WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.040 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:07.440 of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 3 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:11.519 to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richard's. 4 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:18.320 Shoes crazy trip. 5 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:29.320 Just watch him as well. So many go things to supposing. 6 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:36.840 Not a sum. 7 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:43.159 Sumon. 8 00:00:47.119 --> 00:00:53.119 Good morning, start, Good morning, and welcome to garden Line. 9 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:56.600 We are glad you are listening today. Hey, I'm Skip Rictor, 10 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:59.280 I'm your host, and what we're here for is to 11 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:02.840 help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, 12 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:05.519 and more fun in the process. And we try to 13 00:01:05.560 --> 00:01:07.840 do that. As I like to say, we put we 14 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:10.840 turn brown thumbs green. There's no such thing as a 15 00:01:10.879 --> 00:01:15.159 brown thumb anyway, there's just uninformed thumbs. And so get 16 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:17.959 your thumb. Can if I get both of them, pull 17 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:20.200 up to the radio and let's talk about it. Let's 18 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:22.400 talk about things going on in your lawn, things in 19 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:25.799 your trees, vegetable gardens, whatever kinds of questions you want 20 00:01:25.840 --> 00:01:28.560 to ask. We would be happy to visit about all 21 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:31.319 of that. I am sending out the I don't know 22 00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:34.319 if it's the last call, but you better hurry up. 23 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:38.120 Call for taking care of your lawn, for fall. There's 24 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.680 three issues we deal with in the lawns and the fall. 25 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:43.159 Number one is getting the nutrients down that they need, 26 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:46.000 and that would be lots of potassium, a little bit 27 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:51.000 of nitrogen especially, and making sure that they have the 28 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:54.599 nutrients to produce the carbohydrates that make cold heartiness and 29 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:57.920 come out stronger in the spring. You know, the fall 30 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:00.799 application of fertilizer is the most one of the year 31 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:06.840 because with the nutrient blend in our fall fertilization some 32 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:09.800 people call them winter risers. Do that if you want. 33 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:13.960 With the nutrient blend in those the grass plant is 34 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:19.280 capturing sunlight, making sugars carbohydrates which create cold heartiness. And 35 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.879 then in the spring, the new growth is based on 36 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:24.520 what's already in the plant, not what the roots take up. 37 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:26.639 First thing in the spring, after it warms up a bit, 38 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:29.800 the roots start doing their thing. But early in the spring, 39 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:32.199 it's what you put on in the fall that's driving 40 00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.159 grass growth. Okay, I think I've explained that a lot, 41 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:38.759 but you get the idea. Fall is important for fertilizer. 42 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.919 Nitrophos has a three step program. You know, you do 43 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:44.599 the two step on the dance floor, you do three 44 00:02:44.599 --> 00:02:48.439 step on the lawns. Well. Three steps are nitrofoss fall 45 00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:53.840 special winteriser, that's the fertilizer. Second step is to deal 46 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:57.719 with those winter weeds that are germinating now, chickweed, hindbit, 47 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:01.439 clover all the things that you see in the spring 48 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:05.400 that are growing big. Those are winter weeds that sprouted 49 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:08.479 in the fall. Think of blue bonnets our state flower. Okay, 50 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:11.560 blue bonnets are sprouting now and they sit there's little 51 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:13.759 bitty plants all year. You don't even notice blue bonnets 52 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.319 in the winter, do you, But then in spring they 53 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:19.599 take off growing, they bloom, they set seeds, and there 54 00:03:19.639 --> 00:03:22.599 we are. Well, winter weeds are the same way, and 55 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:24.360 if you don't prevent them now, you have to deal 56 00:03:24.400 --> 00:03:26.879 with them in the spring when they're big and sometimes 57 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:29.000 in some cases if you wait long enough, too difficult 58 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:32.800 to control. Barricade does that. Third step is eagle turf fungicide. 59 00:03:33.800 --> 00:03:36.719 Large patch of brown patches, big circles in the lawn 60 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:40.400 you see around the neighborhood, that is brown patch, and 61 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:43.680 eagle turf fungicide prevents it. So here's what you do. 62 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.800 You put on fall special winter riser, you put on barricade, 63 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.520 You put on eagle turf fungicide. You put on one 64 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:52.240 half inch of water, just irrigate, set something out there, 65 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:53.719 tell you how long to run it to catch a 66 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:57.479 half inch of water that washes them all into the soil. 67 00:03:57.520 --> 00:03:59.199 And that's where they do their work. You're going to 68 00:03:59.240 --> 00:04:01.960 find the night three step and other night foss products 69 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:04.840 at Enchantet Forest down in Richmond, Ace Hardware City, on 70 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:07.599 Memorial Drive, up in Montgomery at Gym's Hardware, and in 71 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:13.120 alvin Stanton Shopping Center, just a few of many places 72 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:17.319 that carry those products. You were listening to guard Line, 73 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:18.839 if you'd like to give me a call, it would 74 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:20.720 help if I gave you a number, and that is 75 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:24.639 seven one three two one two five eight seven four 76 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:28.839 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 77 00:04:29.319 --> 00:04:29.439 Uh. 78 00:04:29.519 --> 00:04:33.560 Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights is one of those 79 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:37.920 destination garden centers that when family comes to town, you 80 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:39.480 just say, hey, hop in the car, you gotta see 81 00:04:39.480 --> 00:04:42.000 this place and they will love it. I don't care 82 00:04:42.040 --> 00:04:45.560 what they're interested in. If they like fruit, even tropical 83 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:47.959 types of fruit, they have them there at Buchanan's Planet. 84 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:50.560 They love native plants. Oh my gosh, there's no place 85 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:53.920 in the Greater Houston area that has as many as 86 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:57.920 wide a variety of native plants as Buchanan's Native Plants does. 87 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.360 Do they like houseplants? Maybe there's a add I'm not 88 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.199 getting in the yard messing around, but I like houseplants. 89 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.480 They will have houseplants you've never seen before, ones that 90 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.759 it's like, oh my gosh, that's gorgeous. I got to 91 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:13.079 have one of those succulents and foliage houseplants and other things. 92 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:17.560 Plants for shade, plants for sun, annual plants, perennial plants, 93 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:21.519 plants that attract butterflies and hummingbirds and everything. Is there 94 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.160 a Buchanan's Native Plants. They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights. 95 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:27.480 You need to go to their website though, it's Buchanansplants 96 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:29.839 dot Com. When you get there, what you're going to 97 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:36.560 find is a really really nice arrangement of all kinds 98 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:39.000 of educational materials. You can sign up for their newsletter, 99 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:41.399 which you need to do. It's very important to do that. 100 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:44.560 Lots of good information, but just look at the resources, 101 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:49.920 videos and information sheets and lists of plants for various things. 102 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:53.160 It is loaded. It's very, very valuable to do. But 103 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:54.839 then you've got to get by there. When you get there, 104 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:56.560 you're going to find a full line of the products 105 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:59.199 you hear me talk about here on Guardenline like microlife 106 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:02.639 in Nature's Way in airloom soils and landscapers, pride and 107 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:05.040 nitroposs and know, some plant food and on and on 108 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.759 down the line. And buchanis naeded plants on Eleventh Street 109 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:13.720 there in the Heights until it's fun going in there 110 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:16.519 to see what the latest thing that they have is. 111 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:20.240 They put on some good shindigs too. That's another reason 112 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:22.360 to get to sign up for the newsletters. See you 113 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:24.399 can see things coming up. There's some holiday stuff coming 114 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:27.800 up that you will definitely want to participate in and 115 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:29.839 take the kids. There's always fun stuff to do for 116 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:34.399 kids when they're having those kind of shindigs there. Well, 117 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.000 what's going on in your landscape? What about your gardens? 118 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.160 Have you planted anything for fall? In the way of vegetables. 119 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:47.360 Now is probably the best easiest garden season of the year. 120 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.959 I really mean that it's fall. Is we finally got 121 00:06:51.959 --> 00:06:54.480 that cool weather. When I say cool, you know it's 122 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.480 not hot out there and it's pleasant to be outside 123 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.240 and to be getting work done. Things like that. So 124 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:03.959 when you're out in the garden, now's the time to 125 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:07.319 get those vegetables planted. We can be planting broccoli and 126 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:10.920 cabbage and cauliflower and call robbie and kale and collards, 127 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:14.720 and that's a lot of sounding vegetables. They're called coal crops. 128 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:17.959 By the way. They're also called cruciferous vegetables, and they're 129 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.879 also called good for you. There are cancer fighting ingredients 130 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:24.000 in these vegetables. Those are I call them the blue 131 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:26.839 leaf vegetables, as if they needed another name for that 132 00:07:26.959 --> 00:07:29.680 group of vegetables. But you know what I'm talking about, 133 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:32.879 the kind of bluish green leaves. Those are all great 134 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.879 and healthy for you, and they grow like crazy through 135 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:39.040 the winter. Here in the Greater Houston area. We just 136 00:07:39.079 --> 00:07:41.319 have nice mile winters, so it makes it really easy 137 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.720 to get you know, to get good success with those. 138 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:49.240 It's also time to start planning lettuce, carrots, another thing 139 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:51.920 can go in now. We can plant beets and Swiss 140 00:07:52.040 --> 00:07:55.839 charred and turnips and radishes and all kinds of crops. 141 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:59.000 Easiest garden season the year, most fun. All right, Well, 142 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:00.560 I'm gonna take a little break. I'd like to give 143 00:08:00.600 --> 00:08:03.720 me a call seven one three two one two KTRH. 144 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:08.839 I'll be right back. Alrighty, we're back back on guard 145 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:11.959 Line this morning. First of all, congratulations, you were up 146 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:14.079 at a good hour of the morning. You are awake 147 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:16.360 or at least half awake. A cup of coffee, you'll 148 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:19.839 at least get one eye open. Look over at your neighbors. 149 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:22.920 Are the lights on over there? If they're not, put 150 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:26.480 on your pajamas or house coat, go over there, bang 151 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:29.800 on the door and tell them that they're missing garden line. 152 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:34.360 They will really appreciate that. Maybe not this morning, they 153 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:38.039 will eventually will when they start listening. Hey, we're having 154 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:40.240 some fun here on guard Line. I hope you'll give 155 00:08:40.279 --> 00:08:42.159 us a call and we can talk about the things 156 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:45.480 that interest you. Our phone number seven one three two 157 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.519 one two KTRH seven one three two and two k 158 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:54.320 t r H. If you have been looking at your 159 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:59.600 landscape thinking, you know, it's okay, but there's just something missing, 160 00:08:59.639 --> 00:09:01.279 all right, it just doesn't pop. You know, I could 161 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:03.879 drive down the street and never notice my house or 162 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:06.559 maybe in the backyard. You know you're out there and 163 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:09.320 you're thinking the weather we're having, this would be great 164 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:11.240 to be out here in the evenings and enjoying it. 165 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:14.480 And what could I do out here to just create 166 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:18.000 that setting that makes me have another room to my 167 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:22.399 house and that's the outdoor room. Well. Pierscapes is a 168 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:25.879 company that, first of all, Pierscapes can make your lawn 169 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:30.960 look unbelievable. Number one, they do something called compost top dressing, 170 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:36.279 and they do core aeration no compost top dressing. First 171 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.440 of all, you do the correation, You punch little holes 172 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:40.480 in the soil, pop the little soal plugs out on 173 00:09:40.519 --> 00:09:42.799 the surface. Then you do a compost top dressing and 174 00:09:42.840 --> 00:09:44.879 it falls down in a lot of those holes and 175 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:48.000 among the grass blades and runners and things, and it 176 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:53.279 just enhances the lawn. It fixes compaction, fixes compaction. It 177 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.720 helps the lawn grass to thrive by bringing oxygen in 178 00:09:56.759 --> 00:09:59.519 the soil, getting that organic matter and nutrient down in 179 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:02.600 the soil volume the sole profile, and it just helps 180 00:10:02.639 --> 00:10:04.600 the lawn to do well. If your lan's been struggling, 181 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:09.240 compost top dressing following a corporation is an excellent way 182 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:14.320 to achieve really really good results. I would say what 183 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:17.480 you're doing is you're creating culturally, You're creating a setting 184 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:20.919 for the roots where they can thrive. And when roots thrive, 185 00:10:21.159 --> 00:10:24.840 your grass is going to thrive. Now, Puerscapes they can 186 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.679 do a number of different things on your lawn. They 187 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:32.919 Puerscapes is the kind of company. Excuse me, my brain 188 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.519 is goingside me here, I'm talking about Greenpro when I'm 189 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:38.240 talking about the aeration. In fact, I want to tell 190 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:40.799 you about both of them. The Greenpro for the aeration, 191 00:10:41.360 --> 00:10:44.279 they do about a forty five mile radius of Magnolia, Texas. 192 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:47.519 So the northwest quadront of Houston is where they do 193 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:50.279 their work. And I've seen their work and it's outstanding. 194 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:52.600 Right now, they got a really good deal on and 195 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:56.320 so if you purchase the compost top dressing service, prices 196 00:10:56.360 --> 00:10:59.399 start at five seventy five plus tax. They will do 197 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:04.399 the aeration for free. So they give in, they do 198 00:11:04.440 --> 00:11:06.919 the aeration and you buy the compost top dressing. Now 199 00:11:06.919 --> 00:11:09.279 there's a two yard minimum on that order. You can't 200 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:11.120 just say I want one yard a compost and that's 201 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:14.000 all I'm putting out. You need two yard minimum and 202 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:16.720 the price is start at five seventy five. Here's the 203 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:21.120 website greenpro dot net. Greenpro dot net. If you go 204 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:23.440 to that website you can find out more information or 205 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:25.440 you can give them a call. Two eight one three 206 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:29.799 five one forty seven thirty three two eight one three 207 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:34.240 forty seven thirty three. Now that takes care of your lawn. 208 00:11:34.600 --> 00:11:37.799 That deals with getting that lawn that's been hammered by 209 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:40.480 chinchbugs or take all root rod or foot traffic or 210 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:42.600 heat and drought and other things like that, and it 211 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:46.120 brings it back in to looking its best. As for 212 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.080 your landscape overall, that is where peer scapes comes in. 213 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:55.320 Puerscapes can do anything you need to make your outdoor 214 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:58.519 area a place where you want to live. So for example, 215 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:01.399 maybe you want beautiful curve apeal and you need some 216 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:04.559 beautiful beds designed. They do design there. They don't just 217 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:08.679 plant plants, they do design as well. Maybe your irrigation 218 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:11.639 system isn't right. As a result, things aren't getting watered 219 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:15.200 in certain areas and plants are struggling. They do irrigation 220 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:18.159 work as well. Let's go to the backyard for a minute. 221 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:20.399 Maybe you've got an area that doesn't drain well and 222 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:22.679 nothing wants to grow there because it's soggy, wet, and 223 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:25.879 most plants don't like a swamp they can do subsurface 224 00:12:25.960 --> 00:12:29.600 drainage for you. Do you want landscape lighting, Oh my gosh, 225 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:33.080 that turns that beautiful outdoor area in the evenings into 226 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:36.399 something really special. And they can do landscape lighting. Do 227 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:39.879 you want hardscapes like pathways for example, or a patio 228 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:42.120 for example. Do you see what I'm saying? They do 229 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:44.799 it all. They do it all. Go to their website 230 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:47.759 purescapes dot com and look at the kind of work 231 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:49.519 they do and you'll get some ideas. You know, you 232 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:52.799 may not want exactly what you see in a picture 233 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:54.840 that they did for somebody else, but it's like, Ooh, 234 00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:57.799 I like way that arbor you fill in the blank, 235 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:00.679 or I love the way that they laid out that 236 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:03.759 little waterfall and rock area back there, and I can 237 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:05.840 just I can just hear the sound of moving water 238 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:10.240 right now. That's Peerscapes pierscapes dot com two eight one 239 00:13:10.519 --> 00:13:14.639 three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven 240 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:19.919 oh fifty sixty. Those two services, separate companies, different services. 241 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.480 All in all, When you put that together, you have 242 00:13:22.600 --> 00:13:29.399 got wall to wall really really gorgeous, impressive show place 243 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:31.279 and a place you're gonna want to go outside and 244 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:34.600 hang out in I'm going to go out the phones 245 00:13:34.639 --> 00:13:36.919 now again the number seven one three two one two 246 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:38.679 k t R H and we're going to go to 247 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:41.720 Spring and talk to Phil. Hello, Phil, Welcome to Guardenline. 248 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:47.440 Good morning. I had a question about fertilizing Saint Augustine 249 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:48.919 oaks and. 250 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:51.960 Create myrtles. 251 00:13:52.440 --> 00:13:56.879 So I'm using the green fertilong I mean Microlife green 252 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:59.200 bag and fertilized in. 253 00:13:59.279 --> 00:14:00.600 March in July. 254 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:08.200 So okay, would my Saint Augustine benefit by refertilizing at 255 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:10.080 this point. 256 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:12.960 Well, the green bag would be okay. The Microlife has 257 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:16.039 something called brown patch that where the nitrogen is a 258 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:18.919 slight bit lower and the potassium is a slight bit higher, 259 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:22.919 and that is more of a fall fertilizer to go 260 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:26.600 that route, and because our goal isn't to put a 261 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:28.600 lot of nitrogen on, but it's to have some and 262 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:31.240 then to have a little more potassium. So you could 263 00:14:31.240 --> 00:14:33.399 hold that green bag and use it in the spring. 264 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:35.519 I mean, if you want to go ahead and use 265 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:38.080 it now, there's not it's not going to mess anything 266 00:14:38.159 --> 00:14:41.639 up at all. It's good fertilizer. But I would buy 267 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:43.840 a bag of the brown patch and use it now 268 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.519 and then hold off and use that green in the spring. 269 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:56.159 If all things up, I think we lost phil there. Phil. 270 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:59.000 If you want a call back, we can continue that discussion. 271 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:03.240 Somehow we lost it there. Yeah, this is the time. 272 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:05.240 This is the time to get those nutrients down. 273 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:05.440 You know. 274 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:07.879 One reason why while ago I was about to say 275 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:09.799 last call and say, well it was not the last call, 276 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:12.879 but it's getting there. Why is it? Why would I 277 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:16.000 say this is, you know, getting last call for fall fertilizing. Well, 278 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:18.159 the fall fertilizing has to be taken up by the 279 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:20.639 grass plant. And I'll just go to an extreme here 280 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:22.080 and say, you know, if you wait till the beginning 281 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.320 of December to put on a fall fertilizer, well you're 282 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:27.720 grasss cooling off enough. The grass is slowed down. It's 283 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:31.960 not actively you know, just growing taking up nutrients or 284 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:34.600 anything like that. The sooner you get those down, the 285 00:15:34.600 --> 00:15:36.960 more benefits you get out of them. Now, the nutrients 286 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:39.840 will be there and they cycled in the soil and whatnot. 287 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:43.200 But it's better not to delay, better to get right 288 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:48.240 on it and get that done. That's why I have schedules. 289 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:50.519 Have you have you seen mine? If you go to 290 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:55.840 my website Gardening with Skip dot com, Gardening with Skip 291 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.480 dot Com. On there, you're going to find a lot 292 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.039 of things. In fact, we are in the we're about 293 00:16:01.080 --> 00:16:03.879 to redo the whole website. It's going to look very different. 294 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:07.080 But when we do that, we're adding a lot of 295 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:09.440 content to it. We're having to reorganize so it lays 296 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.279 out better. But right now you're going to excuse me. 297 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:13.960 You go up there and you're going to find my schedules. 298 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:17.320 A lawn care schedule is the big I have two schedules, 299 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.480 the lawn care schedule and the pest disease and weed schedule. 300 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:23.639 So here's the way I separate the two. Lawn care 301 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:29.120 is how to grow a pretty lawn, mo water, fertilize, air, a, mineralize, 302 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:32.320 those kinds of things. The other one is everything that 303 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:36.679 goes wrong with your lawn, pest, diseases and weeds. Okay, 304 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:40.200 so that I print them up front and back so 305 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:41.639 that way you can just kind of pin them to 306 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:43.840 the refrigerator and you or hang them in the garage 307 00:16:43.879 --> 00:16:45.720 if you want. You got them all out there. It's 308 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:49.080 real easy to see. But it tells you exactly January 309 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:52.559 through December what to do each month in your lawn, 310 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:55.919 and then the products that I would recommend that will 311 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:58.799 achieve that. So like when to chinch, but when do 312 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.000 we treat for chinch When would they typically occur? Look 313 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.680 at the schedule, it's right there on the insect bar. 314 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:08.200 Going across the calendar page from January to December, you 315 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:10.680 can find right where chinchbugs are. And then you go 316 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:13.039 to the bottom and it's what kills stitchbugs. Well, here 317 00:17:13.079 --> 00:17:15.359 are some options, and I give organic options, I give 318 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:19.680 synthetic options for fertilizing, for pest control, disease, and we 319 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:22.079 control and so on. So it makes it really easy. 320 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:23.720 All right, we're going to run back here. I think 321 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:27.400 we got Phil back. Hey, Phil, welcome back to garden Line. 322 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:29.119 Where did we leave that discussion? 