KTRH GardenLine | 5-20-23

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KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorseany of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to KTRH GardenLine with Skipp Richter's just watching a good

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morning on a good day for gardening. You're listening to the Garden Line and
I am your host, Skip Richter. We are here today to talk to
you about I don't know whatever youwant to talk about. You tell me,
don't talk about the lawn. That'susually a popular topic. Maybe we
can talk about some trees or Idon't know, maybe the vegetable garden.

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I've been working out in my vegetablegarden these past few weeks, and oh
my goodness, Uh, things aregrowing like crazy. I mean, it
is just absolutely exploding. With allthis rain we've had and with the mild,
warm temperatures, things look really reallygood out there in the garden.
You've never planted a garden, Ithink you ought to consider doing so.

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Maybe you don't have room for thebig back forty, but I bet you
do have room for some containers ona patio. Maybe you'd drop in a
little raised bed somewhere, like youget something like a vego bed and you
can put that even on your drivewayfor crying out lout. I mean it
fill it up with some soil,and things really go to town growing.
I was surprised the first time Isaw how well plants will do in a

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bed sitting just like on concrete orasphalt. Remember years ago master gardeners down
in Galveston County. The old officethey had was in a basically sitting in
a parking lot. I mean itwas just asphalt almost all the way around
the office, and when you walkedout there was a garden there, and
they basically had dropped beds on theground. I don't know how high.

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They were, probably about twenty inchesor so something like that is my memory.
Holes. And then in the walkwaysthey'd put wood chip malts, just
ground up wood shavings, chips,you know that sort of thing. And
the beds were full of soil andthey were growing like crazy, and those
plants could care less that there wasasphalt sitting right underneath the bed. Now,

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if you've got soil into the bed, it's even better because the roots
can go on down in the soil. You don't have to build a bed
quite as high. But I'm tellingyou, I've seen vegetables do really well
in about eighteen inches of soil.Now that's not ideal, but they can
do it if you keep it moist, keep it adequately fertilized, and going
so just dropping a bed on theground and buying a good quality garden bed

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mix to go in it can haveyou in a garden overnight. I mean,
really, it's an instant garden.Now. I still love going out
in the yard and breaking up somefresh new ground to put in a garden.
That's okay, but that's a lotof work if you want to do
that. That certainly we've been.That's how we've been gardening and farming forever.
But when it comes to the typicalresidential home garden, just containers on

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the patio or really nice quality bedsare really the way to go. And
when you get out there and getgoing, you want to make sure and
provide the nutrition that your garden plantsneed. By the way, right now,
our cool season vegetables are basically headingout, if not gone already,
basically gone already in my garden.But the warm season things like tomatoes and

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peppers and squash and cucumbers, they'reall really happy right now. They're going
to get unhappy when it gets reallyhot and stop their production. The tomatoes,
if it's a little cherry or agrape tomato, it'll keep going.
But I don't know, the skingets kind of tough and it has tomato
flavor. I'll say that for itinto the summertime. But then we switch

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over to all those warm season plants. Of course you probably have heard of
okrah. Of course that's a realcommon Southern plant. But we have a
lot of other good warm season plantsthat can take your garden on through the
heat. Southern peas, black eyedpeas, purple halls, for example,
sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are notdifficult to grow as long as you provide

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adequate moisture, and they're a goodcrop for going through the summer. And
then the things we call winter squash. I always think it's funny we call
them winter squash because we probably growthem in the summer more than summer squash.
In other words, the summer squashis gonna harvest in what fifty five

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sixty days somewhere in there. Thewinter squash takes a long time. Some
of them take like pumpkins, cantake a few of them over well over
one hundred days, one hundred evenone hundred and ten hundred twenty days.
So they have to grow through somewarmer weather to reach that point where we're
ready to harvest them. And sowhen we plant them in this time of

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the year, we got to givethem some special care. And one of
those things some special care is wewant to make sure that the foliage is
protected. In our climate. Withthe heat and humidity and frequent rainfalls,
a lot of foliage diseases can occur, especially during the summer season, on
these on these winter squashes. Powderymildie is probably the worst one. And

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more than once I've seen a cropthat was growing well and wanting to set
its fruit, you know, andand provide you something to eat. The
foliage just taken away by the diseases. And you gotta have foliage to make
carbohydrates which make the squash you wantto eat. And what do I mean
by winter squash, by the way, Well, that would be pumpkins,

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that would be acorn squash, thatwould be spaghetti squash, butternuts squash,
cabocha squash, those are all wintersquashes, and they're wonderful, very nutritious,
high. Many of them are highend vitamin A and technically made a
carotene. Uh. They're just areally quality kind to grow if you give
them some of that care. Well, you're listening to Garden Line and our

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phone number is seven one three twoone two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight sevenfour R two one two ktr h.
Another way to look at it.We're gonna take your calls here starting in
the next segment, but if youwould like to call and get on the
board as we go to break herein a bit, Josh, we'll get

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you ready to go and then wecan talk about what you are interested in
talking about. Now, I wantto mention today that I will be in
Sugarland home at the Sugarland Home andGarden Show. It's actually at the Stafford
Center in Stafford, Sugarland Homing OutdoorLiving Show at the Stafford Center in Stafford.
I'll be there from eleven thirty toone thirty, and I'm gonna be

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giving away some fertilizer free fertilizer alittle small jars, and I think you
will be very very interested in seeingthe variety that we're gonna have available there.
I'll also be giving a talk.When I first get there, I'll
be giving a talk on some tipsfor successful gardening. So I hope you
will come out and see me there. Let's let's see you at the talk,

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and let's also see you at thetable afterwards. I'll be there to
answer your questions. If you wantto bring a plant sample and bring it
in in a plastic bag. Ifyou've got some good photos, check them
first, make sure they're in sharpfocus on your phone, and I can
take a look at those as well. Maybe it's an identification, maybe it's
a diagnosis, or just like,here's a landscape area, can you give

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me some help and ideas on whatto do about that? And that'll be
the sugar Land Home and Garden Show. That a home and outdoor living show
today eleven thirty to one thirty atthe Stafford Center in Stafford, Texas.
And I hope you can make itout. We're going to go to break.
We'll be right back and if yougive Josh a call, we'll be

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talking to you next thing. Youknow. Yeah, I'll go thank you
both, Galla and they broke out. I'll let you gay good morning on

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a good morning to be talking aboutgardening and getting outside and just a little
bit when it lights up and doingsome gardening. You're listening to garden Line.
I'm your host, Skip Richter,and our phone number. Write this
down seven one three two one twofive eight seven four, and I would
encourage you, if it all possible, to always listen to garden Line with
a pen and a piece of paperhandy, because you never know when we're

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going to give out some information thatyou want to jot down. Well,
let's start off and we're gonna startheading to the phones now and going out
to Kingwood to talk to Angelo.Well, Hello, Angelo, Hey,
how are you today, sir?I'm doing well. Thanks good. Hey.
I started some seeds earlier this yearand they came out pretty good.
But what I want to know iswhat's the best type of soil for seating.

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It seems like and I bought somesix packs of pepper plants. They
had like a peat in there orsomething real stringy material. But I've tried
different soils and I'm just trying toget the best soil for starting the seeds
and a six pack and something likethat. And secondly, if I've gotten
some fruit or not fruits, somevegetables, and I want to take the

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seeds out. What is the processof taking them out? How long do
you take them out? Where?What do you do to use them again?
As they're like, you know,three months, you have to eat
or something. But so basically that'smy question. What's the best soil start
seeds? And how do you getseeds from like a previous salapino that was
huge, I wanted to save it. Okay, well, let me let

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me take them in the reverse order. Okay, you can save seed from
plants you've grown if they're not hybrids. If they're if you see like the
letter F and the number one afterthe variety name, or if it just
says hybrid on it, but morelike they will say one. Those will
not come back true to seed becausethey're a mix of two parents. And

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if you've ever looked at parents andlooked at kids, you know that they're
not identical. They are similarities,but they're not identical. And so some
of the nice features of let's sayyou use the example pepper. Let's say
that there's a halopenio that's mild,or a halopenia that's large with thick walls,
or any of those features, youprobably would not have that in the

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offspring, at least not in alot of them. So those basically with
all seeds or vegetables, yeah,vegetables and flowers, you're going to have
the thing of hybrid now not all. You just have to check into the
variety of to see some some aregistsfind to keep and to us like them,

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so that that would be a factoron the saving seed. As far
as how to save seed, youknow, each each of the different species
is a little bit different. Liketomatoes, We get all the seeds out
of that jelly material in the middleand put it in water, shake it
in the jar with a lid,real vigorously and let it set and it
will start to You won't take thelid off then, so it's not air

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tight in there. It will startto oh, I don't know, ferment
or something inside the jar, andyou'll see the seeds dropping down to the
bottom out of that goo that wasat the top even after you shook it.
And that's when you pour it outand you get those seats. It
separates them really well. Other seedsare just real simple, you know.
You can you just open the fruitand just get the seeds dried out,

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and peppers would be an example.You just want to let them go to
full maturity and then allow those seedsto dry, air, dry well and
then do the storage other How longwould that take? Maybe three weeks or
to dry? Yeah, yeah,yeah, totally dependent on moisture, humidity,
and air temperature. I would sayleave them a couple of weeks in

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a good dry spot and they're notgoing to be fully dry. So when
you store them, it's good tostore them with one of those desiccate packets
to take the extra moisture out ofthe air. That gives you the most
storage. Now, going back tosoil, you ask about soil for starting
seeds. There are seed starting mixesthat are designed just for that, and
basically they are a regular they wouldbe more like a potting soil, but

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ground down to just very very finetexture. And so a soil like that
is excellent for starting seed because whenyou plant a little tiny seed, you
know a lot of the seeds weplant are you know, not half the
size of a little typed letter.Oh, They're very tiny, and so

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in a chunky soil that seed couldfall down and end up being either real
shallow or too deep, or it'shard to control and get the soil to
press up against the seed for good. We say seed to soil contact.
That's a key and in germination.So the fine textured, it'll just say
seed starting mix. Now, ifyou use a soil like the works potting
soil that heirloom has, that's apretty fine texture mix. I was looking

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at the bag the other day.I was like, man, that that
would be a good seed starting mix. So even though it says or potting
soil, that particular one is extremelyfine textured and you could use it as
a seed starting if you wish.See that's what I think I made my
mistake because there was some you know, uh pieces of wooden there and everything,
and it just was it says indoorpotting, but it just wasn't the

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Yeah, it wasn't that fine grindlike you said. And the last thing,
basil and oregano, I can startnow and grow it right through the
winter, correct, right through thesummer. Correct, Yes, basil and
oregano both can go through the summerjust fine. Not. In fact,
basil doesn't even want to hear youtalk about degrees like fifty degrees they want
to hear. They want to hearseventy eighty ninety even correct that grown basil

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before and it was like a badweed. It just kept going. All
right, thank you very much forthe in full of time. I appreciate
it. All right, yeah,you bet you bye bye, So you
know I I appreciate that call.By the way, Angelo, uh,
when when you're talking, I wastalking about that the works potting saw that
that Heirloom has and excuse me,I was talking about the indoor potting mix

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from Heirloom as being a good onefor just seeds starting. But they have
a lot of different blends, andyou know he was Angela was talking about
the fact that he found a littlepieces of wood in this potting soil.
When you go out and buy cheappotting soil, you're going to find that
and they you know, it's it'sput together en mask to just get it
out the door. Not generally compostedfully and well. But when you buy

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a product like from Heirloom there they'reveggie herb mix does good in beds.
It it does very very well inbeds. And they also now if you
want a bulk, by the way, they have that supersack, which is
just a giant sack that holds ayard of soil that they can put right
there on your doorstep. I mean, and it's real clean, neat and
easy. It's a good way toget a larger quantity. Maybe you're doing

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a vegetable garden and you need morethan just a few bags. That would
be another way with heirloom soils.I want to head out now to Spring
and we're going to talk to Mo. Good morning, MOHI, how you
doing well? I'm doing well.How are you doing well? Man've got

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me out here. Won Oh,that's an easy one, Mo. You
just you just plant that seed abouta half inch three quarters of an inch
deep, press the soil down andgive it a good water. And oh,
okay, these the seeds she drivefrom the last watermelons. Okay,
so they could do the same thing. Well, if it was not a

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hybrid, it'll be the same thing. If it was a hybrid and you
plant those seeds, everyone's going tocreate a little bit different kind of plant.
They made look similar. But youknow, maybe you like that watermelon.
I'll just make something up here.Maybe you like watermelons that have that
yellow flash. Well, when youplant the seed, you may have some
that show up with red flesh.And maybe you like watermelons and the small

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ice box size, and when youplant the seeds, you may get some
that are a little larger. Hybridscan come out all over the place,
so you just kind of have tolook at the variety. Do you remember
what variety it was off him?Oh? No, she got this from
the arbregate people for a nine.She bosked there the last time, and
it going to be signed for asize number four show. Okay, well,

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and she says it seeds out ofit. Well, give him a
try, you know. I mean, it's not the end of the world
to have a mix of different kindsof things growing. So if you just
want to play around with it andsee what you get, who knows,
maybe you'll get a wonderful watermelon andyou can name it the mo watermelon.
I'm gonna name it. There yougo. No, I appreciate you two,

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Thank you for the call. Ourphone number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four twoone two fifty eight seventy four. Let's
see what are we gonna do.Now We're gonna go to Katie and we're
gonna talk to Katie. Well,that's kind of interesting, Katie. And
Katie, how are you doing thismorning? Kat Thank you? How are

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you well? Thank you. Ihave a question about ants. M I
have a lot of potted plants onmy patio as well as in my kitchen
window, and I've noticed some ofmy potted plants outside when I go to
repot, they're filled with ants atthe bottom, all in the soil.

