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Speaker 1: Good mornings, Good morning, Welcome to Garden Line. That's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do today. We're gonna talk about gardenings and
Speaker 1: all kinds of other things related to gardening as well.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 1: And that part of that deal is you you know,
Speaker 1: I have things I like to talk about, things that
Speaker 1: I know are timely from the kind of questions I'm
Speaker 1: getting and what I'm seeing them out yard. But you
Speaker 1: guys help set the stage for the show. Really, I mean,
Speaker 1: what what are you interested in? Are we gonna talk
Speaker 1: about tomatoes today? We're gonna talk about lawns, talk about trees.
Speaker 1: Those are the big three that make the phone ring
Speaker 1: around here. Trees, turf, and tomatoes, the three t's. We'll
Speaker 1: have a lot of other kinds of questions though as well.
Speaker 1: All you gotta do if you're interested in asking a
Speaker 1: question is you can reach out to me. Seven one
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Speaker 1: two one two kt r H. I was driving through
Speaker 1: some neighborhoods the other day. I have a habit of
Speaker 1: not liking to take and take the oh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: beaten path or whatever. You know, if I'm going across town,
Speaker 1: if I'm in a hurry, yeah I get on a
Speaker 1: freeway or whatever. But wherever I can, I like to
Speaker 1: kind of cut through a neighborhood, just see what's going on,
Speaker 1: see a lot of houses, a lot of plants, a
Speaker 1: lot of ideas, and I enjoy doing that. I was
Speaker 1: looking at a landscape that was just gorgeous as I
Speaker 1: was driving by. I caught my eye from the side
Speaker 1: and I looked at it, just stopped and looked at it.
Speaker 1: And when I first saw it, I thought this. I
Speaker 1: kind of thought, well, what is it about that landscape
Speaker 1: that makes it so attractive? And it was the layout.
Speaker 1: It was the layout and the design and where they
Speaker 1: had put plants and things. It just overall topped a
Speaker 1: bottom looked good. And I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 1: felt this way, but sometimes we buy things, we bring
Speaker 1: them home, we plant them. There are babies, there are plants,
Speaker 1: get them in the ground, and you know, we enjoy them.
Speaker 1: They look good and everything, but we always feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I just don't quite know how to do this.
Speaker 1: And I've had people ask me before you how do
Speaker 1: you know where to put a plant? Of course the
Speaker 1: answers of it needs sunlight, it needs drainage and all
Speaker 1: that that applies. But esthetically, where do you put a plant?
Speaker 1: That is one of the things that I so appreciate
Speaker 1: about Peerscapes is they they know go to their website,
Speaker 1: go to pierscapes dot com, look at what they do.
Speaker 1: That's the bottom line, and when you look at it,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, I see that, I get it, and
Speaker 1: there is something to landscape design. Now listen, it's your yard.
Speaker 1: You can do whatever you want, you planet where you want.
Speaker 1: Like I like, I often say, it's between you and
Speaker 1: the hoa as to where you put things and how
Speaker 1: you do it. But if you want to have that
Speaker 1: nice curb appeal, if you want your house value to increase,
Speaker 1: if you want someday you're going to maybe sell it
Speaker 1: or you know, move on to some other house, you
Speaker 1: want it to be as valuable as it can be
Speaker 1: and as attractive as it can be, not just to
Speaker 1: get more money for the house, but to have it
Speaker 1: move faster when it hits the market and that kind
Speaker 1: of eye catching appeal. That's what they do so well.
Speaker 1: And I you know, I'm a plant person. I know plants,
Speaker 1: But when it comes to design, yeah, not so much.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could go and get me, I don't know, Rembrandts,
Speaker 1: canvases and painting and paints and brushes and everything. Set
Speaker 1: them in front of me, and I'll promise you it
Speaker 1: ain't gonna look like it's gonna look like two monkeys
Speaker 1: fell in paint and started wrestling on a piece of paper.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's my painting style. You got to get
Speaker 1: somebody knows what they're doing and in order to have
Speaker 1: that show place kind of look. And this is what
Speaker 1: they do, Chris. They do other things. They do landscape irrigation,
Speaker 1: they do, drainage areas, They do hard escapes. They do
Speaker 1: landscape lighting, lots of other things, but Pierce Capes isn't.
Speaker 1: They're professionals and they know how to do it right.
Speaker 1: You can give them a call to eight one three
Speaker 1: seven fifty sixty two eight one three seven o five
Speaker 1: zero six zero, but mainly go to that website piercescapes
Speaker 1: dot com. You'll get some ideas there, just like I
Speaker 1: do when I'm driving around town looking at cool landscapes.
Speaker 1: I won't take I almost steal that. Not the landscape,
Speaker 1: I almost steel the idea. I won't take it home,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to try some of that in my yard.
Speaker 1: That's how I enjoyed you. I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: a peruser of landscapes or not. Pet anyway, it's a
Speaker 1: fun thing to do. You learn a lot too.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 1: I was just looking at some of the weather coming
Speaker 1: up here. I got some scattered storms and stuff today.
Speaker 1: So far, it's pretty quiet out there in the Gulf,
Speaker 1: but that ain't the last. We're in a hurricane season
Speaker 1: and we will have storms coming through, and hopefully it
Speaker 1: won't be like last year where we had a couple
Speaker 1: of storms that just shattered trees, knocked them all over
Speaker 1: the place and put out power and everything like that.
Speaker 1: But it always reminds me that you got to keep
Speaker 1: your trees well pruned. And of course you've heard me
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Speaker 1: do deeper feeding, pests, disease control, stump grinding. Pre construction
Speaker 1: care so important. Maybe you don't. Maybe you you know,
Speaker 1: haven't even put in a landscape yet, and you're building
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Speaker 1: on the property. Don't start letting them put down trenches
Speaker 1: and foundations and sidewalks and things until you have Martin
Speaker 1: come out and have them advise you on what to
Speaker 1: do before the construction before the damage occurs, because you
Speaker 1: can it does a lot of damage to a tree
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Speaker 1: hurricane season is here. And are your trees ready? You know,
Speaker 1: a top heavy tree, a weak limb, you've got fences,
Speaker 1: you've got your house, God forbid, there's your neighbor's house,
Speaker 1: and so on. A lot of damage can be done
Speaker 1: by a tree that was improperly pruned over time and
Speaker 1: is now structurally weak. So just it's an ongoing thing
Speaker 1: to keep your trees as healthy and strong as you can.
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Speaker 1: Uh I uh am gonna be planting in my garden today.
Speaker 1: I've got a few things I'm putting out in the
Speaker 1: vegetable garden. I've been kind of focusing on my landscape
Speaker 1: a lot lately, and so the vegetable garden has kind
Speaker 1: of been ignored. But one thing I did that I'm
Speaker 1: glad I did, and I learned to do this a
Speaker 1: long time ago, is whenever you pull out a crop,
Speaker 1: you know you let's say you grew spin and lettuce
Speaker 1: and carrots, or something in a bed this past cool season,
Speaker 1: and it time to get all that harvested out for
Speaker 1: warm season planting. In between the time I pull the
Speaker 1: crop out and I plant the new thing, I always
Speaker 1: mulch the soil surface well. And right now I'm taking
Speaker 1: grass clippings from my yard, and I don't put them thick,
Speaker 1: because they get all gooey if you put them real thick.
Speaker 1: But fresh grass clippings a couple of inches deep is
Speaker 1: just fine. And they just sit out there and they
Speaker 1: dry and they cover the soil surface. And I do
Speaker 1: that with leaves, I do that with other things. When
Speaker 1: it's time to plant. What I'm gonna do is I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and there are very few weeds
Speaker 1: in those beds. Had I not mulch ahead of time,
Speaker 1: it would have been a chia pet of weeds out there.
Speaker 1: And so what I'll do is I'll pull that mulch
Speaker 1: back and either set in the transplants or plant the
Speaker 1: row seeds or whatever I'm going to do. But it
Speaker 1: makes it so much easier because listen, when there's fire
Speaker 1: ants around, which they are when it's one hundred degrees,
Speaker 1: which it will be in the summer, you don't want
Speaker 1: to be out there pulling weeds so you can put
Speaker 1: in a garden. You want to get that stuff done
Speaker 1: ahead of time. And it's really easy to do if
Speaker 1: you just keep the soil surface moltt. Wherever sunlight hits
Speaker 1: the soil, nature plants a weed. That's true in your lawns,
Speaker 1: and that's true in your gardens as well. All right,
Speaker 1: just keep that in mind. Keep it malts. Make it
Speaker 1: easier on yourself. Don't make it so hard to try
Speaker 1: to try to keep everything nice and clean. I'm going
Speaker 1: to take a little break here. We'll be back in
Speaker 1: a moment if you'd like to be will it first
Speaker 1: up today? Seven one three two one two KTRH. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: welcome back, Welcome back to the garden. Iine, Hey, you
Speaker 1: got a question, give me a call seven one three
Speaker 1: two one two KTRH. Be happy to help with that.
Speaker 1: I posted something to Facebook just a few days ago.
Speaker 1: My daughter sent me a picture of a little fiddlely
Speaker 1: figed shed. She showed it to me one time. I
Speaker 1: was over there, and he's like, man, that thing looked bad.
Speaker 1: It was like it was closer to yellow than it
Speaker 1: was to green, literally, and it wasn't doing good, and
Speaker 1: I thought, oh gosh, I've been overwatered. Its roots are
Speaker 1: rotting and it's a goner. Anyway, it wasn't apparently, I
Speaker 1: guess it wasn't a root rot But I gave her
Speaker 1: a little sample of Medina products. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: Medina products out there, but the six twelve six it's
Speaker 1: the Medina has to grow plant food six twelve six.
Speaker 1: And the little sample bottle makes two gallons. And so
Speaker 1: she mixed up one and watered it in with it,
Speaker 1: and it's back in May. I believe she did this,
Speaker 1: and then she mixed it up again and watered it
Speaker 1: again with it. A little bit later and a lot
Speaker 1: of about a month is when she sent me the
Speaker 1: picture this of it again. She had the before and after,
Speaker 1: and it was dramatic, dramatic if there was a new
Speaker 1: growth coming ont the top of it. Now it is happy,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't surprise me. Medina products, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of different products. They've got their their humate. It
Speaker 1: is just well, it's called humade humic acid. Basically, it's
Speaker 1: what it is, and it just wonders for soil in
Speaker 1: terms of helping with the soil structure inside humus is
Speaker 1: part of what nature does to improve soil's physical properties.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of benefits for microbial activity, for nutrient
Speaker 1: exchange and other things in human at umic acid. It's
Speaker 1: a liquid you can use that. You can use that
Speaker 1: at any time you want to use it on anything,
Speaker 1: you want to use it. It works well. They also
Speaker 1: have a product I like a lot called Medina Plus.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 1: Medina Plus is the old Medina soil activator that a
Speaker 1: lot of gardeners have loved for a lot of time.
Speaker 1: Plus over forty different trace elements including also some plant hormones,
Speaker 1: natural growth hormones. It's got seaweed extract in it, and
Speaker 1: it just does. It just does. Wonders for giving your
Speaker 1: plants a boost. You need to give them a try.
Speaker 1: You're going to find Adena products everywhere. Feed stores, the
Speaker 1: garden centers we talk about here on garden Line, ace
Speaker 1: hardware stores, all kinds of places. We can find that
Speaker 1: whole line, whole line of Medina products. At work. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I thought that before and after picture was kind of cool,
Speaker 1: so I just since you are sent it out there
Speaker 1: on our Facebook page. If you don't follow garden Line Facebook,
Speaker 1: you ought to. We post stuff all the time up there.
Speaker 1: And if you also, if you want to follow a
Speaker 1: garden line with Skip, it's called Garden Line with Skip
Speaker 1: the that's an Instagram account that we put some things
Speaker 1: up on as well. Facebook's a little more active for me,
Speaker 1: but anyway, we do both. Let's see, I was talking
Speaker 1: about planting in the vegetable garden. That is something that
Speaker 1: I definitely need to need to get out and do.
Speaker 1: My garden has sat fallow for too long, and you know,
Speaker 1: he said, well, what does that mean too long? Well,
Speaker 1: I've been busy. I just covered in doing other things.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I've been taking care of my landscape.
Speaker 1: I've got some lawn issues that I've been having to
Speaker 1: deal with, and I don't know. One of my zoisias
Speaker 1: is having a little bit of a struggle. I know
Speaker 1: it's in a low shade environment. It's got little bit
Speaker 1: of some disease looking patches in it, and I'm having
Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of that and figure out
Speaker 1: what's going on with that, what's the cause of it.
Speaker 1: Part of the problem with my lawns is the fact
Speaker 1: that I've got two Golden retrievers weigh about one hundred
Speaker 1: pounds each. And those monsters, let's just say, when they
Speaker 1: go out there and start running, when they turn a corner,
Speaker 1: it pushes up a hill with their paws the size
Speaker 1: of a mole hill, because you know, they just trump
Speaker 1: the heck out of the thing. And then they like
Speaker 1: to kill the grass by going to the bathroom in
Speaker 1: certain spots. So anyway, you probably have dealt with that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. We can we can't have dogs in
Speaker 1: lawns coexist, and that's kind of what I'm working on
Speaker 1: in that. Well, tell you what, let's go out to
Speaker 1: the phones here. I'm going to head to Spring now
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk to Bonnie this morning. Well, hello, Bonnie,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line High Skip.
Speaker 7: I have a tropical high discus I got in December,
Speaker 7: and this it would get almost to bloom stage. The
Speaker 7: buds would start showing color and then they just drop off.
Speaker 7: One actually did fully bloom. And when it dropped off,
Speaker 7: I looked underneath and there was a little hole in
Speaker 7: one of the petals. So when I pulled the pedals back,
Speaker 7: there's a little green caterpillar inside and there were some
Speaker 7: eggs that I threw it away. And now I'm seeing
Speaker 7: little black spots and some of the butts. Also some
Speaker 7: of the leafs. Once in a while there's a leaf
Speaker 7: that is yellow and just falls off. So what's going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, there are different things going on there.
Speaker 1: First of all, you did find the actual insect in
Speaker 1: the case of burring in, and they do some caterpillars
Speaker 1: that will attack them. That's that's just kind of part
Speaker 1: of the deal. The black spots could be a little
Speaker 1: tiny bacterial spot infections, or if they're bigger, it could
Speaker 1: even a city mold. When you have insects that sect
Speaker 1: the juices out of the plant, they produce a sugary
Speaker 1: water that causes a city mold to grow. But those
Speaker 1: are a little bit larger city looking patches as opposed
Speaker 1: to a little, tiny, small black spot. You can use
Speaker 1: an insecticide. You could use an insecticide on them to
Speaker 1: control things like that caterpillar and and other things that
Speaker 1: might show up. And that might be good. I know
Speaker 1: that that. You know, the climatic conditions that things are
Speaker 1: going through from fluctuations and so moisture content and whatnot
Speaker 1: can also cause issues with the getting them to go
Speaker 1: from the bud to the blooms successfully without dropping dropping
Speaker 1: those off. So watch out for fertilizing. They do want fertilizer,
Speaker 1: but excess is a lot of lush foliage at the
Speaker 1: expense of blooms, So watch that. Try to keep the
Speaker 1: water as even as you can. Too much or too
Speaker 1: little can cause that bud drop. And so that some
Speaker 1: of that's in your control. Irrigation. The rain is not
Speaker 1: in your control unless you move the plant where you
Speaker 1: have control of water. They like well drained soil. Certainly
Speaker 1: temperatures can cause problems, but I wouldn't. That's not the
Speaker 1: issue we're having right now with your with your hibiscus.
