Speaker 1: Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
Speaker 1: of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome
Speaker 1: to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richard's.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, start, Good morning, and welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: We are glad you are listening today. Hey, I'm Skip Rictor,
Speaker 5: I'm your host, and what we're here for is to
Speaker 5: help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
Speaker 5: and more fun in the process. And we try to
Speaker 5: do that. As I like to say, we put we
Speaker 5: turn brown thumbs green. There's no such thing as a
Speaker 5: brown thumb anyway, there's just uninformed thumbs. And so get
Speaker 5: your thumb. Can if I get both of them, pull
Speaker 5: up to the radio and let's talk about it. Let's
Speaker 5: talk about things going on in your lawn, things in
Speaker 5: your trees, vegetable gardens, whatever kinds of questions you want
Speaker 5: to ask. We would be happy to visit about all
Speaker 5: of that. I am sending out the I don't know
Speaker 5: if it's the last call, but you better hurry up.
Speaker 5: Call for taking care of your lawn, for fall. There's
Speaker 5: three issues we deal with in the lawns and the fall.
Speaker 5: Number one is getting the nutrients down that they need,
Speaker 5: and that would be lots of potassium, a little bit
Speaker 5: of nitrogen especially, and making sure that they have the
Speaker 5: nutrients to produce the carbohydrates that make cold heartiness and
Speaker 5: come out stronger in the spring. You know, the fall
Speaker 5: application of fertilizer is the most one of the year
Speaker 5: because with the nutrient blend in our fall fertilization some
Speaker 5: people call them winter risers. Do that if you want.
Speaker 5: With the nutrient blend in those the grass plant is
Speaker 5: capturing sunlight, making sugars carbohydrates which create cold heartiness. And
Speaker 5: then in the spring, the new growth is based on
Speaker 5: what's already in the plant, not what the roots take up.
Speaker 5: First thing in the spring, after it warms up a bit,
Speaker 5: the roots start doing their thing. But early in the spring,
Speaker 5: it's what you put on in the fall that's driving
Speaker 5: grass growth. Okay, I think I've explained that a lot,
Speaker 5: but you get the idea. Fall is important for fertilizer.
Speaker 5: Nitrophos has a three step program. You know, you do
Speaker 5: the two step on the dance floor, you do three
Speaker 5: step on the lawns. Well. Three steps are nitrofoss fall
Speaker 5: special winteriser, that's the fertilizer. Second step is to deal
Speaker 5: with those winter weeds that are germinating now, chickweed, hindbit,
Speaker 5: clover all the things that you see in the spring
Speaker 5: that are growing big. Those are winter weeds that sprouted
Speaker 5: in the fall. Think of blue bonnets our state flower. Okay,
Speaker 5: blue bonnets are sprouting now and they sit there's little
Speaker 5: bitty plants all year. You don't even notice blue bonnets
Speaker 5: in the winter, do you, But then in spring they
Speaker 5: take off growing, they bloom, they set seeds, and there
Speaker 5: we are. Well, winter weeds are the same way, and
Speaker 5: if you don't prevent them now, you have to deal
Speaker 5: with them in the spring when they're big and sometimes
Speaker 5: in some cases if you wait long enough, too difficult
Speaker 5: to control. Barricade does that. Third step is eagle turf fungicide.
Speaker 5: Large patch of brown patches, big circles in the lawn
Speaker 5: you see around the neighborhood, that is brown patch, and
Speaker 5: eagle turf fungicide prevents it. So here's what you do.
Speaker 5: You put on fall special winter riser, you put on barricade,
Speaker 5: You put on eagle turf fungicide. You put on one
Speaker 5: half inch of water, just irrigate, set something out there,
Speaker 5: tell you how long to run it to catch a
Speaker 5: half inch of water that washes them all into the soil.
Speaker 5: And that's where they do their work. You're going to
Speaker 5: find the night three step and other night foss products
Speaker 5: at Enchantet Forest down in Richmond, Ace Hardware City, on
Speaker 5: Memorial Drive, up in Montgomery at Gym's Hardware, and in
Speaker 5: alvin Stanton Shopping Center, just a few of many places
Speaker 5: that carry those products. You were listening to guard Line,
Speaker 5: if you'd like to give me a call, it would
Speaker 5: help if I gave you a number, and that is
Speaker 5: seven one three two one two five eight seven four
Speaker 5: seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 5: Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights is one of those
Speaker 5: destination garden centers that when family comes to town, you
Speaker 5: just say, hey, hop in the car, you gotta see
Speaker 5: this place and they will love it. I don't care
Speaker 5: what they're interested in. If they like fruit, even tropical
Speaker 5: types of fruit, they have them there at Buchanan's Planet.
Speaker 5: They love native plants. Oh my gosh, there's no place
Speaker 5: in the Greater Houston area that has as many as
Speaker 5: wide a variety of native plants as Buchanan's Native Plants does.
Speaker 5: Do they like houseplants? Maybe there's a add I'm not
Speaker 5: getting in the yard messing around, but I like houseplants.
Speaker 5: They will have houseplants you've never seen before, ones that
Speaker 5: it's like, oh my gosh, that's gorgeous. I got to
Speaker 5: have one of those succulents and foliage houseplants and other things.
Speaker 5: Plants for shade, plants for sun, annual plants, perennial plants,
Speaker 5: plants that attract butterflies and hummingbirds and everything. Is there
Speaker 5: a Buchanan's Native Plants. They're on Eleventh Street in the Heights.
Speaker 5: You need to go to their website though, it's Buchanansplants
Speaker 5: dot Com. When you get there, what you're going to
Speaker 5: find is a really really nice arrangement of all kinds
Speaker 5: of educational materials. You can sign up for their newsletter,
Speaker 5: which you need to do. It's very important to do that.
Speaker 5: Lots of good information, but just look at the resources,
Speaker 5: videos and information sheets and lists of plants for various things.
Speaker 5: It is loaded. It's very, very valuable to do. But
Speaker 5: then you've got to get by there. When you get there,
Speaker 5: you're going to find a full line of the products
Speaker 5: you hear me talk about here on Guardenline like microlife
Speaker 5: in Nature's Way in airloom soils and landscapers, pride and
Speaker 5: nitroposs and know, some plant food and on and on
Speaker 5: down the line. And buchanis naeded plants on Eleventh Street
Speaker 5: there in the Heights until it's fun going in there
Speaker 5: to see what the latest thing that they have is.
Speaker 5: They put on some good shindigs too. That's another reason
Speaker 5: to get to sign up for the newsletters. See you
Speaker 5: can see things coming up. There's some holiday stuff coming
Speaker 5: up that you will definitely want to participate in and
Speaker 5: take the kids. There's always fun stuff to do for
Speaker 5: kids when they're having those kind of shindigs there. Well,
Speaker 5: what's going on in your landscape? What about your gardens?
Speaker 5: Have you planted anything for fall? In the way of vegetables.
Speaker 5: Now is probably the best easiest garden season of the year.
Speaker 5: I really mean that it's fall. Is we finally got
Speaker 5: that cool weather. When I say cool, you know it's
Speaker 5: not hot out there and it's pleasant to be outside
Speaker 5: and to be getting work done. Things like that. So
Speaker 5: when you're out in the garden, now's the time to
Speaker 5: get those vegetables planted. We can be planting broccoli and
Speaker 5: cabbage and cauliflower and call robbie and kale and collards,
Speaker 5: and that's a lot of sounding vegetables. They're called coal crops.
Speaker 5: By the way. They're also called cruciferous vegetables, and they're
Speaker 5: also called good for you. There are cancer fighting ingredients
Speaker 5: in these vegetables. Those are I call them the blue
Speaker 5: leaf vegetables, as if they needed another name for that
Speaker 5: group of vegetables. But you know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 5: the kind of bluish green leaves. Those are all great
Speaker 5: and healthy for you, and they grow like crazy through
Speaker 5: the winter. Here in the Greater Houston area. We just
Speaker 5: have nice mile winters, so it makes it really easy
Speaker 5: to get you know, to get good success with those.
Speaker 5: It's also time to start planning lettuce, carrots, another thing
Speaker 5: can go in now. We can plant beets and Swiss
Speaker 5: charred and turnips and radishes and all kinds of crops.
Speaker 5: Easiest garden season the year, most fun. All right, Well,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take a little break. I'd like to give
Speaker 5: me a call seven one three two one two KTRH.
Speaker 5: I'll be right back. Alrighty, we're back back on guard
Speaker 5: Line this morning. First of all, congratulations, you were up
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Speaker 5: us a call and we can talk about the things
Speaker 5: that interest you. Our phone number seven one three two
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Speaker 5: t r H. If you have been looking at your
Speaker 5: landscape thinking, you know, it's okay, but there's just something missing,
Speaker 5: all right, it just doesn't pop. You know, I could
Speaker 5: drive down the street and never notice my house or
Speaker 5: maybe in the backyard. You know you're out there and
Speaker 5: you're thinking the weather we're having, this would be great
Speaker 5: to be out here in the evenings and enjoying it.
Speaker 5: And what could I do out here to just create
Speaker 5: that setting that makes me have another room to my
Speaker 5: house and that's the outdoor room. Well. Pierscapes is a
Speaker 5: company that, first of all, Pierscapes can make your lawn
Speaker 5: look unbelievable. Number one, they do something called compost top dressing,
Speaker 5: and they do core aeration no compost top dressing. First
Speaker 5: of all, you do the correation, You punch little holes
Speaker 5: in the soil, pop the little soal plugs out on
Speaker 5: the surface. Then you do a compost top dressing and
Speaker 5: it falls down in a lot of those holes and
Speaker 5: among the grass blades and runners and things, and it
Speaker 5: just enhances the lawn. It fixes compaction, fixes compaction. It
Speaker 5: helps the lawn grass to thrive by bringing oxygen in
Speaker 5: the soil, getting that organic matter and nutrient down in
Speaker 5: the soil volume the sole profile, and it just helps
Speaker 5: the lawn to do well. If your lan's been struggling,
Speaker 5: compost top dressing following a corporation is an excellent way
Speaker 5: to achieve really really good results. I would say what
Speaker 5: you're doing is you're creating culturally, You're creating a setting
Speaker 5: for the roots where they can thrive. And when roots thrive,
Speaker 5: your grass is going to thrive. Now, Puerscapes they can
Speaker 5: do a number of different things on your lawn. They
Speaker 5: Puerscapes is the kind of company. Excuse me, my brain
Speaker 5: is goingside me here, I'm talking about Greenpro when I'm
Speaker 5: talking about the aeration. In fact, I want to tell
Speaker 5: you about both of them. The Greenpro for the aeration,
Speaker 5: they do about a forty five mile radius of Magnolia, Texas.
Speaker 5: So the northwest quadront of Houston is where they do
Speaker 5: their work. And I've seen their work and it's outstanding.
Speaker 5: Right now, they got a really good deal on and
Speaker 5: so if you purchase the compost top dressing service, prices
Speaker 5: start at five seventy five plus tax. They will do
Speaker 5: the aeration for free. So they give in, they do
Speaker 5: the aeration and you buy the compost top dressing. Now
Speaker 5: there's a two yard minimum on that order. You can't
Speaker 5: just say I want one yard a compost and that's
Speaker 5: all I'm putting out. You need two yard minimum and
Speaker 5: the price is start at five seventy five. Here's the
Speaker 5: website greenpro dot net. Greenpro dot net. If you go
Speaker 5: to that website you can find out more information or
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Speaker 5: forty seven thirty three. Now that takes care of your lawn.
Speaker 5: That deals with getting that lawn that's been hammered by
Speaker 5: chinchbugs or take all root rod or foot traffic or
Speaker 5: heat and drought and other things like that, and it
Speaker 5: brings it back in to looking its best. As for
Speaker 5: your landscape overall, that is where peer scapes comes in.
Speaker 5: Puerscapes can do anything you need to make your outdoor
Speaker 5: area a place where you want to live. So for example,
Speaker 5: maybe you want beautiful curve apeal and you need some
Speaker 5: beautiful beds designed. They do design there. They don't just
Speaker 5: plant plants, they do design as well. Maybe your irrigation
Speaker 5: system isn't right. As a result, things aren't getting watered
Speaker 5: in certain areas and plants are struggling. They do irrigation
Speaker 5: work as well. Let's go to the backyard for a minute.
Speaker 5: Maybe you've got an area that doesn't drain well and
Speaker 5: nothing wants to grow there because it's soggy, wet, and
Speaker 5: most plants don't like a swamp they can do subsurface
Speaker 5: drainage for you. Do you want landscape lighting, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: that turns that beautiful outdoor area in the evenings into
Speaker 5: something really special. And they can do landscape lighting. Do
Speaker 5: you want hardscapes like pathways for example, or a patio
Speaker 5: for example. Do you see what I'm saying? They do
Speaker 5: it all. They do it all. Go to their website
Speaker 5: purescapes dot com and look at the kind of work
Speaker 5: they do and you'll get some ideas. You know, you
Speaker 5: may not want exactly what you see in a picture
Speaker 5: that they did for somebody else, but it's like, Ooh,
Speaker 5: I like way that arbor you fill in the blank,
Speaker 5: or I love the way that they laid out that
Speaker 5: little waterfall and rock area back there, and I can
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Speaker 5: All in all, When you put that together, you have
Speaker 5: got wall to wall really really gorgeous, impressive show place
Speaker 5: and a place you're gonna want to go outside and
Speaker 5: hang out in I'm going to go out the phones
Speaker 5: now again the number seven one three two one two
Speaker 5: k t R H and we're going to go to
Speaker 5: Spring and talk to Phil. Hello, Phil, Welcome to Guardenline.
Speaker 6: Good morning. I had a question about fertilizing Saint Augustine
Speaker 6: oaks and.
Speaker 7: Create myrtles.
Speaker 6: So I'm using the green fertilong I mean Microlife green
Speaker 6: bag and fertilized in.
Speaker 7: March in July.
Speaker 6: So okay, would my Saint Augustine benefit by refertilizing at
Speaker 6: this point.
Speaker 5: Well, the green bag would be okay. The Microlife has
Speaker 5: something called brown patch that where the nitrogen is a
Speaker 5: slight bit lower and the potassium is a slight bit higher,
Speaker 5: and that is more of a fall fertilizer to go
Speaker 5: that route, and because our goal isn't to put a
Speaker 5: lot of nitrogen on, but it's to have some and
Speaker 5: then to have a little more potassium. So you could
Speaker 5: hold that green bag and use it in the spring.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you want to go ahead and use
Speaker 5: it now, there's not it's not going to mess anything
Speaker 5: up at all. It's good fertilizer. But I would buy
Speaker 5: a bag of the brown patch and use it now
Speaker 5: and then hold off and use that green in the spring.
Speaker 5: If all things up, I think we lost phil there. Phil.
Speaker 5: If you want a call back, we can continue that discussion.
Speaker 5: Somehow we lost it there. Yeah, this is the time.
Speaker 5: This is the time to get those nutrients down.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 5: One reason why while ago I was about to say
Speaker 5: last call and say, well it was not the last call,
Speaker 5: but it's getting there. Why is it? Why would I
Speaker 5: say this is, you know, getting last call for fall fertilizing. Well,
Speaker 5: the fall fertilizing has to be taken up by the
Speaker 5: grass plant. And I'll just go to an extreme here
Speaker 5: and say, you know, if you wait till the beginning
Speaker 5: of December to put on a fall fertilizer, well you're
Speaker 5: grasss cooling off enough. The grass is slowed down. It's
Speaker 5: not actively you know, just growing taking up nutrients or
Speaker 5: anything like that. The sooner you get those down, the
Speaker 5: more benefits you get out of them. Now, the nutrients
Speaker 5: will be there and they cycled in the soil and whatnot.
Speaker 5: But it's better not to delay, better to get right
Speaker 5: on it and get that done. That's why I have schedules.
Speaker 5: Have you have you seen mine? If you go to
Speaker 5: my website Gardening with Skip dot com, Gardening with Skip
Speaker 5: dot Com. On there, you're going to find a lot
Speaker 5: of things. In fact, we are in the we're about
Speaker 5: to redo the whole website. It's going to look very different.
Speaker 5: But when we do that, we're adding a lot of
Speaker 5: content to it. We're having to reorganize so it lays
Speaker 5: out better. But right now you're going to excuse me.
Speaker 5: You go up there and you're going to find my schedules.
Speaker 5: A lawn care schedule is the big I have two schedules,
Speaker 5: the lawn care schedule and the pest disease and weed schedule.
Speaker 5: So here's the way I separate the two. Lawn care
Speaker 5: is how to grow a pretty lawn, mo water, fertilize, air, a, mineralize,
Speaker 5: those kinds of things. The other one is everything that
Speaker 5: goes wrong with your lawn, pest, diseases and weeds. Okay,
Speaker 5: so that I print them up front and back so
Speaker 5: that way you can just kind of pin them to
Speaker 5: the refrigerator and you or hang them in the garage
Speaker 5: if you want. You got them all out there. It's
Speaker 5: real easy to see. But it tells you exactly January
Speaker 5: through December what to do each month in your lawn,
Speaker 5: and then the products that I would recommend that will
Speaker 5: achieve that. So like when to chinch, but when do
Speaker 5: we treat for chinch When would they typically occur? Look
Speaker 5: at the schedule, it's right there on the insect bar.
Speaker 5: Going across the calendar page from January to December, you
Speaker 5: can find right where chinchbugs are. And then you go
Speaker 5: to the bottom and it's what kills stitchbugs. Well, here
Speaker 5: are some options, and I give organic options, I give
Speaker 5: synthetic options for fertilizing, for pest control, disease, and we
Speaker 5: control and so on. So it makes it really easy.
Speaker 5: All right, we're going to run back here. I think
Speaker 5: we got Phil back. Hey, Phil, welcome back to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Where did we leave that discussion?
Speaker 6: Well, my question was would it be beneficial to fertilize
Speaker 6: now or to do nothing now with the lawn.
Speaker 5: It would be beneficial to do a moderate amount of
Speaker 5: a fall fertilizer right now. Don't deliver any further. The
Speaker 5: sooner you get it on, the more you get out
Speaker 5: of it. Okay, So that I would say, yes, Well, I.
Speaker 6: Heard you say before that it would tend to store
Speaker 6: up carbohydrates for coming up in the in the spring.
Speaker 6: Is did I misunderstand that?
Speaker 5: No, that's correct. And here's what happens. When the grass
Speaker 5: takes up potassium, especially with nitrogen, which it takes those
Speaker 5: two up together. They get in the grass plant. And
Speaker 5: then when the sun shines on the leaves, which is
Speaker 5: why I say do it now rather than when it's cold,
Speaker 5: the grass makes carbohydrates, which are sugars, and that creates
Speaker 5: winter heartiness and it's also stored energy for spring. So
Speaker 5: that's why we want to get it down. Get some
Speaker 5: sunlight on the grass with that fertilizer, and get those
Speaker 5: carbohydrates built so that it is a stronger plant going
Speaker 5: into winter.
Speaker 6: Okay, that sounds good for my brain. Yeah great, all right.
Speaker 6: I had to question about fertilizing trees.
Speaker 8: I've got to.
