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Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, good morning on a good Sunday morning.
Speaker 3: Glad you're listening to us today on garden Line. Okay,
Speaker 3: t r H. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we've
Speaker 3: got plenty to talk about today. First of all, let
Speaker 3: me get right to business here. If you would like
Speaker 3: to give us a call today to ask a gardening
Speaker 3: question seven one three two one two five eight seven
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Speaker 3: I have been working outside in my garden taking care
Speaker 3: of some things, battling some nutsedge. I know we've talked
Speaker 3: about that a lot lately, but you know, if you
Speaker 3: stay on it, you can win the battle. If you
Speaker 3: happen to be struggling with nuts edge or also called
Speaker 3: nut grass, although it's not a grass. You just go
Speaker 3: to my website Gardening with Skip dot com. I've put
Speaker 3: some free stuff up there for you to read. Understand
Speaker 3: the enemy if you will, We're going to go ahead
Speaker 3: and call this a battle. You are at war within nutsedge.
Speaker 3: And as you understand the different types of nutsedge, how
Speaker 3: they grow, what they do, it helps you to get
Speaker 3: ahead of it and control it. That's the problem most
Speaker 3: people now here. All the time people say things like,
Speaker 3: well I've tried that, it didn't work. Well, there's a
Speaker 3: reason for that, and it's either because you're using the
Speaker 3: wrong product or at the wrong time, and or not
Speaker 3: sticking with it. Those three things are the things that
Speaker 3: help you lose against nutsedge. And this is the deal.
Speaker 3: No matter how good you control it, no matter what
Speaker 3: you do, great product, great timing, it's like it all
Speaker 3: goes away and you know it's going to pop back up.
Speaker 3: If you don't stay on it, it just replenishes its reserves.
Speaker 3: It even creates more nuts underground, more tubers underground, and
Speaker 3: you just get to start over. So go online, go
Speaker 3: to gardeningwiskip dot com. There is a couple of nuts
Speaker 3: edge publications there. One of them is a one page sheet,
Speaker 3: another one it says nuts edge that it's like a
Speaker 3: three page sheet. It's more of an in depth look
Speaker 3: is the title. And then there's one called Herbicides for
Speaker 3: use with skips weed wiper and how to build a
Speaker 3: weed wiper, and in some situations when that says that
Speaker 3: weed wiper is important, it is effective in helping you
Speaker 3: manage that saige without hurting the plants around it. So
Speaker 3: just some things to think about for those of you
Speaker 3: dealing with that particular particular pest. And I do feel
Speaker 3: your pain. Another thing I've been running into a lot.
Speaker 3: Really this is something that just goes on all the
Speaker 3: time during the growing season, but lately it just seems
Speaker 3: like I'm getting even more questions about take all root rot. Now,
Speaker 3: they don't always come as a question about take off sometimes,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just like my lawn's dying. Wise my
Speaker 3: lawn dying, and but it ends up being take all
Speaker 3: being the cause. And I'm going to talk off and
Speaker 3: on today, probably through some of your questions as well
Speaker 3: about what what do we do, what's going on there,
Speaker 3: and how do we battle it, Because there are plant
Speaker 3: diseases that weakened plants, that disfigure plants brown patch or
Speaker 3: large patch, for example. It will rop the leaves off
Speaker 3: the runner, creating those big circles, but the runners are
Speaker 3: still alive and they regreen when the weather worms up.
Speaker 3: Would take all root rot. It kills, it takes all
Speaker 3: and it rots the roots. And a plant can't live
Speaker 3: without roots. And so that's one of probably the elephant
Speaker 3: in the room when it comes to turf health, I
Speaker 3: would say is take all root rot, much more widespread
Speaker 3: and ongoing and a bigger concern even than things like
Speaker 3: side webworms and and chinchbugs. For example. It's a biggie
Speaker 3: and we're still dealing with it a lot around here.
Speaker 3: Our phone number is seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: k t r H. If you'd like to give us
Speaker 3: a call. I want to make a couple of statements though,
Speaker 3: also about tree issues. People are concerned about the health
Speaker 3: of their trees, and they should be. You know, a
Speaker 3: tree adds a lot of value to your property, and
Speaker 3: a tree is a can be a huge, huge plant
Speaker 3: that grows slowly over time and develops either a strong
Speaker 3: or a weak structure. If it's prune properly, you can
Speaker 3: have a tree that lives for decades upon decades upon decades,
Speaker 3: goes a very long time, longer than we're around. But
Speaker 3: if it's pruned improperly, or if it's not cared for
Speaker 3: right or other issues that can happen. Training trained right
Speaker 3: in a good strong form, then that what I just
Speaker 3: said about it being a long lived changes and it
Speaker 3: suddenly becomes not so long lived and you're spending a
Speaker 3: lot of money on it because a limb is broken
Speaker 3: off following the house or just you know, ruined the
Speaker 3: structure of that tree. Well. Affordable Tree Service Martin spoon Moore.
Speaker 3: He is our go to guy for dealing with tree issues,
Speaker 3: from pruning him properly to begin with, to dealing with
Speaker 3: prune so that storms don't have the same effect that
Speaker 3: they might have had on that tree, creating a stronger structure,
Speaker 3: helping with the effects of wind, and helping a tree
Speaker 3: be more resilient against that. Martin Spoon Moore's number, and
Speaker 3: you ought to write this down, just keep it with you.
Speaker 3: It's seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty
Speaker 3: three and I'll give that again seven to one three
Speaker 3: six nine nine two six six three. Don't wait until
Speaker 3: a fall storm, you know with high winds, takes down
Speaker 3: a stress tree. Give Martin a call. There's a lot
Speaker 3: that can be done ahead of time. And you also
Speaker 3: go to his website. Aff Tree Service dot com. Afftree
Speaker 3: Service dot com. He does all kinds of things with trees,
Speaker 3: not just pruning them. He can advise you on a
Speaker 3: lot of issues that help you maintain good, healthy trees.
Speaker 3: And that again, it's not just the value to your home,
Speaker 3: it's it's the value to your lifestyle. You know, that
Speaker 3: beautiful tree that's shading the roof and maybe saving on
Speaker 3: the electric bill, or shading that patty area you're enjoying,
Speaker 3: and now the blazing sun is baking down on it
Speaker 3: because of the loss of a tree or a major limb.
Speaker 3: We're going to avoid those things, and proper care along
Speaker 3: the way is one of the key elements in avoiding
Speaker 3: those sort of things. I was at at the Arburgate Nursery.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, this has been a couple of weeks now,
Speaker 3: I guess a couple of weeks ago. I always stopped
Speaker 3: by our garden centers and see what's going on, what
Speaker 3: they have and how things are going. And boy, it's
Speaker 3: beautiful out there. I mean they are set up for fall.
Speaker 3: They've got all kinds of you know, Arbrogates always got
Speaker 3: their gift shops and all the I call it lens
Speaker 3: Gate bling. You know, when you walk through you see
Speaker 3: all the kinds of things you can put out in
Speaker 3: your yard to beautify or to signal the seasons, like
Speaker 3: we're coming into the fall season with all harvest themes,
Speaker 3: with Halloween themes, you know, Thanksgiving things. They've got all
Speaker 3: kinds of stuff like that all the time. And now
Speaker 3: Arbrogate is up there in tom Ball. It's west to
Speaker 3: tom Ball about half a mile from Tomball Parkway two
Speaker 3: forty nine on twenty nine to twenty. I just encourage
Speaker 3: you to go buy and check it out while you're there.
Speaker 3: Get their one two three completely easy system. That's a
Speaker 3: soil for anything with roots, that is a compost, and
Speaker 3: that is a very quality mult as well. And I
Speaker 3: think that if you start with that and bring it home,
Speaker 3: when you bring home your plants, you're going to have
Speaker 3: good Sunday morning, Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to
Speaker 3: have you with us today. We have plenty of talk about,
Speaker 3: you know, going into commercial ops some of our Arbigates
Speaker 3: one two three completely easy system. And I think I
Speaker 3: heard myself echoing in my head after I went to
Speaker 3: commercial that I said, the one two three has a
Speaker 3: is one of the of them is a multch and
Speaker 3: it's not I said that wrong. We're talking about an
Speaker 3: organic food Complete. That's a fertilizer that is a slow
Speaker 3: release organic type fertilizer loaded with microbes as well, including
Speaker 3: the microhizal fungi that work in connection with plant roots.
Speaker 3: It's the organic soil complete and the organic compost complete.
Speaker 3: One thing that's kind of cool about those last two products.
Speaker 3: You know, whenever you or adding good quality organic matter,
Speaker 3: whenever you're including things that like expanded shale and that's
Speaker 3: in and arburgates one two three system, the soil benefits
Speaker 3: go longer term, and so it's not just like you're
Speaker 3: doing something that is good right now. It's like you're
Speaker 3: doing something that builds the soil and it gets better
Speaker 3: and better, and it's like a snowball going down a hill.
Speaker 3: When you start to open up the soil and you
Speaker 3: start to get oxygen in, it invigorates microbial activity down
Speaker 3: in the root system and roots thrive better. And when
Speaker 3: roots thrive better, it improves the soil. Just in that way,
Speaker 3: toots exude substances that feed microbes and the roots themselves
Speaker 3: open up the soil. So it's like you begin doing
Speaker 3: things that are helping and it just gets better in
Speaker 3: other ways. Do you see what I'm saying? And so
Speaker 3: anytime we're working with our soil, we can have that
Speaker 3: effect on plants. You hear me all the time say,
Speaker 3: you know, spend a dollar on your soil before you
Speaker 3: spend a dollar on your plants, or spend a dollar
Speaker 3: on your soil at the same time you're spending a
Speaker 3: dollar on your plants.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 3: And anytime that you're going to take a wonderful plant home,
Speaker 3: whether it's a tomato, a flower, a tree, a shrub,
Speaker 3: whatever your plant is, make sure you're also before that
Speaker 3: plant goes in the ground, improving the condition of your soil,
Speaker 3: because that's the secrets of success. It really is. I
Speaker 3: like to say it this way. Plants live in their roots,
Speaker 3: meaning as the root system goes, so goes the plant.
Speaker 3: And if you've got the most wonderful plant in the
Speaker 3: world and its roots cannot expand cannot get oxygen, don't
Speaker 3: have the nutrients that they need to take up, that
Speaker 3: plant is not going to go anywhere. And it's so
Speaker 3: easy to fix up. If you'd like to give us
Speaker 3: a call here on garden Line, it's seven one three, two,
Speaker 3: one two, five eight seven four seven, one three, two
Speaker 3: one two fifty eight seventy four. You know, talking about
Speaker 3: improving things in your garden, and you're looking at one
Speaker 3: place kind of a one stop shop for everything you
Speaker 3: could need for insects, diseases and weeds, for nutrients, for fertilizer,
Speaker 3: nutrients for tools. Southwest Fertilizer in Southwest Houston is that place.
Speaker 3: If they don't have it, you don't need it. That's
Speaker 3: kind of how I like to put it, because I
Speaker 3: don't care what you need. You hear me talking on
Speaker 3: gardenline and I say, well, this fertilizer is what you need,
Speaker 3: or go buy this product, or go you need to
Speaker 3: kill that weed with this, or you need to you
Speaker 3: know whatever, organic or synthetic. They have it all at
Speaker 3: Southwest Fertilizer. Bob has you know, made sure that his
Speaker 3: store just continues to be the one stop shop. Pardon me,
Speaker 3: and in the Southwest been around since nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 3: I mean that's a long time for a business to
Speaker 3: be around, and yet it's still going strong, stronger than ever,
Speaker 3: I would say, And it's because of that. In the service,
Speaker 3: you know, you walk in there with a sam you
Speaker 3: walk in there with a picture and you show it
Speaker 3: to some of the team there and say, hey, what
Speaker 3: is this? What do I do? And they can help
Speaker 3: you and provide you with the thing that's going to work,
Speaker 3: as well as advice on how to use it and
Speaker 3: what to do, And that alone is worth it. You know.
Speaker 3: They have that kneeling bench I keep talking about there.
Speaker 3: It's one of my top five favorite tools. It folds up.
Speaker 3: You can flip it one way and sit on it
Speaker 3: and work in the garden. You can flip the other
Speaker 3: way and kneel down and the legs willcome handles for
Speaker 3: getting back up. If you're north of forty you know
Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. When up and down, the up
Speaker 3: and down, it can really make you soar the next morning.
Speaker 3: It's a great twet. You got to check it out
Speaker 3: while you're there. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is the website
Speaker 3: that's easy. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com the location corner of
Speaker 3: Bissonette and Runwick, easy to get to. I don't care
Speaker 3: where you live in town. It's worth a trip over
Speaker 3: to Southwest Fertilizer just because they have it all right there.
Speaker 3: We're going to head out now to Cyprus, Texas. And
Speaker 3: I believe we're going to talk to Melanie this morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Melanie, Good morning, Skip. How are you today,
Speaker 5: I'm doing well, good day.
Speaker 7: Good day.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 8: Thought i'd catch you first thing this morning because we
Speaker 8: bought a couple of lots up in the hill country
Speaker 8: in Atlanto, Texas, and they, you know, haven't had any
Speaker 8: activity on it, but the thorns or stickers or whatever
Speaker 8: they are, they are just covered in these lots. I
Speaker 8: don't even know where to begin.
Speaker 3: What do you recommend when you tell me a little
Speaker 3: more more about the plants. We're probably talking about a
Speaker 3: lot of different kinds of plants when you say thorns
Speaker 3: and stickers.
Speaker 8: No, they've had it mode. They've kept it mode down.
Speaker 8: But it's just I mean, I walked out. There's a
Speaker 8: little house on it too, and we're working on it.
Speaker 8: I walked out in my socks, and oh my goodness,
Speaker 8: they became full of stickers, craspers, grasspers, yeah, grassbers yeah.
Speaker 8: And I've never dealt with this before.
Speaker 3: Okay, Graspers yeah, grasspers thrive and droughty soil in poor
Speaker 3: in poor soil conditions, and if it's if it's like
Speaker 3: a yard area, fertilizing is one of the steps toward
Speaker 3: getting out of grasspers, you know, getting your lawn thicker
Speaker 3: if it's out in the pasture. Uh, you know, depending
Speaker 3: on the grass, it's probably not going to be practical
Speaker 3: to try to fertilize a pasture. But premer pre emergent
Speaker 3: herbicides can prevent that. They sprout in the in the spring.
Speaker 3: They're a little bit later spout than some other weeds.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking here, Atlanta, I'm going to give you my
Speaker 3: best guests for Lanto. Knowing where that is, I would
Speaker 3: say you probably need to get the pre emergent down
Speaker 3: by by the first of March, probably up there, just
Speaker 3: to be sure you're ahead of them. But emergent for
Speaker 3: grassy weeds, you know, stuff like the barricade that U
Speaker 3: nitroposs has here, spreading that out over a large area.
Speaker 3: There are other pre emergent ingredients, so we'll control grasspers,
Speaker 3: but getting ahead of them before they sprout, probably going
Speaker 3: to need to, maybe sixty days after you do the
Speaker 3: first one, do it again, because graspers will sprout all summer,
Speaker 3: and any product breaks down in time and it doesn't
Speaker 3: keep working all year.
Speaker 8: So what happened to them, what happens in the winter time.
Speaker 8: Do they just go away or watch it?
Speaker 3: They die? They do die after spending after spending the
Speaker 3: season making a lot more graspper seeds for next year.
Speaker 3: And so that's why preventing is so important, because if
Speaker 3: you mow the grasppers that are up high, when you mow,
Speaker 3: the plant starts to set the grasspers down lower and
Speaker 3: so it still has seed heads. And so I would
Speaker 3: I would recommend that if there's anything you can do
Speaker 3: to improve that area, like I said, fertilizing or or whatever,
Speaker 3: that that is helpful. Because the things that compete with graspers,
Speaker 3: like like grasses, you give the grasses the head start
Speaker 3: on the birds. But that would be it. You have
Speaker 3: a County Agrolife Extension office there in Lantouh, and I
Speaker 3: don't know the agent's name, but you have an ag
Speaker 3: agent there who deals with pastures and things, and if
Speaker 3: you talk to him guide you a little bit further.
Speaker 3: My timing might be a little bit off that. That's definitely.
Speaker 3: You know, spring comes later up there than it does here.
Speaker 3: But it's pretty pretty close to Austin, and I used
Speaker 3: to work in Austin, so I'm thinking which first is
Speaker 3: a good time.
Speaker 8: I will certainly try that. Nobody has grass in their
Speaker 8: yards very much up there because it's so dry, so
Speaker 8: I don't I used to I have beautiful grass, and
Speaker 8: I don't know what I'm going to do with this,
Speaker 8: but I'll try that. Calling the County Extension and see
Speaker 8: if I can get some help from them too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're doing you can. You can have beautiful grass
Speaker 3: up there. You know, it depends on if you want
Speaker 3: the kind of lawn you're used to down in the
Speaker 3: Houston area. That would be something like Zoezia or Saint Augustine. Okay,
Speaker 3: if you want to cut back on watering a little bit,
Speaker 3: then or Bermuda might be your best choices. But just
Speaker 3: know that even a drop tolerant lawn, when you don't water,
Speaker 3: it doesn't look good and so it may survive, it
Speaker 3: doesn't look good. And if you want to go more native,
Speaker 3: you know, there's things like buffalo grass that that could
Speaker 3: be planted. That's a whole different monster. And think of
Speaker 3: it more as kind of a Western native looking mini meadows.
Speaker 8: Describe buffalo Okay, I'll try to figure out which one
Speaker 8: may do the best up there. May have to do
Speaker 8: some research on it, but I appreciate your help. I'll
Speaker 8: try that pre emergent.
Speaker 3: All right. While you're up there, you got to go
Speaker 3: eat dinner or lunch at the Badou House. That's stop
Speaker 3: by Cooper's Barbecue. You're not gonna find oh Cooper.
Speaker 8: I know they got a lot of barbecue up there.
Speaker 8: Between Cooper's and inman Boy, they get a lot.
Speaker 9: Of business there.
Speaker 8: You go, all right, thank you, Skip, Okay, bye.
Speaker 3: Bye, Thanks for the call. Appreciate that you're listening to
Speaker 3: Guarden Line. I'm your host. Skip Richter our phone number
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two kt r H. Seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two kt r H. If you
Speaker 3: haven't done your summer fertilizing yet, you still can put
Speaker 3: down nitrofass Superturf. Superturf is a slow release fertilizer. It's
Speaker 3: a nineteen four to ten ratio product, nineteen four to
Speaker 3: ten and that nineteen it's nitrogen. It's going to gradually
Speaker 3: release over a long time, and that slow release spreads
Speaker 3: out the mowing. It avoids the flushes of nitrogen that
Speaker 3: can cause issues with our turf when we overdo it.
Speaker 3: You're going to find super turf in places like Growers
Speaker 3: Outlet up there in willis Enchented Forest Nursery down in
Speaker 3: the Richmond Rosenberg area and RCW Nursery up on I
Speaker 3: five North, Night five super Turf. It's easy to find
Speaker 3: in the store because it's the silver bag. I mean,
Speaker 3: walk in the front door, look at all the fertilizer
Speaker 3: from across the store, and you know right where the
Speaker 3: superturf is with that silver bag really really stands out.
Speaker 3: Makes it easy. If you had thought it, not thought
Speaker 3: about a vegetable gardening this fall, I would encourage you
Speaker 3: to do that. And a lot of people, you know,
Speaker 3: they when they think of vegetable gardening, they think of, well,
Speaker 3: I've got a big this build this big garden and
Speaker 3: rototil and all this kind of stuff, and I don't
Speaker 3: have room for it. There's not a big enough sunny spot.
Speaker 3: A vegetable garden can be like a little race bed somewhere.