Speaker 1: But that's something else that can cause a bloom drop
Speaker 1: type problem.
Speaker 7: That sends something from ace culp is from bon eye
Speaker 7: called eight and sprayed with that other than if that's
Speaker 7: helping or not, are you familiar with them?
Speaker 1: What is in bone eyed eight eight? We see if
Speaker 1: I can pull that up right quick and find I
Speaker 1: don't know what the.
Speaker 7: Supposed to target eight different things?
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, you tell me what's in the label.
Speaker 1: They're not telling me anyway. Let me see if I
Speaker 1: can find something on it. I'll have to see the
Speaker 1: ingredient in order to know, Okay, it's.
Speaker 7: Got I don't have it with me right now.
Speaker 1: It's a synthetic. It's a synthetic peritheid. Yeah, that'll kill
Speaker 1: a lot of things. That'll kill the caterpillars, will kill aphids,
Speaker 1: it will kill, yeah, the things that are most likely
Speaker 1: to be on your probably not scale, but other things
Speaker 1: it would work pretty well on.
Speaker 7: Okay, all right. Also, I have a quite myrtle that
Speaker 7: was planted in March. It's fifteen gallon quaite myrtle at
Speaker 7: nice size. But I'm just now seeing a little white
Speaker 7: on the leafs. It's a fashion. I thought it was
Speaker 7: supposed to be the resistant and it's story need to
Speaker 7: get white. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Bashian part pink is. It's a pink, pink
Speaker 1: blooming crate myrtle. And it's an old time create myrtle.
Speaker 1: Been around a long time. People have loved that. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's one of the more more famous cret myrtles that
Speaker 1: we've got out there on the market. It's been around
Speaker 1: a very very long time. I don't it's powdery mildew.
Speaker 1: Trying to remember, I don't think it has strong powdery mildew. Resistance.
Speaker 1: Need to need to check that. I'm trying to remember
Speaker 1: it might I mean, I'm just saying I did. I
Speaker 1: should know. I did a big chart on powdery mildew,
Speaker 1: great myrtle varieties and powdery mildew. Uh, you know, success
Speaker 1: in terms of resistance rather to it. So you need
Speaker 1: to make sure and choose from the ones that are
Speaker 1: actually Bash's party. Pink does show good, good to excellent
Speaker 1: powdery mildew resistance, so it shouldn't be getting that. When
Speaker 1: you say white are you are you talking about like,
Speaker 1: do you know what powdery mildy looks like? Is that
Speaker 1: what you're seeing? Or you just something white?
Speaker 7: Another one? Once before I have seen it on a
Speaker 7: different crate than I took out because of the whe Okay.
Speaker 1: Well, I've got about thirty seconds. I have to go
Speaker 1: to a break here. In thirty seconds, let's you want
Speaker 1: to just hang on. When we come back from break,
Speaker 1: I can continue with it on this one. Okay, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: just hang on, you bet all right, got to run
Speaker 1: to break here. We will be back with your calls
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two k t r H
Speaker 1: seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 1: Just hang on, we'll be back to finish this crape
Speaker 1: myrtle discussion. All right, I just have to say one thing.
Speaker 1: I saw a Taylor Swift in concert. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: before she was famous. She was a backup singer to
Speaker 1: Brad Paisley, and we were over in New Bronfels, Texas,
Speaker 1: and I who Taylor Swift was. I guess not many
Speaker 1: people did at that time, but anyway, I thought that
Speaker 1: was cool. That's my claim. That's the closest I got
Speaker 1: to a claim to fame. That is that I went
Speaker 1: to a Brad Paisley concert. All right, let's go back here.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go. If I can find the right button,
Speaker 1: there we go, Bonnie. In spring, we were talking about
Speaker 1: powdery mildew. Powdery mildew if that is what it is,
Speaker 1: which you know, there's possibilities. It could be that your
Speaker 1: plant actually isn't a bashing party pink. It may be
Speaker 1: another pink variety that was sold as that. That's unlikely,
Speaker 1: but that's possible. That would be a reason why it
Speaker 1: might have powdery mildew. It could also be that what
Speaker 1: we're thinking is powdery mil do something else, but for
Speaker 1: powdery mildew. There are products out there that'll work. Nem
Speaker 1: Oil works pretty good if the plant's not too big
Speaker 1: to spray, but nemo coats the leaf and it prevents
Speaker 1: it for a while, so you would have to spray
Speaker 1: it regularly in order to control it. I just don't
Speaker 1: think people are willing to do that much spraying with
Speaker 1: For the pottery mildew, there are systemics that will shut
Speaker 1: it down for longer. Why don't we do this? Why
Speaker 1: don't you if you want to take a picture of it,
Speaker 1: I'm going to put you on hold and my producer
Speaker 1: will give you an email. Send me some close up,
Speaker 1: really well focused pictures of what you think is pottery mildew,
Speaker 1: and that way I can comment on it and we
Speaker 1: can be sure instead of me.
Speaker 7: Guessing that I can try that.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, well, I'm put you on hold here.
Speaker 1: You bet that's what we'll try here, Alejandro, pick up?
Speaker 1: You bet? Glad to do it? Glad to do it?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: The The folks at Nitrophiles have a number of products
Speaker 1: that just works super well. What one of those is
Speaker 1: a product called bugout Now bug Out Max, that's what
Speaker 1: it's called. It is an insecticide that you sprinkle out
Speaker 1: on the ground. It washes off the granules into the
Speaker 1: soil surface, into the thuch area, and it does a
Speaker 1: number on whatever kind of insects you've got. If we're
Speaker 1: talking about fleas and ticks, if we're talking about chinchbugs,
Speaker 1: if we're talking about caterpillars, that are it. It just
Speaker 1: works well. Bug Out Max from nitrofoss is available in
Speaker 1: a lot of different places. If you go to Enchinned
Speaker 1: Gardens out in Richmond Rosenberg on FM three point fifty nine,
Speaker 1: you're gonna find bug out Max. If you go to
Speaker 1: Hiding and Feed on stupidor Airline, or if you go
Speaker 1: to Plants Fell Seasons on two forty nine, they carry
Speaker 1: nitrofoss products at all these places. And so there's just
Speaker 1: an idea for you. Let's let's now go to the
Speaker 1: woodlands and we're going to talk to Huey. Hey, Huey,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 10: Good morning, first time caller. So I have a question.
Speaker 11: I noticed my backyard have a lot of zinc hole
Speaker 11: slash pots that is not making a big hole, but
Speaker 11: he just small pots everywhere.
Speaker 3: And it's not like the.
Speaker 11: Grass is still there, the sawds is still there, but
Speaker 11: it's like a little sink hole. So I don't know
Speaker 11: that's some kind of animal at the bottom that kind
Speaker 11: of take these holes.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how big are How big are
Speaker 1: they here?
Speaker 11: I would say about about a foot a foot why
Speaker 11: narrow depending when I walk through the little sink on
Speaker 11: my foot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, there's different things that can cause something
Speaker 1: like that occasionally. You know, if you had if there
Speaker 1: were a tree that had big root under the ground
Speaker 1: or something, and then that tree's long gone, but now
Speaker 1: the wood is finally riding away, it'll cause there to
Speaker 1: be a soft spot that sinks down. Some kinds of
Speaker 1: animals tunneling underneath can do that. I'm assuming you're knowing though,
Speaker 1: that it's not something digging down from the top, right,
Speaker 1: It's just you're just walking on normal looking ground, but
Speaker 1: it's soft and sinks correct. Yeah, okay, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: one of those things. And you know that's getting outside
Speaker 1: my gardening expertise to go any further than that on it.
Speaker 1: But I have encountered that before for the reasons I
Speaker 1: just mentioned, I've you know that has caused it. I
Speaker 1: would just say, get you a good quality kind of
Speaker 1: a top soil or sandy loamy top soil, Sprinkle it
Speaker 1: over those areas and bring that bring that soil level
Speaker 1: back up, and then your grass should crawl back in
Speaker 1: over that and be just fine.
Speaker 11: So when you say sprinkles top soil, don't even cut
Speaker 11: out this on and underneath it.
Speaker 3: Just sprinkle on top of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, that's the fastest, easiest. And if you
Speaker 1: want to go in and excavate a little foot foot
Speaker 1: wide circle of soid whatever it needs to be, and
Speaker 1: then put some soil in there, step on the soil
Speaker 1: to kind of press it down real good, and then
Speaker 1: set your side back down on top and start watering.
Speaker 1: You could go that route too. That's just a little
Speaker 1: more work, and then you have to remember to water
Speaker 1: it regularly for the first couple of weeks to make
Speaker 1: sure those roots otherwise they'll start to die back if
Speaker 1: you get the water for a couple of days. Okay.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you could be right about the tree and with
Speaker 11: the old route, because I have two tall pine trees.
Speaker 3: They sit in the back, y'all. One of them was
Speaker 3: cut and they'd been there for.
Speaker 11: At least twenty plus years and new grow massive, you know,
Speaker 11: and the other one's still there.
Speaker 1: So I'm assuming you could be right.
Speaker 3: You know, it's in the proximity area.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, okay, well whatever cause did. It's easy to fix.
Speaker 1: But uh appreciate you calling in. Thanks good talking about
Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Okay, sir, you bet, you bet. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's always kind of interesting playing Colombo in the yards
Speaker 1: because it could be it could be a number of
Speaker 1: different things. You know, it's it's hard to just say
Speaker 1: for sure exactly what is causing some of these things. Hey,
Speaker 1: if you haven't been done to mass nursery, go down
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Speaker 1: hearty happened. Everybody knows about the tropical hibiscus down here.
Speaker 1: Those are the gaudy ones that come and ever color
Speaker 1: under the sun. I mean, they're amazing beautiful. Hardy hibiscus
Speaker 1: typically are going to be red, white, pink, or splashed
Speaker 1: or streaked versions of those three colors. That's their colors.
Speaker 1: But the blooms are huge. I mean, they're like we
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Speaker 1: ballooms can be that big on them. Moss has got
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Speaker 12: You know.
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Speaker 1: green that's really gorgeous. It looks good. But moss has
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Speaker 1: Sun patients are basically impatiens that were bred to take
Speaker 1: more sun. Normal impatients can't take too much sun. The
Speaker 1: sun patients they'll grow in a shady spot. But they
Speaker 1: also if it gets a little sunny, they can do
Speaker 1: that well. And some of them are beautiful with a
Speaker 1: yellow and green and the foliage and then the beautiful blooms.
Speaker 1: Impatients are a great little plant to choose while you're there.
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Speaker 1: I love to go see some of the pottery that
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Speaker 1: but the head is kind of hollowed out up there.
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Speaker 1: talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 10: Good morning, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 13: I have a question about a contry it's about sixty
Speaker 13: five years old. And yesterday I suddenly looked up because
Speaker 13: the area I normally look at.
Speaker 10: Was just fine.
Speaker 13: And I look up and I see the three other
Speaker 13: major branches of the tree. The leaves are all wilted
Speaker 13: and they're just hanging up there. So is there some
Speaker 13: disease going around killing the contrees or.
Speaker 1: No, not not like that. So it put out leaves
Speaker 1: and now the leaves are wilting, So that means something
Speaker 1: has messed up the plumbing in that branch. So that means, well, it's.
Speaker 13: Three corners of the tree. It's three quarters of the
Speaker 13: tree with the same branch. I mean three major branches
Speaker 13: going out, and I have one good branch and I
Speaker 13: don't see any damage.
Speaker 10: On it yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the same thing, same answer though, So what's happening
Speaker 1: is water was flowing to those leaves and now it's not.
Speaker 1: And so it could be borers that are in the branch,
Speaker 1: that are in the way down where the you know, wherever,
Speaker 1: wherever you see a healthy branch, you go, you follow
Speaker 1: the branch out and it's got leaves. You follow the
Speaker 1: branch next to it out and it doesn't Something on
Speaker 1: that doesn't side is disrupting the float. It could be
Speaker 1: a number of things, borers or a possibility because they
Speaker 1: essentially cut the plumbing tubes that are carrying the water
Speaker 1: up to the top. It could be a canker, a disease,
Speaker 1: a wound, something along those lines. Now occasionally it's it's
Speaker 1: in the soil to a degree, an individual root. You
Speaker 1: could follow its flow path all the way up to
Speaker 1: a leaf. Okay, a little tiny root up all the
Speaker 1: way up to a leaf. So if you were to
Speaker 1: go on one side of your tree and cut all
Speaker 1: the roots, you would see a section of that tree
Speaker 1: wilt immediately because it had lost all its supply of
Speaker 1: water for the taking to survive the next pot day. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily right above that what you cut. Sometimes
Speaker 1: the trunk twists a little bit, and you know, the
Speaker 1: flow isn't necessarily just straight up, but generally it is.
Speaker 1: So I would look at the soil too, and say,
Speaker 1: what has happened on the side where, in your case,
Speaker 1: three fourth of it where you're seeing all of that
Speaker 1: wilting on the branches, and just consider that. It could
Speaker 1: be a trench that was dug. I don't know, it
Speaker 1: could be other things, but something unknown at this point
Speaker 1: is affecting the plumbing, and it has happened pretty darn quick.
Speaker 1: If you're seeing that, that's Has this been going on
Speaker 1: for months or is this just a new thing?
Speaker 13: Well, I just basically noticed it in the last couple
Speaker 13: of days. I saw a low wilted branch from the
Speaker 13: way the window is, and I thought it was just
Speaker 13: that one branch, and I walk out and I finally
Speaker 13: look up and it's like, oh my goodness. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 13: think there's any possibility of saving the street or is it.
Speaker 10: Just a goner.
Speaker 1: Boy wilting like you're describing. I'm I'm not positive about
Speaker 1: its opportunity or as chances of coming back, But I
Speaker 1: can't predict it. You know, I'm basically talking to you
Speaker 1: on a phone call here. I can't see the tree
Speaker 1: or walk around it or anything. I wasn't there the
Speaker 1: past weeks and months and stuff, and so it's really hard.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say for sure, but these kind of
Speaker 1: things tend not to be just temporary. Now, if for
Speaker 1: some reason that the three is sixty five years old,
Speaker 1: that's the thing that is kind of makes me not
Speaker 1: very hopeful for it. You know, if an area got
Speaker 1: dry well, the roots that supply that area could start
Speaker 1: to wilt and new water and they come back. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's the case with your tree. So that's
Speaker 1: leaving us with physically damaged plumbing. You know again, birrors, cankers, whatever,
Speaker 1: root rots, whatever, and that doesn't fix itself quick enough
Speaker 1: to save those branches. The demands are high, and the
Speaker 1: temperature is hot, and it's going to get hotter. So
Speaker 1: I would say unlikely, but definitely don't give up on
Speaker 1: it just yet.
Speaker 10: Well that's kind of what I thought she would say.
Speaker 13: Okay, but I think I'll watch and see what happens
Speaker 13: through this last branch, major branch going up.
Speaker 10: Okay, but yeah, if it's.
Speaker 1: Some time and see that that isn't We're not there.
Speaker 1: There wasn't any minor lightning strike or anything else like that.
Speaker 13: They no, no, no, we haven't hit any Okay, strikes.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm I'm grabbing for straws. But the bottom line is,
Speaker 1: speaking of straws, the straws that carry the water up,
Speaker 1: something something to shut that down. Pecans don't have vascular
Speaker 1: plumbing diseases. Some plants get bacteria in the plumbing and
Speaker 1: it clogs it up. And the water camp from to
Speaker 1: my knowledge, pecans don't have a disease like that that
Speaker 1: would quickly shut down a tree like yours has exhibited.
