WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:03.040 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:07.000 of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 3 00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:13.400 to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Rictores crazy. 4 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:16.039 Gas. 5 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:17.800 Can you use a trim? 6 00:00:19.160 --> 00:00:20.640 Just watch him. 7 00:00:20.320 --> 00:00:21.359 As wool. 8 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:23.480 Gas. 9 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:26.879 There are so many boat. 10 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:31.600 Thanks to Sup buck basing Gay basis like gas again 11 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:39.119 you dubs not a salmon glasses and gas and. 12 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:52.320 The somon of the gas gas starting in treatment. 13 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:56.399 You did. 14 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:03.479 Okay, folks, good morning, good morning on a good Saturday 15 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:06.799 morning for gardening. You are listening to Garden Line. I'm 16 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:09.040 your host, Skip Richter, and we got a lot to 17 00:01:09.079 --> 00:01:13.400 talk about there. There is how long has it been 18 00:01:13.439 --> 00:01:15.400 since we had weather like this to go outside and 19 00:01:15.400 --> 00:01:20.760 get some stuff done? A long long time? Right, Well, 20 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:25.200 it's here, you know. For weeks now, I've been saying, 21 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:28.760 don't look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. What 22 00:01:28.799 --> 00:01:30.599 does that mean? Well, that means that I know, I 23 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.879 know it still says summer on the thermometer, but the 24 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:36.159 calendar says it's time to get going with fall gardening. 25 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.599 And boy do we ever need to be lots of 26 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:41.079 things to be doing in the garden and the landscape, 27 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:45.200 you know, right now, for example, our lawns, This is 28 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:48.040 the time to get your fall fertilization in. Don't delay. 29 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:50.519 You know, every week you delay gives that long a 30 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:54.400 little less time to have those nutrients taken up and 31 00:01:54.439 --> 00:01:56.159 get in the plant to do what they need to 32 00:01:56.200 --> 00:01:59.439 do to get the lawn ready for cold weather and 33 00:01:59.480 --> 00:02:02.599 also for coming out in spring. Now is the time 34 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:04.959 if you're going to do a pre emergent get it 35 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.840 out asap, get that in the grass and get it 36 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.719 watered in. You gotta water those in so that they 37 00:02:11.759 --> 00:02:14.680 go to the soil surface and stop weeds. Now's the 38 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.639 time if you are going to try to fight brown 39 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:22.439 patch or now they call it large patch. If you're 40 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:24.879 going to try to stop that, now's the time to 41 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.919 get a preventative down now. Once circles appear, they're going 42 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:32.319 to be circles until weather warms up enough to regreen 43 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:37.120 the grass to grow back in those areas. But now's 44 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:41.639 the time for all three of those things in the lawn. Fortunately, 45 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:44.560 we don't have any insects we're dealing with right now 46 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:49.599 in the lawns. Triffect is enough, right, triffect of activities, 47 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:51.319 But now the time to get in it. If you're 48 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:55.520 looking for a quality organic fertilizer for your lawn, well, 49 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.400 Microlife is the one you need to be taking a 50 00:02:58.439 --> 00:03:01.439 really close look at. They got something called brown Patch 51 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:05.919 Microlife brown Patch. Now look, listening to that name of it, 52 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.639 you'd think, oh, this is a fungicide, it'stop brown pat. 53 00:03:08.759 --> 00:03:11.520 No it's not. It is It is a fertilizer that 54 00:03:11.639 --> 00:03:14.560 is chock full of all kinds of microbes that help 55 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:18.120 populate the surfaces of plants. You know, there's a lot 56 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:21.719 of good microbes out there that help us have more 57 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:26.120 success with our gardening. They work in tandem with the 58 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:30.360 plant's root systems in some cases getting down in there. 59 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:33.240 There's others that just on the surface create kind of 60 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:36.479 a hostile environment. Well, anyway, Microlife brown Patch is a 61 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:40.000 quality product. Get it down asap though. That's their brown bag. 62 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:43.800 Microlife brown Patch Microlife Fertilizer dot Com is the website 63 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.840 if you want to find out more about the many 64 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:52.319 of the products they produce, both trigranular fertilizers and liquid fertilizers, 65 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:54.719 and also where you can get them, which I'll just 66 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.639 cut I'll make it easy for you. It's everywhere pretty 67 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:02.680 much garden centers, feed stores, hardware stores, you know, the 68 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:08.319 Southwest fertilit All those places carry microlife products. If you 69 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:10.599 are interested in giving me a call. This is a 70 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:12.879 call in show. By the way, I can sit here 71 00:04:12.879 --> 00:04:15.719 and talk all day, but basically it's about what are 72 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:19.399 your questions? What are you interested in? Well, give me 73 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:22.519 a call. Seven one three two one two k t 74 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:26.480 r H. Seven to one three two one two k 75 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:32.839 t r H. I today am going to be going 76 00:04:32.920 --> 00:04:36.800 out to the wild Bird's Unlimited store. This is the 77 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:39.800 last appearance of the season. This is the last chance 78 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:42.279 for you to come out, bring me some samples, or 79 00:04:42.319 --> 00:04:45.480 bring me some photos. Let's let's talk ey to I. Hey, 80 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:48.040 let's get our picture made too. I'd love to do that. 81 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:53.759 Uh This wild Birds is in Kingwood, Kingwood, Texas, and 82 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:58.040 so all of you over there east northeast. Actually, you 83 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:00.519 know when we do these appearances, we have people from 84 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:02.600 the other side of town sometimes because they got a 85 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:05.759 burning question. Yeah, it just sounds like fun. Well it's fun. 86 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:09.279 I think it's fun. Uh So coming out to Wilbird's 87 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:13.279 in Kingwood, that's on Kingwood Drive, right behind Torches Tacos. 88 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:15.560 In fact, if you hit it out there, a little 89 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:19.079 early you could grab some really good food. I love torchies. 90 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:22.560 I'm gonna be zipping in there about twelve noon and 91 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:24.519 I'll be there till two there for a couple of 92 00:05:24.560 --> 00:05:26.959 hours at Wolbirds. While you're out there, we'll show you 93 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:28.920 all the cool stuff they got in the store. I 94 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:31.120 mean they are stocked up. They're ready to go on 95 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:34.519 feed and feeders and bird houses and every other kind 96 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:36.439 of thing you can imagine you'd want for your birds. 97 00:05:36.639 --> 00:05:39.879 Got squirrels that are bugging bugging you by eating all 98 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.639 your bird seed. Well they've got some bird seed that 99 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:44.600 let's just say it has a little pepper or two 100 00:05:44.680 --> 00:05:47.560 in it that will make sure the squirrels don't get 101 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:50.279 into it. You know that stuff doesn't bother birds, but boy, 102 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:53.959 squirrels and me, I put hot pepper around my edges 103 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:58.439 in my mouth and h yeah, not good. Not good. 104 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.040 If you have a question you would like to ask 105 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:06.399 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 106 00:06:06.519 --> 00:06:09.680 seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 107 00:06:11.360 --> 00:06:14.839 I was at RCW Nursery a while back visiting with them, 108 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:18.040 and just they've just got all kinds of good good 109 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.399 sales on right now. There's shrubs, for example. You need 110 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:24.000 to listen up. This is a really good deal. Twenty 111 00:06:24.040 --> 00:06:27.199 percent off their shrubs. And they have shrubs of all 112 00:06:27.279 --> 00:06:30.399 kinds of textures, you know, from low growing junipers to 113 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:35.120 broad leafed, larger broad leaf types of shrubs. They've got 114 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:37.439 different colors, you know. We got the Laura peddlum or 115 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:40.639 Chinese witch hazel that's got that beautiful burgundy look and 116 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.920 the just hot pink shaggy flowers in the spring. Twenty 117 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:47.319 percent off all of that, and they have a lot 118 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:50.600 of shrubs on hand too, So make sure and get 119 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:54.639 by there, get that done. Now is the time. Now 120 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:58.720 is the time when we need to be planting woody 121 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:04.560 ornamentals of your trees and shrubs, the most weeks possible 122 00:07:04.639 --> 00:07:10.199 between planting and next summer's brutal heat. The longer they have, 123 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:13.399 the more successful they are. And you want them. You 124 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.959 spend money on a shrub, you want it to be successful. 125 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.920 Give it the most time. Plant it now. OURCW Nurseries 126 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:23.319 dot com is our website. Our CW Nurseries. By the 127 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:28.000 way is the garden Center right where Tomball Parkway FM 128 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.199 two forty nine comes into belt Way eight right where 129 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:35.319 Tomball Parkway comes into belt Way eight. So goodbye there. 130 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.399 Check them out. They are I like to refer to 131 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:41.839 them as they get it, got it nursery because if 132 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.120 they don't have it, they can probably find it. If 133 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:45.839 it's out there on the market, they probably find it 134 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:48.600 bring it in for you. So that's kind of a 135 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:53.000 little extra sort of nice too. Plus it's just fun 136 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:56.040 to shop there. Well, it's time for me to go 137 00:07:56.079 --> 00:07:57.839 to my first little break here. I'll be right back. 138 00:07:57.920 --> 00:07:59.600 Here's the number if you'd like to get on the board. 139 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.720 One three two one two k t RH. We got 140 00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:07.120 some gardening stuff to talk about today. In fact, we 141 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:09.360 could what do they say, We can talk about gardening 142 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:11.720 ntil the cows come home. Any of the cows don't 143 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.720 come home, we'll keep talking about gardening. There is a 144 00:08:15.759 --> 00:08:18.560 lot that is important when you want to have success. 145 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.800 You know, gardening is not something that you need to 146 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:25.480 fail at. It is not. You may think you have 147 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:27.439 a brown thumb. You don't. What you have is an 148 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:30.639 uninformed thumb. And all we have to do is inform 149 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:34.279 your thumb about some simple principles. What do plants want? 150 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:36.320 How do you make a plant happy? Once you know 151 00:08:36.440 --> 00:08:39.960 that it's easy. It is really and it's fun. I mean, 152 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:44.879 think about nature. Nature gardens all the time. Right, trees 153 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:47.279 come up in the forest and they growed, the giant, 154 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:50.639 beautiful things. And how did that happen. Nobody went out 155 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:54.279 there and you know, talk to them and did all 156 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:57.320 the magic wands and everything like that trying to get 157 00:08:57.320 --> 00:08:57.799 them to grow. 158 00:08:58.120 --> 00:08:58.159 No. 159 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:00.759 They they just had what the wanted and that was 160 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:04.919 good soil. And there is nothing more important, no single 161 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.919 factor more important for garden success than the soil plants 162 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:12.360 live in their roots, the root system. You put plants 163 00:09:12.399 --> 00:09:16.120 in a soil that's you know, a heavy compacted clay 164 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:20.559 and no oxygen, very slow water infiltration rates and all 165 00:09:20.600 --> 00:09:22.879 of that, and they're going to struggle. But you put 166 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:25.559 them in a soil that has been prepared and they're 167 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:27.320 going to thrive. And that's how it works, and that's 168 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.039 what Nature's weighs all about. By the way, Nature's Way 169 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.240 On Sherbrookes Circle up in Conra, you go up to 170 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:37.840 Interstate forty five right where fourteen eighty eight comes in 171 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:41.440 from Magnolia. You turn right instead and cross over the 172 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:45.080 railroad tracks. That's Sherbrood's Brooks Circle First Street to come 173 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:48.720 to turn right. That's Nature's Way Resources. They've been doing 174 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:51.559 this for a very very long time. They know how 175 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:56.919 to make quality, accomplished products. And we're talking about soil 176 00:09:57.120 --> 00:10:01.039 amendments and mulches that go on top of the soil. 177 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:04.440 And by the way, their Fungal Friday sale is still 178 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:07.320 on twenty percent off fungal compost at Nature's Way twenty 179 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:11.399 percent off every Friday. That's a great opportunity right there. 180 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:16.399 Also out at Nature's Way they have something called Microlife Mondays. 181 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:19.840 It seems like every day something's going on out there. 182 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:24.720 Twenty percent off selected microlife products, twenty percent off selected 183 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:29.720 microlife products August. See I mean, excuse me through December second. 184 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:34.000 It's going to go through December second. So you want 185 00:10:34.039 --> 00:10:36.159 to make sure and get out there, grab your especially 186 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:39.759 those liquid products you know that Microlife makes. That's a 187 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:42.840 good time to get those. And finally they're year in 188 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:46.360 sale their nursery. You know, they have a really nice 189 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:49.919 nursery out there, especially with native plants, but but some 190 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:53.960 non natives as well. They're having a sale fifty percent 191 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.840 off through December first. So we got you know, the 192 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.320 rest of this month and that's it. That excludes some 193 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:04.200 of their sun native sun perennials, but all the rest 194 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:07.320 of the stuff fifty percent off at Nature's Way. And 195 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:09.600 while you're out there, grab some of their soils by 196 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:11.720 the bag. Take your truck or trailer out there and 197 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:14.600 get them to dump a bulk load in it, or 198 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:16.159 you can just call them and have them deliver it 199 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:17.720 to your house if you want to go that route. 200 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:22.679 Nature's Way resources. Whatever you do, fix your soil, amend 201 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:27.200 your soil, make it special, and you will have success 202 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:32.679 as a result of that. This year we just went through. 203 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:37.360 I was out in my backyard. I have the house 204 00:11:37.440 --> 00:11:40.919 we purchased a while back and moved into had three 205 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:43.840 cypress trees in it. Now. I have always appreciated cypress 206 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:46.600 from a distance. I just think they're beautiful. The little wispy, 207 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:51.240 feathery foliage that they have just real pretty. And down 208 00:11:51.279 --> 00:11:53.639 in low swampy areas, you know, the knees coming up 209 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:56.440 are kind of attractive. They're you know, kind of a 210 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:00.200 unique feature. Well, when you have a lawn and the 211 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.039 knees are coming up in the lawn, that is a 212 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:05.519 pain in the neck. And we dealt with that when 213 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:08.519 I put in a new yard this past April and 214 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:10.960 got all of those out of there and putting a 215 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:14.879 patio in right now, and already there's some knees sticking 216 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:17.559 up where I'm about to lay these flat stones to 217 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:19.519 make a patio. So I had to dig a few 218 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:21.360 more of those things up. And so I kind of 219 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:24.679 have a love hate relationship with Cyprus. It's a great, 220 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:29.000 beautiful tree, very long lived, very resistant to rot and 221 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:33.159 things like that. It's a great tree, but it doesn't 222 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.360 like lawns, and I don't like it's knees coming up 223 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:38.679 in my lawn. But anyway, that's part of the deal. 224 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:41.240 I need to get out there and do a little 225 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:44.279 bit of pruning on mine. I've got one that is 226 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:47.200 encroaching into an area of the branches where I need 227 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:49.919 them not to go, So we'll do that. But you know, 228 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.120 this year was so hard on trees. Good Night, we 229 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.519 had two major one hurricane and another major storm that 230 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.679 knocked out power for a couple of weeks. Affordable Tree 231 00:13:01.720 --> 00:13:04.960 Service can come out and prune your trees and help 232 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:08.240 get them in as strong condition as they can, and 233 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:11.120 this is pruning season. You know, if your situation is 234 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:13.559 like mine, you just need a little pruning here. Maybe 235 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.360 the branch is hanging too low. Now, maybe you have 236 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:19.559 a broken branch in a tree. A narrow angles, narrow 237 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.840 branch angles, those are all no nos. Affordable tree can 238 00:13:22.840 --> 00:13:24.480 come out and do that. Martin spoon Moore has been 239 00:13:24.519 --> 00:13:27.919 doing this for a long time. And again we are 240 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:30.559 here primetime. You need to give him a call seven 241 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:34.039 to one three six nine nine two six sixty three. 242 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:36.879 Have him come out. Get on his schedule. Martin does 243 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:39.840 good job. Martin stays busy, but tell them you're a 244 00:13:39.840 --> 00:13:45.080 guardenline listener. Get on the schedule. And then sometime between 245 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:47.679 now and the end of this pruning season that we're 246 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:52.480 having a prime pruning season. You prune year round. He'll 247 00:13:52.480 --> 00:13:54.320 come out and get that taken care of. He'll look 248 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:56.480 at the things over see what they need. Give you 249 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:00.519 some overall true health suggestions and observations. Uh, you know, 250 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:02.919 what do you think is happening? Some of those storms 251 00:14:02.960 --> 00:14:05.440 really loosened up some trees and caused them to be 252 00:14:05.480 --> 00:14:07.759 a little bit leaning. Or maybe you see the grass 253 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:11.480 kind of lifting up. When the tree blows around, it 254 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:13.480 is kind of like moving and the root system is 255 00:14:13.559 --> 00:14:16.279 kind of lifting up a little bit. That's a that's 256 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.320 a scary situation. You need to have him come out, 257 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.519 whatever it is, have him come out and look. Either 258 00:14:21.559 --> 00:14:24.200 he Martin or his wife Joe will answer the phone. 259 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:27.600 That's how it works an Affordable Tree. The website is 260 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:32.759 aff Tree Service dot com af F first three letters 261 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:36.600 and Affordable Tree Service dot Com and the phone number 262 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:39.200 one more time write this down seven one three six 263 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:45.039 nine nine two six six three. You're listening to Gardenline. 264 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:47.840 I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to help 265 00:14:47.919 --> 00:14:52.200 you have a more beautiful landscape and more boundiful garden 266 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:54.559 and more fun in the process. Those are my goals 267 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:56.919 right there. That's what I would like to see happen 268 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:57.320 for you. 269 00:14:57.879 --> 00:14:58.000 Uh. 270 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:00.639 And we try to gear the show. We're just that 271 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:02.960 if you'd like to give me a call. Seven one 272 00:15:03.039 --> 00:15:07.679 three two one two ktr H seven one three two 273 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:10.759 one two k t R h. 274 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:12.879 Uh. 275 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:17.840 I was visiting with some of the folks at Enchented 276 00:15:17.919 --> 00:15:22.159 Gardens next spring. I'm gonna early late winter early spring, 277 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:24.159 I'm going to be going out to in Chenna Gardens. 278 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:26.200 We were just talking about my talk on topics and 279 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.799 some things like that. Uh, and it just every time 280 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:33.159 I go out to in Chenna Gardens. It's like it's 281 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:34.039 like an adventure. 282 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:34.519 Uh. 283 00:15:34.679 --> 00:15:38.080 And I say this before, but we have the best 284 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:41.679 garden centers of any major city that I've ever been 285 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:45.399 to here in the Houston area. And I really mean that, north, south, east, west, Central. 286 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:48.879 We have them everywhere, and they're showplaces to take people to. 287 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.159 In Chaney Gardens on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond, 288 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:57.080 they're out there on FM three fifty nine, three fifty nine, 289 00:15:57.159 --> 00:16:01.440 Real close, FM three fifty nine and FM seven twenty 290 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:04.000 three where they come together just north of Richmond, Katie 291 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:07.639 fullsher Side. It's one of those places you know, I 292 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.840 would say when you go, take some friends, take people 293 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:14.279 with you, because it is it's like you're going to 294 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:16.840 a botanical garden, outing kind of thing where you're just 295 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:20.879 re enjoying yourself, looking around seeing what they have. And yeah, 296 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:23.360 it's not just like running down to the grocery store 297 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:27.879 by groceries and come home. This is an experience Katie 298 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:31.799 fullsher Side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond 299 00:16:32.039 --> 00:16:37.559 dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Gift shop is 300 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:41.200 loaded up and beautiful if you want forcing bulbs for 301 00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:44.159 a gift, you know, Thanksgivings coming up. I'm not buying 302 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.320 a gift for whoever is the host of your Thanksgiving meal. 303 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.440 If it's yourself, buy the one you buy for yourself. 304 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.080 They have beautiful stuff for putting out in the garden, 305 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:59.440 you know, the blame the uh Carvestone kinds of structures 306 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:02.559 that you put out just for fun and whimsy. And 307 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:05.240 they're loaded up on every plant for the season. They 308 00:17:05.400 --> 00:17:08.880 always are loaded up for plants for the season. We're 309 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:13.279 going to now go to College Station, I believe, and 310 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:14.160 talk to Robert. 