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Speaker 8: Okay, folks, good morning, good morning on a good Saturday
Speaker 8: morning for gardening. You are listening to Garden Line. I'm
Speaker 8: your host, Skip Richter, and we got a lot to
Speaker 8: talk about there. There is how long has it been
Speaker 8: since we had weather like this to go outside and
Speaker 8: get some stuff done? A long long time? Right, Well,
Speaker 8: it's here, you know. For weeks now, I've been saying,
Speaker 8: don't look at the thermometer, look at the calendar. What
Speaker 8: does that mean? Well, that means that I know, I
Speaker 8: know it still says summer on the thermometer, but the
Speaker 8: calendar says it's time to get going with fall gardening.
Speaker 8: And boy do we ever need to be lots of
Speaker 8: things to be doing in the garden and the landscape,
Speaker 8: you know, right now, for example, our lawns, This is
Speaker 8: the time to get your fall fertilization in. Don't delay.
Speaker 8: You know, every week you delay gives that long a
Speaker 8: little less time to have those nutrients taken up and
Speaker 8: get in the plant to do what they need to
Speaker 8: do to get the lawn ready for cold weather and
Speaker 8: also for coming out in spring. Now is the time
Speaker 8: if you're going to do a pre emergent get it
Speaker 8: out asap, get that in the grass and get it
Speaker 8: watered in. You gotta water those in so that they
Speaker 8: go to the soil surface and stop weeds. Now's the
Speaker 8: time if you are going to try to fight brown
Speaker 8: patch or now they call it large patch. If you're
Speaker 8: going to try to stop that, now's the time to
Speaker 8: get a preventative down now. Once circles appear, they're going
Speaker 8: to be circles until weather warms up enough to regreen
Speaker 8: the grass to grow back in those areas. But now's
Speaker 8: the time for all three of those things in the lawn. Fortunately,
Speaker 8: we don't have any insects we're dealing with right now
Speaker 8: in the lawns. Triffect is enough, right, triffect of activities,
Speaker 8: But now the time to get in it. If you're
Speaker 8: looking for a quality organic fertilizer for your lawn, well,
Speaker 8: Microlife is the one you need to be taking a
Speaker 8: really close look at. They got something called brown Patch
Speaker 8: Microlife brown Patch. Now look, listening to that name of it,
Speaker 8: you'd think, oh, this is a fungicide, it'stop brown pat.
Speaker 8: No it's not. It is It is a fertilizer that
Speaker 8: is chock full of all kinds of microbes that help
Speaker 8: populate the surfaces of plants. You know, there's a lot
Speaker 8: of good microbes out there that help us have more
Speaker 8: success with our gardening. They work in tandem with the
Speaker 8: plant's root systems in some cases getting down in there.
Speaker 8: There's others that just on the surface create kind of
Speaker 8: a hostile environment. Well, anyway, Microlife brown Patch is a
Speaker 8: quality product. Get it down asap though. That's their brown bag.
Speaker 8: Microlife brown Patch Microlife Fertilizer dot Com is the website
Speaker 8: if you want to find out more about the many
Speaker 8: of the products they produce, both trigranular fertilizers and liquid fertilizers,
Speaker 8: and also where you can get them, which I'll just
Speaker 8: cut I'll make it easy for you. It's everywhere pretty
Speaker 8: much garden centers, feed stores, hardware stores, you know, the
Speaker 8: Southwest fertilit All those places carry microlife products. If you
Speaker 8: are interested in giving me a call. This is a
Speaker 8: call in show. By the way, I can sit here
Speaker 8: and talk all day, but basically it's about what are
Speaker 8: your questions? What are you interested in? Well, give me
Speaker 8: a call. Seven one three two one two k t
Speaker 8: r H. Seven to one three two one two k
Speaker 8: t r H. I today am going to be going
Speaker 8: out to the wild Bird's Unlimited store. This is the
Speaker 8: last appearance of the season. This is the last chance
Speaker 8: for you to come out, bring me some samples, or
Speaker 8: bring me some photos. Let's let's talk ey to I. Hey,
Speaker 8: let's get our picture made too. I'd love to do that.
Speaker 8: Uh This wild Birds is in Kingwood, Kingwood, Texas, and
Speaker 8: so all of you over there east northeast. Actually, you
Speaker 8: know when we do these appearances, we have people from
Speaker 8: the other side of town sometimes because they got a
Speaker 8: burning question. Yeah, it just sounds like fun. Well it's fun.
Speaker 8: I think it's fun. Uh So coming out to Wilbird's
Speaker 8: in Kingwood, that's on Kingwood Drive, right behind Torches Tacos.
Speaker 8: In fact, if you hit it out there, a little
Speaker 8: early you could grab some really good food. I love torchies.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna be zipping in there about twelve noon and
Speaker 8: I'll be there till two there for a couple of
Speaker 8: hours at Wolbirds. While you're out there, we'll show you
Speaker 8: all the cool stuff they got in the store. I
Speaker 8: mean they are stocked up. They're ready to go on
Speaker 8: feed and feeders and bird houses and every other kind
Speaker 8: of thing you can imagine you'd want for your birds.
Speaker 8: Got squirrels that are bugging bugging you by eating all
Speaker 8: your bird seed. Well they've got some bird seed that
Speaker 8: let's just say it has a little pepper or two
Speaker 8: in it that will make sure the squirrels don't get
Speaker 8: into it. You know that stuff doesn't bother birds, but boy,
Speaker 8: squirrels and me, I put hot pepper around my edges
Speaker 8: in my mouth and h yeah, not good. Not good.
Speaker 8: If you have a question you would like to ask
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Speaker 8: I was at RCW Nursery a while back visiting with them,
Speaker 8: and just they've just got all kinds of good good
Speaker 8: sales on right now. There's shrubs, for example. You need
Speaker 8: to listen up. This is a really good deal. Twenty
Speaker 8: percent off their shrubs. And they have shrubs of all
Speaker 8: kinds of textures, you know, from low growing junipers to
Speaker 8: broad leafed, larger broad leaf types of shrubs. They've got
Speaker 8: different colors, you know. We got the Laura peddlum or
Speaker 8: Chinese witch hazel that's got that beautiful burgundy look and
Speaker 8: the just hot pink shaggy flowers in the spring. Twenty
Speaker 8: percent off all of that, and they have a lot
Speaker 8: of shrubs on hand too, So make sure and get
Speaker 8: by there, get that done. Now is the time. Now
Speaker 8: is the time when we need to be planting woody
Speaker 8: ornamentals of your trees and shrubs, the most weeks possible
Speaker 8: between planting and next summer's brutal heat. The longer they have,
Speaker 8: the more successful they are. And you want them. You
Speaker 8: spend money on a shrub, you want it to be successful.
Speaker 8: Give it the most time. Plant it now. OURCW Nurseries
Speaker 8: dot com is our website. Our CW Nurseries. By the
Speaker 8: way is the garden Center right where Tomball Parkway FM
Speaker 8: two forty nine comes into belt Way eight right where
Speaker 8: Tomball Parkway comes into belt Way eight. So goodbye there.
Speaker 8: Check them out. They are I like to refer to
Speaker 8: them as they get it, got it nursery because if
Speaker 8: they don't have it, they can probably find it. If
Speaker 8: it's out there on the market, they probably find it
Speaker 8: bring it in for you. So that's kind of a
Speaker 8: little extra sort of nice too. Plus it's just fun
Speaker 8: to shop there. Well, it's time for me to go
Speaker 8: to my first little break here. I'll be right back.
Speaker 8: Here's the number if you'd like to get on the board.
Speaker 8: One three two one two k t RH. We got
Speaker 8: some gardening stuff to talk about today. In fact, we
Speaker 8: could what do they say, We can talk about gardening
Speaker 8: ntil the cows come home. Any of the cows don't
Speaker 8: come home, we'll keep talking about gardening. There is a
Speaker 8: lot that is important when you want to have success.
Speaker 8: You know, gardening is not something that you need to
Speaker 8: fail at. It is not. You may think you have
Speaker 8: a brown thumb. You don't. What you have is an
Speaker 8: uninformed thumb. And all we have to do is inform
Speaker 8: your thumb about some simple principles. What do plants want?
Speaker 8: How do you make a plant happy? Once you know
Speaker 8: that it's easy. It is really and it's fun. I mean,
Speaker 8: think about nature. Nature gardens all the time. Right, trees
Speaker 8: come up in the forest and they growed, the giant,
Speaker 8: beautiful things. And how did that happen. Nobody went out
Speaker 8: there and you know, talk to them and did all
Speaker 8: the magic wands and everything like that trying to get
Speaker 8: them to grow.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 8: They they just had what the wanted and that was
Speaker 8: good soil. And there is nothing more important, no single
Speaker 8: factor more important for garden success than the soil plants
Speaker 8: live in their roots, the root system. You put plants
Speaker 8: in a soil that's you know, a heavy compacted clay
Speaker 8: and no oxygen, very slow water infiltration rates and all
Speaker 8: of that, and they're going to struggle. But you put
Speaker 8: them in a soil that has been prepared and they're
Speaker 8: going to thrive. And that's how it works, and that's
Speaker 8: what Nature's weighs all about. By the way, Nature's Way
Speaker 8: On Sherbrookes Circle up in Conra, you go up to
Speaker 8: Interstate forty five right where fourteen eighty eight comes in
Speaker 8: from Magnolia. You turn right instead and cross over the
Speaker 8: railroad tracks. That's Sherbrood's Brooks Circle First Street to come
Speaker 8: to turn right. That's Nature's Way Resources. They've been doing
Speaker 8: this for a very very long time. They know how
Speaker 8: to make quality, accomplished products. And we're talking about soil
Speaker 8: amendments and mulches that go on top of the soil.
Speaker 8: And by the way, their Fungal Friday sale is still
Speaker 8: on twenty percent off fungal compost at Nature's Way twenty
Speaker 8: percent off every Friday. That's a great opportunity right there.
Speaker 8: Also out at Nature's Way they have something called Microlife Mondays.
Speaker 8: It seems like every day something's going on out there.
Speaker 8: Twenty percent off selected microlife products, twenty percent off selected
Speaker 8: microlife products August. See I mean, excuse me through December second.
Speaker 8: It's going to go through December second. So you want
Speaker 8: to make sure and get out there, grab your especially
Speaker 8: those liquid products you know that Microlife makes. That's a
Speaker 8: good time to get those. And finally they're year in
Speaker 8: sale their nursery. You know, they have a really nice
Speaker 8: nursery out there, especially with native plants, but but some
Speaker 8: non natives as well. They're having a sale fifty percent
Speaker 8: off through December first. So we got you know, the
Speaker 8: rest of this month and that's it. That excludes some
Speaker 8: of their sun native sun perennials, but all the rest
Speaker 8: of the stuff fifty percent off at Nature's Way. And
Speaker 8: while you're out there, grab some of their soils by
Speaker 8: the bag. Take your truck or trailer out there and
Speaker 8: get them to dump a bulk load in it, or
Speaker 8: you can just call them and have them deliver it
Speaker 8: to your house if you want to go that route.
Speaker 8: Nature's Way resources. Whatever you do, fix your soil, amend
Speaker 8: your soil, make it special, and you will have success
Speaker 8: as a result of that. This year we just went through.
Speaker 8: I was out in my backyard. I have the house
Speaker 8: we purchased a while back and moved into had three
Speaker 8: cypress trees in it. Now. I have always appreciated cypress
Speaker 8: from a distance. I just think they're beautiful. The little wispy,
Speaker 8: feathery foliage that they have just real pretty. And down
Speaker 8: in low swampy areas, you know, the knees coming up
Speaker 8: are kind of attractive. They're you know, kind of a
Speaker 8: unique feature. Well, when you have a lawn and the
Speaker 8: knees are coming up in the lawn, that is a
Speaker 8: pain in the neck. And we dealt with that when
Speaker 8: I put in a new yard this past April and
Speaker 8: got all of those out of there and putting a
Speaker 8: patio in right now, and already there's some knees sticking
Speaker 8: up where I'm about to lay these flat stones to
Speaker 8: make a patio. So I had to dig a few
Speaker 8: more of those things up. And so I kind of
Speaker 8: have a love hate relationship with Cyprus. It's a great,
Speaker 8: beautiful tree, very long lived, very resistant to rot and
Speaker 8: things like that. It's a great tree, but it doesn't
Speaker 8: like lawns, and I don't like it's knees coming up
Speaker 8: in my lawn. But anyway, that's part of the deal.
Speaker 8: I need to get out there and do a little
Speaker 8: bit of pruning on mine. I've got one that is
Speaker 8: encroaching into an area of the branches where I need
Speaker 8: them not to go, So we'll do that. But you know,
Speaker 8: this year was so hard on trees. Good Night, we
Speaker 8: had two major one hurricane and another major storm that
Speaker 8: knocked out power for a couple of weeks. Affordable Tree
Speaker 8: Service can come out and prune your trees and help
Speaker 8: get them in as strong condition as they can, and
Speaker 8: this is pruning season. You know, if your situation is
Speaker 8: like mine, you just need a little pruning here. Maybe
Speaker 8: the branch is hanging too low. Now, maybe you have
Speaker 8: a broken branch in a tree. A narrow angles, narrow
Speaker 8: branch angles, those are all no nos. Affordable tree can
Speaker 8: come out and do that. Martin spoon Moore has been
Speaker 8: doing this for a long time. And again we are
Speaker 8: here primetime. You need to give him a call seven
Speaker 8: to one three six nine nine two six sixty three.
Speaker 8: Have him come out. Get on his schedule. Martin does
Speaker 8: good job. Martin stays busy, but tell them you're a
Speaker 8: guardenline listener. Get on the schedule. And then sometime between
Speaker 8: now and the end of this pruning season that we're
Speaker 8: having a prime pruning season. You prune year round. He'll
Speaker 8: come out and get that taken care of. He'll look
Speaker 8: at the things over see what they need. Give you
Speaker 8: some overall true health suggestions and observations. Uh, you know,
Speaker 8: what do you think is happening? Some of those storms
Speaker 8: really loosened up some trees and caused them to be
Speaker 8: a little bit leaning. Or maybe you see the grass
Speaker 8: kind of lifting up. When the tree blows around, it
Speaker 8: is kind of like moving and the root system is
Speaker 8: kind of lifting up a little bit. That's a that's
Speaker 8: a scary situation. You need to have him come out,
Speaker 8: whatever it is, have him come out and look. Either
Speaker 8: he Martin or his wife Joe will answer the phone.
Speaker 8: That's how it works an Affordable Tree. The website is
Speaker 8: aff Tree Service dot com af F first three letters
Speaker 8: and Affordable Tree Service dot Com and the phone number
Speaker 8: one more time write this down seven one three six
Speaker 8: nine nine two six six three. You're listening to Gardenline.
Speaker 8: I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to help
Speaker 8: you have a more beautiful landscape and more boundiful garden
Speaker 8: and more fun in the process. Those are my goals
Speaker 8: right there. That's what I would like to see happen
Speaker 8: for you.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 8: And we try to gear the show. We're just that
Speaker 8: if you'd like to give me a call. Seven one
Speaker 8: three two one two ktr H seven one three two
Speaker 8: one two k t R h.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 8: I was visiting with some of the folks at Enchented
Speaker 8: Gardens next spring. I'm gonna early late winter early spring,
Speaker 8: I'm going to be going out to in Chenna Gardens.
Speaker 8: We were just talking about my talk on topics and
Speaker 8: some things like that. Uh, and it just every time
Speaker 8: I go out to in Chenna Gardens. It's like it's
Speaker 8: like an adventure.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 8: And I say this before, but we have the best
Speaker 8: garden centers of any major city that I've ever been
Speaker 8: to here in the Houston area. And I really mean that, north, south, east, west, Central.
Speaker 8: We have them everywhere, and they're showplaces to take people to.
Speaker 8: In Chaney Gardens on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond,
Speaker 8: they're out there on FM three fifty nine, three fifty nine,
Speaker 8: Real close, FM three fifty nine and FM seven twenty
Speaker 8: three where they come together just north of Richmond, Katie
Speaker 8: fullsher Side. It's one of those places you know, I
Speaker 8: would say when you go, take some friends, take people
Speaker 8: with you, because it is it's like you're going to
Speaker 8: a botanical garden, outing kind of thing where you're just
Speaker 8: re enjoying yourself, looking around seeing what they have. And yeah,
Speaker 8: it's not just like running down to the grocery store
Speaker 8: by groceries and come home. This is an experience Katie
Speaker 8: fullsher Side of Richmond. Here's the website Enchanted Gardens Richmond
Speaker 8: dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Gift shop is
Speaker 8: loaded up and beautiful if you want forcing bulbs for
Speaker 8: a gift, you know, Thanksgivings coming up. I'm not buying
Speaker 8: a gift for whoever is the host of your Thanksgiving meal.
Speaker 8: If it's yourself, buy the one you buy for yourself.
Speaker 8: They have beautiful stuff for putting out in the garden,
Speaker 8: you know, the blame the uh Carvestone kinds of structures
Speaker 8: that you put out just for fun and whimsy. And
Speaker 8: they're loaded up on every plant for the season. They
Speaker 8: always are loaded up for plants for the season. We're
Speaker 8: going to now go to College Station, I believe, and
Speaker 8: talk to Robert.
Speaker 1: Hello, Robert, good morning.
Speaker 11: How are you doing morning?
Speaker 8: Well, I'm doing well. What's up with you?
Speaker 12: So?
Speaker 13: I have a couple of high business plants that I've
Speaker 13: potted when I relocated to College Station a year ago.
Speaker 13: I moved them from my house in Katie up to
Speaker 13: College Station, and I've noticed here in the last month
Speaker 13: or so, one of those plants has started getting browning,
Speaker 13: maybe grayish browning on leads. Starts at the tip and
Speaker 13: works its way through the lead until it finally flakes
Speaker 13: off and drops. I'm wondering what's causing that, If it's
Speaker 13: insects or a fungus or watering issues.
Speaker 8: Usually when something happens in the tips and margins of
Speaker 8: the leaf, Robert, it's a plumbing problem, meaning that you
Speaker 8: can get that from, you know, temporary drought. You can
Speaker 8: get that from burning the roots with a salt based fertilizer.
Speaker 8: An excessive amount of salt based fertilizer. Burning the roots
Speaker 8: will do that. Something like that's going on because that's
Speaker 8: the last part of the leaf to get it's the
Speaker 8: end of the pipeline to get water. And that's also
Speaker 8: the end where fertilizer salts would build up. In that case,
Speaker 8: is it all over the plant or just kind of
Speaker 8: here and there.
