WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:03.160 Kt r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 2 00:00:03.200 --> 00:00:07.559 of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 3 00:00:07.719 --> 00:00:11.080 to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter. 4 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:27.640 Sho Crazy Trim. Just watch him as thanks to. 5 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:29.239 See botasy. 6 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:37.039 Gas not a sign. 7 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:47.159 Gas the salmon, good horning. 8 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:54.399 Are you there all right? Thanks for joining in. Listen. 9 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:57.359 We have got a lot of gardening to talk about 10 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:00.359 today and I'm looking forward to doing it. I have 11 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.079 been really busy outside myself this week, and I've got 12 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:05.879 a lot of plans to get a lot more done. 13 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:09.200 We are finally getting some of that fall weather. I know, 14 00:01:09.439 --> 00:01:12.879 the next couple of days and not quite fall, but close. 15 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:16.719 But boy, this coming week it is cooling off nicely. 16 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:20.519 In fact, it's the next two weeks really just what 17 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:24.599 they say, the kind of weather that just makes you 18 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:27.200 want to go about, not want to go back inside, 19 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:30.280 you know, Chamber of commerce weather, U and I would say, 20 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:32.640 gardening weather. It's going to be. The temperatures are gonna 21 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:35.040 be mild enough, a little bit crispy. Just to kind 22 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:37.519 of help us forget that there was this thing called summer. 23 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:40.000 We just somehow survived for the last what was it 24 00:01:40.040 --> 00:01:43.200 ten months? It felt like it. Hey, I'm your host, 25 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:45.040 Skip Richter, and if you would like to give me 26 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:47.480 a call this morning on guarden Line seven one three 27 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:50.959 two one two k t r H. Seven to one 28 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:55.879 three two one two k t r H. We love 29 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:59.280 feed stores here on guard Line and League City Feed 30 00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:04.640 down in League City is quintessential feedstore. It's one of 31 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:07.079 the old time feedsure. It's been around since gosh, over 32 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.560 forty years ago. I believe League City Feed was created 33 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.000 in a place where there used to be an Okra patch. 34 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.159 Now anything that starts in an Okra patch can't go wrong, right, 35 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:21.439 you know, I'm biased toward Okra. But anyway, the grandfather 36 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:23.919 built it over forty years ago and the Thunderberg's family 37 00:02:24.039 --> 00:02:27.520 is still running League City Feed the old time service. 38 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:29.599 They carry the bags out for you and you know 39 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:31.719 when you go in there. First of all, it's feed store, 40 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:34.439 so you got quality feeds, especially things like feeds for 41 00:02:34.520 --> 00:02:38.479 your pets are there. But when you go in, your 42 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.800 lawn and garden is going to get fed too because 43 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.960 they have the exact fertilizers that you hear me promote 44 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:48.960 here on garden Line, things like nitrofoss products, azomite, Microlife, 45 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.000 Nelson plant food. You see what I'm saying. They also 46 00:02:53.479 --> 00:02:58.120 carry the things you need to control pests, weeds and diseases. 47 00:02:58.199 --> 00:02:59.759 So when you go in there and come out, you're 48 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.039 going to you just find in terms of getting your 49 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:05.319 place looking really good. Again, the phone number is two 50 00:03:05.360 --> 00:03:08.840 eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Give you that again. 51 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:12.759 Two eight one three three two one six one two. 52 00:03:13.120 --> 00:03:16.039 Open Monday through Saturday nine to six. You can swing 53 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:19.240 by there after work and closed on Sunday. League City 54 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:22.080 Feed everything that you would need. By the way, they 55 00:03:22.280 --> 00:03:25.639 if you are anywhere near League City, el coming to Reale, 56 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:29.479 Santa Fe, San Leone, Lamark Baycliff, Webster, you get the 57 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:33.360 idea Dickinson, clear Lake City, Well, just head over the 58 00:03:33.400 --> 00:03:37.199 League City. It's your hometown feed store there Highway three, 59 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:40.199 just a few blocks south the Highway ninety six in 60 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:45.039 League City. We do love feed stores. I like to 61 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:48.280 smell deal. Do you agree with that? You know, you 62 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:51.759 go into a feed store and there's just this I 63 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:54.120 don't know. I guess it's the primarily the smell of 64 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:56.759 the feed that you're smelling, and it just it just 65 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:01.080 is earthy, and I enjoy it. I love that love 66 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:08.199 that place. I was checking out plans for all seasons recently, 67 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.680 and you know plants for all seasons is they've been 68 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:13.520 around since nineteen seventy three. The Flowery family built that 69 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:16.920 a long long time ago, and they have not only 70 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.720 survived the years, they have thrived, and just more and 71 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:24.360 more people recognized that they are the place to go 72 00:04:24.519 --> 00:04:27.839 for that area. You go in, you take samples, you 73 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:31.160 take questions. You know, maybe what's this bug? It may 74 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:33.319 be what would be a good rose bush from my 75 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:36.879 front yard. They can answer them because they are gardeners 76 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:39.680 in the area themselves, and they have been for decades. 77 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:43.680 Anything that's happening seasonally, it's going to be happening there 78 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:47.480 at well at up plants for all seasons. For example, 79 00:04:47.519 --> 00:04:50.480 they got the onions in the ten fifteen. That's a 80 00:04:50.560 --> 00:04:54.279 big old white yellow or excuse me, yellow onion. That's 81 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:57.199 just so sweet. They've got red creoles. I grew some 82 00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:01.720 of those last year. Excellent, excellent onion, white mudas just 83 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:04.040 ready to go in your gardens. Time to go ahead 84 00:05:04.040 --> 00:05:06.480 and get those things out, So get it done. If 85 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:09.399 you need bulbs, you know, the one shot wonder things 86 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:13.199 like the tulips and hyacinths and things that are so gorgeous. 87 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:16.399 You can just create a really beautiful bull bed. You're 88 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:17.720 gonna want to take them in and put them in 89 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:21.040 your fridge, keep them around, and so right as you 90 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:24.240 get to the end of the Christmas season, that would 91 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.199 be a good time to stick those bulbs in the 92 00:05:26.240 --> 00:05:28.639 ground because they're gonna pop up. They're gonna bloom and 93 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:33.600 look really good. Other holiday decorations like holiday cactus that 94 00:05:34.439 --> 00:05:38.680 just looks stunning right now, they're beautiful. I have so 95 00:05:38.759 --> 00:05:41.519 many of them. Every year I buy one. Now I've 96 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:44.160 probably got eight of them, and I just keep buying 97 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:48.120 more because I love those things. The kind of hot 98 00:05:48.399 --> 00:05:50.560 I'll say new plan me. It's been around a long time, 99 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:54.120 but lately the adenium, the desert rows. Oh it looks 100 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:56.040 so good. And they've got those there, but of course 101 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:58.600 they do. They have everything there. Plants for all Seasons. 102 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:02.839 They're on Highway two Ford, just north of Luetta. Plants 103 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.040 for All Seasons dot Com. Here's the number two eight 104 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:10.560 one three, seven six sixteen forty six. We're going to 105 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:12.160 go ahead and head out to the phones this morning. 106 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:15.519 Seven one three two one two k t R H. 107 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:17.720 And we're going to head out to Cove and talk 108 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:20.560 to Dennis. Hello, Dennis, welcome to Guardenline. 109 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:24.839 Thank you Skip. I have a magnolia tree and I 110 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:29.959 sent some pictures where I have leaves turning brown, and 111 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.399 I suspect it's from the lack of rain. We were 112 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:36.399 gone a lot of October, so it didn't get any 113 00:06:36.839 --> 00:06:39.959 rain in that period. But when I got back it 114 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.800 looked fine, and then of course we had some rain recently, 115 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.600 but it's kind of right after that rain that it 116 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:50.480 started turning brown. So if you can see from the pictures, 117 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:55.360 it's got sort of three main branches off of the tree. 118 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:59.279 One of them's almost all brown, and then there's a 119 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.279 closer pick sure that shows several leaves, and then a 120 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:05.839 close up a one leaf that's like part ground. So 121 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:08.759 that's what I'm asking if you can tail from the 122 00:07:08.800 --> 00:07:14.040 pictures if that's just drought stress or if there's you know, 123 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:17.759 something that magnolia trees get that that might be what 124 00:07:17.879 --> 00:07:18.279 it is. 125 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:22.759 Well, Dennis, is not a disease of the leaves. The 126 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:27.160 way of drowning is occurring. It's if anything, it may 127 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:29.839 be something going on with a plumbing of the plant, 128 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:34.160 meaning anything that restricts the water flow up to the top. 129 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:35.319 You know. 130 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:39.399 That could be cut roots, it could be a rod, 131 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:41.560 It could be lack of water in the soil. It 132 00:07:41.600 --> 00:07:46.560 could be some sort of a borer that's disrupting that 133 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:48.959 flow by cutting the tubes going from the top to 134 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:51.600 the bottom or from the bottom of the top. I 135 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:55.519 don't think it's a bore, but that is very unusual, 136 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:59.839 not a common symptom to see. I would for right 137 00:07:59.879 --> 00:08:02.079 now now just kind of go out and check the water, 138 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:04.839 make sure something didn't going on there, you know, weird 139 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:08.480 it's happened like a water line break or something you 140 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:12.519 know that's leaking, and uh, just look for something really unusual, 141 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:14.560 and if not, I would just kind of wait and 142 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:17.399 watch on it because I don't see any symptoms that 143 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:21.279 are treatable. So just make sure that you know that 144 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.920 it has water, but something else weird is and going 145 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:25.160 on underground. 146 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:30.360 Okay about it? All right, Okay, thank you very much. 147 00:08:30.639 --> 00:08:33.759 All right, sir, you bet going back. If anything develops 148 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:35.879 any any further on it, be happy to do that. 149 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:37.960 All right, folks, I'm gonna have to run to a 150 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:39.759 break right here. I'll be right back if you'd like 151 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:41.720 to give us a call. Seven one three two one 152 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:45.720 two KTRH. Hey, welcome back, welcome back. Good to have 153 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:49.120 you with us here on Garden Line. You'd like to 154 00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:51.679 give me a call seven one three two one two 155 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:54.320 k t r H. Seven one three two one two 156 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:57.159 ktr H. Hey, you've heard me talk about quality home 157 00:08:57.159 --> 00:09:01.720 products of Texas. They are a PERV of the Generac 158 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.279 automatic stand by generator. Now that's become about the highest 159 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.440 itom in town. This past year. 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I'm going 192 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:53.240 to head out to Willis, Texas now and talk to 193 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:55.639 Ann Hello Ann, Welcome to garden Line. 194 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:04.200 Thanks yep. Quick question, Carolina sapphires typis would it tolerates 195 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:05.200 our summer heat? 196 00:11:08.120 --> 00:11:12.480 It can take the heat. Uh. You just want any 197 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:15.120 kind of a cypress or juniper or thing like that. 198 00:11:15.159 --> 00:11:17.840 You want to make sure they get adequate drainage and 199 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:20.840 just keep it just trying to avoid over spray in 200 00:11:20.879 --> 00:11:25.879 the foliage. Uh, you know, the keeping it wet all 201 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:29.759 the time and things because you know, foliage diseases and 202 00:11:29.799 --> 00:11:32.440 things like that are worse when and some people sprinklers 203 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:33.440 just come on too much. 204 00:11:34.759 --> 00:11:39.000 Okay, all right, perfect, all right, thank you. 205 00:11:40.679 --> 00:11:41.120 Well that. 206 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:46.080 Yeah, all right, thanks for the call. Appreciate that you 207 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:51.600 take care sure by all right, Willis, Texas. I used 208 00:11:51.639 --> 00:11:54.279 to have a peach orchard in Willis, Texas. That's right, 209 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.600 I did. It wasn't a big one. It was like 210 00:11:56.679 --> 00:11:59.320 two acres something like that, but oh my goodness, and 211 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.320 we had strawber patch two half acres of strawberries. Pick 212 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:05.840 your own. Boy, it makes my mouthwater just remember in 213 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:09.799 those days. That was that was fun. I learned a 214 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.600 lot of things. You know. It's one thing to go 215 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:14.960 to go to school and get a degree in something 216 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:17.360 like horticulture. You know that that's good. I mean, you 217 00:12:17.399 --> 00:12:19.159 learn a lot of good stuff. Then when you get 218 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:22.320 out there and start doing it, when you become a 219 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:25.559 when you are a gardener and you garden all the 220 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:27.919 time and every year throws your curve, and then you 221 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:30.240 actually go through the process. So what does it take 222 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:33.279 to clearland and plant peaches and put in irrigation and 223 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:35.360 take care of them and deal with things. We learn 224 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:37.679 a lot that way. That's a fun thing about gardening. 225 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:37.960 You know. 226 00:12:38.639 --> 00:12:42.320 One of my favorite things is it's it's never boring. 227 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:45.039 It's always something new. You may hope it would get 228 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:48.039 boring every now and then, but it just doesn't. It 229 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:51.159 doesn't because because you're always learning. There's some new pest 230 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:53.080 that arrives. There's something like, you know, you grow a 231 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:55.440 tomato for five years in a row, and no two 232 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.559 years are the same. One year this disease or that 233 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:01.799 disease may hit or the year you know, we just 234 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.320 made deluges of rain that are coming down and you're 235 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:08.480 dealing with and it's just it's always something different, and 236 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.320 it just makes it kind of fun and exciting. It 237 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:15.759 is definitely not cookie cutter when you're dealing with nature, 238 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.320 the the changes, the things that are going on. It 239 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:22.960 is not like engineering where you add your numbers right, 240 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.399 you get your angles right, and everything works like it's 241 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:30.519 supposed to. Gardening. What do they say, the vicissitudes of nature. 242 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:34.919 Maybe it's too early for using crazy new world like words, 243 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:38.840 but vicissitudes of nature is so true when it comes 244 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:41.240 to garden. But that's what makes it fun. That's what 245 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:44.039 makes it fun. It's always new, it's always hopeful. If 246 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:45.840 you got plants you're looking at right now and you 247 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:48.799 don't like they're ugly, they're dying, or something's going on 248 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:51.399 with them, it's okay, pull them up, put some new 249 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:54.919 ones in. You can do that. That we do a lot. 250 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:56.600 To be a good gardener. You've got to kill a 251 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:59.159 lot of plants. How about that. I'm giving you permission 252 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:03.080 to kill plants. That's not what you expect when you 253 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.399 listen to a gardening show. But it's okay. We can 254 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:08.519 replace them, you know when it comes to success. So 255 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:11.000 with plants, you want to set the foundation. And I 256 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:13.600 say all the time, brown stuff before green stuff, which 257 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.879 means get the soil right before you put the plants in. 258 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:21.559 If you want to have success, Asamite is a micronutrient 259 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:25.799 supplement that helps you get the soil right. It creates 260 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:28.639 the bank account of nutrients and the soil. When you 261 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:31.840 apply asmite, you are applying those things that the plant 262 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:35.519 has to have but needs in very small quantities, so 263 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:37.200 you don't put a lot out. It goes a long way. 264 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.679 You buy a bag of azamite and it'll covers six 265 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:43.360 to twelve thousand square feet. You know, in my vegetable garden, 266 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.559 probably ten pounds over one thousand square feets about all 267 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:49.960 I put out. But I'm telling you, when you create 268 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.720 the bank account, then three hundred and sixty five days 269 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:56.879 of the year, plants need nutrients. They need a variety 270 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:59.559 over twenty different nutrients that the plant's going to use, 271 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:02.159 So you got to get them in the bank account. 272 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:04.320 So when it needs to make the withdrawal, which it 273 00:15:04.360 --> 00:15:07.240 does every day, they're there for that. And that's what 274 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:10.200 asmite does. Asimit texas dot com. If you want to 275 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:12.840 find more information, it's time to get it out there 276 00:15:12.840 --> 00:15:14.440 on the lawns. If you haven't done it in a while, 277 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:17.600 get it out there and get it done. Don't think 278 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:21.720 of it as in place of your regular terf fertilizing, 279 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:24.559 but think of it as a supplement to that by 280 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:30.919 providing those trace minerals of micro nutrients I need to 281 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:33.000 fertilize my own lawn. I've been so busy with some 282 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:35.840 other projects that I haven't taken care of getting it fertilized. 283 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.480 And get a little late for me, because normally I 284 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:41.080 like to fertilize even earlier than this. But it's not 285 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:45.039 too late to do that. Still time to go out 286 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:47.759 and get that done, and I'll be doing that this week. 287 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:50.679 In fact, that's one of the things that's on the list. 288 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:53.480 How about you, We've got great weather to be outside. 289 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:56.360 I hope you are thinking about the kinds of things 290 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:59.840 that you might want to do out there in your gardens. 291 00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:04.159 Have you been out to Nelson Water Garden and Nursery recently? 292 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:07.840 They're out in Katie, Texas. If you're in Houston going 293 00:16:07.960 --> 00:16:10.679 out west on ten, you just go all the way 294 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:13.720 to Katie Fort Benn Road and you turn north. When 295 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:16.039 you head north, it's not very far, just a little 296 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:18.039 bit up the street there on the right hand side 297 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:23.240 Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. Nursery and water Gardens. They've 298 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:26.440 got unbelievable selection of plants. Now, they're known for the 299 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:29.440 water gardens, nationally known really for their water gardens. They've 300 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.279 been doing this longer just about anybody. They know how 301 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.720 to do it. They even invented that disappearing fountain where 302 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:36.919 the water comes out of the big beautiful vase and 303 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:40.080 goes down the side and then recirculates. They invented that, 304 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:41.639 and they know how to do it. Then they can 305 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.080 create one for you, or they can take you know, 306 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:46.159 they can say the pieces and parts and you can 307 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:47.759 go home do it yourself. You want to do that, 308 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:50.679 They're willing to go either way on that. They are 309 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:53.600 loaded up on all kinds of beautiful plants. Right now, 310 00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:57.159 if you're going to go see somebody for Thanksgiving, maybe 311 00:16:57.240 --> 00:16:59.879 go to a mill, why not take them a house 312 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.640 plant from Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. They have some beautiful, 313 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:07.079 beautiful house plants. Right when you walk in the store, 314 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:08.720 you have to walk past all of them, and it's 315 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:12.720 just like, WHOA, I like houseplants that aren't just green. 316 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.240 You know, there's some other colors or some varrogation in 317 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:18.240 the leaves, and that's they got lots of that stuff. 318 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:21.960 Make a really nice gift someone you're going over to 319 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:26.279 have ambule with. You need color like cycloman and pansies, 320 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:29.759 petunia or Viola's rather in there. They got that and 321 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.119 this week, I believe it's on Wednesday. This week the 322 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:36.799 Christmas trees arrived there and they got a nice variety 323 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:39.519 of Christmas trees coming in. So take advantage of that. 324 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:41.960 Also right down on the calendar for the kids on 325 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:47.599 December seventh. December seventh, from nine to eleven am cookies 326 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:50.279 with Santa. Santa showing up. The kids can come and 327 00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:52.720 enjoy the I have hot cocoa and cookies with the 328 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:56.000 Big the Big Man himself. So go out and see 329 00:17:56.000 --> 00:18:01.039 Santa Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery Phone number seven one 330 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:05.799 three two one two kt r Age seven one three 331 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:08.559 two one two KTRH. Give me call if you got 332 00:18:08.599 --> 00:18:11.400 some questions and we will be glad to visit with 333 00:18:11.440 --> 00:18:15.759 you about those kinds of things. This week I was 334 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:19.720 reorganizing my garage and now you're thinking, okay, this is 335 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:22.160 a gardening show. Why am I hearing about your garage? Well, 336 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:24.640 I'll tell you why. Let me finish. Don't ask the 337 00:18:24.720 --> 00:18:28.680 questions on it? All right? So I I have all 338 00:18:28.799 --> 00:18:31.519 kinds of products and things, you know, anything that you 339 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:33.559 hear me recommend on garden line. I get some of 340 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:35.519 the product, I try it out, I test it and 341 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:38.599 see how you know. So when I'm telling you, hey, 342 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:41.119 you need to use this product, it's because I've used 343 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:43.680 the product and I know it works, and so I 344 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:46.200 just it just become a big mess. You know how 345 00:18:46.200 --> 00:18:50.519 garages are. They tend to gather stuff and they become 346 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:52.440 a big mess. So I was cleaning it all up, 347 00:18:52.480 --> 00:18:55.640 got some new shelves, getting it organized and everything in there. 