WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:05.599 Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Ricord's. 2 00:00:06.839 --> 00:00:07.839 The crazy. 3 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:15.880 Gas can use a shrimp just watch him, as well. 4 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:23.800 As many good things to seep bats in quick. 5 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:32.600 Gas. You did sass backing, not a sign credit basis 6 00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:33.359 and gas. 7 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:38.439 The sun beamon of between. 8 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:40.719 Gas. 9 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:51.240 Start well, good morning, Good Sunday morning. Congratulations, you are awake. 10 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:54.119 Your eyes are open at least one of them, I hope, 11 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:56.159 maybe a cup of coffee in the hand. You're listening 12 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.200 to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rictor, and we're 13 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:02.679 going to spend the next four hours answering gardening questions 14 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:06.480 talking about the topics you are interested in. If you'd 15 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:08.879 like to give us a call seven to one three 16 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:12.959 two one two five eight seven four seven to one 17 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:17.519 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I've got 18 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.040 a number of things I would like to talk about today. 19 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:25.000 I'll start doing that. Uh. First of all, with all 20 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:28.959 this rain we've had, we're seeing a number of things 21 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:33.359 going on in the landscape and our gardens and whatnot. 22 00:01:33.480 --> 00:01:37.359 First of all, in the lawn it has just rained 23 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:40.120 and rained and rained so much that the lawn grass 24 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:42.920 is stayed wet. You know, I'm always telling you don't 25 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:46.519 overwater your lawn. Don't overwater your lawn. Most people water 26 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.640 too little, too often, meaning they squirt the lawn every 27 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:51.719 day with a little bit of water. It doesn't soak 28 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.840 into the soil very well because it's not a volume, 29 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:57.359 and then the next day they get squirkeed, it gets 30 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:01.120 squirted again and that builds up disease. Well, rain has 31 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.879 done the little sporting today for these last weeks, but 32 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:08.520 it really hadn't just been squirt It's been a deluge 33 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.479 and the soil is very, very wet, and by it 34 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:16.879 staying wet, we're seeing an increase in gray leaf spot 35 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:20.000 on Saint Augustine, which is Saint Augustine being the primary 36 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:23.800 long grass in our area. So gray leaf spot looks 37 00:02:23.960 --> 00:02:26.199 like if you're standing back just kind of looking at 38 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:30.000 your lawn, you see leaves or grass blades that is 39 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:34.120 that are very yellow. They're all yellow, and as you 40 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:36.479 get up closer and look, you see that there are 41 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:41.599 spots on those leaves, fairly rounded, roundish type spots oval 42 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.120 to a round that are black, and that is gray 43 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:47.439 leaf spot. And what it does is that if you 44 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:49.520 get enough spots on a leaf, it will cause the 45 00:02:49.719 --> 00:02:53.439 entire leaf to die and turn yellow. We also are 46 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.759 seeing a little bit of summer rhizoctonium, which, other than 47 00:02:57.840 --> 00:03:01.719 the fancy word rhizoctonia, basically it's like the disease that 48 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:06.039 causes brown patch, which is now called large patch in 49 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.159 the fall, those big round circles you're familiar with. There 50 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:13.680 are several versions of that disease, strains of that fungus, 51 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:17.000 and there's some that can occur in fairly warm weather. 52 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:19.199 Although we've had a nice break from the heat here, 53 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:22.479 we're seeing some of that too, and it doesn't necessarily 54 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.680 show up as circles. It could, but it just shows 55 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.280 as kind of a melting away of the foliage of 56 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:30.960 the grass plant. And so what do we do well, 57 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:34.759 The best way to manage diseases is to treat before 58 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:39.360 they appear, to prevent them. Once you have leaf spots, 59 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:42.520 once you have rotted leaves that are shriveling up on 60 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.800 the plant, you can spray, but all that is going 61 00:03:45.879 --> 00:03:50.360 to do is prevent additional infection. So our goal would 62 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:53.680 be to whenever we know we're having a lot of problems, 63 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:57.319 we can do some preventative sprays. In general, I don't 64 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.439 like to recommend preventative sprays because it just just spray, 65 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:03.080 sprace bray all the time to prevent what might show up. 66 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:06.319 But that's what you're seeing in your lawns. I can 67 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:09.400 tell you this. If you just keep mowing and we 68 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.039 get some sunshine and the rain stops, which apparently it 69 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:16.040 is now we're going to have a nice sunny week, 70 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:21.319 then those diseases are gonna go away. Because diseases are 71 00:04:21.639 --> 00:04:26.160 very connected to environmental conditions, temperature and moisture being the 72 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:30.120 two big ones. So my suggestion at this point would 73 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:32.800 be just to hold off, and it's probably going to 74 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:35.439 come right back and be fine. That's what I expect. 75 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.759 There are some fungicides that you can use, and if 76 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:41.560 you're dealing with an issue and you need a recommendation, 77 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:43.959 you can give me a call. We'll talk about those. 78 00:04:44.759 --> 00:04:49.360 But just to just to kind of summarize, you're probably 79 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:53.199 seeing some of that you can spray to stop additional infection. 80 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:55.560 I don't think we're going to get a lot of 81 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.639 additional infection, so I myself probably would hold off being 82 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:05.079 the best recommendation. All right, Well, let's see, we're gonna 83 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:08.319 also talk this morning about some things that we're seeing 84 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:10.399 in the vegetable garden. I mean, I don't know how 85 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:15.319 many of you vegetable garden the you know, we can 86 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:21.800 grow a lot of wonderful, wonderful vegetables that are helping 87 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:24.399 us to have a healthier life. That's the bottom line. 88 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:26.399 Help them. First of all, getting out in the garden 89 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.600 and growing things helps you have a healthier life. Just 90 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:35.240 being in nature, having that relaxed enjoyment of seeing things grow, 91 00:05:35.439 --> 00:05:39.959 and just having success, which you can have. That is important. 92 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.160 But when you eat those fresh vegetables, then you definitely 93 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:45.120 have a healthier life, and so do your kids. By 94 00:05:45.160 --> 00:05:47.839 the way, if you are a gunna garden, if you're 95 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:50.120 thinking about gardening, if for no other reason, do it 96 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:54.160 for your kids. When kids grow up growing vegetables, they're 97 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:57.959 more likely to eat vegetables. And when they eat vegetables 98 00:05:58.040 --> 00:06:01.519 instead of a junk food that permeates our lives, they 99 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:04.839 have a much healthier life. Most of the big disease 100 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:07.759 issues we deal with as human beings here in America 101 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.120 are related to our diet in one way or another. 102 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:14.639 That is a huge elephant in the room that we 103 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:18.680 can fix very easily. So anyway, grow your own vegetables. 104 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:21.519 They'll be fresh, they'll be what do we we used 105 00:06:21.560 --> 00:06:23.959 to say, fifteen hundred miles fresher. In other words, they 106 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.480 didn't get shipped from California or Florida or wherever to here. 107 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:28.920 And you can do that. 108 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.120 There's a lot of good advice that you can get 109 00:06:31.160 --> 00:06:35.079 online if you go to the Aggie Horticulture website Aggie Horticulture, 110 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:39.720 just search for it. There is a section when you 111 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.879 get the front page, there's a section on vegetables, vegetable gardening, 112 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:48.279 and there is a free publication on every vegetable you 113 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:52.199 might want to grow and then some. So if you decided, well, 114 00:06:52.240 --> 00:06:54.560 I want to grow tomatoes or I want to grow 115 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:59.519 squash or whatever, you can download or just stared at 116 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:01.399 it at this green or printed out or whatever you 117 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:04.879 want to do a free, multi page, full color publication 118 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:06.720 that will help you do that. And I would highly 119 00:07:06.759 --> 00:07:10.360 recommend that that's a good place to start, and it's free. 120 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:14.319 Can't get any better than that. But vegetable gardening is 121 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:18.199 not difficult if you follow a few simple principles. First 122 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:22.160 of all, we want to make sure and provide vegetables 123 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:27.439 lots of sunlight in order for a plant to grow, 124 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:31.800 it needs energy in the form of carbohydrates, and carbohydrates 125 00:07:32.040 --> 00:07:34.759 come from the leaves when the sun shines on them. 126 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:37.800 That's the leaves of the food factory of the plant. 127 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:42.839 We talk about fertilizers is plant food Well I even 128 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.920 say that term, but technically fertilizers are not plant food. 129 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:52.680 Carbohydrates or plant food. Fertilizers provide the building blocks for 130 00:07:52.800 --> 00:07:57.000 the leaves to create carbohydrates. So technical point there, but 131 00:07:57.279 --> 00:08:01.439 I think worth noting. So whenever our vegetable gardens get 132 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.839 good sunlight, they are going to have plants that thrive 133 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.480 better and produce better. Within all the vegetables you'd want 134 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:14.560 to grow, you can sort of divide them up into fruit, roots, 135 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:19.240 and leaves. That's a general division with a few exceptions. 136 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:25.079 So anything that produces fruit that would be tomato, a squash, 137 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:29.639 a pepper, an eggplant, a green bean, those are all fruits. 138 00:08:30.199 --> 00:08:34.120 Or anything that produces roots like a carrot, a turnip, 139 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:37.480 a radish, a beet, those are all roots. A sweet 140 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:42.240 potato those need the most sunlight because it takes a 141 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:46.200 lot of sugars, a lot of carbohydrates to produce those fruits. 142 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:53.679 If it is just a leafy grain for example, lettuce, spinach, kale, 143 00:08:53.799 --> 00:08:57.559 and collars. Or how about in the summertime, leafy greens 144 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:02.679 would include malabar, they would include something called molokia. Uh, 145 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.120 there's even an edible person lane that can be a leaver. 146 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:09.039 Those can grow in less sunlight because it doesn't take 147 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.559 as much carbohydrates to produce the parts we're eating the leaves. 148 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.399 That doesn't mean they want to be in shade. It 149 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:20.320 just means that they will grow in less sunlight than 150 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:23.000 the roots and fruit vegetables will. All right, we're going 151 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.600 to take a little break after those comments. If you'd 152 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:27.440 like to give us a call. Seven one three two 153 00:09:27.519 --> 00:09:31.879 one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome guard Line. Good 154 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.759 to have you this morning. Glad you're listening. And hey, 155 00:09:35.799 --> 00:09:38.000 if you've got some gardening questions you would like to 156 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:41.080 talk about. Maybe you've never gardened before and you would 157 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.000 like to get going on something. We make some suggestions 158 00:09:44.039 --> 00:09:46.000 for that, and just give us a call. Seven one 159 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:49.600 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. When we 160 00:09:50.080 --> 00:09:52.679 went to break, I was talking about lawns. I was 161 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:54.279 talking about vegetable gards. I want to go back to 162 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.000 the lawns. And make a couple of comments about that. 163 00:09:57.399 --> 00:10:00.799 Regarding our lawns in the summertime is when we have 164 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:03.960 our main lawn insects that we have to deal with, 165 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:06.919 and that would be things light grubs and chinch bugs, 166 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:11.159 and as we get later in the summer, especially the 167 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.679 sod webworm that tends to come and go some years 168 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:19.600 almost nothing, some years really really bad infestations. You just 169 00:10:19.679 --> 00:10:22.879 never know what's coming. But Night of Fuss makes a 170 00:10:22.919 --> 00:10:25.879 product called Bugout Max and it is a granular. You 171 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:28.720 put it out on your lawn, spread it like you 172 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:33.120 would your fertilizer, and then watered in and the chemical 173 00:10:33.279 --> 00:10:37.000 on it goes into the thatch and soil region and 174 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:39.320 anything in that region it's going to kill it. And 175 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:42.120 that would be like ants fire ance crawling through it 176 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:45.440 would be killed. Fleas. Did you know there are fleas 177 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:47.279 in your lawn if you have pets. If you have 178 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:52.000 pets with fleas, as your dog goes outside, the fleas 179 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:55.639 fall off. There's they lay eggs, they hatch out into 180 00:10:55.840 --> 00:10:58.919 larvae that make pupa and then become adults and then 181 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:01.440 hop back on the next train coming by train being 182 00:11:01.519 --> 00:11:04.519 your pet. And so you can control them in that 183 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:08.240 stage in the lawn. That's important. Part of controlling fleas 184 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:11.600 and ticks is to deal with them outside as well 185 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:15.759 as dealing with them inside or on your dog. But anyway, chinchbugs, 186 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.960 we should be seeing chinchbugs pretty soon here, especially as 187 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:23.279 it gets hot and dry, which it will at some point, 188 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.879 and then sideweb worms too. Night fussbugot Max does all that. 189 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:29.600 It takes about forty eight hours and it's pretty much done. 190 00:11:29.679 --> 00:11:32.759 It's work, and then it sticks around through the summer season. 191 00:11:32.879 --> 00:11:35.879 It doesn't just go away fast, and so that's going 192 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:38.720 to cover you. One application now will cover you through 193 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:43.799 the rest of the summer season. So anyway, I think 194 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.200 that is something you might be aware of. Night Fuss products, 195 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:50.000 by the way, are widely available. We can find those 196 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:54.679 things at all kinds of sources throughout the Greater Houston area. 197 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:59.879 Your feed stores, your ACE hardware stores, your Southwest Fertilizer examples, 198 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:04.799 those very widely available, easy, easy to find products like 199 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:09.480 the bug out Max. You know, we're always rows on 200 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:12.039 the lookout for what's going on in our gardens and 201 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:19.000 our landscapes. I think that there's a saying that the 202 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:22.559 best fertilizer is the footprints of the gardener. Now what 203 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:25.639 does that mean, Well, it basically means is for your 204 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:28.679 plants to grow and be successful. When you're out there 205 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.960 working among the plants or just walking among the plants 206 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:35.080 in the garden, you notice things, you can see things 207 00:12:35.159 --> 00:12:37.559 to take care of and to do, and that's what 208 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:40.240 that means. I would say the best pest control is 209 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:43.639 the footprints of the gardener too. If you wait until 210 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:47.639 pests have hit a major outbreak and there's fifty percent 211 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:49.879 of the foliage has gone on some plant that they 212 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:53.200 chewed up, it's a little late to get benefits. Even 213 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:55.200 if you killed all the pests at that stage, you 214 00:12:55.320 --> 00:12:57.480 still have a plant with half the leaves. It needs 215 00:12:57.559 --> 00:13:01.320 to do what it's doing. So heading out and checking 216 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:04.039 things and watching things. You know, if you see an 217 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.559 area of your lawn that's looking like it needs water, 218 00:13:06.639 --> 00:13:09.879 and you water it and it doesn't respond. Back, drop 219 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:13.039 down on your knees there, look among the grass blades 220 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.120 and the that's and the runners on the ground for 221 00:13:15.320 --> 00:13:18.720 little black and white bugs about maybe an eighth of 222 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:21.840 an inch long. That would be chinchbugs, And that would 223 00:13:21.840 --> 00:13:24.120 be one of the examples. They typically start at a 224 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.360 curb a driveway, a sidewalk, some other some type of 225 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:30.399 a masonry like structure that's in the full sun too. 226 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:34.039 That's typically where we see the first of the chinchbugs 227 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:37.159 when we're going to have an invasion. But anyway, get out, 228 00:13:37.320 --> 00:13:40.919 check your plants, your lawn, make sure that you are 229 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:42.960 staying on top of things so you can catch it early. 230 00:13:44.360 --> 00:13:48.200 When you catch a problem early, that allows you to 231 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:52.759 be able to use safer products, some of the organic products, 232 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:56.360 some of the super low talks products work best when 233 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:00.919 pests are in a younger stage. They have more effectiveness 234 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:04.200 at that stage than when let's say a stink bug, 235 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.159 for example, is already an adult stink bug. It has 236 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:09.480 wings and it's flying all over the place. It's harder 237 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:12.399 to kill those, and so the earlier you catch things, 238 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:15.480 the better off you're going to be. You probably have 239 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:18.480 heard me talk about a product that I really love 240 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:22.879 and that is Medina's has to Grow Supergrow plus. I 241 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:25.399 know that's a lot of words. Medina makes a has 242 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:27.759 to grow line regular has to grow. There's has to 243 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:31.600 grow for lawns, which is an excellent product for use 244 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:35.399 in fertilizing your lawn. The ratio is ideal for lawn fertilization. 245 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.759 And then there is also has to grow super Grow 246 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:42.159 Plus that's a newer one. It's a sixteen zero two 247 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:45.320 and the zero's okay. Most of our lawns have all 248 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:48.679 the phosphorus that they need. That's why it's always recommended. 249 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:51.240 It's a very low number on the bag. But this 250 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:53.519 one is a bottle. It's a quart size. You hook 251 00:14:53.559 --> 00:14:55.960 it to a garden hose, you spray. It takes about 252 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:00.200 ten minutes to cover the four thousand square feet a 253 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:04.120 bottle of supergrow Plus will cover and it will give 254 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:06.960 you a really nice quick boost. It's got a little 255 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:09.600 bit of slow release in it as well, but it 256 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:14.440 has things like molasses and humic acid that stimulate microbial activity. 257 00:15:14.759 --> 00:15:18.159 It's got a keylated form of iron which helps the 258 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:22.639 yellowing areas turn green. It's got seaweed extract in it 259 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:26.480 as well. It's just a good concoction to provide your 260 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.279 lawn a boost. And so if you got a lawn 261 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:32.440 that's struggling in some areas, hook up a bottle of 262 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:35.720 Supergrow Plus to your garden hose and go over that 263 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:38.240 area and see the results you get. I'd say go 264 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:40.960 over the whole lawn. But it's a great way to 265 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:45.159 get a good quick boost to your plants. And Medina 266 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:49.000 has many products in the market. Of course, supergrow Plus, 267 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:51.960 I would say, their newest one, to my knowledge, is 268 00:15:52.120 --> 00:15:55.639 formulated to promote and to enhance the plant growth there 269 00:15:55.759 --> 00:16:00.240 in your lawn. Our phone number if you like to 270 00:16:00.279 --> 00:16:02.679 give us a call and ask a question on guard 271 00:16:02.799 --> 00:16:06.440 Line is seven one three two one two five eight 272 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:10.799 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight 273 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:15.000 seventy four. By the way, if you're looking for supergrow Plus, 274 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:17.879 it's it's widely available and a lot of kinds of places. 275 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:20.039 You're going to find it at feed stores. You're going 276 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:22.480 to find it at garden centers. You're going to find 277 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:25.399 it at ace hardware stores. You're going to find it 278 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:29.440 at places like Southwest Fertilizer. They have it there. Of course, 279 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:33.039 they always have everything there at Southwest Fertilizer. I don't know, 280 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:35.080 if you've never been in the place, you need to 281 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:38.320 go just to see, because you'll go, oh, I didn't 282 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:40.360 know I could get that right here. I didn't know 283 00:16:40.960 --> 00:16:44.960 that was even on the market. Southwest Fertilizer carries every 284 00:16:45.360 --> 00:16:49.440 product that you could possibly need. If you hear me. 285 00:16:49.559 --> 00:16:51.360 If you hear any product name come out of my 286 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:54.200 mouth on garden line, it's going to be at Southwest Fertilizer. 