Speaker 13: Well, I thought there was something called cotton roots rots
Speaker 13: that barons had.
Speaker 10: But yes, okay, but that doesn't fit right.
Speaker 1: They can get well, they can get root rots normally.
Speaker 1: There are several root rots that that are our plants
Speaker 1: and and pecans, you know, with with any kind of
Speaker 1: thing that shuts down the roots. Now, the pattern of
Speaker 1: cotton root rot is somewhat similar to that. The pattern
Speaker 1: is it affects the roots on one side, and then
Speaker 1: as the disease progresses through the soil, it kills more
Speaker 1: and more. And then so you look up on the
Speaker 1: tree and you're seeing a progression go through the tree
Speaker 1: somewhat like you're you're describing there. But you know, bottom
Speaker 1: line is uh, you know it. There's no control of
Speaker 1: that that okay.
Speaker 13: Okay, if I take this tree down, there's not a
Speaker 13: there's not a funge a side for for cotton. Yeah,
Speaker 13: if I take this tree down, do I need since
Speaker 13: the cause is kind of unknown, do I need to
Speaker 13: just send the wood to the to the garbage side
Speaker 13: or is it usable or with propagated somewhere else. If
Speaker 13: I use the wood for barbecue or a fire or something, yeah.
Speaker 1: I would be said, wise, No, it's not it's fine.
Speaker 1: You can do that. You can do you know. And
Speaker 1: the more we're talking about this, the more you know.
Speaker 1: I'd mentioned root rots initially, but I think that cotton
Speaker 1: root rot is an example. It generally is a little
Speaker 1: bit slower in progressing through a tree, but you know,
Speaker 1: those pecond limbs are up high, and we shuffle in
Speaker 1: and out of the house every day and don't always
Speaker 1: look up, so it could have been going on for
Speaker 1: a little longer. But anyway it is, it can affect
Speaker 1: up the cond trees and it flat kills them. I've
Speaker 1: seen orchards with sections, you know, huge areas that were
Speaker 1: like a like someone through a fire on the ground
Speaker 1: and it's burning outward, you know, from there, and you
Speaker 1: watching the trees decline in a pattern like that. And
Speaker 1: so there's not a there's not a good solution to it,
Speaker 1: especially at this stage where three pours of the trees gone,
Speaker 1: and if it is cotton root rot there, it will
Speaker 1: not bounce back. But if you could acidify soil, you
Speaker 1: can help stave that off if you you know, cotton
Speaker 1: cotton root rot likes high pH soils, and so if
Speaker 1: if you were it's very hard to acidify a huge
Speaker 1: volume of soil deep and wide and everything. But if
Speaker 1: if soil could be acidified, it would stave off a
Speaker 1: cotton root rot proliferating like that. So in case of
Speaker 1: your yard, that's not a solution, it's too late for that.
Speaker 1: But that that is about the only thing that we
Speaker 1: can effectively do. We don't have a fungicide that we
Speaker 1: just spray on the soil and it fixes it.
Speaker 13: Okay, Well, hey, well, thank you for appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry to be the bear about news on
Speaker 1: this one. But if you wanted to be sure, you
Speaker 1: could dig up a root. You'll see on the roots
Speaker 1: kind of a white, a whitish kind of matting underneath
Speaker 1: the outer surface. And if you saw that and want
Speaker 1: to send it to the lab of text A and M,
Speaker 1: the plant disease diagnostic lab, they could tell you, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cotton root rot or not. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that's that is not going to change anything you do
Speaker 1: and will not help save the tree. So but I'm
Speaker 1: really up against a heartbreak here, So thank you for
Speaker 1: the call and sorry to be the bear bed news Jim.
Speaker 1: I got to run, folks, I'll be right back. All right,
Speaker 1: we're back, folks, We're back. Let's talk gardening. We're going
Speaker 1: to head straight out to Texas City and talk to
Speaker 1: Alan hey Ellen, welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning, Thank you, sir. My quick question is about
Speaker 8: my front yard. I've been following the fertilization schedule last Saturday.
Speaker 8: I didn't mind er June first of July application and
Speaker 8: I'm working out of town. So my wife called me yesterday,
Speaker 8: told me the front yard and turn yellow, and the
Speaker 8: second between the sidewalk and the street don got major
Speaker 8: brown patch and looked like the yacht parts dead.
Speaker 1: So whoa.
Speaker 8: I'm coming home today to have about two.
Speaker 10: Or three hours to do something to the yard.
Speaker 8: Is there something you can tell me to do?
Speaker 1: Is there any way that you could have your wife
Speaker 1: shoot a picture over here, take one on the phone,
Speaker 1: email it over to the station for me to look
Speaker 1: at this morning. I mean, I can I can shoot
Speaker 1: from the hip. Okay, well I can shoot from the help,
Speaker 1: but yeah, ye for her, Okay, that's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to help you as best I can. Uh.
Speaker 1: The yellow wing is basically it's usually a sign of
Speaker 1: an iron deficiency. But it's not because there suddenly wasn't
Speaker 1: iron in the soil. It's because roots have died most
Speaker 1: likely now. Roots can die from droughty conditions, they can
Speaker 1: die from soul compaction, they can die from take all
Speaker 1: root rot, which is a disease of the soil. So
Speaker 1: the causes are so widespread that it's hard to give
Speaker 1: just a quick answer to that's where a photo when
Speaker 1: you get home. If you're seeing the yellowing kind of
Speaker 1: erratic through the yard, like it's not just real clean
Speaker 1: cut here, not there, and so on. It's more just yeah, erratic,
Speaker 1: no pattern to it. That is probably take all root rot.
Speaker 1: Grab a grass blade and pick it a yellow grass blade,
Speaker 1: and hold up the light and see if it looks
Speaker 1: like green and yellow stripes going down the grass blade,
Speaker 1: like railroad tracks running up and down the grass blade.
Speaker 1: If you see that, then that is an iron deficiency
Speaker 1: and something's wrong in the roots. If there are a
Speaker 1: couple of steps you can take. Boy, I hate to
Speaker 1: prescribe stuff when we haven't even yet determined for sure
Speaker 1: what the cause is. But in your situation, kind of
Speaker 1: being in the mind here, you've got a couple hours
Speaker 1: and you got to get back out again. I would
Speaker 1: get a product from Fertilo that is a iron and
Speaker 1: other micro nutrients spray. It's a bottle. It comes a
Speaker 1: little bottle, little gray bottle, and it'll say iron and
Speaker 1: other micro nutrients is what's in it. And then I
Speaker 1: would get a hose en sprayer and folier. Spray the
Speaker 1: grass with that, Spray the whole grass with that. I
Speaker 1: would also get a product this is on my schedule,
Speaker 1: But for all the rest of you listening, I would
Speaker 1: answer this a little differently in a different situation. So
Speaker 1: I just don't don't assume this is my answer to
Speaker 1: every every take all problem. But if you wanted to
Speaker 1: get a product that is that contains a zoxy stroban
Speaker 1: a z O x Y S t R O B
Speaker 1: I n uh. And you go to you you're in
Speaker 1: sugar Land, you need go over to Southwest Fertilizer. Oh,
Speaker 1: Texas City, Okay, Oh, I'm sorry, I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: well an Ace Hardware store over there might have it.
Speaker 1: You may find it there. But a zoxystrobin is the
Speaker 1: ingredient that you need to find and you want to
Speaker 1: sprinkle it out. Here's the order of everything. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to confuse you. I'm bouncing around here. To cut out
Speaker 1: the ozoxystrobin granules. It'll be granules. You want to water
Speaker 1: it in according to the label, and then hose in
Speaker 1: spray the foliage of your grass because you're bypassing the
Speaker 1: roots to get these micro nutrients into the grass plant.
Speaker 1: So those that's what's within your power right now. In
Speaker 1: a nutshell, longer term, we need to see pictures. We
Speaker 1: need to know for sure what's going on. What you're
Speaker 1: describing doesn't sound like chinchabugs to me. It could be,
Speaker 1: but they tend to start like near a curve, a driveway,
Speaker 1: a sidewalk, something rock masonry, and they gradually move out
Speaker 1: into the lawn. So closest to that concrete in the sun,
Speaker 1: it's the deadist and then as you go out it's yellow,
Speaker 1: and then as you go further out it's healthy green.
Speaker 1: That would be change gags, and that's a whole different thing.
Speaker 1: And all of these are on my schedule online at
Speaker 1: gardening with Skip dot com. So if you need to
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Speaker 1: com find my lawn, pest, disease and weed management schedule
Speaker 1: and it'll tell you what to do, all right, ter fact,
Speaker 1: mister fact.
Speaker 8: Ken brown patches, stuff like that be tracked in by
Speaker 8: someone walking across your yards. They landscapers go from yard
Speaker 8: to yardyard and they walk across.
Speaker 1: Mind, you can move diseases on equipment theoretically, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe a grass blade sticks to their foot and the
Speaker 1: spores and stuff on it come in. But that's not
Speaker 1: the big problem. How they get there. Those diseases are
Speaker 1: pretty ubiquitous. And when we create the conditions they like
Speaker 1: over fertilizing, we get a cool front coming in, we
Speaker 1: get some rain coming in. That's when we see, you know,
Speaker 1: the brown patch circles start to pop up. Okay, so it's.
Speaker 8: I'm just settling in a bit with my wife.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I mean, could could it happen? Yes? But
Speaker 1: it's the analogy I like to use for this. I'll
Speaker 1: just be real brief he before we go is if
Speaker 1: you let's say you have a shady side of your
Speaker 1: house and it's a brick siding, and you have a
Speaker 1: faucet there and water mist is spraying out of the
Speaker 1: faucet under the brick. Suddenly algae starts to grow. Well,
Speaker 1: how did algae get on that brick? Well, it was
Speaker 1: it was in the air. It's everywhere, and you just
Speaker 1: created a nice, moist, cool environment and algae gre That's
Speaker 1: how these diseases are. So I wouldn't worry about people
Speaker 1: walking across the lawn being the problem. Okay, Well then
Speaker 1: I win in Okay, So, oh hey, I don't want
Speaker 1: any part of that. You know, you know, gardening advice
Speaker 1: is free. Well on god, yeah, she's probably listening. She's
Speaker 1: probably listening. Make yourself a comfortable place on the couch
Speaker 1: for tonight after talking like that about Yeah no, seriously, Well,
Speaker 1: a gardening advice is free. Marriage advice is three hundred
Speaker 1: dollars an hour. So how do you.
Speaker 8: Do I know when not to say nothing? After thirty
Speaker 8: seven years, I know when not to open my mouth.
Speaker 1: So I hear a wise man speaking, Thanks Allan, appreciate
Speaker 1: your call. My gosh, what happened? I sent him to
Speaker 1: Southwest Fertilizer. You know Southwest fertilizer is I don't care
Speaker 1: what you're looking for, any kind of insect disease? Weed.
Speaker 1: You need to fertilize. You need tools to do this.
Speaker 1: You need perunters. You know, you need a fertilizer spreader
Speaker 1: or a fire ant spreader or baits for everything. Southwest
Speaker 1: Fertilizer corner of this nut and Runwick. Listen. They've been
Speaker 1: around since nineteen fifty five. And you don't do that
Speaker 1: without taking care of your customers, doing it right, and
Speaker 1: make it sure when they walk in there they don't go, well,
Speaker 1: we don't got any of that. You might try down
Speaker 1: the street. No, Southwest Fertilizer is the down the street
Speaker 1: place that you go for everything. Seven to one three
Speaker 1: six sixty six one seven four four. Gosh, boy, that
Speaker 1: call went went south. Uh Michael and Sugarland. Welcome to
Speaker 1: garden Line.
Speaker 6: Some morning skiff. Hope you're having a wonderful morning. Got
Speaker 6: a couple of questions for you. I've got a forties
Speaker 6: plus year old I've been told by one of the
Speaker 6: tree people it's a Carolina ash. It's about old, fifty
Speaker 6: sixty feet tall. Last year, out of nowhere, it was
Speaker 6: covered with what I've been told was web worms. I
Speaker 6: mean they were all over the three in different areas.
Speaker 6: I'm literally falling from the ground and calling. My first
Speaker 6: question is what can I do about them, if anything
Speaker 6: at all?
Speaker 10: Uh?
Speaker 6: And secondly, I've discovered a grass and I don't know
Speaker 6: if you know. I'm in Sugarland out in near the
Speaker 6: southwest part of Fort Bean County.
Speaker 1: It's too late.
Speaker 6: It's popped up all over my Saint Augustine and the
Speaker 6: roots are really very strong. Has anyone else in what
Speaker 6: the Johnnie mentioned is this very aggressive grass?
Speaker 1: There are several that it could be. But tell you what, Michael,
Speaker 1: You take a picture of it. Take a picture of
Speaker 1: it in the lawn, up close, as close as you
Speaker 1: can get, make sure it's in focus, and then pull
Speaker 1: some up and set it on a like a tabletop
Speaker 1: surface or something where you can zoom in and everything
Speaker 1: I see the grass and the weed and the picture
Speaker 1: and instead of it being mixed among other plants. And
Speaker 1: let me see a picture. I'll tell you what it
Speaker 1: is and what to do about it. But I got
Speaker 1: to see a picture to do that. As far as
Speaker 1: the webworms are concerned, they fluctuate your ear depending on
Speaker 1: various conditions. Their number one enemy is paper wasps, the
Speaker 1: ones that build the nest under your house. They eat
Speaker 1: caterpillars all day long, and so you break up webs
Speaker 1: and they have a chance to get in. Now, if
Speaker 1: this is a big, big tree like you're described, and
Speaker 1: you can't break up the webs up there, so you're
Speaker 1: left with spraying. And if you catch it early on,
Speaker 1: early before the whole tree is covered in webs and
Speaker 1: has no leaves on it, and you spray the foliage,
Speaker 1: but once or twice a week, depending on which product
Speaker 1: you use. Organic products like BT you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: spraym a couple times a week, something like spinosid maybe
Speaker 1: once a week, and then there are other products that
Speaker 1: will last even longer than that. But if you can
Speaker 1: get the spray up to the foliage when the webworms
Speaker 1: start to come in and chew on it, it'll kill them.
Speaker 1: But you can't get the sprays inside the webs. That's
Speaker 1: why we want to do it early when the first
Speaker 1: little sign of a web is occurring, because there's gonna
Speaker 1: be other webworms hatching out that you don't from the ground.
Speaker 1: You don't see them yet and because they haven't built
Speaker 1: that web yet, so that's the only way to avoid it.
Speaker 1: The other thing is do what nature does and that's
Speaker 1: put up with a little bit of defoliation here and there.
Speaker 1: The trees have are resilient, they'll bounce back. But if
Speaker 1: you ain't pretty so those are your options. Thank you, guys.
Speaker 6: But I guess, I guess basically what you see these
Speaker 6: things are not something that reside in.
Speaker 10: The tree over the fall or the spring.
Speaker 6: They're actually coming from the ground or from caterpillars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the mothlight flies up there in lazy egg. I
Speaker 1: got ten seconds. But they occur in this time of
Speaker 1: the year, but they occur mostly in late summer and
Speaker 1: early fall. Thanks a lot, Michael, appreciate that call. You
Speaker 1: take care. I'll be right back, folks. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: welcome back to the guarden line on a lovely Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: Looking forward to visiting with you if you want to
Speaker 1: give me a call. Seven one three two one two
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Speaker 1: and it recycles back and comes up back through the
Speaker 1: middle of the big beautiful glazed pottery and birds love it.