311 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:16.680 Hello, Robert, good morning. 312 00:17:17.480 --> 00:17:18.400 How are you doing morning? 313 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:21.359 Well, I'm doing well. What's up with you? 314 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:22.960 So? 315 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.559 I have a couple of high business plants that I've 316 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:29.400 potted when I relocated to College Station a year ago. 317 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.480 I moved them from my house in Katie up to 318 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.279 College Station, and I've noticed here in the last month 319 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:40.160 or so, one of those plants has started getting browning, 320 00:17:40.400 --> 00:17:43.599 maybe grayish browning on leads. Starts at the tip and 321 00:17:43.640 --> 00:17:47.319 works its way through the lead until it finally flakes 322 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:52.240 off and drops. I'm wondering what's causing that, If it's 323 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:56.240 insects or a fungus or watering issues. 324 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:01.880 Usually when something happens in the tips and margins of 325 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:06.319 the leaf, Robert, it's a plumbing problem, meaning that you 326 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:10.079 can get that from, you know, temporary drought. You can 327 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:14.160 get that from burning the roots with a salt based fertilizer. 328 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:16.960 An excessive amount of salt based fertilizer. Burning the roots 329 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:20.319 will do that. Something like that's going on because that's 330 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:22.400 the last part of the leaf to get it's the 331 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:25.640 end of the pipeline to get water. And that's also 332 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.480 the end where fertilizer salts would build up. In that case, 333 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:32.799 is it all over the plant or just kind of 334 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:33.640 here and there. 335 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.640 Here and there, and yeah, here and there. And of 336 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:39.000 the two plants, one seems to exhibit that more than 337 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:41.440 the other in separate pots. 338 00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:45.240 Yeah, separate pots. Maybe one pot doesn't drain as well 339 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:47.960 as the other. Maybe the soil volume is different, maybe 340 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.359 the amount of sunlight they get is different. I've got 341 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:55.400 some you're talking about tropical hibiscus, Yes, this is the 342 00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:58.759 tropical Okay, Yeah, I've got some plants like that. And 343 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:02.640 you know, one plant seems to go into drought stress 344 00:19:02.799 --> 00:19:05.359 much faster than the other one, same soil too, by 345 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:08.759 the way, but that so it's it's kind of interesting, 346 00:19:09.559 --> 00:19:12.720 but just kind of water them accordingly. I think they're okay. 347 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:15.119 You know, we're we're entering the season where there's zero 348 00:19:15.200 --> 00:19:17.200 stress on them and we just start worrying about not 349 00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:19.839 freezing them. And up in college station, you're going to 350 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:22.160 need to be able to roll that pot into your 351 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:23.720 garage and when it gets cold. 352 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:27.480 Yeah, okay, all right, so I'll watch my. 353 00:19:28.920 --> 00:19:29.519 My watering. 354 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:32.799 Maybe needs it's time to replant repot those two because 355 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:34.720 it is I think one pot is I think about it. 356 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:38.799 It's smaller than the other and to be an issue, okay. 357 00:19:38.759 --> 00:19:42.599 Yeah, it could be. Yeah, it's not difficult to grow them. 358 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:44.799 And boy they're beautiful. Love those things. In fact, you 359 00:19:44.799 --> 00:19:48.440 need if you're more. I got a one of the 360 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:52.119 Cajun Hibiscus cajun Is. They're a certain breeder that puts 361 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:55.440 together series called Cajun Hibiscus, and they are just so 362 00:19:56.680 --> 00:19:59.599 beautiful and gaudy at the same time that I got 363 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:01.920 to go get a different one next year because I've 364 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:05.640 enjoyed them so much. Well, man, thanks for the thanks 365 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:09.400 for the call, and good luck with you your hibiscus. 366 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.440 Okay, thank you goodbye. 367 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.200 Yes sir, bye bye. Well I'm looking at the clock 368 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:17.480 and the clock says, skip quit talking. We got to 369 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:19.440 go to a break. I'll be right back. Here's the 370 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:21.279 phone number if you'd like to call in the meantime, 371 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:26.359 be first up seven one three two one two KTRH. 372 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.440 Welcome back to garden Line, folks. We are ready to go. 373 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:34.640 What what kind of questions do you have about gardening? Vegetables, flowers, 374 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:38.960 fruit and plant some herbs. Got issues with the lawn? 375 00:20:39.319 --> 00:20:43.880 Maybe a tree suggestion? No trees are I was telling 376 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:48.200 talking to my wife yesterday and mentioning the saying is 377 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:50.519 the best time to plant a tree was forty years ago? 378 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:53.799 The second best time is today? And isn't that true? 379 00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:57.519 We were looking at a I know, watching something on TV, 380 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:01.279 and I had the street lined with beautiful trees that 381 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:04.079 reached across the street and touched and it was just 382 00:21:04.200 --> 00:21:08.559 this gosh, the scene was gorgeous. But somebody a long 383 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:11.000 time ago made a decision to put some little scrny 384 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:13.119 trees up and down that street, and boy did they 385 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:15.799 ever turn out. Right. When you're going to plant a tree, 386 00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:18.440 you want to make sure and pick a species that 387 00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:21.960 wants to grow here. That is very important a species 388 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:27.440 that is gonna thrive in this area. And there are 389 00:21:27.480 --> 00:21:30.039 a lot of different species out there, and sometimes there's 390 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:33.960 even varieties of the tree that do better. I mentioned 391 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:37.279 griping about I was griping about the cypress knees in 392 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.759 my yard earlier, and there are cypress that, like Montezuma 393 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:45.519 cypress that really don't produce knees. There's even some strains 394 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:49.920 of the regular cypress that don't. But boy, I wish 395 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:52.440 I could go back in time and advise the people 396 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:54.640 that were planting those trees in my yard. I don't 397 00:21:54.640 --> 00:21:56.079 know if they listened to it or not, but hey, 398 00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:58.200 why don't you instead of putting those in, why don't 399 00:21:58.160 --> 00:22:00.480 you put a different kind of cypress in and avoid knees. 400 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.960 That's what I'm talking about. There are types of red 401 00:22:03.960 --> 00:22:06.319 oaks that do super well here. If you've got a 402 00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:10.519 soggy area, the nuthull red oak does better in poor 403 00:22:10.680 --> 00:22:14.440 drainage than the shoe mard for example. Wood Those are 404 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:18.279 both great beautiful types of red oak, but each I'm 405 00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:21.319 just saying that species and varieties matter, and think about that. 406 00:22:21.519 --> 00:22:23.839 It's a long term investment or at least you hope 407 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:27.480 it is. Back in the nineteen sixties and seventies, people 408 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:31.799 planted Arizona ashes and new neighborhoods all over the place. 409 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:35.839 They grew fast, and then they fell apart and by 410 00:22:35.880 --> 00:22:38.480 the time you know, we got about oh about thirty 411 00:22:38.799 --> 00:22:43.480 forty years down the line from that planting. Now you 412 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:45.960 drive through those neighborhoods, or then you drove through those 413 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:49.799 neighborhoods and it looked like hat racks. They'd been cut off. 414 00:22:50.039 --> 00:22:54.440 The trees had sometimes split in the storm. That's not 415 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:57.279 a not a good variety for strength of the branches. 416 00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:00.880 And so here's this neighborhood that sho been and it's 417 00:23:01.079 --> 00:23:06.119 tree prime, just gorgeous shade trees, and it was basically 418 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:09.240 going back to the drawing board. And so that was 419 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:12.680 poor choice for that time. Fortunately, we don't see as 420 00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:15.920 many Arizona ash around, but there are trees like that. 421 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:18.640 Pick a tree that's going to last a long time 422 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:22.000 and get better and better and better, and secondly, take 423 00:23:22.079 --> 00:23:24.599 care of it. From the time the tree goes in 424 00:23:24.640 --> 00:23:27.359 the ground. You need to be thinking about how do 425 00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:29.559 I train this tree, how do I prien this tree, 426 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:32.720 or hiring somebody like Martin Spoon more affordable tree that 427 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.240 knows how to do it, to come out and do 428 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:37.720 that for you. Because when you do this, pick the 429 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:40.319 right tree, put it in the right spot. Right spot 430 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:43.319 two means not ten feet from your house or a 431 00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:47.240 curb or a sidewalk, because that has issues down the line, 432 00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:50.960 and you take care of it, It's going to add 433 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:53.519 a lot of value to your home if you ever 434 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:56.319 sell that home, but also if you stay in that 435 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:59.799 home to have that gorgeous, beautiful shaded area to enjoy. 436 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.160 So that's a little public service announcement, I guess for 437 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:06.559 the day. But trees are a long term investment. You know, 438 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:08.559 you plant it tomato, you don't liking, dig it up 439 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:11.359 and plan another one. With trees, this is a long 440 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.319 term investment, so think about that. I'm going to be 441 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:20.880 heading out to the Wild Bird's Unlimited store in Kingwood, 442 00:24:20.960 --> 00:24:25.400 Texas today. I'll be there from noon to two and 443 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:28.200 I'm going to be given away. Nelson Plant Food has 444 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:31.240 donated a lot of products, and I mean a lot. 445 00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:33.279 So if you show up at if you show up 446 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:37.440 at Wildbird's, chances of you getting a really cool product, 447 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:40.839 winning a row coal product, or very very high today. 448 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:43.640 I've got color Store on hand. I've got their vegetable 449 00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:49.640 fertilizer on hand. I've got the fertilizer that is for 450 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:55.759 planting plants, the one that called Genesis. I've got two 451 00:24:55.799 --> 00:24:58.680 different kinds of samples. Are a sample and also just 452 00:24:58.799 --> 00:25:01.680 a canister of that that I'm going to be giving 453 00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:04.000 away as well. And there's another one. What is the 454 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:06.920 one I'm forgetting about. I'll think of it in a minute. Anyway, 455 00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:09.720 I got like four different kinds of Nelson products and 456 00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:11.519 a lot of them that I'm going to be given 457 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:17.440 away there. Nelson produces quality fertilizers they do. The color 458 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:19.759 Star is just like a standard. It's one of their 459 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:23.559 most universal blends. It can be used on annuals and prins. 460 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:25.920 You can use it on flowering trees and shrubs too. 461 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:30.000 It works really well. You know, professionals have long been 462 00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:34.519 using this, not just here in Texas, but many other states. 463 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:38.000 People have Nelson shipped in because they've learned. Color Star 464 00:25:38.279 --> 00:25:42.079 is a super quality, quality product created over forty years 465 00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:46.480 ago by Dean Nelson. It's got five different sources of nitrogen. 466 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:49.480 It's got organic bone meal and blood meal, both organic 467 00:25:49.519 --> 00:25:53.079 products to feed the soil and your plants and come 468 00:25:53.119 --> 00:25:57.119 on out to Wallbirds Unlimited in Kingwood today. That's on 469 00:25:57.240 --> 00:26:00.599 Kingwood Drive, right behind Torches Tacos, and I'll give you 470 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:03.200 some Nelson products that you can take home and try. 471 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:07.799 All right, there you have it. Tell your friend bring 472 00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:10.440 some friends with you too. By the way, it is 473 00:26:10.519 --> 00:26:16.759 our last appearance of the year, last one, last call. 474 00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:23.640 I was working on that back patio that I was 475 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:26.759 telling you about earlier, and I have a couple of 476 00:26:26.759 --> 00:26:31.519 golden retrievers and I never knew what golden retrieve. I 477 00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:34.400 thought maybe they were bred to like retrieve ducks out 478 00:26:34.400 --> 00:26:36.839 of a pond or something. I found out they're bread 479 00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:40.720 to retrieve plants. I didn't know this, but when Ellie 480 00:26:40.839 --> 00:26:43.720 was little, I went out and Ellie went with me 481 00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:46.079 and we planted some I think it was Echinasia, four 482 00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:49.480 inch pots purple cone flour in the back in a 483 00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:51.640 bed and we get them all done. I went inside, 484 00:26:51.720 --> 00:26:55.599 I don't know good drink water. And when I walked 485 00:26:55.640 --> 00:27:00.759 back out, there on my back step was Kenesha. Ellie 486 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:04.079 had brought it back to me. It's kind of like, hey, Skip, 487 00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:06.240 I think you forgot this in the garden. So I 488 00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:08.440 just wanted to bring it back, so you didn't. So anyway, 489 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:12.279 that's I always thought they were in the sporting group, 490 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:16.400 the Golden Retrievers, but actually they're in the gardening group. 491 00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:19.319 I don't know if you knew that that a CAC 492 00:27:19.480 --> 00:27:24.880 has a gardening group as well. If you're looking for products, 493 00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:26.799 you know, I've been talking about Nelson products. I've been 494 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:33.640 talking about the microlife products, been nitropized products, Medina products, 495 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:36.920 Ace hardware stores all over the Houston area say stocked 496 00:27:37.000 --> 00:27:39.039 up on whatever products you need. You know, when I 497 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:41.640 start talking about a fertilizer that I think would be 498 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:44.000 an excellent one for you, you're going to find it today. 499 00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:46.799 There's forty stores in the Greater Houston area, actually more 500 00:27:46.839 --> 00:27:50.079 than forty now in the Greater Houston area, and that's 501 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:52.559 where you get everything. It is still time to treat 502 00:27:52.559 --> 00:27:54.880 for fire ants. Get that done before it cools off. 503 00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:58.559 Whenever the weather's mild, fire ants are out, they're out feeding. 504 00:27:58.640 --> 00:28:00.240 In fact, we've got some rain the other day and 505 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:02.440 here comes some mounds up. I didn't even know they 506 00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:04.759 were there. That's why you want to use a fire 507 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:08.960 ant bait. And i'd just done individual mound treatments. These 508 00:28:09.039 --> 00:28:11.960 that I hadn't seen yet, I would have then had 509 00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.160 to treat with individual mound treatments again. So that's called 510 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:17.400 whack a mole with fire ants. Go to ACE Hardware 511 00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:22.240 get a quality fire ant bait when you're picking up 512 00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:25.799 your fertilizer or your turf disease control or your turf 513 00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:30.160 insect control or your turf weed prevention. It's all there 514 00:28:30.359 --> 00:28:34.000 at Acehardware dot com. I'm going to take a break 515 00:28:34.039 --> 00:28:36.519 now and I will be back for our last segment 516 00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:38.599 today if you'd like to be first up seven one 517 00:28:38.680 --> 00:28:42.920 three two one two K t R H. Welcome back 518 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:47.960 to guard Line. Welcome back. Glad to have you with us. Hey, 519 00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:51.519 those of you out there in Kingwood, you got a 520 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:53.480 couple of great garden centers. You got Warrens and you 521 00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:57.000 got Kingwood Garden Center. Now Warrens that we're in Southern Gardens. 522 00:28:57.000 --> 00:29:00.000 That's the one on North Park Drive and Kingwood Gardens 523 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:02.079 Centers on Stone Hollow. Both of them are open seven 524 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:07.799 days a week. They are They're just the kind of 525 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:09.960 place where you go when you want to find plants 526 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:12.559 that are gonna do well. Here where you're going to 527 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.400 find products and cool stuff. For example, right now, they've 528 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.400 got the Amarillis bulbs of forcing bulbs they're in stocking. 529 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:20.799 Plant them in the ground, or you can actually force 530 00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:23.559 them indoors. I think that's kind of cool. Plenty of 531 00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:28.759 fall veggies Moms still still available. Whenever you go into Warren's, 532 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:33.799 make sure and enjoy their newsletter that if you sign 533 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:37.039 up for the newsletter, you will get special coupons and offers, 534 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:41.519 especially that they're monthly lawn care coupons. Those are that right, 535 00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:44.319 there's worth the price of admission, and the permission is 536 00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:48.400 free forgetting the newsletter. Just you can go to the 537 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:50.279 website and sign up. You can call them and sign up, 538 00:29:50.319 --> 00:29:51.799 and walk in the store and sign up. However you 539 00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:54.160 want to go about it. Over at Kingwood Garden Center, 540 00:29:54.240 --> 00:29:57.359 their gift shop is clearing out. They are having their 541 00:29:57.400 --> 00:30:01.759 clearance event now on November or first through the eighth. 542 00:30:01.799 --> 00:30:05.319 It was twenty five percent off. Guess what we are 543 00:30:05.359 --> 00:30:08.440 now the ninth through the fifteenth it's thirty percent off, 544 00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:11.160 and next week there'll be forty. But don't wait because 545 00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:13.920 that one thing you really want to get is not 546 00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:17.240 going to be available anymore. So that is a really 547 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:19.680 good deal. They're clearing it out so they can restock 548 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:22.559 on some really nice stuff. You've got to make room 549 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:25.680 for that. So things like if you haven't been to 550 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:28.480 the gift shop at Kingwock Garden Center, that's jewelry, there's 551 00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:33.640 skincare products, they're scented sprays, flood See how just all 552 00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:38.519 over the places, says kitchen stuff, floor mats, vases, glassware bowls, 553 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:46.440 picture framed sunglasses, hats, candles, oh wife, loaves, candles, light fixtures, bracelets, stationary. 554 00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:49.240 You see what I'm talking about. It It is a 555 00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:52.440 great gift shop loaded with stuff, and right now is 556 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:55.920 your opportunity. This week it goes to thirty percent off 557 00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:59.559 starting today. Take advantage of that and get out there 558 00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:03.599 and check out that beautiful gift shop. We're going to 559 00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:07.319 go to the phones now and talk to David and Tomball. Hello, David, 560 00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:08.359 Welcome to Garden Line. 561 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:12.599 Good morning, sir. Hey, before I ask you my question, 562 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:16.440 you were talking about labrador retrievers. I had a chocolate 563 00:31:16.559 --> 00:31:19.680 lab one time, and she was the best dog I 564 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:20.200 ever had. 565 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:21.319 But she was. 566 00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:24.680 Always bringing me rewards and going out and finding me 567 00:31:24.759 --> 00:31:27.480 stuff and trying to satisfy me with gifts. 568 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:29.160 And one time she got. 569 00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:30.039 Loose in the neighborhood. 570 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:32.200 She got loose in the neighborhood and must have gone 571 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:35.599 into somebody's open garage and brought me back a pop 572 00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:36.759 up toaster. 573 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:38.960 And I just I don't know. 574 00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:40.880 I even I. 575 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:42.960 Tried to find the neighbor to see who was missing 576 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:44.119 one and it worked. 577 00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:45.000 He's just crazy. 578 00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.599 But anyway, she was always giving me rewards like that too. 579 00:31:48.640 --> 00:31:54.160 But my question is, you were talking about putting down 580 00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:56.759 the pre emergence right now. If I put it down now, 581 00:31:56.839 --> 00:31:58.480 am I also going to be putting it down and 582 00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:01.759 like early March or February as well. 583 00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:06.440 February yes, uh huh, yeah you are, And but get it. 584 00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:08.559 If you're doing it now, get it done soon because 585 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:11.319 those we've had that rain, a little bit of cool temperatures, 586 00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:14.119 and those seeds are gonna be sprouting, so yeah, that 587 00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:16.720 it'll last. It'll take you all the way through the winter. 588 00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:19.759 But then the February application is going to be for 589 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:24.640 your spring weeds, your warm season weeds. The application now 590 00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:26.519 is for cool season weeds. 591 00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:30.440 It's the same stuff though, like barricade. 592 00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:32.720 Yes, sir, barricade for both. 593 00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:35.359 Okay, that's all I had. 594 00:32:35.440 --> 00:32:36.240 Have a good day man. 595 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:40.640 All right, thank you, appreciate appreciate your call very much. 596 00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:45.799 We're gonna now head over to Sean and Katie. Hey, Seawan, 597 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:46.599 welcome to garden. 598 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:49.240 Hey, good morning Skip. 599 00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:52.559 I had a similar question as a previous caller, so 600 00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:56.160 I had my yardists full of what did that call 601 00:32:56.319 --> 00:33:01.160 slander after weed? Is it too late to put down 602 00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:03.920 that carmel load by Nelson? 603 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:07.640 Well, okay, first of all, it's not too late to 604 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.039 put on carbo load by Nelson. That's a pre emergent 605 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:13.319 and a fertilizer. It works really, really well. You just 606 00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:15.559 have to water it in, get the nutrients and the 607 00:33:15.559 --> 00:33:18.680 product into the ground after you do it. However, it 608 00:33:18.720 --> 00:33:22.200 will not control slender aster by putting it down. Now. 609 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:27.839 The slen aster has already got its little blooms on it. 610 00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:30.599 It's setting seed. And as much as you don't want 611 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:32.480 to hear this, the best thing you can do right 612 00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:34.240 now is pull it up. It all comes out of 613 00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:36.079 one tap root in the ground. You may have one 614 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:38.680 the size of the steerweel in your car. It's coming 615 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:40.960 out of one place. When the soil is moist, it 616 00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:47.440 pulls pretty easily. Because you will be producing thousands of seeds. 