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Speaker 4: Are you there all right? Thanks for joining in. Listen.
Speaker 4: We have got a lot of gardening to talk about
Speaker 4: today and I'm looking forward to doing it. I have
Speaker 4: been really busy outside myself this week, and I've got
Speaker 4: a lot of plans to get a lot more done.
Speaker 4: We are finally getting some of that fall weather. I know,
Speaker 4: the next couple of days and not quite fall, but close.
Speaker 4: But boy, this coming week it is cooling off nicely.
Speaker 4: In fact, it's the next two weeks really just what
Speaker 4: they say, the kind of weather that just makes you
Speaker 4: want to go about, not want to go back inside,
Speaker 4: you know, Chamber of commerce weather, U and I would say,
Speaker 4: gardening weather. It's going to be. The temperatures are gonna
Speaker 4: be mild enough, a little bit crispy. Just to kind
Speaker 4: of help us forget that there was this thing called summer.
Speaker 4: We just somehow survived for the last what was it
Speaker 4: ten months? It felt like it. Hey, I'm your host,
Speaker 4: Skip Richter, and if you would like to give me
Speaker 4: a call this morning on guarden Line seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two k t r H. Seven to one
Speaker 4: three two one two k t r H. We love
Speaker 4: feed stores here on guard Line and League City Feed
Speaker 4: down in League City is quintessential feedstore. It's one of
Speaker 4: the old time feedsure. It's been around since gosh, over
Speaker 4: forty years ago. I believe League City Feed was created
Speaker 4: in a place where there used to be an Okra patch.
Speaker 4: Now anything that starts in an Okra patch can't go wrong, right,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm biased toward Okra. But anyway, the grandfather
Speaker 4: built it over forty years ago and the Thunderberg's family
Speaker 4: is still running League City Feed the old time service.
Speaker 4: They carry the bags out for you and you know
Speaker 4: when you go in there. First of all, it's feed store,
Speaker 4: so you got quality feeds, especially things like feeds for
Speaker 4: your pets are there. But when you go in, your
Speaker 4: lawn and garden is going to get fed too because
Speaker 4: they have the exact fertilizers that you hear me promote
Speaker 4: here on garden Line, things like nitrofoss products, azomite, Microlife,
Speaker 4: Nelson plant food. You see what I'm saying. They also
Speaker 4: carry the things you need to control pests, weeds and diseases.
Speaker 4: So when you go in there and come out, you're
Speaker 4: going to you just find in terms of getting your
Speaker 4: place looking really good. Again, the phone number is two
Speaker 4: eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Give you that again.
Speaker 4: Two eight one three three two one six one two.
Speaker 4: Open Monday through Saturday nine to six. You can swing
Speaker 4: by there after work and closed on Sunday. League City
Speaker 4: Feed everything that you would need. By the way, they
Speaker 4: if you are anywhere near League City, el coming to Reale,
Speaker 4: Santa Fe, San Leone, Lamark Baycliff, Webster, you get the
Speaker 4: idea Dickinson, clear Lake City, Well, just head over the
Speaker 4: League City. It's your hometown feed store there Highway three,
Speaker 4: just a few blocks south the Highway ninety six in
Speaker 4: League City. We do love feed stores. I like to
Speaker 4: smell deal. Do you agree with that? You know, you
Speaker 4: go into a feed store and there's just this I
Speaker 4: don't know. I guess it's the primarily the smell of
Speaker 4: the feed that you're smelling, and it just it just
Speaker 4: is earthy, and I enjoy it. I love that love
Speaker 4: that place. I was checking out plans for all seasons recently,
Speaker 4: and you know plants for all seasons is they've been
Speaker 4: around since nineteen seventy three. The Flowery family built that
Speaker 4: a long long time ago, and they have not only
Speaker 4: survived the years, they have thrived, and just more and
Speaker 4: more people recognized that they are the place to go
Speaker 4: for that area. You go in, you take samples, you
Speaker 4: take questions. You know, maybe what's this bug? It may
Speaker 4: be what would be a good rose bush from my
Speaker 4: front yard. They can answer them because they are gardeners
Speaker 4: in the area themselves, and they have been for decades.
Speaker 4: Anything that's happening seasonally, it's going to be happening there
Speaker 4: at well at up plants for all seasons. For example,
Speaker 4: they got the onions in the ten fifteen. That's a
Speaker 4: big old white yellow or excuse me, yellow onion. That's
Speaker 4: just so sweet. They've got red creoles. I grew some
Speaker 4: of those last year. Excellent, excellent onion, white mudas just
Speaker 4: ready to go in your gardens. Time to go ahead
Speaker 4: and get those things out, So get it done. If
Speaker 4: you need bulbs, you know, the one shot wonder things
Speaker 4: like the tulips and hyacinths and things that are so gorgeous.
Speaker 4: You can just create a really beautiful bull bed. You're
Speaker 4: gonna want to take them in and put them in
Speaker 4: your fridge, keep them around, and so right as you
Speaker 4: get to the end of the Christmas season, that would
Speaker 4: be a good time to stick those bulbs in the
Speaker 4: ground because they're gonna pop up. They're gonna bloom and
Speaker 4: look really good. Other holiday decorations like holiday cactus that
Speaker 4: just looks stunning right now, they're beautiful. I have so
Speaker 4: many of them. Every year I buy one. Now I've
Speaker 4: probably got eight of them, and I just keep buying
Speaker 4: more because I love those things. The kind of hot
Speaker 4: I'll say new plan me. It's been around a long time,
Speaker 4: but lately the adenium, the desert rows. Oh it looks
Speaker 4: so good. And they've got those there, but of course
Speaker 4: they do. They have everything there. Plants for all Seasons.
Speaker 4: They're on Highway two Ford, just north of Luetta. Plants
Speaker 4: for All Seasons dot Com. Here's the number two eight
Speaker 4: one three, seven six sixteen forty six. We're going to
Speaker 4: go ahead and head out to the phones this morning.
Speaker 4: Seven one three two one two k t R H.
Speaker 4: And we're going to head out to Cove and talk
Speaker 4: to Dennis. Hello, Dennis, welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 5: Thank you Skip. I have a magnolia tree and I
Speaker 5: sent some pictures where I have leaves turning brown, and
Speaker 5: I suspect it's from the lack of rain. We were
Speaker 5: gone a lot of October, so it didn't get any
Speaker 5: rain in that period. But when I got back it
Speaker 5: looked fine, and then of course we had some rain recently,
Speaker 5: but it's kind of right after that rain that it
Speaker 5: started turning brown. So if you can see from the pictures,
Speaker 5: it's got sort of three main branches off of the tree.
Speaker 5: One of them's almost all brown, and then there's a
Speaker 5: closer pick sure that shows several leaves, and then a
Speaker 5: close up a one leaf that's like part ground. So
Speaker 5: that's what I'm asking if you can tail from the
Speaker 5: pictures if that's just drought stress or if there's you know,
Speaker 5: something that magnolia trees get that that might be what
Speaker 5: it is.
Speaker 4: Well, Dennis, is not a disease of the leaves. The
Speaker 4: way of drowning is occurring. It's if anything, it may
Speaker 4: be something going on with a plumbing of the plant,
Speaker 4: meaning anything that restricts the water flow up to the top.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: That could be cut roots, it could be a rod,
Speaker 4: It could be lack of water in the soil. It
Speaker 4: could be some sort of a borer that's disrupting that
Speaker 4: flow by cutting the tubes going from the top to
Speaker 4: the bottom or from the bottom of the top. I
Speaker 4: don't think it's a bore, but that is very unusual,
Speaker 4: not a common symptom to see. I would for right
Speaker 4: now now just kind of go out and check the water,
Speaker 4: make sure something didn't going on there, you know, weird
Speaker 4: it's happened like a water line break or something you
Speaker 4: know that's leaking, and uh, just look for something really unusual,
Speaker 4: and if not, I would just kind of wait and
Speaker 4: watch on it because I don't see any symptoms that
Speaker 4: are treatable. So just make sure that you know that
Speaker 4: it has water, but something else weird is and going
Speaker 4: on underground.
Speaker 5: Okay about it? All right, Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: All right, sir, you bet going back. If anything develops
Speaker 4: any any further on it, be happy to do that.
Speaker 4: All right, folks, I'm gonna have to run to a
Speaker 4: break right here. I'll be right back if you'd like
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Speaker 7: Thanks yep. Quick question, Carolina sapphires typis would it tolerates
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Speaker 4: It can take the heat. Uh. You just want any
Speaker 4: kind of a cypress or juniper or thing like that.
Speaker 4: You want to make sure they get adequate drainage and
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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, thanks for the call. Appreciate that you
Speaker 4: take care sure by all right, Willis, Texas. I used
Speaker 4: to have a peach orchard in Willis, Texas. That's right,
Speaker 4: I did. It wasn't a big one. It was like
Speaker 4: two acres something like that, but oh my goodness, and
Speaker 4: we had strawber patch two half acres of strawberries. Pick
Speaker 4: your own. Boy, it makes my mouthwater just remember in
Speaker 4: those days. That was that was fun. I learned a
Speaker 4: lot of things. You know. It's one thing to go
Speaker 4: to go to school and get a degree in something
Speaker 4: like horticulture. You know that that's good. I mean, you
Speaker 4: learn a lot of good stuff. Then when you get
Speaker 4: out there and start doing it, when you become a
Speaker 4: when you are a gardener and you garden all the
Speaker 4: time and every year throws your curve, and then you
Speaker 4: actually go through the process. So what does it take
Speaker 4: to clearland and plant peaches and put in irrigation and
Speaker 4: take care of them and deal with things. We learn
Speaker 4: a lot that way. That's a fun thing about gardening.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite things is it's it's never boring.
Speaker 4: It's always something new. You may hope it would get
Speaker 4: boring every now and then, but it just doesn't. It
Speaker 4: doesn't because because you're always learning. There's some new pest
Speaker 4: that arrives. There's something like, you know, you grow a
Speaker 4: tomato for five years in a row, and no two
Speaker 4: years are the same. One year this disease or that
Speaker 4: disease may hit or the year you know, we just
Speaker 4: made deluges of rain that are coming down and you're
Speaker 4: dealing with and it's just it's always something different, and
Speaker 4: it just makes it kind of fun and exciting. It
Speaker 4: is definitely not cookie cutter when you're dealing with nature,
Speaker 4: the the changes, the things that are going on. It
Speaker 4: is not like engineering where you add your numbers right,
Speaker 4: you get your angles right, and everything works like it's
Speaker 4: supposed to. Gardening. What do they say, the vicissitudes of nature.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's too early for using crazy new world like words,
Speaker 4: but vicissitudes of nature is so true when it comes
Speaker 4: to garden. But that's what makes it fun. That's what
Speaker 4: makes it fun. It's always new, it's always hopeful. If
Speaker 4: you got plants you're looking at right now and you
Speaker 4: don't like they're ugly, they're dying, or something's going on
Speaker 4: with them, it's okay, pull them up, put some new
Speaker 4: ones in. You can do that. That we do a lot.
Speaker 4: To be a good gardener. You've got to kill a
Speaker 4: lot of plants. How about that. I'm giving you permission
Speaker 4: to kill plants. That's not what you expect when you
Speaker 4: listen to a gardening show. But it's okay. We can
Speaker 4: replace them, you know when it comes to success. So
Speaker 4: with plants, you want to set the foundation. And I
Speaker 4: say all the time, brown stuff before green stuff, which
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Speaker 4: you don't put a lot out. It goes a long way.
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Speaker 4: to twelve thousand square feet. You know, in my vegetable garden,
Speaker 4: probably ten pounds over one thousand square feets about all
Speaker 4: I put out. But I'm telling you, when you create
Speaker 4: the bank account, then three hundred and sixty five days
Speaker 4: of the year, plants need nutrients. They need a variety
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Speaker 4: does every day, they're there for that. And that's what
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Speaker 4: find more information, it's time to get it out there
Speaker 4: on the lawns. If you haven't done it in a while,
Speaker 4: get it out there and get it done. Don't think
Speaker 4: of it as in place of your regular terf fertilizing,
Speaker 4: but think of it as a supplement to that by
Speaker 4: providing those trace minerals of micro nutrients I need to
Speaker 4: fertilize my own lawn. I've been so busy with some
Speaker 4: other projects that I haven't taken care of getting it fertilized.
Speaker 4: And get a little late for me, because normally I
Speaker 4: like to fertilize even earlier than this. But it's not
Speaker 4: too late to do that. Still time to go out
Speaker 4: and get that done, and I'll be doing that this week.
Speaker 4: In fact, that's one of the things that's on the list.
Speaker 4: How about you, We've got great weather to be outside.
Speaker 4: I hope you are thinking about the kinds of things
Speaker 4: that you might want to do out there in your gardens.
Speaker 4: Have you been out to Nelson Water Garden and Nursery recently?
Speaker 4: They're out in Katie, Texas. If you're in Houston going
Speaker 4: out west on ten, you just go all the way
Speaker 4: to Katie Fort Benn Road and you turn north. When
Speaker 4: you head north, it's not very far, just a little
Speaker 4: bit up the street there on the right hand side
Speaker 4: Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. Nursery and water Gardens. They've
Speaker 4: got unbelievable selection of plants. Now, they're known for the
Speaker 4: water gardens, nationally known really for their water gardens. They've
Speaker 4: been doing this longer just about anybody. They know how
Speaker 4: to do it. They even invented that disappearing fountain where
Speaker 4: the water comes out of the big beautiful vase and
Speaker 4: goes down the side and then recirculates. They invented that,
Speaker 4: and they know how to do it. Then they can
Speaker 4: create one for you, or they can take you know,
Speaker 4: they can say the pieces and parts and you can
Speaker 4: go home do it yourself. You want to do that,
Speaker 4: They're willing to go either way on that. They are
Speaker 4: loaded up on all kinds of beautiful plants. Right now,
Speaker 4: if you're going to go see somebody for Thanksgiving, maybe
Speaker 4: go to a mill, why not take them a house
Speaker 4: plant from Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. They have some beautiful,
Speaker 4: beautiful house plants. Right when you walk in the store,
Speaker 4: you have to walk past all of them, and it's
Speaker 4: just like, WHOA, I like houseplants that aren't just green.
Speaker 4: You know, there's some other colors or some varrogation in
Speaker 4: the leaves, and that's they got lots of that stuff.
Speaker 4: Make a really nice gift someone you're going over to
Speaker 4: have ambule with. You need color like cycloman and pansies,
Speaker 4: petunia or Viola's rather in there. They got that and
Speaker 4: this week, I believe it's on Wednesday. This week the
Speaker 4: Christmas trees arrived there and they got a nice variety
Speaker 4: of Christmas trees coming in. So take advantage of that.
Speaker 4: Also right down on the calendar for the kids on
Speaker 4: December seventh. December seventh, from nine to eleven am cookies
Speaker 4: with Santa. Santa showing up. The kids can come and
Speaker 4: enjoy the I have hot cocoa and cookies with the
Speaker 4: Big the Big Man himself. So go out and see
Speaker 4: Santa Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery Phone number seven one
Speaker 4: three two one two kt r Age seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two KTRH. Give me call if you got
Speaker 4: some questions and we will be glad to visit with
Speaker 4: you about those kinds of things. This week I was
Speaker 4: reorganizing my garage and now you're thinking, okay, this is
Speaker 4: a gardening show. Why am I hearing about your garage? Well,
Speaker 4: I'll tell you why. Let me finish. Don't ask the
Speaker 4: questions on it? All right? So I I have all
Speaker 4: kinds of products and things, you know, anything that you
Speaker 4: hear me recommend on garden line. I get some of
Speaker 4: the product, I try it out, I test it and
Speaker 4: see how you know. So when I'm telling you, hey,
Speaker 4: you need to use this product, it's because I've used
Speaker 4: the product and I know it works, and so I
Speaker 4: just it just become a big mess. You know how
Speaker 4: garages are. They tend to gather stuff and they become
Speaker 4: a big mess. So I was cleaning it all up,
Speaker 4: got some new shelves, getting it organized and everything in there.
Speaker 4: And my tools. I noticed that my tools have not
Speaker 4: been properly cared for. And don't tell anybody I said
Speaker 4: that on the air, But yes, I know better than that.
Speaker 4: And I was looking at several different tools that had
Speaker 4: just us starting them, a little bit of rust on them.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh my gosh. So if that is what
Speaker 4: your tools are looking like, it's time to get those
Speaker 4: cleaned up. You know a lot of things are getting
Speaker 4: put away for the season pretty quick here, lawnmowers and whatnot.
Speaker 4: You want to get the blade sharpened. You want to
Speaker 4: make sure that everything you know is ready to go
Speaker 4: for storage. I had some pruners that needed a little
Speaker 4: bit of oiling. I took a little what do you
Speaker 4: call it, steel wool and just kind of rubbed that
Speaker 4: little fine dusting of rust that was on there off,
Speaker 4: get it oiled and ready to put away. And then
Speaker 4: I found another tool for a real cool, little kind
Speaker 4: of hand hoe that I have, putting it up, soil knives,
Speaker 4: different things, just getting them in order, the handles, did
Speaker 4: a little standing on the wooden handles to make them
Speaker 4: nice and smooth. Put some oil on the handles, some
Speaker 4: tongue oil or I use a mineral oil to on
Speaker 4: the handles, and it just feels good to get it
Speaker 4: all in order because you're taking care of it. Because listen,
Speaker 4: cheap tools are cheap. They're not just inexpensive, they're cheap.
