WEBVTT 1 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:30.199 Welcome to Katie R. H. Garden Line with Skip Richard. 2 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:32.879 Bases in. 3 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:35.480 Gas. 4 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:40.000 Can you want the trip? You just watch him as 5 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:44.120 the world open. And you did. 6 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:49.959 So many things to see bats in the bay basis 7 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:55.040 and gas and can you did close back kicking cannot 8 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:58.000 sun glasses. 9 00:05:57.560 --> 00:05:59.360 And gay than you did. 10 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:09.680 Sun starting? 11 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:19.360 Well, Good morning, good morning. We are welcome to spring. 12 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:24.000 We are in the doorstep of some of the weather 13 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:26.879 we've been waiting on for a long time. That is, 14 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:29.600 you know, the only thing I can complain about in spring. 15 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:33.279 You know, those of us in the agriculture world, which 16 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:36.399 gardeners are, by the way, we always have to complain 17 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:38.920 about the weather. Right it is too cold, too hot, 18 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:41.920 too dry, too wet, whatever it is. Well, right now 19 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:44.399 we'll see what can we complain about. It's perfect, but 20 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:48.240 it is windy. I was outside making a couple of 21 00:06:48.319 --> 00:06:52.879 things for Facebook, shooting a couple of videos for Facebook yesterday, 22 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:57.360 and wow, I dropped the mic and went and found 23 00:06:57.399 --> 00:07:00.480 a kite because it was perfect kite flying weather, that 24 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:03.839 is for sure. Well, you're listening to garden Line. The 25 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.160 phone number you'll need this so you can give us 26 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:09.399 a call seven one three two one two K t 27 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.920 r H seven one three two one two k t 28 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.480 r H. One of the things I was talking about yesterday, 29 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.680 I got a little video coming out the five important 30 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:23.040 points you need to know about using a pre emergent herbicide. 31 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:27.040 Five important points you need to know And what I 32 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:30.800 was basically using as a prop was barricade, because barricade 33 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.480 is your standard pre emergent herbicide. Talk about it all 34 00:07:33.519 --> 00:07:36.240 the time here on garden Line by the folks at Nitrofiss. 35 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:40.959 It covers a wide variety of weeds. You know, there 36 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.600 are weeds that are broadly, there are weeds that are grassy. 37 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:46.600 And when you look at pre and post emergent herbicides, 38 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:48.600 some of them work well on one, some of them 39 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:51.480 work well on the other. Each has its own different 40 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:55.199 group of weeds that it's most likely to give effective 41 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:59.480 control on. Broadly are barricades a very broad section of 42 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:02.600 grass and broadleaf. We preventing them, but you got to 43 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:06.000 get it down ahead of time. You get it down asap. Listen. 44 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:09.600 With this weather, the warm season, weeds they're just like 45 00:08:09.720 --> 00:08:12.160 the gardeners. They're ready to get out there and get going. 46 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:14.959 And you get your barricade down, your watered in half 47 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.240 inch of water and you're good to go, and it's 48 00:08:17.279 --> 00:08:19.240 going to give you a button sixty days. It could 49 00:08:19.279 --> 00:08:20.920 be a little longer, could be a little less, depends 50 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:25.120 on the weather and everything. But if you need extended control, 51 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:26.879 we may talk about doing it again a little bit 52 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:30.519 later in the season, but for now, one application, follow 53 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.200 the label. Important to follow the label. You're going to 54 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.080 find barricade available at places like Bearings Hardware, both the 55 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.799 one on Bisonetta and West Timer M and D in 56 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:44.120 Rosenberg down to Rosenberg M and D. You're going to 57 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:46.559 find it at Ace Hardware City, a memorial drive and 58 00:08:46.679 --> 00:08:49.759 plans for all seasons up on Highway to forty nine, 59 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:56.879 all places that carry nitross products. Yeah, So talking about 60 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:00.440 the important points to keep in mind, I'm maybe I'll 61 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:03.840 come back to those a little bit here and we'll 62 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:06.919 discuss some of the five important points. I see people 63 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:11.600 misapply a lot of products, and we don't need to 64 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:14.720 be doing that. It is not that difficult. There's simple 65 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:17.240 things we need to keep in mind, and when we do, 66 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.679 we can have success. You know, when you use a product, 67 00:09:20.720 --> 00:09:22.440 I don't care if it's a fung aside to kill 68 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:25.279 a fungus if it's a insecticide to kill an insect 69 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:28.279 or herbicide to kill a weed, it is very important 70 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:30.440 that you know how to apply it and when to 71 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:32.639 apply it, and how to mix and everything like that 72 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:35.559 if you want to have success. Well, we're going to 73 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:39.519 head straight out to the phones this morning and welcome Bruce. Bruce, 74 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.360 you get the Early Riser Award today. Welcome to garden Line. 75 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.519 Oh, thank you very much, Schied. I had a question 76 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:49.360 about herbicide. I've got a bare spot in my lawn. 77 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:51.080 I'm going to try to get the grass growing well 78 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:52.799 in there, but the weeds have gotten ahead of me 79 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.480 and it's more than I can deal with by hand. 80 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:58.519 Is there something that, yeah, you would recommend that I use, 81 00:09:58.600 --> 00:09:59.799 particularly for this time of year. 82 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:05.639 If you see weeds, now, what you're looking at is 83 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:09.519 broad leaf weeds, and so with broad leaf weeds that 84 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:13.960 would be a cool season weed. Well, I mean you 85 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:17.000 may have some grassy weeds too, but cool season is 86 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:19.080 what you're what I meant to say that you're seeing. Now. 87 00:10:19.919 --> 00:10:24.399 For those you you have a couple of options. Primarily, 88 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:27.879 you could either kill everything in the area and have 89 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.919 a clean slate, get all perennials, or anything like that 90 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:35.240 out or you could use just a selective herbicide that 91 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:38.039 either kills grasses or broad leaves. You can go either way. 92 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:41.799 I would probably do the overall general. Is there is 93 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:44.159 there any grass you want to keep in that area 94 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:44.639 right now? 95 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:45.919 There is? 96 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:51.080 Or is it basically all okay? In that case, I 97 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:54.720 would use a post emergent broad leaf weed control product 98 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:59.600 post emergent broad leaf, So you could do it different ways. 99 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:02.000 You can get a spray and just spray the weeds. 100 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.759 That is one option. Another option would be to go 101 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.159 for something that is a fertilizer that also has weed 102 00:11:11.279 --> 00:11:12.000 control in it. 103 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:15.279 Are you inclined to go either way? Particularly on that 104 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:18.279 I don't have a preference either way. I think though 105 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:21.399 I probably avoids spray directly with a drip, but I 106 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:24.840 might use a paint brush or a spongebrush or something 107 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:25.759 like that to apply it. 108 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:30.480 Okay, Well, if you've got a lot of weed, that 109 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:33.320 may be pretty tedious to try to get out there, 110 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:36.000 you know, with the brush to try to do it. 111 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:40.000 Try to do it that way. The folks at Nelson 112 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:45.120 have a product called Weedinator, and Weedinator is a broad 113 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.879 leaf weed control product that also has somewhat of a 114 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:52.480 growth regulator in it for any of the weeds, you know, 115 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.519 it affects them in that way also. But I would 116 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:00.279 say weedinator is your would be your spring green up 117 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:03.639 fertilizer and your weed control. So if you sprayed it 118 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:08.240 on everything excuse me, it's a granular. If you applied 119 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:11.559 it over the whole area, then it would kill the 120 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:15.559 weeds and then you'd have your early fertilization already there 121 00:12:15.639 --> 00:12:17.919 on your grass. And Weedinator's going to last a long time, 122 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.320 so it's going to continue to feed your grass for you. 123 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:23.200 So what you do is you wet the whole area, 124 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:25.919 just turn on a sprinkler, get all the leaves wet 125 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:28.840 of the weeds, grass and everything. Put out the weedinator. 126 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:31.279 It won't hurt your grass and sticks to the weed 127 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:35.000 leaves because they're wet, and then it soaks in and 128 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.399 after a couple of days, just water it in get 129 00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:39.200 the rest of it down there in the ground where 130 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:42.000 it can do the benefit of fertilizing for you. I 131 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:47.399 think that'd be your best bet. Fantastic. Thank you so much, Skip. Yeah, 132 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:50.039 and that's that's from the folks that Nelson's called Weedenator. Hey, 133 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.039 thanks a lot for the call man. I appreciate it. 134 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:57.960 You take care, all right, Yeah, that is important to 135 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.639 get ahead of these weeds. Here's the on the cool 136 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.799 season weeds they are going to seed, and when they 137 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.720 go to seed, we have the issue of next year 138 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:10.000 having a hundred times more weeds than we did this year, 139 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:13.360 especially if the law gets them. So you just want 140 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:15.600 to stay ahead of them. You don't want to let 141 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.639 them get ahead of you. Well, I'm going to take 142 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:19.559 a little break here and we'll be back with your 143 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:24.720 calls seven one three two one two ktrh Friday. We're back. 144 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:27.919 Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey, 145 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:29.919 if you want to give me a call talk gardening, 146 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.600 it's always best to call early in the day because 147 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:34.720 it's kind of quiet. First thing, believe it or not, 148 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:36.159 people like sleep in a little bit. 149 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:37.879 So here we go. 150 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:44.000 I wanted to visit a little bit about quality garden centers. 151 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:47.440 We we have so many good ones here in Houston, 152 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:50.960 and it's really true. Listen. I've lived in different places 153 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:54.480 across the state of Texas. I've traveled to different states 154 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:57.679 and everywhere I go some every time I go somewhere, 155 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:59.200 I go to a garden center there. I love to 156 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:01.080 go see what's your best garden center in this town. 157 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:04.360 I'm telling you we got to beat, hands down in Houston. 158 00:14:04.480 --> 00:14:07.519 We got awesome garden centers. We really do. And I'm 159 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:10.879 not just saying. I mean it is amazing how many 160 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:13.559 good garden centers we have. If you live north, south, east, west, 161 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:17.120 or central, there is a garden center near you that 162 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:21.360 is well worth a visit. It's inspirational. They have quality 163 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.720 train folks, it's just good. And you know a good 164 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:27.639 example of that would be Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood 165 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:32.159 Garden Center out there in Kingwood. Those places they have 166 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:35.679 outstanding products right now. The gosh, the shipments that they 167 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:37.960 got in at Warren's, it's just what do you need? 168 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:40.240 Do you want vegetables? Do you want herbs? Do you 169 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:42.559 want flowers? Do you want just go on and on 170 00:14:42.720 --> 00:14:45.519 down the line. They really do have it all. I 171 00:14:45.799 --> 00:14:48.320 love going into those places and shop. You know what, 172 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:51.159 Warrens they're going to have a good selection of fruit 173 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:55.039 trees too. Right now. If you are looking for any 174 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.799 kind of quality fruit tree, quality plants in general, and 175 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:01.519 certainly the quality s, you know, that's what I'm talking about. 176 00:15:02.919 --> 00:15:06.799 This is the place for you. The selection is unbelievable. 177 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:10.000 They have some unusual tomatoes. For example, you don't have 178 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.840 some fun with tomatoes this year. I plant child standards 179 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:17.679 and they got those. But try something like indigo blueberries tomato. 180 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:20.480 It's red on the inside and kind of a deep 181 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:24.399 dark indigo color on the outside. Is that weird? Is 182 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.399 it cool? Yes? It is absolutely and they've got it 183 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:32.279 there at Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center add 184 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:35.159 in Kingwood. Warrens is on North Park Drive. Kingwood is 185 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:38.639 on Stone Hollow Drive. You're always going to find everything 186 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:42.679 you're looking for at those two places, including good advice. 187 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:46.000 And I just cannot stress that enough. People that know 188 00:15:46.159 --> 00:15:47.960 what they're talking about that can point you in the 189 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.960 right direction when you have problems with your lawn and garden. 190 00:15:52.360 --> 00:15:54.840 Bring in a sample, bring in a photo. Talk to them. 191 00:15:54.960 --> 00:15:58.279 They can help you with it. They have the expertise, 192 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.440 and that is very important. These are your hard earned 193 00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:05.000 dollars and they are going to be well spent when 194 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:09.000 you go someplace that is service before and after the 195 00:16:09.120 --> 00:16:16.000 sale and helping you have success. This week, I have 196 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:19.039 been looking at my yard and trying to do some ketchup. 197 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:21.799 You know, if you ever heard the phrase the cobblers 198 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:26.440 kids go barefoot. Well, during the spring, I'm running around 199 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.480 doing all kinds of things. By the way, I'll be 200 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:31.559 out at Jorges Hidden Gardens later today. I hope you 201 00:16:31.639 --> 00:16:33.200 can come out and see me there. I'll be there 202 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:38.159 from one to three. Hoorges is down. It's an Albin address. 203 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:42.039 It's Elizabeth Street and Alvin. But if you're in Alvin 204 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:45.240 and you're heading down towards Santa Fe direction down Highway six, 205 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.440 it's about halfway and then off to the right, that's 206 00:16:48.559 --> 00:16:50.759 kind of where it's located. Come out and see me. 207 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:52.879 I'm gonna be giving away some Nelson products. We got 208 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:56.399 some Hoges fertilizer product as well there, and I believe 209 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:58.480 I'm gonna talk about this a little bit later, but 210 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:01.039 we got some cool plants and he's gone be providing 211 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:05.880 as well. But anyway, wherever I seem to be in 212 00:17:05.960 --> 00:17:08.640 the spring, it's hard to find time to get back 213 00:17:08.680 --> 00:17:11.480 in my garden because I'm out doing other things. Like 214 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:14.599 I said yesterday, is doing some filming for some Facebook videos. 215 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.839 And when I have a chance to be here, I'm 216 00:17:18.920 --> 00:17:22.079 taking care of some things, getting ready for spring. I 217 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:26.640 was just looking at my seed collection for warm season 218 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:29.799 seeds and getting those out and getting them organized and 219 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:33.240 putting them out there. And if you like to save seed, 220 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:35.559 or if you maybe buy a packet and you have 221 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:39.079 some extras, what you can do is when you're done, 222 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:41.799 put them in something that's air tight. And I don't 223 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:43.720 mean look a zip lock back. I mean like a 224 00:17:43.960 --> 00:17:47.200 jar or one of those glass containers with a pop 225 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:50.880 down lids, or are plastic. They got the little rubber 226 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:53.400 seal around them so they are air tight. Put them 227 00:17:53.440 --> 00:17:55.720 in there. If you got anything that's a dessicont you 228 00:17:55.799 --> 00:17:58.880 know when you buy electronics or when you buy like 229 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:02.440 vitamin and things, they come with the little packets in them. 230 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:04.920 Those are dessicons. Throw those in there with your seed 231 00:18:05.000 --> 00:18:07.440 to keep them dry. And put them in the refrigerator 232 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:10.359 for long term storage. I'll use a freezer, but basically 233 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:14.799 refrigerator's good. And when you take them out, let them 234 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.720 warm up before you pop the lid open, because something 235 00:18:17.839 --> 00:18:23.039 cold exposed to our humid air creates condensation. Right Like 236 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.960 if you take a coca cold can out of the 237 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:28.400 refrigerator and you set it out on the counter and 238 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:31.039 then you put ice in it. That cold liquid what 239 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:33.319 happens on the outside of the glass and get a 240 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:35.839 little droplets of water and you don't want that on 241 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.000 your seed. We're trying to keep them dry. So I 242 00:18:38.119 --> 00:18:40.839 set the container out and give it some time to 243 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:43.079 kind of warm up to room temperature. It doesn't take long, 244 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:46.400 and then open it up and there you go, and 245 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:49.920 your seeds will last a long long time. And sometimes 246 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:52.599 with some of these specialty seeds that you buy, you know, 247 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:54.920 a certain variety, they only give you a few seeds 248 00:18:54.960 --> 00:18:56.960 and things you really want to take care of those. 249 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:00.119 They're not just cheap things. And so that is the 250 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.480 way you do it. Keep them cold, keep them dry. 251 00:19:03.799 --> 00:19:04.799 That is important. 252 00:19:05.319 --> 00:19:05.480 You know. 253 00:19:05.559 --> 00:19:08.960 ACE Hardware stores are located all over the Greater Houston area. 254 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:13.960 You can go to the website ACE Hardwaretexas dot com. 255 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:17.559 Ace Hardware Texas. Don't get that Texas in there. Our 256 00:19:17.680 --> 00:19:20.759 local ACE Hardware group has put together a little map 257 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:22.720 where you can see all the stores. Depending on where 258 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.039 you're located, there's going to be one near you. And 259 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:27.599 when you go to ACE, you're going to find quality things, 260 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:30.400 like you're going to find all the supplies you need 261 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:34.599 for outdoors. Do you need fertilizers, do you need weed control, 262 00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:38.720 pre emergent or post emergent, things to control insects and diseases, 263 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:43.160 Products that are synthetic products, that are organic, good quality tools, 264 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.240 anything you need to make the outside of your place 265 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:51.039 look its best and to make those outdoor gathering areas, 266 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:56.160 sitting areas just really really pop. And you know, there's 267 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.920 nothing more fun this time of the year than sitting 268 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:02.519 outside and enjoying the outdoors. And ACE has got you 269 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:05.960 covered on all kinds of things along those lines. And 270 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:08.799 you know, there are so many great ACE stores in 271 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:12.400 our area. For example, there's an ACE hardware store called 272 00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:19.319 the excuse me, the uh excuse me, pardon me uh 273 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:21.839 J and our's ACE Hardware up in Porter. I'm going 274 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:24.039 to be heading up there, by the way, I won't 275 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:26.799 be too long away. There's ACE Hardware at Sinco Ranch, 276 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:29.839 which is out on Mason Road and Katie uh. And 277 00:20:29.920 --> 00:20:31.799 then you go down to League City and we got 278 00:20:31.920 --> 00:20:35.319 League City Ace Hardware. Or how about Victoria Ace for 279 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:38.440 all of you listening out there in Victoria, it's easy 280 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:40.440 to find an ACE hardware store in New You Ace 281 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:43.960 Hardware Texas dot Com Time for me to take a 282 00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:46.680 break here and just a bit not quite yet, I've 283 00:20:46.680 --> 00:20:49.119 got a little bit of time left, uh, but I 284 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:53.599 wanted to I wanted to discuss just a little bit, 285 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:58.599 uh some more about success with pre emergent herbicides. I 286 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:00.839 was talking about that a little bit earlier. But when 287 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:03.480 you're dealing with the pre emergent herbicide, you want to 288 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:05.599 make sure that number one, you know the weeds you're 289 00:21:05.640 --> 00:21:07.839 going after, and you get a product that's going to 290 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:11.880 work on those weeds. Not every product has the perfect 291 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:16.079 you know, blend for every weed on Earth. There's just 292 00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:18.480 too much variation out there. But you want a product 293 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:20.440 that's going to control almost all of them. That's why 294 00:21:20.599 --> 00:21:24.519 I recommend barricade, by the way. But you want to 295 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:26.920 make sure you're going after number two. You want to 296 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:28.839 make sure you're doing it at the right time. It's 297 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:31.599 like playing baseball. You got to swing at the right time. 298 00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:34.240 Too early or too late and you don't hit the ball. Well. 299 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:37.799 These weeds are germinating now. The temperature is right for 300 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:41.319 them to get going now, So get it done ahead 301 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.079 of time. That is very important. Get it done at 302 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:47.359 the right amount of time. You want to use a 303 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:51.480 product at the right rate. There's a reason there's a 304 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:56.640 rate on the label. I know it's ground in especially 305 00:21:56.680 --> 00:21:59.680 as guys, it's just ground into us that if a 306 00:21:59.759 --> 00:22:02.559 tea spoon's good, a tablespoon's better, we're not going to 307 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:04.079 just kill the weed. We're going to kill it dead 308 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:09.079 or well, that's nonsense. Here's why. If you're making a 309 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:11.920 product and wanting to sell it, wouldn't you tell people 310 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:13.880 to use a whole lot of it so you could 311 00:22:13.880 --> 00:22:16.960 sell them some more? Right, So why would a label 312 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:20.359 say I'm going to use teaspoon tablespoon? Why would I 313 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:24.160 say use a teaspoon if a tablespoon was better, Well, 314 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:28.079 it wouldn't. It wouldn't. And here's a second thing. When 315 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:31.680 you underapply something whurse, you don't get good control. When 316 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:35.079 you overapply it, you don't get better control because the 317 00:22:35.240 --> 00:22:37.920 label gives you the best control. But what you do 318 00:22:38.119 --> 00:22:40.839 get on over applying, and this is true with pre emergence, 319 00:22:41.279 --> 00:22:45.240 is you can cause damage to your lawn. And that's 320 00:22:45.319 --> 00:22:49.759 true with post emergence as well. Miss read the label, 321 00:22:49.880 --> 00:22:53.039 it'll tell you that if post emergence about temperatures, when 322 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:56.160 you apply it, pre emergence gives you the rate and 323 00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:58.920 do it at the proper rate. That is very important. 