Speaker 1: Welcome to k t r H Guarded Line with Skip Rickard.
Speaker 2: It's trim.
Speaker 3: Just watch him as manas supt by.
Speaker 4: Not sid.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Good morning, folks. I am glad you are listening.
Speaker 6: Good have you with us? Hope you got a cup
Speaker 6: of coffee in one hand and at least one eye
Speaker 6: at least at half mast open.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: It's going to be a good good day. We've got
Speaker 6: a lot of good stuff going on. I have a
Speaker 6: lot to talk about and I hope you do too.
Speaker 6: If you would like to ask a question, this is
Speaker 6: a call in show. Uh seven one three two one
Speaker 6: two k t r H seven one three two one
Speaker 6: two kt RH. It's always quiet as first thing in
Speaker 6: the morning. So if you got a question, do want
Speaker 6: to wait in line? This is a good time to
Speaker 6: find your answer, and I'll be happy to do that.
Speaker 6: You know, our goal here on Guarden Line is to
Speaker 6: help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape.
Speaker 6: It's as simple as that, and it's not rocket science.
Speaker 6: You can't fail at gardening. You can only give up.
Speaker 6: And so all it takes is some information. The way
Speaker 6: I like to put it is, there are no brown thumbs.
Speaker 6: There are uninformed thumbs, and we're going to inform your
Speaker 6: thumb here on garden line. You know the reason grandma
Speaker 6: could grow anything, you know, it's just like anything she
Speaker 6: put in the ground grew well. It's because she just
Speaker 6: know how to do it. It's as simple as that.
Speaker 6: There's no magic to it. There's no magic. You give
Speaker 6: plants what they want to be happy, and they will
Speaker 6: make you happy by giving you flowers and fruit and
Speaker 6: everything else. So hey, let's turn our landscapes into something
Speaker 6: pretty and have some good gardens. For your lawn, for example,
Speaker 6: now's the time to do three things in the lawn.
Speaker 6: And Nitrofoss kind of got you covered with what they
Speaker 6: call their three steps. The text is three step. You
Speaker 6: know you do the two step on the dance floor,
Speaker 6: the three step in your lawn. That is a fertilizer,
Speaker 6: a pre emergent weed control, and a disease prevention product.
Speaker 6: The fertilizer is Nitroposs Fall Special Winter Riser. It's a
Speaker 6: different blend than we would use in the summer because
Speaker 6: it's for helping plants, the grass plant and this case
Speaker 6: your lawn grass become heartier for winter and come out
Speaker 6: in spring stronger, that's as simple as it is a
Speaker 6: special design mix and it works very very well. That's
Speaker 6: Nitroposs Fall special. Number two Nitrofos barricade is a pre
Speaker 6: emergent herbicide. It helps prevent both grassy and broad leaf
Speaker 6: weeds from sprouting this fall and they will get a
Speaker 6: low col front and some water and here they come,
Speaker 6: So get it down now and barricade will prevent that.
Speaker 6: Then next spring you're not dealing with clover and chickweed
Speaker 6: and hand betting all those weeds you had last spring
Speaker 6: in your yard. Finally, number three Nitrofoss Eagle turf fungicide.
Speaker 6: That is a systemach fungicide. Again, you put it down
Speaker 6: ahead of time. This is not one where you wait
Speaker 6: until you got the big brown patch circles. So you
Speaker 6: see takeoff patch taking out your lawn. You put it
Speaker 6: down now. Then it soaks in, moves into the tissue,
Speaker 6: and when those diseases hit, it's there to prevent them.
Speaker 6: Nitrofoss Eagle Turf Fungicide. You're going to find these products
Speaker 6: of Fisher's hardware, both the one in Baytown, the one
Speaker 6: in Mount Bellevue and Pasadena, and in Laporte as well.
Speaker 6: Nitrofoss Texas. Three steps. All right, well, I said, now
Speaker 6: it's a good time to call in. Here we go,
Speaker 6: let's head out to Pearland. We're going to talk to Beverly.
Speaker 6: First thing up, Hey Beverly, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Kip. I have a question about cestrums. I
Speaker 4: have five of them. They were doing really well. They're
Speaker 4: all about four years old, but then right here in
Speaker 4: the middle of the year, the tops of them started dying.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, every day you'd go out, there
Speaker 4: were the new growth, the little sprigs were all dead.
Speaker 4: So can I cut those back this fall and maybe
Speaker 4: they'll come back better in the spring.
Speaker 6: Totally yeah, you know, I wouldn't cut past the dead
Speaker 6: just to get the dead, the ugly out of there.
Speaker 6: We don't want to stimulate growth. You know, when you
Speaker 6: prune back a plant, it responds by sprouting new growth.
Speaker 6: And we still have warm temperatures, so we don't wanted
Speaker 6: to do that because that succulent growth will get burned
Speaker 6: by the first freeze. So just cut the dead parts back.
Speaker 6: Probably something wrong in the ground too wet to dry,
Speaker 6: something damaged roots. I'm not sure exactly what would have
Speaker 6: done it. But system is a pretty good plant for
Speaker 6: our area, and as you know, it's a wonderful, wonderful
Speaker 6: one to have around. So I would just bring the
Speaker 6: dead out and then hopefully in spring they'll come out
Speaker 6: and be just fine.
Speaker 4: Okay, So but in the spring, I don't need to
Speaker 4: print them back either.
Speaker 6: Just if you want. Yeah, well, they like you, they
Speaker 6: like your place. Quit treating them so nigh. But seriously,
Speaker 6: you can cut them back so much as you want.
Speaker 6: There's not a specific pruning style for sastrum. It's a
Speaker 6: shrub that just you you. You printed as you need to.
Speaker 6: If you like the height of them, then leave them
Speaker 6: that high. If you want to cut them back, you
Speaker 6: can cut them back some. But wait until spring to
Speaker 6: do that kind of cutting back.
Speaker 4: Way until spring. Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it, all right, you bet, thank you, Beverly.
Speaker 6: I appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 6: I wanted to mention the Buchanans native plants. I'm going
Speaker 6: to be out there today. I'm going to be out
Speaker 6: there after the show. I'm going to head over there
Speaker 6: and get to Buchanans about twelve o'clock. You'll be there
Speaker 6: from twelve to two they are having their big shindig today,
Speaker 6: and I mean it is unbelievable. There's going to be
Speaker 6: all kinds of stuff going on. I mean there's color
Speaker 6: stations for kids and painting pumpkins and face painting and
Speaker 6: the moon Bounce that they can play in. Jay White
Speaker 6: from Texas Gardener Magazine will be out there with me today.
Speaker 6: There's a coffee truck and it just goes on and on.
Speaker 6: A band called Yopan, which I think is the most
Speaker 6: appropriate name for a band in Southeast Texas. Maybe Chinese tallow,
Speaker 6: but we don't like Chinese tallis, so we're glad to
Speaker 6: have Yopun there. Jess Chef Marchella from the Kitchen will
Speaker 6: be there, Medino will be there. Of course, I'll be
Speaker 6: there from twelve to two answering your gardening question. So
Speaker 6: if you have any samples you want to bring in,
Speaker 6: put them in a plastic bag and come by. You
Speaker 6: know Buchanans by the way. When you're there, plan on
Speaker 6: picking up your pumpkins for the season. They have all
Speaker 6: kinds of pump every kind of pumpkin slash gourd you
Speaker 6: can imagine for your front porch makeover. It's ready to go,
Speaker 6: so you'll be set for Halloween and the whole fall
Speaker 6: season there at Buchanans. And while you're out there too,
Speaker 6: I would highly recommend you pick up a hummingbird plant birds.
Speaker 6: You know they come through in the fall. We have
Speaker 6: a number of months of the year here and Buchanans
Speaker 6: has got literally dozens of different plants that attract hummingbirds.
Speaker 6: Fall is for planting. Why not grab one of their
Speaker 6: plants for hummingbirds and get that thing in the ground,
Speaker 6: and next year your place will just be even more
Speaker 6: of a way station for those cool little birds that
Speaker 6: are coming through. I'm going to head now out to Cyprus,
Speaker 6: Texas and we're going to talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon,
Speaker 6: Welcome to garden Line, hay Stiff.
Speaker 8: I was gifted a set of Good Morning. I was
Speaker 8: gifted a set of aggy blue bonnet seeds, and I
Speaker 8: need to know when to plant them and how to
Speaker 8: plant them.
Speaker 6: You plant them now, you get some bare soil area
Speaker 6: as much as you can. You know, they don't want
Speaker 6: a lot of competition. Scratch the soil up with like
Speaker 6: a you know, a rake or hoe or some just
Speaker 6: kind of break the surface, scatter the seeds out rake
Speaker 6: it a little bit, and watermen really good keep it
Speaker 6: moist if it doesn't rain. So the best blue bonnet
Speaker 6: stands or years where we have good fall rains, because
Speaker 6: that's when they're getting their sprouting and getting the roots
Speaker 6: in the ground, and that's the most important thing. Once
Speaker 6: they get established, then you don't really really need to
Speaker 6: worry about them so much. But they're pretty easy to grow.
Speaker 6: Just give them a sunny spot. Bluebonnets want as much
Speaker 6: sun as you can give them.
Speaker 8: Okay, I don't have to soak I was reading maybe
Speaker 8: soak the seef beforehand. I don't need to do that.
Speaker 6: You can to speed germination. But if you're going to
Speaker 6: do that, you would just put them in very hot
Speaker 6: water inside the evening before and that warm water. It
Speaker 6: makes the water being warm, it makes the water soak
Speaker 6: up faster, and let it sit all overnight and then
Speaker 6: in the morning pour the water off. I usually put
Speaker 6: them on a cloth or towel just to kind of
Speaker 6: dry them off just a little bit, because they're easier
Speaker 6: to handle when they're not wet. They don't stick together
Speaker 6: as much, and then you can scatter them as you want,
Speaker 6: plant them and then water them in again. And remember
Speaker 6: keep them wet, especially for the first couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: Just a little bit of moisture to keep them wet.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, all right, you're awesome, skipp thanks so much.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you, and then send me a picture of
Speaker 6: the planting so I can start singing the Aggie Warham
Speaker 6: as tears streamed down my cheeks.
Speaker 9: Thank you, sir, Oh you and my kids both.
Speaker 8: All right, appreciate your.
Speaker 10: Kids so much.
Speaker 6: You bet bye bye, all right, we're going to go
Speaker 6: to break folks, We'll be right back. Bring me all right,
Speaker 6: good morning. I thought i'd play that first thing this morning. Hey,
Speaker 6: we are glad you're listening to guarden Line. Thanks for
Speaker 6: being with us. I really appre I do appreciate that.
Speaker 6: It makes it a lot more fun when you're in
Speaker 6: listening and we can answer questions and have a good time.
Speaker 6: You know, anytime you need supplies. And I talk about
Speaker 6: all these products all the time on Guardline. Things that
Speaker 6: I believe in companies that I've used, the companies that
Speaker 6: I know their product or I've seen the research on it.
Speaker 6: And where do you get them? Well, Ace Hardware is
Speaker 6: where you get them. There's forty Ace Hardware stores in
Speaker 6: the Greater Houston area forty that's a lot. I'm pretty
Speaker 6: sure if you walked outside, close your eyes and throw
Speaker 6: a rock, you'd hit an Ace Hardware store. No matter
Speaker 6: where you live, they're everywhere. Don't by the way, don't
Speaker 6: throw rocks at a sardware store. But if you need
Speaker 6: your fertilizers for fall, if you need I was just
Speaker 6: talking about those Nitrofis products. They carry all the brands,
Speaker 6: and they carry the products for controlling diseases. They're controlling
Speaker 6: insects and pests. Do you want to decorate your patio?
Speaker 6: You know it's going to cool off now, and the
Speaker 6: evenings are a great time to be out there. They
Speaker 6: can turn your patio into something magical. All at Ace Hardware.
Speaker 6: It's time to do fire ants too. By the way,
Speaker 6: fire ant baits now now, now get those out. Ace
Speaker 6: Hardware's got you covered. Just go to Ace Hardware dot
Speaker 6: com and find the store locator, find the ones near you.
Speaker 6: You need to check it out. Every time I go
Speaker 6: into an Ace Hardware store, I'm impressed, and I really
Speaker 6: mean that. They're into leon so each one's a little different.
Speaker 6: They still have all the standard stuff. So when I
Speaker 6: make my statements about Ace, they're true of all the
Speaker 6: Ace Hardware stores, but each one is unique and you'll
Speaker 6: see things it's like I didn't know they had that here.
Speaker 6: I promise you will go to Ace Hardware and check
Speaker 6: it out. I'm going to head up to camp Logan
Speaker 6: now and talk to Ron. Hey, Ron, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 7: Hey, good morning up, thanks for taking my call. About
Speaker 7: ten minutes ago. Sent you a picture of my improved
Speaker 7: my livon true. I got it, okay, you could say
Speaker 7: it's about seven feet tall, probably about six seven feet
Speaker 7: dam or. My question is it's making now and everything
Speaker 7: is great, but I'm looking forward to the winner, and
Speaker 7: I wanted your opinion on when exactly to print it,
Speaker 7: if I should, and then how much I should prove it.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, printing is a stimulating process, and anything that's
Speaker 6: semi tender, like a ctris, we don't want to stimulate
Speaker 6: new growth because it was more likely to get damaged
Speaker 6: about cold. I would leave it for now and just
Speaker 6: let it slow down, let the weather cool off, let
Speaker 6: it slow down and everything. When you're gonna have to
Speaker 6: cover it and we're likely to have that, I would
Speaker 6: get me some of those long half inch gray PVC
Speaker 6: pipes and make create basically an IgG glue over it.
Speaker 6: In other words, you know a pipe that arches over
Speaker 6: from north to south, and yeah, and they have the
Speaker 6: gray have belt ends, so you can slide one piece
Speaker 6: of pipe into the other one without having to glue anything.
Speaker 6: And that's what I would do. And then get you
Speaker 6: some lamps. Some they can be heat lamps, but even
Speaker 6: just a good one hundred and fifty watt bulb is helpful.
Speaker 6: I get those on the little clamps with the aluminum shield,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm talking about. Put those attached those
Speaker 6: I see you got a little box around the bottom.
Speaker 6: Attach them to that box and point them down. Don't
Speaker 6: point them at the tissues of the tree. You can
Speaker 6: burn those underneath a plastic cover, something that doesn't air,
Speaker 6: doesn't let air move through. You can really make a
Speaker 6: big difference in temperature underneath there on a very very
Speaker 6: cold night.
Speaker 7: Great and into spring, I mean like some march or so,
Speaker 7: should I go ahead and prune it? And it's so
Speaker 7: how much?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I would? You know, so you got turf around that
Speaker 6: side so you could mow around it. Those low hanging ones,
Speaker 6: you probably need to get those out of the way,
Speaker 6: and just there's not a real system for pruning that tree.
Speaker 6: It's just a matter of when you got that much
Speaker 6: lanky growth and you get some lemons on it, it's
Speaker 6: going to pull everything towards the ground. So just kind
Speaker 6: of pruning as needed. Maybe be willing to prop a
Speaker 6: few things up to get you through a harvest season
Speaker 6: if you need to. But those trees tend to throw
Speaker 6: off extra fruit and not carry too terribly many. They
Speaker 6: set a lot more than they normally will carry. Okay, okay, great,
Speaker 6: thank you, stef. I appreciate it. Well, you bet you,
Speaker 6: bet Ron. Thanks thanks for that question. I appreciate that
Speaker 6: very much.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 6: Moss Nursery done in Seabrook. I haven't talked about them
Speaker 6: in a while. Moss Nursery is an outstanding place to
Speaker 6: visit and it's eight acres you wander through and if
Speaker 6: you've never been there, I don't care where you live
Speaker 6: north south east west, you got to go down to
Speaker 6: Moss and just just walk through that place and see
Speaker 6: number one. You'll never want to come out of their
Speaker 6: houseplant greenhouse. It's unbelievable. It's outstanding.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 6: Moss Nursery is down on Toddville Road in Seabrook, Texas.
Speaker 6: You can look it up. But right now they have
Speaker 6: lots of fall color plants, lots of annuals, things like
Speaker 6: you know, petunias and snap dragons and million bills will
Speaker 6: be you'll Beilia dianthus all that kind of stuff. They'll beginning.
Speaker 6: They got a little bit of the cool, cold coal
Speaker 6: season stuff in and they'll be getting more in. They
Speaker 6: have statuary that is incredible. I promise you you will
Speaker 6: see stuff. It's like I have never seen that before.
Speaker 6: They just make places cool. And if you want to
Speaker 6: turn your landscape into a special outdoor high to be
Speaker 6: something unique, something cool, Moss Nurseries got you covered. They
Speaker 6: always have the plants for the season right now. They've
Speaker 6: also got some trees in that well, they always have
Speaker 6: trees in, but the Chinese fringe tree one of my
Speaker 6: favorite spring booming blooming trees. Falls for planting woody ornamentals.
Speaker 6: Get it in the ground, get you one from us,
Speaker 6: put it in the ground and get going, because then
Speaker 6: for years you'll have this beautiful shaggy white billows of
Speaker 6: blossoms that have a nice fragrance. Again. Moss Nursery dot
Speaker 6: Com m a a s Nursery dot com to find
Speaker 6: out how to get there and anything else you need
Speaker 6: to know. I'm gonna head up to Oak Forest now
Speaker 6: and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Line
Speaker 6: A good morning, Skip.
Speaker 12: Yes, I'm Mike and I live in Oak Forest and
Speaker 12: I have an issue with an infestation of a weed.
Speaker 12: And I know that's a common theme on your show.
Speaker 12: I used a an app, a picture this app called
Speaker 12: It's a Plant identify Er app, and I took pictures
Speaker 12: and I sent some to you as well. And the
Speaker 12: plant I believe is called arrow leaf Sieda. It's it's
Speaker 12: really kind of like a miniature bond said tree that's
Speaker 12: like about an inch high and really really naughty, thick,
Speaker 12: weedy or shrubbery, shrubbery like not. So you have to
Speaker 12: like pull it out and it's a mechanical process and
Speaker 12: it's and it's all over the.
Speaker 6: I know it. It's it's like it's made out of
Speaker 6: out of iron wire or something. It is tough.
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, it absolutely, And so it hasn't taken over
Speaker 12: the whole yard or anything. It's mainly in the back,
Speaker 12: but it's starting to creep into the front and I
Speaker 12: treated it a couple of years ago with a weed
Speaker 12: meter Ultra, which was a broad leaf killer.
Speaker 6: It did. It just wilted a little bit.
Speaker 12: And then it kind of came back. But I have
Speaker 12: a yard full of Saint Augustine grass and I don't
Speaker 12: want to kill the grass, and I don't want to
Speaker 12: hurt the surrounding trees. I live in oaklorus, so I
Speaker 12: have a few oak trees. So I'm looking for something
Speaker 12: that will get rid of this product once and for all.
Speaker 12: I get rid of the weed once.
Speaker 6: All right, here's what you Yeah, here's what you need
Speaker 6: to do. The weed beater alter won't do it. It's
Speaker 6: got an ingredient called a camba in it that can
Speaker 6: help with ceda. But it's also called by the way,
Speaker 6: tea weed, interestingly enough, but it doesn't have enough of it.
Speaker 6: It's made for wimpier weeds. This one is tough. And
Speaker 6: if you look for ceda in lawns online, you're just
Speaker 6: not going to find almost nothing. It's like it's not
Speaker 6: a lawn weed to the turf people around the country,
Speaker 6: but it can be. And it's tough to control anything that.
Speaker 6: What I would recommend is a product called Southern ag.
Speaker 6: That's the company other NAG Basigran, and I'm gonna spell
Speaker 6: it b A s A g r A n Bassigran.
Speaker 6: Now it's sold for sedge control, but it'll also work
Speaker 6: pretty good on the SEDA, and so I would use that.