Speaker 1: Benefics of insects I like that too, by the way,
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Speaker 1: I go out there, I just want to loiter and
Speaker 1: listen to water. I really mean that. I love the
Speaker 1: sound of water. I got a little fountain in my backyard,
Speaker 1: and oh my gosh, just it's therapy. Gardening is there.
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Speaker 1: you go and you get primarily, I would say you're
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Speaker 1: the people that own the Flowery family, they all know
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Speaker 1: talk about container gardening enough in my opinion, and the
Speaker 1: reason is I don't see enough container gardening going on
Speaker 1: out there. A lot of people, you know, they just
Speaker 1: maybe tried containers and not had success. Well, I want
Speaker 1: to give you a few tips, a few tips so
Speaker 1: that you can have success with containers. Containers are great
Speaker 1: for growing vegetables, for growing herbs, for growing flowers, for beauty.
Speaker 1: One of the tips I would suggest is get a
Speaker 1: large container. Don't just put I know you watch TV
Speaker 1: in some gardening show filmed in New Jersey or northern
Speaker 1: California or someplace where they don't have the summers we
Speaker 1: have here. You need a large container to hold a
Speaker 1: volume of soil, which holds a volume of water and nutrients,
Speaker 1: so you're not water in that container three times a
Speaker 1: day trying to keep the plant out of drought stress.
Speaker 1: A large container. Get a quality soil blend to put
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Speaker 1: put it in that container. A quality blend holds water
Speaker 1: and nutrients well, but it also drains well. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: put the right kinds of plants in. If it's large
Speaker 1: enough container, you can do multiple plants. And there is
Speaker 1: nothing more beautiful then a large container with something tall
Speaker 1: coming up out of the center. You've got some things
Speaker 1: filling in around the sides, and then you have some
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Speaker 1: plant coming over the side. That is gorgeous. And you
Speaker 1: go to a good garden center and they can help
Speaker 1: you find They can help you pull a selection of
Speaker 1: plants that go together. You know, they need to either
Speaker 1: be in the sun or the shade, depending on where
Speaker 1: the container is going to be. And so your plant
Speaker 1: choice needs to match that a large quality container, invest
Speaker 1: in one. I know they can be expensive, but cheap
Speaker 1: containers don't last, they don't look good. So once a year,
Speaker 1: just once a year if that, get a nice container
Speaker 1: to add a glazed pottery to add to your outdoor
Speaker 1: living area, and I'm telling you you will enjoy it
Speaker 1: for decades. They last, quality soil to go in them,
Speaker 1: and then the right grouping of plants for the location.
Speaker 1: You can have containers beautifying your shade. You can have
Speaker 1: containers beautifying the sunny spots, but have some Now. One
Speaker 1: additional thing that I would add if you want to
Speaker 1: make it easier for yourself, a little drip irrigation system.
Speaker 1: It could be something you hook to the garden hose
Speaker 1: with a little timer on it that goes along and
Speaker 1: has a tube that goes in each of your containers,
Speaker 1: whether they're hanging baskets underneath an arbor, or whether they're
Speaker 1: container sitting out on the patio, that comes on and
Speaker 1: waters them all for you. If you get too many containers,
Speaker 1: you spend a lot of your day run around water
Speaker 1: in them all. You don't need to do that. A
Speaker 1: little drip system makes it essentially fool proof. So those
Speaker 1: are some tips, but we need more containers. They are
Speaker 1: so versatile, they're so beautiful, they're so useful. We should
Speaker 1: be trying more of them. If you are looking for
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Speaker 1: and we're going to do it with Joel. Hello, Joel,
Speaker 1: Welcome to garden Line marrin Skip.
Speaker 14: How are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm well, how can we help?
Speaker 10: I sent some.
Speaker 14: Email in with some pictures of the Japanese maple. I've
Speaker 14: got two Japanese from Aple, once healthy. They were planted
Speaker 14: all about twenty years ago, and one is shedding, lease dying.
Speaker 14: I've I've been taking off branches as they get brittle,
Speaker 14: they got bones of them. I leave them there so
Speaker 14: I get some growth that is starting to come back.
Speaker 14: And I sent a picture of the healthy one to
Speaker 14: show you what that looks like and what the root
Speaker 14: area looks like. They both looked the same, So I
Speaker 14: just want to hit not any ideas of how to
Speaker 14: treat that.
Speaker 1: I'd hate to lose it. Yeah, well, you've got them
Speaker 1: in a good setting. They like to be in a
Speaker 1: partial sun, a good light, and everything like that. The
Speaker 1: one that's dying seems to be dying primarily at the
Speaker 1: top and on one side, that is probably something going
Speaker 1: wrong down in the root system, and I can't tell
Speaker 1: you what that is, but something is not right in
Speaker 1: the room over on that side. Check the trunk of
Speaker 1: the dead branches, follow them down to where they attached
Speaker 1: to living branches, and see if you notice any borer holes, sawdust,
Speaker 1: or any other sign of that going on. That would
Speaker 1: be the next step to looking at it. Overall, the
Speaker 1: root system looks good. I would throw a lot of
Speaker 1: multch over it, though it helps cut on on weeds
Speaker 1: and Japanese maple loves to be in a forest floor environment.
Speaker 1: Decomposing rotting leaves and organic matter on the surface. Those
Speaker 1: are all in your power. A little boost of fertilizer
Speaker 1: wouldn't hurt. You could certainly do that. And the only
Speaker 1: other symptom I see is the tip burn on the leaves,
Speaker 1: and that just means water and nutrients aren't making it
Speaker 1: fully up there to supply the demands of the plant.
Speaker 1: When you see the tips of margins burning, So that's
Speaker 1: my quick answer. If you want to delve into it
Speaker 1: any further, I'm gonna have to take a little break here,
Speaker 1: but we can come back and can you. But that's
Speaker 1: pretty much just I think of.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I've been spraying with the polioge spray and then
Speaker 14: with micro life sea ocean spray or ocean sea whatever
Speaker 14: it is. The yeah, yeah, yeah, let's spraying that in
Speaker 14: the polage and then drenched around it. So continue that
Speaker 14: way then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, make sure the sol stays moderately moist, fertilized
Speaker 1: moderately most of that soil, and I think you set
Speaker 1: it up for its best chance of success. But check
Speaker 1: for boards and other things. Thanks, thanks a lot, Jarl.
Speaker 1: I appreciate, appreciate your call. We're gonna take a little
Speaker 1: break here. When we come back, Paul in Alabama, you'll
Speaker 1: be our first job, all right, Welcome back to guarden Line.
Speaker 1: Glad you with us today. Let's hit out here to Troy, Alabama.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk to Paul this morning. Hello Paul,
Speaker 1: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 14: How are you this morning?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good, doing good.
Speaker 4: Got a question for you, Well, one time you was
Speaker 4: telling somebody how to use the Facebook to take a
Speaker 4: picture of grass of flowers? Is that on your website anywhere?
Speaker 1: Not Facebook? Use your cell phone? But I suppose there's
Speaker 1: a way to take pictures of the Facebook, but I
Speaker 1: don't do it, so I don't.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 4: I have the phone there and I was thinking for
Speaker 4: Saint Augustine grass and it come up buffalo grass. Are
Speaker 4: you familiar with buffalo grash?
Speaker 1: Yes? I am? Are you? Are you? Are you taking
Speaker 1: this picture in Troy, Alabama?
Speaker 4: In Troy, Alabama?
Speaker 1: Yes? Uh, there's there's very unlikely that it's buffalo grass
Speaker 1: in Troy, Alabama, unless somebody had side shipped over and
Speaker 1: planted it in their yard or something. But I think
Speaker 1: you know the problem with those planet identification things is
Speaker 1: they can be really wrong sometimes. But if you want
Speaker 1: to send me a picture of it with something to
Speaker 1: show size or scale, put a pencil or a ruler
Speaker 1: or your hand in there in the picture. I can
Speaker 1: tell you if if it's buffalo grass or not.
Speaker 10: Okay.
Speaker 4: One other question this time of year, does Saint Augustine
Speaker 4: Grace have pod seats on top of it?
Speaker 1: Seedheads? Yes, it can not. All varieties are as likely
Speaker 1: to put on seed pod seedheads. The old common Saint
Speaker 1: Augustine does it a lot, But in the last few
Speaker 1: weeks and several yards, I've seen a seedhead or two
Speaker 1: here and there, but not a lot.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, I was just curious and that's what I'll
Speaker 4: come up as buffalo grass, and I was almost sure
Speaker 4: it was Saint Augustine, but we.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, buff yeah, buffalo grass. Seedheads are very tiny
Speaker 1: and skinny. They don't look at anything like those big
Speaker 1: flat things that come up out of Saint Augustine. Not
Speaker 1: any work close, but hey, thanks for the call, Paul.
Speaker 1: I do appreciate that call back anytime, you bet. Identifying
Speaker 1: gas is kind of an interesting thing. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of ways we do that. Sometimes you have to get
Speaker 1: down to the point of a microscope, not a microscope,
Speaker 1: a very good hand lens, looking at the hairs where
Speaker 1: the grass leaf attaches to the stem. How about that
Speaker 1: for identification. They're these little hairs or something called leaguals too.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to nerd out on you. I'll stop that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, trying to identify between's so many, many, many,
Speaker 1: many many kinds of grass out there. Grass is out
Speaker 1: there that it takes a little bit of time. Sometimes
Speaker 1: to figure out exactly which one it is. But most
Speaker 1: of the ones you're dealing with. If it's a sod
Speaker 1: a lawn grass, that's easy. I can just look at
Speaker 1: it and tell you without getting close. If it is
Speaker 1: a weed, probably easy if you send me a good
Speaker 1: sharp picture where I can see the grass itself and
Speaker 1: its growth habit. If you you know the summertimes when
Speaker 1: I'm always on my schedule, it's all about slow release fertilizers,
Speaker 1: you know, fertilized now with something that's going to laugh
Speaker 1: for a long time and carry all the way to fall.
Speaker 1: That's simple, that's easy. You do it once you're done.
Speaker 1: But there's times when you want to just give your
Speaker 1: grass a little quick boost. And Sweet Green is an
Speaker 1: organic plant food from Nitrofoss that does that. My neighbor
Speaker 1: puts them out. I think I mentioned this before. He
Speaker 1: puts them out this year, and we were talking across
Speaker 1: the fence the other day and he was like, man,
Speaker 1: that grass looks great. That stuff works. Yes, it does work.
Speaker 1: Sweet Green is an eleven percent nitrogen organic, one of
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Speaker 1: but you got some areas that are struggling that need
Speaker 1: a little. Boost this is a great way to give
Speaker 1: them that. Boost you can do Sweet green all through
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Speaker 1: where you're kind of, work you, know kind of feeding
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Speaker 16: Folks, see, hey welcome back to the garden.
Speaker 1: Line we are in enjoying OUR i hope you. Are
Speaker 1: this shows all about how to have a bountiful garden
Speaker 1: and a beautiful, landscape how to have more fun in the.
Speaker 1: Process how to make your outdoors more. Beautiful that's JUST i.
Speaker 1: LOVE i love being, outdoors and anything that makes it
Speaker 1: more bearable more, BEAUTIFUL i think is a, great great.
Speaker 1: Thing we deal with those fire ants, outside we deal
Speaker 1: with the mosquitos, outside you, know those kind of things
Speaker 1: we have to deal, With, well we have ways of managing.
Speaker 12: Them.
Speaker 1: All you hear about me talking about that on garden
Speaker 1: line all the. Time it's not that difficult to. Do
Speaker 1: by the, WAY i just wanted to mention the fact
Speaker 1: that fire ants seem to be just or are just
Speaker 1: an ongoing. Problem remember when you're going after, fireance you
Speaker 1: got two. Options you can do an individual mound treatment
Speaker 1: to kill the answer are there right, now or you
Speaker 1: can do a bait treatment that reaches the whole area
Speaker 1: and mounds you don't even see the bait. Gets AND
Speaker 1: i would recommend bait treatments in. General there's a lot
Speaker 1: of baits on the. Market they each have their own
Speaker 1: way of, working specifically different chemicals that are in them
Speaker 1: that do, this but they are super low in. Toxicity
Speaker 1: and here is. Why if you had a very strong
Speaker 1: insecticide that when littlelap picked up the granule to take it.
Speaker 1: Home it killed. It, well they would never make it
Speaker 1: to the mound to kill the queen and all.
Speaker 10: The rest of.
Speaker 1: Them so these are very, low low low, doses and
Speaker 1: they're put out at very, low low low, amounts like
Speaker 1: one pound of bait per acre of ground your yard
Speaker 1: probably an. Acre and so it doesn't take much at
Speaker 1: all to do. This it's a granule, here a granule.
Speaker 1: There don't dump them on the, mound spread them. Out
Speaker 1: ants will be out looking for. Them if you don't
Speaker 1: know if answer out or. Not by the, way they
Speaker 1: tend to be out at the milder parts of the
Speaker 1: day during, summertime the heat of the day not as,
Speaker 1: much but they're. Out you can throw a potato, chip
Speaker 1: anything oily protein and a tuna fish can, lid you,
Speaker 1: know a couple of freedom on the. Ground if they're
Speaker 1: out and, about they're going to find. It come back
Speaker 1: fifty minutes. Later if their ants all over it time to.
Speaker 1: TREAT i like to cut hot dogs up into little little,
Speaker 1: sections like a quarter. Inch and you know those wireflags
Speaker 1: that they, use like to mark an irrigation line or.
Speaker 1: Something you get one of those and stick it on
Speaker 1: the hot dog and stick it in the. Ground that,
Speaker 1: way you can find your little hot dog out there
Speaker 1: in the middle of the yard and you come back to,
Speaker 1: it and, boy if their ants are out and about,
Speaker 1: foraging they'll be all over that hot. Dog it's funny
Speaker 1: how they line up. Too it's kind of. Cool. Anyway
Speaker 1: that means it's time to. Bait bait, baits suppress the
Speaker 1: mounds you don't even see. Yet so that is the
Speaker 1: most environmentally sound way to do. It in, fact if
Speaker 1: you think about, it with a bait type of an,
Speaker 1: application you're going to be able to avoid mounds that
Speaker 1: are not currently visible and. Present just doing individual mound
Speaker 1: treatments only is playing whack a mole with fire. ANTS
Speaker 1: a mound pops, up you treat, it but what you
Speaker 1: don't see is a mound over there to the side
Speaker 1: that is forming underground but hasn't if you will boiled
Speaker 1: up to the surface sort, of you know with that
Speaker 1: that pile of dirt coming up out of the. Ground,
Speaker 1: uh and and so individual mound treatments have their. Place you,
Speaker 1: know you need to do something. Fast you want to
Speaker 1: get rid of. Them you want To you got a
Speaker 1: party coming up tonight or tomorrow or it depends on
Speaker 1: which product you use for. It you can get rid
Speaker 1: of them, fast but the bait should be the foundation
Speaker 1: of what you. Do bottom. Line that's a Bottom and
Speaker 1: by the, way if you are one hundred percent ORGANIC
Speaker 1: u there is a bait called come And Get it
Speaker 1: By Fertile home that is spinosid and organic. Insecticide it's spinosid,
Speaker 1: based spinosid. Based so there you. Go you even have
Speaker 1: something for. That all, right let's head out To. Magnolia
Speaker 1: now we're gonna go To magnolia and talk To. Ronnie good, Morning,
Speaker 1: Running welcome to Garden.
Speaker 17: Line hey, buddy, HEY i sent you a question on
Speaker 17: pre emergent and you'd ask IF i called, in maybe
Speaker 17: the audience wanted to hear the.
Speaker 10: Answer getting prepared my ju Line august, planning you recommend, that?