323 00:17:30.200 --> 00:17:33.799 Well, my question was would it be beneficial to fertilize 324 00:17:33.920 --> 00:17:36.200 now or to do nothing now with the lawn. 325 00:17:39.799 --> 00:17:42.000 It would be beneficial to do a moderate amount of 326 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:45.720 a fall fertilizer right now. Don't deliver any further. The 327 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:48.079 sooner you get it on, the more you get out 328 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:53.519 of it. Okay, So that I would say, yes, Well, I. 329 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:55.640 Heard you say before that it would tend to store 330 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:59.680 up carbohydrates for coming up in the in the spring. 331 00:17:59.839 --> 00:18:01.279 Is did I misunderstand that? 332 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:04.839 No, that's correct. And here's what happens. When the grass 333 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:08.920 takes up potassium, especially with nitrogen, which it takes those 334 00:18:08.960 --> 00:18:12.000 two up together. They get in the grass plant. And 335 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:14.079 then when the sun shines on the leaves, which is 336 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:16.920 why I say do it now rather than when it's cold, 337 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:21.160 the grass makes carbohydrates, which are sugars, and that creates 338 00:18:21.200 --> 00:18:25.440 winter heartiness and it's also stored energy for spring. So 339 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:27.519 that's why we want to get it down. Get some 340 00:18:27.599 --> 00:18:30.359 sunlight on the grass with that fertilizer, and get those 341 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:34.079 carbohydrates built so that it is a stronger plant going 342 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:34.720 into winter. 343 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:39.039 Okay, that sounds good for my brain. Yeah great, all right. 344 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:41.240 I had to question about fertilizing trees. 345 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:41.839 I've got to. 346 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:47.960 Oh oaks and crate myrtles and a nail. So is 347 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.319 there any benefit to fertilizing those trees? 348 00:18:50.359 --> 00:18:56.079 Now? I would not bother Now there's nothing wrong with 349 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:59.799 doing it, but they are shutting down and they're not 350 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:02.440 going to be actively taking up a lot of nutrient 351 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:04.519 to try to grow. I would wait towards the end 352 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:08.960 of winter. Do your fertilization maybe early spring. Uh. That way, 353 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:12.400 the roots are waking up, becoming more active and getting 354 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:14.759 busy taking things up, and you get more bang for 355 00:19:14.839 --> 00:19:15.240 your buck. 356 00:19:16.359 --> 00:19:19.279 Okay, all right, that sounds good if you don't have 357 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:22.920 I have time to ask one more unrelated question. 358 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:26.400 Yeah, real quick, uh huh. 359 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:29.400 That is when I mixed up spray. So I got 360 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:34.680 it from spot Treating for nut grass, and I use 361 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:41.319 the stage yender bone eye product products like that. If 362 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:44.640 I mix those up and I keep them, I don't 363 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:47.960 let them get hot like in the garage or anything 364 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:51.960 like that. How long will those last? How long will 365 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:55.119 I be wease that bottle? Because of spot treat and 366 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:56.559 I might mix up a court. 367 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:00.920 Yeah, I got it, so I don't don't try to 368 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:03.480 store them once you mix them up. Depending on the 369 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:06.400 pH of the water you mix them in, Uh, they 370 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:08.720 could break down in eight hours, or they could break 371 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.240 down in twenty four hours, or they may last a 372 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:13.680 little longer. Depends on the ingredient and the and the 373 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:17.119 pH of the water. So it's just in general best 374 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:20.599 to use them hopefully soon after you make them, definitely 375 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:21.880 within the day you make them. 376 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.599 Okay, really okay, all right, well all right, thank you. 377 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:26.480 I do use a lot. 378 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:28.599 Thank you, yeah, well. 379 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:30.759 Thank you for the question. You bet, good luck with that. 380 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:32.680 All right, well, I believe I got to take a 381 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:34.640 little break here. It's time for another one and I 382 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:36.839 will be right back at seven one three two one 383 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:42.920 two kat rih all right, good morning, well Doobie brothers 384 00:20:42.920 --> 00:20:45.880 to kick us off here. If you're listening to guard Line, 385 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:48.359 I'm your host, Skip Ricker, and we are here to 386 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:50.720 help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and 387 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:53.880 fun in the process. Gardening should be fun. And you 388 00:20:53.920 --> 00:20:56.680 don't fail at gardening. Listen to me repeat after me, 389 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:59.720 I don't fail at gardening, and you go, yeah, you 390 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.039 haven't see my garden. Yeah, but I'm saying you only 391 00:21:03.079 --> 00:21:06.000 fail when you quit. Gardening is a learning process. I 392 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:08.599 still learn every day. Every time I go out there 393 00:21:08.640 --> 00:21:10.519 and put my hands in the dirt and start doing something, 394 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:12.880 I learn, and I've become a better gardener and you 395 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:17.680 can too. It really is. Listen, It's not like our 396 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:19.880 life depends on it. You know, we're not a farmer 397 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:22.240 feet in the world here where if our crop fails 398 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:25.039 people are in trouble. We're having fun in the garden. 399 00:21:25.359 --> 00:21:27.160 And if a plant dies, you put another plant in 400 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:29.400 one of the best horticultures in the country from over 401 00:21:29.920 --> 00:21:32.680 on the East Coast. One time said to be a 402 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:35.000 good horticulturist, you got to kill a lot of plants. 403 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:41.400 That's true. Give yourself permission to kill a few plants. Really, 404 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:43.279 I'm serious. I mean, we don't want to. But you 405 00:21:43.319 --> 00:21:45.480 know what I'm saying. You get out there and you 406 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:47.799 try things, and you learn and you see things, and hey, 407 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:50.480 there's nothing wrong with it not working. I mean, do 408 00:21:50.480 --> 00:21:53.359 you think painters when they paint, don't ever mess up 409 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:55.640 and have to throw it away and paint a new thing, 410 00:21:56.680 --> 00:21:58.880 or they've learned how to paint over what they painted 411 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:01.200 and make it right so it turns out really cool. 412 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:05.079 We do that in our gardens. Our gardens. Think of 413 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:08.039 it this way. How many of you remember etches sketches? 414 00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:10.200 Do you remember those as little things where you have 415 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:13.440 two knobs, one makes it go left and right, one 416 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:15.359 makes it go up and down, and you try to 417 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.319 draw stuff in your two hands. In your brain don't 418 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:21.799 communicate well, so right, when you thought you were going left, 419 00:22:21.799 --> 00:22:23.880 you ended up going right. Now you've messed up your 420 00:22:23.920 --> 00:22:26.599 picture you were drawing. Well, what do you do. You 421 00:22:26.640 --> 00:22:28.960 turn the edge of sketch upside down and you shake it, 422 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:30.799 and all of a sudden, when you flip it back over, 423 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:32.880 it's a blank slate and you get to start again. 424 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:36.680 That's called a rototiller or a spading fork. You don't 425 00:22:36.839 --> 00:22:41.640 like your vegetable, row, dig it up, replant. We got 426 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:44.640 more seeds and plants and things. It's all part of 427 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:47.640 the process. This isn't getting it perfect. This is having 428 00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:51.200 fun and learning. And no two years are alike, believe me. 429 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:53.799 I mean, think about sod webworms than are lawn. Some 430 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:58.640 years soid webworms just are everywhere and they're horrible. Other 431 00:22:58.720 --> 00:23:02.359 years it's like web worms they're not here. That's the 432 00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:05.839 vicissitudes of nature. There you go. That's an early or 433 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:11.920 early morning mouthful. Vicissitudes of nature. Sense sounds like you 434 00:23:12.039 --> 00:23:16.079 know what I'm talking about. Anyway, the chance in the 435 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:18.920 gardening of having fun is high today. So I would 436 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:21.359 recommend this afternoon you plan on getting out there, go 437 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:24.640 visit a garden center, pick up some supplies and things 438 00:23:24.680 --> 00:23:27.319 that you need, and let's keep going. Let's have fun gardening. 439 00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:31.200 The most important step of gardening is to fix the soil. Now, 440 00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:33.960 I know, there's other very important steps, picking a spot 441 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:36.319 that's well drained or not picking a spot that gets 442 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:39.519 sunlight er doesn't. All of those things are important, but 443 00:23:40.559 --> 00:23:44.960 so many people do it backwards. They go shopping and 444 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:47.359 they come home with a plant that it was just 445 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:49.480 gorgeous they had to have, and then they walk around 446 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:51.119 looking for where am I going to put this? And 447 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:53.759 they PLoP, They PLoP the poor plant down in an 448 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.880 unprepared plot. As Peter Piper picks a peck of pickle 449 00:23:56.920 --> 00:24:00.640 peppers who almost made it through, and that just isn't 450 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:04.279 going to survive in unprepared soil, or it survives, but 451 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:08.440 it just looks horrible. Fix the soil first, brown stuff 452 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:13.240 before green stuff. That's how it works. CNA Maultch is 453 00:24:13.559 --> 00:24:16.359 the place to get your brown stuff. They're down south 454 00:24:16.359 --> 00:24:19.799 of Houston. They are on FM five twenty one near 455 00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:22.799 Highway six and two eighty eight. You can go to 456 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:26.519 their website cnmultch dot com. That's the best way to 457 00:24:27.039 --> 00:24:29.799 find information about them. Where they are, when they're open, 458 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:32.680 all that they're closed today, by the way, closed on Sundays, 459 00:24:32.680 --> 00:24:35.400 but Monday through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven 460 00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:38.480 thirty to two When you go into cienamultch they have 461 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:43.240 premium hardwood multch in bulk. They also have in bulk 462 00:24:43.440 --> 00:24:48.720 Landscaper's Pride, black vulvet or rose sooil, the organic compost. 463 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:51.839 You know, they have everything. I mean they got sand 464 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:54.599 and gravel and stone on pallets and they deliver within 465 00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:57.119 about twenty miles for a fee. But you're going to 466 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:00.720 find the fertilizers. I talk about their microlife Asamite and 467 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:05.119 Nelson turf Star. You're gonna find nitrofoss and medina and 468 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:09.319 Nelson plant food. You're gonna find Landscaper's Pride products, heirloom 469 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:13.799 soil products like their Vigian herb compost. When you go 470 00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:17.039 into Ciena Malts, you are going to go home with 471 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:20.839 what you need to set the foundation for success. Whether 472 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:25.119 it's a vegetable garden or a landscape bed or a 473 00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:28.319 lawn or whatever you're doing. Ciena Moltz sets you up 474 00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:32.880 for success. Cienamlts dot com start there. I know it's 475 00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:36.920 exciting to buy plants and seeds, and buy plants and seeds, 476 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:42.200 but brown stuff before green stuff, and that's how you 477 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:46.279 get to success. You're listening to garden Line my number 478 00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:49.519 seven one three two one two kt r H seven 479 00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:52.839 one three two one two k t r H down 480 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:56.559 at Enchanted Forest, which is in the Richmond Rosenberg area. 481 00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:59.519 In fact, if you're in Richmond Rosenberg and you're heading 482 00:25:59.599 --> 00:26:02.359 up church Sland is off to the right on FM 483 00:26:02.359 --> 00:26:06.759 twenty seven fifty nine Enchented Forest. They've got their amarillis 484 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:10.640 bulbs in look really good cyclomen and all the fall 485 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:13.519 color plants, you know, pansies and violas and all the 486 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:16.680 different things we plant in the cool season, including the 487 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:22.079 gorgeous cyclemen. Just hot hot colors. Love it, the red 488 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:26.640 and the pink, and the coral colors of sycrament, the 489 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:30.880 white cyclement. They're just they stop traffic. They've got herbs 490 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.240 in stock. There's an herb for everybody there. I mean, 491 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:36.599 they have an awesome supply of herbs in a channel forest. 492 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:39.599 And then the trees, you know falls for planting trees. 493 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:44.480 The best time to plant a tree is right now, 494 00:26:44.799 --> 00:26:48.720 because if you plant it this month, it has all 495 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:52.440 of the rest of November and December and January and 496 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:55.680 February and March and April, and then in May it 497 00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:58.359 starts to heat up. That's like six months and that 498 00:26:58.519 --> 00:27:00.559 there's nothing that gives a tree a better starts then 499 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:03.359 fall planting. So do you want some hollies? They've got 500 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:05.839 many varieties, as a matter of fact. They they got 501 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:09.240 red maple, Chinese fringe tree, my favorite spring blooming tree. 502 00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:12.599 They got red buds, of course. And then go inside 503 00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:14.720 in the shop. It's starting to look a lot like 504 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:18.599 Christmas in there. They they're a metal artwork from round 505 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:22.279 Top has arrived. It's just it's a fun place to 506 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:24.880 go and to shop and you're going to find their 507 00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:27.880 expertise and you're going to find the plants that you 508 00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:30.880 need to have success at in Chanted Forest Dunna Richmond Rosenberg. 509 00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:36.319 You go FM twenty seven fifty nine and you will 510 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:38.200 get right there. If you've never been there before, you 511 00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:40.400 really need to go this afternoon because it is a 512 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:42.920 fun place. I like the word enchanted in that name. 513 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:47.119 It is an enchanting place. You're listening to garden. I 514 00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:49.359 we get some calls coming in here if you'd like 515 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:53.240 to call seven one three two one two kt r 516 00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:59.000 H seven one three two one two kt r H 517 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:02.839 nels Plant Food has a variety of quality products. First 518 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:05.559 of all, thank thanks Dean and the Nelson team for 519 00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:09.119 donating so many products. Yesterday, we had a great time 520 00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:13.119 out in Kingwood, Texas at the wild Birds Unlimited store. 521 00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:16.599 They're off Kingwood Drive behind Torchy Stacos. Thanks for everybody 522 00:28:16.599 --> 00:28:19.359 that came out. That was a lot of fun and 523 00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:22.119 you got it was worth your time, wouldn't it. I mean, 524 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:24.519 even if the answers were kind of wonky, that would 525 00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:28.640 be me. By the way home, you went home with 526 00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:32.440 some really cool products from Nelson's. We gave away some 527 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:34.400 of their color Stars. One of four or five different 528 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:36.839 products I gave way yesterday. Color Star is one of 529 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:39.880 their most universal blends, a Nelson plant food. If you're 530 00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:42.000 going to put in pansies and Viola's or any kind 531 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:44.400 of cool season color, you need to get a hold 532 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:47.640 of some color Star. It's available in the little plastic 533 00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:51.519 screw top jars. It's got five different sources of nitrogen 534 00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:55.119 in it. And listen, professional landscapers have been using color 535 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:58.000 Star for a long time, Nelson says, Folks they ship 536 00:28:58.079 --> 00:28:59.720 it out of state. There's a lot of people out 537 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:03.119 of state that have learned it works, and they just 538 00:29:03.240 --> 00:29:05.839 keep ordering it and using it about every three to 539 00:29:05.880 --> 00:29:08.319 four months during the growing season. Sprinkle a little color 540 00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:10.559 Star in your flower beds and you're going to see 541 00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:15.680 really really cool results. I'd love to use that, but yeah, 542 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:17.720 we did. Boy, we gave away color Star. We gave 543 00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:20.960 away some of the Genesis transplant mix. We had veg 544 00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:24.799 their vegetable mix, the rose mix. I mean, we were 545 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:28.400 a lot of people went home happy. I know that 546 00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:30.279 that is for sure. Well, it's time for me to 547 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:32.559 take a little break again. David and Tomball you will 548 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:34.720 be first up when we come right back for the 549 00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:38.880 rest of you. Seven two one two kt rh All right, 550 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:43.119 we're back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you 551 00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:46.319 with us. We are going to head straight out to 552 00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:49.640 the phones and talk to David in Tomball. Hello, David, 553 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:50.640 welcome to guard Line. 554 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:52.799 Good morning, sir. 555 00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:53.079 Hey. 556 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:55.720 First of all, I'm a I'm a truck driver, and 557 00:29:55.799 --> 00:29:58.440 if I if I wound up having a drive on 558 00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:01.960 Saturdays or Sundays, all is appreciate you keeping me company 559 00:30:01.960 --> 00:30:04.160 while I drive. And I always seem to learn something, 560 00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:07.440 so I appreciate that I've got. 561 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:09.079 There. 562 00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:13.599 Oh yeah, I've got two pear trees and both of 563 00:30:13.640 --> 00:30:17.640 them are kind of tall and narrow to the point 564 00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:21.119 that I can't reach the fruit. And I was talking 565 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:23.279 to the lady out the arbor gate and she was 566 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:26.440 telling me that I could cut them things off at 567 00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.640 my knee level, and that just seemed kind of drastic, 568 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:33.000 and I just want to confirm that I want to 569 00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:36.160 kind of reform these trees to where I can tame 570 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:39.359 them and eventually just have a good round tree and 571 00:30:39.400 --> 00:30:42.359 also be able to reach the fruit. How much can 572 00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:44.359 you prune off? And when should. 573 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:47.279 I do it? We can pronoun as much you want, 574 00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:49.160 I mean, as long as you're above the graph line, 575 00:30:50.119 --> 00:30:55.359 but you need to prune them lower than you want 576 00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:59.319 initially because they're going to grow. And then as they grow, 577 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.480 you're going to the branch and grow a little more 578 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:04.319 on branch again and grow a little more branch. You 579 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:07.319 see what I'm saying. So so start your branching down. 580 00:31:07.759 --> 00:31:11.359 You know, I would say maybe waist high. It could 581 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:12.880 go lower than that if you want to go to 582 00:31:12.920 --> 00:31:15.640 knee high. But here's the deal with pairs. When you 583 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:20.000 prone them, they they grow straight up again. Straight up, 584 00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:22.119 I mean all the shoots go straight to the sky. 585 00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:27.440 They don't spread out normally like other trees will do. 586 00:31:27.880 --> 00:31:30.079 So what you have to do is you get those shoots, 587 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:32.039 you pick one and say, okay, this is going to 588 00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:33.920 be a branch, let's say going up to the north 589 00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:36.240 of the direction or the east or south or west. 590 00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:40.680 And then you you either use a spacer between the 591 00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:45.400 trunk and the branch, or you use a steak and 592 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:47.880 a cord to pull that branch out to about a 593 00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:52.960 forty five degree angle. A spacer think about something stronger, 594 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:55.279 stronger than a yard stick, but like a yard stick 595 00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:57.319 with a V notch in each end. You see what 596 00:31:57.319 --> 00:31:59.799 I'm saying, and you just squeeze it in there and 597 00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:01.759 you put it right where it pushes that branch to 598 00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:03.839 about a forty five If you go any further than that, 599 00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:05.839 you're just gonna get a lot of upright shoots coming 600 00:32:05.880 --> 00:32:09.960 off the branch too. But you can. You you select 601 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:13.119 those shoots that have grown from your pruning, and then 602 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:15.759 you you you spread them out, and if you leave 603 00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:18.319 them there for you know, a season, they'll stay in 604 00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:20.720 that spot pretty well. You don't have to leave steaks 605 00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:25.359 and cords on five years or anything. They're gonna stop. 606 00:32:25.559 --> 00:32:30.839 I've got I've got two trees. They're all grown straight up, 607 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:33.599 and I can't by the time the fruit falls off the. 608 00:32:33.559 --> 00:32:38.039 Tree, it's it's already almost rotten. Yeah, I know, I know, 609 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:40.519 I understand, But you got to spread them out, uh, 610 00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:45.079 and it just pairs is they're much better to spread 611 00:32:45.160 --> 00:32:48.559 out physically than they are to try to prune and 612 00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:50.960 make them go out like we can do with most 613 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:51.559 other trees. 614 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:56.799 So once again, once again, I learned something once once again. 615 00:32:59.079 --> 00:33:02.119 All right, Well, if you go to the Aggi Horticulture website, 616 00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:05.960 there's a fruit section and there's a pair publication and 617 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:07.759 when you look at it, it kind of shows you 618 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:10.559 some of this what I'm talking about. But you go 619 00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:13.880 up to like the Pacific Northwest where most pairs are 620 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:18.240 grown commercially, and you'll see lots of trees that are 621 00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:22.079 spaced and spread and they basically make the tree grow 622 00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:25.200 in a beautiful form and they end up with more 623 00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:27.119 production that's within reach. 624 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:29.559 Thank you, sir. 625 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:32.920 All right, be safe on the roads man. Good to 626 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:38.759 talk to you. Well dad, well dd all right, take care. Yeah, 627 00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:42.400 that's an interesting thing about pairs. Ace hardware stores are 628 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:46.400 all over forty something stores in the Greater Houston area, 629 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:48.440 and you know what happens when you walk into an ACE, 630 00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:51.039 you find everything you need. That's why their motto is 631 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:53.960 ACE is the place right well. ACE is a place 632 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:56.640 for lawn fertilizer. If I talk about a fertilizer on 633 00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:58.920 garden line, it's at ACE Hardware Store. ACE is a 634 00:33:58.920 --> 00:34:01.680 place for your fire at which now is the season. 