Speaker 6: It's labeled for Saint Augustine and it has SEDA, one
Speaker 6: of the sedas on its label. There's more than one
Speaker 6: Sieda too. They're very similar, but more than one. I
Speaker 6: would use that, and I would spot treat it. And
Speaker 6: if it were in my yard, I would either water
Speaker 6: or after a rain when the soil is soft, I
Speaker 6: would do some hand pulling because it's coming out of
Speaker 6: one spot and it's a little easier to get out
Speaker 6: when it's like that. It's not it does want to
Speaker 6: break off. You gotta grab it down low. But if
Speaker 6: you can do some of that, that's helpful. But the
Speaker 6: Basigrand as a spot spray is what I would recommend.
Speaker 12: Okay, And where can I get the bassigram?
Speaker 6: I would try an ACE hardware store in your area
Speaker 6: you are located forest, you know. I would also try
Speaker 6: Southwest Fertilizer on bisin ut and Runwick Southwest Fertilizer on
Speaker 6: the corner of busin Ut and Runwick. Bob carries everything there.
Speaker 6: I mean he carries stuff that nobody has, so he
Speaker 6: probably call him first, but he probably has it in stock.
Speaker 6: If he doesn't, I bet he can get it. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 6: So spot Tree, there are some other approaches with the
Speaker 6: bass ground, I would try that. There are some other things,
Speaker 6: but everything has its caveats, and I think i'd start
Speaker 6: with the BASSI ground. If you have trouble with that,
Speaker 6: let me know. We can try some other approaches, but
Speaker 6: I think that's probably the best first shot.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, Well, thank you, Skip. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Hey, thank you, you bet, thank you, thank you for
Speaker 6: the call. I appreciate that very much. We're gonna have
Speaker 6: to go to a break here, Kim and Copperfield and
Speaker 6: Ronnie up in Magnolia. You will be our first two
Speaker 6: up when we come right back. You have to have
Speaker 6: some upbeat stuff to get us awake this morning. For
Speaker 6: those of you who are little sleepy eyed. You know,
Speaker 6: my eyes opened very slowly this morning, but they are
Speaker 6: wide awake now ready to go. Hey, we love feed
Speaker 6: stores on Guarden Line. You know that. I tell you
Speaker 6: that all the time, and if you are up in
Speaker 6: the Magnolia area, Spring Creek Feed there's your hometown feed store.
Speaker 6: They're conveniently located right there on FM twenty nine seventy eight,
Speaker 6: just minutes a few minutes away from Grand Parkway and
Speaker 6: Highway two forty nine. When you go into Spring Creek,
Speaker 6: you're gonna find the fertilizers that I talk about on
Speaker 6: guardline for your lawn. When I say fall fertilizer, you
Speaker 6: got to put a fall furtig. It's time to put
Speaker 6: a fall fertilizer down. When my schedule, which by the way,
Speaker 6: my gardening schedules are available online at gardening with skip
Speaker 6: dot com. They're free. You just print them out and
Speaker 6: take them in and say I want that one. When
Speaker 6: it's the one you want there, Well, Spring Creek has them.
Speaker 6: They have herbicide, pest aside, fungde asides, all the different
Speaker 6: things you need to control the issues that attack your plans.
Speaker 6: The staff is is friendly. I like walking in. First
Speaker 6: of all, when you walk in, it's gorgeous. I mean
Speaker 6: you look around and you go, okay, this looks like
Speaker 6: a boutique and it's a feed store. And the staff
Speaker 6: is so friendly. They greet you they take care of you.
Speaker 6: If you are senior, citizen or military, there discounts for that.
Speaker 6: If you're four h r FFA maybe you're raising livestock
Speaker 6: for the fair, there is also discounts for you as well,
Speaker 6: and they can special order at Spring Creek Feed Again.
Speaker 6: They're on FM twenty nine seventy eight up in Magnolia.
Speaker 6: It's your hometown feed store. Check them out. You will
Speaker 6: be impressed. It really is impressive. I'm going to be
Speaker 6: going up to Nature's Way Resources on October the twelfth.
Speaker 6: Now what would that be? That'd be a week from today.
Speaker 6: Nature's Way Resources is still having their Fungal Friday sale.
Speaker 6: Fungal Friday, so twenty percent off their fungal compost. Now
Speaker 6: you hear me talk about compost top dressing and leafmold compost.
Speaker 6: Neature's weighs, the one that made that famous leb mool compost.
Speaker 6: Fungal compost is also very good to use for compost
Speaker 6: stop dressing. It works well, you get it screened down
Speaker 6: to a good particle size, and at twenty percent off
Speaker 6: on Friday, so that's something you always need to pull
Speaker 6: on the counter on Friday, I'm gonna go buy I'm
Speaker 6: gonna pick it up. I'm gonna call them and have
Speaker 6: them to deliver it. Buy it by the bag, buy
Speaker 6: it by the bulk, and every other product they carry.
Speaker 6: Rose soils, vegetable soils, soils for acid loving plants, mulches.
Speaker 6: They have it all there in Nature's Way and many
Speaker 6: of the products we talk about in the Greater Houston
Speaker 6: area all the time now, like rose soil, for example,
Speaker 6: they invented it. That's where it was born. At Nature's
Speaker 6: Way Resources. Now on next Saturday, they're going to have
Speaker 6: a real shindig and that is my official I'm officially
Speaker 6: designating this as a shindig. That's the highest level of
Speaker 6: party praise you can give in the South. It's the
Speaker 6: Fall Festival, Latin food, local vendors, plant sales. I'll be
Speaker 6: there from eleven to third one thirty with some Q
Speaker 6: and A with you. They'll be live music, there'll be
Speaker 6: children's activities, food and it's just a good time. It's
Speaker 6: going on from nine am to two pm next Saturday
Speaker 6: at Nature's Way Resources. They're on Sherbrooks Circle right where
Speaker 6: the road from Magnolia fourteen eighty eight comes into Interstate
Speaker 6: forty five going north. Just turn right across the tracks.
Speaker 6: Don't go left to Magnolia. Turn right across the tracks
Speaker 6: and you're there and I'll be there again from eleven
Speaker 6: thirty to one. There. I hope you can make it.
Speaker 6: Really looking forward to getting out and doing that. Let's
Speaker 6: set out now to Copperfield and talk to Kim. Hey Kim,
Speaker 6: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 14: I have a question about a Camelia japonica. It's been
Speaker 14: in in the ground about a year now, and a
Speaker 14: few weeks ago I noticed some ground patches on some
Speaker 14: of the leaves, and I suspect their sunburn because they're
Speaker 14: only on the side that gets exposure to sun for
Speaker 14: a few hours a day.
Speaker 4: But I wanted a second on that.
Speaker 6: Did you send me a picture of that?
Speaker 15: Yes?
Speaker 5: I did?
Speaker 6: Did you send Yeah? I remember seeing that. That is sunburn, Kim.
Speaker 6: And you know, did you remove anything that may have
Speaker 6: been partially shading that plant in the last year.
Speaker 14: So the oak tree that shades it has had some
Speaker 14: leaf loss over the past few months and also some
Speaker 14: branches that were damaged as part of the storms that
Speaker 14: we had this year.
Speaker 6: I got you, okay, well that that would explain it.
Speaker 6: It's not a big problem the camelle. You will adjust
Speaker 6: and be just fine. But because of where it's located
Speaker 6: on the leaves and which leaves it's located on, that
Speaker 6: is not a disease or an insect or anything for
Speaker 6: you to worry about.
Speaker 14: Okay, perfect, That's what I wanted to just confirm. Hey,
Speaker 14: can I ask you your opinion checked? Can I ask
Speaker 14: you your opinion on using com post as a maulch.
Speaker 6: It's fine. It is very fine textured, so it blocks
Speaker 6: the light very well. But it's also a good medium
Speaker 6: for seeds to grow in. So if little seeds land
Speaker 6: in it, they're going to just sprout in the compost itself,
Speaker 6: whereas a chunkier malts it's a little thicker. You know,
Speaker 6: they're going to kind of fall down in there and
Speaker 6: and what not. But there's nothing wrong with using composts
Speaker 6: as a mult Every time it rains, it's just like
Speaker 6: the nutrients and the composts percolate out, just like you're
Speaker 6: making coffee in the morning. You just dribble the rain
Speaker 6: water irrigation right through the compost and it percolates out
Speaker 6: the nutrients. So it has the benefit of that as well.
Speaker 14: Perfect all right, Well, I really appreciate your taking my
Speaker 14: call this morning.
Speaker 6: You bet, thanks for being patient. Glad to have you
Speaker 6: here on Guardenline. You take care, thank you.
Speaker 16: Ye.
Speaker 6: A compost is a compost is that's an interesting, you
Speaker 6: know thing that has so many different uses. You know,
Speaker 6: it's almost like the answer to everything is compost. Have
Speaker 6: you ever noticed that you just need compost? Put composts
Speaker 6: in the soil whatever. It fixes everything, and it kind
Speaker 6: of does, you know. Compost takes a sandy soil that
Speaker 6: the water nutrients run right through. Sand is just like
Speaker 6: broken glass. Basically on a microscopic level, nothing sticks to
Speaker 6: sand much and it makes it whole water and nutrients
Speaker 6: better like little sponges in the broken glass of sand.
Speaker 6: A clay soil that's heavy and doesn't drain well, compost
Speaker 6: helps those particles to form clumps, so the water and
Speaker 6: air moved through it better as well. So compost fixes everything.
Speaker 6: We're talking about. Fees source while ago. If you live
Speaker 6: down in the South of Houston area, down in League City,
Speaker 6: your hometown feed stores League City Feed. And it's not
Speaker 6: just for folks in League City, that whole region. Santa
Speaker 6: Fe Dickinson, Lamart Bay Cliff Webster clearly City el Comina Reale.
Speaker 6: I mean that could go on and on. This is
Speaker 6: your hometown feed store. You go to League City and
Speaker 6: it's just a few miles south of Highway ninety six
Speaker 6: on Highway three. So just take Highway three a few blocks,
Speaker 6: A few block miles. What am I saying? A few
Speaker 6: blocks south on Highway three from ninety six. It's easy
Speaker 6: to get to right there inside of the road. It's
Speaker 6: the old time feed store, been around forty years. Still
Speaker 6: carry the bags out for you. And when you go
Speaker 6: in there and you go, ah, Skip was talking about
Speaker 6: this fertilizer, they're gonna have it. They're at League City
Speaker 6: Feed anything control pest, weeds, diseases, you need quality pet food.
Speaker 6: They've got things for your backyard, chicken supplies. They've got
Speaker 6: you covered on that League City Feed Monday through Saturday,
Speaker 6: nine to six. So they're open today nine to six,
Speaker 6: closed on Sundays two eight one three three two sixteen twelve.
Speaker 6: Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. We're going
Speaker 6: to go now to Ronnie at Magnolia. Hey, Ronnie, welcome
Speaker 6: to Guarden Line.
Speaker 17: Borning Skip skip uh questioning your thoughts on planting a
Speaker 17: winter rye on my vegetable garden.
Speaker 6: Winter rye is fine. Uh what is your goal to
Speaker 6: protect the soil or build the soil or build it?
Speaker 2: Are you trying to nutrients?
Speaker 17: I do this out on my cotton farm in West Texas,
Speaker 17: and uh it's it helps us, you know, the the
Speaker 17: next year. And I just it's laying here door does
Speaker 17: after a burrow come through and took care of my garden?
Speaker 17: I kind of just been piecemeling it and uh, okay,
Speaker 17: I'm ready.
Speaker 6: Well, Ronnie, do you do you know? Do you know
Speaker 6: if you had have any nematodes in the soil? Have
Speaker 6: you noticed any knots on the roots of any plants?
Speaker 18: No?
Speaker 16: I have knocked.
Speaker 6: Okay, then you could use you could use regular rye
Speaker 6: that you oversee the lawn with. That's fine. We use
Speaker 6: a cereal, a grain type rye. The variety LBoN is
Speaker 6: what's most often so locally and feed stores and things,
Speaker 6: but to help manage nematode problems. But it also grows
Speaker 6: and produces the biomass that you can turn under the
Speaker 6: soil to build the soil and protect the soil. But
Speaker 6: either one would be fine. If you're not dealing with
Speaker 6: nemotoad's either one. Some people will plant a cover crop
Speaker 6: of something like mustard out there and turn that under
Speaker 6: the soil as well. But what about any way you
Speaker 6: want to go about it, the cereal rye, the grain. Yeah,
Speaker 6: the grain type of rye. The one I mentioned is
Speaker 6: h it's l bond e LB O N and the
Speaker 6: nemetoads go in the roots and they can't reproduce and
Speaker 6: they die, they don't.
Speaker 19: You know.
Speaker 6: It's a it slowly is reducing numbers and nematods. But
Speaker 6: it's going to be upright like oats and wheat. You know,
Speaker 6: it's an upright grain crop, and so you have to
Speaker 6: mow it down. It's not like the overseating your lawn rye.
Speaker 6: That's just a little turf grass kind of thing. So
Speaker 6: either one is fine, sir.
Speaker 17: It wouldn't hurt to be prepared for them until then,
Speaker 17: just go with that cerial rilee yourself.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it wouldn't hurt either way. And sometimes I'll have
Speaker 6: it and I'll just kind of crimp it over, you know,
Speaker 6: you can. You can mash it down over and I
Speaker 6: just plant right through it and it sort of becomes
Speaker 6: a mulch. In the spring too. So anyway, either way
Speaker 6: you want to go about it.
Speaker 17: Where do you get that?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like the no tilt. Uh, let's see you
Speaker 6: are up in Magnolia. I you know, I would call
Speaker 6: Why don't you call the Spring Creek Feed up there
Speaker 6: in the Magnolia area and see if they have it
Speaker 6: or if they can if they can get it. I
Speaker 6: think that would be That's what I would That's where
Speaker 6: I would start. If you're if you're not able, good
Speaker 6: and if you're not able to find them there, you
Speaker 6: might try not too far away from you over on
Speaker 6: the west side of tom Ball's D and D feed
Speaker 6: they may have it as well. But those two places
Speaker 6: is where I would start.
Speaker 16: Okay, buddy, all right, I'm I'm gonna have to run.
Speaker 6: Thank you, sir. Appreciate your call. Uh, Mark and Pearline.
Speaker 6: You'll be the first up when we come back. All right,
Speaker 6: welcome back to the garden Line. Good to have you
Speaker 6: with us today. Have you been to RCW Nursery? That
Speaker 6: is the garden center where Tomball Parkway I WE two
Speaker 6: forty nine comes into Beltway eight north west side of Houston.
Speaker 6: Easy easy to get to RCW Nursery. Has everything you
Speaker 6: need for fall. They have got some outstanding color. By
Speaker 6: the way, did you know marrigols are a great fall
Speaker 6: color plant, And they've got some. They got the big
Speaker 6: pump palm types of marigols, orange and yellow, and you
Speaker 6: know kind of variations within those. They glow in the fall.
Speaker 6: Because spider mites do not thrive in the fall. Their
Speaker 6: populations are crashing now on spider mites. We're not worried
Speaker 6: about them like we are in the summer. People plant
Speaker 6: marigoles in the summer. They auto plant them in the fall.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. Get some at RCW Nursery. They have
Speaker 6: every thing you can imagine. Great new shipments of citrus.
Speaker 6: Outstanding shipments of ceterrus. If you've never had citrus before,
Speaker 6: whether you plant it in the ground or put it
Speaker 6: in the container and you know, roll it in the garage,
Speaker 6: you got to try it. Because the ballooms are heavenly scented.
Speaker 6: I mean, plus you get fruit. But that is great.
Speaker 6: They've got the a Cuba gold dust a Cuba. People
Speaker 6: call me and say, what is a shrub that grows
Speaker 6: in shade? Well, it's like you can't have foliage in
Speaker 6: the shade. On a shrub that that gets thin not
Speaker 6: with a cuba. It's a great choice for shady areas.
Speaker 6: Got those little flecks of yellow in the leaves that
Speaker 6: make it kind of brighten up in the shade. Really beautiful.
Speaker 6: And their trees are on say listen, shrubs are twenty
Speaker 6: percent off right now. Shrubs are twenty percent off at
Speaker 6: RCEW Nurseries. They have beautiful box cherry laurel trees. Their
Speaker 6: trees are fifteen percent off for the month of October,
Speaker 6: So grab you one. Do you need a tree that's
Speaker 6: small you can plant. They've got those sizes. Do you
Speaker 6: want something two hundred gallon like a tunnerd gallon burrow
Speaker 6: or laspark elm lace parkser gorgeous. They'll connot and plan
Speaker 6: them for you. Just go to r CW Nurseries again,
Speaker 6: corner of Bela eight and Tmaa Parkway there right there,
Speaker 6: easy to get to r cwnurseries dot com. That's their website.
Speaker 6: All right, I'm gonna head out to h let's see,
Speaker 6: we're gonna go to Mark in Parland. Hey Mark, welcome
Speaker 6: to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Good by, good morning man. I've spent a couple of
Speaker 20: years bringing my yard back from my killing.
Speaker 21: It with a.
Speaker 2: Uh this, I lost this.
Speaker 6: Uh sir, I lost you for a second. Go ahead,
Speaker 6: I got you back.
Speaker 20: Okay, great, I was forbad to put down the winter
Speaker 20: risers schedule, and man, my dog will rescue a chicken
Speaker 20: out the side of the road. So now I have
Speaker 20: one of those backyard chickens you were just talking about
Speaker 20: advertisement just a while back, and now I'm wondering, I
Speaker 20: can't use that not your fall pre step, so I
Speaker 20: need to is there is there something I can do
Speaker 20: to keep that chicken from croaking after I put you
Speaker 20: on something put down the treatment or some of treatment.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I've never I've never had a I've never
Speaker 6: had a question about a backyard chicken and fertilizers and
Speaker 6: pesticides like that. That's a that's a good one. Uh well,
Speaker 6: I mean, if you want to be if you want
Speaker 6: to be extra safe. Nitro Fuss does have something called
Speaker 6: sweet Green that's normally when we put on in the summertime. Right,
Speaker 6: it's an eleven zero four, So I wouldn't recommend it
Speaker 6: as a fall fertilizer, but you could use Microlife's brown pat.
Speaker 6: It's called Microlife brown Patch it's in a brown bag.
Speaker 6: It's a five to one three fertilizer and that would
Speaker 6: do that would do very very good for you. And
Speaker 6: you're gonna find it down at your ace hardware. They're
Speaker 6: in pairland, they're going to have that for life.
Speaker 20: Brown okay and probably but probably no pre pre emergency either.
Speaker 16: Huh.
Speaker 6: Well, for the pre emergence. From an organic end, what
Speaker 6: we have to do is either use something called corn
Speaker 6: gluten meal, which I bet the chicken likes, but it's
Speaker 6: kind of hidden miss. Yeah, it's hidden, miss, But you'd
Speaker 6: put it down and you water it in and it
Speaker 6: can work on some weeds and the right conditions. And
Speaker 6: I won't go into details on it, but basically, we
Speaker 6: get too much rain and the way that product works,
Speaker 6: if it keeps getting wet, it's not going to be
Speaker 6: as effective. So that's where for an organic standpoint, we
Speaker 6: just focus on cultural practices that increase turf density, which
Speaker 6: is mowing, watering, and fertilizing. So you can build your
Speaker 6: way out of a weed problem by building a denser
Speaker 6: turf by proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing. And by the way,
Speaker 6: if you go online to gardening with skip dot com
Speaker 6: The Pest Disease and Eat Schedule and the lawn Schedule
Speaker 6: both have organic alternative options on them. So just go
Speaker 6: go find my schedules online and it's all right there,
Speaker 6: we'll do okay, well, good, thanks for the call man.
Speaker 16: Good.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I have fun with that chicken. Bye. That's good.
Speaker 6: Speaking of birds, Wabird's unlimited. Oh my gosh, will they
Speaker 6: ever take care of you when it comes to every
Speaker 6: kind of feed you need. By the way that your
Speaker 6: chicken would like any birds seed that drops out of
Speaker 6: the feeder, But well, wabirds, that doesn't happen. You know
Speaker 6: why because wabirds has no messed blends that you can purchase,
Speaker 6: and they have blends. All their blends are what the
Speaker 6: birds want to eat. Those old red beabies and cheap
Speaker 6: bird seed birds kick them out. They don't eat that.