287 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:57.679 Because that is how Bob does things. He stays on 288 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:01.039 top of things and when something new comes out, he 289 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:05.000 gets it. We talk pretty often actually about new products 290 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:08.680 and what was working, what we're seeing on the market, 291 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:12.000 and he just stays up the date on it. So 292 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:14.759 and also if you need tools, eighty foot wall of 293 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:18.599 tools at Southwest Fertilizer. And I always am promoting this 294 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:21.400 one because I talked about a long time ago about 295 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:26.240 these folding kneeling benches and they are cool. I mean that, 296 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:28.799 first of all, they'd make a great garden gift for 297 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:32.480 anybody who's a gardener in your list, and especially anybody 298 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:35.960 north of forty which somewhere. Do you remember the first 299 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:37.799 time you woke up in the morning sore and you 300 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:44.000 didn't know why? Sorry, I started to laugh. I've been there, 301 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:47.559 done that. Well, when you're gardening and you go down 302 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:50.079 on your knees to do something, stand up, walk across 303 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:51.839 you and go down on you, up and down and 304 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.440 up and down. You wake up the next morning in 305 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:58.359 the pre natal position, not able to get out of bed. 306 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:01.920 This folding kneeling bench is nice because you unfold it, 307 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:04.279 it clicks into place. You sit on it and you 308 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:07.480 can do work down lower real easily. And if you 309 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:09.720 need to kneel down, you just turn it upside down 310 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:12.039 and the legs become handles and you go down on 311 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:14.079 your knees do your work, and when you get ready 312 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.559 to get up, you just grab those handles, those legs handles, 313 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:20.599 and you stand up so easily. And I'm telling you 314 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:23.640 it will change your gardening life. I love that product, 315 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:26.920 and Bob's got it there at Southwest Fertilizer, by the way. 316 00:18:26.920 --> 00:18:29.400 They're on the corner of the Seet and Runwick in 317 00:18:29.559 --> 00:18:33.480 Southwest Houston. If you want their website, it's Southwest Fertilizer 318 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:36.200 dot com. They're open today. If you need to get 319 00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:39.039 out there and get something too, like that kneeling bench. 320 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:43.200 Check it out. That is one of the tools that 321 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:46.400 one went from I almost hadn't even heard of them 322 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:50.200 to definitely and the top five tools I have of 323 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:53.480 all my gardening tools, that that is in the top 324 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:57.920 five because it just is that important, it helps that much. 325 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:00.799 All right, Well, we're hitting another heard break here for 326 00:19:00.880 --> 00:19:02.960 the news. I will be right back if you'd like 327 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:05.240 to call in. We got an open board and you 328 00:19:05.400 --> 00:19:07.640 could be the first up. Seven to one three two 329 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:13.559 pine two kt rh. Good Sunday morning, So glad to 330 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:16.440 have you with us here on Garden Line. We are 331 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:19.200 here to answer your gardening questions, to help you, as 332 00:19:19.279 --> 00:19:21.920 I like to put it, have a more bountiful garden 333 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.119 and a more beautiful landscape. That's what it's all about. 334 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:28.759 You know, a lot of people garden as their number 335 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:30.599 one hobby, and then there are a lot of people 336 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.559 who dabble in gardening here and there, and then there's 337 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:35.839 folks that think I can't do that. I tried to 338 00:19:35.880 --> 00:19:38.839 grow a plant once and I killed it. Well, don't 339 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:41.359 worry about that, because I like to say, there is 340 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:44.599 no such thing as a brown thumb. There is just 341 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:48.680 an uninformed thumb, and we informed thumbs here on garden Line. 342 00:19:48.720 --> 00:19:50.640 And as you inform a thumb, it gets greener and 343 00:19:50.680 --> 00:19:53.480 greener and greener. That's how it works. Because listen, it's 344 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:57.759 not rocket science. It's biology. It's plant life, okay. And 345 00:19:58.079 --> 00:20:02.319 if you follow some simple principles Number one, preparing the soil. 346 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:05.319 Number two, putting a plant where it wants to grow, 347 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:07.599 the amount of sunlight it wants to grow. In making 348 00:20:07.720 --> 00:20:10.960 sure that's good drainage, choosing plants that want to do 349 00:20:11.079 --> 00:20:14.599 well there, and then providing general care, you will find 350 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:16.680 that your thumb is getting greener and greener as you 351 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.680 go along. The reason Grandma seemed to have a green 352 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:20.720 thumb is Grandma just need to do the right things. 353 00:20:21.160 --> 00:20:24.160 That's the bottom line. There's no magic in this. There's 354 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:27.480 no magic in this. And listen, there is also no failing. 355 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:31.759 Stick with me here for just a minute. You don't fail, 356 00:20:31.880 --> 00:20:35.519 you give up. That is how gardening goes south. You 357 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:40.759 give up. Everybody loses plants. Everybody has seasons that don't 358 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:43.359 do as well as others. Everybody learns things the hard 359 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:47.400 way here and there. But as you continue to learn 360 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:51.359 and to grow, it just gets better. So if you 361 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:55.240 tried before, try again. Give us a call anytime. We 362 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:59.400 are here to help, and we absolutely I tell you 363 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:02.279 this can help you have success with what you want 364 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:06.440 to grow. So a famous horticulturist once said, to be 365 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:08.799 a good horticulturist, she got to kill a lot of plants. 366 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:11.599 And I have remembered that through the years of the 367 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:14.359 decade since I heard that, and it is so true. 368 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:18.720 It is absolutely true. Don't be afraid of losing things. 369 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:24.160 Landscapes and gardens are like etches sketches. Remember the etch 370 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:26.839 of sketch. You had two knobs and one went up 371 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:29.119 and down to draw, and the other one went left 372 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:32.680 and right to draw, and inevitably your brain would not 373 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:35.359 click right and you'd do the wrong thing. And now 374 00:21:35.400 --> 00:21:38.400 you've messed up your drawing. What did you do? You 375 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:40.720 took the etch a sketch, you held it upside down 376 00:21:40.759 --> 00:21:42.599 over your head, and you shook it and when you 377 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:45.440 put it back down, it was a blank slate. We 378 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:48.559 have things called rototillers that help us get a blank 379 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:53.119 slate when we need to fix something. Seriously, though, we 380 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:57.200 can always go in and redo and improve and it 381 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:01.440 just gets better, it does. It just gets better. So anyway, 382 00:22:01.799 --> 00:22:04.960 our phone number seven one three two one two fifty 383 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:07.279 eight seventy four give us a call. We're going to 384 00:22:07.319 --> 00:22:09.920 go to the phones now and talk to James in Spring. 385 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:11.920 Welcome to guarden Line. James. 386 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:17.400 Yes, sir, I was the leading the Jim Oak Tree 387 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:20.759 from the roofline for insurance purposes. Do you have somebody 388 00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:21.319 that can do that. 389 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:31.480 Absolutely Uh the Martin spoon More at Affordable Tree Service Martin, Martin, Okay, 390 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:36.400 spoon More. Let me give you, let me just let 391 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:38.720 me just give you a phone number, all right, Okay, 392 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:41.920 get here in front of me. Uh seven one three 393 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:46.279 six nine nine two six six three seven one three 394 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:48.599 six nine nine two six sixty three. If you want 395 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.400 to go see the website. It's a f F Tree 396 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:58.000 Service dot com. Le me, okay, guarden line listener and 397 00:22:58.160 --> 00:23:00.480 get you up, you know, up in the line there 398 00:23:01.240 --> 00:23:03.680 towards the front of the line because he stays busy 399 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:06.720 and so just make sure and let him know your 400 00:23:06.759 --> 00:23:09.160 guardline is he does put those up toward the front 401 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:09.599 of the line. 402 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:11.559 Okay, Well, I see you. 403 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:14.559 Thank you, sir, you've bet Thanks for the call, and 404 00:23:14.720 --> 00:23:18.599 good luck getting all that tree situation under under control. 405 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:23.359 All right. Yes, you're listening to garden line seven one 406 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:27.519 three two one two kt r H seven one three 407 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:30.200 two one two k t r H. That is the number. 408 00:23:31.319 --> 00:23:36.519 Have you noticed have y'all noticed the Texas sage blooming 409 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:42.160 around town? Texas h. It's a silvery green leafed plant. 410 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:45.839 Some some cultivars are greener, some are silk more silvery 411 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:50.960 but has these beautiful, typically pink blooms there. There's variations there, 412 00:23:52.119 --> 00:23:54.759 but we used to call it, or we do, called 413 00:23:55.119 --> 00:23:57.720 the barometer plant. That's one of the little slang words 414 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:01.960 for it, because it tells you, you know, whenever we 415 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:05.039 get rainfall and stuff like that, you see you see 416 00:24:05.160 --> 00:24:08.279 the plant burst out in blooms, and boy is it 417 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:11.920 looking good around town? Is it's a beautiful pink color. 418 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:15.519 I've grown those numerous times. It's a native plant. It 419 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:18.759 grows wild. You head out, you know, past San Antonio 420 00:24:18.839 --> 00:24:21.160 to Uvaldi and you're going to see it just as 421 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:24.400 a wild brush out that way. But breeders had brought 422 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:26.240 it in and made a nice plant out of it. 423 00:24:26.680 --> 00:24:28.519 And as long as you give it good drainage. It 424 00:24:28.599 --> 00:24:30.599 does not want to be in a swamp. But if 425 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:33.680 it has good drainage, it will perform well. And I 426 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:36.480 like the way that it just comes into bloom. Some 427 00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:40.160 people share it to make it boxy, which is what, 428 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:42.680 for some reason we want to do to all these shrubs. 429 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:46.119 You shouldn't do that. You should do some just selective 430 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:49.200 pruning to keep a kind of more natural mounded shape 431 00:24:49.240 --> 00:24:50.839 and it looks a lot better and it blooms a 432 00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:52.720 lot better by the way I saw it. Plants for 433 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:58.640 All Seasons. Plants for All Seasons on High FM two 434 00:24:58.759 --> 00:25:02.400 forty nine Tomball Parkway. It's just north of Luetta. If 435 00:25:02.400 --> 00:25:05.680 you're going north for a Tomball you exit Luetta crossover Luetta. 436 00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:07.839 It's on the right hand side. But Plants for All 437 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:11.000 Seasons has a bunch of those there, and they just 438 00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:15.759 look really, really good. The nice thing, well, one of 439 00:25:15.799 --> 00:25:17.799 the nice things about Plants for All Seasons is they're 440 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:20.599 always going to carry plants that will grow here, that 441 00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:25.000 will perform here. And they also are very knowledgeable, and 442 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:27.440 so folks that have green thumbs you probably already know 443 00:25:27.480 --> 00:25:29.799 about Plants for All Seasons. It's a go to place. 444 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:31.839 If you have a brown thumb and want to turn 445 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:34.119 it green, well, all right, go to Plants for All 446 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:36.799 Seasons and they'll help you do that. They'll provide advice, 447 00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:41.240 they've got great products. They just are true lawn and 448 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:44.400 garden experts at Plants for All Seasons. Here's a phone 449 00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:48.480 number two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six 450 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:51.680 two eight one three seven six one six four six, 451 00:25:51.920 --> 00:25:55.720 or just go to the website Plants for All Seasons 452 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:58.880 dot Com. Simple as that. But check out when you 453 00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:02.720 go by there, check out their Texas Sage. It's also 454 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:06.359 called snizo ce n i z o. That's another name 455 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:12.119 for it. Remember how remember the song from Gene Audry 456 00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:17.039 Back in the Saddle Again. In fact, well let's play 457 00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:20.200 that for our next bumper song. Back in the Saddle Again. 458 00:26:20.839 --> 00:26:24.880 He sings about the sage in bloom smells light like perfume, 459 00:26:25.079 --> 00:26:29.079 deep in the heart of Texas. I love that, all 460 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:32.880 right there, but I digress. Well, we're here to answer 461 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:35.400 your gardening questions and help you have success. And we've 462 00:26:35.400 --> 00:26:37.640 been talking about a number of things today, like what's 463 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:39.960 going on in the lawns, what you're expecting to see 464 00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:44.079 a disease and insect wise. Right now, now is the 465 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:47.240 time in the vegetable garden. Earlier trying to talk you 466 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:50.640 into having a vegetable garden. Now is the time to 467 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:54.720 be planting some of the warm season crops for fall. 468 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:57.960 So if you want a fall tomato planting, you need 469 00:26:58.039 --> 00:26:59.960 to get it in in July. This is a time 470 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:03.279 to get it in. Sooner is better than later. You 471 00:27:03.359 --> 00:27:06.519 can plant pepper still, you can plant eggplant still, you 472 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:10.920 can plant coming up here typically I'll do this more 473 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:14.960 in August, but I'm planting things like cucumbers and summer 474 00:27:15.079 --> 00:27:20.079 squash for example, like zucchini and yellow squash, putting all 475 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:22.640 those types of things in. As we get a little 476 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:25.720 further into August, we're putting in potatoes for a fall crop. 477 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:29.160 The regular potatoes you can plant for a fall crop 478 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.759 in those seasons. There's plenty of information. There's lots of 479 00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:36.720 good information online here locally in Houston for different groups 480 00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:40.759 that have their planting schedules for vegetables. So it makes 481 00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:43.559 it easy to stay up on things. If you have 482 00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:46.160 thought about ground vegetables, but you're thinking I don't own 483 00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:48.960 a rototiller and I don't have a back forty to 484 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:50.839 till up. I've got a yard and I don't want 485 00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:54.759 to till it up. Then just there's other ways to 486 00:27:54.839 --> 00:27:56.880 do it. And when we come back from this next break, 487 00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:59.720 I'm going to talk about some of the secrets of 488 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:04.119 excess in growing vegetables in containers. I'll be right back. 489 00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:08.039 Welcome back to garden Line. We're back in the saddle 490 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:10.960 again and ready to take your gardening questions. If you 491 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:14.200 have a question, give us a call seven one three 492 00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:17.799 two one two k t r H seven one three 493 00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:22.319 two one two kt r H. We'll be happy to 494 00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:24.599 address it. And I said before I went to break 495 00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:26.960 that I would when we come back, I would talk 496 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:32.079 about gardening in containers, vegetable gardening specifically, But this applies 497 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:36.759 to a lot of types of gardening in containers. So 498 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:39.839 what are we going to suggest for that? Well, first 499 00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:43.200 of all, remember when you put a plant in a container, 500 00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:54.079 it's entire access to moisture to nutrients is from the 501 00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:56.880 soil that's in that container. In the ground outside. It 502 00:28:56.920 --> 00:28:59.799 can send roots far and wide and reach a huge 503 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:02.920 lume a soil to get moisture and nutrients from. So 504 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:05.880 if it gets a little dry, it's not going to 505 00:29:05.920 --> 00:29:08.440 be as effected in a container. If you've got a 506 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:10.720 pretty good sized plant and the containers a little on 507 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:13.039 the small side, maybe by the end of the day 508 00:29:13.079 --> 00:29:17.039 it's already in drought stress on a hot, sunny summer day. 509 00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:19.839 So what we need to do is give the plants 510 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:23.160 as big of a container as we can practically give them. 511 00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:27.200 They do better in larger containers. Now their exceptions to that. Certainly, 512 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:30.920 with the seasons changing, the container size won't be as 513 00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:33.599 big as it would need to be in summer to 514 00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:36.160 supply it. But you don't want to have to remember 515 00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:38.319 to water. And I've had containers that were small enough 516 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:41.480 to where I was watering twice during the day just 517 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.519 to keep the plants going well. So container size is important. 518 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:50.559 Quality container soil is also very important. You want a 519 00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:55.200 soil blend that is going to drain well but still 520 00:29:55.599 --> 00:30:00.680 hold moisture adequately to supply the plant. Good nutrition is important. 521 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:04.160 Remember the only place that plant can get all the 522 00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:06.640 twenty plus nutrients it needs is out of the soil 523 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:11.039 in that small, confined space of a container. So providing 524 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:14.400 quality fertilizer and gradual amounts over time. You can do 525 00:30:14.519 --> 00:30:17.720 that with small applications of fertilizer, or you can do 526 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:22.960 that by providing a slow release fertilizer that releases gradually 527 00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:25.920 over time for you. But those are keys. The last 528 00:30:26.039 --> 00:30:30.200 thing is sunshine. Set your containers where it gets the 529 00:30:30.279 --> 00:30:34.160 right amount of sun. If your plants struggle in the 530 00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:37.000 blazing heat of summer, then give a morning sun with 531 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:39.279 some afternoon shade. If you can find a spot around 532 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:42.200 the property like that, that is another tip that can 533 00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:44.599 help you have success. But you can grow almost any 534 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:48.079 vegetable in a container that you can grow in the ground. 535 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:52.519 There are very few exceptions, and with crazy sized containers 536 00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:56.160 you can even take care of those exceptions. But it's 537 00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.400 not that difficult to do. And I think it just 538 00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:04.240 really an enjoyable hobby to get out to garden to 539 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:07.759 grow things you haven't grown before. And so there you go. 540 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:10.319 We're going to head out to the phones now and 541 00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:14.319 go to Spring and talk to Barbara. Hello, Barbara, welcome 542 00:31:14.359 --> 00:31:15.000 to garden Line. 543 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:16.359 Thank you. 544 00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:21.400 I have a schu Mark red oak. It's thirty years old. Well, 545 00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:24.119 during the storm it got beat up really bad. It 546 00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:27.519 got topped and one side got completely torn off. So 547 00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:30.319 saber tree came out and they did tell me that 548 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:33.359 it can't be saved. So I'm going to have it 549 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.079 taken out and stunt ground. Okay, now I want to 550 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:40.240 put grass back in that area. So do I have 551 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:42.920 to take all those chips away and fill that hole 552 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:43.440 with dirt? 553 00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:46.559 Well, first of all, I would ask the company to 554 00:31:46.759 --> 00:31:49.160 do as much of that as they can. Some even 555 00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:51.960 have a little type of vacuum type things that pulls 556 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:55.680 up the loose sawdust and whatnot. But as much as 557 00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:59.000 you can get out you should for two reasons. Ruby One, 558 00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:03.400 as that fresh wood starts to decompose, it ties up 559 00:32:03.559 --> 00:32:06.279 nitrogen in the soil. You can fix that by adding 560 00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.640 extra nitrogen, so that's not the end of the world. 561 00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:12.839 The other thing is, as it decomposes away, that soil 562 00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:15.319 is going to sink. Just the fact that they've loosened 563 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:19.000 it up by grinding down into it. It's fluffing up 564 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:20.880 the soil to do that. And that soil is going 565 00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:23.039 to sink anyway. And then if it also has wood 566 00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:26.519 in it, it's going to decompose away and sink even more. 567 00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:29.079 So leave it or mound it up a little bit 568 00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:31.559 like a picture's mound. Leave it mounded up a little 569 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:34.079 so that when it does sink, it ends up more 570 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:35.079 close to level. 571 00:32:36.400 --> 00:32:41.519 Right, Okay, okay, well I'll just yes, yes, that helps 572 00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:43.440 me a lot. Thank you very much. I appreciate it, 573 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:45.079 you bet, Barbara. 