Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's the crazy gas a trim.
Speaker 3: You just watch him as wood us so many things
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Speaker 4: Not a sorry glass, gas s bean and down between.
Speaker 2: All right, good morning, gardeners. We got a show to
Speaker 2: do this morning. We got questions to answer, so let's
Speaker 2: get going. I am this is a season where as
Speaker 2: I said last week, if if you would put your index,
Speaker 2: your first two fingers on your from one hand to
Speaker 2: the other, and if you feel a pulse, then you
Speaker 2: got to be excited about getting outside and planting something.
Speaker 2: If you don't feel, if you're not it, or let's
Speaker 2: be it this way, if you're not excited, you better
Speaker 2: check your pulse. This is a time of year when
Speaker 2: even non gardeners or gardeners, you know, you go buy
Speaker 2: a garden center and see all the beautiful flowers and things,
Speaker 2: or maybe some vegetables, some tomato plants, and you just think,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm going to grow one of those
Speaker 2: myself this year, and I hope you do. Gardening is
Speaker 2: the best, most relaxing. It's good for you physically and mentally.
Speaker 2: It's enjoyable. It's one of the best hobbies I can
Speaker 2: think of. I really do. And so if you want
Speaker 2: to put it this way, I think there's a reason
Speaker 2: that there that the beginning of man was in something
Speaker 2: called the garden of Eden. Right, Okay, because we're supposed
Speaker 2: to be gardening, That's all I'm saying. I used to
Speaker 2: tell some friends of mine that I am actually in
Speaker 2: the original profession ordained by God. How does that sound,
Speaker 2: I'm a gardener, for crying out loud. It wasn't the
Speaker 2: cubicle of Eden. It was the garden of Eden. So
Speaker 2: they are. There's gardening snobbery for you. If you'd like
Speaker 2: to give a skull this morning seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two kat r H seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two kt r H will be happy to visit with
Speaker 2: you about whatever kinds of questions you might have. Uh,
Speaker 2: just a warning. I was out in my lawn pulling
Speaker 2: up some weeds that had seeds on them, and I
Speaker 2: hadn't gotten to them yet. I got a little spot
Speaker 2: over on the side where there's a few weeds left,
Speaker 2: and trying to get to those. I prefer a hand
Speaker 2: pull when I can, Uh, you know, if I if
Speaker 2: you're talking about a big yard full of thousand bazillion weed. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: I get it. I wouldn't pull that either unless I
Speaker 2: just had a lot of time on my hands. But anyway,
Speaker 2: I saw those weeds, and that's what I was pulling them.
Speaker 2: I noticed some warm season weeds germinating. You know, as
Speaker 2: I get down there among the grass anywhere your grass is,
Speaker 2: then anywhere that sunlight hits to soil nature plants of weed.
Speaker 2: So now is kind of your I don't say last call.
Speaker 2: You know, we can do pre emergent weed control anytime
Speaker 2: of the year because weeds are germinating all times of
Speaker 2: the year. But the warm season weeds began germinating back
Speaker 2: earlier in March and they are still Germany and we'll
Speaker 2: continue to through the summer. Barricade is ninetrofissis product to
Speaker 2: help prevent that. Basically, what it is is it's a
Speaker 2: pre emergent meaning you put it on the ground, you
Speaker 2: water it in. You have to water a pre emergent
Speaker 2: in and you have to put it at the right rate.
Speaker 2: Not enough isn't good, too much isn't good either. So
Speaker 2: the right rate watered in it goes to the soil
Speaker 2: surface makes a barricade. When a weed seed tries to
Speaker 2: germinate and become a weed plant, barricade says no, that's
Speaker 2: how that works. Okay. Now you can find barricade a
Speaker 2: lot of different places. If you go to Lake Hardware
Speaker 2: and Angleton, if you down on Alasko, if you're include
Speaker 2: a Lake Hardware, Include on Dixie Drives. Another place Fisher's Hardware,
Speaker 2: which is in Baytown, on Alexander and Brenham plants and things.
Speaker 2: There you go Highway sixty five, all places you can
Speaker 2: find nitrofost products. So yes, I was doing some hand
Speaker 2: weeding and I've got to tell you this, And I
Speaker 2: don't expect everybody to feel this way by any means.
Speaker 2: In fact, I suspect most of you you're gonna think
Speaker 2: I'm nuts. But I actually like pulling weeds. Now, when
Speaker 2: I was a kid, I didn't okay, uh, in my household.
Speaker 2: If I misbehaved, I had to go out to the
Speaker 2: garden and pull weeds. It's a wonder I ever became
Speaker 2: a horticulturist. I did. I had to go out and
Speaker 2: pull weeds. I think it was just like you stepped
Speaker 2: off on the wrong foot. There, I think you gotta
Speaker 2: go pull weeds. Well, actually it was because of the
Speaker 2: things I actually did, which, by the way, we had
Speaker 2: the most weed free garden in town. And I'll let
Speaker 2: you put the two and two together and figure out
Speaker 2: what was happening with me as a young young man. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I had to go out and pull weeee. But now
Speaker 2: I actually like it. I have an area of the
Speaker 2: yard where I didn't take a good care of it
Speaker 2: last year, just busy and not doing the things I need.
Speaker 2: Actually was a lack of water in that area that
Speaker 2: it's kind of sunny and it got a little thin.
Speaker 2: But when I go out, I have a little kneeling bench.
Speaker 2: You hear me brag about those all the time. I
Speaker 2: love that tool. Kneeling bench, and I just five gallon
Speaker 2: bucket and I've got a little weeding tool where I
Speaker 2: can put it in the ground. I'm not sitting there
Speaker 2: fighting against a weed and it's breaking off and everything.
Speaker 2: It just pops up. I do that, don't even think
Speaker 2: about where I am, how much is to go, Just
Speaker 2: kind of work my way across like you're reading a book,
Speaker 2: you know, or left or right, left to right and
Speaker 2: going back and forth. And I had to stop and
Speaker 2: go in. And I stood up and looked and it's like,
Speaker 2: there's this perfectly weed free yard on one side, and
Speaker 2: on the other side there I hadn't gotten there yet,
Speaker 2: still weeds, but there's a gratification for me and looking
Speaker 2: up and seeing that I have taken care of the weed.
Speaker 2: But I don't know there. You know, life has a
Speaker 2: lot of areas. Maybe your work is this mine was
Speaker 2: for many years, where you work all day and you
Speaker 2: kind of at the end of the day go, I
Speaker 2: don't really know what I accomplished today. When you're pulling weeds,
Speaker 2: it is crystal clear. You know, every five minutes you
Speaker 2: look and you see what you did. So there not
Speaker 2: trying to convince you to love love weed pulling, but
Speaker 2: I'll tell you it is therapeutic. Now not one hundred
Speaker 2: degrees with fire ants crawling up your legs, mosquito is
Speaker 2: bearing down on your neck. You know, not that. But
Speaker 2: it is a good thing. So we all want our
Speaker 2: yards to look better. I want to look beautiful. That
Speaker 2: is kind of been the project I've been on all week.
Speaker 2: In fact, I've had a lot of work. It didn't
Speaker 2: get done this week because I was out in the
Speaker 2: yard doing a bunch of different things. I'll talk about
Speaker 2: those we go through the show today. But anyway, got
Speaker 2: all that done and so hey, I feel good about that.
Speaker 2: It's a good week in the garden. If you are
Speaker 2: looking to have a turnkey job that makes your landscape
Speaker 2: look like awesome, just awesome botanical garden, Piercecapes can do that.
Speaker 2: They are our preferred landscapeer. Been arouns. It's nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2: And whether you do want that whole turnkey garden, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, design it for me. Let's do everything. If
Speaker 2: I own an every inch of property I own in
Speaker 2: the city lot, I want you to turn it into
Speaker 2: something special. Or if you just want a little spring
Speaker 2: freshening up, if you want to redo a flower bed
Speaker 2: and have some new plants put in. Maybe you need
Speaker 2: irrigation work, drainage work, lighting work, some hardscapes, stone and things.
Speaker 2: Pierce Capes is a place to go. They're professionals. If
Speaker 2: you don't believe me, go to the website Piercescapes dot com,
Speaker 2: piercescapes dot com or give them a call two eight
Speaker 2: one three seven fifty sixty. I prefer to people go
Speaker 2: to the website because when you see the work they do,
Speaker 2: it's amazing. By the way, they also will come in
Speaker 2: and just do quarterly maintenance. You know you've got your
Speaker 2: place like mine. I should have had them last year
Speaker 2: instead of those weeds growing water taking care of things. Anyway,
Speaker 2: they're good. Time for me to take a quick break.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back with Bob from Porter. All right,
Speaker 2: so we are back, and if your neighbors aren't up,
Speaker 2: by the way, go bang them the door. Tell them
Speaker 2: they're missing guard Line and they will very much appreciate that. Someday.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go out to Porter now and talk to Bob. Hello, Bob,
Speaker 2: good morning, Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 5: How you doing, Skip, Hey doing well?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 5: Greg? Can you grow dragging the fruit in our area.
Speaker 2: Here with protection from the cold. Usually people put it
Speaker 2: in like a rolling planter or something. They can get
Speaker 2: a dolly under and uh take it into the garage.
Speaker 2: It's not cold, fully cold.
Speaker 6: Hardly.
Speaker 5: Okay. And then I got one more. I contain our garden.
Speaker 7: Uh quite a bit actually, but I've been using can
Speaker 7: I say that product name?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Sure, I use microlaps six two four. But uh, I
Speaker 7: got a buddy that uses the three eight I think
Speaker 7: three eight three? Uh the liquid? Uh, do you have
Speaker 7: any purpose on that? I'm mainly tomatoes and peppers, you know,
Speaker 7: blooming blooming plant plant, tomato.
Speaker 5: Pepper, squash, cucumbers. Right, you got a purpose on either
Speaker 5: one of those.
Speaker 2: I like the microlife.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 2: But here's the let me let me back up one
Speaker 2: step before even your question. The best fertilizer for your
Speaker 2: garden depends on what's already in your garden. So like
Speaker 2: let's say you had good solid phosphorus levels. Well, then
Speaker 2: that three eight whatever you were saying, that higher phosphorus
Speaker 2: is not the fertilizer for you. Most plants are going
Speaker 2: to take up nutrients in a kind of a three
Speaker 2: one two ratio. Now, the phosphorus if you're trying to
Speaker 2: get things to root, like you're putting in any transplant
Speaker 2: and things, phosphorus is a good thing for that higher phosphorus. Right,
Speaker 2: But you said six two four of the green bag
Speaker 2: microlife is am I right? Is that what you said?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that way. I use that on a lot of.
Speaker 7: Diff Okay, well I use that on for our granular
Speaker 7: but you know, uh, I do feed my tubes too,
Speaker 7: like e were, I use the powder and the line
Speaker 7: when I'm planting, but when I'm when I'm feeding my tubes,
Speaker 7: I use Wiking tubs. And I've been used. I thought
Speaker 7: there was six two four, maybe nots of the Microlife liquid.
Speaker 7: Uh you know a couple of tables for gallon.
Speaker 5: I didn't know if that well, Uh no.
Speaker 2: Those are those are fine. Uh the the Microlife has
Speaker 2: a maximum bloom. It's called three eight three. Now, even
Speaker 2: though it says maximum blooms, you could put that as
Speaker 2: a transplant fertilizer because it's got that hyphosphorus in it.
Speaker 2: You could use that. They have the Ocean Harvest, which
Speaker 2: is a fish base, and it's four two three, so
Speaker 2: it's kind of a more of the same amount of
Speaker 2: each one, roughly closer to it at least, So it
Speaker 2: kind of just depends on what you're trying to do.
Speaker 2: But if you want to, you can go anyway. All
Speaker 2: those liquids for microlife are good products. So I used
Speaker 2: I probably used two thirds of them, and I keep
Speaker 2: I'm working my way through them just to have some
Speaker 2: experience with them.
Speaker 5: Okay, alrighty, that works for me. I appreciate you, Miss Skill.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Well, Bob, thank you, and just remember the rule on guardline,
Speaker 2: as my advice is free, but I expect half your produce,
Speaker 2: So just split it half and bring it, bring it
Speaker 2: to the station, and we'll call it even. Thank you, sir,
Speaker 2: by bye. I I wonder if I'm going to ever
Speaker 2: get tired of that jerk. I met a bunch of
Speaker 2: you have already. Welcome to garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 2: Skip Rictor. We're here to have fun, and not just
Speaker 2: on the radio, but have fun gardening. The thing I
Speaker 2: like to say on guarden Line is I'm here to
Speaker 2: help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
Speaker 2: and more fun in the process. And that's kind of
Speaker 2: how that works. Fun in the process. Don't forget that part.
Speaker 2: Gardening should be fun. If you are wanting to switch
Speaker 2: into your summer lawn fertilization season, it's time to go
Speaker 2: ahead and begin that if you like to do that now.
Speaker 2: If you look at my schedule, there is an optional
Speaker 2: spring green up that's a quick release, and then there
Speaker 2: when we hit the summer, well, excuse me, when we
Speaker 2: get to later spring, mid to late spring is a
Speaker 2: time when we begin doing those fertilizations that last longer
Speaker 2: and Mike like the Superturf. My brain went blink there
Speaker 2: for a minute. From nitrofoss Nitrovos Superturf is a nineteen
Speaker 2: four to ten fertilizer, but it lasts for like four
Speaker 2: months in the lawn. So this isn't the quick release,
Speaker 2: and you could use a quick release by the way.
Speaker 2: You know they have the Imperial the fast release. You
Speaker 2: could use that all through the summer by just making
Speaker 2: small applications of it over time. But if you want
Speaker 2: to make one application and have it gradually feed your lawn,
Speaker 2: the way to go, and that's why I do it
Speaker 2: on my schedule. This way is you shift to a
Speaker 2: longer term for lighter and microash. Gosh nitrofive super turf.
Speaker 2: My brain is starting to function, but not quite. It
Speaker 2: gives you that gradual feed, so your mowing is not
Speaker 2: just jacked up to having a mowmo mo because you
Speaker 2: hit the grass with all this extra nitrogen. I know
Speaker 2: it's nineteen percent. That's almost one fifth nitrogen in the product,
Speaker 2: but it's not all available at once. You're talking about
Speaker 2: four months a feeding and that it makes it easy
Speaker 2: and it's a silver bag, which makes it easy to
Speaker 2: find it in the store. So whether you go, let's
Speaker 2: say to M and D. Beamer on Sagemont Area clear
Speaker 2: like I'm indee Clare Lake on Bay Area Boulevard, or
Speaker 2: Fisher's Hardware my Bellevue. There's also Fisher's Hardware there on
Speaker 2: South Broadway in Laporte, you're gonna find nitrofost products like
Speaker 2: this superturf. And so if you didn't do an early
Speaker 2: spring green up, do the super turf now, go ahead
Speaker 2: and do it now it's time. If you did do that,
Speaker 2: you can wait about four to six weeks, probably six
Speaker 2: weeks after the greenup was applied, and put down your
Speaker 2: super turf at that time. We're going to go now
Speaker 2: to North Houston and talk to Robert. Hello, Robert, Welcome
Speaker 2: to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning, Skip, Yeah, Skip, I had a question about
Speaker 9: this plan is callen Coy Canada.
Speaker 2: It's called Leaf of Life.
Speaker 9: And okay, wait, I talked to the people I bought
Speaker 9: it from and they say you can make a tea
Speaker 9: out of it, So that tells me it's not poisonous.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I didn't know that.
Speaker 9: Okay, go ahead, Well anyway, I'm wondering since if you
Speaker 9: can make a ted of do you think maybe possibly
Speaker 9: it be edible.
Speaker 2: I just can't tell you that I didn't know that
Speaker 2: you could eat calanchoy. I'm sure it's a certain type
Speaker 2: of calenikoe like you mentioned, but I don't I'm gonna
Speaker 2: not not on the air so that you can or
Speaker 2: can't eat it. That would be one that I would
Speaker 2: suggest you do some online searching and just be careful
Speaker 2: with the sources that you read, you know, on that
Speaker 2: kind of thing. I'll usually do some searching and go
Speaker 2: to a bunch of different sources and read what they
Speaker 2: say and stuff. If it's associated with any kind of
Speaker 2: a like a university kind of thing, that that's even
Speaker 2: better because they're they're more likely to be given your
Speaker 2: research based information. But anyway, sorry, I can't I can't
Speaker 2: answer that one for you. It was did you say Panada?
Speaker 2: P I N N A T A Yes, sure, Okay,
Speaker 2: Well I'm going to look into that. I'm gonna look yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna look into that. You know, I don't generally
Speaker 2: recommend eating things on the air just because people misunderstand, uh,
Speaker 2: and you know, there's a you gotta be real careful
Speaker 2: with things. But I'm going to look into that because
Speaker 2: I I had not heard that one before.
Speaker 9: Okay, can I call you back once once you have
Speaker 9: a chance to kind of research you.
Speaker 2: Tell you what, Let's do this. I'm gonna put you
Speaker 2: on hold. Uh my producer Jonathan will pick up and
Speaker 2: he will give you an email if you will email
Speaker 2: me that question, write it out.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: I'm going to find some links and send those to
Speaker 2: you and if I can find anything on it, and
Speaker 2: uh be happy to do that. Okay, okay, thank you,
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, Robert, thanks a lot, appreciate your call.
Speaker 2: That is very interesting. I have to look into that one.
Speaker 2: I was at the Arbrogate a while back, and I
Speaker 2: always love going there because it's just like it's like
Speaker 2: you've gone to a little gardening wonderland.
Speaker 11: You.
Speaker 2: First of all, you park in the back. That's I mean,
Speaker 2: they still have the front lot, but the back is
Speaker 2: much more space, much safer to get easy to get
Speaker 2: in and out and everything. It's off Trichel Road, which
Speaker 2: is a loop that goes around behind Arburgate. When you
Speaker 2: walk in it, just from the minute you step in,
Speaker 2: you could just stop, take one step in and stop
Speaker 2: and start looking around because I mean there's pottery here,
Speaker 2: and there's rain chains in from the building over there,
Speaker 2: and there's plants, you know, of vegetables and herbs. It's
Speaker 2: just fun to walk through there. The gardens are all decorated,
Speaker 2: lots of bling for your garden beds, you know, the
Speaker 2: decorations and things for the bed. But the plants, the
Speaker 2: plants are amazing. And they have their their one two
Speaker 2: three completely easy system with the soils. That's an organic
Speaker 2: food complete, and organic soil complete and organic com post complete.
Speaker 2: Those three together is what when you hear me say
Speaker 2: brown stuff before green stuff, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: You get the fertilizers, the composts, the multiz you get
Speaker 2: all of that kind of stuff ready to go make
Speaker 2: your soul ready and then put the plant in and
Speaker 2: you have success. And the color that you see there
Speaker 2: right now is outstanding. I mean, it's just every kind
Speaker 2: of plant you can imagine. And they are experts. They're
Speaker 2: gardeners who know what they're doing and they're not going
Speaker 2: to sell you a plant that didn't grow here. If
Speaker 2: you have problems with the plant, they're going to tell
Speaker 2: you what to do about it. You can go in
Speaker 2: with samples or questions. That the thing I think that's
Speaker 2: most I just see people doing it all the time there,
Speaker 2: and that is they find somebody that works there actually
Speaker 2: works the other way around. Often they're greeting you and
Speaker 2: coming up to you and that person will walk through
Speaker 2: with somebody. They'll go. You know, I want to make
Speaker 2: an herb planter, but I don't know which ones would
Speaker 2: be good to go together, or I want to make
Speaker 2: a one of those. I hear about the thriller filler spiller,
Speaker 2: you know, floral decorative container for out in the patio,
Speaker 2: but I don't know what plants do that. They'll walk
Speaker 2: you through. They'll tell you, well, here's some options, this
Speaker 2: works good together and here's how you do get You
Speaker 2: get expert advice. And that is just so valuable. And
Speaker 2: when you go to Arburgate, that is what you should
Speaker 2: expect because that's what you're going to get. That's that's
Speaker 2: what they do, that's who they are there. If you
Speaker 2: are interested in stopping by and you haven't been before,
Speaker 2: first of all, where you've been hiding. But if you
Speaker 2: haven't been before, it's out on twenty nine to twenty
Speaker 2: west to Tumbull and remember look for Treshel Road so
Speaker 2: you can swing around behind Arburgate. Find you a good
Speaker 2: parking spot and enjoy yourself. Take some friends and family
Speaker 2: with you because it is a fun outing. I disappear
Speaker 2: into there and it may be days before I come
Speaker 2: back out because there's so much cool stuff to see.