Speaker 1: Okay and oh, yeah and these are these are vegetable,
Speaker 1: beds right, Running, yes, yeah you know there is a.
Speaker 1: PRODUCT i don't know that it's labeled for. VEGETABLES i
Speaker 1: have to check. IT i think it's called preen that
Speaker 1: you shake it out of the container onto your flower,
Speaker 1: beds and it is a pre emergent that's labeled for flower.
Speaker 1: BEDS a lot of our lawn pre emergence are not
Speaker 1: labeled for flower beds and. Gardens. Uh BUT i don't
Speaker 1: do that in my vegetable. GARDEN i just you, KNOW
Speaker 1: i work up the, SOIL i get my planting, ready
Speaker 1: and THEN i molted really, heavily AND i just don't
Speaker 1: find a pre. Emergent Plus i'm always moving soil, around digging,
Speaker 1: up you, know planting, seeds putting in, transplants and so
Speaker 1: that breaks that force, field that surface covering of the
Speaker 1: pre emergent that prevents wheat seeds from coming. Through and
Speaker 1: SO i just find THAT i would rather just use
Speaker 1: mulches to do, that but you might, It, yeah, good
Speaker 1: a good thick. Multch and when a weed comes up
Speaker 1: and it's, young you, know just catching it. Early i'll
Speaker 1: do some just a little quick hampulling here and. There
Speaker 1: But i've GOT i have four beds right now that
Speaker 1: are that are, open and they are like three feet
Speaker 1: wide and twenty feet, long and there's probably four weeds
Speaker 1: Because i've just kept it. Covered every TIME i mow
Speaker 1: the grass and it's a little, TALL i take the
Speaker 1: clippings over there and shake them on the soil surface
Speaker 1: down those. Beds so When i'm ready to, PLAN i
Speaker 1: can pull it back and go to. Town that's the best.
Speaker 1: Way and that's what nature. Does nature drops organic matter
Speaker 1: on the soil to block weed.
Speaker 13: Seeds And i'm as you, Said i'm changing and replanting
Speaker 13: all the, time so it would disturb that pre.
Speaker 3: EMERGENT i see.
Speaker 1: That, okay, yeah yeah it. Does it's just not really
Speaker 1: practical in a vegetable.
Speaker 15: Garden, okay, buddy thank, you.
Speaker 1: All, right thanks for the. Question appreciate that very. Much
Speaker 1: good to have you call. Yeap that is? IT i
Speaker 1: just you, know in vegetable, fields, farmers, growers they use
Speaker 1: they have pre emergence for what they. Do but they're
Speaker 1: going in, there they're plowing the, field they're getting their
Speaker 1: plants in and stuff and putting the pre emergent, down
Speaker 1: but not a whole, lot not a whole, Lot and
Speaker 1: in a vegetable, GARDEN i just don't think it's practical
Speaker 1: to do. That the product that let's see what WAS i, oh,
Speaker 1: yeah we were talking about the different ingredients and. Stuff
Speaker 1: there are some ingredients that aren't so available on the
Speaker 1: home garden shelf that would be, available you, know commercially
Speaker 1: that people could use but, hey the WAY i look
Speaker 1: at this is probably most of the GARDENING i do
Speaker 1: you would costfi as organic. Gardening there are times WHEN
Speaker 1: i need to do something, different AND i will there
Speaker 1: are times for, Everything BUT i don't just treat things
Speaker 1: organic or synthetic products WHEN i don't need. TO i
Speaker 1: try to avoid. That it cost, money takes. TIME i
Speaker 1: don't want to spend my saturdays mixing up smelly water
Speaker 1: to spray on plants to kill. Bugs i'd rather enjoy
Speaker 1: my garden out there at that. Time so there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things we can do culturally to manage pass
Speaker 1: the things we do to avoid pass resistant, varieties don't
Speaker 1: do things that help increase disease and pest. Problems and
Speaker 1: when it comes to a vegetable, garden my, gosh mulch
Speaker 1: is so. Available you grow it at your. House by the,
Speaker 1: WAY i don't know your grass clippings are mult your
Speaker 1: leaves shredded and caught in a lawnmower bag or, mulch
Speaker 1: AND i just stockpile those things and use them all.
Speaker 1: Year and then there's wonderful store bat mulches. Too let's see,
Speaker 1: here we are now going to go To conroe and
Speaker 1: talk To. Jimmy, Hello, jimmy welcome to Garden.
Speaker 10: Line good, Morning thank.
Speaker 1: You how can we?
Speaker 18: Help how often can you put that nitro foss bug out?
Speaker 1: Out you shouldn't need to put it out?
Speaker 10: More go.
Speaker 18: Ahead my other question IS i have an eastern red
Speaker 18: buck tree that's really dropping the. Leaves it's probably about
Speaker 18: fifteen years. OLD i looked at it AND i took
Speaker 18: it to some leaves and stuff over The County Extension,
Speaker 18: agency and they really couldn't give me any kind of
Speaker 18: answer on.
Speaker 1: IT i looked for. Boards all, Right, Jimmy, yeah let
Speaker 1: me let. Me let me do. This i'm up against the.
Speaker 1: Heartbreak hang, on we're gonna come back and answer those
Speaker 1: two questions from. You Just i'm put you on hope
Speaker 1: for a. Second we'll be right. Back, alrighty welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Garden. Line we're gonna head back out on
Speaker 1: the phone. Now talk To jimmy And. Conro, So, jimmy
Speaker 1: you've got a you won't know how often can you
Speaker 1: put up bug out max from night? Foss and you.
Speaker 1: Can you shouldn't need to do it more than once
Speaker 1: in a. Month it. WORKS i mean it goes down
Speaker 1: there and lasts and does its. JOB i generally would
Speaker 1: say once in a summer is all it should. Take
Speaker 1: but if you needed to reapply it later, sometime that's.
Speaker 1: Fine we have different times that we're. Applying for, example
Speaker 1: maybe you're doing an early treatment for grubs and then
Speaker 1: a month later you've got chinchbug showing, up and so
Speaker 1: you have to do it again for, That and so
Speaker 1: that's kind of how often you might apply. It as
Speaker 1: far as your tree dropping, leaves red buds are not
Speaker 1: super long lived, trees and they do have issues that come.
Speaker 1: Up and AS i think you mentioned jerisels a few
Speaker 1: years in, there and so it's not unusual for a hot, weather,
Speaker 1: drought any kind of a root, damage things like that
Speaker 1: to affect. It you see and. Browning if you see
Speaker 1: browning on the edges and tip of the, leaf that's
Speaker 1: a sign of a plumbing, problem meaning water is not
Speaker 1: getting to the leaf and that could be due to
Speaker 1: lack of water in the soil or something like a
Speaker 1: borer blocking cutting the tubes that flow that water up
Speaker 1: to the. Top it could be one of those. Things
Speaker 1: can you describe what the leaves look like that you
Speaker 1: were taken into the to the office for them to look.
Speaker 18: At, well they'll turn you, know, yellow and you, know
Speaker 18: different shades of, yellow and then, EVENTUALLY i mean they
Speaker 18: just dry up and they'll be.
Speaker 10: Brown, okay, Solved no sign of.
Speaker 1: That, yeah, well anything done around that redbud tree trenching
Speaker 1: and you, know anything done over the soil or in
Speaker 1: the soil or to the roots or that you can think.
Speaker 18: Of, NO i use that nitroposs what is that fifteen nine, ten,
Speaker 18: yeah fifteen.
Speaker 1: Five huh the red bag The Imperial, YEAH i use. It,
Speaker 1: yeah that's good.
Speaker 18: Our fall of their spreading flation. Program, yeah never, heard no, Problem, no, never, No,
Speaker 18: no that's not a that's not the, problem that's for.
Speaker 1: Sure but when is your red butd tree growing in
Speaker 1: the turf where grass is grown up to the, trunk
Speaker 1: or is it in a flower bed with. Mulch it's
Speaker 1: in the, Turf, Okay sometimes as you mow around it
Speaker 1: or weed eat around, it you nick the, bark and
Speaker 1: when that wound, occurs you can get a disease that,
Speaker 1: attacks as we call them, cankers that attack and kill
Speaker 1: some of that. Tissue and that might have been a
Speaker 1: factor in. THERE i don't know that it, is BUT
Speaker 1: i always like to see a nice mulched area around.
Speaker 1: Trees they're happier with. IT i would, say right, now
Speaker 1: about all that's in your. Power if you've, done if
Speaker 1: you've done the when was the last time you used
Speaker 1: that nine, five, fifteen five to?
Speaker 18: Ten let's see it's probably around.
Speaker 1: May, okay, well you're good to go on. That that
Speaker 1: tree doesn't need any more. Fertilizing just make sure it
Speaker 1: doesn't lack for. Water that's what's within your. Power look
Speaker 1: for sawdust or holes around the tree, anywhere AND i
Speaker 1: think you've done that, already but keep keep an eye
Speaker 1: out for. That and look for sunken spots on the
Speaker 1: bark where maybe a canker has killed the bark underneath
Speaker 1: and it's kind of sinking in a little. Bit there's
Speaker 1: not a spray for. Those but we're just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how old did you say it? Was did
Speaker 1: you say fifteen?
Speaker 10: Years be at least fifteen?
Speaker 1: Years, okay, Yeah so it is a beautiful. TREE i
Speaker 1: wish they lived more dependably, longer but sometimes they run into.
Speaker 1: Problems but that's about ALL i can tell you without
Speaker 1: actually seeing samples in my. Hand, Jimmy, WELL i appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Day thank, you you too appreciate that very. Much let's
Speaker 1: go To oakbury and talk To. Lee, Now, Hello, lee
Speaker 1: welcome to Garden. Line Fine. SKIP i have a banana.
Speaker 19: Tree it's about fifteen sixteen inches. STALL i was wondering
Speaker 19: what kind of soil WOULD i put it?
Speaker 1: In are you putting it in a pot or are
Speaker 1: you going to put it in the. GROUND i was
Speaker 1: thinking about putting it in a. Pot which would do
Speaker 1: you think it'd be? Better, well it'd be better in
Speaker 1: the ground because it has access to a lot more
Speaker 1: soil and moisture and. Nutrients you can grow a banana
Speaker 1: and a. Pot you just have to be extra careful
Speaker 1: to do small doses a fertilizer regularly and to water almost,
Speaker 1: daily you, know keeping that thing in its best. Shape
Speaker 1: the bigger the pot are, better the pot will. Better
Speaker 1: thing that restricts its growth better in the. Ground if
Speaker 1: you can find a kind of a protected, spot you,
Speaker 1: know maybe on the south side of your house or
Speaker 1: something under the eaves or near the eaves or, whatever
Speaker 1: where it's a little protected from the coldest. Wind that,
Speaker 1: way maybe you'll get one of those trunks to survive
Speaker 1: through the winter and you can have a crop of
Speaker 1: bananas the next. Year but typically what happens is they
Speaker 1: freeze back to the ground and then they come back,
Speaker 1: out but they don't they don't produce having been killed
Speaker 1: to the. Ground so putting it in that kind of a,
Speaker 1: location they need lots of. Sun the more, sun the, better.
Speaker 1: Man if you're putting it in the, GROUND i would
Speaker 1: get something Like Heirloom soil's got a veggie and herb
Speaker 1: mix that would be perfect for mixing into the. Soil
Speaker 1: there's also A rose soils that you see heirloom. Calls
Speaker 1: there's rose and other flowering, plants but mix that into
Speaker 1: the bed to get a good high organic matter, content
Speaker 1: and then dig the hole and plant them in that.
Speaker 10: Bed, okay so you said heirloom.
Speaker 18: Soil.
Speaker 1: Yeah heirlooms a brand of products. Here they're sold by
Speaker 1: the bag all over town and they have a number
Speaker 1: of different. Mixes but there's one Called roses and other,
Speaker 1: bloomers and there's one Called veggie And. Herb they also
Speaker 1: have a fruit tree. Blend all of those are gonna
Speaker 1: work fine for. BANANAS i.
Speaker 19: See, okay, okay, okay, okay all, right sah. Yeah let
Speaker 19: me ask you one quick. QUESTION i have a. Child,
Speaker 19: oh a cherry tree that's not producing. Anything what do
Speaker 19: you think might be the? PROBLEM i HAD i put it. In, uh,
Speaker 19: well my son put it in some guard buchanus plant food.
Speaker 1: And you, said. Cherry it's a cherry. Cherry, yeah what
Speaker 1: kind Of do you know what kind of cherry it?
Speaker 4: Is?
Speaker 1: Uh not off and it's still got the tag on.
Speaker 1: It M, oh well that'd be that would be good to.
Speaker 1: Know is it did they sell it to, you like
Speaker 1: as a native cherry tree or did they sell? It
Speaker 1: is it something that's for for growing fruit to? Eat
Speaker 1: do you you?
Speaker 19: KNOW i don't know anything about. It i'll have to
Speaker 19: call you another time on.
Speaker 1: It, yeah let's do. That, yeah why don't you Do
Speaker 1: why don't you do? That i'd be happy to visit
Speaker 1: with you about. It get the tag if you, Want
Speaker 1: i'm going to put you on hold and uh and
Speaker 1: if you, want my producer can give you an email
Speaker 1: where you can send me a picture of the cherry
Speaker 1: leaf close, up you, know like you hold it in your.
Speaker 1: Hand take a picture of your. Phone. Uh that would
Speaker 1: even be better for me to turn and which one
Speaker 1: and that way we can get to the bottom of.
Speaker 1: This but either, way thank you for the call and
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Speaker 1: Here i'm Not i'm. Looking i'm trying to hunt down
Speaker 1: The you say you have nuts edge crabgrass in.
Speaker 10: THERE i THINK i think.
Speaker 1: One here we. Go, okay let me let me open
Speaker 1: these up and take a. Look, okay you put down
Speaker 1: a barricade, product and that is a pre emergent and
Speaker 1: you have to get it down before the weeds. Sprout,
Speaker 1: Uh and a barricade will not work on nuts. Edge
Speaker 1: nutsedge is coming from underground, tubers and so there's that's
Speaker 1: a whole nother. Thing the other weed you sent me
Speaker 1: a picture of is called. Doveweed doveweed it's almost a,
Speaker 1: rubbery Little Saint augustine looking sort of weed that comes
Speaker 1: up and it's a. Challenge it's a challenge to get
Speaker 1: doveweed under. Control let's start with the. Nutsedge i'm gonna
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Speaker 1: nutsedge an In Depth, look and it will go into
Speaker 1: the kinds of nutsedge we have and what you do
Speaker 1: about them and how to do. It and the fast
Speaker 1: answer is you use a product Like sedgehammer that's one
Speaker 1: brand of the, ingredient but by publication gives you other,
Speaker 1: brands and you do it every time a nutsedge plant
Speaker 1: is up and has three to five, leaves and you
Speaker 1: never let it up for. Air you do. Not if
Speaker 1: you let it come up and have five leaves or
Speaker 1: more and keep, growing it's making daughter plants and you
Speaker 1: are probably have eight times the nut said you had
Speaker 1: if you had treated it. Earlier so that's the quick.
Speaker 1: Version but read that publication At gardening With skip dot.
Speaker 1: Com it'll tell you what to do. Now the, doveweed
Speaker 1: on the other, hand is it's a. Sleepyhead it doesn't
Speaker 1: tend to come up until things really warm. Up so
Speaker 1: whereas other weeds are, sprouting you, know let's, see you're,
Speaker 1: in you're, In. Katie other weeds are sprouting kind of
Speaker 1: maybe Late, february but mostly in Early march and Through,
Speaker 1: march doveweed sleeps until About may sometime and then begins to,
Speaker 1: sprout and so you you can go after it with pre.
