Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie R. H. Garden Line with Skip Richard.
Speaker 2: Bases in.
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Speaker 2: the world open. And you did.
Speaker 4: So many things to see bats in the bay basis
Speaker 4: and gas and can you did close back kicking cannot
Speaker 4: sun glasses.
Speaker 2: And gay than you did.
Speaker 5: Sun starting?
Speaker 6: Well, Good morning, good morning. We are welcome to spring.
Speaker 6: We are in the doorstep of some of the weather
Speaker 6: we've been waiting on for a long time. That is,
Speaker 6: you know, the only thing I can complain about in spring.
Speaker 6: You know, those of us in the agriculture world, which
Speaker 6: gardeners are, by the way, we always have to complain
Speaker 6: about the weather. Right it is too cold, too hot,
Speaker 6: too dry, too wet, whatever it is. Well, right now
Speaker 6: we'll see what can we complain about. It's perfect, but
Speaker 6: it is windy. I was outside making a couple of
Speaker 6: things for Facebook, shooting a couple of videos for Facebook yesterday,
Speaker 6: and wow, I dropped the mic and went and found
Speaker 6: a kite because it was perfect kite flying weather, that
Speaker 6: is for sure. Well, you're listening to garden Line. The
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Speaker 6: r H. One of the things I was talking about yesterday,
Speaker 6: I got a little video coming out the five important
Speaker 6: points you need to know about using a pre emergent herbicide.
Speaker 6: Five important points you need to know And what I
Speaker 6: was basically using as a prop was barricade, because barricade
Speaker 6: is your standard pre emergent herbicide. Talk about it all
Speaker 6: the time here on garden Line by the folks at Nitrofiss.
Speaker 6: It covers a wide variety of weeds. You know, there
Speaker 6: are weeds that are broadly, there are weeds that are grassy.
Speaker 6: And when you look at pre and post emergent herbicides,
Speaker 6: some of them work well on one, some of them
Speaker 6: work well on the other. Each has its own different
Speaker 6: group of weeds that it's most likely to give effective
Speaker 6: control on. Broadly are barricades a very broad section of
Speaker 6: grass and broadleaf. We preventing them, but you got to
Speaker 6: get it down ahead of time. You get it down asap. Listen.
Speaker 6: With this weather, the warm season, weeds they're just like
Speaker 6: the gardeners. They're ready to get out there and get going.
Speaker 6: And you get your barricade down, your watered in half
Speaker 6: inch of water and you're good to go, and it's
Speaker 6: going to give you a button sixty days. It could
Speaker 6: be a little longer, could be a little less, depends
Speaker 6: on the weather and everything. But if you need extended control,
Speaker 6: we may talk about doing it again a little bit
Speaker 6: later in the season, but for now, one application, follow
Speaker 6: the label. Important to follow the label. You're going to
Speaker 6: find barricade available at places like Bearings Hardware, both the
Speaker 6: one on Bisonetta and West Timer M and D in
Speaker 6: Rosenberg down to Rosenberg M and D. You're going to
Speaker 6: find it at Ace Hardware City, a memorial drive and
Speaker 6: plans for all seasons up on Highway to forty nine,
Speaker 6: all places that carry nitross products. Yeah, So talking about
Speaker 6: the important points to keep in mind, I'm maybe I'll
Speaker 6: come back to those a little bit here and we'll
Speaker 6: discuss some of the five important points. I see people
Speaker 6: misapply a lot of products, and we don't need to
Speaker 6: be doing that. It is not that difficult. There's simple
Speaker 6: things we need to keep in mind, and when we do,
Speaker 6: we can have success. You know, when you use a product,
Speaker 6: I don't care if it's a fung aside to kill
Speaker 6: a fungus if it's a insecticide to kill an insect
Speaker 6: or herbicide to kill a weed, it is very important
Speaker 6: that you know how to apply it and when to
Speaker 6: apply it, and how to mix and everything like that
Speaker 6: if you want to have success. Well, we're going to
Speaker 6: head straight out to the phones this morning and welcome Bruce. Bruce,
Speaker 6: you get the Early Riser Award today. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you very much, Schied. I had a question
Speaker 7: about herbicide. I've got a bare spot in my lawn.
Speaker 7: I'm going to try to get the grass growing well
Speaker 7: in there, but the weeds have gotten ahead of me
Speaker 7: and it's more than I can deal with by hand.
Speaker 7: Is there something that, yeah, you would recommend that I use,
Speaker 7: particularly for this time of year.
Speaker 6: If you see weeds, now, what you're looking at is
Speaker 6: broad leaf weeds, and so with broad leaf weeds that
Speaker 6: would be a cool season weed. Well, I mean you
Speaker 6: may have some grassy weeds too, but cool season is
Speaker 6: what you're what I meant to say that you're seeing. Now.
Speaker 6: For those you you have a couple of options. Primarily,
Speaker 6: you could either kill everything in the area and have
Speaker 6: a clean slate, get all perennials, or anything like that
Speaker 6: out or you could use just a selective herbicide that
Speaker 6: either kills grasses or broad leaves. You can go either way.
Speaker 6: I would probably do the overall general. Is there is
Speaker 6: there any grass you want to keep in that area
Speaker 6: right now?
Speaker 5: There is?
Speaker 6: Or is it basically all okay? In that case, I
Speaker 6: would use a post emergent broad leaf weed control product
Speaker 6: post emergent broad leaf, So you could do it different ways.
Speaker 6: You can get a spray and just spray the weeds.
Speaker 6: That is one option. Another option would be to go
Speaker 6: for something that is a fertilizer that also has weed
Speaker 6: control in it.
Speaker 8: Are you inclined to go either way? Particularly on that
Speaker 8: I don't have a preference either way. I think though
Speaker 8: I probably avoids spray directly with a drip, but I
Speaker 8: might use a paint brush or a spongebrush or something
Speaker 8: like that to apply it.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, if you've got a lot of weed, that
Speaker 6: may be pretty tedious to try to get out there,
Speaker 6: you know, with the brush to try to do it.
Speaker 6: Try to do it that way. The folks at Nelson
Speaker 6: have a product called Weedinator, and Weedinator is a broad
Speaker 6: leaf weed control product that also has somewhat of a
Speaker 6: growth regulator in it for any of the weeds, you know,
Speaker 6: it affects them in that way also. But I would
Speaker 6: say weedinator is your would be your spring green up
Speaker 6: fertilizer and your weed control. So if you sprayed it
Speaker 6: on everything excuse me, it's a granular. If you applied
Speaker 6: it over the whole area, then it would kill the
Speaker 6: weeds and then you'd have your early fertilization already there
Speaker 6: on your grass. And Weedinator's going to last a long time,
Speaker 6: so it's going to continue to feed your grass for you.
Speaker 6: So what you do is you wet the whole area,
Speaker 6: just turn on a sprinkler, get all the leaves wet
Speaker 6: of the weeds, grass and everything. Put out the weedinator.
Speaker 6: It won't hurt your grass and sticks to the weed
Speaker 6: leaves because they're wet, and then it soaks in and
Speaker 6: after a couple of days, just water it in get
Speaker 6: the rest of it down there in the ground where
Speaker 6: it can do the benefit of fertilizing for you. I
Speaker 6: think that'd be your best bet. Fantastic. Thank you so much, Skip. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and that's that's from the folks that Nelson's called Weedenator. Hey,
Speaker 6: thanks a lot for the call man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: You take care, all right, Yeah, that is important to
Speaker 6: get ahead of these weeds. Here's the on the cool
Speaker 6: season weeds they are going to seed, and when they
Speaker 6: go to seed, we have the issue of next year
Speaker 6: having a hundred times more weeds than we did this year,
Speaker 6: especially if the law gets them. So you just want
Speaker 6: to stay ahead of them. You don't want to let
Speaker 6: them get ahead of you. Well, I'm going to take
Speaker 6: a little break here and we'll be back with your
Speaker 6: calls seven one three two one two ktrh Friday. We're back.
Speaker 6: Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey,
Speaker 6: if you want to give me a call talk gardening,
Speaker 6: it's always best to call early in the day because
Speaker 6: it's kind of quiet. First thing, believe it or not,
Speaker 6: people like sleep in a little bit.
Speaker 2: So here we go.
Speaker 6: I wanted to visit a little bit about quality garden centers.
Speaker 6: We we have so many good ones here in Houston,
Speaker 6: and it's really true. Listen. I've lived in different places
Speaker 6: across the state of Texas. I've traveled to different states
Speaker 6: and everywhere I go some every time I go somewhere,
Speaker 6: I go to a garden center there. I love to
Speaker 6: go see what's your best garden center in this town.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you we got to beat, hands down in Houston.
Speaker 6: We got awesome garden centers. We really do. And I'm
Speaker 6: not just saying. I mean it is amazing how many
Speaker 6: good garden centers we have. If you live north, south, east, west,
Speaker 6: or central, there is a garden center near you that
Speaker 6: is well worth a visit. It's inspirational. They have quality
Speaker 6: train folks, it's just good. And you know a good
Speaker 6: example of that would be Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood
Speaker 6: Garden Center out there in Kingwood. Those places they have
Speaker 6: outstanding products right now. The gosh, the shipments that they
Speaker 6: got in at Warren's, it's just what do you need?
Speaker 6: Do you want vegetables? Do you want herbs? Do you
Speaker 6: want flowers? Do you want just go on and on
Speaker 6: down the line. They really do have it all. I
Speaker 6: love going into those places and shop. You know what,
Speaker 6: Warrens they're going to have a good selection of fruit
Speaker 6: trees too. Right now. If you are looking for any
Speaker 6: kind of quality fruit tree, quality plants in general, and
Speaker 6: certainly the quality s, you know, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: This is the place for you. The selection is unbelievable.
Speaker 6: They have some unusual tomatoes. For example, you don't have
Speaker 6: some fun with tomatoes this year. I plant child standards
Speaker 6: and they got those. But try something like indigo blueberries tomato.
Speaker 6: It's red on the inside and kind of a deep
Speaker 6: dark indigo color on the outside. Is that weird? Is
Speaker 6: it cool? Yes? It is absolutely and they've got it
Speaker 6: there at Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center add
Speaker 6: in Kingwood. Warrens is on North Park Drive. Kingwood is
Speaker 6: on Stone Hollow Drive. You're always going to find everything
Speaker 6: you're looking for at those two places, including good advice.
Speaker 6: And I just cannot stress that enough. People that know
Speaker 6: what they're talking about that can point you in the
Speaker 6: right direction when you have problems with your lawn and garden.
Speaker 6: Bring in a sample, bring in a photo. Talk to them.
Speaker 6: They can help you with it. They have the expertise,
Speaker 6: and that is very important. These are your hard earned
Speaker 6: dollars and they are going to be well spent when
Speaker 6: you go someplace that is service before and after the
Speaker 6: sale and helping you have success. This week, I have
Speaker 6: been looking at my yard and trying to do some ketchup.
Speaker 6: You know, if you ever heard the phrase the cobblers
Speaker 6: kids go barefoot. Well, during the spring, I'm running around
Speaker 6: doing all kinds of things. By the way, I'll be
Speaker 6: out at Jorges Hidden Gardens later today. I hope you
Speaker 6: can come out and see me there. I'll be there
Speaker 6: from one to three. Hoorges is down. It's an Albin address.
Speaker 6: It's Elizabeth Street and Alvin. But if you're in Alvin
Speaker 6: and you're heading down towards Santa Fe direction down Highway six,
Speaker 6: it's about halfway and then off to the right, that's
Speaker 6: kind of where it's located. Come out and see me.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna be giving away some Nelson products. We got
Speaker 6: some Hoges fertilizer product as well there, and I believe
Speaker 6: I'm gonna talk about this a little bit later, but
Speaker 6: we got some cool plants and he's gone be providing
Speaker 6: as well. But anyway, wherever I seem to be in
Speaker 6: the spring, it's hard to find time to get back
Speaker 6: in my garden because I'm out doing other things. Like
Speaker 6: I said yesterday, is doing some filming for some Facebook videos.
Speaker 6: And when I have a chance to be here, I'm
Speaker 6: taking care of some things, getting ready for spring. I
Speaker 6: was just looking at my seed collection for warm season
Speaker 6: seeds and getting those out and getting them organized and
Speaker 6: putting them out there. And if you like to save seed,
Speaker 6: or if you maybe buy a packet and you have
Speaker 6: some extras, what you can do is when you're done,
Speaker 6: put them in something that's air tight. And I don't
Speaker 6: mean look a zip lock back. I mean like a
Speaker 6: jar or one of those glass containers with a pop
Speaker 6: down lids, or are plastic. They got the little rubber
Speaker 6: seal around them so they are air tight. Put them
Speaker 6: in there. If you got anything that's a dessicont you
Speaker 6: know when you buy electronics or when you buy like
Speaker 6: vitamin and things, they come with the little packets in them.
Speaker 6: Those are dessicons. Throw those in there with your seed
Speaker 6: to keep them dry. And put them in the refrigerator
Speaker 6: for long term storage. I'll use a freezer, but basically
Speaker 6: refrigerator's good. And when you take them out, let them
Speaker 6: warm up before you pop the lid open, because something
Speaker 6: cold exposed to our humid air creates condensation. Right Like
Speaker 6: if you take a coca cold can out of the
Speaker 6: refrigerator and you set it out on the counter and
Speaker 6: then you put ice in it. That cold liquid what
Speaker 6: happens on the outside of the glass and get a
Speaker 6: little droplets of water and you don't want that on
Speaker 6: your seed. We're trying to keep them dry. So I
Speaker 6: set the container out and give it some time to
Speaker 6: kind of warm up to room temperature. It doesn't take long,
Speaker 6: and then open it up and there you go, and
Speaker 6: your seeds will last a long long time. And sometimes
Speaker 6: with some of these specialty seeds that you buy, you know,
Speaker 6: a certain variety, they only give you a few seeds
Speaker 6: and things you really want to take care of those.
Speaker 6: They're not just cheap things. And so that is the
Speaker 6: way you do it. Keep them cold, keep them dry.
Speaker 6: That is important.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 6: ACE Hardware stores are located all over the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 6: You can go to the website ACE Hardwaretexas dot com.
Speaker 6: Ace Hardware Texas. Don't get that Texas in there. Our
Speaker 6: local ACE Hardware group has put together a little map
Speaker 6: where you can see all the stores. Depending on where
Speaker 6: you're located, there's going to be one near you. And
Speaker 6: when you go to ACE, you're going to find quality things,
Speaker 6: like you're going to find all the supplies you need
Speaker 6: for outdoors. Do you need fertilizers, do you need weed control,
Speaker 6: pre emergent or post emergent, things to control insects and diseases,
Speaker 6: Products that are synthetic products, that are organic, good quality tools,
Speaker 6: anything you need to make the outside of your place
Speaker 6: look its best and to make those outdoor gathering areas,
Speaker 6: sitting areas just really really pop. And you know, there's
Speaker 6: nothing more fun this time of the year than sitting
Speaker 6: outside and enjoying the outdoors. And ACE has got you
Speaker 6: covered on all kinds of things along those lines. And
Speaker 6: you know, there are so many great ACE stores in
Speaker 6: our area. For example, there's an ACE hardware store called
Speaker 6: the excuse me, the uh excuse me, pardon me uh
Speaker 6: J and our's ACE Hardware up in Porter. I'm going
Speaker 6: to be heading up there, by the way, I won't
Speaker 6: be too long away. There's ACE Hardware at Sinco Ranch,
Speaker 6: which is out on Mason Road and Katie uh. And
Speaker 6: then you go down to League City and we got
Speaker 6: League City Ace Hardware. Or how about Victoria Ace for
Speaker 6: all of you listening out there in Victoria, it's easy
Speaker 6: to find an ACE hardware store in New You Ace
Speaker 6: Hardware Texas dot Com Time for me to take a
Speaker 6: break here and just a bit not quite yet, I've
Speaker 6: got a little bit of time left, uh, but I
Speaker 6: wanted to I wanted to discuss just a little bit,
Speaker 6: uh some more about success with pre emergent herbicides. I
Speaker 6: was talking about that a little bit earlier. But when
Speaker 6: you're dealing with the pre emergent herbicide, you want to
Speaker 6: make sure that number one, you know the weeds you're
Speaker 6: going after, and you get a product that's going to
Speaker 6: work on those weeds. Not every product has the perfect
Speaker 6: you know, blend for every weed on Earth. There's just
Speaker 6: too much variation out there. But you want a product
Speaker 6: that's going to control almost all of them. That's why
Speaker 6: I recommend barricade, by the way. But you want to
Speaker 6: make sure you're going after number two. You want to
Speaker 6: make sure you're doing it at the right time. It's
Speaker 6: like playing baseball. You got to swing at the right time.
Speaker 6: Too early or too late and you don't hit the ball. Well.
Speaker 6: These weeds are germinating now. The temperature is right for
Speaker 6: them to get going now, So get it done ahead
Speaker 6: of time. That is very important. Get it done at
Speaker 6: the right amount of time. You want to use a
Speaker 6: product at the right rate. There's a reason there's a
Speaker 6: rate on the label. I know it's ground in especially
Speaker 6: as guys, it's just ground into us that if a
Speaker 6: tea spoon's good, a tablespoon's better, we're not going to
Speaker 6: just kill the weed. We're going to kill it dead
Speaker 6: or well, that's nonsense. Here's why. If you're making a
Speaker 6: product and wanting to sell it, wouldn't you tell people
Speaker 6: to use a whole lot of it so you could
Speaker 6: sell them some more? Right, So why would a label
Speaker 6: say I'm going to use teaspoon tablespoon? Why would I
Speaker 6: say use a teaspoon if a tablespoon was better, Well,
Speaker 6: it wouldn't. It wouldn't. And here's a second thing. When
Speaker 6: you underapply something whurse, you don't get good control. When
Speaker 6: you overapply it, you don't get better control because the
Speaker 6: label gives you the best control. But what you do
Speaker 6: get on over applying, and this is true with pre emergence,
Speaker 6: is you can cause damage to your lawn. And that's
Speaker 6: true with post emergence as well. Miss read the label,
Speaker 6: it'll tell you that if post emergence about temperatures, when
Speaker 6: you apply it, pre emergence gives you the rate and
Speaker 6: do it at the proper rate. That is very important.
Speaker 6: And then finally you got a water it in. You
Speaker 6: have to put it down and then water it in
Speaker 6: because these products like barricade comes on a granule, You
Speaker 6: water it and it washes that product into the soil
Speaker 6: surface where it ties up. If they just washed away,
Speaker 6: they wouldn't do any good. They're made to tie up
Speaker 6: to the soil surface, and when they do, weed tries
Speaker 6: to sprout and they're there, but they are doing nothing.
Speaker 6: A pre emergent is doing nothing until you incorporate it
Speaker 6: or water it in to get it to the soil surface.
Speaker 6: So you got to follow up with that in order
Speaker 6: to have success. All right, those are a few tips
Speaker 6: on pre emergent herbicides. The folks at Nature's Way Resources,
Speaker 6: do you know they have a nursery out there. It's
Speaker 6: a two acre nursery and they got all kinds of things,
Speaker 6: a lot of great native plants. First of all, one
Speaker 6: of the largest groups of natives you're going to find
Speaker 6: in this area. They got vegetables, they have house plants,
Speaker 6: they have fruit trees. I mean they've got a whole
Speaker 6: lot and nature Sway Resources. It is just to kind
Speaker 6: of that. You're going to find every possible product that
Speaker 6: is the top quality for every possible plant, whether it's mulches,
Speaker 6: whether it's compost, whether it's bed mixes, whether you're growing
Speaker 6: blueberries and need acidic type products, whether you're growing fruit
Speaker 6: trees or vegetables or whatever, they're going to have those products.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 6: They've extended their hours for spring and that is Monday
Speaker 6: through Saturday, eight am to five pm. They're closed on Sunday.
Speaker 6: You can go to the website Nature's Way Resources dot
Speaker 6: com Nature's Way Resources dot com. And I want to
Speaker 6: remind you that coming up they've got some shindig on
Speaker 6: its way. As I like to put it, there's Spring
Speaker 6: Garden Festival that is March twenty second. Write that down
Speaker 6: March twenty second, Nature's Way Resources eight am to two pm.