Speaker 6: Oh oaks and crate myrtles and a nail. So is
Speaker 6: there any benefit to fertilizing those trees?
Speaker 5: Now? I would not bother Now there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 5: doing it, but they are shutting down and they're not
Speaker 5: going to be actively taking up a lot of nutrient
Speaker 5: to try to grow. I would wait towards the end
Speaker 5: of winter. Do your fertilization maybe early spring. Uh. That way,
Speaker 5: the roots are waking up, becoming more active and getting
Speaker 5: busy taking things up, and you get more bang for
Speaker 5: your buck.
Speaker 6: Okay, all right, that sounds good if you don't have
Speaker 6: I have time to ask one more unrelated question.
Speaker 5: Yeah, real quick, uh huh.
Speaker 6: That is when I mixed up spray. So I got
Speaker 6: it from spot Treating for nut grass, and I use
Speaker 6: the stage yender bone eye product products like that. If
Speaker 6: I mix those up and I keep them, I don't
Speaker 6: let them get hot like in the garage or anything
Speaker 6: like that. How long will those last? How long will
Speaker 6: I be wease that bottle? Because of spot treat and
Speaker 6: I might mix up a court.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got it, so I don't don't try to
Speaker 5: store them once you mix them up. Depending on the
Speaker 5: pH of the water you mix them in, Uh, they
Speaker 5: could break down in eight hours, or they could break
Speaker 5: down in twenty four hours, or they may last a
Speaker 5: little longer. Depends on the ingredient and the and the
Speaker 5: pH of the water. So it's just in general best
Speaker 5: to use them hopefully soon after you make them, definitely
Speaker 5: within the day you make them.
Speaker 6: Okay, really okay, all right, well all right, thank you.
Speaker 5: I do use a lot.
Speaker 6: Thank you, yeah, well.
Speaker 5: Thank you for the question. You bet, good luck with that.
Speaker 5: All right, well, I believe I got to take a
Speaker 5: little break here. It's time for another one and I
Speaker 5: will be right back at seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two kat rih all right, good morning, well Doobie brothers
Speaker 5: to kick us off here. If you're listening to guard Line,
Speaker 5: I'm your host, Skip Ricker, and we are here to
Speaker 5: help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape and
Speaker 5: fun in the process. Gardening should be fun. And you
Speaker 5: don't fail at gardening. Listen to me repeat after me,
Speaker 5: I don't fail at gardening, and you go, yeah, you
Speaker 5: haven't see my garden. Yeah, but I'm saying you only
Speaker 5: fail when you quit. Gardening is a learning process. I
Speaker 5: still learn every day. Every time I go out there
Speaker 5: and put my hands in the dirt and start doing something,
Speaker 5: I learn, and I've become a better gardener and you
Speaker 5: can too. It really is. Listen, It's not like our
Speaker 5: life depends on it. You know, we're not a farmer
Speaker 5: feet in the world here where if our crop fails
Speaker 5: people are in trouble. We're having fun in the garden.
Speaker 5: And if a plant dies, you put another plant in
Speaker 5: one of the best horticultures in the country from over
Speaker 5: on the East Coast. One time said to be a
Speaker 5: good horticulturist, you got to kill a lot of plants.
Speaker 5: That's true. Give yourself permission to kill a few plants. Really,
Speaker 5: I'm serious. I mean, we don't want to. But you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying. You get out there and you
Speaker 5: try things, and you learn and you see things, and hey,
Speaker 5: there's nothing wrong with it not working. I mean, do
Speaker 5: you think painters when they paint, don't ever mess up
Speaker 5: and have to throw it away and paint a new thing,
Speaker 5: or they've learned how to paint over what they painted
Speaker 5: and make it right so it turns out really cool.
Speaker 5: We do that in our gardens. Our gardens. Think of
Speaker 5: it this way. How many of you remember etches sketches?
Speaker 5: Do you remember those as little things where you have
Speaker 5: two knobs, one makes it go left and right, one
Speaker 5: makes it go up and down, and you try to
Speaker 5: draw stuff in your two hands. In your brain don't
Speaker 5: communicate well, so right, when you thought you were going left,
Speaker 5: you ended up going right. Now you've messed up your
Speaker 5: picture you were drawing. Well, what do you do. You
Speaker 5: turn the edge of sketch upside down and you shake it,
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, when you flip it back over,
Speaker 5: it's a blank slate and you get to start again.
Speaker 5: That's called a rototiller or a spading fork. You don't
Speaker 5: like your vegetable, row, dig it up, replant. We got
Speaker 5: more seeds and plants and things. It's all part of
Speaker 5: the process. This isn't getting it perfect. This is having
Speaker 5: fun and learning. And no two years are alike, believe me.
Speaker 5: I mean, think about sod webworms than are lawn. Some
Speaker 5: years soid webworms just are everywhere and they're horrible. Other
Speaker 5: years it's like web worms they're not here. That's the
Speaker 5: vicissitudes of nature. There you go. That's an early or
Speaker 5: early morning mouthful. Vicissitudes of nature. Sense sounds like you
Speaker 5: know what I'm talking about. Anyway, the chance in the
Speaker 5: gardening of having fun is high today. So I would
Speaker 5: recommend this afternoon you plan on getting out there, go
Speaker 5: visit a garden center, pick up some supplies and things
Speaker 5: that you need, and let's keep going. Let's have fun gardening.
Speaker 5: The most important step of gardening is to fix the soil. Now,
Speaker 5: I know, there's other very important steps, picking a spot
Speaker 5: that's well drained or not picking a spot that gets
Speaker 5: sunlight er doesn't. All of those things are important, but
Speaker 5: so many people do it backwards. They go shopping and
Speaker 5: they come home with a plant that it was just
Speaker 5: gorgeous they had to have, and then they walk around
Speaker 5: looking for where am I going to put this? And
Speaker 5: they PLoP, They PLoP the poor plant down in an
Speaker 5: unprepared plot. As Peter Piper picks a peck of pickle
Speaker 5: peppers who almost made it through, and that just isn't
Speaker 5: going to survive in unprepared soil, or it survives, but
Speaker 5: it just looks horrible. Fix the soil first, brown stuff
Speaker 5: before green stuff. That's how it works. CNA Maultch is
Speaker 5: the place to get your brown stuff. They're down south
Speaker 5: of Houston. They are on FM five twenty one near
Speaker 5: Highway six and two eighty eight. You can go to
Speaker 5: their website cnmultch dot com. That's the best way to
Speaker 5: find information about them. Where they are, when they're open,
Speaker 5: all that they're closed today, by the way, closed on Sundays,
Speaker 5: but Monday through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven
Speaker 5: thirty to two When you go into cienamultch they have
Speaker 5: premium hardwood multch in bulk. They also have in bulk
Speaker 5: Landscaper's Pride, black vulvet or rose sooil, the organic compost.
Speaker 5: You know, they have everything. I mean they got sand
Speaker 5: and gravel and stone on pallets and they deliver within
Speaker 5: about twenty miles for a fee. But you're going to
Speaker 5: find the fertilizers. I talk about their microlife Asamite and
Speaker 5: Nelson turf Star. You're gonna find nitrofoss and medina and
Speaker 5: Nelson plant food. You're gonna find Landscaper's Pride products, heirloom
Speaker 5: soil products like their Vigian herb compost. When you go
Speaker 5: into Ciena Malts, you are going to go home with
Speaker 5: what you need to set the foundation for success. Whether
Speaker 5: it's a vegetable garden or a landscape bed or a
Speaker 5: lawn or whatever you're doing. Ciena Moltz sets you up
Speaker 5: for success. Cienamlts dot com start there. I know it's
Speaker 5: exciting to buy plants and seeds, and buy plants and seeds,
Speaker 5: but brown stuff before green stuff, and that's how you
Speaker 5: get to success. You're listening to garden Line my number
Speaker 5: seven one three two one two kt r H seven
Speaker 5: one three two one two k t r H down
Speaker 5: at Enchanted Forest, which is in the Richmond Rosenberg area.
Speaker 5: In fact, if you're in Richmond Rosenberg and you're heading
Speaker 5: up church Sland is off to the right on FM
Speaker 5: twenty seven fifty nine Enchented Forest. They've got their amarillis
Speaker 5: bulbs in look really good cyclomen and all the fall
Speaker 5: color plants, you know, pansies and violas and all the
Speaker 5: different things we plant in the cool season, including the
Speaker 5: gorgeous cyclemen. Just hot hot colors. Love it, the red
Speaker 5: and the pink, and the coral colors of sycrament, the
Speaker 5: white cyclement. They're just they stop traffic. They've got herbs
Speaker 5: in stock. There's an herb for everybody there. I mean,
Speaker 5: they have an awesome supply of herbs in a channel forest.
Speaker 5: And then the trees, you know falls for planting trees.
Speaker 5: The best time to plant a tree is right now,
Speaker 5: because if you plant it this month, it has all
Speaker 5: of the rest of November and December and January and
Speaker 5: February and March and April, and then in May it
Speaker 5: starts to heat up. That's like six months and that
Speaker 5: there's nothing that gives a tree a better starts then
Speaker 5: fall planting. So do you want some hollies? They've got
Speaker 5: many varieties, as a matter of fact. They they got
Speaker 5: red maple, Chinese fringe tree, my favorite spring blooming tree.
Speaker 5: They got red buds, of course. And then go inside
Speaker 5: in the shop. It's starting to look a lot like
Speaker 5: Christmas in there. They they're a metal artwork from round
Speaker 5: Top has arrived. It's just it's a fun place to
Speaker 5: go and to shop and you're going to find their
Speaker 5: expertise and you're going to find the plants that you
Speaker 5: need to have success at in Chanted Forest Dunna Richmond Rosenberg.
Speaker 5: You go FM twenty seven fifty nine and you will
Speaker 5: get right there. If you've never been there before, you
Speaker 5: really need to go this afternoon because it is a
Speaker 5: fun place. I like the word enchanted in that name.
Speaker 5: It is an enchanting place. You're listening to garden. I
Speaker 5: we get some calls coming in here if you'd like
Speaker 5: to call seven one three two one two kt r
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Speaker 5: nels Plant Food has a variety of quality products. First
Speaker 5: of all, thank thanks Dean and the Nelson team for
Speaker 5: donating so many products. Yesterday, we had a great time
Speaker 5: out in Kingwood, Texas at the wild Birds Unlimited store.
Speaker 5: They're off Kingwood Drive behind Torchy Stacos. Thanks for everybody
Speaker 5: that came out. That was a lot of fun and
Speaker 5: you got it was worth your time, wouldn't it. I mean,
Speaker 5: even if the answers were kind of wonky, that would
Speaker 5: be me. By the way home, you went home with
Speaker 5: some really cool products from Nelson's. We gave away some
Speaker 5: of their color Stars. One of four or five different
Speaker 5: products I gave way yesterday. Color Star is one of
Speaker 5: their most universal blends, a Nelson plant food. If you're
Speaker 5: going to put in pansies and Viola's or any kind
Speaker 5: of cool season color, you need to get a hold
Speaker 5: of some color Star. It's available in the little plastic
Speaker 5: screw top jars. It's got five different sources of nitrogen
Speaker 5: in it. And listen, professional landscapers have been using color
Speaker 5: Star for a long time, Nelson says, Folks they ship
Speaker 5: it out of state. There's a lot of people out
Speaker 5: of state that have learned it works, and they just
Speaker 5: keep ordering it and using it about every three to
Speaker 5: four months during the growing season. Sprinkle a little color
Speaker 5: Star in your flower beds and you're going to see
Speaker 5: really really cool results. I'd love to use that, but yeah,
Speaker 5: we did. Boy, we gave away color Star. We gave
Speaker 5: away some of the Genesis transplant mix. We had veg
Speaker 5: their vegetable mix, the rose mix. I mean, we were
Speaker 5: a lot of people went home happy. I know that
Speaker 5: that is for sure. Well, it's time for me to
Speaker 5: take a little break again. David and Tomball you will
Speaker 5: be first up when we come right back for the
Speaker 5: rest of you. Seven two one two kt rh All right,
Speaker 5: we're back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you
Speaker 5: with us. We are going to head straight out to
Speaker 5: the phones and talk to David in Tomball. Hello, David,
Speaker 5: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning, sir.
Speaker 9: Hey.
Speaker 10: First of all, I'm a I'm a truck driver, and
Speaker 10: if I if I wound up having a drive on
Speaker 10: Saturdays or Sundays, all is appreciate you keeping me company
Speaker 10: while I drive. And I always seem to learn something,
Speaker 10: so I appreciate that I've got.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I've got two pear trees and both of
Speaker 10: them are kind of tall and narrow to the point
Speaker 10: that I can't reach the fruit. And I was talking
Speaker 10: to the lady out the arbor gate and she was
Speaker 10: telling me that I could cut them things off at
Speaker 10: my knee level, and that just seemed kind of drastic,
Speaker 10: and I just want to confirm that I want to
Speaker 10: kind of reform these trees to where I can tame
Speaker 10: them and eventually just have a good round tree and
Speaker 10: also be able to reach the fruit. How much can
Speaker 10: you prune off? And when should.
Speaker 5: I do it? We can pronoun as much you want,
Speaker 5: I mean, as long as you're above the graph line,
Speaker 5: but you need to prune them lower than you want
Speaker 5: initially because they're going to grow. And then as they grow,
Speaker 5: you're going to the branch and grow a little more
Speaker 5: on branch again and grow a little more branch. You
Speaker 5: see what I'm saying. So so start your branching down.
Speaker 5: You know, I would say maybe waist high. It could
Speaker 5: go lower than that if you want to go to
Speaker 5: knee high. But here's the deal with pairs. When you
Speaker 5: prone them, they they grow straight up again. Straight up,
Speaker 5: I mean all the shoots go straight to the sky.
Speaker 5: They don't spread out normally like other trees will do.
Speaker 5: So what you have to do is you get those shoots,
Speaker 5: you pick one and say, okay, this is going to
Speaker 5: be a branch, let's say going up to the north
Speaker 5: of the direction or the east or south or west.
Speaker 5: And then you you either use a spacer between the
Speaker 5: trunk and the branch, or you use a steak and
Speaker 5: a cord to pull that branch out to about a
Speaker 5: forty five degree angle. A spacer think about something stronger,
Speaker 5: stronger than a yard stick, but like a yard stick
Speaker 5: with a V notch in each end. You see what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, and you just squeeze it in there and
Speaker 5: you put it right where it pushes that branch to
Speaker 5: about a forty five If you go any further than that,
Speaker 5: you're just gonna get a lot of upright shoots coming
Speaker 5: off the branch too. But you can. You you select
Speaker 5: those shoots that have grown from your pruning, and then
Speaker 5: you you you spread them out, and if you leave
Speaker 5: them there for you know, a season, they'll stay in
Speaker 5: that spot pretty well. You don't have to leave steaks
Speaker 5: and cords on five years or anything. They're gonna stop.
Speaker 10: I've got I've got two trees. They're all grown straight up,
Speaker 10: and I can't by the time the fruit falls off the.
Speaker 5: Tree, it's it's already almost rotten. Yeah, I know, I know,
Speaker 5: I understand, But you got to spread them out, uh,
Speaker 5: and it just pairs is they're much better to spread
Speaker 5: out physically than they are to try to prune and
Speaker 5: make them go out like we can do with most
Speaker 5: other trees.
Speaker 10: So once again, once again, I learned something once once again.
Speaker 5: All right, Well, if you go to the Aggi Horticulture website,
Speaker 5: there's a fruit section and there's a pair publication and
Speaker 5: when you look at it, it kind of shows you
Speaker 5: some of this what I'm talking about. But you go
Speaker 5: up to like the Pacific Northwest where most pairs are
Speaker 5: grown commercially, and you'll see lots of trees that are
Speaker 5: spaced and spread and they basically make the tree grow
Speaker 5: in a beautiful form and they end up with more
Speaker 5: production that's within reach.
Speaker 11: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5: All right, be safe on the roads man. Good to
Speaker 5: talk to you. Well dad, well dd all right, take care. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's an interesting thing about pairs. Ace hardware stores are
Speaker 5: all over forty something stores in the Greater Houston area,
Speaker 5: and you know what happens when you walk into an ACE,
Speaker 5: you find everything you need. That's why their motto is
Speaker 5: ACE is the place right well. ACE is a place
Speaker 5: for lawn fertilizer. If I talk about a fertilizer on
Speaker 5: garden line, it's at ACE Hardware Store. ACE is a
Speaker 5: place for your fire at which now is the season.
Speaker 5: Get it done, get it done, for it gets cold.
Speaker 5: Burns are still out active and you can get that
Speaker 5: bait in their tummies and shut things down. So spring
Speaker 5: is a much much better time out in the yard.
Speaker 5: ACE is a place for landscape lighting. It's a place
Speaker 5: for decorating indoors and outdoors. It is a place for
Speaker 5: getting the fertilizers that you need to make your long grow,
Speaker 5: to make your vegetable garden grow, to support growth in
Speaker 5: your trees and shrubs and color beds and other things.
Speaker 5: ACE is a place and if you have anything you
Speaker 5: need to control, from weeds to these diseases to insects,
Speaker 5: ACE is a place for that as well. Go to
Speaker 5: ACE Hardware dot com. Acehardware dot Com. There's a store
Speaker 5: locator and you get this real col map with lots
Speaker 5: of red dots, and you're going to see some red
Speaker 5: dots not far from you that are the local ACE stores.
Speaker 5: We're going to go now to Friendswood, Texas and talk
Speaker 5: to Bob. Hello, Bob, Welcome to guard Line. Look, good morning, Skip.
Speaker 4: I have a question for you.
Speaker 11: I have a couple of oak trees in the front yard,
Speaker 11: but one is about eighty two inches in circumference four
Speaker 11: foot off the ground, and I have a driveway along
Speaker 11: one side about eleven feet away from the trunk, and
Speaker 11: then ninety degrees to that a sidewalk going up to
Speaker 11: the house that's again about eleven feet away from the trunk.
Speaker 11: I want to put a root barrier in there. I
Speaker 11: didn't know if I had enough room with eleven feet
Speaker 11: if I went out next to the concrete to put
Speaker 11: the barrier.
Speaker 5: Well you can. It's a lot of root cutting and
Speaker 5: it's going to be very hard on that tree. If
Speaker 5: I were you, I would call Affordable Tree, talk to
Speaker 5: Martin spoon Moore, have him come out and talk to
Speaker 5: him about what canon can't be done. With him there
Speaker 5: on site, he's actually looking at the tree, looking at
Speaker 5: the setting and stuff, and he can advise you on
Speaker 5: what may or may not be feasible. But you definitely
Speaker 5: don't want to take a risk of doing major damage
Speaker 5: to that tree, and it sounds like with a eleven
Speaker 5: feet from a tree that size, that's getting pretty close.
Speaker 5: But having Martin on site would be the best way
Speaker 5: to make the best decision on it.
Speaker 11: He'd be able to answer questions too about stability of
Speaker 11: the tree and a hurricane after that if we decide
Speaker 11: to go that path.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, that's that's what he does. He does
Speaker 5: consults and I mean, of course he does the work,
Speaker 5: but I'm always trying to get people to call him
Speaker 5: before they do damage to things, you know, like you're
Speaker 5: putting in a trench or putting in a sidewalk or something.