574 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:47.400 Thanks for the call. You take care. Good to have 575 00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:50.160 you with us today. I was talking about containers and 576 00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:54.960 the importance of soil, and Landscaper's Pride makes some quality 577 00:32:55.119 --> 00:32:58.960 soils that you can put in containers. They are designed 578 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:02.160 for that. The thing I like to most talk about 579 00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:04.920 this time of year with Landscaper's Pride is the multous 580 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.920 because when the sun comes out and it is baking down, 581 00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:11.559 it may be ninety five degrees outside, and the soil 582 00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:14.599 is way hotter than that. It's like the sidewalk or 583 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:19.200 even worse, a dark hardscape like asphalt. You know, it 584 00:33:19.240 --> 00:33:22.279 gets blazing hot. Well, soil is dark, it absorbs the 585 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.519 radiation from the sun and it heats up too much, 586 00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:29.400 and plant roots anywhere in the top three inches are 587 00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:33.480 really struggling to even survive in that kind of temperature. 588 00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:37.599 When you put a Louisiana excuse me a Landscaper's pride, 589 00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:41.559 a black velvet melts down, beautiful naturally dark multch a 590 00:33:41.640 --> 00:33:45.240 hardwood ultch down which is shredded hardwood. A pine bark 591 00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:49.680 mults down, which is a very resistant to decomposition malts. 592 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:52.960 It sticks around for longest. Most popular one pine bark 593 00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:56.960 cedar mault cybers molts. All of those from Landscaper's Pride 594 00:33:57.079 --> 00:34:01.519 Landscaperspride dot com. Keep your soil most wherever sunlight hits 595 00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:04.759 the soil nature points a week and the summer sun 596 00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:07.559 gets the soil too hot for those roots up near 597 00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:11.280 their surface, especially for shallow rooted plants like our vegetables, 598 00:34:11.400 --> 00:34:15.880 our flowers and our ears. All right, well, enough of that, 599 00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:18.679 we're gonna be talking about dirt for a while. We're 600 00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:21.119 gonna go to a break. Our phone number is seven 601 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:23.920 one three two one two k t r H. I'd 602 00:34:23.960 --> 00:34:26.000 like to be the first ones up when we come 603 00:34:26.039 --> 00:34:27.880 back from break. That would be a good time to 604 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.360 call and get on the boards. I also want to 605 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:33.719 remind you that if you go online, my schedules are 606 00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:37.679 on my website, and that would be gardening with Skip 607 00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:41.000 dot Com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. There you'll find 608 00:34:41.039 --> 00:34:44.360 the lawn care schedule and the lawn Coast Disease and 609 00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:47.920 read out and skip paper everything you need to know 610 00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:49.039 and they're free. 611 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:55.000 Welcome to kt RH Guarden Line with Skip Rictor's. 612 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:10.880 Just watch you as many things to. 613 00:35:18.199 --> 00:35:19.840 A s. 614 00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:26.519 Sunmon. 615 00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:34.400 Welcome back to the garden Line on a nice Sunday morning. 616 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:37.480 Glad to have you with us today. We're going to 617 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:39.639 talk about all kinds of things related to gardening and 618 00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:42.159 if you have a question, if you can help turn 619 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:45.000 your thumb greener and greener. That's why we're here. I 620 00:35:45.159 --> 00:35:48.519 want you to have a beautiful, bountiful gardening landscape. That 621 00:35:48.920 --> 00:35:52.079 is the goal. Well, let's start by just heading straight 622 00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:53.599 out to the phone. So we're going to go to 623 00:35:53.719 --> 00:35:58.880 Northwest Houston and talk to Malcolm. Hello, Malcolm, Hey, Skip, 624 00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:02.239 how you doing this morning? Good? Very good? Thank you. 625 00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:03.679 Hey. 626 00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:05.880 I I don't have a question, but I've got some 627 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.599 information that may be helpful to you and in your audience. 628 00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:12.599 The iPhone has a function that if you take a 629 00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:16.039 picture of a plant. You take the picture, then you 630 00:36:16.119 --> 00:36:18.639 pull it up. There's a little eye symbol down at 631 00:36:18.679 --> 00:36:22.519 the bottom that I guess for information that you push 632 00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:25.719 that and it'll help identify it'll look up and identify 633 00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:26.280 the plant. 634 00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:29.199 Okay, interesting fact. 635 00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:30.440 And so I mean a lot of a lot of 636 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:32.480 things you see out out in the garden, you know, 637 00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:35.840 weeds and plants that neighbors gardens and stuff. You don't 638 00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:38.000 necessarily know what they are. But if you take the 639 00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:41.119 picture of it and use that function, it'll it'll it'll 640 00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:42.880 tell you at least you'll try to tell you what 641 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:43.719 what it thinks it is. 642 00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:47.840 That is that is interesting. You know that there there 643 00:36:47.920 --> 00:36:53.199 are so many really cool new things that we get 644 00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:57.800 to enjoy because of these technologies. And I'm looking at 645 00:36:57.880 --> 00:37:02.119 my my iPhone right now and seeing, uh, yeah, there 646 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:03.599 you go. It just works well. 647 00:37:03.880 --> 00:37:04.840 You find what I used? 648 00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:09.880 Yeah, what what I use for plant identification. There's a 649 00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:13.960 lot of apps out there that you know, or plant 650 00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:19.119 identification apps. I was, gosh, they're just a lot of them, 651 00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:22.840 and I've tried different ones and some of them are okay. 652 00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:27.440 A lot of them don't live in Texas and so 653 00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:31.840 they there data set is a little bit different than ours. 654 00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:34.719 But the one app that I find very helpful is 655 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:39.559 Google Chrome, Google Lens, l E N S. And so 656 00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:41.880 if you have even on an iPhone, if you have 657 00:37:41.920 --> 00:37:45.320 the Google app there, when you go to it, there's 658 00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:48.079 a little square with the Google colors, you know, those 659 00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:51.199 primary colors, and if you click on it, you can 660 00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:53.719 either use your phone when you're looking at a plant 661 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:56.639 to do the same thing, or you can go find 662 00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:59.199 a photo that's in your photos and it'll do that 663 00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:02.239 and it'll get you. I found it to be pretty accurate, 664 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:07.679 especially if you if the picture really shows the plant 665 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:09.679 you're talking about. You know, I keep point it at 666 00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:12.320 the woods because there's a plant in there somewhere. You want. 667 00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:14.480 It's not going to know what you're looking for. You've 668 00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:15.920 got to take the picture of the plant. 669 00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:18.119 Good detail, that. 670 00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:20.920 Would be true. Also of the function you mentioned the 671 00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:24.679 iPhone a little eye at the bottom of the bottom 672 00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:29.639 right of the screen. Yeah, it does very healthful. 673 00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:30.599 Yes. 674 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:32.880 And it works with bugs too, So if you got 675 00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:35.440 a bug, a certain bugger thing, you can identified bug. 676 00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:40.719 Yeah, it does. And in fact I found entomologically it 677 00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:43.960 to be almost better than it is with plants. It's 678 00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:46.480 really really good. And if it doesn't give you the 679 00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:49.840 right answer, it puts you in the ballpark. So then 680 00:38:49.920 --> 00:38:52.079 you can do a search, like maybe it gives you 681 00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:56.519 a genus and that plant looks close, but that's not 682 00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:58.679 quite it. Well, then you can go search for that 683 00:38:58.960 --> 00:39:02.079 online and actually find the one that it is. It's 684 00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:03.920 it's scarily effective. 685 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:08.199 Thanks for the good show man. I just want to 686 00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:10.679 pass up all my kids. They know everything about phones. 687 00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:12.159 They're the one that told me about that. 688 00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:12.360 And. 689 00:39:13.960 --> 00:39:16.920 I appreciate. I appreciate that because I guarantee you every 690 00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:22.320 gardener needs these things. Often. I know you're you're in 691 00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:25.360 somebody's yard and it's like they have a beautiful plant 692 00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:28.199 and you want it, uh, and you don't know what 693 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:30.440 it is, and they're not there to ask or whatever, 694 00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:32.599 and yeah, I mean it just there's a lot of 695 00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:35.119 times when we use those, so that's that's a good thing. 696 00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:38.159 By the way, it's these aren't just plant functions. 697 00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:38.480 Uh. 698 00:39:38.679 --> 00:39:41.199 If you are in a store and you see someone 699 00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:44.719 walking around with shoes you like, uh in discreete and 700 00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:48.320 just uh discreetly, uh just kind of point your phone 701 00:39:48.360 --> 00:39:50.119 down there and it'll tell you what they are and 702 00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:50.840 where to get them. 703 00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:54.639 Be careful with that one. Yeah. 704 00:39:57.079 --> 00:40:00.719 Yeah, they even do. They even do bill exactly, like 705 00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:03.960 especially famous areas, like you're in Europe and you see 706 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:06.360 this building and you point your phone at it and 707 00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:10.079 it'll tell you, oh, that's the big Ben clock in London, 708 00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:15.000 Texas or whatever. I'm London, Texas, London, England. So yeah, 709 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:18.159 all right, good, good points. Thanks man. I appreciate that too. 710 00:40:18.159 --> 00:40:22.239 You thank you you as well as well. Yeah, you 711 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:25.719 guys have got to try these things out. Malcolm just 712 00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:29.159 mentioned the little eye at the bottom right of the 713 00:40:29.280 --> 00:40:31.760 screen if with an iPhone, but whether you have an 714 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:37.199 Android or an Apple device, you can use Google lens also, 715 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.800 and it's just just if you do a search for it, 716 00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:42.679 you see what the little emblem looks like. But all 717 00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:46.360 Google emblems have those primary Google colors in them. But 718 00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:48.400 it's a little square almost like a little TV set 719 00:40:48.519 --> 00:40:51.599 kind of thing. Uh, And it works super well. And 720 00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:54.000 for those of you on Android that don't have the 721 00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:56.960 iPhone with the little eye lower case eye on the bottom, 722 00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.400 Google lens is definitely one you need to be using. 723 00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:06.880 It works very very well. All right, you're listening to 724 00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:11.519 garden Line. We are just enlightening and enlightening and enlightening 725 00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:14.960 this morning on things related to plants. Seven one three 726 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:17.719 two one two KTRH. That's our number. If you'd like 727 00:41:17.800 --> 00:41:19.599 to give us a call, we look forward to talking 728 00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:22.440 to you. If you've not fertilized your lawn this summer, 729 00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:27.239 I would recommend you consider the Nitrofoss Superturf product. Superturf 730 00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:31.519 is the silver bag from Nitrovas that makes it so easy. 731 00:41:31.800 --> 00:41:36.480 In fact, I can't think of another fertilizer product that 732 00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:38.679 I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them 733 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:41.320 that is in a silver bag like that. But I 734 00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:43.440 can tell you this round the Greater Houston area, if 735 00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:46.599 you see a silver bag that is Nitrofus Superturf and 736 00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:50.400 super Turf's designed to release the nitrogen slowly over time, 737 00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:52.320 and it's going to feed all the way up until 738 00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:56.719 it's time for your fall fertilization of the lawn by 739 00:41:56.920 --> 00:42:00.480 feeding gradually and reduces you're mowing up to twenty five percent. 740 00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:05.239 And it also avoids promoting disease problems like we were 741 00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:09.159 talking earlier today gray leaf spot, or when cooler fall 742 00:42:09.239 --> 00:42:12.639 weather arrives, we'll be talking about large patch or brown patch. 743 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:18.880 Those are promoted by flushes of nitrogen. Super turf gradual 744 00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:21.800 release helps avoid that. And you can find super turf 745 00:42:22.159 --> 00:42:24.920 all kinds of places, a number of places, for example, 746 00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:28.239 ACE Hardware, a Memorial Drive, ACE Hardware City, it's called 747 00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:35.159 on Memorial Drive, the Kingwood, Ace Hardware, or perhaps there's 748 00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:38.199 an Oh, the one in Katie and the one in 749 00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:42.760 oh my gosh, I just want blank out there, Plantation, Ace, 750 00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:47.039 Adam Richmond Rosenberg. They all carry nitropostproduct. In fact, ACE 751 00:42:47.079 --> 00:42:51.039 Hardware in general is going to carry these nitroposs products 752 00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:55.519 like superturf. They have an excellent supply. And while I'm 753 00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:59.800 talking about a ACE Hardware always has everything you need 754 00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:04.079 to provide a beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape if 755 00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:06.760 you want to enjoy the outdoors, and that includes the 756 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:10.760 patio where you need one of the nice barbecue products 757 00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:13.639 that they have there at ays like Trager, like Big 758 00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:16.760 Green Egg, like Weber, they have that there, a string 759 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:20.679 of lights to create that ambiance around an outdoor sitting area. 760 00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.519 They have that there. But all the fertilizers, all the 761 00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:27.440 pest control, weed control, disease control products. Right now, we 762 00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:31.559 just had gully washers of rain coming through and when 763 00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:36.480 that happens, fire ants to escape the excessively saturated soil 764 00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:39.800 build their little mounds up. You see the little piles 765 00:43:39.800 --> 00:43:41.599 of dirt showing up in the air. I say they 766 00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:44.320 push them up. That's not really pushing, but you get 767 00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:47.079 the idea that's going to happen. I've already got two 768 00:43:47.119 --> 00:43:49.000 that popped up in my yard. I did not know 769 00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:51.679 I had fire ants. I just I didn't know it. 770 00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:54.360 I hadn't seen them. And after the rains, I see 771 00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:56.679 where they are. Now, well, what am I going to do. 772 00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:59.480 I'm going to put a bait product out in. Ace 773 00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:03.800 Hardware carries those bait products. So go to Ace Hardware 774 00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:06.800 find the supplies you need. There's forty stores in the 775 00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:10.400 Greater Houston area. Just go to Acehardware dot Com find 776 00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:13.280 the store locator and it's as simple as that. Well, 777 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:14.840 it's time for us to take a break. If you'd 778 00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:16.760 like to get on the on the board seven one 779 00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:20.159 three two one two KTRH And when we come back, Elizabeth, 780 00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:23.400 you'll be our first stup doctor Guardline. Good to have 781 00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:26.440 you with us this morning. We are going to head 782 00:44:26.440 --> 00:44:29.840 straight out to the phones and talk to Elizabeth in 783 00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:32.239 Oak Forest. Weokome the garden line. 784 00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:35.480 Elizabeth, good morning, Skith. How are you doing. 785 00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:37.280 I'm well, thank you. 786 00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:41.480 Yes, I'm driving from Houston to Galveston and I've driven 787 00:44:41.559 --> 00:44:44.559 out of the rain and it's beautiful out here. It's 788 00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:49.159 dry on the roads, so that's good. So Skip, I 789 00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:54.039 have been gardening in Houston for decades and I am 790 00:44:54.159 --> 00:44:59.760 battling Cat's claw, this invasive, diabolical line. And I have 791 00:44:59.840 --> 00:45:04.119 a friend who feorizes it came somehow with Hurricane Ike, 792 00:45:04.440 --> 00:45:08.599 because you know, decades ago, we didn't have cat's claw. 793 00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:11.119 We had you know, a little bit of trumpet vine, 794 00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:16.840 and you know nut grass and Johnson weed and dollar 795 00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:21.400 weed and all the stuff or Johnson grass. But how 796 00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:24.840 do you suggest we combat this stuff? Because I moved 797 00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.360 temporarily and took my pot plants with me, and by hockey, 798 00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:32.360 I accidentally transferred some cats claw to that yard, and 799 00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:35.480 I spent a lot of time trying to kill up there. 800 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:38.000 Yeah, just so to make sure we're talking about the 801 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:43.800 same plant. This has yellow flowers, bright yellow flowers, and. 802 00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:45.159 It's got little claws. 803 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:50.760 Yeah. Kind it has leaves or like in sets of two, 804 00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:53.840 like a pair of leaves right on the vine with 805 00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:55.800 the little structure. 806 00:45:57.079 --> 00:46:00.280 Yeah, a little football shaped leaves, a nice darker green, 807 00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:01.599 not goloss through flat. 808 00:46:02.760 --> 00:46:05.280 Okay, all right, with the yellow flowers is a big 809 00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:12.000 distinguishing thing on them for most people. Well, okay, it 810 00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:17.480 has underground storage structures. Yeah, a sweet sweet potato for example. 811 00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:20.039 They're not that big, but they're like that. I guess 812 00:46:20.039 --> 00:46:23.039 they might get that big cast cloud is extremely aggressive, 813 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:26.280 as you know. Uh, And what you gotta do is 814 00:46:26.360 --> 00:46:28.760 you gotta you gotta cut off the top growth and 815 00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:31.039 go ahead and just as much as you can just 816 00:46:31.119 --> 00:46:32.039 get it out of the garden. 817 00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:32.719 Uh. 818 00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:35.960 There are seed pods that will drop the seeds, and 819 00:46:36.199 --> 00:46:39.559 that's probably came in with your pop plant. There was 820 00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:43.639 a seed that comes or something like that. But you 821 00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:48.119 you are gonna then want to dig up those tubers. 822 00:46:48.519 --> 00:46:52.519 Now I've never tried, you, I've never tried using a 823 00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:56.960 brushy wheat control product on it. I think I would 824 00:46:57.039 --> 00:47:00.960 think that if you put a product containing Triclo peer 825 00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:05.800 t R I c l O P y R, that's 826 00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:09.039 the ingredient, and you'll find it in things that say 827 00:47:09.239 --> 00:47:12.000 like they're a poison ivy killer or a stump and 828 00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:16.400 brush killer. Those typically have Triclo peer in them. If 829 00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:19.480 you take Triclos straight and get you a little foam 830 00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:23.719 brush from hardware store, you know that little the kind 831 00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:26.559 that have a little wooden handle that they use for painting, 832 00:47:26.880 --> 00:47:30.000 but it's a piece of fuel on the end, and 833 00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:33.840 dip it in the product straight and paint that on 834 00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:37.840 the green stems down near the ground. Do about a 835 00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.159 foot up and down on the green stems everywhere you 836 00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:43.800 see it. It will soak in if they're a little slick. 837 00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:45.800 Sometimes it helps to put a little bit of oil 838 00:47:46.280 --> 00:47:50.119 mixed in with it. Some people will use he drops 839 00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:52.559 the diesel oil, but that's just to make it stick. 840 00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:55.000 The oil is not to kill the plant. But anyway, 841 00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:01.039 it works on almost every woody thing I've ever tried, 842 00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:06.039 even Chinese tallow, which is hard to kill with herbicides, 843 00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:09.039 but just painted on so we're not spraying things everywhere 844 00:48:09.079 --> 00:48:11.400 and killing other things you don't want to kill. But 845 00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:14.079 I would do that and it'll translocate down. If this 846 00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:17.280 is an established plant, it probably has enough underground storage 847 00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:19.800 tubers to where one little application of that is not 848 00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:21.400 going to completely kill it. You don't have to do 849 00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:25.599 it again. Good hand hand digging and or painting that 850 00:48:26.719 --> 00:48:31.639 product onto the stems, up and down the stems. Those 851 00:48:31.719 --> 00:48:33.639 are the two things that I would recommend, and then 852 00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:35.599 just be in diligent because you're going to see it 853 00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:38.360 popping up, just like the seed probably came with that 854 00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:41.400 pot you took. You're going to see it popping up. 855 00:48:41.480 --> 00:48:43.159 So you just have to watch for it and shut 856 00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:45.480 it down before it has a chance to get established. 857 00:48:46.159 --> 00:48:49.159 Well, I think all my neighbors have it too, and 858 00:48:50.239 --> 00:48:52.920 everybody's yard guys are constantly whacking it away with a 859 00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:55.480 weed whacker. But it's still just it's. 860 00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:56.880 Do you do you know what? 861 00:48:57.079 --> 00:49:00.159 Do you know what I'm talking about? Hit it this 862 00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:01.519 in Houston before. 