Speaker 3: It can be a container on your patio. You can
Speaker 3: grow broccoli and all kinds of healthy grains for salads
Speaker 3: and smoothies and any however you go about your cuisine.
Speaker 3: You can do all that on a patio. You just
Speaker 3: need a good container of good size that drains well.
Speaker 3: With some quality soil mix, and you're in business, and
Speaker 3: I encourage you to try that this fall. That would
Speaker 3: be the challenge of the day on garden Line. All right,
Speaker 3: we're going to take a break and we'll be right back.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 3: Skip Richter. We're here to answer gardening questions. In other words,
Speaker 3: we're here to help you have a more bountiful garden
Speaker 3: and a more beautiful landscape. That is what I would
Speaker 3: like to accomplish. Oh and one other thing, to have
Speaker 3: fun in the process of doing it. Gardening should be fun. Listen,
Speaker 3: this is not a life or death thing. You know.
Speaker 3: It's not the days where if we had crop failure
Speaker 3: we starved to death. But you can have a lot
Speaker 3: of fun and improve your health with gardening. You it's
Speaker 3: exercise outside. We know now that just our sedentary lifestyles
Speaker 3: are a major cause of long term health problems that
Speaker 3: we run into. We also know that if you work
Speaker 3: in a cubicle in an office, just getting up every
Speaker 3: thirty minutes, walking around a second, sitting back down has
Speaker 3: a huge benefit. Well, gardening gives you that and more.
Speaker 3: It also gives you fresh sunshine, a peace of mind.
Speaker 3: There's just a connection with nature that benefits us. It
Speaker 3: also can give us. I was just talking about do
Speaker 3: a fall garden this year. It can give you fresh
Speaker 3: healthy produce. Just eating more good, fresh, healthy produce is
Speaker 3: very helpful to our health. I have a number of
Speaker 3: different things in my garden. I'm always experimenting with something. Well.
Speaker 3: Some people would say something weird, but I don't. I
Speaker 3: I like making smoothies in the morning. That's my breakfast
Speaker 3: of choice. I've got a little, great little blender that
Speaker 3: can chop anything up, and I make a smoothie. You know,
Speaker 3: throw some fruit in there, protein powder, whatever kinds of
Speaker 3: supplements you want to throw in it. And then I'm
Speaker 3: always throw in some stuff from out in the garden.
Speaker 3: Right now in the garden, I've got some things that
Speaker 3: I met a lot of you haven't even heard of.
Speaker 3: I have some malabar some people call it malobar spinach,
Speaker 3: and it is very summer tolerant that goes into a smoothie.
Speaker 3: I have some okra, and yes, I'll put a little
Speaker 3: okra pot or two into a smoothie. It helps thicken
Speaker 3: them up. Oka has that effect when it touches water,
Speaker 3: and you don't taste okra when you have your smoothie.
Speaker 3: You just don't. I have some maringa. Maringa is a
Speaker 3: little tree that is kind of a I would call
Speaker 3: it a perennial here, and that it often can die
Speaker 3: way back in a cold but it then comes right
Speaker 3: back out of the ground the next year, and leaves
Speaker 3: are kind of a nutty, nutty sort of flavor. I
Speaker 3: like them anyway, Throw some of that in there. Oh gosh.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of other things, certainly in the cool season.
Speaker 3: You know, Kale and whatnot can go into a smoothie
Speaker 3: and improve on it. Spinach can go into smoothie and
Speaker 3: improve on it. But I just am always trying some
Speaker 3: different things. Molekhia is a green that trop popular, especially
Speaker 3: in the Middle East and other in that general region
Speaker 3: of the world. There's a lot of popularity for it.
Speaker 3: It also can thicken up a smoothie and goes really well.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of things you can grow. And
Speaker 3: you know, if you think about it, I could make
Speaker 3: a smoothie with just protein powder and maybe some strawberries
Speaker 3: or blueberries or something. But by throwing in all those greens,
Speaker 3: it doesn't mess up this moothie. It does make the
Speaker 3: color a little less appetizing. When you mix green and
Speaker 3: red together, you get brown. That's how the colors work.
Speaker 3: But I don't care about that. You know, turn off
Speaker 3: the lights and drink your smoothie. Hush, turn off the
Speaker 3: lights and drink your smoothie. It's good stuff. It's good
Speaker 3: for your health. That's just what I'm saying. Gardening is
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Speaker 3: They also do quarterly service, so if you when you
Speaker 3: drive up at those flower beds are full of weeds
Speaker 3: or the mult is getting thin or anything, they can
Speaker 3: come in for a quarterly service. They meltch, they get
Speaker 3: take care of weeds, they check the irrigation, they do
Speaker 3: any trimming that's necessary. When the seasons change and you
Speaker 3: need some new color plants in there, they'll do that
Speaker 3: seasonal change. They'll melt all at Peerscapes perscapes dot com.
Speaker 3: Go see them. We got to be proud of our places,
Speaker 3: you know, and whether we whether you do it all
Speaker 3: at once or whether you do things a little bit
Speaker 3: at a time. Get out there and continue to improve
Speaker 3: your landscape in ways that you like. This is your place,
Speaker 3: what do you want to look at? If you need
Speaker 3: some help with that, you can certainly there's a lot
Speaker 3: of places where you can get designed suggestions, design help.
Speaker 3: If you're doing it yourselfer, we can recommend plants here
Speaker 3: on guard Line for you. In general, our landscapes should
Speaker 3: have a very natural, balanced look. Evergreens not just all
Speaker 3: on one side of the house. So in the winter,
Speaker 3: oh that's lopsided. Same with blooming plants, blooming trees. You
Speaker 3: should think about the four seasons when you landscape.
Speaker 8: What is your.
Speaker 3: Landscape going to look like? That's fall? I mean just
Speaker 3: ask yourself that. Do you have anything that hasn't bloomed
Speaker 3: all year but in fall it takes off in blooms.
Speaker 3: That's part of that four season approach. Maybe I'll talk
Speaker 3: about here a little bit some of the things that
Speaker 3: you can plant that are good fall blooming plants. So
Speaker 3: stay tuned for that. I'll come back to that one.
Speaker 3: And Chanted Forest is a garden center down in the
Speaker 3: Richmond Rosenberg area that you will love visiting. And Chended
Speaker 3: Forest is out on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So
Speaker 3: if you're in Richmond and you're going to head up
Speaker 3: towards sugar line of fifty nine, it's off to the
Speaker 3: right on twenty seven to fifty nine. It is a
Speaker 3: wonderful place. They always have whatever the latest plants are
Speaker 3: for the season, they're going to have that. So like
Speaker 3: right now, herbs for fall planting, the fall vegetable garden.
Speaker 3: They're stocked up fall color and flowers, fall decorations for
Speaker 3: the landscape. Fall is for planting, so shrubs and trees
Speaker 3: and ornamental grasses and perennial flowers. They've got all that.
Speaker 3: They're at Chended Forest. They always have programs going on
Speaker 3: in the fall and spring season. Just go to their website.
Speaker 3: It's Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond,
Speaker 3: TX dot com. And when you go there, first of all,
Speaker 3: it's a wonderful website, but you'll be able to connect
Speaker 3: with what's going on, what's in season. You know what
Speaker 3: do they have right now? It's always the new shipment
Speaker 3: coming on out there, more great decor for fall, you
Speaker 3: name it, they've got it. Enchanted Forest. And you haven't
Speaker 3: been there, you owe yourself a trip out there this
Speaker 3: afternoon be a good time to do it, as a
Speaker 3: matter of fact. And when you go, take some friends
Speaker 3: with you because it is a fun, fun place to visit.
Speaker 3: I always like going out there visiting with Danny and Clay
Speaker 3: and the whole team that enchanted for us. You are
Speaker 3: listening to garden Line phone number here if you'd like
Speaker 3: to give us a call. We're about to go to break,
Speaker 3: but you can get on the on the board and
Speaker 3: be first up when we come back. Seven to one
Speaker 3: three two one two k t rh at seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two k t r H. You know
Speaker 3: yesterday was National Hummingbird Day? Did you know that? That's right?
Speaker 3: Hummingbirds asked me to remind you. I'm just reminding you again.
Speaker 3: So it is past time. It's time to get your
Speaker 3: hummingbird feeders out there. Uh, get them set up and
Speaker 3: they will show up. If you build it, they will
Speaker 3: come well. Wibirds Unlimited is the place to go for
Speaker 3: anything birds and certainly for hummingbirds too. You know, do
Speaker 3: you need a bird bath? Do you need a certain
Speaker 3: kinds of bird feed for In the case of hummingbirds,
Speaker 3: they have some special little mixes that are slower you know,
Speaker 3: when you put sugar water in a hummingbird feeder after
Speaker 3: a few days in very warm temperatures, it gets kind
Speaker 3: of nasty, and so we always have to put something
Speaker 3: rush in there. Well, they have those kinds of feeds,
Speaker 3: and they have a feeder that you really need to get.
Speaker 3: It's my favorite hummingbird feeder and I have several the
Speaker 3: high perch hummingbird feeder from Wallbirds Unlimited. Go try it out.
Speaker 3: WBU dot com forward slash Houston. That is the website
Speaker 3: where you can find the six Wabirds Unlimited stores near you.
Speaker 3: And I guess what I'm going to be doing. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be going to a wild Bird's Unlimited store
Speaker 3: this next Saturday. I'll be at the Wallbird's Unlimited store
Speaker 3: out in excuse me, pardon me, good night, Warbird's Unlimited
Speaker 3: store on El Dorado Boulevard out there in south east
Speaker 3: part of Houston. I'll talk about that more when I
Speaker 3: come back. Good morning, Welcome back to the garden line.
Speaker 3: Going in to break there. I was talking about birds
Speaker 3: and hummingbirds specifically, but you know right now, not just
Speaker 3: hummingbirds are coming through, but Baltimore orioles on their migration
Speaker 3: as well. They'll be migrating through our area the entire
Speaker 3: month of September and really on endo October. Beautiful little
Speaker 3: birds with their yellow and black markings or almost orangey
Speaker 3: yellow and black. They are gorgeous and you can track
Speaker 3: those to your place with the proper bird seed and feeders,
Speaker 3: so be on the lookout for those. By the way,
Speaker 3: the Wolbird's next Saturday, I want to remind you again,
Speaker 3: Wibird's next saturday'll be there from clear Lake City Wallbird Unlimited,
Speaker 3: clear Lake City, southeast of Houston. I'll be there from
Speaker 3: eleven thirty to one thirty. Now, if you don't know
Speaker 3: where that is, you can go online to whatwbu dot
Speaker 3: com forward slash Houston to find all the stores. But
Speaker 3: this particular one is clear Lake Boulevard and El Dorado Boulevard,
Speaker 3: that intersection clear Lake City Boulevard and El Dorado Boulevard,
Speaker 3: so it's really easy to find. They're going to be
Speaker 3: given away a number of different things. They've got that
Speaker 3: hummingbird nectar with the nectar defender I was talking about,
Speaker 3: So I didn't go back so fast out there in
Speaker 3: the warm conditions. They'll be drawing for a number of
Speaker 3: products of a variety of bird seed blends, and even
Speaker 3: more so, I hope you come out. Number one. It's
Speaker 3: fun to go to wilbirds. But number two, we'd love
Speaker 3: to have you come out and see us next Saturday,
Speaker 3: eleven thirty to one thirty. By the way, thanks for
Speaker 3: being that came out to the Home and Outdoor Living
Speaker 3: show up in Conroe yesterday. That was fun getting to
Speaker 3: talk to folks. You guys wore me out. We were
Speaker 3: answering questions, as they say, till the cows come home
Speaker 3: up there, but that's always fun. Saw a lot of
Speaker 3: baggies of all kinds of stuff. One guy said he
Speaker 3: brought me bags a bag full of weed, and I said,
Speaker 3: you might want to rephrase that, just say a bag
Speaker 3: full of weeds, and it doesn't sound quite as curious
Speaker 3: as the other. I'm easily amused. All right, let's go
Speaker 3: out to Humble. We're going to talk to Lee this
Speaker 3: morning on guardline. Hey, Lee, welcome, Thank you.
Speaker 10: I have a patio facing west and I need to
Speaker 10: know what kind of flowering plants I can get to
Speaker 10: put on it.
Speaker 3: Okay for going into the fall season, yes, or do
Speaker 3: you want things that are plants that will be perennials
Speaker 3: and just live here after year after year. What are
Speaker 3: you aiming for?
Speaker 10: I would rather have lived year after year.
Speaker 3: Okay. We have a number of plants that are very tough.
Speaker 3: If they get enough sunlight, they bloom really well. Some
Speaker 3: of ours Salvias are very good for that. There is
Speaker 3: Salvia garnitico the which is a taller maybe four foot
Speaker 3: high sage a beautiful blue to purple colored blooms attracts hummingbirds.
Speaker 3: That's a good one. Salvia greggy I greg sage states
Speaker 3: down a little bit lower and it comes and all
Speaker 3: kinds of colors like pink and coral, and white and
Speaker 3: red red some most common color, and others. How tall
Speaker 3: do you want these plants to be?
Speaker 11: Oil?
Speaker 10: Not very tall. I have to put them in potts
Speaker 10: because I'm handicapped and I have to move the pots around.
Speaker 3: So okay, all right, Well that's that's good information to
Speaker 3: know right there. So, by the way, just a tip
Speaker 3: by the way on moving pots. If you have a
Speaker 3: little like a dolly thing that you can put a
Speaker 3: strap around the pot, it is so easy to stand
Speaker 3: upright and just pull back on the dolly and roll
Speaker 3: it to a new location. And that is the way
Speaker 3: I move pots so that I don't hurt my back
Speaker 3: bending over trying to move something a little too heavy.
Speaker 3: But any tip, yeah, that works really really well. Might
Speaker 3: have a dolly that just has a little strap always
Speaker 3: attached to one side because I slip it underneath the
Speaker 3: edge of a plant, and strap goes around and hooks on,
Speaker 3: And that's how I'm move it. Some of the plants
Speaker 3: for hot afternoon that are perennial. First of all, let
Speaker 3: me just say something about annuals. This fall. You should
Speaker 3: plant some some alyssum. You should plant right now. You
Speaker 3: could be putting out petunias. You can be putting out marigolds.
Speaker 3: Maragoles look great in the fall, but once we hit
Speaker 3: the first frost, those are all gone. And then we
Speaker 3: switched to things like a Lissa, We switched to pansies,
Speaker 3: Viola's snap dragons. They all look good in the fall
Speaker 3: season and the cool season and early winter. For things
Speaker 3: that are going to come back year after year, I
Speaker 3: would consider to think of there's a oh gosh, I
Speaker 3: just went blank on the name of what I was
Speaker 3: trying to to name jumped right out of my head. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a lot of those. That is true. I do
Speaker 3: have a lot of those. Oh gosh, I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: to I'm gonna have to think on it just a
Speaker 3: second and come up with some other ideas for you.
Speaker 3: It just jumped right right out of my head. I
Speaker 3: can't believe I did that, but yes, I did. I
Speaker 3: did that. Oh, there are some. There are some compact
Speaker 3: boodleias or butter fly bushes that would be really good
Speaker 3: in a container, and they bloom all through the summer
Speaker 3: with spikes of beautiful blooms. But they're more compact types
Speaker 3: of that. There is actually a crate myrtle that only
Speaker 3: gets about two feet tall, maybe about three feet wide,
Speaker 3: but they can grow in a container, which would keep
Speaker 3: it even a little bit smaller, And that would be
Speaker 3: another good one. You're out there in Humble, and if
Speaker 3: you go up to Warren Southern Gardens and ask them
Speaker 3: to see their great myrtle crate myrtle. I know that's
Speaker 3: almost confusing, but great as in wonderful great myrtle crate myrtle.
Speaker 3: That's nice. And if you go in there and ask
Speaker 3: them that same question, they're gonna be able to show
Speaker 3: you all the different flowers that would fit the bill
Speaker 3: for the exactly the spots you're looking at.
Speaker 10: Well, that would be wonderful. Well, thank you for.
Speaker 11: Helping me, you bet, you bet.
Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. Appreciate that.
Speaker 12: Lee.
Speaker 3: You take care all right. Let's see here, Oh, I
Speaker 3: wanted to mention you know, micro life. I talk about
Speaker 3: a lot of microlife products, and certainly all the dry
Speaker 3: fertilizers we're talking about those. We'll soon be telling you
Speaker 3: all about the brown Patch, which is a fall fertilizer,
Speaker 3: fertilizer for your lawns. Getting close to the time to
Speaker 3: put that out. But microd Grow Liquid is a wonderful
Speaker 3: product that you can use and it contains a lot,
Speaker 3: in fact, eight very beneficial microbes specific it's got more
Speaker 3: than that in it, but eight specific ones that are
Speaker 3: just outstanding that help support plant growth. They also help
Speaker 3: protect plants against some of the problems that could come
Speaker 3: against them. Then there's the h I gave away some
Speaker 3: of this yesterday out at the home show, the Biomatrix.
Speaker 3: It's an orange label. It's just a good nitrogen fertilizer.
Speaker 3: They have seaweeds, they have fish and molson products. They
Speaker 3: have a lot of things for microlife. And with microlife,
Speaker 3: pretty much wherever you go, you're gonna find it. It's widespread, widely,
Speaker 3: widely available. You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com
Speaker 3: if you really want to drill down to exactly where
Speaker 3: is it available in your area. Uh, I'm going to
Speaker 3: head now to pair Land and talk to Pam. Hello, Pam,
Speaker 3: i' good morning, good morning.
Speaker 13: Every year for the past five years I've gotten brown patch.
Speaker 13: I just heard you talk about the microlife product, and
Speaker 13: with the rains coming again this week, I was trying
Speaker 13: to figure out what I could do to get ahead
Speaker 13: of that, and then after the rains what I could do.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can avoid brown patch a couple of different
Speaker 3: ways there. You know, micros micro life makes a fertilizer,
Speaker 3: a fall fertilizer for brown patch that you would put
Speaker 3: down and sometime this month later later in September is
Speaker 3: a fine time to do that. That is a helpful thing.
Speaker 3: Anytime you have a lot of microbial activity that is
Speaker 3: helping to defend the plant against other microbes. Is that's
Speaker 3: a good idea. There are fundericides that will fight brown
Speaker 3: patch as well, and you know the e is one
Speaker 3: That night frost makes that is very effective against that.
Speaker 3: But with brown patch or now called large patch, you
Speaker 3: have to take care of it ahead of time. If
Speaker 3: you wait until the circles up here, it's a little
Speaker 3: late to gain much benefit. You'll stop additional circles, but
Speaker 3: you've got to get ahead of it.
Speaker 13: So I could preemptively put down eagle or a bunch
Speaker 13: of size.
Speaker 3: You could. Yeah, if this is an annual problem in
Speaker 3: your lawn, this is one time where I would say
Speaker 3: preemptively to do something like that. Just know that the
Speaker 3: more often you water, the more fertilizer you put down
Speaker 3: that's really green makes a lot of fast, lush growth.
Speaker 3: That sets it up for brown patchissues too. That's why
Speaker 3: we like things that release a little bit slower over time.
Speaker 13: But yeah, I followed for your program this year and
Speaker 13: it's made a huge difference because I've had that forced
Speaker 13: growth issue. But now with the reins concerned that it
Speaker 13: may come back.
Speaker 3: So okay, Well, if you will just go to gardening
Speaker 3: with Skip dot com and look at my pest, weez
Speaker 3: weed and disease schedule, it tells you exactly when to
Speaker 3: apply and what to apply for brown patch.
Speaker 14: Okay, Okay, very good.