Speaker 4: And when you go out and you buy these cheap prunters,
Speaker 4: they don't last. You end up throwing them away, and
Speaker 4: in the long term you spend more money than on
Speaker 4: a good quality set of printers. But if you buy
Speaker 4: good quality printers, take care of them, take care of them,
Speaker 4: keep them sharp, keep them oiled, keep the handles as
Speaker 4: I described, smooth and well oiled as well, and they'll
Speaker 4: last you forever. And if you're looking for Christmas gifts
Speaker 4: for gardeners on your list, there is nothing like a
Speaker 4: really good quality tool, not just a cheap piece of jump.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about a quality tool. So a printer that's quality.
Speaker 4: You can replace the blades. You don't buy new prunters
Speaker 4: all the time. You just replace the blades periodically, and
Speaker 4: it is really easy to do.
Speaker 8: So.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I was practicing what I preach a little bit
Speaker 4: there and getting that all cleaned up. It it's time
Speaker 4: for me to take a quick break here. I will
Speaker 4: be back the number seven one three two one two KTRH.
Speaker 4: Stay tuned, Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have
Speaker 4: you with us today. Seriously, it's always good to talk
Speaker 4: to gardens, you know. That's one of the fun things
Speaker 4: about gardening is visiting with gardeners, whether you were sharing
Speaker 4: ideas about plants, sharing scenes or cuttings, or or just
Speaker 4: let's just let me say this delicately, just bragging about
Speaker 4: you know, how many tomatoes you grew last year or whatever.
Speaker 4: I mean, We'll we'll put up with any of that
Speaker 4: stuff here on guarden Line. Within reason, right within reason.
Speaker 4: No gardening is fun. It is an enjoyable it's a
Speaker 4: social event and it's something that I just believe we
Speaker 4: were made to be out there in nature. I think
Speaker 4: that's part of the deal, and gardening is a great
Speaker 4: way to do that. It is one of the most
Speaker 4: important things you can do to your lawn really almost
Speaker 4: in the year, but especially when we're trying to recover
Speaker 4: from struggles that the loan has been having, is to
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Speaker 4: And green Pro does that if you live within forty
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Speaker 4: plugs out of the soil, dropping them on the surface.
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Speaker 4: miniature dog convention on the lawn when you get through,
Speaker 4: because you got those little plugs soil up on top.
Speaker 4: Then they put a compost top dressing down falls down
Speaker 4: in the holes, gets oxygen in the root system, gets
Speaker 4: organic matter, composts down in the root system, and it
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Speaker 4: Paarland and talk to Greg, Hey, Greg, Welcome to Guarden Line.
Speaker 4: Hi Skip, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 9: Sure so I sent well, I sent you earlier in
Speaker 9: the week some images of a weed that's been kind
Speaker 9: of a pest in my lawn. And I have a
Speaker 9: tiff Way Bermuda four nineteen lawn for gosh, but the
Speaker 9: last twenty twenty five years. It's not like there's a
Speaker 9: ton of it, but I just can't seem to get
Speaker 9: rid of it. I use a you know, I've used
Speaker 9: various products from the big box stores like Ortho and
Speaker 9: BioAdvance and Image and things like that, and the weed
Speaker 9: will kind of wither a little bit, turn a little
Speaker 9: bit yellow, you know, crinkle up on the corners, but
Speaker 9: it never really you know, kills it so and when
Speaker 9: you try to like pull the weed out, it it
Speaker 9: basically you know, you can't pull it out by the root.
Speaker 9: So I think it kind of grows on a like
Speaker 9: a horizontal root like a you know, have rhizomes or
Speaker 9: maybe it has tubers on it or something like that
Speaker 9: that makes it more resistant and just wandering, you know.
Speaker 9: From the images that I sent to you, like I said,
Speaker 9: it's kind of a little low leaf, but you know,
Speaker 9: leafy thing. It has two to three leaves, maybe one
Speaker 9: to two inches high, and it gets a single petreole
Speaker 9: that comes out.
Speaker 4: Sure, and uh, I'm I got those photos. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I got your photos and the congratulations. You're the first
Speaker 4: person to ever send me this weed.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: It's called Adder's tongue and it's a native weed in
Speaker 4: our area. In fact, there's several types of Adder's tongue
Speaker 4: around the country. But uh it no one's ever sent
Speaker 4: me a picture of it in the lawn before. But
Speaker 4: the problem with it, the reason you're not getting results
Speaker 4: is is it's kin to ferns, even though it doesn't
Speaker 4: look like a fern at all, but it is. It
Speaker 4: is it's like a fern. And so you know, the
Speaker 4: things that kill grasses don't kill it. The things that
Speaker 4: kill broad leaves don't tend to kill it either. I don't.
Speaker 4: I have not. When I got your picture, I thought,
Speaker 4: you know, I don't even know how you kill that.
Speaker 4: And I looked around. I didn't see any controls because
Speaker 4: nobody's out there saying it's the problem. I got to
Speaker 4: kill it.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: And so I don't know what to tell you in
Speaker 4: terms of what would work. The if I were you,
Speaker 4: you've tried. You mentioned some products in your email that
Speaker 4: you've tried, and most of those are going to be
Speaker 4: things that kill broadleaf weeds. One of them has some
Speaker 4: sedge sedge control in it. And if none of that's working,
Speaker 4: I might go to just a general purpose weed killer,
Speaker 4: something with a glyphosate in it, round up kind of thing,
Speaker 4: and I'll put it on my weed wiper, and I'll
Speaker 4: if you go to my website, garden skip dot com. Yeah,
Speaker 4: now before you if you haven't made one, before you
Speaker 4: go make one. You might just get a little bit
Speaker 4: of that and and dab it right on a weed,
Speaker 4: you know, just kind of a hand and see if
Speaker 4: it affects it or not, because I don't I don't know, really,
Speaker 4: I don't know. A furnace side out there, fern family
Speaker 4: of plants, and see if that works. If it does,
Speaker 4: then you can go to the weed wiper. You're going
Speaker 4: to get some low brown spots because that weed's so
Speaker 4: low down in the grass. It's hard to get it
Speaker 4: on the weed without getting it on your grass. But
Speaker 4: the more you could do that. Another thing people will
Speaker 4: do is they'll put a rag over the end of
Speaker 4: a spray wand and then like a twist tie to
Speaker 4: hold it on. And that way you just dampen the
Speaker 4: rag with a little squirt of the from the wand
Speaker 4: and then you use that dampened drag to dab it
Speaker 4: straight down onto the weed. That's another option, but again
Speaker 4: that's the best shot I can give you. I don't
Speaker 4: know what else would do it that wouldn't be also
Speaker 4: extremely damaging to your lawn.
Speaker 9: Okay, yeah, you know they round deep has a kind
Speaker 9: of a stick that kind of looks like the odorant stick.
Speaker 10: Would that work too? Okay, comes in a solid. Yeah,
Speaker 10: if you could get it, Yeah, if you could get
Speaker 10: on there. That's the problem with those is trying to
Speaker 10: get it on there. But I would just get some
Speaker 10: and just dab it and see if it works. And
Speaker 10: if it doesn't, I think you're going to be looking
Speaker 10: kind of hand digging it. But being a fern, it
Speaker 10: doesn't have a normal root system as you were describing. Hey,
Speaker 10: I've got to run, Greg, but good luck, good luck
Speaker 10: with that, and thanks for thank you very much for
Speaker 10: your call.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that. Wow. Well, I don't have enough time
Speaker 4: to jump onto another call here, so when we come
Speaker 4: back Jim and clear Lake and Jobby a Mission Valley.
Speaker 4: You'll be our first two up. All right, welcome back, folks.
Speaker 4: Good to have you with us. You're listening to Garden Line.
Speaker 4: I'm your host, Skip Richter, and I want to tell
Speaker 4: you this. If you are looking to take care of
Speaker 4: your lawn and garden and have it looking beautiful, bountiful,
Speaker 4: all the above. Ace Hardware Stores is your one stop
Speaker 4: for all that fertilizers, for weed control, for disease control.
Speaker 4: Do you need tools? Do you need things like from
Speaker 4: everything from a garden hose to printers, do you name it?
Speaker 4: Do you want to decorate that outdoor area and just
Speaker 4: make it nice? You know, this week we're we're heading
Speaker 4: over to some friend's house and we're going to be
Speaker 4: enjoying some outdoors during this great cool weather we're having.
Speaker 4: And they've got a beautiful little patio strung up with
Speaker 4: those little I call them beer lights, but you know,
Speaker 4: the little kind of like outdoor ambiance light strings that
Speaker 4: people put out kind of reminds me of a little
Speaker 4: outdoor beer garden kind of thing. Well. ACE has all
Speaker 4: kinds of stuff like that. We're still doing a lot
Speaker 4: of barbecue in Ace is the place to get the
Speaker 4: best quality barbecuers. You're going to find things, you know,
Speaker 4: brands like Big Green Egg and Traeger and Weber and
Speaker 4: all the supplies you need to go with it. It
Speaker 4: is still okay to get that fire ant baited out
Speaker 4: to shut them down so when you come out next spring.
Speaker 4: They're not just everywhere. And ACE has a number of
Speaker 4: different quality fireant baits that you can choose from. So,
Speaker 4: in other words, if you want to make your outdoors
Speaker 4: more livable, go to Acehardware dot com. If you go
Speaker 4: to that Acehardware dot Com, there is a store locator
Speaker 4: and you can find the stores that are near you.
Speaker 4: There's over forty in the greater Houston area. I'm going
Speaker 4: to head out now to Jim and Clearlay. Hey, Jim,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line Morning. Skip.
Speaker 11: About a year a little bit more ago, I bought
Speaker 11: a couple of Duranta and put them in my front shrubbery.
Speaker 6: They really did.
Speaker 11: Well, and of course the hurricane almost took them out,
Speaker 11: so I had to tie them up. They seem to
Speaker 11: like that a lot. They're vertically now well over seven feet.
Speaker 11: But I want to know about pruning them. I've heard
Speaker 11: you say that pruning will enhance growth and going into
Speaker 11: these winter months, is that a good idea?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, don't prone them before we get a freeze
Speaker 4: and it kind of kills them back, like at ten
Speaker 4: to do or just wait toward the end of winter
Speaker 4: and you can do a couple of things. You can
Speaker 4: shape and prune as you want. I often will just
Speaker 4: cut those things back at the ground because you get
Speaker 4: all the fresh new growth up then and they still
Speaker 4: bloom and look good. Sometimes over time, with a little
Speaker 4: bit of cold damage here and there, the plants just
Speaker 4: don't look that full. You decide if you like the
Speaker 4: look of them or not. But on mine, I generally
Speaker 4: cut them back to the ground toward the end of winter.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Once I take these tied decks off of it, it's
Speaker 11: gonna it's gonna spread, and then I'm going to have
Speaker 11: to trim it back so the long.
Speaker 6: Term be cut.
Speaker 11: But I just didn't think, yeah, so the spring, I'll
Speaker 11: do that.
Speaker 6: Or just after the freeze.
Speaker 4: Yeah, after after a good hard freeze, or even toward
Speaker 4: the end of winter, you just don't if you prune. Now,
Speaker 4: what's gonna happen is we'll get probably a week or
Speaker 4: two we'll have a seven upper seventies lower eighties week
Speaker 4: or something, and you don't want them to start growing
Speaker 4: because they'll just be burned back again. So okay, good
Speaker 4: luck with that, Jim, Thank you for the call. I
Speaker 4: appreciate that. Antiqu Rosenporium that has been a destination for
Speaker 4: gardners and family since nineteen eighty three, which is about
Speaker 4: the first time I ever went out there. I was
Speaker 4: so impressed. When they first built that place. There was
Speaker 4: nothing like it, and there still isn't you know. You
Speaker 4: go out to Antiqurosenporium and the place is overflowing with roses,
Speaker 4: but they also have veggies and herbs, the native plants
Speaker 4: cool season color like violas and snapdragons and Dianthus perennials
Speaker 4: like salvia. Every every time you turn around, they are
Speaker 4: releasing you know, they do plant breeding. Now rose breeding.
Speaker 4: They're releasing a new rose. The newest release, I believe
Speaker 4: is Zenna. It's an anti rose, exclusively bred variety, got
Speaker 4: patents pending on it, and it's just gorgeous and you
Speaker 4: need to go see that. But what you really need
Speaker 4: to do is go to their website Antique Roseemporium dot com.
Speaker 4: The website is outstanding. You'll find like I want a
Speaker 4: climbing rose, they have a list of them. I want
Speaker 4: a really fragrant rose, they have a list of them.
Speaker 4: I want a shrub ROAs. Do you see what I'm saying?
Speaker 4: They have roses and so so much more. When you
Speaker 4: go out there, and this would be a great place
Speaker 4: to do your holiday shopping. Or again, like I'm saying,
Speaker 4: you're going somebody's for Thanksgiving, take them a rose bush
Speaker 4: for decades of memories of your gift. Tell them I
Speaker 4: sent you. You get ten percent off at check out,
Speaker 4: or if you want to order online, you can do that.
Speaker 4: If you order, I would go out there because there's
Speaker 4: a great place to go visit. But if you want
Speaker 4: to order online, use coupon code SKIP twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: Here's their phone number nine seven nine eight three six
Speaker 4: fifty five forty eight nine seven nine eight three six
Speaker 4: five y five for eight. We're going to go now
Speaker 4: to Mission Valley and talk to a jobbi. Hey, Jobby,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Thanks Skip.
Speaker 12: Been enjoying your program for quite a while. I'm interested
Speaker 12: in planting some peas and beans. Is about time to
Speaker 12: get some of those in the ground.
Speaker 4: It's a little late for beans, green beans, pental beans,
Speaker 4: butter beans, you know, all those kind of beans. It's
Speaker 4: at they're warm seasons, so you're going to wait for
Speaker 4: spring on those. The peas, cool season peas, Let's see,
Speaker 4: it's kind of iffy for us here. We plant those
Speaker 4: typically in September, late September, maybe early October, to try
Speaker 4: to get them in when we have a hard freeze.
Speaker 4: Even though the plants are pretty cold, hardy, A hard
Speaker 4: freeze will burn off the little tender pods and things,
Speaker 4: and so you kind of lose the thing. If you
Speaker 4: get some that are fast ones like do a sugar
Speaker 4: snap type of peete, not the variety sugar snap that's
Speaker 4: a slower one, but one that's going to be done
Speaker 4: in about fifty fives days, maybe sixty days. You could
Speaker 4: probably still get that done. You may have to cover
Speaker 4: them once or something. But you know, it can't predict
Speaker 4: the weather. I mean, you could go through winter and
Speaker 4: not have a freeze, or you could go through and
Speaker 4: have one. Have one at the beginning of December and
Speaker 4: the things are hardly coming up out of the ground,
Speaker 4: but the plants are pretty tough. It's just the once
Speaker 4: they're about to bloom, that's when you don't want to
Speaker 4: freeze on them or right out.
Speaker 6: Thanks Skip. What about spinach and some of.
Speaker 4: Those spinach is very cold hardy. Spinach is cold hardy,
Speaker 4: about as cold harty as our greens get. Spinach and
Speaker 4: kale and collars, those three are really good and tough.
Speaker 4: Let us is good. You can still plant carrots now
Speaker 4: in the garden. And you know, if you're willing to
Speaker 4: cover it, even things like Swiss charred and beats or
Speaker 4: will do just fine. You can still plant those things.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Seed's not that expensive, so I say, hey, give it
Speaker 4: a shot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, thanks, Skip, appreciate it all.
Speaker 4: Right, got thanks for the question. Appreciate you being a listener.
Speaker 4: You take care, You take care. D and D Feed
Speaker 4: up in Tomball is your hometown feed store and they're
Speaker 4: on the west side by the way. D and D
Speaker 4: is just out west of town on twenty nine to
Speaker 4: twenty and it's been there for a good while, I believe, gosh,
Speaker 4: when did they think? Nineteen eighty nine is when they
Speaker 4: first opened up, and they have expanded the store and
Speaker 4: you walk inside and you'll see pretty quick it's everything
Speaker 4: you need of course it's a feed store. They all
Speaker 4: kinds of quality livestock feeds and whatnot, really good pet food.
Speaker 4: Every time I go, my dogs want to know if
Speaker 4: I went to the little Pet Delicatessen. That's my name
Speaker 4: for it. But it's a shelf full of these bones
Speaker 4: and things that well, you just have to go see it.
Speaker 4: They are flavorful, very good. But when you're in there
Speaker 4: as a gardener, all the fertilizers that you would want
Speaker 4: are going to be there, things like nitro foss and
Speaker 4: like Microlife and like Nilson's turf Star and Medena line.
Speaker 4: Really a number of different Nelson plant food if you
Speaker 4: need sol mixes, you know, brown stuff, the four Green Stuff,
Speaker 4: heirloom soils, a landscaper's pride. They've got all of that there.
Speaker 4: They also carry a number of tools, a number of
Speaker 4: different kinds of plants, D and de feed and supply.
Speaker 4: Three miles west of two forty nine on twenty nine,
Speaker 4: twenty two eight one three five one seventy one forty
Speaker 4: four two eight one three five one seventy one forty four. Oh,
Speaker 4: by the way, when you're there, you can get the
Speaker 4: microlife products. You know, I talk about Microlife all the time.
Speaker 4: The green bag is the standard room we use all year.
Speaker 4: At this point we switch over to the Microlife brown patch,
Speaker 4: which is designed more for a fall application. Works really well.
Speaker 4: I would say also, micro Grow bioinoculant is something you
Speaker 4: just need to keep around and put it out periodically
Speaker 4: because it's not a nutrient fertilizer. It's a microbe containing products.
Speaker 4: Sixty three different strains of beneficial microbes that we know
Speaker 4: from research fight disease. They fight disease, They cause plants
Speaker 4: to grow in ways that help the plant fight disease
Speaker 4: as well. Micro Growth biinoculant from Microlife you can get
Speaker 4: it there at D and D feat. By the way,
Speaker 4: if you want more microlife information, Microlife Fertilizer dot com.