Speaker 5: After you do all the damage and it's hard to
Speaker 5: you know, it's hard to avoid the results on the tree.
Speaker 5: But if you talk to him ahead of time, he
Speaker 5: can guide you on how to do that best. You
Speaker 5: may give you a phone number, would that be helpful, Yes, sir, okay,
Speaker 5: it's a seven one three, six nine nine two six
Speaker 5: sixty three seven one three six ninety nine twenty six
Speaker 5: sixty three tree. Either Martin or his wife Joe will
Speaker 5: answer the phone and so that way you know you're
Speaker 5: talking to the owners when you do it. But yeah,
Speaker 5: get on his schedule, though, he stays busy. This is
Speaker 5: burning season, and you know, well he does good work,
Speaker 5: so he stays busy. Okay, thank you very much. All right,
Speaker 5: thank you, appreciate you bet, thank you for that call
Speaker 5: very much. I talk about brown stuff and the importance
Speaker 5: of it. If you go up toward conroad direction, up
Speaker 5: Interstate forty five, you go right by Nature's Way. It's
Speaker 5: right there where fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left.
Speaker 5: You turn right across the railroad tracks and Sherbrock Circle
Speaker 5: is right across the tracks. That's where Nature's Way is.
Speaker 5: They are still having their Fungal Friday sales every Friday,
Speaker 5: twenty percent off their fungal compost. They are still having
Speaker 5: this sale on plants. They have a wide variety of
Speaker 5: native plants and non natives, and the plants that they
Speaker 5: have are on a great, great discount and it's everything.
Speaker 5: But I think their full sun sun loving perennials or
Speaker 5: something like that. It's the only kind of plant they
Speaker 5: don't have on sale right now. But you can pick
Speaker 5: up a really good deal on really good plants. Take
Speaker 5: your trailer out there, your truck. They can load your bulk,
Speaker 5: or you can just bring home bags last time I
Speaker 5: was out there, I was hauling home a bunch of bags,
Speaker 5: and they've got quality stuff. You know that Nature's Ways
Speaker 5: where a lot of the best for soil products were born.
Speaker 5: You know we talk about rose soil, well, rose oil
Speaker 5: was born at Nature's Way. Leaf molcompos was born at
Speaker 5: Nature's Way. They've been making quality products for a very
Speaker 5: very long time. They know how to do it. They
Speaker 5: don't rushed up through. They do it right and get
Speaker 5: it right so that your plants perform right. That is
Speaker 5: the goal member brown stuff before green stuff. Nature's Way
Speaker 5: products are also sold by the bag and you can
Speaker 5: find them in various garden centers and other places. Just
Speaker 5: go to their website, check them out, find out more
Speaker 5: about them Nature's Way Resources. You will be setting the
Speaker 5: stage for success, a foundation for so access with the
Speaker 5: kind of products they carry, and some beautiful mulches too.
Speaker 5: I've got two different kinds of their mulches that I've
Speaker 5: used in my landscape over time here and just they
Speaker 5: perform well, they perform well. That's what nature does right.
Speaker 5: Nature multius the soil. Nature always knows that if you
Speaker 5: leave the soil bear a weed will be planted wherever
Speaker 5: sunlight hits the soil, you're going to have a weed.
Speaker 5: So it's just some good quality mulches soil products that
Speaker 5: reminds you I got to bed in the back. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna have to be adding some mix. And I was
Speaker 5: visiting with Ian the other day out of nature's way
Speaker 5: about that, well, folks, I hear the music that means
Speaker 5: we are about done here. Hey, I want to remind
Speaker 5: you something two thousand United States flags honoring Fort Ben
Speaker 5: heroes and veterans. Is that it's a something called the
Speaker 5: Exchange Club is going on out there this yesterday, today,
Speaker 5: and tomorrow. I'm gonna tell you a little bit more
Speaker 5: about that as we come back. But this is a
Speaker 5: really cool event that you may want to be interested
Speaker 5: in going to check out.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.
Speaker 2: It's just watch him as many.
Speaker 3: Good things to sup by.
Speaker 5: Not a sound.
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Speaker 5: Well, good Sunday morning on what is going to be
Speaker 5: a great day to be out and about. I hope
Speaker 5: this afternoon you're planning on maybe going out and visiting
Speaker 5: some garden centers, picking up some of the supplies, some
Speaker 5: of the plants, stopping in at your ace hardware store.
Speaker 5: Southwest Fertilizers open today. Got plenty of good things for
Speaker 5: you out there. Uh. None of our feed stores. We
Speaker 5: love our feed stores here on guard you know, Sprint
Speaker 5: Creek Feed is up there in the Tamboul area. It's
Speaker 5: just kind of north and east of Tamba. I would
Speaker 5: say Magnolia area on FM twenty nine seventy eight. That
Speaker 5: kind of give you an idea. You'll know it when
Speaker 5: you drive by. Gosh, you drive by its cool looking,
Speaker 5: big old feed store and you walk inside and it's
Speaker 5: like you think, Okay, wait a minute, Am I in
Speaker 5: a feed store? Am I in a boutique or whatever?
Speaker 5: It is beautiful inside, just really really beautiful inside. Good
Speaker 5: friendly staff. I mean they're friendly and courteous. They just
Speaker 5: make sure you find exactly what you want. And if
Speaker 5: they don't have something, they can order it. They will
Speaker 5: special order products for you. If you happen to be
Speaker 5: in four h or FFA raising animals, or if you're
Speaker 5: in the military or senior citizen. There's discounts for all
Speaker 5: three of those groups. They're at Spring Creek Feed. You're
Speaker 5: going to find the fertilizers I talk about on Garden Line,
Speaker 5: like the turf Star line, from Nelson, Microlifeline, nitrofoss line.
Speaker 5: They're all available there. Plus the things you need to
Speaker 5: deal with the things that are messing with your plants
Speaker 5: like insects and diseases and weeds and stuff. They've got
Speaker 5: you covered on all of that. And then of course
Speaker 5: it's a great feed store. So if you need any
Speaker 5: kind of feed from your pets to your your livestock,
Speaker 5: spring Creek feed they're on in Magnolion FM twenty nine
Speaker 5: seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham Parkway Highway to
Speaker 5: forty nine. I keep trying to get people to consider
Speaker 5: fall as the time to get almost all your planting
Speaker 5: done if possible. I mean, we can plant twelve months
Speaker 5: out of the year here in this area, we really can. Now.
Speaker 5: Summer is a challenge. It's touch and go. You know,
Speaker 5: you're having to give it a little bit of water
Speaker 5: every day without overwater and and stuff. I mean, you
Speaker 5: can plant in the summer. But the easiest time, the
Speaker 5: time that makes it the less work is possible for you. Also,
Speaker 5: think about this when you buy a trubb or a
Speaker 5: shrub or a tree. Those are not cheap plants. I
Speaker 5: mean they cost some money. Right. They're valuable in the landscape, though,
Speaker 5: But why would you risk an investment. Why wouldn't you
Speaker 5: plant it at the easiest time of the year to
Speaker 5: get it done where your chance of success is the highest.
Speaker 5: That's fall planting. And right now at RCW Nursery, they've
Speaker 5: got some really good sales on shrubs. For example, they
Speaker 5: have a wide variety of different shrubs. I was looking
Speaker 5: at some I was out there not too long ago,
Speaker 5: looking at some of the Laura pedulums, the Chinese witch hazel.
Speaker 5: They have the pretty burgundy leaves and the just hot
Speaker 5: pink shaggy ballooms. They got beautiful nandinas out there, and
Speaker 5: holly's of all types. You know, they grow their own
Speaker 5: trees up in Plantersville, And so when you buy a
Speaker 5: tree at RCW, you know you're getting two things. Number One,
Speaker 5: you're getting a tree that's a species that wants to
Speaker 5: grow here. They don't grow and sell stuff that you
Speaker 5: shouldn't plant because it's too iffy. They grow good stuff.
Speaker 5: And secondly, they grow it right. And if you don't
Speaker 5: add a third to it, if you them to come planet,
Speaker 5: they plant it right. You knowed buy a small tree
Speaker 5: tak it on the planet yourself, or if it's pretty
Speaker 5: big and you don't want to put your chiropractors kids
Speaker 5: through college, then just have them come out and put
Speaker 5: it in the ground right so that you are off
Speaker 5: to a good start for success. Gosh, it's a long
Speaker 5: time ago when we had Randy. We had a memorial
Speaker 5: for Randy out of Brookwood and Arcbu donated. It was
Speaker 5: a nuttall oak, which is a great oak. Anybody that's
Speaker 5: got an area that's a little bit not drained really
Speaker 5: as well as we like our areas to generally be
Speaker 5: nutthall can grow in that. It doesn't have to have
Speaker 5: a swamp, but it can grow in that. And they
Speaker 5: planted one out there at Brookwood for Randy Lemon, former
Speaker 5: host here on Garden Line for so many years. And
Speaker 5: I just, you know, looking, I was looking at that
Speaker 5: oak and I was just thinking, man, they know how
Speaker 5: to grow a tree. It was gorgeous, really well done. Anyway.
Speaker 5: RCW Nurseries dot com. That's their website. They're located on
Speaker 5: Tomboi Park, which is two forty nine right where it
Speaker 5: comes into Beltwegh eight. Whether it's shrubs or trees or
Speaker 5: roses or vegetables or herbs, or flowers or you name it.
Speaker 5: They've got it all there at RCW Nurseries. Swing by
Speaker 5: their easy, easy, convenient for everybody. You're listening to garden Line,
Speaker 5: I'm Skip Richter, your host, and our phone number here
Speaker 5: is seven one three two one two kt r H.
Speaker 5: Seven to one three two one two kt r H.
Speaker 5: I am about to go prepare a bed. I'll get
Speaker 5: it done this week because I got to get the
Speaker 5: planting done. You know, I what does the phrase do
Speaker 5: as I say, not as I do? Sometimes I don't
Speaker 5: do as I say myself, but it's not on purpose.
Speaker 5: It's just I get busy, and you know, I buy plants,
Speaker 5: I bring them home. They're sitting in pots, and then
Speaker 5: I'm having to remember to water them every day, keeping
Speaker 5: them alive because I haven't gotten around to getting the
Speaker 5: bed ready first. And so now that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 5: But I'm not gonna put them in the ground until
Speaker 5: the bed's ready. And in part of that, doing the
Speaker 5: bed right is mixing in a quality, quality fertilizer product.
Speaker 5: And I tell you I use a lot of different
Speaker 5: microlife products for a lot of different things. You know,
Speaker 5: there's the green bag. That's the summer lawn fertilizer bag. Now,
Speaker 5: don't tell anybody, but you can use that on anything
Speaker 5: you're growing pretty much. I mean, it really is. It's
Speaker 5: we think of it as a lawn fertilizer, but if
Speaker 5: you want to, if you want to use someone your
Speaker 5: house plants for crying out loud, you could do that.
Speaker 5: It's a good fertilizer. But I'll mix stuff like that
Speaker 5: into the soil ahead of time, get it going, and
Speaker 5: once it gets moist, the microbes go to work on it,
Speaker 5: and there they go. They're getting going right now. Microlife's
Speaker 5: brown Patch, that's the name of the fertilizer. Sounds like
Speaker 5: it ought to be a fung site. It's not. Microlife
Speaker 5: produces fertilizers loaded with microbes, and Microlife brown Patch is
Speaker 5: the one you'd want to apply this time of year
Speaker 5: in order to have the best lawn you can have. Now,
Speaker 5: I'm going to be working some of that and also
Speaker 5: probably some of the of the greenback. I've got some
Speaker 5: of that as well on hand that I didn't use
Speaker 5: up on the lawn yet, and so I'm just going
Speaker 5: to put some in the soil. Mix it in real
Speaker 5: good and well then I'll put that plan in with
Speaker 5: Microlife fertilizers. They're not salt based. They're organic fertilizers, and
Speaker 5: so when you put them down, you're not going to
Speaker 5: burn the roots. Normally I say don't put fertilizer around
Speaker 5: the plant roots because you can burn them. Well, in
Speaker 5: this case, don't worry about it. It'll work. You can
Speaker 5: do it. And I'm getting that bed ready and that's
Speaker 5: what I'm going to do, and then when I'm done,
Speaker 5: I'm going to water it in with some of their
Speaker 5: liquid products. They have one called liquid AF that is
Speaker 5: loaded with beneficial microbes that help stimulate and protect the
Speaker 5: plant roots themselves from Microlife Fertilizer Microlifefertilizer dot com. You
Speaker 5: can go there and find out where to buy it.
Speaker 5: I pretty much tell you this. If it's a garden center,
Speaker 5: if it's a feed sore, if it's an Ace hardware store,
Speaker 5: Southwist Fertilight, all those places are going to have micro
Speaker 5: Life fertilizers. It's time for me take a quick break.
Speaker 5: When we come back, Dwayne from Houston, you'll be our
Speaker 5: first stop. Alrighty, alrighty, we're back. We're back with Garden
Speaker 5: Line Looking forward to your calls and hoping you have
Speaker 5: a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape. That is what we
Speaker 5: like to try to do down here. I'm going to
Speaker 5: head straight out to the phones now and we're going
Speaker 5: to talk to Dwayne in Houston. Hello, Dwayne.
Speaker 12: Warnings Hip. How about moving a You're like to move
Speaker 12: a like a twelve or thirteen foot creat myrtle without
Speaker 12: trying to keep it alive. Any problems doing that now?
Speaker 5: Okay, uh no, you can do it. Now's the best
Speaker 5: time to do it. As a matter of fact, the
Speaker 5: leads are coming off, and maybe get a little bit
Speaker 5: of cooler weather on on it. When you dig it,
Speaker 5: if you can get wider rather than deeper, there's no
Speaker 5: need to dig two feet deep to dig that thing up.
Speaker 5: Just go down about I don't know, probably ten twelve
Speaker 5: inches will be enough and go wider. If you can
Speaker 5: dig it up, move it to its new location. If
Speaker 5: if there is any pruning you need to do, go
Speaker 5: ahead and do it prior to the digging and moving.
Speaker 5: It just makes it a lot easier to move. Generally,
Speaker 5: we like to take a little bit off the top
Speaker 5: when we're moving because we're losing so much of the
Speaker 5: root system. You're gonna no matter how much hard you try,
Speaker 5: you're gonna end up losing about ninety five percent of
Speaker 5: the roots on that plant. But doing it now gives
Speaker 5: it all winter to start growing new roots, so it'll
Speaker 5: in the spring, it'll it'll pout for a good long time.
Speaker 5: In fact, through spring and summer. It's going to be decide.
Speaker 5: You're going to wonder if it's deciding whether to grow
Speaker 5: or die. But it'll it'll make it if you keep
Speaker 5: the swim waste all around where those roots are that
Speaker 5: you put in the ground after you move it.
Speaker 12: Okay, what about like the suckers, you know they'll split up,
Speaker 12: you know, just just pull them apart.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, well you just just cut them off as
Speaker 5: close as possible to where they attach at the base
Speaker 5: of each suckers a whole bunch of little buds. And
Speaker 5: if you cut it off and leave a one inch stub,
Speaker 5: you're gonna have a whole bunch of new suckers that
Speaker 5: come right back out of that same spot. So cutting
Speaker 5: it as close as you can. There's even a product
Speaker 5: called sucker stopper. It's a natural plant hormone that prevents
Speaker 5: sucker shoots. From growing and you can spray that on
Speaker 5: it after you make the pruning cut to help also
Speaker 5: kind of keep that down.
Speaker 12: Okay, thanks very much.
Speaker 5: You bet the last last thought, and this is just
Speaker 5: kind of an extra thought. But there's nothing wrong with
Speaker 5: cutting them way back, like even like to the ground
Speaker 5: and letting all new shoots coming up that you remove
Speaker 5: all but two or three or four or how many
Speaker 5: shot trunks you want and retraining those into you can
Speaker 5: do that and that would be okay. That there's still
Speaker 5: a good root system that's going to go with it,
Speaker 5: that will will help support that new growth. So if
Speaker 5: you don't like the sometimes crap myrtles, you know, the
Speaker 5: trunks are all straight coming up and they're right together,
Speaker 5: and you know you wish you could have gone back
Speaker 5: in time and kind of created a more beautiful structure
Speaker 5: out of it. Well, that is one way to do it,
Speaker 5: is just start back at the ground and the suckers
Speaker 5: you choose become the new trunk. Good.
Speaker 12: Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: All right, man, thanks appreciate the call. That's a drastic
Speaker 5: move to cut back like that, but you know it
Speaker 5: can be done. Was it two decembers ago? Two December?
Speaker 5: I think it's two decembers ago. We had an early
Speaker 5: early hard freeze, and I know up in the like
Speaker 5: the College Station Areya, a little further north, they got colder,
Speaker 5: and uh, the cray myrtles were not ready for winter.
Speaker 5: They're a hearty, I mean, crave merdles grow back more.
Speaker 5: The good great myrtle varieties are bred up in Beltsville, Maryland,
Speaker 5: just north of DC. And how can we freeze crape
Speaker 5: myrtles in Texas? Well, we did because they were still growing.
Speaker 5: They were not hardened off and ready. It dropped down
Speaker 5: around fifteen seventeen degrees and it just killed them back
Speaker 5: to the ground, a bunch of them, and all these
Speaker 5: suckers came out. So I just told people, get out there,
Speaker 5: cut everything off. All those dead trunks are not going
Speaker 5: to come back to life. Cut them off at the ground.
Speaker 5: Pick you three or four suckers, make your trunks out
Speaker 5: of those, and then as they come up, cut them
Speaker 5: off at some point where they'll branch. And where was one,
Speaker 5: now you got two. And then each of those, after
Speaker 5: a foot or so of growth, cut them again and
Speaker 5: branch them. And people are rebuilding beautiful crape myrtle trees
Speaker 5: that way, you can do that. So whether a freeze
Speaker 5: kills them back or whether you cut them back. When
Speaker 5: you got a crape marl and you just don't like
Speaker 5: the looks of it, don't be afraid to do that.
Speaker 5: It can be done. Now. Of course, it's a major
Speaker 5: surgery and it's going to set. They're going to be
Speaker 5: shocked for a while. But I'm telling you, sometimes that's
Speaker 5: that's the best thing to do to end up with
Speaker 5: a beautiful, beautiful, great myrtle. In Chenni Gardens down in
Speaker 5: Richmond Rosenberg is one of those destination garden centers that
Speaker 5: people love to go to. I was out there, it's
Speaker 5: a good while back. I was out there talking to
Speaker 5: some folks and they're from Austin, Texas, and they so,
Speaker 5: what are you doing over here? We came to in
Speaker 5: Chenna Gardens. You mean you drove all the way over
Speaker 5: here to go to in Chenne. Yes, we did. We
Speaker 5: love this place, and I'm telling you it's just another
Speaker 5: example of the fact that we got great places here
Speaker 5: in Houston. We need maybe the Mayor of Houston needs
Speaker 5: to start a Horticultural Tourism Committee or something like that.