617 00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:51.119 If you leave that in the lawn now for next year, 618 00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:55.559 if you wanted to do an application, let's say maybe 619 00:33:55.599 --> 00:34:00.559 March for slender aster, maybe a second one later into 620 00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:04.519 the summer. That's when it's sprouting, and that's where your 621 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:08.480 carbo loade kind of fertilizers or whatever kind of pre 622 00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:10.639 emergent would be used for that. 623 00:34:12.280 --> 00:34:17.320 Okay, And my second question is I bought a Microlife 624 00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:22.840 compost in the bag and also the multipurpose fertilizer. 625 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:24.199 Would that help? 626 00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:28.840 Would it hard to put it down nail or I mean, 627 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:31.880 or just a pre merging be fine? 628 00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:35.719 It would be fine. The concentrated compost in the bag 629 00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:38.800 that's humous. That is like if you take compost all 630 00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:42.000 the way past compost to its final stage, it's a 631 00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:46.559 great soil building product. It's not like you're adding a nutrient. 632 00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:49.039 It's like you're putting stuff into the soil that makes 633 00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:53.880 the soil the structure of it better and just enhances 634 00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:56.960 mycrobio content and things like that. So that anytimes a 635 00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:01.840 good time to do the humans the the other fertilizers 636 00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:05.119 by Microlife. Now would be a time to do your 637 00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:08.480 fall fertilizing with the one called brown patch. It's it's 638 00:35:08.480 --> 00:35:12.360 a brown bag and it's designed for applying this time 639 00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:12.760 of year. 640 00:35:13.880 --> 00:35:15.039 Okay, that's it. 641 00:35:15.119 --> 00:35:16.199 Thank you, have a great day. 642 00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:19.679 You've bet Thank you. I appreciate the appreciate the call 643 00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:24.760 very much. I Uh you heard me talk about Quality 644 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:27.880 Home Products of Texas. You know, Quality makes the automatic 645 00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:32.199 or sells the automatic standby generator by Generats, high quality, 646 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.880 high quality generator. It sits outside your house, power goes off, 647 00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:38.880 it comes on. You have to run out there, gass 648 00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:40.599 it up and pull a pull chain to get the 649 00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:44.039 thing producing energy. It does it automatically, just fires up. 650 00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:49.480 Quality is hiring licensed electricians and plumbers right now. And 651 00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:52.880 you know there's all these storms. I mean, everybody wants 652 00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.920 a generator now because we learned our lesson that Hey, 653 00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:59.039 this happens here. Welcome to the greater Houston, Aario. And 654 00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:01.039 it doesn't just have to be hurricane in the summer. 655 00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:03.320 I mean it could be it could be winter storms. 656 00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:05.559 You know where we lose our power. That's happened here 657 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:10.960 before as well. But to be an employee of Quality 658 00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:14.559 and one of their licensed electricians and plumbers, you know Quality, 659 00:36:14.719 --> 00:36:16.840 all these guys are in house for them, they don't. 660 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:20.400 They don't go out and hire somebody, you know, secondarily 661 00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:22.039 to come in and work on your stuff. They have 662 00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:26.960 their own competitive pay, comprehensive insurances, four one K matching 663 00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:30.960 retirement plans, holiday pay, and time off. Uh and just 664 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:34.760 it's just a reputable, stable organization. Everybody I've ever talked 665 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:37.639 to a quality I can just tell they loved working there. 666 00:36:37.719 --> 00:36:41.239 Go to Quality t X dot com. Quality t X 667 00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:46.679 dot com, and that's where you can apply online. We're 668 00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:50.800 going to head now to Joe Joannie, Joanne, excuse me, 669 00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:53.679 Joanne on Lake Conroe. Welcome to garden Line. 670 00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:55.320 Yeah, good morning. 671 00:36:56.840 --> 00:37:01.480 I bought a couple of plants yesterday at the store, 672 00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:06.960 grocery store, and I probably mistakenly bought three of the 673 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:12.000 wrong ones. I like Turk's cap, but I've only seen 674 00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:16.440 it in the ground just growing natively. And I bought 675 00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:18.360 a single plant. I don't know what I'm going to 676 00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:21.039 do with it, but yeah, I put it in a 677 00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:24.679 pot for now, and I didn't know how that would 678 00:37:24.760 --> 00:37:26.760 work out, if I should put it in the ground 679 00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:30.840 or just try to start it in the pot for 680 00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:31.280 a while. 681 00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:34.920 Well, I mean you could put it in the pot, 682 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:37.079 but it'll do just fine in the ground. It's a 683 00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:38.719 very tough perennial here. 684 00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:41.480 My ground is one. 685 00:37:42.719 --> 00:37:44.880 Yeah, and do they spread? 686 00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:52.400 They gradually spread outward over time, so occasionally you know 687 00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:54.440 you're gonna probably go out to that out and dig 688 00:37:54.440 --> 00:37:56.800 it up and say, okay, that's far enough. But it's 689 00:37:56.840 --> 00:38:00.199 not like bermuda grass. It's taken over the flower better thing. 690 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:01.440 It's not that kind of spreader. 691 00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:05.800 And I thought, a my ground isn't the greatest, so 692 00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:08.559 I'll probably have to add some good soil to it. 693 00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:11.079 But I also bought a plant. I've never heard it 694 00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:16.280 called pepperonia for some reason. And what do you know 695 00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:17.199 about that plant? 696 00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:21.280 It's a houseplant. It needs quite a bit of light 697 00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:24.320 to do its best. Just be careful not to overwater it. 698 00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:27.760 The pepperonia will do just fine. But if you can 699 00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:29.159 get a bag, or if you can get you a 700 00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:31.679 bag or two a compost and throw it down on 701 00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:33.320 the ground, mix it in a little bit, you can 702 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:36.280 go ahead and plant that turk's cap. And it's a 703 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:39.360 nice plant. It has big red flower. Most of the 704 00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:41.599 types are red. There's a pink and a white type 705 00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:42.119 that they're not. 706 00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:45.880 Looking all right. 707 00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:47.239 Well, thank you very much. 708 00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:53.440 Love, thanks, thanks, bye bye. Well I already hear music. 709 00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:56.840 So when we come back, George and David, you are 710 00:38:56.920 --> 00:38:59.280 our first two up. Not gonna be able to catch 711 00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:01.800 your call before us our ends, but if you can 712 00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:03.760 hang around, well we'll put your first up when we 713 00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:07.039 come back. You're listening to garden Line our phone number 714 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:13.239 seven one three two one two k t r H. 715 00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:17.480 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 716 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:28.519 It's Essy gas Trim. Just watch him as well. 717 00:39:32.679 --> 00:39:34.639 As so many birthdays. 718 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:50.039 To sup Brasy gas lea not a sun glass, sun beam. 719 00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:50.119 And of. 720 00:39:54.679 --> 00:40:01.079 Good morning, Good morning on a beautiful Saturday morning. Get 721 00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:03.880 outside and get a little gardening done today. Boy is 722 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:08.800 the weather ever great? I mean it just this. I 723 00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:13.000 love these temperatures. I spent yesterday all day out work 724 00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:15.960 and in the garden. By the way, my muscles are 725 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:19.360 talking to me about that today. They were not real 726 00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:22.159 happy with the amount of exertion I was putting out, 727 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.480 but I sure was happy with the results. I got 728 00:40:24.519 --> 00:40:27.159 a lot of things cleaned up and done. Let's head 729 00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:29.239 straight out to the to the phones this hour. We're 730 00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:31.880 going to go to George in Jersey Village. Hey, George, 731 00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:32.800 welcome to garden Line. 732 00:40:33.920 --> 00:40:36.840 Thank you sched, Good morning to you too. And this 733 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.119 is my wife's question. She's, well, we got about a 734 00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:42.440 million get goes in the garden and they come inside 735 00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:44.440 the house and they scare the poop out of her. 736 00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:48.440 So she wonders, is that kind of a can we 737 00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:50.440 do something about it or not? I don't care. 738 00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:51.039 I like them. 739 00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:56.480 And the next thing, thank you very much, go ahead, no, 740 00:40:56.679 --> 00:41:00.559 go ahead, thank you very much for the via that 741 00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:04.000 you talked me into getting. Man, it is beautiful now. 742 00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:05.639 But okay, how about the. 743 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:10.760 Well, the geckos, you know, I mean, when someone's afraid 744 00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:12.400 of something, it's hard to talk them out of it. 745 00:41:12.559 --> 00:41:16.679 I just those geckos are eating insects, and so I 746 00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:19.159 had them running around the house. You know, I'm just 747 00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:23.440 saying they are a beneficial creature. Now we're going to 748 00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:25.960 quit trying to convince people to leave geckos in their 749 00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:29.840 house after that statement. But they're getting in under the 750 00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:33.079 door probably, and so it's kind of checked the thresholds. 751 00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:36.679 If you do, you know, tighten up that underneath the 752 00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:39.360 door crack, and that is probably one of the best 753 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:41.320 ways to keep them out of there. That's the main 754 00:41:41.360 --> 00:41:43.800 way they're getting in, they're just looking for a warm 755 00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:46.800 place to be. They know what's coming. And so I 756 00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:48.599 had I had a couple of my house the other day, 757 00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:51.719 and my Golden Retrievers found them and it was game on. 758 00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:53.920 They didn't know what to do with them, but they 759 00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:56.119 were very excited about the fact that they were there. 760 00:41:56.280 --> 00:42:01.559 So yeah, all right, thank you, by bye, you bet 761 00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:04.639 you bet, thank you. You take care, appreciate your call. 762 00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:10.000 Plants for all seasons? Is that garden center you have 763 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:13.320 been to before if you live anywhere up in that direction. 764 00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:16.639 They are off two forty nine, right where Luetta comes 765 00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:19.079 into two forty nine. So if you were going north, 766 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:20.920 let's say we're heading from Houston to Humble and you 767 00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:23.840 exited Lueta, it wo just cross over Luetta and they're 768 00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:26.440 right there on the right hand side. Full service garden 769 00:42:26.519 --> 00:42:30.920 center BET around since nineteen seventy three, and that history 770 00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:36.000 and time has really made them a solid horticultural fixture 771 00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:38.400 in that whole region. People all know about plants for 772 00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:40.519 all seasons. They know when you go in there, you're 773 00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:42.719 going to find really cool plants. They know when you 774 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:45.079 go in there, you're going to find lawn and garden 775 00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:51.719 experts that can direct, advise, diagnose, suggest and help you 776 00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:54.039 have success. You can take pictures and samples in there 777 00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:56.920 if you want to do that. Plants four All Seasons 778 00:42:57.000 --> 00:42:59.719 dot Com is the website, the phone number two eight 779 00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:03.800 one three seven six one six four six. When you 780 00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:07.679 swing by, check out all the new holiday cactus that 781 00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:11.320 are in. Oh my, they are primetime looking and beautiful. 782 00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:15.280 And another plant I don't talk about much here on 783 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:18.960 guarden Line, but the adenium the desert rose, Oh my 784 00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:22.000 goodness here are so gorgeous. I just can't just I 785 00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.480 don't know a plant that has as many different colors 786 00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:28.599 of beautiful blooms as desert rose. And it's easy, easy 787 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:30.119 to grow. They got them at Plants for All Seats. 788 00:43:30.239 --> 00:43:32.440 Go by there and check it out, just just north 789 00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:36.920 of Luetta on the Feeder Road FM two forty nine 790 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:40.159 Tomboll Parkway. We're going to go now to David out 791 00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:43.039 in a tess Casita. Hey David, welcome to garden Line. 792 00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:45.800 Good morning, how are you? Thanks for taking my call. 793 00:43:46.280 --> 00:43:48.360 I sent you an email day yesterday with a couple 794 00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:51.880 of pictures of some fungus or mushrooms growing in my yard. 795 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:53.519 I want to try and get rid. 796 00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:55.119 But I have a dog that I. 797 00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:58.159 Send more time outside than inside, so I don't want 798 00:43:58.199 --> 00:44:01.199 to use a whole bunch of poison. I've tried some 799 00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:04.159 of the I guess you could call them over the 800 00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:11.679 counter fungus control methods liquid, and I think I even 801 00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:14.920 try to dry it one one time, and I thought 802 00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:18.840 I had them under control, but then they just started 803 00:44:18.880 --> 00:44:21.280 coming back. I don't know, like I said, if it's 804 00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:24.000 actually a mushroom or if it's just some other kind 805 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:27.840 of fungus. Because it doesn't grow stem and cap like 806 00:44:28.199 --> 00:44:32.360 your normal mushrooms. It almost looks like growing across the ground. 807 00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:37.679 Yeah, those are. There are a bazillion different species of 808 00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:40.760 decomposer fungi out there. It looks like did you do 809 00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:43.760 a top dressing on the lawn. No. 810 00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:44.800 No, it's like. 811 00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:47.599 That's just your soil. 812 00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:50.599 Everyone's while. If I empty pot, I'll throw some dirt 813 00:44:50.679 --> 00:44:51.119 on the ground. 814 00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:56.760 Well, in the fall, when we get a little rain, 815 00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:58.960 get a little break in the temperatures, all kinds of 816 00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:02.480 mushrooms pop up all over the landscape. And basically all 817 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:07.559 they're doing is they're just turning organic matter back into soil. 818 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:10.960 That's what they do. And so they can pop out 819 00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:13.639 of the mulch on top of your garden beds, they 820 00:45:13.679 --> 00:45:16.199 can pop out of the grass. This is a is 821 00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:19.840 a particular kind of fungus. Of course, I'm not a mycologist. 822 00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:21.679 I can't tell you the name of all these fungi. 823 00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:25.440 But this is not a disease of plants, and they 824 00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:29.760 will come and go pretty rapidly. Actually, I would not 825 00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:32.280 be worried about them. I don't think you're gonna do 826 00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:34.639 anything trying to spray them with a funge a side 827 00:45:34.639 --> 00:45:36.159 at all. I don't think that'll help it. 828 00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:40.199 Okay, Okay, So yeah, either let them go or dig 829 00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:41.039 them up if I don't. 830 00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:44.079 Like them, If you don't like them, yeah, dig them up, 831 00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:45.599 or get a rate and kind of get under there 832 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.039 and try to pull them out. But when they're all 833 00:45:47.239 --> 00:45:50.119 entangled with the Saint Augustine runners and leaves, it's it's 834 00:45:50.159 --> 00:45:51.880 a little hard to get them out of there. But yeah, 835 00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:55.000 you could do that. But like I said, they just 836 00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:57.199 something that comes and goes this time of the year 837 00:45:57.239 --> 00:45:57.519 a lot. 838 00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:01.360 Okay. And then the other I sent you. In the 839 00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:03.559 corner of my garden, we have a Japanese maple. I 840 00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:07.480 think it's a Japanese maple, and the previous owners of 841 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:10.559 the house had elephant ears and other large leaf plants 842 00:46:11.239 --> 00:46:13.360 just surrounding it, and it took over the corner, and 843 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:15.519 the sprinklers wouldn't get out onto the grass, and all 844 00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:17.960 kinds of others, and my wife doesn't like them. So 845 00:46:18.039 --> 00:46:22.480 I dug them all up, and I thought I got 846 00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:24.519 the roots, and I thought I got all the tubers 847 00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:27.280 that were down on the ground as best I could 848 00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.159 without cutting a whole bunch of the tree's roots. And 849 00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:32.800 I laid down some garden fabric, and I know what 850 00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:35.039 Randy used to say about that, but I did it anyway, 851 00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:39.119 and covered it up with new molts. And the elephant 852 00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:41.920 ears have found their way through that fabric and are 853 00:46:41.960 --> 00:46:43.719 growing back up. I'd like to get rid of them 854 00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:47.159 without damaging my tree. And once again, I have a dog. 855 00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:48.599 Well to spend a lot of time in. 856 00:46:48.639 --> 00:46:52.760 The yard right well, when you're out there digging around, 857 00:46:53.239 --> 00:46:55.559 usually you have to redig elephant ears two or three 858 00:46:55.639 --> 00:46:57.599 times just to get them all because the little piece 859 00:46:57.679 --> 00:46:59.440 left in the ground will pop back up. But you 860 00:47:00.039 --> 00:47:02.400 could go back to that with a fabric that's going 861 00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:06.159 to be hard to do. You might try a product wiping, 862 00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:10.480 a product that contains triclop here t ri I c 863 00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:15.039 l O P y r onto the leaves of those plants, 864 00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:18.400 or just a good broad leaf weed control product that 865 00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:20.559 you would use in your lawn. If you go to 866 00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:24.400 my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you will see 867 00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:30.199 something called herbicides for skip'sweed wiper, and those herbicides are 868 00:47:30.320 --> 00:47:33.280 grouped by the kind of plants you're going after. So 869 00:47:33.599 --> 00:47:36.960 either something you're spraying for like poison ivy on my 870 00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:39.599 list there, or something you're spraying for lawn weeds on 871 00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:42.599 my list there, they're all listed out. I would do that, 872 00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.280 just make sure and maybe put a little bit of 873 00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:48.800 a surfactin in there. Spreader it's called spreader sticker. Wherever 874 00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:50.960 you buy your product, get some spreader sticker and that 875 00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:54.079 makes it stick to those leaves and not not just 876 00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:54.960 run right off. 877 00:47:56.159 --> 00:48:01.159 Okay, and I'm in the I would Hunter would be 878 00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:01.840 the best place to go. 879 00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:06.360 Oh yeah, yeah, Kingwoo Garden Center, Warren Southern Gardens out there. 880 00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:09.760 You got a number of places out there to go. 881 00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:13.199 And look, you know, got some great stores out there 882 00:48:13.239 --> 00:48:16.320 as well, So you guys are rich with opportunities of 883 00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:18.119 places to get this kind of stuff. 884 00:48:18.679 --> 00:48:21.400 Okay, all right, well I appreciate you, all right, thanks 885 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:22.559 for the information. 886 00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:26.079 You bet and thank you for the call. All right, 887 00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:29.360 appreciate that. Take care, bye bye. All right, folks, got 888 00:48:29.480 --> 00:48:31.400 to run to a break. When we come back, we 889 00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:36.679 will be talking to Roger and Mark. All right, Welcome 890 00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:39.119 back to garden Line on a great day for gardening. 891 00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:42.239 I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to help 892 00:48:42.360 --> 00:48:46.199 you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, 893 00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:50.320 and more fun in the process. If someone asked me 894 00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.360 the other day, is it okay to put up azamite? 895 00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:53.599 Now? 896 00:48:53.880 --> 00:48:56.239 The answer is yes, it is. And here's the deal. 897 00:48:56.760 --> 00:48:59.800 Azmite is not the kind of fertilizer that makes your 898 00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:04.159 takeoff growing like that's nitrogen. That's the three big numbers 899 00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:06.960 on the bag kind of fertilizer. Azmite is a trace 900 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:10.239 mineral supplement. When you put on asimite, what you're doing 901 00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:13.840 is you are investing in the bank account of your 902 00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:17.559 soil for trace minerals, so that when the grass needs 903 00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:20.519 a trace mineral, it's there and it's available and it'll 904 00:49:20.599 --> 00:49:24.000 need it. There are a number of different minerals that 905 00:49:24.079 --> 00:49:27.159 are needed in very tiny amounts, but they're essential and 906 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:29.199 so as it's trying to grow, it's going to have 907 00:49:29.239 --> 00:49:31.880 to draw on though, So create that bank account in 908 00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:36.079 your soil with as mite azimite texas dot com. You 909 00:49:36.199 --> 00:49:38.840 can do it at the same day you're fertilizing. Just 910 00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:41.440 don't put fertilizer and asimite in the same hopper because 911 00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:44.119 the particle size is different. So just do the fertilizer, 912 00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:46.320 then do the as mite, or do the asmite anytime 913 00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:48.159 of the year that you choose to do that. That's 914 00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:52.000 just fine. I'm going to go now to Tumball, Texas 915 00:49:52.039 --> 00:49:54.719 and talk to Roger. Hey, Roger, welcome to Guardline. 916 00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:58.840 How you doing today. I'm calling to see what kind 917 00:49:58.920 --> 00:50:01.159 of I had a treat taken out and I have 918 00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:04.920 a big void and want to put some kind of 919 00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:08.000 grass in there. I have some Saint Augustine, but I 920 00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:10.639 have a cedar tree. It's kind of cut up high, 921 00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:14.960 you know, it's up high, but something will grow under 922 00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:15.719 there fairly. Well. 923 00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:21.360 Okay, Well, if you've got Saint Augustine, you could just 924 00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:24.079 stay with that unless you want a mixture of different 925 00:50:24.159 --> 00:50:26.360 kinds of grasses in your launch. Saint Augustine is the 926 00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:29.480 most shade tolerant we've got. That's the thing. It's a 927 00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:32.400 very good grass for low light level areas, and so 928 00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:36.039 you could go that route. There's there's some zoysias that 929 00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:38.280 have significant shade tolerance as well. 930 00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:42.920 Any particular type on the Saint Augustine. 