Speaker 4: Microlife Fertilizer dot com makes it really easy to learn
Speaker 4: a lot about it. Oh whither that good stuff? I
Speaker 4: use it myself. In fact, I just got a bag
Speaker 4: out the other day. I said, I need to take
Speaker 4: care of my own lawn. That's what's about to go
Speaker 4: down on there, some of that ground pack. All right, folks,
Speaker 4: music means I gotta quit talking. We're going to go
Speaker 4: to the news, but I will be back Scott. When
Speaker 4: we come back, you will be our very first up
Speaker 4: to begin the next hour. Thank the rest of you
Speaker 4: for listening. Give us a call two eight one excuse
Speaker 4: me seven one three two one two KT.
Speaker 1: Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip
Speaker 1: Richard's shoes.
Speaker 3: Trim.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as so many.
Speaker 13: Good things to sup by not sorry.
Speaker 4: All right, folks, glad you're with us today. Thanks for
Speaker 4: listening in. By the way, we have plenty of things
Speaker 4: to talk about and if you've got some questions you
Speaker 4: would like to ask, well, give me a call seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two k t r H. Seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two k t r H. I
Speaker 4: wanted to tell you a little bit about a beginning nursery.
Speaker 4: You hear me talk about Buchanans Native Plants a lot,
Speaker 4: because it's just one of those places that it's special.
Speaker 4: You need to go there. You need to see the
Speaker 4: kinds of things that they have going on. And the
Speaker 4: reason I say that is there's always something new there
Speaker 4: and right now they are set up for the holidays.
Speaker 4: I mean is it's amazing the kinds of things that
Speaker 4: they have going on. You know, you always know when
Speaker 4: you go to Buchanans, you're gonna find native plants. They're
Speaker 4: the biggest arrangement with the biggest array of native plants
Speaker 4: that you're going to find anywhere in the region. That's
Speaker 4: what they specialize in, even down to the point of
Speaker 4: like I want to I want something that's not native
Speaker 4: just to Texas or you know the region. I want
Speaker 4: something native to Harrison County right here in this area.
Speaker 4: They have it down drilled down to that far. And
Speaker 4: when you go to Buchanans, you can say things like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I want a native plant that has berries, I want
Speaker 4: a native plant for the shade. I want a native
Speaker 4: plant that attracts hummingbirds for example. They can do all
Speaker 4: of those kinds of things now right now in their
Speaker 4: gift shops. Oh that bungalow is just it's unbelievable, beautiful
Speaker 4: Christmas greenery and everything that you'd want for decorating for
Speaker 4: the holidays, you know, things like of course point settas
Speaker 4: and holiday cacti and things. They're also still stocked up
Speaker 4: really really well on herbs. You're going to do some
Speaker 4: cooking for the holidays, how about some time or rosemary
Speaker 4: or regano. I mean they are set up on all
Speaker 4: kinds of things like that. Their houseplants. Now you would
Speaker 4: think a place called buchanan Naeded Plants, is that where
Speaker 4: you go to get a houseplot. Yes, it absolutely is.
Speaker 4: Their selection. I'll tell you this. Even if you're really
Speaker 4: into housepoints and you think you have one of everything,
Speaker 4: you go into Buchanon's houseplant greenhouse and you're going to
Speaker 4: see things that you don't have because that selection is outstanding.
Speaker 4: Just beautiful, beautiful, beautiful now for cool season color. Lots
Speaker 4: of plants there. The fall is the time for planting
Speaker 4: and falls. It's a good time to plant perennials. Even
Speaker 4: things that are going to die of the ground soon.
Speaker 4: Get them in now and they'll be so much further
Speaker 4: ahead by the time next summer's heat arrives that you'll
Speaker 4: be really glad you fall planted. That's the advantage of
Speaker 4: fall planting. So whatever you're going after bu can As
Speaker 4: Native Plants in the Heights, don't forget. They're going to
Speaker 4: have their holiday open house on Saturday, December seventh, from
Speaker 4: ten am to three pm. This is a free event.
Speaker 4: There's gonna be live music, kids, crafts, Santo be there.
Speaker 4: They'll have drinks and more. It just it's going to
Speaker 4: be festive. They always put on a good show there
Speaker 4: and again for gifts you're going to how about this
Speaker 4: I talk about I keep talking about going, you know,
Speaker 4: to Granny's for Thanksgiving or wherever you're going for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: Why not grab one of those Ammarillis blooms for forcing
Speaker 4: You know, the big old bulbs that you put in
Speaker 4: the pot and the ballooms come up, and you don't
Speaker 4: put them outside initially, you just enjoy them inside, then
Speaker 4: plant them outside for continued enjoyment. Why not give one
Speaker 4: of those as a gift from Buchanan's Native Plants on
Speaker 4: Eleventh Street and the Heights. Go to their website Buchanans
Speaker 4: Plants dot com. Sign up for the newsletter. It is awesome.
Speaker 4: Really is lots of good information. Let's go out to
Speaker 4: clear Lake now and we're going to talk to Scott. Hello, Scott,
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: Thanks Skip. I'm calling about a challenge I have. I
Speaker 14: planted a bunch of Asian jasmine underneath my oak tree
Speaker 14: a few years ago. It's a large oak tree. It's
Speaker 14: between my sidewalking the curb, and it's being taken over
Speaker 14: by poison ivy. I was wondering if there's something spray
Speaker 14: on the poison ivy because I'm extremely allergic to poison ivy.
Speaker 14: I can't actually pull it, you.
Speaker 4: You can't without killing The jasmine and the advantage are
Speaker 4: a little slick and so spray didn't stick to them
Speaker 4: as well as it will the ivy. But here's what
Speaker 4: I would do. If you go to my website Gardening
Speaker 4: with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot Com, there
Speaker 4: is something called the skipsweed wiper, and it tells you
Speaker 4: how to make one of those, how you can make
Speaker 4: one yourself. They're really easy to make. You can get
Speaker 4: the little grabber tools and the sponges on. It is
Speaker 4: what it amounts to. But when you see it, it'll
Speaker 4: be like, oh, that's simple. I can do that. And
Speaker 4: I know I know that Southwest Fertilizer carries those grabber
Speaker 4: tools with the suction cups. You need a certain kind
Speaker 4: unless you want to go to extra length to try
Speaker 4: to make it this way. It's real easy if you
Speaker 4: do it the way I've designed it on there is
Speaker 4: also a herbicides for the weed wiper thing, and that
Speaker 4: will there'll be a product containing triclope here. But that's
Speaker 4: on the sheet and it tells you, you know, if
Speaker 4: you're going after poison ivy and your jasmine, it tells
Speaker 4: you use trick up here. If you look and you've
Speaker 4: got wild onions and garlic coming up in the yard,
Speaker 4: it tells you what to use for that, or grasses
Speaker 4: or broad leaves, and so it's all there on the website.
Speaker 14: You bet that's really because it's it's being taken over
Speaker 14: by poison ivy. So thank you so much, and I'll
Speaker 14: look on your webs.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, thank you. I appreciate the appreciate you
Speaker 4: hanging on for that. Take care. Yes three, that weed wiper,
Speaker 4: I say invented it. I mean it's not that much
Speaker 4: of an invention, but it is sure handy. I use
Speaker 4: mine all the time, all the time, very very helpful.
Speaker 4: If you have not put your fall fertilization out like
Speaker 4: I haven't because I've been busy doing other things, you
Speaker 4: can still do it. And Nelson Plant Food has their
Speaker 4: product called carbel Load. Carbo Load is a pre emergent
Speaker 4: herbicide and a fertilizer put together in one Now the
Speaker 4: forticon bags of carboload cover about five thousand square feet.
Speaker 4: It's designed with that ratio of nutrients. It's best for fall,
Speaker 4: so it helps your grass. Whenever we have warm weather
Speaker 4: during the cool season, which we do here, that grass
Speaker 4: is taking up the nutrients and it's making carbohydrates with
Speaker 4: the leaves and that makes it a more hearty. Law
Speaker 4: on when we have a good hard cold snap, and
Speaker 4: next spring your lawn will be better. But get it down.
Speaker 4: You gotta watered in. Apply it watered in right away.
Speaker 4: Nelson Turchstar carb load. It is not too late to do.
Speaker 4: Go ahead and get it done now as soon as
Speaker 4: you can, because cool season weeds are already germinating and
Speaker 4: you want to catch as many of them as you
Speaker 4: can with that and also have the benefit of that
Speaker 4: outstanding fertilizer blend. Time for me to take a little
Speaker 4: break here. I will be back in just a moment
Speaker 4: if you would like to give me a call seven
Speaker 4: to one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 4: Seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 4: Let's help you with the kinds of questions you might
Speaker 4: have for gardening. Be right back, all right, welcome back.
Speaker 4: Good to have you with us. We are here to
Speaker 4: answer your gardening questions, So feel free to give me
Speaker 4: a call if you have one seven one three two
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Speaker 4: Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. They're out there
Speaker 4: in of course, Kingwood area. Warrens is on North Park Drive,
Speaker 4: Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. Both locations open seven days a week,
Speaker 4: and I'm telling you they are ready to go for
Speaker 4: the holiday's beautiful stuff. By the way, we are now
Speaker 4: entering the third week of Kingwood Garden Center's gift shop
Speaker 4: clearance event. That's this week November sixteenth through thirtieth. Forty
Speaker 4: percent off everything that's in there, and they have a
Speaker 4: wide variety of things in the gift shop. They're getting
Speaker 4: ready for the new inventory coming in, so that's why
Speaker 4: they've dropped it twenty five forty percent off what's left.
Speaker 4: So get by there and check it out. You might
Speaker 4: find a good gift or something you just really need
Speaker 4: yourself when you go by there. By the way, when
Speaker 4: you go out to Warren's Southern Guarden and Kingwood Garden Center,
Speaker 4: they've got a mult cell going on. Four bags for
Speaker 4: fifteen bucks. Good night, What a what a deal? A
Speaker 4: variety of different multch options to choose from, from heirloom soils,
Speaker 4: from heirloom soils, so you know, twelve months out of
Speaker 4: the year it's mulch time. It is. Molt isn't just
Speaker 4: for hot summer weather. Molt is for keeping the cool
Speaker 4: season weeds out of your flower beds. It's for moderating
Speaker 4: the soil temperature. When you've got maybe a tender perennial
Speaker 4: one that could get killed in a good cold winter spell.
Speaker 4: Throw mulch over it, over the surface of the soil,
Speaker 4: over the top of the crown of the plant, even
Speaker 4: and you will find that it insulates it and protects
Speaker 4: it and it gets you right through mulch. Multch moltz
Speaker 4: always a good time to mulch. And you're not gonna
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Speaker 4: every kind of seed you can imagine, vegetables, flowers, herbs,
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Speaker 4: Stop buy out there at Warren Southern Garden on North
Speaker 4: Park or Kingwood Gardens Center on Stone Hollow Drive. I
Speaker 4: remember the first time ever went out there, they used
Speaker 4: to have a what was it, Laura Peddl a Chinese
Speaker 4: Chinese witch hazel. This is the biggest thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 4: I mean that thing was like two stories high and
Speaker 4: it was just gorgeous. Each spring. I can't remember what
Speaker 4: happened to that plant, but anyway, it was beautiful. But
Speaker 4: every time I go out there, I'm just surprised at
Speaker 4: all of the different things they have. The selection from
Speaker 4: pottery to plants, do you name. It just really beautiful.
Speaker 4: So a while ago I was telling you that or
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Speaker 4: gonna find every fertilizer I talk about on guardline and
Speaker 4: then some if there is a product, even one brand
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Speaker 4: to time about what's new, what's going on, and I
Speaker 4: always stop in there to see because if something new
Speaker 4: shows up, they companies don't send me a notification, but
Speaker 4: I go to Southwest and I'll see it there already
Speaker 4: on the shelf, because if they don't have it, you
Speaker 4: don't need it. As Southwest fertilizer. While you're in there,
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Speaker 4: laying out a concrete patio, not concrete, a stone patio,
Speaker 4: and I'm on my knees and on my knees and
Speaker 4: on my knees, and up and down and up and
Speaker 4: down that kneeling bench. Oh my gosh, I would still
Speaker 4: be laying curled up in the prenatal position if I
Speaker 4: hadn't had that to kneel on. And then with the
Speaker 4: handles it has to get back up and down because
Speaker 4: you do that about eight hundred thousand times on a
Speaker 4: Saturday morning and things get interesting the next day or two.
Speaker 4: But Bob's got them there. Southwest Fertilizer dot COM's the website.
Speaker 4: Here's the phone number seven one three six six six
Speaker 4: seventeen forty four. If you want to go there, and
Speaker 4: I recommend you to you, I don't care where you
Speaker 4: live around town. Drive over there corner of Bissinet and
Speaker 4: Runwick in Southwest Houston. Corner of Businet and Runwick. My
Speaker 4: phone number, by the way, if you like to give
Speaker 4: me a call and ask a question. Seven one three
Speaker 4: two one two kt RH seven one three two one
Speaker 4: two kt r H. I was out at the wild
Speaker 4: Birds Store out there in Kingwood the other day on
Speaker 4: a Saturday for an appearance. We had a really good
Speaker 4: time out there, thanks by the way to everyone who
Speaker 4: came out. But while I was in there, I was
Speaker 4: just checking out their seed blends. And you know, there
Speaker 4: are so many quality seed blends. That's where I get
Speaker 4: my seed, my bird seed. And there are a number
Speaker 4: of reasons why. But the quality of the seed is important.
Speaker 4: And you think, well it's seed, just throw seed out
Speaker 4: there the bird. Well, you buy a cheap bird seed
Speaker 4: and you get red bebes could be over half. The
Speaker 4: quantity of the sack is red bebes in some cases,
Speaker 4: and birds kick those out they don't eat them, So
Speaker 4: that right there, your price just doubled for what you
Speaker 4: paid for that bird seed. Do you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: When you go to wallbirds, you get stuff that goes
Speaker 4: in the birds tummy, and I like, there are no
Speaker 4: mess blends. So let's say you take a really high
Speaker 4: quality sunflower that's a super high quality oil protein seed. Well,
Speaker 4: they're going to break the shell and get the kernel
Speaker 4: out and drop the shells on the ground. If you
Speaker 4: don't want that, get one from wahbirds. It's already been shelled.
Speaker 4: You know, in the long run, it's actually less expensive
Speaker 4: to buy the already shelled out seeds because of the
Speaker 4: quantity that you end up getting when you do that.
Speaker 4: I like, right now, in fact, the other day, grab
Speaker 4: some wildbirds unlimited winter super blend, super packed with fat
Speaker 4: and protein. You know, as the days are shorter, birds
Speaker 4: don't have as much time to be outfeeding.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 4: They've been kind of quiet at the feeders these last
Speaker 4: month or so because it's just part of the season.
Speaker 4: But as things cool off more, the birds will be
Speaker 4: back in mass and they're gonna need something to eat.
Speaker 4: And whether you get sue at cakes or whether you
Speaker 4: get seeds. If you got problems with squirrels eating all
Speaker 4: your bird seed, they have the one the seed with
Speaker 4: a hot pepper in them. You know, the birds, the squirrels,
Speaker 4: they they're like me that burns their mouths. They don't
Speaker 4: eat that, but the birds do. Wildbird's Unlimited. How about
Speaker 4: a bird house? How about a bird feeder? Oh, you
Speaker 4: talk about gifts, that's a great idea. Hey, go to
Speaker 4: Wildbirds' website for the Houston group. That's WBU dot com,
Speaker 4: WBU dot com forward Slash Houston. You'll see the six
Speaker 4: Wildbird stores here in the Greater Houston area and all
Speaker 4: of them are well well worth a visit. I love that.
Speaker 4: I was out putting that patio in and just kind
Speaker 4: of looking at the feeders and just you know, that's
Speaker 4: why I said, I noticed that birds haven't been to
Speaker 4: them a lot right now, and I ask I ask someone.
Speaker 4: I asked John actually about it, and he would just saying, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's kind of part of the season change there. But
Speaker 4: they'll they definitely come back because I know in the
Speaker 4: winter they like to come to the feeders, and they've
Speaker 4: been coming to them a lot this year. Cool stuff,
Speaker 4: a lot of fun and oh gosh, go out in
Speaker 4: the morning and listen to the songs of birds and
Speaker 4: to bring those to your house. That is just that
Speaker 4: is just really cool. Spring Creek Feed is north and
Speaker 4: kind of east of tom Wall. It's on in Magnolia
Speaker 4: area on FM twenty nine, seventy eight, seventy eight. It
Speaker 4: is a beautiful, beautiful feedstore. Spring Creek Feed Center part
Speaker 4: of the America's Country Store group. You walk in and
Speaker 4: you feel like probably walked into some kind of a
Speaker 4: I don't know, a nice little gift shop or something.
Speaker 4: It's just beautiful inside. And then you get to look
Speaker 4: and you go, no, it's the feed store. They got
Speaker 4: lots of feed. And you look over to the right
Speaker 4: and that's the garden center. And you're going to find
Speaker 4: the Nelson Turf star line, the nitrofoss line, the microlifeline.
Speaker 4: You're going to find stuff to kill weeds, to prevent
Speaker 4: weeds from happening, fungicides, pesticide. But the best part, I
Speaker 4: think is the friendly, courteous staff. You know, they they're
Speaker 4: there to make you feel at home and to help
Speaker 4: you find what you need, and they are really good
Speaker 4: at that. And when you get into Spring Creek Feed
Speaker 4: if you need something you don't see, they will do
Speaker 4: special orders, so just let them know. They even have
Speaker 4: a delivery service available too if you choose to go
Speaker 4: that route. If you're senior citizen or military, or even
Speaker 4: a four h kid ffa kid raising livestock animals, They've
Speaker 4: got discounts for you there on their livestock feeds as well.
