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Katie r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services

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advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip rictor

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Supertzy gas Club again, not a sign sun. Hey, good morning,

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Welcome to Garden Line. It's great to have you with us today. Congratulations.

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If you are listening to this, you made it up. Maybe got

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a cup of coffee or tea or whatever it is. It helps you open

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your eyes and we're gonna have a good d day day today. We actually

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have a pretty some weekend here. I got a little rain forecast maybe,

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but tomorrow today's gonna be a great day. Look forward to getting outside today

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and getting some gardening work done, making sure that we make I don't know,

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let's just say, the right adjustments to our landscape. That would include

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from fertilizing and the right rate, the right types of products. Right timing

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always important. Putting in plants. This is a really important time to get

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things planted for summer. We are still in mild temperatures. It is not

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bad yet and those of you been here for a year know that it can get a little interesting when we get into the brunt of summer. But by

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planting now, you can make sure your plants are well established. You know,

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we have things that can take summer heat just fine. Venka, for

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example. I prefer to call it Madagascar periwinkle because there is another plant called

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vinca. But I guess there's another plant called periwinkle too, So there we

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are. That's the deal with common names. But anyway, what most people

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refer to as vinca super heat tolerant, and so many types of it now

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they're just breeders have really done a great job of coming up with some nice

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twists on really an old plant. I remember growing up we had that in

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flower beds in front of our house. I lived south a little further in

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south central Texas, and we had it in the front flower bed and it

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would recede, and some of the plants would just survive year to year because

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it didn't always get cold enough in that protected area. But it's a great

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plant, does super well. Angelonia super superflower for heat. Lots of types

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of Angelonia, different heights. Got a nice little range of colors. We

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can do the typical, the pink, the red, the white. There

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is some purple, purple, lavender colors and whatnot. It's just a good

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plant. It's an excellent, outstanding plant. Really person lane Porto Laca and

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Slain both very closely related. They can take the heat and they can also

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take the drought and do really well. We could go on and on.

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I mean there's shrubs, there's vines, there's all kinds of things. Get them in now so that they have time to establish roots. And once they've

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established roots and the heat comes, these are plants that are tough and they

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can take it. But don't delay. Go ahead and get them in.

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Get some size on them. You know, you buy the little plants they're

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pretty in the garden center, but you want them to get bigger. You want them to get to whatever size they're going to be so they look their

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best. So whether you have sun or shade, there are plants that will

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do wonderfully for you. Here in the KTRH listening area, we have a

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lot of great options. Makes it kind of nice. I'm go'na quit talking

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for just a minute. By the way, I should give you a phone number seven one three two one two KTRH. We're going to go to Des

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Moines, Iowa and talk to Dan. Hello, Dan, are you there

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all right? I'll tell you what. I'm gonna put Dan on on hold

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and we'll see if we can get him back. That was interesting all the

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way from Des Moines, Iowa. First thing in the morning. So I

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was talking about cool, cool, heat tolerant plants, plants that can take

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the heat. One thing to always remember is even the toughest of plants need

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a root system to be able to be tough in heat and drought. And

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a root system requires good soil. And we talk all the time about brown

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stuff before green stuff, and so that is that is one principle. But

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it's also true if you're putting them in containers, you need to sew a

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volume that is as much as pretty much as much as you can really we

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oftentimes, you know, plant and a little bit smaller containers, and that

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container volume of soil is the entire area that that plant can get water and

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nutrients from. If we if we can look at a larger area, a

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larger pot, then we're able to draw from that larger area and the plants

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are just better able to survive. And I'll talk about that more in a

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minute, We're gonna go back to the boy and talk to Dan. Hello,

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Dan, we got you? Uh did you? Is that for for

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Dan? Yes? Dan, You're it. You're on you Okay, No,

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no, no, I don't. I'm actually over in the Beaumont area

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now, okay, And when I was in the one the boy, I'll

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tell you what. You could pull some crops up there that are just crazy.

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But over here, I'm having a problem with some pill bugs. Okay,

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how do I get rid of them? Well, let me ask you

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this first. What are they doing? What is uh what? They're eating

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my basil and uh some other uh some stuff like cucumbers, but not as

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much as the basil. Okay, well, yeah, typically they're not uh

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they're not one of our big pests that we have to deal with. They

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feed on decaying organic matter. I've got a strawberry patch and the underside of

6:15

every strawberry that touches the ground. It's going to ben about pill bugs.

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But there are baits that you can put out there that are for pill bugs,

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and they're close relative called sow bugs, right and and other kinds of

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critters. And I would just go to You've got you know, a couple

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of great A hardware stores out there in your area. I would just probably

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go over them and say, you know, I need a bait for snails

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and pill bugs and slugs and things like that, and they can get you.

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They can get you fixed up with one. I have done some research

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and I've seen that there was a product called slug O Pro. Yeah,

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and I can't find it anywhere. I don't know Slugo Pro. There's a

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Slugo Plus. I think could that be a that what what you saw?

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That? Possibly? Yeah, slug Slugo plus gosh, if memory serves me

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right, Slugo is basically an iron based bait. It gives uh, it

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gives a toxic amount of iron to the pests that eats it. Uh.

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Slugo Plus I'm pretty sure also has spinosa in it, which is an insecticide

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that also works. And so it just it just spreads out the number of

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things Slugo will work on. But if you if you head over to you

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got an M and D there on College Street in Beaumont, I would I

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would try them talk to them they. I've been to Ace hardware stores many

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times that had the Slugo Plus, So I don't know if you've tried that

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one or not. But but but I would, but I would just go,

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you know, just read the label on anything like that, any kind

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of a bait that they would have, and just make sure that it's sow

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bugs or pill bugs are on the level, right, Yeah, okay,

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you know they are crustaceans like crawfish, so you're in crawfish country. That's

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right. This is just a crustacean. I don't think you want to eat

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these, but who knows the same taste? All right, Dad, thanks

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a lot, appreciate your call. Yeah. Yeah, pillbugs you turn over

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organic matter, and they are just everywhere. I got mulches in my garden,

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and whenever I pull the mulch back, it's like good night, there's

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herds of pill bugs into there. I generally don't worry about them, but

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yep, they can do some feeding on some things here and there. Just so it wasn't want check too that when you see an insect and then you

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see damage, make sure that what you're the pest you're seeing is truly a

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pest doing the damage. It's something else and sneaking in there. Uh,

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and it gets blamed on on something else. Let's take a little break.

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I'm going to head to Sugarland now and we're going to talk to Mike.

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Hello Mike, Well, good morning, Skip Marni. I got a question

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about the pH of my soil. How do I test it? And then

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if it's high what do I use? And then if it's a low pH

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what do I have? All Right, Why Mike, is your soil a

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clay soil, a sandy soil, or something in between. It's primarily clay.

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Okay, so I've done several popsoil applications. My problem is, like

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some green some of the grass blades are light lime green as opposed to a

11:20

dark green, right, Okay, yeah, yeah, that could be a

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little bit of an ron deficiency, but it also could be just well,

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there's a variation depending on the number of nutrients in the soil, including nitrogen

11:33

being the main one that helps drive that green color. So as far as

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how do you do that, I don't know if you've been to my website Gardening with Skip dot com and looked at my lawn care schedule that's on there.

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But if you go there to Gardening with Skip dot com, there's a

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free lawn care schedule. You can look at it on your computer or print

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it out. There's also a lawn pest, disease and weed management schedule again

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takes you from January way through December, tells you the problems you run into,

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what to use for that, and how to time it. But the

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reason I bring it up is because on there is a live link to the

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soil test lab at an M and that is where you would find out your

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pH. You just send a sample up to them. There's a link right

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to the form that you need on there if you have a pen and want

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to write it down. It's soil testing dot T A m U, dot

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ed U and they can tell your pH. I can tell you this.

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Chances are it's a little bit high. And if it's a clay, chances

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are you're not going to move it much. It's difficult to make a high

12:41

pH clay more acidic. But what you can do for beds, garden beds,

12:46

vegetable beds, flower beds, you can bring in a quality mix that

12:50

has a good pH and put it on top of the ground, mix it

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in a little bit with your soil and just grow in that. That's the

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best and easiest way to deal with it. Far as your lawn. You're

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not gonna make your lawn a raised bad so, but but grass is pretty

13:05

tolerant of pH. You may have to use a little keylated iron or something

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like that. But i'd start with finding out what the pH is and at

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the same time you're going to find out your nutrient content, and that's important.

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Okay, what about some some have said, well, put some sulfur

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down. Is that well, that's that is how you bring pH down.

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But in a in a in a clay soil, the term is buffered.

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The clay is so buffered that you just add sulfur and add sulfur and add

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sulfur, and it's hard to get the pH to come down. Uh,

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and so it's very difficult. If not, I'll just say it's impractical to

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try to bring a clay high pH clay down much in pH. And then

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the final question is I'm considering going to a professional long service. Do you

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recommend them? I've done two applications. You know already they share so pretty

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using or is there one we would recommend down there? Yeah, in the

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area, or well, what do you think of them in general? Their

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prices are pretty high, so the ones you've been looking at, Yeah,

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okay, Well, I generally don't get into just the kind of the mow

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and care for lun care services we do. Well, you do have BnB

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turf Pros down there and they'll do the compost top dressing, which, by

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the way, will be another way to help your loan because it's getting the

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compost down in the soil and the roots find it and they have access to

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the nutrients. Maybe the high pH tends to lock up. But BnB turf

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Pros down there, you'd have to talk to them about any other services and

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whatnot that they that they might provide. I know that the website is Bbturfpros

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dot com and sugar lens is one of the areas that they service down down

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where you are. So you're you're saying, you know, if you can't

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do it on your own, then maybe search out these professionals. I'm talking

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to me. I'm not the mowing and the trimming. I'm talking fertilizing and

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doing so past. Uh so, Yeah, I've never talked to them about

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whether they do sell tests, but it's so easy for you to do that

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yourself, just to send the sample in. But BB tur Pros would be

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the one I would call. They do the compost, top dressing, they

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do deep time erration. Now those those activities top dressing and neration are not

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inexpensive, but you're making a significant difference in the lawn. It's not just

15:45

like throwing fertilizer out there. It's it's going beyond that. But you might

15:50

I would call them and just see because I think a lot of them.

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In the way they do business. They really focus They only use products that

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are quality. Then they focus on the customer and making sure you're happy.

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It's more of a relationship with them. It's not just like send me a

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check and we'll show up ever so often. It's I like the way they

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do this. I would give m a call and talk to them about it,

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and they could probably as you visit with them. I think between the

16:21

two you work out, you know, some sort of a plan. And

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so do you have a preference as to whether you should use granular or liquid

16:32

fertilizers? They both work, They both work well granular. With granular you

16:38

can get some nice slow releases that will release over three or four months that

16:44

you're not going to be able to get that slow over release and a liquid

16:48

and I like that gradual feed over the course of the summer. So I

16:52

would aim toward granular. But if you want to get out there and get

16:55

a nice green up, there's some excellent products, including a new and I'll

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be talking about in a little bit here from Medina that that's good. You

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just put it on the end of a hose and you can get it done

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real quick. All right, so if I have a low pH, well

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did you is there a certain thing you want to put on your yard?

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Well, then yes, I think there's a ninety nine point nine percent chance

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you don't have too low of a pH that would need to be raised.

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But lime lime is what is used for that. Oh okay, that'd start

17:26

with this old test. It's going to tell your phosphorus, your magnesium,

17:30

your nitrogen, your potassium. It's going to give you all the levels and

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you'll be able to fertilize more accurately. All right, I'm gonna have to

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thank you. I'm gonna have to run. Thank you very much. Good

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luck to that lawn in good shape. Appreciate that. Yeah, you're talking

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about slow release fertilizers. Nitrophos has got their superturf and that's the nineteen four

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to ten, nineteen four ten. It's a silver bag. Makes it easy.

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Just remember silver nitrophs nineteen four ten. Half the nitrogen is in a

18:00

slow release form. So it's going to feed your lawn for several months.

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Here, it's going to give you a nice gradual and also Mike's talking about

18:07

you know a little bit of a sharp trouse color of green well, it's

18:12

going to give you more of a boost because it has the four percent iron

18:18

in it as well, and that gives the nice green color on lawns that

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are struggling because the pH is high and the iron is tied up. Nitrofoss

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nineteen four to ten Super Turf's available a lot of different places. You're gonna

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find it at Gym's Hardware up in Montgomery. You're gonna find it at Lake

18:34

Hardware Inclute. You can find it in a lot of places. Ace hard

18:38

Ride and Sinco Ranch also carries the Nitroposs Super Turf. We're going to head

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now to let's see, we're heading to Greg and Hempstead. Hello Greg,

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Hey, good morning, Skip. You've got a couple I've got a couple

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of questions for you. The first one is core aerating my yard. I

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received the and doing a compost top dressing. I received a price for it.

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I'm not saying the price is wrong, but the price is more than

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I can more than I can bite off at this time. Okay. My

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question to you is if I do a plug aeriation and instead of using doing

19:18

the compost top dressing, could would there be any benefits to doing something you

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know, putting down something like Microlife's hummates instead of the top dressing. Well,

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yeah, it's beneficial. The humates are very beneficial. I don't It's

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kind of a different thing than putting down the screen compost. You know,

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they both have their benefits and advantages and things. But the humates would be

19:45

fine. You know, you can buy the compost for top dressing, a

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screened leaf leaf composts. You can bite it by the bag, or you

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can just have somebody dump it off there and spread at your But are you

20:00

talking about using a like a little step on it push it down in the

20:03

yard aer rator? Are you talking about renting one? No? I was,

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Yeah, I was going to either rent one or even even buy the

20:12

plug aerator to hook onto the back. I've got a small lawn tractor to

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hook onto the back of it. And it wasn't going to be one of

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the core Yeah, you know, one of the plug ones. But my

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problem is I've got twenty I've got twenty two to twenty three thousand square feet

20:29

a yard, and it's just a little to put down the compost top dressings

20:33

a little bit more than this fifty something year older is able to do.

20:38

By himself at the twenty and again, I'm not saying the price I got

20:47

to do it is wrong or it's more than at an expense, very expensive

20:52

equipment and hauling a lot of stuff. Well, you know, I maybe

20:57

I would just have my wife go do it be easier. I don't you

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know the old Germans they used to get all their work done by this weather, their friw. So I don't know if that. Yeah, I know,

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I grew up with the old Germans. So hey, I'm up against

21:12

a heardbreak, Mike. Good luck with that. I gotta run, Thank

21:15

you very much, Yeah, thank you, bye bye. All right,

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it's time for Nicky in the news our phone number seven one three two one

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I'm going to head out now to northwest Houston. We're going to talk to Paula. Hello, Paula, Hi, good morning, good morning.

22:41

Okay, my Tameya. Problems keep happening. Now. I've got tomatoes with

22:48

green tomatoes with black bottom. I've sent you a picture yesterday, Okay,

22:53

that is called blossom end rot and well that's rot. I remember that.

23:00

Yeah, it's boss better. And so what happens is it's usually due to

23:06

a moisture fluctuation. The disease is caused by a lack of calcium to the

23:12

growing the tip of the tomato. When the cells there start, when they

23:18

don't get calcium, they start to collapse and die, and then the rot

23:22

sets in behind them. So we see it more often early in the season

23:26

than late because later in the season the tomatoes root systems a little more extensive.

23:30

It's taking up nutrients. Well, chances are you've got enough calcium in

23:34

the soil, but a soil test would help confirm that. But if you

23:40

can keep the moisture even it really helps make that blossom indrot go away.

23:45

I have a feeling it's going to get better on its own. Are these

23:48

containers or the ground I don't Yeah, yeah, these are in the grow

23:51

boxes, so it's hard to keep the moisture. I've held off on watering

23:59

because they seem to be pretty wet, so I haven't been filling those reservoir

24:03

Yeah. Uh, well, so there's nothing. There's no way I can

24:06

add calcium, or well you could, but even if the calcium is there,

24:11

with the moisture fluctuation, you're going to get blossomed. Okay, blossom

24:15

man. So, but I think grow boxes have the reservoir underneath them,

24:19

right right, Yeah, well, yeah, you keep that full and it

24:22

ought to be. Okay, you can put in, uh, some nutrients

24:26

in the soil if it truly is missing. You can even make a kind

24:30

of a solution of some nutrients in that water in the bottom from the take

24:36

it up something that does you know, that's all the nutrients in it,

24:40

or mix in the like liquid micro life. There are some liquid micros.

24:45

I'd have to check the label to see if they have calcium in the particular

24:48

one you're you would be Oh, I'll look in the bottle and see.

24:52

Okay, check that regular Microlife's gonna have some calcium in it, So you

24:56

could just use that too. Well, it's got microlife in there. It's

24:59

got mic life in this. Guy, leave my old composts. I don't

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understand. Well, oh well, I don't know, but I still think

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it's a matter of maybe the box water level. Yeah okay, yeah,

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okay, so water thing. You have a minute to recap what you told

25:18

me about that limp to made up when I saw you at r c W

25:21

last Saturday. Oh okay, okay, Look it looks it's real limp and

25:27

it looks like it was dying, and you told me to look at the

25:30

roots to see if it if there was any light, little nodules on it

25:37

or something. And I looked at the roots and the roots look fine.

25:40

But recap again, what what you told me to look for? A right,

25:44

we were looking for nots on the roots, which is nematodes, which

25:47

affects water getting okay, makes it will huh. The other thing would be

25:52

a root rot. If the top of a plant is declining and you basically

25:57

pull it up and look at the root system and the root system is further

26:02

declined, it's like it's rotting away. The problem started in the roots as

26:06

a root rot. If the roots look fairly normal and healthy and you're just

26:11

getting wilting, then it's it's gonna be a lack of moisture in the soil.

26:15

Okay, Okay, I'm writing all this down this time, okay.

26:18

And then you told me that if it does, to go ahead and cut

26:25

open that stem. Okay, yes, the last thing we look for.

26:29

The last thing is you slice the stem vertically, and this is this is

26:33

this is the you're performing the autopsy at this state, you slice it ethically,

26:38

and instead of healthy green with a little creamy white inside the tomato stem.