324 00:22:58.920 --> 00:23:00.920 And then finally you got a water it in. You 325 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:03.200 have to put it down and then water it in 326 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:06.119 because these products like barricade comes on a granule, You 327 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:09.839 water it and it washes that product into the soil 328 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:13.240 surface where it ties up. If they just washed away, 329 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:15.480 they wouldn't do any good. They're made to tie up 330 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:18.400 to the soil surface, and when they do, weed tries 331 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.640 to sprout and they're there, but they are doing nothing. 332 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.119 A pre emergent is doing nothing until you incorporate it 333 00:23:26.279 --> 00:23:28.440 or water it in to get it to the soil surface. 334 00:23:28.799 --> 00:23:31.519 So you got to follow up with that in order 335 00:23:31.640 --> 00:23:34.519 to have success. All right, those are a few tips 336 00:23:34.960 --> 00:23:40.200 on pre emergent herbicides. The folks at Nature's Way Resources, 337 00:23:40.759 --> 00:23:42.920 do you know they have a nursery out there. It's 338 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:45.160 a two acre nursery and they got all kinds of things, 339 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:48.640 a lot of great native plants. First of all, one 340 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:51.160 of the largest groups of natives you're going to find 341 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:54.559 in this area. They got vegetables, they have house plants, 342 00:23:54.599 --> 00:23:56.599 they have fruit trees. I mean they've got a whole 343 00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:59.720 lot and nature Sway Resources. It is just to kind 344 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:04.119 of that. You're going to find every possible product that 345 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:08.720 is the top quality for every possible plant, whether it's mulches, 346 00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:12.240 whether it's compost, whether it's bed mixes, whether you're growing 347 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:15.640 blueberries and need acidic type products, whether you're growing fruit 348 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.160 trees or vegetables or whatever, they're going to have those products. 349 00:24:19.240 --> 00:24:19.319 Now. 350 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:22.519 They've extended their hours for spring and that is Monday 351 00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:26.039 through Saturday, eight am to five pm. They're closed on Sunday. 352 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:30.400 You can go to the website Nature's Way Resources dot 353 00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:34.279 com Nature's Way Resources dot com. And I want to 354 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:39.160 remind you that coming up they've got some shindig on 355 00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:41.319 its way. As I like to put it, there's Spring 356 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:44.720 Garden Festival that is March twenty second. Write that down 357 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:49.079 March twenty second, Nature's Way Resources eight am to two pm. 358 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:53.680 There's all kinds of things. There's vendors, there's talks, educational talks, 359 00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:57.279 the food and drinks, and of course plant sales doesn't 360 00:24:57.279 --> 00:25:00.960 cost anything. To go Nature's Way Resource dot com. You 361 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:02.519 need to check that out. 362 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:04.839 Yeah. 363 00:25:05.319 --> 00:25:07.480 I love going out there and visiting with Ian and 364 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:10.000 the whole team out there. Really they know what they're 365 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:14.240 talking about. They've continued the tradition that John Ferguson started 366 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:18.039 when he created Nature's Way many many years ago. It's 367 00:25:18.119 --> 00:25:22.599 important to make quality products at work. Have you ever 368 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:25.720 thought about why they have the name Nature's Way because 369 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:28.279 they want to do things the way that nature does them. 370 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:32.720 That's important, right to do things the way nature doesn't. 371 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:36.920 Plants for all seasons is on two forty nine, which 372 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:39.720 is on the way to Tomball. It's called Tomball Parkway. 373 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:43.559 If you're going up north, you cross you exit Luata, 374 00:25:43.640 --> 00:25:45.519 cross over Lueta and it's right there on the right 375 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:48.279 hand side. This is a place where people that have 376 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:51.440 green thumbs and want to have a green thumb go 377 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:54.039 because when you go in there, you're going to get 378 00:25:54.279 --> 00:25:57.920 the plants that do well here. That's important. Get the 379 00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:01.400 plants that do well here. Next you're going to get 380 00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:06.599 advice that is very accurate, very accurate. They know what 381 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:09.920 they're talking about. They've been gardeners for a long time. 382 00:26:09.960 --> 00:26:12.319 Listen To Place has been open since nineteen seventy three. 383 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:16.640 It's a full service retail garden center staffed with quality folks, 384 00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:19.599 the whole flowerty family. They they are just every time 385 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:22.599 turn a corner, there's another flowerty there, but they're true 386 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:25.079 lawn and garden experts. You can go to the website 387 00:26:25.160 --> 00:26:28.160 Plants for All Seasons dot com. Right now they are 388 00:26:28.359 --> 00:26:30.759 loaded up. If you hear a fertilizer name come out 389 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:32.279 of my mouth, it's going to be at Plants for 390 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:35.119 All Seasons. They've got good selections of soil and of 391 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:39.000 course the green stuff, the stuff we go to a 392 00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:42.519 garden center and get all excited about, and that is 393 00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:45.680 at Plants for All Seasons. All right, Well, I got 394 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:47.720 to take a little break here and I'll be back. 395 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:49.559 If you want to give me a calm be first 396 00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:51.759 up when we come back. Seven one three two one 397 00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:59.400 two ktrh. All right, good morning. Good to have you 398 00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:04.559 with us this morning. If you are looking for a 399 00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:09.720 quality blend for your containers inside out and outside, by 400 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.559 the way, jungle Land by nitrofoss is an excellent product. 401 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:15.640 It holds moisture, which is important so you don't water 402 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:19.319 so often. In fact, the indoor jungle Land has water 403 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:22.720 saving crystals in it. They give you even an extended ooh, 404 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:25.880 I forgot to water my plants. Protection Your plants will 405 00:27:25.920 --> 00:27:28.000 be glad you did that, by the way, because they 406 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:30.160 have told me that you tend to be a little 407 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:34.119 forgetful when it comes to the watering. My plants will 408 00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:37.400 tell you that too. Jungle Land water saving potting sauce 409 00:27:37.480 --> 00:27:40.799 for indoors on the outside, jungle Land flower and vegetable 410 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:45.519 planting soil high quality specifically blended Canadian blonde peat with 411 00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:51.119 four different sworges, sources of aged decomposed bark and micro 412 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:54.519 rise of fungi. Everything the plants need to thrive. Jungle 413 00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:57.079 end from nitrophas and where do you get it? Well, 414 00:27:57.319 --> 00:27:59.079 nitro FROs is available in a lot of places, so 415 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:02.440 you can find night Foss products at Enchented Forest down 416 00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:05.039 in Richmond, Rosenberg. You can find them at Ace Hardware, 417 00:28:05.079 --> 00:28:08.359 Single Ranch, Aspa's Ace up in the Woodlands and the 418 00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:13.160 Arborgate up in Tomball, all places to carry products by Nitrofoss. 419 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:16.079 Let's go to the phones now. We're going to hit 420 00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:24.359 up and talk to Charles and Willis. Hey Charles, Well, hello, Arning, 421 00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:25.680 how can we help? 422 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:28.000 Got a couple of questions for you. 423 00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:32.559 One is can I use sedge gender or sedge hammer 424 00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:34.759 in a vegetable garden if I do wipe on? 425 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:36.960 Uh? 426 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:41.559 Well can can you? And is it on the label. 427 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:44.359 You know there there's probably a variation. I have not 428 00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:47.279 read the label closely. I don't think it's labeled for 429 00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:52.680 vegetable gardens. I understand your idea. Yeah, so you know, 430 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:55.400 when you wipe something on, I can I can't tell 431 00:28:55.480 --> 00:28:58.599 you to use a product outside the label. Okay, that 432 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:01.640 just is not something I able to do. Okay, But 433 00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:04.200 when you wipe, I understand your thought is you're wiping. 434 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:07.160 You're wiping it on to keep from spraying on everything 435 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:10.839 and whatnot. And those products used on a wiper. I've 436 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:14.960 used the wipers when I find these products or that's 437 00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:17.839 edge in different places. But as far as you know, 438 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:20.680 far as the label's concerned, the labels of law not me. 439 00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:25.039 So okay, all righty okay, all right, thank you. 440 00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:33.000 Another question getting rid of Saint Augustine and Bermuda. Do 441 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:35.720 you think Ortho weed clear. 442 00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:37.559 Would do that. 443 00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:42.079 It's labeled to be able to be used on Bermuda, 444 00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:44.480 but not on Saint Augustine. 445 00:29:45.880 --> 00:29:47.960 I don't have a label of that in front of me. 446 00:29:48.279 --> 00:29:48.400 Uh. 447 00:29:48.519 --> 00:29:51.519 And so two I can't tell you, but. 448 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:55.200 Two four D quinn korak in Dykanda. 449 00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:00.119 The first one, two four D is what's hard on 450 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:03.039 Saint Augustine if you wanted to do that. When the 451 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:07.160 weather heats up. You know, we're up in the mid nineties, 452 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:09.880 that would be a time when a product like that 453 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:14.240 would be the hardest on Saint Augustine. The kuklorak and 454 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:19.000 dikamba not not so much. Yeah, that'd be one use it. 455 00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:23.359 Use it when Saint Augustine was active, but when the 456 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:25.480 Bermuda had not come out of dormancy yet. 457 00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:33.559 Uh, depending on the strength that you use. Two fort 458 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:36.559 d is something that is in some products that are 459 00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:39.480 labeled for Saint Augustine at a much lower level. When 460 00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:42.319 you read something and it says weed control for Southern 461 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:45.519 lawns or something like that, usually what that means is 462 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:48.799 they have either removed the two forty or they've got 463 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:51.680 it a much lower level and they have other things 464 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:54.000 in there to do the job two forty did. And 465 00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:55.160 the regular version of. 466 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:59.559 That product, Wheedclaer is labeled for northern on. 467 00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:07.400 And but it says that will for permuta yep, so 468 00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:10.720 you may have to reapply it. You know, it's not 469 00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:13.119 black and white like it just flack kills. Like if 470 00:31:13.119 --> 00:31:15.160 you spread round up on your lawn, it would just 471 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.559 kill the Saint Augustine and the permuta too, by the way. 472 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.240 So yeah, that's the approach I would take. Okay, but 473 00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:24.599 let it heat up and you're gonna get better results 474 00:31:24.640 --> 00:31:27.880 and be ready to have to follow up on it. Okay, 475 00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:32.960 sounds good. Thank you, Thanks sir, appreciate the call. Thanks 476 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.079 a lot. You guys have heard me talk about tree 477 00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:40.720 hugger sprinklers before, and I think this is the coolest 478 00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:43.960 thing since slashed bread. The tree hugger has a little 479 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:45.920 hinge in it. Think of a circle with a hinge 480 00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:47.920 in it, like the pac man. You know, mouth goes 481 00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:50.359 open and you just go up to the tree trunk 482 00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:54.039 and bring it around and it makes a circle around 483 00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:56.920 the trunk. There's a seven inch, eleven inch and fifteen inch. 484 00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:00.839 If you have any tree or shrub that you're planting, 485 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:03.200 this would be a great way to turn on the 486 00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:05.680 water and water right there at the base. You just 487 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:08.079 barely turn it on. We're sort of trickling out of 488 00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:10.799 the tree hugger as that plant begins to grow. Now 489 00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:12.680 you want to water maybe a three foot or a 490 00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:15.119 five foot, or a ten foot or a fifteen foot 491 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:17.839 or more. You just turn it up more and more 492 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:21.160 and more, and so it allows you to do those 493 00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:24.359 rescue treatments that we do in the summertime. So even 494 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:26.400 if a tree wasn't just planted, maybe it's been in 495 00:32:26.440 --> 00:32:28.839 the ground five years, tree hugger sprinkler is still a 496 00:32:28.920 --> 00:32:30.000 thing you want to have on hand. 497 00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:30.519 Now. 498 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:33.680 Rosarians love that product because it is good for roses, 499 00:32:33.720 --> 00:32:35.799 any kind of tree or shrub. You're going to find 500 00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:39.640 it at places like Southwest Fertilizer Ace hardware stores like 501 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:42.759 I've seen a single Ranch eight kd Ace, K and 502 00:32:42.920 --> 00:32:46.799 m Ace and a Tascasida and Fulshire Ace there. I 503 00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:50.359 know those carry them. Perhaps perhaps some more league city 504 00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:53.039 Feed carries them. Spring Creek Feed Center up in Tambole 505 00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:54.880 and D and D Feed out west to Tombul and 506 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:58.599 Chanty Gardens and Forest Warren's and Kingwood out in Kingwood, 507 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:02.680 rcw Elson Water Gardens out in Kti and the Arbigate. 508 00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:04.720 All places you're going to be able to get the 509 00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:07.240 tree hugger sprinkler, and trust me, you are going to 510 00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:11.359 use it. It is every year you need to use 511 00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:16.039 a tree hugger for these establishing a plant and for 512 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:19.599 doing the summer rescue treatments. It's ninety five degrees. It 513 00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:21.640 hadn't rained in a while. Let's get out there and 514 00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:24.200 just keep that tree and good health. Tree hugger is 515 00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:27.880 a way to do it. I really mean, I think 516 00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:30.400 it's one of the coolest inventions that I have seen 517 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:33.880 in a long time. You're listening to guardenline phone number 518 00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:36.960 seven one three two one two k t r H 519 00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:39.440 seven one three two one two. 520 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:41.200 K t r H. 521 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:47.480 Out in my lawn it is. It shows what winter did. 522 00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:52.160 It's all basically brown. There's a few green sprigs in there, 523 00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:55.640 but winter really burned My Saint Augustine back good and 524 00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:59.160 in fact my Zoeesias or have a pretty good frost 525 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:02.160 top as well. Well. Pretty soon here, I'm going to 526 00:34:02.200 --> 00:34:05.279 get out there and do a kind of a I 527 00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:07.680 don't like to use the words scalping that that's kind 528 00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:09.880 of an overdoing it. But I'm going to have to 529 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:13.400 apply something or I'm at to cut back and get 530 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:15.559 that debris out of there. So you may be looking 531 00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:17.000 at the same thing. I'm going to talk about that 532 00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:19.920 a little bit when we come back. You know, if 533 00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:22.800 your foundation is showing any signs of problems, whether it's 534 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.360 crack slabs or or excuse me, The visible is the 535 00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.719 crack brick on the outside, especially under a window or 536 00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:33.840 sheet rock inside that's cracked. You need to call fix 537 00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:36.679 my slab foundation repair. Maybe the doors are sticking that 538 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.719 means something shifting two eight one two five five forty 539 00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:43.480 nine forty nine to eight one two fi five forty 540 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:47.079 nine forty nine, or just go to the website fixmyslab 541 00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:50.400 dot com. Ty Strickland's been doing this for twenty three 542 00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:54.320 plus years now. Native Estonian, fifth generation Texan too. By 543 00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:57.320 the way, when he does things, he shows up on time, 544 00:34:57.480 --> 00:35:00.559 he fixes it right, and he gives you a fa price. 545 00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:04.719 Fixmyslab dot com. I'm gonna take a break and I'll 546 00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:09.000 be right back, all right, folks, were back. Welcome back. 547 00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:13.840 By the way, I am going to be planting some 548 00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:16.960 perennials this week. And let me tell you one thing 549 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:19.679 I do when I plant plants. I get some medina 550 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:22.280 has to grow six twelve six, and I mix it 551 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:25.440 up in water and I drench the root ball. Sometimes 552 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:27.360 I'll put like the plant in a bucket and just 553 00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:30.440 put the medina in the bucket and soak the rootball. 554 00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:32.480 But while I'm getting ready and diging the plant and 555 00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:35.639 everything that's a great way to do it, or just 556 00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:38.360 put it in a watering can, plant the plant, soak 557 00:35:38.440 --> 00:35:42.239 that rootball really really good, Finish your planting and all 558 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:44.559 that and be done with it, multing whatever you're gonna do, 559 00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.039 and about a week later, do it again. A week later, 560 00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:50.480 do it again. Those three applications of medina. Has to 561 00:35:50.599 --> 00:35:53.880 grow six twelve six will help that plant get off 562 00:35:53.920 --> 00:35:55.960 to a good start. And here's why. Number one, it's 563 00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:59.239 got six twelve six fertilizer in it, and that middle number, 564 00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:03.280 phosphorus is really helpful in root development, very important and 565 00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:05.880 has to grow six twelve six works in that way. 566 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:09.480 It also has medina soil activator, which stimulates biological activity. 567 00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:13.800 It's got humate humic acid, which we know that humic products, 568 00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:18.559 whether it's the humus itself or the humic acid in 569 00:36:18.679 --> 00:36:21.039 the humus. It's going to improve soil structure, it's going 570 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.880 to improve nutrient uptake. It's got seaweed extracts, and by 571 00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:25.639 the way, you can use has to grow six twelve 572 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:28.119 six for folier as well. It's not going to burn plants. 573 00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:30.480 But when you're going to put a plant in the ground, 574 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:34.760 just remember three times at planting a week later, and 575 00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:37.400 a week later, a good drenching, a medina has to 576 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:39.800 grow six twelve six, and you're gonna find medina products 577 00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:43.519 widely available here in the Houston area, the Greater Houston area. 578 00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:51.840 Let's head out and talk to Katie. Now, Hello Katie, Hello, Skip, 579 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:53.880 what's up? 580 00:36:55.559 --> 00:37:01.280 I am started my spring yard maintenance and been pretty productive. 581 00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:02.840 But I have a couple of questions to ask you. 582 00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:06.360 One of them is I just thought it my backyard 583 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:10.360 was zoysia. It's a small yard, it had lost a 584 00:37:10.400 --> 00:37:12.519 couple of trees, so now it's got sunlight. So I'm 585 00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:15.599 doing some zoyja. What can I do to ensure that 586 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:19.880 it takes and that it's I'm afraid I'm not watering 587 00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:22.639 it enough, too much, and I just want to know 588 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:23.320 your take on what. 589 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:23.840 I need to do. 590 00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:27.280 All right, how long how long ago you sawed it? 591 00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:29.519 You said you just did? I mean days ago. 592 00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:32.400 Literally, I just it took me because I was doing 593 00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:33.079 it by myself. 594 00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:34.039 It took me two days. 595 00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:39.280 Okay, you want to when you said that, Fortunately, our 596 00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:42.039 temperatures are very mild now, so you get away with 597 00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.119 maybe not watering it. If you didn't water it enough, 598 00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:46.840 you kind of get away with that better now than 599 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:49.599 when it's hot. But in the hot weather, I say 600 00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:52.000 water twice a day the first week, once a day 601 00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:54.480 the second week, and then start to wean off to 602 00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:58.800 a normal schedule, a very infrequent schedule. So so what 603 00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:02.199 when I say water, I mean just water a little bit. 604 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:04.039 You know, we're not talking about putting an inch of 605 00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:06.639 water on twice a day. That would be a swamp, 606 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:10.760 but just just you're that side just had a little 607 00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:13.280 thin layer of a black clay on it, and then 608 00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:15.559 that's the whole root system. And so you got to 609 00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:18.320 keep it alive, keep the patient alive while it puts 610 00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:21.960 roots down. So twice a day in hot weather, uh, 611 00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:25.920 and then once a day for another week. And that's 612 00:38:26.039 --> 00:38:27.440 kind of the schedule i'd recommend. 613 00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:31.800 And when do you, I think, when do you mow it? 614 00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:34.119 Or when do you start grooming it? 615 00:38:34.719 --> 00:38:38.679 Because I've given it given at least, yeah, go ahead? 616 00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:40.760 Is it a month? 617 00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:46.920 About about a month? You know it right now it's 618 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:49.119 not going to be rooting in as fast as it 619 00:38:49.159 --> 00:38:53.360 would be as it warms up. But yeah, if you 620 00:38:53.440 --> 00:38:55.519 if you can give it about two weeks, it's going 621 00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:58.639 to have some roots down and could be mowed. You 622 00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:00.840 just want it. You don't want your to be moving 623 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:03.760 the little blocks of sod around when you're going over 624 00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:06.840 the top of it or lifting them up. But if 625 00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:10.159 you'll go out there and grab a sad piece like 626 00:39:10.239 --> 00:39:12.880 you're grabbing a little throw rug and just kind of 627 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:15.280 lift it up a little bit, just pull gently on it, 628 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:18.079 you can tell if it's pegged down tight or not. 629 00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:21.400 And if it's peg down tight and you don't it 630 00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:23.880 doesn't just sort of begin to lift a little bit, 631 00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:28.239 then definitely don't mow it if it's not peg down tight. 632 00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:32.920 But in the summertime sometimes I'll mow, oh about three weeks, 633 00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:35.480 four weeks after I've established it, and it should be 634 00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:37.280 starting to peg down well by two. 635 00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:38.840 Weeks, okay. 636 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:43.000 And then my second question is my front yard. It's 637 00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:47.199 Saint Augustine currently, but it also has a garden in 638 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:49.599 it that has a fig tree and a couple of 639 00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:55.000 peach trees, and the whole garden, including the yard, is 640 00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:59.400 got tons of weeds. But because it's fruit and a 641 00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:02.199 pollinator garden, I don't want to use anything that's not 642 00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:05.679 good for edibles and or bees and butterflies. 