Speaker 4: Spring Creek Feed Center FM twenty nine seventy eight just
Speaker 4: minutes away from ground Parkway and Highway two forty nine
Speaker 4: up there in the Magnolia area. You're listening to Guardline
Speaker 4: the phone number seven one three two one two KTRH
Speaker 4: seven one three two one two KTRH. I was talking
Speaker 4: with David Williamson there at RCW Nursery a while back.
Speaker 4: We were just talking about some of the different plants
Speaker 4: and things in the the uh place where they growed
Speaker 4: them up in the Plannersville are you know. RCW is
Speaker 4: retail garden center there where Beltway E comes into Highway
Speaker 4: two forty nine, which we call locally Tomball Parkway. Well,
Speaker 4: right there at the corner easy to get to belt
Speaker 4: is RCW Nurseries and they are going to have the
Speaker 4: kinds of plants you need right now. They got specials
Speaker 4: going on on shrubs, for example, really really nice options
Speaker 4: on shrubs.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: If you're looking for your cool season color. Of course
Speaker 4: they've got that. Herbs, perennials and you shrubs, navy plants,
Speaker 4: trees and top top quality stock. You know, because they
Speaker 4: grow their own trees. They they choose the species that
Speaker 4: are going to do best here and they grow them right.
Speaker 4: And if it's a small tree, take it home planet yourself.
Speaker 4: They'll give you the root stimulators. I say give you,
Speaker 4: they'll say the roote stimulators to go with it so
Speaker 4: your tree will be successful. They'll tell you how to
Speaker 4: plant it right. Or you can just hire them to
Speaker 4: come out and do it, especially when you get one
Speaker 4: of these bigger trees, unless you want to put your
Speaker 4: chiropractors kids through college. Hire them, let them come out
Speaker 4: and put that thing in the ground and get it
Speaker 4: planted right. The best time to plant a tree is
Speaker 4: forty years ago. The second best time is today. And
Speaker 4: RCW is the place you need to go get it.
Speaker 4: Rcwnursries dot Com where Tambo Parkway comes into bout Way eight.
Speaker 4: I mentioned that I was working on a patio in
Speaker 4: the backyard and I'm laying stones, kind of an Oklahoma
Speaker 4: stone flat stones down and we're putting on a bed
Speaker 4: of decomposed granite, and so getting them all spaced outride
Speaker 4: and level and making sure they're not wobbly as you
Speaker 4: walk across them. You know, that whole process getting it right.
Speaker 4: But boy, it's looking good. I got I probably got
Speaker 4: about two thirds of the way done with it now,
Speaker 4: and I just need to do the last bit. I
Speaker 4: had to take a break for a while. You know
Speaker 4: when you do when you over exert. Have you notice
Speaker 4: this is anybody listening to me somewhere north of forty
Speaker 4: years old. If you overexert the next morning, you know
Speaker 4: it and you go ooh, that was too much. And
Speaker 4: then the second morning, oh my gosh, I've stocked up
Speaker 4: on everything from Bengate, I'd be propen and I need
Speaker 4: to take it. I had to take a day or
Speaker 4: two off to get back out there and get going
Speaker 4: again on it. Some of you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: Some of you are like, Ah, that's never gonna happen
Speaker 4: to me. Yeah, right, better than better than the alternative
Speaker 4: that kneeling bench. I keep telling you, Bob's got it
Speaker 4: Southwest First, I'm using mine a lot, a lot, and
Speaker 4: I really, I really love it. Well, we're coming up
Speaker 4: here on a little break for the news. I will
Speaker 4: be back if you'd like to give me a call
Speaker 4: seven to one three two one two kat r A.
Speaker 4: Some of you sent me pictures and things via email,
Speaker 4: so give me a call in. That'd be a good
Speaker 4: time actually to do that. And when we come back,
Speaker 4: we will talk to you about whatever questions that you
Speaker 4: might have. Take care, We'll be right back. Welcome back,
Speaker 4: Welcome back to guard Line. Guys. We're glad you are
Speaker 4: listening today. We have a lot of things I'd like
Speaker 4: to talk about, but I'd kind of like to visit
Speaker 4: with you about the things that you are interested in
Speaker 4: talking about. So let's head out to Spring, Texas. We're
Speaker 4: going to talk to Larry. Hey, Larry, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 15: Good morning, Skip. I didn't think you would get to
Speaker 15: me so soon.
Speaker 4: I did you hit at the right time?
Speaker 15: I guess well. I I visited my brother in law
Speaker 15: here the other day, and he's got some grass that's
Speaker 15: growing in his yard. It's a little bit invasive, but
Speaker 15: we're just wondering what we had there and whether we
Speaker 15: could propagate it or try to get rid of it.
Speaker 4: Well, that's actually a more related to the plants you've
Speaker 4: heard of called wandering jew kind of a houseplant, a
Speaker 4: vining plant, than it is to grass. But it's called
Speaker 4: dovewed dovewed, and it's a warm season weed. It's gonna
Speaker 4: kind of go away a little bit when we get
Speaker 4: some freezes in here, but it is very invasive and
Speaker 4: you know, if the area stays wet, dove weed even
Speaker 4: grows faster. So you know, trying to make sure you've
Speaker 4: got decent drainage or not over water and those are
Speaker 4: all important dove weed. At this point, it's got a
Speaker 4: lot of seeds on it, and no one wants to
Speaker 4: be told to handpull their weeds. But the more you
Speaker 4: pull out of there, the more the seed you get
Speaker 4: out of there. Now you spray and killed the weed,
Speaker 4: but that getting the seed out is important if you
Speaker 4: use any product that's a trimech type of product. Product
Speaker 4: that trimech being it's got at least three different herbicides
Speaker 4: for broad leaf weeds that that combination works pretty good
Speaker 4: on doveweed. Those work. There's another product called Celsius that's
Speaker 4: a little more expensive, but it also is even better
Speaker 4: on dov Celsius is like the temperature. Yeah, yes, and
Speaker 4: so so you know, if you've got areas and some
Speaker 4: people do where it's like the whole lawn is just
Speaker 4: basically turned into doveweed, And what I'm seeing in the photo,
Speaker 4: it's pretty close to that in that area. You could
Speaker 4: just kill that area out and then replant grass in
Speaker 4: there is your lawn Saint Augustine or.
Speaker 15: Bermuda grass, Bermuda for the most part.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, Well then those Trimach type products, Celsius type products,
Speaker 4: those those would be good to use in there. That
Speaker 4: bermuta will fall back in really fast, but it's not
Speaker 4: going to grow at all until it gets warm in
Speaker 4: the spring. Bermuda grass in cool season, it just shuts
Speaker 4: down and doesn't do anything.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it looks it looks pretty good.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 15: He mentioned he said, you know, if my whole yard
Speaker 15: was like that, he said, it probably wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I get it. I mean I don't know
Speaker 4: that you can make a dependably thick yard out of doveweed,
Speaker 4: and I don't think it has any wear tolerance for
Speaker 4: when you're walking on it and stuff. You know, it's
Speaker 4: not going to hold up like Bermuda Whiel. That's why
Speaker 4: Bermuda's used to make football fields because you can you
Speaker 4: can have a lot of wear and tear and it
Speaker 4: holds up to it. Dove weeds not that way.
Speaker 15: Yeah, he's dealing with a lot of shade in his
Speaker 15: yard in Okay, okay, this kind of spotty here and there.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, just a thought, I'll throw this out there.
Speaker 4: He may want to consider just getting rid of everything
Speaker 4: and putting in something that does well in shade, like
Speaker 4: Saint Augustine. Or there's also a couple of zoysia's. There's
Speaker 4: one called Xeon'szeo n. It's a very fine textured zoysia.
Speaker 4: If you know it regularly looks it's pretty as a
Speaker 4: golf course green almost. It's not not that short, but
Speaker 4: you know, it's a nice, dense, fine textured little grass.
Speaker 4: But Saint Augustine too, because Bermuda is if you've got shade,
Speaker 4: shade's only going to get worse because trees get thicker
Speaker 4: and bigger every year, and so the Bermuda is not
Speaker 4: going to get better. It's only going to get worse anyway.
Speaker 4: Just something for him to think about.
Speaker 15: Okay, all right, I'll throw it out there.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Thank you, Larry. Appreciate that call.
Speaker 4: Appreciate those photos. Yes, dove We that's the boy. I've
Speaker 4: had more dove We calls these last couple of months.
Speaker 4: Then normal. It's certainly been busy with people asking questions
Speaker 4: about the doveweed. Well, let's see here phone number seven
Speaker 4: to one three two one two k t RH seven
Speaker 4: one three two one two KTRH. Sometimes it gets real
Speaker 4: busy here and I had a couple of times today.
Speaker 4: We're trying to direct traffic, keep up people from having
Speaker 4: to wait so long. Right now is a good time
Speaker 4: to call, if you know, I've got an open set
Speaker 4: of phone line, so at least for the first two
Speaker 4: or three folks that call you a jump right on.
Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 4: gonna You're not gonna do better or not. Trees, trees, trees, trees.
Speaker 4: This year the storms hammered our trees, hammered our trees.
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Speaker 4: The main thing you need to do is just do
Speaker 4: something now because he stays busy. Printing season is going
Speaker 4: to go all the way through February. You can prune
Speaker 4: twelve months out of the year. But the best time
Speaker 4: to prune. We're in the big middle here. We're going
Speaker 4: into the winter season, which is prime time for getting
Speaker 4: all that work done. Get on his schedule. Tell him
Speaker 4: you're a guardenline listener. Get on the schedule. Have him
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Speaker 4: three six nine nine two six six three. Time for
Speaker 4: me to take a break. I will be right back
Speaker 4: with our last segment of the hour and your calls
Speaker 4: at seven one three two ten KTRH back Cardline folks.
Speaker 4: Good to have you with us today. You know Orges
Speaker 4: hidden gardens done in Alvin. I don't know any of
Speaker 4: you down south. You need to get by there at
Speaker 4: your hometown. Garden center down south of the Houston area
Speaker 4: or has got a lot of different things available right now.
Speaker 4: He always has a good selection of fruit. He always
Speaker 4: has a good selection of roses and trees and shrubs
Speaker 4: and things. Of course, is a garden center, you're gonna
Speaker 4: find herbs and veggies and things like that as well. Flowers,
Speaker 4: certainly flowers, and they carry the three sixty tree stabilizer.
Speaker 4: If you are going to plant a tree, you need
Speaker 4: one of the three sixty tree stabilizers. I'll talk more
Speaker 4: about it at the time, but that is available there
Speaker 4: as well. Know they're fall hours. They're closed on Monday,
Speaker 4: but they're open today and tomorrow from eight am to
Speaker 4: four pm, and then Tuesday through Friday nine am to
Speaker 4: three pm. If you are looking to get something like
Speaker 4: a citrus tree to put out in. They have a
Speaker 4: wide variety of roses too, Like I said, makes a beautiful,
Speaker 4: beautiful gift, and fall is the time to plant. So
Speaker 4: get one now, get it established and stop by there
Speaker 4: at horagez Hidden Gardens. They are in Alvin on Elizabeth Street.
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just a south Highway six. So
Speaker 4: all of you in Santa Fe Hillcrest, I'll go Arcadia,
Speaker 4: Alta Loma, Alvin. Let's say a town's down there, Hillcrest.
Speaker 4: This is your hometown garden center, rages hidden Gardens.
Speaker 8: We're going to go out.
Speaker 4: Now on the phones and let's see here. We'll head
Speaker 4: to Kevin in Houston. Hey, Kevin, welcome to garden line.
Speaker 8: Hey skip, Hey.
Speaker 16: I picked up some white oak tree acorns from the
Speaker 16: nine to eleven Memorial last year in October planted. I'm
Speaker 16: in a fourteen inch tapered style plastic pot there. They're
Speaker 16: about a foot tall. Something is starting to eat the leaves.
Speaker 16: If I go out there and thump it, uh, it
Speaker 16: looks like a little bitty could be white gray. Something
Speaker 16: flies off. It's really really small, and it's and the
Speaker 16: leaves are just getting tore up. Do you have any suggestions.
Speaker 4: When you when you say they're being eaten, is it
Speaker 4: like a little tiny holes being chewed out of them?
Speaker 4: Or are the sides being chewed in? Or what do
Speaker 4: you how do you describe the feet all.
Speaker 16: All of the above these outsides of the leaves, there's
Speaker 16: holes in the center.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, uh, at this point we are right up
Speaker 4: on the edge of fall, so I mean of the
Speaker 4: leaf drop, and so I wouldn't worry about doing anything
Speaker 4: to them. They're resilient, they can take it. They're fine
Speaker 4: at this point in the future. If you're trying to
Speaker 4: you know, as you're trying to get them up growing
Speaker 4: faster and you start to lose leaves, I would get
Speaker 4: a product containing spin nose set s p I n
Speaker 4: O s A D spy spin no SAD and that
Speaker 4: is an organic product that controls things that eat tree leaves.
Speaker 4: Now there are other products. There's a dozen other products
Speaker 4: you could use, just a good insecticide, but that you
Speaker 4: know that's a bias low tox for something like that.
Speaker 4: There's you could also use name products. Not the neem oil,
Speaker 4: but the as of directin types of meme would be fine.
Speaker 4: But either one of those they both soak into the tissue.
Speaker 4: So the spray them on the top of the leaf
Speaker 4: and spread also from the bottom of the leaf, and
Speaker 4: it soaks in and then if you know, a few
Speaker 4: days later something comes and choose on it it's it's
Speaker 4: it's gonna get it perfect. That's what I'll get, all right.
Speaker 4: Congratulations on the brand new baby ache oak trees. Good
Speaker 4: luck getting those things going. Thank you, sir. You take
Speaker 4: care you bet by bye. Yeah, you can grow trees
Speaker 4: yourself too. I've done that myself. Kind of fun. Actually,
Speaker 4: advice on how to do it too. You can give
Speaker 4: us a call here on Guardline. We'll be happy to
Speaker 4: do that. I want to go now to Woodville and
Speaker 4: talk to Brenda. Hey, Brenda, welcome to garden.
Speaker 17: Good morning, Thank you. I have our yard. It's mostly weeds,
Speaker 17: and I read an article that said if I put
Speaker 17: weed killer on the yard now, that would help the
Speaker 17: grass strengthened her in the winter and then it would
Speaker 17: grow back and the weeds wouldn't necessarily. Does that just
Speaker 17: sound ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not quite sure what they were talking about there,
Speaker 4: So thank your grass is being shaded by weeds. Getting
Speaker 4: rid of the weeds helps the grass capture sunlight. Is
Speaker 4: your lune, Saint Augustine.
Speaker 17: The grass that's there, I think is probably Bermuda.
Speaker 4: Okay, Bermuda is going to I'm sorry, Okay, yeah, I
Speaker 4: say Bermuda is going to kind of go dormant in
Speaker 4: the winter. So if you kill all the weeds, if
Speaker 4: you're able to do that, then you'd have bear spots,
Speaker 4: which would mean sunlight hits the soil, and then nature's
Speaker 4: going to have more weed seeds coming up in there.
Speaker 4: So I don't know that's going to gain you a lot.
Speaker 4: I think for right now, I'd probably just mow them
Speaker 4: if you see little seeds or flowers on them, putting
Speaker 4: a bagging attachment on to scoop up as much of
Speaker 4: that as you can to get those seeds out of there.
Speaker 4: And then in the spring, get my schedule. It's online
Speaker 4: at gardening with skip dot com. We'll start off in
Speaker 4: February with something that prevents weed seeds from germinating. That's
Speaker 4: going to be very important. You could still put down
Speaker 4: a pre emergent, but chances are a lot of the
Speaker 4: cool season weeds are already well on their way germinating,
Speaker 4: so the benefits are not as high as they would
Speaker 4: having applied it earlier, but there it's still worth putting
Speaker 4: down if you feel like you got some bear areas
Speaker 4: out there, but especially in the spring, get on my schedule,
Speaker 4: get the weed control going, get the fertilizer going, and
Speaker 4: let's try to grow you back into a better lawn.
Speaker 4: Bermuda is a tough grass and it'll fill in pretty
Speaker 4: fast if you mow it regularly and fertilize it a
Speaker 4: lot and water it adequately, and you can get back
Speaker 4: into it. Unless you're just wanting to kill everything and
Speaker 4: replant something there, that would be the only option if.
Speaker 18: It would grow in it.
Speaker 17: So and I'd regigate that, okay, and just follow your
Speaker 17: guard your tips.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you know, Google's only you know, it's kind
Speaker 4: of like talking to your neighbor across the fence. Depending
Speaker 4: on how smart of a neighbor you got, you could
Speaker 4: be learning something or being misled. And I found that
Speaker 4: a lot of times they But hey, I'll tell you
Speaker 4: one other quick tip. This is the fastest, cheapiest, easiest
Speaker 4: way to get rid of all your weeds, and that
Speaker 4: is take off mow your lawn, then take off your
Speaker 4: glasses and it looks just like a lawn. It's all mode.
Speaker 4: That is, you cannot get any no herbicide works out
Speaker 4: fast or that will all right, Thank you, Brenda.
Speaker 6: That lady is the plan I follow.
Speaker 17: Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: All right. Ah, Hi, popay. You know, it's interesting. Everybody
Speaker 4: has different tolerance to weeds and things like that, and uh,
Speaker 4: you know, my goal here on Guarden Line is to
Speaker 4: try to help you have success. That's what I want.