Speaker 6: There's all kinds of things. There's vendors, there's talks, educational talks,
Speaker 6: the food and drinks, and of course plant sales doesn't
Speaker 6: cost anything. To go Nature's Way Resource dot com. You
Speaker 6: need to check that out.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I love going out there and visiting with Ian and
Speaker 6: the whole team out there. Really they know what they're
Speaker 6: talking about. They've continued the tradition that John Ferguson started
Speaker 6: when he created Nature's Way many many years ago. It's
Speaker 6: important to make quality products at work. Have you ever
Speaker 6: thought about why they have the name Nature's Way because
Speaker 6: they want to do things the way that nature does them.
Speaker 6: That's important, right to do things the way nature doesn't.
Speaker 6: Plants for all seasons is on two forty nine, which
Speaker 6: is on the way to Tomball. It's called Tomball Parkway.
Speaker 6: If you're going up north, you cross you exit Luata,
Speaker 6: cross over Lueta and it's right there on the right
Speaker 6: hand side. This is a place where people that have
Speaker 6: green thumbs and want to have a green thumb go
Speaker 6: because when you go in there, you're going to get
Speaker 6: the plants that do well here. That's important. Get the
Speaker 6: plants that do well here. Next you're going to get
Speaker 6: advice that is very accurate, very accurate. They know what
Speaker 6: they're talking about. They've been gardeners for a long time.
Speaker 6: Listen To Place has been open since nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 6: It's a full service retail garden center staffed with quality folks,
Speaker 6: the whole flowerty family. They they are just every time
Speaker 6: turn a corner, there's another flowerty there, but they're true
Speaker 6: lawn and garden experts. You can go to the website
Speaker 6: Plants for All Seasons dot com. Right now they are
Speaker 6: loaded up. If you hear a fertilizer name come out
Speaker 6: of my mouth, it's going to be at Plants for
Speaker 6: All Seasons. They've got good selections of soil and of
Speaker 6: course the green stuff, the stuff we go to a
Speaker 6: garden center and get all excited about, and that is
Speaker 6: at Plants for All Seasons. All right, Well, I got
Speaker 6: to take a little break here and I'll be back.
Speaker 6: If you want to give me a calm be first
Speaker 6: up when we come back. Seven one three two one
Speaker 6: two ktrh. All right, good morning. Good to have you
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Speaker 6: Let's go to the phones now. We're going to hit
Speaker 6: up and talk to Charles and Willis. Hey Charles, Well, hello, Arning,
Speaker 6: how can we help?
Speaker 11: Got a couple of questions for you.
Speaker 12: One is can I use sedge gender or sedge hammer
Speaker 12: in a vegetable garden if I do wipe on?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 6: Well can can you? And is it on the label.
Speaker 6: You know there there's probably a variation. I have not
Speaker 6: read the label closely. I don't think it's labeled for
Speaker 6: vegetable gardens. I understand your idea. Yeah, so you know,
Speaker 6: when you wipe something on, I can I can't tell
Speaker 6: you to use a product outside the label. Okay, that
Speaker 6: just is not something I able to do. Okay, But
Speaker 6: when you wipe, I understand your thought is you're wiping.
Speaker 6: You're wiping it on to keep from spraying on everything
Speaker 6: and whatnot. And those products used on a wiper. I've
Speaker 6: used the wipers when I find these products or that's
Speaker 6: edge in different places. But as far as you know,
Speaker 6: far as the label's concerned, the labels of law not me.
Speaker 6: So okay, all righty okay, all right, thank you.
Speaker 12: Another question getting rid of Saint Augustine and Bermuda. Do
Speaker 12: you think Ortho weed clear.
Speaker 2: Would do that.
Speaker 12: It's labeled to be able to be used on Bermuda,
Speaker 12: but not on Saint Augustine.
Speaker 6: I don't have a label of that in front of me.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 6: And so two I can't tell you, but.
Speaker 12: Two four D quinn korak in Dykanda.
Speaker 6: The first one, two four D is what's hard on
Speaker 6: Saint Augustine if you wanted to do that. When the
Speaker 6: weather heats up. You know, we're up in the mid nineties,
Speaker 6: that would be a time when a product like that
Speaker 6: would be the hardest on Saint Augustine. The kuklorak and
Speaker 6: dikamba not not so much. Yeah, that'd be one use it.
Speaker 12: Use it when Saint Augustine was active, but when the
Speaker 12: Bermuda had not come out of dormancy yet.
Speaker 6: Uh, depending on the strength that you use. Two fort
Speaker 6: d is something that is in some products that are
Speaker 6: labeled for Saint Augustine at a much lower level. When
Speaker 6: you read something and it says weed control for Southern
Speaker 6: lawns or something like that, usually what that means is
Speaker 6: they have either removed the two forty or they've got
Speaker 6: it a much lower level and they have other things
Speaker 6: in there to do the job two forty did. And
Speaker 6: the regular version of.
Speaker 12: That product, Wheedclaer is labeled for northern on.
Speaker 6: And but it says that will for permuta yep, so
Speaker 6: you may have to reapply it. You know, it's not
Speaker 6: black and white like it just flack kills. Like if
Speaker 6: you spread round up on your lawn, it would just
Speaker 6: kill the Saint Augustine and the permuta too, by the way.
Speaker 6: So yeah, that's the approach I would take. Okay, but
Speaker 6: let it heat up and you're gonna get better results
Speaker 6: and be ready to have to follow up on it. Okay,
Speaker 6: sounds good. Thank you, Thanks sir, appreciate the call. Thanks
Speaker 6: a lot. You guys have heard me talk about tree
Speaker 6: hugger sprinklers before, and I think this is the coolest
Speaker 6: thing since slashed bread. The tree hugger has a little
Speaker 6: hinge in it. Think of a circle with a hinge
Speaker 6: in it, like the pac man. You know, mouth goes
Speaker 6: open and you just go up to the tree trunk
Speaker 6: and bring it around and it makes a circle around
Speaker 6: the trunk. There's a seven inch, eleven inch and fifteen inch.
Speaker 6: If you have any tree or shrub that you're planting,
Speaker 6: this would be a great way to turn on the
Speaker 6: water and water right there at the base. You just
Speaker 6: barely turn it on. We're sort of trickling out of
Speaker 6: the tree hugger as that plant begins to grow. Now
Speaker 6: you want to water maybe a three foot or a
Speaker 6: five foot, or a ten foot or a fifteen foot
Speaker 6: or more. You just turn it up more and more
Speaker 6: and more, and so it allows you to do those
Speaker 6: rescue treatments that we do in the summertime. So even
Speaker 6: if a tree wasn't just planted, maybe it's been in
Speaker 6: the ground five years, tree hugger sprinkler is still a
Speaker 6: thing you want to have on hand.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 6: Rosarians love that product because it is good for roses,
Speaker 6: any kind of tree or shrub. You're going to find
Speaker 6: it at places like Southwest Fertilizer Ace hardware stores like
Speaker 6: I've seen a single Ranch eight kd Ace, K and
Speaker 6: m Ace and a Tascasida and Fulshire Ace there. I
Speaker 6: know those carry them. Perhaps perhaps some more league city
Speaker 6: Feed carries them. Spring Creek Feed Center up in Tambole
Speaker 6: and D and D Feed out west to Tombul and
Speaker 6: Chanty Gardens and Forest Warren's and Kingwood out in Kingwood,
Speaker 6: rcw Elson Water Gardens out in Kti and the Arbigate.
Speaker 6: All places you're going to be able to get the
Speaker 6: tree hugger sprinkler, and trust me, you are going to
Speaker 6: use it. It is every year you need to use
Speaker 6: a tree hugger for these establishing a plant and for
Speaker 6: doing the summer rescue treatments. It's ninety five degrees. It
Speaker 6: hadn't rained in a while. Let's get out there and
Speaker 6: just keep that tree and good health. Tree hugger is
Speaker 6: a way to do it. I really mean, I think
Speaker 6: it's one of the coolest inventions that I have seen
Speaker 6: in a long time. You're listening to guardenline phone number
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Speaker 6: seven one three two one two.
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Speaker 6: Out in my lawn it is. It shows what winter did.
Speaker 6: It's all basically brown. There's a few green sprigs in there,
Speaker 6: but winter really burned My Saint Augustine back good and
Speaker 6: in fact my Zoeesias or have a pretty good frost
Speaker 6: top as well. Well. Pretty soon here, I'm going to
Speaker 6: get out there and do a kind of a I
Speaker 6: don't like to use the words scalping that that's kind
Speaker 6: of an overdoing it. But I'm going to have to
Speaker 6: apply something or I'm at to cut back and get
Speaker 6: that debris out of there. So you may be looking
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Speaker 6: Fixmyslab dot com. I'm gonna take a break and I'll
Speaker 6: be right back, all right, folks, were back. Welcome back.
Speaker 6: By the way, I am going to be planting some
Speaker 6: perennials this week. And let me tell you one thing
Speaker 6: I do when I plant plants. I get some medina
Speaker 6: has to grow six twelve six, and I mix it
Speaker 6: up in water and I drench the root ball. Sometimes
Speaker 6: I'll put like the plant in a bucket and just
Speaker 6: put the medina in the bucket and soak the rootball.
Speaker 6: But while I'm getting ready and diging the plant and
Speaker 6: everything that's a great way to do it, or just
Speaker 6: put it in a watering can, plant the plant, soak
Speaker 6: that rootball really really good, Finish your planting and all
Speaker 6: that and be done with it, multing whatever you're gonna do,
Speaker 6: and about a week later, do it again. A week later,
Speaker 6: do it again. Those three applications of medina. Has to
Speaker 6: grow six twelve six will help that plant get off
Speaker 6: to a good start. And here's why. Number one, it's
Speaker 6: got six twelve six fertilizer in it, and that middle number,
Speaker 6: phosphorus is really helpful in root development, very important and
Speaker 6: has to grow six twelve six works in that way.
Speaker 6: It also has medina soil activator, which stimulates biological activity.
Speaker 6: It's got humate humic acid, which we know that humic products,
Speaker 6: whether it's the humus itself or the humic acid in
Speaker 6: the humus. It's going to improve soil structure, it's going
Speaker 6: to improve nutrient uptake. It's got seaweed extracts, and by
Speaker 6: the way, you can use has to grow six twelve
Speaker 6: six for folier as well. It's not going to burn plants.
Speaker 6: But when you're going to put a plant in the ground,
Speaker 6: just remember three times at planting a week later, and
Speaker 6: a week later, a good drenching, a medina has to
Speaker 6: grow six twelve six, and you're gonna find medina products
Speaker 6: widely available here in the Houston area, the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 6: Let's head out and talk to Katie. Now, Hello Katie, Hello, Skip,
Speaker 6: what's up?
Speaker 15: I am started my spring yard maintenance and been pretty productive.
Speaker 15: But I have a couple of questions to ask you.
Speaker 15: One of them is I just thought it my backyard
Speaker 15: was zoysia. It's a small yard, it had lost a
Speaker 15: couple of trees, so now it's got sunlight. So I'm
Speaker 15: doing some zoyja. What can I do to ensure that
Speaker 15: it takes and that it's I'm afraid I'm not watering
Speaker 15: it enough, too much, and I just want to know
Speaker 15: your take on what.
Speaker 14: I need to do.
Speaker 6: All right, how long how long ago you sawed it?
Speaker 6: You said you just did? I mean days ago.
Speaker 15: Literally, I just it took me because I was doing
Speaker 15: it by myself.
Speaker 14: It took me two days.
Speaker 6: Okay, you want to when you said that, Fortunately, our
Speaker 6: temperatures are very mild now, so you get away with
Speaker 6: maybe not watering it. If you didn't water it enough,
Speaker 6: you kind of get away with that better now than
Speaker 6: when it's hot. But in the hot weather, I say
Speaker 6: water twice a day the first week, once a day
Speaker 6: the second week, and then start to wean off to
Speaker 6: a normal schedule, a very infrequent schedule. So so what
Speaker 6: when I say water, I mean just water a little bit.
Speaker 6: You know, we're not talking about putting an inch of
Speaker 6: water on twice a day. That would be a swamp,
Speaker 6: but just just you're that side just had a little
Speaker 6: thin layer of a black clay on it, and then
Speaker 6: that's the whole root system. And so you got to
Speaker 6: keep it alive, keep the patient alive while it puts
Speaker 6: roots down. So twice a day in hot weather, uh,
Speaker 6: and then once a day for another week. And that's
Speaker 6: kind of the schedule i'd recommend.
Speaker 15: And when do you, I think, when do you mow it?
Speaker 15: Or when do you start grooming it?
Speaker 6: Because I've given it given at least, yeah, go ahead?
Speaker 14: Is it a month?
Speaker 6: About about a month? You know it right now it's
Speaker 6: not going to be rooting in as fast as it
Speaker 6: would be as it warms up. But yeah, if you
Speaker 6: if you can give it about two weeks, it's going
Speaker 6: to have some roots down and could be mowed. You
Speaker 6: just want it. You don't want your to be moving
Speaker 6: the little blocks of sod around when you're going over
Speaker 6: the top of it or lifting them up. But if
Speaker 6: you'll go out there and grab a sad piece like
Speaker 6: you're grabbing a little throw rug and just kind of
Speaker 6: lift it up a little bit, just pull gently on it,
Speaker 6: you can tell if it's pegged down tight or not.
Speaker 6: And if it's peg down tight and you don't it
Speaker 6: doesn't just sort of begin to lift a little bit,
Speaker 6: then definitely don't mow it if it's not peg down tight.
Speaker 6: But in the summertime sometimes I'll mow, oh about three weeks,
Speaker 6: four weeks after I've established it, and it should be
Speaker 6: starting to peg down well by two.
Speaker 9: Weeks, okay.
Speaker 15: And then my second question is my front yard. It's
Speaker 15: Saint Augustine currently, but it also has a garden in
Speaker 15: it that has a fig tree and a couple of
Speaker 15: peach trees, and the whole garden, including the yard, is
Speaker 15: got tons of weeds. But because it's fruit and a
Speaker 15: pollinator garden, I don't want to use anything that's not
Speaker 15: good for edibles and or bees and butterflies.
Speaker 5: So what do you.
Speaker 6: Recommend all right, So what you're gonna want to do.
Speaker 6: It depends on the kinds of weeds. If they are
Speaker 6: perennial weeds, they need to be controlled with a product. Okay,
Speaker 6: I have on my website something called a weed wiper
Speaker 6: shows you how to build one, and it shows you
Speaker 6: what products to use depending on the weed. And it
Speaker 6: basically is a grabber tool with sponges on it and
Speaker 6: you just wet the sponge so you're using very little
Speaker 6: herbicide and then you reach down and squeeze it onto
Speaker 6: the weed leaves and that puts the least amount of
Speaker 6: product out there, and it does a good job. But
Speaker 6: go to gardening with Skip dot com, find the skipswed
Speaker 6: wiper publication and then find the herbicides to use on skip'sweedwiper.
Speaker 6: Those two publications and that ought to guide you, especially
Speaker 6: getting up under a fruit tree. You don't want to
Speaker 6: spray and have driftkit on your fruit.
Speaker 15: Tree, right, which is wild. And I didn't want to
Speaker 15: destroy my you know, my passion vine and my pipe
Speaker 15: vine and my right and my milkweed.
Speaker 6: Those two publications they'll do it. That's what you know.
Speaker 10: I appreciate.
Speaker 6: All right, Thanks, Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciate that,
Speaker 6: take care of that for sure. We'll do the trick. Hey,
Speaker 6: have you been out to Moss Nursery that's in Seabrook.
Speaker 6: For those of you who have not been there, I
Speaker 6: don't care where you live, you got to go see
Speaker 6: that place. It is eight acres seventy year old family
Speaker 6: operated business, eight acres of wandering through everything you need
Speaker 6: for your landscape, for your garden, for your interior homescape.
Speaker 6: Even It's on Toddville Road in Seabrook. The website is
Speaker 6: Moss m aas nursery dot com. You're going to find
Speaker 6: that they are constantly getting things in. If I told
Speaker 6: you what they had today, tomorrow they'll have more. I mean,
Speaker 6: that's just how it works at Moss. You know, do
Speaker 6: you want shrub like Chinese witch hazel or Laura Pedlin.
Speaker 6: We call it bald cypress, use holly trees, you know,
Speaker 6: magnolias and hawthorns and red budgs. Just you know, it's
Speaker 6: things like junipers and azaleas, are any kind of hanging baskets, vegetables, herbs, flowers,
Speaker 6: and one of my favorite parts about Moss is all
Speaker 6: the cool outdoor bling. You know, the landscape art that
Speaker 6: goes outside. They will have stuff you've never seen. And
Speaker 6: I don't know if I've ever been a place that
Speaker 6: had as many different kinds of containers as Moss does.
Speaker 6: You just got to go down there. Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas.
Speaker 6: Here's a phone number two eight one four seven four
Speaker 6: twenty four eighty eight. Two eight one four seven four
Speaker 6: twenty four eighty eight. I was visiting with a cliff
Speaker 6: from Year Round Houston the other day, and I'm telling you,
Speaker 6: these guys one reason we're excited to bring year Round
Speaker 6: on board is they are They truly are specialist when
Speaker 6: it comes to corroration and compost top dressing. That means
Speaker 6: they're going to use products that are effective, that are quality,
Speaker 6: not junk composts, but stuff that's designed for top dressing. Now,
Speaker 6: an neration gets oxygen in the soil. It's breathing fresh
Speaker 6: life into the ground when you do that, and the
Speaker 6: turf will respond, especially heavy clays and comp compacted soils. Now,
Speaker 6: basically Year Round Houston is going to serve the inside
Speaker 6: the Beltway. You just think about that, inside the Beltway,
Speaker 6: the Houston area. That's kind of their primary focus, right
Speaker 6: there year round Houston dot com, Year round Houston dot
Speaker 6: com a phone number eight three two eight eight four
Speaker 6: fifty three thirty five eight three two eight eight four
Speaker 6: fifty three thirty five. Yes, you can do it yourself
Speaker 6: by buying the compost, dumping it on the driveway, get
Speaker 6: it renting some heavy equipment that will not do as
Speaker 6: good of a job as they can do with the
Speaker 6: professional equipment they use it year round, but then you
Speaker 6: got the mess and the cleanup of the machinery and
Speaker 6: getting it back. Just call year round, Just call Cliff
Speaker 6: at year around Houston dot com and get it done
Speaker 6: that way. I was getting set to do some fertilization
Speaker 6: that I was doing with a liquid and one of
Speaker 6: the products I go to it's my kind of mye really.
Speaker 6: I have a couple of them that I like from
Speaker 6: Microlife specifically. This is their orange label Biomatrix. That is
Speaker 6: a liquid. I got a little quarks of it. You
Speaker 6: can buy some big gallons if you want. It's a
Speaker 6: seven one three high nitrogen liquid organic got beneficial microbes.
Speaker 6: I use it for houseplants because when you have a
Speaker 6: higher nitrogen fertilizer that's going to promote foliage growth and
Speaker 6: basically that's what our houseplants are is foliage and you
Speaker 6: mix it according to the label. You're not going to
Speaker 6: burn with it. Not a problem at all. But I'll
Speaker 6: use it on outdoor plants to give them a boost plants.
Speaker 6: You can put it on anything you want. Put it
Speaker 6: in a watering can and go around the yard fertilizing
Speaker 6: with it. Ocean Harvest which is a blue label. It
Speaker 6: is a four to two three. That is another excellent
Speaker 6: product from micro Life Fertilizer. Well, the music means I
Speaker 6: have to stop talking, but I'm not gonna stop talking
Speaker 6: until I say. I'm gonna be at Hoorges today. Orges
Speaker 6: Heading Gardens done in Alvin. If you haven't been down
Speaker 6: there before, well you need to go. You need to
Speaker 6: come see me and see what Orge has going there.
Speaker 6: We're gonna be giving away some of his product. He's
Speaker 6: given away five peach trees. You've been thinking about putting
Speaker 6: a fruit tree in the yard. Come, you may win
Speaker 6: a peach tree there. He has a lot of different
Speaker 6: kinds of fruit too. One pm to three pm, so
Speaker 6: it's an afternoon early to mid afternoon. One pm to
Speaker 6: three pm today, Elizabeth Street in Alvin. So basically, if
Speaker 6: you're in Alvin, you just get on Highway six and
Speaker 6: head down like you're going to Santa Fe. About halfway there,
Speaker 6: turn off to the right. Orges, hidden gardens. Come on
Speaker 6: and see me, Bring me some samples, bring me some pictures.
Speaker 6: Let's figure out what's going on and how to help
Speaker 6: you have a bountiful, beautiful place.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's trim. Just watch him as woes.
Speaker 4: So many good things to see, Black Basya.
Speaker 2: Not a Sunday sun beamon.