863 00:49:01.880 --> 00:49:07.760 Ike, so you know, uh, yeah, people have had it 864 00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:10.760 here and there for years. It's been around it's not 865 00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:14.920 native here. It comes from like more tropical areas south 866 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:19.039 of US, you know, the West Indies, Mexico and down 867 00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:23.440 on south of Brazil and that way. But it is 868 00:49:23.800 --> 00:49:27.599 it is persistent here because it can take cold temperatures. 869 00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:29.800 The top parts will take it down to I think 870 00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:32.719 it's about an eight zone eight a point. I'd have 871 00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:34.599 to check that to be sure, but I know here 872 00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:38.199 it survives, and then there's no getting rid of it 873 00:49:38.639 --> 00:49:41.039 unless you take these measures that I'm talking about. 874 00:49:42.000 --> 00:49:43.800 All right, well, I'm sure do appreciate it. 875 00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:47.159 Yeah, you might want to the things I've told you, 876 00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:50.639 jot them down and share them with neighbors that are 877 00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:55.000 willing to listen. Just because somebody has it. Then you're 878 00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:57.239 gonna the seeds have they don't have I don't know 879 00:49:57.280 --> 00:49:59.280 if it's wings, but they have a way of kind 880 00:49:59.320 --> 00:50:02.480 of floating and going outward. You know how like an 881 00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:06.639 maple tree, you know, has those wings, and so they're 882 00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:09.280 like a little helicopters that float around as they drop down. 883 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:13.280 There's something sort of like that. And so your neighbor 884 00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:15.679 having some up in a tree, if the wind's right, 885 00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:16.920 you're they're going to give it to you. 886 00:50:18.159 --> 00:50:21.079 Oh yeah, we it's everywhere. Well, thank you, I really 887 00:50:21.159 --> 00:50:25.199 appreciate it. You have a great rest of your weekend already, 888 00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:25.760 all right. 889 00:50:25.760 --> 00:50:31.000 Bye bye, thank you for the call. Yeah, oh gosh. 890 00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:33.599 You know, there are a lot of plants out there 891 00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:37.559 that have nice features. I mean, if you want something 892 00:50:37.719 --> 00:50:42.159 that can take reflected heat, blazing hot temperatures and cover 893 00:50:42.280 --> 00:50:44.559 a wall and grab onto it and give this nice 894 00:50:44.760 --> 00:50:48.719 covering of green everywhere. Plus you get a few yellow flowers, 895 00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:52.679 that's catclaw. But I wouldn't recommend planting it for reasons 896 00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:56.079 that you just heard as we talked to Elizabeth. We 897 00:50:56.159 --> 00:50:59.239 have other plants that have wonderful features. But you know, 898 00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:01.519 when you put it in a blender and mix it 899 00:51:01.639 --> 00:51:03.760 up and pour it out, the bottom line is, don't 900 00:51:03.800 --> 00:51:08.280 do it because all the bad stuff that these plants bring. 901 00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:13.440 Remember Chinese tallow, I say, remember remember when it came in. 902 00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:15.880 For some of you who have been around for a 903 00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:21.840 few decades, when Chinese sallow came in, it was initially beekeepers. 904 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:24.400 When they love it because it makes some of the 905 00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:28.119 best honey. It's an excellent plant for that. It has 906 00:51:28.440 --> 00:51:32.079 one of the few plants that has really good, dependable 907 00:51:32.199 --> 00:51:37.360 fall color. Another asset of Chinese tallow, But on a 908 00:51:37.480 --> 00:51:42.280 balance scale, it is incredibly negative and the negatives are 909 00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.800 just outweigh the good things. It doesn't live a long time, 910 00:51:46.400 --> 00:51:49.800 and the landscape it recedes and it takes over. Entire 911 00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:54.519 Southeast Texas has had a problem with the invasive woody 912 00:51:54.599 --> 00:51:57.920 weed called Chinese tallow for a very long time. But 913 00:51:58.119 --> 00:52:01.960 just remember that check on plants before you get them. Now, 914 00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:04.760 you go to a reptable, reputable nursery like the ones 915 00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:06.320 we talk about on Guard nine. They are not going 916 00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:10.800 to sell you a Chinese teleplant. They're not. But there 917 00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:14.559 are people that will provide them, whether sharing them with 918 00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:19.320 friends or I've seen you know, a little I don't know, 919 00:52:20.280 --> 00:52:23.960 homemade garden centers. You know, they pop up and they 920 00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:28.079 just sell stuff they shouldn't sell. Anyway, Just a little 921 00:52:28.360 --> 00:52:30.920 warning about some of the plants. They can be invasive 922 00:52:31.000 --> 00:52:35.480 or they can have other negative negative effects we don't want. Well, 923 00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:41.039 speaking of a beautiful landscape. Piercecapes pierceescapes dot com. That's 924 00:52:41.079 --> 00:52:43.639 their website, and that's where you need to go because 925 00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:45.719 I'm going to tell you about Peerscapes. But you got 926 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:48.480 to see Peerscapes, okay, And the website shows you that 927 00:52:49.360 --> 00:52:51.320 when you go to the website, you are going to 928 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:54.000 see all the things that they can do. They can 929 00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:57.400 fix irrigation systems. You got a poorly drained area, you 930 00:52:57.440 --> 00:52:59.679 should know it if you do, because it's rained and 931 00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:02.480 rain So those spots where the water just stands, it 932 00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:05.119 doesn't want to drain. How many times have you read 933 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:08.559 a description of a plant that said requires good drainage? 934 00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:11.440 About ninety five percent of the plants out there need 935 00:53:11.519 --> 00:53:15.119 good drainage. Well, Pierce Scapes can fix that area. Do 936 00:53:15.159 --> 00:53:17.760 you want hard scapes? Do you want landscape lighting? Do 937 00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:19.800 you just have some flower beds that you want taken 938 00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:22.159 care of, You want them to be beautiful. Twelve months 939 00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:24.519 out of the year, Peer Scapes will come out. They'll 940 00:53:24.559 --> 00:53:27.840 do seasonal color changes in those beds. They'll mult them, 941 00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:30.199 the'll fertilize them, they'll eat them, they'll check the irrigation. 942 00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:33.599 They offer that quarterly maintenance service as well. So the 943 00:53:33.639 --> 00:53:38.039 bottom line is purescapes dot com. If you prefer to 944 00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:40.840 give people a call rather than you know, go to 945 00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:44.119 websites and things, well, here's a number two eight one 946 00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:49.079 three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven 947 00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:53.599 oh fifty sixty. All right, you are listening to Guardline 948 00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:55.800 and if you would like to call in, our phone 949 00:53:55.880 --> 00:53:59.400 number is seven to one three two one two fifty 950 00:53:59.440 --> 00:54:04.159 eight seventy four seven one three two one two fifty 951 00:54:04.199 --> 00:54:06.559 eight seventy four, give well a call, get you on 952 00:54:06.679 --> 00:54:09.960 the boards and we will answer your questions that you 953 00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:15.199 might have. I've I've talked about a number of different 954 00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:18.719 things today. One thing that I have not meant well. 955 00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:21.960 I talked about gardening and containers and vegetables and containers. 956 00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:25.519 You can also grow flowers and herbs and containers. And 957 00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:29.679 if there are there's different ways to go about herbs. 958 00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:32.800 Some people go all out. They have a they develop 959 00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:38.679 a beautiful herb garden that is geometrically balanced. It has 960 00:54:38.960 --> 00:54:42.199 a very nice design. You know, there's one called a 961 00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:46.480 not knot design where you have these it's like there's 962 00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:49.599 a knot of lines that go through the garden and 963 00:54:49.719 --> 00:54:52.320 plants are planted in those areas and it's so aesthetic. 964 00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:57.079 It's so aesthetic. You don't have to grow a whole 965 00:54:57.159 --> 00:54:59.119 herb garden to have herbs. And when I come back 966 00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:01.639 from break, which I'm about to take here. When I 967 00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:05.400 come back, I will talk about growing herbs and containers. 968 00:55:05.480 --> 00:55:07.400 So stay tuned. If you'd like to give us a call, 969 00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:09.719 you can be first up when we come back. Seven 970 00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:13.800 one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to guard Line. 971 00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:17.719 Good to have you with us this morning. We were 972 00:55:17.880 --> 00:55:20.880 talking before break about, by the way, our phone number 973 00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:24.960 seven one three two one two kt RH. We were 974 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:28.519 talking before break about growing herbs, and I was saying, 975 00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:30.599 you don't have to have a beautiful herb garden to 976 00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:32.800 grow herbs in. If you don't do that, that's fine. 977 00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:36.400 They're very gorgeous. You see some beautiful designs and whatnot. 978 00:55:36.960 --> 00:55:39.199 You can grow herbs and containers, and you can grow 979 00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:43.079 herbs in flower beds. You can grow herbs and vegetable beds. 980 00:55:43.159 --> 00:55:45.480 So let's start with the vegetable beds. At the end 981 00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:48.519 of my vegetable rose, I will often plant some herb. 982 00:55:48.599 --> 00:55:53.599 Maybe it's chives. When chives bloom, they attract tons of pollinators. 983 00:55:53.679 --> 00:55:56.719 The pollinators love their blooms, and that's one reason I 984 00:55:56.840 --> 00:55:59.000 do it. Maybe it is a groundcover type herb like 985 00:55:59.079 --> 00:56:03.760 a regano or a bush like rosemary, which also has flowers, 986 00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:07.480 by the way, especially the trailing types. But those are 987 00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:10.719 just an addition so when you're out there. I used 988 00:56:10.760 --> 00:56:14.000 to have a row I called my tomato sauce row. 989 00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:18.880 It was paste tomatoes, you know, the little globe or 990 00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:24.840 oblong oval tomatoes. And I had a regano on one end. 991 00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:27.519 I had basil on the other end. And so basically 992 00:56:27.639 --> 00:56:29.880 you could just go down the row harvesting, bring it in, 993 00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:32.119 and you were ready to go on making your pizza, 994 00:56:32.760 --> 00:56:36.840 pizza paste or whatever you want to create. Anyway, you 995 00:56:36.920 --> 00:56:39.840 can also plant herbs again, like I said, for flowers 996 00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:43.840 in the vegetable garden to help support pollinators. That is important. 997 00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:48.320 One vegetable garden I had there wasn't room for things, 998 00:56:48.599 --> 00:56:52.320 and I was confined, and so I wanted to save 999 00:56:52.440 --> 00:56:55.199 all my space for growing stuff I could eat, because 1000 00:56:55.239 --> 00:56:58.760 that's why I had that garden. So I used large 1001 00:56:58.960 --> 00:57:02.280 buckets and hung them on posts on the fence that 1002 00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:04.880 went around the vegetable garden. And I had a little 1003 00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:08.280 drip line that went down the row, and each bucket 1004 00:57:08.360 --> 00:57:10.239 had a little drip emetter in it and it would 1005 00:57:10.239 --> 00:57:13.440 come on automatically. It was on a garden hose timer. 1006 00:57:14.039 --> 00:57:17.360 And so those buckets, which remember containers need watering more 1007 00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:20.360 often they would get watered every day with a small 1008 00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:22.239 amount of water and they would bloom. They would hang 1009 00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:24.360 down there. I had herbs that could pick there, but 1010 00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:27.199 I also was bringing in pollinators. In fact, there wasn't 1011 00:57:27.360 --> 00:57:30.400 just herbs in it. I used some trailing flowers that 1012 00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:33.639 have that are very attractive to pollinators and are beautiful 1013 00:57:34.679 --> 00:57:39.480 in a ornamental type bed like a flower bed for example, 1014 00:57:39.719 --> 00:57:42.880 or lining a path. Herbs like chives make a good 1015 00:57:43.639 --> 00:57:45.719 product to line a path. You could use it like 1016 00:57:45.800 --> 00:57:48.000 you would use loriope. You know how they put loriope 1017 00:57:48.039 --> 00:57:51.320 around beds and things. Herbs that are trailing. I mentioned 1018 00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:54.280 to regano time is another example, and there are others 1019 00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:57.480 would be good as a ground cover in certain areas. 1020 00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:01.639 Maybe you just want some groundcovers to go around the 1021 00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:04.159 bottom of rose beds. You know, as long as they 1022 00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:07.239 get decent amount of sunlight under there, something like a 1023 00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:10.280 regino could grow in an area like that. So I 1024 00:58:10.360 --> 00:58:13.239 guess what I'm trying to say is recognize that herbs 1025 00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:16.639 are versatile. Rosemary is one of the most drought tolerant 1026 00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:19.199 plants that we have in our landscapes. So you need 1027 00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:23.320 a little evergreen shrub and you have good drainage. Must 1028 00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:26.519 have good drainage. Rosemary would be an option, and there 1029 00:58:26.559 --> 00:58:28.000 you go. You just go out there and you can 1030 00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:32.280 pick your herbs right from your landscape. Herbs also do 1031 00:58:32.360 --> 00:58:36.519 welling containers and containers. You can grow any kind of 1032 00:58:36.559 --> 00:58:38.039 herb that you want to grow, as long as a 1033 00:58:38.079 --> 00:58:40.840 container is big enough. You can have something upright in 1034 00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:45.159 the center, like lemongrass that grows upward and makes a 1035 00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:48.599 very tall plant. If it was a large container, you 1036 00:58:48.639 --> 00:58:52.400 could plant something trailing around the sides of it. Another 1037 00:58:52.519 --> 00:58:55.719 good example is pineapple sage. It's a type of salvia 1038 00:58:55.840 --> 00:58:59.000 with beautiful tubular red blooms that attract hummingbirds, and the 1039 00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:04.400 foliage smells like pineapples. It's really really nice. Now I 1040 00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:06.480 could go on and on giving you examples, but I 1041 00:59:06.519 --> 00:59:09.239 guess what I'm saying is, let's let the herbs get 1042 00:59:09.239 --> 00:59:11.440 out of the vegetable garden or out of the herb 1043 00:59:11.519 --> 00:59:14.679 garden and go wherever we want them. Maybe there's just 1044 00:59:14.800 --> 00:59:17.639 two herbs that you care about. Maybe it's basil and rosemary. 1045 00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:21.000 Maybe that's all you care about. Grow those. Basil loves 1046 00:59:21.039 --> 00:59:24.119 summer heat, it loves containers, It has blooms that do 1047 00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:27.239 attract beats and pollinators. So wherever you want to put it, 1048 00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:29.960 go for it. As long as it's sunny and warm 1049 00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:32.800 and well drained, Basil's going to be happy, all right. 1050 00:59:33.199 --> 00:59:37.880 Just a few tips there on herbs. If you'd like 1051 00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:40.119 to give us a call here on guardline, all you 1052 00:59:40.239 --> 00:59:43.039 have to do is doll seven one three. That's seven 1053 00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:49.960 one three two one two kt r h. Suppose that 1054 00:59:50.280 --> 00:59:56.039 seven one three two one two kt r ah. Well, 1055 00:59:56.119 --> 00:59:59.920 I'm gonna while we're while we're discussing different kinds of 1056 01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:02.960 plants and different uses for different kind of plants, I 1057 01:00:03.039 --> 01:00:06.480 want to talk a little bit about hanging baskets. Now, 1058 01:00:06.880 --> 01:00:11.760 you are very familiar with beautiful floriferous hanging baskets. For example, 1059 01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:15.119 when we get to summertime, boom and Villa is a 1060 01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:19.280 wonderful plant for hanging baskets. It's blooms last and last 1061 01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:23.400 and last and last. You probably provided proper care and 1062 01:00:23.719 --> 01:00:26.719 in a good sunny spot, and it will do very 1063 01:00:26.800 --> 01:00:30.920 well for you. Another good hanging basket plant is Scavola. 1064 01:00:31.159 --> 01:00:36.079 Scavola is also called fan flower fan flower. Now you 1065 01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:39.599 can get variations on color in it, but primarily Scavola 1066 01:00:39.880 --> 01:00:44.239 is a blue to purplish, a purplish blue flower, uh, 1067 01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:48.679 and it is very heat tolerant. I was kidding with 1068 01:00:48.719 --> 01:00:51.599 someone recently and said you could throw scavola on a 1069 01:00:51.719 --> 01:00:54.000 barbecue pet when you put your burgers down, and when 1070 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:56.679 you opened it up, the scavola would still be thriving. Well, 1071 01:00:56.760 --> 01:01:00.760 that's an exaggeration, but my point is it never gets 1072 01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:04.360 too hot for scabola. It can get too soggy for scabola. 1073 01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:07.119 If you don't have good drainage, it will rot in 1074 01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:10.280 a heartbeat. But if you give it good drainage, it 1075 01:01:10.480 --> 01:01:14.239 performs well. Scavola another one per Slaine, and I'm going 1076 01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:16.519 to make it two things in one per Slaine and 1077 01:01:16.760 --> 01:01:21.360 moss rose, which is Portulaca. Perce Lane and Portulaca have 1078 01:01:21.519 --> 01:01:25.559 blooms that each last a day, and they are beautiful 1079 01:01:25.599 --> 01:01:27.679 and they come in every color under the sun. In fact, 1080 01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:29.639 you would want to view those up close, because when 1081 01:01:29.639 --> 01:01:31.599 you get a whole bunch of colors on one plant, 1082 01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:35.400 then in one basket. Rather, it's good to view it 1083 01:01:35.519 --> 01:01:38.320 up close. But that can take as much heat as 1084 01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:42.199 Houston summers can give it. It is tough. It needs 1085 01:01:42.239 --> 01:01:44.960 good drainage. Of course, but it's a succulent, so if 1086 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:46.960 you forget to water it, it's gonna be okay. You 1087 01:01:47.039 --> 01:01:49.239 may not get the bloom production you did. It would 1088 01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:52.159 have if you'd given it some moisture. But it's very 1089 01:01:52.280 --> 01:01:54.519 tough and it can take that. And I could go 1090 01:01:54.679 --> 01:01:57.239 on and on. Don't forget there's foliage plants that can 1091 01:01:57.320 --> 01:02:02.960 grow in containers like Dichondra are silver pony foot. It's 1092 01:02:03.719 --> 01:02:06.440 just like the name describes. It is very silver and 1093 01:02:06.519 --> 01:02:09.119 it trails down and it is beautiful. We have some 1094 01:02:09.400 --> 01:02:11.199 in one of our vego beds where we have a 1095 01:02:11.239 --> 01:02:14.079 bunch of flowers and it just looks beautiful coming over 1096 01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:16.840 the side. Well, there's a few tips to consider. We're 1097 01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:19.840 going to take a break here time for that. When 1098 01:02:19.880 --> 01:02:22.079 we come back, Robert, you will be our first up 1099 01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:24.239 for the rest of you. Seven one three two one 1100 01:02:24.320 --> 01:02:29.000 two kt r H. How many of your Jim welcome 1101 01:02:29.000 --> 01:02:31.960 back to guard Line. Glad you're listening today, and look 1102 01:02:32.039 --> 01:02:34.480 forward to visiting with you about the questions that you 1103 01:02:34.679 --> 01:02:37.719 might have. You know, we've had a lot of storms, 1104 01:02:38.239 --> 01:02:41.840 a lot of storms that have come through and just 1105 01:02:42.760 --> 01:02:46.480 devastated our trees. They've knocked out our power, and a 1106 01:02:46.559 --> 01:02:49.119 lot of people are interested in generators right now. In fact, 1107 01:02:49.159 --> 01:02:51.480 later next hour, early next hour, We're going to have 1108 01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:53.239 a fellow in here that I'm going to pick his 1109 01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:55.920 brain on all kinds of aspects of how do you 1110 01:02:55.960 --> 01:02:57.760 find it the generator you want, what do you look for, 1111 01:02:58.119 --> 01:03:01.159 what do you make sure of, and just kind of 1112 01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:04.239 the overall picture, because I know a lot of people 1113 01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:07.519 are out shopping for generators right now, trying to find 1114 01:03:07.599 --> 01:03:09.679 one so that when the next storm hits, they're ready. 1115 01:03:10.159 --> 01:03:13.159 Quality Home Products of Texas is a company that can 1116 01:03:13.239 --> 01:03:17.199 provide you with a quality generaic generator. But it's not 1117 01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:20.679 just the fact that they provide top of the line generators. 1118 01:03:20.760 --> 01:03:23.920 It's their service, by the way, right now, for I 1119 01:03:24.000 --> 01:03:26.960 forget five hundred dollars off in zero percent interest for 1120 01:03:27.079 --> 01:03:29.440 eighteen months, or if you have an old one of 1121 01:03:29.480 --> 01:03:32.840 those portable generators you drag around and fire up. If 1122 01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:34.519 you want to turn one of those in, I don't 1123 01:03:34.519 --> 01:03:39.000 care what condition is in fifteen hundred dollars off for that. Now, 1124 01:03:39.760 --> 01:03:42.440 this is a company there's that over fourteen thousand five 1125 01:03:42.480 --> 01:03:45.920 star reviews, seventy seven thousand homeowners. We're actually more than 1126 01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:49.880 that here in the Houston area are a customers of 1127 01:03:50.039 --> 01:03:53.360 Quality Home Products of Texas. When you have them come, 1128 01:03:53.559 --> 01:03:57.199 they do everything that most companies don't do. Most companies 1129 01:03:57.280 --> 01:04:00.760 sub out most things. They do it all thems. They 1130 01:04:00.880 --> 01:04:02.480 take care of all the you know, you've got to 1131 01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:04.400 get a permit from the city or the state has 1132 01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:06.639 certain regulations you have to They take care of all 1133 01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:08.599 of the things you have to do. You don't have 1134 01:04:08.679 --> 01:04:12.199 to chase all that down qualityt X dot com or 1135 01:04:12.400 --> 01:04:17.639 phone number seven one three Quality. We're going to go 1136 01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:20.800 to the phones now and start with Robert up here 1137 01:04:20.920 --> 01:04:23.480 in North Houston. Hello, Robert, you. 1138 01:04:23.559 --> 01:04:27.920 Need more Yes, sir, could you discuss fullier fertilization. 1139 01:04:28.320 --> 01:04:28.400 UH. 1140 01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:31.960 To give you some background, I tried using one of 1141 01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:36.599 those dry granular water soluble cans and UH sprayed on 1142 01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:40.000 the leaves and I think I've burned the plants. You know, 1143 01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:42.280 I can't get it to you, but the leaves were 1144 01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:47.639 kind of burned. And UH, do you use an organic 1145 01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:51.239 uh fertilizer or do you use a synth? Doesn't matter? 1146 01:04:51.840 --> 01:04:56.199 In the summertime, it was real hot. Okay, good. Those 1147 01:04:56.280 --> 01:04:59.000 are great questions. And let me give you a quick 1148 01:04:59.079 --> 01:05:04.599 overview of this organic fertilizers are typically things like fish 1149 01:05:04.639 --> 01:05:10.079 and mulsion and seaweed. There are other organic folier products 1150 01:05:10.119 --> 01:05:12.199 that you can put out. They may have other things 1151 01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:14.960 in them, like certain kinds of plant hormones, or they 1152 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:18.719 may have molasses, and they are a lot of things 1153 01:05:18.760 --> 01:05:21.079 that they can put in those products. Those typically do 1154 01:05:21.199 --> 01:05:23.800 not burn. I guess I don't know if you spray 1155 01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:26.840 them straight without even mixing them and water, if they 1156 01:05:26.880 --> 01:05:29.599 would burn, but nobody would do that. If you come 1157 01:05:29.639 --> 01:05:31.679 anywhere close to the right mixture, they are not going 1158 01:05:31.760 --> 01:05:35.239 to burn your plant. Synthetic products are typically salt based. 1159 01:05:35.559 --> 01:05:39.519 If they are too strong, they will burn. And when 1160 01:05:39.599 --> 01:05:42.920 you're watering the base of a plant with the soluble 1161 01:05:43.039 --> 01:05:47.079 synthetic liquid, that's one thing. When you're spraying that same 1162 01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:50.679 thing on the foliage, it has to be much more diluted. 