643 00:40:05.880 --> 00:40:06.840 So what do you. 644 00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:09.719 Recommend all right, So what you're gonna want to do. 645 00:40:11.679 --> 00:40:14.199 It depends on the kinds of weeds. If they are 646 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:19.840 perennial weeds, they need to be controlled with a product. Okay, 647 00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:24.440 I have on my website something called a weed wiper 648 00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:26.360 shows you how to build one, and it shows you 649 00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:29.519 what products to use depending on the weed. And it 650 00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:32.280 basically is a grabber tool with sponges on it and 651 00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:35.679 you just wet the sponge so you're using very little 652 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:39.400 herbicide and then you reach down and squeeze it onto 653 00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:42.360 the weed leaves and that puts the least amount of 654 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.880 product out there, and it does a good job. But 655 00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:49.320 go to gardening with Skip dot com, find the skipswed 656 00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:54.360 wiper publication and then find the herbicides to use on skip'sweedwiper. 657 00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:58.440 Those two publications and that ought to guide you, especially 658 00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:00.800 getting up under a fruit tree. You don't want to 659 00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:02.519 spray and have driftkit on your fruit. 660 00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:05.960 Tree, right, which is wild. And I didn't want to 661 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:09.400 destroy my you know, my passion vine and my pipe 662 00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:12.039 vine and my right and my milkweed. 663 00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:16.239 Those two publications they'll do it. That's what you know. 664 00:41:17.480 --> 00:41:18.039 I appreciate. 665 00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:21.519 All right, Thanks, Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciate that, 666 00:41:21.880 --> 00:41:26.920 take care of that for sure. We'll do the trick. Hey, 667 00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:29.840 have you been out to Moss Nursery that's in Seabrook. 668 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:31.880 For those of you who have not been there, I 669 00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:33.519 don't care where you live, you got to go see 670 00:41:33.559 --> 00:41:36.719 that place. It is eight acres seventy year old family 671 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:40.639 operated business, eight acres of wandering through everything you need 672 00:41:40.760 --> 00:41:44.760 for your landscape, for your garden, for your interior homescape. 673 00:41:44.800 --> 00:41:48.079 Even It's on Toddville Road in Seabrook. The website is 674 00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:52.280 Moss m aas nursery dot com. You're going to find 675 00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:54.840 that they are constantly getting things in. If I told 676 00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:57.199 you what they had today, tomorrow they'll have more. I mean, 677 00:41:57.280 --> 00:41:59.280 that's just how it works at Moss. You know, do 678 00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:02.400 you want shrub like Chinese witch hazel or Laura Pedlin. 679 00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:06.880 We call it bald cypress, use holly trees, you know, 680 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.840 magnolias and hawthorns and red budgs. Just you know, it's 681 00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:19.320 things like junipers and azaleas, are any kind of hanging baskets, vegetables, herbs, flowers, 682 00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:22.639 and one of my favorite parts about Moss is all 683 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:26.559 the cool outdoor bling. You know, the landscape art that 684 00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:29.679 goes outside. They will have stuff you've never seen. And 685 00:42:29.880 --> 00:42:31.280 I don't know if I've ever been a place that 686 00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:34.639 had as many different kinds of containers as Moss does. 687 00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:38.400 You just got to go down there. Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas. 688 00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:41.559 Here's a phone number two eight one four seven four 689 00:42:41.840 --> 00:42:44.599 twenty four eighty eight. Two eight one four seven four 690 00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:49.440 twenty four eighty eight. I was visiting with a cliff 691 00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:52.719 from Year Round Houston the other day, and I'm telling you, 692 00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:56.119 these guys one reason we're excited to bring year Round 693 00:42:56.199 --> 00:43:00.199 on board is they are They truly are specialist when 694 00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:03.880 it comes to corroration and compost top dressing. That means 695 00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:07.920 they're going to use products that are effective, that are quality, 696 00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:12.880 not junk composts, but stuff that's designed for top dressing. Now, 697 00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:17.039 an neration gets oxygen in the soil. It's breathing fresh 698 00:43:17.199 --> 00:43:19.840 life into the ground when you do that, and the 699 00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:26.679 turf will respond, especially heavy clays and comp compacted soils. Now, 700 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:31.079 basically Year Round Houston is going to serve the inside 701 00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:33.559 the Beltway. You just think about that, inside the Beltway, 702 00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:36.599 the Houston area. That's kind of their primary focus, right 703 00:43:36.639 --> 00:43:41.880 there year round Houston dot com, Year round Houston dot 704 00:43:41.960 --> 00:43:45.119 com a phone number eight three two eight eight four 705 00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:48.840 fifty three thirty five eight three two eight eight four 706 00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:52.880 fifty three thirty five. Yes, you can do it yourself 707 00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:56.400 by buying the compost, dumping it on the driveway, get 708 00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:59.400 it renting some heavy equipment that will not do as 709 00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:01.519 good of a job as they can do with the 710 00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:05.400 professional equipment they use it year round, but then you 711 00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:07.480 got the mess and the cleanup of the machinery and 712 00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:09.800 getting it back. Just call year round, Just call Cliff 713 00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:12.599 at year around Houston dot com and get it done 714 00:44:12.920 --> 00:44:20.599 that way. I was getting set to do some fertilization 715 00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:24.639 that I was doing with a liquid and one of 716 00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:27.440 the products I go to it's my kind of mye really. 717 00:44:27.559 --> 00:44:29.639 I have a couple of them that I like from 718 00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:34.480 Microlife specifically. This is their orange label Biomatrix. That is 719 00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:35.920 a liquid. I got a little quarks of it. You 720 00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:38.239 can buy some big gallons if you want. It's a 721 00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:42.679 seven one three high nitrogen liquid organic got beneficial microbes. 722 00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:45.360 I use it for houseplants because when you have a 723 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:48.719 higher nitrogen fertilizer that's going to promote foliage growth and 724 00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.800 basically that's what our houseplants are is foliage and you 725 00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:54.440 mix it according to the label. You're not going to 726 00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:57.000 burn with it. Not a problem at all. But I'll 727 00:44:57.119 --> 00:45:00.679 use it on outdoor plants to give them a boost plants. 728 00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:03.960 You can put it on anything you want. Put it 729 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:06.519 in a watering can and go around the yard fertilizing 730 00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:09.280 with it. Ocean Harvest which is a blue label. It 731 00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:12.440 is a four to two three. That is another excellent 732 00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:17.800 product from micro Life Fertilizer. Well, the music means I 733 00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:20.440 have to stop talking, but I'm not gonna stop talking 734 00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:24.199 until I say. I'm gonna be at Hoorges today. Orges 735 00:45:24.280 --> 00:45:26.719 Heading Gardens done in Alvin. If you haven't been down 736 00:45:26.760 --> 00:45:28.840 there before, well you need to go. You need to 737 00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:31.400 come see me and see what Orge has going there. 738 00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:33.480 We're gonna be giving away some of his product. He's 739 00:45:33.519 --> 00:45:36.840 given away five peach trees. You've been thinking about putting 740 00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:39.440 a fruit tree in the yard. Come, you may win 741 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:41.280 a peach tree there. He has a lot of different 742 00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:44.880 kinds of fruit too. One pm to three pm, so 743 00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:48.559 it's an afternoon early to mid afternoon. One pm to 744 00:45:48.639 --> 00:45:51.920 three pm today, Elizabeth Street in Alvin. So basically, if 745 00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:53.920 you're in Alvin, you just get on Highway six and 746 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:56.840 head down like you're going to Santa Fe. About halfway there, 747 00:45:57.239 --> 00:46:01.000 turn off to the right. Orges, hidden gardens. Come on 748 00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:03.679 and see me, Bring me some samples, bring me some pictures. 749 00:46:04.039 --> 00:46:05.960 Let's figure out what's going on and how to help 750 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:08.440 you have a bountiful, beautiful place. 751 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:17.199 Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 752 00:46:17.320 --> 00:46:28.679 It's trim. Just watch him as woes. 753 00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:41.039 So many good things to see, Black Basya. 754 00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:49.599 Not a Sunday sun beamon. 755 00:46:52.639 --> 00:46:58.239 Hey, good morning, good morning. We are glad you're listening 756 00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:00.760 to garden Line today. I'm your host, Skip. We're here 757 00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:04.559 to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. 758 00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:07.519 That's what we would like to happen. I suspect that 759 00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:10.239 maybe what you would like to happen as well. We'll 760 00:47:10.320 --> 00:47:12.159 just give us a call. All yeah, I do is 761 00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:15.360 doal seven one three two one two kt rh And 762 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:17.199 there I said it again. I use the word dial 763 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:20.800 Remember when we dialed phones. Just punt in the number 764 00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:26.000 seven one three two one two kt rh uh. Springtime 765 00:47:26.360 --> 00:47:29.599 brings some unique types of spring blooms. And Texas mount 766 00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:33.199 Laurela is one of those. If you've never smelled Texas Mountainlaurl, oh, 767 00:47:33.239 --> 00:47:36.800 my gosh, it is a gaudy smell. If you can 768 00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:38.960 use the word gaudy for a fragrance, it is, it 769 00:47:39.079 --> 00:47:42.840 absolutely is. It has a grape bubble gum, a grape 770 00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:44.800 kool Aid greape bubble gum is the way I remember 771 00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:47.639 remember the super bubble grape. That's what it smells like. 772 00:47:48.199 --> 00:47:48.679 It is. 773 00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:52.800 I think it's wonderful. It perfumes the air with such 774 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:57.000 a strong fragrance. It's cool. One time, San Antonio Potanical Gardens, 775 00:47:57.039 --> 00:47:59.320 we were taking a group of extension people from across 776 00:47:59.400 --> 00:48:03.239 the country a tour through San Antonio Botanical Garden and 777 00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:06.239 there was one around the corner of a building and 778 00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:08.079 it was around the corner you couldn't see it, and 779 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:11.960 these people were going, what is that smell? That fragrance? 780 00:48:12.159 --> 00:48:13.920 And I had to take them over there and show 781 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:17.079 them that's Texas Mountain Lairel. Well, you can get it 782 00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:19.599 at Buchanans Plants. Of course you can, because Buchanans Native 783 00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:23.000 plants is the leader when it comes to native place. 784 00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:25.199 Nobody has a selection that they do in the Greater 785 00:48:25.280 --> 00:48:28.199 Houston area, and there's always something going on. They always 786 00:48:28.239 --> 00:48:29.840 have programs going on. You just need to go to 787 00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:32.679 the website Buchanansplants dot Com. When you go in there, 788 00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:34.920 if you've not been in before, don't let the word 789 00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:38.639 native throw you. It's true. Their native selection is awesome, 790 00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:43.599 but they're gifts in the gift shop. The vegetables, the flowers, 791 00:48:43.840 --> 00:48:47.960 the herbs, the shrubs and trees and plants for every situation. 792 00:48:48.159 --> 00:48:50.719 Do you want to attract hummingbirds? You want to attract butterflies? 793 00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.920 Do you want a native plant that attracts butterflies or hummingbirds? 794 00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:57.559 Do you want a plant for shade? They have it 795 00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.400 all at Buchanans Native Plants. They are stocked and they 796 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:03.119 have a full line of products from microlife and nitroposs 797 00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:06.159 and know some plant food, Nature's Way, heirloom soils. You 798 00:49:06.280 --> 00:49:09.119 get the idea. It's all there on Eleventh Street in 799 00:49:09.199 --> 00:49:11.719 the Heights. Go to the website, sign up for the 800 00:49:11.800 --> 00:49:17.599 newsletter Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot Com. Let's go 801 00:49:17.719 --> 00:49:20.440 out now to a Taska Sida and we want to 802 00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:23.920 talk to Robert Hey. Robert, Welcome to garden line. How 803 00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:27.320 you doing skip, You're doing all right today? I am, 804 00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:30.400 I am? How can we help today? Okay? 805 00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:34.559 Hey, I know right now a lot of weeds are 806 00:49:34.599 --> 00:49:37.840 going on the grass and I'm just asking, do you 807 00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:41.280 prefer to put granules down. 808 00:49:41.400 --> 00:49:47.880 Or liquid liquid for weeding feeding? You know, well, the 809 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:51.360 liquid would be more of a just a weed control product. 810 00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:54.079 You would just get a herbicide for whatever kinds of 811 00:49:54.119 --> 00:49:57.159 weeds you're dealing with in spots free. It depends on 812 00:49:57.199 --> 00:49:59.800 the situation, Robert. If you have a large lawn, you 813 00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:03.519 a lot of weeds all through the area, the granule 814 00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:06.800 is better for a post emergent weed control product, And 815 00:50:07.159 --> 00:50:10.280 it always is better for a pre emergent because you 816 00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:13.360 want every inch of your lawn to have that product 817 00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:16.440 to prevent a future weed from showing up. Now, when 818 00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:18.760 it comes to a lawn that has a few weeds 819 00:50:18.840 --> 00:50:22.360 here and there scattered out, then you could still use 820 00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:25.920 the granule. But that's where maybe a spot spray with 821 00:50:26.039 --> 00:50:29.960 the liquid product may make more sense a little more efficient. 822 00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:32.400 So it's up to you, and it's up the situation. 823 00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:38.159 I got you, okay, And the spectra side, it's a 824 00:50:38.239 --> 00:50:40.280 weed and feed the one I was going to get 825 00:50:40.400 --> 00:50:42.719 it's a twenty zero zero. 826 00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:48.679 Do you recommend that one for liquefied Well, I would 827 00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:52.960 prefer not to use a liquid weed and feed personally 828 00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:55.840 for various reasons. I can't go on all the details 829 00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:58.800 on them, but I would prefer not. And it depends 830 00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:00.559 on the weed you have in the product that's in 831 00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:04.440 the wheat and feed thing, and so in general. Yeah, 832 00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:07.840 and and timing is very important on that. If it's 833 00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:11.039 a post emergent, we can do. We can fertilize now. 834 00:51:11.079 --> 00:51:16.000 We can do post emergent now. But I wouldn't. I would. Yeah, 835 00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:18.039 we just have to take it product by product. Okay, 836 00:51:18.559 --> 00:51:19.679 But I hope that helped you. 837 00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:22.159 Yes, yes, yes it does. 838 00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:26.119 I'll just stick to the granules, all right. Thanks such 839 00:51:26.159 --> 00:51:29.119 appreciate that. Remember remember to wet your lawn before you 840 00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:31.719 put the granules down with the lawn. So it's in 841 00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:36.239 what leaves, all right, you got it. Let's uh, let's 842 00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:39.199 go here. Oh so you gotta close the gate. 843 00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:39.639 I can't. 844 00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:44.239 I can't keep up with all. Okay. Uh, Johnny and Katie, Hey, 845 00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:47.039 welcome to garden Line. Johnny, good morning. 846 00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:50.960 Uh. I use modena has to grow in your yard 847 00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:52.079 to spray on my yard. 848 00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:55.599 Is it too early to start that regiment because of 849 00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:56.280 the ground tipping. 850 00:51:58.159 --> 00:52:00.480 It won't hurt anything to do it, but you know, 851 00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:03.880 you want to have some healthy leaves to spray that on, 852 00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:07.239 and so maybe giving it just a little bit of 853 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:10.960 time to get the new growth starting a little more. 854 00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:17.760 You're in the katy area, so I don't know exactly 855 00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:20.559 how long, but maybe a couple of weeks or three 856 00:52:20.639 --> 00:52:23.199 weeks or something. But let's just wait and see. Maybe 857 00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:24.159 two weeks should be enough. 858 00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:25.440 Okay. 859 00:52:26.079 --> 00:52:28.079 My only thing is i'd like, you know, you're going 860 00:52:28.159 --> 00:52:30.320 to spray that as a folier spray and it's going 861 00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.960 to go in the soil too, But yeah, I would 862 00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:34.639 I would probably wait just a little bit longer. 863 00:52:35.519 --> 00:52:37.599 Okay, thank you for information. 864 00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:40.880 You bet, thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much. 865 00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:46.800 Cinamulch is a one stop shop. It's like, if you're 866 00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:49.960 looking for a place where, think of it this way. 867 00:52:50.199 --> 00:52:53.599 Cinamulch is where you set the foundation for success. Okay. 868 00:52:54.239 --> 00:52:57.280 On garden line, I keep saying brown stuff before green stuff, 869 00:52:57.320 --> 00:52:59.880 which is just a way of saying, get the soil right, 870 00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:02.880 and then when you put your wonderful plants in that 871 00:53:02.960 --> 00:53:06.119 you were so excited about. They'll hit the ground running 872 00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:09.159 and you will have success. Brown stuff before green stuff. 873 00:53:09.199 --> 00:53:12.519 That that basically is what that amounts to. Cianamulch has 874 00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:15.079 got all the mulches, It's got all of the things 875 00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:19.039 like a rose sooil or a Veggian herb mix. When 876 00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:21.400 you go there, you're gonna get the nutrients for your soil. 877 00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.960 It's part of the brown stuff, Microlife, Nilson, turf Star, 878 00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:29.960 the little jars of Nelson plant foods, Medina, nitrofoss azamite. 879 00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:33.840 You know that Cienamulch is at now there. Here's what 880 00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:36.880 you should do is right down the website Sienna Mulch 881 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:39.079 dot com. There you'll find the phone numbers. Oh, you'll 882 00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:41.800 find the hours though. You find the location there on 883 00:53:41.960 --> 00:53:44.159 FM five twenty one near where Highway six and two 884 00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:48.840 eighty eight come together south of Houston. Sienna Mulch dot com. 885 00:53:49.639 --> 00:53:53.679 Start there and you'll end with success. Time for me 886 00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:56.760 to take a little break and when we come back, 887 00:53:56.920 --> 00:53:59.760 I'll be talking to Jerry out in Huckley and Ron 888 00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:04.840 in Cleveland. Look forward to visiting with you guys. Dolman, 889 00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:08.880 Welcome back to garden Line. Glad you are with us today. 890 00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:11.960 We've got lots of gardening talk to do. You know, 891 00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:15.760 when it comes to an organic plant food, the folks 892 00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:19.440 at Nitophos have really done their homework and creating something 893 00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:23.559 called sweet grain. Sweet Green is a molasses based product 894 00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:28.880 with microbial activity basically turned into a good source of nutrients, 895 00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:33.679 specifically nitrogen eleven percent nitrogen and sweet green smells great. 896 00:54:33.719 --> 00:54:35.599 That's why it has the name sweet Green and the 897 00:54:35.719 --> 00:54:38.639 fact that it comes from molasses space. When you put 898 00:54:38.679 --> 00:54:41.559 it on the soil, that sugary carbon is what it 899 00:54:41.920 --> 00:54:44.760 basically is, rocket fuel for the microbes in your soil. 900 00:54:44.800 --> 00:54:47.519 It's going to increase the population of beneficial microbes, is 901 00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:50.360 going to promote good health and performance of your lawn. 902 00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:54.400 Nitrogen is the most important element in terms of quantity 903 00:54:55.239 --> 00:54:57.280 that we put on our lawns through the course of 904 00:54:57.360 --> 00:54:59.920 the growing season. In terms of quantity, it's the one 905 00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:02.239 needed the most and it's the one that tends to 906 00:55:02.320 --> 00:55:05.039 come and go, and so we are always adding a 907 00:55:05.079 --> 00:55:07.079 little bit of nitrogen to our soils. 908 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:07.280 Now. 909 00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:10.960 Sweegering is available from the folks at Nitrofis in many 910 00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:14.880 different locations. For example, Nitrofos products can be founded at 911 00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:17.519 Chanted gardens out in Richmond Rosenberg. You're going to find 912 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:19.559 it at Hiding and Feed on a student air airline. 913 00:55:19.880 --> 00:55:21.679 You can find it at the Fishers Hardware though I'm 914 00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:24.920 talking about the one in Pasadena on Southimore, Laporte on Broadway, 915 00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:29.760 the Fisher's Hardware and my Bellevue on FM three one 916 00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:33.320 eight zero and the Fishers Hardware, a lot of Fisher's 917 00:55:33.320 --> 00:55:38.719 hardwors and Baytown on Alexander nitrofis Sweeg Geren. Let's run 918 00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:40.679 out and now to the phones and we are going 919 00:55:40.719 --> 00:55:44.079 to talk to Jerry and Hockley. Hello, Jerry, welcome to 920 00:55:44.159 --> 00:55:44.639 garden Line. 921 00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:50.519 Hello, Yes, sir, thanks for taking my call. You bet, 922 00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:53.400 I'm actually in my truck making a little trip and 923 00:55:53.519 --> 00:55:55.880 I always tune in, and I thought, you know what, 924 00:55:55.960 --> 00:55:58.480 I'm going to call them up because my front will, 925 00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:02.000 basically all my front end backyard is just gone to crap. 926 00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:05.960 I'm one of those people that I just mow the grass. 927 00:56:06.079 --> 00:56:09.360 I don't do no fertilizing, you know. I just mow 928 00:56:09.440 --> 00:56:12.280 the grass usually once a week, and it's usually in 929 00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:15.280 you know, pretty full and nice. But it's just going 930 00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:17.800 downhill the last couple of years, and I wanted to 931 00:56:17.840 --> 00:56:20.679 get some advice. I'm ready to put the work in 932 00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:24.440 to bring my yard back. I know Randy used to 933 00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:27.119 have that scheduled. I don't know if that's still out there. 934 00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:29.639 I don't know if there's some websites you can direct 935 00:56:29.719 --> 00:56:30.039 me too. 936 00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:31.320 What do you though? 937 00:56:31.559 --> 00:56:36.920 Yes, all right, Uh, my website is gardening with Skip. 938 00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:40.800 That's me gardening with Skip dot com. Just gardening with 939 00:56:40.920 --> 00:56:43.719 Skip on there. I've got the schedules. I've there a 940 00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:46.039 little more. I've kind of added a lot more to 941 00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:49.360 them than the schedule you're familiar with that rand head. 942 00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:50.000 Uh. 943 00:56:50.199 --> 00:56:53.400 There's one schedule that's for lawn care, the things you 944 00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:56.280 do to make you long grow, no water, fertilized type things. 945 00:56:56.679 --> 00:56:59.239 The other schedules for the things that go after your 946 00:56:59.320 --> 00:57:01.960 lawn and how to can troll them. That would be insects, diseases, 947 00:57:02.039 --> 00:57:05.159 and weeds. They're both free. They're multicolor on there. They 948 00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:07.519 list all the products. They tell you when to apply them. 949 00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:10.320 You know when this shows up or that shows up 950 00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:11.960 that you might need to treat for and all that 951 00:57:12.119 --> 00:57:14.800 kind of thing. So just go to those and follow that. 952 00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:18.880 What your lawn's going to need is fertilizer, especially nitrogen 953 00:57:18.920 --> 00:57:21.960 based fertilizers to get a boost to the lawn. And 954 00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:24.599 then as far as the weeds, two things happen. Number One, 955 00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:27.400 the thicker your lawn gets, the fewer your weed problems. 956 00:57:27.880 --> 00:57:31.079 So that that's step in on weeds. Step two is 957 00:57:31.239 --> 00:57:33.639 where you would actually go in and kill weeds. We're 958 00:57:33.679 --> 00:57:36.480 in a time now in spring when you have the 959 00:57:36.599 --> 00:57:40.119 most options for weed control. We're putting pre emergency down now, 960 00:57:40.320 --> 00:57:43.079 and we're also killing those winter weeds that are that 961 00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:45.920 are going to seed in your lawn so they don't 962 00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:49.960 sentence you to a thousand more weeds next year, next fault. 963 00:57:50.199 --> 00:57:52.639 So those are the two things and they're all on 964 00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:54.639 they're all on that schedule. Jerry. 965 00:57:56.880 --> 00:57:58.639 Yeah, gardening, which skilled. 966 00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:00.960 Of a skip dot com. 967 00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:06.039 That's it, all right, all right, Well, I appreciate it 968 00:58:06.119 --> 00:58:08.960 what you're talking on, like aeration something like that. 969 00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:18.920 No, it's it's it's especially important to do aeration whenever 970 00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:22.920 you're you have a clay soil and and a compacted soil. 971 00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:27.039 Those are those are two times when aeration is really critical. 972 00:58:27.920 --> 00:58:30.280 But it helps get the oxygen in the soil and 973 00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:33.159 it does a lot to help your your things. Uh 974 00:58:33.280 --> 00:58:36.119 So that's also on my schedule. The aerration is also 975 00:58:36.239 --> 00:58:37.800 on my on my schedule online. 