Speaker 2: I really need it. Sometimes I lose track of time
Speaker 2: when a plant peeping, you know, checking them all out.
Speaker 2: Jungle Land is a product that Nitropos makes that they
Speaker 2: have two versions of it. One is for containers indoors.
Speaker 2: It's called the jungle Land Water Saving Potting Soil. It's
Speaker 2: got the crystals that hold water a little longer than
Speaker 2: the soil does so that the plant roots don't go
Speaker 2: into stress. The other one is jungle Land Flour and
Speaker 2: Vegetable Planting Soil. You know, it's just what it says.
Speaker 2: It's for outdoors. It does better for the outdoor containers.
Speaker 2: Both of them will give you good success. Now you're
Speaker 2: going to find jungle Land products at places jungle Land
Speaker 2: products and Nitrofos products in general places like Fisher's Hardware, Pasadena,
Speaker 2: D and D. Feed up in Tomball plants for all seasons.
Speaker 2: Two forty nine, and that is right there where Luetta
Speaker 2: comes into two forty nine and RCW Nursery Tomba parkway.
Speaker 2: All right, time for me to go to a break.
Speaker 2: When I come back, we will be answering your gardening questions.
Speaker 2: And if you'd like to be one of the first
Speaker 2: up seven one three two one two ktr H. Can't
Speaker 2: have something start?
Speaker 7: Who's there?
Speaker 12: Somebody?
Speaker 4: There?
Speaker 13: Ain't nobody here about this chicken.
Speaker 2: Ain't nobody all right? A little asleep at the wheel.
Speaker 2: And you know on garden line the chicken music and
Speaker 2: only mean one thing means the chicks are in. That's right.
Speaker 2: D and D feed three miles west of Highway forty
Speaker 2: nine on twenty nine twenty and Tomball. They are getting
Speaker 2: chickens in all through the spring. It is crazy. You know.
Speaker 2: They just got in Thursday some silky banams and some
Speaker 2: ducks and some turkeys too, by the way, I should
Speaker 2: say poultry instead of chicken.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then on Friday they got some wine dots in,
Speaker 2: some Sicilian buttercups, some cream leg bar, some speckle sussek.
Speaker 2: You didn't know these chickens existed, did you. Well, you
Speaker 2: need to go by there, and they're cute little things,
Speaker 2: really really cool, and I just mentioned a few. I
Speaker 2: think on Friday they probably got about a dozen different
Speaker 2: kinds of chicks in and then coming up next week
Speaker 2: or this week, coming up on Thursday, they got Americana pullets.
Speaker 2: They've got some turkeys and some silky bantams. And if
Speaker 2: you've not seen a silky bantam, you gotta google it.
Speaker 2: It is really cool. Well, when you go into dnd feed,
Speaker 2: you're not going to just get chickens. You're gonna get
Speaker 2: feed for your livestock, for your pets. You're going to
Speaker 2: find everything you need to have a beautiful lawn, a
Speaker 2: beautiful landscape, and that includes things to deal with pest,
Speaker 2: tweeds and diseases, and it also includes fertilizers. They carry
Speaker 2: products from Nitrofoss, they carry products from Microlife, Nelson Turf
Speaker 2: Star Medina. You'll find the jars of Nelson plant food there,
Speaker 2: You'll find heirloom soil product there. It's just a good
Speaker 2: place to go in order to make sure your place
Speaker 2: looks as good as it can. And you'll also find
Speaker 2: really good advice, good help at D and D Feed,
Speaker 2: three miles west of two forty nine in Tomball. We're
Speaker 2: going to go now to Kingwood and talk to Lewis Louise.
Speaker 2: I believe, Hey Louise, welcome to guarden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 14: How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm well okay. What is the secret to keeping bogun
Speaker 2: villas blooming all year long or as much as possible? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 2: my first answer is, if you figure it out, tell me.
Speaker 2: My second answer is the one the one that a
Speaker 2: boog and villa's growers will tell you, and that is,
Speaker 2: you know, they do well when you're fertilizing them and
Speaker 2: encouraging growth and things, but you don't want to overdo it.
Speaker 2: Overdoing the fertilizer, over it in the water is often
Speaker 2: not a good thing. They need good sunlight. If they're
Speaker 2: not in enough sunlight, some people will tell me, well
Speaker 2: they're a little pot bound, they bloom better. So those
Speaker 2: are all things that are supposed to be helpful in
Speaker 2: keeping those things blooming. There is somewhat of a cycle
Speaker 2: to them sometimes, and I've noticed that when I've had them,
Speaker 2: So I guess the main thing is keep them healthy.
Speaker 2: But just watch the excess nitrogen, watch the excess watering,
Speaker 2: and don't be afraid to let them get a little
Speaker 2: root bound. If you got them in a container that
Speaker 2: they can handle, I'm all different colors. Okay, that sounds
Speaker 2: beautiful hopefully. All right, well, if go out and talk
Speaker 2: to them. You know what I found is that they say,
Speaker 2: talk to your plants. Right. I found that if you
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Speaker 2: So if I've got a tree that's not doing well,
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Speaker 2: So no matter what you're looking for, you're going to
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Speaker 2: to go now to Beaumont and talk to Hey, Fred.
Speaker 15: Hey, how are you this morning?
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 5: Issue. My issue is.
Speaker 15: Bright green. We know some sort that has little stickers
Speaker 15: that appear on it. They grow in small patches, but
Speaker 15: it has exploded and it's all over my yard front
Speaker 15: and back and.
Speaker 2: All right. Sorry, yeah, it's not grass burr it's is
Speaker 2: it like kind of a frilly leaf weed?
Speaker 15: Yes, it's it's uh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: It has almost like.
Speaker 15: A celly like and it's very small, you know, got
Speaker 15: you yeah, okay man, it looks like that's a bird
Speaker 15: clouds everywhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Fred, that's a burr weed. And just get
Speaker 2: you a product that's made for post emergent control, meaning
Speaker 2: killing existing weeds, not preventing seeds. Post emergent control of
Speaker 2: broad leaf weeds. Even though the weed is not broad
Speaker 2: it is not a grass. It's a broad leaf and
Speaker 2: so that would be you know Bon Eye has those
Speaker 2: for the loan has those, a lot of different products.
Speaker 2: You know, you go somewhere, go to your ACE Hardware
Speaker 2: over there in Beaumont and they can put one in
Speaker 2: your hands. Just broad leaf post emergent weed control. Do
Speaker 2: it a s a p once the temperature are up,
Speaker 2: you know, upper eighties and above. Those kinds of products
Speaker 2: can become stressful for your lawn. So spray it in
Speaker 2: the morning, spot spray it, mix it according to the
Speaker 2: label and that should take it out.
Speaker 15: Okay, all right, all right, so this will be this
Speaker 15: will be a spray I put, you know, maybe a
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Speaker 11: How are you doing? Thanks for taking my call. I
Speaker 11: got two questions, Yes, sir, so what is the best
Speaker 11: lead pease? I got a bunch of weeds from the
Speaker 11: front and the back of my yard because I know
Speaker 11: when I cut grass it spreads all over. And then
Speaker 11: the second question today, how do I how do I
Speaker 11: get my grass growing back from the backyard because last
Speaker 11: summer was a dry h don't have.
Speaker 5: That much rain.
Speaker 11: But it's like you know, patches here, dirt, and then
Speaker 11: I have lots of love of grass. So how did
Speaker 11: I get him back to going back again?
Speaker 2: Good? Good question?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 2: So here here's the thing.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: The first step is getting your lawn as healthy as
Speaker 2: you can get it.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: And and as you're long gets dense, then the weed
Speaker 2: problems go down dramatically. Now, if you just fight weeds,
Speaker 2: you're just always going to be just fighting weeds. So
Speaker 2: we're kind of doing lawn care first, but really at
Speaker 2: the same time, you're hitting them on both sides. So
Speaker 2: what I would do is, if you go online to
Speaker 2: my website, do you have a pin or pencil handy there?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, it's gardening with Skip Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 2: Look at the lawn care schedule and that is it's
Speaker 2: free to download or look on the computer, and it
Speaker 2: tells you when to fertilize, what to fertilize, It tells
Speaker 2: you about watering and mowing and aeration and other things
Speaker 2: like that. And then also look at the weed disease
Speaker 2: and insect management schedule. It's a separate schedule. On that one,
Speaker 2: you'll see things you put down. We typically put down
Speaker 2: twice a year to prevent weed seeds from coming up.
Speaker 2: So you can do it now, but you need to
Speaker 2: hurry because a lot of your summer weeds have already Germany.
Speaker 2: That's a pre emergent and that's a row across there.
Speaker 2: Then there's a post emergent row, and that's for killing
Speaker 2: the ones you have. So if you'll look at that,
Speaker 2: the products are listed on there, but I would get
Speaker 2: on it asap because we're getting them. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of warm season weeds are already germinated, so then you're
Speaker 2: left with trying to spray them after they're up, but
Speaker 2: mo regularly and that mow water and fertilize is so important.
Speaker 2: And then the products are on there, and if you
Speaker 2: ever have questions, you can call the show, get an
Speaker 2: email and send me pictures of the specific weeds you have,
Speaker 2: you know, because there's only one hundred thousand weeds out there,
Speaker 2: and so if you're send me the pictures of them.
Speaker 2: Then you can call in and we can talk specifically
Speaker 2: about Okay, this is what that is and here's what
Speaker 2: you put on it. And I think that would be
Speaker 2: the ongoing best approach after you do the schedule and
Speaker 2: start following that.
Speaker 11: Thank you very much. Good all right, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You bet, You're welcome to you. I'm going to put
Speaker 2: you on hold, and if you want to send some
Speaker 2: pictures or something in just keep Jonathan'll give you that
Speaker 2: email and we can we can be in touch that
Speaker 2: way to help. All right, Well, that is so true.
Speaker 2: Weed control is quite a challenge, but we can do it.
Speaker 2: Leake City Feed is done in League City. Of course.
Speaker 2: They're on Highway three, just a few blocks south of
Speaker 2: the Highway ninety six. They serve that whole area. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't care if you're in League City or Santa
Speaker 2: Fe or Bay Cliff, Webster, Clear Lake City, el come
Speaker 2: into Reale, Dickinson, San Leon, you know all those communities.
Speaker 2: If you're listening to me, now, this is your hometown
Speaker 2: feed store. The Thunderbergs have been running this store since
Speaker 2: their grandfather built it forty years ago. And you go
Speaker 2: in there and you're gonna find products you hear me
Speaker 2: talk about like nitrofossen asumide in microlife. You're going find
Speaker 2: heirloom soils and Nelson plant food products. You're going to
Speaker 2: find things to control insects or to prevent weeds or
Speaker 2: to kill weeds you already have. You're gonna find things
Speaker 2: to fight disease. And of course you find premium pet food.
Speaker 2: And the good thing I like about going in to
Speaker 2: these old time feed stores and League City Feed is
Speaker 2: just pre eminent and this is it. They carry the
Speaker 2: bags out for you. It just the greeting and the
Speaker 2: feeling you have when you go in is good. And
Speaker 2: you're going to find what you need. You are going
Speaker 2: to find what you need. Our member's kid grown up
Speaker 2: and going to feed stores always love to go in
Speaker 2: love that kind of the It just was a sweet
Speaker 2: smell to me of you know, the feed store and
Speaker 2: all the products and things in there. League City Feed
Speaker 2: is exactly that. Monday through Saturday nine to six are
Speaker 2: closed on Sunday two eight one three three two one
Speaker 2: six one two. We're going to head out to clear
Speaker 2: like now and talk to Jonathan. Hey, Jonathan, welcome to Garden.
Speaker 20: Good morning, thank you.
Speaker 5: I have a question.
Speaker 21: So I have a philodendron in the back of my
Speaker 21: yard that's been there about thirty five years. Really big,
Speaker 21: you know, goes to almost eight feet tall.
Speaker 2: It's okay, great.
Speaker 21: The issue is last year I had a hollow trees
Speaker 21: start growing in the middle of it, and we didn't
Speaker 21: realize it because I'm so dense. And then we saw
Speaker 21: it last year and I tried to chop it as
Speaker 21: low as I could to the grounds, and I tried
Speaker 21: to put a brush killer on this I'm a little
Speaker 21: stump part of it and hoped that i'd gotten rid
Speaker 21: of it. This year, it's back. It's back and growing up.
Speaker 21: It's three to four inches you know, wide, and I'm
Speaker 21: trying to figure out how to get rid of that
Speaker 21: without hurting the philodendron.
Speaker 2: And I can't dig it out. So yeah, I'm not
Speaker 2: sure where where that effort went wrong. But you were
Speaker 2: on the right track. So I'm going to First of all,
Speaker 2: I just want to tell you. On my website is
Speaker 2: something called controlling woody Weeds in the Landscape, and it
Speaker 2: gives you the details of what to do, but you
Speaker 2: need to use it. You need to make the cut.
Speaker 2: This year again and immediately take a little poam brush
Speaker 2: or something and dab the straight weed killer right on
Speaker 2: to the cut stump surface, that fresh cut surface. Just
Speaker 2: dab it right on there, straight from the bottle. And
Speaker 2: the product you're looking for is something can anything containing
Speaker 2: triclop here it's t R I C l O P
Speaker 2: y R. But it's on that publication if you just
Speaker 2: want to go look at it. You don't have to
Speaker 2: remember all the things I'm saying. It tells you how
Speaker 2: to do it, but it'll go down in there. Now
Speaker 2: if it's a if it's a thinner shoot, if it's
Speaker 2: not like not like an old trunk with big thick
Speaker 2: bark on it. But if it's a thinner, smoother surface
Speaker 2: around the trunk, you can rub that triclop pier on
Speaker 2: the sides of the trunk too, and that just gets
Speaker 2: more of it in.
Speaker 21: Do I need to put a bag over it over
Speaker 21: the stump with the solution and the rubber band or anything.
Speaker 21: I'm sure didn't hurt, but I don't know, Okay, I've
Speaker 21: never tried that.
Speaker 22: No, you.
Speaker 2: Don't need to do that, and don't do it like
Speaker 2: when it's going to rain in five minutes, you know.
Speaker 2: And but but if if you do it, you gotta
Speaker 2: do it real soon. Don't do it the next day,
Speaker 2: because you want that to be fresh tissues that are
Speaker 2: taken in that chemical and it will work. But you
Speaker 2: got to use the tri compare and you just have
Speaker 2: to stay on that. That's the best thing other than
Speaker 2: that you're going in there trying to dig it out,
Speaker 2: which is not a good thing with that Philodendron.
Speaker 21: Okay, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: All right, thank you appreciate your call very much. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Nitrofive Sweet Green is their organic lawn fertilizer. Now you
Speaker 2: use it on things other than lawns, but it's a
Speaker 2: higher nitrogen product, especially for an organic. It's eleven percent
Speaker 2: nitrogen and it reacts with water and basically the microbes
Speaker 2: and the soil love this stuff because they love things
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Speaker 2: But you're gonna find it a lot of places. You
Speaker 2: know nitrofoss products, you're gonna you're gonna be able to
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Speaker 1: Today, welcome to kt r H Guarden Line with skimp Richter's.
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Speaker 2: Sor Hey, good morning, good morning, Welcome back to guarden Line.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you
Speaker 2: have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and more fun
Speaker 2: in the whole process of doing it. You know, if
Speaker 2: you want to give me a call seven one three
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Speaker 2: three two one two five eight seven four, it's the
Speaker 2: number where you can reach me. And let's talk about
Speaker 2: the things that are of interest to you. What kind
Speaker 2: of questions do you have about gardening, what kind of
Speaker 2: issues and challenges are you're dealing with? Or I guess
Speaker 2: we will even allow a little bit of bragging if
Speaker 2: you if you wish to tell me about the number
Speaker 2: of bushels the peaches you got off the tree last year,
Speaker 2: well we can tolerate a little bit of that too,
Speaker 2: but only in moderation. Only in moderation.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: I love going to Jenny Forest down in the Richmond
Speaker 2: Rosenberg area. It's the garden Center that if you're going
Speaker 2: from Richmond to sugar Land. It's off to the right
Speaker 2: on FM twenty seven fifty nine and tending Forest by
Speaker 2: the way. Poor I forget. I want to give you
Speaker 2: the the website because you definitely want to check out.
Speaker 2: Their website is awesome, lots of good information on there.
Speaker 2: Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX. Don't forget the TX. Enchanted Forest Richmond,
Speaker 2: TX dot com. That's the website. Now. They specialize in
Speaker 2: all kinds of things and they have right now is
Speaker 2: the time you've heard me talk about Chinese fringe trees.
Speaker 2: It's my I guess it may be my single favorite
Speaker 2: spring blooming tree right now. It is gorgeous, just billows
Speaker 2: of white flowers with a lovely light fragrance that's really nice. Well,
Speaker 2: they've got them and they're in bloom and you can
Speaker 2: see what I'm talking about. But they also have one
Speaker 2: there at the garden Center. It's kind of off on
Speaker 2: the side. I just said, I want to see your
Speaker 2: Chinese friench tree if you don't run into it on
Speaker 2: the way in. It is so beautiful. Chinese fringe is
Speaker 2: just you need one of these. And another reason I
Speaker 2: like Chinese French, by the way, is because our lot
Speaker 2: sizes have shrunk over the decades. You know, back you
Speaker 2: go back in the sixties and seventies, lot sizes around
Speaker 2: third of an acre or something. I mean, they're huge,
Speaker 2: huge lots. And now you can reach out your window
Speaker 2: and close your neighbors blinds. The houses are so close
Speaker 2: together in many, many neighborhoods. A Chinese fringe tree is
Speaker 2: a medium sized tree and it grows at a moderately
Speaker 2: medium I say medium rate is probably a good way
Speaker 2: to do it, and you fertilize, take care of it.
Speaker 2: No grow faster, but anyway, it doesn't just take over
Speaker 2: like three houses. You know, you plant a life oak
Speaker 2: tree in your yard and four neighbors get to enjoy it,
Speaker 2: you know, because it's so big. Chinese fringe is not
Speaker 2: that way. But go check it out. You'll see them there.
Speaker 2: While you're there, check out the new desert roses that
Speaker 2: they just got in. They're beautiful. For those of you
Speaker 2: succulent lovers. They have the plant called Lithops Lithops. Now,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to try to describe it to you guys,
Speaker 2: but to me, it looks like if you're watching Star
Speaker 2: Wars and they land on some planet and it's like,
Speaker 2: what is that? That's a lithops. They're pretty cool. Folks
Speaker 2: love those. By the way, run by there this morning,
Speaker 2: right after the show UH and UH Monarch program will
Speaker 2: be going on with Aaron Mills from Houston Botanical Guard
Speaker 2: talking about monarchs. And they also had their food truck there.
Speaker 2: In fact, you can get fueled up at the at
Speaker 2: the Scotti Saloon food truck before you run over to
Speaker 2: see me seeing a multch later that afternoon. So Enchanted Forest, Richmond,
Speaker 2: TX dot com. I just mentioned a few plans, but
Speaker 2: anything you want you're gonna find there. They are always
Speaker 2: stocked up with cool stuff. So I was working in
Speaker 2: the yard. I was telling you about that, and uh the.