635 00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:03.680 Get it done, get it done, for it gets cold. 636 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:06.960 Burns are still out active and you can get that 637 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:09.639 bait in their tummies and shut things down. So spring 638 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:12.760 is a much much better time out in the yard. 639 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:15.480 ACE is a place for landscape lighting. It's a place 640 00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:19.079 for decorating indoors and outdoors. It is a place for 641 00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:23.119 getting the fertilizers that you need to make your long grow, 642 00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:26.360 to make your vegetable garden grow, to support growth in 643 00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:29.079 your trees and shrubs and color beds and other things. 644 00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:31.320 ACE is a place and if you have anything you 645 00:34:31.400 --> 00:34:34.719 need to control, from weeds to these diseases to insects, 646 00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:36.800 ACE is a place for that as well. Go to 647 00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:40.599 ACE Hardware dot com. Acehardware dot Com. There's a store 648 00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:43.400 locator and you get this real col map with lots 649 00:34:43.400 --> 00:34:45.519 of red dots, and you're going to see some red 650 00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:49.079 dots not far from you that are the local ACE stores. 651 00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:53.519 We're going to go now to Friendswood, Texas and talk 652 00:34:53.599 --> 00:34:57.760 to Bob. Hello, Bob, Welcome to guard Line. Look, good morning, Skip. 653 00:34:58.480 --> 00:34:59.679 I have a question for you. 654 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.320 I have a couple of oak trees in the front yard, 655 00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:06.880 but one is about eighty two inches in circumference four 656 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:11.519 foot off the ground, and I have a driveway along 657 00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:15.199 one side about eleven feet away from the trunk, and 658 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:19.119 then ninety degrees to that a sidewalk going up to 659 00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:22.360 the house that's again about eleven feet away from the trunk. 660 00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:26.559 I want to put a root barrier in there. I 661 00:35:26.559 --> 00:35:28.760 didn't know if I had enough room with eleven feet 662 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:30.840 if I went out next to the concrete to put 663 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:31.360 the barrier. 664 00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.079 Well you can. It's a lot of root cutting and 665 00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.159 it's going to be very hard on that tree. If 666 00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:40.559 I were you, I would call Affordable Tree, talk to 667 00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:42.800 Martin spoon Moore, have him come out and talk to 668 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:45.800 him about what canon can't be done. With him there 669 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:48.360 on site, he's actually looking at the tree, looking at 670 00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:51.519 the setting and stuff, and he can advise you on 671 00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:54.800 what may or may not be feasible. But you definitely 672 00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:57.960 don't want to take a risk of doing major damage 673 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.639 to that tree, and it sounds like with a eleven 674 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:03.960 feet from a tree that size, that's getting pretty close. 675 00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:06.519 But having Martin on site would be the best way 676 00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:08.400 to make the best decision on it. 677 00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:13.039 He'd be able to answer questions too about stability of 678 00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:15.559 the tree and a hurricane after that if we decide 679 00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:16.280 to go that path. 680 00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:20.559 Yeah, I mean, that's that's what he does. He does 681 00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:23.079 consults and I mean, of course he does the work, 682 00:36:23.199 --> 00:36:25.840 but I'm always trying to get people to call him 683 00:36:26.039 --> 00:36:28.760 before they do damage to things, you know, like you're 684 00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:31.360 putting in a trench or putting in a sidewalk or something. 685 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:34.360 After you do all the damage and it's hard to 686 00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:39.920 you know, it's hard to avoid the results on the tree. 687 00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.679 But if you talk to him ahead of time, he 688 00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:43.960 can guide you on how to do that best. You 689 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:49.000 may give you a phone number, would that be helpful, Yes, sir, okay, 690 00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:53.599 it's a seven one three, six nine nine two six 691 00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:58.679 sixty three seven one three six ninety nine twenty six 692 00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:02.519 sixty three tree. Either Martin or his wife Joe will 693 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:05.960 answer the phone and so that way you know you're 694 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:08.199 talking to the owners when you do it. But yeah, 695 00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:10.000 get on his schedule, though, he stays busy. This is 696 00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:14.760 burning season, and you know, well he does good work, 697 00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:18.800 so he stays busy. Okay, thank you very much. All right, 698 00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:22.599 thank you, appreciate you bet, thank you for that call 699 00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:26.039 very much. I talk about brown stuff and the importance 700 00:37:26.039 --> 00:37:28.480 of it. If you go up toward conroad direction, up 701 00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:31.079 Interstate forty five, you go right by Nature's Way. It's 702 00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:34.000 right there where fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left. 703 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:37.480 You turn right across the railroad tracks and Sherbrock Circle 704 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.400 is right across the tracks. That's where Nature's Way is. 705 00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:43.679 They are still having their Fungal Friday sales every Friday, 706 00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:46.960 twenty percent off their fungal compost. They are still having 707 00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:50.559 this sale on plants. They have a wide variety of 708 00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:54.000 native plants and non natives, and the plants that they 709 00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:57.239 have are on a great, great discount and it's everything. 710 00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:00.880 But I think their full sun sun loving perennials or 711 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:02.800 something like that. It's the only kind of plant they 712 00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:05.320 don't have on sale right now. But you can pick 713 00:38:05.400 --> 00:38:07.719 up a really good deal on really good plants. Take 714 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:10.480 your trailer out there, your truck. They can load your bulk, 715 00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:13.440 or you can just bring home bags last time I 716 00:38:13.480 --> 00:38:15.360 was out there, I was hauling home a bunch of bags, 717 00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:19.400 and they've got quality stuff. You know that Nature's Ways 718 00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:22.800 where a lot of the best for soil products were born. 719 00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:25.280 You know we talk about rose soil, well, rose oil 720 00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:28.719 was born at Nature's Way. Leaf molcompos was born at 721 00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:32.400 Nature's Way. They've been making quality products for a very 722 00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:34.679 very long time. They know how to do it. They 723 00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:37.400 don't rushed up through. They do it right and get 724 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:41.599 it right so that your plants perform right. That is 725 00:38:41.639 --> 00:38:45.000 the goal member brown stuff before green stuff. Nature's Way 726 00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:47.119 products are also sold by the bag and you can 727 00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:50.719 find them in various garden centers and other places. Just 728 00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:53.559 go to their website, check them out, find out more 729 00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:57.679 about them Nature's Way Resources. You will be setting the 730 00:38:57.719 --> 00:39:00.679 stage for success, a foundation for so access with the 731 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:04.079 kind of products they carry, and some beautiful mulches too. 732 00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:06.519 I've got two different kinds of their mulches that I've 733 00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:11.119 used in my landscape over time here and just they 734 00:39:11.119 --> 00:39:14.280 perform well, they perform well. That's what nature does right. 735 00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:18.480 Nature multius the soil. Nature always knows that if you 736 00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:22.159 leave the soil bear a weed will be planted wherever 737 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:24.199 sunlight hits the soil, you're going to have a weed. 738 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:29.880 So it's just some good quality mulches soil products that 739 00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:31.199 reminds you I got to bed in the back. I'm 740 00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:33.960 gonna have to be adding some mix. And I was 741 00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:35.960 visiting with Ian the other day out of nature's way 742 00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:39.440 about that, well, folks, I hear the music that means 743 00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:41.599 we are about done here. Hey, I want to remind 744 00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:45.760 you something two thousand United States flags honoring Fort Ben 745 00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:49.920 heroes and veterans. Is that it's a something called the 746 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:54.239 Exchange Club is going on out there this yesterday, today, 747 00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:56.039 and tomorrow. I'm gonna tell you a little bit more 748 00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:58.679 about that as we come back. But this is a 749 00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:01.039 really cool event that you may want to be interested 750 00:40:01.039 --> 00:40:02.000 in going to check out. 751 00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:07.239 Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richard. 752 00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:23.519 It's just watch him as many. 753 00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:25.480 Good things to sup by. 754 00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:33.320 Not a sound. 755 00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:35.440 Gas. 756 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:39.119 Well, good Sunday morning on what is going to be 757 00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:41.679 a great day to be out and about. I hope 758 00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:44.960 this afternoon you're planning on maybe going out and visiting 759 00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.840 some garden centers, picking up some of the supplies, some 760 00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:51.880 of the plants, stopping in at your ace hardware store. 761 00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.320 Southwest Fertilizers open today. Got plenty of good things for 762 00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:58.599 you out there. Uh. None of our feed stores. We 763 00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:01.480 love our feed stores here on guard you know, Sprint 764 00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:04.320 Creek Feed is up there in the Tamboul area. It's 765 00:41:04.360 --> 00:41:06.280 just kind of north and east of Tamba. I would 766 00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:10.800 say Magnolia area on FM twenty nine seventy eight. That 767 00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:12.639 kind of give you an idea. You'll know it when 768 00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:16.000 you drive by. Gosh, you drive by its cool looking, 769 00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:18.760 big old feed store and you walk inside and it's 770 00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:20.159 like you think, Okay, wait a minute, Am I in 771 00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:22.800 a feed store? Am I in a boutique or whatever? 772 00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:28.039 It is beautiful inside, just really really beautiful inside. Good 773 00:41:28.119 --> 00:41:31.440 friendly staff. I mean they're friendly and courteous. They just 774 00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:35.519 make sure you find exactly what you want. And if 775 00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:37.840 they don't have something, they can order it. They will 776 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:40.559 special order products for you. If you happen to be 777 00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:43.079 in four h or FFA raising animals, or if you're 778 00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:46.079 in the military or senior citizen. There's discounts for all 779 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:49.480 three of those groups. They're at Spring Creek Feed. You're 780 00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:52.079 going to find the fertilizers I talk about on Garden Line, 781 00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.760 like the turf Star line, from Nelson, Microlifeline, nitrofoss line. 782 00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:59.440 They're all available there. Plus the things you need to 783 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.280 deal with the things that are messing with your plants 784 00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:06.559 like insects and diseases and weeds and stuff. They've got 785 00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:08.840 you covered on all of that. And then of course 786 00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:10.800 it's a great feed store. So if you need any 787 00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:13.599 kind of feed from your pets to your your livestock, 788 00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:17.880 spring Creek feed they're on in Magnolion FM twenty nine 789 00:42:18.440 --> 00:42:21.559 seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham Parkway Highway to 790 00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:28.320 forty nine. I keep trying to get people to consider 791 00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:31.920 fall as the time to get almost all your planting 792 00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:35.000 done if possible. I mean, we can plant twelve months 793 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:38.320 out of the year here in this area, we really can. Now. 794 00:42:38.360 --> 00:42:41.000 Summer is a challenge. It's touch and go. You know, 795 00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:42.519 you're having to give it a little bit of water 796 00:42:42.599 --> 00:42:44.920 every day without overwater and and stuff. I mean, you 797 00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:48.039 can plant in the summer. But the easiest time, the 798 00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:53.280 time that makes it the less work is possible for you. Also, 799 00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:55.920 think about this when you buy a trubb or a 800 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.960 shrub or a tree. Those are not cheap plants. I 801 00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:04.159 mean they cost some money. Right. They're valuable in the landscape, though, 802 00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:08.800 But why would you risk an investment. Why wouldn't you 803 00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:11.320 plant it at the easiest time of the year to 804 00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:14.719 get it done where your chance of success is the highest. 805 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.400 That's fall planting. And right now at RCW Nursery, they've 806 00:43:18.440 --> 00:43:21.960 got some really good sales on shrubs. For example, they 807 00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:24.119 have a wide variety of different shrubs. I was looking 808 00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:26.960 at some I was out there not too long ago, 809 00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:30.360 looking at some of the Laura pedulums, the Chinese witch hazel. 810 00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:33.760 They have the pretty burgundy leaves and the just hot 811 00:43:33.880 --> 00:43:37.880 pink shaggy ballooms. They got beautiful nandinas out there, and 812 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:40.800 holly's of all types. You know, they grow their own 813 00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:43.639 trees up in Plantersville, And so when you buy a 814 00:43:43.679 --> 00:43:46.519 tree at RCW, you know you're getting two things. Number One, 815 00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:49.320 you're getting a tree that's a species that wants to 816 00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:51.719 grow here. They don't grow and sell stuff that you 817 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:55.000 shouldn't plant because it's too iffy. They grow good stuff. 818 00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:58.679 And secondly, they grow it right. And if you don't 819 00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:00.800 add a third to it, if you them to come planet, 820 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:03.519 they plant it right. You knowed buy a small tree 821 00:44:03.559 --> 00:44:06.119 tak it on the planet yourself, or if it's pretty 822 00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:08.400 big and you don't want to put your chiropractors kids 823 00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:11.039 through college, then just have them come out and put 824 00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:13.719 it in the ground right so that you are off 825 00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:16.960 to a good start for success. Gosh, it's a long 826 00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:20.159 time ago when we had Randy. We had a memorial 827 00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:25.280 for Randy out of Brookwood and Arcbu donated. It was 828 00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:28.400 a nuttall oak, which is a great oak. Anybody that's 829 00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:31.559 got an area that's a little bit not drained really 830 00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:34.440 as well as we like our areas to generally be 831 00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:36.840 nutthall can grow in that. It doesn't have to have 832 00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:39.960 a swamp, but it can grow in that. And they 833 00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:43.519 planted one out there at Brookwood for Randy Lemon, former 834 00:44:43.559 --> 00:44:46.559 host here on Garden Line for so many years. And 835 00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:48.840 I just, you know, looking, I was looking at that 836 00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:51.119 oak and I was just thinking, man, they know how 837 00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:55.440 to grow a tree. It was gorgeous, really well done. Anyway. 838 00:44:55.639 --> 00:44:59.400 RCW Nurseries dot com. That's their website. They're located on 839 00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:02.480 Tomboi Park, which is two forty nine right where it 840 00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:06.239 comes into Beltwegh eight. Whether it's shrubs or trees or 841 00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:10.159 roses or vegetables or herbs, or flowers or you name it. 842 00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:15.199 They've got it all there at RCW Nurseries. Swing by 843 00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:19.559 their easy, easy, convenient for everybody. You're listening to garden Line, 844 00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:22.039 I'm Skip Richter, your host, and our phone number here 845 00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:25.199 is seven one three two one two kt r H. 846 00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:31.480 Seven to one three two one two kt r H. 847 00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:35.480 I am about to go prepare a bed. I'll get 848 00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:37.039 it done this week because I got to get the 849 00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:43.400 planting done. You know, I what does the phrase do 850 00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:46.800 as I say, not as I do? Sometimes I don't 851 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:50.400 do as I say myself, but it's not on purpose. 852 00:45:50.880 --> 00:45:53.880 It's just I get busy, and you know, I buy plants, 853 00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:56.159 I bring them home. They're sitting in pots, and then 854 00:45:56.159 --> 00:45:58.159 I'm having to remember to water them every day, keeping 855 00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:01.039 them alive because I haven't gotten around to getting the 856 00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:03.639 bed ready first. And so now that's what I'm doing. 857 00:46:03.639 --> 00:46:05.039 But I'm not gonna put them in the ground until 858 00:46:05.079 --> 00:46:08.000 the bed's ready. And in part of that, doing the 859 00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:13.239 bed right is mixing in a quality, quality fertilizer product. 860 00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:16.519 And I tell you I use a lot of different 861 00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:18.760 microlife products for a lot of different things. You know, 862 00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:22.800 there's the green bag. That's the summer lawn fertilizer bag. Now, 863 00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:25.440 don't tell anybody, but you can use that on anything 864 00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:28.079 you're growing pretty much. I mean, it really is. It's 865 00:46:28.920 --> 00:46:30.800 we think of it as a lawn fertilizer, but if 866 00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:32.360 you want to, if you want to use someone your 867 00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:34.360 house plants for crying out loud, you could do that. 868 00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:36.760 It's a good fertilizer. But I'll mix stuff like that 869 00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:39.079 into the soil ahead of time, get it going, and 870 00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:41.559 once it gets moist, the microbes go to work on it, 871 00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:45.079 and there they go. They're getting going right now. Microlife's 872 00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:49.559 brown Patch, that's the name of the fertilizer. Sounds like 873 00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:52.360 it ought to be a fung site. It's not. Microlife 874 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:57.119 produces fertilizers loaded with microbes, and Microlife brown Patch is 875 00:46:57.119 --> 00:46:58.960 the one you'd want to apply this time of year 876 00:46:59.760 --> 00:47:03.079 in order to have the best lawn you can have. Now, 877 00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:06.280 I'm going to be working some of that and also 878 00:47:06.400 --> 00:47:08.760 probably some of the of the greenback. I've got some 879 00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:11.360 of that as well on hand that I didn't use 880 00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:13.280 up on the lawn yet, and so I'm just going 881 00:47:13.320 --> 00:47:14.920 to put some in the soil. Mix it in real 882 00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:16.840 good and well then I'll put that plan in with 883 00:47:17.079 --> 00:47:21.159 Microlife fertilizers. They're not salt based. They're organic fertilizers, and 884 00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:23.920 so when you put them down, you're not going to 885 00:47:23.960 --> 00:47:26.760 burn the roots. Normally I say don't put fertilizer around 886 00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:29.239 the plant roots because you can burn them. Well, in 887 00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:31.920 this case, don't worry about it. It'll work. You can 888 00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:33.679 do it. And I'm getting that bed ready and that's 889 00:47:33.679 --> 00:47:35.119 what I'm going to do, and then when I'm done, 890 00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:37.320 I'm going to water it in with some of their 891 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:41.559 liquid products. They have one called liquid AF that is 892 00:47:41.760 --> 00:47:48.079 loaded with beneficial microbes that help stimulate and protect the 893 00:47:48.119 --> 00:47:53.360 plant roots themselves from Microlife Fertilizer Microlifefertilizer dot com. You 894 00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:54.719 can go there and find out where to buy it. 895 00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:57.119 I pretty much tell you this. If it's a garden center, 896 00:47:57.159 --> 00:47:59.400 if it's a feed sore, if it's an Ace hardware store, 897 00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:04.559 Southwist Fertilight, all those places are going to have micro 898 00:48:04.599 --> 00:48:08.199 Life fertilizers. It's time for me take a quick break. 899 00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:10.679 When we come back, Dwayne from Houston, you'll be our 900 00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:15.280 first stop. Alrighty, alrighty, we're back. We're back with Garden 901 00:48:15.320 --> 00:48:18.119 Line Looking forward to your calls and hoping you have 902 00:48:18.159 --> 00:48:20.960 a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape. That is what we 903 00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:23.280 like to try to do down here. I'm going to 904 00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:25.519 head straight out to the phones now and we're going 905 00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:28.719 to talk to Dwayne in Houston. Hello, Dwayne. 906 00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:34.280 Warnings Hip. How about moving a You're like to move 907 00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:37.199 a like a twelve or thirteen foot creat myrtle without 908 00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:43.079 trying to keep it alive. Any problems doing that now? 909 00:48:43.199 --> 00:48:46.239 Okay, uh no, you can do it. Now's the best 910 00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:48.039 time to do it. As a matter of fact, the 911 00:48:48.119 --> 00:48:50.760 leads are coming off, and maybe get a little bit 912 00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:55.800 of cooler weather on on it. When you dig it, 913 00:48:55.880 --> 00:48:59.039 if you can get wider rather than deeper, there's no 914 00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:01.599 need to dig two feet deep to dig that thing up. 915 00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:05.880 Just go down about I don't know, probably ten twelve 916 00:49:05.920 --> 00:49:10.360 inches will be enough and go wider. If you can 917 00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:14.960 dig it up, move it to its new location. If 918 00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:18.480 if there is any pruning you need to do, go 919 00:49:18.480 --> 00:49:20.760 ahead and do it prior to the digging and moving. 920 00:49:20.800 --> 00:49:23.519 It just makes it a lot easier to move. Generally, 921 00:49:23.559 --> 00:49:25.599 we like to take a little bit off the top 922 00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:27.639 when we're moving because we're losing so much of the 923 00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:30.400 root system. You're gonna no matter how much hard you try, 924 00:49:30.400 --> 00:49:33.239 you're gonna end up losing about ninety five percent of 925 00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:37.400 the roots on that plant. But doing it now gives 926 00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:40.480 it all winter to start growing new roots, so it'll 927 00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:43.199 in the spring, it'll it'll pout for a good long time. 928 00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:46.400 In fact, through spring and summer. It's going to be decide. 929 00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:48.559 You're going to wonder if it's deciding whether to grow 930 00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:51.280 or die. But it'll it'll make it if you keep 931 00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:54.840 the swim waste all around where those roots are that 932 00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:56.480 you put in the ground after you move it. 933 00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:01.119 Okay, what about like the suckers, you know they'll split up, 934 00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:05.519 you know, just just pull them apart. 