931 00:50:45.199 --> 00:50:48.679 Oh gosh. There are a lot of good varieties out there, 932 00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:53.880 and each one has its pros and cons. If you, 933 00:50:54.639 --> 00:50:57.599 you know, wherever you go and purchase your grasses, they're 934 00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:01.639 going to have certain varieties that they carry. Different different 935 00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:05.679 grass producers grow certain varieties. They don't try to grow 936 00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:08.840 everything there is out there. Uh, And again, each one 937 00:51:08.920 --> 00:51:13.000 has its pros and cons. But there's there is one 938 00:51:13.079 --> 00:51:14.960 called Cobalt that just came out of A and M 939 00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:18.840 recently that is very very drought resilient. It is a 940 00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:23.039 very deep rooted, tough Saint Augustine for drought resilience, very 941 00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:25.360 good for that. It also has pretty good shade tolerance too. 942 00:51:26.400 --> 00:51:30.559 Okay, thank you very much. Any nurseries carry those or 943 00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:32.000 just have to call around to see who. 944 00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:36.039 Yeah, you just have to call around. So there, you know, 945 00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:39.679 there's soil there. Nurseries that carry sod, some sod h 946 00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:43.400 Then there's soil purveyors around the area. You know that 947 00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:47.440 that's that's what they do, is they carry sod. I 948 00:51:47.559 --> 00:51:50.000 know there's a King Ranch has a bunch of stores 949 00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:52.639 in the Greater Houston area, And so you just go 950 00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:54.920 to where you are. I think I'd do better probably 951 00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:57.599 Roger if you if you said, yeah, I went this 952 00:51:57.719 --> 00:51:59.239 place and they had this and this and this, what 953 00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:01.360 do you think is about? So I could comment on those, 954 00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:04.760 that'd be a little leisure. But there's dozens of options 955 00:52:04.840 --> 00:52:05.199 out there. 956 00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:08.599 Thank you very much, free time, have a good one, 957 00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:09.440 all right, you. 958 00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:14.199 Bet you take care, Thanks for the call. Warbird's Unlimited 959 00:52:14.800 --> 00:52:18.000 is the place you go for anything related to birds, 960 00:52:18.280 --> 00:52:21.480 including knowledge related to birds. You walk into wildbirds, you 961 00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:24.480 talk to them and they can help guide you as 962 00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:26.840 to what you want to accomplish. Do you want a 963 00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:30.199 quality bird feeder? Well, what kinds of seed or what 964 00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:32.000 kind of birds do you want to feed? And they 965 00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:33.840 can show you the different feeders and the pros and 966 00:52:33.960 --> 00:52:37.400 cons that they have and they're all quality products. Their 967 00:52:37.639 --> 00:52:42.880 selection of seeds is second to none. Wibird's unlimited, unbelievable 968 00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:46.639 selection and a lot of cheap bird seed has those 969 00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:48.800 red bebes in it. Birds kick it out. They don't 970 00:52:48.920 --> 00:52:51.360 like to eat that stuff, and so you may not 971 00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:54.840 have spent as much for that bag, but you spent 972 00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:57.079 more for the seeds you actually got. Do you see 973 00:52:57.119 --> 00:52:59.960 what I'm saying. So what gets kicked on the ground 974 00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:04.519 can be half of what is actually in the sack 975 00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:06.480 of a cheap bird seed, and that is just not 976 00:53:06.760 --> 00:53:10.800 That is a waste of money. Wibirds Unlimited as quality feeds, 977 00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:15.239 and if you are looking for something for this time 978 00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:18.480 of the year, I would say use their unlimited Wildbirds 979 00:53:18.559 --> 00:53:23.000 Unlimited their Winter super Blend. That's the one. It has 980 00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:26.199 got lots of fat and protein. You know, birds have 981 00:53:26.320 --> 00:53:28.519 less time to feed these days because the days get 982 00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:31.320 shorter and shorter, and then there's a cold weather and 983 00:53:31.440 --> 00:53:34.360 having to make energy for their bodies stay warm and things. 984 00:53:35.239 --> 00:53:39.039 This Wabird's Unlimited Winter Super Blend is an excellent one. 985 00:53:39.199 --> 00:53:40.679 If you want to see some of it, come see 986 00:53:40.679 --> 00:53:42.559 me today. I'll be out in Kingwood at the wild 987 00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:46.360 Birds Store there on Kingwood Drive behind Torchy Stockos. We'll 988 00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:49.320 show you that that particular product as well as the 989 00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:51.159 other ones that they have, and I can explain to 990 00:53:51.199 --> 00:53:54.239 you better eye to eye there, what the difference is 991 00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:57.159 in these and why why you need to go with 992 00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:02.519 one of these wallbirds unlimited seed our feeders. I'm gonna 993 00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:06.039 head out now to Clear Lake, Texas and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, 994 00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:07.000 welcome to garden Line. 995 00:54:08.280 --> 00:54:09.000 Hey, good morning. 996 00:54:11.039 --> 00:54:14.639 After the hurricane here this summer, I lost a couple 997 00:54:14.679 --> 00:54:18.119 of oak trees, and they took the rest of them 998 00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:24.159 out and ground the stumps, and they also filled in 999 00:54:24.360 --> 00:54:28.639 those areas with some good soil and also put some 1000 00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:33.559 sod on top of it. So what I did is 1001 00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:37.920 I watered it, you know, twice. I've put little pieces 1002 00:54:37.960 --> 00:54:41.000 of sod before, but this was about a palletteful there 1003 00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:43.679 in the backyard, so it was a large area, and 1004 00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:47.280 so I watered it twice a day for at least 1005 00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:49.920 a couple of weeks, especially in October, we weren't getting 1006 00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:54.400 any rain and everything looked fine. And then after you know, 1007 00:54:54.760 --> 00:54:58.760 about two weeks, I backed off and just did it 1008 00:54:58.880 --> 00:55:03.440 once a day conservatively, And then we started getting some 1009 00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:06.960 rain there towards the end of October, so I just 1010 00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:10.519 let you know, nature water it. It was getting some 1011 00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:12.000 nice steady rain back there. 1012 00:55:12.079 --> 00:55:12.280 Well. 1013 00:55:13.239 --> 00:55:17.400 Now last week it happened pretty fast that whole area 1014 00:55:17.519 --> 00:55:22.840 now is brown it looks, and it's also on the 1015 00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:24.079 outlying area. 1016 00:55:23.960 --> 00:55:26.679 So it's not just the new saw it. So I 1017 00:55:26.760 --> 00:55:29.119 don't know if it's some kind of fungus or something. 1018 00:55:29.159 --> 00:55:30.280 I don't know what to do now. 1019 00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:34.519 It must be it must be a rhizoctonia, which is 1020 00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:39.639 what a large patch. I'm sorry, brown patches. I've seen 1021 00:55:39.719 --> 00:55:42.320 a lot of browning out of areas. You know. Sometimes 1022 00:55:42.440 --> 00:55:45.519 with brown patch you get these nice round circles that 1023 00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:49.679 are real distinct, and sometimes it's kind of general areas 1024 00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:52.679 just sort of browning out with the amount of water 1025 00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:55.000 you gave it for the amount of time you watered it. 1026 00:55:55.239 --> 00:55:58.119 It's not a lack of water that's causing this, that's 1027 00:55:58.199 --> 00:56:03.440 for sure. Okay, Okay, I think now the more you water, 1028 00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:07.159 the more brown patch becomes a problem. So it's possible 1029 00:56:07.880 --> 00:56:11.000 that actually, you know that you've kind of got that 1030 00:56:11.320 --> 00:56:13.920 really going in there now and you just got to 1031 00:56:13.960 --> 00:56:16.400 let it run its course. You can put a fungicide 1032 00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:19.199 on it, but once the circles appear, they're there. And 1033 00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:21.039 if you had like one circle and you want to 1034 00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:23.000 prevent more of them in the yard, I would say 1035 00:56:23.159 --> 00:56:26.880 use use a product like nitrofoss eagle to stop it 1036 00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:29.559 where it is. And there's nothing wrong with you in that. 1037 00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:33.679 It's just that eagle can't turn dead grass green. And 1038 00:56:33.840 --> 00:56:37.559 so if anything, i'd put out the eagle, get it, 1039 00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:40.159 get it applied, water it in, believe it or not. 1040 00:56:40.239 --> 00:56:42.159 You water that one in because the roots take it 1041 00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:47.079 up and stop any additional damage that might be occurring. 1042 00:56:48.239 --> 00:56:52.519 Well, these are huge areas, you know, and I was 1043 00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:55.199 afraid to put anything. I was afraid to put anything 1044 00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:57.480 on it. I really didn't want to put any fertilizer 1045 00:56:57.559 --> 00:57:00.360 or any of that stuff on that new grass, right right. 1046 00:57:01.880 --> 00:57:04.679 Okay, Well, i'll tell you what. I'm going to put 1047 00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:07.239 you on hold, and I want you to won't you 1048 00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:08.440 send me some pictures of it? 1049 00:57:09.159 --> 00:57:09.280 Uh? 1050 00:57:09.840 --> 00:57:12.880 My producer will give you my email address. Take some 1051 00:57:12.960 --> 00:57:15.440 pictures of different angles. Maybe get something up close to 1052 00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:17.840 so I can kind of see up close what this 1053 00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:20.159 is looking like. And if I see anything else in it, 1054 00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:23.320 I'll advise you on that. Okay, Mark, Oh that'll be 1055 00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:25.920 great because I'll run out today, is all right? Get 1056 00:57:25.960 --> 00:57:28.519 any products that you suggest, Okay, okay, I'll hold on, 1057 00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:33.079 thank you, thank thank you. Just hang on and the 1058 00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:37.760 manuel pick that up for you. Buchan As Native Plants 1059 00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:41.800 is a premier garden center down in the Heights. You've 1060 00:57:42.039 --> 00:57:44.559 probably been there before, you know what I'm talking about. 1061 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:49.039 They always have a wonderful stock of natives, but they 1062 00:57:49.079 --> 00:57:51.320 have so much more right now. You ought to see 1063 00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:56.320 their gift shop. Gift shops for all kinds of holiday decor. 1064 00:57:56.679 --> 00:57:59.880 Oh my gosh, it's beautiful for trimming the tree. Are 1065 00:57:59.920 --> 00:58:04.719 you looking for maybe a holiday plant for example, Thanksgiving 1066 00:58:04.840 --> 00:58:07.920 or Christmas type cactus? Those holiday cacti make a good 1067 00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:10.039 gift if you're going to visit somebody. They got the 1068 00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:13.760 cyclomen that are just gorgeous in colors of white and 1069 00:58:13.880 --> 00:58:18.800 pink and red and salmon, and they're just beautiful, beautiful 1070 00:58:18.840 --> 00:58:22.039 color that can take cool. Not a hard heart freeze, 1071 00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:24.840 but they can take considerable amount of cool down there 1072 00:58:25.400 --> 00:58:29.480 at Buchanans. They also have camellias, which are a cool 1073 00:58:29.559 --> 00:58:32.519 season plant. We got the Japonicas and the zankas. One 1074 00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:34.800 of them gives you some December bloom when i'm's going 1075 00:58:34.880 --> 00:58:39.440 to bloom more in January. But just gorgeous plants all 1076 00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:42.159 at Buchanans. They are on Eleventh Street in the Heights 1077 00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:46.599 East eleventh Street, Buchanansplants dot Com. We're going to go 1078 00:58:46.639 --> 00:58:50.440 to a break here. When we come back, Fred and Kingwood, 1079 00:58:50.679 --> 00:58:53.559 you will be our first up. Just one more reminder 1080 00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:58.199 Today after the show twelve noon to two pm, i'llbe 1081 00:58:58.280 --> 00:59:03.199 at the Wabbirds Unlimited, Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, right behind 1082 00:59:03.239 --> 00:59:06.599 torches Tacos. Come on out, bring some samples, let's talk, 1083 00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:09.360 let's figure things out, and let's help you have a 1084 00:59:09.400 --> 00:59:15.119 more beautiful garden, a more bountiful landscape in the process. Hey, 1085 00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:18.480 welcome back to garden Line. Welcome back to garden I'm 1086 00:59:18.480 --> 00:59:20.519 glad to have you with us today. I wanted to 1087 00:59:20.800 --> 00:59:24.480 talk to you about the Nitrofoss Texas three step. You've 1088 00:59:24.519 --> 00:59:27.800 heard me mention it a number of times. Basically what 1089 00:59:27.920 --> 00:59:31.199 it is. It's a fertilizer, a weed prevention and a 1090 00:59:31.360 --> 00:59:36.960 disease prevention. Okay. The fertilizer is Nitrofoss Fall Special designed 1091 00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:39.440 for fall. The sooner you get it down the better, 1092 00:59:39.639 --> 00:59:41.360 so the grass plants can take it up for it 1093 00:59:41.360 --> 00:59:44.039 gets too cold, and it will make them more hearty. 1094 00:59:44.719 --> 00:59:48.800 Because when you provide a good load of potassium the 1095 00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:52.119 third number on the bag with some nitrogen, the first 1096 00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:55.079 number on the bag. That helps the plants as they 1097 00:59:55.159 --> 00:59:58.199 capture sunlight and make carbohydrates to be heartier and they 1098 00:59:58.280 --> 01:00:02.559 come out stronger in the spring. Also second is the barricade. 1099 01:00:02.760 --> 01:00:05.920 The weed prevention doesn't kill weeds that are there. It 1100 01:00:06.079 --> 01:00:09.280 prevents weed seeds from germinating. And our cool season weeds 1101 01:00:09.320 --> 01:00:13.360 are germinating right now now. Nitropus barricade is applied and 1102 01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:18.280 watered in. The third is Nitropus eagle turf fungicide, again 1103 01:00:18.519 --> 01:00:22.000 applied and watered in. The roots take it up and 1104 01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:25.840 then when brown patch tries to attack the plant, it's 1105 01:00:25.920 --> 01:00:28.039 got the eagle turf fungicide in it. Think of it 1106 01:00:28.199 --> 01:00:30.840 like you would take an antibiotic, and then if you 1107 01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:35.719 got some disease that's infecting you, that antibiotic fights it off. Right, 1108 01:00:36.199 --> 01:00:38.559 That's how that eagle turf fungicide works. It gets in 1109 01:00:38.679 --> 01:00:42.360 the plant and it protects the plant that way. Three 1110 01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:47.760 steps Nitropos falls special wind a riser, Nitrofus barricade pre 1111 01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:51.119 emergent control for the cool season weeds that are germinating now, 1112 01:00:51.199 --> 01:00:56.159 and Nitropus eagle turf fungicide which helps protect against brown 1113 01:00:56.199 --> 01:00:58.639 patch and some that take all root Rod as well. 1114 01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:02.960 You're gonna find this down in Baytown at Fishers Hardware, 1115 01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:05.519 as well as the Fishers in Mount Bellevue, Pasadena and 1116 01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:09.000 Laporte and the East Hardware up there at Single Ranch 1117 01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:13.159 Arborgate up in Tombaugh in Shades of Texas, Southeast Houston 1118 01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:17.639 on Genoa Red Bluff. We're going to go now up 1119 01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:20.840 to Kingwood and talk to Fred. Hey, Fred, Welcome to 1120 01:01:20.920 --> 01:01:21.440 garden Line. 1121 01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:27.599 Good morning, Skip. We've had stumps ground before, and this 1122 01:01:27.800 --> 01:01:29.760 particular one I had ground. 1123 01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:30.800 Earlier this week. 1124 01:01:32.039 --> 01:01:35.360 There was hardly any big chips. They were all very tiny, 1125 01:01:35.519 --> 01:01:39.519 about the size of my little finger or fingernail. And 1126 01:01:39.639 --> 01:01:42.639 I've been trying to separate the dirt from the chips 1127 01:01:43.400 --> 01:01:47.239 and that's an almost impossible task. Is there anything that 1128 01:01:47.440 --> 01:01:51.760 I can pour into the hole in various layers to 1129 01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:54.000 help those chips decompose faster? 1130 01:01:55.519 --> 01:01:58.920 Well, they are in contact with some microbes and they 1131 01:01:58.920 --> 01:02:02.000 will decompose. Wood chips have a lot of carbon, and 1132 01:02:02.159 --> 01:02:05.320 so a little boost of nitrogen with it will help 1133 01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:07.880 a little bit. So you might want to get you, 1134 01:02:08.679 --> 01:02:11.199 you know, a nitrogen fertilizer. A fertilizer has quite a 1135 01:02:11.239 --> 01:02:13.039 bit of nitrogen in it. Which is not what we're 1136 01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:16.159 putting on our yards right now, the high nitrogens. But 1137 01:02:16.480 --> 01:02:18.440 for this chip, sprinkling a little bit on there and 1138 01:02:18.519 --> 01:02:20.840 watered in, you know, and then I would say, late winter, 1139 01:02:21.239 --> 01:02:23.559 sprinkle a little bit more on there and water and 1140 01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:26.239 scratch it in. And as that nitrogen gets down there, 1141 01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:31.920 the combination with the microbes and little extra nitrogen will 1142 01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:33.440 speed that decomposition some. 1143 01:02:34.480 --> 01:02:39.119 So a high nitrogen granule fertilizer. 1144 01:02:39.840 --> 01:02:41.599 Yeah, you can do granule, you could do a liquid. 1145 01:02:41.800 --> 01:02:44.079 It doesn't matter how you go about it. It's a 1146 01:02:44.119 --> 01:02:47.000 little less expensive to use a granule that compared to 1147 01:02:47.039 --> 01:02:47.519 a liquid. 1148 01:02:48.400 --> 01:02:51.239 All right, that sounds great. I'll do that, thank you, sir. 1149 01:02:52.719 --> 01:02:55.880 Yeah, yeah, not a problem at all. In fact, Nelson 1150 01:02:56.639 --> 01:03:01.360 Fertilizers has something called bruce Is that would be a 1151 01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:04.280 good one for use on that. It's it's uh, it's 1152 01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:07.280 going to release over time, but give you some good 1153 01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:08.320 immediate release too. 1154 01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:10.320 Thank you, very good. 1155 01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:11.239 Appreciate it. 1156 01:03:11.599 --> 01:03:14.320 All right, thank you, you bet, Thank you. Appreciate your call. 1157 01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:19.639 We are now going to go to Matt Matt in 1158 01:03:19.719 --> 01:03:21.840 the NASA area. Hey Matt, welcome to garden Line. 1159 01:03:23.039 --> 01:03:23.440 Nice kid. 1160 01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:27.800 Just an update. I'm actually dying Corpus. Now I'm always 1161 01:03:27.840 --> 01:03:28.760 there over at NASA. 1162 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:32.519 The last time I called you, you're in Corpus. 1163 01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:37.719 Okay, Yeah, I have two questions. The first one is 1164 01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:42.000 I have a chili tippee plant that's about three people, 1165 01:03:43.880 --> 01:03:49.559 and about two weeks ago, it looked like the landscapers 1166 01:03:49.639 --> 01:03:53.079 might have come and like user weed eater and like 1167 01:03:53.239 --> 01:03:58.559 chopped part of the side of it. All there's like 1168 01:03:58.679 --> 01:04:01.199 little raw snu where it was like they were just 1169 01:04:01.280 --> 01:04:05.079 torn off, so I thought it was maybe them, and 1170 01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:07.280 I looked at it. About another week later, I noticed 1171 01:04:07.280 --> 01:04:10.679 it had like some little mites and stuff crawling on it. 1172 01:04:11.880 --> 01:04:19.159 So I bought some uh to any uh it's dicidal 1173 01:04:19.239 --> 01:04:22.840 soap organic and I gred it really good at that 1174 01:04:23.719 --> 01:04:29.039 and then that was about four or five days and 1175 01:04:29.400 --> 01:04:31.760 now it's basically I took some picture though I couldn't 1176 01:04:31.800 --> 01:04:34.920 find the place to send them to you, but it's 1177 01:04:34.960 --> 01:04:38.039 basically lost all the leaves off of it, all the 1178 01:04:38.119 --> 01:04:41.760 stems and everything else that's healthy. And then around some 1179 01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:44.800 of the areas where it was broken off, the leaves 1180 01:04:44.840 --> 01:04:48.719 like turned brown, so it has well. 1181 01:04:50.159 --> 01:04:53.719 Yeah, I would I would hold off on the anymore spraying. 1182 01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:55.920 You know, we're getting into the cool season here, and 1183 01:04:56.239 --> 01:04:58.960 so just you know, if you've grown those before, if 1184 01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:00.440 we have a real hard for you, you should want 1185 01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:03.719 to protect them a little bit. But I would I 1186 01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:06.760 think it'll be okay. It's it could be a number 1187 01:05:06.840 --> 01:05:10.000 of things. It could be an excessive amount of water. 1188 01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:13.519 Sometimes when you mix soap and sexidal soap too strong, 1189 01:05:14.360 --> 01:05:18.480 you can burn leaves with that. But there's not a 1190 01:05:18.599 --> 01:05:22.320 pest of chili pekins. That's something you need to really 1191 01:05:22.360 --> 01:05:24.920 spray for. In general, they're they're a pretty tough plant, 1192 01:05:25.559 --> 01:05:27.679 so I would just give it some time. 1193 01:05:29.519 --> 01:05:31.840 It look like it's like chewed through the stem. Though 1194 01:05:31.880 --> 01:05:33.519 it was like I mean, it was like a I 1195 01:05:33.639 --> 01:05:35.400 took a weed eater to the side of it, but 1196 01:05:35.440 --> 01:05:37.079 I think it was wherever it was was eating. 1197 01:05:39.480 --> 01:05:42.320 I tell you what, I'll put you. I'm gonna put 1198 01:05:42.320 --> 01:05:45.519 you on hold. My producer will give you an email 1199 01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:47.280 and send me some pictures. I want to see the 1200 01:05:47.320 --> 01:05:49.039 whole bush, and I want to see up close and 1201 01:05:49.159 --> 01:05:52.159 sharp focus those areas you're talking about. And if I 1202 01:05:52.239 --> 01:05:53.880 see anything else, I'll let you know. 1203 01:05:55.000 --> 01:05:55.280 Okay. 1204 01:05:55.360 --> 01:05:59.559 And I had a second question also, okay, real quick, 1205 01:06:00.639 --> 01:06:04.760 what do you recommend for like Stickerberr or Sandsburg control 1206 01:06:04.800 --> 01:06:06.280 over the large arty. 1207 01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:12.199 Nitroposs makes a product called Barricade that works well for that, 1208 01:06:12.880 --> 01:06:14.599 and you're going to want to apply it down in 1209 01:06:14.679 --> 01:06:16.719 the corpus area. You want to get it out in 1210 01:06:17.679 --> 01:06:22.119 I would say early February so that you you don't 1211 01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:26.679 have any graspers germinating too early on it. Then you 1212 01:06:26.880 --> 01:06:30.239 probably want to go about sixty ninety days later and 1213 01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:37.119 apply it again to continue that protection. Barricade by Nitrophoss, Yes, 1214 01:06:37.599 --> 01:06:42.360 barricade is is their pre emergent and it grasper is 1215 01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:46.000 a warm season germinator. It germinates a little bit later 1216 01:06:46.119 --> 01:06:49.599 than some things like crabgrass do. But you just need 1217 01:06:49.880 --> 01:06:52.880 that second application because when the first wears off, the 1218 01:06:52.960 --> 01:06:59.159 graspers can still germinate if you don't. Okay, yeah, I 1219 01:06:59.320 --> 01:07:01.239 do it early, and I would do it again. I'm 1220 01:07:01.239 --> 01:07:04.159 a sixty to ninety days later. All right, Matt, thank you, 1221 01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:07.000 and I'll put you on hold a man you'll pick 1222 01:07:07.079 --> 01:07:09.000 it up and he'll give you an email address that 1223 01:07:09.119 --> 01:07:15.000 you can send that to. Well, let's see here. I 1224 01:07:15.079 --> 01:07:17.159 wanted to tell you about landscapers Pride a couple of 1225 01:07:17.199 --> 01:07:19.719 products that they have. They've They've got something called healthy 1226 01:07:19.840 --> 01:07:24.000 Soil compost. It's made from one locally sourced green materials. 1227 01:07:24.159 --> 01:07:27.760 They decompose it down into a super high quality compost 1228 01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:30.119 material that is good for any kind of soil, sand 1229 01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:33.800 or clay, whatever you've got. Quality compost like healthy soil 1230 01:07:33.920 --> 01:07:38.199 compost will benefit that soil and therefore make a better 1231 01:07:38.280 --> 01:07:41.639 root zone for the plants. Therefore better plants, a better production. 1232 01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:46.760 Mushroom compost is made from clean local mushroom substrate. The 1233 01:07:47.159 --> 01:07:50.960 mushroom compost is a very potent kind of compost and 1234 01:07:51.039 --> 01:07:55.639 I've used it for year decades. Actually, mushroom compost is 1235 01:07:56.320 --> 01:07:59.920 really good for giving plants an extra boost even beyond 1236 01:08:00.079 --> 01:08:02.760 on what a regular composts can do. You can go 1237 01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:06.320 to Landscaperspride dot com find out more about all their products. 1238 01:08:06.360 --> 01:08:09.599 They've got a couple dozen plus products that they produce, 1239 01:08:09.719 --> 01:08:13.800 from soil amendments to mulches, widely available in the Houston area. 1240 01:08:13.920 --> 01:08:16.840 Go to Landscaperspride dot com you can find out exactly 1241 01:08:16.960 --> 01:08:20.560 where near you you can find their products. We're going 1242 01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:22.640 to go to a break now and I'll be right 1243 01:08:22.840 --> 01:08:25.159 back with some more calls. We're going to talk to 1244 01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:30.199 Marie and Jeff and Jeff got two Jeffs waiting in line. Hey, 1245 01:08:30.319 --> 01:08:33.119 welcome back to the garden line. Glad you're listening today. 1246 01:08:33.119 --> 01:08:36.039 We've got a lot to talk about. There's plenty of 1247 01:08:36.159 --> 01:08:38.239 things to be doing out in the garden and the landscape. 1248 01:08:39.000 --> 01:08:41.520 If you are west of Tombol or Tumble area and 1249 01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:44.159 toward the west out twenty nine to twenty is D 1250 01:08:44.520 --> 01:08:47.319 and D Feed and Supply. D and D Feed and 1251 01:08:47.439 --> 01:08:51.119 Supply has been around since nineteen eighty nine and the 1252 01:08:51.319 --> 01:08:54.920 place just keeps getting better. They added onto the building 1253 01:08:55.560 --> 01:08:59.000 a little while back, and the stock that they have 1254 01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:01.479 of everything you need for your lawn in your garden 1255 01:09:02.199 --> 01:09:03.439 is outstanding. 1256 01:09:03.920 --> 01:09:04.039 You know. 1257 01:09:04.079 --> 01:09:05.720 Of course it's a feed store. You're going to find 1258 01:09:05.760 --> 01:09:09.760 lots of different quality feeds for livestock and pets whatnot. 