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning, good morning. We are glad you're listening
Speaker 6: to garden Line today. I'm your host, Skip. We're here
Speaker 6: to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.
Speaker 6: That's what we would like to happen. I suspect that
Speaker 6: maybe what you would like to happen as well. We'll
Speaker 6: just give us a call. All yeah, I do is
Speaker 6: doal seven one three two one two kt rh And
Speaker 6: there I said it again. I use the word dial
Speaker 6: Remember when we dialed phones. Just punt in the number
Speaker 6: seven one three two one two kt rh uh. Springtime
Speaker 6: brings some unique types of spring blooms. And Texas mount
Speaker 6: Laurela is one of those. If you've never smelled Texas Mountainlaurl, oh,
Speaker 6: my gosh, it is a gaudy smell. If you can
Speaker 6: use the word gaudy for a fragrance, it is, it
Speaker 6: absolutely is. It has a grape bubble gum, a grape
Speaker 6: kool Aid greape bubble gum is the way I remember
Speaker 6: remember the super bubble grape. That's what it smells like.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 6: I think it's wonderful. It perfumes the air with such
Speaker 6: a strong fragrance. It's cool. One time, San Antonio Potanical Gardens,
Speaker 6: we were taking a group of extension people from across
Speaker 6: the country a tour through San Antonio Botanical Garden and
Speaker 6: there was one around the corner of a building and
Speaker 6: it was around the corner you couldn't see it, and
Speaker 6: these people were going, what is that smell? That fragrance?
Speaker 6: And I had to take them over there and show
Speaker 6: them that's Texas Mountain Lairel. Well, you can get it
Speaker 6: at Buchanans Plants. Of course you can, because Buchanans Native
Speaker 6: plants is the leader when it comes to native place.
Speaker 6: Nobody has a selection that they do in the Greater
Speaker 6: Houston area, and there's always something going on. They always
Speaker 6: have programs going on. You just need to go to
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Speaker 6: if you've not been in before, don't let the word
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Speaker 6: but they're gifts in the gift shop. The vegetables, the flowers,
Speaker 6: the herbs, the shrubs and trees and plants for every situation.
Speaker 6: Do you want to attract hummingbirds? You want to attract butterflies?
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Speaker 6: newsletter Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot Com. Let's go
Speaker 6: out now to a Taska Sida and we want to
Speaker 6: talk to Robert Hey. Robert, Welcome to garden line. How
Speaker 6: you doing skip, You're doing all right today? I am,
Speaker 6: I am? How can we help today? Okay?
Speaker 16: Hey, I know right now a lot of weeds are
Speaker 16: going on the grass and I'm just asking, do you
Speaker 16: prefer to put granules down.
Speaker 6: Or liquid liquid for weeding feeding? You know, well, the
Speaker 6: liquid would be more of a just a weed control product.
Speaker 6: You would just get a herbicide for whatever kinds of
Speaker 6: weeds you're dealing with in spots free. It depends on
Speaker 6: the situation, Robert. If you have a large lawn, you
Speaker 6: a lot of weeds all through the area, the granule
Speaker 6: is better for a post emergent weed control product, And
Speaker 6: it always is better for a pre emergent because you
Speaker 6: want every inch of your lawn to have that product
Speaker 6: to prevent a future weed from showing up. Now, when
Speaker 6: it comes to a lawn that has a few weeds
Speaker 6: here and there scattered out, then you could still use
Speaker 6: the granule. But that's where maybe a spot spray with
Speaker 6: the liquid product may make more sense a little more efficient.
Speaker 6: So it's up to you, and it's up the situation.
Speaker 16: I got you, okay, And the spectra side, it's a
Speaker 16: weed and feed the one I was going to get
Speaker 16: it's a twenty zero zero.
Speaker 6: Do you recommend that one for liquefied Well, I would
Speaker 6: prefer not to use a liquid weed and feed personally
Speaker 6: for various reasons. I can't go on all the details
Speaker 6: on them, but I would prefer not. And it depends
Speaker 6: on the weed you have in the product that's in
Speaker 6: the wheat and feed thing, and so in general. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and and timing is very important on that. If it's
Speaker 6: a post emergent, we can do. We can fertilize now.
Speaker 6: We can do post emergent now. But I wouldn't. I would. Yeah,
Speaker 6: we just have to take it product by product. Okay,
Speaker 6: But I hope that helped you.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes it does.
Speaker 6: I'll just stick to the granules, all right. Thanks such
Speaker 6: appreciate that. Remember remember to wet your lawn before you
Speaker 6: put the granules down with the lawn. So it's in
Speaker 6: what leaves, all right, you got it. Let's uh, let's
Speaker 6: go here. Oh so you gotta close the gate.
Speaker 5: I can't.
Speaker 6: I can't keep up with all. Okay. Uh, Johnny and Katie, Hey,
Speaker 6: welcome to garden Line. Johnny, good morning.
Speaker 10: Uh. I use modena has to grow in your yard
Speaker 10: to spray on my yard.
Speaker 9: Is it too early to start that regiment because of
Speaker 9: the ground tipping.
Speaker 6: It won't hurt anything to do it, but you know,
Speaker 6: you want to have some healthy leaves to spray that on,
Speaker 6: and so maybe giving it just a little bit of
Speaker 6: time to get the new growth starting a little more.
Speaker 6: You're in the katy area, so I don't know exactly
Speaker 6: how long, but maybe a couple of weeks or three
Speaker 6: weeks or something. But let's just wait and see. Maybe
Speaker 6: two weeks should be enough.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 6: My only thing is i'd like, you know, you're going
Speaker 6: to spray that as a folier spray and it's going
Speaker 6: to go in the soil too, But yeah, I would
Speaker 6: I would probably wait just a little bit longer.
Speaker 9: Okay, thank you for information.
Speaker 6: You bet, thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 6: Cinamulch is a one stop shop. It's like, if you're
Speaker 6: looking for a place where, think of it this way.
Speaker 6: Cinamulch is where you set the foundation for success. Okay.
Speaker 6: On garden line, I keep saying brown stuff before green stuff,
Speaker 6: which is just a way of saying, get the soil right,
Speaker 6: and then when you put your wonderful plants in that
Speaker 6: you were so excited about. They'll hit the ground running
Speaker 6: and you will have success. Brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 6: That that basically is what that amounts to. Cianamulch has
Speaker 6: got all the mulches, It's got all of the things
Speaker 6: like a rose sooil or a Veggian herb mix. When
Speaker 6: you go there, you're gonna get the nutrients for your soil.
Speaker 6: It's part of the brown stuff, Microlife, Nilson, turf Star,
Speaker 6: the little jars of Nelson plant foods, Medina, nitrofoss azamite.
Speaker 6: You know that Cienamulch is at now there. Here's what
Speaker 6: you should do is right down the website Sienna Mulch
Speaker 6: dot com. There you'll find the phone numbers. Oh, you'll
Speaker 6: find the hours though. You find the location there on
Speaker 6: FM five twenty one near where Highway six and two
Speaker 6: eighty eight come together south of Houston. Sienna Mulch dot com.
Speaker 6: Start there and you'll end with success. Time for me
Speaker 6: to take a little break and when we come back,
Speaker 6: I'll be talking to Jerry out in Huckley and Ron
Speaker 6: in Cleveland. Look forward to visiting with you guys. Dolman,
Speaker 6: Welcome back to garden Line. Glad you are with us today.
Speaker 6: We've got lots of gardening talk to do. You know,
Speaker 6: when it comes to an organic plant food, the folks
Speaker 6: at Nitophos have really done their homework and creating something
Speaker 6: called sweet grain. Sweet Green is a molasses based product
Speaker 6: with microbial activity basically turned into a good source of nutrients,
Speaker 6: specifically nitrogen eleven percent nitrogen and sweet green smells great.
Speaker 6: That's why it has the name sweet Green and the
Speaker 6: fact that it comes from molasses space. When you put
Speaker 6: it on the soil, that sugary carbon is what it
Speaker 6: basically is, rocket fuel for the microbes in your soil.
Speaker 6: It's going to increase the population of beneficial microbes, is
Speaker 6: going to promote good health and performance of your lawn.
Speaker 6: Nitrogen is the most important element in terms of quantity
Speaker 6: that we put on our lawns through the course of
Speaker 6: the growing season. In terms of quantity, it's the one
Speaker 6: needed the most and it's the one that tends to
Speaker 6: come and go, and so we are always adding a
Speaker 6: little bit of nitrogen to our soils.
Speaker 17: Now.
Speaker 6: Sweegering is available from the folks at Nitrofis in many
Speaker 6: different locations. For example, Nitrofos products can be founded at
Speaker 6: Chanted gardens out in Richmond Rosenberg. You're going to find
Speaker 6: it at Hiding and Feed on a student air airline.
Speaker 6: You can find it at the Fishers Hardware though I'm
Speaker 6: talking about the one in Pasadena on Southimore, Laporte on Broadway,
Speaker 6: the Fisher's Hardware and my Bellevue on FM three one
Speaker 6: eight zero and the Fishers Hardware, a lot of Fisher's
Speaker 6: hardwors and Baytown on Alexander nitrofis Sweeg Geren. Let's run
Speaker 6: out and now to the phones and we are going
Speaker 6: to talk to Jerry and Hockley. Hello, Jerry, welcome to
Speaker 6: garden Line.
Speaker 18: Hello, Yes, sir, thanks for taking my call. You bet,
Speaker 18: I'm actually in my truck making a little trip and
Speaker 18: I always tune in, and I thought, you know what,
Speaker 18: I'm going to call them up because my front will,
Speaker 18: basically all my front end backyard is just gone to crap.
Speaker 19: I'm one of those people that I just mow the grass.
Speaker 19: I don't do no fertilizing, you know. I just mow
Speaker 19: the grass usually once a week, and it's usually in
Speaker 19: you know, pretty full and nice. But it's just going
Speaker 19: downhill the last couple of years, and I wanted to
Speaker 19: get some advice. I'm ready to put the work in
Speaker 19: to bring my yard back. I know Randy used to
Speaker 19: have that scheduled. I don't know if that's still out there.
Speaker 19: I don't know if there's some websites you can direct
Speaker 19: me too.
Speaker 18: What do you though?
Speaker 6: Yes, all right, Uh, my website is gardening with Skip.
Speaker 6: That's me gardening with Skip dot com. Just gardening with
Speaker 6: Skip on there. I've got the schedules. I've there a
Speaker 6: little more. I've kind of added a lot more to
Speaker 6: them than the schedule you're familiar with that rand head.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 6: There's one schedule that's for lawn care, the things you
Speaker 6: do to make you long grow, no water, fertilized type things.
Speaker 6: The other schedules for the things that go after your
Speaker 6: lawn and how to can troll them. That would be insects, diseases,
Speaker 6: and weeds. They're both free. They're multicolor on there. They
Speaker 6: list all the products. They tell you when to apply them.
Speaker 6: You know when this shows up or that shows up
Speaker 6: that you might need to treat for and all that
Speaker 6: kind of thing. So just go to those and follow that.
Speaker 6: What your lawn's going to need is fertilizer, especially nitrogen
Speaker 6: based fertilizers to get a boost to the lawn. And
Speaker 6: then as far as the weeds, two things happen. Number One,
Speaker 6: the thicker your lawn gets, the fewer your weed problems.
Speaker 6: So that that's step in on weeds. Step two is
Speaker 6: where you would actually go in and kill weeds. We're
Speaker 6: in a time now in spring when you have the
Speaker 6: most options for weed control. We're putting pre emergency down now,
Speaker 6: and we're also killing those winter weeds that are that
Speaker 6: are going to seed in your lawn so they don't
Speaker 6: sentence you to a thousand more weeds next year, next fault.
Speaker 6: So those are the two things and they're all on
Speaker 6: they're all on that schedule. Jerry.
Speaker 18: Yeah, gardening, which skilled.
Speaker 6: Of a skip dot com.
Speaker 18: That's it, all right, all right, Well, I appreciate it
Speaker 18: what you're talking on, like aeration something like that.
Speaker 6: No, it's it's it's especially important to do aeration whenever
Speaker 6: you're you have a clay soil and and a compacted soil.
Speaker 6: Those are those are two times when aeration is really critical.
Speaker 6: But it helps get the oxygen in the soil and
Speaker 6: it does a lot to help your your things. Uh
Speaker 6: So that's also on my schedule. The aerration is also
Speaker 6: on my on my schedule online.
Speaker 18: All right, I'll tell you what. As soon as I can,
Speaker 18: I'm gonna I'm gonna go there and start educating myself.
Speaker 6: Okay, now here, you're gonna need to know you're gonna
Speaker 6: if you're gonna do some aeration. Green Pro. They're Auto Magnolia,
Speaker 6: but they service your area.
Speaker 18: You can go close, Yes you are, I'm very close
Speaker 18: to Magnol.
Speaker 12: You.
Speaker 6: Yeah, let me give you Oh gosh, you probably can't
Speaker 6: write a phone number down, can you? I cannot know? Okay, well,
Speaker 6: just remember Green Pro Green Pro, They're i to Magnoli.
Speaker 6: You there, that's your aerating company for your area. All right, okay,
Speaker 6: all right, thanks man, appreciate it.
Speaker 18: Thank you. I appreciate you taking my call on that
Speaker 18: helpful advice. I don't try to get on this good luck.
Speaker 6: Well, take a picture of your lawn when it's ugly,
Speaker 6: and take a picture when it looks good and send
Speaker 6: me the pictures. I'd love to see them before and after.
Speaker 18: Okay you will, I'll sure do that, yes, sir.
Speaker 6: All right, you take care? Oh where are we now?
Speaker 6: Let's go to Cleveland and talk to Ron. Hey, Ron,
Speaker 6: Welcome to garden Line, Laura skip.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 20: It's kind of too late now, but I would like
Speaker 20: to know what happened to my Laurel peddling last Saturday.
Speaker 20: I was out there or not my Laurel. I'm sorry,
Speaker 20: my Texas Mountain Laurel. Last Saturday. Go out there early.
Speaker 20: You could see the buds. There's probably like one hundred
Speaker 20: and fifty of them, because the things like five years
Speaker 20: old and they're all starting to put out that dark
Speaker 20: blue and I figured by this Saturday they'd be all
Speaker 20: starting to bloom, but they all kind of ended up
Speaker 20: drying up and then they're like a little stem in
Speaker 20: a manner of just one week. I don't know any
Speaker 20: thoughts on what might have happened or.
Speaker 6: The plant itself looks okay, the foliage looks okay.
Speaker 20: Yeah, well yeah, there's the dark green foliage is the
Speaker 20: older foliage, which is where mostly all the blooms were.
Speaker 20: Then there's some lighter green that's probably like and that
Speaker 20: did it additional two feet.
Speaker 6: Growth on it.
Speaker 20: The plants thriving and all of a sudden, all those
Speaker 20: blooms just are there's probably not one out of there
Speaker 20: that's gonna actually open up.
Speaker 6: And have that fragrance and color. I don't know what
Speaker 6: would cause the can you hear me, yes, sir, I
Speaker 6: don't know what would cause the blooms to dry up,
Speaker 6: But the rest of the plant looks fine. Texas Mountain
Speaker 6: Paurel hates wet feet, so you know when it gets
Speaker 6: soggy soil, we that's when it starts to have issues
Speaker 6: and we see browning and death of the leaves and
Speaker 6: the plant itself. We didn't have a frost or anything
Speaker 6: like that, so that is very strange. I tell you what,
Speaker 6: I'm going to put you on hold here and let
Speaker 6: my producer give you an email and send me some
Speaker 6: close up pictures. I'm want to see the whole plant
Speaker 6: from you know, a little bit of a distance, and
Speaker 6: then I want to see close ups of it and
Speaker 6: let me see if I can see anything on them,
Speaker 6: because that's that's something's not right there for sure, and
Speaker 6: I'd like to be able to help you further than
Speaker 6: I can. Okay, So okay, I head.
Speaker 20: I was out there looking at it this morning, and
Speaker 20: I do see there was a leaf that I did
Speaker 20: notice that it was kind of browning. But I will
Speaker 20: be glad to take some pictures and get them to you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, show me some and let me take a look
Speaker 6: at them and we'll figure it out from there. Appreciate
Speaker 6: ron the call, Thank you, thank you very much. If
Speaker 6: you've been down doing Chanty Gardens, which is out in
Speaker 6: the Richmond Rosenberg area, you know why I like that
Speaker 6: place so much. It is it's ingenting, it is beautiful.
Speaker 6: I was out there this spring giving a talk out there,
Speaker 6: and it's the same as always. You walk around, you
Speaker 6: just go wow, You just go wow. What do you need?
Speaker 6: Do you need a rose bush? Do you need some perennials?
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. The selection they have on those two
Speaker 6: is outstanding. And one thing that is really cool. They
Speaker 6: do a wonderful job in those iron hanging baskets. They
Speaker 6: have a lot of pottery, They have a lot of
Speaker 6: hanging baskets and different types. Follow them on social media
Speaker 6: and you'll see Maria, one of their expert employees out
Speaker 6: there that is making hanging baskets. They show you how
Speaker 6: to make them, walk you through the steps. They are
Speaker 6: just gorgeous. And anytime you go to Enchanted Gardens, you
Speaker 6: know you're going to find a good selection and you
Speaker 6: know you're going to get expert advice. Listen. They absolutely
Speaker 6: they've got the train people. They sell you the plants
Speaker 6: that grow here, they tell you how to grow them.
Speaker 6: Any kind of bling you need for the landscape, like
Speaker 6: fountains and chimes and whimsical garden art, they have it.
Speaker 6: They carry the products that I talk about, like Microlife, nitroposs, Nelson, Medina,
Speaker 6: Nature's Way, Heirlooms. I mean, they've got it all there.
Speaker 6: They are located on FM three point fifty nine on
Speaker 6: the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchented
Speaker 6: Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Let's
Speaker 6: go now to Pinehurst and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg,
Speaker 6: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 1: Hey, Hey, skip morning.
Speaker 14: Hey.
Speaker 21: I just transplanted, or I should say planted forty I'm sorry,
Speaker 21: ten forty five gallon Eagleston Hollies, as well as moved
Speaker 21: about a sixty five gallon water oak from my front
Speaker 21: yard to my backyard.
Speaker 6: So they're sitting in the holes, but I have not
Speaker 6: filled them in yet.
Speaker 22: I was wondering if there's a product I should add
Speaker 22: to help with transplant shock or if they should be Okay.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what I would do is. I probably would get
Speaker 6: some of the medina six twelve six. It's medina has
Speaker 6: to grow six twelve six. Did you hear me? I
Speaker 6: was mentioning that a little bit earlier.
Speaker 22: I wasn't tuned in, but I am familiar with the product,
Speaker 22: the Medina hasser the.
Speaker 6: Yeah liquid, correct, Yeah, it's a liquid and mix it.
Speaker 6: I would just put in a water can and then
Speaker 6: I would drench those root balls and I would do
Speaker 6: it about every week for about three applications if you
Speaker 6: want to, if you know a little longer, like two
Speaker 6: weeks between them, that's fine. But what it's God's got
Speaker 6: a lot of phosphorus in it. It's got a lot
Speaker 6: of other things that are going to help with that
Speaker 6: plant getting established. Remember remember with Holly's the first year,
Speaker 6: they're really picky about getting good dependable watering, not soggy,
Speaker 6: but good dependable. So the more you can handwater though,
Speaker 6: so you go all the way around them and you
Speaker 6: make sure and what that root ball, the better off
Speaker 6: they'll be going through this first summer, even the first
Speaker 6: two years really, because sometimes our sprinkler systems don't get
Speaker 6: a good soaking in an even way all the way
Speaker 6: around the plant. So the first couple of years, handwater
Speaker 6: those hollies through the heat of summer for better success.
Speaker 22: And then for the medina has to grow, I should
Speaker 22: how long should I hit it with that?
Speaker 6: For a couple of weeks, I would do three applications,
Speaker 6: you know, let's he did one today, about a week
Speaker 6: or two from now, do one. About a week or
Speaker 6: two from now, do one. And it's just kind of
Speaker 6: getting that product down in the root zone as those
Speaker 6: roots are trying to develop. They've got what they need.
Speaker 22: Yeah, and then do I need to before I fill
Speaker 22: them in? Fill the holes in? Should I put anything
Speaker 22: else in? Or just do the medina hassegrow and just
Speaker 22: kind of that's all I need.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't put anything well, you know what you could do.