26:44

You see streaks of brown like it was an old stained cinaret filter,

26:48

but but streaks of it through there. That is another covering disease that came

26:53

from the soil, so that we fight with resistant varieties. Hey, Paul,

26:57

I got another guy on the line here. I'm gonna all right,

27:00

you take care, appreciate that. We'll go to Jonathan and clearly Hello Jonathan.

27:06

Hey, good morning, sir. I have a question. I hope

27:10

it's an interesting question for you. I have a Saint Augustine lawn full Sun,

27:14

and I've been follow following the schedule for twenty years. About six years

27:19

ago, we had a very large oak tree that was in the middle of

27:22

this that we had removed and we brought in the special the correct soil,

27:27

and we did sod and it's been doing great. Right where the tree was.

27:34

I'm realizing I'm having to water a lot more than in other parts.

27:40

And we've done the top dressing. We did that a couple of years ago,

27:44

but we've never air rated. So this year I tried to air rate

27:48

and I'm noticing, of course now that I'm finding bits of root and things

27:52

about four inches under the ground right where we're having to water a lot.

27:57

All right here, let me just cut to the chase on this one,

28:02

John, I think I know what you got. Whenever you do have a tree and you take it out and stuff, you've got a lot of wood

28:07

in the soil. And that wood does a number of things. Number one,

28:11

initially ties up a little nitrogen as it decomposes. But you just it's

28:17

just going to be. It's just going to take time for it to settle

28:22

down and to decay away, and having to water a lot is maybe part

28:27

of that process, and there's no fix to it. Keep making sure that

28:33

it's kept moist, that you give good fertilization to the grass is what's in

28:37

your power. But other than that, you know what is is and that's

28:41

wood in the all over in the soil compared to the soil that you're lawn

28:45

in other areas is growing in. That's great. And then my question beyond

28:52

that was I had a bag of rose soil and I just kind of sprinkled

28:56

it over top, thinking maybe I could elevate the soil above those roots.

29:00

Is that bad idea? No, that's fine, that's fine. It may

29:04

be a little greener spot. But I think that's what's within your all right,

29:08

man, thank you, thank you a lot. I appreciate that.

29:11

I appreciate that. If you're thinking about putting a tree in, by the

29:17

way, you need to get you a three sixty tree stabilizer. If you

29:19

put one in in the last few months. Three sixty tree stabilizer holds that

29:25

tree, but it doesn't hold it tight. It holds it in a slightly

29:29

allows the slight amount of movement, and that allows it to establish well.

29:33

And when the tree moves, it's going to strengthen the tissues in the trunk

29:37

and in the braceroots right there at the bottom, it's going to strengthen those.

29:41

Now you can get a three sixty tree stabilizer at Buchanans and arbor Gate

29:45

Plants for all seasons carries them. RCW has them down and Alvin Jorge Hidden

29:49

Gardens has them in Southwest Fertilizer where I'm going to be today, by the

29:53

way, I'm going to be there. I'll tell you about that in just

29:56

a bit. They have those as well. But three sixty trees say there's

30:00

a quality product. It hooks right to a t post or any kind of

30:03

post you put in and it works well and it lasts well. I guess

30:07

we got to take another break here. Here we go. I'll be right

30:11

back seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to

30:15

Guardenline. Good to have you with us today. If you have not been

30:18

to RCW Nursery recently, you need to go. I was out there a

30:23

couple saturdas ago, I guess, and just always amazing the color they have,

30:29

it's just outstanding. The book and villias are gorgeous. The roses,

30:33

by the way, they got it. They have a cell going on on the roses. Ten percent off all trees and roses. You got that right,

30:40

all trees and roses both. Now's a great time to get them established.

30:45

You know, with RCW they grow their own trees, and so they

30:48

grow things that belong here, that grow here, that'll do well here.

30:52

You can purchase a tree, or you can have them come planet, which

30:55

I'd recommend the latter because they'll do a good job. Make sure it gets

30:57

established very very well for you, and that is really important. They also

31:03

have in celebration of Arbor Day, they've got all their beautiful arbors and all

31:07

the metal artwork for sale twenty percent off. RCW Nurseries haven't been there before.

31:12

It's two forty nine, which is Tomball Parkway where it comes into belt

31:17

Way eight. If they don't have something, I bet they can get it.

31:21

That's why we like to call them the get it, Got It Nursery

31:23

because they are excellent at hunting something down and getting it in for you,

31:29

and the selection is just outstanding. Check them out over at RCW yesterday I

31:33

was I was going around, stopped in at Spring Creek Feed Sprint Creek Feed

31:38

is the feed starts up there on FM twenty nine seventy eights and Magnolia,

31:45

so kind of north and east to tom Ball, not very far all away

31:48

from ground Parkway Highway to forty nine. Their selection is just still excellent.

31:52

In fact, he keeps getting better. They had plants outside. They had

31:56

all kinds of garden de core and stuff outside, but inside to find the

32:00

fertilizers, I recommend on garden line, you're going to find all kinds of

32:05

pest. I was surprised at the amount of different types of pest disease and

32:09

weed management products that they have. It is excellent and of course it's a

32:14

feed store. You're gonna get quality feed there. The store itself is cool.

32:17

I mean it's just beautiful, from a little home to core and bling

32:22

to everything you can imagine that you might need for animals or in this case,

32:25

for your landscape and garden. At Spring Creek Feed. You should get

32:30

by there and check them out. Not this coming week, but after that.

32:37

I've got to get out in my yard and get some more potting done.

32:40

I've got a number of plants that are just waiting on me to show

32:45

up and move them from the containers that they came in to the pots that

32:50

I have. I got some beautiful pots out there. We were talking about

32:52

the other day some my wife and I some things that we might move and

32:55

plant and where to put them and whatnot. And you need a quality soil

33:00

when you do that. First of all, you need a container that's large because you need to hold a lot of soil so you can hold moisture and

33:06

nutrients in our brutal summers. Don't stick them in a little tiny pot unless

33:10

you want to water them three times a day trying to keep them alive.

33:14

So we need a large pot that has drain holes. And then a quality

33:16

soil like jungle land. Jungle Land is the one you've heard me talk about

33:21

distributed by Nitrofoss. There's the outdoor flour and vegetable planting soil, and there's

33:27

the indoor water saving potting soil. That outdoor flour and vegetable that's the one

33:30

you use for all those plants out on the patio or wherever you've got your

33:35

containers sitting. You're going to find it in a lot of places, easy,

33:37

easy to find. Shades of Texas. Down in South Houston on Genoa

33:43

Red Bluff, some of you probably know that one. Well, Kingwood Ace

33:45

Hardware has got it. In the Arbrogate up and Tumble, They've all got

33:50

the Nitrofoss products. That's a good you know, that whole line of products

33:54

is easy, easy to find, and it's widely, widely available, easy

33:59

to go. I love to go visit garden centers. That is one of

34:05

my favorite things in the world to do, to get out and to check things out and you know, just kind of get a feel for what's new

34:12

and what's going on out there. And I Enchanted Gardens down in the Richmond

34:19

Rosenberg area is one of those destination places you just you just love to go.

34:23

And it's because they have everything everything you can imagine. And I was

34:28

just looking at some things that they had available, and one of the cool

34:32

things they do is container plantings. You can get all you can get your

34:37

containers there. You can get all the plants you need, you can get the soils you need. And by the way, they also have all the

34:40

fertilizers I recommend here on garden Line. But some of the combos they've put

34:45

together are just gorgeous and it just you stare at them and there's things spilling

34:51

over the sides, there's things filling in, there's things coming out of the top. And when you use a larger container and make a multiplant, different

35:00

types of planting, different species of plants all combined in a planting, it

35:02

is just really cool. And they of course they have that there at Enchanted

35:07

Gardens as long as well as can't talk right now, as well as everything

35:13

else that you might need for your plants. A cool new venka called tattoo

35:19

that you got to see that boy, that is a deep deep, deep

35:22

pink VCA really beautiful. Hey. Enchanted Gardens, by the way, is

35:25

on FM three point fifty nine. It's north of Richmond. So if you're

35:30

heading up Kiati direction full show direction, that is the way you go.

35:34

Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Today'd be a good day to get out there

35:39

and to check them out. So anyway they say the cobblers' kids go barefoot,

35:45

and sometime at my house that is the case, especially when I'm traveling

35:50

and off doing different kinds of things. And I'm ready looking forward to getting

35:54

back and getting some things in order. I've got a front flower bed that

35:59

we it's just plants have struggled there and it is a nasty, sticky clay.

36:04

It's just a mess. There's clays that are good clays and there's clays

36:08

that are just I don't know. They're not very conducive to plant growth,

36:12

for sure. And that's what I got, and I need to put some

36:15

some amendment in there to fix it up. And what do you do?

36:19

Well, Expanded shale is important. That works very well on helping a clay

36:23

stay open. Takes about three inches of shale on the top mixed in to

36:29

significantly do a good job, but any little amount is going to help a

36:31

little bit. Also, organic matter, you know, I think about places

36:37

like Nature's Way. Nature's Way is on I forty five north. They're right

36:40

where fourteen eighty eight comes in to Interstate forty five, just south of Conra.

36:45

You turn right across the tracks and you're there. And Nature's Way,

36:49

for a long time, has led in the creation of new quality product blends.

36:54

For example, the rose soil that started at Nature's Way, the leaf

37:00

more compost that we talk about top dressing our lawns, but that started in

37:04

Nature's Way. Remember it. Nature's Way. Every Friday is Fungal Friday.

37:07

Fungal based composts are ten percent off in the bags and twenty percent off in

37:13

the bulk, and you can give them a call. By the way,

37:15

I always listen to the guard line with a pen and paper. Here's a

37:19

phone number. Write it down. Nine three six three two one sixty nine

37:23

nine three six three two one six nine nine zero. Nature's Way excellent source

37:30

of quality products to fix things like that flower bed I got in front.

37:36

Before us stick my plants in it, I'm going to actually take my own

37:38

advice and take care of the brown stuff before I start putting in the green

37:43

stuff. We're going to head out to Paarland and visit with k now.

37:46

Hello, Okay, good morning, Skip, Thank you for taking my call.

37:52

I have a question. I was just inquiring about a fragrant plans,

38:00

particularly a climber if possible other than jasmine, that would bloom at a different

38:06

time so it can have the fragrance more frequently. Uh, something that would

38:13

bloom on through the There is gosh a vine you want to vine? Well,

38:19

well, it could be of our flower of Okay, well among our

38:25

fravorite fragrant plants in shade, a very bright shade white butterfly ginger is going

38:30

to be a late summer and fall bloomer that has a beautiful gardena like fragrance.

38:37

The almond verbinam saying that right, Alma verbina aloisia. It's a it's

38:43

a shrub slash. It's not a tree, but it's a very lanky,

38:46

big shrub that has an unbelievable vanilla fragrance that just wafts through the air.

38:52

It's one of the more fragrant. There's night blooming plants that have that kind

38:59

of fragrance as well. Let's see what else A vine ladybanks, the white

39:06

lady banks in the spring. It's a once Bloomer, that's going to have

39:08

a nice fragrance for you. Confederate Jasmine. Uh, that that is a

39:14

good one. It just its fragrance is outstanding. That'd be another one.

39:19

So those are a few that come to mind. Oh that sounds that's great,

39:22

great choice. I appreciate it, all right. And then finally,

39:25

don't forget don't forget angels trump at or brug Mancia. Uh that late in

39:30

the day it releases its fragrance. So it gets one and put it in

39:34

a big giant container on your patio so you can enjoy. Angels trumpet is

39:37

kind of poisonous. Though you're thinking of Datura. I'm talking about one the

39:43

flowers hang down like trumpets hanging from heaven. That's where it gets to.

39:46

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of too, that i'd heard from

39:49

other people. Yes, I hear their music. You gotta go. Thank

39:52

you so much for taking my blessed day. Thank you, bye bye.

39:57

Appreciate your call. Hey, guess where I'm gonna be today and where I

40:00

hope you will show up. Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer in the corner of

40:05

Byssinet and Runwick I'm going to be giving listening to this. I'm gonna give

40:08

away skip Bucks. So you come out there, you stop at my table

40:13

and ask a question. I'll give you skip Bucks, which is a very valuable uh dollar value. You can go and purchase stuff with Medina product.

40:22

We're gonna have Toro blower and a Toro string tremor. Listen, you don't

40:25

want to miss this. Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

40:30

of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H

40:36

Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's so crazy, Trim just watch him as

40:49

world. Give a tea the supt Tasy not a side. Hey, welcome

41:06

back to Guarden Line. Good day have you with us today? Got some

41:09

light outside, I see clouds. But listen, this is gonna be a

41:14

good day. It's gonna be a good day to get out and get things done. These clouds are just let's just say that, a're making it a

41:20

little cooler for you to get outside and work. We'll look at the upside of that. We're not looking to get a lot of rain out of them

41:24

today. So I hope you're making plans to get out and do some shopping,

41:29

get out and do some yard work, whatever you need to get done

41:31

around your place. What have you never grown before? What have you never

41:37

tried to grow before? Have you have you never tried to grow vegetables?

41:40

Have you never tried to grow a plumeria? Have you ever created a terraria?

41:46

Remember those those are really popular back years and years ago. They still

41:50

are. What what have you never tried to do before? Something just off

41:54

off the top, hanging baskets, beautiful hanging basket areas. Do you have

41:59

some areas of your law in landscape that needs some work and need some renovation.

42:02

Maybe a shade that is so deep that it just you just don't even

42:07

notice it. It's like you've sort of lost that area from an esthetic standpoint

42:12

on your property. There are things that will grow there. Why to tackle

42:16

one of those things this year? If you've never tried it before, if

42:20

you have kids around the house, I really hope you will try vegetable gardening

42:24

because when we grow it, we're more likely to eat it, and when

42:29

we eat it, we're more likely to have good, long, healthy lives.

42:31

You know, our number one health problem is what goes into our mouth

42:36

and the fact that we like to sit on the couch. Those kinds of

42:39

things are big deals, and we can set kids off to a different kind

42:45

of lifestyle than that by getting out with us in the garden, by enjoying

42:49

growing things, whether it's flowers or vegetables. You know, have them grow

42:52

some cut flowers, and they can take them and give them to to give

42:55

them to teachers at school, give them to friends, give them to family,

42:59

grandma, who who ever. It just gets them involved in nature,

43:02

and nature has a positive effect on us. There's research a mile high on

43:09

the effects on us mentally, the effects things like ADHD with kids, the

43:15

things with performance on tests, for example, exposure to nature, exposure to

43:22

plants has an effect on that. It does. I just believe that we

43:27

were made to be engaged with the living world around us, and here we

43:31

are. We're gardeners. We've got the easy way in. I hope you'll

43:37

try something new this year, tackle something. If you got a question,

43:40

a problem you've been dealing with, give me a call seven one three,

43:44

two, one two fifty eight seventy four one of those problem areas. Maybe

43:47

we can kind of help resolve that. You know, the best time to

43:52

plant a tree was what forty years ago. Second best time is today today.

43:58

The folks at Verdant Tree Farm pack and the team there. They grow

44:01

quality trees and they grow trees of all sizes. I mean you can get

44:06

trees up to seven hundred gallon size, so I mean that's almost like it

44:09

ought to come with a hammock, right, I mean, if it's going

44:12

to be that size, that is awesome. They grow palm trees. Their

44:16

selection of palms is excellent. And here's the deal. They plant them and

44:22

then when they plant them, they will give you a one year warranty with

44:25

that installation because they know how to do it right. They've been doing this

44:30

a while. Patrick's been doing it a while. If they really serve the

44:34

community, you know, if you were a first responder or a military farmer

44:37

military current military, ten percent discount for those as well, and I appreciate

44:43

them doing that. They'll do free office consultation. You come in, bring

44:47

them a picture, say hey, I'm looking for and you fill in the

44:51

blank. Talk to them. They'll get you set up. It's easy to

44:53

find one because there's three Verdant Tree Farms. There's one on Barker, Cypress

44:58

and West Houston. There's one down Broadway Street in Parland, and there's one

45:01

in the Heights where I ten and Yelle Street come together. Verdant Treefarm dot

45:07

com. By the way, they also have very large shrubs, like certain

45:12

kinds of hollies that you might want to use for a screen. They can

45:15

get you fixed up on that as well. Someone was making a comment to

45:22

me the other day about how much they liked the smell of sweet Green fertilizer.

45:30

Not normally the people walk up, you know, it's like, Hey, I love the smell of fertilizer, but I understand what they're talking about.

45:36

It's a molasses based fertilizer from nitrophoss and my crobes work on the molasses

45:43

base and through magic, they turn it into an eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer that

45:50

you can put out there on your lawn. It dissolves away and a sugar

45:54

based carbohydrate and molasses that substance is just rocket fuel for beneficial bacteria in the

46:01

soil. It's just a it's just a quality blend. It really works super

46:07

well and it will green up your lawn and you see a nice benefit from

46:10

it. And it is widely available, you know, You're going to find

46:15

it all kinds of places. Sweet Green, kingwoob Ace Hardware, for example,

46:19

they're going to have that product. You can go down to Angleton to

46:22

Lake Hardware down there they're going to have it, or over in Baytown Fisher's

46:25

Hardware they're going to carry it as well. Over there. It's easy to

46:30

easy to find nitropost products that are very widely available. You ought to try

46:34

this Sweet Green. I think that you'll be very impressed. Eleven percent is

46:37

one of the highest analyzes for an organic plant food that you're going to find.

46:45

Not every day someone walks up and says, hey, I like the

46:47

smell of fertilizer. This fertilizer. I was at the Arbigate a while back,

46:53

and in fact, I posted something to Facebook, to our Facebook,

46:58

our garden Line Facebook page, which you should follow if you don't already,

47:02

about the parking lot in the back. You know, I keep talking about

47:05

it and I want you to see it. It's this all weather parking lot

47:08

where it's got a grid, like a plastic honeycomb looking grid with rock that's

47:16

inside of it, and so when rain hits it, it goes right through

47:20

it. It just absorbs water. So there's never muddy out there. I

47:22

mean, you drive in any kind of weather and you have this all weather

47:27

surface. You have to turn down Trishel Road, which goes around behind Arburgate.