Speaker 13: Here and there, and yeah, here and there. And of
Speaker 13: the two plants, one seems to exhibit that more than
Speaker 13: the other in separate pots.
Speaker 8: Yeah, separate pots. Maybe one pot doesn't drain as well
Speaker 8: as the other. Maybe the soil volume is different, maybe
Speaker 8: the amount of sunlight they get is different. I've got
Speaker 8: some you're talking about tropical hibiscus, Yes, this is the
Speaker 8: tropical Okay, Yeah, I've got some plants like that. And
Speaker 8: you know, one plant seems to go into drought stress
Speaker 8: much faster than the other one, same soil too, by
Speaker 8: the way, but that so it's it's kind of interesting,
Speaker 8: but just kind of water them accordingly. I think they're okay.
Speaker 8: You know, we're we're entering the season where there's zero
Speaker 8: stress on them and we just start worrying about not
Speaker 8: freezing them. And up in college station, you're going to
Speaker 8: need to be able to roll that pot into your
Speaker 8: garage and when it gets cold.
Speaker 13: Yeah, okay, all right, so I'll watch my.
Speaker 1: My watering.
Speaker 13: Maybe needs it's time to replant repot those two because
Speaker 13: it is I think one pot is I think about it.
Speaker 13: It's smaller than the other and to be an issue, okay.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it could be. Yeah, it's not difficult to grow them.
Speaker 8: And boy they're beautiful. Love those things. In fact, you
Speaker 8: need if you're more. I got a one of the
Speaker 8: Cajun Hibiscus cajun Is. They're a certain breeder that puts
Speaker 8: together series called Cajun Hibiscus, and they are just so
Speaker 8: beautiful and gaudy at the same time that I got
Speaker 8: to go get a different one next year because I've
Speaker 8: enjoyed them so much. Well, man, thanks for the thanks
Speaker 8: for the call, and good luck with you your hibiscus.
Speaker 13: Okay, thank you goodbye.
Speaker 8: Yes sir, bye bye. Well I'm looking at the clock
Speaker 8: and the clock says, skip quit talking. We got to
Speaker 8: go to a break. I'll be right back. Here's the
Speaker 8: phone number if you'd like to call in the meantime,
Speaker 8: be first up seven one three two one two KTRH.
Speaker 8: Welcome back to garden Line, folks. We are ready to go.
Speaker 8: What what kind of questions do you have about gardening? Vegetables, flowers,
Speaker 8: fruit and plant some herbs. Got issues with the lawn?
Speaker 8: Maybe a tree suggestion? No trees are I was telling
Speaker 8: talking to my wife yesterday and mentioning the saying is
Speaker 8: the best time to plant a tree was forty years ago?
Speaker 8: The second best time is today? And isn't that true?
Speaker 8: We were looking at a I know, watching something on TV,
Speaker 8: and I had the street lined with beautiful trees that
Speaker 8: reached across the street and touched and it was just
Speaker 8: this gosh, the scene was gorgeous. But somebody a long
Speaker 8: time ago made a decision to put some little scrny
Speaker 8: trees up and down that street, and boy did they
Speaker 8: ever turn out. Right. When you're going to plant a tree,
Speaker 8: you want to make sure and pick a species that
Speaker 8: wants to grow here. That is very important a species
Speaker 8: that is gonna thrive in this area. And there are
Speaker 8: a lot of different species out there, and sometimes there's
Speaker 8: even varieties of the tree that do better. I mentioned
Speaker 8: griping about I was griping about the cypress knees in
Speaker 8: my yard earlier, and there are cypress that, like Montezuma
Speaker 8: cypress that really don't produce knees. There's even some strains
Speaker 8: of the regular cypress that don't. But boy, I wish
Speaker 8: I could go back in time and advise the people
Speaker 8: that were planting those trees in my yard. I don't
Speaker 8: know if they listened to it or not, but hey,
Speaker 8: why don't you instead of putting those in, why don't
Speaker 8: you put a different kind of cypress in and avoid knees.
Speaker 8: That's what I'm talking about. There are types of red
Speaker 8: oaks that do super well here. If you've got a
Speaker 8: soggy area, the nuthull red oak does better in poor
Speaker 8: drainage than the shoe mard for example. Wood Those are
Speaker 8: both great beautiful types of red oak, but each I'm
Speaker 8: just saying that species and varieties matter, and think about that.
Speaker 8: It's a long term investment or at least you hope
Speaker 8: it is. Back in the nineteen sixties and seventies, people
Speaker 8: planted Arizona ashes and new neighborhoods all over the place.
Speaker 8: They grew fast, and then they fell apart and by
Speaker 8: the time you know, we got about oh about thirty
Speaker 8: forty years down the line from that planting. Now you
Speaker 8: drive through those neighborhoods, or then you drove through those
Speaker 8: neighborhoods and it looked like hat racks. They'd been cut off.
Speaker 8: The trees had sometimes split in the storm. That's not
Speaker 8: a not a good variety for strength of the branches.
Speaker 8: And so here's this neighborhood that sho been and it's
Speaker 8: tree prime, just gorgeous shade trees, and it was basically
Speaker 8: going back to the drawing board. And so that was
Speaker 8: poor choice for that time. Fortunately, we don't see as
Speaker 8: many Arizona ash around, but there are trees like that.
Speaker 8: Pick a tree that's going to last a long time
Speaker 8: and get better and better and better, and secondly, take
Speaker 8: care of it. From the time the tree goes in
Speaker 8: the ground. You need to be thinking about how do
Speaker 8: I train this tree, how do I prien this tree,
Speaker 8: or hiring somebody like Martin Spoon more affordable tree that
Speaker 8: knows how to do it, to come out and do
Speaker 8: that for you. Because when you do this, pick the
Speaker 8: right tree, put it in the right spot. Right spot
Speaker 8: two means not ten feet from your house or a
Speaker 8: curb or a sidewalk, because that has issues down the line,
Speaker 8: and you take care of it, It's going to add
Speaker 8: a lot of value to your home if you ever
Speaker 8: sell that home, but also if you stay in that
Speaker 8: home to have that gorgeous, beautiful shaded area to enjoy.
Speaker 8: So that's a little public service announcement, I guess for
Speaker 8: the day. But trees are a long term investment. You know,
Speaker 8: you plant it tomato, you don't liking, dig it up
Speaker 8: and plan another one. With trees, this is a long
Speaker 8: term investment, so think about that. I'm going to be
Speaker 8: heading out to the Wild Bird's Unlimited store in Kingwood,
Speaker 8: Texas today. I'll be there from noon to two and
Speaker 8: I'm going to be given away. Nelson Plant Food has
Speaker 8: donated a lot of products, and I mean a lot.
Speaker 8: So if you show up at if you show up
Speaker 8: at Wildbird's, chances of you getting a really cool product,
Speaker 8: winning a row coal product, or very very high today.
Speaker 8: I've got color Store on hand. I've got their vegetable
Speaker 8: fertilizer on hand. I've got the fertilizer that is for
Speaker 8: planting plants, the one that called Genesis. I've got two
Speaker 8: different kinds of samples. Are a sample and also just
Speaker 8: a canister of that that I'm going to be giving
Speaker 8: away as well. And there's another one. What is the
Speaker 8: one I'm forgetting about. I'll think of it in a minute. Anyway,
Speaker 8: I got like four different kinds of Nelson products and
Speaker 8: a lot of them that I'm going to be given
Speaker 8: away there. Nelson produces quality fertilizers they do. The color
Speaker 8: Star is just like a standard. It's one of their
Speaker 8: most universal blends. It can be used on annuals and prins.
Speaker 8: You can use it on flowering trees and shrubs too.
Speaker 8: It works really well. You know, professionals have long been
Speaker 8: using this, not just here in Texas, but many other states.
Speaker 8: People have Nelson shipped in because they've learned. Color Star
Speaker 8: is a super quality, quality product created over forty years
Speaker 8: ago by Dean Nelson. It's got five different sources of nitrogen.
Speaker 8: It's got organic bone meal and blood meal, both organic
Speaker 8: products to feed the soil and your plants and come
Speaker 8: on out to Wallbirds Unlimited in Kingwood today. That's on
Speaker 8: Kingwood Drive, right behind Torches Tacos, and I'll give you
Speaker 8: some Nelson products that you can take home and try.
Speaker 8: All right, there you have it. Tell your friend bring
Speaker 8: some friends with you too. By the way, it is
Speaker 8: our last appearance of the year, last one, last call.
Speaker 8: I was working on that back patio that I was
Speaker 8: telling you about earlier, and I have a couple of
Speaker 8: golden retrievers and I never knew what golden retrieve. I
Speaker 8: thought maybe they were bred to like retrieve ducks out
Speaker 8: of a pond or something. I found out they're bread
Speaker 8: to retrieve plants. I didn't know this, but when Ellie
Speaker 8: was little, I went out and Ellie went with me
Speaker 8: and we planted some I think it was Echinasia, four
Speaker 8: inch pots purple cone flour in the back in a
Speaker 8: bed and we get them all done. I went inside,
Speaker 8: I don't know good drink water. And when I walked
Speaker 8: back out, there on my back step was Kenesha. Ellie
Speaker 8: had brought it back to me. It's kind of like, hey, Skip,
Speaker 8: I think you forgot this in the garden. So I
Speaker 8: just wanted to bring it back, so you didn't. So anyway,
Speaker 8: that's I always thought they were in the sporting group,
Speaker 8: the Golden Retrievers, but actually they're in the gardening group.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you knew that that a CAC
Speaker 8: has a gardening group as well. If you're looking for products,
Speaker 8: you know, I've been talking about Nelson products. I've been
Speaker 8: talking about the microlife products, been nitropized products, Medina products,
Speaker 8: Ace hardware stores all over the Houston area say stocked
Speaker 8: up on whatever products you need. You know, when I
Speaker 8: start talking about a fertilizer that I think would be
Speaker 8: an excellent one for you, you're going to find it today.
Speaker 8: There's forty stores in the Greater Houston area, actually more
Speaker 8: than forty now in the Greater Houston area, and that's
Speaker 8: where you get everything. It is still time to treat
Speaker 8: for fire ants. Get that done before it cools off.
Speaker 8: Whenever the weather's mild, fire ants are out, they're out feeding.
Speaker 8: In fact, we've got some rain the other day and
Speaker 8: here comes some mounds up. I didn't even know they
Speaker 8: were there. That's why you want to use a fire
Speaker 8: ant bait. And i'd just done individual mound treatments. These
Speaker 8: that I hadn't seen yet, I would have then had
Speaker 8: to treat with individual mound treatments again. So that's called
Speaker 8: whack a mole with fire ants. Go to ACE Hardware
Speaker 8: get a quality fire ant bait when you're picking up
Speaker 8: your fertilizer or your turf disease control or your turf
Speaker 8: insect control or your turf weed prevention. It's all there
Speaker 8: at Acehardware dot com. I'm going to take a break
Speaker 8: now and I will be back for our last segment
Speaker 8: today if you'd like to be first up seven one
Speaker 8: three two one two K t R H. Welcome back
Speaker 8: to guard Line. Welcome back. Glad to have you with us. Hey,
Speaker 8: those of you out there in Kingwood, you got a
Speaker 8: couple of great garden centers. You got Warrens and you
Speaker 8: got Kingwood Garden Center. Now Warrens that we're in Southern Gardens.
Speaker 8: That's the one on North Park Drive and Kingwood Gardens
Speaker 8: Centers on Stone Hollow. Both of them are open seven
Speaker 8: days a week. They are They're just the kind of
Speaker 8: place where you go when you want to find plants
Speaker 8: that are gonna do well. Here where you're going to
Speaker 8: find products and cool stuff. For example, right now, they've
Speaker 8: got the Amarillis bulbs of forcing bulbs they're in stocking.
Speaker 8: Plant them in the ground, or you can actually force
Speaker 8: them indoors. I think that's kind of cool. Plenty of
Speaker 8: fall veggies Moms still still available. Whenever you go into Warren's,
Speaker 8: make sure and enjoy their newsletter that if you sign
Speaker 8: up for the newsletter, you will get special coupons and offers,
Speaker 8: especially that they're monthly lawn care coupons. Those are that right,
Speaker 8: there's worth the price of admission, and the permission is
Speaker 8: free forgetting the newsletter. Just you can go to the
Speaker 8: website and sign up. You can call them and sign up,
Speaker 8: and walk in the store and sign up. However you
Speaker 8: want to go about it. Over at Kingwood Garden Center,
Speaker 8: their gift shop is clearing out. They are having their
Speaker 8: clearance event now on November or first through the eighth.
Speaker 8: It was twenty five percent off. Guess what we are
Speaker 8: now the ninth through the fifteenth it's thirty percent off,
Speaker 8: and next week there'll be forty. But don't wait because
Speaker 8: that one thing you really want to get is not
Speaker 8: going to be available anymore. So that is a really
Speaker 8: good deal. They're clearing it out so they can restock
Speaker 8: on some really nice stuff. You've got to make room
Speaker 8: for that. So things like if you haven't been to
Speaker 8: the gift shop at Kingwock Garden Center, that's jewelry, there's
Speaker 8: skincare products, they're scented sprays, flood See how just all
Speaker 8: over the places, says kitchen stuff, floor mats, vases, glassware bowls,
Speaker 8: picture framed sunglasses, hats, candles, oh wife, loaves, candles, light fixtures, bracelets, stationary.
Speaker 8: You see what I'm talking about. It It is a
Speaker 8: great gift shop loaded with stuff, and right now is
Speaker 8: your opportunity. This week it goes to thirty percent off
Speaker 8: starting today. Take advantage of that and get out there
Speaker 8: and check out that beautiful gift shop. We're going to
Speaker 8: go to the phones now and talk to David and Tomball. Hello, David,
Speaker 8: Welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 14: Good morning, sir. Hey, before I ask you my question,
Speaker 14: you were talking about labrador retrievers. I had a chocolate
Speaker 14: lab one time, and she was the best dog I
Speaker 14: ever had.
Speaker 15: But she was.
Speaker 14: Always bringing me rewards and going out and finding me
Speaker 14: stuff and trying to satisfy me with gifts.
Speaker 16: And one time she got.
Speaker 1: Loose in the neighborhood.
Speaker 14: She got loose in the neighborhood and must have gone
Speaker 14: into somebody's open garage and brought me back a pop
Speaker 14: up toaster.
Speaker 17: And I just I don't know.
Speaker 11: I even I.
Speaker 14: Tried to find the neighbor to see who was missing
Speaker 14: one and it worked.
Speaker 8: He's just crazy.
Speaker 14: But anyway, she was always giving me rewards like that too.
Speaker 14: But my question is, you were talking about putting down
Speaker 14: the pre emergence right now. If I put it down now,
Speaker 14: am I also going to be putting it down and
Speaker 14: like early March or February as well.
Speaker 8: February yes, uh huh, yeah you are, And but get it.
Speaker 8: If you're doing it now, get it done soon because
Speaker 8: those we've had that rain, a little bit of cool temperatures,
Speaker 8: and those seeds are gonna be sprouting, so yeah, that
Speaker 8: it'll last. It'll take you all the way through the winter.
Speaker 8: But then the February application is going to be for
Speaker 8: your spring weeds, your warm season weeds. The application now
Speaker 8: is for cool season weeds.
Speaker 14: It's the same stuff though, like barricade.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, barricade for both.
Speaker 11: Okay, that's all I had.
Speaker 15: Have a good day man.
Speaker 8: All right, thank you, appreciate appreciate your call very much.
Speaker 8: We're gonna now head over to Sean and Katie. Hey, Seawan,
Speaker 8: welcome to garden.
Speaker 15: Hey, good morning Skip.
Speaker 5: I had a similar question as a previous caller, so
Speaker 5: I had my yardists full of what did that call
Speaker 5: slander after weed? Is it too late to put down
Speaker 5: that carmel load by Nelson?
Speaker 8: Well, okay, first of all, it's not too late to
Speaker 8: put on carbo load by Nelson. That's a pre emergent
Speaker 8: and a fertilizer. It works really, really well. You just
Speaker 8: have to water it in, get the nutrients and the
Speaker 8: product into the ground after you do it. However, it
Speaker 8: will not control slender aster by putting it down. Now.
Speaker 8: The slen aster has already got its little blooms on it.
Speaker 8: It's setting seed. And as much as you don't want
Speaker 8: to hear this, the best thing you can do right
Speaker 8: now is pull it up. It all comes out of
Speaker 8: one tap root in the ground. You may have one
Speaker 8: the size of the steerweel in your car. It's coming
Speaker 8: out of one place. When the soil is moist, it
Speaker 8: pulls pretty easily. Because you will be producing thousands of seeds.
Speaker 8: If you leave that in the lawn now for next year,
Speaker 8: if you wanted to do an application, let's say maybe
Speaker 8: March for slender aster, maybe a second one later into
Speaker 8: the summer. That's when it's sprouting, and that's where your
Speaker 8: carbo loade kind of fertilizers or whatever kind of pre
Speaker 8: emergent would be used for that.
Speaker 5: Okay, And my second question is I bought a Microlife
Speaker 5: compost in the bag and also the multipurpose fertilizer.
Speaker 3: Would that help?
Speaker 5: Would it hard to put it down nail or I mean,
Speaker 5: or just a pre merging be fine?
Speaker 8: It would be fine. The concentrated compost in the bag
Speaker 8: that's humous. That is like if you take compost all
Speaker 8: the way past compost to its final stage, it's a
Speaker 8: great soil building product. It's not like you're adding a nutrient.
Speaker 8: It's like you're putting stuff into the soil that makes
Speaker 8: the soil the structure of it better and just enhances
Speaker 8: mycrobio content and things like that. So that anytimes a
Speaker 8: good time to do the humans the the other fertilizers
Speaker 8: by Microlife. Now would be a time to do your
Speaker 8: fall fertilizing with the one called brown patch. It's it's
Speaker 8: a brown bag and it's designed for applying this time
Speaker 8: of year.
Speaker 11: Okay, that's it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, have a great day.