Speaker 1: Emergence BUT i don't think you're going to have success
Speaker 1: on it with the barricade. ITSELF i have not tried
Speaker 1: barricade on that particular. Weed but right now you can
Speaker 1: use a product Called celsius on, it and it's very.
Speaker 1: Effective it's not, cheap but you buy it in little
Speaker 1: packets that make one, gallon so that makes it more,
Speaker 1: economical and so a gallon goes a long way because
Speaker 1: you don't have to drench the. Weed you just have
Speaker 1: to get it wet with The celsius and using a,
Speaker 1: spreader sticker something to help it not roll off those
Speaker 1: slick dove weed leaves will make your control, better.
Speaker 17: All, right, Perfect, YEAH i notice it's worse in The
Speaker 17: it seems to get worse when it's, rainy when it's.
Speaker 1: Wet, yeah it loves, yeah it loves, it and it
Speaker 1: loves warm. Weather and, yeah it's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a problem. Weed but the INFORMATION i gave, you can
Speaker 1: you can turn this. Around you can get under.
Speaker 10: Control all, right all, right thank, you thank, You.
Speaker 1: Yeah thanks a. LOT i APPRECIATE i appreciate your phone.
Speaker 1: Call let's see. Here where are? We, okay we're going
Speaker 1: to go to now go To debbie And. Alvin, Hello,
Speaker 1: debbie welcome to garden. Line Hey, skip.
Speaker 3: Can you hear?
Speaker 10: Me, okay because, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 20: Yes, okay, Okay, sorry trying to control the phone in the.
Speaker 3: Car and all.
Speaker 1: Right, right about.
Speaker 20: Fifteen minutes, AGO i sent you a few pictures of my.
Speaker 1: Grass i've got. Them i've got.
Speaker 20: Them two years ago we had the most beautiful, lawn
Speaker 20: and now we have these big dead. Patches someone just
Speaker 20: a few days ago told us they thought it was grub.
Speaker 20: WORMS i don't think we've ever had to deal with that.
Speaker 20: Before but then we have this invasion of some kind
Speaker 20: of weed or other grass THAT i tried to send
Speaker 20: you close up pictures.
Speaker 1: Of, yes, YES i got, THEM i got. Them so
Speaker 1: here here's what's going. On something is killing Your Saint.
Speaker 1: Augustine judging from the pattern of, IT i would lean
Speaker 1: toward take all root rot in that. Area my publication
Speaker 1: on my Website gardening With skip Dot com Called Skip's
Speaker 1: Lawn Pest disease And Weed management schedule. Lists when you
Speaker 1: treat for take all root rot on there and what
Speaker 1: do you use for take all root? Rot SO i
Speaker 1: would recommend you go get. That you can print it
Speaker 1: out and it covers all the different insects and diseases
Speaker 1: and past you just hang it up in the. Garage
Speaker 1: you're ready to. Go, now what's happened is as The
Speaker 1: Saint augustine has gotten weak and, struggled you've got two different.
Speaker 1: Weeds let me see is it? TWO i see two
Speaker 1: different weeds in. It one of them is bermuda grass
Speaker 1: that's taking over and that's very hard to get rid.
Speaker 19: Of.
Speaker 1: Uh and it from a homeowner, standpoint there's not a
Speaker 1: product you can go out the garden center and buy
Speaker 1: that kills bermuda, grass but Not Saint. Augustine professional landscapers
Speaker 1: have access to things that can do. It but you
Speaker 1: kind of have to live with the two or you
Speaker 1: kill everything and. Replant those are the two options for
Speaker 1: for the home guard garden end of the. Market the
Speaker 1: other weed that's in there is is a sedge or
Speaker 1: kai linga type, weed and those are the ones that
Speaker 1: have the little it's like almost like a little ball
Speaker 1: on the end of a stalk with three leaves coming
Speaker 1: out right underneath. It that that is a sedge or,
Speaker 1: kilinga and those you can also. Control. Those they are
Speaker 1: easier to deal, with but you got to you gotta
Speaker 1: jump on, them and you gotta get busy to get that. Done.
Speaker 1: NOW i, UH i was just talking about a product
Speaker 1: called sedge, hammer you, know for the nuts edge with
Speaker 1: the previous. Collar sedge hammer will suppress ki, linga but
Speaker 1: it won't outright kill. It you have. To you have
Speaker 1: to hit it a bunch of. Times but there is
Speaker 1: a product called image for nut. Sedge there's more than
Speaker 1: one thing called. Image. Image you want the one that
Speaker 1: says image for. Nutsedge even though this is a nuts
Speaker 1: edge and it will kill kylinga, species follow the label,
Speaker 1: carefully but it's only going to kill that one type
Speaker 1: of grassy looking stice actually not a. Grasp it looks like. Graft,
Speaker 1: okay should SHOULD i dish that?
Speaker 3: Up SHOULD i pull up all those?
Speaker 20: Weeds?
Speaker 1: Well you, can but it comes from seed and you're
Speaker 1: probably not going to get it. All as far as the,
Speaker 1: nut the bermuda, grass that's the one that kind of
Speaker 1: gives it the bluish look as you look across your
Speaker 1: lawn right in your. PHOTO. U SO i think there
Speaker 1: the decision is between hiring somebody to come in or
Speaker 1: biting the bullet and just killing. Everything making sure you
Speaker 1: get all the. Bermuda dad's gonna take two or three
Speaker 1: weeks of watching and spraying and then Put New Saint
Speaker 1: augustine in if you want Pure Saint. Augustine i've run
Speaker 1: out of time, Here, Debbie i'm gonna have to, Run
Speaker 1: but good luck with. That don't forget gardening With skip dot.
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Speaker 1: houston and talk To. Dudley, Now Hello, Dudley good morning.
Speaker 5: Morning we've got some water oak. Trees one that was
Speaker 5: planted about ninety days. Ago it's canes and Diam it's
Speaker 5: about thirty foot. Tall it's been in the ground about ninety.
Speaker 5: Days we've got some long what they call long horned
Speaker 5: beetles on the. Tree how do you kill those?
Speaker 1: BEETLES i would get a product containing By fenthren and
Speaker 1: spray the. Trunk it'll stick around for a while and
Speaker 1: if they go crawling across it and, stuff you've got
Speaker 1: that product on. There you probably need to do that
Speaker 1: about once a month for. Now generally we don't spray
Speaker 1: for long horned. Beetles you got a young tree and
Speaker 1: you're obviously concerned about, it we could do that. Now
Speaker 1: anything that's already laid an egg and the larvae has
Speaker 1: chewed into the, tree that exterior spray is not going
Speaker 1: to kill. It and you're kind of out of luck
Speaker 1: on trying to kill. Those but the sprays of something
Speaker 1: containing by friend there and it's fairly, persistent and you
Speaker 1: get it on the. Bark make sure cover all the
Speaker 1: bark all, areas so anywhere beetle crawls or on that,
Speaker 1: surface it'll get to.
Speaker 5: Them and what is it? Called, Now i'm going to
Speaker 5: a right down.
Speaker 1: What, Okay i'm Gonna i'm gonna spell it out by
Speaker 1: Fen thren B I F E N t H R
Speaker 1: I n by Fen. Thren that's an ingredient good and
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Speaker 1: YOU i don't know what part Of houston you're. In
Speaker 1: but you Got Ace hardware stores all over the place
Speaker 1: that are gonna that are going to carry products that
Speaker 1: contained by fen. Thrin just go To Ace Hardware texas
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Speaker 5: GOOD i appreciate. It thank, You.
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Speaker 1: Beaumont Hello, Craig welcome to garden. Line oh, good more
Speaker 1: to skip. Moarning hey got a.
Speaker 21: Question i've got a plumb, clock uh a tree THAT
Speaker 21: i planted about three months ago and to my, surprise
Speaker 21: it produced six, plums but it since has recently started
Speaker 21: just leave is shriveling?
Speaker 3: Up AND i know we've been getting a lot of.
Speaker 12: RAIN i don't know.
Speaker 1: If that's the, calls but just a little. Concerned maybe
Speaker 1: WHAT i might, Do, uh give me a little more
Speaker 1: information on the shriveling.
Speaker 12: Up what are you, saying, uh just just to leave
Speaker 12: themselves or are OR i, MEAN i don't, KNOW i
Speaker 12: better say than shriveling? Up they're just are they are they?
Speaker 1: Welting are they getting? Yes are they getting? Dry or? Okay?
Speaker 1: No so kind of a, Okay, uh that's a plumbing
Speaker 1: problem and so water is having a problem somewhere between
Speaker 1: the end of the tip of the root and getting
Speaker 1: to that. Leaf that could mean a root. Rot it
Speaker 1: could mean soggy wet water that is like a clay,
Speaker 1: soil a poor. Drainage roots can't get. Oxygen that causes.
Speaker 1: Problems it could be a root. Rot it could be
Speaker 1: a borer or a canker that's affecting the stem of
Speaker 1: the plant somewhere along the. Way SO i would look for,
Speaker 1: HOLES i would look for. SAWDUST i would look for,
Speaker 1: sap gummy sap coming out of the plumb cut somewhere
Speaker 1: on the. Branches those are indications of the sap is
Speaker 1: an indication of a, Canker and any of those things
Speaker 1: will cause the wilting because it just shuts down the
Speaker 1: water supply to that. Leaf so it's gonna be something
Speaker 1: along those. Lines are you noticing it pretty evenly around
Speaker 1: the tree or is it just one branch? Primarily, no
Speaker 1: it's the whole. Tree the whole tree not. Good, WELL
Speaker 1: i don't know the. SETTING i don't know you're, oil you,
Speaker 1: know if it's a low lying area or well drained or.
Speaker 1: Whatever BUT i would dig down about six. Clay, okay
Speaker 1: that could be part of. It how long has that
Speaker 1: tree been in the ground three, Months, okay so it
Speaker 1: still has a very confined root. System dig down around
Speaker 1: the root system with a trowel about six inches deep
Speaker 1: and feel the. Soil and if it is very, wet,
Speaker 1: sticky that's probably the. Problem as far as what to
Speaker 1: do about. It at this, point you could try taking
Speaker 1: a spading fork and going straight in there and wiggling
Speaker 1: a little bit to get some, oxygen some air down
Speaker 1: into the root. System don't spade the soil, up but
Speaker 1: just push it, down pull back on the, fork rock
Speaker 1: it back and, forth and then pull it straight back.
Speaker 1: Up and. SEE i think that's probably too, little too,
Speaker 1: late but it's worth a. Try it's one thing that
Speaker 1: might be in your. Power and then a longer term
Speaker 1: you may need to be looking at how to use
Speaker 1: subsurface drain that, area get some water away from. It
Speaker 1: and the most drastic of measures would be when we
Speaker 1: get into the wintertime Like, JANUARY, uh to dig the thing,
Speaker 1: up redo a bed in a nice raised bed of
Speaker 1: well drained soil mix and then reset it immediately while
Speaker 1: that tree is. Dormant. Uh and and so if we
Speaker 1: can keep it alive till then that would be what to.
Speaker 1: Do you can't do that, now but it's gonna be
Speaker 1: one of those. THINGS i think if you get looking,
Speaker 1: close you may see some gummy sap around the base
Speaker 1: or on the main branches and things that could be a. Canker, okay,
Speaker 1: okay all, right thank you my. Friend sorry sorry to hear,
Speaker 1: that but good luck on getting behind that for. Sure
Speaker 1: i'm gonna go now to the woodlands and we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk To. Ian. Hello, Ian welcome to Garden. Line good, Morning.
Speaker 2: JIP i appreciate you taking my. Call i'm calling about break.
Speaker 2: Myrtle it's about two and a half three foot in,
Speaker 2: diameter so it's a very old crape, myrtle and this
Speaker 2: year the leaves did not come.
Speaker 3: Out i'm not gonna say.
Speaker 2: Totally there are some leaves on the crape, myrtle but
Speaker 2: mostly it kind of looks like a lot of the
Speaker 2: limbs are. Dead i've pulled on them that they don't break.
Speaker 2: Like they're dry and, brittle but there's very few leaves on.
Speaker 2: It i've also.
Speaker 3: Noticed some mushrooms growing at the base of the.
Speaker 2: Trunk i've knocked them, Off i've read up AND i,
Speaker 2: Said i've seen something where it says that could be root.
Speaker 3: Rock But i'm trying to figure about WHAT i can
Speaker 3: bring it, back HOW i can bring it.
Speaker 1: Back all, right, good let's, uh let's let's talk about.
Speaker 1: This how long has it been in the ground more
Speaker 1: than a?
Speaker 3: Year, oh, yes, Sir.
Speaker 2: I've been at this house for about fourteen, years and
Speaker 2: It's i've always had. It and like, say it's a
Speaker 2: very large crape, Myrtle so it's been in the ground for.
Speaker 1: A long, time and it's always looked good up until just. Recently, yes,
Speaker 1: sir is that?
Speaker 3: Correct, okay it's had, flowers, so, yes, sir it's looked.
Speaker 1: Fine, okay, hmmm well it could be a real right
Speaker 1: the mushrooms they, were are you sure they were attached
Speaker 1: to the wood of the trunk or the top of
Speaker 1: the roots coming up right out of the trunk or
Speaker 1: could they just have been in the soil around next
Speaker 1: to the. Tree i'm pretty.
Speaker 2: Sure they were actually attached to the trunk of the
Speaker 2: tree at the very.
Speaker 3: Base all?
Speaker 1: Right what color were? They and about how big was
Speaker 1: the diameter of the mushroom.
Speaker 3: Caps they were kind.
Speaker 2: Of a reddish color and they were probably about maybe
Speaker 2: two and a half three inches tall and maybe same
Speaker 2: same diameter two and a half three.
Speaker 1: Inches, okay would you say maybe a honey it's SOMETHING i, Noticed,
Speaker 1: Okay but would you say maybe a honey? Color would
Speaker 1: that be the kind of red or something redd or light?
Speaker 3: Red?
Speaker 1: Maybe?
Speaker 15: So?
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well i'm just trying to kind of weed through
Speaker 1: a lot of possibilities here on. This so if you're
Speaker 1: seeing dead, limbs they're probably dead limbs at this. Point
Speaker 1: they should have leafed out or for whatever, reason they.
Speaker 1: Didn't if something's wrong in the, roots such as a root.
Speaker 1: Rot there's one possibility called armillaria root rot also called
Speaker 1: oak root, rot that creates clusters of little mushrooms the
Speaker 1: size you, described but they're more kind of of a
Speaker 1: reddish honey. COLOR i don't, think hearing you describe, it
Speaker 1: that's what it. Is but if it's, that it's going
Speaker 1: to kill the tree and there's no fixing. It it's just. Done,
Speaker 1: now let's just say they're not associated necessarily with the.
Speaker 1: Tree they just happen to be right there at the,
Speaker 1: base working on some decomposing organic matter or. WHATNOT i
Speaker 1: think cutting the crape myrtle back all the dead limbs
Speaker 1: back is an. Option uh do you have some limbs
Speaker 1: that are fully healthy and some of the trunks that
Speaker 1: are fully dead or or what's the what is?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 2: LIKE i don't see a lot of limbs with flat
Speaker 2: with leaves on.
Speaker 3: Them there's it's kind of through the tree. Itself, okay
Speaker 3: land it Would it kind of caught me is that
Speaker 3: there's a lot of.
Speaker 2: Them and just to kind of add, THERE i do
Speaker 2: have a couple of pine trees kind of probably stealing
Speaker 2: some of the. Light but they've been there for years as,
Speaker 2: Well so just got to give you.