Speaker 3: I'll do that. Thanks Skip dot Com. You bet. Thanks
Speaker 3: appreciate it, Pam, all right, I hear music. That means
Speaker 3: we're going to a break Greg in Northwest Houston. You'll
Speaker 3: be our first up when we come back. I just
Speaker 3: want to remind you this next Saturday, eleven thirty to
Speaker 3: one thirty, I'm going to be at Wabird's Unlimited in
Speaker 3: Clear Lake. That is just think a corner of El
Speaker 3: Dorado and Lake Clare Lake City Boulevard. Also a reminder,
Speaker 3: poor we are this is right upon us here. The
Speaker 3: Brazoria County Extension Office is having their second annual Strawberry
Speaker 3: Jamboree September twenty first. Too far away. You need to
Speaker 3: get in touch with them. I find out more about it.
Speaker 3: It's from It's in the morning from eight till twelve
Speaker 3: on September twenty first. It's at the Rec Center, Lake
Speaker 3: Jackson Rex Center in Lake Jackson, Texas. They're going to
Speaker 3: have a strawberry shortcait contest about pot of great speakers
Speaker 3: and even the ability to sign up for some strawberry plugs.
Speaker 3: If you would like to add them to your garden,
Speaker 3: be right back.
Speaker 5: Hey, garden line with Skip Richard.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as.
Speaker 11: Hey.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to garden Line. Glad you're listening in today.
Speaker 3: Looking forward to talking to you about the things that
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Speaker 3: going to go out to Greg in northwest Houston. Hey, Greg,
Speaker 3: how can we help?
Speaker 12: Yes, good morning, thanks for the taking my call.
Speaker 3: Sure, so this is all up to.
Speaker 14: Calling me.
Speaker 12: They when that big windstorm event killed an oak tree
Speaker 12: in the front yard and the combination of our family
Speaker 12: and another tree service removed that tree. We had a
Speaker 12: stump and we had them grind the stump for us,
Speaker 12: and now we have a pile of dirt and and
Speaker 12: then we're going to have a tree plan pretty soon
Speaker 12: to replace that tree. And gentlemen came out in the
Speaker 12: nursery to check it out and take down a bed
Speaker 12: and pointed out that the stump grinding didn't really get
Speaker 12: every bit of the stump, and proposed that we moved
Speaker 12: the center of the tree a bit to the side,
Speaker 12: maybe about I feed if I remember quickly. Anyway, So
Speaker 12: the main thing is he he cautioned us on leaving
Speaker 12: the sup grindings. They're saying that it would bring termites
Speaker 12: to our property. And I had said we were planning
Speaker 12: to kind of use it as an multi in the gardens,
Speaker 12: and he said that wasn't a good idea. So I
Speaker 12: wondered what your thoughts were on that.
Speaker 9: Oh, okay, hit. The proposal was.
Speaker 12: That they remove the mixture of sawdust and dirt and
Speaker 12: then replace it with dirt and grass. What do you
Speaker 12: think about all that?
Speaker 3: Well, if you can get a good quality soil that
Speaker 3: matches what your soil is, then that would be fine.
Speaker 3: I mean it. Let I'll just use an extreme example.
Speaker 3: If your saw was a heavy black clay and they
Speaker 3: brought in a very fine sand, then you have this
Speaker 3: kind of strange spot where things don't grow the same
Speaker 3: as in the rest of the art. But if it
Speaker 3: match is pretty good, that'd be okay. Termites are ubiquitous
Speaker 3: out there in nature, and they are all around decomposing wood.
Speaker 3: That's what they do. So just having some wood out
Speaker 3: is not a big deal. It's not like urmites are
Speaker 3: going to fly from across town to come over to
Speaker 3: your yard because you have wood, but urmites that are
Speaker 3: there will inhabit it. I would not use it as
Speaker 3: malts around the flower beds around the base of my house,
Speaker 3: especially piling it up over the wheepholes, because that's where
Speaker 3: termites gain entry with one of the places and gain entry.
Speaker 3: But as far as just using it somewhere as a
Speaker 3: multi that's okay to do. It's not the best quality malts,
Speaker 3: but but you got it on hand. But if they want,
Speaker 3: if you want to have them just hollowed away and
Speaker 3: bring something else in, that's fine. One of the problems
Speaker 3: with piles of stump grindings is you've got fluffed up,
Speaker 3: loosened soil filled with wood that is going to decompose away.
Speaker 3: So if you leveled that area off where it was
Speaker 3: perfectly level in a year or two especially, it is
Speaker 3: going to have sunk down a lot just because the
Speaker 3: soil is going to settle, and then as the wood
Speaker 3: decomposes away, then that the soil level is settling even
Speaker 3: more so. That would be One advantage of getting it
Speaker 3: out of there is to kind of decrease that. Whatever
Speaker 3: you do, they need to leave it a little bit
Speaker 3: mounded up from where the normal soil level is, because
Speaker 3: it is going to settle no matter what. Some so
Speaker 3: those are just some thoughts to kind of guide you
Speaker 3: as you make your decision.
Speaker 12: Okay, as far as gardens, I have a garden that
Speaker 12: is out in my backyard that is adjacent to a
Speaker 12: fence and behind a pool and not really close to
Speaker 12: a house. Would that be a suitable place for some
Speaker 12: of the Yeah.
Speaker 3: You could use the mulch out there. Yeah, it would
Speaker 3: be fine.
Speaker 12: Okay, As far as you mentioned replacing the soil, what
Speaker 12: would you recommend, I mean something like a roast soil
Speaker 12: or or something different.
Speaker 3: Now you know things. It's like, all these wonderful soil
Speaker 3: mixes for beds are mostly organic matter, and they're great
Speaker 3: for growing plants in. But if we're trying to re
Speaker 3: establish a firm soil grade across your yard, it's better
Speaker 3: to have just pretty much soil that goes in a
Speaker 3: top soil kind of thing. If your soil is a
Speaker 3: heavy clay, then you know something that's clay would be
Speaker 3: fine to use in there, but that if there were
Speaker 3: a way to sift out a lot of that wood
Speaker 3: from the grindings, then you could just use the soil
Speaker 3: that was there. But it's not going to fully fill
Speaker 3: the hole because there is there's just a loss of
Speaker 3: soil when you do that. The composition, Yeah, and what
Speaker 3: was what was wood and a trunk underground or major
Speaker 3: roots underground that's been ground up, and then as you
Speaker 3: sift it out and all that wood away, what's going
Speaker 3: to take its place? You don't have the soil there
Speaker 3: to do it, So you're probably gonna have to bring
Speaker 3: some soil in.
Speaker 12: Well, that was part of the proposal. Well, would like
Speaker 12: an enhanced top soil or what what would what would
Speaker 12: it be?
Speaker 3: Then I would just get a quality top soil. Just
Speaker 3: just find a good quality top soil. I don't know
Speaker 3: this company, don't need to know who it is, but
Speaker 3: they need to bring you a good a good quality
Speaker 3: so mix in there. That if you can buy a
Speaker 3: sandy loan soil, that'd be wonderful. But again, if you
Speaker 3: have a clay something that's a little closer to matching,
Speaker 3: that would be best. If if you can do.
Speaker 5: That Okay, so.
Speaker 12: Do you think that would be worth doing or or
Speaker 12: just leave the pile there the way it is and
Speaker 12: add add dirt as needed, and well, you know, we're.
Speaker 3: Out there look at Yeah, I'm out there looking at it,
Speaker 3: you know, so which would help a lot in advising.
Speaker 3: But if if I had a stump ground out and
Speaker 3: a big pile of wood chips and stump, I would
Speaker 3: try to screen it out as best I could, and
Speaker 3: you know, into a wheelbarrow to get those wood chips
Speaker 3: in there with this, taking as little soil as I could,
Speaker 3: and go do whatever I'm gonna do with those wood chips.
Speaker 3: And then I would rake the soil in. If it's
Speaker 3: not enough to fill in, I'd bring in a little
Speaker 3: more to top it off and create a little bit
Speaker 3: of a mound because it is going to settle over time.
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, thank you. My other question that I've added
Speaker 12: after listening to a previous call regards brown patch.
Speaker 7: My backyard.
Speaker 12: Every year, about three fourths of that yard gets attacked
Speaker 12: pretty severely by brown patch. I've tried different techniques. Sometimes
Speaker 12: I'm successful a little bit, but usually not. And like
Speaker 12: last year, I tried all right, the micro life approach
Speaker 12: including that extra enhancing uh okay, or you know organisms
Speaker 12: and it just it just it may slowed it down,
Speaker 12: but it didn't really solve it.
Speaker 3: Okay, And I'm gonna I have to run to break.
Speaker 3: I'm after I'm pick of my time, but let me
Speaker 3: go to gardening with Skip dot com on my schedule.
Speaker 3: It tells exactly the things to use and when to
Speaker 3: apply them. That's the best ncher it and give you
Speaker 3: on the brown patch. I'm sorry, I have to run,
Speaker 3: but we're way over time here, Greg, thanks a lot.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it for I started using it last year.
Speaker 3: This is a new product and it really really works.
Speaker 3: Here is what you need to think of when you
Speaker 3: think about Genesis. You need to think of the fact
Speaker 3: that it is a fertilizer designed for transplanting plants. So
Speaker 3: if you grew some plants in a small container and
Speaker 3: you're going to move them to a larger pot, the
Speaker 3: soil in that larger pot mixed Genesis with it. If
Speaker 3: you've got a plant that you bought at a garden
Speaker 3: center and you're going to take it home and put
Speaker 3: it in a container or in the ground, mix Genesis
Speaker 3: into the soil. That's there it is. It's got micro
Speaker 3: rhizo fungi in it, it's got bacteria in it, a
Speaker 3: lot of things that help the soul microbiome, and it
Speaker 3: just works. I was really impressed with the results of Genesis.
Speaker 3: I did it on some tomato transplants that I was
Speaker 3: bumping up at the time, and there was a marked difference,
Speaker 3: very very nice difference. Now you can still go on
Speaker 3: after that fertilizing with you know, the nutri Star, Color Star,
Speaker 3: Nature Star, whatever you're going to use. But for that
Speaker 3: transplant process, Genesis. It's a neutral star line from Nelson
Speaker 3: Plant Food. They got a lot of great products and
Speaker 3: this is an exciting new one that they put on
Speaker 3: the market. We're going to go out now to West
Speaker 3: Houston and talk to Jonas. Hello Jonas, Welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 15: Hey Skip, thanks for getting my call. I am having
Speaker 15: my azilia bids. We did after many many years, and
Speaker 15: I have a few questions. Number one, it's just a
Speaker 15: good time for me to fertilize the acilias, and if so,
Speaker 15: what fertilizer should I use? And then the fellaw who's
Speaker 15: helped me with this, I suggested that I apply a
Speaker 15: biodegradable breathable material on that surface before moulsh so as
Speaker 15: to prevent the weeds from coming back up. And then lastly,
Speaker 15: what kind of mulch should I apply?
Speaker 3: All right, fertilizer going into fall here, you don't want
Speaker 3: to push them with too much nitrogen. You want to
Speaker 3: go a little easy on them. So I would go
Speaker 3: with Microlife's got a great product for acid loving plants.
Speaker 3: To organic product that you put out, sprinkled out and
Speaker 3: it's going to slowly be available to the plants. It's
Speaker 3: kind of a pinkish, pinkish color bag, but it's a
Speaker 3: Microlife for acid loving plants. I would use that, follow
Speaker 3: the label on how much to apply. I don't like
Speaker 3: the fabrics on the surface for weeds. Initially they work
Speaker 3: and then they become problems and they're hard to get out,
Speaker 3: and the weeds go land on the seeds land on
Speaker 3: top and go through the fabric with the roots and
Speaker 3: it's just a mess. I would use a good quality mulch.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of good mulches out there on the market.
Speaker 3: You know, you can do it. Can do one that's
Speaker 3: pine chips, you can do one that is shredded hardwood.
Speaker 3: That's fine. All of those mulches will work well, even
Speaker 3: pine needles or a decent mulch, you know, for around azaleas.
Speaker 3: But just just a covering over the surface that kind
Speaker 3: of prevents those weeds heats from getting light, and that
Speaker 3: that ought to be good.
Speaker 15: That'll be good enough. You often say that we should
Speaker 15: not use dye colored mulch. I don't like it.
Speaker 3: It's just that it's just the artificial nature. It's adding
Speaker 3: another chemical in to a die, and I don't know,
Speaker 3: it looks artificial to me. I just don't care care
Speaker 3: for the appearance of it, and I'd rather do somethings
Speaker 3: a little more natural around that plant setting.
Speaker 15: And the fertilizer as long as it's say, for acid
Speaker 15: living plans, it doesn't have to be specifically micro life.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, I mean, yeah, it doesn't have to be
Speaker 3: micro life, but that that's a good one and a
Speaker 3: good slow release, and just don't overdo the fertilizer in this.
Speaker 3: We're kind of at this doorstep of fall season, when
Speaker 3: in another month or two you're wanting those plants to
Speaker 3: begin to slow down their growth, and so that that's
Speaker 3: why we don't overdo it.
Speaker 11: All right, Well, thank you, so much for us.
Speaker 15: I appreciate you, bet you.
Speaker 3: Bet Jonas, thank you. I appreciate your You know, all
Speaker 3: these kinds of products like we're talking to Jonas about,
Speaker 3: you're gonna find them at ACE Hardware. Microlife, fertilizers. You know,
Speaker 3: they got Microlife, they got nitrophoss, they got Nelson's, they
Speaker 3: got many many more, and they have all the products
Speaker 3: you need to control pests and weeds and diseases and
Speaker 3: other things in your landscape. ACE Hardware is just a
Speaker 3: go to place for everything you need. And the nice
Speaker 3: thing with forty stores around, it's easy to find an
Speaker 3: ACE near you. And when you walk in there, you're
Speaker 3: going to come out with the products you need to
Speaker 3: have success in your lawn and your flower beds and
Speaker 3: your vegetable garden, or for just creating that beautiful patio environment,
Speaker 3: for finally enjoying the outdoors again. Now that the weather
Speaker 3: is on the verge of breaking. I know this is
Speaker 3: false fall. We call it that meaning it's it's cool now,
Speaker 3: but it's yeah, it's gonna get hot again. It will,
Speaker 3: but we're there. Summer has to give up, whether it
Speaker 3: realizes it or not, and that's coming really soon. Go
Speaker 3: buy Ace Hardware, Acehardware dot Com, find the store locator,
Speaker 3: find your ACE Hardware store and you can and really
Speaker 3: enjoy it and have success. It's got to Cyprus, and
Speaker 3: I believe we're going to talk to moist Am I saying.
Speaker 5: That right, mois close, Maurice.
Speaker 3: Maurice, Okay, good in the guard line.
Speaker 14: Hey, thanks taking my call. So this a quick question.
Speaker 16: I restarted my yard last year right before summer HOA requirements.
Speaker 16: But everything turned out really well, best yard in the
Speaker 16: fuld A sack. But the last few weeks I'm having
Speaker 16: some yellow patches that are forming. I'm trying to figure
Speaker 16: out what's going on. Funny to put something down or
Speaker 16: what's going on with it.
Speaker 3: Get down on your hands and knees and look at
Speaker 3: the yellow leaves and sometimes you see green leaves, and
Speaker 3: then there's a leaf that is pretty uniformly yellow all
Speaker 3: the way across. That could be the first start of
Speaker 3: some bron patch. It could be other things nutrient wise.
Speaker 3: If the leaves are striped green and yellow. When you
Speaker 3: pick up grass blade and hold it up to the
Speaker 3: light and you see vertical lines of green and yellow alternating,
Speaker 3: that's iron deficiency and you can control that by putting
Speaker 3: down an iron supplement, you can also anything you do
Speaker 3: that improves the soil and root system, from correoration, accomplished
Speaker 3: top dressing, to additions of fertilizers that contain iron, to
Speaker 3: just improving drainage. If the drainage is an issue and
Speaker 3: this thing can help that. It typically if it looked
Speaker 3: green earlier and now it's turning yellow, it's probably a fluctuation.
Speaker 3: It may fluctuate back. And then the final not good
Speaker 3: news would be if it was take all root rot,
Speaker 3: and that's a very different thing. There you're seeing the
Speaker 3: not just yellowing but continuing to go downhill. And on
Speaker 3: my schedules on gardening with skip dot com, I address
Speaker 3: take all root rot and what to do about it
Speaker 3: if you see that the roots themselves on the runners
Speaker 3: are dead.
Speaker 7: Okay in Augustine.
Speaker 16: So basically, just look at the blade of grass and
Speaker 16: see if those vertical lines or not.
Speaker 3: Right, vertical lines of yellow and green mean it's iron deficiency.
Speaker 3: But that could be for a lack of iron in
Speaker 3: the soil, for iron that's there but is locked up
Speaker 3: and unavailable, or for lack of roots to take up iron.
Speaker 3: All three could be causing the yellow.
Speaker 9: All right, all right, I appreciate time.
Speaker 3: Thank you you bet Maurice, thanks to the call. Appreciate
Speaker 3: that a lot Nature's Way resources up on Interstate forty
Speaker 3: five toward Conro. It's right where fourteen eighty eight comes
Speaker 3: in from Montgomery that goes off. If you're going north,
Speaker 3: that goes off the left. You turn right across the
Speaker 3: railroad tracks and you're right there at Nature's Way Resource,
Speaker 3: just another right after you cross the railroad tracks. They
Speaker 3: are busy right now stocking up there making compost, soils, mulches.
Speaker 3: They're stock bringing it forward for that fall season when
Speaker 3: we are going to be using a lot of those
Speaker 3: kinds of products. And boy do they ever have some
Speaker 3: great products on hand. You know, they've been doing this
Speaker 3: for a very long time. If anybody knows how to
Speaker 3: make composts, mulch, bed mixes, whatever, it's Nature's Way Resources.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 3: John Ferguson started that long time ago, being an expert
Speaker 3: on soils ian running the place right now. They just
Speaker 3: keep on with that tradition. Here's a deal. Fungal Friday
Speaker 3: sale is still on. You can save twenty percent on
Speaker 3: their fungal compost and that's okay for top dressing too.
Speaker 3: You know, we talk about leaf mo composts, but their
Speaker 3: fungal compost works well for top dressing as well. Just
Speaker 3: a quick heads up on October the twelfth, I'll be
Speaker 3: out there. They're gonna have their Fall Festival on October
Speaker 3: the twelfth. They're gonna have Latin food, local vendors, plant sales.
Speaker 3: I'll be there doing Q and A from eleven thirty
Speaker 3: to one thirty, live music, children's activities. It'll be fun.
Speaker 3: We've done this before and it was a blast. Hope
Speaker 3: you'll come out. Put that on your calendar October twelfth
Speaker 3: and be looking for that. In the meantime, get out there.
Speaker 3: Now's the time to be preparing your soil for fall planting.
Speaker 3: Go by Nature's Way, go by on a Friday and
Speaker 3: take advantage of that twenty percent off fungal compost. That
Speaker 3: is a quality, quality product that they produce. I was
Speaker 3: at a one of my kid's house. They bought a
Speaker 3: new house over in the hill country, and there are
Speaker 3: some issues with the foundation, some cracks, and so what
Speaker 3: did I do well? The first thing I do is
Speaker 3: called ty Strickland. It fixed my slab. I know he's
Speaker 3: not going to drive the hill country. But I asked him,
Speaker 3: I say, Ty, this is what I'm seeing. What do
Speaker 3: you think? And and he gave me advice. He told
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Speaker 3: those kind of things. Fix my Slab Foundation Repair is
Speaker 3: it's the go to place for this because number one,
Speaker 3: they are honest. They'll tell you if you need something
Speaker 3: or you don't. In fact, in this house situation I
Speaker 3: was talking about, he said, you know what, if you're
Speaker 3: not seeing more movement than that, probably not a big deal.