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And then this week I noticed Ihave a tiny little orchid plant that sits
in my window and I water itand then I always take it out to
kind of drain it, and whenI did, there's just tons of ants
in the soil of this orchid plantas well. Okay, So I wanted
to find out are the ants goingto kill the plants? And if so,
how do I get that plant?How do I get the ants out

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of the soil. Yeah, that'sa great question, Katie. Those I'm
assuming these aren't fire ants right basedon the way you're talking about them.
No, there there's little ants thatthey like the ones in the orchid plant.
We're carrying around little things and likethey were, they had things in
their mouth. Does that makes sense? Way they were walking, Yeah,
right. So there are little antbaits, ant baits for little tiny household

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types of ants and outdoor ants aswell, that you can put out and
around them, especially in the house. I would use those baits. They'll
go pick them up and it'll killthe colony. They're just using your pots
as a nice, moist warm placeto live, and they're not hurting your
plants at all. It's just it'sjust nature there. I think there are

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more species of ants and just aboutany kind of insect out there. Okay,
I just want to make sure theyweren't hurting the plants at all.
Now, you're good ants. There'sonly well the essentially none of the plants
that are going to get into yourpot like that are going to eat you
eat your plants. Okay, I'mgonna ask you one of the quick questions
why I have you on d whatI'm going to have to go to a
break, But if you want hangon, we will bring you back and

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you'll be first up right after break. And Sue and Lake Jackson you're right
after her. You're listening to gardenLine and our phone number is seven one
three two one two five eight sevenfour. Give us a call. Josh
and gets you on the board andwe'll talk to you in the next segment.
But now it's Nikki's a good morning, and a good morning for gardening,

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and until the sun comes up,a good morning at least till then
for talking on the radio about thingsthat are related to the garden. We're
going to head back out to Katieand complete our conversation about the ants that
are invading all the pots. Katie, I think you had some more question.
The only other question I had,and it wasn't ms. Well,

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it's in the same area. Somy patio is covered with potted plants,
and as I was watering them yesterday, I noticed that one of my plants
has a lot of like white powderon the leaves. I didn't know one
how to get rid of it.Two, I was afraid it was going
to spread to the other plants,so I removed it from the grouping.
You placed it elsewhere? You needto do that or not, do you,

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Katie? Do you remember which plantthat was? Offhand? Um?
You know it's funny. I gotthat plant in November. It was in
full bloom. I thought it wasa daisy plant. Okay, it hasn't
bloomed since the fall, and theleaves look like like a mum like you
know, mum plants, mum plantleaves. I think you're talking about a
daisy, one of the daisies.Now, there's some nice new daisies in

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the Garvinia series that are pretty resistantto powdery mildew, but the other daisies
can be pretty prone to it,and I think that's what you're seeing.
So what you're going to need todo is use a funger side that proactively,
like once you see it the whiteall over the leaf. It's a
little late to benefit the plant witha spray much, but if you can,
if you know, if you kindof periodically, if you know you

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have a prone plant to that disease, just give it a spray. You
can use something if you're on theirgunnack end. Kneeme oil works really well
for that neme oil. You justwant to be careful will not to spray
the oil out in the middle ofthe day when the sun is baking down
on the plant. And then thereare some systemic fungicides, a variety of
different ones that will will also controlthe powdery mildew. Whichever way you choose

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to go okay, and we'll notspread to other plants. Do I need
to keep it kind of isolated ornow it is ubiquitous in the environment.
So it's like your plant isn't goingto make the other plants get sick that
powdery mildew. Spores are already floatingaround everywhere, and so of course,
you know, the more of ityou have in the area, the more

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spores are going to be right aroundit. But I wouldn't so much worry
about that as just to assume whenconditions are right, a susceptible species is
going to get powdery mildew. Anda lot of the daisies are susceptible.
Should I just kill off the leavesand have it on there if they look
like they're basically at least half ofthe photo synthesizing area that's hard to say

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is gone. In other words,it's like, you know, it's you
don't have the green, it's coveredwith white or whatever. Yeah, take
those leaves off because they're just producingmore spores too. Okay, all right,
all right, thank you so much. A great day, you too,
and I appreciate the call. Yeah, Katie was talking about, you
know, plants and the ants andthings on the patio on. One of

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the great products that we talk abouthere on garden Line is jungle Land.
It's a nitro FoST product. Basically, there's an outdoor version for using in
your potted plants outside on the patio, and then there's there's an indoor version
that has the water saving crystals init. Jungle Land provides the excellent drainage
but also holds moisture that makes itthat that container of soil able to whole

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water and nutrients better but still drainwell. Includes four sources of aged organic
matter micro riizal fungi, which isespecially important. And by the way,
jungle Land, you know where wheredo you find nitro FoST pretty much?
Or you know everywhere? Uh,we could talk about a tascaseda Lake Hardware
and Angleton, Jim's Hardware, Montgomery, There's there's a lot of places,

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but the jungle Land soil would bea good one for your containers out on
the patio. Well. Our phonenumber seven one three two one two five
eight seven four, And now we'regonna go to Lake Jackson and talk to
Sue. Good morning, Sue,good morning, how are you. I'm
well? Thank you. Yes,I want you to call and talk to

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you about my fig tree. It'sabout seven years old. It's gotten huge.
It's about fifteen feet tall and it'sspread is about twenty feet wide.
My figs are about the size ofa fifty cent piece. They're not great
big figs. I want you todo, I trink. Can I trim
that tree back? Or do Ijust let it keep growing and let the
birds get the figs, you know, like in the top and all I

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can't reach, or you could trimit back now. I think I would
go ahead and try to get whatevercrop you can out of it right now,
and then do the trimming, becausewhen the new growth comes out,
you may get a second crop onit, depending on what variety of fakes.
Some of them can do that betterthan others. Oh okay, I

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just I didn't want to kill itbecause I've had it, you know,
like seven years, and it's beautiful. This made a beautiful plant, you
know, in my backyard. Butit sounds like you're doing something right if
it's if it's happy and getting thatbig Yes, okay, Well, thank
you very much, appreciate you takingmy call. You have a great day,
you two. Thank you for thecall our phone number seven one three

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two one two five eight seven fourseven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. You know, Iwas talking earlier about everybody can garden just
by using a container on the patioor or dropping a bed on the ground.
And when I when I say droppinga bed on the ground, there's

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a lot of ways we make beds. You know, people just treated lumber
of people, just cender blocks.People. I don't know landscape stones and
stuff, but I think the bestway to do a bed and this is
a it's a pretty new product,but it's veg Vego garden beds. Vego
garden beds are made out of ametal that has been treated to prevent rust
and corrosion, and then it's beenpainted with the USDA approved paint Safe for

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food and their quality beds. They'remodulars. So if you want to make
a long, skinny bed, ifyou want to make a big, fat
square bed, if you want tomake a C shaped bed, I mean,
you can design them anyway you wantand put them together and they last.
They last a lot longer than theother materials we talk about. But
they also have one thing I likeabout Vego beds is it's a narrow side.

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You know, if you use acenter block every that's two sides to
the bedtimes that's sixteen inches of gardenarea that you've lost with each bed that
you put on the ground with Vegonot so put a good quality saw mix
in one and they're going to dovery well. You can go to vegogarden
dot com to find out more information. Some of our independent garden centers carry
Vego as well, and I thinkyou will not be disappointed. Some great

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pictures online of what I'm talking about, and you you really to check those
out. I think I think it'sa really cool way to create a garden
bed on a night, well,good morning, on a good day for

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gardening and a good day for talkingabout gardening. You're listening to garden Line.
I'm your host, Skip Richter,and our number write this down seven
one three two one two five eightseven four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four were I wastalking about our vegetable garden a little bit
earlier. I want to talk alittle bit about lawns too. This is

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this is a season where your lawnis really happy. I mean that our
southern turf grass is Soysia, Bermuda, Saint Augustine. Those are the three
big ones. They can take theheat if you give them adequate water.
And it's warming up now and theirgrowth rate is just going to increase.
And as the weather warms, youwant to make sure that they have the

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nutrients that they need when you're whenyou're taking care of your law, because
the adequate nutrition provides good sustainable growth, and plants need more than just you
know, three numbers. I mean, they need a number of different things
on the back that aren't on afertilizer bag. You can do this with
some supplements and things, but thegradual release is the best. And when

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you're mowing, always return your clippings. Your clippings have the perfect lawn fertilizer
in them. Now you know thefate of those nutrients. Nitrogen can wash
away, it can volatilize, andso just because you return the clipping doesn't
mean you get all your nitrogen back. But all those micronutrients that plants still
need, they're essential, but they'renot part of the big three on the

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fertilizer bag. Clippings provide those andit just makes sense to return them.
You can back off a little biton fertilizing if you're returning your clippings,
or the other way to look aboutit. Look at it as if you
bag your clippings, put them outat the curb and pay somebody to haul
them away, you're gonna have tofertilize more because what you've done is you've
just taken the fertilizer you applied earlierthat grew you grass clippings, and now

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you're taking those nutrients and the perfectblend for turf with all the micros in
a grass clipping, and you're puttingthem at the curb for somebody to haul
away. I call that renting fertilizer. So it just makes sense to recycle.
No, when it rains for severaldays and you can't get out to
mow and it gets real tall,Okay, you can make a case to

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me for we're gonna go ahead andbag this one. But I still would
say use those clippings in flower bedsas mulch, put them in a compost
pile, use them in your vegetablegarden down the walkaways. Just don't put
them too deep. About an inchdeep is enough in any one application because
you want them to dry out reallywell, but don't give away the nutrients
that you paid to put down.That applies to tree leaves in the fall

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too, but we'll wait to talkabout that more, I think in the
fall season, but it does makesense to recycle those clippings. Keep your
lawn mower blade sharp. It'll makeyour lawn look better. It'll be easier
in your lawn mower. With eachcutting, it makes a nice clean slice.
It doesn't just essentially rip the endsof the grass blades off like a

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dull mower wood. So you wantto make sure and keep your lawn More
blade sharp. I posted something toFacebook a while back showing the difference between
a sharp more blade and a dullmower blade and the size of the brown
tip on the from the dull mowerblade. And if you take a brown

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tip from a grass blade and multiplyat times ever grass blade in your lawn,
I don't know how many bazilion thatis, but it's like putting brown
pixels in a green picture. Maybethat makes sense because we're kind of into
high density and high quality TVs andthings. Imagine a whole bunch of little
brown pixels. It doesn't look asgreen when you step back and look at

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the picture. So that's what I'mtalking about. Keep that blade sharp.
Well, we're gonna go to thephones now, the number seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna head out to Briar Grove
and talk to Charles. Good morning, Charles. Yes, I have a
tomato plants. I plant them onthe west side of my house and there's

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a two story house next Tommy andI got big plants, a lot of
balloons, but no fruit is itdoesn't get a lot of sunshine. Maybe
in the afternoon it gets maybe anhour show. Okay, Charles, I

(30:51):
hate to be the bear of badnews, but that's a little bit significantly
too low of light. Your tomatoreally would like to talk about six hours.
And I realized you probably have aproblem then finding a space that gets
that where you can put a tomato. But on that super low level,
it's having trouble making enough energy tosupport a fruit. Now, there are
other things that can cause the bloomsto abort. Excessive nitrogen causing a lot

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of vine growth at the expense ofslowing down and setting that would be a
factor. It could be if thearea is so still that no wind moves
the plant there. Tomatoes need windto kind of shake the blooms and cause
pollination to be successful. But ifyou're just down to one hour, I
would say, that's that's the elephantin the room. Okay, that's what

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I was wondering. Yeah, youmight try a big container on a patio
or something next round, and Ithink you'll have better success because you can
put that wherever the sunshines. Okay, thank you, all right, thank
you, Charles. I appreciate appreciatethat call. Let's see Julia and South
Houston. We're going to hold offjust a moment. I got to take
a break here, but I willget to you first when we come back

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after the break. If anyone elsewould like to be on the air answers
or ask some questions, it's sevenone three two one fifty eight seventy four
two one two fifty eight seventy four. We have just put our first hour
in the books. We're going tobe here until ten o'clock this morning,

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and after that I'm jumping in acar and heading out to the Stafford Center
and Stafford for the Sugarland Home andOutdoor Living Show. I'll be there from
eleven thirty to one thirty. Startoff, I'll be given a talk on
tips for gardening success, and Ihope you can come out there and come
hear me. We're gonna be givenaway some fertilizer samples for people that are

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coming to the program. And thenI'll be out at a table answering gardening
question. So bring me plants ina bag, bring me pictures on your
phone. We'll identifiable, diagnose,or we'll just talk about ideas for improving
your landscape or making a certain areaa little bit prettier than it is now.
But that's the sugar Line Home andGarden Show, Stafford Center in Stafford

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from eleven thirty to one thirty today. I hope I can see you there.
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorseany of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to KTRHGarden Line with Skip Rictor. So just

(33:31):
watching as good morning. It's agood day for gardening and a good day
for talking about gardening. You're listeningto garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and our phone numberseven one three two, one, two,

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five eight seven four, And let'sjust head right out to South Houston
and we're gonna talk to Julia.Hi, Julia, how are you this
morning? Good morning, I'm doingwell. And how about yourself? And
well, thanks. I really appreciatethe job you're doing. I get a
lot of information from you. WhatI have is that I was given a

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guava plant, and I have honestlynever eaten guava except in the tropical of
fruit canes, you know, fropicalfruits in the can Okay, My question
is it's it came in a sixinch pot and we already planted it and
it's maybe a foot high, butit already has like three little baby guavas

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on there. I leave folk onthere or do I pick them off?
You're not gonna like what I'm gonnatell you on all our fruit. When
they try to, as you said, have babies and they're too young,
it's better to take them off.And here's why. They will put a
lot of energy into those fruit.And they're a little tiny plant without a

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lot out The leaves are going tohave someday the quantity if you can spend
the first year or two just growingthe biggest, strongest plant you can.
You're going to be able to hanga whole lot of guava on it,
and in the long run, youwill end up with more production than if
you let that little plant try toraise fruit before it's ready. Yeah.

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I kind of figured that because I'veheard that on some of the other fruit
trees that you're supposed to do that. Yeah, But so the first two
years, oh year or two,just see how it's growing, and maybe
maybe the second year you could leavea just a few, you know,
not too many, but you're gonnahave your your hands full in the winter
time, you know, getting thatthat guava through but through the winter when

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we if we do have the kindof freezes we seem to be fond of
having them lately. But it's afun fruit to grow, really tasty too.
Okay, I appreciate your information.Thank you very much. All right,
Julie, thank you. Yeah.They you know, we've got a
lot of different kinds of fruit thatwe can grow here in the Houston area,

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and the tropicals, you know,they they're challenge. But I know
people that are growing a lot ofthese different kind of tropicals just having to
give them the condition that they wantto do well the options for fruit.
It's amazing what all you can dohere. Hey our phone number seven one
three two one two five eight sevenfour seven one three two one two fifty

(36:30):
eight seventy four. Just want toremind you. I'm going to be at
the sugar Land Home and Garden Showtoday from eleven thirty to one thirty,
and that is at the Stafford Centerand Stafford Stafford Center and Stafford eleven thirty
one. There. I'll start offand I'll have a look seminar on tips
for having a beautiful landscape a successfullandscape, especially through the summer season.

(36:53):
And then I'll be at a tableanswering your gardening questions. Bring us some
samples, bring us some pictures ofthe things that you want identified or diagnosed
or whatever. I'll just come inand visit. I always like to meet
listeners to the show. It's kindof fun to be able to do that.
And it's from y'all y'all's, andit's a it's an opportunity just to
sit down. And you know,I only do a few calls over the

(37:15):
course of a show, but thereit's kind of like I one on one.
You got some time to kind ofpick my brain or try to try
to get something diagnosed, and we'llbe we'll be really happy to do it.
By the way, during the seminar, I'm going to be giving away
fertilizers and uh these Nelson Fertilizer hasprovided some samples for us to give away

(37:36):
in there, so I'm looking forwardto to doing that. And it's a
nice little, nice little containers,so you will you will love that if
you come by and grab you oneat the seminar. By the way,
just to mention this next week,I don't want to confuse the weeks,
but I want to give you aheads up. Next week, I'm going
to be at the wild Birds Unlimitedin clear Lake and I'll be there for

(37:57):
two hours again, eleven thirty toone thirty wild Birds Unlimited in clear Lake.
That's our I believe that's our neweststore here in the Houston area,
and I hope you will come out, So put that down on your calendar.
We you know, there's a lotto be doing right now with birds
and enhancing your landscape to open thedoor up for birds as well. Yeah,

(38:20):
we tend to think of, Okay, what flowers can I put in
my landscape. But we forget aboutthings like butterflies, which are flying flowers
the way I look at it.We forget about things like the birds,
the sounds they bring, the beautythat they bring as well. So I'm
gonna let's see, we're gonna goto the phones now and we're gonna talk
to Sandy and Cypress. How areyou doing, Sandy, hither skip m

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Good morning. I have a coupleof questions for you. One is about
my lawn. I spoke to youlast weekend and told you that I put
that weed eater on there and ifI could do it again, you told
me, no, wait six toeight weeks, but I haven't. Um
can I put the medina plus spraythat on it? Or yeah you can?

