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Katie r h. Garden Line doesnot necessarily endorse any of the products or
services advertised on this program. Welcometo Katie r h Garden Line with Skip
rictor it's crazy a trim just watchhim as many things to Superzy not a

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sun Well, good morning and welcometo garden Line. Glad you're listening.
Congratulations, you're an early bird.You got your eyes open. Maybe a
cup of coffee or something else toget you fired up and go in this
morning. We're ready to go.Let's let's talk about gardening. What do
you want to what do you wantto talk about? By the way,
look out the window. If yourneighbors like gorn On, go bang on

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the door, tell them they're missinggarden Line, they will so appreciate that.
And plus you have a more beautifulyard next door eventually, at least
we hope. So. I've heardrumors that just playing garden Line around your
houseplants causes them to thrive. Nowthat's just that's just me, But I
could be wrong anyway. All right, enough fun enough funniness of that sort.

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What do we want to talk abouttoday? I want to talk a
little bit about turf, and Iwant to talk a little bit about some
flowers. I'd like to cover afew vegetables and a couple of herb things.
But this show is a call inshow. So what's your question?
What kind of plants do you needidentified? What kind of issues do you
need diagnose? Maybe some suggestions fora good plant to go in a certain

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spot, something you haven't tried before. Here's how you get a hold of
me, just dolls seven one threetwo one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eightseventy four and we can talk about the
things that interest you. Had areally good time out at M and D
Supply Ace in clear Lake yesterday.Wow, thanks for everybody that came out.

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That was a blast. I hopethat you guys had as much fun
as I did. I think wedid. We've got a lot of folks
come in with samples and questions andpictures to look at this and that and
the other, and it was justgood. I appreciate the folks at M
and D Ace Supply and clear Lakethere for hosting us. The store was

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really in beautiful shab me. Justafter I got through, I hung around
for another thirty minutes, just kindof walking through and looking at all things
I had, and even picked upa couple of things that I needed.
When I get back to the house, I've got some things I need to
take care of this weekend as well. I want to remind you or tell
you that next Saturday, that isthe thirteenth of April, I will be

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at Enchanted Forest down in the RichmondRosenberg area eleven thirty am to one thirty
pm Chanted Forest. If you've neverbeen to Enchanted Forest, I don't care
where you live around the great herescenario, here's your excuse to come down
and let's do that. We dothe things we always do. We talk,
I give it advice, do diagnosis, do identifications, make suggestions for

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plants, whatever whatever is that youneed, or just come and meet.
And I always like to meet thefolks that are listening to the show.
And I guess it allows you toput a face with a with a sound
over the radio as well. Butthat's in Chanted Forest this coming Saturday,
April thirteenth, from eleven thirty toone thirty pm. They'll have a they

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always have, like a food truckor I think this one's a donut truck,
which I love that idea that'll beout there, and it'll give you
a chance to see that place.And Jenny Forest is an amazing, amazing
place to go visit and shop ifyou are interested in butterflies and things like
that, if you're iNeST in pollinators. You got to see the some of
the selection of plants that they keepout there. But you'll be surprised when

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you go. It'll be it willbe one of those oh my gosh,
I didn't know they had all this. Well I do, so hope you
come out and see us out there. This is a season to get your
trees planted before summer gets here.We've been saying plant trees since last I
don't know last fall really, Butany time that you get a chance to

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put in a quality tree, youwere setting your landscape up for success,
and for your home, you're settingit up for long term value. And
here's what I mean by this.A quality tree enhances the beauty of your
home. It makes it more enjoyable. A quality shade tree takes that blasting

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Southeast Texas hot summer sun and itjust softens it up a little bit where
we can actually be outside and enjoyit. I've got a beautiful cypress in
my backyard. That the shade isjust wonderful when it comes to summertime.
Well, in order to get toshade, you got to get it planted
soon. They say the best timeto plant a tree is forty years ago.

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The second best time is today.Well, today is here. You
want to get that tree planted.You want to select a quality tree.
There are a number of places whereyou can get a tree that will fit
your area, but do some investigatingbefore number one. Go to a place
that only sells stuff that belongs here, that'll grow here. And Verdant Tree

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Farm is an example of a placelike that. Verdon Tree Farm has several
locations around the Greater Houston area.I don't know if you've ever been to
any of them, but there's onedown in Pearland, there's one out on
West Barker, Cyprus and West Houston. There's one in the Heights at Yale
Street. And Verdant Tree Farm isgoing to make sure your tree gets planted
right, and that is very veryimportant. I have seen a lot of

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tree planting jobs that were botched.The people didn't know what they were doing.
One of the most common things thathappens when people are planting a tree
and they don't know what they're doing. Is they put things like gravel in
the bottom of the hole. Ifgravel caused a clay hole to drain,

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then an aquarium wouldn't hold water.If you think of it that way,
Just putting gravel in the bottom ofan aquarium make the water drain out,
No, because the water's being heldby the glass of the aquarium. If
you got a clay hole that's holdin water, putting gravel on the bottom
doesn't do anything. It doesn't doanything. Don't do that. The folks
at Verdant know how to plant atree. You can go their website verdanttreefarm

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dot com. I like the factthat you can go there. They'll advise
you to on which tree you mightwant which does well for you. They
have a long large list of coldhardy trees, drought resistant types of species.
They have palms. Verdant Treefarm dotcom. That's the website. Go
pick your tree out, they'll tagit, they'll bring it to you and

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they'll plant it right so that youhave success. Very very important. You
know, a tree is a bikepart of the landscape. You need to
get those planted today. And bythe way, when you plant a tree,
you need to get you one ofthose three sixty tree stabilizers. It's
like an arm that grabs a treeand grabs a steak and it allows the
tree to move, which is important. You know, to use those guy

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wires and honker a tree down whereit can't move it all. It strengthens
a tree to move in the winda little bit. So three sixty tree
stabilizers are going to allow that movement. And they last and last and last,
and you just put a post closeto the tree and hook up that
little arm to grab the tree andthere you go. You're ready to go
set it where we'll move a littlebit. You can find these at Southwest

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Fertilizer, RCW Nursery down in Alvin, at Orges Head and Gardens, Buchanans
and the Heights Arburgate and Tomball Plantsfor all seasons Highway two forty nine.
They all carry you the three sixtytree stabilizer. But when you put a
young tree in, I mean,if it's not a huge giant tree,
get one of those to grab ontoit and make sure that it is kept
stable. And if you do thatright, and it's planted right, which

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Verdant will do. By the way, you were going to have success.
You're not gonna have to keep itstaked for years. I mean, just
a few months or six months maybeof good, good staking and it'll be
good to go. Well, we'regonna take a little break. Our phone
number seven one three two one twofifty eight seventy four. I'll be right
back. Welcome back to the gardenline. I guess our music is all
things eclipse today, or at leasta lot of stuff about the eclipse.

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I just was thinking during the breakthat if you want an eclipse every summer
day in your backyard patio, theway to do it is to plant a
tree. I don't know. Thatjust occurred to me. And we sure
do want something to block the sunwhen it gets really, really hot.
Here. We are now officially inbig time lawn season. We've been taking

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care of our lawns since back inFebruary, putting down things to prevent weeds
from coming up and whatnot. Butnow it's warming up enough where the grass
is growing, and when the grassis actively growing, then we began,
of course the mowing schedule. Butwe also need to be putting down nutrients
to help support that growth. Now, a lawn will grow without being fertilized.

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It'll live without being fertilized, butit will not be an attractive dark
green color, and it also willnot be dense. It'll be thin,
and so you're forever fighting weeds.So why do we fertilize. Were fertilize
to keep our lawns healthier, Butwe fertilize also to build density. And
the whole reason you have that beautifuloutdoor green carpet is the beauty of it.

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It also, did you know thatyour lawn contributes significantly to lowering the
ambient air temperatures around you. Youcompare a lawn to like an asphalt parking
lot. That's there's something in thebig city called the heat island effect,
right where all the parking lots andbuildings and stuff that are absorbing and radiating

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heat. It makes a significant difference. Well around your home. A lawn
is like having a big, black, green air conditioner all over the place,
because that is exactly what it does. It literally cools the air around
you, the reflective heat especially,and plus it's just fun fun to have
a lawn to get out there andwalk on to enjoy, for the kids
to play on. Well, ifyou want to have that kind of lawn

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nitrofoss superturf, it is nineteen fourto ten. That's the three numbers on
the bag. Nineteen four ten.It's the silver bag. Let's make it
easy. The silver bag nitrofass superturfwill provide a gradual release of nitrogen over
the next two maybe three months.Really it is. It doesn't contain a
herbicide in it. It's strictly alawn fertilizer. And when you put it

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down, it also has some iron. I was looking at a picture someone
sent me some pictures or actually broughtsome to the event M and dastn a
Clare Lake yesterday, and the lawnhad these yellowing areas, and I was
telling them that is iron deficiency.And you put on a superturf has like
four percent iron in it to promotethat good green color as well. So

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it's just a win way to goabout it. Follow follow the instructions on
how to apply it, but goahead and get it down watered in.
Just a little bit of water movinginto the soil and you're off to the
races. Now you can find nitrofossproducts in a lot of different places.
They're widely available here in the GreaterHouston area. You can find them at
the Arbor Gate up in Tombole.You can find them at Kingwood at the
Ace Hardware there in Kingwood as well, and Shades of Texas which is on

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Genoa Red Bluff in south east Houston. Yep, all of those places,
Carrie nitofoss products. We are talkingabout lawns today because this is a time
of year when we do want tomake sure that we're getting our lawns off
to a good, quick, earlystart. We've done things like prevent weeds.
It seems like every day somebody askedme about weeds in the lawn,

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How to deal with weeds in thelaw, What to do about weeds in
the lawn. And it's more complicatedthan that. There are a lot of
good products out that will kill aweed or prevent a weed, and the
key is your time and choosing theproduct that's going to work on the weed
that you have. For example,using a broad leaf herbicide, it works

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on broad leaf weeds, but itdoesn't work on grass seaweeds. If you
have a grass only herbicide. It'snot going to work on broad leaf weed.
So you need to choose the rightone and find the right timing.
And that's one of the things youcan call here to garden Line and we
can help you with. Especially whenI see pictures that is really helpful.
Someone brought me pictures yesterday. Welooked at it and it's like, oh,

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okay, you've got this weed,and then we could actually talk more
intelligently about what to do successfully withthat weed. A lot of our cool
season weeds are about to go out. They've done their thing. They sprouted
in the fall. I always comparecool season lawn weeds to blue bonnets because
everybody understands the blue bonnet life schedule. You don't see blue bonnets in the
summer. They sprout in the fall, they sit there through the winter,

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growing dist a little bit, andspring they take off growing. They bloom,
set seed, fling the seed everywhere, and they're gone. That's what
your cool season weed are doing.And we're at the point where they're about
to be gone. Chickweed and hendbedand carpet weed, cleavers, velcroed,
all of those weeds are on theirway out. So anything you can do

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to get the weed seeds out ofthere is a good idea hand pulling.
I know you don't hear that handpulling is helpful in mowing very low with
a bagger to capture as much seedas you can. Don't rich. It's
the one time when I say don'treturn the clippings is when you have a
lawn full of weed seeds. Butthat will help too. While you're at

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it, it's time to spruce upthe flower beds, and that means bringing
in some color, some color thatwill look good in spring if you can
plant things that'll do well in summer. There are so many color options that
we have. I was just checkingout plant frall seasons yesterday and the shipments

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of color that they've gotten in areamazing. I mean, I think they
were saying that basically people got toget over here and haul these out because
you don't have enough room for everything. And I believe it. I mean,
it was just carts and carts ofcolor coming through there, beautiful beautiful
plants. Everything you can imagine,you know, Salvia's and all the annuals
and perennials and ornamentals, grasses andit's just a lot, a lot of

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beautiful color, and that's what youwould expect for Plants for All Seasons.
You know when you walk in there, people love to go, and they
love to go because you walk inand you're greeted by friendly, knowledgeable people,
and you walk out into the gardencenter and you see everything you need.
Right in front of the store areall the bags of mulch and composts

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and things. And right inside thebuilding there you've got all the fertilizers that
I recommend on garden line. Andthat's the brown stuff, right, and
you've got to go home with somebrown stuff. But when you go home
with the green stuff, so youcan have success. So grab some of
their composts and bags of soiled product, grab the fertilizer when you get all

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those plants, and you're going togo home and have success. Plants for
All Seasons is easy to get to. It's on two forty nine Tomball Parkway,
just north of Luetta, right thereon the side of Tomball Parkway.
You can go to the website Plantsfor All Seasons dot com, or you
can call them two eight one,three seven six sixteen forty six. If
you've got a green thumb, Yougot to go there because this is the

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place for green thumbs. If yougot a brown thumb, you absolutely have
to go there because they are thefolks that help turn it green. Remember
there's no such thing as brown thumbs, just uninformed thumbs. Go to plants
for all seasons and they will helpinform that thumb and put the right plants
in your hands so you can havesuccess. You are listening to Gardenline.
I'm your host, Skiperrector. Ifyou'd like to give us call today,

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our number is seven one three twoone two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventyfour. I was out in my garden
this past week and just looking oversome things. I've got some sweet peas
growing. Oh my gosh, they'reproducing like crazy. We planted too many,

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but that's okay. I love freshsugar snap type peas, and boy,
they are producing like crazy. Butwhile I was out looking at some
of the plants, the bees werejust all over them, and I was
just thinking about that free pollination servicethat I'm getting. And if you're growing
things like cucumbers and watermelons and cantalopesand squash, you have to have good
pollination, and honey bees will dothat. Native bees will do that.

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Have you ever thought about keeping honeybees having a hive in the backyard.
The folks that these supply on andDayton can help get you set up.
They have training classes that are goingon all through spring. The next training
class that they're having is on thethirteenth of April. Then there's one on
the twenty seventh of April, andthere's a couple in May after that.
You can go learn even if youdecide not to do bees, it'll be

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fascinating and you'll get to do thehands on and everything. And I can
tell you this, it's addictive.When you get out there and start doing
it. It's like, oh wow, this is easier than I thought.
It's simpler, and it's fun.It's just it's an agricultural endeavor. It
really is, because you're raising livestockbasically. When you've got bees out there
and you get honey, that's thecool part too. If you just want

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to go learn about bees, takethe kids, the garden club, the
church group, whatever you got,and go out to the bee supply and
just go to one of their interactivehoney tours. They will teach you all
about things about bees that are justmind blowing. You actually get to sample
a whole bunch of different kinds ofhoney. They'll even let you go to

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the They have an observation hive insidethe building that is really cool where you
can watch the bees work. Allof that at thebsupply dot com. That's
the website. Check it out vbsupplydot com. I planted a load last
week, and boy was that everan endeavor because I did a lot,

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a lot. I think at elevenpallets of grass, and everything for me
is an ex you know, becauseI'm when I'm on guard line answering your
questions, I'm not just pulling answersout of the air. It's like I've
grown that plant, or I've studiedthat plant, or I know somebody and
we you know, we've worked togetheron fire beds or something they're doing,

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and I have familiarity with it.So for me, I've got like four
different grasses now in different sections ofthe property, and so that was a
lot of work getting it all down, But oh my gosh, it looks
so good. If you're planting alawn, you need to make sure and
water it regularly when you plant it. I saw some pictures yesterday at M
and Dace down in Clear Lake fromfolks that came in of lawns that were

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struggling, and they clearly it wasdropped damage and they'd been planted, you
know, a week or more ago, but they just didn't get watered in
really good. And when that grasscomes in, it's got you know,
like three quarters of an inch ofroot on the grass. That's it because
it was sliced off to get thatsoil that comes with the grass with the

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and now you plant it and that'sall the root it has. So you
can't just think normal watering is adequate. You water eye water twice a day
in the morning and in the eveningjust a little bit. Or you water
once really good, but it's betterto keep that top part a little moist,
keep some water on it. AndI do that for about a week,
and then I go to about everyonce a day maybe for about a

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week, and by then you're ingood shape and it's ready to go.
But take care of your lawns.If you're planting, you need to go
through that schedule. Those of youwho live up toward the conro direction or
fortunate because you're in the backyard ofnature's way resources. They really John Ferguson
started that a long time ago,and he has developed some beautiful soil mixes.