Speaker 5: Uh pull up.
Speaker 2: I was pulling some weeds and things. But I'm also
Speaker 2: redoing some beds. I have been building up some beds
Speaker 2: with quality soil. Yes, I practice what I preach sometimes.
Speaker 2: In this case, I got high quality soil mixes, put
Speaker 2: them in, mix the beds up, got them, got them
Speaker 2: ready to go, and then top them off the mulch.
Speaker 2: Because I'm not gonna plant just yet. I got some
Speaker 2: of the things to take care of. I don't like
Speaker 2: to come in after I've made a beautiful bed and
Speaker 2: watch it, over two weeks or so turn into a
Speaker 2: chia pet because every weed under the sun has sprouted.
Speaker 2: Now I got this green, fuzzy bed instead of a
Speaker 2: nice ready to go, I throw a mulch on top.
Speaker 2: I'll do that in the garden beds too, between seasons. Anyway.
Speaker 2: That mulch looks really good. Back there, we were getting
Speaker 2: some things set up, so it's just about time for
Speaker 2: me to get back if I can get through all
Speaker 2: the weekend activities and take off on that again. I
Speaker 2: got the orchard set up ready to go. There's a
Speaker 2: couple of citrus I'm putting in and those are sitting
Speaker 2: on the front porch, going okay, any day now, any
Speaker 2: day now, So we'll get those in this week as well.
Speaker 2: I don't have a lot of room on the side
Speaker 2: of the house, and so it's probably at nine feet
Speaker 2: from the house to the fence. So I'm looking at okay,
Speaker 2: how can I grow stuff? So I got a little
Speaker 2: raised planting bed, only a little bit of one of
Speaker 2: those veggo beds about eleven inches high, and I've situated
Speaker 2: the trees so that they get the most possible sunlight
Speaker 2: as the sun is traveling, and then as they grow up,
Speaker 2: they're going to be up to the eaves of the
Speaker 2: house and then some the sunlight they'll get many more
Speaker 2: hours of it from there. So I'm kind of squeezing
Speaker 2: them in there a little bit. But I love fruit trees.
Speaker 2: You got some peaches and some citrus going in. I
Speaker 2: got a fig going into as well. So for those
Speaker 2: of you that have small lots, there are ways to
Speaker 2: go about it. Don't be afraid to try something a
Speaker 2: little different. We don't do espalier pruning here for fruit trees,
Speaker 2: but you go to some part especially like European, some
Speaker 2: of the older European gardens. You see the little garden
Speaker 2: area with a stone fence around it, and there's this
Speaker 2: tree that's been trained against a wall growing apples or
Speaker 2: pears or something that's espalier, and you can do that here.
Speaker 2: You just just takes some work. And so if you
Speaker 2: love being out in the garden and tending things and
Speaker 2: you don't have a big space, that's one way to
Speaker 2: get more out of a smaller space. So I'm not
Speaker 2: doing a value on mine. I know what would happen there.
Speaker 2: I would not be able to get back to it
Speaker 2: and take care of it like I want. But one
Speaker 2: of these days I'm gonna try doing that. I've got
Speaker 2: a little area where I'm gonna plant a grape and
Speaker 2: the arbor is the shade for a sitting area. So
Speaker 2: that's another way to get more out of your space.
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Speaker 2: me to go to a quick break. We'll be right
Speaker 2: back alrighty. Well, good Saturday morning on a great day
Speaker 2: for gardening. Oh my goodness. We went through all this
Speaker 2: rain and now here's the sign. You should be outside
Speaker 2: right now listening to the guard Line on your phone
Speaker 2: that is sitting inside. I know I'm meddling, but just
Speaker 2: know this that I think the best way to listen
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Speaker 2: show sign in. You can listen live, you can listen
Speaker 2: to past shows, so you can flip that phone into
Speaker 2: your pocket. Get out there and be I don't know,
Speaker 2: pulling weeds like I like to do in the garden,
Speaker 2: or whatever you want to do. Maybe you run across
Speaker 2: a bug, take a picture of it, email it to me.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about it live from your garden. It's garden
Speaker 2: Line not kind of cool. One of these days, somebody's
Speaker 2: gonna call me and tell me they're doing that. I'm not.
Speaker 2: I've yet to have someone tell me they're out in
Speaker 2: the garden listening. But I think that's a great way
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Speaker 2: of the show, you'll need headlamps to be able to
Speaker 2: see where you're going. Out there. The RCW Garden Center
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Speaker 2: Right there at the intersection, they have a wonderful stock plant.
Speaker 2: Right now, I was looking at some of the things
Speaker 2: that they have going on in terms of color and whatnot.
Speaker 2: Lots of lantanna and verbena, beautiful baskets of everything from petunias.
Speaker 2: That has some bougainvilla baskets that are awesome. And by
Speaker 2: the way, while I'm talking about boo and villas, they
Speaker 2: have boogain villas stand too. Now, a standard is a
Speaker 2: plant that has been trained that normally is look more
Speaker 2: of like a bush, but they train it to a
Speaker 2: single trunk up to a certain height and then they
Speaker 2: let it have its top, which is called a head
Speaker 2: on the standard. So you can do that with the roses.
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Speaker 2: going to head out now and talk to Katie. Hello Katie,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 22: Hello rich.
Speaker 2: How can we help them?
Speaker 22: I am in the middle of redesigning a kind of
Speaker 22: twenty five year old yard that needs help. And I
Speaker 22: have some camelias that I have some large leslie and
Speaker 22: and sparkling burning the camelias that I want to relocate
Speaker 22: because I don't want to lose them, but they're going
Speaker 22: exactly where my deck is going to go. So my
Speaker 22: question is what time of year do I do them. Obviously,
Speaker 22: my famelia's flower from October to March, so they're dormant
Speaker 22: now from that respective, so I need to know best
Speaker 22: way to transplant those. And then I'm actually going to
Speaker 22: move some jasmine, So do I wait until after they've
Speaker 22: flowered and then trim and transplant those or what? And
Speaker 22: then my last thing is I have I know you
Speaker 22: just got to talking about citrus trees. I have two
Speaker 22: or three peach trees that are still in nursery buckets
Speaker 22: that I want to put in the ground, So I
Speaker 22: need to know how to do that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it's not the worst time to move a plant,
Speaker 2: but it's not a good time because summer's coming. If
Speaker 2: you if you know construction's coming, and you either move
Speaker 2: them or lose them, move them. Get as much soil
Speaker 2: with with as you can. You don't have to go
Speaker 2: like two feet deep, but if you can, the more
Speaker 2: with you get, and then cut underneath the plant with
Speaker 2: a sharp shovel edge to kind of create a I
Speaker 2: don't want to say a pancakes not a great example,
Speaker 2: but well, instead of a thumb ball, think of a pancake,
Speaker 2: something wider but not as deep. You know, maybe you
Speaker 2: can go down about eight inches or something like that
Speaker 2: and get what you can there, but get the roots
Speaker 2: you can. I like to slide the plant onto a
Speaker 2: tarp so it's easy to drag across the yard without
Speaker 2: hurting your back. Because soil is cready right into the hole.
Speaker 2: I would already have dug the hole before I dig
Speaker 2: up the plant. Move it right over there, put it
Speaker 2: right in the ground and water it in, and then
Speaker 2: get you some shade cloth and put it over the plant.
Speaker 2: To cut that sun down to at least fifty percent
Speaker 2: of what it was, and the only roots on that
Speaker 2: plant are that little bit you dug up, and none
Speaker 2: of those are taking up water until they produce little
Speaker 2: side roots that can take up the water and nutrients.
Speaker 2: So you want to keep them moist, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: be touching. Go this first summer. If you can wait,
Speaker 2: it would be much better to do it in late
Speaker 2: October or November.
Speaker 22: That's a much blooming even though that's when they're blooming.
Speaker 22: So I won't I won't have a bloom.
Speaker 2: Ye, well yeah it will. Yeah, it'll affect that. But
Speaker 2: you know, if if you kill the plant with the
Speaker 2: first summer heat, have bloods either, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So I'm worried about keeping a very valuable plan alive here.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that would be it. On all the plants
Speaker 2: you're gonna move, it's the best time, and just get
Speaker 2: the roots, move them quick, get them in the ground,
Speaker 2: and then protect them because the a camulle you can take,
Speaker 2: you know, some drought, it can take some syllables son
Speaker 2: and does okay, But when you've got all the roots off,
Speaker 2: that's a whole different thing. So we got to we've
Speaker 2: got to prevent the loss of water as best we
Speaker 2: can with that shading and you're gonna need to live
Speaker 2: there for a little while.
Speaker 22: Do I need to print it? You know, prune it
Speaker 22: back some because it's kind of large.
Speaker 2: You could do that. I would, Yeah, well you could
Speaker 2: prune it back. Some people will cut them back as
Speaker 2: far as fifty percent.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: And before they make the move on a big plant
Speaker 2: like that, you're probably gonna be left with just sticks.
Speaker 2: You know, you're gonna have cut off most of the
Speaker 2: leaves when you cut a good portion of the top,
Speaker 2: because they tend to be on the periphery. But you
Speaker 2: can do that. That cutting it back is not a
Speaker 2: bad idea. Uh. And again there's no guarantees on this,
Speaker 2: because I know there's a lot of factors involved in
Speaker 2: that plant surviving. But the main thing is if you
Speaker 2: decide to do it before next fall, do it tomorrow
Speaker 2: or today?
Speaker 22: Right, Well, we.
Speaker 6: Might do it today.
Speaker 22: That's why I was calling. And then the one last
Speaker 22: thing that I forgused to ask was I have a
Speaker 22: bed of drift roses that I absolutely love that get
Speaker 22: immense sun. But normally I cut them way back on
Speaker 22: Valentine's Day and I haven't done it yet. Did I
Speaker 22: still cut it back as severe as I normally do now.
Speaker 2: It really needs if it really need, Yeah, if it
Speaker 2: really he's cutting back, cut it back now. If not.
Speaker 2: You know, april's the big rose blooming month and then
Speaker 2: it trails off a little bit, and then October is
Speaker 2: a great month again. I might wait until and enjoy
Speaker 2: the blooms until they tend to kind of reduce and numbers,
Speaker 2: and then the cutback then and get fresh new growth.
Speaker 2: So if you want to put that cutting back off,
Speaker 2: you can do that. Okay, there's not a block on
Speaker 2: that one. Okay, Well, thank you for the call.
Speaker 23: Dress.
Speaker 22: You know flower all year long. Really down here, we
Speaker 22: always flowers. So that's why I wasn't sure I missed
Speaker 22: the opportunity or not.
Speaker 2: Well, they're repeat bloomers, but it's a good tough rose
Speaker 2: and so like I said, it's not black and white.
Speaker 2: You can cut them back now if you want, or
Speaker 2: you can cut them back if you're already enjoying some
Speaker 2: early bloom you want to wait on it, you can
Speaker 2: cut them back a little bit later. Okay, Thank you, Katie,
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Speaker 2: gonna jump straight to the phones this segment and go
Speaker 2: to Richard in Dayton. Hello Richard, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Good morning.
Speaker 7: Hey, my wife wants to plant some kind of fruit tree,
Speaker 7: like a tangerine or small aungus something like that.
Speaker 23: Is that something that can be dude done to.
Speaker 12: I have to bomb and pairs and all that kind
Speaker 12: of stuff.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to find out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a citrus. You don't have to worry about that
Speaker 2: pollination thing that you do with something like an apple,
Speaker 2: for example. No, you just buy one one tree will
Speaker 2: be fine. You want to kind of do a little
Speaker 2: thinking and shopping as you before you go out. If
Speaker 2: you go to a good quality garden center. They're going
Speaker 2: to be able to point you to the ones that
Speaker 2: have the best chance of doing well in your area.
Speaker 2: Citrus challenge here is we do get cold, and when
Speaker 2: we get cold then they often can frost and freeze.
Speaker 2: You're out there kind of northwest of Houston, so I
Speaker 2: would say you're probably your best bet in terms of
Speaker 2: hardiness and citrus. Orange like flavoring is going to be
Speaker 2: a satsuma, which is a mandarin type orange. It has
Speaker 2: real baggy skin that peels away, real easy. Satsumas are
Speaker 2: one of the heartier citrus that we have. If you
Speaker 2: want to grow something that's not as hardy, like a
Speaker 2: lime or a lemon, you can do that in a
Speaker 2: big container that can be rolled into a protected spot
Speaker 2: over a frosty night such as and then yeah, it
Speaker 2: is a good one. I'm planting one myself this year,
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of good varieties out there. You
Speaker 2: are not too terribly far away from Kingwood Garden Center
Speaker 2: and Warren Southern Gardens over there in Kingwood, and I
Speaker 2: know they carry them over there, so you might just
Speaker 2: call them make sure they haven't been cleared out, cleaned
Speaker 2: out or something like that. But good, good, Yeah, Well
Speaker 2: you want them on a raised mound so they don't
Speaker 2: sit in soggy, wet conditions when we have those long
Speaker 2: rainy spells.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 2: Mix a little compost into a very large area and
Speaker 2: not just a planting hole, but you know, it may
Speaker 2: be four or five feet wide. You know, mix it
Speaker 2: into the soil and then dig the hole for the plant.
Speaker 2: Dig the hole only as deep as the container cylinder
Speaker 2: that you pull out, so you know, like if it's
Speaker 2: let's say it's a foot when you pull the root
Speaker 2: cylinder out of the container, it's a foot tall. Then
Speaker 2: dig the whole of foot deep so that it stays
Speaker 2: at the right level. Don't plant it too deep, plant
Speaker 2: it at the same level I would. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of products you can use. You know, you can mix
Speaker 2: some something like Nelson's Genesis, Nelson plant food genesis. It's
Speaker 2: not like a salt base is just going to burn
Speaker 2: the roots that I don't generally put fertilizer in the whole,
Speaker 2: but you can mix some Nelson Genesis in that soil
Speaker 2: and then plant, or you can just begin fertilizing with
Speaker 2: a product for fruit trees or even even a lawn
Speaker 2: fertilizer is okay to help get that citrus growing, wait
Speaker 2: about six weeks after you plant to begin fertilizing it.
Speaker 12: Okay, okay, all right, yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 5: And then.
Speaker 2: You bet. And you know, my advice is free, and
Speaker 2: I know I'm going to have to wait about three
Speaker 2: years for you to pay off. But I do need
Speaker 2: you to bring half your satsumas to the station so
Speaker 2: I can enjoy it. We stay out of trouble. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the call. Appreciate that said. I mentioned Warren Southern
Speaker 2: Garden and kingw With Garden Center. Warrens is on North
Speaker 2: Park in Kingwood, Kingwo Garden Centers on Stone Hollow. Both
Speaker 2: of them are open seven days a week, so yesterday
Speaker 2: and tomorrow they're going to be open. They carry the
Speaker 2: products that like I was talking about, you know, just
Speaker 2: sitting there visiting with Richard. I mentioned the Nelson products.
Speaker 2: Then the jars. They even have filling stations for the jug.
Speaker 2: So when you empty a jug, bring it back in
Speaker 2: and you get a better deal on the fertilizer by
Speaker 2: using the filling station not buying another plastic jar. Plus
Speaker 2: you don't waste plastic into the environment. They have beautiful,
Speaker 2: beautiful color fruit trees, roses, annual plants, perennial plants, containers
Speaker 2: for the plants to just set up and they can
Speaker 2: give you the advice on how to create a beautiful,
Speaker 2: beautiful container. Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwoo Garden Center two
Speaker 2: great places that are worth definitely worth a visiting. Let's
Speaker 2: heat out to Jersey Village. We're gonna visit with George.
Speaker 24: Hello, George, Yes, good morning. Do you excuse me? Last year,
Speaker 24: I have a myra lemon tree and he had a
Speaker 24: lot of one year old last year and they had
Speaker 24: a lot of blossoms and he said, pull those bossoms
Speaker 24: off and let the energy go into grow in the tree. Well,
Speaker 24: this is two years old, man wand he still got
Speaker 24: a lot of bostom So I pulled them off. Let
Speaker 24: them Can I pick them unless them grow and have
Speaker 24: some moments.
Speaker 2: Oh, George, George, I hate this question because let me
Speaker 2: here's how I'm gonna answer it. And here's why. I
Speaker 2: know that you're sitting there looking at blooms and I'm
Speaker 2: about to tell you to pull all your blood off again.
Speaker 2: You to shoot your go out and shoot your favorite dog. George, No,
Speaker 2: and I'm not going to do that. I'm gonna give
Speaker 2: you I'm gonna hedge the bed a little bit. If
Speaker 2: for the first two years you just remove all the blooms.
Speaker 2: You grow the biggest tree you can to hang a
Speaker 2: whole lot of fruit on. And that's why we pull
Speaker 2: the blooms off early, because in the long term you're
Speaker 2: gonna get good deals. I understand what it's like to
Speaker 2: have a beautiful tree, so I would I would leave
Speaker 2: yourself a few. Just leave a few so you can
Speaker 2: enjoy the Just remember that the more you leave, the
Speaker 2: more you leave, the more it's gonna cost you next
Speaker 2: year's production. That that's end the year after that too,
Speaker 2: So so find yourself a happy medium there and enjoy
Speaker 2: the fragrance of those wonderful blooms.
Speaker 5: Are very unbelievable.
Speaker 9: Okay, thank you?
Speaker 2: Huh, all right, you take care of jars?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That oh, that question I think kills me. It does,
Speaker 2: because I know, I mean, I listen. Sometimes I don't
Speaker 2: take my own advice, you know. And my daughter just
Speaker 2: planted last year. Let's see a lime tree and a
Speaker 2: satsumme tree, and that lime was blooming this year, and
Speaker 2: like what you know, I just okay, leave yourself a
Speaker 2: few limes to enjoy them, you know, in case you
Speaker 2: need to make a margarita and the grocery stores closed,
Speaker 2: leave yourself a few limes on there before, seriously, because
Speaker 2: you get to yet to enjoy them. And the fragrance
Speaker 2: is wonderful too. So yeah, I don't know, I do.
Speaker 2: I do hate that. I hate to be the bearer
Speaker 2: of bad news. You know, they shoot the bearer of
Speaker 2: bad news in the old days. That's what they That's
Speaker 2: what they did for sure. By the way, hey wait,
Speaker 2: if you do go out to Kingwick Garden Centers and
Speaker 2: Martin Southern Gardens, you gotta you have got to see
Speaker 2: the house plants that they have. They are gorgeo. Kingwick
Speaker 2: Garden Centers house plant room is just amazing, as are
Speaker 2: the pots and things. They got a lot of tropicals
Speaker 2: in too, by the way, So anyway, lots of cool
Speaker 2: stuff out there. I am going to be at the
Speaker 2: Sienamulch today, which Santa Malch is south of Houston. It
Speaker 2: is the place you go for the brown stuff. It's
Speaker 2: when you drive out of Cinimals. You know, you have
Speaker 2: everything you need for success with your plants. You just do.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've got the brown stuff, you've got the foundation.
Speaker 2: But today when you come see me, bring a pickup
Speaker 2: or a trailer or both take home some of the
Speaker 2: good stuff they have both. They have stuff of the
Speaker 2: bag and fertilizers and all kinds of things. You know,
Speaker 2: it's it's the place to go. It's easy to get to,
Speaker 2: no problem at all. You can go to the website
Speaker 2: cienamalts dot com. It's easy to find that. But while
Speaker 2: you're out there, you can pick up some Medina.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 2: I keep telling folks that has to grow six twelve
Speaker 2: six plant food. You drench it down on plants when
Speaker 2: you're planning them. I did it the other day. I
Speaker 2: put a salvy out just recently, and I drenched the
Speaker 2: I put the plant in the ground, drenched it really good,
Speaker 2: covered it up with soil. A week ten days later,
Speaker 2: drench it again, a week ten days later, drench it again.