47:31

So if you pass Arburgate and you haven't seen Trischel, keep going,

47:35

but look better because you're going to see the other end of Trish'll come back

47:37

in. Just drive around behind Arbrogate and you get right in there. And

47:40

you know Arburgate always has quality products. There're one two three completely easy system

47:47

is just an outstanding, an outstanding combination for making your plants happy. I

47:53

always say on Guardline, brown stuff before green stuff. The one two three

47:58

easy system is brownst You know, it's got a food for anything that has

48:01

roots with calcium added too, by the way. Uh, it's got a

48:07

compost that has expanded shale in it. And it also has a soil,

48:13

a soil blend that has expanded shale in it. So it's one two three

48:16

easy. You take those three bags home with your plant. Your plant's going

48:21

to be happy, the roots are going to be happy, it's going to thrive. That's why Beverly and the you know Arbrogate, that's why they have

48:28

that system. Because they want you to take their beautiful plants home and have

48:31

success with them. And they know that by getting those products in your hand,

48:36

you're going to have success. Arbrogate's on twenty nine to twenty just west

48:39

of tom Ball. It's easy to find. Check them out on social media

48:44

too. They got some excellent posts all the time going on up there.

48:46

We're gonna take a little quick break here. Our phone number is seven one

48:51

three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to Guarden Line.

48:55

Good to have you with us today. What are we going to talk about?

48:59

Well, you have to tell me. Well, and if I don't hear from you, I'll tell you. I'll tell you what I want to

49:04

talk about. Seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven

49:07

one three two one two k t r H. You may have heard Nicky

49:12

during the news earlier talk about the fact that there is a holiday or tax

49:17

holiday when it this weekend. When it comes to things that are emergency,

49:23

you know, emergency type items, and I can't go through the whole list

49:27

of what's available. You can go to the Texas Controller website and see But

49:30

if you've been looking to purchase some of these items. ACE Hardware Store is

49:35

a great place to do it. And while you're at ACE, here here

49:37

is a huge deal going on at ACE. At two day, thirty two

49:43

participating ACE Hardware stores, thirty two different stores will honor a sale on Still

49:50

equipment Still power equipment. It's called the ACE Big Still Sale. Still is

49:54

a quality brand of power equipment. They're going to give you fifteen percent off,

50:00

and even if the item was on sale, it's still a fifteen percent

50:04

off. I mean, you cannot beat that if you've looked to get any

50:09

quality equipment for doing all of the different things around. You know, we

50:14

got weed eaters and everything else that still provides chainsaws and whatnot. Now's the

50:19

time to do it, because you're not going to do better than a fifteen

50:22

percent off sale. You can go to your local ACE Hardware store. If

50:25

you don't know where ACE Hardware store is, well, go to ACE Hardware

50:30

dot com and find the store locator and it'll tell you. In fact,

50:32

when I sign into Acehardware dot Com, it always says can I use your

50:36

location? And I say yes, and I get this big map of red

50:38

dots all over the Greater Houston area. Forty different stores in the extended Greater

50:44

Houston area. Thirty two stores though around here are doing that still sale today.

50:49

The ACE big still sale take advantage of that, and while you're in

50:53

there, ask them about what qualifies for emergency supplies. They're like, whether

51:00

I can go into it. But there's a bunch of different things that qualify, and you can say you won't have to pay tax on those items as

51:06

well. I got two birds with one stone. Let's go to Cypress.

51:09

We're going to talk to Eric. Hello. Eric, Hey, Skip,

51:15

I got a question for you about a really terrible looking lawn. I've been

51:22

skimpy on chemicals in the backyard for a few years, I guess because the

51:27

pets, grandkids, and guess what landed in my yard this year And I

51:34

didn't really realize it until it was too late. Burweed is everywhere, and

51:39

you can't walk on a yard with burweed. Yeah it hurts. I'll start

51:45

digging it up. But then I've looked at some of the possible chemicals like

51:52

atrazine. I don't know how toxic that is in the back how long it

51:57

takes to get it away, and if it harms the tree. Because I

52:00

had an arborist out of a while back, and he said, don't use

52:02

around up on the yard, the kind that's for lawns, and don't use

52:07

a lot of things because it kills the microbes that the trees need. So

52:10

I'm a little bit of a quandary as to what to put down for the

52:15

grass, and then now what to do with the with this spur weed.

52:19

I've considered residing, and I know that would cost it a small fortune and

52:24

be a backbreaker. So I just calling for your thoughts. Let's drill down

52:29

on this. I just want to make sure that I've got the right weed

52:31

with you. It's not grass burr. You're talking about a little frilly leafed

52:35

broad leaf plant that has the burrs on it. Is that correct? Yeah?

52:38

Kind of. It's low, it stays low, so it doesn't hardly

52:43

cut very easily. You got to dig that out. And boy, they

52:45

right, and they're everywhere because I saw that where they like sparse grass,

52:51

and mine is sparse, so it's moved in anytime sunlight hits The sell nature

52:54

plants of weeds. So the density of your lawn is like the bodyguard that

52:59

either does or does not let weeds into your lawn. And that's kind of

53:02

what you described at the beginning of the call. So your number one goal

53:07

is to go to my website, Gardening with Skip dot com and get my

53:12

free download lawn care guide. It ties you how to mow, water and

53:15

fertilize properly and the timing on those things. And the more you build the

53:21

lawn over time, the less weed problems you're going to have. Like burweed,

53:24

for example, there are a few weeds that can coexist in a dense

53:28

Saint Augustine lawn. Most of them can't. And so I would say I

53:34

kind of hear from you you'd rather not use chemicals if possible, but whatever.

53:38

So that mowwater, fertilized fact sheet or chart calendar is very very important.

53:46

Do that all summer long. Now, as far as what to do

53:50

about the burweed, now you would have to use a post emergent broad leaf

53:53

weed killer, but you're not going to put it down at a rate that

53:59

would inch through the soil or harm a tree or something like that. You're

54:02

going to apply it just enough to dampen the leaves of the weeds, and

54:08

once you do that, it's going to kill the weeds back. And then

54:12

as the grass begins to grow. It's not like your long stays toxic for

54:15

months, you know, or anything. It's not going to be an issue

54:19

there. Just just follow the label carefully. These products that work best when

54:24

it gets in the upper eighties, they begin to be stressful to Saint Augustine.

54:31

So we're right now in temperatures that are hitting the upper eighties. But

54:37

if you do it in the morning and let them dry up before the temperatures

54:39

get up there, you're okay. Still. If you wait another month or

54:44

so, then we're looking at the nineties and it's already hot first thing in

54:46

the morning, and so I would get it done now rather than later.

54:52

If you're going to do those sprays, yeah, and so yeah, go

54:58

ahead. So I don't have a whole of Saint Augustine to worry about in

55:00

the back. You could do in the front. I haven't seen the birweed

55:04

in the front yet. But what is the chemical that you would recommend putting

55:09

down on that? And I'm guessing I need to kill it and then dig

55:13

it up still because those birds don't disappear. I mean the plant might die,

55:16

but yeah, but well, if you're going to dig it up anyway,

55:21

then I wouldn't spray it. I just dig it up. But that is one heck of a job digging up burweed all over a lawn. If

55:28

you're up to that, then go for it, but don't don't spray it and then dig it up. You just got to determine that you are going

55:35

to get the densest Saint Augustine anyone's ever seen by the end of summer,

55:38

and you can do that with with that mollwater fertilized with quality products, and

55:44

I would that's what I would aim for. There are pre emergent herbicides that

55:50

you would put out in this early like February for the burweed. But let's

55:57

just work on getting the lawn dnse and seeing how far we can it there.

56:00

And getting the burweed out is helpful because it is a competition for your

56:05

grass. Now that it's found this little niche in the spots in the lawn

56:07

where sunlight hit the soil. You decide the way you want to go about

56:14

it, you know, from hand pulling to spraying to whatnot. But the

56:17

simplest, least spray way I can tell you to do it is maybe hit

56:22

them now with the spray to kill the ones that are there. But then

56:27

just really focus on that mowater fertilized and what's fertilizer called again? Say it

56:32

again? What the name of your fertilizer that you're talking about. Oh,

56:37

there's a number of them on my schedule. You hear me talk about them on garden Line. You know, there's products from Microlife, there's products from

56:45

Nelson's, there's products from nitrofoss and from Medina and they all work. They're

56:51

all good products. They work. They're different, you know, some are

56:54

immediate release, some are slow release. But when you look at my schedule

56:58

at Gardening with Skip, it lists all of the products there and it talks

57:02

about when to apply them. And so that that's why I'm trying to send

57:07

you there. Because it's free. You just download it, print it up if you want. And when when a yard is bad enough, I mean,

57:13

do you at some point you got to say there's nothing there to redeem.

57:19

I mean talk about residing a little bit. I know that's okay,

57:22

I'm gonna have to I'll do this in a real quick way because I have to run on. But if you have grass that's alive, that's in decent

57:30

health within a foot space apart. It will cover back over by by summery,

57:37

you know, through the sometime in the summer with good care. If

57:43

if it's more sparse than that and you got larger areas, either you're having

57:45

to plug in strips here and there to try to speed the fill in,

57:50

or you just go to the total resaid and it is money. But sometimes

57:53

biting the bullet and just starting off that way maybe easier. Unless you have

57:59

the time to it out and kind of mess with your lawn each week, a couple of days a week doing some things, it may be easier to

58:06

just go to the reside. But that you have any recommendations for reside companies

58:10

are places to buy it. There's a number of places around town. I

58:15

don't have a specific one that I would recommend. I would do a little

58:17

research on what kind of grass you want, and what variety of grass you

58:21

want, what cultivar. Saint Augustine it is the most shade tolerant that we

58:27

have. There are zoisias that are moderate close in shade tolerance, but not

58:31

as good as Saint Augustine. And then I wouldn't even do Bermuda. It

58:37

has its own issues. It's just a version of St. Augustine. There's

58:43

a couple of different breeds of it or whatever. There's a lot of them,

58:46

and some of them are hard to hard to find. I tell you

58:50

what. Let me let me do this. If you go to the Aggie

58:54

turf website, I'm concerned. I'm on time here. If you go Aggie

59:00

Turf website, it's it's Aggie turf dot TAMU t A m U dot e

59:06

d U go to text turf grasses being the lower left corner says it has

59:10

turf grass, weeds and turf grass's by the way, you should look at

59:13

the weed part two. Uh and and it'll list like you click on Saint

59:16

Augustine or click on Zoisia and it'll tell you cultivars and stuff. Now that's

59:22

not the most up to date list, you know, websites have to get

59:24

updated periodically, but that's a good start. Uh And And I I would

59:30

I would try that. Depending on how much shade you have, and depending

59:34

on uh some other factors, one variety or another would be better suited to

59:42

your lawn. Okay, okay, I appreciate you, all right, you

59:45

bet, Eric, thank you very much for that call. You know we're

59:49

talking about fertilizing and things. Microlife. Micro Life products are excellent. You

59:52

know, Eric was kind of interested maybe and stand away from some things that

59:57

are synthetic. Well that that's God's fine. That's that's your prerogative. By

1:00:01

the way, my schedules, both of them online, have organic and synthetic

1:00:06

options, so you choose what you want. They're there. We help you

1:00:08

have success based on the way you want to go about it. And Microlife

1:00:13

is an organic product. The green bag the six two four that is the

1:00:16

standard lawn fertilized standard organic lawn fertilizer, and I use it for things way

1:00:22

beyond the lawn. I mean, it's an excellent product. The Microlife humts

1:00:25

plus C zero four helps with your soil structure. Humate is concentrated compost.

1:00:32

If you take composts to its final stage, that's called humus, and humates

1:00:37

plus is a high quality soil amendment that you can put on the surface in

1:00:42

your lawn and in time, as you do that and the lawn grows,

1:00:46

you just create an environment where grass can thrive. And that's that's what we're

1:00:50

looking for. If you go to Microlifefertilizer DOT com Microlife Fertilizer dot com.

1:00:54

You can find out where to get it, and it's widely, widely available.

1:00:58

I mean you hear me talking about feed stores and ace hardware stores of

1:01:02

Southwest Fertilizer, and you know all these places are going to carry micro Life.

1:01:07

It's easy, easy to find. Well, we just ran through another

1:01:12

break Nikki. This morning is going two dead gum fasts. It is really

1:01:15

I don't have time to talk about all the things I want to talk about.

1:01:19

And humus is that like hummus but different. It's like hummus for the

1:01:23

soil. Oh No, humus is like okay, so you start with the

1:01:29

leaves and grass clippings, that's organic matter. It decomposes into composts. That's

1:01:34

the good stuff to put in your soil. And when composts decomposes all the

1:01:37

way as far as it can, that's humus. Wow, I don't love

1:01:42

the education. Maybe we need to mix it up and put it in a

1:01:45

little one pint tens and I don't know, maybe keep you regular or something

1:01:49

like that idea. Sure, I'm just saying I never heard about anybody eating

1:01:54

hummus, but humus all right, I'm past sorry. Hey, welcome back

1:02:00

to the garden Line. Good to have you with us today. You hear

1:02:05

me all the time brag about our independent garden centers here in the Houston area.

1:02:08

I'm just telling you, if you live in any other city here in

1:02:13

Texas and a lot of I've been to a lot of cities around the country,

1:02:19

nobody has got this selection of garden centers that we do, the top

1:02:22

notch independent mom and pop whatever you want to call them garden centers. And

1:02:29

Warren Southern Gardens out in Kingwood is an example of that. You know that

1:02:31

you've got Warren Southern Gardens and you got Kingwood Garden Center out there. It

1:02:36

is just one of those places where you go and you just want to hang

1:02:39

out, You want to wander around because they have so many cool things.

1:02:44

By the way, they've got a deal right now that whether you buy a

1:02:47

bag of Nelson's Turf Star Slow and Easy or Nitrofoss Super Turf, either one,

1:02:52

they'll give you a free tempon bag of a barricade for the pre murder

1:02:57

week control. That is a deal they got going on out there also.

1:03:00

And they have a selection of plants, outstanding hibiscus, outstanding color anything you're

1:03:07

looking for, you're going to find it out there. But there is a

1:03:10

plant that I hadn't seen in a long time, and it's blue butterfly clarodendron.

1:03:15

And you've got to see this plant. It's a shrub, but it

1:03:19

has a little clusters of little blue flowers that look like butterflies. The petals

1:03:23

look like butterfly wings, and the anthers and filaments, the pollen and everything.

1:03:29

The reproductive part of the flower coming up look like the antenna of a

1:03:32

butterfly. Blue butterfly clarodendum. Just go out there and see it. It

1:03:37

is an excellent plant. I like to put it in a kind of a semi sun area where it gets a little sun, a little bit of shade.

1:03:44

It does super super well there, Blue butterfly Clara dendum. But that's

1:03:46

just typical of woring Southern gardens. Of course you're going to have new things.

1:03:51

Of course you're going to have cool things going on, and they always

1:03:54

have some great deals going on too. You can go to the website it's

1:04:00

Warrens Southern Gardens Warrens Southern Gardens. So you know, I've I've been there

1:04:05

a number of times. By the way, they're open seven days a week

1:04:09

too. That's another thing. I mean, it's always a good day to

1:04:12

go out there to Warren Southern Guards and a Kingwood Garden Center. While you're

1:04:15

at it, well, guess what Mother's Day is coming up? I hope

1:04:23

you know that. Guys, this is your official You've been told, you've

1:04:28

been minded, you've been remembered. Mother's Day is coming up, and so

1:04:31

what do you do for mom on Mother's Day? Well, there's a lot

1:04:34

of things. Of course, people think of flowers or box of chocolates or

1:04:39

whatnot. I'll tell you what mom would really like. Mom would like something

1:04:42

from Wabirds Unlimited. Because at Wabirds everything you can imagine that associates with birds.

1:04:49

They're gonna have it. They're gonna have feeders, they're gonna have the

1:04:54

bird houses. You know. They've got the little hyper hummingbird feeder, which

1:04:58

in my opinion, is the best hummingbird there is. I've got one myself,

1:05:00

high perch hummingbird feeder. They got the Eco Tough Classic feeder. It's

1:05:05

the typical if you kind of picture a bird feeder in your mind, it's

1:05:08

probably what you're picturing, but it's made out of recycled plastic milk jugs.

1:05:14

Really cool. My favorite feeder the squirrel proof. It's called the Eliminator squirrel

1:05:18

Proof feeder. That is a Cadillac and it works. I'm telling you the

1:05:24

squirrels at my house. You should hear the language they use around the yard

1:05:28

because they can't get into the darn thing. They're very frustrated. There's books,

1:05:31

there's just all kinds of things at Wildbirds Unlimited, including even like jewelry

1:05:39

and decorations for the home, and bird baths, bird bath, bird water

1:05:45

feature for birds. Right, they've got it. Wilbird's unlimited and super super

1:05:50

quality feed where when you buy a pound of wild Bird feed, you're getting

1:05:56

a pound of stuff that's going to go into the stomach of a bird,

1:05:59

not kicked off on the ground. Super high quality. That's what they do

1:06:02

wild Bird's Unlimited. So get by there, now, get mom something.

1:06:06

I guarantee you can find something from Mom there. We're going to head now

1:06:10

out to Mike in Surfside. Hey, Mike, Hey, Skip, thanks

1:06:15

for taking my call. I got a quick question for him trying to store

1:06:19

some vegetable seeds and I was wondering if by refrigerating them and just a normal

1:06:26

refrigerator. Would that extend the life of the seed or are they just better

1:06:29

off at room temperature? No, significantly better when you cool them down.

1:06:32

You know, when people are want to store seed forever, they put them

1:06:36

in the freezer, right, But a refrigerator for our home garden purposes or

1:06:41

refrigerators just find you just need them to be dry, make sure they're dropping.

1:06:45

That's why you know, whenever I buy something you get those little desecon

1:06:49

packets in it. I always save those because I throw those in with my

1:06:54

seed and that's pulling moisture out of the air. In cold storage, you

1:06:57

need something that seals tightly, not as I but like a Mason jar with

1:07:01

a lid, or one of those click down food storage jars that has a

1:07:06

rubber seal. Yeah, yeah, plan on using the Mason jar ceiling deal.