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When we talk about rose soil,and you know the compost top dressings,
the leaf mold compost top dressings,he helped develop those there on his
property. And you can also findthere every kind of compost blend you might
need for success with your plant.You can buy bulk, you can buy
by the bag, you can havethem deliver it if you want to do

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that, just call them at ninethree six three two one sixty nine ninety
nine three six three two one sixtynine ninety Remember every Friday is Fungal Friday.
Ten percent off bag fungo products,twenty percent off bulk. We're going
to take a little break. It'stime for Nicky and the news. Our
number if you'd like to call Joshand get on the board seven one three

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two one two KTRH. Welcome backto garden Line. Good to have you
with us. I'm your host,Skip Richter, and hey, what do
you want to talk about? Giveus call seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. We're talkingplants today. I saw a lot of
pictures of weeds yesterday. I'm tellingyou, weeds, weeds, weeds when

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uh, whenever we have a lawn, we want to be beautiful and pretty.
And we got a couple of optionsthere. One is to deal with
the weeds, prevent them. Theother is to control them after they come
up. It's easier to prevent themto control them after they come up.
But either way you can go.You can do that, you can hand
pull them, you can use productsto control them. But everybody wants to,
you know, get those things outof the lawn. You just need

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to remember. And if you goto my schedule, and by the way,
my gardening schedule is on gardening withSkip dot com. I say gardening
schedule, my lawn schedule gardening withskip dot com. If you go there
under the weed section, there's redletters and basically what they say is the
number one step in controlling weeds isto have a dense, healthy lawn.

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That's that's the gist of it.And so for you just to depend on
products to kill weeds without building thelawn, you're you're like fighting an uphill
battle. Both are very very important. We do need to control weeds,
but we also need to make surewe build that lawn. And turf Star
Weedonator is kind of a combo productlike that. Nelson Nelson created this product.

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It's part of their turf Star line, which is all the fertilizers for
your lawn, but the Weedonator hasa product it to help manage the broadly
weeds that you may have in there. And so what they've done is they
put that product into control the weedsthat are there now, but they've also
got a slow release type of nitrogenthat gradually feeds over time. So what

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happens is you put the Turfstar Weedinatordown and that's dealing with the weeds,
but over the next couple of months, you're getting that gradual release of nutrients.
Three two or three months. Thatis, the soil warms and the
microbes become more and more and moreactive. That available, the nitrogen that

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wasn't available starts to become available,and your lawn just continues to grow with
a nice even growth rate, whichis which is kind of nice. That's
important. Turf Star Weedenator is widelyavailable. The folks at Nelson's have really
created a wonderful line of nutrition foryour lawn and nutrition for your plants.
You know, they've got the ColorStar line, They've got the Nature Star

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line of a nat organic type product. They just have a wide range of
things that are available. But thisTurf Star, the Turf Star line for
your lawn is very important in theweedon Eator. It does work. I
was yesterday when I was on myway out to go to the appearance.
We did. We. I alwayslike to drive through neighborhoods, and so

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going through neighborhoods is my way ofseeing what's going on. You know.
I'll drive by and go, whoa, what is that blooming plant that looks
new? And have to stop andcheck it out. But that's kind of
the way I like to do,and I hate to take the beaten path.
I'll tell you what. I'm gonnatake a break here and go to
the phones. How about we goout ton Avasota and talk to Rodney?

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Hello, Rodney? Hello, howyou doing. I'm well, sir,
good, good good. I havea question. I take care of my
cousin's ranch in Avasota. And areyou familiar with the thistle? Yes?
Oh, it's last year. Idug it up, put it in a
trailer on my four wheeler and runit to the other side. It's a

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small farm, run it to theother side to a burn pile, and
I figured I would do that,try to get the seeds away, get
rid of it or whatever. Well, this year it come up even worse.
It starts in the same area andnow it's spread. But where I
burned it in the back, nothingcame up over there, and it doesn't
come up in the yard around thehouse. So this year I dug it

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up with a spade about four orfive six inches and just laid it over
on the ground and left it laidthere. Is there any I think last
year I might have sprayed some ofit with round up. Is there any
other I mean, I know it'sevasive, and the neighbors have it on
there. They've got four or fivehundred acres next door to us. And
I don't know if it's if thewind is blowing the seeds and it's coming
over there. Probably, but Iburned it last year. Now this year

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it's worse, and I don't knowif carrying it back this is a twenty
one acre place, is carrying itback to the back on a trailer.
If that made it, I don'tknow. Yeah, I don't know if
well, yeah, there's some otherproducts, the broad leaf weed control products
that can control it. Which probablyneed to do is go over to Grimes
County Feed. Have you ever beenover there in Carlos Oh? Yeah,

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yeah, that's where I get fishedto stock upon with. Yeah. Isn't
that cool? They do that?I think it's pretty often. But just
go in there and talk to theroys and find out, you know what,
what do you have on hand thatwill control thistle. They're going to
have some sort of a you know, a two four D type broad leaf
post emergent control. But you wantto catch them early. Don't wait until

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they got the flower. Is thisa thistle that has the white flowers on
top? Yes, and then itturns purple. Okay, yeah, you
have a white ball and then itgets real. Some of them get pretty
tall. Yeah, they do.They do well, you know that's the
probably the best thing. And here'sthe deal. Once they produce seed,
you're going to have to deal withthose seed for a few years. You

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know, as the seed comes up, not all come up next year.
But if you get ahead of it. And every time we start to see
those plants, those plants show upreal well, even before they get tall,
you can you can spot treat themand never let them produce seed,
and you will catch up on it. But you just can't once they go
to seed. Then you just sentencedyourself to a whole bunch of more thistles

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to have to control. But runover to run over to grinds cunty feet
and they can get you set upwith something like that, okay, and
then then spray them before it getsthe white ball on it or whatever that.
Yeah, at this point with theright ball, with the seed heads
and stuff, just cutting the seedheads off although crazy tedious on twenty something
makers, that would at least preventit. Once those things get seeds on

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them, Trying to spray the plantis not going to be as effective because
number one, the products don't workas well when the when the plants are
we say reproductive, they're bloomin andsetting seeds. But also you've already got
the seed and so at this pointabout all that's in your powers to get
rid of those seeds, and unlessyou can devise a way to do that.
So the minute I see it comingup. I know what it looks

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like when it starts coming up,you know this time the spray it then
right, yeah, just go throughyou know whatever. I don't know if
you're out there working on a Saturday, whenever you find time to get that
done and go through and just youknow, this morning, I'm going to
go through and sprail the thistles.I'll see, don't worry about trying to
get every single one, and thennext week go check them out. Some
of those products will work really fast. You'll see the effects pretty quick on

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the weed. Okay, yes,yes, sir, Hey, I appreciate
your I appreciate your information. Allright, Ronnie, thank you. I
appreciate that. I appreciate that call. For those of you anywhere out there
around Avinesota, Brian College Station,even or out in Carlos and Anderson and
beat Eyes and Shiro all those communities, Grind's County Feed is your hometown feed
store. You know they are.They are just i mean just really close

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out there to Carlos and it's easyto get to, easy to find.
They've always got the products on hand. By the way, any of y'all
that got to see the Little CarShow they did. They had yesterday.
They had their old truck, theflatbed truck. I say old, it's
an old truck, but it looksgood. They've really really restored it.
Well. Anyway, you're going tofind the fertilizers. I talk about it.

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Grimes County feed too. It's justa great place to serve, a
very large region up there, abeautiful countryside. I always like to go
out and visit with the Roys.Good folks, very very active in their
community too. If you are doingany kind of transplanting, and I hope
you are, because it's time forthat, you want to grab a hold
of some Nelson's Nutristar Genesis transplant mix. Nutristar Genesis is a particularly effective product.

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It's a six' one to three naturaltype of fertilizer. It's got beneficial
bacteria endo and ectomiciza. And youhere's what I do with it, and
here's what you should do with it. Is I got this plant. Maybe
I just bought a plant. I'mbringing it home. I'm gonna put it
in a container. Maybe I grewmy own ceilings. Maybe I got a
rosebush and I'm put it in theground. You take the soil that is

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going to be around this new plant, and you mix the genesis in that
and plant into it. So ifI'm putting in a container, I got
my potting soils for the container,the plant I mixed into that potting soil
nutri Star genesis and then plant init. I'm telling the results are dramatic.
It really really works. Nutri Stargenesis from Nelson's very very effective and

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really enhancing the biology of the soil. We're going to take a little break
here. Our phone number is sevenone three two one two five eight seven
four. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today.
We are looking forward to talking toyou and answering your questions on gardening.
How can we help you have amore bountiful garden, a more beautiful

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landscape. That is the goal,you know. We get the opportunity to
create eight gardens and greenery horticulture paradisearound our house and whatever type we like.
Some people are lawn rangers. Theyabsolutely that is the deal wald of
Walter, beautiful, pristine, thatmakes them happy. Other people like cottage

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gardens. Cottage gardens. I kidpeople that like cottage gardens sometimes about saying,
you know, that's just a termthey define to excuse a mess.
But because the cottage gardens are justkind of growing wild but under some type
of control. You know, youhave a little bit of management, but
it just has a wilder look.Hey at your yard. Have fun.

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It's seeing you in the hoa.I guess, do what you want to
do. Some people are into vegetables. I mean they just want walda basically
a farm out there in the backbecause they love to grow and eat healthy
things. And so most people arekind of a mix of all of that.
Would do what you want to do. But here's the deal. Have
fun doing it. Absolutely, havefun. Don't worry about the rules.

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Yes, there are certain rules thatyou need to follow if you want success,
but don't worry about getting it justright. Nature is a unique thing
in that you never know from oneyear to the next is going to be
hotter, colder, rainier, drier. We did that. It just changes

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the vicissitudes of nature. If youwill, are always out there throwing us
a curve. But we're having funand you're not going to fail at gardening.
You can only give up. Don'tgive up. I mean really all
the time. Every year I havethings that I learn because nature threw me
a curve that I hadn't dealt withbefore, a plant hadn't grown before.

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That's okay, have fun doing it. I like to say that our gardens
and landscapes are like etches. Sketches. Some of you are old enough to
remember those. But you t hadtwo knobs, where one knob you drew
left and right, and the otherknob you drew up and down, And
so trying to draw a circle withan edge of sketch, it's impossible,
and inevitably you'd think you were goingone way, and your brain misfired and

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you went the other, and nowyou got a mess. What do you
do? You turn the edge ofsketch upside down, You shake it,
and you get to start all overagain. In gardening, that's called a
rototiller. That's called a spading fork. It is okay to redo things,
it's okay to change things. Nolandscape is permanent. No landscape really is

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permanent. We think, okay,I got this beautiful landscape, and that's
how it's always going to be.No, those shrubs are going to get
too large in time, A lotof them will. Or that tree that
was just a broomstick when you plantedit out there in the in the yard.
Now is some giant spreading thing coveringthe whole landscape. And now we're
switching over to shade loving plants beneathit. Do you see what I'm saying?

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Landscapes evolve and so we're forever changingthings and it's okay. It's okay
to do that. This this isit's like your house. Do you ever
change Maybe it's time to paint.Let's change the color, or let's go
from carpet to hardwood floor or somevinyl floor, whatever, or vice versa.
You can change things, and that'show it is in the landscape.

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That's what makes it fun. Sodon't worry about failing. You don't fail.
You just give up. If youplant something and it doesn't grow,
that's okay. There's a famous horticulturistI want to I can't remember if it's
J. C. Ralston who saidthis, but probably somebody like him.
He said, to be a greathorticulturist, you got to kill a lot
of plants. That is true.If you saw all the plants over the

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years that I have not been successfulwith, you quit listening to garden line
and go find something else. No, seriously, really it's okay. Give
it a try, try something new. Have fun. That's the bottom line.
Have fun. Find the kind ofgardening that makes you happy and go
for it. Do that, butI always suggest you try some the new.

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Have you ever grown a vine ona trellis? Have you ever had
an arbor over your patio? Whynot try one of those? Those are
kind of cool, that's really nice. There's roses that are wonderful for every
kind of years, little dwarf typesof roses, shrub types of roses,
cut flower types of roses, thevining, climber types of roses. Have
fun. That is the most importantthing, because gardening is fun as long

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as you don't worry about getting everythingright. If somebody tells you you got
to use the color wheel and pickcolors that are on this side, that
and the other, tertiary, allthat kind of stuff, just tell them
to go do something else and leaveyou alone that If you don't do that,
that's fine and idiot. Yes,aesthetically it's pleasing. Plant the flowers
you like. Have fun. Andone place you can go and get things

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like the flowers and whatnot is JegesHiding Gardens. He's got a bunch of
roses in stock. Jorge is downin Alvin, Texas, Alvin, Texas,
so it's just head down to Alvin. Jorges Hidden Gardens is going to
be a great place to get citrusy. They've got setsuma oranges, They've got
limes, they've got mired lemons ifyou like fruit. They've also got blueberries
and thornless blackberries and real cool thornlessblackberries down there. Jorhe also has that

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three sixty tree stabilizer in stock downthere, as well as some really cool
fertilizer products. It's just a goodplace to go. And you know,
just just check them out. Seewhat you think. I think you're going
to enjoy it. Every time Igo down, every time I talk to
them or see why, kind offollow them on social media too. I
just see the things that they're upto. It's like they just keep growing

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and getting better and better. Yesterday, being out at M and D Ace
Hardware, I did kind of wanderthrough the store. I always like to
do that and all these Ace hardwarebecause you know, each one is independently
owned, so the each is goingto be a little bit different. There's
certainly standards that all aces are goingto have. For example, all aces

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are going to be the place forun name it. If you want fertilizer.
ACE is a place. Do youneed pest control? Weed control?
Ace is the place do you needtools for your garden? Ace is the
place and everything else. I waslooking at some of the patio enhancements,
like those strings of lights that youput out to create that ambiance out on
the back patio for the evenings,you know, in summer evenings, for

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the safe time to go outside becausethe sun's not blazing down. ACE is
a place fire ant control. They'vegot great selection of fire ant baits and
individual mountain treatments at ACE. Theyhave mosquito control products at ACE. And
we are in fire ant and mosquitoseason, so you do need to make
sure that you're stocked up and readyto go. By the way, always

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start with a fire ant bait.That's first, and that suppresses our flat
kills. Most of the ants inyour yard baits are used at super low
rates, so you're not just dumpingtons of chemical on the yard. One
of something like amro can cover anacre, and think about that an acre.

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You got a grain granule here orgranule there. You don't dump baits
on a mound, You just lightlyscatter them. They work very very slowly
because if the first ant that pickedit up died, if they were that
toxic, well they would never makeit to the mound. So they do
carry them to the mound where itaffects a queen and all the rest of
the mound, and so baits workreally well. And this the most environmentally

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sound way I know to manage fireanceis through primarily the use of bait and
then the mound treatments. If youmiss a few, and you always miss
a few, there's always some fireants coming in and whatnot. Like that.
I just want to remind you againthat if you're dealing with the warm
seasoned weeds which are coming up inour lawns, barricade can be used to

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move into the soil and form abarricade to stop grass and broad leaf weeds
from getting established. But it's veryimportant on using any that you do it
right. So how would that applyto barricade. That means follow the label.
The amount you use on the labelis the amount that works. You
know, don't use enough it doesn'twork. Use too much of any product

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and you can have secondary negative effectsand you don't want to do that.
Follow the label so it works right. Secondly, it's got to be watered
in u for well. First,it's got to be. Secondly, it's
got to be spread evenly. Youknow, the control by barricade is going
to be dependent on you putting agood even coverage out there because if you

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miss spots, well, weeds aregoing to come up there. That's not
barricade's fault, that's yours. Soeven coverage and then watered in with about
a half inch of water. Itmoves it into the surface where it ties
up. It's designed to not justwash through the soil, but to tie
up in the surface. That's wherethe weed seeds are germinating, and that
then prevents them. And it's goingto give you easily sixty days ninety days

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of protection I would I would sayfor sure sixty of protection against those weeds
coming up. So later in thesummer, if you look at my schedule,
we've got a second application that cancome on later in the summer.
Just because every product does break down. Microbes get a hold of them and
they start taking them apart. Butbarricade works very effectively. Being a night

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Frost product, it's going to bewidely available. So where do you get
barricade. Well, A task AsidaAce has Barricade Lake hardware in Clute on
Dixie Drive. They've got Barricade Jibshardware up in Montgomery on Liberty Liberty FM
fourteen ninety seven, they've got barricadeas well, makes it easy easy to
find it. Oh my, well, I am gonna. I wanted to

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remind you that next Saturday, I'mgoing to be an Enchanted Forest. Enchanted
Forest out in Richmond, Texas.Now, if you've never been to Enchanted
Forest, you got to go.They have, first of all, all
the Easter decors forty percent off,So if you're looking to pick up some
a really good deal on that,you need to check out there. Also,
while you're out there, you needto check out their books for gardeners.