976 00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:40.639 All right, I'll tell you what. As soon as I can, 977 00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:44.559 I'm gonna I'm gonna go there and start educating myself. 978 00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:48.280 Okay, now here, you're gonna need to know you're gonna 979 00:58:48.320 --> 00:58:53.599 if you're gonna do some aeration. Green Pro. They're Auto Magnolia, 980 00:58:53.679 --> 00:58:55.000 but they service your area. 981 00:58:57.079 --> 00:59:01.480 You can go close, Yes you are, I'm very close 982 00:59:01.559 --> 00:59:02.079 to Magnol. 983 00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:02.199 You. 984 00:59:03.599 --> 00:59:05.840 Yeah, let me give you Oh gosh, you probably can't 985 00:59:05.880 --> 00:59:10.840 write a phone number down, can you? I cannot know? Okay, well, 986 00:59:11.079 --> 00:59:14.920 just remember Green Pro Green Pro, They're i to Magnoli. 987 00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:18.920 You there, that's your aerating company for your area. All right, okay, 988 00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:21.960 all right, thanks man, appreciate it. 989 00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:24.079 Thank you. I appreciate you taking my call on that 990 00:59:24.679 --> 00:59:27.719 helpful advice. I don't try to get on this good luck. 991 00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:30.639 Well, take a picture of your lawn when it's ugly, 992 00:59:30.760 --> 00:59:32.760 and take a picture when it looks good and send 993 00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:34.840 me the pictures. I'd love to see them before and after. 994 00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:38.639 Okay you will, I'll sure do that, yes, sir. 995 00:59:39.079 --> 00:59:43.880 All right, you take care? Oh where are we now? 996 00:59:44.119 --> 00:59:47.239 Let's go to Cleveland and talk to Ron. Hey, Ron, 997 00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:50.199 Welcome to garden Line, Laura skip. 998 00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:51.159 Uh. 999 00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:53.800 It's kind of too late now, but I would like 1000 00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:57.599 to know what happened to my Laurel peddling last Saturday. 1001 00:59:57.639 --> 01:00:00.599 I was out there or not my Laurel. I'm sorry, 1002 01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:04.960 my Texas Mountain Laurel. Last Saturday. Go out there early. 1003 01:00:05.480 --> 01:00:09.400 You could see the buds. There's probably like one hundred 1004 01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:11.480 and fifty of them, because the things like five years 1005 01:00:11.519 --> 01:00:14.400 old and they're all starting to put out that dark 1006 01:00:14.519 --> 01:00:16.760 blue and I figured by this Saturday they'd be all 1007 01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:19.119 starting to bloom, but they all kind of ended up 1008 01:00:19.239 --> 01:00:21.760 drying up and then they're like a little stem in 1009 01:00:21.880 --> 01:00:26.400 a manner of just one week. I don't know any 1010 01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:28.440 thoughts on what might have happened or. 1011 01:00:31.079 --> 01:00:34.159 The plant itself looks okay, the foliage looks okay. 1012 01:00:34.719 --> 01:00:37.719 Yeah, well yeah, there's the dark green foliage is the 1013 01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:40.840 older foliage, which is where mostly all the blooms were. 1014 01:00:41.400 --> 01:00:43.880 Then there's some lighter green that's probably like and that 1015 01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:46.800 did it additional two feet. 1016 01:00:46.800 --> 01:00:47.480 Growth on it. 1017 01:00:47.639 --> 01:00:51.239 The plants thriving and all of a sudden, all those 1018 01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:55.119 blooms just are there's probably not one out of there 1019 01:00:55.199 --> 01:00:57.039 that's gonna actually open up. 1020 01:00:57.440 --> 01:01:01.719 And have that fragrance and color. I don't know what 1021 01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:08.159 would cause the can you hear me, yes, sir, I 1022 01:01:08.199 --> 01:01:12.280 don't know what would cause the blooms to dry up, 1023 01:01:12.559 --> 01:01:15.679 But the rest of the plant looks fine. Texas Mountain 1024 01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:18.159 Paurel hates wet feet, so you know when it gets 1025 01:01:18.199 --> 01:01:21.159 soggy soil, we that's when it starts to have issues 1026 01:01:21.199 --> 01:01:23.320 and we see browning and death of the leaves and 1027 01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:26.599 the plant itself. We didn't have a frost or anything 1028 01:01:26.679 --> 01:01:30.119 like that, so that is very strange. I tell you what, 1029 01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:33.400 I'm going to put you on hold here and let 1030 01:01:33.679 --> 01:01:36.760 my producer give you an email and send me some 1031 01:01:37.079 --> 01:01:38.960 close up pictures. I'm want to see the whole plant 1032 01:01:39.039 --> 01:01:41.039 from you know, a little bit of a distance, and 1033 01:01:41.119 --> 01:01:43.119 then I want to see close ups of it and 1034 01:01:43.239 --> 01:01:45.159 let me see if I can see anything on them, 1035 01:01:45.199 --> 01:01:49.039 because that's that's something's not right there for sure, and 1036 01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:50.760 I'd like to be able to help you further than 1037 01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:58.800 I can. Okay, So okay, I head. 1038 01:01:58.960 --> 01:02:00.719 I was out there looking at it this morning, and 1039 01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:03.760 I do see there was a leaf that I did 1040 01:02:03.960 --> 01:02:07.119 notice that it was kind of browning. But I will 1041 01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:09.519 be glad to take some pictures and get them to you. 1042 01:02:11.079 --> 01:02:14.119 Yeah, show me some and let me take a look 1043 01:02:14.119 --> 01:02:16.360 at them and we'll figure it out from there. Appreciate 1044 01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:20.800 ron the call, Thank you, thank you very much. If 1045 01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:23.639 you've been down doing Chanty Gardens, which is out in 1046 01:02:23.760 --> 01:02:27.360 the Richmond Rosenberg area, you know why I like that 1047 01:02:27.480 --> 01:02:32.719 place so much. It is it's ingenting, it is beautiful. 1048 01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:34.880 I was out there this spring giving a talk out there, 1049 01:02:35.119 --> 01:02:37.360 and it's the same as always. You walk around, you 1050 01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:40.760 just go wow, You just go wow. What do you need? 1051 01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:43.280 Do you need a rose bush? Do you need some perennials? 1052 01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:46.280 Oh my gosh. The selection they have on those two 1053 01:02:46.760 --> 01:02:51.320 is outstanding. And one thing that is really cool. They 1054 01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:56.519 do a wonderful job in those iron hanging baskets. They 1055 01:02:56.559 --> 01:02:58.039 have a lot of pottery, They have a lot of 1056 01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:01.639 hanging baskets and different types. Follow them on social media 1057 01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:06.480 and you'll see Maria, one of their expert employees out 1058 01:03:06.519 --> 01:03:09.079 there that is making hanging baskets. They show you how 1059 01:03:09.079 --> 01:03:11.519 to make them, walk you through the steps. They are 1060 01:03:11.920 --> 01:03:15.960 just gorgeous. And anytime you go to Enchanted Gardens, you 1061 01:03:16.159 --> 01:03:18.480 know you're going to find a good selection and you 1062 01:03:18.639 --> 01:03:23.239 know you're going to get expert advice. Listen. They absolutely 1063 01:03:23.599 --> 01:03:26.679 they've got the train people. They sell you the plants 1064 01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:28.400 that grow here, they tell you how to grow them. 1065 01:03:29.239 --> 01:03:31.679 Any kind of bling you need for the landscape, like 1066 01:03:31.800 --> 01:03:35.760 fountains and chimes and whimsical garden art, they have it. 1067 01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:40.159 They carry the products that I talk about, like Microlife, nitroposs, Nelson, Medina, 1068 01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:43.360 Nature's Way, Heirlooms. I mean, they've got it all there. 1069 01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:45.880 They are located on FM three point fifty nine on 1070 01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:49.760 the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchented 1071 01:03:50.320 --> 01:03:58.199 Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Let's 1072 01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:03.199 go now to Pinehurst and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, 1073 01:04:03.679 --> 01:04:04.639 welcome to garden Line. 1074 01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:06.920 Hey, Hey, skip morning. 1075 01:04:07.920 --> 01:04:08.119 Hey. 1076 01:04:08.320 --> 01:04:12.920 I just transplanted, or I should say planted forty I'm sorry, 1077 01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:18.159 ten forty five gallon Eagleston Hollies, as well as moved 1078 01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:23.159 about a sixty five gallon water oak from my front 1079 01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:24.519 yard to my backyard. 1080 01:04:24.719 --> 01:04:27.079 So they're sitting in the holes, but I have not 1081 01:04:27.320 --> 01:04:28.159 filled them in yet. 1082 01:04:28.800 --> 01:04:31.320 I was wondering if there's a product I should add 1083 01:04:31.559 --> 01:04:35.000 to help with transplant shock or if they should be Okay. 1084 01:04:36.599 --> 01:04:39.800 Yeah, what I would do is. I probably would get 1085 01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:44.880 some of the medina six twelve six. It's medina has 1086 01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:48.119 to grow six twelve six. Did you hear me? I 1087 01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:49.519 was mentioning that a little bit earlier. 1088 01:04:51.159 --> 01:04:53.800 I wasn't tuned in, but I am familiar with the product, 1089 01:04:53.840 --> 01:04:54.800 the Medina hasser the. 1090 01:04:55.079 --> 01:04:58.840 Yeah liquid, correct, Yeah, it's a liquid and mix it. 1091 01:04:58.920 --> 01:05:01.079 I would just put in a water can and then 1092 01:05:01.119 --> 01:05:03.639 I would drench those root balls and I would do 1093 01:05:03.719 --> 01:05:08.360 it about every week for about three applications if you 1094 01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:10.159 want to, if you know a little longer, like two 1095 01:05:10.199 --> 01:05:13.280 weeks between them, that's fine. But what it's God's got 1096 01:05:13.280 --> 01:05:14.840 a lot of phosphorus in it. It's got a lot 1097 01:05:14.840 --> 01:05:16.400 of other things that are going to help with that 1098 01:05:16.880 --> 01:05:21.039 plant getting established. Remember remember with Holly's the first year, 1099 01:05:21.519 --> 01:05:26.159 they're really picky about getting good dependable watering, not soggy, 1100 01:05:26.559 --> 01:05:29.679 but good dependable. So the more you can handwater though, 1101 01:05:29.800 --> 01:05:31.320 so you go all the way around them and you 1102 01:05:31.440 --> 01:05:34.239 make sure and what that root ball, the better off 1103 01:05:34.239 --> 01:05:36.519 they'll be going through this first summer, even the first 1104 01:05:36.559 --> 01:05:41.079 two years really, because sometimes our sprinkler systems don't get 1105 01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:44.360 a good soaking in an even way all the way 1106 01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:47.199 around the plant. So the first couple of years, handwater 1107 01:05:47.360 --> 01:05:50.920 those hollies through the heat of summer for better success. 1108 01:05:51.719 --> 01:05:54.039 And then for the medina has to grow, I should 1109 01:05:54.119 --> 01:05:55.400 how long should I hit it with that? 1110 01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:59.559 For a couple of weeks, I would do three applications, 1111 01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:01.639 you know, let's he did one today, about a week 1112 01:06:01.719 --> 01:06:03.239 or two from now, do one. About a week or 1113 01:06:03.239 --> 01:06:05.400 two from now, do one. And it's just kind of 1114 01:06:05.440 --> 01:06:08.119 getting that product down in the root zone as those 1115 01:06:08.199 --> 01:06:10.239 roots are trying to develop. They've got what they need. 1116 01:06:10.679 --> 01:06:15.239 Yeah, and then do I need to before I fill 1117 01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:17.800 them in? Fill the holes in? Should I put anything 1118 01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:20.079 else in? Or just do the medina hassegrow and just 1119 01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:21.960 kind of that's all I need. 1120 01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:25.519 I wouldn't put anything well, you know what you could do. 1121 01:06:26.119 --> 01:06:30.760 Nelson has a product called Genesis. It's a very dark 1122 01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:37.000 brown granule. Genesis is excellent in the transplant mix. So 1123 01:06:37.199 --> 01:06:40.239 as you're going to bring the soil back in, mix 1124 01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:43.840 some Genesis around those roots in that soil. Don't just 1125 01:06:43.960 --> 01:06:47.199 dump it on the zone mix. Some Genesis in the 1126 01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:50.159 label tells you how much, and that'll help them get 1127 01:06:50.199 --> 01:06:52.320 off to a good start as well. It's got a 1128 01:06:52.360 --> 01:06:55.159 lot of good things in including microbes in it to 1129 01:06:55.239 --> 01:07:02.000 be helpful. All right, Yes, that's it. Nelson Genesis comes 1130 01:07:02.039 --> 01:07:04.119 in a little jar, comes in a jar. 1131 01:07:05.760 --> 01:07:06.360 Right now, So. 1132 01:07:07.920 --> 01:07:09.960 I bet they have some up there. Just just check 1133 01:07:10.039 --> 01:07:14.199 with them and Nelson Jenson. All right, all right, say 1134 01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:17.079 hi to them up at D and D. Alright, you 1135 01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:21.199 take care, all right, folks, I gotta run take a break, 1136 01:07:21.400 --> 01:07:24.039 Jim and A Lisa and Kay. You'll be up when 1137 01:07:24.119 --> 01:07:32.039 we come back. All right, folks, welcome back to the Guardline. 1138 01:07:32.119 --> 01:07:34.719 Glad to have you with us today. If you live 1139 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:39.760 down south of Houston, south and west of Houston, we're 1140 01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:42.599 talking about from Sugarland across the Pearland. We're talking about 1141 01:07:42.599 --> 01:07:45.480 from Missouri City down to Manville and Highway Sex. In fact, 1142 01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:48.559 all those communities on Highway Sex, Fresno or Colis Siena, 1143 01:07:48.599 --> 01:07:52.480 Iowa Colony all that area. BB turf Pros, B and 1144 01:07:52.599 --> 01:07:57.599 B turf Pros. That is your number one person or 1145 01:07:57.880 --> 01:08:01.079 company to reach out to you for compost, top dressing 1146 01:08:01.239 --> 01:08:05.239 and core aeration, corroeration at your lawn. It's a family 1147 01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:08.679 owned business. They provide honest, quality work and their number 1148 01:08:08.719 --> 01:08:11.639 one goal is to make a personal connection with you 1149 01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:15.000 as our client so that you are satisfied with the 1150 01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:17.159 work that they do. And if you look at their reviews, 1151 01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:22.119 they're winning at that. The people love them because they 1152 01:08:22.199 --> 01:08:27.000 do good work. The website is Bbturfpros dot com. BB 1153 01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:32.520 no end in the website BB Turfpros dot com seven 1154 01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:35.239 to one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. 1155 01:08:35.359 --> 01:08:37.880 They only use products I talk about here on garden Line, 1156 01:08:38.119 --> 01:08:40.760 like cnam Alt. They get their top quality leap more 1157 01:08:40.840 --> 01:08:43.560 compos from CNA Malt. That's what I'm talking about. They're 1158 01:08:43.600 --> 01:08:45.960 committed to doing good work with good products so that 1159 01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:51.840 you have good success. BB Turfpros dot Com. I'm going 1160 01:08:51.880 --> 01:08:53.680 to head out now to meadows Place. We're going to 1161 01:08:53.720 --> 01:08:56.239 talk to Jim. Hey Jim, Welcome to Gardenline. 1162 01:08:57.039 --> 01:09:05.279 Good morning. Skip on my backyard, Saint Augustine. With all 1163 01:09:05.319 --> 01:09:09.720 the rain we had, the backyard drain slow, maybe take 1164 01:09:09.960 --> 01:09:15.560 five six days to drain out. I've developed five patches 1165 01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:20.039 of brown brown patch. I'm I'm assuming what it is 1166 01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:23.920 and I treated it once already with fertile ome F stop. 1167 01:09:24.880 --> 01:09:28.199 My question is should I treat it again before I 1168 01:09:28.319 --> 01:09:32.039 fertilize And when I fertilize does it make any difference 1169 01:09:32.159 --> 01:09:35.159 which fertilizer to use. I have the Bruces blue and 1170 01:09:35.359 --> 01:09:37.279 the fifteen five ten. 1171 01:09:39.039 --> 01:09:43.119 Huh, well, you know you can. You can treat it. 1172 01:09:43.119 --> 01:09:47.359 If you go on my schedule on garden on gardening 1173 01:09:47.439 --> 01:09:51.720 with skip dot com, you'll see on there that there 1174 01:09:51.880 --> 01:09:57.119 is a brown patch application that is made basically up 1175 01:09:57.199 --> 01:10:00.279 until about mid March. I think we're hitting a point 1176 01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:02.640 now though, where the benefit you're going to get from 1177 01:10:02.680 --> 01:10:06.279 treating it is not worth it. In other words, the 1178 01:10:06.359 --> 01:10:09.239 circles are already there and they will be greening up soon, 1179 01:10:09.399 --> 01:10:11.840 and the brown patch will stop infecting as it warms 1180 01:10:11.920 --> 01:10:14.159 up just a little bit. And so I would just 1181 01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:17.800 wait and save yourself that trouble. Do the things on 1182 01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:21.159 my schedule, you know, mowing, water, fertilizing, taking good care 1183 01:10:21.199 --> 01:10:23.680 of it. I think that's the most important thing. If 1184 01:10:24.279 --> 01:10:26.880 you were inclined and able to have someone come in 1185 01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:30.960 and do some drainage, subsurface drainage, French drain kind of 1186 01:10:31.000 --> 01:10:34.039 thing to make that yard not such a soggy spot. 1187 01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:36.760 That would help your lawn and it would just help 1188 01:10:36.800 --> 01:10:38.680 a lot of plants that are growing in that area. 1189 01:10:39.319 --> 01:10:41.600 But that would be you know, that's a whole nother 1190 01:10:42.239 --> 01:10:47.640 level of landscape activity. But anyway, that's the only thing 1191 01:10:47.680 --> 01:10:50.720 they comes to my mind here in your dilemma. 1192 01:10:52.000 --> 01:10:54.359 Do you have a preference on the fertilizer the use 1193 01:10:54.520 --> 01:10:55.119 of the two. 1194 01:10:55.039 --> 01:10:55.720 I named. 1195 01:10:57.000 --> 01:11:03.880 Say those two again please Bruce's Glue and fifteen the 1196 01:11:06.319 --> 01:11:11.600 Imperial the red bag from nitrofis. Yes, those are both 1197 01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:15.319 excellent products. The Bruce's brew is going to have some 1198 01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:19.239 nutrient forms of nitrogen that are going to feed a 1199 01:11:19.279 --> 01:11:23.279 little bit longer in it, and the night fass is 1200 01:11:23.359 --> 01:11:25.359 going to give you the quick early green up. Now, 1201 01:11:25.560 --> 01:11:27.760 if you go to my schedule at gardening with Skip 1202 01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:31.000 dot com, they're both on there. And you'll also notice 1203 01:11:31.039 --> 01:11:33.479 that once we've mowed that lawn about twice and we 1204 01:11:33.720 --> 01:11:39.479 get into the April time of the year, that's when 1205 01:11:39.520 --> 01:11:42.239 we're going to be putting our longer term fertilizers on 1206 01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:47.079 for carrying us through summer the slower releases. So either 1207 01:11:47.119 --> 01:11:49.600 way you want to go, just do a light application 1208 01:11:49.800 --> 01:11:52.159 of them for now and then because we're going to 1209 01:11:52.199 --> 01:11:55.000 be doing the longer term things as it warms up 1210 01:11:55.199 --> 01:12:01.279 just a bit more. Okay, understand, all right, sir, Thank 1211 01:12:01.319 --> 01:12:02.399 you appreciate your call. 1212 01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:04.000 Thanks for gett. 1213 01:12:06.199 --> 01:12:09.640 You take care. Yeah, that nitro Foss Imperial. That's a 1214 01:12:09.760 --> 01:12:12.920 fifteen to five to ten by the way, it is. Gosh, 1215 01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:16.000 it was about fifty years ago that they Nitroposs created 1216 01:12:16.039 --> 01:12:18.840 this and it was based on research at Texas A 1217 01:12:18.920 --> 01:12:21.680 and M and other Lang Grant universities across the South 1218 01:12:21.760 --> 01:12:25.640 that basically say turf likes a ratio with a lot 1219 01:12:25.680 --> 01:12:28.720 of nitrogen, not too much phosphorus, and medium amount of potassium. 1220 01:12:28.880 --> 01:12:31.439 That's the one two three or the three one two 1221 01:12:31.600 --> 01:12:35.079 ratio rather that's on there. It's the red orange bag, 1222 01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:39.239 red orange bag. So it's available, you know, just as Imperial. 1223 01:12:39.279 --> 01:12:42.720 It's available as a weed and feed with a trimac 1224 01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:44.840 in it also for the broad leaf weeds. If you 1225 01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:47.359 if you were wanting to do both of those, this 1226 01:12:47.560 --> 01:12:49.840 is the time of year when that kind of application 1227 01:12:50.640 --> 01:12:54.039 is something that I would say, you know, could be done. 1228 01:12:54.039 --> 01:12:55.640 You can get benefit from both of those. If you 1229 01:12:55.640 --> 01:12:59.319 don't go that route. Night Fass products are available by 1230 01:12:59.359 --> 01:13:01.800 the way, that that the one with the trimech and 1231 01:13:01.880 --> 01:13:04.600 it is in a light blue bag, a light blue bag, 1232 01:13:05.399 --> 01:13:07.279 and then make look for that word trimeach if you're 1233 01:13:07.319 --> 01:13:09.119 going to go that route. You gotta have what weeds 1234 01:13:09.159 --> 01:13:10.960 so to put that on because it needs to stick 1235 01:13:11.000 --> 01:13:14.319 to the leaves. You're going to find it at Plantation 1236 01:13:14.439 --> 01:13:17.479 Ace Hardware. That's out there, Richmond Rosenberg. You're going to 1237 01:13:17.520 --> 01:13:20.479 find night Fosh Products. That is Langham Creek Case Hardware 1238 01:13:20.520 --> 01:13:24.600 on five twenty nine up in Cyprus. RCW Nursery carries 1239 01:13:24.680 --> 01:13:27.520 night FoST products, as does Lake Hardware, both the one 1240 01:13:27.600 --> 01:13:30.960 in Ankleton and the one in Clute. I'm going to 1241 01:13:31.039 --> 01:13:34.039 head now, let's see what who's next. I believe k 1242 01:13:34.359 --> 01:13:37.239 and Pearland was next. Hey, Kay, welcome to garden Line. 1243 01:13:38.039 --> 01:13:40.640 Hey, good morning, thank you for taking my call. Skip. 1244 01:13:41.479 --> 01:13:45.000 I was calling regarding the gentleman who called about the 1245 01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:49.760 tree hunker. I purchased one for my oak tree last year, 1246 01:13:50.079 --> 01:13:52.159 well a couple of years ago. It was really dry hot. 1247 01:13:52.720 --> 01:13:55.600 I got the fifteen inch My oak tree base is 1248 01:13:55.720 --> 01:13:59.479 sixty inches, so obviously it's too you know, and other 1249 01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:02.000 people may figured this out. But I opened it up 1250 01:14:02.760 --> 01:14:05.760 and put it on half of my one side of 1251 01:14:05.880 --> 01:14:10.159 the tree. I just did the slow so it covered 1252 01:14:10.239 --> 01:14:12.960 most of the drip line on that side. Watered it 1253 01:14:13.079 --> 01:14:17.239 thirty forty five minutes, then take it up and put 1254 01:14:17.279 --> 01:14:21.960 it on the other side. Don't anybody be discouraged because 1255 01:14:22.119 --> 01:14:26.399 their tree trunk is larger than the largest tree hugger, 1256 01:14:27.039 --> 01:14:30.119 because you can there you go. It's a wonderful intention. 1257 01:14:31.640 --> 01:14:31.840 Yep. 1258 01:14:32.000 --> 01:14:36.640 Well, my dad used to say, well, hey, you're using 1259 01:14:36.720 --> 01:14:39.199 your nogging. That's good. My dad used to say, use 1260 01:14:39.239 --> 01:14:41.399 your head for something other than to hang your head on. 1261 01:14:42.640 --> 01:14:43.000 Exactly. 1262 01:14:43.680 --> 01:14:47.079 You're doing that. You're doing that that that is good. 1263 01:14:48.199 --> 01:14:51.279 So you're basically watering half the tree turned around watering 1264 01:14:51.279 --> 01:14:53.920 another half. It is such a great way to keep 1265 01:14:53.920 --> 01:14:57.439 your trees alive. But we just keep them alive, yeah, 1266 01:14:57.600 --> 01:14:59.880 to make them grow. You know, when I plant a tree, 1267 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:01.359 I want to know how soon can I hang a 1268 01:15:01.399 --> 01:15:04.760 hammock in it? And true Haggert will shorten the time 1269 01:15:04.880 --> 01:15:09.640 between planting and hanging a hammock. Thank you, Yes it will. 1270 01:15:10.079 --> 01:15:11.800 Okay, i'll see you this afternoon. 1271 01:15:12.720 --> 01:15:15.760 Oh good, you're gonna come out to Hoorges Hidden Gardens. 1272 01:15:15.840 --> 01:15:20.680 That's good coming to Hoges because I have pictures of 1273 01:15:20.760 --> 01:15:22.560 the elephant's foot plant. 1274 01:15:23.319 --> 01:15:26.000 Oh oh great, Oh I'm looking forward to. 1275 01:15:27.239 --> 01:15:28.840 Yeah, okay, we'll see you then. 1276 01:15:28.840 --> 01:15:33.840 All right, you take care. That is wonderful to hear yeah, 1277 01:15:34.000 --> 01:15:37.479 for sure. Speaking of Hoorges Hidden Gardens, speaking of Hoores 1278 01:15:37.560 --> 01:15:40.600 Hedding Guards, I'm going to be at Horace Hidden Gardens 1279 01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:44.920 today from one to three, from one to three. Now, 1280 01:15:45.079 --> 01:15:49.399 Hoores is on Elizabeth Street, it says Elizabeth Street and Alvin. Actually, 1281 01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:52.479 if you are in Alvin and you drive down Highway 1282 01:15:52.520 --> 01:15:55.039 six towards Santa Fe, it's about halfway to Santa Fe. 1283 01:15:55.359 --> 01:15:58.319 Off to the right, that's where it is, Elizabeth Street. 1284 01:15:58.880 --> 01:16:02.319 Jorge has got tons of cool things. I mean I 1285 01:16:02.359 --> 01:16:07.239 would just you know, we were communicating earlier about my 1286 01:16:07.399 --> 01:16:09.960 coming out there and everything. Peach trees, all kinds of 1287 01:16:10.000 --> 01:16:12.319 fruit trees, you know, Texas Mountain more. Remember the gaudy 1288 01:16:12.399 --> 01:16:15.560 smell I was talking about. Yep, he's got he raes, 1289 01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:18.159 got that. He also has the decidrous magnolias that are 1290 01:16:18.399 --> 01:16:21.720 just beautiful. And you know, he's got roses. He's got 1291 01:16:21.840 --> 01:16:25.199 all kinds of shade trees that you might want, but 1292 01:16:25.359 --> 01:16:27.760 fruit of every kind. We're gonna he's gonna give away. 1293 01:16:28.039 --> 01:16:29.600 What did he What did I say? I think it's 1294 01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:33.960 five different peach trees today, five different peach trees. He's 1295 01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:36.680 gonna give away some of his fertilizer. His special Horge 1296 01:16:36.920 --> 01:16:39.760 concoction of fertilizer, and I'm going to be bringing along 1297 01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:43.439 some folk some fertilizer from Nelson, the jars of fertilizer 1298 01:16:43.479 --> 01:16:47.039 from Nelson plant food to provide as well. Well, I 1299 01:16:47.079 --> 01:16:48.640 gotta take a little quick break here. I'd love to 1300 01:16:48.680 --> 01:16:50.640 keep talking about Jorge's place, but hope you come out 1301 01:16:50.680 --> 01:16:55.760 and see me. We'll be right back. All right, folks, 1302 01:16:55.800 --> 01:16:57.840 welcome back to the garden Line. Got glad to have 1303 01:16:58.079 --> 01:17:01.239 you with us right now. We've got a lot of 1304 01:17:01.279 --> 01:17:02.760 things to talk about and a lot of people that 1305 01:17:02.840 --> 01:17:06.520 want to talk about things. Spring Creek Hardware, Spress, Spring 1306 01:17:06.560 --> 01:17:10.399 Creek Hardware, good Night. Spring Creek Feed which is up 1307 01:17:11.359 --> 01:17:14.199 to the north and east of Tomball. That's on in 1308 01:17:14.359 --> 01:17:18.960 Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight FM twenty nine 1309 01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:22.239 seventy eight. It's just a few minutes away from Grand 1310 01:17:22.279 --> 01:17:25.199 Parkway and Highway to forty nine. Both they carry our 1311 01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:29.560 full line of turf Star from Nelson, micro Life Fertilizers, 1312 01:17:29.680 --> 01:17:33.159 Nitrophoss fertilizers. If you need to control weeds, they've got 1313 01:17:33.239 --> 01:17:36.520 pre emergence and post emergence. They have fungicides and pesticides, 1314 01:17:37.000 --> 01:17:39.279 lots of friendly, courteous folks there to help you. I 1315 01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:41.640 mean you walk in and you feel like you're just 1316 01:17:41.760 --> 01:17:47.159 being treated like family, well in the good way. Sorry 1317 01:17:48.039 --> 01:17:52.600 that just yep, yep. Well anyway, they've got quality bet food, 1318 01:17:52.680 --> 01:17:57.439 They've got quality products for your livestock and everything you need. 1319 01:17:57.840 --> 01:18:01.479 If you are a youth with four h raising animals 1320 01:18:01.560 --> 01:18:04.439 and things, they have discounts for that. For military folks, 1321 01:18:04.479 --> 01:18:08.239 they have for senior citizens have discounts. They do special orders. 1322 01:18:08.520 --> 01:18:10.920 Just let them know what you need and they make 1323 01:18:10.960 --> 01:18:13.399 an order for you. They do a little lovery service too, 1324 01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:17.760 which is really handy. Excellent selection for all the gardening 1325 01:18:17.840 --> 01:18:21.039 products that you might want. And when you go in there, 1326 01:18:21.359 --> 01:18:24.119 you're gonna go, wait a minute, this doesn't look like 1327 01:18:24.199 --> 01:18:28.960 a feed store. This is beautiful. Yes, that's true, it is. 1328 01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:32.079 It's Spring Creek feed. I love going in there, mainly 1329 01:18:32.199 --> 01:18:34.560 because I love visiting with the folks and checking out 1330 01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:37.800 all the many things that they keep on hand. I 1331 01:18:37.880 --> 01:18:41.239 want to head now to Deer Park and we're going 1332 01:18:41.319 --> 01:18:44.159 to talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, welcome to garden Line. 1333 01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:51.039 Thank you. I was wondering what you used in the 1334 01:18:51.159 --> 01:18:53.159 vegetable garden for ants. 1335 01:18:55.079 --> 01:18:56.560 A fire ants we're talking about. 1336 01:18:57.039 --> 01:18:59.680 Yes, yes, there is. 1337 01:19:00.359 --> 01:19:04.079 I'm only aware of one product labeled for fire ants 1338 01:19:04.319 --> 01:19:06.560 in a vegetable garden. Now there may be some that 1339 01:19:06.680 --> 01:19:08.039 I'm only aware of one. 1340 01:19:08.560 --> 01:19:08.680 Uh. 1341 01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:12.119 And it is an organic product by Fertile Loan and 1342 01:19:12.239 --> 01:19:15.319 it's called Come and Get It, Come and Get It. 1343 01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:18.880 It is a bait based on spinosaid. The bag kind 1344 01:19:18.920 --> 01:19:21.279 of has a light blue color to it. Come and 1345 01:19:21.359 --> 01:19:22.359 Get It by Fertile Loan. 1346 01:19:22.880 --> 01:19:22.960 Uh. 1347 01:19:23.119 --> 01:19:25.560 And it's labeled for use in vegetable gardens. It's an 1348 01:19:25.640 --> 01:19:26.640 organic fireant bait. 1349 01:19:28.039 --> 01:19:31.119 Okay, and it's by Fertilean. You said. 1350 01:19:32.760 --> 01:19:33.760 It's a little bag. 1351 01:19:35.439 --> 01:19:39.159 I had another question about. I was turning over the 1352 01:19:39.279 --> 01:19:43.279 compost pole and was putting some of the dirt adding 1353 01:19:43.359 --> 01:19:48.960 it to the garden, and I had never noticed it before, 1354 01:19:49.720 --> 01:19:54.319 but this year it's full of grub worms. And I mean, 1355 01:19:54.720 --> 01:19:56.640 I think they're not I'm sure they're a natural part 1356 01:19:56.680 --> 01:20:01.000 of the process, but uh, if I put it in 1357 01:20:01.119 --> 01:20:03.319 the garden of I've been trying to pick them out 1358 01:20:03.359 --> 01:20:06.239 by hand, But is there a better way to do that? 1359 01:20:07.920 --> 01:20:12.199 You know, grubs and grubs like grassroots primarily, and so 1360 01:20:12.520 --> 01:20:14.760 in a lawn that's you know, if you get enough 1361 01:20:14.840 --> 01:20:17.159 of them, that's a concern. But there's always going to 1362 01:20:17.159 --> 01:20:20.399 be grubworms in the dirt. That's just part of nature. 