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Uh. You're going to be usingit as a liquid plant food that
you spray on. That's how ithas to grow twelve for eight works.
You attach it to a garden hoseand it just takes about ten minutes to
treat an average lawn. And it'sgot the nutrients in it for sure,
but it also has medina sail activator, human liquid humus and everything. It's

(39:30):
really convenient to be able to applyit. Uh, it's it's one that
you it's it's not an overdose ofthe nutrients to do that, and just
just follow the label carefully because youwant to do it, you want to
do it properly. Okay. Also, um, well, I have a
question of my Roman tomato. Butfirst on this night of Falls nineteen four

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ten, if my husband puts thatout today, should I wait like a
couple of weeks and then do themedina plus or is it okay to do
it? Well, if you're gonnado, if you're gonna do the nitrofoss
today, that's going to give youa gradual release all through the next coming
months. And so I would Iwould not I would not follow. Just

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maybe I misunderstood your original question,but I would not follow with just the
medina immediately. Now you could dothe medina and hold you for a while
and then add the nitrofossil a littlelater to carry on through. But I
wouldn't do two fertilizations with any fertilizer, just right back to back. The
thing with the liquid food, it'sa real quick release. It gives you

(40:34):
a fast response, and with thelonger release fertilizers, they do start releasing
but it stretches it over time.So if you wanted to use both of
those, I would start with ahast grow and then I would give it
probably a month or so before Iwould put down the nineteen nineteen nitrofoss that

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you were talking about. Okay,And also on my roama tomatoes, I've
probably got about twelve to twelve thirteenmaybe where Ima is on there. Do
they ripen from that bottom up?Because I've got like four at the bottom
that are red, but the onescloser to the top are still green.

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Yes, that is the natural waythey do that. Those at the bottom
are the oldest tomatoes on your plant, so they they're the furthest developed.
And then as you know, asa plant grows, you get new flowers
which become fruit, which grow insize, and then they will finally you
know, ripen themselves. Oh okay, okay, well thanks Skip. Do

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you have time for one more question. I'm going to have to hold you
over break, but just let meput you on hold and I'll come back
to you. And by the way, David I see out there in Southeast
Houston, will come back to youas well. You know, if you're
trying to prevent weeds. Barricade isa product that can do that both for
broad leaf and for thin grass likeweeds. Barricade is pre emergent. What

(42:00):
does that mean, Well, itmeans the weeds never have a chance to
start. It prevents the seeds fromgerminating and successfully establishing a weed plant.
And that's that's the easiest way toshut things down rather than killing weeds are
already growing in your lawn. Nowyou're gonna find barricade all over the place.
You know, the K and Ma'shardware and Kingwood D and D feed

(42:21):
and Tom Ball carries that gym's hardwareout of Montgomery plants and things in Brenham.
It's it's not hard finding nitro FoSTproducts, including barricade. Well,

(42:44):
good morning on a good day forgardening and a good day for talking about
gardening. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter and
our phone number seven one three twoone two five eight seven four. We
were talking with Sandy and Cypers.We are going to go back and continue
that conversation. Hi, they ask, um, Okay, so I have

(43:07):
have bell peppers growing, hallapena isgrowing, and I wanted to know Um,
do I need to leave one onthe vine on the on the plant
to ripe in four seeds for nextseason, or how do I do that?
Well, how I save the seedsfor Yeah, if it's not a

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hybrid, you can save the seedand it'll be what the plant was you
took it the fruit off of.If it's a hybrid, it's going to
be a mix. Like kids arenot like mom or dad identically, although
when they misbehave one, from whatI hear, they're more like dad.
But anyway, um, yeah,you can, you can leave one on.
I would wait until kind of theend of the season on it because

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when you leave peppers to ripen toturn red number one, there's good reasons
to do that, but the plantdoesn't tend to produce as much. It's
it's sort of like I'm finishing mycycle here. It slows down a little
bit. So I'd wait till theend of the season. Sandy, Okay,
so wait till the end of theseason. Yeah, maybe it's not
the end of the world if youlet one ripen, But just in general,

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how do I know if it's ahybrid or not? Chet it should
say on on the did you plantit? From a seed packet or from
a snowbought tan. Yeah, boughtit at eighth at eight. Okay,
do you remember the variety of it? Um I can go out in any

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look. Oh well, let's let'sjust say I'm uh that chances are if
if it's if it's a variety thatyou buy at a garden center. Uh,
well, it's really fifty fifty onthese plants. It just depends on
what they're what they're selling. Alot of the open pollinated ones are the

(44:50):
ones that we see on the market. But yeah, while we're while we're
talking about peppers. By the way, the the peppers when they turn red,
the beta carotein goes way out.They're very nutritious and they get sweeter.
Now I know with hallopenia is wepick them green when they're kind of
cracking before they turn color. Andthat's fine, that's a traditional halopenia.
But just know that if you wantto let some turn red, you have

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those two benefits, a little sweetertaste and higher beta carotene content. But
in general your bush's production will bea little less. This just as bonnie
green bell sweet pepper, oh bellpepper. Okay, yeah, that doesn't
give the variety. Well, youknow, you could save the seed.
I think it's better just to buypackets a seed if you're not sure,

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because that way you can get onethat has the qualities you want and have
a better success with it. Butif you want to save a few just
for fun, they will come upand they will grow peppers. Oh okay,
okay, thank you so much,scamp. Thank you. Have a
great day. All right, thankyou very much. Let's now go to

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southeast Houston and we're gonna talk goodDavid. Hello, David, good morning.
Have a question or get your thoughtson a quander. I'm in I
have two live oak trees in myfront yard. The house faces southwest,
so they're twenty two years old,and they provide good shade in the summer
months keep their conditioning bills down alittle bit. The problem is they've gotten

(46:22):
so big they're starting to encroach onmy driveway and underneath my house. I've
had to have some root or piersput in on my house already because of
unsettling in the soil. So we'vehad our house remodeled down and we don't
want to go through the same thingwith the foundations so we're thinking about either
taking out the two oak trees andreplacing them with other trees, are having

(46:45):
a root barrier put in around thedriveway and the house. And my question
is which would you do and whatare your thoughts on trees that grow to
the point where the roots don't gointo these areas that I'm having problems with.
Well, the root barrier is agood solution, and it's also a

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very pricey one. It's quite quitean ordeal to get that done. But
that would solve that problem. Theproblem of just putting a different tree is
all tree roots are going to gowhere there's moisture, and around the drip
line of your house there's almost alwaysmoisture there, and the tree roots build
up there. They don't you know, they'll go under a sidewalk and lift
it up and break it, butthey don't so much do that the on

(47:28):
the foundation as they take all themoisture away from that area, and so
when your soil dries and gets wet, there's a lot of shrink and swell
and that's what's so hard on ourfoundations. So I don't think changing species
is going to be much help.I had a recommendation to put in some
crape myrtles that would grow to agood height, but the roots wouldn't spread

(47:51):
so far out into these areas.What are your thoughts on that, Well,
I guess that would be that wouldbe a step in the right direction.
They're not going to tend to havethe extent of a root system as
as you know, your your oaksand things would okay, okay, and
anywhere I can get rid of theroots that are that are above you know,

(48:13):
they're not really under the ground,They're just kind of above the surface
there, and I try to coverthem with soil, and then the grass
grows on the soil, but thenthey return again over the period of time.
Yeah, because the root is gettingbigger and bigger over time, and
it's pushing out in all directions.But when it pushes down, there's the
firm soil there, so when itpushes up, it's easier for it to

(48:35):
kind of come up. Plus erosionwashes soil away from those rising roots.
Anyway, you can take a rootor two away from a tree over the
course of the season. But Idon't think that is recommended. There some
issues with that that that I don'tI don't think I would recommend you you
mess with that. I would justbring in either use a ground cover in

(48:57):
that area to cover that up,or make a nice large mulched bed out
of it and do it that way. Okay, so let me get you
this straight. You've said a rootbarrier would be a good option. Does
it? Actually they've told me thatthe root bearer will actually hit the barrier
and turn away from that. Yeah, it'll turn sideways or turn down or

(49:17):
something. But properly installed, thatwould be a good block. Hey David,
I hope that. I hope thathelps you with that question. I
want to go now out to Susanand Cyprus. Hello, Susan, how
are you this morning? I'm fine? Thank you. I appreciate your show
and all you do. I havea question about fertilizer. I bought a

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bag of fifteen five ten earlier thisyear, but I have a really small
yard, so I have over halfthe bag left. Is it going to
be okay to use that fifteen fiveten in June instead of the nineteen four
ten? Just making sure that whatI've got is not going to be bad
to use in really hot weather.Yeah, no, it's not bad to

(50:00):
us in hot weather, and whenyou don't have a slow release fertilizer,
what I recommend is that you breakit up into more than one application,
which is what you've done. Andsometimes early in the spring, you know
we're on a quick green up,so we use the immediate release for that,
and I suspect the fifteen five tenalmost certainly is going to be an
immediate release, So yeah, justgo ahead, give it about six weeks

(50:22):
or so and do another application,but both of those being lighter applications,
not full flow, you know,full strength, and just go a little
bit lighter with it, and youcan use up that fertilizer you already have.
Okay, great, I'm gonna useum medina medina spray on my grass
now this weekend and then use thenitro thoughts, I guess the middle of

(50:45):
June. Are you okay with that? Yes? But I think we were
just talking about doing the fifteen fiveten in there too, right right,
I was gonna do. I wasgonna put some Medina grass spray on my
yard this weekend, and then inthe middle of June, I was going
to put five can down. Okay, So the medina has to grow twelve
four eight will be fine to use. It's going to give you a quick

(51:07):
response. I would give it aboutfour weeks or six weeks before you come
back with another fertilizer. Okay,great, I'll do Ladina now and then
towards the end of June, I'lldo sounds good. Hey, Susan,
thank you for the call. Iappreciate that our phone number seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know you're talking about fertilizers and

(51:29):
things. I don't know any placein town that has a better selection of
fertilizers and all the pest controlled,weed control insect control products as Southwest Fertilizer,
I mean Southwest Fertilizer. Check themout Southwest Fertilizer dot com it You
will not believe the selection that theyhave there's it is absolutely outstanding. And

(51:52):
when you take a sample or somethingin they're going to be able to help
put their eyes on it and identifywhat's going on and take you to the
proper product. They won't sell yousomething you don't need. Bob and his
team there or excellent at that.They're on the corner of Bissonette and Renwick,
or you can just go online toSouthwest Fertilizer dot com. Uh.

(52:12):
The the quality of fertilizers that wehave these days is just amazing. And
you hear us talk about a bunchof different ones I know all the time,
but it's it's just it's just amazingthe options. You know, if
you're an organic gardener, if youdon't carry synthetics, fine with you.
They're they're just all out there andit's really really kind of cool. I

(52:34):
wanted to tell you about a placethat I've talked about them before, but
Verdant Tree Farm. You know,they have the original location which is out
there on Barker Cyprus on the westside, and then they've got the pair
Land location on West Broadway, andthen in the Heights on Yale Street they
have another location and Verdant there theyare. Their selection of trees is amazing.

(52:54):
I mean the you know, palmtrees, oh my gosh, unbelievable,
but all kinds of trees. They'vegot everything you can imagine. You
get to go there, you pickout your tree, you tag it,
they bring it to you, theyplanet, they plant right, which is
critical when you purchase a new tree. That's a nice investment. You're putting
in, but it'll pay off foryears and years. And Verdant Tree Farm

(53:15):
has the kind of trees and thekind of service and the kind of train
staff that will set you up fora real good success. I want to
remind you again that I'm going tobe out in sugar Land at the Home
and Outdoor Living Show from eleven thirtyto one thirty today out at the Stafford
Center and Stafford So I hope you'llcome out and see me. Come early

(53:37):
though, about eleven thirty. I'mgonna be giving a talk on successful tips
for a successful landscape, and afterthat I'll be there answering your questions at
a table. So bring me.I like to kind of like the m
Alazareth point, Bring me. You'retired, you're weary, you're huddled masses
of plants yearning to not be sickanymore. That's kind of a stretched it

(54:00):
Nikki. That's really good, howpoetic. Yeah, well, we'll look
at them and we'll make some suggestions. No drive, but agis this wild?
See well, good morning on agood day for gardening. This is

(54:23):
the garden Line Radio Show. I'myour host, Skip Richter, and our
phone number seven one three, two, one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eightseventy four. Let's go out to Baytown
and we're gonna talk to Mary.Good morning, Mary, Hi, Hey,
are you dealing this morning? Well, I'm well, thank you,

(54:44):
good good. I have a adrift white rose container plant. Um.
I would say maybe three gallons side. Anyway, when I bought it,
it was very very healthy, theroses, the green leafs. Well,
now I haven't played any yet becauseI wasn't sure that's where I wanted it.
And now my leaves are all goingyellow and the roses are all dying

(55:07):
off. Is that too much wateror what? Well, it could be
um, too much water, notenough water, or that fluctuation where it
gets a little bit dry. It'sit's stressed and then you water it.
Often we see yellow leaves follow that. You notice that probably in your houseplants,
you know, you gotta Papha's ivyand gets too dry, and then
you water it and suddenly the leavesare turning yellow. It's just part of

(55:29):
that cycle. But if it's justyellow and it's the older leaves, then
I wouldn't I wouldn't be concerned,just try to try to make sure drainage
is good, it's not soggy roots, and also that it doesn't go into
drought. But we haven't been anywherenear drought this this spring. Okay,
okay, so kind of not toomuch sun either, like between the front

(55:52):
that has a little bit of anoverhand, Well that shouldn't be a problem.
Well, it comes down to howmuch light energy hits the leaves of
the course of the day. Sowe say things like give rose is at
least six hours of sun, butit you know, all light is not
equal. There's there's partial shade,dapple shade, morning sun, afternoon shade,

(56:13):
or you see what I'm saying.It just comes down to you need
you need a lot of sunlight onthose leaves, and as it starts to
become less than ideal, then bloomwill be less than ideal as well.
Oh okay, okay, yeah,yeah, And I just Mary, thank
you. I'd give it some time. You're gonna you're gonna see this summer

(56:36):
how it does. And then ifit's not right, then this falls a
good time to move a rose anyway, That's what i'd recommend, And and
thank you for the call. Ourphone number is seven one three, two
one two five eight seven four.You know, the other day I was
out at arbor Gate for a visiton a weekend. They had their little
event out there by the way.That was awesome, and thank you for
those of you who came out.But if you haven't been to arbor Gate,

(56:59):
you need to check it out.If you have been, you need
to check it out again because thatplace changes all the time. There's constantly.
In fact, when I got throughwith my talk, there were trucks
lined up through the driveway. Almostcouldn't get out of there because there are
so many trucks of plants just comingin with new stuff all the time.
And those of you who've been toArbrogate, you know that their selection the

(57:19):
kinds of things they carry is wonderful. Arburgate dot com is their website if
you want to check it out.But why are you there to check out
their one two three easy system?And what that means is they have a
food that feeds anything with roots,soil for any application, and a compost
to improve your soil, all completelyorganic and completely easy. I just love
I love a system like that thatkind of keeps things simple, makes it

(57:43):
a little easier to do. Well, let's we're going to head out now
and talk to Mary. Good morning, Mary, good morning. How can
I help today? Major? Andtoo? It about a rosebush, maybe
a knockout rosebush that does not bloomand hasn't bloomed in years. It's in

(58:07):
a ninety degree corner of the property, doesn't get a lot of sunlight.
Its facing the west, but thethe crape myrtle trees block a lot of
the sun. It gets too muchwater in that corner. Okay, all
right, Mary, I think I'veheard enough to diagnose this one. You

(58:29):
need to get it. You needto get it in more sunlight. You
know, you can grow rosebush.What do I do, transplanet? Move
it somewhere else on the property?Yeah, I'd wait, though at this
point it's going to get hot andyou can move a plant now, but
boy, the chances of success godown a lot. I'd do it in
November and November okay, So livewith a situation until November. Yeah.