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They have book books, pet lovers, and the gift shop is just
I always enjoy going in to visitit. I'm always amused at the amount
of pollinator and butterfly plants that theyhad Last year. They had caterpillars on
some of the larval food source plantsand you could get the plant. They'd
give you a caterpillar to take home, so you could like import the butterflies
into your yard. That's intended forest. Hey. They are on FM twenty

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seven fifty nine, twenty seven tofifty nine just outside Richmond Rosenberg. But
come see me next Saturday. I'llbe there from eleven thirty to one thirty,
eleven thirty to one thirty at EnchantedForest Nursery. When we're out there,
you can bring me pictures. Youcan bring samples in a little ziplock
bag if you want. Leave roomin your car. When you get there,

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you're going to see what I'm talkingabout when I say they have a
little of everything and it's fun.It is the kind of place you just
want to wander and hang out.Well, come hang out with me next
Saturday, eleven thirty to one thirtyEnchanted Forest down in Richmond Rosenberger. Look
forward to seeing you. I alwayslove to get out and do these appearances,
get to meet some of the gardenersthat listen to Garden Line. We're

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going to take a break. Here'sthe number seven one three two one two
k t R H give josh acallum and get on the board. We
can talk to you when we comeback. Kat r H Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the productsor services advertised on this program. Welcome
to kat r H Garden Line withSkip Rictor. It's the crazy Trim.

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Just watch him as God. Somany Spazya say, welcome back to the

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Garden Line. Good to have you. We're starting to get a little glow
in the sky on this What's gonnabe a nice Sunday. I love you.
Know, some people worry about theweather all the time. I always
are gonna rain, it's gonna behot. I understand that. I understand
that, but I tell you itdon't matter what the weather. There's something
you can do gardening. You canget outside, you can do work outside.

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You can go into the garage andstart seeds. I'm while back.
I built a seed starting stand outof wood. That's something you do with
it's raining or freezing outside. Youcan just go in and create something like
that. If you are looking forwardto having a beautiful color patio, well
how about potting up some plants.I mean, you can do containers in

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a garage even if it is rainingoutside and get them ready to go.
Once you get them built, justtake a dolly and wheel them out there
and driveway or whatever. Let themget a little bit of rain, and
then move them to where they go. By the way. For those of
you who are not familiar with this, when you have big containers, which
you should have here in the southeastTexas area because it's so hot, we

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need lots of soil for our plants, and containers, not tiny containers.
Bump them up a size. Whenyou have a container like that, you
can't pick it up, at leastnot without putting your chiropractors kids through college.
So what do you do. Youget your little dolly, You slip
the lip underneath the side of thecontainer, and then you take a strap
and from one side of the dollyyou strap that thing right up tight against

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the dolly, and with your footagainst the base and one hand, you
can move a very heavy container toa new location and it doesn't require all
the stooping and bending and lifting andanything like that. So containers are a
very versatile way to garden. Makesit really easy. And what I'm talking
about containers, if you haven't beento moss and Nursery in a while.

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You need to go out there.It is amazing the stock that they have.
It just every time I go toMoss, I'm just stunned. I
mean that lately some of the rosesthey've gotten in is just gorgeous roses I've
never seen before. It's just likewow, that is amazing. Colorful hanging
baskets, do you know, likenew guinea impatiens we talk about regular impatients,

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New guinea impatients or more vibrant.In my opinion, they're more beautiful,
and they have them been hanging baskets. They're at Moss so it's a
shade loving plant. So a hangingbasket typically is gonna hang by something that's
creating shade, whether it's a porchor whether it's a limb on a tree
or whatever. Try those out.Check them out, check out their house

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plant house. It is excellent.One of my favorite bright shade plants is
Persian shield and they have a goodstock of those as well at Moss Nursery.
They've got the combo pots, they'vegot azaleas, all kinds of shrubs,
really trees if you want that summer. What are the two plants probably
the scream summer, the loudest here, hibiscuits and Boogainville. Yep, they've

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got both of those. You canget them, native plants, plants for
butterflies. Listen, this is eightacres of a destination nursery. It's not
just your average garden center. Youneed to go check out Moss Nursery.
They are easy to find. Imean they're out there in Seabrook, Texas,
and it just just set it onyour map and go check them out.

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Moss Nursery is really really worth awander, allow yourself some time,
though it takes a while to wanderthrough and see everything that they have there.
I was doing my landscape renovent.I'm doing a landscape renovation. I
just finished the lawn. I'm aboutto do some hardscape work. I've got
little patio over putting in on,trying to do some things like that,

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and I just have some plants thatI want to move. Somebody planted one
that wants to be about eight feetwide in a spot that's about three feet
wide before we bought our house acouple of years ago, and that plant
has to go. I need torenovate it. Maybe you've got plants that
struggles with last summer's brutal heat ormaybe the cold, the cold snaps you've

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had over the last few years thathave just been excessive. Why not call
Jason at Pierscapes or to the teamanybody on the team there. Jason and
his team, they're professional designers.They know how to create a beautiful homescape
for you. Whether it's a patio. Maybe you've got an area that's too
low and soggy. They can putdrainage in it to get that out of

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there and make it where you cangrow more different kinds of plants. Maybe
you have an area where you needto move water from one area to another
on the surface. How about adry creek bed. You should see some
of the ones that they designed withrock and stone. It just the way
that when they get through it islike wow, it is amazing. While

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you're talking to Pierscapes, ask themabout their quarterly maintenance for your beds,
your landscape beds. Landscape beds requiremaintenance and Pierscapes will come in. You
can sign up for them, cometrim, have them do weeding, have
them fertilize, make sure that theyare changing out seasonal color according to the
number of times you would like tohave it done, so there's always something

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beautiful going on in I bet,and of course molts of the beds.
They'll even check the irrigation, makesure it's working right now. If it
requires repairs, that's a different thing. They can do that too. And
by the way, I would suggestyou have them right now check the irrigation
as soon as you can get themout there, and they do stay busy.
That's what happens when you're a goodlandscaper, You stay busy. Have

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them come out and check your irrigationefficiency because we're going to start running that
water a lot as it heats upin the next few months, and our
systems are typically very inefficient. Theyneed head realignment, they may need heads
replaced because the coverage is inadequate.Talk to Peerscapes. They're professionals, they

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know how to do it, andthey do a very good job of what
they do. I would suggest,just as a start, go to the
websit site piercescapes dot com. Checkout the kind of work they do.
You can give them a call twoeight one three seven oh fifty sixty,
but listen please listen to me rightnow. You got a call now because

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it they they are booking out weeksor months I had depending on the size
of the job. That's what happenswhen you're a good landscaper. So don't
wait like, oh, next weekcan you come do No, they can't.
They can't. But they're the onesyou want to hire, So go
ahead and call them now. Evenif you're going to hire the work done
out into the summer, just goahead and get on the line, get

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on their schedule, because they dothe work that you want to have done.
Our phone number is seven to onethree two one two fifty eight seventy
four seven one three two one twofifty eight seventy four. They if you
give us a call here on guardand I we can answer the questions that
you have. I was looking atsome of the pictures that they had on

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line and some of the jobs.It's just like, man, I gotta
do that in my yard. We'regoing to take a little break here.
Our phone number seven one three twoone two KTRH. Give us a call
and we'll talk to you when wecome back. Welcome back to Garden Line.
Good to have you back with us. Today our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventyfour. If you live down south of

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Houston, you're fortunate when it comesto the brown stuff, the malt the
foundation, the soils, the fertilizersthat create that foundation for success because you
have Ciena Multch right there in yourbackyard. Ciena Maltch is done in the
Ciena area. I mean, soanybody who lives down you know, Bras's
Ben State Park out there in Siena, Arcola, Sandy Point, Pomona,

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First Colony, on and on andon even Pearland. Uh. They deliver
by the way within twenty miles oftheir location. Their location is FM five
twenty one, kind of close towhere Highway six and two eighty eight are
just north of ro Sharon. There'sthe website Sienna mulch dot com. They're
open Monday through Friday from seven thirtyto five and on Saturday from seven thirty

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to two pm. Closed on Sunday. But there you're going to find every
kind of soil amendment that you mightneed to have success, including things like
mulches to go on top of thesoil. The fertilizers that I talk about
every single fertilizer you hear me talkabout on guardenline is that's Ciena Maltch.
They stalk at all. They alsohave a wonderful selection of gravel and sand

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and pebbles and riverstone and flat youknow, the patio type rock, flagstone.
That's the word I couldn't think of. Cienamultch. It's the place for
all of it. And you reallyneed to check them out. Last time
I was there, I'm just I'malways surprised at the quality and the amount
of products that they stock. I'mgoing I head now to Pearland and we're

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going to talk to Greg. Hello. Greg, Hey, Skip, I
heard your commercial for Moss Nursery andthey are excellent. Jim Boss is a
great guy. Yes, and Ibought and in fact I bought a Yucca
Tompsoniana from them, and it's similarto a Yuka rostrata blue blue beet yuka

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and it's I need to get itin the ground, but it's about four
and a half feet tall. Thetrunk is with about a three foot plume
and it came in a wooden containerabout a two foot cube. And one
thing I need to know is howbig do I need to dig that hole.

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I was planning on maybe thirty sixinches by thirty six inches. But
yeah, I'm worried about rot becauseI know those roots can't you know,
handle water for a long time.And I just kind of wanted to see
what you thought. Yeah, Sojust a hole a little bit bigger than
the root ball on that particular plant, and it'll be fine. The thing

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about the rot is making sure thewater drains away from the plant. So
or is your soil of clay soil? It is. It is sandy,
it's sandier than I thought it wouldbe. One of dug holes for some
barrel cactus and stuff, so it'snot as bad as I thought it would

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be. Yeah, Well, ifyou, if you ever have any doubt,
went in doubt, build up araised bed and get you a good
you know, a good quality mix, a top sail type mix to bring
in and do a raised bed.Normally we're putting all kinds of fancy composts
and things like that in. Butthis is a plant that is native basically
to the western wing of Texas.You know that whole section from Odessa out

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Del Paso and down to Big BenPark and so on. So there's not
a lot of composts in the soilout there, so they don't have to
have all that fancy soil to dowell. Yeah, and that's the other
thing. I bought airloom, cactusand succulent soil and the first ingredient.

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And I'm sure it's great. Alltheir products I think are, but the
first ingredient was aged leaf mold compost. Yeah. Yeah, And I didn't
know if that would be of courseit's got perlite and all sorts of other
well draining things in it, yes, And I didn't know if that would
be okay or if I needed tomix in gravels. Well, you don't

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need to mix in gravel. It'sa good soil. And if you're growing,
like in containers cactus and succulents oreven little beds, that's fine.
This is a big plant and youknow it's going to get what six twelve
feet high somewhere in there. Yeah, So I would create a little bit
larger bed and probably use you know, just a quality If you can find

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a sandy loam type top soil,use that and mix it in with the
cactus and succulent. And here's thething with the organic materials, they're good,
they work well. All organic matterdecomposes away. It's just what it
does. That's why. Yeah,that's why I pot on your patio.
Three years later the soils like halffull instead of full. Where did it

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go? That's what happens. SoI'm concerned about drainage and keeping that plant
up. So if you make abed and then the bed sinks down,
you haven't gained a lot a fewyears down the line. So yes,
is that's that blend. But makesure and have something that is just basically
sandy loam is a base for it. And now sandy loam, if I

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if I bought something from landscaper's prideor or heirloom, what what would what?
What would I be looking for ina bag to do? You know?
Uh, I you may need tohave a bulk rather than bags.
But call you know what, letme give you Let me give you another

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another number here just one second.There's a place out there. It's connected
with airlom sooids. It's called WarrensRock and Molt. It's out in Porter,
Texas. And if you if youcall Warrens, I'm gonna give you
the number here in just a second. I don't have it off the top
of my head. If you callWarrens and say, here's what I'm wanting

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to do. I'm want a partof yuca. I need a quality sandy
loam. You can also use expandedhiale in the mix. But the number
out there and porter is two eightone three five four nineteen fifty two eight
one three five four nineteen fifty.They also have a location in Humble,
which is a little closer to you. But either way, just give them

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a call and tell them what you'relooking for. They do have what they
call top soil, and so youmight want to kind of start with that,
but also include that that cactus materialin it. That's good, you
know, put some bags of thatout there and include that in it as
well. Okay, I thought Iwould try to have it for the I

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would kind of mound maybe six oreight inches to get it a little bit
higher. Does that sound right?Yeah? I would actually probably say,
you know, mounted ten or twelveinches, because it's going to settle.
You know, if you've ever ifyou've ever dug a trench and filled it
in and then you come back laterand it's sunken down below the level you

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had soil salt, even just regularsoil dirt settles, and so you want
to make sure when you're done,it's going to be six or eight inches
high at least. So, yeah, what it came in in the pot,
it looks like crushed concrete and sandprimarily, Okay, And I guess
I just try to leave that allintact when I get it, put it

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in the ground. Does that soundright? Yeah, if you can.
I mean, it doesn't hurt tomix it a little bit, you know,
But yeah, that's basically good luckwith that. Hey, thanks a
bunch. I sure appreciate it,all right, Greg, you take care
and I sent you an email,so just disregard it, okay, thank
you. Bobby. Ana Plants andProduce up in Montgomery. They are continuant

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to stock up on all kinds ofbeautiful things. You know. You always
know you can go there and youcan get the fertilizers we talk about,
like nitrofoss and Nelson's and microlife likethe heirloom soil product, Nature's Way,
leaf mol composts. They've got allthat out there. They do. If
you live near the lake, theirlandscape crews can come out. They can
do some bed work and things foryou. Just call them and tell them

(57:28):
what you have in mind, seewhat they can do. But that's what
they do. They run around LakeConroe and that whole area up there,
and they do really cool and effectiveand beautiful work on landscapes. Ana Plants
and Produce is going to have awide variety of products that you would want
to have to have success in yourgarden and in your landscape. They just

(57:49):
got in a big shipment of roses. It is. They are beautiful,
just really unusual flower forms. Lookingat the flowers on the the ones that
I saw, it's almost like theDavid Austin types of roses, you know,
in just that flower form. ButI don't know specifically the kinds of
habit I'm telling you. They arevery very pretty. But that's just like

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Ana Plants and Proudues. They're alwaysgoing to get new things and very involved
in the community. They have allkinds of activities for kids learning about gardening
and whatnot. Always active in thecommunity up there in the Montgomery area,
just on the east side of Montgomeryat Ana Plants and Produce. I want
to go now to Sunny in Cleveland. Hello, Sonny. Yes, sir,

(58:35):
good morning. Are you got tosay? I'm well, sir,
So I have questions plants. Oneof them is a miniature ruse, and
this time, you know, andof course they all come back. When
he came back, there are noleaves at all. And then I did
fertilizer and now I see a lotof tooth like sellingate the buds, flowering
buds, but no leaves. Andthen the other one has other bush is

(59:01):
has a lot of black leaves orturning black. Okay, what type of
I didn't catch the kind of roseyou said it was. One was a
minie rose and that I planted inthe ground last year. It was being
good last year. Another one is, uh, you know, the one
that the flowers like well, youknow, forgot the term, you know,
the a lot of flowering. Okay, okay, Well, just based

(59:25):
on that, it's kind of hardto know what's wrong. I'm wondering if
something's going on in the soil,poor drainage, lack of light, uh
for the rose, or in thesoil poor drainage, or I guess it
could be lack of moisture, butI doubt it's the lack of moisture right
now, Uh, something's gone wrong, you know, Sonny, I think
I probably need to see a pictureof those to be able to help you

(59:49):
more accurately with a With a photo, I probably can tell a little bit
more. I mean, you know, there's diseases, little leaves like black
spike said, leaves returning kind ofblack, but just the lack of coming
out. A rose should be puttingon new growth now, and so if
it hasn't put on any new growth, something's wrong down in the soil with

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that plant. Now, maybe ittried to put out foliage and they got
diseased or something happened to it.I don't know, but let me take
a look at a picture. I'mgoing to put you on whole sunny and
Josh will give you an email andif you'll send me some close up pictures
in good sharp focus, we'll seewhat we can do. Appreciate it.
Thank you so much, yes,sir, all right, Josh, we'll