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Speaker 8: going to head now to Joe Joannie, Joanne, excuse me,
Speaker 8: Joanne on Lake Conroe. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 18: I bought a couple of plants yesterday at the store,
Speaker 18: grocery store, and I probably mistakenly bought three of the
Speaker 18: wrong ones. I like Turk's cap, but I've only seen
Speaker 18: it in the ground just growing natively. And I bought
Speaker 18: a single plant. I don't know what I'm going to
Speaker 18: do with it, but yeah, I put it in a
Speaker 18: pot for now, and I didn't know how that would
Speaker 18: work out, if I should put it in the ground
Speaker 18: or just try to start it in the pot for
Speaker 18: a while.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean you could put it in the pot,
Speaker 8: but it'll do just fine in the ground. It's a
Speaker 8: very tough perennial here.
Speaker 3: My ground is one.
Speaker 18: Yeah, and do they spread?
Speaker 8: They gradually spread outward over time, so occasionally you know
Speaker 8: you're gonna probably go out to that out and dig
Speaker 8: it up and say, okay, that's far enough. But it's
Speaker 8: not like bermuda grass. It's taken over the flower better thing.
Speaker 8: It's not that kind of spreader.
Speaker 18: And I thought, a my ground isn't the greatest, so
Speaker 18: I'll probably have to add some good soil to it.
Speaker 18: But I also bought a plant. I've never heard it
Speaker 18: called pepperonia for some reason. And what do you know
Speaker 18: about that plant?
Speaker 8: It's a houseplant. It needs quite a bit of light
Speaker 8: to do its best. Just be careful not to overwater it.
Speaker 8: The pepperonia will do just fine. But if you can
Speaker 8: get a bag, or if you can get you a
Speaker 8: bag or two a compost and throw it down on
Speaker 8: the ground, mix it in a little bit, you can
Speaker 8: go ahead and plant that turk's cap. And it's a
Speaker 8: nice plant. It has big red flower. Most of the
Speaker 8: types are red. There's a pink and a white type
Speaker 8: that they're not.
Speaker 19: Looking all right.
Speaker 11: Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 8: Love, thanks, thanks, bye bye. Well I already hear music.
Speaker 8: So when we come back, George and David, you are
Speaker 8: our first two up. Not gonna be able to catch
Speaker 8: your call before us our ends, but if you can
Speaker 8: hang around, well we'll put your first up when we
Speaker 8: come back. You're listening to garden Line our phone number
Speaker 8: seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's Essy gas Trim. Just watch him as well.
Speaker 8: As so many birthdays.
Speaker 2: To sup Brasy gas lea not a sun glass, sun beam.
Speaker 20: And of.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Good morning on a beautiful Saturday morning. Get
Speaker 8: outside and get a little gardening done today. Boy is
Speaker 8: the weather ever great? I mean it just this. I
Speaker 8: love these temperatures. I spent yesterday all day out work
Speaker 8: and in the garden. By the way, my muscles are
Speaker 8: talking to me about that today. They were not real
Speaker 8: happy with the amount of exertion I was putting out,
Speaker 8: but I sure was happy with the results. I got
Speaker 8: a lot of things cleaned up and done. Let's head
Speaker 8: straight out to the to the phones this hour. We're
Speaker 8: going to go to George in Jersey Village. Hey, George,
Speaker 8: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Thank you sched, Good morning to you too. And this
Speaker 19: is my wife's question. She's, well, we got about a
Speaker 19: million get goes in the garden and they come inside
Speaker 19: the house and they scare the poop out of her.
Speaker 19: So she wonders, is that kind of a can we
Speaker 19: do something about it or not? I don't care.
Speaker 11: I like them.
Speaker 19: And the next thing, thank you very much, go ahead, no,
Speaker 19: go ahead, thank you very much for the via that
Speaker 19: you talked me into getting. Man, it is beautiful now.
Speaker 19: But okay, how about the.
Speaker 8: Well, the geckos, you know, I mean, when someone's afraid
Speaker 8: of something, it's hard to talk them out of it.
Speaker 8: I just those geckos are eating insects, and so I
Speaker 8: had them running around the house. You know, I'm just
Speaker 8: saying they are a beneficial creature. Now we're going to
Speaker 8: quit trying to convince people to leave geckos in their
Speaker 8: house after that statement. But they're getting in under the
Speaker 8: door probably, and so it's kind of checked the thresholds.
Speaker 8: If you do, you know, tighten up that underneath the
Speaker 8: door crack, and that is probably one of the best
Speaker 8: ways to keep them out of there. That's the main
Speaker 8: way they're getting in, they're just looking for a warm
Speaker 8: place to be. They know what's coming. And so I
Speaker 8: had I had a couple of my house the other day,
Speaker 8: and my Golden Retrievers found them and it was game on.
Speaker 8: They didn't know what to do with them, but they
Speaker 8: were very excited about the fact that they were there.
Speaker 8: So yeah, all right, thank you, by bye, you bet
Speaker 8: you bet, thank you. You take care, appreciate your call.
Speaker 8: Plants for all seasons? Is that garden center you have
Speaker 8: been to before if you live anywhere up in that direction.
Speaker 8: They are off two forty nine, right where Luetta comes
Speaker 8: into two forty nine. So if you were going north,
Speaker 8: let's say we're heading from Houston to Humble and you
Speaker 8: exited Lueta, it wo just cross over Luetta and they're
Speaker 8: right there on the right hand side. Full service garden
Speaker 8: center BET around since nineteen seventy three, and that history
Speaker 8: and time has really made them a solid horticultural fixture
Speaker 8: in that whole region. People all know about plants for
Speaker 8: all seasons. They know when you go in there, you're
Speaker 8: going to find really cool plants. They know when you
Speaker 8: go in there, you're going to find lawn and garden
Speaker 8: experts that can direct, advise, diagnose, suggest and help you
Speaker 8: have success. You can take pictures and samples in there
Speaker 8: if you want to do that. Plants four All Seasons
Speaker 8: dot Com is the website, the phone number two eight
Speaker 8: one three seven six one six four six. When you
Speaker 8: swing by, check out all the new holiday cactus that
Speaker 8: are in. Oh my, they are primetime looking and beautiful.
Speaker 8: And another plant I don't talk about much here on
Speaker 8: guarden Line, but the adenium the desert rose, Oh my
Speaker 8: goodness here are so gorgeous. I just can't just I
Speaker 8: don't know a plant that has as many different colors
Speaker 8: of beautiful blooms as desert rose. And it's easy, easy
Speaker 8: to grow. They got them at Plants for All Seats.
Speaker 8: Go by there and check it out, just just north
Speaker 8: of Luetta on the Feeder Road FM two forty nine
Speaker 8: Tomboll Parkway. We're going to go now to David out
Speaker 8: in a tess Casita. Hey David, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 21: Good morning, how are you? Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 21: I sent you an email day yesterday with a couple
Speaker 21: of pictures of some fungus or mushrooms growing in my yard.
Speaker 21: I want to try and get rid.
Speaker 11: But I have a dog that I.
Speaker 21: Send more time outside than inside, so I don't want
Speaker 21: to use a whole bunch of poison. I've tried some
Speaker 21: of the I guess you could call them over the
Speaker 21: counter fungus control methods liquid, and I think I even
Speaker 21: try to dry it one one time, and I thought
Speaker 21: I had them under control, but then they just started
Speaker 21: coming back. I don't know, like I said, if it's
Speaker 21: actually a mushroom or if it's just some other kind
Speaker 21: of fungus. Because it doesn't grow stem and cap like
Speaker 21: your normal mushrooms. It almost looks like growing across the ground.
Speaker 8: Yeah, those are. There are a bazillion different species of
Speaker 8: decomposer fungi out there. It looks like did you do
Speaker 8: a top dressing on the lawn. No.
Speaker 11: No, it's like.
Speaker 8: That's just your soil.
Speaker 21: Everyone's while. If I empty pot, I'll throw some dirt
Speaker 21: on the ground.
Speaker 8: Well, in the fall, when we get a little rain,
Speaker 8: get a little break in the temperatures, all kinds of
Speaker 8: mushrooms pop up all over the landscape. And basically all
Speaker 8: they're doing is they're just turning organic matter back into soil.
Speaker 8: That's what they do. And so they can pop out
Speaker 8: of the mulch on top of your garden beds, they
Speaker 8: can pop out of the grass. This is a is
Speaker 8: a particular kind of fungus. Of course, I'm not a mycologist.
Speaker 8: I can't tell you the name of all these fungi.
Speaker 8: But this is not a disease of plants, and they
Speaker 8: will come and go pretty rapidly. Actually, I would not
Speaker 8: be worried about them. I don't think you're gonna do
Speaker 8: anything trying to spray them with a funge a side
Speaker 8: at all. I don't think that'll help it.
Speaker 21: Okay, Okay, So yeah, either let them go or dig
Speaker 21: them up if I don't.
Speaker 8: Like them, If you don't like them, yeah, dig them up,
Speaker 8: or get a rate and kind of get under there
Speaker 8: and try to pull them out. But when they're all
Speaker 8: entangled with the Saint Augustine runners and leaves, it's it's
Speaker 8: a little hard to get them out of there. But yeah,
Speaker 8: you could do that. But like I said, they just
Speaker 8: something that comes and goes this time of the year
Speaker 8: a lot.
Speaker 21: Okay. And then the other I sent you. In the
Speaker 21: corner of my garden, we have a Japanese maple. I
Speaker 21: think it's a Japanese maple, and the previous owners of
Speaker 21: the house had elephant ears and other large leaf plants
Speaker 21: just surrounding it, and it took over the corner, and
Speaker 21: the sprinklers wouldn't get out onto the grass, and all
Speaker 21: kinds of others, and my wife doesn't like them. So
Speaker 21: I dug them all up, and I thought I got
Speaker 21: the roots, and I thought I got all the tubers
Speaker 21: that were down on the ground as best I could
Speaker 21: without cutting a whole bunch of the tree's roots. And
Speaker 21: I laid down some garden fabric, and I know what
Speaker 21: Randy used to say about that, but I did it anyway,
Speaker 21: and covered it up with new molts. And the elephant
Speaker 21: ears have found their way through that fabric and are
Speaker 21: growing back up. I'd like to get rid of them
Speaker 21: without damaging my tree. And once again, I have a dog.
Speaker 21: Well to spend a lot of time in.
Speaker 8: The yard right well, when you're out there digging around,
Speaker 8: usually you have to redig elephant ears two or three
Speaker 8: times just to get them all because the little piece
Speaker 8: left in the ground will pop back up. But you
Speaker 8: could go back to that with a fabric that's going
Speaker 8: to be hard to do. You might try a product wiping,
Speaker 8: a product that contains triclop here t ri I c
Speaker 8: l O P y r onto the leaves of those plants,
Speaker 8: or just a good broad leaf weed control product that
Speaker 8: you would use in your lawn. If you go to
Speaker 8: my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you will see
Speaker 8: something called herbicides for skip'sweed wiper, and those herbicides are
Speaker 8: grouped by the kind of plants you're going after. So
Speaker 8: either something you're spraying for like poison ivy on my
Speaker 8: list there, or something you're spraying for lawn weeds on
Speaker 8: my list there, they're all listed out. I would do that,
Speaker 8: just make sure and maybe put a little bit of
Speaker 8: a surfactin in there. Spreader it's called spreader sticker. Wherever
Speaker 8: you buy your product, get some spreader sticker and that
Speaker 8: makes it stick to those leaves and not not just
Speaker 8: run right off.
Speaker 21: Okay, and I'm in the I would Hunter would be
Speaker 21: the best place to go.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, Kingwoo Garden Center, Warren Southern Gardens out there.
Speaker 8: You got a number of places out there to go.
Speaker 8: And look, you know, got some great stores out there
Speaker 8: as well, So you guys are rich with opportunities of
Speaker 8: places to get this kind of stuff.
Speaker 21: Okay, all right, well I appreciate you, all right, thanks
Speaker 21: for the information.
Speaker 8: You bet and thank you for the call. All right,
Speaker 8: appreciate that. Take care, bye bye. All right, folks, got
Speaker 8: to run to a break. When we come back, we
Speaker 8: will be talking to Roger and Mark. All right, Welcome
Speaker 8: back to garden Line on a great day for gardening.
Speaker 8: I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to help
Speaker 8: you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
Speaker 8: and more fun in the process. If someone asked me
Speaker 8: the other day, is it okay to put up azamite?
Speaker 20: Now?
Speaker 8: The answer is yes, it is. And here's the deal.
Speaker 8: Azmite is not the kind of fertilizer that makes your
Speaker 8: takeoff growing like that's nitrogen. That's the three big numbers
Speaker 8: on the bag kind of fertilizer. Azmite is a trace
Speaker 8: mineral supplement. When you put on asimite, what you're doing
Speaker 8: is you are investing in the bank account of your
Speaker 8: soil for trace minerals, so that when the grass needs
Speaker 8: a trace mineral, it's there and it's available and it'll
Speaker 8: need it. There are a number of different minerals that
Speaker 8: are needed in very tiny amounts, but they're essential and
Speaker 8: so as it's trying to grow, it's going to have
Speaker 8: to draw on though, So create that bank account in
Speaker 8: your soil with as mite azimite texas dot com. You
Speaker 8: can do it at the same day you're fertilizing. Just
Speaker 8: don't put fertilizer and asimite in the same hopper because
Speaker 8: the particle size is different. So just do the fertilizer,
Speaker 8: then do the as mite, or do the asmite anytime
Speaker 8: of the year that you choose to do that. That's
Speaker 8: just fine. I'm going to go now to Tumball, Texas
Speaker 8: and talk to Roger. Hey, Roger, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 11: How you doing today. I'm calling to see what kind
Speaker 11: of I had a treat taken out and I have
Speaker 11: a big void and want to put some kind of
Speaker 11: grass in there. I have some Saint Augustine, but I
Speaker 11: have a cedar tree. It's kind of cut up high,
Speaker 11: you know, it's up high, but something will grow under
Speaker 11: there fairly. Well.
Speaker 8: Okay, Well, if you've got Saint Augustine, you could just
Speaker 8: stay with that unless you want a mixture of different
Speaker 8: kinds of grasses in your launch. Saint Augustine is the
Speaker 8: most shade tolerant we've got. That's the thing. It's a
Speaker 8: very good grass for low light level areas, and so
Speaker 8: you could go that route. There's there's some zoysias that
Speaker 8: have significant shade tolerance as well.
Speaker 11: Any particular type on the Saint Augustine.
Speaker 8: Oh gosh. There are a lot of good varieties out there,
Speaker 8: and each one has its pros and cons. If you,
Speaker 8: you know, wherever you go and purchase your grasses, they're
Speaker 8: going to have certain varieties that they carry. Different different
Speaker 8: grass producers grow certain varieties. They don't try to grow
Speaker 8: everything there is out there. Uh, And again, each one
Speaker 8: has its pros and cons. But there's there is one
Speaker 8: called Cobalt that just came out of A and M
Speaker 8: recently that is very very drought resilient. It is a
Speaker 8: very deep rooted, tough Saint Augustine for drought resilience, very
Speaker 8: good for that. It also has pretty good shade tolerance too.
Speaker 11: Okay, thank you very much. Any nurseries carry those or
Speaker 11: just have to call around to see who.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you just have to call around. So there, you know,
Speaker 8: there's soil there. Nurseries that carry sod, some sod h
Speaker 8: Then there's soil purveyors around the area. You know that
Speaker 8: that's that's what they do, is they carry sod. I
Speaker 8: know there's a King Ranch has a bunch of stores
Speaker 8: in the Greater Houston area, And so you just go
Speaker 8: to where you are. I think I'd do better probably
Speaker 8: Roger if you if you said, yeah, I went this
Speaker 8: place and they had this and this and this, what
Speaker 8: do you think is about? So I could comment on those,
Speaker 8: that'd be a little leisure. But there's dozens of options
Speaker 8: out there.
Speaker 11: Thank you very much, free time, have a good one,
Speaker 11: all right, you.
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Speaker 8: head out now to Clear Lake, Texas and talk to Mark. Hey, Mark,
Speaker 8: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning.
Speaker 22: After the hurricane here this summer, I lost a couple
Speaker 22: of oak trees, and they took the rest of them
Speaker 22: out and ground the stumps, and they also filled in
Speaker 22: those areas with some good soil and also put some
Speaker 22: sod on top of it. So what I did is
Speaker 22: I watered it, you know, twice. I've put little pieces
Speaker 22: of sod before, but this was about a palletteful there
Speaker 22: in the backyard, so it was a large area, and
Speaker 22: so I watered it twice a day for at least
Speaker 22: a couple of weeks, especially in October, we weren't getting
Speaker 22: any rain and everything looked fine. And then after you know,
Speaker 22: about two weeks, I backed off and just did it
Speaker 22: once a day conservatively, And then we started getting some
Speaker 22: rain there towards the end of October, so I just
Speaker 22: let you know, nature water it. It was getting some
Speaker 22: nice steady rain back there.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 22: Now last week it happened pretty fast that whole area
Speaker 22: now is brown it looks, and it's also on the
Speaker 22: outlying area.
Speaker 3: So it's not just the new saw it. So I
Speaker 3: don't know if it's some kind of fungus or something.
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do now.
Speaker 8: It must be it must be a rhizoctonia, which is
Speaker 8: what a large patch. I'm sorry, brown patches. I've seen
Speaker 8: a lot of browning out of areas. You know. Sometimes
Speaker 8: with brown patch you get these nice round circles that
Speaker 8: are real distinct, and sometimes it's kind of general areas
Speaker 8: just sort of browning out with the amount of water
Speaker 8: you gave it for the amount of time you watered it.
Speaker 8: It's not a lack of water that's causing this, that's
Speaker 8: for sure. Okay, Okay, I think now the more you water,
Speaker 8: the more brown patch becomes a problem. So it's possible
Speaker 8: that actually, you know that you've kind of got that
Speaker 8: really going in there now and you just got to
Speaker 8: let it run its course. You can put a fungicide
Speaker 8: on it, but once the circles appear, they're there. And
Speaker 8: if you had like one circle and you want to
Speaker 8: prevent more of them in the yard, I would say
Speaker 8: use use a product like nitrofoss eagle to stop it
Speaker 8: where it is. And there's nothing wrong with you in that.
Speaker 8: It's just that eagle can't turn dead grass green. And
Speaker 8: so if anything, i'd put out the eagle, get it,
Speaker 8: get it applied, water it in, believe it or not.
Speaker 8: You water that one in because the roots take it
Speaker 8: up and stop any additional damage that might be occurring.