348 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.000 And my tools. I noticed that my tools have not 349 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:02.240 been properly cared for. And don't tell anybody I said 350 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:06.079 that on the air, But yes, I know better than that. 351 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:09.519 And I was looking at several different tools that had 352 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:11.680 just us starting them, a little bit of rust on them. 353 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:15.200 It's like, oh my gosh. So if that is what 354 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:17.480 your tools are looking like, it's time to get those 355 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:19.119 cleaned up. You know a lot of things are getting 356 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:22.839 put away for the season pretty quick here, lawnmowers and whatnot. 357 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.680 You want to get the blade sharpened. You want to 358 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:29.319 make sure that everything you know is ready to go 359 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:33.200 for storage. I had some pruners that needed a little 360 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:36.160 bit of oiling. I took a little what do you 361 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:38.960 call it, steel wool and just kind of rubbed that 362 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:42.960 little fine dusting of rust that was on there off, 363 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:45.440 get it oiled and ready to put away. And then 364 00:19:45.480 --> 00:19:48.559 I found another tool for a real cool, little kind 365 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:51.880 of hand hoe that I have, putting it up, soil knives, 366 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:55.480 different things, just getting them in order, the handles, did 367 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.759 a little standing on the wooden handles to make them 368 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:03.319 nice and smooth. Put some oil on the handles, some 369 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:06.680 tongue oil or I use a mineral oil to on 370 00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:09.119 the handles, and it just feels good to get it 371 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:11.319 all in order because you're taking care of it. Because listen, 372 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:16.680 cheap tools are cheap. They're not just inexpensive, they're cheap. 373 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:19.119 And when you go out and you buy these cheap prunters, 374 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:21.039 they don't last. You end up throwing them away, and 375 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:23.200 in the long term you spend more money than on 376 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:26.079 a good quality set of printers. But if you buy 377 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:29.200 good quality printers, take care of them, take care of them, 378 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:32.519 keep them sharp, keep them oiled, keep the handles as 379 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:36.559 I described, smooth and well oiled as well, and they'll 380 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:39.839 last you forever. And if you're looking for Christmas gifts 381 00:20:39.839 --> 00:20:43.119 for gardeners on your list, there is nothing like a 382 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:46.640 really good quality tool, not just a cheap piece of jump. 383 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:49.759 I'm talking about a quality tool. So a printer that's quality. 384 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:52.079 You can replace the blades. You don't buy new prunters 385 00:20:52.079 --> 00:20:55.880 all the time. You just replace the blades periodically, and 386 00:20:55.960 --> 00:20:57.440 it is really easy to do. 387 00:20:57.519 --> 00:20:57.599 So. 388 00:20:57.680 --> 00:21:00.359 Anyway, I was practicing what I preach a little bit 389 00:21:00.400 --> 00:21:03.480 there and getting that all cleaned up. It it's time 390 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:05.640 for me to take a quick break here. I will 391 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:09.200 be back the number seven one three two one two KTRH. 392 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:13.480 Stay tuned, Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have 393 00:21:13.640 --> 00:21:17.079 you with us today. Seriously, it's always good to talk 394 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:18.680 to gardens, you know. That's one of the fun things 395 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:21.920 about gardening is visiting with gardeners, whether you were sharing 396 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:26.240 ideas about plants, sharing scenes or cuttings, or or just 397 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:32.000 let's just let me say this delicately, just bragging about 398 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:36.400 you know, how many tomatoes you grew last year or whatever. 399 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:37.960 I mean, We'll we'll put up with any of that 400 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:41.359 stuff here on guarden Line. Within reason, right within reason. 401 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:44.559 No gardening is fun. It is an enjoyable it's a 402 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:48.480 social event and it's something that I just believe we 403 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:50.160 were made to be out there in nature. I think 404 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:52.519 that's part of the deal, and gardening is a great 405 00:21:52.519 --> 00:21:56.000 way to do that. It is one of the most 406 00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:59.920 important things you can do to your lawn really almost 407 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:04.119 in the year, but especially when we're trying to recover 408 00:22:04.359 --> 00:22:06.680 from struggles that the loan has been having, is to 409 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:11.480 do a compost top dressing after you do a core aeration. 410 00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:14.319 And green Pro does that if you live within forty 411 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:18.400 five miles of Magnolia, so basically the north west quadrant 412 00:22:18.400 --> 00:22:21.119 of Houston, So think of Interstate forty five, think of 413 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:28.759 Interstate ten, that northwest quadrant up there, so Spring, Cypress, Woodlands, Conrad, Willis, Magnolia, Montgomery, 414 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:34.400 you know, west central Houston, Cypress, all that area that 415 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:36.480 that is their serve area. And what they do is 416 00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:38.920 they come out and they do a core aeration, pulling 417 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:41.480 plugs out of the soil, dropping them on the surface. 418 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:43.240 That's what you want. Looks like you had a little 419 00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:45.519 miniature dog convention on the lawn when you get through, 420 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:47.599 because you got those little plugs soil up on top. 421 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.119 Then they put a compost top dressing down falls down 422 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:53.880 in the holes, gets oxygen in the root system, gets 423 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:56.920 organic matter, composts down in the root system, and it 424 00:22:56.960 --> 00:22:59.559 stimulates the lawn to do it. Now they've got to 425 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:02.839 deal with on on through fall, which means we're getting 426 00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:05.079 toward the end of that. They will aerate your lawn 427 00:23:05.160 --> 00:23:08.519 for free, air eight for free when you purchase a 428 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:12.720 two yard minimum of composts top dressing service. So two 429 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:15.720 yard minimum, but they come out, they air eight, They 430 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:18.839 put that composts top dressing down and you're good to go, 431 00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:21.799 and your lawn will look better next spring. When you 432 00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:24.119 do that, it will I mean, it'll look better sooner 433 00:23:24.160 --> 00:23:27.000 in spring. But I'm just saying it is the way 434 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:29.720 to get out of the situation where it's struggling from 435 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:32.440 heat and drought and chinchbugs for whatever you're going through, 436 00:23:32.599 --> 00:23:37.359 especially compaction. That aeration is perfect for compaction. Price to 437 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:40.319 start at five seventy five plus tax. Here is how 438 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:42.640 you get a hold of them. Two eight one three 439 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:48.400 five one forty seven thirty three greenpro dot net greenpro 440 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:51.480 dot net two eight one three five to one forty 441 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:53.640 seven thirty three. We're going to go out now to 442 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:56.519 Paarland and talk to Greg, Hey, Greg, Welcome to Guarden Line. 443 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:00.200 Hi Skip, thanks for taking my call. 444 00:24:01.680 --> 00:24:06.880 Sure so I sent well, I sent you earlier in 445 00:24:06.920 --> 00:24:10.799 the week some images of a weed that's been kind 446 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:14.759 of a pest in my lawn. And I have a 447 00:24:14.880 --> 00:24:18.240 tiff Way Bermuda four nineteen lawn for gosh, but the 448 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:21.359 last twenty twenty five years. It's not like there's a 449 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:23.359 ton of it, but I just can't seem to get 450 00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:25.559 rid of it. I use a you know, I've used 451 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:29.279 various products from the big box stores like Ortho and 452 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:33.000 BioAdvance and Image and things like that, and the weed 453 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:35.359 will kind of wither a little bit, turn a little 454 00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:37.880 bit yellow, you know, crinkle up on the corners, but 455 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.359 it never really you know, kills it so and when 456 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:44.759 you try to like pull the weed out, it it 457 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:47.400 basically you know, you can't pull it out by the root. 458 00:24:47.480 --> 00:24:50.200 So I think it kind of grows on a like 459 00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:53.519 a horizontal root like a you know, have rhizomes or 460 00:24:54.200 --> 00:24:56.359 maybe it has tubers on it or something like that 461 00:24:56.359 --> 00:25:01.039 that makes it more resistant and just wandering, you know. 462 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:03.440 From the images that I sent to you, like I said, 463 00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:05.720 it's kind of a little low leaf, but you know, 464 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:08.039 leafy thing. It has two to three leaves, maybe one 465 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:10.880 to two inches high, and it gets a single petreole 466 00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:11.680 that comes out. 467 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:16.720 Sure, and uh, I'm I got those photos. Okay, yeah, 468 00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:20.680 I got your photos and the congratulations. You're the first 469 00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:22.039 person to ever send me this weed. 470 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:22.480 Uh. 471 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:26.079 It's called Adder's tongue and it's a native weed in 472 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:28.400 our area. In fact, there's several types of Adder's tongue 473 00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:31.480 around the country. But uh it no one's ever sent 474 00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:33.839 me a picture of it in the lawn before. But 475 00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:36.720 the problem with it, the reason you're not getting results 476 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:39.440 is is it's kin to ferns, even though it doesn't 477 00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:42.039 look like a fern at all, but it is. It 478 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.599 is it's like a fern. And so you know, the 479 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:47.799 things that kill grasses don't kill it. The things that 480 00:25:47.920 --> 00:25:51.559 kill broad leaves don't tend to kill it either. I don't. 481 00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:54.000 I have not. When I got your picture, I thought, 482 00:25:54.039 --> 00:25:55.400 you know, I don't even know how you kill that. 483 00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:58.240 And I looked around. I didn't see any controls because 484 00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:00.960 nobody's out there saying it's the problem. I got to 485 00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:01.359 kill it. 486 00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:02.200 Uh. 487 00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:04.599 And so I don't know what to tell you in 488 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:10.200 terms of what would work. The if I were you, 489 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:13.920 you've tried. You mentioned some products in your email that 490 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:17.319 you've tried, and most of those are going to be 491 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:20.759 things that kill broadleaf weeds. One of them has some 492 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:24.480 sedge sedge control in it. And if none of that's working, 493 00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:28.480 I might go to just a general purpose weed killer, 494 00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:32.559 something with a glyphosate in it, round up kind of thing, 495 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.200 and I'll put it on my weed wiper, and I'll 496 00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:42.240 if you go to my website, garden skip dot com. Yeah, 497 00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:44.519 now before you if you haven't made one, before you 498 00:26:44.559 --> 00:26:46.880 go make one. You might just get a little bit 499 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:50.240 of that and and dab it right on a weed, 500 00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:53.680 you know, just kind of a hand and see if 501 00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:57.400 it affects it or not, because I don't I don't know, really, 502 00:26:58.079 --> 00:27:01.880 I don't know. A furnace side out there, fern family 503 00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:05.240 of plants, and see if that works. If it does, 504 00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:07.480 then you can go to the weed wiper. You're going 505 00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:09.440 to get some low brown spots because that weed's so 506 00:27:09.559 --> 00:27:11.200 low down in the grass. It's hard to get it 507 00:27:11.240 --> 00:27:13.759 on the weed without getting it on your grass. But 508 00:27:14.039 --> 00:27:16.599 the more you could do that. Another thing people will 509 00:27:16.640 --> 00:27:19.799 do is they'll put a rag over the end of 510 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:23.640 a spray wand and then like a twist tie to 511 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:26.000 hold it on. And that way you just dampen the 512 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:29.960 rag with a little squirt of the from the wand 513 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:33.160 and then you use that dampened drag to dab it 514 00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:36.880 straight down onto the weed. That's another option, but again 515 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:39.680 that's the best shot I can give you. I don't 516 00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:43.000 know what else would do it that wouldn't be also 517 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:44.920 extremely damaging to your lawn. 518 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:49.400 Okay, yeah, you know they round deep has a kind 519 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:53.680 of a stick that kind of looks like the odorant stick. 520 00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:57.799 Would that work too? Okay, comes in a solid. Yeah, 521 00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:00.000 if you could get it, Yeah, if you could get 522 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:02.319 on there. That's the problem with those is trying to 523 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:04.359 get it on there. But I would just get some 524 00:28:05.240 --> 00:28:07.720 and just dab it and see if it works. And 525 00:28:07.759 --> 00:28:10.519 if it doesn't, I think you're going to be looking 526 00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:12.279 kind of hand digging it. But being a fern, it 527 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:14.880 doesn't have a normal root system as you were describing. Hey, 528 00:28:14.880 --> 00:28:17.680 I've got to run, Greg, but good luck, good luck 529 00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:20.200 with that, and thanks for thank you very much for 530 00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:20.680 your call. 531 00:28:20.839 --> 00:28:27.160 I appreciate that. Wow. Well, I don't have enough time 532 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:30.599 to jump onto another call here, so when we come 533 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:33.839 back Jim and clear Lake and Jobby a Mission Valley. 534 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:36.559 You'll be our first two up. All right, welcome back, folks. 535 00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:41.119 Good to have you with us. You're listening to Garden Line. 536 00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:43.359 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and I want to tell 537 00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:46.640 you this. If you are looking to take care of 538 00:28:46.680 --> 00:28:49.640 your lawn and garden and have it looking beautiful, bountiful, 539 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:53.400 all the above. Ace Hardware Stores is your one stop 540 00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:57.559 for all that fertilizers, for weed control, for disease control. 541 00:28:58.319 --> 00:29:00.559 Do you need tools? Do you need things like from 542 00:29:00.599 --> 00:29:03.119 everything from a garden hose to printers, do you name it? 543 00:29:03.279 --> 00:29:05.519 Do you want to decorate that outdoor area and just 544 00:29:05.559 --> 00:29:07.720 make it nice? You know, this week we're we're heading 545 00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:09.400 over to some friend's house and we're going to be 546 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:13.920 enjoying some outdoors during this great cool weather we're having. 547 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:16.200 And they've got a beautiful little patio strung up with 548 00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:18.000 those little I call them beer lights, but you know, 549 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:23.000 the little kind of like outdoor ambiance light strings that 550 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:26.279 people put out kind of reminds me of a little 551 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:29.720 outdoor beer garden kind of thing. Well. ACE has all 552 00:29:29.799 --> 00:29:32.160 kinds of stuff like that. We're still doing a lot 553 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:35.559 of barbecue in Ace is the place to get the 554 00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:38.200 best quality barbecuers. You're going to find things, you know, 555 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.839 brands like Big Green Egg and Traeger and Weber and 556 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:44.400 all the supplies you need to go with it. It 557 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:46.920 is still okay to get that fire ant baited out 558 00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.720 to shut them down so when you come out next spring. 559 00:29:49.880 --> 00:29:54.519 They're not just everywhere. And ACE has a number of 560 00:29:54.599 --> 00:29:57.200 different quality fireant baits that you can choose from. So, 561 00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.079 in other words, if you want to make your outdoors 562 00:29:59.079 --> 00:30:02.319 more livable, go to Acehardware dot com. If you go 563 00:30:02.359 --> 00:30:05.160 to that Acehardware dot Com, there is a store locator 564 00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:08.319 and you can find the stores that are near you. 565 00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:11.519 There's over forty in the greater Houston area. I'm going 566 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:14.200 to head out now to Jim and Clearlay. Hey, Jim, 567 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:16.799 welcome to garden Line Morning. Skip. 568 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:20.279 About a year a little bit more ago, I bought 569 00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:24.240 a couple of Duranta and put them in my front shrubbery. 570 00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:26.359 They really did. 571 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:31.319 Well, and of course the hurricane almost took them out, 572 00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:34.400 so I had to tie them up. They seem to 573 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:37.680 like that a lot. They're vertically now well over seven feet. 574 00:30:38.880 --> 00:30:42.319 But I want to know about pruning them. I've heard 575 00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:48.400 you say that pruning will enhance growth and going into 576 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:50.319 these winter months, is that a good idea? 577 00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:57.839 Yeah, Well, don't prone them before we get a freeze 578 00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:59.839 and it kind of kills them back, like at ten 579 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.400 to do or just wait toward the end of winter 580 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:05.640 and you can do a couple of things. You can 581 00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:07.960 shape and prune as you want. I often will just 582 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.640 cut those things back at the ground because you get 583 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:13.039 all the fresh new growth up then and they still 584 00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:16.640 bloom and look good. Sometimes over time, with a little 585 00:31:16.640 --> 00:31:19.359 bit of cold damage here and there, the plants just 586 00:31:19.400 --> 00:31:21.680 don't look that full. You decide if you like the 587 00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:23.599 look of them or not. But on mine, I generally 588 00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:25.519 cut them back to the ground toward the end of winter. 589 00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:27.119 Yeah. 590 00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:32.119 Once I take these tied decks off of it, it's 591 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:34.519 gonna it's gonna spread, and then I'm going to have 592 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:36.400 to trim it back so the long. 593 00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:37.119 Term be cut. 594 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.920 But I just didn't think, yeah, so the spring, I'll 595 00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:42.279 do that. 596 00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.240 Or just after the freeze. 597 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:49.400 Yeah, after after a good hard freeze, or even toward 598 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:51.359 the end of winter, you just don't if you prune. Now, 599 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:54.079 what's gonna happen is we'll get probably a week or 600 00:31:54.079 --> 00:31:57.200 two we'll have a seven upper seventies lower eighties week 601 00:31:57.319 --> 00:31:59.640 or something, and you don't want them to start growing 602 00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:03.279 because they'll just be burned back again. So okay, good 603 00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:08.000 luck with that, Jim, Thank you for the call. I 604 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:11.839 appreciate that. Antiqu Rosenporium that has been a destination for 605 00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:14.599 gardners and family since nineteen eighty three, which is about 606 00:32:14.640 --> 00:32:16.400 the first time I ever went out there. I was 607 00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:19.200 so impressed. When they first built that place. There was 608 00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:21.119 nothing like it, and there still isn't you know. You 609 00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:25.200 go out to Antiqurosenporium and the place is overflowing with roses, 610 00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:28.359 but they also have veggies and herbs, the native plants 611 00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:33.400 cool season color like violas and snapdragons and Dianthus perennials 612 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:38.839 like salvia. Every every time you turn around, they are 613 00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:41.720 releasing you know, they do plant breeding. Now rose breeding. 614 00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:44.759 They're releasing a new rose. The newest release, I believe 615 00:32:44.839 --> 00:32:49.559 is Zenna. It's an anti rose, exclusively bred variety, got 616 00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:52.880 patents pending on it, and it's just gorgeous and you 617 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:54.960 need to go see that. But what you really need 618 00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.519 to do is go to their website Antique Roseemporium dot com. 619 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:03.039 The website is outstanding. You'll find like I want a 620 00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:05.079 climbing rose, they have a list of them. I want 621 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.720 a really fragrant rose, they have a list of them. 622 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:09.799 I want a shrub ROAs. Do you see what I'm saying? 623 00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:14.799 They have roses and so so much more. When you 624 00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:17.039 go out there, and this would be a great place 625 00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:19.480 to do your holiday shopping. Or again, like I'm saying, 626 00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:22.400 you're going somebody's for Thanksgiving, take them a rose bush 627 00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:27.200 for decades of memories of your gift. Tell them I 628 00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:29.440 sent you. You get ten percent off at check out, 629 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:31.640 or if you want to order online, you can do that. 630 00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:33.599 If you order, I would go out there because there's 631 00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:35.319 a great place to go visit. But if you want 632 00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:39.599 to order online, use coupon code SKIP twenty twenty four. 633 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:43.720 Here's their phone number nine seven nine eight three six 634 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:48.000 fifty five forty eight nine seven nine eight three six 635 00:33:48.519 --> 00:33:50.799 five y five for eight. We're going to go now 636 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.279 to Mission Valley and talk to a jobbi. Hey, Jobby, 637 00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:54.160 welcome to garden Line. 638 00:33:55.559 --> 00:33:56.160 Thanks Skip. 639 00:33:56.440 --> 00:34:00.799 Been enjoying your program for quite a while. I'm interested 640 00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:06.079 in planting some peas and beans. Is about time to 641 00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:07.319 get some of those in the ground. 642 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:12.360 It's a little late for beans, green beans, pental beans, 643 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.320 butter beans, you know, all those kind of beans. It's 644 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:17.719 at they're warm seasons, so you're going to wait for 645 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:23.519 spring on those. The peas, cool season peas, Let's see, 646 00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:26.519 it's kind of iffy for us here. We plant those 647 00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:33.199 typically in September, late September, maybe early October, to try 648 00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:35.199 to get them in when we have a hard freeze. 