(58:52):
Give it a good bed that hasquality, you know, quality soil and
excellent drainage and some sunlight, andit'll come alive for you and do what
you want it to do. Soit is salvageable. Oh, yes,
yes it is. I'm assuming thebush looks okay in and of itself.
It does, it does, butit's it's it needs some help with a

(59:13):
saw and it's just in too muchwater up, especially the flash flooding that
occurs in my area. Gotcha,Well, those things I recommended, they're
going to be the way to turnthat around. Mary. I appreciate your
call, Thank you very much forit. Seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. That's thenumber Josh will get you on the board.

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I just wanted to mention if youhaven't been out to Enchanted Forest and
Enchanted Gardens, you need to gocheck them out that they have. By
the way, each one has itsown Facebook and Instagram pages, So just
get on Facebook or get on Instagramand either type in enchanted Gardens which is
the one from Richmond up toward Katiedirection, or Enchanted Forest which is the

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one from Richmond towards sugar Land directionon the south side of Highway six there,
excuse me, not Highway six fiftynine. They the selection is unmatched.
It's one of those cool places togo to where you know, you
visit and it just it's like awonderland. Both the places are like this.
They got unbelievable plant selection, allthe products we talk about, of

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course, by the way, andyou will find something, I promise you.
In fact, you better take abig vehicle because you're going to find
a lot of things that you're goingto want to be home or bring home
from enchanted forest and enchanted gardens.Oh gosh. You know, we're here
to answer your gardening questions, andwe're gonna take a little break, but
we're gonna come back and do justthat. Seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four Good Saturday morningon a good day for gardening, for
talking about gardening, getting out andenjoying, enjoying the weather and life and

(01:01:05):
everything like that. You know,I talk to people sometimes and they talk
about not having good fruit set onplants that they have, for example,
squash and things like that. Beesare the key to that. And sometimes
we kill our bees by spraying andyou know, using insecticides that kill them.
And when you kill a bee,you inherit it's job, which means

(01:01:25):
you're going to go out there withan artist brush or something and dab it
on the mail part to get somepollen and then go over to the female
pardons, which is a separate bloomon a squash, and take care of
it like that. To have abeehive in your backyard is really cool.
I used to have those myself,and you will see your yields go up
just from having a beehive. I'vetalked about the bee supply before. Be

(01:01:49):
Supply out in Dayton, but theyhave beginner classes twice a month out in
Dayton. Now you can learn howto take care of your bees. And
it's They're not just going to sayyou a product and say good good luck.
They really want you to have success. So you can come in over
and over again, Callumn over andover again, here's what's going on with
my bees, or just continue onwith the instructions that they have there.
If you don't want to have bees, but you just like to learn about

(01:02:12):
them. It is one of thecoolest insects in the world. It is
amazing the facts about bees that you'lllearn. And you can go out to
be Supply and Daton by the way, they have honey tours where you'll learn
all about bees. You'll get totaste all kinds of honey, so any
kind of group you have, especiallya group of youth, will love going
to the b supply. Be supplydot com vbe supply dot Com is a

(01:02:37):
place you need to go. AndI would say if you never thought about
keeping bees in the backyard port,you might give it a try. I
think you will enjoy it. We'regoing to head out to Spring Branch and
talk to Jennifer. Good morning,Jennifer, Hi, good morning, Thank
you for taking my call. Sowe have a little condo townhouse that we're

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selling, and it has a littlepatio in the back and it fence in.
It has a little plot garden plotkind of along the fence line.
And I lost a lot of mybushes in the last freeze, so I
had a lot of things in pots, and my friend gave me a lot
of perennials and I'd like to takethem with me to my new home.
And I don't know what I canstill plant now that will help sell the

(01:03:22):
home that will survive. Do youhave any suggestions? Yeah, hey,
Jennifer, when do you want toput that house on the market as soon
as possible? Soon as possible?Okay, so annuals or your friend can
take the perennials with you because well, I mean, if they have beautiful
blooms on them, I guess youcould go ahead and put those in.
But annuals give you the instant.And we have a lot of great summer

(01:03:45):
annuals. I would include Angelonia,which is has tall spikes of color blue
and kind of a pinkish color.There's very purple. There's various versions of
it, but it looks really good. And Angelonia would get you go ahead
and did the bush. I knowit's an annual. It's a little small
plant, a bedding plant that youwould put in a flower bed. Uh.
And so when you do that,you get the instant pop. So

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so go oheat and stand at thestreet, look at your place, and
what you'll find is, you know, maybe a little planting over here along
the driveway or walk or whatever.I don't know what. You know your
place looks like. But you mayeven decide you're going to have a container
and put some flowers in it ifyou already have one. Uh yeah,
don't I don't have to take themwith me. Yeah, And for that,

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maybe you know one of these gaudyhibiscus shrubs that it looks so good
right now. Okay, well that'sone you want to take with you,
by the way, But anyway,Yeah, you want people when they look
at the house, and of courseany real estate person takes you want them
to look and go wow for thatfirst impression. Wow, this is cool.

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And color is the best way todo that. You can put some
color in shady areas with colladiums orsomething else like that. In the shade,
use some white with the other colorsbecause it really brightens the shade and
it draws the eye, whereas darkcolors in the shade you almost don't see
them. Thank you so much foryour help. Yeah, those are a

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couple of options. And you're youknow, you're out there in the spring
branch. You've you've got all kindsof garden centers that you can pretty much
equal distant from going in all directions, so we sure do. Yeah,
you're fortunate. Hey, good luckselling that house, Jennifer. Thank you
so much, boy bye bye.Yeah. It's one of the fastest things
that we can do for a homeis to make a instant color impact,

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and with annuals you can just dothat. Just remember one other tip,
Jennifer, if you're still listening,is the further away you view something,
the more you want to mass yourcolors. And what I mean by that
is like a swath of white,a broad swath of red, or something
like that. When you get close, you can have a lot of different
colors together, and that's very interesting. But from the street, don't you

(01:06:05):
know, just have eight hundred differentkinds of colors all in a bed,
because what's going to happen is it'sit's all going to blend into one.
It's like pixels again. When youget all the colors of pixels right together
and you back up, it doesn'tyou don't see those colors. You see
something kind of different than that.So just a tip. And by the
way, when you when you're sellinga home, the most valuable part of

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your landscape of the trees. Treesare I mean that very very important to
the home value. And when youpick a tree, you want to pick
one that's going to be a longlived variety, not something that grows fast
and dies young and falls apart.And in the meantime, you want a
good quality, long lived variety,and then you want to take care of

(01:06:47):
it, right. And you've heardme talking about affordable tree before but Martin
and Joe at Affordable they know whatthey're doing. It's kind of a motto
of mine that if someone sticks abusiness card in your door for taking are
your trees, I just those gorout in the trash for me. I
want to know that the people I'mhiring know what they're doing. And that's
Affordable Tree. By the way,their phone number seven one three six nine

(01:07:11):
nine two six six three. Tellthem you're from Garden Line if you call,
because that'll put you at the frontof the line. They've got experience,
you know, their employees have beenaround fifteen twenty years. They know
what they're doing. Someone that goesin and takes care of your trees and
doesn't know how to do it,they can ruin a tree for life.
And we're just talking to Jennifer aboutthe value of selling a house. Oh

(01:07:32):
my goodness, to have that doneto a tree somewhere in its life and
now you're trying to sell it insteadof them just being drawn to this big,
beautiful tree and shady area. Nowyou know it just mars mars it
up. And so I would recommendAffordable Tree and you can go to their
website too. It's aff tree Servicedot com. But don't just hire the

(01:07:57):
I like, I like to referto them two jerks on a chain saw
tree service that drives behind a pickuptruck and they own a pickup and a
chainsaw and now they're a tree specialist. No, no, no, you
need people that know what they're doing, because, like I said, it's
it's huge. The way they makea pruning cut, the way, um
you know, the kinds of carethey give a tree affordable. Is that
that kind of company. We're gonnanow head out to League City and we're

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gonna talk to Jean V. Hello, John V. Good Morning's gift morning.
Yes, my question is on growingeggplants, okay, and what how
deep should we plant them and sentthem outside? And now much care do

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they need? Yes? Okay,well, eggplant likes lots of sun to
do well. And John V,could you turn that radio down in the
background, We're gonna it's already down. I'm sorry you sawur International landline.
I apologize. Okay, Well,anyway, eggplant like a lot of sun.
Um, you are going to wantto make sure it has good drainage

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and you want to plant the plantsat the same level that they were growing
before. Now it's kinned to tomatoes. But we don't bury the stem of
eggplant like we can get away withburying the stem of a tomato. So
put it at the same level itwas growing before, good drainage, quality
soil, and just give it moderateamounts of fertilizer over time, either with
a slow release product or with afast release. It's it's broken up.

(01:09:28):
In small applications. Eggplant can bereally really productive and it takes a heat
better than it produces better in thesummer that I think than peppers, and
certainly better than tomatoes. How exciting, Oh wonderful, Thank you so much.
I'll have a wonderful day. Well, next thing you need to do
is go get a good recipe forbaba ganose, so you're ready to go.

(01:09:50):
When you got that, you nameit. My wife made a castro
all the other day. That wasit, with slices of eggplant, with
ground beef and all I don't knowwhat, all kinds of onions, who
knows what. That was the tastiestthing I've had in a very long time.
Hey, I appreciate, appreciate thatcall John to be Thank you so

(01:10:11):
much. Yeah, you're listening tothe garden line and we're about to close
down an hour. My goodness thatthis one flew by about eight o'clock.
Just a reminder. I'm going tobe out at Sugarland Home and Garden Show
today from eleven thirty to one thirty, and that's at the Stafford Center in
Stafford. You know, I keepcalling at the Home and Garden Show because
I'm so used to saying that theycall at the home an outdoor living show.

(01:10:34):
But you can come and listen tohim. I'm going to be given
a talk on you know, secretsand tips for success and so as a
result, hopefully you're gonna go homea better success. You can ask any
questions you want. We're going tobe given away free fertilizer, some little
containers that Nelson's has provided us,and then I'll be at a desk where

(01:10:55):
I can sit and visit with youanswer questions, you know, whatever kinds
of questions. If you've got somequality photos on your phone, that would
be really good. That would bereally good for me to be able to
look at and identify. Just makesure, especially when it's like a bug
or a disease or something you mayget a distant picture of the whole thing,
but get a close up picture andthen check it. Make sure it's

(01:11:16):
in sharp focus. I cannot identifysomething that I can't see, so good
quality, sharp focus on the photos, and that way we can help you
the most we can. If it'sa weed in the lawn, you want
to know how to kill it,pull it up, shove it in the
bag, and I will bring itand put it under a hot lamp,
make it confess its name, andthen tell you how to get rid of

(01:11:38):
that weed. That's why we're there, and that's why we're here on Garden
Line. Our phone number, bythe way, seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Giveus a call, Josh. You'll get
you on the board and we willcome to you in the next segment.

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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarilyendorse any of the products or services advertised
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for garden Harder heard me say thata hundred times. I'm gonna say it
a five thousand more because it is. Someone often will say well, it's
pouring down rain outside. Well,do you have houseplants? Do you want
to start some seeds indoors under lightto get going in your garden or do
you just want to do that armchairgardening We do as we peruse websites,
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or some beauty to your landscape,bring in some pollinators, things like that,
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It's at Tumball Parkway at Beltway eight. The color is amazing that they have
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of roses anywhere in the area.They also have wonderful tree selection fifteen gallons
up to two hundred gallons. ButI just think that the color right now
is a thing that has been drawingmy eyes as I've driven by there or
pulled in there to get it gotat nursery. If r CW doesn't have
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talk about. But our CW nurseriesdot com is the place that you may
want to go and check out seeif what I told you as a case,
and you will find it. Definitely. It definitely is this my favorite
time of year to go out andvisit garden centers and just see the color.
I think I need to buy amotorcycle because whatever vehicle I have,
I'm tending toward wanting to fill itup because there's always things I gotta have

(01:14:40):
that I don't have in these places. And I go in to buy one
plant, and well, you knowhow that goes. So I'm surprised my
wife doesn't call in and report allthe credit cards stolen once she knows I'm
heading toward a nursery. Let's goout to spring and we're gonna talk to
Bill. Good morning, Bill,Good morning. I'm a question about during

(01:15:01):
the recent rains, I collected alot of rainwater in gallon jugs that I
had have and also have a questionabout what type of fertilizer I need to
use for cannons for Kennis. Theyes, sir, big broadly. Okay,
So what's your question about the rainwater? How long? How long will

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that rainwater I've got I must havea hundred gallons of it that I've collected
during the rain, and I justwanted how long it's gonna last. You
know, I've never stretched it outto see. I mean, it doesn't
go bad. I mean it's rainwater. You know. Think about rainwater is
what's that a pond? And pondsjust sit there for months and months,
right, So I wouldn't worry aboutit. I think you're gonna end up

(01:15:50):
using it up because it's fixing toget hot, and our plants are gonna
need a lot of water, andso I don't think the longevity of the
rainwater is going to be an issueat all for all. Right, as
far as the cannas, cannas are, they're pretty easy. You can use
one of the color types of fertilizerthat we have, you can you know

(01:16:11):
something that'll that will bring the nutrientsthat are a little better for color plants.
That's all good, but I onmine a lot of times, I'll
just use the term fertilizer that Ibought. It gives a little vigor because
got a little more nitrogen in it. But you're not going to go wrong
on the fertilizing for cannis if youif you're in a place and you got
the choice, look for something youknow that's that's for color. You know,