1363 01:20:20.439 --> 01:20:23.600 As you said, picking them out is fine. I wouldn't 1364 01:20:23.600 --> 01:20:26.039 worry about them a whole lot for most gardening kinds 1365 01:20:26.079 --> 01:20:27.960 of things. But as you see them, just go ahead 1366 01:20:27.960 --> 01:20:31.000 and pick them out. Okay. I think that there's no 1367 01:20:31.159 --> 01:20:32.920 need to there's no need to drench it with an 1368 01:20:32.960 --> 01:20:33.960 insecticide for that. 1369 01:20:35.159 --> 01:20:38.640 Oh good, thanks. I had one other question I've heard 1370 01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:44.039 you talk about the weedater. Is it just is it 1371 01:20:44.199 --> 01:20:46.439 just a weed and feed or is it something different. 1372 01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:51.279 Well, it's a fertilizer with a growth regulator and it 1373 01:20:51.439 --> 01:20:59.840 also and the the weed control product is a post em. 1374 01:21:00.399 --> 01:21:02.199 So what you would have to do is wet the 1375 01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:06.359 weeds and then immediately put that dry granule out on it, 1376 01:21:07.000 --> 01:21:11.479 and you'll you'll find that that will provide you know, 1377 01:21:11.640 --> 01:21:14.319 the control of them. It sticks to the leaves, soaks 1378 01:21:14.319 --> 01:21:15.960 into the leaves, and then after a couple of days 1379 01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:18.760 you watered in. You get the fertilizer part down in 1380 01:21:18.800 --> 01:21:19.239 the ground. 1381 01:21:19.520 --> 01:21:24.680 Okay, So you don't water it. You don't water it 1382 01:21:24.800 --> 01:21:28.239 directly after putting it down. You wait. 1383 01:21:30.399 --> 01:21:33.319 A couple of day? What a couple of days? Wait 1384 01:21:33.399 --> 01:21:36.479 the we the weeds. Put the product on, it sticks 1385 01:21:36.520 --> 01:21:38.600 to the leaves, leave it alone. A couple of days, 1386 01:21:38.720 --> 01:21:40.720 just god and watered in. You know, probably don't need 1387 01:21:40.800 --> 01:21:43.119 two days, but I'm just saying, you know, give it 1388 01:21:43.239 --> 01:21:45.880 some time to soak in good, uh, and then you should. 1389 01:21:47.159 --> 01:21:51.239 Hey, is is there any advantage to go ahead over? 1390 01:21:51.439 --> 01:21:56.239 Just like I was also looking at the nitroposs weed 1391 01:21:56.319 --> 01:21:56.760 and feed. 1392 01:21:58.119 --> 01:22:02.119 Yeah, nitroposs. But but to be the to do the 1393 01:22:02.199 --> 01:22:04.439 same kind of job that the weed needer does, you 1394 01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:08.199 would want the nitroposs with trimac. It's a light blue bag, 1395 01:22:09.079 --> 01:22:12.600 a light not purple, but light blue. Light blue bag 1396 01:22:12.920 --> 01:22:16.640 with trimeac. That will do. Those both have a fertilizer 1397 01:22:16.720 --> 01:22:19.079 and the post emergent and they have to have wet 1398 01:22:19.119 --> 01:22:21.199 weeds that you put them on. Same thing I just 1399 01:22:21.239 --> 01:22:24.840 said about the other. Okay, now, hey, you're you're in 1400 01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:25.560 deer Park. 1401 01:22:26.479 --> 01:22:32.640 What so with the weight and feed, you still supposed 1402 01:22:32.640 --> 01:22:34.000 to wet it before you put it down. 1403 01:22:35.279 --> 01:22:37.840 Yes, any kind of a granular weed and feed you 1404 01:22:38.000 --> 01:22:40.600 need to wet before you put it down. For the 1405 01:22:40.920 --> 01:22:45.039 for the post emergent product. Yeah, Hey, you're in Deer Park, 1406 01:22:45.079 --> 01:22:47.560 and you got Deer Park lumber Ace Hardware right there 1407 01:22:47.720 --> 01:22:50.239 on Center Street, and they're going to carry these things 1408 01:22:50.279 --> 01:22:53.760 we're talking about. Okay, well, hey, thanks for the call. 1409 01:22:54.199 --> 01:22:57.880 I appreciate that very much. Good luck getting all that 1410 01:22:58.319 --> 01:23:03.640 under control. Peerscapes is well, let's to put this way. 1411 01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:07.880 They know how to create beautiful landscapes. They do, and 1412 01:23:10.159 --> 01:23:12.720 everything I would say about Peerscapes could be summed up 1413 01:23:12.760 --> 01:23:17.199 in Go to their website piercescapes dot com. The phone 1414 01:23:17.239 --> 01:23:19.680 numbers there, the pictures are there. You can call them 1415 01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:25.159 two eight, one, three, seven fifty sixty. But piercescapes dot com. 1416 01:23:25.840 --> 01:23:28.840 Look at the landscapes they've created, Look at what their 1417 01:23:28.920 --> 01:23:31.840 designers can do. Look at the fact that they work 1418 01:23:31.960 --> 01:23:35.279 on irrigation systems to make them efficient and work right. 1419 01:23:35.439 --> 01:23:38.079 Look at the lighting home lighting that they do. Look 1420 01:23:38.119 --> 01:23:40.399 at the drainage. We're talking someone just a minute ago 1421 01:23:40.760 --> 01:23:43.880 had a poorly drained area of their lawn. Pierscapes knows 1422 01:23:44.199 --> 01:23:49.560 how to do subsurface drainage. Right piercescapes dot Com, there 1423 01:23:49.560 --> 01:23:54.199 are preferred garden lined landscaper. I head now out to 1424 01:23:54.520 --> 01:23:58.239 Analisa in Nadville. Hello, Analisa. Welcome to garden Line. 1425 01:23:59.199 --> 01:24:02.000 Hi, thanks for taking my call. So we live on 1426 01:24:02.359 --> 01:24:07.479 some property and for some reason, our neighbors who bought 1427 01:24:07.520 --> 01:24:09.479 the land next door have decided to build on the 1428 01:24:09.520 --> 01:24:12.800 property line right across from our backyard. So we are 1429 01:24:13.000 --> 01:24:16.680 trying to build a privacy screen with plants along our 1430 01:24:17.600 --> 01:24:20.960 electric fence, so I don't have like a fence to 1431 01:24:21.079 --> 01:24:25.000 support it, okay, And there's cows on the other side 1432 01:24:25.000 --> 01:24:27.239 of that fence, so it's got to be something friendly 1433 01:24:27.359 --> 01:24:30.680 to them. We're two years into golden bamboo and it 1434 01:24:30.760 --> 01:24:32.840 has not taken off. We heard you say last week 1435 01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:33.720 it can take three. 1436 01:24:33.680 --> 01:24:37.600 Years, So three years, third years when it really starts 1437 01:24:37.640 --> 01:24:41.560 to grow. Yeah, that's a good plant. That's a you know, 1438 01:24:41.800 --> 01:24:45.399 a good plant. Just when you do bamboo, yous want 1439 01:24:45.439 --> 01:24:47.399 to go with a clumping type as opposed to a 1440 01:24:47.520 --> 01:24:50.439 running type by the way it tends to be Otherwise, 1441 01:24:50.479 --> 01:24:53.199 it tends to be kind of invasive. So depending on 1442 01:24:53.319 --> 01:24:56.800 how close the building is to your line and where 1443 01:24:56.960 --> 01:25:01.359 you sit on your property, you may need not so 1444 01:25:01.680 --> 01:25:03.920 high of a hedge, or you may need a really 1445 01:25:04.000 --> 01:25:06.039 high hedge. For example, if you're at a patio and 1446 01:25:06.159 --> 01:25:09.960 right beside you you've got a six foot hedge that's 1447 01:25:10.039 --> 01:25:12.600 going to block the view. Because you're sitting down some 1448 01:25:12.880 --> 01:25:15.039 six feet high you know it's going to block the view. Well, 1449 01:25:15.159 --> 01:25:17.640 if it gets further away, like twenty feet away in 1450 01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:19.680 the fence line, and you've got a two story building 1451 01:25:19.800 --> 01:25:23.119 right there, well then you need a very tall screen 1452 01:25:23.239 --> 01:25:26.279 in order to block that. Just make sure your screens 1453 01:25:26.319 --> 01:25:29.119 are evergreen, which the bamboo is going to provide you that. 1454 01:25:30.079 --> 01:25:32.439 And that's kind of the tips I would give you 1455 01:25:32.600 --> 01:25:35.640 on blocking that view. But I think the bamboo would 1456 01:25:35.640 --> 01:25:38.520 be a good option. There's also some taller plants that 1457 01:25:38.760 --> 01:25:41.800 you get further up in the air, But it all 1458 01:25:41.880 --> 01:25:44.920 comes down to where you sit and how high the 1459 01:25:45.079 --> 01:25:47.680 thing you want to block is as to how tall 1460 01:25:47.760 --> 01:25:49.000 the screen needs to be. 1461 01:25:50.239 --> 01:25:52.640 Is there anything that takes off faster than the three 1462 01:25:52.720 --> 01:25:55.079 years with the bamboo that's cost efficient? 1463 01:26:00.159 --> 01:26:03.239 Okay, there's one strategy. And again I don't know how 1464 01:26:03.319 --> 01:26:05.960 all you want to block this, but you can take 1465 01:26:05.960 --> 01:26:08.119 a livestock panel. Do you know what those are? The 1466 01:26:08.239 --> 01:26:12.359 galvanized panels like sixteen feet long, four feet high that 1467 01:26:12.560 --> 01:26:15.479 they use for livestock panels. You put it up on 1468 01:26:15.760 --> 01:26:19.600 posts and you plant vines on it, and so you 1469 01:26:19.720 --> 01:26:22.159 could you know, you could put it up like six 1470 01:26:22.239 --> 01:26:24.000 feet high and it goes all the way up to 1471 01:26:24.800 --> 01:26:28.279 ten feet high and you have the vines there, and 1472 01:26:28.439 --> 01:26:30.560 that is as fast of a cover as you're going 1473 01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:36.640 to get to use that. That's not necessarily an attractive thing, 1474 01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:40.000 but it does block the view. Otherwise, you're looking at 1475 01:26:40.079 --> 01:26:42.560 planting plants that are going to move faster. If you've 1476 01:26:42.600 --> 01:26:44.880 got bamboo that's been in the ground two years, you're 1477 01:26:44.920 --> 01:26:47.319 about to hit the sweet spot where it really starts 1478 01:26:47.359 --> 01:26:50.760 to grow. Just fertilize it. Bamboos a grass, use your 1479 01:26:50.880 --> 01:26:54.600 lawn fertilizer on it, and fertilize it a lot, a 1480 01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:57.039 water a lot, and get it to grow as fast 1481 01:26:57.079 --> 01:26:58.479 as you can in this third year. 1482 01:27:00.640 --> 01:27:01.359 Thank you so much. 1483 01:27:01.399 --> 01:27:02.640 I appreciate you taking my call. 1484 01:27:03.960 --> 01:27:07.159 All right, thank you, I appreciate the call. Well, here 1485 01:27:07.239 --> 01:27:09.359 we are, Hey, guess what today I'm gonna be at 1486 01:27:09.439 --> 01:27:12.960 Jorges Hidden Gardens, Don and Alvin from one to three. 1487 01:27:13.600 --> 01:27:16.920 He's giving us five fruit trees. We got some fertilizer giveaways. 1488 01:27:17.079 --> 01:27:17.960 Come on and see us. 1489 01:27:19.159 --> 01:27:22.960 Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Rickard. 1490 01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:40.600 It's just watch him as Supray. 1491 01:27:48.479 --> 01:27:57.479 Sorry, all right, welcome, welcome back to garden Line. Thanks 1492 01:27:57.520 --> 01:28:00.680 for listening today. Glad to have you with us. You know, 1493 01:28:01.960 --> 01:28:05.159 I enjoy talking to gardeners. I always have. And you know, 1494 01:28:05.319 --> 01:28:08.079 during my thirty what I don't know, thirty six years, 1495 01:28:08.119 --> 01:28:11.119 I guess as a County AGR Life Extension agent. It's 1496 01:28:11.159 --> 01:28:13.560 basically what I did all the time is doctor gardeners, 1497 01:28:13.640 --> 01:28:15.920 helping gardeners with things. And I just think it's fun. 1498 01:28:16.000 --> 01:28:18.079 Gardeners like talking to gardeners do. By the way, you 1499 01:28:18.119 --> 01:28:20.920 get two gardeners together and next thing you know, here 1500 01:28:20.960 --> 01:28:23.720 come the pictures of the tomato patch and everybody starts lying, 1501 01:28:24.039 --> 01:28:26.960 that's we're at tomato last year that I couldn't even 1502 01:28:26.960 --> 01:28:30.520 get in the wheelbarrow. All right, well we're having a 1503 01:28:30.520 --> 01:28:32.920 little bit of fun. But that is how it is. Hey. 1504 01:28:33.079 --> 01:28:37.319 RCW Garden Centers is called RCW Nursery. It's up on 1505 01:28:38.159 --> 01:28:42.119 Beltway eight where it comes in with Tumball Parkway FM 1506 01:28:42.199 --> 01:28:46.319 two forty nine. RCW Nursery. Their garden center is outstanding. 1507 01:28:46.399 --> 01:28:46.520 You know. 1508 01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:49.560 They grow their own trees up in Plannersville at a 1509 01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:51.960 property up there at the Williamson Tree Farm. And so 1510 01:28:52.079 --> 01:28:54.119 when you get a tree at RCW, you're getting a 1511 01:28:54.159 --> 01:28:57.520 tree that is a quality grown tree, and it's a 1512 01:28:57.600 --> 01:29:01.640 species and variety that want to grow here. That's important. 1513 01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:03.680 You can plan them yourself, you can have them plan 1514 01:29:03.800 --> 01:29:05.760 them whatever you want, but that is a go to 1515 01:29:05.920 --> 01:29:09.359 place for getting a good quality tree. Now. It is 1516 01:29:09.399 --> 01:29:13.319 a favorite of rosarians because their rose selection is unbelievable. 1517 01:29:13.479 --> 01:29:15.760 I mean every spring they start off with pages and 1518 01:29:15.880 --> 01:29:19.520 pages and pages of roses that you get to choose from. 1519 01:29:19.720 --> 01:29:22.199 When you go in there, you get the supplies you need, 1520 01:29:22.279 --> 01:29:25.600 you know, products from Nitroposs, Microlife, a Nelson, turf Star, 1521 01:29:26.119 --> 01:29:28.680 and so on. They've got all those supplies for you, 1522 01:29:29.000 --> 01:29:31.359 and so you go home. You're ready to go to 1523 01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:35.039 town on it. Right now, the selection they have of everything, 1524 01:29:35.119 --> 01:29:39.159 I just obviously spring beautiful shrubs, lots of wonderful shrubs 1525 01:29:39.199 --> 01:29:43.439 are at RCW Nurseries. If you are looking for annual color, 1526 01:29:43.520 --> 01:29:45.600 if you're looking for perennial plants, if you look for 1527 01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:48.640 vegetables and herbs, they stock up on all of it. 1528 01:29:49.359 --> 01:29:52.279 And when you go in you've got expert folks. You know, 1529 01:29:52.800 --> 01:29:56.159 this nursery's been open since nineteen seventy nine. The Williamson 1530 01:29:56.199 --> 01:30:00.319 family still runs it and they're experts. Wh go in 1531 01:30:00.880 --> 01:30:04.720 you get advice that is accurate and that is point on. 1532 01:30:05.119 --> 01:30:07.800 You run into issues, talk to them about it. They 1533 01:30:07.840 --> 01:30:11.560 can help direct you. At R C W Nurseries, easy 1534 01:30:11.640 --> 01:30:14.640 to get to, corner of right at the corner literally 1535 01:30:14.760 --> 01:30:17.920 of where Tamau Park, Wambolt Wait eight come together, easy 1536 01:30:18.039 --> 01:30:20.119 access and when you get there you're going to find 1537 01:30:20.359 --> 01:30:25.920 everything you need. Let's set out to Baytown and we're 1538 01:30:25.960 --> 01:30:28.600 going to talk to Ron. Now, Hey, Ron, welcome to 1539 01:30:28.680 --> 01:30:29.239 garden Line. 1540 01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:36.439 Good morning, SIRC. What I'm looking for replacements more for 1541 01:30:37.119 --> 01:30:39.920 my tangerine trees that froze a couple of years ago. 1542 01:30:40.640 --> 01:30:43.159 I had a okay three that was about good trenches 1543 01:30:43.239 --> 01:30:49.319 diameter fifteen cow frows to the ground. It was very okay, 1544 01:30:49.560 --> 01:30:50.399 easy to feel. 1545 01:30:52.800 --> 01:30:55.520 Yeah, So that's what I'm looking for, you know, I 1546 01:30:55.840 --> 01:30:59.800 would my first thought is just head down one for 1547 01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:03.039 which takes you all the way down, you know, to 1548 01:31:03.720 --> 01:31:07.640 Moss Nursery down in Seabrook, down there, and I think 1549 01:31:07.760 --> 01:31:10.920 Moss is probably the closest place that has an excellent 1550 01:31:11.079 --> 01:31:14.079 selection of all kinds of citrus. Now, if you must 1551 01:31:14.199 --> 01:31:17.000 have the exact same kind of citrus. Then you may 1552 01:31:17.079 --> 01:31:19.279 want to give a call first, just to make sure 1553 01:31:19.840 --> 01:31:23.520 that they have the specific one you mentioned, tenderine, the 1554 01:31:23.640 --> 01:31:27.720 specific one that you're wanting to grow. But they they 1555 01:31:27.920 --> 01:31:30.079 always have a good selection down there. Do you have 1556 01:31:30.119 --> 01:31:31.680 a phone number for them? Do you need a phone 1557 01:31:31.720 --> 01:31:32.239 number for them? 1558 01:31:33.439 --> 01:31:34.119 I do need it? 1559 01:31:35.560 --> 01:31:40.520 Uh to eight one four seven four twenty four eighty 1560 01:31:40.600 --> 01:31:44.479 eight two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. 1561 01:31:46.199 --> 01:31:47.119 All right, thank you, sir. 1562 01:31:48.479 --> 01:31:50.199 Have you ever been Have you ever been there before? 1563 01:31:51.960 --> 01:31:58.119 Yes, several times. My girlfriend likes the skaghorn plant and 1564 01:31:58.199 --> 01:31:59.640 a few other things that we go down. 1565 01:31:59.680 --> 01:31:59.880 Look. 1566 01:32:01.560 --> 01:32:04.399 Oh my gosh, they've got staghorns as big as a 1567 01:32:04.520 --> 01:32:10.840 Volkswagen bug at most. All right, all right, well, I 1568 01:32:10.920 --> 01:32:13.800 hope you take two checkbooks, because the bigger a staghorn gets, 1569 01:32:13.880 --> 01:32:16.439 the more it costs. Right, you get a little one 1570 01:32:16.479 --> 01:32:18.439 and it's okay, and you start getting bigger and they're 1571 01:32:18.439 --> 01:32:21.039 proud of them. But boy, that's a great plan. It 1572 01:32:21.119 --> 01:32:22.640 takes a long time to get a big one, so 1573 01:32:22.680 --> 01:32:28.800 I understand why they All right, brother, have a good time, 1574 01:32:29.039 --> 01:32:32.439 Thank you, Thank you, sir. Appreciate your call very much. 1575 01:32:32.840 --> 01:32:36.960 I love staghorn. First, they're beautiful. Microlife has been making 1576 01:32:37.039 --> 01:32:41.199 quality fertilizers for over thirty five years and here in Houston, 1577 01:32:42.399 --> 01:32:46.600 Microlife Fertilizers number one selling organic fertilizer in the Greater 1578 01:32:46.720 --> 01:32:49.680 Houston Aaria. In fact, it's old way beyond the scenario 1579 01:32:49.760 --> 01:32:53.119 because it works. It does work. We're coming up on 1580 01:32:53.279 --> 01:32:56.319 the spring season where we start fertilizing lawns and they 1581 01:32:56.399 --> 01:32:58.079 got their six to four. I'll talk about that a 1582 01:32:58.119 --> 01:33:02.520 lot more coming up. They have a hybrid type fertilizer 1583 01:33:02.600 --> 01:33:04.920 that's Aday two four that works really well, gives you 1584 01:33:04.960 --> 01:33:08.359 a little faster initial results to it. But then they 1585 01:33:08.439 --> 01:33:10.319 also have and this is the one I really want 1586 01:33:10.319 --> 01:33:14.680 to talk about. They have something that is a humous 1587 01:33:15.119 --> 01:33:19.319 based product and now humus improves soil. It's as simple 1588 01:33:19.319 --> 01:33:22.720 as that. It's called Microlife hum Mats plus. And when 1589 01:33:22.760 --> 01:33:25.479 you put it down on an ongoing basis, you can 1590 01:33:25.600 --> 01:33:27.319 do it now, do it in the fall, do an 1591 01:33:27.399 --> 01:33:29.199 x spring, do it in the fall, and just keep 1592 01:33:29.279 --> 01:33:33.159 doing it. You are continuing to add the quality humous 1593 01:33:33.319 --> 01:33:37.880 products into the soil, which helps with soil structure, helps microbioactivity. 1594 01:33:37.880 --> 01:33:41.479 It's it's just a good addition to make. Don't think 1595 01:33:41.560 --> 01:33:43.800 of it as something instead of fertilizer. Think of it 1596 01:33:43.880 --> 01:33:46.640 as something in addition to the fertilizer. We're doing the 1597 01:33:46.720 --> 01:33:50.840 humates plus, which amounts to concentrated compost in a bag. 1598 01:33:50.960 --> 01:33:53.960 We're doing that to improve our soil, because we all 1599 01:33:54.079 --> 01:33:56.119 know when you improve the soil, you improve the plant 1600 01:33:56.239 --> 01:33:58.840 brown stuff before green stuff, even when it comes to 1601 01:33:58.920 --> 01:34:02.720 the lawn. Getting the soil right is the critical step 1602 01:34:02.920 --> 01:34:06.920 and having success. Let's set out to Houston now and 1603 01:34:07.039 --> 01:34:11.520 talk to Chat. Hello, Chat, Welcome to garden Line. Thank you, 1604 01:34:12.079 --> 01:34:12.640 good morning. 1605 01:34:13.800 --> 01:34:17.319 My question is last year we had quite a bit 1606 01:34:17.399 --> 01:34:21.159 of We had some oxlice in our flower beds and 1607 01:34:21.479 --> 01:34:25.680 we dug them up, you know, below the surface with 1608 01:34:25.800 --> 01:34:26.920 the seeds and so forth. 1609 01:34:27.039 --> 01:34:30.159 And then after that I was spot weading with a 1610 01:34:30.279 --> 01:34:34.840 mixture of vinegar and water to kill individual plants. Well 1611 01:34:35.159 --> 01:34:39.000 over the winter, okay, I mean it's back stronger than ever. 1612 01:34:39.159 --> 01:34:42.680 I literally have a crop of it the flower I 1613 01:34:42.800 --> 01:34:44.880 was wondering, what's what's the best way to treat that? 1614 01:34:46.439 --> 01:34:52.760 Yeah? Uh so, is this the the oxalice that has 1615 01:34:53.000 --> 01:34:55.760 little green leaves about the size of your thumbnail, or 1616 01:34:55.920 --> 01:34:58.479 is this the oxalice it has larger purple leaves. 1617 01:35:00.439 --> 01:35:04.159 I'm pretty sure it talked out. It's like a three 1618 01:35:04.279 --> 01:35:04.960 leaf clover. 1619 01:35:07.920 --> 01:35:12.039 Okay, I tell you what, Yeah, okay, could you hang on. 1620 01:35:12.279 --> 01:35:13.880 I have to go to a break and let's come 1621 01:35:13.960 --> 01:35:16.119 back and we'll pick that up. Then just hang on 1622 01:35:16.319 --> 01:35:23.880 just a second. I'll be right back. All right, We're 1623 01:35:23.920 --> 01:35:27.479 going to jump right back in here and continue our 1624 01:35:27.560 --> 01:35:30.840 conversation with chet Chet. You said you had ex salice, 1625 01:35:30.920 --> 01:35:34.319 and it's in It's in flower beds or lawns are everywhere. 1626 01:35:35.840 --> 01:35:37.479 It's mostly in the flower beds. 1627 01:35:38.239 --> 01:35:41.279 There's some in the lawn Okay. 1628 01:35:41.319 --> 01:35:43.039 Well, I got quite a crop of it in the 1629 01:35:43.119 --> 01:35:43.840 flower beds. 1630 01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:52.520 Okay. Well. Mulching thick and continuously is important because it 1631 01:35:52.680 --> 01:35:56.560 blocks the sunlight from hitting the soil and the seeds 1632 01:35:56.560 --> 01:36:00.399 aren't able to establish well from that way. Now, the 1633 01:36:01.840 --> 01:36:04.880 challenge we have here is products maybe label for lawns 1634 01:36:04.880 --> 01:36:09.600 but not flower beds or vice versa. But what I 1635 01:36:09.600 --> 01:36:12.000 would say in terms of getting ahead of exalis, there's 1636 01:36:12.119 --> 01:36:15.760 three steps. Number One, keep the soil constantly mulched, so 1637 01:36:15.880 --> 01:36:20.119 if the seeds don't have a chance. Number Two, the 1638 01:36:20.239 --> 01:36:23.479 minute you see plants, treat them all right. Let me 1639 01:36:23.840 --> 01:36:27.880 actually number two would be a pre emergent herbicide. That 1640 01:36:28.000 --> 01:36:30.079 would be you know, in the lawn we put down 1641 01:36:30.119 --> 01:36:33.520 things like barricade and stuff. You're gonna probably have trouble 1642 01:36:33.600 --> 01:36:36.520 finding those labeled for flower beds. There are a few 1643 01:36:36.600 --> 01:36:38.760 on the market that are labeled for flower beds that 1644 01:36:38.800 --> 01:36:42.359 are a pre emergent and that will help prevent oxalas 1645 01:36:42.399 --> 01:36:45.840 from germinating. So multch a pre emergent herbicide is another option. 1646 01:36:46.319 --> 01:36:49.359 And then the third one is once they're up, don't 1647 01:36:49.399 --> 01:36:51.399 let them go to seed, because they go to seed 1648 01:36:51.520 --> 01:36:55.680 and their seed pods explode and throw those seeds long distances, 1649 01:36:56.359 --> 01:36:58.560 and so the when they come up, you have to 1650 01:36:58.640 --> 01:37:01.000 use a post emergent prop on them. And what I 1651 01:37:01.039 --> 01:37:03.960 would recommend you do is get you a product that's 1652 01:37:04.039 --> 01:37:07.720 labeled for post emergent broad leaf weed control. This will 1653 01:37:07.760 --> 01:37:10.720 be a liquid that you mix up. UH And for 1654 01:37:10.880 --> 01:37:14.039 a liquid that you mix up, you want to apply 1655 01:37:14.159 --> 01:37:16.159 it with my weed wiper. If you go to my 1656 01:37:16.239 --> 01:37:22.560 website gardening with Skip dot com, the weed wiper is 1657 01:37:22.640 --> 01:37:24.560 on there. It shows you how to build one, and 1658 01:37:24.680 --> 01:37:26.760 it shows you products and things that you can put 1659 01:37:26.840 --> 01:37:28.800 on the weed wiper. Sponges on the end of a 1660 01:37:28.880 --> 01:37:32.359 stick is what it amounts to. And once you see oxalis, 1661 01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:34.520 just every time you see it, go out on Saturday 1662 01:37:34.560 --> 01:37:36.600 morning with one of those weed wiper tools. There are 1663 01:37:36.640 --> 01:37:38.800 long enough where you don't have to stoop over. Just 1664 01:37:39.119 --> 01:37:43.439 just wipe, wipe that weed leaf with a sponge and 1665 01:37:43.720 --> 01:37:45.720 never let it go to seed, and you can win 1666 01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:48.479 that war. Those those steps are all part of a 1667 01:37:48.600 --> 01:37:50.960 comprehensive program to get ahead of Oxalis. 1668 01:37:52.199 --> 01:37:54.399 Excellent, Thank you so much for you all. 1669 01:37:54.319 --> 01:37:58.000 Right, yes, sir, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. 1670 01:37:58.640 --> 01:37:58.720 Uh. 1671 01:37:58.880 --> 01:38:02.680 Southwest Fertilizer has been a Houston lawn and garden tradition 1672 01:38:02.880 --> 01:38:07.279 since nineteen fifty five. They're celebrating their seventieth year anniversary. 1673 01:38:07.399 --> 01:38:10.880 So happy anniversary there, Bob and all the folks a 1674 01:38:10.960 --> 01:38:13.960 Southwest Fertilizer. If you hear me talk about a product, 1675 01:38:14.199 --> 01:38:18.760 I promise you it's in Southwest Fertilizer. Everything everything you 1676 01:38:18.880 --> 01:38:21.600 need is there. If they don't have something, you don't 1677 01:38:21.640 --> 01:38:24.600 need it, I really mean that there's not some product 1678 01:38:24.640 --> 01:38:26.319 out there that I have to send you somewhere else. 1679 01:38:26.399 --> 01:38:32.319 For Southwest Fertilizer has them all fertilizers, weed control, insect control, 1680 01:38:32.479 --> 01:38:38.079 herb fungicides for disease control and synthetic and organic. They 1681 01:38:38.119 --> 01:38:40.840 have the largest organic selection in the Greater Houston area. 1682 01:38:41.239 --> 01:38:43.920 They have a ninety foot wall of tools with quality brands, 1683 01:38:44.000 --> 01:38:46.800 not the junk you use for a while, get frustrated 1684 01:38:46.840 --> 01:38:48.960 and throw it in the trash. We're talking about quality 1685 01:38:49.039 --> 01:38:52.159 brands like Felco and Corona and more. It's all there 1686 01:38:52.399 --> 01:38:57.439 Southwest Fertilizer corner of this nuton Rnwick Southwest Fertilizer dot com. 1687 01:38:57.680 --> 01:38:59.520 You need to give them a call seven to one 1688 01:38:59.560 --> 01:39:04.560 to three six six six one seven four four. Let's 1689 01:39:04.560 --> 01:39:06.560 set out to Tombull. Now we're going to talk to 1690 01:39:06.680 --> 01:39:10.680 Robin Illo. Robin more to skip as. 1691 01:39:10.680 --> 01:39:12.880 I had a question about using the planners makes you'd 1692 01:39:12.920 --> 01:39:14.039 find the landscaping yard. 1693 01:39:14.359 --> 01:39:15.920 Can you use that for a vegetable garden? 1694 01:39:18.680 --> 01:39:22.600 Well, you know that saying planners mix and a landscaping 1695 01:39:22.640 --> 01:39:25.159 yard could be a lot of different products with a 1696 01:39:25.319 --> 01:39:28.640 lot of different characteristics. So in a vegetable garden, you 1697 01:39:28.760 --> 01:39:31.800 want to use something that's that's pretty well screened so 1698 01:39:31.880 --> 01:39:34.319 you don't have any chunkiness to it. So the same 1699 01:39:34.359 --> 01:39:37.479 would be true of something you find in a yard. Now, 1700 01:39:37.520 --> 01:39:39.800 you can you know up in the Tombole area. There 1701 01:39:39.920 --> 01:39:43.760 you can get the veggie and herb mix that Airloom 1702 01:39:43.800 --> 01:39:46.000 Sols produces by the bag. You have them to deliver 1703 01:39:46.119 --> 01:39:48.560 it too to the driveway, or you can go out 1704 01:39:48.600 --> 01:39:51.079 there to porter and go get it. Either way you 1705 01:39:51.159 --> 01:39:56.800 want to go. Also, Arborgate sells their soil and their 1706 01:39:56.880 --> 01:40:00.520 compost mixes by the bulk, so if you need a quantity, 1707 01:40:01.159 --> 01:40:04.239 you ought to call them over at Arburgate and you know, 1708 01:40:04.880 --> 01:40:07.079 say you hurt on guardline. They sell by the bulk 1709 01:40:07.399 --> 01:40:10.840 because they had their one two three system also available 1710 01:40:10.960 --> 01:40:13.039 not just bag, but by the bulk, and that would 1711 01:40:13.039 --> 01:40:15.119 be another great way to go. And it's very close 1712 01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:17.640 to you there, so that would be good, all right, 1713 01:40:17.640 --> 01:40:21.319 a good deal. I thank you sir, all right, thank you. 1714 01:40:21.439 --> 01:40:26.880 I appreciate your call. You hurt, you bet. Yeah, it's 1715 01:40:26.920 --> 01:40:29.920 something people didn't know probably about Arbrogate. You know that 1716 01:40:30.399 --> 01:40:33.079 Arbrogate's the it's the plant place. I mean, everybody knows. 1717 01:40:33.159 --> 01:40:36.479 You want cool season collar vegetables, herbs. You want beautiful 1718 01:40:36.560 --> 01:40:40.880 shrubs like roses and camellias and deciduous magnolias. Do you 1719 01:40:40.960 --> 01:40:44.720 want fruit? They carry fruit year round, fruit trees, berries, grapes, 1720 01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:47.800 they're a mile and a half west of two forty 1721 01:40:47.920 --> 01:40:50.520 nine on twenty nine to twenty in Tombol for those 1722 01:40:50.560 --> 01:40:52.960 of you who are listening to me, had this conversation 1723 01:40:53.119 --> 01:40:55.319 with Robin and talking about Arburgate. Where is it? Well, 1724 01:40:55.960 --> 01:40:58.199 that's where it is. Pretty much. Ever gardener it's been 1725 01:40:58.239 --> 01:41:01.039 around here for a while knows about Arburgate. And that 1726 01:41:01.119 --> 01:41:04.399 one two three system is three bags. It's an organic 1727 01:41:04.479 --> 01:41:09.600 food complete on organic food complete, and it's complete. Food's 1728 01:41:09.600 --> 01:41:12.199 got even got calcium in it as well, which is important. 1729 01:41:12.560 --> 01:41:15.560 It's they have an organic soil complete, and that's kind 1730 01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:17.239 of what I was talking about there. And then the 1731 01:41:17.399 --> 01:41:20.880 organic compost complete. The combination of the soil and the 1732 01:41:20.960 --> 01:41:24.560 compost mixed together and very very rich, and the soil 1733 01:41:24.600 --> 01:41:29.079 itself is just fine to grow directly into. Love going 1734 01:41:29.119 --> 01:41:31.640 to Arburgate. I promise you this when you go in, 1735 01:41:32.119 --> 01:41:35.800 allow yourself some time, because there is an endless supply 1736 01:41:35.920 --> 01:41:38.640 of plants to see. And that's the kind of place 1737 01:41:38.680 --> 01:41:41.399 where you go into your shopping and they just say, well, 1738 01:41:41.439 --> 01:41:43.439 come with me, and they walk with you, you know, 1739 01:41:43.560 --> 01:41:45.319 and like, well let me show you this plan. Well, 1740 01:41:45.399 --> 01:41:47.000 let me show you this plan over here, and they're 1741 01:41:47.039 --> 01:41:52.239 answering your questions, and it's it's like a concierge for 1742 01:41:52.399 --> 01:41:55.600 the garden center that's helping. But concierges don't get up 1743 01:41:55.600 --> 01:41:57.840 from the desk to walk with you. That is how 1744 01:41:57.920 --> 01:42:01.640 it is at Arborgate. That is what we call a 1745 01:42:01.880 --> 01:42:06.239 full service garden center that knows our area, that sells 1746 01:42:06.279 --> 01:42:08.920 your plants that grow here, and that no matter what's 1747 01:42:08.960 --> 01:42:11.479 going on in your yard, you can go in there 1748 01:42:11.600 --> 01:42:18.560 and get help, professional, professional, accurate help at the Arbor Gate. Now, 1749 01:42:18.680 --> 01:42:20.680 remember when you go out there, it's on twenty nine 1750 01:42:20.720 --> 01:42:23.239 to twenty west to Tombul. You want to take Treisher 1751 01:42:23.359 --> 01:42:25.760 Road around the back to park in their parking lot 1752 01:42:25.960 --> 01:42:29.159 in the back because that is the safest, easiest access. 