649 00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:38.039 Even though the plants are pretty cold, hardy, A hard 650 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:41.159 freeze will burn off the little tender pods and things, 651 00:34:41.199 --> 00:34:44.039 and so you kind of lose the thing. If you 652 00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:48.400 get some that are fast ones like do a sugar 653 00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:51.679 snap type of peete, not the variety sugar snap that's 654 00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:53.760 a slower one, but one that's going to be done 655 00:34:53.760 --> 00:34:58.079 in about fifty fives days, maybe sixty days. You could 656 00:34:58.079 --> 00:34:59.760 probably still get that done. You may have to cover 657 00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:02.920 them once or something. But you know, it can't predict 658 00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:04.559 the weather. I mean, you could go through winter and 659 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:07.360 not have a freeze, or you could go through and 660 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:09.920 have one. Have one at the beginning of December and 661 00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:11.679 the things are hardly coming up out of the ground, 662 00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:14.639 but the plants are pretty tough. It's just the once 663 00:35:14.679 --> 00:35:16.800 they're about to bloom, that's when you don't want to 664 00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:18.320 freeze on them or right out. 665 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:22.920 Thanks Skip. What about spinach and some of. 666 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:27.519 Those spinach is very cold hardy. Spinach is cold hardy, 667 00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:30.880 about as cold harty as our greens get. Spinach and 668 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:34.280 kale and collars, those three are really good and tough. 669 00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:38.440 Let us is good. You can still plant carrots now 670 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:41.880 in the garden. And you know, if you're willing to 671 00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:45.119 cover it, even things like Swiss charred and beats or 672 00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:47.599 will do just fine. You can still plant those things. 673 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:48.119 You know. 674 00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:50.519 Seed's not that expensive, so I say, hey, give it 675 00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:51.079 a shot. 676 00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:55.719 Yeah, well, thanks, Skip, appreciate it all. 677 00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:58.440 Right, got thanks for the question. Appreciate you being a listener. 678 00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:02.400 You take care, You take care. D and D Feed 679 00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:06.960 up in Tomball is your hometown feed store and they're 680 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:09.360 on the west side by the way. D and D 681 00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:12.000 is just out west of town on twenty nine to 682 00:36:12.079 --> 00:36:15.880 twenty and it's been there for a good while, I believe, gosh, 683 00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:18.639 when did they think? Nineteen eighty nine is when they 684 00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:21.639 first opened up, and they have expanded the store and 685 00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:24.679 you walk inside and you'll see pretty quick it's everything 686 00:36:24.719 --> 00:36:26.400 you need of course it's a feed store. They all 687 00:36:26.440 --> 00:36:30.440 kinds of quality livestock feeds and whatnot, really good pet food. 688 00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:33.079 Every time I go, my dogs want to know if 689 00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:35.599 I went to the little Pet Delicatessen. That's my name 690 00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:38.559 for it. But it's a shelf full of these bones 691 00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:41.440 and things that well, you just have to go see it. 692 00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:46.000 They are flavorful, very good. But when you're in there 693 00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:49.480 as a gardener, all the fertilizers that you would want 694 00:36:49.559 --> 00:36:52.000 are going to be there, things like nitro foss and 695 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:56.360 like Microlife and like Nilson's turf Star and Medena line. 696 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:00.800 Really a number of different Nelson plant food if you 697 00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:04.320 need sol mixes, you know, brown stuff, the four Green Stuff, 698 00:37:04.760 --> 00:37:08.760 heirloom soils, a landscaper's pride. They've got all of that there. 699 00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:11.639 They also carry a number of tools, a number of 700 00:37:11.639 --> 00:37:14.400 different kinds of plants, D and de feed and supply. 701 00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:17.800 Three miles west of two forty nine on twenty nine, 702 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:22.760 twenty two eight one three five one seventy one forty 703 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:27.960 four two eight one three five one seventy one forty four. Oh, 704 00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:29.679 by the way, when you're there, you can get the 705 00:37:29.679 --> 00:37:33.280 microlife products. You know, I talk about Microlife all the time. 706 00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:36.320 The green bag is the standard room we use all year. 707 00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:41.079 At this point we switch over to the Microlife brown patch, 708 00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:44.639 which is designed more for a fall application. Works really well. 709 00:37:45.039 --> 00:37:48.719 I would say also, micro Grow bioinoculant is something you 710 00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:50.880 just need to keep around and put it out periodically 711 00:37:50.920 --> 00:37:56.440 because it's not a nutrient fertilizer. It's a microbe containing products. 712 00:37:56.480 --> 00:38:00.880 Sixty three different strains of beneficial microbes that we know 713 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:06.880 from research fight disease. They fight disease, They cause plants 714 00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:10.159 to grow in ways that help the plant fight disease 715 00:38:10.239 --> 00:38:14.079 as well. Micro Growth biinoculant from Microlife you can get 716 00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:16.320 it there at D and D feat. By the way, 717 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:20.760 if you want more microlife information, Microlife Fertilizer dot com. 718 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:25.199 Microlife Fertilizer dot com makes it really easy to learn 719 00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:28.960 a lot about it. Oh whither that good stuff? I 720 00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:30.920 use it myself. In fact, I just got a bag 721 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:33.039 out the other day. I said, I need to take 722 00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:35.480 care of my own lawn. That's what's about to go 723 00:38:35.559 --> 00:38:40.079 down on there, some of that ground pack. All right, folks, 724 00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:43.000 music means I gotta quit talking. We're going to go 725 00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:45.199 to the news, but I will be back Scott. When 726 00:38:45.239 --> 00:38:47.760 we come back, you will be our very first up 727 00:38:48.239 --> 00:38:50.760 to begin the next hour. Thank the rest of you 728 00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:53.639 for listening. Give us a call two eight one excuse 729 00:38:53.679 --> 00:39:03.199 me seven one three two one two KT. 730 00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:06.679 Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip 731 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:09.159 Richard's shoes. 732 00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:14.559 Trim. 733 00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:23.320 Just watch him as so many. 734 00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:35.320 Good things to sup by not sorry. 735 00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:39.679 All right, folks, glad you're with us today. Thanks for 736 00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:43.440 listening in. By the way, we have plenty of things 737 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:45.280 to talk about and if you've got some questions you 738 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:47.559 would like to ask, well, give me a call seven 739 00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:50.920 one three two one two k t r H. Seven 740 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:55.960 one three two one two k t r H. I 741 00:39:56.119 --> 00:40:01.000 wanted to tell you a little bit about a beginning nursery. 742 00:40:01.000 --> 00:40:04.039 You hear me talk about Buchanans Native Plants a lot, 743 00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:08.480 because it's just one of those places that it's special. 744 00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:10.760 You need to go there. You need to see the 745 00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:12.719 kinds of things that they have going on. And the 746 00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:15.960 reason I say that is there's always something new there 747 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:19.719 and right now they are set up for the holidays. 748 00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:23.079 I mean is it's amazing the kinds of things that 749 00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:25.079 they have going on. You know, you always know when 750 00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:27.320 you go to Buchanans, you're gonna find native plants. They're 751 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:32.920 the biggest arrangement with the biggest array of native plants 752 00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:35.079 that you're going to find anywhere in the region. That's 753 00:40:35.159 --> 00:40:37.320 what they specialize in, even down to the point of 754 00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:39.840 like I want to I want something that's not native 755 00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:42.760 just to Texas or you know the region. I want 756 00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:45.679 something native to Harrison County right here in this area. 757 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:49.159 They have it down drilled down to that far. And 758 00:40:49.519 --> 00:40:52.360 when you go to Buchanans, you can say things like, Okay, 759 00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:54.400 I want a native plant that has berries, I want 760 00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:56.199 a native plant for the shade. I want a native 761 00:40:56.199 --> 00:40:59.320 plant that attracts hummingbirds for example. They can do all 762 00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:01.800 of those kinds of things now right now in their 763 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:07.079 gift shops. Oh that bungalow is just it's unbelievable, beautiful 764 00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:10.559 Christmas greenery and everything that you'd want for decorating for 765 00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:13.599 the holidays, you know, things like of course point settas 766 00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:17.639 and holiday cacti and things. They're also still stocked up 767 00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:19.760 really really well on herbs. You're going to do some 768 00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:23.440 cooking for the holidays, how about some time or rosemary 769 00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:26.119 or regano. I mean they are set up on all 770 00:41:26.199 --> 00:41:28.800 kinds of things like that. Their houseplants. Now you would 771 00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:31.559 think a place called buchanan Naeded Plants, is that where 772 00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:34.599 you go to get a houseplot. Yes, it absolutely is. 773 00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:38.480 Their selection. I'll tell you this. Even if you're really 774 00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:40.639 into housepoints and you think you have one of everything, 775 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:44.239 you go into Buchanon's houseplant greenhouse and you're going to 776 00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:49.480 see things that you don't have because that selection is outstanding. 777 00:41:49.760 --> 00:41:54.119 Just beautiful, beautiful, beautiful now for cool season color. Lots 778 00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:56.960 of plants there. The fall is the time for planting 779 00:41:57.039 --> 00:41:59.760 and falls. It's a good time to plant perennials. Even 780 00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:01.360 things that are going to die of the ground soon. 781 00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:04.440 Get them in now and they'll be so much further 782 00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:08.239 ahead by the time next summer's heat arrives that you'll 783 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:11.199 be really glad you fall planted. That's the advantage of 784 00:42:11.239 --> 00:42:15.239 fall planting. So whatever you're going after bu can As 785 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:18.519 Native Plants in the Heights, don't forget. They're going to 786 00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:23.559 have their holiday open house on Saturday, December seventh, from 787 00:42:23.679 --> 00:42:26.480 ten am to three pm. This is a free event. 788 00:42:26.519 --> 00:42:30.159 There's gonna be live music, kids, crafts, Santo be there. 789 00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:32.559 They'll have drinks and more. It just it's going to 790 00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:34.960 be festive. They always put on a good show there 791 00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:37.719 and again for gifts you're going to how about this 792 00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:40.760 I talk about I keep talking about going, you know, 793 00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:43.960 to Granny's for Thanksgiving or wherever you're going for Thanksgiving. 794 00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:48.239 Why not grab one of those Ammarillis blooms for forcing 795 00:42:48.360 --> 00:42:50.079 You know, the big old bulbs that you put in 796 00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:52.199 the pot and the ballooms come up, and you don't 797 00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.000 put them outside initially, you just enjoy them inside, then 798 00:42:55.079 --> 00:42:58.480 plant them outside for continued enjoyment. Why not give one 799 00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:01.480 of those as a gift from Buchanan's Native Plants on 800 00:43:01.559 --> 00:43:04.440 Eleventh Street and the Heights. Go to their website Buchanans 801 00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:07.599 Plants dot com. Sign up for the newsletter. It is awesome. 802 00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:11.400 Really is lots of good information. Let's go out to 803 00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:14.119 clear Lake now and we're going to talk to Scott. Hello, Scott, 804 00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:15.320 Welcome to garden Line. 805 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:18.840 Thanks Skip. I'm calling about a challenge I have. I 806 00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:22.960 planted a bunch of Asian jasmine underneath my oak tree 807 00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:25.079 a few years ago. It's a large oak tree. It's 808 00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:28.280 between my sidewalking the curb, and it's being taken over 809 00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:31.599 by poison ivy. I was wondering if there's something spray 810 00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:34.760 on the poison ivy because I'm extremely allergic to poison ivy. 811 00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:37.840 I can't actually pull it, you. 812 00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:42.239 You can't without killing The jasmine and the advantage are 813 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:46.280 a little slick and so spray didn't stick to them 814 00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:48.239 as well as it will the ivy. But here's what 815 00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:50.280 I would do. If you go to my website Gardening 816 00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:55.440 with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot Com, there 817 00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:59.519 is something called the skipsweed wiper, and it tells you 818 00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:01.880 how to make one of those, how you can make 819 00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:05.239 one yourself. They're really easy to make. You can get 820 00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:07.960 the little grabber tools and the sponges on. It is 821 00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:09.679 what it amounts to. But when you see it, it'll 822 00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:12.760 be like, oh, that's simple. I can do that. And 823 00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:17.239 I know I know that Southwest Fertilizer carries those grabber 824 00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:19.880 tools with the suction cups. You need a certain kind 825 00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:22.880 unless you want to go to extra length to try 826 00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:24.800 to make it this way. It's real easy if you 827 00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:27.360 do it the way I've designed it on there is 828 00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:30.760 also a herbicides for the weed wiper thing, and that 829 00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:35.400 will there'll be a product containing triclope here. But that's 830 00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:38.000 on the sheet and it tells you, you know, if 831 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:41.000 you're going after poison ivy and your jasmine, it tells 832 00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:43.360 you use trick up here. If you look and you've 833 00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:45.760 got wild onions and garlic coming up in the yard, 834 00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:48.800 it tells you what to use for that, or grasses 835 00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:52.320 or broad leaves, and so it's all there on the website. 836 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:56.599 You bet that's really because it's it's being taken over 837 00:44:56.719 --> 00:44:59.360 by poison ivy. So thank you so much, and I'll 838 00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:00.079 look on your webs. 839 00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:04.039 All right, Well, thank you. I appreciate the appreciate you 840 00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:08.719 hanging on for that. Take care. Yes three, that weed wiper, 841 00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:11.880 I say invented it. I mean it's not that much 842 00:45:11.880 --> 00:45:16.039 of an invention, but it is sure handy. I use 843 00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:19.760 mine all the time, all the time, very very helpful. 844 00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:24.840 If you have not put your fall fertilization out like 845 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.119 I haven't because I've been busy doing other things, you 846 00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:30.880 can still do it. And Nelson Plant Food has their 847 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:35.039 product called carbel Load. Carbo Load is a pre emergent 848 00:45:35.039 --> 00:45:39.239 herbicide and a fertilizer put together in one Now the 849 00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:42.679 forticon bags of carboload cover about five thousand square feet. 850 00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:46.280 It's designed with that ratio of nutrients. It's best for fall, 851 00:45:46.599 --> 00:45:49.360 so it helps your grass. Whenever we have warm weather 852 00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:53.280 during the cool season, which we do here, that grass 853 00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:56.880 is taking up the nutrients and it's making carbohydrates with 854 00:45:56.920 --> 00:45:59.960 the leaves and that makes it a more hearty. Law 855 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:02.400 on when we have a good hard cold snap, and 856 00:46:02.519 --> 00:46:05.880 next spring your lawn will be better. But get it down. 857 00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:09.280 You gotta watered in. Apply it watered in right away. 858 00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:13.400 Nelson Turchstar carb load. It is not too late to do. 859 00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:16.039 Go ahead and get it done now as soon as 860 00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:18.920 you can, because cool season weeds are already germinating and 861 00:46:18.960 --> 00:46:20.440 you want to catch as many of them as you 862 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:23.159 can with that and also have the benefit of that 863 00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:26.880 outstanding fertilizer blend. Time for me to take a little 864 00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:29.599 break here. I will be back in just a moment 865 00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.119 if you would like to give me a call seven 866 00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:35.360 to one three two one two k t r H. 867 00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:38.719 Seven one three two one two k t r H. 868 00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:41.519 Let's help you with the kinds of questions you might 869 00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:45.719 have for gardening. Be right back, all right, welcome back. 870 00:46:45.880 --> 00:46:49.800 Good to have you with us. We are here to 871 00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:52.239 answer your gardening questions, So feel free to give me 872 00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:55.880 a call if you have one seven one three two 873 00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:01.920 one two kt RH seven one three two to KTRH 874 00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:05.440 Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. They're out there 875 00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:08.760 in of course, Kingwood area. Warrens is on North Park Drive, 876 00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:13.519 Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. Both locations open seven days a week, 877 00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:16.960 and I'm telling you they are ready to go for 878 00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:20.559 the holiday's beautiful stuff. By the way, we are now 879 00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:24.239 entering the third week of Kingwood Garden Center's gift shop 880 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:30.400 clearance event. That's this week November sixteenth through thirtieth. Forty 881 00:47:30.880 --> 00:47:33.639 percent off everything that's in there, and they have a 882 00:47:33.920 --> 00:47:36.239 wide variety of things in the gift shop. They're getting 883 00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:38.760 ready for the new inventory coming in, so that's why 884 00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:43.800 they've dropped it twenty five forty percent off what's left. 885 00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:46.000 So get by there and check it out. You might 886 00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:48.280 find a good gift or something you just really need 887 00:47:48.320 --> 00:47:51.280 yourself when you go by there. By the way, when 888 00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:54.719 you go out to Warren's Southern Guarden and Kingwood Garden Center, 889 00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:58.039 they've got a mult cell going on. Four bags for 890 00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:01.239 fifteen bucks. Good night, What a what a deal? A 891 00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:06.159 variety of different multch options to choose from, from heirloom soils, 892 00:48:06.320 --> 00:48:09.840 from heirloom soils, so you know, twelve months out of 893 00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:13.719 the year it's mulch time. It is. Molt isn't just 894 00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:16.159 for hot summer weather. Molt is for keeping the cool 895 00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:19.239 season weeds out of your flower beds. It's for moderating 896 00:48:19.239 --> 00:48:22.559 the soil temperature. When you've got maybe a tender perennial 897 00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:26.199 one that could get killed in a good cold winter spell. 898 00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:29.119 Throw mulch over it, over the surface of the soil, 899 00:48:29.199 --> 00:48:31.000 over the top of the crown of the plant, even 900 00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:34.119 and you will find that it insulates it and protects 901 00:48:34.119 --> 00:48:36.880 it and it gets you right through mulch. Multch moltz 902 00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:38.920 always a good time to mulch. And you're not gonna 903 00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:41.719 find a better deal than this right now. Warrens and 904 00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:44.000 Kingwood Gardens there and then while you're at warrants, check 905 00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:47.440 out the wall of seeds. I mean, they just have 906 00:48:48.119 --> 00:48:51.000 every kind of seed you can imagine, vegetables, flowers, herbs, 907 00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:55.920 beautiful beautiful options. So it is cool season gardening time. 908 00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:58.880 Stop buy out there at Warren Southern Garden on North 909 00:48:58.920 --> 00:49:04.360 Park or Kingwood Gardens Center on Stone Hollow Drive. I 910 00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:06.880 remember the first time ever went out there, they used 911 00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:09.880 to have a what was it, Laura Peddl a Chinese 912 00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:13.000 Chinese witch hazel. This is the biggest thing I've ever seen. 913 00:49:13.119 --> 00:49:16.280 I mean that thing was like two stories high and 914 00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:19.440 it was just gorgeous. Each spring. I can't remember what 915 00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:22.360 happened to that plant, but anyway, it was beautiful. But 916 00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:25.440 every time I go out there, I'm just surprised at 917 00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:28.679 all of the different things they have. The selection from 918 00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:31.480 pottery to plants, do you name. It just really beautiful. 919 00:49:33.360 --> 00:49:36.079 So a while ago I was telling you that or 920 00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:40.079 somebody that the weed wiper tool that's on my website 921 00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:42.800 at gardening with Skip dot com, you can buy the 922 00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:45.920 actual grabber tool that you used to make it at 923 00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:51.239 Southwest Fertilizer. Because at Southwest Fertilizer, anything you need for 924 00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:56.679 your garden, for your lawn, no matter what, for planting 925 00:49:57.760 --> 00:49:59.800 is there. If you want a beautiful garden, a bountiful 926 00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:02.920 land escape, you go in to Southwest Fertilizer and you're 927 00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:05.719 gonna find every fertilizer I talk about on guardline and 928 00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:09.480 then some if there is a product, even one brand 929 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:11.599 new on the market. Bob and I talk from time 930 00:50:11.639 --> 00:50:14.159 to time about what's new, what's going on, and I 931 00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:16.480 always stop in there to see because if something new 932 00:50:16.519 --> 00:50:19.639 shows up, they companies don't send me a notification, but 933 00:50:19.679 --> 00:50:21.760 I go to Southwest and I'll see it there already 934 00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:23.880 on the shelf, because if they don't have it, you 935 00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:26.880 don't need it. As Southwest fertilizer. While you're in there, 936 00:50:26.960 --> 00:50:30.559 grab that, grab a tool and make you a weed wrapper. 937 00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:33.599 Toils so nice and it helps minimize the amount of 938 00:50:33.639 --> 00:50:36.239 pesticide you put out in the environment. Grab one of 939 00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:40.440 their kneeling benches. Wonderful little gift for holidays, the kneeling bench, 940 00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:43.440 the folding kneeling bench. I use mine just the other day, 941 00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:47.679 laying out a concrete patio, not concrete, a stone patio, 942 00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:49.960 and I'm on my knees and on my knees and 943 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:51.760 on my knees, and up and down and up and 944 00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:55.079 down that kneeling bench. Oh my gosh, I would still 945 00:50:55.119 --> 00:50:57.639 be laying curled up in the prenatal position if I 946 00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:00.039 hadn't had that to kneel on. And then with the 947 00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:02.639 handles it has to get back up and down because 948 00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:04.800 you do that about eight hundred thousand times on a 949 00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:07.880 Saturday morning and things get interesting the next day or two. 950 00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:12.199 But Bob's got them there. Southwest Fertilizer dot COM's the website. 