Speaker 22: Well, these are huge areas, you know, and I was
Speaker 22: afraid to put anything. I was afraid to put anything
Speaker 22: on it. I really didn't want to put any fertilizer
Speaker 22: or any of that stuff on that new grass, right right.
Speaker 8: Okay, Well, i'll tell you what. I'm going to put
Speaker 8: you on hold, and I want you to won't you
Speaker 8: send me some pictures of it?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 8: My producer will give you my email address. Take some
Speaker 8: pictures of different angles. Maybe get something up close to
Speaker 8: so I can kind of see up close what this
Speaker 8: is looking like. And if I see anything else in it,
Speaker 8: I'll advise you on that. Okay, Mark, Oh that'll be
Speaker 8: great because I'll run out today, is all right? Get
Speaker 8: any products that you suggest, Okay, okay, I'll hold on,
Speaker 8: thank you, thank thank you. Just hang on and the
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Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, it's beautiful for trimming the tree. Are
Speaker 8: you looking for maybe a holiday plant for example, Thanksgiving
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Speaker 8: pink and red and salmon, and they're just beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 8: color that can take cool. Not a hard heart freeze,
Speaker 8: but they can take considerable amount of cool down there
Speaker 8: at Buchanans. They also have camellias, which are a cool
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Speaker 8: East eleventh Street, Buchanansplants dot Com. We're going to go
Speaker 8: to a break here. When we come back, Fred and Kingwood,
Speaker 8: you will be our first up. Just one more reminder
Speaker 8: Today after the show twelve noon to two pm, i'llbe
Speaker 8: at the Wabbirds Unlimited, Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, right behind
Speaker 8: torches Tacos. Come on out, bring some samples, let's talk,
Speaker 8: let's figure things out, and let's help you have a
Speaker 8: more beautiful garden, a more bountiful landscape in the process. Hey,
Speaker 8: welcome back to garden Line. Welcome back to garden I'm
Speaker 8: glad to have you with us today. I wanted to
Speaker 8: talk to you about the Nitrofoss Texas three step. You've
Speaker 8: heard me mention it a number of times. Basically what
Speaker 8: it is. It's a fertilizer, a weed prevention and a
Speaker 8: disease prevention. Okay. The fertilizer is Nitrofoss Fall Special designed
Speaker 8: for fall. The sooner you get it down the better,
Speaker 8: so the grass plants can take it up for it
Speaker 8: gets too cold, and it will make them more hearty.
Speaker 8: Because when you provide a good load of potassium the
Speaker 8: third number on the bag with some nitrogen, the first
Speaker 8: number on the bag. That helps the plants as they
Speaker 8: capture sunlight and make carbohydrates to be heartier and they
Speaker 8: come out stronger in the spring. Also second is the barricade.
Speaker 8: The weed prevention doesn't kill weeds that are there. It
Speaker 8: prevents weed seeds from germinating. And our cool season weeds
Speaker 8: are germinating right now now. Nitropus barricade is applied and
Speaker 8: watered in. The third is Nitropus eagle turf fungicide, again
Speaker 8: applied and watered in. The roots take it up and
Speaker 8: then when brown patch tries to attack the plant, it's
Speaker 8: got the eagle turf fungicide in it. Think of it
Speaker 8: like you would take an antibiotic, and then if you
Speaker 8: got some disease that's infecting you, that antibiotic fights it off. Right,
Speaker 8: That's how that eagle turf fungicide works. It gets in
Speaker 8: the plant and it protects the plant that way. Three
Speaker 8: steps Nitropos falls special wind a riser, Nitrofus barricade pre
Speaker 8: emergent control for the cool season weeds that are germinating now,
Speaker 8: and Nitropus eagle turf fungicide which helps protect against brown
Speaker 8: patch and some that take all root Rod as well.
Speaker 8: You're gonna find this down in Baytown at Fishers Hardware,
Speaker 8: as well as the Fishers in Mount Bellevue, Pasadena and
Speaker 8: Laporte and the East Hardware up there at Single Ranch
Speaker 8: Arborgate up in Tombaugh in Shades of Texas, Southeast Houston
Speaker 8: on Genoa Red Bluff. We're going to go now up
Speaker 8: to Kingwood and talk to Fred. Hey, Fred, Welcome to
Speaker 8: garden Line.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Skip. We've had stumps ground before, and this
Speaker 4: particular one I had ground.
Speaker 1: Earlier this week.
Speaker 4: There was hardly any big chips. They were all very tiny,
Speaker 4: about the size of my little finger or fingernail. And
Speaker 4: I've been trying to separate the dirt from the chips
Speaker 4: and that's an almost impossible task. Is there anything that
Speaker 4: I can pour into the hole in various layers to
Speaker 4: help those chips decompose faster?
Speaker 8: Well, they are in contact with some microbes and they
Speaker 8: will decompose. Wood chips have a lot of carbon, and
Speaker 8: so a little boost of nitrogen with it will help
Speaker 8: a little bit. So you might want to get you,
Speaker 8: you know, a nitrogen fertilizer. A fertilizer has quite a
Speaker 8: bit of nitrogen in it. Which is not what we're
Speaker 8: putting on our yards right now, the high nitrogens. But
Speaker 8: for this chip, sprinkling a little bit on there and
Speaker 8: watered in, you know, and then I would say, late winter,
Speaker 8: sprinkle a little bit more on there and water and
Speaker 8: scratch it in. And as that nitrogen gets down there,
Speaker 8: the combination with the microbes and little extra nitrogen will
Speaker 8: speed that decomposition some.
Speaker 4: So a high nitrogen granule fertilizer.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you can do granule, you could do a liquid.
Speaker 8: It doesn't matter how you go about it. It's a
Speaker 8: little less expensive to use a granule that compared to
Speaker 8: a liquid.
Speaker 4: All right, that sounds great. I'll do that, thank you, sir.
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, not a problem at all. In fact, Nelson
Speaker 8: Fertilizers has something called bruce Is that would be a
Speaker 8: good one for use on that. It's it's uh, it's
Speaker 8: going to release over time, but give you some good
Speaker 8: immediate release too.
Speaker 4: Thank you, very good.
Speaker 12: Appreciate it.
Speaker 8: All right, thank you, you bet, Thank you. Appreciate your call.
Speaker 8: We are now going to go to Matt Matt in
Speaker 8: the NASA area. Hey Matt, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Nice kid.
Speaker 15: Just an update. I'm actually dying Corpus. Now I'm always
Speaker 15: there over at NASA.
Speaker 8: The last time I called you, you're in Corpus.
Speaker 15: Okay, Yeah, I have two questions. The first one is
Speaker 15: I have a chili tippee plant that's about three people,
Speaker 15: and about two weeks ago, it looked like the landscapers
Speaker 15: might have come and like user weed eater and like
Speaker 15: chopped part of the side of it. All there's like
Speaker 15: little raw snu where it was like they were just
Speaker 15: torn off, so I thought it was maybe them, and
Speaker 15: I looked at it. About another week later, I noticed
Speaker 15: it had like some little mites and stuff crawling on it.
Speaker 15: So I bought some uh to any uh it's dicidal
Speaker 15: soap organic and I gred it really good at that
Speaker 15: and then that was about four or five days and
Speaker 15: now it's basically I took some picture though I couldn't
Speaker 15: find the place to send them to you, but it's
Speaker 15: basically lost all the leaves off of it, all the
Speaker 15: stems and everything else that's healthy. And then around some
Speaker 15: of the areas where it was broken off, the leaves
Speaker 15: like turned brown, so it has well.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would I would hold off on the anymore spraying.
Speaker 8: You know, we're getting into the cool season here, and
Speaker 8: so just you know, if you've grown those before, if
Speaker 8: we have a real hard for you, you should want
Speaker 8: to protect them a little bit. But I would I
Speaker 8: think it'll be okay. It's it could be a number
Speaker 8: of things. It could be an excessive amount of water.
Speaker 8: Sometimes when you mix soap and sexidal soap too strong,
Speaker 8: you can burn leaves with that. But there's not a
Speaker 8: pest of chili pekins. That's something you need to really
Speaker 8: spray for. In general, they're they're a pretty tough plant,
Speaker 8: so I would just give it some time.
Speaker 15: It look like it's like chewed through the stem. Though
Speaker 15: it was like I mean, it was like a I
Speaker 15: took a weed eater to the side of it, but
Speaker 15: I think it was wherever it was was eating.
Speaker 8: I tell you what, I'll put you. I'm gonna put
Speaker 8: you on hold. My producer will give you an email
Speaker 8: and send me some pictures. I want to see the
Speaker 8: whole bush, and I want to see up close and
Speaker 8: sharp focus those areas you're talking about. And if I
Speaker 8: see anything else, I'll let you know.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 15: And I had a second question also, okay, real quick,
Speaker 15: what do you recommend for like Stickerberr or Sandsburg control
Speaker 15: over the large arty.
Speaker 8: Nitroposs makes a product called Barricade that works well for that,
Speaker 8: and you're going to want to apply it down in
Speaker 8: the corpus area. You want to get it out in
Speaker 8: I would say early February so that you you don't
Speaker 8: have any graspers germinating too early on it. Then you
Speaker 8: probably want to go about sixty ninety days later and
Speaker 8: apply it again to continue that protection. Barricade by Nitrophoss, Yes,
Speaker 8: barricade is is their pre emergent and it grasper is
Speaker 8: a warm season germinator. It germinates a little bit later
Speaker 8: than some things like crabgrass do. But you just need
Speaker 8: that second application because when the first wears off, the
Speaker 8: graspers can still germinate if you don't. Okay, yeah, I
Speaker 8: do it early, and I would do it again. I'm
Speaker 8: a sixty to ninety days later. All right, Matt, thank you,
Speaker 8: and I'll put you on hold a man you'll pick
Speaker 8: it up and he'll give you an email address that
Speaker 8: you can send that to. Well, let's see here. I
Speaker 8: wanted to tell you about landscapers Pride a couple of
Speaker 8: products that they have. They've They've got something called healthy
Speaker 8: Soil compost. It's made from one locally sourced green materials.
Speaker 8: They decompose it down into a super high quality compost
Speaker 8: material that is good for any kind of soil, sand
Speaker 8: or clay, whatever you've got. Quality compost like healthy soil
Speaker 8: compost will benefit that soil and therefore make a better
Speaker 8: root zone for the plants. Therefore better plants, a better production.
Speaker 8: Mushroom compost is made from clean local mushroom substrate. The
Speaker 8: mushroom compost is a very potent kind of compost and
Speaker 8: I've used it for year decades. Actually, mushroom compost is
Speaker 8: really good for giving plants an extra boost even beyond
Speaker 8: on what a regular composts can do. You can go
Speaker 8: to Landscaperspride dot com find out more about all their products.
Speaker 8: They've got a couple dozen plus products that they produce,
Speaker 8: from soil amendments to mulches, widely available in the Houston area.
Speaker 8: Go to Landscaperspride dot com you can find out exactly
Speaker 8: where near you you can find their products. We're going
Speaker 8: to go to a break now and I'll be right
Speaker 8: back with some more calls. We're going to talk to
Speaker 8: Marie and Jeff and Jeff got two Jeffs waiting in line. Hey,
Speaker 8: welcome back to the garden line. Glad you're listening today.
Speaker 8: We've got a lot to talk about. There's plenty of
Speaker 8: things to be doing out in the garden and the landscape.
Speaker 8: If you are west of Tombol or Tumble area and
Speaker 8: toward the west out twenty nine to twenty is D
Speaker 8: and D Feed and Supply. D and D Feed and
Speaker 8: Supply has been around since nineteen eighty nine and the
Speaker 8: place just keeps getting better. They added onto the building
Speaker 8: a little while back, and the stock that they have
Speaker 8: of everything you need for your lawn in your garden
Speaker 8: is outstanding.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 8: Of course it's a feed store. You're going to find
Speaker 8: lots of different quality feeds for livestock and pets whatnot.
Speaker 8: For example, dog food they got Origin Diamond, Victor Star Pro,
Speaker 8: real high quality types of things. You're going to find
Speaker 8: nitrofoss there. You're going to find bonnit Microlife, Turf Star, Medina,
Speaker 8: Airloom soils, Nilson, plant Food, Landscapers, Pride. They do carry
Speaker 8: flats of vegetables and seeds and things like that, and
Speaker 8: other kinds of plants seasonally out there out front as
Speaker 8: you drive by, three miles west of two forty nine
Speaker 8: on twenty nine twenty. The Dover family has been operating
Speaker 8: this since it first opened up in nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 8: and it just again, it just keeps getting better. If
Speaker 8: you hear me talk about, oh, you got this past
Speaker 8: or weed or disease problem, and you need to go
Speaker 8: get such and such, they're going to have it there
Speaker 8: at D and D Feed. We love our feed stores
Speaker 8: on Guardline and D and D Feed just west of
Speaker 8: Combol on twenty nine twenty. It's about three miles west
Speaker 8: of two forty nine. Go check them out. Let's see here.
Speaker 8: We are now going to go to Jeff in Plantersville.
Speaker 8: Hey Jeff, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 16: Hey Skip, how are you doing.
Speaker 8: I'm good.
Speaker 16: I just wanted to ask you about I've got this
Speaker 16: weed called barning or stinging nettle.
Speaker 21: I don't know if you're okay with it, but I am.
Speaker 16: It's terrible when I go out to feed my horses
Speaker 16: in the morning and I go out there and open
Speaker 16: toe shoes or sandals, I'm in trouble because that.
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, fils you about.
Speaker 16: I just want to know what.
Speaker 8: It's believe it or not. Even though the leaves are
Speaker 8: fine textured, it's it's a type of broad leaf weed.
Speaker 8: It's not a grass, it's.
Speaker 12: Not a salt, it's a broad leaf.
Speaker 8: So anything you would put out to control broad leaf
Speaker 8: weeds in your lawn would control that. I would say,
Speaker 8: in the spring, go online to my gardening schedules that
Speaker 8: are at gardening with skip dot com. Look at the
Speaker 8: lawn pest Disease and Weed Management schedule. Put down the
Speaker 8: barricade pre emergent in the spring, apply that in. Let
Speaker 8: me see where your planters be. Yeah, you're going to
Speaker 8: apply that in early to mid February for that weed,
Speaker 8: and then you could do it a little bit later.
Speaker 8: But just to be safe, you may need to do
Speaker 8: a second application thirty or sixcuse me sixty to ninety
Speaker 8: days later and rodded in. If you get some of
Speaker 8: that that escapes the pre emergent, you can use a
Speaker 8: post emergent, a TRIMEC type product or some post emergent
Speaker 8: broadly weed control to control it. But do it early
Speaker 8: on when the plants are young, before they're already setting
Speaker 8: their seeds and things like that. Yeah, okay, and get
Speaker 8: you a pair of closed toad shoes.
Speaker 16: Yeah, it's terrible. Another thing I was gonna tell you
Speaker 16: a couple of years ago, told me about I was
Speaker 16: trying to grow me some live oak trees and I'm
Speaker 16: out in planter's feeling there is they're not just indigenous
Speaker 16: to that area. But whatever you told me worked perfect.
Speaker 21: I've got that live oak in there and it's.
Speaker 3: Twenty booths all now, so oh my gosh.
Speaker 20: Okay, yeah, well, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8: Glad to hear that word. You bet you take care.
Speaker 8: Appreciate your call very much. The folks at Medina have
Speaker 8: a number of quality products. You know, Medina products have
Speaker 8: been around for a very long time and everybody knows
Speaker 8: about you know, Medina's has to grow six twelve six
Speaker 8: six T six is a plant food, got high phosphorus
Speaker 8: that middle number, and it's excellent for transplanting plants. So
Speaker 8: it's got Medina soil activator in it. It stimulates biological activity.
Speaker 8: It's got humid humic acid excuse me, which improves the
Speaker 8: soil structure, improves nutrient uptake. As a result of that,
Speaker 8: seaweed extracts are in it as well. It's really quite
Speaker 8: the concoction medina has to grow six well six. Get
Speaker 8: you a watering can, low measuring cup. Follow the label.
Speaker 8: You're not going to burn with it, by the way,
Speaker 8: it's not a salt based kind of product that you
Speaker 8: burn your plants with. You can use it for folier application,
Speaker 8: but i'd put it in a watering can. Anything you
Speaker 8: plant in the ground, drench it in well with. Medina
Speaker 8: has to grow six twelve six and that will help
Speaker 8: the roots get off to a good start. That's why
Speaker 8: that hiphosphorus is in there. By the way, help it
Speaker 8: get off to a good start and you can have
Speaker 8: success fallest planting season. The best planting season. Medina has
Speaker 8: to grow six twelve six is something you need to
Speaker 8: look at. We're going to go now to Marie. Hello, Marie,
Speaker 8: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 23: Thank you, Good morning, Good morning, good morning. My question
Speaker 23: is can you fertilize your lawn while treating it for
Speaker 23: nut fledge? We had it, we had a really bad
Speaker 23: case of nut fledge weed, and we applied some Ortho
Speaker 23: nuts sledge this insecticide on Wednesday. And now I'm wondering
Speaker 23: if I can go ahead and fertilize now or should
Speaker 23: I wait?
Speaker 8: No, you can't you can do that. I'm not familiar
Speaker 8: with what's in that ortho nuts sedge probably.
Speaker 7: Okay, it was specifically it said nuts sledge.
Speaker 8: On the bag, so okay, well, I'm gonna see if
Speaker 8: I can find out what's in it. Make sure this
Speaker 8: is gonna be one that is gonna work pretty well
Speaker 8: for you if I can get it to tell me
Speaker 8: what's in the label. Here we go, Okay, self enter zone. Yeah,
Speaker 8: you may get pretty good results with it. If you don't,
Speaker 8: next time you go out shopping, get something that has
Speaker 8: a lot that's called sedge hammer or sedge ender. Sedge
Speaker 8: hammer or sedge ender. And if you go to my
Speaker 8: website Gardening with skip Com, I have two publications on
Speaker 8: nuts edge. If you'll read the longer one, it'll help
Speaker 8: you understand how that weed works. Uh, and it's you.
Speaker 8: You don't ever let nutsedge be in your yard until
Speaker 8: it has more than five leaves on the nut sedge,
Speaker 8: meaning you want to when it gets up and gets
Speaker 8: some leaves so you can put spram spram because if
Speaker 8: you let it set, it'll create eight daughter plants and
Speaker 8: you may kill mama. But now you've got eight times
Speaker 8: as much because you let you let it send too long.