Speaker 1: That, Okay, well uh here here's the. Thing if it
Speaker 1: if it is one of the bad things doing, it
Speaker 1: that tree is are gone or, anyway so it's not
Speaker 1: going to come. Back Uh so if it were, MINE
Speaker 1: i think WHAT i would do is cut it back
Speaker 1: to near the ground and you should get a lot
Speaker 1: of base sprouting and select one under two or three
Speaker 1: or whatever you want trunks that comes out of that
Speaker 1: base sprout to rebuild a good healthy. Tree, now if
Speaker 1: the root system is, dying you're not going to get
Speaker 1: good re, sprouting and that's just a sign that it's just.
Speaker 1: Declining cutting it back is not going to kill. It
Speaker 1: the lack of any good root system and health is
Speaker 1: they mean that it's already. Dying but a bunch of dead.
Speaker 1: Limbs you can't live with. That and it sounds like
Speaker 1: most of the top looks pretty. Bad SO i, would
Speaker 1: if it were, mine give it one last shot by
Speaker 1: cutting it back to near the ground and hopefully getting
Speaker 1: some healthy news shoots that come out that we can
Speaker 1: rebuild a tree out. Of if, not then then pull
Speaker 1: it and go go back in with another one at some,
Speaker 1: point all, right, sir.
Speaker 3: Okay, yes, sir thank you for the, information.
Speaker 1: You, bet thank you for the. Call we're going to
Speaker 1: have to go to a break, Here adeline And. Clearlake
Speaker 1: you'll be our first stop when we come back The
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Speaker 1: now going to go out to Clear lake and visit With. Adeline, Hello,
Speaker 1: Adeline welcome to.
Speaker 22: Garden, hello young, MAN i have a. QUESTION i have
Speaker 22: fallen for a younger. Man he is in his. SEVENTIES
Speaker 22: i am ninety. Two years, old AND i would like
Speaker 22: to know what love FLOWER i could send him that
Speaker 22: would be nice for this time of.
Speaker 1: Year uh, huh, well good for. You that is a
Speaker 1: that is a nice thing to. Hear and do you
Speaker 1: know there are so many great. FLOWERS i like flowers
Speaker 1: that last a little, longer you, know and one of
Speaker 1: those and you have to go to the florists and
Speaker 1: ask him what it is you may not be familiar.
Speaker 1: With it's Called, Freezia's. Friezia's frizias last a pretty good,
Speaker 1: time freezers. Hunting and you get an arrangement of all
Speaker 1: these flowers and seems to me like one of the
Speaker 1: last ones to go was the freezias in. It and then,
Speaker 1: Roses roses are always a good. Flower rose red roses
Speaker 1: or the flower love and a. Guy, NOW i.
Speaker 22: Would that be appropriate to send you An oh, lord, No.
Speaker 1: I'm not An you're gonna have to Call you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to call Deer abbey or hints To hellowy's or
Speaker 1: something to get the Appropriate i'll say, this if you're
Speaker 1: ninety something years old and you're gonna send flowers to somebody's,
Speaker 1: havingy it's. Appropriate it's your, Business so do what you
Speaker 1: want to. DO i think by this stage in, life
Speaker 1: you should do what you want to.
Speaker 22: Do my friend, said the call you make, sure.
Speaker 1: Oh my, gosh oh my, gosh for crying out out
Speaker 1: and tell. Him, okay, okay we're gonna we're gonna steer
Speaker 1: this one a little different. Here but let me let
Speaker 1: me just say. This if your friend and you have
Speaker 1: been talking and he said to call, me you tell.
Speaker 1: HIM i said that it is customary for a man
Speaker 1: when he receives a flower for a woman to send
Speaker 1: a dozen of that same flower. Back that's for good.
Speaker 1: Line oh all, right, MONEY i like. That thank.
Speaker 22: You i'm planning on getting my group on. Baby thank you.
Speaker 1: A Hund we have got to cut that. Cliff i've
Speaker 1: gotta have. That that is a great. ONE i love
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Speaker 8: We just built the house and we just had our
Speaker 8: yards sought that last week With, bernita AND i wanted
Speaker 8: to know IF i needed to be doing anything else
Speaker 8: besides just.
Speaker 1: Water last WEEK i would, say you, know water and
Speaker 1: be every other day by this time this week On,
Speaker 1: bermuda just just don't let it get. Stressed it needs
Speaker 1: to get the roots in the, ground and sod comes
Speaker 1: with very little. Roots it's a thin layer of clay
Speaker 1: soil with very little roots in, it so we try
Speaker 1: to pamper it a little. Bit by the second, week,
Speaker 1: though you're backing off a little, bit and then certainly
Speaker 1: next week you are MORE i would wait a few
Speaker 1: more weeks before you start to fertilize. It, probably let's
Speaker 1: say four weeks after you you put the sod, down
Speaker 1: begin to fertilize it with one of the fertilizers you
Speaker 1: hear me talking about all the time here on Guarden.
Speaker 1: LINE a good one right now would be the silver
Speaker 1: bag From, nitrofoss which is Super Turf nitrofos Super. Turf that,
Speaker 1: is it's got a gradual. Release so what it's gonna
Speaker 1: do is it's gonna give your fertile your long little
Speaker 1: bit of, fertilizer and then over, time over the next four.
Speaker 1: Months it's going to keep fertilizing it and keep it,
Speaker 1: growing but in a nice gradual. Way that grass are like,
Speaker 1: GRASS i, guess and you could say is like us
Speaker 1: in one, sense and that is we eat a little
Speaker 1: bit every. Day you don't eat your home months of
Speaker 1: food in one. Day and so it's good to put
Speaker 1: a fertilizer down that gradually releases. It and super turf
Speaker 1: the sober bag from night to. Foss so we'll do.
Speaker 1: That you're going to find it to all kinds of
Speaker 1: ace hardware. Stores you know that super turf is just
Speaker 1: widely available here in the greater your.
Speaker 10: Scenario, okay, well thank you.
Speaker 1: Sir all, right, now the most important thing on Beautiful
Speaker 1: bermuda grass lawn is regular. Mowing the shorter you cut,
Speaker 1: it the more often you have to cut it if
Speaker 1: you want it to look. Good if you let it
Speaker 1: get tall and cut it way, back it looks. Horrible
Speaker 1: so regular mowing at whatever your height is all, right, yall,
Speaker 1: yes thanks a, Lot all, right thank, you take, care bye.
Speaker 1: Bye all, right there you, Go Spring Creek Feed. CENTER
Speaker 1: i don't know if you live up in The Magnolia tomball,
Speaker 1: area but they are up there ON fm twenty, nine
Speaker 1: seventy eight northeast Of, tomball really close just minutes away
Speaker 1: From Graham parkway And highway to forty. Nine both they
Speaker 1: carry the full line of the. Fertilizers like you KNOW
Speaker 1: i mentioned. Nitroposts they carry The Nelson Turf star. Line
Speaker 1: they carry The microlife line as. Well if you need
Speaker 1: things to control, weeds either to prevent them or to
Speaker 1: kill existing. Weeds if you need things to deal with
Speaker 1: diseases and, pests there they got you covered. There you
Speaker 1: just walk in the. Store first of, all your draw's
Speaker 1: gonna drop because you look straight in front of you
Speaker 1: and he's just. Gorgeous all kinds of things for the
Speaker 1: home are. There off to the left is all your,
Speaker 1: feeds including high quality pet food. Lines you know they Carry,
Speaker 1: victor they Carre purina and. Others and then to the
Speaker 1: right that's the garden. Spot that's my happy. Area right over,
Speaker 1: there you're going to be greeted by friendly. Folks and
Speaker 1: by the, way if you are military or a senior,
Speaker 1: citizen they have discounts for you there At Spring Creek
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Speaker 1: Building you are listening to Garden. Line if you'd like
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Speaker 1: one two k t R. H we'll be happy to
Speaker 1: visit with you about the kinds of gardening questions that
Speaker 1: you might. HAVE i have seemed to be receiving a
Speaker 1: lot of questions on turf turning yellow, lately and it's
Speaker 1: not just here on the, air but just in general
Speaker 1: and driving around. Town i'm seeing that When Saint augustine,
Speaker 1: grass especially as it's kind of the predominant turf we
Speaker 1: deal with, here when it starts to turn. Yellow there
Speaker 1: are a couple of things you might. Notice if you
Speaker 1: get up, close you may see a grass blade and
Speaker 1: the whole blade is just uniformly. Yellow that could be
Speaker 1: due to a chemical. Damage it could be due to
Speaker 1: some other types of causes that may just disease or
Speaker 1: whatever just causing that. Yellowing when you see streaks of
Speaker 1: green and yellow in the same and sometimes you have
Speaker 1: to pick the blade and kind of hold up to
Speaker 1: the sky and look at, it and you'll see those vertical.
Speaker 1: Streaks that's a lack of. Iron but the question is
Speaker 1: why is there a lack of. Iron maybe your soil
Speaker 1: doesn't have. Iron that's the least likely cause that your
Speaker 1: soil doesn't have. Iron maybe the iron is there but
Speaker 1: it's not. Available that's a very likely. Cause high pH
Speaker 1: and hygh phosphorus can cause iron to tie up and
Speaker 1: not be available to the. Plant so that is why
Speaker 1: we recommend. You you know you hear me talk about
Speaker 1: the three one two four one two ratio. Fertilizers that
Speaker 1: one in the middle that's. Phosphorus we don't need to
Speaker 1: add a whole lot of. That and if you over the,
Speaker 1: years as your pH goes, up as your phosphorus goes,
Speaker 1: up you create a problem by by that and that
Speaker 1: can cause a lack of iron in the. Plant when that,
Speaker 1: happens we have to use a keylated iron to fix.
Speaker 1: It and a keylated iron keylate comes from A latin
Speaker 1: word meaning. Claw so imagine there's an iron, Molecule, like
Speaker 1: make a fist with your left. Hand that's the iron.
Speaker 1: Molecule now take your right hand and grab your. Fist
Speaker 1: the keylate is the claw that right hand that's grabbed
Speaker 1: onto the iron and it protects it in the soil
Speaker 1: so the plant can get. It it lasts. Longer regular
Speaker 1: iron ties up like the iron you already. Have it'll
Speaker 1: green up for a, while but it didn't last. Long
Speaker 1: kilada iron is a better way to, go and your
Speaker 1: good garden centers and feed, stores places Like Southwest Fertilized
Speaker 1: race hardware, starts they're gonna have keylated iron that you can. Use.
Speaker 1: Now sometimes in the spring we get a little bit
Speaker 1: of a yellowing and early green. Up when it's cool
Speaker 1: and extra, wet we see a little bit of. That
Speaker 1: the final cause is one you don't want me to,
Speaker 1: say because it's it's the bad, one and that is
Speaker 1: take all root. Rot it kills. Iron the grass plant
Speaker 1: can only take up iron at the tips of its.
Speaker 1: Roots so when take all kills, roots we see the
Speaker 1: nutrient deficiency of iron deficiency because the grass is not
Speaker 1: able to take up the iron even that's there because
Speaker 1: of the loss of root system due to the. Disease
Speaker 1: go to my. Schedule Skip's Pest disease And Weed management
Speaker 1: schedule talks about take all on that, one and you
Speaker 1: can see what to. Do but there's a little quick
Speaker 1: kind of a summary of iron in the turf and
Speaker 1: what you might be looking. For time for me take
Speaker 1: a little break here in just a, bit BUT i
Speaker 1: did want to get that out to. You by the,
Speaker 1: way my, website gardening With skip dot Com gardening With
Speaker 1: skip Dot com is where you will find all of these.
Speaker 1: Things both of my schedules are. THERE i would recommend
Speaker 1: you prun them, out stick them in the, garage put
Speaker 1: them on the, refrigerator make a paper airplane with. It
Speaker 1: whatever you want to. Do just know that it'll be.
Speaker 1: Available you can carry it with you into the store
Speaker 1: when you're, Going, yeah there was something per take all
Speaker 1: and it's this thing right, here and you point at
Speaker 1: it and it says a, zoxystrobin and then the person
Speaker 1: in the store takes you over there and tells you
Speaker 1: what to use for. It the same is true for
Speaker 1: the other. Side the other side isn't just fertilizing, though
Speaker 1: it's a lawn care. Schedule so that side is what
Speaker 1: do you do to help the long grow fast and do.
Speaker 1: Well so it has a row Across january To december
Speaker 1: for synthetic, fertilizing a row across for organic, fertilizing a
Speaker 1: row for core, aerrating a row for proper mowing that's very,
Speaker 1: important a row for, watering and then all the products
Speaker 1: at the bottom that you're going to need to do.
Speaker 1: It and it's all there At gardening With skip dot,
Speaker 1: com along with some other very helpful publications like controlling
Speaker 1: woody weeds in the landscape like poison ivy and controlling nuts. Edge,
Speaker 1: hey welcome. Back that's all This Brad paisley And Taylor
Speaker 1: swift going on. TODAY i don't know good to hear. Though,
Speaker 1: hey we're going to go out spring now and what
Speaker 1: we were see if you get my collar back on,
Speaker 1: HERE i just lost. Somebody but if you would like
Speaker 1: to call in seven to one three two one two
Speaker 1: kt R h seven to one three two one two
Speaker 1: kt R. H Nitrophoss eagle is a fungicide that is a.
Speaker 1: Granule you put it down on the ground and you
Speaker 1: water it in and it is ingredients called. Michael it's
Speaker 1: one of the systemic fungicides that there, is and so
Speaker 1: it moves up into the grass plant and so when
Speaker 1: gray leaf, spot which we've been having quite a bit
Speaker 1: of this spring or, summer rather when it tries to
Speaker 1: attack the, disease is there protecting the grass plant against.
Speaker 1: Infection from the. Disease diseases are better prevented than. Cured
Speaker 1: that's the bottom line in general on. Diseases so getting
Speaker 1: ahead of it with that systemic into the grass helps
Speaker 1: fight that. Disease now it also works on not just
Speaker 1: gray leaf, spot but it works on it has some
Speaker 1: effect on take all root rot as well and other
Speaker 1: kinds of turf diseases that we deal. With so where
Speaker 1: are you going to find a product called tell me,
Speaker 1: again who is? Listening eagle eagle turf fungicide from Night?
Speaker 1: Fuss where are you going to find? It where Night
Speaker 1: fass is, sold which is all over the? Place Ace
Speaker 1: Hard Red Sinkle ranch has it On Mason, road And
Speaker 1: katie Aspos as up in The woodlands On kirkandall is
Speaker 1: going to carry nito frost. Products Enchanted forest ON fm
Speaker 1: twenty seven fifty nine down In. Richmond rosenberg carries nitrofost
Speaker 1: products as, well so it's easy to. Find just, remember with,
Speaker 1: diseases it's better to prevent them than to cure. Them
Speaker 1: so if you wait until a plant is all disease,
Speaker 1: ridden you, know even affective, products it's a little late
Speaker 1: to get much benefit from. Them all, Right, Now we're
Speaker 1: going to go back out to the phones and talk
Speaker 1: To bonnie And. Spring Hello, bonnie welcome to garden.
Speaker 7: Line Hi, SKIP i sent. Pictures i'm hoping you got.
Speaker 7: Them just now.
Speaker 1: Tell me what their pictures of my quaite.
Speaker 7: MYRTLE i was asking earlier today if they had white
Speaker 7: spot AND i sent.