951 00:51:12.199 --> 00:51:15.079 Here's the phone number seven one three six six six 952 00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:18.920 seventeen forty four. If you want to go there, and 953 00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:20.719 I recommend you to you, I don't care where you 954 00:51:20.760 --> 00:51:23.960 live around town. Drive over there corner of Bissinet and 955 00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:30.039 Runwick in Southwest Houston. Corner of Businet and Runwick. My 956 00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:31.679 phone number, by the way, if you like to give 957 00:51:31.679 --> 00:51:33.800 me a call and ask a question. Seven one three 958 00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:38.119 two one two kt RH seven one three two one 959 00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:42.360 two kt r H. I was out at the wild 960 00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:46.400 Birds Store out there in Kingwood the other day on 961 00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:48.840 a Saturday for an appearance. We had a really good 962 00:51:48.880 --> 00:51:51.239 time out there, thanks by the way to everyone who 963 00:51:51.239 --> 00:51:53.320 came out. But while I was in there, I was 964 00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:56.320 just checking out their seed blends. And you know, there 965 00:51:56.360 --> 00:51:59.559 are so many quality seed blends. That's where I get 966 00:51:59.559 --> 00:52:02.079 my seed, my bird seed. And there are a number 967 00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:05.639 of reasons why. But the quality of the seed is important. 968 00:52:05.719 --> 00:52:08.239 And you think, well it's seed, just throw seed out 969 00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:10.599 there the bird. Well, you buy a cheap bird seed 970 00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:13.159 and you get red bebes could be over half. The 971 00:52:14.119 --> 00:52:16.960 quantity of the sack is red bebes in some cases, 972 00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:19.119 and birds kick those out they don't eat them, So 973 00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:21.679 that right there, your price just doubled for what you 974 00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:24.039 paid for that bird seed. Do you see what I'm saying. 975 00:52:25.079 --> 00:52:28.039 When you go to wallbirds, you get stuff that goes 976 00:52:28.079 --> 00:52:31.599 in the birds tummy, and I like, there are no 977 00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:34.519 mess blends. So let's say you take a really high 978 00:52:34.639 --> 00:52:39.719 quality sunflower that's a super high quality oil protein seed. Well, 979 00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:42.639 they're going to break the shell and get the kernel 980 00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:44.599 out and drop the shells on the ground. If you 981 00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:47.519 don't want that, get one from wahbirds. It's already been shelled. 982 00:52:48.159 --> 00:52:50.480 You know, in the long run, it's actually less expensive 983 00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:54.360 to buy the already shelled out seeds because of the 984 00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:57.000 quantity that you end up getting when you do that. 985 00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:00.280 I like, right now, in fact, the other day, grab 986 00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:05.559 some wildbirds unlimited winter super blend, super packed with fat 987 00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:08.559 and protein. You know, as the days are shorter, birds 988 00:53:08.599 --> 00:53:10.280 don't have as much time to be outfeeding. 989 00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:10.880 Now. 990 00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:13.599 They've been kind of quiet at the feeders these last 991 00:53:13.800 --> 00:53:16.840 month or so because it's just part of the season. 992 00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:20.039 But as things cool off more, the birds will be 993 00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:22.760 back in mass and they're gonna need something to eat. 994 00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:25.239 And whether you get sue at cakes or whether you 995 00:53:25.320 --> 00:53:27.920 get seeds. If you got problems with squirrels eating all 996 00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:30.000 your bird seed, they have the one the seed with 997 00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:33.360 a hot pepper in them. You know, the birds, the squirrels, 998 00:53:33.639 --> 00:53:36.320 they they're like me that burns their mouths. They don't 999 00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:40.320 eat that, but the birds do. Wildbird's Unlimited. How about 1000 00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:43.000 a bird house? How about a bird feeder? Oh, you 1001 00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:45.840 talk about gifts, that's a great idea. Hey, go to 1002 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:51.960 Wildbirds' website for the Houston group. That's WBU dot com, 1003 00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:56.719 WBU dot com forward Slash Houston. You'll see the six 1004 00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:00.480 Wildbird stores here in the Greater Houston area and all 1005 00:54:00.519 --> 00:54:05.480 of them are well well worth a visit. I love that. 1006 00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:09.119 I was out putting that patio in and just kind 1007 00:54:09.119 --> 00:54:11.719 of looking at the feeders and just you know, that's 1008 00:54:11.719 --> 00:54:13.760 why I said, I noticed that birds haven't been to 1009 00:54:13.800 --> 00:54:16.760 them a lot right now, and I ask I ask someone. 1010 00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:20.440 I asked John actually about it, and he would just saying, yeah, 1011 00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:22.239 that's kind of part of the season change there. But 1012 00:54:22.320 --> 00:54:24.360 they'll they definitely come back because I know in the 1013 00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:27.000 winter they like to come to the feeders, and they've 1014 00:54:27.039 --> 00:54:30.960 been coming to them a lot this year. Cool stuff, 1015 00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:32.679 a lot of fun and oh gosh, go out in 1016 00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:34.840 the morning and listen to the songs of birds and 1017 00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:37.920 to bring those to your house. That is just that 1018 00:54:38.079 --> 00:54:44.079 is just really cool. Spring Creek Feed is north and 1019 00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:47.679 kind of east of tom Wall. It's on in Magnolia 1020 00:54:47.760 --> 00:54:51.400 area on FM twenty nine, seventy eight, seventy eight. It 1021 00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:56.039 is a beautiful, beautiful feedstore. Spring Creek Feed Center part 1022 00:54:56.039 --> 00:54:59.239 of the America's Country Store group. You walk in and 1023 00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:02.280 you feel like probably walked into some kind of a 1024 00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:06.440 I don't know, a nice little gift shop or something. 1025 00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:09.280 It's just beautiful inside. And then you get to look 1026 00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:10.760 and you go, no, it's the feed store. They got 1027 00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:12.360 lots of feed. And you look over to the right 1028 00:55:12.480 --> 00:55:15.639 and that's the garden center. And you're going to find 1029 00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:19.719 the Nelson Turf star line, the nitrofoss line, the microlifeline. 1030 00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:22.360 You're going to find stuff to kill weeds, to prevent 1031 00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:26.920 weeds from happening, fungicides, pesticide. But the best part, I 1032 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:30.239 think is the friendly, courteous staff. You know, they they're 1033 00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:33.079 there to make you feel at home and to help 1034 00:55:33.119 --> 00:55:35.280 you find what you need, and they are really good 1035 00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:38.199 at that. And when you get into Spring Creek Feed 1036 00:55:38.519 --> 00:55:41.159 if you need something you don't see, they will do 1037 00:55:41.239 --> 00:55:43.599 special orders, so just let them know. They even have 1038 00:55:43.679 --> 00:55:46.039 a delivery service available too if you choose to go 1039 00:55:46.159 --> 00:55:49.880 that route. If you're senior citizen or military, or even 1040 00:55:49.920 --> 00:55:54.519 a four h kid ffa kid raising livestock animals, They've 1041 00:55:54.599 --> 00:55:58.280 got discounts for you there on their livestock feeds as well. 1042 00:55:58.679 --> 00:56:02.119 Spring Creek Feed Center FM twenty nine seventy eight just 1043 00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:05.280 minutes away from ground Parkway and Highway two forty nine 1044 00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:11.280 up there in the Magnolia area. You're listening to Guardline 1045 00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:15.119 the phone number seven one three two one two KTRH 1046 00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:19.679 seven one three two one two KTRH. I was talking 1047 00:56:19.760 --> 00:56:23.800 with David Williamson there at RCW Nursery a while back. 1048 00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:25.719 We were just talking about some of the different plants 1049 00:56:25.719 --> 00:56:29.480 and things in the the uh place where they growed 1050 00:56:29.519 --> 00:56:32.280 them up in the Plannersville are you know. RCW is 1051 00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:36.760 retail garden center there where Beltway E comes into Highway 1052 00:56:36.760 --> 00:56:40.519 two forty nine, which we call locally Tomball Parkway. Well, 1053 00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:43.519 right there at the corner easy to get to belt 1054 00:56:43.719 --> 00:56:47.480 is RCW Nurseries and they are going to have the 1055 00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:50.079 kinds of plants you need right now. They got specials 1056 00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:54.840 going on on shrubs, for example, really really nice options 1057 00:56:54.840 --> 00:56:55.519 on shrubs. 1058 00:56:55.880 --> 00:56:56.000 Uh. 1059 00:56:56.079 --> 00:56:58.079 If you're looking for your cool season color. Of course 1060 00:56:58.079 --> 00:57:01.239 they've got that. Herbs, perennials and you shrubs, navy plants, 1061 00:57:01.280 --> 00:57:05.960 trees and top top quality stock. You know, because they 1062 00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:09.280 grow their own trees. They they choose the species that 1063 00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:11.800 are going to do best here and they grow them right. 1064 00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:14.159 And if it's a small tree, take it home planet yourself. 1065 00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:16.760 They'll give you the root stimulators. I say give you, 1066 00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:19.039 they'll say the roote stimulators to go with it so 1067 00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:21.639 your tree will be successful. They'll tell you how to 1068 00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:23.880 plant it right. Or you can just hire them to 1069 00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:25.840 come out and do it, especially when you get one 1070 00:57:25.840 --> 00:57:27.599 of these bigger trees, unless you want to put your 1071 00:57:27.760 --> 00:57:31.440 chiropractors kids through college. Hire them, let them come out 1072 00:57:31.480 --> 00:57:32.960 and put that thing in the ground and get it 1073 00:57:33.000 --> 00:57:35.599 planted right. The best time to plant a tree is 1074 00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:39.440 forty years ago. The second best time is today. And 1075 00:57:39.559 --> 00:57:41.280 RCW is the place you need to go get it. 1076 00:57:41.599 --> 00:57:47.000 Rcwnursries dot Com where Tambo Parkway comes into bout Way eight. 1077 00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:52.360 I mentioned that I was working on a patio in 1078 00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:57.599 the backyard and I'm laying stones, kind of an Oklahoma 1079 00:57:57.679 --> 00:58:01.239 stone flat stones down and we're putting on a bed 1080 00:58:01.480 --> 00:58:06.480 of decomposed granite, and so getting them all spaced outride 1081 00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:09.639 and level and making sure they're not wobbly as you 1082 00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:12.119 walk across them. You know, that whole process getting it right. 1083 00:58:12.840 --> 00:58:16.800 But boy, it's looking good. I got I probably got 1084 00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:18.960 about two thirds of the way done with it now, 1085 00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:20.719 and I just need to do the last bit. I 1086 00:58:20.719 --> 00:58:22.599 had to take a break for a while. You know 1087 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:26.360 when you do when you over exert. Have you notice 1088 00:58:26.440 --> 00:58:29.599 this is anybody listening to me somewhere north of forty 1089 00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:33.239 years old. If you overexert the next morning, you know 1090 00:58:33.360 --> 00:58:35.519 it and you go ooh, that was too much. And 1091 00:58:35.559 --> 00:58:42.199 then the second morning, oh my gosh, I've stocked up 1092 00:58:42.199 --> 00:58:44.840 on everything from Bengate, I'd be propen and I need 1093 00:58:44.880 --> 00:58:46.280 to take it. I had to take a day or 1094 00:58:46.320 --> 00:58:48.519 two off to get back out there and get going 1095 00:58:48.599 --> 00:58:50.679 again on it. Some of you know what I'm talking about. 1096 00:58:50.719 --> 00:58:53.199 Some of you are like, Ah, that's never gonna happen 1097 00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:56.840 to me. Yeah, right, better than better than the alternative 1098 00:58:57.159 --> 00:58:59.239 that kneeling bench. I keep telling you, Bob's got it 1099 00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:04.440 Southwest First, I'm using mine a lot, a lot, and 1100 00:59:04.519 --> 00:59:07.280 I really, I really love it. Well, we're coming up 1101 00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:10.039 here on a little break for the news. I will 1102 00:59:10.039 --> 00:59:11.559 be back if you'd like to give me a call 1103 00:59:11.679 --> 00:59:15.320 seven to one three two one two kat r A. 1104 00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:19.519 Some of you sent me pictures and things via email, 1105 00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:21.360 so give me a call in. That'd be a good 1106 00:59:21.360 --> 00:59:24.599 time actually to do that. And when we come back, 1107 00:59:24.639 --> 00:59:28.320 we will talk to you about whatever questions that you 1108 00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:31.599 might have. Take care, We'll be right back. Welcome back, 1109 00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:34.360 Welcome back to guard Line. Guys. We're glad you are 1110 00:59:34.440 --> 00:59:37.840 listening today. We have a lot of things I'd like 1111 00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:39.400 to talk about, but I'd kind of like to visit 1112 00:59:39.440 --> 00:59:42.760 with you about the things that you are interested in 1113 00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:45.599 talking about. So let's head out to Spring, Texas. We're 1114 00:59:45.599 --> 00:59:48.159 going to talk to Larry. Hey, Larry, welcome to guard Line. 1115 00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:51.039 Good morning, Skip. I didn't think you would get to 1116 00:59:51.079 --> 00:59:51.679 me so soon. 1117 00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:55.440 I did you hit at the right time? 1118 00:59:56.480 --> 01:00:02.440 I guess well. I I visited my brother in law 1119 01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:05.119 here the other day, and he's got some grass that's 1120 01:00:05.119 --> 01:00:09.079 growing in his yard. It's a little bit invasive, but 1121 01:00:09.559 --> 01:00:12.599 we're just wondering what we had there and whether we 1122 01:00:12.760 --> 01:00:15.320 could propagate it or try to get rid of it. 1123 01:00:17.480 --> 01:00:21.840 Well, that's actually a more related to the plants you've 1124 01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:24.440 heard of called wandering jew kind of a houseplant, a 1125 01:00:24.519 --> 01:00:27.440 vining plant, than it is to grass. But it's called 1126 01:00:27.519 --> 01:00:32.239 dovewed dovewed, and it's a warm season weed. It's gonna 1127 01:00:32.559 --> 01:00:34.320 kind of go away a little bit when we get 1128 01:00:34.360 --> 01:00:38.400 some freezes in here, but it is very invasive and 1129 01:00:38.639 --> 01:00:41.679 you know, if the area stays wet, dove weed even 1130 01:00:41.719 --> 01:00:45.239 grows faster. So you know, trying to make sure you've 1131 01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:47.719 got decent drainage or not over water and those are 1132 01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:51.760 all important dove weed. At this point, it's got a 1133 01:00:51.800 --> 01:00:54.480 lot of seeds on it, and no one wants to 1134 01:00:54.519 --> 01:00:56.800 be told to handpull their weeds. But the more you 1135 01:00:56.880 --> 01:00:58.800 pull out of there, the more the seed you get 1136 01:00:58.840 --> 01:01:00.719 out of there. Now you spray and killed the weed, 1137 01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:05.400 but that getting the seed out is important if you 1138 01:01:05.559 --> 01:01:10.639 use any product that's a trimech type of product. Product 1139 01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:15.440 that trimech being it's got at least three different herbicides 1140 01:01:15.480 --> 01:01:18.639 for broad leaf weeds that that combination works pretty good 1141 01:01:18.679 --> 01:01:24.280 on doveweed. Those work. There's another product called Celsius that's 1142 01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:27.840 a little more expensive, but it also is even better 1143 01:01:28.559 --> 01:01:34.039 on dov Celsius is like the temperature. Yeah, yes, and 1144 01:01:34.079 --> 01:01:38.119 so so you know, if you've got areas and some 1145 01:01:38.159 --> 01:01:41.599 people do where it's like the whole lawn is just 1146 01:01:41.679 --> 01:01:45.320 basically turned into doveweed, And what I'm seeing in the photo, 1147 01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:48.960 it's pretty close to that in that area. You could 1148 01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:51.840 just kill that area out and then replant grass in 1149 01:01:51.880 --> 01:01:53.719 there is your lawn Saint Augustine or. 1150 01:01:53.719 --> 01:01:57.480 Bermuda grass, Bermuda for the most part. 1151 01:01:57.800 --> 01:02:03.440 Okay, Yeah, Well then those Trimach type products, Celsius type products, 1152 01:02:03.480 --> 01:02:06.000 those those would be good to use in there. That 1153 01:02:06.119 --> 01:02:09.440 bermuta will fall back in really fast, but it's not 1154 01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:12.079 going to grow at all until it gets warm in 1155 01:02:12.119 --> 01:02:16.239 the spring. Bermuda grass in cool season, it just shuts 1156 01:02:16.280 --> 01:02:17.480 down and doesn't do anything. 1157 01:02:18.679 --> 01:02:20.599 Yeah, it looks it looks pretty good. 1158 01:02:20.679 --> 01:02:20.880 You know. 1159 01:02:21.599 --> 01:02:23.440 He mentioned he said, you know, if my whole yard 1160 01:02:23.519 --> 01:02:25.360 was like that, he said, it probably wouldn't be bad. 1161 01:02:27.199 --> 01:02:30.320 Yeah, well, I get it. I mean I don't know 1162 01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:34.039 that you can make a dependably thick yard out of doveweed, 1163 01:02:34.079 --> 01:02:36.400 and I don't think it has any wear tolerance for 1164 01:02:36.679 --> 01:02:39.119 when you're walking on it and stuff. You know, it's 1165 01:02:39.119 --> 01:02:41.960 not going to hold up like Bermuda Whiel. That's why 1166 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:45.599 Bermuda's used to make football fields because you can you 1167 01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:48.079 can have a lot of wear and tear and it 1168 01:02:48.119 --> 01:02:50.079 holds up to it. Dove weeds not that way. 1169 01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:53.639 Yeah, he's dealing with a lot of shade in his 1170 01:02:53.800 --> 01:02:59.360 yard in Okay, okay, this kind of spotty here and there. 1171 01:03:01.599 --> 01:03:05.039 Well, you know, just a thought, I'll throw this out there. 1172 01:03:05.840 --> 01:03:08.480 He may want to consider just getting rid of everything 1173 01:03:09.239 --> 01:03:12.360 and putting in something that does well in shade, like 1174 01:03:12.400 --> 01:03:17.119 Saint Augustine. Or there's also a couple of zoysia's. There's 1175 01:03:17.159 --> 01:03:21.559 one called Xeon'szeo n. It's a very fine textured zoysia. 1176 01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:24.039 If you know it regularly looks it's pretty as a 1177 01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:26.719 golf course green almost. It's not not that short, but 1178 01:03:26.960 --> 01:03:30.000 you know, it's a nice, dense, fine textured little grass. 1179 01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:34.519 But Saint Augustine too, because Bermuda is if you've got shade, 1180 01:03:34.519 --> 01:03:36.880 shade's only going to get worse because trees get thicker 1181 01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:40.440 and bigger every year, and so the Bermuda is not 1182 01:03:40.480 --> 01:03:44.079 going to get better. It's only going to get worse anyway. 1183 01:03:44.199 --> 01:03:45.719 Just something for him to think about. 1184 01:03:46.440 --> 01:03:49.440 Okay, all right, I'll throw it out there. 1185 01:03:51.199 --> 01:03:54.400 Thank you so much, Thank you, Larry. Appreciate that call. 1186 01:03:54.519 --> 01:03:59.280 Appreciate those photos. Yes, dove We that's the boy. I've 1187 01:03:59.320 --> 01:04:03.639 had more dove We calls these last couple of months. 1188 01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:08.840 Then normal. It's certainly been busy with people asking questions 1189 01:04:08.920 --> 01:04:13.519 about the doveweed. Well, let's see here phone number seven 1190 01:04:13.519 --> 01:04:17.159 to one three two one two k t RH seven 1191 01:04:17.239 --> 01:04:19.880 one three two one two KTRH. Sometimes it gets real 1192 01:04:19.960 --> 01:04:21.920 busy here and I had a couple of times today. 1193 01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:24.559 We're trying to direct traffic, keep up people from having 1194 01:04:24.559 --> 01:04:26.760 to wait so long. Right now is a good time 1195 01:04:26.760 --> 01:04:28.639 to call, if you know, I've got an open set 1196 01:04:28.639 --> 01:04:31.360 of phone line, so at least for the first two 1197 01:04:31.440 --> 01:04:33.639 or three folks that call you a jump right on. 1198 01:04:34.599 --> 01:04:34.760 Uh. 1199 01:04:34.840 --> 01:04:40.639 Heirloom Soils has always made top quality soil products. I 1200 01:04:40.639 --> 01:04:44.239 mean the kinds of things that set the foundation for 1201 01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:47.679 success with your plants. I always say brown stuff before 1202 01:04:47.719 --> 01:04:50.440 green stuff, meaning get the soil right, and the plants 1203 01:04:50.519 --> 01:04:53.920 the green stuff will drive well. Heirloom Soil is the 1204 01:04:53.960 --> 01:04:56.480 place for that, and they've got some really good deals 1205 01:04:56.559 --> 01:04:59.199 right now that you can get a one QB card 1206 01:04:59.239 --> 01:05:04.119 sack of either their leaf mold compost perfect for top 1207 01:05:04.199 --> 01:05:06.400 compost top dressing, or you could mix it into the 1208 01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:09.480 soil as well, or they're Veggie and Herb mix leaf 1209 01:05:09.519 --> 01:05:11.840 more compost or Veggie and Herb mix for one hundred 1210 01:05:11.880 --> 01:05:14.039 and twenty nine. You get to keep the sack now 1211 01:05:14.360 --> 01:05:16.679 if you want. They can deliver, but it's a three 1212 01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:19.719 sack minimum and there's a fee for delivery. If you 1213 01:05:19.800 --> 01:05:22.880 want to get a delivery, go to rock in maltch 1214 01:05:23.079 --> 01:05:28.599 roc k the letter n maultch dot com slash delivery. 1215 01:05:29.360 --> 01:05:31.599 That's Warren Rocketmultch up there in Porter, which is where 1216 01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:35.480 the heirloom soils is delivered from. That's Inporter, Texas. Or 1217 01:05:35.519 --> 01:05:37.519 you can go up to Porter to Warren's Rocket Meultch 1218 01:05:37.559 --> 01:05:39.440 and you can just pick it up there yourself. If 1219 01:05:39.440 --> 01:05:41.000 you got a truck or trailer and you want to 1220 01:05:41.039 --> 01:05:44.400 do that, give them a call two eight one, three 1221 01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:48.239 five four nineteen fifty. They're open till three today, close 1222 01:05:48.320 --> 01:05:51.760 tomorrow and then Monday through Friday seven am to four pm, 1223 01:05:51.880 --> 01:05:53.519 so you can go get it yourself, makes it real 1224 01:05:53.599 --> 01:05:56.719 easier have then come delivered. That Supersack is really cool 1225 01:05:56.760 --> 01:05:58.960 because they drop it off on the driveway. I just 1226 01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:01.000 did a couple of super sacks of some stuff I 1227 01:06:01.039 --> 01:06:05.719 was putting out and just so neat and clean. I 1228 01:06:05.840 --> 01:06:08.519 like that better than piles on the driveway, that's for sure. 1229 01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:11.519 You can get their lead more compost by Supersack and 1230 01:06:11.559 --> 01:06:13.400 the veggie and or mix again, both those are one 1231 01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:16.440 Toy nine. They have something called a lawn mix. It's 1232 01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:19.440 kind of a new deal now. It's it doesn't have 1233 01:06:19.559 --> 01:06:22.840 top soiling. It's got Mason sand compost in bed mix. 1234 01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:25.880 So if you're trying to level out your yard and 1235 01:06:25.920 --> 01:06:27.960 you're trying to you know, smooth things out and get 1236 01:06:27.960 --> 01:06:32.639 it really ready for laying side. The premium lawn Mix 1237 01:06:34.199 --> 01:06:36.880 really really good price seventy four dollars a sack on that. 1238 01:06:36.920 --> 01:06:38.360 I don't know how they do it for that price, 1239 01:06:38.400 --> 01:06:41.239 but anyway, that would be a good one to order. 1240 01:06:41.280 --> 01:06:43.800 Of course, you can get cedar multch, hardwood, mulch, pine bark, 1241 01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:46.519 all of that. You can get the black Star gravel, 1242 01:06:46.559 --> 01:06:51.199 which is gorgeous, gorgeous just like the name would sound, Blackstar, 1243 01:06:51.440 --> 01:06:56.519 just beautiful black shiny material. And then there's the rainbow gravel, which, 1244 01:06:56.559 --> 01:06:59.679 as the name implies, different colors of gravel. Those are 1245 01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:04.079 all so available from warm trucking malts and heirloom soils. 1246 01:07:05.880 --> 01:07:08.159 You should check those out. Those are deals you're not 1247 01:07:08.199 --> 01:07:12.360 gonna You're not gonna do better or not. Trees, trees, trees, trees. 1248 01:07:12.440 --> 01:07:16.679 This year the storms hammered our trees, hammered our trees. 1249 01:07:16.719 --> 01:07:21.079 When trees are not prune properly, they become susceptible to 1250 01:07:21.679 --> 01:07:25.400 all kinds of issues like storm breakage, the narrow branch angles, 1251 01:07:25.440 --> 01:07:28.719 and so on. Affordable Tree Service make sure your trees 1252 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:32.320 are prune properly. You you call call Martin Spoon more up. 1253 01:07:32.360 --> 01:07:34.880 Here's the phone number two eight or excuse me, seven 1254 01:07:34.880 --> 01:07:39.119 to one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. 1255 01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:41.679 Call them. You're either gonna either Martin Or's wife Joel 1256 01:07:41.719 --> 01:07:44.320 answer the phone. The owner's answered the phone. There. If 1257 01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:46.679 you don't hear Martin or Joe answer, hang up. Call 1258 01:07:46.760 --> 01:07:48.880 the wrong place again. Let me give you that number 1259 01:07:49.239 --> 01:07:52.599 seven one three six nine nine two six sixty three. 1260 01:07:53.119 --> 01:07:56.239 You can go to their website Afftree Service dot com. 1261 01:07:56.280 --> 01:07:57.559 The main thing you need to do is just do 1262 01:07:57.639 --> 01:08:00.960 something now because he stays busy. Printing season is going 1263 01:08:01.000 --> 01:08:02.920 to go all the way through February. You can prune 1264 01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:05.079 twelve months out of the year. But the best time 1265 01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:07.920 to prune. We're in the big middle here. We're going 1266 01:08:07.960 --> 01:08:10.800 into the winter season, which is prime time for getting 1267 01:08:10.840 --> 01:08:13.960 all that work done. Get on his schedule. Tell him 1268 01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:16.479 you're a guardenline listener. Get on the schedule. Have him 1269 01:08:16.520 --> 01:08:19.199 come out and get that work done. Make sure your 1270 01:08:19.199 --> 01:08:22.840 trees are properly prune so they are as storm hearty 1271 01:08:22.960 --> 01:08:25.520 as they can be, as resilient to the wind as 1272 01:08:25.560 --> 01:08:28.000 they can be. Any other things you need done while 1273 01:08:28.000 --> 01:08:31.319 he's out there, You want some consulting, you know, like, hey, 1274 01:08:31.359 --> 01:08:33.000 I want to put a trench in. Where should I 1275 01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:35.680 put it so I don't kill this tree? Because yes, 1276 01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:38.880 trenches kill trees. They can We want to put a 1277 01:08:38.960 --> 01:08:42.079 driveway in or something. Talk to Martin. He will help 1278 01:08:42.119 --> 01:08:46.039 you with that. Martin spoon More Affordable Tree Service seven 1279 01:08:46.319 --> 01:08:51.560 three six nine nine two six six three. Time for 1280 01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:53.800 me to take a break. I will be right back 1281 01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:56.560 with our last segment of the hour and your calls 1282 01:08:56.680 --> 01:09:04.119 at seven one three two ten KTRH back Cardline folks. 1283 01:09:04.159 --> 01:09:07.359 Good to have you with us today. You know Orges 1284 01:09:07.399 --> 01:09:10.439 hidden gardens done in Alvin. I don't know any of 1285 01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:12.319 you down south. You need to get by there at 1286 01:09:12.319 --> 01:09:16.039 your hometown. Garden center down south of the Houston area 1287 01:09:17.000 --> 01:09:19.800 or has got a lot of different things available right now. 1288 01:09:19.960 --> 01:09:23.199 He always has a good selection of fruit. He always 1289 01:09:23.239 --> 01:09:25.800 has a good selection of roses and trees and shrubs 1290 01:09:25.800 --> 01:09:28.119 and things. Of course, is a garden center, you're gonna 1291 01:09:28.119 --> 01:09:31.359 find herbs and veggies and things like that as well. Flowers, 1292 01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:35.960 certainly flowers, and they carry the three sixty tree stabilizer. 