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take care of that. Help thatguy have some success with those roses.
We got to fix that. Doyou want a nice spring green up for
your lawn. The folks in Medinahave created a product called hastro Grow has
to grow twelve four eight. Andit is a lawn food okay, a
lawn food plus so has to growtwelve four liquid lawn food plus. You

(01:01:00):
look it up to your garden hose. It makes it real convenient and easy
to go over the garden. I'llgo over the garden, go over the
lawn with it. You could useit on a garden too, now that
I'm thinking about it, that wouldn'tbe a bad idea. But it's made
for the lawns and so it didn'ttake very long. I mean not ten
minutes and you got the whole lawndone. But it's got the lawn food

(01:01:22):
supplements and that's the twelve four toeight wonderful ratio for turf. And it's
got Medina soil activator in it.It also has humate liquid humus in it.
It's just good for the lawn andit helps you have success. And
now I encourage you to return yourgrass clippings when you mow. And if
you do that, you're only goingto do the has to go twelve four
eight about four times a year throughthe growing season that is. And if

(01:01:45):
you're going to take the clippings off, well you just took away nutrients.
So you're going to do it aboutevery month in order to make up for
those missing nutrients. But for aneasy quick let's get out there. Let's
put something on the lawn and getsome results. Has to grow to twell.
Four to eight lon food from MedinaAgriculture products will really really work very
well. Well, you're listening toguard Line and we're here to answer your

(01:02:07):
gardening questions. If you'd like togive us a call, we're about to
take a low break for the newshere. Just dial seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four.I just said dial, Nikki, and
I when I said it, Ithought that was back when you had the
little round spain on the phone andyou have to dial a phone. We

(01:02:29):
don't dial anymore. We push them. Yeah, that's okay, Well that's
funny. No, I I don't, but I did get rid of my
abaccus and bought a little henheld calculator. Seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Welcome back toguard Line. Good to have you with
us today. Whatever we want totalk about, give us a call seven

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one three two one two fifty eightseventy four. Long as it's related to
plants. We'll see if we canhelp you with that. Now, if
you've got a spouse it will notget out and do the yard work for
you, then I can't help withThat's that's outside of the horticulture advice.
But if I saw a story theother day, well gosh, where was

(01:03:12):
it somewhere in some newsfeed thing,and it was talking about somebody that had
their spouse. It was a guyand his wife had gotten really into gardening
and become a master gardener, andnow she wanted him to work out in
the yard because she just loved beingout there in the yard. And he

(01:03:32):
was like, hey, I've reacheda point in life where I'm going to
write a check and somebody else isgoing to go out and do that for
me. It was just it waskind of interesting seeing the dynamic of how
that works. Oh well to eachhis own. I guess you are listening
to Garden Line and our number seventhree two and two kt r H.
I keep saying that I think youshould have more containers on your patio,

(01:03:57):
and more containers in the driveway whereveryou to put a container, because they're
so versatile. I love containers,you know, years ago I did not
grow many things in containers. Idon't know why I just didn't, But
more and more now I'm always youknow, I'll go somewhere to a garden
center and I'll see a container andit's like, hmmm, I got to
have that one. I could growsomething in that. Well. When you

(01:04:17):
have a container, you need acontainer that has good drainage toils. That's
very important. You need the excesswater to drain away. And then you
need a quality mix. You know, quality mix means that it holds moisture.
You don't want it to be justlike big chunky sand granules of water
runs right through, but you wantto hold some moisture. Butt you want

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it to drain adequately. You don'twant it to stay mucky and soggy wet.
Jungle Land is designed to do that. Jungle Land there are two versions.
There's an indoor and an outdoor version. The outdoor version is called flour
and Vegetable Planting Soil, and itdoes drain well and it has like four
different sources of decomposed organic matter,and it's got the micro hizal fungi that

(01:04:59):
works with the plant roots to helpthem have success. And when you use
the jungle land, put your plantsin it, whether it's vegetables, whether
it's flowers, you are just goingto have more more productivity. It's going
to enhance the growth of the plant. That, along with some nutrient fertilization
to keep it stimulated, can turna container into really just a bountiful container,

(01:05:23):
and a beautiful container lots of beautifulcolor coming outside jungle in. Now,
where do you get jungle l in? Well, night fresh products are
sold all over the place, soit's not hard to find it. You
can go to Bearings Hardware, boththe one on Bissinet and the one on
Westheimer. Our plantation Ase Hardware outthere in Richmond Rosenberg is going to have
jungle in and other nitroposs products aswell. If if your lawn is struggling,

(01:05:49):
and I guess saying if they justare. Most lawns right now are
really struggling. We have things likeheavy clay soils that are predominant here throughout
the Gulf Coast region. And whena heavy clay soil gets compacted, it
is hard for roots to get downand to effectively create that extensive root system

(01:06:15):
that helps the plant be healthier.In this case, the plant being a
lawn, compaction is very difficult onthem. So what do we do well,
We airate, We punch holes inthe ground. We pop soil cores
out of the ground and leave themon the surface. Don't just squeeze a
hole open, but pop those outand then follow that with a compost top
dressing. Now, the folks atBnB turf Pros they are our go to

(01:06:38):
aeration and compost top dressing company forthose of you who live down south and
a little to the west. Sowe're talking a region like Sugarland, Missouri
City, moving south and east fromthere, Fresno, or Cola Siena,
Iowa colony, even all the waydown in Manville on over as far as
Pearland. They service that area.Now, they got a whole equipment and

(01:07:00):
a lot of compost around to dothese jobs. So they do have that
region that they try to stay within. They will put down a nice quality
compost on the surface, the kindwe talk about here on garden Line.
They're gonna errate. By the way, they can also fertilize. They can
do top dressing of that. Andwhen you do aeration followed by top dressing,

(01:07:21):
it moves its way down into thesoil and it helps that root zone
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customer, and make sure that youare satisfied. BMB turf Pros seven one
three two three four five five nineeight. I want to go over to
Gordon now in Cloverlea. Hello,Gordon, Hey, good them on skiff.
How you doing. I'm good?How are you well? I'm fine.
A couple of weeks back, Iheard a man mentioned on your show

(01:08:32):
something about the june bug thing.So my question is I have like thousands
of these june bugs show up onmy driveway and stuff. I have a
light that lights it up. Soam I going to be concerned with grubworms
after all the I mean thousands ofthem, I'll sweep them off my driveway

(01:08:54):
with a broom. Uh yeah,you shaid. They're they're gonna they do
their mating fly We call them jimare. They're really May bugs here.
They come a little earlier than June. But May is a time when they're
doing a lot of mating flights andthey lay eggs on the surface and those
eggs hatch into the grubs. Yes, and we have a window where we

(01:09:15):
can treat them. Have you beento my website Gardening with Skip dot Com
by any chance? I have not, But I'll just put down some whedonator.
Okay, so I didn't want toput down any bugginator because it also
contains fer alz. It's not time. It's not time. So if you
go to Gardening with Skip dot comthe website, there is a lawn pest

(01:09:38):
disease and weed management schedule and it'sfree. It's a pdf you just downloaded.
We look at it on your computerand if you look at it,
it'll say June is the time whenwe first treat for grubs, and then
as we get into July and August, the grubs go down deeper and we
can treat again. Then if you'reyou know, if you feel like you
didn't get them all the products youuse it. Those two times are different,

(01:10:00):
and they're on my schedule. Sogo to gardening liskip dot com get
the lawn pest, Disease and weedmanagement schedule and it'll tell you right when
you need to do that, andtiming is important. Don't treat now.
Okay. So one of the questionis I just heard you mention somebody with
aerration and compost the top dressing.Yes, huh. Is there anybody in

(01:10:21):
my area channel view that you mightrecommend that would do something like that.
I do not know anyone that farover. You might you might talk to
BB turf Pros and see if they'reaware of a company that they would recommend
over there, But I'm not connectedto any company that serves that that area.
So I just don't have a goodsuggestion for you. Okay, So

(01:10:44):
what would I put on? Asfar as I got some spots when I
planned my soide last year, thatlittle holds the fill in Okay, so
I use top soil to do that. Yeah, I would use a top
soil type mix of sandy loam soilmix. Hey, I'm up against a
hard break here. If you wantto hang on, you can talk a
little more. But I'm gonna haveto run to a commercial board. Uh
well, I can hang on allright, all right, we'll be right

(01:11:06):
back seven one, three, two, fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back
to garden Line. Good to haveyou with us today. Hey, if
you live out in the Kingwood area, Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Centers,
both of them in that same area, wonderful places to go. And
the shop they always have new thingsgoing on. They've got, for example,

(01:11:27):
vinka, you know the Madagascar periwinkle, the vinka, the flowers that
go through summer. How you canthrow those things on a barbecue pit,
close the lid, leave them fiveminutes and open it and I think they'd
still be blooming and looking good.That is one tough plant. They've got
the upright types of standard types,and then the trailing types. You can
put them over the side of acontainer or put them in a hanging basket.
They've got the butterfly candy series ofBoodleia Boudia also called butterfly bush.

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Boodleias are wonderful old plant. Theyget kind of big, but this butterfly
candy stays about three feet high.It's got flowers. There's three types that
they carry there. It's a raspberry, the coconut, and the grape.
So imagine the color of raspberry,the color white of a coconut, and
then the purple of the grape.That that's the colors. They have.

(01:12:12):
Butterfly magnets, absolute butterfly magnets.Do you need native milkweed? Do you
need some of those? Encore orbluemuthon Azilia's the Hollywood hibiscus, the Eclipse
adraja and by the way, they'rehaving an eclipse adranga sale because we're having
an eclipse right. Eclipseadrangas are fivedollars off at Warren's at the Warrants only.
They also have by the way,you need to go check out their

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vanilla brandy Abelia. That is awhere you know, back in the day,
oh, we had one kind ofabelia, glossy abelia. There was
one kind. Now we got alot of different cultivars and vanilla brandy has
little white margins on the leaves andkind of reddish brown stems that are really
attractive, really beautiful, And thenin the fall when it cools off,

(01:12:56):
the leaf margins turned kind of apinkish color. It's just cool. Go
by and see it. Ask themto show you their vanilla brandy abilia.
At the Warren's Garden Center, Iwas visiting with Gordon out here in clover
Leaf. Gordon, I think youhad a one more question on something about
the lawn. Yeah, you saidyou to fill in some low spots topsoil

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or sandy loam. Yeah, sandyloam type top soil is usually a good
one rather than just using sand.Yeah, if you can find something for
me, you can purchase their callingtopsail, and you look at it and
it looks decent to you, we'llgo ahead and just fill in with that,
Okay. The sandy loam is thesame as topsoil basically. Well,

(01:13:40):
the word topsoil can mean anything thepeople selling it to you want it to
mean. Really, Unfortunately, it'snot a lot of things sold as topsoil
or just soil. But sandy loamis a good quality type of topsoil and
it works really, well, it'sa bla. Where can I get that?
By a bag? Around me?Because my nearest place to meet is

(01:14:04):
Houston Garden Centers. They don't haveit. The too Ace Hardware is one
in Crosby and want you all theroad? They don't have it. And
you said, hang on just sayingyou said that. Where are you located
again, Cloverly, It's right aboutBeltway eight and Wallaceville Road area. Yeah,

(01:14:25):
you know Warren's Rock and mult isup there. There's one in Humble,
and one importer is not too terriblyfar away from you. That might
be you may want to call themand find out where they where they stock
their materials. Are you talking aboutneeding like cubic yards of it or just
a few bags. I don't havea means to carry bulk. I have
to do bags, Okay, Iwould, I would probably, I would

(01:14:47):
just talk to the folks at Warren'sRock and Maults. Do you need a
number for the one in Humble?Yeah? I think I tried to visit
you there one day, but youwere stuck in traffic. Okay, all
right, I think you said therein Kingwood, right, Yeah, Well,
but this is Humble a little southof Kingwood So two eight one eight

(01:15:10):
five to two seventy four hundred twoeight one eight five two seventy four hundred
Gordon and good luck with that.Yeah, just ask them about that Monday.
All right, all right, thankyou for your help, Thanks for
the call. Appreciate that. Uh, if you have not done a fertilization
in your lawn and you would liketo get some quick results, uh,

(01:15:30):
nitropous red bag, that's the ImperialNitrofus Imperial Plant FT. It is a
fifteen five to ten. It's afifteen five ten fertilizer that releases those nutrients
quickly. When you get it wet, they're going to go into solution and
be available for the plant roots andyou can get a nice quick greenoup with
that. Now you want to putit out at a rate of about seven

(01:15:51):
pounds per thousand square feet. Itworks, It works very well. It's
designed based on research by university acrossthe South Langre Universities a turf scientist with
that three one two ratio of nutrients. That works really well for our turf.
And you're going to find it anenchanted forest, which I'm going to
be at next Saturday. Next Saturday, be out enchanted forest out in Richmond

(01:16:15):
Rosenberg area. You're going to findit up in Willis at Growers Outlet.
You can also find it at RCWNursery, Tumbo Parkway and Beltway eight.
Right there the Nitroposs Imperial, thered Bag fifteen five ten. You're listening
to Guardenline. Our phone number isseven one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two onetwo fifty eight seventy four. If I

(01:16:39):
could talk you into doing one thingthat maybe you haven't done before, uh
for your outdoor enjoyment this year,I think I would tell you take on
some activities, get some products tobring birds to your landscape to be able
to enjoy them more. I justfind that to be really enjoyable. You

(01:17:00):
know, you're out working. Wegarden, we plant flowers, we grow
vegetables. We do a lot ofwonderful things out in the garden. But
when you're sitting and just enjoying notjust the view, but you're getting to
hear the sound of birds or watchtheir antics with a bird bath, with
bird feeders, with bird houses,wild birds unlimited. That is the place,
the best place, and I meanthis hands down the best place to

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get everything to create that bird paradiseout in the backyard. Our birds right
now, they're still in their nestingseason and nesting Superblend by wild Birds is
a very well formulated It's a verywell formulated bird food for that stage of
the bird's annual life. They're raisingyoung. They need that high protein of

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dried mealworms and sunflowers and peanuts andsafflower tree nuts and others. It's all
in there. They have a birdseed for each group of birds, for
each situation, and it's all nowaste seed. They have quality feeders like
the Scuroll proof feeder that I loveso much, and many others too,
by the way. They have housesfrom purple Martins and bluebirds and all the

(01:18:10):
different things you would want for birds. Is it Walberds And they're just fun
to go into. Six different stores, six different wallbird stores in the Houston
area. WBU Houston dot com.That's the website. Now, excuse me,
WBU dot com Forward slash Houston.We'll say that one more time.
WBU Walbert's unlimited. WBU dot comForward slash Houston. That'll get you to

(01:18:35):
the six stores that are in ourarea, so you can find the one
nearest you. I would really encourageyou to check it out, even if
you just started with one little feeder. I've about to get a little feeder
for my mother in law who wantsto have some birds to see just outside
the window. We're gonna put alittle little shepherd cruckhangers outside the window and
hang a little bird feeder on it. And I know she's going to really

(01:18:59):
enjoy that. I'm looking for gettingthat set up for her. We gave
her a hummingbird feeder one time thatit just beautiful and it's fun. Birds
are cool. You'd add those tothe landscape. A while back, I
was up at the anti ros andPorium up in Independence, Texas. You
know where that is, what's northof Brenham. And I love going out

(01:19:20):
there because when you go to theanti ros in Porium, it's like you
go back in time and it's anotherone of those destination garden centers. Listen,
they've been doing this since nineteen eightythree, growing the anti croses and
selling them. People all over thecountry have purchased their anti crosies. They
do ship, yes, by theway, and they grow them in like

(01:19:41):
a three gallon bucket, which makesa better, more robust rose plant.
They have antig roses, but theyhave so much more. Do you need
herbs, do you need perennials?Do you need native types of plants?
They've got it all out there andalways something going on. There's always a
good reason to run out to antigrosenPorium. For example, Saturday, April
thirteenth, from ten am to twoNative Plant Partner Program is going to bring

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a tent out there to their nurseryand display gardens at the antiqu Rosenborium.
And it's a collaboration between the NativePlant Society and local nurseries around the state.
They're going to partner with that programthe Tinker Garden. Guess what,
that's a Children in the Garden programventure. You can get your kids ages
two to eight signed up with that. It's a six week curriculum. It

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starts April nineteenth and twentieth at onepm. It goes to about mid May.
So you just got to contact themfor this. How do you contact
them? Here's a phone number nineseven nine eight three six fifty five forty
eight nine seven nine eight three sixfive five four eight, or the website
Antique rosanmporium dot com. Write thatdown Antique roseanmporim dot com. Hey,

(01:20:51):
the blue bonnets are blooming. Wonderfultime take a little drive through the country.
Doesn't take long to get there,I mean really doesn't. Little afternoon
venture today, why not run outthe antick Rosevelt. I think you enjoy
getting out and enjoy it seeing thatI always due just a reminder again,
I'm going to be at the Richmondexcuse me hardon me, y goodness,

(01:21:20):
all right, I'm going to bean enchanted forest out in Richmond. Enchanted
Forest Richmond, TX dot com.We're going to be out there. It's
on FM twenty seven fifty nine twentyseven to fifty nine. So if you're
in Richmond heading toward sugar Land,it's off to the right FM twenty seven
fifty nine. Next Saturday at eleventhirty, I'll be doing a springtime question

(01:21:42):
and answer with everybody that shows up. KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertisedon this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden
Line with scip Richter's solease the gastrim. Just watch you as gas us.