1163 01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:53.000 And the labels on those products, if they have a 1164 01:05:53.079 --> 01:05:56.199 label for folier application, they will give you a much 1165 01:05:56.400 --> 01:05:59.480 diluted rate for that. In that case, you won't burn. 1166 01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:02.639 But you've got to really watch that. You want to 1167 01:06:02.679 --> 01:06:06.920 spray anything early in the morning when it's cool, and 1168 01:06:07.480 --> 01:06:10.000 that gives it more time to absorb and it helps 1169 01:06:10.079 --> 01:06:14.000 cut down on the sun baking down and contributing to burn. 1170 01:06:14.480 --> 01:06:17.079 There's another reason we spray in the morning. Early in 1171 01:06:17.159 --> 01:06:20.119 the morning, there's little openings on the bottom of the 1172 01:06:20.199 --> 01:06:24.360 leaf called stomates that are open up, and when you spray, 1173 01:06:24.519 --> 01:06:26.800 you want to spray upward from under the plant, not 1174 01:06:27.039 --> 01:06:29.519 just on the top. A gravity will cause the spray 1175 01:06:29.559 --> 01:06:32.079 to fall back down on the top, but make sure 1176 01:06:32.159 --> 01:06:34.760 you coat the undersides of the leaves because you get 1177 01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:38.559 more uptake through there. Some nutrients go into the leaves 1178 01:06:38.760 --> 01:06:41.920 very readily. Some nutrients do not go into the leaves 1179 01:06:42.039 --> 01:06:45.519 very readily, and so it's a matter of the right concentration. 1180 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:49.480 Spray early in the morning, spray upward from underneath the plant. 1181 01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:53.639 And primarily we're using those folio sprays for the micro 1182 01:06:54.039 --> 01:06:58.000 nutrients that a plant needs. The plant was designed to 1183 01:06:58.079 --> 01:07:00.519 take up nutrients through the roots. That's the best way 1184 01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:03.519 to fertilize a plant. But there are reasons to use 1185 01:07:03.559 --> 01:07:06.760 a folier spray in addition to trying to get nutrients 1186 01:07:06.840 --> 01:07:13.800 in Okay click, could you do both of them? 1187 01:07:13.840 --> 01:07:17.159 I mean, would it be an advantage to using both 1188 01:07:17.320 --> 01:07:20.000 folier in the soil fertilization. 1189 01:07:22.519 --> 01:07:26.639 There are situations where you would do that Folier is immediate, 1190 01:07:27.159 --> 01:07:29.599 and you know, let's say you've got iron deficiency and 1191 01:07:29.639 --> 01:07:32.079 you're trying to get it in a leaf. It's immediate, 1192 01:07:32.480 --> 01:07:36.320 and iron can't be moved around in the plant once 1193 01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:39.159 it's been put into a leaf. That's why new leaves 1194 01:07:39.599 --> 01:07:42.320 show the iron deficiency. The plant can't take it from 1195 01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:44.599 ole leaves and move it to new leaves. So iron 1196 01:07:44.679 --> 01:07:46.599 to be an example of one that you might want 1197 01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:48.599 to do a folier application for to get a quick 1198 01:07:48.679 --> 01:07:51.920 fix on the plant, but you still want to do 1199 01:07:52.239 --> 01:07:56.760 the soil fertilization, and that's important. Another reason I occasionally 1200 01:07:56.760 --> 01:08:00.239 will folier is when I'm checking for a deficiency. See 1201 01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:05.079 there's a certain pattern that magnesium deficiency makes in plants, 1202 01:08:05.880 --> 01:08:08.480 and it's a kind of a green Christmas tree in 1203 01:08:08.519 --> 01:08:11.159 the middle of a not so green leaf. And so 1204 01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:13.199 if I think it's magnesium, I'm mix up a little 1205 01:08:13.239 --> 01:08:16.840 EPs and salts in water at the proper rate, spray 1206 01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:19.239 it on the plant, and if I see a response 1207 01:08:19.720 --> 01:08:23.079 of greening, then I know, yep, that was a magnesium 1208 01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:26.840 deficiency because that's all magnesium self, that's all that's in 1209 01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:30.399 epsen salt. So you can use it as a test saying, oh, 1210 01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:36.880 I need to add more magnesium to my soil too. Now, okay, well, 1211 01:08:37.119 --> 01:08:39.399 thank you for information. I hope that wasn't confusing. 1212 01:08:40.239 --> 01:08:40.800 No, it wasn't. 1213 01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:44.640 Thanks a lot, all right, sir, thank you for the call. 1214 01:08:44.840 --> 01:08:47.319 I appreciate you very much. Good to talk to you. 1215 01:08:47.479 --> 01:08:50.560 That's a good question too. By the way, let's see 1216 01:08:50.640 --> 01:08:53.880 here I did want to mention. Nelson Plant Food has 1217 01:08:53.960 --> 01:08:57.199 plant food in jars. Now, you know about the bags 1218 01:08:57.239 --> 01:08:59.640 of fertilizer. You know we talk about all the time, 1219 01:08:59.680 --> 01:09:05.439 this low and easy, it's the slow release nutrient for summertime, 1220 01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:08.319 last months. But they also have these jars you need 1221 01:09:08.359 --> 01:09:12.039 to buy, the nutri Star jars, hibiscus and flowering tropicals, 1222 01:09:12.119 --> 01:09:15.079 the indoor plant nutri Star, there's the color Star. They 1223 01:09:15.079 --> 01:09:15.840 all come in jars. 1224 01:09:16.119 --> 01:09:16.279 You know. 1225 01:09:16.359 --> 01:09:19.840 You can refill those jars at local retailers. There's twelve 1226 01:09:20.000 --> 01:09:23.159 that I'm aware of. There's twelve different local retailers that 1227 01:09:23.399 --> 01:09:27.880 carry Nelson product jar refill stations. So you take your 1228 01:09:27.920 --> 01:09:30.960 old plastic jar in. Rather than buying more plastic and 1229 01:09:31.000 --> 01:09:33.039 putting that in the environment, you take your old jar in. 1230 01:09:33.439 --> 01:09:35.119 You go up there, you pull the handle just like 1231 01:09:35.159 --> 01:09:37.319 you're buying peanuts at a grocery store. You know how 1232 01:09:37.359 --> 01:09:39.319 they have those little pool handles and you can refill 1233 01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:42.359 things or fillip bags. You do that and it's much 1234 01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:46.359 more economical way to buy fertilizer. U Plus, it saves 1235 01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:51.079 the issue with that plastic all brings. So just a 1236 01:09:51.119 --> 01:09:54.199 little tip if you love those Nelson products, they are 1237 01:09:54.239 --> 01:09:58.479 available a jar refill stations, and if you send us 1238 01:09:58.520 --> 01:10:01.520 an email here guard Line just some information on different 1239 01:10:01.560 --> 01:10:04.520 places that have it'd be glad to point you to one, 1240 01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:07.760 because I think that's a great, just makes sense, good 1241 01:10:07.800 --> 01:10:11.479 way to go. Well, we're I hear the music. That 1242 01:10:11.640 --> 01:10:14.359 means I've got to shut up here pretty quick. Marty 1243 01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:17.359 and Fairfield. Sorry, we're able to get to you this hour. 1244 01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:19.520 If you are able to hang on, we'll get to 1245 01:10:19.520 --> 01:10:21.039 your next hour. If you need to hang up and 1246 01:10:21.119 --> 01:10:23.279 call back, we'll get you put to the front of 1247 01:10:23.319 --> 01:10:26.680 the line. I appreciate you calling it. I just want 1248 01:10:26.720 --> 01:10:30.279 to remind you that it is the time of the 1249 01:10:30.359 --> 01:10:35.479 year when we are planning our cool season actually warm season, 1250 01:10:35.560 --> 01:10:39.199 butchells to fall and still warm season flowers for the 1251 01:10:39.279 --> 01:10:42.840 fall garden. So don't stop piming just because it's getting hot. 1252 01:10:44.039 --> 01:10:48.079 Welcome to kat r h Garden Line with Scamp Richards. 1253 01:10:56.640 --> 01:11:22.159 Just watch him as a sad welcome back, Welcome back 1254 01:11:22.199 --> 01:11:23.680 to the Guardline. Good to have you back with us. 1255 01:11:24.279 --> 01:11:27.680 We are looking forward to visiting with you for right now, 1256 01:11:27.920 --> 01:11:30.000 I'm gonna get away from the phones just for a 1257 01:11:30.039 --> 01:11:32.560 little bit, and uh, I wanna talk about a couple 1258 01:11:32.640 --> 01:11:36.199 of different things. I have a you know, we've noticed 1259 01:11:36.640 --> 01:11:39.760 a little bit of a damage to our homes and 1260 01:11:39.840 --> 01:11:41.960 our trees during these storms, right and I say a 1261 01:11:42.039 --> 01:11:45.039 little bit, uh, you know, tongue in cheek. It's been 1262 01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:50.279 devastating and people without power, family members of mine. Both 1263 01:11:50.399 --> 01:11:52.640 of the last two storms where they knocked out the 1264 01:11:52.720 --> 01:11:54.680 power seemed like they were the last one to get 1265 01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:57.319 back on and they went like over a week each time. 1266 01:11:57.880 --> 01:11:59.960 What happens when you got a refrigerator full of food? 1267 01:12:00.279 --> 01:12:02.640 What happens when you have a work from home job 1268 01:12:02.680 --> 01:12:06.960 and you got to work. You need a generator. And 1269 01:12:07.039 --> 01:12:11.439 that's what people are doing right now. It is unprecedented 1270 01:12:11.520 --> 01:12:15.600 the number of people that are looking for Okay, that's 1271 01:12:15.760 --> 01:12:17.760 enough of this. I've got to get a generator to 1272 01:12:17.880 --> 01:12:20.239 do this. And when I look out on the market, 1273 01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:22.079 I see a lot of products out there and a 1274 01:12:22.119 --> 01:12:25.600 lot of companies out there, and like any industry, I 1275 01:12:25.680 --> 01:12:30.359 don't care what it is, carpentry, plumbing, gardening, anything like that, 1276 01:12:30.520 --> 01:12:32.439 you got people that know what they're doing or doing 1277 01:12:32.479 --> 01:12:35.239 a good job, and then you got people that are not. 1278 01:12:35.800 --> 01:12:38.640 And I would like to help you as you are 1279 01:12:39.319 --> 01:12:42.439 considering getting a generator with just some basic things that 1280 01:12:42.520 --> 01:12:46.439 you need to know, basic things that you may need 1281 01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:48.960 to ask the person that you're going to purchase that from. 1282 01:12:49.079 --> 01:12:51.880 And I've asked I'm looking for an expert here, and 1283 01:12:51.920 --> 01:12:55.279 I've asked Joey Davis from Quality Home Products to come 1284 01:12:55.399 --> 01:13:01.119 on the show for me and let's talk about having 1285 01:13:01.279 --> 01:13:07.199 success with a quality generator for you. Joey, are you there? 1286 01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:10.399 I am, Yes, sir, I've been waiting here and ready 1287 01:13:10.439 --> 01:13:10.760 to talk. 1288 01:13:11.560 --> 01:13:14.680 Well, thanks for patiently waiting on us. I did want 1289 01:13:14.720 --> 01:13:17.439 to have you on because there's a lot of information 1290 01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:20.039 and a lot of it you've made me aware of 1291 01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:23.600 as we've talked and had our conversation. But I would 1292 01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:26.600 just like to kind of let people know some things. 1293 01:13:26.680 --> 01:13:28.399 You know, we're not of course, we're not here just 1294 01:13:28.479 --> 01:13:31.960 to talk about y'all's products. Of course, I don't know 1295 01:13:32.000 --> 01:13:36.199 anybody that is more knowledgeable about the overall world of 1296 01:13:36.319 --> 01:13:40.439 generators and what's out there and what happens than you. Now, boy, 1297 01:13:40.560 --> 01:13:44.520 has this ever been? Has this ever been? Some doozy 1298 01:13:44.680 --> 01:13:48.399 storms that we've had? Right with the past storm and 1299 01:13:48.479 --> 01:13:50.319 I can't remember what they called that storm, but it 1300 01:13:50.399 --> 01:13:53.319 wasn't a hurricane, but then Hurricane Barrel that came through. 1301 01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:55.479 I bet you guys have noticed a little bit of 1302 01:13:55.560 --> 01:13:56.680 interest in generators. 1303 01:13:57.720 --> 01:14:00.880 Oh man, Yeah, that is an understatement of all understatements. 1304 01:14:01.319 --> 01:14:04.439 It has just been crazy and you know the outages 1305 01:14:04.479 --> 01:14:07.920 that occurred when over three million people were without power, 1306 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:11.640 and you know, many folks in Houston have generators these days. 1307 01:14:12.359 --> 01:14:15.800 So we were just completely inundated with calls Monday and 1308 01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:18.760 really ever since then. But the problem was is that 1309 01:14:18.880 --> 01:14:21.760 even though we have the most sophisticated phone system available, 1310 01:14:22.279 --> 01:14:26.000 we were literally getting thousands and thousands of calls an hour, 1311 01:14:26.640 --> 01:14:28.720 and there was there's no phone system in the world 1312 01:14:28.800 --> 01:14:31.720 that can handle that kind of thing. The biggest issue 1313 01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:34.920 was it wasn't just our clients that were calling in. 1314 01:14:35.560 --> 01:14:37.600 You know, the majority of clients coming in and some 1315 01:14:37.720 --> 01:14:41.119 of them leading long voice fails. They were what's called 1316 01:14:41.239 --> 01:14:44.840 generator orphans. In other words, after the winter storm of 1317 01:14:44.920 --> 01:14:47.079 twenty one, there were three hundred and ninety two new 1318 01:14:47.159 --> 01:14:49.199 generator companies that sprung up in Houston. 1319 01:14:49.800 --> 01:14:56.000 Now that's say that number again new company. That's like 1320 01:14:56.039 --> 01:14:59.319 when a hailstorm comes through, roofers appear out of nowhere. 1321 01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:01.600 It is exactly like that. 1322 01:15:01.800 --> 01:15:03.920 And the bad thing was these are a post office 1323 01:15:03.960 --> 01:15:06.640 fox companies in other words, they're oftentimes are out of state, 1324 01:15:07.279 --> 01:15:09.520 they have no office here even But what they would 1325 01:15:09.560 --> 01:15:14.119 do is they would contact local electricians, local plumbers and 1326 01:15:14.199 --> 01:15:17.920 get them to represent them and selling and installing generators. Well, 1327 01:15:17.960 --> 01:15:20.199 the problem with that is that you don't know who 1328 01:15:20.359 --> 01:15:23.920 is actually installing your generator. And it is imperative that 1329 01:15:24.039 --> 01:15:26.680 the people that are installing your generator or servicing your 1330 01:15:26.760 --> 01:15:31.680 generator are factory training, factory trained technicians. If not, your 1331 01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:34.000 warranty is null and void from from the get go. 1332 01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:38.119 So we are you're warranty. Yeah, your warranty on the 1333 01:15:38.199 --> 01:15:41.960 equipment is not invoid. If it's not properly according to code. 1334 01:15:42.279 --> 01:15:47.119 That's exactly right. Any code violation whatsoever, it's. 1335 01:15:46.640 --> 01:15:47.199 Null and void. 1336 01:15:47.520 --> 01:15:50.000 And the reality is, you know, we've always used our 1337 01:15:50.039 --> 01:15:53.119 own w two employees they're all all of our service 1338 01:15:53.199 --> 01:15:56.319 techts or factory trained up in Wisconsin for either Cola 1339 01:15:56.880 --> 01:16:00.680 or Generat, so they know what they're doing. But unfortunately, 1340 01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:04.119 this mass influx of you know, carpetbaggers or everyone want 1341 01:16:04.119 --> 01:16:06.800 to put it. They come in after every event like this, 1342 01:16:06.960 --> 01:16:09.520 whether it be the winter storm of twenty one, you know, 1343 01:16:09.640 --> 01:16:10.800 any hurricane that we've. 1344 01:16:10.680 --> 01:16:11.359 Had in the past. 1345 01:16:11.479 --> 01:16:14.199 You know, these these groups, and I'm not going to 1346 01:16:14.279 --> 01:16:16.439 cast dispersions on them, but they come in and they 1347 01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:18.640 you know, they just make money and they go away. 1348 01:16:19.279 --> 01:16:20.079 But what happens is. 1349 01:16:20.199 --> 01:16:21.560 Well that's how that's how it is. 1350 01:16:22.079 --> 01:16:23.560 Yeah, yeah, it really is. 1351 01:16:24.159 --> 01:16:27.159 So those generators are not maintained and might they have 1352 01:16:27.319 --> 01:16:30.279 to be maintained A to keep your warranty intact and 1353 01:16:30.439 --> 01:16:32.039 b just to make sure that they're going to be 1354 01:16:32.119 --> 01:16:33.720 ready when we have an event like this. 1355 01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:37.000 Well, I would say another thing is making sure you 1356 01:16:37.119 --> 01:16:39.920 get a generator that does what you need it to do. 1357 01:16:40.079 --> 01:16:42.000 And I'd like you to talk a little bit. First 1358 01:16:42.039 --> 01:16:44.279 of all, would you mind addressing the issue with the 1359 01:16:44.359 --> 01:16:47.880 portable versus the standby generators. What's the difference and what 1360 01:16:48.000 --> 01:16:50.399 would you use one for? What would you use the 1361 01:16:50.520 --> 01:16:52.960 other one? For so people can kind of think through 1362 01:16:53.039 --> 01:16:54.359 what it is that they might need. 1363 01:16:55.600 --> 01:16:57.119 Sure, And that's a great question. 1364 01:16:58.199 --> 01:16:59.479 First of all, I want to say that, you know, 1365 01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:03.159 growing up in Houston in the sixties, only the hyper 1366 01:17:03.199 --> 01:17:06.159 wealthy people had central AC. Most people had, you know, 1367 01:17:06.399 --> 01:17:09.439 the window units and that was their air conditioning. And 1368 01:17:09.720 --> 01:17:12.079 you know, now, of course every bitt home is being built, 1369 01:17:12.119 --> 01:17:14.920 they all have central AC. It's much the same in 1370 01:17:15.000 --> 01:17:17.760 the generator industry. You know, people usually start out with 1371 01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:20.800 a portable generator that can service portionents. 1372 01:17:20.239 --> 01:17:22.520 Over your home and it's better than nothing. 1373 01:17:23.119 --> 01:17:25.079 But the stand by systems that we sell and other 1374 01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:28.159 companies sell as well, those are set up to automatically 1375 01:17:28.239 --> 01:17:30.800 come on the event of an outage and for you 1376 01:17:30.960 --> 01:17:32.079 not to have to do anything. 1377 01:17:32.199 --> 01:17:34.520 You don't have to worry about there being code violations 1378 01:17:34.600 --> 01:17:36.479 by a portable unit is set. 1379 01:17:37.119 --> 01:17:39.439 You know, the portable units, they are great in a pinch, 1380 01:17:40.039 --> 01:17:43.800 they do have pretty severe limitations and really the. 1381 01:17:44.039 --> 01:17:46.760 Biggest thing is is that they're very dangerous unless you 1382 01:17:46.920 --> 01:17:48.159 really follow. 1383 01:17:47.960 --> 01:17:52.079 Proper protocol on those. So they produce car outside just 1384 01:17:52.199 --> 01:17:55.760 like these stand by systems. However, the standby systems are 1385 01:17:55.840 --> 01:17:59.920 permitted projects and they have to meet national fire safety codes. 1386 01:18:00.039 --> 01:18:02.319 They have to meet local electrical and. 1387 01:18:02.640 --> 01:18:05.760 Plumbing codes as well as national ones, so you know 1388 01:18:05.840 --> 01:18:08.760 you're safe with one of those. You know, people just 1389 01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:11.159 don't really know how to use a portable generator, and 1390 01:18:11.319 --> 01:18:13.439 so you know, we'd really like to talk about that 1391 01:18:13.520 --> 01:18:15.359 that if you've got to use a portable generator, you 1392 01:18:15.600 --> 01:18:16.960 have to make it where you're not going to have 1393 01:18:17.000 --> 01:18:21.039 an accumulation of carbon monoxide in your garage or inside 1394 01:18:21.079 --> 01:18:22.159 your home or anything like that. 1395 01:18:22.840 --> 01:18:27.079 And that's good, good, Yeah, that's really good information. Joey, 1396 01:18:27.319 --> 01:18:29.239 We're gonna I have to hit a little break right 1397 01:18:29.319 --> 01:18:32.439 here before we go to the next segment, but when 1398 01:18:32.479 --> 01:18:34.760 we come back, I'd like to land in the standby 1399 01:18:34.840 --> 01:18:38.199 generators and give people some ideas what they need to 1400 01:18:38.359 --> 01:18:41.960 know about a standby generator, from choosing one to hooking 1401 01:18:42.039 --> 01:18:43.239 it up. I don't know if we can do all 1402 01:18:43.319 --> 01:18:47.119 that that past, but we'll give it away. All right. 1403 01:18:47.640 --> 01:18:49.359 I'll be right back with you in just a moment. 1404 01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:51.880 That sounds great, Seah, thank you very much. 1405 01:18:52.119 --> 01:18:54.319 All right, welcome back to Garden Line. I want to 1406 01:18:54.479 --> 01:18:59.880 jump right back into our interview with Joey Davis. Were 1407 01:19:00.039 --> 01:19:03.359 picking his brain about some things regarding generators and Joey, 1408 01:19:04.319 --> 01:19:06.880 you know, it probably would take an hour if you 1409 01:19:07.000 --> 01:19:10.319 hurried to try to explain stand by generators and all 1410 01:19:10.439 --> 01:19:12.680 the ways that they can work and the things they do, 1411 01:19:12.840 --> 01:19:15.159 and how you size them and all that. But kind 1412 01:19:15.199 --> 01:19:17.960 of in a nutshell, I was really surprised to learn 1413 01:19:18.520 --> 01:19:20.640 that you can set up a stand by generator. Chris 1414 01:19:20.800 --> 01:19:22.399 is going to come on automatically, but you can set 1415 01:19:22.439 --> 01:19:26.960 it up to where it prioritizes certain things in your 1416 01:19:27.079 --> 01:19:30.399 home that you wanted to prioritize, or you can set 1417 01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:32.359 it up to just take care of everything. So would 1418 01:19:32.399 --> 01:19:33.760 you talk just briefly about that? 1419 01:19:34.640 --> 01:19:35.439 Sure, I'd love to. 1420 01:19:35.800 --> 01:19:38.199 So the way these systems are these days that you 1421 01:19:38.239 --> 01:19:40.600 should not always be the case, but the way they 1422 01:19:40.600 --> 01:19:43.600 are now for the most part, they're what's called managed 1423 01:19:43.800 --> 01:19:47.079 load transfer and then enables you to get into a 1424 01:19:47.199 --> 01:19:51.239 generator that powers your whole house and not necessarily rated 1425 01:19:51.479 --> 01:19:53.359 to power your whole house. And what I mean by 1426 01:19:53.439 --> 01:19:56.479 that with manage so transfer, which is literally like ninety 1427 01:19:56.479 --> 01:19:59.279 five percent of our projects and most other companies. 1428 01:19:58.880 --> 01:20:02.720 As well, it acts like a full load transfer. 1429 01:20:02.479 --> 01:20:05.880 Like you alluded to there, but specific two twenty items 1430 01:20:05.960 --> 01:20:10.560 like air conditioning units, dryers, ovens, could be electric water heaters, 1431 01:20:10.600 --> 01:20:13.279 that sort of thing. They're still on the generator and 1432 01:20:13.359 --> 01:20:15.720 as long as you don't use everything at the same time, 1433 01:20:16.279 --> 01:20:18.840 those won't be turning off. And the way that color 1434 01:20:18.920 --> 01:20:21.960 and generact manages it's a little bit different. A color 1435 01:20:22.119 --> 01:20:24.199 just turns off the least important item. If you have 1436 01:20:24.319 --> 01:20:27.239 multiple things managed, a generat will turn off all of 1437 01:20:27.359 --> 01:20:29.279 the items and then start turning them back on in 1438 01:20:29.359 --> 01:20:32.279 thirty minutes. But literally it's the way to go. I mean, 1439 01:20:33.159 --> 01:20:36.880 full load transfer is certainly still available, but oftentimes on 1440 01:20:37.079 --> 01:20:39.479 even a normal sized house, you're up into what's called 1441 01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:41.399 a liquid cool generator to. 1442 01:20:41.479 --> 01:20:44.039 Do a full load transfer. And what I mean by that. 1443 01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:47.960 Yea, oh yeah, they're car range. They mean literally they're 1444 01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:52.439 four to twelve cylinder, they have radiators. They literally operate just. 1445 01:20:52.479 --> 01:20:53.359 Like a car engine. 1446 01:20:53.840 --> 01:20:56.880 So there is some benefits for those, namely they're a 1447 01:20:56.920 --> 01:21:01.039 little quieter. But to your point, the price point is significant. 1448 01:21:01.439 --> 01:21:04.760 The jump between the air cools, which are like motorcycle engines, 1449 01:21:05.159 --> 01:21:08.039 up into the liquid cools. So you know, it's kind 1450 01:21:08.079 --> 01:21:11.399 of a misnomer to think that when you have one 1451 01:21:11.439 --> 01:21:13.880 of these systems, if there's one thing more important than 1452 01:21:13.920 --> 01:21:14.239 the other. 1453 01:21:14.560 --> 01:21:17.520 However, we do prioritize. 1454 01:21:16.760 --> 01:21:19.680 Managed items because like I said, on color, it would 1455 01:21:19.720 --> 01:21:21.840 only turn off the least important item if there's more 1456 01:21:21.880 --> 01:21:24.800 than one, and on GENERAC when they after thirty minutes, 1457 01:21:24.920 --> 01:21:27.479 the you know, the least important, the most important one 1458 01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:28.119 comes back on. 1459 01:21:28.800 --> 01:21:31.399 Now that all being said, we flat out and. 1460 01:21:31.399 --> 01:21:34.479 Never have that happen because we have very specific design 1461 01:21:34.600 --> 01:21:37.680 criteria that we employ to make sure that we don't 1462 01:21:37.720 --> 01:21:40.680 have what's called a management situation unfold where things are 1463 01:21:40.800 --> 01:21:41.319 turning off. 1464 01:21:41.880 --> 01:21:45.079 So we don't just design to code. You know, everything 1465 01:21:45.199 --> 01:21:46.880 is based on National Electric Code. 1466 01:21:46.880 --> 01:21:50.039 There's a very specific formulatic equation that we use to 1467 01:21:50.159 --> 01:21:52.279 design these in terms of how big of a generator 1468 01:21:52.359 --> 01:21:55.039 you can get or how small you can go down. 1469 01:21:55.199 --> 01:21:58.079 We have very specific rules about that, such as the 1470 01:21:58.199 --> 01:22:00.720 AC rule, And I'm not trying to get into all specifics, 1471 01:22:00.760 --> 01:22:03.199 but it's our checks and balances to make sure that 1472 01:22:03.319 --> 01:22:09.119 things aren't turning off, so there's nothing go ahead and 1473 01:22:09.239 --> 01:22:12.039 there's nothing scary about these management of transfer systems. On 1474 01:22:12.119 --> 01:22:14.920 my house, the only thing that I'm managing is the 1475 01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:18.039 AC and I'll never even know that it's managed other 1476 01:22:18.119 --> 01:22:20.199 than I designed it. That way, and the reason for 1477 01:22:20.399 --> 01:22:23.199 that is those other two rules outside of code that 1478 01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:23.720 we use. 1479 01:22:23.960 --> 01:22:26.359 Yeah, well, I know, you guys do a lot of 1480 01:22:26.479 --> 01:22:30.359 things that are above and beyond compared to the standards 1481 01:22:30.399 --> 01:22:32.640 for the industry. For example, you you have all your 1482 01:22:32.840 --> 01:22:35.079 like your electricians are in house, your plumbers are in house, 1483 01:22:35.119 --> 01:22:37.680 so you don't have to contract out to other people 1484 01:22:37.840 --> 01:22:40.000 and try to get everybody to show up at the 1485 01:22:40.119 --> 01:22:42.640 right time and do what the absolutely I mean you 1486 01:22:42.760 --> 01:22:46.359 handle Yeah, you handle the codes and stuff like if 1487 01:22:46.359 --> 01:22:48.720 you've got to get permission from the city, which you do, 1488 01:22:49.319 --> 01:22:52.920 you'll handle that. And so it's like the homeowner, that's 1489 01:22:52.960 --> 01:22:55.960 a that's a big relief to know that that is 1490 01:22:56.079 --> 01:22:59.119 just all being taken care of. And I think I 1491 01:22:59.319 --> 01:23:02.960 like that that load management because it allows you to 1492 01:23:03.119 --> 01:23:05.920 get a generator does what you needed to do without 1493 01:23:06.359 --> 01:23:09.319 buying a generator that is just humongous and expensive. 1494 01:23:09.399 --> 01:23:09.600 Yeah. 1495 01:23:10.399 --> 01:23:10.520 Right. 1496 01:23:10.840 --> 01:23:14.399 And another thing that yeah, another thing I think that 1497 01:23:14.640 --> 01:23:18.159 that is important. There are a number of questions that 1498 01:23:18.399 --> 01:23:22.920 people may need to ask when they're going about that, 1499 01:23:23.119 --> 01:23:26.239 And because our time is too short today, what I've done, 1500 01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:29.319 folks is I've posted the garden Line Facebook page. Go 1501 01:23:29.399 --> 01:23:32.239 to the garden Line Facebook page, and I've posted there 1502 01:23:32.279 --> 01:23:34.119 are a lot of questions to ask, but I posted 1503 01:23:34.239 --> 01:23:38.479 nine questions in a helpful checklist, and just look at those, 1504 01:23:38.640 --> 01:23:41.720 think through them, and as you're out shopping for a generator, 1505 01:23:42.279 --> 01:23:44.600 those are some of the things you need to ask people. 1506 01:23:44.680 --> 01:23:47.680 So we'll save the time by just sending Guardline Facebook page. 1507 01:23:47.720 --> 01:23:50.880 It's right up there. It's very very helpful, and I 1508 01:23:51.000 --> 01:23:55.079 appreciate you know, the knowledge and stuff that you guys bring, 1509 01:23:55.119 --> 01:23:58.840 because I had no idea how how much information is 1510 01:23:59.199 --> 01:24:03.479 really helpful in order to make a good decision to 1511 01:24:03.680 --> 01:24:06.479 not only get the most out of your dollar, but 1512 01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:10.720 to understand what is and what's not included, because you 1513 01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:15.119 guys include things that some companies may not tell you 1514 01:24:15.319 --> 01:24:18.560 aren't included, and then later you find out, well, you 1515 01:24:18.640 --> 01:24:21.239 know that that's not included in what we're doing. That 1516 01:24:21.279 --> 01:24:24.319 would be an extra charge that makes our generator looks cheaper, 1517 01:24:24.680 --> 01:24:26.960 but in the bottom line, it really isn't. 1518 01:24:28.479 --> 01:24:29.600 Well that's still very true. 1519 01:24:29.720 --> 01:24:32.119 I mean, oftentimes people come to one of our reps 1520 01:24:32.199 --> 01:24:34.800 or myself and say, hey, you guys are more expensive 1521 01:24:34.960 --> 01:24:36.840 than X y z or ZYX. 1522 01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:40.039 But in an apples to apples comparison to. 1523 01:24:40.119 --> 01:24:43.560 Your point, including things that they really need, like cell 1524 01:24:43.680 --> 01:24:45.039 based constant monitoring. 