Speaker 3: And so I appreciative of that. Fixmyslab dot com is
Speaker 3: the website. If you see cracks in the brick on
Speaker 3: the outside, the sheet rock in the inside, you got
Speaker 3: doors sticking, you got a sidewalk that's cracked, a driveway
Speaker 3: that's cracked. He can do all of that. He's been
Speaker 3: doing it twenty three years. Here's the website again, fixmislab
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Speaker 3: you hire Tie with Fix my Slab Foundation Repair, you
Speaker 3: know it's going to be on time, it's going to
Speaker 3: be fair priced. And it's going to be fixed right.
Speaker 3: And that is very very important with any kind of
Speaker 3: service you have done, especially the foundation of your home.
Speaker 3: You are listening to your garden line. Our phone number
Speaker 3: is seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 3: Seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 3: I was talking with David from RCW Nurseries, David Williamson,
Speaker 3: and we were talking about trees yesterday morning, and they
Speaker 3: have the Williamson Tree Farm up there in Plantersville, and
Speaker 3: I'm telling you they grow quality trees, have a long
Speaker 3: list of trees, and they know how to grow them right.
Speaker 3: So when they get in your yard, they perform right.
Speaker 3: They pick the right varieties and species so they will
Speaker 3: grow here. They know this, They've been doing this a
Speaker 3: very long time. You can swing by RCW Nursery and
Speaker 3: talk to them there. Of course, at RCW you got
Speaker 3: herbs and perennials and annuals and shrubs and native plants.
Speaker 3: You've got fertilizers that we recommend here on garden line
Speaker 3: and other products for the soil. We recommend on garden line,
Speaker 3: great rose selection and so on. But if you need
Speaker 3: a tree plant at this fault, they'll actually come out
Speaker 3: and do that. Give them a call, talk to them
Speaker 3: about it, or go to the website first. It's r
Speaker 3: cwnurseries dot com. That is the garden Center. That is
Speaker 3: where Beltway eight comes in connection with Tambol Parkway two
Speaker 3: forty nine. It's the intersection between those two. It's easy
Speaker 3: to get to RCW down there. Just go check it out.
Speaker 3: And fall is for planting, so the woody ornamentals they
Speaker 3: carry from roses to trees. Give them a call. Let's
Speaker 3: get this done right, and let's get it done now
Speaker 3: so that you can enjoy that in the years to come.
Speaker 3: Quality trees, quality work, quality plants in general. From RCW.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 3: Well, you're listening to guard Lines. Time for me to
Speaker 3: take a break, So I'm going to quit talking here.
Speaker 3: If you want to talk seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two kt RI to give us a call. Chris will
Speaker 3: get you on the board and when we come back,
Speaker 3: we'll talk with you.
Speaker 10: You are No.
Speaker 3: Houston's News Traffic plus Preck Welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 3: I'm your host, Skiprechor. We're glad to have you listening today.
Speaker 3: We've got plenty to talk about on this wonderful Sunday morning. Uh,
Speaker 3: just a reminder for those of you who have some
Speaker 3: things to do out in the lawn and garden, which
Speaker 3: we all do. By the way, day is another sunny day,
Speaker 3: and tomorrow is another sunny day. But as we get
Speaker 3: to midweek, we're going to go into some rain and
Speaker 3: it's going to rain for a while. Now's the time
Speaker 3: to get things done, get your soil prepped, get your
Speaker 3: plants in the ground, you know, do whatever it takes
Speaker 3: to move things forward, because when we go into the
Speaker 3: rainy periods, well then you're ready to go when the
Speaker 3: rain does stop and we get back out in the gardens.
Speaker 3: Wren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Gardens Center. There are two
Speaker 3: garden centers in Kingwood. Warrens is on North Park, Kingwood
Speaker 3: is on Stone Hollow Dry. Both of them are open
Speaker 3: seven days a week. I would highly recommend you subscribe
Speaker 3: to the newsletter online or you can go in the
Speaker 3: store and do it. They have exclusive discount savings and
Speaker 3: gardening tips. But I tell you right now, they're getting
Speaker 3: some of that cooler season fall color dianthus and snap dragons,
Speaker 3: for example, but also things like petunias that will carry
Speaker 3: you all the way up to the first freeze. They
Speaker 3: got fall veggies and herbs and strawberries. And fall is
Speaker 3: for planting strawberries, the best season of the year. Don't
Speaker 3: wait till spring if you can get them in in
Speaker 3: the fall. They got a plethora of herbs out there,
Speaker 3: and all the perennial herbs. Great season to be planting
Speaker 3: perennial herbs. Do you need some shrubs Laura peddlum, which
Speaker 3: is called Chinese witch hazel, the encrazalias sunshine lagustriums. They
Speaker 3: have crape myrtles, but you know I have a crate myrtle.
Speaker 3: Only at Warren's Soevn Guarden Center. They've got this crape myrtle.
Speaker 3: It's called the great myrtle. That great myrtle. Crpe myrtle
Speaker 3: is a little sounds a little confusing to me, but
Speaker 3: you get the idea. It's very compact. It only gets
Speaker 3: two feet tall three feet wide. Yes, this is a
Speaker 3: crate myrtle. You think of crate myrtle's is big tree
Speaker 3: like things. This is a little short shrub to twenty
Speaker 3: four inches tall thirty six inches wide. It's got disease
Speaker 3: and insect resistance. A beautiful old plant. I was telling
Speaker 3: Lee earlier out of Humble that this would be a
Speaker 3: good one to put in a container on the patio.
Speaker 3: Makes it easy and it's you know, we call crp
Speaker 3: myrtles the tree of one hundred Days, meaning a blooms
Speaker 3: for one hundred days basically three months oft of the year.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have ballooms on a cranpe myrtle, and that
Speaker 3: there are not many plants that can do that well. Anyway,
Speaker 3: while you're out there, you can get all the different
Speaker 3: fertilizers that you're going to want to be putting down
Speaker 3: that I talk about here on Guarden Line. You're going
Speaker 3: to get them all out there. We've got some special
Speaker 3: pricing going on with those. But just one last thing.
Speaker 3: Both locations have a tree sale thirty percent off any tree.
Speaker 3: I don't know how. I don't know what else you
Speaker 3: could ask for. It's all out there at Warren Southern Gardens,
Speaker 3: Kingwood Garden Center out in Kingwood, Texas. I like going.
Speaker 3: I need to get back out there. I've been out
Speaker 3: there in low Wall, go back out and see. I
Speaker 3: love going to our garden centers and seeing what's going on.
Speaker 3: You know, I talk about Houston being a destination city.
Speaker 3: For garden centers, and it really is. When I say Houston,
Speaker 3: I mean the greater Houston area. I have been to
Speaker 3: garden centers and cities all over the country, starting here
Speaker 3: in Texas, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio. There's some
Speaker 3: great garden centers in Texas, but there's not a city
Speaker 3: that has this many unbelievably great garden centers. There's just
Speaker 3: not you know, travel all over the place, DC, Atlanta, Richmond,
Speaker 3: wherever I go, I go to garden centers, and I
Speaker 3: always come. I see some cool ones, but I always
Speaker 3: come back and go. If you're in Houston, north, south, east, west, central,
Speaker 3: any direction you want to go, there isn't a garden
Speaker 3: center worth taking family when they visit to see it's
Speaker 3: that good. And Warren Southern Gardens is exactly that, that
Speaker 3: kind of garden center. We're fortunate here, so take advantage
Speaker 3: of our great fortune. You know, when it comes to
Speaker 3: fall planting, and fall is the best planting season of
Speaker 3: the year. If you live south of Houston, you've got
Speaker 3: a outstanding place to get everything you need to get
Speaker 3: the soil ready for fall planting. And that is Ciena Malch,
Speaker 3: Cienamulch pristine. I love going in there. I mean about
Speaker 3: molt place is pristine. It's beautiful, they take it. It's
Speaker 3: just well organized. It's just attractive place with quality products.
Speaker 3: I love going in. And you're not going to find
Speaker 3: friendlier staff, then you get it. Ciana Malts. Those folks
Speaker 3: are just wonderful with customers. They're outstanding. They're open Monday
Speaker 3: through Friday, seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two.
Speaker 3: They're closed today, but they'll be back open on Monday.
Speaker 3: They're north of Roast Sharon on FM five twenty one.
Speaker 3: The website, just if you do nothing else, write this
Speaker 3: down cianamaltch dot com. Go check it out. Do you
Speaker 3: need raw do you need composts? Do you need maltz?
Speaker 3: Do you need bed mixes? Do you want some of
Speaker 3: the airrooom soils, veggie nerd mixed? They have that there.
Speaker 3: And then every fertilizer I talk about on Guardline, all
Speaker 3: of them are there at cnamals. So when you drive
Speaker 3: off by the way, they deliver within about twenty miles
Speaker 3: for a small fee. But when you leave Cianamlts, whether
Speaker 3: you're they're bringing it to you or you're you know,
Speaker 3: going there to get it. You have what you need
Speaker 3: to set your plants up for success this fall. First
Speaker 3: soil then comes plants. Don't delay, make hey while the
Speaker 3: sun shines. The sun will be shining tomorrow. Go buy
Speaker 3: Ciena mulch and get some good stuff so that you
Speaker 3: have a wonderful fall planting season. That's about the the
Speaker 3: best way that I can put it. I was like
Speaker 3: going in there. It's a fun place. You know, you
Speaker 3: know you're a horticulture racet. You know you're a gardener
Speaker 3: when dirt is fun. I know, I know it's called soil,
Speaker 3: not dirt, but some of you call it dirt. That's okay,
Speaker 3: you can do that if you want. But and I
Speaker 3: get excited about the dirt, and I'll go to a
Speaker 3: place like animals. I'll go up to the piles, scratch
Speaker 3: in there, grab a handful and smell it, because I
Speaker 3: love the smell of fresh quality mulches and composts and mixes.
Speaker 3: In fact, one of these days, I'm gonna post a
Speaker 3: picture to Facebook of me making compost angels. You know
Speaker 3: about snow angels, right, I can lay down and compost
Speaker 3: and make compost angels. I think that would be a'd
Speaker 3: be fun. Get in touch with your enter microbe here
Speaker 3: on garden line. All right, enough of that silliness. Hey,
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two k t rh. That's
Speaker 3: our phone number. Seven one three two one two kt
Speaker 3: r H. I uh in my garden in the back.
Speaker 3: I was out, I was away for a while. And
Speaker 3: you know okra. Okre's kind of like zucchini. Uh, it's
Speaker 3: ready today, and it's big enough to build a canoe tomorrow,
Speaker 3: and it moves fast, and so uh there is. I
Speaker 3: had some ochre that I just dropped on the head
Speaker 3: to drop on the ground. Some of it that was
Speaker 3: in between edible and just totally woody. I pick and
Speaker 3: I dry it. And I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 3: done this before, but if you got okra, when it
Speaker 3: starts producing, you have sometimes more okre than you know
Speaker 3: what to do with. Well, if the ones that are
Speaker 3: a little past top quality for eating, I bring them inside,
Speaker 3: slice them and dry them. I got a food dryer,
Speaker 3: and I put them in a jar, a sealed jar,
Speaker 3: and keep them. And so this winter, when there's not
Speaker 3: a lot of okra in the garden, you can go in.
Speaker 3: You can take that okra, put it in a soup.
Speaker 3: It reconstitutes pretty well and it works really well. I
Speaker 3: also grind it up. I've got a little VitaminX type
Speaker 3: thing that has a one of the containers grind stuff
Speaker 3: up really well. And I have powdered okra that I
Speaker 3: will use by the tailspoon in soups and things to
Speaker 3: thicken soups. And plus you get all the benefits of okra.
Speaker 3: Okra has you know, two different kinds of spiber, the
Speaker 3: soluble and the insoluble, and both have their own health benefits.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm not going to go back into don't
Speaker 3: get me started on okra. You know how that goes.
Speaker 3: Let's take a little break. I'll be right back. Here's
Speaker 3: the number in the meantime seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two kt r H. Be right back, Scott, you doing,
Speaker 3: I'm well, thank you.
Speaker 6: Hey.
Speaker 18: I have a with like a ground covering weed of
Speaker 18: researted and it seems to be a spurred weed or
Speaker 18: something like that or red sam green leaf. And I've
Speaker 18: tried a different spray that's trying to get rid of it,
Speaker 18: not kill my grass. Nothing swerved so far.
Speaker 3: Okay, Uh, you said spurge. I think is that right?
Speaker 18: Yes, I believe it is.
Speaker 3: Have you noticed when you have you noticed when you
Speaker 3: break it, a white, milky sap comes out. Yeah, you're
Speaker 3: trying to pull it sticky. Yeah, that is spurge, and
Speaker 3: it's very difficult to control. The best way to control
Speaker 3: spurge is to don't let the seeds come up. And
Speaker 3: so first step is getting all the seeds out as
Speaker 3: soon as you can. Uh, it does grows, you know,
Speaker 3: comes out and goes horizontal flat, all in all directions.
Speaker 3: And if you can find that center part, if the
Speaker 3: soil is soft, you can pull it. If you've got
Speaker 3: a whole lot of area, you can get a very
Speaker 3: thin hoe. I was talking to some folks up in
Speaker 3: the Conra at the home show yesterday about this. But
Speaker 3: you slide that hole right under the surface horizontally. You're
Speaker 3: not chopping at all. You're just standing upright and just
Speaker 3: sliding the whole unto the surface and it just clips
Speaker 3: that single route coming down. And then carefully lift it
Speaker 3: up and throw it away or carefully rake it because
Speaker 3: there's a ton of seed on it, and the more
Speaker 3: you shake it and jostle it, the more seeds get
Speaker 3: back into your soil. So getting the old plants out
Speaker 3: of there and then throwing mulch over the top to
Speaker 3: completely block the sunlight is probably the best way to
Speaker 3: deal with spurge. There are pre emergent herbicides that can
Speaker 3: be used, but in garden beds, we moved the soil
Speaker 3: around so much that the pre emergence we sort of
Speaker 3: mess up what they would have done by changing the
Speaker 3: soil around physically. In a lawn, it means your lawn
Speaker 3: is too thin, and you got to get that turf thicker,
Speaker 3: and it'll show spurge is not a problem in a
Speaker 3: dense lawn. And so if it's in a lawn, and yeah,
Speaker 3: just mow, water, fertilize your way back to a denser lawn.
Speaker 3: That's long term. That's long term.
Speaker 18: All right, Yeah, we'll start pulling in I guess like
Speaker 18: Scott's bomats or something like that.
Speaker 3: For surf builder, now I would use I would use nitrophoss. Barricade.
Speaker 3: It took me a second to get the word barricade
Speaker 3: in my head. Barricade is pre emergent. You put it
Speaker 3: down for spurge. You can put it down mid to
Speaker 3: late Let's see where you located. You were up in Connry, Yeah,
Speaker 3: mid to late February would be fine. You may have
Speaker 3: to do another application about sixty days later to extend
Speaker 3: that further along, but you apply it watered into the
Speaker 3: surface and that prevents both grassy and most broad leaf
Speaker 3: weeds as well.
Speaker 18: Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: All right, Donnie, thanks a lot, appreciate your call. I
Speaker 3: want to tell you a talking about lawns. The folks
Speaker 3: at nit Fross have Sweet Green. Sweet Green is that
Speaker 3: molasses based fertilizer that smells sweet because it's molosses. Molasses
Speaker 3: is a sugar, it's a carbon chain and microbes eat
Speaker 3: it up. That's why organic gardeners have always talked about
Speaker 3: putting molasses in the soil. Well, you can do that
Speaker 3: and add eleven percent nitrogen, which is what's in Sweet Green,
Speaker 3: to your soil as well. Works good for the lawn
Speaker 3: for giving a little boost to your lawns. And it's
Speaker 3: just an outstanding product because it also does help with
Speaker 3: the organic the microbes, the things that are helping you
Speaker 3: in the soil. And it smells the good as I
Speaker 3: like to put it. You just want to take another
Speaker 3: loop around six ' ten on the way home, because
Speaker 3: just to enjoy the smell in your car all right,
Speaker 3: Sweet Green joking aside, It's available to Katie Ace Hardware
Speaker 3: out there on pin Oak Katie and Single Ranch also
Speaker 3: on Mason Road is another place that you can get
Speaker 3: sweet Green or up and down in a tescasita at
Speaker 3: the It's hard run timber forest. All places that carry
Speaker 3: that product. We are going to now go to Susan
Speaker 3: in League City and Susan, how can we help?
Speaker 19: Goodrying skip? How I am?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, thank you.
Speaker 19: I'm outside running beautiful weather. But I have a frustrating
Speaker 19: problem with my plans and my planter, and I was
Speaker 19: hoping you can give me some hints. So about months ago,
Speaker 19: I swap out everything that I had just start planning
Speaker 19: for the fall, prep the soil, everything, and I put
Speaker 19: down some seat and I put also a young plan,
Speaker 19: a few squash and some bardishes. Something overnight and just
Speaker 19: keep repeating something overnight would.
Speaker 11: Eat all the leaves.
Speaker 19: And celimoniall come out. See full of sticks, well sometimes
Speaker 19: not even a stick.
Speaker 20: The whole thing's gone eating.
Speaker 19: The weird thing is it won't eat the radish. I
Speaker 19: guess the radish. I eat it. That's a talent. Be leave, okay,
Speaker 19: the radist leaves go a little bit spicy. I'm wondering
Speaker 19: that why it's not eating that.
Speaker 3: I don't know. So things that eat leaves at night
Speaker 3: like that. It could be a beetle, it could be
Speaker 3: a caterpillar, but it also could be deer. And so
Speaker 3: I don't know which did it, but you're gonna have
Speaker 3: to catch the culprit in the act. I'd go out
Speaker 3: with a flashlight at night when you have plants like
Speaker 3: that and just look around see what's on them. Some
Speaker 3: catapillars are nocturnal. Nocturnal they hide during the day and
Speaker 3: come out at night. I can't tell you what did it,
Speaker 3: but I do know if things with mouths that can
Speaker 3: eat leaves are caterpillars and beetles and deer, they are
Speaker 3: also grasshoppers, but grasshoppers don't feed at night like that.
Speaker 19: Okay, I didn't know capitilla has come out at night.
Speaker 19: Some of my some of my friends told me to
Speaker 19: go ahead and spray everything as I put them on
Speaker 19: the ground. Is that a good idea?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean you could that would take care of
Speaker 3: the insect part of it, uh and and put if it.
Speaker 3: If that fixed it, then you know it wasn't dear
Speaker 3: it was an insect.
Speaker 19: Oh, we'll fix the cind of pillow.
Speaker 3: Yes, they're insects too.
Speaker 6: M h.
Speaker 14: O.
Speaker 3: Thanks, have a good run. You take care. Bye bye.
Speaker 3: We're gonna let's see here. We're gonna go to Marty
Speaker 3: in Fairfield. Hello Marty, Welcome to Gardline.
Speaker 5: Well, good morning.
Speaker 17: I have a question about my My opra is like
Speaker 17: going gang Investors too. And you had a couple of recipes.
Speaker 17: Did you put those on Facebook or anything?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 17: I roasted them?
Speaker 3: I love them? Okay, yeah, all right, Yeah, roasting is
Speaker 3: my favorite way because it cuts down on the slime sun.
Speaker 3: But I put them on the barbecue pick because we
Speaker 3: like to cook out a lot. Just brush them with
Speaker 3: olive oil, sprinkle in with sea salt, and two minutes
Speaker 3: on each side. That's the whole recipe for roasting, okra.
Speaker 17: Yeah, I've been trying all different kinds. Okay, my basil
Speaker 17: is bolting and I've pulled the dead bolts off.
Speaker 3: I cut them off.
Speaker 17: Can I plant those next year?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 3: I would. I would take those off and then some
Speaker 3: branches that haven't bolted, I would cut those, put them
Speaker 3: in water and they'll root in your kitchen window. I
Speaker 3: mean you can get roots on those things that you
Speaker 3: could carry through the winter and reach brout. Now, if
Speaker 3: you want to save seed from your Okra, I'm okra, basil.