Speaker 5: We get people from all over the country to drive
Speaker 5: here to see our garden centers and everything. Well, anyway, seriously,
Speaker 5: in Chenni Gardens is that kind of destination. They're on
Speaker 5: the Katie Folscher side of Richmond on three fifty nine,
Speaker 5: three fifty nine, right where three fifty nine there's a
Speaker 5: f I'm seven twenty three and three point fifty nine
Speaker 5: right there. That's where inded intended Gardens is. So Katie
Speaker 5: follsher side. Go to the website and learn more there.
Speaker 5: It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 5: Venterants in nineteen ninety five. A very helpful team, as
Speaker 5: enthusiastic as they come. You can take in photos and samples.
Speaker 5: If you really want to get some expert advice, they
Speaker 5: can provide that for you. And in addition to about
Speaker 5: as wide a variety of plants as you can imagine,
Speaker 5: they've got a lot of cool stuff for the garden,
Speaker 5: like fountains and chimes and whimsical garden art. They are
Speaker 5: experts at creating beautiful multiplant combination planters, whether it's hanging
Speaker 5: baskets or containers on the ground, they know how to
Speaker 5: build it. You can buy one from them or you
Speaker 5: can talk to them and say, hey, you know, I
Speaker 5: want to create something like that, and they'll go, well,
Speaker 5: get this plan over here, get that one over there,
Speaker 5: and get that one there, put this one in the middle.
Speaker 5: Let these drape over the sides, and they'll help you
Speaker 5: be a do it your out for if you want
Speaker 5: to go about it that way. Now. They carry all
Speaker 5: the fertilizers you hear me talk about, like my Medina
Speaker 5: and microlife and Nelson and nitrofoss. They've got soils from
Speaker 5: Nature's way and heirlooms and landscapers pride. I mean, there's
Speaker 5: the brown stuff. Don't go home from in Chane Gardens
Speaker 5: without getting some of that good soil material and good
Speaker 5: fertilizer to set the stage for your plants to be successful.
Speaker 5: They're open today, by the way, from ten to four
Speaker 5: and Monday through Saturday from eight to five. FM three
Speaker 5: fifty nine Katie fullsher Cider, Richmond and Channa Gardens. Are
Speaker 5: you one of the people that just kind of goes
Speaker 5: and visits nurseries because it's like a happy place. You know,
Speaker 5: some people would go to a botanical garden to walk
Speaker 5: through and just see the beautiful scenes and enjoy the
Speaker 5: plants and things. A lot of folks do that with
Speaker 5: garden centers. And we've got the garden centers that are
Speaker 5: for that. We got a lot of garden centers that
Speaker 5: aren't for that. You know, they kind of industrial sitting
Speaker 5: on top of concrete kind of things. But we've got
Speaker 5: some beautiful mom and pop independent garden centers. And that's
Speaker 5: where you get good advice. That's where you get plants
Speaker 5: that belong here, not plants that were ordered by a
Speaker 5: chain that sells plants all over the country. And so
Speaker 5: as a result, Okay, I'm just going to gribe here
Speaker 5: for just a minute. I'll leave the guilty unnamed. But
Speaker 5: you know who they are that I walked into a
Speaker 5: store and they sell everything from hammers to plants, and
Speaker 5: I was looking at red raspberries, black cap raspberries that
Speaker 5: you can even grow in Missouri. I mean, they want
Speaker 5: to be further north than that. I've seen plants just
Speaker 5: on and on grapes that will not grow here. Grapes
Speaker 5: you've heard of like Concord. You know, Concord is where
Speaker 5: Welch's grape juice and Mogan David wine that's produced by
Speaker 5: Conquered grapes go to New York. That's where conquered grapes go,
Speaker 5: not Houston, Texas. But they're for sale in Houston, Texas
Speaker 5: because garden centers don't know what they're doing. Those kind
Speaker 5: mom and pops, it's different. Mom and Pops are from here.
Speaker 5: They garden here, They know what to sell here. So
Speaker 5: I'm just telling you it is well worth the price
Speaker 5: of admission. As they say, to go to a place
Speaker 5: and knows what they're talking about. And you know what
Speaker 5: else will happen when you do that. I know I'm
Speaker 5: in a soapbox, but bear with me. What else will
Speaker 5: happen is you'll go in there and you get advice
Speaker 5: that knows what they're talking about. I've been in places
Speaker 5: that sell plants and hammers, talk to people work in
Speaker 5: the garden center, and the first question I asked, the
Speaker 5: first words out of their mouth, I knew they didn't
Speaker 5: have a clue what they were talking about, And I said, oh,
Speaker 5: how long you been working here? A week? I was
Speaker 5: a hairdresser before that actual story or I've been here
Speaker 5: two weeks. I was managing the jewelry counter before they
Speaker 5: moved me to the garden cent Okay, come on, man, really,
Speaker 5: am I making my point? I mean, yes, I'm partial
Speaker 5: to our mom and pop garden centers. But there's a
Speaker 5: reason for that. You know, you go into a place
Speaker 5: like well, take Arbrogate for example, up in Tomball. There's
Speaker 5: another great example there. You go into Arburgate and the
Speaker 5: people that work there, they're friendly and they know what
Speaker 5: they're talking about. They advise very good. The Number one,
Speaker 5: they got plants that ought to be sold here and
Speaker 5: grown here. Number two, they can tell you how to
Speaker 5: do it. If you go down to Arburgate and you
Speaker 5: were to say, you know what, I have a such
Speaker 5: and such, I didn't buy it here, but it's struggling,
Speaker 5: they're going to stop and help you. They're going to
Speaker 5: help you have success with it. And then they're going
Speaker 5: to tell you the product that you might need or
Speaker 5: the plant that you might need, or how to go
Speaker 5: about planning it. That is important. And Arbigate and Tomball
Speaker 5: is one of those places people come to from all
Speaker 5: over the place and you ought to go. I don't
Speaker 5: care where you live. If you hear my voice show
Speaker 5: to go buy Arbrogate and check it out. Arbrogate dot
Speaker 5: com the website and you can find out a lot
Speaker 5: more about them. They're west at Tombul, And when you
Speaker 5: go in there, you're gonna find, First of all, remember
Speaker 5: how I say brown stuff for greens I have at Arborgate.
Speaker 5: You're gonna get the organic food complete. You're gonna get
Speaker 5: the organic soil complete, and the organic compost complete, three bags,
Speaker 5: three products that are foresetting the stage the foundation for
Speaker 5: plant success. And then you're going to get the plants
Speaker 5: that you want. Do you want herbs? Awesome, awesome selection?
Speaker 5: Do you want color? Go by there right now and
Speaker 5: look at it. Look at it. It's Wildsville. I'm telling you,
Speaker 5: it's beautiful out there. And then talk to some of
Speaker 5: the folks that work there. No, it's fun.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 5: People go there just to have fun and then come
Speaker 5: home with good stuff. By the way, they're loaded up
Speaker 5: for Christmas in the gift shops too. You have to
Speaker 5: see that. Thanksgiving and Christmas. By the way, arborgate dot
Speaker 5: Com just a few miles west of actually a mile
Speaker 5: and a half west of two forty nine on Highway
Speaker 5: twenty nine to twenty outside of Tumbule. All right, gonna
Speaker 5: quit bragging about our home garden centers. I'm going to
Speaker 5: go right out to Alvin, Texas. We're gonna talk to Joy. Hey, Joey,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden line.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 14: I have a orange true that is twelve foot tall,
Speaker 14: and it basically died back real bad, and it's come
Speaker 14: back up from its graft and now it's all the
Speaker 14: way up to the top and it's full of oranges,
Speaker 14: but it's from the grafted part. And I don't know
Speaker 14: what it was grafted too, and I'm afraid to eat them.
Speaker 4: Particular thing, how bigger?
Speaker 5: How big are these oranges?
Speaker 4: About two inches.
Speaker 5: Two inches? Was it a satsuma?
Speaker 10: I believe it was?
Speaker 5: Okay, well, uh, the pretty few you grab one, okay? Well, uh,
Speaker 5: there's there's two different rootstocks primarily that oranges are grafted
Speaker 5: to here. Both of them are very thorny. One of
Speaker 5: them has real crooked, bent growth. It's like almost a
Speaker 5: zig zaggy, twisty growth that's very thorny. If this is
Speaker 5: a big old orange leaf sized leaves as opposed to
Speaker 5: smaller leaves and sets of two or three, then you
Speaker 5: probably do have your orange that made it above the
Speaker 5: graph line. If it's loaded with lots of thorns and
Speaker 5: the fruit typically the fruit on those others is going
Speaker 5: to be maybe golf ball at the biggest then you
Speaker 5: probably have the graft union. But that's kind of the
Speaker 5: way to tell thorniness. Cut into a fruit. If it's
Speaker 5: solid seeds and a small golf ball or smaller sized fruit,
Speaker 5: then that's the rootstock. Would it be edible, No, the
Speaker 5: rootstocks are not edible. You you either dig them up
Speaker 5: and get you a new tree, or if someone knows
Speaker 5: how to graft, they can graft it back to whatever
Speaker 5: kind of orange.
Speaker 15: But yeah, definitely covered and thorns.
Speaker 5: Okay, you got the rootstock. Then I hate to be
Speaker 5: the bear of bad news, but save yourself time, money
Speaker 5: and get you some oranges to eat soon by planting
Speaker 5: a new tree. That's the better thing to do at
Speaker 5: that point. Thank you, Okay, you bet joy, Thanks for
Speaker 5: the call. Appreciate that very much. Good questions. By the way, Hey,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take a break. I'll be right back. When
Speaker 5: we come back, we will go to Rich and Joe first.
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Speaker 5: grow something together. I'm going to head now over to
Speaker 5: let's see Rich in Spring. Hello Rich, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 8: Good morning Skip. Thank you for taking my call. I
Speaker 8: help in addition to my yard, I help four neighbors
Speaker 8: with their lawns, treating them fertilizing, doing everything according to
Speaker 8: the schedule. And what I did about forty days ago,
Speaker 8: I hit all the lawns with propa connaissol as a
Speaker 8: trying to get to jump and prevent you brown patch.
Speaker 8: But a couple of the yards it's cropping up. I
Speaker 8: have microbute to nail in my toolbox, but it's also
Speaker 8: the same group three fund side as the propa connaisole.
Speaker 8: Would you recommend using something else or applying it, Well, it's.
Speaker 5: A matter of time, you know, to use one after
Speaker 5: the other. As not a problem. But I wouldn't year
Speaker 5: after year just alternate between the same group of fungicides.
Speaker 5: So that's where we shift out from time to time.
Speaker 5: But the Michael Buttenhill and propaconnas all both are very
Speaker 5: effective against the brown patch.
Speaker 8: Okay, I thank you for your help, and I'll take
Speaker 8: that direction. Appreciate it, thank you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just something to think about. You know, you can
Speaker 5: always rotate out, so I would start to build a
Speaker 5: kind of a longer term plan, if you will, so
Speaker 5: that if you're taking care of everybody's yard year after year,
Speaker 5: you could switch out and do some different things from
Speaker 5: time to time, just to avoid that. You know what
Speaker 5: you were what you were describing there, Okay, a z
Speaker 5: oxystrobin would be a good thing to switch out to
Speaker 5: avoid staying in that the group of ungicides you're dealing
Speaker 5: with it, they're called demethylation inhibitors, and that's a whole
Speaker 5: group of fungicides and they all are great fungicides. But
Speaker 5: switch out and do a struggler and like a oxystroban.
Speaker 8: Okay, well, I have some of that also in the toolbox,
Speaker 8: so I'll apply to Yeah, appreciated, skip, Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: You bet, yes, sir, thanks for the call. Sound like
Speaker 5: Rick know what he's doing. We're going to go now
Speaker 5: to Joe in the med Center. Hey Joe, welcome to
Speaker 5: garden Line.
Speaker 16: Thank you skip.
Speaker 17: Wondering, Uh, I'm having a problem in my yard with
Speaker 17: what I thought was brown patch or maybe take all
Speaker 17: root rots. And I've been pounded down nitrofoss CNB I
Speaker 17: think it is. And I've been driving before, yeah, and
Speaker 17: I'm hand sprinkling it. I'm wearing gloves because I know
Speaker 17: you know, but.
Speaker 5: It's been going on for.
Speaker 17: Like a month now, and poor Aaron over Southwest Fertilizer.
Speaker 17: I keep querrying and bringing them pictures and samples. And
Speaker 17: yesterday I happened to have also.
Speaker 5: A bag of.
Speaker 17: Golly, what was it, bug out max or something like that,
Speaker 17: and I sprinkled hand sprinkled that in this area. It's
Speaker 17: a pretty good size area, oh, ten feet by ten feet.
Speaker 17: And when I went to water it in with my
Speaker 17: garden host before I did the sprinklers, because I put
Speaker 17: it in kind of heavy and I wanted to blast
Speaker 17: the clumps of stuff I put down into the soil
Speaker 17: and then turn on my sprinklers and water it in.
Speaker 17: And when I was doing that I noticed a bunch
Speaker 17: of grasshoppers came out and I'd not been able to
Speaker 17: rat keep the problem. And I'm wondering if I was
Speaker 17: treating for brown patch and grasshoppers are what's chewing up
Speaker 17: my lawn or whatever, and do they eat the grass
Speaker 17: or not?
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, grasshoppers can't eat grass. But I wouldn't
Speaker 5: worry about them. They're not a problem right now. They're
Speaker 5: about to be toasted anyway. I'm surprised there's still a bunch,
Speaker 5: as you said, around, But don't worry about that. Don't
Speaker 5: worry about treating them now, not needed, not worth it.
Speaker 5: Just just focus on the lawn like you're like, you're
Speaker 5: doing okay, Well it's been all right.
Speaker 17: I've treated it three or four times, like once a
Speaker 17: week for a month now.
Speaker 5: For brown patch. Yeah for the brown patch, yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: brown Well switch out of the PCMB then that's a
Speaker 5: while ago. I was just talking about classes of fundersides.
Speaker 5: That's that's its own class of funderside, and it's a
Speaker 5: good product. But I think you probably were going to
Speaker 5: have better, better results, you know, with like a Miclo
Speaker 5: Buttant hill that if you're not getting the results with PCMB. Okay,
Speaker 5: that's Eagle Turf Fund aside. Eagle Turf Fund aside from me. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I got that yet in there. Okay, they got all right,
Speaker 5: Well I would switch to that. Here's the thing too,
Speaker 5: Remember that you may look at your lawn and go,
Speaker 5: I better put this out, but it's already got infection
Speaker 5: going on. It just hadn't created the big circles that
Speaker 5: you see yet. That takes just a little bit of
Speaker 5: time to do that, and and so you put it
Speaker 5: out and then the circle still appeared, and it's like,
Speaker 5: well it didn't work. Well, you know you you actually
Speaker 5: it had already started before you put that down. And
Speaker 5: so sometimes sometimes that can be a factor too. These
Speaker 5: are all good products, but it is important to alternate.
Speaker 5: So since you got the Micael Buttan nil uh the
Speaker 5: Eagle turf funder side, then let's just switch to that one.
Speaker 5: I think you'll be okay. Just don't keep putting on
Speaker 5: more and more and more stuff, because that's not that's
Speaker 5: not good. There's a reason there's on the label. And
Speaker 5: so so if you put the Microbutanhill out, I'd let
Speaker 5: it set the until spring. If you need to do
Speaker 5: it again. Okay, all righty a, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that. Thank you very much for that call.
Speaker 5: I have to run to a break. I'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Welcome back, folks, Good to have you back here with us. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we just talked about Aaron over at Southwest Fertilizer, visiting
Speaker 5: with visiting with Greg. You know, Southwest Fertilizer err is
Speaker 5: just an example of the kind of folks that are
Speaker 5: there at Southwest Brother's Bob and Aaron, the whole team. Really,
Speaker 5: they know what they're talking about and they're not going
Speaker 5: to steer you wrong. And they've got everything everything you
Speaker 5: would need to apply, whether it's a fertilizer, whether you're
Speaker 5: controlling insects or diseases or weeds. Is it a garden
Speaker 5: tool that you need, you know, maybe a fertilizer spreader,
Speaker 5: a little hand crank spreader, a walk behind spreader, hose, rake,
Speaker 5: shovels up my weed wiper. I'm just showing a neighbor
Speaker 5: yesterday my weed wiper that I built, and the instructions
Speaker 5: are online on my website, Gardening with Skip dot com.
Speaker 5: It works, it works, it works, and Bob's got the
Speaker 5: little grabber tool that you use to make it with.
Speaker 5: He's got those, of course he does. Southwest has everything.
Speaker 5: If they don't have it, you don't need it. They've
Speaker 5: been on the corner of Bisinett and Runwick for a long,
Speaker 5: long time back. This store goes back to nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 5: So they are an institution here in the Houston area
Speaker 5: and for good reason. You can go to the website
Speaker 5: Southwest Fertilizer dot com. You can call them up seven
Speaker 5: to one three six six six, seventeen forty four. But
Speaker 5: whatever you do, go buy there, check out their products,
Speaker 5: and go home with something that works, something that you
Speaker 5: know will work, that's for sure. He was also conversation
Speaker 5: we're just having. He was discussing the Eagle turf fungicide.
Speaker 5: We kept using the term mic chlo buttanil. That's the
Speaker 5: ingredient in it. It's an ingredient that works well on
Speaker 5: brown patch and Eagle Turf fungicide is part of the
Speaker 5: nitrofoss three step program. The three steps are the Eagle
Speaker 5: tour fungicide for diseases like brown patch, and then secondly
Speaker 5: the barricade, which is a pre emergent weed control product.
Speaker 5: It forms a barricade over the soil surface and when
Speaker 5: a weed seed tries to sprout and grow through and
Speaker 5: establish a can't it kills it. Third step is the
Speaker 5: for all special fertilizer from Nitrofoss, perfect fertilizer designed for
Speaker 5: our soils, designed for the kinds of turf species we
Speaker 5: grow here. High and Potassium's got a good nitrogen content
Speaker 5: to go with that potassium to create a strong grass
Speaker 5: plant that can go through whatever kind of coal weather
Speaker 5: we have here and also come out strong in the spring.
Speaker 5: And you're going to find Nitrovoss products at places like
Speaker 5: d and de Feed and Tomball. You're going to find
Speaker 5: them at the Arbigate, You're going to find them at
Speaker 5: Shades of Texas on Genoa Red Bluff. You're going to
Speaker 5: find them at Bearings Hardware, both the one on Bissinet
Speaker 5: and the one on Westheimer. All spas ace up in
Speaker 5: the Woodland Night Lake hardbur and Angleton and Lake Jackson
Speaker 5: r c W Nursery. I mean I could just go
Speaker 5: on and on. Night five is widely available and the
Speaker 5: stuff works, that's for sure. Let's go to Greg in
Speaker 5: northwest Houston. Now, Hey, Greg, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 18: Yes, Hi, can you hear me?
Speaker 13: Okay?
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, all.
Speaker 18: Right, thank you, say, well, this is sort of a
Speaker 18: follow up call, but situation it's involved involving brown patch.