935 00:50:05.639 --> 00:50:09.119 Well, yeah, well you just just cut them off as 936 00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:12.760 close as possible to where they attach at the base 937 00:50:12.800 --> 00:50:14.920 of each suckers a whole bunch of little buds. And 938 00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:16.920 if you cut it off and leave a one inch stub, 939 00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:19.039 you're gonna have a whole bunch of new suckers that 940 00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:21.760 come right back out of that same spot. So cutting 941 00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:25.159 it as close as you can. There's even a product 942 00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:29.679 called sucker stopper. It's a natural plant hormone that prevents 943 00:50:30.119 --> 00:50:33.880 sucker shoots. From growing and you can spray that on 944 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.880 it after you make the pruning cut to help also 945 00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:39.519 kind of keep that down. 946 00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:42.480 Okay, thanks very much. 947 00:50:43.840 --> 00:50:46.360 You bet the last last thought, and this is just 948 00:50:46.440 --> 00:50:50.159 kind of an extra thought. But there's nothing wrong with 949 00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:54.519 cutting them way back, like even like to the ground 950 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:58.079 and letting all new shoots coming up that you remove 951 00:50:58.159 --> 00:51:00.639 all but two or three or four or how many 952 00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:04.840 shot trunks you want and retraining those into you can 953 00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:08.199 do that and that would be okay. That there's still 954 00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:10.239 a good root system that's going to go with it, 955 00:51:10.480 --> 00:51:13.159 that will will help support that new growth. So if 956 00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:16.039 you don't like the sometimes crap myrtles, you know, the 957 00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:18.639 trunks are all straight coming up and they're right together, 958 00:51:18.920 --> 00:51:20.599 and you know you wish you could have gone back 959 00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:23.360 in time and kind of created a more beautiful structure 960 00:51:23.400 --> 00:51:25.639 out of it. Well, that is one way to do it, 961 00:51:25.679 --> 00:51:28.880 is just start back at the ground and the suckers 962 00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:32.599 you choose become the new trunk. Good. 963 00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:33.519 Thank you very much. 964 00:51:34.599 --> 00:51:38.320 All right, man, thanks appreciate the call. That's a drastic 965 00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:40.760 move to cut back like that, but you know it 966 00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:45.559 can be done. Was it two decembers ago? Two December? 967 00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:48.320 I think it's two decembers ago. We had an early 968 00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:50.920 early hard freeze, and I know up in the like 969 00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:53.639 the College Station Areya, a little further north, they got colder, 970 00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:56.920 and uh, the cray myrtles were not ready for winter. 971 00:51:57.119 --> 00:51:59.880 They're a hearty, I mean, crave merdles grow back more. 972 00:52:00.800 --> 00:52:04.800 The good great myrtle varieties are bred up in Beltsville, Maryland, 973 00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:09.920 just north of DC. And how can we freeze crape 974 00:52:09.960 --> 00:52:13.400 myrtles in Texas? Well, we did because they were still growing. 975 00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:15.639 They were not hardened off and ready. It dropped down 976 00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:18.960 around fifteen seventeen degrees and it just killed them back 977 00:52:19.000 --> 00:52:21.159 to the ground, a bunch of them, and all these 978 00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:24.400 suckers came out. So I just told people, get out there, 979 00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:27.079 cut everything off. All those dead trunks are not going 980 00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:28.880 to come back to life. Cut them off at the ground. 981 00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:31.960 Pick you three or four suckers, make your trunks out 982 00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:34.079 of those, and then as they come up, cut them 983 00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:36.559 off at some point where they'll branch. And where was one, 984 00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:38.840 now you got two. And then each of those, after 985 00:52:39.239 --> 00:52:41.239 a foot or so of growth, cut them again and 986 00:52:41.320 --> 00:52:45.079 branch them. And people are rebuilding beautiful crape myrtle trees 987 00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:47.719 that way, you can do that. So whether a freeze 988 00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:50.360 kills them back or whether you cut them back. When 989 00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:51.840 you got a crape marl and you just don't like 990 00:52:51.840 --> 00:52:53.480 the looks of it, don't be afraid to do that. 991 00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:55.920 It can be done. Now. Of course, it's a major 992 00:52:56.440 --> 00:52:59.079 surgery and it's going to set. They're going to be 993 00:52:59.119 --> 00:53:02.960 shocked for a while. But I'm telling you, sometimes that's 994 00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:04.800 that's the best thing to do to end up with 995 00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:09.320 a beautiful, beautiful, great myrtle. In Chenni Gardens down in 996 00:53:09.440 --> 00:53:13.199 Richmond Rosenberg is one of those destination garden centers that 997 00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:15.960 people love to go to. I was out there, it's 998 00:53:16.000 --> 00:53:17.880 a good while back. I was out there talking to 999 00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:21.000 some folks and they're from Austin, Texas, and they so, 1000 00:53:21.079 --> 00:53:22.760 what are you doing over here? We came to in 1001 00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:25.119 Chenna Gardens. You mean you drove all the way over 1002 00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:27.159 here to go to in Chenne. Yes, we did. We 1003 00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:30.840 love this place, and I'm telling you it's just another 1004 00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:33.639 example of the fact that we got great places here 1005 00:53:33.639 --> 00:53:37.760 in Houston. We need maybe the Mayor of Houston needs 1006 00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:43.400 to start a Horticultural Tourism Committee or something like that. 1007 00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:45.599 We get people from all over the country to drive 1008 00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:49.639 here to see our garden centers and everything. Well, anyway, seriously, 1009 00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:53.199 in Chenni Gardens is that kind of destination. They're on 1010 00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:56.880 the Katie Folscher side of Richmond on three fifty nine, 1011 00:53:56.960 --> 00:53:59.679 three fifty nine, right where three fifty nine there's a 1012 00:53:59.840 --> 00:54:03.039 f I'm seven twenty three and three point fifty nine 1013 00:54:03.119 --> 00:54:07.039 right there. That's where inded intended Gardens is. So Katie 1014 00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:10.079 follsher side. Go to the website and learn more there. 1015 00:54:10.159 --> 00:54:15.320 It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. 1016 00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:19.679 Venterants in nineteen ninety five. A very helpful team, as 1017 00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:23.079 enthusiastic as they come. You can take in photos and samples. 1018 00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:26.119 If you really want to get some expert advice, they 1019 00:54:26.159 --> 00:54:29.599 can provide that for you. And in addition to about 1020 00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:32.280 as wide a variety of plants as you can imagine, 1021 00:54:32.400 --> 00:54:34.480 they've got a lot of cool stuff for the garden, 1022 00:54:34.519 --> 00:54:38.719 like fountains and chimes and whimsical garden art. They are 1023 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:44.360 experts at creating beautiful multiplant combination planters, whether it's hanging 1024 00:54:44.400 --> 00:54:47.480 baskets or containers on the ground, they know how to 1025 00:54:47.480 --> 00:54:49.119 build it. You can buy one from them or you 1026 00:54:49.159 --> 00:54:50.719 can talk to them and say, hey, you know, I 1027 00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:53.280 want to create something like that, and they'll go, well, 1028 00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:55.039 get this plan over here, get that one over there, 1029 00:54:55.039 --> 00:54:56.719 and get that one there, put this one in the middle. 1030 00:54:57.000 --> 00:54:59.280 Let these drape over the sides, and they'll help you 1031 00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:00.639 be a do it your out for if you want 1032 00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:03.000 to go about it that way. Now. They carry all 1033 00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:05.679 the fertilizers you hear me talk about, like my Medina 1034 00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:09.239 and microlife and Nelson and nitrofoss. They've got soils from 1035 00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:13.199 Nature's way and heirlooms and landscapers pride. I mean, there's 1036 00:55:13.239 --> 00:55:15.679 the brown stuff. Don't go home from in Chane Gardens 1037 00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:18.559 without getting some of that good soil material and good 1038 00:55:18.599 --> 00:55:22.239 fertilizer to set the stage for your plants to be successful. 1039 00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:24.039 They're open today, by the way, from ten to four 1040 00:55:24.079 --> 00:55:28.000 and Monday through Saturday from eight to five. FM three 1041 00:55:28.119 --> 00:55:34.559 fifty nine Katie fullsher Cider, Richmond and Channa Gardens. Are 1042 00:55:34.599 --> 00:55:36.400 you one of the people that just kind of goes 1043 00:55:36.519 --> 00:55:39.760 and visits nurseries because it's like a happy place. You know, 1044 00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:42.599 some people would go to a botanical garden to walk 1045 00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:45.800 through and just see the beautiful scenes and enjoy the 1046 00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:49.400 plants and things. A lot of folks do that with 1047 00:55:49.519 --> 00:55:52.920 garden centers. And we've got the garden centers that are 1048 00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:54.360 for that. We got a lot of garden centers that 1049 00:55:54.400 --> 00:55:58.000 aren't for that. You know, they kind of industrial sitting 1050 00:55:58.039 --> 00:56:00.760 on top of concrete kind of things. But we've got 1051 00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:05.679 some beautiful mom and pop independent garden centers. And that's 1052 00:56:05.719 --> 00:56:08.960 where you get good advice. That's where you get plants 1053 00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:11.480 that belong here, not plants that were ordered by a 1054 00:56:11.599 --> 00:56:14.920 chain that sells plants all over the country. And so 1055 00:56:15.239 --> 00:56:17.679 as a result, Okay, I'm just going to gribe here 1056 00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:21.000 for just a minute. I'll leave the guilty unnamed. But 1057 00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:23.559 you know who they are that I walked into a 1058 00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:27.400 store and they sell everything from hammers to plants, and 1059 00:56:28.239 --> 00:56:32.559 I was looking at red raspberries, black cap raspberries that 1060 00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:35.119 you can even grow in Missouri. I mean, they want 1061 00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:39.360 to be further north than that. I've seen plants just 1062 00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:43.119 on and on grapes that will not grow here. Grapes 1063 00:56:43.159 --> 00:56:45.440 you've heard of like Concord. You know, Concord is where 1064 00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:49.719 Welch's grape juice and Mogan David wine that's produced by 1065 00:56:49.719 --> 00:56:53.519 Conquered grapes go to New York. That's where conquered grapes go, 1066 00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:58.000 not Houston, Texas. But they're for sale in Houston, Texas 1067 00:56:58.199 --> 00:57:01.039 because garden centers don't know what they're doing. Those kind 1068 00:57:01.440 --> 00:57:05.199 mom and pops, it's different. Mom and Pops are from here. 1069 00:57:05.679 --> 00:57:08.840 They garden here, They know what to sell here. So 1070 00:57:09.400 --> 00:57:13.519 I'm just telling you it is well worth the price 1071 00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:16.239 of admission. As they say, to go to a place 1072 00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:17.960 and knows what they're talking about. And you know what 1073 00:57:18.039 --> 00:57:20.159 else will happen when you do that. I know I'm 1074 00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:22.800 in a soapbox, but bear with me. What else will 1075 00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:25.519 happen is you'll go in there and you get advice 1076 00:57:26.119 --> 00:57:29.519 that knows what they're talking about. I've been in places 1077 00:57:29.599 --> 00:57:32.599 that sell plants and hammers, talk to people work in 1078 00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:36.800 the garden center, and the first question I asked, the 1079 00:57:36.840 --> 00:57:38.800 first words out of their mouth, I knew they didn't 1080 00:57:38.840 --> 00:57:40.840 have a clue what they were talking about, And I said, oh, 1081 00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:45.280 how long you been working here? A week? I was 1082 00:57:45.320 --> 00:57:50.800 a hairdresser before that actual story or I've been here 1083 00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:54.119 two weeks. I was managing the jewelry counter before they 1084 00:57:54.119 --> 00:57:57.039 moved me to the garden cent Okay, come on, man, really, 1085 00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:02.000 am I making my point? I mean, yes, I'm partial 1086 00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:05.760 to our mom and pop garden centers. But there's a 1087 00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:08.880 reason for that. You know, you go into a place 1088 00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:13.159 like well, take Arbrogate for example, up in Tomball. There's 1089 00:58:13.199 --> 00:58:17.639 another great example there. You go into Arburgate and the 1090 00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:20.760 people that work there, they're friendly and they know what 1091 00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:25.960 they're talking about. They advise very good. The Number one, 1092 00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:27.840 they got plants that ought to be sold here and 1093 00:58:27.880 --> 00:58:29.920 grown here. Number two, they can tell you how to 1094 00:58:29.920 --> 00:58:31.599 do it. If you go down to Arburgate and you 1095 00:58:31.639 --> 00:58:33.480 were to say, you know what, I have a such 1096 00:58:33.480 --> 00:58:35.760 and such, I didn't buy it here, but it's struggling, 1097 00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:38.239 they're going to stop and help you. They're going to 1098 00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:41.320 help you have success with it. And then they're going 1099 00:58:41.400 --> 00:58:43.800 to tell you the product that you might need or 1100 00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:46.679 the plant that you might need, or how to go 1101 00:58:46.719 --> 00:58:51.159 about planning it. That is important. And Arbigate and Tomball 1102 00:58:51.199 --> 00:58:53.320 is one of those places people come to from all 1103 00:58:53.559 --> 00:58:55.119 over the place and you ought to go. I don't 1104 00:58:55.119 --> 00:58:57.280 care where you live. If you hear my voice show 1105 00:58:57.280 --> 00:58:59.639 to go buy Arbrogate and check it out. Arbrogate dot 1106 00:58:59.679 --> 00:59:02.840 com the website and you can find out a lot 1107 00:59:02.880 --> 00:59:05.320 more about them. They're west at Tombul, And when you 1108 00:59:05.360 --> 00:59:08.000 go in there, you're gonna find, First of all, remember 1109 00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:10.159 how I say brown stuff for greens I have at Arborgate. 1110 00:59:10.159 --> 00:59:12.440 You're gonna get the organic food complete. You're gonna get 1111 00:59:12.440 --> 00:59:16.079 the organic soil complete, and the organic compost complete, three bags, 1112 00:59:16.119 --> 00:59:20.599 three products that are foresetting the stage the foundation for 1113 00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:23.159 plant success. And then you're going to get the plants 1114 00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:28.159 that you want. Do you want herbs? Awesome, awesome selection? 1115 00:59:28.280 --> 00:59:30.679 Do you want color? Go by there right now and 1116 00:59:30.679 --> 00:59:33.400 look at it. Look at it. It's Wildsville. I'm telling you, 1117 00:59:33.480 --> 00:59:36.119 it's beautiful out there. And then talk to some of 1118 00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:38.079 the folks that work there. No, it's fun. 1119 00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:39.119 You know. 1120 00:59:39.280 --> 00:59:42.559 People go there just to have fun and then come 1121 00:59:42.599 --> 00:59:44.960 home with good stuff. By the way, they're loaded up 1122 00:59:44.960 --> 00:59:46.599 for Christmas in the gift shops too. You have to 1123 00:59:46.679 --> 00:59:50.440 see that. Thanksgiving and Christmas. By the way, arborgate dot 1124 00:59:50.480 --> 00:59:55.000 Com just a few miles west of actually a mile 1125 00:59:55.039 --> 00:59:57.199 and a half west of two forty nine on Highway 1126 00:59:57.320 --> 01:00:00.239 twenty nine to twenty outside of Tumbule. All right, gonna 1127 01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:02.679 quit bragging about our home garden centers. I'm going to 1128 01:00:02.719 --> 01:00:06.280 go right out to Alvin, Texas. We're gonna talk to Joy. Hey, Joey, 1129 01:00:06.280 --> 01:00:07.239 welcome to garden line. 1130 01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:08.599 Thank you. 1131 01:00:11.079 --> 01:00:15.119 I have a orange true that is twelve foot tall, 1132 01:00:16.039 --> 01:00:20.920 and it basically died back real bad, and it's come 1133 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:25.400 back up from its graft and now it's all the 1134 01:00:25.440 --> 01:00:29.000 way up to the top and it's full of oranges, 1135 01:00:29.199 --> 01:00:32.679 but it's from the grafted part. And I don't know 1136 01:00:32.920 --> 01:00:36.840 what it was grafted too, and I'm afraid to eat them. 1137 01:00:38.239 --> 01:00:40.079 Particular thing, how bigger? 1138 01:00:40.559 --> 01:00:41.840 How big are these oranges? 1139 01:00:43.119 --> 01:00:44.440 About two inches. 1140 01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:47.920 Two inches? Was it a satsuma? 1141 01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:50.280 I believe it was? 1142 01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:58.920 Okay, well, uh, the pretty few you grab one, okay? Well, uh, 1143 01:00:59.000 --> 01:01:03.000 there's there's two different rootstocks primarily that oranges are grafted 1144 01:01:03.079 --> 01:01:08.280 to here. Both of them are very thorny. One of 1145 01:01:08.280 --> 01:01:12.800 them has real crooked, bent growth. It's like almost a 1146 01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:18.239 zig zaggy, twisty growth that's very thorny. If this is 1147 01:01:18.280 --> 01:01:22.320 a big old orange leaf sized leaves as opposed to 1148 01:01:22.400 --> 01:01:26.440 smaller leaves and sets of two or three, then you 1149 01:01:26.519 --> 01:01:29.400 probably do have your orange that made it above the 1150 01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:33.119 graph line. If it's loaded with lots of thorns and 1151 01:01:33.199 --> 01:01:35.920 the fruit typically the fruit on those others is going 1152 01:01:35.960 --> 01:01:39.559 to be maybe golf ball at the biggest then you 1153 01:01:39.679 --> 01:01:42.280 probably have the graft union. But that's kind of the 1154 01:01:42.280 --> 01:01:45.760 way to tell thorniness. Cut into a fruit. If it's 1155 01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:49.880 solid seeds and a small golf ball or smaller sized fruit, 1156 01:01:50.719 --> 01:01:58.519 then that's the rootstock. Would it be edible, No, the 1157 01:01:58.599 --> 01:02:01.360 rootstocks are not edible. You you either dig them up 1158 01:02:01.400 --> 01:02:03.239 and get you a new tree, or if someone knows 1159 01:02:03.239 --> 01:02:06.239 how to graft, they can graft it back to whatever 1160 01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:07.000 kind of orange. 1161 01:02:07.039 --> 01:02:11.840 But yeah, definitely covered and thorns. 1162 01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:15.800 Okay, you got the rootstock. Then I hate to be 1163 01:02:15.880 --> 01:02:18.000 the bear of bad news, but save yourself time, money 1164 01:02:18.039 --> 01:02:20.159 and get you some oranges to eat soon by planting 1165 01:02:20.159 --> 01:02:22.639 a new tree. That's the better thing to do at 1166 01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:26.079 that point. Thank you, Okay, you bet joy, Thanks for 1167 01:02:26.119 --> 01:02:29.400 the call. Appreciate that very much. Good questions. By the way, Hey, 1168 01:02:29.400 --> 01:02:31.480 I'm gonna take a break. I'll be right back. When 1169 01:02:31.519 --> 01:02:35.599 we come back, we will go to Rich and Joe first. 1170 01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:38.760 Welcome back to Guardenline, folks. Glad to have you with 1171 01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:40.800 us today. You know you hear me talk about the 1172 01:02:40.840 --> 01:02:43.960 importance of soil prep, the importance of multing the soil 1173 01:02:44.440 --> 01:02:47.000 Landscaper Sprides got you covered on all that. They got 1174 01:02:47.039 --> 01:02:49.320 over a couple of dozen different kinds of products that 1175 01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:51.480 you can choose from too. I'd like to tell you 1176 01:02:51.480 --> 01:02:53.559 about it is. First of all, they're healthy soil compost. 1177 01:02:53.639 --> 01:02:58.639 They're healthy soil compost is made locally sourced green materials 1178 01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:02.360 that they have blended. They have composted together and created 1179 01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:08.000 a perfect blend for your soil improvement. Organic matter is 1180 01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:10.639 magic stuff when you put it in the soil. And 1181 01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:13.840 when you have a quality product like healthy soil compost, 1182 01:03:14.039 --> 01:03:16.920 your plants roots systems are going to thrive. And if 1183 01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:19.920 the roots are happy in thriving, the plants are happy, 1184 01:03:20.079 --> 01:03:22.400 and you're happy because you're getting flowers and fruit and 1185 01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:25.639 whatever you're looking for from those plants. That happens when 1186 01:03:25.639 --> 01:03:29.239 the soil is right. Mushroom compost another product from Landscapers Pride. 1187 01:03:29.239 --> 01:03:33.400 That particular stuff is very rich. I've used mushroom compost 1188 01:03:33.480 --> 01:03:37.760 for decades in gardens and it just really adds a 1189 01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:40.800 nutrient boost. It's a high quality stuff. It comes from 1190 01:03:41.440 --> 01:03:44.320 growing mushrooms. You know, it's a substrate they grow mushrooms 1191 01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:46.519 on and when they're done doing a crop of mushrooms. 1192 01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:48.840 They move it on out and get rid of it 1193 01:03:49.039 --> 01:03:53.280 and it is turned into a quality product for the 1194 01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:58.000 soil by landscapers Pride. Landscaperspride dot com is the website 1195 01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:01.960 Landscaperspride dot com. Go there, find the store locator, find 1196 01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:04.599 out more details about these products and follow them on 1197 01:04:04.679 --> 01:04:10.000 their social media links. Landscaper's Pride and you can really 1198 01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:14.320 grow something together. I'm going to head now over to 1199 01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:19.119 let's see Rich in Spring. Hello Rich, Welcome to garden Line. 1200 01:04:19.840 --> 01:04:23.079 Good morning Skip. Thank you for taking my call. I 1201 01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:26.519 help in addition to my yard, I help four neighbors 1202 01:04:26.519 --> 01:04:30.599 with their lawns, treating them fertilizing, doing everything according to 1203 01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:34.840 the schedule. And what I did about forty days ago, 1204 01:04:34.920 --> 01:04:38.119 I hit all the lawns with propa connaissol as a 1205 01:04:38.519 --> 01:04:41.599 trying to get to jump and prevent you brown patch. 1206 01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:46.280 But a couple of the yards it's cropping up. I 1207 01:04:46.440 --> 01:04:52.840 have microbute to nail in my toolbox, but it's also 1208 01:04:52.920 --> 01:04:56.360 the same group three fund side as the propa connaisole. 1209 01:04:56.400 --> 01:05:02.599 Would you recommend using something else or applying it, Well, it's. 1210 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:05.559 A matter of time, you know, to use one after 1211 01:05:05.599 --> 01:05:08.480 the other. As not a problem. But I wouldn't year 1212 01:05:08.559 --> 01:05:13.039 after year just alternate between the same group of fungicides. 1213 01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:16.599 So that's where we shift out from time to time. 1214 01:05:16.639 --> 01:05:21.400 But the Michael Buttenhill and propaconnas all both are very 1215 01:05:21.519 --> 01:05:23.159 effective against the brown patch. 1216 01:05:25.000 --> 01:05:29.159 Okay, I thank you for your help, and I'll take 1217 01:05:29.199 --> 01:05:31.039 that direction. Appreciate it, thank you. 1218 01:05:31.920 --> 01:05:34.960 Yeah, just something to think about. You know, you can 1219 01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:38.039 always rotate out, so I would start to build a 1220 01:05:38.119 --> 01:05:41.960 kind of a longer term plan, if you will, so 1221 01:05:42.119 --> 01:05:44.880 that if you're taking care of everybody's yard year after year, 1222 01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:47.440 you could switch out and do some different things from 1223 01:05:47.480 --> 01:05:49.760 time to time, just to avoid that. You know what 1224 01:05:49.840 --> 01:05:55.199 you were what you were describing there, Okay, a z 1225 01:05:55.199 --> 01:05:58.440 oxystrobin would be a good thing to switch out to 1226 01:05:58.599 --> 01:06:03.639 avoid staying in that the group of ungicides you're dealing 1227 01:06:03.679 --> 01:06:07.639 with it, they're called demethylation inhibitors, and that's a whole 1228 01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:10.239 group of fungicides and they all are great fungicides. But 1229 01:06:10.599 --> 01:06:13.760 switch out and do a struggler and like a oxystroban. 1230 01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:16.679 Okay, well, I have some of that also in the toolbox, 1231 01:06:16.679 --> 01:06:19.760 so I'll apply to Yeah, appreciated, skip, Thank you very much. 1232 01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:24.000 You bet, yes, sir, thanks for the call. Sound like 1233 01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:27.159 Rick know what he's doing. We're going to go now 1234 01:06:27.199 --> 01:06:30.000 to Joe in the med Center. Hey Joe, welcome to 1235 01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:30.559 garden Line. 1236 01:06:31.599 --> 01:06:32.760 Thank you skip. 1237 01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:39.440 Wondering, Uh, I'm having a problem in my yard with 1238 01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:42.880 what I thought was brown patch or maybe take all 1239 01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:50.239 root rots. And I've been pounded down nitrofoss CNB I 1240 01:06:50.280 --> 01:06:55.800 think it is. And I've been driving before, yeah, and 1241 01:06:55.880 --> 01:06:58.760 I'm hand sprinkling it. I'm wearing gloves because I know 1242 01:06:59.480 --> 01:07:00.960 you know, but. 1243 01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:03.719 It's been going on for. 1244 01:07:03.639 --> 01:07:08.719 Like a month now, and poor Aaron over Southwest Fertilizer. 1245 01:07:08.760 --> 01:07:12.480 I keep querrying and bringing them pictures and samples. And 1246 01:07:13.480 --> 01:07:16.760 yesterday I happened to have also. 1247 01:07:16.519 --> 01:07:17.360 A bag of. 1248 01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:23.079 Golly, what was it, bug out max or something like that, 1249 01:07:24.239 --> 01:07:27.679 and I sprinkled hand sprinkled that in this area. It's 1250 01:07:27.719 --> 01:07:31.880 a pretty good size area, oh, ten feet by ten feet. 1251 01:07:32.400 --> 01:07:35.880 And when I went to water it in with my 1252 01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:39.280 garden host before I did the sprinklers, because I put 1253 01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:41.639 it in kind of heavy and I wanted to blast 1254 01:07:42.360 --> 01:07:46.159 the clumps of stuff I put down into the soil 1255 01:07:46.840 --> 01:07:49.199 and then turn on my sprinklers and water it in. 1256 01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:54.280 And when I was doing that I noticed a bunch 1257 01:07:54.360 --> 01:07:59.559 of grasshoppers came out and I'd not been able to 1258 01:07:59.719 --> 01:08:01.920 rat keep the problem. And I'm wondering if I was 1259 01:08:01.960 --> 01:08:06.239 treating for brown patch and grasshoppers are what's chewing up 1260 01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:11.719 my lawn or whatever, and do they eat the grass 1261 01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:13.599 or not? 1262 01:08:14.000 --> 01:08:18.439 Well, I mean, grasshoppers can't eat grass. But I wouldn't 1263 01:08:18.439 --> 01:08:20.680 worry about them. They're not a problem right now. They're 1264 01:08:20.680 --> 01:08:24.000 about to be toasted anyway. I'm surprised there's still a bunch, 1265 01:08:24.039 --> 01:08:27.119 as you said, around, But don't worry about that. Don't 1266 01:08:27.119 --> 01:08:29.920 worry about treating them now, not needed, not worth it. 1267 01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:32.880 Just just focus on the lawn like you're like, you're 1268 01:08:32.920 --> 01:08:36.560 doing okay, Well it's been all right. 1269 01:08:37.760 --> 01:08:40.880 I've treated it three or four times, like once a 1270 01:08:40.920 --> 01:08:43.239 week for a month now. 1271 01:08:43.079 --> 01:08:47.399 For brown patch. Yeah for the brown patch, yeah, okay, 1272 01:08:47.479 --> 01:08:50.960 brown Well switch out of the PCMB then that's a 1273 01:08:51.000 --> 01:08:53.319 while ago. I was just talking about classes of fundersides. 1274 01:08:53.399 --> 01:08:56.119 That's that's its own class of funderside, and it's a 1275 01:08:56.159 --> 01:08:58.800 good product. But I think you probably were going to 1276 01:08:58.840 --> 01:09:02.239 have better, better results, you know, with like a Miclo 1277 01:09:02.359 --> 01:09:07.640 Buttant hill that if you're not getting the results with PCMB. Okay, 1278 01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:10.760 that's Eagle Turf Fund aside. Eagle Turf Fund aside from me. Yeah, 1279 01:09:10.800 --> 01:09:16.880 I got that yet in there. Okay, they got all right, 1280 01:09:17.039 --> 01:09:19.760 Well I would switch to that. Here's the thing too, 1281 01:09:19.960 --> 01:09:22.239 Remember that you may look at your lawn and go, 1282 01:09:22.279 --> 01:09:25.159 I better put this out, but it's already got infection 1283 01:09:25.319 --> 01:09:27.520 going on. It just hadn't created the big circles that 1284 01:09:27.560 --> 01:09:29.640 you see yet. That takes just a little bit of 1285 01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:32.039 time to do that, and and so you put it 1286 01:09:32.079 --> 01:09:33.800 out and then the circle still appeared, and it's like, 1287 01:09:33.800 --> 01:09:37.560 well it didn't work. Well, you know you you actually 1288 01:09:37.880 --> 01:09:40.520 it had already started before you put that down. And 1289 01:09:40.600 --> 01:09:44.119 so sometimes sometimes that can be a factor too. These 1290 01:09:44.159 --> 01:09:47.319 are all good products, but it is important to alternate. 