Speaker 4: And everybody has different opinions, They have different aesthetics, they
Speaker 4: have different abilities.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 4: Some people getting on their hands and eas and pulling
Speaker 4: weeds is not an option. Other people are very happy
Speaker 4: to get out and do that. They don't mind. Some
Speaker 4: people do not want to use any synthetic products. Some
Speaker 4: people only want to use organic. Other people it's just like,
Speaker 4: know what works best? How do I get it done
Speaker 4: fastest and best, you know, most effectively. Whatever, Well, that's
Speaker 4: kind of why I'm here. I'm here to help you
Speaker 4: garden like you choose to garden. And uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I have my own opinions about how I do things
Speaker 4: in my own garden. But everybody's different. And some people,
Speaker 4: if that lawn does not look like a golf course green,
Speaker 4: if there's one weed, it might as well be a
Speaker 4: purple neon sign flashing on and off. You know, that
Speaker 4: thing has got to go. Other people is it's green,
Speaker 4: it's green? I don't care if you mow weeds. It
Speaker 4: makes a lawn that's green that's not going to be
Speaker 4: perfectly uniform or attractive. Weeds come and go, so what's
Speaker 4: green now may not be green in a season or so.
Speaker 4: But it's up to you. You go the way you
Speaker 4: want to go about it. We'll help you do that.
Speaker 4: If you want to go for the ultimate beautiful lawn,
Speaker 4: we can help you have that as well. So you
Speaker 4: get to choose. But I learned that from a fellow
Speaker 4: named Folder rushing over and this is sippy an idea
Speaker 4: of yeah, just take off your glasses. It all goes away. Well,
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Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H garden Line with Scamp Richard.
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Speaker 4: Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to guarden Line. Glad you
Speaker 4: are listening to today. Thank you for being listening to Guardenline.
Speaker 4: I hope you enjoy the show. If you'd like to
Speaker 4: give us a call, I'll be happy to help. If
Speaker 4: you want suggestions for planting, if you want to help
Speaker 4: diagnose something, if you want to help identify something, you
Speaker 4: can call them my producer and get an email, an
Speaker 4: email where people can send me a photo of something
Speaker 4: that they would like identified or diagnosed, or something along
Speaker 4: those lines.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 4: That is the best way to get an accurate diagnosis.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but when
Speaker 4: someone describes something to you and you picture it and
Speaker 4: then you later see it, it's like, well, that's not
Speaker 4: anything like what I was picturing, because sometimes our words
Speaker 4: don't communicate things as well as as they need to.
Speaker 4: So anyway, that's why I like to see photos. When
Speaker 4: we're trying to get down to the nitty gritty of
Speaker 4: diagnosing a particular problem, you can just talk to the producer.
Speaker 4: He will give you an email as to how to
Speaker 4: get a photo to me. Now, I was busy with
Speaker 4: someone the other day trying to explain that there I
Speaker 4: am time wise. I'm just not able to answer all
Speaker 4: the emails by typing answers in that come in, and
Speaker 4: that's what the show's for. But if you'd like to
Speaker 4: send me a picture, I'd be happy to take a
Speaker 4: look at it, and then when you give me a call,
Speaker 4: we can discuss it. And sometimes there's a one I'll
Speaker 4: need to respond to because it's better just to do
Speaker 4: a response right then. But in general, I can't get
Speaker 4: into the back and forth and just time just doesn't
Speaker 4: allow it. Unfortunately. Let's see, why don't we Why don't
Speaker 4: we head straight out to the phones. I'm going to
Speaker 4: go to Tunbull here, We're going to talk to them. Monty, Hello, Monty,
Speaker 4: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning, Skiff, how are you.
Speaker 4: I'm well, sir, I'm well, it's when it's fallen that
Speaker 4: it's not one hundred degrees outside.
Speaker 6: I'm happy, amen, Skiff.
Speaker 19: I've got a couple of issues. One is the sego
Speaker 19: palm we have in the front yard. It's pretty good size,
Speaker 19: but it's always been kind of a late bloomer. But
Speaker 19: it still has not opened up this year. Everybody else
Speaker 19: in the neighborhood theirs has and I'm wondering if I
Speaker 19: could do anything to help it out.
Speaker 4: So are you saying it's just like a brown, brown
Speaker 4: trunk right now? There's no grain.
Speaker 19: No, it's got the big bulb at the top, you know,
Speaker 19: like it wants to open up, but it just won't
Speaker 19: open up.
Speaker 6: Okay, and have more branches.
Speaker 4: When you when you describe a bulb, does it look
Speaker 4: more like the top of a bowling ball or do
Speaker 4: it look more like a cone coming along? Skinny more? Okay, Okay,
Speaker 4: that's a female sego palm. They are separate male and
Speaker 4: female plants, and that is the that is where the
Speaker 4: seeds will be. There'll be chestnut size red seeds inside
Speaker 4: that structure pollinated. Yeah, so, uh, I don't know beyond
Speaker 4: that sometime. It sits that way a long time, but
Speaker 4: as long as you got some green on it, on
Speaker 4: the plant and it's alive, you will see some new
Speaker 4: growth that does eventually come back. Now, with us going
Speaker 4: into winter time, I can't take exactly when that's going
Speaker 4: to be, but yeah, I think you're just going to
Speaker 4: be patient. There's nothing for you to do to fix
Speaker 4: whatever is there.
Speaker 19: Okay, And one more question if you don't mind.
Speaker 8: You know, a few years ago.
Speaker 19: When we had that real hard freeze uri, we had
Speaker 19: some oleanders in the backyard and we lost a few.
Speaker 19: A couple of them have survived pretty well, but the
Speaker 19: rest of them are just struggling big time, just like
Speaker 19: they're stunted. What can I be the help them out
Speaker 19: of anything.
Speaker 4: That's unusual? You know the freeze. Oleanders are somewhat cold tolerant,
Speaker 4: and it's not unusual to have one killed back when
Speaker 4: we had that kind of freeze. But it shouldn't have
Speaker 4: ongoing effects, like once things warmed up and you begin
Speaker 4: to see a little new growth, then they shouldn't just
Speaker 4: keep sitting there stunted. So I'm not sure what's going
Speaker 4: on on those Uh, If you know fertilizing, adequate water,
Speaker 4: especially some nutrients to fertilize. I wouldn't do it now
Speaker 4: because it's cool enough and we don't want them to
Speaker 4: try to grow. It just makes them less cold cold tolerant.
Speaker 4: But I would say just maybe give them a little
Speaker 4: bit more time. Uri has been a long time though,
Speaker 4: so I've given it more time. It's already had time.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe send me some pictures of them so I
Speaker 4: can kind of see what Maybe I'll see something in
Speaker 4: the picture that helps show other than that just may
Speaker 4: come down to replacing them. But again, there shouldn't be
Speaker 4: a connection between a freeze and for years the thing
Speaker 4: doesn't want to grow. That doesn't make sense.
Speaker 19: Yeah, okay, I've got some micro laughs. Would it help
Speaker 19: to put a little of that end around it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Micro life's a good fertilizer, but right now, you don't
Speaker 4: want to make the holeanders grow when it's you get
Speaker 4: a succulent let's just say it made it start to grow.
Speaker 4: You get a succulent shoot. Succulent shoot, and we just
Speaker 4: have a normal winner and those are going to get killed,
Speaker 4: whereas the older tougher wood would would survive it. So
Speaker 4: let's wait until it warms up, we get past the
Speaker 4: danger of freeze, and then and then you put your
Speaker 4: microlife around those and see if we can get some
Speaker 4: stuff growing.
Speaker 6: All right, okay, well, appreciate your help, all right, money,
Speaker 6: you take care that.
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Speaker 4: in the case of trees where you get trunk damage.
Speaker 4: We had that severe, severe cold and I'm telling you
Speaker 4: our trees took a hit and that was that was significant.
Speaker 4: And I noticed that because of trunk tissue damage, some
Speaker 4: problems were continuing to show up even a couple of
Speaker 4: years down the line, where tissues were just kind of collapsing.
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna take a little break. I'll be right back
Speaker 4: with your calls, all right, So welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 4: Welcome back. Hey Ma's nursery done in Seabrook. I love
Speaker 4: going down to that place because number one first thing
Speaker 4: I do is go to the big greenhouse of house plants.
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Speaker 4: staghorn ferns, to tropical foliage to everything you can imagine.
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Speaker 4: the more time you have to take care of your houseplants.
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Speaker 4: one thing it looks like it looks like like a
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Speaker 4: Go check them out and it would be an awesome
Speaker 4: place to find gifts for everybody on your list. I
Speaker 4: want to head out now. Let's see, we're going to
Speaker 4: go to Larry in sugar Land. Hey, Larry, Welcome to
Speaker 4: garden Line.
Speaker 20: Hey, good morning, Skip. I got a question for you
Speaker 20: about my plumarius. I recently planted one. It's about ten
Speaker 20: foot tall, and I've planted it in the dirt beside
Speaker 20: my house. I have other ones in pots and in
Speaker 20: the winter time I just dragged into the garage and
Speaker 20: they do it real well. But the one in the ground,
Speaker 20: I don't know what to do about it this winter
Speaker 20: in particular. Yeah, of course I expected to loot its leaves,
Speaker 20: but there's anything else.
Speaker 8: Need to do it.
Speaker 5: You can maybe advise me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you get a good hard freeze and
Speaker 4: you can you can kill that plumbaria. A lot of
Speaker 4: times people will just dig them up and shake all
Speaker 4: the soil off the roots, you know, don't try to
Speaker 4: pot them up, or you just shake all the soil off,
Speaker 4: hang them upside down in the garage, you know, just
Speaker 4: find her after or something off in the corner, or
Speaker 4: however you want to go about it, uh, and just
Speaker 4: just leave them in the garage where it won't get
Speaker 4: too cold, you know, and they'll they'll be there in
Speaker 4: that dormant state. And then in the when the weather
Speaker 4: warms up and we've got some nice weather then take
Speaker 4: them back out and replant them in the ground, and
Speaker 4: they take bright back off growing again.
Speaker 20: Well, that never never encouraged me. Like I said, it's
Speaker 20: pretty big, it's pretty tall, and I didn't think that
Speaker 20: they actually pull it back up again.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, I mean you can, you can either way.
Speaker 4: You can dig it. But I mean, if you're gonna
Speaker 4: leave it there, you're gonna need to provided some sort
Speaker 4: of warmth and protection with a cover over it. When
Speaker 4: the weather is going to get down in there and
Speaker 4: you know, run freezing below.
Speaker 20: I won't be able to do that.
Speaker 19: I don't think.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, I appreciate it. I understand. All right, thank
Speaker 4: you very much for the call, Larry. I appreciate that,
Speaker 4: and take care. Thank you, all Righty. I mentioned earlier
Speaker 4: that Jorge said gardens, he carried the three sixty tree stabilizer.
Speaker 4: And what that is. It's a little it's a bar.
Speaker 4: It's a plastic bar, very very strong bar that attaches
Speaker 4: to a post. I like to attach it to a
Speaker 4: tea post because you can drive those in the ground
Speaker 4: and it hasn't an adjust thing that you put on
Speaker 4: there that makes it attached to the tree post. Very
Speaker 4: strong attachment. The other end has a little rubber strap
Speaker 4: that's soft, and you want to leave it a little
Speaker 4: loose because you want the tree to move. People that
Speaker 4: tie these trees down with three guy wires number one,
Speaker 4: that's a lot of trouble and you're going to trip
Speaker 4: over them and all that the tree can't move. The
Speaker 4: tree does not get as strong. When plants bend and
Speaker 4: stretch and move a little bit, a little bit, it
Speaker 4: makes the tissue grow stronger. It makes the roots, the
Speaker 4: surface root up there that's reaching out to establish into
Speaker 4: the soil sideways, those roots get stronger and better anchored
Speaker 4: as well. You want movement. Three sixty tree stabilizer does that.
Speaker 4: It is a very durable product. It works very very well.
Speaker 4: You can use one on most plants. One is enough,
Speaker 4: but if you've got a bigger plant, the trunk diameters
Speaker 4: a little larger, the tree you're putting in, and you
Speaker 4: got maybe stronger winds, you could do two. Maybe one
Speaker 4: coming east west into the tree, one coming north south
Speaker 4: into the tree, and that way you hold it from
Speaker 4: whatever way the wind blows. You can find them at
Speaker 4: RCW Nurseries, buchanans Arborgate Plants for all seasons. I mentioned
Speaker 4: Jorge down south Southwest fertilizer Bisinett and Runwick has them,
Speaker 4: and Ciena Maltz down in the Sienna area also carries
Speaker 4: the three sixty tree stabilizer. Let's now go to Katie
Speaker 4: and we're going to talk to Lucy. Hey, Lucy, welcome
Speaker 4: to garden Line.
Speaker 21: Hi.
Speaker 18: How are you.
Speaker 7: I'm so glad to I'm good to be able to
Speaker 7: steak with you. I have a problem with squirrelds. Are
Speaker 7: There'll be like three, four or five of them up
Speaker 7: in my tree and they are just destroying it. They
Speaker 7: are just eating a little bit and then all the
Speaker 7: it looks like snow, all these pieces of leaves all
Speaker 7: over my backyard, and I don't know what to do
Speaker 7: to control them, to get them to stop just destroying
Speaker 7: my tree. I wondered if you had any suggestions.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, I know squirrels will often chew the
Speaker 4: small branches, especially where there's a v intersection between branches.
Speaker 4: They'll chew it in there, and they'll chew around the branch.
Speaker 4: And then when you like, let's say it's up acond tree,
Speaker 4: but you look at it and instead of being green,
Speaker 4: you have all these we call them brown flags all
Speaker 4: through the tree where they've they've killed the ends of
Speaker 4: the branches. I've not known them to chew the leaves
Speaker 4: off and drip a whole bunch of leaves on the
Speaker 4: ground like that. Now there are some insects that can
Speaker 4: do that. And then of course it's fall, and depending
Speaker 4: on the tree species, they're dropping leaves in different amounts
Speaker 4: right now too. But there's not a squirrel aside. You know,
Speaker 4: there's not something you put out and get rid of
Speaker 4: all the squirrels U now. Now country boys back in
Speaker 4: the day they didn't have a squirrel problem. That was
Speaker 4: called lunch. But I think in town people might frown
Speaker 4: on that. So you you kind of are left with
Speaker 4: just whatever they're going to do up there, they're going
Speaker 4: to do unless there's a way to completely exclude them
Speaker 4: from the tree, which ninety of the time is impractical
Speaker 4: to try to do.
Speaker 7: Right, Okay, well my tree will be bald soon.
Speaker 4: Well it's fall.
Speaker 7: There, you know, I wish I remembered. It's something drum.
Speaker 7: It's the bark will peel in the more in the spring,
Speaker 7: and it gives these really pretty soft little clusters of leaves,
Speaker 7: small leads and I'm wondering maybe that's what they're after.
Speaker 7: Maybe it's sweet to them or something, that they are
Speaker 7: just going from branch to branch, section to section and
Speaker 7: just tearing everything up.
Speaker 4: That is very unusual. If you want you, I can
Speaker 4: put you on hold. The producer can give you my
Speaker 4: email address and send me some pictures of the tree
Speaker 4: of what you're seeing on the ground, okay, and maybe
Speaker 4: I'll see something else. I don't know. That's that's unusual,
Speaker 4: but you're welcome to do that. I'm going to put
Speaker 4: you on hold, Lucy and either hang on, yeah, either way,
Speaker 4: all right, you'll take care.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Jonathan.
Speaker 4: I back up just in a little bit here. Bye bye.
Speaker 4: Interesting squirrels. You know, I know people have different opinions
Speaker 4: about things like squirrels and dogs and cats and whatever
Speaker 4: else is out there in the wild. But I just
Speaker 4: got to tell you. I had a friend San Antonio
Speaker 4: that used to say, we don't have too many deer,
Speaker 4: we have too few freezers. And people who feed deer
Speaker 4: and like watching them are horrified at that thought, whereas
Speaker 4: another a lot of people are going, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 4: in season, but you can't do that in town. That's
Speaker 4: for sure. That is for sure. But anyway, hey, listen,
Speaker 4: we moved in on nature, okay, we It wasn't like
Speaker 4: we were here, and then squirrels and trees and raccoons
Speaker 4: and everything else starts showing up. We moved in on them.
Speaker 4: And the more urbanization occurs, the more their habitats pushed out,
Speaker 4: and the more interactions we're going to have. And so,
Speaker 4: like I was saying earlier about tolerance to weeds, I
Speaker 4: guess you have to decide what your tolerance to pests
Speaker 4: that are four legged as well, because that is that
Speaker 4: is just part of the world we live in out there.
Speaker 4: Let's go to I mentioned, Oh while ago, I mentioned
Speaker 4: the three sixty tree stabilizer was at Cienamultch. For those
Speaker 4: of you who don't know Cienamltch, you need to go
Speaker 4: check it out. I cannot think of a better place
Speaker 4: to take care of your soil to prepare for plants
Speaker 4: than sienamlts brown stuff before green stuff, right, soil foundation,
Speaker 4: plants second. Okay, first comes the soil, then you plant.
Speaker 4: Cienamltch is the place to go for the brown stuff.
Speaker 4: It has They have soil amendments, composts, bed mixes, you know,
Speaker 4: mixes from Landscaper's Pride or from heirloom soils for example.
Speaker 4: They've got the fertilizers from Nitroposs and Medina Nelson plant Food, Azemite, Microlife.
Speaker 4: They just had it all. You can buy landscapers Pride
Speaker 4: bat velvet there. You can buy heirloom soils, veggie and
Speaker 4: herb mix for example. There they deliver within twenty miles.
Speaker 4: Are located on FM five point twenty one near Highway
Speaker 4: six and two eighty eight. Just go to the website
Speaker 4: and you can find all that you need to know
Speaker 4: there Sienna Mulch dot com. The one thing you don't
Speaker 4: need to do, though, is not get your foundation built.
Speaker 4: This fall fall is the time for planting. Do not
Speaker 4: put a plant in the ground until you've built the foundation.