Speaker 6: Nelson has a product called Genesis. It's a very dark
Speaker 6: brown granule. Genesis is excellent in the transplant mix. So
Speaker 6: as you're going to bring the soil back in, mix
Speaker 6: some Genesis around those roots in that soil. Don't just
Speaker 6: dump it on the zone mix. Some Genesis in the
Speaker 6: label tells you how much, and that'll help them get
Speaker 6: off to a good start as well. It's got a
Speaker 6: lot of good things in including microbes in it to
Speaker 6: be helpful. All right, Yes, that's it. Nelson Genesis comes
Speaker 6: in a little jar, comes in a jar.
Speaker 5: Right now, So.
Speaker 6: I bet they have some up there. Just just check
Speaker 6: with them and Nelson Jenson. All right, all right, say
Speaker 6: hi to them up at D and D. Alright, you
Speaker 6: take care, all right, folks, I gotta run take a break,
Speaker 6: Jim and A Lisa and Kay. You'll be up when
Speaker 6: we come back. All right, folks, welcome back to the Guardline.
Speaker 6: Glad to have you with us today. If you live
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Speaker 6: to head out now to meadows Place. We're going to
Speaker 6: talk to Jim. Hey Jim, Welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 10: Good morning. Skip on my backyard, Saint Augustine. With all
Speaker 10: the rain we had, the backyard drain slow, maybe take
Speaker 10: five six days to drain out. I've developed five patches
Speaker 10: of brown brown patch. I'm I'm assuming what it is
Speaker 10: and I treated it once already with fertile ome F stop.
Speaker 10: My question is should I treat it again before I
Speaker 10: fertilize And when I fertilize does it make any difference
Speaker 10: which fertilizer to use. I have the Bruces blue and
Speaker 10: the fifteen five ten.
Speaker 6: Huh, well, you know you can. You can treat it.
Speaker 6: If you go on my schedule on garden on gardening
Speaker 6: with skip dot com, you'll see on there that there
Speaker 6: is a brown patch application that is made basically up
Speaker 6: until about mid March. I think we're hitting a point
Speaker 6: now though, where the benefit you're going to get from
Speaker 6: treating it is not worth it. In other words, the
Speaker 6: circles are already there and they will be greening up soon,
Speaker 6: and the brown patch will stop infecting as it warms
Speaker 6: up just a little bit. And so I would just
Speaker 6: wait and save yourself that trouble. Do the things on
Speaker 6: my schedule, you know, mowing, water, fertilizing, taking good care
Speaker 6: of it. I think that's the most important thing. If
Speaker 6: you were inclined and able to have someone come in
Speaker 6: and do some drainage, subsurface drainage, French drain kind of
Speaker 6: thing to make that yard not such a soggy spot.
Speaker 6: That would help your lawn and it would just help
Speaker 6: a lot of plants that are growing in that area.
Speaker 6: But that would be you know, that's a whole nother
Speaker 6: level of landscape activity. But anyway, that's the only thing
Speaker 6: they comes to my mind here in your dilemma.
Speaker 10: Do you have a preference on the fertilizer the use
Speaker 10: of the two.
Speaker 14: I named.
Speaker 6: Say those two again please Bruce's Glue and fifteen the
Speaker 6: Imperial the red bag from nitrofis. Yes, those are both
Speaker 6: excellent products. The Bruce's brew is going to have some
Speaker 6: nutrient forms of nitrogen that are going to feed a
Speaker 6: little bit longer in it, and the night fass is
Speaker 6: going to give you the quick early green up. Now,
Speaker 6: if you go to my schedule at gardening with Skip
Speaker 6: dot com, they're both on there. And you'll also notice
Speaker 6: that once we've mowed that lawn about twice and we
Speaker 6: get into the April time of the year, that's when
Speaker 6: we're going to be putting our longer term fertilizers on
Speaker 6: for carrying us through summer the slower releases. So either
Speaker 6: way you want to go, just do a light application
Speaker 6: of them for now and then because we're going to
Speaker 6: be doing the longer term things as it warms up
Speaker 6: just a bit more. Okay, understand, all right, sir, Thank
Speaker 6: you appreciate your call.
Speaker 14: Thanks for gett.
Speaker 6: You take care. Yeah, that nitro Foss Imperial. That's a
Speaker 6: fifteen to five to ten by the way, it is. Gosh,
Speaker 6: it was about fifty years ago that they Nitroposs created
Speaker 6: this and it was based on research at Texas A
Speaker 6: and M and other Lang Grant universities across the South
Speaker 6: that basically say turf likes a ratio with a lot
Speaker 6: of nitrogen, not too much phosphorus, and medium amount of potassium.
Speaker 6: That's the one two three or the three one two
Speaker 6: ratio rather that's on there. It's the red orange bag,
Speaker 6: red orange bag. So it's available, you know, just as Imperial.
Speaker 6: It's available as a weed and feed with a trimac
Speaker 6: in it also for the broad leaf weeds. If you
Speaker 6: if you were wanting to do both of those, this
Speaker 6: is the time of year when that kind of application
Speaker 6: is something that I would say, you know, could be done.
Speaker 6: You can get benefit from both of those. If you
Speaker 6: don't go that route. Night Fass products are available by
Speaker 6: the way, that that the one with the trimech and
Speaker 6: it is in a light blue bag, a light blue bag,
Speaker 6: and then make look for that word trimeach if you're
Speaker 6: going to go that route. You gotta have what weeds
Speaker 6: so to put that on because it needs to stick
Speaker 6: to the leaves. You're going to find it at Plantation
Speaker 6: Ace Hardware. That's out there, Richmond Rosenberg. You're going to
Speaker 6: find night Fosh Products. That is Langham Creek Case Hardware
Speaker 6: on five twenty nine up in Cyprus. RCW Nursery carries
Speaker 6: night FoST products, as does Lake Hardware, both the one
Speaker 6: in Ankleton and the one in Clute. I'm going to
Speaker 6: head now, let's see what who's next. I believe k
Speaker 6: and Pearland was next. Hey, Kay, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Hey, good morning, thank you for taking my call. Skip.
Speaker 17: I was calling regarding the gentleman who called about the
Speaker 17: tree hunker. I purchased one for my oak tree last year,
Speaker 17: well a couple of years ago. It was really dry hot.
Speaker 17: I got the fifteen inch My oak tree base is
Speaker 17: sixty inches, so obviously it's too you know, and other
Speaker 17: people may figured this out. But I opened it up
Speaker 17: and put it on half of my one side of
Speaker 17: the tree. I just did the slow so it covered
Speaker 17: most of the drip line on that side. Watered it
Speaker 17: thirty forty five minutes, then take it up and put
Speaker 17: it on the other side. Don't anybody be discouraged because
Speaker 17: their tree trunk is larger than the largest tree hugger,
Speaker 17: because you can there you go. It's a wonderful intention.
Speaker 10: Yep.
Speaker 6: Well, my dad used to say, well, hey, you're using
Speaker 6: your nogging. That's good. My dad used to say, use
Speaker 6: your head for something other than to hang your head on.
Speaker 15: Exactly.
Speaker 6: You're doing that. You're doing that that that is good.
Speaker 6: So you're basically watering half the tree turned around watering
Speaker 6: another half. It is such a great way to keep
Speaker 6: your trees alive. But we just keep them alive, yeah,
Speaker 6: to make them grow. You know, when I plant a tree,
Speaker 6: I want to know how soon can I hang a
Speaker 6: hammock in it? And true Haggert will shorten the time
Speaker 6: between planting and hanging a hammock. Thank you, Yes it will.
Speaker 17: Okay, i'll see you this afternoon.
Speaker 6: Oh good, you're gonna come out to Hoorges Hidden Gardens.
Speaker 17: That's good coming to Hoges because I have pictures of
Speaker 17: the elephant's foot plant.
Speaker 6: Oh oh great, Oh I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 17: Yeah, okay, we'll see you then.
Speaker 6: All right, you take care. That is wonderful to hear yeah,
Speaker 6: for sure. Speaking of Hoorges Hidden Gardens, speaking of Hoores
Speaker 6: Hedding Guards, I'm going to be at Horace Hidden Gardens
Speaker 6: today from one to three, from one to three. Now,
Speaker 6: Hoores is on Elizabeth Street, it says Elizabeth Street and Alvin. Actually,
Speaker 6: if you are in Alvin and you drive down Highway
Speaker 6: six towards Santa Fe, it's about halfway to Santa Fe.
Speaker 6: Off to the right, that's where it is, Elizabeth Street.
Speaker 6: Jorge has got tons of cool things. I mean I
Speaker 6: would just you know, we were communicating earlier about my
Speaker 6: coming out there and everything. Peach trees, all kinds of
Speaker 6: fruit trees, you know, Texas Mountain more. Remember the gaudy
Speaker 6: smell I was talking about. Yep, he's got he raes,
Speaker 6: got that. He also has the decidrous magnolias that are
Speaker 6: just beautiful. And you know, he's got roses. He's got
Speaker 6: all kinds of shade trees that you might want, but
Speaker 6: fruit of every kind. We're gonna he's gonna give away.
Speaker 6: What did he What did I say? I think it's
Speaker 6: five different peach trees today, five different peach trees. He's
Speaker 6: gonna give away some of his fertilizer. His special Horge
Speaker 6: concoction of fertilizer, and I'm going to be bringing along
Speaker 6: some folk some fertilizer from Nelson, the jars of fertilizer
Speaker 6: from Nelson plant food to provide as well. Well, I
Speaker 6: gotta take a little quick break here. I'd love to
Speaker 6: keep talking about Jorge's place, but hope you come out
Speaker 6: and see me. We'll be right back. All right, folks,
Speaker 6: welcome back to the garden Line. Got glad to have
Speaker 6: you with us right now. We've got a lot of
Speaker 6: things to talk about and a lot of people that
Speaker 6: want to talk about things. Spring Creek Hardware, Spress, Spring
Speaker 6: Creek Hardware, good Night. Spring Creek Feed which is up
Speaker 6: to the north and east of Tomball. That's on in
Speaker 6: Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight FM twenty nine
Speaker 6: seventy eight. It's just a few minutes away from Grand
Speaker 6: Parkway and Highway to forty nine. Both they carry our
Speaker 6: full line of turf Star from Nelson, micro Life Fertilizers,
Speaker 6: Nitrophoss fertilizers. If you need to control weeds, they've got
Speaker 6: pre emergence and post emergence. They have fungicides and pesticides,
Speaker 6: lots of friendly, courteous folks there to help you. I
Speaker 6: mean you walk in and you feel like you're just
Speaker 6: being treated like family, well in the good way. Sorry
Speaker 6: that just yep, yep. Well anyway, they've got quality bet food,
Speaker 6: They've got quality products for your livestock and everything you need.
Speaker 6: If you are a youth with four h raising animals
Speaker 6: and things, they have discounts for that. For military folks,
Speaker 6: they have for senior citizens have discounts. They do special orders.
Speaker 6: Just let them know what you need and they make
Speaker 6: an order for you. They do a little lovery service too,
Speaker 6: which is really handy. Excellent selection for all the gardening
Speaker 6: products that you might want. And when you go in there,
Speaker 6: you're gonna go, wait a minute, this doesn't look like
Speaker 6: a feed store. This is beautiful. Yes, that's true, it is.
Speaker 6: It's Spring Creek feed. I love going in there, mainly
Speaker 6: because I love visiting with the folks and checking out
Speaker 6: all the many things that they keep on hand. I
Speaker 6: want to head now to Deer Park and we're going
Speaker 6: to talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Thank you. I was wondering what you used in the
Speaker 9: vegetable garden for ants.
Speaker 6: A fire ants we're talking about.
Speaker 19: Yes, yes, there is.
Speaker 6: I'm only aware of one product labeled for fire ants
Speaker 6: in a vegetable garden. Now there may be some that
Speaker 6: I'm only aware of one.
Speaker 23: Uh.
Speaker 6: And it is an organic product by Fertile Loan and
Speaker 6: it's called Come and Get It, Come and Get It.
Speaker 6: It is a bait based on spinosaid. The bag kind
Speaker 6: of has a light blue color to it. Come and
Speaker 6: Get It by Fertile Loan.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 6: And it's labeled for use in vegetable gardens. It's an
Speaker 6: organic fireant bait.
Speaker 9: Okay, and it's by Fertilean. You said.
Speaker 6: It's a little bag.
Speaker 9: I had another question about. I was turning over the
Speaker 9: compost pole and was putting some of the dirt adding
Speaker 9: it to the garden, and I had never noticed it before,
Speaker 9: but this year it's full of grub worms. And I mean,
Speaker 9: I think they're not I'm sure they're a natural part
Speaker 9: of the process, but uh, if I put it in
Speaker 9: the garden of I've been trying to pick them out
Speaker 9: by hand, But is there a better way to do that?
Speaker 6: You know, grubs and grubs like grassroots primarily, and so
Speaker 6: in a lawn that's you know, if you get enough
Speaker 6: of them, that's a concern. But there's always going to
Speaker 6: be grubworms in the dirt. That's just part of nature.
Speaker 6: As you said, picking them out is fine. I wouldn't
Speaker 6: worry about them a whole lot for most gardening kinds
Speaker 6: of things. But as you see them, just go ahead
Speaker 6: and pick them out. Okay. I think that there's no
Speaker 6: need to there's no need to drench it with an
Speaker 6: insecticide for that.
Speaker 9: Oh good, thanks. I had one other question I've heard
Speaker 9: you talk about the weedater. Is it just is it
Speaker 9: just a weed and feed or is it something different.
Speaker 6: Well, it's a fertilizer with a growth regulator and it
Speaker 6: also and the the weed control product is a post em.
Speaker 6: So what you would have to do is wet the
Speaker 6: weeds and then immediately put that dry granule out on it,
Speaker 6: and you'll you'll find that that will provide you know,
Speaker 6: the control of them. It sticks to the leaves, soaks
Speaker 6: into the leaves, and then after a couple of days
Speaker 6: you watered in. You get the fertilizer part down in
Speaker 6: the ground.
Speaker 9: Okay, So you don't water it. You don't water it
Speaker 9: directly after putting it down. You wait.
Speaker 6: A couple of day? What a couple of days? Wait
Speaker 6: the we the weeds. Put the product on, it sticks
Speaker 6: to the leaves, leave it alone. A couple of days,
Speaker 6: just god and watered in. You know, probably don't need
Speaker 6: two days, but I'm just saying, you know, give it
Speaker 6: some time to soak in good, uh, and then you should.
Speaker 9: Hey, is is there any advantage to go ahead over?
Speaker 9: Just like I was also looking at the nitroposs weed
Speaker 9: and feed.
Speaker 6: Yeah, nitroposs. But but to be the to do the
Speaker 6: same kind of job that the weed needer does, you
Speaker 6: would want the nitroposs with trimac. It's a light blue bag,
Speaker 6: a light not purple, but light blue. Light blue bag
Speaker 6: with trimeac. That will do. Those both have a fertilizer
Speaker 6: and the post emergent and they have to have wet
Speaker 6: weeds that you put them on. Same thing I just
Speaker 6: said about the other. Okay, now, hey, you're you're in
Speaker 6: deer Park.
Speaker 9: What so with the weight and feed, you still supposed
Speaker 9: to wet it before you put it down.
Speaker 6: Yes, any kind of a granular weed and feed you
Speaker 6: need to wet before you put it down. For the
Speaker 6: for the post emergent product. Yeah, Hey, you're in Deer Park,
Speaker 6: and you got Deer Park lumber Ace Hardware right there
Speaker 6: on Center Street, and they're going to carry these things
Speaker 6: we're talking about. Okay, well, hey, thanks for the call.
Speaker 6: I appreciate that very much. Good luck getting all that
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Speaker 6: Analisa in Nadville. Hello, Analisa. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 24: Hi, thanks for taking my call. So we live on
Speaker 24: some property and for some reason, our neighbors who bought
Speaker 24: the land next door have decided to build on the
Speaker 24: property line right across from our backyard. So we are
Speaker 24: trying to build a privacy screen with plants along our
Speaker 24: electric fence, so I don't have like a fence to
Speaker 24: support it, okay, And there's cows on the other side
Speaker 24: of that fence, so it's got to be something friendly
Speaker 24: to them. We're two years into golden bamboo and it
Speaker 24: has not taken off. We heard you say last week
Speaker 24: it can take three.
Speaker 6: Years, So three years, third years when it really starts
Speaker 6: to grow. Yeah, that's a good plant. That's a you know,
Speaker 6: a good plant. Just when you do bamboo, yous want
Speaker 6: to go with a clumping type as opposed to a
Speaker 6: running type by the way it tends to be Otherwise,
Speaker 6: it tends to be kind of invasive. So depending on
Speaker 6: how close the building is to your line and where
Speaker 6: you sit on your property, you may need not so
Speaker 6: high of a hedge, or you may need a really
Speaker 6: high hedge. For example, if you're at a patio and
Speaker 6: right beside you you've got a six foot hedge that's
Speaker 6: going to block the view. Because you're sitting down some
Speaker 6: six feet high you know it's going to block the view. Well,
Speaker 6: if it gets further away, like twenty feet away in
Speaker 6: the fence line, and you've got a two story building
Speaker 6: right there, well then you need a very tall screen
Speaker 6: in order to block that. Just make sure your screens
Speaker 6: are evergreen, which the bamboo is going to provide you that.
Speaker 6: And that's kind of the tips I would give you
Speaker 6: on blocking that view. But I think the bamboo would
Speaker 6: be a good option. There's also some taller plants that
Speaker 6: you get further up in the air, But it all
Speaker 6: comes down to where you sit and how high the
Speaker 6: thing you want to block is as to how tall
Speaker 6: the screen needs to be.
Speaker 24: Is there anything that takes off faster than the three
Speaker 24: years with the bamboo that's cost efficient?
Speaker 6: Okay, there's one strategy. And again I don't know how
Speaker 6: all you want to block this, but you can take
Speaker 6: a livestock panel. Do you know what those are? The
Speaker 6: galvanized panels like sixteen feet long, four feet high that
Speaker 6: they use for livestock panels. You put it up on
Speaker 6: posts and you plant vines on it, and so you
Speaker 6: could you know, you could put it up like six
Speaker 6: feet high and it goes all the way up to
Speaker 6: ten feet high and you have the vines there, and
Speaker 6: that is as fast of a cover as you're going
Speaker 6: to get to use that. That's not necessarily an attractive thing,
Speaker 6: but it does block the view. Otherwise, you're looking at
Speaker 6: planting plants that are going to move faster. If you've
Speaker 6: got bamboo that's been in the ground two years, you're
Speaker 6: about to hit the sweet spot where it really starts
Speaker 6: to grow. Just fertilize it. Bamboos a grass, use your
Speaker 6: lawn fertilizer on it, and fertilize it a lot, a
Speaker 6: water a lot, and get it to grow as fast
Speaker 6: as you can in this third year.
Speaker 15: Thank you so much.
Speaker 24: I appreciate you taking my call.
Speaker 6: All right, thank you, I appreciate the call. Well, here
Speaker 6: we are, Hey, guess what today I'm gonna be at
Speaker 6: Jorges Hidden Gardens, Don and Alvin from one to three.
Speaker 6: He's giving us five fruit trees. We got some fertilizer giveaways.
Speaker 6: Come on and see us.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Rickard.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as Supray.
Speaker 6: Sorry, all right, welcome, welcome back to garden Line. Thanks
Speaker 6: for listening today. Glad to have you with us. You know,
Speaker 6: I enjoy talking to gardeners. I always have. And you know,
Speaker 6: during my thirty what I don't know, thirty six years,
Speaker 6: I guess as a County AGR Life Extension agent. It's
Speaker 6: basically what I did all the time is doctor gardeners,
Speaker 6: helping gardeners with things. And I just think it's fun.
Speaker 6: Gardeners like talking to gardeners do. By the way, you
Speaker 6: get two gardeners together and next thing you know, here
Speaker 6: come the pictures of the tomato patch and everybody starts lying,
Speaker 6: that's we're at tomato last year that I couldn't even
Speaker 6: get in the wheelbarrow. All right, well we're having a
Speaker 6: little bit of fun. But that is how it is. Hey.
Speaker 6: RCW Garden Centers is called RCW Nursery. It's up on
Speaker 6: Beltway eight where it comes in with Tumball Parkway FM
Speaker 6: two forty nine. RCW Nursery. Their garden center is outstanding.
Speaker 22: You know.