Speaker 6: That's not that's like putting. That's like putting Brussels sprouts
Speaker 6: on my plate. I'm gonna kick it off on the floor.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to eat it. But I know some
Speaker 6: of you like that. But wildbird stuff is stuff birds like.
Speaker 6: Right now, wildbirds they have their annual feeder swap and
Speaker 6: this is so cool. I saw a picture, and it
Speaker 6: is this pile of old bird feeders that people are
Speaker 6: brought in. You bring your old bird feeder in, I
Speaker 6: don't care what condition it's in. You bring in. Trade
Speaker 6: in your old bird feeder twenty percent off a new
Speaker 6: bird feeder. And we're entering the cool season when we
Speaker 6: want to be out there feeding our birds as if
Speaker 6: we didn't all year anyway, any feeder you bring in
Speaker 6: twenty percent off at all six wild Birds locations. So
Speaker 6: how do you find one? WBU dot com forward slash Houston.
Speaker 6: WBU dot com forward slash Houston and that'll get you
Speaker 6: right there to your Wildbird's store, simple as that. All right, folks,
Speaker 6: I hear music that means we're about to go to
Speaker 6: the top of the hour on the news, George and
Speaker 6: Jersey Village. You'll be our first up. If you can
Speaker 6: hang on till we come back. I want to remind
Speaker 6: you I'm going to be at Buchanan's Native Plants today.
Speaker 6: That's right today, I'll be there from twelve to two pm.
Speaker 6: Come on out and see me. Let's visit. I always
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Speaker 6: make sure they're in sharp focus. Bring me your photos,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rict.
Speaker 22: It's so.
Speaker 19: Trim.
Speaker 15: Just watch him as.
Speaker 19: Well.
Speaker 6: Welcome back, Welcome back to Guarden Line. Hey, it's good
Speaker 6: to have you with us. We are looking forward to
Speaker 6: spending the rest of this morning up to ten am
Speaker 6: with you talking about the things that interest you in gardening.
Speaker 6: That's why we're here. You can give a call if
Speaker 6: you like at seven one three two one two k
Speaker 6: t r H seven one three two one two K
Speaker 6: T R H. I'm your host, Skip Richt, and we're
Speaker 6: here to help you have a bountiful, bountiful garden, a beautiful,
Speaker 6: beautiful landscape. And one way you can do that is
Speaker 6: by heading up to Arbrogate. Have you been to Have
Speaker 6: you been to Arbrogate in Tomball recently there on the
Speaker 6: west side on twenty nine twenty. If you haven't been there,
Speaker 6: you need to crawl out from under a rock and
Speaker 6: go find that place because you have never seen anything
Speaker 6: like it. It is a wonderland. Their display gardens are gorgeous.
Speaker 6: They have plants that you this bit this way. When
Speaker 6: you go to Arburgate and you see a plant number one,
Speaker 6: there's a chance you may not have seen it anywhere
Speaker 6: else because they do a great job of bringing in
Speaker 6: some really cool and new ones. But they also do
Speaker 6: an outstanding job of making sure what they bring in
Speaker 6: is stuff that's going to grow here, and then they've
Speaker 6: got the expertise to go with it.
Speaker 15: You know.
Speaker 6: I talk all the time about the fact that it's
Speaker 6: so important to support our independent nurseries because they live here,
Speaker 6: they grow here. They don't order stuff to go to
Speaker 6: stores all over the country. In some big box where
Speaker 6: you're getting sold black raspberries and Tomball Texas in Houston, Texas,
Speaker 6: which don't grow. Here, you got people that know what
Speaker 6: they're doing and they grow. They bring in the plants
Speaker 6: you need to have success and Arbigate they're experts. I'm
Speaker 6: telling you that I've visited with Beverly Ken and a
Speaker 6: lot of the staff there. They know what they're talking about.
Speaker 6: And when you walk in, your jaw's going to drop
Speaker 6: because it's always gorgeous and beautiful. Their gift shops are outstanding,
Speaker 6: their fault color is outstanding. I mean I could just
Speaker 6: go on and on all day. You need to go
Speaker 6: to Arbrogate if you haven't been there, Arborgate dot com.
Speaker 6: Arburgate dot com. It's on the west side of tom
Speaker 6: Ball twenty nine to twenty go out there, park in
Speaker 6: the back, take Trishel Road around the back. They've got
Speaker 6: a great old weather parking lot back there, and they
Speaker 6: are stocked up and ready for fall, and every season
Speaker 6: it's just new wonderful things coming in. I love going there.
Speaker 6: I love it, absolutely do, and you will too. If
Speaker 6: you don't already go by the way, take a friend
Speaker 6: when you go, because there there is so much fun
Speaker 6: to have, and you know that your friends will love
Speaker 6: going with you as well. It's good, I don't know,
Speaker 6: turns a what would be a shopping trip into a
Speaker 6: personal time with friends. That's a good thing. Gardeners like
Speaker 6: to hang out together. Let's go to George now in
Speaker 6: Jersey Village. Hey, George, welcome to garden.
Speaker 22: Good morning, Good morning Skip. I'll just listening to your
Speaker 22: your Arborgate advertisement. They sell your plants that are going
Speaker 22: to grow by in my yard and stuff like that,
Speaker 22: or they just very pretty for display something like that.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. No, they have gorgeous plants that will
Speaker 6: grow here. And if you have issue with the plant,
Speaker 6: I mean, you go into Arburgate shopping. Maybe it's a
Speaker 6: plane you didn't buy there. You just said, hey, I
Speaker 6: got this plant that's doing this. They'll help you with it.
Speaker 6: They'll help you with it.
Speaker 22: Okay. So my question is, and the resolve of dispute
Speaker 22: for me about how deep your plant the seed. I'd
Speaker 22: heard that depends on the size of the seed. Like
Speaker 22: the little bed seeds like poppies. They can put them
Speaker 22: a sprinkle them across the top of the ground and
Speaker 22: sprinkle dirt on top of them. Bigger seeds like peppers,
Speaker 22: hot peppers you got to put on people like half
Speaker 22: inchs in the ground something like that. What what do
Speaker 22: you know?
Speaker 6: Okay, now now you know I'm I'm I'm getting alarmed here.
Speaker 6: You said you're an argument. Isn't with your wife?
Speaker 15: Is it?
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna tell you, smart man, I was going
Speaker 6: to tell you because if it was, you know, gardening
Speaker 6: advice is free. Marriage counseling is three hundred dollars an hour.
Speaker 16: So I don't know how you.
Speaker 6: Want to go now, Seriously, seeds in general, in general,
Speaker 6: when in doubt, plan a seed about three to four
Speaker 6: times it's with deep so a pento bean. You know,
Speaker 6: just take a simple, big old seed that's going to
Speaker 6: go about half inch three quarters of an inch or
Speaker 6: so down in the ground. Something small like a poppy seed.
Speaker 6: You're not even really partly bearing it. You're scratching it
Speaker 6: in and pressing it. There are a few seeds that
Speaker 6: need light. Lettuce and carrots typically or better put on
Speaker 6: the surface and just watered in, really pressed to the
Speaker 6: surface and watered in really good because they need a
Speaker 6: little bit of light. But that's the exception. Most seeds
Speaker 6: want to be buried about three to four times are.
Speaker 22: With deep Okay, answer the informans, all right, thanks.
Speaker 6: A lot, all right, good, thank you, thank bye bye.
Speaker 6: Have fun yeah, okay, we got to have some fun
Speaker 6: here on line right. Microlife fertilizer. Someone called me earlier
Speaker 6: and was talking about lawns and they got a chicken
Speaker 6: in the backyard and they want a fertilizer that's inorganic
Speaker 6: for the in case chicken picks it up. Well, Microlife,
Speaker 6: that's that's what you can do. Microlife has a wide
Speaker 6: variety of products that are all natural loaded with microbes.
Speaker 6: They understand that microbes rule the world and when it
Speaker 6: comes to plants especially, microbes are essential for healthy plants.
Speaker 6: We have just scratched the surface on learning how important
Speaker 6: microbes are and all the things they do. They fight disease,
Speaker 6: you know, they fend off, they outcompete other other organisms
Speaker 6: on the surface of a plant that might want to
Speaker 6: attack that plant. So things like micro grow bioanoculant, you
Speaker 6: can put that out. It comes in a bag, comes
Speaker 6: in the clear jars as well. You put that on
Speaker 6: on your lawn when you do your fall fertilizing. That's
Speaker 6: what I would recommend to the Microlife brown Patch. Microlife
Speaker 6: brown Patch. It's a five to one to three fertilizer.
Speaker 6: That's your fall fertilizer for microlife. Then do the micro
Speaker 6: grow bioinoculant. Spread it also. Don't mix them together, spread
Speaker 6: them separate leabag. You can do it the same day
Speaker 6: and then watered in. And the micro grow has sixty
Speaker 6: three different beneficial microorganism strains in it. And these are
Speaker 6: things that do fight against disease issues. They are out
Speaker 6: compete disease issues. Microlife's got it all. You can find
Speaker 6: Microlife lots of places. You can go to Microlifefertilizer dot
Speaker 6: com if you want to find their sources. But I
Speaker 6: can just tell you this, it's everywhere. It's easy, easy
Speaker 6: to find, and the stuff works. I've used it myself.
Speaker 6: I know that it works. I wanted to talk about
Speaker 6: trees a little bit. Someone was talking earlier about their
Speaker 6: camella that's getting some sunburn, and they said they had
Speaker 6: some tree damage in the storm and now more suns
Speaker 6: coming through. We had a lot of tree damage. In fact,
Speaker 6: I'm surprised there's a living tree in Houston after the
Speaker 6: hurricane and the other horrible storm that we had that
Speaker 6: knocked out powerful couple weeks. Affordable Tree Service is the
Speaker 6: person I would trust for your tree care here in
Speaker 6: the Houston area. It's as simple as that. I want
Speaker 6: to give you their number, and I'd like you to
Speaker 6: write this down because you never know when you're gonna
Speaker 6: need it. It's seven one three six nine nine two
Speaker 6: six six three. If you don't have a pen, grab
Speaker 6: one and we'll keep talking. I'll give it to you
Speaker 6: again just a second here. Martin Spinmore has been doing
Speaker 6: this for a long time and he and his wife
Speaker 6: Joe are the ones that answer. The phone's there, so
Speaker 6: when you call, if you don't get Martin or Joe
Speaker 6: on the phone, the owners, you've called the wrong place.
Speaker 6: You want to dial seven one three six nine nine
Speaker 6: twenty six sixty three. If you like websites aff tree
Speaker 6: Service dot com aff tree Service dot com, you got
Speaker 6: to get on his schedule asap. October through February is
Speaker 6: the big printing season. He stays very, very busy, and
Speaker 6: if you call him, tell him your guardline lister. Get
Speaker 6: on the schedule because it doesn't matter when in there
Speaker 6: you get the printing done. Just get on the schedule
Speaker 6: so you can get the printing done. So don't delay,
Speaker 6: you wait too long. And he who hesitates as lost
Speaker 6: as they say, call Martin an affordable tree and get
Speaker 6: on the schedule seven one three, six nine nine two
Speaker 6: six sixth tree. He'll look at your He'll look at
Speaker 6: your trees. He'll decide what's needed or not and tell
Speaker 6: you and give you a plan for what to do
Speaker 6: about it. If you're gonna do any changes in your
Speaker 6: landscape around the tree, anywhere within the branch spread of
Speaker 6: the tree, or even beyond, let him look first, let
Speaker 6: him come out and consult first, because you can do
Speaker 6: a lot of damage when you don't do it right,
Speaker 6: and he can tell you how to do it right.
Speaker 6: We're gonna now go. Let's him know. I'm gonna really
Speaker 6: go to a commercial right now. When I come back,
Speaker 6: Tammy in the Woodlands, you'll be our first upright. Welcome back,
Speaker 6: Welcome back to your garden line. I'm your host, Skip Richter,
Speaker 6: and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden,
Speaker 6: a beautiful landscape. That's as simple as that. I have
Speaker 6: one way to do it. If you live down in
Speaker 6: the Richmond Rosenberg area, you and if you've been out
Speaker 6: in Chenni Gardens, you got to go check it out.
Speaker 6: This place is it is a destination garden center. I've
Speaker 6: been there and talk to people from Austin, Texas. It
Speaker 6: drove all the way over just to see in Chenne Gardens.
Speaker 6: That's the kind of place it is. I love our
Speaker 6: mum and pop garden centers because they just they just
Speaker 6: make things special, and I really mean that. For example,
Speaker 6: at Channa Gardens right now, they got their pumpkin house.
Speaker 6: If you've never seen it, you got to go buy.
Speaker 6: It's a house in the wall. It's just solid covered
Speaker 6: with pumpkins. It's gorgeous. They got places that you can
Speaker 6: do your photos where you stand in front of like
Speaker 6: a giant butterfly or something like that to take photos.
Speaker 6: Bring the kids out, have some fun, bring your friends. Actually,
Speaker 6: come on, man, we're having fun here gardening. You want
Speaker 6: to know how to make our herb basket. They have
Speaker 6: a little video and you have to go to their
Speaker 6: Facebook page, and I would recommend.
Speaker 16: That you do that.
Speaker 6: That you absolutely follow our garden centers on their Facebook
Speaker 6: and Instagram. They sign up for the newsletters and Channi
Speaker 6: Gardens has an outstanding newsletter. You can just watch how
Speaker 6: to do it and they'll do it for you. If
Speaker 6: you want to go buy one that's already done, you
Speaker 6: can go that route. You can do it. But I
Speaker 6: would just say check it out and learn do some
Speaker 6: do it yourself. It's fun as always. Whatever the season
Speaker 6: has in store, they've got it in in Chanted Gardens.
Speaker 6: That includes a fall color that includes beautiful decorations for
Speaker 6: Halloween and the whole fall season. Here's where they are
Speaker 6: FM three fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond and
Speaker 6: you go north toward Katie Fuller, Katie fullsher direction, that
Speaker 6: is the direction to go Enchented Gardens on FM three
Speaker 6: fifty nine. Here's the website. You need to go to
Speaker 6: the website Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond
Speaker 6: dot com. We're now going to the Woodlands and we're
Speaker 6: going to talk to Tammy. Hello, Tammy, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Hi Skip, good morning. I'm calling for a friend who
Speaker 23: has the backyard that is it's all weed. I couldn't
Speaker 23: even find it. The runners of Saint Augustine in there,
Speaker 23: and she wants to put Saint Augustine down and My
Speaker 23: question is, and I can't remember, is this a good
Speaker 23: time to do it, say, in the next month, or
Speaker 23: would she would it be better for her to wait
Speaker 23: until the spring, some time after the new year, And
Speaker 23: if so, you know what time period would you recommend
Speaker 23: to have sad sit down?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I would wait. You can plant sod pretty much any
Speaker 6: month of the year, but when we get further and
Speaker 6: further into fall, the root growth slows down a lot.
Speaker 6: So if you were going to do it now, you
Speaker 6: need to do it immediately. But if she's got a
Speaker 6: big weed problem and there are any perennial weeds, you
Speaker 6: need to get rid of those before you put the
Speaker 6: sod down. So if you were putting it on Saint
Speaker 6: Augustine and you had bermuda grass which is a perennial weed,
Speaker 6: or nuts edge or things like that, it's better to
Speaker 6: eradicate those and then lay your sod. Now, if it's
Speaker 6: all annual weeds, all you got to do is scrape
Speaker 6: it off or spray it and kill it and put
Speaker 6: the sod down on the soil and you're okay. But
Speaker 6: this may be a good time to start killing the
Speaker 6: perennial weeds that are there. Any low areas to fill
Speaker 6: them in. Randy used to talk about kill till phil process,
Speaker 6: where you know, you get rid of the perennials, you
Speaker 6: til things up. You're fill in any low spots to
Speaker 6: level it all off, and then when you put the
Speaker 6: new side in, it's ready to go. And by the
Speaker 6: time we get to sometime later in March, it'll be
Speaker 6: warming up enough for the roots to begin to grow
Speaker 6: and for the sod to go down really well. And
Speaker 6: the warmer it gets, the happier the sod gets when
Speaker 6: it comes to rooting quickly.
Speaker 23: Okay, well, she's helping to sellar home in March, so
Speaker 23: that might be a little late.
Speaker 6: Well, then, Ques, she needs to go out there and roto.
Speaker 6: She needs to go out and roto till it now
Speaker 6: and get some side down right now, just like this
Speaker 6: week if possible, to give it the best chance, because
Speaker 6: that way, coming out in the spring, it'll look better.
Speaker 23: Okay, there's a part of the yard it's really shady.
Speaker 23: She wants Saint Augustine for the part that gets more sun.
Speaker 23: What type of grass grows in a more shady area
Speaker 23: is that bring to.
Speaker 6: No, Saint Augustine is the most shade tolerant, and so
Speaker 6: it is. I would go ahead and get the same.
Speaker 6: If it's a deciduous shade, then as she plants it now,
Speaker 6: it'll get light through the wintertime. Our grass doesn't go
Speaker 6: fully dormant. Saint Augustine doesn't go fully dormant in the winter,
Speaker 6: and so it will do okay until the leaves come out,
Speaker 6: and then sometime next summer it may start struggling if
Speaker 6: there's too much shade. But other than trimming out some
Speaker 6: tree limbs to brighten it up, that's about all that's
Speaker 6: in her power.
Speaker 23: Okay, perfect, awesome, Well, thank you so much, really helpful.
Speaker 16: Bye.
Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks, appreciate the call. Bye bye. When I talk
Speaker 6: about supplies, I talked to somebody earlier today about Southwest
Speaker 6: Fertilizer being the place to go for it everything. Southwest
Speaker 6: Fertilizer has every product you could possibly need for your lawn, garden,
Speaker 6: your landscape of vegetables, herbs, flowers, tree, shrubs, fruit ones,
Speaker 6: you name it, they've got it. If you hear me
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Speaker 6: guard line. Bob's got it a Southwest fertilizer, And if
Speaker 6: he doesn't have it, you can probably get it because
Speaker 6: he has a wide, wide variety of things everything you need.
Speaker 6: Plus he and his team there have the knowledge to
Speaker 6: point you at the right thing. You bring some weed
Speaker 6: in and a plastic bag, they'll tell you what to
Speaker 6: use for it, and they won't steer you wrong. They
Speaker 6: know their products, they know their stuff, and that's important.
Speaker 6: Remember Also, they've got they sharpened more blades there. They've
Speaker 6: got a small engine repair in the back. So we're
Speaker 6: entering that fall season where we're putting some things up.
Speaker 6: Now'd be a good time to get things right so
Speaker 6: when you come out in the spring you're ready to go.
Speaker 6: You know, that's when there's the rush at the shops
Speaker 6: or getting things tuned up and fixed. Why not do
Speaker 6: that now, here's the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. There's
Speaker 6: a phone number seven one three six six six one
Speaker 6: seven four four. Southwest Fertilizer been runs. It's nineteen fifty
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Speaker 6: listening area, it's worth a trip to drive over to
Speaker 6: see Southwest Fertilizer and all the things that they carry
Speaker 6: there in the store. We'll own out to spring and
Speaker 6: talk to Roderick. Hello, Roderick. Welcome to garden Line morning skip.
Speaker 6: How are you cop I'm well, sir. How can we
Speaker 6: help tonight?
Speaker 21: Got two questions for you. In my backyard, I have
Speaker 21: an area where I have a gutter.
Speaker 16: And it gets extremely wet.
Speaker 6: Is there anything I can put in that area too,
Speaker 6: so it's so anytime that it ranks not as wet
Speaker 6: like I thought about putting.
Speaker 2: Some fans had no idea what's put.
Speaker 6: So if your only two options are to reroute that
Speaker 6: gutter down spout somewhere else, or like into an underwater
Speaker 6: pipe that takes it somewhere else, or to put in
Speaker 6: a gravel bed to catch it and a trench and
Speaker 6: gravel to carry it off somewhere else. You just got
Speaker 6: to keep the water from getting there, or find a
Speaker 6: way to get it to a lower spot, because you
Speaker 6: know gravity is taking it wherever it's going to go,
Speaker 6: so uh, those are the things that are in your power.