Speaker 2: And that phosphorus and the nutrients helps that plant jump
Speaker 2: out of the ground and take off running. And it's
Speaker 2: by Medina, and Medina has a lot of products. I'm
Speaker 2: going to be given away some Medina products today. In fact,
Speaker 2: I'm going to give them away one of their hose
Speaker 2: end lawn fertilizers that you just took up the garden
Speaker 2: hose and you just spread out there and it's it's
Speaker 2: got good nitrogen in it has zero phosphorus, which don't
Speaker 2: worry about that. Actually a lot of lawns needs zero phosphorus.
Speaker 2: But it'll give you a really good boost. And come
Speaker 2: out and see me. Maybe you can put a bottle
Speaker 2: in your hands of that quality product from Medina. Well,
Speaker 2: it's time for me to take a little break here.
Speaker 2: When I come back, we'll go to your gardening calls.
Speaker 2: If you'd like to be one of the first ones up.
Speaker 2: Seven to one three two one two ktr H seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two kt. Right, let's help you
Speaker 2: have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape people. All right, folks,
Speaker 2: we're back, good heavy with us. Maybe play a little
Speaker 2: bit of a little more monkey before we come. Come
Speaker 2: through the entire show today. I like the a been
Speaker 2: a long time since I heard the monkeys by the
Speaker 2: way too. All right, well, you're listening to the guardline.
Speaker 2: We're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a
Speaker 2: beautiful landscape, and all you gotta do is gonna make
Speaker 2: all seventy one three two one two. There we go.
Speaker 2: It's seven one three two one two k T're not
Speaker 2: that fast. I want to hear some more monkeys, but
Speaker 2: not quite that fast. Or we could just put talking
Speaker 2: gardening and just start just start listening to music. There
Speaker 2: are days. Hey, seven one three two one two k
Speaker 2: t r ah is the number you need to call.
Speaker 2: ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Write that down ACE Hardware
Speaker 2: Texas dot com book market on your on your computer
Speaker 2: because it gives you all the good. ACE Hardware Stores
Speaker 2: part of our local Houston ACE Hardware group right here.
Speaker 2: So wherever you live, there's gonna be an ACE Hardware
Speaker 2: store near you. What do you need? You know, do
Speaker 2: you need to do the typical hardware stuff, Well they've
Speaker 2: got that of course our a hardware store. But walk
Speaker 2: into one and you will be stunned if you haven't
Speaker 2: been in one recently. By what all ACE Hardware carries
Speaker 2: stuff for inside your house, for beautifying inside your house,
Speaker 2: all kinds of supplies for barbecuing, outdoors, for just you
Speaker 2: name it. Things you wouldn't expect. Each a square. Ace
Speaker 2: Hardware is independently owned, so one of them may have
Speaker 2: a fudge bar in it one of them. One of
Speaker 2: them may have, you know, some thing that carves cutting
Speaker 2: boards in it. I mean, they're just everyone is its
Speaker 2: own unique flavor. But they all have the standard things
Speaker 2: that you've come to expect and that you need for
Speaker 2: your garden and landscape. And that includes the fertilizers I
Speaker 2: talk about on guardline. That includes the products to control
Speaker 2: weeds and prevent weeds, the products to control insects and diseases.
Speaker 2: They have that the tools for your gardening. Some of
Speaker 2: them carry some plants. Ace Hardware stores are the one
Speaker 2: stop shop for you to have a bountiful garden and
Speaker 2: a beautiful landscape, and you need to go check them out.
Speaker 2: We have ACE Hardware stores all over the area. As
Speaker 2: I said, you know, for example, if you are in
Speaker 2: Deer Park, there's Deer Park Lumber in Ace Hardware. If
Speaker 2: you're out an Orange Child's Buildings Supply. Just somebody call
Speaker 2: a while ago from out far east and we talked
Speaker 2: to him about going to the ACE Hardware. Down in
Speaker 2: League City, there's Kilgore, clear Lake Hardware, Lumber excuse me
Speaker 2: clear that Lumber, and Hamilton Hardware is on Highway six.
Speaker 2: North here in the Houston area. There's just a few
Speaker 2: of the many Ace hardware restorers that we have. Let's
Speaker 2: turn out to the phones now, we're going to go
Speaker 2: to Conroe and talk to David. Hello, David, welcome to
Speaker 2: garden Line.
Speaker 14: Yes, good morning and first time caller, and.
Speaker 5: Have enjoyed listening.
Speaker 14: To you and Randy Lemon in the past. But I
Speaker 14: have a question concerning zeistier grass. And we put it
Speaker 14: in last year at our rent.
Speaker 25: House, and.
Speaker 14: Our tenant is responsible for taking care of it. But
Speaker 14: I noticed when I went over there the U it
Speaker 14: looked almost like a shag carpet, and you know, it
Speaker 14: was brown and laying over, and so just wandered some
Speaker 14: recommendations from you on proper care or and I'll check
Speaker 14: your fertilization. I looked at your fertilization schedule, but I
Speaker 14: just wanted to know if there was something else we
Speaker 14: could do to green it up or because it just
Speaker 14: looks like a mess. It looks like a shag carpet
Speaker 14: that's brown and a little green, but it doesn't look
Speaker 14: feeling at all.
Speaker 2: Not a problem, all right, So it's a zoysia. Do
Speaker 2: you happen to know what kind of zoysia.
Speaker 20: No, sir, I can't remember.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, that's fine, Zoysia is you're gonna want
Speaker 2: to mow those kind of close. You can mowzoisia as
Speaker 2: close as an inch high. You can mow it up
Speaker 2: to a couple of inches high. But as you mow low,
Speaker 2: it makes that tighter. It's not going to look like
Speaker 2: a golf course green, but it's more like that than
Speaker 2: the shag carpet carpet that's laying over you're talking about.
Speaker 2: I would go in now and make sure your lawnmower
Speaker 2: blade is very sharp, because Louisa is a tougher grass
Speaker 2: in terms of cutting through it, just a little bit tougher.
Speaker 2: So drop it down low. I would go down to
Speaker 2: about an inch and I would cut it off and
Speaker 2: get all that debris out of there. I mean you can,
Speaker 2: if you're cutting off as much as I think you
Speaker 2: will be. I wouldn't leave it on the ground because
Speaker 2: it's just going to be like a hayfield out there
Speaker 2: after you mow over it. But anyway, do that mowing back.
Speaker 2: With the warming weather we're having, it will come back
Speaker 2: out of the ground. Go ahead now, though, and put
Speaker 2: down a fertilizer. Have you fertilized it yet? I missed
Speaker 2: that if you.
Speaker 15: Said it, I have not this season.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what I would do is I would get
Speaker 2: a product that is going to give you a good
Speaker 2: slow release at this point. Over time, you can put
Speaker 2: a fast release out to get immediate release. But we're
Speaker 2: kind of hitting a point now where I probably would
Speaker 2: go on and do like Nitrophile Superturf. It's a nineteen
Speaker 2: four to ten that is a silver bag nitrofile super
Speaker 2: Turf nineteen four to ten. The ground is warm, the
Speaker 2: air is warming up enough to where it's going to
Speaker 2: take off growing. It'll give you about four months of feeding,
Speaker 2: and that's on my schedule. You'll see on the schedule.
Speaker 2: I started in April. But since you haven't done an
Speaker 2: early fertilization, you could just go ahead and do it now.
Speaker 2: That would be fine. And it's available a whole lot
Speaker 2: of different places.
Speaker 14: Very good, Very good, All right, Well, thank you so much,
Speaker 14: and then really enjoy your show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know you're up in Tomball. I know auspa
Speaker 2: Ace in Woodlands on Kirkandal. I know they carry it
Speaker 2: up there. And I said Tomball, I meant Conroe Woodlands,
Speaker 2: I know, has it?
Speaker 5: Yes, very good, very good.
Speaker 20: Yes at the store there, Yes, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, you take care, bye bye. You're listening to
Speaker 2: Guardline the phone number seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: k t r H seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: k t rh Uh. Growers Outlet up in Willis since
Speaker 2: we're in Conra and Willis. Uh, just visiting with David
Speaker 2: and Conro there. The website is the name. Here's what
Speaker 2: I mean, Growers Outlet n Willis dot com. That's it.
Speaker 2: When you go to Growers Outlet, go to the website,
Speaker 2: check it out. They have their plants, they have fertilizers,
Speaker 2: they have the bag mulches and soils. Everything you need
Speaker 2: for success. But you got to check them out. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, like you can go in there and look
Speaker 2: at fragrant plants or look at hanging baskets. I know
Speaker 2: right now. Uh they have angel wing bogonias. They've got
Speaker 2: new new guinea impatiens and hanging baskets and some gorgeous
Speaker 2: gorgeous boog and vedas and hanging baskets, a beautiful selection
Speaker 2: of shrubs. And you can go to the website and
Speaker 2: they they will tell you what it costs. You know you,
Speaker 2: I want to go in there and I want to
Speaker 2: buy agapanthus and you know you look it up. One
Speaker 2: gallon size or three gallon? What's it going to cost?
Speaker 2: They put their prices on the website and they also
Speaker 2: have availability and they keep updating that, which is really
Speaker 2: unusual for a garden center to do that. Growers Alt
Speaker 2: and Willis are on Highway seventy five south of Willis,
Speaker 2: just minutes away from Interstate forty five, just up the
Speaker 2: street if you will, from Conroe. Makes it easy to
Speaker 2: get to through that whole region. Let's see here we
Speaker 2: have got I'm going to go to Doug in Houston. Doug,
Speaker 2: I think we have enough time to do a call.
Speaker 2: Let's give it a shot.
Speaker 23: Okay, Skipball, try to make it quick and emailed you
Speaker 23: about this this week. I have a property and round
Speaker 23: top to few acres a half acre that is irrigated
Speaker 23: Saint Augustine fall of the schedule, and that grass looks good, Yes,
Speaker 23: it might issue it. I've got about an acre and
Speaker 23: a half of mixture of kind of pasture grass and
Speaker 23: weeds and don't have a way of watering it. What's
Speaker 23: the best way for me to treat that land or
Speaker 23: that grass.
Speaker 2: Well if you don't have a way to water it
Speaker 2: when you put your fertilizer out, see when a rain
Speaker 2: is coming, but hopefully not a rain that's going to
Speaker 2: be six inches, you know, but just a regular rain.
Speaker 2: You asked me about azemite and sweet green and other
Speaker 2: nitovoss products. All of that is good. You can do
Speaker 2: all of that for your lawns, and I would, and
Speaker 2: just follow my schedule. It's on there. It tells you
Speaker 2: what to do. Keep the ground as regularly mode as
Speaker 2: you can, because the more often you mow, the better
Speaker 2: your grass looks. And those prairie grasses and things, if
Speaker 2: you want to keep them, then you can mow a
Speaker 2: little bit higher. But you don't have to, you know,
Speaker 2: cattle go graze those things to the ground, as did
Speaker 2: the buffalo before them, and so they're able to recover
Speaker 2: really well. Weed control can be preventative if you want
Speaker 2: to minimize that with the things like barricade. If you
Speaker 2: are having weed right now you want to deal with that,
Speaker 2: are broad leaf you can do a post emergent spray,
Speaker 2: but you need to do it soon before it gets
Speaker 2: any hotter at all. It's better to get all that
Speaker 2: done quickly.
Speaker 23: Very helpful.
Speaker 2: Great, Yeah, that's that's a lot. But uh uh that's
Speaker 2: a beautiful uh beautiful sounding area. I kind of like
Speaker 2: the sound.
Speaker 12: Around yard out there.
Speaker 23: Who can help me too, So it's very very helpful.
Speaker 23: I appreciate it. One other question before you go.
Speaker 2: Thanks for Yeah.
Speaker 23: Here in Houston, I'm certain to see a lot of
Speaker 23: dollar weed in the yard, and the best way to
Speaker 23: treat that would be what.
Speaker 2: Post emergent broad leaf product with a spreader sticker. Addition,
Speaker 2: that's a product called a surfactant or a spreader sticker
Speaker 2: that you put with the broad leaf post emergent weed
Speaker 2: control so it sticks to those slick dollar weed leaves. Uh,
Speaker 2: and do it again a S A P. The hotter
Speaker 2: it gets, the more those products stress. You're Saint August.
Speaker 2: If we can get it done before we're past the
Speaker 2: upper eighties, it's good.
Speaker 23: Okay, great, thanks very much.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks a lot, you bet. I appreciate your call
Speaker 2: you as well. All Right, folks, we're gonna hear music
Speaker 2: coming here pretty quick, so I'm gonna just say I
Speaker 2: will be at Ciena Maltz today. I hope you'll come
Speaker 2: and see me. This is the last time. I'm going
Speaker 2: to be way down South, way down south, be in
Speaker 2: Hoston later on, but you'm been down to Sienna. You
Speaker 2: need to see it anyway. It's gonna be good. There's
Speaker 2: gonna be folks from a nitrofoss from Medina, from Nelson
Speaker 2: plaid food all there. I'm going to be giving away
Speaker 2: products from all three companies and the three sixty tree stabilizer.
Speaker 2: That wonderful product I keep telling you is perfect for
Speaker 2: holding a tree allowing a little movement. I want to
Speaker 2: show you how it works. If you come down there,
Speaker 2: come to the booth. I'll like to show you how
Speaker 2: it works. I'll give you a free one if you
Speaker 2: say the magic words round stuff before green stuff. Remember
Speaker 2: word at Ciena Maltz. Come with an empty pick up
Speaker 2: that or trailer even better, so you can take home
Speaker 2: some good stuff brown stuff for green stuff free three sixty.
Speaker 2: Take a little break here, I need to refeel on coffee.
Speaker 1: You're welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rictores.
Speaker 4: Crazy trip.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as wool.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 3: Thanks to see blocks in grays.
Speaker 15: Not a sad.
Speaker 2: All right, We're back back for another hour at Garden Line.
Speaker 2: Glad you're with us, by the way, thanks for joining
Speaker 2: us today. If you are planning on doing some containers
Speaker 2: container plants outside, and I hope you are, containers are
Speaker 2: a great way to bring color instantly into a spot.
Speaker 2: I have what I called a hospital for plants. It's
Speaker 2: a place out around the corner. You know, nobody sees
Speaker 2: it back there. When I have a container that's not
Speaker 2: looking bad, or when i'm building on and go back there,
Speaker 2: put all the plants together, get them in, get it
Speaker 2: looking good, and then put it out on display. And
Speaker 2: if something goes a little wrong, take it back there,
Speaker 2: put a plan out, put a new one in, or
Speaker 2: just redo the whole thing. And with containers, it's like that,
Speaker 2: it's instant, it's everywhere. Jungle Land is a product from
Speaker 2: Nitroposs and jungle Land for outdoor plants. It's called Jungle
Speaker 2: n Flower and Vegetable planting. Soil is an excellent product
Speaker 2: for doing just that. It drains well, that's important, but
Speaker 2: it holds water that's important and nutrients which is important.
Speaker 2: Jungle lens designed for success with beautiful pided plants outdoor outdoors,
Speaker 2: whether it's a patio or wherever you have them, you're
Speaker 2: going to find jungle Land products. It places like Court
Speaker 2: Hardware Night Foss products. Place like Court Hardware down on
Speaker 2: South Maine and Stafford M and D and Cypress and
Speaker 2: Luetta Langhambree Caase hard Run five twenty nine in Copperfield
Speaker 2: area is also a place where you're going to find
Speaker 2: Knight Foss type products. We're going to go now out
Speaker 2: to the phones and I'm going to go to Cap
Speaker 2: Springs and talk to cr. Hey cr Yeah.
Speaker 10: Hey, you skip.
Speaker 7: Good morning, and thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 5: All right, So.
Speaker 7: Back in late September early October, I planted about twenty
Speaker 7: olive trees and they're about five feet tall. And this
Speaker 7: past winter we had a couple of pretty good freezes
Speaker 7: out here, and I protected them, you know, certainly best
Speaker 7: I could with frost cloth, then wrapped them in burlap,
Speaker 7: and then I put plastic over the top to keep that,
Speaker 7: you know, when it was raining and sleeping, to keep Anyway,
Speaker 7: we did a good job of protecting them. They all
Speaker 7: have survived. And the lower parts and the middle parts,
Speaker 7: you know, like the top seventy five percent from the
Speaker 7: base all the way up seventy five percent. They're all green.
Speaker 7: They look good, but now the top parts for whatever reason,
Speaker 7: obviously we're more exposed and they have all turned brown.
Speaker 7: And my question is is this the right time? Do
Speaker 7: I go in there with my hand prunes and just
Speaker 7: clip off all the dead brown?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What I generally will will tell folks is if you
Speaker 2: will let the plant tell you where to prune, meaning
Speaker 2: when you see you growth coming out, you know it's
Speaker 2: green up to a spot like you're describing, and then
Speaker 2: it's dead above that, then print it right above, you know,
Speaker 2: right into the dead, right there where it dead and
Speaker 2: the green joined together. So when you can visually see that,
Speaker 2: go ahead and do do the pruning at that time.
Speaker 2: And it's a it's a not a big deal.
Speaker 26: You know.
Speaker 2: The olive trees are not super dependably cold hearty here.
Speaker 2: You'll you'll, you'll, they'll be okay overall, but occasionally you
Speaker 2: just get this freeze, it really kills them back a lot.
Speaker 2: And so what what you need to do is just
Speaker 2: be ready and you know able to respond to that.
Speaker 2: When those trees are young though, they're they're even more susceptible.
Speaker 2: So just something to kind of keep in mind.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I really do.
Speaker 7: The olives are just beautiful I've got them planning in
Speaker 7: that outdoor area, and they're just beautiful.
Speaker 5: And I know that, I know, you know.
Speaker 7: They're not recommended for this area because they're they like that,
Speaker 7: they're not really freeze tolerant. But we did a good
Speaker 7: job of protecting them. So so far, so good. I
Speaker 7: just want to make sure if pruning them at this time,
Speaker 7: like right now, it's okay to cut them back like today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, today is fine. We're done with cold. It's good
Speaker 2: to go ahead and use them. By the way, I
Speaker 2: love your area out there. I think it's I think
Speaker 2: cat Springs is great and just northy. I love the
Speaker 2: Agriculture Society Hall that's out there. That is one of
Speaker 2: those cool old time halls.
Speaker 7: It is indeed, it is indeed, and we enjoy it
Speaker 7: out here. And yeah, hey, thanks so much, and have
Speaker 7: a good, good weekend and much appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah all right, you take care. Appreciate that very much.
Speaker 2: Plants for All Seasons is the garden center there on
Speaker 2: two forty nine, just north of Doorada, and I mean
Speaker 2: just north, like you exit Luetta and you just go
Speaker 2: north on the feeder road just to like a block
Speaker 2: and you're there at Plants for all seasons. They are
Speaker 2: true lawn and garden experts. These folks have been doing this.
Speaker 2: In fact, the garden center's been around since nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: three and the Flowerty family is run it the whole time.
Speaker 2: They grew up gardening. I mean they know gardening. They
Speaker 2: garden in this area. You can bring them samples and
Speaker 2: plants and other things and they will identify them when
Speaker 2: you go in. There's always the best plants for the
Speaker 2: season available for you. You know, some things like shrubs
Speaker 2: or a year round of course and everything. But when
Speaker 2: we're what vegetables do we plant? What flowers are good for?
Speaker 2: Right now? You know what's good for the shade. You
Speaker 2: just go check it out. Check out their pots too,
Speaker 2: gorgeous pottery. And I was talking about containers. You need
Speaker 2: to do a container this year. And when you buy
Speaker 2: a quality pottery. And listen, over my life, I have
Speaker 2: bought cheap pottery and it's gone. It broke, it froze
Speaker 2: in a cracked or something. I bought plastic pottery, it's gone.