Speaker 3: That's fine. You could and they will come up next
Speaker 3: year if it's a special variety like I've been growing evergreen,
Speaker 3: everleaf emerald towers very upright, Okra, that's a special bread variety,
Speaker 3: and so the seeds aren't going to come back true
Speaker 3: to form. Just Okra, you can save.
Speaker 17: The seeds, okay, And then saying Okra, Marty, I know
Speaker 17: it's ok I am the same way.
Speaker 21: It's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 17: I do the same thing all the time. And then
Speaker 17: I went to the TIMU, I mean the website for
Speaker 17: the eed U Texas A and M. Their seed planting
Speaker 17: times are not really complete for what I like. Is
Speaker 17: there another website that would be good because I've got
Speaker 17: spinach seeds I want to put out too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had a number, Yeah, we have a number
Speaker 3: of good sources around here. When I was in Houston,
Speaker 3: I put together a little green chart for planting that's
Speaker 3: at the Harris County Extension Office website. I planning on
Speaker 3: taking it and it needs some more work and working
Speaker 3: through it and then putting it back up on my
Speaker 3: Guardenline Website's not off there yet.
Speaker 17: Uh.
Speaker 3: The folks at Gosh I just wan to Arburgate have
Speaker 3: a really nice listing online for seats. A lot of
Speaker 3: our garden centers, do you know, intended gardens I know
Speaker 3: has that kind of thing, So I would look in
Speaker 3: those kind of places. I think you'll find you a
Speaker 3: real good success.
Speaker 5: Very good, Thank you.
Speaker 3: You bet, thanks a lot, Marty. I appreciate the call.
Speaker 3: All right, I hear music gardens. So we're going to
Speaker 3: have to talk. Let's see here, I'm going to get
Speaker 3: my producer to speak with you a little bit. We
Speaker 3: may have to have you call us back here in
Speaker 3: a minute. I'm about to have a special guest on
Speaker 3: and we are going to talk about fall gardening, all
Speaker 3: vegetable gardening and some other things as well. So don't
Speaker 3: go away, stick around. We'll be right back and I
Speaker 3: promise you you will enjoy this one.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kat rh Garden Line with Skip Richards.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to the guarden Line. Hey, it's
Speaker 3: good to have you with us today. Thanks for listening
Speaker 3: on a wonderful Sunday. We had a great day to day.
Speaker 3: I hope this afternoon you will get out visit some
Speaker 3: of our garden centers, get some soil to get ready
Speaker 3: for fall. Fall is the best planning season of the year. Compost,
Speaker 3: bed mixes, mulchz. You're gonna need all that stuff, so
Speaker 3: make sure take care of the brown stuff and so
Speaker 3: your green stuff will end up being a whole lot
Speaker 3: happier as a result. I've got a special guest coming
Speaker 3: on right now, and we are going to talk about
Speaker 3: all kinds of things. Specifically, we're going to aim ourselves
Speaker 3: at some vegetables for fall, talk a little bit about
Speaker 3: fall gardening. And that is Joey from the Enchanted Gardens
Speaker 3: Garden Center in Richmond, Texas. That's just up on toward
Speaker 3: the Katie fullsher direction, Upper Richmond. Joey, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Good to have you with us.
Speaker 14: Good morning everybody. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a pleasure. And you and I were visiting
Speaker 3: over at the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association show a
Speaker 3: few weeks ago, which, by the way, wasn't that a
Speaker 3: fun place. We were talking about some different topics and
Speaker 3: I think fall vegetables came on the list, and I
Speaker 3: know you are enthusiastic about growing your own groceries if
Speaker 3: you will on fall vegetables. You guys have a lot
Speaker 3: of great plants and soils and products to help with that.
Speaker 3: So I just kind of want to turn you loose
Speaker 3: a little bit to give some tips for people that
Speaker 3: are listening that you've learned are important for success with
Speaker 3: a fall vegetable garden. What are some things that you
Speaker 3: would say people need to know.
Speaker 14: I got you. Yeah, it's hard not to be enthusiastic
Speaker 14: on a day like this. It is beautiful out there.
Speaker 14: If you hadn't been outside, get out there and enjoy it.
Speaker 14: This is one of the best days of the year
Speaker 14: in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is.
Speaker 14: But yeah, it's time for the actual cool weather plants
Speaker 14: to go in. We're talking about broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, swiss
Speaker 14: charred mustard, greens, collar greens, things of that sort. There
Speaker 14: will be more things to come in the next week
Speaker 14: or so. Lettuce and other types of leafy greens will
Speaker 14: be available soon. One thing that I like to do
Speaker 14: when planning the fall vegetable garden is if you have
Speaker 14: enough room, I like to stagger crops. You know, if
Speaker 14: you're gonna plant twelve broccoli plants, don't plant them all
Speaker 14: at one time because you don't want all that broccoli
Speaker 14: to become ready at the same time. What are you
Speaker 14: going to do with it? All? Right, So if you'll
Speaker 14: go to plan you know, three, three or four plants
Speaker 14: every you know, week to ten days, then that'll stagger
Speaker 14: your production some and you won't have broccoli coming after
Speaker 14: your years.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I tell gardeners all the time that just because there's
Speaker 3: a hundred seeds in a pack of lettuce, doesn't mean
Speaker 3: you need one hundred lettuce plants all at once eat
Speaker 3: in a week, right let us.
Speaker 14: Let Us is one of the easiest things to grow
Speaker 14: because you can go out, you don't have to harvest
Speaker 14: the whole thing. Uh, you can go and you pick
Speaker 14: pick enough leaves for you know, one one evening salad
Speaker 14: and leave the rest to grow, and you know it'll
Speaker 14: replace itself in no time. That's Uh, that's one of
Speaker 14: the most used things in my garden for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great one. And uh it's so easy
Speaker 3: to grow healthy stuff here, you know, this far south
Speaker 3: in Texas, It's like we have twelve months of growing.
Speaker 3: In fact, summer is a bigger dormant season than winter
Speaker 3: is for us.
Speaker 14: Yeah, you're exactly right.
Speaker 3: It's uh, you're exactly right, and so boy we can
Speaker 3: garden like crazy. Hey, before I forget this, I want
Speaker 3: to mention on your website in Channa Gardens, you guys
Speaker 3: have a great spring and fall planting schedule. So people
Speaker 3: will go to the website that fall planning schedules there
Speaker 3: and you list the dates, uh to begin I guess
Speaker 3: planting some of those things, or the ideal dates to
Speaker 3: kind of aim for.
Speaker 14: Yes, yeah, somewhere in that in that range. You know,
Speaker 14: within a week or two. Nothing's totally sitting stone. Who
Speaker 14: knows what our weather is going to do around here.
Speaker 14: I sure certainly didn't expect it to be this cool
Speaker 14: on September eighth. Generally it's still in the upper nineties
Speaker 14: at this point. So we are well certainly lucky to.
Speaker 3: Have Yeah, we are. And and just to be honest,
Speaker 3: this was an incredibly overall cool and rainy summer. You know,
Speaker 3: compared to especially last year what we went through, this
Speaker 3: has been a it's been you know, if this was
Speaker 3: a tough summer for you, will tough en up a
Speaker 3: little bit, but yeah.
Speaker 14: It was as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3: It sure was. It sure was, which is a good thing.
Speaker 3: So you're talking about don't plant too much at one time,
Speaker 3: that's really good advice. Planting at the right time is
Speaker 3: important too, because you know, we have things that we're
Speaker 3: like you're talking about planting on your schedule. You've got
Speaker 3: things like the beans that you would put out, or
Speaker 3: our cucumbers or things that you put out. If you
Speaker 3: wait too long on those as it cools off, they
Speaker 3: slow growth so much that you're not going to get
Speaker 3: a harvest. So timing is important, and I think that's
Speaker 3: great that you all have those planting dates on there.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it really helps because going into it, especially for
Speaker 14: a beginner, you know that you know, these poor beginners
Speaker 14: that come in, you know, they're looking for, you know,
Speaker 14: cool other stuff in may you know what you don't
Speaker 14: you don't know, you don't know. So that's why we
Speaker 14: listened all that on our website. We also, of course,
Speaker 14: have lots of knowledgeable people here to help answer any
Speaker 14: questions you might have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, you do. So as far as gardening,
Speaker 3: the old way of gardening was we kind of had
Speaker 3: a little mini farm in the backyard. You know, we
Speaker 3: plowed up and we had rows that looked like farm
Speaker 3: rows and stuff. And now with most of people living
Speaker 3: in an urban or suburban setting where there's not so
Speaker 3: much space, we've sort of shifted to some other ways
Speaker 3: where we get more production even in a small area.
Speaker 3: And like raised beds. I think you I've seen you
Speaker 3: doing some videos on vego bed or some other kind
Speaker 3: of bed talk a little bit about the raised beds
Speaker 3: and the convenience of that.
Speaker 14: Yeah, raised beds are just taking over the whole gardening
Speaker 14: world in our area. In my opinion that the best
Speaker 14: parts about raised beds. They're up high so you don't
Speaker 14: have to bend over so much when you're either planting
Speaker 14: or harvesting or working the soil, working your amendments in there.
Speaker 14: And also having them raised high that makes it less
Speaker 14: likely for weed seeds to blow into the bed. So
Speaker 14: it's just all around left maintenance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and of course there, yes, yes, yeah, I was
Speaker 3: gonna say you can grow a raised bed anywhere. Years ago,
Speaker 3: when the Galveston Master Gardener County Extinch office was in
Speaker 3: a basically in the middle of a parking lot, the
Speaker 3: Master gardeners went out on asphalt and dropped raised beds
Speaker 3: on the ground, filled them up with the good stuff,
Speaker 3: and put mulched between the road between the beds, and
Speaker 3: when you walked out, you just thought, well, I'm in
Speaker 3: a garden soil underneath me, and you didn't realize there's
Speaker 3: literally asphalt underneath it. So they turned asphalt into a
Speaker 3: garden with a nice quality raised bed. Yeah, it is
Speaker 3: a good thing.
Speaker 14: Yeah, they're really versatile, and if it doesn't work out,
Speaker 14: you can always move it. If you have trees that
Speaker 14: eventually grow and shade that area too much to where
Speaker 14: your vegetables aren't thriving, you can move it.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 14: There's just so many options with raised beds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that, that is true. You know. The something
Speaker 3: I'm often trying to encourage people to do is to
Speaker 3: consider containers too. Now, a raised bed technically is sort
Speaker 3: of a container, but a lot of people just don't.
Speaker 3: They don't want to plow up the ground. They don't
Speaker 3: put a raised bed on their lawn. They have a
Speaker 3: patio though, and you can grow a lot of vegetables
Speaker 3: in a nice sized container on the patio. Do you
Speaker 3: have any thoughts on ideas on tips.
Speaker 14: Maybe you certainly, yeah, especially for a beginner somebody wanting
Speaker 14: to dip their toes in it. They don't want to
Speaker 14: buy a four y eight raised bed, so we sell
Speaker 14: lots and lots of fifteen gallon twenty five gallons, just
Speaker 14: the black plastic pots. You know, plants don't care what
Speaker 14: they're growing in. They can growing up.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 14: One pot or a seven dollars pots, and that is true.
Speaker 3: That is true. Guy named color Rushing from Mississippi says,
Speaker 3: you can't embarrass a plant with a pot. Hey, Joey,
Speaker 3: I got to take a break. Can you stick around
Speaker 3: for the next segment? Sure I can, all right, Thank
Speaker 3: you very much. Folks will be right back. Slenderman from
Speaker 3: Chandy Gardens out there in Richmond area, Joey, welcome back.
Speaker 3: We're glad to have you, and I want to continue
Speaker 3: our discussion about fall veggies, but I'd like to stretch
Speaker 3: it out a little bit. Herbs kind of go with
Speaker 3: vegetables being another edible, and boy, fall is definitely the
Speaker 3: season for herbs other than basil. You know, fall planting
Speaker 3: of our perennial herbs is just such a wise idea.
Speaker 3: And I know You guys carry a lot of different
Speaker 3: types of herbs, don't you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that we do.
Speaker 14: We've got a good selection right now. Mints and time
Speaker 14: and chives and rue gil regino, sage, rosemary, lavender, lots
Speaker 14: of that stuff. There's you mentioned the basil. Basil is
Speaker 14: a warm season plan. It's really sensitive to the cold.
Speaker 14: So it'll do fine until uh, you know, maybe late October,
Speaker 14: mid October. It just depends on how the weather goes.
Speaker 14: But it does not like the cold. Animal just like me.
Speaker 3: Right right, Well, you know, basil, I ran into a
Speaker 3: basil this year. I don't want to sidetrack our conversation,
Speaker 3: but basil actually I grew at last year and this
Speaker 3: year everleaf emerald towers. I believe. It's a very vertical,
Speaker 3: upright basil. And as far as culinary, probably geneviees I
Speaker 3: like a little bit better. But it is so attractive
Speaker 3: ornamental with that plant form. I mean, it's just like
Speaker 3: a little upright yopon or something growing in the garden. Yeah,
Speaker 3: our vegetables can be attractive as well. And so I
Speaker 3: know you guys really are into the containers you guys
Speaker 3: are having. Maria always built outstanding containers out there. But
Speaker 3: you could do a container with vegetables that may have
Speaker 3: some alyssam around the side, you know, to make it attractive,
Speaker 3: or some chives at the room in the center. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of there's a lot of ways.
Speaker 14: Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, nothing wrong with doing a mixed container.
Speaker 14: It can be pretty and edible.
Speaker 3: So yeah you can.
Speaker 14: Yeah, And even a lot of the herbs are pretty.
Speaker 14: They're not just for culinary uses, you know, the orangos
Speaker 14: and some of the rosemary will trail. You could do
Speaker 14: something upright in the center like chives or lemon grass
Speaker 14: or cilantro or something like that.
Speaker 3: There you go, and we're being in the fall season
Speaker 3: where the daylengths changing, things like pineapple, sage. What was
Speaker 3: the other one I was just thinking of. I just
Speaker 3: just went through my mind. I can't remember now. Oh,
Speaker 3: Mexican met marigold. They bloom in that cool season, and
Speaker 3: so they're both attractive and edible as well.
Speaker 14: Yep, yeah, that's a great fall bloomer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cool stuff. Well, what do you have any vegetables
Speaker 3: or or herbs that you know, kind of have caught
Speaker 3: your fancy recently that you kind of really like this one.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's new, maybe it's just one. You just kind
Speaker 3: of worked your way back around.
Speaker 14: To one of my favorites. And it's very simple and
Speaker 14: I'd never grown them before a couple of years ago.
Speaker 14: But the Valentino bush green beans, that thing will produce.
Speaker 14: For a little bitty plant, I think produces like crazy.
Speaker 14: I got to tell a quick story about it. We
Speaker 14: were going out of town one time at the end
Speaker 14: of spring and my wife said, Okay, after work, you
Speaker 14: go pick the green beans. And you know, we're heading
Speaker 14: out before you. So I was like, Okay, five minutes,
Speaker 14: I'll be done picking the green beans. It took me
Speaker 14: forty five minutes to pick them all. They were so many,
Speaker 14: it was I was blown away by the production of
Speaker 14: those Valentino green beans.
Speaker 3: You know, I've never grown that one. So now you've
Speaker 3: given me something to look forward to spring for. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and that that one is one that I'm going
Speaker 14: to stagger crops on because I don't need to spend
Speaker 14: forty five minutes picking green beans one day. Oh yeah,
Speaker 14: very very surprising. That a good problem to.
Speaker 3: Have, Yeah, it is. It definitely is.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 3: I have not always been a big greens eater. But
Speaker 3: since you know gardening, it causes you to try things
Speaker 3: you wouldn't have tried before. And I've been getting really
Speaker 3: excited about our close seasoned greens. We have so many
Speaker 3: good greens and whether you're making a salad or a smoothie,
Speaker 3: and I put a lot of greens and smoothies. Uh,
Speaker 3: there are a lot of ones that you can grow.
Speaker 3: I mean things like a regular everybody knows let us
Speaker 3: and spinach, but a regula and you know baby kale.
Speaker 3: You mentioned collars earlier. A good green. Uh, there is
Speaker 3: a plantain. There is a sorrel Srel is kind of cool.
Speaker 3: I like the little red stripe leave one kinds of
Speaker 3: lemony flavor that you can add to soups and salads. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but it just goes on and on and on of
Speaker 3: healthy things that the way I like to put it
Speaker 3: is you can make a really tasty salad without them
Speaker 3: to slather at in a thousand island dressing. If you'd
Speaker 3: like to cut back on some of that stuff.
Speaker 14: Yeah, definitely the regular and you know a lot of
Speaker 14: the greens have kind of a spicy taste to them,
Speaker 14: so it adds natural flavor. It's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And then well, we could just keep going on
Speaker 3: and on talking about those things. Tell us about some
Speaker 3: of the other things that are going on as we're
Speaker 3: changing seasons now heading toward the fall. For you guys
Speaker 3: out there at in China Gardens.
Speaker 14: Lots of things change in every week. More fall color
Speaker 14: coming in, more fall vegetables. Of course, it's a great
Speaker 14: time to plant evergreen shrubs or replace some of the
Speaker 14: trees that were knocked out by Hurricane Barrel. That way,
Speaker 14: if you plant them in the fall when they're about
Speaker 14: to go dormant, then they'll have all winter to get
Speaker 14: established before the heat next summer comes along.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, that's good.
Speaker 14: And we'll start some of our events at the end
Speaker 14: of September and those will go through mid December, So
Speaker 14: be sure and check our website in the next week
Speaker 14: or so. Those will be listed on there. Lots of
Speaker 14: exciting things that we're going to have going on up
Speaker 14: here in Chinna Gardens.
Speaker 3: That's good, that's good. It's good to know, you know.
Speaker 3: I since we're talking, you know, about fall planting and stuff,
Speaker 3: I'd like to shift. We got a little bit of
Speaker 3: time here, about five minutes left. Let's talk about the
Speaker 3: flowers that bloom and fall. And I'm not talking about
Speaker 3: you know, like a petunia that you plant which would
Speaker 3: then bloom and fall. By the way, I didn't know
Speaker 3: you guys had Lara bush petunias and I just saw
Speaker 3: that online. That's exciting. I like that petunia. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: the fall bloomers, things like I mentioned Mexican mint marigold
Speaker 3: that blooms in the fall. We have the bush salvia,
Speaker 3: the Salvia leucantha that blooms primarily in the fall, and
Speaker 3: their fall aster is good. You know, I was talking
Speaker 3: earlier on garden Line about the four seasons. Plant for
Speaker 3: the four seasons, and there's always something that looks good,
Speaker 3: and so we often forget to plant for fall blooms.
Speaker 3: Would you talk a little bit about things that you
Speaker 3: like for color in the fall.
Speaker 14: One of my favorites for the fall, not necessarily color,
Speaker 14: but for the texture and the height. All the ornamental
Speaker 14: grasses they you know, this is the time that their
Speaker 14: plumes come up and really show their stuff. One of
Speaker 14: the most popular ones for our area is the Gulf
Speaker 14: Coast muleiue that has the little pink flues. Starting this
Speaker 14: time of years, you'll see even growing on the sides
Speaker 14: of the roads in some of the native fields, and
Speaker 14: it's just beautiful when the sun's going down and the
Speaker 14: sun's shining across those pink plumes, they are gorgeous. But yeah,
Speaker 14: all the the ornamental grasses, this is a great time
Speaker 14: of year for those.
Speaker 8: M hm.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 14: General. Perennials generally take a break into each of the summer.
Speaker 14: So if you you know, trum them by back this
Speaker 14: time of year or maybe a couple of weeks ago, good,
Speaker 14: just a ten percent haircutter, so so that will encourage
Speaker 14: new growth come out and more ballooms and make them
Speaker 14: more full and dense.