Speaker 8: So read that publication. It's really really helpful. And also
Speaker 8: on there it'll give you a list of the products
Speaker 8: I'm talking about that I think will do their best
Speaker 8: on that.
Speaker 23: Okay, we have a lot of nut sledge. We had
Speaker 23: our yards resought it this summer and with the rain
Speaker 23: and YadA, YadA YadA, the grass never really.
Speaker 8: So all I got you, I got you what what
Speaker 8: what part of the area listening area for you will
Speaker 8: Woodland's okay? All right, well just just get that, get
Speaker 8: that go online. It's all free my stuff up there,
Speaker 8: and just read about it, learn about it, get the names.
Speaker 8: In next spring when the nutsedge comes back, that's the
Speaker 8: time to go after one of those products. I got
Speaker 8: to run, Marie, but thank you for the calling. Good
Speaker 8: luck getting ahead of that little monster.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 8: Southwest Fertilizer is the kind of place that you find everything.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm naming these products for Nutsedge. Bob's got
Speaker 8: all of that. And then it's been around since nineteen
Speaker 8: fifty five on corner Bissonet and Renwick. Corner Bissinet and Renwick,
Speaker 8: So it's real easy. It's easy to get to and
Speaker 8: they always have everything that you need. That That is
Speaker 8: just how it is a Southwest Fertilizer. If they don't
Speaker 8: have it, you don't need it. Ninety foot wall of
Speaker 8: tools now the largest selection in the city of products
Speaker 8: to control weeds, insects, and diseases. The largest section of fertilizers,
Speaker 8: and the largest section of organic products. Did you know
Speaker 8: that if you're an organic gardener, Southwest Fertilizer gives you
Speaker 8: the biggest range of organic options you got. Hey, it's
Speaker 8: time done with mowing season coming up here, Get that
Speaker 8: mower blade, sharpen. They can do that there Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 8: If you got any small engine repair you need to do,
Speaker 8: they got a shop in the back that can do
Speaker 8: that as well. Southwest Fertilizer dot com is a website
Speaker 8: and the phone number seven one three six six six
Speaker 8: seventeen forty four. Well, I hear the music coming here.
Speaker 8: Jeff out in Spring Branch. We worked hard at getting
Speaker 8: to you, but didn't quite make it this hour. You
Speaker 8: will be our first up if you can hang around
Speaker 8: when we come back into the next hour. I want
Speaker 8: to remind you I'm going to be a Kingwood wild
Speaker 8: Birds Unlimited on Kingwood Drive right behind Torchies Tacos. I'll
Speaker 8: be there today from twelve noon until two pm. Come by.
Speaker 8: I want to show you this Kingwood is the awesome
Speaker 8: Kingwoodwall birds store there really really cool. Bring me samples
Speaker 8: of plants. You know we've been talking about weeds and
Speaker 8: describing and things. Throw it all in the bag, bring
Speaker 8: it in. We'll identify it, We'll tell you what to do.
Speaker 8: This is ida eye time with me rather than a
Speaker 8: quick call on the phone. Here we can sit and
Speaker 8: we can talk. We can look at things, uh and
Speaker 8: just really do a good job diagnosing, identifying whatever you need. Plus,
Speaker 8: I just love to meet folks that listen to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Bring your camera so we can get a picture made.
Speaker 1: To Welcome to kat r H garden Line with Scamp Richard.
Speaker 3: It's trim.
Speaker 18: Just watch him as.
Speaker 2: So many things to spot taking not a sign s
Speaker 2: starting out.
Speaker 8: Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. Glad to
Speaker 8: have you with us this morning. Thanks for being a
Speaker 8: garden Line listener. My goal is for you to have
Speaker 8: more success in your garden. I want gardening to be fun.
Speaker 8: It should be fun. You can't fail at gardening. You're
Speaker 8: going to give up. You give up. That's failing. If
Speaker 8: you just stick with it, keep learning, keep listening, keep
Speaker 8: calling with your questions, we will just help turn that
Speaker 8: brown thumb green. Because there is no such a thing
Speaker 8: as a brown thumb, by the way, just an uninformed thumb.
Speaker 8: And we're here to inform your thumb, so make sure
Speaker 8: your thumbs listening. This morning, we'll go ahead straight out
Speaker 8: to Spring Branch and talk to Jeff. Jeff, thanks for waiting.
Speaker 8: How can we help.
Speaker 24: Today, Hey, Skiff, happy to wait. Man, you are such
Speaker 24: a huge help. And I'm looking for suggestions on some
Speaker 24: fruit trees or something that I can plant up in
Speaker 24: western Walker County, some property that I've had and want
Speaker 24: to get some trees started. The one caveat that I'll
Speaker 24: go out there and get your take on it happens
Speaker 24: to be a part of the property that it's it's
Speaker 24: always a little.
Speaker 21: Wet, not not real wet.
Speaker 24: I'm not worried about, you know, playing something in the swamp,
Speaker 24: but it's always got plenty of water as where the
Speaker 24: drainage goes. So happy to answer me the other questions,
Speaker 24: but want your advice.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 8: First of all, I got to make my phone quit
Speaker 8: ringing somebody, I thought, now find my phone alert? Well,
Speaker 8: I know where my phone is, right in front of me,
Speaker 8: ringing on the radio. You know, most fruit likes well
Speaker 8: drained soil. So if periodically when you go when we
Speaker 8: go through those rainy periods of death, you end up
Speaker 8: with kind of soggy conditions, fruit's not gonna be real
Speaker 8: happy with that. So what you can do, I'd do
Speaker 8: two things. First, I'd go out there where you think
Speaker 8: your fruit trees need to go and get you a
Speaker 8: post holed digger and dig down about two feet, just
Speaker 8: straight down, and then fill that. Get you a you know,
Speaker 8: five gallon bucket of water, fill it up, fill up
Speaker 8: the hole, and then come back and see how long
Speaker 8: it takes to drain out. You know, come back in
Speaker 8: eight hours, come back in twelve, come back in twenty
Speaker 8: four forty eight. It ought to drain out in twenty
Speaker 8: four hours. If it doesn't, if there's still water at
Speaker 8: the you know, maybe a foot down or whatever in
Speaker 8: the hole that's not draining out, that's an indication you're
Speaker 8: gonna need to build up or raised area for those trees.
Speaker 8: You know, you can do it by bringing soil in
Speaker 8: and dump it in, making a big pictures mound out
Speaker 8: there for each tree. You can do it by. I
Speaker 8: don't know what kind of equipment you have, but if
Speaker 8: there's a way to plow up a little area, but
Speaker 8: you do need good drainage, and so you ought to
Speaker 8: at least have a foot of soil the water table
Speaker 8: lot to at least be a foot down. It'd be
Speaker 8: better for his little further than that. But anyway, I
Speaker 8: would check that first, and maybe you choose a different location.
Speaker 8: Maybe you do something like I was saying, to raise
Speaker 8: up the soil. As far as trees go, you can
Speaker 8: grow a lot of stuff up there.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 8: There's a lot of peaches that will do well in
Speaker 8: that area. The pears, there's a lot of good pears.
Speaker 8: It just kind of depends on what kind of fruit
Speaker 8: you want to grow. Do you know if hand? If
Speaker 8: do you know if hand if the soil is sandy
Speaker 8: or clay.
Speaker 24: I haven't done in a two analysis on it yet,
Speaker 24: you know, And there's all kinds of different ways I
Speaker 24: could do that, I know, but I would assume that
Speaker 24: it's predominantly clay. I know that there are some nice
Speaker 24: sandy areas, so it might be a good mixture there.
Speaker 24: I don't know, but I'll check it out.
Speaker 8: Okay, all right. Well, and then when you're ready to plant,
Speaker 8: are you are you in Walker County?
Speaker 12: Yeah right?
Speaker 24: I mean literally right at the Walker Montgomery line.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, well, you you know you've you've access to
Speaker 8: done Montgomery County. You've got a horticulture agent Michael Potter
Speaker 8: that could advise you there up in Walker, You've got
Speaker 8: an ag agent there that could advise you to on
Speaker 8: some of those things as far as soil maps and whatnot.
Speaker 8: But uh, the AGI Horticulture website has got a lot
Speaker 8: of good stuff on fruit trees. You go there and
Speaker 8: look at the fruit tree section, and you know, let's
Speaker 8: say you wanted to do pairs, well, it would show
Speaker 8: you varieties of pairs that do well in your area.
Speaker 8: It would it would give you emation on planting and
Speaker 8: pruning each of the fruit trees just however you whatever
Speaker 8: you decide to plant. So I take advantage of that
Speaker 8: free info too.
Speaker 21: Yeah, definitely, Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 24: Most important is getting my getting my soil, right, I
Speaker 24: got that, so thank you?
Speaker 8: Yep, yeap, you got it all right?
Speaker 3: Well care.
Speaker 8: Bye bye? All right, folks, fruit trees are fun to grow.
Speaker 8: I love I love fruit trees and more people ought
Speaker 8: to be growing fruit trees. When you plant a fruit tree,
Speaker 8: one of the things you need to remember is drainage.
Speaker 8: It's important, and sunlight is important. If you want a
Speaker 8: sweet fruit, it's made sweet by sugars, and sugars are
Speaker 8: carbohydrates and carbon hybrids. Hydrates are only made when the
Speaker 8: sun shines on the fruit trees leaves. So if you're
Speaker 8: in half day shade, you're going to get half the
Speaker 8: carbohydrate production you would have in full sun. That kind
Speaker 8: of thing, and then pick the variety that fits, pick
Speaker 8: one that has the right chilling for the area that
Speaker 8: you're in. And we can help you with those kind
Speaker 8: of things here on Guardline. But like I said, the
Speaker 8: horticulture website, the fruite section is awesome. I mean it
Speaker 8: goes into all of that stuff. Let's see, We're gonna
Speaker 8: head now out to Correne in Houston. Hey, Corene, Hi, Skip,
Speaker 8: how are you?
Speaker 25: I have a big problem with dollar eat.
Speaker 1: I mean I've tied to.
Speaker 20: Rip it out.
Speaker 19: I sprayed with vinegar that just the grass dive.
Speaker 11: But not the dollar beat.
Speaker 19: What can I do?
Speaker 10: Okay, it's really bad?
Speaker 8: This Yeah, there is a there are products that are
Speaker 8: on my website at the Herbicide for skip'sweed wiper forget
Speaker 8: the weed wiper apartment. It's the list. It's called Herbicides
Speaker 8: for weed Wiper and if you go to the section
Speaker 8: on herbicides that are for broad leaf weeds in the lawn,
Speaker 8: it will give you a list of options. One of
Speaker 8: the better ones to use is something called Celsius, like
Speaker 8: the temperature Celsius. Okay, it's not it's not cheap, but
Speaker 8: you buy a little packets that make a gallon of spray,
Speaker 8: and a gallon goes a long way because you're just
Speaker 8: barely wetting the leaves of the weed. And if if
Speaker 8: you get celsius, get a spreader sticker with it, something
Speaker 8: that helps the spray not roll off of those slick
Speaker 8: dollar weed leaves. That that's very important for it being successful.
Speaker 8: But there are other herbicides out there. Celsius is just
Speaker 8: one that I think you.
Speaker 7: I mean, the leaves are getting bigger and bigger. They
Speaker 7: start out real tiny, and sometimes I'm on my hands
Speaker 7: and knees with some something and try to pull them up.
Speaker 20: But it's it's a fighter.
Speaker 19: That's not that I'm not going to go in.
Speaker 8: Yeah you can't. You can't pull dollar weed successfully. So
Speaker 8: just get that spray makes it real easy to do. Okay,
Speaker 8: you'll you'll win. You may have to treat it again
Speaker 8: some next year, but you good ahead of it.
Speaker 12: Yeah, okay, thank you so much, you.
Speaker 8: Bet, Thank you appreciate the call. Hey, our phone number
Speaker 8: seven one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 8: if you'd like to call in. Uh, Janet Forest is
Speaker 8: stocked up right now. They are absolutely stocked up with
Speaker 8: all kinds of things for the cool season. You know,
Speaker 8: Amarillis bulbs for example. They've got the cyclomen is, just
Speaker 8: one of the best cool seasoned flowers we have, so pretty.
Speaker 8: They're loaded up on herbs and all kinds of quality
Speaker 8: really qualities, shrubs and trees for example. Uh, they've got hollies,
Speaker 8: many many varieties of hollies, the red maple, the kind
Speaker 8: that will grow here. They've got that Chinese fringe tree,
Speaker 8: one of my favorite spring blooming trees, little shaggy white
Speaker 8: ballooms with a pleasant fragrance, and then red buds of course.
Speaker 8: And in the gift shop, well, it's it's looking a
Speaker 8: lot like Christmas in there. Christmas round top materials. The
Speaker 8: iron materials have arrived as well. All you have to
Speaker 8: do is head out to Enchanted for us. They are
Speaker 8: on FM twenty seven to fifty nine, twenty seven to
Speaker 8: fifty nine, So if you're going from Richmond towards sugar Land,
Speaker 8: it's off to the right FM twenty seven to fifty
Speaker 8: nine Enchanted Forests. And I promise you this, when you go,
Speaker 8: you will be very impressed with this place. It is
Speaker 8: when I drive up and park in the parking lot,
Speaker 8: it's like I can't wait to get in because it
Speaker 8: just looks so cool. It's enchanting. I guess that's what
Speaker 8: they call it that anyway, Enchanted for us everything you
Speaker 8: need for fall planting, vegetables, herbs, flowers, and definitely the
Speaker 8: most important planting season of the year for shrubs and trees.
Speaker 8: They've got new shipments and it is ready to go
Speaker 8: go home with you so you can have beautiful blooms,
Speaker 8: beautiful foliage, beautiful shade, whatever you choose in the future. Well,
Speaker 8: I got to go to a little break here. I've
Speaker 8: gone really long on this one. When I come back,
Speaker 8: we'll talk to Bob and Conroe. First. Hey, welcome back
Speaker 8: to the guard Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey,
Speaker 8: I wanted to tell you a little bit about Pierce Scapes.
Speaker 8: Pierce Scapes they are landscape magicians. They really are. If
Speaker 8: go online, don't take my word for it, go online
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Speaker 8: at the work they do. It is gorgeous. I mean
Speaker 8: they can do a major complete planting or overhaul of
Speaker 8: your entire property, or they can just work on a
Speaker 8: particular area. Maybe you've got you want a bed installed
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Speaker 8: Write this down two eight one three seven zero five
Speaker 8: zero six zero. We're going to go now to Conroe
Speaker 8: and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 25: Good morning, Skip sure appreciate all of the patients and
Speaker 25: that you provide for us novices out here.
Speaker 8: Happy to be here. Hey, how can we help today?
Speaker 25: I send in a couple of pictures that I wanted
Speaker 25: you to take a look at of some shrubery in
Speaker 25: our yards.
Speaker 11: I don't know exactly what these are.
Speaker 25: I believe that they're comia or something.
Speaker 8: Okay, I think that what you have there is a
Speaker 8: wax leaf lagustrum.
Speaker 25: Is what it looks Okay, Now that makes sense as well,
Speaker 25: and and and.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, yeah, that is the number one disease of
Speaker 8: wax leaf lagustriums called it's a fungal leaf spot, so
Speaker 8: cosparra leaf spot.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 8: Every one of those spots has a little black dots
Speaker 8: in it. Eventually that are spores like volcanoes shooting spores
Speaker 8: in the air. So all of the other leaves now
Speaker 8: have spores land on them and get sick and the
Speaker 8: more it rains or the more you water with a
Speaker 8: spray mists it gets up on the leaves. Either way,
Speaker 8: it just gets worse and worse. I'm not a fan
Speaker 8: of them.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 8: And if you've ever been thinking about redoing that area, well,
Speaker 8: this would be a good time just to do it
Speaker 8: and put something else in that's not like that. If
Speaker 8: you don't want to do that, and I understand that,
Speaker 8: you're going to need to get on a spray schedule,
Speaker 8: rake up all the fallen leaves to get them out
Speaker 8: of the area, and if if it's not too tedious
Speaker 8: picking off leaves that are affected would be good, spraying
Speaker 8: them with a product that I'm going to give you
Speaker 8: two different products, and you're gonna want to alternate between them.
Speaker 8: So whenever you have a rainy spell, go out and
Speaker 8: spray right away and get those leaves sprayed with either
Speaker 8: DACONYL D A C O N I L or something
Speaker 8: called belaton B A Y L E T O N
Speaker 8: and you can alternate between those two. Fungen X is
Speaker 8: also something that you could that you could use fungen X,
Speaker 8: but you don't want to use just one. You want
Speaker 8: to alternate between the two and especially after anything that
Speaker 8: what's the foliage? You need to get out there and
Speaker 8: do a spray and eventually by raking up leaves, picking
Speaker 8: off affected leaves, spraying regularly, you can get back ahead
Speaker 8: of it again. But it's always going to be around
Speaker 8: because it's just ubiquitous out there in nature.
Speaker 25: Yes, indeed, it is okay, very good.
Speaker 8: Why that's why I said at the beginning, if you're
Speaker 8: thinking about replanting, now would be a good time that
Speaker 8: once you start dealing with that, that is just who
Speaker 8: wants to get and spray every time it rains, you know?
Speaker 8: So anyway, I hope that helps Bob. Very good, Thank
Speaker 8: you sir, Thank you appreciate that call very much. Uh
Speaker 8: So the nitrophos folks, I was telling somebody wall to
Speaker 8: go about barricade there. We were doing it for grassburs
Speaker 8: for example, and that's something you do in the spring.
Speaker 8: And that's on my schedule. You look at my schedule
Speaker 8: gardening with skip dot com. That's my website. The schedule's free.
Speaker 8: There's a lawn care schedule and a weed, pest and
Speaker 8: disease management schedule. You'll find these nitroposs products on there.
Speaker 8: On both schedules. For example, the three step nitrofoss Fall
Speaker 8: special fertilizer. That's step one, step two nitrofoss barricade to
Speaker 8: prevent weeds. Now graspers we prevent in the spring, but
Speaker 8: right now you're putting barricade down to prevent the cool
Speaker 8: season weeds like chickweed and hend bent and carpet weed
Speaker 8: and cleavers and all of those clover those kinds of things.
Speaker 8: And then the third step is eagle tour funge a side.