1291 01:09:47.399 --> 01:09:50.199 So since you got the Micael Buttan nil uh the 1292 01:09:50.239 --> 01:09:52.920 Eagle turf funder side, then let's just switch to that one. 1293 01:09:52.960 --> 01:09:55.199 I think you'll be okay. Just don't keep putting on 1294 01:09:55.319 --> 01:09:58.520 more and more and more stuff, because that's not that's 1295 01:09:58.520 --> 01:10:01.239 not good. There's a reason there's on the label. And 1296 01:10:01.399 --> 01:10:04.640 so so if you put the Microbutanhill out, I'd let 1297 01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:06.479 it set the until spring. If you need to do 1298 01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:11.640 it again. Okay, all righty a, thank you, thank you. 1299 01:10:12.119 --> 01:10:14.680 I appreciate that. Thank you very much for that call. 1300 01:10:15.119 --> 01:10:17.680 I have to run to a break. I'll be right back. 1301 01:10:17.880 --> 01:10:21.119 Welcome back, folks, Good to have you back here with us. Yeah, 1302 01:10:21.119 --> 01:10:25.960 we just talked about Aaron over at Southwest Fertilizer, visiting 1303 01:10:26.000 --> 01:10:31.239 with visiting with Greg. You know, Southwest Fertilizer err is 1304 01:10:31.239 --> 01:10:33.920 just an example of the kind of folks that are 1305 01:10:33.960 --> 01:10:36.720 there at Southwest Brother's Bob and Aaron, the whole team. Really, 1306 01:10:37.920 --> 01:10:39.479 they know what they're talking about and they're not going 1307 01:10:39.560 --> 01:10:42.239 to steer you wrong. And they've got everything everything you 1308 01:10:42.279 --> 01:10:45.840 would need to apply, whether it's a fertilizer, whether you're 1309 01:10:45.880 --> 01:10:49.560 controlling insects or diseases or weeds. Is it a garden 1310 01:10:49.560 --> 01:10:51.840 tool that you need, you know, maybe a fertilizer spreader, 1311 01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:56.239 a little hand crank spreader, a walk behind spreader, hose, rake, 1312 01:10:56.319 --> 01:11:00.119 shovels up my weed wiper. I'm just showing a neighbor 1313 01:11:00.199 --> 01:11:03.399 yesterday my weed wiper that I built, and the instructions 1314 01:11:03.399 --> 01:11:06.479 are online on my website, Gardening with Skip dot com. 1315 01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:09.239 It works, it works, it works, and Bob's got the 1316 01:11:09.239 --> 01:11:11.680 little grabber tool that you use to make it with. 1317 01:11:12.039 --> 01:11:14.840 He's got those, of course he does. Southwest has everything. 1318 01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:16.800 If they don't have it, you don't need it. They've 1319 01:11:16.840 --> 01:11:19.520 been on the corner of Bisinett and Runwick for a long, 1320 01:11:19.560 --> 01:11:22.880 long time back. This store goes back to nineteen fifty five. 1321 01:11:23.439 --> 01:11:25.920 So they are an institution here in the Houston area 1322 01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:28.039 and for good reason. You can go to the website 1323 01:11:28.079 --> 01:11:31.159 Southwest Fertilizer dot com. You can call them up seven 1324 01:11:31.159 --> 01:11:35.079 to one three six six six, seventeen forty four. But 1325 01:11:35.159 --> 01:11:38.359 whatever you do, go buy there, check out their products, 1326 01:11:38.399 --> 01:11:41.720 and go home with something that works, something that you 1327 01:11:41.880 --> 01:11:46.760 know will work, that's for sure. He was also conversation 1328 01:11:46.840 --> 01:11:50.000 we're just having. He was discussing the Eagle turf fungicide. 1329 01:11:50.079 --> 01:11:52.840 We kept using the term mic chlo buttanil. That's the 1330 01:11:53.119 --> 01:11:55.560 ingredient in it. It's an ingredient that works well on 1331 01:11:55.640 --> 01:11:58.800 brown patch and Eagle Turf fungicide is part of the 1332 01:11:58.920 --> 01:12:02.000 nitrofoss three step program. The three steps are the Eagle 1333 01:12:02.079 --> 01:12:06.399 tour fungicide for diseases like brown patch, and then secondly 1334 01:12:06.479 --> 01:12:11.199 the barricade, which is a pre emergent weed control product. 1335 01:12:11.640 --> 01:12:14.399 It forms a barricade over the soil surface and when 1336 01:12:14.399 --> 01:12:16.960 a weed seed tries to sprout and grow through and 1337 01:12:17.079 --> 01:12:20.399 establish a can't it kills it. Third step is the 1338 01:12:20.439 --> 01:12:25.319 for all special fertilizer from Nitrofoss, perfect fertilizer designed for 1339 01:12:25.399 --> 01:12:28.439 our soils, designed for the kinds of turf species we 1340 01:12:28.479 --> 01:12:32.800 grow here. High and Potassium's got a good nitrogen content 1341 01:12:32.880 --> 01:12:36.680 to go with that potassium to create a strong grass 1342 01:12:36.680 --> 01:12:39.600 plant that can go through whatever kind of coal weather 1343 01:12:39.640 --> 01:12:42.359 we have here and also come out strong in the spring. 1344 01:12:42.399 --> 01:12:45.800 And you're going to find Nitrovoss products at places like 1345 01:12:46.399 --> 01:12:48.680 d and de Feed and Tomball. You're going to find 1346 01:12:48.680 --> 01:12:50.800 them at the Arbigate, You're going to find them at 1347 01:12:51.079 --> 01:12:54.000 Shades of Texas on Genoa Red Bluff. You're going to 1348 01:12:54.000 --> 01:12:56.520 find them at Bearings Hardware, both the one on Bissinet 1349 01:12:56.920 --> 01:12:59.479 and the one on Westheimer. All spas ace up in 1350 01:12:59.520 --> 01:13:03.079 the Woodland Night Lake hardbur and Angleton and Lake Jackson 1351 01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:05.479 r c W Nursery. I mean I could just go 1352 01:13:05.560 --> 01:13:07.960 on and on. Night five is widely available and the 1353 01:13:08.039 --> 01:13:10.960 stuff works, that's for sure. Let's go to Greg in 1354 01:13:11.039 --> 01:13:14.159 northwest Houston. Now, Hey, Greg, welcome to garden Line. 1355 01:13:16.279 --> 01:13:17.399 Yes, Hi, can you hear me? 1356 01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:17.760 Okay? 1357 01:13:18.960 --> 01:13:20.520 Yes, sir, all. 1358 01:13:20.479 --> 01:13:23.239 Right, thank you, say, well, this is sort of a 1359 01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:27.840 follow up call, but situation it's involved involving brown patch. 1360 01:13:27.880 --> 01:13:33.359 And then also a question about how to remediate the 1361 01:13:33.359 --> 01:13:35.560 fact that I guess the fung aside that I applied, 1362 01:13:37.319 --> 01:13:40.720 as I understand it kills off good, good organisms as 1363 01:13:40.720 --> 01:13:45.520 well as the bad organism. So to start on the thing. 1364 01:13:46.439 --> 01:13:51.399 Back in September, on the twenty first, I applied the 1365 01:13:51.439 --> 01:13:56.560 first round of the one eagle I guess it was yes, 1366 01:13:57.279 --> 01:14:00.960 and I had already started seeing some patch appearing in 1367 01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:04.079 my backyard. And then after I applied, say within a 1368 01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:06.000 week or two, I could see the grass starting to 1369 01:14:06.039 --> 01:14:09.359 fill in to those areas, and I thought, okay, we're 1370 01:14:09.359 --> 01:14:11.520 doing well. And then I got busy with life, and 1371 01:14:11.560 --> 01:14:14.960 by the third week after that original application, I could 1372 01:14:15.000 --> 01:14:20.399 see brown patch spreading again. So I applied Eagle again 1373 01:14:20.560 --> 01:14:25.399 on October twelfth, and I had the same basic thing. Well, okay, 1374 01:14:25.920 --> 01:14:28.720 the same sort of thing happened. I got busy with life, 1375 01:14:28.760 --> 01:14:30.720 and by the third week I was I was seeing 1376 01:14:30.760 --> 01:14:34.000 the brown patch come back again. So I had reapplied 1377 01:14:34.079 --> 01:14:37.960 on November first, and on November first, I went ahead 1378 01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:42.359 and put down the micro Life brown patch treatment to 1379 01:14:42.439 --> 01:14:46.800 get the fertilizer full fertilizer down and get the organisms, 1380 01:14:46.880 --> 01:14:51.920 the good organisms in that brown patch formulation down on 1381 01:14:52.000 --> 01:14:55.800 the yard. And that's where I'm at. But okay, so 1382 01:14:55.840 --> 01:14:59.000 I'm one week away from the third application, and I 1383 01:14:59.039 --> 01:15:02.640 don't know. I'm assuming, you know, based on the instructions 1384 01:15:02.680 --> 01:15:05.319 on the bag, which said every two weeks, I may 1385 01:15:05.359 --> 01:15:09.159 have to keep applying that product every two weeks for 1386 01:15:09.199 --> 01:15:11.239 a while. But I'm wondering when this is going to end. 1387 01:15:11.279 --> 01:15:14.680 Do you have any idea it should last longer than that. 1388 01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:17.520 I would If you've done it twice, I think you 1389 01:15:17.560 --> 01:15:21.119 ought to be good on it. Right now. The things 1390 01:15:21.119 --> 01:15:25.920 that predisposal to brown patch attack are lots of water, 1391 01:15:26.800 --> 01:15:32.079 frequent watering rain or irrigation, and excessive nitrogen. If the 1392 01:15:32.119 --> 01:15:34.520 grass is really in a lush state, it's going to 1393 01:15:34.560 --> 01:15:38.079 be hit harder with the brown patch. Sometimes the applications, 1394 01:15:38.079 --> 01:15:40.800 as I was saying earlier, may have been after the 1395 01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:44.319 infection had begun, so you don't always see the results 1396 01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:46.720 you had hoped to see. But if you've done it twice, 1397 01:15:46.800 --> 01:15:48.760 I think you're good on that. I would just watch 1398 01:15:48.960 --> 01:15:52.159 the cultural things like water and fertilizing and hold it 1399 01:15:52.199 --> 01:15:55.800 with what you put on right now, and I think 1400 01:15:56.039 --> 01:15:58.039 that that is the best thing that you can do 1401 01:15:58.119 --> 01:16:01.600 for it. You may need to shift. I don't know 1402 01:16:01.760 --> 01:16:06.640 of a resistant strain of brown patch in our area 1403 01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:09.439 or anything, but you know, if you're not seeing results 1404 01:16:09.479 --> 01:16:12.520 with any kind of product, it's never a problem to 1405 01:16:12.560 --> 01:16:14.439 shift to something else and see if you get a 1406 01:16:14.479 --> 01:16:17.520 better result with that. But for right now, that should 1407 01:16:17.520 --> 01:16:19.239 be enough. That should be enough. 1408 01:16:20.039 --> 01:16:23.000 Well, I'm just thinking, okay, so again I'm a week away. 1409 01:16:23.079 --> 01:16:26.159 I'm thinking two weeks, three weeks, say, by third week, 1410 01:16:26.319 --> 01:16:28.600 if I start seeing the brown patch coming in again, 1411 01:16:30.439 --> 01:16:32.119 should I go ahead and reapply third weeks? 1412 01:16:32.960 --> 01:16:34.880 Third week since the last application? 1413 01:16:36.000 --> 01:16:38.880 Well, right now, I'm a week away from the third 1414 01:16:38.920 --> 01:16:40.279 application of Eagle. 1415 01:16:42.359 --> 01:16:47.159 Well half far apart where they were so first of 1416 01:16:47.199 --> 01:16:48.520 November and then you did it. 1417 01:16:50.159 --> 01:16:53.199 Well, I'm sorry, okay, we're going too fast on the third. 1418 01:16:53.399 --> 01:16:55.880 The first time I applied it was September twenty first, 1419 01:16:56.119 --> 01:16:59.479 than October twelfth, then November. 1420 01:16:59.000 --> 01:17:02.560 First, Oh, I see, okay, So each. 1421 01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:05.760 Time I can see the grass starting to grow back in. 1422 01:17:07.199 --> 01:17:10.000 Yeah, and you've you've done it three times already and 1423 01:17:10.039 --> 01:17:12.760 you want to do a fourth is that it well. 1424 01:17:13.439 --> 01:17:16.319 Uh, I'm wondering. I mean, at this point, I'm a 1425 01:17:16.319 --> 01:17:20.199 week away from the third application, but next week it'll 1426 01:17:20.239 --> 01:17:23.600 be two weeks, which would be I guess on the 1427 01:17:23.760 --> 01:17:25.960 on the what two weeks? 1428 01:17:26.239 --> 01:17:26.399 You know? 1429 01:17:26.520 --> 01:17:29.079 So I'm just wondering if if I keep if I 1430 01:17:29.159 --> 01:17:33.439 keep going without applying more of the product, am I 1431 01:17:33.479 --> 01:17:35.840 going to wind up having brown pash coming back in again? 1432 01:17:37.359 --> 01:17:40.680 Does You shouldn't have to You shouldn't have to apply 1433 01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:43.319 that many times to get through a season on this. 1434 01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:45.840 If you want to try it once more, i'd wait 1435 01:17:45.840 --> 01:17:48.000 a little longer at least before you try it again. 1436 01:17:48.079 --> 01:17:52.760 But uh, I can't quite picture what you're seeing out there. Uh, 1437 01:17:52.800 --> 01:17:55.079 something doesn't sound quite right. But I can't put my 1438 01:17:55.119 --> 01:17:58.439 finger on what's exactly what's going on there. I would 1439 01:17:58.439 --> 01:18:01.399 say wait at least until a little bit later in 1440 01:18:01.439 --> 01:18:03.920 November if you're going to apply it again, And if 1441 01:18:03.960 --> 01:18:05.960 it were mine, I think I just wait and watch period. 1442 01:18:06.239 --> 01:18:09.479 But that's a lot of applications, and you you should 1443 01:18:09.479 --> 01:18:13.119 have covered things. It should it goes in systemically into 1444 01:18:13.159 --> 01:18:16.039 the plant, and you should get about three weeks out 1445 01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:16.279 of it. 1446 01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:20.640 Even if you look at the instructions on the back 1447 01:18:20.680 --> 01:18:24.439 of the bag. They say apply every two weeks for 1448 01:18:24.439 --> 01:18:25.159 for brown patch. 1449 01:18:25.359 --> 01:18:27.880 Yeah, well you can to get ahead of it and 1450 01:18:27.960 --> 01:18:30.960 stay ahead of it. But man, you've you've been applying 1451 01:18:31.000 --> 01:18:33.479 it like pretty often. So if you want to go 1452 01:18:33.479 --> 01:18:35.199 ahead and give it one more, give it one more. 1453 01:18:35.800 --> 01:18:37.880 But it's not it's not a black and white line 1454 01:18:37.920 --> 01:18:40.199 on this. And I've got to run. I'm I'm late 1455 01:18:40.239 --> 01:18:42.720 for a break here, but there's not a black and 1456 01:18:42.720 --> 01:18:47.840 white line on it. Just just give it another one 1457 01:18:47.840 --> 01:18:50.760 if you like. And then I think I might. I 1458 01:18:50.880 --> 01:18:53.479 might if you're still having brown patch problems, I might 1459 01:18:53.520 --> 01:18:56.159 shift and try a different set of chemistries on it, 1460 01:18:56.239 --> 01:19:01.319 just just as a make sure. Okay, I'm sorry, but 1461 01:19:01.359 --> 01:19:04.479 I've got to run. Greg. I hope that is helpful 1462 01:19:04.520 --> 01:19:06.640 for you. You're listening to the garden line. We're gonna 1463 01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:08.159 take a little break at the top of the hour here. 1464 01:19:08.239 --> 01:19:10.000 I will be back if you would like to be 1465 01:19:10.000 --> 01:19:11.920 first up when we come back, give us a call. 1466 01:19:12.399 --> 01:19:15.479 Seven one three two one two k t r H. 1467 01:19:15.640 --> 01:19:20.079 Seven one three two one two k t r H. 1468 01:19:20.119 --> 01:19:21.880 I want to remind you I was telling you about 1469 01:19:21.880 --> 01:19:25.119 this earlier. Honoring heroes in Fort ben County. Perfect theme 1470 01:19:25.159 --> 01:19:27.840 for the second annual Field of Honor display that the 1471 01:19:27.960 --> 01:19:31.840 Exchange Club in Sugarland does. It's an awe inspiring panorama 1472 01:19:31.840 --> 01:19:37.720 of two thousand flags ceremonies. We're on November ninth and 1473 01:19:37.800 --> 01:19:41.479 a November tenth Hometown and Personal Heroes, and tomorrow honors 1474 01:19:41.520 --> 01:19:43.520 our veterans out there. I'll tell you more later. 1475 01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:48.800 Welcome to k t r H Garden Line with Scamp Richard. 1476 01:19:48.840 --> 01:19:51.720 It's crazy. 1477 01:19:57.560 --> 01:19:59.760 Just watch him as a world. 1478 01:20:03.680 --> 01:20:06.560 Tell us so many seat block days. 1479 01:20:13.600 --> 01:20:14.600 They're not a sign. 1480 01:20:16.000 --> 01:20:19.439 Welcome back to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. 1481 01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:22.239 We are here helping you have a more bountiful garden 1482 01:20:22.279 --> 01:20:24.800 and a beautiful landscape. If you'd like to give me 1483 01:20:24.840 --> 01:20:27.279 a call. Seven one three two one two k t 1484 01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:29.960 r H seven one three two one two k t 1485 01:20:30.399 --> 01:20:33.880 r H. You have heard me talk about Starve Hope 1486 01:20:34.439 --> 01:20:37.680 Ministries before star Hope mission here in the Greater Houston 1487 01:20:37.760 --> 01:20:41.520 area makes a difference in the lives of people. You know, 1488 01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:43.960 summers behind us. We're all looking forward to the holidays, 1489 01:20:44.079 --> 01:20:47.560 but for a lot of people dealing with homelessness, they're 1490 01:20:47.640 --> 01:20:49.279 just looking forward to their next meal. Do you know 1491 01:20:49.359 --> 01:20:51.239 you can provide a meal to a homeless man or 1492 01:20:51.239 --> 01:20:54.600 a woman or a family, just two dollars and eighty 1493 01:20:54.680 --> 01:20:57.760 five cents. Two dollars and eighty five cents. Star Hope 1494 01:20:57.800 --> 01:21:00.720 serves more than six thousand meals in a week and 1495 01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:04.199 they really could use your help. How many meals are 1496 01:21:04.239 --> 01:21:06.560 you willing to provide? My wife and I support Star 1497 01:21:06.640 --> 01:21:08.239 of Hope. We have for a while now. In fact, 1498 01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:12.399 our volunteering with them goes way back in time because 1499 01:21:12.520 --> 01:21:14.319 I've seen the work they do and I believe in it. 1500 01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:19.119 It changes lives. It's not just a handout, as they say, 1501 01:21:19.199 --> 01:21:21.840 three hots and a cot, meaning feed you three times 1502 01:21:21.840 --> 01:21:23.239 a day and give you a place to sleep. It 1503 01:21:23.399 --> 01:21:26.520 is that, but it's way more. It's life change that 1504 01:21:26.680 --> 01:21:32.319 changes people from homelessness to people with jobs, with homes, 1505 01:21:32.439 --> 01:21:35.560 with transportation, and with hope for a new life for 1506 01:21:35.680 --> 01:21:37.600 them and for their children. Go to Star of Hope 1507 01:21:37.640 --> 01:21:43.439 mission website. It's sohmission dot org. Sohmission dot org. Will 1508 01:21:43.479 --> 01:21:46.239 you join me in giving the Star of Hope? With 1509 01:21:46.359 --> 01:21:49.720 this holiday season coming upon us, it's more important than ever. 1510 01:21:51.079 --> 01:21:52.399 I'm going to go out to the phones now. We're 1511 01:21:52.399 --> 01:21:54.520 going to go to West University and we're going to 1512 01:21:54.560 --> 01:21:56.680 talk to Charlie. Hello Charlie, welcome to Guardline. 1513 01:21:57.800 --> 01:22:04.680 Thank you, good morning. Question two questions. One about moms. 1514 01:22:06.600 --> 01:22:09.880 We had some mums in the last or three months 1515 01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:12.399 or so, and they bloomed real nice, and then maybe 1516 01:22:12.439 --> 01:22:15.760 two or three weeks ago, the blooms faded. 1517 01:22:15.600 --> 01:22:21.239 And turned brown, and I'm not sure what to do 1518 01:22:21.399 --> 01:22:23.880 with it now. I have re read that you might 1519 01:22:23.960 --> 01:22:27.600 have a second crop of mums if you trim the plant. 1520 01:22:27.680 --> 01:22:28.119 Is that right? 1521 01:22:29.800 --> 01:22:32.399 Well, not at this point in the season. The buds 1522 01:22:33.000 --> 01:22:36.279 that we enjoy in the fall were set in late summer, 1523 01:22:37.039 --> 01:22:40.279 and so whatever buds it had, it had. If they 1524 01:22:40.359 --> 01:22:43.239 ever get dry, and they get dry fast, those moms 1525 01:22:43.399 --> 01:22:45.359 use a lot of water in a pot. If you don't, 1526 01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:47.119 you let a day or two go by without water, 1527 01:22:47.159 --> 01:22:50.279 and I mean they brown out on you. But you 1528 01:22:50.479 --> 01:22:53.079 can trim, show them back and put them in the 1529 01:22:53.159 --> 01:22:56.479 ground and try to keep them going that way. If 1530 01:22:56.520 --> 01:22:58.399 you continue to take care of them through the year, 1531 01:22:58.439 --> 01:23:01.640 you can have moms next year. They they're much lankier 1532 01:23:01.720 --> 01:23:04.960 bushes than what you buy. So the reason those you 1533 01:23:05.079 --> 01:23:08.239 bought are so nice and tight and mounded is because 1534 01:23:08.279 --> 01:23:10.439 they they've sheared them and shared them and sheared them 1535 01:23:10.960 --> 01:23:13.399 all the way up until about midsummer and then let 1536 01:23:13.479 --> 01:23:16.479 them grow for the fall, for the fall show. So 1537 01:23:16.600 --> 01:23:18.600 in the landscape you have to do the same thing, 1538 01:23:19.279 --> 01:23:22.880 uh to maintain a compact form. But you can do that. 1539 01:23:24.520 --> 01:23:26.760 But as far as this fall the bloom, the blooms 1540 01:23:26.800 --> 01:23:29.159 are done. If they're if the ballooms they had are gone, 1541 01:23:29.439 --> 01:23:29.920 they're done. 1542 01:23:31.399 --> 01:23:35.000 Okay, Now you're assuming I should leave them in the 1543 01:23:35.039 --> 01:23:37.279 pot or take them out of the pot and dol 1544 01:23:37.319 --> 01:23:37.840 I trim them. 1545 01:23:37.920 --> 01:23:41.079 Now, well, it's up to you. I mean, I you know, 1546 01:23:41.880 --> 01:23:43.600 all things being equal, would be better go ahead and 1547 01:23:43.600 --> 01:23:45.720 get them in the ground and let them get start 1548 01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:50.039 getting established, uh for next year. Uh, if you want 1549 01:23:50.079 --> 01:23:51.920 to leave them in the pot and just we have 1550 01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:54.800 a saucer under ours, a real deep saucer, like two 1551 01:23:54.840 --> 01:23:57.600 inches deep, and we just fill that with water and 1552 01:23:57.720 --> 01:23:59.800 whenever there's no water in the saucer, we fill it 1553 01:23:59.880 --> 01:24:02.960 up again and it wicks right up into the pot. 1554 01:24:03.199 --> 01:24:05.239 And that's the best way to water a mom. If 1555 01:24:05.279 --> 01:24:07.000 you pour water over the top, you end up with 1556 01:24:07.199 --> 01:24:10.800 some rots and decays, and it's just harder to water 1557 01:24:10.920 --> 01:24:13.479 them well that way. So we use the bottom watering thing. 1558 01:24:14.239 --> 01:24:15.600 And you may if you don't leave in a pot 1559 01:24:15.600 --> 01:24:17.760 for a while, you can do that, do the bottom watering. 1560 01:24:17.840 --> 01:24:20.159 But either way, just keep them moist, get them in 1561 01:24:20.199 --> 01:24:22.199 the ground, and then next year as they start to 1562 01:24:22.239 --> 01:24:24.600 grow periodically kind of shear them back a little bit. 1563 01:24:26.319 --> 01:24:28.239 Okay, well, I'd like to put them back in the 1564 01:24:29.359 --> 01:24:33.199 pot in the nice visible location again so I don't 1565 01:24:33.239 --> 01:24:36.159 have a place to see them in the ground. 1566 01:24:36.960 --> 01:24:37.800 Okay, I got you. 1567 01:24:37.960 --> 01:24:40.479 Then then you got a challenge in your hands. It 1568 01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:42.880 can be done, but to go you know, all the 1569 01:24:42.920 --> 01:24:48.800 way from March to October, not letting it go dry 1570 01:24:49.479 --> 01:24:52.000 is a challenge. And you're definitely are gonna need a big, 1571 01:24:52.439 --> 01:24:57.319 big deep saucer underneath there that'll hold some water. And 1572 01:24:57.399 --> 01:24:59.399 then you just have to always be watching it and 1573 01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:02.439 make sure doesn't lack for water. Give it some fertilizers, 1574 01:25:02.520 --> 01:25:05.399 you go through the season. Okay, it can be done. 1575 01:25:06.159 --> 01:25:07.960 It keeps the moist all water. 1576 01:25:09.560 --> 01:25:13.479 Well moderately moist. Yeah they're not using much water when 1577 01:25:13.520 --> 01:25:16.600 it gets cold. But yeah, when we first got our mom, 1578 01:25:16.840 --> 01:25:20.600 I mean I was filling that saucer like at least 1579 01:25:20.680 --> 01:25:27.399 once a day, keeping it adequately hydrated. Yeah not now, okay, sir, 1580 01:25:27.720 --> 01:25:33.319 thank you good luck with it. Appreciate your call very much. Yeah, 1581 01:25:33.479 --> 01:25:38.079 moms are very very popular for good reason. They're gorgeous plants. 1582 01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:41.800 They're beautiful. Speaking of gorgeous plants, plans for all seasons. 1583 01:25:41.840 --> 01:25:45.159 Has gotten in their holiday cactus, and oh my gosh, 1584 01:25:45.359 --> 01:25:47.920 they are so beautiful, you know, the colors that kind 1585 01:25:47.960 --> 01:25:51.359 of a coral orange, red to pink to hot pink, 1586 01:25:52.359 --> 01:25:54.840 you name it. They've got all kinds in there, and 1587 01:25:54.960 --> 01:25:57.600 they look good. They look really good. When you take 1588 01:25:57.640 --> 01:25:59.880 those things home. You want to keep them adequately MOI, 1589 01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:02.520 and give them give them as much light as you can, 1590 01:26:02.680 --> 01:26:04.680 you know, I know we want to display them indoors 1591 01:26:04.760 --> 01:26:07.239 for decorating and things. Just keep them out where they 1592 01:26:07.319 --> 01:26:10.960 get good light. Keep the temperatures as moderate as you can, 1593 01:26:11.159 --> 01:26:15.159 no extremes, and they just look I've got I probably 1594 01:26:15.279 --> 01:26:19.359 have like seven holiday cactus now because each year I 1595 01:26:19.479 --> 01:26:22.760 get one. And then they're easy to take care of. 1596 01:26:23.479 --> 01:26:25.199 I mean, if you forget the water a little bit, 1597 01:26:25.279 --> 01:26:27.680 they're okay. Don't overwater them all the time, but I 1598 01:26:27.720 --> 01:26:30.520 mean they're easy to take care of. Mine just keep surviving. 1599 01:26:30.680 --> 01:26:31.920 And so here, I don't know, I don't want to 1600 01:26:31.920 --> 01:26:34.079 do all these things. Maybe put a whole bed of 1601 01:26:34.119 --> 01:26:37.399 them in or something. But seriously, plants for all season 1602 01:26:37.520 --> 01:26:40.399 has them. They look good and oh my gosh, the adeniums, 1603 01:26:40.439 --> 01:26:45.880 the desert rows that they have is they're gorgeous. I 1604 01:26:47.159 --> 01:26:49.119 can describe it. But you just got to go by 1605 01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:50.960 and see them, you know, some of them. Some of 1606 01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:55.479 those plants have like a variegations in the flowers themselves, 1607 01:26:55.560 --> 01:26:58.840 so you kind of get a multi It's just very interesting. 1608 01:26:58.960 --> 01:27:01.399 They're beautiful plants. They're easy to grow. Just don't know 1609 01:27:01.439 --> 01:27:04.439 over water them. They're succulent. But they're there, and while 1610 01:27:04.439 --> 01:27:05.800 you're there, you're gonna be able to pick up all 1611 01:27:05.840 --> 01:27:08.159 the fertilizers. I'll talk about it on guard line. They're 1612 01:27:08.159 --> 01:27:11.439 gonna they've got their roses, they've got shrubs, trees, annual 1613 01:27:11.560 --> 01:27:17.039 color containers, just you name it. They've got it. Plants 1614 01:27:17.079 --> 01:27:20.199 for all seasons. There on the corner uh well, just 1615 01:27:20.439 --> 01:27:24.600 just north of Luetta on uh where two forty nine 1616 01:27:24.640 --> 01:27:26.119 are on the side of two forty nine on the 1617 01:27:26.199 --> 01:27:28.680 Feeder road. So if you're if you're exiting for Luetta, 1618 01:27:28.720 --> 01:27:30.319 you just want to go north on the Feeder Road 1619 01:27:30.439 --> 01:27:32.720 and they're just a block up the street there and 1620 01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:35.399 when you go in, you're going to find expertise. Like 1621 01:27:35.479 --> 01:27:37.920 I was bragging on about our garden centers here locally, 1622 01:27:38.239 --> 01:27:43.720 you're gonna find exactly that, very helpful people plants that 1623 01:27:43.840 --> 01:27:47.279 want to grow here. That's Plants for all Seasons, Plants 1624 01:27:47.439 --> 01:27:51.239 for All Seasons dot com. If you would like to 1625 01:27:51.399 --> 01:27:53.680 give me a call, feel free to do so at 1626 01:27:54.760 --> 01:27:58.119 seven one three two one two kt r H. I'm 1627 01:27:58.119 --> 01:27:59.960 gonna take a break. I'll be right back. Welcome back, 1628 01:28:00.199 --> 01:28:04.239 garden line folks. Here we go. We are back in 1629 01:28:04.439 --> 01:28:08.119 the satelle again on discussing things to help you have 1630 01:28:08.319 --> 01:28:10.600 success with plants. I hey, one way to have success 1631 01:28:10.720 --> 01:28:13.199 in your lawn is to take care of the three 1632 01:28:13.239 --> 01:28:15.199 big issues that happened this time of the year. That's 1633 01:28:15.279 --> 01:28:20.199 fall fertilizing. That is weed prevention, and that is disease management. 1634 01:28:20.800 --> 01:28:23.439 And as far as fall fertilizing, nitroposs back to all 1635 01:28:23.479 --> 01:28:25.239 three of them. Nitrofoss has got you set up with 1636 01:28:25.319 --> 01:28:28.479 what they call the three step, the Texas three Step program. 1637 01:28:29.279 --> 01:28:31.000 You do the two step on the dance floor and 1638 01:28:31.039 --> 01:28:33.119 the three step across your lawn. Here's what you do. 1639 01:28:33.239 --> 01:28:36.199 You put out fall Special for Winter Riser that is 1640 01:28:36.319 --> 01:28:40.239 designed with a mix of nutrients. That's ideal to help 1641 01:28:40.279 --> 01:28:43.239 that grass plant go into the fall season producing the 1642 01:28:43.279 --> 01:28:47.039 carbohydrates necessary for cold heartiness and early spring growth. Second, 1643 01:28:47.439 --> 01:28:50.359 you bet on the barricade, which is their pre emergent 1644 01:28:50.479 --> 01:28:54.640 by nitroposs. You put on barricade, it prevents weed seeds 1645 01:28:54.720 --> 01:28:58.640 from germinating. And then the nitropos Eagle turf funge side 1646 01:28:59.199 --> 01:29:04.279 is a systemic protectant and curative fungicide. It goes into 1647 01:29:04.319 --> 01:29:07.760 the grass plant roots and it provides that plant what's 1648 01:29:07.920 --> 01:29:10.960 necessary to fight off that brown patch when it occurs. 1649 01:29:11.119 --> 01:29:15.439 One two three fall special barricade EGO turf fungicide. After 1650 01:29:15.560 --> 01:29:17.000 you put them down, you put them all down the 1651 01:29:17.039 --> 01:29:19.640 same day. Water them in with a half inch of water. 1652 01:29:19.840 --> 01:29:22.399 Get them into the soil, because that's where everything happens. 1653 01:29:22.479 --> 01:29:25.239 That's where the roots take up the fertilizer. That's where 1654 01:29:25.279 --> 01:29:28.720 the roots take up the fungicide and the soil surface. 1655 01:29:28.840 --> 01:29:31.079 That barricade ties up right there, so when a weed 1656 01:29:31.119 --> 01:29:33.439 seed tries to sprout through it, it says, uh uh, 1657 01:29:33.680 --> 01:29:35.560 not going to happen. You can find this at D 1658 01:29:35.640 --> 01:29:37.520 and D feed up in Tomball. You can find it 1659 01:29:37.640 --> 01:29:41.319 hiding and feed on Stuben or Airline, Ace Hardware out 1660 01:29:41.319 --> 01:29:45.159 there in Sinco Ranch or Gym's Hardware up in Montgomery 1661 01:29:45.279 --> 01:29:49.439 as well, nitrofoss Texas three Step all three products available 1662 01:29:49.439 --> 01:29:52.880 in those places. And also you know, just in general, 1663 01:29:52.920 --> 01:29:54.720 you know I talk about ACE Hardware stores a lot, 1664 01:29:55.239 --> 01:29:57.720 Ace Hardware is going to have everything you need. This 1665 01:29:57.880 --> 01:30:00.560 three step program by Nitropos. You go to an ACE 1666 01:30:00.560 --> 01:30:03.159 Hardware shore, you're going to find it. Ace Hardware carries 1667 01:30:03.199 --> 01:30:05.520 a wide variety of things. If I mentioned a fertilizer 1668 01:30:05.560 --> 01:30:07.039 on garden line, They're going to have it there at 1669 01:30:07.039 --> 01:30:09.319 ACE Hardware. If I talk about well you need this 1670 01:30:09.439 --> 01:30:12.600 herbicide or this sponge side or this insecticide, They're going 1671 01:30:12.680 --> 01:30:14.720 to have them at ACE Hardware store. They carry organic, 1672 01:30:14.760 --> 01:30:17.880 they carry synthetic. They carry the things necessary for you 1673 01:30:18.000 --> 01:30:21.720 to have a beautiful, beautiful landscape and a very bountiful 1674 01:30:21.800 --> 01:30:25.680 garden as well. That turning that outdoor area into a 1675 01:30:25.760 --> 01:30:29.560 place you just enjoy gathering, turning your landscape into a 1676 01:30:29.600 --> 01:30:32.199 place you're happy to drive up to or to go 1677 01:30:32.239 --> 01:30:34.199 out in the back in the evenings and sit and 1678 01:30:34.439 --> 01:30:38.520 enjoy Ace Hardware. Forty stores in the Greater Houston area 1679 01:30:38.600 --> 01:30:41.680 actually more than forty. Now go to Acehardware dot com 1680 01:30:42.640 --> 01:30:46.159 and find the store locator, put in your zip code, 1681 01:30:46.399 --> 01:30:48.920 and you see this cool map that's like, oh my, 1682 01:30:49.640 --> 01:30:51.680 there's a bunch of Ace Hardware stores that I can 1683 01:30:51.800 --> 01:30:53.800 drive to from right here. In fact, one may even 1684 01:30:53.840 --> 01:30:55.840 be across the street. There's so many of them in 1685 01:30:55.880 --> 01:30:59.800 the Greater Houston area. Ace Hardware. We're going to go 1686 01:30:59.840 --> 01:31:04.119 now out out to Laporte and talk to Stephen Well. Hello, Steven, 1687 01:31:04.159 --> 01:31:05.079 welcome to garden Line. 1688 01:31:06.119 --> 01:31:07.800 Hey, good morning. How are you doing this weekend? 