Speaker 6: Or put a little you know, put a little rainwater
Speaker 6: collection system there and then you plus you get rainwater
Speaker 6: out of the deal. But those would be the options,
Speaker 6: all right.
Speaker 4: Number two, In my front flower bed, I'm getting this weed.
Speaker 2: It's a two LEAs weed.
Speaker 15: The weaves go right and.
Speaker 21: Left, and inside of the bait, it's just nothing but roses.
Speaker 21: But I'm trying to figure out what can I.
Speaker 18: Put in the flower bed to get all these weeds
Speaker 18: out by having it without having to just pull all
Speaker 18: the weeds myself.
Speaker 6: Are there currently flowers in the bed or are you
Speaker 6: between plantings?
Speaker 24: No curly roses in the bed that are still blooming.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's tough to kill weeds without killing the good stuff.
Speaker 6: These weeds sound like broadleaf weeds as opposed to grasses
Speaker 6: and the things that kill broadly weeds kill petunias and
Speaker 6: kill roses and kill you know, other broadly plants. So
Speaker 6: your options are either hand pulling, or if it's an
Speaker 6: annual weed, sometimes you can kind of mow it down
Speaker 6: a little bit weed eat it down or whatever, and
Speaker 6: then cover it with a real thick mulch and smother
Speaker 6: it with me smother meaning block the light out of it.
Speaker 6: And you can go that route. But other than that,
Speaker 6: the only other thing would be to do a weed wiper,
Speaker 6: where you apply the herbicide to a sponge and wipe
Speaker 6: it on the weeds, And I have one on my
Speaker 6: on my website Gardening with Skip dot com. It tells
Speaker 6: you how to build a weed wiper if you want
Speaker 6: to go check that out, and that way you can
Speaker 6: go underneath the rosebush. This little device applies to the
Speaker 6: herbicide to the weed and doesn't spray, doesn't get on
Speaker 6: your rosebush or in the soil or anything.
Speaker 2: I may try the mulching idea first, so I appreciate it.
Speaker 16: Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: With Mike, all right, if you happen to have a
Speaker 6: newspaper and know someone who still takes a paper, you
Speaker 6: put about four to six sheets a newspaper down after
Speaker 6: you've kind of mowed the weeds back or weeded in
Speaker 6: them back a little bit. You put four to six
Speaker 6: sheets a newspaper and then throw your mulch on top
Speaker 6: of that. That paper will rot in time, but it
Speaker 6: does a better job of blocking all the light out
Speaker 6: and getting those weeds under control.
Speaker 22: All right, I appreciate it, thanks sir, have a good.
Speaker 6: Day, all right, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 6: The folks at Medina have been making products for a
Speaker 6: very long time. In fact, I think that's one of
Speaker 6: the first sponsors of garden Line, before it was even
Speaker 6: Gardenline was Medina agg products, and Medina has, you know,
Speaker 6: really made a name for themselves with things like the
Speaker 6: has to Grow. Has to Grow is kind of a
Speaker 6: standard product they have. They have one called has to
Speaker 6: Grow plant Food. It's a six twelve six and fallish
Speaker 6: for planting. And if you're going to put a plant
Speaker 6: in the ground, get you some has to Grow six
Speaker 6: twelve six, put it in a watering can and just
Speaker 6: water your plants in with it. Use that as your
Speaker 6: drench to water your plants in six twelve six lots
Speaker 6: of phosphorus the middle number. You can even put a
Speaker 6: little bit water some down in the bottom of the hole,
Speaker 6: put the plant in, water it again, and then fill
Speaker 6: up with soil and water it again. And that medinosoil
Speaker 6: activator that's in there will stimulate biological activity. They've got
Speaker 6: humic acid in has to Grow six to twelve six
Speaker 6: plant food as well. You can get in a quart
Speaker 6: bottle with a measuring cup. That makes it real easy.
Speaker 6: You can do hose in sprayer if you want to
Speaker 6: go that route about it. It's not gonna burn your plants.
Speaker 6: It will build up the biological activity. It will promote
Speaker 6: fruiting and blooming, and it's excellent for transplanting excellent. So
Speaker 6: whether you're putting in fall vegetables or fall flours, or
Speaker 6: that are a rose bush or a tree, this fall
Speaker 6: has to grow six twelve six. That's as simple as that.
Speaker 6: You need to do that really really help get them
Speaker 6: off to goods. Are I always like to do it.
Speaker 6: People forget to give their plants a boost when they're
Speaker 6: getting unplanted, and that is very important. That plant is
Speaker 6: trying to get established and it's just not real easy
Speaker 6: easy for the plant it needs. It needs a little
Speaker 6: help in that process. For those of you up in
Speaker 6: the Montgomery area, you've got an A plants and produce
Speaker 6: right on your doorstep there on one oh five on
Speaker 6: the east side of Montgomery. I was up there recently,
Speaker 6: had a really good time out there for the folks
Speaker 6: that came out and visited with us. We had a
Speaker 6: good time.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: A and A has got every fertilizer I talk about
Speaker 6: Nitroposs Nelson, the All Nelson's turf Star line, microlife products.
Speaker 6: They've got all of the heirloom soils in nature's way,
Speaker 6: the leaf mole compost for example. They have you set
Speaker 6: up to have success with I say, brown stuff before
Speaker 6: green stuff, meaning fix the soil, then plant the plant.
Speaker 6: They've got everything you need for the brown stuff to
Speaker 6: get off to a good start. Their fall colors outstanding.
Speaker 6: I just saw some beautiful asters, beautiful moms. A and
Speaker 6: A has what you need. Just swing by there on
Speaker 6: one oh five, if you're on on one, if you
Speaker 6: live at one of those lake neighborhoods out at Lake Conroe,
Speaker 6: this is your backyard garden center. A and A Plants
Speaker 6: and produce in Montgomery. All right, time for me to
Speaker 6: take a break. I will be right back, and when
Speaker 6: we come back, Suzanne and Laporte, you'll be our first stop.
Speaker 6: Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line, Little Kobe
Speaker 6: Calais this month. You know, I have talked about Nelson
Speaker 6: products for a number of years and I've used them
Speaker 6: for a number year. Nelson makes quality fertilizers, they just do.
Speaker 6: Their turf Star line is outstanding. And when it comes
Speaker 6: to fall, the turf Star product you need to be
Speaker 6: looking at is carbo load. Carbo load white carbo load,
Speaker 6: because when you put it down, it's got good potassium
Speaker 6: and some nitrogen. Good potassium content to help the grass
Speaker 6: build carbohydrates. Sun shines on plant leaves. Plant leaves make carbohydrates.
Speaker 6: Carbohydrates creates winter hardiness and helps your long come out
Speaker 6: stronger in the spring. The most important fertilization of the
Speaker 6: year if you want to have a good, strong early
Speaker 6: growth in your grass, is the fall fertilization because it's
Speaker 6: using the nutrient load that it went into winter with
Speaker 6: to come out in spring. Carbo Load by turf Star
Speaker 6: it works. It has a pre emergent herbicide in it,
Speaker 6: and so you do not want to delay. With just
Speaker 6: regular fertilizers. You can put them on and late September,
Speaker 6: in October, you know, whenever you want to put them down,
Speaker 6: you can put them down. But with carbo load, I
Speaker 6: would do that early. I would do that now. Now
Speaker 6: is the time to do that, because you're going to
Speaker 6: put it down. You're going to water it in with
Speaker 6: about a half inch or so of water just to
Speaker 6: move the nutrients and that product pre emergent into the
Speaker 6: soil surface. That way, when we get a call front,
Speaker 6: when the weather cools off a bit, when we get
Speaker 6: some rain and those weed seeds starts to sprout, the
Speaker 6: carboload pre emergent is there ready for it. So you
Speaker 6: get the nutrient and you get the pre emergent all
Speaker 6: in one product from Nelson plant Food. And again Nelson
Speaker 6: widely available, not hard to find Nelson products in the
Speaker 6: Greater Houston area. Let's go to Laporte now and talk
Speaker 6: to Suzanne. Hey, Suzanne, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 25: Hi Skip, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it.
Speaker 25: I live down here in Laporte near the bay, and
Speaker 25: I have an enormous backyard. It receives full sun. It's
Speaker 25: about one thousand feet. It has several places that are browning,
Speaker 25: and it looks kind of tacky, however, and it still
Speaker 25: has areas that are green. We were out of town
Speaker 25: on travel for a long time, and when we returned,
Speaker 25: that's the way it was. The lawn crew took care
Speaker 25: of it, but just mode and you know, typical yard
Speaker 25: care like that. My question is now, some green grass
Speaker 25: is growing through all of the brown throughout the yard.
Speaker 25: And I purchased the stuff the Texas three Steps. So
Speaker 25: I was wondering, Okay, should we go ahead and apply
Speaker 25: that or is that foolish to apply it to a
Speaker 25: yard in such bad shape?
Speaker 6: No, No, you need to apply it to the yard
Speaker 6: and bad shape here's why the three step is going
Speaker 6: to be three. As you know, three things. It's a
Speaker 6: fall special Winner riser designed for that, and so that
Speaker 6: will help your lawn get stronger. So coming out in
Speaker 6: spring it's going to be in better shape. So you
Speaker 6: definitely need to do the fall Special Winner riser. The
Speaker 6: barricade is of course the pre emergent herbicide, and both
Speaker 6: the fertilizer and the barricade you want to water them
Speaker 6: in after you apply them, to get them down in
Speaker 6: the soil surface, because your lawn struggling means the sunlight
Speaker 6: is hitting the soil, and wherever sunlight hits the soil,
Speaker 6: nature plants of weeds. So you're gonna have cool season
Speaker 6: weeds germinating in a lawn that's gotten thinner like that.
Speaker 6: So barricade ahead of time is important. That means, that
Speaker 6: means to it. Now, who knows when the neck round
Speaker 6: coldfront's going to hit the cool things off a little,
Speaker 6: and so go ahead and get it down. And then
Speaker 6: the fung aside that one, you don't need to water
Speaker 6: in so much. It's a systemic product that you put
Speaker 6: on your lawn. Just a little bit of water, just
Speaker 6: a little bit to put down and it'll move into
Speaker 6: the grass plant. And so when brown patch hits or
Speaker 6: take all root route, which both occur in the fall,
Speaker 6: that it is in the plant to defend the plant.
Speaker 6: If you wait until after the circles appear, it's a
Speaker 6: little late to stop because they've already it's already created
Speaker 6: the brown spots, brown circles in the lawn. So yes,
Speaker 6: all of those are important, especially and you're so situation okay?
Speaker 19: Perfect?
Speaker 25: And should I do all should we do all three
Speaker 25: of those at the same time?
Speaker 6: You can do them all on the same day. Don't
Speaker 6: mix products in the same hopper. So spread the fertilizer,
Speaker 6: then come back and put the barricade in. Spread it,
Speaker 6: then come back.
Speaker 25: You know, I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: I would do the fertilizer. That's okay, I would do
Speaker 6: maybe I was talking over you. I would I would
Speaker 6: do the fertilizer in the barricade on the ground, and
Speaker 6: then water men really good, okay. And then with the eagle,
Speaker 6: just follow the label. Follow the label on that. It
Speaker 6: is going to be a granular you put on, so
Speaker 6: you are going to want to water it too. Just
Speaker 6: check the volumes on those, uh it, Maybe you can
Speaker 6: put all three and then water or that you would
Speaker 6: do the first two water and then maybe when you
Speaker 6: put the eagle down watered in as well.
Speaker 25: But it'll tell you okay, perfect, And that last one
Speaker 25: is is the turf eagle right?
Speaker 6: Yeah, eagle turf funder side eagle.
Speaker 25: Turf that's on your side. Okay, Oh that sounds great.
Speaker 25: I'm excited, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what you bet?
Speaker 16: You bet.
Speaker 6: If you go to my website gardening with skip dot com,
Speaker 6: you can see my schedule there. There's one for fertilizing
Speaker 6: and there's one for pest disease and weeds. If you
Speaker 6: look on there, you'll see those products and you'll see
Speaker 6: exactly the timing on the eagle turf fung your side.
Speaker 6: I might do a second if you feel like you've
Speaker 6: got some take all root rot, which I'm kind of
Speaker 6: wondering if you do, based on some things you've said,
Speaker 6: you may want to repeat it again in November again,
Speaker 6: because that take all is a problem and we really
Speaker 6: need to get ahead of it. So just be ready
Speaker 6: to do a second eagle in November if you think
Speaker 6: you may have some of the take all root rot,
Speaker 6: and i'd have to see a sample to know for
Speaker 6: sure on that.
Speaker 25: All right, that's great advice. Okay, now that chands good.
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Speaker 6: We're gonna go now to friends Wood and talk tomorrow, Kello, Mark,
Speaker 6: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Hey, Skip, thanks for taking my call. Yes, so I
Speaker 19: have a question. Hey, I'm sorry, Yeah, I have a
Speaker 19: question on a crate myrtle. I cut it last year.
Speaker 7: I cut all my crate myrtles last year, and one
Speaker 7: in particular.
Speaker 19: It just it's quick growing. I did spray it down
Speaker 19: with I've got some I guess some.
Speaker 21: I don't know what it is so.
Speaker 19: Black that grows on one of the and it was
Speaker 19: actually on a different.
Speaker 24: Crape myrtle, but the one in particular I actually spray
Speaker 24: down and I cut it and it is totally quick growing.
Speaker 24: I've recut it and I see that it has green
Speaker 24: and it actually is blowing. It's growing a little bit
Speaker 24: of a black stuff on the sides.
Speaker 7: Of on the on the trunk, but.
Speaker 19: It hasn't grown in eight months, nine months, So I
Speaker 19: don't know if you had a solution or what I
Speaker 19: should do.
Speaker 6: That's very strange. Yeah, it's very strange. Crapes are usually
Speaker 6: pretty good about re sprouting when you cut them back.
Speaker 6: Something is not quite right with it. I don't know
Speaker 6: if maybe it's a little on the dry side or
Speaker 6: some other issue is going on. You know, I don't
Speaker 6: have the crystal ball on what it could be, but
Speaker 6: but it sounds to me like first thing I think about,
Speaker 6: is it getting outequate soul moisture.
Speaker 21: Uh.
Speaker 6: The black on the trunk is a sign of crepe
Speaker 6: myrtle bark scale. And if you can get a systemic
Speaker 6: insecticide that you apply as a drench around the plant, Okay,
Speaker 6: systemic insecticide. And if you go into your down there
Speaker 6: in Friendswood, you got an ACE hardware store close by, uh,
Speaker 6: and go in and say I need a I need
Speaker 6: a systemic drench herbicide for scale insecticide, not herbicide insecticide
Speaker 6: for scale. I'm gonna give you. Do you have a
Speaker 6: pin or pencil handy?
Speaker 15: I do?
Speaker 21: I do?
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm gonna spell something out, d I n O dino.
Speaker 10: T e f.
Speaker 6: T e F you are a n so I'm gonna
Speaker 6: say it again, dino taf fr ron d E d
Speaker 6: I n O t e you are an oh n an. Anyway,
Speaker 6: ask for that ingredient if you can find it. If
Speaker 6: they don't, they have another one, that's okay too. But
Speaker 6: if you can find the dinner tept run, follow the label,
Speaker 6: mix it up, drench it. It goes up in the plants, plumbing,
Speaker 6: and it kills those scale because they're just like ticks
Speaker 6: on a dog, you know, just sort of dragging it
Speaker 6: down a little bit more. And let's go ahead and
Speaker 6: knock that out on that particular Kramer.
Speaker 19: Okay, I appreciate it, Thank you so much. Yes, sir,
Speaker 19: all right, you bet.
Speaker 6: You good luck, good luck with that. If you want
Speaker 6: to have compost op dressing done, now is a good
Speaker 6: time to do it. And if you live in the
Speaker 6: northwest quadrant of Houston. And what do I mean by that,
Speaker 6: I mean just imagine Interstate forty five Interstate ten, the
Speaker 6: northwest quadrant that is the service area for green Pro.
Speaker 6: They cover about forty five minutes from or forty five
Speaker 6: miles from Magnolia. That's Spring Cyprus Woodlands, Conrad Willis and
Speaker 6: then over up into Magnolia, Montgomery and down to Katie
Speaker 6: West Houston, Central North Houston, that area all right now
Speaker 6: through fall. You need to hear this now through fall.
Speaker 6: If you hire them to do a compost top dressing,
Speaker 6: they will do for free the aeration of your lawn,
Speaker 6: but you have to do a two yard minimum. You
Speaker 6: can't buy a yard a compost and do that. If
Speaker 6: you get a two yard minimum of compost top dressing done,
Speaker 6: then they do the aeration for free. Price to start
Speaker 6: at five seventy five plus tax. It they're hauling a
Speaker 6: very expensive equipment around. They're hauling a lot of bulk
Speaker 6: material around. That's why they have a service area. But
Speaker 6: they do a good job. And if your lawn is struggling,
Speaker 6: if it's take all damage, if it's chinchbugs, if it's
Speaker 6: just drought or whatever it is foot traffic, especially compaction
Speaker 6: compost top dressing follow with a aerration is a way
Speaker 6: to get oxygen and organic material back down into the
Speaker 6: soil and really help that grassroots system to thrive. Greenpro
Speaker 6: greenpro dot net is the website, the phone number two
Speaker 6: eight one three five one forty seven thirty three. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna give you that again two eight one three five
Speaker 6: one four seven three three greenpro dot Net. Well, now
Speaker 6: go to Charlie in Spring Texas. Hey, Charlie, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 21: Hey skip that we're doing this morning?
Speaker 6: Well, sir, how can it help? Yeah?
Speaker 21: So, I have a pair of a crape myrtles at
Speaker 21: my house and for the last light I would say
Speaker 21: two years or so, and there's just like this thick
Speaker 21: like black tar that's just literally you can see it
Speaker 21: dripping off of the leaves. I mean, it's getting all
Speaker 21: over the cars. But it's only the two that are
Speaker 21: about ten feet from each other. The other one on
Speaker 21: the other side of the driveway it doesn't have it.
Speaker 21: And my wife and I, I mean we returned them
Speaker 21: every year they roll back, but it's just like I
Speaker 21: would say, about six months out of the year, there's
Speaker 21: just this real thick black tar that's just literally just
Speaker 21: dripping all over our cars.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, Charlie, that is crepe myrtle bark scale, and
Speaker 6: the crpe myrtle itself will sometimes drip. There are different
Speaker 6: insects that suck the sugary juices out of plants, and
Speaker 6: then they basically pee out the sugar water and wherever
Speaker 6: it lands, you get soot all over the plant. And
Speaker 6: if it's if it's a sugary water, it may be
Speaker 6: black as well. But the bottom line is you got
Speaker 6: to kill the insect to stop that. And it's not
Speaker 6: generally something that kills crpe myrtles, but it sure makes
Speaker 6: them look bad. And then you get the junk on
Speaker 6: your picnic table or your car or whatever you're sitting
Speaker 6: underneath the tree. I don't know if you heard that
Speaker 6: last color, but Dino Teferon is a drench that you
Speaker 6: can purchase that I think would be the way to
Speaker 6: go at this point in the season. I hesitate recommending
Speaker 6: it earlier in the season just because the great myrtles
Speaker 6: and the blooms and the bees and things. But at
Speaker 6: this point in the season you could go ahead and
Speaker 6: do that and it would be fine. And are you
Speaker 6: are you in spring or are you in a spring branch?
Speaker 21: I'm in a Spring?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, good? Well up around spring. You've got an
Speaker 6: Ace Hardware store there on Spring Stiper's Road, Spring Ace Hardware.
Speaker 6: That's probably the closest to you. There's some other aces around.
Speaker 6: There's one over on Rayford Road as well, all Star Ace.
Speaker 6: But they're gonna probably have the systemics. They'll have Dino Tevron,
Speaker 6: or they'll have and that's the ingredient, not the brand name,
Speaker 6: or they'll have something else that's a systemic insecticide for scale.