Speaker 8: You can put all three down on the same day,
Speaker 8: just one right after the other, and then water them
Speaker 8: all in with about a half inch of water. Get
Speaker 8: them in the soil where all three of them do
Speaker 8: what they're going to do to protect your plants. You're
Speaker 8: going to find these products at dead Feed and Tomball
Speaker 8: at Plantation Ace Hardware out in Richmond, and Hiding and
Speaker 8: Feed on Stubner Airline. I gotta take a little bit
Speaker 8: of a break. I believe we're up against a break.
Speaker 8: Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Or?
Speaker 8: Am I off on my time here? So speak in
Speaker 8: my ear if you if you hear one way or
Speaker 8: the other. Uh, we had some time, okay.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 8: Let me then go out to Dickenson and talk to Linda. Hey,
Speaker 8: Linda Walk of the garden line.
Speaker 7: Thank you. I have yellow spots in my yard and
Speaker 7: they're getting bigger and getting more of them. I put
Speaker 7: down the eagle turf fund beside around the middle to
Speaker 7: the end of October, and.
Speaker 15: That happened.
Speaker 7: Kept them from appearing. And I tried bug bug out
Speaker 7: and compost.
Speaker 19: And that hasn't okay, okay.
Speaker 8: So there's two kinds of yellow out there. One of them,
Speaker 8: the whole leaf just turns kind of a bright yellow
Speaker 8: color before it turns brown and dies back. That is
Speaker 8: probably due to raise actonia, which is what brown patch is.
Speaker 8: There are other versions of raisa than brown patch, but anyway,
Speaker 8: that's the bright yellow leaves and then turned brown. If
Speaker 8: when you see yellow, you go pick one of those
Speaker 8: leaves and hold it up to the sky and it's
Speaker 8: green and yellow striped when you look at it real close,
Speaker 8: little skinny little lines up and down the leaf, then
Speaker 8: that's iron deficiency, and you can fix that with a
Speaker 8: keylated iron product, something that has iron in a keylated form,
Speaker 8: which means the soil doesn't tie it up so much.
Speaker 8: But one of those two is going to be the
Speaker 8: cause of your.
Speaker 7: They turn brown, there are no lines from the earth.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Then nine to five says a product called Eagle
Speaker 8: Turf fungicide. I would go ahead and do it now
Speaker 8: and water it in with about a half inch of
Speaker 8: water so the roots can take it up. Areas where
Speaker 8: you've lost the leaves are going to stay that way
Speaker 8: until we have enough warm weather for the grass to
Speaker 8: grow new leaves on those runners. So it's not going
Speaker 8: to just make everything change overnight, but it will prevent
Speaker 8: it'll prevent further damage and loss.
Speaker 7: Okay, I put down Aiden turf in October, So you
Speaker 7: think I need to.
Speaker 19: Read Oh you did.
Speaker 8: You shouldn't need to reapply it that fast. Maybe you were.
Speaker 8: Maybe some of this was already infecting before you applied it.
Speaker 8: I don't know. I'll tell you what. Let's do this, Linda.
Speaker 8: Will you take some pictures, show me the whole lawn
Speaker 8: and then get up close to the yellow areas and
Speaker 8: show me some pictures in good sharp focus. I'm going
Speaker 8: to put you on hold. My producer will give you
Speaker 8: an email. Let me take a look at those, just
Speaker 8: to make sure I'm talking about the same thing you're seeing. Okay, okay,
Speaker 8: thank you, all right, I'll be happy to happy to go.
Speaker 8: That was just hang on a second, Emmanuel, pick up
Speaker 8: the phone just second. Yeah, that that's boy, that's interesting.
Speaker 8: You know, it's always good to see pictures because I
Speaker 8: have folks that will send me a picture and then
Speaker 8: they'll go, I'll call on Saturday or Sunday. And by
Speaker 8: the way, when you email me, I would I like
Speaker 8: to be able to answer everybody's email, but I just
Speaker 8: can't handle the volume. There's just no way. So what
Speaker 8: we do is if send me an email and then
Speaker 8: follow up with a call, and we'll be happy to
Speaker 8: help you as best we can that way. You know,
Speaker 8: the Arbor Gate in Tomball is an extraordinary place. Those
Speaker 8: of you who have been there know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 8: By the way, I allow yourself some time when you go.
Speaker 8: It's not a place you run into and run out of,
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Speaker 8: I can't live without that yard art. They have got
Speaker 8: all kinds of good stuff right now. The gift shops
Speaker 8: are loaded for the holidays. Do you want something, maybe
Speaker 8: you don't have a chameleon in your yard. Wouldn't you
Speaker 8: like a Camellia japonica or susanqua that gives you blooms
Speaker 8: in either late the early winter or the late winter,
Speaker 8: mid to late winter. They've got those, They've got azilia.
Speaker 8: They've got all kinds of wonderful plants there, plus everything
Speaker 8: else you possibly would want a plant, from houseplants to vegetables,
Speaker 8: to herbs to annual flowers. Have some gorgeous, always always
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Speaker 8: is the kind of nursery and garden center where you
Speaker 8: know you're going to get great plants and unusual things
Speaker 8: as well, so you don't want the same meat and
Speaker 8: potatoes everybody else has. But you're also going to get advice.
Speaker 8: You're going to get professional advice by people that know
Speaker 8: what they're talking about. And you know what I say,
Speaker 8: brown stuff before green stuff, meaning fix the soil, then
Speaker 8: plant the plant. Arbor Gates got you covered in their
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Speaker 8: up for success with your plants. All right, Time for
Speaker 8: me to take a break. I'll be right back. When
Speaker 8: we come back, we will head out to Clear Lake
Speaker 8: and talk to Mark. Welcome back, Welcome into Gardenline. We're
Speaker 8: glad to have you with us. We've got lots of
Speaker 8: things to still talk about. That's the way it is
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Speaker 8: is the best time to get those baits down, to
Speaker 8: shut those little boogers down, so when you come out
Speaker 8: in spring, you're not overloaded with the fire ants. Now
Speaker 8: it's a good time to do that. ACE seasonally always
Speaker 8: has something going on, you know, their life and things
Speaker 8: like that. We're gonna be talking about that soon because
Speaker 8: they are the place to decorate inside and outside your
Speaker 8: home for all these holidays that we're about to enter into.
Speaker 8: Go to Acehardware dot Com find the store locator and
Speaker 8: you can find one of the over forty stores that's
Speaker 8: near you. I'm going to head now to mark Out
Speaker 8: in clear Lake. Hello, Mark, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 3: Hey, good morning, Skip. I sent you the email that
Speaker 3: you wanted.
Speaker 22: It's got some pictures that those brown patched areas and
Speaker 22: if you've noticed where I resided that that browning's kind
Speaker 22: of extended outside of that boundary a little bit.
Speaker 8: So, oh, yes, yes I did. I did see those. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I can so what I see over in the distance
Speaker 8: or the circles that are rise like Tonya brown patch,
Speaker 8: and I see some of that in the floor ground.
Speaker 8: The problem. The thing that's throwing me though, is throughout
Speaker 8: the yard it is brown completely and there's some little
Speaker 8: sprigs of green in it. And I'm thinking maybe you
Speaker 8: have to take all root rot going on in those areas.
Speaker 8: I can't stand, you know, ten feet away from grass
Speaker 8: and say that's take off for sure. But I've seen
Speaker 8: it so much that I kind of know it, and
Speaker 8: I think you may be dealing with take all root
Speaker 8: rot on that. Did you I'm trying to remember now
Speaker 8: the call. Did you say you had used eagle already
Speaker 8: or not?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, sir, I have not. I was afraid to
Speaker 3: really put anything on there.
Speaker 17: You know.
Speaker 22: I didn't want to destroy the new grass and I
Speaker 22: was just trying to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 3: You can do it, you know, you can go ahead.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, No, No, it's okay, go ahead.
Speaker 22: You know the the picture, the far off pictures you
Speaker 22: see there you can see where there was a tree there,
Speaker 22: and then you look beyond the merd bath and there
Speaker 22: was a tree there, and so mine watering when I
Speaker 22: watered those areas.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you know.
Speaker 22: I just didn't do that one area, but you can
Speaker 22: see I kind of watered the border as well, so right, I.
Speaker 3: Can see what kind of spread.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I would get some eagle to our fund to
Speaker 8: side and I put that down right away, water it
Speaker 8: in and let's try to hold things where they are
Speaker 8: right now and not get any worse. If a couple
Speaker 8: of options. There are some products that are especially good
Speaker 8: against takeoll. Root right eagle will help on that, But
Speaker 8: there's some other products that you can use for take
Speaker 8: off and then there we've seen good results with putting
Speaker 8: peet moss out at about a third of an inch deep.
Speaker 8: You can buy peat moss by the compressed bale. You
Speaker 8: break it apart and you just take your little barrow,
Speaker 8: dump little piles of it everywhere and turn a rake
Speaker 8: upside down, a soil rake upside down so the times
Speaker 8: are pointing upward, and play shuffleboard out there, you know,
Speaker 8: get your arms down low, swinging back and forth, and
Speaker 8: you can just spread that real easily all over that area,
Speaker 8: and any grass that's still alive in there, it will
Speaker 8: help bring that back. There are a number of if
Speaker 8: we determine it's take all, there are a number of
Speaker 8: things you can do for it. But I think you know,
Speaker 8: I hate to send you out to do everything without
Speaker 8: knowing for sure what we're dealing with. But it looks
Speaker 8: dead enough to not be brown patched to me. Get
Speaker 8: on your hands and knees, look at those dead areas,
Speaker 8: look at the runners and see if the runners are
Speaker 8: still green. If they are, you probably are Okay. If not,
Speaker 8: you're going to be residing those areas.
Speaker 22: There's a there's a close up area picture I took.
Speaker 22: I don't know if that if that helps any.
Speaker 8: Oh did you send me a photo of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's there's one see three four pictures. And I
Speaker 3: think it's cold.
Speaker 8: Okay, I see, yeah, I see the clothing. Yeah, that
Speaker 8: that's the resodded area. Okay, Well, uh, still what I said,
Speaker 8: same thing. Put the eagle out a S A P.
Speaker 8: And let's watch and see how it does. H and
Speaker 8: just kind of watch the overwatering. It doesn't need hardly
Speaker 8: any water once we cool off here. So uh, just
Speaker 8: let's let's go from there. Okay.
Speaker 3: So you think the sod is I resott it is, okay,
Speaker 3: but around it is, yeah.
Speaker 8: Bottom bottom line. I'm having to guess from photos. But
Speaker 8: get on your hands and knees, look for the runners
Speaker 8: and see if they're green or not. If they're green,
Speaker 8: that was probably brown patch and it'll bounce back. If
Speaker 8: they're brown, it was takeoff patch and they're not coming back.
Speaker 8: You're gonna end up resotting some of those, okay, Okay,
Speaker 8: gonna have to run. I'm gonna have to run. But yeah,
Speaker 8: thanks for the call. By the way, I appreciate that.
Speaker 8: Good luck with it. Don't don't hesitate to call back.
Speaker 8: And some more.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd like to talk to you about the tomatoes
Speaker 3: I grow in the summer, so we'll see you then.
Speaker 3: Let's do that.
Speaker 8: Sounds like a plan, man, appreciate that, you know, talking
Speaker 8: about beautiful lawns and things. BnB Turf Pros is the
Speaker 8: company for those of you in south West Houston to
Speaker 8: get your grass in top shape. They will come in,
Speaker 8: they will do a core aeration. They pop the little
Speaker 8: plugs out of the ground, leave them on the surface,
Speaker 8: which is what you want, and they will then do
Speaker 8: it compost top dressing. Now they have a special going
Speaker 8: on this fall free aeration when you schedule a compost
Speaker 8: top dressing. And they use quality, only quality stuff from
Speaker 8: like Cena Molts where they get their composts. That if
Speaker 8: they look at the kinds of companies I recommend here
Speaker 8: on Guardline, and that's the quality stuff that they go after,
Speaker 8: whether they're fertilizing or ampos top dressing or whatever they're
Speaker 8: doing out there.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 8: BnB Turf Pros covers the area from about sugar Land
Speaker 8: and Missouri City on the west end, swings down you know,
Speaker 8: through Sienna, Iowa Colony, Manville, Fresno, all the way up
Speaker 8: to Pearland on the east end. That's their service area.
Speaker 8: And if you want to give them a call seven
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Speaker 8: gave you the wrong number. Seven one three two three
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Speaker 8: Seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight.
Speaker 8: Or just go to the website where you can see
Speaker 8: the work they do. They got some great video on there.
Speaker 8: BB Turfpros dot com. BB turf pros dot com. All right,
Speaker 8: I'm up against a break here. When we come back,
Speaker 8: I will pull up Steve from Deer Park. Look forward
Speaker 8: to talking to you. All righty, welcome back to guarden Line.
Speaker 8: Glad to have you listening in today. You know we're
Speaker 8: talking about a lot of diseases in the lawn. Oh
Speaker 8: my gosh, I've never seen so many pictures. In fact,
Speaker 8: I had to go I had to go cry. I've
Speaker 8: seen so many pictures of dye in grass. It's just
Speaker 8: depressed me to the point, seriously, You know, there's different
Speaker 8: approaches to diseases, and one approach that is very effective
Speaker 8: is to use products that help that protect the plant
Speaker 8: microbially and that help the plant microbially to be stronger.
Speaker 8: You know, there's fun there are microbes in the soil
Speaker 8: that interact with the plant root and cause that plant
Speaker 8: to develop more disease resistance to certain kinds of diseases.
Speaker 8: Did you know that micro grow bioinoculant by Microlife. That's
Speaker 8: a maroon bag microbe grow bioinoculant, sixty three different beneficial
Speaker 8: microbe strains in that product. It's a granular you put
Speaker 8: it out, it goes a long way, like five to
Speaker 8: ten pounds will cover a thousand square feet. Because you're
Speaker 8: not fertilized with it, you are basically seeding out, if
Speaker 8: you will, the microbes all through the yard that then
Speaker 8: become part of helping that protect that plant. Micro Grow
Speaker 8: bionoculant can be used at the same time you're fertilizing.
Speaker 8: Just put out the fertilizer, then put out the bionoculant.
Speaker 8: But it gives that extra boost to the swall. It
Speaker 8: gives the plant the best chance it has now like
Speaker 8: with anything a disease like brown patch. You're not going
Speaker 8: to have big brown circles and put a fungicide or
Speaker 8: put micro grow on it and it just all goes away.
Speaker 8: It's too late. The disease has already killed those grass plates.
Speaker 8: But it's going to regrow. It's going to put green
Speaker 8: leaves back on the runners. And when you do, it's
Speaker 8: good to have the beneficial kinds of things that are
Speaker 8: there to help the plant. And if you don't have
Speaker 8: brown patch, and you have in the past, get the
Speaker 8: micro grow out asap and get it on there so
Speaker 8: that when the disease tries to attack, you at least
Speaker 8: have a good supply to make that grass plant surface
Speaker 8: a little bit more of a inhospitable place for a
Speaker 8: fungal infection to occur. That's one way you go about it.
Speaker 8: It's all for microlife. Microlife products are easily available all
Speaker 8: through widely available in the Houston area. Microlife Fertilizer dot
Speaker 8: Com is where you go to find out just exactly
Speaker 8: where you can purchase those. We're going to go now,
Speaker 8: let's see, we're going to the galleria to talk to Forest.
Speaker 8: Hey Forrest. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Hey Good morning, Skiff.
Speaker 26: I had a quick question about safe pesticides or insecticides
Speaker 26: for my vegetable gardening, and it is slug and snail
Speaker 26: bait also safe.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm sorry I didn't quite follow. Are you asking
Speaker 8: if slug and snail baits are safe?
Speaker 17: Well, I'm asking two questions. Can I put down slugins
Speaker 17: and they albate in and around my vegetable garden? And
Speaker 17: then what other pesticides or insecticides could I use to
Speaker 17: prevent thugs eating my vegetables that they're safe?
Speaker 8: Gotcha? Okay, So for the slug and snow bait, get
Speaker 8: one that has iron phosphate as the ingredient. It is
Speaker 8: a bait the slugs eat it that that high dose
Speaker 8: of iron gives them a terminal case of constipation. Isn't
Speaker 8: that a nice thought? And so that would be the
Speaker 8: one I use. Always use fresh bait, and don't put
Speaker 8: too much out at one time, Put enough out here
Speaker 8: and there, and then rebait again. You want them to
Speaker 8: have fresh bait so they get a lethal dose of
Speaker 8: it when they eat. And as far as other insects,
Speaker 8: it depends on the insect as to what you do.
Speaker 8: If it's aphids or spider mites. I would say your
Speaker 8: best control is going to be insecticidal soap sprays. If
Speaker 8: it is something that is chewing and eating the leaves,
Speaker 8: like a caterpillar or a beetle, then I would say
Speaker 8: you could use something that has name in it or
Speaker 8: something that has spin no said in it sp I
Speaker 8: N O S A D. Those are both organic.
Speaker 17: Okay, that's great. I appreciate it very much, thank you.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there's one hundred other insects out there, but those
Speaker 8: are some of the more common ones that we run across. Oh,
Speaker 8: by the way, stink bugs. Those learning what their eggs
Speaker 8: look like and as you're looking at your plants, pulling
Speaker 8: those off helps a lot. But also a product with
Speaker 8: pyreethern in it would be helpful for those. Alrighty RCW.
Speaker 8: RCW has got their sale going on on shrubs, and
Speaker 8: you know they have such a wide variety. You think
Speaker 8: my daughter's thinking about putting some shrubs in. They just
Speaker 8: redid some flower beds at their house and we were
Speaker 8: just talking about that the other day. And you know,
Speaker 8: RCW has got a wide range of all kinds of
Speaker 8: cool shrubs. They got a sale on them, really good deal.
Speaker 8: Right now, and now's the time to plan them. While
Speaker 8: you're there, they will provide you with the things you
Speaker 8: need to go with that trub, for example, a root stimulator,
Speaker 8: of fertilizers and things like that to help get that
Speaker 8: shrub off to a good start. Now, they're way more
Speaker 8: than shrubs, herbs, perennials, annuals, native plants, trees. They grow
Speaker 8: their own trees up in Plantersville, and so they have
Speaker 8: trees that want to live here. They're selected for here.
Speaker 8: They're not going to say something that won't grow here,
Speaker 8: and they've been grown right and they can even come
Speaker 8: plant them out, you know, larger container. You're not going
Speaker 8: to lift that yourself unless you want to put your
Speaker 8: chiropractors kids through college. But they'll come out and do
Speaker 8: a good job of planning them. RCW nurseries dot com.