Speaker 6: They grow their own trees up in Plannersville at a
Speaker 6: property up there at the Williamson Tree Farm. And so
Speaker 6: when you get a tree at RCW, you're getting a
Speaker 6: tree that is a quality grown tree, and it's a
Speaker 6: species and variety that want to grow here. That's important.
Speaker 6: You can plan them yourself, you can have them plan
Speaker 6: them whatever you want, but that is a go to
Speaker 6: place for getting a good quality tree. Now. It is
Speaker 6: a favorite of rosarians because their rose selection is unbelievable.
Speaker 6: I mean every spring they start off with pages and
Speaker 6: pages and pages of roses that you get to choose from.
Speaker 6: When you go in there, you get the supplies you need,
Speaker 6: you know, products from Nitroposs, Microlife, a Nelson, turf Star,
Speaker 6: and so on. They've got all those supplies for you,
Speaker 6: and so you go home. You're ready to go to
Speaker 6: town on it. Right now, the selection they have of everything,
Speaker 6: I just obviously spring beautiful shrubs, lots of wonderful shrubs
Speaker 6: are at RCW Nurseries. If you are looking for annual color,
Speaker 6: if you're looking for perennial plants, if you look for
Speaker 6: vegetables and herbs, they stock up on all of it.
Speaker 6: And when you go in you've got expert folks. You know,
Speaker 6: this nursery's been open since nineteen seventy nine. The Williamson
Speaker 6: family still runs it and they're experts. Wh go in
Speaker 6: you get advice that is accurate and that is point on.
Speaker 6: You run into issues, talk to them about it. They
Speaker 6: can help direct you. At R C W Nurseries, easy
Speaker 6: to get to, corner of right at the corner literally
Speaker 6: of where Tamau Park, Wambolt Wait eight come together, easy
Speaker 6: access and when you get there you're going to find
Speaker 6: everything you need. Let's set out to Baytown and we're
Speaker 6: going to talk to Ron. Now, Hey, Ron, welcome to
Speaker 6: garden Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning, SIRC. What I'm looking for replacements more for
Speaker 11: my tangerine trees that froze a couple of years ago.
Speaker 11: I had a okay three that was about good trenches
Speaker 11: diameter fifteen cow frows to the ground. It was very okay,
Speaker 11: easy to feel.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So that's what I'm looking for, you know, I
Speaker 6: would my first thought is just head down one for
Speaker 6: which takes you all the way down, you know, to
Speaker 6: Moss Nursery down in Seabrook, down there, and I think
Speaker 6: Moss is probably the closest place that has an excellent
Speaker 6: selection of all kinds of citrus. Now, if you must
Speaker 6: have the exact same kind of citrus. Then you may
Speaker 6: want to give a call first, just to make sure
Speaker 6: that they have the specific one you mentioned, tenderine, the
Speaker 6: specific one that you're wanting to grow. But they they
Speaker 6: always have a good selection down there. Do you have
Speaker 6: a phone number for them? Do you need a phone
Speaker 6: number for them?
Speaker 18: I do need it?
Speaker 6: Uh to eight one four seven four twenty four eighty
Speaker 6: eight two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight.
Speaker 11: All right, thank you, sir.
Speaker 6: Have you ever been Have you ever been there before?
Speaker 11: Yes, several times. My girlfriend likes the skaghorn plant and
Speaker 11: a few other things that we go down.
Speaker 25: Look.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, they've got staghorns as big as a
Speaker 6: Volkswagen bug at most. All right, all right, well, I
Speaker 6: hope you take two checkbooks, because the bigger a staghorn gets,
Speaker 6: the more it costs. Right, you get a little one
Speaker 6: and it's okay, and you start getting bigger and they're
Speaker 6: proud of them. But boy, that's a great plan. It
Speaker 6: takes a long time to get a big one, so
Speaker 6: I understand why they All right, brother, have a good time,
Speaker 6: Thank you, Thank you, sir. Appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 6: I love staghorn. First, they're beautiful. Microlife has been making
Speaker 6: quality fertilizers for over thirty five years and here in Houston,
Speaker 6: Microlife Fertilizers number one selling organic fertilizer in the Greater
Speaker 6: Houston Aaria. In fact, it's old way beyond the scenario
Speaker 6: because it works. It does work. We're coming up on
Speaker 6: the spring season where we start fertilizing lawns and they
Speaker 6: got their six to four. I'll talk about that a
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Speaker 6: as that. It's called Microlife hum Mats plus. And when
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Speaker 6: It's it's just a good addition to make. Don't think
Speaker 6: of it as something instead of fertilizer. Think of it
Speaker 6: as something in addition to the fertilizer. We're doing the
Speaker 6: humates plus, which amounts to concentrated compost in a bag.
Speaker 6: We're doing that to improve our soil, because we all
Speaker 6: know when you improve the soil, you improve the plant
Speaker 6: brown stuff before green stuff, even when it comes to
Speaker 6: the lawn. Getting the soil right is the critical step
Speaker 6: and having success. Let's set out to Houston now and
Speaker 6: talk to Chat. Hello, Chat, Welcome to garden Line. Thank you,
Speaker 6: good morning.
Speaker 25: My question is last year we had quite a bit
Speaker 25: of We had some oxlice in our flower beds and
Speaker 25: we dug them up, you know, below the surface with
Speaker 25: the seeds and so forth.
Speaker 26: And then after that I was spot weading with a
Speaker 26: mixture of vinegar and water to kill individual plants. Well
Speaker 26: over the winter, okay, I mean it's back stronger than ever.
Speaker 25: I literally have a crop of it the flower I
Speaker 25: was wondering, what's what's the best way to treat that?
Speaker 6: Yeah? Uh so, is this the the oxalice that has
Speaker 6: little green leaves about the size of your thumbnail, or
Speaker 6: is this the oxalice it has larger purple leaves.
Speaker 25: I'm pretty sure it talked out. It's like a three
Speaker 25: leaf clover.
Speaker 6: Okay, I tell you what, Yeah, okay, could you hang on.
Speaker 6: I have to go to a break and let's come
Speaker 6: back and we'll pick that up. Then just hang on
Speaker 6: just a second. I'll be right back. All right, We're
Speaker 6: going to jump right back in here and continue our
Speaker 6: conversation with chet Chet. You said you had ex salice,
Speaker 6: and it's in It's in flower beds or lawns are everywhere.
Speaker 26: It's mostly in the flower beds.
Speaker 6: There's some in the lawn Okay.
Speaker 14: Well, I got quite a crop of it in the
Speaker 14: flower beds.
Speaker 6: Okay. Well. Mulching thick and continuously is important because it
Speaker 6: blocks the sunlight from hitting the soil and the seeds
Speaker 6: aren't able to establish well from that way. Now, the
Speaker 6: challenge we have here is products maybe label for lawns
Speaker 6: but not flower beds or vice versa. But what I
Speaker 6: would say in terms of getting ahead of exalis, there's
Speaker 6: three steps. Number One, keep the soil constantly mulched, so
Speaker 6: if the seeds don't have a chance. Number Two, the
Speaker 6: minute you see plants, treat them all right. Let me
Speaker 6: actually number two would be a pre emergent herbicide. That
Speaker 6: would be you know, in the lawn we put down
Speaker 6: things like barricade and stuff. You're gonna probably have trouble
Speaker 6: finding those labeled for flower beds. There are a few
Speaker 6: on the market that are labeled for flower beds that
Speaker 6: are a pre emergent and that will help prevent oxalas
Speaker 6: from germinating. So multch a pre emergent herbicide is another option.
Speaker 6: And then the third one is once they're up, don't
Speaker 6: let them go to seed, because they go to seed
Speaker 6: and their seed pods explode and throw those seeds long distances,
Speaker 6: and so the when they come up, you have to
Speaker 6: use a post emergent prop on them. And what I
Speaker 6: would recommend you do is get you a product that's
Speaker 6: labeled for post emergent broad leaf weed control. This will
Speaker 6: be a liquid that you mix up. UH And for
Speaker 6: a liquid that you mix up, you want to apply
Speaker 6: it with my weed wiper. If you go to my
Speaker 6: website gardening with Skip dot com, the weed wiper is
Speaker 6: on there. It shows you how to build one, and
Speaker 6: it shows you products and things that you can put
Speaker 6: on the weed wiper. Sponges on the end of a
Speaker 6: stick is what it amounts to. And once you see oxalis,
Speaker 6: just every time you see it, go out on Saturday
Speaker 6: morning with one of those weed wiper tools. There are
Speaker 6: long enough where you don't have to stoop over. Just
Speaker 6: just wipe, wipe that weed leaf with a sponge and
Speaker 6: never let it go to seed, and you can win
Speaker 6: that war. Those those steps are all part of a
Speaker 6: comprehensive program to get ahead of Oxalis.
Speaker 26: Excellent, Thank you so much for you all.
Speaker 6: Right, yes, sir, thank you for the call. I appreciate that.
Speaker 9: Uh.
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Speaker 6: You need to give them a call seven to one
Speaker 6: to three six six six one seven four four. Let's
Speaker 6: set out to Tombull. Now we're going to talk to
Speaker 6: Robin Illo. Robin more to skip as.
Speaker 19: I had a question about using the planners makes you'd
Speaker 19: find the landscaping yard.
Speaker 14: Can you use that for a vegetable garden?
Speaker 6: Well, you know that saying planners mix and a landscaping
Speaker 6: yard could be a lot of different products with a
Speaker 6: lot of different characteristics. So in a vegetable garden, you
Speaker 6: want to use something that's that's pretty well screened so
Speaker 6: you don't have any chunkiness to it. So the same
Speaker 6: would be true of something you find in a yard. Now,
Speaker 6: you can you know up in the Tombole area. There
Speaker 6: you can get the veggie and herb mix that Airloom
Speaker 6: Sols produces by the bag. You have them to deliver
Speaker 6: it too to the driveway, or you can go out
Speaker 6: there to porter and go get it. Either way you
Speaker 6: want to go. Also, Arborgate sells their soil and their
Speaker 6: compost mixes by the bulk, so if you need a quantity,
Speaker 6: you ought to call them over at Arburgate and you know,
Speaker 6: say you hurt on guardline. They sell by the bulk
Speaker 6: because they had their one two three system also available
Speaker 6: not just bag, but by the bulk, and that would
Speaker 6: be another great way to go. And it's very close
Speaker 6: to you there, so that would be good, all right,
Speaker 6: a good deal. I thank you sir, all right, thank you.
Speaker 6: I appreciate your call. You hurt, you bet. Yeah, it's
Speaker 6: something people didn't know probably about Arbrogate. You know that
Speaker 6: Arbrogate's the it's the plant place. I mean, everybody knows.
Speaker 6: You want cool season collar vegetables, herbs. You want beautiful
Speaker 6: shrubs like roses and camellias and deciduous magnolias. Do you
Speaker 6: want fruit? They carry fruit year round, fruit trees, berries, grapes,
Speaker 6: they're a mile and a half west of two forty
Speaker 6: nine on twenty nine to twenty in Tombol for those
Speaker 6: of you who are listening to me, had this conversation
Speaker 6: with Robin and talking about Arburgate. Where is it? Well,
Speaker 6: that's where it is. Pretty much. Ever gardener it's been
Speaker 6: around here for a while knows about Arburgate. And that
Speaker 6: one two three system is three bags. It's an organic
Speaker 6: food complete on organic food complete, and it's complete. Food's
Speaker 6: got even got calcium in it as well, which is important.
Speaker 6: It's they have an organic soil complete, and that's kind
Speaker 6: of what I was talking about there. And then the
Speaker 6: organic compost complete. The combination of the soil and the
Speaker 6: compost mixed together and very very rich, and the soil
Speaker 6: itself is just fine to grow directly into. Love going
Speaker 6: to Arburgate. I promise you this when you go in,
Speaker 6: allow yourself some time, because there is an endless supply
Speaker 6: of plants to see. And that's the kind of place
Speaker 6: where you go into your shopping and they just say, well,
Speaker 6: come with me, and they walk with you, you know,
Speaker 6: and like, well let me show you this plan. Well,
Speaker 6: let me show you this plan over here, and they're
Speaker 6: answering your questions, and it's it's like a concierge for
Speaker 6: the garden center that's helping. But concierges don't get up
Speaker 6: from the desk to walk with you. That is how
Speaker 6: it is at Arborgate. That is what we call a
Speaker 6: full service garden center that knows our area, that sells
Speaker 6: your plants that grow here, and that no matter what's
Speaker 6: going on in your yard, you can go in there
Speaker 6: and get help, professional, professional, accurate help at the Arbor Gate. Now,
Speaker 6: remember when you go out there, it's on twenty nine
Speaker 6: to twenty west to Tombul. You want to take Treisher
Speaker 6: Road around the back to park in their parking lot
Speaker 6: in the back because that is the safest, easiest access.
Speaker 6: It is really really nice. I love that new edition,
Speaker 6: fairly new edition that they put in there. Where are
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Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 6: I got a little bit more time here. We can
Speaker 6: talk some more. Today. The clock is just racing on me,
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Speaker 6: Danny's there's two Dannis there. There's Danny Landerman, the guy
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Speaker 6: when you go out to Enchanted Forest, you are going
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Speaker 6: show you everything they have. They've got citrus, they've got
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Speaker 6: when I think of Enchanted Forest, I always think about
Speaker 6: pollinator plants because they have so many of those, and
Speaker 6: they even have plants that are butterfly larval food sources.
Speaker 6: You know how milkweed attracts monarch butterflies in attract by
Speaker 6: feeding the larva. You'll get that as you get into summer,
Speaker 6: you'll leave and see plants with the larva on them.
Speaker 6: So it's like getting a sour dough starter. You get
Speaker 6: to take the plant home. If you want the caterpillar,
Speaker 6: you get to keep it, no extra charge, and you
Speaker 6: got your own start on a butterfly garden. Enchanted Forest
Speaker 6: is on FM twenty seven fifty nine on twenty seven
Speaker 6: fifty nine, and that is if you're in Richmond Rosenberg
Speaker 6: heading up toward Katie Sugarland or towards Sugarland excuse me direction,
Speaker 6: it's off to the right on FM twenty seven fifty
Speaker 6: nine Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com Enchanted Forest, Richmond,
Speaker 6: TX dot com. Of course, you know when you're there,
Speaker 6: you're always going to find things like the tools and
Speaker 6: the fertilizers. They have a great selection of all that
Speaker 6: kind of stuff. And again, this is this is the
Speaker 6: kind of mom and popgarden center you want to go
Speaker 6: visit because the staff is friendly and it knows they
Speaker 6: know what they're talking about. I've been to a lot
Speaker 6: of places and I don't have to sit there and
Speaker 6: diss companies. But some people sell things other than plants,
Speaker 6: and like lumber for example. Maybe. And that doesn't mean
Speaker 6: that they necessarily have qualified people working in the garden center,
Speaker 6: you know, but you want a place that has people
Speaker 6: that know their plants, that you can even bring a
Speaker 6: problem in like a picture or a sample. Channet Forest
Speaker 6: is that kind of place. They're going to be able
Speaker 6: to help you. They've got the knowledge to help you
Speaker 6: have success, and that is what it's all about. Plus
Speaker 6: it's just a fun place to shop. I love the scene.
Speaker 6: You know, when we're going to get into summer heat
Speaker 6: here at some point, they've got these big beautiful shade
Speaker 6: trees that even in hot weather, it's just a pleasure
Speaker 6: to go out there and wander around and do your
Speaker 6: shopping anyway, and Chennet Forest, I don't know what else
Speaker 6: to tell you, but it's a place that you will
Speaker 6: like if you haven't been there before, and if you have,
Speaker 6: you already know what I'm talking about. In Richmond, if
Speaker 6: you're trying to pot up some plants, and boy I
Speaker 6: was doing that just the other day. Jungle land from
Speaker 6: nitrophoss has. There are two versions of jungle land that
Speaker 6: are made for plants and containers. The outdoor version is
Speaker 6: called jungle Land Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil jungle nd
Speaker 6: Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil. It works, It drains well,
Speaker 6: it holds moisture, but he can both be true. Well,
Speaker 6: it holds moisture, but it doesn't keep its soggy saturated.
Speaker 6: It drains away, which is exactly what a quality potting
Speaker 6: soil should do. Indoors, there's a jungle land water saving
Speaker 6: potting soil. Why is it water saving because it has
Speaker 6: crystals that soak up water and hold onto that water.
Speaker 6: So even if the soil starts to get a little dry,
Speaker 6: the roots can get some moisture from those crystals, so
Speaker 6: it gives you a little extra leeway when it comes
Speaker 6: to watering your plants. Jungle land products like nitroposs available
Speaker 6: in a lot of different places. You're going to find
Speaker 6: nitrofoss products at ACE and Single Ranch Aspas Ace Up
Speaker 6: in the woodlands. You're going to find it at the
Speaker 6: excuse me, the M and D up in Cyprus, the
Speaker 6: D and D and Top Feed and tombaal the M
Speaker 6: and D Beamer Sagemont, or excuse me on Beamer Street
Speaker 6: in Sagemont, the Clear Lake Store of M and D
Speaker 6: on Bay Area Boulevard, and then at Brenham Plants and
Speaker 6: Things another place where they carry nitrophoss products. So I
Speaker 6: always say they're easy to find because they're everywhere. It
Speaker 6: works for sure. I'm gonna take a little break here
Speaker 6: in just a second. I just want to remind you
Speaker 6: I'm going to be at Hoges Hidden Gardens today from
Speaker 6: one to three, so I hope you'll come out and
Speaker 6: see me. It's done in Alvin, Texas, just from Alvin
Speaker 6: Head south towards Santa Fe about halfway and it's off
Speaker 6: to the right Horges Hidden Gardens and we got some
Speaker 6: great giveaways. Hi, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 6: If you want to have success with plants, the formula
Speaker 6: I always apout out here on garden Line is brown
Speaker 6: stuff before green stuff, meaning you get the soil right,
Speaker 6: get the soil right, and then you put that plant
Speaker 6: in the ground, and it's gonna, as we say, hit
Speaker 6: the ground running. It's going to be ready to go
Speaker 6: because its foundation is setting it up for success. And
Speaker 6: heirloom soils is all about creating successful foundations. So here's
Speaker 6: what I mean. Do you want to grow veggie nerve,
Speaker 6: get their veggiine nerve mixed. Do you want to grow roses,
Speaker 6: get their rose soil. Do you want to grow things
Speaker 6: that are fruit trees for example, or things that are
Speaker 6: acidic like azelas and blueberries. They have mixes for all
Speaker 6: of that. You can buy leaf more composts that's super
Speaker 6: high quality stuff for top dressing lawns. You can buy
Speaker 6: that from them. You can get there's a lot of
Speaker 6: ways to get heirloom soils wherever you live. You can
Speaker 6: go to the store and buy it by the bag.
Speaker 6: A lot of our Garden Center supporters and places like
Speaker 6: Ace hardware stores, speed stores. You know there's places at
Speaker 6: carry heirloom soils by the back. You can go out
Speaker 6: to porter and you can pick it up bulk, either
Speaker 6: a bulk in a trailer, or you can have them
Speaker 6: set a supersack, which is a cubeard of mix in
Speaker 6: a sack. They just set it right down in your
Speaker 6: vehicle there. Or you can have them deliver either way
Speaker 6: to your house. Whichever way you want to go about it,
Speaker 6: just get it and get the soil right before you plant.
Speaker 6: If you're going to put in a garden, first thing
Speaker 6: most important is get that soil ready. If you're going
Speaker 6: to put in flower beds or anything like that, heirloom
Speaker 6: soils it's as simple as that. If you're interested in
Speaker 6: looking into a delivery, just give them a call to
Speaker 6: eight one three five four nineteen fifty two eight one
Speaker 6: three five four nineteen fifty or you can go to
Speaker 6: the website if you like to use the website do
Speaker 6: I would just pretty much do everything by the website
Speaker 6: if you're up to me well anyway. Heirloomssoils dot com
Speaker 6: airloomsoils dot com. They have a cool soil calculator where
Speaker 6: you can figure out exactly how much soil you need
Speaker 6: to cover whatever area that you need, and you'll see
Speaker 6: all the soils that they have there at Heirlooms Soils.
Speaker 6: I'm going to head out now to talk to Jay. Jay.
Speaker 6: Are you in Missouri City? Are you in the state
Speaker 6: of Missouri?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 27: No, I'm in Missouri City.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 27: I kind of a quick question about front trees that
Speaker 27: my wife and I we were trying to plant on
Speaker 27: our in our house. And so she was just debating
Speaker 27: between Texas mountain laurels, Japanese blueberries or redbuds, or also
Speaker 27: Mexican wild olives. So she had narrowed it down to four.