Speaker 1: Pictures, oh, YES i remember the. Call, yeah that is
Speaker 1: not powdery, Mildew, bonnie there. Is there are some little
Speaker 1: tiny spots that are little specs, there probably some kind
Speaker 1: of a little fungus or bacterial spec but that's of
Speaker 1: no concern at. All the white material you see in
Speaker 1: it is almost it's like a, residue and a lot
Speaker 1: of times something like that is from irrigation. Water some
Speaker 1: of our irrigation water has calcium deposits or iron deposits
Speaker 1: or other things in. It in the case of these,
Speaker 1: though most of the leaves don't show, It SO i
Speaker 1: don't know why you're seeing it on some leaves but not.
Speaker 1: Others but if you look at the leaves that have,
Speaker 1: it if you were to imagine spraying something on the
Speaker 1: leaf and then with gravity it sort of rolls, downward
Speaker 1: that's kind of the pattern that it has on. There
Speaker 1: so it's something probably coming out of the irrigation, system
Speaker 1: but nothing to be concerned. About, okay, no no need
Speaker 1: to treat for. It your crepe myrtle looks, good overall.
Speaker 1: Beautiful you don't happen to know the name of that,
Speaker 1: variety do? You by any?
Speaker 7: Chance bashiam is WHEN i was, told Oh.
Speaker 1: Bashian, okay oh that's. RIGHT i remember now you had
Speaker 1: called earlier about. Baschium, yes but, no don't worry about.
Speaker 1: It and bashions just resistant, Anyway so we're good to.
Speaker 1: GO a trim trimmt like you wanted the. ONE i
Speaker 1: don't see the base of the tree in the, picture
Speaker 1: but it looks like it may have grass growing up
Speaker 1: close to. It if you can keep that grass, away.
Speaker 1: Great myrtles have thin, bark and the lawnmower and the
Speaker 1: weed eater nick the bark and then you start getting you,
Speaker 1: know wounding in the bark or other. Issues so give
Speaker 1: it a little bit of.
Speaker 7: Around should be, okay, okay oh, GOOD i appreciate.
Speaker 1: It, thanks you're in good shape, then all, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah thank you for the.
Speaker 7: Call, okay bye.
Speaker 1: Bye alrighty, there uh let's, see we're gonna go to
Speaker 1: sugar land now and talk To. June Hello, June welcome
Speaker 1: to Garden.
Speaker 5: Line.
Speaker 9: HI i have a lot of weeds in my flower
Speaker 9: bed And i'm already using slage candles for the uh
Speaker 9: red grass that's taking hair, off BUT i can't get
Speaker 9: rid of the rest of the launchy, LEAVES i mean
Speaker 9: WEEDS i have in. THERE i went to In Santa.
Speaker 9: Park they told me to get weed beta. Ultra that
Speaker 9: didn't do. Anything it produced more weeds, almost AND i
Speaker 9: just don't know what BECAUSE i can't get rid of.
Speaker 1: Them. Yeah, well the weed beater alter didn't make them.
Speaker 1: WORSE i don't know why it didn't work on the
Speaker 1: broad leaf weeds it should. Have are your weeds mostly
Speaker 1: grassy or are they not? Grasses other kinds of?
Speaker 9: Weeds, no it's other kind of, Weeds, okay.
Speaker 1: Okay so weeds are either coming from seed or their
Speaker 1: perennial weeds that are coming up out of the ground
Speaker 1: from underground plant parts that when you chop them, off
Speaker 1: they just come back like you're nutsuch does. Right so
Speaker 1: the weeds that are from seeds are, good, thick multched.
Speaker 1: CONTINUALLY a weed seed has to have sunlight when it
Speaker 1: tries to, sprout and a good thing mulch prevents. That
Speaker 1: so that's the number one thing for weeds from. Seed,
Speaker 1: now if you've got weeds that are able to come
Speaker 1: back out of the ground and through them alt you
Speaker 1: know they're existing strong grass weed plants on the, right
Speaker 1: then to treat, Them, okay you're gonna need to treat
Speaker 1: them with some kind of a broad leaf herbicide to
Speaker 1: get rid of, those or hand dig them all. Out
Speaker 1: how big is this flower?
Speaker 15: Bid it's not that.
Speaker 9: Big but my landscape guy that's pulling my weeds is
Speaker 9: complaining about so many of, them AND i can't do
Speaker 9: it BECAUSE I i just. CAN'T i can't do it
Speaker 9: with my. Health but it's it's quite a, bit but
Speaker 9: not a huge.
Speaker 15: YORED i, mean you, KNOW i don't have.
Speaker 9: A lot of flower. Beds, OKAY i don't know what
Speaker 9: why they all of a sudden coming up this.
Speaker 1: Year, yeah let's real. Quick tell me what are the
Speaker 1: main good plants you're? Grown and in those flower beds
Speaker 1: the desirable.
Speaker 15: Come court high, biscuits rouse A sharon and casper and
Speaker 15: oh what was the other? ONE i can't think of.
Speaker 1: It, Okay so So i'm hearing a lot of. Shrub
Speaker 1: i'm hearing a lot of shrubs right, right, right, Okay
Speaker 1: so you can carefully spray and not get it on the.
Speaker 1: Shrubs just make sure the shrubs don't have sprouts at
Speaker 1: the bottom that the spray gets. On so a broad
Speaker 1: leaf post emergent weed killer with a spreader sticker to
Speaker 1: make it stick to the leaves of the. Weeds when
Speaker 1: you go to, yeah you're you're there In Sugarland Southwest
Speaker 1: fertilizers at the corner Of businet And. Runwick it's not
Speaker 1: too far away from, you and you go in. There
Speaker 1: i've got broad leaf weeds and a flower. BED i
Speaker 1: need a spreader sticker to go with, it and they'll
Speaker 1: put both of them in your. Hands and then when
Speaker 1: they're sprayed with, that it, well it will kill, him
Speaker 1: but it will also kill desirable broad leaf, plants so
Speaker 1: you cannot get it on the foliage of your good.
Speaker 1: Plants if you want to do a weed, wiper if
Speaker 1: you go to my website gardening with skip dot, com
Speaker 1: a weed wiper can be. Built bob's also At Southwest.
Speaker 1: Fertilizer he's also got the tool you make that with
Speaker 1: and that you apply the herbicide to the sponge and
Speaker 1: then you reach. Down you don't have to bend over there,
Speaker 1: there you, know just drop your arm by your side
Speaker 1: and it reaches all the way to the ground and
Speaker 1: you squeeze with the sponge on those weed leaves and
Speaker 1: it moves down in them and it kills, them and
Speaker 1: that avoids the. Spray that avoids the accidental. Damage but
Speaker 1: if you got a big bed full of tons of,
Speaker 1: weeds it takes a long time to do that that.
Speaker 1: Way BUT i think talk To bob about, it and he.
Speaker 1: Can he. Can he can show you what to what to,
Speaker 1: have and it's not hard to make if you've got
Speaker 1: a pint canning jar lid and a piece of kitchen
Speaker 1: sponge and on on my publication online it's even what
Speaker 1: size little, bolt just to buy a little bolt at
Speaker 1: a at a at a hardware store and use that
Speaker 1: to attach. It but, Anyway bob will show you all
Speaker 1: that when you go To southwest.
Speaker 9: Party, line garden line with.
Speaker 1: Skip My, no my my website is gardening With skip dot.
Speaker 1: Com with gardening With skip dot. Com, yeah gardening With
Speaker 1: skip dot. Com, Okay But bob probably has that thing
Speaker 1: printed out because he sells the tool for it so all. Right,
Speaker 1: hey thank You, june APPRECIATE i got a. Run good,
Speaker 1: luck good luck getting ahead of those you bet be right, back.
Speaker 1: Folks good to have you back with. Us thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to the Guarden line. Today, hey we got one
Speaker 1: little segment. Left we'll be off for a while. Now
Speaker 1: so if you'd like to if you got a question
Speaker 1: you'd like to, ask, well that'd be a good time
Speaker 1: to call. In seven one three two one two k T.
Speaker 1: R i probably got time for a couple more, calls
Speaker 1: so seven one three two one two KT. R you
Speaker 1: hear me give these adages all the, time like brown
Speaker 1: stuff before green stuff and. Whatnot, well it's because there's
Speaker 1: just some simple principles that help us have success with our.
Speaker 1: Plants and one principle that is important to remember is
Speaker 1: don't wait when you start to see a, problem find
Speaker 1: out what it, is and act. Soon and here here's.
Speaker 1: Why like a, disease you start to see a little
Speaker 1: bit of a leaf spot on a, disease, right, well
Speaker 1: you end up waiting and next thing you, know the
Speaker 1: whole plant's got the spots on it and most of
Speaker 1: your leaf area has been compromised or. Killed and, now,
Speaker 1: yeah you could spread a fung, aside but to protect
Speaker 1: what it's almost all gone. Right the same is true
Speaker 1: with insect. Feeding you, know a few caterpillars here are.
Speaker 1: There that's. Okay they're a little tiny things when they hatch.
Speaker 1: Out but they get big and they get, hungry and
Speaker 1: they molt and they get bigger and, fast and next
Speaker 1: thing you. Know you, know if you, wait let's say
Speaker 1: you have fall webworms in your pecan trees and you
Speaker 1: got little web nest up. There now's the time to
Speaker 1: get there and do something to stop. That if you're
Speaker 1: going to do something about. It but if you wait
Speaker 1: until the whole tree is full of webs and has no,
Speaker 1: leaves well there's no need to. SPRAY i, mean you're.
Speaker 1: Done and they often say that the best fertilizer is
Speaker 1: the footprints of the. Gardener what that means is when
Speaker 1: you're in your garden and you're checking things and taking
Speaker 1: care of things and, whatnot that results in a really
Speaker 1: nice garden of very happy. PLANTS i would also say
Speaker 1: that the best pest and disease control is the footprints
Speaker 1: of the. Gardener the sooners you get out, there the
Speaker 1: sooner you check. IT i was in my garden the
Speaker 1: other day looking at some, things AND i saw some
Speaker 1: aphids on a. Leaf, NOW i could go in with
Speaker 1: a squirt of insecticidal soap and just knock those out
Speaker 1: with something so. SAFE i take baths and soap, right
Speaker 1: they're very safe. PRODUCT i could knock it out real.
Speaker 1: Early IF i wait until the plant leaves are twisting
Speaker 1: up and there's a, sugary you do all over the,
Speaker 1: leaves and city mold is growing and. Whatnot that's a
Speaker 1: little late to do. Anything but you know WHAT i.
Speaker 1: NOTICED i noticed some beneficial. INSECTS a lady beat a.
Speaker 1: LARVA a lady beet mom had, said, oh there's layfid's
Speaker 1: that's baby. Food meafood. Too by the, way this is
Speaker 1: what she, Says and so she lays some eggs THERE
Speaker 1: a larva hatches. Out Now i'm not gonna spray, anything
Speaker 1: because even insecticidal soap will kill that lady beat.
Speaker 10: Larva that's.
Speaker 1: There but how DID i know? THAT i knew it
Speaker 1: by getting out in the garden and checking. Periodically you,
Speaker 1: know don't check it every. Month get out as often
Speaker 1: as you. Can plus it's fun go out early in
Speaker 1: the morning when it's. Cool it's fun being out in the.
Speaker 1: Garden but the sooner you catch a, problem the better
Speaker 1: off it. Is it's that is a life, principle isn't,
Speaker 1: It whether it's, gardening or relationships or paying the bills or.
Speaker 1: Whatever doing things on time saves you a lot of.
Speaker 1: Pain dealing with things early on helps a. Lot so
Speaker 1: there you. Go that was. Readvice but for, gardening act,
Speaker 1: soon don't, wait and your options are and also from
Speaker 1: a pest control, standpoint the, safest most organic. Options you
Speaker 1: have full range of those early in a problem. Process
Speaker 1: as things get, older not so. Much for, EXAMPLE bt kills.
Speaker 1: Caterpillars we know that works, Well but when a caterpillar
Speaker 1: is older and it's slowed, down it's, eating and it's
Speaker 1: getting ready to turn in a moth that will lay
Speaker 1: a lot more caterpillar, eggs, well then you're not going
Speaker 1: to get control WITH. Bt the younger the caterpillar, is
Speaker 1: the more voraciously feeding young, CATERPILLARS bt wipes them. Out
Speaker 1: as they get, older it's not as. Good another case
Speaker 1: in point of the sooner you do, things the more
Speaker 1: safe natural options you, have and the more effective it'll.
Speaker 1: Be all, RIGHT i feel like i'm fussing at you.
Speaker 1: THERE i don't mean it that, way but it is
Speaker 1: an important thing to. Know maria In. Cyprus you're our
Speaker 1: next collar on guarden. Line how can we help the?
Speaker 6: Day, hey good.
Speaker 23: MORNING i have got quite a few morning, glories AND
Speaker 23: i Went day's hardware AND i did get a fertilizer
Speaker 23: specific to flowering vines and it didn't. Work so what
Speaker 23: CAN i do to get my morning glories to?
Speaker 1: Bloom, Well morning, Glories keeping the foliage healthy is the
Speaker 1: most important. Thing they get spider. Mites and you look
Speaker 1: at a green leaf that starts to look speckly whitish tan.
Speaker 1: Color that's spider. Mites and so the more of the
Speaker 1: leaf they take, out the less carbohydrates to make blooms
Speaker 1: there will. Be so that's a prime thing on morning.
Speaker 1: Glories good sunlight to shine on the. Leaves go, Ahead,
Speaker 1: Yeah i'm.
Speaker 23: Sorry the leaves are. Healthy it has east south exposure.
Speaker 10: Sun they get pretty good.
Speaker 1: Sun have you grown them there? Before?
Speaker 5: NO i.
Speaker 6: Haven't.
Speaker 23: THERE i have a cedar fence and behind.
Speaker 9: It go.
Speaker 1: Ahead, uh, well but the plants look healthy to you
Speaker 1: when you look at, Them yes they.
Speaker 23: Do, OKAY i would give Them, okay maybe that's.
Speaker 1: Right i'll let. THEM i think you're GONNA i think
Speaker 1: you're gonna see. Results a good healthy plant getting decent
Speaker 1: amount of sun which it sounds like yours, are it
Speaker 1: should start to flower pretty. Soon so, uh just to
Speaker 1: give them a little more. Time and, uh you have
Speaker 1: to know which variety you planted OR i know that's
Speaker 1: a long shot.
Speaker 23: Question, no BECAUSE i had SEVERAL i just grabbed and you.
Speaker 23: ANYTHING i could find so different varieties out. There but
Speaker 23: it's like a ten fifteen feet long, area AND i
Speaker 23: threw fish in line up into the tree behind my,
Speaker 23: fence and so they're they're growing very happily up the.
Speaker 23: Tree BUT i just wanted to see something that's.
Speaker 1: Interesting, yeah WELL i think you'll GET i think you'll
Speaker 1: get some. Blooms if they're getting, sunlight and if the
Speaker 1: plants look, healthy they should. Bloom they should start. Blooming
Speaker 1: don't over don't give them a bunch of nitrogen fertilizer
Speaker 1: that moves the needle in the wrong way on getting
Speaker 1: morning glories to. Bloom so just a little, bit but
Speaker 1: not too. Much that's another thing that can cause vine
Speaker 1: growth at the expense of bloom. Production so hopefully they'll
Speaker 1: turn around, awesome make you happy like you were when
Speaker 1: you bought. Them, yeah thank.
Speaker 23: YOU i listened to you all the, time and FINALLY
Speaker 23: i needed some help with.
Speaker 3: This so you have a great.
Speaker 10: Day thank.
Speaker 1: You all, Right, maria you have a wonderful. Week take
Speaker 1: care there you. Go all. RIGHT i think we're going
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