Speaker 2: The pottery that's glazed, it's beautiful. Yes, it's more expensive,
Speaker 2: but just at whatever pace, you can pick one up
Speaker 2: here and there and those are the ones that are
Speaker 2: still rounding my landscape for decades. And all you got
Speaker 2: to do is say, by plants for all seasons, take
Speaker 2: a look at what they have. They will help you
Speaker 2: pick out the plants to create that beautiful combo planter
Speaker 2: that'll make your patio really really pop. They are on
Speaker 2: two forty nine, just north of Luetta Road two eight one,
Speaker 2: three seven six sixteen forty six. Go now out to
Speaker 2: talk to Katie and Cyprus. Hey, Katie, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 27: A few weeks ago you told a gentleman who had
Speaker 27: a clover issue to go to Ace Hardware get some
Speaker 27: weed a side, make sure it had this. It starts
Speaker 27: with a T, not an A. And I cannot remember
Speaker 27: what those I went to the Ace Hardware. They had
Speaker 27: no idea what I was talking about. Never heard of
Speaker 27: weed aside, never heard of like, Okay, the word.
Speaker 2: I'm just that I'm hearing what you're saying. And it's yeah,
Speaker 2: tea is in Tom or pa is.
Speaker 28: In party, teas in Tom and it's a word like tetra.
Speaker 28: And I don't I can't even begin to say.
Speaker 2: Okay, try it well. It feels like we're mixing a
Speaker 2: couple of calls up at least what I'm hearing in
Speaker 2: my head, I have to run to a break, Katie.
Speaker 2: If you will hang on, let me come right back
Speaker 2: and we'll dive back into this. Are you you are
Speaker 2: trying to kill weeds in the lawn though? Is that correct?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 2: All right, all right, we'll be we'll be. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 2: be right back with you. Thank you for hanging on.
Speaker 2: It's okay to Dan. You're listening girdling. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: Well it's not a jenner bug, but it's a great yess.
Speaker 2: So get up, let's do this. Hey, welcome back. Good
Speaker 2: to have you with us. You're listening to Guardline. I'm
Speaker 2: your host, skip ricord seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: k t R eight seven one three two and two
Speaker 2: k H. We're just visiting with Katie from Cyprus, which
Speaker 2: is where we're going back. Katie. I've been thinking about
Speaker 2: your question, and so I think the a thing. I
Speaker 2: probably made a statement that when it comes to pre emergence,
Speaker 2: I generally don't recommend atrazine type products because they're easily
Speaker 2: misused and can cause some problems. I don't go on
Speaker 2: all the detail, but I don't recommend afterzines. Generally I
Speaker 2: go with other types of pre emergent herbicides, and the
Speaker 2: herbicide just means it kills weeds. There are things you
Speaker 2: put out to prevent weeds and there's things you put
Speaker 2: out to kill existing weeds, and so right now we
Speaker 2: kind of can be doing both. But the prevention for
Speaker 2: warm season we mainly have been doing since February mid February,
Speaker 2: and then the existing weeds you have to use a
Speaker 2: post emergent for that. So are you're wanting to control
Speaker 2: weeds that you're seeing now right?
Speaker 28: Well, whenever you told the gentleman, that was exactly it.
Speaker 28: It was something to prevent it. It was something that
Speaker 28: you applied when it was wet, like perfectly three days
Speaker 28: in a row to stick to the clover.
Speaker 2: I got you, it was, I got you, Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: So that was okay. So Nitrofus makes a product that
Speaker 2: has trimech in it. That's a t Trimech is in
Speaker 2: the Nitropuss fertilizer that's in a bluish bag. So they
Speaker 2: have a purple bag that is a fertilizer with atrazine.
Speaker 2: That was the conversation. Now I'm understanding what you heard.
Speaker 2: That was the conversation. You can control weeds post emergent
Speaker 2: with that when you're going to fertilize. There are times
Speaker 2: when it is appropriate to have we control at the
Speaker 2: same time, like that in them we If you've fertilize
Speaker 2: your lawn, then you just grab a product that you
Speaker 2: mix up and spray on the weeds. If you have
Speaker 2: a spotty weed issue, it's easier to do it with
Speaker 2: a spray on product because you just mix it up
Speaker 2: and you walk over here and scored a few weeds,
Speaker 2: and you go over there and score a few weeds
Speaker 2: and so on. Whereas with the fertilizer combo, then you're
Speaker 2: going to put herbicide over your whole lawn. And that
Speaker 2: would be if you got a lot of weed issues
Speaker 2: that you're dealing with. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 28: It was a purple bagg I know you told them
Speaker 28: to put it in a spreader.
Speaker 5: Yes, so that makes.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's what it was. And the light blue bag. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but Trimac t r I MAC would be the one.
Speaker 2: And with that, uh, you know, the Nelson's has a
Speaker 2: product called Weedinator and it works the same way. You
Speaker 2: have to wet the weeds and and that don't water
Speaker 2: the lawn. Just wet the weed, barely wet the weed leaves,
Speaker 2: and then put it out immediately so it sticks to
Speaker 2: the wet weed leaves. Leave it for a couple of
Speaker 2: days before watering it in and getting that fertilizer down
Speaker 2: in the ground, if you're going to go that route.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that that was and I think the call
Speaker 2: at that time actually may have been someone who had
Speaker 2: bermuda grass, and atrazine is very damaging to be bermuda grass,
Speaker 2: so you don't want to use it on bermuda. That'd
Speaker 2: be another reason why I wouldn't have recommended that at
Speaker 2: that time.
Speaker 27: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: All right, Katie, all right, the mystery in the words
Speaker 2: of the inspector Clouseau Pink Panther, the mystery is solved.
Speaker 2: We have done.
Speaker 27: Oh thank you.
Speaker 2: Oh there you go. Thanks Katie. Take care. How many
Speaker 2: of you guys remember Pink Panther movies? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: I could watch them over and over again growing up
Speaker 2: and in later years. Ye know, Pink Panther is just
Speaker 2: it is one of those kinds of humor that you
Speaker 2: just watch this bumbling fool turn everything into a disaster.
Speaker 2: So funny. Steve Martin by the way, did a good
Speaker 2: job of picking up after Peter Sellers. I have my doubts,
Speaker 2: but I shouldn't doubt Steve Martin. All right, what are
Speaker 2: we doing? This is a gardening show. Seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two k t r H seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two k t RH you're talking about that
Speaker 2: night Foss products. Another one they have is called Sweet Green,
Speaker 2: and it's a eleven percent nitrogen product that you put
Speaker 2: out for a fairly quick release of nutrients into the soil.
Speaker 2: You wet it, it dissolves, it goes down the carbon
Speaker 2: carbon chain. You know, sugar is basically carbon chain. Molasses
Speaker 2: is a carbon chain, and microbes love that. It really
Speaker 2: increases a population of beneficial microbes, creates that rich environment
Speaker 2: to promote optimum health and performance of your lawn. And
Speaker 2: it smells good too. With Sweet Green, you just follow
Speaker 2: the label. It's about about ten pounds per thousand square
Speaker 2: feet that it would go out. And you're going to
Speaker 2: find nitro Fosh products at places like Court Hardware on
Speaker 2: South Maine and Stafford. You're going to find it at
Speaker 2: Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin, North Taylor. You can find
Speaker 2: it at M and D both the one on Beamer
Speaker 2: and the one on Bay Area Boulevard done in clear Lake.
Speaker 2: Night Fresh products are readily available all over the place,
Speaker 2: and sweet Green is a great product. If you would
Speaker 2: like to give us a call and talk gardening seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two KTR eight seven three two
Speaker 2: one two kt r H. I love Muss Nursery done
Speaker 2: in Seabrook. The first time I went there, I was
Speaker 2: just kind of like, does this place go on forever?
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even know where to go. Well,
Speaker 2: you go where you want to go. It's eight acres.
Speaker 2: You wander through it, the pathways, through the plants, through
Speaker 2: the largest selection of pottery I've seen anywhere, and you know,
Speaker 2: one minute you're going through vegetables and herbs, and then
Speaker 2: you're in hanging baskets and then just tons of flowering
Speaker 2: plants for your color beds. There's fruit section, there's shrubs
Speaker 2: and trees. When you go though, you have to go
Speaker 2: to the house Plant Greenhouse. The house Plant Greenhouse is incredible.
Speaker 2: It is incredible. Listen, this is not just another garden center.
Speaker 2: This is a seventy year old, family operated eight acre
Speaker 2: source of everything you need in your landscape and in
Speaker 2: your gardens. While you're there, check some of the quirky
Speaker 2: T shirt designs that Jim has made. Jim Jim is
Speaker 2: a 's kind of a renaissance man and in many
Speaker 2: ways he just he travels all over the place and
Speaker 2: he does all kinds of things, from you know, blending
Speaker 2: music to creating beautiful art designs and his quirky T shirts.
Speaker 2: The eyeball plant. The eyeball plant that is that is
Speaker 2: one of the ones he's done. That that's really good.
Speaker 2: By the way, Moss is on Toddville Road in Seabrook, Texas.
Speaker 2: Uh m a A S nursery dot com. M a
Speaker 2: a S nursery dot com. That's where you need to go.
Speaker 2: We're going to head now out to Jersey Village and
Speaker 2: talk to Sharon. Am I saying that right.
Speaker 8: Charon, Well it's Charon, but different name.
Speaker 26: Charon.
Speaker 2: Okay name, Thanks for fixing that all.
Speaker 8: Right, my Okay, I was bad. I ignored my high biscus.
Speaker 8: I mean I did bring it in during when the
Speaker 8: colts fell. But the leaves, some of them are yellowy
Speaker 8: green and then they have the little dots on the back.
Speaker 8: I've got the mealy bugs before, but I haven't seen
Speaker 8: you know all these What do I do to help?
Speaker 8: It has a beautiful color which it blew?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I need to see those dots because there
Speaker 2: are different things that could be called white dots. Certainly
Speaker 2: mealy bugs, they oh black dots. Okay, I see, Okay,
Speaker 2: are your leaves getting city black mold on them?
Speaker 8: I didn't see?
Speaker 2: Not yet?
Speaker 24: No, not yet.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I mean. I could, I could
Speaker 2: suggest things, or we could give you the better answer
Speaker 2: by you taking some close up pictures. Make before you
Speaker 2: send them, make sure they're in sharp focus, get them
Speaker 2: as close as you can of the black dots, and
Speaker 2: maybe show me one of the whole plant, but the
Speaker 2: black dots, and then let me recommend something. There are
Speaker 2: aphids that are black that could be out there. There
Speaker 2: are other insects that could be present, or it could
Speaker 2: be something else. But rather than go out and just
Speaker 2: start using a pesticide, let me take a look and
Speaker 2: I'll give you a better answer that way.
Speaker 8: Okay, Okay, I appreciate that.
Speaker 10: I'll hang on.
Speaker 8: But one more question. You're talking with lady about the
Speaker 8: whedon feed? Is it still okay to do that nitrofoss
Speaker 8: whedon feed? My front of my yard has lots of
Speaker 8: weeds in it, and we.
Speaker 22: Did do that.
Speaker 8: You can't, but I guess the ones that just hung
Speaker 8: around from winter.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, the barricade was for weeds that right now
Speaker 2: are little tiny seedlings, the ones you see. That's what
Speaker 2: you did. The nitrofoss blue bag like blue bag, kind
Speaker 2: of a steel blue color. I'm not good at well, no, I'm.
Speaker 20: Not it yet.
Speaker 8: I was going to get my husband. I thought it
Speaker 8: was a well, I don't know what color, greenish back.
Speaker 8: I don't know, maybe it is, but it's it's a
Speaker 8: trimac in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's there's only one that has trimac from nitrobus. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you could do that with the leaves. Do it soon
Speaker 2: one morning, get up early with the leaves and then
Speaker 2: just put it right out, give it a couple of
Speaker 2: days and then water it in. So get that fertilizer
Speaker 2: down in there and that should still work. Okay, don't
Speaker 2: delay though.
Speaker 8: No, it's damp now, and I don't think the rain's
Speaker 8: coming in my area yet.
Speaker 2: So all right, all right, well, so like if it's
Speaker 2: if it was, yeah, if it's going to rain in
Speaker 2: a day or even you know, but then it'll probably
Speaker 2: rain tomorrow too. There I would I would hold off
Speaker 2: because you don't want it. You wanted to sit on
Speaker 2: the leaves for a little while. You need at least
Speaker 2: a number of hours of it on the wheat on
Speaker 2: the leaves.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, well I'll.
Speaker 2: Wait, all right, Thank you very much. Appreciate. Yes, I'm
Speaker 2: putting you on hold. Jonathan will take your call and
Speaker 2: give you an email. Thanks a lot. I appreciate, appreciate
Speaker 2: your call. Talking about nos Moss, I just I just
Speaker 2: love that place. I love love going through it. It's
Speaker 2: so cool. We're talking about barricade there visiting with Sharon.
Speaker 2: The barricade product is designed to prevent weed seeds. And
Speaker 2: I did a little video on this for Facebook and Instagram.
Speaker 2: I believe a while back's in a little while. But
Speaker 2: what's a pre emergent? What's a post emergent? And because
Speaker 2: people get them confused, they got I got weeds, I'm
Speaker 2: going to put out barricade. Well know, if you got weeds,
Speaker 2: you don't use barricade. If you want to not have
Speaker 2: weeds later, you use a barricade because it stops the
Speaker 2: seeds from coming up. You watered in about a half
Speaker 2: inch of water. It sticks into the surface better than
Speaker 2: most pre emergent products do. By the way, doesn't tend
Speaker 2: to wash away. Uh And one ten pound bag will
Speaker 2: cover five thousand square feet. But follow the label on
Speaker 2: the amount you put it. Always follow the label that barricade.
Speaker 2: Other Night Foss products you're gonna find at places like
Speaker 2: RCW Nursery on Tomball Parkway plans for all seasons on Luetta.
Speaker 2: If you are down in Pasadena, Laporte or Mount Bellevue,
Speaker 2: each of you has a Fisher's hardware that carries Nito
Speaker 2: Foss products as well. So talking about things to do
Speaker 2: in the garden and whatnot. When I come back, I
Speaker 2: want to give you a few tips on some keys
Speaker 2: to success in your lawn care and having a beautiful lawn.
Speaker 2: As we start each season, and this is the start
Speaker 2: of the big season, reminder that I'll be at Cenamltch
Speaker 2: today from one thirty to three. Come on out. From
Speaker 2: one thirty three, I'm gonna be given away products from
Speaker 2: Microlife Products from night Let's see who else. Nelson Nelson
Speaker 2: is there, Medina will be there. I'll be giving away
Speaker 2: some products from them as well. And the three sixty
Speaker 2: three stabilizer. Very very cool little tool. I'll be given away.
Speaker 2: And if you come up and say the magic word
Speaker 2: brown stuff before green stuff, I guess I'd be magic words.
Speaker 2: We'll put a three sixty tree stabilizer in your hands
Speaker 2: as well. Come with an empty truck and trailer, because
Speaker 2: when you get to Siena, you are gonna want to
Speaker 2: take some good stuff home. All right, I'll be right back.
Speaker 2: Folks relate to this any of you. Boy, But my
Speaker 2: crid says, oh yes you can. Yeah, I did that
Speaker 2: the other day at the yard. Oh my gosh, I
Speaker 2: have found that there are certain muscles I don't use
Speaker 2: as often as I probably should. In they're yelling at
Speaker 2: me this morning. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have
Speaker 2: you with us. Hey. The phone number is seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt r H seven one three
Speaker 2: two one two ktr H. Southwest Fertilizer on the corner
Speaker 2: of Bisnett and Runwick is a Houston lawn and garden
Speaker 2: tradition and it has been since Sci fifty five. This
Speaker 2: is there fifty or fiftieth, seventieth year anniversary. So what
Speaker 2: do we say? Happy birthday to Southwest Fertilizer. I'm the
Speaker 2: fifth Garden Line host to talk about Southwest Fertilizer. That's
Speaker 2: how long they've been around, and that's how good that
Speaker 2: their products are. Because when you walk into Southwest, whatever
Speaker 2: you need, if it's growing outside your house, Southwest has
Speaker 2: what you need to take care of it. Fertilizer, pest control,
Speaker 2: weed control, fung fungus control, disease control, pruning, equipment of
Speaker 2: products to apply, herbicides and sprays and other. I mean,
Speaker 2: if it's growing outside your house, Southwest Fertilizer has what
Speaker 2: you need to take care of it. And all the
Speaker 2: name brands are there. In fact, if they don't have it,
Speaker 2: you don't need it. I like to say that because
Speaker 2: it's true. I've never walked into there and not seen
Speaker 2: a product that I think ought to be sold to
Speaker 2: gardeners here in the Greater Houston area corner of Best
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Speaker 2: six six six one seven four four. When you walk in,
Speaker 2: you're gonna get friendly service, You're definitely gonna find quality products,
Speaker 2: and you are going to find a selection like nowhere else.
Speaker 2: And by the way, if you're organic, there's not a
Speaker 2: bigger selection of organics anywhere in the Greater Houston area
Speaker 2: than Southwest Fertilizer. That is a fact. Uh. The I
Speaker 2: have a rob I have a robin that is an
Speaker 2: early riser.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: And this morning a five am dark as it could
Speaker 2: be outside.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 2: Actually it's a blue be four five o'clock. Darn robin
Speaker 2: is singing to me through the door. I wasn't gonna
Speaker 2: go outside in the plot or anything, but I mean
Speaker 2: it was. It was amazing. I don't I don't know
Speaker 2: what's going on that you talk about. The early bird
Speaker 2: gets the worm. That is the early bird.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I've started appreciating birds a lot more ever since
Speaker 2: I started going into wild Bird's Unlimited stores. Wildbird's Unlimited
Speaker 2: carries everything you need to have success, and they are everywhere.
Speaker 2: They're six stores here in the Greater Houston area. So
Speaker 2: if you live in clear Lake Eldorado Boulevard, if you
Speaker 2: live in Cypress on Barker Cypress Road, if you live
Speaker 2: down in the southern central part of Houston bel Air Boulevard,
Speaker 2: if you're out west, A Memorial Drive is a store
Speaker 2: Kingwood Drive in Kingwood Broadway, East Broadway in pair Land
Speaker 2: or all Wawbirds unlimited store locations. Right now, the feed
Speaker 2: of the day is they're nesting Superblend. It's got the
Speaker 2: essential protein birds need. It has calcium for not only
Speaker 2: the skeletal development, but also for the egg laying that's
Speaker 2: what happens during nesting season. You can buy it in
Speaker 2: a cylinder or in a loose bag, goes in any
Speaker 2: kind of feeder and it works well. Nesting super Blend
Speaker 2: also has some meal worms in it. I've got it
Speaker 2: in my feeders right now, nest boxes for every kind
Speaker 2: of bird you want. You want to bring in, bluebirds,
Speaker 2: whatever you're looking for, they've got those as well. And
Speaker 2: hummingbird season is not far away, so just keep in mind.
Speaker 2: The best hummingbird feeder that I have, because you can
Speaker 2: see all the hummingbirds at wance, is the hyph Perch.
Speaker 2: It's a flat kind of a saucer shaped feeder. It
Speaker 2: has a little moat so ants can't get into it
Speaker 2: really really easy. The high Perch hummingbird feeder from wild
Speaker 2: Birds Unlimited just another one of the many, and I
Speaker 2: mean many great products. Plus when you go in there,
Speaker 2: you get good advice. I always have bird questions and
Speaker 2: I go in and I just know every time I ask,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get a good answer. And you know,
Speaker 2: I have to warn you though, just in all fairness,
Speaker 2: this is addictive. It really is. It's addictive, and so
Speaker 2: you've been forewarned. But I'll tell you this, you will
Speaker 2: have the best time in the world starting to learn
Speaker 2: the birds that you have in the yard, starting to
Speaker 2: bring them in. You know, when we landscape, we're doing
Speaker 2: a number of things. We're planting flowers and things for beauty,
Speaker 2: but we're considering texture with bold broad leaves or fine
Speaker 2: textured grasses. We're even considering movement. The way bamboo and
Speaker 2: grasses move in the wind is attractive. We attract butterflies
Speaker 2: in flying flowers. I call them butterflies going around the
Speaker 2: garden and landscape. There's sense that we put out there.