(01:22:11):
So many good things to superasy gassiesand gas baby tables back again,
not a sign glasses and gas saldbean between gas starting. Welcome back to

(01:22:36):
garden line. Good to have youwith us this morning. What do you
want to talk about IM regarding gardening? Give us a call seven one three
two one two five eight seven fourseven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. It is time tobe fertilizing your lawn. It's a good
time to put out your Nitrophis superturf. That's the silver bag. It's a

(01:22:59):
nineteen four to ten fertilizer. Ithas half the nitrogen and a slow release
for them. It also has ironto help promote good greening. You get
that out now and for two orthree months, your lawn is going to
have a release of nutrients to promotegood, strong, even growth and improved
turf density. And that is veryimportant if you want to have a beautiful

(01:23:20):
one and if you also want tohave a lawn that's not plagued by weeds.
Where can you find this, Well, I'll tell you where you can
find it. You can find nitrofosssuper turf at places like Shades of Texas
on Genoa Red Bluff, Fisher's Hardware. Both the one South Houston on Southomore
and the one out in Laporte onBroadway Street is going to have it and

(01:23:41):
you can find it at the ArborGate Arborgate. By the way, if
you're at the arbor Gate, youhave got to check out the new parking
lot they have. It is reallyreally nice. I mean you instead of
having to park out front and thentry to find a place on the road
or something. No that those daysare gone turned down something called Trishel Road
and it goes it leaves twenty nineto twenty and goes around behind Arburgate and

(01:24:04):
comes back into twenty nine twenty.So if you're looking for Trashol and all
of a sudden you're at Arburgate,we'll just keep going. The other side
of Trishole is going to come in. Just keep watching for it. The
parking lots behind Arburgate and it's anall weather surface that is it's just a
wonderful easy, easy, easy access. While you're at Arburgate, pick up

(01:24:25):
their one two three completely easy systemthat is a food to feed anything with
roots, that is a soil forany application, and a compost that will
improve any soil that includes sand thatincludes clay. The one two three easy
system. Both the soil and thecompost, by the way, have expanded
shale in them, which also helpsa lot with improving drainage, and drainage

(01:24:46):
is very very important. Let's gonow, we're going to head out to
northwest Houston and talk to Frank.Hello, Frank, great, skip my
bagyard. I don't know twenty aboutthirty and they load it with cut worms,
I mean hundreds of them. Okay, all right. What you need
to do is there's there's several productsthat will kill cutworms. Their standard synthetic

(01:25:12):
insecticides that will kill cutworms. ButI would get a product containing either BT
or spinosid. Either of those ingredientswill kill cutworms. Now, BT is
only going to last about a day, so you may have to reapply it
later, but spinosid will last alittle bit longer. And a planet sawd

(01:25:34):
and each time I planet it sawed, it doesn't develop it. Well,
that's probably there's two things going onhere. When you say cutworms, you're
seeing caterpillars eating the leaves of thegrass, right, correct, Yeah,
So the sod itself should that's aseparate issue. I mean, you watering

(01:25:56):
it in and keeping it wet bywatering a couple of times a day the
first week, Yeah, to helpit get established. Is it deep deep
shade or is it full sun?No, it's okay. What kind of
sad are you planting? I'm SaintAugustine. I don't know. When you
say doesn't develop? Now, areyou talking about this year you planted,

(01:26:17):
It's not. I have planted ittwice over the last two years. Okay,
And you know it start it's greenup, and all of a sudden
it start turning brown. Well,when launch turn brown, it's either a
lack of water or the grass didnot root in very well initially, or

(01:26:38):
it could be a disease. Uh. And the disease, you know,
if it's if it's summertime, itcould be chinch bugs. If it's anytime
of the year. Really, itcould be taken a root rock that effects
the lown. There's just too manypossibilities, you know, to diagnose it
accurately. I think what we needto do is when it's happening, let's

(01:26:58):
send me a picture. Let's taketo look at what's going on and see
if we can get specific about it. Okay, Well, if I get
these horns with BT, you thinkthey would get them? Await, yeah,
it'll it'll kill them when they're activelyfeeding. Now if you if you
wait too long and the worms getbigger and they're about to turn into moths,
well at that stage BT it doesn'twork as well. So don't delay.

(01:27:24):
So you could you could do Youkind of have options here. You
can do the BT, you cando the spinosa. Both of those have
to be sprayed on the grass bladesso the bugs eat them, so the
caterpillars eat them. Or if youuse the synthetic insecticide there's a lot of
them out there that'll work just lawn. If it's labeled for long insects,
it's going to work on grubs,I mean on cutworms. Oh okay,

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you appreciate it all right, sir, you take care. Thanks for the
call. Creciate that very much,very much. If you're going to fill
a container on your patio or indoors, jungling and distributed by Nitrophoss, it's
quality soil mix. It goes inthe container for the indoor plant. They
have jungle land water saving potting soil. It's got crystals in it. These

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crystals absorb water and they swell up. It's almost like they become like little
chunks of jello if you want tokind of picture that, the roots growing
through the container can draw water fromthose crystals even after the soil begins to
get a little too dry. Sothe crystals in the soil. The reason
they're put there is to help extendthe availability of water to those plants.

(01:28:31):
Should you forget to water the plants. I know you never do that,
but some people do. Some peopledo. Where do you get jungle land
and other nitrofoss products. Well,you can get plants for all seasons Tombol
Parkway. You can go to allspasas up in the woodlands. They're going
to have it up there, plantsand things out in Brenham it's going to
have it as well. It's easy, easy to find. We're going to

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go now to Drazoria and talk toBob. Hello Bob, good morning,
really too. I wonder why morepeople don't use a mulching kit on their
mowers, because you mentioned something aboutreturning the clippings to the soil. Your
thoughts on it, Uh, whythey don't? It's just an extra thing

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that isn't kind of in the forefrontof their minds. You know, when
you mow, there's a lot ofdifferent ways to go about melting the clippings.
One, you mow more often,so you're not cutting a big,
long clipping off. You're just cuttinga short clipping off. That's one thing.
So anybody can do that. Youcan buy a multing blade that helps,

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you know, I think that's thekit you're talking about. It helps
recycle those clippings through the housing asyou're mowing, chopping them up a little
more, and then going all out. There's even mulching mowers that have a
housing designed to recirculate those clippings asyou're mowing to get them chopped up even
better. So there's several ways togo about it. Yeah, I just

(01:30:00):
wonder why more people don't. Andone other thing doesn't matter. But a
couple of years ago, I wasin the Dallas area listening to one of
their garden shows up there, andI've never heard it mentioned down here that
when people are using their broadcast spreaderto wash that fertilizer off of the concrete,

(01:30:21):
because it unless you get a goodrain to soak it in. If
you just have high humidity Dallas sometimeshas high humidity. That fertilizer will help
attack and degrade your concrete. That'sinteresting. I'm not I'm not familiar with
that degrading part. Hey, Igot it. I'm gonna have to run

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take a little break here. Doyou want to continue this discussion? Just
hang on? Uh? If not, okay, thank you. I appreciate
your call. Yeah, I'm sorry. I run a little along there on
this. If I seven to one, three, two, fifty eight to
seventy four, I'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardlinem. Good to
have you with us today. Hey, if you have ever tried sweet Green
from Nitrofrosh, you ought to giveit a try. It is an eleven

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percent nitrogen natural furlisure organic type furtilisure. It's based on molasses. Microbial activity
turns it into a really, reallyvaluable source of nitrogen and other nutrients for
your lawn. Sweet green has awonderful sweet smell. It's molasses based,
so it's kind of fun driving aroundwith it in the car with you.

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It works well, and sweet Greensavailable wherever you get nitrofoss products, which
is all over the place. Youcan get it. Plants for all seasons
up there on Tomball Parkway. Youcan get sweet Green at Plants and Things
and Brennam. You can go downto Lake Hardware in Angleton and find it
down there as well. Sweet greenseasy to find, as are all the
nitrofosh products. I was talking withBob out in Brazilia here and Bob we

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were talking about mulching and other things. Where do we drop off? I
lost track? All right, we'retalking about and the alkalinity and the acidity
of your concrete fertilizers. Go talkto your high school science teacher and you
know, yeah lime lime with anacid on it. That doesn't work well,

(01:32:14):
right, Yeah, and uh,for many years I have always gone
followed my fertilizing by washing the fertilizeroff of all my concrete. Yeah,
and areas where I didn't over yearsit looked bad. But I'll just let
you go with that. And I'ma big proponent of the mulching kids.

(01:32:34):
I'll let you get to your nextcolor. Thank you for your time,
Yeah, Hey, thank you,and hang around. I'm gonna make a
few more comments about all that.Uh, there are other reasons that we
want to get that fertilizer off ifit has iron in it, iron products
if you're going in to add aniron supplement to your lawn, or furlicures
than iron. When you get ironon concrete and it gets wet, you

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get a little rust spots or ruststains or rust streaks if there's enough of
it on there, and so yowant to get it off for that reason.
Another reason is when fertilizer washes offyour driveway, it goes down into
the drain and it's going to endup in somebody of water somewhere. All
land drains to somebody of water,and so when you're putting a nitrogen and

(01:33:15):
especially also a phosphorus impact into thewater solution that's running out into creeks and
streams and in some parts of thestate aquifers, it causes algal blooms.
Algae takes off, which results infish kills. It's an environmental degradation.
And you paid for the fertilizer,So get your little blower and blow it
onto the lawn. When you getthrough fertilizing, A lot of spreaders have

(01:33:38):
little fins that you drop to theside and it keeps the fertilizer from going
in that direction. As you're goingalong the curb side or the driveway side.
But always finish off with blowing thatback end. You paid for it,
Go ahead and use it to growa green lawn rather than a green
creek, if you know what Imean. Absolutely true the case the folks.

(01:34:00):
ACE Hardware always have what you needfor your lawn and your garden and
your lands, the whole nine yards, any month of the year, it
doesn't matter. The ACE is theplace right now. ACE is a place
to get your lawn fertilizers. ACEis a place to get your weed control
products, your pest control, yourdisease control products. ACE is a place
to get fire ant the bait.Always start with a bait and then use

(01:34:25):
the individual mound treatment products for anythat escape. Give the bait a couple
of weeks to work and just makesure you know what you got. You're
going to find that they work verywell. Follow the label. Follow the
label. It's mosquito season. They'realready starting to show up. I saw
what was the human disease? Ohmy gosh, there's several mosquita diseases.

(01:34:45):
There's nile viruses, malaria. Ican't remember the one. They've already discovered
it in Texas somewhere that's already appearingthis year. ACE will give you the
things to control it, like thelow granules that you put out that control
them, Mista sitas or fogers orhowever you're going about it. ACE is
the place for that and ACE Hardware. Just go online and type in ACE

(01:35:09):
Hardware dot com and find the storelocator and find one of the forty stores
in the Greater Houston area that's closeto you. I think that makes it
pretty pretty darn easy. Landscaper's Pridehas a wide variety of products. Yeah,
I was surprised as I began talkingto them as time a couple of
years ago, or maybe it's justa year year and a half ago,

(01:35:31):
about some of the different products thatthey carry that I wouldn't aware that they
carried twenty seven different bag products andthey also sell bulk too. You can
find their store their locations at Landscaperspridedot com meaning what stores carry landscapers Pride
products. Go to Landscaperspride dot comand you know it's all on there.

(01:35:55):
You can find they've been around fortwenty years. They're always local, their
top quality resources and with Landscapers Pride. It's basically a one stop shop when
you want something to grow your plantsin that's going to really create beautiful,
blooming, beautiful productivity. Premium pottingsoils, they've got it, for example,

(01:36:15):
the product Premium potting soil, Spagnumbased compost rich potting soil. It's
good for indoor and outdoor. Gotpear light in it. They got some
of the Color Store slow release fertilizerthat feeds up to three months. And
so you're going to get an expensiveroute development and really good success with that
kind of a combination in one mixfor your containers. And then they have

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many, many other products available.Just stick around you hear me talk about
them a lot because landscapers Pride productswork. That is a fact. Let's
see, We're going to go nowup to Huntsville and talk to Wanda.
Hello, Wanda, Hi, howare you. I'm well. I would
like to know what lengths to cutand how to root them all very cutting.

(01:37:01):
Oooh boy. Mulberry being a tree, a woody ornamental plant is a
little more challenging to root. Youneed to use what they call semi hardwood
cuttings. That means something that's nothardwoody, but is a little more in
a succulent state, so that's goingto be some pretty new growth to do

(01:37:21):
well. The problem with our treesis this, they start off as a
seed and they're in a juvenile state, and the juvenile state roots easily.
So if you had a little mulberrysapling in the flower bed that was three
four feet high, it would beeasy to root cuttings from. Once they

(01:37:41):
get larger, the growth becomes mature, and mature wood is much more difficult
to root. And I think Iwould have to probably go online and do
a little search for mulberry rooting,and then I'll tell you what. I'm
going to give you a little formulahere to type into your search engine to
get more specific. Okay, it'syou type in the word mulberry tree cutting,

(01:38:10):
rooting and then and then this isthe most important part. Site colon
dot ed u s I t Ecolon dot e d U. What that
does is it tells Google or whoeveryour search engine is. It says,
I want you to find me sitesthat have the words mulberry tree cutting and

(01:38:33):
rooting all in them. But Ionly want you to look in websites that
end in dot edu and a universityresearch and educational extension type website and somebody
across the country. You're going tofind some extensive information that goes into the
depth of how do you root amulberry cutting? And that auto that's the

(01:38:55):
best suggestion that I can give you, just off the top of my head.
All right, all right, wantto thank you for the call.
I appreciate that. If you loveto use organic products in your landscape,
and a whole lot of people do, and very very popular Microlife fertilizers.
It's a wide range of fertilizers thatthey have at Microlife. They really fit

(01:39:15):
the bill. The green bag six' two four that is a standard for
lawn fertilization. It works very well. It releases of nutrients slowly over time.
Not that you don't get some immediately. You do get some pretty quick.
But it's organic. So what hasto happen is microbes grab those particles
and they chew them up and theyrelease the nutrients. That's a kind of

(01:39:38):
fast version of how it works.Microlife Purple bag, the Humates plus that
is a soil enhancing product. Humateis concentrated compost in a bag and it
helps build the soil quality and againsupport that microbial content in the soil.
Now's the time to get these out. Now is the time they're on my
schedule. If you go to gardeningwith Skip dot com, I'm gardening with

(01:40:00):
Skip dot com. Look at mylawn care schedule. You'll find Microlife on
there and it needs to be applied. Now. You can go to Microlife
Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot comand find out all the stores the carry
Microlife. It's one of the mostwidely available fertilizers in the Greater Houston area.
We're going to go out now toHockley and talk to Rusty. Hello,
Rusty, Hello, how you do. I'm good, sir. Got

(01:40:25):
a couple questions fire as in myvegetable garden? Okay, how to get
how to get rid of my tridevinegar and water and borax? And that
just makes them mad. I think, yeah, don't don't do any of
those anymore. Uh. What whatI would recommend is you want to get

(01:40:45):
a bait. Now, there's twoways to go about it. The only
bait that I know of labeled forvegetable gardens, and there may be some
I'm not aware of. Is calledcome and get it, Come and get
it, let me get it byfertilan. It's a spinosa. It is
the insecticide, and it's an organicinsecticide in it. But it's a bait

(01:41:05):
and you can use that all aroundthe vegetable garden. Don't dump it on
mounds. Use it like a bit, just scatter it loosely. You want
the workers to go out there andfind it and bring it back to the
mound. But come and get itto work pretty well. Some people.
You can't use things like amdro andextinguish and other fire baits in the vegetable
garden, but some people will putthose around the garden in the yard,

(01:41:28):
and you're going to have workers thatare going out there and bringing some back.
But I think I would would gowith the come and get it if
your garden is of a decent size, because that way you know you're getting
the baits there where they live.And if not, if it's just like
a four foot wide bed, thenjust put any kind of fire bait all
around the garden. I got you. Sound good. One more quick question,

(01:41:53):
macubate of plants you're about to fliphigh? Okay? Trying too trying
to bloom. I use this marketlife of them. Visit it'mo can at
fly Matt when to apply micro lifeto him? Yeah, I hope they're
al If they're a flood high,I'm gonna do it too soon. No,
no, do it now, doit now, and I probably do

(01:42:15):
it again like four weeks later.Yeah, you want to keep those scoring
yep about it? All right?Thank you sir? All right, thank
you, Rusty. Appreciate. Iappreciate you. Take care, appreciate that
call. Uh. You know,Affordable Tree Service is a company that I
trust and you should trust too.Martin Spoon Moore and his wife the owners.