1293 01:09:36.159 --> 01:09:38.039 If you are going to plant a tree, you need 1294 01:09:38.079 --> 01:09:41.159 one of the three sixty tree stabilizers. I'll talk more 1295 01:09:41.199 --> 01:09:44.960 about it at the time, but that is available there 1296 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:47.720 as well. Know they're fall hours. They're closed on Monday, 1297 01:09:48.239 --> 01:09:50.720 but they're open today and tomorrow from eight am to 1298 01:09:50.800 --> 01:09:53.720 four pm, and then Tuesday through Friday nine am to 1299 01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:58.279 three pm. If you are looking to get something like 1300 01:09:58.399 --> 01:10:01.760 a citrus tree to put out in. They have a 1301 01:10:02.239 --> 01:10:05.800 wide variety of roses too, Like I said, makes a beautiful, 1302 01:10:05.800 --> 01:10:09.279 beautiful gift, and fall is the time to plant. So 1303 01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:12.880 get one now, get it established and stop by there 1304 01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:17.720 at horagez Hidden Gardens. They are in Alvin on Elizabeth Street. 1305 01:10:17.720 --> 01:10:21.239 Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just a south Highway six. So 1306 01:10:21.359 --> 01:10:24.760 all of you in Santa Fe Hillcrest, I'll go Arcadia, 1307 01:10:24.800 --> 01:10:28.319 Alta Loma, Alvin. Let's say a town's down there, Hillcrest. 1308 01:10:29.960 --> 01:10:33.199 This is your hometown garden center, rages hidden Gardens. 1309 01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:34.279 We're going to go out. 1310 01:10:34.239 --> 01:10:37.640 Now on the phones and let's see here. We'll head 1311 01:10:37.720 --> 01:10:41.359 to Kevin in Houston. Hey, Kevin, welcome to garden line. 1312 01:10:42.039 --> 01:10:43.000 Hey skip, Hey. 1313 01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:46.640 I picked up some white oak tree acorns from the 1314 01:10:46.720 --> 01:10:50.920 nine to eleven Memorial last year in October planted. I'm 1315 01:10:50.920 --> 01:10:55.800 in a fourteen inch tapered style plastic pot there. They're 1316 01:10:55.800 --> 01:10:59.760 about a foot tall. Something is starting to eat the leaves. 1317 01:11:00.039 --> 01:11:02.880 If I go out there and thump it, uh, it 1318 01:11:03.039 --> 01:11:06.640 looks like a little bitty could be white gray. Something 1319 01:11:06.720 --> 01:11:10.359 flies off. It's really really small, and it's and the 1320 01:11:10.439 --> 01:11:14.920 leaves are just getting tore up. Do you have any suggestions. 1321 01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:17.880 When you when you say they're being eaten, is it 1322 01:11:17.920 --> 01:11:20.119 like a little tiny holes being chewed out of them? 1323 01:11:20.239 --> 01:11:22.520 Or are the sides being chewed in? Or what do 1324 01:11:22.560 --> 01:11:25.439 you how do you describe the feet all. 1325 01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:29.520 All of the above these outsides of the leaves, there's 1326 01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:30.319 holes in the center. 1327 01:11:31.840 --> 01:11:36.159 Yeah. Well, uh, at this point we are right up 1328 01:11:36.199 --> 01:11:38.880 on the edge of fall, so I mean of the 1329 01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:41.960 leaf drop, and so I wouldn't worry about doing anything 1330 01:11:42.000 --> 01:11:44.239 to them. They're resilient, they can take it. They're fine 1331 01:11:44.279 --> 01:11:47.399 at this point in the future. If you're trying to 1332 01:11:47.439 --> 01:11:49.000 you know, as you're trying to get them up growing 1333 01:11:49.079 --> 01:11:51.640 faster and you start to lose leaves, I would get 1334 01:11:51.640 --> 01:11:56.239 a product containing spin nose set s p I n 1335 01:11:56.520 --> 01:12:02.119 O s A D spy spin no SAD and that 1336 01:12:02.239 --> 01:12:06.159 is an organic product that controls things that eat tree leaves. 1337 01:12:06.760 --> 01:12:09.880 Now there are other products. There's a dozen other products 1338 01:12:09.880 --> 01:12:12.560 you could use, just a good insecticide, but that you 1339 01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:15.880 know that's a bias low tox for something like that. 1340 01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:21.279 There's you could also use name products. Not the neem oil, 1341 01:12:21.359 --> 01:12:24.479 but the as of directin types of meme would be fine. 1342 01:12:24.640 --> 01:12:27.279 But either one of those they both soak into the tissue. 1343 01:12:27.359 --> 01:12:30.359 So the spray them on the top of the leaf 1344 01:12:30.399 --> 01:12:32.279 and spread also from the bottom of the leaf, and 1345 01:12:32.359 --> 01:12:34.720 it soaks in and then if you know, a few 1346 01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:37.359 days later something comes and choose on it it's it's 1347 01:12:37.399 --> 01:12:42.439 it's gonna get it perfect. That's what I'll get, all right. 1348 01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:46.840 Congratulations on the brand new baby ache oak trees. Good 1349 01:12:46.920 --> 01:12:50.239 luck getting those things going. Thank you, sir. You take 1350 01:12:50.279 --> 01:12:55.560 care you bet by bye. Yeah, you can grow trees 1351 01:12:55.640 --> 01:12:59.199 yourself too. I've done that myself. Kind of fun. Actually, 1352 01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:01.520 advice on how to do it too. You can give 1353 01:13:01.600 --> 01:13:03.680 us a call here on Guardline. We'll be happy to 1354 01:13:03.800 --> 01:13:06.800 do that. I want to go now to Woodville and 1355 01:13:06.840 --> 01:13:09.279 talk to Brenda. Hey, Brenda, welcome to garden. 1356 01:13:09.479 --> 01:13:14.600 Good morning, Thank you. I have our yard. It's mostly weeds, 1357 01:13:16.159 --> 01:13:19.159 and I read an article that said if I put 1358 01:13:19.319 --> 01:13:23.079 weed killer on the yard now, that would help the 1359 01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:28.000 grass strengthened her in the winter and then it would 1360 01:13:28.039 --> 01:13:31.119 grow back and the weeds wouldn't necessarily. Does that just 1361 01:13:31.119 --> 01:13:32.920 sound ridiculous. 1362 01:13:35.000 --> 01:13:37.239 Yeah, I'm not quite sure what they were talking about there, 1363 01:13:37.840 --> 01:13:41.880 So thank your grass is being shaded by weeds. Getting 1364 01:13:41.920 --> 01:13:44.359 rid of the weeds helps the grass capture sunlight. Is 1365 01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:45.760 your lune, Saint Augustine. 1366 01:13:49.359 --> 01:13:52.039 The grass that's there, I think is probably Bermuda. 1367 01:13:53.560 --> 01:13:59.359 Okay, Bermuda is going to I'm sorry, Okay, yeah, I 1368 01:13:59.399 --> 01:14:01.279 say Bermuda is going to kind of go dormant in 1369 01:14:01.279 --> 01:14:03.960 the winter. So if you kill all the weeds, if 1370 01:14:04.000 --> 01:14:06.800 you're able to do that, then you'd have bear spots, 1371 01:14:07.119 --> 01:14:10.239 which would mean sunlight hits the soil, and then nature's 1372 01:14:10.279 --> 01:14:12.079 going to have more weed seeds coming up in there. 1373 01:14:12.119 --> 01:14:13.920 So I don't know that's going to gain you a lot. 1374 01:14:14.439 --> 01:14:16.600 I think for right now, I'd probably just mow them 1375 01:14:17.159 --> 01:14:19.600 if you see little seeds or flowers on them, putting 1376 01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:23.800 a bagging attachment on to scoop up as much of 1377 01:14:23.840 --> 01:14:25.920 that as you can to get those seeds out of there. 1378 01:14:26.279 --> 01:14:29.880 And then in the spring, get my schedule. It's online 1379 01:14:29.920 --> 01:14:32.840 at gardening with skip dot com. We'll start off in 1380 01:14:32.920 --> 01:14:37.079 February with something that prevents weed seeds from germinating. That's 1381 01:14:37.119 --> 01:14:40.760 going to be very important. You could still put down 1382 01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:43.960 a pre emergent, but chances are a lot of the 1383 01:14:43.960 --> 01:14:47.800 cool season weeds are already well on their way germinating, 1384 01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:51.600 so the benefits are not as high as they would 1385 01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:54.359 having applied it earlier, but there it's still worth putting 1386 01:14:54.399 --> 01:14:57.560 down if you feel like you got some bear areas 1387 01:14:57.600 --> 01:15:00.479 out there, but especially in the spring, get on my schedule, 1388 01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:03.800 get the weed control going, get the fertilizer going, and 1389 01:15:03.880 --> 01:15:05.960 let's try to grow you back into a better lawn. 1390 01:15:05.960 --> 01:15:08.359 Bermuda is a tough grass and it'll fill in pretty 1391 01:15:08.399 --> 01:15:12.039 fast if you mow it regularly and fertilize it a 1392 01:15:12.079 --> 01:15:15.720 lot and water it adequately, and you can get back 1393 01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:17.880 into it. Unless you're just wanting to kill everything and 1394 01:15:17.960 --> 01:15:22.680 replant something there, that would be the only option if. 1395 01:15:22.600 --> 01:15:23.239 It would grow in it. 1396 01:15:23.279 --> 01:15:27.920 So and I'd regigate that, okay, and just follow your 1397 01:15:27.960 --> 01:15:29.600 guard your tips. 1398 01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:33.239 Yeah, yeah, you know, Google's only you know, it's kind 1399 01:15:33.239 --> 01:15:36.399 of like talking to your neighbor across the fence. Depending 1400 01:15:36.399 --> 01:15:40.159 on how smart of a neighbor you got, you could 1401 01:15:40.159 --> 01:15:44.000 be learning something or being misled. And I found that 1402 01:15:44.039 --> 01:15:46.800 a lot of times they But hey, I'll tell you 1403 01:15:46.840 --> 01:15:51.039 one other quick tip. This is the fastest, cheapiest, easiest 1404 01:15:51.039 --> 01:15:52.760 way to get rid of all your weeds, and that 1405 01:15:52.960 --> 01:15:54.960 is take off mow your lawn, then take off your 1406 01:15:54.960 --> 01:16:00.560 glasses and it looks just like a lawn. It's all mode. 1407 01:16:01.439 --> 01:16:04.600 That is, you cannot get any no herbicide works out 1408 01:16:04.640 --> 01:16:07.359 fast or that will all right, Thank you, Brenda. 1409 01:16:07.159 --> 01:16:08.479 That lady is the plan I follow. 1410 01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:10.000 Thank you very much. 1411 01:16:10.600 --> 01:16:14.600 All right. Ah, Hi, popay. You know, it's interesting. Everybody 1412 01:16:14.600 --> 01:16:18.960 has different tolerance to weeds and things like that, and uh, 1413 01:16:19.560 --> 01:16:22.039 you know, my goal here on Guarden Line is to 1414 01:16:22.439 --> 01:16:25.359 try to help you have success. That's what I want. 1415 01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:28.359 And everybody has different opinions, They have different aesthetics, they 1416 01:16:28.439 --> 01:16:29.439 have different abilities. 1417 01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:29.600 You know. 1418 01:16:29.680 --> 01:16:31.880 Some people getting on their hands and eas and pulling 1419 01:16:31.920 --> 01:16:34.199 weeds is not an option. Other people are very happy 1420 01:16:34.199 --> 01:16:36.840 to get out and do that. They don't mind. Some 1421 01:16:36.960 --> 01:16:40.279 people do not want to use any synthetic products. Some 1422 01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:43.720 people only want to use organic. Other people it's just like, 1423 01:16:43.840 --> 01:16:45.520 know what works best? How do I get it done 1424 01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:50.880 fastest and best, you know, most effectively. Whatever, Well, that's 1425 01:16:51.239 --> 01:16:53.039 kind of why I'm here. I'm here to help you 1426 01:16:53.119 --> 01:16:56.279 garden like you choose to garden. And uh, you know, 1427 01:16:56.279 --> 01:16:58.399 I have my own opinions about how I do things 1428 01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:02.039 in my own garden. But everybody's different. And some people, 1429 01:17:02.800 --> 01:17:05.680 if that lawn does not look like a golf course green, 1430 01:17:05.720 --> 01:17:07.920 if there's one weed, it might as well be a 1431 01:17:07.920 --> 01:17:10.880 purple neon sign flashing on and off. You know, that 1432 01:17:11.359 --> 01:17:14.600 thing has got to go. Other people is it's green, 1433 01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:18.119 it's green? I don't care if you mow weeds. It 1434 01:17:18.199 --> 01:17:21.039 makes a lawn that's green that's not going to be 1435 01:17:21.079 --> 01:17:25.039 perfectly uniform or attractive. Weeds come and go, so what's 1436 01:17:25.119 --> 01:17:27.439 green now may not be green in a season or so. 1437 01:17:28.319 --> 01:17:30.680 But it's up to you. You go the way you 1438 01:17:30.680 --> 01:17:32.199 want to go about it. We'll help you do that. 1439 01:17:32.359 --> 01:17:35.119 If you want to go for the ultimate beautiful lawn, 1440 01:17:35.279 --> 01:17:38.479 we can help you have that as well. So you 1441 01:17:39.319 --> 01:17:42.680 get to choose. But I learned that from a fellow 1442 01:17:42.760 --> 01:17:46.439 named Folder rushing over and this is sippy an idea 1443 01:17:46.479 --> 01:17:51.520 of yeah, just take off your glasses. It all goes away. Well, 1444 01:17:51.560 --> 01:17:53.760 you're listening to Garden Line. We are about to put 1445 01:17:53.800 --> 01:17:56.119 this hour in the books. We've got another one coming up. Fact, 1446 01:17:56.159 --> 01:17:58.560 we've got two more coming up. If you would like 1447 01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:00.560 to give us a call and be on, you'd be 1448 01:18:00.560 --> 01:18:04.199 first up right now. The words are blank seven one 1449 01:18:04.279 --> 01:18:07.439 three two one two K t R H. Give me 1450 01:18:07.439 --> 01:18:09.319 a call. We can talk about how you can have 1451 01:18:09.359 --> 01:18:12.239 a more beautiful awn and more bountiful garden, uh and 1452 01:18:12.600 --> 01:18:16.039 more fun in the process. That is the most important thing. 1453 01:18:16.199 --> 01:18:18.399 We try to have fun here on guard Line because 1454 01:18:18.439 --> 01:18:22.880 gardening is fun. It always makes me sad when someone 1455 01:18:22.920 --> 01:18:25.039 says I just can't garden. I got a brown thumb, 1456 01:18:25.079 --> 01:18:26.920 and you can just tell they are not having fun. 1457 01:18:27.119 --> 01:18:29.159 Let's have fun. We'll help you do that. We'll turn 1458 01:18:29.199 --> 01:18:31.680 that brown thumb green, because there's no such thing as 1459 01:18:31.720 --> 01:18:35.079 a brown thumb. There's only an uninformed thumb. And that's 1460 01:18:35.119 --> 01:18:37.680 what we're here for to inform years bombing. 1461 01:18:40.760 --> 01:18:44.560 Welcome to kt r H garden Line with Scamp Richard. 1462 01:18:44.640 --> 01:19:00.800 It's just watch him as many. 1463 01:19:09.800 --> 01:19:10.399 A sign. 1464 01:19:17.960 --> 01:19:21.960 Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to guarden Line. Glad you 1465 01:19:22.000 --> 01:19:24.960 are listening to today. Thank you for being listening to Guardenline. 1466 01:19:25.000 --> 01:19:27.159 I hope you enjoy the show. If you'd like to 1467 01:19:27.159 --> 01:19:29.479 give us a call, I'll be happy to help. If 1468 01:19:29.520 --> 01:19:32.279 you want suggestions for planting, if you want to help 1469 01:19:32.359 --> 01:19:35.560 diagnose something, if you want to help identify something, you 1470 01:19:35.560 --> 01:19:38.960 can call them my producer and get an email, an 1471 01:19:38.960 --> 01:19:43.600 email where people can send me a photo of something 1472 01:19:43.680 --> 01:19:47.920 that they would like identified or diagnosed, or something along 1473 01:19:47.960 --> 01:19:48.640 those lines. 1474 01:19:49.159 --> 01:19:49.279 Uh. 1475 01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:53.399 That is the best way to get an accurate diagnosis. 1476 01:19:53.439 --> 01:19:55.279 I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but when 1477 01:19:55.319 --> 01:19:59.119 someone describes something to you and you picture it and 1478 01:19:59.159 --> 01:20:02.640 then you later see it, it's like, well, that's not 1479 01:20:03.159 --> 01:20:06.479 anything like what I was picturing, because sometimes our words 1480 01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:10.079 don't communicate things as well as as they need to. 1481 01:20:10.279 --> 01:20:12.840 So anyway, that's why I like to see photos. When 1482 01:20:12.880 --> 01:20:15.640 we're trying to get down to the nitty gritty of 1483 01:20:16.239 --> 01:20:20.119 diagnosing a particular problem, you can just talk to the producer. 1484 01:20:20.199 --> 01:20:22.279 He will give you an email as to how to 1485 01:20:22.359 --> 01:20:25.560 get a photo to me. Now, I was busy with 1486 01:20:25.600 --> 01:20:29.880 someone the other day trying to explain that there I 1487 01:20:29.920 --> 01:20:33.760 am time wise. I'm just not able to answer all 1488 01:20:33.760 --> 01:20:37.319 the emails by typing answers in that come in, and 1489 01:20:37.359 --> 01:20:39.520 that's what the show's for. But if you'd like to 1490 01:20:39.560 --> 01:20:42.000 send me a picture, I'd be happy to take a 1491 01:20:42.039 --> 01:20:43.680 look at it, and then when you give me a call, 1492 01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:46.279 we can discuss it. And sometimes there's a one I'll 1493 01:20:46.279 --> 01:20:48.279 need to respond to because it's better just to do 1494 01:20:48.479 --> 01:20:52.079 a response right then. But in general, I can't get 1495 01:20:52.119 --> 01:20:55.279 into the back and forth and just time just doesn't 1496 01:20:55.319 --> 01:21:02.279 allow it. Unfortunately. Let's see, why don't we Why don't 1497 01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:04.039 we head straight out to the phones. I'm going to 1498 01:21:04.119 --> 01:21:08.000 go to Tunbull here, We're going to talk to them. Monty, Hello, Monty, 1499 01:21:08.039 --> 01:21:09.000 Welcome to garden Line. 1500 01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:11.840 Good morning, Skiff, how are you. 1501 01:21:13.800 --> 01:21:17.279 I'm well, sir, I'm well, it's when it's fallen that 1502 01:21:17.279 --> 01:21:18.880 it's not one hundred degrees outside. 1503 01:21:18.920 --> 01:21:22.720 I'm happy, amen, Skiff. 1504 01:21:22.720 --> 01:21:25.800 I've got a couple of issues. One is the sego 1505 01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:28.399 palm we have in the front yard. It's pretty good size, 1506 01:21:29.039 --> 01:21:31.680 but it's always been kind of a late bloomer. But 1507 01:21:31.800 --> 01:21:35.199 it still has not opened up this year. Everybody else 1508 01:21:35.239 --> 01:21:37.680 in the neighborhood theirs has and I'm wondering if I 1509 01:21:37.680 --> 01:21:39.159 could do anything to help it out. 1510 01:21:41.319 --> 01:21:43.800 So are you saying it's just like a brown, brown 1511 01:21:43.840 --> 01:21:45.600 trunk right now? There's no grain. 1512 01:21:45.680 --> 01:21:49.479 No, it's got the big bulb at the top, you know, 1513 01:21:49.640 --> 01:21:51.920 like it wants to open up, but it just won't 1514 01:21:51.960 --> 01:21:52.439 open up. 1515 01:21:52.560 --> 01:21:54.800 Okay, and have more branches. 1516 01:21:56.560 --> 01:21:58.960 When you when you describe a bulb, does it look 1517 01:21:59.039 --> 01:22:01.359 more like the top of a bowling ball or do 1518 01:22:01.479 --> 01:22:08.359 it look more like a cone coming along? Skinny more? Okay, Okay, 1519 01:22:08.399 --> 01:22:13.399 that's a female sego palm. They are separate male and 1520 01:22:13.439 --> 01:22:16.640 female plants, and that is the that is where the 1521 01:22:16.680 --> 01:22:21.239 seeds will be. There'll be chestnut size red seeds inside 1522 01:22:21.319 --> 01:22:28.520 that structure pollinated. Yeah, so, uh, I don't know beyond 1523 01:22:28.560 --> 01:22:31.319 that sometime. It sits that way a long time, but 1524 01:22:31.439 --> 01:22:33.680 as long as you got some green on it, on 1525 01:22:33.720 --> 01:22:36.840 the plant and it's alive, you will see some new 1526 01:22:36.880 --> 01:22:39.840 growth that does eventually come back. Now, with us going 1527 01:22:39.840 --> 01:22:42.560 into winter time, I can't take exactly when that's going 1528 01:22:42.640 --> 01:22:46.399 to be, but yeah, I think you're just going to 1529 01:22:46.399 --> 01:22:48.560 be patient. There's nothing for you to do to fix 1530 01:22:48.680 --> 01:22:49.279 whatever is there. 1531 01:22:49.960 --> 01:22:52.479 Okay, And one more question if you don't mind. 1532 01:22:53.520 --> 01:22:54.640 You know, a few years ago. 1533 01:22:54.479 --> 01:22:59.960 When we had that real hard freeze uri, we had 1534 01:23:00.119 --> 01:23:03.560 some oleanders in the backyard and we lost a few. 1535 01:23:04.359 --> 01:23:06.560 A couple of them have survived pretty well, but the 1536 01:23:06.640 --> 01:23:09.479 rest of them are just struggling big time, just like 1537 01:23:09.520 --> 01:23:12.439 they're stunted. What can I be the help them out 1538 01:23:12.479 --> 01:23:13.439 of anything. 1539 01:23:14.640 --> 01:23:19.159 That's unusual? You know the freeze. Oleanders are somewhat cold tolerant, 1540 01:23:19.279 --> 01:23:21.760 and it's not unusual to have one killed back when 1541 01:23:21.800 --> 01:23:24.479 we had that kind of freeze. But it shouldn't have 1542 01:23:24.640 --> 01:23:28.279 ongoing effects, like once things warmed up and you begin 1543 01:23:28.319 --> 01:23:30.760 to see a little new growth, then they shouldn't just 1544 01:23:30.840 --> 01:23:33.600 keep sitting there stunted. So I'm not sure what's going 1545 01:23:33.640 --> 01:23:39.520 on on those Uh, If you know fertilizing, adequate water, 1546 01:23:40.600 --> 01:23:43.640 especially some nutrients to fertilize. I wouldn't do it now 1547 01:23:43.720 --> 01:23:46.319 because it's cool enough and we don't want them to 1548 01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:49.279 try to grow. It just makes them less cold cold tolerant. 1549 01:23:49.960 --> 01:23:54.479 But I would say just maybe give them a little 1550 01:23:54.479 --> 01:23:56.640 bit more time. Uri has been a long time though, 1551 01:23:56.760 --> 01:23:59.039 so I've given it more time. It's already had time. 1552 01:23:59.199 --> 01:24:00.840 Yeah. 1553 01:24:00.319 --> 01:24:03.760 Yeah, maybe send me some pictures of them so I 1554 01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:07.000 can kind of see what Maybe I'll see something in 1555 01:24:07.039 --> 01:24:11.560 the picture that helps show other than that just may 1556 01:24:11.600 --> 01:24:15.239 come down to replacing them. But again, there shouldn't be 1557 01:24:15.279 --> 01:24:18.239 a connection between a freeze and for years the thing 1558 01:24:18.279 --> 01:24:20.079 doesn't want to grow. That doesn't make sense. 1559 01:24:20.600 --> 01:24:24.199 Yeah, okay, I've got some micro laughs. Would it help 1560 01:24:24.279 --> 01:24:25.800 to put a little of that end around it. 1561 01:24:27.479 --> 01:24:27.720 Yeah. 1562 01:24:27.800 --> 01:24:31.239 Micro life's a good fertilizer, but right now, you don't 1563 01:24:31.720 --> 01:24:36.359 want to make the holeanders grow when it's you get 1564 01:24:36.359 --> 01:24:39.359 a succulent let's just say it made it start to grow. 1565 01:24:40.159 --> 01:24:43.239 You get a succulent shoot. Succulent shoot, and we just 1566 01:24:43.319 --> 01:24:46.239 have a normal winner and those are going to get killed, 1567 01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:49.640 whereas the older tougher wood would would survive it. So 1568 01:24:49.800 --> 01:24:52.279 let's wait until it warms up, we get past the 1569 01:24:52.399 --> 01:24:54.479 danger of freeze, and then and then you put your 1570 01:24:54.520 --> 01:24:56.920 microlife around those and see if we can get some 1571 01:24:57.000 --> 01:24:57.680 stuff growing. 1572 01:24:57.800 --> 01:25:03.239 All right, okay, well, appreciate your help, all right, money, 1573 01:25:03.359 --> 01:25:05.439 you take care that. 1574 01:25:07.600 --> 01:25:10.720 Yeah, by the way, the phone number seven one three 1575 01:25:10.800 --> 01:25:14.000 two one two k t r H seven one three 1576 01:25:14.039 --> 01:25:16.279 two one two k t R eight. You know, sometimes 1577 01:25:17.079 --> 01:25:19.560 when when something gets cold damaged, it can set it 1578 01:25:19.600 --> 01:25:22.399 back a little bit. But after a couple of years, 1579 01:25:22.439 --> 01:25:27.119 you know that we can quit blaming the cold, except 1580 01:25:27.239 --> 01:25:30.399 in the case of trees where you get trunk damage. 1581 01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:33.720 We had that severe, severe cold and I'm telling you 1582 01:25:33.760 --> 01:25:37.000 our trees took a hit and that was that was significant. 1583 01:25:37.239 --> 01:25:41.119 And I noticed that because of trunk tissue damage, some 1584 01:25:41.279 --> 01:25:43.800 problems were continuing to show up even a couple of 1585 01:25:43.880 --> 01:25:46.920 years down the line, where tissues were just kind of collapsing. 1586 01:25:46.960 --> 01:25:49.000 They just weren't able to keep going. So just something 1587 01:25:49.000 --> 01:25:51.399 to think about. Hey, if you want your lawn to 1588 01:25:51.479 --> 01:25:54.840 look really good, if you want your landscapes to look good, 1589 01:25:55.000 --> 01:25:58.000 pier scapes is the place you need to call. Pierscapes 1590 01:25:58.079 --> 01:26:01.359 dot com. That's your website. Go to pierscapes dot com. 1591 01:26:01.800 --> 01:26:03.960 Look at the kind of work they can do. They 1592 01:26:04.279 --> 01:26:08.960 repair irrigation systems, they do landscape lighting, they do hard scapes. 1593 01:26:09.079 --> 01:26:11.600 If you've got poorly drained areas, they can put in 1594 01:26:11.720 --> 01:26:15.359 subsurface drainage. You want to design a landscape, they got 1595 01:26:15.399 --> 01:26:19.000 designers in house that can do that. Do you want 1596 01:26:19.159 --> 01:26:22.119 just to have them come care for your beds quarterly? 1597 01:26:22.279 --> 01:26:25.880 You know, come out, trim weed, fertilize, check the irrigation, 1598 01:26:26.159 --> 01:26:28.199 get the color changes. You know, it's time now for 1599 01:26:28.279 --> 01:26:31.199 the cool season color change. Put some fresh mulch down. 1600 01:26:31.399 --> 01:26:34.039 Pier scapes can do that too. Listen, they can do 1601 01:26:34.039 --> 01:26:37.640 pretty much everything you possibly would need done. Pierscapes dot com. 1602 01:26:37.840 --> 01:26:42.039 Piercescapes dot com two eight one three seven fifty sixty. 1603 01:26:42.039 --> 01:26:46.680 That's two eight one three seven oh five zero six zero. 1604 01:26:47.000 --> 01:26:48.840 I'm gonna take a little break. I'll be right back 1605 01:26:48.840 --> 01:26:52.920 with your calls, all right, So welcome back to garden Line. 1606 01:26:53.239 --> 01:26:58.960 Welcome back. Hey Ma's nursery done in Seabrook. I love 1607 01:26:59.000 --> 01:27:01.680 going down to that place because number one first thing 1608 01:27:01.720 --> 01:27:04.119 I do is go to the big greenhouse of house plants. 1609 01:27:04.159 --> 01:27:08.439 I've never seen so many different kinds of cool house 1610 01:27:08.479 --> 01:27:11.479 plants from succulents. I mean, if you're into succulents, cacti, 1611 01:27:11.640 --> 01:27:14.640 whatever kind of succulents, they have got it loaded down there. 1612 01:27:14.680 --> 01:27:17.680 And they have everything from you know, big beautiful giants, 1613 01:27:17.680 --> 01:27:22.079 staghorn ferns, to tropical foliage to everything you can imagine. 1614 01:27:22.119 --> 01:27:24.760 And you know, we're entering into I call it house 1615 01:27:24.800 --> 01:27:27.239 plants season, because you know, the more time you spend indoors, 1616 01:27:27.279 --> 01:27:29.439 the more time you have to take care of your houseplants. 1617 01:27:29.760 --> 01:27:31.720 They're set up down there and they've got it there 1618 01:27:31.760 --> 01:27:36.960 on Toddville Road in Seabrook mos Nursery dot com maas 1619 01:27:37.560 --> 01:27:40.439 Nursery dot Com and it's eight acres. It's an eight 1620 01:27:40.520 --> 01:27:44.560 acre gardener's paradise and you wander through and you know, 1621 01:27:44.560 --> 01:27:47.560 one of my favorite things is if you are looking 1622 01:27:47.640 --> 01:27:50.399 for all kinds of landscape blank of course, Moss has 1623 01:27:50.479 --> 01:27:52.079 all the plants you're going to look for, I mean, 1624 01:27:52.359 --> 01:27:54.960 anything seasonally you're looking for, they got it in Moss. 1625 01:27:55.600 --> 01:27:58.279 One of the best pottery selections you're gonna see anywhere. 1626 01:27:58.399 --> 01:28:01.880 I mean, Jim's always Galli mounting around somewhere bringing back 1627 01:28:01.960 --> 01:28:04.760 all these different kinds of really cool pottery, but also 1628 01:28:04.920 --> 01:28:10.119 some some really unique statuary. Uh, you know, the little 1629 01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:18.479 bird baths, the things like maybe concrete figurines. And there's 1630 01:28:18.520 --> 01:28:21.159 one thing it looks like it looks like like a 1631 01:28:21.279 --> 01:28:25.000 woodland nymph. Uh, you know, laying on the ground, sleeping 1632 01:28:25.359 --> 01:28:27.239 in the garden. So you put that in a groundcover 1633 01:28:27.680 --> 01:28:29.800 and you're walking through and it's just like, oh, that's 1634 01:28:29.800 --> 01:28:32.319 a surprise. And that's what you want your landscape to 1635 01:28:32.319 --> 01:28:33.960 be like, you know, you want you don't want people 1636 01:28:34.039 --> 01:28:35.560 just to look and go, Yeah, I've seen a hundred 1637 01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:39.359 landscapes like this, Saint Augustine groundcover, shrubs, trees, that's it. 1638 01:28:39.359 --> 01:28:41.720 It's all green, sea a green. No, you want to 1639 01:28:41.720 --> 01:28:44.920 put some cool stuff in it. And Moss is the 1640 01:28:45.039 --> 01:28:48.600 place to get all kinds of cool stuff. You just 1641 01:28:48.680 --> 01:28:50.039 kind of go there to see it. I buy it 1642 01:28:50.079 --> 01:28:52.720 down in that area. Seabrook area knows about it already, 1643 01:28:52.720 --> 01:28:58.520 they've been there. Moss Nursery dot com, Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas. 1644 01:28:58.960 --> 01:29:02.000 Go check them out and it would be an awesome 1645 01:29:02.039 --> 01:29:06.840 place to find gifts for everybody on your list. I 1646 01:29:06.880 --> 01:29:08.520 want to head out now. Let's see, we're going to 1647 01:29:08.600 --> 01:29:11.680 go to Larry in sugar Land. Hey, Larry, Welcome to 1648 01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:12.279 garden Line. 1649 01:29:13.720 --> 01:29:16.680 Hey, good morning, Skip. I got a question for you 1650 01:29:16.760 --> 01:29:24.159 about my plumarius. I recently planted one. It's about ten 1651 01:29:24.239 --> 01:29:27.880 foot tall, and I've planted it in the dirt beside 1652 01:29:27.880 --> 01:29:31.439 my house. I have other ones in pots and in 1653 01:29:31.439 --> 01:29:33.600 the winter time I just dragged into the garage and 1654 01:29:33.640 --> 01:29:35.720 they do it real well. But the one in the ground, 1655 01:29:35.760 --> 01:29:37.720 I don't know what to do about it this winter 1656 01:29:38.279 --> 01:29:41.840 in particular. Yeah, of course I expected to loot its leaves, 1657 01:29:43.119 --> 01:29:44.119 but there's anything else. 1658 01:29:44.000 --> 01:29:44.439 Need to do it. 1659 01:29:44.560 --> 01:29:46.039 You can maybe advise me. 1660 01:29:47.720 --> 01:29:49.560 Yeah, you know, you get a good hard freeze and 1661 01:29:50.079 --> 01:29:53.000 you can you can kill that plumbaria. A lot of 1662 01:29:53.159 --> 01:29:55.800 times people will just dig them up and shake all 1663 01:29:55.840 --> 01:29:57.680 the soil off the roots, you know, don't try to 1664 01:29:57.680 --> 01:29:59.479 pot them up, or you just shake all the soil off, 1665 01:30:00.119 --> 01:30:02.159 hang them upside down in the garage, you know, just 1666 01:30:02.199 --> 01:30:04.359 find her after or something off in the corner, or 1667 01:30:04.600 --> 01:30:06.880 however you want to go about it, uh, and just 1668 01:30:06.880 --> 01:30:08.760 just leave them in the garage where it won't get 1669 01:30:08.800 --> 01:30:11.399 too cold, you know, and they'll they'll be there in 1670 01:30:11.439 --> 01:30:14.079 that dormant state. And then in the when the weather 1671 01:30:14.159 --> 01:30:17.319 warms up and we've got some nice weather then take 1672 01:30:17.359 --> 01:30:19.720 them back out and replant them in the ground, and 1673 01:30:19.880 --> 01:30:21.560 they take bright back off growing again. 1674 01:30:23.159 --> 01:30:25.520 Well, that never never encouraged me. Like I said, it's 1675 01:30:25.520 --> 01:30:27.640 pretty big, it's pretty tall, and I didn't think that 1676 01:30:27.720 --> 01:30:29.279 they actually pull it back up again. 1677 01:30:30.920 --> 01:30:34.319 Okay, Well, I mean you can, you can either way. 1678 01:30:34.359 --> 01:30:35.760 You can dig it. But I mean, if you're gonna 1679 01:30:35.800 --> 01:30:37.800 leave it there, you're gonna need to provided some sort 1680 01:30:37.840 --> 01:30:40.479 of warmth and protection with a cover over it. When 1681 01:30:40.520 --> 01:30:42.600 the weather is going to get down in there and 1682 01:30:42.800 --> 01:30:44.680 you know, run freezing below. 1683 01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:48.640 I won't be able to do that. 1684 01:30:48.720 --> 01:30:49.279 I don't think. 