. Can they grow in shade? 2842 02:30:14.159 --> 02:30:14.319 Yes? 2843 02:30:14.520 --> 02:30:15.680 Will they thrive in shade? 2844 02:30:15.799 --> 02:30:15.840 No? 2845 02:30:16.360 --> 02:30:19.840 If it's too dark. If it's moderate shade, they can thrive. 2846 02:30:19.959 --> 02:30:23.000 Saint Augustine can thrive in shade, and to some degree 2847 02:30:23.319 --> 02:30:26.559 some of the zoosias as well. But give it good light, 2848 02:30:26.719 --> 02:30:29.520 and then mow water and fertilize. Mow water and fertilize. 2849 02:30:29.559 --> 02:30:32.639 That's a secret to have good healthy lawn. And when 2850 02:30:32.680 --> 02:30:35.200 I say mow water and fertilized, I don't I mean 2851 02:30:35.399 --> 02:30:38.799 do each one correctly. MO often with a sharp mower 2852 02:30:39.159 --> 02:30:42.600 at a decent height. Don't cut the grass blades off. 2853 02:30:42.600 --> 02:30:45.159 There the solar panels, So don't mow Saint Augustine like 2854 02:30:45.200 --> 02:30:48.000 it's a golf course green. Give it some light, leave 2855 02:30:48.079 --> 02:30:53.719 some solar panels on it. MO regularly, water deeply, but infrequently. 2856 02:30:54.440 --> 02:30:57.639 If you wet this is a general thing about all plants. 2857 02:30:58.239 --> 02:31:00.639 If you wet them frequently, you're going to have more 2858 02:31:00.719 --> 02:31:05.120 disease problems because diseases are spores that land on the leaf. 2859 02:31:05.200 --> 02:31:07.399 While some of them are are in case of bacteria, 2860 02:31:07.479 --> 02:31:09.920 individual bacteria land on the leaf. You keep them wet 2861 02:31:10.360 --> 02:31:13.280 and they will infect that leaf, so let them dry out. 2862 02:31:13.360 --> 02:31:15.680 That's why there aren't as many disease problems in West 2863 02:31:15.719 --> 02:31:18.000 Texas there as there are in East Texas because it 2864 02:31:18.079 --> 02:31:21.120 rains over here. But then on top of that we 2865 02:31:21.319 --> 02:31:23.920 water all the time. We water over and over again 2866 02:31:24.200 --> 02:31:29.040 too frequently. Typically watering is too little, too often. I 2867 02:31:29.120 --> 02:31:32.040 had a neighbor when I lived in Cyprus. His sprinkle 2868 02:31:32.159 --> 02:31:35.559 came on about every other day, and the heads were 2869 02:31:35.639 --> 02:31:38.840 so missiligned they wet the car. They wet my car 2870 02:31:39.040 --> 02:31:42.200 in my driveway. They were squirting up to my side, 2871 02:31:42.440 --> 02:31:44.319 so I parked backwards on some days to wash the 2872 02:31:44.399 --> 02:31:48.680 other side of the car. But anyway, water with a 2873 02:31:48.719 --> 02:31:52.040 good soaking on an infrequent basis, even in the heat 2874 02:31:52.079 --> 02:31:57.840 of summer. You don't have to water every week more 2875 02:31:57.920 --> 02:32:01.000 than once, Even in the heat of summer. Once is enough. 2876 02:32:01.719 --> 02:32:03.639 If you've got a wimpy lawn that you're trying to 2877 02:32:03.719 --> 02:32:06.040 nurse back maybe twice a week with a half inch 2878 02:32:06.040 --> 02:32:08.360 each time, but you need to be working your way 2879 02:32:08.399 --> 02:32:10.639 toward once a week or less. I've got areas in 2880 02:32:10.719 --> 02:32:14.200 my lawn last summer they got watered maybe every two 2881 02:32:14.280 --> 02:32:17.200 or three weeks because it was in a shade, and 2882 02:32:17.360 --> 02:32:20.239 I had developed a good root system by proper watering, 2883 02:32:20.680 --> 02:32:25.520 deep and infrequent, and then finally fertilizing. Fertilizing plants is 2884 02:32:25.600 --> 02:32:27.840 kind of like us eating. You want a good quality 2885 02:32:27.920 --> 02:32:31.639 food and you want to moderate amount you over eatn't 2886 02:32:31.680 --> 02:32:34.280 turn out too good. When you push a lawn with 2887 02:32:34.399 --> 02:32:37.280 too much fertilizer, you're not doing it any favors. Get 2888 02:32:37.319 --> 02:32:39.319 a good quality. We talk about all the ones all 2889 02:32:39.360 --> 02:32:41.879 the time here on Guardline. We've selected the ones that 2890 02:32:42.000 --> 02:32:44.079 I know will work well for you because I've used 2891 02:32:44.120 --> 02:32:47.319 them myself. And we fertilize at the right time, according 2892 02:32:47.319 --> 02:32:50.280 to my schedule, and you can have the most beautiful 2893 02:32:50.319 --> 02:32:53.760 on on the block. Mow water. Fertilize in the presence 2894 02:32:53.799 --> 02:32:56.120 of good sunlight. That's a secret to lawn care. It's 2895 02:32:56.159 --> 02:33:00.639 no secret, all right, folks. Music means I got quit talking. 2896 02:33:00.920 --> 02:33:02.360 I've had a good time. I hope you have a 2897 02:33:02.559 --> 02:33:05.399 fun day in the garden this afternoon or out in abouttown. 2898 02:33:05.639 --> 02:33:09.639 Have a great gardening is supposed to be fun. Talk 2899 02:33:09.680 --> 02:33:10.479 to you next Saturday.