1753 01:42:29.359 --> 01:42:33.800 It is really really nice. I love that new edition, 1754 01:42:34.359 --> 01:42:39.159 fairly new edition that they put in there. Where are 1755 01:42:39.239 --> 01:42:39.880 we on time? 1756 01:42:40.039 --> 01:42:40.199 Now? 1757 01:42:40.199 --> 01:42:41.680 I got a little bit more time here. We can 1758 01:42:41.760 --> 01:42:45.680 talk some more. Today. The clock is just racing on me, 1759 01:42:45.800 --> 01:42:49.159 so I'm having trouble keeping track of where we are. 1760 01:42:49.760 --> 01:42:53.720 Do you have some old furniture metal furniture out there 1761 01:42:54.439 --> 01:42:57.159 that is just not looking so good. Maybe it's rusty, 1762 01:42:57.279 --> 01:43:00.159 maybe the pain is chipping off, Maybe the bolt and 1763 01:43:00.279 --> 01:43:04.039 things holding it together. Rusty Houston Powder Coats can make 1764 01:43:04.119 --> 01:43:07.159 it better than new. I mean they really really can. 1765 01:43:07.439 --> 01:43:12.479 Forget painting it. Call Houston Powder Coats and ask them 1766 01:43:12.720 --> 01:43:15.439 about getting a quote for your furniture. It may be 1767 01:43:15.560 --> 01:43:17.479 cast iron, it may be wrought iron. It may be 1768 01:43:17.600 --> 01:43:21.119 the aluminum patio furniture. It may be a little light 1769 01:43:21.239 --> 01:43:23.680 pole out in the front yard in the garden, you know, 1770 01:43:23.760 --> 01:43:26.119 in the yard. It may be like, oh, I don't know, 1771 01:43:26.239 --> 01:43:29.720 something like a rail along a porch that's a metal rail. 1772 01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:31.840 It doesn't matter what it is. If it's metal, they're 1773 01:43:31.840 --> 01:43:33.560 gonna put a coating on it and they're gonna make 1774 01:43:33.600 --> 01:43:37.479 it like new. They have over one hundred colors that 1775 01:43:37.600 --> 01:43:39.760 you can choose from. So if you like the old 1776 01:43:39.800 --> 01:43:42.920 rusty look but you don't want it rusting, well, you 1777 01:43:42.920 --> 01:43:45.119 can put a color that looks like that on it 1778 01:43:45.479 --> 01:43:48.680 and it's good to go. They replace the hardware on it, 1779 01:43:48.840 --> 01:43:50.800 things you know with the little nuts and bolts with 1780 01:43:50.920 --> 01:43:55.000 stainless steel, replace the plastic feed and endcaps. I'm talking 1781 01:43:55.039 --> 01:43:58.479 about making it like new. Now here's where you'd have 1782 01:43:58.560 --> 01:44:01.119 a pen when you listen to garden. So I'm about 1783 01:44:01.119 --> 01:44:03.600 to give you something you need to write down sales 1784 01:44:04.079 --> 01:44:10.119 at houstoncoders dot com. Sales at houstoncoders dot com, Take 1785 01:44:10.159 --> 01:44:12.640 a picture, send it to them. They'll give you a quote, 1786 01:44:12.720 --> 01:44:16.319 quote on what it takes that they offer free pickup 1787 01:44:16.359 --> 01:44:18.760 and delivery in the greater Houston area. Also, I mean, 1788 01:44:18.800 --> 01:44:22.960 what else can you want? Houston Powdercoders dot com, Houston 1789 01:44:23.039 --> 01:44:29.000 powder Cooders dot com. I'm I follow them on social 1790 01:44:29.119 --> 01:44:32.039 media and looking at the kind of work that they do. 1791 01:44:32.279 --> 01:44:35.399 I was in their shop not too long ago, just 1792 01:44:35.600 --> 01:44:38.039 looking at everything. I mean, they can powder coat anything. 1793 01:44:38.119 --> 01:44:40.520 You got a Gooseeneck trailer, they got a bend big 1794 01:44:40.640 --> 01:44:43.199 enough to pull it in and put a coating on it. 1795 01:44:43.520 --> 01:44:47.640 I mean, it's seriously, give them a try, give them 1796 01:44:47.640 --> 01:44:50.079 a try, get get a quote from him. You will 1797 01:44:50.119 --> 01:44:53.880 be very impressed. A while back, I was visiting with 1798 01:44:54.039 --> 01:44:57.720 Danny out at Enchanted Forest. In fact, I should say 1799 01:44:57.800 --> 01:45:01.399 Danny's there's two Dannis there. There's Danny Landerman, the guy 1800 01:45:01.439 --> 01:45:04.720 that owns it, you know, and Danny is he's a hoot. 1801 01:45:04.840 --> 01:45:09.119 I always like going out and visiting with him. But anyway, 1802 01:45:09.840 --> 01:45:12.399 when you go out to Enchanted Forest, you are going 1803 01:45:12.479 --> 01:45:15.439 to find really quality help. You may get to meet 1804 01:45:15.560 --> 01:45:18.119 Danny Millican. He's the new manager for growth out there 1805 01:45:18.359 --> 01:45:21.680 at Enchanted Forest, and they can take you around. They'll 1806 01:45:21.720 --> 01:45:24.039 show you everything they have. They've got citrus, they've got 1807 01:45:24.079 --> 01:45:29.079 other kinds of fruit trees, excellent selection of herbs and 1808 01:45:29.319 --> 01:45:32.159 vegetables too. By the way, the flowers are wonderful. You know, 1809 01:45:32.199 --> 01:45:34.399 when I think of Enchanted Forest, I always think about 1810 01:45:34.560 --> 01:45:37.520 pollinator plants because they have so many of those, and 1811 01:45:37.640 --> 01:45:41.359 they even have plants that are butterfly larval food sources. 1812 01:45:41.439 --> 01:45:45.399 You know how milkweed attracts monarch butterflies in attract by 1813 01:45:45.439 --> 01:45:49.720 feeding the larva. You'll get that as you get into summer, 1814 01:45:49.920 --> 01:45:51.960 you'll leave and see plants with the larva on them. 1815 01:45:52.039 --> 01:45:54.279 So it's like getting a sour dough starter. You get 1816 01:45:54.319 --> 01:45:56.119 to take the plant home. If you want the caterpillar, 1817 01:45:56.199 --> 01:45:58.239 you get to keep it, no extra charge, and you 1818 01:45:58.359 --> 01:46:03.560 got your own start on a butterfly garden. Enchanted Forest 1819 01:46:03.960 --> 01:46:08.199 is on FM twenty seven fifty nine on twenty seven 1820 01:46:08.600 --> 01:46:12.399 fifty nine, and that is if you're in Richmond Rosenberg 1821 01:46:12.479 --> 01:46:16.600 heading up toward Katie Sugarland or towards Sugarland excuse me direction, 1822 01:46:17.119 --> 01:46:19.479 it's off to the right on FM twenty seven fifty 1823 01:46:19.560 --> 01:46:26.680 nine Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com Enchanted Forest, Richmond, 1824 01:46:27.119 --> 01:46:31.479 TX dot com. Of course, you know when you're there, 1825 01:46:31.520 --> 01:46:33.920 you're always going to find things like the tools and 1826 01:46:34.000 --> 01:46:36.399 the fertilizers. They have a great selection of all that 1827 01:46:36.520 --> 01:46:39.520 kind of stuff. And again, this is this is the 1828 01:46:39.640 --> 01:46:41.880 kind of mom and popgarden center you want to go 1829 01:46:42.079 --> 01:46:46.039 visit because the staff is friendly and it knows they 1830 01:46:46.119 --> 01:46:48.520 know what they're talking about. I've been to a lot 1831 01:46:48.600 --> 01:46:50.079 of places and I don't have to sit there and 1832 01:46:50.199 --> 01:46:54.159 diss companies. But some people sell things other than plants, 1833 01:46:54.520 --> 01:46:59.800 and like lumber for example. Maybe. And that doesn't mean 1834 01:46:59.880 --> 01:47:03.840 that they necessarily have qualified people working in the garden center, 1835 01:47:04.000 --> 01:47:06.840 you know, but you want a place that has people 1836 01:47:07.399 --> 01:47:09.560 that know their plants, that you can even bring a 1837 01:47:09.640 --> 01:47:12.199 problem in like a picture or a sample. Channet Forest 1838 01:47:12.279 --> 01:47:14.079 is that kind of place. They're going to be able 1839 01:47:14.079 --> 01:47:16.800 to help you. They've got the knowledge to help you 1840 01:47:16.960 --> 01:47:20.319 have success, and that is what it's all about. Plus 1841 01:47:20.399 --> 01:47:22.960 it's just a fun place to shop. I love the scene. 1842 01:47:23.359 --> 01:47:25.239 You know, when we're going to get into summer heat 1843 01:47:25.279 --> 01:47:27.720 here at some point, they've got these big beautiful shade 1844 01:47:27.760 --> 01:47:30.439 trees that even in hot weather, it's just a pleasure 1845 01:47:30.880 --> 01:47:32.960 to go out there and wander around and do your 1846 01:47:33.000 --> 01:47:36.800 shopping anyway, and Chennet Forest, I don't know what else 1847 01:47:36.840 --> 01:47:39.199 to tell you, but it's a place that you will 1848 01:47:39.399 --> 01:47:41.079 like if you haven't been there before, and if you have, 1849 01:47:41.239 --> 01:47:46.119 you already know what I'm talking about. In Richmond, if 1850 01:47:46.199 --> 01:47:48.319 you're trying to pot up some plants, and boy I 1851 01:47:48.520 --> 01:47:53.079 was doing that just the other day. Jungle land from 1852 01:47:53.159 --> 01:47:57.039 nitrophoss has. There are two versions of jungle land that 1853 01:47:57.199 --> 01:48:00.840 are made for plants and containers. The outdoor version is 1854 01:48:00.880 --> 01:48:04.680 called jungle Land Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil jungle nd 1855 01:48:04.760 --> 01:48:08.680 Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil. It works, It drains well, 1856 01:48:09.159 --> 01:48:12.640 it holds moisture, but he can both be true. Well, 1857 01:48:12.880 --> 01:48:16.880 it holds moisture, but it doesn't keep its soggy saturated. 1858 01:48:16.960 --> 01:48:20.920 It drains away, which is exactly what a quality potting 1859 01:48:21.039 --> 01:48:23.920 soil should do. Indoors, there's a jungle land water saving 1860 01:48:23.960 --> 01:48:26.960 potting soil. Why is it water saving because it has 1861 01:48:27.039 --> 01:48:29.920 crystals that soak up water and hold onto that water. 1862 01:48:30.439 --> 01:48:32.760 So even if the soil starts to get a little dry, 1863 01:48:33.199 --> 01:48:36.119 the roots can get some moisture from those crystals, so 1864 01:48:36.199 --> 01:48:40.399 it gives you a little extra leeway when it comes 1865 01:48:40.560 --> 01:48:44.840 to watering your plants. Jungle land products like nitroposs available 1866 01:48:44.840 --> 01:48:46.359 in a lot of different places. You're going to find 1867 01:48:46.439 --> 01:48:50.319 nitrofoss products at ACE and Single Ranch Aspas Ace Up 1868 01:48:50.359 --> 01:48:53.039 in the woodlands. You're going to find it at the 1869 01:48:53.560 --> 01:48:56.119 excuse me, the M and D up in Cyprus, the 1870 01:48:56.239 --> 01:48:59.039 D and D and Top Feed and tombaal the M 1871 01:48:59.079 --> 01:49:02.960 and D Beamer Sagemont, or excuse me on Beamer Street 1872 01:49:03.000 --> 01:49:05.439 in Sagemont, the Clear Lake Store of M and D 1873 01:49:05.680 --> 01:49:08.840 on Bay Area Boulevard, and then at Brenham Plants and 1874 01:49:08.960 --> 01:49:14.159 Things another place where they carry nitrophoss products. So I 1875 01:49:14.239 --> 01:49:17.319 always say they're easy to find because they're everywhere. It 1876 01:49:17.479 --> 01:49:21.439 works for sure. I'm gonna take a little break here 1877 01:49:21.560 --> 01:49:23.600 in just a second. I just want to remind you 1878 01:49:23.640 --> 01:49:25.800 I'm going to be at Hoges Hidden Gardens today from 1879 01:49:25.960 --> 01:49:27.840 one to three, so I hope you'll come out and 1880 01:49:27.880 --> 01:49:31.079 see me. It's done in Alvin, Texas, just from Alvin 1881 01:49:31.119 --> 01:49:33.960 Head south towards Santa Fe about halfway and it's off 1882 01:49:34.000 --> 01:49:36.319 to the right Horges Hidden Gardens and we got some 1883 01:49:36.439 --> 01:49:42.640 great giveaways. Hi, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. 1884 01:49:43.720 --> 01:49:47.439 If you want to have success with plants, the formula 1885 01:49:47.720 --> 01:49:50.560 I always apout out here on garden Line is brown 1886 01:49:50.640 --> 01:49:54.119 stuff before green stuff, meaning you get the soil right, 1887 01:49:54.479 --> 01:49:57.640 get the soil right, and then you put that plant 1888 01:49:57.680 --> 01:49:59.560 in the ground, and it's gonna, as we say, hit 1889 01:49:59.600 --> 01:50:02.039 the ground running. It's going to be ready to go 1890 01:50:02.279 --> 01:50:08.000 because its foundation is setting it up for success. And 1891 01:50:08.159 --> 01:50:13.960 heirloom soils is all about creating successful foundations. So here's 1892 01:50:14.000 --> 01:50:16.439 what I mean. Do you want to grow veggie nerve, 1893 01:50:16.560 --> 01:50:19.439 get their veggiine nerve mixed. Do you want to grow roses, 1894 01:50:19.560 --> 01:50:22.000 get their rose soil. Do you want to grow things 1895 01:50:22.119 --> 01:50:24.720 that are fruit trees for example, or things that are 1896 01:50:24.800 --> 01:50:28.079 acidic like azelas and blueberries. They have mixes for all 1897 01:50:28.119 --> 01:50:31.479 of that. You can buy leaf more composts that's super 1898 01:50:31.560 --> 01:50:34.319 high quality stuff for top dressing lawns. You can buy 1899 01:50:34.359 --> 01:50:36.800 that from them. You can get there's a lot of 1900 01:50:36.840 --> 01:50:39.520 ways to get heirloom soils wherever you live. You can 1901 01:50:39.800 --> 01:50:41.680 go to the store and buy it by the bag. 1902 01:50:41.840 --> 01:50:45.319 A lot of our Garden Center supporters and places like 1903 01:50:45.600 --> 01:50:49.640 Ace hardware stores, speed stores. You know there's places at 1904 01:50:49.680 --> 01:50:52.920 carry heirloom soils by the back. You can go out 1905 01:50:53.000 --> 01:50:55.199 to porter and you can pick it up bulk, either 1906 01:50:55.319 --> 01:50:57.159 a bulk in a trailer, or you can have them 1907 01:50:57.239 --> 01:51:01.439 set a supersack, which is a cubeard of mix in 1908 01:51:01.520 --> 01:51:03.640 a sack. They just set it right down in your 1909 01:51:03.760 --> 01:51:07.560 vehicle there. Or you can have them deliver either way 1910 01:51:07.880 --> 01:51:10.159 to your house. Whichever way you want to go about it, 1911 01:51:10.640 --> 01:51:13.720 just get it and get the soil right before you plant. 1912 01:51:13.760 --> 01:51:16.840 If you're going to put in a garden, first thing 1913 01:51:17.279 --> 01:51:19.600 most important is get that soil ready. If you're going 1914 01:51:19.640 --> 01:51:23.079 to put in flower beds or anything like that, heirloom 1915 01:51:23.159 --> 01:51:26.119 soils it's as simple as that. If you're interested in 1916 01:51:26.279 --> 01:51:28.960 looking into a delivery, just give them a call to 1917 01:51:29.079 --> 01:51:32.760 eight one three five four nineteen fifty two eight one 1918 01:51:32.840 --> 01:51:36.119 three five four nineteen fifty or you can go to 1919 01:51:36.199 --> 01:51:38.880 the website if you like to use the website do 1920 01:51:39.239 --> 01:51:42.039 I would just pretty much do everything by the website 1921 01:51:42.079 --> 01:51:45.640 if you're up to me well anyway. Heirloomssoils dot com 1922 01:51:45.880 --> 01:51:49.279 airloomsoils dot com. They have a cool soil calculator where 1923 01:51:49.319 --> 01:51:52.399 you can figure out exactly how much soil you need 1924 01:51:53.000 --> 01:51:56.319 to cover whatever area that you need, and you'll see 1925 01:51:56.359 --> 01:51:59.239 all the soils that they have there at Heirlooms Soils. 1926 01:52:01.680 --> 01:52:04.680 I'm going to head out now to talk to Jay. Jay. 1927 01:52:04.720 --> 01:52:07.039 Are you in Missouri City? Are you in the state 1928 01:52:07.079 --> 01:52:07.560 of Missouri? 1929 01:52:08.680 --> 01:52:08.720 No? 1930 01:52:08.880 --> 01:52:09.960 No, I'm in Missouri City. 1931 01:52:11.000 --> 01:52:11.199 Yeah. 1932 01:52:11.279 --> 01:52:14.560 I kind of a quick question about front trees that 1933 01:52:15.159 --> 01:52:16.920 my wife and I we were trying to plant on 1934 01:52:17.079 --> 01:52:21.600 our in our house. And so she was just debating 1935 01:52:21.720 --> 01:52:30.399 between Texas mountain laurels, Japanese blueberries or redbuds, or also 1936 01:52:30.560 --> 01:52:33.399 Mexican wild olives. So she had narrowed it down to four. 1937 01:52:33.920 --> 01:52:35.880 We were looking for something that's going to get I mean, 1938 01:52:35.920 --> 01:52:37.520 it's going to be in a place that's exposed to 1939 01:52:37.600 --> 01:52:39.680 a lot of sunshine and heat in the front yard. 1940 01:52:40.159 --> 01:52:42.800 We didn't want it to get super super tall, but we're, 1941 01:52:43.399 --> 01:52:49.000 you know, trying to plant something that's low maintenance, will 1942 01:52:49.119 --> 01:52:52.640 last pretty much forever, as you know, will handle the 1943 01:52:52.840 --> 01:52:54.880 freezes and the heat. And so I just wanted to 1944 01:52:54.960 --> 01:52:58.439 take get your take on those four in which one 1945 01:52:58.520 --> 01:52:59.840 you would prioritize if it. 1946 01:52:59.920 --> 01:53:04.119 Was all right, Well, Jay, plants, like people have their 1947 01:53:04.199 --> 01:53:08.800 pluses and minuses. So there's good points and bad points 1948 01:53:08.840 --> 01:53:10.920 about all of us. Now let me tell you about 1949 01:53:10.920 --> 01:53:13.600 those plants. First of all, I wouldn't plant Japanese blueberry. 1950 01:53:13.720 --> 01:53:16.640 It's a fine plant, but it's so prone to certain 1951 01:53:16.720 --> 01:53:18.760 kinds of pest problems. It's a little bit on the 1952 01:53:18.800 --> 01:53:22.840 coal tender side. Those are the two drawbacks that I 1953 01:53:23.039 --> 01:53:24.760 think you're not going to be as happy with that. 1954 01:53:25.840 --> 01:53:29.720 Speaking on the coal tender side, the Mexican olive is 1955 01:53:29.840 --> 01:53:32.600 on the cold tender side. I love the plant, it's 1956 01:53:32.720 --> 01:53:36.960 beautiful blooms. The drawbacks of Mexican olive are that it 1957 01:53:37.039 --> 01:53:39.479 can be a little messy when it drops it, you know, 1958 01:53:39.640 --> 01:53:43.279 the bloom fruit types of things. And it's also when 1959 01:53:43.319 --> 01:53:44.960 we have a good hard cold, it's going to kill 1960 01:53:45.000 --> 01:53:48.000 it back a good hard cold. That doesn't happen every year, 1961 01:53:48.079 --> 01:53:52.479 but that can happen. So see Texas Mountain Moral. It's tough. 1962 01:53:52.680 --> 01:53:56.640 It's drawback is don't let its feet stay soggy. If 1963 01:53:57.359 --> 01:53:59.880 drainage is it all in question, put it on a 1964 01:54:00.119 --> 01:54:03.560 raised mound, a nice large like a pitcher's mound, very large, 1965 01:54:03.640 --> 01:54:06.960 raised up to get good drainage. Because it's a good, 1966 01:54:07.000 --> 01:54:09.720 tough plant. The other drawback for Texas Mountain Oral is 1967 01:54:09.760 --> 01:54:13.520 it grows really slow. It's a very slow grower. And 1968 01:54:13.760 --> 01:54:18.119 what was the other one I think that didn't you 1969 01:54:19.199 --> 01:54:22.239 Red bud? Yeah, red bud is fine. It does best 1970 01:54:22.439 --> 01:54:26.920 as an understory where you get its morning sun is 1971 01:54:27.000 --> 01:54:29.319 shining on it, but late in the day it is 1972 01:54:29.760 --> 01:54:32.000 it is a little bit of a break from the 1973 01:54:32.079 --> 01:54:34.720 heat of the sun. You'll see red buds in full sun, 1974 01:54:34.800 --> 01:54:37.119 but they prefer to be an understory. There is one 1975 01:54:37.239 --> 01:54:41.119 red bud called the Texas red bud, and you know 1976 01:54:41.279 --> 01:54:44.720 it because the leaves aren't that pointed heart shape with 1977 01:54:44.800 --> 01:54:47.159 a point on the bottom. They're more rounded, and they're 1978 01:54:47.199 --> 01:54:51.000 more shiny, and they're more leathery, they're thicker. And if 1979 01:54:51.000 --> 01:54:55.199 you can find the Texas red bud, that would be 1980 01:54:55.640 --> 01:54:57.399 the red bud I think because it sounds like this 1981 01:54:57.600 --> 01:55:02.680 is going to be out in the full sun. Correct. Okay, Yeah, 1982 01:55:03.720 --> 01:55:05.840 so those are those I don't know. 1983 01:55:06.399 --> 01:55:06.600 Yeah. 1984 01:55:06.880 --> 01:55:09.239 Another good one I didn't see on your list is 1985 01:55:10.880 --> 01:55:15.760 Chinese fringe tree. Chinese fringe tree. It has shaggy white blooms. 1986 01:55:16.680 --> 01:55:23.079 Shaggy white blooms and in the spring only they have 1987 01:55:23.159 --> 01:55:26.319 a nice light fragrance to them, and so you might 1988 01:55:26.439 --> 01:55:29.159 wanna you may want to try that one. It's one 1989 01:55:29.199 --> 01:55:33.840 of my favorite spring blooming shrubs. So by the way, 1990 01:55:34.119 --> 01:55:39.359 I'm oh, yeah, yeah, it needs to be in as 1991 01:55:39.439 --> 01:55:41.760 much sun as you can give it. That that is 1992 01:55:41.840 --> 01:55:45.359 the case. So hey, let me uh, I'm gonna be 1993 01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:47.880 down at Jorge sid And Gardens, which is in between 1994 01:55:48.039 --> 01:55:51.000 Alvin and Santa Fe and that's just down Highway six 1995 01:55:51.119 --> 01:55:52.720 and he has them down there if you like to 1996 01:55:52.760 --> 01:55:54.600 come down, and I'd love to, you know, see if 1997 01:55:54.640 --> 01:55:56.840 you got any other questions, come on out. We'll be 1998 01:55:56.920 --> 01:56:00.439 doing some giveaways of fruit trees and fertilizers. But you 1999 01:56:00.520 --> 01:56:04.079 could actually see a Chinese friend. He carries those down 2000 01:56:04.159 --> 01:56:07.840 there at Horacehadden Gardens, so you kind of get an idea. Anyway, 2001 01:56:08.039 --> 01:56:11.359 get some time one to three today. All right, you 2002 01:56:11.439 --> 01:56:13.520 take care, good luck with your projects. 2003 01:56:14.159 --> 01:56:14.479 Thank you. 2004 01:56:15.279 --> 01:56:19.199 All right, all right, folks, here we go. Yeah, lots 2005 01:56:19.279 --> 01:56:22.960 going on today. Yeah, I'm going to be given away. 2006 01:56:23.520 --> 01:56:25.000 Hara is going to be given away some of his 2007 01:56:25.119 --> 01:56:29.920 special blend fertilizers and he's got a real cool product 2008 01:56:30.000 --> 01:56:32.760 down there. I have some Nelson platfood products too that 2009 01:56:32.800 --> 01:56:34.439 I'm going to be given away to samples to people 2010 01:56:34.479 --> 01:56:37.920 that come out. He's given away five peach trees. That's 2011 01:56:38.840 --> 01:56:42.640 that's a lot. And so if you're thinking, I know, 2012 01:56:43.039 --> 01:56:45.079 id'd luck to have a peach tree, but you haven't 2013 01:56:45.079 --> 01:56:47.199 planned it one yet. All right, come on out, maybe 2014 01:56:47.239 --> 01:56:49.880 you'll win one. By the way, bring me samples in 2015 01:56:50.079 --> 01:56:54.399 bags of plants to identify, ror to diagnose, and bring 2016 01:56:54.520 --> 01:56:56.880 me pictures on your phone. Let's look at them. I'm 2017 01:56:56.960 --> 01:56:59.079 been down way south like that in a good while. 2018 01:56:59.319 --> 01:57:02.079 So all of you you down south of Houston area, 2019 01:57:02.479 --> 01:57:04.560 I hope you'll come on out. We would love to 2020 01:57:04.640 --> 01:57:06.560 visit with you. We're going to be close to all 2021 01:57:06.640 --> 01:57:10.000 you folks from sugar Land to Pearland and on south 2022 01:57:10.119 --> 01:57:12.039 nown for those of you be done. Someone asked the 2023 01:57:12.119 --> 01:57:14.399 other day, am I coming to Lake Jackson or Angleton 2024 01:57:14.520 --> 01:57:16.960 anytime soon? No, but this is about as close as 2025 01:57:17.000 --> 01:57:19.399 I'm going to get. So come on up and let's 2026 01:57:19.399 --> 01:57:22.079 have a good time this afternoon one to three at 2027 01:57:22.159 --> 01:57:27.239 Jorges Hidden Gardens. Night Fass Barricade is the go to 2028 01:57:27.439 --> 01:57:30.840 product for preventing weeds in your lawn. It works on 2029 01:57:31.000 --> 01:57:34.800 broad leaf weeds and grassy weeds. Most species of broad 2030 01:57:34.840 --> 01:57:37.359 leave and grassy are going to be stopped and prevented 2031 01:57:37.880 --> 01:57:40.920 by barricade. Now, barricade comes in a tempon bag. It 2032 01:57:41.000 --> 01:57:43.399 covers five thousand square feet, so that I'll ought to 2033 01:57:43.479 --> 01:57:45.920 tell you you're not using a lot. You don't need 2034 01:57:46.000 --> 01:57:48.439 a lot of it. You're putting it out in an 2035 01:57:48.560 --> 01:57:51.760 even application with your spreader and you're watering it in 2036 01:57:52.159 --> 01:57:54.479 and then when the weeds try to sprout, it's there 2037 01:57:54.800 --> 01:57:57.159 and the weeds are trying to sprout. So if you're 2038 01:57:57.199 --> 01:57:59.319 going to do a pre emergent, if you're going to 2039 01:57:59.399 --> 01:58:03.239 use the barricade, do it soon. I would say today 2040 01:58:03.319 --> 01:58:05.520 would be a good day to do it, but definitely 2041 01:58:05.560 --> 01:58:07.680 in the next week. Get that done. You're going to 2042 01:58:07.720 --> 01:58:10.680 find it, like other nitroposs products, in many places. You know, 2043 01:58:10.760 --> 01:58:13.000 you go to Plants for all seasons. On two forty nine, 2044 01:58:13.119 --> 01:58:15.520 you go to Ace Hardware City Up a Memorial Drive, 2045 01:58:16.399 --> 01:58:18.880 M and D Out in the Rosenberg area carries it 2046 01:58:18.920 --> 01:58:22.000 as well. Carries it as well. Court Hardware on South 2047 01:58:22.079 --> 01:58:25.079 Maine in Stafford. Another place that you're going to find 2048 01:58:25.760 --> 01:58:31.840 the product. Barricade good high quality product. The Antique Rose 2049 01:58:31.840 --> 01:58:34.760 Imporium is one of those places that you just have 2050 01:58:35.000 --> 01:58:37.760 to go and see to appreciate. They're up there north 2051 01:58:37.800 --> 01:58:42.000 of Brunham in Independence. Here's the website. Write this down 2052 01:58:42.159 --> 01:58:46.840 Antique Roseemporium dot com. They got their annual Spring celebration 2053 01:58:47.640 --> 01:58:51.239 that they just finished. It was awesome, very good. In fact, no, 2054 01:58:51.319 --> 01:58:54.760 I'm sorry. It's today and tomorrow annual Spring Celebration. They're 2055 01:58:54.800 --> 01:58:55.600 in the big middle of it. 2056 01:58:55.720 --> 01:58:56.039 Skid. 2057 01:58:56.359 --> 01:58:59.560 The kids Spring Break workshops from March tenth through thirteenth. 2058 01:59:00.119 --> 01:59:03.399 Children in the Garden program will be March nineteen and sixteen, 2059 01:59:03.479 --> 01:59:06.439 and the first two in April as well. Starts at 2060 01:59:06.479 --> 01:59:09.159 ten am. They have a free Ladybug release on March 2061 01:59:09.279 --> 01:59:11.920 twenty ninth at ten and again at two pm on 2062 01:59:11.960 --> 01:59:14.520 March twenty nine. How do you find out about these things? 2063 01:59:15.000 --> 01:59:18.640 Go to Antique Rosenporium dot com. They are roses, oh 2064 01:59:18.680 --> 01:59:20.920 my gosh, or they ever roses, but there's so much 2065 01:59:21.039 --> 01:59:25.199 more native plants, all kinds of other wonderful plants. It's 2066 01:59:25.239 --> 01:59:28.399 a great place to visit, and spring is the best 2067 01:59:28.520 --> 01:59:31.279 time to go to the antique rosing. For him, it's 2068 01:59:31.359 --> 01:59:33.840 just gorgeous out there. Time for me to take a 2069 01:59:33.920 --> 01:59:38.960 quick break. I'll be right back. Hey, welcome back. To 2070 01:59:39.000 --> 01:59:42.600 the guarden line. Good to have you with us today, listen. 2071 01:59:43.279 --> 01:59:48.600 I was just yesterday out filling a feeder that it 2072 01:59:48.600 --> 01:59:51.960 has picked up at wild Birds Unlimited. It is the 2073 01:59:52.560 --> 01:59:56.560 it's an eco feeder. It's basically made out of recycled 2074 01:59:56.600 --> 02:00:00.680 plastics and it's an excellent It's a hopper type type feeder, 2075 02:00:01.319 --> 02:00:03.560 meaning it's got a litt hinge lid. You lift it up, 2076 02:00:03.640 --> 02:00:06.359 you fill it up, you put it down. The lid 2077 02:00:06.479 --> 02:00:09.720 on this is extra wide so when it rains, like 2078 02:00:09.960 --> 02:00:12.479 unlike some feeders, you don't get so much rain in 2079 02:00:12.560 --> 02:00:14.960 there that's kind of messing up the bird seed sitting 2080 02:00:15.000 --> 02:00:17.439 down in the tray. It's got a little bit better protection. 2081 02:00:17.600 --> 02:00:19.880 I love the feeder. I love the fact that it's 2082 02:00:19.920 --> 02:00:23.520 a recycle plastic. Just really good and it's extremely durable. 2083 02:00:23.920 --> 02:00:26.039 You know, when you go to Wildbirds Unlimited, you're going 2084 02:00:26.079 --> 02:00:29.840 to find quality feeders. You know, hummingbird seasons coming, they've 2085 02:00:29.880 --> 02:00:33.000 got the hyperch feeder for that. I have my squirrel 2086 02:00:34.239 --> 02:00:36.600 feeder that I call it the squirrel feeder because it's 2087 02:00:36.720 --> 02:00:40.399 called the eliminator and it keeps the squirrels out. They 2088 02:00:40.520 --> 02:00:42.560 try to grab onto it and they can't get in it. 2089 02:00:42.720 --> 02:00:44.479 The little door shuts when they try to get on it. 2090 02:00:44.600 --> 02:00:46.960 I love that about it too. You know, they have 2091 02:00:47.119 --> 02:00:49.680 quality seed and right now is the time to do 2092 02:00:50.439 --> 02:00:54.720 nesting super Blend. Wildbird's unlimited nesting super blend. It's got 2093 02:00:54.800 --> 02:00:58.920 sunflower chips, peanuts, meal worms, bark, butter bitsa flower tree, nuts, 2094 02:00:59.359 --> 02:01:02.119 and cal which is important for the development not only 2095 02:01:02.159 --> 02:01:05.960 of the birds skeletal structure, but also eggshells. That's an 2096 02:01:06.000 --> 02:01:10.399 important part. And birds are nesting. Wild Birds Unlimited nesting 2097 02:01:10.520 --> 02:01:15.760 superven their super blend. There's five Wildbirds stores, excuse me five, 2098 02:01:16.039 --> 02:01:19.439 there's six Wildbird stores in the Greater Houston area, so 2099 02:01:19.479 --> 02:01:21.479 I don't care where you live. You and Clare Lake, 2100 02:01:21.560 --> 02:01:25.199 there's one there. Cypress, there's one there Houston on the 2101 02:01:25.680 --> 02:01:28.199 just south of central Houston on bel Air. There's one there, 2102 02:01:28.319 --> 02:01:32.279 Houston West on Memorial Drive. One there. Kingwood has the 2103 02:01:32.319 --> 02:01:35.880 Wildbirds Unlimited, and so does Pairland down on Broadway. It's 2104 02:01:36.000 --> 02:01:39.560 easy to find one near you go to WBU dot 2105 02:01:39.680 --> 02:01:44.800 com forward slash Houston. Let's go out now to Cypress 2106 02:01:44.920 --> 02:01:47.199 Ranch and we're going to talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin, 2107 02:01:47.359 --> 02:01:48.319 welcome to garden Line. 2108 02:01:49.439 --> 02:01:51.720 Yes, I'm here. I hope you can hear me. 2109 02:01:53.199 --> 02:01:59.920 I can, oh, okay, okay, yeah, I haven't really started 2110 02:02:00.199 --> 02:02:04.920 spring yard work and started today a little bit raking 2111 02:02:05.000 --> 02:02:07.279 up oak leaves from the curb. 2112 02:02:07.119 --> 02:02:12.600 And gutter area. Got a lot of erosion from unhealthy edges. 2113 02:02:14.960 --> 02:02:16.920 How can I help? How can I help today? 2114 02:02:17.000 --> 02:02:19.039 Kevin Well, I wanted. 2115 02:02:18.840 --> 02:02:21.439 To know if that if I should just you know, 2116 02:02:21.720 --> 02:02:25.199 throw those leaves and dirt and stuff back into the 2117 02:02:25.319 --> 02:02:28.680 yard and mow over it, or does that actually slow 2118 02:02:28.800 --> 02:02:34.279 down the the growth process or improve it of your lawn. 2119 02:02:35.439 --> 02:02:39.640 Yes? Yeah, if the if the amount of debris you 2120 02:02:39.760 --> 02:02:43.000 are mulching back into the lawn isn't too great, that's okay. 2121 02:02:43.119 --> 02:02:45.760 We return grass clippings for that. But when you're talking 2122 02:02:45.800 --> 02:02:48.800 about a bunch of dried leaves, are very slow to decompose, 2123 02:02:49.439 --> 02:02:52.399 so I would probably run over it, chop it up good, 2124 02:02:52.439 --> 02:02:54.479 and use it as a mult in your flower beds 2125 02:02:54.600 --> 02:02:57.720 or other places. A little bit of leaves is okay, 2126 02:02:57.960 --> 02:02:59.960 but you don't want to put too much because it'll 2127 02:03:00.000 --> 02:03:02.720 almost becomes like a thatch that's kind of slow to 2128 02:03:02.800 --> 02:03:05.239 decompose in there. So that would be the bottom line 2129 02:03:05.279 --> 02:03:05.439 on that. 2130 02:03:06.439 --> 02:03:08.800 Yeah, that's something that I heard. I don't really have 2131 02:03:08.960 --> 02:03:12.039 a good place for a large amount of composting and 2132 02:03:12.159 --> 02:03:16.319 stuff like that. So I've been, you know, throwing away 2133 02:03:16.359 --> 02:03:17.279 a lot of this stuff. 2134 02:03:18.960 --> 02:03:22.680 Well hang on to it, you use it as maltz. 2135 02:03:22.760 --> 02:03:25.319 But that that certainly would work, and just a little 2136 02:03:25.359 --> 02:03:27.279 bit is fine to mulch in if you've got a 2137 02:03:27.319 --> 02:03:30.640 good sharp mulching mower. Hey, I appreciate your call very much. 2138 02:03:31.159 --> 02:03:33.239 Thank you for calling in, and good luck getting that 2139 02:03:33.279 --> 02:03:34.560 place in tiptop shape. 2140 02:03:36.079 --> 02:03:36.439 Thank you. 2141 02:03:38.000 --> 02:03:41.319 You bet bye bye. Our phone number is seven one 2142 02:03:41.399 --> 02:03:44.359 three two one two k t R H. If you 2143 02:03:44.399 --> 02:03:46.960 want to give us a call and be up, probably 2144 02:03:47.199 --> 02:03:49.399 we'll pick you up. Maybe I call this hour, but 2145 02:03:49.520 --> 02:03:52.119 probably most likely though, you'll be first up next hour. 2146 02:03:52.680 --> 02:03:52.840 You know. 2147 02:03:52.960 --> 02:03:56.439 Hazemte is that micro nutrient product we keep talking about 2148 02:03:56.479 --> 02:04:00.439 here on garden Line. Azemte contains micro nutrients are also 2149 02:04:00.520 --> 02:04:03.479 called trace minerals that are essential for plant growth but 2150 02:04:03.640 --> 02:04:07.000 only needed in small quantities. You can go to asmite 2151 02:04:07.039 --> 02:04:10.640 Texas dot com and find out more. Pretty much everywhere 2152 02:04:10.640 --> 02:04:12.319 I go I see as m. You know our garden 2153 02:04:12.399 --> 02:04:16.039 centers we talked about on garden Line, the A hardware stores, 2154 02:04:16.720 --> 02:04:19.960 the feed stores, all kinds of places you're going to 2155 02:04:20.039 --> 02:04:24.880 find asamite available. It is something you it's on my schedule, 2156 02:04:25.159 --> 02:04:27.079 and you're gonna put it out once maybe twice a 2157 02:04:27.159 --> 02:04:30.359 year if you want to. But it's not in place 2158 02:04:30.399 --> 02:04:35.000 of fertilizers. It is separate from your normal lawn fertilizing. 2159 02:04:35.640 --> 02:04:38.439 It's a small particle, so don't mix it with fertilizer. 2160 02:04:38.479 --> 02:04:40.640 But put out your fertilizer and then put out the 2161 02:04:40.720 --> 02:04:44.880 asamite separately and you'll be good to go. That works really, 2162 02:04:44.960 --> 02:04:51.000 really well. I was telling you several couple of weeks now, 2163 02:04:51.039 --> 02:04:54.399 I've been talking about Pest Brothers. Pest Brothers is our 2164 02:04:55.720 --> 02:05:01.119 basically our pest control regional company that we talk about 2165 02:05:01.119 --> 02:05:03.199 here on Garden Line all the time. And by regional, 2166 02:05:03.279 --> 02:05:05.439 I mean if you live all the way out let's 2167 02:05:05.439 --> 02:05:08.640 say east in Baytown, if you're over in Katie on 2168 02:05:08.680 --> 02:05:10.840 the west side, or up to the woodlands really up 2169 02:05:10.920 --> 02:05:12.840 I forty five, or all the way down to Texas 2170 02:05:12.880 --> 02:05:15.359 City on the south end. They cover that whole area 2171 02:05:15.880 --> 02:05:19.279 and they do pest control of all types. Now they'll 2172 02:05:19.479 --> 02:05:23.119 I mean that means like four legged pests like rats 2173 02:05:23.239 --> 02:05:26.840 for example, and other issues that are on four legs. 2174 02:05:27.079 --> 02:05:30.000 Sometimes we do with Boston's and whatnot. They can handle 2175 02:05:30.039 --> 02:05:31.720 all that. They know how to deal with it. That 2176 02:05:31.840 --> 02:05:35.119 deals with the indoor pests like termites, Boy, that'll spoil 2177 02:05:35.199 --> 02:05:38.239 the show in your home. They have termite systems that 2178 02:05:38.359 --> 02:05:42.079 are very safe and very long lasting. So you know 2179 02:05:42.399 --> 02:05:44.960 you have the insurance, the peace of mind of good control. 