Speaker 27: We were looking for something that's going to get I mean,
Speaker 27: it's going to be in a place that's exposed to
Speaker 27: a lot of sunshine and heat in the front yard.
Speaker 27: We didn't want it to get super super tall, but we're,
Speaker 27: you know, trying to plant something that's low maintenance, will
Speaker 27: last pretty much forever, as you know, will handle the
Speaker 27: freezes and the heat. And so I just wanted to
Speaker 27: take get your take on those four in which one
Speaker 27: you would prioritize if it.
Speaker 6: Was all right, Well, Jay, plants, like people have their
Speaker 6: pluses and minuses. So there's good points and bad points
Speaker 6: about all of us. Now let me tell you about
Speaker 6: those plants. First of all, I wouldn't plant Japanese blueberry.
Speaker 6: It's a fine plant, but it's so prone to certain
Speaker 6: kinds of pest problems. It's a little bit on the
Speaker 6: coal tender side. Those are the two drawbacks that I
Speaker 6: think you're not going to be as happy with that.
Speaker 6: Speaking on the coal tender side, the Mexican olive is
Speaker 6: on the cold tender side. I love the plant, it's
Speaker 6: beautiful blooms. The drawbacks of Mexican olive are that it
Speaker 6: can be a little messy when it drops it, you know,
Speaker 6: the bloom fruit types of things. And it's also when
Speaker 6: we have a good hard cold, it's going to kill
Speaker 6: it back a good hard cold. That doesn't happen every year,
Speaker 6: but that can happen. So see Texas Mountain Moral. It's tough.
Speaker 6: It's drawback is don't let its feet stay soggy. If
Speaker 6: drainage is it all in question, put it on a
Speaker 6: raised mound, a nice large like a pitcher's mound, very large,
Speaker 6: raised up to get good drainage. Because it's a good,
Speaker 6: tough plant. The other drawback for Texas Mountain Oral is
Speaker 6: it grows really slow. It's a very slow grower. And
Speaker 6: what was the other one I think that didn't you
Speaker 6: Red bud? Yeah, red bud is fine. It does best
Speaker 6: as an understory where you get its morning sun is
Speaker 6: shining on it, but late in the day it is
Speaker 6: it is a little bit of a break from the
Speaker 6: heat of the sun. You'll see red buds in full sun,
Speaker 6: but they prefer to be an understory. There is one
Speaker 6: red bud called the Texas red bud, and you know
Speaker 6: it because the leaves aren't that pointed heart shape with
Speaker 6: a point on the bottom. They're more rounded, and they're
Speaker 6: more shiny, and they're more leathery, they're thicker. And if
Speaker 6: you can find the Texas red bud, that would be
Speaker 6: the red bud I think because it sounds like this
Speaker 6: is going to be out in the full sun. Correct. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 6: so those are those I don't know.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Another good one I didn't see on your list is
Speaker 6: Chinese fringe tree. Chinese fringe tree. It has shaggy white blooms.
Speaker 6: Shaggy white blooms and in the spring only they have
Speaker 6: a nice light fragrance to them, and so you might
Speaker 6: wanna you may want to try that one. It's one
Speaker 6: of my favorite spring blooming shrubs. So by the way,
Speaker 6: I'm oh, yeah, yeah, it needs to be in as
Speaker 6: much sun as you can give it. That that is
Speaker 6: the case. So hey, let me uh, I'm gonna be
Speaker 6: down at Jorge sid And Gardens, which is in between
Speaker 6: Alvin and Santa Fe and that's just down Highway six
Speaker 6: and he has them down there if you like to
Speaker 6: come down, and I'd love to, you know, see if
Speaker 6: you got any other questions, come on out. We'll be
Speaker 6: doing some giveaways of fruit trees and fertilizers. But you
Speaker 6: could actually see a Chinese friend. He carries those down
Speaker 6: there at Horacehadden Gardens, so you kind of get an idea. Anyway,
Speaker 6: get some time one to three today. All right, you
Speaker 6: take care, good luck with your projects.
Speaker 27: Thank you.
Speaker 6: All right, all right, folks, here we go. Yeah, lots
Speaker 6: going on today. Yeah, I'm going to be given away.
Speaker 6: Hara is going to be given away some of his
Speaker 6: special blend fertilizers and he's got a real cool product
Speaker 6: down there. I have some Nelson platfood products too that
Speaker 6: I'm going to be given away to samples to people
Speaker 6: that come out. He's given away five peach trees. That's
Speaker 6: that's a lot. And so if you're thinking, I know,
Speaker 6: id'd luck to have a peach tree, but you haven't
Speaker 6: planned it one yet. All right, come on out, maybe
Speaker 6: you'll win one. By the way, bring me samples in
Speaker 6: bags of plants to identify, ror to diagnose, and bring
Speaker 6: me pictures on your phone. Let's look at them. I'm
Speaker 6: been down way south like that in a good while.
Speaker 6: So all of you you down south of Houston area,
Speaker 6: I hope you'll come on out. We would love to
Speaker 6: visit with you. We're going to be close to all
Speaker 6: you folks from sugar Land to Pearland and on south
Speaker 6: nown for those of you be done. Someone asked the
Speaker 6: other day, am I coming to Lake Jackson or Angleton
Speaker 6: anytime soon? No, but this is about as close as
Speaker 6: I'm going to get. So come on up and let's
Speaker 6: have a good time this afternoon one to three at
Speaker 6: Jorges Hidden Gardens. Night Fass Barricade is the go to
Speaker 6: product for preventing weeds in your lawn. It works on
Speaker 6: broad leaf weeds and grassy weeds. Most species of broad
Speaker 6: leave and grassy are going to be stopped and prevented
Speaker 6: by barricade. Now, barricade comes in a tempon bag. It
Speaker 6: covers five thousand square feet, so that I'll ought to
Speaker 6: tell you you're not using a lot. You don't need
Speaker 6: a lot of it. You're putting it out in an
Speaker 6: even application with your spreader and you're watering it in
Speaker 6: and then when the weeds try to sprout, it's there
Speaker 6: and the weeds are trying to sprout. So if you're
Speaker 6: going to do a pre emergent, if you're going to
Speaker 6: use the barricade, do it soon. I would say today
Speaker 6: would be a good day to do it, but definitely
Speaker 6: in the next week. Get that done. You're going to
Speaker 6: find it, like other nitroposs products, in many places. You know,
Speaker 6: you go to Plants for all seasons. On two forty nine,
Speaker 6: you go to Ace Hardware City Up a Memorial Drive,
Speaker 6: M and D Out in the Rosenberg area carries it
Speaker 6: as well. Carries it as well. Court Hardware on South
Speaker 6: Maine in Stafford. Another place that you're going to find
Speaker 6: the product. Barricade good high quality product. The Antique Rose
Speaker 6: Imporium is one of those places that you just have
Speaker 6: to go and see to appreciate. They're up there north
Speaker 6: of Brunham in Independence. Here's the website. Write this down
Speaker 6: Antique Roseemporium dot com. They got their annual Spring celebration
Speaker 6: that they just finished. It was awesome, very good. In fact, no,
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. It's today and tomorrow annual Spring Celebration. They're
Speaker 6: in the big middle of it.
Speaker 2: Skid.
Speaker 6: The kids Spring Break workshops from March tenth through thirteenth.
Speaker 6: Children in the Garden program will be March nineteen and sixteen,
Speaker 6: and the first two in April as well. Starts at
Speaker 6: ten am. They have a free Ladybug release on March
Speaker 6: twenty ninth at ten and again at two pm on
Speaker 6: March twenty nine. How do you find out about these things?
Speaker 6: Go to Antique Rosenporium dot com. They are roses, oh
Speaker 6: my gosh, or they ever roses, but there's so much
Speaker 6: more native plants, all kinds of other wonderful plants. It's
Speaker 6: a great place to visit, and spring is the best
Speaker 6: time to go to the antique rosing. For him, it's
Speaker 6: just gorgeous out there. Time for me to take a
Speaker 6: quick break. I'll be right back. Hey, welcome back. To
Speaker 6: the guarden line. Good to have you with us today, listen.
Speaker 6: I was just yesterday out filling a feeder that it
Speaker 6: has picked up at wild Birds Unlimited. It is the
Speaker 6: it's an eco feeder. It's basically made out of recycled
Speaker 6: plastics and it's an excellent It's a hopper type type feeder,
Speaker 6: meaning it's got a litt hinge lid. You lift it up,
Speaker 6: you fill it up, you put it down. The lid
Speaker 6: on this is extra wide so when it rains, like
Speaker 6: unlike some feeders, you don't get so much rain in
Speaker 6: there that's kind of messing up the bird seed sitting
Speaker 6: down in the tray. It's got a little bit better protection.
Speaker 6: I love the feeder. I love the fact that it's
Speaker 6: a recycle plastic. Just really good and it's extremely durable.
Speaker 6: You know, when you go to Wildbirds Unlimited, you're going
Speaker 6: to find quality feeders. You know, hummingbird seasons coming, they've
Speaker 6: got the hyperch feeder for that. I have my squirrel
Speaker 6: feeder that I call it the squirrel feeder because it's
Speaker 6: called the eliminator and it keeps the squirrels out. They
Speaker 6: try to grab onto it and they can't get in it.
Speaker 6: The little door shuts when they try to get on it.
Speaker 6: I love that about it too. You know, they have
Speaker 6: quality seed and right now is the time to do
Speaker 6: nesting super Blend. Wildbird's unlimited nesting super blend. It's got
Speaker 6: sunflower chips, peanuts, meal worms, bark, butter bitsa flower tree, nuts,
Speaker 6: and cal which is important for the development not only
Speaker 6: of the birds skeletal structure, but also eggshells. That's an
Speaker 6: important part. And birds are nesting. Wild Birds Unlimited nesting
Speaker 6: superven their super blend. There's five Wildbirds stores, excuse me five,
Speaker 6: there's six Wildbird stores in the Greater Houston area, so
Speaker 6: I don't care where you live. You and Clare Lake,
Speaker 6: there's one there. Cypress, there's one there Houston on the
Speaker 6: just south of central Houston on bel Air. There's one there,
Speaker 6: Houston West on Memorial Drive. One there. Kingwood has the
Speaker 6: Wildbirds Unlimited, and so does Pairland down on Broadway. It's
Speaker 6: easy to find one near you go to WBU dot
Speaker 6: com forward slash Houston. Let's go out now to Cypress
Speaker 6: Ranch and we're going to talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin,
Speaker 6: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Yes, I'm here. I hope you can hear me.
Speaker 28: I can, oh, okay, okay, yeah, I haven't really started
Speaker 28: spring yard work and started today a little bit raking
Speaker 28: up oak leaves from the curb.
Speaker 14: And gutter area. Got a lot of erosion from unhealthy edges.
Speaker 6: How can I help? How can I help today?
Speaker 11: Kevin Well, I wanted.
Speaker 14: To know if that if I should just you know,
Speaker 14: throw those leaves and dirt and stuff back into the
Speaker 14: yard and mow over it, or does that actually slow
Speaker 14: down the the growth process or improve it of your lawn.
Speaker 6: Yes? Yeah, if the if the amount of debris you
Speaker 6: are mulching back into the lawn isn't too great, that's okay.
Speaker 6: We return grass clippings for that. But when you're talking
Speaker 6: about a bunch of dried leaves, are very slow to decompose,
Speaker 6: so I would probably run over it, chop it up good,
Speaker 6: and use it as a mult in your flower beds
Speaker 6: or other places. A little bit of leaves is okay,
Speaker 6: but you don't want to put too much because it'll
Speaker 6: almost becomes like a thatch that's kind of slow to
Speaker 6: decompose in there. So that would be the bottom line
Speaker 6: on that.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's something that I heard. I don't really have
Speaker 14: a good place for a large amount of composting and
Speaker 14: stuff like that. So I've been, you know, throwing away
Speaker 14: a lot of this stuff.
Speaker 6: Well hang on to it, you use it as maltz.
Speaker 6: But that that certainly would work, and just a little
Speaker 6: bit is fine to mulch in if you've got a
Speaker 6: good sharp mulching mower. Hey, I appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 6: Thank you for calling in, and good luck getting that
Speaker 6: place in tiptop shape.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 6: You bet bye bye. Our phone number is seven one
Speaker 6: three two one two k t R H. If you
Speaker 6: want to give us a call and be up, probably
Speaker 6: we'll pick you up. Maybe I call this hour, but
Speaker 6: probably most likely though, you'll be first up next hour.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 6: Hazemte is that micro nutrient product we keep talking about
Speaker 6: here on garden Line. Azemte contains micro nutrients are also
Speaker 6: called trace minerals that are essential for plant growth but
Speaker 6: only needed in small quantities. You can go to asmite
Speaker 6: Texas dot com and find out more. Pretty much everywhere
Speaker 6: I go I see as m. You know our garden
Speaker 6: centers we talked about on garden Line, the A hardware stores,
Speaker 6: the feed stores, all kinds of places you're going to
Speaker 6: find asamite available. It is something you it's on my schedule,
Speaker 6: and you're gonna put it out once maybe twice a
Speaker 6: year if you want to. But it's not in place
Speaker 6: of fertilizers. It is separate from your normal lawn fertilizing.
Speaker 6: It's a small particle, so don't mix it with fertilizer.
Speaker 6: But put out your fertilizer and then put out the
Speaker 6: asamite separately and you'll be good to go. That works really,
Speaker 6: really well. I was telling you several couple of weeks now,
Speaker 6: I've been talking about Pest Brothers. Pest Brothers is our
Speaker 6: basically our pest control regional company that we talk about
Speaker 6: here on Garden Line all the time. And by regional,
Speaker 6: I mean if you live all the way out let's
Speaker 6: say east in Baytown, if you're over in Katie on
Speaker 6: the west side, or up to the woodlands really up
Speaker 6: I forty five, or all the way down to Texas
Speaker 6: City on the south end. They cover that whole area
Speaker 6: and they do pest control of all types. Now they'll
Speaker 6: I mean that means like four legged pests like rats
Speaker 6: for example, and other issues that are on four legs.
Speaker 6: Sometimes we do with Boston's and whatnot. They can handle
Speaker 6: all that. They know how to deal with it. That
Speaker 6: deals with the indoor pests like termites, Boy, that'll spoil
Speaker 6: the show in your home. They have termite systems that
Speaker 6: are very safe and very long lasting. So you know
Speaker 6: you have the insurance, the peace of mind of good control.
Speaker 6: The household pests like cockroaches. You know, if your mother
Speaker 6: in law's coming over and the cockroaches are going to
Speaker 6: scare it to death, just call pest Brothers. They'll take
Speaker 6: care of it now if you want them. Well, I'm
Speaker 6: not going to go there, never mind. If you have
Speaker 6: fireheads and the yard, if you have to, I hope
Speaker 6: my mother in law and listen into that fire ends
Speaker 6: in the yard. Mosquitos in the yard. They know how
Speaker 6: to control all of that. They got that really cool.
Speaker 6: You need to call them and ask them to tell
Speaker 6: you tell you about their mosquito bait bucket system. It
Speaker 6: is really cool, extremely safe, way more effective than just
Speaker 6: blasting pesticides all over the property trying to kill flying mosquitos.
Speaker 6: Mosquito bait bucket. Just call them. Here's the number two
Speaker 6: eight one two O six forty six seventy two eight
Speaker 6: one two o six forty six seventy thepestbros dot com,
Speaker 6: thepestbros dot Com. Let's see here, We're gonna go to
Speaker 6: Cyprus and talk to Kevin. Hello, Kevin. We got just
Speaker 6: a short time, but let's see if we can help you.
Speaker 14: Oh you already help me?
Speaker 6: Oh okay, I'm sorry, I all right, Sorry about that.
Speaker 6: I pulled up the wrong one.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 6: Let's go to Jersey Village and talk to George. Yeah,
Speaker 6: good morning, Hey George, welcome to garden line.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 12: We got a Chinese tallow tree in the backyard and
Speaker 12: my wife says, get rid of the roots, get rid
Speaker 12: of the tree, or get rid of me.
Speaker 6: So what can I do about that?
Speaker 11: If anything?
Speaker 6: Boy, the stakes are high on that one. George. Hey,
Speaker 6: here's what you do. You go out there and you
Speaker 6: and you cut it off, and immediately after you cut
Speaker 6: it off, you want to dab a product containing triclop
Speaker 6: heer on the cut. If you will go to my
Speaker 6: website Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 6: That's my website. When you go on there, you want
Speaker 6: to find the go to the publications and there is
Speaker 6: a publication that I just recently rode called Controlling Woody
Speaker 6: Weeds in the Landscaping Garden, and it tells you you
Speaker 6: basically take straight tricle peer you put it in a
Speaker 6: little pham brush with a little wooden handle, those old things,
Speaker 6: and you dab it right on the fresh cut, especially
Speaker 6: around the outside of that. If it's a larger tree,
Speaker 6: around the outside of the trunk, that's all the living
Speaker 6: tissues are dabit straight on there, and it will do
Speaker 6: a very good job of moving down and killing. And
Speaker 6: you may on an established tree get a little more sprouting,
Speaker 6: but just cut them off again and do it again,
Speaker 6: and that will knock it out. It'll save your marriage,
Speaker 6: and we'll get rid of that tree.
Speaker 14: So get rid of that.
Speaker 6: There are not many products that will save your No,
Speaker 6: not the roots. Just do the stump, kill it, and
Speaker 6: once it's killed, then you can deal with the stump
Speaker 6: getting it out, all right. All right, have you ever
Speaker 6: heard of a product that promises to save your marriage?
Speaker 6: That's quite a sales pitch, Thanks George, all right, take care,
Speaker 6: all right, making peace in the house, one family at
Speaker 6: a time here on garden line. Oh boy, oh, I
Speaker 6: am so excited. Today about getting down to Hoorges Hidden
Speaker 6: Gardens in Alvin. Actually, if you're in Alvin on Highway six,
Speaker 6: you head towards Santa Fe about halfway and it's off
Speaker 6: of the right hand side. It's on Elizabeth Street. That's
Speaker 6: the address. Elizabeth Street. Jors giving away five peach trees.
Speaker 6: He's giving away some fertilizer. I'm bringing some Nelson fertilizer
Speaker 6: to give away. We're gonna answer questions all of you
Speaker 6: down south. This is as far south as I get
Speaker 6: this year. I'm singing looking forward to one o'clock to
Speaker 6: three o'clock this afternoon.
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Speaker 2: Just watch him as many things to selocks.
Speaker 11: Come.
Speaker 6: All right, we're gonna jump right back in here. Welcome
Speaker 6: to garden Line. We're here to help you have a
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Speaker 11: And there.
Speaker 6: You know, there's very few things you can do outside
Speaker 6: that just give you instant effects, and one of them
Speaker 6: is containers. Container color is just amazing. Uh, beautiful containers
Speaker 6: filled with a quality mix with beautiful plants in them.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know you got to you got somebody
Speaker 6: coming over tonight and you want to make the place
Speaker 6: look good, gets you some good You could do that
Speaker 6: literally and be ready to go for to night. Quality
Speaker 6: mix is important. You need a mix it drains well
Speaker 6: and a mix that holds moisture at the same time,
Speaker 6: not too much moisture, but it holds moisture. That's jungle Land.
Speaker 6: Jungle Land flour and vegetable planting soil is their outdoor
Speaker 6: version from nitrofoss to get those kind of results. And
Speaker 6: I'm just saying that makes a big difference. You know,
Speaker 6: you don't if you don't have time to make flower
Speaker 6: beds and do all that. Maybe you're planning on doing that,
Speaker 6: but what about right away? What about fast stuff? What
Speaker 6: about when one plant starts to look a little and
Speaker 6: you just pull it out, put a new one in
Speaker 6: the container, and you're ready to go. Now, you're gonna
Speaker 6: find products from night Foss like jungle Land. You're gonna
Speaker 6: find them at places like a Jenny Forest down there
Speaker 6: in the Richmond Rosenberg area on FM twenty seven fifty nine.
Speaker 6: You're gonna find them at Ace Hardware, Single Ranch. You're
Speaker 6: gonna find him at Aspa's Ace in the woodlands and
Speaker 6: you're gonna find them at d and Defeat in Tumbule area.
Speaker 6: Just another quality product from the folks at Nitrofoss.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 6: Let's run out here on the phone and we are
Speaker 6: gonna go to Baytown and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Hi,
Speaker 6: how can we help today?