(01:42:36):
They answer the phone, by theway, the phone number seven to
one three six nine nine twenty sixsixty three. You can go to their
website aff tree Service dot com.Hire Martin to come out and give you
a consultation. Cost one hundred andfifty bucks. If you harm to do
the work, it goes right intothe cost of the work. He's a
professional. He will not mess upyour trees. Don't take chances on having

(01:42:58):
your yard guy or some guy withbusiness card he's stuck in your door.
Don't take chances on them on yourvaluable valuable trees. Call off Martin at
Affordable Tree Service and get the jobdone right. He stays busy. Tell
him your Guardenline listener for a headof the line service time for Nicky in
the news. We'll be right back. Welcome back to guard Line. Good

(01:43:19):
to have you with us today.We are looking forward to talking to you
about the things that interest you ingardening, and we're going to start off
by going straight out to Sandy andCyprus. Hello Sandy, good morning morning.
I have a question. I hadplanted some black, beauty and blue

(01:43:42):
in my containers and they're doing good. I put a tomato cage around it.
Was that should I have not donethat to put a tomato cage around
it? No, that's fine,that's fine. And then I've got lots
of duelings on him, but lotsof flowers and stuff on them. But
there's no egg plant. Absolutely,Yeah, flowers are there for weeks.

(01:44:06):
Yeah that you know that happens fromtime to time. Eggplants not setting really
well, and there are different possiblecauses for it. I find that usually
they settle down and do just fine. Is it getting it's getting adequate sunlight?
I assume yes, okay. UhSo, I think you're kind of
doing what you can do, probablyproviding adequate moisture good for a good uh

(01:44:31):
uh fertilization. You know, plentyof nutrientsfer it to do, but not
excessive amounts of fertilization. I thinkthat that's pretty much the important thing,
uh to. And I think it'llsettle down. I've had flower drop and
I kind of wonder sometimes, well, you know, where the bees not
present, you know, some rainyweather, the honey bees didn't want to
get out and do the work orsomething. But I think it'll settle down.

(01:44:55):
It always has for me, atleast. Well, I'm wondering because
I I fertilized it. Maybe I'mfertilizing it too much because I did it
last Friday and the friday before,so I was fertilizing it once a week
like I do. My okra intobeltuppers in had opinions. But they're doing

(01:45:18):
fine. Yeah, And you shouldn'thave to fertilize anything that often unless you're
just using a tiny amount of fertilizerwhen you do that. But either way,
just a moderate amount of fertilizer.Don't push them with too much with
a lot of our nightshade family plants, that's peppers, tomatoes, eggplant or

(01:45:39):
examples. When you push them withtoo much excessive nitrogen, you end up
with some problems with fruiting fruit development. I think that possibly could be causing
it. So let's just hold off. If you fertilize once a month,
that's enough for a vegetable garden.Okay, all right, that's it.
Thank you so very much. Allright, thank you for the call.

(01:46:00):
I appreciate that, aye h.In Chenned Gardens out of Richmond is one
of those show places. It's oneof the destination places. And I've been
out there. I think I saidthis before, but I've been out there,
and there's people from Austin, Texasdrove all the way over to a
Chenni Gardens and Richmond because they lovethe place. They got to see the
place. Remember, we were fortunatehere to have incredible mom and pop independent

(01:46:26):
garden centers, and in Chenna Gardensis just exactly that. They're on three
fifty nine just north of Richmond.If you're heading up toward Katie fulsher direction
on FM three fifty nine. Thewebsite Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com Enchanted Gardens
Richmond dot com. They are goingto have every kind of plant you can
imagine. They're gonna have knowledgeable staff, friendly staff to greet you, to

(01:46:48):
help you have success. No matterwhat you're wanting to grow, they can
provide it and all the things thatgo with it, including the fertilizers I
recommend on guardenline, including gorgeous,beautiful containers. Our gift shop is beautiful.
It just fairy gardens. I mean, it just doesn't stop at Enchanted

(01:47:10):
Gardens Richmond dot com. Go checkthem out today, be a good day.
They're open Sunday from ten am tofour pm. So go check them
out this afternoon. You'll see whatI'm talking about. Let's go to spring.
Now we're going to talk to Cindy. Hello, Sindy, Hello,
good morning. So did you getmy pictures and in with the skinny pine

(01:47:31):
tree? Let me see. Ihave to look and see. I don't
see a picture. When did yousend this Sunday exactly? Oh? Let
me look this morning? No,no, last week, oh, last
week. Okay, I'm looking asunder your name, Sindy. Well,

(01:47:56):
let's go ahead and I'm gonna keeplooking and you describe the describe what your
you have to me March thirty firstis when I sent it in. Okay,
April, okay, April. Atany rate, you would have to
look at it. It definitely isvisible on the needs. So it's like
bearing from the base up to abouthalf well about two quarters of the tree,

(01:48:25):
well maybe half anyway, it's justdying and then then it's back to
life at the very tip. It'svery interesting. I've sprayed it with bungey
sides and it's been like this allyear. So are you describing that the
older needles have dropped off and theends of the branches still have living needles.

(01:48:47):
You said a pine tree, right, Well, I'm assuming it's a
pine tree. It's straight like anarrow, and it definitely has pine needles,
but it's ornamental. Ornamental. Okay, Well you're for some reason your
email did not did not come throughit. Just resend it and what I'll

(01:49:11):
do is I will take a lookat it, and then i'll if I
get it in the email, I'lltake a look at and i'll comment on
the air. But let me doublecheck the email address skip biker at No,
no, no, not that one. Let me I'm going to put
you on hold, and uh,Josh, we'll get you an email here.
Okay, all right, we'll takecare of that. Uh. If

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you are looking for one stop shoppingfor everything that you would need to take
care of your plants, your gardens, your lawns, all of that,
Southwest Fertilizer has got to be theultimate place. Southwest Fertilizer is in southwest
Houston. Of course, it's onthe corner of Bissinette and Runwick. You
ought to write down the email,excuse me, the email. You ought

(01:49:54):
to write down the website Southwest Fertilizerdot com, Southwest Fertilizer dot com.
And here's the phone number seven onethree six six six seventeen forty four.
If I talk about a fertilizer,it's at Southwest Fertilizer, and they're going
to have a lot, lot more. If I talk about a pest control,

(01:50:15):
a disease control, a weed control, their selection is like none I've
ever seen. And I don't meanin Houston, I mean anywhere. I've
never seen a place that stocks asmuch stuff as Southwest Fertilizer. If you
need tools, well you got aneighty foot wall of tools to choose from.
Do you need small engine repair,Yeah, they do that too.
They have a good old fashioned oneof those seed can racks where you go

(01:50:38):
in and take a little scoops ofseed out. They sell seed by the
packet too. It's just anything youcan think of. Do you need a
fertilizer spreader. Do you need aspreader to put out fireing bait? Do
you need fireing bait? They've gotall of that at Southwest Fertilizer. It's
it's just the place you need tostop. Just count on it as being
the source of anything you need tohave a bountiful garden and a beautiful lens.

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They specialize in that. Bob andhis team, Aaron and all of
them very knowledgeable. They can helpyou. They can direct you to the
things that you need. They willnot send you to sell you something you
don't need that doesn't work. Theyknow what they're talking about. Its Southwest
Fertilizer. I highly recommend that.For example, barricade. You know have
you put out barricade? This springbarricade is a product from nitrofoss. It

(01:51:21):
goes down and then you spread itaccording to the label rate evenly through your
lawn, watered in with a halfinch of water. It soaks in and
the soil ties it up. Itdoesn't wash away because the way it works
is it's got to be there inthe soil surface. So when a weed
seed sprouts, it shuts it down. Barricade keeps you from ever seeing the

(01:51:41):
weed in the first place, andBob carries it Southwest Fertilizer. A lot
of places carry nitrofoss products. Butthat's just an example of one of the
many products that you will find atSouthwest Fertilizer. We're going to take a
little break here. We'll be rightback. Welcome back to Guardline. Good
have you with us? Hey,here's the phone number like you're able us
to call seven one three two onetwo five eight seven four seven one three

(01:52:04):
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Now have you been to Nelson water
Garden out in Katie yet? Ishould say water garden, uh, nursery
and water garden. You know theydo have a nursery. Of course,
I could just go on and onabout the water garden part. I've never
seen a more beautiful place, amore destination. Gotta go see it,

(01:52:25):
inspirational place when it comes to watergardens and Nelson Water Garden. But then
Nelson Nursery. Oh my goodness,they have a shrub. I don't talk
about this shrub more and I should. It's a brune Failsa. It's called
Yesterday, Today, and tomorrow becausethe flowers change color over three days as
they come out. It's real cool, old time Southern shrub. They've got
it. They have things like yarrowplants. They got a good stock of

(01:52:48):
salvia's and fire bush, the littlecompact types of fire bush and porterweed and
a bill. It's just it's anursery. They have a nursery. But
when you get out there and yousee the water falls that they can build
at your place, the disappearing fountains, like the little large container with water

(01:53:09):
coming out that they if it wouldn'teven have watered it, it'd be gorgeous
to set out in the landscape.But it's got water circulating which brings in
the birds and the sound of water, which is so peaceful. Nelson Watergarden
and nursery. That it's Katie FortBenroad. So you got to Katie on
Ien. Turn right on Katie FortBenroad, just a cross over the oh

(01:53:30):
stone's throw from Ien. You gottago check it out again. It's a
destination if you want the website Nelsonwatergardensdot com, if you want the email
or the phone number two eight onethirty nine to one forty seven sixty nine.
Let's go now out to Clear Lakeand we're going to talk to Don.

(01:53:53):
Hello, Don, Hi, howyou doing. I'm well, sir.
What's up today? I got twothings I've called in before. This
is my third attempt at an indoorficus tree, and it's already not going
so well. So we bought it. We brought it home and immediately started

(01:54:15):
dropping leaves. So it was inthe house for about a week, and
my wife went ahead and put itoutside yesterday, thinking that maybe it's lack
of humidity. Now we keep ourhouse at about seventy to seventy five degrees,
okay, and so, and thenwe didn't We didn't transplant it.
We thought, well, we'll justkeep it in its pot for a month

(01:54:36):
till it's stable until we transplant it. Is there anything here that I'm doing
wrong? Well? First of all, Ficus. First of all, do
you have the Fiddley fig or theficus that has a smaller fig or smaller
leaves on it. What kind officus do you have? The smaller leaves.
The Fiddley fig is doing fine inthe house. Okay, here's the

(01:55:00):
thing about vicus. When you changethe light intensity pretty significantly, they drop
leaves. They that's how they adjustto the new location. And so if
it was growing in low light,now it's in highlight. If it's growing,
especially growing in better light, andyou bring it indoors where it's never
as good as it is typically wherethe plants are being grown, they will

(01:55:21):
often drop their leaves, but they'llrelief. So if that happened pretty quick
in the first few weeks of thatplant being in your house, that's probably
what it is. Just continue tomonitor the soul moisture, keep it adequately
moist and it'll relief and you shouldbe okay on it. So I should
go ahead and bring it back intothe house. Then, uh, where

(01:55:45):
do you want it to be?Outside? Or inside? Longer term?
Inside? Okay? Inside? Yeah, good, And go ahead and bring
it back in. It will adjustto that. It's going to grow settle
lot and go ahead, And isit a good idea? Just to keep
it in it's container until it,you know, bounces out. Yeah,
I would. I would. Ifyou want to repot it, you can

(01:56:08):
do that. I mean, there'sno problem repotting it. Now. Are
you want to put in a biggercontainer or just a pretty yer container or
what a bigger long term you cando that now, there's not a problem
either way. It's just it's goingto go through that reliefing and if you
have decent light inside, it shouldbe fine. They do like a light.

(01:56:31):
Yeah, We've got this one nowin a very bright room. So
okay, I think it's the bestchance for we have. This is the
third attempt, so I don't know. If this one doesn't make it,
that might be done, but we'llsee again. I got another question.
Okay, we have a peacon treethat's been planted for about five years.

(01:56:54):
It's about three and a half feettall, and we're wanting to move it
from one house to another house.Okay, is this a good idea and
should be higher professional? And doyou know one that is in the clear
Lake area? How tall is it? About three and a half feet tall

(01:57:15):
and a half You could dig ityourself. Can you wait until fall to
move it? No? Because whathouse is being sold next month? Okay?
If you can dig down it.Is it? Oh boy, was
it a seedling? Or did youbuy it and plant it there? That

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they had bought it and planted it? Okay, if you can dig down
it, mainly they have kind ofa tap type root, and get a
lot of that root, get somesoil with it. You can't just physically.
The weight of soil is excessive,so it's hard to move much soil.
But get it up and then wrapit up in like a burlap or

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something even a tarp kind of plasticaround the base. Get it to the
new location, set it at theexact same depth it was before, Settle
the soil in around it, andthen I would throw like a burlap or
something over it just to give alittle shade to the leaves for a little
while to help it kind of beginto put out new roots. And after
a couple of weeks pull that off, and I think you can move it

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okay yourself at this time. Asfar as hiring somebody, that's a pretty
small job. I don't know howsuccessful you will be. You may have
a landscaper that comes out and doesit, but the value of that plant
probably wouldn't equal the cost of havingsomebody move it. Wow, it's a
sentimental thing. So that's gotcha,got you? Okay? Yeah? Yeah,

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Well you know, you know youcould call a landscaper. You could
talk to Martin spoon more at anAffordable Tree and see what he would charge
to come out to that location anddo the move as well. Okay,
And what's is how do I geta hold of him? You know?
In just a second, I'm tryingto grab the number. Get it here

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in front of me, Martin spoonMilk. Yeah. The website is aff
Tree Service dot com. The phonenumber is seven one three six nine nine
twenty six sixty three. Yeah,that's it. Hey, I got a
run. We're bought up against aheart break here. But good luck with

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that. Wish you well, hopethat does well. Uh you've heard me
talk about nutri Star Genesis from Nelson'sbefore. It's a six to one three
natural fertilizer full of all kinds ofmicrobial activity, bacteria and endo and ectomycorrhizal
fungi. You put it in thesoil you're going to transplant into. Uh
So, if you're maybe you boughta plant, a little four inch pot

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or a gallon pot and you're goingto move it to a bigger container.
Get that potting soul, put thenutri Star Genesis in it, follow the
label watered in well, and you'regoing to see results. I've done it
when I was bumping up some vegetableI was growing, I've done it.
You can put it in like you'regonna plant roses. You can put it
in the soil around roses too.Nutri Star Genesis works very well and it

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is a natural product, and soit's one that I think you are going
to enjoy. Use. Comes inlittle canisters, little plastic containers with a
screw top lid. I keep iton hand because I'm always planting something.
I mean, aren't you putting innew containers on the patio? Maybe putting
in a bed and you got abed and you want to plant a plant
and get some nutrient around the rootsas you do that. It's made for

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transplant. That's why they call itGenesis. Transplant mix works really well.
You know, we love garden centershere on Garden Line and Spring Creek Feed
Center is it's a place that youwill enjoy going into. It's very beautiful.
I mean that what they have insideall kinds of things you know.
Of course they got feed. Ofcourse they have quality dog food, quality

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animal food. In general. Theirgarden section just continues to get a little
bit bigger and better. They wanta bit more plants this year that they
have outside at Spring Creek Feed.And then if you hear me talk about
a fertilizer, they're going to carryit. Do you need disease, insect
and weed control, They've got it. So where is Spring Creek Feed?
Well? Spring Creek? I oughtto tell you Magnolia FM twenty nine seventy

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eight, just minutes away from GrahamParkway in two forty nine. Magnolia FA
twenty nine seventy eight, Spring CreekFeed Center. You need to go there.
You're an f FA or for atraising animals, you're a senior citizen
or military. They've had discounts foryou. You've been listening to Guardline.
I will come back. We gotone more hour today before you have to

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put this one in the books.Don't forget that next week I will be
an Enchanted Forest Nursery and Richmond.That is on FM twenty seven fifty nine
in Richmond, Texas. If you'reheading towards sugarland direction. Just turn right,
go down, go down that direction. FM twenty seven to fifty nine.
I'm going to be answering questions.You're going to do something we can

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springtime, Q and A. Yourtoughest questions, Let's bring them, bring
me your samples, bring me pictures. Let's fix that. Get a beautiful,
beautiful landscape and a bountiful guard.Kat r H Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products orservices advertised on this program. Welcome to
kat r H Garden Line with EscapeRictor. It's crazy Trim. Just watch

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him as so many things to staysire, Welcome back to the Garden Line.