1525 01:24:45.760 --> 01:24:48.640 Is that tell about that real briefly? That tell about that? 1526 01:24:48.760 --> 01:24:51.119 That is fascinating, Yeah, it really is. 1527 01:24:51.319 --> 01:24:54.439 So it's like having an iPhone on the generator and 1528 01:24:54.600 --> 01:24:57.439 even if your powers out and the generator won't start, 1529 01:24:58.079 --> 01:25:00.800 we can still communicate to it. We either know what's 1530 01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:02.159 wrong with it and we need to come out with 1531 01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:04.640 certain parts, or more often than not, we can actually 1532 01:25:04.680 --> 01:25:08.000 get them going remotely by doing firmware updates or clearing 1533 01:25:08.079 --> 01:25:11.520 fault codes, things of that nature. It's huge, it may 1534 01:25:11.560 --> 01:25:13.880 it's made a huge for us and our failure rates 1535 01:25:13.920 --> 01:25:16.680 which are really really small compared to. 1536 01:25:18.960 --> 01:25:21.159 Yeah, and the next level down, which we see in 1537 01:25:21.199 --> 01:25:24.159 the industry a lot is what is below cell bas 1538 01:25:24.720 --> 01:25:26.800 Wi Fi. How do people say they can talk to 1539 01:25:26.880 --> 01:25:28.399 their generator but not really? 1540 01:25:29.600 --> 01:25:32.720 Yeah, it's it's what's called free Wi Fi and monitoring. 1541 01:25:32.880 --> 01:25:36.520 It actually comes on board with all generators. And I 1542 01:25:36.640 --> 01:25:39.760 can't say, because I know Kohler and generator like that. 1543 01:25:39.880 --> 01:25:42.039 There might be some minor players that don't even include 1544 01:25:42.079 --> 01:25:44.479 the Wi Fi. But that's just a nifty app on 1545 01:25:44.560 --> 01:25:47.560 the homeowner's phone. They can see how many hours their 1546 01:25:47.640 --> 01:25:49.920 generator has been running. They can remotely turn it on 1547 01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:53.279 or off, but that does nothing for us. We want 1548 01:25:53.319 --> 01:25:55.960 to be able to have real time conversation with generators 1549 01:25:56.000 --> 01:25:57.439 and the only way to do that is with this 1550 01:25:57.560 --> 01:26:01.520 cell based constant monitoring. And that is monetize for other companies. 1551 01:26:01.600 --> 01:26:04.319 It's just part of the deal with us. We just 1552 01:26:04.479 --> 01:26:07.880 make sure that our generators work. That's our calling cards, 1553 01:26:07.920 --> 01:26:09.960 so to speak. Because these are big investments. You want 1554 01:26:09.960 --> 01:26:12.520 to have not just to lead anchor in your backyard. 1555 01:26:12.560 --> 01:26:14.359 You want to have something that actually functions the way 1556 01:26:14.399 --> 01:26:15.720 that we tell people are going to function. 1557 01:26:16.760 --> 01:26:19.960 Mm hmm. That's good. That's good. Well, in addition to 1558 01:26:20.560 --> 01:26:24.840 like making sure a company is gonna well, asking if 1559 01:26:24.880 --> 01:26:28.239 they'll do will you contact you know, will you contact 1560 01:26:28.760 --> 01:26:31.159 HOA or cities? Are you you know that all the 1561 01:26:31.279 --> 01:26:34.319 rags you're talking about. Will you come out and do 1562 01:26:34.680 --> 01:26:37.279 a pad? I know I've seen generators where the pad 1563 01:26:37.399 --> 01:26:41.119 is thin, likely to break in our moving Houston soils. 1564 01:26:41.920 --> 01:26:44.119 You guys can build a bigger pad so if someone's 1565 01:26:44.159 --> 01:26:46.600 going by with a lawnmower, the pat sticks out so 1566 01:26:46.720 --> 01:26:50.399 you don't bang your generator and do damage that way too, 1567 01:26:50.479 --> 01:26:52.359 And there's a lot of little small things like that 1568 01:26:52.479 --> 01:26:53.520 that I think are important. 1569 01:26:54.880 --> 01:26:57.039 They really are, you know, and they're important to us 1570 01:26:57.159 --> 01:26:59.600 because we really care about our clientele at at the 1571 01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:01.600 end of day day. I mean, that's why we build 1572 01:27:01.640 --> 01:27:05.159 the oversized concrete slabs. We don't put these on what's 1573 01:27:05.199 --> 01:27:08.319 called the gen pad, which is just a very lightweight 1574 01:27:08.439 --> 01:27:11.840 concrete the same size of the generator, and then there's 1575 01:27:11.880 --> 01:27:15.560 no steel. It's just a very short, lightweight pad, which 1576 01:27:15.640 --> 01:27:18.760 is easier. But we don't do the things the easy way, 1577 01:27:19.000 --> 01:27:21.560 you know. We'll form up with two by six's, you know, 1578 01:27:21.640 --> 01:27:24.840 an oversized pad six inches larger than the generator all around, 1579 01:27:25.479 --> 01:27:27.920 and then let that cure break the forms off and 1580 01:27:28.000 --> 01:27:30.680 then you have a real sturdy piece of concrete that 1581 01:27:30.800 --> 01:27:32.560 these generators are anchor bolted too. 1582 01:27:33.199 --> 01:27:36.079 So you know, these are vibrating pieces of equipment. 1583 01:27:36.079 --> 01:27:40.239 They're more like motorcycles than anything else on the air 1584 01:27:40.319 --> 01:27:43.560 cools and then car engines. So those vibrates, you want 1585 01:27:43.600 --> 01:27:46.279 them to be firmly affixed to something really bulky and 1586 01:27:46.399 --> 01:27:48.520 heavy just to keep them from vibrating. 1587 01:27:48.600 --> 01:27:51.039 And plus it cuts down on the noise factor as well. 1588 01:27:52.039 --> 01:27:53.840 Right, and they can some of them can be powered 1589 01:27:53.880 --> 01:27:57.920 by natural gas or whatnot. And every time you add, 1590 01:27:58.119 --> 01:28:01.199 you know, here we have electricity, now ride natural gas. Uh. 1591 01:28:01.319 --> 01:28:03.880 There's a lot of codes, and there's a lot of permits, 1592 01:28:04.079 --> 01:28:05.880 and there's a lot of things that have to happen 1593 01:28:05.960 --> 01:28:09.119 because this thing is set up to where it's set up. 1594 01:28:09.560 --> 01:28:13.199 And I was surprised at how fast they come on. Uh, 1595 01:28:13.359 --> 01:28:15.640 you know, power goes out, and how fast will one 1596 01:28:15.720 --> 01:28:18.560 of these kick on when it well? 1597 01:28:18.640 --> 01:28:22.039 A colar A coler waits four seconds to determine if 1598 01:28:22.079 --> 01:28:25.720 it's an actual outage. A generator waits, generate GENERAC waits 1599 01:28:25.880 --> 01:28:29.079 ten seconds. Both of them then take seven seconds to 1600 01:28:29.159 --> 01:28:33.159 spool up to sixty herbs, so seventeen total seconds for generat, 1601 01:28:34.239 --> 01:28:36.119 eleven seconds for colar. 1602 01:28:36.600 --> 01:28:38.000 So it is a very brief period. 1603 01:28:38.439 --> 01:28:40.640 And then when the power comes back on the power 1604 01:28:40.720 --> 01:28:44.039 company it absolutely doesn't just turn the generator off. It 1605 01:28:44.199 --> 01:28:47.319 waits until the power company is delivering an exact sixty 1606 01:28:47.399 --> 01:28:50.119 heard sign wave for ten full seconds. 1607 01:28:50.720 --> 01:28:53.520 Then they tell us why that's important, tell us why 1608 01:28:53.560 --> 01:28:54.600 that's important. 1609 01:28:54.239 --> 01:28:57.439 Because everybody's experienced from the power comes back on in 1610 01:28:57.520 --> 01:29:00.640 your house, it's on off, on, off, on off. That 1611 01:29:00.880 --> 01:29:03.800 is so destructive to motherboards and all the appliances that 1612 01:29:03.880 --> 01:29:05.720 we have, and see our TVs. 1613 01:29:05.760 --> 01:29:06.920 I mean everything has got a. 1614 01:29:06.920 --> 01:29:09.760 Computer in it these days, and that dirty energy is 1615 01:29:09.800 --> 01:29:13.319 what it de fries so many people's washing machines and dryers. 1616 01:29:13.720 --> 01:29:18.119 You know, the electronics section this acts like a firewall 1617 01:29:18.239 --> 01:29:22.039 against that dirty energy. So your generator generator bay one 1618 01:29:22.119 --> 01:29:25.319 for fifteen or twenty minutes after everybody else's lives come on, 1619 01:29:25.479 --> 01:29:28.079 but that whole time it's protecting you and your electrical 1620 01:29:28.159 --> 01:29:29.199 system and appliances. 1621 01:29:30.760 --> 01:29:32.960 See, these are things that I wouldn't have known. I 1622 01:29:33.039 --> 01:29:35.680 know a lot of people wouldn't know. And I think, 1623 01:29:36.079 --> 01:29:38.000 you know, kind of a bottom line deal here is 1624 01:29:38.720 --> 01:29:42.199 call and talk to people, get the information. Call around. 1625 01:29:42.239 --> 01:29:47.359 But you guys are from quality. Definitely include quality because 1626 01:29:47.359 --> 01:29:49.199 what you're going to find, and this is true when 1627 01:29:49.239 --> 01:29:51.359 you buy anything. You know, you go to buy a 1628 01:29:52.079 --> 01:29:54.680 Chevrolet and then you go over to the Ford dealership 1629 01:29:54.760 --> 01:29:57.079 and you hear and you hear things that you didn't 1630 01:29:57.119 --> 01:29:58.119 hear at the other place. 1631 01:29:58.199 --> 01:29:58.840 You know what I'm saying. 1632 01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:03.159 I think they need to get the whole package and 1633 01:30:03.239 --> 01:30:05.720 then make their decision which would company they want to 1634 01:30:05.760 --> 01:30:08.000 go with, which what generator they want to buy and stuff, 1635 01:30:08.479 --> 01:30:10.359 but you don't know what you don't know. And that's 1636 01:30:10.399 --> 01:30:14.399 one reason, Joey, I appreciate you coming on today so that, 1637 01:30:14.800 --> 01:30:17.800 you know, we just get kind of an intro to 1638 01:30:17.960 --> 01:30:20.439 some of the things that people may not have been 1639 01:30:20.479 --> 01:30:23.600 aware of. And I really appreciate it. We could talk 1640 01:30:23.640 --> 01:30:26.399 to you for a day. I mean, there's a lot 1641 01:30:26.479 --> 01:30:30.479 of more information, but go to my facebook page, Guardenline 1642 01:30:30.479 --> 01:30:33.439 facebook page, look at the questions we had here. I've 1643 01:30:33.479 --> 01:30:35.359 got a link to Quality Home on it. If you 1644 01:30:35.680 --> 01:30:38.439 want to, you know, save that link. I know a 1645 01:30:38.479 --> 01:30:40.520 lot of people are buying generators right now. It is 1646 01:30:40.720 --> 01:30:43.239 crazy the number of people that have said that's enough 1647 01:30:43.720 --> 01:30:48.039 these last two storms. I need a generator. And depending 1648 01:30:48.079 --> 01:30:50.279 on what you need, and the folks at Quality Home 1649 01:30:50.279 --> 01:30:52.399 they'll tell you, I mean, if you don't need one 1650 01:30:52.439 --> 01:30:54.920 of these standbys, if what you're wanting to do a 1651 01:30:55.039 --> 01:30:58.079 portable will do, they'll tell you that. But the bottom 1652 01:30:58.159 --> 01:31:01.479 line is get your infrom so that your dollars are 1653 01:31:01.520 --> 01:31:04.760 well spent and then when the problem comes, you've got 1654 01:31:04.840 --> 01:31:07.720 the equipment and the setup that's needed to do what 1655 01:31:07.840 --> 01:31:11.279 you needed to do. Joey, I've run past my break here. 1656 01:31:11.439 --> 01:31:13.119 Thank you, so much for being on. Sorry to have 1657 01:31:13.199 --> 01:31:15.840 to cut off so fast now, it's very very okay. 1658 01:31:15.960 --> 01:31:19.079 I'm really glad you mentioned that checklist, you know, speaking 1659 01:31:19.119 --> 01:31:21.279 about the fact that we don't use subcontractors. 1660 01:31:21.359 --> 01:31:23.479 It's really not specific to us, but that's huge. 1661 01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:26.039 You don't want to use a customer using contractors for 1662 01:31:26.079 --> 01:31:26.840 obvious reasons. 1663 01:31:27.000 --> 01:31:27.600 Thank you very much. 1664 01:31:27.640 --> 01:31:30.279 You bet well, Yeah, thank you. Good to see good 1665 01:31:30.359 --> 01:31:32.319 to talk to you again. Hey, we're going to be 1666 01:31:32.399 --> 01:31:34.239 right back. Take a little break here, and when we 1667 01:31:34.319 --> 01:31:36.520 come back, we'll be back with your gardening question. So 1668 01:31:36.680 --> 01:31:39.319 call in seven one three two one two fifty eight 1669 01:31:39.479 --> 01:31:43.359 seventy four. Welcome, more, welcome, Welcome back to garden Line. 1670 01:31:43.439 --> 01:31:45.199 God to have you with us. I hope that was 1671 01:31:45.239 --> 01:31:48.399 helpful for you. I know, I'm telling you the number 1672 01:31:48.439 --> 01:31:51.159 of generators being sold right now. And I just like 1673 01:31:51.319 --> 01:31:55.119 anything any business, you get out there and you don't 1674 01:31:55.239 --> 01:31:57.279 know what you need to ask, You don't maybe know 1675 01:31:57.479 --> 01:32:00.720 the things that are available or not of available, or 1676 01:32:00.840 --> 01:32:03.079 thing you know, it's the whole deal. I hope that 1677 01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:06.279 was helpful for you, guys. I certainly do. Uh. We 1678 01:32:06.399 --> 01:32:09.279 are back now, ready to take your calls. Seven one 1679 01:32:09.439 --> 01:32:12.880 three two one two five eight seven, four, seven, one 1680 01:32:12.960 --> 01:32:16.479 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give us 1681 01:32:16.479 --> 01:32:19.199 a call and we'll visit with you about the things 1682 01:32:19.279 --> 01:32:22.800 that are of interest to you. One of the things 1683 01:32:22.840 --> 01:32:24.760 that happens, you know, we talked about all the rain 1684 01:32:24.880 --> 01:32:27.479 we've been getting, and when that happens to a clay soil, 1685 01:32:27.560 --> 01:32:31.560 especially certain types of clays types we have here, they 1686 01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:35.760 swell up, they actually get bigger, uh, and then when 1687 01:32:36.039 --> 01:32:39.880 it gets dry, they shrink down, getting smaller. That's why 1688 01:32:39.960 --> 01:32:42.399 you see these cracks in the yard. If you have 1689 01:32:42.439 --> 01:32:44.439 you ever been out in the backyard of a certain 1690 01:32:44.520 --> 01:32:47.359 kinds of clay soils where when it's really hot and dry, 1691 01:32:47.439 --> 01:32:49.880 their cracks big enough to lose a small child in. 1692 01:32:50.199 --> 01:32:52.600 I mean, that's an exaggeration, but you know what I'm 1693 01:32:52.640 --> 01:32:56.560 talking about. That's a shrunken soil. And what happens when 1694 01:32:56.600 --> 01:33:00.359 it gets bigger, smaller, bigger, smaller. It cracks sidewalk, It 1695 01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:05.159 cracks foundations, it cracks driveways. Fix my slab. Foundation repair 1696 01:33:06.600 --> 01:33:11.560 is an X. They are experts in properly assessing and 1697 01:33:11.760 --> 01:33:15.319 repairing a foundation. Now. Ty Strickland has been doing this 1698 01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:19.439 for twenty three years. It's a local, small, small business. 1699 01:33:20.279 --> 01:33:22.960 They have the experience that you want. And the thing 1700 01:33:23.079 --> 01:33:25.840 I like about Fix my Slab and Tie is that 1701 01:33:25.960 --> 01:33:27.520 they make sure when they tell you they're going to 1702 01:33:27.560 --> 01:33:31.720 be there, they're on time. Secondly, they price things fair. 1703 01:33:32.159 --> 01:33:35.279 They're going to make sure you get a reasonable fair 1704 01:33:35.399 --> 01:33:37.279 price for the work that they're going to do. And 1705 01:33:37.359 --> 01:33:39.960 then finally they fix it right. You know, Tie is 1706 01:33:39.960 --> 01:33:44.119 a native Estonian, fifth generation Texan. He lives here, he 1707 01:33:44.319 --> 01:33:48.039 knows this area, he knows our soils. If you tell 1708 01:33:48.119 --> 01:33:50.159 him you're a guardline listener, they'll give you a free 1709 01:33:50.279 --> 01:33:52.399 estimate on what it would take. Let me just say this, 1710 01:33:53.159 --> 01:33:55.079 if you see a crack in the brick, if you 1711 01:33:55.119 --> 01:33:57.800 see a crack in the sheet rock inside, or if 1712 01:33:57.920 --> 01:34:01.880 doors are suddenly sticking that didn't stay before something is moved, 1713 01:34:02.560 --> 01:34:05.439 have them come out, do that estimate, take a look 1714 01:34:05.479 --> 01:34:07.880 at it, see what's going on and what might be needed, 1715 01:34:08.239 --> 01:34:10.840 and then you can make your decision. But don't put 1716 01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:13.960 it off. It doesn't get better, it only gets worse, 1717 01:34:14.279 --> 01:34:18.840 and the issues become worse, in many cases more expensive. 1718 01:34:18.960 --> 01:34:21.199 So go ahead and give them a call if you 1719 01:34:21.239 --> 01:34:24.840 see those kinds of symptoms two eight one, two five 1720 01:34:25.000 --> 01:34:27.520 five forty nine forty nine, two eight one two five 1721 01:34:27.640 --> 01:34:30.560 five forty nine, forty nine, or go to the website 1722 01:34:31.039 --> 01:34:39.319 fix myslab dot com Fix myslab dot com. We've talked 1723 01:34:39.319 --> 01:34:43.079 about a number of things today, and I was mentioning 1724 01:34:43.199 --> 01:34:49.000 earlier that slowly fertilizers are important for the summertime because 1725 01:34:49.119 --> 01:34:52.399 they gradually release the nitrogen over time. So when you 1726 01:34:52.479 --> 01:34:54.680 apply them now, they're going to feed all the way 1727 01:34:54.720 --> 01:34:59.399 up into your fall fertilization that three months, some even 1728 01:34:59.439 --> 01:35:02.760 four months out there are going to do that. That's 1729 01:35:02.880 --> 01:35:05.079 not the only way that you can fertilize, though. You 1730 01:35:05.199 --> 01:35:09.359 can take an immediate release fertilizer and you can apply 1731 01:35:09.479 --> 01:35:14.119 it in small doses over a period of time and 1732 01:35:14.279 --> 01:35:18.600 achieve a similar result. And an example would be sweet green. 1733 01:35:18.640 --> 01:35:22.840 Sweet green is a nitroposs product. It's a molasses based product, 1734 01:35:23.319 --> 01:35:28.520 and all organic gardeners know that using molasses stimulates by 1735 01:35:28.600 --> 01:35:34.000 providing carbon stimulates beneficial bacteria and microbes in the soil, 1736 01:35:34.359 --> 01:35:37.279 and that's important. So sweet grain is going to dissolve 1737 01:35:37.319 --> 01:35:40.039 away by the way. The product smells wonderful. That's what 1738 01:35:40.159 --> 01:35:44.439 it's called sweet green, and it dissolves a way into 1739 01:35:44.479 --> 01:35:46.039 the soil. So what I would do is. I would 1740 01:35:46.039 --> 01:35:48.359 take a bag of sweet Green, it's eleven percent nitrogen. 1741 01:35:48.479 --> 01:35:50.960 I would put about half of it on now, let's 1742 01:35:50.960 --> 01:35:54.119 say five pounds right now, and then I would wait 1743 01:35:54.199 --> 01:35:56.880 six to eight weeks and do that again. And by 1744 01:35:57.000 --> 01:35:59.560 doing that, you take an immediate release fertilizer and you 1745 01:35:59.640 --> 01:36:01.520 spread it out over time. I mean, if you wanted to, 1746 01:36:01.600 --> 01:36:04.000 you could put it in three applications out there. But 1747 01:36:04.159 --> 01:36:07.520 sweet grain, if you're looking for a natural based product, 1748 01:36:07.880 --> 01:36:10.239 if you're looking for something that is going to be 1749 01:36:10.319 --> 01:36:13.479 stimulating to the soil microbes that are in the soil, 1750 01:36:14.079 --> 01:36:16.119 that's a product that I think you need to take 1751 01:36:16.279 --> 01:36:19.000 a good look at. And sweet green is you know, 1752 01:36:19.079 --> 01:36:21.840 it's widely available at a lot of different places. I mean, 1753 01:36:21.880 --> 01:36:25.279 you're going to find sweet Green at Ace Hardware stores, 1754 01:36:25.479 --> 01:36:29.119 for example, Ace Hardware all over the place. It's not 1755 01:36:29.279 --> 01:36:31.880 hard finding one of the forty Ace Hardware stores here 1756 01:36:32.359 --> 01:36:34.079 in the area. By the way, when you're in there, 1757 01:36:34.159 --> 01:36:37.279 if you get your sweet Green, remember that this rain 1758 01:36:37.520 --> 01:36:40.520 is also bringing on mosquitos, and when you go into Ace, 1759 01:36:40.880 --> 01:36:42.960 you're going to find everything you need for mosquitos too. 1760 01:36:44.520 --> 01:36:47.239 Mosquitos it just takes some a number of few days 1761 01:36:47.720 --> 01:36:49.960 and they can go. Some types especially, can go through 1762 01:36:50.039 --> 01:36:52.399 their whole life cycle from an egg to a larva, 1763 01:36:52.560 --> 01:36:54.720 to a pupa to an adult, and now they're flying 1764 01:36:54.760 --> 01:36:57.359 around biting you when you're trying to sit outside and 1765 01:36:57.479 --> 01:37:01.279 enjoy your patio in the evening. Well need mosquito dunks. 1766 01:37:01.439 --> 01:37:03.680 Those are the things we put out in water to 1767 01:37:03.800 --> 01:37:06.560 prevent the larvae from growing up. Do you need a 1768 01:37:06.640 --> 01:37:09.640 mosquito repellent? Do you need a fogging machine? What do 1769 01:37:09.760 --> 01:37:12.279 you need for that? They've got it. While you're an ace, 1770 01:37:12.880 --> 01:37:15.399 Make suring get fire ant bait because fire ants are 1771 01:37:15.479 --> 01:37:19.159 also popping to the surface now as they build up 1772 01:37:19.199 --> 01:37:24.079 their soil nests in order to escape soggy wet conditions 1773 01:37:24.159 --> 01:37:26.680 down low, and you can see where they are with 1774 01:37:26.800 --> 01:37:28.880 a bait. You don't have to treat mounds. In fact, 1775 01:37:28.960 --> 01:37:31.800 you shouldn't just treat mounds. You treat all the area 1776 01:37:31.920 --> 01:37:35.119 and your properties. You can go a wide area around amound, 1777 01:37:35.600 --> 01:37:38.520 but those workers are out there feeding, and with a bait, 1778 01:37:39.159 --> 01:37:41.640 the workers will bring it back, feed at the colony, 1779 01:37:41.680 --> 01:37:44.880 feeded the queen, and it shuts everything down. They work 1780 01:37:45.039 --> 01:37:48.439 a little slower than an individual mound treatment, but they 1781 01:37:48.560 --> 01:37:52.199 work longer than an individual mound treatment and always start 1782 01:37:52.279 --> 01:37:55.199 with a bait and then go to the individual treatments 1783 01:37:55.239 --> 01:37:57.920 for any that might have escaped the bait application. ACE 1784 01:37:57.960 --> 01:38:00.399 has got both both the both the bait, both the 1785 01:38:00.439 --> 01:38:04.119 individual mound treatment. They have everything you need. ACE is 1786 01:38:04.159 --> 01:38:06.960 the place for everything you need to have a beautiful, 1787 01:38:07.359 --> 01:38:12.600 enjoyable garden, lawn patio area so that you can get 1788 01:38:12.640 --> 01:38:16.800 outside and enjoy what you've created out in your landscape. 1789 01:38:18.239 --> 01:38:19.720 Our phone number if you'd like to give us call 1790 01:38:19.840 --> 01:38:22.720 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 1791 01:38:23.000 --> 01:38:24.680 and we're going to go to the phones now and 1792 01:38:24.800 --> 01:38:28.039 talk to Marty. Marty, welcome to Garden Line, and thanks 1793 01:38:28.079 --> 01:38:30.359 for being such a patient caller. I know we've kind 1794 01:38:30.399 --> 01:38:32.520 of done the yo yo thing with you, like hang on, 1795 01:38:32.800 --> 01:38:33.920 go away, hang on, go away. 1796 01:38:35.720 --> 01:38:39.239 Okay, No, it was very interesting. I'm glad you brought 1797 01:38:39.319 --> 01:38:46.439 him on that. Yeah, it was awesome. It was awesome 1798 01:38:46.520 --> 01:38:50.159 to listen to it. No, don't ever apologize. That's okay. Hey, 1799 01:38:51.000 --> 01:38:54.000 I have a sideyard that I really don't go over 1800 01:38:54.159 --> 01:38:58.159 very often except to mow, and it's been it's where 1801 01:38:58.239 --> 01:38:59.039 the swell is. 1802 01:38:59.279 --> 01:38:59.439 You know. 1803 01:39:00.079 --> 01:39:03.680 They built the house twenty three years ago, and the 1804 01:39:03.840 --> 01:39:08.279 swell where the water runs out to the street has 1805 01:39:09.239 --> 01:39:14.159 been sinking and it has gotten a lot of Virginia 1806 01:39:14.199 --> 01:39:20.119 button weed. So celsius is not my answer, and I've 1807 01:39:20.199 --> 01:39:23.560 sprayed round up around the stepping stones where it comes up, 1808 01:39:24.079 --> 01:39:27.000 and that kills it, but it also leaves, you know, 1809 01:39:27.239 --> 01:39:33.319 blank areas where other weeds will grow. So this whole side, 1810 01:39:33.399 --> 01:39:35.479 I'm thinking that I'd like to build it up with 1811 01:39:35.640 --> 01:39:37.960 some type of soil. If you could tell me what 1812 01:39:38.439 --> 01:39:45.000 type to put in, like an all natural garden where 1813 01:39:45.039 --> 01:39:48.319 you can grow some flowers to be cut for the house, 1814 01:39:49.880 --> 01:39:57.159 just seeds and daffodils and things that are pretty and 1815 01:39:57.319 --> 01:40:01.720 bulbs and just a lot of different plants with a 1816 01:40:01.760 --> 01:40:04.479 little walkway down the middle. So I'm wondering if you 1817 01:40:04.560 --> 01:40:09.039 could help me define number two, number one, how to 1818 01:40:09.119 --> 01:40:13.399 kill the large area button weed, and number two what 1819 01:40:13.800 --> 01:40:17.520 type of bulk soil to bring in. If you need 1820 01:40:17.600 --> 01:40:21.479 to put me on hold for a break, that's okay, okay. 1821 01:40:21.359 --> 01:40:25.039 Well I think we do, and when we come back, 1822 01:40:25.079 --> 01:40:28.000 I'll give you the answers that you've asked for. Thank you. 1823 01:40:28.079 --> 01:40:30.560 That's a very good question, folks. Will be right back 1824 01:40:30.600 --> 01:40:33.319 from break and with Marty's question and the answer to 1825 01:40:33.479 --> 01:40:37.439 Virginia button weed and proper soils. Welcome back to garden Line. 1826 01:40:37.520 --> 01:40:41.359 Welcome back. We are going to continue our question with Marty. Marty, 1827 01:40:41.439 --> 01:40:44.840 you said something about Celsius. Did you say it didn't work? 1828 01:40:45.239 --> 01:40:46.119 It hasn't worked for you. 1829 01:40:46.520 --> 01:40:49.239 No, it's just too expensive to put over on this side. 1830 01:40:49.439 --> 01:40:49.720 Okay. 1831 01:40:50.119 --> 01:40:52.159 I just sent you an email too to show you 1832 01:40:52.239 --> 01:40:54.439 what I was looking at. If you can pull that. 1833 01:40:54.520 --> 01:40:57.159 Ut, see if I can find that while we're talking here. Yeah, 1834 01:40:57.319 --> 01:40:59.960 Celsius is the best for killing it, but I unders 1835 01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:05.680 that the good new products come with big price tags. 1836 01:41:05.720 --> 01:41:07.640 So you're going to take that area. You want to 1837 01:41:07.640 --> 01:41:09.760 get rid of all everything in the area so you 1838 01:41:09.800 --> 01:41:14.640 can put kind of gardening stuff in there, right, Yes, 1839 01:41:14.960 --> 01:41:16.279 what you're saying, Okay. 1840 01:41:16.239 --> 01:41:20.279 Yes, I want to build it up with soil, Go ahead, Yeah. 1841 01:41:22.079 --> 01:41:24.520 Hoeing digging it out as an option, Spraying it is 1842 01:41:24.560 --> 01:41:27.800 probably the better option. Using a product that kills everything 1843 01:41:28.439 --> 01:41:30.520 would probably be the best bet because you can have 1844 01:41:30.560 --> 01:41:31.920 a mix of the button we eat and I can 1845 01:41:31.960 --> 01:41:33.960 see the Saint Augustine and other things in that area, 1846 01:41:34.640 --> 01:41:36.920 and then bringing in the soil after that. You don't 1847 01:41:36.920 --> 01:41:39.319 want stuff to push through the new soil you put in, 1848 01:41:39.560 --> 01:41:42.439 so I always like to get a clean slate before 1849 01:41:42.479 --> 01:41:46.359 I start. A quality saw mix you could use. You've 1850 01:41:46.359 --> 01:41:48.239 got a couple of ways that you can go. You 1851 01:41:48.319 --> 01:41:53.760 can contact, you know a place like let's say a 1852 01:41:54.840 --> 01:41:58.479 Nature's Way up in the Conro area, and I think 1853 01:41:58.560 --> 01:42:02.079 that's somewhat close to you. There probably the closest place 1854 01:42:02.119 --> 01:42:04.640 I would I would send you to. They can deliver 1855 01:42:04.960 --> 01:42:06.920 so a mixes and just tell them I need a 1856 01:42:07.000 --> 01:42:10.000 top soil type mix to go in that area. If 1857 01:42:10.039 --> 01:42:12.720 you want more of a bed mix, you can certainly 1858 01:42:12.800 --> 01:42:15.199 do that. That's going to have a lot of organic 1859 01:42:15.319 --> 01:42:17.319 matter in it, like a rose soil would just be 1860 01:42:17.479 --> 01:42:20.359 one example of a bad mix. But just know that 1861 01:42:20.479 --> 01:42:23.119 those are going to sink down over time, just like 1862 01:42:24.079 --> 01:42:26.760 potting soil in a flower pot each year gets lower 1863 01:42:26.840 --> 01:42:30.520 and lower as it decomposes away. So you would need 1864 01:42:30.600 --> 01:42:32.279 to come up a little extra high. But with a 1865 01:42:32.319 --> 01:42:34.800 top soil it would tend to hold its you know, 1866 01:42:35.039 --> 01:42:37.600 it would tend to not sink down as much. Either 1867 01:42:37.640 --> 01:42:42.199 way would be fine to go, so top soil I 1868 01:42:42.359 --> 01:42:44.359 probably would. How much how high do you want to 1869 01:42:44.359 --> 01:42:44.880 come up there? 1870 01:42:46.079 --> 01:42:51.920 Well, it's really Louise is. He knows me from yours 1871 01:42:52.520 --> 01:42:58.720 gone by the ground up. So yeah, yeah, yeah, I 1872 01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:01.159 just want to want to build it up, and. 1873 01:43:03.239 --> 01:43:03.600 I can't. 1874 01:43:04.399 --> 01:43:06.199 I can do a lot of the building in the 1875 01:43:06.319 --> 01:43:10.119 middle and over to the fence part, but I don't 1876 01:43:10.119 --> 01:43:12.760 want to build up too much on the house side 1877 01:43:13.520 --> 01:43:14.520 because of the wheakholes. 1878 01:43:14.560 --> 01:43:22.479 Yes, but I just but okay, does that area stand 1879 01:43:22.520 --> 01:43:23.079 in water. 