1:07:12

I'll figured the refrigeration would probably help extend the life of the seed.

1:07:15

That wasn't quite sure it does significantly. All right, I appreciate you helping

1:07:18

me. All right, take care, Thanks, Mike, appreciate your call.

1:07:25

That is for sure. I've told you about the silver bag. You

1:07:30

know what the silver bag is that's Nitrophoss's superturf. Superturf, it's nineteen four

1:07:35

ten. It's got a lot of nitrogen in it. But don't worry about

1:07:39

that. You're not. We don't want to overdo nitrogen, but you don't

1:07:42

when you put on superturf. And here's why. Half of that nitrogen is

1:07:46

in a slow release form that's going to release over the next two or three

1:07:48

or four months. I mean, it just depends on conditions, weather conditions,

1:07:54

but it gradually feeds the grass like grass takes up nutrients gradually. It's

1:08:00

kind of like we eat. Do you eat six months of food at one time? Well, I've attempted it on several occasions, but no, we

1:08:06

don't do that. We eat gradually each day, and grass takes up nudrinks

1:08:12

gradually each day. So that slow release is the way you spread out the

1:08:15

growth get a stronger, deeper, more resilient root system. It also has

1:08:19

four percent iron, which is important for good color. A lot of times

1:08:24

in our clay soils and our highph soils, we end up with a little

1:08:28

bit of an iron deficiency, especially early in the season, but it can occur through the year and the nitroposs superturf the silver bag. That's how we

1:08:35

avoid that. So where do you get nitrofas superturf, Well, pretty much

1:08:40

everywhere, that's a fast answer. You get it plants for all seasons,

1:08:44

yep, that's on Tomball Parkway, you know that one. You can get into asposees up in the woodlands. They carry nitrofoss products up there as well.

1:08:50

Or go out to Brenham to plants and things and you're going to find

1:08:55

superturf as well as other nitrofoss products. Makes it easy, you know,

1:09:00

I just realized I am not giving the phone number out often today, and

1:09:03

I always have to do that because people tune in and they don't know where

1:09:08

to call. Well, our phone number is seven to one three two one

1:09:11

two kt r H seven to one three two one two kt r H.

1:09:17

That makes it easy to get ahold of us. What do you want to

1:09:19

talk about? What kind of questions do you have that we can assist you

1:09:24

with. I earlier was talking about getting out and doing some container repotting that

1:09:30

I need to get done. That is important. I've got a bunch of

1:09:32

orchids. You know how it is, You go and you maybe you,

1:09:36

I don't know. You get an orchid, someone gives it to you,

1:09:40

you buy it yourself, and you bring it home. The moth orchid,

1:09:44

that is the one that is just ubiquitous. It's the one you see everywhere

1:09:48

from grocery stores to garden centers. The moth orchid is the easiest orchid to

1:09:55

grow indoors. It's the full, almost fool proof orchid. If you've got

1:10:00

a bathroom with a real bright window, that's a perfect environment because you know,

1:10:05

every now and then you shower and you get some humidity in the air

1:10:08

and whatnot, and they're just happy there in that bright light. They don't

1:10:11

want to be in direct sun, but they want to be a nice bright

1:10:14

light to do their best. And I've got a bunch that are sitting there.

1:10:17

They most of them bloomed for me this year. A lot of them

1:10:20

are about a year past when I should have been repotting them. But I'll

1:10:24

go in there and pull them out. I cut away all the dead roots

1:10:27

and the base of the stem that now is no longer functioning, and they're

1:10:30

always sending new aerial roots down from the stem up above. You probably see

1:10:35

those coming out, maybe sprawling outside the outside of the pot. Orchids are

1:10:40

not a terrestrial well, moth orchids are not a terrestrial plant. They live

1:10:45

in trees. They attached to the bark of trees, and that's their natural

1:10:49

habitat. So that's why we put them in a bark mix and occasionally if

1:10:54

you will clean them up like I'm describing, repot them in a container with

1:10:59

some fresh bark chunks. You can buy orchid blends at our garden centers that

1:11:03

are designed for that. They may even have a little bit of charcoal in

1:11:06

them or stuff. Just to avoid soggy conditions. Orchids do not want to

1:11:12

sit in water. They just need to get a good soaking every now and

1:11:15

then and then drain really well. Do not let them sit in water.

1:11:19

But if you do that and then begin to fertilize them very lightly, super

1:11:24

super low rate. When you water, you can get invigorating new growth along

1:11:29

with good sunlight, and that orchid will cycle back into bloom for you later

1:11:32

on. And I need to do that to mine. I just got this

1:11:35

pile of orchids that have been neglected, and so the Society for the Prevention

1:11:40

of Cruelty to Orchids is probably on their way to my house right now.

1:11:43

But I'm gonna fix that. And I just a tip for you as well. Hey, we're going to take a break seven one three two one two

1:11:48

ktr h. I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. Good

1:11:53

to have you. We are. We are hopefully walking on sunshine. We

1:11:56

got a little bit of clouds out there in the sky, but listen to

1:12:00

day is it's safe, It's safe to go out. The weatherman keeps telling

1:12:02

us, yeah, it's cloudy, but chances of a rain are very scattered

1:12:06

and not that high in any given location. So let's get out there and

1:12:11

get some stuff done in our yards. I was talking about wild birds being

1:12:14

a good gift for Mother's Day, and it just reminded me I bought my

1:12:19

mother outlaw. I'm sorry, mother in law. I get those confused sometimes,

1:12:25

but you know, I'm gonna leave that as it is. I bought

1:12:27

her one of those little hangars that you put a bird feeder on. You

1:12:30

know, it's kind of like a shepherd's crook that comes up. I got one at Wildbird's Unlimited recently, and I'm gonna get her all set up with

1:12:36

a bird feeder right outside the window where she likes to sit, and we'll

1:12:41

get her all fixed up to you. So don't forget your mother outlaw.

1:12:44

I'm sorry your mother in law when you're purchasing your mother's day gifts at wild

1:12:48

Birds Unlimited. If you're listening to this, have you been to Nelson's Water

1:12:56

Garden out in Katie A lot of you have. No, It's a popular

1:13:00

place. They've been around a long time. You know Nelson's water Garden.

1:13:03

They are national leaders in the water garden industry. They have been building water

1:13:10

gardens for a very long time. So everything from the fish, to the

1:13:14

plants, to the structures themselves. They can get you fixed up. They

1:13:20

will come and build like a waterfall in your property if you like that,

1:13:24

a pond whatever kinds of little When I say a pond, I mean you

1:13:28

know, a little small pond for your koi or whatever kind of fish you're

1:13:31

doing. They've been doing this. They can do it turnkey. But if

1:13:38

you want to do some do it yourself. They can guide you on that

1:13:41

as well. Yes, they also help with that. Now, Nelson's Nursery

1:13:45

and water Garden is also a nursery. Don't forget that. I mean,

1:13:48

they got some sod in the other day people were in purchasing the sod.

1:13:53

They've got all kinds of plants restocked on zenias, really cool, really cool

1:13:58

shrubs, the kaleidoscope, babelia, which is a beautiful little abilia. They've

1:14:01

got those, and I don't know, guardinas, adrajas, you name it.

1:14:05

Definitely got the hibiscus, of course, but they really the feature of

1:14:13

that place is the water gardens and it's the way they transform a landscape.

1:14:17

And I just have to please do this. Just go out the plan an

1:14:24

outing, get some friends, get your neighbors, family, whatever, go

1:14:28

out there and check them out and look, and you will be inspired you

1:14:31

walk through there, and I did the first time I walked in there.

1:14:35

Everywhere I went it was just like, oh my gosh, I have to

1:14:39

have that for my backyard. Oh my gosh, I have to have that

1:14:41

for my backyard. When you see it set up like that, it is

1:14:45

so inspirational. And they really are an inspiring place. A destination garden center

1:14:51

Nelson's Watergardens dot Com. Think of it as your West Houston garden center.

1:14:57

It is out on Katie Fortvenroe snort of Katie Freeway out there in Katie.

1:15:02

I promise you, if you go, you will be impressed, and you

1:15:05

will suddenly you will realize that how did I ever get by without a disappearing

1:15:11

fountain coming out of a beautiful container or a little waterfall. I love love

1:15:16

that kind of inspiration in places like that. At the house, we are

1:15:20

transitioning our vegetable garden. It's coming out pretty quick here. I've got some

1:15:27

cool seasoned peas. I had some sugar snaps that are now on their way

1:15:30

out. They have finished up, and boy, they were productive. It

1:15:34

was with a very productive planting. For sure. I need to get my

1:15:39

tomato trellis vine. I need to get my tomato vines attached to the trellis.

1:15:46

They're kind of flopping around. And I like to use cattle panels just

1:15:50

those are those livestock panels, the galvanized very heavy duty wire with big oldes

1:15:57

ones with like four inch by six inch openings, and the and the thing

1:16:00

you can put a couple of teeposts in attach them to a teeposts. I

1:16:03

slap mine just a little bit and then the tomatoes kind of grow on that

1:16:09

and whenever one flops the wrong way, I just push it back through the

1:16:12

trellis and ends up with a wall of tomato foliage and the tomatoes, because

1:16:16

they're slanted, they hang down a little bit below the treillers where they don't

1:16:19

get as much sunburn. And it works really well. But I occasionally have

1:16:24

to go back and kind of wind them through it. But a lot of

1:16:27

things to be done in the vegetable garden this week. Have you been to

1:16:31

A and A Plants and Produce recently up in the Montgomery area, All of

1:16:35

you who live up there in the Lake Conroy area, this is your hometown

1:16:41

garden center. I mean it's just right there on the back door. They

1:16:44

have a landscape crew that can come out to your place and they can do

1:16:46

work for you out there. They absolutely are excellent at tending to things like

1:16:53

that. If you are needing any of the fertilizers that I talk about here

1:16:58

on guarden Line, they have them. They always are getting restocked. They

1:17:01

restocked mulches, they restock the fertilizer, they restock the compost. So you

1:17:08

know, you hear me brag about airloom soils and Nature's way, you hear

1:17:12

me brag about Nelson's fertilizers, micro life, fertilizers, nitrophos fertilizer. It's

1:17:17

all there, and really cool garden bling too, from signs to little metal

1:17:23

arbor structures. It's just I love going through there. If you have any

1:17:28

imagination at all, you walk in there and you can kind of see how

1:17:32

that place can really turn your beautiful, beautiful landscape even into a more beautiful,

1:17:38

enchanting one. Lots of activities for kids too. When you go by

1:17:41

there, ask them about the things that they do, the programs that they

1:17:45

do with the kiddos, because they always have something like that going on at

1:17:49

Ana Plants and Produce in Montgomery. By the way, they're on the east

1:17:53

side of Montgomery on one oh five, So if you are heading up in

1:17:58

that direction, you're going to drive by. In fact, anybody going up

1:18:00

and down one oh five all the way from Nevinesota to Conrod, Texas,

1:18:04

you just drive by Ana all the time. That's right there. I have

1:18:11

my lawn. I finally mowed the first time my lawn. I always tried

1:18:16

to lay a little bit, but I got that new grass put in that

1:18:20

I was talking about earlier, and it's starting to grow and finally hit a

1:18:25

point where I needed to get it mode. So I got that knocked out

1:18:28

because I'm going to be out this week in a way, and got it

1:18:30

down to a good level. Just remember when you're mowing, a sharp mower

1:18:39

is important. Number one is less strained on your lawn more. But number

1:18:42

two, and this is something I bet you haven't thought about. When you

1:18:46

look at your lawn, it's like looking at a pixelated picture, but you're

1:18:53

so far away that you don't see the pixels. Right. But each grass

1:18:59

tip is going to have a brown edge where it was cut off. And

1:19:02

if your mower is sharp, that's going to be a real thin brown edge

1:19:06

because it made a nice clean cut, like you just took scissors and snipped

1:19:10

it off. If your mower is dull, it's going to be a split,

1:19:14

ragged, larger ten brown end of the grass blade because that blade just

1:19:21

essentially just just hammered off the end of that grass blade as it flew by

1:19:27

and didn't make a clean cut. Now you take that difference between like a

1:19:31

little one eighth of an inch brown and maybe one half of an inch brown

1:19:36

in some cases, and you multiply that times ten billion grass blades out there,

1:19:41

and the green suddenly looks less green, and so a sharp more blade

1:19:45

to a degree makes your lawn greener. I know that's just think about it.

1:19:50

I think it'll make sense the way I described it if you just think

1:19:54

about it. You want to fertilize, you want to get it mode,

1:19:57

but you want to mow regularly. Every time you mow is like you're hedging

1:20:00

your lawn. And the more you hedge a plant, the dentre it gets.

1:20:04

And so the turf specialists first time one of them told me this,

1:20:09

I thought you got to be kidding, but it's true. Of all the

1:20:13

things we do our lawns, the single most important thing to have a dense,

1:20:15

beautiful lawn is regular mowing. Yes. They need water, yes,

1:20:19

and we need fertilizer. Butt the single most important thing is mowing frequently with

1:20:25

a very sharp mower, and that'll give you success. I hope that helps

1:20:29

out. Hope that's something to think about when it comes to fertilizing. Nelson

1:20:31

plant Food has got a couple of products that are outstanding. One of them

1:20:36

is I always thought of it as a fast release, but actually it also

1:20:40

has some slow release nitrogen in it as well. It's called Bruce's Brew.

1:20:45

Bruce's Brew is primarily one that releases fast, but it does have some slower

1:20:50

release products in it. We use it in spring for a quick green up.

1:20:55

You can do it anytime the year you want to do it. You

1:20:58

can do a regular standard rate of you can kind of cut it in half

1:21:00

and do a lower rate and then later do another lower rate and that sort

1:21:04

of spreads out the release even more or just gets slow and easy. Slow

1:21:09

and easy is Nelson's slow release. And when I say slow, I mean

1:21:14

this is going to feed your lawn for three months, four months. I

1:21:17

mean it really goes out there pretty darn far. And when you return your

1:21:21

clippings, in addition to that, they're decomposing. And so your lawn is

1:21:27

just getting the nicest, slowest feed all through the summer months, just like

1:21:32

you would want it to be in nature. And slow and easy by Nelson

1:21:36

plant Food is an outstanding blend with the right kinds of nitrogen to provide that

1:21:42

kind of gradual feed over time. Pretty important, pretty important to do.

1:21:46

Nelson plant Food products are widely available. They have everything from the jars of

1:21:53

color Star products to these these turf fertilizers part of the turf Star line of

1:21:58

products work. I know because I've used it to work very well. Where

1:22:03

you're listening to the Garden Line, and I want to remind you that today

1:22:06

after the show at eleven am eleven am, I'll be at Southwest Fertilizer corner

1:22:14

of Bissing at and run with Now, Bob's going to be given away a

1:22:16

Toro blower and a Touro string tremor. That's a valuable gift to be given

1:22:23

to two valuable gifts. We'll be giving away some Medina stuff. They'll be

1:22:28

something called skip Bucks. When you stop by my table and maybe you bring

1:22:30

a plant sample or a picture, just a question in and I'm helping you

1:22:34

with it, I'll give you skip Bucks and you can use those to get

1:22:38

things at the store there. For example, Medina has got something called super

1:22:43

Grow plus sixteen O to hose end applicating. I'm going to tell you more

1:22:47

about that in a little bit, but you could use your skip Bucks to

1:22:50

get some of that. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

1:22:55

products or services advertised on this program. To Katie r. H. Garden

1:23:00

Line with skin Rict it's so trim. Just watch him as so many superasys.

1:23:28

They're not a sign. Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have

1:23:33

you with us, looking forward to talking. We got a lot of things

1:23:36

to talk about this hour. If you have been by Plants for All Seasons

1:23:43

lately, you know what I'm talking about. When I say the place looks

1:23:45

gorgeous. It is stocked up. There's plenty of everything there. One of

1:23:50

the things I enjoy there is the fact that they're gonna carry things that do

1:23:56

well here, that that's just what they do. They this place Plants for

1:24:00

all seasons, the Flowery Family. They've been doing this since nineteen seventy three.

1:24:03

For those of you who haven't been there, it's on Highway to forty

1:24:06

nine North. That's Tomball Parkway when you get if you're heading north, when

1:24:12

you get to Luetta, you exit Luetta and go over Luetta and it's right

1:24:15

there on the side of Tomball Parkway, just past Luetta. Easy, easy,

1:24:18

easy to get to. Now they are green thumb experts, So if

1:24:24

you have a brown thumb, you walk in there, they're going to give

1:24:26

you a plant, and they're going to give you advice, and they're going

1:24:28

to give you the products you need to turn the brown green. That's what

1:24:31

we always say. There's no such thing as a brown thumb, there's uninformed

1:24:35

thumbs. Well, when you take quality plants, quality products, and quality

1:24:39

advice, everything looks like you have a green thumb because you're doing it right.

1:24:44

And Plants for All Seasons helps you do that. The website Plants for

1:24:48

All Seasons dot com. The phone number you want to write this down two

1:24:53

eight, one, three, seven six, sixteen forty six. Go in,

1:24:57

talk to Sherry, talk to Kelly, talk the whole crew there.

1:25:00

Everybody that's there is an expert in helping you have success. You can take

1:25:04

them a sample, you can a picture in there. Their goal is to

1:25:09

make sure that you have beauty and bounty just like you're dreaming of when you

1:25:14

walk into the place, and they'll work with you to help you achieve just

1:25:17

that at Plants for All Seasons. I'm going to head up to Cypress now

1:25:23

and talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, good morning, Thank you for

1:25:28

taking my call. I have a question, like a general question on my

1:25:33

vegetable plant. I know indeterminate tonight You're not you're supposed to prune, but

1:25:42

like my black beauty eggplant they finally produced, and my okras and my bell

1:25:48

peppers. If the lead at the bottom are touching the oil, should I

1:25:54

pick them off? But pip them off? I generally do. I mean,

1:25:58

you know, there's always a potential, especially an unmulched soil, to

1:26:01

splash dirt up on them and maybe get a little more disease issues that could

1:26:05

get in there a little leisier. It's not night and day. It's not

1:26:09

like, you know, it's the end of the world if you don't prone

1:26:11

them off. But number one, just keep the soul mult and then you

1:26:15

don't really even have to worry about it, Sandy, I find containers.