Speaker 18: And then also a question about how to remediate the
Speaker 18: fact that I guess the fung aside that I applied,
Speaker 18: as I understand it kills off good, good organisms as
Speaker 18: well as the bad organism. So to start on the thing.
Speaker 18: Back in September, on the twenty first, I applied the
Speaker 18: first round of the one eagle I guess it was yes,
Speaker 18: and I had already started seeing some patch appearing in
Speaker 18: my backyard. And then after I applied, say within a
Speaker 18: week or two, I could see the grass starting to
Speaker 18: fill in to those areas, and I thought, okay, we're
Speaker 18: doing well. And then I got busy with life, and
Speaker 18: by the third week after that original application, I could
Speaker 18: see brown patch spreading again. So I applied Eagle again
Speaker 18: on October twelfth, and I had the same basic thing. Well, okay,
Speaker 18: the same sort of thing happened. I got busy with life,
Speaker 18: and by the third week I was I was seeing
Speaker 18: the brown patch come back again. So I had reapplied
Speaker 18: on November first, and on November first, I went ahead
Speaker 18: and put down the micro Life brown patch treatment to
Speaker 18: get the fertilizer full fertilizer down and get the organisms,
Speaker 18: the good organisms in that brown patch formulation down on
Speaker 18: the yard. And that's where I'm at. But okay, so
Speaker 18: I'm one week away from the third application, and I
Speaker 18: don't know. I'm assuming, you know, based on the instructions
Speaker 18: on the bag, which said every two weeks, I may
Speaker 18: have to keep applying that product every two weeks for
Speaker 18: a while. But I'm wondering when this is going to end.
Speaker 5: Do you have any idea it should last longer than that.
Speaker 5: I would If you've done it twice, I think you
Speaker 5: ought to be good on it. Right now. The things
Speaker 5: that predisposal to brown patch attack are lots of water,
Speaker 5: frequent watering rain or irrigation, and excessive nitrogen. If the
Speaker 5: grass is really in a lush state, it's going to
Speaker 5: be hit harder with the brown patch. Sometimes the applications,
Speaker 5: as I was saying earlier, may have been after the
Speaker 5: infection had begun, so you don't always see the results
Speaker 5: you had hoped to see. But if you've done it twice,
Speaker 5: I think you're good on that. I would just watch
Speaker 5: the cultural things like water and fertilizing and hold it
Speaker 5: with what you put on right now, and I think
Speaker 5: that that is the best thing that you can do
Speaker 5: for it. You may need to shift. I don't know
Speaker 5: of a resistant strain of brown patch in our area
Speaker 5: or anything, but you know, if you're not seeing results
Speaker 5: with any kind of product, it's never a problem to
Speaker 5: shift to something else and see if you get a
Speaker 5: better result with that. But for right now, that should
Speaker 5: be enough. That should be enough.
Speaker 18: Well, I'm just thinking, okay, so again I'm a week away.
Speaker 18: I'm thinking two weeks, three weeks, say, by third week,
Speaker 18: if I start seeing the brown patch coming in again,
Speaker 18: should I go ahead and reapply third weeks?
Speaker 5: Third week since the last application?
Speaker 18: Well, right now, I'm a week away from the third
Speaker 18: application of Eagle.
Speaker 5: Well half far apart where they were so first of
Speaker 5: November and then you did it.
Speaker 18: Well, I'm sorry, okay, we're going too fast on the third.
Speaker 18: The first time I applied it was September twenty first,
Speaker 18: than October twelfth, then November.
Speaker 5: First, Oh, I see, okay, So each.
Speaker 18: Time I can see the grass starting to grow back in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you've you've done it three times already and
Speaker 5: you want to do a fourth is that it well.
Speaker 18: Uh, I'm wondering. I mean, at this point, I'm a
Speaker 18: week away from the third application, but next week it'll
Speaker 18: be two weeks, which would be I guess on the
Speaker 18: on the what two weeks?
Speaker 13: You know?
Speaker 18: So I'm just wondering if if I keep if I
Speaker 18: keep going without applying more of the product, am I
Speaker 18: going to wind up having brown pash coming back in again?
Speaker 5: Does You shouldn't have to You shouldn't have to apply
Speaker 5: that many times to get through a season on this.
Speaker 5: If you want to try it once more, i'd wait
Speaker 5: a little longer at least before you try it again.
Speaker 5: But uh, I can't quite picture what you're seeing out there. Uh,
Speaker 5: something doesn't sound quite right. But I can't put my
Speaker 5: finger on what's exactly what's going on there. I would
Speaker 5: say wait at least until a little bit later in
Speaker 5: November if you're going to apply it again, And if
Speaker 5: it were mine, I think I just wait and watch period.
Speaker 5: But that's a lot of applications, and you you should
Speaker 5: have covered things. It should it goes in systemically into
Speaker 5: the plant, and you should get about three weeks out
Speaker 5: of it.
Speaker 18: Even if you look at the instructions on the back
Speaker 18: of the bag. They say apply every two weeks for
Speaker 18: for brown patch.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well you can to get ahead of it and
Speaker 5: stay ahead of it. But man, you've you've been applying
Speaker 5: it like pretty often. So if you want to go
Speaker 5: ahead and give it one more, give it one more.
Speaker 5: But it's not it's not a black and white line
Speaker 5: on this. And I've got to run. I'm I'm late
Speaker 5: for a break here, but there's not a black and
Speaker 5: white line on it. Just just give it another one
Speaker 5: if you like. And then I think I might. I
Speaker 5: might if you're still having brown patch problems, I might
Speaker 5: shift and try a different set of chemistries on it,
Speaker 5: just just as a make sure. Okay, I'm sorry, but
Speaker 5: I've got to run. Greg. I hope that is helpful
Speaker 5: for you. You're listening to the garden line. We're gonna
Speaker 5: take a little break at the top of the hour here.
Speaker 5: I will be back if you would like to be
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Speaker 5: talk to Charlie. Hello Charlie, welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 9: Thank you, good morning. Question two questions. One about moms.
Speaker 9: We had some mums in the last or three months
Speaker 9: or so, and they bloomed real nice, and then maybe
Speaker 9: two or three weeks ago, the blooms faded.
Speaker 7: And turned brown, and I'm not sure what to do
Speaker 7: with it now. I have re read that you might
Speaker 7: have a second crop of mums if you trim the plant.
Speaker 6: Is that right?
Speaker 5: Well, not at this point in the season. The buds
Speaker 5: that we enjoy in the fall were set in late summer,
Speaker 5: and so whatever buds it had, it had. If they
Speaker 5: ever get dry, and they get dry fast, those moms
Speaker 5: use a lot of water in a pot. If you don't,
Speaker 5: you let a day or two go by without water,
Speaker 5: and I mean they brown out on you. But you
Speaker 5: can trim, show them back and put them in the
Speaker 5: ground and try to keep them going that way. If
Speaker 5: you continue to take care of them through the year,
Speaker 5: you can have moms next year. They they're much lankier
Speaker 5: bushes than what you buy. So the reason those you
Speaker 5: bought are so nice and tight and mounded is because
Speaker 5: they they've sheared them and shared them and sheared them
Speaker 5: all the way up until about midsummer and then let
Speaker 5: them grow for the fall, for the fall show. So
Speaker 5: in the landscape you have to do the same thing,
Speaker 5: uh to maintain a compact form. But you can do that.
Speaker 5: But as far as this fall the bloom, the blooms
Speaker 5: are done. If they're if the ballooms they had are gone,
Speaker 5: they're done.
Speaker 7: Okay, Now you're assuming I should leave them in the
Speaker 7: pot or take them out of the pot and dol
Speaker 7: I trim them.
Speaker 5: Now, well, it's up to you. I mean, I you know,
Speaker 5: all things being equal, would be better go ahead and
Speaker 5: get them in the ground and let them get start
Speaker 5: getting established, uh for next year. Uh, if you want
Speaker 5: to leave them in the pot and just we have
Speaker 5: a saucer under ours, a real deep saucer, like two
Speaker 5: inches deep, and we just fill that with water and
Speaker 5: whenever there's no water in the saucer, we fill it
Speaker 5: up again and it wicks right up into the pot.
Speaker 5: And that's the best way to water a mom. If
Speaker 5: you pour water over the top, you end up with
Speaker 5: some rots and decays, and it's just harder to water
Speaker 5: them well that way. So we use the bottom watering thing.
Speaker 5: And you may if you don't leave in a pot
Speaker 5: for a while, you can do that, do the bottom watering.
Speaker 5: But either way, just keep them moist, get them in
Speaker 5: the ground, and then next year as they start to
Speaker 5: grow periodically kind of shear them back a little bit.
Speaker 9: Okay, well, I'd like to put them back in the
Speaker 9: pot in the nice visible location again so I don't
Speaker 9: have a place to see them in the ground.
Speaker 7: Okay, I got you.
Speaker 5: Then then you got a challenge in your hands. It
Speaker 5: can be done, but to go you know, all the
Speaker 5: way from March to October, not letting it go dry
Speaker 5: is a challenge. And you're definitely are gonna need a big,
Speaker 5: big deep saucer underneath there that'll hold some water. And
Speaker 5: then you just have to always be watching it and
Speaker 5: make sure doesn't lack for water. Give it some fertilizers,
Speaker 5: you go through the season. Okay, it can be done.
Speaker 7: It keeps the moist all water.
Speaker 5: Well moderately moist. Yeah they're not using much water when
Speaker 5: it gets cold. But yeah, when we first got our mom,
Speaker 5: I mean I was filling that saucer like at least
Speaker 5: once a day, keeping it adequately hydrated. Yeah not now, okay, sir,
Speaker 5: thank you good luck with it. Appreciate your call very much. Yeah,
Speaker 5: moms are very very popular for good reason. They're gorgeous plants.
Speaker 5: They're beautiful. Speaking of gorgeous plants, plans for all seasons.
Speaker 5: Has gotten in their holiday cactus, and oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: they are so beautiful, you know, the colors that kind
Speaker 5: of a coral orange, red to pink to hot pink,
Speaker 5: you name it. They've got all kinds in there, and
Speaker 5: they look good. They look really good. When you take
Speaker 5: those things home. You want to keep them adequately MOI,
Speaker 5: and give them give them as much light as you can,
Speaker 5: you know, I know we want to display them indoors
Speaker 5: for decorating and things. Just keep them out where they
Speaker 5: get good light. Keep the temperatures as moderate as you can,
Speaker 5: no extremes, and they just look I've got I probably
Speaker 5: have like seven holiday cactus now because each year I
Speaker 5: get one. And then they're easy to take care of.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you forget the water a little bit,
Speaker 5: they're okay. Don't overwater them all the time, but I
Speaker 5: mean they're easy to take care of. Mine just keep surviving.
Speaker 5: And so here, I don't know, I don't want to
Speaker 5: do all these things. Maybe put a whole bed of
Speaker 5: them in or something. But seriously, plants for all season
Speaker 5: has them. They look good and oh my gosh, the adeniums,
Speaker 5: the desert rows that they have is they're gorgeous. I
Speaker 5: can describe it. But you just got to go by
Speaker 5: and see them, you know, some of them. Some of
Speaker 5: those plants have like a variegations in the flowers themselves,
Speaker 5: so you kind of get a multi It's just very interesting.
Speaker 5: They're beautiful plants. They're easy to grow. Just don't know
Speaker 5: over water them. They're succulent. But they're there, and while
Speaker 5: you're there, you're gonna be able to pick up all
Speaker 5: the fertilizers. I'll talk about it on guard line. They're
Speaker 5: gonna they've got their roses, they've got shrubs, trees, annual
Speaker 5: color containers, just you name it. They've got it. Plants
Speaker 5: for all seasons. There on the corner uh well, just
Speaker 5: just north of Luetta on uh where two forty nine
Speaker 5: are on the side of two forty nine on the
Speaker 5: Feeder road. So if you're if you're exiting for Luetta,
Speaker 5: you just want to go north on the Feeder Road
Speaker 5: and they're just a block up the street there and
Speaker 5: when you go in, you're going to find expertise. Like
Speaker 5: I was bragging on about our garden centers here locally,
Speaker 5: you're gonna find exactly that, very helpful people plants that
Speaker 5: want to grow here. That's Plants for all Seasons, Plants
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Speaker 5: gonna take a break. I'll be right back. Welcome back,
Speaker 5: garden line folks. Here we go. We are back in
Speaker 5: the satelle again on discussing things to help you have
Speaker 5: success with plants. I hey, one way to have success
Speaker 5: in your lawn is to take care of the three
Speaker 5: big issues that happened this time of the year. That's
Speaker 5: fall fertilizing. That is weed prevention, and that is disease management.
Speaker 5: And as far as fall fertilizing, nitroposs back to all
Speaker 5: three of them. Nitrofoss has got you set up with
Speaker 5: what they call the three step, the Texas three Step program.
Speaker 5: You do the two step on the dance floor and
Speaker 5: the three step across your lawn. Here's what you do.
Speaker 5: You put out fall Special for Winter Riser that is
Speaker 5: designed with a mix of nutrients. That's ideal to help
Speaker 5: that grass plant go into the fall season producing the
Speaker 5: carbohydrates necessary for cold heartiness and early spring growth. Second,
Speaker 5: you bet on the barricade, which is their pre emergent
Speaker 5: by nitroposs. You put on barricade, it prevents weed seeds
Speaker 5: from germinating. And then the nitropos Eagle turf funge side
Speaker 5: is a systemic protectant and curative fungicide. It goes into
Speaker 5: the grass plant roots and it provides that plant what's
Speaker 5: necessary to fight off that brown patch when it occurs.
Speaker 5: One two three fall special barricade EGO turf fungicide. After
Speaker 5: you put them down, you put them all down the
Speaker 5: same day. Water them in with a half inch of water.
Speaker 5: Get them into the soil, because that's where everything happens.
Speaker 5: That's where the roots take up the fertilizer. That's where
Speaker 5: the roots take up the fungicide and the soil surface.
Speaker 5: That barricade ties up right there, so when a weed
Speaker 5: seed tries to sprout through it, it says, uh uh,
Speaker 5: not going to happen. You can find this at D
Speaker 5: and D feed up in Tomball. You can find it
Speaker 5: hiding and feed on Stuben or Airline, Ace Hardware out
Speaker 5: there in Sinco Ranch or Gym's Hardware up in Montgomery
Speaker 5: as well, nitrofoss Texas three Step all three products available
Speaker 5: in those places. And also you know, just in general,
Speaker 5: you know I talk about ACE Hardware stores a lot,
Speaker 5: Ace Hardware is going to have everything you need. This
Speaker 5: three step program by Nitropos. You go to an ACE
Speaker 5: Hardware shore, you're going to find it. Ace Hardware carries
Speaker 5: a wide variety of things. If I mentioned a fertilizer
Speaker 5: on garden line, They're going to have it there at
Speaker 5: ACE Hardware. If I talk about well you need this
Speaker 5: herbicide or this sponge side or this insecticide, They're going
Speaker 5: to have them at ACE Hardware store. They carry organic,
Speaker 5: they carry synthetic. They carry the things necessary for you
Speaker 5: to have a beautiful, beautiful landscape and a very bountiful
Speaker 5: garden as well. That turning that outdoor area into a
Speaker 5: place you just enjoy gathering, turning your landscape into a
Speaker 5: place you're happy to drive up to or to go
Speaker 5: out in the back in the evenings and sit and
Speaker 5: enjoy Ace Hardware. Forty stores in the Greater Houston area
Speaker 5: actually more than forty. Now go to Acehardware dot com
Speaker 5: and find the store locator, put in your zip code,
Speaker 5: and you see this cool map that's like, oh my,
Speaker 5: there's a bunch of Ace Hardware stores that I can
Speaker 5: drive to from right here. In fact, one may even
Speaker 5: be across the street. There's so many of them in
Speaker 5: the Greater Houston area. Ace Hardware. We're going to go
Speaker 5: now out out to Laporte and talk to Stephen Well. Hello, Steven,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 19: Hey, good morning. How are you doing this weekend?
Speaker 5: I'm good, sir. How can I help? Hey?
Speaker 19: I wonder what's what's the best kind of succulent to
Speaker 19: plant for this time of year?
Speaker 20: Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, there's a lot of immune plant this time here.
Speaker 5: What are you looking for? Something to plant in the
Speaker 5: ground as a ground color like a container?
Speaker 19: Yeah, downcover would be nice. Just you know, something big
Speaker 19: and colorful and uh, something that will go good with
Speaker 19: this this type of weather this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, the succulents in general, they tend to
Speaker 5: not be as colorful. There are some that bloom. A
Speaker 5: stone crop is one that blooms that's used as a
Speaker 5: groundcover a lot. Uh, there are some that have a
Speaker 5: kind of a it's kind of a silvery color to
Speaker 5: the foliage one. And a ghost plant is an example
Speaker 5: of a succulent that has that kind of color that's
Speaker 5: interesting in the folio. And then there are plants that
Speaker 5: are annuals that are succulent you know personally, and don't
Speaker 5: plant that now we're way out of that season. But
Speaker 5: I'm just saying there's a wide variety of options in containers.
Speaker 5: There's oh gosh, the desert rose. It's absolutely gorgeous. It's
Speaker 5: beautiful for containers, but it can't take freezes. Put in
Speaker 5: a container, so we can bring it in when we plant.
Speaker 5: But you just have a lot of good options. Go
Speaker 5: into a good quality garden center. I know you're with
Speaker 5: where you're located out there, not too terribly far away
Speaker 5: from Moss Nursery out in Seabrook. Have you ever been
Speaker 5: to Moss?
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, I've been in there.
Speaker 20: Yeah.
Speaker 19: Yeah, they built that out of their house right there.
Speaker 5: Yeah. It is many many, many, many many years ago.
Speaker 5: They have excellent selection. They've got they got succulents in
Speaker 5: mixed basket container and containers. So yeah, like you get
Speaker 5: a bunch of different succulents all together that you just
Speaker 5: grow together like that, and they've got some really good options.
Speaker 5: I'd go by there and talk to him and just see, hey,
Speaker 5: what do you guys got in You know, that would
Speaker 5: be good and hearty for this time of year because
Speaker 5: there are a lot of out there. Just make sure
Speaker 5: with succulents they got good drainage. That's that's a muss.
Speaker 19: How many how many freezes are we supposed to get
Speaker 19: this winter? Doesn't seem like we're going to get much
Speaker 19: winter at all.
Speaker 21: You know.
Speaker 5: And I had a crystal ball and I broke it,
Speaker 5: and now I have no idea. No I wish, I
Speaker 5: wish I could predict that, but who knows. And you
Speaker 5: guys are down far enough south where you know, you
Speaker 5: just don't you don't have the same amount of freeze
Speaker 5: issues that they would up in the northern part of
Speaker 5: our listening area here on ktr H.
Speaker 19: But uh yeah, okays, yeah, I'll swing by Moss and
Speaker 19: check out what they have, and I recommend everybody. I've
Speaker 19: been in there many times.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Oh, I love that place. I love that place.