2180 02:05:45.520 --> 02:05:48.039 The household pests like cockroaches. You know, if your mother 2181 02:05:48.079 --> 02:05:51.079 in law's coming over and the cockroaches are going to 2182 02:05:51.119 --> 02:05:53.640 scare it to death, just call pest Brothers. They'll take 2183 02:05:53.680 --> 02:05:56.479 care of it now if you want them. Well, I'm 2184 02:05:56.520 --> 02:05:59.199 not going to go there, never mind. If you have 2185 02:05:59.319 --> 02:06:01.159 fireheads and the yard, if you have to, I hope 2186 02:06:01.199 --> 02:06:03.520 my mother in law and listen into that fire ends 2187 02:06:03.560 --> 02:06:06.359 in the yard. Mosquitos in the yard. They know how 2188 02:06:06.399 --> 02:06:08.520 to control all of that. They got that really cool. 2189 02:06:08.880 --> 02:06:11.239 You need to call them and ask them to tell 2190 02:06:11.319 --> 02:06:15.880 you tell you about their mosquito bait bucket system. It 2191 02:06:16.079 --> 02:06:20.960 is really cool, extremely safe, way more effective than just 2192 02:06:21.079 --> 02:06:24.359 blasting pesticides all over the property trying to kill flying mosquitos. 2193 02:06:24.880 --> 02:06:27.079 Mosquito bait bucket. Just call them. Here's the number two 2194 02:06:27.119 --> 02:06:31.039 eight one two O six forty six seventy two eight 2195 02:06:31.119 --> 02:06:35.800 one two o six forty six seventy thepestbros dot com, 2196 02:06:36.199 --> 02:06:42.520 thepestbros dot Com. Let's see here, We're gonna go to 2197 02:06:44.439 --> 02:06:48.199 Cyprus and talk to Kevin. Hello, Kevin. We got just 2198 02:06:48.279 --> 02:06:49.840 a short time, but let's see if we can help you. 2199 02:06:51.439 --> 02:06:52.760 Oh you already help me? 2200 02:06:54.680 --> 02:06:58.039 Oh okay, I'm sorry, I all right, Sorry about that. 2201 02:06:58.119 --> 02:06:59.239 I pulled up the wrong one. 2202 02:06:59.720 --> 02:06:59.840 Uh. 2203 02:07:00.079 --> 02:07:03.680 Let's go to Jersey Village and talk to George. Yeah, 2204 02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:05.600 good morning, Hey George, welcome to garden line. 2205 02:07:06.520 --> 02:07:07.079 Yeah, thank you. 2206 02:07:07.279 --> 02:07:09.880 We got a Chinese tallow tree in the backyard and 2207 02:07:09.920 --> 02:07:12.199 my wife says, get rid of the roots, get rid 2208 02:07:12.239 --> 02:07:13.359 of the tree, or get rid of me. 2209 02:07:13.880 --> 02:07:16.560 So what can I do about that? 2210 02:07:16.720 --> 02:07:17.279 If anything? 2211 02:07:18.640 --> 02:07:20.960 Boy, the stakes are high on that one. George. Hey, 2212 02:07:21.359 --> 02:07:23.319 here's what you do. You go out there and you 2213 02:07:23.640 --> 02:07:27.199 and you cut it off, and immediately after you cut 2214 02:07:27.239 --> 02:07:31.239 it off, you want to dab a product containing triclop 2215 02:07:31.359 --> 02:07:34.000 heer on the cut. If you will go to my 2216 02:07:34.119 --> 02:07:38.680 website Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com. 2217 02:07:38.760 --> 02:07:41.640 That's my website. When you go on there, you want 2218 02:07:41.760 --> 02:07:44.840 to find the go to the publications and there is 2219 02:07:44.920 --> 02:07:48.600 a publication that I just recently rode called Controlling Woody 2220 02:07:48.680 --> 02:07:51.880 Weeds in the Landscaping Garden, and it tells you you 2221 02:07:52.000 --> 02:07:54.720 basically take straight tricle peer you put it in a 2222 02:07:54.760 --> 02:07:57.359 little pham brush with a little wooden handle, those old things, 2223 02:07:57.720 --> 02:08:00.000 and you dab it right on the fresh cut, especially 2224 02:08:00.279 --> 02:08:02.880 around the outside of that. If it's a larger tree, 2225 02:08:02.920 --> 02:08:04.960 around the outside of the trunk, that's all the living 2226 02:08:05.039 --> 02:08:08.319 tissues are dabit straight on there, and it will do 2227 02:08:08.399 --> 02:08:10.439 a very good job of moving down and killing. And 2228 02:08:10.560 --> 02:08:13.560 you may on an established tree get a little more sprouting, 2229 02:08:13.680 --> 02:08:15.479 but just cut them off again and do it again, 2230 02:08:15.920 --> 02:08:18.159 and that will knock it out. It'll save your marriage, 2231 02:08:18.159 --> 02:08:19.239 and we'll get rid of that tree. 2232 02:08:20.319 --> 02:08:21.119 So get rid of that. 2233 02:08:21.520 --> 02:08:24.680 There are not many products that will save your No, 2234 02:08:24.920 --> 02:08:27.199 not the roots. Just do the stump, kill it, and 2235 02:08:27.279 --> 02:08:29.079 once it's killed, then you can deal with the stump 2236 02:08:29.319 --> 02:08:32.039 getting it out, all right. All right, have you ever 2237 02:08:32.119 --> 02:08:34.840 heard of a product that promises to save your marriage? 2238 02:08:35.800 --> 02:08:41.840 That's quite a sales pitch, Thanks George, all right, take care, 2239 02:08:42.680 --> 02:08:45.920 all right, making peace in the house, one family at 2240 02:08:45.960 --> 02:08:50.479 a time here on garden line. Oh boy, oh, I 2241 02:08:50.600 --> 02:08:53.359 am so excited. Today about getting down to Hoorges Hidden 2242 02:08:53.439 --> 02:08:56.600 Gardens in Alvin. Actually, if you're in Alvin on Highway six, 2243 02:08:56.720 --> 02:08:59.600 you head towards Santa Fe about halfway and it's off 2244 02:09:00.039 --> 02:09:02.600 of the right hand side. It's on Elizabeth Street. That's 2245 02:09:02.640 --> 02:09:06.000 the address. Elizabeth Street. Jors giving away five peach trees. 2246 02:09:06.079 --> 02:09:09.399 He's giving away some fertilizer. I'm bringing some Nelson fertilizer 2247 02:09:09.479 --> 02:09:11.960 to give away. We're gonna answer questions all of you 2248 02:09:12.079 --> 02:09:14.279 down south. This is as far south as I get 2249 02:09:14.359 --> 02:09:18.039 this year. I'm singing looking forward to one o'clock to 2250 02:09:18.239 --> 02:09:19.920 three o'clock this afternoon. 2251 02:09:22.680 --> 02:09:26.439 Welcome to Katie R. H. Garden Line with scip Rictor. 2252 02:09:35.279 --> 02:09:44.840 Just watch him as many things to selocks. 2253 02:09:49.680 --> 02:09:49.880 Come. 2254 02:09:50.000 --> 02:09:52.239 All right, we're gonna jump right back in here. Welcome 2255 02:09:52.319 --> 02:09:54.880 to garden Line. We're here to help you have a 2256 02:09:54.920 --> 02:09:58.000 bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. 2257 02:09:58.199 --> 02:09:58.399 And there. 2258 02:09:58.560 --> 02:10:00.880 You know, there's very few things you can do outside 2259 02:10:01.439 --> 02:10:04.800 that just give you instant effects, and one of them 2260 02:10:05.560 --> 02:10:11.920 is containers. Container color is just amazing. Uh, beautiful containers 2261 02:10:12.119 --> 02:10:15.680 filled with a quality mix with beautiful plants in them. 2262 02:10:16.000 --> 02:10:18.039 I mean, you know you got to you got somebody 2263 02:10:18.119 --> 02:10:19.560 coming over tonight and you want to make the place 2264 02:10:19.640 --> 02:10:21.520 look good, gets you some good You could do that 2265 02:10:21.720 --> 02:10:25.159 literally and be ready to go for to night. Quality 2266 02:10:25.239 --> 02:10:27.479 mix is important. You need a mix it drains well 2267 02:10:27.600 --> 02:10:30.279 and a mix that holds moisture at the same time, 2268 02:10:30.520 --> 02:10:33.319 not too much moisture, but it holds moisture. That's jungle Land. 2269 02:10:33.880 --> 02:10:38.159 Jungle Land flour and vegetable planting soil is their outdoor 2270 02:10:38.319 --> 02:10:42.359 version from nitrofoss to get those kind of results. And 2271 02:10:43.279 --> 02:10:47.439 I'm just saying that makes a big difference. You know, 2272 02:10:47.520 --> 02:10:49.600 you don't if you don't have time to make flower 2273 02:10:49.640 --> 02:10:52.079 beds and do all that. Maybe you're planning on doing that, 2274 02:10:52.199 --> 02:10:54.760 but what about right away? What about fast stuff? What 2275 02:10:54.880 --> 02:10:58.279 about when one plant starts to look a little and 2276 02:10:58.840 --> 02:11:00.239 you just pull it out, put a new one in 2277 02:11:00.359 --> 02:11:02.239 the container, and you're ready to go. Now, you're gonna 2278 02:11:02.239 --> 02:11:04.680 find products from night Foss like jungle Land. You're gonna 2279 02:11:04.680 --> 02:11:07.199 find them at places like a Jenny Forest down there 2280 02:11:07.359 --> 02:11:10.520 in the Richmond Rosenberg area on FM twenty seven fifty nine. 2281 02:11:10.800 --> 02:11:13.319 You're gonna find them at Ace Hardware, Single Ranch. You're 2282 02:11:13.319 --> 02:11:16.239 gonna find him at Aspa's Ace in the woodlands and 2283 02:11:16.399 --> 02:11:19.600 you're gonna find them at d and Defeat in Tumbule area. 2284 02:11:19.920 --> 02:11:22.800 Just another quality product from the folks at Nitrofoss. 2285 02:11:23.840 --> 02:11:23.960 Uh. 2286 02:11:25.119 --> 02:11:27.720 Let's run out here on the phone and we are 2287 02:11:27.840 --> 02:11:32.880 gonna go to Baytown and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Hi, 2288 02:11:35.159 --> 02:11:36.119 how can we help today? 2289 02:11:37.039 --> 02:11:42.560 Well, I've got a grass issue, Saint Augustine grass in 2290 02:11:42.680 --> 02:11:43.399 the backyard. 2291 02:11:43.520 --> 02:11:43.880 I had. 2292 02:11:48.439 --> 02:11:51.520 I've got a big backyard and I've got dogs, and 2293 02:11:52.239 --> 02:11:55.119 i had Saint Augustine grass. We've been living here over 2294 02:11:55.680 --> 02:12:00.760 twenty years, since nineteen ninety seven, and it was strong 2295 02:12:00.880 --> 02:12:03.760 Saint Augustine for a lot of years, and then slowly 2296 02:12:03.880 --> 02:12:09.000 over the years it's slowly got overtaken by this sort 2297 02:12:09.039 --> 02:12:12.359 of rye grass looking stuff that comes up really okay 2298 02:12:12.680 --> 02:12:16.239 big in the spring, and then it is okay, it's 2299 02:12:16.319 --> 02:12:19.039 gotten a little low. So we're thinking about getting a 2300 02:12:19.119 --> 02:12:23.600 pallet of grass put in there. But my question is 2301 02:12:23.720 --> 02:12:27.640 if we spend all that money, do it right. Uh, 2302 02:12:28.119 --> 02:12:30.920 it's going to keep it from happening again. What causes that? 2303 02:12:31.359 --> 02:12:33.920 You know, there's some other parts of our yard that 2304 02:12:34.079 --> 02:12:37.319 Saint Augustine stays real strong, you know, like the whole 2305 02:12:37.399 --> 02:12:37.800 front car. 2306 02:12:38.800 --> 02:12:43.119 Yeah, yeah, So so as far as grass declining, many 2307 02:12:43.239 --> 02:12:47.039 things can do that too much shade, uh compacted soil, 2308 02:12:48.359 --> 02:12:52.439 poor drainage, you know areas it could be. It just 2309 02:12:52.520 --> 02:12:55.520 could be a lot of things. Watering and fertilizing and 2310 02:12:55.600 --> 02:12:58.319 mowing are the three secrets to density in your lawn. 2311 02:12:58.640 --> 02:13:01.640 And so if you go get my schedule online, you'll 2312 02:13:01.720 --> 02:13:06.880 find one that is on gardening with Skip dot com. 2313 02:13:07.039 --> 02:13:09.479 Gardening with Skip dot Com, there's two schedules. One on 2314 02:13:09.560 --> 02:13:12.199 the things to make your lawn grow like mowater, fertilized, 2315 02:13:12.279 --> 02:13:15.520 one on things that attack your lawn like weeds, pest 2316 02:13:15.600 --> 02:13:19.319 and diseases. Check that out. On the weed one you 2317 02:13:19.399 --> 02:13:23.720 will see a fall application of pre emergent herbicide and 2318 02:13:23.800 --> 02:13:27.000 the one I would recommend you use is barricade from nitrophoss. 2319 02:13:27.399 --> 02:13:29.439 But look at when you apply it in the fall. 2320 02:13:29.720 --> 02:13:34.439 When you do that, that will prevent that weed that's 2321 02:13:34.600 --> 02:13:37.600 grassy that you're seeing now, it'll prevent it from being 2322 02:13:37.640 --> 02:13:40.479 able to sprout and come up. And just so follow 2323 02:13:40.520 --> 02:13:44.560 the schedule on that one. As far as lawn health, mowater, fertilize, Yes, 2324 02:13:44.720 --> 02:13:47.479 put put in some fresh new lawn. If you feel 2325 02:13:47.560 --> 02:13:52.640 like the area is really compacted you mentioned dogs where 2326 02:13:52.880 --> 02:13:57.760 where the problems are occurring. A core aeration with some 2327 02:13:57.880 --> 02:14:00.279 compost top dressing is a helpful way to do with. 2328 02:14:00.319 --> 02:14:05.039 That, okay, but we should go ahead and proceed with 2329 02:14:05.239 --> 02:14:07.039 the plan of replacing it. 2330 02:14:08.840 --> 02:14:09.880 With yes. 2331 02:14:10.039 --> 02:14:14.359 With the yes sane Argustine, you're getting a pallet of 2332 02:14:14.439 --> 02:14:16.159 grass and then going. 2333 02:14:16.239 --> 02:14:19.279 There, Yeah, get rid, Yeah, get rid of whatever's there. 2334 02:14:19.399 --> 02:14:21.079 You may have some perennial weeds. I don't have some 2335 02:14:21.159 --> 02:14:23.880 bermuda grasses in it or anything else that's perennial. Get 2336 02:14:23.960 --> 02:14:26.000 rid of that before you put the fresh new grass in, 2337 02:14:26.560 --> 02:14:28.760 so you don't just have to deal with the weeds 2338 02:14:28.960 --> 02:14:32.479 continually that are perennial. But that would go. That'd be 2339 02:14:32.600 --> 02:14:33.560 my suggestion, sir. 2340 02:14:34.520 --> 02:14:37.000 Okay, Now what was that a dot com you gave 2341 02:14:37.079 --> 02:14:38.079 me again to look. 2342 02:14:37.920 --> 02:14:44.800 At gardening with Skip? That's me gardening with skip dot com. 2343 02:14:45.000 --> 02:14:49.359 All right, Good luck, Mike, Thank you appreciate it. You 2344 02:14:50.079 --> 02:14:52.800 Bye bye. Nelson water Garden and nursery out there and 2345 02:14:52.920 --> 02:14:57.520 Katie is a destination place. I mean that, that's the 2346 02:14:57.640 --> 02:15:00.479 best way that I can describe it to you. Is 2347 02:15:00.560 --> 02:15:02.720 a destination when you go out there. Of course it's 2348 02:15:02.760 --> 02:15:06.600 a watergarden, but it's also a nursery. Nelson Watergardens and 2349 02:15:06.720 --> 02:15:09.840 Nursery is going to have whatever you're looking for. Are 2350 02:15:09.880 --> 02:15:12.319 you looking for flowers, They've got them. Are you looking 2351 02:15:12.399 --> 02:15:14.000 for herbs, Oh my gosh, they got them. Bought some 2352 02:15:14.039 --> 02:15:16.119 some myself there a while back. Are you looking for 2353 02:15:16.319 --> 02:15:19.560 house plants like string of filling the blank or mother 2354 02:15:19.640 --> 02:15:22.279 in law's tongue, sense of area or whatever. They have 2355 02:15:22.399 --> 02:15:26.840 the gorgeous, gorgeous houseplants and so many water features, from 2356 02:15:26.920 --> 02:15:29.840 little fountains, little small fountains that you put out there, 2357 02:15:30.279 --> 02:15:34.239 to building a waterfall and a beautiful pond. I mean, 2358 02:15:34.319 --> 02:15:36.399 they can do all of that and they can help 2359 02:15:36.479 --> 02:15:41.000 you do it as well. At Nelson Watergardens dot com. 2360 02:15:41.359 --> 02:15:44.000 They're in Katie on Katiefort Benroad. So if you're going 2361 02:15:44.079 --> 02:15:47.600 out west on ten, just turn north on Katiefort Ben 2362 02:15:47.720 --> 02:15:49.279 Road and it's just a little bit up on the 2363 02:15:49.399 --> 02:15:53.800 right Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Write that down. You'll want to 2364 02:15:53.920 --> 02:15:59.119 use it if you're looking for an organic fortlizer that 2365 02:15:59.239 --> 02:16:03.239 has a very high concentration of nitrogen in it. Nitrophos 2366 02:16:03.319 --> 02:16:06.039 is put together something called Sweet Green and it is 2367 02:16:06.119 --> 02:16:08.800 based on a molasses base which is hence the name 2368 02:16:08.880 --> 02:16:12.640 sweet Grain. Also it smells sweet and basically it's an 2369 02:16:12.680 --> 02:16:15.920 eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer that you put on your lawn. 2370 02:16:16.920 --> 02:16:19.920 It is, it works. Bottom line, it gets in the soil. 2371 02:16:20.000 --> 02:16:23.840 Whenever you add carbon sugars things like that to the soil, 2372 02:16:24.279 --> 02:16:28.479 you're going to stimulate microbial activity. And microbial activity is 2373 02:16:28.680 --> 02:16:31.880 very important if you want to have success with what 2374 02:16:32.040 --> 02:16:37.360 you're growing it because it stimulates. It stimulates the plant 2375 02:16:37.559 --> 02:16:40.000 microbes and plants they get along, they take care of 2376 02:16:40.040 --> 02:16:41.840 each other. And where you're going to get Sweet Green 2377 02:16:42.000 --> 02:16:47.239 Well RCW Nursery, that's a good place. Langham Creek Ace Hardware. 2378 02:16:47.799 --> 02:16:53.840 How about Lake Hardware in Angleton on Flasco. There's actually 2379 02:16:53.879 --> 02:16:56.719 too but actually both Lake Hardware is carrying nitropos a 2380 02:16:56.799 --> 02:17:01.280 Lake Hardware. Clute on Dixie Drive has night Fuss products 2381 02:17:01.319 --> 02:17:05.680 as well. I've talked about quality home products for a 2382 02:17:05.719 --> 02:17:10.120 long time. Quality home products are important because they carry 2383 02:17:10.319 --> 02:17:14.040 number one, the Generative automatic standby generator. But it's the 2384 02:17:14.239 --> 02:17:19.360 service that makes quality different. They prioritize honesty and transparency 2385 02:17:19.479 --> 02:17:22.920 with every client. They are a standout organization when it 2386 02:17:23.000 --> 02:17:26.559 comes to reliability and integrity and the customer reviews show 2387 02:17:26.600 --> 02:17:29.520 it over fourteen thousand and five star reviews. The awards, 2388 02:17:29.920 --> 02:17:32.600 they keep building new shelves for the awards. I mean 2389 02:17:32.639 --> 02:17:36.840 eight times they've won the Better Business Bureau Most Prestigious 2390 02:17:37.120 --> 02:17:41.319 Customer Service Award. That tells you something, that's the kind 2391 02:17:41.360 --> 02:17:44.159 of company you want. Houston Chronicle Best of the Best 2392 02:17:44.239 --> 02:17:47.600 in the Home Contractor division twenty twenty three. This family 2393 02:17:47.639 --> 02:17:50.440 owned operation has been around since nineteen eighty three. They 2394 02:17:50.520 --> 02:17:54.600 do financing options. Here's the bottom line. Go to QUALITYTX 2395 02:17:54.719 --> 02:17:57.840 dot com, QUALITYTX dot com, or just give them a 2396 02:17:57.920 --> 02:18:01.920 call seven to one three quality seven one three quality. 2397 02:18:02.319 --> 02:18:05.799 If you want a quality generator, like a generator automatic 2398 02:18:05.840 --> 02:18:08.959 standby generator, they're the place to go, not just for 2399 02:18:09.120 --> 02:18:11.920 the product, but for the service that no one can 2400 02:18:12.000 --> 02:18:14.440 match in the whole area. Time for me to take 2401 02:18:14.479 --> 02:18:19.479 a break. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back 2402 02:18:19.479 --> 02:18:22.799 to Guardline. Good to have you with us, Good to 2403 02:18:22.840 --> 02:18:26.280 have you with us. You know, Nelson Plant Food has 2404 02:18:26.360 --> 02:18:28.120 so many products, it's like I don't know where to 2405 02:18:28.200 --> 02:18:31.440 start talking about them. They've got their turf Star line, 2406 02:18:31.639 --> 02:18:35.559 which right now, the two primary turf Star products that 2407 02:18:35.920 --> 02:18:38.200 I want you to be aware of or Bruce Sprew, 2408 02:18:38.879 --> 02:18:42.680 which is an immediate release that also has extend release. 2409 02:18:42.799 --> 02:18:45.479 It's got some forms of nitrogen that don't just all 2410 02:18:45.600 --> 02:18:50.159 release immediately. They'll they'll they'll spread out as soil microbes 2411 02:18:50.280 --> 02:18:53.000 feed on the carbon based nitrogen sources in them. Then 2412 02:18:53.040 --> 02:18:56.360 there's a weedinator. Weedenator is a product that you put down. 2413 02:18:56.559 --> 02:18:58.879 You have to wet the lawn with the weed leaves, 2414 02:18:59.000 --> 02:19:01.799 is what you're trying to do. Put that dry granular 2415 02:19:01.920 --> 02:19:04.680 out just like you're fertilizing. It tends to stick to 2416 02:19:04.760 --> 02:19:08.000 the wet weed leaves very well, and then leave it. 2417 02:19:08.479 --> 02:19:10.040 I say a couple of days. Doesn't have to be 2418 02:19:10.120 --> 02:19:11.639 that long, but leave it a couple of days. It 2419 02:19:11.719 --> 02:19:14.559 soaks into the weed leaves and then water it and 2420 02:19:14.680 --> 02:19:16.079 it moves down in the soil and you get all 2421 02:19:16.120 --> 02:19:18.200 your nutrients down there where you want them to be. 2422 02:19:18.680 --> 02:19:21.920 Weed Nator provides a good quick release, but it also 2423 02:19:22.079 --> 02:19:25.280 provides forms of nitrogen that feed out for a good 2424 02:19:25.399 --> 02:19:29.600 long time, and so it makes it a really nice fertilizer. 2425 02:19:29.680 --> 02:19:32.040 You have options with Nelson Plant Food. They have many 2426 02:19:32.200 --> 02:19:35.440 different options and the products work. I've used them myself, 2427 02:19:36.239 --> 02:19:40.280 very very impressed with them. Nelson Plant Food easy to 2428 02:19:40.360 --> 02:19:42.920 find all over the place here in the Greater Houston area. 2429 02:19:44.200 --> 02:19:45.639 Let's go out to the phones. We're going to head 2430 02:19:45.680 --> 02:19:48.760 to West Houston now and talk to Rick. Hello, Rick, 2431 02:19:49.000 --> 02:19:57.120 welcome to garden Line. All right, did I not punch 2432 02:19:57.159 --> 02:20:00.440 the right button? There we go? Hey, sorry, I got 2433 02:20:00.520 --> 02:20:00.799 you now? 2434 02:20:01.680 --> 02:20:05.479 Okay, Yeah, my wife's considering buying some linten roses to 2435 02:20:05.920 --> 02:20:08.680 replace some azalea as we have around the house. 2436 02:20:09.600 --> 02:20:10.639 Do you recogn those? 2437 02:20:12.360 --> 02:20:12.600 They do? 2438 02:20:12.719 --> 02:20:16.639 Okay, they're a shade loving plant and they you know, 2439 02:20:16.719 --> 02:20:20.319 they're not as showy as azalea's, but you just need 2440 02:20:20.399 --> 02:20:22.959 to keep them moist, keep them in a very bright 2441 02:20:23.079 --> 02:20:27.000 shade because they do need they need light intensity. I 2442 02:20:27.079 --> 02:20:28.840 mean they need what am I saying? They need some 2443 02:20:28.879 --> 02:20:31.799 foot candles on them, But they don't need direct sun 2444 02:20:31.920 --> 02:20:32.799 baking down on them. 2445 02:20:33.959 --> 02:20:34.319 Uh huh. 2446 02:20:35.399 --> 02:20:37.479 Okay, And I would I would feed them. I would 2447 02:20:37.520 --> 02:20:40.159 feed them with something for acid loving plants. I think 2448 02:20:40.200 --> 02:20:41.280 they'll do a little better with that. 2449 02:20:43.280 --> 02:20:47.079 Okay, Well, I mean, would you consider azaleas to be better? 2450 02:20:50.479 --> 02:20:52.719 Well, you know, it's two different kinds of plants. It's 2451 02:20:52.799 --> 02:20:54.600 kind of like as an apple or an orange better, 2452 02:20:55.799 --> 02:21:00.319 I would say, you know, azaleas as a shrub. As 2453 02:21:00.360 --> 02:21:02.440 long as you have an acidic soil that's well drained 2454 02:21:02.479 --> 02:21:06.479 and kept moist Azalias are gorgeous. They're beautiful. Most az 2455 02:21:06.479 --> 02:21:08.719 alias are spring bloomers. Now we have the kind that 2456 02:21:08.840 --> 02:21:11.680 repeat some. I don't know which I like better, the 2457 02:21:11.799 --> 02:21:14.760 regular spring bloomers they put on a bigger show, or 2458 02:21:14.879 --> 02:21:17.600 the ones that repeat, you know, through the season, but 2459 02:21:17.879 --> 02:21:20.719 either way is good. You know, there's just so many 2460 02:21:20.760 --> 02:21:24.079 plant options, Rick that it's hard to say this one 2461 02:21:24.239 --> 02:21:29.120 is the one the one to plant. Yeah, okay, but 2462 02:21:29.239 --> 02:21:35.040 they require more water than not more. They just need 2463 02:21:35.159 --> 02:21:39.319 consistent soul moisture. But azilias need that too. They just 2464 02:21:39.440 --> 02:21:43.760 have a need to not go into drought, is what 2465 02:21:43.879 --> 02:21:50.799 you're trying to avoid. Okay, alrighty, all right, thank you, well, yes, sir, 2466 02:21:51.000 --> 02:21:53.239 good luck. Thank you for the call. I appreciate that. 2467 02:21:54.120 --> 02:21:54.200 Uh. 2468 02:21:54.719 --> 02:21:57.879 If you are looking for compost, top dressing and core 2469 02:21:58.040 --> 02:22:03.959 aeration of your lawn, which those two combined are just 2470 02:22:04.079 --> 02:22:06.280 a shot in the arm for a lawn. They breathe 2471 02:22:06.360 --> 02:22:09.079 life into the soil because basically you're pulling plugs out 2472 02:22:09.120 --> 02:22:11.079 of the soil dropping them on the surface. That's a 2473 02:22:11.159 --> 02:22:15.000 core aeration, and you're doing it in a way that 2474 02:22:15.280 --> 02:22:19.719 stimulates roots keeps those holes open for a little longer. 2475 02:22:19.840 --> 02:22:22.079 That's the compost. Stop dressing falls down in the holes, 2476 02:22:22.200 --> 02:22:24.760 as does fertilizer too. By the way, it helps soil 2477 02:22:24.799 --> 02:22:26.840 soak up moisture better because you got those little holes 2478 02:22:26.879 --> 02:22:29.440 in the ground. And the folks at green Pro are 2479 02:22:29.559 --> 02:22:33.399 experts and providing it. They do correation and they do 2480 02:22:33.559 --> 02:22:37.440 compost stop dressing. It feeds the soil biology. Again, it 2481 02:22:37.600 --> 02:22:39.840 just has so many benefits. So if your soil or 2482 02:22:39.840 --> 02:22:42.879 if your lawn is struggling from recovery in terms of 2483 02:22:43.040 --> 02:22:45.559 you know, brown patches real thereof on it, takeoff patch, 2484 02:22:45.680 --> 02:22:49.559 maybe chinch bugs, those kind of issues. It does. If 2485 02:22:49.600 --> 02:22:52.639 you've got a thatch layer, corretion is the best way 2486 02:22:53.200 --> 02:22:56.719 to break down thatch faster. It really does, and it 2487 02:22:56.920 --> 02:23:00.879 increases the turfs rooting depth. So when you go into 2488 02:23:00.879 --> 02:23:04.159 hot weather, you want a good, deep rooted, resilient grass 2489 02:23:04.239 --> 02:23:07.799 plant in corporation does that now. Greenpro serves an area 2490 02:23:07.799 --> 02:23:10.959 about forty five miles from Magnolia. The easy way to 2491 02:23:11.159 --> 02:23:14.959 just put it is Interstate forty five to een the 2492 02:23:15.040 --> 02:23:19.120 northwest QUANDRN of Houston. Interstate forty five to iten. That's 2493 02:23:19.239 --> 02:23:23.680 roughly it. But basically forty five miles from Magnolia, Greenprotexas 2494 02:23:23.760 --> 02:23:27.000 dot com greenpro Texas dot Com eight three to two, 2495 02:23:27.520 --> 02:23:32.399 three five to one zero zero three to two. Let's 2496 02:23:32.440 --> 02:23:37.399 see here. We are going to go now to uh Rick, 2497 02:23:37.520 --> 02:23:39.600 I believe, Hey Rick, welcome to Gardenline. 2498 02:23:40.600 --> 02:23:42.399 Yes, sir, I'll be real quick. 2499 02:23:43.159 --> 02:23:47.479 All I want to ask is what is what fertilizer? 2500 02:23:47.959 --> 02:23:49.479 What bag fertilizer. 2501 02:23:49.920 --> 02:23:51.639 It's the closest that I. 2502 02:23:51.719 --> 02:23:55.959 Can get that will match that ballnyard fertilizer that they 2503 02:23:56.680 --> 02:24:00.360 they use up at the modern Riie mushroom plant. It's 2504 02:24:00.399 --> 02:24:03.760 about three four so the white of Dallas. But that 2505 02:24:04.360 --> 02:24:08.280 that barnyard stuff. It grows huge tamato plants. 2506 02:24:08.680 --> 02:24:14.000 But uh yeah, yeah. So basically the I don't know 2507 02:24:14.120 --> 02:24:16.520 the nutrient content on Monterey mushroom. I know what you're 2508 02:24:16.520 --> 02:24:19.159 talking about. I've used it. Uh But you're getting not 2509 02:24:19.479 --> 02:24:22.760 just the nutrient out of that. You're that's like having 2510 02:24:22.840 --> 02:24:26.040 compost and fertilizer put together. So there's a lot of 2511 02:24:26.079 --> 02:24:29.879 biological activity. There's the benefits of the organic matter in it, 2512 02:24:30.159 --> 02:24:33.000 and then there's the nutrient content. So if you wanted 2513 02:24:33.079 --> 02:24:35.319 to achieve that what you would do is get you 2514 02:24:35.399 --> 02:24:38.639 a high quality compost and then put a quality fertilizer. 2515 02:24:38.760 --> 02:24:40.799 You said for vegetables, is what you want to use 2516 02:24:40.840 --> 02:24:45.639 it for tamato plants? Yes, sir, Yeah, so I would 2517 02:24:45.680 --> 02:24:48.840 get you know, they're the folks that know some plant food. 2518 02:24:48.959 --> 02:24:52.879 Have something. It's a vegetable. Fertilizer comes in jars. You 2519 02:24:52.959 --> 02:24:55.760 could use that. I'll tell you this. I have also 2520 02:24:56.040 --> 02:24:59.959 used lawn fertilizer in my vegetable garden. That that is fine. 2521 02:25:00.239 --> 02:25:03.799 You can do that and then a good high quality compost. 2522 02:25:04.000 --> 02:25:06.959 Mix it in probably if your soil is in decent shape. 2523 02:25:06.959 --> 02:25:09.799 I'd put about an inch a compost each time I 2524 02:25:09.920 --> 02:25:12.840 do a spring, and then again in a vegetable I 2525 02:25:12.920 --> 02:25:16.280 mean a fault transition. Mix it in the ground about 2526 02:25:16.280 --> 02:25:19.200 an inch at a time. But then with that fertilizer, 2527 02:25:19.319 --> 02:25:22.360 you should be you should be good to go. Yeah. 2528 02:25:22.440 --> 02:25:26.840 Sure that okay, Well, anyway, thank you very much for 2529 02:25:27.000 --> 02:25:27.680 your information. 2530 02:25:27.920 --> 02:25:31.280 Thank you all right, thank you for the call. I 2531 02:25:31.360 --> 02:25:38.479 appreciate that, Rick, and good luck with that. RCW nursery 2532 02:25:38.920 --> 02:25:41.280 is what I call it, get it, got it nursery 2533 02:25:41.559 --> 02:25:44.799 meaning even if they don't have something, they probably can 2534 02:25:44.879 --> 02:25:46.600 get it, They do their best to find it and 2535 02:25:46.879 --> 02:25:48.360 they're just a full service place. 2536 02:25:49.200 --> 02:25:49.399 You know. 2537 02:25:49.520 --> 02:25:53.000 That nursery opened up in nineteen seventy nine. Williamson family 2538 02:25:53.120 --> 02:25:56.680 still runs RCW Nursery. It's the garden center there where 2539 02:25:56.719 --> 02:25:59.959 Tambo Parkway Highway two forty nine comes into belt Way 2540 02:26:00.120 --> 02:26:05.000 eight Northwest Houston. Easy to get to the website RCW 2541 02:26:05.479 --> 02:26:09.280 Nurseries dot com. R CW Nurseries dot com. When you 2542 02:26:09.360 --> 02:26:13.280 go to RCW Nursery, you're gonna get expert advice, expert advice. 2543 02:26:13.680 --> 02:26:17.440 You're gonna find a wonderful selection of plants. I'm talking 2544 02:26:17.479 --> 02:26:20.479 about pretty much anything that you are looking to plant, 2545 02:26:20.719 --> 02:26:23.520 you're gonna find there. You hear me talk about fertilizers 2546 02:26:23.559 --> 02:26:26.600 like microlife and others. They carry that there at RCW. 2547 02:26:26.959 --> 02:26:29.639 You should go see their bougainvillia trees right now and 2548 02:26:29.719 --> 02:26:33.840 the bougainvillia columns. I don't know how to tell you. 2549 02:26:33.959 --> 02:26:37.360 Then just go look at them. They are stunning, gorgeous 2550 02:26:37.520 --> 02:26:42.360 braided boogmvella stems up into a tree shape. Oh my gosh, 2551 02:26:42.639 --> 02:26:46.920 then take your breath away. Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. They even 2552 02:26:46.959 --> 02:26:51.920 have bluebonnet transplants there at RCW Nursery and then right now, 2553 02:26:52.120 --> 02:26:54.959 you know, early well late winter early spring is the 2554 02:26:55.319 --> 02:26:59.200 deciduous magnolia season, and they have an excellent selection of 2555 02:26:59.360 --> 02:27:02.399 decidious nose, like the variety Jane that is so popular. 2556 02:27:02.440 --> 02:27:04.120 It's one of the most popular ones here in the 2557 02:27:04.159 --> 02:27:08.920 Houston area, and you'll find it at RCW Nursery. We're 2558 02:27:08.959 --> 02:27:12.120 going to head out now to Richmond and talk to Paul. Oh, Paul, 2559 02:27:12.200 --> 02:27:13.159 Welcome to garden Line. 2560 02:27:14.159 --> 02:27:16.280 Hey skip, Yeah, I got a big oak tree. 2561 02:27:16.360 --> 02:27:20.920 It's probably maybe forty years old, maybe older. In the bark, 2562 02:27:21.799 --> 02:27:24.959 the bark is splitting, like kind of chunks of bark 2563 02:27:25.000 --> 02:27:25.719 are falling off. 2564 02:27:27.879 --> 02:27:31.120 Okay, so they're actually coming off when you look underneath 2565 02:27:31.159 --> 02:27:34.239 where they fell off. Are you seeing more bark? Are 2566 02:27:34.280 --> 02:27:36.920 you seeing the interior wood of the oak tree? 2567 02:27:42.479 --> 02:27:47.040 Let me, I'm out here right now, Okay, so I'm 2568 02:27:47.040 --> 02:27:49.120 looking at the tree. It's yeah, the bark is definitely 2569 02:27:49.200 --> 02:27:51.159 splitting on some of the bigger limbs, and I can 2570 02:27:51.280 --> 02:27:56.479 see underneath that is I guess what you're calling the 2571 02:27:56.600 --> 02:27:58.319 interior part of the oak tree. 2572 02:27:58.399 --> 02:28:01.760 Yes, I don't have any on the ground and throw them. 2573 02:28:03.280 --> 02:28:05.200 Okay, So if you were to go up that tree, 2574 02:28:05.239 --> 02:28:07.239 and hug. If you go up that tree and hug 2575 02:28:07.319 --> 02:28:09.520 the trunk trunk, could you touch your fingers on the 2576 02:28:09.600 --> 02:28:10.639 other side or is. 2577 02:28:10.639 --> 02:28:11.239 It bigger than that? 2578 02:28:15.600 --> 02:28:15.799 Yes? 2579 02:28:15.879 --> 02:28:18.639 I could, no, I could, yes, I could do that there, okay, 2580 02:28:18.760 --> 02:28:21.040 where it's splitting, yeah, where it's splitting, I could do. 2581 02:28:21.120 --> 02:28:25.040 That, yes, yeah, all right. And last last question is 2582 02:28:25.399 --> 02:28:26.280 is it a live oak? 2583 02:28:27.520 --> 02:28:28.600 Yes, sir, yes, sir? 2584 02:28:29.360 --> 02:28:32.040 Okay, all right. So live oaks, as they get older 2585 02:28:32.120 --> 02:28:37.000 can develop some really extra long, you know, sections of 2586 02:28:37.079 --> 02:28:39.680 bark coming out. You know how barks naturally splits as 2587 02:28:39.719 --> 02:28:42.559 it goes out, just part of the natural splitting, and 2588 02:28:42.799 --> 02:28:45.559 sometimes those will fall off if you're seeing the wood underneath. 