1880 01:43:24.720 --> 01:43:24.920 Well? 1881 01:43:25.039 --> 01:43:28.720 Because yes, it has gotten to that point where it 1882 01:43:28.880 --> 01:43:33.119 has depressed so much that it is sort of standing 1883 01:43:33.159 --> 01:43:35.479 in water, which is why the Virginia button we has 1884 01:43:35.560 --> 01:43:36.039 taken over. 1885 01:43:37.239 --> 01:43:40.039 Okay, so you do have the options. Number one. I 1886 01:43:40.079 --> 01:43:42.359 don't know where the downspouts are and how that all 1887 01:43:42.439 --> 01:43:45.680 flow works, but that'd be something to consider. But I 1888 01:43:45.800 --> 01:43:47.319 have an area in my yard that was kind of 1889 01:43:47.399 --> 01:43:49.720 load towards the back fence like that, and I put 1890 01:43:50.319 --> 01:43:52.960 just a treated wood two by ten or something across 1891 01:43:53.039 --> 01:43:55.960 there and used that as a back bed, and then 1892 01:43:56.000 --> 01:43:58.560 I filled the whole thing in so that I could 1893 01:43:58.640 --> 01:44:02.039 raise it up a little bit without piling soil up 1894 01:44:02.039 --> 01:44:05.359 against the fence, which is not a good plan. But anyway, 1895 01:44:05.359 --> 01:44:08.159 that'd be another option, not the only way to do it, 1896 01:44:08.279 --> 01:44:08.880 for sure. 1897 01:44:10.560 --> 01:44:14.880 Okay, And okay, And then you were going to tell 1898 01:44:14.880 --> 01:44:17.119 me how to kill the Virginia button weed over a 1899 01:44:17.239 --> 01:44:20.319 large area. I can't do the I can't do the 1900 01:44:20.399 --> 01:44:22.439 till Okay. 1901 01:44:22.359 --> 01:44:25.840 I can't do type Life of type products will do it. 1902 01:44:26.000 --> 01:44:28.439 And I know people have their opinions about rund up 1903 01:44:28.520 --> 01:44:30.000 or whether they want to use it or not, that's 1904 01:44:30.079 --> 01:44:33.159 up to you. But Glavas type products kill the grass, 1905 01:44:33.279 --> 01:44:35.159 They killed the broad leaf weeds. They kill a lot 1906 01:44:35.199 --> 01:44:39.319 of things. And the roundup, Yeah, that round up is 1907 01:44:39.359 --> 01:44:43.640 an example. There's there is a cleanup is another brand. 1908 01:44:43.680 --> 01:44:45.960 There's a whole bunch of brands of glyphas now. In fact, 1909 01:44:46.640 --> 01:44:51.680 roundup has actually moved on past glyphasate and most of 1910 01:44:51.720 --> 01:44:54.319 the round up you see in garden centers now is 1911 01:44:54.399 --> 01:44:58.279 a different ingredient than glyphasate. Silk all round up, confusing 1912 01:44:58.399 --> 01:45:01.199 is all get out. But yeah, you'd have to. That's 1913 01:45:01.239 --> 01:45:04.119 why I say glifeasay because it you know, you would 1914 01:45:04.159 --> 01:45:06.720 find it somewhere else. There are other things. I mean, 1915 01:45:06.920 --> 01:45:09.000 you could spray a broad leaf weed killer in there, 1916 01:45:09.000 --> 01:45:11.000 and then you could spray a grass killer in there, 1917 01:45:11.520 --> 01:45:14.720 but then you're putting two products instead of just one. 1918 01:45:15.399 --> 01:45:17.920 But if you the Virginia button weed isn't going to 1919 01:45:17.960 --> 01:45:21.119 come back from underground, So I don't know if you 1920 01:45:21.439 --> 01:45:23.399 have somebody that you know come in there and scrape 1921 01:45:23.399 --> 01:45:26.039 it all off, that's another option you could do. Saint 1922 01:45:26.079 --> 01:45:29.000 Augustine doesn't live underground either. You scrape off the top 1923 01:45:29.039 --> 01:45:29.680 and it's gone. 1924 01:45:33.439 --> 01:45:34.880 I'm a little old for all that. 1925 01:45:36.640 --> 01:45:41.920 Well that's okay, that's okay, I'll just okay, I'll yeah, 1926 01:45:42.039 --> 01:45:45.720 you need you need some grandkids that are misbehaving, because 1927 01:45:46.079 --> 01:45:48.560 you know, when I was growing up, when I misbehaved, 1928 01:45:48.600 --> 01:45:50.239 I had to go pull weeds in the garden. And 1929 01:45:50.359 --> 01:45:52.039 I'm not going to say anything other than we had 1930 01:45:52.079 --> 01:45:54.399 the most weed free garden. And you can figure out. 1931 01:45:54.279 --> 01:45:55.000 Why that might be. 1932 01:45:55.640 --> 01:45:59.039 But anyway, all right, Mark, Okay, Well anyway, thank you, 1933 01:45:59.119 --> 01:46:02.640 I recommend since you have that relationship with Louis at heirloom. Yeah, 1934 01:46:02.680 --> 01:46:05.159 heirloom can get you through orange rock and molts. They 1935 01:46:05.159 --> 01:46:07.479 can get you the top soil. They can get you 1936 01:46:07.680 --> 01:46:17.600 various kinds of bed mixes too, So no heirloom heirloom soils. 1937 01:46:17.680 --> 01:46:20.880 Louise is at a John John and Ian Ferguson are 1938 01:46:20.880 --> 01:46:23.119 at Nature's Way, and I'm telling you both those companies. 1939 01:46:23.199 --> 01:46:24.279 You say you a good product. 1940 01:46:25.000 --> 01:46:26.680 All right, thank you so much. 1941 01:46:27.720 --> 01:46:33.600 Thanks to the calling you take care of all right. Bye, okay, folks, 1942 01:46:33.640 --> 01:46:36.640 Well that was a that was a good segment, Madam Montgomery. 1943 01:46:36.760 --> 01:46:38.560 We weren't able to get to you this segment, but 1944 01:46:38.840 --> 01:46:41.000 we will put you up first when we come back 1945 01:46:41.079 --> 01:46:43.600 if you can hang on a little bit longer. Back 1946 01:46:43.680 --> 01:46:48.000 with you as well. Appreciate you guys listening in today 1947 01:46:48.079 --> 01:46:50.960 the Garden Line. We're here to help you solve problems. 1948 01:46:51.000 --> 01:46:54.640 We're helping you to identify plants. We're helping you diagnose 1949 01:46:54.800 --> 01:46:58.800 disease and insect issues, whatever kind of whatever you need, 1950 01:46:59.319 --> 01:47:01.880 We're happy to do that. Try to point you in 1951 01:47:01.960 --> 01:47:06.319 the right direction because you know, gardening is the best 1952 01:47:06.399 --> 01:47:07.119 hobby that there is. 1953 01:47:07.319 --> 01:47:07.920 It just does. 1954 01:47:08.840 --> 01:47:11.000 I may be biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. 1955 01:47:13.079 --> 01:47:15.000 It is a great hobby. So we wanted to be 1956 01:47:15.199 --> 01:47:18.800 fun and unsuccessful. 1957 01:47:21.079 --> 01:47:25.079 Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip rictor. 1958 01:47:24.920 --> 01:47:42.000 It's just watch him as we may see. 1959 01:47:50.079 --> 01:47:50.760 A sign. 1960 01:47:53.560 --> 01:47:57.479 Garden Line. Welcome back. Good to have you back with us. 1961 01:47:57.800 --> 01:47:59.920 We have got another hour to go here to that 1962 01:48:00.319 --> 01:48:03.079 and we're happy to take your call if you've got 1963 01:48:03.119 --> 01:48:06.520 a gardening question at seven one three two one two 1964 01:48:07.119 --> 01:48:10.079 k t r H. We're gonna just make haste and 1965 01:48:10.239 --> 01:48:13.119 run straight out to Montgomery, Texas to talk to Matt 1966 01:48:13.279 --> 01:48:16.359 this hour. Hello Matt, and welcome to garden Line morning. 1967 01:48:16.439 --> 01:48:16.680 Skip. 1968 01:48:16.760 --> 01:48:17.239 How's it going? 1969 01:48:18.520 --> 01:48:20.439 It's going well? How can we help the good? 1970 01:48:21.239 --> 01:48:21.880 I got a. 1971 01:48:23.520 --> 01:48:27.640 Having a tremendous amount of mushrooms in front yard backyards. 1972 01:48:29.159 --> 01:48:31.199 I know with the increased rain, I mean there there, 1973 01:48:31.359 --> 01:48:37.199 you could be a causation of it, but just didn't 1974 01:48:37.199 --> 01:48:39.079 know if there was something in the soil. I mean, 1975 01:48:39.119 --> 01:48:41.560 I look around. None of my neighbors have have any 1976 01:48:41.560 --> 01:48:44.840 of the the amount of mushrooms that I'm having. And 1977 01:48:45.079 --> 01:48:46.720 you know, as I as I as I see them, 1978 01:48:46.760 --> 01:48:49.279 I'm pulling it up by the roots. But anything else 1979 01:48:49.319 --> 01:48:53.600 I can be doing, treating it or just just continue 1980 01:48:53.640 --> 01:48:54.199 to pull them up. 1981 01:48:55.640 --> 01:48:55.840 Yeah. 1982 01:48:56.119 --> 01:48:59.960 Yeah, you know, we just say on mushrooms, just ignore 1983 01:49:00.479 --> 01:49:02.880 because ninety nine point nine percent of them are not 1984 01:49:03.000 --> 01:49:06.319 a concern. And then the mushroom itself is just the 1985 01:49:06.399 --> 01:49:08.800 fruiting body. So you know, it's not like you would 1986 01:49:08.800 --> 01:49:12.479 spray the mushroom or anything. Uh, It's part of nature. 1987 01:49:12.560 --> 01:49:15.119 And when we go through these periods this last crop 1988 01:49:15.239 --> 01:49:16.880 is because of all the rain we had and there 1989 01:49:16.960 --> 01:49:19.319 was a little bit of a dropping temperature from all 1990 01:49:19.439 --> 01:49:22.720 the cloudy weather and rain. We'll see another big crop 1991 01:49:22.800 --> 01:49:24.640 of mushrooms. And we get into fall, get a little 1992 01:49:24.680 --> 01:49:26.960 cold front in and cools off and get some rain 1993 01:49:27.039 --> 01:49:30.119 with it. They'll be back. It's just fungi that are 1994 01:49:30.119 --> 01:49:34.439 growing underground that when they when conditions are right, they 1995 01:49:34.640 --> 01:49:38.039 send up their fruiting structures, and that's what we see. 1996 01:49:39.119 --> 01:49:42.640 There's not a good spray for them anyway. Okay, aren't 1997 01:49:42.720 --> 01:49:43.039 very good. 1998 01:49:43.079 --> 01:49:44.119 We'll keep pulling them up. 1999 01:49:45.319 --> 01:49:47.039 Yeah. What I like to tell people is since we 2000 01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:49.159 can't do anything about them, get you a golf club 2001 01:49:49.239 --> 01:49:49.880 and have some fun. 2002 01:49:51.760 --> 01:49:54.960 Well, we pull them up and bring them to the chickens. 2003 01:49:56.319 --> 01:49:59.880 Oh really, chickens eat them. I had never heard that one. 2004 01:50:00.159 --> 01:50:05.039 That's good to know. I guess they're not boiled all right, man, 2005 01:50:05.319 --> 01:50:11.279 Thanks Matt. I appreciate you Yanks. Take care. Yeah, you know, 2006 01:50:11.840 --> 01:50:17.079 the nature is constantly a work. What we see in 2007 01:50:17.199 --> 01:50:21.119 nature is not even scratching the surface of what's going on. 2008 01:50:21.399 --> 01:50:24.039 Like you look at the soil and you know, clear 2009 01:50:24.079 --> 01:50:25.680 off all the plants. Look at this soil. You say, well, 2010 01:50:25.720 --> 01:50:28.680 that's dart right that you don't see what's going on there, 2011 01:50:28.960 --> 01:50:32.279 But what's going on there is a whole nother world 2012 01:50:33.359 --> 01:50:37.560 of microbes. Do you know that? Okay? Fun fact nerd 2013 01:50:37.600 --> 01:50:43.920 alert fun fact. If you take a pinch of quality 2014 01:50:44.000 --> 01:50:46.399 garden soil, you know rich gardens, put a pinch of it, 2015 01:50:46.560 --> 01:50:50.079 a kidney bean sized pinch in your hand, you have 2016 01:50:50.359 --> 01:50:53.279 literally hundreds of millions of microbes right there. If you 2017 01:50:53.319 --> 01:50:55.840 put a little pile of soil in your palm. Sometimes 2018 01:50:55.840 --> 01:50:58.119 you see these pictures and somebody's holding a big handful 2019 01:50:58.159 --> 01:51:00.439 of soil. We'll put a pile half that size in 2020 01:51:00.960 --> 01:51:03.760 your palm. You have more living things in your hand 2021 01:51:04.840 --> 01:51:06.640 than there are people in the face of the earth. 2022 01:51:07.680 --> 01:51:10.680 But that's soakin. For just a minute, soil is alive. 2023 01:51:11.199 --> 01:51:15.920 There's bacteria. There's a type of bacteria that are that 2024 01:51:16.960 --> 01:51:20.600 are beneficial to plants. There's bacteria types that fix nitrogen 2025 01:51:20.680 --> 01:51:22.800 out of the air into a formed plants can use. 2026 01:51:22.840 --> 01:51:26.880 There's bacteria that produce antibiotics. There's bacteria that produce and 2027 01:51:26.960 --> 01:51:29.079 by the way, we have those as products. By the 2028 01:51:29.119 --> 01:51:32.319 way they're available. Have you ever used an antibiotic cream 2029 01:51:32.399 --> 01:51:37.079 on your arm? You know the the neomycin, neomix, and polysporin, 2030 01:51:37.159 --> 01:51:41.199 those those kinds of things. Those ingredients are actually produced 2031 01:51:41.239 --> 01:51:44.319 by soil bacteria. Now in a pharmaceutical company, they're growing 2032 01:51:44.319 --> 01:51:46.279 them in a big vat. They're creating them in a 2033 01:51:46.359 --> 01:51:48.720 big vat. They're not raising a bunch of bugs to 2034 01:51:48.840 --> 01:51:52.680 make them. But soil bacteria produce those antibiotics, that kind 2035 01:51:52.720 --> 01:51:57.920 of antibiotic. Soil bacteria produce insecticides. That's where BT comes from. 2036 01:51:58.039 --> 01:52:01.720 It's a naturally occurring soil bacteria. That's where the BT 2037 01:52:02.479 --> 01:52:07.199 for mosquitoes, the BT israeliensis form comes from. That's a 2038 01:52:07.319 --> 01:52:11.000 soul type of bacteria. They're bacteria that do all kinds 2039 01:52:11.039 --> 01:52:15.920 of things like that. There are fungi that are constantly 2040 01:52:16.039 --> 01:52:19.840 going through breaking down stuff no other microbe can break down. 2041 01:52:20.239 --> 01:52:23.239 We're talking about bone, we're talking about fingernail, We're talking 2042 01:52:23.239 --> 01:52:26.920 about growing up against a rock and producing an acid 2043 01:52:27.039 --> 01:52:30.279 to dissolve the rock and release those minerals. They're fungi 2044 01:52:30.359 --> 01:52:33.800 that can do that stuff. They're the heavy lifters in 2045 01:52:33.920 --> 01:52:41.279 the soil. They're just all kinds of beneficial organisms. Anyway, 2046 01:52:42.239 --> 01:52:45.279 it's alive, so well, it's alive, and it does a 2047 01:52:45.479 --> 01:52:49.159 lot of things to make itself better and it helps 2048 01:52:49.239 --> 01:52:50.680 us to decompose organic matter. 2049 01:52:50.800 --> 01:52:50.840 What. 2050 01:52:51.199 --> 01:52:53.680 So, there's a lot of life going on out there 2051 01:52:53.720 --> 01:52:55.600 in the landscape and we just don't think about it 2052 01:52:56.000 --> 01:52:58.199 unless you're kind of a nerd about it like I am, 2053 01:52:59.039 --> 01:53:01.920 and it's something you think about a lot. Uh, there 2054 01:53:02.039 --> 01:53:04.199 is just a lot going on. That's not even getting 2055 01:53:04.239 --> 01:53:06.279 into the arthropods that are in the soil and what 2056 01:53:06.399 --> 01:53:08.800 they do, the earthworms in the soil and what they do. 2057 01:53:10.159 --> 01:53:15.560 It's just it's just really really cool stuff. All right. Well, 2058 01:53:15.960 --> 01:53:17.439 our phone number if you'd like to give us a call, 2059 01:53:17.479 --> 01:53:20.279 we got some time here seven one three two one 2060 01:53:20.439 --> 01:53:24.720 two kt RH seven to one three two one two 2061 01:53:25.520 --> 01:53:28.319 kt r H and give us a call. Be happy 2062 01:53:28.840 --> 01:53:30.880 to visit with you about the kinds of questions that 2063 01:53:31.039 --> 01:53:31.479 you might have. 2064 01:53:32.079 --> 01:53:32.199 Uh. 2065 01:53:32.439 --> 01:53:35.800 These storms have knocked down a lot of trees that 2066 01:53:35.960 --> 01:53:38.279 have led to a lot of power outages, which is 2067 01:53:38.319 --> 01:53:40.800 what we were talking about earlier. We're talking about generators 2068 01:53:40.840 --> 01:53:43.239 and how to pick a generator? Want to ask about 2069 01:53:43.239 --> 01:53:47.880 a generator? H Martin spoon Moore. An Affordable Tree Service 2070 01:53:48.119 --> 01:53:50.399 is our go to guy here on garden Line for 2071 01:53:50.880 --> 01:53:55.079 maintaining your trees. And right now, what that might include 2072 01:53:55.479 --> 01:54:00.319 is doing the selective pruning to help the wind pass 2073 01:54:00.399 --> 01:54:03.239 through the trees more efficiently, to take a little bit 2074 01:54:03.279 --> 01:54:05.520 of the stress off the trees, to make them safer 2075 01:54:05.640 --> 01:54:08.520 during heavy winds. And that's not just somebody runn up 2076 01:54:08.520 --> 01:54:11.079 there with chainsaw on hacking stuff off. It's knowing what 2077 01:54:11.199 --> 01:54:14.640 you're doing that is important. And a quality arborist knows 2078 01:54:14.760 --> 01:54:18.399 what they're doing. I can't stress enough the importance of 2079 01:54:18.479 --> 01:54:21.399 proper tree care. Maybe you have broken limbs, maybe you 2080 01:54:21.479 --> 01:54:24.680 have narrow branch angles. Those are the ones that typically split. 2081 01:54:25.119 --> 01:54:27.399 You drive around town, you see a split tree and 2082 01:54:27.520 --> 01:54:30.159 you look at the split, and almost always right up 2083 01:54:30.199 --> 01:54:33.399 at the top is a black area where a narrow 2084 01:54:33.479 --> 01:54:38.359 branch angle has pressed bark against bark, and you can't 2085 01:54:38.680 --> 01:54:41.520 It doesn't join, It doesn't heal across there, or create 2086 01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:44.680 tissue across there. It just becomes a black area. As 2087 01:54:44.760 --> 01:54:47.239 those branches get bigger, they push each other apart and 2088 01:54:47.359 --> 01:54:49.319 it's just waiting for a little push from the wind 2089 01:54:49.720 --> 01:54:53.119 to split open. Well, Martin can work on things like that. 2090 01:54:53.279 --> 01:54:55.960 He can train trees. He knows how to train trees, 2091 01:54:56.279 --> 01:54:58.640 He knows how to work around trees. Are you're going 2092 01:54:58.720 --> 01:55:00.960 to put in a slab you're a tree? Are you 2093 01:55:01.039 --> 01:55:03.720 going to put in a trench near a tree? You 2094 01:55:03.840 --> 01:55:05.640 need to call Martin and have him come out for 2095 01:55:05.760 --> 01:55:08.640 all those things. I know right now, you know, storm 2096 01:55:08.720 --> 01:55:10.640 trimming is the big topic of the day. But he 2097 01:55:10.680 --> 01:55:13.680 can do it all seven one three, six nine nine 2098 01:55:13.920 --> 01:55:16.960 twenty six sixty three seven one three six nine nine 2099 01:55:17.079 --> 01:55:20.880 two six six three Or go to his website it's 2100 01:55:20.960 --> 01:55:25.920 Afftree Service dot com. And I guarantee you he is 2101 01:55:26.199 --> 01:55:28.239 very busy right now with all the things that have 2102 01:55:28.319 --> 01:55:30.880 been going on. But tell him your guardline listener, get 2103 01:55:30.960 --> 01:55:33.199 up higher in the list. There takes you up in 2104 01:55:33.319 --> 01:55:36.479 the list and he treats his garden line listeners very well. 2105 01:55:36.960 --> 01:55:40.439 And when when you do that, have him come out. 2106 01:55:40.479 --> 01:55:43.319 Have its scheduled and let's have him take a look. 2107 01:55:43.479 --> 01:55:46.439 He charges to come out and take a look at 2108 01:55:46.560 --> 01:55:49.640 your trees. I can't just run around looking at stuff, 2109 01:55:49.840 --> 01:55:52.159 you know, just because people are curious. So it costs 2110 01:55:52.159 --> 01:55:54.319 one hundred and fifty to have him come out, But 2111 01:55:55.000 --> 01:55:57.399 if you hire him to do work, that one fifty 2112 01:55:57.439 --> 01:55:59.239 goes right into the work, so you don't lose it. 2113 01:55:59.359 --> 01:56:02.560 It's not us for coming out. Uh, it goes into 2114 01:56:02.640 --> 01:56:05.119 the work that you have him do a FF tree 2115 01:56:05.199 --> 01:56:08.439 service dot Com seven one three six nine nine twenty 2116 01:56:08.560 --> 01:56:12.840 six sixty three. You are listening to garden Line. Our 2117 01:56:12.880 --> 01:56:16.119 phone number is seven one three two one two fifty 2118 01:56:16.199 --> 01:56:19.039 eight seventy four. Seven one three two one two fifty 2119 01:56:19.079 --> 01:56:22.439 eight seventy four. I'll be right back. Welcome back, Welcome 2120 01:56:22.479 --> 01:56:24.479 back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey, 2121 01:56:24.520 --> 01:56:26.960 if you got a question there we have here. We've 2122 01:56:27.039 --> 01:56:29.840 got two more segments, three more segments left to go, 2123 01:56:30.600 --> 01:56:33.279 uh before we shut things down for the weekend until 2124 01:56:33.319 --> 01:56:35.159 next weekend on guarden Line. So give us a call 2125 01:56:35.279 --> 01:56:38.279 at seven one three two one two k t r H. 2126 01:56:38.479 --> 01:56:41.600 Seven one three two one two k t r H. 2127 01:56:41.800 --> 01:56:46.000 This is your chance. I uh. We talked about a 2128 01:56:46.039 --> 01:56:48.600 lot of things today. We've covered everything from lawns to 2129 01:56:48.800 --> 01:56:52.760 trees to UH. Certainly we'd spent that time talking about generators. 2130 01:56:52.840 --> 01:56:54.760 And you know how to make a good choice, and 2131 01:56:55.279 --> 01:56:57.760 you know anything you purchase I don't, I don't care 2132 01:56:57.840 --> 01:57:01.760 what it is. You need to do your homework ahead 2133 01:57:01.760 --> 01:57:04.000 of time, and I highly recommend that whoever you end 2134 01:57:04.079 --> 01:57:08.119 up purchasing something from, get the facts and it always helps. 2135 01:57:08.239 --> 01:57:11.439 My way of doing it is always I'll talk to 2136 01:57:11.520 --> 01:57:13.600 two or three people and I'll hear something from one. 2137 01:57:13.760 --> 01:57:16.000 Then I'll ask them, well, what do you do about that? 2138 01:57:16.239 --> 01:57:17.880 Or what do you think about that? And I'll hear 2139 01:57:17.960 --> 01:57:21.119 their answer, and you know, just get the facts that 2140 01:57:21.319 --> 01:57:25.520 is important. Caveat emptor anymy know what that means Latin words, 2141 01:57:25.600 --> 01:57:28.760 caveat emptor means let the buyer beware. That is a 2142 01:57:28.840 --> 01:57:32.279 good point on anything from automobiles to you name it 2143 01:57:32.479 --> 01:57:37.319 that you purchase. Well, I wanted to spend a little 2144 01:57:37.359 --> 01:57:42.039 bit of time today talking about summer planting. When it 2145 01:57:42.199 --> 01:57:47.399 gets hot, the enthusiasm for gardening tends to wane. We 2146 01:57:47.479 --> 01:57:51.479 see it every year and I can see a number 2147 01:57:51.520 --> 01:57:53.760 of calls that come into guard Line. It varies through 2148 01:57:53.800 --> 01:57:58.159 the year, but the fact is that summer is a 2149 01:57:58.239 --> 01:58:01.279 time when there is still plenty that we need to 2150 01:58:01.319 --> 01:58:07.880 be outdoing. There's watering specifics, there's fertilizing specifics, there's planting specifics. 2151 01:58:08.279 --> 01:58:12.319 We have plants that grow in the heat of Southeast Texas, 2152 01:58:12.760 --> 01:58:16.760 just fine plants that when it comes to gardening, for example, 2153 01:58:17.359 --> 01:58:19.359 there are a number of greens that I like to 2154 01:58:19.439 --> 01:58:23.319 grow in my garden that come from areas that are 2155 01:58:23.319 --> 01:58:26.840 as sultry, hot and humid as Houston typically places like 2156 01:58:26.960 --> 01:58:30.279 certain parts of Africa or certain parts of maybe India 2157 01:58:30.439 --> 01:58:33.039 or that region of the world, and you get these 2158 01:58:33.119 --> 01:58:37.399 things like Malabar, for example. Our black eyed peas are 2159 01:58:37.439 --> 01:58:39.840 from that area. They grow through the summer just fine. 2160 01:58:40.479 --> 01:58:43.399 There are Molechhia is another green that does well in 2161 01:58:43.560 --> 01:58:47.479 that there's edible perse langes. Anyway, there are plants that 2162 01:58:47.520 --> 01:58:52.399 can take that. When it comes to flowers, Angelonia loves heat. 2163 01:58:52.520 --> 01:58:56.119 It just blazes through the heat. I mentioned Scavola earlier 2164 01:58:56.199 --> 01:59:01.239 that does well. There are things like the Helianthus calls 2165 01:59:01.359 --> 01:59:05.079 sun believable, like unbelievable, but was sun at the beginning 2166 01:59:05.239 --> 01:59:09.680 sun sunbelievable over a thousand blooms during the course of 2167 01:59:09.760 --> 01:59:12.039 a season on that plant. That just blooms and blooms 2168 01:59:12.039 --> 01:59:14.079 and blooms and blooms and blooms of blooms and blooms. 2169 01:59:14.359 --> 01:59:17.000 Got some in my garden. It's doing well. There's pirates 2170 01:59:17.079 --> 01:59:20.840 pearl that is a white, small, white flower, but the 2171 01:59:21.319 --> 01:59:24.800 little short, bushy like plant just covers up with those 2172 01:59:24.920 --> 01:59:30.680 unbelievable flowers. Excuse me. Pirates pearl flowers. I see all 2173 01:59:30.800 --> 01:59:33.720 kinds of beneficial insects on these two as well. Zenias 2174 01:59:33.800 --> 01:59:37.640 do good through the summer heat. Salvias are many Salvias 2175 01:59:37.880 --> 01:59:40.800 just bloom all the way through summer heat. Salvia is 2176 01:59:40.840 --> 01:59:46.199 my favorite genus plant of flowering plants. It is because 2177 01:59:46.239 --> 01:59:50.239 there's so many. They're just so many. But just because 2178 01:59:50.560 --> 01:59:52.479 it's hot outside and it's probably get a little hotter. 2179 01:59:53.199 --> 01:59:55.840 Now that we get this cloud and rain that's moving 2180 01:59:55.920 --> 01:59:59.479 on opening up the sunshine, it's still time to plant. 2181 02:00:00.079 --> 02:00:02.199 Have to do when you plant in the summer is 2182 02:00:02.359 --> 02:00:06.159 remember to pretend that that plant is still in its 2183 02:00:06.239 --> 02:00:09.960 pot underground. So imagine if you bought less about a 2184 02:00:10.000 --> 02:00:11.840 gallon plant and you set it in a hole in 2185 02:00:11.920 --> 02:00:14.279 the ground and covered it up with soil. All the 2186 02:00:14.399 --> 02:00:16.479 roots would be in that pot still right, and they 2187 02:00:16.720 --> 02:00:18.640 all they would stay that they couldn't go beyond that. 2188 02:00:19.279 --> 02:00:21.039 When you take it out of the pot and plant 2189 02:00:21.079 --> 02:00:25.000 it the same way, pretend that that pot is still underground. 2190 02:00:25.760 --> 02:00:28.039 That tells you where to water. You water right at 2191 02:00:28.079 --> 02:00:31.880 the base in small amounts. Over time, as that thing 2192 02:00:31.960 --> 02:00:34.800 begins to grow roots out into the soil around it, 2193 02:00:35.239 --> 02:00:37.319 you're wetting larger areas you always want to wedd a 2194 02:00:37.359 --> 02:00:40.119 little beyond where the roots are always. But you can 2195 02:00:40.199 --> 02:00:42.000 keep a plant alive, just like if you set that 2196 02:00:42.079 --> 02:00:44.039 pot on your patio and went on every day and 2197 02:00:44.119 --> 02:00:45.680 water did a couple of times. I mean you could. 2198 02:00:45.880 --> 02:00:48.439 You can do that. You can still plant. And there 2199 02:00:48.479 --> 02:00:51.520 are plants that will bloom well in late summer and fall, 2200 02:00:52.119 --> 02:00:54.840 and you ought to get some of those in. Maybe 2201 02:00:54.880 --> 02:00:57.119 I'll talk about some of those late summer and fall 2202 02:00:57.159 --> 02:00:59.319 bloomers here in a little bit. Right now, I'm going 2203 02:00:59.359 --> 02:01:01.319 to run over the and we're going to talk to 2204 02:01:01.520 --> 02:01:05.399 Bill and Conroe. Hello, Bill, Welcome to garden Line. 2205 02:01:07.079 --> 02:01:11.640 Good morning, Skip, thanks for taking my call. And I 2206 02:01:12.800 --> 02:01:16.159 I've taken my backyard. I've killed all of the Sant 2207 02:01:16.199 --> 02:01:19.960 Augustine and Bermuda mix and all of the other stuff 2208 02:01:20.000 --> 02:01:22.399 in there. I've just letting it settle and kind of 2209 02:01:22.640 --> 02:01:26.359 tilling it up and moving and anyway it's ready, getting ready. 2210 02:01:26.439 --> 02:01:28.560 I probably have to be thinking about waiting till the 2211 02:01:28.640 --> 02:01:31.920 end of August before I put anything down, just being 2212 02:01:31.960 --> 02:01:34.439 easier to manage, I think without the heat that I 2213 02:01:34.560 --> 02:01:37.560 expect in August. So is there a different variety from 2214 02:01:37.600 --> 02:01:41.399 Saint Augustine and bermuda that is shorter that I can 2215 02:01:41.520 --> 02:01:45.479 walk on without hurting it. I'm not thinking of putting 2216 02:01:45.560 --> 02:01:48.880 green quality, but how about croquet quality. 2217 02:01:50.560 --> 02:01:57.319 Okay, oh boy, that's a good question. Well, first of all, 2218 02:01:57.399 --> 02:01:59.600 I think your idea to wait until August is not 2219 02:01:59.680 --> 02:02:02.920 about idea because even though you've sprayed it and killed everything, 2220 02:02:03.000 --> 02:02:06.159 you see, the bermuda is not all gone. It'll be 2221 02:02:06.239 --> 02:02:08.239 sprigs that come back up, and then you'll have to 2222 02:02:08.279 --> 02:02:11.119 spray them again, and then maybe even a third time, 2223 02:02:11.680 --> 02:02:14.840 because it's just the nature of the beasts that usually 2224 02:02:15.000 --> 02:02:18.199 one spraying doesn't kill everything because there's some that hadn't 2225 02:02:18.199 --> 02:02:20.800 even maybe stuck its head up yet for you to spray. 2226 02:02:21.119 --> 02:02:26.680 So n't gotten the nuts edge is the nuts sedge 2227 02:02:26.760 --> 02:02:27.880 is definitely coming back. 2228 02:02:29.079 --> 02:02:32.720 Yeah, well, the nuts edge the forget round up on 2229 02:02:32.840 --> 02:02:34.600 nuts edge. That's not the way I go about I've 2230 02:02:34.680 --> 02:02:37.560 almost finished a publication that's going on my website about 2231 02:02:37.640 --> 02:02:39.640 nuts edge, and that's one of the things I'll tell 2232 02:02:39.640 --> 02:02:43.840 you in there. Uh, manage is a good product. If 2233 02:02:43.880 --> 02:02:47.920 you can find manage, there is a sedge ender. It's 2234 02:02:47.960 --> 02:02:52.039 also a good product for nuts edge. But definitely that's 2235 02:02:52.079 --> 02:02:55.960 gonna take maybe even at least the August, you're gonna 2236 02:02:55.960 --> 02:02:57.960 spray it. It's gonna go down, and then you're gonna 2237 02:02:57.960 --> 02:02:59.640 see it we sprout again and you're gonna spray it 2238 02:02:59.680 --> 02:03:02.720 and go. So you need to stay with that particular 2239 02:03:02.840 --> 02:03:04.960 thing to knock out as much of it as you can. 2240 02:03:05.159 --> 02:03:07.840 But I'll let y'all know when when there's publications up 2241 02:03:07.840 --> 02:03:09.720 there and you really need to read it. I'd be 2242 02:03:09.760 --> 02:03:12.560 great anyway. What I would you know you could do 2243 02:03:12.640 --> 02:03:15.159 as zoisa. There are some soisas. It can be mowed 2244 02:03:15.279 --> 02:03:19.359 very short as a lawn grass, and they do well here. 2245 02:03:19.880 --> 02:03:22.079 There's some type that have a little wider leaf. It's 2246 02:03:22.119 --> 02:03:24.279 only about a third as wide as Saint Augustine, but 2247 02:03:24.359 --> 02:03:27.520 it's it's wider than the fine textured zoysias, which have 2248 02:03:27.600 --> 02:03:30.840 a leaf. It's skinnier someone skinnier than bermuda grass. It's 2249 02:03:30.880 --> 02:03:33.520 a very narrow little leaf. You can mow it low 2250 02:03:33.680 --> 02:03:35.960 if you want to mow regularly, can keep it down 2251 02:03:36.000 --> 02:03:38.520 at a lower rate, and it makes a beautiful lawn 2252 02:03:39.239 --> 02:03:41.640 or and it would be a good croquetlawn even if 2253 02:03:41.640 --> 02:03:44.119 you moted at a higher rate. There are some other 2254 02:03:44.600 --> 02:03:51.239 good groundcovers that you could use, like uh frog frog 2255 02:03:51.319 --> 02:03:55.760 fruit would be one, but it's not foot traffic tolerant. 2256 02:03:55.920 --> 02:03:57.880 So if you walk around a lot you're going to 2257 02:03:57.960 --> 02:03:59.880 it's not going to do well. So I think you 2258 02:04:00.479 --> 02:04:02.479 if you want to switch out, switch over to one 2259 02:04:02.520 --> 02:04:06.720 of the Zoisias palisades. There is an example of one 2260 02:04:06.800 --> 02:04:10.680 with wider leaves. There are other good ones. Those are 2261 02:04:11.000 --> 02:04:15.000 a variety of so idier palisades. Zoysia has a wider leaf. 2262 02:04:15.079 --> 02:04:17.720 I has developed it in as well as some other 2263 02:04:17.880 --> 02:04:22.000 southern uh you know, extension services here in the south. 2264 02:04:22.359 --> 02:04:23.960 It's widely used about the south. 