1259 01:09:10.319 --> 01:09:13.640 For example, dog food they got Origin Diamond, Victor Star Pro, 1260 01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:17.520 real high quality types of things. You're going to find 1261 01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:21.800 nitrofoss there. You're going to find bonnit Microlife, Turf Star, Medina, 1262 01:09:21.960 --> 01:09:26.640 Airloom soils, Nilson, plant Food, Landscapers, Pride. They do carry 1263 01:09:26.840 --> 01:09:29.760 flats of vegetables and seeds and things like that, and 1264 01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:32.560 other kinds of plants seasonally out there out front as 1265 01:09:32.600 --> 01:09:35.199 you drive by, three miles west of two forty nine 1266 01:09:35.399 --> 01:09:40.319 on twenty nine twenty. The Dover family has been operating 1267 01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:42.960 this since it first opened up in nineteen eighty nine, 1268 01:09:43.359 --> 01:09:47.439 and it just again, it just keeps getting better. If 1269 01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:49.760 you hear me talk about, oh, you got this past 1270 01:09:49.800 --> 01:09:51.720 or weed or disease problem, and you need to go 1271 01:09:51.840 --> 01:09:53.520 get such and such, they're going to have it there 1272 01:09:53.600 --> 01:09:55.359 at D and D Feed. We love our feed stores 1273 01:09:55.399 --> 01:09:58.960 on Guardline and D and D Feed just west of 1274 01:09:59.079 --> 01:10:04.520 Combol on twenty nine twenty. It's about three miles west 1275 01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:09.840 of two forty nine. Go check them out. Let's see here. 1276 01:10:10.119 --> 01:10:14.640 We are now going to go to Jeff in Plantersville. 1277 01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:16.520 Hey Jeff, welcome to garden Line. 1278 01:10:17.479 --> 01:10:18.640 Hey Skip, how are you doing. 1279 01:10:20.039 --> 01:10:20.399 I'm good. 1280 01:10:20.520 --> 01:10:23.640 I just wanted to ask you about I've got this 1281 01:10:23.920 --> 01:10:25.960 weed called barning or stinging nettle. 1282 01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:29.560 I don't know if you're okay with it, but I am. 1283 01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:33.239 It's terrible when I go out to feed my horses 1284 01:10:33.279 --> 01:10:36.199 in the morning and I go out there and open 1285 01:10:36.239 --> 01:10:38.840 toe shoes or sandals, I'm in trouble because that. 1286 01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:42.600 Oh yeah, yeah, fils you about. 1287 01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:43.359 I just want to know what. 1288 01:10:45.399 --> 01:10:47.479 It's believe it or not. Even though the leaves are 1289 01:10:47.520 --> 01:10:50.039 fine textured, it's it's a type of broad leaf weed. 1290 01:10:50.119 --> 01:10:51.319 It's not a grass, it's. 1291 01:10:51.199 --> 01:10:52.600 Not a salt, it's a broad leaf. 1292 01:10:53.159 --> 01:10:56.079 So anything you would put out to control broad leaf 1293 01:10:56.119 --> 01:10:59.920 weeds in your lawn would control that. I would say, 1294 01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:04.079 in the spring, go online to my gardening schedules that 1295 01:11:04.159 --> 01:11:08.039 are at gardening with skip dot com. Look at the 1296 01:11:08.159 --> 01:11:11.000 lawn pest Disease and Weed Management schedule. Put down the 1297 01:11:11.079 --> 01:11:16.039 barricade pre emergent in the spring, apply that in. Let 1298 01:11:16.079 --> 01:11:18.600 me see where your planters be. Yeah, you're going to 1299 01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:21.840 apply that in early to mid February for that weed, 1300 01:11:22.800 --> 01:11:25.000 and then you could do it a little bit later. 1301 01:11:25.159 --> 01:11:27.159 But just to be safe, you may need to do 1302 01:11:27.199 --> 01:11:31.560 a second application thirty or sixcuse me sixty to ninety 1303 01:11:31.640 --> 01:11:34.479 days later and rodded in. If you get some of 1304 01:11:34.520 --> 01:11:37.159 that that escapes the pre emergent, you can use a 1305 01:11:37.199 --> 01:11:41.039 post emergent, a TRIMEC type product or some post emergent 1306 01:11:41.119 --> 01:11:44.680 broadly weed control to control it. But do it early 1307 01:11:44.800 --> 01:11:47.800 on when the plants are young, before they're already setting 1308 01:11:47.840 --> 01:11:52.399 their seeds and things like that. Yeah, okay, and get 1309 01:11:52.439 --> 01:11:53.800 you a pair of closed toad shoes. 1310 01:11:55.840 --> 01:11:58.039 Yeah, it's terrible. Another thing I was gonna tell you 1311 01:11:58.239 --> 01:12:01.199 a couple of years ago, told me about I was 1312 01:12:01.239 --> 01:12:03.239 trying to grow me some live oak trees and I'm 1313 01:12:03.239 --> 01:12:06.640 out in planter's feeling there is they're not just indigenous 1314 01:12:06.680 --> 01:12:09.720 to that area. But whatever you told me worked perfect. 1315 01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:11.479 I've got that live oak in there and it's. 1316 01:12:11.439 --> 01:12:14.239 Twenty booths all now, so oh my gosh. 1317 01:12:14.520 --> 01:12:16.600 Okay, yeah, well, thank you, thank you. 1318 01:12:16.640 --> 01:12:19.720 Glad to hear that word. You bet you take care. 1319 01:12:21.119 --> 01:12:24.680 Appreciate your call very much. The folks at Medina have 1320 01:12:24.960 --> 01:12:27.439 a number of quality products. You know, Medina products have 1321 01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:30.760 been around for a very long time and everybody knows 1322 01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:35.600 about you know, Medina's has to grow six twelve six 1323 01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:39.359 six T six is a plant food, got high phosphorus 1324 01:12:39.439 --> 01:12:43.039 that middle number, and it's excellent for transplanting plants. So 1325 01:12:43.199 --> 01:12:47.279 it's got Medina soil activator in it. It stimulates biological activity. 1326 01:12:47.279 --> 01:12:50.520 It's got humid humic acid excuse me, which improves the 1327 01:12:50.600 --> 01:12:53.600 soil structure, improves nutrient uptake. As a result of that, 1328 01:12:53.720 --> 01:12:56.760 seaweed extracts are in it as well. It's really quite 1329 01:12:56.800 --> 01:13:01.399 the concoction medina has to grow six well six. Get 1330 01:13:01.479 --> 01:13:04.800 you a watering can, low measuring cup. Follow the label. 1331 01:13:04.880 --> 01:13:06.319 You're not going to burn with it, by the way, 1332 01:13:06.439 --> 01:13:10.479 it's not a salt based kind of product that you 1333 01:13:10.600 --> 01:13:13.760 burn your plants with. You can use it for folier application, 1334 01:13:13.840 --> 01:13:15.720 but i'd put it in a watering can. Anything you 1335 01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:18.920 plant in the ground, drench it in well with. Medina 1336 01:13:19.119 --> 01:13:23.319 has to grow six twelve six and that will help 1337 01:13:23.399 --> 01:13:25.520 the roots get off to a good start. That's why 1338 01:13:25.560 --> 01:13:28.000 that hiphosphorus is in there. By the way, help it 1339 01:13:28.199 --> 01:13:29.800 get off to a good start and you can have 1340 01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:34.119 success fallest planting season. The best planting season. Medina has 1341 01:13:34.199 --> 01:13:37.039 to grow six twelve six is something you need to 1342 01:13:37.119 --> 01:13:41.079 look at. We're going to go now to Marie. Hello, Marie, 1343 01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:42.119 welcome to garden Line. 1344 01:13:43.279 --> 01:13:48.680 Thank you, Good morning, Good morning, good morning. My question 1345 01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:54.079 is can you fertilize your lawn while treating it for 1346 01:13:54.600 --> 01:13:57.159 nut fledge? We had it, we had a really bad 1347 01:13:57.279 --> 01:14:01.520 case of nut fledge weed, and we applied some Ortho 1348 01:14:02.039 --> 01:14:09.600 nuts sledge this insecticide on Wednesday. And now I'm wondering 1349 01:14:09.640 --> 01:14:11.680 if I can go ahead and fertilize now or should 1350 01:14:11.720 --> 01:14:12.000 I wait? 1351 01:14:13.680 --> 01:14:16.880 No, you can't you can do that. I'm not familiar 1352 01:14:16.960 --> 01:14:22.239 with what's in that ortho nuts sedge probably. 1353 01:14:21.920 --> 01:14:25.920 Okay, it was specifically it said nuts sledge. 1354 01:14:25.720 --> 01:14:32.079 On the bag, so okay, well, I'm gonna see if 1355 01:14:32.079 --> 01:14:33.880 I can find out what's in it. Make sure this 1356 01:14:34.079 --> 01:14:36.800 is gonna be one that is gonna work pretty well 1357 01:14:36.880 --> 01:14:39.319 for you if I can get it to tell me 1358 01:14:39.399 --> 01:14:43.840 what's in the label. Here we go, Okay, self enter zone. Yeah, 1359 01:14:44.079 --> 01:14:46.520 you may get pretty good results with it. If you don't, 1360 01:14:47.079 --> 01:14:50.560 next time you go out shopping, get something that has 1361 01:14:50.920 --> 01:14:55.159 a lot that's called sedge hammer or sedge ender. Sedge 1362 01:14:55.199 --> 01:14:57.520 hammer or sedge ender. And if you go to my 1363 01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:03.159 website Gardening with skip Com, I have two publications on 1364 01:15:03.439 --> 01:15:06.800 nuts edge. If you'll read the longer one, it'll help 1365 01:15:06.840 --> 01:15:10.720 you understand how that weed works. Uh, and it's you. 1366 01:15:11.399 --> 01:15:15.439 You don't ever let nutsedge be in your yard until 1367 01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:18.199 it has more than five leaves on the nut sedge, 1368 01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:21.000 meaning you want to when it gets up and gets 1369 01:15:21.039 --> 01:15:24.159 some leaves so you can put spram spram because if 1370 01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:27.199 you let it set, it'll create eight daughter plants and 1371 01:15:27.279 --> 01:15:29.560 you may kill mama. But now you've got eight times 1372 01:15:29.600 --> 01:15:32.039 as much because you let you let it send too long. 1373 01:15:32.159 --> 01:15:36.319 So read that publication. It's really really helpful. And also 1374 01:15:36.520 --> 01:15:39.039 on there it'll give you a list of the products 1375 01:15:39.039 --> 01:15:41.000 I'm talking about that I think will do their best 1376 01:15:41.119 --> 01:15:41.319 on that. 1377 01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:45.680 Okay, we have a lot of nut sledge. We had 1378 01:15:45.880 --> 01:15:49.399 our yards resought it this summer and with the rain 1379 01:15:49.600 --> 01:15:52.920 and YadA, YadA YadA, the grass never really. 1380 01:15:55.199 --> 01:15:58.720 So all I got you, I got you what what 1381 01:15:59.039 --> 01:16:02.680 what part of the area listening area for you will 1382 01:16:04.239 --> 01:16:08.520 Woodland's okay? All right, well just just get that, get 1383 01:16:08.560 --> 01:16:10.920 that go online. It's all free my stuff up there, 1384 01:16:11.000 --> 01:16:13.359 and just read about it, learn about it, get the names. 1385 01:16:13.439 --> 01:16:16.960 In next spring when the nutsedge comes back, that's the 1386 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:18.920 time to go after one of those products. I got 1387 01:16:19.039 --> 01:16:21.680 to run, Marie, but thank you for the calling. Good 1388 01:16:21.800 --> 01:16:23.439 luck getting ahead of that little monster. 1389 01:16:24.600 --> 01:16:24.760 You know. 1390 01:16:24.880 --> 01:16:29.520 Southwest Fertilizer is the kind of place that you find everything. 1391 01:16:29.640 --> 01:16:32.239 You know, I'm naming these products for Nutsedge. Bob's got 1392 01:16:32.319 --> 01:16:35.399 all of that. And then it's been around since nineteen 1393 01:16:35.479 --> 01:16:39.640 fifty five on corner Bissonet and Renwick. Corner Bissinet and Renwick, 1394 01:16:39.920 --> 01:16:42.479 So it's real easy. It's easy to get to and 1395 01:16:43.000 --> 01:16:46.680 they always have everything that you need. That That is 1396 01:16:46.920 --> 01:16:49.399 just how it is a Southwest Fertilizer. If they don't 1397 01:16:49.399 --> 01:16:52.000 have it, you don't need it. Ninety foot wall of 1398 01:16:52.079 --> 01:16:56.359 tools now the largest selection in the city of products 1399 01:16:56.399 --> 01:17:01.960 to control weeds, insects, and diseases. The largest section of fertilizers, 1400 01:17:02.159 --> 01:17:06.520 and the largest section of organic products. Did you know 1401 01:17:06.640 --> 01:17:10.439 that if you're an organic gardener, Southwest Fertilizer gives you 1402 01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:13.439 the biggest range of organic options you got. Hey, it's 1403 01:17:13.479 --> 01:17:16.600 time done with mowing season coming up here, Get that 1404 01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:19.560 mower blade, sharpen. They can do that there Southwest Fertilizer. 1405 01:17:19.880 --> 01:17:22.159 If you got any small engine repair you need to do, 1406 01:17:22.279 --> 01:17:23.880 they got a shop in the back that can do 1407 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:27.159 that as well. Southwest Fertilizer dot com is a website 1408 01:17:27.439 --> 01:17:31.159 and the phone number seven one three six six six 1409 01:17:31.439 --> 01:17:36.159 seventeen forty four. Well, I hear the music coming here. 1410 01:17:36.520 --> 01:17:39.079 Jeff out in Spring Branch. We worked hard at getting 1411 01:17:39.119 --> 01:17:41.079 to you, but didn't quite make it this hour. You 1412 01:17:41.119 --> 01:17:43.199 will be our first up if you can hang around 1413 01:17:43.720 --> 01:17:46.760 when we come back into the next hour. I want 1414 01:17:46.800 --> 01:17:49.279 to remind you I'm going to be a Kingwood wild 1415 01:17:49.439 --> 01:17:54.279 Birds Unlimited on Kingwood Drive right behind Torchies Tacos. I'll 1416 01:17:54.279 --> 01:17:58.439 be there today from twelve noon until two pm. Come by. 1417 01:17:58.479 --> 01:18:00.439 I want to show you this Kingwood is the awesome 1418 01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:04.800 Kingwoodwall birds store there really really cool. Bring me samples 1419 01:18:04.880 --> 01:18:06.800 of plants. You know we've been talking about weeds and 1420 01:18:06.920 --> 01:18:09.199 describing and things. Throw it all in the bag, bring 1421 01:18:09.279 --> 01:18:11.239 it in. We'll identify it, We'll tell you what to do. 1422 01:18:11.399 --> 01:18:14.359 This is ida eye time with me rather than a 1423 01:18:14.439 --> 01:18:16.600 quick call on the phone. Here we can sit and 1424 01:18:16.680 --> 01:18:19.000 we can talk. We can look at things, uh and 1425 01:18:19.199 --> 01:18:23.359 just really do a good job diagnosing, identifying whatever you need. Plus, 1426 01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:26.159 I just love to meet folks that listen to garden Line. 1427 01:18:26.199 --> 01:18:28.079 Bring your camera so we can get a picture made. 1428 01:18:27.920 --> 01:18:33.560 To Welcome to kat r H garden Line with Scamp Richard. 1429 01:18:33.600 --> 01:18:41.000 It's trim. 1430 01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:43.960 Just watch him as. 1431 01:18:48.920 --> 01:19:04.439 So many things to spot taking not a sign s 1432 01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:14.319 starting out. 1433 01:19:24.159 --> 01:19:29.239 Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. Glad to 1434 01:19:29.279 --> 01:19:30.920 have you with us this morning. Thanks for being a 1435 01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:34.680 garden Line listener. My goal is for you to have 1436 01:19:34.960 --> 01:19:38.159 more success in your garden. I want gardening to be fun. 1437 01:19:38.319 --> 01:19:41.399 It should be fun. You can't fail at gardening. You're 1438 01:19:41.439 --> 01:19:44.960 going to give up. You give up. That's failing. If 1439 01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:47.560 you just stick with it, keep learning, keep listening, keep 1440 01:19:47.640 --> 01:19:50.960 calling with your questions, we will just help turn that 1441 01:19:51.039 --> 01:19:53.039 brown thumb green. Because there is no such a thing 1442 01:19:53.079 --> 01:19:56.239 as a brown thumb, by the way, just an uninformed thumb. 1443 01:19:56.279 --> 01:19:58.760 And we're here to inform your thumb, so make sure 1444 01:19:58.760 --> 01:20:01.920 your thumbs listening. This morning, we'll go ahead straight out 1445 01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:05.159 to Spring Branch and talk to Jeff. Jeff, thanks for waiting. 1446 01:20:05.359 --> 01:20:06.239 How can we help. 1447 01:20:06.159 --> 01:20:10.039 Today, Hey, Skiff, happy to wait. Man, you are such 1448 01:20:10.039 --> 01:20:13.600 a huge help. And I'm looking for suggestions on some 1449 01:20:13.920 --> 01:20:16.520 fruit trees or something that I can plant up in 1450 01:20:17.560 --> 01:20:21.720 western Walker County, some property that I've had and want 1451 01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:25.199 to get some trees started. The one caveat that I'll 1452 01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:28.880 go out there and get your take on it happens 1453 01:20:28.880 --> 01:20:32.239 to be a part of the property that it's it's 1454 01:20:32.279 --> 01:20:33.520 always a little. 1455 01:20:33.640 --> 01:20:35.359 Wet, not not real wet. 1456 01:20:36.119 --> 01:20:39.239 I'm not worried about, you know, playing something in the swamp, 1457 01:20:39.319 --> 01:20:41.760 but it's always got plenty of water as where the 1458 01:20:41.840 --> 01:20:45.600 drainage goes. So happy to answer me the other questions, 1459 01:20:45.640 --> 01:20:47.159 but want your advice. 1460 01:20:49.319 --> 01:20:49.680 All right. 1461 01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:52.800 First of all, I got to make my phone quit 1462 01:20:52.920 --> 01:21:01.000 ringing somebody, I thought, now find my phone alert? Well, 1463 01:21:01.039 --> 01:21:02.840 I know where my phone is, right in front of me, 1464 01:21:03.199 --> 01:21:08.479 ringing on the radio. You know, most fruit likes well 1465 01:21:08.560 --> 01:21:13.000 drained soil. So if periodically when you go when we 1466 01:21:13.079 --> 01:21:15.159 go through those rainy periods of death, you end up 1467 01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:18.039 with kind of soggy conditions, fruit's not gonna be real 1468 01:21:18.119 --> 01:21:21.079 happy with that. So what you can do, I'd do 1469 01:21:21.199 --> 01:21:23.359 two things. First, I'd go out there where you think 1470 01:21:23.439 --> 01:21:26.479 your fruit trees need to go and get you a 1471 01:21:26.520 --> 01:21:28.840 post holed digger and dig down about two feet, just 1472 01:21:28.920 --> 01:21:31.680 straight down, and then fill that. Get you a you know, 1473 01:21:31.880 --> 01:21:34.079 five gallon bucket of water, fill it up, fill up 1474 01:21:34.079 --> 01:21:36.520 the hole, and then come back and see how long 1475 01:21:36.560 --> 01:21:38.319 it takes to drain out. You know, come back in 1476 01:21:38.399 --> 01:21:40.840 eight hours, come back in twelve, come back in twenty 1477 01:21:40.880 --> 01:21:44.119 four forty eight. It ought to drain out in twenty 1478 01:21:44.159 --> 01:21:46.760 four hours. If it doesn't, if there's still water at 1479 01:21:46.800 --> 01:21:49.439 the you know, maybe a foot down or whatever in 1480 01:21:49.479 --> 01:21:52.720 the hole that's not draining out, that's an indication you're 1481 01:21:52.720 --> 01:21:56.439 gonna need to build up or raised area for those trees. 1482 01:21:57.520 --> 01:21:59.159 You know, you can do it by bringing soil in 1483 01:21:59.359 --> 01:22:01.520 and dump it in, making a big pictures mound out 1484 01:22:01.560 --> 01:22:04.159 there for each tree. You can do it by. I 1485 01:22:04.199 --> 01:22:06.039 don't know what kind of equipment you have, but if 1486 01:22:06.079 --> 01:22:08.159 there's a way to plow up a little area, but 1487 01:22:09.720 --> 01:22:13.119 you do need good drainage, and so you ought to 1488 01:22:13.199 --> 01:22:18.840 at least have a foot of soil the water table 1489 01:22:18.920 --> 01:22:20.520 lot to at least be a foot down. It'd be 1490 01:22:20.600 --> 01:22:22.960 better for his little further than that. But anyway, I 1491 01:22:23.000 --> 01:22:26.319 would check that first, and maybe you choose a different location. 1492 01:22:26.520 --> 01:22:29.119 Maybe you do something like I was saying, to raise 1493 01:22:29.199 --> 01:22:31.880 up the soil. As far as trees go, you can 1494 01:22:31.920 --> 01:22:33.199 grow a lot of stuff up there. 1495 01:22:33.279 --> 01:22:33.399 You know. 1496 01:22:33.439 --> 01:22:35.000 There's a lot of peaches that will do well in 1497 01:22:35.079 --> 01:22:37.920 that area. The pears, there's a lot of good pears. 1498 01:22:38.800 --> 01:22:40.239 It just kind of depends on what kind of fruit 1499 01:22:40.279 --> 01:22:44.319 you want to grow. Do you know if hand? If 1500 01:22:46.239 --> 01:22:48.239 do you know if hand if the soil is sandy 1501 01:22:48.399 --> 01:22:48.840 or clay. 1502 01:22:52.279 --> 01:22:55.920 I haven't done in a two analysis on it yet, 1503 01:22:56.000 --> 01:22:57.680 you know, And there's all kinds of different ways I 1504 01:22:57.720 --> 01:23:02.319 could do that, I know, but I would assume that 1505 01:23:02.439 --> 01:23:07.119 it's predominantly clay. I know that there are some nice 1506 01:23:07.159 --> 01:23:10.000 sandy areas, so it might be a good mixture there. 1507 01:23:10.039 --> 01:23:11.920 I don't know, but I'll check it out. 1508 01:23:13.079 --> 01:23:16.880 Okay, all right. Well, and then when you're ready to plant, 1509 01:23:17.399 --> 01:23:19.279 are you are you in Walker County? 1510 01:23:20.760 --> 01:23:21.279 Yeah right? 1511 01:23:21.399 --> 01:23:23.800 I mean literally right at the Walker Montgomery line. 1512 01:23:25.239 --> 01:23:28.159 Oh okay, well, you you know you've you've access to 1513 01:23:28.760 --> 01:23:34.079 done Montgomery County. You've got a horticulture agent Michael Potter 1514 01:23:34.760 --> 01:23:36.760 that could advise you there up in Walker, You've got 1515 01:23:36.800 --> 01:23:39.720 an ag agent there that could advise you to on 1516 01:23:40.039 --> 01:23:43.079 some of those things as far as soil maps and whatnot. 1517 01:23:43.640 --> 01:23:47.039 But uh, the AGI Horticulture website has got a lot 1518 01:23:47.079 --> 01:23:49.680 of good stuff on fruit trees. You go there and 1519 01:23:50.199 --> 01:23:52.560 look at the fruit tree section, and you know, let's 1520 01:23:52.560 --> 01:23:54.720 say you wanted to do pairs, well, it would show 1521 01:23:54.760 --> 01:23:57.920 you varieties of pairs that do well in your area. 1522 01:23:58.640 --> 01:24:01.079 It would it would give you emation on planting and 1523 01:24:01.159 --> 01:24:05.479 pruning each of the fruit trees just however you whatever 1524 01:24:05.560 --> 01:24:07.560 you decide to plant. So I take advantage of that 1525 01:24:07.680 --> 01:24:08.439 free info too. 1526 01:24:09.560 --> 01:24:11.399 Yeah, definitely, Well, thank you very much. 1527 01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:14.000 Most important is getting my getting my soil, right, I 1528 01:24:14.079 --> 01:24:15.159 got that, so thank you? 1529 01:24:15.920 --> 01:24:19.199 Yep, yeap, you got it all right? 1530 01:24:20.199 --> 01:24:20.840 Well care. 1531 01:24:22.560 --> 01:24:28.640 Bye bye? All right, folks, fruit trees are fun to grow. 1532 01:24:28.760 --> 01:24:32.520 I love I love fruit trees and more people ought 1533 01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:35.399 to be growing fruit trees. When you plant a fruit tree, 1534 01:24:35.840 --> 01:24:38.279 one of the things you need to remember is drainage. 1535 01:24:38.359 --> 01:24:42.520 It's important, and sunlight is important. If you want a 1536 01:24:42.640 --> 01:24:45.800 sweet fruit, it's made sweet by sugars, and sugars are 1537 01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:50.439 carbohydrates and carbon hybrids. Hydrates are only made when the 1538 01:24:50.520 --> 01:24:53.840 sun shines on the fruit trees leaves. So if you're 1539 01:24:53.880 --> 01:24:56.359 in half day shade, you're going to get half the 1540 01:24:56.560 --> 01:24:59.439 carbohydrate production you would have in full sun. That kind 1541 01:24:59.439 --> 01:25:01.359 of thing, and then pick the variety that fits, pick 1542 01:25:01.399 --> 01:25:03.800 one that has the right chilling for the area that 1543 01:25:03.880 --> 01:25:05.840 you're in. And we can help you with those kind 1544 01:25:05.880 --> 01:25:07.359 of things here on Guardline. But like I said, the 1545 01:25:07.640 --> 01:25:11.239 horticulture website, the fruite section is awesome. I mean it 1546 01:25:11.399 --> 01:25:14.920 goes into all of that stuff. Let's see, We're gonna 1547 01:25:14.960 --> 01:25:19.800 head now out to Correne in Houston. Hey, Corene, Hi, Skip, 1548 01:25:19.920 --> 01:25:20.359 how are you? 1549 01:25:21.039 --> 01:25:23.399 I have a big problem with dollar eat. 1550 01:25:23.640 --> 01:25:25.079 I mean I've tied to. 1551 01:25:25.159 --> 01:25:25.760 Rip it out. 1552 01:25:26.560 --> 01:25:30.880 I sprayed with vinegar that just the grass dive. 1553 01:25:30.880 --> 01:25:33.000 But not the dollar beat. 1554 01:25:33.119 --> 01:25:33.920 What can I do? 1555 01:25:34.359 --> 01:25:35.640 Okay, it's really bad? 1556 01:25:35.800 --> 01:25:40.439 This Yeah, there is a there are products that are 1557 01:25:40.720 --> 01:25:46.000 on my website at the Herbicide for skip'sweed wiper forget 1558 01:25:46.039 --> 01:25:48.880 the weed wiper apartment. It's the list. It's called Herbicides 1559 01:25:48.920 --> 01:25:51.600 for weed Wiper and if you go to the section 1560 01:25:52.000 --> 01:25:55.880 on herbicides that are for broad leaf weeds in the lawn, 1561 01:25:56.399 --> 01:25:59.239 it will give you a list of options. One of 1562 01:25:59.319 --> 01:26:03.000 the better ones to use is something called Celsius, like 1563 01:26:03.159 --> 01:26:07.720 the temperature Celsius. Okay, it's not it's not cheap, but 1564 01:26:07.840 --> 01:26:10.279 you buy a little packets that make a gallon of spray, 1565 01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:13.520 and a gallon goes a long way because you're just 1566 01:26:13.640 --> 01:26:17.079 barely wetting the leaves of the weed. And if if 1567 01:26:17.159 --> 01:26:21.520 you get celsius, get a spreader sticker with it, something 1568 01:26:21.640 --> 01:26:24.840 that helps the spray not roll off of those slick 1569 01:26:25.159 --> 01:26:30.399 dollar weed leaves. That that's very important for it being successful. 1570 01:26:30.920 --> 01:26:33.600 But there are other herbicides out there. Celsius is just 1571 01:26:33.680 --> 01:26:34.720 one that I think you. 1572 01:26:35.920 --> 01:26:39.279 I mean, the leaves are getting bigger and bigger. They 1573 01:26:39.399 --> 01:26:43.000 start out real tiny, and sometimes I'm on my hands 1574 01:26:43.039 --> 01:26:46.199 and knees with some something and try to pull them up. 1575 01:26:46.279 --> 01:26:48.439 But it's it's a fighter. 1576 01:26:48.880 --> 01:26:50.680 That's not that I'm not going to go in. 1577 01:26:52.119 --> 01:26:54.920 Yeah you can't. You can't pull dollar weed successfully. So 1578 01:26:55.680 --> 01:26:58.760 just get that spray makes it real easy to do. Okay, 1579 01:26:59.560 --> 01:27:01.399 you'll you'll win. You may have to treat it again 1580 01:27:01.439 --> 01:27:03.119 some next year, but you good ahead of it. 1581 01:27:03.239 --> 01:27:06.560 Yeah, okay, thank you so much, you. 1582 01:27:06.680 --> 01:27:09.600 Bet, Thank you appreciate the call. Hey, our phone number 1583 01:27:09.680 --> 01:27:12.199 seven one three two one two k t r H 1584 01:27:12.319 --> 01:27:15.600 if you'd like to call in. Uh, Janet Forest is 1585 01:27:16.239 --> 01:27:19.960 stocked up right now. They are absolutely stocked up with 1586 01:27:20.199 --> 01:27:23.279 all kinds of things for the cool season. You know, 1587 01:27:23.399 --> 01:27:27.079 Amarillis bulbs for example. They've got the cyclomen is, just 1588 01:27:27.359 --> 01:27:30.520 one of the best cool seasoned flowers we have, so pretty. 1589 01:27:31.000 --> 01:27:34.880 They're loaded up on herbs and all kinds of quality 1590 01:27:35.279 --> 01:27:39.920 really qualities, shrubs and trees for example. Uh, they've got hollies, 1591 01:27:40.079 --> 01:27:43.159 many many varieties of hollies, the red maple, the kind 1592 01:27:43.239 --> 01:27:46.359 that will grow here. They've got that Chinese fringe tree, 1593 01:27:46.439 --> 01:27:49.079 one of my favorite spring blooming trees, little shaggy white 1594 01:27:49.119 --> 01:27:52.840 ballooms with a pleasant fragrance, and then red buds of course. 1595 01:27:53.239 --> 01:27:55.880 And in the gift shop, well, it's it's looking a 1596 01:27:56.000 --> 01:28:00.319 lot like Christmas in there. Christmas round top materials. The 1597 01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:04.159 iron materials have arrived as well. All you have to 1598 01:28:04.239 --> 01:28:06.520 do is head out to Enchanted for us. They are 1599 01:28:06.600 --> 01:28:09.039 on FM twenty seven to fifty nine, twenty seven to 1600 01:28:09.079 --> 01:28:11.600 fifty nine, So if you're going from Richmond towards sugar Land, 1601 01:28:11.920 --> 01:28:14.840 it's off to the right FM twenty seven to fifty 1602 01:28:14.920 --> 01:28:18.680 nine Enchanted Forests. And I promise you this, when you go, 1603 01:28:19.479 --> 01:28:22.600 you will be very impressed with this place. It is 1604 01:28:23.760 --> 01:28:25.479 when I drive up and park in the parking lot, 1605 01:28:25.520 --> 01:28:27.199 it's like I can't wait to get in because it 1606 01:28:27.560 --> 01:28:31.560 just looks so cool. It's enchanting. I guess that's what 1607 01:28:31.720 --> 01:28:35.319 they call it that anyway, Enchanted for us everything you 1608 01:28:35.439 --> 01:28:39.840 need for fall planting, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and definitely the 1609 01:28:40.079 --> 01:28:42.760 most important planting season of the year for shrubs and trees. 1610 01:28:43.239 --> 01:28:46.960 They've got new shipments and it is ready to go 1611 01:28:47.279 --> 01:28:50.439 go home with you so you can have beautiful blooms, 1612 01:28:50.680 --> 01:28:56.439 beautiful foliage, beautiful shade, whatever you choose in the future. Well, 1613 01:28:56.479 --> 01:28:57.880 I got to go to a little break here. I've 1614 01:28:57.880 --> 01:28:59.960 gone really long on this one. When I come back, 1615 01:29:00.119 --> 01:29:03.399 we'll talk to Bob and Conroe. First. Hey, welcome back 1616 01:29:03.399 --> 01:29:07.239 to the guard Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, 1617 01:29:07.319 --> 01:29:11.199 I wanted to tell you a little bit about Pierce Scapes. 1618 01:29:11.960 --> 01:29:17.000 Pierce Scapes they are landscape magicians. They really are. If 1619 01:29:17.600 --> 01:29:20.279 go online, don't take my word for it, go online 1620 01:29:20.279 --> 01:29:23.760 to Piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. Take a look 1621 01:29:23.920 --> 01:29:26.800 at the work they do. It is gorgeous. I mean 1622 01:29:28.000 --> 01:29:32.159 they can do a major complete planting or overhaul of 1623 01:29:32.239 --> 01:29:35.159 your entire property, or they can just work on a 1624 01:29:35.199 --> 01:29:37.680 particular area. Maybe you've got you want a bed installed 1625 01:29:37.760 --> 01:29:39.920 or a bed revamped and some new plants put in, 1626 01:29:40.119 --> 01:29:44.239 and just general. Do you need irrigation repairs, Do you 1627 01:29:44.359 --> 01:29:47.920 need landscape lighting, do you need hardscapes? Maybe you want 1628 01:29:48.199 --> 01:29:51.840 a patio that is just a beautiful outdoor gathering area. 1629 01:29:51.920 --> 01:29:53.319 Maybe you want to go all out and have a 1630 01:29:53.720 --> 01:29:58.239 patio that has a rocked in barbecue pit, and you know, 1631 01:29:58.640 --> 01:30:00.880 you get the idea. They do any of that kind 1632 01:30:00.920 --> 01:30:04.560 of thing. They also do quarterly maintenance trimming, weeding, fertilizing, 1633 01:30:04.760 --> 01:30:12.079 air raiding, soil soil additions, mult editions, seasonal color irrigation inspections, 1634 01:30:12.199 --> 01:30:14.560 all of that. Just sign up for the quarterly maintenance 1635 01:30:14.600 --> 01:30:18.039 for that Pierce Caapes dot Com is the website. The 1636 01:30:18.119 --> 01:30:21.479 phone number two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. 1637 01:30:21.680 --> 01:30:25.840 Write this down two eight one three seven zero five 1638 01:30:26.039 --> 01:30:30.800 zero six zero. We're going to go now to Conroe 1639 01:30:30.960 --> 01:30:33.520 and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, welcome to Guardenline. 1640 01:30:35.319 --> 01:30:39.760 Good morning, Skip sure appreciate all of the patients and 1641 01:30:40.279 --> 01:30:43.000 that you provide for us novices out here. 1642 01:30:44.880 --> 01:30:47.079 Happy to be here. Hey, how can we help today? 1643 01:30:48.159 --> 01:30:50.880 I send in a couple of pictures that I wanted 1644 01:30:50.960 --> 01:30:53.640 you to take a look at of some shrubery in 1645 01:30:53.720 --> 01:30:54.199 our yards. 1646 01:30:54.319 --> 01:30:56.399 I don't know exactly what these are. 1647 01:30:56.920 --> 01:30:59.199 I believe that they're comia or something. 