Speaker 4: And I can't think of a better place than Siena
Speaker 4: Mulch to do that. I'm going to take a little
Speaker 4: break here for the half hour news that we're entering into.
Speaker 4: I'll be right back if you'd like to give us
Speaker 4: a call seven one three two one two K t
Speaker 4: R H and David, you will be our first step
Speaker 4: when we come back. All right, folks, we're back here
Speaker 4: on Guardline. Thanks for being a listener today. I'm your host,
Speaker 4: Skip Richter. What kind of questions do you have? How
Speaker 4: can we help you to have a more bountiful garden,
Speaker 4: a more beautiful landscape. That is what we are here
Speaker 4: to do. And speaking of here to do, that is
Speaker 4: what enchanted for us. Is also there to do, you know.
Speaker 4: And Chanted Forest is the garden center down in the
Speaker 4: Richmond Rosenberg area if you are there on FM twenty
Speaker 4: seven to fifty nine, So if you're in Richmond heading
Speaker 4: towards sugar Land up fifty nine, they're off to the
Speaker 4: right on twenty seven fifty nine and they have everything
Speaker 4: year round that you would need for that season. For example,
Speaker 4: right now they got in their sets of onions. And
Speaker 4: if you never grow on onions before you need to,
Speaker 4: it is not hard to do. All onions need is
Speaker 4: some well prepared soil, mix in some composts, get them
Speaker 4: planted properly, water and fertilize them regularly just to keep
Speaker 4: them growing. And next spring when the day length starts
Speaker 4: getting longer, they make bulbs. And whether you get a
Speaker 4: ten to fifteen super sweet onion, the Texas early white,
Speaker 4: the red creole, or the Southern Bell red. I grew
Speaker 4: those two last red ones last year. They both are
Speaker 4: great red Creole Southern bell red. Those are good too.
Speaker 4: You're going to have good results from it. And you
Speaker 4: grow them in a container container and Channa Forest has
Speaker 4: it now. And Channa Forest has an excellent selection of
Speaker 4: trees and shrubs and color plants and herbs and everything
Speaker 4: you can imagine. If you want your flower beds to
Speaker 4: really pop with color, swing by there today at ten
Speaker 4: am today, November sixteenth, ten am Indoor Herbs with Angela
Speaker 4: Roth at in Chanted Forest. She's going to walk you
Speaker 4: through the steps of setting up an indoor herb garden.
Speaker 4: Wouldn't that be a nice thing? In fact, wouldn't it
Speaker 4: be nice to put one together and give it as
Speaker 4: a gift too. That's today ten am at Enchanted Forest.
Speaker 4: There's always something going on out there. Coming up. On
Speaker 4: December first, they're gonna have Santa out there, Sata himself
Speaker 4: and he'll be available for family photos from ten am
Speaker 4: to two pm Sunday, December first. I'll be crashed for kids,
Speaker 4: hot chocolate candy canes. I may have to show up
Speaker 4: with that. There's gonna be Christmas cake pops from Pop Perfection.
Speaker 4: I have never had a Christmas cake pop. I think
Speaker 4: I have to do that anyway, chant it for us
Speaker 4: on December First, let's go to the phones. Now. We
Speaker 4: are going to head to Laporte and talk to David. Hey, David,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Mine.
Speaker 15: Good morning, sir.
Speaker 4: I have morning something rows in my yard.
Speaker 15: It's stringy. I have patches of it and I can't
Speaker 15: get rid of it. I don't know what.
Speaker 6: It's called right now.
Speaker 18: It has like some sprouts that are going straight up
Speaker 18: and it looks like they have seeds on the top
Speaker 18: of them.
Speaker 4: Well, there are a number of weeds that fit that description.
Speaker 4: Tell you what, David, we got an hour and a
Speaker 4: half left today. If you will go out and take
Speaker 4: a picture of your phone and email it to me,
Speaker 4: let me take a look at it, because I need
Speaker 4: to know for sure what it is before I send
Speaker 4: you out with the wrong product or wasting your time
Speaker 4: and money. Let's do that. I'm going to put you
Speaker 4: on hold and Jonathan will pick up the phone and
Speaker 4: give you an email. And if you'll send me those photos,
Speaker 4: let me take a look at them, and that way
Speaker 4: I can get you the right product to deal with
Speaker 4: them right now, mature all right, Oh, don't go away,
Speaker 4: hang on date and Jonathan will pick it right up
Speaker 4: here for you. We're going to go now to Jersey
Speaker 4: Village and talk to George. Hey, George Carline, thank you,
Speaker 4: thank you.
Speaker 18: I got a wall space in the front of the house.
Speaker 18: It's about ten feet high and fifteen foot wide, and
Speaker 18: it's got to some ogi hedges in front of it now.
Speaker 18: And I want to put boga via there because I
Speaker 18: took it to your advice on another one and it's
Speaker 18: a beautiful plant and it's doing well. But anyhow should
Speaker 18: I plant just one there? Should I wait for it
Speaker 18: to grow out? Or should I plant two or three
Speaker 18: of them instead?
Speaker 4: Well, Bougin Bay is a low coal tender, and so
Speaker 4: where you live, you're gonna have to give them some
Speaker 4: kind of protection or at least most of the base
Speaker 4: really really well so that it dies back and comes
Speaker 4: back out of the base. That's the drawback of the
Speaker 4: booga and ville there. Uh, do you have really really
Speaker 4: good sunlight because they don't like to be in any shade.
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, I do, yes, Okay.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a possibility that it could work if it's
Speaker 4: good sunlight. Just the cold heartiness is a thing that
Speaker 4: you know, when you put shrubs across the front of
Speaker 4: your house, you wanted to always have good shrub across
Speaker 4: the around of the house.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 4: They're gonna be bear and the winter and you don't
Speaker 4: have to be replacing them. So that's the only caveat
Speaker 4: I would say, I'm considered.
Speaker 15: Would you recommend something different?
Speaker 4: Well, uh, tell me what your goal is for that spot.
Speaker 6: You know, what, what do you want to see?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's a lot of different shrubs that
Speaker 4: that can cover cover a wall, you know, so it
Speaker 4: just kind of depends on the shrubs. You like to
Speaker 4: look at. How wide can this shrub be from the
Speaker 4: wall outward? How far?
Speaker 15: Uhdd three feet something like that.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, so pretty pretty tight space there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so you could you could go with something that like
Speaker 4: one of the more dwarf Holly's Chinese Hollywood would do
Speaker 4: well in an area like that. It's very very very
Speaker 4: thorny leaves, very poky leaves on that particular one. You
Speaker 4: could do nandinas across there. That would be an option.
Speaker 4: Uh three feet is on the small end for Chinese
Speaker 4: witch hazel, but that's a beautiful plant that has burgundy
Speaker 4: foliage and shaggy hot pink blooms in the spring. That
Speaker 4: would be one if you just got to shere it
Speaker 4: to keep it in the size you want. I might
Speaker 4: try Chinese witch halesl if it were if it were mine,
Speaker 4: I think that that one looks looks pretty good. Gosh,
Speaker 4: you just literally Georgia's probably fifty plants that we could
Speaker 4: suggest first spot right now?
Speaker 18: Well that is that just one point or two or
Speaker 18: three plants?
Speaker 4: How how long is the area? How long is the
Speaker 4: area that you need to cover?
Speaker 18: It's wide, it's about fifteen foot wide and ten feet tall.
Speaker 4: Fifteen Yeah, I would I would leave. Oh it can
Speaker 4: get ten feet tall. Oh that Chinese witch hazel. Get
Speaker 4: one that's going to get a little taller than If
Speaker 4: you go up to where are your jersey? Just down
Speaker 4: the street from you.
Speaker 1: There is.
Speaker 6: RCW and Michelle Street Plants.
Speaker 4: Yeah. RCW they they have got a shrub deal going
Speaker 4: on right now. So I would go talk to them,
Speaker 4: and they're gonna they're going to be able to put
Speaker 4: some good shrubs in your hand, and you'll get a
Speaker 4: better price on them right now too, that's for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's because they're going to have some others. All right, sir,
Speaker 4: thanks for the call.
Speaker 15: Thank you, thanks very much.
Speaker 4: Ah, you bet appreciate you calling very much.
Speaker 22: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, when you're when you're taking care of your lawn,
Speaker 4: it's still time to put if you want to put
Speaker 4: your Microlife brown patch out. That's the brown bag. That's
Speaker 4: the one that is loaded with microbes that help with
Speaker 4: making that plant service surface less hospitable for diseases. It
Speaker 4: might want to come in. Plus, it's got the nutrients
Speaker 4: in it as well. You know, Microlife has a number
Speaker 4: of different quality products. Their humates are always a good
Speaker 4: thing to add to the soil. And it's because humus
Speaker 4: is a final decomposition stage of organic matter. Its it's
Speaker 4: like past compost, right, it's when compost has gone all
Speaker 4: the way that is humus and uh, the humates plus
Speaker 4: is an excellent product for your lawns. It's good to
Speaker 4: use in the soil and again another quality product for Microlife.
Speaker 4: You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com find out
Speaker 4: all about their products, their liquids, their solid granulars rather
Speaker 4: uh and you can also find out where to get
Speaker 4: them and the answer by the way to where to
Speaker 4: get them is pretty much everywhere. Microlife is about as
Speaker 4: ubiquitous of a fertilizer as you're going to find all
Speaker 4: throughout the listening area for Garden Line. Here, time for
Speaker 4: me to take a little break. We will be right
Speaker 4: back and when we come back, we're going to talk
Speaker 4: to Bill and Galveston. Welcome back to Guardenline, folks. We
Speaker 4: are glad you are listening in today. You get a
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Speaker 4: see here we're gonna go. Who's waiting a lite? Bill
Speaker 4: and Galveston. Hey Bill, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 23: I sent you some photos. Is that this week? But
Speaker 23: my lawn where's brown? Where I had a sago palm?
Speaker 23: But three years ago I took it out and I
Speaker 23: have not been able to get that. Come back to
Speaker 23: lawn heavy suggestions as to what the problem is and
Speaker 23: how to fix it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw those photos. Boy, that is that is
Speaker 4: so extensive. I think you are looking at take all
Speaker 4: root rot. There, Bill, the fact that the lawn starts
Speaker 4: it's green, and then it starts to yellow and it
Speaker 4: loses its vigor, and then it eventually goes to straw
Speaker 4: brown and even the runners are dead. That is very
Speaker 4: typical of take all root Rot. If you go online
Speaker 4: to Gardening with Skip dot com my website Gardening with
Speaker 4: Skip dot Com. There's a schedule on there for lawn care,
Speaker 4: and there's a schedule on pest disease and weed management.
Speaker 4: That pest disease and weed schedule tells you what to
Speaker 4: apply for take all and when to apply it, and
Speaker 4: and the quick answers. You want to apply it now,
Speaker 4: and then you're gonna probably come back again in the
Speaker 4: spring and make a second application following that schedule there.
Speaker 4: But where you've got large what we had about applying,
Speaker 4: what are we talking about applying? You're going to You're
Speaker 4: gonna apply. There's more than one product on this schedule. Uh,
Speaker 4: if you can find something that has a zoxystrobin in it,
Speaker 4: that would be the most effective against take all root
Speaker 4: rots specifically. Okay, but uh that the reason I refer
Speaker 4: you to the schedule is because you know all the
Speaker 4: products and timing and everything is listed on there. I
Speaker 4: don't have to spell out all the things. But uh,
Speaker 4: you can find that product to just get out there
Speaker 4: and get it down as a p Now there in
Speaker 4: your lawn, there's sections that are pretty large that have
Speaker 4: been lost, and so you're probably going to need to
Speaker 4: resowd those areas in the in the springtime as it
Speaker 4: starts to warm up a little bit.
Speaker 8: Okay, So I WI wait the spring to do that though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you could reside now, but you know,
Speaker 4: I I don't know it is it cools off the
Speaker 4: long the long reress doesn't grow as much and so
Speaker 4: the sod doesn't take quite as fast it or as well.
Speaker 4: Uh So if it may, I think i'd focus on
Speaker 4: getting things cleaned up. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: bermuda grass coming up through there, and you may want
Speaker 4: to kill out some of those areas in the spring
Speaker 4: when it warms up. Uh, And then then do your
Speaker 4: residing to get back in business.
Speaker 8: They're okay, So when you reside, do I think something
Speaker 8: about the soil as well? At the same time.
Speaker 4: Say that, ask me one more time. I didn't quite
Speaker 4: catch you.
Speaker 8: What I what I resawed? Do I need to do
Speaker 8: something about the soil at the same time?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: You could airlom Cells has a lawn mix that they
Speaker 4: can deliver and you can use to top off that area,
Speaker 4: kind of scratch it into the soil a little bit,
Speaker 4: and then plan over it. If your soil is in
Speaker 4: pretty decent shape. You may not need to do that,
Speaker 4: but if there are some lumps and holes and things,
Speaker 4: it would be worth taking care of that before you
Speaker 4: put the side back down.
Speaker 8: I was thinking about putting in some Compostuh.
Speaker 4: Just compost itself decomposes away so much that any benefit
Speaker 4: then tends to go away in time. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 4: with doing it, just don't put too much on it,
Speaker 4: and don't try to use it to fill a hole,
Speaker 4: because what was a hole that you fill with compost
Speaker 4: becomes a hole again when the compost decomposes away.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: All right, you bet, thank you for the call. Appreciate
Speaker 4: that you take care. Where are we doing here, Oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, we're about to run out of this hour here.
Speaker 4: I wanted to tell you again about RCW and the
Speaker 4: fact that they have an outstanding selection of shrubs and trees.
Speaker 4: I was just visiting with someone a minute ago, George
Speaker 4: up in Jersey, about RCWN, the fact that they're trees
Speaker 4: and their shrubs are top quality, and they right now
Speaker 4: they got a great shrub cell going on. Specifically, we
Speaker 4: were talking about that. But when you're there, you're going
Speaker 4: to be able to pick up your herbs and perennials
Speaker 4: and annuals. You know, your annual color, everything you're looking for.
Speaker 4: They're at RCW Nursery that is at the corner right
Speaker 4: where Tamil Parkway two forty nine comes at about way eight,
Speaker 4: and the website is RCW Nurseries dot com. Just go
Speaker 4: by there, visit with David, find out about the different
Speaker 4: plant options that you in fact, David or any any
Speaker 4: of the folks there. There's a outstanding knowledge base at
Speaker 4: that company. And I found when I go by there
Speaker 4: and visit with them about the plants and about things,
Speaker 4: it's always it's always very refreshing to see just how
Speaker 4: on top of everything they are because they've been growing
Speaker 4: it for a long time. They've been there for a
Speaker 4: long time. They know what they're doing, and the quality
Speaker 4: of plants you get, and even more importantly, I think
Speaker 4: the quality of advice and direction you get is just
Speaker 4: outstanding there at RCW Nurseries. I'm gonna have to take
Speaker 4: a little break here in just a second, but I
Speaker 4: wanted to mention something else about ACE Hardware. I talk
Speaker 4: about ACE all the time because you know, ACE is
Speaker 4: a place where you're going to get everything you need
Speaker 4: to have success in your garden, in your lawns, with
Speaker 4: your plants. ACE is a place to turn the inside
Speaker 4: of your house and outside of your house into what
Speaker 4: you want it to be. You know, here come the holidays.
Speaker 4: Do you need lighting? Oh my gosh, ACE is the
Speaker 4: police for sure for that. When it comes to gifts, look,
Speaker 4: if you've not been in an ACE Hardware, don't just
Speaker 4: picture a bunch of plumbing and wires and hardware stuff.
Speaker 4: Imagine a gift shop, because that's also what it is,
Speaker 4: and they have outstanding gifts. And of course everything you
Speaker 4: need for your lawn and your landscape to have success
Speaker 4: is an ACE Hardware. Go to Acehardware dot com. Acehardware
Speaker 4: dot Com find the store locator to find the forty
Speaker 4: plus stores in the Greater Houston area near you. Easy
Speaker 4: to find ACE Hardware near you here in the Greater
Speaker 4: Houston area. Well, we're coming up on the sound of
Speaker 4: the music, and so I'm not going to take another
Speaker 4: call so I can give you adequate time when I do.
Speaker 4: Jennifer in the Woodlands, Charles and Beth in Conro, you
Speaker 4: will be our first three up when we come back
Speaker 4: from break here. Our phone number is seven to one
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Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skim Richard.
Speaker 3: It's just watch him as the world us so many
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Speaker 4: All right, folks, Welcome back to the guard Line. I'm
Speaker 4: your host, Skip Richter. We are here to help you
Speaker 4: have success. Help you have success. Now, I keep I've
Speaker 4: been telling you for months now. Fall is for planting.
Speaker 4: Fall is there's not a better season than the year
Speaker 4: for planting. If it's a shrub, well, it's going to
Speaker 4: have all winter and spring and the rest of fall
Speaker 4: to get roots established in the ground. So when next
Speaker 4: summer arrives, that tree is ready to go. I mean
Speaker 4: it has a head start compared to a spring planted counterpart.
Speaker 4: If it's a perennial, same kind of thing. It perneal
Speaker 4: grass is perennial flowers like Savia's and others. It's the
Speaker 4: best time to plant. And then there's all our cool
Speaker 4: season flowers and vegetables that we can be planting now,
Speaker 4: and herbs for example. And if you're going to plant,
Speaker 4: get you some has to grow six twelve six from medina.
Speaker 4: Has to grow six twelve six from Medina. It's got,
Speaker 4: of course, the six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus, six
Speaker 4: percent potassium phosphorus, very important in rude development. You take
Speaker 4: this six twelve six, you mix it in water, you
Speaker 4: drench it into the soil. It's got Medina soil activator
Speaker 4: in it to stimulate biological activity. It's got humate, humic acid.