1685 01:30:49.479 --> 01:30:56.119 Okay, Okay, I appreciate it. I understand. All right, thank 1686 01:30:56.159 --> 01:30:58.199 you very much for the call, Larry. I appreciate that, 1687 01:30:58.399 --> 01:31:04.319 and take care. Thank you, all Righty. I mentioned earlier 1688 01:31:04.520 --> 01:31:10.319 that Jorge said gardens, he carried the three sixty tree stabilizer. 1689 01:31:10.479 --> 01:31:13.239 And what that is. It's a little it's a bar. 1690 01:31:13.359 --> 01:31:17.279 It's a plastic bar, very very strong bar that attaches 1691 01:31:17.520 --> 01:31:20.119 to a post. I like to attach it to a 1692 01:31:20.119 --> 01:31:22.079 tea post because you can drive those in the ground 1693 01:31:23.000 --> 01:31:26.000 and it hasn't an adjust thing that you put on 1694 01:31:26.039 --> 01:31:28.399 there that makes it attached to the tree post. Very 1695 01:31:28.439 --> 01:31:31.479 strong attachment. The other end has a little rubber strap 1696 01:31:31.520 --> 01:31:33.520 that's soft, and you want to leave it a little 1697 01:31:33.520 --> 01:31:36.079 loose because you want the tree to move. People that 1698 01:31:36.199 --> 01:31:39.039 tie these trees down with three guy wires number one, 1699 01:31:39.079 --> 01:31:40.720 that's a lot of trouble and you're going to trip 1700 01:31:40.760 --> 01:31:43.399 over them and all that the tree can't move. The 1701 01:31:43.479 --> 01:31:46.840 tree does not get as strong. When plants bend and 1702 01:31:46.920 --> 01:31:50.279 stretch and move a little bit, a little bit, it 1703 01:31:50.560 --> 01:31:53.520 makes the tissue grow stronger. It makes the roots, the 1704 01:31:53.600 --> 01:31:57.079 surface root up there that's reaching out to establish into 1705 01:31:57.119 --> 01:32:01.279 the soil sideways, those roots get stronger and better anchored 1706 01:32:01.359 --> 01:32:05.520 as well. You want movement. Three sixty tree stabilizer does that. 1707 01:32:06.600 --> 01:32:10.039 It is a very durable product. It works very very well. 1708 01:32:10.119 --> 01:32:12.920 You can use one on most plants. One is enough, 1709 01:32:13.279 --> 01:32:16.439 but if you've got a bigger plant, the trunk diameters 1710 01:32:16.479 --> 01:32:18.720 a little larger, the tree you're putting in, and you 1711 01:32:18.800 --> 01:32:22.039 got maybe stronger winds, you could do two. Maybe one 1712 01:32:22.079 --> 01:32:24.840 coming east west into the tree, one coming north south 1713 01:32:24.880 --> 01:32:27.319 into the tree, and that way you hold it from 1714 01:32:27.359 --> 01:32:29.279 whatever way the wind blows. You can find them at 1715 01:32:29.359 --> 01:32:33.319 RCW Nurseries, buchanans Arborgate Plants for all seasons. I mentioned 1716 01:32:33.399 --> 01:32:37.119 Jorge down south Southwest fertilizer Bisinett and Runwick has them, 1717 01:32:37.319 --> 01:32:40.800 and Ciena Maltz down in the Sienna area also carries 1718 01:32:41.079 --> 01:32:45.760 the three sixty tree stabilizer. Let's now go to Katie 1719 01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:48.119 and we're going to talk to Lucy. Hey, Lucy, welcome 1720 01:32:48.119 --> 01:32:49.680 to garden Line. 1721 01:32:50.039 --> 01:32:50.279 Hi. 1722 01:32:50.600 --> 01:32:51.159 How are you. 1723 01:32:51.439 --> 01:32:54.039 I'm so glad to I'm good to be able to 1724 01:32:54.079 --> 01:33:00.560 steak with you. I have a problem with squirrelds. Are 1725 01:33:01.680 --> 01:33:04.760 There'll be like three, four or five of them up 1726 01:33:04.800 --> 01:33:10.159 in my tree and they are just destroying it. They 1727 01:33:10.199 --> 01:33:13.920 are just eating a little bit and then all the 1728 01:33:14.119 --> 01:33:20.640 it looks like snow, all these pieces of leaves all 1729 01:33:20.640 --> 01:33:26.720 over my backyard, and I don't know what to do 1730 01:33:26.920 --> 01:33:31.880 to control them, to get them to stop just destroying 1731 01:33:32.000 --> 01:33:36.960 my tree. I wondered if you had any suggestions. 1732 01:33:37.760 --> 01:33:40.039 Well, you know, I know squirrels will often chew the 1733 01:33:40.119 --> 01:33:44.560 small branches, especially where there's a v intersection between branches. 1734 01:33:45.119 --> 01:33:48.000 They'll chew it in there, and they'll chew around the branch. 1735 01:33:48.079 --> 01:33:50.359 And then when you like, let's say it's up acond tree, 1736 01:33:50.359 --> 01:33:52.079 but you look at it and instead of being green, 1737 01:33:52.479 --> 01:33:54.600 you have all these we call them brown flags all 1738 01:33:54.600 --> 01:33:56.800 through the tree where they've they've killed the ends of 1739 01:33:56.800 --> 01:33:59.520 the branches. I've not known them to chew the leaves 1740 01:33:59.520 --> 01:34:01.239 off and drip a whole bunch of leaves on the 1741 01:34:01.239 --> 01:34:03.319 ground like that. Now there are some insects that can 1742 01:34:03.359 --> 01:34:06.560 do that. And then of course it's fall, and depending 1743 01:34:06.600 --> 01:34:10.800 on the tree species, they're dropping leaves in different amounts 1744 01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:16.199 right now too. But there's not a squirrel aside. You know, 1745 01:34:16.319 --> 01:34:18.760 there's not something you put out and get rid of 1746 01:34:18.760 --> 01:34:21.800 all the squirrels U now. Now country boys back in 1747 01:34:21.800 --> 01:34:24.199 the day they didn't have a squirrel problem. That was 1748 01:34:24.239 --> 01:34:27.680 called lunch. But I think in town people might frown 1749 01:34:27.760 --> 01:34:32.239 on that. So you you kind of are left with 1750 01:34:32.880 --> 01:34:34.680 just whatever they're going to do up there, they're going 1751 01:34:34.760 --> 01:34:37.359 to do unless there's a way to completely exclude them 1752 01:34:37.359 --> 01:34:40.680 from the tree, which ninety of the time is impractical 1753 01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:41.319 to try to do. 1754 01:34:42.520 --> 01:34:47.920 Right, Okay, well my tree will be bald soon. 1755 01:34:50.079 --> 01:34:51.279 Well it's fall. 1756 01:34:52.680 --> 01:35:01.119 There, you know, I wish I remembered. It's something drum. 1757 01:35:01.279 --> 01:35:05.880 It's the bark will peel in the more in the spring, 1758 01:35:07.199 --> 01:35:15.079 and it gives these really pretty soft little clusters of leaves, 1759 01:35:15.439 --> 01:35:19.840 small leads and I'm wondering maybe that's what they're after. 1760 01:35:19.960 --> 01:35:23.720 Maybe it's sweet to them or something, that they are 1761 01:35:23.760 --> 01:35:26.640 just going from branch to branch, section to section and 1762 01:35:27.199 --> 01:35:29.079 just tearing everything up. 1763 01:35:30.359 --> 01:35:33.079 That is very unusual. If you want you, I can 1764 01:35:33.119 --> 01:35:35.079 put you on hold. The producer can give you my 1765 01:35:35.159 --> 01:35:37.680 email address and send me some pictures of the tree 1766 01:35:38.279 --> 01:35:42.600 of what you're seeing on the ground, okay, and maybe 1767 01:35:42.840 --> 01:35:45.840 I'll see something else. I don't know. That's that's unusual, 1768 01:35:45.880 --> 01:35:47.399 but you're welcome to do that. I'm going to put 1769 01:35:47.399 --> 01:35:50.359 you on hold, Lucy and either hang on, yeah, either way, 1770 01:35:50.760 --> 01:35:51.840 all right, you'll take care. 1771 01:35:52.680 --> 01:35:54.079 Thank you so much, Jonathan. 1772 01:35:54.079 --> 01:35:57.119 I back up just in a little bit here. Bye bye. 1773 01:35:57.520 --> 01:36:04.880 Interesting squirrels. You know, I know people have different opinions 1774 01:36:04.960 --> 01:36:09.039 about things like squirrels and dogs and cats and whatever 1775 01:36:09.079 --> 01:36:12.199 else is out there in the wild. But I just 1776 01:36:12.239 --> 01:36:14.119 got to tell you. I had a friend San Antonio 1777 01:36:14.239 --> 01:36:15.880 that used to say, we don't have too many deer, 1778 01:36:15.920 --> 01:36:19.119 we have too few freezers. And people who feed deer 1779 01:36:19.119 --> 01:36:22.399 and like watching them are horrified at that thought, whereas 1780 01:36:22.439 --> 01:36:24.640 another a lot of people are going, yeah, it's it's 1781 01:36:24.840 --> 01:36:27.920 in season, but you can't do that in town. That's 1782 01:36:27.960 --> 01:36:31.560 for sure. That is for sure. But anyway, hey, listen, 1783 01:36:32.159 --> 01:36:36.439 we moved in on nature, okay, we It wasn't like 1784 01:36:36.800 --> 01:36:40.399 we were here, and then squirrels and trees and raccoons 1785 01:36:40.399 --> 01:36:42.840 and everything else starts showing up. We moved in on them. 1786 01:36:43.119 --> 01:36:47.000 And the more urbanization occurs, the more their habitats pushed out, 1787 01:36:47.079 --> 01:36:49.399 and the more interactions we're going to have. And so, 1788 01:36:50.760 --> 01:36:53.720 like I was saying earlier about tolerance to weeds, I 1789 01:36:53.720 --> 01:36:56.479 guess you have to decide what your tolerance to pests 1790 01:36:56.960 --> 01:37:00.359 that are four legged as well, because that is that 1791 01:37:00.479 --> 01:37:02.600 is just part of the world we live in out there. 1792 01:37:03.079 --> 01:37:07.800 Let's go to I mentioned, Oh while ago, I mentioned 1793 01:37:07.840 --> 01:37:10.800 the three sixty tree stabilizer was at Cienamultch. For those 1794 01:37:10.800 --> 01:37:12.920 of you who don't know Cienamltch, you need to go 1795 01:37:13.039 --> 01:37:15.560 check it out. I cannot think of a better place 1796 01:37:15.760 --> 01:37:18.720 to take care of your soil to prepare for plants 1797 01:37:18.800 --> 01:37:24.399 than sienamlts brown stuff before green stuff, right, soil foundation, 1798 01:37:25.039 --> 01:37:28.880 plants second. Okay, first comes the soil, then you plant. 1799 01:37:29.399 --> 01:37:31.880 Cienamltch is the place to go for the brown stuff. 1800 01:37:32.000 --> 01:37:37.600 It has They have soil amendments, composts, bed mixes, you know, 1801 01:37:37.760 --> 01:37:42.319 mixes from Landscaper's Pride or from heirloom soils for example. 1802 01:37:42.359 --> 01:37:49.479 They've got the fertilizers from Nitroposs and Medina Nelson plant Food, Azemite, Microlife. 1803 01:37:49.680 --> 01:37:52.880 They just had it all. You can buy landscapers Pride 1804 01:37:52.920 --> 01:37:56.439 bat velvet there. You can buy heirloom soils, veggie and 1805 01:37:56.560 --> 01:37:59.960 herb mix for example. There they deliver within twenty miles. 1806 01:38:00.119 --> 01:38:03.960 Are located on FM five point twenty one near Highway 1807 01:38:04.039 --> 01:38:06.600 six and two eighty eight. Just go to the website 1808 01:38:06.960 --> 01:38:08.720 and you can find all that you need to know 1809 01:38:08.800 --> 01:38:12.880 there Sienna Mulch dot com. The one thing you don't 1810 01:38:12.960 --> 01:38:16.840 need to do, though, is not get your foundation built. 1811 01:38:16.880 --> 01:38:19.520 This fall fall is the time for planting. Do not 1812 01:38:19.560 --> 01:38:22.840 put a plant in the ground until you've built the foundation. 1813 01:38:23.000 --> 01:38:24.960 And I can't think of a better place than Siena 1814 01:38:25.000 --> 01:38:27.479 Mulch to do that. I'm going to take a little 1815 01:38:27.520 --> 01:38:32.119 break here for the half hour news that we're entering into. 1816 01:38:32.199 --> 01:38:33.840 I'll be right back if you'd like to give us 1817 01:38:33.840 --> 01:38:36.720 a call seven one three two one two K t 1818 01:38:37.039 --> 01:38:39.520 R H and David, you will be our first step 1819 01:38:39.560 --> 01:38:42.600 when we come back. All right, folks, we're back here 1820 01:38:42.640 --> 01:38:45.199 on Guardline. Thanks for being a listener today. I'm your host, 1821 01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:47.720 Skip Richter. What kind of questions do you have? How 1822 01:38:47.720 --> 01:38:50.520 can we help you to have a more bountiful garden, 1823 01:38:50.560 --> 01:38:54.319 a more beautiful landscape. That is what we are here 1824 01:38:55.119 --> 01:38:58.640 to do. And speaking of here to do, that is 1825 01:38:58.680 --> 01:39:01.680 what enchanted for us. Is also there to do, you know. 1826 01:39:01.760 --> 01:39:04.680 And Chanted Forest is the garden center down in the 1827 01:39:04.760 --> 01:39:07.880 Richmond Rosenberg area if you are there on FM twenty 1828 01:39:07.880 --> 01:39:10.399 seven to fifty nine, So if you're in Richmond heading 1829 01:39:10.399 --> 01:39:13.560 towards sugar Land up fifty nine, they're off to the 1830 01:39:13.680 --> 01:39:18.319 right on twenty seven fifty nine and they have everything 1831 01:39:18.720 --> 01:39:21.680 year round that you would need for that season. For example, 1832 01:39:21.760 --> 01:39:26.800 right now they got in their sets of onions. And 1833 01:39:26.840 --> 01:39:28.600 if you never grow on onions before you need to, 1834 01:39:28.680 --> 01:39:31.279 it is not hard to do. All onions need is 1835 01:39:31.720 --> 01:39:34.640 some well prepared soil, mix in some composts, get them 1836 01:39:34.680 --> 01:39:39.159 planted properly, water and fertilize them regularly just to keep 1837 01:39:39.199 --> 01:39:42.439 them growing. And next spring when the day length starts 1838 01:39:42.520 --> 01:39:44.920 getting longer, they make bulbs. And whether you get a 1839 01:39:44.960 --> 01:39:48.319 ten to fifteen super sweet onion, the Texas early white, 1840 01:39:48.479 --> 01:39:51.399 the red creole, or the Southern Bell red. I grew 1841 01:39:51.479 --> 01:39:53.600 those two last red ones last year. They both are 1842 01:39:53.640 --> 01:39:56.199 great red Creole Southern bell red. Those are good too. 1843 01:39:56.720 --> 01:39:58.720 You're going to have good results from it. And you 1844 01:39:58.800 --> 01:40:01.640 grow them in a container container and Channa Forest has 1845 01:40:01.680 --> 01:40:05.479 it now. And Channa Forest has an excellent selection of 1846 01:40:05.520 --> 01:40:09.920 trees and shrubs and color plants and herbs and everything 1847 01:40:09.960 --> 01:40:12.439 you can imagine. If you want your flower beds to 1848 01:40:12.479 --> 01:40:16.039 really pop with color, swing by there today at ten 1849 01:40:16.119 --> 01:40:21.840 am today, November sixteenth, ten am Indoor Herbs with Angela 1850 01:40:22.159 --> 01:40:24.359 Roth at in Chanted Forest. She's going to walk you 1851 01:40:24.439 --> 01:40:27.560 through the steps of setting up an indoor herb garden. 1852 01:40:27.720 --> 01:40:30.560 Wouldn't that be a nice thing? In fact, wouldn't it 1853 01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:32.159 be nice to put one together and give it as 1854 01:40:32.159 --> 01:40:36.279 a gift too. That's today ten am at Enchanted Forest. 1855 01:40:36.319 --> 01:40:38.720 There's always something going on out there. Coming up. On 1856 01:40:38.800 --> 01:40:42.000 December first, they're gonna have Santa out there, Sata himself 1857 01:40:42.359 --> 01:40:45.279 and he'll be available for family photos from ten am 1858 01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:49.960 to two pm Sunday, December first. I'll be crashed for kids, 1859 01:40:49.960 --> 01:40:52.760 hot chocolate candy canes. I may have to show up 1860 01:40:52.760 --> 01:40:57.920 with that. There's gonna be Christmas cake pops from Pop Perfection. 1861 01:40:58.119 --> 01:41:00.279 I have never had a Christmas cake pop. I think 1862 01:41:00.319 --> 01:41:02.199 I have to do that anyway, chant it for us 1863 01:41:02.800 --> 01:41:05.800 on December First, let's go to the phones. Now. We 1864 01:41:05.880 --> 01:41:09.359 are going to head to Laporte and talk to David. Hey, David, 1865 01:41:09.399 --> 01:41:10.359 welcome to garden Mine. 1866 01:41:11.439 --> 01:41:12.359 Good morning, sir. 1867 01:41:13.880 --> 01:41:17.880 I have morning something rows in my yard. 1868 01:41:18.319 --> 01:41:25.199 It's stringy. I have patches of it and I can't 1869 01:41:25.239 --> 01:41:27.000 get rid of it. I don't know what. 1870 01:41:26.920 --> 01:41:29.279 It's called right now. 1871 01:41:29.319 --> 01:41:32.119 It has like some sprouts that are going straight up 1872 01:41:32.399 --> 01:41:34.279 and it looks like they have seeds on the top 1873 01:41:34.319 --> 01:41:39.039 of them. 1874 01:41:39.319 --> 01:41:42.399 Well, there are a number of weeds that fit that description. 1875 01:41:45.840 --> 01:41:48.840 Tell you what, David, we got an hour and a 1876 01:41:48.840 --> 01:41:50.640 half left today. If you will go out and take 1877 01:41:50.640 --> 01:41:52.960 a picture of your phone and email it to me, 1878 01:41:53.239 --> 01:41:55.000 let me take a look at it, because I need 1879 01:41:55.000 --> 01:41:57.520 to know for sure what it is before I send 1880 01:41:57.560 --> 01:42:00.960 you out with the wrong product or wasting your time 1881 01:42:01.000 --> 01:42:03.840 and money. Let's do that. I'm going to put you 1882 01:42:03.880 --> 01:42:07.199 on hold and Jonathan will pick up the phone and 1883 01:42:07.239 --> 01:42:10.560 give you an email. And if you'll send me those photos, 1884 01:42:10.640 --> 01:42:12.119 let me take a look at them, and that way 1885 01:42:12.159 --> 01:42:14.920 I can get you the right product to deal with 1886 01:42:14.920 --> 01:42:19.840 them right now, mature all right, Oh, don't go away, 1887 01:42:19.880 --> 01:42:22.119 hang on date and Jonathan will pick it right up 1888 01:42:22.119 --> 01:42:24.399 here for you. We're going to go now to Jersey 1889 01:42:24.520 --> 01:42:29.640 Village and talk to George. Hey, George Carline, thank you, 1890 01:42:29.920 --> 01:42:30.239 thank you. 1891 01:42:30.359 --> 01:42:33.840 I got a wall space in the front of the house. 1892 01:42:33.880 --> 01:42:36.680 It's about ten feet high and fifteen foot wide, and 1893 01:42:36.680 --> 01:42:38.880 it's got to some ogi hedges in front of it now. 1894 01:42:39.319 --> 01:42:42.119 And I want to put boga via there because I 1895 01:42:42.239 --> 01:42:44.880 took it to your advice on another one and it's 1896 01:42:44.920 --> 01:42:48.079 a beautiful plant and it's doing well. But anyhow should 1897 01:42:48.079 --> 01:42:50.800 I plant just one there? Should I wait for it 1898 01:42:50.880 --> 01:42:53.279 to grow out? Or should I plant two or three 1899 01:42:53.319 --> 01:42:54.039 of them instead? 1900 01:42:55.760 --> 01:42:58.600 Well, Bougin Bay is a low coal tender, and so 1901 01:42:58.920 --> 01:43:01.119 where you live, you're gonna have to give them some 1902 01:43:01.199 --> 01:43:03.319 kind of protection or at least most of the base 1903 01:43:03.560 --> 01:43:06.319 really really well so that it dies back and comes 1904 01:43:06.359 --> 01:43:08.520 back out of the base. That's the drawback of the 1905 01:43:08.560 --> 01:43:13.479 booga and ville there. Uh, do you have really really 1906 01:43:13.520 --> 01:43:16.159 good sunlight because they don't like to be in any shade. 1907 01:43:16.920 --> 01:43:20.199 Oh, yes, I do, yes, Okay. 1908 01:43:20.000 --> 01:43:22.560 Well, it's a possibility that it could work if it's 1909 01:43:22.560 --> 01:43:25.960 good sunlight. Just the cold heartiness is a thing that 1910 01:43:26.239 --> 01:43:27.880 you know, when you put shrubs across the front of 1911 01:43:27.920 --> 01:43:31.960 your house, you wanted to always have good shrub across 1912 01:43:32.000 --> 01:43:32.600 the around of the house. 1913 01:43:32.640 --> 01:43:32.800 There. 1914 01:43:33.439 --> 01:43:36.399 They're gonna be bear and the winter and you don't 1915 01:43:36.479 --> 01:43:38.920 have to be replacing them. So that's the only caveat 1916 01:43:38.960 --> 01:43:40.640 I would say, I'm considered. 1917 01:43:41.000 --> 01:43:42.439 Would you recommend something different? 1918 01:43:44.760 --> 01:43:48.760 Well, uh, tell me what your goal is for that spot. 1919 01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:51.600 You know, what, what do you want to see? 1920 01:43:55.039 --> 01:43:55.800 Yeah? 1921 01:43:55.880 --> 01:43:58.840 Yeah, I mean there's a lot of different shrubs that 1922 01:43:58.840 --> 01:44:02.680 that can cover cover a wall, you know, so it 1923 01:44:03.359 --> 01:44:05.000 just kind of depends on the shrubs. You like to 1924 01:44:05.079 --> 01:44:08.399 look at. How wide can this shrub be from the 1925 01:44:08.439 --> 01:44:10.359 wall outward? How far? 1926 01:44:11.840 --> 01:44:16.399 Uhdd three feet something like that. 1927 01:44:17.960 --> 01:44:24.800 Okay, all right, so pretty pretty tight space there. Yeah, 1928 01:44:25.439 --> 01:44:29.640 so you could you could go with something that like 1929 01:44:30.039 --> 01:44:33.920 one of the more dwarf Holly's Chinese Hollywood would do 1930 01:44:33.960 --> 01:44:36.560 well in an area like that. It's very very very 1931 01:44:36.600 --> 01:44:40.840 thorny leaves, very poky leaves on that particular one. You 1932 01:44:40.880 --> 01:44:43.640 could do nandinas across there. That would be an option. 1933 01:44:44.399 --> 01:44:48.039 Uh three feet is on the small end for Chinese 1934 01:44:48.079 --> 01:44:51.359 witch hazel, but that's a beautiful plant that has burgundy 1935 01:44:51.399 --> 01:44:55.920 foliage and shaggy hot pink blooms in the spring. That 1936 01:44:55.960 --> 01:44:57.760 would be one if you just got to shere it 1937 01:44:57.880 --> 01:44:59.760 to keep it in the size you want. I might 1938 01:44:59.760 --> 01:45:03.239 try Chinese witch halesl if it were if it were mine, 1939 01:45:03.279 --> 01:45:07.199 I think that that one looks looks pretty good. Gosh, 1940 01:45:07.239 --> 01:45:10.720 you just literally Georgia's probably fifty plants that we could 1941 01:45:10.800 --> 01:45:12.239 suggest first spot right now? 1942 01:45:12.960 --> 01:45:15.239 Well that is that just one point or two or 1943 01:45:15.279 --> 01:45:18.680 three plants? 1944 01:45:18.720 --> 01:45:22.640 How how long is the area? How long is the 1945 01:45:22.720 --> 01:45:24.000 area that you need to cover? 1946 01:45:25.079 --> 01:45:28.399 It's wide, it's about fifteen foot wide and ten feet tall. 1947 01:45:28.920 --> 01:45:33.720 Fifteen Yeah, I would I would leave. Oh it can 1948 01:45:33.760 --> 01:45:36.239 get ten feet tall. Oh that Chinese witch hazel. Get 1949 01:45:36.239 --> 01:45:38.520 one that's going to get a little taller than If 1950 01:45:38.560 --> 01:45:41.319 you go up to where are your jersey? Just down 1951 01:45:41.399 --> 01:45:42.159 the street from you. 1952 01:45:42.119 --> 01:45:43.640 There is. 1953 01:45:45.199 --> 01:45:47.159 RCW and Michelle Street Plants. 1954 01:45:47.880 --> 01:45:51.840 Yeah. RCW they they have got a shrub deal going 1955 01:45:51.920 --> 01:45:53.960 on right now. So I would go talk to them, 1956 01:45:54.479 --> 01:45:57.199 and they're gonna they're going to be able to put 1957 01:45:57.199 --> 01:45:58.800 some good shrubs in your hand, and you'll get a 1958 01:45:58.800 --> 01:46:02.199 better price on them right now too, that's for sure. Yeah, 1959 01:46:02.199 --> 01:46:07.479 that's because they're going to have some others. All right, sir, 1960 01:46:07.880 --> 01:46:08.600 thanks for the call. 1961 01:46:08.720 --> 01:46:10.520 Thank you, thanks very much. 1962 01:46:10.880 --> 01:46:14.960 Ah, you bet appreciate you calling very much. 1963 01:46:15.319 --> 01:46:15.560 Uh. 1964 01:46:15.600 --> 01:46:17.840 You know, when you're when you're taking care of your lawn, 1965 01:46:18.079 --> 01:46:20.159 it's still time to put if you want to put 1966 01:46:20.199 --> 01:46:24.079 your Microlife brown patch out. That's the brown bag. That's 1967 01:46:24.159 --> 01:46:27.600 the one that is loaded with microbes that help with 1968 01:46:28.600 --> 01:46:34.000 making that plant service surface less hospitable for diseases. It 1969 01:46:34.079 --> 01:46:36.119 might want to come in. Plus, it's got the nutrients 1970 01:46:36.119 --> 01:46:39.000 in it as well. You know, Microlife has a number 1971 01:46:39.039 --> 01:46:41.840 of different quality products. Their humates are always a good 1972 01:46:41.840 --> 01:46:45.199 thing to add to the soil. And it's because humus 1973 01:46:45.239 --> 01:46:48.800 is a final decomposition stage of organic matter. Its it's 1974 01:46:48.840 --> 01:46:52.399 like past compost, right, it's when compost has gone all 1975 01:46:52.439 --> 01:46:56.239 the way that is humus and uh, the humates plus 1976 01:46:56.439 --> 01:46:58.800 is an excellent product for your lawns. It's good to 1977 01:46:58.880 --> 01:47:02.680 use in the soil and again another quality product for Microlife. 1978 01:47:02.720 --> 01:47:05.159 You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com find out 1979 01:47:05.319 --> 01:47:09.039 all about their products, their liquids, their solid granulars rather 1980 01:47:09.640 --> 01:47:11.520 uh and you can also find out where to get 1981 01:47:11.520 --> 01:47:12.920 them and the answer by the way to where to 1982 01:47:12.920 --> 01:47:15.279 get them is pretty much everywhere. Microlife is about as 1983 01:47:15.359 --> 01:47:18.600 ubiquitous of a fertilizer as you're going to find all 1984 01:47:18.640 --> 01:47:22.840 throughout the listening area for Garden Line. Here, time for 1985 01:47:22.880 --> 01:47:25.319 me to take a little break. We will be right 1986 01:47:25.359 --> 01:47:28.000 back and when we come back, we're going to talk 1987 01:47:28.039 --> 01:47:31.439 to Bill and Galveston. Welcome back to Guardenline, folks. We 1988 01:47:31.680 --> 01:47:34.920 are glad you are listening in today. You get a 1989 01:47:34.920 --> 01:47:37.439 gardening question, give me a call seven one three two 1990 01:47:37.439 --> 01:47:42.039 one two five eight seven four seven one three two 1991 01:47:42.159 --> 01:47:46.560 one two fifty eight seventy four. If you are wanting 1992 01:47:46.680 --> 01:47:50.840 to take a lawn that has been struggling through the 1993 01:47:50.920 --> 01:47:55.000 summer through heat or drought, or soil compaction, or chinch 1994 01:47:55.079 --> 01:47:58.199 bugs or take all root rider, you name it, call 1995 01:47:58.279 --> 01:48:01.039 BnB Turf Bros. And have them come out and do 1996 01:48:01.560 --> 01:48:06.199 a core aeration with a compost top dressing. Cor aeration 1997 01:48:06.560 --> 01:48:10.319 pulls plugs of soil, little round plugs of soil out 1998 01:48:10.319 --> 01:48:12.239 of the ground, drops them on the surface, and then 1999 01:48:12.279 --> 01:48:14.760 you follow that with compost top dressing that falls down 2000 01:48:14.880 --> 01:48:18.319 in to the soil. Now, BnB turf Pros only uses 2001 01:48:18.479 --> 01:48:21.640 the top quality ingredients that I recommend. You're on guard Line. 2002 01:48:21.680 --> 01:48:23.640 For example, cenam Maltch I was telling you how great 2003 01:48:23.640 --> 01:48:27.640 Cienamulch is top quality leaf mold composts from Ciena malt 2004 01:48:27.800 --> 01:48:31.199 Is who BnB turf pros use. They know how to 2005 01:48:31.239 --> 01:48:34.880 do the job right. They serve the area south and 2006 01:48:35.039 --> 01:48:39.199 west from Houston, so we're talking about sugar Land and 2007 01:48:39.239 --> 01:48:43.640 Missouri City on the on the west side down Highway six. 2008 01:48:43.840 --> 01:48:48.199 You know Fresno, Siena, Arcola, Manville, Iowa Colony, and all 2009 01:48:48.199 --> 01:48:51.279 the way over to Pearland. That's their service area. They 2010 01:48:51.359 --> 01:48:54.039 got a fall special going on right now. Don't delay 2011 01:48:54.520 --> 01:48:57.039 how much longer they're going to do this, but free 2012 01:48:57.159 --> 01:49:02.680 lawn aeration when you schedule a compost top dressing purchase application. 2013 01:49:03.199 --> 01:49:05.880 So it's good for here, it is good for October 2014 01:49:06.039 --> 01:49:10.239 to December. Okay, October to December. Now you give them 2015 01:49:10.279 --> 01:49:13.760 a call, and this family owned business, will I promise 2016 01:49:13.800 --> 01:49:17.520 you give you honest quality work for them. It's all 2017 01:49:17.560 --> 01:49:19.560 about customer satisfaction. 2018 01:49:20.279 --> 01:49:20.439 Uh. 2019 01:49:20.600 --> 01:49:23.720 They look at you as a personal connection, not just 2020 01:49:23.960 --> 01:49:26.159 somebody that you know, go do this. Here's some money, 2021 01:49:26.239 --> 01:49:29.680 go away, go they for them, this is more personal 2022 01:49:29.760 --> 01:49:33.279 than that. It is making sure you are happy and 2023 01:49:33.359 --> 01:49:37.239 that is why I enthusiastically suggest that you give them 2024 01:49:37.279 --> 01:49:40.279 a call if you're down in that south end to 2025 01:49:40.319 --> 01:49:45.239 the west area from Houston, BB Turfpros dot com BB 2026 01:49:45.439 --> 01:49:48.000 no end in the in the in the email or 2027 01:49:48.079 --> 01:49:51.600 the web address BB turf Pros dot Com. Seven to 2028 01:49:51.640 --> 01:49:56.319 one three two three four five five ninety eight seven 2029 01:49:56.359 --> 01:50:01.680 one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. Let's 2030 01:50:01.680 --> 01:50:05.159 see here we're gonna go. Who's waiting a lite? Bill 2031 01:50:05.279 --> 01:50:07.520 and Galveston. Hey Bill, welcome to garden Line. 2032 01:50:08.479 --> 01:50:08.880 Thank you. 2033 01:50:09.479 --> 01:50:12.680 I sent you some photos. Is that this week? But 2034 01:50:13.079 --> 01:50:15.439 my lawn where's brown? Where I had a sago palm? 2035 01:50:15.520 --> 01:50:17.800 But three years ago I took it out and I 2036 01:50:17.840 --> 01:50:19.720 have not been able to get that. Come back to 2037 01:50:20.439 --> 01:50:22.840 lawn heavy suggestions as to what the problem is and 2038 01:50:22.880 --> 01:50:23.479 how to fix it. 2039 01:50:25.279 --> 01:50:28.720 Yeah, I saw those photos. Boy, that is that is 2040 01:50:28.800 --> 01:50:32.239 so extensive. I think you are looking at take all 2041 01:50:32.319 --> 01:50:36.119 root rot. There, Bill, the fact that the lawn starts 2042 01:50:36.199 --> 01:50:39.279 it's green, and then it starts to yellow and it 2043 01:50:39.359 --> 01:50:42.399 loses its vigor, and then it eventually goes to straw 2044 01:50:42.439 --> 01:50:45.239 brown and even the runners are dead. That is very 2045 01:50:45.279 --> 01:50:48.640 typical of take all root Rot. If you go online 2046 01:50:48.680 --> 01:50:52.479 to Gardening with Skip dot com my website Gardening with 2047 01:50:52.640 --> 01:50:55.880 Skip dot Com. There's a schedule on there for lawn care, 2048 01:50:55.920 --> 01:50:59.680 and there's a schedule on pest disease and weed management. 2049 01:50:59.760 --> 01:51:03.680 That pest disease and weed schedule tells you what to 2050 01:51:03.760 --> 01:51:06.840 apply for take all and when to apply it, and 2051 01:51:06.840 --> 01:51:08.960 and the quick answers. You want to apply it now, 2052 01:51:09.760 --> 01:51:11.760 and then you're gonna probably come back again in the 2053 01:51:11.800 --> 01:51:15.760 spring and make a second application following that schedule there. 2054 01:51:16.560 --> 01:51:22.439 But where you've got large what we had about applying, 2055 01:51:22.760 --> 01:51:25.760 what are we talking about applying? You're going to You're 2056 01:51:25.800 --> 01:51:30.000 gonna apply. There's more than one product on this schedule. Uh, 2057 01:51:30.079 --> 01:51:33.600 if you can find something that has a zoxystrobin in it, 2058 01:51:33.760 --> 01:51:36.319 that would be the most effective against take all root 2059 01:51:36.399 --> 01:51:41.399 rots specifically. Okay, but uh that the reason I refer 2060 01:51:41.439 --> 01:51:43.760 you to the schedule is because you know all the 2061 01:51:43.800 --> 01:51:46.520 products and timing and everything is listed on there. I 2062 01:51:46.560 --> 01:51:49.760 don't have to spell out all the things. But uh, 2063 01:51:49.920 --> 01:51:52.239 you can find that product to just get out there 2064 01:51:52.439 --> 01:51:56.760 and get it down as a p Now there in 2065 01:51:56.800 --> 01:51:59.720 your lawn, there's sections that are pretty large that have 2066 01:51:59.800 --> 01:52:02.199 been lost, and so you're probably going to need to 2067 01:52:02.520 --> 01:52:06.960 resowd those areas in the in the springtime as it 2068 01:52:07.000 --> 01:52:08.399 starts to warm up a little bit. 2069 01:52:10.560 --> 01:52:12.640 Okay, So I WI wait the spring to do that though. 2070 01:52:14.680 --> 01:52:18.760 Yeah, I mean you could reside now, but you know, 2071 01:52:18.880 --> 01:52:21.199 I I don't know it is it cools off the 2072 01:52:20.920 --> 01:52:23.880 long the long reress doesn't grow as much and so 2073 01:52:24.000 --> 01:52:26.920 the sod doesn't take quite as fast it or as well. 2074 01:52:27.359 --> 01:52:30.880 Uh So if it may, I think i'd focus on 2075 01:52:30.920 --> 01:52:33.600 getting things cleaned up. You know, there's a lot of 2076 01:52:33.600 --> 01:52:35.880 bermuda grass coming up through there, and you may want 2077 01:52:35.920 --> 01:52:38.039 to kill out some of those areas in the spring 2078 01:52:38.479 --> 01:52:41.600 when it warms up. Uh, And then then do your 2079 01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:43.880 residing to get back in business. 2080 01:52:43.920 --> 01:52:47.399 They're okay, So when you reside, do I think something 2081 01:52:47.439 --> 01:52:49.279 about the soil as well? At the same time. 2082 01:52:51.039 --> 01:52:53.239 Say that, ask me one more time. I didn't quite 2083 01:52:53.279 --> 01:52:53.640 catch you. 2084 01:52:53.720 --> 01:52:55.680 What I what I resawed? Do I need to do 2085 01:52:55.720 --> 01:52:57.600 something about the soil at the same time? 2086 01:52:59.199 --> 01:52:59.399 Uh? 2087 01:52:59.439 --> 01:53:02.039 You could airlom Cells has a lawn mix that they 2088 01:53:02.039 --> 01:53:04.560 can deliver and you can use to top off that area, 2089 01:53:04.800 --> 01:53:06.800 kind of scratch it into the soil a little bit, 2090 01:53:06.920 --> 01:53:09.760 and then plan over it. If your soil is in 2091 01:53:09.800 --> 01:53:12.039 pretty decent shape. You may not need to do that, 2092 01:53:12.239 --> 01:53:14.800 but if there are some lumps and holes and things, 2093 01:53:14.880 --> 01:53:17.399 it would be worth taking care of that before you 2094 01:53:17.439 --> 01:53:18.560 put the side back down. 2095 01:53:19.800 --> 01:53:24.640 I was thinking about putting in some Compostuh. 