Speaker 2: So when we sit and enjoy the fragrance of plants
Speaker 2: and then the birds, the songs, the music and the
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Speaker 2: can find the button, Ann, there we go. Welcome to
Speaker 2: garden Line.
Speaker 29: Thank you. I have a magno tree. It's a small leaf,
Speaker 29: it's about twelve foot tall, and it is just sickly.
Speaker 29: It's probably not in the best soil in the world.
Speaker 29: But I try to water it and help it. But
Speaker 29: it is unhappy, I guess, so it need suggestion.
Speaker 2: Okay, And you're talking about you're talking about an evergreen magnolia,
Speaker 2: right right, Okay, Magnolia's. Some things that can make them
Speaker 2: unhappy are soggy, wet soil conditions or droughty soil conditions,
Speaker 2: especially when it's a younger tree the first few years
Speaker 2: trying to get leaves. Droughty spells are not good, but
Speaker 2: neither is poor drainage. They need some sunlight in order
Speaker 2: to do well. Sometimes when you buy a tree the roots,
Speaker 2: it's been in the pot a long time and the
Speaker 2: roots are just going around and around in a circle.
Speaker 2: And if you don't cut them when you plant it,
Speaker 2: they they don't venture out as well to establish. They're
Speaker 2: certainly not as fast. And in time, as the roots
Speaker 2: get bigger and the trunk gets bigger, they can come
Speaker 2: together where the roots are like a band around the trunk,
Speaker 2: strangling it. So those are all possibilities of why a
Speaker 2: magnolia wouldn't perform. It'll take a while for that strangling
Speaker 2: root thing to happen. How long did you say years
Speaker 2: had been in the ground.
Speaker 29: Probably maybe three or four years.
Speaker 2: Okay, you definitely don't have a circling root problem. Yet
Speaker 2: they would take much longer than to develop. So I would,
Speaker 2: you know what I would do, make sure it's getting
Speaker 2: well watered. When we get into the hot weather and
Speaker 2: no rain headn't rained in a week, go out there
Speaker 2: and just with the hose end sprayer, just give it
Speaker 2: a good soaking. I mean I'll water a spot three
Speaker 2: or four times on water it and move around, water
Speaker 2: around the plant, around the plant. Come back and do that.
Speaker 2: Or you can buy a product that is called the
Speaker 2: tree hugger sprinkler, and they come in different sizes from
Speaker 2: seven inch up to eleven or more inches, and you
Speaker 2: hook them up to a hose and you can turn
Speaker 2: it on a little bit where it's just trickling out
Speaker 2: of that little let's say seven inch circle, or you
Speaker 2: can turn it up more, but use that to water
Speaker 2: with a good soaking. And I would do that, and
Speaker 2: then I would fertilize them with a good quality fertilizer. Personally,
Speaker 2: I would get you some lawn fertilizer, and for every
Speaker 2: inch of trunk diameter, I would give it one to
Speaker 2: two cups of fertilizer one to two cups per inch
Speaker 2: of trunk diameter. I do it right now, and I
Speaker 2: would do it again two months from now, and again
Speaker 2: two months later. And I think that combination of things
Speaker 2: is the best advice that I can give you. I'm
Speaker 2: running short on time here. I got to go to
Speaker 2: a break, but I hope that helps and get that thing.
Speaker 2: We need to get that thing growing and looking good.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
Speaker 29: Appreciate your hip. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your call. You take care. I'll be right
Speaker 2: back folks. Wow, well James Brown this morning. See I
Speaker 2: didn't do that first thing because I wanted to give
Speaker 2: you time to wake up. Welcome back to garden Line
Speaker 2: seven one three two one two kt r H seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two k t r H. We're
Speaker 2: here to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful
Speaker 2: garden as well beautiful landscape and more fun in the process,
Speaker 2: including hopefully listening to garden Line as Amite is a
Speaker 2: product that we talked about earlier on the air. Someone
Speaker 2: had called and was wanting to know about using some
Speaker 2: various kinds of products. One of them was a might
Speaker 2: it's mine from a mine up in Utah, and it
Speaker 2: basically is a micro nutrient or a trace mineral, same
Speaker 2: thing type of product. You put it out to get
Speaker 2: the nutrients that are essential to plants, essential to plants,
Speaker 2: but needed in small quantities into your soul bank account.
Speaker 2: So when the plants grow and roots are taking up nutrients,
Speaker 2: you know, essentially twelve months out of the year, there's
Speaker 2: something going on down there, and they're there. They're in
Speaker 2: the soil. So when the when the plant is going,
Speaker 2: hey I need a little bit of zinc, or I
Speaker 2: need a little bit of boron. Well the route it's
Speaker 2: got it right here. The guy put a mite down,
Speaker 2: I got plenty of it right here, And that is
Speaker 2: kind of how that product works. Now, if you are
Speaker 2: looking for azmit, you're gonna find it all over almost
Speaker 2: every nursery I talk about, garden center, Ace hardware store,
Speaker 2: Southwest fertilizer feed stores. These are all places that typically
Speaker 2: will carry asamite. You can go to azmite Texas dot
Speaker 2: com for more information, and now would be a good
Speaker 2: time to get that first application onto your lawn this spring.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go now to Kingwood and we're going
Speaker 2: to talk to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 6: Good morning.
Speaker 26: How are you doing today?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well, sir. How can I help great?
Speaker 5: Great in our yard?
Speaker 26: A couple of years ago, after one of the big storms,
Speaker 26: we started getting this weed, uh that is growing and
Speaker 26: growing and growing taking over and it's my wife used
Speaker 26: one of these online apps and it said it was
Speaker 26: stinging metal. I don't know if that if you know
Speaker 26: what that is or anything.
Speaker 2: But uh, anyway, I know, well it okay, go ahead.
Speaker 26: It's more it's more like a groundcover. And yeah, whenever
Speaker 26: it's like right now, you could go out and pull
Speaker 26: it and it comes up in clumps and you can
Speaker 26: and you can do that all right later on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know what. I know which one you're talking about. Actually,
Speaker 2: it is called burweed and it does have the kind
Speaker 2: of stickers and thorns in it. But there's also another
Speaker 2: one that is a nettle, and that that's the one
Speaker 2: that you're I think you're more likely talking about. Both
Speaker 2: of them are broad leaf weeds. Both of them are
Speaker 2: warm seasoned growers. They'll continue on here for a while.
Speaker 2: You need to spray them with a product for broad
Speaker 2: leaf post emergent weed control action. You can go out
Speaker 2: there and you know you're in the Kingwood areas. I
Speaker 2: mean you can go buy you know, Warren Southern Gardens
Speaker 2: for example, and grab you something like that. You're also
Speaker 2: going to find them at your ACE hardware stores and
Speaker 2: you got some good ones out there. I just say,
Speaker 2: I need a broad leaf post emergent weed control product,
Speaker 2: and what you're going to do is mix it according
Speaker 2: to the label and just spot spray wherever you see
Speaker 2: the weeds. Wherever you see the weeds. So I would
Speaker 2: I would get that done soon because as the weather
Speaker 2: heats up, the products that kill those weeds, they can
Speaker 2: be damaging or weakening to your Saint Augustine. So do
Speaker 2: it early in the morning and do it very soon.
Speaker 26: Okay, I wasn't sure that that was a broad leaf
Speaker 26: that was that was what was thrown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, broad leaf is a type. It's not a description.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have broad leaves. It's got small leaves. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I got it all right. Hey, thanks man, good luck,
Speaker 2: you take care. Nature's way resources is the place where
Speaker 2: you go up toward Conro. They're on Interstate forty five
Speaker 2: where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia into Interstate
Speaker 2: forty five. But you don't go to Magnoa. You don't
Speaker 2: turn left, you go right across the railroad tracks and
Speaker 2: right there's Nature's Way Resources the website Nature'sway Resources dot Com.
Speaker 2: You need to write that down and bookmarket because you
Speaker 2: can find out about all their products on there, and
Speaker 2: they have every possible product you need that's been made
Speaker 2: the right way. They don't rush things through. They don't
Speaker 2: say you junk. They you know you don't think you're
Speaker 2: buying a fine textured mix and end up with something
Speaker 2: with wood chunks in it that was rushed through just
Speaker 2: long enough to turn everything black, so you think it's compost.
Speaker 2: And when it's not, Nature's Way does it right. Rose soil,
Speaker 2: leaf mole compost and the fungal based compost Bungle based
Speaker 2: compost is for sale on sale every Friday. Ten percent
Speaker 2: off bags, twenty percent off book Nature's Way Resources dot Com.
Speaker 2: You need to check them out. This is where you start.
Speaker 2: This is the foundation for success, the soil. They also
Speaker 2: have a lot of great mulches too, by the way
Speaker 2: I was talking earlier about ACE Hardware stores, visiting with
Speaker 2: an ACE Hardware owner over in Langham Creek, talking with
Speaker 2: Rick a while back about some barbecue pits, and they
Speaker 2: just have so many quality brands of barbecue pits. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, you can do Webers, you can do the
Speaker 2: Traeger grills, the Pellet grills, you can do the Big
Speaker 2: Green Egg, you know. I mean, each of these has
Speaker 2: its own cult following, they really do, and then they
Speaker 2: have all the accessories you need to go with them.
Speaker 2: You're hearing me talk about this or that fertilizer weed
Speaker 2: controlled or Pesta disease control. It's at ACE Hardware. It
Speaker 2: is at ACE Hardware. And ACE Hardware's are easy to
Speaker 2: find because they are everywhere. If you go to ACE
Speaker 2: Hardwaretexas dot com, you're going to find ACE Hardware's in
Speaker 2: your area. For example, those of you out at Rockport, Hey,
Speaker 2: thanks for listening to Guardline. By the way, Rockport Ace
Speaker 2: on State Highway thirty five. Port Lovaca has an acehart
Speaker 2: on Calhoun Plaza up in the Woodlands, Auspas. Ace Katie
Speaker 2: Hardware on Pinoak is an ACE Hardware Plantation Hardware down
Speaker 2: on Mason Road, jn Ours up there in Porter. I
Speaker 2: was there just the other day, Lake Conroe Ace Hardware
Speaker 2: on Highway one oh five. I mean we could we
Speaker 2: could just go on and on and on all Star
Speaker 2: Ace Hardware in Spring just another example up there in
Speaker 2: Rafer Road. Easy to find ACE Hardware is near you.
Speaker 2: Acehardware Texas dot Com. And when you walk in, you're
Speaker 2: going to find what you need to have a beautiful
Speaker 2: lawn and a bountiful garden. You were listening to garden
Speaker 2: Line and we are getting close to putting this hour
Speaker 2: in the books. We'll be taken off again here before
Speaker 2: long with some more information I want to continue. I
Speaker 2: got busy that hour. I didn't really go into some
Speaker 2: of the details that I wanted to go into about
Speaker 2: things to do in the yard. But I'll get to
Speaker 2: that when we come back in the next hour. By
Speaker 2: the way, if you'd met out to Buchanan's Garden Center,
Speaker 2: you need to go see some of the incredible new
Speaker 2: arrivals that they've had. They have got so many cool plants,
Speaker 2: of course, lots of new native plants. That's what they specialize,
Speaker 2: specialize in more natives than anybody in the region. But
Speaker 2: even non natives. You know things like mandavilla. What a gorgeous, hot,
Speaker 2: pink red flower for summertime. It's a vine, It climbs
Speaker 2: and it just the hotter it gets the more. Mandevilla
Speaker 2: is happy long as you give it water. Of course,
Speaker 2: I couldn't survive outside without water. The bougainvilleas there are
Speaker 2: stunning the succulents or stunning the spring bloomers like you
Speaker 2: want to. If you want to do a native landscape,
Speaker 2: go there, because you're going to say I want a
Speaker 2: tree that booms in spring, and they're going to say
Speaker 2: something like Mexican buckeye. You're going to say, I want
Speaker 2: something that grows well in the shade, or I want
Speaker 2: something that attracts hummingbirds, or something that attracts butterfly. Buchanans
Speaker 2: is a place for that. Buchanans Plants dot com. Buchanans
Speaker 2: Plants dot com. That's the website. And when you go there,
Speaker 2: please sign up for the newsletter. They send it out regularly.
Speaker 2: You'll find good deals going on. You'll find announcements going on,
Speaker 2: like they're already talking about their Easter egg hunt on Saturday,
Speaker 2: April nineteenth, eight thirty in the morning to nine in
Speaker 2: the morning. Definitely want to get the kids out for
Speaker 2: that one. But sign up for the newsletter and check
Speaker 2: it out. Lots of good free information to online on
Speaker 2: how to have success in your landscape. Well, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: put this one in the books. It's time now for
Speaker 2: us to take a little break. Don't forget today. I'll
Speaker 2: be at Cenamultch from one to three pm. One to
Speaker 2: three pm at Siena Mulch. Come out and see me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be giving away products from nitrophos, products from
Speaker 2: Nelson product excuse me not nuts in this Nelson from Medina,
Speaker 2: and from Microlife Nelson Medina Microlife. At this one we'll
Speaker 2: be given away a lot of cool stuff and the
Speaker 2: three sixty tree stabilizers that is the one of the
Speaker 2: coolest new gardening inventions in the last ten years. It
Speaker 2: really really works well for stabilizing a tree, whether it's
Speaker 2: a big old single trunk tree or a single truck
Speaker 2: tree you're planning, or whether like it's a multi stem
Speaker 2: crape martle works good for those two because when those
Speaker 2: leaves come out and the wind blows, it's going to
Speaker 2: move that plan around and you need to give it
Speaker 2: a little bit of support, help you have good success.
Speaker 2: The way I like to put it is you want
Speaker 2: to be able to hang a hammock in that as
Speaker 2: soon as possible, So get you a three sixty tree stabilizer.
Speaker 2: I'll give you one if you show up at Siena
Speaker 2: Maultch today between one and three pm and say the
Speaker 2: magic words brown stuff before green stuff. All right, brown
Speaker 2: stuff before green stuff. We're going to get a little
Speaker 2: music here in just a bit and go to the breaks.
Speaker 2: If you have a gardening question and would like to
Speaker 2: get on the board and be one of the first stup,
Speaker 2: that's a good way to do it. By the way,
Speaker 2: when we go to these breaks, seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two k t r H seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two k t r H, I'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 4: It's crazy Gas can trim you just watch him as
Speaker 4: we'll go. Gas so many.
Speaker 3: Gothis the super crazy like gas.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, let's get this going here. We got
Speaker 2: an hour left Innis this morning. If you'd like to
Speaker 2: give me a call seven one three two one two
Speaker 2: kt r H. I'm your host, Skip Richter. You're listening
Speaker 2: to garden Line and I am here to help you
Speaker 2: have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape and more
Speaker 2: fun in the process. At least that's what I would
Speaker 2: like to see happen. I think that would be a
Speaker 2: good thing. I'm gonna be at Ciena Moltch today and
Speaker 2: Cina Molts is down south of Houston. It is near
Speaker 2: the Highway six and two eighty eight area. Done in
Speaker 2: that area. It's on FM five twenty one. But do this,
Speaker 2: go to their website Sienna Molts dot com Ciena Molts
Speaker 2: dot com. That way, you get the phone number, you
Speaker 2: get the location. You can put it in your maps
Speaker 2: and show up between what the event will be going on,
Speaker 2: not just when I'm there, but even before I get there.
Speaker 2: But I'll be there from one to three today and
Speaker 2: I'll be giving away products. I hope you'll come by
Speaker 2: and see that. For those of you who live out
Speaker 2: in that region. Meridian Riverstone, Quill Valley, sun Creek Estates,
Speaker 2: Pomona Lake, See Lake, Olympia, Dimension ROAs, Sharon and Manville
Speaker 2: and Sandy Point in or Coola and I would call
Speaker 2: in all that area, this is your hometown local garden
Speaker 2: supply for the soil store. How is that for a title?
Speaker 2: The brown stuff before the green stuff. Everything you do
Speaker 2: to create the foundation that works, and I mean things
Speaker 2: like quality composts and quality bed mixes. You know, they
Speaker 2: carry the rose soil that heirloom soils produces, but they
Speaker 2: also have the nutrients like asimite and products for medina
Speaker 2: and nitrofoss Nelson's turf Star and their plant food jars
Speaker 2: and products of course from microlife you're going to find
Speaker 2: there at Cienamals. So when you drive away, you have
Speaker 2: everything you need, no excuses. You can create that foundation
Speaker 2: to have success. Or you can bring a plant home
Speaker 2: and PLoP it into an unprepared plot and then calmulator
Speaker 2: when it's dying, because it will be it won't be
Speaker 2: thriving if you don't prepare the soil. That's so important.
Speaker 2: Sanimals dot Com. Come on out and see me and
Speaker 2: bring an empty vehicle. By the way, you're going to
Speaker 2: want to bring some stuff home. I was talking about
Speaker 2: some tips for the spring earlier and I didn't get
Speaker 2: a chance to get around to those, so I just
Speaker 2: wanted to say that for lawns, for your lawns. Your
Speaker 2: lawns haven't been technically dormant. They have been asleep on
Speaker 2: hold if you will, Okay, So they're basically each day
Speaker 2: of the year, even in the cool season, those roots
Speaker 2: have access to nutrients and moisture. And as the soil
Speaker 2: is moderate, which it is here in our southern climate,
Speaker 2: they're still active. But it's the temperature that wakes them up.
Speaker 2: And the temperature has woken your lawn up, and now's
Speaker 2: the time because the warm season weeds know the same thing.
Speaker 2: They're taken off and they're growing now too, and now's
Speaker 2: the time to get out there and get active. When
Speaker 2: you have weed problems, you got to deal with them.
Speaker 2: But the goal is to build a healthy lawn, a
Speaker 2: dense lawn. And it's not rocket science at all. It's
Speaker 2: you you get adequate moisture in the ground. You bring
Speaker 2: the temperatures up to get our southern long grasses at
Speaker 2: night that would be Saint Augustine and Zoysia and bermuda grass,
Speaker 2: get them happy and growing, and then you provide the nutrients.
Speaker 2: But the secret sauce is regular mowing. It really is.
Speaker 2: And first time, a turf specialist told me that a
Speaker 2: turf researcher. He said, yep, mowing is the single most
Speaker 2: important thing you do to your lawn. And I was thinking, okay,
Speaker 2: come on, man, I mean water, sunlight, you know, fertilizers
Speaker 2: and all that. Yeah, those are all important. But the
Speaker 2: more often you mow, the denser the lawn gets. And
Speaker 2: a sharp mower doesn't leave all those jagged tips that
Speaker 2: turn tan and make the whole lawn look pixelated with brown.
Speaker 2: A sharp mower is important, and regular mowing, and get
Speaker 2: right on, get on it right away, and get that done.
Speaker 2: Return the clippings. That's a tip Number two is grass
Speaker 2: cuppings are plant food. It's what the plant took up
Speaker 2: to make that grass blade. And so now when you
Speaker 2: clip it off, you got nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and all
Speaker 2: the nutrients down to the micros. Put it back in
Speaker 2: the soil. Let it decompose and it will. It won't
Speaker 2: make that Clippings are not the primary reason we have thatch.
Speaker 2: The primary reason we have thatch is overfertilizing and create
Speaker 2: a lot of grass runners up on top of the ground.
Speaker 2: That's that's the main cause of that. All right, Well,
Speaker 2: there was a tip for you. We're going to go
Speaker 2: now out to the Champions area and talk to Don.
Speaker 2: Hey Don, welcome to Gardenline.
Speaker 10: Hey Skip, Thank you very much, appreciate you taking the call.