1:26:19

Okay, yeah, no, I wouldn't. I just wouldn't worry about it.

1:26:23

A lot. You'll find that the older leaves start to get aged,

1:26:27

and they may get more leaf spots, or they may turn a little bit

1:26:30

yellow and stuff. So sometimes you're cleaning them up just for aesthetics, sort

1:26:32

of get disease issues reduced a little bit in the in the plant. Thank

1:26:40

you, bet good luck. Now you know, Sandy that if we give

1:26:43

advice, it's free. But all I ask for is half the eggplant you

1:26:47

grow, drop it off at the studio. I got to make my baba

1:26:51

ganoosh and so I'm dependent on your baba. You take care, you take

1:26:59

care. If if you are looking to improve your lawn and you're looking for

1:27:03

a natural product that has a high concentration of nitrogen in it, Sweet Green

1:27:09

by Nitrofoss has just that. It's eleven percent nitrogen product. It's based on

1:27:14

a molasses with the microbial content involved to create this sweet Green product that absolutely

1:27:23

stimulates microbial growth in your soil. You know, organic gardeners have been using

1:27:27

molasses on their soil for a long time and they understand the value that to

1:27:32

stimulating beneficial bacteria and other microbes. And Sweet Green will do that now.

1:27:36

Sweet Grain, being a Knight Fosh product, is easy to find. You

1:27:40

don't have to hunt everywhere for it. You're going to find it an enchanted

1:27:44

forest out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. A growers outlet up in willis

1:27:48

Or RCW Nursery where Interstate Interstate where FM two forty nine Tambo Parkway comes into

1:27:57

Beltway eight. All places you can get You're Sweet Green from Nitroposs. We're

1:28:02

gonna head out now to Jersey Village, and talk to Teddy. Hello,

1:28:05

Teddy, how are you doing? Skip? I'm well, how are you?

1:28:10

I'm doing fantastic. I got a quick question for you. I drove

1:28:15

around the neighborhood and as a matter of fact, in my front yard,

1:28:19

I've noticed that I'm patches. I only got a few patches of lime green

1:28:26

color. And I'm I'm over here, like am I'm the only one?

1:28:30

So hey, you know what. I drove around, you know, and a few homes and all that, and they even had it too. I

1:28:35

mean, it's what's the problem there. It could be a couple of things.

1:28:41

Uh. Iron deficiency will cause a lack of iron, I'm a lack

1:28:45

of art, a lack of deep green, the emerald green color you're probably

1:28:48

looking for. Uh. If you grab a grass blade that lacks the color

1:28:55

and you hold it up to the light and let the light kind of come

1:28:58

through it, and you see green and yellow stripes going up and down the

1:29:02

blade, that is an iron deficiency. And so now the next question is

1:29:08

why is there an iron deficiency. It could be because of a lack of

1:29:11

iron, but more likely it's because of a lack of available iron. And

1:29:15

so putting down a product that is going to give you iron. You can

1:29:18

do an iron keylate. A keylate is a way they protect the iron molecules

1:29:25

so the soil doesn't tie it up as fast. You could do that.

1:29:29

You could do fertilizers that contain iron. You know, this silver bag nitrophuss

1:29:33

superturf contains four percent. You know, I put that the nineteen fourten.

1:29:39

That yeah, I called in that last week. I put that in last

1:29:43

week, okay, and that will be that will be providing some iron for

1:29:46

them. The other thing that can cause iron deficiency is loss of roots.

1:29:51

The disease take all root rot often shows up as yellowish types of areas on

1:29:57

their way down to dead. And if the yellow keeps going and you end

1:30:00

up with dead spots, that would probably take a root rot. But I

1:30:06

don't want to jump to conclusions. I'm just telling you you're seeing an iron

1:30:11

deficiency and it's due to one of those things. And I think you did

1:30:14

the right thing starting with the silver bag super turf. Let's see if it

1:30:18

carry up from that. If not, you may want to treat those spots

1:30:21

with a little iron key late as well. Okay. Is that a concern

1:30:26

I need to worry about? Right now, or I just just I would

1:30:29

wait if it were mine, I would wait and watch a lot of times

1:30:31

iron deficiency gets better as the weather warms up a little bit too. All

1:30:35

right, okay, okay, all right, skip, Thank you buddy,

1:30:39

all right, you bet, thank you nobody. I wanted to tell you

1:30:45

guys about Jorges Hidden Gardens. You probably have have heard me talk about them

1:30:48

before. They're down in Alvin and Hoores Hidden Gardens. Is it's easy,

1:30:54

easy to get to. I mean they here's there. They're hours, by

1:30:58

the way. They're open for weekend Friday from eight am to four pm Saturday

1:31:01

from a am to four pm. Sunday from eight am to four pm,

1:31:05

so it's easy to remember, right eight am to four pm Saturday through Sunday.

1:31:10

They have a lot of plants, a lot of selection plants. You

1:31:13

can get fruit trees, you can get bedding plants. You can get your vegetables and herbs and blueberries and I mean just all kinds of things at Jorges

1:31:21

Hidden Gardens. They also carry this three sixty tree stabilizer three sixty tree stabilizer

1:31:27

a brago. They've got it down there. You can get it, so

1:31:29

if you're in Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, Alcoa, Arcadia,

1:31:32

Alta Loma, all those communities. You got a hometown garden center right in

1:31:38

your backyard. Jorges Hidden Gardens. They are easy to get to. Again,

1:31:43

they're in Alvin, Texas, so no problem finding Jorges Hidden Gardens.

1:31:46

By the way, they're on Elizabeth Street. If you're looking, I'm gonna

1:31:50

go away, take a break. I'll be right back. Seven one three,

1:31:54

two point two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, welcome back to garden

1:31:58

Line. Good to have you with us today. It's going to be a good day. By the way, I know you see clouds, but that's

1:32:02

just to keep a cooler for us. We're not going to get a lot

1:32:04

of rain today. In fact, you probably will not see rain where you

1:32:09

are at all, even in a little tiny sprinkle. So it's a good

1:32:12

day to get out, get some work done, get some plants and products

1:32:15

and things, so you set yourself up for success. Remember that spring,

1:32:19

we are still officially in. Spring is the time when we set ourself up

1:32:25

for success. So when the brutal summer months come, we've got healthy plants

1:32:30

with good, deep, strong root systems because we've prepared the soil, and

1:32:33

we purchased plants that belonged, and we got them planted and established before the

1:32:39

brutal weather of summer I hit them. So it's now's the chance. You

1:32:44

have been warned, you have been advised, or whatever. Now's the time

1:32:47

to get all this done so you can have that kind of success. Speaking

1:32:53

of getting out and about ACE Hardware has got a deal that I got to

1:32:56

tell you about. This is the Big still Sail Steel. Steel is in

1:33:01

the string tremors, as in the chainsaws, as in the power equipment that

1:33:08

you love it, quality equipment. Right now, thirty two participating ACE stores

1:33:14

will honor this sale today. There's a couple of them that may. Some of them are doing it yesterday, some of them will do it tomorrow.

1:33:19

But today, all of them, all of them today, Big Ace,

1:33:23

the ACE Big Steel Sale. And it is now fifteen percent off. Even

1:33:29

if something's on sale, you still get fifteen more percent off. I don't

1:33:32

know how you beat that. So that's on all the steel serial numbered tools,

1:33:38

all the attachments, the batteries, and the chargers. Now it doesn't

1:33:43

include industrial tools and accessories, but all still serial number tools, attachments,

1:33:48

batteries and chargers at thirty two different ACE Hardware stores. You're not going to

1:33:53

beat that. And by the way, while you're there, don't forget this

1:33:57

is the emergency weekend break where things that we would purchase, such as batteries,

1:34:05

such as an escape ladder out of the second story, and all the

1:34:09

kinds of things you might purchase during it for emergencies at your house you can

1:34:14

get tax free, and ACE carries those kinds of things, So talk to

1:34:16

them about that when you're in there too. I want to head now to

1:34:21

Richmond and we're going to talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, Hey,

1:34:26

good morning Skip. I got a quick question for you. We've got some

1:34:30

live oaks in our front yard, three of them. They've been here,

1:34:33

oh, probably five years. They've been getting about twelve thirteen fourteen feet tall

1:34:38

now and I need to find somebody that can come and excuse me and the

1:34:42

trim the tops of them. They're getting kind of bushy. All right,

1:34:45

Well, the person I would suggest you get is Martin spoon More. Martin

1:34:49

Spoon Moore's companies called Afordable Tree Service. You want to hear them advertised on

1:34:55

your shows or the channel there a lot. So yeah, Mark's been doing

1:34:59

this long time if they're over thirty years experience, and I've seen the work

1:35:03

he does, visited with the hem and Joe. Uh. There, that's

1:35:08

that old time kind of company service where the owners answer the phone and the

1:35:13

the they make sure you're happy with the work. So uh here that was

1:35:16

right. Okay, here's the phone number. Do you got a penhandy?

1:35:18

There? I do. I'm ready seven one three six nine nine twenty six

1:35:24

sixty three seven one okay, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. If

1:35:29

you want to go to the website websites aff Tree Service dot com. Aff

1:35:33

Tree Service dot com. Okay, I got one more quick question if you

1:35:36

have time absolutely work. My wife, our neighbor has an evergreen rosebush out

1:35:42

front and it's just beautiful and we're having a hard time finding those, uh

1:35:46

and nurseries around. Do you have any idea? Those are the ones I

1:35:49

had, like the five white petals that look more like a flower than a

1:35:53

rose. Well, I'm not you don't have to have a variety name for

1:36:00

it, yeah, rosesance. Oh, I'll tell you what I would.

1:36:10

I would call RCW Nursery and see if they have access to that they've got

1:36:15

like, oh gosh, four pages single space of roses that they have access

1:36:23

to to be able to get some stuff. RCW prib be your best bet.

1:36:27

RCW Nursery. You know, sense a builder put these in five years

1:36:31

ago, you think they'd be clinical because they don't really put the most expensive

1:36:35

things into yeah, you know, landscape. But yeah, well that's a

1:36:39

hard time for some reason. Well, and I don't know that. I've

1:36:42

never grown that rose. I don't know that rose. So that's why I'm

1:36:45

going to refer you just to give them, give them a call or go

1:36:49

buy. The website is RCW Nurseries dot com. Uh, they're they're there

1:36:55

at We're talking about park Land belt Way eight. Come together. Okay,

1:36:58

we'll give me show. Thank you for appreciate you you bet appreciate the call

1:37:01

away audios. Yeah, that's interesting. I don't have to look that up.

1:37:06

I'm not familiar. Haven't grown that one before. We talk about lawn

1:37:11

fertilizing, and you know the purpose of fertilizer is to provide the nutrient bank

1:37:17

account in the soil that plants need. I know, we think of it

1:37:21

like you know, you fertilize and it makes your plants grow. And well,

1:37:28

yes, to a degree, the nitrogen is doing that, but you

1:37:31

have all these other nutrients that don't make the plant grow. They support the

1:37:35

growth the plant is trying to do. And asamite would be an example.

1:37:41

As mite provides trace minerals. Trace minerals are needed in tiny amounts. It

1:37:45

doesn't, you know, azamite goes a long way. I mean, you

1:37:47

know, one one bag of azamite, what a forty four pound bag will

1:37:51

cover six to twelve thousand square feet. But you got to have those nutrients

1:37:57

because remember how I was kind of joking earlier that I don't eat six months

1:38:00

worth of food in one day. I eat a little bit every day. And plants are taking up nutrients a little bit every day. So you can't

1:38:06

fertilize every day for them. You shouldn't. What you do is you build

1:38:11

that bank account and then when the roots need it, it's there. And

1:38:14

as mite does just that. It's easy to find as m It's widely available,

1:38:17

no problem at all getting hold azmite. It's one of the more easy

1:38:21

to find products that we talk about here on Garden Line. But it does

1:38:26

provide that kind of a boost. You're listening to garden Line, and I'm

1:38:30

your host, Skip Richter, and here is the phone number seven one three

1:38:34

two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight

1:38:40

seven four. We're going to go now to let's see spring and talk to

1:38:44

rich Hello, rich good morning. Skip. Question regarding nuts edge, I

1:38:49

had a little patch in my yard, so I used Prosedge hell soap puron

1:38:56

methyl product. Okay, My neighbor next door add a bunch of nuts edge

1:39:01

along with some Virginia button weed, so I used blind side. The blind

1:39:08

side on his lawn knocked the heck out of the nuts edge as well as

1:39:14

the Virginia button weed. But my lawn using the pro sedge, it has

1:39:19

impacted it, but at two weeks down the road, it's still not even

1:39:24

dead any ideas the pro sedge tell me again, it knocked backge. It

1:39:35

didn't. It knocked it back, but nowhere near killing it. Like the

1:39:40

nuts edge on my neighbors that in four days it's totally brown. Okay,

1:39:45

well, okay. First of all, just in general about herbicides, how

1:39:48

fast it works doesn't necessarily mean it works better or worse. You know,

1:39:53

some things take their time and do an awesome job. So I'll just set

1:39:59

the speed aside. But the blind Side is a product that's generally not available

1:40:04

over the counter. It's it's going to have two different ingredients in it,

1:40:09

and so you're probably coming at it from both sides. It is. It

1:40:13

does do good on on purple and yellow nuts sedge. The pro sedgs the

1:40:17

halo you said, halo sulfur on, right, was the ingredient, and

1:40:20

yes, yeah, yes, sir, Yeah, the halo sulfur on is

1:40:25

also I believe that's the one that's in manage. Let me see if I

1:40:30

can find that particular thing or saige excuse me, just an I'm gonna find

1:40:33

out sedgehammer that's the one. Yeah, it's the same. Yeah, it's

1:40:38

the same. I've checked it. Yeah, and it works good. It's

1:40:41

a very effective product on the nuts edge. So uh, just get be

1:40:45

a little patient with it, I guess, and see if you feel like

1:40:48

it's not going to do the job, which I'm not sure why I wouldn't,

1:40:51

because it does work. It's a very popular product. Uh, then

1:40:56

maybe talk to your neighbor and get a little bit of a little bit of

1:40:59

what he bought, because he probably bought way more than he needs. If

1:41:01

you know I bought it, I've got bottles of Blindside and Celsius. I'm

1:41:05

the guy that takes care of my neighbors launched. Okay, so you're the

1:41:10

you're the local controller around the place there. Well, I wouldn't just immediately

1:41:16

jump on that and apply that to the product. I would I would stick

1:41:21

with waiting to see how what yours is going to do. Give it another

1:41:26

couple of weeks to see if you see results before you well do Joe.

1:41:30

Thanks collusions all right, Rich, thank you for the call. Thanks appreciate

1:41:33

that very much. When it comes to brown stuff and having success, Ciena

1:41:40

Mulch is a place where you're going to get everything you need. Every fertilizer

1:41:45

I talk about on guardline, is there, the heirloom soils, rose soil,

1:41:49

the leaf mole compost, it's there. They deliver within twenty miles and

1:41:54

twenty miles Ciena malt where twenty miles of what Well, it's due south of

1:41:59

Houston. So if you are out in neighborhoods like Iowa Colony or Coola Lake,

1:42:03

Olympia, Pomona Riverstone Manbill Roach, Sharon, Meridian, first colony.

1:42:08

We can just go on and on that. Cena Maultch is your hometown local

1:42:13

supplier. They are near Highway six and two eighty eight just north of Roch

1:42:16

Sharon on FM five twenty one. Cienamultch dot com is the website Sienna mulch

1:42:24

dot com. You can get all the stuff to make the brown stuff perfect

1:42:29

for when you plant the green stuff in it. That's how that works.

1:42:32

Soils, fertilizers, quality products, mulches, that's it's all CNA malts.

1:42:38

They deliver within about twenty miles of their location. All right, it's time

1:42:43

for a break here. Well, I've got some folks online, those of you that are out there, I will come to you first when we come

1:42:48

back. We just want to make sure we have plenty of time to be

1:42:51

able to address your call. And now it's time to turn it over to

1:42:55

Nikky for news. Right, I got it. Is that what we're gonna

1:42:58

do. That's what we're going to do. All right, Well, thanks

1:43:00

for listening to Garden And by the way, don't forget I'm going to be

1:43:02

at Southwest Fertilizer today starting at eleven a m. We're going to be giving

1:43:08

away all kinds of things, including some really cool stuff like a Toro blower

1:43:13

and a Toro string trimmer. And we got some cool products from Adina as

1:43:16

well. All right, well, here's Nicky Welcome back to garden Line.

1:43:23

Little music from looking Glass. Also music for Guardians from Guardians to the Galaxy

1:43:29

for those of you who know the song from that. We're gonna go to

1:43:31

Northwest Houston and talk to Bob Hello, Bob, Hey, Skip. I've

1:43:38

got a dilemma. I mault my yard every every year, and I've done

1:43:43

it, you know, for twenty five years with bulk hardwood mult Last year

1:43:48

I put the mulch down and immediately my my tender plant started drying, dying

1:43:56

young ones, certain varieties. Something was in that malt. So this year

1:44:01

I changed where I got it. Okay, put it down last weekend.

1:44:06

We got that heavy rain Saturday night and everything's dying Sunday morning, my tomatoes,

1:44:15

my young plants. I read that the malt can leach an acid if

1:44:26

it hasn't been wet and dried prior to putting it down. What's going on?

1:44:30

Oh boy? This would take a while to drill down through all the

1:44:36

issues that might be going on on it. But mulch can be a problem,

1:44:42

but generally is not. If someone knows what they're doing making mulch,

1:44:48

creating a multch product, you shouldn't have that problem with it. This wasn't

1:44:54

a dyed mulch by any chance, was it. No, no, no,

1:44:56

no, no. This is just regular hardwood. And like I said,

1:44:59

I had got mulch in prior years at the same place for twenty years.