Speaker 29: Well, I've got a grass issue, Saint Augustine grass in
Speaker 29: the backyard.
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 29: I've got a big backyard and I've got dogs, and
Speaker 29: i had Saint Augustine grass. We've been living here over
Speaker 29: twenty years, since nineteen ninety seven, and it was strong
Speaker 29: Saint Augustine for a lot of years, and then slowly
Speaker 29: over the years it's slowly got overtaken by this sort
Speaker 29: of rye grass looking stuff that comes up really okay
Speaker 29: big in the spring, and then it is okay, it's
Speaker 29: gotten a little low. So we're thinking about getting a
Speaker 29: pallet of grass put in there. But my question is
Speaker 29: if we spend all that money, do it right. Uh,
Speaker 29: it's going to keep it from happening again. What causes that?
Speaker 29: You know, there's some other parts of our yard that
Speaker 29: Saint Augustine stays real strong, you know, like the whole
Speaker 29: front car.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, So so as far as grass declining, many
Speaker 6: things can do that too much shade, uh compacted soil,
Speaker 6: poor drainage, you know areas it could be. It just
Speaker 6: could be a lot of things. Watering and fertilizing and
Speaker 6: mowing are the three secrets to density in your lawn.
Speaker 6: And so if you go get my schedule online, you'll
Speaker 6: find one that is on gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 6: Gardening with Skip dot Com, there's two schedules. One on
Speaker 6: the things to make your lawn grow like mowater, fertilized,
Speaker 6: one on things that attack your lawn like weeds, pest
Speaker 6: and diseases. Check that out. On the weed one you
Speaker 6: will see a fall application of pre emergent herbicide and
Speaker 6: the one I would recommend you use is barricade from nitrophoss.
Speaker 6: But look at when you apply it in the fall.
Speaker 6: When you do that, that will prevent that weed that's
Speaker 6: grassy that you're seeing now, it'll prevent it from being
Speaker 6: able to sprout and come up. And just so follow
Speaker 6: the schedule on that one. As far as lawn health, mowater, fertilize, Yes,
Speaker 6: put put in some fresh new lawn. If you feel
Speaker 6: like the area is really compacted you mentioned dogs where
Speaker 6: where the problems are occurring. A core aeration with some
Speaker 6: compost top dressing is a helpful way to do with.
Speaker 29: That, okay, but we should go ahead and proceed with
Speaker 29: the plan of replacing it.
Speaker 6: With yes.
Speaker 29: With the yes sane Argustine, you're getting a pallet of
Speaker 29: grass and then going.
Speaker 6: There, Yeah, get rid, Yeah, get rid of whatever's there.
Speaker 6: You may have some perennial weeds. I don't have some
Speaker 6: bermuda grasses in it or anything else that's perennial. Get
Speaker 6: rid of that before you put the fresh new grass in,
Speaker 6: so you don't just have to deal with the weeds
Speaker 6: continually that are perennial. But that would go. That'd be
Speaker 6: my suggestion, sir.
Speaker 19: Okay, Now what was that a dot com you gave
Speaker 19: me again to look.
Speaker 6: At gardening with Skip? That's me gardening with skip dot com.
Speaker 6: All right, Good luck, Mike, Thank you appreciate it. You
Speaker 6: Bye bye. Nelson water Garden and nursery out there and
Speaker 6: Katie is a destination place. I mean that, that's the
Speaker 6: best way that I can describe it to you. Is
Speaker 6: a destination when you go out there. Of course it's
Speaker 6: a watergarden, but it's also a nursery. Nelson Watergardens and
Speaker 6: Nursery is going to have whatever you're looking for. Are
Speaker 6: you looking for flowers, They've got them. Are you looking
Speaker 6: for herbs, Oh my gosh, they got them. Bought some
Speaker 6: some myself there a while back. Are you looking for
Speaker 6: house plants like string of filling the blank or mother
Speaker 6: in law's tongue, sense of area or whatever. They have
Speaker 6: the gorgeous, gorgeous houseplants and so many water features, from
Speaker 6: little fountains, little small fountains that you put out there,
Speaker 6: to building a waterfall and a beautiful pond. I mean,
Speaker 6: they can do all of that and they can help
Speaker 6: you do it as well. At Nelson Watergardens dot com.
Speaker 6: They're in Katie on Katiefort Benroad. So if you're going
Speaker 6: out west on ten, just turn north on Katiefort Ben
Speaker 6: Road and it's just a little bit up on the
Speaker 6: right Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Write that down. You'll want to
Speaker 6: use it if you're looking for an organic fortlizer that
Speaker 6: has a very high concentration of nitrogen in it. Nitrophos
Speaker 6: is put together something called Sweet Green and it is
Speaker 6: based on a molasses base which is hence the name
Speaker 6: sweet Grain. Also it smells sweet and basically it's an
Speaker 6: eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer that you put on your lawn.
Speaker 6: It is, it works. Bottom line, it gets in the soil.
Speaker 6: Whenever you add carbon sugars things like that to the soil,
Speaker 6: you're going to stimulate microbial activity. And microbial activity is
Speaker 6: very important if you want to have success with what
Speaker 6: you're growing it because it stimulates. It stimulates the plant
Speaker 6: microbes and plants they get along, they take care of
Speaker 6: each other. And where you're going to get Sweet Green
Speaker 6: Well RCW Nursery, that's a good place. Langham Creek Ace Hardware.
Speaker 6: How about Lake Hardware in Angleton on Flasco. There's actually
Speaker 6: too but actually both Lake Hardware is carrying nitropos a
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Speaker 6: match in the whole area. Time for me to take
Speaker 6: a break. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back
Speaker 6: to Guardline. Good to have you with us, Good to
Speaker 6: have you with us. You know, Nelson Plant Food has
Speaker 6: so many products, it's like I don't know where to
Speaker 6: start talking about them. They've got their turf Star line,
Speaker 6: which right now, the two primary turf Star products that
Speaker 6: I want you to be aware of or Bruce Sprew,
Speaker 6: which is an immediate release that also has extend release.
Speaker 6: It's got some forms of nitrogen that don't just all
Speaker 6: release immediately. They'll they'll they'll spread out as soil microbes
Speaker 6: feed on the carbon based nitrogen sources in them. Then
Speaker 6: there's a weedinator. Weedenator is a product that you put down.
Speaker 6: You have to wet the lawn with the weed leaves,
Speaker 6: is what you're trying to do. Put that dry granular
Speaker 6: out just like you're fertilizing. It tends to stick to
Speaker 6: the wet weed leaves very well, and then leave it.
Speaker 6: I say a couple of days. Doesn't have to be
Speaker 6: that long, but leave it a couple of days. It
Speaker 6: soaks into the weed leaves and then water it and
Speaker 6: it moves down in the soil and you get all
Speaker 6: your nutrients down there where you want them to be.
Speaker 6: Weed Nator provides a good quick release, but it also
Speaker 6: provides forms of nitrogen that feed out for a good
Speaker 6: long time, and so it makes it a really nice fertilizer.
Speaker 6: You have options with Nelson Plant Food. They have many
Speaker 6: different options and the products work. I've used them myself,
Speaker 6: very very impressed with them. Nelson Plant Food easy to
Speaker 6: find all over the place here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 6: Let's go out to the phones. We're going to head
Speaker 6: to West Houston now and talk to Rick. Hello, Rick,
Speaker 6: welcome to garden Line. All right, did I not punch
Speaker 6: the right button? There we go? Hey, sorry, I got
Speaker 6: you now?
Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, my wife's considering buying some linten roses to
Speaker 5: replace some azalea as we have around the house.
Speaker 11: Do you recogn those?
Speaker 23: They do?
Speaker 6: Okay, they're a shade loving plant and they you know,
Speaker 6: they're not as showy as azalea's, but you just need
Speaker 6: to keep them moist, keep them in a very bright
Speaker 6: shade because they do need they need light intensity. I
Speaker 6: mean they need what am I saying? They need some
Speaker 6: foot candles on them, But they don't need direct sun
Speaker 6: baking down on them.
Speaker 11: Uh huh.
Speaker 6: Okay, And I would I would feed them. I would
Speaker 6: feed them with something for acid loving plants. I think
Speaker 6: they'll do a little better with that.
Speaker 14: Okay, Well, I mean, would you consider azaleas to be better?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, it's two different kinds of plants. It's
Speaker 6: kind of like as an apple or an orange better,
Speaker 6: I would say, you know, azaleas as a shrub. As
Speaker 6: long as you have an acidic soil that's well drained
Speaker 6: and kept moist Azalias are gorgeous. They're beautiful. Most az
Speaker 6: alias are spring bloomers. Now we have the kind that
Speaker 6: repeat some. I don't know which I like better, the
Speaker 6: regular spring bloomers they put on a bigger show, or
Speaker 6: the ones that repeat, you know, through the season, but
Speaker 6: either way is good. You know, there's just so many
Speaker 6: plant options, Rick that it's hard to say this one
Speaker 6: is the one the one to plant. Yeah, okay, but
Speaker 6: they require more water than not more. They just need
Speaker 6: consistent soul moisture. But azilias need that too. They just
Speaker 6: have a need to not go into drought, is what
Speaker 6: you're trying to avoid. Okay, alrighty, all right, thank you, well, yes, sir,
Speaker 6: good luck. Thank you for the call. I appreciate that.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 6: If you are looking for compost, top dressing and core
Speaker 6: aeration of your lawn, which those two combined are just
Speaker 6: a shot in the arm for a lawn. They breathe
Speaker 6: life into the soil because basically you're pulling plugs out
Speaker 6: of the soil dropping them on the surface. That's a
Speaker 6: core aeration, and you're doing it in a way that
Speaker 6: stimulates roots keeps those holes open for a little longer.
Speaker 6: That's the compost. Stop dressing falls down in the holes,
Speaker 6: as does fertilizer too. By the way, it helps soil
Speaker 6: soak up moisture better because you got those little holes
Speaker 6: in the ground. And the folks at green Pro are
Speaker 6: experts and providing it. They do correation and they do
Speaker 6: compost stop dressing. It feeds the soil biology. Again, it
Speaker 6: just has so many benefits. So if your soil or
Speaker 6: if your lawn is struggling from recovery in terms of
Speaker 6: you know, brown patches real thereof on it, takeoff patch,
Speaker 6: maybe chinch bugs, those kind of issues. It does. If
Speaker 6: you've got a thatch layer, corretion is the best way
Speaker 6: to break down thatch faster. It really does, and it
Speaker 6: increases the turfs rooting depth. So when you go into
Speaker 6: hot weather, you want a good, deep rooted, resilient grass
Speaker 6: plant in corporation does that now. Greenpro serves an area
Speaker 6: about forty five miles from Magnolia. The easy way to
Speaker 6: just put it is Interstate forty five to een the
Speaker 6: northwest QUANDRN of Houston. Interstate forty five to iten. That's
Speaker 6: roughly it. But basically forty five miles from Magnolia, Greenprotexas
Speaker 6: dot com greenpro Texas dot Com eight three to two,
Speaker 6: three five to one zero zero three to two. Let's
Speaker 6: see here. We are going to go now to uh Rick,
Speaker 6: I believe, Hey Rick, welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 18: Yes, sir, I'll be real quick.
Speaker 13: All I want to ask is what is what fertilizer?
Speaker 13: What bag fertilizer.
Speaker 6: It's the closest that I.
Speaker 13: Can get that will match that ballnyard fertilizer that they
Speaker 13: they use up at the modern Riie mushroom plant. It's
Speaker 13: about three four so the white of Dallas. But that
Speaker 13: that barnyard stuff. It grows huge tamato plants.
Speaker 6: But uh yeah, yeah. So basically the I don't know
Speaker 6: the nutrient content on Monterey mushroom. I know what you're
Speaker 6: talking about. I've used it. Uh But you're getting not
Speaker 6: just the nutrient out of that. You're that's like having
Speaker 6: compost and fertilizer put together. So there's a lot of
Speaker 6: biological activity. There's the benefits of the organic matter in it,
Speaker 6: and then there's the nutrient content. So if you wanted
Speaker 6: to achieve that what you would do is get you
Speaker 6: a high quality compost and then put a quality fertilizer.
Speaker 6: You said for vegetables, is what you want to use
Speaker 6: it for tamato plants? Yes, sir, Yeah, so I would
Speaker 6: get you know, they're the folks that know some plant food.
Speaker 6: Have something. It's a vegetable. Fertilizer comes in jars. You
Speaker 6: could use that. I'll tell you this. I have also
Speaker 6: used lawn fertilizer in my vegetable garden. That that is fine.
Speaker 6: You can do that and then a good high quality compost.
Speaker 6: Mix it in probably if your soil is in decent shape.
Speaker 6: I'd put about an inch a compost each time I
Speaker 6: do a spring, and then again in a vegetable I
Speaker 6: mean a fault transition. Mix it in the ground about
Speaker 6: an inch at a time. But then with that fertilizer,
Speaker 6: you should be you should be good to go. Yeah.
Speaker 13: Sure that okay, Well, anyway, thank you very much for
Speaker 13: your information.
Speaker 6: Thank you all right, thank you for the call. I
Speaker 6: appreciate that, Rick, and good luck with that. RCW nursery
Speaker 6: is what I call it, get it, got it nursery
Speaker 6: meaning even if they don't have something, they probably can
Speaker 6: get it, They do their best to find it and
Speaker 6: they're just a full service place.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: That nursery opened up in nineteen seventy nine. Williamson family
Speaker 6: still runs RCW Nursery. It's the garden center there where
Speaker 6: Tambo Parkway Highway two forty nine comes into belt Way
Speaker 6: eight Northwest Houston. Easy to get to the website RCW
Speaker 6: Nurseries dot com. R CW Nurseries dot com. When you
Speaker 6: go to RCW Nursery, you're gonna get expert advice, expert advice.
Speaker 6: You're gonna find a wonderful selection of plants. I'm talking
Speaker 6: about pretty much anything that you are looking to plant,
Speaker 6: you're gonna find there. You hear me talk about fertilizers
Speaker 6: like microlife and others. They carry that there at RCW.
Speaker 6: You should go see their bougainvillia trees right now and
Speaker 6: the bougainvillia columns. I don't know how to tell you.
Speaker 6: Then just go look at them. They are stunning, gorgeous
Speaker 6: braided boogmvella stems up into a tree shape. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: then take your breath away. Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. They even
Speaker 6: have bluebonnet transplants there at RCW Nursery and then right now,
Speaker 6: you know, early well late winter early spring is the
Speaker 6: deciduous magnolia season, and they have an excellent selection of
Speaker 6: decidious nose, like the variety Jane that is so popular.
Speaker 6: It's one of the most popular ones here in the
Speaker 6: Houston area, and you'll find it at RCW Nursery. We're
Speaker 6: going to head out now to Richmond and talk to Paul. Oh, Paul,
Speaker 6: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Hey skip, Yeah, I got a big oak tree.
Speaker 30: It's probably maybe forty years old, maybe older. In the bark,
Speaker 30: the bark is splitting, like kind of chunks of bark
Speaker 30: are falling off.
Speaker 6: Okay, so they're actually coming off when you look underneath
Speaker 6: where they fell off. Are you seeing more bark? Are
Speaker 6: you seeing the interior wood of the oak tree?
Speaker 30: Let me, I'm out here right now, Okay, so I'm
Speaker 30: looking at the tree. It's yeah, the bark is definitely
Speaker 30: splitting on some of the bigger limbs, and I can
Speaker 30: see underneath that is I guess what you're calling the
Speaker 30: interior part of the oak tree.
Speaker 14: Yes, I don't have any on the ground and throw them.
Speaker 6: Okay, So if you were to go up that tree,
Speaker 6: and hug. If you go up that tree and hug
Speaker 6: the trunk trunk, could you touch your fingers on the
Speaker 6: other side or is.
Speaker 30: It bigger than that?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 30: I could, no, I could, yes, I could do that there, okay,
Speaker 30: where it's splitting, yeah, where it's splitting, I could do.
Speaker 6: That, yes, yeah, all right. And last last question is
Speaker 6: is it a live oak?
Speaker 30: Yes, sir, yes, sir?
Speaker 6: Okay, all right. So live oaks, as they get older
Speaker 6: can develop some really extra long, you know, sections of
Speaker 6: bark coming out. You know how barks naturally splits as
Speaker 6: it goes out, just part of the natural splitting, and
Speaker 6: sometimes those will fall off if you're seeing the wood underneath.
Speaker 6: That sounds like coal damage to me. Uh, you know,
Speaker 6: the only two things that knock the bark off are
Speaker 6: coal damage, which kills the tissues, and then a lightning
Speaker 6: strike you know, can do that same thing. Took from
Speaker 6: an older tree like that, you usually don't see the
Speaker 6: cold damage on a live oak. So I'm a little
Speaker 6: wondering about that. I know that that can do that
Speaker 6: to a tree. I'm just not sure you've had the
Speaker 6: cold that would have done it. The only other thing
Speaker 6: I would suggest, take me some pictures. Send them in,
Speaker 6: let me look at them and see. But those are
Speaker 6: the two things that will cause that to split. Now,
Speaker 6: there's one other disease called hypoxylan canker, but in that
Speaker 6: you wouldn't describe it as splitting. You'd be talking about
Speaker 6: whole sections of bark sloughing off, you know, bigger, whiter
Speaker 6: than your hand, where the whole section sluffs off, and
Speaker 6: then underneath it you see kind of an olive to
Speaker 6: ten dusty brown colored, dusty material underneath it. That's a
Speaker 6: disease thing.
Speaker 30: Okay, Actually, actually what you're describing is, yes, I can
Speaker 30: see that coloration that you just described in one of
Speaker 30: the parts of the tree I'm looking at right now, all.
Speaker 6: Right, So that's a stress related disease. I think it's weak.
Speaker 6: The disease moves in, it's out in nature, it's everywhere.
Speaker 6: It's not like it's showed up somewhere and then you
Speaker 6: cannot spray for it. Strengthening the tree is the best
Speaker 6: thing you can do, and in the future, avoiding stresses
Speaker 6: is the best thing you can do. If you I
Speaker 6: need to put a publication on my website for that.
Speaker 6: But in the meantime, if you want to learn more
Speaker 6: about it. It's hypoxylon h y p O x A
Speaker 6: l O N kinker no control for it. Avoid the
Speaker 6: stress is all that's in your power. That's one where
Speaker 6: they're just not a solution other than avoid minimize stress.
Speaker 30: Okay, one last question, all right, sir, would he gets
Speaker 30: so bad that I had to cut the branches off
Speaker 30: or no?
Speaker 6: Well, if they die, they have to come off. And
Speaker 6: it does kill branches, so as long as they're not dead,
Speaker 6: just leave it, leave it be and that's that's it,
Speaker 6: all right, Paul, Good luck, sir.
Speaker 5: Day.
Speaker 6: Okay, thank you, you bet you bet Hey. Nature's Way
Speaker 6: Resources is having their big shinnedig. You need to go
Speaker 6: to the website Nature's Way Resources dot com. Nature's Way
Speaker 6: Resources dot com. This spring Fling is on the twenty
Speaker 6: second of March from eight to two pm. You gotta
Speaker 6: go see it and take your truck out there because
Speaker 6: you're going to bring home a lot of quality products
Speaker 6: from Nature's Way. They've got lots of them there and
Speaker 6: this spring fling is fun. I'll be right back. Welcome
Speaker 6: back to your guard line. Good to hevy with us today. Hey,
Speaker 6: night to fuss. Imperial is the Orange Red bag. It's
Speaker 6: reddish orange or orangish red if you want to look
Speaker 6: at it. It's a fifteen to five to ten fertilizer
Speaker 6: that gets the nutrients out right away. You put it down,
Speaker 6: you wet it well and the nutrients are released for
Speaker 6: your plant. And we use it for the early greenup.
Speaker 6: You want to do an early greenup on your lawn,
Speaker 6: and I've got that on my schedule. It's an optional
Speaker 6: application we make in the spring. Nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five
Speaker 6: to ten works excellent for that. It also is widely available.
Speaker 6: You're going to find it all over the area, the Houston,
Speaker 6: the Greater Houston area. Actually they got a plantation Ace
Speaker 6: Hardware out there in Richmond Rosenberg. You're going to find
Speaker 6: it at Langham Creek Ace Hardware up in Cyprus on
Speaker 6: five twenty nine. By the way, they just revamped that story.
Speaker 6: You go check it out. You're going to find it
Speaker 6: at RCW Nursery. We were just talking about them a
Speaker 6: minute ago. It's easy to find in our area and
Speaker 6: you're going to find it at D and D Feed
Speaker 6: up in the Tombol area. Nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five to ten.