2096 01:53:25.039 --> 01:53:29.960 Just compost itself decomposes away so much that any benefit 2097 01:53:30.680 --> 01:53:34.159 then tends to go away in time. There's nothing wrong 2098 01:53:34.239 --> 01:53:36.359 with doing it, just don't put too much on it, 2099 01:53:36.399 --> 01:53:37.960 and don't try to use it to fill a hole, 2100 01:53:38.000 --> 01:53:40.560 because what was a hole that you fill with compost 2101 01:53:40.760 --> 01:53:43.760 becomes a hole again when the compost decomposes away. 2102 01:53:45.079 --> 01:53:47.199 Okay, all right, thank you very much. 2103 01:53:47.239 --> 01:53:51.079 All right, you bet, thank you for the call. Appreciate 2104 01:53:51.119 --> 01:53:55.520 that you take care. Where are we doing here, Oh 2105 01:53:55.560 --> 01:53:58.039 my gosh, we're about to run out of this hour here. 2106 01:53:58.680 --> 01:54:04.159 I wanted to tell you again about RCW and the 2107 01:54:04.199 --> 01:54:08.680 fact that they have an outstanding selection of shrubs and trees. 2108 01:54:08.720 --> 01:54:11.079 I was just visiting with someone a minute ago, George 2109 01:54:11.119 --> 01:54:14.680 up in Jersey, about RCWN, the fact that they're trees 2110 01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:20.079 and their shrubs are top quality, and they right now 2111 01:54:20.079 --> 01:54:23.079 they got a great shrub cell going on. Specifically, we 2112 01:54:23.079 --> 01:54:26.000 were talking about that. But when you're there, you're going 2113 01:54:26.079 --> 01:54:27.680 to be able to pick up your herbs and perennials 2114 01:54:27.720 --> 01:54:31.640 and annuals. You know, your annual color, everything you're looking for. 2115 01:54:32.159 --> 01:54:35.319 They're at RCW Nursery that is at the corner right 2116 01:54:35.359 --> 01:54:38.600 where Tamil Parkway two forty nine comes at about way eight, 2117 01:54:39.479 --> 01:54:44.640 and the website is RCW Nurseries dot com. Just go 2118 01:54:44.680 --> 01:54:48.760 by there, visit with David, find out about the different 2119 01:54:48.800 --> 01:54:51.279 plant options that you in fact, David or any any 2120 01:54:51.319 --> 01:54:56.560 of the folks there. There's a outstanding knowledge base at 2121 01:54:56.560 --> 01:54:58.960 that company. And I found when I go by there 2122 01:54:58.960 --> 01:55:01.239 and visit with them about the plants and about things, 2123 01:55:01.279 --> 01:55:04.800 it's always it's always very refreshing to see just how 2124 01:55:04.840 --> 01:55:07.199 on top of everything they are because they've been growing 2125 01:55:07.199 --> 01:55:09.520 it for a long time. They've been there for a 2126 01:55:09.520 --> 01:55:12.319 long time. They know what they're doing, and the quality 2127 01:55:12.319 --> 01:55:15.279 of plants you get, and even more importantly, I think 2128 01:55:15.359 --> 01:55:18.520 the quality of advice and direction you get is just 2129 01:55:18.560 --> 01:55:24.199 outstanding there at RCW Nurseries. I'm gonna have to take 2130 01:55:24.199 --> 01:55:28.439 a little break here in just a second, but I 2131 01:55:28.760 --> 01:55:32.520 wanted to mention something else about ACE Hardware. I talk 2132 01:55:32.560 --> 01:55:34.359 about ACE all the time because you know, ACE is 2133 01:55:34.399 --> 01:55:36.039 a place where you're going to get everything you need 2134 01:55:36.079 --> 01:55:38.640 to have success in your garden, in your lawns, with 2135 01:55:38.680 --> 01:55:41.720 your plants. ACE is a place to turn the inside 2136 01:55:41.720 --> 01:55:43.880 of your house and outside of your house into what 2137 01:55:43.920 --> 01:55:46.880 you want it to be. You know, here come the holidays. 2138 01:55:47.520 --> 01:55:51.159 Do you need lighting? Oh my gosh, ACE is the 2139 01:55:51.199 --> 01:55:54.279 police for sure for that. When it comes to gifts, look, 2140 01:55:54.560 --> 01:55:56.399 if you've not been in an ACE Hardware, don't just 2141 01:55:56.439 --> 01:55:59.439 picture a bunch of plumbing and wires and hardware stuff. 2142 01:56:00.159 --> 01:56:04.000 Imagine a gift shop, because that's also what it is, 2143 01:56:04.119 --> 01:56:08.039 and they have outstanding gifts. And of course everything you 2144 01:56:08.079 --> 01:56:10.720 need for your lawn and your landscape to have success 2145 01:56:11.000 --> 01:56:14.600 is an ACE Hardware. Go to Acehardware dot com. Acehardware 2146 01:56:14.600 --> 01:56:17.439 dot Com find the store locator to find the forty 2147 01:56:17.479 --> 01:56:22.880 plus stores in the Greater Houston area near you. Easy 2148 01:56:22.880 --> 01:56:25.159 to find ACE Hardware near you here in the Greater 2149 01:56:25.239 --> 01:56:29.000 Houston area. Well, we're coming up on the sound of 2150 01:56:29.039 --> 01:56:31.279 the music, and so I'm not going to take another 2151 01:56:31.359 --> 01:56:35.000 call so I can give you adequate time when I do. 2152 01:56:35.159 --> 01:56:39.439 Jennifer in the Woodlands, Charles and Beth in Conro, you 2153 01:56:39.479 --> 01:56:42.479 will be our first three up when we come back 2154 01:56:42.479 --> 01:56:44.840 from break here. Our phone number is seven to one 2155 01:56:44.920 --> 01:56:49.399 three two one two kt r H seven to one 2156 01:56:49.560 --> 01:56:53.920 three two one two kt RH and give us a call. 2157 01:56:54.399 --> 01:56:56.359 Get you on the board, so we're ready to go 2158 01:56:56.399 --> 01:57:00.079 and come back. I got another hour to go today. 2159 01:57:00.479 --> 01:57:03.159 Garden Line is on for those of you who are 2160 01:57:03.199 --> 01:57:06.920 new to garden Line from six am to ten am 2161 01:57:06.960 --> 01:57:10.319 on Saturdays and Sundays. Every Saturday and Sunday, I'm here 2162 01:57:10.359 --> 01:57:13.720 in front of a microphone talking to you about how 2163 01:57:13.720 --> 01:57:16.920 to have a beautiful on and a bountiful, bountiful garden. 2164 01:57:16.960 --> 01:57:17.359 As well. 2165 01:57:18.199 --> 01:57:20.239 I want to remind you that you can listen to 2166 01:57:20.319 --> 01:57:23.119 pass shows by podcast. You can listen to the show 2167 01:57:23.199 --> 01:57:27.359 live on the on your computer at the kt A website. 2168 01:57:27.720 --> 01:57:29.920 You can listen to pass shows there as well, or 2169 01:57:29.960 --> 01:57:33.239 you can download the iHeart Media app. I'd encourage you 2170 01:57:33.239 --> 01:57:35.520 to do that, and you can even listen to garden 2171 01:57:35.560 --> 01:57:38.880 Line live on the iHeartMedia app while you're out there 2172 01:57:39.000 --> 01:57:39.960 working in the garden. 2173 01:57:41.119 --> 01:57:44.920 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skim Richard. 2174 01:57:44.960 --> 01:58:00.800 It's just watch him as the world us so many 2175 01:58:01.239 --> 01:58:01.880 things to see. 2176 01:58:05.800 --> 01:58:08.880 All right, folks, Welcome back to the guard Line. I'm 2177 01:58:08.920 --> 01:58:11.399 your host, Skip Richter. We are here to help you 2178 01:58:12.079 --> 01:58:15.439 have success. Help you have success. Now, I keep I've 2179 01:58:15.479 --> 01:58:17.960 been telling you for months now. Fall is for planting. 2180 01:58:18.079 --> 01:58:20.399 Fall is there's not a better season than the year 2181 01:58:20.479 --> 01:58:23.960 for planting. If it's a shrub, well, it's going to 2182 01:58:24.000 --> 01:58:27.600 have all winter and spring and the rest of fall 2183 01:58:28.159 --> 01:58:30.520 to get roots established in the ground. So when next 2184 01:58:30.560 --> 01:58:33.359 summer arrives, that tree is ready to go. I mean 2185 01:58:33.560 --> 01:58:37.680 it has a head start compared to a spring planted counterpart. 2186 01:58:38.199 --> 01:58:41.479 If it's a perennial, same kind of thing. It perneal 2187 01:58:41.479 --> 01:58:44.319 grass is perennial flowers like Savia's and others. It's the 2188 01:58:44.319 --> 01:58:46.399 best time to plant. And then there's all our cool 2189 01:58:46.439 --> 01:58:49.560 season flowers and vegetables that we can be planting now, 2190 01:58:49.600 --> 01:58:53.079 and herbs for example. And if you're going to plant, 2191 01:58:53.359 --> 01:58:56.920 get you some has to grow six twelve six from medina. 2192 01:58:57.359 --> 01:59:01.479 Has to grow six twelve six from Medina. It's got, 2193 01:59:01.680 --> 01:59:04.920 of course, the six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, six 2194 01:59:04.960 --> 01:59:09.399 percent potassium phosphorus, very important in rude development. You take 2195 01:59:09.439 --> 01:59:11.800 this six twelve six, you mix it in water, you 2196 01:59:11.920 --> 01:59:14.560 drench it into the soil. It's got Medina soil activator 2197 01:59:14.560 --> 01:59:18.600 in it to stimulate biological activity. It's got humate, humic acid. 2198 01:59:18.880 --> 01:59:24.560 Humic acid. Final stage of compost decomposition is humus. Humic 2199 01:59:24.600 --> 01:59:30.079 acids are in that humus and they help improve sol structure. 2200 01:59:30.159 --> 01:59:34.439 They also help with nutrient uptake. It just makes the 2201 01:59:34.479 --> 01:59:36.840 soil better. That's how nature is designed to work. That's 2202 01:59:36.840 --> 01:59:39.800 how it works. You are taking those same products and 2203 01:59:39.840 --> 01:59:43.079 you're improving it. When you water your new plants in 2204 01:59:43.159 --> 01:59:46.439 with Medina hast Grow six twelve six plant food. You 2205 01:59:46.479 --> 01:59:48.399 can also use it for folio's not going to burn 2206 01:59:48.439 --> 01:59:51.279 your plants. But my goodness, we are in the big 2207 01:59:51.319 --> 01:59:53.800 middle of planting season and you always should have some 2208 01:59:53.840 --> 01:59:57.039 Medina hastro Grow six twelve six on the shelf for 2209 01:59:57.159 --> 02:00:00.079 doing just as I described. In fact, I'll put it 2210 02:00:00.760 --> 02:00:03.199 and then later maybe a week later, watered in again 2211 02:00:03.239 --> 02:00:04.720 with it, and then a week later do it again, 2212 02:00:04.760 --> 02:00:07.359 maybe three times. We're just helping get that established, but 2213 02:00:07.600 --> 02:00:13.319 especially that first initial deep drenching of the soil. All right, 2214 02:00:13.359 --> 02:00:16.880 we're going to go to Katie, Texas and talk to Dennis. Hello, Dennis, 2215 02:00:16.920 --> 02:00:18.000 welcome to garden Line. 2216 02:00:18.880 --> 02:00:22.199 Good morning to you. I appreciate the time I had 2217 02:00:22.239 --> 02:00:26.520 a question regarding the lawn carrs and specifically Saint Augustine, 2218 02:00:26.560 --> 02:00:30.560 and we try to control the clover. You know that 2219 02:00:30.640 --> 02:00:34.920 makes the cockle burrs in the springtime. And would these 2220 02:00:35.039 --> 02:00:39.960 pre emergons such as barricade dimension or pendomthylin be useful 2221 02:00:40.000 --> 02:00:40.279 for that? 2222 02:00:42.039 --> 02:00:48.319 Yes, any of that would would work. You need to 2223 02:00:48.319 --> 02:00:50.279 get out there, look real close at the lawn see 2224 02:00:50.279 --> 02:00:53.399 if you've seen little clover sprouted yet. But even if 2225 02:00:53.399 --> 02:00:55.680 you've started to see it, go ahead and get those down. 2226 02:00:55.720 --> 02:00:58.199 But I mean, Dennis, I'd do it today. I mean 2227 02:00:58.239 --> 02:01:00.079 I'd get it as soon. In other words, as as 2228 02:01:00.039 --> 02:01:02.399 soon as possible. Put it down, and then you need 2229 02:01:02.439 --> 02:01:04.000 to put a half inch of water on it to 2230 02:01:04.079 --> 02:01:07.920 move it down into the soil surface because then it 2231 02:01:08.079 --> 02:01:12.760 forms that barricade over the soil surface so that when 2232 02:01:12.800 --> 02:01:15.479 the weed tries to sprout, it kills it at that 2233 02:01:15.600 --> 02:01:20.680 stage before it can establish. That's how that works, okay. 2234 02:01:20.720 --> 02:01:24.079 And it is safe to put directly on the Saint Augustine. 2235 02:01:24.119 --> 02:01:29.159 Correct, Yes, I'm made for that. Just follow the label 2236 02:01:29.239 --> 02:01:32.840 and don't don't fall fall for the teaspoons good a 2237 02:01:32.920 --> 02:01:36.800 tablespoons better because you don't want to overuse the pre 2238 02:01:36.840 --> 02:01:40.680 emergence in your lawn. The right amount is good. Excessive 2239 02:01:40.720 --> 02:01:44.319 amounts you create problems, So don't do that. Just follow 2240 02:01:44.319 --> 02:01:47.279 the label it's made. The label is the amount that 2241 02:01:47.359 --> 02:01:50.000 it takes to do the job very well. 2242 02:01:51.359 --> 02:01:55.159 Okay, in the Katie area, is there a location that 2243 02:01:55.199 --> 02:01:57.840 you would recommend there or I could buy these products? 2244 02:01:59.479 --> 02:02:03.119 Yes, you can get those at your hardware stores. Katie. 2245 02:02:03.439 --> 02:02:08.000 Katie Hardware is one example. I was just out there 2246 02:02:08.199 --> 02:02:11.479 the other day. Whenever you go to any of your 2247 02:02:11.479 --> 02:02:14.960 Ace hardware stores, you're gonna find all these kinds of 2248 02:02:14.960 --> 02:02:17.600 products that you know I'm talking about, They're gonna they're 2249 02:02:17.600 --> 02:02:21.600 gonna be widely, widely available. But just a good example, 2250 02:02:21.960 --> 02:02:24.600 you know, would be the Katie the Katie Hardware Excuse me, 2251 02:02:24.600 --> 02:02:27.560 I can't even talk. Uh they I was in there 2252 02:02:27.560 --> 02:02:31.039 the other day and they were very well stocked with 2253 02:02:31.680 --> 02:02:33.560 you know what you might be looking for. They're just 2254 02:02:33.640 --> 02:02:36.319 north of I ten. I don't know exactly where you are. 2255 02:02:36.399 --> 02:02:38.199 You know, if you're on the if you're on the 2256 02:02:38.239 --> 02:02:43.479 inside of ninety nine, then the Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch 2257 02:02:43.520 --> 02:02:45.239 on Mason has it as well. 2258 02:02:46.439 --> 02:02:49.279 Okay, yeah, I'm in Old Katie. 2259 02:02:50.840 --> 02:02:57.439 Okay, yeah, hardware, But okay, go ahead, just. 2260 02:02:57.399 --> 02:03:00.399 Don't delay don't delay. That's the main thing is every 2261 02:03:00.439 --> 02:03:02.960 day that goes by, more weeds are getting bigger, and 2262 02:03:03.039 --> 02:03:04.479 you know you need to shut them down. 2263 02:03:05.560 --> 02:03:07.199 Okay, oh yeah, I'm gonna do it this week here, 2264 02:03:08.680 --> 02:03:09.199 all right. 2265 02:03:09.079 --> 02:03:11.800 Sir, Good luck with that. Thanks for the call, appreciate that. 2266 02:03:12.720 --> 02:03:15.479 All right, we're gonna go now, talk to Charles. Hey, Charles, 2267 02:03:15.880 --> 02:03:16.800 Welcome to God morning. 2268 02:03:18.119 --> 02:03:20.760 I heard the lady call in a while ago about 2269 02:03:21.199 --> 02:03:25.600 her problem with squirrels, and a friend of mine had 2270 02:03:25.640 --> 02:03:30.960 the same sort of problem, and he bought some owl 2271 02:03:34.399 --> 02:03:39.199 imitation owls. There are a couple of different kinds. One 2272 02:03:39.359 --> 02:03:41.880 is a kind of a plastic one that it's about 2273 02:03:41.920 --> 02:03:45.439 ten inches tall. And on the other one that was 2274 02:03:45.520 --> 02:03:49.119 really effective was an owl that had a body and 2275 02:03:49.279 --> 02:03:52.800 had wings on it that hung in the tree. The 2276 02:03:52.880 --> 02:03:58.159 squirrels just disappeared out of all of his trees. Say, 2277 02:03:58.920 --> 02:04:00.359 owl scared him the death. 2278 02:04:01.880 --> 02:04:04.279 Well, that's interesting. I've never heard that one before. I 2279 02:04:04.319 --> 02:04:06.279 would say if that, if that's going to work, I 2280 02:04:06.399 --> 02:04:08.720 definitely would move those around a little bit. I know, 2281 02:04:08.840 --> 02:04:11.640 any kind of a scare tactic that we use for anything. 2282 02:04:12.319 --> 02:04:14.880 If it just sits there all the time, the birds 2283 02:04:14.920 --> 02:04:17.159 get used to it. I took a picture. One time. 2284 02:04:17.199 --> 02:04:21.119 In Austin, Texas, someone had put us an owl on 2285 02:04:21.239 --> 02:04:24.600 top of their sign of their business to keep the 2286 02:04:24.600 --> 02:04:28.079 birds from roosting on it and pooping. And I drove 2287 02:04:28.119 --> 02:04:30.239 by one day and that thing had been there for months, 2288 02:04:30.279 --> 02:04:32.720 and there was a bird perched on top of the owl, 2289 02:04:33.840 --> 02:04:37.239 roosting on top of the plastic owl. So I would say, 2290 02:04:37.279 --> 02:04:38.560 don't them get used to it. 2291 02:04:39.840 --> 02:04:42.279 I have to admit, the one that was most effective 2292 02:04:42.880 --> 02:04:47.560 was the one that actually had wings, and it hung 2293 02:04:48.279 --> 02:04:51.399 from a limb of the tree, and the wings actually 2294 02:04:51.640 --> 02:04:53.079 moved back and forth, so. 2295 02:04:53.000 --> 02:04:54.079 It had some movement. 2296 02:04:54.359 --> 02:04:54.880 Oh okay. 2297 02:04:54.880 --> 02:05:01.760 And he never moved it. And we go over to 2298 02:05:01.800 --> 02:05:05.680 his place a couple times a week. Never saw another 2299 02:05:05.720 --> 02:05:06.880 squirrel rounds. 2300 02:05:07.560 --> 02:05:10.199 All right, Hey, thanks, thanks for that. I got to run, 2301 02:05:10.199 --> 02:05:12.960 but I appreciate that. Appreciate you weighing in on that one. 2302 02:05:13.399 --> 02:05:17.000 Take care of Charles. Arburgate up in Tomball is a 2303 02:05:17.119 --> 02:05:20.560 showplace of garden centers. I mean it is the kind 2304 02:05:20.560 --> 02:05:23.359 of place people go from all over to see. I 2305 02:05:23.399 --> 02:05:24.840 love it every time I go in there. I mean 2306 02:05:25.039 --> 02:05:28.800 it's just beautiful and if you need a plant, you're 2307 02:05:28.800 --> 02:05:31.319 not going to find a better selection if you're needing advice, 2308 02:05:31.359 --> 02:05:35.520 you're not going to find better advice, whether it's diagnosing, identifying, 2309 02:05:35.960 --> 02:05:39.760 or even suggestions. And I always say brown stuff before 2310 02:05:39.800 --> 02:05:43.119 green stuff. At Arborgate, they have three different bags for 2311 02:05:43.159 --> 02:05:46.680 the brown stuff. One is called Organic Food Complete. It's 2312 02:05:46.720 --> 02:05:50.640 a four to four to three plus calcium organic fertilizer does. 2313 02:05:50.800 --> 02:05:54.319 Number two Organic Soil Complete, which is a soil with 2314 02:05:54.920 --> 02:05:57.680 expanded shale, which is important for our clay soils, having 2315 02:05:57.680 --> 02:06:00.800 that expanded shale in it. And then Organic Compost Complete. 2316 02:06:00.920 --> 02:06:06.119 Third bag that is compost with expanded shale. Now compost 2317 02:06:06.119 --> 02:06:09.359 helps glay soils, but expanded shale does as well and 2318 02:06:09.439 --> 02:06:12.399 last even longer. And so that one two three system 2319 02:06:12.399 --> 02:06:13.880 will get you off to a good start. Now, when 2320 02:06:13.920 --> 02:06:18.159 you're at Arburgate, the holidays have hit, and go into 2321 02:06:18.199 --> 02:06:22.960 those their gift shops and check them out. Check out 2322 02:06:22.960 --> 02:06:27.039 the plants too, member falls for planting. They've got twelve 2323 02:06:27.079 --> 02:06:29.479 months out of the year. Arburgate carries fruit trees and 2324 02:06:29.600 --> 02:06:32.319 for example, and you're going to find everything you need there. 2325 02:06:32.720 --> 02:06:34.760 It's on twenty nine to twenty For those of you 2326 02:06:34.760 --> 02:06:36.600 who just moved to the air at twenty nine twenty, 2327 02:06:37.279 --> 02:06:39.560 just a mile and a half west of two forty 2328 02:06:39.640 --> 02:06:42.319 nine in Tomball. It's on the left hand side. Do 2329 02:06:42.319 --> 02:06:44.520 you want to find Trishel Road which is a loop 2330 02:06:44.560 --> 02:06:48.119 that goes around behind Arburgate turn in before or after 2331 02:06:48.199 --> 02:06:50.800 Arburgate down Trish'll go around back and there's a really 2332 02:06:50.840 --> 02:06:54.399 good old weather parking lot back there that is especially handy. 2333 02:06:54.600 --> 02:06:56.680 Check out the website. In the meantime, sign up for 2334 02:06:56.720 --> 02:07:00.880 their newsletter at Arborgate dot com. Time for me to 2335 02:07:00.920 --> 02:07:03.800 take a break. When I come back, let's see Adolph, 2336 02:07:04.079 --> 02:07:06.720 Jen and Steve. You'll be our first three. Hey, welcome 2337 02:07:06.760 --> 02:07:08.560 back to the guard line. Good to have you with us. 2338 02:07:08.840 --> 02:07:12.039 Looking at the boards here, I believe Jen's been holding 2339 02:07:12.079 --> 02:07:14.800 the longest, so we're going to head out to Jen. Now, Hey, Jen, 2340 02:07:14.840 --> 02:07:22.520 how can we help with your questions? 2341 02:07:22.560 --> 02:07:22.800 Cool? 2342 02:07:24.520 --> 02:07:27.079 Is it made that your high skip? 2343 02:07:27.479 --> 02:07:30.720 Yes? Yes, I see that you've been holding the longest. 2344 02:07:30.760 --> 02:07:31.399 How can I help? 2345 02:07:31.640 --> 02:07:31.880 Yes? 2346 02:07:31.920 --> 02:07:32.279 I have. 2347 02:07:32.800 --> 02:07:33.880 My name is Joe Wayne. 2348 02:07:33.960 --> 02:07:36.560 Actually I have sent. 2349 02:07:36.399 --> 02:07:38.520 You some pictures about my long. 2350 02:07:40.079 --> 02:07:45.159 I have dead patches, had this last year and I 2351 02:07:45.199 --> 02:07:46.720 replaced with sad and then. 2352 02:07:46.720 --> 02:07:49.079 Again this year. Now I have good patches. 2353 02:07:51.159 --> 02:07:56.520 Oh, yes, I did get your pictures. You know it's 2354 02:07:56.600 --> 02:07:59.800 hard to be positive on our diagnosis with just a 2355 02:08:00.319 --> 02:08:04.000 taken from a distance, but the symptoms look exactly like 2356 02:08:04.479 --> 02:08:09.399 you would expect from take all root rot. In Saint Augustine. 2357 02:08:09.960 --> 02:08:14.079 The yellowing that progresses to completely dead, the runners are 2358 02:08:14.079 --> 02:08:17.840 brown dead, they're not alive. That looks like take all 2359 02:08:17.920 --> 02:08:20.479 root rot. And if you go online to my website 2360 02:08:20.520 --> 02:08:25.760 gardening with skip dot com, I have a couple of schedules. 2361 02:08:25.840 --> 02:08:29.439 One is for lawn fertilizing and watering and mowing and 2362 02:08:29.479 --> 02:08:34.039 that the other one is for controlling diseases and weeds 2363 02:08:34.119 --> 02:08:36.840 and insects and things like that in the lawn, and 2364 02:08:36.880 --> 02:08:39.760 that's the one you want. It gives you a list 2365 02:08:39.800 --> 02:08:42.640 of products that you can choose from for control of it, 2366 02:08:43.600 --> 02:08:46.399 and then it tells you you know exactly when to 2367 02:08:46.479 --> 02:08:49.079 do it, and now is the time. Don't delay another day. 2368 02:08:49.159 --> 02:08:51.600 We've been treating for take all the last since the 2369 02:08:51.640 --> 02:08:55.000 beginning of October, and so go ahead and get that 2370 02:08:55.119 --> 02:08:58.000 done now and be ready to repeat it again in March. 2371 02:08:58.079 --> 02:09:00.319 It's a website, Okay. 2372 02:09:00.800 --> 02:09:04.119 When I went to the ACE, they gave me copper 2373 02:09:04.199 --> 02:09:04.960 fungus side. 2374 02:09:08.840 --> 02:09:11.720 Not for this, that's for other things. Not for that. 2375 02:09:11.720 --> 02:09:15.439 That's for something else. So, uh, just go ahead and 2376 02:09:15.439 --> 02:09:19.479 and and go back and tell them you need a product. 2377 02:09:19.520 --> 02:09:22.560 And I'm gonna I'm gonna spell out the name of it. Okay, 2378 02:09:22.840 --> 02:09:27.039 the the not that brand, but the ingredient. It's a 2379 02:09:27.319 --> 02:09:35.479 z o x y S t r O b I 2380 02:09:35.680 --> 02:09:42.880 n A i O x y s t r o azoxystrobin. 2381 02:09:43.359 --> 02:09:45.600 Find a product with that. Go to ACE. They've got it. 2382 02:09:45.760 --> 02:09:48.399 ACE carries that stuff. Okay, and just tell me you 2383 02:09:48.479 --> 02:09:51.319 need that, and then follow that schedule. Download both of 2384 02:09:51.359 --> 02:09:53.800 those schedules. There's and there's other good information on the 2385 02:09:53.840 --> 02:09:54.960 website and it's all free. 2386 02:09:55.479 --> 02:09:57.720 Okay, Okay, thank you. 2387 02:09:59.199 --> 02:10:02.159 All right, you take here, you take care all right. 2388 02:10:02.199 --> 02:10:04.560 Now we're going to go to Adolf and Manville. 2389 02:10:04.560 --> 02:10:07.960 Hey Adolf, Yes, a good morning. Look at. 2390 02:10:09.880 --> 02:10:13.760 Um hm, I've got a red barren beach and I'm 2391 02:10:13.840 --> 02:10:16.000 just a little bit. 2392 02:10:17.640 --> 02:10:18.000 Jeez. 2393 02:10:18.119 --> 02:10:22.000 Why why why is it full of green leaves still? 2394 02:10:23.159 --> 02:10:25.640 I mean, uh, sometimes I would have thought. 2395 02:10:28.840 --> 02:10:31.079 Now, sometimes they hold their leaves a little bit longer. 2396 02:10:31.239 --> 02:10:34.399 That's that's not a problem, don't It'll drop them when 2397 02:10:34.479 --> 02:10:36.520 we get a good cold snap in here, those leaves 2398 02:10:36.520 --> 02:10:37.319 are going to come off. 2399 02:10:37.359 --> 02:10:38.800 But that's not yea, I have. 2400 02:10:38.960 --> 02:10:39.920 That's not a concern. 2401 02:10:41.000 --> 02:10:43.760 Okay, yeah, I was concerned a little bit because I 2402 02:10:43.760 --> 02:10:48.359 have another peachtree that it's uh that dropped all its leaves. 2403 02:10:48.640 --> 02:10:54.239 So anyway, the other question is if I'm just before 2404 02:10:55.279 --> 02:11:01.319 on a simon, uh, if I need the fruit on 2405 02:11:01.479 --> 02:11:05.680 the tree, they will, right, eventually. 2406 02:11:08.079 --> 02:11:11.520 It sounds like, yes, eventually they will. No, they know 2407 02:11:11.600 --> 02:11:14.199 they eventually will, And I would leave them as long 2408 02:11:14.239 --> 02:11:17.640 as you can because per simmons don't ripen after they 2409 02:11:17.640 --> 02:11:20.479 come off the tree very well, So you want to 2410 02:11:20.680 --> 02:11:22.479 you want to leave them on the tree. Now at 2411 02:11:22.520 --> 02:11:24.600 some point, you know, if raccoons are getting them or 2412 02:11:24.600 --> 02:11:27.479 if they're starting to actually turn loose and fall off, yeah, 2413 02:11:27.520 --> 02:11:29.640 I go ahead and pick them. But uh yeah that 2414 02:11:29.920 --> 02:11:31.000 leave them as long as you can. 2415 02:11:32.239 --> 02:11:34.920 Yeah, all right, I've never seen a fruit like that. 2416 02:11:35.079 --> 02:11:38.479 It takes this long. I mean it's orange for three 2417 02:11:38.560 --> 02:11:42.159 weeks and it's still hard. No, there's been a couple 2418 02:11:42.199 --> 02:11:46.640 of them that are already uh right and they're good. 2419 02:11:47.000 --> 02:11:52.199 Yeah, okay, well, good good. I love those fruit. Well, 2420 02:11:52.199 --> 02:11:54.439 good luck with that, and thank you for the call, Adolf, 2421 02:11:54.520 --> 02:11:59.199 appreciate appreciate that very much. I wanted to tell you 2422 02:11:59.239 --> 02:12:02.239 guys that those of you who are familiar with Landscapers Pride, 2423 02:12:02.239 --> 02:12:04.399 you know they make quality products. You know those over 2424 02:12:04.439 --> 02:12:08.000 two dozen different products that they have available. A couple 2425 02:12:08.079 --> 02:12:10.199 of them I'd like to focus on right now because 2426 02:12:10.239 --> 02:12:12.880 we are making sure we get the soil right when 2427 02:12:12.920 --> 02:12:15.119 we want a plant, and it's always a good time 2428 02:12:15.119 --> 02:12:18.199 to improve the soil. Healthy soil composts one hundred percent 2429 02:12:18.279 --> 02:12:23.159 locally sourced green materials. Healthy soil compost from Landscaper's Pride, 2430 02:12:23.640 --> 02:12:28.960 a local company here. They the healthy soil compost material itself. 2431 02:12:29.039 --> 02:12:32.640 Of course it's loaded microbial activity because it is compost itself, 2432 02:12:33.439 --> 02:12:36.720 but it is widely available throughout the Greater Houston area. 2433 02:12:36.760 --> 02:12:39.119 Then they also have the mushroom compost, which is an 2434 02:12:39.119 --> 02:12:44.199 even richer mushroom created from clean local mushroom substrate. Okay, 2435 02:12:44.279 --> 02:12:47.920 so when you produce mushrooms like you buy in the store, 2436 02:12:48.439 --> 02:12:53.960 the little white mushrooms, button mushrooms, that material that they 2437 02:12:54.039 --> 02:12:57.520 grow the mushrooms in then is they get rid of 2438 02:12:57.560 --> 02:12:59.840 it and it makes some of the best compost you're 2439 02:12:59.840 --> 02:13:02.680 ever going to have, and that is mushroom compost from 2440 02:13:02.840 --> 02:13:05.720 Landscapers Pride. I'd encourage you to go to their website 2441 02:13:05.960 --> 02:13:10.600 Landscaperspride dot com, find the store locators of all the 2442 02:13:10.640 --> 02:13:13.760 places you can buy their stuff it's widely available, and 2443 02:13:13.840 --> 02:13:16.319 also follow them on social media to keep up the 2444 02:13:16.399 --> 02:13:19.079 date with things that are going on with their many, 2445 02:13:19.079 --> 02:13:25.680 many products in that particular company. Let's see here, We're 2446 02:13:25.680 --> 02:13:29.359 going to go now to Steve and West Houston. Hey Steve, 2447 02:13:29.439 --> 02:13:31.279 welcome to garden Line. 2448 02:13:32.000 --> 02:13:36.359 Thank you, skip, good morning. I looked at your loan 2449 02:13:36.439 --> 02:13:40.479 schedule and I'm running behind the two. I had a 2450 02:13:40.600 --> 02:13:44.039 question about it. Looks like I'm too late for the 2451 02:13:44.199 --> 02:13:48.680 night trophos a winter Riser, the eight twelve, sixteen or 2452 02:13:48.720 --> 02:13:50.239 can I still put it out? 2453 02:13:51.680 --> 02:13:53.640 You can still put it out. Just just hurry up 2454 02:13:53.640 --> 02:13:57.000 and get it done. Here's the thing, is the weather 2455 02:13:57.079 --> 02:13:59.840 coolst more and more, the grass slows more and more, 2456 02:14:00.199 --> 02:14:03.720 and so the uptake slows down more and more, and 2457 02:14:03.760 --> 02:14:05.640 so there's not a black and white line, you know, 2458 02:14:05.680 --> 02:14:08.119 on that little chart on my website. I've got to 2459 02:14:08.199 --> 02:14:11.560 draw the line somewhere right, But actually it's a very 2460 02:14:11.560 --> 02:14:14.399 fuzzy line in there. And so the sooner the batter, 2461 02:14:14.479 --> 02:14:16.039 go ahead and use it and get it down, you'll 2462 02:14:16.079 --> 02:14:16.640 be fine. 2463 02:14:17.640 --> 02:14:23.720 The other fertilizer I didn't find any times to put 2464 02:14:23.760 --> 02:14:28.079 it out unless it could be anytime that I have 2465 02:14:28.159 --> 02:14:32.079 a bag of ags, Mike, what is it now or 2466 02:14:32.600 --> 02:14:33.479 when when should. 2467 02:14:33.279 --> 02:14:36.560 I put it out? At anytime you want to put 2468 02:14:36.560 --> 02:14:39.399 it down. It's not Yeah, it's not loaded with nitrogen 2469 02:14:39.439 --> 02:14:42.199 to make the grass grow or anything. It's it's trace 2470 02:14:42.319 --> 02:14:44.560 and or minerals. And so you could do it now. 2471 02:14:44.680 --> 02:14:46.439 You could do it the same day you do your 2472 02:14:46.479 --> 02:14:52.399 other fertilizing. You just can't apply the other. Yeah, it's 2473 02:14:52.720 --> 02:14:57.039 a set of nutrients than the than the the nitrophos 2474 02:14:57.159 --> 02:15:00.520 fault special the nutrients and nitropos false ban or the 2475 02:15:00.560 --> 02:15:05.760 macronutrients primarily that your grass needs. This is the micronutrients 2476 02:15:05.760 --> 02:15:07.119 that's your grass needs. 2477 02:15:07.560 --> 02:15:12.039 Yes, sir, I'll get after it. And last question, I 2478 02:15:12.079 --> 02:15:17.680 have something my yard. I've got some very spots. It's 2479 02:15:18.039 --> 02:15:23.479 you know, ninety Saint Augustine. I've got some bermuda here 2480 02:15:23.479 --> 02:15:25.199 and there, but it's few and far between. 2481 02:15:25.239 --> 02:15:26.119 It doesn't bother me. 2482 02:15:26.760 --> 02:15:31.840 But where I have no Saint Augustine, I've got a weed. 2483 02:15:32.079 --> 02:15:35.439 And I saw it. They were talking about something on 2484 02:15:35.800 --> 02:15:41.239 Central Texas Gardener and they called it crete weed, and 2485 02:15:41.279 --> 02:15:45.640 it somehow came to the Bermuda family. Their bright green 2486 02:15:45.760 --> 02:15:51.079 leaves about the size of your thumbnail, and tiny little, 2487 02:15:51.079 --> 02:15:54.920 bright yellow flowers. Have you ever heard of. 2488 02:15:57.039 --> 02:16:00.399 Well, no, something got lost in translation. I used to 2489 02:16:00.479 --> 02:16:02.840 be on Central Texas Gardener TV show when I was 2490 02:16:02.880 --> 02:16:06.960 over in the Austin area, and I have no idea what. Yeah, 2491 02:16:07.000 --> 02:16:10.399 the crete does not sound like any wead. But here's 2492 02:16:10.439 --> 02:16:12.760 what I need you to do. I'm We're gonna. I'm 2493 02:16:12.760 --> 02:16:16.439 gonna put you on hold and my producer Jonathan will 2494 02:16:16.479 --> 02:16:20.159 pick up the call and he will give you an 2495 02:16:20.159 --> 02:16:22.920 email address, send me some pictures up close in good 2496 02:16:22.920 --> 02:16:25.439 sharp focus, and then one kind of step back, take 2497 02:16:25.439 --> 02:16:28.279 the whole area. Let me look at him, and once 2498 02:16:28.319 --> 02:16:29.640 I see what it is, I can tell you what 2499 02:16:29.680 --> 02:16:30.239 to do about it. 2500 02:16:30.279 --> 02:16:32.959 Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate you. 2501 02:16:34.000 --> 02:16:40.159 All right, don't go away. Jonathan'll pick right up. All right, Well, boy, 2502 02:16:40.440 --> 02:16:44.399 there you go. H Nelson. Plant food makes a number 2503 02:16:44.399 --> 02:16:46.360 of our lives. You know, they got the Turf Star line. 2504 02:16:46.360 --> 02:16:48.000 We talk about that all the time. They got the 2505 02:16:48.079 --> 02:16:51.600 Nutri Star line, which is for various kinds of plants. 