(01:16:33):
color star, you know a goodexample of that, you know.
But how many the cannons you have? Are they the green leaf kinds or
do they have like yellow stripes orpurple colors or what they're green leaves?
Okay, all right, well they'rethere are a lot of fun and boy
they are willing to grow here.Yeah, I've got some of them that

(01:16:56):
are blooming now, but one ofthem is holding back. Okay, all
right, Well, hey, thankyou for the call. Bill. I
appreciate that. Our phone number isseven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Hey. Hey,by the way, listen up to this,
I've been talking about being at theSugar Line Home and Garden Show,
Home and Outdoor Living Show today atthe Stafford Center and Stafford from eleven thirty

(01:17:19):
to one thirty. And if youwould like to email someone we can get
we can email you back a voucherfor two free tickets. Okay, now
it's it's first come, first serve. But here's the email, Robert Reese
at iHeartMedia dot com. Robert r. E. E. S E at

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iHeartMedia dot com. Do it beforenine am. It's got to be done.
The next one us in fifty minutes. But first come, first serve,
and again we'll be given away somefertilizer out there as well. Hey,
I wanted to I wanted to talka little bit about the lawn again.
We've been getting a lot of callstoday on lawns and that's kind of
a normal day on Garden Line.It is to have people want to talk

(01:18:06):
about their lawns because it's important topeople have a beautiful lawn. The Nitrofoss
SUPERTURF nineteen four ten is the kindof fertilizer that provides that slow feed twelve
to sixteen weeks, so it'll carryall the way to fall. Because it
spreads out the feeding. And you'veheard me talk about this kind of thing
before you cut down on your mowing, because you don't have that over flush

(01:18:30):
of growth. The over flush ofgrowth that also sets a plant up for
certain disease damages. It'll make allthe chinch bugs happy if you have very
succulent grass for them to come chewon. But the nitros nineteen four ten,
it just provides that kind of slowgrowth. And it's a quality fertilizer
that, by the way, isthe silver bag from nitro FoST. And

(01:18:53):
you know Nitrofuss. They're available allover the place. Everywhere you're gonna look,
you're gonna find them at a taskaseda ace at Arburgate and tom Ballades,
Shades of Texas down South Houston.Nitrophospertilizers like nineteen four ten or a
quality way to go. And bythe way, when you're fertilizing, you

(01:19:13):
need to think about adding some azemiteto your lawn. And here's why you
don't mix the two together. Ilike to apply them separately because the setting
on your spreader is a little bitdifferent probably from your fertilizer to the azemite.
But you can go online to AsomiteTexas dot com and learn more about
them. But basically, what thisis, it's a ground up mineral that's

(01:19:34):
mined and it is loaded with traceelements, all the elements that your plant
needs. You know, plants don'tjust need those three numbers on the bag.
They need sixteen, seventeen or moredepending on the plant. Nutrients to
supply that are essential for growth.And azamite helps us get there. So
when you fertilize, follow that upwith can I say asomit ties. That's

(01:20:00):
new, brand new word. Ihave to try that one out a little
bit. Azamite Texas dot com thosewhere you can learn a little bit more
about it. We're going to betaking a break here, Fernando. I
see you out there in East Houston, and we will get to you first
when we come back back. Bettamama little back, Betty back, Betty
ahead of child. Bam Lam thedamn thing going byam lamp said. We're

(01:20:23):
not a minam lam the damn thinggone by that'll get your blood powing on
good Saturday morning for gardening. Weare here to answer your gardening questions.
I'm Skip Richter. This is GardenLine and seven one three, two,
one, two, fifty eight seventyfour is our number. You know,
while Ago I was talking about thatgarden, beaut beautiful landscapes, enticing landscapes

(01:20:45):
aren't just flowers. There's a lotof other things we do. You know,
running water is nice. I callbutterflies flying flowers because that's basically what
they are. And then there's birdsand the sound of birds. Just the
beauty of birds. Even if you'renot an all out birder, it is
something that it needs to be partof your landscape. By the way,

(01:21:08):
next Saturday, that's the twenty seventh, I'm going to be at Wahbirds Unlimited
at clear Lake City that's across fromthe HEB the storeflunt Faces clear Lake City
Boulevard, and I will be therefrom eleven thirty to one thirty. I
hope you'll come out and see me. But there are actually seven locations in
the wild Birds Unlimited Houston area nowthat includes you know, West Houston,

(01:21:32):
certainly, Belair, Pearland, Cyprus, Kingwood, Katie. No matter where
you live, there's one near youyou can go to. If you want
to find a Wahbirds near you,go to w BU dot com. W
BU dot com Forward slash Houston,WBU dot com Forward slash Houston. I
hope you'll come out and see menext Saturday, especially all of those over

(01:21:55):
in the clear Lake and pear Landarea or wherever you want to drive from.
But wild Birds will trust me onthis one. If you've not walked
into a wild Birds, I wantyou to walk in and I promise you
will be amazed at the products thatthey have. These people go beyond just
a here's some bird seed. Theyhave bird seeds for different kinds of birds,

(01:22:17):
have bird seed for different seasons.You know, in the spring when
they're raising young they need a highprotein seed like a dried worm. The
thing about them is they know whatthey're talking about and they can get you
set up for success and beauty.Another reason to be outside and enjoying the
landscape out there. I want tohead out to East Houston to start off

(01:22:39):
this hour and we're gonna talk toFernando. Hello, Fernando, good morning,
Good morning. Who are you well. I'm doing great. I'm saving
a cup of coffee here, butI don't want to take stood long with
my question. I'm in Channel V, Texas. I'm moved into the house
that I'm in now, and inthe backyard, I have a corner,
a good corner. I wanted toput some basol, some sorroundo peppers and

(01:23:03):
hallepenion peppers, and so I didlast season. I killed the ground,
I pulled the weeds by hand.I'm, you know, putting my plants
in. I watered them wan andbehold, I've come these lily pads.
And I was like, okay,So I started digging them up, and
apparently I thought I got all theroots, but I didn't. And they

(01:23:28):
kept growing and they kept growing,and my basil hallepenos were, I mean,
the sorroundo peppers. Everything was justovertaken by the lily pads. And
I just got beat like a drum. Okay, So my question is,
right now, I cleared the areaagain, I put molts. I put
an inch and a half molt underand then I put another another inch on

(01:23:49):
there and there's still growing through themolts. My question is, how can
I get rid of these friendly lilypads so I can start my gardening back
with my albanetto's, my chila pikineand basil in in that one spot.
Man, man, you're making mehungry with all these all these cool people,

(01:24:10):
Fernando. And when you say lilypad, you're talking about something about
the size of a quarter. No, these are the ones you find in
the pond, like the big one. Well, I'm well, I know
what a lily pad is, butI thought, surely you're not talking about
you know what we look at.Yeah, I think we're dealing with something

(01:24:30):
else. But I want to dotwo things. Number One, I'm gonna
give you a suggestion that I thinkwill take care of it. But I'm
gonna put you on home when I'mdone. And I would like Josh to
get you an email to send mesome pictures of these things, uh close
up or if I just want tomake sure what we're talking about. A
broadly post emergent weed control product isprobably going to work on these And so

(01:24:55):
because it's an area where you're gardening, I wouldn't want to just spray it
all over the grounds and stuff likethat. You're gonna have to give up.
Whenever you're doing a transition of theplant, that would be a good
time to do the treatment for thesethings. But I would be real careful
with when you spray it, becauseit will kill all your vegetables that are
broad leaves well, and so Iwould do it in a transition. But

(01:25:16):
you can either wipe as an applicatoron the leaves. There there's applicators that
you just basically rub it over theleaves and it gets on them and that
way you're not spraying the soil andeverything else. Or you can just be
real carefully spray. But you know, there's a number of good broad leaves
out there, and the Ultra ohgosh, I just went blank on the

(01:25:38):
name. Uh, it'll come backto me in a minute. Let's see
where are you. You're in EastHouston, so are Yeah, so you're
gonna be able to find it outthere, But ask where you go shop,
where you do your shopping. Uh, there's gonna be some good place.
I don't know how far. You'renot too far from Baytown and Quality
feed is is up and north ofBaytown in there. Just asking for a

(01:26:03):
broad leaf weed control product we'd beator Ultra as the one I couldn't think
of a minute ago. I probablywould use that one wiping on them.
Now. A lot of things thatare general weed killers, you know,
the glyphosates and things like that arefine, but all of those will kill
this weed, but they're they're gonnaalso damage your plants, so be really

(01:26:23):
careful. I think there's Here's thething that's making me hesitate is labels tell
you where you can use stuff.And some of these products are not labeled
for use in a vegetable garden.And that's a lot of the ones I
would recommend if these things were growingin your lawn. We I'm not going
to officially recommend them for use inyour vegetable garden, okay, because then

(01:26:45):
right now nothing is there because mymom my plants are dead and I pull
the weeds. Okay, but theonly thing that's left is is what I
say, is these lily ted lookingplants. Well now I'm thinking of about
going back and killing the whole thingover again, but I want to make
sure that their sins they're out.I want to be able to address it
first, get to the root costof everything. Yeah, first spray and

(01:27:09):
then give it a week or soand then do your killing. Don't till
first, because then you're just breakingthem up and essentially probably propagated. Yeah
all right, well, I appreciateyou said you're putting a hole for an
email. Yes, I'm putting youon hold and Josh is going to get
you an email to send me somephotos of these. Thanks a lot for

(01:27:29):
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do. I just need, especiallywhen I'm talking about them, to be
careful to tell people, you know, don't don't apply it outside the label
because it's labeled and the company isresponsible if you apply it right and the
right place like they say it.And that's what the research has been done
to say, where can you applyit and where is it safe to use?

(01:28:56):
And so when you go outside thelabel, then you know it you're
on your own, I mean,and chances are you're gonna you're gonna cost
some problems with that. I can'twait to see this weed because I you
know, the word lily pad andthe way he's describing it is not fitting
in my head. So I guessI got something to learn on that one.
I look forward to seeing those seeingthose photos of it. I mentioned

(01:29:18):
that I'm going to be at atWilberg's next next Saturday, but today Sugarland
Home and Garden Show, Home andOutdoor Living show at the Stafford Center and
Stafford from eleven thirty to one thirty, So I don't know if you're still
listening, Fernando. Another option ifyou want to take a little drive,
but it'd be kind of fun.Go out to the Sugarland Home and Garden

(01:29:40):
Show and Stafford Center and bring mesome examples of those lily pads and I
can take a look at them,and we can save a lot of time
right there and do that as well, if you are willing to come out
and do that. Those of youwho have a little piece of property,
you know where you you, it'sthe dream right to get an acre two

(01:30:00):
or more out in the country.You need to know about a deal that's
going on right now with Lansdowne Moody. Lansdown Moody and Caboda have combined to
create a special deal, zero down, zero interest for eighty four months,
seven years lansdown and Caboda. We'retalking about the Caboda L twenty five oh

(01:30:20):
one, which got a the hydrostatictransmission. I used to have a tractor
and I ground gears a lot.Now with the hydrostatic transmission, I wish
I'd had this then. And youcan trick it out with your front endloader,
your box blade, rotary color cutter. But now is the time to
do it. By the way,if you want to find a Lansdowne Moody
near you, it's l M tractordot Com and there's a number of them

(01:30:44):
around the area. But remember thisdeal ends June thirtieth, so that's just
around the corner. Don't delay.But that that particular Texas Edition Caboda L
twenty five O one. It's anoutstanding one, and all your chores out
on the low piece property are goingto be a lot easier and you are
going to really enjoy driving one ofthose. When I used to have a

(01:31:08):
fruit orchard and a strawberry patch upin the Willis area years ago, and
I had this old clunker tractor,you know the kind where the seat's long
worn away and you had to seta piece of foam up on there to
sit on it. You know,I got the job done, but I
probably spent more trying time trying toget it to start than I did actually

(01:31:29):
using the tractor itself. So Iguess I'll need to get me one of
these Cabodas, and that would bereally nice. Yeah, out in Grimes
County, those of you who live, oh, let's say east of Navasota,
anywhere around there. Brian College Station, beat Eyes, Rones Prairie,
Grimes County, Feeding Farm. Thatis a company that really has the products

(01:31:53):
we're talking about. I was justlooking at some of the things that they
have on hand, and in factI saw they had some of the Nelson's
Slow and Easy. That's the twentytwo to ten, that's the gradual release
that we were talking about a littlebit earlier. You know, Nelson's,
whether whether it's Bruce's Brew eighteen fournine, twenty two to ten. Grimes
County Feeding Farm is going to carrythese for you. So if you live

(01:32:14):
out in that area and you wanta good local feedstore, a mom and
pop, pop, family owned plateplace, I need to avoid peas today
to Nikkia believe I'm just plopping thisout. So anyway they stop by,
tell them you heard it on GardenLine. You're going to find the kind
of products you need, like dogand cat food, quality food, all

(01:32:36):
the things you would expect from feedstore. You got roading problems, past
problems, they're going to have somethingto deal with it. It's been raining,
you need mosquito dunks. Grimes CountyFeeding Farm is going to have it
as well as the Nelson Plant Food, Turf star line Brown. You know,

(01:33:06):
it's it's hard, it's hard tocut in on Jim Crouch. Yea,
I love that guy. I lovethose songs. Law I guess you'd
call that oldies now right, Wow, today's music oldies for you know it.
That's the way it goes. You'relistening to Gardenline the number and you
want to write this down seven onethree two one two fifty eight seventy four

(01:33:28):
seven one three two one two fiftyeight seventy four. By the way,
I want to remind you if youwould like to get a voucher for two
free tickets to come out to thesugar Land Home and Outdoor Living Show where
I'll be at eleven thirty today,just email have your pen ready Robert Reese
R. E. S E atiHeartMedia dot com. You have to do

(01:33:49):
it before nine am. So whatdo we got twenty four minutes? Don't
delay if you'd like to come out. It's a great opportunity. And by
the way, we're gonna be givenaway the nitro fist fertilizer. Heard of
Nelson's fertilizer out there today. It'sa nelson product. I was just cross
tongue there on it. But Nelson'shas provided some little bottles of look at
the plastic jars of their fertilizer,and we've got a wide ride and we

(01:34:13):
give away some let's see vegetable fertilizer, rose fertilizer, plumarium. I mean,
there's all kinds of things that wehave there. But come out and
listen to me. I'm gonna talkabout the things that you need to do
this spring to have or this summerto have an outstanding beautiful landscape. Just
giving you some tips for that.And that will start at about eleven thirty
and then I'll head to a tablewhere I'll stay until about one thirty to

(01:34:35):
answer your questions things that you mightbe interested in. Well, let's head
out to Humble and we're going totalk to Ruth this morning. Good morning,
Ruth, good morning. How canI help? I was listening earlier
to the young man and call youabout the weed that looks like lily man.