Speaker 3: So this is a very goods Yeah, that that is
Speaker 3: a good, very good tip on that. I like Copper
Speaker 3: Canyon daisy too. I wish they would come up with
Speaker 3: a more compact form of it. But people it sort
Speaker 3: of splits the masses on whether they like the scent
Speaker 3: or not. To me, it's a citrus slash pine scent
Speaker 3: and I like it, but some people it's a little
Speaker 3: a little too strong. But boy it blims oh well
Speaker 3: when when these days start to get shorter. That's a
Speaker 3: good n By the way, you mentioned ornamental grasses, and
Speaker 3: I think it's good for people to know. You mentioned
Speaker 3: a light coming through. If you if you put them
Speaker 3: in places where you see them with the sunlight coming
Speaker 3: through the seat heads, it's even more beautiful. Like that
Speaker 3: gulf Newly, you go stand on the sunny side of it,
Speaker 3: it's not as impressive as it is when you go
Speaker 3: stand on the other side, the opposite side. In this
Speaker 3: sun is coming through those kind of ruby colored seed heads.
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's exactly right. If you do a little planning,
Speaker 14: it'll work out great in the long run.
Speaker 3: M Yeah, maiden grass another good one. Penacetums another good
Speaker 3: one for dishes. So many good enough ornamental grass grass.
Speaker 14: Yeah, there's there's lots of great ones out there.
Speaker 3: That's cool. Some other things. You know, we get into
Speaker 3: the into the fall season. Uh, the fall aster is
Speaker 3: just and there's a bunch of them. There's the native
Speaker 3: asters and then there's there's others, uh that just look
Speaker 3: out standing. You know, everybody thinks that chrscentemums in the fall,
Speaker 3: but boy, we have a lot more fall color than
Speaker 3: just that.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 14: The fall asters will just sit there all summer and
Speaker 14: just green and not much to look at, but they
Speaker 14: really light up in the fall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, planning for all of the four seasons that are
Speaker 3: out there. Uh, tell us a little bit where you
Speaker 3: guys are located for the people that may be going, Okay,
Speaker 3: I want to come out there. How do I get there?
Speaker 3: I mean I give out the dress all the time.
Speaker 5: But yeah, we're at the corner.
Speaker 14: Got to weare at the corner of seven twenty three
Speaker 14: and three fifty nine in Richmond, near Foster High School.
Speaker 14: We're just five minutes off of ten ninety three, seven
Speaker 14: minutes off of Highway ninety nine and the Grain Park Way,
Speaker 14: so we're between Richmond and Pulster basically, so pretty easy
Speaker 14: to get you from any tricks you're coming from.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Well that that is all really good
Speaker 3: information on it. Any last thoughts in terms of we're
Speaker 3: entering fall and just some things you think would be
Speaker 3: good for people to be thinking about as they go forward.
Speaker 14: One thing that we didn't talk about was the things
Speaker 14: that you plant from seed versus planning from trainsplants. So
Speaker 14: definitely all the root crops like rabits, shoes, beets, and carrots,
Speaker 14: you'll want to do those. From seeds, you don't want
Speaker 14: to do those. Some there are some places I've seen
Speaker 14: that sell those plants and containers. But it's not worth
Speaker 14: buying one or two beat plants in a pot. Those
Speaker 14: things will germinate within you know, five or six days
Speaker 14: once you once you plant them in the rear garden.
Speaker 14: So do those those three things by seed. Any root
Speaker 14: crop need to be done by seed. But then they're
Speaker 14: very easy. Don't be afraid to jump in and try it.
Speaker 3: That's a that is a very good point. And remember
Speaker 3: with the root crops, folks, one of the mistakes I
Speaker 3: see most often is not thinning them out. They plant
Speaker 3: them too thick, and so think about how big that
Speaker 3: carrot's going to get, and the plants ought to be
Speaker 3: at least that far apart down in your rows so
Speaker 3: they can form a good carrot. And don't over push
Speaker 3: them with nitrogen either. But it is so easy. I
Speaker 3: grew carrots in a container a couple of years ago
Speaker 3: for the first time. I just had never tried it.
Speaker 3: And they do really well in a container too.
Speaker 14: Yep. Yeah, as long as you got a big enough
Speaker 14: container and you're able to keep up with the watering,
Speaker 14: then nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 3: There you go. Hey, we're talking to Joey Linderman from
Speaker 3: in Channet Gardens Nursery out in Richmond. Joey, thank you
Speaker 3: so much. Time flies when you're having fun and I've
Speaker 3: been having fun. Thanks for being on. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 14: Yes, sir, I enjoyed it. I hope everybody has a
Speaker 14: great day.
Speaker 11: All right.
Speaker 3: You take care, folks. All right, I'm going to go
Speaker 3: to break here. We will be right back. I hope
Speaker 3: you enjoyed it visiting with Joey Linderman at Ingena Gardens
Speaker 3: about all kinds of things vegetables, you know, mostly vegetables,
Speaker 3: a little bit of herbs, and in general fall fall advice. Again,
Speaker 3: I hope that was helpful to you when you're looking
Speaker 3: at products that will provide you with a good boost.
Speaker 3: You've heard me talk about Genesis talk about a little
Speaker 3: bit earlier today. But Nelson plant Food, part of their
Speaker 3: nutri Star line is a product called Genesis. It's the
Speaker 3: newest one that they have, and think of it as
Speaker 3: a transplanting fertilizer. And I was using it last year.
Speaker 3: I had some tomato plants that I needed to bump
Speaker 3: up to a bigger pot, you know, before they went
Speaker 3: out in the garden, and I mixed some genesis into
Speaker 3: that soil for the next pot, and oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: they took off growing. That's what genesis is made for,
Speaker 3: and not just bumping up, you know, from one size
Speaker 3: to another, although it's great for that. But if you're
Speaker 3: going to put something out in the garden, like maybe
Speaker 3: even plant of rosebush or one of these fall ornamental
Speaker 3: grasses or fall perennials that we were talking about earlier,
Speaker 3: put some genesis into that soil as you dig the
Speaker 3: hole and then plant the new plant, and you will
Speaker 3: give it a good head start. It's got microhizel fungi
Speaker 3: in it which helps work with our roots. That whole
Speaker 3: soil microbiome is a very important thing on plant success
Speaker 3: and genesis. Just a head start on that and then
Speaker 3: you continue on with your fertilization, whether it's nutrastar products
Speaker 3: or color Star all from from Nelson Plant Food. They
Speaker 3: also have of course the Nature Star, and I just
Speaker 3: encourage you to give it a try. Anytime you're going
Speaker 3: to put a plant from one pot into another, or
Speaker 3: from one pot into the ground, think about genesis. Just
Speaker 3: have a jar of it on hand on the shelf,
Speaker 3: and whenever you're going to plant stuff which year round,
Speaker 3: you're going to be ready to go. Makes it really
Speaker 3: really easy. You're listening to Guardline and we were talking
Speaker 3: about vegetables, and I want to continue that discussion with
Speaker 3: you just a little bit here. You know, the people
Speaker 3: often ask questions about, you know, what, how do I
Speaker 3: know should I use seed or should I use transplants,
Speaker 3: or what's the best way with this or that? And
Speaker 3: I'm going to just give you a few tips on that.
Speaker 3: First of all, you can as a general guide, you
Speaker 3: can do either way. You have the plant seeds a
Speaker 3: little earlier, and with transplants, you know, you can wait
Speaker 3: until it's the time to get those in the ground
Speaker 3: to plant, and so seed there's more time of things
Speaker 3: that can go wrong between seeds and let's say broccoli,
Speaker 3: for example, plant broccoli seeds earlier, then you would go
Speaker 3: ahead and then put the transplants in later. And so
Speaker 3: with transplants it's faster results and it's a little higher
Speaker 3: chance of success because things can go wrong with seedlings.
Speaker 3: With seeds, it's way cheaper, a lot less expensive than transplants.
Speaker 3: You can go either way. One thing that you don't
Speaker 3: want to use transplants for are things that have long
Speaker 3: roots like carrots, for example, the carrots are going to
Speaker 3: go down no matter what happens, that root is going
Speaker 3: to get We call it burned, but it hits air
Speaker 3: in a container and it kills the end of the root.
Speaker 3: And now you have carrots that have two legs or
Speaker 3: three legs or whatever. They're mouformed. So with root crops,
Speaker 3: I generally like to use those as direct seeded for
Speaker 3: that and for other reasons too. It's just I mean,
Speaker 3: can you imagine you want to a whole row of
Speaker 3: beats or something and you're going to buy that many transplants.
Speaker 3: That's not really practical to go with most things, though,
Speaker 3: you get to choose either way that you want to
Speaker 3: go about it. For another advantage of seeds is that
Speaker 3: with seeds you can get varieties you can't get as transplants.
Speaker 3: You know, there may be a bunch of tomato varieties
Speaker 3: available at a garden center and that's wonderful, But with
Speaker 3: seed you have access to hundreds of tomato varieties should
Speaker 3: you choose to want to try something different. So that's
Speaker 3: another advantage of the seeds versus the transplants. In general,
Speaker 3: we're going to take our root crops we're going to
Speaker 3: take things like sweet corn and green beans, the big old,
Speaker 3: big seeds types of things, and we're going to plant
Speaker 3: those as seeds. And then for the things that may
Speaker 3: take a little bit longer, like tomatoes, for example, or
Speaker 3: peppers or whatever, it's better just to go in with
Speaker 3: a transplant because that way, let's say we're well, let's
Speaker 3: talk about tomatoes. You know, you get a tomato in
Speaker 3: the ground end of August, early early September, and you
Speaker 3: got to have you got to move fast before the
Speaker 3: first frost or cool weather shuts it down, and so
Speaker 3: a transplant gives you that head start. That's another important
Speaker 3: thing because here we have a short spring season, a
Speaker 3: short fall season, and there's long summer season in between,
Speaker 3: and then some freezes in the winter. So while we
Speaker 3: live in an area with twelve month gardening, our actual
Speaker 3: individual garden seasons can be a little bit shorter. You
Speaker 3: go farther north and you can grow stuff all the
Speaker 3: way through the summer that just fries here. So faster
Speaker 3: moving with transplants is an advantage of that. So there's
Speaker 3: a few thoughts for you to think about. Hopefully that'll
Speaker 3: be helpful to you. If you'd like to give us
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Speaker 3: This is stuff's going through my head here as I
Speaker 3: think I'm finished talking with seeds, you want to plant
Speaker 3: them at the right depth. That's very important. And if
Speaker 3: you don't know, if the package should tell you. But
Speaker 3: if you don't know, plant a seed about three or
Speaker 3: four times. That's with deep, so a small seed wouldn't
Speaker 3: be planted very deep. A pento bean three or four times.
Speaker 3: It's with You're going to put it in an inch
Speaker 3: or so deep and the soil in order to in
Speaker 3: order to have success with that. There are a few
Speaker 3: seeds that need to on the surface, and I'm not
Speaker 3: going to try to name all of them, but the
Speaker 3: ones that are most practical to mention for the fall
Speaker 3: garden or lettuce and carrots. They need light to germinate,
Speaker 3: specifically the red wavelengths of light, which you don't penetrate
Speaker 3: down under the soil. So you put those on the
Speaker 3: surface and you miss them and keep them moist. First
Speaker 3: of all, the soil should be wet. Put them on
Speaker 3: the surface and then miss them and keep them moist
Speaker 3: and they will sprout there. Now, carrots, you bury just
Speaker 3: that tiny, tiny bed, but not too deep or they'll never,
Speaker 3: as they say, see the light of day. But with
Speaker 3: most seeds, if you don't know three or four times
Speaker 3: the width of the seed deep is a good estimate.
Speaker 3: And final tip. If you soak seeds overnight that are
Speaker 3: the larger ones that are more practical to soak overnight,
Speaker 3: you get a faster germination because they start to pull
Speaker 3: water in and swallow up and that starts the biochemical
Speaker 3: process that makes that seed sprout. So you got okra
Speaker 3: seeds we were talking about ochre earlier today. Put them
Speaker 3: in warm to even hot water and let them sit
Speaker 3: on the counter overnight, and then go out the next
Speaker 3: day and plant them. Even spinach seed, you get a
Speaker 3: better germination stand if you'll soak it overnight and warm water,
Speaker 3: and then the morning go out and plant those things.
Speaker 3: Just a tip. Ace hardware stores are all over Houston,
Speaker 3: which makes them very convenient. Ace hardware stores carry every
Speaker 3: fertilizer I talk about. They carry all the products you're
Speaker 3: going to need to grow insects, diseases, and weeds, which
Speaker 3: makes it very convenient. It's like a one stop shop.
Speaker 3: I mean, you need a garden hose or a tool,
Speaker 3: Aces got it. You want to sprush up your patio
Speaker 3: with some lighting, or a nice barbecue pit. Who fall
Speaker 3: gotta have fall barbecues? Right this good time to get
Speaker 3: buy Ace. Ace Hardware is local, They're convenient, they have
Speaker 3: great help that can help you find success. And it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter what you know. Of course, it's a hardware store.
Speaker 3: You know, they got plumbing, they got electrical, they had
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff that a hardware store has,
Speaker 3: but they have so so much more. Each is independently owned,
Speaker 3: so when you walk into an ACE you will be
Speaker 3: surprised at some stuff that I didn't know they had
Speaker 3: that in here. I promise you you will feel that
Speaker 3: way walking into one of our forty Houston area Ace
Speaker 3: Hardware stores yesterday. Stopped in to say, hello, I'm going
Speaker 3: to be out there a little bit later this fall
Speaker 3: and or this month actually anyway, I was just checking
Speaker 3: out what all they have. And you know, when I
Speaker 3: think at Ana, not only do they have great plants,
Speaker 3: which they do, lots of them, but they've got landscape
Speaker 3: bling like you just wouldn't believe I mean beautiful arches,
Speaker 3: and I mean like artwork and stuff to hang.
Speaker 6: On the wall.
Speaker 3: They've got that. They've got chimineez to put out on
Speaker 3: the fall patio to enjoy. They've got all that kind
Speaker 3: of stuff. But when you go in, you get good advice,
Speaker 3: you get good service, and it's just a fun place
Speaker 3: to shop. It's just kind of like every time you
Speaker 3: turn a corner there's something new and cool. I was
Speaker 3: looking at their asters that they had a new shipment
Speaker 3: in and oh my gosh, they're gorgeous, gorgeous, plenty of
Speaker 3: annuals to go into your fall color. I was telling
Speaker 3: you earlier. You know, you need to be planting marigals
Speaker 3: for fall. It's the best season for fall. We think
Speaker 3: of them this summer, but fall is better for miragles.
Speaker 3: And they got those there A and A plants and produce.
Speaker 3: They're on the east side of Montgomery on Highway one
Speaker 3: oh five. I mean, you can't miss it when you're
Speaker 3: going down one oh five. And if you live up
Speaker 3: around Lake Conroe, all those great neighborhoods out there, this
Speaker 3: is your backyard garden center, and you got to go
Speaker 3: by and check them out. They also have a landscape
Speaker 3: crew that does some work in that area around the lake.
Speaker 3: So you may want to talk to them about that
Speaker 3: if you'd like a little bit of assistance. But just
Speaker 3: go in and say hi, and I'll be seeing you
Speaker 3: there a little bit later this month. I'll tell you
Speaker 3: more about that in a little bit. Let's go to
Speaker 3: the phones here. We are gonna go to Magnolia and
Speaker 3: talk to Rudy. Hello, Ruddy, Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 14: Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 22: Well, first of all, I'm really happy to know that
Speaker 22: garden line continued after Randy Lemon left us too soon.
Speaker 22: I was pretty down about that buddy of mine, and
Speaker 22: Katie said, no, no, they're still going and they got
Speaker 22: a great new guy.
Speaker 3: So here I am calling, and uh, all right, thanks
Speaker 3: for calling and hanging around Scott.
Speaker 22: Yeah, but I'm asking about wax myrtle propagation. I have
Speaker 22: a buddy in my neighborhood who's got a bunch of them.
Speaker 22: And from when I understand, you can get the seeds,
Speaker 22: you know when they kind of start blooming or not blooming,
Speaker 22: but you know, showing themselves here between now and like October,
Speaker 22: and I really, I mean, yes, I could go and
Speaker 22: buy them, but I want the satisfaction of growing on
Speaker 22: myself to be honest, so I have any thoughts, tips,
Speaker 22: and any references that I can go to.
Speaker 3: First of all, first of all, I apologize for Conye
Speaker 3: Scott radio very well looking at the board. So yes,
Speaker 3: wax myrtles, southern wax myrtles can be propagated from cuttings.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they will sucker up around the base too, and
Speaker 3: you can divide those away with a sharp sharp shovel
Speaker 3: and separate the plant and get another one. But you
Speaker 3: can use cuttings. I would let the wood. Okay, new
Speaker 3: growth starts off very succulent, like a bean stalk, and
Speaker 3: then it becomes semi woody, and then it becomes like
Speaker 3: a wax myrtle branch, a regular woody shrub. If you
Speaker 3: can catch it in that semi state it is, that's
Speaker 3: the easiest to propagate. Take a cutting about four inches long,
Speaker 3: strip the leaves off the bottom half of it, dip
Speaker 3: it into a rooting hormones. Very important to get a
Speaker 3: good rooting hormone. There's liquids and there's powders. If you
Speaker 3: use a powder you want, then when you stick the cutting,
Speaker 3: don't just shove it into the soil rooting mix because
Speaker 3: that wipes off some of the hormone. Make a little hole, slight,
Speaker 3: set the cutting in it, and then press the soil
Speaker 3: gently around the cutting. Okay, just a little quick tip there.
Speaker 3: Cover it with something clear so light can get in.
Speaker 3: Do not put it in full sun. Put it in
Speaker 3: very very bright light. But when you let full sun
Speaker 3: shine through something clear, well, let me put this way.
Speaker 3: Go out to your car on the sunny day when
Speaker 3: the windows are rolled out, it gets hot in there, right,
Speaker 3: don't do that. Your cuttings so but they do need
Speaker 3: light and it takes a while, but they will root
Speaker 3: that way. That's one option. Another option, if you've got
Speaker 3: a low growing branch is to bend it down to
Speaker 3: the soil and bury a section of it out near
Speaker 3: the end of the branch, very near the end, kind
Speaker 3: of like the cutting I was talking about. Pin it down.
Speaker 3: I've used I've used a brick to hold it down.
Speaker 3: I've used a bent coat hanger to hold it down underground. Again,
Speaker 3: rooting hormoned on it, and while it's still attached to
Speaker 3: mom roots can form where you cracked and bent that branch.
Speaker 3: And when I say crack it, I mean like if
Speaker 3: you bend a woody branch, it cracks and it becomes
Speaker 3: like an elbow. It's hinged, but it's not broken off.
Speaker 3: That's right, I mean, And so that's called a tip layer.
Speaker 3: That would be another option. You just don't make as
Speaker 3: many cuttings that way as you do, I mean, as
Speaker 3: many plants as you do with cuttings.
Speaker 22: What's your opinion of using the actual like seed, like
Speaker 22: the little I should say, the berries that come up
Speaker 22: in the fall to propagate.
Speaker 14: Is that a more difficult process?
Speaker 3: Well, I don't I don't know. I've never tried propagating
Speaker 3: a Southern magnolia from seed, but I can tell you this,
Speaker 3: plants that are grown out Southern magnolia good night. We're
Speaker 3: talking about the I'm talking about the wrong plants. Wax
Speaker 3: the wax myrtle.
Speaker 11: Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've never tried it. But when you grow a
Speaker 3: plant like that from seed, it takes a long time
Speaker 3: for them to get established and grown, whereas with a cutting,
Speaker 3: you're you're getting a big head start on it. So
Speaker 3: that would be the only thing, but you certainly should
Speaker 3: be able to try it. I just have never tried that.