1:45:03

Yeah, this year I changed and it's irreputable. It's ground up,

1:45:09

the ground up and good looking mulch. Put it down and boom it kills

1:45:15

it. My thought was they it doesn't have time to sit in the yard

1:45:21

to deteriorate, and it's still got it's still green, and it's high nitrogen

1:45:29

as it as it decomposes, and it's burning the plants. Well that is

1:45:33

yeah, the mult will not behind nitrogen to be on the other end of

1:45:38

the spectrum. But people put undecomposed mulches down all the time, dried leaves

1:45:45

for example, you know pine pine bark chips, right, it's not not

1:45:50

the fact that it's not decomposed. Only there are things that can happen in

1:45:55

the process that create an issue. But what you're describing it, something's not

1:46:00

quite right. How fast did you say you solve the problem overnight? Overnight?

1:46:05

Yeah, we had that heavy rain and the next morning my my begonias

1:46:13

were dying. I had my tomatoes are turning brown. A pepper plant,

1:46:20

a bell pepper plant. I mean just generally the younger, the more tender

1:46:28

plants are dying. Helly, it killed Basle overnight. Well, you got

1:46:35

me somebody to be able to answer this. Yeah, this, And I've

1:46:40

done nothing different than I've done in prior years. Prior, I mean,

1:46:45

I do it. I even put it on a little thinner this year.

1:46:48

Normally I put about ten inches down, and I probably put four or five

1:46:53

thinking, you know, may yes, mothered them four or five inches deep?

1:46:58

Yes, holy cow, well ten I've never heard of that. But

1:47:00

four or five is even a pretty good thick. Well, I mean it's

1:47:05

composed down it, you know, it compacts. Okay, And well,

1:47:11

I'll tell you what, Bob, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna have an

1:47:13

answer just immediately. I'm going to try to check with some of our the

1:47:16

mulch makers that I know what they're doing. Maybe one of them would like

1:47:21

to call in and discuss it. I just think it's interesting that it happened

1:47:25

two years in a row with two different suppliers. That is very strange,

1:47:30

and so I'm kind of at a loss as to where to go from here.

1:47:34

It shouldn't be the case, though. I mean, I will say

1:47:38

this, A friend of mine got part of this load. My last load

1:47:44

then finished up the yard with bag mault, and the bag malts came from

1:47:51

one of the biggest supplier here in town. And the bag malts didn't seem

1:47:59

to have the effect that the bulk mulch. Okay, well let me look

1:48:02

into it. If I figure out anything, we'll say it on the air

1:48:05

today. But you got you got me on that one, okay, Well,

1:48:11

everybody the same thing I've said, Yeah, okay, thank you,

1:48:15

thank you. I appreciate it. Bye bye. Speaking of multch products,

1:48:21

you know that it is important to get a quality product when you do that,

1:48:26

and uh yeah, folks at landscaper Spride they absolutely know how to create

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Landscapers Pride, you are going to find quality products. They're going to have

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1:48:49

it is naturally that color and it just beautiful, velvety and dense. It's

1:48:55

just it's an excellent They have a hardwood mulch, a hardwood based mult ground

1:49:00

up. It's not you know people that grind up palettes or repurposed wood.

1:49:04

No, this is truly hardwood malts. Good for walkways, you know,

1:49:09

all where the pathway melting the surface in your flower beds and recreation areas.

1:49:14

Pine bark maults they have that locally sourced pine. It's got a very slow

1:49:17

decomposition rate which people like just kind of lasts a little bit longer out there

1:49:23

in the garden. And then their Garden Magic Soil. It's a pine based

1:49:27

blend that contains humus and screened pine and composted rice holes as well as chicken

1:49:31

pellet furbilizer that will give you feeding for up to three months. That's the

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Garden Magic Soil from Landscaper's Pride. If you want to find out more about

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them, Landscaperspride dot com find out about this twenty seven products and their store

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locator as well. While you're out about doing that, let's go to Dayton

1:49:50

now and we're going to talk to Marshall. Hello, Marshall, Hey,

1:49:54

Skip, how you doing. I'm well, thank you. Hey. I

1:49:58

got a question on I've got a couple of silver maples still in the pots.

1:50:04

Without getting into a long story, I was babying them and you got

1:50:10

them up to growing pretty good, but then I got busy I didn't mess

1:50:15

with it. And then now they've been in there a year and a half

1:50:19

and I want to transplant them. How should I go about that? Well,

1:50:25

you need to pull them out of the pot, and you're going to

1:50:27

see roots going in a circle, and you need to either unwind those,

1:50:31

which is not going to probably be practical, or slice through them in three

1:50:36

or four places vertically through that cylinder of roots. I know that sounds drastic,

1:50:43

don't worry about. Just go ahead and do it. Plant them in

1:50:45

the ground, get them established, and within a couple of weeks are going

1:50:48

to have fresh new roots coming out from where you cut the ends. That's

1:50:51

your best chance of getting them established. Now, if the roots have grown

1:50:58

through the pots, can trim those roots or is that a no no?

1:51:01

Or what no? You got to cut those off. You got to cut

1:51:05

them off. So the ball root is probably still obviously inside the pot,

1:51:13

right the what root please? The ball root? The root ball itself?

1:51:17

Yeah, thes I like to call it a root cylinder. It's called root

1:51:20

balls because people used to ball and burlap trees, and you had a tree

1:51:25

with a little ball on the bottom of roots and soil. But it's kind

1:51:28

of a root cylinder since you've grown them in a pot and it's inside there.

1:51:31

It's got all the roots of the tree, unless some have come out

1:51:34

the holes into the ground. But just cut them all off, cut those

1:51:38

off that are coming out of the holes of the pot, and then slice

1:51:40

vertically through the others. It's drastic, but it's you know, it's the

1:51:44

only way to not end up with a problem on those trees that you've grown

1:51:48

in the pot for a little extra time there and on cutting them. Is

1:51:55

there a certain way I should cut them like at a forty five or just

1:51:59

chomp it or clip it? Or how should I I that? You know,

1:52:03

on some plants with the roots aren't big. I take a box cutter

1:52:06

knife and just vertically slice through it about an inch a date. If you

1:52:10

need to get pruners, just going with pruners and snip off the ones going

1:52:14

in a circle, and do it in about three or four places around there,

1:52:18

because everywhere you cut, it's going to branch and it'll establish better.

1:52:21

All right, sounds great, Thank you you, Bet Marshall. Thanks a

1:52:26

lot. I appreciate that. Hey, we got to take a little break

1:52:28

here. If listen, Linda, you'll be first when we come back.

1:52:31

If you'd like to give us a call seven to one three two one two

1:52:34

kat r h. All right. If you put it and tap in,

1:52:40

you you better check your pulse, that is for sure. If you're looking

1:52:45

for a quality mix to put in a container for your indoor plants, that

1:52:48

would be jungle Land water saving potting soil. It's got crystals in it that

1:52:54

swell up with water. After the mix itself begins to dry out a little

1:52:58

too far, you know, you forgot to water well. Those crystals are

1:53:01

still holding onto moisture and the roots can get access. So let's just say

1:53:05

it makes the soil a little more forgiving, if you will of a bad

1:53:09

watering schedule. Well, jungle Land indoor water saving crystals, indoor potting salt

1:53:15

with water saving crystals. You're going to get it in enchanted forest. You're

1:53:17

going to get it at Growers Outlet up in Willis RCW Nursery carries the night

1:53:25

Fist products as well. We're going to head out now to Linda in Tomball.

1:53:29

Hello, Linda, I skip doing a great job. Thank you.

1:53:33

Man. I need some help with my all my plants basically, but I

1:53:41

have some night blooming jazmine bushes. I have four around my back and for

1:53:48

some reason, I've had them for ten twelve years and at night they are

1:53:55

fantastic. But something is eating my leaves for the first time. Okay,

1:54:02

they're chewing them like this little red and then some of them have like insl

1:54:09

sized holes in them. I sprayed it twice with memol and that's not doing

1:54:14

it. Really, that's surprising. Uh. You kind of have to once

1:54:18

you get a bunch of holes, you kind of have to study where they

1:54:20

are so when you look again you can tell if they're new holes or if

1:54:24

it's still the same old holes. I was, well, go ahead pinching

1:54:29

off of the pinchin the old ones, the ones that are damaged off though

1:54:33

I couldn't and they're there every night, all right. I would switch over

1:54:39

and get a product called spin no said s p I n O s a

1:54:45

D spin nose sad and spray that on it, and I think that will

1:54:49

take care of it for you. I just want to get good coverage on

1:54:53

it. But just realize too, that night blooming jasmine, it can lose

1:54:57

a lot of leaves and it's still okay. I may not look good,

1:55:00

but it's not like you know, you get a few leaves with holes in

1:55:02

them and the plants in trouble, it still will perform well for you,

1:55:08

all right. Yeah, they have made it through the phrases and the monsoons

1:55:14

and everything, and they love that plant. I absolutely love it. Hey,

1:55:18

Linda, thank you for the call and good luck with it. I

1:55:20

think the spinosa is going to do what you need to. I'm going to

1:55:24

give it. Thank you. You've had you take care. Hey, have

1:55:27

you been to the antique rosen Porium. I'm telling you that place is crawling

1:55:31

with roses. You know, they grow them in two gallons. Every rose

1:55:34

they have it's once that price twenty nine to ninety five each. The two

1:55:39

gallon containers. That's a good sized container to grow a nice robust rose.

1:55:43

So it does well for you. Now an antique Rose, you got to

1:55:46

go just to see the nursery and display gardens because they are roses, but

1:55:50

they are so much more. Lots of different kinds of quality plants out there,

1:55:55

houseplants, flowers, fruit trees, lots of natives, tons of natives.

1:56:00

Every Friday and Saturday at one pm is their Tinker Garden Workshops. That's

1:56:03

for kids, by the way, age two through eight. It's a ticketed

1:56:08

event. It'll go through mid May, so you can bring the kiddos out

1:56:11

there again Friday or Saturday at one pm for the Tinker Garden Workshops. Go

1:56:16

to the website Antique Roseemporium dot com and just check out the upcoming events tab.

1:56:25

That's where you find that kind of stuff out. Still looks beautiful at

1:56:28

Antique Rows. Always looks beautiful at Antiquerose. If you want to give them

1:56:31

a call, it's ninety seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight eight

1:56:36

three six five five four eight. We're going to go out to Angleton.

1:56:41

Now we're going to talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, how are you

1:56:44

doing this twenty. I'm well, sir, how can we help. Well,

1:56:49

we bought a house a few years ago and it had what I would

1:56:54

call, I guess, an ornamental cedar tree in the front yard. It

1:56:57

was a couple of them. They weren't real tall. They had been there

1:57:00

about twenty twenty one years and they were starting to die. I'd cut them

1:57:04

off. I dug up the stumps and got that out. But now for

1:57:09

the past almost three years, I haven't been able to get grass to grow

1:57:12

in that area, and just wondering if the soil may be toxic or from

1:57:15

the app or what. Sometimes we see that around cedars. I think it's

1:57:19

I don't think it's toxic, but I think it should get improved. I

1:57:23

would do a little errating on it, get some composts down in there.

1:57:27

Even you know, it's not too big of an area if it was around

1:57:30

a plant like that, So you could even take a spading for it and push it, wiggle it straight down in the soil and just kind of pull

1:57:34

back a little to crack it open, and then move over and do that

1:57:38

again, and then put a fine quality, very small particle compost like a

1:57:43

screened leaf mole compost over it watered in really good, and then do your

1:57:47

fertilizing and I think you're going to be able to bring it back. Just

1:57:53

that shouldn't last long what you're seeing. Okay, well, I appreciate it

1:57:57

all right, good luck, Thanks a lot, appreciate your call very much.

1:58:00

You know, you can use a product like Microlife on there, the

1:58:03

sixty four that's a green bag. Put that on after you make the holes

1:58:08

in the ground and in the situation like I was just discussing with him,

1:58:13

and you can absolutely get that nutrient done in the ground and it'll do very

1:58:15

well. Humants plus would be another good example that is concentrated compost in a

1:58:20

bag. I would sprinkle Humage plus over that area after doing the aeration in

1:58:26

this specific situation. For the rest of you, you just sprinkle it out,

1:58:30

spread it out with your spreader on the ground, do the Humane plus, turn right around, do the Microlife green bag six two four and those

1:58:38

over time, just get the soil better and better and better, and you're

1:58:42

going to see. This is the organic system, you know, it's not

1:58:45

just this quick fix thing. We build the soil with quality products and things

1:58:50

get better and better. The grasskets denser. We do all least less weed

1:58:55

problems. As a result of that, the soil is better, the aeration,

1:58:59

the and everything. The root systems are happy all because you get on

1:59:02

that system and stay on it. Microlife Fertilizer dot com is where you can

1:59:08

find out where to get microlife as well as learn more about their products.

1:59:13

I'm going to head out now to Audrey and Tom Ball. Hello, Audrey,

1:59:17

Hi didn't learning Hi? March sixteenth, got planted at Guardina and it's

1:59:29

just sitting there with the balloons. It's been sitting there with the balloons and

1:59:32

they're not opening. Okay. I can see the flowers and they're just not

1:59:35

blooming. Okay. It's called a gardenia August beauty. So far it hasn't

1:59:40

been too beautiful without any blooming. Well, that's a that's a beautiful old

1:59:44

garden. You've been around for a while now, your did you do any

1:59:47

show work before you planted it? Yes, it said to Nick, sand

1:59:54

and soil a foot wide and a foot deep, And I did that.

1:59:57

Okay. And how long did you plant? How long ago did you say

2:00:01

you planted it on March sixteenth? I tell you Guardina's love acidic soil that

2:00:12

has a lot of organic matter in it, and I, you know,

2:00:16

I'm kind of sitting here trying to decide which way would I go. I

2:00:19

think if it were mine, I might lift it up and slide it onto

2:00:23

a tart, move it out of the way, and then get a good

2:00:27

quality mix like a rose soil or which which is good for plants, especially

2:00:32

those that like it a little on the cidic side. Mix that in also

2:00:36

with what you've already done, and then reset that plant watered in really well

2:00:42

and begin using a plant food for acidic plants in it. If you don't

2:00:47

want to go to that trouble, let's just get some good multa over the

2:00:51

top and begin using that acidic plant plant food. I think that it will

2:00:57

do well. It's just gardenias need really good rainage, and to just dig

2:01:00

a hole and put sand in it is not necessarily gonna improve the internal drainage

2:01:06

down through the soil it. You know, a whole, a clay soil

2:01:10

whole holds water like a bathtub. And so I'm just kind of trying to

2:01:15

lift it up a little bit higher. I don't think that's why that's sitting

2:01:17

there in the blooms aren't opening yet, but I'm just thinking about Guardina's and

2:01:21

what they love and want to make sure long term you're setting it up for

2:01:26

success, So that would be the option I would consider. Okay, so

2:01:30

rose soil, yeah absolutely, yeah, up, yeah, you're gonna roast

2:01:36

soil is easy to find. Uh you know, it's widely available. I

2:01:40

know you go out there to uh D and de Feed on the west side

2:01:44

from Tomball. They carry the heirloom soils products. You might call them first

2:01:48

make sure they got the roast soil in stock that someone hadn't come cleaned them

2:01:51

out. But you can buy bags of it from them. There are a

2:01:55

lot of other places that you're going to get a quality roast sox perfect.

2:02:00

I'm by plants for all seasons. Should they have that, they may have

2:02:03

that as well, but if not, they may have a different plant soil

2:02:08

for acidic plants. If you're close to them, then just swing over there

2:02:12

and see what Cherry and them had over there. Wonderful. I'm so thankful

2:02:17

for your help, all right, and uh I appreciate it. That mean

2:02:20

a picture when it starts blooming. Thanks a lot, Audrey. Okay,

2:02:24

you did all right, bye bye, okay, bye bye. Yeah.

2:02:29

Nature's Way Resources, that's another good one. You know, Nature's way. They created rose soil. That's where rose soil was born, if you will.

2:02:36

And the finely screened leaf compost that we talk about top dressing with,

2:02:43

that's where it came from. That's where it came from. Nature's Way Resources.

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They are on I forty five up toward Conroe on the right hand side,

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up with quality products. Remember it all starts with the soil. All right,

2:03:10

We're gonna put this hour in the books. Just a reminder. I

2:03:13

am making a bee line for Southwest Fertilizer. I'll get there at eleven o'clock

2:03:16

today. I hope you'll come out and see me, bring me samples,

2:03:19

bring me your photos, just stop by to say hi. I always love

2:03:24

to meet people that listen to Garden Line. We're gonna be giving away a

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I'm gonna be giving them away skip Bucks. You stop by the table and

2:03:35

ask me a question and I will give you skip Bucks where you can go

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use them to buy products that are there. And you know Southwest Fertilizer they

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well. It's gonna be fun. Come on out and see us. Eleven

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am KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised

2:03:57

on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

2:04:02

It's so we just watching as many. Welcome back to the guard Line.

2:04:25

Good to have you with us today. Good to have you with us today.

2:04:28

I'm glad, glad to talk to you about the things that are of interest to you. You know, I am a broken record when it comes

2:04:35

to making sure your plants have success, that you get beauty and you get

2:04:42

bounty. And the way you do that is what what is the mantra here

2:04:45

on guard Line Brown stuff before green stuff. That's the simple way I put

2:04:48

together to say, if you get the soil right, your plants are going

2:04:53

to thrive and heirloom Soils has designed a wide variety of products to do just

2:04:58

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2:05:01

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2:05:12

You're going to be able to get a quality screened leaf more compost to do

2:05:16

your top dressing. You're going to be able to get a rose soil that

2:05:19

is top notch. By the way, it's they got some really attractive brand

2:05:23

new bags of it, so if you used to looking at the old bag,

2:05:27

they got a really cool pretty much same old quality rose soil in it.

2:05:31

But that is just how they do things at nature at the Airlom Soils

2:05:35

folks. Now, if you want bulk, you can drive out there to

2:05:39

porter. You can get a bulk. You can have them deliver it.

2:05:42

You can have them put it in a supersack, a one cubic yard container.