Speaker 5: We we've got some of their strings from the house
Speaker 5: plant greenhouse, string of Pearls, string of dolphin, the string
Speaker 5: of they got strings of everything in there too. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's not a hearty one you put outside, but it
Speaker 5: sure is a fun one to grow. So anyway, well
Speaker 5: thanks or even call than you bet appreciate that very much.
Speaker 5: Take care if those got in the Kingwood area. I
Speaker 5: was just out there yesterday, by the way, thanks you,
Speaker 5: thank you to wild Birds out in Kingwood Drive in
Speaker 5: Kingwood for having me out yesterday. We had a really
Speaker 5: good time. And I was talking to some people and
Speaker 5: they were looking for some things in a garden center
Speaker 5: and said, look, Warren Southern Gardens is right down the
Speaker 5: street on North Park or Kingwood Garden Center over on
Speaker 5: Stone Hollow at the Kingwood Garden Center. They're having a
Speaker 5: heck of a clearance in their gift shop, clearing out
Speaker 5: for new inventory. And right now this week thirty percent off.
Speaker 5: Next week will be forty. But let me tell you something,
Speaker 5: if you wait till next week, the stuff you really
Speaker 5: wanted to go in there and get maybe gone by then,
Speaker 5: because you can't beat this deal. And they have their
Speaker 5: gift shop has everything just try to imagine it, and
Speaker 5: it's in there, you know, select pottery and break slits,
Speaker 5: candles and light fixtures, and hats and glassware, floor mats, vases,
Speaker 5: kitchen stands, drink where, jewelry. It's an amazing place. Kingwic
Speaker 5: Garden Setter's Gift Shop thirty percent off right now now
Speaker 5: at Warrens Southern Gardens, they are still offering their little
Speaker 5: special deal on all kinds of things. Their emmerless bubbs,
Speaker 5: by the way, are in stock there and you need
Speaker 5: those for forcing make a good gift for you giving
Speaker 5: to people that you go visit, maybe for Thanksgiving or
Speaker 5: something like that. They are loaded up with cool season color,
Speaker 5: like you know, pansies and violas and things. Still have
Speaker 5: beautiful moms out there whatever you do though. And fall veggies.
Speaker 5: I keep trying to talk you into having a fall
Speaker 5: vegetable garden, even if it's in a container. Warrens is
Speaker 5: loaded with good fall veggies. If you are there or
Speaker 5: if you go online, or if you call them, either
Speaker 5: way you go about it, just say I want to
Speaker 5: sign up for your newsletter, and you need to do
Speaker 5: that because they have special coupons and they have special
Speaker 5: offers like their monthly lawn care coupon that they have
Speaker 5: during the season. You need to sign up for it
Speaker 5: so you can be up to date on what's coming
Speaker 5: in and the special deals that they have, real easy
Speaker 5: to do Warrens Southern Gardens out there in Kingwood, Texas.
Speaker 5: Let's add up to Willis now and we're going to
Speaker 5: talk to Mike. Hey, Mike Hara things and Willis.
Speaker 22: Oh it's a little bit wet right now. It's too bad,
Speaker 22: but I want to complain about that. Yeah, no, I
Speaker 22: needed the rain. You know, an orchard I've got I'm
Speaker 22: planning on doing some early prunin on some fruit trees.
Speaker 22: I've got a lot of fruit trees. I'm only one person,
Speaker 22: so is that a problem. And then we put about
Speaker 22: fifteen citrus trees in a greenhouse because I lost about
Speaker 22: twenty of them in the ground.
Speaker 5: And you know, can you when can you pick the citrus?
Speaker 22: You know we got mandarin oranges, to oranges to grapefruits, yeah,
Speaker 22: you know, to be completely yellow, solid yellow or I
Speaker 22: don't know. I've been experimenting with and but I y
Speaker 22: you figure out what's your take on them?
Speaker 5: Sure? All right? Well, first of all, pruning, I would
Speaker 5: wait until mid to late winter to prune your fruit
Speaker 5: trees in general. And that is because if you print
Speaker 5: them too early and we have warm weather, they try
Speaker 5: to re sprout and then they get really hurt by
Speaker 5: a cold freeze, so hold off until mid to late
Speaker 5: winter to pune them. As far as citrus, citrus, you know,
Speaker 5: when we buy oranges, they're fully orange, But when you're
Speaker 5: growing an orange, it doesn't have to be fully orange
Speaker 5: to be ripe. In fact, you wait long enough and
Speaker 5: it gets a little on the mealey side, So don't
Speaker 5: expect it to be fully orange. Each one is a
Speaker 5: little different. There's satsumas, there's oranges, and of course a
Speaker 5: lot of other kinds of citrus, and you just kind
Speaker 5: of have the sample one. But I would say if
Speaker 5: you get an orange it's got about fifty percent orange,
Speaker 5: I might try it and taste it, and that way
Speaker 5: you get used to the species and varieties you're growing
Speaker 5: and what they should look like.
Speaker 22: Yeah, because we you know, I do have like mandarins,
Speaker 22: the satsumas. You know, one one is turning real orange
Speaker 22: right now, and the rest of the lemons and stuff
Speaker 22: like that are still kind of green.
Speaker 5: That you can't wear that fruit early then and let
Speaker 5: it ripen up.
Speaker 22: You know, the lemons and limes and green they won't rip.
Speaker 5: They won't ripen. Yeah, citrus won't ripen off the tree
Speaker 5: that when you pick them, that's ripe as they're going
Speaker 5: to be. Yeah, yeah, but this is this you know,
Speaker 5: November is a big time season for satsumas and and
Speaker 5: a lot of things.
Speaker 16: So just.
Speaker 5: You know, just test one out and then that way
Speaker 5: you'll know. I mean I can sit there and try
Speaker 5: to describe the color and stuff, but I just know
Speaker 5: that they don't need to be fully orange, and you
Speaker 5: should pick them when they're about half orange and see
Speaker 5: what that's like. Maybe pick one a little bit later,
Speaker 5: and then you'll know exactly for your issues and cultivars
Speaker 5: what to do.
Speaker 22: How about really fruiting on muscanine grapes and blueberries and blackberries.
Speaker 5: Uh, I would wait until the end of winter for those,
Speaker 5: do you want them? Or mid mid Actually midwinter is
Speaker 5: fine on those. If you wait a little too long,
Speaker 5: some of those will just drip and drip and drip.
Speaker 5: When you pune a grape, it's like you cut cut
Speaker 5: open a faucet or something. It's just dripping.
Speaker 22: Yeah, that's my problem.
Speaker 5: Just one person. Okay, all right, Mike, thank you sir,
Speaker 5: Good luck with all that. Have fun with it. All
Speaker 5: we ask is that you bring us half the produce
Speaker 5: when you when you grow it. Asmite is the micronutrient
Speaker 5: supplement you've heard me talk about on Guardenline. As M
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Speaker 5: when you're done with running across the yard with a fertilizer,
Speaker 5: run across it with asmite. I recommend about once a
Speaker 5: year if you want to get a soul test done,
Speaker 5: then you exactly with a saw test. You know exactly
Speaker 5: every kind of fertilizing you need to do, from standard
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Speaker 5: And you're gonna find azamite all over the place here
Speaker 5: in the greater Houston area. All right, I'm gonna take
Speaker 5: a break the phone number seven one three two one
Speaker 5: two k t RH. We'll be right back. Welcome back
Speaker 5: to Guardline, folks. Good to have you with us. Hey,
Speaker 5: if you live down in the League City area and
Speaker 5: by League City area, I Mean Bay, Cliff and Dickinson,
Speaker 5: San Leone, Webster, clear Lake, el coming to reality. You
Speaker 5: know what I'm talking about, Santa Fe Lamark, Well, your
Speaker 5: hometown feed store is League City Feed. League City Feed
Speaker 5: is right there in League City. Just it's on Highway three,
Speaker 5: a few a few blocks south of Highway ninety six.
Speaker 5: Been around for forty years and it's the old time
Speaker 5: feed store, A level time this. You go in there,
Speaker 5: it just has I don't know, that ambiance of an
Speaker 5: old time feature. I even like the fragrance and you
Speaker 5: walk into an old time feed store just that I
Speaker 5: don't know. I grew up going to feed stores and
Speaker 5: I love those things. Well, when you go into League
Speaker 5: City Feed, you're gonna find the fertilizers you need to
Speaker 5: have success with your lawn. You hear me talk about
Speaker 5: nitroposs and you hear me talk about azemide and nail
Speaker 5: some plant food in microlife for example. They're going to
Speaker 5: have those there. They have products to control pests and
Speaker 5: weeds and diseases. They also have some really premium premium
Speaker 5: pet foods too as well. So stop in there. Sometimes
Speaker 5: they're open money through Saturday nine to six are close today,
Speaker 5: but money through Saturday nine to six, So after work
Speaker 5: you can even swing by on the way home and
Speaker 5: grab you some stuff there at League City Feed. Here's
Speaker 5: their phone number. Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve.
Speaker 5: Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. League City
Speaker 5: Feed just a few blocks south of ninety six on
Speaker 5: Highway three. They're in League City. Let's see, we're gonna
Speaker 5: go now to We're going to go to carry in Buffalo. Hey, Carrie,
Speaker 5: how are things way up north in Buffalo?
Speaker 16: Cloudy and nasty?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 5: Well, we'll take it. It was hot, dry and miserable before,
Speaker 5: so we're gonna go with cloudy and nasty for a while.
Speaker 16: That is true. I wish we'd had as much rain
Speaker 16: as y'all did. Okay, all right, My question is I've
Speaker 16: got great myrtle barx scale? Is can I drench the
Speaker 16: Do the drench right now or should I wait till spring?
Speaker 5: It's better to do it in the spring because the
Speaker 5: plant are actively taking it up. You have better results
Speaker 5: in the spring.
Speaker 16: That's what I was thinking. But I just wanted to
Speaker 16: make sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you want to get do you have a
Speaker 5: bunch of great myrtles or just a few?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 9: Five.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, well there are waste a monitor for
Speaker 5: when the scale are active and crawling around. When the
Speaker 5: new babies hatch out is typically March or April, as
Speaker 5: you should start seeing that. If you can find those
Speaker 5: busy out there crawling around, that's the best time of
Speaker 5: all to even use. The sprays of oil on the
Speaker 5: trunk will help at that stage. Otherwise it's kind of
Speaker 5: hard to control those scale with oil.
Speaker 9: Like neamur.
Speaker 5: Like well, you could do knem oil or just a
Speaker 5: horticultural oil, or in the Dorman season, dormant oil was
Speaker 5: put out, but a horticultural oil also called a summer oil.
Speaker 5: But it works when they got the little babies that
Speaker 5: aren't protected crawling around the old mama scales, the white
Speaker 5: things you see there, those are hard to kill with
Speaker 5: the oil for a great myrtle bark scale. Okay, just
Speaker 5: giving you another option, all right, all right, well I
Speaker 5: appreciate it, all right, all right, Well you have fun,
Speaker 5: and I promise I will I will not tell the
Speaker 5: Buffalo Chamber of Commerce that you said the place was
Speaker 5: nasty and cloudy and all that. Okay, that's gonna be
Speaker 5: our secret. Oh god, whatever you said, carry have fun,
Speaker 5: take care bye bye.
Speaker 16: I like that.
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, you never know on guard line, and you
Speaker 5: never know what's going to come out of my mouth either.
Speaker 5: If you've been to the Antique Rose Imporium out there
Speaker 5: in Independence, Texas, just a little drive outside of town,
Speaker 5: it is such a cool place. Antiq Rosenperium has been
Speaker 5: a destination for gardeners and families really since nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 5: I almost went to work there when I was still
Speaker 5: just in graduate school in college. I talked to a
Speaker 5: previous owner there and was thinking about that back in
Speaker 5: nineteen eighty three. So it's been around a long time
Speaker 5: and it's a great place they've got they're always releasing
Speaker 5: new roses. In fact, this Friday and not this Friday,
Speaker 5: ever Friday in the past few weeks off all, they
Speaker 5: were releasing a new rose side variety that hadn't carried before.
Speaker 5: They got one called Xena XI NNA. It's an antique.
Speaker 5: It's an American rose or an antique rose Emporium exclusive.
Speaker 5: I'm having trouble getting my words lined up here. They
Speaker 5: bred it, they got patents pending on it, and they
Speaker 5: are releasing new varieties periodically out there. It's kind of
Speaker 5: a cool place. You know, when you go, it's like
Speaker 5: you've entered another place in time. It's a good outing.
Speaker 5: It'd be a great thing to do, you know, on
Speaker 5: an afternoon, just head out there, take some friends with you,
Speaker 5: maybe a picnic lunch, or grab a restaurant out that way.
Speaker 5: It's just a fun place to visit. Load it up
Speaker 5: with native plants, other kinds of plants for seasonal but
Speaker 5: of course roses, roses and more roses. Now, if you
Speaker 5: purchase something there, tell them I sent you and they'll
Speaker 5: give you a ten percent discount at checkout. You got
Speaker 5: to tell them SKIP sent me. Or if you're going
Speaker 5: to order online, do you know you can order your
Speaker 5: roses online from them. Enter coupon code and the coupon
Speaker 5: code puts skip twenty twenty four and you'll get that
Speaker 5: same discount. Go to the website and check it out.
Speaker 5: That's the best way to see just how cool this
Speaker 5: place is. Antique Roseemporium dot com. Well let's see here.
Speaker 5: Don't have time to grab another call here, so when
Speaker 5: we come back, we will be talking to Steve and
Speaker 5: to John as well. Listen, if you haven't used Medina
Speaker 5: has to grow, you need to get some right now,
Speaker 5: and you need to keep it on hand. Medina has
Speaker 5: to grow plant food. There's a has to grow lawn
Speaker 5: that's great for the growing season. Medina has to grow
Speaker 5: plant food. Is a six twelve six that is perfect
Speaker 5: for transplanting or for folio feeding, if you want to
Speaker 5: go that route. But I would say when you put
Speaker 5: any plant in the ground, I don't care if it's
Speaker 5: a little tomato plant or a broccoli plant, or if
Speaker 5: it's an herb, or if it's a flower, if it's
Speaker 5: a shrub, or if it's a tree. Mix up. The
Speaker 5: medina has to grow six twelve six because you always
Speaker 5: got it on the garden shelf there. Drench it with
Speaker 5: a watering can right in around that plant. I would
Speaker 5: do it again about a week later, maybe again a
Speaker 5: third time a week later, and it helps that plant
Speaker 5: get established. And that's very important because first of all, congratulations,
Speaker 5: you're smart. You're planning in the fall, that's when you
Speaker 5: should plant, and you're adding the medina to it. Medina
Speaker 5: has to grow six twelve six. You're gonna have success.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm going to take a break. I'll be
Speaker 5: right back, folks. All right, folks, here we go our
Speaker 5: last segment of the hour this morning. We got one
Speaker 5: more hour in ahead of us, So stay tuned. If
Speaker 5: you are planting a tree this fall, and if you
Speaker 5: plan on planting a tree, plant it this fall. Now now, now, now,
Speaker 5: now is the best time to plant a tree. And
Speaker 5: I've said it before, Elsey, that one more time because
Speaker 5: I know people, you know, I broke my heart when
Speaker 5: I first found out that people do not get up
Speaker 5: every day to turn the radio on at six am
Speaker 5: and listen NonStop all the way to ten am. Every
Speaker 5: time line is on. People. You know, they wander in
Speaker 5: and out, who knows when. So maybe you didn't hear
Speaker 5: me say this, but fall is the best time because
Speaker 5: when you plant a tree right now, you've got November, December, January, February,
Speaker 5: March and a six months of really reasonable weather where
Speaker 5: the roots will grow. Even when our roots grow some
Speaker 5: not as fast, but they grow before summer hits. It's
Speaker 5: the best time and the best way to do it
Speaker 5: is to put a three sixty tree stabilizer on that tree.
Speaker 5: It's a little bar. It hooks up to a post
Speaker 5: that I like to use a tea post because they're
Speaker 5: easy to drive into the ground. It has attachment that
Speaker 5: hooks to the tea post, or you can hook it
Speaker 5: to a regular post. It's I don't know, about a
Speaker 5: foot and a half two feet long. You put it
Speaker 5: right out from the tree. Then you don't have these
Speaker 5: wires to trip over. You don't have you know, all
Speaker 5: the other you know, like what do they do? You
Speaker 5: take a wire, put a piece of a garden hose
Speaker 5: over it so it didn't cut into the tree, and
Speaker 5: all that. You don't have to do any of that stuff.
Speaker 5: You just took it up the end that attaches the
Speaker 5: tree as a soft rubber strap, and you loosely attach
Speaker 5: it that way the tree can move, because there's a
Speaker 5: principle in nature that when things are stressed and moved,
Speaker 5: they get stronger. You go to the gym every day.
Speaker 5: Let's do this. Here's a fun experiment. I know you
Speaker 5: won't do it, but you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: You go to the gym every day, and I just
Speaker 5: want you to get barbells, and I just want you
Speaker 5: to work one of your arms. Do curls with one
Speaker 5: of your arms every day, every day, every day, getting stronger, strong,
Speaker 5: and then compare your left arm to your right arm.
Speaker 5: What's gonna be the difference. Yeah, the one that works
Speaker 5: out stronger, it's bigger, it's it's healthier. Right, Well, that's
Speaker 5: what happens to tree trunks when they're bent and stressed
Speaker 5: by the wind. If you hold something perfectly still, it
Speaker 5: doesn't go through that bending and stressing the roots in
Speaker 5: the ground. When the tree leans and moves, they're stressed
Speaker 5: and they get stronger and thicker and better. And so
Speaker 5: you want to let trees move a little bit, you know,
Speaker 5: not three feet, but you just want to give it
Speaker 5: some room to move. And the three sixty tree stabilizer
Speaker 5: does that. And you can get these things. They got
Speaker 5: them hoorheshad and Gardens and Albin Southwest Fertilizer, corner businest
Speaker 5: and Renwick Ciena Molt's done in Siena south of town.
Speaker 5: And then as you go up central and north there's
Speaker 5: Buchanans and there's RCW nursery plant for all seasons and
Speaker 5: arbrogate all plays. As you can get the three sixty
Speaker 5: tree stabilizer. Don't plant a tree without it. They last
Speaker 5: a long time. When you're done using them on your tree,
Speaker 5: just hang them up in the garage because you're gonna
Speaker 5: want it again, or maybe your neighbor's gonna plant treating
Speaker 5: a loan of yours three sixty tree stabilizer. All right,
Speaker 5: let's head out now to Lake Jackson, Texas, and we're
Speaker 5: going to talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 5: Good morning, Skip. I love your show, so thank you.
Speaker 23: I sent you you, sir, I sent you an email
Speaker 23: just to better go. I've got three pictures of my
Speaker 23: front yard. Yes, I'm battling a recurrent problem there. I
Speaker 23: had to replace much of most of that yard last
Speaker 23: year with the draft and you know, and what have you.
Speaker 4: And so now I've got this recurrent you know, funk.
Speaker 23: I think it's a fungal infection that I'm battling, and
Speaker 23: it just seems to be getting ahead of me here.
Speaker 23: So first, I guess, can you identify from the photos
Speaker 23: what I'm dealing with?