1689 01:31:09.039 --> 01:31:11.760 I'm good, sir. How can I help? Hey? 1690 01:31:11.880 --> 01:31:15.000 I wonder what's what's the best kind of succulent to 1691 01:31:15.159 --> 01:31:16.840 plant for this time of year? 1692 01:31:19.319 --> 01:31:19.439 Uh? 1693 01:31:20.039 --> 01:31:21.920 Well, there's a lot of immune plant this time here. 1694 01:31:21.960 --> 01:31:23.800 What are you looking for? Something to plant in the 1695 01:31:23.880 --> 01:31:26.039 ground as a ground color like a container? 1696 01:31:27.920 --> 01:31:31.119 Yeah, downcover would be nice. Just you know, something big 1697 01:31:31.479 --> 01:31:36.439 and colorful and uh, something that will go good with 1698 01:31:36.600 --> 01:31:38.840 this this type of weather this year. 1699 01:31:39.600 --> 01:31:44.439 Yeah, you know, the succulents in general, they tend to 1700 01:31:44.560 --> 01:31:47.119 not be as colorful. There are some that bloom. A 1701 01:31:47.319 --> 01:31:49.960 stone crop is one that blooms that's used as a 1702 01:31:50.000 --> 01:31:53.039 groundcover a lot. Uh, there are some that have a 1703 01:31:53.239 --> 01:31:58.520 kind of a it's kind of a silvery color to 1704 01:31:58.640 --> 01:32:02.159 the foliage one. And a ghost plant is an example 1705 01:32:02.199 --> 01:32:04.039 of a succulent that has that kind of color that's 1706 01:32:04.119 --> 01:32:06.760 interesting in the folio. And then there are plants that 1707 01:32:06.920 --> 01:32:09.560 are annuals that are succulent you know personally, and don't 1708 01:32:09.560 --> 01:32:11.600 plant that now we're way out of that season. But 1709 01:32:11.640 --> 01:32:15.960 I'm just saying there's a wide variety of options in containers. 1710 01:32:16.039 --> 01:32:19.880 There's oh gosh, the desert rose. It's absolutely gorgeous. It's 1711 01:32:19.880 --> 01:32:23.199 beautiful for containers, but it can't take freezes. Put in 1712 01:32:23.279 --> 01:32:25.840 a container, so we can bring it in when we plant. 1713 01:32:26.560 --> 01:32:28.479 But you just have a lot of good options. Go 1714 01:32:28.560 --> 01:32:31.560 into a good quality garden center. I know you're with 1715 01:32:31.680 --> 01:32:34.119 where you're located out there, not too terribly far away 1716 01:32:34.239 --> 01:32:37.159 from Moss Nursery out in Seabrook. Have you ever been 1717 01:32:37.199 --> 01:32:37.600 to Moss? 1718 01:32:38.359 --> 01:32:39.319 Yeah, yeah, I've been in there. 1719 01:32:39.399 --> 01:32:39.600 Yeah. 1720 01:32:39.640 --> 01:32:42.319 Yeah, they built that out of their house right there. 1721 01:32:43.520 --> 01:32:46.439 Yeah. It is many many, many, many many years ago. 1722 01:32:47.239 --> 01:32:51.760 They have excellent selection. They've got they got succulents in 1723 01:32:52.119 --> 01:32:55.840 mixed basket container and containers. So yeah, like you get 1724 01:32:55.840 --> 01:32:58.199 a bunch of different succulents all together that you just 1725 01:32:58.279 --> 01:33:00.960 grow together like that, and they've got some really good options. 1726 01:33:01.000 --> 01:33:03.000 I'd go by there and talk to him and just see, hey, 1727 01:33:03.079 --> 01:33:04.800 what do you guys got in You know, that would 1728 01:33:04.800 --> 01:33:07.520 be good and hearty for this time of year because 1729 01:33:07.520 --> 01:33:09.520 there are a lot of out there. Just make sure 1730 01:33:09.560 --> 01:33:12.239 with succulents they got good drainage. That's that's a muss. 1731 01:33:12.479 --> 01:33:15.000 How many how many freezes are we supposed to get 1732 01:33:15.039 --> 01:33:16.920 this winter? Doesn't seem like we're going to get much 1733 01:33:16.960 --> 01:33:17.600 winter at all. 1734 01:33:17.840 --> 01:33:18.000 You know. 1735 01:33:19.279 --> 01:33:21.359 And I had a crystal ball and I broke it, 1736 01:33:21.560 --> 01:33:25.720 and now I have no idea. No I wish, I 1737 01:33:26.000 --> 01:33:29.159 wish I could predict that, but who knows. And you 1738 01:33:29.279 --> 01:33:31.800 guys are down far enough south where you know, you 1739 01:33:31.960 --> 01:33:34.039 just don't you don't have the same amount of freeze 1740 01:33:34.119 --> 01:33:36.319 issues that they would up in the northern part of 1741 01:33:36.359 --> 01:33:38.239 our listening area here on ktr H. 1742 01:33:38.359 --> 01:33:45.000 But uh yeah, okays, yeah, I'll swing by Moss and 1743 01:33:45.680 --> 01:33:48.800 check out what they have, and I recommend everybody. I've 1744 01:33:48.840 --> 01:33:49.760 been in there many times. 1745 01:33:49.960 --> 01:33:53.039 Oh yeah, Oh, I love that place. I love that place. 1746 01:33:53.119 --> 01:33:55.479 We we've got some of their strings from the house 1747 01:33:55.520 --> 01:33:59.319 plant greenhouse, string of Pearls, string of dolphin, the string 1748 01:33:59.399 --> 01:34:03.199 of they got strings of everything in there too. Yeah, 1749 01:34:03.279 --> 01:34:05.239 that's not a hearty one you put outside, but it 1750 01:34:05.359 --> 01:34:08.920 sure is a fun one to grow. So anyway, well 1751 01:34:09.000 --> 01:34:13.760 thanks or even call than you bet appreciate that very much. 1752 01:34:14.600 --> 01:34:17.479 Take care if those got in the Kingwood area. I 1753 01:34:17.560 --> 01:34:19.399 was just out there yesterday, by the way, thanks you, 1754 01:34:19.720 --> 01:34:22.560 thank you to wild Birds out in Kingwood Drive in 1755 01:34:22.680 --> 01:34:25.239 Kingwood for having me out yesterday. We had a really 1756 01:34:25.359 --> 01:34:26.960 good time. And I was talking to some people and 1757 01:34:26.960 --> 01:34:28.760 they were looking for some things in a garden center 1758 01:34:28.760 --> 01:34:30.920 and said, look, Warren Southern Gardens is right down the 1759 01:34:30.920 --> 01:34:33.239 street on North Park or Kingwood Garden Center over on 1760 01:34:33.319 --> 01:34:36.960 Stone Hollow at the Kingwood Garden Center. They're having a 1761 01:34:37.239 --> 01:34:40.119 heck of a clearance in their gift shop, clearing out 1762 01:34:40.239 --> 01:34:45.119 for new inventory. And right now this week thirty percent off. 1763 01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:47.159 Next week will be forty. But let me tell you something, 1764 01:34:47.199 --> 01:34:49.000 if you wait till next week, the stuff you really 1765 01:34:49.039 --> 01:34:51.239 wanted to go in there and get maybe gone by then, 1766 01:34:52.000 --> 01:34:55.239 because you can't beat this deal. And they have their 1767 01:34:55.319 --> 01:34:57.880 gift shop has everything just try to imagine it, and 1768 01:34:57.960 --> 01:35:00.600 it's in there, you know, select pottery and break slits, 1769 01:35:01.039 --> 01:35:06.680 candles and light fixtures, and hats and glassware, floor mats, vases, 1770 01:35:06.920 --> 01:35:12.960 kitchen stands, drink where, jewelry. It's an amazing place. Kingwic 1771 01:35:13.039 --> 01:35:15.439 Garden Setter's Gift Shop thirty percent off right now now 1772 01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:19.880 at Warrens Southern Gardens, they are still offering their little 1773 01:35:19.960 --> 01:35:24.399 special deal on all kinds of things. Their emmerless bubbs, 1774 01:35:24.439 --> 01:35:26.000 by the way, are in stock there and you need 1775 01:35:26.079 --> 01:35:29.199 those for forcing make a good gift for you giving 1776 01:35:29.600 --> 01:35:32.800 to people that you go visit, maybe for Thanksgiving or 1777 01:35:32.840 --> 01:35:37.000 something like that. They are loaded up with cool season color, 1778 01:35:37.079 --> 01:35:39.840 like you know, pansies and violas and things. Still have 1779 01:35:39.920 --> 01:35:43.680 beautiful moms out there whatever you do though. And fall veggies. 1780 01:35:43.680 --> 01:35:45.239 I keep trying to talk you into having a fall 1781 01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:47.960 vegetable garden, even if it's in a container. Warrens is 1782 01:35:48.039 --> 01:35:51.279 loaded with good fall veggies. If you are there or 1783 01:35:51.319 --> 01:35:53.279 if you go online, or if you call them, either 1784 01:35:53.319 --> 01:35:54.520 way you go about it, just say I want to 1785 01:35:54.520 --> 01:35:56.520 sign up for your newsletter, and you need to do 1786 01:35:56.640 --> 01:35:59.239 that because they have special coupons and they have special 1787 01:35:59.319 --> 01:36:02.039 offers like their monthly lawn care coupon that they have 1788 01:36:02.159 --> 01:36:04.600 during the season. You need to sign up for it 1789 01:36:04.880 --> 01:36:06.680 so you can be up to date on what's coming 1790 01:36:06.720 --> 01:36:09.880 in and the special deals that they have, real easy 1791 01:36:09.960 --> 01:36:14.359 to do Warrens Southern Gardens out there in Kingwood, Texas. 1792 01:36:15.600 --> 01:36:17.319 Let's add up to Willis now and we're going to 1793 01:36:17.359 --> 01:36:19.920 talk to Mike. Hey, Mike Hara things and Willis. 1794 01:36:20.920 --> 01:36:24.279 Oh it's a little bit wet right now. It's too bad, 1795 01:36:24.920 --> 01:36:29.199 but I want to complain about that. Yeah, no, I 1796 01:36:29.359 --> 01:36:33.039 needed the rain. You know, an orchard I've got I'm 1797 01:36:33.079 --> 01:36:35.920 planning on doing some early prunin on some fruit trees. 1798 01:36:36.000 --> 01:36:38.000 I've got a lot of fruit trees. I'm only one person, 1799 01:36:38.720 --> 01:36:41.720 so is that a problem. And then we put about 1800 01:36:41.800 --> 01:36:45.960 fifteen citrus trees in a greenhouse because I lost about 1801 01:36:45.960 --> 01:36:47.000 twenty of them in the ground. 1802 01:36:47.760 --> 01:36:53.680 And you know, can you when can you pick the citrus? 1803 01:36:53.760 --> 01:36:57.720 You know we got mandarin oranges, to oranges to grapefruits, yeah, 1804 01:36:58.720 --> 01:37:03.640 you know, to be completely yellow, solid yellow or I 1805 01:37:03.680 --> 01:37:05.840 don't know. I've been experimenting with and but I y 1806 01:37:06.920 --> 01:37:09.199 you figure out what's your take on them? 1807 01:37:09.800 --> 01:37:12.760 Sure? All right? Well, first of all, pruning, I would 1808 01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:16.079 wait until mid to late winter to prune your fruit 1809 01:37:16.079 --> 01:37:20.000 trees in general. And that is because if you print 1810 01:37:20.039 --> 01:37:22.039 them too early and we have warm weather, they try 1811 01:37:22.119 --> 01:37:24.840 to re sprout and then they get really hurt by 1812 01:37:24.880 --> 01:37:28.039 a cold freeze, so hold off until mid to late 1813 01:37:28.079 --> 01:37:31.039 winter to pune them. As far as citrus, citrus, you know, 1814 01:37:31.159 --> 01:37:34.199 when we buy oranges, they're fully orange, But when you're 1815 01:37:34.399 --> 01:37:37.279 growing an orange, it doesn't have to be fully orange 1816 01:37:37.319 --> 01:37:39.880 to be ripe. In fact, you wait long enough and 1817 01:37:39.920 --> 01:37:43.880 it gets a little on the mealey side, So don't 1818 01:37:43.960 --> 01:37:46.840 expect it to be fully orange. Each one is a 1819 01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:49.760 little different. There's satsumas, there's oranges, and of course a 1820 01:37:49.800 --> 01:37:52.000 lot of other kinds of citrus, and you just kind 1821 01:37:52.039 --> 01:37:53.800 of have the sample one. But I would say if 1822 01:37:53.840 --> 01:37:57.000 you get an orange it's got about fifty percent orange, 1823 01:37:57.199 --> 01:37:59.640 I might try it and taste it, and that way 1824 01:37:59.680 --> 01:38:02.159 you get used to the species and varieties you're growing 1825 01:38:02.199 --> 01:38:03.439 and what they should look like. 1826 01:38:04.600 --> 01:38:07.079 Yeah, because we you know, I do have like mandarins, 1827 01:38:07.159 --> 01:38:12.000 the satsumas. You know, one one is turning real orange 1828 01:38:12.079 --> 01:38:14.960 right now, and the rest of the lemons and stuff 1829 01:38:15.039 --> 01:38:17.720 like that are still kind of green. 1830 01:38:18.680 --> 01:38:22.119 That you can't wear that fruit early then and let 1831 01:38:22.199 --> 01:38:23.159 it ripen up. 1832 01:38:25.000 --> 01:38:27.520 You know, the lemons and limes and green they won't rip. 1833 01:38:27.800 --> 01:38:31.199 They won't ripen. Yeah, citrus won't ripen off the tree 1834 01:38:31.800 --> 01:38:33.920 that when you pick them, that's ripe as they're going 1835 01:38:34.000 --> 01:38:37.760 to be. Yeah, yeah, but this is this you know, 1836 01:38:37.880 --> 01:38:40.479 November is a big time season for satsumas and and 1837 01:38:40.479 --> 01:38:41.239 a lot of things. 1838 01:38:41.319 --> 01:38:42.399 So just. 1839 01:38:44.079 --> 01:38:46.319 You know, just test one out and then that way 1840 01:38:46.399 --> 01:38:47.680 you'll know. I mean I can sit there and try 1841 01:38:47.720 --> 01:38:50.439 to describe the color and stuff, but I just know 1842 01:38:50.600 --> 01:38:52.479 that they don't need to be fully orange, and you 1843 01:38:52.560 --> 01:38:55.239 should pick them when they're about half orange and see 1844 01:38:55.279 --> 01:38:57.760 what that's like. Maybe pick one a little bit later, 1845 01:38:57.880 --> 01:39:01.479 and then you'll know exactly for your issues and cultivars 1846 01:39:01.520 --> 01:39:02.239 what to do. 1847 01:39:03.239 --> 01:39:07.159 How about really fruiting on muscanine grapes and blueberries and blackberries. 1848 01:39:10.399 --> 01:39:14.279 Uh, I would wait until the end of winter for those, 1849 01:39:15.840 --> 01:39:19.520 do you want them? Or mid mid Actually midwinter is 1850 01:39:19.880 --> 01:39:22.159 fine on those. If you wait a little too long, 1851 01:39:22.279 --> 01:39:24.359 some of those will just drip and drip and drip. 1852 01:39:24.520 --> 01:39:27.319 When you pune a grape, it's like you cut cut 1853 01:39:27.359 --> 01:39:29.399 open a faucet or something. It's just dripping. 1854 01:39:30.640 --> 01:39:31.920 Yeah, that's my problem. 1855 01:39:32.039 --> 01:39:36.079 Just one person. Okay, all right, Mike, thank you sir, 1856 01:39:36.600 --> 01:39:38.399 Good luck with all that. Have fun with it. All 1857 01:39:38.479 --> 01:39:40.279 we ask is that you bring us half the produce 1858 01:39:40.840 --> 01:39:45.399 when you when you grow it. Asmite is the micronutrient 1859 01:39:45.479 --> 01:39:47.840 supplement you've heard me talk about on Guardenline. As M 1860 01:39:48.079 --> 01:39:52.399 Texas dot com is their website. Whenever you're fertilizing, just 1861 01:39:52.479 --> 01:39:54.960 when you're done with running across the yard with a fertilizer, 1862 01:39:55.079 --> 01:39:57.800 run across it with asmite. I recommend about once a 1863 01:39:57.880 --> 01:39:59.479 year if you want to get a soul test done, 1864 01:39:59.600 --> 01:40:02.000 then you exactly with a saw test. You know exactly 1865 01:40:02.239 --> 01:40:04.760 every kind of fertilizing you need to do, from standard 1866 01:40:04.800 --> 01:40:08.279 fertilizers the three numbers on the bag to azemite, which 1867 01:40:08.319 --> 01:40:10.800 is all the trace minerals of trace elements that are 1868 01:40:10.840 --> 01:40:14.960 also essential, needed in small quantities, but essential ASMI Texas 1869 01:40:15.039 --> 01:40:17.000 dot com. That's a website where you can learn more. 1870 01:40:17.039 --> 01:40:19.279 And you're gonna find azamite all over the place here 1871 01:40:19.319 --> 01:40:21.720 in the greater Houston area. All right, I'm gonna take 1872 01:40:21.720 --> 01:40:23.720 a break the phone number seven one three two one 1873 01:40:23.800 --> 01:40:26.399 two k t RH. We'll be right back. Welcome back 1874 01:40:26.399 --> 01:40:28.319 to Guardline, folks. Good to have you with us. Hey, 1875 01:40:29.159 --> 01:40:31.560 if you live down in the League City area and 1876 01:40:31.680 --> 01:40:34.560 by League City area, I Mean Bay, Cliff and Dickinson, 1877 01:40:34.680 --> 01:40:37.600 San Leone, Webster, clear Lake, el coming to reality. You 1878 01:40:37.680 --> 01:40:41.119 know what I'm talking about, Santa Fe Lamark, Well, your 1879 01:40:41.159 --> 01:40:43.880 hometown feed store is League City Feed. League City Feed 1880 01:40:44.159 --> 01:40:47.000 is right there in League City. Just it's on Highway three, 1881 01:40:47.039 --> 01:40:49.319 a few a few blocks south of Highway ninety six. 1882 01:40:50.119 --> 01:40:52.399 Been around for forty years and it's the old time 1883 01:40:52.760 --> 01:40:55.960 feed store, A level time this. You go in there, 1884 01:40:56.079 --> 01:40:57.960 it just has I don't know, that ambiance of an 1885 01:40:57.960 --> 01:41:00.800 old time feature. I even like the fragrance and you 1886 01:41:00.880 --> 01:41:03.359 walk into an old time feed store just that I 1887 01:41:03.399 --> 01:41:05.760 don't know. I grew up going to feed stores and 1888 01:41:05.880 --> 01:41:08.600 I love those things. Well, when you go into League 1889 01:41:08.640 --> 01:41:10.760 City Feed, you're gonna find the fertilizers you need to 1890 01:41:10.800 --> 01:41:13.119 have success with your lawn. You hear me talk about 1891 01:41:13.159 --> 01:41:15.560 nitroposs and you hear me talk about azemide and nail 1892 01:41:15.640 --> 01:41:19.600 some plant food in microlife for example. They're going to 1893 01:41:19.680 --> 01:41:23.119 have those there. They have products to control pests and 1894 01:41:23.199 --> 01:41:26.560 weeds and diseases. They also have some really premium premium 1895 01:41:26.600 --> 01:41:30.119 pet foods too as well. So stop in there. Sometimes 1896 01:41:30.119 --> 01:41:32.880 they're open money through Saturday nine to six are close today, 1897 01:41:33.000 --> 01:41:35.399 but money through Saturday nine to six, So after work 1898 01:41:35.479 --> 01:41:37.680 you can even swing by on the way home and 1899 01:41:37.800 --> 01:41:40.399 grab you some stuff there at League City Feed. Here's 1900 01:41:40.439 --> 01:41:45.479 their phone number. Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. 1901 01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:49.479 Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. League City 1902 01:41:49.520 --> 01:41:51.880 Feed just a few blocks south of ninety six on 1903 01:41:52.000 --> 01:41:55.800 Highway three. They're in League City. Let's see, we're gonna 1904 01:41:55.840 --> 01:42:02.039 go now to We're going to go to carry in Buffalo. Hey, Carrie, 1905 01:42:02.119 --> 01:42:04.560 how are things way up north in Buffalo? 1906 01:42:05.920 --> 01:42:07.000 Cloudy and nasty? 1907 01:42:08.520 --> 01:42:08.680 Oh? 1908 01:42:08.800 --> 01:42:11.479 Well, we'll take it. It was hot, dry and miserable before, 1909 01:42:11.600 --> 01:42:13.680 so we're gonna go with cloudy and nasty for a while. 1910 01:42:14.079 --> 01:42:15.960 That is true. I wish we'd had as much rain 1911 01:42:16.000 --> 01:42:22.239 as y'all did. Okay, all right, My question is I've 1912 01:42:22.319 --> 01:42:26.520 got great myrtle barx scale? Is can I drench the 1913 01:42:27.199 --> 01:42:29.479 Do the drench right now or should I wait till spring? 1914 01:42:31.199 --> 01:42:33.079 It's better to do it in the spring because the 1915 01:42:33.159 --> 01:42:37.079 plant are actively taking it up. You have better results 1916 01:42:37.119 --> 01:42:37.640 in the spring. 1917 01:42:38.279 --> 01:42:40.000 That's what I was thinking. But I just wanted to 1918 01:42:40.079 --> 01:42:40.399 make sure. 1919 01:42:41.840 --> 01:42:43.279 Yeah, if you want to get do you have a 1920 01:42:43.359 --> 01:42:44.800 bunch of great myrtles or just a few? 1921 01:42:46.880 --> 01:42:47.039 Uh? 1922 01:42:47.800 --> 01:42:48.039 Five. 1923 01:42:49.680 --> 01:42:52.399 Okay, all right, well there are waste a monitor for 1924 01:42:52.520 --> 01:42:55.600 when the scale are active and crawling around. When the 1925 01:42:55.680 --> 01:42:58.239 new babies hatch out is typically March or April, as 1926 01:42:58.359 --> 01:43:00.359 you should start seeing that. If you can find those 1927 01:43:00.600 --> 01:43:03.560 busy out there crawling around, that's the best time of 1928 01:43:03.640 --> 01:43:06.680 all to even use. The sprays of oil on the 1929 01:43:06.800 --> 01:43:09.560 trunk will help at that stage. Otherwise it's kind of 1930 01:43:09.600 --> 01:43:11.600 hard to control those scale with oil. 1931 01:43:14.039 --> 01:43:14.960 Like neamur. 1932 01:43:16.680 --> 01:43:18.720 Like well, you could do knem oil or just a 1933 01:43:18.800 --> 01:43:21.560 horticultural oil, or in the Dorman season, dormant oil was 1934 01:43:21.600 --> 01:43:25.439 put out, but a horticultural oil also called a summer oil. 1935 01:43:26.199 --> 01:43:29.039 But it works when they got the little babies that 1936 01:43:29.119 --> 01:43:32.720 aren't protected crawling around the old mama scales, the white 1937 01:43:32.760 --> 01:43:34.840 things you see there, those are hard to kill with 1938 01:43:35.239 --> 01:43:39.279 the oil for a great myrtle bark scale. Okay, just 1939 01:43:39.359 --> 01:43:42.279 giving you another option, all right, all right, well I 1940 01:43:42.359 --> 01:43:45.680 appreciate it, all right, all right, Well you have fun, 1941 01:43:45.720 --> 01:43:47.600 and I promise I will I will not tell the 1942 01:43:47.640 --> 01:43:50.159 Buffalo Chamber of Commerce that you said the place was 1943 01:43:51.119 --> 01:43:54.439 nasty and cloudy and all that. Okay, that's gonna be 1944 01:43:54.520 --> 01:43:59.159 our secret. Oh god, whatever you said, carry have fun, 1945 01:44:00.159 --> 01:44:01.920 take care bye bye. 1946 01:44:03.159 --> 01:44:03.680 I like that. 1947 01:44:04.520 --> 01:44:07.079 Oh gosh, you never know on guard line, and you 1948 01:44:07.159 --> 01:44:09.520 never know what's going to come out of my mouth either. 1949 01:44:09.960 --> 01:44:12.319 If you've been to the Antique Rose Imporium out there 1950 01:44:12.479 --> 01:44:15.399 in Independence, Texas, just a little drive outside of town, 1951 01:44:15.560 --> 01:44:18.600 it is such a cool place. Antiq Rosenperium has been 1952 01:44:18.640 --> 01:44:22.319 a destination for gardeners and families really since nineteen eighty three. 1953 01:44:22.479 --> 01:44:25.119 I almost went to work there when I was still 1954 01:44:25.439 --> 01:44:28.000 just in graduate school in college. I talked to a 1955 01:44:28.079 --> 01:44:30.399 previous owner there and was thinking about that back in 1956 01:44:30.520 --> 01:44:33.560 nineteen eighty three. So it's been around a long time 1957 01:44:33.600 --> 01:44:36.560 and it's a great place they've got they're always releasing 1958 01:44:36.640 --> 01:44:40.760 new roses. In fact, this Friday and not this Friday, 1959 01:44:40.920 --> 01:44:43.159 ever Friday in the past few weeks off all, they 1960 01:44:43.199 --> 01:44:46.720 were releasing a new rose side variety that hadn't carried before. 1961 01:44:46.760 --> 01:44:49.960 They got one called Xena XI NNA. It's an antique. 1962 01:44:50.399 --> 01:44:54.720 It's an American rose or an antique rose Emporium exclusive. 1963 01:44:54.760 --> 01:44:57.439 I'm having trouble getting my words lined up here. They 1964 01:44:57.560 --> 01:45:00.439 bred it, they got patents pending on it, and they 1965 01:45:00.479 --> 01:45:03.960 are releasing new varieties periodically out there. It's kind of 1966 01:45:04.000 --> 01:45:05.640 a cool place. You know, when you go, it's like 1967 01:45:05.680 --> 01:45:10.039 you've entered another place in time. It's a good outing. 1968 01:45:10.640 --> 01:45:12.680 It'd be a great thing to do, you know, on 1969 01:45:12.800 --> 01:45:15.640 an afternoon, just head out there, take some friends with you, 1970 01:45:16.159 --> 01:45:19.439 maybe a picnic lunch, or grab a restaurant out that way. 1971 01:45:20.239 --> 01:45:22.199 It's just a fun place to visit. Load it up 1972 01:45:22.239 --> 01:45:25.159 with native plants, other kinds of plants for seasonal but 1973 01:45:25.319 --> 01:45:29.600 of course roses, roses and more roses. Now, if you 1974 01:45:30.479 --> 01:45:33.840 purchase something there, tell them I sent you and they'll 1975 01:45:33.840 --> 01:45:36.560 give you a ten percent discount at checkout. You got 1976 01:45:36.680 --> 01:45:38.680 to tell them SKIP sent me. Or if you're going 1977 01:45:38.720 --> 01:45:40.239 to order online, do you know you can order your 1978 01:45:40.319 --> 01:45:43.720 roses online from them. Enter coupon code and the coupon 1979 01:45:43.800 --> 01:45:47.039 code puts skip twenty twenty four and you'll get that 1980 01:45:47.439 --> 01:45:50.520 same discount. Go to the website and check it out. 1981 01:45:50.800 --> 01:45:53.079 That's the best way to see just how cool this 1982 01:45:53.239 --> 01:46:01.000 place is. Antique Roseemporium dot com. Well let's see here. 1983 01:46:01.239 --> 01:46:04.680 Don't have time to grab another call here, so when 1984 01:46:04.840 --> 01:46:08.159 we come back, we will be talking to Steve and 1985 01:46:08.840 --> 01:46:13.479 to John as well. Listen, if you haven't used Medina 1986 01:46:13.760 --> 01:46:15.520 has to grow, you need to get some right now, 1987 01:46:15.560 --> 01:46:18.000 and you need to keep it on hand. Medina has 1988 01:46:18.079 --> 01:46:20.119 to grow plant food. There's a has to grow lawn 1989 01:46:20.279 --> 01:46:23.239 that's great for the growing season. Medina has to grow 1990 01:46:23.319 --> 01:46:26.279 plant food. Is a six twelve six that is perfect 1991 01:46:26.720 --> 01:46:29.600 for transplanting or for folio feeding, if you want to 1992 01:46:29.640 --> 01:46:32.000 go that route. But I would say when you put 1993 01:46:32.039 --> 01:46:33.399 any plant in the ground, I don't care if it's 1994 01:46:33.399 --> 01:46:36.000 a little tomato plant or a broccoli plant, or if 1995 01:46:36.039 --> 01:46:38.399 it's an herb, or if it's a flower, if it's 1996 01:46:38.439 --> 01:46:40.920 a shrub, or if it's a tree. Mix up. The 1997 01:46:41.039 --> 01:46:43.199 medina has to grow six twelve six because you always 1998 01:46:43.199 --> 01:46:45.760 got it on the garden shelf there. Drench it with 1999 01:46:45.880 --> 01:46:48.479 a watering can right in around that plant. I would 2000 01:46:48.520 --> 01:46:50.520 do it again about a week later, maybe again a 2001 01:46:50.600 --> 01:46:53.159 third time a week later, and it helps that plant 2002 01:46:53.199 --> 01:46:56.880 get established. And that's very important because first of all, congratulations, 2003 01:46:56.920 --> 01:46:58.880 you're smart. You're planning in the fall, that's when you 2004 01:46:58.920 --> 01:47:02.560 should plant, and you're adding the medina to it. Medina 2005 01:47:02.600 --> 01:47:04.640 has to grow six twelve six. You're gonna have success. 2006 01:47:05.479 --> 01:47:06.840 All right, I'm going to take a break. I'll be 2007 01:47:06.920 --> 01:47:11.239 right back, folks. All right, folks, here we go our 2008 01:47:11.319 --> 01:47:13.680 last segment of the hour this morning. We got one 2009 01:47:13.720 --> 01:47:17.960 more hour in ahead of us, So stay tuned. If 2010 01:47:18.039 --> 01:47:20.439 you are planting a tree this fall, and if you 2011 01:47:20.520 --> 01:47:23.920 plan on planting a tree, plant it this fall. Now now, now, now, 2012 01:47:24.039 --> 01:47:26.560 now is the best time to plant a tree. And 2013 01:47:26.640 --> 01:47:28.399 I've said it before, Elsey, that one more time because 2014 01:47:28.399 --> 01:47:30.239 I know people, you know, I broke my heart when 2015 01:47:30.239 --> 01:47:32.119 I first found out that people do not get up 2016 01:47:32.279 --> 01:47:35.479 every day to turn the radio on at six am 2017 01:47:35.560 --> 01:47:38.000 and listen NonStop all the way to ten am. Every 2018 01:47:38.039 --> 01:47:42.560 time line is on. People. You know, they wander in 2019 01:47:42.680 --> 01:47:44.399 and out, who knows when. So maybe you didn't hear 2020 01:47:44.439 --> 01:47:48.039 me say this, but fall is the best time because 2021 01:47:48.079 --> 01:47:54.239 when you plant a tree right now, you've got November, December, January, February, 2022 01:47:54.560 --> 01:47:59.359 March and a six months of really reasonable weather where 2023 01:47:59.399 --> 01:48:02.239 the roots will grow. Even when our roots grow some 2024 01:48:02.560 --> 01:48:06.079 not as fast, but they grow before summer hits. It's 2025 01:48:06.119 --> 01:48:07.880 the best time and the best way to do it 2026 01:48:08.039 --> 01:48:11.439 is to put a three sixty tree stabilizer on that tree. 2027 01:48:11.680 --> 01:48:13.920 It's a little bar. It hooks up to a post 2028 01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:15.720 that I like to use a tea post because they're 2029 01:48:15.720 --> 01:48:18.680 easy to drive into the ground. It has attachment that 2030 01:48:18.760 --> 01:48:20.199 hooks to the tea post, or you can hook it 2031 01:48:20.239 --> 01:48:22.479 to a regular post. It's I don't know, about a 2032 01:48:22.520 --> 01:48:25.000 foot and a half two feet long. You put it 2033 01:48:25.159 --> 01:48:27.439 right out from the tree. Then you don't have these 2034 01:48:27.520 --> 01:48:31.119 wires to trip over. You don't have you know, all 2035 01:48:31.239 --> 01:48:35.239 the other you know, like what do they do? You 2036 01:48:35.319 --> 01:48:38.279 take a wire, put a piece of a garden hose 2037 01:48:38.319 --> 01:48:40.119 over it so it didn't cut into the tree, and 2038 01:48:40.199 --> 01:48:41.920 all that. You don't have to do any of that stuff. 2039 01:48:42.239 --> 01:48:44.720 You just took it up the end that attaches the 2040 01:48:44.760 --> 01:48:48.279 tree as a soft rubber strap, and you loosely attach 2041 01:48:48.399 --> 01:48:50.880 it that way the tree can move, because there's a 2042 01:48:50.920 --> 01:48:54.279 principle in nature that when things are stressed and moved, 2043 01:48:54.319 --> 01:48:56.840 they get stronger. You go to the gym every day. 2044 01:48:57.039 --> 01:48:59.119 Let's do this. Here's a fun experiment. I know you 2045 01:48:59.159 --> 01:49:00.880 won't do it, but you know what I'm talking about. 2046 01:49:01.079 --> 01:49:02.319 You go to the gym every day, and I just 2047 01:49:02.399 --> 01:49:03.880 want you to get barbells, and I just want you 2048 01:49:03.960 --> 01:49:06.520 to work one of your arms. Do curls with one 2049 01:49:06.560 --> 01:49:09.640 of your arms every day, every day, every day, getting stronger, strong, 2050 01:49:10.079 --> 01:49:12.119 and then compare your left arm to your right arm. 2051 01:49:12.159 --> 01:49:14.760 What's gonna be the difference. Yeah, the one that works 2052 01:49:14.760 --> 01:49:18.479 out stronger, it's bigger, it's it's healthier. Right, Well, that's 2053 01:49:18.520 --> 01:49:21.159 what happens to tree trunks when they're bent and stressed 2054 01:49:21.199 --> 01:49:24.960 by the wind. If you hold something perfectly still, it 2055 01:49:25.079 --> 01:49:28.159 doesn't go through that bending and stressing the roots in 2056 01:49:28.239 --> 01:49:31.680 the ground. When the tree leans and moves, they're stressed 2057 01:49:31.800 --> 01:49:35.079 and they get stronger and thicker and better. And so 2058 01:49:35.359 --> 01:49:38.079 you want to let trees move a little bit, you know, 2059 01:49:38.239 --> 01:49:40.439 not three feet, but you just want to give it 2060 01:49:40.520 --> 01:49:43.880 some room to move. And the three sixty tree stabilizer 2061 01:49:43.960 --> 01:49:45.479 does that. And you can get these things. They got 2062 01:49:45.560 --> 01:49:48.920 them hoorheshad and Gardens and Albin Southwest Fertilizer, corner businest 2063 01:49:49.000 --> 01:49:51.920 and Renwick Ciena Molt's done in Siena south of town. 2064 01:49:52.079 --> 01:49:54.800 And then as you go up central and north there's 2065 01:49:54.880 --> 01:49:58.920 Buchanans and there's RCW nursery plant for all seasons and 2066 01:49:59.039 --> 01:50:01.920 arbrogate all plays. As you can get the three sixty 2067 01:50:02.159 --> 01:50:05.319 tree stabilizer. Don't plant a tree without it. They last 2068 01:50:05.439 --> 01:50:08.359 a long time. When you're done using them on your tree, 2069 01:50:08.479 --> 01:50:10.479 just hang them up in the garage because you're gonna 2070 01:50:10.520 --> 01:50:12.520 want it again, or maybe your neighbor's gonna plant treating 2071 01:50:12.560 --> 01:50:15.640 a loan of yours three sixty tree stabilizer. All right, 2072 01:50:15.800 --> 01:50:19.359 let's head out now to Lake Jackson, Texas, and we're 2073 01:50:19.359 --> 01:50:21.800 going to talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, Welcome to garden Line. 2074 01:50:23.479 --> 01:50:27.600 Good morning, Skip. I love your show, so thank you. 2075 01:50:27.760 --> 01:50:30.319 I sent you you, sir, I sent you an email 2076 01:50:30.920 --> 01:50:33.800 just to better go. I've got three pictures of my 2077 01:50:33.960 --> 01:50:38.239 front yard. Yes, I'm battling a recurrent problem there. I 2078 01:50:38.319 --> 01:50:42.960 had to replace much of most of that yard last 2079 01:50:43.079 --> 01:50:46.399 year with the draft and you know, and what have you. 2080 01:50:47.600 --> 01:50:51.439 And so now I've got this recurrent you know, funk. 2081 01:50:51.520 --> 01:50:55.159 I think it's a fungal infection that I'm battling, and 2082 01:50:55.560 --> 01:50:57.840 it just seems to be getting ahead of me here. 2083 01:50:58.319 --> 01:51:02.640 So first, I guess, can you identify from the photos 2084 01:51:03.039 --> 01:51:03.920 what I'm dealing with? 2085 01:51:05.520 --> 01:51:09.159 Yes, that is called large patch. We have always called 2086 01:51:09.199 --> 01:51:11.399 it brown patch. That's the name most people know better. 2087 01:51:11.960 --> 01:51:15.720 But a large patch of brown patch, and the nitroposs 2088 01:51:15.880 --> 01:51:20.720 eagle turf fungicide helps prevent that. Now you've already got 2089 01:51:20.800 --> 01:51:22.479 quite a bit of it, do there. So it's not 2090 01:51:22.760 --> 01:51:26.199 the fungicide's not going to make brown become green. You know, 2091 01:51:26.960 --> 01:51:29.720 when the weather warms up, grass will grow back. That 2092 01:51:29.880 --> 01:51:32.439 is not killing your grass. It's just rotting the leaves 2093 01:51:32.479 --> 01:51:34.439 off of the runner and then they'll grow back when 2094 01:51:34.479 --> 01:51:36.720 it warms up a bit. But if you're put the 2095 01:51:36.760 --> 01:51:39.520 eagle out now and protect the other areas that haven't 2096 01:51:39.560 --> 01:51:41.399 gotten it yet, that would be a good idea. 2097 01:51:42.600 --> 01:51:46.039 Yes, I've been putting the eagle down about every three 2098 01:51:46.119 --> 01:51:49.760 weeks or so, and I think it's just got gotten 2099 01:51:49.800 --> 01:51:50.279 ahead of me. 2100 01:51:50.439 --> 01:51:55.199 So I put a round of it down yesterday and okay, 2101 01:51:55.239 --> 01:51:57.640 I watered it in a bit, and so. 2102 01:51:59.239 --> 01:52:01.560 Yeah, what I've done in the past is I'll just 2103 01:52:01.640 --> 01:52:03.760 take a rake and I'll go through and I'll rikee 2104 01:52:03.800 --> 01:52:06.239 and try to rake up some of those the brown 2105 01:52:06.359 --> 01:52:09.399 blades of the grass and get it out there. 