Speaker 6: They can point you to just follow the label and
Speaker 6: go ahead and get it done while they're still sap
Speaker 6: flowing in the plant.
Speaker 21: Okay, yeah, we'll do, We'll do, sir.
Speaker 16: I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 6: I appreciate your call very much. Well, we guy as
Speaker 6: far as we could this hour. Folks Ms V and Conroe,
Speaker 6: Charlie and are a Rose in texts Textra Cana. You'll
Speaker 6: be our first two up. If you can hang around
Speaker 6: until we come back. I want to remind you today
Speaker 6: I'm gonna head over to U. Cannon's Native Plants. They
Speaker 6: are having their fall Fest, and their fall Fest is
Speaker 6: a very very fun time. Go by and check it out.
Speaker 6: They're gonna have things like the Wonder Pops, which is
Speaker 6: a frozen dessert company. It's gonna be there. They'll have
Speaker 6: a costume contest. They're gonna have live live music going on.
Speaker 6: I'll be there answering your gardening questions from twelve to two. Now,
Speaker 6: the whole Fall Fest is from ten to three, but
Speaker 6: I'll be there from twelve to two for two hours
Speaker 6: giving them one hundred dollars gift certificate. You got a
Speaker 6: register to win and a bag of Microlife brown Patch
Speaker 6: as well. For those lucky folks that come by and
Speaker 6: happen to win. Stop in, Bring me some samples, bring
Speaker 6: me some photos. Let's figure out how to help you
Speaker 6: have a better lawn and garden. That's what we're there for.
Speaker 6: Can't wait to meet you. Come on out.
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Speaker 6: Hey, welcome back to Garden Line. Welcome back. Good to
Speaker 6: have you with us today. We are talking plants, Surprise Surprise,
Speaker 6: and it's a call in show Surprise Surprise seven one
Speaker 6: three two one two k t r H. We're here
Speaker 6: to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. Remember,
Speaker 6: your thumb is not brown. It is not brown. It
Speaker 6: is uninformed and if if if you want to call
Speaker 6: it brown then let's turn it green with a little
Speaker 6: good information and advice. That's what we're here about here.
Speaker 6: You know, when you get the right kind of plant,
Speaker 6: when you take care of it right, when you plant
Speaker 6: it right and give it the care it needs, you're
Speaker 6: going to have success. And that's exactly a reason why
Speaker 6: I would tell you to go to a place like
Speaker 6: Plants for All Seasons on two forty nine up toward
Speaker 6: Tomball Parkway, right just north of Luetta. So if you're
Speaker 6: going up toward Tomball and you exit Luetta crossover Luetta,
Speaker 6: it's right there on the right hand side. And what
Speaker 6: am I What do I mean by that? What I
Speaker 6: mean by that is this. They sell plants that grow here.
Speaker 6: They've been doing this since nineteen seventy three. They know
Speaker 6: what grows here. They've seen it all. They've been through
Speaker 6: the years where said web worms were sabed. They couldn't
Speaker 6: even put the phone down before it rang again. You know,
Speaker 6: they know those kinds of things, and they know how
Speaker 6: to take care of plants. You walk in and you go,
Speaker 6: you know what, here's a picture of a plan, here's
Speaker 6: a sample of a plant. Can you help me with this?
Speaker 6: Of course they will whether you bought it there or not,
Speaker 6: they'll ho with it and then they'll put a plant
Speaker 6: in your hand that will be a better choice for it.
Speaker 6: If that's what's needed. Do you need products to go
Speaker 6: with your plants? Outstanding supply of products if you're organic,
Speaker 6: if you're synthetic, whatever it is, they've got the supplies
Speaker 6: that you need for you. So if you have got
Speaker 6: a brown thumb and you want to turn it green,
Speaker 6: you need to visit Plants for All Seasons. If your
Speaker 6: thumb's already green, well you already know about plants for
Speaker 6: all seasons. This family owned and operated Say's nineteen seventy three,
Speaker 6: from education, a selection to delivery, you name it. They
Speaker 6: can do it at Plants for All Seasons dot com.
Speaker 6: That's the website, Plants for All Seasons dot com, or
Speaker 6: give them a call to eight one three seven six
Speaker 6: sixteen forty six. They're stocked up with all your fall, fertilization, pest, theeze,
Speaker 6: disease control, all that. They're stocked up on that. So
Speaker 6: swing by there and when you're grabbing some plants, grab
Speaker 6: some of that as well. For example, they also have
Speaker 6: a great selection of microlife products. You know microlife life
Speaker 6: is the fertilizer. It's what we think of as our
Speaker 6: Houston born organic fertilizer sold all over the state now.
Speaker 6: But microlife is loaded with micronutrients. And those of you
Speaker 6: who are interested in gardening organically, you already know about microlife.
Speaker 6: For fall, the microlife you want to be putting out?
Speaker 6: Is there? Brown patch, that's what it's called. Now that
Speaker 6: sounds like a disease fungicide, Well it's not. It is
Speaker 6: a fertilizer. Microlife brown patch. It's a five to one
Speaker 6: to three fertilizer, got a little extra potassium in it
Speaker 6: to help it. But it's loaded with microbes. And when
Speaker 6: you load something up with microbes, you make the plants happier.
Speaker 6: Plants need microbes. And when it comes to diseases like
Speaker 6: the brown patch that attacks our grass in the fall,
Speaker 6: things like microlife brown patch and microlife bioenoculant. That's a
Speaker 6: second thing, bioinoculan. Sixty three different beneficial microorganism strains, and
Speaker 6: there's just loaded different kinds of things. Some of them
Speaker 6: produce antibiotics. Some of these microbes produce antibiotics to help
Speaker 6: the plant. Some of them out compete the disease on
Speaker 6: the plant's surface. So you're putting out good guys out
Speaker 6: there if you will, to just create this jungle that
Speaker 6: some of the diseases have a more difficult time establishing in.
Speaker 6: And by applying microlife you get a good gradual feed
Speaker 6: to take care of your plants the way plants want
Speaker 6: to be taken care of. Microlife brown patch and micro
Speaker 6: grow bioenoculent. Those are the two you need to be
Speaker 6: putting down for your fall season. Just go to my
Speaker 6: gardening schedule online at gardening skip dot com you learn
Speaker 6: more about these types of things. I'm going to go now,
Speaker 6: let's see where were we We're going to go to
Speaker 6: talk to Miss V in Conroe. Hello, Miss V, Welcome
Speaker 6: to garden Line.
Speaker 26: Bye, Hi, sir, Hi. I just came across your strict station,
Speaker 26: so I quickly jotted down what I wanted to ask,
Speaker 26: and you can give me the shortcut quickly because it's
Speaker 26: five questions.
Speaker 22: From I ask.
Speaker 26: I have a hot and I'm eighty years old, so
Speaker 26: I'll catch on very quick. I just bought a Honda,
Speaker 26: the most modern how you say, push one that goes,
Speaker 26: it walks or whatever. It can bag back and mulsh
Speaker 26: and mulch. I would like to know, should I use
Speaker 26: the mult setting when I'm cutting my grass and let
Speaker 26: the grass just fall and leave it there.
Speaker 6: Okay, First of all, misbae, I like you already. I
Speaker 6: like you already. So here's what you need to do.
Speaker 6: Whenever you maulch, you're chopping up the grass clippings to
Speaker 6: put them back in the lawn. And that is a
Speaker 6: good thing to do. Now, if it rains and you
Speaker 6: can't mow for a while, and now you got this
Speaker 6: knee deep grass out there in the front yard, go
Speaker 6: ahead and bag those and use them as a mulch
Speaker 6: around your plants and the gardens and beds. But whenever
Speaker 6: you can turn those clippings back into the soil, it's
Speaker 6: a good idea because that adds nutrients. It's free or
Speaker 6: gain fertilizer every time you mow and you return the clipping.
Speaker 6: So yes, you should do that. Okay, with your nice now.
Speaker 26: Now for and don't ask me why I keep forgetting
Speaker 26: When it's like going to the grocery store. I keep
Speaker 26: buying this winter rise at home depot. I have eight bags.
Speaker 26: Can I put the winter rise now or not?
Speaker 11: Now?
Speaker 26: Wait for November December, winter rise.
Speaker 6: Now's the time. I don't know what's in that product.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't I would shop definitely. Well, all right, all
Speaker 6: the label on it.
Speaker 26: Okay, okay, this is a month to do.
Speaker 6: I don't know if you can take any of that bag.
Speaker 6: But you don't need eight bags of fertilizer. I I
Speaker 6: can tell you that, no, without getting into which one.
Speaker 26: Yeah, I'll all of it, but I just want to
Speaker 26: start using it now. And okay, divide the balls? Can
Speaker 26: I divide my ball to my day lilies? And anything
Speaker 26: that's balls?
Speaker 22: Can I divide it any here?
Speaker 6: It is anything that blooms in the spring and summer,
Speaker 6: you can. You can divide it now. But if it's
Speaker 6: gonna bloom in the fall, you can divide it in spring.
Speaker 6: That's the better time. Think of it as the season
Speaker 6: opposite when it blooms.
Speaker 26: Okay, okay. Now, you remember, many many, many many years ago,
Speaker 26: the gentleman that had to get off the air. You
Speaker 26: know why, And I ain't gonna go there. He used
Speaker 26: to promote Medina, Medina, Medina. You know who I'm speaking about, right, No.
Speaker 6: But listen, this is gonna have to be my last question.
Speaker 6: But you can call back. What is your question?
Speaker 26: Yeah? Can I use the medina that I've had for
Speaker 26: fifteen years or close to twenty years. I've never opened it.
Speaker 26: It's all liquid and different things has growed the whole thing.
Speaker 26: It's all medina. Can I use to think of promoting?
Speaker 6: Yeah, don't, don't worry about it. Just I don't know.
Speaker 6: It's not gonna be bad, but it's probably it may
Speaker 6: not be effective at what it's doing. Like what if
Speaker 6: they're not made to last that long? Mix it up
Speaker 6: in some water and apply it on a few plants,
Speaker 6: see how it does, and then apply the rest of you. Okay,
Speaker 6: thank you, ma'am. I gotta run. I gotta run. I
Speaker 6: got a line of people here that are waiting to
Speaker 6: talk to me, So feel free to call any time
Speaker 6: you want you. I like you all right. Oh gosh,
Speaker 6: that you threw me off there, ladies, thank you, miss me. Hey,
Speaker 6: I gotta go to a break right now. I'll be
Speaker 6: right back. Rose in textall Canada, Paula, Missouri City. You'll
Speaker 6: be our first up come. I think there. I think
Speaker 6: I threw through the board off as well. Okay, boy,
Speaker 6: I like talking to people here on guarden line. You
Speaker 6: know that's this good. I like gardeners. Gardeners are fun.
Speaker 6: That is that is fun right to the hay No more,
Speaker 6: all right, welcome back to garden Line. I'm ready to
Speaker 6: go for the next hour. Here, folks, I want to
Speaker 6: remind you I'm gonna be up Buchanan's Native Plants today
Speaker 6: after the show. I'll be there from twelve noon to
Speaker 6: two pm for their Fall festival. This is one heck
Speaker 6: of a party. You don't want to miss. Bring the kids.
Speaker 6: If you don't got any kids, go knock on the
Speaker 6: neighbor's door. Bring their kids. They're gonna have a pumpkin painting,
Speaker 6: they're gonna have face painting, they're gonna have coloring stations.
Speaker 6: Hey right, just all kinds of stuff, beanbag toss, ring toss,
Speaker 6: scavenger hunt, on and on and on. Moon Bounced? Did
Speaker 6: I say moon Bounce. I'm gonna have to get in
Speaker 6: that one myself. I'll be there from twelve to two
Speaker 6: answer your gardening questions, giving away a one hundred dollars
Speaker 6: gift certificate. You got a registered to win and micro
Speaker 6: like brown Patch fertilizer whenever you're planting a tree. And
Speaker 6: I hope if you have any intention of planting a
Speaker 6: tree in the next year, you do it now because
Speaker 6: fall is the best time. It gives that new tree
Speaker 6: all winter to build roots in preparation for summer heat
Speaker 6: that's coming next year. First summer is a killer on
Speaker 6: young trees, shrubs, woody vines, all those things. Get them planted.
Speaker 19: Now.
Speaker 6: When you plant that tree, gets you a three sixty
Speaker 6: degree tree stabilizer.
Speaker 19: What is that.
Speaker 6: It's a bar you hammer in a t post. You
Speaker 6: attach it to the teeposts or any kind of post
Speaker 6: of work. It has a loose soft strap that holds
Speaker 6: onto the tree and allows it to move a little.
Speaker 6: Movement is important. Movement builds trunk strength, so you don't
Speaker 6: want to just honker it down with three tight guy
Speaker 6: wires like you see people do. One three sixty tree stabilizer.
Speaker 6: If it's a big tree, you can use two at
Speaker 6: right angles to each other. Will help get that tree
Speaker 6: established and it last. They last a long time. You
Speaker 6: just put up hanging up in the garage. Next thing,
Speaker 6: you plant a tree. Your neighbor plants a tree. You
Speaker 6: got one. You can get them at RCW, you can
Speaker 6: get them at Southwest Fertilizer. You can get them at
Speaker 6: Buchanan's Native Plants, where I'll be today. You can get
Speaker 6: them at Jorges Hidden Gardens done in Alvin plants for
Speaker 6: all seasons. I was just talking about them up on
Speaker 6: two forty nine Arbrigade out west of Tomball. All these
Speaker 6: places carry the three sixty tree stabilizer. Fall is the
Speaker 6: best time by far for planting a tree. Three sixty
Speaker 6: tree stabilizer is the best way to secure that tree
Speaker 6: but allow the movement needed to build the ultimate trunk
Speaker 6: strength as it grows. We're going to go now to
Speaker 6: Missouri City and talk to Paul. Hello Paul, and welcome
Speaker 6: to garden Line.
Speaker 22: Good morning, Skip.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I called a couple of weeks ago with an
Speaker 10: issue on my lugustrium bushes, and at the time you
Speaker 10: told me that I probably had a fungus and you
Speaker 10: told me to spray with the decument and another chemical.
Speaker 10: You told me to alternate the spring. What was the
Speaker 10: name of that other the application, the other.
Speaker 6: One that Yeah, the other one would have been something
Speaker 6: called Belaton. Yeah, b A y l e B A
Speaker 6: y l e t o n B A y l
Speaker 6: e t o n. Now you're going to find that
Speaker 6: in a lot of different brands. Okay, there's a number
Speaker 6: of different kinds of belaton out there on the mark.
Speaker 6: I mean different brands of belaton out there on the market.
Speaker 6: But the reason I recommend that is because the the
Speaker 6: the beilaton, the dacanila itself, and the belaton are different
Speaker 6: types of fungicides, and so by alternating you prevent resistance
Speaker 6: and it does a better job of controlling the particular
Speaker 6: disease you've got.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, okay, understand. So what does the frequency that
Speaker 10: I spray? Of course I did the Dalcon Hill about
Speaker 10: two weeks ago, So do.
Speaker 6: What I would do now, go ahead and spray it.
Speaker 6: Now you can alternate weekly. What is most important is
Speaker 6: after we get a rain or hopefully your irrigation isn't
Speaker 6: wetting the foliage, because that makes it a lot worse.
Speaker 6: But if we get a rain, after the rain drives off,
Speaker 6: just go out there and spray with the bailaton or
Speaker 6: the dakanel, and then next time you spray, spray with
Speaker 6: the other one. And so if we went for like
Speaker 6: three weeks without a drop of rain, you wouldn't have
Speaker 6: to spray every week. But you just want to make
Speaker 6: sure following a rain, you spray because that's when those
Speaker 6: spores are starting to sprout to infect.
Speaker 10: Okay, so now the foliage that's kind of lime going
Speaker 10: colored and spotted, and I have to wait for those
Speaker 10: leaves to fall off before I get new.
Speaker 6: Booms or well no, I mean, you know, it's always
Speaker 6: good to rake up fallen leaves, always a good idea.
Speaker 6: And if you've got some on there that are pretty infected,
Speaker 6: I would just pull them off because they're sick. They're
Speaker 6: full of spores to reinfect the healthy leaves that are
Speaker 6: coming out, and so it's just a good idea to
Speaker 6: go ahead and get rid of those leaves. I know
Speaker 6: your plants drop leaves, and now I'm telling you to
Speaker 6: pull more off, but I'm just saying that it's important
Speaker 6: to make sure that those spores are not out there
Speaker 6: to reinfect so much.
Speaker 10: Okay, yes, yes, okay, very good, thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, those sick leaves aren't doing Imagine this. Imagine
Speaker 6: you had a house full of people and five people
Speaker 6: were sick and coughing. Wouldn't you want to send them
Speaker 6: out of the house so everybody else. That's what those
Speaker 6: that's what those infected leaves are you know, you go, well,
Speaker 6: it's only leaves I got left. Well, okay, but when
Speaker 6: a new one comes and rain splashes, it's going to
Speaker 6: splash the disease onto the new leaves. So okay, I
Speaker 6: think you get the idea. Hey, thanks, I appreciate that call.
Speaker 6: You bet, you bet. Absolutely. Jeges and Gardens is down
Speaker 6: in Alvin, Texas. Now you probably have heard me talk
Speaker 6: about horages before. Hoy uh. It's fairly new when it
Speaker 6: comes to our garden centers here in the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 6: But they're they're way down there due south, so it's
Speaker 6: real easy. If you're down in that whole area anywhere
Speaker 6: around Alvin, Texas, this is this is your hometown garden center.
Speaker 6: You maybe you're in Santa Fe or Dickens Center, Hillcrest
Speaker 6: or Arcadia, al Diloma. I'll go even for example, they've
Speaker 6: got it. They by the way, they carry that three
Speaker 6: sixty tree stabilizer I was just talking about. They always
Speaker 6: have a good supply of fruit trees, especially the Centris two.
Speaker 6: They're always getting in vegetable plants. They got roses, they've
Speaker 6: got crpe myrtles. They have an outstanding selection of all
Speaker 6: kinds of quality trees. Jorge has some pretty large ones too. Wednesday.
Speaker 6: You're not going to pick out and plant, but you
Speaker 6: want that instant look. He can take care of you
Speaker 6: and he can do that as well. So I think
Speaker 6: it's important that you remember when you're going to plant
Speaker 6: a tree, now's the time to do it. And Jorge
Speaker 6: has got a great selection right now, So don't delay.
Speaker 6: Go ahead and stop in there, you know, check it out,
Speaker 6: and I think you'll find everything that you need at
Speaker 6: Jorge Hiding Guards. He has own special line of fertilizers too,
Speaker 6: from Nelson Fertilizer Products. That's excellent for purchasing. When you
Speaker 6: bring your plants home to put a little bit in,
Speaker 6: mix it in the soil so those plants take off
Speaker 6: and do well. Hey is fall hours. He's closed on
Speaker 6: Mondays now Fall hours closed on Mondays, but Tuesday through
Speaker 6: Friday nine to three, Saturday and Sunday eight to four.
Speaker 6: It's got some specials right now on those peaches and
Speaker 6: pairs and apples and plums and neck greens, all in
Speaker 6: fifteen gallons and listen, falls a good time to plant them.
Speaker 6: Fall is a good time to plant those fruit trees
Speaker 6: as well. From Jorge Hidden Gardens down in Alvin. We
Speaker 6: are going to go now to Baytown, Texas and talk
Speaker 6: to Glenn.
Speaker 16: Hello, Glenn, good morning. I've got two quick questions. I
Speaker 16: know you're busy at tar. I've got when's a good
Speaker 16: time transplant crape myrtles, And that's the first question. Second question,
Speaker 16: I've got some tall, wild looking grass growing in my
Speaker 16: flower beds. It's got long white roots on it, multiple roots,
Speaker 16: and they all have spikes on the end of them,
Speaker 16: like needles. It's about three foot tall and it is
Speaker 16: all over one of my flower beds.
Speaker 6: The roots have spikes on them.
Speaker 16: Yeah, they've got sharp points on them. They're white.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, Glenn, I'm gonna I'm gonna give it my
Speaker 6: best guess. But that's a little vague of a description
Speaker 6: for me to be sure. But I think you're talking
Speaker 6: about torpedo.