Speaker 5: Yes, that is called large patch. We have always called
Speaker 5: it brown patch. That's the name most people know better.
Speaker 5: But a large patch of brown patch, and the nitroposs
Speaker 5: eagle turf fungicide helps prevent that. Now you've already got
Speaker 5: quite a bit of it, do there. So it's not
Speaker 5: the fungicide's not going to make brown become green. You know,
Speaker 5: when the weather warms up, grass will grow back. That
Speaker 5: is not killing your grass. It's just rotting the leaves
Speaker 5: off of the runner and then they'll grow back when
Speaker 5: it warms up a bit. But if you're put the
Speaker 5: eagle out now and protect the other areas that haven't
Speaker 5: gotten it yet, that would be a good idea.
Speaker 23: Yes, I've been putting the eagle down about every three
Speaker 23: weeks or so, and I think it's just got gotten
Speaker 23: ahead of me.
Speaker 4: So I put a round of it down yesterday and okay,
Speaker 4: I watered it in a bit, and so.
Speaker 23: Yeah, what I've done in the past is I'll just
Speaker 23: take a rake and I'll go through and I'll rikee
Speaker 23: and try to rake up some of those the brown
Speaker 23: blades of the grass and get it out there.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that does any if that helps
Speaker 4: or not.
Speaker 5: It doesn't really help. But what it also does is
Speaker 5: it opens up more soil to sunlight, and that's not
Speaker 5: a good thing. That's why Nitropos has their product called
Speaker 5: barricade that we put on in the fall. You might
Speaker 5: want to if you haven't done barricade, you may want
Speaker 5: to do an application of that because you water it
Speaker 5: in like you did that egal Tor fungicide. You watered
Speaker 5: in the and it gets in the soil surface. So
Speaker 5: those areas where brown patches killed all the grass blades,
Speaker 5: in time as they shrivel up, there's gonna be sunlight
Speaker 5: and you're gonna start getting weeds into those areas. So
Speaker 5: the barricade would be a way to prevent that from happening.
Speaker 5: This all.
Speaker 4: I put some barricade down about two or three weeks ago.
Speaker 5: Oh good, you're good, ye, don't reapply it, all right?
Speaker 23: Is it too late to lay down new side at
Speaker 23: this point? Or should I wait until the next spring.
Speaker 23: There's some areas of the yard that are yep.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'd wait until next spring for sure. Don't
Speaker 5: don't mess with that. Now, you're you're good for now.
Speaker 5: Just okay, to continue to do the kinds of care
Speaker 5: you're doing.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well, very good, skip, Thank you sir.
Speaker 5: You bet, you bet, Thank you very much. I appreciate
Speaker 5: the call, all right. Our phone number is seven one
Speaker 5: three two one two k t r H. Seven one
Speaker 5: three two one two k t r H. If you
Speaker 5: are looking for a you know, quality types of products,
Speaker 5: we try to recommend the companies that I know do that.
Speaker 5: When I when you hear me talk about stuff, it's
Speaker 5: because I've used it. And there's some situations where, uh,
Speaker 5: you know, I haven't, like for example, I haven't had
Speaker 5: foundation work done before, but I have contacted the folks
Speaker 5: that I like to talk to or talk about on
Speaker 5: those kind of products and talk to people that they've
Speaker 5: they've worked with and consulted with them, and I see
Speaker 5: the kind of advice they give us, seen to kind
Speaker 5: of approach they take. I believe in that. But when
Speaker 5: it comes to products like fertilizers and pest control, disease control,
Speaker 5: I've tried those things. I do those things, soil blends
Speaker 5: and things, and that way I know when I'm recommending
Speaker 5: something to you. See to me, there's there's two ways
Speaker 5: that I can feel comfortable telling you about a product.
Speaker 5: One is I use it and I know it works.
Speaker 5: Number Two, as I see research on a product or
Speaker 5: you know, an ingredient or something you know like Eagle
Speaker 5: turf fungicide that is Michael Buttenel and that is a
Speaker 5: systemic fungicide that works very well. I know that works.
Speaker 5: I've seen the research on it. So I don't have
Speaker 5: a question recommending things like that. We try to we
Speaker 5: try to weed through those. I just the other day
Speaker 5: turned down a sponsor because that don't believe in the product.
Speaker 5: I just don't, and so we're not going to do that,
Speaker 5: and we try to stay with things that I've had
Speaker 5: success with or that research has proven, and that is
Speaker 5: my goal, at least is the best of my ability
Speaker 5: to do that. We're gonna go now up to Tomball
Speaker 5: and talk to John. Hello, John, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 13: Good morning, Skiff. I have a silly question for you,
Speaker 13: but I'm gonna ask it anyway. All Right, I'm I've
Speaker 13: talked to you before about this. I've got Bermuda and
Speaker 13: sant augustine, So I'm taking out the sant augustine. So
Speaker 13: there's a lot of bear spots, right, will sin So
Speaker 13: do I put some good quality so all in there? Then?
Speaker 13: Leaf compost? Or should I just go with the leaf compost?
Speaker 5: You could mix some leaf compost in if you're able
Speaker 5: to mix it into the sole surface. I would go
Speaker 5: ahead and do that. That would be fine. Or Heirloom
Speaker 5: Soil has a product called Premium lawn Mix. It is
Speaker 5: made with sand compost and bed mix, and it's really
Speaker 5: good for prepping for sad laying. I believe it's seventy
Speaker 5: four dollars for a supersack, which is a cubic yard,
Speaker 5: and they'll you can go drive out there with a
Speaker 5: truck or trailer and haven't put it in it, or
Speaker 5: you can have them deliver it to you. But that's
Speaker 5: the product I would use if you're going to be
Speaker 5: planting a lawn is the premium lawn mix from Airloom Soils.
Speaker 13: Perfect. Okay, I'll do that. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Yeah you met, Yeah, and up there in tom Oil
Speaker 5: you're not that far away, so that's good. Well, good
Speaker 5: luck getting that established. You know, spring is the best time.
Speaker 5: That's when grassroots are growing. March, especially in April especially
Speaker 5: the grass is waking up, and so you want to
Speaker 5: have everything ready to go by then.
Speaker 13: For sure, what about Rover's tail on the phone? What
Speaker 13: about nuts said, just kick it from but right now,
Speaker 13: I probably like everybody else.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a product called sedge hammer or a product called
Speaker 5: sedge Ender. But I hear the music. I'm about to
Speaker 5: have to shut up here. If you go to gardening
Speaker 5: with Skip dot com, that's my website. There's a publication
Speaker 5: on nuts edge, and I really urge you to read
Speaker 5: it before you get going after it because it will
Speaker 5: help you understand how you go about controlling it. It's
Speaker 5: a unique weed and it's not just like, oh, spray
Speaker 5: it and you killed it and you're done. Not said
Speaker 5: is different. But the products, the products are on there,
Speaker 5: and the information you need to have success is on there,
Speaker 5: whether it's in a lawn of flower, better vegetaboard wherever
Speaker 5: you got nutsedge? Okay gardening with Skip dot com. Thank you, yes, sir,
Speaker 5: thank you appreciate your call very much. Yeah, heirloom soils
Speaker 5: up in Porter, Texas area. You go pick it up.
Speaker 5: Here's a number two eight one three five four nineteen fifty.
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Speaker 5: Thank you all right, folks, welcome back to guard line.
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Speaker 5: Before I went to break, I was talking with a
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Speaker 5: in your area. Uh, it's I believe with delivery. They
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Speaker 5: to Deborah in Pleasantville. Hello, Deborah, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Hello, let's gip.
Speaker 7: Good morning.
Speaker 15: I got you an email yesterday about a fuzzy caterpillar
Speaker 15: and today about translucent mushrooms. Are those good or bad
Speaker 15: for the garden? I heard mushrooms can be a good thing.
Speaker 20: Is that true?
Speaker 5: Yesrooms are, yes, I do. I looked at them. Those
Speaker 5: mushrooms are decomposer fungi. It's the fruiting body of decomposer
Speaker 5: down in the soil in the thatch or in the
Speaker 5: dirt in the compost and the mult whatever. They they're
Speaker 5: breaking that down, turning it back into soil, and so
Speaker 5: whenever we get a little cool, cooler weather, a little
Speaker 5: break from the temperature, a little rainfall, those mushrooms pop up.
Speaker 5: It's a real common thing in the fall to see
Speaker 5: a lot of million different kinds of mushrooms. But it
Speaker 5: can happen anytime a year or two. But uh yeah,
Speaker 5: no problem. It's just nature doing the thing it needs
Speaker 5: to do so we can have a bountiful, beautiful place. Now,
Speaker 5: the caterpillars, I'm trying to remember that. I don't see
Speaker 5: that I did see. Is this the caterpillars that had
Speaker 5: the little black and white hairs that were sticking.
Speaker 7: Out in the red eyes or something on him.
Speaker 5: That is a that's a tussock moth. Don't touch that thing.
Speaker 5: Their little hairs are very irritating to the skin, very
Speaker 5: burning to the skin. Uh and and so be careful
Speaker 5: with those. But that's a toussy Uh. Well, that's okay. No,
Speaker 5: I ain't gonna hurt anything. It's part in nature. It's okay.
Speaker 5: Just Actually, there's a bunch of different kinds of tussic moth.
Speaker 5: If I remember right, Deborah, it was yesterday I looked
Speaker 5: at it. I think it's one called Shout's tussock moth
Speaker 5: that you sent me. I'm not seeing the picture right now,
Speaker 5: but I did look it up to see which one,
Speaker 5: because a lot of them have black, have long black
Speaker 5: and white hairs, and yours was almost all white. And
Speaker 5: so if you want to get entomologically nerdy about it,
Speaker 5: it's called Shout's toss of moth. Okay, you can tell
Speaker 5: your friends that they'll be very impressed.
Speaker 9: And you know that.
Speaker 5: Well, I like that nerdy stuff.
Speaker 15: Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, all right, thank you much. I appreciate
Speaker 5: your call. All right, I'm counting on it. Man. It
Speaker 5: hurt my feelings if you weren't. Thank you. We're going
Speaker 5: to go to Magnolia now and talk to Cindy. Hey, Cindy,
Speaker 5: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 24: You get Morrin Skip.
Speaker 12: How are you this morning?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm doing super well, Cindy. How can I help today?
Speaker 25: I am calling about my rosebushes. I had some shorter
Speaker 25: issues during the summer and they were really neglected. I've
Speaker 25: got some of them that have dead stalks on them,
Speaker 25: and I know I probably should cut that back, but
Speaker 25: I cut the dan out. But I'm questioning coming back
Speaker 25: some areas because I know that cause fresh growth, and
Speaker 25: I don't know if it's too late in the season.
Speaker 25: So I want to ask you what to do with them,
Speaker 25: and ask about fertilizing.
Speaker 20: What do I need to do for the winner?
Speaker 5: Yeah, good question. I would wait. Roses are pretty darn hardy.
Speaker 5: I mean, you see roses trying to put on growth
Speaker 5: in February, sometimes in December. It just depends on the
Speaker 5: weather we're having. I would wait and not stimulate them
Speaker 5: with pruning just yet. If you could get by until
Speaker 5: about February to do that pruning Valentine's daytime, that would
Speaker 5: be a good time to do it. It's not black
Speaker 5: and white night and day. You know, you cannot touch
Speaker 5: them until then. But if they were mine, I would
Speaker 5: just put up with it and then get in there,
Speaker 5: trim out all the twiggy stuff, cut them back however
Speaker 5: you want after that, and I think they'll be fine.
Speaker 5: I would start fertilizing as the growth begins in the spring,
Speaker 5: and then periodically just give them a little boost to
Speaker 5: keep good figure. Yeah, I would, because right now they
Speaker 5: need to be settling in, not trying to grow. Pruning
Speaker 5: and fertilizing, you know, those are things that stimulate growth,
Speaker 5: and so we don't we don't come down.
Speaker 25: Wonder yeah, yeah, okay, wonderful. Well, thank you so much
Speaker 25: for your time.
Speaker 24: I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: Thank you well.
Speaker 5: Thank you for the call. Cindy. Good luck with those roses.
Speaker 5: I hope that goes well for you. Well, I'm up
Speaker 5: against a break here, so Curtis sat in Friendswood and
Speaker 5: Orlando done or up in Spring Branch. You'll be our
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Speaker 5: That's what we're talking about this morning. Welcome back to
Speaker 5: Guarden Line. Good to have you with us, Very good
Speaker 5: to have you with us. We're having a good time here.
Speaker 5: I'm having a good I hope you are. You know,
Speaker 5: gardening is a blast, and the more you learn about gardening,
Speaker 5: the better you get at it, and the more fascinating
Speaker 5: fascinating it is. Just talking of it Diver a while ago.
Speaker 5: You know, about the fungi that she has out there,
Speaker 5: some of the nerdy stuff about the insects. That's kind
Speaker 5: of cool stuff. I really really enjoy learning about all
Speaker 5: kinds of things like that because it just every time
Speaker 5: it's a reminder that the world we live in is
Speaker 5: absolutely miraculous. It is amazing the things that are going on.
Speaker 5: We start learning about a bacteria in the soil that
Speaker 5: gets up against the plant root and tells that plant
Speaker 5: root to grow different up on top can make it
Speaker 5: more disease resistant. That is amazing stuff. When you look
Speaker 5: at two plants that are connecting root to root and
Speaker 5: one plant gets chewed on by an insect and a
Speaker 5: signal goes to the next plant saying, hey, you need
Speaker 5: to grow your tissues different to make it harder for
Speaker 5: this insect to eat you. That is amazing stuff. That's
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Speaker 8: Do that you know?
Speaker 5: Microlife bag contains a lot of central nutrients and billions
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Speaker 5: talk to Curtis. Hey, Curtis, Welcome to garden Line. Good morning,
Speaker 5: good morning.
Speaker 20: I have a question about a big tree. Alrighty, it's
Speaker 20: an orock big tree. It produces abundantly.
Speaker 13: This year it.
Speaker 20: Started giving out figs, oh, I would say, and March
Speaker 20: they started to grow, and by August they had given
Speaker 20: me all the things that I thought it was going
Speaker 20: to give me, and then.
Speaker 7: It grew.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 20: It's covered with figs, but the hard as the rock,
Speaker 20: and once a week or so one of them will
Speaker 20: ripen up. But it's going to get cold here soon,
Speaker 20: I know. So what what do you do with a
Speaker 20: fig tree at this stage?
Speaker 5: Well, you just nothing, You just uh, you know, as
Speaker 5: it cools off, the leaves are coming off, and it's
Speaker 5: going to go into dormancy. So you don't want to
Speaker 5: print it now. You don't want to fertilize it right now. Uh,
Speaker 5: it's gonna it's just gonna go into dormancy, and sometimes
Speaker 5: you get the end of the season and we don't
Speaker 5: get those last figs finished. But it's a it's a
Speaker 5: really good, it's excellent fig. Rourke was bred in l.
Speaker 5: S u and lois In. In fact, part of the
Speaker 5: parentage of it is Celeste, which is an A and
Speaker 5: M bread fig. So you've got a fig there that
Speaker 5: has a lot of genetics for being in southeast Texas,
Speaker 5: if you know what I'm saying, And that's why it's
Speaker 5: performing so well for you.
Speaker 20: Well, I remember typically over the last years the leaves
Speaker 20: would turn yellow and fall off, but the leaves were
Speaker 20: all still nice and green and it's covered with figs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well it'll that'll stop here in a minute when
Speaker 5: we get a little bit of cold weather in sad
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's a it's a good fig. Just you know,
Speaker 5: take what you got. And some figs just produce one
Speaker 5: crop a year. Others are able to produce a couple
Speaker 5: of times a year, and as long as we don't
Speaker 5: freeze them to the ground, you're going to get sometimes
Speaker 5: probably two crops on that O'Rourke.
Speaker 13: That's it.
Speaker 5: Good luck with it. So all we ask on guardline.
Speaker 5: You know the rule on guardline. I don't charge for
Speaker 5: my advice, but I do ask that you bring half
Speaker 5: the produce and drop it off at the radio station.
Speaker 5: We'll call it even, all right, I like figs. Hey
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Speaker 5: Hello Orlando, good morning, Scipe. Thank you so much for
Speaker 5: taking my call.
Speaker 21: I wish I had some good crops to bring you, guys,
Speaker 21: but unfortunately I just have bad news.
Speaker 5: That's okay.
Speaker 21: I have these two beautiful pine trees that I think
Speaker 21: they're being in the ground for longer than my house
Speaker 21: has been build. My house was being in the mid seventies,
Speaker 21: and unfortunately, after that recious storm and after that the herocine,
Speaker 21: one of the trees was suffering and now it's just
Speaker 21: completely brown. So I was told that they might be
Speaker 21: pine beetles in it. And my question is one is
Speaker 21: brown and I think it needs to be turning down,
Speaker 21: But the other one is green.
Speaker 5: It's completely healthy and beautiful. What can I do to
Speaker 5: protect that tree from the pine beetles? Well, first of all,
Speaker 5: when you look at the trunk, Orlando, do you see
Speaker 5: globs of sap up and down the trunk? Yes? Okay?
Speaker 5: And are they yeah? Yeah? And little little balls, little
Speaker 5: globs of it. Are they mostly from about eight or
Speaker 5: ten feet down? Or they go up higher on the trunk,
Speaker 5: they go up high? Okay? Do you see any sawdust
Speaker 5: that's fallen out of the holes that is now sticky,
Speaker 5: you know, catching in the bark as it falls down? Yes? Okay.
Speaker 5: And we're talking about the dead tree or the or
Speaker 5: the brown tree or the green tree now you.
Speaker 21: Know they we're talking about the bron the brown tree
Speaker 21: on the.
Speaker 5: Yep. Okay, Well you could, I would call UH, I
Speaker 5: would call Affordable Tree Care and talk to Martin spoon
Speaker 5: Moore and see see what he thinks on it. And
Speaker 5: he may be able to come out and take a look.
Speaker 5: It may be worth trying to spray. If you got
Speaker 5: that done. He could tell you when and how and
Speaker 5: what it would cost and everything. Uh, the one that's
Speaker 5: brown is gone and it needs to come out, and
Speaker 5: so you need to talk to him soon because pine
Speaker 5: bark starts to slip off pretty quick after the tree dies.
Speaker 5: And now you got to treat the very dangerous climb
Speaker 5: because of that loose bark. And so I wouldn't delay.
Speaker 5: At least call him, get some advice, see if he
Speaker 5: can come out well. And Martin, yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 21: Martin was here right after the hurricane and he did
Speaker 21: some truth from the oak trees in the back and
Speaker 21: he told me those trees healthy. Because I asked him,
Speaker 21: do you need to do anything to the pine trees
Speaker 21: and he says no, we don't typically do anything or
Speaker 21: any shape into the pine to the pine trees.
Speaker 5: They're they're fine.