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Good to have you with us today. What are we going to talk
about this last hour of the gardenLine weekend. That's right, we got
one hour left. If you gotsome gardening questions you'd like to give us
a call and talk about, well, here's the number seven one three two
one two k t RH just wantto remind you it is time to put
out your nitropass superturf. That's thesilver bag. The silver bag nineteen four

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to ten. You put that onyour lawn and what's going to happen well,
you're going to get gradual feeding overtwo to three months. It's going
to provide those nutrients. Behalf thenitrogen is in a slow release form,
so it doesn't just wash away orvolatilize away. It gradually feeds that lawn
over time, which is how turftakes up nutrients gradually over time. It's
also got four percent iron for gooddark green color. That's important. A

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lot of times iron gets tied upin our soils, and that supplemental iron
is very helpful for leaviating some ofthat light green color that you see or
even the yellowing that you see onyour lawn. Where do you get nitrofos
super turf. Well, it's sowidely available. I mean I could just
say go everywhere. You know,all the hardware stores probably going to carry
that. You're going to find itat the Arborgate up in Tumbule, you

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find them D and D feed upa tumble. You're gonna find it hiding
feed over on Stuben or Airline.You're going to find it in Shades of
Texas, Shade of Texas up inthe Woodlands area. Just many, many
places where you can get this qualityproduct. Don't delay go ahead and get
it down because our grass is wakingup and it's looking for some nutrient to
support that fast early growth and gooddensity. Important, have good density if

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you want to fight weeds. We'regoing to go out to Humboldt, Texas
now and we're going to talk toLaurence. Hello, Lawrence, I'm good,
sir. How can we help?So? I sent on some pictures
of my roses. They're looking kindof unhealthy. I saw those. I
saw those. Yeah, m hm, I guess some of the leaves have

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a couple of brown spots. Butyeah, let me let me go through
them. Your brown spots is that'sbrown spot U or black spot on roses.
Black spots a fungal disease. Anda lot of the pictures everything's wet,
and I know they're not wet constantly, but the more often you wet
the foliage, the worst black spotis going to be. So if you

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can switch from sprinkler irrigation to adrip irrigation, that helps. Every time
it rains. You can't control that, but you can't control often you wet
the foliage. Planting things so denselythat the air didn't circulate well, that
makes black spot worse. I sawthat. I also saw on the roses
a few holes in the leaves wheresomething chomped on them. From what I

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can see from the photos, thoseare that's older damage. So I don't
know that you have an active feedinginsect. And from what I can see,
it's also a minimal amount of damagethat is not going to affect bloom
production on the roses. So ifit were mine, I wouldn't grab anything
to spray just yet. I don'tthink that's it. You got some other

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diseases in there. One calls SIRCspur leaf spot. It's a fungal spot.
But then the other thing is alot of your blooms are getting those
brown tips on the edges, andthat is a blight. That's a petal
blight, and again it can becaused by wet conditions. What happens is
the petal will if it's bad enough, it's like the petals tissues dye and

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dry and the bloom can open.It's like it's sort of glued closed because
of those hard dried petals. Inthe case, it's kind of minor,
and it may also there may besome thrips involved in some of that.
A couple of year, roses looka little bit like thrips, but I
still think petal blight is the mainthing. Again, it's a disease that

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is favored by wet, humid conditions. There are many fungicides for roses out
there on the market. You maywant to consider starting a spraying schedule for
these because they apparently are very susceptibleto the black spot. Okay, so
when it gets through raining, goout and spray. I don't spray before
a rain because it washes it off, but when it gets through, it's

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like, Okay, they're wet,the disease is going to infect, and
your spray shuts that down. Isthere anything you recommended the rose from,
like ACE? Just they are anumber of good products. You know,
I could say one or two,but just go and look for when ACE
ask them for a rose funge aside, they're going to have several that you

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can choose from. Some may havepropoconazole in them, or there are several
different fungicide chemistries that are pretty effective, but you want to get one.
That's where roses are listed. Sothe particular diseases that attack roses are going
to be controlled, Okay, thanks, yes, sir, thank you appreciate
that call very much. RCW talkingabout roses reminds me of RCW. Do

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you know that they have the largestelection of roses in the whole area.
I mean literally go to the websiteRCW Nurseries dot com look at the rose
list. I think it's four pagessingle space. I mean it's two hundred
plus roses that they can get there. It is always a good time to
go visit RCW Nursery. You know, when you go to RCW, you're
going to find all the different kindsof plants that you would be, you

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know, wanting to growth, you'dbe looking at. They got good information,
they know what they're talking about.And when it comes to roses,
you're just not going to find abetter selection of the roses and that they
have there. They grow their owntrees out in Plantersville. So remember I
said, today is the day toplant a tree. Got to get it
going so we can have some summershades soon. They'll plant it right.

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First of all, they only growthings that do well here, and they
plan them right, and then youtake care of them right, and you're
off to a good start to havea beautiful beautiful long term tree that adds
the value of your house. Everyfertilizer you hear me talking about is going
to be there at RCW Nurseries foryour lawn, for your other plants as
well. They're at the corner whereBeltway eight and Tomball Parkway FM two forty

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nine come together, so it's reallyeasy to get to check them out.
You'll see what I'm talking about.I think that I believe they still have
a discount going on their roses stillthis month, about ten percent a discount
going on their roses. Don't quoteme on that, but check that out.
I'm pretty sure that's right. We'regoing to go out to Richmond now
and talk to Marv. Hello,Marv, knock that dust off your crystal

(02:09:30):
ball and plug it in, wouldyou? Uh? Oh, what's up?
It looks like it's going to rainthis week for a few days,
and I have about forty six hundredsquare foot lawn. I saw in my
garage I found a gallon bucket jahncan of bermudograss seed. I know it's

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forty years old, and I figured, oh, well, what this stuff
looks like? So I cranked itopen this morning and I'm telling you it
looks like nice, brown, cleanroasted peanuts. I have not looked at
bermudigrass seed. I don't know ifthat's what bermudigrass seed looks like when you
buy it now fresh or what.But it is nice and brown, just

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like a good brown roasted peanut.I have no need for this stuff.
So I'm wondering what if I justtook this and spread it over that forty
six hundred square foot area, andhow much would I use or would I
need to use at all? Becauseit might not happen about a ten or
fifteen percent germination rate. Boy,I'll tell you that is a question that

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I cannot answer. I don't Idon't have a crystal ball. I'd be
surprised if forty yearlo bermuda grass seedstill is viable. Number One, I
seriously doubt that it would come up. Number two, you got to be
careful what you wish for. Idon't know what kind of bermuda it is,
but it may not be something youreally want in your lawn even if
it did come up, And soI might feeling will be to throw the

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thing away. And when you getwhat you want for your lawn, that's
fresh and ready to go and plantthat all right, Well, I was
planting, it's grassy. I don'treally take care of them out of the
country, or I really muwed,so I wouldn't that particular. I got
you. Hey, I'm up againsta heartbreak, marvel. I'm sure I
got a run. But thanks verymuch, and I appreciate your humor and

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your call. We're going to takea break. We'll be right back.
Welcome back to the guarden Line.Good to have you with us today.
We are talking about all kinds ofthings that are timely really for the season.
A lot about when it comes to, you know, taking care of
your lawns and whatnot. If there'sanything you learned from Garden Line, I

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well, I hope you learn alot of things. But one of the
most important things for success was asecret of success with plants. The secret
of success with plants is to makesure that when you put that plant in
the ground, you've put it intoplant root, heaven round stuff, soil
fertilizer that is the key, andheirloom soils that's what they specialize in.

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I've used a number of different productsfrom heirloom soils over the years, and
not one has let me down yet. They work very well. The veggie
and herb mix. That's one I'vegot in a container. I've got it
and mixed into a soil bed aswell. It works well. Veggie nerd
mix. They got a special rightnow and it's one hundred and nineteen bucks.

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It's a bulk price per cubic yard. They can deliver it. You
can go there, they can loadit up for you, or they can
put it in something called a supersackwhere they can deliver it. Or you
can go there and have them putthe supersack on your trailer. It's a
cubic yard now. They've got thefruit berry and citrus mix. That's another
good one. They've got the reallyhigh quality leaf mole compost blend as well.

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Heirloom soils is widely available. You'regoing to find them in just about
every time I turn around at agarden center or ace hardware store. South
was all kinds of places I'm seeingheirloom soils. You can go to the
website Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com Heirloomsoilsfoftexas dot comand you're gonna find all the places that

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you can get heirloom soil again.Widely available about the bag and it's easy
to either go get it up inthe porter direction, up in that part
of the of the listening area,pick it up yourself, or call them
up, have them bring it toyour house, dump it on the driveway,
or set a supersac on your driveway. We're going to go now out
to Conroe and talk to Jacob.Hello, Jacob, Hey, skip,

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nice to talk to you. I'vegot a Saint Augustine on that I recently
had to resawd part of yes,and I've noticed that the parts that are
getting the most sunlight, you know, the least amount of shade, are
starting to kind of brown up alittle. Okay, is that I'm looking
for a fertilizer that's good for SaintAugustine, But that would that also be

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like just a watering issue or yeah, it could be. How long ago
was the lawn established. It's beena while. I put the no.
I put the sawt down about aweek ago, and I have been watering
it twice a day. I'm wonderingif maybe I just didn't put enough water
on the sunny parts. It's possible. It's very touch and go when you

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first put that sad out there.I mean, if you were to say,
take a section of sod and setit on the driveway, and go
ahead and plant the lawn and waterthe lawn, and then take that last
section of sod that had sat inthe sun for hours while you're planting the
rest of it and put it in, it would be very hard to keep
that thing alive because it dries outso much. It would bounce back eventually,

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but it sure would look horrible fora while. So I think it
could have been a period where theeither the soil underneath the sod or the
sod itself on the grass itself ontop got too dry and I would just
kind of be a little attentive tolight frequent waterings to try to bring it
back. I think it's going tobe okay. That's my gut feeling.

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And once it's been in for acouple of weeks, you grab a piece
of the sod, kind of tugon it a little, and you can
tell it's it's rooted in. Imean, it's not that you couldn't rip
it up, but you know whatI'm saying, it there's some resistance there.
Then you can begin to fertilize,and my SKA, my schedule at
gardening with Skip dot com tells youexactly the products to use, window plume

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and so on. Okay, andin the Conro area, where would you
recommend to go get those products?Uh? Conro out at A and A
Plants and Produce out west of Conroe. Montgomery is going to have them.
As you come in. Then there'sgonna be some ACE hardware stores that carry
those products as you come in towardthe Houston area. I don't know the

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aces up in Conroe specifically. Wellokay, I mean yeah, go ahead.
You said A and H A andA Plants and Produce, and it's
on the edge of Montgomery. Yeah, okay, all right, Well,
thank you very much, you bet, you bet? You take care all

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right? Have you good luck withyour lawn too. By the way,
let's see here, Oh he's talkingabout fertilizers Microlife. Fertilizers. Microlife has
a wide variety of them. Theone that's the fertilizer of the hour right
now is the green bag, thesix two four that is the standard for
fertilizing your lawn. Now. Theyhave fertilizers for their acidic loving plants in

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a kind of a pinkish red backpink bag. That would be things like
azilias, camillias, guardenias, blueberries. That particular fertilizer works well for those.
They've got a fertilizer for just abouteverything at Microlife. You can go
to microlifefertilizer dot com and find outall the products. Read a lot about
them about all the microbial enhanced productsthat they have. Their products come literally

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teeming with life with beneficial microbes INDOand X micro rise a beneficial bacteria,
all that kind of thing. Andthen the purple bag humtes plus. That's
concentrated compost in a bag. Youput it out and as it gets into
the soil, it improves soil structureand humates. It's the final decomposition of

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organic matter. And microbes just loveto be in that kind of an environment
and we'll thrive in it. AllFrom Microlife. We're going to go now
to Paarland and we're going to talkto Hal Hall. How are you today?
I think you may have a questionabout that last product, Yes,
sir, I do how you doit? Skip? I'm good? Hey,
Yeah, listening to you over theyears, are in Randy as well,

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talking about inmates plus and also composttop dressing. Would it be fair
to say that those are interchangeable.Well, there, I wouldn't say they're
interchangeable. The humates plus is aconcentration a compost. It would take a
lot of of compost top dressing todecompose down into the volume of humates plus.

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You see what I'm saying. Soit's just like you take a pile
of leaves six feet high and youend up with three or four inches a
compost. When you're done right,you take three or four inches a compost
and you end up with a fractionof that in humates. So that's one
big difference between the two. Bothproducts are excellent, the heu mats plus,

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especially for the soil improvement. Thetop dressing you could mix it in
the soil too to improve the soil. It's just volume wise, is what
we're talking about there. Yeah.Well, the reason I ask is obviously
spreading the hum mats plus is alot easier than doing the compost top dress.
And when you're doing it, yourselI hear what you're saying, So
in that sense, ILL sorry tocut you off. And in that sense,

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the top dressing is doing some otherthings for you. You're putting a
lot of microbes up there on thesurface, around the soil, around the
surface the plant runners and things,And anytime you create a real diverse microbial
environment, it's a little more antagonistictowards some disease issues that you might have.
So there's a benefit there that wouldbe with the top dressing. Also,

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it's a somewhat of a mulch interms of shading the soil a little
bit, and every light decrease atthe soil level decreases your weed issues.
Just from that. That's why wegrow a dense, healthy law. But
the compost top dressing contributes to that. I got you, I got you.
So would it be fair to saythat he makes plus maybe once a

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year use that yeah only yard,Yeah you could do that. I mean,
there's not a specific schedule. It'snot like we're putting nitrogen out and
we have a certain schedule because wewant to always have active night available nitrogen
for the plant. So whether youcould do it five times a year and
it wouldn't hurt anything, have justimproved more faster. But you know,

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just from an economical standpoint, everythingpracticality standpoint, if you did it once
a year, it would be beneficial. Yes, okay, all right,
thank you, Skip. I appreciateit. All right, Hell thanks for
the call. Appreciate that very much. Let's see here, who's up next.
We got Richard in West Houston.Hello Richard, Hey, good morning

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morning. I have a focal pointthree tiered water fountain that's about four feet
in diameter the base bowl and yeah, it's pretty big, and the bottom
bowl is about eight inches up againsta nice red brick wall, and there's
overspray and hard water staining that Ican't seem to get clean. I was

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wondering is there a planting that mightbe suitable to put behind the fountain that
could shield the view of the stains. How much space do you have between
the fountain and the wall. Well, the closest point is eight inches,
and then it's obviously you know,spans out. I've got foot space or

(02:21:01):
floor space if you will, toplant, but I don't have much distance
between the wall and the Yeah,you know, with that, about the
only thing that comes to mind isto have some a little like a trellis
back there against the wall and thenplant some little tame vine on the trellis
that doesn't just take over everything.I don't know as far as ahead go

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ahead, well as far as vinesgo what what could survive the just constant
flow of water? So oh boy, hmm. I'd have to think about
that one a little bit. Itseems like we're we're trying to force something
here. I'm just wondering what otheroption might you have with that? Because

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you're going to have the water splashing. So does the soil stay pretty soggy
from all that? It does?Pretty close to the fountain now, I
have these large wide leaf irises abouttwo or three feet away that are doing
fine, but I don't have anythingright next to it. Yeah, I
know they are pretty Is it wet? Is it somewhat sunny or well drained?