Speaker 16: Grass, crazy grass.
Speaker 6: Well, do you know what? Do you know what bermuda
Speaker 6: grass looks like?
Speaker 16: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Are you familiar with bermuda? If you imagine bermuda on steroids,
Speaker 6: it's huge, like a giant, monster sized bermuda. That's what
Speaker 6: torpedo grass looks like. So you just got to make
Speaker 6: it a lot bigger and a lot taller and stuff.
Speaker 6: I think that's what you're dealing with. But it doesn't
Speaker 6: really matter. If it's truly a grass and you get
Speaker 6: a grass only killer, you can spray it, and those
Speaker 6: products are made to be able to spray on most
Speaker 6: ornamentals and it won't hurt them. So like if you
Speaker 6: have petunias in there or a rose bush, yeah, those
Speaker 6: grass killers are not going to hurt the petunias in
Speaker 6: the rose bush, but they move down in the grass
Speaker 6: and they kill it. So it's really good for getting
Speaker 6: grass out of your flower beds and things. Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: It moves down in the roots and kills the whole thing,
Speaker 6: because otherwise you're not going to kill that grass you're
Speaker 6: describing without a systemic So if you if you go
Speaker 6: to my website Gardening with Skip dot com garden that's
Speaker 6: me Skip Gardening with Skip dot com and look for
Speaker 6: there's a publication right at the top of the list
Speaker 6: on the website herbicides to use with Skip's weed wiper.
Speaker 6: You don't have to put these on a weed wiper,
Speaker 6: but that's just what the publication says. Go down and
Speaker 6: look for grass killers and the two ingredients that do this,
Speaker 6: and all the products for each of those two ingredients
Speaker 6: are listed right there for you, and then you can
Speaker 6: go shopping. Put that out, take a shopping and say
Speaker 6: what do you got from this list? I need one
Speaker 6: of these and that then take it home, spray on
Speaker 6: those on those grass week.
Speaker 16: Do I need to get your roots up and stuff
Speaker 16: after it kills it?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 6: You know, no, you don't have to just leave it.
Speaker 6: You can, you know, the dead grass on top, you
Speaker 6: want to rake it out of the way or something.
Speaker 6: You can, But no, this is made. You need to
Speaker 6: give it about a week or so to move down
Speaker 6: and do its work. They're not real fast, but they're
Speaker 6: thorough and that's what you need. Your thorough All right, Glenn,
Speaker 6: we did.
Speaker 16: And my other question was transplanking myrtles. When do I transplane?
Speaker 17: Oh?
Speaker 6: Now, well, late October and November is the best time.
Speaker 6: So I would say November if all, if you don't
Speaker 6: have too much transplanting to do any shrub, tree, woody vine,
Speaker 6: all of those. Once it cools off a little bit,
Speaker 6: leaves start to fall off of things, you just that's
Speaker 6: the best time to get a move to put them
Speaker 6: at the same level they were watermen. Really good and
Speaker 6: you should be good to go.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 16: I appreciate it so much. Skip, thank you much. Have
Speaker 16: a good day, you.
Speaker 6: Bet, you bet, Glenn, you have a good day and
Speaker 6: rest of the weekend. All right, folks, time for a
Speaker 6: little break. I shall be right back.
Speaker 19: All right.
Speaker 6: Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with
Speaker 6: us this morning. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're
Speaker 6: here to help you have success in your garden. That
Speaker 6: that's how you go about it. Phone number is seven
Speaker 6: to one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 6: seven one three two one two kt r H. Folks
Speaker 6: at Nelson plant Food one of our local plant food
Speaker 6: producers here in the Greater Houston area been around a
Speaker 6: long time. I've been popular for a long time because
Speaker 6: our products work. I've tried their products and they are
Speaker 6: everything I've ever tried. From Nelson Plant Food has been
Speaker 6: an effective fertilizer product. And it's effective because they're designed
Speaker 6: to be that way, meaning they're designed for our soils
Speaker 6: and temperatures. They're designed for the plants that you would
Speaker 6: use them on. For example, azalea and acid loving plant food, azaleas, blueberries,
Speaker 6: the camellias for example, dogwoods, Guardina's, Holly's hydraegen. These are
Speaker 6: all plants that benefit from azalea and acid loving plant
Speaker 6: food from Nelson no it's part of the Nutri Star
Speaker 6: line that's one of Nelson plant food lines and nutrist
Speaker 6: and this particular one helps acidify, getting that pH in
Speaker 6: a place where plants can thrive, where acid loving plants
Speaker 6: can thrive. Because this pH moves too high or too
Speaker 6: low or whatever, certain plants aren't going to be happy
Speaker 6: well with azela food from the Nutri Star line. You're
Speaker 6: going to have success. And don't just think of it
Speaker 6: as those kinds of plants. Think of it as irises
Speaker 6: for magnolias. You got some red buds, if you've got
Speaker 6: some strawberries, they will do well very well with this
Speaker 6: as well ferns. You get the idea. Lots of different
Speaker 6: kinds of plants benefit from it. And it's not going
Speaker 6: to make your flowerbed just turned suddenly acidic overnight, but
Speaker 6: it's going to gradually move it in that direction and
Speaker 6: the plants can get the nutrients and they just do
Speaker 6: as four different acidifying sources of fertilizer in it and
Speaker 6: slow released nitrogen for a gradual balanced s feed that's
Speaker 6: going to last two three months when you put it down.
Speaker 6: Lots of cottonseed meal and iron in it to supply micronutrients.
Speaker 6: You know, when pH gets high, iron is limited. Nelson
Speaker 6: Plant Food, Azalea plant food and for all acid loving
Speaker 6: plants part of their nutri star line. Easy to find
Speaker 6: around town and very very effective, that is for sure.
Speaker 6: Speaking of Nelson, have you been out to Nelson Water
Speaker 6: Gardens and Katie? Different company, same name, same first name.
Speaker 6: Nelson Water Gardens is one of those show place garden centers.
Speaker 6: You go out and they've got all kinds of plants.
Speaker 6: They've got citrus right now. They got lots of nice
Speaker 6: citrus streets, all the fall color plants you're looking for, shrubs, trees, vines,
Speaker 6: just everything you need. They are also and have always
Speaker 6: been known for their water gardens. So do you need
Speaker 6: koy or shabunkin or some kind of a fish for
Speaker 6: your water gardens? Do you need water garden plants? You know,
Speaker 6: everybody knows about lily pads. There's a lot of other
Speaker 6: cool plants that go in water gardens, and Nelson's has it.
Speaker 6: You know, they're the inventor of the disappearing fountain, the
Speaker 6: one that comes out of an urn like a large
Speaker 6: pottery vase that goes in the ground and the water
Speaker 6: recirculates back, so it's just like constantly, forever spilling out
Speaker 6: of that large vase in the garden. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 6: you will not believe the supply of those that they have.
Speaker 6: You need to go out there, take a friend. And
Speaker 6: I always say they need to charge admission, because I
Speaker 6: would pay it just to go sit and listen to
Speaker 6: the sound of the running water all around you. I'm
Speaker 6: telling you it is psychotherapy. It is so calming and
Speaker 6: pleasing and when you go, you're going to want to
Speaker 6: have that at home too. They can come do it
Speaker 6: for you. They can build a waterfall, they can put
Speaker 6: in one of those disappearing based fountains, or they can
Speaker 6: tay you how to do it yourself, however you want
Speaker 6: to go about it. The folks at Nelson Water Garden
Speaker 6: and Katie are going to be able to get you
Speaker 6: set up. Now here's how you get there. You go
Speaker 6: out to Katie on Iten. You turn right on Katie
Speaker 6: Fort Ben Road and they're just up the street on
Speaker 6: the right hand side. The website Nelson Water Gardens. Go
Speaker 6: check it out. All this stuff going on there, their
Speaker 6: social media, their website, wealth of good information at Nelson
Speaker 6: Water Gardens out in Katie. Think of it as your
Speaker 6: West Houston destination garden center. We are going to head
Speaker 6: now to Ed in Northwest Houston. Hello Ed, Welcome to
Speaker 6: garden Line.
Speaker 15: Thank you, thank you for having me back my net edge,
Speaker 15: s edge whichever way you're supposed to pronounce it, has
Speaker 15: gotten out of control in about an area maybe call it.
Speaker 19: Six eight feet square.
Speaker 15: It's amongst Saint Augustine at UDI four has been pretty healthy.
Speaker 15: And I've been organic, okay for or four years long
Speaker 15: and short. I'm so afraid to just dump anything on
Speaker 15: there and maybe missed the dose I'm supposed to put.
Speaker 6: Tell me what you would do, Okay, what I would do?
Speaker 6: I don't know a good effective organic control for nuts
Speaker 6: edge other than hand digging it or very long term
Speaker 6: shading it out, which you can't do in the long yeah.
Speaker 16: Right.
Speaker 6: And so if you go to my website gardening with
Speaker 6: Skip dot com, there is a publication called going nuts.
Speaker 6: Is it called going nuts over nuts Edge? I can't
Speaker 6: eve remember what I called it. It's something like no,
Speaker 6: it's an in depth look nuts Edge and end depth look.
Speaker 6: I can't even remember my own website anyway, when you
Speaker 6: go there, there's also another one on nuts edge. It's briefer,
Speaker 6: but you need to go read those because they are
Speaker 6: very helpful in how to control it. I'm going to
Speaker 6: tell you the fast answer, but I would encourage you
Speaker 6: to go to my website gardening with Skip dot com
Speaker 6: and read those free publications. They're very helpful. Now you
Speaker 6: can do a couple of things. You're going to want
Speaker 6: to use a product that contains halo sulfur on and
Speaker 6: most of the time people buy it in some thing
Speaker 6: called sedge hammer or sedge ender. There are other phone relations.
Speaker 6: Again those are they're the same product. It's like generic
Speaker 6: tylenol and not generic tile. It's the same ingredient. So
Speaker 6: you just you just give which everyone you want, but
Speaker 6: they're listed on that publication, Mix it according to the
Speaker 6: label and spray it onto the foliage. It's going to
Speaker 6: take it a while. Be patient. It may be two
Speaker 6: weeks and you're going it's just barely looking like it's
Speaker 6: getting sick. It works, trust me, it does. Anytime that
Speaker 6: nutsedge comes back and has three to five leaves. You
Speaker 6: need to spray it again because if you don't, what
Speaker 6: happens is you'll kill the one you spray, but it
Speaker 6: already has eight daughter plants, so you have eight times
Speaker 6: the nuts said you had. And then people that's when
Speaker 6: people tell me the spray didn't work. Well, the spray
Speaker 6: didn't work because you waited and let it make eight
Speaker 6: times more nuts edge before you spray. So make sure
Speaker 6: and do that. I have got to run here in
Speaker 6: just a bit, but that is the fastest answer that
Speaker 6: I can give you. But if you go to that website,
Speaker 6: it has a lot of good information that will help you.
Speaker 6: The other thing you can do if you're trying to
Speaker 6: put less product out is use a weed wiper, and
Speaker 6: I show you how to build one on the website
Speaker 6: where you don't spray it, but the spray won't hurt
Speaker 6: your grass.
Speaker 15: So just okay, that was because I was willing to
Speaker 15: get out there with cotton bowls and Q tips and
Speaker 15: try to get it.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, no need of that, but you ought to.
Speaker 6: You ought to go check out my weed wiper on there.
Speaker 6: I think it's pretty cool. It's homemade, and it's cheap
Speaker 6: and easy and it works better than cotton balls and qtas. Yeah,
Speaker 6: all right, you bet, Thank you very much. I appreciate
Speaker 6: appreciate your call a lot.
Speaker 24: Uh.
Speaker 6: You know, when it comes to making sure your lawn
Speaker 6: looks its best, you not going to do better than
Speaker 6: a good quality aeration and compost top dressing. It has
Speaker 6: two things. It puts oxygen in the soil by creating holes.
Speaker 6: It pops the plugs out. It doesn't just squeeze a
Speaker 6: hole in the pops them out. B and B turf
Speaker 6: Pros they do it. Here's their website BB Turfpros dot com.
Speaker 6: BB turf Pros dot com. High quality work. Their goal
Speaker 6: is to do top quality work and make the customer satisfied,
Speaker 6: and they really do. They only use quality products like
Speaker 6: Ciena Maltz for example, for their their top dressing compost.
Speaker 6: They do things right. I've talked to them, I've seen
Speaker 6: the jobs, I've seen the reviews. They get no question
Speaker 6: about recommending BB turf Pros. They cover the south and
Speaker 6: west part of the listening area. So if you are
Speaker 6: somewhere out there, let's say you're out in Sugarland or
Speaker 6: Missouri City, all the way across to Pearland and down
Speaker 6: to Manville. You know that includes all down Highway six, Fresno,
Speaker 6: CNR Cola, Iowa, Calmly. That's their service area and you
Speaker 6: need to give them a call or go to the
Speaker 6: website bb Turfpros dot com. Here's the phone number seven
Speaker 6: one three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven
Speaker 6: one three two three four five five nine eight. Without hesitation,
Speaker 6: I can tell you you're going to be happy with
Speaker 6: the job BnB turf bb BnB turf Pros does for
Speaker 6: your lun It's time for me to take a little
Speaker 6: break when we come back. We got a load here.
Speaker 6: Ruth and fullsher Ralph, Charlie and Lee. You'll all be
Speaker 6: lined up when we come back. Welcome back, folks, Welcome
Speaker 6: back to guarden Line. Good to have you with us today.
Speaker 6: Good to have you with us day. I was telling
Speaker 6: somebody a while to go that BnB turf Pros uses
Speaker 6: the top quality materials from CN Malts and cnamals, does
Speaker 6: things right. I talk on garden Line about brown stuff
Speaker 6: before green stuff, which means if you fix the soil first,
Speaker 6: your plants will thrive. So before you put a plant
Speaker 6: in the ground, get the soil right. CN Malts is
Speaker 6: your brown stuff place. They've got the composts, they've got
Speaker 6: the bed mixes. They've got stuff like the heirloom soils,
Speaker 6: veggie and herb mix for example, that's just an example.
Speaker 6: They got mulches, they got compost they got bed mixes.
Speaker 6: They have every fertilizer I talk about. I mean everyone,
Speaker 6: we're talking about microlife, Azamite, Nelson, turf Star, products from
Speaker 6: heirloom soils, products from Landscaper's Pride. They've got nitrophost fertilizers,
Speaker 6: Nelson fertilizer, Medina fertilizers. That's what I mean. They've got
Speaker 6: it all, and the mulches as well. The Cienamlts is
Speaker 6: down just north of Road Sharon. They're on FM five
Speaker 6: twenty one. So those of you south of Houston, this
Speaker 6: is your local place for everything you need to create
Speaker 6: the best soil on earth for your plants and falls
Speaker 6: for planting. That means you need to get out to
Speaker 6: Ciena Maltz. They're open Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five,
Speaker 6: Saturday seven thirty to two, open till two today and
Speaker 6: closed on Sunday. They'll deliver within twenty miles for small
Speaker 6: fee and you can go pick it up if you
Speaker 6: want to do that, by the bag, by the bulk,
Speaker 6: whatever you want. They're near Highway six and two eighty eight,
Speaker 6: just north of Road Sharon, FM five twenty one. Here's
Speaker 6: the website that'll tell it all, Sienna Mulch dot com
Speaker 6: Ciena Multch dot com. We're gonna go now to fullsher
Speaker 6: and talk to Ruth. Hey, Ruth, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: Hi Skip, I have a quick question.
Speaker 27: About now it's leaving my brain the pre emergent Okay, barricade.
Speaker 16: Yep.
Speaker 27: I have my yards scheduled for corporation and compost top
Speaker 27: dressing in mid November. Should I put barricade down now
Speaker 27: or will that be negated by the correoration.
Speaker 6: That is a that's a tough call. When if you
Speaker 6: put the barricade down now, it'll be ready whenever the
Speaker 6: weeds sprout. If you wait until after the November aerration,
Speaker 6: you're probably already gonna have weeds that have sprouted by
Speaker 6: that time. There are some that's brought in November and
Speaker 6: December and whatnot, but we like to get ahead of
Speaker 6: them all now the problem of putting barricade down now
Speaker 6: is whenever they come in in core air rate. They're
Speaker 6: making a hole and bringing soil up to the surface
Speaker 6: to sit on top, and you potentially could get some
Speaker 6: weed germination in that. I think, all things considered, i'd
Speaker 6: go ahead and do the barricade now, and then in
Speaker 6: November do the cororation and compost stop dressing. The compost
Speaker 6: top dressing will help a little bit with weed germination too,
Speaker 6: because compost shades the soil a little bit. It's not
Speaker 6: a thick layer of compost top dressing, but it helps
Speaker 6: a little bit.
Speaker 27: And will the compost top dressing replace the fall fertilization
Speaker 27: or do I need to fertilize on top?
Speaker 6: No, it's not near the quantity. Yeah, the fall fertilization.
Speaker 6: I would get that done now too. Go ahead and
Speaker 6: let's see you were in full Sure, Yeah, I would
Speaker 6: go ahead and do that in the next two weeks
Speaker 6: or so. I'd get the barricade out in early October.
Speaker 6: And the longer you wait, the more risk you run
Speaker 6: of a colfront coming in with some rain and here
Speaker 6: come the weed seed sprouting before you've gotten the barricade down. Well,
Speaker 6: you just gave me a whole bunch of work to do.
Speaker 6: I know, I did I'm sorry, but that's that's the
Speaker 6: fun part, you know, funny. You know there's a there
Speaker 6: that is the fun part. There's a quote I like,
Speaker 6: and it says, when I'm overwhelmed and stressed and unable
Speaker 6: to think, I go out in the garden to work.
Speaker 6: It's cheaper than a shrink. So think of it this way.
Speaker 6: I just saved your money.
Speaker 22: Thank you, Bye.
Speaker 6: Bye bye. You take care. Yeah, that's right. D and
Speaker 6: D Feed and Tomball is your hometown feed store out there.
Speaker 6: They're west Tomball on twenty nine to twenty. If you
Speaker 6: hit out twenty nine to twenty, they're just low ways
Speaker 6: out on the left hand side. D and D Feed's
Speaker 6: been around a while and they just keep making the
Speaker 6: place better. Last summer they expanded it made it even
Speaker 6: better place than it was before. They've got their nitrofoss
Speaker 6: fertilizers in. You know, you can find things like you
Speaker 6: hear me talk about here on garden line. They've got
Speaker 6: it there at D and Defeed inside. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 6: they also have age leaf, more composts. They've got airloom soils,
Speaker 6: rose soil, their fruit berry and citrus soil, their veggie
Speaker 6: and herb soil, I mean they stock up and when
Speaker 6: you go inside you're going to find things for weeds
Speaker 6: and diseases and insects on your plants. I check in
Speaker 6: there every now and then, and I'm always amazed at
Speaker 6: the supply of things. Some things I would have thought, yeah,
Speaker 6: you probably can't buy that over the counter. They've got
Speaker 6: it at D and Defeat. Just to help you have success,
Speaker 6: that's what they're all about. D and Defeed on twenty
Speaker 6: nine to twenty just west of Tomball. Here's a phone
Speaker 6: number two eight one three five one seventy one forty four.
Speaker 6: We're going to head now out to Chapel Hill and
Speaker 6: talk to Ralph. Hey, Ralph, welcome to garden Line. Well,
Speaker 6: thank you very much.
Speaker 16: Appreciate your show. Box Woods.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, the occasionally, sometimes frequently, we have individual stems
Speaker 6: and leaves just die, so we cut them out. The
Speaker 6: rest of the slant looks fine and typically it fills in.
Speaker 2: But what can we do to know what's going on
Speaker 2: and to prevent this?