2589 02:28:46.000 --> 02:28:48.799 That sounds like coal damage to me. Uh, you know, 2590 02:28:48.920 --> 02:28:51.079 the only two things that knock the bark off are 2591 02:28:51.200 --> 02:28:55.159 coal damage, which kills the tissues, and then a lightning 2592 02:28:55.239 --> 02:28:58.680 strike you know, can do that same thing. Took from 2593 02:28:58.719 --> 02:29:01.520 an older tree like that, you usually don't see the 2594 02:29:01.600 --> 02:29:04.639 cold damage on a live oak. So I'm a little 2595 02:29:05.040 --> 02:29:08.000 wondering about that. I know that that can do that 2596 02:29:08.159 --> 02:29:10.319 to a tree. I'm just not sure you've had the 2597 02:29:10.440 --> 02:29:12.920 cold that would have done it. The only other thing 2598 02:29:12.959 --> 02:29:15.280 I would suggest, take me some pictures. Send them in, 2599 02:29:15.399 --> 02:29:18.680 let me look at them and see. But those are 2600 02:29:18.719 --> 02:29:20.680 the two things that will cause that to split. Now, 2601 02:29:20.760 --> 02:29:24.600 there's one other disease called hypoxylan canker, but in that 2602 02:29:25.040 --> 02:29:27.799 you wouldn't describe it as splitting. You'd be talking about 2603 02:29:27.879 --> 02:29:31.440 whole sections of bark sloughing off, you know, bigger, whiter 2604 02:29:31.559 --> 02:29:34.719 than your hand, where the whole section sluffs off, and 2605 02:29:34.799 --> 02:29:38.719 then underneath it you see kind of an olive to 2606 02:29:38.959 --> 02:29:44.920 ten dusty brown colored, dusty material underneath it. That's a 2607 02:29:45.040 --> 02:29:45.840 disease thing. 2608 02:29:46.920 --> 02:29:50.799 Okay, Actually, actually what you're describing is, yes, I can 2609 02:29:50.920 --> 02:29:54.319 see that coloration that you just described in one of 2610 02:29:54.360 --> 02:29:57.440 the parts of the tree I'm looking at right now, all. 2611 02:29:57.399 --> 02:30:00.600 Right, So that's a stress related disease. I think it's weak. 2612 02:30:00.719 --> 02:30:04.200 The disease moves in, it's out in nature, it's everywhere. 2613 02:30:04.399 --> 02:30:06.680 It's not like it's showed up somewhere and then you 2614 02:30:06.799 --> 02:30:10.479 cannot spray for it. Strengthening the tree is the best 2615 02:30:10.520 --> 02:30:13.879 thing you can do, and in the future, avoiding stresses 2616 02:30:14.000 --> 02:30:16.200 is the best thing you can do. If you I 2617 02:30:16.280 --> 02:30:18.360 need to put a publication on my website for that. 2618 02:30:18.639 --> 02:30:20.840 But in the meantime, if you want to learn more 2619 02:30:20.879 --> 02:30:25.840 about it. It's hypoxylon h y p O x A 2620 02:30:26.159 --> 02:30:30.239 l O N kinker no control for it. Avoid the 2621 02:30:30.280 --> 02:30:32.959 stress is all that's in your power. That's one where 2622 02:30:33.200 --> 02:30:36.840 they're just not a solution other than avoid minimize stress. 2623 02:30:37.879 --> 02:30:40.840 Okay, one last question, all right, sir, would he gets 2624 02:30:40.879 --> 02:30:43.399 so bad that I had to cut the branches off 2625 02:30:43.799 --> 02:30:43.959 or no? 2626 02:30:47.959 --> 02:30:50.159 Well, if they die, they have to come off. And 2627 02:30:50.319 --> 02:30:53.399 it does kill branches, so as long as they're not dead, 2628 02:30:53.760 --> 02:30:56.600 just leave it, leave it be and that's that's it, 2629 02:30:56.920 --> 02:30:58.879 all right, Paul, Good luck, sir. 2630 02:30:59.440 --> 02:30:59.559 Day. 2631 02:31:00.000 --> 02:31:03.639 Okay, thank you, you bet you bet Hey. Nature's Way 2632 02:31:03.719 --> 02:31:06.760 Resources is having their big shinnedig. You need to go 2633 02:31:06.840 --> 02:31:11.399 to the website Nature's Way Resources dot com. Nature's Way 2634 02:31:11.479 --> 02:31:15.680 Resources dot com. This spring Fling is on the twenty 2635 02:31:16.000 --> 02:31:19.280 second of March from eight to two pm. You gotta 2636 02:31:19.319 --> 02:31:21.079 go see it and take your truck out there because 2637 02:31:21.079 --> 02:31:23.760 you're going to bring home a lot of quality products 2638 02:31:24.079 --> 02:31:27.319 from Nature's Way. They've got lots of them there and 2639 02:31:27.479 --> 02:31:32.440 this spring fling is fun. I'll be right back. Welcome 2640 02:31:32.479 --> 02:31:36.479 back to your guard line. Good to hevy with us today. Hey, 2641 02:31:36.559 --> 02:31:40.280 night to fuss. Imperial is the Orange Red bag. It's 2642 02:31:40.559 --> 02:31:43.559 reddish orange or orangish red if you want to look 2643 02:31:43.600 --> 02:31:45.959 at it. It's a fifteen to five to ten fertilizer 2644 02:31:46.159 --> 02:31:48.760 that gets the nutrients out right away. You put it down, 2645 02:31:48.959 --> 02:31:51.479 you wet it well and the nutrients are released for 2646 02:31:51.680 --> 02:31:53.639 your plant. And we use it for the early greenup. 2647 02:31:53.719 --> 02:31:55.440 You want to do an early greenup on your lawn, 2648 02:31:55.920 --> 02:31:58.000 and I've got that on my schedule. It's an optional 2649 02:31:58.079 --> 02:32:01.879 application we make in the spring. Nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five 2650 02:32:01.920 --> 02:32:06.360 to ten works excellent for that. It also is widely available. 2651 02:32:06.440 --> 02:32:09.360 You're going to find it all over the area, the Houston, 2652 02:32:09.440 --> 02:32:12.040 the Greater Houston area. Actually they got a plantation Ace 2653 02:32:12.079 --> 02:32:14.920 Hardware out there in Richmond Rosenberg. You're going to find 2654 02:32:14.959 --> 02:32:17.799 it at Langham Creek Ace Hardware up in Cyprus on 2655 02:32:18.280 --> 02:32:21.239 five twenty nine. By the way, they just revamped that story. 2656 02:32:21.239 --> 02:32:23.600 You go check it out. You're going to find it 2657 02:32:23.680 --> 02:32:25.520 at RCW Nursery. We were just talking about them a 2658 02:32:25.559 --> 02:32:28.600 minute ago. It's easy to find in our area and 2659 02:32:28.639 --> 02:32:30.000 you're going to find it at D and D Feed 2660 02:32:30.360 --> 02:32:33.559 up in the Tombol area. Nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five to ten. 2661 02:32:34.079 --> 02:32:38.079 Your early spring green up fertilizer that really really works. 2662 02:32:39.920 --> 02:32:42.840 Let's head out to Richmond Rosenberg. We're going to talk 2663 02:32:42.879 --> 02:32:45.239 to Mark. Hey, Mark, Welcome to garden Line. 2664 02:32:49.360 --> 02:32:52.559 Hello is this Mark? 2665 02:32:53.040 --> 02:32:53.159 Oh? 2666 02:32:53.200 --> 02:32:55.319 I'm sorry I went to Cian and Conro. I pushed 2667 02:32:55.319 --> 02:32:58.520 the wrong button. Well, welcome to garden Line for you, Mark, 2668 02:32:58.559 --> 02:32:59.520 we'll come to you next. 2669 02:33:00.639 --> 02:33:04.399 Okay, all right, Yeah, I was going to call this 2670 02:33:04.559 --> 02:33:07.079 company that you're just talking about to do the plugging 2671 02:33:07.159 --> 02:33:09.680 in the yard. I'm out at thirteen fourteen and one 2672 02:33:09.719 --> 02:33:11.399 oh five. I don't know if they'll come that far. 2673 02:33:11.559 --> 02:33:15.120 But and I got some post emergent for the lawn 2674 02:33:15.200 --> 02:33:17.440 because I bought this house new, and you know what 2675 02:33:17.559 --> 02:33:20.079 they do to the yards there. So I was wondering 2676 02:33:20.120 --> 02:33:22.760 if I should do the post emergent before I have 2677 02:33:22.920 --> 02:33:25.639 them come out, or how should I do that? 2678 02:33:27.360 --> 02:33:29.319 It doesn't matter a lot, but I would go ahead 2679 02:33:29.319 --> 02:33:30.920 and do it because you're not going to come out 2680 02:33:30.920 --> 02:33:33.760 tomorrow probably. I doubt they're you know, coming there. 2681 02:33:33.879 --> 02:33:35.959 Yeah, so go ahead. 2682 02:33:36.440 --> 02:33:40.159 It's very important to get those weeds shut down. Okay, 2683 02:33:40.280 --> 02:33:41.520 not the post emerger. 2684 02:33:43.319 --> 02:33:45.840 Does that need to be watered in? It doesn't say 2685 02:33:45.920 --> 02:33:46.600 on the package. 2686 02:33:48.840 --> 02:33:50.959 Are we talking about a spray or are we talking 2687 02:33:51.000 --> 02:33:53.159 about a granular fertilizer plus. 2688 02:33:53.040 --> 02:33:55.040 Post emergin granule. 2689 02:33:55.600 --> 02:33:58.639 Huh? Okay, okay, here's what you do. You wet the 2690 02:33:58.719 --> 02:34:01.239 lawn just enough to get the leaves wet. You're not 2691 02:34:01.360 --> 02:34:04.479 really watering, you're just wetting the leaves. Put the product 2692 02:34:04.559 --> 02:34:07.120 out immediately while the leaves are wet. It sticks to 2693 02:34:07.239 --> 02:34:10.600 the leaves. Wait a day or two and then water 2694 02:34:10.719 --> 02:34:13.040 it in. But give it some time to soak into 2695 02:34:13.040 --> 02:34:15.959 those leaves before you turn the water on, and then 2696 02:34:16.040 --> 02:34:18.639 you'll be ready to go. And then whenever the errators 2697 02:34:18.680 --> 02:34:21.600 can come out, I think you're probably talking about Green 2698 02:34:21.680 --> 02:34:24.399 Pro and just give them a call and see if 2699 02:34:24.440 --> 02:34:28.600 they if they'll serve that area. You know, I don't 2700 02:34:28.600 --> 02:34:30.319 have a map in front of me, but about forty 2701 02:34:30.360 --> 02:34:32.280 five minutes from Magnolia, they'll serve that area. 2702 02:34:32.760 --> 02:34:35.360 Okay, okay, all right, thank you so much. I love 2703 02:34:35.399 --> 02:34:35.760 your show. 2704 02:34:37.120 --> 02:34:41.000 Well, thank you, thanks for listening. I appreciate that very much. Well, 2705 02:34:41.040 --> 02:34:45.879 we do all right here, find the right buttons that 2706 02:34:46.000 --> 02:34:49.000 I need. Ace Hardware stores are going to carry all 2707 02:34:49.040 --> 02:34:51.079 these products we talk about. You hear me talk about 2708 02:34:51.079 --> 02:34:53.719 them all the time. Ace Hardware. There's a new website 2709 02:34:53.719 --> 02:34:57.000 I'm telling you about, and it's ACE Hardwaretexas dot Com. 2710 02:34:58.040 --> 02:34:59.840 You know I've always sent you to the store locator. 2711 02:35:00.239 --> 02:35:04.159 ACE Hardware Texas dot Com is those that group of 2712 02:35:04.239 --> 02:35:07.879 ACE Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area that 2713 02:35:08.239 --> 02:35:11.399 we talk about on Guardline all the time. And you're 2714 02:35:11.440 --> 02:35:14.799 gonna find at your local ACE Hardware store the fertilizers 2715 02:35:14.959 --> 02:35:18.239 you hear me talk about, the products the control weeds 2716 02:35:18.319 --> 02:35:21.000 that you hear me talk about. You're going to find 2717 02:35:21.079 --> 02:35:25.040 the products for insects and diseases. You're gonna find tools. 2718 02:35:25.079 --> 02:35:28.360 You're gonna find everything you need to turn your outdoor 2719 02:35:28.479 --> 02:35:32.520 area into a beautiful and bountiful place. That's Ace Hardware. 2720 02:35:32.559 --> 02:35:34.159 You're also going to find the things that make it 2721 02:35:34.319 --> 02:35:39.079 more fun to be outside, like beautifying your patio with lighting, 2722 02:35:39.879 --> 02:35:43.079 like a barbecue Oh my gosh, Big Green Egg, Treger, Weber, 2723 02:35:43.239 --> 02:35:47.639 all these great brands of barbecue pits that they have. 2724 02:35:48.520 --> 02:35:51.159 Uh well, I mean I think I just hang out 2725 02:35:51.159 --> 02:35:53.600 outside all the time and eat, eat, eat the barbecue. 2726 02:35:53.639 --> 02:35:55.799 I love cooking out. They've got you covered there and 2727 02:35:55.840 --> 02:35:57.440 all the supplies you need for barbecue. 2728 02:35:57.520 --> 02:35:57.639 Two. 2729 02:35:57.680 --> 02:35:59.799 By the way, all the you know there are any 2730 02:36:00.079 --> 02:36:03.840 thing you get into, there's lots of tools and cool things. Well, 2731 02:36:04.000 --> 02:36:06.360 go to Ace Harder and you'll find that it's the 2732 02:36:06.440 --> 02:36:08.559 kind of place where you go for your spring cleaning, 2733 02:36:08.760 --> 02:36:12.239 to get all the supplies, the shelving, the bins to 2734 02:36:12.319 --> 02:36:16.159 store things, the cleaning supplies. You want to reseal your deck, 2735 02:36:16.319 --> 02:36:18.760 Maybe it's always a good idea to do that. Ace 2736 02:36:18.840 --> 02:36:21.040 Hardwar's got you covered. You need paint, Oh my gosh, 2737 02:36:21.239 --> 02:36:25.879 they got paint, just all kinds of quality paints. It's spring, 2738 02:36:26.239 --> 02:36:28.559 It's time to go to Ace Hardware. Ace is the 2739 02:36:28.639 --> 02:36:32.000 place right and you're going to find Ace Hardware's all 2740 02:36:32.159 --> 02:36:34.840 over the Greater Houston area. Let me just give you 2741 02:36:34.879 --> 02:36:38.879 a few. For example, there's Port Levaka Ace, Port Levaca Ace, 2742 02:36:38.920 --> 02:36:40.239 if you ever been down there, those of you in 2743 02:36:40.280 --> 02:36:44.120 Port Levaca, there is the Chambers Ace Hardware and Galveston 2744 02:36:44.280 --> 02:36:47.879 Deer Park Lumber East of Pasadena, the Ace Hardware and 2745 02:36:47.959 --> 02:36:51.360 Champions Forest. There's a Langham Creek ACE in Copperfield. On 2746 02:36:51.440 --> 02:36:53.200 five twenty nine. I was just talking about that one 2747 02:36:53.600 --> 02:36:57.360 memorial Ace Hardware Store, Plantation Ace Hardware Store. These are 2748 02:36:57.440 --> 02:37:01.159 all examples of the many Ace Hardware's here in our area. 2749 02:37:03.120 --> 02:37:05.440 Let's tet out to Richmond now and talk to Mark. 2750 02:37:05.479 --> 02:37:07.319 Sorry about the false alarm a minute ago. 2751 02:37:07.440 --> 02:37:11.319 There, Mark, no problem. The first question is easy and short. 2752 02:37:11.440 --> 02:37:15.959 Probably if you got trees about six eight inches in 2753 02:37:16.120 --> 02:37:19.959 diameter when we're the rot off quicker if you cut 2754 02:37:20.000 --> 02:37:22.399 it about two foot above the ground, or if you 2755 02:37:22.479 --> 02:37:24.559 cut it the right off a couple of inches above 2756 02:37:24.639 --> 02:37:25.040 the ground. 2757 02:37:26.360 --> 02:37:31.520 The fastest rot occurs where it contacts the soil. Microbes 2758 02:37:31.600 --> 02:37:33.559 can get a hold of it, and it stays moist 2759 02:37:34.280 --> 02:37:36.040 So if you cut it as low as you can, 2760 02:37:36.879 --> 02:37:40.239 and if you pile soil or compost over the top 2761 02:37:40.319 --> 02:37:43.239 of it just so it's you know, like burying a 2762 02:37:43.280 --> 02:37:46.280 two by four, right, it's going to rot really fast 2763 02:37:46.760 --> 02:37:49.000 compared to sitting up where it's going to dry out 2764 02:37:49.319 --> 02:37:52.559 and not not have that moisture and microbe exposure. 2765 02:37:53.200 --> 02:37:55.680 Okay, now this one is kind of more difficult. I've 2766 02:37:55.719 --> 02:38:00.360 got about a two hundred foot row of whiteleaf of 2767 02:38:00.399 --> 02:38:04.239 custrooms at about twenty five years old, and they're scraggly 2768 02:38:04.360 --> 02:38:06.959 and woody and have died. I want to get rid 2769 02:38:07.000 --> 02:38:09.159 of them. One guy says he's going to cut him 2770 02:38:09.200 --> 02:38:11.559 off about an inch above the ground or so and 2771 02:38:11.680 --> 02:38:14.200 I could stump ground him off level below the ground 2772 02:38:14.239 --> 02:38:17.520 if I want it. And the other question is would 2773 02:38:17.639 --> 02:38:19.920 it be better if you just pull them up? Wait 2774 02:38:20.000 --> 02:38:21.479 till it was kind of wet, and pulled them up. 2775 02:38:21.760 --> 02:38:23.520 He thought of you try to pull him up, you're 2776 02:38:23.559 --> 02:38:26.799 going to have roots pulling up the soil around it, making. 2777 02:38:26.600 --> 02:38:27.200 A bigger mess. 2778 02:38:27.239 --> 02:38:29.680 And he thinks it's easy to cut him off and 2779 02:38:30.000 --> 02:38:31.920 either leave him or stump ground him if you want. 2780 02:38:33.680 --> 02:38:37.600 We can either way. I've I've attached a shrub or 2781 02:38:37.680 --> 02:38:40.280 too to pick up bumper in my time, and that's 2782 02:38:40.319 --> 02:38:44.639 an option. But if you cut him off, what you 2783 02:38:44.760 --> 02:38:48.159 want to do, I probably would leave a little bit 2784 02:38:48.200 --> 02:38:50.200 of a stump because you're going to probably want to 2785 02:38:50.479 --> 02:38:52.840 dig that stump out or pull the stump out after 2786 02:38:52.920 --> 02:38:55.000 the plant dies. But you cut him off and you 2787 02:38:55.120 --> 02:39:00.280 treat the cut surface with a product containing trichlope. Here. Now, 2788 02:39:00.600 --> 02:39:05.159 if you go to my website gardening with Skip dot com, 2789 02:39:05.639 --> 02:39:08.840 Gardening with Skip, that's me gardening with Skip dot com. 2790 02:39:09.319 --> 02:39:13.200 There's a publication called Controlling Woody Weeds. It's free and 2791 02:39:13.319 --> 02:39:15.639 you take tricle piers straight out of the bottle. It 2792 02:39:15.760 --> 02:39:19.680 comes in many brands. The brands are listed on this publication. 2793 02:39:20.399 --> 02:39:22.840 And you take a little pham brush with a little 2794 02:39:22.840 --> 02:39:25.040 wooden handle like you see at the hardware store, and 2795 02:39:25.280 --> 02:39:27.840 you you just dab it right on that fresh cut. 2796 02:39:27.920 --> 02:39:30.280 I don't mean six hours later. I mean you make 2797 02:39:30.319 --> 02:39:32.319 the cut. You dab the cut. You make a cut, 2798 02:39:32.399 --> 02:39:34.600 You dab the cut, and it goes right down in 2799 02:39:34.840 --> 02:39:37.719 and it kills that kills that plant. And then when 2800 02:39:37.799 --> 02:39:40.120 it's dead, if you leave it long enough, if you 2801 02:39:40.159 --> 02:39:42.239 can just kick it and it'll it's already rotted and 2802 02:39:42.280 --> 02:39:44.600 it'll just knock it, knock it out of the soil, 2803 02:39:44.760 --> 02:39:46.319 or you can you can grab something to it and 2804 02:39:46.399 --> 02:39:47.799 pull on it, or you can grub it up or 2805 02:39:47.840 --> 02:39:50.799 whatever you want. But tricle Peer is the product to 2806 02:39:50.959 --> 02:39:53.360 use for that. And you don't need to spray it. 2807 02:39:53.520 --> 02:39:55.559 You just want to dab it on the freshly cut surface. 2808 02:39:55.959 --> 02:39:58.360 So how about four buzz the grab? Would you cut 2809 02:39:58.399 --> 02:39:59.000 that stumping? 2810 02:39:59.120 --> 02:39:59.799 Three? Two? 2811 02:40:01.680 --> 02:40:05.120 It doesn't matter how far. It doesn't matter how far 2812 02:40:05.280 --> 02:40:08.799 in terms of the triclopair working. What it would matter 2813 02:40:09.280 --> 02:40:11.760 is if later you're gonna want to attach something to 2814 02:40:11.920 --> 02:40:13.840 it to pull on it and drag it out of there, 2815 02:40:14.280 --> 02:40:17.159 then you'd need something to attach to. That's the only 2816 02:40:17.239 --> 02:40:19.600 thing that matters in the case of what we're talking about. 2817 02:40:19.639 --> 02:40:23.200 Now, okay, so right, you're buffy, eat your ground forgetting it. 2818 02:40:23.600 --> 02:40:24.840 Just as long as you can brow over it as 2819 02:40:24.840 --> 02:40:25.280 good enough. 2820 02:40:26.840 --> 02:40:30.520 That's it. You got it, man, Thanks sir, have fun, 2821 02:40:31.000 --> 02:40:35.600 all right, take care you bet all right? He was 2822 02:40:35.680 --> 02:40:37.120 time for me to take a break. I'll be right 2823 02:40:37.200 --> 02:40:40.079 back with the last segment. Uh seven one three two 2824 02:40:40.120 --> 02:40:42.120 one two kt r H. If you'd like to ask 2825 02:40:42.200 --> 02:40:47.639 a question, I'm all right, folks, we're in the last 2826 02:40:47.760 --> 02:40:52.040 segment of the day. Be back tomorrow morning six am 2827 02:40:52.159 --> 02:40:55.760 to ten am for your gardening questions. Have you been 2828 02:40:55.840 --> 02:40:57.920 to Growers Outlet? I'm timeing to those of you up 2829 02:40:57.959 --> 02:41:03.040 in the Lake Conroe, Conroe Woodlands. Let's see New Waverley 2830 02:41:03.840 --> 02:41:07.479 Porter all up in that direction up there. Growers Outlet 2831 02:41:07.600 --> 02:41:10.399 is in Willis and it is on Highway seventy five, 2832 02:41:10.920 --> 02:41:13.959 just a little south of Willis, just minutes really away 2833 02:41:13.959 --> 02:41:18.360 from Interstate forty five. They're an excellent new garden center, 2834 02:41:18.399 --> 02:41:21.520 I say new. They's revamped. You see the place. It 2835 02:41:21.719 --> 02:41:24.239 really looks good. They carry the fertilizers. You hear me 2836 02:41:24.319 --> 02:41:27.239 talk about like Microlife, night Fross and Medina. For example, 2837 02:41:28.239 --> 02:41:31.120 they have a super supply plant right now. They just 2838 02:41:31.159 --> 02:41:33.479 got into a bunch of fruit trees. They've got nice 2839 02:41:33.559 --> 02:41:38.840 selection of shrubs and general landscape trees, veggies and bedding plants. 2840 02:41:38.959 --> 02:41:42.239 And you can go online, and you need to write 2841 02:41:42.280 --> 02:41:47.719 this down. Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. Growers Outlet 2842 02:41:48.520 --> 02:41:52.040 in Willis dot com. That's the website you can go. 2843 02:41:52.280 --> 02:41:57.479 I think every Wednesday they update their vegetable stock and 2844 02:41:57.879 --> 02:42:00.879 most garden centers do not do that. You can go online. 2845 02:42:00.879 --> 02:42:05.040 You can look at product availability and pricing right there online. 2846 02:42:05.959 --> 02:42:08.840 You can purchase it online for picking it up going 2847 02:42:08.920 --> 02:42:10.440 by and picking it up later if you want to 2848 02:42:10.479 --> 02:42:14.120 go that route. They have got gorgeous baskets and when 2849 02:42:14.159 --> 02:42:17.079 it comes to spring color, you know, geraniums of urbanas 2850 02:42:17.159 --> 02:42:19.200 and many other things. They grow a lot of their 2851 02:42:19.239 --> 02:42:22.399 own stuff in house. Have a nice gift shop, locally 2852 02:42:22.479 --> 02:42:24.920 sourced honey and pickled food and jellies and jams and 2853 02:42:25.000 --> 02:42:27.760 bath and beauty products, all of that truly nice. You 2854 02:42:27.799 --> 02:42:31.200 can follow them on Facebook Growers Outlet. So here's the website. 2855 02:42:31.399 --> 02:42:36.159 Growers Outlet in Willis. Go check it out. You have 2856 02:42:36.479 --> 02:42:40.840 got to see their baskets, beautiful hanging baskets. And as 2857 02:42:40.920 --> 02:42:44.719 with weather's warming up, they're getting some gorgeous ferns in. 2858 02:42:45.159 --> 02:42:47.000 I need to post a picture of meat stand beside 2859 02:42:47.040 --> 02:42:48.200 one of their mato ferns. 2860 02:42:48.680 --> 02:42:49.000 It is. 2861 02:42:50.920 --> 02:42:53.959 Is bigger than my arms reaching out is a huge monster. 2862 02:42:54.399 --> 02:42:58.799 Beautiful growers Outlet let's head out to Cyprus and we're 2863 02:42:58.840 --> 02:43:01.079 going to talk now to Kurt. Hello, Kurk, Welcome to 2864 02:43:01.159 --> 02:43:03.680 garden Line. Hey, good morning. 2865 02:43:03.760 --> 02:43:04.239 How's it going. 2866 02:43:05.799 --> 02:43:06.920 I'm doing good, Thank you. 2867 02:43:09.280 --> 02:43:09.440 Hey. 2868 02:43:09.799 --> 02:43:12.959 I've got in my mainly in my backyard, all these 2869 02:43:13.120 --> 02:43:16.600 little white flowers coming up. It's a weed, but it's 2870 02:43:16.719 --> 02:43:19.319 got Uh there's a there's kind of a long green 2871 02:43:19.440 --> 02:43:26.000 stem and then probably four or five white flowers coming 2872 02:43:26.079 --> 02:43:28.520 off of the stem and they've got you know, white 2873 02:43:28.559 --> 02:43:33.200 petals on them, and uh like a yellow yellow center. 2874 02:43:34.040 --> 02:43:36.479 Hey, no, that's about for you to know what they 2875 02:43:36.520 --> 02:43:38.399 are if I need to send you a picture. You know, 2876 02:43:38.799 --> 02:43:42.120 I thought I thought I knew where you're Yeah, I 2877 02:43:42.159 --> 02:43:44.319 thought I knew where you're going, and then the yellow 2878 02:43:44.399 --> 02:43:47.239 center kind of threw me. Let's do this. I don't 2879 02:43:47.239 --> 02:43:50.040 want to guess and be wrong. I'm going to put 2880 02:43:50.079 --> 02:43:54.120 you on hold here and uh, my producer will give 2881 02:43:54.120 --> 02:43:55.959 you an email. Send me a picture of it. Get 2882 02:43:56.040 --> 02:43:58.799 up close, good sharp focus, Send me a picture. I 2883 02:43:58.920 --> 02:44:01.520 want to see the leaves, the flowers, and I'll be 2884 02:44:01.559 --> 02:44:04.000 able to tell you what to do. Having said that 2885 02:44:04.680 --> 02:44:07.479 it's going to be a broad leaf weed, and being 2886 02:44:07.559 --> 02:44:11.639 a broad leaf weed, a post emergent broad leaf weed 2887 02:44:11.719 --> 02:44:14.959 control product will work. And you hear me talk about this. 2888 02:44:15.639 --> 02:44:17.399 There are products, you know. If you just have a 2889 02:44:17.440 --> 02:44:20.239 few here and there of these weeds, you can just 2890 02:44:20.360 --> 02:44:23.559 mix up a liquid and spray spot spray them. If 2891 02:44:23.600 --> 02:44:26.479 you've got them in a pretty large area, you can 2892 02:44:26.559 --> 02:44:29.719 put out a fertilizer that has the post emergent in 2893 02:44:29.879 --> 02:44:31.680 it as well, if you want to go that route. 2894 02:44:32.680 --> 02:44:34.879 But however you want to go about it, and the 2895 02:44:35.000 --> 02:44:37.559 long term, your goal is to build a denser, healthier 2896 02:44:37.639 --> 02:44:40.840 lawn and choke those things out. But in the short term, 2897 02:44:40.959 --> 02:44:44.360 a post emergent product for broad leaf weeds is what 2898 02:44:44.479 --> 02:44:45.159 you're going to want to do. 2899 02:44:47.360 --> 02:44:49.920 Okay, I'll go to a sardware and get some in. 2900 02:44:50.040 --> 02:44:53.959 I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, they'll have it there. You 2901 02:44:54.079 --> 02:44:57.000 got several aces in your area? Are you? Are you 2902 02:44:57.120 --> 02:44:59.200 north or south? Of two ninety. 2903 02:45:00.840 --> 02:45:01.079 North. 2904 02:45:01.120 --> 02:45:03.760 Did you know I'm I go to the one at Grant, 2905 02:45:04.200 --> 02:45:09.440 Grant and Ludda. Okay, okay, well, uh they'll they'll go 2906 02:45:09.559 --> 02:45:12.719 to get you fixed up post emergent broad leaf weed control. 2907 02:45:12.799 --> 02:45:15.120 That's what you need to tell them, killing existing broad 2908 02:45:15.200 --> 02:45:17.719 leaf weeds. But send me that picture. Just let's make 2909 02:45:17.760 --> 02:45:19.879 sure we're right. I'd hate two weeks. I'd hate for 2910 02:45:19.920 --> 02:45:22.719 you to waste your time and money. Uh if I 2911 02:45:22.840 --> 02:45:27.200 didn't guess right without seeing the picture. Okay, all right, 2912 02:45:27.280 --> 02:45:27.760 sounds good. 2913 02:45:27.840 --> 02:45:28.479 I appreciate it. 2914 02:45:28.879 --> 02:45:30.799 All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna put you on hole 2915 02:45:30.879 --> 02:45:36.079 right here and uh, Jonathan will pick up. All right. Well, wow, 2916 02:45:37.399 --> 02:45:40.680 time flew today. I just want to talk again. I'm 2917 02:45:40.719 --> 02:45:44.040 gonna be out at Horges Hidden Gardens and I'll be 2918 02:45:44.159 --> 02:45:47.959 there from one o'clock to three o'clock today, so it's 2919 02:45:48.040 --> 02:45:51.559 later than normal my appearances. I'm not gonna be back 2920 02:45:51.680 --> 02:45:55.639 down this far south, at least this spring. For as 2921 02:45:56.680 --> 02:45:58.520 I'm looking at the calendar here, it's gonna be a 2922 02:45:58.840 --> 02:46:00.360 gonna be a good while for I head back that 2923 02:46:00.440 --> 02:46:02.959 way again that far. So I hope you'll come out. 2924 02:46:03.879 --> 02:46:07.440 When you're out there, you will find that he's got 2925 02:46:07.479 --> 02:46:10.120 everything that you can imagine when it comes to trees 2926 02:46:10.159 --> 02:46:13.120 and trees and shrubs and fruit and vegetables and herbs 2927 02:46:13.159 --> 02:46:17.559 and all kinds of things, beautiful, beautiful plants. I'm gonna 2928 02:46:17.600 --> 02:46:19.440 do some demonstration when I'm out there. I'm gonna talk 2929 02:46:19.440 --> 02:46:22.479 about how to plant a shrub or tree properly. I'm 2930 02:46:22.520 --> 02:46:24.000 not gonna dig the hole. I'm just gonna take it 2931 02:46:24.040 --> 02:46:26.440 on the pot and show you and talk about the 2932 02:46:26.559 --> 02:46:29.559 proper way to plant a tree or shrub to have success. 2933 02:46:29.680 --> 02:46:31.920 And how far apart do you plant trees and shrubs? 2934 02:46:31.959 --> 02:46:33.840 We get that question a lot. I'll talk about that. 2935 02:46:34.920 --> 02:46:38.479 So there'll be some visiting with you, certainly diagnosing and 2936 02:46:38.600 --> 02:46:42.319 identifying plants and problems that you might have. Bring bring 2937 02:46:42.399 --> 02:46:45.920 samples in a bag, bring pictures on your phone. Let's 2938 02:46:45.920 --> 02:46:48.040 spend some time and talk about it. I just love 2939 02:46:48.120 --> 02:46:50.239 to meet you, those of you down in that area. 2940 02:46:50.760 --> 02:46:54.200 I you know, it didn't get much closer than this, 2941 02:46:54.440 --> 02:46:56.479 So all of you in Alvin and Santa Fe and 2942 02:46:56.559 --> 02:46:59.559 Danbury and really down Tiki Island as far as that 2943 02:46:59.799 --> 02:47:04.479 is too far to come Angleton see folks done in Friendswood, 2944 02:47:04.600 --> 02:47:08.159 Iowa Colony and Sienna. All that direction not too far 2945 02:47:08.280 --> 02:47:12.959 to Jorges Hidden Gardens in Another address is on Elizabeth 2946 02:47:13.040 --> 02:47:16.399 Street in Alvin. But I'll tell you this. What you're 2947 02:47:16.399 --> 02:47:18.040 gonna do is you're gonna go to Alvin and then 2948 02:47:18.079 --> 02:47:20.559 you're gonna head on down Highway six towards Santa Fe 2949 02:47:20.600 --> 02:47:23.920 about halfway and turn south to get to Elizabeth Street, 2950 02:47:23.920 --> 02:47:26.719 which is an Alvin address. All right, I hope you 2951 02:47:26.760 --> 02:47:30.159 can make it out there. Look forward to visiting with you. Oh, 2952 02:47:30.520 --> 02:47:34.360 for those of you who are vegetable gardeners, Arborgate Garden 2953 02:47:34.440 --> 02:47:40.000 Center is having a class on Wednesday This Wednesday, March twelfth, 2954 02:47:40.280 --> 02:47:43.920 at ten am. The cost is ten dollars per person 2955 02:47:44.639 --> 02:47:48.840 and it's vegetable gardening made simple. And whenever Arburgate puts 2956 02:47:48.879 --> 02:47:51.399 on a program, it's always a good one. It's always 2957 02:47:51.440 --> 02:47:53.319 a good one. You can give them a call to 2958 02:47:53.399 --> 02:47:56.559 reserve your spot because there's only forty people allowed in 2959 02:47:56.639 --> 02:48:01.559 this class. That's what the space allows. So one three, five, 2960 02:48:01.719 --> 02:48:04.799 one eighty eight fifty one. I'm gonna give you a 2961 02:48:04.840 --> 02:48:06.920 second to find that pen you're supposed to be keeping 2962 02:48:06.959 --> 02:48:10.840 with you when you're listening to garden Line. Arbigate is 2963 02:48:10.920 --> 02:48:16.159 on FM twenty nine to twenty west of Tomball. Okay, 2964 02:48:16.840 --> 02:48:20.319 here's the number two eight one three five one eighty 2965 02:48:20.399 --> 02:48:24.840 eight fifty one two eight one three five one eighty 2966 02:48:24.920 --> 02:48:31.000 eight fifty one. So only forty people and it's gonna 2967 02:48:31.000 --> 02:48:32.600 be a good one. They got a good speaker and 2968 02:48:33.000 --> 02:48:34.840 knows what they're talking about. And by the way, you'll 2969 02:48:34.879 --> 02:48:36.840 be right there at Arburgate. You can grab all the 2970 02:48:36.959 --> 02:48:40.840 supplies you need, including some really cool vegetables that they 2971 02:48:40.879 --> 02:48:45.200 have on hand. Well, I had a thousand things I 2972 02:48:45.280 --> 02:48:47.719 was going to talk about today, and you guys gave 2973 02:48:47.760 --> 02:48:50.000 me a thousand calls, and so we're gonna we talked 2974 02:48:50.040 --> 02:48:52.360 about what you wanted to talk about. I'll try that 2975 02:48:52.440 --> 02:48:56.120 again on tomorrow. But there's plenty to do. Just remember 2976 02:48:56.399 --> 02:48:59.600 we are in the big middle of the best planting 2977 02:48:59.760 --> 02:49:02.479 season of the year. I mean it just well, the 2978 02:49:02.600 --> 02:49:05.239 fall is good too, but when it comes to spring, 2979 02:49:06.000 --> 02:49:09.079 summer is coming. The sooner you plan something, the better 2980 02:49:09.239 --> 02:49:12.239 success you're going to have it. Everybody wants to have success, right, 2981 02:49:12.399 --> 02:49:15.239 I mean, that's the reason we get out there in garden, 2982 02:49:15.360 --> 02:49:18.360 not to try and fail, but to try and succeed. 2983 02:49:18.959 --> 02:49:22.360 And oh my goodness, what a week and now today, 2984 02:49:22.719 --> 02:49:24.479 potential for a little bit of rain as we go 2985 02:49:24.600 --> 02:49:27.319 through the morning time and in the early afternoon. Uh 2986 02:49:27.879 --> 02:49:31.280 Sunday tomorrow, fifty eight degrees drops down to thirty eight 2987 02:49:31.479 --> 02:49:33.840 in some parts the northern parts of the listing area. 2988 02:49:34.040 --> 02:49:36.760 Not so much for you further south. But then here 2989 02:49:36.840 --> 02:49:39.959 we go. Look at the week Monday in the mid 2990 02:49:40.120 --> 02:49:43.120 seventies to upper seventies. Same with Tuesday, even up into 2991 02:49:43.159 --> 02:49:47.079 the eighties. And then Wednesday, another degree and another day 2992 02:49:47.120 --> 02:49:49.280 in the low eighties. Little bit attention rain, not much 2993 02:49:49.479 --> 02:49:52.879 Thursday in the eighties. It is perfect weather. It is 2994 02:49:53.159 --> 02:49:57.479 perfect weather. Don't delay, especially if you're putting out a 2995 02:49:57.559 --> 02:50:01.200 pre emergent herbicide. Remember it's like baseball. If you wait 2996 02:50:01.319 --> 02:50:03.399 until the catcher's already got the ball, it's a little 2997 02:50:03.479 --> 02:50:05.799 late to start swinging. So get that pre murder out 2998 02:50:05.799 --> 02:50:08.239 as soon as you can, and get out there and 2999 02:50:08.280 --> 02:50:12.760 have fun. Brown stuff before green stuff, fix your soil. 3000 02:50:13.200 --> 02:50:15.239 Go to one of our great garden centers I talk 3001 02:50:15.239 --> 02:50:19.239 about on guardline. Gets you some good plants and have fun. 3002 02:50:19.639 --> 02:50:23.120 Gardening is supposed to be fun. It is fun. Got 3003 02:50:23.239 --> 02:50:25.319 questions about plants? Give me a call on garden Line. 3004 02:50:25.360 --> 02:50:28.040 In the meantime, I think about eight hundred times today. 3005 02:50:28.040 --> 02:50:30.719 I referred to my website where I put on stuff 3006 02:50:30.840 --> 02:50:34.559 that helps answer questions, that helps you. So I just 3007 02:50:34.639 --> 02:50:38.920 go straight there. Gardening with skip dot com, gardening with 3008 02:50:39.040 --> 02:50:43.479 skip dot com, bookmark that thing, book market. So you 3009 02:50:43.600 --> 02:50:47.280 got it there, You're ready to go. Makes it simple. 3010 02:50:48.440 --> 02:50:50.760 All right, Well, I gotta run. I'm back to head 3011 02:50:50.799 --> 02:50:53.879 down to Jorges Hiding Gardens in Alvin from one to three. 3012 02:50:54.000 --> 02:50:54.760 Hope to see you there