1648 01:31:01.000 --> 01:31:03.439 Okay, I think that what you have there is a 1649 01:31:03.560 --> 01:31:04.800 wax leaf lagustrum. 1650 01:31:05.359 --> 01:31:08.760 Is what it looks Okay, Now that makes sense as well, 1651 01:31:09.520 --> 01:31:10.119 and and and. 1652 01:31:11.920 --> 01:31:16.000 Yes, yeah, yeah, that is the number one disease of 1653 01:31:16.039 --> 01:31:20.960 wax leaf lagustriums called it's a fungal leaf spot, so 1654 01:31:21.159 --> 01:31:22.479 cosparra leaf spot. 1655 01:31:23.199 --> 01:31:23.319 Uh. 1656 01:31:23.920 --> 01:31:26.920 Every one of those spots has a little black dots 1657 01:31:27.279 --> 01:31:31.720 in it. Eventually that are spores like volcanoes shooting spores 1658 01:31:31.760 --> 01:31:34.199 in the air. So all of the other leaves now 1659 01:31:34.279 --> 01:31:36.199 have spores land on them and get sick and the 1660 01:31:36.279 --> 01:31:38.239 more it rains or the more you water with a 1661 01:31:38.359 --> 01:31:40.640 spray mists it gets up on the leaves. Either way, 1662 01:31:41.199 --> 01:31:44.239 it just gets worse and worse. I'm not a fan 1663 01:31:44.359 --> 01:31:44.640 of them. 1664 01:31:44.960 --> 01:31:45.079 Uh. 1665 01:31:45.239 --> 01:31:48.479 And if you've ever been thinking about redoing that area, well, 1666 01:31:48.600 --> 01:31:50.079 this would be a good time just to do it 1667 01:31:50.199 --> 01:31:53.039 and put something else in that's not like that. If 1668 01:31:53.119 --> 01:31:54.640 you don't want to do that, and I understand that, 1669 01:31:55.119 --> 01:31:57.319 you're going to need to get on a spray schedule, 1670 01:31:57.720 --> 01:31:59.840 rake up all the fallen leaves to get them out 1671 01:31:59.880 --> 01:32:02.880 of the area, and if if it's not too tedious 1672 01:32:02.920 --> 01:32:06.039 picking off leaves that are affected would be good, spraying 1673 01:32:06.079 --> 01:32:09.800 them with a product that I'm going to give you 1674 01:32:09.920 --> 01:32:13.960 two different products, and you're gonna want to alternate between them. 1675 01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:17.359 So whenever you have a rainy spell, go out and 1676 01:32:17.479 --> 01:32:21.840 spray right away and get those leaves sprayed with either 1677 01:32:22.079 --> 01:32:28.479 DACONYL D A C O N I L or something 1678 01:32:28.560 --> 01:32:33.079 called belaton B A Y L E T O N 1679 01:32:33.720 --> 01:32:37.479 and you can alternate between those two. Fungen X is 1680 01:32:37.560 --> 01:32:41.159 also something that you could that you could use fungen X, 1681 01:32:41.880 --> 01:32:43.960 but you don't want to use just one. You want 1682 01:32:44.000 --> 01:32:48.239 to alternate between the two and especially after anything that 1683 01:32:48.399 --> 01:32:50.760 what's the foliage? You need to get out there and 1684 01:32:50.840 --> 01:32:53.880 do a spray and eventually by raking up leaves, picking 1685 01:32:53.960 --> 01:32:57.960 off affected leaves, spraying regularly, you can get back ahead 1686 01:32:58.000 --> 01:32:59.880 of it again. But it's always going to be around 1687 01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:02.039 because it's just ubiquitous out there in nature. 1688 01:33:03.159 --> 01:33:05.960 Yes, indeed, it is okay, very good. 1689 01:33:06.920 --> 01:33:09.159 Why that's why I said at the beginning, if you're 1690 01:33:09.199 --> 01:33:11.520 thinking about replanting, now would be a good time that 1691 01:33:11.960 --> 01:33:14.399 once you start dealing with that, that is just who 1692 01:33:14.479 --> 01:33:16.760 wants to get and spray every time it rains, you know? 1693 01:33:17.000 --> 01:33:21.319 So anyway, I hope that helps Bob. Very good, Thank 1694 01:33:21.359 --> 01:33:25.800 you sir, Thank you appreciate that call very much. Uh 1695 01:33:26.560 --> 01:33:30.960 So the nitrophos folks, I was telling somebody wall to 1696 01:33:31.000 --> 01:33:34.319 go about barricade there. We were doing it for grassburs 1697 01:33:34.399 --> 01:33:36.960 for example, and that's something you do in the spring. 1698 01:33:37.159 --> 01:33:39.439 And that's on my schedule. You look at my schedule 1699 01:33:39.800 --> 01:33:44.159 gardening with skip dot com. That's my website. The schedule's free. 1700 01:33:44.239 --> 01:33:46.640 There's a lawn care schedule and a weed, pest and 1701 01:33:46.760 --> 01:33:50.720 disease management schedule. You'll find these nitroposs products on there. 1702 01:33:50.800 --> 01:33:55.399 On both schedules. For example, the three step nitrofoss Fall 1703 01:33:55.479 --> 01:34:00.199 special fertilizer. That's step one, step two nitrofoss barricade to 1704 01:34:00.319 --> 01:34:03.399 prevent weeds. Now graspers we prevent in the spring, but 1705 01:34:03.560 --> 01:34:06.079 right now you're putting barricade down to prevent the cool 1706 01:34:06.119 --> 01:34:08.840 season weeds like chickweed and hend bent and carpet weed 1707 01:34:09.760 --> 01:34:13.239 and cleavers and all of those clover those kinds of things. 1708 01:34:13.600 --> 01:34:16.079 And then the third step is eagle tour funge a side. 1709 01:34:16.199 --> 01:34:18.479 You can put all three down on the same day, 1710 01:34:18.760 --> 01:34:21.680 just one right after the other, and then water them 1711 01:34:21.680 --> 01:34:23.680 all in with about a half inch of water. Get 1712 01:34:23.760 --> 01:34:25.600 them in the soil where all three of them do 1713 01:34:25.720 --> 01:34:27.840 what they're going to do to protect your plants. You're 1714 01:34:27.880 --> 01:34:30.640 going to find these products at dead Feed and Tomball 1715 01:34:30.720 --> 01:34:33.600 at Plantation Ace Hardware out in Richmond, and Hiding and 1716 01:34:33.680 --> 01:34:37.560 Feed on Stubner Airline. I gotta take a little bit 1717 01:34:37.680 --> 01:34:40.119 of a break. I believe we're up against a break. 1718 01:34:41.560 --> 01:34:42.359 Is that correct? 1719 01:34:42.520 --> 01:34:42.560 Or? 1720 01:34:42.640 --> 01:34:46.800 Am I off on my time here? So speak in 1721 01:34:46.880 --> 01:34:49.079 my ear if you if you hear one way or 1722 01:34:49.119 --> 01:34:53.479 the other. Uh, we had some time, okay. 1723 01:34:54.199 --> 01:34:54.319 Uh. 1724 01:34:54.720 --> 01:34:59.399 Let me then go out to Dickenson and talk to Linda. Hey, 1725 01:34:59.479 --> 01:35:00.840 Linda Walk of the garden line. 1726 01:35:02.199 --> 01:35:06.359 Thank you. I have yellow spots in my yard and 1727 01:35:06.439 --> 01:35:10.840 they're getting bigger and getting more of them. I put 1728 01:35:10.920 --> 01:35:17.800 down the eagle turf fund beside around the middle to 1729 01:35:17.920 --> 01:35:20.079 the end of October, and. 1730 01:35:21.399 --> 01:35:22.399 That happened. 1731 01:35:23.560 --> 01:35:29.119 Kept them from appearing. And I tried bug bug out 1732 01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:32.159 and compost. 1733 01:35:32.359 --> 01:35:35.640 And that hasn't okay, okay. 1734 01:35:35.800 --> 01:35:39.039 So there's two kinds of yellow out there. One of them, 1735 01:35:39.239 --> 01:35:41.560 the whole leaf just turns kind of a bright yellow 1736 01:35:41.640 --> 01:35:45.439 color before it turns brown and dies back. That is 1737 01:35:45.640 --> 01:35:50.279 probably due to raise actonia, which is what brown patch is. 1738 01:35:51.239 --> 01:35:55.359 There are other versions of raisa than brown patch, but anyway, 1739 01:35:56.079 --> 01:35:59.520 that's the bright yellow leaves and then turned brown. If 1740 01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:02.199 when you see yellow, you go pick one of those 1741 01:36:02.319 --> 01:36:04.560 leaves and hold it up to the sky and it's 1742 01:36:04.720 --> 01:36:08.359 green and yellow striped when you look at it real close, 1743 01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:11.840 little skinny little lines up and down the leaf, then 1744 01:36:11.920 --> 01:36:15.239 that's iron deficiency, and you can fix that with a 1745 01:36:15.359 --> 01:36:21.600 keylated iron product, something that has iron in a keylated form, 1746 01:36:21.640 --> 01:36:23.960 which means the soil doesn't tie it up so much. 1747 01:36:24.960 --> 01:36:26.760 But one of those two is going to be the 1748 01:36:26.840 --> 01:36:27.560 cause of your. 1749 01:36:29.279 --> 01:36:33.279 They turn brown, there are no lines from the earth. 1750 01:36:33.920 --> 01:36:37.760 Yeah. Then nine to five says a product called Eagle 1751 01:36:38.079 --> 01:36:40.399 Turf fungicide. I would go ahead and do it now 1752 01:36:41.359 --> 01:36:43.199 and water it in with about a half inch of 1753 01:36:43.279 --> 01:36:47.159 water so the roots can take it up. Areas where 1754 01:36:47.199 --> 01:36:49.760 you've lost the leaves are going to stay that way 1755 01:36:50.119 --> 01:36:53.039 until we have enough warm weather for the grass to 1756 01:36:53.159 --> 01:36:56.680 grow new leaves on those runners. So it's not going 1757 01:36:56.760 --> 01:36:59.199 to just make everything change overnight, but it will prevent 1758 01:36:59.720 --> 01:37:01.960 it'll prevent further damage and loss. 1759 01:37:03.520 --> 01:37:08.399 Okay, I put down Aiden turf in October, So you 1760 01:37:08.479 --> 01:37:09.039 think I need to. 1761 01:37:09.039 --> 01:37:09.840 Read Oh you did. 1762 01:37:11.359 --> 01:37:15.119 You shouldn't need to reapply it that fast. Maybe you were. 1763 01:37:15.520 --> 01:37:18.359 Maybe some of this was already infecting before you applied it. 1764 01:37:18.520 --> 01:37:21.199 I don't know. I'll tell you what. Let's do this, Linda. 1765 01:37:21.199 --> 01:37:23.399 Will you take some pictures, show me the whole lawn 1766 01:37:23.600 --> 01:37:26.039 and then get up close to the yellow areas and 1767 01:37:26.159 --> 01:37:28.880 show me some pictures in good sharp focus. I'm going 1768 01:37:28.920 --> 01:37:31.000 to put you on hold. My producer will give you 1769 01:37:31.079 --> 01:37:32.840 an email. Let me take a look at those, just 1770 01:37:32.920 --> 01:37:38.479 to make sure I'm talking about the same thing you're seeing. Okay, okay, 1771 01:37:38.720 --> 01:37:41.399 thank you, all right, I'll be happy to happy to go. 1772 01:37:41.479 --> 01:37:43.960 That was just hang on a second, Emmanuel, pick up 1773 01:37:44.000 --> 01:37:50.199 the phone just second. Yeah, that that's boy, that's interesting. 1774 01:37:50.479 --> 01:37:53.079 You know, it's always good to see pictures because I 1775 01:37:53.159 --> 01:37:55.079 have folks that will send me a picture and then 1776 01:37:55.079 --> 01:37:57.359 they'll go, I'll call on Saturday or Sunday. And by 1777 01:37:57.359 --> 01:38:00.159 the way, when you email me, I would I like 1778 01:38:00.159 --> 01:38:02.720 to be able to answer everybody's email, but I just 1779 01:38:03.319 --> 01:38:06.520 can't handle the volume. There's just no way. So what 1780 01:38:06.680 --> 01:38:08.279 we do is if send me an email and then 1781 01:38:08.319 --> 01:38:11.000 follow up with a call, and we'll be happy to 1782 01:38:11.079 --> 01:38:13.880 help you as best we can that way. You know, 1783 01:38:14.079 --> 01:38:19.680 the Arbor Gate in Tomball is an extraordinary place. Those 1784 01:38:19.720 --> 01:38:21.279 of you who have been there know what I'm talking about. 1785 01:38:21.800 --> 01:38:23.720 By the way, I allow yourself some time when you go. 1786 01:38:24.159 --> 01:38:26.199 It's not a place you run into and run out of, 1787 01:38:26.359 --> 01:38:28.960 like a seven eleven. This is a place you go 1788 01:38:29.119 --> 01:38:31.439 in and you hang out and you just go wow 1789 01:38:31.800 --> 01:38:34.119 or cool, or I didn't know they had those, or oh, 1790 01:38:34.159 --> 01:38:37.039 I can't live without that yard art. They have got 1791 01:38:37.600 --> 01:38:40.319 all kinds of good stuff right now. The gift shops 1792 01:38:40.359 --> 01:38:43.640 are loaded for the holidays. Do you want something, maybe 1793 01:38:43.680 --> 01:38:45.760 you don't have a chameleon in your yard. Wouldn't you 1794 01:38:45.960 --> 01:38:49.760 like a Camellia japonica or susanqua that gives you blooms 1795 01:38:50.039 --> 01:38:53.239 in either late the early winter or the late winter, 1796 01:38:54.159 --> 01:38:57.399 mid to late winter. They've got those, They've got azilia. 1797 01:38:57.479 --> 01:39:01.159 They've got all kinds of wonderful plants there, plus everything 1798 01:39:01.239 --> 01:39:04.680 else you possibly would want a plant, from houseplants to vegetables, 1799 01:39:04.760 --> 01:39:09.600 to herbs to annual flowers. Have some gorgeous, always always 1800 01:39:09.680 --> 01:39:14.479 seasonal color is galore at the arbor Gate is. It 1801 01:39:14.600 --> 01:39:16.800 is the kind of nursery and garden center where you 1802 01:39:16.920 --> 01:39:19.960 know you're going to get great plants and unusual things 1803 01:39:20.000 --> 01:39:21.960 as well, so you don't want the same meat and 1804 01:39:22.039 --> 01:39:25.399 potatoes everybody else has. But you're also going to get advice. 1805 01:39:25.520 --> 01:39:27.880 You're going to get professional advice by people that know 1806 01:39:27.960 --> 01:39:30.119 what they're talking about. And you know what I say, 1807 01:39:30.199 --> 01:39:33.520 brown stuff before green stuff, meaning fix the soil, then 1808 01:39:33.640 --> 01:39:36.439 plant the plant. Arbor Gates got you covered in their 1809 01:39:36.560 --> 01:39:43.239 one two three easy system. Unorganic food complete, unorganic soil complete, 1810 01:39:43.439 --> 01:39:47.640 in an organic compost complete. Those three bags set you 1811 01:39:47.840 --> 01:39:50.279 up for success with your plants. All right, Time for 1812 01:39:50.359 --> 01:39:52.079 me to take a break. I'll be right back. When 1813 01:39:52.119 --> 01:39:55.079 we come back, we will head out to Clear Lake 1814 01:39:55.199 --> 01:39:58.800 and talk to Mark. Welcome back, Welcome into Gardenline. We're 1815 01:39:58.800 --> 01:40:01.119 glad to have you with us. We've got lots of 1816 01:40:01.239 --> 01:40:03.119 things to still talk about. That's the way it is 1817 01:40:03.159 --> 01:40:05.880 with gardening. No matter what the day is, no matter 1818 01:40:05.960 --> 01:40:08.239 what the weather is, there's something to be doing. There's 1819 01:40:08.279 --> 01:40:11.600 something to be talking about, that is for sure. ACE 1820 01:40:11.640 --> 01:40:15.119 Hardware Store speaking of something to be talking about. Ace 1821 01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:19.079 Hardware Stores have the products you hear me talk about 1822 01:40:19.159 --> 01:40:22.079 on garden Line to help you have a more bountiful 1823 01:40:22.119 --> 01:40:25.000 garden and a more beautiful landscape right now. For example, 1824 01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:29.079 in your yard, we're talking about fall fertilizers. ACE has it. 1825 01:40:29.319 --> 01:40:32.680 We're talking about, you know, barricade to prevent weeds from 1826 01:40:32.720 --> 01:40:36.199 coming up. Ace has it. We're talking about eagle tour fungicide. 1827 01:40:36.479 --> 01:40:41.039 Ace has it. From ninetrofiles. They've got everything you can imagine. 1828 01:40:41.079 --> 01:40:44.119 They've got the fire ant baits and maund treatments. By 1829 01:40:44.159 --> 01:40:46.560 the way, now's the time I keep telling you, this 1830 01:40:46.760 --> 01:40:48.800 is the best time to get those baits down, to 1831 01:40:48.880 --> 01:40:51.479 shut those little boogers down, so when you come out 1832 01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:54.399 in spring, you're not overloaded with the fire ants. Now 1833 01:40:54.439 --> 01:40:58.000 it's a good time to do that. ACE seasonally always 1834 01:40:58.039 --> 01:41:00.720 has something going on, you know, their life and things 1835 01:41:00.840 --> 01:41:03.399 like that. We're gonna be talking about that soon because 1836 01:41:03.560 --> 01:41:06.560 they are the place to decorate inside and outside your 1837 01:41:06.600 --> 01:41:10.199 home for all these holidays that we're about to enter into. 1838 01:41:10.720 --> 01:41:13.840 Go to Acehardware dot Com find the store locator and 1839 01:41:13.920 --> 01:41:17.279 you can find one of the over forty stores that's 1840 01:41:17.359 --> 01:41:21.359 near you. I'm going to head now to mark Out 1841 01:41:21.520 --> 01:41:25.039 in clear Lake. Hello, Mark, Welcome to garden Line. 1842 01:41:26.159 --> 01:41:28.960 Hey, good morning, Skip. I sent you the email that 1843 01:41:29.079 --> 01:41:29.600 you wanted. 1844 01:41:30.920 --> 01:41:36.319 It's got some pictures that those brown patched areas and 1845 01:41:37.640 --> 01:41:44.000 if you've noticed where I resided that that browning's kind 1846 01:41:44.000 --> 01:41:47.399 of extended outside of that boundary a little bit. 1847 01:41:47.600 --> 01:41:54.279 So, oh, yes, yes I did. I did see those. Yeah, 1848 01:41:54.479 --> 01:41:58.520 I can so what I see over in the distance 1849 01:41:58.760 --> 01:42:01.880 or the circles that are rise like Tonya brown patch, 1850 01:42:02.079 --> 01:42:03.560 and I see some of that in the floor ground. 1851 01:42:03.600 --> 01:42:06.520 The problem. The thing that's throwing me though, is throughout 1852 01:42:06.600 --> 01:42:10.640 the yard it is brown completely and there's some little 1853 01:42:10.680 --> 01:42:13.079 sprigs of green in it. And I'm thinking maybe you 1854 01:42:13.199 --> 01:42:16.079 have to take all root rot going on in those areas. 1855 01:42:17.000 --> 01:42:20.119 I can't stand, you know, ten feet away from grass 1856 01:42:20.199 --> 01:42:23.239 and say that's take off for sure. But I've seen 1857 01:42:23.319 --> 01:42:25.840 it so much that I kind of know it, and 1858 01:42:26.479 --> 01:42:28.520 I think you may be dealing with take all root 1859 01:42:28.600 --> 01:42:32.000 rot on that. Did you I'm trying to remember now 1860 01:42:32.319 --> 01:42:35.319 the call. Did you say you had used eagle already 1861 01:42:35.560 --> 01:42:35.720 or not? 1862 01:42:37.479 --> 01:42:41.760 Oh? No, sir, I have not. I was afraid to 1863 01:42:41.840 --> 01:42:43.319 really put anything on there. 1864 01:42:43.439 --> 01:42:43.560 You know. 1865 01:42:44.880 --> 01:42:47.319 I didn't want to destroy the new grass and I 1866 01:42:47.399 --> 01:42:49.199 was just trying to figure out what's going on. 1867 01:42:50.399 --> 01:42:53.159 You can do it, you know, you can go ahead. 1868 01:42:53.159 --> 01:42:56.600 I'm sorry, No, No, it's okay, go ahead. 1869 01:42:58.680 --> 01:43:02.439 You know the the picture, the far off pictures you 1870 01:43:02.560 --> 01:43:05.199 see there you can see where there was a tree there, 1871 01:43:05.920 --> 01:43:07.920 and then you look beyond the merd bath and there 1872 01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:11.960 was a tree there, and so mine watering when I 1873 01:43:12.079 --> 01:43:13.239 watered those areas. 1874 01:43:13.760 --> 01:43:15.159 I'm sure you know. 1875 01:43:15.239 --> 01:43:17.920 I just didn't do that one area, but you can 1876 01:43:17.960 --> 01:43:22.279 see I kind of watered the border as well, so right, I. 1877 01:43:23.199 --> 01:43:24.640 Can see what kind of spread. 1878 01:43:26.800 --> 01:43:29.039 Yeah, I would get some eagle to our fund to 1879 01:43:29.119 --> 01:43:31.640 side and I put that down right away, water it 1880 01:43:31.720 --> 01:43:34.840 in and let's try to hold things where they are 1881 01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:38.359 right now and not get any worse. If a couple 1882 01:43:38.439 --> 01:43:41.239 of options. There are some products that are especially good 1883 01:43:41.279 --> 01:43:43.800 against takeoll. Root right eagle will help on that, But 1884 01:43:44.119 --> 01:43:46.399 there's some other products that you can use for take 1885 01:43:46.439 --> 01:43:51.319 off and then there we've seen good results with putting 1886 01:43:51.359 --> 01:43:54.399 peet moss out at about a third of an inch deep. 1887 01:43:54.680 --> 01:43:57.760 You can buy peat moss by the compressed bale. You 1888 01:43:57.880 --> 01:44:00.399 break it apart and you just take your little barrow, 1889 01:44:00.560 --> 01:44:03.119 dump little piles of it everywhere and turn a rake 1890 01:44:03.319 --> 01:44:06.520 upside down, a soil rake upside down so the times 1891 01:44:06.560 --> 01:44:09.880 are pointing upward, and play shuffleboard out there, you know, 1892 01:44:09.960 --> 01:44:12.239 get your arms down low, swinging back and forth, and 1893 01:44:12.359 --> 01:44:15.159 you can just spread that real easily all over that area, 1894 01:44:15.800 --> 01:44:18.960 and any grass that's still alive in there, it will 1895 01:44:19.039 --> 01:44:21.760 help bring that back. There are a number of if 1896 01:44:21.800 --> 01:44:23.560 we determine it's take all, there are a number of 1897 01:44:23.640 --> 01:44:27.800 things you can do for it. But I think you know, 1898 01:44:27.840 --> 01:44:29.720 I hate to send you out to do everything without 1899 01:44:29.800 --> 01:44:32.720 knowing for sure what we're dealing with. But it looks 1900 01:44:32.840 --> 01:44:35.720 dead enough to not be brown patched to me. Get 1901 01:44:35.800 --> 01:44:37.800 on your hands and knees, look at those dead areas, 1902 01:44:37.880 --> 01:44:39.880 look at the runners and see if the runners are 1903 01:44:39.920 --> 01:44:43.319 still green. If they are, you probably are Okay. If not, 1904 01:44:43.479 --> 01:44:45.159 you're going to be residing those areas. 1905 01:44:46.359 --> 01:44:49.960 There's a there's a close up area picture I took. 1906 01:44:50.039 --> 01:44:52.479 I don't know if that if that helps any. 1907 01:44:54.760 --> 01:44:56.319 Oh did you send me a photo of that. 1908 01:44:57.560 --> 01:45:03.239 Yeah, it's there's one see three four pictures. And I 1909 01:45:03.319 --> 01:45:04.039 think it's cold. 1910 01:45:04.119 --> 01:45:09.000 Okay, I see, yeah, I see the clothing. Yeah, that 1911 01:45:09.479 --> 01:45:17.079 that's the resodded area. Okay, Well, uh, still what I said, 1912 01:45:17.359 --> 01:45:20.119 same thing. Put the eagle out a S A P. 1913 01:45:20.359 --> 01:45:23.000 And let's watch and see how it does. H and 1914 01:45:23.199 --> 01:45:25.920 just kind of watch the overwatering. It doesn't need hardly 1915 01:45:25.960 --> 01:45:29.119 any water once we cool off here. So uh, just 1916 01:45:29.359 --> 01:45:31.880 let's let's go from there. Okay. 1917 01:45:32.880 --> 01:45:36.600 So you think the sod is I resott it is, okay, 1918 01:45:36.920 --> 01:45:40.840 but around it is, yeah. 1919 01:45:40.760 --> 01:45:43.840 Bottom bottom line. I'm having to guess from photos. But 1920 01:45:44.000 --> 01:45:46.079 get on your hands and knees, look for the runners 1921 01:45:46.479 --> 01:45:48.600 and see if they're green or not. If they're green, 1922 01:45:49.319 --> 01:45:52.640 that was probably brown patch and it'll bounce back. If 1923 01:45:52.680 --> 01:45:56.359 they're brown, it was takeoff patch and they're not coming back. 1924 01:45:56.399 --> 01:45:59.479 You're gonna end up resotting some of those, okay, Okay, 1925 01:45:59.760 --> 01:46:02.319 gonna have to run. I'm gonna have to run. But yeah, 1926 01:46:02.680 --> 01:46:04.720 thanks for the call. By the way, I appreciate that. 1927 01:46:04.960 --> 01:46:06.880 Good luck with it. Don't don't hesitate to call back. 1928 01:46:06.920 --> 01:46:07.319 And some more. 1929 01:46:08.800 --> 01:46:10.920 Well, I'd like to talk to you about the tomatoes 1930 01:46:11.000 --> 01:46:12.960 I grow in the summer, so we'll see you then. 1931 01:46:14.359 --> 01:46:14.960 Let's do that. 1932 01:46:15.279 --> 01:46:18.840 Sounds like a plan, man, appreciate that, you know, talking 1933 01:46:18.840 --> 01:46:22.920 about beautiful lawns and things. BnB Turf Pros is the 1934 01:46:23.279 --> 01:46:27.359 company for those of you in south West Houston to 1935 01:46:27.439 --> 01:46:31.439 get your grass in top shape. They will come in, 1936 01:46:31.640 --> 01:46:34.319 they will do a core aeration. They pop the little 1937 01:46:34.319 --> 01:46:36.079 plugs out of the ground, leave them on the surface, 1938 01:46:36.119 --> 01:46:39.119 which is what you want, and they will then do 1939 01:46:39.239 --> 01:46:42.600 it compost top dressing. Now they have a special going 1940 01:46:42.640 --> 01:46:47.079 on this fall free aeration when you schedule a compost 1941 01:46:47.359 --> 01:46:50.479 top dressing. And they use quality, only quality stuff from 1942 01:46:50.520 --> 01:46:53.399 like Cena Molts where they get their composts. That if 1943 01:46:53.640 --> 01:46:56.039 they look at the kinds of companies I recommend here 1944 01:46:56.079 --> 01:46:58.600 on Guardline, and that's the quality stuff that they go after, 1945 01:46:58.720 --> 01:47:01.479 whether they're fertilizing or ampos top dressing or whatever they're 1946 01:47:01.520 --> 01:47:02.119 doing out there. 1947 01:47:02.720 --> 01:47:02.840 Uh. 1948 01:47:03.159 --> 01:47:06.439 BnB Turf Pros covers the area from about sugar Land 1949 01:47:06.479 --> 01:47:10.560 and Missouri City on the west end, swings down you know, 1950 01:47:10.720 --> 01:47:14.119 through Sienna, Iowa Colony, Manville, Fresno, all the way up 1951 01:47:14.199 --> 01:47:16.840 to Pearland on the east end. That's their service area. 1952 01:47:17.359 --> 01:47:19.159 And if you want to give them a call seven 1953 01:47:19.239 --> 01:47:23.600 one three two one two fifty five ninety eight. Excuse me, 1954 01:47:24.439 --> 01:47:27.239 gave you the wrong number. Seven one three two three 1955 01:47:27.520 --> 01:47:30.000 four fifty five ninety eight. I'm going to give that again. 1956 01:47:30.600 --> 01:47:34.560 Seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. 1957 01:47:34.720 --> 01:47:36.880 Or just go to the website where you can see 1958 01:47:37.039 --> 01:47:39.199 the work they do. They got some great video on there. 1959 01:47:39.680 --> 01:47:45.960 BB Turfpros dot com. BB turf pros dot com. All right, 1960 01:47:46.359 --> 01:47:49.119 I'm up against a break here. When we come back, 1961 01:47:49.680 --> 01:47:53.000 I will pull up Steve from Deer Park. Look forward 1962 01:47:53.000 --> 01:47:56.840 to talking to you. All righty, welcome back to guarden Line. 1963 01:47:57.239 --> 01:48:00.119 Glad to have you listening in today. You know we're 1964 01:48:00.119 --> 01:48:02.000 talking about a lot of diseases in the lawn. Oh 1965 01:48:02.079 --> 01:48:04.720 my gosh, I've never seen so many pictures. In fact, 1966 01:48:04.760 --> 01:48:07.800 I had to go I had to go cry. I've 1967 01:48:07.880 --> 01:48:09.920 seen so many pictures of dye in grass. It's just 1968 01:48:10.000 --> 01:48:15.319 depressed me to the point, seriously, You know, there's different 1969 01:48:15.479 --> 01:48:19.359 approaches to diseases, and one approach that is very effective 1970 01:48:19.560 --> 01:48:24.000 is to use products that help that protect the plant 1971 01:48:24.960 --> 01:48:29.199 microbially and that help the plant microbially to be stronger. 1972 01:48:29.359 --> 01:48:32.520 You know, there's fun there are microbes in the soil 1973 01:48:33.199 --> 01:48:36.479 that interact with the plant root and cause that plant 1974 01:48:36.560 --> 01:48:39.840 to develop more disease resistance to certain kinds of diseases. 1975 01:48:40.079 --> 01:48:43.840 Did you know that micro grow bioinoculant by Microlife. That's 1976 01:48:44.039 --> 01:48:49.279 a maroon bag microbe grow bioinoculant, sixty three different beneficial 1977 01:48:49.359 --> 01:48:52.279 microbe strains in that product. It's a granular you put 1978 01:48:52.319 --> 01:48:55.560 it out, it goes a long way, like five to 1979 01:48:55.680 --> 01:48:59.119 ten pounds will cover a thousand square feet. Because you're 1980 01:48:59.199 --> 01:49:05.039 not fertilized with it, you are basically seeding out, if 1981 01:49:05.079 --> 01:49:08.199 you will, the microbes all through the yard that then 1982 01:49:08.399 --> 01:49:11.680 become part of helping that protect that plant. Micro Grow 1983 01:49:11.760 --> 01:49:15.199 bionoculant can be used at the same time you're fertilizing. 1984 01:49:15.399 --> 01:49:17.800 Just put out the fertilizer, then put out the bionoculant. 1985 01:49:18.119 --> 01:49:20.560 But it gives that extra boost to the swall. It 1986 01:49:20.600 --> 01:49:22.600 gives the plant the best chance it has now like 1987 01:49:22.720 --> 01:49:27.119 with anything a disease like brown patch. You're not going 1988 01:49:27.199 --> 01:49:30.600 to have big brown circles and put a fungicide or 1989 01:49:30.640 --> 01:49:33.039 put micro grow on it and it just all goes away. 1990 01:49:33.199 --> 01:49:36.359 It's too late. The disease has already killed those grass plates. 1991 01:49:36.840 --> 01:49:39.720 But it's going to regrow. It's going to put green 1992 01:49:39.960 --> 01:49:42.399 leaves back on the runners. And when you do, it's 1993 01:49:42.520 --> 01:49:45.279 good to have the beneficial kinds of things that are 1994 01:49:45.359 --> 01:49:47.079 there to help the plant. And if you don't have 1995 01:49:47.640 --> 01:49:49.720 brown patch, and you have in the past, get the 1996 01:49:49.840 --> 01:49:52.760 micro grow out asap and get it on there so 1997 01:49:52.920 --> 01:49:55.960 that when the disease tries to attack, you at least 1998 01:49:56.079 --> 01:50:00.399 have a good supply to make that grass plant surface 1999 01:50:00.520 --> 01:50:04.600 a little bit more of a inhospitable place for a 2000 01:50:04.680 --> 01:50:07.600 fungal infection to occur. That's one way you go about it. 2001 01:50:07.640 --> 01:50:12.239 It's all for microlife. Microlife products are easily available all 2002 01:50:12.479 --> 01:50:16.640 through widely available in the Houston area. Microlife Fertilizer dot 2003 01:50:16.840 --> 01:50:19.079 Com is where you go to find out just exactly 2004 01:50:19.119 --> 01:50:23.439 where you can purchase those. We're going to go now, 2005 01:50:23.720 --> 01:50:27.079 let's see, we're going to the galleria to talk to Forest. 2006 01:50:27.359 --> 01:50:28.880 Hey Forrest. Welcome to garden Line. 2007 01:50:30.039 --> 01:50:31.159 Hey Good morning, Skiff. 2008 01:50:31.199 --> 01:50:37.520 I had a quick question about safe pesticides or insecticides 2009 01:50:37.640 --> 01:50:42.159 for my vegetable gardening, and it is slug and snail 2010 01:50:42.199 --> 01:50:43.119 bait also safe. 2011 01:50:46.159 --> 01:50:52.159 Okay, I'm sorry I didn't quite follow. Are you asking 2012 01:50:52.239 --> 01:50:54.600 if slug and snail baits are safe? 2013 01:50:56.079 --> 01:50:59.920 Well, I'm asking two questions. Can I put down slugins 2014 01:51:00.000 --> 01:51:02.239 and they albate in and around my vegetable garden? And 2015 01:51:02.319 --> 01:51:05.279 then what other pesticides or insecticides could I use to 2016 01:51:05.439 --> 01:51:09.319 prevent thugs eating my vegetables that they're safe? 2017 01:51:10.800 --> 01:51:13.960 Gotcha? Okay, So for the slug and snow bait, get 2018 01:51:14.079 --> 01:51:19.279 one that has iron phosphate as the ingredient. It is 2019 01:51:19.319 --> 01:51:22.560 a bait the slugs eat it that that high dose 2020 01:51:22.640 --> 01:51:25.640 of iron gives them a terminal case of constipation. Isn't 2021 01:51:25.680 --> 01:51:29.359 that a nice thought? And so that would be the 2022 01:51:29.399 --> 01:51:32.279 one I use. Always use fresh bait, and don't put 2023 01:51:32.279 --> 01:51:34.840 too much out at one time, Put enough out here 2024 01:51:34.920 --> 01:51:37.800 and there, and then rebait again. You want them to 2025 01:51:37.880 --> 01:51:40.039 have fresh bait so they get a lethal dose of 2026 01:51:40.079 --> 01:51:43.600 it when they eat. And as far as other insects, 2027 01:51:43.640 --> 01:51:45.359 it depends on the insect as to what you do. 2028 01:51:45.479 --> 01:51:48.279 If it's aphids or spider mites. I would say your 2029 01:51:48.319 --> 01:51:53.000 best control is going to be insecticidal soap sprays. If 2030 01:51:53.079 --> 01:51:56.439 it is something that is chewing and eating the leaves, 2031 01:51:57.319 --> 01:52:00.000 like a caterpillar or a beetle, then I would say 2032 01:52:00.239 --> 01:52:04.239 you could use something that has name in it or 2033 01:52:04.399 --> 01:52:07.359 something that has spin no said in it sp I 2034 01:52:07.760 --> 01:52:11.239 N O S A D. Those are both organic. 