(01:34:58):
Yes, and that's the dollar weed. I learned that from Randy Lemon.
The dollar weed. It can gethis side the biggest round as a
half dollar. Yes, and itgrows up with the stem and that little
that little thing is on top thatdoes look like a lily pad. It's
not near as big. But that'sa dollar weed. Yeah it is,

(01:35:19):
and that's what I thought it was. But I asked him if you know
they're about a quarter size, becausea lot of times a dollar weed is
getting started is about the size ofa quarter. And he said, no,
it's like a lily pad. SoI'm gonna wait and see his photo.
He's kind of stumped me. Ithink it was dollar weed too,
but you know, it didn't soundlike that fit his description, so we'll

(01:35:39):
see. Thank you, though,I appreciate, appreciate that idea. You
gotta deal with dollar weed out thereand humble a little bit in my yard.
Yes, okay, I can't rememberthe name of the chemical that minds
we put on it, but wekind of you don't get it under control.
Okay. Yeah, it loves livinghere because we're hot, we're human,

(01:36:00):
and it rains a lot and thatmakes dollarweed really very happy. Yes,
thank you so much. All right, Ruby, thank you for the
call. It's good to have listenersout there that are kind of checking in
and offering their two cents worth onsome of these things. We often get
some very interesting calls. You know, I've been a county Agriculture Extension horticulturist

(01:36:24):
for thirty four years now and answeringgardening questions the whole time, of course,
And it always amazes me sometimes whenyou get a question and people are
describing it, and then when yousee the plant or get a picture of
it or something, it looks verydifferent. And you know, I mean,
it's not just on the people describingit. It's like our minds tend

(01:36:44):
to go in a different direction whenwe're hearing certain keywords and we think we'll
know what we're talking about. Butone time I was given a garden talk
out in the Porter area Porter NewCaney, and a lady raised her hand
and she asked me about this plant, and I just trying to help her,
trying to understand, you know,it was a rose she was saying,
and it just something was wrong.And finally another lady in the room

(01:37:09):
goes, Mabel, are you talkingThat isn't not a rose and you're driveway,
that's a crape myrtle. I'm justlike, oh my gosh, I'm
sitting here. The lady tells meshe has a rose and I'm trying to
help her and it's actually a craipmyrtle. Well, hey, I try.
I try to be accurate and helpful, but you know, give me
a break here, help me outa little bit. Oh my gosh,

(01:37:32):
remember those days. Yeah, Sowe're going to answer any kind of gardening
questions you have out at sugar LandHome and Garden Show today, and we're
gonna also be doing that here onthe radio. In fact, let's go
ahead and go to pair Land andwe're gonna talk to Jason. Hello,
Jason, Hey, good morning,Good morning. Yeah, I just wanted
to call and chat. I've hadrecurring fungal issues in my lawn really since

(01:37:58):
we've moved into the place and treatedwith propoconazol an eagle and uh dacanil,
which I read out of out ofRandy's Gulf Coast Gardening Book for the gray
leaf spot, but always seem topop back up in certain areas and I
get those bright yellow blades. Ihave a Saint Augustine line, so so

(01:38:21):
if they're bright yellow, um,I don't know. I'm thinking that I've
seen a lot of that this year, and I'm not really sure what to
point it too. It's not it'sprobably not take all root rot, but
it could be that will cause yellowof the grass, but it shows up

(01:38:42):
more as an iron deficiency than thebright yellow older leaves. And I think
you're probably looking at if you lookedat a runner, it'd be the oldest
leaves on the runner that are yellow. Have you have you looked that close
or not? Oh? Yeah,I've definitely looked at them before. And
to your point on the take all, you know there are certain patches is
that I mean almost it seemed likeit happened, you know, within a

(01:39:03):
matter of a couple of weeks whereit just melted away and I was able
to just reach in and kind ofpull up a few stolens in those roots
were you know, kind of destroyed. I dug around to check for you
know, grubs and stuff like thattoo. But have you used a herbsider
in your lawn this spring? Idid a notro foss pre emergent Okay earlier

(01:39:27):
in the year. Okay, allright, Well, I don't know.
I would I would think about takeall as a possibility. I would also,
uh, you know, large patchwe used to call it brown patches
typically a cool season disease. It'sit's it's specifically a riise Actonia fungus.
And we have some rise actonias thatcan affect her in the warm weather as
well, and just like in thecool season, you know, it starts

(01:39:50):
to rots the leaves off the runnerand so they turn yellow before they turn
brown. It could be that there'sa little bit of that going on because
we have had a plentiful rain springand I think some fairly mild temperatures.
So it's going to be one orthe other. I would just watch it
for now. Uh, it doesn'tseem to be at a stage where you
would become really alarmed with it.And I hate to send you out just

(01:40:12):
putting products on for whatever reason thatI'd be ready to go. You know,
you're you're in Paraland so you're closeto Lumber and Ace Hardware there and
they're going to have all kinds ofproducts. They also have knowledgeable folks there
too, by the way, Yeah, they do. That's that's where I
like to go. They're they're greatplas. Yeah, that's Paralinas is an
awesome, awesome store. Well,let me ask you this a top dress

(01:40:33):
of Pete Moss and I just didmy last treatment. I did a combination
of azoxystrobin and uh propoconazow Okay,on the lawn, and that was about
twelve days ago. Then you've yeah, you've fund decided the heck out of
that thing. So I about theLet's just watch and wait and see how
it does. Okay, Jason,So hold off on the fertilizer. Then

(01:40:56):
for now. Did you fertilize thisspring earlier in the year, around February
March? I put put some down. Okay, I would go ahead with
the fertilizer. I don't think that'sgoing to be a problem. Just do
it at a moderate rate, don'toverdo it. All right, Hey,
Jason, I'm gonna have to run, but I appreciate your call. We're
taking a break here Don in pearLand. We'll be coming to you Ernie

(01:41:17):
and Spring Branch and Mitch out inthe Woodlands. Just hang on. We'll
be right back from break side.But you don't see too many days.
Well, good Saturday morning. Iam looking forward to get into these calls

(01:41:39):
here and talking about the things thatyou guys are interested in. Phone number
if you'd like to be on sevenone three two one two five eight seven
four. Let's head out to pearLand and we are going to talk to
Don. Hello, Don, goodmorning, how are you doing. I'm
well, thank you, thank you. I'm going to complain a some roses

(01:42:00):
in the in my flower bed,and I was just wondering what is the
best rose saw to use or recommendedrose saw. I haven't seen several different
things online, one with landscape ormix and the other with a vegetable garden
mix. Well, there's also arose soil. Specifically, the folks out

(01:42:21):
at Heirloom have I think rose soilin your area that probably you're going to
find them at the Ace Hardware inpair Land, which is on North Main
Street, or if you're if you'rea little further south, the Ace Hardware
down and on Edgewood Drive in Friendswoodis probably going to be carrying those um
Heirloom soil mixes, the one calledrose mix, and that's the one that

(01:42:45):
I would go with. All right, That's what I needed to know.
One more quick question. Yeah,okay, since I'm going to be putting
it into my existing big should Imix that with my get maybe a bag
of sold and mix into these insalt so that roofs can have a way
to grow. You know, Ioften will do that, don That's a

(01:43:08):
good question. I often will laysome of the bed mix down and mix
it with the soil below. Let'ssay you've got a really wonderful bed mix
and then boom, you hit thissolid, dense clay. I like to
break that interface between the two upby mixing it a little bit and then
finishing up by putting the rest ofIn this case, the rose soil in
the bed sounds good, and that'sa erloom soils makes a rose blend down

(01:43:33):
there. I think they would carryit. You know, another common rose
blend we have is a nature's way. They carry that, and it's a
number of areas. I just amnot sure they're down there in the ace
in your area, so they'll beable to point you to what they carry.
But if you've heard us talk aboutit on here, it's going to
be a good quality mix. Soundsgood. Yeah, I would like to

(01:43:58):
go around, but it's so far. Yeah, okay, So I'm much
try ace and I'm not airloom.But I'm sorry, I got you.
Yeah, you're h E I Rl O O M. But when you
walk into the ace and you sayshow me your bags at airloom, they're
Airloom simix or compa they're going tobe able to direct you to it,
and if they don't, if aplace doesn't have that, they're going to

(01:44:21):
be able to direct you to theother one that they carry. Well,
thank you, I appreciate that.All right, thank you, I appreciate
that. Call. Don a rightgood good information there, you know,
and we're sitting here talking about ACE. Here. There thirty nine ACE stores
in the Greater Houston area. Sowhat I'd recommend you do is go to

(01:44:41):
ACE Hardware dot com. Ace Hardwaredot Com and you can click on a
link that will take you to thestore near you. You know, you
tell them where you live, andthey're going to show you the stores that
are closest to you. And withthirty nine stores, you're not gonna have
to drive very far. We're goingto head out now to Spring Branch and
talk to Ernie. Hello Ernie,Yes, good morning, Stewie. How

(01:45:01):
are you. I'm well, I'mwell, thank you. Good. Quick
question, Uh, I need somethingto replace foxtail ferns with. I got
four big pots and lost them anddidn't get to cover them the freeze again,
So you need suggestion on different typeplant simmer conditions. So there there,
Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah,I'm sorry, I'm talking over you.

(01:45:25):
The foxtails aren't coming back out fromthe ground. After all the time,
pros off, they're gone. Okay, who some of our time plant?
Uh, well, we have anumber. How how sunny is the
area? It's a partial sun,partial shade, mostly son. Okay,
Well would you would you like togo to a shrub or do you want

(01:45:47):
something else just down low on theground. No, I don't want to
get into shrubs. I got plentyof shrubs. I just want something that'll
go on those big pots. Yeah, if it's if it's not too sunny
that Another option would be to gowith some type of a fern like holly
fern. Holly fern is is areal dense, dark green color. Uh.

(01:46:11):
It's got a big fat leaf,not the normal fern leaf, but
it's a different leaf. It doesreally well. And these are going in
pots right right? These are inpots. Okay, Well, that's that's
probably why it froze to death,because those pots the soil gets a lot
colder. Another another option, Uh, I like this planet. It's called
inland inland seats and it has avery do it you know, search far

(01:46:36):
it online? Take a look atthe picture and see if you like that
it It has a little seat headthat looks sort of like one of the
grain crops, if you will.And it does well in a lot of
shade too, uh, and soit can probably take a little bit of
sunlight as well. I just youknow, not knowing exactly how much sun
you have, you know, I'mnot sure whether to recommend, you know,

(01:46:56):
like a giant riopy or something togo in there to give you kind
of a green filler that's a littlebit taller, or one particular plant.
But there's a lot of options.What was the last thing of the inland
what was it? What inland seaoats? And this is just for something
different, you know, it's justfor something different. It's a it's a
pretty cool plant. It spreads andso being in pots that's good because it

(01:47:18):
does spread under underground in a bed, which isn't bad. But some people
don't like that that characteristic of it. So seats. Yeah, but I
would, you know, I wouldtry that. And you're you know,
they're in the spring branch you gotin nurseries. Every direction you can go
in. One of our good independenceprobably going to show you some other things

(01:47:39):
they carry that aren't coming to mymind right now. Okay, you appreciate
it very much. All right,I appreciate you. Bet. We're gonna
go talk to Mitch now in theWoodlands. Mitch, I got a short
time, but let's see if wecan at least get the call started.
All right, Well, good morning, kits. They take my call.
I am moving down from Dallas.We're building a house in the Woodlands.

(01:48:00):
As I drive through my neighborhood,I see people with different types of grass
up here. We have a bermudatiff four nineteen trying to find out what
would be the best thing to plantthere. Not really a big stand of
bermuda, but it's that's what crowsbest, will go with it. Yeah,
and so the area again, thesunlight I'm out on the area,

(01:48:20):
the number of hours you think,yeah, a lot, there's not a
tree. Okay, there's not atree on the lot. You know.
Bermuda makes the most beautiful lawn andTexas, I mean, think of a
golf course green. How can youimprove on that? But bermuda has to
be mowed regularly, and the shorteryou mow it, the more often you
mow it. And Unlike Saint Augustine, Bermuda is unforgiving of an irregular mowing

(01:48:43):
schedule. It'll survive, in fact, can't kill it, but it looks
horrible when you cut off all thegreen on top until it regreens again from
from lower. So I don't havea problem with bermuda other than the fact
that it invades my flower beds,and so that's that's not something I like.
There's some broad leaf types of Zoysiathat do really well too, if

(01:49:03):
their mode regularly with a sharp moreand then of course Saint Augustine's is just
fine. It just it's drawback isit's not very drought tolerant, so if
you if you don't start watering itwhen it gets hot and dry, it's
gonna have a little problems with that. Okay, Well, Zoysia maybe it
is, Yeah, Zoya, maybeit is. There's a website and write

(01:49:25):
this down. It's aggy turf oneword age turf dot tmu tamu dot edu.
And if you go there, there'sa little thing on the lower left
that says turf grasses and you canread in depth about every kind. It's
pros, it's cons and and evenrecommended varieties of it. And it's the
fastest way that I think I cangive you a more thorough answer than I

(01:49:47):
can in just a few minutes.You know, talk about one quick question.
If my neighbor has permuted it,I have zoysia. Are we going
to fight? Do we need toput a barrier up between those two?
Or the broad leaf types of zoysia? And it's the Zoysia japonica species.

(01:50:10):
Uh, those are going to looka little different than the bermuda. The
narrow leaf look a lot like thebermuda. But I would I would go
with the broad leaf. If you'vegot plenty of then I would go with
the broad leaf type. And Ithink you're going to do better. And
yes, any two turf grasses,like any wild native grasses, are going
to fight it out wherever they livebecause that they're in competition. All right,

(01:50:30):
Thank you appreciate well, Mitch,thank you. I appreciate that call.
Just a reminder that I am headingout to the Sugarland Home and Outdoor
Living Show today at eleven thirty,So once we finish the show, I'm
heading that way. I'm going tohave some Nelson's fertilizer to give away.
A number of different types being providedus, some turf fertilizer, stuff for

(01:50:54):
roses and plumerias and trees and shrubsand all kinds of different things, and
nice little jars. So it's notjust like a little tiny packet. I
mean you'll be able to use itand test it out. You're gonna find
out that works for a well blay. But come to come at eleven thirty
so you can hear my seminar,and that's where I'll be giving away the
first line. KTRH Garden Line doesnot necessarily endorse any of the products or

(01:51:17):
services advertised on this program. Welcometo KTRH Garden Line with Skip Richter's so
please just watching as many pleas We'regood morning, good Saturday morning, good

(01:51:47):
day for gardening, and good dayto be talking about gardening. I'm your
host of guarden Line, Skip Richter, and if you will write this down,
you can give us a call.Seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three twoone two fifty eight seventy four. There's
a lot of interest this time ofyear in gardening. You know, in
spring, everybody's a gardener. Imean, you know, spring fever hits

(01:52:11):
and people get all excited about planningstuff, And I wish I could bottle
a little bit of that up andspread it out into fall, because fall
is also a great time in fact, when you're talking about planning some of
the woody ornamentals and stuff. Fall'san awesome time for doing that kind of
thing, perennial plants and whatnot.But we still love spring, no question.
It just doesn't get much more beautifulthan spring around here. If you're

(01:52:33):
if you live up in the Montgomeryarea off of one oh five is A
and A Plants in Produce. It'son the east side of Montgomery, so
Lake Conro, Walden, bent Water, you know all those places out that
direction over in Conro, even evenup in willis A and A Plants in
Produce does an excellent job of providinga wide variety of plants and color and

(01:52:57):
things to go with your plants.So if you're looking for Mexican talavera or
terra cotta, maybe you want achiminea for the patio a gazebo. They
have it all seven days a week, nine to five pm. Ana Plants
on the east side of Montgomery,right on Highway one oh five they carry
all the products we talk about here, the fertilizers and the pesticides, herbicides.