Speaker 6: Your early spring green up fertilizer that really really works.
Speaker 6: Let's head out to Richmond Rosenberg. We're going to talk
Speaker 6: to Mark. Hey, Mark, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Hello is this Mark?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 6: I'm sorry I went to Cian and Conro. I pushed
Speaker 6: the wrong button. Well, welcome to garden Line for you, Mark,
Speaker 6: we'll come to you next.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Yeah, I was going to call this
Speaker 3: company that you're just talking about to do the plugging
Speaker 3: in the yard. I'm out at thirteen fourteen and one
Speaker 3: oh five. I don't know if they'll come that far.
Speaker 3: But and I got some post emergent for the lawn
Speaker 3: because I bought this house new, and you know what
Speaker 3: they do to the yards there. So I was wondering
Speaker 3: if I should do the post emergent before I have
Speaker 3: them come out, or how should I do that?
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter a lot, but I would go ahead
Speaker 6: and do it because you're not going to come out
Speaker 6: tomorrow probably. I doubt they're you know, coming there.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so go ahead.
Speaker 6: It's very important to get those weeds shut down. Okay,
Speaker 6: not the post emerger.
Speaker 3: Does that need to be watered in? It doesn't say
Speaker 3: on the package.
Speaker 6: Are we talking about a spray or are we talking
Speaker 6: about a granular fertilizer plus.
Speaker 3: Post emergin granule.
Speaker 6: Huh? Okay, okay, here's what you do. You wet the
Speaker 6: lawn just enough to get the leaves wet. You're not
Speaker 6: really watering, you're just wetting the leaves. Put the product
Speaker 6: out immediately while the leaves are wet. It sticks to
Speaker 6: the leaves. Wait a day or two and then water
Speaker 6: it in. But give it some time to soak into
Speaker 6: those leaves before you turn the water on, and then
Speaker 6: you'll be ready to go. And then whenever the errators
Speaker 6: can come out, I think you're probably talking about Green
Speaker 6: Pro and just give them a call and see if
Speaker 6: they if they'll serve that area. You know, I don't
Speaker 6: have a map in front of me, but about forty
Speaker 6: five minutes from Magnolia, they'll serve that area.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, thank you so much. I love
Speaker 3: your show.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you, thanks for listening. I appreciate that very much. Well,
Speaker 6: we do all right here, find the right buttons that
Speaker 6: I need. Ace Hardware stores are going to carry all
Speaker 6: these products we talk about. You hear me talk about
Speaker 6: them all the time. Ace Hardware. There's a new website
Speaker 6: I'm telling you about, and it's ACE Hardwaretexas dot Com.
Speaker 6: You know I've always sent you to the store locator.
Speaker 6: ACE Hardware Texas dot Com is those that group of
Speaker 6: ACE Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area that
Speaker 6: we talk about on Guardline all the time. And you're
Speaker 6: gonna find at your local ACE Hardware store the fertilizers
Speaker 6: you hear me talk about, the products the control weeds
Speaker 6: that you hear me talk about. You're going to find
Speaker 6: the products for insects and diseases. You're gonna find tools.
Speaker 6: You're gonna find everything you need to turn your outdoor
Speaker 6: area into a beautiful and bountiful place. That's Ace Hardware.
Speaker 6: You're also going to find the things that make it
Speaker 6: more fun to be outside, like beautifying your patio with lighting,
Speaker 6: like a barbecue Oh my gosh, Big Green Egg, Treger, Weber,
Speaker 6: all these great brands of barbecue pits that they have.
Speaker 6: Uh well, I mean I think I just hang out
Speaker 6: outside all the time and eat, eat, eat the barbecue.
Speaker 6: I love cooking out. They've got you covered there and
Speaker 6: all the supplies you need for barbecue.
Speaker 18: Two.
Speaker 6: By the way, all the you know there are any
Speaker 6: thing you get into, there's lots of tools and cool things. Well,
Speaker 6: go to Ace Harder and you'll find that it's the
Speaker 6: kind of place where you go for your spring cleaning,
Speaker 6: to get all the supplies, the shelving, the bins to
Speaker 6: store things, the cleaning supplies. You want to reseal your deck,
Speaker 6: Maybe it's always a good idea to do that. Ace
Speaker 6: Hardwar's got you covered. You need paint, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: they got paint, just all kinds of quality paints. It's spring,
Speaker 6: It's time to go to Ace Hardware. Ace is the
Speaker 6: place right and you're going to find Ace Hardware's all
Speaker 6: over the Greater Houston area. Let me just give you
Speaker 6: a few. For example, there's Port Levaka Ace, Port Levaca Ace,
Speaker 6: if you ever been down there, those of you in
Speaker 6: Port Levaca, there is the Chambers Ace Hardware and Galveston
Speaker 6: Deer Park Lumber East of Pasadena, the Ace Hardware and
Speaker 6: Champions Forest. There's a Langham Creek ACE in Copperfield. On
Speaker 6: five twenty nine. I was just talking about that one
Speaker 6: memorial Ace Hardware Store, Plantation Ace Hardware Store. These are
Speaker 6: all examples of the many Ace Hardware's here in our area.
Speaker 6: Let's tet out to Richmond now and talk to Mark.
Speaker 6: Sorry about the false alarm a minute ago.
Speaker 5: There, Mark, no problem. The first question is easy and short.
Speaker 5: Probably if you got trees about six eight inches in
Speaker 5: diameter when we're the rot off quicker if you cut
Speaker 5: it about two foot above the ground, or if you
Speaker 5: cut it the right off a couple of inches above
Speaker 5: the ground.
Speaker 6: The fastest rot occurs where it contacts the soil. Microbes
Speaker 6: can get a hold of it, and it stays moist
Speaker 6: So if you cut it as low as you can,
Speaker 6: and if you pile soil or compost over the top
Speaker 6: of it just so it's you know, like burying a
Speaker 6: two by four, right, it's going to rot really fast
Speaker 6: compared to sitting up where it's going to dry out
Speaker 6: and not not have that moisture and microbe exposure.
Speaker 5: Okay, now this one is kind of more difficult. I've
Speaker 5: got about a two hundred foot row of whiteleaf of
Speaker 5: custrooms at about twenty five years old, and they're scraggly
Speaker 5: and woody and have died. I want to get rid
Speaker 5: of them. One guy says he's going to cut him
Speaker 5: off about an inch above the ground or so and
Speaker 5: I could stump ground him off level below the ground
Speaker 5: if I want it. And the other question is would
Speaker 5: it be better if you just pull them up? Wait
Speaker 5: till it was kind of wet, and pulled them up.
Speaker 5: He thought of you try to pull him up, you're
Speaker 5: going to have roots pulling up the soil around it, making.
Speaker 9: A bigger mess.
Speaker 5: And he thinks it's easy to cut him off and
Speaker 5: either leave him or stump ground him if you want.
Speaker 6: We can either way. I've I've attached a shrub or
Speaker 6: too to pick up bumper in my time, and that's
Speaker 6: an option. But if you cut him off, what you
Speaker 6: want to do, I probably would leave a little bit
Speaker 6: of a stump because you're going to probably want to
Speaker 6: dig that stump out or pull the stump out after
Speaker 6: the plant dies. But you cut him off and you
Speaker 6: treat the cut surface with a product containing trichlope. Here. Now,
Speaker 6: if you go to my website gardening with Skip dot com,
Speaker 6: Gardening with Skip, that's me gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 6: There's a publication called Controlling Woody Weeds. It's free and
Speaker 6: you take tricle piers straight out of the bottle. It
Speaker 6: comes in many brands. The brands are listed on this publication.
Speaker 6: And you take a little pham brush with a little
Speaker 6: wooden handle like you see at the hardware store, and
Speaker 6: you you just dab it right on that fresh cut.
Speaker 6: I don't mean six hours later. I mean you make
Speaker 6: the cut. You dab the cut. You make a cut,
Speaker 6: You dab the cut, and it goes right down in
Speaker 6: and it kills that kills that plant. And then when
Speaker 6: it's dead, if you leave it long enough, if you
Speaker 6: can just kick it and it'll it's already rotted and
Speaker 6: it'll just knock it, knock it out of the soil,
Speaker 6: or you can you can grab something to it and
Speaker 6: pull on it, or you can grub it up or
Speaker 6: whatever you want. But tricle Peer is the product to
Speaker 6: use for that. And you don't need to spray it.
Speaker 6: You just want to dab it on the freshly cut surface.
Speaker 5: So how about four buzz the grab? Would you cut
Speaker 5: that stumping?
Speaker 9: Three? Two?
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter how far. It doesn't matter how far
Speaker 6: in terms of the triclopair working. What it would matter
Speaker 6: is if later you're gonna want to attach something to
Speaker 6: it to pull on it and drag it out of there,
Speaker 6: then you'd need something to attach to. That's the only
Speaker 6: thing that matters in the case of what we're talking about.
Speaker 5: Now, okay, so right, you're buffy, eat your ground forgetting it.
Speaker 5: Just as long as you can brow over it as
Speaker 5: good enough.
Speaker 6: That's it. You got it, man, Thanks sir, have fun,
Speaker 6: all right, take care you bet all right? He was
Speaker 6: time for me to take a break. I'll be right
Speaker 6: back with the last segment. Uh seven one three two
Speaker 6: one two kt r H. If you'd like to ask
Speaker 6: a question, I'm all right, folks, we're in the last
Speaker 6: segment of the day. Be back tomorrow morning six am
Speaker 6: to ten am for your gardening questions. Have you been
Speaker 6: to Growers Outlet? I'm timeing to those of you up
Speaker 6: in the Lake Conroe, Conroe Woodlands. Let's see New Waverley
Speaker 6: Porter all up in that direction up there. Growers Outlet
Speaker 6: is in Willis and it is on Highway seventy five,
Speaker 6: just a little south of Willis, just minutes really away
Speaker 6: from Interstate forty five. They're an excellent new garden center,
Speaker 6: I say new. They's revamped. You see the place. It
Speaker 6: really looks good. They carry the fertilizers. You hear me
Speaker 6: talk about like Microlife, night Fross and Medina. For example,
Speaker 6: they have a super supply plant right now. They just
Speaker 6: got into a bunch of fruit trees. They've got nice
Speaker 6: selection of shrubs and general landscape trees, veggies and bedding plants.
Speaker 6: And you can go online, and you need to write
Speaker 6: this down. Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. Growers Outlet
Speaker 6: in Willis dot com. That's the website you can go.
Speaker 6: I think every Wednesday they update their vegetable stock and
Speaker 6: most garden centers do not do that. You can go online.
Speaker 6: You can look at product availability and pricing right there online.
Speaker 6: You can purchase it online for picking it up going
Speaker 6: by and picking it up later if you want to
Speaker 6: go that route. They have got gorgeous baskets and when
Speaker 6: it comes to spring color, you know, geraniums of urbanas
Speaker 6: and many other things. They grow a lot of their
Speaker 6: own stuff in house. Have a nice gift shop, locally
Speaker 6: sourced honey and pickled food and jellies and jams and
Speaker 6: bath and beauty products, all of that truly nice. You
Speaker 6: can follow them on Facebook Growers Outlet. So here's the website.
Speaker 6: Growers Outlet in Willis. Go check it out. You have
Speaker 6: got to see their baskets, beautiful hanging baskets. And as
Speaker 6: with weather's warming up, they're getting some gorgeous ferns in.
Speaker 6: I need to post a picture of meat stand beside
Speaker 6: one of their mato ferns.
Speaker 10: It is.
Speaker 6: Is bigger than my arms reaching out is a huge monster.
Speaker 6: Beautiful growers Outlet let's head out to Cyprus and we're
Speaker 6: going to talk now to Kurt. Hello, Kurk, Welcome to
Speaker 6: garden Line. Hey, good morning.
Speaker 11: How's it going.
Speaker 6: I'm doing good, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Hey.
Speaker 23: I've got in my mainly in my backyard, all these
Speaker 23: little white flowers coming up. It's a weed, but it's
Speaker 23: got Uh there's a there's kind of a long green
Speaker 23: stem and then probably four or five white flowers coming
Speaker 23: off of the stem and they've got you know, white
Speaker 23: petals on them, and uh like a yellow yellow center.
Speaker 6: Hey, no, that's about for you to know what they
Speaker 6: are if I need to send you a picture. You know,
Speaker 6: I thought I thought I knew where you're Yeah, I
Speaker 6: thought I knew where you're going, and then the yellow
Speaker 6: center kind of threw me. Let's do this. I don't
Speaker 6: want to guess and be wrong. I'm going to put
Speaker 6: you on hold here and uh, my producer will give
Speaker 6: you an email. Send me a picture of it. Get
Speaker 6: up close, good sharp focus, Send me a picture. I
Speaker 6: want to see the leaves, the flowers, and I'll be
Speaker 6: able to tell you what to do. Having said that
Speaker 6: it's going to be a broad leaf weed, and being
Speaker 6: a broad leaf weed, a post emergent broad leaf weed
Speaker 6: control product will work. And you hear me talk about this.
Speaker 6: There are products, you know. If you just have a
Speaker 6: few here and there of these weeds, you can just
Speaker 6: mix up a liquid and spray spot spray them. If
Speaker 6: you've got them in a pretty large area, you can
Speaker 6: put out a fertilizer that has the post emergent in
Speaker 6: it as well, if you want to go that route.
Speaker 6: But however you want to go about it, and the
Speaker 6: long term, your goal is to build a denser, healthier
Speaker 6: lawn and choke those things out. But in the short term,
Speaker 6: a post emergent product for broad leaf weeds is what
Speaker 6: you're going to want to do.
Speaker 14: Okay, I'll go to a sardware and get some in.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, they'll have it there. You
Speaker 6: got several aces in your area? Are you? Are you
Speaker 6: north or south? Of two ninety.
Speaker 3: North.
Speaker 6: Did you know I'm I go to the one at Grant,
Speaker 6: Grant and Ludda. Okay, okay, well, uh they'll they'll go
Speaker 6: to get you fixed up post emergent broad leaf weed control.
Speaker 6: That's what you need to tell them, killing existing broad
Speaker 6: leaf weeds. But send me that picture. Just let's make
Speaker 6: sure we're right. I'd hate two weeks. I'd hate for
Speaker 6: you to waste your time and money. Uh if I
Speaker 6: didn't guess right without seeing the picture. Okay, all right,
Speaker 6: sounds good.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna put you on hole
Speaker 6: right here and uh, Jonathan will pick up. All right. Well, wow,
Speaker 6: time flew today. I just want to talk again. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna be out at Horges Hidden Gardens and I'll be
Speaker 6: there from one o'clock to three o'clock today, so it's
Speaker 6: later than normal my appearances. I'm not gonna be back
Speaker 6: down this far south, at least this spring. For as
Speaker 6: I'm looking at the calendar here, it's gonna be a
Speaker 6: gonna be a good while for I head back that
Speaker 6: way again that far. So I hope you'll come out.
Speaker 6: When you're out there, you will find that he's got
Speaker 6: everything that you can imagine when it comes to trees
Speaker 6: and trees and shrubs and fruit and vegetables and herbs
Speaker 6: and all kinds of things, beautiful, beautiful plants. I'm gonna
Speaker 6: do some demonstration when I'm out there. I'm gonna talk
Speaker 6: about how to plant a shrub or tree properly. I'm
Speaker 6: not gonna dig the hole. I'm just gonna take it
Speaker 6: on the pot and show you and talk about the
Speaker 6: proper way to plant a tree or shrub to have success.
Speaker 6: And how far apart do you plant trees and shrubs?
Speaker 6: We get that question a lot. I'll talk about that.
Speaker 6: So there'll be some visiting with you, certainly diagnosing and
Speaker 6: identifying plants and problems that you might have. Bring bring
Speaker 6: samples in a bag, bring pictures on your phone. Let's
Speaker 6: spend some time and talk about it. I just love
Speaker 6: to meet you, those of you down in that area.
Speaker 6: I you know, it didn't get much closer than this,
Speaker 6: So all of you in Alvin and Santa Fe and
Speaker 6: Danbury and really down Tiki Island as far as that
Speaker 6: is too far to come Angleton see folks done in Friendswood,
Speaker 6: Iowa Colony and Sienna. All that direction not too far
Speaker 6: to Jorges Hidden Gardens in Another address is on Elizabeth
Speaker 6: Street in Alvin. But I'll tell you this. What you're
Speaker 6: gonna do is you're gonna go to Alvin and then
Speaker 6: you're gonna head on down Highway six towards Santa Fe
Speaker 6: about halfway and turn south to get to Elizabeth Street,
Speaker 6: which is an Alvin address. All right, I hope you
Speaker 6: can make it out there. Look forward to visiting with you. Oh,
Speaker 6: for those of you who are vegetable gardeners, Arborgate Garden
Speaker 6: Center is having a class on Wednesday This Wednesday, March twelfth,
Speaker 6: at ten am. The cost is ten dollars per person
Speaker 6: and it's vegetable gardening made simple. And whenever Arburgate puts
Speaker 6: on a program, it's always a good one. It's always
Speaker 6: a good one. You can give them a call to
Speaker 6: reserve your spot because there's only forty people allowed in
Speaker 6: this class. That's what the space allows. So one three, five,
Speaker 6: one eighty eight fifty one. I'm gonna give you a
Speaker 6: second to find that pen you're supposed to be keeping
Speaker 6: with you when you're listening to garden Line. Arbigate is
Speaker 6: on FM twenty nine to twenty west of Tomball. Okay,
Speaker 6: here's the number two eight one three five one eighty
Speaker 6: eight fifty one two eight one three five one eighty
Speaker 6: eight fifty one. So only forty people and it's gonna
Speaker 6: be a good one. They got a good speaker and
Speaker 6: knows what they're talking about. And by the way, you'll
Speaker 6: be right there at Arburgate. You can grab all the
Speaker 6: supplies you need, including some really cool vegetables that they
Speaker 6: have on hand. Well, I had a thousand things I
Speaker 6: was going to talk about today, and you guys gave
Speaker 6: me a thousand calls, and so we're gonna we talked
Speaker 6: about what you wanted to talk about. I'll try that
Speaker 6: again on tomorrow. But there's plenty to do. Just remember
Speaker 6: we are in the big middle of the best planting
Speaker 6: season of the year. I mean it just well, the
Speaker 6: fall is good too, but when it comes to spring,
Speaker 6: summer is coming. The sooner you plan something, the better
Speaker 6: success you're going to have it. Everybody wants to have success, right,
Speaker 6: I mean, that's the reason we get out there in garden,
Speaker 6: not to try and fail, but to try and succeed.
Speaker 6: And oh my goodness, what a week and now today,
Speaker 6: potential for a little bit of rain as we go
Speaker 6: through the morning time and in the early afternoon. Uh
Speaker 6: Sunday tomorrow, fifty eight degrees drops down to thirty eight
Speaker 6: in some parts the northern parts of the listing area.
Speaker 6: Not so much for you further south. But then here
Speaker 6: we go. Look at the week Monday in the mid
Speaker 6: seventies to upper seventies. Same with Tuesday, even up into
Speaker 6: the eighties. And then Wednesday, another degree and another day
Speaker 6: in the low eighties. Little bit attention rain, not much
Speaker 6: Thursday in the eighties. It is perfect weather. It is
Speaker 6: perfect weather. Don't delay, especially if you're putting out a
Speaker 6: pre emergent herbicide. Remember it's like baseball. If you wait
Speaker 6: until the catcher's already got the ball, it's a little
Speaker 6: late to start swinging. So get that pre murder out
Speaker 6: as soon as you can, and get out there and
Speaker 6: have fun. Brown stuff before green stuff, fix your soil.
Speaker 6: Go to one of our great garden centers I talk
Speaker 6: about on guardline. Gets you some good plants and have fun.
Speaker 6: Gardening is supposed to be fun. It is fun. Got
Speaker 6: questions about plants? Give me a call on garden Line.
Speaker 6: In the meantime, I think about eight hundred times today.
Speaker 6: I referred to my website where I put on stuff
Speaker 6: that helps answer questions, that helps you. So I just
Speaker 6: go straight there. Gardening with skip dot com, gardening with
Speaker 6: skip dot com, bookmark that thing, book market. So you
Speaker 6: got it there, You're ready to go. Makes it simple.
Speaker 6: All right, Well, I gotta run. I'm back to head
Speaker 6: down to Jorges Hiding Gardens in Alvin from one to three.
Speaker 6: Hope to see you there