Speaker 6: You know, it's weird. Different things can cause that. You know,
Speaker 6: a couple of Decembers ago we had an early freeze
Speaker 6: that did some stem damage. The boxers weren't ready and
Speaker 6: they got some damage like that. If you've got a
Speaker 6: canker disease of the stem that kills the stem, then
Speaker 6: everything out from that spot turns turns tan colored on
Speaker 6: a box wood and dye, and you just want to
Speaker 6: prune out below them. When you prone out, get some
Speaker 6: lyesol and spray your printer in between cuts. Just in
Speaker 6: case it was a canker on the stem. You don't
Speaker 6: want to spread that disease with your pruning wounds. So
Speaker 6: that's just a side tip for that. It could be
Speaker 6: something going on in the soil diseases. There's nematodes that
Speaker 6: attack box woods, and so it's kind of hard to
Speaker 6: say what it is. Just make sure they get adequate
Speaker 6: water and do that sanitary pruning. That's what I would
Speaker 6: suggest based on what you've told me. All Right, all right,
Speaker 6: we'll do that. Thank you, all right, Ralph, all right,
Speaker 6: have fun, boy. Chapel Hill is a beautiful place. I
Speaker 6: envy you living out there. Thanks thanks for Colin. Appreciate
Speaker 6: that a lot. Yep, that's right. While ago I was
Speaker 6: talking about the barricade of Lady called in about barricade
Speaker 6: Ruth did, and I forgot to tell you. You know,
Speaker 6: if you want to buy any of the three step
Speaker 6: products from Nitrofoss, you can go to in Chenney Gardens
Speaker 6: and Richmond. You can go to Shades of Texas up
Speaker 6: in the Woodlands. You can go to Plants for All
Speaker 6: Seasons on Tombaill Parkway, the D and D Feed. I
Speaker 6: was just telling you about them. They've got it down
Speaker 6: down in Student Airline area or over in stupid a
Speaker 6: hiding and Feed carries them out there as well, so
Speaker 6: they're really really easy to find. Uh, let's see. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna go now to Charlie at West U. Hey, Charlie,
Speaker 6: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Hi, Skip, I have newds in the yard. And and
Speaker 5: also it's new Asian jasmine. The person that put it
Speaker 5: in advised me to I could to water it for
Speaker 5: five minutes.
Speaker 15: A day in the morning.
Speaker 5: And every other day. Okay, but that doesn't seem like enough.
Speaker 5: It seems like yeah, no, but.
Speaker 6: I'm hearing music in my ear, so yeah, I'm hearing
Speaker 6: music America. I'm gonna give you a quick one. If
Speaker 6: you want to hang on over the break, we can
Speaker 6: keep talking. But basically the first week, twice a day,
Speaker 6: not too much, but twice a day. The second week
Speaker 6: every day once a day, and the third week every
Speaker 6: other day, and then you can back off.
Speaker 22: I'll be okay.
Speaker 5: How long should I keep it on in the first
Speaker 5: especially the first week?
Speaker 6: Oh just put a put a straight side container and
Speaker 6: water until you've caught about a half inch of water.
Speaker 6: That's enough.
Speaker 22: Okay, all right, okay, you bet.
Speaker 6: All right, Thank you, sir. I appreciate that I am
Speaker 6: not hearing music, so I'm assuming I'm done. I'll be
Speaker 6: right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with scamp Rictor.
Speaker 10: Just watch him as.
Speaker 6: Many birthdays. All right, folks, welcome back, Welcome back to
Speaker 6: your guard line. We are entering our last hour of
Speaker 6: the morning, nine to ten. We're here from six am
Speaker 6: to ten am every Saturday and Sunday morning, and so
Speaker 6: some of you have called in today. I have said
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Speaker 6: maybe that neighbor that won't take care of his yard
Speaker 6: just I'm just saying, you know, maybe an't, hey, why
Speaker 6: don't you listen to garden line. Maybe we can help
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Speaker 6: bit about Pierce Caapes. I've talked about them a lot,
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Speaker 6: they can do it. If you need hard escape, they
Speaker 6: can do it. If you have drainage issues, they can
Speaker 6: do it. If you want design work, they can do it.
Speaker 6: I know that's a lot, right that, right there is
Speaker 6: more than not, but it gets better. They do quarterly maintenance.
Speaker 6: So your beds aren't looking really good, just sign up
Speaker 6: with the Peerscape. Say I want you to do the
Speaker 6: quarterly man and it's they'll come out, they'll weed, they'll fertilize,
Speaker 6: they'll put in extra molts. They'll change color seasonally, you know,
Speaker 6: every time we change from summer to winter and so on,
Speaker 6: it's time to change the flowers out. And they'll do
Speaker 6: all that air rating, trimming, they'll check the irrigation make
Speaker 6: sure it's working. That's a pretty cool thing. But if
Speaker 6: you want to create just an outstanding outdoor location, I'm
Speaker 6: talking about an outdoor living room and yes, outdoors is
Speaker 6: rooms too, to go out to have a barbecue pet,
Speaker 6: maybe a beautiful rock barbecue pet, a gorgeous water feature
Speaker 6: in the landscape. I mean, you want to create magic outside,
Speaker 6: they can do that. If Piercescapes does it all, I'd
Speaker 6: highly recommend you go to the website because when you
Speaker 6: get there, you're going to see the kind of work
Speaker 6: they do. When Piercecapes does work, it is showplace work.
Speaker 6: I mean it really is. Here's the web piercescapes dot com.
Speaker 6: Piercescapes dot com to eight one three seven fifty sixty
Speaker 6: two eight one three seven five zero six zero. Listen.
Speaker 6: If this summer is taking its toll and you need
Speaker 6: to revamp some badge, redesign, get some new plants in.
Speaker 6: Maybe some things are a little more uh heat tolerant
Speaker 6: of our area. Whatever you're looking for, give Pierscapes a
Speaker 6: call and they'll come out and they can do it
Speaker 6: big or small. They do outstanding work. Go to the website. Please.
Speaker 6: Every time I go there, I see about ten things.
Speaker 6: It's like, Oh, I'd like to do that in my yard.
Speaker 6: That's pretty cool. Let's go out to Humble, Texas and
Speaker 6: we're going to talk to Lee. Hey, Lee, welcome to
Speaker 6: garden Line.
Speaker 22: Good morning.
Speaker 9: I'm going to student. I went to Warrens and bought
Speaker 9: some plants and I have to repot them.
Speaker 22: Now.
Speaker 9: Does it matter whether I use garden soil or potting soil.
Speaker 6: You're going to put them in containers?
Speaker 22: Right, Yes?
Speaker 9: I am a seven gallon containers.
Speaker 5: Huh?
Speaker 6: Yeah? You want a potting mix for a seven gallon container? Yeah,
Speaker 6: use a potting mix. Warren sells something by Earloom Soils
Speaker 6: called The Works potting soil. The Works, that's the name
Speaker 6: of it, and it is outstanding for that. Now in
Speaker 6: a seven gallon container, you probably could get away using
Speaker 6: you know, like a rose soil or a veggie and
Speaker 6: herb mixed soil as well a bag of those. But
Speaker 6: either way you go, you're going to have success well,
Speaker 6: and just make sure your your drainage is good in
Speaker 6: those containers. Okay. That means the holes in the bottom
Speaker 6: are draining out well. If they don't have holes, you
Speaker 6: need to make sure they do. And that with a
Speaker 6: good soil and good drainage, you're gonna have success.
Speaker 9: One, thank you, Skip appreciate it.
Speaker 6: You bet Hey, did you have fun out there at Warren's.
Speaker 6: They got a lot of cool stuff in out there. Yeah,
Speaker 6: all right, you take care. I'm sorry you did I
Speaker 6: miss something? Did you say something?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 6: I think we think we passed like ships in the
Speaker 6: night on that last little bit. By the way, Warrens
Speaker 6: has got your organic lawn care options ready to go.
Speaker 6: They carry the micro Life six two four, or they
Speaker 6: carry the Sweet Green for example. They carry that as MTE.
Speaker 6: They carry the things to deal with weeds, you know,
Speaker 6: the fall special fertilizer from Nitrofoss, the carbe load which
Speaker 6: is a fall fertilizer plus pro emergent from Nelson. It's
Speaker 6: all there. They've got mums, an ornamental kale, oh gosh, beautiful,
Speaker 6: beautiful color for fall, and the ornamental kale will go
Speaker 6: all through the wintertime. It is a very very hearty
Speaker 6: foliage plant, and the cool season color beds. If you
Speaker 6: are looking to get a fall planter, you can buy
Speaker 6: one there, or they can help you pick out the
Speaker 6: best plants and make your own if you want to
Speaker 6: go about it that way, they can do that too.
Speaker 6: The pumpkin patches open, Grab the kids, phone the neighbors,
Speaker 6: get out there. The pump and patch ed warrens. Even
Speaker 6: gardens is open, you can go pick the perfect one.
Speaker 6: And there's a lot of good photo opportunities. So take
Speaker 6: the kids, set them up in there and get a
Speaker 6: good photo of them. Fall vegetables, all of them ready
Speaker 6: to go. At One's Southern Gardens out there in Kingwood, Texas.
Speaker 6: Good seat selection too. You know, we can plan a
Speaker 6: lot of vegetables by seed, Spinach excellent by seed, let
Speaker 6: us excellent by seed, and then things like radishes and
Speaker 6: turnips and everything else. They've got it. Now here's the
Speaker 6: important thing. You need to listen to this. If you
Speaker 6: spend one hundred dollars or more and say that I
Speaker 6: sent you Skip from Garden Line sent me, receive twenty
Speaker 6: bucks off your purchase. That is a significant discount off
Speaker 6: your purchase. But you got to tell them that I
Speaker 6: sent you. Now that doesn't include sale items or clearance
Speaker 6: items or things like that. And it's only good until
Speaker 6: October thirteenth, which is guess what coming around the corner
Speaker 6: next weekend, next Sunday. Only good this weekend, and next
Speaker 6: tell them SKIP sent you. Spend one hundred dollars or
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Speaker 6: You can call them at the store and say put
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Speaker 6: They've got an outstanding newsletter there at Warren Southern Gardens
Speaker 6: in Kingwood, Texas. I love going out there. It's always beautiful,
Speaker 6: and the folks there they know what they're talking about.
Speaker 6: You know, it's important to have people that can guide
Speaker 6: you and point you to the right plants and give
Speaker 6: you advice on how to take care of it and
Speaker 6: how to deal with problems. You know, Michael's out there
Speaker 6: and the whole team. Really, they just are a wealth
Speaker 6: of information. Does really really well. I've told you about
Speaker 6: Landscaper's Pride products before, and Landscaper's Pride has many high
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Speaker 6: just beautiful, absolutely beautiful, velvety, dark, rich texture. It looks good.
Speaker 6: Every month out of the year is mulching time. In
Speaker 6: summer it's hot, you gotta hold in moisture. You gotta
Speaker 6: prevent soil crusting and erosion and overheating of the soil.
Speaker 6: In winter time, you got to prevent the winter weeds
Speaker 6: and tender perennials will benefit from a mulch because it
Speaker 6: kind of holds in some of that soil warmth around
Speaker 6: the base of the plant. Black velvet mulch will do that.
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Speaker 6: Let's grow together, and that's exactly why they put their
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Speaker 6: to you here locally in the Greater Houston area. You
Speaker 6: are listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven
Speaker 6: one three two one two five eight seven four seven
Speaker 6: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna take a break and I'll be right back there.
Speaker 1: Ain't nobody here about, ain't nobody here at all so far?
Speaker 6: All right, ladies, choice, everybody day a little asleep at
Speaker 6: the wheel, Western swinging going there. Welcome back to guard Line.
Speaker 6: Good to have you with us. Hey, if you're looking
Speaker 6: to do any planting of shrubs, trees, and woody vines
Speaker 6: this fall, that includes roses, I hope that you will
Speaker 6: swing by RCW Nursery because they've got you covered. RCW
Speaker 6: they number one. They're rose selections like none other. It's
Speaker 6: amazing the number of plants that the varieties stuff that
Speaker 6: they can get in and have. But when it comes
Speaker 6: to trees, they grow their own up in Plantersville. And
Speaker 6: whether you need something, you know, just a smaller tree
Speaker 6: that you can plant yourself, or something huge that you
Speaker 6: got to have somebody come in and plant, Like how
Speaker 6: about a two hundred gallon lace bark elm or a
Speaker 6: two hundred gallon burroke And I'll save you some time.
Speaker 6: You can just bout hang a hammock in one of
Speaker 6: those well. RCW is having a sale fifteen percent off
Speaker 6: fifteen percent off for the month of October, and the
Speaker 6: best month to get things planted is October, November, even
Speaker 6: December is good, but get those things and get them
Speaker 6: in because the best time to plant a tree was
Speaker 6: forty years ago. Second best time is today. Do you
Speaker 6: need citrus, rcw's got you covered. They have a great
Speaker 6: selection of citrus. Do you want decorations for Halloween or
Speaker 6: just fall in general, they've got you covered. RCW Nurseries
Speaker 6: is on the corner of where Highway two forty nine
Speaker 6: Timball Parkway comes into belt Way eight, so it's really
Speaker 6: easy to get to. You can go to the website
Speaker 6: RCW Nurseries dot com or give them a call two
Speaker 6: eight one four to four zero fifty one sixty one
Speaker 6: two eight one four four zero five to one six one.
Speaker 6: We are now going to go and talk to Charlie.
Speaker 6: Hello Charlie, and welcome to Garden Mine.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Thank you for taking my call. I've
Speaker 3: got an issue with Chinese box woods. Some of them
Speaker 3: are established and been here for a long time, but
Speaker 3: just one or two of them are dying and my
Speaker 3: neighbor planning something about three years ago, and he's got
Speaker 3: to have half of his or dead and half of
Speaker 3: them are alive. And that's a really puzzling.
Speaker 28: Issue.
Speaker 3: What was what the the bay box woods? You know,
Speaker 3: thought maybe you might be able to give you a
Speaker 3: little information. I said, why this is happening?
Speaker 16: Okay?
Speaker 6: Are they dying kind of like one shoot at a time,
Speaker 6: not to hold the whole bush or just the whole
Speaker 6: bush dies? Okay? Are they dying pretty suddenly or is
Speaker 6: it a gradual decline?
Speaker 15: Well?
Speaker 6: It is it sudden.
Speaker 22: It's pretty sudden.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And I took pictures of them.
Speaker 3: Okay, And they say, I don't know if that would help,
Speaker 3: you know, to determine, to let you look at them
Speaker 3: and see what the well.
Speaker 6: Here, it could be different things. You know, nemotodes will
Speaker 6: get on box woods. That's typically a very slow decline,
Speaker 6: not a not a fairly quick death.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: There is a fungal disease or two that gets in
Speaker 6: the roots that can kill them. And when you kill
Speaker 6: the roots, the top turns brown really quick. And so
Speaker 6: that is a possibility if you will take one that
Speaker 6: is not dead but dying, it needs to be alive,
Speaker 6: but it needs to be like, obviously I'm not. This
Speaker 6: one's going to be gone. You know, you've seen it die.
Speaker 6: You've watched them die. You know it looks like, so,
Speaker 6: this one's dying, but it's not dead. Take your pocket knife,
Speaker 6: a good sharp knife, and slice vertically down the stem
Speaker 6: near the base. Down that what will be the trunk
Speaker 6: or the main branches down low, and look underneath the bark.
Speaker 6: It should be kind of a creamy colored, creamy white,
Speaker 6: or maybe a little bit of green in there. That's normal.
Speaker 6: But if what you see looks more like an old
Speaker 6: cigarette filter, it's got those brown and gray tar stains
Speaker 6: and stuff. Yes, that's a fungal disease symptom, and there's
Speaker 6: not an easy cure for that. You're going to need
Speaker 6: to go with something that doesn't get those diseases. But
Speaker 6: that is a possibility. Now, it could be that different
Speaker 6: things are causing different plants that yours or your neighbors
Speaker 6: to die. It's probably not one cause that's doing it all,
Speaker 6: but those are possibilities. There are cankers that can hit
Speaker 6: the top of the plant kill branches of them, but
Speaker 6: there you typically see a branch dye the rest of
Speaker 6: it's alive. Then another branch dies and so on, and
Speaker 6: that doesn't fit your description very.
Speaker 16: Well, Well, yeah, there's.
Speaker 3: Here at the hell there's well as everage they're ten
Speaker 3: at fifteen, twenty years old, and just one one right
Speaker 3: on the end they just completely just i mean is gone.
Speaker 3: And my neighbors over there they've got some I'm about
Speaker 3: three years old and it maybe every every other.
Speaker 16: One is just did.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well you know the only the only, yeah, Charlie,
Speaker 6: the only way to know for sure would be to
Speaker 6: take a plant that is sick and dig it up,
Speaker 6: shake the soil off, get as much of the roots
Speaker 6: as you can, shake the soil off, and send it
Speaker 6: to the plant clinic, State plant clinic up in College Station.
Speaker 21: Now.
Speaker 6: You can mail it there, or you can just drive
Speaker 6: it up, and maybe may be easier to drive it up,
Speaker 6: but either way they charge a fee. But they bring
Speaker 6: it in. They culture the disease out in a petri
Speaker 6: dish and they look at it under a microscope and
Speaker 6: they'll tell you exactly what kill that plant, and once
Speaker 6: you know that, then they can also recommend what you
Speaker 6: should do about it. But otherwise I'm kind of giving
Speaker 6: you a shotgun blast of possibilities. So if you've got
Speaker 6: a whole bunch of plants, it's worth definitely worth having
Speaker 6: an analysis done because at least then you know where
Speaker 6: to go from there, because you're going to spend a
Speaker 6: lot of money replacing plants.
Speaker 22: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And this guy across the street, he's a whare he
Speaker 3: dog them open and replanted and during the state they did.
Speaker 3: You know, you're young, young.
Speaker 6: Girl that he needs. He needs to do the same thing.
Speaker 6: That's what I would do.
Speaker 16: Uh.
Speaker 6: You know, if you're having that kind of trouble, there's
Speaker 6: something wrong, and I would try my little slice through
Speaker 6: the bark thing. See if you see that. If not,
Speaker 6: the State Plank clinic is the is the best way
Speaker 6: to go. That way, you you find out and you
Speaker 6: you stop the continual loss. Okay, sir, okay, appreciate you
Speaker 6: taking my call.
Speaker 22: Have a good one. Bye bye.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, you too, Thank you very much. I appreciate
Speaker 6: your call.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 6: Ace Hardware Stores. I like Ace Hardware Store because they
Speaker 6: have everything you need. Do you want to have a
Speaker 6: beautiful lawn? You don't have a bountiful landscape. Ace has
Speaker 6: got you covered. Do you want to have beautiful outdoor areas.
Speaker 6: ACE has got you covered. How about barbecuing. I was
Speaker 6: in an ACE the other day. I was down in Wharton,
Speaker 6: Texas in Ace Hardware down there just opened up and
Speaker 6: oh my gosh, the traggers and the big green egg,
Speaker 6: you know, the weber grills. It's just I love barbecuing
Speaker 6: in the fall because finally we're getting a little break
Speaker 6: in the late day from that heat. Oh it's good.
Speaker 6: Ace Hardware has your fire ant control products. And listen.
Speaker 6: Fall is for tackling fire ants. Easy to remember. Falls,
Speaker 6: football season, falls, fire ant tackling season two. You just
Speaker 6: get you a good quality bait from Ace Hardware. Put
Speaker 6: it out now, do it now, minimum application of pesticide.
Speaker 6: There's even organic baits, by the way. Put them out
Speaker 6: at a low rate over a large area and shut
Speaker 6: those things down. It's important to do that. Falls in
Speaker 6: important season, don't let them go into winter strong. Let's
Speaker 6: go to Jersey Village and we're going to talk to
Speaker 6: w C.
Speaker 16: Hey, w C.
Speaker 6: Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 11: Good morning, Thank you. A couple of quick questions.
Speaker 19: Yes, sir, look in my yard.
Speaker 11: I've got a bunch of chamber better Virginia butt weed
Speaker 11: and then some other type of weed. I can't find
Speaker 11: a name for it, but it's a really woody type stam.
Speaker 11: It's really short. It grows in crops. So I'm looking
Speaker 11: for if if you've got a weed and see a
Speaker 11: fall weed and sea that you would recommend.