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We get we get some sun andsome shade. We have a lot
of trees behind the wall, butwe do get some sun. Some roses
prosper nearby that time. Well,Louisiana iris could grow there and it gets
upright, those are going to getnot waist high, but they're going to
get up a little bit. Idon't know if that would be high enough
to accomplish what you want. Well, we have some nearby and they took

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their growl coming back from the freeze. But yeah, they do get pretty
big. That might be a problem, something somewhat controllable, and that fits
in that situation that is unique,though. I would have to kind of
ponder that one a little bit totry to forget what you might be.
It's just the eight inch of space. That's just so ste's we wish that
it had been installed a little bitfurther out. But it's a pretty big

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fountain. I can't move. Justpick it up and carry it over to
the all the end of me.Yeah, very much, all right,
Richard, take care, appreciate thecall. Wow, time for another break.
Nikki walks in with the news,and that means I have to shut
up. I kind of hate thatNick can keep talking to be talking.
Our phone number is seven one threetwo one two kt r H seven one

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three two one two k t rH. I'll just use this moment to
remind you that next Saturday. Writethis on your calendar. Next Saturday,
April thirteenth, Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. I'll be there from eleven thirty to
one thirty doing what we call springtimeQ and a bring me your questions and
samples and things to diagnose and picturesand all that, and we will figure

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it all out. We'll be rightback where other than the guard line on
KTRH, can you hear stories aboutcicadas with STDs and chickens that yodel.
I'm I'm just saying this is afull service, and my gift to you
is to not make a comment abouteither one. My wife says that if
I'm ever wondering should I say somethingor not, the enters always know because

(02:24:13):
my gauge is to, let's justsay, I tend to air on the
side of you should have shut up, Skip, So I'm going to shut
up on both of those topics rightthere. Thanks for listening to Gardland.
I hope you're having fun, Iassure him. Today we are going to
head right out to Deer Park anddoctor Richard. Hello Richard, Hello Skip
Richter, Yes, sir, Ijust want to ask you about butterflies.

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I had a very few that werehanging around full time during January and February
and early March until about the timewhen the Purple Martins came in. And
right now, right now, Ihave some plants with the yellow blossoms,
but I don't have any butterflies.I haven't seen any butterflies in a few

(02:25:01):
weeks. Has anybody else called injust mention and are talking anything about the
butterflies. I know they do migrate. Yeah, they do migrate. Okay,
I'll be quiet and listen here.Yeah. No, you know what,
I am not a butterfly expert,Richard, and so I have not
heard from anybody about butterflies coming orgoing or whatever. I know we do

(02:25:22):
have the migration, like you said, sometimes they hang around, though we
get some that tend to hang aroundand not migrate around. But I think
this should be a fine butterfly year. I don't I don't see what you're
noticing early on as being a signof things to come for this year.
Yes, sir, when I madea few, I mean just maybe three

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or four. They were the orangeand the black monarchs. So but anyway,
that's it. I just wanted tocall and I ask, okay,
okay, yeah, good, Iappreciate that call. Yeah, both the
monarch, the Queen, and theviceroy butterflies, they all look a lot
ake. I always have to stopand go, Okay, what's the difference.
It's in the black lines in theirwings and some of the white spots

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on the wings and things. Butwe're going to be okay, We're gonna
have plenty of butterflies, definitely,for sure. Don't worry about that.
Hey, when you're doing your lawnnutrient care, when you're building the bank
account of nutrients in your soil,that's what we do when we fertilize.
You will also to think about thetrace minerals, and that is why we

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have azamite. Azamite is a naturallymined product mind up in Utah that is
loaded with trace mineral elements. Traceminerals are also essential minerals. Plants need
to have a lot roughly around twentyor so different nutrient or element compounds in

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order to be successful in all thebiological processes a plan has to do.
So it's not just three NPK,the three numbers on the bag. It's
about twenty and so they have tobe there. Now, we don't have
to always add every twenty. Theremay be present in your soil already a
soil test would tell you that.But by using azamite, by providing it

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as a supplement to your soil,You can do it any time of the
year you want. If you gotthe fertilizer spread er out and you're fertilizing,
just get the azamite out and followthat up with an azamite application.
Or do it this summer or doit this fall. It doesn't matter what
time of year you do it.But it is important that you make sure
your soil has all the nutrients thata plant needs so that your plants can
have success. That's kind of whatwe're aiming for, right have success in

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the bank account of the soil.Very important. Let's head out to galve
the stun and we're going to talkto Bill. Hello. Bill, Hi,
I don't have a lot. I'vegot a clover patch, okay?
And is that on purpose? No? Okay, I'm just checking. No
way. The question I've got isthis, The timing on the schedule is

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to fertilize. But should I fertilizewhen I've got clover or should I try
to treat the clover first end ofher life? Clover is going to be
well. The clover is going tobe going away on its own when things
heat up. You have options.If it were my yard and I had
a little bit of clover, Iwould go pull them up while the soil
is moist and soft. Clover hasa tap root, and so it's you

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can take a big old patch ofclover and pull it up pretty easily because
it's got that single tap root.If it's too much to do that,
or just physical limitations or whatever,you can spray it with a broad leaf
weed control product something that kills broadleaf weed's post emergent and kill it there.
But if it's already gone to bloomand seed and you already have the

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seeds on it, then you're killingsomething that's about to die anyway, and
you're left with the seeds anyway.And so that's where clover is so low
that trying to mow it and getthe seeds out is often difficult to do.
But if you can get the seedsout, that would be my first

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up because that is stuff you're goingto be dealing with next year. So
that's kind of the trade off thereas far as next year. That clover
will germinate in October and November,so you want to put a pre emergent
down before the clover germinates, andthat way next spring you won't be in
this same spot. So, sowould would the barricade work for that?

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Barricade will work for that? Yeah, that's that's a If you go to
online to gardening with skip my website, there is a test, pest,
disease and weed management schedule that's freeto download or look at, and it
tells you exactly when to apply andwhat to apply. Okay, So do
I go ahead then fertilized? Yeah? I would, Yeah, I would,

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Actually, I would. Don't worryabout that, be just fine to
go ahead and fertilize. Okay,thank you Skip all right, Bill,
thank you appreciate the call. Mhm. That's interesting. The goomes clover
lagoome. It even produces not noduleson the roots that have extra nitrogen in
them. You know, I tellyou bacteria rule the world, right I

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say that all the time. Andhere's just another example of it. There
are bacteria that live in the soilthat can get nitrogen from the air in
the soil and feed it to theplant. Plants cannot take nitrogen out of
the air. Right now, takea deep breath. You just breed,
then about seventy eight percent nitrogen.I know it's oxygen your body once,

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but you just breed. Then aboutseventy eight percent nitrogen. Now that is
of no use to a plant.It can't take the end to molecule in
the air and use it. They'rebacteria that can, and they convert it
to plant food nitrogen. Is thatamazing? Or what that's called? Lagomes?
It's a little nodules on the rootsof beans and peas and mesquite tree

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roots and clover and vetch and whatelse. I mean, there's a lot
of lagomes in the world. Coolstuff. Let's go out to Laporte and
talk to Greg. Hello, Greg, Hey, more escape. How you
doing. I'm well sir. Howcan we help today? Yes, I'm
redoing my landscaping beds in the backyardfrom all these freezes we've had in the

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past, and I'm adding top soilright now. It's a fifty to fifty
mix I got from a yard.It's called a flower flower bed mix.
Okay, And I'm fixing the bees, start planning new plants, uh,
landscaping plants, assortments. Uh.What can I add to that soil that

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will help the plants thrive better?You know? Okay, I mean months
and whatnot. You use the phrasefifty to fifty mix. It's fifty percent
top soil and fifty percent what sandI guess? Oh sand, okay,
all right, right, you wantto you want to add organic matter,

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you want to add compost to it. You can use straight you can use
straight compost, or you can buya bed mix like a rose soil mix.
That's a good one. But Iwould get probably if you can get
three or four inches of that downand mix it in to the soil you're
putting down. I think that willit will really enhance it a lot.

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Well, I heard you talking aboutthe he mates. Yeah, bags,
would that be something that would begood? That's good? Well, yeah,
it'd be good. You know,it's it's you know, to use
a volume of humates mixing into thesoil. Uh. You know that comes
with the price tag attached to it, as opposed to sprinkling it out on

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your lawn like fertilizer. You don'tput three inches of fertilizer out there on
the law. So I would yes, you could certainly use that, but
I would just get a good qualityorganic compost mix and mix it into the
soil. Again, just a compostor something called rose soil would be really
good. Even though you're not maybegoing to grow roses in it. It's

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good for group, right, I'myou know, it's an assortment of plants.
Okay, all right, okay.Uh, when I take these plants
out of the buckets and start themin the ground, do I, Hey,
hey, Greg, Greg, I'msorry to have to stop you.
Uh, my producers telling me weare way past a break here. Just
hang on. I'll come back toyou when we come back from break.

(02:33:22):
All right, we'll be right back. All right, Welcome back to garden
Line. We love to have youlistening in because we love to talk to
you about what's going on in yourlandscape. How do we help you to
have a more bountiful garden and amore beautiful landscape. That's what we're trying
to do. We're gonna go backto Greg and the port. Hey Greg,
we kind of got cut short thereby the break. But where were

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we? Yes, sir, let'sfind that's no problem, Yes, sir.
A quick question, Uh, whenI take these plants out of the
out of the plastic buckets, doI loose it up their root system there
a little bit too? Yes?Huh, that's a good idea. What
are you what kind of things areyou planting, Oh, like hostas and

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you know those type of plant Okay, yeah, yeah, listen it up
just a little bit. The rootsystem. If it's kind of a woody
ornamental thing like a shrub or arose bush or a tree, you want
to cut those roots around the outsideof that root cylinder that comes out of
the pot, because typically roots goin a circle, they don't unwind underground,

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and you know, it's one thingfor a perennial where the root systems
are just a little different. Butwith a shrub, if you do a
vert take a box cutter knife andjust do a one inch deep just slice
vertically about three places around it.Everywhere you cut a root, it's going
to within two weeks you're going tohave fresh white roots going out into the
swell and it'll establish faster and better. Oh okay on this rows, well,

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these are mainly perennials, soas moreof a the weedy type stuff,
you know. Yeah, well,just just loosen it up a little bit
on the outside, some of thoseroots out with your fingers a little bit
and it'll be fine. Okay,I'll run down the bottles and give me
some of that roa so here theyhave good rows. So all right,

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sir, all right, well youtake care, thanks for the call.
Appreciate that a lot. When wasthe last time you went to Buchanan's Plants.
Buchanan's Plants in the Heights, they'reon Eleventh Street. That is a
place that people love to go to. I was down in clear Lake yesterday
at the M and Dashart. We'retalking to somebody, and somebody from way

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down there was talking to me abouthow much they loved to drive up to
Buchanan's Plants and the Heights north ofdowntown. YEP, that's right. Buchanans
has a following, and there's areason. Buchanan's Native Plants is their accurate
full name. And they specialize innatives. So if you want natives to
Texas natives, specifically the Houston area, they can get you fixed up.

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Do you want a polline or gardenthat's composed of natives, they can do
that. Buchanans Plants has a widevariety. Their their houseplant greenhouse is outstanding.
Their section for fruit trees, forshade loving plants. It's just good.
And when you go there, you'regoing to be very inspired to grow

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a lot of different kinds of thingsbecause they have stuff that you just haven't
heard of before. That's what Buchanansdoes. I go into Buchanans and it's
like, Okay, there's a newone I did not know that was on
the market. That's the kind ofplace Buchanans is. Buchanans Plants dot com.
Buchanans Plants dot com. See,I'm gonna go out to Parland.

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Now we're going to talk to kHello. Okay, Hey, good morning
Skip. I have a question aboutplanting in a pot that has no brain
eage in it. And it's akind of in my estimation to me,
it's all expensive. It's about teninches tall as a ceramic pot. And

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I'm planning from my daughter gave me. I came across this mother of a
thousand babies and she brought me somebabies to plant, and it's going to
get big, and so I wantedsomething kind of heavy and big to put
it in. Okay, So isthere anything I'm put in the bottom of

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it to kind of keep it theroots off of the bottom. No,
don't worry about the rich being alittle bit. Does the pot have drainage
holes at all? Well, that'swhat I'm saying. It doesn't have drainage
holes, and that's what I andI don't want to drill it. I'm
afraid it might crack the whole thingor you know something. Yeah, there's
ways to drill pots. I can'tgo into it on there. I'm not

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an extra. Yeah no, peopletalking about that. But what I would
do is I would put some rocksin the bottom and then put the container
of soil inside that pot. Thatwould be what I would suggest. That
way, people won't know you've gottwo containers because you can put a little
okay, well they're just they're justthey're just brawl playing, you know there,

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okay things because they come off andjust like a little bitty Yes they
are. So if it were mind, I would take the nice pot you
like, and I would set apot an o ugly plastic pot that's just
a little bit smaller inside it.Fill it full of a good quality mix,
and by setting it on the littlerocks let's say, yeah, you

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know, rocks the side for aquarter or a golf ball, even something
to hold it up off the bottom. Then you're okay. If you don't
do that, you can put somewhat a charcoal down in the bottom,
and that kind of helps a littlebit with the soil getting all sour and
soggy done in there. It didn'tcontrol the moisture, but I would just

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I would double pot it, andit's so much easier that way. You
can grab that outside pot and pullit out, you know, if you
did over water. But it justmakes it a little more forgiving. And
then yeah, I've done that withsome other things, you know too,
So I didn't even think about that. It's not about waddening up some plastic
bags real tight. Yeah, wellI'll get I'll even get get Spanish moss,

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you know, and put it onthe top so it's pretty. But
that hides the fact that you gotan ugly pot hiding in your neighbors.
Yeah, don't let neighbors and familycome around be poking around on your pots
and griping about. Leave you alone. Yes, thank you so much,

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love your show. Take care,have a wonderful day. Ye okay,
thank you very much. I appreciatethat I've talked to you about Sweegen fertilizer
before Sweet Green. That's from Nitroposs. It is an eleven percent nitrogen,
very high for an organic nitrogen source. It's basically a molasses base with microbial
activity that basically turns it into afertilizer. That's an over set implification of

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it, but that's what we got. So what does that mean. That
means when you smell it, youwill like what you smell if you like
the smell of molasses, because that'skind of what it smells like to me.
Sweet Green is a good fertilizer ofa natural source that you can put
out on your lawn and you canreally cause it to do what nitrogen does

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to a lawn. That's stimulation ofgrowth, that's greener color. That's an
excellent option for spring, and youcan use it. It's not one that's
going to last forever. It's notlike nitrofoss is super turf that's a very
slow release. Sweet green is quitedifferent. But for those of you who
want a natural source of fertilizer anda good high, high level of nitrogen,

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this is a product that'll do that. And where do you get sweet
Green? Well pretty much everywhere.I mean, you know, nitropus,
if it's an ace hardware storeage there, if it's a garden center, it's
probably there. If it's a feedstore. It's probably there places like the
ace at at Sinco Ranch or Shadesof Texas up in the Woodlands, or
Hiding and Feed on Stubner Airline,or I don't know, let's go,

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let's find it out. How aboutStanton Shopping Center down in Alvin, yep.
All of those kind of places carrynitrophoss products, including sweet cream.
We're I'm not closing the show quiteyet, but it's coming pretty quick here.
We are really glad you listened today. I hope that it was a
helpful day for you. I didwant to kind of close with a couple

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of extra thoughts about taking care ofyour lawn, having a beautiful lawn,
a beautiful landscape, and everything likethat, and then we'll put it in
the books until next week next Saturday. We're herever Saturday and Sunday from six
am until ten am. Both days. You can listen to the podcast as

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well. So just as a closingthought here as we go through, just
remember that the secret to success withplants is to give them a good soil,
To choose plants that want to growwhere you're going to grow them,
to fertilize them moderately, and towater them adequately. When it comes to
pests and diseases, a very strong, healthy plant is often less susceptible to

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pests and diseases. You can evenmake plants more susceptible by overfertilizing. Doing
do that, a healthy plant isless susceptible. And we would rather avoid
problems than have to treat for problems. That's why we say grow a dense,
healthy lawd It's important when you doall of that, take care of
them. The last thing is keepan eye on them. The more often

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you check them, the earlier youcatch problems. The earlier you catch problems,
the more good, safe, lowtox options you have for getting them
under control. Hey, thanks forlistening.