Speaker 22: Yeah, Well, it sounds like it sounds like the easier
Speaker 22: method is the cutting. Last question, I appreciate it is
Speaker 22: timing wise. When would you say, is it the fall
Speaker 22: now to be you know, get those cuttings and start
Speaker 22: it in the garage or something or yeah, fall fall.
Speaker 3: Is often a good time for doing that. I would
Speaker 3: say you could probably also do it in early summer.
Speaker 3: But if you can get some growth that just recently
Speaker 3: started getting some wittiness to it, you could do that
Speaker 3: in the fall. But just make sure and get a
Speaker 3: good strong rooting hormone to do that. To have some
Speaker 3: it's gonna be a little bit of a it's a
Speaker 3: little bit of a challenge, you know, if you end
Speaker 3: it to do it.
Speaker 14: Like I said, I could go buy them, but I
Speaker 14: want the challenge.
Speaker 3: So oh well, well okay, I mean, if you want
Speaker 3: the challenge of seed, when you pick the seed, put
Speaker 3: it in moist sand or moist ground up peat moss
Speaker 3: in a bag and the refrigerator for two or three
Speaker 3: months and bring it out in spring and planet it
Speaker 3: needs to go through that cold treatment in order to germinate. Okay,
Speaker 3: thank you so much, have a great weekend, all right, man,
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, appreciate your call. You're listening to guardline
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Speaker 3: I want to go out to the phones. Uh, I think, Uh,
Speaker 3: we've Scott from Spring. I believe you been holding a bit. Scott.
Speaker 3: Thanks for being patient and welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 11: No problem. I'm being my yards and tested with Sarginia
Speaker 11: button weed and dove wheed. I was just wondering, can
Speaker 11: I spray now because of the rain stop? It seems
Speaker 11: to be cooler?
Speaker 3: It s you can? Okay, time, yeah, yeah, but sooner
Speaker 3: than later. I don't know how many hours it is.
Speaker 3: They say like four hours before rain, but I would
Speaker 3: do it a day before rain if I could. So
Speaker 3: whether it's this afternoon or tomorrow. Go ahead and get
Speaker 3: that done so it has plenty of time to kind
Speaker 3: of soak into the tissues to uh to control those weeds.
Speaker 11: Okay, And I can use can you use the pump
Speaker 11: spray and should just use the spray hose in sprayer
Speaker 11: for this.
Speaker 3: I would use I would use a pump sprayer so
Speaker 3: you can direct it really well and not put so
Speaker 3: much volume out there. The goal is to barely what
Speaker 3: the foliage of the weed, not to drench the soil.
Speaker 3: So get a product called Celsius like the got it,
Speaker 3: all right, and Celsius Celsius the one you want to use.
Speaker 11: Okay, all right, thank you, all.
Speaker 3: Right man, good luck, thank you. All right. By We're
Speaker 3: going to go now to Mary and Pasadena. Hey, Mary,
Speaker 3: welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 6: Good morning. I do believe you've already answered my question
Speaker 6: in your commercial. I have a little white the little
Speaker 6: white moths all in the yard when i'm mode, and
Speaker 6: I think you should bug out.
Speaker 3: Bug Out max is from nitrofoss and it will get
Speaker 3: down in the thatch. And if those moths are side
Speaker 3: web worms, it is pretty effective for that. There's other
Speaker 3: ways to go about it. I mean, you know, they're
Speaker 3: sprays and things, but that is a good one. Now,
Speaker 3: there are a lot of kinds of moths out there, Mary,
Speaker 3: and so we kind of want to know that they
Speaker 3: are side web worms.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure we've yeah, we've had them before. Uh,
Speaker 6: and I do believe that's that's what it is. My question, though,
Speaker 6: was with the rain coming, is now today tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Shut up with it out? You know, that's a good question.
Speaker 3: That does the product does wash off the granule? And
Speaker 3: I don't know how many inches of rain are going
Speaker 3: to occur over than the rest of the week. As
Speaker 3: we get into rainy with right, I probably would hold
Speaker 3: off and then put it down, But then you're gonna
Speaker 3: need to water maybe a half inch of water just
Speaker 3: to get it off the granules and into the thatch area.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, okay, So we're trying to get it down
Speaker 6: in the root area or the lower.
Speaker 3: Part of the grass. Yeah, more the soil surface and
Speaker 3: thatch is the most important area for them to encounter. Okay,
Speaker 3: said web worms don't go they don't go underground.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay, I didn't really think about that. Okay, Well,
Speaker 6: thank you so much. You have a blessed Sunday. Thank you,
Speaker 6: all right as well, appreciate the color. All Right, here,
Speaker 6: let's see, I wanted to tell you a little bit
Speaker 6: about some of the products from Microlife that you probably
Speaker 6: have not used before. Now you hear me talk about
Speaker 6: the Green bag, the standard fertilizer of the lawns through
Speaker 6: the summer, which is by the way, good for all
Speaker 6: kinds of different plants, not just lawns. You've heard me
Speaker 6: talk about the purple bag hu Mates plus, which is
Speaker 6: concentrated compost in a bag.
Speaker 3: But they have some really quality liquids that you need
Speaker 3: to give a try. Micro Grow liquid AF is stocked
Speaker 3: with eight specific microbes that help benefit your soil. There's
Speaker 3: basically a two kinds of microbes and the soil. You've
Speaker 3: got the kind that are causing plant disease and that
Speaker 3: you've got the kind that are helping fight against problems.
Speaker 3: And these are the good guys and they're in this
Speaker 3: product MicroG Liquid AF. It's like you're putting the natural
Speaker 3: soil biology back to work for you. They also have
Speaker 3: a micro Life soil and plant Energy. It's an all
Speaker 3: organic soil. You can spray plants with it too. By
Speaker 3: the way. You can use it as a foldier if
Speaker 3: you like, over sixty three different minerals. And again, like
Speaker 3: all microlife products, when you enhance the microbial content of
Speaker 3: the soil, you enhance plant growth. Micro Grow is a bioinoculant.
Speaker 3: It's a dry granular product that just is loaded with
Speaker 3: trillions of microbes that are part of colonizing the plant
Speaker 3: root to protect it. Did you know plant root exudes
Speaker 3: substances to attract and support microbes because they are the defenders.
Speaker 3: Imagine like you are in a fort and you've got
Speaker 3: the infantry all around the fort protecting against the invaders.
Speaker 3: That's what the microbes are doing. And when you use
Speaker 3: products like these microlife products, you are enhancing that support
Speaker 3: level outside the walls of the fort. That is exactly
Speaker 3: what's going on. That's the one way to put it,
Speaker 3: and I think it's a good analogy that works for me.
Speaker 3: All Right, let's go to Cyprus, Texas, and we're going
Speaker 3: to Nick. Hello, Nick, welcome to Guardline. Hello.
Speaker 14: Can you hear me?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 3: Yes, sir?
Speaker 14: Hello, Okay, great.
Speaker 23: I had a question about I'd actually called before about
Speaker 23: the uh purple stage and actually cut it back in
Speaker 23: a real well, so thanks for that. But I had
Speaker 23: a question about replacing common common box would bushes with roses?
Speaker 23: And do I need to turn up that soil or
Speaker 23: do anything special getting rid of what what the box
Speaker 23: was growing in?
Speaker 3: No, not really. Did the box would run into a
Speaker 3: problem or you just wanted to get rid of them.
Speaker 22: I just want to get rid of them.
Speaker 3: They just don't okay. Yeah, you know, if you run
Speaker 3: into some big roogs underground, just pull them out. But
Speaker 3: get you a good quality mix like a rose blend,
Speaker 3: you know, a quality rose blend, and build up that
Speaker 3: soil a little bit, enhance it because you know, once
Speaker 3: you get the roses in, they're gonna be there for
Speaker 3: years and you're not gonna be able to get back
Speaker 3: down in the soil to do stuff. Is your soil
Speaker 3: a heavy clay or is it a pretty decent soil?
Speaker 23: Uh, it's pretty decent now I've been I've been mixing
Speaker 23: it over the past couple of years, so it's been
Speaker 23: doing topressing on top of it, so it's pretty it's
Speaker 23: pretty condensed. I don't you know, it's probably like too
Speaker 23: foot down to get to the clay.
Speaker 3: So that's I don't think that's Okay, well you're you're good. Then, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're you're good. So just a good quality rose rose
Speaker 3: blend mix would be the way I would go with that.
Speaker 14: Okay, and then and then just can you keep them?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can buy it by the bag, you can
Speaker 3: buy it by the bulk. You know, Airloom Soils makes
Speaker 3: an excellent one that's available in your area and Cypress,
Speaker 3: you can probably find it up at the Ace hardware
Speaker 3: stores up there. I know our garden centers in the
Speaker 3: Cypress region, both uh Let's see uh RCW Nursery, the
Speaker 3: plantrol Seasons and Arbigate all three are going to carry
Speaker 3: mixes like that to enhance the soil. So you know,
Speaker 3: you you don't have far to go to find some
Speaker 3: good stuff. You're lucky to live in that area. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I got all those all the time. It's kind of funny,
Speaker 3: so I appreciate it. Thank you. It's funny, but it's
Speaker 3: fun too. Thanks Nick. Appreciate the call, appreciate having you
Speaker 3: having you around. Hey, we're gonna go to Tony now
Speaker 3: and hello, Tony, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 24: Thank you, Good morning.
Speaker 3: All right, Hey, Tony, guess what I just did? I
Speaker 3: messed up? I went to a call right when it's
Speaker 3: time for me to take a break. False alarm. Can
Speaker 3: you hang on for one second. I'll be right operator error.
Speaker 3: All right, Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good
Speaker 3: to have you with us, Glad to have you with
Speaker 3: us today. It is my pleasure to get to visit
Speaker 3: with you and answer questions about various kinds of plants,
Speaker 3: various kinds of diseases and pests and things like that.
Speaker 3: That is what we're here for. We're going to go
Speaker 3: back to the phones now and talk to Tony. Tony,
Speaker 3: thanks for hanging on through that false alarm. I get
Speaker 3: to go in having so much fun here. I forget
Speaker 3: to look at the clock. So I did get. I
Speaker 3: did get the pictures that you sent, and you've got
Speaker 3: You've got two different plants there. One's variegated and one's
Speaker 3: not okay. And so the one I just want to
Speaker 3: make one statement first part I talk about how to
Speaker 3: control them, or I mean, how to prune them. Uh,
Speaker 3: the one that's variegated, it's got the white leaves. If
Speaker 3: you look in the planet, you'll see some leaves that
Speaker 3: are all green. That plant is notorious for reverting back
Speaker 3: to its all green form. So when you see that,
Speaker 3: you want to follow that green branch all the way
Speaker 3: back to where it attaches to another branch and prune
Speaker 3: it out there, or the green will in time take
Speaker 3: over the white of the bush. All right, So you
Speaker 3: have to surgically remove the green because it continues to
Speaker 3: revert its way back. It is a it is a
Speaker 3: lagustrium type plant, and the pruning of it is you
Speaker 3: can do two things. Most people will share them into
Speaker 3: some form that is appealing. So I would take it
Speaker 3: in the stage it's in right now and cut it
Speaker 3: back maybe by about thirty percent, not much more than that.
Speaker 3: It will sprout back out, and as it does, we
Speaker 3: just have to share them periodically. Now we're going into winter,
Speaker 3: so a lot of succulent new growth that will occur
Speaker 3: after you cut back could be winter killed, and so
Speaker 3: we want to go easy with it. But starting next
Speaker 3: spring we can begin to print it more heavily. Because
Speaker 3: that sidewalk, that plant will take over and your guests
Speaker 3: will have to walk out in the yard to get by.
Speaker 3: It'll run them right off the sidewalk there, So don't
Speaker 3: trust it. Yeah, Okay, how long have those been on
Speaker 3: the ground? About a year, about a year, okay, all right, yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it's a great it's a great plant to
Speaker 3: have and I like those, but you just got to
Speaker 3: watch for them. Also watch a little bit for mealy bug.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they're a little bit prone toward meetleabug type issues.
Speaker 24: Well, I know during the spring, I got attacked by caterpillars,
Speaker 24: which I believe they were the Eastern tent caterpillars. Oh yeah,
Speaker 24: a couple of those bushes. They completely ate the leaves
Speaker 24: off of them, but they came right back.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 24: The other thing was when we had the freeze and
Speaker 24: it got thirteen degrees and we had ice out here.
Speaker 24: When I looked at those bushes, I thought, and they're gone.
Speaker 24: There's no way they survived that. But you know, once
Speaker 24: it heated up, they came right back. So they made
Speaker 24: it through thirteen degrees and ice and did good.
Speaker 3: Wow. Well that's impressive. Yeah, they did a good time. Yeah. Well, anyway,
Speaker 3: those are the gustrooms. Another name for him. By the way,
Speaker 3: a lot of people call them privets, but variegated privet
Speaker 3: and not variegated privet. But anyway, yep, just the more
Speaker 3: you share them, the dnsure they get. Now, the alternative
Speaker 3: to that is to do thinning cuts, which means you
Speaker 3: go in and you take a gangly shoot and you
Speaker 3: cut it back to where it joins another shoot and
Speaker 3: you sort of reduce the size that way. But that's
Speaker 3: a lot more tedious, and I think in the setting
Speaker 3: they're going, you're probably gonna need to share them to
Speaker 3: keep them in bounds with the space.
Speaker 24: That they're Okay, okay, sounds good.
Speaker 3: Thanks for thanks, yeah, thanks thanks for calling. Good luck,
Speaker 3: good luck with those uh with those bushes. Appreciate that
Speaker 3: you're listening to Guardline folks. Our phone number seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one
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Speaker 3: can just plants in the heights. I was there the
Speaker 3: other day visiting with Zach and Heather and just taking
Speaker 3: a look at the place, and you know, they are
Speaker 3: set up and ready to go for fall. I mean
Speaker 3: they got fall mums in. They look outstanding, really really nice.
Speaker 3: A lot of annual flowers for color. You never have
Speaker 3: an excuse to not have color around here. Buchanan is
Speaker 3: always going to keep you stocked up on everything that
Speaker 3: you need. If you are interested in native plants. I
Speaker 3: don't know a place that has a bigger selection than
Speaker 3: Buchanans Plants. One plant I was talking to somebody the
Speaker 3: other day. They have it at Buchanans by the way,
Speaker 3: button bush, button bush. If you've got an area that's
Speaker 3: poorly drained and you don't want to spend the money
Speaker 3: on increasing the drainage in that area with subsurface drainage
Speaker 3: plant of button bush. It can grow in a swamp.
Speaker 3: I mean, it is very tough, very tolerant of wet conditions.
Speaker 3: It is a butterfly attracting plant, has very unusual little
Speaker 3: spiked balls as flowers. It's kind of like that you
Speaker 3: know that skyscraper up in Dallas. It's got the little
Speaker 3: round looks like a dandelion head up on top. That's
Speaker 3: kind of what button bush looks like. And they've got
Speaker 3: it at Buchins as well as a lot of other
Speaker 3: native plants. They all that's what they specialize in. That's
Speaker 3: why the name is Buchanans Plants. Again, Eleventh Street in
Speaker 3: the Heights. Go by there. And the other thing you
Speaker 3: need to do is when go online to be Cannonsplas
Speaker 3: dot com and sign up for their newsletter. It is
Speaker 3: outstanding and there's a lot of information on the website
Speaker 3: as well, tips and tricks. For example, they are always
Speaker 3: putting educational material up. If you want to have success,
Speaker 3: trust the folks at Buchanan's Plants on Eleventh Street and
Speaker 3: the Heights. I'm going to go back to the phones
Speaker 3: here and check my clock, make sure I'm making the
Speaker 3: same mistake again. Mary lou and Northwest Houston, Welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line.
Speaker 19: Good morning.
Speaker 21: I wonder if you could tell me how to save
Speaker 21: or revive a dying climbing rose.
Speaker 3: Well, what why is it dying? Why do we think
Speaker 3: it's dying?
Speaker 21: Mostly he he and neglect.
Speaker 3: Okay, uh, Well, roses need good drainage, they need good
Speaker 3: quality soil with good drainage. They need good nutrition. They
Speaker 3: are heavy feeders, and they need good sunlight. And sometimes
Speaker 3: over the years an area that with sunny becomes less
Speaker 3: and less sunny. And if that has happened, then either
Speaker 3: some pruning to open up light or move in the
Speaker 3: rose would be the two options. If you've got good
Speaker 3: sunlight and if you have good drainage, I would cut
Speaker 3: that rose back after it blooms the bloom season. Buds
Speaker 3: are already forming on that plant, and if you prune
Speaker 3: it now, you're not going to have a bloom show
Speaker 3: in the spring because you're cutting away the bloom buds.
Speaker 3: So if you can wait until after it blooms and
Speaker 3: then cut it back pretty severely and get fresh new
Speaker 3: growth and train that growth in the direction you want
Speaker 3: it to go when it's in your power, Mary, if
Speaker 3: you can orient, we call them canes the shoots of
Speaker 3: a climbing rose. If you can anto shoots horizontally back
Speaker 3: and forth, they bloom better that way because if you
Speaker 3: let it go just straight vertically up in the air,
Speaker 3: you'll get more blooms up on top, but not as
Speaker 3: many up and down around the branch. But as they
Speaker 3: kind of go horizontal, you get more bloom forming all
Speaker 3: along those branches. So some people will weave them back
Speaker 3: and forth on our trellis. If you have the time
Speaker 3: and inclination to.
Speaker 21: Do that, I don't think it's going to bloom much
Speaker 21: because now it really looks ragged.
Speaker 3: Okay, what is the what is the sunlight? How many
Speaker 3: hours do you think it gets the sun.
Speaker 21: It gets?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 21: Oh, it probably gets enough sunlight. There are trees not
Speaker 21: too close to it, but I think it gets because
Speaker 21: it has the past bloomed.
Speaker 3: All right, well, let's let's do this. Uh Ragged, you know,
Speaker 3: is a general term. I can kind of picture ragged,
Speaker 3: but there is a ragged from lead water right, go ahead?
Speaker 10: Dead?
Speaker 21: Some of the branches look dead. I think it may
Speaker 21: have a little bit of life left in it.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, as we go through this conversation, I'm
Speaker 3: more and more thinking that I need to go over
Speaker 3: there and do last rites on your rosebud. It keeps
Speaker 3: getting worse sounding. I think that probably diseases have played
Speaker 3: a part in that. And it could be spider mites.
Speaker 3: It could be great. It could be a black spot
Speaker 3: on the leaves. It could be there are others gosper
Speaker 3: spot can attack on. There's insects that can chew the leaves. So,
Speaker 3: you know, ragged. I want to know why it's ragged.
Speaker 3: Is a soil well drained? And if not, can we
Speaker 3: fix that? Are you watering it adequately?
Speaker 21: I've just started watering, but but well ahead, I'm sorry
Speaker 21: vines have grown around it, on the soil around it,
Speaker 21: and I have to go and get those out of there.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, so either you or someone you bring in
Speaker 3: to do it. I would have them clean up all
Speaker 3: the competition around that thing, all the vines. Let's throw
Speaker 3: some rose food down on the soil. You know, get
Speaker 3: your good quality rose blend nitrofoss has in canisters, real
Speaker 3: quality rose soil. You'll find that with Nelson's as well.
Speaker 3: They've got that sprinkle it around the plant, working into
Speaker 3: the surface of the soil, watered and really good prune
Speaker 3: out all the dead branches. And then I still would
Speaker 3: wait on the serious pruning until spring, because you don't
Speaker 3: want to force a lot of succulent growth that were
Speaker 3: we to have a good coal winter snap, it would
Speaker 3: kill that growth. And because it's not hardened off, so
Speaker 3: let's hold off on serious pruning until springtime. And that'd
Speaker 3: be my best suggestion. Okay, hey, I've got a run.