Speaker 6: Well for the things you're saying, a fall weed and
Speaker 6: feed won't work. You have to do it in the spring,
Speaker 6: and I would use just the weed control product, the
Speaker 6: pre emergent weed control product in the spring. Now those
Speaker 6: plants can be sprayed with a post emergent broad leaf
Speaker 6: weed control. If you use something called celsius, like the
Speaker 6: temperature celsius. Now it comes in little kay I've used.
Speaker 11: I've used Bonair Ultra before and it seems to work.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, if that's working for you, you can use that.
Speaker 6: You just with the boneyed weed beater Ultra. You want
Speaker 6: to not use it when the temperatures are, you know,
Speaker 6: above the mid eighties, so maybe cool off a little
Speaker 6: bit and then use it. But the Celsius is a
Speaker 6: little bit more forgiving. Either way. You can go either way.
Speaker 6: It's fine, just go after himnother one that you're saying
Speaker 6: is the third one. You described. I think he says
Speaker 6: a little bit woody or something. It was done lower growing.
Speaker 11: That could be a inch and a half long. Sorry,
Speaker 11: I'll be quiet.
Speaker 6: That's okay. Why don't we do this. I'm going to
Speaker 6: put you on hold and would you send me a
Speaker 6: picture of it by email? My producer, Will Trey, will
Speaker 6: give you. He'll give you the email to send it.
Speaker 6: To get up close if you have to pull it
Speaker 6: up and set it on the table so I can
Speaker 6: really see the weed up close and good focus, then
Speaker 6: I can reply with the best approach. I'm not sure
Speaker 6: the products we're talking about are going to be effective
Speaker 6: against that weed, but I need to identify it first, okay, okay.
Speaker 11: So best not to use a weed and feed. I've
Speaker 11: tried barricade in the spring before and the late fall
Speaker 11: doesn't seem to work for me.
Speaker 6: Yep ye, Well, it works on broad leaf weeds and
Speaker 6: grassy weeds that are coming from seed. So if you
Speaker 6: put barricade out now, that's going to take care of clover, hindbit,
Speaker 6: chick weed, carpet weed, all those cool season weeds. It's
Speaker 6: going to do a pretty good job on those. Now,
Speaker 6: depending on the weed, you know, it's like any medicine.
Speaker 6: It's not for everything under the sun. Not you know,
Speaker 6: it's not going to control every possible weed that could germinate,
Speaker 6: so sometimes we have to switch over to something else
Speaker 6: for a specific problem. But as far as a good
Speaker 6: broad wide spectrum of control, barricade should be pretty good
Speaker 6: for that, but not against existing weeds.
Speaker 19: Okay, Okay, it's going to put.
Speaker 6: You on hold and Trey will pick up and give
Speaker 6: you an email, send me a picture. We'll take it
Speaker 6: from here. Appreciate that call very much. Absolutely. I've talked
Speaker 6: about azemite before.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: Azimite is the trace mineral supplement, and people get confused
Speaker 6: a lot. They go, well, if I do azmite, do
Speaker 6: I have to fertilize? Okay, well, technically any nutrient is fertilizing,
Speaker 6: but when we say fertilizing, we're usually talking about the
Speaker 6: big three numbers on the bag, you know, the the nitrogen, phosphorus,
Speaker 6: and potassium. We need lots of that for the lawn.
Speaker 6: Azmite is trace minerals. We just need a little bit,
Speaker 6: but they're essential minerals, so if you don't have them,
Speaker 6: you can't grow plants. For example. Do you know that
Speaker 6: if you could take every molecule of manganese out of
Speaker 6: the soil, no plant could grow. If you took every
Speaker 6: molecule of iron eye of the soil, no plant could grow,
Speaker 6: or zinc or others. Azmite provides trace minerals that are
Speaker 6: essential for plants. I recommend it about once a year.
Speaker 6: Put it out. You can go to azmite Texas dot
Speaker 6: com for more information. Just to remember, it's particle size
Speaker 6: different than your fertilizers, so don't mix it in the
Speaker 6: same hopper. Put out the fertilizer, and if you want
Speaker 6: to do azemite at that time of the year, put
Speaker 6: out the azmite. You can do azebait at any time
Speaker 6: of the year. It's not like nitrogen fertilizers where we're
Speaker 6: doing the mainly during the growing season. Uh asm at
Speaker 6: any time of the year, but do it once a
Speaker 6: year asimite Texas dot com. That'll get you off to
Speaker 6: a good start. Where are we now? I always have
Speaker 6: to watch my time, and the time says I got
Speaker 6: to quit talking and turn it over to the news.
Speaker 6: I'll be right back, folks. Just hang on. I could
Speaker 6: just keep listening to that.
Speaker 11: I love.
Speaker 16: Let me use it.
Speaker 6: Welcome to the Bate Garden Life. We're glad to have
Speaker 6: you with us today. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
Speaker 6: we've got a little bit of time. I got a
Speaker 6: half hour left in the day show. Guess what I'm
Speaker 6: gonna do after the show's over, I'm gonna head over
Speaker 6: to Buchanan's Native Plants. I'll be there by the way
Speaker 6: from twelve to two today for their Fall Fest. And
Speaker 6: this is a big cool deal going on. I mean,
Speaker 6: if you have kids, you gotta bring them. If you
Speaker 6: don't go knock on the door of your neighbors, can
Speaker 6: I bring your kids? Pumpkin ring toss, beanbag toss, scavenger hunt,
Speaker 6: coloring stations, Halloween mask craft, pumpkin painting, hay Ride, moon Balance,
Speaker 6: and their stuff for adults two food, wine, coffee, beer,
Speaker 6: and more. And a local band called Yopon. Of course
Speaker 6: it's called Yopon. What a better name for a band
Speaker 6: from Southeast Texas than Yopan. And I'll be there answering
Speaker 6: your gardening questions. I'm gonna give away a bag of
Speaker 6: Microlife brown Patch. I'm gonna giveway one hundred dollars gift certificate,
Speaker 6: but you gotta be present and register in order to win.
Speaker 6: Bring me samples of plants, bring me things to identify,
Speaker 6: things to diagnose, Bring me pictures. Here's my landscape, this
Speaker 6: area over here, What would look good? What might I
Speaker 6: plant there? What a rose grow there? We'll talk about
Speaker 6: all that stuff. Mainly we'll just shake hands, look eye
Speaker 6: to eye, and this is your one on one gens
Speaker 6: to ask me questions. I've kind of had to go
Speaker 6: fast today telling people I get to keep asking answering questions. Well,
Speaker 6: I can now when you show up at Buchana's Native
Speaker 6: Plants today, I'll be there from twelve to two. Hope
Speaker 6: you can make it. Nature's Way Resources out in Well.
Speaker 6: It's on Interstate forty five. It's on the way to Conro.
Speaker 6: So if you go up forty five right where fourteen
Speaker 6: eighty eight comes in from Magnolia, you turn right, cross
Speaker 6: over the railroad tracks and you're right there Sherbrooke Circle,
Speaker 6: which is Nature's Way Resources. Next Saturday, I'll be there
Speaker 6: doing Q and A at Nature's Way and they're having
Speaker 6: their shindig, the Fall Festival, Latin food, local vendors, plant
Speaker 6: sales again, live music, children's activities. It's just going to
Speaker 6: be fun. We have a good time at these events, folks.
Speaker 6: And I want to remind you that at Nature's Way,
Speaker 6: their Fungal Friday sale is still on twenty percent off
Speaker 6: their fungal compost. So you want to do some do
Speaker 6: it yourself compost, top dressing, air raiding, whatever, go there.
Speaker 6: Get the Fungal Friday deal on fungo compost twenty percent
Speaker 6: office signal magnificant discount. You can buy bulk, you can
Speaker 6: buy bags, you can buy mulches, you can buy pretty
Speaker 6: much a mix for anything. Do you undergrow zilias, do
Speaker 6: you undergrow vegetables? What do you want? Nature's Way has
Speaker 6: been designing top quality soil blends for a very long
Speaker 6: time and they invented some of the ones that are
Speaker 6: popular in the industry now. It all was born in
Speaker 6: there a Nature's Way. So go by there. You can
Speaker 6: call them for delivery, you can pick up bags, you
Speaker 6: can pick up bulk. But you just got to get
Speaker 6: by and a good time to go. Buy me next Saturday,
Speaker 6: because I'll be there uh Fungal Friday, twenty percent of
Speaker 6: fungal composts, and I'll be there on Saturday for their
Speaker 6: fall festival. Hope you can make it I'm going to
Speaker 6: go now to Cleveland and we're going to talk to David. Hey, David,
Speaker 6: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Hey, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 24: I have a question about us overwintering Halpaania pepper plants
Speaker 24: that are in a container.
Speaker 19: I've seen stuff like that on YouTube.
Speaker 21: I didn't know if it would really work.
Speaker 19: Or not, of wanting to get your opinion on that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you absolutely can. So what you're gonna do is,
Speaker 6: whenever we're going to have weather, oh let's say the
Speaker 6: mid thirties or something, go ahead and bring them inside.
Speaker 6: Put them in a garage, put them wherever you got them.
Speaker 6: How big are these pots.
Speaker 28: Are?
Speaker 19: They are a five gallon buckets?
Speaker 6: Five gallon? Okay, well, you know I just use a
Speaker 6: handtruck a dolly. You know, you can slide it under
Speaker 6: the lip, strap them to the dolly, a little strap
Speaker 6: around the pot, and it makes it effortless. I mean,
Speaker 6: if you want to bend over and pick them up,
Speaker 6: five gallons, not too bad. But if you either way,
Speaker 6: just get them into a protected garage area when it's
Speaker 6: going to be cold. They're not going to be happy
Speaker 6: and they're not gonna do much, but they'll stay alive.
Speaker 6: That way, you need to make sure the soil stays
Speaker 6: moist but not soggy. You don't have to water much
Speaker 6: in the cool season because the demands are very low.
Speaker 6: But you just need to watch it because if he
Speaker 6: gets droughty, that's that's going to hurt him. But I
Speaker 6: have carried peppers over. I've carried them over in ground,
Speaker 6: but there you're having to go to pretty great links
Speaker 6: to cover them up and protect the base, and they
Speaker 6: may die back a little bit and then come back.
Speaker 6: But in the containers you've got the advantage of being
Speaker 6: able to just move into a protected spot. Now, if
Speaker 6: you want to go to great links and put an
Speaker 6: indoor light up for plants in a garage or someplace
Speaker 6: where they can just stay there and get good quality
Speaker 6: light down close to the plant, you can do that,
Speaker 6: but it's got to be very bright and very close
Speaker 6: to the plant.
Speaker 24: Yes, I happen to be an electrician, and I have
Speaker 24: some hot bake commercial lights that I could put over
Speaker 24: them that are very very bright LEDs.
Speaker 19: And Okay, but do I need to pune them back?
Speaker 15: Do I need to pun them back in?
Speaker 6: And you don't need to. I would just leave them
Speaker 6: and let them be unless the growth of them is
Speaker 6: getting in the way of moving them around. If you
Speaker 6: need to, if you need to pune them to move
Speaker 6: them easier, that's fine. But pruning stimulates new growth, and
Speaker 6: we don't want them to try to grow right now.
Speaker 6: We want them to settle in and just be on
Speaker 6: hold until we get to spring. Just make sure those
Speaker 6: led lights have got a good blend of red and
Speaker 6: blue spectrum inum for the plants to do their best.
Speaker 15: Alrighty, do I need to do any kind of fooding
Speaker 15: with them whenever I let them in, or or just.
Speaker 2: Let them wait until next year?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I just let them wait because we're not trying
Speaker 6: to push growth on them. They've got enough nutrients to
Speaker 6: just go on hold. If you start to see a
Speaker 6: little bit of yellowing, it may be due to overwatering,
Speaker 6: or it may maybe they need just a little bit
Speaker 6: of a complete fertilizer, something's got a little bit of
Speaker 6: iron in it. Maybe sometimes we'll get that in cold
Speaker 6: weather because the soil is cold and the root uptake
Speaker 6: isn't as good in those raised containers. You know, the
Speaker 6: roots get colder and a container than they do in
Speaker 6: the ground. So sometimes that's a little bit of a
Speaker 6: factor and nutrient uptake.
Speaker 16: Okay, got you.
Speaker 19: I appreciate it, all right, sir.
Speaker 6: Good luck. Now you know, on Garden Line we don't
Speaker 6: charge for advice, but we do ask you to bring
Speaker 6: half the produce and drop it off at the studio
Speaker 6: and we'll call it even, all right. I love helipinia.
Speaker 6: Take care, David, you take care. Appreciate you being a
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Speaker 6: League City, Texas and we're going to talk to Kelly. Hello, Kelly,
Speaker 6: Welcome to garden.
Speaker 21: Line, Sir.
Speaker 18: We are building an RB resort up on Late Livingston.
Speaker 18: And during the grading process and the cutting and get
Speaker 18: the elevations right, we lost a majority of our trees
Speaker 18: that were out there. We were able to save quite
Speaker 18: a few, but we're wanting to put plant trees between
Speaker 18: all of the sites that don't have them.
Speaker 21: And we're looking at probably one hundred and seventy.
Speaker 18: Five you know plantings, and so I'm looking for something
Speaker 18: that will grow pretty quick, something where and where to
Speaker 18: buy them?
Speaker 22: You know what?
Speaker 18: What you know, we're looking at a fifteen gallon tub
Speaker 18: of these things. Uh, you know, just just looking for
Speaker 18: something that's gonna work good at the sandy loan type
Speaker 18: soil up there. And you know it's on the north
Speaker 18: shore of Lake Livingston.
Speaker 6: So I don't know the producers up in that area. Well,
Speaker 6: I know here RCW Nursery has their tree farm, whim
Speaker 6: some tree farm which is in Cleannersville, and that is
Speaker 6: that is north but it's the west of forty five.
Speaker 6: You may want to call them and say, look, this
Speaker 6: is what we're looking at. What you got kind of prices.
Speaker 6: They're a wholesale a grower up there, But I would
Speaker 6: call RCW. That would be the easiest way. I don't
Speaker 6: have that in the top of my head. I don't
Speaker 6: have Williamson Tree Farm phone number. But they can put
Speaker 6: you in touch with them. They can do that.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 6: That's if you want to buy container trees that have
Speaker 6: some size and they look good, and if you're just
Speaker 6: doing what we called oh gosh, I can't even say
Speaker 6: the word conservation planting.
Speaker 21: You know.
Speaker 6: That's where people go out like they're reforesting a hillside
Speaker 6: and they just have little seedlings are popping in the ground.
Speaker 6: That's a whole different thing. It's less expensive, but your
Speaker 6: trees are tiny and a lot of them won't make it,
Speaker 6: you know, so it's up to you either way.
Speaker 18: Okay, all right, well then I will reach out to
Speaker 18: those groups you said that.
Speaker 21: Was r c W.
Speaker 6: Yes, RCW. If you do Williamson Tree Farm, Williamson Tree
Speaker 6: Farm in Plantersville, I can't. I can't walk in you
Speaker 6: gum at the same time, so I can't go looking
Speaker 6: while I'm talking to you. But Williamson Tree Farm in
Speaker 6: Plantersville is a wholesale grower. They're there by the Renaissance
Speaker 6: Festival out there.
Speaker 2: Okay, perfect, perfect, okay, all right, thanks time, Thank you all.
Speaker 6: Right, good luck with that great project you got going
Speaker 6: up there. We're going to go now to Jeremy in Seabrook, Texas. Hey, Jeremy,
Speaker 6: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 2: How's the going Skip.
Speaker 6: Doing well? Thank you?
Speaker 2: I got a question, how can I hail? I bought
Speaker 2: just a nursery stock juniper.
Speaker 28: It's a green mound, and I let it sit in
Speaker 28: the yard for a couple of months and then I'm
Speaker 28: using them to cut to make in the bonds, all right,
Speaker 28: So I left it in. I left it in the
Speaker 28: five gallons, okay, for about four months. I did some
Speaker 28: minor trimming on it, just to kind of get some
Speaker 28: shape to it. And about two months ago I took
Speaker 28: it out and put it in a little bit smaller
Speaker 28: pot and majority of the roots in it. But now
Speaker 28: it's starting to it looks like it's turning yellow and
Speaker 28: starting to dry up. Is there any save in that tree?
Speaker 6: Okay? There might be, depending on how much damage has
Speaker 6: been done. If you can get it out of just
Speaker 6: the full brun of the sun, maybe give it a
Speaker 6: little western late day shade, keep the soltw moist. Junipers
Speaker 6: do not like wet feet, but they got to have moisture,
Speaker 6: and so the roots that are left that weren't lost,
Speaker 6: making sure they have adequate moisture, and then taking the
Speaker 6: brunt of the hottest part of the day, let's say
Speaker 6: definitely two o'clock to four or five o'clock, that's the
Speaker 6: worst part of the day, taking that away from them,
Speaker 6: give them a little chance. If it's not too far gone,
Speaker 6: it ought to come back.
Speaker 2: You should have come back in the spring, or should
Speaker 2: I see some immediate bounce back.
Speaker 6: You should see some respond we're still having warm temperatures.
Speaker 6: You see some response pretty soon. But you know, the
Speaker 6: first thing is it gets its feet under it and
Speaker 6: essentially just decides, okay, I'm going to stay alive the
Speaker 6: second it gets enough energy to actually grow. So as
Speaker 6: long as it's not continuing to decline, that's a good sign.
Speaker 28: Yeah, okay, is there anything I can feed it outside
Speaker 28: of just normal regular fertilizer?
Speaker 6: Not until it begins to grow in the spring, I
Speaker 6: would say, yeah, just regular. I would go very easy.
Speaker 6: I may even get like an organic solution kind of thing,
Speaker 6: fish emulsion, seaweed, one of the Medina products would be
Speaker 6: really good, or microlife. Microlife has some products pardon.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm using as a Microlife seaweed.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Microlife seaweed and Microlife fish emulsion. If they're indoors,
Speaker 6: the fish emulsion can smell a little bit, the seaweed
Speaker 6: not so much. Microlife has some other good products like that.
Speaker 6: I used their orange label. That is excellent product for
Speaker 6: a liquid. You're not going to burn things with the
Speaker 6: micro Life. That's why I just want to be real
Speaker 6: careful because a little salt based fertilizer too concentrated in
Speaker 6: there can also do it's damage. So we'll stay away
Speaker 6: from those for now.
Speaker 2: Oat all right, Jeremy, I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: All right, Hey, you bet, thanks for the call.
Speaker 16: Good luck with that.
Speaker 6: Sounds like a fun project. You're going to go now
Speaker 6: to Beaumont and talk to Linda.
Speaker 11: Hey Linda, Hi, how are you.
Speaker 16: I'm good.
Speaker 6: I'm good. What's up in Beaumont? Yes, I'm.
Speaker 13: But okay, I have a couple of kret those that
Speaker 13: are growing now they're I mean they start out a
Speaker 13: little now they're big and they're kind of touching my
Speaker 13: roof from the top. So I did talk to somebody
Speaker 13: about trimming those back, you know, off of my roof. Okay,
Speaker 13: and then I also have a huge live oak tree
Speaker 13: that has been at my house for the thirty years
Speaker 13: that we've owned the property, and Beryl took half of
Speaker 13: that down. But I've had a couple of tree people
Speaker 13: out okay that.
Speaker 6: The music is already playing. The music's already playing, So
Speaker 6: I got about two seconds to help you here the
Speaker 6: great myrtle pruning. One thing to consider would be moving
Speaker 6: them and planning a smaller one there. That just falls
Speaker 6: the time to do that. But that's just a quick
Speaker 6: tip there. As far as the oak, send me some
Speaker 6: pictures of that. I think you have some other questions.
Speaker 6: Would you send me pictures of those, and I'll handle
Speaker 6: those via email so that we can do a better job.
Speaker 6: Just show me the problems, show me from a distance,
Speaker 6: show me up close, good sharp photos, and I'll be
Speaker 6: happy to help you with them. Sorry, we just ran
Speaker 6: for that today, but I do appreciate your call. Folks,
Speaker 6: Come see me at Buchanan's Native Plants twelve to two.
Speaker 6: I'm on my way, are you