2035 01:52:13.560 --> 01:52:16.119 Okay, that's great. I appreciate it very much, thank you. 2036 01:52:17.000 --> 01:52:19.520 Yeah, there's one hundred other insects out there, but those 2037 01:52:19.560 --> 01:52:22.079 are some of the more common ones that we run across. Oh, 2038 01:52:22.119 --> 01:52:25.960 by the way, stink bugs. Those learning what their eggs 2039 01:52:26.039 --> 01:52:28.359 look like and as you're looking at your plants, pulling 2040 01:52:28.439 --> 01:52:31.399 those off helps a lot. But also a product with 2041 01:52:31.880 --> 01:52:38.119 pyreethern in it would be helpful for those. Alrighty RCW. 2042 01:52:38.840 --> 01:52:42.880 RCW has got their sale going on on shrubs, and 2043 01:52:43.199 --> 01:52:47.079 you know they have such a wide variety. You think 2044 01:52:47.159 --> 01:52:49.079 my daughter's thinking about putting some shrubs in. They just 2045 01:52:49.159 --> 01:52:51.600 redid some flower beds at their house and we were 2046 01:52:51.680 --> 01:52:53.439 just talking about that the other day. And you know, 2047 01:52:53.600 --> 01:52:56.439 RCW has got a wide range of all kinds of 2048 01:52:56.479 --> 01:52:59.520 cool shrubs. They got a sale on them, really good deal. 2049 01:52:59.640 --> 01:53:01.720 Right now, and now's the time to plan them. While 2050 01:53:01.720 --> 01:53:04.960 you're there, they will provide you with the things you 2051 01:53:05.079 --> 01:53:08.159 need to go with that trub, for example, a root stimulator, 2052 01:53:08.239 --> 01:53:11.079 of fertilizers and things like that to help get that 2053 01:53:11.199 --> 01:53:14.079 shrub off to a good start. Now, they're way more 2054 01:53:14.159 --> 01:53:19.039 than shrubs, herbs, perennials, annuals, native plants, trees. They grow 2055 01:53:19.119 --> 01:53:22.399 their own trees up in Plantersville, and so they have 2056 01:53:22.600 --> 01:53:26.079 trees that want to live here. They're selected for here. 2057 01:53:26.239 --> 01:53:27.960 They're not going to say something that won't grow here, 2058 01:53:28.479 --> 01:53:30.680 and they've been grown right and they can even come 2059 01:53:30.760 --> 01:53:33.000 plant them out, you know, larger container. You're not going 2060 01:53:33.039 --> 01:53:35.399 to lift that yourself unless you want to put your 2061 01:53:35.439 --> 01:53:39.159 chiropractors kids through college. But they'll come out and do 2062 01:53:39.239 --> 01:53:42.800 a good job of planning them. RCW nurseries dot com. 2063 01:53:43.319 --> 01:53:46.439 Tombole Parkway where it comes into belt Way eight. That's 2064 01:53:46.479 --> 01:53:49.039 Tombo Parkway Hagby two forty nine, right where it comes 2065 01:53:49.079 --> 01:53:51.279 into belt Way eight. We're going to go now to 2066 01:53:51.359 --> 01:53:53.880 Deer Park and talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, Welcome to 2067 01:53:53.960 --> 01:53:54.439 garden Line. 2068 01:53:55.399 --> 01:54:00.600 Yeah, good morning, Skip. I sent a picture that I 2069 01:54:00.720 --> 01:54:04.079 was going to get you to identify the tree or 2070 01:54:04.199 --> 01:54:04.960 shrub for me. 2071 01:54:06.840 --> 01:54:12.159 Okay, let me see. Let me come up here, Steve, 2072 01:54:12.520 --> 01:54:16.439 I don't have a Steve here? Is that the name 2073 01:54:16.560 --> 01:54:18.079 on the email Steve. 2074 01:54:20.199 --> 01:54:28.399 Well, Steven would be as as Porter as Porter Porter, 2075 01:54:30.439 --> 01:54:31.640 I do not have that. 2076 01:54:31.880 --> 01:54:33.439 I don't know why it didn't come through. 2077 01:54:36.880 --> 01:54:38.079 Okay, let's do this. 2078 01:54:38.920 --> 01:54:41.720 Let me let me check one more time, make sure 2079 01:54:43.560 --> 01:54:47.079 Richard and Rick and all the rest we have covered here, 2080 01:54:47.199 --> 01:54:51.479 and go back just one more quick check. No, no, 2081 01:54:52.159 --> 01:54:54.239 I don't I don't see it. I'm gonna put you 2082 01:54:54.319 --> 01:54:58.720 on hold. Let's see. Yeah, we got another hour left here. 2083 01:54:59.079 --> 01:55:03.199 Uh a manual. My producer will pick up the phone 2084 01:55:03.479 --> 01:55:06.800 and check. Make sure you have the right email, and 2085 01:55:07.079 --> 01:55:09.079 let's try it on and I'll be happy to take 2086 01:55:09.119 --> 01:55:12.520 a look at it. And you just want an identification 2087 01:55:12.680 --> 01:55:15.199 on it, correct, right? Yeah. 2088 01:55:15.760 --> 01:55:17.840 I don't think there's anything wrong with it right now 2089 01:55:17.920 --> 01:55:20.319 or anything, but what I could ask you one other 2090 01:55:20.439 --> 01:55:26.439 question about a plumeria real quick. We have a plumeria 2091 01:55:26.520 --> 01:55:29.560 that we pull it up every year for the winter 2092 01:55:30.479 --> 01:55:36.640 and then replant it in the spring, and it makes 2093 01:55:37.039 --> 01:55:42.479 flowers only on one branch it makes. It's got multiple branches, 2094 01:55:42.560 --> 01:55:45.000 but only one of them makes flowers. Is there anything 2095 01:55:45.079 --> 01:55:48.039 I can do to spread the flowers out? 2096 01:55:49.479 --> 01:55:52.000 Well, that's strange. I don't know what would cause that. 2097 01:55:52.720 --> 01:55:56.199 A plumeria with one branch balloons only. I don't know. 2098 01:55:56.279 --> 01:55:58.840 We got any Plumerius Society people out there that know 2099 01:55:58.920 --> 01:56:01.800 about this situation. That's a new one on me. I 2100 01:56:01.840 --> 01:56:06.000 haven't run across before. I assume all the areas are 2101 01:56:06.000 --> 01:56:07.880 getting the same amount of sunlight and everything. 2102 01:56:09.119 --> 01:56:12.439 Yeah, yeah, and they all grew gross, please all over, 2103 01:56:12.600 --> 01:56:15.920 but just the one branch gross flowers. 2104 01:56:17.199 --> 01:56:19.399 Very curious. I'll look into that. If I find anything, 2105 01:56:19.520 --> 01:56:22.199 I'll say it on the air. But maybe someone from 2106 01:56:22.279 --> 01:56:26.640 Plumerius Society. They they even breathe plumerias and they may 2107 01:56:26.680 --> 01:56:30.479 be at ware something. I'm not so all right, all right, well, 2108 01:56:30.680 --> 01:56:33.359 thank you, thank you for the call. All right, just 2109 01:56:33.439 --> 01:56:35.039 hang on. It may take him just a little bit 2110 01:56:35.079 --> 01:56:37.000 because he's got the top of the hour news to do, 2111 01:56:37.159 --> 01:56:40.479 but I'm put your on hold and we'll be right back. Well, 2112 01:56:41.000 --> 01:56:42.880 just a quick reminder, I'm going to be at wild 2113 01:56:42.960 --> 01:56:46.680 Bird's Ace giving away lots of Nelson fertilizer products that 2114 01:56:46.880 --> 01:56:51.439 from twelve to two today in Kingwood, Kingwood Drive. 2115 01:56:52.720 --> 01:56:56.920 Welcome to kg R h guarded line with Cap Richard, so. 2116 01:57:05.319 --> 01:57:06.880 Just watch him as. 2117 01:57:11.920 --> 01:57:13.359 So many good things. 2118 01:57:21.600 --> 01:57:22.359 Not a sign. 2119 01:57:25.960 --> 01:57:30.800 Hey, welcome back. Good to be back with you guys. 2120 01:57:30.960 --> 01:57:33.520 Guess what we're entering our last hour of the day, 2121 01:57:35.920 --> 01:57:39.079 nine to ten am. We're here every Saturday and Sunday 2122 01:57:39.119 --> 01:57:41.279 from six am to ten am. For those of you 2123 01:57:41.399 --> 01:57:44.239 just tuning in for the first time. Tell your friends. 2124 01:57:45.279 --> 01:57:47.399 The more the merrier, love to have them listening in. 2125 01:57:48.079 --> 01:57:51.319 At noon today, I will be out at wild Birds 2126 01:57:51.359 --> 01:57:54.520 in Kingwood. Wile ago I said wild Birds Ace. I 2127 01:57:54.600 --> 01:57:56.840 don't think there's an Ace hardware store called Wilbirds. The 2128 01:57:57.079 --> 01:58:03.000 Ace hardware stores in Kingwood. Some goodwoods, but Wildbirds Wildbirds 2129 01:58:03.039 --> 01:58:06.880 in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive right behind Torchy Stockos and 2130 01:58:06.960 --> 01:58:10.279 I'm going to be given away a lot of Nelsen fertilizer. 2131 01:58:10.840 --> 01:58:14.239 We got these little jars. They are just. 2132 01:58:15.720 --> 01:58:15.920 Well. 2133 01:58:16.000 --> 01:58:18.520 For example, I got color Star, I got Rose, I've 2134 01:58:18.520 --> 01:58:21.800 got vegetable garden, and I've got Genesis the transplant mix, 2135 01:58:21.960 --> 01:58:24.560 which I love that one. I even have some small 2136 01:58:24.600 --> 01:58:27.279 packets of the Genesis too, But four different sizes, four 2137 01:58:27.319 --> 01:58:30.000 different kinds of jars. I have so many of them. 2138 01:58:30.119 --> 01:58:31.960 If you show up at Wildbirds, I bet you get one. 2139 01:58:32.039 --> 01:58:35.159 I mean, I don't think I'll run out, So come on, let's. 2140 01:58:34.960 --> 01:58:35.279 Go for it. 2141 01:58:35.359 --> 01:58:37.960 Nelson provided us a lot of their quality mixes to 2142 01:58:38.560 --> 01:58:41.199 get in people's hands. And while we're out there, bring 2143 01:58:41.279 --> 01:58:44.399 me your questions, bring me your samples, your diseases, your 2144 01:58:44.600 --> 01:58:49.680 insect infestations, your plan identifications. I feel like the statue 2145 01:58:49.720 --> 01:58:53.359 of liberty. You're tired, you're weary, you're huddled masses yearning 2146 01:58:53.439 --> 01:58:56.279 to breathe free. I think something like that. Anyway, I'll 2147 01:58:56.319 --> 01:58:58.840 be the statue of liberty for plants today. Bring me 2148 01:58:59.199 --> 01:59:01.439 some things, less know some let's talk about them, let's 2149 01:59:01.479 --> 01:59:04.800 identify them, let's help you have success. Can't wait to 2150 01:59:04.840 --> 01:59:06.720 see you out there. All right, we're going to go 2151 01:59:06.840 --> 01:59:09.840 straight back here. We were talking a little bit earlier 2152 01:59:10.239 --> 01:59:14.159 with Steve and deer Park. Hey, Steve, what you sent 2153 01:59:14.239 --> 01:59:19.000 me a picture of is called Chinese or Japanese privet. 2154 01:59:19.520 --> 01:59:23.800 It is Lagustrum japonicum and it is a very invasive plant. 2155 01:59:24.279 --> 01:59:27.359 Those little berries get eaten by birds. They haul them 2156 01:59:27.439 --> 01:59:30.680 around and poop them out, and these come up in 2157 01:59:30.760 --> 01:59:34.800 the woods. It's one of the more difficult invasive plants 2158 01:59:35.000 --> 01:59:38.000 that the southeastern United States is struggling. 2159 01:59:37.600 --> 01:59:38.199 With right now. 2160 01:59:39.520 --> 01:59:44.840 Oh well, I hate to chop it down. Yeah, okay, 2161 01:59:44.960 --> 01:59:46.119 well we did you know what it is? 2162 01:59:47.600 --> 01:59:49.680 Yeah, that's what it is, and that's the berries. And 2163 01:59:50.159 --> 01:59:52.560 if you look around you probably see it somewhere around there, 2164 01:59:52.600 --> 01:59:55.039 because you know, of course birds can fly a long way. 2165 01:59:55.119 --> 01:59:59.720 But that is lagustrum Japonicum Japanese privot. 2166 02:00:00.800 --> 02:00:05.119 Well the one year this we had was loaded with 2167 02:00:05.279 --> 02:00:08.359 berries and we must have had a million little bitty 2168 02:00:08.439 --> 02:00:10.880 birds on it and they just ate them all up 2169 02:00:10.920 --> 02:00:14.760 in a few days. But anyway, I appreciate the identification. 2170 02:00:15.039 --> 02:00:18.560 Thank you, you bet, you bet. Thanks for hanging around. 2171 02:00:19.079 --> 02:00:23.079 Good luck with that, take care, thank you. Ready here, 2172 02:00:23.199 --> 02:00:27.840 we're going to now head to Linda and Dickinson. Hello, Linda, 2173 02:00:27.920 --> 02:00:29.720 I think you sent me some pictures too. 2174 02:00:29.880 --> 02:00:32.840 Is that right right about the ground? 2175 02:00:35.680 --> 02:00:36.039 Okay? 2176 02:00:36.439 --> 02:00:36.680 Was this? 2177 02:00:38.119 --> 02:00:41.279 Let me make sure I got yes, I replied by email. 2178 02:00:41.359 --> 02:00:45.640 That is brown patch. Uh, brown patch is causing those 2179 02:00:46.079 --> 02:00:51.479 yellowing spots, and uh the way to prevent it is 2180 02:00:51.600 --> 02:00:56.039 with eagle turf funge aside by nitrophiles Eagle turf fund. 2181 02:00:57.199 --> 02:00:59.359 But I put that down in October do you want 2182 02:00:59.439 --> 02:01:01.960 me to put I put it down in October. 2183 02:01:03.319 --> 02:01:07.479 Here's the deal. Yeah, here's the deal. It works, but 2184 02:01:07.600 --> 02:01:09.079 you got to put it down, you got to water 2185 02:01:09.199 --> 02:01:11.640 it in, and then you got to do that before 2186 02:01:12.000 --> 02:01:14.880 the infection. But what I see in the picture is 2187 02:01:14.960 --> 02:01:18.079 a lot of infection. So there are very few areas 2188 02:01:18.159 --> 02:01:20.560 in that yard other than way out by those trees 2189 02:01:21.319 --> 02:01:24.640 where it hasn't already hit. So right, you know, you 2190 02:01:24.760 --> 02:01:27.520 have to just decide is it worth to protect a 2191 02:01:27.600 --> 02:01:30.439 little bit of what's left to put it down again 2192 02:01:30.600 --> 02:01:35.079 or not. But if you get it down ahead of time, 2193 02:01:35.199 --> 02:01:37.319 watered in real good, and the plant takes it up, 2194 02:01:37.479 --> 02:01:40.319 then when the brown patch hits it, it tries to infect. 2195 02:01:40.359 --> 02:01:44.880 Put the eagles there. At this stage, like I said, 2196 02:01:44.920 --> 02:01:47.319 you're only protecting the parts that haven't gotten it yet, 2197 02:01:48.119 --> 02:01:49.880 and all of it will green back up in the 2198 02:01:49.960 --> 02:01:51.119 spring as it warms up. 2199 02:01:52.880 --> 02:01:55.479 Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate it. 2200 02:01:56.800 --> 02:01:58.960 All right, it's already be the bear of bad news today. 2201 02:02:00.119 --> 02:02:05.800 Take care, all right, Bobby, Yeah, we you know I 2202 02:02:05.840 --> 02:02:08.680 got I just use this opportunity to say, I got 2203 02:02:08.760 --> 02:02:12.359 these schedules up there, and these schedules are on my 2204 02:02:12.479 --> 02:02:16.800 website at gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip 2205 02:02:16.880 --> 02:02:19.479 dot com. They are free. One of them is the 2206 02:02:19.640 --> 02:02:27.159 lawn care schedule, mowing, watering, fertilizing, adding mineral supplement, micro 2207 02:02:27.279 --> 02:02:31.520 nutrient supplements, doing aeration. All of that is on the schedule. 2208 02:02:31.960 --> 02:02:36.199 The other schedule is the lawn pest, disease and weed 2209 02:02:36.359 --> 02:02:39.720 management schedule. So think of it this way. The first 2210 02:02:39.720 --> 02:02:42.520 schedule is how to grow on the second schedule is 2211 02:02:42.560 --> 02:02:44.560 how to deal with things that are after your lawn 2212 02:02:45.399 --> 02:02:48.399 or that are causing problems in the lawn. Both of 2213 02:02:48.479 --> 02:02:51.520 them go from January to December. There's multiple colors in 2214 02:02:51.600 --> 02:02:53.760 them that make them real easy to follow. Like on 2215 02:02:53.880 --> 02:02:57.039 the on the disease schedule, you know, I said I 2216 02:02:57.640 --> 02:03:02.119 had the insect disease and schedule. On that schedule, if 2217 02:03:02.159 --> 02:03:05.279 you look, there's a road that's yellow for insects, there's 2218 02:03:05.319 --> 02:03:08.239 a road that's brown for diseases, and then there's two 2219 02:03:08.359 --> 02:03:11.239 rows that are green for weeds because weats are green. 2220 02:03:11.960 --> 02:03:14.079 And if you follow that color to the bottom, it 2221 02:03:14.159 --> 02:03:18.239 tells you exactly your control options that you would use there. 2222 02:03:18.279 --> 02:03:22.039 It makes it really really easy. But I'm telling you, folks, 2223 02:03:22.439 --> 02:03:24.279 timing is everything. 2224 02:03:25.039 --> 02:03:25.199 You know. 2225 02:03:25.319 --> 02:03:29.039 I over and over again on guarden Line, I talk about, Hey, 2226 02:03:29.199 --> 02:03:31.720 it's time to do this or it's time to do that. 2227 02:03:32.560 --> 02:03:34.920 Fall is the best planning season of the year. You 2228 02:03:35.000 --> 02:03:37.079 can plant twelve months out of the year here in Houston, 2229 02:03:37.319 --> 02:03:40.479 but fall is the best. So the longer you wait, 2230 02:03:40.640 --> 02:03:44.239 the closer are you are to summer, and the longer 2231 02:03:44.319 --> 02:03:48.119 it takes. By the way, that nitrofas Eagle Turf Fungicide 2232 02:03:48.159 --> 02:03:50.680 is one of the three parts of their three step system. 2233 02:03:51.119 --> 02:03:54.800 That would include the Eagle Turf fungicide. That would include 2234 02:03:55.000 --> 02:03:59.800 the nitroposs barricade that prevents weed seeds from getting started, 2235 02:04:00.000 --> 02:04:02.119 makes a barricade over the surface of the soul they 2236 02:04:02.199 --> 02:04:06.159 can't come through. Second or third, the Nitrofoss Fall Special. 2237 02:04:06.359 --> 02:04:09.239 That's a winner riser. Now you're going to find Nitrofoss products. 2238 02:04:09.520 --> 02:04:11.680 It in Channel Forest and Richmond. You're going to find 2239 02:04:11.720 --> 02:04:14.039 it at Ace Hardware, a Memorial Drive. You're going to 2240 02:04:14.079 --> 02:04:17.239 find it at Gym's hardbur Montgomery and Stanton shopping Center 2241 02:04:17.800 --> 02:04:19.920 for those of you down there in the Alvin area. 2242 02:04:20.159 --> 02:04:23.119 All part of Nitrofoss is one two three easy system. 2243 02:04:24.239 --> 02:04:30.520 Don't delay. With every delay the problems increase. Alrighty, I 2244 02:04:30.720 --> 02:04:34.000 think we are looking at up time for another break boy. 2245 02:04:34.359 --> 02:04:37.000 Time is flying this morning, as it usually does. Built 2246 02:04:37.039 --> 02:04:39.199 in sugar Land, you will be our very first up 2247 02:04:40.199 --> 02:04:42.880 and when we come back from break, I just want 2248 02:04:42.920 --> 02:04:48.399 to remind you today Kingwood wild Birds Unlimited on Kingwood Drive, 2249 02:04:48.439 --> 02:04:51.520 behind torches Tacos. Come on and see me, bring me 2250 02:04:51.600 --> 02:04:53.680 samples and things you want to talk about. I'd love 2251 02:04:53.760 --> 02:04:55.920 to meet you. Bring your camera phone so we can 2252 02:04:56.000 --> 02:04:58.439 take a picture together. And I want you to see 2253 02:04:58.479 --> 02:05:01.359 this swell bird store. It is really cool. I promise 2254 02:05:01.439 --> 02:05:05.119 you that, but I got to warn you birding is addictive. 2255 02:05:05.199 --> 02:05:08.560 I've never considered myself a birder until I started getting 2256 02:05:08.600 --> 02:05:12.159 some things from wild birds and started gathering them to 2257 02:05:12.199 --> 02:05:15.399 the backyard and oh my gosh, I don't know where 2258 02:05:15.680 --> 02:05:18.399 they were. It was where I was before and not 2259 02:05:18.520 --> 02:05:21.680 having birds because I so enjoy them. Now just another 2260 02:05:21.840 --> 02:05:25.439 aspect of gardening. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome back 2261 02:05:25.439 --> 02:05:29.439 to your guarden line. Welcome back. We're going to jump 2262 02:05:29.520 --> 02:05:32.199 right in things again. Hey, uh, you've heard me talk 2263 02:05:32.199 --> 02:05:36.279 about Jorges Hidden gardens down in Alvin, Texas. For those 2264 02:05:36.359 --> 02:05:39.159 of you down in the Greater Alvin area unless I 2265 02:05:39.279 --> 02:05:41.640 Greater Avenue, what I'm talking about is, you know, like 2266 02:05:41.720 --> 02:05:45.880 Santa fe Dickinson, Algoa, Arcadia, Alt Loma, alb of course 2267 02:05:45.960 --> 02:05:49.800 Alvin h what I leave, Oh, Hillcrest is down in 2268 02:05:49.880 --> 02:05:54.199 that area too. This is your hometown garden center. Jorges 2269 02:05:54.279 --> 02:05:58.359 Hidden Gardens Now. Jorge has got an excellent selection of 2270 02:05:58.560 --> 02:06:01.560 all kinds of plans, so I know right now he 2271 02:06:01.840 --> 02:06:04.920 has a really good selection of roses, and he always 2272 02:06:04.960 --> 02:06:06.680 has a good selection of fruit trees, and he's got 2273 02:06:06.760 --> 02:06:09.920 plenty of those as well as well as other shrubs 2274 02:06:09.960 --> 02:06:11.960 and trees. And then of course the plants of the 2275 02:06:12.039 --> 02:06:15.199 season are there at Horas Hidden Gardens. 2276 02:06:15.520 --> 02:06:15.640 Now. 2277 02:06:15.880 --> 02:06:19.920 Jory also carries the three sixty degree Tree Stabilizer, the 2278 02:06:20.239 --> 02:06:22.920 best product for when you plant a new tree, for 2279 02:06:23.000 --> 02:06:27.520 staking that tree and holding the tree while allowing movement 2280 02:06:27.880 --> 02:06:30.640 on the tree. That's very important. Hoy carries us for example, 2281 02:06:31.000 --> 02:06:34.399 his fall hours. He's closed on Monday, but he's opened 2282 02:06:34.439 --> 02:06:37.520 today and tomorrow from eight am to four pm, Saturday 2283 02:06:37.520 --> 02:06:39.680 and Sunday, and then Tuesday through Friday from nine to 2284 02:06:39.840 --> 02:06:44.119 three Jorge'es Hidden Gardens. He's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, 2285 02:06:44.479 --> 02:06:48.199 just south of Highway sixth There go check him out. 2286 02:06:48.520 --> 02:06:52.880 He's got some really really cool stuff around We're going 2287 02:06:52.920 --> 02:06:54.800 to go back to the phones now and head to 2288 02:06:54.880 --> 02:06:56.239 Sugarland to talk to Bill. 2289 02:06:56.560 --> 02:06:59.960 Hello Bill, Hello, Skip, how are you serving? 2290 02:07:01.439 --> 02:07:03.199 I have two questions? 2291 02:07:03.640 --> 02:07:05.640 Could I have two questions? 2292 02:07:05.760 --> 02:07:08.399 My first is, we have some Japanese blueberry trees in 2293 02:07:08.479 --> 02:07:12.680 the back. They're about twelve foot high, provide a privacy backdrop. 2294 02:07:12.800 --> 02:07:16.960 I keep them pretty trimmed into hedge. They're pretty unwieldy 2295 02:07:17.039 --> 02:07:19.319 right now. I need to be trimmed. My question is 2296 02:07:19.960 --> 02:07:21.760 can I do that now in November or is that 2297 02:07:21.880 --> 02:07:24.399 something I should wait till, you know, February or so 2298 02:07:24.560 --> 02:07:25.279 to do? 2299 02:07:26.880 --> 02:07:27.039 You know? 2300 02:07:27.159 --> 02:07:29.960 A good, A good, really hard freeze can can knock 2301 02:07:30.039 --> 02:07:34.079 Japanese blueberry back, and anytime you prune it stimulates tender 2302 02:07:34.159 --> 02:07:36.880 new growth, which would be a disaster with a hard 2303 02:07:36.920 --> 02:07:39.760 freeze coming in. I would wait until we get past 2304 02:07:39.840 --> 02:07:41.479 the freezes this winter and do the. 2305 02:07:41.479 --> 02:07:46.960 Pruning you need to do then, okay, super. And my 2306 02:07:47.319 --> 02:07:49.920 second question is we have lantana kind of the same way. 2307 02:07:50.039 --> 02:07:52.720 Is that prune now or just wait wait it out 2308 02:07:52.760 --> 02:07:54.920 through the winter and oleanders too. 2309 02:07:55.039 --> 02:07:58.920 I would I would let the land, let the lantana go, 2310 02:07:59.319 --> 02:08:01.399 get a good free on it, kind of kill it back, 2311 02:08:02.279 --> 02:08:04.239 and then cut it off just a few inches above 2312 02:08:04.279 --> 02:08:07.159 the ground and it will it will come back out 2313 02:08:07.199 --> 02:08:11.039 as a fresh new bush next spring. So a lot 2314 02:08:11.079 --> 02:08:14.159 of people wait until midwinter to prune the lantana just 2315 02:08:14.239 --> 02:08:16.039 because you know how it is down here. I mean, 2316 02:08:16.079 --> 02:08:19.920 we could get almost eighty degrees for a week and everything. 2317 02:08:19.680 --> 02:08:26.279 Start growing right right, and oleanders same thing, yeah, leander, 2318 02:08:26.880 --> 02:08:29.159 just probably wait until the end of the winter time 2319 02:08:29.399 --> 02:08:30.239 to cut those back. 2320 02:08:30.359 --> 02:08:35.079 There's not a particular pruning system for leanders. You can 2321 02:08:35.439 --> 02:08:38.439 cheer them back a little, but I like the natural form. 2322 02:08:38.520 --> 02:08:40.720 So taking in tarcanes out back at the base of 2323 02:08:40.800 --> 02:08:45.359 the bushes is another option for those just what you 2324 02:08:45.439 --> 02:08:47.880 want to look at, but get past the freezes before 2325 02:08:47.920 --> 02:08:48.279 you do that. 2326 02:08:49.359 --> 02:08:51.760 Well, yeah, just give me a lot of extra time today, 2327 02:08:51.800 --> 02:08:52.279 thank you, sir. 2328 02:08:53.439 --> 02:08:53.880 I did. 2329 02:08:54.199 --> 02:08:56.880 I did. Drive to Kingwood and I'll see you there. 2330 02:08:57.239 --> 02:08:59.279 It's not far. I mean it's just on the opposite 2331 02:08:59.439 --> 02:09:06.920 end of hereon Bibill, right, thank you, all right, that's right. 2332 02:09:07.800 --> 02:09:12.680 Ciena Molts is the place for the brown stuff that 2333 02:09:12.880 --> 02:09:16.680 sets the foundation for all success in a garden. Cianna 2334 02:09:16.760 --> 02:09:20.640 Malts south of Houston. They are in that area of 2335 02:09:21.039 --> 02:09:25.000 Pomona and Fresno and manfol and First Colony and Pearland 2336 02:09:25.079 --> 02:09:29.039 and oh gosh, Sandy Point our Cola, Iowa colony. That 2337 02:09:29.520 --> 02:09:31.760 they cover that whole area down there, and they deliver 2338 02:09:31.880 --> 02:09:35.560 within about twenty miles for a delivery fee. But they 2339 02:09:35.600 --> 02:09:39.319 are really well known for their premium hardwood bought mulches 2340 02:09:39.600 --> 02:09:44.159 in bulk and their premium soils and soil blends and composts. 2341 02:09:44.640 --> 02:09:46.880 So when you go there, do you want native hardwood malts, 2342 02:09:46.960 --> 02:09:49.600 doubble ground molts, two inch screen malts. Do you want 2343 02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:56.119 a nice beautiful chocolate colored malts, not dyed, natural smells amazing? 2344 02:09:56.880 --> 02:10:00.399 Do you want to buy Landscaper's Pride black velvet for example? 2345 02:10:00.520 --> 02:10:02.880 They carry that down there. They have rose soils, they 2346 02:10:03.000 --> 02:10:07.319 organic composts, they've got you know, the veggiean urbics that 2347 02:10:08.039 --> 02:10:13.239 heirloom soils produces, and they carry the fertilizers that I 2348 02:10:13.359 --> 02:10:15.520 talk about on garden Line that are part of the 2349 02:10:15.560 --> 02:10:18.039 brown stuff, part of the soil, part of making the 2350 02:10:18.159 --> 02:10:22.359 foundation perfect. So your plants are just happy and it 2351 02:10:22.439 --> 02:10:24.680 makes it look like you got a green thumb because 2352 02:10:24.720 --> 02:10:27.920 you informed your thumb by taking care of the soil first, 2353 02:10:28.079 --> 02:10:33.079 brown stuff before green stuff Microlife Asamite, Nelson, turf Star, 2354 02:10:33.680 --> 02:10:39.239 Heirloom Soils, nitrofoss Landscapers, Pride, Nelson, plant Food, Medina. All 2355 02:10:39.319 --> 02:10:42.840 of this stuff to set the foundation is there at 2356 02:10:42.880 --> 02:10:45.439 Siena Maltch near Highway six and two eighty eight. They're 2357 02:10:45.520 --> 02:10:49.319 on FM five twenty one. They're open today till two, 2358 02:10:49.760 --> 02:10:53.439 closed on Sundays Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five. 2359 02:10:54.520 --> 02:10:59.760 We're going to head now to Kyle in Boston. Wor'st Boston, Kyle. 2360 02:11:01.800 --> 02:11:05.199 Sorry, it must have sounded like Boston. Austin the Republic 2361 02:11:05.279 --> 02:11:06.800 of Austin, Central Texas. 2362 02:11:07.880 --> 02:11:12.079 Oh, the People's Republic of Okay, I got you. I 2363 02:11:12.239 --> 02:11:13.000 used to live there. 2364 02:11:13.079 --> 02:11:13.279 I know. 2365 02:11:13.600 --> 02:11:17.119 Actually I'm on the west side near Dripping Springs. I 2366 02:11:17.239 --> 02:11:19.279 only claim Austin who I can get mailed. 2367 02:11:20.600 --> 02:11:24.520 You know, there's bumper stickers in Austin. Hey, Kyle, there's 2368 02:11:24.560 --> 02:11:27.640 bumper stickers in Austin that say keep Austin weird. I 2369 02:11:27.840 --> 02:11:31.439 promise you that is the most unnecessary campaign. They are 2370 02:11:31.479 --> 02:11:35.560 in no danger of not being weird. But let's quit 2371 02:11:36.520 --> 02:11:38.800 having fun with Austin and let's get to your question. 2372 02:11:39.920 --> 02:11:40.319 There we go. 2373 02:11:40.600 --> 02:11:43.840 Yeah, so I brown stuff before green stuff. 2374 02:11:43.880 --> 02:11:44.640 I keep hearing that. 2375 02:11:44.880 --> 02:11:47.159 Over the past few weeks, I listened to you regularly 2376 02:11:47.279 --> 02:11:49.920 on Saturdays as I go in to work out and 2377 02:11:50.039 --> 02:11:52.439 come back home. I've got a little round trip, and 2378 02:11:53.399 --> 02:11:55.800 we live on a ten acre piece of property that's 2379 02:11:56.079 --> 02:12:01.359 about eight acres of really thick ash juniper woods, thick like. 2380 02:12:01.560 --> 02:12:03.479 Machete cut through the woods, thick. 2381 02:12:04.439 --> 02:12:06.560 There are some trails cut through the woods, and we 2382 02:12:06.720 --> 02:12:09.960 manage those those trails as trees fallen, et cetera. But 2383 02:12:10.520 --> 02:12:14.119 the couple of acres around our actual house is a 2384 02:12:14.439 --> 02:12:17.880 just mixture of random weaves and flowers and grasses and 2385 02:12:17.960 --> 02:12:20.960 whatever has come along over the years. I don't really 2386 02:12:21.039 --> 02:12:24.880 pay a lot of attention to treating or taking care 2387 02:12:25.000 --> 02:12:28.960 of the nutrient base of that particular couple of acres. 2388 02:12:29.079 --> 02:12:31.479 I mow it maybe five six times a year as 2389 02:12:31.520 --> 02:12:33.079 it gets tall in certain areas. 2390 02:12:33.720 --> 02:12:34.880 But as I'm hearing more. 2391 02:12:34.920 --> 02:12:38.039 Brown stuff before green stuff, my question to you is 2392 02:12:38.720 --> 02:12:41.880 what would be best for the total ecology of our 2393 02:12:42.000 --> 02:12:47.000 property in treating either nutrient based or pesticide based, or 2394 02:12:47.119 --> 02:12:50.239 nothing at all as I'm doing and just letting nature. 2395 02:12:50.039 --> 02:12:53.560 Take its course. You know, in an area that big 2396 02:12:53.880 --> 02:12:56.319 out there, I don't see a need to go out 2397 02:12:56.359 --> 02:12:58.840 and try to fertilize and add compost in the soil 2398 02:12:58.920 --> 02:13:01.479 and things just in uneral. Now, if you wanted to 2399 02:13:01.560 --> 02:13:04.640 put a vegetable garden or an herb garden, or flower 2400 02:13:04.720 --> 02:13:07.600 beds in or shrub beeds or things, yes, then we 2401 02:13:07.680 --> 02:13:12.680 would be bringing in decomposed organic matter, compost, mixing it 2402 02:13:12.720 --> 02:13:14.760 in with the soil. Maybe bringing in a bed mix 2403 02:13:14.840 --> 02:13:16.800 that already has a mixture of things and putting it 2404 02:13:16.880 --> 02:13:18.680 on the soil. Most of your saws out that way, 2405 02:13:18.800 --> 02:13:20.960 or kind of a clay a black clay type soil. 2406 02:13:21.039 --> 02:13:24.399 But there's some variation, yes, sure, but just in a 2407 02:13:24.520 --> 02:13:27.920 kind of I'll just say a wildscape kind of area. Yeah, 2408 02:13:28.039 --> 02:13:31.199 don't waste your time and money on fertilizing unless you're 2409 02:13:31.199 --> 02:13:34.199 trying to grow grass, pasture, grass for cattle or some 2410 02:13:34.520 --> 02:13:35.039 other thing. 2411 02:13:36.720 --> 02:13:39.399 Okay, My last part of the question would be, there 2412 02:13:39.520 --> 02:13:43.319 is a particular area we are dedicating toward planting blue 2413 02:13:43.359 --> 02:13:46.680 bonnets by seating or actually have done that in the 2414 02:13:46.760 --> 02:13:47.840 past couple of weeks. 2415 02:13:47.600 --> 02:13:48.279 Since we've read up. 2416 02:13:48.319 --> 02:13:50.119 This is the time of year to do it, not 2417 02:13:50.319 --> 02:13:51.720 expecting blue it is for. 2418 02:13:51.800 --> 02:13:52.680 The next year and a half. 2419 02:13:53.560 --> 02:13:56.439 What cod or should we be doing in that particular. 2420 02:13:56.000 --> 02:13:58.479 Area over this next year and a half to keep 2421 02:13:58.520 --> 02:14:00.399 it healthy so we do get a good bloom and 2422 02:14:00.439 --> 02:14:02.239 a good taking of the seeding. 2423 02:14:03.600 --> 02:14:06.079 Yeah, you should have blooms in the spring, at least 2424 02:14:06.119 --> 02:14:10.880 a few. Some blue bonnet seed has been scarified, meaning 2425 02:14:11.119 --> 02:14:13.159 they break the coat down a little bit so it 2426 02:14:13.239 --> 02:14:17.680 sprouts better. Others isn't scarified. And you may get some 2427 02:14:17.800 --> 02:14:19.479 seeds up this year and some may not come up 2428 02:14:19.600 --> 02:14:23.640 till next fall. But whichever way, no fertilizer for the 2429 02:14:23.680 --> 02:14:27.199 blue bonnets. Their lagoons, they make their own nitrogen. The 2430 02:14:27.399 --> 02:14:29.640 main thing you need for them is for them not 2431 02:14:29.840 --> 02:14:33.079 to be shaded out by other plants. So if you 2432 02:14:33.199 --> 02:14:36.520 have grasses, mowing them down really really low, getting all 2433 02:14:36.560 --> 02:14:40.319 that debris off the surface, because the mode grass becomes 2434 02:14:40.359 --> 02:14:43.319 a mulch on the surface. And the reason we molt 2435 02:14:43.439 --> 02:14:45.079 is so weed seeds don't come up. So if you 2436 02:14:45.119 --> 02:14:48.159 want your blue bonnets to establish, they need sunlight. So 2437 02:14:48.319 --> 02:14:50.760 whatever it takes to make sure sunlight hits the soil 2438 02:14:51.119 --> 02:14:57.039 where you planted your blue bonnets, that would be recommended. Okay, great, well, 2439 02:14:57.079 --> 02:14:58.840 good advice. I appreciate. I know. 2440 02:14:58.960 --> 02:15:02.720 Wildscaping is not necessarily a common topic. So I just 2441 02:15:02.880 --> 02:15:06.039 was wondering what would be best for the general ecology 2442 02:15:06.199 --> 02:15:09.000 the plants as well as the deer, the rabbits and 2443 02:15:09.039 --> 02:15:11.680 the whatever, if I should be treating or just leaving 2444 02:15:11.720 --> 02:15:14.439 it alone, doing what I'm doing, bowing four or five 2445 02:15:14.560 --> 02:15:16.800 six times a year and letting it be. 2446 02:15:17.039 --> 02:15:20.560 Yeah, that's probably it. And now that you're over there, 2447 02:15:20.600 --> 02:15:22.920 have you been to the Wallflower Center yet? In southeastern 2448 02:15:23.159 --> 02:15:23.920 or south Austin. 