Speaker 10: I had pretty severe damage done to my backyard. I
Speaker 10: have a very large backyard and it was during the
Speaker 10: storm for Barrel and I three huge pine trees came
Speaker 10: down pretty well, recavage problems with my backyard, ravage of
Speaker 10: the whole thing. I'm looking for landscapers and I think
Speaker 10: I've meant you mentioned pierce Scapes. Uh, but I'll just
Speaker 10: wonder what your recommendation might be that from people do
Speaker 10: who do that sort of service.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Piercescape Services for sure your area, You're not too
Speaker 2: far away from them up there. And uh, they just
Speaker 2: do quality work. I mean they'll they'll do the maintenance,
Speaker 2: like quarterly maintenance for you if you want them to
Speaker 2: come out every quarter and spruce up the beds, change
Speaker 2: out the color of plants, you know, get rid of weeds,
Speaker 2: put down some extra molts, and check the irrigation all that,
Speaker 2: or they'll come out into whatever degree you want it.
Speaker 2: Create a little taj mahall set up there around the place.
Speaker 2: I mean they can, they can go all the way.
Speaker 2: It's it's what you whatever you need done.
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay, so you would highly recommend them.
Speaker 5: I suppose.
Speaker 2: Yes, And and if if, if you will go to
Speaker 2: Piercescapes dot com. And I wish you would look at
Speaker 2: what they do. And that's that's the proof is in
Speaker 2: the pudding. When you see the work that they do.
Speaker 2: That's where it's like, you know, yeah, they I think
Speaker 2: they know what they're doing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, appreciate that's what I need. And thank you
Speaker 10: very much.
Speaker 2: Have a good day, all right, thank you for the call.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that very much. Three sixty tree stabilizers hold
Speaker 2: your tree steady so that it can move a little
Speaker 2: in the wind. By the way, movement is important. You
Speaker 2: don't want to like just strap into a post, but
Speaker 2: they allow that movement. But they're strong and you can
Speaker 2: put one on a tree and generally that's enough. Sometimes
Speaker 2: the larger tree, bigger canopy. You may do one north
Speaker 2: south and one east west, so you're kind of holding
Speaker 2: it from two directions. But they're cool. If you'll come
Speaker 2: out to Cienamals today, I'll show you some. If you
Speaker 2: say the magic words, what do I say they were, Oh,
Speaker 2: Brussa for green stuff. I'll give you one too. They're
Speaker 2: found in a lot of places.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: They have them at Cianamal you'll find them at Plants
Speaker 2: for All Seasons and Arborgate. You're gonna find them at
Speaker 2: JEG Hidden Gardens, Done and Out and RCW up on
Speaker 2: Tomball Parkway and in Buchanus Needed Plants in the Heights
Speaker 2: area also carries the three sixty tree Stabilizer. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take a little break and I'll be right back. Hey,
Speaker 2: welcome back. If GOODA have background garden line, listen. Microlife
Speaker 2: products include liquid products, and I should be talking about
Speaker 2: those more. They've got a couple of them that I
Speaker 2: just want to tell you about right now. One of
Speaker 2: them is micro grow liquid AF. Micro Grow liquid AF
Speaker 2: basically it's putting natural biology in the soil to work
Speaker 2: for you. It contains like, oh, I don't know, probably
Speaker 2: eight different specialized beneficial soul microbes in the streptomices, the trichoderma,
Speaker 2: and then several basillas that are just very helpful for plants.
Speaker 2: Some of them are even sold as organic pest and
Speaker 2: disease or disease control products. That's micro Grow liquid A
Speaker 2: if you can do is a folier spray too, but
Speaker 2: you can. Primarily we do it for putting liquid product
Speaker 2: microbes in the soil eight extremely dominating beneficial microbes. Number
Speaker 2: two soil and plant energy. That particular product is a
Speaker 2: combination of humic acid and molasses. Now that those two
Speaker 2: products right there simulate my biological activity, especially the beneficial
Speaker 2: microbes like we were talking about well ago, but also
Speaker 2: they provide better improvement for soil structure because the humic
Speaker 2: acid has its own effects in the soil. It has
Speaker 2: over sixty three different minerals in it. It's a great
Speaker 2: for stimulating root growth microlife. Soil and plant energy and
Speaker 2: micro grow liquid AF two of the many quality liquid
Speaker 2: products from Microlife. By the way, I'm going to be
Speaker 2: giving some of those microlife products away today at CNMLCH
Speaker 2: between one and three. We're going to go now out
Speaker 2: to Bob in West Houston. Hey, Bob, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 2: How are you today?
Speaker 11: It's wet question.
Speaker 2: It's because it's wet, is it. I had one of
Speaker 2: our little experts in our neighborhood say, well, you shouldn't
Speaker 2: really be planning today because it's this soil is just
Speaker 2: too wet. True false. Well, if the soil is soggy,
Speaker 2: and especially if it's a clay, then messing with a
Speaker 2: clay soil when it's wet destroys the structure. Destroys the structure.
Speaker 2: So you don't want to do that. If you've got
Speaker 2: a decent soil a lot of composts in it, like
Speaker 2: go out and take a take a spading fork or
Speaker 2: you know, a hand trowel and just turn over some soil.
Speaker 2: And if you're creating like a slick sided hole by
Speaker 2: pushing that through the wet clay, well then then wait,
Speaker 2: let it dry a little bit. But if it's pretty
Speaker 2: loose and you're you know, you can then go ahead
Speaker 2: and do your planting that it'll be all right. It's
Speaker 2: pretty much organic matter content. Add some microlife to it.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well yeah, as a fertilizer, that would be excellent.
Speaker 2: Adding composts as well to it helps build that structure.
Speaker 2: We got a whole bunch of that. The other thing
Speaker 2: is centipede grass. What's your thought on that? Okay, centipede
Speaker 2: is done in East Texas. Some it likes acid soils.
Speaker 2: It likes more on the acidic side. It looks a
Speaker 2: lot like a dwarf type of Saint Augustine. If you
Speaker 2: shrunk down Saint Augustine grass blades, that's kind of what
Speaker 2: centipede looks like. But it's it's more of a shartruse
Speaker 2: screen than an emerald green, and if you push it
Speaker 2: with fertilizer, it is very unhappy. The other thing that's
Speaker 2: a negative to centipede is that in the winter time,
Speaker 2: I mean, it turns straw tan uh and and you know,
Speaker 2: even with Saint Augustine you may have some green through
Speaker 2: the winter. Not with centipede, it's gonna turn tnd. But
Speaker 2: can you do it here? Yeah? Is it done here?
Speaker 11: Like?
Speaker 2: Not much. You may see it a little further north
Speaker 2: in East Texas and some sandy soils and some other things,
Speaker 2: but you know, it's legit. It's just not probably the
Speaker 2: best choice. So you need a sandy soil, keep an
Speaker 2: acid well, yeah, you don't really need sandy, but that's
Speaker 2: where you often see it, and some of the piny
Speaker 2: wood soils up there. But yeah, that would be it. Hey,
Speaker 2: let me, I'm gonna have to run. But if you
Speaker 2: go to Aggie Turf Aggie Turf website, They have a
Speaker 2: publication on each type of grass, including one on centipede,
Speaker 2: and they'll tell you way more than I can do
Speaker 2: it on the air right here. But Bob, thank you.
Speaker 2: Appreciate the car very much. Appreciate that. Appreciate that a lot.
Speaker 2: Sorry to have to run on that. Nitrofis Super Turf
Speaker 2: is the slow release nitrofoss turf fertilizing product for sum
Speaker 2: because it releases over four months. It's in a silver bag,
Speaker 2: so it's easy to find you and walk into a store.
Speaker 2: You can find it all kinds of places, ace, hardware,
Speaker 2: and a bazillion other kinds of places. They got it
Speaker 2: RCW Nursery on I forty five North. You go on
Speaker 2: to Alvin Stanton's shopping center on North Taylor. You're going
Speaker 2: to find it. M and D Beamer there in Sagemont,
Speaker 2: as well as the one in clear Lake M and
Speaker 2: D and clear Lake on Bay Area nine five. Super
Speaker 2: Turf silver bag four months of good quality slow fertilizing
Speaker 2: so you don't get into those mowing cycles where you're
Speaker 2: trying to keep up with the grass because you overdid
Speaker 2: the nitrogen. It releases it slowly, so you can't do that.
Speaker 2: Makes it easy. We're going to go now to Sharon
Speaker 2: out in Jersey Village. Hey, Sharon, sorry, I learned that
Speaker 2: the first time we talked.
Speaker 17: It was made up.
Speaker 8: So I sent you some pictures, but I also sent
Speaker 8: one of a vine that I want to know how
Speaker 8: to get rid of that snuck through a fence and
Speaker 8: my neighbor for my neighbor.
Speaker 2: Do your pictures have a B? Does your emails have ABC?
Speaker 8: And the email yes, yes, yeah, and I put it
Speaker 8: a gotcha. It's it's a different okay, all.
Speaker 2: Right, So the vine, you've got some sort of an
Speaker 2: ivy growing in there, and I can't quite make out
Speaker 2: exactly which one it was, but it doesn't matter. Uh,
Speaker 2: if you use a broad leaf post emergent weed control,
Speaker 2: it will kill that vine without hurting your loriopy. So
Speaker 2: a product like you would use for broadleaf weed control
Speaker 2: to spray would work on that. Another step if you
Speaker 2: want to go this route, is if you make my
Speaker 2: herbicide wiper, and it's on the website how to build
Speaker 2: skips weed wiper. It's really simple to build one. Then
Speaker 2: you just it has sponges on it and you just
Speaker 2: you it's a trigger pull like those ah gosh, those
Speaker 2: little three foot long gadget you used to get a
Speaker 2: jar offic shelf, you know those grabber tools. It's like that,
Speaker 2: but it's sponges on the grabber end, and you would
Speaker 2: just put the product on the sponge and just just
Speaker 2: squeeze those leaves here and there, and it'll trick. It'll
Speaker 2: transport pourt down into the roots and it will kill them.
Speaker 2: That that is an option for you.
Speaker 8: Then I sent hibiscus pictures also in a separate email
Speaker 8: because I realized.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, let me. It takes me a while
Speaker 2: on these on these emails where the picture is embedded,
Speaker 2: I can't just open it up, and so I got
Speaker 2: to use my wide screen to see it. What was
Speaker 2: your question about the hibiscus, by the way, Well I
Speaker 2: had this was the things on the leaves.
Speaker 6: And I sent it.
Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, the poor hibiscus got abused this past year
Speaker 8: in winter.
Speaker 2: All right, So what I'm seeing on your hibiscus is aphids.
Speaker 2: It's a black aphid, and those little white things are
Speaker 2: the skins, the cast skins of the aphied. So I
Speaker 2: would get insecticidal soap and I would blast that plant
Speaker 2: from every angle, especially upward because most of the aphids
Speaker 2: are under the leaf. Just give it a good bath,
Speaker 2: and so don't do it right in the middle of
Speaker 2: the hot sunny day. It's in a container, so you
Speaker 2: can move it to the shade and blast it was
Speaker 2: soap really good and follow the label, don't mix it
Speaker 2: too strong, and then I'd repeat that process again in
Speaker 2: about ten days, and I think that'll knock all that
Speaker 2: out for you.
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, all right, thank you, okay, thank you, all right, all.
Speaker 2: Right, thanks for sending me those pictures. You bet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and sexicidal soap works very very well for salt small
Speaker 2: soft bodied insects like spider mites and aphids and well
Speaker 2: even things like you know, mealy bugs before they get
Speaker 2: all that protective coating. It does a decent job on
Speaker 2: those as well as whitefly pupa, but not the adults.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, there's that jungle end from nitro foss
Speaker 2: is a product that comes in both the outdoor form
Speaker 2: and the indoor form. I want to talk about the
Speaker 2: indoor form. That's jungle land water saving potting soil. Jungle
Speaker 2: land water saving potting soil. Now that one has the
Speaker 2: crystals in it, Now I know you don't forget to
Speaker 2: water your plants. I would never admit that I often
Speaker 2: water don't water my plants regularly enough, but some people do.
Speaker 2: So just train you and I, you know, asking for
Speaker 2: a friend. If your friend forgets to water their plants
Speaker 2: and they get a little on the dry side, those
Speaker 2: water saving crystals hold onto water better and even though
Speaker 2: the PD mix may dry out in the potting soil,
Speaker 2: he gives you a little more time to get in
Speaker 2: there and get them watered before they start trying to
Speaker 2: kill themselves because you are just horribly ignoring them. You know,
Speaker 2: plants have feelings to you, right anyway. Jungle Land water
Speaker 2: Saving Crystals it's a great product. It's made out of quality,
Speaker 2: decomposed organic materials and provides the ability to hold water
Speaker 2: but the ability to drain. Those two are important because
Speaker 2: we kill more house plants by overwatering than we do
Speaker 2: by under watering. They do not put up with that.
Speaker 2: So check out jungle Land. You're gonna find jungle land
Speaker 2: in and other nitrofost products in places all over town
Speaker 2: M and D and Rosenberg on Avenue I. They carry
Speaker 2: it out there. You can go to Katie Hardware on
Speaker 2: Penoak out in Katie. If you go up to the
Speaker 2: woodlands to Auspa on Kirkanal, they're going to find them
Speaker 2: there as well. You are listening to garden Line our
Speaker 2: phone number seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 2: r H. I think would we take the phone off
Speaker 2: the hook or something? I got awfully quiet there all
Speaker 2: of a sudden. So there you go. RCW Nursery is
Speaker 2: that garden center that I talk about all the time
Speaker 2: where Tambau Parkway comes into belt Waga Tamo Parkway belt Waita.
Speaker 2: RCW nurseres dot com is the website if you want
Speaker 2: to do that. I like to follow them on social media.
Speaker 2: You find out a lot of good stuff just by
Speaker 2: checking them out on their social media page. Right now,
Speaker 2: Roses roses, roses blue looming. Great time to pick out
Speaker 2: a rose. The redbud trees have been having ballooms on
Speaker 2: them for a while now they're boogin villias are gorgeous.
Speaker 2: They have vegetables and they have herbs, and they have
Speaker 2: flowering plants, lots of shrubs. You know, they grow their
Speaker 2: own trees up in Plantersville at Williamson Tree Farm up there.
Speaker 2: And so when you get a tree at RCW, you
Speaker 2: get a tree. Number one, that's a species that want
Speaker 2: to grow here. For sure. It's grown for here. They
Speaker 2: know what grows here. They grow that. Number two, you
Speaker 2: get a tree that's grown well. It grows right, it's
Speaker 2: anchored well in the pot. You know it's not well.
Speaker 2: It's just the way some people grow trees. They don't
Speaker 2: take care of them right, and the tree is not
Speaker 2: in good shape when you get it in terms of
Speaker 2: strength and anchorage. At RCW, it is, by the way,
Speaker 2: when you're there, you can grab one of those three
Speaker 2: sixty trees stabilizers to stabilize your tree. If it's a
Speaker 2: small tree, can plant it yourself. It's larger, you know,
Speaker 2: don't put your carpractors kids through college. Let RCW come
Speaker 2: out and plant it for you. And they'll do that.
Speaker 2: They'll come out and they'll get that tree in the ground,
Speaker 2: and if you want to do it yourself, they'll give
Speaker 2: you the advice and the products you need to have
Speaker 2: a good successful planting. I was dealing with a Vitex
Speaker 2: in my landscape last year, and Vitext. I would say,
Speaker 2: I can prune any kind of tree in the world
Speaker 2: except Vitex. Vtex just doesn't lend itself to making a tree.
Speaker 2: You can do it, and I'm actually doing it. But
Speaker 2: you know, you're trying to get a trunk and branches
Speaker 2: and stuff, and Vitex is going, naw, I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: over here. I'm gonna grow something over there. I'm and
Speaker 2: it's just this weird thing to try to grow. I
Speaker 2: love the plant. Beautiful blossoms all through the heat of summer,
Speaker 2: and a blue color. That combination is hard to find
Speaker 2: in summer. We don't have a lot of a lot
Speaker 2: of blue coloring. Love Vitext, but boy, pruning it. I
Speaker 2: finally got mine trimmed up to a single trunk. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's about seven feet high and then it spreads out, uh,
Speaker 2: and it's going to form a little bit of shade
Speaker 2: over an area where a car parks all the time
Speaker 2: that is very very sunny. So anyway, and the bees
Speaker 2: will love you. The pollinators in general will love you
Speaker 2: for that plant too. We're going to go now to
Speaker 2: make sure I got time to take a call. We
Speaker 2: were to the Woodlands and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 30: Hey, jep question. I put the Nelson's Whedon Theater on
Speaker 30: probably late February early March, and just pick some A's
Speaker 30: mite up. Is it is it time to put that
Speaker 30: on as well? And do I need to fertilize again
Speaker 30: with A mentioned that silver bag and all that, don't
Speaker 30: I don't know.
Speaker 2: No, Well, here's the deal. You put the weedonater down.
Speaker 2: I would wait about six weeks to eight weeks, probably
Speaker 2: more like eight weeks, and then go to your summer fertilizer.
Speaker 2: And if you want to stay with the Nelson, that
Speaker 2: would be a product called slow and Easy. I'll be
Speaker 2: talking about it a little bit more as the weather
Speaker 2: worms up a bit. Slow and easy. Now the silver
Speaker 2: bag your time, that's from Nitrofus and that is also
Speaker 2: a slow release summer fertilizer. So you hear me talk
Speaker 2: about both of those. I know it can get confusing,
Speaker 2: but if you use the weedon eator the same company's
Speaker 2: products called slow and Easy, but give it about eight
Speaker 2: weeks after you've used the first one so that it
Speaker 2: soaks in really good. Hey, i've got a run. I'm
Speaker 2: up against a very hard break. I'm gonna put you
Speaker 2: on hold and we'll see if we can get back
Speaker 2: to you right after. If you're done, just feel free
Speaker 2: to hang up. Alright, folks, let's get back to it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go straight out to the phones to West
Speaker 2: Chase and we're going to talk to Bill next this morning. Hey, Bill,
Speaker 2: welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 6: How you do it?
Speaker 14: Skip?
Speaker 6: I was planning so good?
Speaker 5: How can I help it?
Speaker 6: I was wondering what sort of fertilizer composition should I
Speaker 6: use for my hibiscuses that I'm planting.
Speaker 2: Well, the folks at Nelson have a nutristar product for
Speaker 2: hibiscus type plants, so they you know, their nutri Star
Speaker 2: line or the little jars of products coming a couple
Speaker 2: of sizes. But they have a vegetable garden one in
Speaker 2: azelia and acid loving plant one, and they do have
Speaker 2: something as well for plants like the hibiscus I would
Speaker 2: use that. It makes it real simple and easy, uh
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 6: Well. Someone had said something about muriate of potash.
Speaker 2: Potash. Yeah, no, Well, murate of potash is a potassium
Speaker 2: only fertilizer, and so, I mean, you know, if you
Speaker 2: want to do mixing up your own fertilizers, you get
Speaker 2: something with nitrogen, you get something with potassium which is
Speaker 2: also called potash and whatnot. But I would just you know,
Speaker 2: I would just grab the Nelson's hibiscus. It's called Nutris
Speaker 2: star hibiscus. It's got a good balance of the nutrients
Speaker 2: that hibiscus needs in it, so it works on everything
Speaker 2: that's in the hibiscus family.
Speaker 6: Really, would that also do well for indian hawthorns?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would because it's got a good amount of nitrogen,
Speaker 2: a little lower phosphate, and then a very good amount
Speaker 2: of potash, which is what you were just asking about
Speaker 2: in that Nelson hibiscus. So you could put that on
Speaker 2: your hawthorns indian hawthorn, and it would do well for
Speaker 2: those as well. If you got a lot of them,
Speaker 2: you know, then you may want to switch to something
Speaker 2: in a bigger bag. But the Nelson comes in different
Speaker 2: sizes of jars, a two pound to four pound. You
Speaker 2: can buy a fifteen gallon bucket or a twenty five
Speaker 2: pound bag out of it. The Nelson nutri star hibiscus
Speaker 2: sounds great. All right, all right, you take care, you bet,
Speaker 2: Thank you for the Thank you for that call.