Speaker 4: Humic acid. Final stage of compost decomposition is humus. Humic
Speaker 4: acids are in that humus and they help improve sol structure.
Speaker 4: They also help with nutrient uptake. It just makes the
Speaker 4: soil better. That's how nature is designed to work. That's
Speaker 4: how it works. You are taking those same products and
Speaker 4: you're improving it. When you water your new plants in
Speaker 4: with Medina hast Grow six twelve six plant food. You
Speaker 4: can also use it for folio's not going to burn
Speaker 4: your plants. But my goodness, we are in the big
Speaker 4: middle of planting season and you always should have some
Speaker 4: Medina hastro Grow six twelve six on the shelf for
Speaker 4: doing just as I described. In fact, I'll put it
Speaker 4: and then later maybe a week later, watered in again
Speaker 4: with it, and then a week later do it again,
Speaker 4: maybe three times. We're just helping get that established, but
Speaker 4: especially that first initial deep drenching of the soil. All right,
Speaker 4: we're going to go to Katie, Texas and talk to Dennis. Hello, Dennis,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 24: Good morning to you. I appreciate the time I had
Speaker 24: a question regarding the lawn carrs and specifically Saint Augustine,
Speaker 24: and we try to control the clover. You know that
Speaker 24: makes the cockle burrs in the springtime. And would these
Speaker 24: pre emergons such as barricade dimension or pendomthylin be useful
Speaker 24: for that?
Speaker 4: Yes, any of that would would work. You need to
Speaker 4: get out there, look real close at the lawn see
Speaker 4: if you've seen little clover sprouted yet. But even if
Speaker 4: you've started to see it, go ahead and get those down.
Speaker 4: But I mean, Dennis, I'd do it today. I mean
Speaker 4: I'd get it as soon. In other words, as as
Speaker 4: soon as possible. Put it down, and then you need
Speaker 4: to put a half inch of water on it to
Speaker 4: move it down into the soil surface because then it
Speaker 4: forms that barricade over the soil surface so that when
Speaker 4: the weed tries to sprout, it kills it at that
Speaker 4: stage before it can establish. That's how that works, okay.
Speaker 24: And it is safe to put directly on the Saint Augustine.
Speaker 4: Correct, Yes, I'm made for that. Just follow the label
Speaker 4: and don't don't fall fall for the teaspoons good a
Speaker 4: tablespoons better because you don't want to overuse the pre
Speaker 4: emergence in your lawn. The right amount is good. Excessive
Speaker 4: amounts you create problems, So don't do that. Just follow
Speaker 4: the label it's made. The label is the amount that
Speaker 4: it takes to do the job very well.
Speaker 24: Okay, in the Katie area, is there a location that
Speaker 24: you would recommend there or I could buy these products?
Speaker 4: Yes, you can get those at your hardware stores. Katie.
Speaker 4: Katie Hardware is one example. I was just out there
Speaker 4: the other day. Whenever you go to any of your
Speaker 4: Ace hardware stores, you're gonna find all these kinds of
Speaker 4: products that you know I'm talking about, They're gonna they're
Speaker 4: gonna be widely, widely available. But just a good example,
Speaker 4: you know, would be the Katie the Katie Hardware Excuse me,
Speaker 4: I can't even talk. Uh they I was in there
Speaker 4: the other day and they were very well stocked with
Speaker 4: you know what you might be looking for. They're just
Speaker 4: north of I ten. I don't know exactly where you are.
Speaker 4: You know, if you're on the if you're on the
Speaker 4: inside of ninety nine, then the Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch
Speaker 4: on Mason has it as well.
Speaker 24: Okay, yeah, I'm in Old Katie.
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, hardware, But okay, go ahead, just.
Speaker 4: Don't delay don't delay. That's the main thing is every
Speaker 4: day that goes by, more weeds are getting bigger, and
Speaker 4: you know you need to shut them down.
Speaker 6: Okay, oh yeah, I'm gonna do it this week here,
Speaker 6: all right.
Speaker 4: Sir, Good luck with that. Thanks for the call, appreciate that.
Speaker 4: All right, we're gonna go now, talk to Charles. Hey, Charles,
Speaker 4: Welcome to God morning.
Speaker 25: I heard the lady call in a while ago about
Speaker 25: her problem with squirrels, and a friend of mine had
Speaker 25: the same sort of problem, and he bought some owl
Speaker 25: imitation owls. There are a couple of different kinds. One
Speaker 25: is a kind of a plastic one that it's about
Speaker 25: ten inches tall. And on the other one that was
Speaker 25: really effective was an owl that had a body and
Speaker 25: had wings on it that hung in the tree. The
Speaker 25: squirrels just disappeared out of all of his trees. Say,
Speaker 25: owl scared him the death.
Speaker 4: Well, that's interesting. I've never heard that one before. I
Speaker 4: would say if that, if that's going to work, I
Speaker 4: definitely would move those around a little bit. I know,
Speaker 4: any kind of a scare tactic that we use for anything.
Speaker 4: If it just sits there all the time, the birds
Speaker 4: get used to it. I took a picture. One time.
Speaker 4: In Austin, Texas, someone had put us an owl on
Speaker 4: top of their sign of their business to keep the
Speaker 4: birds from roosting on it and pooping. And I drove
Speaker 4: by one day and that thing had been there for months,
Speaker 4: and there was a bird perched on top of the owl,
Speaker 4: roosting on top of the plastic owl. So I would say,
Speaker 4: don't them get used to it.
Speaker 25: I have to admit, the one that was most effective
Speaker 25: was the one that actually had wings, and it hung
Speaker 25: from a limb of the tree, and the wings actually
Speaker 25: moved back and forth, so.
Speaker 8: It had some movement.
Speaker 4: Oh okay.
Speaker 25: And he never moved it. And we go over to
Speaker 25: his place a couple times a week. Never saw another
Speaker 25: squirrel rounds.
Speaker 4: All right, Hey, thanks, thanks for that. I got to run,
Speaker 4: but I appreciate that. Appreciate you weighing in on that one.
Speaker 4: Take care of Charles. Arburgate up in Tomball is a
Speaker 4: showplace of garden centers. I mean it is the kind
Speaker 4: of place people go from all over to see. I
Speaker 4: love it every time I go in there. I mean
Speaker 4: it's just beautiful and if you need a plant, you're
Speaker 4: not going to find a better selection if you're needing advice,
Speaker 4: you're not going to find better advice, whether it's diagnosing, identifying,
Speaker 4: or even suggestions. And I always say brown stuff before
Speaker 4: green stuff. At Arborgate, they have three different bags for
Speaker 4: the brown stuff. One is called Organic Food Complete. It's
Speaker 4: a four to four to three plus calcium organic fertilizer does.
Speaker 4: Number two Organic Soil Complete, which is a soil with
Speaker 4: expanded shale, which is important for our clay soils, having
Speaker 4: that expanded shale in it. And then Organic Compost Complete.
Speaker 4: Third bag that is compost with expanded shale. Now compost
Speaker 4: helps glay soils, but expanded shale does as well and
Speaker 4: last even longer. And so that one two three system
Speaker 4: will get you off to a good start. Now, when
Speaker 4: you're at Arburgate, the holidays have hit, and go into
Speaker 4: those their gift shops and check them out. Check out
Speaker 4: the plants too, member falls for planting. They've got twelve
Speaker 4: months out of the year. Arburgate carries fruit trees and
Speaker 4: for example, and you're going to find everything you need there.
Speaker 4: It's on twenty nine to twenty For those of you
Speaker 4: who just moved to the air at twenty nine twenty,
Speaker 4: just a mile and a half west of two forty
Speaker 4: nine in Tomball. It's on the left hand side. Do
Speaker 4: you want to find Trishel Road which is a loop
Speaker 4: that goes around behind Arburgate turn in before or after
Speaker 4: Arburgate down Trish'll go around back and there's a really
Speaker 4: good old weather parking lot back there that is especially handy.
Speaker 4: Check out the website. In the meantime, sign up for
Speaker 4: their newsletter at Arborgate dot com. Time for me to
Speaker 4: take a break. When I come back, let's see Adolph,
Speaker 4: Jen and Steve. You'll be our first three. Hey, welcome
Speaker 4: back to the guard line. Good to have you with us.
Speaker 4: Looking at the boards here, I believe Jen's been holding
Speaker 4: the longest, so we're going to head out to Jen. Now, Hey, Jen,
Speaker 4: how can we help with your questions?
Speaker 5: Cool?
Speaker 15: Is it made that your high skip?
Speaker 4: Yes? Yes, I see that you've been holding the longest.
Speaker 4: How can I help?
Speaker 15: Yes?
Speaker 4: I have.
Speaker 15: My name is Joe Wayne.
Speaker 26: Actually I have sent.
Speaker 15: You some pictures about my long.
Speaker 17: I have dead patches, had this last year and I
Speaker 17: replaced with sad and then.
Speaker 15: Again this year. Now I have good patches.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, I did get your pictures. You know it's
Speaker 4: hard to be positive on our diagnosis with just a
Speaker 4: taken from a distance, but the symptoms look exactly like
Speaker 4: you would expect from take all root rot. In Saint Augustine.
Speaker 4: The yellowing that progresses to completely dead, the runners are
Speaker 4: brown dead, they're not alive. That looks like take all
Speaker 4: root rot. And if you go online to my website
Speaker 4: gardening with skip dot com, I have a couple of schedules.
Speaker 4: One is for lawn fertilizing and watering and mowing and
Speaker 4: that the other one is for controlling diseases and weeds
Speaker 4: and insects and things like that in the lawn, and
Speaker 4: that's the one you want. It gives you a list
Speaker 4: of products that you can choose from for control of it,
Speaker 4: and then it tells you you know exactly when to
Speaker 4: do it, and now is the time. Don't delay another day.
Speaker 4: We've been treating for take all the last since the
Speaker 4: beginning of October, and so go ahead and get that
Speaker 4: done now and be ready to repeat it again in March.
Speaker 26: It's a website, Okay.
Speaker 27: When I went to the ACE, they gave me copper
Speaker 27: fungus side.
Speaker 4: Not for this, that's for other things. Not for that.
Speaker 4: That's for something else. So, uh, just go ahead and
Speaker 4: and and go back and tell them you need a product.
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna I'm gonna spell out the name of it. Okay,
Speaker 4: the the not that brand, but the ingredient. It's a
Speaker 4: z o x y S t r O b I
Speaker 4: n A i O x y s t r o azoxystrobin.
Speaker 4: Find a product with that. Go to ACE. They've got it.
Speaker 4: ACE carries that stuff. Okay, and just tell me you
Speaker 4: need that, and then follow that schedule. Download both of
Speaker 4: those schedules. There's and there's other good information on the
Speaker 4: website and it's all free.
Speaker 26: Okay, Okay, thank you.
Speaker 4: All right, you take here, you take care all right.
Speaker 4: Now we're going to go to Adolf and Manville.
Speaker 6: Hey Adolf, Yes, a good morning. Look at.
Speaker 27: Um hm, I've got a red barren beach and I'm
Speaker 27: just a little bit.
Speaker 15: Jeez.
Speaker 27: Why why why is it full of green leaves still?
Speaker 6: I mean, uh, sometimes I would have thought.
Speaker 4: Now, sometimes they hold their leaves a little bit longer.
Speaker 4: That's that's not a problem, don't It'll drop them when
Speaker 4: we get a good cold snap in here, those leaves
Speaker 4: are going to come off.
Speaker 8: But that's not yea, I have.
Speaker 4: That's not a concern.
Speaker 27: Okay, yeah, I was concerned a little bit because I
Speaker 27: have another peachtree that it's uh that dropped all its leaves.
Speaker 27: So anyway, the other question is if I'm just before
Speaker 27: on a simon, uh, if I need the fruit on
Speaker 27: the tree, they will, right, eventually.
Speaker 4: It sounds like, yes, eventually they will. No, they know
Speaker 4: they eventually will, And I would leave them as long
Speaker 4: as you can because per simmons don't ripen after they
Speaker 4: come off the tree very well, So you want to
Speaker 4: you want to leave them on the tree. Now at
Speaker 4: some point, you know, if raccoons are getting them or
Speaker 4: if they're starting to actually turn loose and fall off, yeah,
Speaker 4: I go ahead and pick them. But uh yeah that
Speaker 4: leave them as long as you can.
Speaker 27: Yeah, all right, I've never seen a fruit like that.
Speaker 27: It takes this long. I mean it's orange for three
Speaker 27: weeks and it's still hard. No, there's been a couple
Speaker 27: of them that are already uh right and they're good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, well, good good. I love those fruit. Well,
Speaker 4: good luck with that, and thank you for the call, Adolf,
Speaker 4: appreciate appreciate that very much. I wanted to tell you
Speaker 4: guys that those of you who are familiar with Landscapers Pride,
Speaker 4: you know they make quality products. You know those over
Speaker 4: two dozen different products that they have available. A couple
Speaker 4: of them I'd like to focus on right now because
Speaker 4: we are making sure we get the soil right when
Speaker 4: we want a plant, and it's always a good time
Speaker 4: to improve the soil. Healthy soil composts one hundred percent
Speaker 4: locally sourced green materials. Healthy soil compost from Landscaper's Pride,
Speaker 4: a local company here. They the healthy soil compost material itself.
Speaker 4: Of course it's loaded microbial activity because it is compost itself,
Speaker 4: but it is widely available throughout the Greater Houston area.
Speaker 4: Then they also have the mushroom compost, which is an
Speaker 4: even richer mushroom created from clean local mushroom substrate. Okay,
Speaker 4: so when you produce mushrooms like you buy in the store,
Speaker 4: the little white mushrooms, button mushrooms, that material that they
Speaker 4: grow the mushrooms in then is they get rid of
Speaker 4: it and it makes some of the best compost you're
Speaker 4: ever going to have, and that is mushroom compost from
Speaker 4: Landscapers Pride. I'd encourage you to go to their website
Speaker 4: Landscaperspride dot com, find the store locators of all the
Speaker 4: places you can buy their stuff it's widely available, and
Speaker 4: also follow them on social media to keep up the
Speaker 4: date with things that are going on with their many,
Speaker 4: many products in that particular company. Let's see here, We're
Speaker 4: going to go now to Steve and West Houston. Hey Steve,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 26: Thank you, skip, good morning. I looked at your loan
Speaker 26: schedule and I'm running behind the two. I had a
Speaker 26: question about it. Looks like I'm too late for the
Speaker 26: night trophos a winter Riser, the eight twelve, sixteen or
Speaker 26: can I still put it out?
Speaker 4: You can still put it out. Just just hurry up
Speaker 4: and get it done. Here's the thing, is the weather
Speaker 4: coolst more and more, the grass slows more and more,
Speaker 4: and so the uptake slows down more and more, and
Speaker 4: so there's not a black and white line, you know,
Speaker 4: on that little chart on my website. I've got to
Speaker 4: draw the line somewhere right, But actually it's a very
Speaker 4: fuzzy line in there. And so the sooner the batter,
Speaker 4: go ahead and use it and get it down, you'll
Speaker 4: be fine.
Speaker 26: The other fertilizer I didn't find any times to put
Speaker 26: it out unless it could be anytime that I have
Speaker 26: a bag of ags, Mike, what is it now or
Speaker 26: when when should.
Speaker 4: I put it out? At anytime you want to put
Speaker 4: it down. It's not Yeah, it's not loaded with nitrogen
Speaker 4: to make the grass grow or anything. It's it's trace
Speaker 4: and or minerals. And so you could do it now.
Speaker 4: You could do it the same day you do your
Speaker 4: other fertilizing. You just can't apply the other. Yeah, it's
Speaker 4: a set of nutrients than the than the the nitrophos
Speaker 4: fault special the nutrients and nitropos false ban or the
Speaker 4: macronutrients primarily that your grass needs. This is the micronutrients
Speaker 4: that's your grass needs.
Speaker 26: Yes, sir, I'll get after it. And last question, I
Speaker 26: have something my yard. I've got some very spots. It's
Speaker 26: you know, ninety Saint Augustine. I've got some bermuda here
Speaker 26: and there, but it's few and far between.
Speaker 6: It doesn't bother me.
Speaker 26: But where I have no Saint Augustine, I've got a weed.
Speaker 26: And I saw it. They were talking about something on
Speaker 26: Central Texas Gardener and they called it crete weed, and
Speaker 26: it somehow came to the Bermuda family. Their bright green
Speaker 26: leaves about the size of your thumbnail, and tiny little,
Speaker 26: bright yellow flowers. Have you ever heard of.
Speaker 4: Well, no, something got lost in translation. I used to
Speaker 4: be on Central Texas Gardener TV show when I was
Speaker 4: over in the Austin area, and I have no idea what. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the crete does not sound like any wead. But here's
Speaker 4: what I need you to do. I'm We're gonna. I'm
Speaker 4: gonna put you on hold and my producer Jonathan will
Speaker 4: pick up the call and he will give you an
Speaker 4: email address, send me some pictures up close in good
Speaker 4: sharp focus, and then one kind of step back, take
Speaker 4: the whole area. Let me look at him, and once
Speaker 4: I see what it is, I can tell you what
Speaker 4: to do about it.
Speaker 26: Okay, thank you so much. I appreciate you.
Speaker 4: All right, don't go away. Jonathan'll pick right up. All right, Well, boy,
Speaker 4: there you go. H Nelson. Plant food makes a number
Speaker 4: of our lives. You know, they got the Turf Star line.
Speaker 4: We talk about that all the time. They got the
Speaker 4: Nutri Star line, which is for various kinds of plants.
Speaker 4: There's a Nutri Star tree and shrub for life. So
Speaker 4: there's a neutral Star, you know, for whatever you're growing
Speaker 4: pretty much, and then the Color Star, and that's the
Speaker 4: one I want to focus on right now. Color Star
Speaker 4: is a nineteen thirteen sex fertilizer for all flowering plants.