Speaker 3: We're taking up against a hard break here, but good
Speaker 3: luck with that rose. And if you need more help,
Speaker 3: call me back, send me some pictures next time and
Speaker 3: we'll talk further. All right, folks, I'm going to take
Speaker 3: a little break seven one three two one two kt
Speaker 3: r H. And when we come back, Divana out and
Speaker 3: Katie you will be our first up handle here and
Speaker 3: help people with In the meantime, I want to tell
Speaker 3: about as mite. Azamite is the micro nutrient source that
Speaker 3: we recommend here on garden Line to provide those essential
Speaker 3: nutrients that are needed in small amounts. Just the fact
Speaker 3: that they're needed in small amounts does not change the
Speaker 3: fact that they are essential. And the way I like
Speaker 3: to put it is, if you could take every molecule
Speaker 3: of manganese out of the soil, a plant cannot live.
Speaker 3: Any plant cannot live. If you take every molecule of
Speaker 3: zinc out of the soil, any plant cannot live. Do
Speaker 3: you see what I'm saying. Asimite provides those nutrients. It
Speaker 3: builds the bank account. You can do it when you
Speaker 3: fertilize in a separate hopper. Fertilize and then come back
Speaker 3: and fill up with azamite and do that, or you
Speaker 3: can do it any month of the year. It does
Speaker 3: not have to be done at the same time you fertilize,
Speaker 3: and let's you just want to save the time because
Speaker 3: you already out there doing it. Asamite Texas dot Com
Speaker 3: is the website. But remember asamite. When you are looking
Speaker 3: at my schedule, you will see that I have on
Speaker 3: there micro nutrients supplements can be done during a wide
Speaker 3: time of the year. Now is find time to go
Speaker 3: ahead and do it with azamite. If you got a
Speaker 3: vegetable garden to you throw some out there. It takes
Speaker 3: about I think it's about ten pounds per thousand square
Speaker 3: feet and a vegetable garden and that way the produce
Speaker 3: that you're eating, you want it to be chalk full
Speaker 3: of all the different nutrients, that nutrients that our bodies
Speaker 3: need to and Asamite Texas can do that. I want
Speaker 3: to go now to let's see Divanna in Katie. Hello Divanna,
Speaker 3: and welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 20: Good morning, thank you for taking my call. I tacked
Speaker 20: a zucchini yesterday that had it was mature, but it
Speaker 20: still had the flower petals on there, and it was
Speaker 20: kind of bulled out at the end and at the
Speaker 20: end I looked at it and inside it looks like
Speaker 20: two or three more zucchinis were trying to grow out
Speaker 20: of that. Have you ever seen anything like that?
Speaker 3: That is a condition called the vippery, not a weird word,
Speaker 3: the vippery, and basically what it means is the seed sprouts.
Speaker 3: Occasionally you'll see pecans on a tree with a sprout
Speaker 3: coming out and the pacan nut hadn't even hit the
Speaker 3: ground yet. That can happen with a number of different things.
Speaker 3: Tomatoes can do that you'll see hit tomato and piercing
Speaker 3: through the skin or little little tomato seeds. It's sprouded
Speaker 3: inside the fruit. Different kinds of stresses can cause It's
Speaker 3: it's not a big concern. You just pull that zucchini off,
Speaker 3: cut away the parts that have it, and keep going.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not going to ruin ruin the other
Speaker 3: parts of the fruit. But yep, that's what it's called.
Speaker 3: Nothing really for you to do about it other than
Speaker 3: provide good care. And I think I don't think it's
Speaker 3: going to be an ongoing problem for your zucchini.
Speaker 20: Well, it was just real unusual looking.
Speaker 19: And thank you so much for taking up off all right, Katie,
Speaker 19: thank you very loud.
Speaker 3: You know, normally I say, when I help you with
Speaker 3: a plant, there's no charge, but you got to drop
Speaker 3: half the produce off at the gart at the KRH studio.
Speaker 3: I can eat too, I think. With zucchini, though, I'm
Speaker 3: going to make an exception to that rule. You know,
Speaker 3: when zucchini starts producing, it's like what do you do.
Speaker 3: That's why the neighbors close the blinds and one answered
Speaker 3: the door. When you're carrying the tenth the basket of
Speaker 3: zucchini across the yard to gift them. Some more said,
Speaker 3: have fun, have fun in the garden, Divanna, thanks for
Speaker 3: the call.
Speaker 14: Thank you.
Speaker 3: All right by by, let's see, we're gonna go now
Speaker 3: to Larry and Alvin. Hey, Larry, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 25: Good morning.
Speaker 14: Hey.
Speaker 9: Before I ask you my question, I've been curious. I
Speaker 9: don't hear Nicky Courtney on there anymore.
Speaker 3: No, Nikki's retired. She's moved on having a happy, happy,
Speaker 3: happy retired life. Yeah. Yeah, we missed enjoyed her being there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, hey, how can I help you help you
Speaker 3: with your question?
Speaker 9: Well, I'm going to sower rise a long flower band
Speaker 9: all the way across front of my house. But I
Speaker 9: also I was wondering should I put some barricade down
Speaker 9: first or wait till get the solarized and then I'm
Speaker 9: on a put down molt on top of it? And
Speaker 9: should I put the malts down before solarize it?
Speaker 11: Does it matter?
Speaker 24: It's just a weed bed.
Speaker 3: Here's the quick answer on that solarizing heats up the
Speaker 3: soil to a point where it kills all the weed
Speaker 3: seeds and the surface not five inches down but the
Speaker 3: top four if you do it right, if it's got
Speaker 3: good sunlight. Now, if that works, you don't need to
Speaker 3: use barricade because you've killed the weed seeds that are
Speaker 3: up there.
Speaker 5: What I reckollec do.
Speaker 3: Do your soil prep and get the bed ready to plant,
Speaker 3: and then solarize, and then when you take the plastic
Speaker 3: clear plastic is what you after you when you take
Speaker 3: that off, you've killed the weed seeds up there, so
Speaker 3: you shouldn't need to do that the barricade. Now, then
Speaker 3: plant your plants and then throw multch down on the surface.
Speaker 3: That's kind of the overall answer to what you're asking.
Speaker 11: Got you got you? Well?
Speaker 9: That's good. That's good to know. I didn't know which
Speaker 9: way to go, where I needed to do or in
Speaker 9: what order I needed to do well.
Speaker 3: And if a solarizing was not fully effective for whatever
Speaker 3: reason lack of light or whatever, if it wasn't fully effective,
Speaker 3: by getting the plant in right away and getting that
Speaker 3: mulch on top, now you've blocked the light and those
Speaker 3: weed seeds are't go be able to come up through
Speaker 3: the mulch anyway, so that's a double insurance.
Speaker 9: I'm probably going way a little bet spring and a
Speaker 9: plant to plant then, so I got plenty of time
Speaker 9: to solarize it. And it gets you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what are you going to grow in that bed?
Speaker 9: I'm just gonna I think I'm on plant all naighties?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, yeah, well ad it from you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you're done in Alvin down there. And I know that
Speaker 3: airlom Soils has bag products at Ace Hardware stores and
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Speaker 3: it's native plants, it doesn't mean you can't use roasto.
Speaker 3: Roast oil is for good for woody shrubs of all kinds.
Speaker 3: And so yeah, i'd get some of that stuff and
Speaker 3: mix it in.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I've used your product. I really like it, so
Speaker 9: I'll probably get quality.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got some Ace Hardware is done in Alvin too,
Speaker 3: that that I bet, I bet will carry it for you.
Speaker 9: And also carries it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, all right, Well hey man, thanks for
Speaker 3: the call. I appreciate that very much. Appreciate you being
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Speaker 3: now to uh, let's see here Corey in. We've got
Speaker 3: about a minute. Let's see if we can get started.
Speaker 3: We'll finish up after a break.
Speaker 7: Okay, first question, but Grandpa died a couple of years ago.
Speaker 7: He used to take care of the palm trees in
Speaker 7: the yard. I'm taking care of my grandma now, trying
Speaker 7: to take care of.
Speaker 11: The palm trees.
Speaker 7: So I've cut all of the dead limbs off, but
Speaker 7: some of them were like ligong, And I don't know
Speaker 7: if I'm like stripping the protecting bart or if it's
Speaker 7: already dead and it's okay to come off. I'm just
Speaker 7: trying not to like let the bottom of the tree
Speaker 7: roun again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, pull on it and it comes If
Speaker 3: you pull on it comes off. That's fine. There's different
Speaker 3: kinds of palms. Some of them the whole the palm
Speaker 3: leaf has something called a petiole. That's the branch and
Speaker 3: the palm leaf out there, and it attaches to the trunk.
Speaker 3: And some of them strip away right there. Some of
Speaker 3: them we cut them off and leave that stuff on there.
Speaker 3: Just the nature of that.
Speaker 7: So if it's these are the ones with the sharp teeth,
Speaker 7: these the ones with the sharp teeth, I'm on that thing.
Speaker 14: So I was cutting down I.
Speaker 7: Noticed a couple of the other palm trees, you know,
Speaker 7: cutting them down to that little short stuff. But I
Speaker 7: was also noticing the bottom doesn't on some of the
Speaker 7: neighbor's trees don't look that way. They're like, I don't know, smoothish,
Speaker 7: they're not, you know, jagged and layered.
Speaker 26: Is that good?
Speaker 9: Bad?
Speaker 7: Do I need to do that?
Speaker 9: How do I do that?
Speaker 3: Well, let's come back to that. I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: hit a break here and I will come back. We'll
Speaker 3: continue with this discussion. But that's a good question. All right,
Speaker 3: folks will be right back with us. We're going to
Speaker 3: run back out to the conversation we had begun with Corey. Corey,
Speaker 3: we're talking about palm trees and you had some branches
Speaker 3: you have, or some palm leads that you've cut off,
Speaker 3: and we're talking about whether or not to lead that
Speaker 3: base on the trunk or not.
Speaker 12: Right, correct?
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, like I said, some palms depends on the
Speaker 3: style of palm. They lead those stubs and issue drive
Speaker 3: around down and you'll see that, and some it just
Speaker 3: strips off. They cut it loose right at the trunk,
Speaker 3: and that's fine too. I wouldn't worry a lot about it.
Speaker 3: If it's gonna pull off. The older ones is are
Speaker 3: decaying away, you know at the base that they're gonna
Speaker 3: put a loose and if that works that way, that's fine.
Speaker 6: Just do that.
Speaker 3: That's not a problem. There are a lot of different
Speaker 3: species of palms out there, and just the fact that
Speaker 3: you mentioned it had the little darns or teeth on
Speaker 3: the side, there's several types that have that, so that
Speaker 3: characteristic alone doesn't really distinguish.
Speaker 7: Gotcha, Okay, Sorry that we use some of the dead
Speaker 7: limbs for the top of the gazebo, and I'm using
Speaker 7: a hatchet, and I just was wondering. I didn't want
Speaker 7: to cut too deep into the tree, and so I
Speaker 7: didn't know pulling that extra bark off with you know,
Speaker 7: allow too much hair or something to rock the tree.
Speaker 3: No, just kind of cutting it loose at the surface
Speaker 3: there of the plant. That's what you're doing. You don't
Speaker 3: want to chop down deep into the trunk, for sure,
Speaker 3: but you could. You could cut those things off if
Speaker 3: you need to, just by more slicing. I guess your
Speaker 3: swing is more in the direction of the trunk, parallel
Speaker 3: of the trunk, more than it is at a right
Speaker 3: angle directly into the trunks.
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, Right right, I'm trying to
Speaker 7: give them that because the other trees that I see
Speaker 7: people eating chainsaws with. They're like a nice bevil kind
Speaker 7: of cross ditch live and so I'm trying to equal that. Yeah,
Speaker 7: but I, like I said, at the bottom of the
Speaker 7: tree sometimes it looks grated, and I see they am
Speaker 7: using a tool or whatever to kind of grind the
Speaker 7: tree there. And I didn't know if that was healthy
Speaker 7: or if I needed to do that or in mind
Speaker 7: to just leave alone that don't.
Speaker 3: Have a big budget, I'm not seeing that. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: over overthink this one. The palm trees, you know, in nature,
Speaker 3: nobody's doing anything like that to them, So it's not
Speaker 3: gonna affect life of your big tree what you do.
Speaker 3: It's just a matter of cleanness. And the other thing
Speaker 3: is when you get a big top on a palm
Speaker 3: tree that's full of all those dead leaves and things,
Speaker 3: rats will hide up in there and nest and then
Speaker 3: they'll fall out and hit you on the head with
Speaker 3: that serrated edge of the leaf that can do a
Speaker 3: lot of damage. And that's the main reason why I've
Speaker 3: been friending them for aesthetics and.
Speaker 9: For someone.
Speaker 25: Okay, do I need to do anything to love then,
Speaker 25: or can I just lea alone, the ones that are
Speaker 25: still like half or three quarters green, No, you can
Speaker 25: leave those on.
Speaker 3: Think of it this way. When you look at a
Speaker 3: palm tree, the leaves in nature will form a complete circle.
Speaker 3: There'll be green leaves going up to the sides, and
Speaker 3: at some point, as they get down to let's say
Speaker 3: five o'clock and eight o'clock on a clock, the ones
Speaker 3: below that are all dead hanging around the base. You
Speaker 3: want to prune all dead out, but you never want
Speaker 3: to raise that up until where more than half of
Speaker 3: that ball has been removed. So, in other words, look
Speaker 3: at the pod and think of a clock, and don't
Speaker 3: prune higher than three o'clock and nine o'clock. Does that
Speaker 3: make sense if I do it that way?
Speaker 12: Perfect?
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, it's perfect that I've always wanted to be
Speaker 7: a college. How you keep your thinking my call?
Speaker 3: Oh? Well, thank you for being a caller. Call back sometime.
Speaker 3: Take care?
Speaker 11: Yes you do at.
Speaker 14: All?
Speaker 3: Right, folks, there you go. It's as simple as that. Hey,
Speaker 3: I'll I want to tell you about Medina products. I
Speaker 3: have talked about a lot of different ones over the weeks.
Speaker 3: I want to tell you about one. This is something
Speaker 3: you need to know about for fall and that is
Speaker 3: Medina Plus and Medina Liquid Humus. Both of them are
Speaker 3: excellent products. But when you're going to be doing transplanting
Speaker 3: and watering something in a Medina Plus I would do it,
Speaker 3: and the Medina Humate liquid humus, which is constantrated compost
Speaker 3: basically in a bottle, follow the label. Put those together
Speaker 3: in a watering can and drench that down over your plants.
Speaker 3: Now that Medina plus, you know, you can use it
Speaker 3: as a folier on all kinds of things. You put
Speaker 3: in a hose in spreader on all kinds of plants.
Speaker 3: You can do it on flower pots and whatnot as
Speaker 3: a sprinkling can over over the plants. But I'm talking
Speaker 3: about for transplanting. This is another use of it. It's
Speaker 3: a very good product. And fall is for planting. You're
Speaker 3: going to be planting vegetables. You're gonna be planting herbs,
Speaker 3: You're gonna be planting shrubs and trees and vines and
Speaker 3: grounds covers, ornamental grasses and all of that. Whatever goes
Speaker 3: in the ground, give it a good drench with the
Speaker 3: Medina plus. The contents of that product are going to
Speaker 3: be very beneficial for your plants. For example, the Medina Plus.
Speaker 3: It's got what is in Medina Soil Activator plus, forty
Speaker 3: different trace elements. It's got growth hormones in it, things
Speaker 3: like magnesium and iron and zinc and a lot of
Speaker 3: the things that enhance plant growth. And the list is
Speaker 3: a mile long that all benefit plants. So if you
Speaker 3: want better blooming, better leaf growth, better fruit set. If
Speaker 3: you want transplanting success, even seed treatment, Medina plus and
Speaker 3: throw some of that humate you maic acid in, especially
Speaker 3: when you're doing watering in of a transplant. All from
Speaker 3: Medina and Medina products are widely available. You can find
Speaker 3: those all over the place. You hear me talk about
Speaker 3: a garden center, a feed store, ace hardware store, Southwest fertilizer,
Speaker 3: all those kind of places or where you're going to
Speaker 3: find Medina. We're going to go now to Spring and
Speaker 3: talk to Bill. Hey Bill, welcome to Guarden Line.
Speaker 26: Hey, Skip, I've got I'm got an infestation of meeae
Speaker 26: bugs and I can't get rid of them. I was
Speaker 26: listening two weeks about two weeks ago, and a lady
Speaker 26: had called in and you told her just to chop
Speaker 26: everything down and start over. Well, I've been trying to
Speaker 26: spray them off and pick them off, and yeah, I've
Speaker 26: got they're on my turks cap, they're on my hostas,
Speaker 26: they're on my airing.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, hey Bill, I'm gonna I'm gonna cut
Speaker 3: your question short because I don't want to run an
Speaker 3: out of time right to run out of time on
Speaker 3: the answer. So I want to give you that. If
Speaker 3: the plant is just covered with meadaie bugs, sometimes the
Speaker 3: best thing is to get rid of it and get
Speaker 3: a new one, or cut it off. If the house
Speaker 3: plan especially, get a new one. You can use things
Speaker 3: to control them. You can spray them if they're small
Speaker 3: meea bugs you know on a house plant kind of thing,
Speaker 3: a little Q tip with alcohol and just every time
Speaker 3: you see anything white, just get in there and kill
Speaker 3: it and do that. If it's an outdoor plant, systemics work.
Speaker 3: You put them in the soil. They're an insecticide. They
Speaker 3: go into the plumbing of the plant. The mealea bug
Speaker 3: sucks the juices and gets the poison that way. The
Speaker 3: only drawback on systemics is if it's a flowering plant
Speaker 3: that bees come to, well it's in the plumbing of
Speaker 3: the plant and that's not good for the bees. So
Speaker 3: that's the drawback on that horticulture oil and sexile soaps.
Speaker 3: When the meadia bugs are young, that works. It's just
Speaker 3: with that cotton you're covering, It's hard to get a
Speaker 3: pesticide to the meai bug. That's why I like to
Speaker 3: go through the plumbing of the plant, because they can't
Speaker 3: survive without sticking their mouth then and sucking juices out
Speaker 3: of the plant.
Speaker 14: Are they in the soil? Where do they come from?
Speaker 3: There are some Meaia bugs that can be down in
Speaker 3: the soil area, in the root area, but in general,
Speaker 3: I don't know that oftentimes they come in with the plant.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of ways bugs can get into our landscape,
Speaker 3: but they are a problem and the natural enemies. As
Speaker 3: we try to kill them bugs, we kill their natural
Speaker 3: enemies and then.
Speaker 14: Yah light bugs.
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, all right, man, Bill, good luck with those.
Speaker 3: A lot of people in Houston definitely feel your pain
Speaker 3: when it comes to me with don't we just did
Speaker 3: another garden line. I'm glad you're with us. It's a
Speaker 3: great weekend. We'll be back next weekend six to ten
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday. You can listen to the podcast for
Speaker 3: listening back over shows. You can listen to us online.
Speaker 3: You can listen to us on the radio. Of course,
Speaker 3: you can get your iHeartMedia app, put one on your
Speaker 3: phone and take your phone out in the garden and
Speaker 3: garden on a Saturday and Sunday morning. Listen to Garden
Speaker 3: Line while you're doing it. We can do all the above. Hey,
Speaker 3: don't forget. Next week on Saturday, eleven thirty to twelve thirty,
Speaker 3: I will be at the wild Birds Unlimited in clear Lake.
Speaker 3: It's on the corner of El Dorado and clear Lake
Speaker 3: City Boulevard. There's gonna be lots of giveaways. I'll be
Speaker 3: there answering any kind of gardening questions you have. I
Speaker 3: hope you'll come out and see me.
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