2:05:45

They sit it on your driveway. It's real neat and easy. Or

2:05:49

you can drive out and haven't put it on the trailer you got, put

2:05:53

them behind your truck if you want to go about that route. However you

2:05:56

want to go about it, or if maybe you just want to go to

2:05:58

some garden centers. Heirlom soils is widely available. If you're listening to Garden

2:06:04

Line from way out beyond the Houston area, heirloom soils is probably available in

2:06:10

your community because they just keep expanding the reach, so a lot of people

2:06:13

have access to these quality soils. Uh, I'm gonna see. We're gonna

2:06:18

go to the phone. Oh, speaking of Uh, go to the phone

2:06:23

right now. We're going to talk to Louise and Houston. Hey's Louise surprised?

2:06:27

Hey, Skip, I have I have Mark Powen with Bego Garden on

2:06:30

the line. He was the mastermind behind most of the recipes form. He

2:06:34

has the answered to the question you have good Hey Bob, Bob in northwest

2:06:39

Houston. You had that question about the molds. You put it out and

2:06:42

the next day you said plants were struggling. So here comes the experts with

2:06:46

your answer. Mark. Good to have you man. Hey, good morning,

2:06:50

Skip. I'm so great to be joining you and Louise. Of course,

2:06:56

so I've run into this in the past. There's like a potential like

2:07:00

perfect storm when it comes to mult and here it is so the maltz production

2:07:09

process. Typically MULT is sold as a finished product as a double ground mult.

2:07:15

So it's you know, you have like large trees and branches and all that are ground once into some big large shreds like five to nine inches long,

2:07:23

and then it's aged up and then down the road. Then they grind

2:07:28

it into smaller shreds, usually anywhere from half an inch to like three inches.

2:07:31

That's what we call the second grind or the double grind. And so

2:07:36

long story short, a second grind. If that malt is piled up in

2:07:43

a big pile what we call static pile, there is a potential perfect storm

2:07:47

window of like three to fifteen days later where that mult is sold three to

2:07:53

fifteen days later, that's the time period when that moult goes into the thermophilic

2:07:58

heating. Heat process can go anywhere from one hundred and fifty to you know,

2:08:03

two hundred degrees hot. Right, you can cook it in a multipile.

2:08:07

I hear, Oh, Louis's cooked steak and a whole meal in a

2:08:13

I'm not going to be eating at his house anytime soon. I hope you

2:08:16

wrap those up, Louis. Oh, you never know when you go to

2:08:18

Louise's house. So it's for sure, and just you could get the savici

2:08:24

right because then at least you know that doesn't gone too the composing process. All right, I digress. So back to the So three to fifteen days

2:08:33

is really hot, and if it's a really big pile with all that heat

2:08:37

and all that mass, sometimes they'll go anaerobic. And during that thirteen day

2:08:41

period sometimes you walk up and dig into the pile and it'll smell like vinegar.

2:08:46

And what's going on is that perfect storm when it's really hot, a

2:08:50

really big pile and it goes anaerobic where it doesn't have enough oxygen. Then

2:08:54

you'll have a pH which skip probably will sound shocking anywhere from like one and

2:09:00

a half to three. And that's like an indicator. And if it smells

2:09:03

like vinegar, yes, it's producing acidic acid. And we all know what

2:09:07

vinegars use for in the horticulture industry these days for people that you don't want

2:09:13

a natural way to combat weak it kills plants. Good. Yeah, And

2:09:16

so you have this little perfect storm and then so the good news is and

2:09:20

then what will happen is say that gets sold, you know, goes in

2:09:24

the dump truck, somebody delivers it, and and and of course the mult

2:09:28

will be physically hot. Plus you have the acidic acid. And so then

2:09:33

if it sits in a driveway, and then it starts trying to cool off.

2:09:37

But then when people start digging into the pile, well, when it's

2:09:41

piled, when it goes dumps out it, say it takes a couple of days or whatever it is, you know, immediately starts to try to reheat

2:09:46

again. But and so what will happen is often people if they take it

2:09:52

at that perfect storm stage, put it on the landscape. The physical heat

2:09:58

can be an issue for plants like that are more sensitive, like some of

2:10:01

the ferns and begonias, And and then on top of it you've got the

2:10:05

acidic acid, and so it can be a real issue. Now larger shrubs

2:10:11

because this fellow and this fellow had malted pretty deep too in the past,

2:10:16

like up to ten inches and this time maybe about five. So that just

2:10:20

adds to the potential for the heat that you're describing, I think, right.

2:10:24

And then larger shrubs and trees will usually withstand it. But you'll see

2:10:28

you know, on their the marges edges of their leaves what looks like symptoms

2:10:33

like if something had a chemical you know, burn, you know, or

2:10:37

something where somebody's putting you know, something's gotten dumped into the soil or whatever.

2:10:41

So that's the So that's the bad news that can happen in that cycle.

2:10:46

The good news is most plants will withstand it. They may go into

2:10:50

a little bit of shock. One of the best cures is just the water

2:10:54

more. If you spread it out real thick the potentially you know, maybe

2:10:58

send it out a little bit and then it down to two or three inches,

2:11:03

water it more and then if and then the other thing I would say

2:11:07

if people want to be pretty safe is just you know, if you if

2:11:11

you ever have a chance to smell of it there, if it evere's like

2:11:16

vinegar, it may be in that stage and then you either want to pass

2:11:22

on it or come back and revisit the issue in the positive of buying it

2:11:26

later. But so the two things to do is one, if you have

2:11:30

it the pile, it is like, wow, this is like really hot. Ideally before you put in the landscape it should be have dropped under one

2:11:35

hundred and twenty degrees. So that's one thing you could take a thermometer and

2:11:39

see if it's dropped under. And then the second thing, if it smells

2:11:43

like the vinegar. The thing you want to do, which is kind of

2:11:46

the cure both ways, would be to cure it off longer if you can't,

2:11:50

and then it could be as little as two weeks for curing it and up to but just to let it come down on the temperature and let that

2:11:58

pH kind of come back up citic acid to kind of work its way out,

2:12:01

and if you errate it a little bit more too, that that helps

2:12:05

kind of mitigate the effects of that acidic acid. Man, Mark, I

2:12:09

appreciate that, And Louise, I'm up against another break. But thank you

2:12:13

guys so much. Louise from Heirloom Soils and Mark you're you're my Vego friend

2:12:18

now over there at Vego Gardens too, right. That's great we can so

2:12:26

they're lucky to heank you guys. Thanks so much. Man, appreciate it

2:12:31

all. Right, there you go, folks that you just got the answer.

2:12:35

Uh, glad we could provide that. And Bob, I sure hope

2:12:37

you were listening. We're gonna take a little quick break here and I'll be

2:12:39

right back. Bill, you'll be the first up. Welcome back to Guardenline.

2:12:43

Good to have you with us today. Hey, if you're looking for

2:12:46

a fertilizer that you put down now and you have fertilized your lawn with a

2:12:52

gradual release all through the coming two or three four months, that would be

2:12:58

Nightcross Silver Bag nineteen four to ten. It's called superturf. And the reason

2:13:03

is it releases half that nutrient over the coming weeks and months. Literally,

2:13:11

I mean it carries on and on, depending on weather conditions and different things.

2:13:15

That release me a little slower, a little faster. But you basically

2:13:18

have got your summer fertilizing done with Nitrofoss superturf and you put it down right

2:13:22

now. It's got this supplemental iron. And we've had two collars, say

2:13:24

we talk about iron deficiency in the turf, well four percent additional iron promoting

2:13:31

that uniform, nice green color in your lawn. You're going to find Nitrofoss

2:13:35

superturf a lot of places because nitrofoss is basically a ubiquitously available product. You

2:13:41

can find it, for example, the shades of Texas in the woodlands.

2:13:45

You're going to find it in enchanted gardens down in Richmond. You're going to

2:13:48

find it at Fisher's Hardware, both the one in South Houston on Sophomore and

2:13:52

the one in Laporte on Broadway Street. All places where you're going to get

2:13:56

nitrofass superturf product. Go to Bill in Cypress Now, Hello Bill, A

2:14:03

good morning. Skip A simple question out here in Bridge Lines there's not enough

2:14:09

tree for hawks to live in and anyway, we've got a problem with rabbits

2:14:13

eating my foliage. Okay, any suggestions, Uh, you know, for

2:14:18

rabbits you're kind of basically fencing them out with a real low fence. That

2:14:22

is one option around gardens and things. You just see people put the chicken

2:14:28

wira up, get it down to the ground where maybe a little below the

2:14:31

ground, even where they're not going to just dig right under it, and

2:14:35

uh that I don't know to see Zara. There is a rabbit repellent out

2:14:39

there, and I can't remember what it's based on, probably a predator urine

2:14:46

or something like that, but there is a rabbit repellent. I've never tried

2:14:48

using it before. What about molasses? I don't know that that would keep

2:14:54

them away? Have you heard that it says. They said it keeps barmans

2:14:58

away, like you possums and stuff. Huh. I wonder why that is.

2:15:03

I don't know that that would be new to me. But I used

2:15:11

to use it on the nut grass too. Uh huh. Did it work

2:15:15

well for you? Yeah? It just takes a while. Yeah, yeah,

2:15:20

all right, yeah you you uh, other than what I told you

2:15:24

that, That's about all I would know to suggest. But hey, Bill,

2:15:33

you you can eat rabbits, you know that, right, They're not

2:15:37

that big. I've got people. I can hear screams from all over Houston.

2:15:39

People are how dare you? Okay? All right, I'm just starting

2:15:43

it up a little bit. I have a good day. Oh gosh,

2:15:48

I shouldn't go there, but I did. I did. Hey have you

2:15:54

been out to the Enchanted Forest? And Jenner Forest is in Richmond. It's

2:15:58

the garden center that if you're Richmond, you're heading towards sugar Land. It's

2:16:01

off to the right hand side, off to the right hand side. So

2:16:05

what you do is you just head out FM twenty seven fifty nine, twenty

2:16:11

seven fifty nine. Let me give you the website for I forget it.

2:16:15

Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX. Dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond,

2:16:20

TX dot com. Unbelievable website, excellent, excellent website. You want to

2:16:26

get on there, find out what's going on. It is a place you

2:16:28

go if you need anything in the way of herbs, vegetables, flowers,

2:16:33

trees, shrubs, if you like butterfly gardens, man, can they fix

2:16:37

you up. They've got the flowers for the adults. And they have a

2:16:39

lot of good larval food sources, you know, things like milkweed to supply

2:16:45

monarchs, or passion vine to supply go fritillaries, or pipeline for the pipeline

2:16:52

swallowtail caterpillars. They've got all of that and then some. And they always

2:16:56

have things going on all the time. There's something happening on Saturdays, especially

2:17:01

in the springtime, out at the Arborgate Nursery Arbor Gate. What am I

2:17:05

saying? And I'm halfway across the county at Enchanted Forest Garden Center down on

2:17:11

FM twenty seven fifty nine. You know, you I go on auto pilots

2:17:16

sometimes and that is never a good thing to do. Let's head out now

2:17:22

to Austin County and talk to Doris. Hello, Doris, Hi, are

2:17:26

you I'm well, thank you. I have a problem in my yard along

2:17:33

the curve and the walkways of the dry grass, like it didn't get enough

2:17:39

water. Maybe okay, so dry. If I pull that out and put

2:17:46

some topsoil down on those edges, will the grass be able to spread out?

2:17:52

It will, it'll close back in, But you got to get you

2:17:56

got to just make sure it has moisture. That's important. Sometimes I bought

2:18:00

silker hosts. Oh okay, well you could go that rude too. Then

2:18:03

you're then you're making sure that you've got it covered. Yeah, yeah,

2:18:07

that ought to do. What kind of grass do you have, Doris? Okay, yeah, it'll crawl back in there pretty quick if you I'd give

2:18:15

it a little extra fertilizer too, not extra, but make sure you do

2:18:18

fertilize it as well, and that will the water. Uh let's see.

2:18:24

Do you like organic? Do you like synthetic or do you care? I

2:18:28

used the silver bag when I'm fertilize. Okay, Well that's it. That

2:18:33

is that is super turf. It's going to gradually feed it. Uh.

2:18:35

Have you already fertilized that this year? You're saying, yeah, okay,

2:18:41

well you ought to be good. You ought to be good to go. You ought to be good to go, all right, Doris? All right,

2:18:46

thank you so much, you bet thanks a lot. I I appreciate

2:18:50

that a lot, that is for sure. Uh. The uh folks at

2:18:54

Southwest Fertilizer, I'm talking about Bob, they bye just make sure that he

2:19:01

has everything you could possibly need. I mean everything, really, eighty foot

2:19:05

wall of tools. If there is a pesticide to control insects, diseases,

2:19:09

or weeds, he's got it. If there's a fertilizer, liquid, granular,

2:19:16

organic, synthetic, fast, really slowerly, he has it all.

2:19:22

He has it all there. And I'm going to be there today, by the way, from eleven o'clock to one o'clock, so you got a two

2:19:28

hour window to stop buy, and I hope you will. I always love

2:19:31

to meet the folks that listen to Garden Line. We're gonna be given away

2:19:35

the I can't even see the name, and now my brain just went blank

2:19:41

here for just a second. Hang on something, sorry, Toro. I've said it three times today, the Toro blower and the Toro string trimmer.

2:19:48

Can you believe that that's a huge giveaway thing. We're give away some Medina

2:19:52

samples and products and things. And by the way, Bob just got a

2:19:56

shipment of this new Medina product called super Grow Plus. Supergirl Plus. It's

2:20:01

a sixteen zero two. Sixteen zero two is a wonderful blend. It of

2:20:07

course has zero on the phosphorus and phosphorus. If you fertilize your lawn for

2:20:11

years, you have enough phosphorus. It tends to build up over time.

2:20:15

This is a hose end application. It's got iron edta. Remember how I

2:20:18

talked about iron keylate earlier. That's what iron edta is. It's a type

2:20:24

of keylated iron. It's got seaweed extract in it. It is going to

2:20:28

be primarily an immediate release, but about one fifth of the nitrogen is going

2:20:33

to be slow release in that has to grow Supergirl Plus. Hook it up

2:20:37

to your garden hose. One quart covers four thousand square feet and Bob's got

2:20:41

it in stock. And you need to try this one. This is a

2:20:46

new thing, and if you haven't tried it before, you need to try

2:20:48

it. So swing by today. I'll you stop at the table and I'll

2:20:52

give you super skip Bucks Super skip Buck skip Bucks and you can take that

2:20:58

and get a huge discount off the price of anything you want to purchase in

2:21:03

there, including the has to grow super Grow Plus. You're not going to

2:21:07

find a better deal than this. Absolutely. And Southwest Fertilizer where is it.

2:21:11

It's on the corner of Businett and Runwick in Southwest Houston. Here's the

2:21:16

website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Come see me today

2:21:24

again. I'll be there. I'll arrive by eleven and I'll stay there until

2:21:28

one o'clock. I used to stick a little longer around. When I do

2:21:31

that, I always love to get to visit with Bob and his team there,

2:21:33

Aaron and all the folks. They know what they're talking about by the

2:21:37

way you carry them a sample in there, You car them a picture of

2:21:39

something and whatever. They can point you in the right direction. They understand

2:21:43

how their products work, so they can guide you in that. That is

2:21:46

important. You know, you go someplace and you buy a product from someone

2:21:50

that doesn't have a clue what they're talking about, and that's just wasted money

2:21:56

and who knows, you may end up doing damage with it. That's why

2:21:58

I like to go to Bob in Southwest Fertilizer because they do know what they're

2:22:03

talking about. And I'm going to be there today. Come by and see

2:22:05

me. Let me get a skip some skip Bucks in your hand so you

2:22:09

can go and get a great deal on the many many products that they carry

2:22:13

there at Southwest Fertilizer, including this great new product has to Grow Super Grow

2:22:20

plus the hose inch prayer with a sixteen zero two fertilizer in it. I'm

2:22:26

going to head out to Magnolia now and talk to Ted. Hello, Ted,

2:22:31

good morning. Wow, my backyard, Saint Agustine I lost from last

2:22:39

year. I don't know if it was take all ry rock, chinch bugs,

2:22:43

or heat or combination of all, but I did my best to treat

2:22:46

all three, but it's gone. I just air rated my entire yard and

2:22:52

I'm going to fertilize today and then I was going to put kalman ere a

2:22:58

day and then put side on top of that, uh and then treat for

2:23:05

the take all the root rock because I'm seeing signs of that again. Okay,

2:23:09

I wouldn't do the calmandar. I wouldn't do the calendar. It's a

2:23:13

it's a pretty high pH naturally high pH product. And like take all loves

2:23:18

high pH and we we don't want to encourage it by raising pH anymore than

2:23:22

it already is. Uh. But uh, you know, a good quality

2:23:26

fertilizer applied at the right time. What what did you say you were fertilizing

2:23:31

with. I'm sorry, other than the calmndar, did you have something?

2:23:33

It's it's a slow release, uh, fertilizer. Okay, Like is it

2:23:39

the Nelson Slow and Easy It's uh. Now it's some that I had from

2:23:46

my it's less go I think. Okay, all right, Well, I

2:23:48

mean if you got a fertilizer on hand, you can you can, you

2:23:52

know, go ahead and use it. But I would recommend you get you

2:23:56

some Slow and Easy by Nelson. That one will fertilized for the next three

2:24:01

months, and it's got several different types of nitrogen so that they get released

2:24:07

very slowly over time out there. Uh. It's easy slow and then with

2:24:13

apostrophe in and then easy slow in easy. Uh. And it's Nelson plant

2:24:18

food, so that'll get you set up. I'm up against a hard break

2:24:22

here, but I think the proper fertilizing with adequate watering and regular mowing,

2:24:26

and you're going to grow yourself out of this ted, but not worry about

2:24:31

putting any thing down before I put the side down. No, no,

2:24:35

I would just get the side and then I would begin to do the fertilizing.

2:24:39

Yeah, water it twice a day the first week, once a day

2:24:43

the next week, and then back off eventually to once a week. All

2:24:46

right, thanks a lot man, appreciate it. All right. Our phone

2:24:50

number if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one two kt r H. And here's Nicky. Yeah, all right, we're back

2:24:58

here on garden. I'm about to enter our last half hour of the morning.

2:25:03

I just wanted to let's just start by going straight to the phone here.