Speaker 4: It's one of the most universal blends that they make.
Speaker 4: It can be used on annuals and perennials. It can
Speaker 4: be used on flowering trees and shrubs if you want.
Speaker 4: You're going to put it on about every three months
Speaker 4: during whatever the growing season is for that plant. So
Speaker 4: like right now you're putting out pansies, you're putting out
Speaker 4: hanthas in cool season, mix it into the soil. Plant
Speaker 4: your plants. Two or three months later, do it again
Speaker 4: because in the cool season, microbial activity slowed down in
Speaker 4: the soil, and we give a little extra boost to
Speaker 4: keep these things growing.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 4: It has five sources and nitrogen, it's got organic bone meal,
Speaker 4: it's got organic blood meal in it. It just builds
Speaker 4: the soil. This stuff is so popular landscapers use it
Speaker 4: not just in Texas, but they shep a lot of
Speaker 4: it to states outside of Texas because once people figure
Speaker 4: out how well it works, they come back for more.
Speaker 4: Nelson's Color Star thirteen or nineteen thirteen six for all
Speaker 4: flowering plants. Well, let's see we are looking at uh,
Speaker 4: running out of time on this spot. I'm gonna come
Speaker 4: back and Chuck you'll be my first up, and then
Speaker 4: Glenn when we get right back from this break. Thank
Speaker 4: you all for listening to Garden Line. We appreciate you've
Speaker 4: been with us today. We got a lot more to
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Speaker 4: Welcome back to the guard Line. Glad you are with
Speaker 4: us today. We've got some more to go here in Guardenline.
Speaker 4: Plenty of things to talk about. In fact, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: jump right out there and head to the phones. We're
Speaker 4: going to go to Spring and talk to Chuck. Hey, Chuck,
Speaker 4: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 30: Hi, good, talk to you again.
Speaker 6: Skip. How are you, sir, I'm good, I'm good, all right.
Speaker 30: I wanted to talk to you about pictures that I
Speaker 30: just sent in and it's with regards to mushrooms growing
Speaker 30: on the lawn. And I'm not concerned about the growth
Speaker 30: of the mushroom. My question is based on what you
Speaker 30: see in the pictures. Are they poison us to our pets?
Speaker 4: I cannot tell you that there are a number of
Speaker 4: mushrooms that look like that. The ones that are sitting
Speaker 4: on the stump in the picture, those are a shelf fungi.
Speaker 4: They grow on logs in the forest, on the ground
Speaker 4: and any dead wood. The others are coming out off
Speaker 4: of most likely a tree route under the ground, under
Speaker 4: the surface. But I just I'm not an expert at it,
Speaker 4: and I wouldn't want to guess, and you wouldn't want
Speaker 4: me to go.
Speaker 30: Okay, now they are growing, although you can't see it
Speaker 30: in the picture. There's another stump. I took two trees
Speaker 30: down through four years ago, and those are the matter
Speaker 30: coming up the Obviously the roots have started to decay
Speaker 30: and so therefore we're getting the mushroom right.
Speaker 6: So, but I was just curious if you.
Speaker 30: Might have been to recognize them as you know, an
Speaker 30: issue for you know, for our pets.
Speaker 4: I would pop them, pop them up and get rid
Speaker 4: of them, just to be safe.
Speaker 6: They're gone, yes, sir. They come up so fast that
Speaker 6: they are gone. Uh.
Speaker 30: And the second question does go back to what you've
Speaker 30: been talking about a lot today on the take all,
Speaker 30: I have a forest fire out in my backyard now
Speaker 30: with this stuff, and so I realize I can't undo dead.
Speaker 30: But what I My question is if I go in
Speaker 30: with that zos drillbon I presume it's a spray. Am
Speaker 30: I spraying the lawn that's unaffected, or am I spraying
Speaker 30: it on the area that's been attacked.
Speaker 4: There's really not a need to treat everything in the lawn,
Speaker 4: but you can. Uh so take all is an opportunist
Speaker 4: disease that that is especially bad and the grass gets
Speaker 4: weak and it's easy for the take all to move in.
Speaker 30: That's the way I can't areas where you know, this
Speaker 30: grass is lush and greatt been on the schedule for years,
Speaker 30: so i'd here too. Obviously you can miss it by
Speaker 30: a week or three. But on the most part, and
Speaker 30: to put the eagle down as I do usually about
Speaker 30: twice a year, you know, based on the scheduling.
Speaker 6: And so yes, it's far and it's.
Speaker 30: Not being overwatered or underwatered by my calculations. But anyway,
Speaker 30: once it's just spread like wildfire, you.
Speaker 4: Know, chuck, maybe it may not be take all root right,
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't. There's no way for me to know.
Speaker 4: The only way for a year, no, for sure, would
Speaker 4: be to take a four by four, four by six
Speaker 4: inch section of grass that is sick, not dead, it's
Speaker 4: showing and send it up to the State plank Clinic
Speaker 4: and have them identify it positively.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: The eagle has some activity against take all root rot.
Speaker 4: It does primarily we recommend it for the brown patch
Speaker 4: issues that are out there, but it does have some
Speaker 4: activity on take all. But the azoxystrobin is just you know,
Speaker 4: it's probably the one best there. There are some other
Speaker 4: options and on my schedule propaconnasoles also on there. That
Speaker 4: works on.
Speaker 3: Right that.
Speaker 30: So well, I'll go ahead, well you know, I mean,
Speaker 30: and you know, preventative maintenance will say. And in the meantime,
Speaker 30: you've got to figure out, you know, how I can
Speaker 30: get this thing looked at so accurately you diagnosed.
Speaker 4: I see take all where the grass is stressed from
Speaker 4: several things. One sole compaction can do that. Number two
Speaker 4: shade can do that. Drought number three can do that.
Speaker 4: And the other thing is when we misuse herbicides that
Speaker 4: are a little hard on Saint Augustine, in which some
Speaker 4: of our broadly week killers are. In the temperatures warm,
Speaker 4: we can weaken the Saint Augustine and then the take
Speaker 4: all moves in because the grass has been weakened by
Speaker 4: misapplication of the products. So there's a lot of ways
Speaker 4: you can get there to have the problem, but a
Speaker 4: good diagnosis, you know. I mean, I'm taking your word
Speaker 4: for it. That's what looks like. But I think if
Speaker 4: you're looking at the value of the lawn and the
Speaker 4: cost of replacing things, it may be worth you going
Speaker 4: ahead and sending a sample up to the steak plant
Speaker 4: clinic making sure you're on the right path, because it
Speaker 4: sounds like you're doing everything right of the you know, Otherwise.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's we're doing the best can
Speaker 6: all right?
Speaker 3: All right, man?
Speaker 4: Well so much, all right, thank you, appreciate, appreciate that
Speaker 4: very much.
Speaker 26: Uh.
Speaker 4: Enchanted Gardens is out in the Richmond Rosenberg area. It's
Speaker 4: on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond. So if you're
Speaker 4: down in Richmond Rosenberg, you go up toward Katie Fulscher.
Speaker 4: It's kind of where FM seven twenty three and three
Speaker 4: fifty nine come together. Now, the easiest thing to do
Speaker 4: is just write down the website, because you'll want the
Speaker 4: website for a lot of other reasons. Enchanted Gardens Richmond
Speaker 4: dot com, Enchended Gardens Richmond dot com you can be
Speaker 4: part of getting newsletter information from them. From the website.
Speaker 4: It's got maps how to get everywhere. It tells you
Speaker 4: what's going on there, what's happening you know, and there
Speaker 4: always is something happening up in Enchanted Gardens up in
Speaker 4: the Richmond Rosenberg area right now. They are set up
Speaker 4: for the holidays, lots of cool season color for your landscapes.
Speaker 4: The gift shops are just loaded with curl, cool stuff,
Speaker 4: cruel stuff. You need to get your onions, well, they've
Speaker 4: got you set up for that. You want some beautiful
Speaker 4: topiary types of junipers and whatnot, they've got that there.
Speaker 4: Santa Claus will be there on December seventh from ten
Speaker 4: to two pm, and it's a good time to get
Speaker 4: out there and check them out. While you're there, though,
Speaker 4: please pick up some cool season color. They still have
Speaker 4: moms around out there. They've got Dianthus that is just
Speaker 4: absolutely gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous, as well as other cool season plants.
Speaker 4: Enchanted Gardens Richmond on FM three point fifty nine the
Speaker 4: Katie fulsher Side of Richmond. They're open Monday through Saturday
Speaker 4: eight to five, So today this afternoon be a good
Speaker 4: time to get out there Sunday tomorrow. They're open from
Speaker 4: ten am to four pm. And you know when you
Speaker 4: go there, you're going to find the fertilizers I talk
Speaker 4: about on Guardline. You're going to find expert advice that
Speaker 4: will guide you in the right direction to have a
Speaker 4: beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape. Two, I'm going to
Speaker 4: have to stop and go to a break here. When
Speaker 4: we come back, Glenn and Baytown, you will be the
Speaker 4: first caller up. Hey, welcome back to Guardline. Good to
Speaker 4: have you with us. We are here to answer your
Speaker 4: gardening questions. We're going to go out to the phones
Speaker 4: here and talk to Glenn in Baytown. Hey, Glenn, welcome
Speaker 4: to garden Line.
Speaker 21: Good morning. Sure, I don't know whether this is a
Speaker 21: garden question or not. I have a U tree going
Speaker 21: by the corner of my house. It's about thirty five
Speaker 21: feet tall. It's a beautiful tree. It's very slender, but
Speaker 21: it's leaning about twenty degrees. After this last little windstorm
Speaker 21: we had here a few weeks ago, the tree is
Speaker 21: leaning about I'd say twenty degrees. Is there a way
Speaker 21: the roots are being pulled up on the one side.
Speaker 21: Is there a way to straighten the tree up or
Speaker 21: should I cut it down?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 4: Boy, I hate to cut one down. That's you said,
Speaker 4: you right, it's a U.
Speaker 21: Yeah, and it's a beautiful tree. It's real tall and slender.
Speaker 4: Probably got a good sized trunk at the base right
Speaker 4: several inches.
Speaker 21: Well, it's probably about eight inches across the diameter of
Speaker 21: the base.
Speaker 4: Problem. Yeah, you could pull it up into place and
Speaker 4: then stake it. I might even pull it just a
Speaker 4: little pass straight up, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 4: it's going to sat backwards the way it has fallen.
Speaker 4: But it takes a long time for new routes to
Speaker 4: develop and to develop strength to hold that thing up.
Speaker 4: So usually when when a plant gets more than about
Speaker 4: a tree gets more than about three inches and trunk
Speaker 4: diameter and it's leaning, it's such a process and a
Speaker 4: time consuming one to try to get it dependably and
Speaker 4: strongly established in an upright position. Again that we.
Speaker 21: Dig out one side so I could pull it back.
Speaker 4: If you had rain that washed yeah, if you had
Speaker 4: some water wash underneath there, If you could get underneath
Speaker 4: it a little bit and gets soil out, that's helpful.
Speaker 4: And here's why, because when when soul washes in now
Speaker 4: when you try to straighten it, that's like a little
Speaker 4: folkrum point like on a seesaw, where it can actually
Speaker 4: cause breaking of roots. But I can't see it there.
Speaker 4: I would just you know, try to pull it up
Speaker 4: into place, but you're gonna have to hold that, hold
Speaker 4: it in place for a long time.
Speaker 5: And I would.
Speaker 4: You know if you had something. Yeah, I understand, and
Speaker 4: I don't blame you for not wanting to. You know,
Speaker 4: you can print them off and they'll re sprout and
Speaker 4: go back up again. It's going to look real weird
Speaker 4: for a while. You could cut it back shorter so
Speaker 4: that at least you're not fighting a thirty foot tall
Speaker 4: sail in the wind right, and then that would give
Speaker 4: it time to establish as it tries to regrow, and
Speaker 4: use will take off back straight up again. They're not
Speaker 4: going to start growing sideways because you cut them off.
Speaker 26: So ignn option.
Speaker 21: Okay, as tall as it is, how far should I
Speaker 21: go down before I cut the top out of it?
Speaker 4: You know that's going to tell you. I mean, yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: if you cut it, if you cut half of it, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's kind of a medium way. And I realize here,
Speaker 4: we don't have a good solution to your problem. So
Speaker 4: we're given the best, not good solutions, right, Yeah, and
Speaker 4: you know, staking is not a great solution, but it
Speaker 4: can be done. Cutting it off is not a great solution,
Speaker 4: but it does help in the sense of it. Now
Speaker 4: you're not fighting against so much of a sail in
Speaker 4: the wind.
Speaker 8: While it.
Speaker 21: Is true because it's your eats thin at the top
Speaker 21: and when the wind blows, it leans and I may
Speaker 21: just have to cut the dog on thing down. Okay, Skip,
Speaker 21: I appreciate your help.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, if you cut it back, I would
Speaker 4: you know what I'd do, I'd call Martin Spoon Moore
Speaker 4: from Affordable Tree because he could come out and take
Speaker 4: a look at it and make a suggestion. He may,
Speaker 4: when he's on site, be able to take a look
Speaker 4: and go, you know what I think you should you
Speaker 4: know fill in the blank. He may, he'll have he'll
Speaker 4: have some kind of of an opinion.
Speaker 21: About that, his Affordable Trees.
Speaker 4: Yes, Affordable Tree Service, Martin Spoon, Martin Spoon More. And
Speaker 4: here's the phone number seven to one three six nine
Speaker 4: six nine nine six six three two six six. Now
Speaker 4: I you're way down in Baytown, so yeah, I haven't
Speaker 4: talked to Martin. Yeah, I haven't talked to Martin about
Speaker 4: you know, how far I do you go? He may
Speaker 4: go that far and then some I don't know, but
Speaker 4: just be aware. I'm just saying that that you're perfectly
Speaker 4: I would talk to him though, because he he is
Speaker 4: very knowledgeable and at the very least he'll be able
Speaker 4: to give you some thoughts and guidance, and he may
Speaker 4: even be able to come out and take a look
Speaker 4: at that one.
Speaker 21: All right, Okay, I appreciate make sure, thank you have
Speaker 21: a great date.
Speaker 4: All right, thank you, Yeah, you too, Thanks for the call.
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Speaker 4: in Mont Bellevue. Hello Chris, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 22: Hey Chip, I got the east side represented this morning.
Speaker 22: Sounds like over at Mont Belleview. So this is for
Speaker 22: Saint Augustine dress. I have okay, yellow patches, and I
Speaker 22: looked online a little bit and saying fungus and all that,
Speaker 22: you know, twenty four x spots, but these are feet,
Speaker 22: you know, such as five ten feet and kind of spreading.
Speaker 22: So just kind of wondering if that's a fungo deal
Speaker 22: or what.
Speaker 4: So when when you look at the grass, describe it
Speaker 4: again to me in terms of shape and color and
Speaker 4: how it progresses.
Speaker 22: Well, but I had to say Saint Augustine. And originally
Speaker 22: they were small yellow patches, not brown, but yellow, kind
Speaker 22: of frosting almost on the tips. But it's kind of
Speaker 22: embedded in the whole grass now and it's spread out
Speaker 22: into five ten foot patches now, but now kind of
Speaker 22: in the center it seems to be getting brown. So
Speaker 22: in the you know, in the kind of center to speak.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not going to be able to give you
Speaker 4: a positive ID based on me trying to picture what
Speaker 4: you're seeing it. I think there's a good chance that
Speaker 4: you're looking at brown patch also called now large patch.
Speaker 4: It typically you see it as big brown circles in
Speaker 4: the yard, but it can be kind of irregular, and
Speaker 4: I've depending on the kind of grass and the conditions,
Speaker 4: the soule moisture of the nutrient, you know, high nitrogen,
Speaker 4: low nitrogen, whatever it can it's not always just a
Speaker 4: round circle. But I think that's what you're looking at.
Speaker 4: The Eagle turf fungicide by nitrofoss will stop will stop
Speaker 4: it from progressing. But just know that if you applied
Speaker 4: Eagle today you would see a little more of it
Speaker 4: happening just because it was already in process when you
Speaker 4: put the Eagle down, right, But it protects grass from
Speaker 4: getting the disease. That it's a it's a preventative, not
Speaker 4: a not something you that makes the brown circles turn
Speaker 4: green real quick. It'll green back up though when the
Speaker 4: weather warms up in spring.
Speaker 22: Okay, so is this contagious so to speak? I got
Speaker 22: basically one last morning to do. So should I apply
Speaker 22: that first or mow or it doesn't matter?
Speaker 4: Well, the spores spread, But I mean you could have
Speaker 4: a lawn that had none of it, and all of
Speaker 4: a sudden you got it showing up all the You know,
Speaker 4: it's kind of ubiquitous in terms of being able to
Speaker 4: get around. I would I wouldn't worry about it. I'd
Speaker 4: mo as you need to mow. I guess if you
Speaker 4: could mow that part last, probably be a little better
Speaker 4: to do that. But you know that's not that's not
Speaker 4: something we usually worry about. I would suggest that you
Speaker 4: just go ahead and make sure that when you when
Speaker 4: you do mo go, you go ahead and get that
Speaker 4: final moing done at a good height. And then if
Speaker 4: you want to put down the eagle to prevent spread
Speaker 4: of it, and just realize that the leaves have been
Speaker 4: rided off the runner. That's why I turned yellow and
Speaker 4: that's why it then turns to brown. And so it's
Speaker 4: just going to take some time. We'll have to have
Speaker 4: some warm weather for the wand to start looking good again. Okay,
Speaker 4: it' alrighty, Hey, I hear music. That means I got
Speaker 4: to quit talking. Thanks for the call, appreciate it.