(01:53:18):
Fun decide you're gonna find it allthere by the way, they also
have I was in there the otherday farm fresh homegrown produce and some eggs.
I thought that was interesting. Sothat's another reason as if you don't
have enough already to check out anaplants and produce. I'm going to head
to the phones now and talk withDonald in Northwest Houston. Hello, Donald,

(01:53:42):
Hi. I picked up some rootsand stuck them in the ground.
But I'm just curious thinking back whenI was a child, my grandmother up
in Illinois head bushes, and Iran across these in a wal Mart.
Leave it or not, it's thought, I'm gonna try it, and so

(01:54:04):
any advice about it. At thefirst couple of them have sprouted up,
by no, it'll take a coupleof years proudly to get booms. But
the others did not even come up. Well done, don't be the don't
shoot the bear of bad news.But it doesn't surprise me that you got
those at a big change store,because those people are notorious all of the

(01:54:26):
companies for selling things in areas wherethey don't do real well. People have
tried growing pionies here for a longtime, and for a while we had
some varieties we thought would go alittle further south. But they're not not
really panning out to be outstanding.Now. I hope that you can prove
me wrong. But here's how you'regoing to need to try if you if
you want to do it, theyneed some morning sun because they do need

(01:54:48):
light. But once we get inthe summer and it is what a thousand
degrees and you know, for dayson end, and it's the night times
that are hard on these plants too. Maybe I'll talk about that more and
a bit. But the p andis just struggle. They just struggle with
that. But if you can givethem the best chance at a well drained
bed full of rich organic matter likecompost and a spot that has bright shade

(01:55:15):
little morning sun, that would bethe ideal mix to give them their best
chance. Okay, all right,right, yeah I will what happens?
I did? I knew they didhave to have sun. I remembered some
of my grandmas were in the shadeand those uh I remember some of them
just coming up, but nothing everhappening and then all of a sudden you

(01:55:38):
come down and by a tree,and then they weren't great after that.
Yeah, and then that about thesouthside. But there is it might be
too hot as well. Let's see, let's see if you got morning sun
is the best Thomas of sun.Of course, you know here when it
gets to be summer, you walkoutside and break a sweat and just walk
into your car first thing in themorning. So that's what we're having to

(01:56:00):
deal with. I had ponies.Well I lived in Missouri for three years
and we had some ponies, andI know why people love them. Just
good luck with it, all right, thank you? All right, yes
sir, take care. We're goingto head out to Charles in Texas City.
Well, hello Charles. Top ofthe morning. To the rains coming
from the Gulf this morning, Ithink, hey, I have a question.

(01:56:23):
They're dead gun stinkbergs there, steambugs, they're beaten. They is beaten
up by tomato. Is bad.I've been using anyway, but I want
to know we'll be key will atwork for steambergs. Also, it will
not touch them. Steak bugs.Stink bugs are a problem. You've got

(01:56:45):
it there, some pretty pretty powerfulinsecticide products to kill them when they're in
the adult stage. If you checkyour plants out regularly, they'll lay eggs
on them, and you'll see thelittle cluster of nymphs. They tend to
hang together like a herd. Thisis a stink bug and the leafooted bug,
which basically does the same damage.At that stage, you can put
a little soapy pale underneath them andswap the branch and they all fall in

(01:57:09):
it and die, And it's easyto kill them. As they become adults
and get wings and fly away,we're just basically spraying all over the place.
I would recommend spring early in themorning. They're a little more sluggish
than they are later in the day. But but you're gonna have to You're
gonna have to kick it into ahigher gear at once they've hit this stage
now to try to shut them down. So the next question would be,

(01:57:32):
I guess in the diet to makeyour circuit. I tried it. It
will irritate them. They don't likehaving that like broken glass getting in their
body part joints as they move around. But I just don't think I just
don't think you're going to be happywith the results not so far. Well,

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well, I want to steer youwrong, but yeah, that that's
probably that's probably the it is.But next year and this year, when
you see the little herds forming thatmeans they laid eggs on the plants,
that would be the time to tryto try to shut those down. But
you go into a place that sellssells your products and things, they're gonna
they're gonna be able to direct you. It's probably going to be a synthetic

(01:58:16):
paris throws insecticide that'll knock them out. Okay, now let me ask you
this my favorite fixing to put inbees, and I want to know I
use BT when the caterpillars are chewingup everything. Is that going to mess
with the bees? Not at all? Not at all? Okay, you're
good, you're good. Yeah,And you want your neighbor to have bees

(01:58:38):
because I'll come over and pull itout your flowers for you. Oh you
are to see the garden this year, I mean just so yeah, yeah,
there you go. Oh you haveto just tell them, you know,
a little honey here and there ishush money and we're all good,
all right, all right, Oh, thank you for the call. I
appreciate that. Gosh, hey,Dan and Victoria, we see you there.

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We're gonna take a break here,but we will be coming right back
to you. Good morning on agood Saturday morning. Oh the sun's out.
That's a good sign for gardening,isn't it. Can't wait to get

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out there and do a little bitof gardening later on the day. We're
gonna start off by heading out toFairfield and we're gonna talk to Marty.
Good morning, Marty, Good morningSkip. I got a pineapple wall of
years and years ago from the arborgate and the first three we got it,
it got hit pretty hard, butit came back, and then this

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last one it didn't really get hit. But it's it continues to lose leaves.
They're producing new leads, but there'sstill losing the old leaves. It
is now the time for it tobe changing. I'm just not sure why
it's still leave leaves. Yeah,Usually when the old leaves drop, it's

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some kind of a stress. Youknow, it got real dry and then
it got wet. It was wateredagain or saggy. Wet conditions can do
that. Certainly, anything that hurtsroots, like a root rot or something
else can cause that. But ifyou're seeing new growth coming, then I
don't think you're dealing with a rootrot down below. And that pineapple guava
is one of those marginally hardy plants, wonderful plants, you know, beautiful

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blooms, even an edible fruit andthe beautiful bark on the thing. So
it's well worth growing. But Ithink I would just watch it, just
kind of watch the soil moisture inthe drainage. If it's down low where
it stays soggy, then that's gonnabe that's gonna be a problem. Well,
no, it um it does havenew growth, It looks healthy.

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Everything seems to be good. It'sjust I you know, when I'm doing
the yard, I continually have toblow the leaves from underneath of it.
So I just I'll just keep aneye on it. But I do I
need to beat it. Yes,you do want because you want to encourage
growth, So you want to moderateamount of growth that would provide something like

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that. Yeah, that just amoderate amount though you don't have to overdo
it, but just kind of gradually, maybe a little bit in the spring,
a little bit in the summertime.Just stop fertilizing your pineapple guava by
August. Don't don't do a lateAugust or September fertilizer because if you push
it into late season succulent growth andit doesn't hard enough, then a good

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early hard freeze will significantly damage it. So we don't want to push it
into late season growth. It's gotplenty of nutrients from midsummer to carry it
all the way into fall. It'llbe Okay, what should I feat it.
I've got every I've got Nelson's everything, I've got Microloff, I've got
just rigular type ten nineteen four tenOSMA code whatever. Yeah, I don't,

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I don't know what defeated well.Those are all okay, I mean
they all do. They all dowell. And both Nelson's and Microlife makes
fertilizers for trees and shrubs that areespecially good, but even even a product
for flowering plants would work. Okayon it. It's a it's pretty tolerant.
I'll often use just a lawn fertilizeron on my shrubs because, uh,

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you know, we're growing them andjust giving them a little nitrogen through
the summer is good and then agood blend of other nutrients I find that
it's pretty easy. The pineapple,guava, it's pretty easy to go.
As far as fertilizing, you're probablynot gonna go wrong. But uh,
you know, whatever kind you like. You know, Microlife's gonna have the
organic line, and Nelson's they alsohave some organics, and then they have

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the synthetics as well, So you'regonna be able to you're gonna be able
to not go wrong with either ofthose. Yeah, that's fine. I
have just bags of Microlife and stuffthat's open already, all this go ahead
to use depth, Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Lusory, go ahead
and use them if you've opened themup. Yeah, and blueberry bushes,
blueberry bushes. If you've got theMicrolife, you're in the Microlife line,

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then I would go with it's kindof a reddish bag. I believe it's
a it's a six two four fora Civic plants. Yeah, that would
be the one. Yeah, itsounds like you got a full stock over
there. All right, I geteverything else safe. Thank you, Thank
you very much. I appreciate thatcall. Yeah, boy, all these

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questions, let's go to Victoria andwe're gonna talk to Dan. Thanks for
hanging on, Dan, all right, skip. My sister in law lives
in Tomball area, just out ofTomball. Last year she had all of
her plants and shrubs, all ofthe beds so covered with a mulch that
she purchased someplace, and this springit erupted into some of the most difficult

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leads that she'd ever run into.Cannot get rid of them. Her plan
right now, it's the househ one, removed all of the mutch that's there
and then replace it with some thatis going to be free of weed seeds.
And she's looking for a source ofthat. I've been through Houston a
lot of times and seeing different Gordoncenters and what have you know, with

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yards mounded up with different types oflaunch and what have you. But could
you give me a recommendation of aplace to go that she will be able
to find some that would be weedseed free? Yes, if you,
if you're if she's in the Tumballarea, probably the closest place to her
is going to be Nature's Way,which is on forty five just south of

(02:04:38):
Conro. You know, fourteen eightyeight comes in around there and there they
do bulk delivery and there they willnot sell you weedy mulch. I promise
you that they have a quality product. They know what they're doing. Okayny,
That's what I needed and I appreciateit very much. All Right,
Dan, thank you very much forthe call. Appreciate that. Let's see

(02:05:00):
who's next. We're gonna go toJamaica Beach and talk to Larry. Good
morning, Larry, good morning.We are have we have a large plant
bed that we need. We're we'regoing to be putting a lot of plants
in it. Okay, the spoilis not the best and I'm wondering what

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we need to do to the ground, uh to play before we put the
rose soil down. Well, you'regonna put the rosal to create a raise
bed to grow in, so youdon't necessarily need to do something to the
ground. If you've got like bermudagrass or something that's a noxious weed that'll

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come up through everything, I wouldget rid of that beforehand. I'd put
a little rosil down, mix itin after you've sprayed weeds. If you
need to spray and let them diedown, then I would mix a little
roso with the soil you have,just just so that interface isn't just sudden
from the one wonderful rose soil tothe dense, heavy clay or whatever soil
you have, and then finish fillingit up with roast soil. Yeah,

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okay, Yeah, the soil downhere is pretty clay. I guess that's
the word clay. Yeah, yeah, it is anyway. Okay, So
we don't need to putty mineral stuffdown or yet. No, that's gonna
you're gonna have. You're gonna putyour nutrients in the rose soil. Number
one, it's already got some somegood nutrition just because it's a composted product.

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But any fertilizing you would do,do it up in the bed that
you create with the rose soil.Okay, so just dig up the soil
a little bit before we put downthe rose soil. Yeah. Well,
I what I do in my yardis I'll spread about, you know,
four inches or so of the mixand sort of mix it with the soil
you have a little bit, andthen put the rest just rose soil on.
That creates a kind of a generalgradual blend from the rose soil down

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into what you have underground. Okay, very good, all right, Okay,
Now in terms of different plants,hey, do we dig the hole
and put the rules in the hole. No, No, you use role
soil as a raised bed. Nowin play soil, it doesn't drain well.
And if you put if you diga hole in clay and fill it

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full of organic matter, I don'tcare how quality it is, you're gonna
it's gonna turn into an anaerobic rotwith black goo and odors that you do
not want, and it'll kill theplant you put in. It don't matter
what the organic matter. Organic matterdecomposing without oxygen gets pretty nasty. Thank
you so much, Skip, definitely, thank you so much. I appreciate

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that call as well. You know, the folks up and plants for all
seasons. They it's like a completepackage there. And here's what I mean
education. They know what they're talkingabout and they can educate you. The
selection is you're not gonna find betterdelivery of the things if you need it

(02:07:57):
delivered, uh planting, you know, cut potting. They're experts. You
can bring in pictures and samples.I hope you diagnose with plants for all
seasons. The way I look atit is if you're a green thumb,
well, you know you need tovisit there. Because they've got everything you
need. If you think you havea brown thumb, you have to visit
there because you want to turn yourthumb green. And we turn our thumb

(02:08:20):
greens with education. And the folksthat Plants for All Season can provide you
good accurate education. They're on Highwayto forty nine Tumball Parkway just north of
Louetta Road. Plants for All Seasonsdot com. The landscaper that I would
consider to be kind of go tois Peerscapes. And I've talked about Peerscapes

(02:08:43):
before, but Peerscapes is the kindof place that has the quality folks that
are educated, trained and know howto design and create that landscape that's just
a wow wow kind of landscape.You know, the Jason and and his
team out there, the show placesthat they create. I mean, it's

(02:09:05):
amazing. If you want to turnan average landscape into something magical, Peerscapes
is a place to do that.Hey, write down this phone number two
eight one three seven zero five zerosix zero, or you can go to
Peerscapes dot com. We're entering thesummertime and this is a great time to
be doing some changes in your landscapes, you know, hardscape, new garden,

(02:09:26):
things like that, peerscapes of thefolks that will be able to provide
that for you want to head outon the phones. I wanted to talk
to John out in Tomball. John, thanks for the call. How can
we help today? Lord and Skip? How you doing? Quick question for
you? Can you hear me?Yes, sir? Okay. I've got

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a couple of things. I've justbeen here about a year or so.
Flower bed and I put this feltdown, then I put comp posts and
dirt from a flower. It isnow well this I know with the felt
when you're digging holes, obviously yougotta get that out. But is it
going to cause a problem later withroses and in plants. When I put

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in the flower bed with that felt, well, bermuda grass is going to
go underneath the felt and it'll crawlaround until it finds a place to stick
its head up and get some sunlight. So you're going to have to do
some sort of a spray with thefelt. Felt will keep out the annual
weed seeds that might come up,but so well, a good mulch.

(02:10:33):
So just go with what you gotfor now. You may find at some
point if you get some dirt ordecomposing mulch on top of the felt,
that you're getting weed seeds up thereas well, and in which case you'll
need to pull the felt out andand just go with a straight mulch.
But this not it calls any issueswith me planting, Noel felt. It

(02:10:54):
is just those those ground costs arejust fine, John, They will be
just fine. You just have tomake a hole to put your plants in.
So what do you suggest, realquick? Skip? What's all the
bermuda coming from behind the fence inmy neighbor's yard? Yeah, John,
I'm gonna we're about to hit breakhere. But basically you're gonna have to

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spray it with either a grass onlykiller or a general purpose we'd killer,
and give it a couple of weekswatch it, and you may have to
spray again if it starts resprouting,because you generally don't get at all with
one spray. You're listening to gardenline right down seven one three, two,
one two fifty eight seventy four andwe'll be right back. Well.