Speaker 22: A lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Nelson products are all over the place in terms
Speaker 2: of options. You know, I will have an aziia, well,
Speaker 2: get the azella and acid loving plants. I have a
Speaker 2: blueberry that's a niceid loving plant. Use the same thing.
Speaker 2: I've got a vegetable garden, use that one. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're all kind of plumeria and rose. They have a
Speaker 2: rose fertilage everything else. Nelson plant food works really really well.
Speaker 2: Let's go now to Mike in Surfside. Hello Mike, and
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Hey, thank you Skip.
Speaker 23: I have a real quick question for you.
Speaker 20: I'm promping propagating some Alavera plants and I'm trying to
Speaker 20: figure out what type of soil should I put the
Speaker 20: babies in. Should it be like a cactus type mix
Speaker 20: or this regular potting soil?
Speaker 2: What was the plant again?
Speaker 30: Please?
Speaker 5: Alavera al air.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would get. The folks at Heirloom Soils have
Speaker 2: a number of different products for potting soils and other
Speaker 2: things like that, but I would get they have one
Speaker 2: that is for cacti in succulents, the cactus and succulent
Speaker 2: type mix. It works really really well. It's called Cactus
Speaker 2: and Succulent. So it comes in bags and so you
Speaker 2: can use it to fill up your containers and anything
Speaker 2: that needs a kind of gritty soil where the drainage
Speaker 2: is better than typical potting soil, way better. Cactus and
Speaker 2: succulent from heirloom. Now, heirloom products are available all over
Speaker 2: the place. In fact, if you go to the website
Speaker 2: heirloomsoils dot Com, there's a little QR code. You point
Speaker 2: your phone at it like you're taking a picture, and
Speaker 2: it'll help you find a retail outlet near you. Okay,
Speaker 2: heirlooms dot Com, go ahead.
Speaker 5: Got it. How about the snipe plant?
Speaker 20: Would that fall into the succulent category?
Speaker 11: Also?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it I have I put snake plants in regular soils.
Speaker 2: You know, Airlom Saws makes one called the Works. It's
Speaker 2: just potting soil. I have snake plants in that if
Speaker 2: you want to put a little gritty in there. It's
Speaker 2: always good to have good drainage in your mixes. So
Speaker 2: it's not gonna hurt to put it in calculus and succulent.
Speaker 2: But I think I would just grow that in the works. Uh.
Speaker 2: The Works is another bag of potting soil. They have
Speaker 2: Airlom soils. So yeah, and remember now, I don't want
Speaker 2: to put I don't want to put press. I don't
Speaker 2: want to give you pressure. But if you can't grow
Speaker 2: a mother in long tongue a sense of area. Uh,
Speaker 2: that is the sign of you need to just give
Speaker 2: up on plants and start buying plastic and silk flowers.
Speaker 20: I've got I have a large mother mother plaque. All
Speaker 20: of the mother plant. I just keep hacking them off,
Speaker 20: you know, and you just repot them that I want
Speaker 20: to make the correct soil. Yeah, all right, cool.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: That's that is the plant. Thank you, man. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot. Yeah. Airloom Soils. Airloomsoils dot com, go
Speaker 2: check those out. Nitrophos has a number of quality products
Speaker 2: that we can use in our gardens and landscapes and
Speaker 2: lawns and things like that. If you're looking for a
Speaker 2: fast green up, they're Imperial. Fifteen five to ten is
Speaker 2: a product to do that. You put it down, you
Speaker 2: watered in, it dissolves, it goes in the plants, take
Speaker 2: it up. I mean it's like tomorrow, you know, getting
Speaker 2: you're getting those things in the plants. So fifteen five
Speaker 2: to ten is a red bag, a Nitrophs Imperial, and
Speaker 2: it's sold all over town, lots of places. Now I
Speaker 2: know it's a lawn fertilizer. But I'm telling you I've
Speaker 2: used fifteen five to ten for fruit trees and other things.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's a good fertilizer period, but it's
Speaker 2: one that's going to give you a quick release. So
Speaker 2: don't overdo it unless you want to mow a lot.
Speaker 2: Just put a modern amount. The bag will tell you
Speaker 2: how much to put down. It's immediate release. Now if
Speaker 2: you want these folks that is going to say, well,
Speaker 2: now I've got a bunch of it on to use
Speaker 2: it up. Well, then I would spread out about six
Speaker 2: weeks apart into a light fertilization every six weeks and
Speaker 2: you could just use that product through the summer. My
Speaker 2: preference would be to go to a slower release, but
Speaker 2: you can use that imperial and in small amounts through
Speaker 2: the summer too if you got it on hand. But
Speaker 2: that's an excellent product and you're gonna find it in
Speaker 2: a lot of places. You know, the M and d
Speaker 2: uh down in Sagemont, the Lake Hardware and Clute is
Speaker 2: going to have it Ospase as in the Woodlands. RCW
Speaker 2: Nursery carries night Fosh products too. Let's go out now
Speaker 2: and talk to Kenneth Hey Kenneth, Welcome to Guarden Line.
Speaker 12: Good Mornings. GET first time caller. I had a question
Speaker 12: on compost. I have access to your compost is being
Speaker 12: made at a facility for free, and I have top
Speaker 12: soil in my home and I'm trying to understand how
Speaker 12: much I would want that new compost only.
Speaker 2: What what are you going to grow in this?
Speaker 12: I want to use it in my garden.
Speaker 2: In Okay.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know a lot a lot of the bed mixes,
Speaker 2: like the veggie nerve mix and stuff, they are primarily
Speaker 2: organic matter as opposed to the mineral soil product. I
Speaker 2: mean they you know, primarily organic matter. So I would
Speaker 2: you know, it depends on exactly what you're going to
Speaker 2: grow in the quality of the soil you have right now.
Speaker 2: But you could do fifty to fifty on the compostor
Speaker 2: with the soil that you have and mix them up
Speaker 2: really good and go with that route. That would be
Speaker 2: one one option.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I think it's pretty hot stuff. I mean it's I know,
Speaker 12: the company that they sell it to, I think they
Speaker 12: mix it pretty good, but they're I just didn't know
Speaker 12: how much ease it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I understand, and uh yeah, we're not
Speaker 2: talking about Madisonville mushroom compost here are we we're talking
Speaker 2: about Are we talking about mushroom?
Speaker 12: No, it's a mixture of milk product being product waste.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, Well, now, a lot of folks, you know,
Speaker 2: are gonna shy away from using the human waste composts
Speaker 2: in a vegetable garden just because of the potential that's
Speaker 2: there for something going wrong or maybe heavy used to
Speaker 2: be heavy metals were worried about a lot as well
Speaker 2: as I generally don't recommend those kind of products in
Speaker 2: a vegetable garden.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there, it's a fertilet. I mean, it's a it's
Speaker 2: a compost, so it does what compost does. Would just
Speaker 2: be a little I'd be a little cautious on the
Speaker 2: human waste. But that's that. That's just nice to you
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 12: I think the human waste is not near as much
Speaker 12: as every other thing. I mean, they do put a
Speaker 12: lot of tree moults with it when they grind them up.
Speaker 24: All right, Okay, I understand, Kenny, Okay, thank you sir.
Speaker 2: There are a number of avocados that will do well here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I Ken of I've lost you on the call. There,
Speaker 2: But there are a number of avocados. Go to the
Speaker 2: kinds of nurseries hear me talk about, and they will
Speaker 2: sell you the kind you need to plant here. There
Speaker 2: are some kinds you don't plant here, but there's something
Speaker 2: you do. Yeah, those human waste products. To have to
Speaker 2: crack a joke right here in Austin, there's something called
Speaker 2: dillo dirt and it's made from sewage sludge. And I
Speaker 2: think the label in the bag should be there's a
Speaker 2: little of you in every bag. With that, I'll leave you.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back in a while. Since Aric Allan, Hey,
Speaker 2: welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you
Speaker 2: with us. Have you been to Nelson Water Garden and Nursery.
Speaker 2: There are our premiere nursery out west of town. All
Speaker 2: of you looking towards the west, this is the place
Speaker 2: to go. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens. Nursery and water gardens. Now,
Speaker 2: I know you know they're nationally famous for the water
Speaker 2: gardens and they invented the disappearing fountain and everything. How
Speaker 2: about the nursery part. It is a great nursery. Lots
Speaker 2: of seasonal color right now, beautiful roses, annuals that can
Speaker 2: take the sun. Beautiful plants for the shade, like a
Speaker 2: wide variety of colius colors and things in the shade.
Speaker 2: But I just want to focus on one particular thing
Speaker 2: right now, and that is the herb products that they have.
Speaker 2: The herb plants that they have. They have things like
Speaker 2: cinnamon basil and lemon basil and sweet genevies. That's one
Speaker 2: of the best ones for culinary use, Tiam or Taysiam
Speaker 2: queen basil. Then they got mints like penny royal and peppermint,
Speaker 2: and chocolate and red stem apple mint, English mint, Kentucky
Speaker 2: Colonel mint, I mean Jacob Klein be bomb. If you
Speaker 2: want to make the pollinators happy, especially bees in your garden,
Speaker 2: get some of the beautiful colored I believe it's a
Speaker 2: deep red the last time I had Jacob kleinb deep
Speaker 2: red bee bomb that just grow. It's a mint family plant,
Speaker 2: Golden Greek oregano, Italian oregano, true Greek oregano, pineapple, sage barbecue,
Speaker 2: rosemary barbecue, you know what that is. Rosemary goes these long,
Speaker 2: straight green stalks so that you can skew your meats
Speaker 2: and vegetables on them and use them to make kebabs,
Speaker 2: you know, as you're barbecuing out there in the grill.
Speaker 2: Isn't that cool? I mean you can use it for
Speaker 2: other things too, and then time and lavender and on
Speaker 2: and on and on. But when you think about Nelson
Speaker 2: Water Garden and Nursery outing Katie and by the way,
Speaker 2: it's on Katie Fort Ben Road. You go out there
Speaker 2: and turn north and it's on the right hand side,
Speaker 2: just a little bit up the road, on the right
Speaker 2: hand side. When you think about them, think about all
Speaker 2: the other plants that Nelson Nursery and Water Garden has.
Speaker 2: And by the way, put on your calendar April twenty sixth,
Speaker 2: that's another one of their sip and stroll. It's a
Speaker 2: free event. They've got drinks, light refreshments, so they're gonna
Speaker 2: have some music, live music going on there. Shelby will
Speaker 2: be out there with Nelson Plant Fertilizer answering your questions
Speaker 2: as well. Those sip and strolls are wonderful. Plus you
Speaker 2: get the free sound of running water, which is the
Speaker 2: most therapeutic thing that you can imagine. Absolutely, you can imagine.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go out there to Conroe. Now we're
Speaker 2: going to talk to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 2: How are you doing today?
Speaker 15: Great?
Speaker 25: Great yourself this morning?
Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you good.
Speaker 5: Hey. Question.
Speaker 25: I'm gonna look at some Early Greenup.
Speaker 11: I've used the fifteen five to ten before, but.
Speaker 25: I had some micro Life that I had left over
Speaker 25: from last year. I bought way too much didn't use it.
Speaker 25: And it's a six two four. I don't know what
Speaker 25: the shelf life like that is, Yes, sir, yeah.
Speaker 2: Jelf life still it's yeah, shelf life. It's still good
Speaker 2: to use. It's still good to use. And you mentioned
Speaker 2: Early green Up. If you want to, if you only
Speaker 2: use a micro Life product for Early green it'd get
Speaker 2: the blue bag Microlife Ultimate. It's got an extra boost
Speaker 2: of nitrogen charge in it that'll give you some quick
Speaker 2: results as well as the ongoing results of the you
Speaker 2: would expect from micro Life fertilizer. Yeah, you can use
Speaker 2: it now. And by the way, you know you said
Speaker 2: you had some left over. You can use the micro
Speaker 2: Life six T four on all kinds of things. I mean,
Speaker 2: you can put in your flower beds, you put around
Speaker 2: your fruit trees, you can use your vegetable gardens. So
Speaker 2: you know, if you have some left over, just find
Speaker 2: other places to use it. It really worked. I would
Speaker 2: put it on roses as well. It's got a higher
Speaker 2: nitrogen content to give a boost of growth there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So just because it's a lawn fertilizer, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: don't let it sit around waiting for next lawn season.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and use it all all over and get
Speaker 2: you some fresh stuff when we get back. Okay, you're
Speaker 2: set up. You're saying, thank you so very much.
Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
Speaker 11: Great.
Speaker 2: I appreciate your call. Thanks a lot. You take care
Speaker 2: of Jim. Yeah. You know, plants can't read. This is
Speaker 2: a this is my educational announcement. Plants can't read, so
Speaker 2: when you put a fertilizer on them, they just want
Speaker 2: to know is there some nitrogen there for me? Is
Speaker 2: there some phosphorus? You know, I got to do a
Speaker 2: lot of rooting here. I'm trying to get started as
Speaker 2: a new transplant. Need some phosphorus. You know. They don't
Speaker 2: know what the fertilizer bag says, and it says it's
Speaker 2: a citrus food or a rose suit or whatever. That
Speaker 2: just means the ratio of nutrients is a little different
Speaker 2: in those But the bottom line is, you know, you
Speaker 2: get a quality lawn type fertilizer and it's good for
Speaker 2: a lot of things. Now, I wouldn't you know, something
Speaker 2: that wants a lot of heavy phosphorus feeding all the time.
Speaker 2: You know, well, yeah, I wouldn't use a lawn fertilizer
Speaker 2: on that year after year after year. But when you
Speaker 2: got something on hand, don't afridge, just use it. It's
Speaker 2: okay to do that. And an example of a good
Speaker 2: lawn fertilizer that you could use for other things as
Speaker 2: well is Nitrophoss Superturf. That's their silver bag. Now, it's
Speaker 2: a nineteen four to ten fertilizer, so it's roughly a
Speaker 2: four to one two ratio, which is excellent going through
Speaker 2: the summer. You may be thinking, nineteen percent nitrogen, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna burn it, that's too much. No, here's the difference.
Speaker 2: That nineteen percent gets gradually released over time for four months.
Speaker 2: So it'd be like taking a less concentrated fertilizer and
Speaker 2: applaying it two or three times, depending on the concentration
Speaker 2: of the fertilizer. So when you put nitropas super turf out,
Speaker 2: you're only going to put about five pounds per thousand
Speaker 2: square feet. That's a very very low rate, so it
Speaker 2: goes a long way. It's perfect for Saint Augustine Bermuda Zotzia. Again.
Speaker 2: Four months of feeding and by gradually releasing the nutrients,
Speaker 2: you don't get that flush of grass blade growth that
Speaker 2: means your momo mo trying to keep up with it.
Speaker 2: It gives you a nice even feed and you're going
Speaker 2: to find it a lot of places. You go up
Speaker 2: to D and D Feed and Tomball on twenty nine
Speaker 2: to twenty west of town, they're going to have it there.
Speaker 2: You go to Plants for All Seasons on Tomball Parkway
Speaker 2: just north of Luetta, they're going to have it there
Speaker 2: as well. You go to Lake Hardware in Angleton of Alasko,
Speaker 2: or you show up at all Sposece up in the
Speaker 2: Woodlands on Kirkandal. All these are places that carry nitapas products,
Speaker 2: so they have no excuse for not being able to
Speaker 2: find them because they are widely available. Well, I had
Speaker 2: a thousand things I was going to talk about today,
Speaker 2: and uh, we got to some of them. So maybe
Speaker 2: we'll take off and do this again tomorrow. I'm about
Speaker 2: to jump in a car and head to Ciena Maltz
Speaker 2: south of Houston. Go to this website cienamultch dot com.
Speaker 2: That'll give you the phone number that'll give you the address.
Speaker 2: It's really easy to get to cienamultch is if you need.
Speaker 2: If you want an address, it's on FM five twenty
Speaker 2: one down in Rows, Sharon, five twenty one down in Road, Sharon.
Speaker 2: Come see me. I'm going to be giving away nitrofush products.
Speaker 2: Why do not keep saying that this one I'm giving
Speaker 2: away not nightful. I'm giving me micro life products, and
Speaker 2: I'm giving away products from Medina, and I'm giving away
Speaker 2: products from Nelson Fertilizer, all of those. And if you
Speaker 2: show up, you're probably gonna go home with a free product,
Speaker 2: because I got quite a few to give away. And
Speaker 2: if you show up and say brown stuff before green stuff,
Speaker 2: the magic words, you'll get a three sixty tree stabilizer
Speaker 2: for your new tree plantings. And that those are cool
Speaker 2: and they last forever. Once you got one, you're gonna
Speaker 2: have it for a very very long time. Excellent products.
Speaker 2: So remember magic words brown stuff before greenstoff. That'll not
Speaker 2: be hard to remember because you're gonna be at one
Speaker 2: of the best places in the world to get composts
Speaker 2: and fertilizers. Yes, they carry all my fertilizers down at
Speaker 2: Cienamlch and Mulchz as well. So come with an empty
Speaker 2: vehicle and come to have come have some fun, all right?
Speaker 2: I think I have a couple of seconds here to
Speaker 2: run out to Cyprus and talk to Robert. Hey, Robert,
Speaker 2: welcome to gardener.
Speaker 31: Yes, thank you, and thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 31: I've got being overwhelmed with clover cock burrs, and I
Speaker 31: don't want to put two four too fertilizer down from
Speaker 31: my grass because it's going to do nothing to promote
Speaker 31: the growth of the clover. I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 31: Can I I find something that will kill just the
Speaker 31: clover cocker burns?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah you can. And you can go out to
Speaker 2: a garden center or a feed store or an ace
Speaker 2: hardware store. You know, when am I leaving out Southwest Fertilizer,
Speaker 2: you know all those places are going to carry post
Speaker 2: emergent broad leaf weed control products. So basically, you're getting
Speaker 2: a liquid, you're mixing it in your little sprayer, and
Speaker 2: you're growing around squirting those weeds with it. And there
Speaker 2: are a lot of them out there, and so you know,
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a couple of examples in
Speaker 2: recommending the product. It's just an example. Fertil On weed
Speaker 2: free Zone is one. Bone eye weed beater Ultra is
Speaker 2: another one those products. When it heats up upper eighties
Speaker 2: and definitely the nineties, you can stress your Saint Augustine
Speaker 2: with them. So go ahead and get it done now,
Speaker 2: and do it in the morning even as it heats
Speaker 2: up a little bit more. If you get that spray
Speaker 2: down in the morning where it dries up for the
Speaker 2: day gets hot, you're not going to see that kind
Speaker 2: of damage on it. But those are the ones there.
Speaker 2: Each of them is a combination of different products. They
Speaker 2: go at those broad leaf weeds in different ways, and
Speaker 2: so with that combo all those many different kinds of
Speaker 2: weeds you have in your lawn, you're probably going to
Speaker 2: get ninety nine percent of them with that kind of
Speaker 2: a spray. It works really good. Remember that things like
Speaker 2: clover are cool season weeds that are going to seed,
Speaker 2: So if you spray them and kill them, they probably
Speaker 2: already have viable seeds on them, so they'll be here
Speaker 2: next fall to germinate. And a pre emergent before they
Speaker 2: germinate in the fall will be a technique. What I
Speaker 2: do in my yard. Once I see the seed on
Speaker 2: a weed, I just pull it up. Now, I know,
Speaker 2: if you got a lot, that may not be practical.
Speaker 2: But when you pull it up, you get all those
Speaker 2: seeds out of there, and you don't sentence yourself to
Speaker 2: several years of pulling weeds. That's the tip of the day.