2:25:07

We're going to go to Matthew in Conro. Hello, Matthew. How

2:25:11

you doing today, sir? I'm good, I'm good. What's up? Yes, sir, I've got a celebration Bermuda celebration in my yard and i'd

2:25:18

like to try to get this torpedo grass out of my yard. Oh boy,

2:25:22

what a combo, I know, And you know how taken over more

2:25:28

and more I know, I know, and it's a booger. It's a

2:25:30

bogger to get rid of you can. I'm going to suggest a surgical way

2:25:35

to get it out of there, and the alternative to that is not good,

2:25:39

and that's just get rid of everything, kill everything and let the bermuda

2:25:43

come back in. But that I'm going to think you're gonna let's try first

2:25:50

the surgical. Uh. You know how the torpedo grass comes up above the

2:25:54

bermuda, right, it's a it's a mult upright figorous. If you can

2:25:58

create a wiper applicator and I'll tell you how in a minute, and put

2:26:03

a product on it to kill grass, I would probably use Glyphoss eight because

2:26:07

it's very thorough in it. You could also use a grass only killer.

2:26:13

There are products that don't kill broad lace but kill grass. A couple of

2:26:16

those on the market, easy to find. But if you buy one of

2:26:20

those little gadgets, you get a jar off a shelf with it's got a

2:26:24

little pistol grip on one end and the other end maybe two section cups or

2:26:26

something like that, and you grab the jar, take the suction cups off

2:26:31

and get a plate, one of those little metal plates at a lumber type

2:26:39

store that has holes in it. You know, it's used for joining two

2:26:43

tuba fours. Do you know the kind I'm talking about. It's like a

2:26:46

whole bunch of little holes in a thin metal plate. It's about the size

2:26:50

of a deck of plane cards roughly, Yesta, put that on there,

2:26:56

and then put a sponge, a kitchen sponge. Just take a standard size

2:27:01

sponge and cut it in half and put on there. Put a boat with

2:27:05

a washer to hold the sponge on. So what you got is you got

2:27:09

the same gadget, but you've replaced let's say the section cup with a plate

2:27:15

and a sponge. The plate just to hold the sponge so it doesn't just

2:27:18

bend backwards. And you squirt those sponges with the galiposate product, and you

2:27:24

go through your yard and you don't even have to stoop because those things are

2:27:28

about three feet long, and you can just reach down and grab the torpedo

2:27:31

grass and pull up, and then grab the next one and pull up,

2:27:35

and you're just wiping it on individually to the torpedogress. You're I can get

2:27:39

it all the first time. Just plan on spending the next few Saturday mornings

2:27:43

with a cup of coffee in one hand and your little applicator in the other,

2:27:48

and just every time you get a chance, just stay on it,

2:27:50

get all of it you can, and you can work your way back out

2:27:52

of it that way without having to kill everything in renovate. Because there's not

2:27:56

a selective product. To kill torpedo grass, it won't kill your celebration Bermuda,

2:28:03

Yes, sir, did that make sense? Yes, sir, I

2:28:07

was just wondering, during the dormant stage during our winter months, was it

2:28:11

possible I could put something down during that time, because of course, you

2:28:16

know, my celebration goes dormant, but then you don't see the torpedo grass.

2:28:22

Yeah, the torpedo grass is dormant, right, Well, you don't

2:28:26

see it, and you know, with the celebration being dormant, I guess

2:28:30

the torpedo grass you know, does too. But yeah, I was wondering

2:28:33

if at that time would it be good to do something. Now they both

2:28:37

have that same growth schedule of not being happy with winter weather, winter cold

2:28:41

and stuff, and so if it were a broad leaf weed that was a

2:28:46

cool season weed, you could spray it in the winter and not kill your

2:28:50

celebration because you're right, celebration is dormant. But I think the wiper's probably

2:28:56

the best way and if it's already gotten so far ahead of you, you

2:29:00

know, at some point you just bite the bullet and you go, I just have to kill everything and start over. Yeah, in the military,

2:29:07

I cut everybody else's grass. Now I'm trying to take care of my own grass. I know, I know I can tell you we're in the military,

2:29:13

Matthew, because I've never been told yes, sir so many times in

2:29:16

my whole life. And thank you for that. A lot of it is

2:29:20

my mom hitting the back of my head when I don't do it all right.

2:29:26

Well, you know, family, family's family. So anyway, good

2:29:33

luck with that torpedo grass man. Thank you very much, sir, and

2:29:37

you have a nice day, sir, you too, Bye bye. All

2:29:41

right, Hey, have you been to Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights.

2:29:46

That's right Eleventh Street in the Heights. This this place has been around a

2:29:52

long time, but everybody knows about him because it's just cool. It's fun

2:29:56

to go there. I think of it as almost like a hideaway. You

2:30:00

driving down Eleventh Street and all of a sudden, boom, you're there,

2:30:03

and it's this nestled in to the Heights. They specialize in native plants that

2:30:09

if you're looking for natives, even down to I want a plant that was

2:30:15

native here in the Harris County, well they can point you to those.

2:30:18

They have those separate out like that Native Texas plants in general. But Buchanans

2:30:24

Plants always always has a good supply of all kinds of things you need for

2:30:28

your lawn and garden. They're going to have the fertilizers that I talk about,

2:30:33

they are going to have absolutely have the soil type products to improve and

2:30:39

create that beautiful, wonderful soil. But are you looking for color like begonias

2:30:43

and silotia. By the way, I didn't talk about solosia earlier when I

2:30:48

was mentioning heat tolerant plants. Soilosia is great. It's got those plumes on

2:30:52

top that are colorful. And some types have beautiful burgundy leaves. I love

2:30:56

it. In College station we call that maroon where I come from. But

2:31:01

beautiful burgundy maroon leaves. They have that trees native trees. You know,

2:31:07

we're talking about Earth Day. This stimmy year for Earth Day, and they

2:31:11

have thirty percent off their Native Texas trees. How can you how much better

2:31:18

than that? Can you do? They also have their life below all purpose

2:31:20

soil thirty percent off of that as well. So here's your excuse. There's

2:31:24

a time to get it done. Any kind of plants for decorating, for

2:31:28

creating beauty, herbs and vegetables and everything else are at Buchanan's Native Plants.

2:31:37

Very knowledgeable staff absolutely steer you in the right direction for success. And let's

2:31:43

just put it this way. It's just a fun place to go and to

2:31:46

explore it just is. I love going into there and you will too.

2:31:52

You probably already do you probably know about that. Let's see where are we

2:31:56

going to go? Now? I'm going to head out to Tyler and talk

2:32:00

to Nancy. Is that right Tyler, Texas? Yes, yes it is.

2:32:03

Well, actually I live on Lake Palaestine. That's a little ways out

2:32:07

of there. But and I said pictures just now, I just found the

2:32:11

address, but I'm sure if you hard to get to. I have a

2:32:16

plum tree that is two years old and it's got maybe a little bit bigger

2:32:22

than a quarter size plums on it, but it doesn't seem to be growing

2:32:26

any bigger. Also, I have a lemon tree that looks like it needs

2:32:33

a really bad haircut. I've had one lemon in four years. I have

2:32:39

something that's eating a few of the leaves. I'm just wondering what am I

2:32:48

doing wrong? We don't have micro life out here, are ace hardwares or

2:32:54

any other place? Okay, what is a can I go online? What

2:32:58

would be a good for I'll purpose for all my plants ventrum the deck,

2:33:03

Yeah, in my guarden. Well, if you can't get the micro life

2:33:09

up there, you probably have nitrophospertilizers available up there, and that would be

2:33:16

a fine one. If you're looking for organic, then you would need to

2:33:18

look for something that's got the Medina products in it. That would be a

2:33:24

good choice. There. I'm looking at your pictures. I did get them.

2:33:26

The plum has got some little things that are sucking juices out of the

2:33:31

bottom of the leaves, and so I would get an insecticidal soap product and

2:33:35

spray upward, upward from underneath the leaves to knock those things out. It

2:33:39

could be spider mites, it could be something else, but it's pretty severely

2:33:45

affected by that. The holes in the leaves I wouldn't worry about that's not

2:33:48

significant. But you do need to get that plum out of the container and

2:33:54

into either bigger container or out in the garden soil hand because the containers are

2:34:01

a little on the small side and it's gonna stunt it like plums. But

2:34:07

that's last on my back deck. Yeah, my garden so very good.

2:34:16

So on the on the lemon tree, do you see the one branch that's

2:34:20

just yea out there? I do, I would, I would trim those

2:34:24

back. I'm sorry, but I have got to run, Nancy, I'm

2:34:28

I'm up. I've already passed a break I didn't catch. Okay, thank

2:34:31

you. Trim that wild branch back a little bit, balance it out,

2:34:37

all right, We'll be right back. Well, welcome back to the garden

2:34:39

line. Good to have you with us today. Well we are ending the

2:34:43

show here in just a little bit. And I see we got some folks

2:34:46

on the board, so we are going to jump right out there and head

2:34:50

to beat Eyes, Texas and talk to Dane. Hello, Dane, Hey,

2:34:54

how's it going? But doing well? Doing well? How can I help today? Man? I've got a couple of tomato plants of my raised

2:35:00

garden, and uh, some of the leaves on the tomato only two of

2:35:03

them, one more so than any of them all the leaves are curling upwards.

2:35:07

And I've been reading on it and they say the wind can do that.

2:35:11

Is that true? Well, a lot of times we see it, uh, when it gets a little warmer than it's been. But varieties differ

2:35:18

a lot in that. And now when you say, oh you do me,

2:35:20

not just the new growth at the top, you're talking about the older

2:35:24

leaves too, right, That is correct? Yes, yeah, I think

2:35:28

that's a natural physiological thing that is not going to affect production. And I

2:35:31

wouldn't I wouldn't worry about it, Yeah, because the virus would just affect

2:35:35

the new growth, gotcha. Yeah, Yeah, And it was. It

2:35:43

was weird because it was it's more so one plant two plants, than the

2:35:46

other two. And they are two different of the four, they're two different

2:35:48

varieties. Yeah, yeah, and that that's kind of normal. But don't

2:35:52

don't worry about it. It's it's an okay deal. Uh, just uh

2:35:56

get ready to enjoy your tomatoes. Hopefully they're in good sunlight. You're gonna

2:36:01

get good production. They are and they're already growing good. So I appreciate

2:36:05

your man. Keep up good work. Thank you, Dane. Say aha

2:36:07

to my friends over there at the feed store over by Carlos. You're just

2:36:11

a rock throw away from them, right, I was there this morning.

2:36:16

Good good, good folks, good folks. Thanks, thanks son, bye

2:36:20

bye. If you are looking for a quality potting soil for your containers out

2:36:26

on the patio, how about jungle Land. Jungle Land flour and vegetable.

2:36:31

Jungle and flour and vegetable potting soil. It does two things that a soil

2:36:35

needs to do. It drains well when there's access. It drains the access

2:36:39

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2:36:43

in the soil and you have good moisture in the soil. Both that is

2:36:46

important and jungle Land can do just that for your soils. Now, where

2:36:50

do you find jungle l and soil? Well, Katie Ace Hardware has got

2:36:54

it. Ace Hardware City and Memorial you can find jungle Land there as well.

2:36:58

Or Stanton Shoppings done in Alvin. You can find your jungle and products

2:37:03

there. Let's now head out to Friendswood and talk to Beverly. Hello,

2:37:07

Beverly, Hello, good morning. I have a pine apple pear that has

2:37:11

never given me any fruit till this year, and it is loaded, and

2:37:16

I covered it with a netting. My question is, how do I know

2:37:22

when they're ripe? Pineapple is a fairly firm pair. It's not like a

2:37:28

Kiefer or anything like that. But you'll notice a little bit of a color

2:37:31

change in the scheme, that's one thing. And you'll notice it gets a

2:37:35

little bit softer too, Okay, so you kind of can feel with your

2:37:39

hands a little bit. If you're thinking, you know, this is looking

2:37:41

pretty ripe. You could try sampling one, right, I thought I would,

2:37:46

But I just wondered about the color because the different pairs have different colors

2:37:50

than I was, Yeah, wondering does it turn yellow? Yeah, well,

2:37:56

Pineapple, I'm surprised you haven't had any production before because Pineapple asked the

2:38:00

crows got it, so I got and covered it with a knitting so they

2:38:05

can't get to it or the squirrel. So yeah, yeah, I'm hoping.

2:38:09

All right. Well, uh, it's a good one. It's one

2:38:13

of the older ones that we have. It does the green does kind of

2:38:16

blush out to a chartruse. Sometimes you'll see a little bit of color on

2:38:20

the sunny side of the pair too, a little bit of a blush on

2:38:24

that, but it's a it's a good old fashioned pair. It's tough,

2:38:30

kind of hard to kill. But they are pretty hard. It's don't think

2:38:33

in terms of like a boss or d'ango lit in the grocery store. This

2:38:39

is gonna be a harder pair. Okay, all right, thank you so

2:38:41

much. Enjoying your program. All right, thank you man, I appreciate

2:38:45

that. Good luck with that. Let's go now out to Pasadena and talk

2:38:48

to Frida. Hello, Freda, Hi, how are you this morning?

2:38:52

I'm well, I'm well, what's up? How about Peggy Martin? Rose?

2:38:56

And I'm putting it in a place there was an ano there that didn't

2:39:01

do well because it's been full sun. And I want to know what I

2:39:05

need to do for the soil and what kind of fertilizer to put on it.

2:39:09

I would get a good roast soil mix. You'll find those. They

2:39:11

are widely available. You probably get them done in Pasadena direction. Local ase

2:39:16

hardware stores there are going to have them. But if it you know,

2:39:20

if it's from airloom or from nature's way, and it says rose soil,

2:39:24

then that is what I would use. I would build a good sized bed

2:39:28

with it, you know, don't just put roast soil in a planting hole,

2:39:31

but mix it in with your soil, and then even add a little

2:39:35

more rose soil so you have really good drainage. That's important. And then

2:39:39

plant, plant your Peggy Martin. And she's not hard to be she's not

2:39:43

hard to make happy. She's pretty pretty good tough ROAs. Just fertilize it

2:39:48

periodically and then get ready because it's going to take off, run and so

2:39:52

have something for Peggy to grow on. Okay, all right, thank you.

2:39:58

I'm having all my pintilance. I have a chance to grow on.

2:40:01

Oh that's wonderful. That's wonderful. Well, it's it is a beautiful,

2:40:07

beautiful rose. That's why it's so popular. Okay, thank you so much.

2:40:11

Thanks a lot, Fred, You take care, appreciate it. I

2:40:13

appreciate your call. Wow, that was it. That kind of went fast.

2:40:18

I want to remind you guys that I'm going to be at Southwest Fertilizer

2:40:24

to day to day from eleven o'clock to one. So after the show,

2:40:28

I'm going to head over there, say hey to Bob and the team,

2:40:31

and get busy answering your gardening questions. At eleven will start off at the

2:40:35

table. If you come by the table, I will give you some skip

2:40:39

Bucks. You have to come by and ask a question to visit me at the table and I'll give you skip Bucks and you can use those to purchase

2:40:45

products out there in the store. You know, I told you earlier.

2:40:48

Bob has gotten in this brand new product, a brand new product from Medina,

2:40:54

the super Grow. It is the has to grow Supergrow for lunch.

2:40:58

It's a sixteen zero two. It's on a hose in hose end sprayer,

2:41:03

so you hook the hose up to it. It takes about ten minutes to

2:41:05

go through your yard and do it, and most of the nitrogen is going

2:41:09

to be immediate release. You're going to get a nice quick green up.

2:41:13

Those of you just put a lawn in and want to get that growing.

2:41:16

Once it's established and rooted in, it'd be good for that. If you've

2:41:18

got an existing lin it'd be good for that too. But you hook it

2:41:22

up like that and then about a fifth of the nitrogen this kind of slow

2:41:24

release. And it's even got some keylated iron in it. I mean,

2:41:28

it's just all around. This is good now, by the way, that

2:41:31

product is good for gardens and other things too, you know how it is.

2:41:35

I sometimes something is sold for the lawn, but it's good for other things as well. Bob's got it, He's got a great supply of it.

2:41:41

He's ready to go. So come on in, let's get some in

2:41:45

your hands. Stop by, get a skip buck and head over there.

2:41:48

And you need a really good discount on this cool new product or anything you

2:41:52

want to buy. There at Southwest Fertilizer would be given away samples of Medina

2:41:56

products. They're going to have cold drinks and popcorn there. Uh, they're

2:42:01

going to be given away. Get this, this alone is worth the price

2:42:03

is showing up a Toro battery powered blower and a Toro battery powered string tremor.

2:42:11

That's good. Tour is a great brand and battery is a way to

2:42:15

go these days. All at Southwest Fertilizer, bring me your samples in a

2:42:20

ziplock bag, Bring me photos of things that you want to identify it or

2:42:24

diagnosed, or maybe it's a section of the yard you would just like to

2:42:28

get, you know, some advice on like hey, how can I bring

2:42:31

some color in here? Or what do you think? What would you do

2:42:35

if you had this section to kind of make it a little more impressive or

2:42:39

a little more effective. Well, we'll talk about any of those things you

2:42:41

want to you want to talk about. Don't forget too My schedules are online.

2:42:48

If you go to Gardening with Skip that's me gardening with skip dot com.

2:42:54

There's a lawn care schedule January through December. What are the art danic

2:43:00

fertilizers, what are the synthetic fertilizers? And when do you apply them?

2:43:05

And they're all listed there. It makes it easy trace. Mineral supplements are

2:43:09

on there. Aerration cor aeration, proper mowing. You think I know how

2:43:15

to mow my lawn, now listen to me. There's information on there that

2:43:18

will be very helpful for you. And watering, I'll tell you month by

2:43:22

month, what is the historic average number of inches of water that a Houston

2:43:28

lawn needs per week in the absence of rainfall. Forget about the rain.

2:43:33

I mean that is what it is. But I can tell you, like

2:43:35

right now, we are in April. April is a month where three quarters

2:43:41

of an inch per week is how much water your lawn is using. And

2:43:45

then there's my lawn pest disease and weed management. Schedule, same thing for

2:43:48

insects, diseases and weeds.