Speaker 8: Tombole Parkway where it comes into belt Way eight. That's
Speaker 8: Tombo Parkway Hagby two forty nine, right where it comes
Speaker 8: into belt Way eight. We're going to go now to
Speaker 8: Deer Park and talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, Welcome to
Speaker 8: garden Line.
Speaker 12: Yeah, good morning, Skip. I sent a picture that I
Speaker 12: was going to get you to identify the tree or
Speaker 12: shrub for me.
Speaker 8: Okay, let me see. Let me come up here, Steve,
Speaker 8: I don't have a Steve here? Is that the name
Speaker 8: on the email Steve.
Speaker 12: Well, Steven would be as as Porter as Porter Porter,
Speaker 12: I do not have that.
Speaker 8: I don't know why it didn't come through.
Speaker 12: Okay, let's do this.
Speaker 8: Let me let me check one more time, make sure
Speaker 8: Richard and Rick and all the rest we have covered here,
Speaker 8: and go back just one more quick check. No, no,
Speaker 8: I don't I don't see it. I'm gonna put you
Speaker 8: on hold. Let's see. Yeah, we got another hour left here.
Speaker 8: Uh a manual. My producer will pick up the phone
Speaker 8: and check. Make sure you have the right email, and
Speaker 8: let's try it on and I'll be happy to take
Speaker 8: a look at it. And you just want an identification
Speaker 8: on it, correct, right? Yeah.
Speaker 12: I don't think there's anything wrong with it right now
Speaker 12: or anything, but what I could ask you one other
Speaker 12: question about a plumeria real quick. We have a plumeria
Speaker 12: that we pull it up every year for the winter
Speaker 12: and then replant it in the spring, and it makes
Speaker 12: flowers only on one branch it makes. It's got multiple branches,
Speaker 12: but only one of them makes flowers. Is there anything
Speaker 12: I can do to spread the flowers out?
Speaker 8: Well, that's strange. I don't know what would cause that.
Speaker 8: A plumeria with one branch balloons only. I don't know.
Speaker 8: We got any Plumerius Society people out there that know
Speaker 8: about this situation. That's a new one on me. I
Speaker 8: haven't run across before. I assume all the areas are
Speaker 8: getting the same amount of sunlight and everything.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, and they all grew gross, please all over,
Speaker 12: but just the one branch gross flowers.
Speaker 8: Very curious. I'll look into that. If I find anything,
Speaker 8: I'll say it on the air. But maybe someone from
Speaker 8: Plumerius Society. They they even breathe plumerias and they may
Speaker 8: be at ware something. I'm not so all right, all right, well,
Speaker 8: thank you, thank you for the call. All right, just
Speaker 8: hang on. It may take him just a little bit
Speaker 8: because he's got the top of the hour news to do,
Speaker 8: but I'm put your on hold and we'll be right back. Well,
Speaker 8: just a quick reminder, I'm going to be at wild
Speaker 8: Bird's Ace giving away lots of Nelson fertilizer products that
Speaker 8: from twelve to two today in Kingwood, Kingwood Drive.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kg R h guarded line with Cap Richard, so.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as.
Speaker 8: So many good things.
Speaker 24: Not a sign.
Speaker 8: Hey, welcome back. Good to be back with you guys.
Speaker 8: Guess what we're entering our last hour of the day,
Speaker 8: nine to ten am. We're here every Saturday and Sunday
Speaker 8: from six am to ten am. For those of you
Speaker 8: just tuning in for the first time. Tell your friends.
Speaker 8: The more the merrier, love to have them listening in.
Speaker 8: At noon today, I will be out at wild Birds
Speaker 8: in Kingwood. Wile ago I said wild Birds Ace. I
Speaker 8: don't think there's an Ace hardware store called Wilbirds. The
Speaker 8: Ace hardware stores in Kingwood. Some goodwoods, but Wildbirds Wildbirds
Speaker 8: in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive right behind Torchy Stockos and
Speaker 8: I'm going to be given away a lot of Nelsen fertilizer.
Speaker 8: We got these little jars. They are just.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 8: For example, I got color Star, I got Rose, I've
Speaker 8: got vegetable garden, and I've got Genesis the transplant mix,
Speaker 8: which I love that one. I even have some small
Speaker 8: packets of the Genesis too, But four different sizes, four
Speaker 8: different kinds of jars. I have so many of them.
Speaker 8: If you show up at Wildbirds, I bet you get one.
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't think I'll run out, So come on, let's.
Speaker 20: Go for it.
Speaker 8: Nelson provided us a lot of their quality mixes to
Speaker 8: get in people's hands. And while we're out there, bring
Speaker 8: me your questions, bring me your samples, your diseases, your
Speaker 8: insect infestations, your plan identifications. I feel like the statue
Speaker 8: of liberty. You're tired, you're weary, you're huddled masses yearning
Speaker 8: to breathe free. I think something like that. Anyway, I'll
Speaker 8: be the statue of liberty for plants today. Bring me
Speaker 8: some things, less know some let's talk about them, let's
Speaker 8: identify them, let's help you have success. Can't wait to
Speaker 8: see you out there. All right, we're going to go
Speaker 8: straight back here. We were talking a little bit earlier
Speaker 8: with Steve and deer Park. Hey, Steve, what you sent
Speaker 8: me a picture of is called Chinese or Japanese privet.
Speaker 8: It is Lagustrum japonicum and it is a very invasive plant.
Speaker 8: Those little berries get eaten by birds. They haul them
Speaker 8: around and poop them out, and these come up in
Speaker 8: the woods. It's one of the more difficult invasive plants
Speaker 8: that the southeastern United States is struggling.
Speaker 3: With right now.
Speaker 12: Oh well, I hate to chop it down. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 12: well we did you know what it is?
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's what it is, and that's the berries. And
Speaker 8: if you look around you probably see it somewhere around there,
Speaker 8: because you know, of course birds can fly a long way.
Speaker 8: But that is lagustrum Japonicum Japanese privot.
Speaker 12: Well the one year this we had was loaded with
Speaker 12: berries and we must have had a million little bitty
Speaker 12: birds on it and they just ate them all up
Speaker 12: in a few days. But anyway, I appreciate the identification.
Speaker 8: Thank you, you bet, you bet. Thanks for hanging around.
Speaker 8: Good luck with that, take care, thank you. Ready here,
Speaker 8: we're going to now head to Linda and Dickinson. Hello, Linda,
Speaker 8: I think you sent me some pictures too.
Speaker 7: Is that right right about the ground?
Speaker 8: Okay?
Speaker 3: Was this?
Speaker 8: Let me make sure I got yes, I replied by email.
Speaker 8: That is brown patch. Uh, brown patch is causing those
Speaker 8: yellowing spots, and uh the way to prevent it is
Speaker 8: with eagle turf funge aside by nitrophiles Eagle turf fund.
Speaker 7: But I put that down in October do you want
Speaker 7: me to put I put it down in October.
Speaker 8: Here's the deal. Yeah, here's the deal. It works, but
Speaker 8: you got to put it down, you got to water
Speaker 8: it in, and then you got to do that before
Speaker 8: the infection. But what I see in the picture is
Speaker 8: a lot of infection. So there are very few areas
Speaker 8: in that yard other than way out by those trees
Speaker 8: where it hasn't already hit. So right, you know, you
Speaker 8: have to just decide is it worth to protect a
Speaker 8: little bit of what's left to put it down again
Speaker 8: or not. But if you get it down ahead of time,
Speaker 8: watered in real good, and the plant takes it up,
Speaker 8: then when the brown patch hits it, it tries to infect.
Speaker 8: Put the eagles there. At this stage, like I said,
Speaker 8: you're only protecting the parts that haven't gotten it yet,
Speaker 8: and all of it will green back up in the
Speaker 8: spring as it warms up.
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 8: All right, it's already be the bear of bad news today.
Speaker 8: Take care, all right, Bobby, Yeah, we you know I
Speaker 8: got I just use this opportunity to say, I got
Speaker 8: these schedules up there, and these schedules are on my
Speaker 8: website at gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip
Speaker 8: dot com. They are free. One of them is the
Speaker 8: lawn care schedule, mowing, watering, fertilizing, adding mineral supplement, micro
Speaker 8: nutrient supplements, doing aeration. All of that is on the schedule.
Speaker 8: The other schedule is the lawn pest, disease and weed
Speaker 8: management schedule. So think of it this way. The first
Speaker 8: schedule is how to grow on the second schedule is
Speaker 8: how to deal with things that are after your lawn
Speaker 8: or that are causing problems in the lawn. Both of
Speaker 8: them go from January to December. There's multiple colors in
Speaker 8: them that make them real easy to follow. Like on
Speaker 8: the on the disease schedule, you know, I said I
Speaker 8: had the insect disease and schedule. On that schedule, if
Speaker 8: you look, there's a road that's yellow for insects, there's
Speaker 8: a road that's brown for diseases, and then there's two
Speaker 8: rows that are green for weeds because weats are green.
Speaker 8: And if you follow that color to the bottom, it
Speaker 8: tells you exactly your control options that you would use there.
Speaker 8: It makes it really really easy. But I'm telling you, folks,
Speaker 8: timing is everything.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 8: I over and over again on guarden Line, I talk about, Hey,
Speaker 8: it's time to do this or it's time to do that.
Speaker 8: Fall is the best planning season of the year. You
Speaker 8: can plant twelve months out of the year here in Houston,
Speaker 8: but fall is the best. So the longer you wait,
Speaker 8: the closer are you are to summer, and the longer
Speaker 8: it takes. By the way, that nitrofas Eagle Turf Fungicide
Speaker 8: is one of the three parts of their three step system.
Speaker 8: That would include the Eagle Turf fungicide. That would include
Speaker 8: the nitroposs barricade that prevents weed seeds from getting started,
Speaker 8: makes a barricade over the surface of the soul they
Speaker 8: can't come through. Second or third, the Nitrofoss Fall Special.
Speaker 8: That's a winner riser. Now you're going to find Nitrofoss products.
Speaker 8: It in Channel Forest and Richmond. You're going to find
Speaker 8: it at Ace Hardware, a Memorial Drive. You're going to
Speaker 8: find it at Gym's hardbur Montgomery and Stanton shopping Center
Speaker 8: for those of you down there in the Alvin area.
Speaker 8: All part of Nitrofoss is one two three easy system.
Speaker 8: Don't delay. With every delay the problems increase. Alrighty, I
Speaker 8: think we are looking at up time for another break boy.
Speaker 8: Time is flying this morning, as it usually does. Built
Speaker 8: in sugar Land, you will be our very first up
Speaker 8: and when we come back from break, I just want
Speaker 8: to remind you today Kingwood wild Birds Unlimited on Kingwood Drive,
Speaker 8: behind torches Tacos. Come on and see me, bring me
Speaker 8: samples and things you want to talk about. I'd love
Speaker 8: to meet you. Bring your camera phone so we can
Speaker 8: take a picture together. And I want you to see
Speaker 8: this swell bird store. It is really cool. I promise
Speaker 8: you that, but I got to warn you birding is addictive.
Speaker 8: I've never considered myself a birder until I started getting
Speaker 8: some things from wild birds and started gathering them to
Speaker 8: the backyard and oh my gosh, I don't know where
Speaker 8: they were. It was where I was before and not
Speaker 8: having birds because I so enjoy them. Now just another
Speaker 8: aspect of gardening. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome back
Speaker 8: to your guarden line. Welcome back. We're going to jump
Speaker 8: right in things again. Hey, uh, you've heard me talk
Speaker 8: about Jorges Hidden gardens down in Alvin, Texas. For those
Speaker 8: of you down in the Greater Alvin area unless I
Speaker 8: Greater Avenue, what I'm talking about is, you know, like
Speaker 8: Santa fe Dickinson, Algoa, Arcadia, Alt Loma, alb of course
Speaker 8: Alvin h what I leave, Oh, Hillcrest is down in
Speaker 8: that area too. This is your hometown garden center. Jorges
Speaker 8: Hidden Gardens Now. Jorge has got an excellent selection of
Speaker 8: all kinds of plans, so I know right now he
Speaker 8: has a really good selection of roses, and he always
Speaker 8: has a good selection of fruit trees, and he's got
Speaker 8: plenty of those as well as well as other shrubs
Speaker 8: and trees. And then of course the plants of the
Speaker 8: season are there at Horas Hidden Gardens.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 8: Jory also carries the three sixty degree Tree Stabilizer, the
Speaker 8: best product for when you plant a new tree, for
Speaker 8: staking that tree and holding the tree while allowing movement
Speaker 8: on the tree. That's very important. Hoy carries us for example,
Speaker 8: his fall hours. He's closed on Monday, but he's opened
Speaker 8: today and tomorrow from eight am to four pm, Saturday
Speaker 8: and Sunday, and then Tuesday through Friday from nine to
Speaker 8: three Jorge'es Hidden Gardens. He's on Elizabeth Street in Alvin,
Speaker 8: just south of Highway sixth There go check him out.
Speaker 8: He's got some really really cool stuff around We're going
Speaker 8: to go back to the phones now and head to
Speaker 8: Sugarland to talk to Bill.
Speaker 11: Hello Bill, Hello, Skip, how are you serving?
Speaker 8: I have two questions?
Speaker 15: Could I have two questions?
Speaker 27: My first is, we have some Japanese blueberry trees in
Speaker 27: the back. They're about twelve foot high, provide a privacy backdrop.
Speaker 27: I keep them pretty trimmed into hedge. They're pretty unwieldy
Speaker 27: right now. I need to be trimmed. My question is
Speaker 27: can I do that now in November or is that
Speaker 27: something I should wait till, you know, February or so
Speaker 27: to do?
Speaker 6: You know?
Speaker 8: A good, A good, really hard freeze can can knock
Speaker 8: Japanese blueberry back, and anytime you prune it stimulates tender
Speaker 8: new growth, which would be a disaster with a hard
Speaker 8: freeze coming in. I would wait until we get past
Speaker 8: the freezes this winter and do the.
Speaker 27: Pruning you need to do then, okay, super. And my
Speaker 27: second question is we have lantana kind of the same way.
Speaker 27: Is that prune now or just wait wait it out
Speaker 27: through the winter and oleanders too.
Speaker 8: I would I would let the land, let the lantana go,
Speaker 8: get a good free on it, kind of kill it back,
Speaker 8: and then cut it off just a few inches above
Speaker 8: the ground and it will it will come back out
Speaker 8: as a fresh new bush next spring. So a lot
Speaker 8: of people wait until midwinter to prune the lantana just
Speaker 8: because you know how it is down here. I mean,
Speaker 8: we could get almost eighty degrees for a week and everything.
Speaker 9: Start growing right right, and oleanders same thing, yeah, leander,
Speaker 9: just probably wait until the end of the winter time
Speaker 9: to cut those back.
Speaker 8: There's not a particular pruning system for leanders. You can
Speaker 8: cheer them back a little, but I like the natural form.
Speaker 8: So taking in tarcanes out back at the base of
Speaker 8: the bushes is another option for those just what you
Speaker 8: want to look at, but get past the freezes before
Speaker 8: you do that.
Speaker 27: Well, yeah, just give me a lot of extra time today,
Speaker 27: thank you, sir.
Speaker 20: I did.
Speaker 8: I did. Drive to Kingwood and I'll see you there.
Speaker 8: It's not far. I mean it's just on the opposite
Speaker 8: end of hereon Bibill, right, thank you, all right, that's right.
Speaker 8: Ciena Molts is the place for the brown stuff that
Speaker 8: sets the foundation for all success in a garden. Cianna
Speaker 8: Malts south of Houston. They are in that area of
Speaker 8: Pomona and Fresno and manfol and First Colony and Pearland
Speaker 8: and oh gosh, Sandy Point our Cola, Iowa colony. That
Speaker 8: they cover that whole area down there, and they deliver
Speaker 8: within about twenty miles for a delivery fee. But they
Speaker 8: are really well known for their premium hardwood bought mulches
Speaker 8: in bulk and their premium soils and soil blends and composts.
Speaker 8: So when you go there, do you want native hardwood malts,
Speaker 8: doubble ground molts, two inch screen malts. Do you want
Speaker 8: a nice beautiful chocolate colored malts, not dyed, natural smells amazing?
Speaker 8: Do you want to buy Landscaper's Pride black velvet for example?
Speaker 8: They carry that down there. They have rose soils, they
Speaker 8: organic composts, they've got you know, the veggiean urbics that
Speaker 8: heirloom soils produces, and they carry the fertilizers that I
Speaker 8: talk about on garden Line that are part of the
Speaker 8: brown stuff, part of the soil, part of making the
Speaker 8: foundation perfect. So your plants are just happy and it
Speaker 8: makes it look like you got a green thumb because
Speaker 8: you informed your thumb by taking care of the soil first,
Speaker 8: brown stuff before green stuff Microlife Asamite, Nelson, turf Star,
Speaker 8: Heirloom Soils, nitrofoss Landscapers, Pride, Nelson, plant Food, Medina. All
Speaker 8: of this stuff to set the foundation is there at
Speaker 8: Siena Maltch near Highway six and two eighty eight. They're
Speaker 8: on FM five twenty one. They're open today till two,
Speaker 8: closed on Sundays Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five.
Speaker 8: We're going to head now to Kyle in Boston. Wor'st Boston, Kyle.
Speaker 28: Sorry, it must have sounded like Boston. Austin the Republic
Speaker 28: of Austin, Central Texas.
Speaker 8: Oh, the People's Republic of Okay, I got you. I
Speaker 8: used to live there.
Speaker 20: I know.
Speaker 28: Actually I'm on the west side near Dripping Springs. I
Speaker 28: only claim Austin who I can get mailed.
Speaker 8: You know, there's bumper stickers in Austin. Hey, Kyle, there's
Speaker 8: bumper stickers in Austin that say keep Austin weird. I
Speaker 8: promise you that is the most unnecessary campaign. They are
Speaker 8: in no danger of not being weird. But let's quit
Speaker 8: having fun with Austin and let's get to your question.
Speaker 11: There we go.
Speaker 28: Yeah, so I brown stuff before green stuff.
Speaker 8: I keep hearing that.
Speaker 28: Over the past few weeks, I listened to you regularly
Speaker 28: on Saturdays as I go in to work out and
Speaker 28: come back home. I've got a little round trip, and
Speaker 28: we live on a ten acre piece of property that's
Speaker 28: about eight acres of really thick ash juniper woods, thick like.
Speaker 3: Machete cut through the woods, thick.