2106 01:52:09.399 --> 01:52:11.840 I don't know if that does any if that helps 2107 01:52:11.960 --> 01:52:12.119 or not. 2108 01:52:13.880 --> 01:52:16.479 It doesn't really help. But what it also does is 2109 01:52:16.560 --> 01:52:20.079 it opens up more soil to sunlight, and that's not 2110 01:52:20.199 --> 01:52:23.399 a good thing. That's why Nitropos has their product called 2111 01:52:23.439 --> 01:52:26.319 barricade that we put on in the fall. You might 2112 01:52:26.399 --> 01:52:28.359 want to if you haven't done barricade, you may want 2113 01:52:28.359 --> 01:52:32.079 to do an application of that because you water it 2114 01:52:32.159 --> 01:52:35.199 in like you did that egal Tor fungicide. You watered 2115 01:52:35.279 --> 01:52:37.760 in the and it gets in the soil surface. So 2116 01:52:37.960 --> 01:52:41.760 those areas where brown patches killed all the grass blades, 2117 01:52:42.600 --> 01:52:46.039 in time as they shrivel up, there's gonna be sunlight 2118 01:52:46.159 --> 01:52:48.840 and you're gonna start getting weeds into those areas. So 2119 01:52:49.000 --> 01:52:52.159 the barricade would be a way to prevent that from happening. 2120 01:52:52.239 --> 01:52:52.720 This all. 2121 01:52:55.399 --> 01:52:58.560 I put some barricade down about two or three weeks ago. 2122 01:52:59.680 --> 01:53:04.359 Oh good, you're good, ye, don't reapply it, all right? 2123 01:53:04.640 --> 01:53:07.039 Is it too late to lay down new side at 2124 01:53:07.079 --> 01:53:09.399 this point? Or should I wait until the next spring. 2125 01:53:09.560 --> 01:53:13.039 There's some areas of the yard that are yep. 2126 01:53:13.720 --> 01:53:17.720 Yeah, yeah, I'd wait until next spring for sure. Don't 2127 01:53:17.800 --> 01:53:19.960 don't mess with that. Now, you're you're good for now. 2128 01:53:20.279 --> 01:53:23.520 Just okay, to continue to do the kinds of care 2129 01:53:23.600 --> 01:53:24.039 you're doing. 2130 01:53:25.119 --> 01:53:28.319 Okay, all right, well, very good, skip, Thank you sir. 2131 01:53:30.159 --> 01:53:32.560 You bet, you bet, Thank you very much. I appreciate 2132 01:53:32.600 --> 01:53:37.800 the call, all right. Our phone number is seven one 2133 01:53:38.159 --> 01:53:42.760 three two one two k t r H. Seven one 2134 01:53:42.880 --> 01:53:46.560 three two one two k t r H. If you 2135 01:53:46.640 --> 01:53:50.520 are looking for a you know, quality types of products, 2136 01:53:51.279 --> 01:53:54.600 we try to recommend the companies that I know do that. 2137 01:53:54.760 --> 01:53:56.800 When I when you hear me talk about stuff, it's 2138 01:53:56.800 --> 01:54:00.680 because I've used it. And there's some situations where, uh, 2139 01:54:00.920 --> 01:54:03.800 you know, I haven't, like for example, I haven't had 2140 01:54:03.840 --> 01:54:08.199 foundation work done before, but I have contacted the folks 2141 01:54:08.279 --> 01:54:10.560 that I like to talk to or talk about on 2142 01:54:10.680 --> 01:54:13.199 those kind of products and talk to people that they've 2143 01:54:13.399 --> 01:54:17.039 they've worked with and consulted with them, and I see 2144 01:54:17.079 --> 01:54:18.640 the kind of advice they give us, seen to kind 2145 01:54:18.640 --> 01:54:20.680 of approach they take. I believe in that. But when 2146 01:54:20.680 --> 01:54:24.000 it comes to products like fertilizers and pest control, disease control, 2147 01:54:24.239 --> 01:54:26.920 I've tried those things. I do those things, soil blends 2148 01:54:27.000 --> 01:54:30.119 and things, and that way I know when I'm recommending 2149 01:54:30.199 --> 01:54:33.119 something to you. See to me, there's there's two ways 2150 01:54:33.159 --> 01:54:35.359 that I can feel comfortable telling you about a product. 2151 01:54:35.479 --> 01:54:38.000 One is I use it and I know it works. 2152 01:54:38.479 --> 01:54:41.640 Number Two, as I see research on a product or 2153 01:54:41.920 --> 01:54:43.920 you know, an ingredient or something you know like Eagle 2154 01:54:43.960 --> 01:54:47.439 turf fungicide that is Michael Buttenel and that is a 2155 01:54:47.600 --> 01:54:50.960 systemic fungicide that works very well. I know that works. 2156 01:54:50.960 --> 01:54:52.520 I've seen the research on it. So I don't have 2157 01:54:52.560 --> 01:54:55.520 a question recommending things like that. We try to we 2158 01:54:55.640 --> 01:54:57.720 try to weed through those. I just the other day 2159 01:54:57.840 --> 01:55:01.399 turned down a sponsor because that don't believe in the product. 2160 01:55:01.680 --> 01:55:03.439 I just don't, and so we're not going to do that, 2161 01:55:03.760 --> 01:55:06.199 and we try to stay with things that I've had 2162 01:55:06.239 --> 01:55:08.800 success with or that research has proven, and that is 2163 01:55:08.880 --> 01:55:11.840 my goal, at least is the best of my ability 2164 01:55:12.199 --> 01:55:14.760 to do that. We're gonna go now up to Tomball 2165 01:55:14.960 --> 01:55:17.720 and talk to John. Hello, John, Welcome to garden Line. 2166 01:55:18.760 --> 01:55:21.520 Good morning, Skiff. I have a silly question for you, 2167 01:55:22.399 --> 01:55:28.520 but I'm gonna ask it anyway. All Right, I'm I've 2168 01:55:28.640 --> 01:55:31.199 talked to you before about this. I've got Bermuda and 2169 01:55:31.840 --> 01:55:35.840 sant augustine, So I'm taking out the sant augustine. So 2170 01:55:36.000 --> 01:55:39.199 there's a lot of bear spots, right, will sin So 2171 01:55:39.680 --> 01:55:42.920 do I put some good quality so all in there? Then? 2172 01:55:43.199 --> 01:55:46.199 Leaf compost? Or should I just go with the leaf compost? 2173 01:55:50.800 --> 01:55:53.760 You could mix some leaf compost in if you're able 2174 01:55:53.840 --> 01:55:55.479 to mix it into the sole surface. I would go 2175 01:55:55.520 --> 01:55:59.640 ahead and do that. That would be fine. Or Heirloom 2176 01:55:59.760 --> 01:56:03.520 Soil has a product called Premium lawn Mix. It is 2177 01:56:03.640 --> 01:56:06.960 made with sand compost and bed mix, and it's really 2178 01:56:07.039 --> 01:56:11.239 good for prepping for sad laying. I believe it's seventy 2179 01:56:11.279 --> 01:56:14.079 four dollars for a supersack, which is a cubic yard, 2180 01:56:14.279 --> 01:56:16.439 and they'll you can go drive out there with a 2181 01:56:16.439 --> 01:56:17.840 truck or trailer and haven't put it in it, or 2182 01:56:17.920 --> 01:56:20.000 you can have them deliver it to you. But that's 2183 01:56:20.039 --> 01:56:21.840 the product I would use if you're going to be 2184 01:56:22.000 --> 01:56:26.079 planting a lawn is the premium lawn mix from Airloom Soils. 2185 01:56:27.279 --> 01:56:29.600 Perfect. Okay, I'll do that. I appreciate it. 2186 01:56:30.199 --> 01:56:32.600 Yeah you met, Yeah, and up there in tom Oil 2187 01:56:32.640 --> 01:56:35.119 you're not that far away, so that's good. Well, good 2188 01:56:35.199 --> 01:56:37.760 luck getting that established. You know, spring is the best time. 2189 01:56:37.880 --> 01:56:41.720 That's when grassroots are growing. March, especially in April especially 2190 01:56:42.439 --> 01:56:44.840 the grass is waking up, and so you want to 2191 01:56:44.880 --> 01:56:46.479 have everything ready to go by then. 2192 01:56:46.800 --> 01:56:50.199 For sure, what about Rover's tail on the phone? What 2193 01:56:50.279 --> 01:56:52.479 about nuts said, just kick it from but right now, 2194 01:56:52.600 --> 01:56:54.279 I probably like everybody else. 2195 01:56:55.239 --> 01:56:58.239 Yeah, a product called sedge hammer or a product called 2196 01:56:58.319 --> 01:57:00.760 sedge Ender. But I hear the music. I'm about to 2197 01:57:00.800 --> 01:57:02.960 have to shut up here. If you go to gardening 2198 01:57:03.119 --> 01:57:07.199 with Skip dot com, that's my website. There's a publication 2199 01:57:07.399 --> 01:57:09.640 on nuts edge, and I really urge you to read 2200 01:57:09.720 --> 01:57:12.159 it before you get going after it because it will 2201 01:57:12.199 --> 01:57:15.479 help you understand how you go about controlling it. It's 2202 01:57:15.520 --> 01:57:18.319 a unique weed and it's not just like, oh, spray 2203 01:57:18.359 --> 01:57:20.840 it and you killed it and you're done. Not said 2204 01:57:21.000 --> 01:57:24.000 is different. But the products, the products are on there, 2205 01:57:24.119 --> 01:57:27.399 and the information you need to have success is on there, 2206 01:57:27.960 --> 01:57:30.359 whether it's in a lawn of flower, better vegetaboard wherever 2207 01:57:30.359 --> 01:57:35.279 you got nutsedge? Okay gardening with Skip dot com. Thank you, yes, sir, 2208 01:57:35.560 --> 01:57:39.800 thank you appreciate your call very much. Yeah, heirloom soils 2209 01:57:40.159 --> 01:57:42.199 up in Porter, Texas area. You go pick it up. 2210 01:57:42.319 --> 01:57:46.880 Here's a number two eight one three five four nineteen fifty. 2211 01:57:48.920 --> 01:57:52.640 Welcome to kt RH Garden Line with Skip Ricter. 2212 01:57:52.800 --> 01:58:11.079 It's just watch him as works many spots. 2213 01:58:16.680 --> 01:58:18.600 Again not a sign. 2214 01:58:21.359 --> 01:58:25.199 Thank you all right, folks, welcome back to guard line. 2215 01:58:25.399 --> 01:58:28.000 Glad you are with us. Good to have you with 2216 01:58:28.119 --> 01:58:31.159 us today. Thanks for tuning in. We are here to 2217 01:58:31.239 --> 01:58:34.399 help you have success and if you'd like to give 2218 01:58:34.479 --> 01:58:36.840 us a call to talk about some questions you might 2219 01:58:36.880 --> 01:58:40.079 have seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 2220 01:58:40.119 --> 01:58:43.319 four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 2221 01:58:43.439 --> 01:58:46.600 Before I went to break, I was talking with a 2222 01:58:46.720 --> 01:58:49.720 johnap and Tumble about putting some things down to prepare 2223 01:58:49.800 --> 01:58:52.840 for the lawn. And I'd mentioned that Erlom Sauce has 2224 01:58:52.880 --> 01:58:57.479 a premium lawn mix. It's made with Mason sand, compost 2225 01:58:57.560 --> 01:59:00.239 and bed mix. Really good for salt prep. And you're 2226 01:59:00.239 --> 01:59:01.920 gonna put a long down. G do you just get 2227 01:59:01.960 --> 01:59:04.359 the mixed. It's like, it's real reasonable. It's seventy four 2228 01:59:04.399 --> 01:59:07.920 dollars for a supersack that's a cubicyard. You can drive 2229 01:59:07.960 --> 01:59:10.439 over there. Haven't put it on the on the truck 2230 01:59:10.520 --> 01:59:13.079 or trailer for you, or they will drive over and 2231 01:59:13.159 --> 01:59:15.479 deliver it for a delivery fee. I'll drop it off 2232 01:59:15.520 --> 01:59:18.479 in your area. Uh, it's I believe with delivery. They 2233 01:59:18.560 --> 01:59:23.800 have a three sack minimum. Okay, So it's it's expensive 2234 01:59:23.960 --> 01:59:27.359 to deliver bulk stuff around town with all the rules 2235 01:59:27.399 --> 01:59:30.399 and regulations and costs and things like that. It costs 2236 01:59:30.439 --> 01:59:32.920 money to do that, to operate the machinery and the 2237 01:59:32.960 --> 01:59:36.399 trucks and stuff. So three sack minimum. You can book 2238 01:59:36.399 --> 01:59:38.319 a delivery if you want to go to the website 2239 01:59:38.479 --> 01:59:42.079 rockanmultch dot com that's r O c K, the letter 2240 01:59:42.319 --> 01:59:46.119 N the word multch dot com slash delivery. I know 2241 01:59:46.239 --> 01:59:47.640 that's a lot to say on the air, but I 2242 01:59:47.680 --> 01:59:50.000 always tell you listen to guard line with a paper 2243 01:59:50.199 --> 01:59:52.880 and a pencil nearby, or a pen so you can 2244 01:59:52.920 --> 01:59:56.399 write stuff down rock in multch dot com r O 2245 01:59:56.600 --> 01:59:59.239 c K N m U l c h dot com 2246 01:59:59.359 --> 02:00:03.199 slash deliver. Now, while you're doing that, do you need 2247 02:00:03.399 --> 02:00:06.760 leaf moll compost. They've got both the leaf moll compost 2248 02:00:06.840 --> 02:00:08.960 and the veggiean nerb mix for one hundred and twenty 2249 02:00:09.000 --> 02:00:10.479 nine dollars. And by the way, you get to keep 2250 02:00:10.520 --> 02:00:13.920 the sack. I bought some stuff at another place in 2251 02:00:14.039 --> 02:00:17.199 another town of the city off somewhere else where. I 2252 02:00:17.319 --> 02:00:21.119 had to pay sixty bucks for the sack itself. Had 2253 02:00:21.119 --> 02:00:23.239 a couple of sacks. Actually that's what they cost me. 2254 02:00:23.279 --> 02:00:26.680 It's ridiculous for that. But anyway, with this deal you 2255 02:00:26.720 --> 02:00:29.000 get to keep the sack, so that's extra cool. One 2256 02:00:29.079 --> 02:00:31.000 hundred and twenty nine dollars a good price. That you 2257 02:00:31.079 --> 02:00:33.199 can buy the lawn mix and the veggian nerb and 2258 02:00:33.359 --> 02:00:35.920 the leaf molt. You can buy cedar mulching by Hardwood 2259 02:00:35.960 --> 02:00:38.479 melting by Pine bark mulch. And then they have two 2260 02:00:38.560 --> 02:00:41.720 beautiful little gravel like products. If you're doing a little 2261 02:00:41.840 --> 02:00:44.479 kind of a gravelly stone area. The black star is 2262 02:00:44.680 --> 02:00:47.479 black and it is so gorgeous. And then the rainbow 2263 02:00:47.560 --> 02:00:52.079 gravel is little pebbles that are multicolored and it real beautiful. 2264 02:00:52.560 --> 02:00:54.560 They just look good. You can buy that stuff by 2265 02:00:54.640 --> 02:00:57.279 the bag too, you know, heirloom soils, warren rock and malt. 2266 02:00:57.880 --> 02:01:02.880 They just have a lot good products. All right, So 2267 02:01:03.000 --> 02:01:04.840 let's see here. Where are we now? We're gonna go 2268 02:01:05.079 --> 02:01:10.239 to Deborah in Pleasantville. Hello, Deborah, Welcome to garden Line. 2269 02:01:11.359 --> 02:01:12.479 Hello, let's gip. 2270 02:01:12.680 --> 02:01:13.239 Good morning. 2271 02:01:13.800 --> 02:01:16.960 I got you an email yesterday about a fuzzy caterpillar 2272 02:01:17.359 --> 02:01:21.720 and today about translucent mushrooms. Are those good or bad 2273 02:01:21.920 --> 02:01:25.000 for the garden? I heard mushrooms can be a good thing. 2274 02:01:25.720 --> 02:01:26.359 Is that true? 2275 02:01:29.800 --> 02:01:34.800 Yesrooms are, yes, I do. I looked at them. Those 2276 02:01:34.880 --> 02:01:39.479 mushrooms are decomposer fungi. It's the fruiting body of decomposer 2277 02:01:39.680 --> 02:01:41.720 down in the soil in the thatch or in the 2278 02:01:41.840 --> 02:01:45.319 dirt in the compost and the mult whatever. They they're 2279 02:01:45.520 --> 02:01:48.560 breaking that down, turning it back into soil, and so 2280 02:01:48.720 --> 02:01:50.760 whenever we get a little cool, cooler weather, a little 2281 02:01:50.800 --> 02:01:53.640 break from the temperature, a little rainfall, those mushrooms pop up. 2282 02:01:53.680 --> 02:01:55.640 It's a real common thing in the fall to see 2283 02:01:55.640 --> 02:01:59.439 a lot of million different kinds of mushrooms. But it 2284 02:01:59.520 --> 02:02:02.119 can happen anytime a year or two. But uh yeah, 2285 02:02:02.239 --> 02:02:04.880 no problem. It's just nature doing the thing it needs 2286 02:02:04.920 --> 02:02:08.640 to do so we can have a bountiful, beautiful place. Now, 2287 02:02:08.720 --> 02:02:12.319 the caterpillars, I'm trying to remember that. I don't see 2288 02:02:12.399 --> 02:02:14.880 that I did see. Is this the caterpillars that had 2289 02:02:14.920 --> 02:02:17.600 the little black and white hairs that were sticking. 2290 02:02:17.319 --> 02:02:19.840 Out in the red eyes or something on him. 2291 02:02:21.359 --> 02:02:25.439 That is a that's a tussock moth. Don't touch that thing. 2292 02:02:25.560 --> 02:02:29.399 Their little hairs are very irritating to the skin, very 2293 02:02:29.479 --> 02:02:33.319 burning to the skin. Uh and and so be careful 2294 02:02:33.359 --> 02:02:38.840 with those. But that's a toussy Uh. Well, that's okay. No, 2295 02:02:38.920 --> 02:02:41.399 I ain't gonna hurt anything. It's part in nature. It's okay. 2296 02:02:42.479 --> 02:02:46.359 Just Actually, there's a bunch of different kinds of tussic moth. 2297 02:02:46.439 --> 02:02:48.960 If I remember right, Deborah, it was yesterday I looked 2298 02:02:49.000 --> 02:02:51.720 at it. I think it's one called Shout's tussock moth 2299 02:02:52.039 --> 02:02:54.159 that you sent me. I'm not seeing the picture right now, 2300 02:02:54.199 --> 02:02:55.880 but I did look it up to see which one, 2301 02:02:55.920 --> 02:02:59.199 because a lot of them have black, have long black 2302 02:02:59.600 --> 02:03:02.600 and white hairs, and yours was almost all white. And 2303 02:03:02.800 --> 02:03:06.399 so if you want to get entomologically nerdy about it, 2304 02:03:06.479 --> 02:03:11.800 it's called Shout's toss of moth. Okay, you can tell 2305 02:03:11.840 --> 02:03:14.159 your friends that they'll be very impressed. 2306 02:03:14.239 --> 02:03:15.119 And you know that. 2307 02:03:16.800 --> 02:03:18.600 Well, I like that nerdy stuff. 2308 02:03:18.840 --> 02:03:19.960 Well, thank you very much. 2309 02:03:20.039 --> 02:03:24.000 Yeah, all right, all right, thank you much. I appreciate 2310 02:03:24.039 --> 02:03:26.920 your call. All right, I'm counting on it. Man. It 2311 02:03:27.079 --> 02:03:29.520 hurt my feelings if you weren't. Thank you. We're going 2312 02:03:29.600 --> 02:03:32.239 to go to Magnolia now and talk to Cindy. Hey, Cindy, 2313 02:03:32.319 --> 02:03:33.239 welcome to garden Line. 2314 02:03:34.239 --> 02:03:35.319 You get Morrin Skip. 2315 02:03:35.319 --> 02:03:36.199 How are you this morning? 2316 02:03:37.479 --> 02:03:40.720 Well, I'm doing super well, Cindy. How can I help today? 2317 02:03:41.760 --> 02:03:45.359 I am calling about my rosebushes. I had some shorter 2318 02:03:45.479 --> 02:03:48.680 issues during the summer and they were really neglected. I've 2319 02:03:48.720 --> 02:03:52.000 got some of them that have dead stalks on them, 2320 02:03:52.640 --> 02:03:55.680 and I know I probably should cut that back, but 2321 02:03:55.840 --> 02:03:59.880 I cut the dan out. But I'm questioning coming back 2322 02:04:00.079 --> 02:04:03.039 some areas because I know that cause fresh growth, and 2323 02:04:03.159 --> 02:04:04.920 I don't know if it's too late in the season. 2324 02:04:05.560 --> 02:04:07.479 So I want to ask you what to do with them, 2325 02:04:07.600 --> 02:04:08.960 and ask about fertilizing. 2326 02:04:09.319 --> 02:04:10.680 What do I need to do for the winner? 2327 02:04:12.000 --> 02:04:16.640 Yeah, good question. I would wait. Roses are pretty darn hardy. 2328 02:04:16.720 --> 02:04:18.479 I mean, you see roses trying to put on growth 2329 02:04:18.520 --> 02:04:21.319 in February, sometimes in December. It just depends on the 2330 02:04:21.399 --> 02:04:24.600 weather we're having. I would wait and not stimulate them 2331 02:04:24.640 --> 02:04:26.880 with pruning just yet. If you could get by until 2332 02:04:26.920 --> 02:04:30.680 about February to do that pruning Valentine's daytime, that would 2333 02:04:30.720 --> 02:04:32.439 be a good time to do it. It's not black 2334 02:04:32.479 --> 02:04:34.800 and white night and day. You know, you cannot touch 2335 02:04:34.840 --> 02:04:37.560 them until then. But if they were mine, I would 2336 02:04:37.640 --> 02:04:39.399 just put up with it and then get in there, 2337 02:04:39.720 --> 02:04:42.000 trim out all the twiggy stuff, cut them back however 2338 02:04:42.079 --> 02:04:45.640 you want after that, and I think they'll be fine. 2339 02:04:45.720 --> 02:04:49.720 I would start fertilizing as the growth begins in the spring, 2340 02:04:49.960 --> 02:04:52.560 and then periodically just give them a little boost to 2341 02:04:52.680 --> 02:04:57.000 keep good figure. Yeah, I would, because right now they 2342 02:04:57.079 --> 02:05:00.439 need to be settling in, not trying to grow. Pruning 2343 02:05:00.520 --> 02:05:03.199 and fertilizing, you know, those are things that stimulate growth, 2344 02:05:03.279 --> 02:05:07.600 and so we don't we don't come down. 2345 02:05:07.680 --> 02:05:10.760 Wonder yeah, yeah, okay, wonderful. Well, thank you so much 2346 02:05:10.800 --> 02:05:11.239 for your time. 2347 02:05:11.279 --> 02:05:11.920 I appreciate it. 2348 02:05:12.279 --> 02:05:13.960 Thank you well. 2349 02:05:14.279 --> 02:05:17.039 Thank you for the call. Cindy. Good luck with those roses. 2350 02:05:17.279 --> 02:05:20.199 I hope that goes well for you. Well, I'm up 2351 02:05:20.279 --> 02:05:23.279 against a break here, so Curtis sat in Friendswood and 2352 02:05:23.520 --> 02:05:26.840 Orlando done or up in Spring Branch. You'll be our 2353 02:05:26.880 --> 02:05:29.560 first two app when we come back from break. I 2354 02:05:29.680 --> 02:05:31.600 just want to remind you listening to Guardline. We're here 2355 02:05:31.600 --> 02:05:34.560 ever Saturday and Sunday from six am to ten am. 2356 02:05:35.039 --> 02:05:38.439 Tell your friends, tell your neighbors. We got listeners all 2357 02:05:38.520 --> 02:05:40.720 over the area. In fact, we've got listeners from out 2358 02:05:40.720 --> 02:05:42.720 of state as well that tune in. You can listen 2359 02:05:42.800 --> 02:05:47.000 to us with the iHeartMedia app. You can listen live, 2360 02:05:47.279 --> 02:05:49.800 So download the iHeart Media app. Go out in your yard. 2361 02:05:49.880 --> 02:05:51.800 You don't meet inside right now, you should be outside 2362 02:05:51.840 --> 02:05:53.840 working in the garden. Just have your phone with garden 2363 02:05:53.880 --> 02:05:55.800 Line on and give me a call if you got 2364 02:05:55.840 --> 02:05:57.399 a question. I'll be right back. 2365 02:05:57.600 --> 02:05:58.039 There we go. 2366 02:06:00.159 --> 02:06:02.800 That's what we're talking about this morning. Welcome back to 2367 02:06:02.920 --> 02:06:05.359 Guarden Line. Good to have you with us, Very good 2368 02:06:05.399 --> 02:06:07.079 to have you with us. We're having a good time here. 2369 02:06:07.800 --> 02:06:10.479 I'm having a good I hope you are. You know, 2370 02:06:11.239 --> 02:06:14.479 gardening is a blast, and the more you learn about gardening, 2371 02:06:14.520 --> 02:06:16.680 the better you get at it, and the more fascinating 2372 02:06:16.960 --> 02:06:19.920 fascinating it is. Just talking of it Diver a while ago. 2373 02:06:20.000 --> 02:06:22.439 You know, about the fungi that she has out there, 2374 02:06:22.520 --> 02:06:24.880 some of the nerdy stuff about the insects. That's kind 2375 02:06:24.920 --> 02:06:29.800 of cool stuff. I really really enjoy learning about all 2376 02:06:29.880 --> 02:06:32.239 kinds of things like that because it just every time 2377 02:06:32.399 --> 02:06:36.079 it's a reminder that the world we live in is 2378 02:06:36.279 --> 02:06:40.319 absolutely miraculous. It is amazing the things that are going on. 2379 02:06:40.439 --> 02:06:43.880 We start learning about a bacteria in the soil that 2380 02:06:44.039 --> 02:06:47.000 gets up against the plant root and tells that plant 2381 02:06:47.079 --> 02:06:49.760 root to grow different up on top can make it 2382 02:06:49.880 --> 02:06:54.199 more disease resistant. That is amazing stuff. When you look 2383 02:06:54.239 --> 02:06:57.159 at two plants that are connecting root to root and 2384 02:06:57.319 --> 02:07:00.279 one plant gets chewed on by an insect and a 2385 02:07:00.479 --> 02:07:03.359 signal goes to the next plant saying, hey, you need 2386 02:07:03.439 --> 02:07:06.159 to grow your tissues different to make it harder for 2387 02:07:06.279 --> 02:07:10.239 this insect to eat you. That is amazing stuff. That's 2388 02:07:10.279 --> 02:07:12.079 the world we live in. We're just beginning to learn 2389 02:07:12.079 --> 02:07:15.680 about it. Just a miraculous beauty of creation that we 2390 02:07:15.760 --> 02:07:19.359 get to enjoy. Speaking of those kinds of things, Microlife 2391 02:07:19.479 --> 02:07:22.239 Microlife fertilizers have been around for a long time. Number 2392 02:07:22.279 --> 02:07:25.199 one selling organic fertilizer in Houston. You're not going to 2393 02:07:25.239 --> 02:07:28.319 burn your plants with it. It's not a salt based fertilizer. 2394 02:07:28.960 --> 02:07:32.800 It's got over one hundred minerals of different types in 2395 02:07:32.920 --> 02:07:35.760 these products, especially you know, like they're sixty four. The 2396 02:07:35.840 --> 02:07:38.239 one we use during the growing season right now is 2397 02:07:38.279 --> 02:07:39.119 brown patch season. 2398 02:07:39.239 --> 02:07:40.399 Do that you know? 2399 02:07:40.520 --> 02:07:44.479 Microlife bag contains a lot of central nutrients and billions 2400 02:07:44.560 --> 02:07:47.720 of billions and billions of beneficial microbes. I first used 2401 02:07:47.760 --> 02:07:50.800 Microlife on my lawn about ten almost ten years ago now, 2402 02:07:50.840 --> 02:07:53.800 I believe, and it's going to give you somewhat of 2403 02:07:53.840 --> 02:07:57.079 a gradual release in that those particles or organic materials 2404 02:07:57.119 --> 02:08:00.359 that microbes break down and release the nutrients to your roots. 2405 02:08:00.760 --> 02:08:02.920 It's not just the salt that dissolves in water in 2406 02:08:02.960 --> 02:08:05.199 the nutrient chart there. It's going to break down with 2407 02:08:05.359 --> 02:08:09.920 microbial activity. And because of that people have success with 2408 02:08:10.039 --> 02:08:12.159 it and swhereby. You can go to micro Life Fertilizer 2409 02:08:12.239 --> 02:08:15.119 dot com to see all of the ingredients that they have, 2410 02:08:15.279 --> 02:08:17.520 all the products that they have, and a full list 2411 02:08:17.600 --> 02:08:20.039 of the retailers you're going to find it Today's Hardware, 2412 02:08:20.119 --> 02:08:24.279 and it feeds stores and independent garden centers and Southwest Fertilizer. 2413 02:08:26.000 --> 02:08:30.159 It's just easy to find and the stuff works. Let's 2414 02:08:30.199 --> 02:08:32.079 head out now to Friends with and we're going to 2415 02:08:32.119 --> 02:08:37.399 talk to Curtis. Hey, Curtis, Welcome to garden Line. Good morning, 2416 02:08:39.039 --> 02:08:39.600 good morning. 2417 02:08:41.560 --> 02:08:49.960 I have a question about a big tree. Alrighty, it's 2418 02:08:50.039 --> 02:08:54.760 an orock big tree. It produces abundantly. 2419 02:08:56.680 --> 02:08:57.439 This year it. 2420 02:09:01.119 --> 02:09:08.880 Started giving out figs, oh, I would say, and March 2421 02:09:09.039 --> 02:09:13.680 they started to grow, and by August they had given 2422 02:09:13.760 --> 02:09:16.000 me all the things that I thought it was going 2423 02:09:16.079 --> 02:09:18.000 to give me, and then. 2424 02:09:20.319 --> 02:09:20.760 It grew. 2425 02:09:22.079 --> 02:09:22.239 Uh. 2426 02:09:22.760 --> 02:09:25.279 It's covered with figs, but the hard as the rock, 2427 02:09:26.319 --> 02:09:29.840 and once a week or so one of them will 2428 02:09:30.000 --> 02:09:33.680 ripen up. But it's going to get cold here soon, 2429 02:09:33.840 --> 02:09:38.279 I know. So what what do you do with a 2430 02:09:38.319 --> 02:09:39.600 fig tree at this stage? 2431 02:09:42.479 --> 02:09:45.680 Well, you just nothing, You just uh, you know, as 2432 02:09:45.760 --> 02:09:48.159 it cools off, the leaves are coming off, and it's 2433 02:09:48.199 --> 02:09:50.439 going to go into dormancy. So you don't want to 2434 02:09:50.479 --> 02:09:53.319 print it now. You don't want to fertilize it right now. Uh, 2435 02:09:53.520 --> 02:09:56.920 it's gonna it's just gonna go into dormancy, and sometimes 2436 02:09:57.000 --> 02:09:58.319 you get the end of the season and we don't 2437 02:09:58.319 --> 02:10:01.319 get those last figs finished. But it's a it's a 2438 02:10:01.439 --> 02:10:05.279 really good, it's excellent fig. Rourke was bred in l. 2439 02:10:05.399 --> 02:10:07.680 S u and lois In. In fact, part of the 2440 02:10:07.840 --> 02:10:10.039 parentage of it is Celeste, which is an A and 2441 02:10:10.199 --> 02:10:12.680 M bread fig. So you've got a fig there that 2442 02:10:12.800 --> 02:10:15.560 has a lot of genetics for being in southeast Texas, 2443 02:10:15.640 --> 02:10:17.479 if you know what I'm saying, And that's why it's 2444 02:10:17.560 --> 02:10:18.840 performing so well for you. 2445 02:10:21.079 --> 02:10:25.079 Well, I remember typically over the last years the leaves 2446 02:10:25.159 --> 02:10:28.920 would turn yellow and fall off, but the leaves were 2447 02:10:28.960 --> 02:10:33.800 all still nice and green and it's covered with figs. 2448 02:10:35.239 --> 02:10:38.399 Yeah, well it'll that'll stop here in a minute when 2449 02:10:38.399 --> 02:10:40.600 we get a little bit of cold weather in sad 2450 02:10:40.720 --> 02:10:43.760 But yeah, it's a it's a good fig. Just you know, 2451 02:10:44.399 --> 02:10:47.560 take what you got. And some figs just produce one 2452 02:10:47.600 --> 02:10:49.720 crop a year. Others are able to produce a couple 2453 02:10:49.760 --> 02:10:52.399 of times a year, and as long as we don't 2454 02:10:52.439 --> 02:10:55.760 freeze them to the ground, you're going to get sometimes 2455 02:10:55.840 --> 02:10:57.479 probably two crops on that O'Rourke. 2456 02:10:59.640 --> 02:10:59.920 That's it. 2457 02:11:00.239 --> 02:11:04.279 Good luck with it. So all we ask on guardline. 2458 02:11:04.720 --> 02:11:06.680 You know the rule on guardline. I don't charge for 2459 02:11:06.840 --> 02:11:08.840 my advice, but I do ask that you bring half 2460 02:11:08.920 --> 02:11:11.640 the produce and drop it off at the radio station. 2461 02:11:11.840 --> 02:11:14.640 We'll call it even, all right, I like figs. Hey 2462 02:11:14.880 --> 02:11:20.800 have fun, stay out of trouble, partist, take care. That's true, folks, 2463 02:11:21.920 --> 02:11:23.800 you know it just does. Hey, you hear me talk 2464 02:11:23.800 --> 02:11:27.039 about quality all the time. 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Thank you so much for 2490 02:12:57.279 --> 02:12:57.800 taking my call. 2491 02:12:57.960 --> 02:13:00.520 I wish I had some good crops to bring you, guys, 2492 02:13:00.560 --> 02:13:02.079 but unfortunately I just have bad news. 2493 02:13:03.720 --> 02:13:04.239 That's okay. 2494 02:13:05.560 --> 02:13:08.960 I have these two beautiful pine trees that I think 2495 02:13:09.239 --> 02:13:12.000 they're being in the ground for longer than my house 2496 02:13:12.039 --> 02:13:14.439 has been build. My house was being in the mid seventies, 2497 02:13:15.920 --> 02:13:20.600 and unfortunately, after that recious storm and after that the herocine, 2498 02:13:21.239 --> 02:13:24.560 one of the trees was suffering and now it's just 2499 02:13:24.680 --> 02:13:28.199 completely brown. So I was told that they might be 2500 02:13:28.720 --> 02:13:35.079 pine beetles in it. And my question is one is 2501 02:13:35.159 --> 02:13:36.920 brown and I think it needs to be turning down, 2502 02:13:37.119 --> 02:13:38.560 But the other one is green. 2503 02:13:38.840 --> 02:13:42.199 It's completely healthy and beautiful. What can I do to 2504 02:13:42.279 --> 02:13:46.640 protect that tree from the pine beetles? Well, first of all, 2505 02:13:46.800 --> 02:13:49.319 when you look at the trunk, Orlando, do you see 2506 02:13:49.479 --> 02:13:54.760 globs of sap up and down the trunk? Yes? Okay? 2507 02:13:55.000 --> 02:14:00.960 And are they yeah? Yeah? And little little balls, little 2508 02:14:01.000 --> 02:14:03.840 globs of it. Are they mostly from about eight or 2509 02:14:03.880 --> 02:14:07.279 ten feet down? Or they go up higher on the trunk, 2510 02:14:08.000 --> 02:14:11.640 they go up high? Okay? Do you see any sawdust 2511 02:14:12.079 --> 02:14:14.840 that's fallen out of the holes that is now sticky, 2512 02:14:14.960 --> 02:14:21.159 you know, catching in the bark as it falls down? Yes? Okay. 2513 02:14:21.239 --> 02:14:23.279 And we're talking about the dead tree or the or 2514 02:14:23.359 --> 02:14:25.399 the brown tree or the green tree now you. 2515 02:14:25.479 --> 02:14:27.439 Know they we're talking about the bron the brown tree 2516 02:14:27.520 --> 02:14:27.720 on the. 2517 02:14:29.640 --> 02:14:33.560 Yep. Okay, Well you could, I would call UH, I 2518 02:14:33.600 --> 02:14:37.520 would call Affordable Tree Care and talk to Martin spoon 2519 02:14:37.600 --> 02:14:41.079 Moore and see see what he thinks on it. And 2520 02:14:41.159 --> 02:14:42.560 he may be able to come out and take a look. 2521 02:14:42.640 --> 02:14:45.319 It may be worth trying to spray. If you got 2522 02:14:45.399 --> 02:14:47.359 that done. He could tell you when and how and 2523 02:14:47.479 --> 02:14:50.199 what it would cost and everything. Uh, the one that's 2524 02:14:50.239 --> 02:14:52.520 brown is gone and it needs to come out, and 2525 02:14:52.680 --> 02:14:54.600 so you need to talk to him soon because pine 2526 02:14:54.640 --> 02:14:57.359 bark starts to slip off pretty quick after the tree dies. 2527 02:14:57.960 --> 02:15:00.399 And now you got to treat the very dangerous climb 2528 02:15:00.439 --> 02:15:03.199 because of that loose bark. And so I wouldn't delay. 2529 02:15:03.359 --> 02:15:05.359 At least call him, get some advice, see if he 2530 02:15:05.399 --> 02:15:08.960 can come out well. And Martin, yeah, I'm sorry. 2531 02:15:09.439 --> 02:15:12.600 Martin was here right after the hurricane and he did 2532 02:15:12.720 --> 02:15:14.920 some truth from the oak trees in the back and 2533 02:15:15.039 --> 02:15:18.119 he told me those trees healthy. Because I asked him, 2534 02:15:18.239 --> 02:15:20.000 do you need to do anything to the pine trees 2535 02:15:20.520 --> 02:15:24.000 and he says no, we don't typically do anything or 2536 02:15:24.000 --> 02:15:26.359 any shape into the pine to the pine trees. 