2449 02:15:25.119 --> 02:15:29.800 That's actually know what happened, but my wife has all. 2450 02:15:29.760 --> 02:15:32.920 Right, well, go there. They've got a lot of advice. 2451 02:15:33.079 --> 02:15:36.199 Their website is excellent for native plants, and they can 2452 02:15:36.279 --> 02:15:39.720 kind of help you create the kind of wildscape that 2453 02:15:39.800 --> 02:15:43.560 you're looking at. And you've also got let's see you 2454 02:15:43.720 --> 02:15:47.760 are you're in cott in what part of Austin? Did 2455 02:15:47.840 --> 02:15:54.279 you say you're west southwest dripping springs? Oh my gosh, Okay, Well, 2456 02:15:54.439 --> 02:15:57.840 the Natural Gardener is the best garden center in that town, 2457 02:15:58.520 --> 02:16:01.840 and they're they're out on the southwest side of town. 2458 02:16:02.399 --> 02:16:05.880 Go there, good advice, they have native plans, they've got 2459 02:16:05.920 --> 02:16:08.520 all kinds of good stuff there. Spend some time there 2460 02:16:08.640 --> 02:16:10.760 with them and they'll hope you get off to a 2461 02:16:10.800 --> 02:16:11.439 good start too. 2462 02:16:13.119 --> 02:16:13.960 Brady advice. Rady. 2463 02:16:14.000 --> 02:16:16.960 Thank you for appreciate the time, sir. All right, tell 2464 02:16:17.000 --> 02:16:19.239 them tell them Skip said Hi. Thanks for being a 2465 02:16:19.279 --> 02:16:23.000 listener out there. Tell your neighbors listen, Yes, sir, good 2466 02:16:23.039 --> 02:16:27.520 time A right bye bye, m all right, Well we're 2467 02:16:27.560 --> 02:16:30.960 coming up on another bright here we go. Hey, I 2468 02:16:31.039 --> 02:16:35.879 wanted to tell you about Nelson's carbo Load. Carbo Load 2469 02:16:36.319 --> 02:16:39.680 is a product that contains both the nutrient blend you 2470 02:16:39.879 --> 02:16:43.600 need high potassium, low nitrogen for going into fall for 2471 02:16:43.680 --> 02:16:46.600 your lawn, but it also has a pre emergent herbicide 2472 02:16:46.639 --> 02:16:48.639 in it. So you put carbolod down, you watered in, 2473 02:16:48.760 --> 02:16:51.200 and you've done both. You've done pre emergent weed control 2474 02:16:51.239 --> 02:16:55.079 and you've done fertilizing. From the folks at Nelson. It's 2475 02:16:55.159 --> 02:16:58.440 part of their turf Star line of quality products. And 2476 02:16:58.600 --> 02:17:00.479 for those of you who would like to try out 2477 02:17:00.559 --> 02:17:03.479 some Nelson products, I'm going to have a bunch of 2478 02:17:03.840 --> 02:17:08.239 jars of Nelson fertilizer, the Genesis transplant mix of rose oil, 2479 02:17:08.799 --> 02:17:12.600 the color Star perhaps the most famous one over the years, 2480 02:17:13.120 --> 02:17:15.360 and their vegetable garden mix, and I'll be given away 2481 02:17:15.360 --> 02:17:17.799 out in Kingwood, So anyone out in that direction come by, 2482 02:17:18.000 --> 02:17:20.680 say hi. I got so much. I bet, I bet, 2483 02:17:20.760 --> 02:17:22.920 I don't run out, but don't delay. I'll be there 2484 02:17:22.959 --> 02:17:26.000 from twelve until two. Look forward to seeing you, seeing 2485 02:17:26.040 --> 02:17:28.760 you out there. We are up against a break. I 2486 02:17:28.879 --> 02:17:31.840 will be right back with your questions. Give us a 2487 02:17:31.920 --> 02:17:37.159 call seven one three two one two KTRH. Hey, welcome 2488 02:17:37.200 --> 02:17:40.079 back to Garden Line. Good to have you with us today. 2489 02:17:40.600 --> 02:17:45.840 You know, whenever our clay soil is predominant here in 2490 02:17:45.920 --> 02:17:49.360 the Greater Houston area, whenever they get wet, they swell, 2491 02:17:49.639 --> 02:17:52.079 Whenever they get dry, they shrink. Did you know that 2492 02:17:52.239 --> 02:17:55.719 there's that movement. I've got a broken water line beside 2493 02:17:55.760 --> 02:17:58.479 my house and I have not dug there, and it's 2494 02:17:58.719 --> 02:18:02.120 just the fact that the oil moved and actually broke 2495 02:18:02.239 --> 02:18:04.680 physically broke that water line. I've got to go fix 2496 02:18:04.799 --> 02:18:05.159 it now. 2497 02:18:05.399 --> 02:18:05.639 Yay. 2498 02:18:06.200 --> 02:18:10.000 Anyway, It also moves and messes with your sidewalks and 2499 02:18:10.120 --> 02:18:13.360 your driveways and your home foundations. Saw movement is so 2500 02:18:13.520 --> 02:18:16.280 powerful it can crack a home slab. Well, fix my 2501 02:18:16.399 --> 02:18:19.559 slab foundation repair. Ty Strickland's the owner, been doing that 2502 02:18:19.639 --> 02:18:22.520 for twenty three years. He knows what he's doing. They 2503 02:18:22.600 --> 02:18:25.879 can come out take a look and see what may 2504 02:18:26.079 --> 02:18:28.319 or may not be needed, and they don't jump the gun. 2505 02:18:28.360 --> 02:18:30.079 They don't be Oh, I see a little crack somewhere, 2506 02:18:30.239 --> 02:18:32.040 So we got to do all this and now they're 2507 02:18:32.120 --> 02:18:34.280 not that way. They will look at it and they 2508 02:18:34.280 --> 02:18:36.520 will tell you whether it needs work or not, and 2509 02:18:36.680 --> 02:18:38.559 what you might do, what your options are, and how 2510 02:18:38.600 --> 02:18:42.000 to do it right. When Tide does work, there's three 2511 02:18:42.079 --> 02:18:46.200 things that happen. Number One, he shows up on time. Wow, 2512 02:18:46.639 --> 02:18:49.440 don't you wish all your service people showed up on time? 2513 02:18:49.600 --> 02:18:53.680 Number Two, he prices it fair. Don't you wish all 2514 02:18:53.760 --> 02:18:56.840 your service people did that? And he fixes it right. 2515 02:18:57.200 --> 02:18:59.280 Isn't that all we're asking for is fix it right? 2516 02:18:59.479 --> 02:18:59.639 Right? 2517 02:19:00.319 --> 02:19:00.479 Well? 2518 02:19:00.600 --> 02:19:03.840 Ti is a native Estonian, fifth generation Texan, and I'm 2519 02:19:03.879 --> 02:19:05.920 telling you he knows how to handle this. So if 2520 02:19:05.959 --> 02:19:08.360 you got cracks in your brick, cracks in your sheet rock, 2521 02:19:08.440 --> 02:19:12.120 if your sidewalk is heaving, or whatever, call Tie two 2522 02:19:12.200 --> 02:19:15.040 eight one two fy five forty nine forty nine two 2523 02:19:15.200 --> 02:19:19.559 eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. Tell 2524 02:19:19.639 --> 02:19:23.520 him you're a garden line listener. Pre estimates for gardenline listeners, 2525 02:19:24.319 --> 02:19:29.680 or go to the website fixmyslab dot com Fix myslab 2526 02:19:29.760 --> 02:19:33.200 dot com. Add no hesitation knowing the tie is going 2527 02:19:33.280 --> 02:19:35.360 to treat you right, and you will be You will 2528 02:19:35.399 --> 02:19:38.840 be happy with the service and the work quality that 2529 02:19:38.959 --> 02:19:41.760 you get from fix my slab. We're gonna head out 2530 02:19:41.799 --> 02:19:44.959 now to Katie and talk to Donnie. Hello, Donnie, welcome 2531 02:19:45.000 --> 02:19:45.639 to garden Line. 2532 02:19:47.479 --> 02:19:48.520 Hey this is Johnny. 2533 02:19:48.559 --> 02:19:52.280 But that's okay, Oh Johnny, okay, all right, we'll talk 2534 02:19:52.319 --> 02:19:52.840 to Johnny. 2535 02:19:54.520 --> 02:19:58.239 The Medina products that you recommend and I use the 2536 02:19:58.959 --> 02:20:03.479 Medina has to Grow long food starting this spring and summer, 2537 02:20:03.559 --> 02:20:06.680 and it had good, good results with it. Is there 2538 02:20:06.719 --> 02:20:10.239 any benefit that say in instructions to keep using it 2539 02:20:10.399 --> 02:20:13.559 during the non growing cool season or just wait till 2540 02:20:13.639 --> 02:20:15.159 spring to start using it again. 2541 02:20:16.920 --> 02:20:19.079 The has to grow six twelve six. Is that the 2542 02:20:19.159 --> 02:20:20.040 one that you have? 2543 02:20:20.399 --> 02:20:20.600 Yes? 2544 02:20:21.200 --> 02:20:22.920 Yes, yeah, so. 2545 02:20:24.680 --> 02:20:27.799 That you could use, Oh yeah. 2546 02:20:27.719 --> 02:20:30.079 You can use that one. The thing is, you're not 2547 02:20:30.520 --> 02:20:34.319 trying to fertilize your plants and make them grow, but 2548 02:20:34.479 --> 02:20:37.120 you're you're if you did any kind of planting, the 2549 02:20:37.200 --> 02:20:40.239 hash to grow six twelve six would be good for 2550 02:20:40.399 --> 02:20:43.040 helping as they during the cool season. Even though the 2551 02:20:43.120 --> 02:20:45.799 top may not be growing, the roots are growing and 2552 02:20:46.040 --> 02:20:48.639 it helps a plant get established. It's the has to 2553 02:20:48.760 --> 02:20:51.639 grow plant six twelve six. Now, you know I wouldn't. 2554 02:20:51.639 --> 02:20:54.639 I wouldn't use their lawn products in the winter. 2555 02:20:54.879 --> 02:20:55.040 You know. 2556 02:20:55.079 --> 02:20:57.159 I like their super Grow plus I like their has 2557 02:20:57.239 --> 02:20:59.200 to Grow lawn. Those are great products. But let's wait 2558 02:20:59.280 --> 02:21:02.799 until spring those But the the has to grow six 2559 02:21:02.840 --> 02:21:05.600 twelve six, has to grow plant six twelve six. That 2560 02:21:05.680 --> 02:21:07.719 would be a good one to use at this time. 2561 02:21:07.879 --> 02:21:11.719 The humic acids humde humic acid liquid product would be 2562 02:21:11.799 --> 02:21:15.879 a good one because that is helping the soil structure quality. 2563 02:21:15.959 --> 02:21:17.639 So it's always a good time to be doing that. 2564 02:21:18.000 --> 02:21:21.360 It's not meting plants grow, it's fixing the soil soap 2565 02:21:21.440 --> 02:21:22.239 plants will grow. 2566 02:21:23.239 --> 02:21:25.520 Okay, that's what I need to know. I appreciate it. 2567 02:21:26.959 --> 02:21:30.000 You bet, Johnny, thank you, thanks a lot. I appreciate 2568 02:21:30.000 --> 02:21:32.799 it the goal. You take care hey our phone number 2569 02:21:32.840 --> 02:21:36.000 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 2570 02:21:36.200 --> 02:21:39.840 seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 2571 02:21:40.000 --> 02:21:45.920 I was visiting with Luis from Airlym Soils a little 2572 02:21:45.920 --> 02:21:49.120 bit earlier this week, uh, and they got some new 2573 02:21:49.920 --> 02:21:53.360 product packaging I think is really good. It really looks 2574 02:21:53.600 --> 02:21:55.799 just excellent. Looking forward to seeing all that come out. 2575 02:21:56.040 --> 02:21:59.920 I want to remind you that they are out at 2576 02:22:00.159 --> 02:22:04.440 the Warren's Rock and mult location, which is in Porter, Texas. 2577 02:22:04.559 --> 02:22:07.239 That's where you can get rocks and soils and mulches 2578 02:22:07.319 --> 02:22:10.360 and all kinds of things from heirloom soils. It's on 2579 02:22:10.479 --> 02:22:13.159 fifty nine Access Road right up there in Porter. They're 2580 02:22:13.239 --> 02:22:15.959 having a one cubic yard sack of either the leaf 2581 02:22:16.120 --> 02:22:20.319 mold compost or the veggie an herb mix for one 2582 02:22:20.479 --> 02:22:24.799 twenty nine and you keep the sack. I actually in 2583 02:22:24.920 --> 02:22:29.760 another area of way outside of the Houston area, we 2584 02:22:29.959 --> 02:22:33.239 recently had picked up some materials from a place that 2585 02:22:33.440 --> 02:22:37.319 had big supersacks and I paid sixty bucks a sack 2586 02:22:37.760 --> 02:22:41.399 for the sacks. For crying out loud, well, you can't 2587 02:22:41.440 --> 02:22:44.360 beat those. I mean one cubic yard sack of leaf 2588 02:22:44.440 --> 02:22:47.680 moll compost or veggie herb mix. It's they just bring 2589 02:22:47.760 --> 02:22:49.879 it and set it right there in your driveway. It 2590 02:22:50.040 --> 02:22:52.399 is so convenient. I appreciated the one I got. I 2591 02:22:52.520 --> 02:22:55.440 got some I don't decomposed grantite. I think in one 2592 02:22:55.479 --> 02:22:59.040 of mine. It is so easy to shovel and scoop 2593 02:22:59.159 --> 02:23:01.319 and move around. You'll have a mess in your driveway. 2594 02:23:01.680 --> 02:23:04.399 One hundred and twenty nine and you keep the sack itself, 2595 02:23:04.719 --> 02:23:07.959 so you need to take advantage of that leaf more compost. 2596 02:23:08.280 --> 02:23:11.079 Super for top dressing your lawn, Super for mixing into 2597 02:23:11.079 --> 02:23:14.360 your flower beds. Super for mixing. I will eve in 2598 02:23:14.559 --> 02:23:18.000 you know, as my pot containers, you know, container pots 2599 02:23:18.040 --> 02:23:21.920 of flowers and vegetables and all kinds of things. I 2600 02:23:21.959 --> 02:23:24.159 will mix a little leaf more compost into the mix 2601 02:23:24.280 --> 02:23:25.959 as it starts to settle down in there. I'll just 2602 02:23:26.000 --> 02:23:28.399 mix a little fresh on kind of before our replant 2603 02:23:28.479 --> 02:23:31.040 something in those pots. It works really well for that. 2604 02:23:31.159 --> 02:23:34.559 They also have a new product, Premium lawn Mix, Premium 2605 02:23:34.639 --> 02:23:39.200 Lawn medd brand new it is. It is not made 2606 02:23:39.239 --> 02:23:43.159 with topsail, that's made with Mason sand, compost and bed mix. 2607 02:23:43.360 --> 02:23:47.200 It's really good for preparing for sod. Listen, I've seen 2608 02:23:47.239 --> 02:23:49.360 a lot of pictures of dead sod this year, and 2609 02:23:49.440 --> 02:23:52.879 somebody's going to be doing some replanning. Get their Premium 2610 02:23:53.200 --> 02:23:56.760 lawn mix. It's seventy four dollars per sack. That is 2611 02:23:57.319 --> 02:24:01.440 really really a good price. Get that and there you go. 2612 02:24:01.680 --> 02:24:04.879 I mean you are right in business, spreading it out, 2613 02:24:05.159 --> 02:24:09.680 leveling that area out, getting the soil ready for sad. 2614 02:24:10.159 --> 02:24:13.000 They also have in qbcard sacks the region or mix 2615 02:24:13.079 --> 02:24:15.639 and leafold. As I mentioned, they also have cedar malts, 2616 02:24:15.639 --> 02:24:18.520 They've got hardwood molts, they got pine bark. They have 2617 02:24:18.760 --> 02:24:23.040 beautiful black star gravel that is just gorgeously ornamental, and 2618 02:24:23.159 --> 02:24:27.000 the black and the rainbow gravel too, little pebbles that 2619 02:24:27.600 --> 02:24:30.799 come in different colors. It's really really attractive, all from 2620 02:24:30.799 --> 02:24:33.159 mariloom soil. So here's what you need to do. You 2621 02:24:33.239 --> 02:24:35.520 need to give them a call two eight one three 2622 02:24:35.680 --> 02:24:39.280 five four nineteen fifty. That's calling out to the porter 2623 02:24:39.399 --> 02:24:43.280 location two eight one three five four nineteen fifty. Or 2624 02:24:43.360 --> 02:24:47.360 go online to rockinmultch dot com slash delivery. I'll say 2625 02:24:47.399 --> 02:24:54.399 that again, Rock the Letter Mulch dot com slash delivery. 2626 02:24:54.920 --> 02:24:58.920 Take advantage of this. This this is an awesome, awesome sale. 2627 02:24:59.440 --> 02:25:02.680 All right, I believe it's time for me to quit talking. Uh, 2628 02:25:02.799 --> 02:25:04.959 And I'm gonna take my last break of the day 2629 02:25:05.319 --> 02:25:08.120 and I'll be right back with your calls. Seven one 2630 02:25:08.280 --> 02:25:14.959 three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to Guardline. Glad 2631 02:25:15.040 --> 02:25:19.280 to have you with us, Appreciate you listening in today. 2632 02:25:19.879 --> 02:25:20.000 Uh. 2633 02:25:21.040 --> 02:25:24.319 I don't know if you've ever been out to Moss Nursery. 2634 02:25:24.479 --> 02:25:27.159 Out in Seabrook, those of you out in that region, 2635 02:25:27.280 --> 02:25:30.319 of course you've been. I mean, that is the most 2636 02:25:30.360 --> 02:25:33.239 famous nursery in that area. It's been around a very 2637 02:25:33.360 --> 02:25:35.159 long time. And when you go to Moss, you are 2638 02:25:35.200 --> 02:25:38.959 gonna wander through eight acres. Just think of it this way, 2639 02:25:39.719 --> 02:25:43.799 eight acres of paradise. I mean, plants and yard art 2640 02:25:44.040 --> 02:25:47.200 and things you would never expect to see. I mean 2641 02:25:47.239 --> 02:25:51.680 it really Moss Nursery just it's just fun. It's fun 2642 02:25:51.760 --> 02:25:53.840 to go to and you're gonna find everything you need there. 2643 02:25:53.840 --> 02:25:55.280 I mean, like right now, they got all the cool 2644 02:25:55.319 --> 02:25:59.360 season color in plenty of pansies and biolas, and on 2645 02:25:59.520 --> 02:26:01.920 and on and on down the line their house plant 2646 02:26:02.360 --> 02:26:06.200 greenhouse plan to spend some time, because whether you're into 2647 02:26:06.280 --> 02:26:10.239 succulence or foliage or indoor flowering plants, they have it 2648 02:26:10.440 --> 02:26:14.760 all right there. Massive pottery selection right now, they got 2649 02:26:14.799 --> 02:26:17.000 a bunch of those. If you've seen the containers, it 2650 02:26:17.079 --> 02:26:19.879 looks like a face. It's almost like a statue, you know, 2651 02:26:20.159 --> 02:26:25.000 of some Greek goddess statue, but the head is like 2652 02:26:25.360 --> 02:26:28.159 cut off above the eyes and there it's hollow and 2653 02:26:28.239 --> 02:26:30.040 you can plan in it. It's a planner, but it 2654 02:26:30.079 --> 02:26:31.399 looks like a face, so you want to put a 2655 02:26:31.479 --> 02:26:33.040 vine in there so it can drape over and look 2656 02:26:33.159 --> 02:26:37.040 like hair. Well anyway, that is another shipment that they 2657 02:26:37.200 --> 02:26:40.319 just got in from that and most nursery, no matter 2658 02:26:40.399 --> 02:26:43.959 what you need, they've got it. Good service, knowledgeable people. 2659 02:26:44.040 --> 02:26:46.959 Every time I've gone there, I met somebody that has 2660 02:26:47.040 --> 02:26:49.440 impressed me with their knowledge. You know, they harre master gardeners. 2661 02:26:49.479 --> 02:26:53.000 For example. There are a number of very very knowledgeable 2662 02:26:53.079 --> 02:26:55.239 master gardener's working and then a lot of folks that 2663 02:26:55.319 --> 02:26:57.840 have been in the gardening business for a long time 2664 02:26:57.920 --> 02:27:01.120 and they know it all they do. Moss Nursery on 2665 02:27:01.239 --> 02:27:06.440 Toddville Road in Seabrook. The website Moss m aas Nursery 2666 02:27:06.520 --> 02:27:09.000 dot com m aa S Nursery dot com. By the way, 2667 02:27:09.040 --> 02:27:12.360 when you're there, African violet, get you one they you know, 2668 02:27:12.440 --> 02:27:15.040 African violets used to be really popular. Everybody had them. 2669 02:27:15.159 --> 02:27:17.159 They're easy to propagate, they're easy to grow if you 2670 02:27:17.200 --> 02:27:19.920 give them some simple things they want, uh, And most 2671 02:27:19.959 --> 02:27:22.239 nursery's got a good little selection of them for you there. 2672 02:27:22.680 --> 02:27:27.120 I'm gonna head out now to Calvin and talk to Craig. Craig, 2673 02:27:27.200 --> 02:27:28.360 where's Calvin. 2674 02:27:29.799 --> 02:27:31.000 No, Alvin, Texas. 2675 02:27:31.879 --> 02:27:36.120 Oh Alvin, Okay, got you? Got you all right? How 2676 02:27:36.200 --> 02:27:36.719 can I help? 2677 02:27:37.920 --> 02:27:41.360 Okay, I'm in a rental property. I was able to 2678 02:27:41.440 --> 02:27:45.399 get the main portion of the front yard back to health, 2679 02:27:46.040 --> 02:27:49.200 to a healthy lawn, but I've got that three foot 2680 02:27:49.280 --> 02:27:53.200 section that's between the sidewalk and the street, and it's 2681 02:27:53.440 --> 02:27:55.920 just pretty much covered up in this that nasty weed 2682 02:27:56.000 --> 02:27:58.200 that we've always had, the uh one with a great 2683 02:27:58.239 --> 02:28:02.360 big base on it. But anyhow, I've got some san 2684 02:28:02.440 --> 02:28:05.600 augustine in there, but I'm kind of a weed and 2685 02:28:05.680 --> 02:28:08.200 feed it and everything else like that. But I'm trying 2686 02:28:08.239 --> 02:28:10.639 to figure out how to get rid of that nasty 2687 02:28:10.719 --> 02:28:13.000 weed and get that san augustine to take over. 2688 02:28:14.920 --> 02:28:17.000 Then I need to know what weed it is to 2689 02:28:17.120 --> 02:28:18.680 give you the best solution. 2690 02:28:20.799 --> 02:28:26.479 It's it's that uh, it's that field I've been in 2691 02:28:26.879 --> 02:28:28.799 the Houston area my whole life. Sorry, but it's that 2692 02:28:29.600 --> 02:28:33.799 that field weed that's got this really dense base and uh, 2693 02:28:34.200 --> 02:28:36.239 you know, it just springs up, you know, within a 2694 02:28:36.280 --> 02:28:39.239 couple of days every time you cut it. But it's 2695 02:28:39.360 --> 02:28:40.559 just that nasty old. 2696 02:28:40.479 --> 02:28:44.000 N Let's do this. Why don't you take some pictures 2697 02:28:44.040 --> 02:28:44.200 of it? 2698 02:28:44.719 --> 02:28:44.840 Uh? 2699 02:28:45.280 --> 02:28:47.719 From a somewhat of a distance and then uproll close, 2700 02:28:47.799 --> 02:28:50.440 make sure it's in sharp focus, and email it to me. 2701 02:28:51.399 --> 02:28:53.879 And that way I can know that when I suggest something, 2702 02:28:53.879 --> 02:28:55.760 I'm giving you the stuff that's going to work best 2703 02:28:55.799 --> 02:28:58.479 on that weed. That way we're all on the same page. 2704 02:28:58.719 --> 02:29:01.520 I can put you on hold my producer Emmanuel, pick 2705 02:29:01.600 --> 02:29:03.719 up the phone. He will give you my email address. 2706 02:29:04.079 --> 02:29:06.360 Send that to me. It probably won't require you calling 2707 02:29:06.479 --> 02:29:08.200 back in this case and through where we talk, but 2708 02:29:09.440 --> 02:29:12.879 I'll send you some suggestions for it. But I just 2709 02:29:12.959 --> 02:29:14.799 need to know what it is, so I don't mislead you, 2710 02:29:14.920 --> 02:29:18.120 send you out wasting your time and money. Okay, okay, 2711 02:29:18.399 --> 02:29:21.680 not a problem. Thank you so much, you bet, Craig. 2712 02:29:21.840 --> 02:29:24.479 You just hang on all right. We're going to go 2713 02:29:24.559 --> 02:29:30.719 to Southwest Houston now and talk to Jesse. Hello Jesse, Yeah, 2714 02:29:30.719 --> 02:29:31.639 this good morning everybody. 2715 02:29:32.079 --> 02:29:34.440 Thanks for taking the call. I had a question about 2716 02:29:34.479 --> 02:29:37.559 this most that was placed around the base of the 2717 02:29:38.000 --> 02:29:42.239 of the tree. It's probably like two foot round, and. 2718 02:29:42.280 --> 02:29:43.760 I don't know my neighbors did this? 2719 02:29:43.920 --> 02:29:45.719 My friends, you know, So I'll just call them because 2720 02:29:46.239 --> 02:29:49.639 that particular mold that they place on there, it looked okay, 2721 02:29:50.200 --> 02:29:51.959 but after a month and a half or something like that, 2722 02:29:52.319 --> 02:29:54.000 it started developing. 2723 02:29:53.719 --> 02:29:57.200 Like a white mold on it on the top, not 2724 02:29:57.399 --> 02:29:58.000 all of it, but in. 2725 02:29:58.120 --> 02:29:59.399 Certain sections. 2726 02:30:00.760 --> 02:30:01.200 Underneath. 2727 02:30:01.239 --> 02:30:04.319 It also was underneath there some kind of a bacterial 2728 02:30:04.639 --> 02:30:06.280 So I just want to what costs? 2729 02:30:06.399 --> 02:30:10.280 Okay, Well, you know, malt is dead organic matter and 2730 02:30:10.559 --> 02:30:13.799 dead organic matter rots and the primary thing that causes 2731 02:30:13.879 --> 02:30:16.959 it to decompose is fungi. Fungi. 2732 02:30:17.600 --> 02:30:17.719 Uh. 2733 02:30:17.959 --> 02:30:19.559 You know, you go in the forest and you find 2734 02:30:19.600 --> 02:30:22.120 a fallen log and it's got these little shelf fungi 2735 02:30:22.239 --> 02:30:24.959 sticking out from it, and you break the log open. 2736 02:30:25.000 --> 02:30:28.239 It's got white strands all through the wood. And that's 2737 02:30:28.319 --> 02:30:31.600 just part of nature making more quality soil. And so 2738 02:30:31.719 --> 02:30:33.440 I wouldn't worry about it on the malts. That is 2739 02:30:33.559 --> 02:30:36.040 what you're describing as not a disease of any plants. 2740 02:30:36.120 --> 02:30:37.639 If you don't like the look of it, you can 2741 02:30:37.760 --> 02:30:39.680 take a raak and kind of start around a little bit. 2742 02:30:39.799 --> 02:30:42.760 But bottom line is it's gonna go away. These are 2743 02:30:42.959 --> 02:30:45.840 these are very seasonal, very seasonal. You know, they crop 2744 02:30:46.000 --> 02:30:49.159 up typically we get we hit fall, we get a 2745 02:30:49.200 --> 02:30:51.559 coal front, we get some rain, and oh my gosh, 2746 02:30:51.680 --> 02:30:53.520 there's toadstools popping up. 2747 02:30:53.520 --> 02:30:54.040 In the yard. 2748 02:30:54.120 --> 02:30:56.319 There's stuff that looks like the dog threw up, and 2749 02:30:56.399 --> 02:30:59.239 the flower beds and there's just every kind of fungi 2750 02:30:59.440 --> 02:31:02.920 you can image. But the bottom lizer. They're good things. 2751 02:31:03.079 --> 02:31:05.280 They're good things to not worry about. Yeah. 2752 02:31:05.440 --> 02:31:07.479 Well that's good news. That's good. That's good. 2753 02:31:07.639 --> 02:31:10.360 Yeah. Just make sure around those trees you don't pile 2754 02:31:10.440 --> 02:31:13.920 the mulch up against the trunk. Uh. Nature doesn't do that. 2755 02:31:14.479 --> 02:31:16.760 You want. You want to pull the multch back away 2756 02:31:16.799 --> 02:31:18.559 from the base of the trunk so you can see 2757 02:31:18.600 --> 02:31:22.319 the broadening, flared out base of the trunk. Uh, and 2758 02:31:22.479 --> 02:31:25.040 then put the meulch, you know, on out far as 2759 02:31:25.079 --> 02:31:27.920 you The further you put mulch out, the happier the 2760 02:31:28.000 --> 02:31:32.280 tree will be. Trees hate grass, hate weeds. They like 2761 02:31:32.399 --> 02:31:35.559 to drop organic matter called leaves on the ground in 2762 02:31:35.639 --> 02:31:38.399 the forest and just make rich or soiled year by year. 2763 02:31:40.239 --> 02:31:44.159 All right, Well, think it's good, a good day. 2764 02:31:44.159 --> 02:31:48.239 All right, Thanks for the call, you bet, I appreciate that. Jesse, 2765 02:31:48.840 --> 02:31:50.559 thank you very much for that call. 2766 02:31:51.360 --> 02:31:51.479 Uh. 2767 02:31:51.600 --> 02:31:52.959 I want to talk about a couple of things here 2768 02:31:53.000 --> 02:31:55.520 as we as we head out today. 2769 02:31:56.000 --> 02:31:56.079 UH. 2770 02:31:56.280 --> 02:31:59.079 First of all, just just a quick reminder again, I 2771 02:31:59.159 --> 02:32:04.319 will be at wallber birds unlimited in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, 2772 02:32:04.760 --> 02:32:07.760 behind torches tacos, and I'm gonna be there from twelve 2773 02:32:07.920 --> 02:32:11.639 to two answering your gardening questions. So I didn't get 2774 02:32:11.639 --> 02:32:15.120 a chance to call in today, Well, take a picture 2775 02:32:15.159 --> 02:32:17.120 of things, bring them to me. Let's take a look 2776 02:32:17.120 --> 02:32:19.200 at them. Maybe you got an area in the garden 2777 02:32:19.520 --> 02:32:21.879 that you would like to do something, but you just don't. 2778 02:32:21.920 --> 02:32:24.239 What would be a good plant for right there? What 2779 02:32:24.319 --> 02:32:26.479 would I suggest? I'll give you some ideas for that. 2780 02:32:27.399 --> 02:32:30.239 Maybe you have a sample of a weed or a bug, 2781 02:32:30.520 --> 02:32:32.520 or a disease or something like that. Put it in 2782 02:32:32.639 --> 02:32:35.120 a bag, bring it to me. I get so many 2783 02:32:35.200 --> 02:32:37.879 weeds I could probably create a multipile a mile deep. 2784 02:32:38.000 --> 02:32:41.319 And all the weeds people bring to these appearances because 2785 02:32:41.719 --> 02:32:44.920 everybody's got weed problems. That's okay. Wherever sunlight hits the 2786 02:32:44.959 --> 02:32:47.399 soiled nature plants a weed, which, by the way, is 2787 02:32:47.440 --> 02:32:49.079 a tip for weed control. You know, I talk a 2788 02:32:49.159 --> 02:32:52.239 lot about products to put down to prevent wheat seeds 2789 02:32:52.280 --> 02:32:55.280 from germinating a products to put down to kill existing weeds. 2790 02:32:55.719 --> 02:32:58.760 But you know the best first step and all weed 2791 02:32:58.840 --> 02:33:03.399 control isn't the sunlight hit the soil. That's important. And 2792 02:33:03.600 --> 02:33:07.319 so if you can grow a denser lawn that keeps 2793 02:33:07.319 --> 02:33:10.680 sunlight from hitting the soil. If you do the compost 2794 02:33:10.719 --> 02:33:13.760 hop dressing, that helps a little bit in keeping sunlight 2795 02:33:13.799 --> 02:33:16.719 from hitting the soil. If you got a vegetable garden 2796 02:33:16.959 --> 02:33:19.639 and you have plowed things up and you're gonna plan 2797 02:33:19.680 --> 02:33:21.440 a little bit later, or maybe you're gonna plant, now, 2798 02:33:21.959 --> 02:33:24.760 get mulch on all the other soil areas so that 2799 02:33:25.040 --> 02:33:27.479 sunlight doesn't hit the soil and you cut out on 2800 02:33:27.559 --> 02:33:30.200 your weed problems that way. That's just a simple tip 2801 02:33:30.600 --> 02:33:32.959 for doing that sort of thing. We try to take 2802 02:33:33.040 --> 02:33:38.520 the approach that cultural practices are the best approach to 2803 02:33:38.639 --> 02:33:43.920 all plant problems. Now, there's gonna be time where dense 2804 02:33:44.000 --> 02:33:47.399 turf still gets weeds. Dollar weed will grow in dense turf, 2805 02:33:47.879 --> 02:33:51.559 Virginia button weed will go in dense turf. Slender aster 2806 02:33:51.799 --> 02:33:55.079 will grow in dense turf. But those are the exceptions. 2807 02:33:55.760 --> 02:33:59.200 Most weed seed problems. We choke them out by not 2808 02:33:59.360 --> 02:34:02.840 letting the sunlight reach the soil. Wherever sunlight hits the soil, 2809 02:34:03.479 --> 02:34:06.559 nature plants. A weed fall is the best season for planting. 2810 02:34:06.680 --> 02:34:10.520 I hope that you will get out there and do 2811 02:34:10.760 --> 02:34:14.440 some soil prep brown stuff before green stuff. It is 2812 02:34:14.799 --> 02:34:18.559 well worth your time and money to prepare the soil 2813 02:34:18.600 --> 02:34:21.280 I've got. I have two plants and containers that have 2814 02:34:21.360 --> 02:34:23.159 been sitting in front of my house waiting for me 2815 02:34:23.280 --> 02:34:26.239 to get to them because I've been busy with other things. 2816 02:34:27.200 --> 02:34:29.319 But I'm not putting them in the ground until the 2817 02:34:29.399 --> 02:34:33.760 bed where they're going has been prepared. I'm ready to 2818 02:34:33.799 --> 02:34:36.280 go out the bags of quality soil products sitting right 2819 02:34:36.319 --> 02:34:38.680 there on the bed ready to be mixed in. Those 2820 02:34:38.719 --> 02:34:40.959 plants aren't going to the ground until the soil is prepared. 2821 02:34:41.079 --> 02:34:44.920 Don't PLoP a plant into an unprepared plot, Peter Piper, 2822 02:34:46.600 --> 02:34:50.000 Don't PLoP a plant into an unprepared plot. I need 2823 02:34:50.079 --> 02:34:52.799 to get better at saying that. Get the soil right, 2824 02:34:52.920 --> 02:34:56.639 get the foundation right. It's where it all begins. Brown 2825 02:34:56.760 --> 02:35:01.840 stuff before green stuff. That's compost, that is expanded shale 2826 02:35:02.319 --> 02:35:08.040 for heavy clay. Soil improvement that is fertilizer nutrients, so 2827 02:35:08.280 --> 02:35:12.520 the soiled bank account is stocked up and ready to 2828 02:35:12.559 --> 02:35:15.799 go to support your plant. I'm telling you those tips 2829 02:35:15.840 --> 02:35:18.079 for success right there. Look at your thumb. Isn't it 2830 02:35:18.120 --> 02:35:20.319 already greener than it was? Before I started saying all that. 2831 02:35:20.920 --> 02:35:23.520 I'm telling you you inform that thumb and you can 2832 02:35:23.600 --> 02:35:27.120 have success. And that is a key tip for success 2833 02:35:27.280 --> 02:35:30.840 with that. So come on and see me Kingwood wild 2834 02:35:30.920 --> 02:35:33.280 Birds Unlimited. I want to show you on that store seeds, 2835 02:35:33.319 --> 02:35:35.280 some of these feeds that they have bird seeds that 2836 02:35:35.360 --> 02:35:38.000 they have rather I've got. In fact, I'm going to 2837 02:35:38.040 --> 02:35:40.879 be picking some up today myself. I'm in a low 2838 02:35:41.000 --> 02:35:43.760 supply on some of the stuff that I need, darn 2839 02:35:43.799 --> 02:35:47.680 birds to state at all, But the squirrels didn't. I 2840 02:35:47.840 --> 02:35:51.520 got that squirrel excluding feeder from wild Birds Unlimited, and 2841 02:35:51.600 --> 02:35:53.559 boy does it ever work. Hey, it's been a good day. 2842 02:35:53.760 --> 02:35:56.479 Look forward to talking to you again tomorrow. In the meantime, 2843 02:35:56.559 --> 02:35:57.600 come on out to Kingwood