2506 02:16:51.639 --> 02:16:53.879 There's a Nutri Star tree and shrub for life. So 2507 02:16:54.000 --> 02:16:56.680 there's a neutral Star, you know, for whatever you're growing 2508 02:16:56.760 --> 02:16:59.360 pretty much, and then the Color Star, and that's the 2509 02:16:59.360 --> 02:17:01.600 one I want to focus on right now. Color Star 2510 02:17:01.719 --> 02:17:05.879 is a nineteen thirteen sex fertilizer for all flowering plants. 2511 02:17:06.159 --> 02:17:08.920 It's one of the most universal blends that they make. 2512 02:17:09.239 --> 02:17:11.120 It can be used on annuals and perennials. It can 2513 02:17:11.159 --> 02:17:13.159 be used on flowering trees and shrubs if you want. 2514 02:17:13.840 --> 02:17:15.760 You're going to put it on about every three months 2515 02:17:16.159 --> 02:17:18.840 during whatever the growing season is for that plant. So 2516 02:17:18.920 --> 02:17:21.280 like right now you're putting out pansies, you're putting out 2517 02:17:21.399 --> 02:17:24.760 hanthas in cool season, mix it into the soil. Plant 2518 02:17:24.799 --> 02:17:28.120 your plants. Two or three months later, do it again 2519 02:17:28.280 --> 02:17:32.200 because in the cool season, microbial activity slowed down in 2520 02:17:32.239 --> 02:17:34.200 the soil, and we give a little extra boost to 2521 02:17:34.280 --> 02:17:35.319 keep these things growing. 2522 02:17:35.920 --> 02:17:36.200 Now. 2523 02:17:36.559 --> 02:17:39.639 It has five sources and nitrogen, it's got organic bone meal, 2524 02:17:39.680 --> 02:17:42.920 it's got organic blood meal in it. It just builds 2525 02:17:43.040 --> 02:17:46.239 the soil. This stuff is so popular landscapers use it 2526 02:17:46.440 --> 02:17:48.520 not just in Texas, but they shep a lot of 2527 02:17:48.559 --> 02:17:51.600 it to states outside of Texas because once people figure 2528 02:17:51.600 --> 02:17:54.200 out how well it works, they come back for more. 2529 02:17:54.680 --> 02:17:59.959 Nelson's Color Star thirteen or nineteen thirteen six for all 2530 02:18:00.360 --> 02:18:04.559 flowering plants. Well, let's see we are looking at uh, 2531 02:18:05.000 --> 02:18:07.719 running out of time on this spot. I'm gonna come 2532 02:18:07.760 --> 02:18:10.120 back and Chuck you'll be my first up, and then 2533 02:18:10.239 --> 02:18:13.559 Glenn when we get right back from this break. Thank 2534 02:18:13.600 --> 02:18:16.319 you all for listening to Garden Line. We appreciate you've 2535 02:18:16.319 --> 02:18:18.239 been with us today. We got a lot more to 2536 02:18:18.280 --> 02:18:22.479 talk about in our last half hour of the show. Today. 2537 02:18:23.520 --> 02:18:27.600 Are Houston's News, Why there were traffic plus breaking news 2538 02:18:27.680 --> 02:18:31.959 twenty four to seven. This is News Radio seven forty kt. 2539 02:18:31.920 --> 02:18:33.559 RH five Everywhere with. 2540 02:18:33.879 --> 02:18:38.000 Ir more of what's happening now from the John Morris 2541 02:18:38.000 --> 02:18:39.639 Services Studios. 2542 02:18:39.399 --> 02:18:41.840 Trout making history with Press Secretary Pick. 2543 02:18:42.000 --> 02:18:42.799 I'm Jared Lewis. 2544 02:18:42.799 --> 02:18:45.600 It's nine thirty on News Radio seven forty KHRH with 2545 02:18:45.680 --> 02:18:47.479 trafficking Whether to get her back to Gary. 2546 02:18:47.559 --> 02:18:51.959 Matt roadwork on the sixteenth south of eastbound this weekend. 2547 02:18:52.000 --> 02:18:55.920 That's closed Culin to MLKA. Also another total closure forty 2548 02:18:55.920 --> 02:18:58.799 five go free Wayne north bound Calhoun to Cullen and Yes, 2549 02:18:58.840 --> 02:19:02.360 indeed I Tandy Freeway eastbound. It's sixty nine east Hanks 2550 02:19:02.399 --> 02:19:05.760 tu Lockwood schedule till Monday morning at five speaking up 2551 02:19:05.879 --> 02:19:10.159 five right lanes coned off sixty nine Southwest Freeway at Hillcroft. Yes, 2552 02:19:10.280 --> 02:19:13.600 roadwork to lais for all I just mentioned about ten minutes. 2553 02:19:13.680 --> 02:19:16.959 I'm Gary back at the Generator Supercenter dot com Travick Center. 2554 02:19:17.120 --> 02:19:19.520 Partly to multi cloudy on this Saturday with an afternoon 2555 02:19:19.600 --> 02:19:21.959 high seventy eight degrees and a few showers may pop 2556 02:19:22.040 --> 02:19:24.159 up after midnight with the low down to seventy I'm 2557 02:19:24.200 --> 02:19:27.479 meberialogist Jeff Maher from the Weather Channel Cloudy in sixty 2558 02:19:27.520 --> 02:19:30.399 seven at the k H Generator Supercenter twenty four hour 2559 02:19:30.440 --> 02:19:33.520 Weather Center. It's nine thirty one. President Alec Donald Trump 2560 02:19:33.559 --> 02:19:36.680 is picking his twenty seven year old campaign spokesperson, Caroline 2561 02:19:36.760 --> 02:19:40.159 Lovitt to service press Secretary, making her the youngest person 2562 02:19:40.200 --> 02:19:42.959 in that role in US history. House Speaker Mike Johnson 2563 02:19:43.000 --> 02:19:45.319 says he will request that an ethics report on Trump's 2564 02:19:45.319 --> 02:19:48.719 ag pick, Matt Gates not be released. It's expected that 2565 02:19:48.840 --> 02:19:51.879 FBI Director at Christopher Ray and deputy director Paul Abbott 2566 02:19:51.879 --> 02:19:55.239 will be ousted while Trump takes office in January. The 2567 02:19:55.319 --> 02:19:57.520 Lake and Riley murder trial is underway in Georgia, with 2568 02:19:57.600 --> 02:20:01.239 the first witnesses testifying on Friday. A Spring branch id 2569 02:20:01.319 --> 02:20:04.479 employee is found shot to death inside his home on Friday, 2570 02:20:04.920 --> 02:20:07.159 and his second suspect is arrested in connection to a 2571 02:20:07.200 --> 02:20:10.959 string of sexual assaults happening in the West Gulf Bank area. 2572 02:20:11.600 --> 02:20:14.079 News on demand at kh dot com. Our next update 2573 02:20:14.120 --> 02:20:16.479 will be at ten. I'm Jarret Lewis on Houston's news, 2574 02:20:16.479 --> 02:20:19.600 weather and traffic station News Radio seven forty KRH. 2575 02:20:20.079 --> 02:20:23.799 Welcome back to the guard Line. Glad you are with 2576 02:20:23.959 --> 02:20:27.040 us today. We've got some more to go here in Guardenline. 2577 02:20:27.319 --> 02:20:30.280 Plenty of things to talk about. In fact, I'm gonna 2578 02:20:30.639 --> 02:20:33.600 jump right out there and head to the phones. We're 2579 02:20:33.639 --> 02:20:37.479 going to go to Spring and talk to Chuck. Hey, Chuck, 2580 02:20:37.520 --> 02:20:38.479 welcome to garden Line. 2581 02:20:39.559 --> 02:20:40.840 Hi, good, talk to you again. 2582 02:20:41.000 --> 02:20:46.399 Skip. How are you, sir, I'm good, I'm good, all right. 2583 02:20:47.239 --> 02:20:49.879 I wanted to talk to you about pictures that I 2584 02:20:49.959 --> 02:20:53.200 just sent in and it's with regards to mushrooms growing 2585 02:20:53.239 --> 02:20:57.559 on the lawn. And I'm not concerned about the growth 2586 02:20:57.559 --> 02:21:01.319 of the mushroom. My question is based on what you 2587 02:21:01.360 --> 02:21:05.200 see in the pictures. Are they poison us to our pets? 2588 02:21:08.079 --> 02:21:11.399 I cannot tell you that there are a number of 2589 02:21:11.479 --> 02:21:16.559 mushrooms that look like that. The ones that are sitting 2590 02:21:16.559 --> 02:21:20.760 on the stump in the picture, those are a shelf fungi. 2591 02:21:20.959 --> 02:21:23.600 They grow on logs in the forest, on the ground 2592 02:21:23.680 --> 02:21:27.079 and any dead wood. The others are coming out off 2593 02:21:27.159 --> 02:21:30.319 of most likely a tree route under the ground, under 2594 02:21:30.319 --> 02:21:33.239 the surface. But I just I'm not an expert at it, 2595 02:21:33.280 --> 02:21:36.920 and I wouldn't want to guess, and you wouldn't want 2596 02:21:36.959 --> 02:21:37.200 me to go. 2597 02:21:37.280 --> 02:21:41.280 Okay, now they are growing, although you can't see it 2598 02:21:41.360 --> 02:21:44.280 in the picture. There's another stump. I took two trees 2599 02:21:44.319 --> 02:21:49.239 down through four years ago, and those are the matter 2600 02:21:49.319 --> 02:21:54.319 coming up the Obviously the roots have started to decay 2601 02:21:54.840 --> 02:21:56.719 and so therefore we're getting the mushroom right. 2602 02:21:57.000 --> 02:21:58.959 So, but I was just curious if you. 2603 02:21:59.239 --> 02:22:03.239 Might have been to recognize them as you know, an 2604 02:22:03.239 --> 02:22:05.280 issue for you know, for our pets. 2605 02:22:07.000 --> 02:22:10.360 I would pop them, pop them up and get rid 2606 02:22:10.360 --> 02:22:11.440 of them, just to be safe. 2607 02:22:12.120 --> 02:22:15.120 They're gone, yes, sir. They come up so fast that 2608 02:22:15.200 --> 02:22:16.680 they are gone. Uh. 2609 02:22:16.719 --> 02:22:19.719 And the second question does go back to what you've 2610 02:22:19.719 --> 02:22:22.440 been talking about a lot today on the take all, 2611 02:22:23.959 --> 02:22:26.239 I have a forest fire out in my backyard now 2612 02:22:26.319 --> 02:22:31.000 with this stuff, and so I realize I can't undo dead. 2613 02:22:31.639 --> 02:22:33.959 But what I My question is if I go in 2614 02:22:34.079 --> 02:22:40.280 with that zos drillbon I presume it's a spray. Am 2615 02:22:40.319 --> 02:22:44.680 I spraying the lawn that's unaffected, or am I spraying 2616 02:22:44.680 --> 02:22:47.479 it on the area that's been attacked. 2617 02:22:49.280 --> 02:22:51.959 There's really not a need to treat everything in the lawn, 2618 02:22:52.159 --> 02:22:57.760 but you can. Uh so take all is an opportunist 2619 02:22:57.799 --> 02:23:02.520 disease that that is especially bad and the grass gets 2620 02:23:02.600 --> 02:23:05.280 weak and it's easy for the take all to move in. 2621 02:23:06.520 --> 02:23:09.959 That's the way I can't areas where you know, this 2622 02:23:10.120 --> 02:23:14.600 grass is lush and greatt been on the schedule for years, 2623 02:23:14.680 --> 02:23:18.319 so i'd here too. Obviously you can miss it by 2624 02:23:18.319 --> 02:23:21.639 a week or three. But on the most part, and 2625 02:23:21.840 --> 02:23:25.799 to put the eagle down as I do usually about 2626 02:23:25.799 --> 02:23:28.000 twice a year, you know, based on the scheduling. 2627 02:23:29.239 --> 02:23:31.440 And so yes, it's far and it's. 2628 02:23:31.280 --> 02:23:36.639 Not being overwatered or underwatered by my calculations. But anyway, 2629 02:23:36.680 --> 02:23:40.479 once it's just spread like wildfire, you. 2630 02:23:40.440 --> 02:23:43.440 Know, chuck, maybe it may not be take all root right, 2631 02:23:43.559 --> 02:23:46.200 I mean, I don't. There's no way for me to know. 2632 02:23:46.399 --> 02:23:48.120 The only way for a year, no, for sure, would 2633 02:23:48.120 --> 02:23:50.760 be to take a four by four, four by six 2634 02:23:50.879 --> 02:23:54.799 inch section of grass that is sick, not dead, it's 2635 02:23:54.840 --> 02:23:57.600 showing and send it up to the State plank Clinic 2636 02:23:57.639 --> 02:23:59.600 and have them identify it positively. 2637 02:24:00.239 --> 02:24:00.520 Uh. 2638 02:24:00.639 --> 02:24:04.360 The eagle has some activity against take all root rot. 2639 02:24:04.760 --> 02:24:09.559 It does primarily we recommend it for the brown patch 2640 02:24:09.639 --> 02:24:12.399 issues that are out there, but it does have some 2641 02:24:12.440 --> 02:24:16.520 activity on take all. But the azoxystrobin is just you know, 2642 02:24:16.559 --> 02:24:19.319 it's probably the one best there. There are some other 2643 02:24:19.360 --> 02:24:22.399 options and on my schedule propaconnasoles also on there. That 2644 02:24:22.479 --> 02:24:23.000 works on. 2645 02:24:23.440 --> 02:24:24.399 Right that. 2646 02:24:26.239 --> 02:24:28.760 So well, I'll go ahead, well you know, I mean, 2647 02:24:28.959 --> 02:24:33.559 and you know, preventative maintenance will say. And in the meantime, 2648 02:24:33.559 --> 02:24:35.719 you've got to figure out, you know, how I can 2649 02:24:35.760 --> 02:24:41.040 get this thing looked at so accurately you diagnosed. 2650 02:24:42.719 --> 02:24:45.680 I see take all where the grass is stressed from 2651 02:24:45.719 --> 02:24:49.639 several things. One sole compaction can do that. Number two 2652 02:24:50.280 --> 02:24:54.879 shade can do that. Drought number three can do that. 2653 02:24:55.000 --> 02:24:58.159 And the other thing is when we misuse herbicides that 2654 02:24:58.200 --> 02:25:00.479 are a little hard on Saint Augustine, in which some 2655 02:25:00.520 --> 02:25:02.920 of our broadly week killers are. In the temperatures warm, 2656 02:25:03.360 --> 02:25:05.719 we can weaken the Saint Augustine and then the take 2657 02:25:05.760 --> 02:25:08.399 all moves in because the grass has been weakened by 2658 02:25:08.440 --> 02:25:12.200 misapplication of the products. So there's a lot of ways 2659 02:25:12.200 --> 02:25:16.200 you can get there to have the problem, but a 2660 02:25:16.200 --> 02:25:19.959 good diagnosis, you know. I mean, I'm taking your word 2661 02:25:20.000 --> 02:25:22.879 for it. That's what looks like. But I think if 2662 02:25:22.920 --> 02:25:24.760 you're looking at the value of the lawn and the 2663 02:25:24.799 --> 02:25:27.120 cost of replacing things, it may be worth you going 2664 02:25:27.120 --> 02:25:29.159 ahead and sending a sample up to the steak plant 2665 02:25:29.200 --> 02:25:31.959 clinic making sure you're on the right path, because it 2666 02:25:31.959 --> 02:25:35.840 sounds like you're doing everything right of the you know, Otherwise. 2667 02:25:36.399 --> 02:25:39.399 I don't know if it's we're doing the best can 2668 02:25:39.840 --> 02:25:40.200 all right? 2669 02:25:43.440 --> 02:25:44.000 All right, man? 2670 02:25:44.360 --> 02:25:49.360 Well so much, all right, thank you, appreciate, appreciate that 2671 02:25:49.479 --> 02:25:49.840 very much. 2672 02:25:50.479 --> 02:25:50.600 Uh. 2673 02:25:51.000 --> 02:25:55.120 Enchanted Gardens is out in the Richmond Rosenberg area. It's 2674 02:25:55.159 --> 02:25:57.920 on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond. So if you're 2675 02:25:57.959 --> 02:26:03.760 down in Richmond Rosenberg, you go up toward Katie Fulscher. 2676 02:26:04.360 --> 02:26:07.520 It's kind of where FM seven twenty three and three 2677 02:26:07.680 --> 02:26:10.440 fifty nine come together. Now, the easiest thing to do 2678 02:26:10.559 --> 02:26:12.879 is just write down the website, because you'll want the 2679 02:26:12.920 --> 02:26:17.319 website for a lot of other reasons. Enchanted Gardens Richmond 2680 02:26:17.760 --> 02:26:21.879 dot com, Enchended Gardens Richmond dot com you can be 2681 02:26:22.000 --> 02:26:25.159 part of getting newsletter information from them. From the website. 2682 02:26:25.159 --> 02:26:27.319 It's got maps how to get everywhere. It tells you 2683 02:26:27.360 --> 02:26:30.280 what's going on there, what's happening you know, and there 2684 02:26:30.399 --> 02:26:35.040 always is something happening up in Enchanted Gardens up in 2685 02:26:35.079 --> 02:26:38.799 the Richmond Rosenberg area right now. They are set up 2686 02:26:38.840 --> 02:26:42.280 for the holidays, lots of cool season color for your landscapes. 2687 02:26:42.760 --> 02:26:46.680 The gift shops are just loaded with curl, cool stuff, 2688 02:26:46.760 --> 02:26:50.040 cruel stuff. You need to get your onions, well, they've 2689 02:26:50.120 --> 02:26:52.680 got you set up for that. You want some beautiful 2690 02:26:52.719 --> 02:26:56.239 topiary types of junipers and whatnot, they've got that there. 2691 02:26:56.760 --> 02:26:59.760 Santa Claus will be there on December seventh from ten 2692 02:27:00.280 --> 02:27:03.239 to two pm, and it's a good time to get 2693 02:27:03.280 --> 02:27:06.159 out there and check them out. While you're there, though, 2694 02:27:06.440 --> 02:27:09.840 please pick up some cool season color. They still have 2695 02:27:10.000 --> 02:27:14.840 moms around out there. They've got Dianthus that is just 2696 02:27:15.319 --> 02:27:20.840 absolutely gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous, as well as other cool season plants. 2697 02:27:20.959 --> 02:27:25.559 Enchanted Gardens Richmond on FM three point fifty nine the 2698 02:27:25.639 --> 02:27:29.159 Katie fulsher Side of Richmond. They're open Monday through Saturday 2699 02:27:29.200 --> 02:27:31.600 eight to five, So today this afternoon be a good 2700 02:27:31.600 --> 02:27:34.559 time to get out there Sunday tomorrow. They're open from 2701 02:27:34.600 --> 02:27:37.280 ten am to four pm. And you know when you 2702 02:27:37.360 --> 02:27:39.600 go there, you're going to find the fertilizers I talk 2703 02:27:39.600 --> 02:27:42.879 about on Guardline. You're going to find expert advice that 2704 02:27:43.079 --> 02:27:45.360 will guide you in the right direction to have a 2705 02:27:45.360 --> 02:27:50.399 beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape. Two, I'm going to 2706 02:27:50.440 --> 02:27:52.559 have to stop and go to a break here. When 2707 02:27:52.600 --> 02:27:54.959 we come back, Glenn and Baytown, you will be the 2708 02:27:55.040 --> 02:27:57.639 first caller up. Hey, welcome back to Guardline. Good to 2709 02:27:57.680 --> 02:28:00.200 have you with us. We are here to answer your 2710 02:28:00.360 --> 02:28:04.120 gardening questions. We're going to go out to the phones 2711 02:28:04.120 --> 02:28:07.639 here and talk to Glenn in Baytown. Hey, Glenn, welcome 2712 02:28:07.639 --> 02:28:08.440 to garden Line. 2713 02:28:09.239 --> 02:28:11.959 Good morning. Sure, I don't know whether this is a 2714 02:28:12.000 --> 02:28:15.719 garden question or not. I have a U tree going 2715 02:28:15.799 --> 02:28:18.479 by the corner of my house. It's about thirty five 2716 02:28:18.520 --> 02:28:22.239 feet tall. It's a beautiful tree. It's very slender, but 2717 02:28:22.360 --> 02:28:26.440 it's leaning about twenty degrees. After this last little windstorm 2718 02:28:26.479 --> 02:28:29.280 we had here a few weeks ago, the tree is 2719 02:28:29.399 --> 02:28:33.840 leaning about I'd say twenty degrees. Is there a way 2720 02:28:34.000 --> 02:28:36.799 the roots are being pulled up on the one side. 2721 02:28:37.360 --> 02:28:39.120 Is there a way to straighten the tree up or 2722 02:28:39.159 --> 02:28:40.200 should I cut it down? 2723 02:28:41.840 --> 02:28:42.040 Ah? 2724 02:28:42.120 --> 02:28:44.280 Boy, I hate to cut one down. That's you said, 2725 02:28:44.360 --> 02:28:46.079 you right, it's a U. 2726 02:28:46.079 --> 02:28:50.600 Yeah, and it's a beautiful tree. It's real tall and slender. 2727 02:28:52.520 --> 02:28:54.799 Probably got a good sized trunk at the base right 2728 02:28:55.280 --> 02:28:56.280 several inches. 2729 02:28:56.079 --> 02:29:00.680 Well, it's probably about eight inches across the diameter of 2730 02:29:00.719 --> 02:29:01.600 the base. 2731 02:29:03.799 --> 02:29:08.120 Problem. Yeah, you could pull it up into place and 2732 02:29:08.159 --> 02:29:11.719 then stake it. I might even pull it just a 2733 02:29:12.000 --> 02:29:14.360 little pass straight up, you know what I mean, because 2734 02:29:14.360 --> 02:29:16.920 it's going to sat backwards the way it has fallen. 2735 02:29:18.079 --> 02:29:21.280 But it takes a long time for new routes to 2736 02:29:21.399 --> 02:29:25.079 develop and to develop strength to hold that thing up. 2737 02:29:25.639 --> 02:29:28.879 So usually when when a plant gets more than about 2738 02:29:29.159 --> 02:29:31.840 a tree gets more than about three inches and trunk 2739 02:29:31.920 --> 02:29:35.840 diameter and it's leaning, it's such a process and a 2740 02:29:35.879 --> 02:29:39.760 time consuming one to try to get it dependably and 2741 02:29:39.959 --> 02:29:45.959 strongly established in an upright position. Again that we. 2742 02:29:46.879 --> 02:29:49.680 Dig out one side so I could pull it back. 2743 02:29:52.319 --> 02:29:56.360 If you had rain that washed yeah, if you had 2744 02:29:56.399 --> 02:29:59.239 some water wash underneath there, If you could get underneath 2745 02:29:59.280 --> 02:30:01.200 it a little bit and gets soil out, that's helpful. 2746 02:30:01.200 --> 02:30:03.840 And here's why, because when when soul washes in now 2747 02:30:03.840 --> 02:30:05.760 when you try to straighten it, that's like a little 2748 02:30:05.799 --> 02:30:08.959 folkrum point like on a seesaw, where it can actually 2749 02:30:09.239 --> 02:30:12.440 cause breaking of roots. But I can't see it there. 2750 02:30:13.920 --> 02:30:16.479 I would just you know, try to pull it up 2751 02:30:16.520 --> 02:30:19.319 into place, but you're gonna have to hold that, hold 2752 02:30:19.360 --> 02:30:20.760 it in place for a long time. 2753 02:30:21.680 --> 02:30:22.600 And I would. 2754 02:30:24.360 --> 02:30:30.040 You know if you had something. Yeah, I understand, and 2755 02:30:30.159 --> 02:30:33.280 I don't blame you for not wanting to. You know, 2756 02:30:33.360 --> 02:30:35.920 you can print them off and they'll re sprout and 2757 02:30:35.959 --> 02:30:38.120 go back up again. It's going to look real weird 2758 02:30:38.159 --> 02:30:40.959 for a while. You could cut it back shorter so 2759 02:30:41.040 --> 02:30:44.559 that at least you're not fighting a thirty foot tall 2760 02:30:44.760 --> 02:30:48.280 sail in the wind right, and then that would give 2761 02:30:48.280 --> 02:30:51.159 it time to establish as it tries to regrow, and 2762 02:30:51.319 --> 02:30:53.520 use will take off back straight up again. They're not 2763 02:30:53.520 --> 02:30:55.799 going to start growing sideways because you cut them off. 2764 02:30:56.159 --> 02:30:58.799 So ignn option. 2765 02:31:00.760 --> 02:31:03.760 Okay, as tall as it is, how far should I 2766 02:31:03.799 --> 02:31:05.959 go down before I cut the top out of it? 2767 02:31:07.600 --> 02:31:12.280 You know that's going to tell you. I mean, yeah, okay, 2768 02:31:12.399 --> 02:31:16.319 if you cut it, if you cut half of it, yeah, 2769 02:31:16.319 --> 02:31:18.760 that's kind of a medium way. And I realize here, 2770 02:31:19.280 --> 02:31:21.440 we don't have a good solution to your problem. So 2771 02:31:21.479 --> 02:31:24.760 we're given the best, not good solutions, right, Yeah, and 2772 02:31:24.879 --> 02:31:27.079 you know, staking is not a great solution, but it 2773 02:31:27.120 --> 02:31:29.719 can be done. Cutting it off is not a great solution, 2774 02:31:29.920 --> 02:31:32.760 but it does help in the sense of it. Now 2775 02:31:32.799 --> 02:31:35.120 you're not fighting against so much of a sail in 2776 02:31:35.159 --> 02:31:35.600 the wind. 2777 02:31:36.079 --> 02:31:36.440 While it. 2778 02:31:37.959 --> 02:31:39.959 Is true because it's your eats thin at the top 2779 02:31:40.040 --> 02:31:43.079 and when the wind blows, it leans and I may 2780 02:31:43.239 --> 02:31:47.079 just have to cut the dog on thing down. Okay, Skip, 2781 02:31:47.159 --> 02:31:48.280 I appreciate your help. 2782 02:31:49.920 --> 02:31:54.159 All right, Well, if you cut it back, I would 2783 02:31:54.239 --> 02:31:56.159 you know what I'd do, I'd call Martin Spoon Moore 2784 02:31:56.280 --> 02:31:58.280 from Affordable Tree because he could come out and take 2785 02:31:58.319 --> 02:32:00.760 a look at it and make a suggestion. He may, 2786 02:32:00.879 --> 02:32:02.959 when he's on site, be able to take a look 2787 02:32:03.000 --> 02:32:05.639 and go, you know what I think you should you 2788 02:32:05.639 --> 02:32:08.159 know fill in the blank. He may, he'll have he'll 2789 02:32:08.200 --> 02:32:10.719 have some kind of of an opinion. 2790 02:32:10.479 --> 02:32:13.479 About that, his Affordable Trees. 2791 02:32:15.440 --> 02:32:20.200 Yes, Affordable Tree Service, Martin Spoon, Martin Spoon More. And 2792 02:32:20.280 --> 02:32:24.520 here's the phone number seven to one three six nine 2793 02:32:25.479 --> 02:32:32.319 six nine nine six six three two six six. Now 2794 02:32:33.360 --> 02:32:37.639 I you're way down in Baytown, so yeah, I haven't 2795 02:32:37.639 --> 02:32:40.559 talked to Martin. Yeah, I haven't talked to Martin about 2796 02:32:40.639 --> 02:32:41.879 you know, how far I do you go? He may 2797 02:32:41.920 --> 02:32:43.959 go that far and then some I don't know, but 2798 02:32:44.120 --> 02:32:48.399 just be aware. I'm just saying that that you're perfectly 2799 02:32:49.360 --> 02:32:51.479 I would talk to him though, because he he is 2800 02:32:51.559 --> 02:32:54.200 very knowledgeable and at the very least he'll be able 2801 02:32:54.200 --> 02:32:56.040 to give you some thoughts and guidance, and he may 2802 02:32:56.079 --> 02:32:57.399 even be able to come out and take a look 2803 02:32:57.399 --> 02:32:57.840 at that one. 2804 02:32:58.360 --> 02:33:01.120 All right, Okay, I appreciate make sure, thank you have 2805 02:33:01.159 --> 02:33:01.799 a great date. 2806 02:33:01.920 --> 02:33:05.159 All right, thank you, Yeah, you too, Thanks for the call. 2807 02:33:05.760 --> 02:33:11.079 I appreciate that. Bye bye. When it comes to quality soil, 2808 02:33:11.760 --> 02:33:16.000 Nature's Way Resources pretty much wrote the book. When you 2809 02:33:16.079 --> 02:33:18.360 start looking at things like you hear me talk about 2810 02:33:18.399 --> 02:33:21.159 oh leaf bowl compost, it's so great. It was born 2811 02:33:21.200 --> 02:33:25.280 at Nature's way, Rose soil, it was born at Nature's Way. 2812 02:33:25.440 --> 02:33:28.319 I mean they for a long time now, they've been 2813 02:33:28.399 --> 02:33:33.840 leading the industry and producing high quality organic soil materials 2814 02:33:33.879 --> 02:33:38.159 and mulches to help you have the foundation for success 2815 02:33:38.200 --> 02:33:42.120 in your gardens and landscapes. They still have Fungal Friday 2816 02:33:42.200 --> 02:33:47.159 sales every Friday, twenty percent off their fungal compost fungle 2817 02:33:47.200 --> 02:33:49.600 based compost. That's also good for top dressing too, by 2818 02:33:49.600 --> 02:33:52.520 the way, works really well for that. But Nature's Way 2819 02:33:52.520 --> 02:33:56.639 Resources is on the way to Conro, going up forty 2820 02:33:56.680 --> 02:34:01.000 five right where fourteen eighty eight comes in from the west. 2821 02:34:01.120 --> 02:34:03.760 Then you just turn right, cross over the railroad tracks 2822 02:34:04.120 --> 02:34:07.399 and that's Sherbrookes Circle you get. You hit Sherbrookes Circle, 2823 02:34:07.520 --> 02:34:10.680 right across the tracks, turn right and that's Nature's Way. 2824 02:34:11.239 --> 02:34:14.000 You can order it to be delivered. You can go 2825 02:34:14.120 --> 02:34:16.399 pick it up in your truck or trailer. You can 2826 02:34:16.440 --> 02:34:19.239 go pick it up in bags. You can purchase bags. 2827 02:34:19.319 --> 02:34:22.360 It's some of our garden Center's feed store type places 2828 02:34:22.479 --> 02:34:25.159 around the Greater Houston area. Any way you want to 2829 02:34:25.159 --> 02:34:28.840 go about it. Here's the phone number nine three six 2830 02:34:29.879 --> 02:34:33.719 two seven three twelve hundred nine three six two seven 2831 02:34:33.760 --> 02:34:39.719 three twelve hundred Nature's Way Resources. Again. When you go there, 2832 02:34:39.879 --> 02:34:43.280 you know you're getting quality products that you know are 2833 02:34:43.319 --> 02:34:46.200 going to work, that you know are going to help 2834 02:34:46.239 --> 02:34:49.959 you have success because you've taken my advice and you've 2835 02:34:50.000 --> 02:34:53.520 taken care of the brown stuff before you bring in 2836 02:34:53.559 --> 02:34:57.079 and plant all the green stuff. That's how things work. 2837 02:34:57.120 --> 02:35:02.879 Here's the website Nature's Way Resources dot com, Nature's Way 2838 02:35:03.799 --> 02:35:08.680 Resources dot com. We're going to head now to Chris 2839 02:35:08.840 --> 02:35:12.559 in Mont Bellevue. Hello Chris, Welcome to garden Line. 2840 02:35:13.879 --> 02:35:17.639 Hey Chip, I got the east side represented this morning. 2841 02:35:17.760 --> 02:35:21.959 Sounds like over at Mont Belleview. So this is for 2842 02:35:22.200 --> 02:35:28.159 Saint Augustine dress. I have okay, yellow patches, and I 2843 02:35:28.239 --> 02:35:31.840 looked online a little bit and saying fungus and all that, 2844 02:35:32.000 --> 02:35:34.200 you know, twenty four x spots, but these are feet, 2845 02:35:35.600 --> 02:35:39.760 you know, such as five ten feet and kind of spreading. 2846 02:35:39.920 --> 02:35:42.360 So just kind of wondering if that's a fungo deal 2847 02:35:42.479 --> 02:35:42.639 or what. 2848 02:35:44.920 --> 02:35:48.120 So when when you look at the grass, describe it 2849 02:35:48.159 --> 02:35:50.280 again to me in terms of shape and color and 2850 02:35:50.319 --> 02:35:51.159 how it progresses. 2851 02:35:54.000 --> 02:35:57.959 Well, but I had to say Saint Augustine. And originally 2852 02:35:58.000 --> 02:36:01.600 they were small yellow patches, not brown, but yellow, kind 2853 02:36:01.600 --> 02:36:05.879 of frosting almost on the tips. But it's kind of 2854 02:36:05.959 --> 02:36:11.680 embedded in the whole grass now and it's spread out 2855 02:36:11.760 --> 02:36:17.760 into five ten foot patches now, but now kind of 2856 02:36:17.799 --> 02:36:20.079 in the center it seems to be getting brown. So 2857 02:36:20.879 --> 02:36:24.319 in the you know, in the kind of center to speak. 2858 02:36:25.000 --> 02:36:26.799 Well, I'm not going to be able to give you 2859 02:36:26.840 --> 02:36:30.479 a positive ID based on me trying to picture what 2860 02:36:30.520 --> 02:36:34.520 you're seeing it. I think there's a good chance that 2861 02:36:34.879 --> 02:36:39.600 you're looking at brown patch also called now large patch. 2862 02:36:39.639 --> 02:36:43.239 It typically you see it as big brown circles in 2863 02:36:43.280 --> 02:36:46.000 the yard, but it can be kind of irregular, and 2864 02:36:46.040 --> 02:36:48.680 I've depending on the kind of grass and the conditions, 2865 02:36:48.719 --> 02:36:51.360 the soule moisture of the nutrient, you know, high nitrogen, 2866 02:36:51.440 --> 02:36:56.079 low nitrogen, whatever it can it's not always just a 2867 02:36:56.159 --> 02:36:59.600 round circle. But I think that's what you're looking at. 2868 02:37:00.280 --> 02:37:05.200 The Eagle turf fungicide by nitrofoss will stop will stop 2869 02:37:05.239 --> 02:37:08.600 it from progressing. But just know that if you applied 2870 02:37:08.639 --> 02:37:11.639 Eagle today you would see a little more of it 2871 02:37:11.719 --> 02:37:15.000 happening just because it was already in process when you 2872 02:37:15.040 --> 02:37:18.799 put the Eagle down, right, But it protects grass from 2873 02:37:18.920 --> 02:37:22.559 getting the disease. That it's a it's a preventative, not 2874 02:37:22.680 --> 02:37:26.000 a not something you that makes the brown circles turn 2875 02:37:26.079 --> 02:37:28.879 green real quick. It'll green back up though when the 2876 02:37:28.920 --> 02:37:30.360 weather warms up in spring. 2877 02:37:31.719 --> 02:37:36.079 Okay, so is this contagious so to speak? I got 2878 02:37:36.399 --> 02:37:39.319 basically one last morning to do. So should I apply 2879 02:37:39.479 --> 02:37:41.559 that first or mow or it doesn't matter? 2880 02:37:44.680 --> 02:37:47.559 Well, the spores spread, But I mean you could have 2881 02:37:47.600 --> 02:37:49.520 a lawn that had none of it, and all of 2882 02:37:49.559 --> 02:37:51.600 a sudden you got it showing up all the You know, 2883 02:37:51.639 --> 02:37:53.719 it's kind of ubiquitous in terms of being able to 2884 02:37:53.760 --> 02:37:57.159 get around. I would I wouldn't worry about it. I'd 2885 02:37:57.159 --> 02:37:58.600 mo as you need to mow. I guess if you 2886 02:37:58.639 --> 02:38:00.840 could mow that part last, probably be a little better 2887 02:38:00.879 --> 02:38:03.639 to do that. But you know that's not that's not 2888 02:38:03.680 --> 02:38:07.319 something we usually worry about. I would suggest that you 2889 02:38:07.479 --> 02:38:11.639 just go ahead and make sure that when you when 2890 02:38:11.680 --> 02:38:14.680 you do mo go, you go ahead and get that 2891 02:38:14.840 --> 02:38:17.680 final moing done at a good height. And then if 2892 02:38:17.719 --> 02:38:19.760 you want to put down the eagle to prevent spread 2893 02:38:19.799 --> 02:38:23.559 of it, and just realize that the leaves have been 2894 02:38:23.680 --> 02:38:25.879 rided off the runner. That's why I turned yellow and 2895 02:38:25.920 --> 02:38:28.159 that's why it then turns to brown. And so it's 2896 02:38:28.159 --> 02:38:30.239 just going to take some time. We'll have to have 2897 02:38:30.360 --> 02:38:33.719 some warm weather for the wand to start looking good again. Okay, 2898 02:38:34.959 --> 02:38:38.799 it' alrighty, Hey, I hear music. That means I got 2899 02:38:38.799 --> 02:38:41.120 to quit talking. Thanks for the call, appreciate it.