2537 02:15:26.439 --> 02:15:27.560 They're they're fine. 2538 02:15:28.560 --> 02:15:31.520 But you know, like about a month ago is when 2539 02:15:31.600 --> 02:15:36.000 my neighbor across text me to say, hey, well trees dead. 2540 02:15:36.239 --> 02:15:41.039 Yeah. So so here's what happens, Uh, Orlando, the the 2541 02:15:41.439 --> 02:15:45.079 the tree goo see some stress like it could be drought, 2542 02:15:45.680 --> 02:15:47.800 it could be other things. I've seen trees get hit 2543 02:15:47.840 --> 02:15:50.800 by both the lightning and within like two weeks they 2544 02:15:50.880 --> 02:15:54.680 have pineberk beetles all over them, and it's like the 2545 02:15:55.520 --> 02:15:57.920 tree is weak. It gives off a smell that the 2546 02:15:58.000 --> 02:16:00.319 bugs smell, and they come to it, and when they 2547 02:16:00.399 --> 02:16:03.000 get in it, I mean, it's like you just slided 2548 02:16:03.079 --> 02:16:05.560 off with a chainsaw. I mean they cut off all 2549 02:16:05.640 --> 02:16:08.279 the flow from top to bottom, and so that that 2550 02:16:08.399 --> 02:16:11.079 tree turns brown really fast. And so you may not 2551 02:16:11.199 --> 02:16:13.279 have had it three weeks or a month ago, and 2552 02:16:13.359 --> 02:16:15.039 then all of a sudden, now it's like, well, why eat, 2553 02:16:15.119 --> 02:16:17.800 what's going on here? That's what happened to that tree. 2554 02:16:18.119 --> 02:16:20.600 But just if you've hired him to come out, just 2555 02:16:20.680 --> 02:16:22.479 call him back and just say, look, one of those 2556 02:16:22.520 --> 02:16:25.319 two trees says turn brown. I see all the pinebert 2557 02:16:25.359 --> 02:16:27.760 beetles spots on it. Talk to skip on garden line, 2558 02:16:28.600 --> 02:16:30.680 and I just need to know is there something you 2559 02:16:30.760 --> 02:16:32.440 need to spray on the other one or what would 2560 02:16:32.479 --> 02:16:37.520 you recommend? And just see he'll shoot straight with you. Yeah, yeah, okay, 2561 02:16:38.079 --> 02:16:40.520 I'll do that. I will call him and come over here. 2562 02:16:40.719 --> 02:16:43.040 Thank you so much. Keep appreciate what you do for us. 2563 02:16:43.159 --> 02:16:46.479 All right, man, Yeah, you bet take care. I talk 2564 02:16:46.559 --> 02:16:50.440 to you later. All right, let's see here, we are 2565 02:16:50.600 --> 02:16:56.200 gonna go I got a little bit of time. I'm 2566 02:16:56.200 --> 02:16:59.159 gonna go to Doris in Austin County. Hey, Dars, I 2567 02:16:59.200 --> 02:16:59.879 got a little over him. 2568 02:17:00.200 --> 02:17:00.280 Here. 2569 02:17:00.319 --> 02:17:01.280 Let's see if we can help you. 2570 02:17:02.719 --> 02:17:02.920 Quick. 2571 02:17:03.000 --> 02:17:03.680 Take a question. 2572 02:17:04.399 --> 02:17:07.159 I'm going to plant cabbage and I need to know 2573 02:17:07.280 --> 02:17:09.680 how to keep the cabbage worms out of them. 2574 02:17:11.239 --> 02:17:15.479 Okay, you got two options. One you could spray them 2575 02:17:15.559 --> 02:17:19.440 periodically with an organic spray called BT be as in 2576 02:17:19.520 --> 02:17:23.319 boy teas in tom That is a disease of caterpillar 2577 02:17:23.479 --> 02:17:25.159 and you spray it on the cabbage. And when a 2578 02:17:25.239 --> 02:17:28.799 cabbage worm or I mean a cabbage looper or worm 2579 02:17:29.040 --> 02:17:32.520 starts to chew on it, it gets that BT and 2580 02:17:32.639 --> 02:17:35.680 it makes the worm sick and it kills it. So 2581 02:17:35.959 --> 02:17:38.280 you would just periodically need to spray with that. And 2582 02:17:38.360 --> 02:17:41.000 if you see little white moths that are fluttering kind 2583 02:17:41.040 --> 02:17:44.319 of tanned of white moths fluttering around out there, that's 2584 02:17:44.399 --> 02:17:47.440 the mama and she's laying eggs to give you caterpillars. 2585 02:17:47.959 --> 02:17:50.280 So that would be the thing. The other thing you 2586 02:17:50.319 --> 02:17:53.040 could do is if you take some netting. It could 2587 02:17:53.079 --> 02:17:55.719 be there's a thing called garden netting that looks like 2588 02:17:55.840 --> 02:17:59.840 the screen on your house, except it's smaller and softer 2589 02:18:00.120 --> 02:18:02.200 to soft as a bed sheet, but it's a little 2590 02:18:02.280 --> 02:18:05.120 checkerboard squares so tiny the bugs can't get through it. 2591 02:18:05.879 --> 02:18:08.879 Or you can use something called row cover fabric that 2592 02:18:09.319 --> 02:18:11.639 is the same thing as the liner and a baby diaper, 2593 02:18:12.239 --> 02:18:15.479 very fine, very lightweight. If you were ever a seamstress 2594 02:18:15.520 --> 02:18:18.440 and sewed, it's kind of like stabilizer, but a lot softer. 2595 02:18:19.159 --> 02:18:21.159 And it's also a screen that you put over the plant. 2596 02:18:21.200 --> 02:18:23.639 So you just drape it over the plant loosely, let 2597 02:18:23.680 --> 02:18:26.040 it grow up underneath there, and it keeps those bugs 2598 02:18:26.040 --> 02:18:28.399 from even able to get to the plant to lay eggs, 2599 02:18:28.440 --> 02:18:29.879 and you don't have to spray it all that way. 2600 02:18:32.079 --> 02:18:36.920 Okay, how oftome do I spray you said periodically before? 2601 02:18:37.280 --> 02:18:43.040 Yeah, probably, Well, I might wait until the first caterpillar 2602 02:18:43.079 --> 02:18:45.600 show up. That spray does only last couple of days 2603 02:18:45.840 --> 02:18:48.760 in the environment, and so like, if you sprayed today 2604 02:18:48.959 --> 02:18:54.319 and a caterpillar showed up on Thursday or Wednesday of 2605 02:18:54.479 --> 02:18:57.959 next week, that spray wouldn't be controlling anything. So I'd 2606 02:18:58.000 --> 02:18:59.600 wait to see them and then I would get on 2607 02:18:59.680 --> 02:19:02.760 about once a week spray schedule. About once a week. 2608 02:19:03.120 --> 02:19:04.680 You know, a few holes here and there is not 2609 02:19:04.760 --> 02:19:06.159 the end of the world. You just don't want them 2610 02:19:06.200 --> 02:19:07.600 turning into the Swiss cheese. 2611 02:19:09.200 --> 02:19:12.120 Right, Okay, thank you very much. 2612 02:19:12.239 --> 02:19:16.120 You have a good day, you too, And I remember, 2613 02:19:16.280 --> 02:19:18.639 if you get any cabbage out of this deal, I 2614 02:19:18.760 --> 02:19:20.799 do know how to make star crap, So feel free 2615 02:19:20.879 --> 02:19:23.120 to drop half of it off at the station and 2616 02:19:23.239 --> 02:19:24.600 we'll call it even. Thank you. 2617 02:19:25.120 --> 02:19:27.559 Okay, when I get all this cabbage, I'll call and 2618 02:19:27.639 --> 02:19:28.479 get your accress. 2619 02:19:29.840 --> 02:19:33.680 I'm messing with you. Thank you, Doris. I appreciate that. 2620 02:19:34.079 --> 02:19:36.000 All Right, I gotta go to break here. I'll be 2621 02:19:36.159 --> 02:19:40.719 right back. Stay tuned, all right, welcome back. All I 2622 02:19:40.879 --> 02:19:42.959 need is a little R E S E C D. 2623 02:19:44.520 --> 02:19:46.520 Glad you're listening to Gardline today. Good to have you 2624 02:19:46.600 --> 02:19:50.479 with us. You've heard me you talk about Star Hope before, 2625 02:19:50.520 --> 02:19:53.239 because I believe in Star of Hope. I've been a 2626 02:19:53.280 --> 02:19:55.639 supporter of Star Hope for a while. I've seen the 2627 02:19:55.719 --> 02:19:57.760 work they do. I've talked to people that have been 2628 02:19:57.799 --> 02:20:00.760 through the Star Hope program. I've heard their stories. They 2629 02:20:00.879 --> 02:20:05.360 change lives. Star of Hope change lives with Christ centered assistance, 2630 02:20:05.399 --> 02:20:07.239 whether it is providing a meal. Do you know that 2631 02:20:07.319 --> 02:20:09.600 for two dollars and eighty five cents you can feed 2632 02:20:10.159 --> 02:20:13.120 a person, a homeless man, a woman, or individuals of 2633 02:20:13.159 --> 02:20:16.120 a family for two dollars and eighty five cents. They 2634 02:20:16.200 --> 02:20:18.799 do more than six thousand meals a week. They're at 2635 02:20:18.840 --> 02:20:21.559 Star of Hope. So how many meals can you provide? 2636 02:20:22.040 --> 02:20:24.559 You want a way to put your compassion into action 2637 02:20:25.360 --> 02:20:27.760 in a way that changes lives. I'm not talking about 2638 02:20:27.760 --> 02:20:29.879 a handout or as they say, three hots and a 2639 02:20:29.959 --> 02:20:32.479 cot meaning three meals and a place to sleep at night. 2640 02:20:32.559 --> 02:20:35.600 They do that, of course, but they do more. They 2641 02:20:35.719 --> 02:20:39.879 change lives. I mean, imagine, let me tell you this, 2642 02:20:40.040 --> 02:20:42.879 the face of homelessness is different than you think. You know, 2643 02:20:42.959 --> 02:20:45.159 we see people on tree corners and things like that, 2644 02:20:45.399 --> 02:20:48.200 driving around town. You see that. But the face of 2645 02:20:48.280 --> 02:20:50.959 homeless is much more complex than that. And there are 2646 02:20:51.000 --> 02:20:53.639 a lot of people who, for no reason of their own, 2647 02:20:53.760 --> 02:20:56.760 no fault of their own, have fallen on hard times. 2648 02:20:56.879 --> 02:21:01.479 And you know, it doesn't take much before you don't 2649 02:21:01.520 --> 02:21:04.000 have transportation, you don't have a place to live, you 2650 02:21:04.120 --> 02:21:06.799 don't have a job, and all of a sudden, now 2651 02:21:06.920 --> 02:21:08.799 how do you crawl out from under that? And they 2652 02:21:08.879 --> 02:21:13.000 provide training, they provide places to stay, they provide, you know, 2653 02:21:13.200 --> 02:21:15.520 care for the kids, take care for the kids while 2654 02:21:15.600 --> 02:21:19.559 mom or dad is learning and developing their trades. They 2655 02:21:19.719 --> 02:21:22.159 help you get on your feet and change your life, 2656 02:21:22.319 --> 02:21:25.159 and that changes your children's life, and that changes our 2657 02:21:25.319 --> 02:21:29.079 community in the Greater Houston area. It makes a difference. 2658 02:21:29.079 --> 02:21:32.159 I'm telling you it makes a difference. Put your compassion 2659 02:21:32.639 --> 02:21:35.600 into action by joining me and giving to Star Hope. 2660 02:21:35.600 --> 02:21:37.040 All you have to do is go to the website. 2661 02:21:37.079 --> 02:21:43.840 It's sohmission dot org. Sohmission dot org. Check it out, 2662 02:21:44.000 --> 02:21:46.120 learn more about it. You'd be very impressed by the way. 2663 02:21:46.120 --> 02:21:48.840 They have opportunities for volunteering too. If you even want 2664 02:21:48.879 --> 02:21:51.120 to get more involved, they could sure use that too. 2665 02:21:53.040 --> 02:21:57.239 We're going to go now and talk to Nancy. Hello, Nancy, 2666 02:21:57.319 --> 02:21:58.280 welcome to Gardenline. 2667 02:21:59.399 --> 02:22:05.239 Good morning. You should have an email that I sink. Yes, 2668 02:22:05.559 --> 02:22:06.920 you should have an email. 2669 02:22:06.639 --> 02:22:06.719 But. 2670 02:22:08.399 --> 02:22:09.120 I do, I do? 2671 02:22:09.440 --> 02:22:09.639 I do. 2672 02:22:10.000 --> 02:22:13.200 That's a Texas Red Bud that you've got. Did you 2673 02:22:13.280 --> 02:22:14.879 know that's called the Texas Red Bud? 2674 02:22:16.120 --> 02:22:18.680 No, And I looked it up. It's a red bud, 2675 02:22:18.799 --> 02:22:20.440 and I went, what in the world? I thought it 2676 02:22:20.520 --> 02:22:21.159 was something else. 2677 02:22:21.399 --> 02:22:25.120 Yeah, it's a red bud. But there's a there's at 2678 02:22:25.200 --> 02:22:27.360 least three different kinds of red buds you see around 2679 02:22:27.440 --> 02:22:32.479 here Mexican redbud. You almost never see Eastern red buddies everywhere. 2680 02:22:32.639 --> 02:22:33.840 It's wild in the woods. 2681 02:22:34.520 --> 02:22:34.639 Uh. 2682 02:22:34.920 --> 02:22:37.840 And the Texas redbud has those shiny leaves that don't 2683 02:22:37.879 --> 02:22:40.879 have the extended tip like eastern redbud does. But it's 2684 02:22:40.959 --> 02:22:43.879 a good tough redbud. What your tree is doing is 2685 02:22:43.959 --> 02:22:46.159 it's the end of the year. Those leaves are old, 2686 02:22:46.200 --> 02:22:48.879 they're fixing to come off, and it's almost like all 2687 02:22:49.040 --> 02:22:51.879 the way they kind of hold back diseases and things, 2688 02:22:52.000 --> 02:22:53.680 it sort of goes away and you get all these 2689 02:22:53.719 --> 02:22:57.120 spots and sections and things. Don't worry about it. Those 2690 02:22:57.200 --> 02:23:01.360 leaves are coming off. It's okay. That tree is plenty 2691 02:23:01.399 --> 02:23:03.719 of leaf surface area and it's gonna be just fine. 2692 02:23:03.760 --> 02:23:06.639 You don't even need the spray and it and it 2693 02:23:06.760 --> 02:23:07.760 stays that small. 2694 02:23:08.639 --> 02:23:10.440 I've had it when we was about the house about 2695 02:23:10.600 --> 02:23:12.600 on the lake about four years ago, and it just 2696 02:23:12.680 --> 02:23:13.559 doesn't grow anymore. 2697 02:23:13.719 --> 02:23:14.799 Is that seven? 2698 02:23:16.440 --> 02:23:17.959 Oh? I don't know. All I can see is close 2699 02:23:18.079 --> 02:23:19.479 ups to the leaves. How big is the plant. 2700 02:23:21.600 --> 02:23:25.280 It's it's like a little tree and it's about six 2701 02:23:25.360 --> 02:23:25.920 foot tonne. 2702 02:23:27.399 --> 02:23:30.280 Okay, I'll get bigger than that. It'll get bigger than that. Yeah, okay, 2703 02:23:31.719 --> 02:23:32.239 it some time. 2704 02:23:33.559 --> 02:23:36.120 Okay, Hey, quick note, I told you a few weeks 2705 02:23:36.159 --> 02:23:38.440 act about my watermelons, whether they were ripe or not. 2706 02:23:39.360 --> 02:23:41.719 After I got off the phone with you, I walked 2707 02:23:41.760 --> 02:23:46.319 out to my garden and raccoons had gotten nine of 2708 02:23:46.520 --> 02:23:53.600 my eleven watermelons. Oh my god, I devastated. It was 2709 02:23:53.799 --> 02:23:55.360 it was I seven because it one more day and 2710 02:23:55.399 --> 02:23:57.959 I'm gonna call Skip called you walked up here and 2711 02:23:58.840 --> 02:24:03.319 nine big beautiful one. Thank you so much. 2712 02:24:04.760 --> 02:24:08.479 You know, I think I think I think varmits hear 2713 02:24:08.600 --> 02:24:11.479 you talk into the house. One time I had a 2714 02:24:11.639 --> 02:24:14.399 corn patch and I checked it and it's like, oh man, 2715 02:24:14.520 --> 02:24:16.159 this corn needs to be picked. I'm gonna pick this 2716 02:24:16.280 --> 02:24:19.639 in the morning. I think some raccoons across the fence 2717 02:24:19.760 --> 02:24:22.280 heard me and they got in there and they stripped 2718 02:24:22.360 --> 02:24:22.760 the patch. 2719 02:24:23.159 --> 02:24:28.040 That Adam Carty, I know I heard your story before 2720 02:24:28.079 --> 02:24:30.239 and I thought of you. Guy said, he's one person 2721 02:24:30.319 --> 02:24:33.559 that will feel my pain because I feel your. 2722 02:24:34.600 --> 02:24:40.239 Feel Nancy wors Flint wors Flint, I'm. 2723 02:24:40.879 --> 02:24:42.559 Lake Palastin outside of time. 2724 02:24:43.360 --> 02:24:46.000 Oh okay, all right, well thanks for listening up there. 2725 02:24:46.040 --> 02:24:48.040 Tell your friends to listen to garden Line. Good to 2726 02:24:48.120 --> 02:24:49.799 have you with us today. Thank you for the call. 2727 02:24:51.840 --> 02:24:55.799 All Right, folks, always interesting, you know, living in Texas 2728 02:24:55.840 --> 02:24:59.479 my whole life except for three years. And uh, I 2729 02:24:59.559 --> 02:25:01.719 feel like I pretty much know every place, have been 2730 02:25:01.799 --> 02:25:04.719 through it at one time or another. And I still 2731 02:25:04.840 --> 02:25:06.879 run into place maybe I used to know but forgot. 2732 02:25:07.239 --> 02:25:09.200 You know that happens, you know what I'm talking about. 2733 02:25:09.840 --> 02:25:13.440 But anyway, it's always interesting finding new places. Haven't been 2734 02:25:13.520 --> 02:25:17.200 to there before. All right. I was at Wildbirds Unlimited 2735 02:25:17.399 --> 02:25:21.959 in Kingwood yesterday, had a great time. Appreciate John and 2736 02:25:22.040 --> 02:25:25.440 the team out there having us out. We really enjoyed 2737 02:25:25.520 --> 02:25:27.920 visiting with people and it really had a good time. 2738 02:25:28.200 --> 02:25:30.600 Walbird's Unlimited is such a great store. You know, there 2739 02:25:30.639 --> 02:25:33.879 are Wildbirds Unlimited stores all over the place. You can 2740 02:25:33.920 --> 02:25:36.959 go to the website. Here's the web address. Go to 2741 02:25:37.000 --> 02:25:42.040 a WBU dot com forward slash Houston and what that's 2742 02:25:42.120 --> 02:25:44.079 going to give you is it's going to give you 2743 02:25:44.399 --> 02:25:46.920 a website that has all six stores where you can 2744 02:25:46.959 --> 02:25:49.719 find them here in the Greater Houston area. You can 2745 02:25:49.760 --> 02:25:52.040 find the one in Kingwood, or you can find the one. Yeah, 2746 02:25:52.079 --> 02:25:56.159 there's Cyprus, they're clear Lake. They're all over west side 2747 02:25:56.200 --> 02:26:00.319 of Houston Memorial. Ay, there's Wildbirds unlimiteds all over and 2748 02:26:00.399 --> 02:26:01.840 you can find the one near you and when you 2749 02:26:01.920 --> 02:26:03.799 go by there, you're gonna find quality feed. I just 2750 02:26:03.840 --> 02:26:07.360 picked up some Wallbirds Unlimited Winter super Blend that is 2751 02:26:07.600 --> 02:26:11.600 a Cadillac feed. It has got It's packed with fats 2752 02:26:11.680 --> 02:26:14.799 and proteins and things like that to help birds because 2753 02:26:14.799 --> 02:26:17.239 you know, we're in a cool season here where the 2754 02:26:17.319 --> 02:26:20.040 days are getting shorter. It's we're on the doorstep of it, 2755 02:26:20.559 --> 02:26:21.959 and they don't have as much time to get out 2756 02:26:21.959 --> 02:26:24.600 there and find feed. And my feeders have been kind 2757 02:26:24.600 --> 02:26:26.280 of quiet lately. In fact, I was talking to Johan 2758 02:26:26.280 --> 02:26:28.040 at Wilbirds about that and he said, yea, ask kind 2759 02:26:28.079 --> 02:26:31.440 of normal into summer early fall. But they're coming back 2760 02:26:31.559 --> 02:26:33.840 and we know they will. Do you need to have 2761 02:26:33.920 --> 02:26:35.760 the feed ready to go for them to bring them 2762 02:26:35.799 --> 02:26:37.920 to your house. Another way to bring birds your house 2763 02:26:38.000 --> 02:26:40.920 is to have water. Always have water out I've got 2764 02:26:41.200 --> 02:26:44.040 a little fountain out there. I've got a giant dog 2765 02:26:44.159 --> 02:26:46.680 bowl type thing that I just keep filled with water 2766 02:26:46.719 --> 02:26:49.120 all the time. Birds need water every day of the year, 2767 02:26:49.239 --> 02:26:51.440 especially in summer. But do you know every day of 2768 02:26:51.479 --> 02:26:53.239 the middle of winter they got to have a drink 2769 02:26:53.280 --> 02:26:56.440 of water that day. Right, you got water, you'll have birds. 2770 02:26:56.920 --> 02:26:59.000 And if you go to Wildbirds, you'll have even more 2771 02:26:59.040 --> 02:27:02.959 birds because they have quality products there, especially those super 2772 02:27:03.040 --> 02:27:07.639 high quality feeds. Okay, I've got to take you break, 2773 02:27:07.959 --> 02:27:10.399 Tiffany and Cypress. You will be our first up when 2774 02:27:10.479 --> 02:27:16.120 we come back. Oh man, well, Chuck Berry by us 2775 02:27:16.200 --> 02:27:18.000 up here on a Sunday morning. We're going to head 2776 02:27:18.040 --> 02:27:20.920 straight out to the phones to Cypress Texas and talk 2777 02:27:21.000 --> 02:27:23.120 to Tiffany. Hey, Tiffany, welcome to garden Line. 2778 02:27:24.159 --> 02:27:25.200 Good morning, love. 2779 02:27:25.280 --> 02:27:28.120 Your show is always and we so enjoy wild Birds 2780 02:27:28.200 --> 02:27:31.360 Unlimited our Cypress location. They're so nice and helpful, so 2781 02:27:31.399 --> 02:27:34.879 I'm glad you promote them, but I apologize it's been 2782 02:27:34.920 --> 02:27:38.559 a while. I know they're just the kindest people. It's 2783 02:27:38.600 --> 02:27:39.280 so much fun to. 2784 02:27:39.319 --> 02:27:39.840 Go in there. 2785 02:27:40.840 --> 02:27:45.319 I had sent you an email of my wax leaf Lagustrians, 2786 02:27:45.479 --> 02:27:48.280 and we had our house built about five and a 2787 02:27:48.319 --> 02:27:52.440 half years ago, and they've been so hearty. But recently 2788 02:27:52.760 --> 02:27:57.840 the leaves have started turning like really yellow, a brilliant 2789 02:27:57.959 --> 02:28:02.840 yellow with like brown spots on them, and they I 2790 02:28:03.040 --> 02:28:06.440 just want to make sure that I control whatever's going 2791 02:28:06.559 --> 02:28:09.799 on before it hurts them since they've been around a while. 2792 02:28:11.319 --> 02:28:13.079 All right, well I'm going to be the bearer of 2793 02:28:13.159 --> 02:28:16.840 bad news. Okay, But here's what it is. That is 2794 02:28:16.920 --> 02:28:22.520 a disease called sarcospara leaf spot. It's a fungal spot 2795 02:28:23.239 --> 02:28:28.159 and wax leaf lagustrum is plagued by it. Every time 2796 02:28:28.319 --> 02:28:31.280 the leaves get wet, it splashes the spores around and 2797 02:28:31.399 --> 02:28:34.280 you get more spots. So when it rains or when 2798 02:28:34.399 --> 02:28:37.280 you have an irrigation spray that hits them, and it 2799 02:28:37.600 --> 02:28:39.920 is very hard to get rid of. Now you can. 2800 02:28:40.879 --> 02:28:43.639 You can try to fight it. That's one option, and 2801 02:28:43.760 --> 02:28:46.719 that would mean raking up all the fallen leaves, picking 2802 02:28:46.840 --> 02:28:49.680 off the leaves that have spots on them, or even 2803 02:28:50.280 --> 02:28:53.040 pruning those things back. They're a little large and loose 2804 02:28:53.239 --> 02:28:55.959 shrubs right now. Anyway, you could do some pruning back 2805 02:28:56.120 --> 02:28:58.959 or remove it. And then you have to spray every 2806 02:28:59.040 --> 02:29:01.479 time it rains. Every time it's rains, you go right 2807 02:29:01.520 --> 02:29:04.000 out after the rain and you spray with a fungicide 2808 02:29:04.959 --> 02:29:08.200 and that way the spores that would be germinating, you 2809 02:29:08.319 --> 02:29:11.840 get that fungus fungicide in the plant to try to 2810 02:29:12.120 --> 02:29:15.600 help prevent it. That's a lot of spraying for what 2811 02:29:15.760 --> 02:29:19.680 would be the foreseeable future. The alternative, and I said, 2812 02:29:19.719 --> 02:29:22.079 I had bad news. But the alternative, if they're mine, 2813 02:29:22.120 --> 02:29:23.840 had pull them up and get rid of them. I 2814 02:29:23.920 --> 02:29:26.680 don't like that plant. It always looks like this. Once 2815 02:29:26.799 --> 02:29:29.600 the disease finds it and gets in, you just are 2816 02:29:29.719 --> 02:29:33.159 constantly dealing with this. So I would rather pull them up, 2817 02:29:33.200 --> 02:29:34.639 put a plant in that I don't have to take 2818 02:29:34.639 --> 02:29:38.840 care of all the time, and those you can't. Yeah, 2819 02:29:40.399 --> 02:29:44.280 okay about those. Imagine those leaves as being sick people 2820 02:29:44.360 --> 02:29:46.719 in a room. So you got a green leaf and 2821 02:29:46.879 --> 02:29:50.079 all these sick people coughing around the room, what are 2822 02:29:50.159 --> 02:29:53.120 your chances of coming out of it not sick? Right? 2823 02:29:53.719 --> 02:29:56.079 That's how this is. That's why it gets so bad. 2824 02:29:57.360 --> 02:30:00.239 Right, absolutely. Yes, I've worked with kids for twenty eight years, 2825 02:30:00.280 --> 02:30:01.799 so that's a that's a great analogy. 2826 02:30:01.840 --> 02:30:02.760 I'm thinking about that. 2827 02:30:02.920 --> 02:30:05.959 Right in the classroom in my therapy sessions. 2828 02:30:06.120 --> 02:30:10.879 Yes, that's someone told me once that said, kid kids. 2829 02:30:11.000 --> 02:30:12.319 Kids are like petri dishes. 2830 02:30:12.559 --> 02:30:16.120 You know you just oh, absolutely, they are bless their hearts, 2831 02:30:16.120 --> 02:30:18.000 and not all of them wash their hands or cover 2832 02:30:18.159 --> 02:30:19.719 properly their their nose and mouth. 2833 02:30:19.920 --> 02:30:23.280 Imagine that imagine that a good thing. You and. 2834 02:30:26.479 --> 02:30:29.920 Well, that's that's good advice because you know, it's just 2835 02:30:30.120 --> 02:30:32.200 these are just the plants that the builder put in, 2836 02:30:32.399 --> 02:30:36.520 and unfortunately they don't always put the most lush, you know, 2837 02:30:36.680 --> 02:30:37.760 high quality stuff. 2838 02:30:37.920 --> 02:30:39.879 But what do you them in? 2839 02:30:40.079 --> 02:30:43.319 Because they're big, they're like there, there's a few of 2840 02:30:43.399 --> 02:30:48.719 them lined up. I'm thinking, oh, at least four, at 2841 02:30:48.799 --> 02:30:51.360 least four or five. So if we pull those up, 2842 02:30:51.440 --> 02:30:53.120 what do you recommend me put there? 2843 02:30:53.920 --> 02:30:57.120 You know, I don't. I only see one photo that 2844 02:30:57.200 --> 02:30:59.520 kind of shows me the setting. You don't want something 2845 02:30:59.680 --> 02:31:01.879 gigs so big you can't see in and out the windows, 2846 02:31:02.200 --> 02:31:04.920 so I would go with something smaller. You've got some 2847 02:31:05.120 --> 02:31:07.239 it looks like an in Hawthorne down there in front. 2848 02:31:07.680 --> 02:31:12.000 Maybe something with some color behind it, Like there are 2849 02:31:12.120 --> 02:31:14.760 some dwarf Laura pedlums that are only going to get 2850 02:31:14.760 --> 02:31:16.760 about four feet high, but you can prune them and 2851 02:31:16.840 --> 02:31:18.959 keep them lower and they have a burgundy foliage that 2852 02:31:19.000 --> 02:31:21.319 would be pretty. They would grow in that amount of 2853 02:31:21.399 --> 02:31:25.399 light there. You could you know, you could put It's 2854 02:31:25.440 --> 02:31:27.120 just a lot of different plants that could go in 2855 02:31:27.200 --> 02:31:29.600 a spot like that, But I might consider a very 2856 02:31:29.799 --> 02:31:34.120 dwarf Laura Pedlim. It's called Chinese witch hazel, purple, burgundy, 2857 02:31:34.159 --> 02:31:37.879 foliage and beautiful little shaggy pink spring blooms. Just get 2858 02:31:37.920 --> 02:31:40.799 the shortest one you can find. Because Chinese lation you 2859 02:31:40.840 --> 02:31:43.399 can get twenty feet tall eventually. So you want to 2860 02:31:43.399 --> 02:31:45.319 get one that says it's going to get about four 2861 02:31:45.399 --> 02:31:47.639 feet and then you work to keep it, keep it 2862 02:31:47.719 --> 02:31:48.680 more compact than that. 2863 02:31:49.479 --> 02:31:53.680 That would be an option, okay, And I'm. 2864 02:31:53.559 --> 02:31:55.639 Trying to break up that sea of green. You know, 2865 02:31:55.799 --> 02:31:58.079 you don't want just green shrub, green shrub, green drub. 2866 02:31:58.639 --> 02:32:01.479 Then you lose you don't see them all, you know, 2867 02:32:02.040 --> 02:32:04.959 But there are some other tall ones. Where are you located, 2868 02:32:05.040 --> 02:32:07.360 you're oh Europe in Cyprus. Go up to go up 2869 02:32:07.399 --> 02:32:10.000 to arbrogate nursery or plants fill seasons. They're gonna have 2870 02:32:10.000 --> 02:32:12.120 a lot of good shrubs and just tell them you 2871 02:32:12.200 --> 02:32:14.159 talk to me on the air, and here's what you got. 2872 02:32:14.239 --> 02:32:17.479 You got some green Indian hawthorne, and you'd like a 2873 02:32:17.600 --> 02:32:20.079 shorter shrub with some color form behind them, and they'll 2874 02:32:20.159 --> 02:32:22.399 they'll put put several options in your hands. 2875 02:32:23.440 --> 02:32:23.879 Perfect. 2876 02:32:24.040 --> 02:32:26.799 That sounds wonderful. Well, thank you so much, Skip and 2877 02:32:26.920 --> 02:32:29.319 have a great week and I'll listen to you next weekend. 2878 02:32:30.719 --> 02:32:33.920 Thank you, ma'am. Glad you're listening. Appreciate it. You take care, Tiffany, 2879 02:32:34.159 --> 02:32:34.559 take care. 2880 02:32:35.280 --> 02:32:35.399 Uh. 2881 02:32:35.879 --> 02:32:40.399 Nelson Plant Food is a purveyor of some of the 2882 02:32:40.479 --> 02:32:43.399 best fertilizers for our area that you're going to find. 2883 02:32:43.559 --> 02:32:46.479 You know, they've got the turf Star line for your 2884 02:32:46.559 --> 02:32:49.399 lawn where right now. Carbol Load is the turf Star 2885 02:32:49.559 --> 02:32:53.120 product for the lawn for fall. It produces or it's 2886 02:32:53.239 --> 02:32:57.120 made of a good concentration of potassium with some nitrogen 2887 02:32:57.559 --> 02:33:00.280 that creates winter heartiness. That's what it's called carbol It 2888 02:33:00.360 --> 02:33:04.079 produces your plant produces carbohydrates that makes it heartier and 2889 02:33:04.159 --> 02:33:06.520 come out in the spring better. That's the turf Star line. 2890 02:33:06.559 --> 02:33:10.639 The nutri Star line lots of quality fertilizers that are nutristar. 2891 02:33:11.159 --> 02:33:13.680 They've got a tree and shrub that is worth having 2892 02:33:13.760 --> 02:33:15.520 on hand at all times because you're going to use 2893 02:33:15.559 --> 02:33:18.239 a lot, especially starting in the spring when growth begins 2894 02:33:18.280 --> 02:33:20.600 and all through the season color Star. 2895 02:33:20.719 --> 02:33:20.840 You know. 2896 02:33:20.920 --> 02:33:23.399 Nelson don't need a bunch of products. For our appearance 2897 02:33:23.639 --> 02:33:26.239 at Kingwood ac O the day and we had their 2898 02:33:26.319 --> 02:33:30.000 vegetable fertilizer which is outstanding. I've used it. They have 2899 02:33:30.200 --> 02:33:33.680 their rose fertilizer, they've got mary fertilizers. They've got the 2900 02:33:33.760 --> 02:33:36.360 color Star, which is kind of the standard for the line. 2901 02:33:36.760 --> 02:33:39.920 Color Star is. I guess it's been around for about 2902 02:33:39.959 --> 02:33:42.959 forty years now, and people even outside of Texas land 2903 02:33:43.040 --> 02:33:46.280 professional landscapers purchase it and have it chipped in because 2904 02:33:46.280 --> 02:33:49.559 it's that good color Star. Set that color bed for 2905 02:33:50.040 --> 02:33:54.639 the cool season on fire with Colorstar. Your pansies or violas, 2906 02:33:55.040 --> 02:33:57.520 you need vigor. They got to grow, They got to 2907 02:33:57.559 --> 02:34:00.639 grow leaves so they can make make carbs and make blooms. 2908 02:34:01.000 --> 02:34:03.040 And if you want your pansies and violas looking got 2909 02:34:03.079 --> 02:34:05.879 all winter or dianthus or any cool season color plant, 2910 02:34:06.600 --> 02:34:08.479 Nelson color Star will do it. And I can go 2911 02:34:08.600 --> 02:34:11.239 on and on. A Genesis transplant mix that's another one 2912 02:34:11.280 --> 02:34:13.879 we gave away the other day. I love that stuff. 2913 02:34:14.000 --> 02:34:16.239 Anytime you're putting a plant from one pot to another 2914 02:34:16.440 --> 02:34:19.000 or into the ground, you use that. So if you're 2915 02:34:19.040 --> 02:34:22.280 bumping up a houseplant to a different sized pot, mix 2916 02:34:22.360 --> 02:34:24.559 it into that potting soil. When you do that, if 2917 02:34:24.559 --> 02:34:28.120 you're putting out broccoli plants in your garden or pansy 2918 02:34:28.200 --> 02:34:34.159 plants in your flower beds, mix some of the Genesis 2919 02:34:34.559 --> 02:34:37.360 transplant mix into the soil when you plant, and then 2920 02:34:37.440 --> 02:34:39.840 after that, every few weeks give them a little dose 2921 02:34:39.879 --> 02:34:42.280 of color Star and you do not believe the color 2922 02:34:42.360 --> 02:34:44.440 that you get out of that kind of combination. Good 2923 02:34:44.520 --> 02:34:49.879 products from Nelson Nelson Plant Food. Well, we're done here. 2924 02:34:50.120 --> 02:34:51.639 We're not gonna be able to take any more calls 2925 02:34:51.840 --> 02:34:54.920 at this point in the show, but I just wanted 2926 02:34:55.040 --> 02:34:57.639 to make a couple of comments before we go forward. 2927 02:34:57.799 --> 02:35:01.159 I want to remind you that there our ceremonies going 2928 02:35:01.200 --> 02:35:04.680 on yesterday, today, and tomorrow as part of the two 2929 02:35:04.760 --> 02:35:09.840 thousand United States Flag program. It's called Honoring Heroes in 2930 02:35:09.959 --> 02:35:15.239 Fort ben County. So what you do is, this is 2931 02:35:15.920 --> 02:35:21.040 the University of Houston Sugarland campus. It's on University Drive 2932 02:35:21.120 --> 02:35:24.319 in Sugarland, and you can purchase a flag to be 2933 02:35:24.440 --> 02:35:27.920 put out there. But we're talking about like two thousand flags. 2934 02:35:28.040 --> 02:35:31.360 It is so beautiful when this is done, really worth seeing. 2935 02:35:32.239 --> 02:35:35.280 It just gives you a chance to feel and a 2936 02:35:35.399 --> 02:35:38.559 hope at the same time seeing that sea of two 2937 02:35:38.600 --> 02:35:41.280 thousand flags dedicated to the honor and the memory of 2938 02:35:41.360 --> 02:35:45.719 those we love. You know, Monday tomorrow, Veterans Day, Monday, 2939 02:35:45.760 --> 02:35:49.120 Tomorrow's Veterans Day. The memories that can be seen by 2940 02:35:49.159 --> 02:35:53.079 our children, our grandchildren, our neighbors and our friends. Something 2941 02:35:53.120 --> 02:35:55.520 that goes on all the time they're done. It's called 2942 02:35:55.600 --> 02:35:58.280 Honoring Heroes in Fort ben County, part of the Exchange 2943 02:35:58.319 --> 02:36:02.719 Club of Sugarland, Texas, that annual field of honor. You 2944 02:36:02.760 --> 02:36:05.200 should go see it if you want more information, if 2945 02:36:05.200 --> 02:36:07.079 you'd like to give a give someone a call to 2946 02:36:07.159 --> 02:36:09.319 find out more about it. Just as seven one three 2947 02:36:09.799 --> 02:36:14.079 eight two four sixty one twenty six seven one three 2948 02:36:15.559 --> 02:36:20.520 eight two four sixty one twenty six. A good thing 2949 02:36:20.600 --> 02:36:22.239 to do with the kids. Take them out tomorrow to 2950 02:36:22.280 --> 02:36:27.079 see that pen. That would be really really good. It 2951 02:36:27.200 --> 02:36:31.280 always helps you know, each uh, each generation has to 2952 02:36:31.600 --> 02:36:35.520 kind of learn experience for themselves the sacrifice, the value 2953 02:36:36.319 --> 02:36:38.680 of what was given so that we get to enjoy 2954 02:36:38.959 --> 02:36:44.079 the things we enjoy in our country. Certainly grateful for that. Well, 2955 02:36:44.120 --> 02:36:46.280 you've been listening to Guardline. We're here ever Saturday and 2956 02:36:46.399 --> 02:36:48.360 every Sunday. I want to remind you that you can 2957 02:36:48.440 --> 02:36:53.360 listen to past shows both on the website ktr H 2958 02:36:53.479 --> 02:36:58.000 website or if you'd like to listen to shows live, 2959 02:36:58.120 --> 02:36:59.879 you can do that on the website. If you're not 2960 02:37:00.079 --> 02:37:03.479 around your radio or you can listen on the iHeartMedia app. 2961 02:37:03.520 --> 02:37:06.079 You get the iHeartMedia app, a little red app red Heart, 2962 02:37:06.639 --> 02:37:08.600 and you can listen to garden Line life out there 2963 02:37:08.680 --> 02:37:11.559 in the Garden Center as well as listening to past shows. 2964 02:37:11.959 --> 02:37:14.280 Tell your friends about it. Show that link with them. 2965 02:37:15.040 --> 02:37:16.399 We look forward to having them as well.