Speaker 28: There are some trails cut through the woods, and we
Speaker 28: manage those those trails as trees fallen, et cetera. But
Speaker 28: the couple of acres around our actual house is a
Speaker 28: just mixture of random weaves and flowers and grasses and
Speaker 28: whatever has come along over the years. I don't really
Speaker 28: pay a lot of attention to treating or taking care
Speaker 28: of the nutrient base of that particular couple of acres.
Speaker 28: I mow it maybe five six times a year as
Speaker 28: it gets tall in certain areas.
Speaker 3: But as I'm hearing more.
Speaker 28: Brown stuff before green stuff, my question to you is
Speaker 28: what would be best for the total ecology of our
Speaker 28: property in treating either nutrient based or pesticide based, or
Speaker 28: nothing at all as I'm doing and just letting nature.
Speaker 8: Take its course. You know, in an area that big
Speaker 8: out there, I don't see a need to go out
Speaker 8: and try to fertilize and add compost in the soil
Speaker 8: and things just in uneral. Now, if you wanted to
Speaker 8: put a vegetable garden or an herb garden, or flower
Speaker 8: beds in or shrub beeds or things, yes, then we
Speaker 8: would be bringing in decomposed organic matter, compost, mixing it
Speaker 8: in with the soil. Maybe bringing in a bed mix
Speaker 8: that already has a mixture of things and putting it
Speaker 8: on the soil. Most of your saws out that way,
Speaker 8: or kind of a clay a black clay type soil.
Speaker 8: But there's some variation, yes, sure, but just in a
Speaker 8: kind of I'll just say a wildscape kind of area. Yeah,
Speaker 8: don't waste your time and money on fertilizing unless you're
Speaker 8: trying to grow grass, pasture, grass for cattle or some
Speaker 8: other thing.
Speaker 28: Okay, My last part of the question would be, there
Speaker 28: is a particular area we are dedicating toward planting blue
Speaker 28: bonnets by seating or actually have done that in the
Speaker 28: past couple of weeks.
Speaker 8: Since we've read up.
Speaker 3: This is the time of year to do it, not
Speaker 3: expecting blue it is for.
Speaker 11: The next year and a half.
Speaker 8: What cod or should we be doing in that particular.
Speaker 28: Area over this next year and a half to keep
Speaker 28: it healthy so we do get a good bloom and
Speaker 28: a good taking of the seeding.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you should have blooms in the spring, at least
Speaker 8: a few. Some blue bonnet seed has been scarified, meaning
Speaker 8: they break the coat down a little bit so it
Speaker 8: sprouts better. Others isn't scarified. And you may get some
Speaker 8: seeds up this year and some may not come up
Speaker 8: till next fall. But whichever way, no fertilizer for the
Speaker 8: blue bonnets. Their lagoons, they make their own nitrogen. The
Speaker 8: main thing you need for them is for them not
Speaker 8: to be shaded out by other plants. So if you
Speaker 8: have grasses, mowing them down really really low, getting all
Speaker 8: that debris off the surface, because the mode grass becomes
Speaker 8: a mulch on the surface. And the reason we molt
Speaker 8: is so weed seeds don't come up. So if you
Speaker 8: want your blue bonnets to establish, they need sunlight. So
Speaker 8: whatever it takes to make sure sunlight hits the soil
Speaker 8: where you planted your blue bonnets, that would be recommended. Okay, great, well,
Speaker 8: good advice. I appreciate. I know.
Speaker 28: Wildscaping is not necessarily a common topic. So I just
Speaker 28: was wondering what would be best for the general ecology
Speaker 28: the plants as well as the deer, the rabbits and
Speaker 28: the whatever, if I should be treating or just leaving
Speaker 28: it alone, doing what I'm doing, bowing four or five
Speaker 28: six times a year and letting it be.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's probably it. And now that you're over there,
Speaker 8: have you been to the Wallflower Center yet? In southeastern
Speaker 8: or south Austin.
Speaker 3: That's actually know what happened, but my wife has all.
Speaker 8: Right, well, go there. They've got a lot of advice.
Speaker 8: Their website is excellent for native plants, and they can
Speaker 8: kind of help you create the kind of wildscape that
Speaker 8: you're looking at. And you've also got let's see you
Speaker 8: are you're in cott in what part of Austin? Did
Speaker 8: you say you're west southwest dripping springs? Oh my gosh, Okay, Well,
Speaker 8: the Natural Gardener is the best garden center in that town,
Speaker 8: and they're they're out on the southwest side of town.
Speaker 8: Go there, good advice, they have native plans, they've got
Speaker 8: all kinds of good stuff there. Spend some time there
Speaker 8: with them and they'll hope you get off to a
Speaker 8: good start too.
Speaker 3: Brady advice. Rady.
Speaker 8: Thank you for appreciate the time, sir. All right, tell
Speaker 8: them tell them Skip said Hi. Thanks for being a
Speaker 8: listener out there. Tell your neighbors listen, Yes, sir, good
Speaker 8: time A right bye bye, m all right, Well we're
Speaker 8: coming up on another bright here we go. Hey, I
Speaker 8: wanted to tell you about Nelson's carbo Load. Carbo Load
Speaker 8: is a product that contains both the nutrient blend you
Speaker 8: need high potassium, low nitrogen for going into fall for
Speaker 8: your lawn, but it also has a pre emergent herbicide
Speaker 8: in it. So you put carbolod down, you watered in,
Speaker 8: and you've done both. You've done pre emergent weed control
Speaker 8: and you've done fertilizing. From the folks at Nelson. It's
Speaker 8: part of their turf Star line of quality products. And
Speaker 8: for those of you who would like to try out
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Speaker 8: say hi. I got so much. I bet, I bet,
Speaker 8: I don't run out, but don't delay. I'll be there
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Speaker 8: you out there. We are up against a break. I
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Speaker 8: call seven one three two one two KTRH. Hey, welcome
Speaker 8: back to Garden Line. Good to have you with us today.
Speaker 8: You know, whenever our clay soil is predominant here in
Speaker 8: the Greater Houston area, whenever they get wet, they swell,
Speaker 8: Whenever they get dry, they shrink. Did you know that
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Speaker 10: Hey this is Johnny.
Speaker 8: But that's okay, Oh Johnny, okay, all right, we'll talk
Speaker 8: to Johnny.
Speaker 10: The Medina products that you recommend and I use the
Speaker 10: Medina has to Grow long food starting this spring and summer,
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Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, so.
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Speaker 20: Uh.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you've ever been out to Moss Nursery.
Speaker 8: Out in Seabrook, those of you out in that region,
Speaker 8: of course you've been. I mean, that is the most
Speaker 8: famous nursery in that area. It's been around a very
Speaker 8: long time. And when you go to Moss, you are
Speaker 8: gonna wander through eight acres. Just think of it this way,
Speaker 8: eight acres of paradise. I mean, plants and yard art
Speaker 8: and things you would never expect to see. I mean
Speaker 8: it really Moss Nursery just it's just fun. It's fun
Speaker 8: to go to and you're gonna find everything you need there.
Speaker 8: I mean, like right now, they got all the cool
Speaker 8: season color in plenty of pansies and biolas, and on
Speaker 8: and on and on down the line their house plant
Speaker 8: greenhouse plan to spend some time, because whether you're into
Speaker 8: succulence or foliage or indoor flowering plants, they have it
Speaker 8: all right there. Massive pottery selection right now, they got
Speaker 8: a bunch of those. If you've seen the containers, it
Speaker 8: looks like a face. It's almost like a statue, you know,
Speaker 8: of some Greek goddess statue, but the head is like
Speaker 8: cut off above the eyes and there it's hollow and
Speaker 8: you can plan in it. It's a planner, but it
Speaker 8: looks like a face, so you want to put a
Speaker 8: vine in there so it can drape over and look
Speaker 8: like hair. Well anyway, that is another shipment that they
Speaker 8: just got in from that and most nursery, no matter
Speaker 8: what you need, they've got it. Good service, knowledgeable people.
Speaker 8: Every time I've gone there, I met somebody that has
Speaker 8: impressed me with their knowledge. You know, they harre master gardeners.
Speaker 8: For example. There are a number of very very knowledgeable
Speaker 8: master gardener's working and then a lot of folks that
Speaker 8: have been in the gardening business for a long time
Speaker 8: and they know it all they do. Moss Nursery on
Speaker 8: Toddville Road in Seabrook. The website Moss m aas Nursery
Speaker 8: dot com m aa S Nursery dot com. By the way,
Speaker 8: when you're there, African violet, get you one they you know,
Speaker 8: African violets used to be really popular. Everybody had them.
Speaker 8: They're easy to propagate, they're easy to grow if you
Speaker 8: give them some simple things they want, uh, And most
Speaker 8: nursery's got a good little selection of them for you there.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna head out now to Calvin and talk to Craig. Craig,
Speaker 8: where's Calvin.
Speaker 3: No, Alvin, Texas.
Speaker 8: Oh Alvin, Okay, got you? Got you all right? How
Speaker 8: can I help?
Speaker 20: Okay, I'm in a rental property. I was able to
Speaker 20: get the main portion of the front yard back to health,
Speaker 20: to a healthy lawn, but I've got that three foot
Speaker 20: section that's between the sidewalk and the street, and it's
Speaker 20: just pretty much covered up in this that nasty weed
Speaker 20: that we've always had, the uh one with a great
Speaker 20: big base on it. But anyhow, I've got some san
Speaker 20: augustine in there, but I'm kind of a weed and
Speaker 20: feed it and everything else like that. But I'm trying
Speaker 20: to figure out how to get rid of that nasty
Speaker 20: weed and get that san augustine to take over.
Speaker 8: Then I need to know what weed it is to
Speaker 8: give you the best solution.
Speaker 20: It's it's that uh, it's that field I've been in
Speaker 20: the Houston area my whole life. Sorry, but it's that
Speaker 20: that field weed that's got this really dense base and uh,
Speaker 20: you know, it just springs up, you know, within a
Speaker 20: couple of days every time you cut it. But it's
Speaker 20: just that nasty old.
Speaker 8: N Let's do this. Why don't you take some pictures
Speaker 8: of it?
Speaker 20: Uh?
Speaker 8: From a somewhat of a distance and then uproll close,
Speaker 8: make sure it's in sharp focus, and email it to me.
Speaker 8: And that way I can know that when I suggest something,
Speaker 8: I'm giving you the stuff that's going to work best
Speaker 8: on that weed. That way we're all on the same page.
Speaker 8: I can put you on hold my producer Emmanuel, pick
Speaker 8: up the phone. He will give you my email address.
Speaker 8: Send that to me. It probably won't require you calling
Speaker 8: back in this case and through where we talk, but
Speaker 8: I'll send you some suggestions for it. But I just
Speaker 8: need to know what it is, so I don't mislead you,
Speaker 8: send you out wasting your time and money. Okay, okay,
Speaker 8: not a problem. Thank you so much, you bet, Craig.
Speaker 8: You just hang on all right. We're going to go
Speaker 8: to Southwest Houston now and talk to Jesse. Hello Jesse, Yeah,
Speaker 8: this good morning everybody.
Speaker 29: Thanks for taking the call. I had a question about
Speaker 29: this most that was placed around the base of the
Speaker 29: of the tree. It's probably like two foot round, and.
Speaker 15: I don't know my neighbors did this?
Speaker 29: My friends, you know, So I'll just call them because
Speaker 29: that particular mold that they place on there, it looked okay,
Speaker 29: but after a month and a half or something like that,
Speaker 29: it started developing.
Speaker 1: Like a white mold on it on the top, not
Speaker 1: all of it, but in.
Speaker 29: Certain sections.
Speaker 3: Underneath.
Speaker 29: It also was underneath there some kind of a bacterial
Speaker 29: So I just want to what costs?
Speaker 8: Okay, Well, you know, malt is dead organic matter and
Speaker 8: dead organic matter rots and the primary thing that causes
Speaker 8: it to decompose is fungi. Fungi.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 8: You know, you go in the forest and you find
Speaker 8: a fallen log and it's got these little shelf fungi
Speaker 8: sticking out from it, and you break the log open.
Speaker 8: It's got white strands all through the wood. And that's
Speaker 8: just part of nature making more quality soil. And so
Speaker 8: I wouldn't worry about it on the malts. That is
Speaker 8: what you're describing as not a disease of any plants.
Speaker 8: If you don't like the look of it, you can
Speaker 8: take a raak and kind of start around a little bit.
Speaker 8: But bottom line is it's gonna go away. These are
Speaker 8: these are very seasonal, very seasonal. You know, they crop
Speaker 8: up typically we get we hit fall, we get a
Speaker 8: coal front, we get some rain, and oh my gosh,
Speaker 8: there's toadstools popping up.
Speaker 3: In the yard.
Speaker 8: There's stuff that looks like the dog threw up, and
Speaker 8: the flower beds and there's just every kind of fungi
Speaker 8: you can image. But the bottom lizer. They're good things.
Speaker 8: They're good things to not worry about. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Well that's good news. That's good. That's good.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Just make sure around those trees you don't pile
Speaker 8: the mulch up against the trunk. Uh. Nature doesn't do that.
Speaker 8: You want. You want to pull the multch back away
Speaker 8: from the base of the trunk so you can see
Speaker 8: the broadening, flared out base of the trunk. Uh, and
Speaker 8: then put the meulch, you know, on out far as
Speaker 8: you The further you put mulch out, the happier the
Speaker 8: tree will be. Trees hate grass, hate weeds. They like
Speaker 8: to drop organic matter called leaves on the ground in
Speaker 8: the forest and just make rich or soiled year by year.
Speaker 19: All right, Well, think it's good, a good day.
Speaker 8: All right, Thanks for the call, you bet, I appreciate that. Jesse,
Speaker 8: thank you very much for that call.
Speaker 20: Uh.
Speaker 8: I want to talk about a couple of things here
Speaker 8: as we as we head out today.
Speaker 10: UH.
Speaker 8: First of all, just just a quick reminder again, I
Speaker 8: will be at wallber birds unlimited in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive,
Speaker 8: behind torches tacos, and I'm gonna be there from twelve
Speaker 8: to two answering your gardening questions. So I didn't get
Speaker 8: a chance to call in today, Well, take a picture
Speaker 8: of things, bring them to me. Let's take a look
Speaker 8: at them. Maybe you got an area in the garden
Speaker 8: that you would like to do something, but you just don't.
Speaker 8: What would be a good plant for right there? What
Speaker 8: would I suggest? I'll give you some ideas for that.
Speaker 8: Maybe you have a sample of a weed or a bug,
Speaker 8: or a disease or something like that. Put it in
Speaker 8: a bag, bring it to me. I get so many
Speaker 8: weeds I could probably create a multipile a mile deep.
Speaker 8: And all the weeds people bring to these appearances because
Speaker 8: everybody's got weed problems. That's okay. Wherever sunlight hits the
Speaker 8: soiled nature plants a weed, which, by the way, is
Speaker 8: a tip for weed control. You know, I talk a
Speaker 8: lot about products to put down to prevent wheat seeds
Speaker 8: from germinating a products to put down to kill existing weeds.
Speaker 8: But you know the best first step and all weed
Speaker 8: control isn't the sunlight hit the soil. That's important. And
Speaker 8: so if you can grow a denser lawn that keeps
Speaker 8: sunlight from hitting the soil. If you do the compost
Speaker 8: hop dressing, that helps a little bit in keeping sunlight
Speaker 8: from hitting the soil. If you got a vegetable garden
Speaker 8: and you have plowed things up and you're gonna plan
Speaker 8: a little bit later, or maybe you're gonna plant, now,
Speaker 8: get mulch on all the other soil areas so that
Speaker 8: sunlight doesn't hit the soil and you cut out on
Speaker 8: your weed problems that way. That's just a simple tip
Speaker 8: for doing that sort of thing. We try to take
Speaker 8: the approach that cultural practices are the best approach to
Speaker 8: all plant problems. Now, there's gonna be time where dense
Speaker 8: turf still gets weeds. Dollar weed will grow in dense turf,
Speaker 8: Virginia button weed will go in dense turf. Slender aster
Speaker 8: will grow in dense turf. But those are the exceptions.
Speaker 8: Most weed seed problems. We choke them out by not
Speaker 8: letting the sunlight reach the soil. Wherever sunlight hits the soil,
Speaker 8: nature plants. A weed fall is the best season for planting.
Speaker 8: I hope that you will get out there and do
Speaker 8: some soil prep brown stuff before green stuff. It is
Speaker 8: well worth your time and money to prepare the soil
Speaker 8: I've got. I have two plants and containers that have
Speaker 8: been sitting in front of my house waiting for me
Speaker 8: to get to them because I've been busy with other things.
Speaker 8: But I'm not putting them in the ground until the
Speaker 8: bed where they're going has been prepared. I'm ready to
Speaker 8: go out the bags of quality soil products sitting right
Speaker 8: there on the bed ready to be mixed in. Those
Speaker 8: plants aren't going to the ground until the soil is prepared.
Speaker 8: Don't PLoP a plant into an unprepared plot, Peter Piper,
Speaker 8: Don't PLoP a plant into an unprepared plot. I need
Speaker 8: to get better at saying that. Get the soil right,
Speaker 8: get the foundation right. It's where it all begins. Brown
Speaker 8: stuff before green stuff. That's compost, that is expanded shale
Speaker 8: for heavy clay. Soil improvement that is fertilizer nutrients, so
Speaker 8: the soiled bank account is stocked up and ready to
Speaker 8: go to support your plant. I'm telling you those tips
Speaker 8: for success right there. Look at your thumb. Isn't it
Speaker 8: already greener than it was? Before I started saying all that.
Speaker 8: I'm telling you you inform that thumb and you can
Speaker 8: have success. And that is a key tip for success
Speaker 8: with that. So come on and see me Kingwood wild
Speaker 8: Birds Unlimited. I want to show you on that store seeds,
Speaker 8: some of these feeds that they have bird seeds that
Speaker 8: they have rather I've got. In fact, I'm going to
Speaker 8: be picking some up today myself. I'm in a low
Speaker 8: supply on some of the stuff that I need, darn
Speaker 8: birds to state at all, But the squirrels didn't. I
Speaker 8: got that squirrel excluding feeder from wild Birds Unlimited, and
Speaker 8: boy does it ever work. Hey, it's been a good day.
Speaker 8: Look forward to talking to you again tomorrow. In the meantime,
Speaker 8: come on out to Kingwood