2265 02:04:24.880 --> 02:04:26.079 And you drill these from seed. 2266 02:04:27.439 --> 02:04:29.720 No, you need to have sod and you need to 2267 02:04:30.039 --> 02:04:34.000 solid sodom don't don't plug them. Their spread rate is 2268 02:04:34.159 --> 02:04:38.680 slower than Saint Augustine and Bermuda, and so don't plug them. 2269 02:04:38.960 --> 02:04:40.000 Just solid sod. 2270 02:04:39.920 --> 02:04:46.680 Areas of them, all right, And that Zoysia will take 2271 02:04:46.720 --> 02:04:49.760 care of, will handle the heat in the sun and all. 2272 02:04:49.640 --> 02:04:54.239 That absolutely does. I've got I've got palisades in my 2273 02:04:54.399 --> 02:04:57.119 yard and it does very very well. A little bit 2274 02:04:57.159 --> 02:04:59.520 shade tolerant, not quite as much as Saint Augustine, but 2275 02:04:59.600 --> 02:05:03.399 it's good. That's pretty good as close. And then there's 2276 02:05:03.680 --> 02:05:08.079 a fine texture one called xeon ze o n. There's 2277 02:05:08.239 --> 02:05:15.359 there's a bunch of cultivars of both types of zoisiograss. 2278 02:05:16.119 --> 02:05:18.439 I'm just giving you a couple that I'm familiar with it. 2279 02:05:19.119 --> 02:05:23.000 But the fine textured one is just beautiful, just beautiful. Look, 2280 02:05:23.199 --> 02:05:25.119 I'm o mind a little bit high. I'm starting to 2281 02:05:25.199 --> 02:05:27.560 mow it back down lower now, just to experiment and learn. 2282 02:05:27.680 --> 02:05:29.840 But I'm a little higher and it looks like kind 2283 02:05:29.880 --> 02:05:32.479 of a little mini meadow out there. So that's kind 2284 02:05:32.479 --> 02:05:37.479 of cool, is often but but normally though we would 2285 02:05:37.600 --> 02:05:40.880 we would keep it and maintain it with the regular mowing. 2286 02:05:41.039 --> 02:05:43.640 That's the way you get density. You start fluctuating and 2287 02:05:43.760 --> 02:05:46.359 letting it big and cutting it back, you lose density. 2288 02:05:48.840 --> 02:05:52.800 Is it susceptible in a big way? To new to 2289 02:05:53.279 --> 02:05:55.720 from my neighbors kind of coming into it. 2290 02:05:57.079 --> 02:06:02.039 There is not an available over the counter option for 2291 02:06:02.640 --> 02:06:07.560 controlling Bermuda grass and other turf grasses like Zoisia or 2292 02:06:08.359 --> 02:06:12.399 Saint Augustine grass. Uh, they're just not and then they coexist. 2293 02:06:12.680 --> 02:06:13.399 That's the way it is. 2294 02:06:13.520 --> 02:06:15.920 So you either I guess there's a commercial one, but 2295 02:06:16.000 --> 02:06:18.640 you can't. You can't buy any Texas for I've seen 2296 02:06:20.079 --> 02:06:21.319 I forget what it's called. There is a. 2297 02:06:21.359 --> 02:06:26.439 Product, well, there is a there is something that some 2298 02:06:26.680 --> 02:06:30.880 landscapers can get that they use that helps kill the 2299 02:06:31.000 --> 02:06:34.760 bermuda out of the Saint Augustine. I don't think it's 2300 02:06:34.800 --> 02:06:36.760 okay to use in Zoysia. I'd have to check that. 2301 02:06:37.720 --> 02:06:40.359 But anyway, with that, I don't even want to open 2302 02:06:40.479 --> 02:06:41.560 up the hopes on that one. 2303 02:06:41.960 --> 02:06:44.119 It's a pea because everybody would love that. 2304 02:06:44.359 --> 02:06:46.920 You got to you got to have a professional that 2305 02:06:47.039 --> 02:06:49.600 does it. If you bought a bottle of it, if 2306 02:06:49.640 --> 02:06:52.239 you could find ten neighbors who wanted to do it too, 2307 02:06:53.159 --> 02:06:55.720 you could put the cost and make it somewhat reasonable. 2308 02:06:55.760 --> 02:06:58.680 But you see what I'm saying, it's there's I like 2309 02:06:58.760 --> 02:07:05.960 to just say there's not an option. Although yeah, anyway, yeah, yeah, okay, 2310 02:07:06.279 --> 02:07:09.880 very good, Thanks skipping, all right, take care of Bill. 2311 02:07:10.359 --> 02:07:12.039 Good luck with that, and sounds like you're off to 2312 02:07:12.119 --> 02:07:14.960 a good start with that, making sure you get rid 2313 02:07:15.000 --> 02:07:16.920 of all of it before you put more in. You know, 2314 02:07:17.000 --> 02:07:18.800 one option I didn't think about this to tell Bill, 2315 02:07:18.840 --> 02:07:20.520 but one option would just be to go to the 2316 02:07:21.159 --> 02:07:25.239 go to the bermuda grass, to go with the dwarf bermuda. 2317 02:07:25.399 --> 02:07:28.119 One of the semi dwarfs, not the golf course green type, 2318 02:07:28.199 --> 02:07:30.399 but something like for a football field or for a 2319 02:07:30.479 --> 02:07:32.880 golf course fire away. There are those. You just have 2320 02:07:33.000 --> 02:07:35.279 to permuted, be ready for it to crawl into your 2321 02:07:35.279 --> 02:07:37.399 flower beds. All right, we're gonna take a little quick 2322 02:07:37.399 --> 02:07:39.560 break for the news. Brian in Cyprus. She will be 2323 02:07:39.640 --> 02:07:42.359 first up when we come back. Well, Frome the garden line. 2324 02:07:42.560 --> 02:07:45.520 Good to have you back. We got another half hour 2325 02:07:45.640 --> 02:07:48.239 left today. Looking forward to talking to you about the 2326 02:07:48.359 --> 02:07:50.439 things that are of interest to you. You know, I 2327 02:07:50.800 --> 02:07:56.399 was recently in a Wilbird's Unlimited store and I'm always 2328 02:07:56.880 --> 02:08:01.760 just surprised at how the products that they have and 2329 02:08:01.800 --> 02:08:03.720 the quality of the products that they have. Now, I've 2330 02:08:03.760 --> 02:08:06.359 told you before I buy my garden or my garden 2331 02:08:06.560 --> 02:08:09.319 my bird seed there from All Birds Unlimited. And I 2332 02:08:09.439 --> 02:08:11.439 do this for this reason. You don't get a bunch 2333 02:08:11.479 --> 02:08:13.680 of junk in the bag cheap bird seeds. Got a 2334 02:08:13.720 --> 02:08:16.079 bunch of red bebes. The birds kick it out, they 2335 02:08:16.119 --> 02:08:17.479 don't want to eat it. Now, you got a weed 2336 02:08:17.520 --> 02:08:21.479 growing on the ground underneath it. Wabirds Unlimited, they have 2337 02:08:21.840 --> 02:08:24.000 what they put in the bag the birds want to eat. Now, 2338 02:08:24.119 --> 02:08:26.840 maybe if it's you know, sunflower holes are going to 2339 02:08:26.880 --> 02:08:29.199 crack that open to get the seed inside. And you 2340 02:08:29.279 --> 02:08:32.479 can even buy hullless mixes from All Birds where you 2341 02:08:32.520 --> 02:08:35.680 don't even have that coming out of the feeder. Nesting 2342 02:08:35.760 --> 02:08:38.520 super Blend one of the best mixes you can buy. 2343 02:08:38.560 --> 02:08:41.199 They have several different mixes. You go in, you tell them, look, 2344 02:08:41.560 --> 02:08:44.359 here's the birds I most want to attract. What is 2345 02:08:44.439 --> 02:08:46.520 the best blend. And what they're going to do is 2346 02:08:46.560 --> 02:08:49.319 also consider the season that we're in, because the best 2347 02:08:49.399 --> 02:08:53.119 blend depends partially on the season that we're in. They've 2348 02:08:53.119 --> 02:08:56.960 got wonderful feeders. My favorite feeder came from All Birds 2349 02:08:57.039 --> 02:09:02.079 and it is the squirrel excluding feeder. It is very effective. 2350 02:09:02.119 --> 02:09:03.880 I took a little video of a scuare. I need 2351 02:09:03.960 --> 02:09:06.199 to post that to Facebook too, a little video of 2352 02:09:06.239 --> 02:09:09.479 a squirrel climbing up and they got mad a long 2353 02:09:09.560 --> 02:09:11.399 time ago because they figured out they couldn't get in it. 2354 02:09:11.479 --> 02:09:13.279 But every now and then they still climb the pole 2355 02:09:13.359 --> 02:09:15.640 and you know, give it a try, but it ain't 2356 02:09:15.680 --> 02:09:18.840 gonna work. It's a great feeder. They have bird houses. 2357 02:09:18.920 --> 02:09:21.600 They have you know, like a bird bath. They have 2358 02:09:21.880 --> 02:09:25.439 all kinds of quality books and the main thing is 2359 02:09:25.560 --> 02:09:27.359 you walk in there and no matter what you want 2360 02:09:27.399 --> 02:09:29.000 to ask them, they're going to give you good advice. 2361 02:09:29.079 --> 02:09:32.000 There's six Wildbirds stores in the Greater Houston area. Go 2362 02:09:32.159 --> 02:09:37.840 to WBU dot com, forward slash Houston, WBU dot com 2363 02:09:38.239 --> 02:09:41.239 forward slash Houston, find the wild Birds near you and 2364 02:09:41.359 --> 02:09:43.000 go visit. Today. Be a good day to do that. 2365 02:09:43.439 --> 02:09:49.159 You know, Wilbird's unlimited. They just it's just the place 2366 02:09:49.239 --> 02:09:51.239 to go. It's where you can trust what you buy 2367 02:09:51.319 --> 02:09:54.840 and trust what you hear when you walk in the door. 2368 02:09:56.279 --> 02:09:58.359 Let's go now to the phones. We are going to 2369 02:09:58.439 --> 02:10:04.079 go to see who's next. Here. We have Brian in Cyprus, Texas. 2370 02:10:04.159 --> 02:10:09.560 Hello Brian, Hello skip hire you. I'm doing well. Thanks? 2371 02:10:09.680 --> 02:10:11.399 What's up today? Very good? 2372 02:10:11.520 --> 02:10:16.279 So, my Saint Augustine is still recovering from last summer's damage. 2373 02:10:16.560 --> 02:10:19.800 And while it's recovering nicely with all of the wet 2374 02:10:19.880 --> 02:10:23.079 weather that we've been having, unfortunately the broad leaved weaves 2375 02:10:23.159 --> 02:10:27.359 had really taken hold. And I read on the labels 2376 02:10:27.520 --> 02:10:32.359 the the post emergent herbicides. You can't really begin to 2377 02:10:32.439 --> 02:10:35.039 address it because the temperatures are too high, or they're 2378 02:10:35.079 --> 02:10:38.159 alternatives other than purely just bending down and trying to 2379 02:10:38.199 --> 02:10:38.720 pull them all. 2380 02:10:40.119 --> 02:10:46.239 Yeah, there is there is primarily one alternative. It's not cheap, 2381 02:10:46.720 --> 02:10:50.239 but it's a very effective and it can it can 2382 02:10:50.319 --> 02:10:52.640 be in the lower nineties. And this product is not 2383 02:10:52.680 --> 02:10:55.039 going to hurt your Saint Augustine what I would do though, 2384 02:10:55.479 --> 02:10:57.880 even with this product, I'm about to tell you you 2385 02:10:58.000 --> 02:10:59.319 want to do it early in the morning at the 2386 02:10:59.399 --> 02:11:02.199 coolest time the day. That way it dries up before 2387 02:11:02.239 --> 02:11:05.000 the sun comes baking out there. I mean, who knows, 2388 02:11:05.079 --> 02:11:06.279 it may be a day we're going to go to 2389 02:11:06.399 --> 02:11:08.720 ninety eight degrees, and so you just want to be 2390 02:11:08.840 --> 02:11:12.119 careful with it. But the product is called Celsius, which 2391 02:11:12.199 --> 02:11:15.399 is a good name because that's like celsius, like the temperature, 2392 02:11:16.399 --> 02:11:20.279 and it works well. You buy it in small packages 2393 02:11:20.640 --> 02:11:23.760 and you just use it as efficiently as you can. 2394 02:11:24.439 --> 02:11:26.520 You got some neighbors that are willing to go in 2395 02:11:27.359 --> 02:11:29.920 with you on it, that may be another option. But 2396 02:11:30.159 --> 02:11:32.800 it's very effective even against some of the hard to 2397 02:11:32.880 --> 02:11:36.039 control stuff like Virginia button weed and dollar weed and whatnot. 2398 02:11:36.119 --> 02:11:38.399 It's effective against a wide range of things. 2399 02:11:39.880 --> 02:11:40.239 Very good. 2400 02:11:40.439 --> 02:11:42.000 I'll give it a shot, Thank you so much. 2401 02:11:43.000 --> 02:11:46.039 Yeah, just take two check books so you're ready to 2402 02:11:46.119 --> 02:11:50.199 go when you go to buy. I shouldn't put it 2403 02:11:50.239 --> 02:11:53.119 that way. It's not that bad. I've purchased small packs myself. 2404 02:11:53.159 --> 02:11:55.800 But it works well. All right. You take care and 2405 02:11:55.880 --> 02:11:59.880 thanks thanks Brian for the call. Let's see here. You 2406 02:12:00.079 --> 02:12:02.920 know that's true, folks. The old stuff that's been around 2407 02:12:03.000 --> 02:12:07.359 since dirt, those products are not expensive. They've been around, 2408 02:12:07.560 --> 02:12:10.039 their mass produced. It's easy to do it when you 2409 02:12:10.159 --> 02:12:14.800 get something that a company has spent millions upon millions 2410 02:12:14.840 --> 02:12:18.439 of dollars trying to develop, even more than that, Well, 2411 02:12:18.439 --> 02:12:20.439 when they finally get into the market and try to sell, 2412 02:12:20.479 --> 02:12:23.359 they got to recoup that. And so those new specialty 2413 02:12:23.439 --> 02:12:26.279 products that do things that the old products didn't do, 2414 02:12:26.760 --> 02:12:29.000 they're going to be more expensive. It's just a nature 2415 02:12:29.079 --> 02:12:32.560 of business doing that. But I'm telling you some of 2416 02:12:32.640 --> 02:12:35.760 them have some features that we can't find in other products. 2417 02:12:37.399 --> 02:12:42.439 Let's go now to Charlie in Friends would Hello, Charlie, 2418 02:12:42.479 --> 02:12:43.439 Welcome to garden Line. 2419 02:12:44.039 --> 02:12:46.840 Good morning to you, skip. Thank you for taking my call. 2420 02:12:48.359 --> 02:12:51.680 My problem is that there was an orchard at the 2421 02:12:51.760 --> 02:12:54.720 home we bought, and of course lost it in the 2422 02:12:54.880 --> 02:12:58.199 freeze of a couple of years ago, and it's about 2423 02:12:58.640 --> 02:13:02.199 one hundred and thirty by forty, I would say rectangular 2424 02:13:02.880 --> 02:13:07.680 full of weeds. But underneath the weeds all this black 2425 02:13:08.119 --> 02:13:12.199 cloth that folks would put in to try to retard 2426 02:13:12.319 --> 02:13:15.520 the weeds in that time. Now the weeds have come through. 2427 02:13:15.960 --> 02:13:19.479 But I suggest that that's my wife the weed rototillate, 2428 02:13:19.840 --> 02:13:23.399 but it's got black paper all underneath. There was too 2429 02:13:23.479 --> 02:13:26.640 heavy to a lift. So how to what's your best. 2430 02:13:26.479 --> 02:13:27.239 Idea of how to. 2431 02:13:28.800 --> 02:13:33.199 Get rid of all that stuff and prepare it for grass. 2432 02:13:34.880 --> 02:13:36.680 You know, there are certain times in life when I 2433 02:13:36.760 --> 02:13:39.680 wish I had a time capsule, like back to the future, 2434 02:13:39.760 --> 02:13:41.600 where I could go back when they're about to put 2435 02:13:41.640 --> 02:13:44.039 that stuff down and say stop it, don't do that. 2436 02:13:44.680 --> 02:13:47.439 That's about it. I hate that cloth for the reasons 2437 02:13:47.520 --> 02:13:51.479 you're describing. You know, rototiller is not gonna pick it 2438 02:13:51.600 --> 02:13:54.079 up if it's got enough soil on it. You Trying 2439 02:13:54.119 --> 02:13:56.439 to pull and lift it up is not a practical 2440 02:13:56.479 --> 02:13:59.399 way to go, and that just creates a problem because 2441 02:13:59.399 --> 02:14:01.000 that's really what we need to do, is lift it 2442 02:14:01.079 --> 02:14:05.000 up and get it all out of there. Y yeah, 2443 02:14:05.159 --> 02:14:07.039 tiller is just going to be a mess. So there's 2444 02:14:07.119 --> 02:14:10.920 really not a good solution at this point. Uh That 2445 02:14:11.079 --> 02:14:14.359 doesn't involve a lot of work, you know, like excavating 2446 02:14:14.439 --> 02:14:17.319 soil to get down where you can lift that fabric up, 2447 02:14:17.399 --> 02:14:20.439 and there's roots tangled in it and everything else. So 2448 02:14:20.720 --> 02:14:22.520 about all you can do is just go over the 2449 02:14:22.600 --> 02:14:24.920 top of it, uh, you know with your planting. 2450 02:14:25.439 --> 02:14:25.560 Uh. 2451 02:14:25.680 --> 02:14:27.079 And that's not ideal. 2452 02:14:27.239 --> 02:14:30.800 But you just got to suggest putting fresh soil and 2453 02:14:30.840 --> 02:14:32.880 then then trying to put in our grass. 2454 02:14:32.960 --> 02:14:38.359 Like I heard. Yeah, how deep is how deep below 2455 02:14:38.399 --> 02:14:39.960 the surface is this fabric? 2456 02:14:41.840 --> 02:14:44.880 Tell me about it? About an answer to. 2457 02:14:46.560 --> 02:14:50.920 Oh, okay, oh no, I wouldn't put the grass on 2458 02:14:51.079 --> 02:14:51.479 top of that. 2459 02:14:52.199 --> 02:14:55.840 Oh boy, you wouldn't put I'm sorry, I wouldn't. 2460 02:14:55.479 --> 02:14:56.880 Put the grass on top of it. 2461 02:14:57.680 --> 02:14:58.159 Uh huh. 2462 02:14:59.720 --> 02:15:01.720 First of all, my first answer is there's not a 2463 02:15:01.760 --> 02:15:04.479 good answer, okay, And I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna 2464 02:15:04.479 --> 02:15:07.640 give you the answers that are not good answers. I know, 2465 02:15:07.880 --> 02:15:10.039 to try to pick it up with your hands is difficult. 2466 02:15:10.520 --> 02:15:13.520 They are different. I've used all kinds of ingenuity to 2467 02:15:13.600 --> 02:15:15.279 try to deal with stuff like that. I mean, you 2468 02:15:15.359 --> 02:15:19.119 could you could get dig out some where you could 2469 02:15:19.119 --> 02:15:22.960 really attach to it, you know, twist attach a rope 2470 02:15:23.000 --> 02:15:25.640 real tight to it where we'll pull and then use it. 2471 02:15:25.680 --> 02:15:27.840 Come along to pull it out. I mean, I don't 2472 02:15:27.880 --> 02:15:29.279 know how to go about it. I don't know what 2473 02:15:29.399 --> 02:15:32.359 to tell you. Spading forks, come along, whatever you can 2474 02:15:32.399 --> 02:15:36.479 do to kind of loosen things. But you just can't 2475 02:15:36.520 --> 02:15:40.439 put turf grass over it. If unless it is a 2476 02:15:40.640 --> 02:15:44.319 really cheap product that tears are one that allows roots 2477 02:15:44.359 --> 02:15:47.760 to readily go right through it. If you put three 2478 02:15:47.840 --> 02:15:50.560 or four inches of soil on top and plant it, 2479 02:15:50.920 --> 02:15:53.079 you might get by with that. That may be okay, 2480 02:15:54.359 --> 02:15:56.479 Well I tell you I don't like any of these 2481 02:15:56.520 --> 02:16:00.000 other answers other than removing it in some way, shape 2482 02:16:00.199 --> 02:16:01.760 or form. Figure not a way to do it. 2483 02:16:03.000 --> 02:16:05.600 Wow, Okay, thank you, old Raggy. 2484 02:16:07.680 --> 02:16:08.720 Did I make your day? 2485 02:16:11.399 --> 02:16:12.119 I'm okay. 2486 02:16:12.560 --> 02:16:14.960 I sank you very much, so appreciate. 2487 02:16:14.600 --> 02:16:17.840 Bottom bottom line. Yeah. Bottom line answer Charlie, I hope 2488 02:16:17.880 --> 02:16:20.000 you heard is you could try throwing three inches of 2489 02:16:20.039 --> 02:16:22.079 soil over it and then planting on top of it 2490 02:16:22.119 --> 02:16:24.279 because you already have an inch under it, just to 2491 02:16:24.359 --> 02:16:27.039 get a good start there. I think that might work. 2492 02:16:27.720 --> 02:16:34.120 But removing it and using ingenuity is not a happy answer. 2493 02:16:34.200 --> 02:16:37.239 But that's that's something else. Thank you, Thank you. 2494 02:16:37.799 --> 02:16:38.879 I appreciate thank you sir. 2495 02:16:40.200 --> 02:16:43.239 You bet yeah, you know, I tell you there are 2496 02:16:43.360 --> 02:16:47.559 situations in gardening where there's not a great solution, just 2497 02:16:47.680 --> 02:16:50.159 not a great solution. All right, we run a little 2498 02:16:50.159 --> 02:16:51.479 over here. We're going to take a break. We'll be 2499 02:16:51.639 --> 02:16:56.959 right back with your calls. Seven seventy four. Welcome back 2500 02:16:56.959 --> 02:16:58.600 to the garden Line. Good to heavy with us. We're 2501 02:16:58.639 --> 02:17:00.879 in our last segment of the day. We'll be back 2502 02:17:00.959 --> 02:17:04.000 next Saturday and Sunday from six am to ten am. 2503 02:17:04.959 --> 02:17:07.680 If you have friends and neighbors that haven't listened to 2504 02:17:07.760 --> 02:17:10.399 garden Line, tell them about it so they can tune in. 2505 02:17:10.559 --> 02:17:14.840 You know, I like to listen to KTRH using my 2506 02:17:15.040 --> 02:17:18.200 phone app, the iHeartMedia app, and you can just put 2507 02:17:18.239 --> 02:17:20.040 in your pocket and care around while you're doing gardening 2508 02:17:20.079 --> 02:17:22.200 work or wherever you're going. You can have it with you. 2509 02:17:22.239 --> 02:17:24.520 If you're not near a radio, you can have it 2510 02:17:24.680 --> 02:17:27.440 that way. It works really really well. And thank you 2511 02:17:27.520 --> 02:17:29.799 for being a listener too. By the way, hey, I 2512 02:17:29.920 --> 02:17:33.159 wanted to talk a little bit about Nelson Watergarden. I've 2513 02:17:33.239 --> 02:17:35.639 mentioned them many times in the past and talked about 2514 02:17:35.639 --> 02:17:38.479 what an outstanding nursery. There are lots of plants, a 2515 02:17:39.040 --> 02:17:41.600 great selection By the way, they got a really good 2516 02:17:41.680 --> 02:17:44.959 sale on fruit trees and on citrus trees right now, 2517 02:17:45.079 --> 02:17:47.639 So if you've been thinking about getting one, now's the 2518 02:17:47.680 --> 02:17:49.120 time to get the best dear you're going to get. 2519 02:17:49.520 --> 02:17:51.559 It's a really good sale that they have going on. 2520 02:17:52.000 --> 02:17:55.079 But you know, they specialize in water gardens. That is 2521 02:17:55.600 --> 02:17:58.879 kind of their forte that's what they started with, and 2522 02:17:59.040 --> 02:18:02.959 they're nationally known for. And when you go to Neilson 2523 02:18:03.440 --> 02:18:06.440 Water Gardens and Nursery, you are going to find a 2524 02:18:07.040 --> 02:18:11.239 unbelievable supply of everything related to water. If you will, 2525 02:18:11.600 --> 02:18:14.600 for example, you want a disappearing fountain. I think those 2526 02:18:14.639 --> 02:18:16.760 are one of the coolest things that ever was, and 2527 02:18:16.920 --> 02:18:21.399 Nelson invented that. You see these beautiful pottery urns, glazed 2528 02:18:21.440 --> 02:18:24.559 pottery with water coming at the top. The sound of water. 2529 02:18:25.520 --> 02:18:27.680 You need the sound of water in your backyard. We 2530 02:18:27.799 --> 02:18:30.079 put a little multi tiered fountain in in our yard 2531 02:18:30.200 --> 02:18:33.440 and I just like to sit. Is so relaxing. It 2532 02:18:33.639 --> 02:18:36.159 is like therapy out there. To sit and enjoy the 2533 02:18:36.280 --> 02:18:38.719 sound of water, especially on a hot summer day, brings 2534 02:18:38.760 --> 02:18:41.799 in birds too, and beneficial insects a supply of water 2535 02:18:41.879 --> 02:18:44.120 as well. Many of them do do you want a 2536 02:18:44.239 --> 02:18:47.760 water garden, you know with lily pads or other water 2537 02:18:48.120 --> 02:18:51.440 plants with koi or goldfish or other fish like that, 2538 02:18:52.600 --> 02:18:54.520 Nelson Water Garden and Nursery is the place to go. 2539 02:18:54.639 --> 02:18:57.319 Here's the number two eight, one, three, nine to one 2540 02:18:57.760 --> 02:19:03.079 forty seven sixty nine or goat to water Nelsonwatergardens dot com. 2541 02:19:03.280 --> 02:19:06.399 Nelson Watergardens dot com. They're just north of I ten 2542 02:19:06.600 --> 02:19:09.600 on Katie Fort Ben Road out in Katie. Think of 2543 02:19:09.680 --> 02:19:14.680 it as your West Houston destination garden center. That's Nelson 2544 02:19:14.760 --> 02:19:16.760 Water Gardens. And while you're out there, by the way, 2545 02:19:16.760 --> 02:19:19.200 they have a lot of good products too. They have 2546 02:19:19.239 --> 02:19:22.799 a good selection. For example, Microlife. I know you have 2547 02:19:22.959 --> 02:19:25.639 heard of Microlife unless you've been living under a rock. 2548 02:19:26.760 --> 02:19:30.040 Microlife has all the granular fertilizers you know, for your lawn, 2549 02:19:30.159 --> 02:19:32.360 for your soil, for your plants that we've talked about. 2550 02:19:32.399 --> 02:19:33.520 I just want to tell you a little bit about 2551 02:19:33.520 --> 02:19:37.079 some of their liquid fertilizers. One of the ones that 2552 02:19:37.280 --> 02:19:42.040 I use the most is Microlife Biomatrix. It's an orange label, 2553 02:19:42.200 --> 02:19:44.840 liquid comes in a gallon, comes into quurt It's a 2554 02:19:44.959 --> 02:19:49.159 seven to one three ratio fertilizer. I have good boost 2555 02:19:49.239 --> 02:19:52.559 and nitrogen. I use it on houseplants because that foliage 2556 02:19:52.639 --> 02:19:55.959 that's leafy, green growing, and you need a good nitrogen 2557 02:19:56.000 --> 02:19:59.319 boost for that. It's excellent for that. I've had excellent results. 2558 02:19:59.520 --> 02:20:01.159 You can put a in your garden. You can use 2559 02:20:01.200 --> 02:20:03.920 it watering plants in. As a matter of fact, if 2560 02:20:03.959 --> 02:20:06.200 you were going to water plants in, you might want 2561 02:20:06.200 --> 02:20:09.879 to try Microlife Maximum Blooms. That's a pink or reddish 2562 02:20:10.000 --> 02:20:14.280 label that does very very well, Microlife Maximum Bloom. If 2563 02:20:14.319 --> 02:20:16.319 you want to boost for plants. I bet you never 2564 02:20:16.360 --> 02:20:20.440 heard of this product, Microlife Soil and Plant Energy. Microlife 2565 02:20:20.479 --> 02:20:23.959 Soil and Plant Energy is a superb combination of humic 2566 02:20:24.079 --> 02:20:29.879 acid and molasses. Molasses is like rocket fuel for beneficial 2567 02:20:30.000 --> 02:20:35.360 soil microbes. You're going to boost the energy and the 2568 02:20:35.479 --> 02:20:38.520 supply by putting that carbon in the soil. With Microlife 2569 02:20:38.559 --> 02:20:42.200 Soil and Plant Energy and also that humic acid benefiting 2570 02:20:42.280 --> 02:20:45.559 your soil. You know, you make your soil better, you 2571 02:20:45.719 --> 02:20:49.760 make your plants better. And Microlife Soil and Plant Energy 2572 02:20:50.159 --> 02:20:52.440 is an outstanding liquid. You can mix it in water, 2573 02:20:52.559 --> 02:20:54.479 you can spray it. It's not going to burn plant. 2574 02:20:54.520 --> 02:20:56.120 You can spray it on the foliage, plant it's not 2575 02:20:56.200 --> 02:20:58.399 going to burn them. It does very very well. I 2576 02:20:58.440 --> 02:21:01.600 would recommend it, especially as something that you apply to 2577 02:21:01.680 --> 02:21:07.000 your soil around your plants from microlife. Well, let's see here, 2578 02:21:07.000 --> 02:21:09.200 what are we looking at. We might have time for 2579 02:21:09.239 --> 02:21:11.559 a real quick call if someone wants to call in. 2580 02:21:11.799 --> 02:21:14.440 Got a few minutes left before we put this one 2581 02:21:14.639 --> 02:21:17.680 in the books. I appreciate you listening to Guardland. We've 2582 02:21:17.680 --> 02:21:20.760 talked about a lot of different things today, and I 2583 02:21:21.000 --> 02:21:24.520 just want to really urge you to not let summer 2584 02:21:25.000 --> 02:21:27.799 stop you from being a gardener. The early morning hours 2585 02:21:27.879 --> 02:21:29.840 are cool, you can get out, you can get some 2586 02:21:29.920 --> 02:21:33.440 stuff done. It just it doesn't take a lot of 2587 02:21:33.520 --> 02:21:36.040 work to keep things going out in the yard, not 2588 02:21:36.159 --> 02:21:39.280 in the garden. And now with plant sales going on 2589 02:21:39.440 --> 02:21:42.840 all over the place, this is a great time to 2590 02:21:42.959 --> 02:21:45.920 put some plants in. I know we talk about spring 2591 02:21:46.040 --> 02:21:48.719 planting and winter planting and fall, which is the best 2592 02:21:48.799 --> 02:21:51.719 planning season of the year, But what about putting some 2593 02:21:51.920 --> 02:21:54.559 color in for the next few months. You know, September 2594 02:21:54.799 --> 02:21:57.520 is a summer month, right. If you've been in Texas 2595 02:21:57.559 --> 02:21:59.520 more than one summer, you know September is a summer 2596 02:21:59.600 --> 02:22:02.360 month here. So if you put something in. Now, you 2597 02:22:02.440 --> 02:22:06.440 got August, you got September, you got October, sometime into 2598 02:22:06.520 --> 02:22:10.559 November before we really get some cooler weather arriving where 2599 02:22:10.639 --> 02:22:13.600 we would start looking at cool season color. Why not 2600 02:22:13.879 --> 02:22:20.000 establish some colorful foliage like colius, like copper plant, like 2601 02:22:20.360 --> 02:22:24.719 persian shield, beautiful silvery purple color. Oh, it's gorgeous, like 2602 02:22:24.799 --> 02:22:28.559 some of the colorful cannas, the phasion or the tropicana. 2603 02:22:28.879 --> 02:22:30.479 Why not do some color, or why not do some 2604 02:22:30.559 --> 02:22:35.399 flowers like angelonia, like marigoles. You put maragoles in still, 2605 02:22:35.680 --> 02:22:37.920 you know, I like to plant my fall maragoles in 2606 02:22:38.360 --> 02:22:42.319 late summer, and the spider maight population starts to decline 2607 02:22:42.360 --> 02:22:45.120 as we go into the fall season, and they just 2608 02:22:45.319 --> 02:22:48.760 glow in the cooler fall temperatures that I have to 2609 02:22:48.799 --> 02:22:51.239 fight against the fire ants that are out there. Well 2610 02:22:51.399 --> 02:22:56.559 my fire ants, Okay, spider mites is what I was 2611 02:22:56.639 --> 02:22:57.200 trying to say. 2612 02:22:57.280 --> 02:22:57.479 For that. 2613 02:22:59.079 --> 02:23:01.600 Well, let's see here, let's see a call coming in. 2614 02:23:01.719 --> 02:23:03.600 We're gonna try to do a real quick answer here 2615 02:23:03.680 --> 02:23:05.000 for them. If we can get them back here on 2616 02:23:05.079 --> 02:23:09.399 the line, be a fast one. But summer is a 2617 02:23:09.479 --> 02:23:11.799 season where we can still plant and there's a lot 2618 02:23:11.879 --> 02:23:15.520 of heat tolerate. You go to these outstanding garden centers, 2619 02:23:15.600 --> 02:23:18.239 them Omipop, the independent nurseries that we talk about on 2620 02:23:18.360 --> 02:23:20.479 garden Line. You go out there and talk to them 2621 02:23:21.000 --> 02:23:24.440 and say, what can I plant now that'll give me 2622 02:23:24.719 --> 02:23:28.200 three months of color. There's no sense in summer being 2623 02:23:28.440 --> 02:23:32.399 a sea of green, and drive around town look at landscapes. 2624 02:23:32.520 --> 02:23:37.200 It's a sea of green, green grass, green groundcovers, green shrubs, 2625 02:23:37.479 --> 02:23:41.879 green trees, green vines. There's nothing wrong with green. Green 2626 02:23:42.000 --> 02:23:46.559 isn't the only color. It's not the only color. All right, Well, 2627 02:23:46.600 --> 02:23:49.000 I hear the music. I'm just gonna keep talking about it. Actually, 2628 02:23:49.040 --> 02:23:51.440 I want to tell you about something else. Coming up 2629 02:23:51.879 --> 02:23:53.959 is an event that you need to know about. It's 2630 02:23:53.959 --> 02:23:58.239 called OBA Palooza. I love that name. Oba O HbA. 2631 02:23:58.440 --> 02:24:02.000 That's the organic horticulture if it's alliance. It's an organic 2632 02:24:02.079 --> 02:24:05.239 group here in Houston, made up of commercial companies, made 2633 02:24:05.280 --> 02:24:09.200 up of individuals interested in organic gardening, made up of educators. 2634 02:24:10.000 --> 02:24:12.760 I love to go to OBA events. They are always 2635 02:24:13.360 --> 02:24:17.639 always outstanding. I can promise you top notch speakers this event. 2636 02:24:17.920 --> 02:24:20.639 I take too long to name all the speakers there. 2637 02:24:20.680 --> 02:24:23.159 They're gonna have two headliners. 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