Speaker 21: But you know, like about a month ago is when
Speaker 21: my neighbor across text me to say, hey, well trees dead.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So so here's what happens, Uh, Orlando, the the
Speaker 5: the tree goo see some stress like it could be drought,
Speaker 5: it could be other things. I've seen trees get hit
Speaker 5: by both the lightning and within like two weeks they
Speaker 5: have pineberk beetles all over them, and it's like the
Speaker 5: tree is weak. It gives off a smell that the
Speaker 5: bugs smell, and they come to it, and when they
Speaker 5: get in it, I mean, it's like you just slided
Speaker 5: off with a chainsaw. I mean they cut off all
Speaker 5: the flow from top to bottom, and so that that
Speaker 5: tree turns brown really fast. And so you may not
Speaker 5: have had it three weeks or a month ago, and
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, now it's like, well, why eat,
Speaker 5: what's going on here? That's what happened to that tree.
Speaker 5: But just if you've hired him to come out, just
Speaker 5: call him back and just say, look, one of those
Speaker 5: two trees says turn brown. I see all the pinebert
Speaker 5: beetles spots on it. Talk to skip on garden line,
Speaker 5: and I just need to know is there something you
Speaker 5: need to spray on the other one or what would
Speaker 5: you recommend? And just see he'll shoot straight with you. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: I'll do that. I will call him and come over here.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. Keep appreciate what you do for us.
Speaker 5: All right, man, Yeah, you bet take care. I talk
Speaker 5: to you later. All right, let's see here, we are
Speaker 5: gonna go I got a little bit of time. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go to Doris in Austin County. Hey, Dars, I
Speaker 5: got a little over him.
Speaker 21: Here.
Speaker 5: Let's see if we can help you.
Speaker 9: Quick.
Speaker 20: Take a question.
Speaker 24: I'm going to plant cabbage and I need to know
Speaker 24: how to keep the cabbage worms out of them.
Speaker 5: Okay, you got two options. One you could spray them
Speaker 5: periodically with an organic spray called BT be as in
Speaker 5: boy teas in tom That is a disease of caterpillar
Speaker 5: and you spray it on the cabbage. And when a
Speaker 5: cabbage worm or I mean a cabbage looper or worm
Speaker 5: starts to chew on it, it gets that BT and
Speaker 5: it makes the worm sick and it kills it. So
Speaker 5: you would just periodically need to spray with that. And
Speaker 5: if you see little white moths that are fluttering kind
Speaker 5: of tanned of white moths fluttering around out there, that's
Speaker 5: the mama and she's laying eggs to give you caterpillars.
Speaker 5: So that would be the thing. The other thing you
Speaker 5: could do is if you take some netting. It could
Speaker 5: be there's a thing called garden netting that looks like
Speaker 5: the screen on your house, except it's smaller and softer
Speaker 5: to soft as a bed sheet, but it's a little
Speaker 5: checkerboard squares so tiny the bugs can't get through it.
Speaker 5: Or you can use something called row cover fabric that
Speaker 5: is the same thing as the liner and a baby diaper,
Speaker 5: very fine, very lightweight. If you were ever a seamstress
Speaker 5: and sewed, it's kind of like stabilizer, but a lot softer.
Speaker 5: And it's also a screen that you put over the plant.
Speaker 5: So you just drape it over the plant loosely, let
Speaker 5: it grow up underneath there, and it keeps those bugs
Speaker 5: from even able to get to the plant to lay eggs,
Speaker 5: and you don't have to spray it all that way.
Speaker 24: Okay, how oftome do I spray you said periodically before?
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably, Well, I might wait until the first caterpillar
Speaker 5: show up. That spray does only last couple of days
Speaker 5: in the environment, and so like, if you sprayed today
Speaker 5: and a caterpillar showed up on Thursday or Wednesday of
Speaker 5: next week, that spray wouldn't be controlling anything. So I'd
Speaker 5: wait to see them and then I would get on
Speaker 5: about once a week spray schedule. About once a week.
Speaker 5: You know, a few holes here and there is not
Speaker 5: the end of the world. You just don't want them
Speaker 5: turning into the Swiss cheese.
Speaker 24: Right, Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 5: You have a good day, you too, And I remember,
Speaker 5: if you get any cabbage out of this deal, I
Speaker 5: do know how to make star crap, So feel free
Speaker 5: to drop half of it off at the station and
Speaker 5: we'll call it even. Thank you.
Speaker 24: Okay, when I get all this cabbage, I'll call and
Speaker 24: get your accress.
Speaker 5: I'm messing with you. Thank you, Doris. I appreciate that.
Speaker 5: All Right, I gotta go to break here. I'll be
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Speaker 26: Good morning. You should have an email that I sink. Yes,
Speaker 26: you should have an email.
Speaker 8: But.
Speaker 25: I do, I do?
Speaker 13: I do.
Speaker 5: That's a Texas Red Bud that you've got. Did you
Speaker 5: know that's called the Texas Red Bud?
Speaker 26: No, And I looked it up. It's a red bud,
Speaker 26: and I went, what in the world? I thought it
Speaker 26: was something else.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a red bud. But there's a there's at
Speaker 5: least three different kinds of red buds you see around
Speaker 5: here Mexican redbud. You almost never see Eastern red buddies everywhere.
Speaker 5: It's wild in the woods.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 5: And the Texas redbud has those shiny leaves that don't
Speaker 5: have the extended tip like eastern redbud does. But it's
Speaker 5: a good tough redbud. What your tree is doing is
Speaker 5: it's the end of the year. Those leaves are old,
Speaker 5: they're fixing to come off, and it's almost like all
Speaker 5: the way they kind of hold back diseases and things,
Speaker 5: it sort of goes away and you get all these
Speaker 5: spots and sections and things. Don't worry about it. Those
Speaker 5: leaves are coming off. It's okay. That tree is plenty
Speaker 5: of leaf surface area and it's gonna be just fine.
Speaker 5: You don't even need the spray and it and it
Speaker 5: stays that small.
Speaker 26: I've had it when we was about the house about
Speaker 26: on the lake about four years ago, and it just
Speaker 26: doesn't grow anymore.
Speaker 20: Is that seven?
Speaker 5: Oh? I don't know. All I can see is close
Speaker 5: ups to the leaves. How big is the plant.
Speaker 26: It's it's like a little tree and it's about six
Speaker 26: foot tonne.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll get bigger than that. It'll get bigger than that. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: it some time.
Speaker 26: Okay, Hey, quick note, I told you a few weeks
Speaker 26: act about my watermelons, whether they were ripe or not.
Speaker 26: After I got off the phone with you, I walked
Speaker 26: out to my garden and raccoons had gotten nine of
Speaker 26: my eleven watermelons. Oh my god, I devastated. It was
Speaker 26: it was I seven because it one more day and
Speaker 26: I'm gonna call Skip called you walked up here and
Speaker 26: nine big beautiful one. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: You know, I think I think I think varmits hear
Speaker 5: you talk into the house. One time I had a
Speaker 5: corn patch and I checked it and it's like, oh man,
Speaker 5: this corn needs to be picked. I'm gonna pick this
Speaker 5: in the morning. I think some raccoons across the fence
Speaker 5: heard me and they got in there and they stripped
Speaker 5: the patch.
Speaker 26: That Adam Carty, I know I heard your story before
Speaker 26: and I thought of you. Guy said, he's one person
Speaker 26: that will feel my pain because I feel your.
Speaker 5: Feel Nancy wors Flint wors Flint, I'm.
Speaker 26: Lake Palastin outside of time.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, all right, well thanks for listening up there.
Speaker 5: Tell your friends to listen to garden Line. Good to
Speaker 5: have you with us today. Thank you for the call.
Speaker 5: All Right, folks, always interesting, you know, living in Texas
Speaker 5: my whole life except for three years. And uh, I
Speaker 5: feel like I pretty much know every place, have been
Speaker 5: through it at one time or another. And I still
Speaker 5: run into place maybe I used to know but forgot.
Speaker 5: You know that happens, you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5: But anyway, it's always interesting finding new places. Haven't been
Speaker 5: to there before. All right. I was at Wildbirds Unlimited
Speaker 5: in Kingwood yesterday, had a great time. Appreciate John and
Speaker 5: the team out there having us out. We really enjoyed
Speaker 5: visiting with people and it really had a good time.
Speaker 5: Walbird's Unlimited is such a great store. You know, there
Speaker 5: are Wildbirds Unlimited stores all over the place. You can
Speaker 5: go to the website. Here's the web address. Go to
Speaker 5: a WBU dot com forward slash Houston and what that's
Speaker 5: going to give you is it's going to give you
Speaker 5: a website that has all six stores where you can
Speaker 5: find them here in the Greater Houston area. You can
Speaker 5: find the one in Kingwood, or you can find the one. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's Cyprus, they're clear Lake. They're all over west side
Speaker 5: of Houston Memorial. Ay, there's Wildbirds unlimiteds all over and
Speaker 5: you can find the one near you and when you
Speaker 5: go by there, you're gonna find quality feed. I just
Speaker 5: picked up some Wallbirds Unlimited Winter super Blend that is
Speaker 5: a Cadillac feed. It has got It's packed with fats
Speaker 5: and proteins and things like that to help birds because
Speaker 5: you know, we're in a cool season here where the
Speaker 5: days are getting shorter. It's we're on the doorstep of it,
Speaker 5: and they don't have as much time to get out
Speaker 5: there and find feed. And my feeders have been kind
Speaker 5: of quiet lately. In fact, I was talking to Johan
Speaker 5: at Wilbirds about that and he said, yea, ask kind
Speaker 5: of normal into summer early fall. But they're coming back
Speaker 5: and we know they will. Do you need to have
Speaker 5: the feed ready to go for them to bring them
Speaker 5: to your house. Another way to bring birds your house
Speaker 5: is to have water. Always have water out I've got
Speaker 5: a little fountain out there. I've got a giant dog
Speaker 5: bowl type thing that I just keep filled with water
Speaker 5: all the time. Birds need water every day of the year,
Speaker 5: especially in summer. But do you know every day of
Speaker 5: the middle of winter they got to have a drink
Speaker 5: of water that day. Right, you got water, you'll have birds.
Speaker 5: And if you go to Wildbirds, you'll have even more
Speaker 5: birds because they have quality products there, especially those super
Speaker 5: high quality feeds. Okay, I've got to take you break,
Speaker 5: Tiffany and Cypress. You will be our first up when
Speaker 5: we come back. Oh man, well, Chuck Berry by us
Speaker 5: up here on a Sunday morning. We're going to head
Speaker 5: straight out to the phones to Cypress Texas and talk
Speaker 5: to Tiffany. Hey, Tiffany, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 12: Good morning, love.
Speaker 27: Your show is always and we so enjoy wild Birds
Speaker 27: Unlimited our Cypress location. They're so nice and helpful, so
Speaker 27: I'm glad you promote them, but I apologize it's been
Speaker 27: a while. I know they're just the kindest people. It's
Speaker 27: so much fun to.
Speaker 7: Go in there.
Speaker 27: I had sent you an email of my wax leaf Lagustrians,
Speaker 27: and we had our house built about five and a
Speaker 27: half years ago, and they've been so hearty. But recently
Speaker 27: the leaves have started turning like really yellow, a brilliant
Speaker 27: yellow with like brown spots on them, and they I
Speaker 27: just want to make sure that I control whatever's going
Speaker 27: on before it hurts them since they've been around a while.
Speaker 5: All right, well I'm going to be the bearer of
Speaker 5: bad news. Okay, But here's what it is. That is
Speaker 5: a disease called sarcospara leaf spot. It's a fungal spot
Speaker 5: and wax leaf lagustrum is plagued by it. Every time
Speaker 5: the leaves get wet, it splashes the spores around and
Speaker 5: you get more spots. So when it rains or when
Speaker 5: you have an irrigation spray that hits them, and it
Speaker 5: is very hard to get rid of. Now you can.
Speaker 5: You can try to fight it. That's one option, and
Speaker 5: that would mean raking up all the fallen leaves, picking
Speaker 5: off the leaves that have spots on them, or even
Speaker 5: pruning those things back. They're a little large and loose
Speaker 5: shrubs right now. Anyway, you could do some pruning back
Speaker 5: or remove it. And then you have to spray every
Speaker 5: time it rains. Every time it's rains, you go right
Speaker 5: out after the rain and you spray with a fungicide
Speaker 5: and that way the spores that would be germinating, you
Speaker 5: get that fungus fungicide in the plant to try to
Speaker 5: help prevent it. That's a lot of spraying for what
Speaker 5: would be the foreseeable future. The alternative, and I said,
Speaker 5: I had bad news. But the alternative, if they're mine,
Speaker 5: had pull them up and get rid of them. I
Speaker 5: don't like that plant. It always looks like this. Once
Speaker 5: the disease finds it and gets in, you just are
Speaker 5: constantly dealing with this. So I would rather pull them up,
Speaker 5: put a plant in that I don't have to take
Speaker 5: care of all the time, and those you can't. Yeah,
Speaker 5: okay about those. Imagine those leaves as being sick people
Speaker 5: in a room. So you got a green leaf and
Speaker 5: all these sick people coughing around the room, what are
Speaker 5: your chances of coming out of it not sick? Right?
Speaker 5: That's how this is. That's why it gets so bad.
Speaker 27: Right, absolutely. Yes, I've worked with kids for twenty eight years,
Speaker 27: so that's a that's a great analogy.
Speaker 24: I'm thinking about that.
Speaker 27: Right in the classroom in my therapy sessions.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's someone told me once that said, kid kids.
Speaker 5: Kids are like petri dishes.
Speaker 27: You know you just oh, absolutely, they are bless their hearts,
Speaker 27: and not all of them wash their hands or cover
Speaker 27: properly their their nose and mouth.
Speaker 5: Imagine that imagine that a good thing. You and.
Speaker 28: Well, that's that's good advice because you know, it's just
Speaker 28: these are just the plants that the builder put in,
Speaker 28: and unfortunately they don't always put the most lush, you know,
Speaker 28: high quality stuff.
Speaker 26: But what do you them in?
Speaker 27: Because they're big, they're like there, there's a few of
Speaker 27: them lined up. I'm thinking, oh, at least four, at
Speaker 27: least four or five. So if we pull those up,
Speaker 27: what do you recommend me put there?
Speaker 5: You know, I don't. I only see one photo that
Speaker 5: kind of shows me the setting. You don't want something
Speaker 5: gigs so big you can't see in and out the windows,
Speaker 5: so I would go with something smaller. You've got some
Speaker 5: it looks like an in Hawthorne down there in front.
Speaker 5: Maybe something with some color behind it, Like there are
Speaker 5: some dwarf Laura pedlums that are only going to get
Speaker 5: about four feet high, but you can prune them and
Speaker 5: keep them lower and they have a burgundy foliage that
Speaker 5: would be pretty. They would grow in that amount of
Speaker 5: light there. You could you know, you could put It's
Speaker 5: just a lot of different plants that could go in
Speaker 5: a spot like that, But I might consider a very
Speaker 5: dwarf Laura Pedlim. It's called Chinese witch hazel, purple, burgundy,
Speaker 5: foliage and beautiful little shaggy pink spring blooms. Just get
Speaker 5: the shortest one you can find. Because Chinese lation you
Speaker 5: can get twenty feet tall eventually. So you want to
Speaker 5: get one that says it's going to get about four
Speaker 5: feet and then you work to keep it, keep it
Speaker 5: more compact than that.
Speaker 24: That would be an option, okay, And I'm.
Speaker 5: Trying to break up that sea of green. You know,
Speaker 5: you don't want just green shrub, green shrub, green drub.
Speaker 5: Then you lose you don't see them all, you know,
Speaker 5: But there are some other tall ones. Where are you located,
Speaker 5: you're oh Europe in Cyprus. Go up to go up
Speaker 5: to arbrogate nursery or plants fill seasons. They're gonna have
Speaker 5: a lot of good shrubs and just tell them you
Speaker 5: talk to me on the air, and here's what you got.
Speaker 5: You got some green Indian hawthorne, and you'd like a
Speaker 5: shorter shrub with some color form behind them, and they'll
Speaker 5: they'll put put several options in your hands.
Speaker 16: Perfect.
Speaker 27: That sounds wonderful. Well, thank you so much, Skip and
Speaker 27: have a great week and I'll listen to you next weekend.
Speaker 5: Thank you, ma'am. Glad you're listening. Appreciate it. You take care, Tiffany,
Speaker 5: take care.
Speaker 13: Uh.
Speaker 5: Nelson Plant Food is a purveyor of some of the
Speaker 5: best fertilizers for our area that you're going to find.
Speaker 5: You know, they've got the turf Star line for your
Speaker 5: lawn where right now. Carbol Load is the turf Star
Speaker 5: product for the lawn for fall. It produces or it's
Speaker 5: made of a good concentration of potassium with some nitrogen
Speaker 5: that creates winter heartiness. That's what it's called carbol It
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Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 5: Nelson don't need a bunch of products. For our appearance
Speaker 5: at Kingwood ac O the day and we had their
Speaker 5: vegetable fertilizer which is outstanding. I've used it. They have
Speaker 5: their rose fertilizer, they've got mary fertilizers. They've got the
Speaker 5: color Star, which is kind of the standard for the line.
Speaker 5: Color Star is. I guess it's been around for about
Speaker 5: forty years now, and people even outside of Texas land
Speaker 5: professional landscapers purchase it and have it chipped in because
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Speaker 5: you're putting out broccoli plants in your garden or pansy
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Speaker 5: products from Nelson Nelson Plant Food. Well, we're done here.
Speaker 5: We're not gonna be able to take any more calls
Speaker 5: at this point in the show, but I just wanted
Speaker 5: to make a couple of comments before we go forward.
Speaker 5: I want to remind you that there our ceremonies going
Speaker 5: on yesterday, today, and tomorrow as part of the two
Speaker 5: thousand United States Flag program. It's called Honoring Heroes in
Speaker 5: Fort ben County. So what you do is, this is
Speaker 5: the University of Houston Sugarland campus. It's on University Drive
Speaker 5: in Sugarland, and you can purchase a flag to be
Speaker 5: put out there. But we're talking about like two thousand flags.
Speaker 5: It is so beautiful when this is done, really worth seeing.
Speaker 5: It just gives you a chance to feel and a
Speaker 5: hope at the same time seeing that sea of two
Speaker 5: thousand flags dedicated to the honor and the memory of
Speaker 5: those we love. You know, Monday tomorrow, Veterans Day, Monday,
Speaker 5: Tomorrow's Veterans Day. The memories that can be seen by
Speaker 5: our children, our grandchildren, our neighbors and our friends. Something
Speaker 5: that goes on all the time they're done. It's called
Speaker 5: Honoring Heroes in Fort ben County, part of the Exchange
Speaker 5: Club of Sugarland, Texas, that annual field of honor. You
Speaker 5: should go see it if you want more information, if
Speaker 5: you'd like to give a give someone a call to
Speaker 5: find out more about it. Just as seven one three
Speaker 5: eight two four sixty one twenty six seven one three
Speaker 5: eight two four sixty one twenty six. A good thing
Speaker 5: to do with the kids. Take them out tomorrow to
Speaker 5: see that pen. That would be really really good. It
Speaker 5: always helps you know, each uh, each generation has to
Speaker 5: kind of learn experience for themselves the sacrifice, the value
Speaker 5: of what was given so that we get to enjoy
Speaker 5: the things we enjoy in our country. Certainly grateful for that. Well,
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