(02:11:46):
Good Saturday morning, man alive.Did we have some beautiful sunshine out there?
Good day for gardening, and goodday for talking about gardening. I'm
gonna head right out and get onthe calls here, and we're gonna start
off by going out to Deer Parkand talking to Shirley. Hello, Shirley,
Hello. I've got a problem.I have purchased an apple tree and

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I think it's a shimmer. Ithink it starts the Israelite's experiment. It's
still were there, and I thoughtit when it's about all six feet tall,
it's stout back eight ten feet tall, and it was sloaded with slack
apples. First year hasn't even beengrant a full year. And I've got
a problem. I've got birds thatpicked all over it. Well, when

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I had my trees back home,my father there because he made me to
them away because he said you couldget a disease or set it from an
infected insect or bird is sect.Truth Well, no, basically not.
I mean, you know, itwould be a long stretch from it.

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But generally when something eats on ourplants, we cut that out, cut
that little section out, and don'tjust just don't just each that same place
the bird pack, for example.But I you know, I guess,
I guess it's possible, but Iwould say just cut that out, cut
that section out and you should befine, and maybe cooking just to make

(02:13:13):
sure just bacteria or not. Aquestions, what can I do to protect
those trees because they will know itfirst year, I think, being for
maybe two or three years. Whatcan I protect them from them? And
so you've got two options. Well, insects, okay, to protect them
from birds, you use bird netting. You put a netting over them.
That's a little bit of a hassle, but you can do it. Or

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to h you can also put alittle argenza bags which is a kind of
a mesh type bag with draw stringson them. Put them over individual fruit.
Now that's a lot of trouble.But that's another Yeah, that's that
would be a lot of arganza bags. But those things are really cheap if
you buy them online. You know, it's just a mass. But those

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are the only two I can thinkof for birds. Now for insects,
it kind of depends on which insectyou're having to go after as to what
I would recommend. If you gota cat shit, yeah, okay,
well well we'll cross that berry.Call me back if you If insects show
up. But yeah, the birds, I think the the overall the netting,
and you want that netting to goall the way to the ground and

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be pinned down to the ground,or be wrapped around the trunk of the
tree at the base because birds willgo up underneath it to get into the
tree too. All right, Alot of the garden centers will carry a
netting. I would you know you'reyou're near an ace. Everybody that's everybody
lives anywhere is near an ace,and you know, so I would talk

(02:14:43):
to them. In fact, I'vebeen in an ace and I've seen I've
seen some netting for sale before also, uh, so you know either way
you're gonna just netting is going tobe widely available, So I would I
would probably check with with the ace. May I asked you one more question.
At the same time, I hadbought a pear tree and we put

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it between the houses here. Andthe problem is it was about eight feet
tall right now it's happy about twentyfeet tall in one year's group. It's
beautiful. It didn't set me fruitthis year, which I didn't think it
would, but who I don't know. I was thinking that it was.

(02:15:31):
It didn't I don't remember the nameof it, but I was thinking that
it was for this area. Okay, Okay. Do I need have two
pairs to heaven? Yeah most ofthe time, yes, uh. And
it just it gives you better pollination. Even if they're partially self compatible,
it's better to have the two differentvarieties of the pairs. Okay, I

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can do that too, Okay,All right, Shirley, I'm in a
hello yes, hello, Yes,I want to ask you a question.
I just thought of something long ago. This is the husband, h I
got it. Avocado tree and satSuma tree out there in the back and
all that, and they I've hearda lot of stories about that. Uh

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see they died in the wintertime.Okay. And the green stems are coming
up, but they're growing down fromat from the bottom up, you know,
And people tell me that they're goingto come out real sour and all
that is it? Is that true? Tell me the plant again, it
sat Suma tree. Okay. Soif the green stems coming up have thorns

(02:16:39):
on them, that's a root stocksthat Suma typically doesn't have a lot of
thorns, and they will not produceanything if it's if it's coming from belowograph
that's a root stock and just pullit up and get you a new one
to put in there. That wouldbe your best bet. Okay, all
right, think that would be thesame thankful lemon tree. Huh, yes,
well lemons can have some thorns,but yeah, I would just look

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at the bottom. You can kindof see where the brand where the trunk
sort of makes a little bit ofa dog leg. Usually that's kind of
where the graft is near the bottom, and if it's below the graft,
it's not going to be something wortheating. Hey, I've got to I've
got to run. But thank you, thank you for the call. I
appreciate that. I want to Youknow, I was talking about ACE.
While Ago and ACE are located everywhere, I was trying to think of the

(02:17:22):
one closest over there to West Chasedarea. But if you go to ACE
Hardware dot com, you can findthe ACE in your area because there's thirty
nine of them locally and they carryeverything all the products we talk about and
a lot lot more. You're goingto find much more from ACE though,
you know, grills and grilling sectionof course, everything you'd expect from a
hardware and don't forget when you gointo an ACE, earn money back with

(02:17:46):
the ACE Rewards program on every purchasethat you make, because once you get
in there, you're going to findthat they've just about everything you could want.
ACE hardware. Let's see, I'mI'm gonna talk just for a can.
Here we're talking about fruit and crosspollination. If you go to Aggie
Dash Horticulture dot tamu dot edu.So Agge hyphen Horticulture dot tamu dot edu.

(02:18:16):
There's a section on there for fruitand every kind of fruit you could
imagine planting is in that section.A free publication to look at it,
so they'll tell you, you know, if you wonder if this or that
fruit needs a pollinator, it'll tellyou in there, and they'll tell you
the varieties that are best to grow. Speaking of plants and fruit and things,
RCW Nurseries RCW nurseries dot com.They have all the kinds of plants

(02:18:39):
that you're gonna want. I mean, you're not going to do better on
a rose selection than our CW Nurseries. Lots of trees they grow in themselves
on their farm out in Plantersville.They'll even come and plant them for you,
so you know, it gets itdone right. While you're there,
you're going to pick up all theproducts we talk about for multas and fertilizers
and things. But don't just thinkroses and trees, RCWS, herbs,

(02:19:01):
perennials, annual shrubs, native plants. It's located on two forty nine Tomball
Parkway at Beltway eight. RCW nurseriesdot com. You're good Saturday morning.

(02:19:22):
We are looking at one of thebest days in a while. They're for
gardening. Looking outside, it's agood day to get out and see some
garden centers, good day to goout in the yard and work. And
by the way, it's a goodday to get out into the sugar Land
Home and Outdoor Living Show. Iwill be out there. It's at the
Stafford Center in Stafford. I'll bethere at eleven thirty and giving a talk

(02:19:43):
on some tips for success in yoursummer landscape. Then I'll be there at
a table where I can look atplant samples or pictures or things to kind
of help you out with your gardeningquestions. And by the way, during
my talk, this is another reasonto get there. Eleven thirty, we'll
be giving away Nelson's fertili the plasticjars and Nelson's fertilizer. Dean has given

(02:20:03):
us a wide variety of things totry to pass out, and so I
hope you'll come and being able tojoin us on that. We're going to
head now out to West Chase andwe're going to talk to Sharon this morning.
Good morning, Sharon, Hi Skip, good morning, Hi, thank
you. I have a question basicallyabout how to feed knockout roses because I

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have three bushes that I've tried tonurse. I don't know much about growing
roses, but I've tried to nursethem for about five years. And last
two years ago, something attacked oneof them that had always been real healthy,
stripped all the leaves off of it. And I don't know what it
was. That it happened just aftermy son had brought a feed that he

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got from Junior League, and Iremember I called Randy and asked him about
Junior League rose feed and Randy said, well, June year league raises money,
they don't do fertilizer. And Isaid thank you. And so the
rosebush did recover, and this yearmy son brought UM what is the standard

(02:21:13):
UM mix the fertilizer that you giveit to everything. I can't remember the
name now, okay, but it'sjust it's just that little box you get
in the big box stores. Allright. Now, you know what I
think about big box stores. SoI know, I know, and he
fed. Well here's the question.So he fed it on my birthday,

(02:21:35):
which was a month ago, andfinally from Mother's Day, I talked to
him into getting the nitro boss,which I've asked him for years, kept
the nitro foss rose feat and hefinally got it for me from Mother's Day.
But he said, well, sinceI've already fertilized it for you last
month, I'm just gonna take thishome with me because I have more rosebushes

(02:21:56):
than you, and your rosebush doesn'tneed it yet. So we've got this
argument going on. So when andhow often do I feed my knockout roses?
Well, first of all, youneed to remind your son of all
the pain and suffering through all theyears that he puts you through, and
for him to now steal, forhim to now steal from you, oh
my gosh, I can't. Hehas fifty said, he has fifteen rose

(02:22:20):
bushes. I only have three,and he needs it more than I do,
because mine was sped last month.Well, it's that little tiny box
that you get fertilizer, and youget it anywhere and everywhere, a grocery
store box or I honestly don't knowwhat which when you're talking about, but
I'm just gonna tell you this.You were mentioning Nitrofiss, and I would

(02:22:43):
recommend you go with one of Nitrofoss'smany excellent products. And they, you
know, if you are looking atrosebush. I even have used launch fertilizers
on my own my rosebushes, andNitrofis. You know, they're going to
carry all these different lines of Ifit says it's for you know, flowering
plants or things you can use out, that would be fine. If it
says it for trees and shrubs,that'd be okay. Your rosebush is gonna

(02:23:07):
do just fine. And he getsme the nitro Foss for the lawn.
He does that, okay, AndI finally talked him into getting the nitro
Foss rose feed. So he broughtthe bag to me. Okay, he
said, Happy Mother's Day. Andthen he said, but you don't need
it yet because I fertilized it lastmonth and so I'm going to take it
home with me and I'll bring itback. Well, okay, so question

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how often do I feed knockout rosebush? Okay, you can feed a knockout
rosebush as often as that bush lookslike it may need it. And here's
what I mean by that. Ifit is growing vigorously and healthy and everything's
good, you don't need to feed, right then I usually do a feeding
in coming out in the spring.I may do one in early summer,

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and I may do one in latesummer. Typically with a knockout you can
share those things, and that justbrings new shoots and more blooms. And
so when I do a shearing,I'll fertilize, water it in, and
then here comes the blooms and makethe most well other than the ones that
have passed now in spring, oneof the most important ones is in late
August. Do a sharing, giveit some fertilizer, and you're gonna see

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your October will be a very beautifulone in the rose and the rose bushes
with that. But okay, soor so spring in early summer in August
that's about the that would be fine. But but watch the rose bush.
You know what I mean, ifit if it looks like it's struggling,
it probably needs something. But tostruggle or should isn't there sort of a
timely schedule that we could Yes,And that's what I'm talking about. So,

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okay, roses come out and theybloom. April's a big, big
time some now knockout's gonna keep bloomingon you. But you can at some
point here, as we're going intosummer, give it a little shearing,
fertilize it. I'd do that.I would do it now, and then
water it in real good and you'reso even though it's been a month,
I can go ahead and put somenitrofoss rose feet up. You could just

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go light since it's just one amonth, but normally i'd give it a
decent dose and then you're going toget good growth. And then in late
summer you want to get ready forthe fall, and I would do it
again. Those are the three timeswhen I would do the roses. But
it's primarily connected, you know,to the shearing, and let's stimulate some
new growth here, okay, Andthen after I've done it in August to
get ready for the fall, thenjust let it go dormant for the winter.

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Yep, that's it. That's it, you got it. I just
have to get this big picture becausehe and I argue over this. But
I finally got him off the juniorleague stuff, okay, and then he
finally got the nitro Fox feed.So we're making progress. Okay. Well,
you know you're gonna have to givehim a talking to. You may
have to write him out of thewheel if he's going to steal for him

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you like that. But we're cryingout at Hey. Thanks for the college,
Sharon. I appreciate that very much. Yeah, the nitro Fox products,
there's a wide line of them.You know, the nineteen four ten
that's the one in the silver bag. Makes it easy to pick out,
that'll feed all through the side,and that's an excellent one for your lawn.
Does very well, good, goodblend of nutrients. And Nitrofoss products
are sold everywhere. I mean,you go up to J. N.

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M. Ace Hardware Importer, you'regoing to find nitro Foss products, Ace
Hardware Immemorial City, Ace Hardware Memorialdown at Tasca, Ceda. Ace Hardware
Nitrofoss is all over the place.An excellent line of products. But for
the summertime in the lawn. Don'tforget I mentioned it earlier, but the
silver bag, the nineteen four tenso one that you want to go with.

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Well, we are reaching a theend of the show here day.
We've got a little bit of timeleft, but I hope you will come
out and see me at home atthe sugar Land Home and Garden Show in
the Stafford Center in Stafford. Weare going to be there from eleven thirty
where I give a talk, giveaway some furtilizer, all the way until

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one thirty pm, and I'll beanswering your questions as well. If you're
getting out and about today and you'venever been over to Warren's Garden Center or
Kingwood Garden Center out in Kingwood,you need to give them a look.
Those are the kinds of nursery.It's worth driving even across town just to
see what they have out there.It is an amazing place. But Kingwood,

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Porter Valley, Ranch, Humble youknow at Tascacy to all those areas,
that's just a short drive. Bothof them are open seven days a
week now. Kingwood Garden centers onStone Hollow Driving, Kingwood Warrens is on
North Park Drive in Kingwood. Theyhave all the things we talk about.
By the way, they also havethose filling stations for jugs. So if
you have like a Nelson's Plant Foodor Microlife plastic jar and you want to

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refill it, that's an economical wayto do it, and it avoids throwing
more plastic in the trash, whichwe've already got enough of that. They
carry all the fertilizers we're talking aboutthere. But you would just be trust
me, you're going to be veryimpressed with the wide variety of plants and
products. And I'll just say thebling that goes with the plants, beautiful

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containers and stuff, and why notget a beautiful summer multiplant container set up.
They can even tell you how toput it together. Pick out the
plant, something tall in the middle, something kind of filling in or tall
in the center, filling in aroundthe middle section of the plant, and
then trailing over the sides. Wecall it thriller, filler spiller. And

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they've got those kind of plants thatcarry into the summer heat really really well.
So there's no excuse not to havebeautiful color on your patio or at
the entrance to your front door ina beautiful container like that, and Kingwood
and Warren's good places to go,good place to go for that out in
Kingwood. Boy, We've had alot of calls have gone through today,

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covered a lot of different things.I always enjoy getting to visit with you
again. Hope you come out andsee me. By the way, I'm
going to be out there today,but I just want to remind you that
next week. Put it on thecalendar for next Saturday, Wawbird's Unlimited in
clear Lake. I'll be out therefor a couple of hours and I'll talk
about that a lot more tomorrow aswell as next Saturday. But love to

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get out to those places because itgives me a chance to see the stores,
gives me a chance to meet thefolks that listen to the show,
and that's that's always a lot offun. So I hope you can come
out and join me. In themeantime, enjoy your time out in the
garden. Just remember you can't failat gardening. You can only give up.
And there's no brown thumbs, there'sonly uninformed thumbs. And that's why

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we're here to uninform, to informyour thumb. And you're going to have
better success. I'm want to seeyour lawns looking their best. I want
to see your flowers looking their best. Your gardens are most bountiful. That's
why we have Garden Line. Lookforward to talking to you again tomorrow